Sunday Linkblast - April 6

• 10% of Calgary Police force now British imports
  Recruitment of English police officers leads to huge influx.
  
  
• James Brown: The hardest working man in showbiz excess
  "One night in the summer of 2001, after he’d slathered her in Vaseline (“He liked you all greased up,” she says. “Like a porkchop”)...
  
  
• McCain campaign deeply offended by truth
  'How dare the Obama campaign call a warmonger a warmonger!"
  
  
• Republican Offenders
  A database of prominent Republican felons. The pedophile section alone is five pages long, including an anti-gay activist who campaigned to stop a gay man from adopting a nine year old girl he was fostering, adopted her himself and was then convicted of repeatedly raping her.
  
  
• The Jessica Lynch 'rescue' story
  Anatomy of a propaganda operation.
  
  
• Libertarians abandon the Republican Party
  Or is it the other way around?
  
  
• Superfast internet
  Will technology make the net neutrality debate moot?
  
  
• Lukiwski affair bad timing for Harper?
  Canadians reminded of the 'knuckle-dragger factor.'
  
  
• Mugabe won't go quietly
  After a ray of hope Zimbabweans prepare for a bloody response from autocrat.
  
  
• Don't stop thinking about yesterday
  Clinton hopes voters looking backwards.