Pam & Beryl should have a lively radio show tonight.............

UN Human Rights Chief takes Front row seat to hear Ahmadinejad in Tehran,...... Anne Bayefsky ...EyeontheUN

"While Arbour was hobnobbing with anti-semites, butchers and anti-democratic forces from around the world, Iranians were being prepared for public hangings. Arbour was reported by the Islamic Republic News Agency as having "expressed pleasure with being at the NAM meeting and described Iran's representation office in the UN in Geneva as "very good." In an unusual move, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has so far neglected to put her official statement on their website.

The day after Arbour left Iran the government felt sufficiently buoyed by their UN stamp of approval, that they executed 21 prisoners. People are executed in Iran for charges like "enmity against God" or "being corrupt on earth"

Captainsquartersblog- More on that German terrorist cell

Mark Steyn- 9/11

"Oh, it's a long, long while from September to September. This year, the anniversary falls, for the first time, on a Tuesday morning, and perhaps some or other cable network will re-present the events in real time – the first vague breaking news in an otherwise routine morning show, the follow-up item on the second plane, and the realization that something bigger was under way. If you make it vivid enough, the JFK/Princess Di factor will kick in: you'll remember "where you were" when you "heard the news." But it's harder to recreate the peculiar mood at the end of the day, when the citizens of the superpower went to bed not knowing what they'd wake up to the following morning..........."

Gathering of Eagles will arrive in Washington this week

More here

Gun crimes- making sure the triggermen are off the streets- too bad some politicians are behind the curve on this

Despite concerns expressed by some defence lawyers, the appeals court got this right. There must be limits in the degree to which minor legal technicalities can be used to acquit someone accused of serious gun crimes. The stakes are simply too high to allow a great deal of leeway on firearms offences, especially at school.

Writing for the court, Mr. Justice Michael Moldaver eloquently concluded that most Canadians would find it "unconscionable" to drop the case against someone caught carrying a loaded gun at school, especially in the absence of any "egregious conduct" by police.

All lower court judges and justices of the peace should take a lesson from the Court of Appeal and regard gun crime with due seriousness.

The first duty of a government is to protect its citizens- not coddling or making excuses for violent criminals.

Crime beat-

Sue -Ann Levy

" A mere 39% of the 500 Torontonians polled over the last weekend of August feel our socialist mayor is good for the city -- a dramatic drop from the 82% approval rating Miller held six months into his first term in May 2004.

But just as significant are the remaining 61% who either felt Miller was doing a bad job or couldn't indicate one way or another what they thought of the mayor. A whopping 27% of those polled were on the fence. "

Christina Blizzard- Provincial election