It's beginning to feel like Groundhog Day on Parliament Hill.
Two more confidence votes are scheduled Thursday, during which the Liberals will emerge to see the shadow of their electoral prospects and scurry back underground, presaging at least six more weeks of frosty partisanship.
We have said that we would not bring the government down at this time but come April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November or December, look out. Oh wait, April is not good. April would be foolish. There is a holiday in May right? oh and Mothers day too. June? oh right, fathers day, can't wreck fathers day. July... damn another holiday whats it called again? August has heritage day... thats important to all the immigrants. That won't do. September won't work. That would piss off all the workers. October it is... of 2009 that is, the 19th to be exact!... That will show Harper and his minions!
The five most common words in any speech or article made or written by a leftist are: may, might, could, possibly and perhaps.
In this one article the word "could" appears 8 times. "May" and "Possibilty" both appear once.
Considering that the whole article only contains 456 words in 16 paragraphs, thats quite the feat. Over half of the paragraphs in the article declare that something "could" happen. They do not state that they "will" happen yet the headline reads...
"Climate change paves way for rise in infectious diseases"
There is no "doubt" in that headline. It implies that infectious diseases "will" rise due to climate change. The report makes no such claim at all.
Here's your homework for the night. Take any of the IPCC reports, it really does not matter which one. Copy and paste all or parts of it into your favorite word possessor and count up how many times these 5 words appear.
Nothing is certain for a leftist. Everything is left vague for good reason. It makes it easier to back peddle...
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Whats this stuff?
Carbon sequestering.
Its supposed to be good for you.
I'm not gonna try it...
Lets get Alberta.
Yea!
Alberta won't like it, they hate everything.
They like it?
Hey...
That must mean its bad!
Thats some great science there I tell ya.
Give me a break already...
Unless you are unfortunate enough to live in one of these ridings.....
Mississauga—Erindale, Yukon, Mississauga—Brampton, Barnes, London West, Brampton West, North Vancouver, Vaughan, Nickel Belt, Thunder Bay—Rainy River, Kings—Hants, Oakville, Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte, Scarborough Centre, Guelph, Richmond, Bourassa, Mount Royal, Etobicoke North, Cape Breton—Canso, Madawaska—Restigouche, Newton—North Delta, Brampton—Springdale, Saint-Laurent—Cartierville, Vancouver South, York Centre, Malpeque, Sydney—Victoria, Laval—Les Îles, Vancouver Centre, Don Valley West, Wascana, Mississauga East—Cooksville, Ajax—Pickering, Miramichi, Etobicoke—Lakeshore, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, Thornhill, Nunavut, Scarborough—Agincourt, Churchill, Beauséjour, Scarborough—Rouge River, Cardigan, Bramalea—Gore—Malton, Welland, Sudbury, Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca, LaSalle—Émard, Random—Burin—St. George's, Markham—Unionville,Ottawa South, Egmont, Scarborough—Guildwood, Pickering—Scarborough, Kingston and the Islands, Beaches—East York, Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, Charlottetown, Winnipeg South Centre, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, Pierrefonds—Dollard, London North Centre, Hull—Aylmer, Don Valley East, Kitchener Centre, Halifax West, Honoré-Mercier, Nipissing—Timiskaming, Labrador, Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, Lac-Saint-Louis, Fredericton, York West, Davenport, Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor, Brant, Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing, Huron—Bruce, Newmarket—Aurora, Mississauga South, Kitchener—Waterloo, Oak Ridges—Markham, West Nova, York South—Weston, Halton, Kenora, Eglinton—Lawrence, Scarborough Southwest, Richmond Hill, Etobicoke Centre, Saint John.
You can thank Stephane Dion, and the Liberal Party of Canada for that.
Although you may not agree with his party, Peter Van Loan is 100% correct in stating...
“The failure of almost all Liberal MPs to vote is a clear abdication of their responsibility and an appalling dereliction of their duty to the Canadians who voted for them.”
“Why vote for the Liberal party when the Liberal party won't stand up and vote for you?”
Well not anymore...
PQ leader, Pauline Marois, wants to
scrap referendum requirement.
[...] Marois's plan was called a "good move" by Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion.
"I think a responsible secessionist leader should not rush to a referendum, should first build strong support, a clear majority for separation and once it's done it's time to go to a referendum."
It has been a bad week for Obama. His campaign seems to be in self destruct mode...
First he is caught in tales of "political maneuvering" that probably cost him support in Ohio if not everywhere.
Then we have one of his advisers resign after she calls Clinton a "monster". Her Iraq comments did not help much either.
While in Wisconsin Wyoming, Obama defended his readiness to lead. He does know how to answer a phone. I guess it is a start...
I would not be surprised at all if Senator Obama calls up PM Harper to borrow some muzzles for the remainder of his campaign.
