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A visiting Ralph Nader said that expatriate Americans living in Canada should tell other Americans about how great our health care system is. He then explained that there was no difference between Barack Obama and John McCain and that people should vote for the 74-year-old vanity candidate because…well, he didn't actually explain that part, but we're sure he has a reason.
Your daily Big Boom update: police discovered a body Monday evening, but have not yet confirmed who it is. Most of the residents displaced as a result of the fire are back home now. The company that owned the tanks that went foom is kind of sketchy. And as a result of the blast, the city is reviewing its zoning bylaws.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered a halt to military operations in Georgia this morning, hopefully delaying World War III by at least another week or so. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's response was to claim that Georgia would "never surrender," which is not entirely accurate because Russia's military is beating the snot out of Georgia's military and sooner or later Georgia will need time to sit down and bleed.
Following a proud family tradition of spending time in court, Conrad Black's son Jonathan pled guilty to driving into a stopped vehicle and then exiting the scene. The younger Black was then soundly berated by his father for not destroying the evidence of the crime.
Finally, the Arctic icecap is melting at a tremendous rate, diminishing hopes of a recovery earlier in the year. In other news, David Suzuki says he told you so.
Photo by Jeb Ro.
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The term "World War III" has been thrown around too loosely. It's not a "World War" if two countries are going away at each other with minor support from various countries. It's just a "War". It's been happening over the last 3 years so much it's become a cliché.
Russia is one of the world's biggest military players and the US has had a very close relationship with Georgia, to the point of providing significant funding to the country and training to its military. An EXTREME outcome of this conflict could be the US or one of its close allies entering Georgia to help fight the Russians. Such a conflict could escalate quickly, as there remains something resembling the Cold War divide in the region.
As for the zoning by-law review after the propane explosions, the article is a bit misleading. It makes it seem like Miller's initiating this big initiative to review such by-laws. Truth is the city is already reviewing the existing zoning by-laws, because all of them are pre-amalgamation and need to be updated. All Miller has to do is send a memo to the zoning by-law team.
Isn't there already a UN or NATO zone between South Ossetia and Azkaban?
Well, Georgia proper sits between the two... They're not connected.
Not that it has much to do with the issue, which is of the Russian military attacking Georgian targets... In a nutshell, Abkhazia (the Azkaban conflict was confined to Harry Potter I believe) and South Ossetia have similar interests here.