Free Canuckistan!

.. a.k.a. ill for 6 weeks, and not energized to make the best efforts at this right now. Thanks to all the interweb buddies, linkers, to Mark Steyn, to the commenters, lurkers, and haters– you do make it all worthwhile.

I’ll try to publish what I have left over this week.

So I lay aside to bleed awhile, and then rise to fight anew…

Binks

.. Whilst under-weathered. Same old, dear reader…

In the meantime,

Go donate to Ezra, and send him some encouraging words..

Don’t forget to help Haiti..

Read teh Binky Blogroll –>

“‘S toigh leam briosgaidean gu mòr!”..

And cheer up, things could be (and likely will get) very much worse!

Binks

.. To my baby brother & sister-in law on the total loss of their apartment & personal belongings to fire yesterday. Both were at work, and watched the fire on the TV news as it happened, as the main fire hose pumped through his living room window.

Thank God they are both safe.. stuff can be replaced, even if heirlooms and some pictures can’t be.

Binks

tim wieclawski/metro ottawa Firefighters battle a blaze in an apartment building at 114 and 116 Glebe Ave., yesterday afternoon. No one was injured in the fire, but dozens have been left homeless.

• Apartment blaze leaves dozens homeless
• Fire razes Glebe apartment building
• Firefighters battle 3-alarm Glebe blaze
• Fire crews battle three-alarm fire in the Glebe
• Blaze leaves building tenants in Glebe scrambling
• Fire in the Glebe

Do Some Good

~ WORLD VISION– Latest Update from Dave Toycen in Haiti

~ PETITION: Free the ND 88 Petition Launched – Asks Notre Dame to Drop Charges against Pro-Life Protesters

January 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today, a petition to “Free the Notre Dame 88″ was launched. The petition is co-sponsored by Human Life International (HLI), the Thomas More Society and LifeSiteNews.com. It is addressed to University of Notre Dame President Fr. John Jenkins, and urges him publicly to ask that the charges against the 88 pro-lifers who were arrested on the Notre Dame campus in May of last year be dropped.

Sign the petition here. ~

Barack The Slave

~ POTUS OBAMA IS–FOR MANY BLACK AMERICANS– a symbol of slavery reversed. Of course, the ancestors of his Kenyan father was never an American slave, so it’s not technically true for him, even if it is the fruit of the Civil Rights movement.

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Minions:

Generally speaking, I’ve noticed that good blogging depends not a little on maintaining consciousness.

There’s trouble at the Binks-HQ: it’s.. A Man-Cold™!! ..hence, this web-elf is feeling rather dwarven the last few days.. sleepy.. dopey.. grumpy.

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