Credit: Mark Francis 

I want this for Easter! If rabbits can fit into a holiday about the resurrection of Christ, then so can accordions!

Hit all the right notes and get the crowd on their feet waving their beer steins in unison - you are an accordion hero! Includes all the great accordion melodies you’ve ever gotten really, really drunk to…from Ein Munchen Steht Ein Hofbrauhaus to Rock You Like A Hurricane.

Accordion Hero comes with one Gloss Black USB accordion controller. Kirschrot (Cherry Red) controller sold separately for two-player squeeze action. Awesomely rad sticker sheet included.

Some of the songs included:

• Leichtensteiner Polka, Traditional
• The Bowling King, Those Darn Accordions
  
• Can’t Touch This, M.C. Hammer
• Ya Ya Wunderbar, Frankie Yankovic
• Pictures of Matchstick Men, Status Quo
• In Heaven There Is No Beer, Traditional
• Ride The Lightning, Metallica

Accordion Hero

Mother had to explain to daughter, 7 origin of ‘totally unacceptable’ word on wrapping of furniture built overseas.

When the new chocolate-coloured sofa set was delivered to her Brampton home, Doris Moore was stunned to see packing labels describing the shade as “Nigger-brown.”

She and husband Douglas purchased a sofa, loveseat and chair in dark brown leather last week from Vanaik Furniture and Mattress store on Dundas St. E.

TheStar

CBC Newsworld has been acting up, atleast here in Calgary or at least on my television. It seems as though they are playing the video for CBC Newsworld but the audio for CBC Voice Print. This started on Sunday night and I just ignored it, but it’s still happening. I’m just wondering if anyone’s actually informed them, or if they are just waiting like me for someone else to do it.

Is it acting up where you are?

UPDATE: Never mind. I didn’t think my TV could do descriptive video, but that’s what it was, or at least what they were using the audio channel for. It was hidden on remote control, must have been pushed by accident. It’s good to know for the future now, because they seem to play some interesting programs. Also I’m glad I didn’t phone up CBC not knowing how to work my TV/remote.

Although this isn’t news that the FBI was spying on John Lennon, his file got released just a few days after Tommy Douglas’s RCMP File. It’s interesting to see the paranoia of the western countries back then… and how it’s coming back in regards to islamic fundamentalists. (Have you watched Glen Beck lately?)

Anyways, here is the story:

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LOS ANGELES - The FBI has released its final surveillance documents on John Lennon to a university historian who has waged a 25-year legal battle to obtain the secret files.

The 10 pages contain new details about Lennon’s ties to leftist and anti-war groups in London in the early 1970s, but nothing indicating government officials considered the former Beatle a serious threat, historian Jon Wiener told the Los Angeles Times in Wednesday’s editions.

The FBI had unsuccessfully argued that an unnamed foreign government secretly provided the information, and releasing the documents could lead to diplomatic, political or economic retaliation against the United States.

The newly released documents include a surveillance report stating that two prominent British leftists had courted Lennon in hopes that he would finance “a left-wing bookshop and reading room in London” but that Lennon gave them no money. Another page states that there was “no certain proof” that Lennon had provided money “for subversive purposes.”

“I doubt that Tony Blair’s government will launch a military strike on the U.S. in retaliation for the release of these documents,” Wiener told the newspaper. “Today, we can see that the national security claims that the FBI has been making for 25 years were absurd from the beginning.”

Wiener first requested the documents in 1981, several months after he decided to write a book about Lennon following the singer’s murder. He initially obtained some documents, but the FBI withheld numerous files, saying they contained national security information and were exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.

Wiener sued the government and received a number of files in 1997 as part of a settlement with the FBI. Justice Department lawyers continued to withhold the final 10 pages until a federal judge in 2004 ordered their release.

The previously released files showed that the FBI closely monitored Lennon from 1971 to 1972