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Wednesday July 25, 2007

- 3 An oil pipeline was punctured and began to spill into the Burrard inlet. Burnaby Mayor, Derek Corrigan was quoted, It’s a significant amount of oil. With the price of gas, it’s a shame in more than one sense.

+5 The Tyee calls bullshit on B.C.‘s carbon credit scam.

+6 Extreme Recycling!!!!!!!!!!

- 1 A liberal strategist/blogger is under fire for placing a thought bubble over Ontario Prog-Con, Lisa MacLeod’s head that read, “I very much wish I was somewhere else, at this very moment. Baking cookies, perhaps. Oh my." MacLeod is claiming that she neither said nor thought that.

+10 A Canadian man held at Gitmo for five years (since he was 15) with no trial has requested that the Canadian government pays for his legal fees. A reasonable request considering the number of prisoners actually convicted at Gitmo. Which is like what? Two? Oh, and he’s been there since he was fucking 15!

- 3 For the first time ever, man has created rain.

- 5 Turner Broadcasting launches NutsTV, a completely generalization-free, 24/7 live channel that focuses on everything that really defines being a man, such as cars, and, um…sports.

- 4 Myspace has found 29,000 sex offenders on the social networking site. This figure is four times the number recorded 2 months ago, which brings up one glaring problem: don’t sexual predators know that everyone has totally moved on to Facebook? Get with it, pervs.

Today: +5 This Year: +211