April 9, 2005

  • Another Twin Cites blogger has a political impact, in this case in Canada.  http://powerlineblog.com/archives/2005_04.php#010096
    In this case it’s the blog  CaptainsQuarter.com
    Essentially, the Canadian government in power launched a covert
    campaign suppossedly against the Quebeck (think French) sepratist
    movement.  Addledgedly this turned out ot be basically a “slush
    fund”  with very little real work addededly performed.. 
    There was a gag order on the Canadian equivalent of Grand Jury
    testimony whcih was leaked to Captainsquarter.com.  The
    Minneapolis Star Tribune cited sources that said that the informations
    seemed to be “generally accurate but not complete.”.  Canadian
    Media could not report the details but they could report that this
    Minnesota site had accounts (hint! hint!)  With internet acces so
    widely available, even in Canada, this probably magnified the
    story.  This will tend to hurt the current Canadian government in
    power, which tend to lean quite a bit to the left.

    If you understand the internet you understand the mechanics of
    information disseminationa and it’s effects in the internet age. 
    Apparently, the Canadian “powers that be” are still in the learning
    stage.

    One term I found at Captains Quarter is ripe for parody. 
    Apparently in Canada they have  the term for the judiciary.
    “Justice Gomery”.  I don’t know the origins but on the cable TV
    History Channel you ofter hear ex Marines use the term “Gomer” in a
    derisive way.  This refers to the old late 1960′s TV show “Gomer
    Pyle, USMC” which, ironically, ran during the worst years of the
    Vietnam war.