hot hot hot.

Happy Saturday! A couple of random notes...

- Check out these great video's from YouTube - The Vader Sessions, George Galloway on Sky News, and Appalachian State University is HOT HOT HOT...

- New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord has announced that he will ask the Lt. Gov. Herménégilde Chiasson to drop the writ for a September 18 election. Current standings in the New Brunswick Legislature have Lord's PC's at 28, Shawn Graham's Liberals at 26, and one Independent MLA. Allison Brewer's NDP do not hold any seats in the Assembly.

- Here's an article from the Edmonton Journal about the power a small band of hard-nosed and dedicated Liberals from rural Alberta will wield at the Federal Liberal leadership convention... (props to libnews.ca for the linkage).

- There are a couple of interesting posts going back and forth between Ken Chapman and fromthemountains at the One Party State blog.

- The second round of Calgary Grit's Best PM Never is on and only three of "the daveberta eight" made it to the second round. So, here are the official daveberta SECOND ROUND endorsements, aka "the daveberta four"...

Matchup 1 - Peter Lougheed
Matchup 2 - Sir George-Étienne Cartier
Matchup 3 - Roy Romanow
Matchup 4 - Ed Broadbent

So... VOTE!

- Finally, the Folk Fest Blog is up and running for the weekend...