Free Speech? Apparently Not In Canada

From the five feet of fury blog, comes the story of Canadian harassment of conservative bloggers.

"Richard Warman's friends at the Canadian Human Rights Commission say "freedom of speech is an American concept" they refuse to recognize."

Another blogger being sued by Warman is Ezra Levant, who tells his story here.

As you read their storys, take a minute and consider if it could happen here.

WOW! 2.6 Million Dollar Pizza

Marylander Gets Big Slice of Web Pie, the headline reads.

Fourteen years ago, Chris Clark shelled out 20 bucks to register the domain name "pizza.com." This afternoon, he sold it for $2.6 million.

Read the whole story here.

I'm sure we all wish we had thought of that!

FEMA Better But "Still Lacking" I.G. Says

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency is better prepared for the next disaster but still is not ready for another catastrophe on the scale of Hurricane Katrina, the agency's internal investigators say."

That is why YOU need to make sure you are prepared for any disasters that may hit your area.

Read the whole story here:

Today's US disaster agency better prepared to respond but still lacking, report asserts

Fed Says "Recession Possible"

According to this article in Yahoo! Finance:

"For the first time, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke acknowledged the U.S. could reel into recession from the powerful punches of housing, credit and financial crises."

Possible? I think if you ask many of the thousands who have lost their job, who have seen their home values drop, who are choosing between food or gas, who have seen the buying power of their dollars drop, that maybe those folks would opine that a recession has already begun.

Granted, not everyone is out of work, not everyone has a home who has dramatically lost value. In some areas, home prices are still increasing, just not at the astronomical rates of the past few years.

But for those who have lost jobs, lost equity and are having a tough time making ends meet, I think they would say the recession is here.

Google Fools Day :-)

The folks at Google have done it again. This year for April Fool's Day, they have rolled out a plan to colonize Mars called Virgle. Plus they've given a "custom time feature" to gmail so you will never again be late in responding.

Check them out.