More socialism, thats what Canada needs. Cause it works so well! If only we could be as progressive as those dang Norwegians...
Stephane Dion, in French tradition, waves a white flag and returns to November 2005 so that he can hand back the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada to Paul Martin. That, or his new strategy is to make Canadians feel soooooooo sorry for him, that perhaps the Liberals might get some sympathy votes if Dion ever finds enough courage to actually bring down the conservative government. Is this man not the most pathetic political leader you have ever witnessed in your life? It just gets stranger by the minute over there in Ottawa. Is there something in the water? There must be, as even Harper is not the man he use to be.
UN agency lashes Canada over crack-pipe programs
[...] "The board calls upon the government of Canada to end programs such as the supply of 'safer crack kits,' including the mouthpiece and screen components of pipes for smoking crack," the control board's report says.
Government-funded safe-injection sites, too, violate the UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs, the board says. [..]
[...] "The evidence shows — and this is evidence that's supported by the World Health Organization — … that you really can prevent the spread of infectious diseases through safe inhalation or safe injection sites," said Laurel Ostfield, a spokesperson for Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman. [...]
It is in Norway.
Imagine you're one of the 13 men on this all-male board of a large company and are told five of you must go to be replaced by women. Unlikely? Not in Norway, where they're enforcing a law that 40% of directors must be female. [...]
It will get hotter, colder, wetter, dryer... and we will have more smog. Hows that for covering all the bases. Not to mention your scientific asses...
Back then... everyone will remember this one. Those poor polar bears that were going to drown... so sad... Everyone panic!!! 
After the record breaking cold winter of 2007 - 2008. Melting ice is no longer the problem...
And it is not just the polar bears that are suffering as this fox can testify to!
These two are not just monkeying around. Thats the real deal covering them. They do look a tad cold don't they...
I sure am glad I never fell for the whole global warming scam. I would hate to have to be the one telling my children of promises broken...
Finally, this one just seems to some this winter up quite nicely....
Justice Danièle Tremblay-Lamer has ordered an environmental review panel to justify its decision to allow a $7 billion oilsands project in Alberta's north to go ahead.
[...] "Given the amount of greenhouse gases that will be emitted and given the evidence that the targets will not address the problem of greenhouse gas emissions, it was incumbent upon the Panel to provide a justification for its recommendation on this particular issue," Tremblay-Lamer wrote. [...]
I didn't see this one coming... So much for the "CHANGE" campaigns...
Updated... 3/4/08
Seats won.........popular vote
PC... 73 72 ................. 53%
Lib... 8 9................. 26%
NDP... 2 .................. 9%
Other .................. 12%
Only 41% of eligible Albertan's felt it important enough to get off their asses and vote. 59% have no right to complain about the government that they had handed to them.
Which begs the question statement...
Bye bye Kevin, Brian and this one hurts... Paul. You can now join Stephane Dion in the "we are not leader's" bin.
David Suzuki and the rest of the Church of Climatology just might want to make this one a conference call. Please explain this one and then tell me how "Global Warming" is such a dire thing that we should be jailing politicians that do not act upon it.
Lets do this Al Gore style... Roll frame one...
This is not the "hockey stick graph" by any means... more can be found HERE
Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming
Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.
No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.
A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out most of the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down. [...]
[...] It is difficult to say if mankind can stop global cooling, but it is not difficult to say what the reaction of policymakers around the world should be to this newest and real natural threat. Governments should encourage the mining of coal, the drilling for oil, increasing industrial activity, more vehicles on the highways and the introduction of heat-retaining chemical compounds in our atmosphere.
Unlike the mythical global warming, mankind’s ingenuity has given him the tools to deal with global cooling – if we act in time. Invention has often been a human response to cold and its effects. Indeed, human progress has largely been a response to the challenges of nature in general. Often – the vast majority of the time – this has been futile. Mankind cannot stop volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis. But sometimes, if we are prescient like the Medieval Dutch, we can hold back the sea and win quiet victories against our enemy, nature. [...]
The appeal division, following a month-long review, concluded Mr. Latimer does not in fact pose an undue risk to reoffend.
“The Appeal Division finds that the information available to the Board does not reasonably support the Board's conclusion that you will, by reoffending, present an undue risk to society on day parole,” today's decision says.
All you have to do is read the headlines....
Crime bill passes in Liberal-dominated Senate
The Conservative government's crime bill narrowly passed in the Liberal-dominated Senate on Wednesday, avoiding an election showdown over the issue.
The bill, which now only needs the governor general's approval to be made into law, passed 19-16, with most Liberal senators abstaining.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Stephane Dion's criticisms of the budget are meaningless, because the Liberal leader has said he wants to avoid an election and won't vote against the document.
"When he comes and makes ferocious attacks on a budget he has every intention to allow to pass, he simply has no credibility in those attacks," Harper said during question period Wednesday.
Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion said Wednesday that his party won't defeat the government on the federal budget, but also won't vote in favour of it.
"We'll find a way to not defeat the government and to express our disagreement with this budget," Dion said after a caucus meeting in Ottawa.
He said the Liberals will still have an amendment, but the party has decided not to take the government down in a vote of confidence over the budget.
I mean tagged... Thanks Candace...
Six Unimportant Things... Let me think...
1. Stephane Dion
2. Jack Layton
3. Kevin Tafft
4. Brian Mason
5. Ed Stelmach
6. David Suzuki
Oh crap... I misunderstood the rules. Six unimportant things ABOUT ME!... Now I get it. Let me try this again...
#1. I have a terrible memory. I think I have had oldtimers disease since birth.
#2. I am a night person. I always seem to get my second wind around 11 pm and I'm lucky if I can get to sleep by 2 am.
#3. I am late for work by 5 or 10 minutes almost every day. See #2...
#4. I like worms, maggots, leeches and other little creatures. What can I say... I'm Hooked!
#5. I dream of living in the 1800's. Life was so much simpler then. Grizzly Adams is my hero.
#6. I'm a good driver. I'm a good driver. I'm a good driver. Which in this part of the country is a bloody miracle...
And now I tag... drum rolls please...
ABFreedom
Lone Pony
Chimera
Seems as though every politician running for election this year is running on the platform of "Change". They are not the only ones who want CHANGE...
I will not be the first to agree that some things need to CHANGE. However some people want CHANGE that will only accommodate them and to hell with the rest of the population. This sort of CHANGE is not what we need. If you don't like how the game is played in our parks, maybe it would be best if you take your balls and go home. We are not going to nor should we be expected to CHANGE our culture to suit your beliefs. The countries that you have come from certainly would not do the same for us. ENOUGH already!... (*)
Let the "you racist" remarks begin...
You had heard it all...
(*)
Why is it that they ever leave the (sarc) WONDERFUL (/sarc) countries that they once called home if life abroad is so hard for them to adjust to.
I am testing my psychic powers... Dion will say....
"The people of Canada do not what to have an election. My party will not bring down the conservative government at this time"... (*)
You are probably not a Baby Boomer or a GenX. You were probably born after 1980. Your generation is know as the Millennials...
"They've been overparented, overindulged and overprotected," she says. "They haven't experienced that much failure, frustration, pain. We were so obsessed with protecting and promoting their self-esteem that they crumble like cookies when they discover the world doesn't revolve around them. They get into the real world and they're shocked.
"You have to be very careful in how you talk to them because they take everything as criticism."
The only guns I had were toys. The "progressives" don't like toy guns. Kids these days seldom get to have toy guns to play with. Instead they just use the real thing....
How appropriate...
Transportation Security Administration at Tampa International Airport finds box cutter in back pack...
Benjamin Baines Jr. pleaded guilty to the concealed weapons charge. He seems to think that he was charged not because of what was found in his possession, but because, drum roll please... "he was black and carrying the Koran," That damn profiling thing again! Well not really...
[...] The X-ray image of a box cutter inside Benjamin Baines Jr.'s backpack caught the attention of federal officers Sunday morning at Tampa International Airport. [...]
[...] But it was the packaging that really jolted them: a hollowed-out book that hid the razor-sharp tool. Also inside the backpack: a Koran, a Holy Bible and rap music lyrics referencing police, drugs and guns. [...]
And we needed to raise the royalty rates on oil and gas because....?????
Ohhhhhhh, thats right, the government needs more money that it can't seem to find something worth while to spend it on...
Maybe if they left a little of that extra money in the peoples pockets they could afford to buy the new energy efficient appliances the government is trying to get us to buy with their measly $100 REBATE... Or maybe trade in our older vehicles for newer more fuel efficient ones... stuff like that... You know, to stimulate the whole economy!
NO YOU DON'T!
BC government introduces its tax payers to a new socialist shell game.
Ms. Taylor said the carbon tax will be revenue neutral, meaning the government will not use money generated from the tax to fill its coffers. The carbon tax revenue, estimated to hit $1.8-billion over three years, will be returned to taxpayers through personal income tax and business tax cuts, she said.
It is a relative thing. It could be worse. As far as I can tell from the reports, no one has been killed... YET...
Police have arrested 50 people after mobs of youths torched cars and lobbed rocks at officers and firefighters in a sixth night of violence in Danish cities.
A wave of vandalism continued across Denmark for a seventh consecutive night.
Come on down to Stephane's Political Emporium. Have we got deals for you. Yes I Stephane will buy you a new bridge. I will even toss in a road or two if thats what it takes. Not good enough? How about I give you free water and sewage lines? Buses and mass transit, we have that too! Don't want to go home with empty pockets, I'll give you cash, lots and lots of cash. We here at Stephane's Political Emporium can get easy money at the blink of an eye.
