Three of my kids, along with their Mom and two friends, have decided – like the Bushes – to ride out Irene in Kennebunkport.

They are on the water (but a bit away from it), and well-stocked with batteries, flashlights, candles, drinking water and food. The tubs are full of water for flushing toilets, and everything that could fly away has been brought inside. They seem ready and in good spirits. (I, meanwhile, had to leave at dawn yesterday to get my Mom home, eldest son to hockey camp, and me back to the Ontario campaign).

If any of you are at a keyboard today, and want to pass along Maine-related news links, we would be most grateful. I will send those along to our Team Irene by text, as we all expect power will be gone sometime today.

Many thanks and here’s hoping Maine, P.Q., New Brunswick and beyond are ready. We were evacuated due to Hurricane Bob in ’91, but that seems like nothing compared to Irene’s power.

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After more than forty years of tyrannical rule by Moammar Gadhafi, Libya is at the cusp of freedom and a hopeful new era.

But, as Gadhafi’s regime collapses, spare a thought for Christoph Halens, a Canadian reporter who went to Libya in 1987 — and never came back. Spare a thought for Halens, who was murdered by the Gadhafi regime in April 1987.

For simply doing his job.

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…but I’m not holding my breath. Hope I’m wrong, etc.

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Heading West on I-90. Dozens of power line trucks and National Guard humvees heading the other way.

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For those of. Us at Daisy, The Treweather Report has been a fun regular feature. Bookmark Rob’s blog – and follow it like we do!

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This weekend, we are supposed to be right around where it’ll be hitting. Query: is it for real, or more US-style hyped broadcasting?

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It’s an honour, I’d say, to receive the support of eminent Conservatives like Dr. Keon. And we therefore plan to keep working harder to get the support of even more Tories!

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Taxes, taxes, taxes crowed Smith and his Tory MPP cohort Halton MPP Ted Chudleigh (who???) while guffawing over the knee-slapping funny wheel with McGuinty’s face plastered over it.

Hoo, boy, I don’t know where that zany Tory brain trust is going next, but hang onto your hats for more hard-hitting hilarity on the campaign trail.

Thing is, Smith and the likes of Chumley and the other Tory MPPs all sound like narcoticized parrots, repeating the mantra that McGuinty is the “taxman,” “he’s gonna raise taxes,” “taxes, taxes, taxes…”

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“Daddy, why do sky divers bother to wear helmets?”

Anyone? Anyone?

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Someone I like, and their pithy observation about Blatchford’s disgraceful attack on someone who can’t defend himself.

“She’s got a face like a hatchet,” they said. “And all she knows how to do is swing a hatchet.”

Others, it seems, agree. Me? I think she’s Doug Collins, without the Holocaust denial.

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