My parents have the cutest dog ever. Bold assertion, but its the truth. The dog, Leo, has black fur so soft that girls can’t stop petting him — and he loves it. When he wakes in the morning he groans like an old man, rolls over and literally tries to rub the sleep out of his eyes while he awaits his tummy being rubbed. If he wants attention, he will come right up to you and put his head on your lap and stare with soul melting eyes until you give in to his demands. He prefers ice cubes from a scotch glass and will knock the glass to ask for some.

Imagine going through life with the ability to make everyone you see happy instantly, Leo posses this gift. The only thing that is not perfect about him is that he gets a little worried when people leave. He likes companionship so when my parents leave their house the dog will sometimes have a lot of nervous energy.

Recently, while my parents were out, he started to chew on a book they had purchased. When they got home, this is how they found the book: » Read the rest of the entry..

An update to some newsworthy items dealing with the issues covered recently on maxpower: plagiarism, poets, and spam. The spammers are now stealing your web identification (at least in regards to the blogging world), myspace plagiarism situational irony, and the poets attack again.
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So yesterday, while driving in the car I was listening to talk radio, AM640 in Toronto. At the time, they where reviewing the events of the week, one of which happened to be this story:

Man Sets Himself on Fire During Toronto Protest
Wed March 9, 2005 5:20 PM GMT-05:00
TORONTO (Reuters) - A man doused himself with gasoline and set himself alight during a stand-off with police on Wednesday during a protest by several hundred farmers in front of the Ontario provincial Legislature in Toronto. The man drove a white rental van into the demonstration area and then held off police by telling them he had doused himself with gasoline. The incident was carried live by Canadian television crews monitoring the farmers’ protest.

A sad story no doubt. The even more sad and disgusting part is what AM640 did while trying to wrap up the story and ’segway’ into the advertisements. The guy they were interviewing (I forget who) was going on too long I guess so they started to play some music in anticipation of the commercial break. The song was “Burning down the house”. How callous to play this while also commenting about the ’sadness’ of the fire event.

Similar to this event in the states I guess.

A campaign fund controlled by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has lost almost $460,000 in stock market investments since 2000 and now does not have enough to cover a sizable bank loan, according to federal election records and the manager of the Frist account.

Frist is the GOP Majority leader and main proponent of the plan to move money from Social Security to personal stock market investments. Frist’s investing abilites is proof that stock market investment is a wise and safe alternative…

Source: Frist Political Fund Can’t Cover Bank Loan via linkfilter

In an earlier post entitled Correction forthcomming, we unintentionally spelled forthcoming wrongly. Tragic irony of situation, because, initally it was ironic that the first correction by the star contained mistakes. Now, the irony is reaching a new height with this mistake here on maxpower.ca. Sigh…
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Pasted below from the Toronto Star, here is a correction that needs to be corrected. Delicious irony. I find it hard to belive that these mistakes where an accident…. Bold added for emphasis.

Forensic pathologist cited cause of death
Mar. 4, 2005. 04:16 PM

Forensic pathologist Dr. Jac queline Parai cited excited delir- ium as the cause of death for Nicholas Blentzas. Her testimo ny was misattributed to coroner Dr. James Edwards in a head- line Thursday. The Star regrets the error.

Toronto Star Corrections