Free popcorn and beer just for stopping by... Every 100th customer gets a brown envelope with an undisclosed amount of money contained within and you get to keep it all! (Subject to 40% handling fee payable to Stephane's Political Emporium... ).
We here at Stephane's Political Emporium don't just want your votes, we will buy them, with your money!
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UPDATE: Albertan's may want to visit our western branches...
Eddie's Political Emporium (Has a more crude country feel to it...)
Kevin's Political Emporium (Kind of a dreamy decor...)
Brian's Political Emporium (A hint of Cuba with a Venezuela twist...)
It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. Maybe its more like boxing day as you are paying for the gifts for yourself.
A government permit to buy alcohol? Junk food? Fast food? How about to buy ski's. A parachute? To go rock climbing? Bungee jumping? Ski-dooing? Where does this sort of socialist thinking end? Nanny state contemplates smoking licence.
No one would be able to buy cigarettes without the permit, under the idea proposed by Health England. [...]
Professor Le Grand, a former adviser to ex-PM Tony Blair, said cash raised by the proposed scheme would go to the NHS.
He said it was the inconvenience of getting a permit - as much as the cost - that would deter people from persisting with the smoking habit.
"You've got to get a form, a complex form - the government's good at complex forms; you have got to get a photograph.
"It's a little bit of a problem to actually do it, so you have got to make a conscious decision every year to opt in to being a smoker." [...]
I came home to find more news that grabbed my attention than usual.
Better late than never I guess. Our judicial system is very slow, and sometimes it even works. I truly believe this man should spend the rest of his life behind bars for war crimes. In this case that will not be very long. He is 83 after all... CLICK
Sticking with the way back machine and the judicial system, we have the families of those killed in the 1985 Air India bombing wanting a formal apology from the federal government. Cause an official government apology will make everything better. Oh and a big ass cheque of course... CLICK
More recently, our current government fired the head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission for refusing to allow the re-opening of the Chalk River reactor even though it was causing a medical crisis not only in Canada but around the globe. Apparently the odds of Chalk River being hit by a devastating earth quake was very high in her mind and took priority over the real concerns of peoples health. Surprise surprise, she wants a judge to give her her entitlement to her old job. Well because... she is THE President! I can't help but wonder how many millions will this cost us tax payers to make her go away? Why on earth would anyone want to go back to a job where you are not wanted by the current employer? Talk about self abuse... CLICK
What song was at the top of the charts when you were born, or any other day for that matter? Unfortunately it only gives US, UK and AUS results but it is interesting none the less...
My birthday songs are...
"Our Day Will Come - Ruby & The Romantics" in the US.
"Summer Holiday - Cliff Richard and The Shadows" in the UK
"Hey Paula - Paul & Paula" in AUS...
Have some fun for a change!
Update: Apparently the direct link to the page for this will not work. It will take you to the Index page only. Once there, you must then Click on the "Birthday Number One" link. there you can select any year, day and month... sorry bout that...
HT FARK
When you have idiots in power that cause/allow this shit to happen...
American fighter jets have been scrambled after Russian bombers buzzed a US aircraft carrier in the Western Pacific.
and...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Leaders of Gaza's ruling Hamas movement have gone into hiding, fearing Israeli assassination attempts in response to a wave of Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel, officials said Monday.
What the hell is wrong with everyone? Have we all lost our minds? Why can't we all just get along....
Dion indicates Vancouver safe injection site is OK
The Liberal party has no intention of advocating the legalization of cannabis but leader Stephane Dion made it clear Friday that under a Liberal government, other Canadian cities could see safe injection sites like the one in Vancouver.
The percentage of injection drug users from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood found to be carrying a worrisome superbug jumped 250 per cent from 2000 to 2006, a new study reveals.
Music cannot change the world, says Neil Young
Canadian folk rock legend Neil Young said he has lost all hope that music can change the world, as he presented a documentary about his 2006 anti-war concert tour at the Berlin film festival on Friday.Don't get too down on your mission in life Neil. There is some hope left. You have managed to influence at least one mind...
"I know that the time when music could change the world is past. I really doubt that a single song can make a difference. It is a reality," Young told reporters.
An Ohio mayor had a stern order for a company of Marine Corps Reservists: Get out.
The Toledo Blade reports that Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner ordered the Marines out Friday as their buses were arriving for a three-day training mission in the city, where they have periodically trained since 2004.
The 200 Marines, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., had planned to participate in urban patrol exercises in downtown streets and a vacant building, according to the Blade, which reports that past exercises have included mock gun fights, ambushes and the firing of blank ammunition to simulate urban combat.
Finkbeiner said that would be alarming.
"The mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people," Brian Schwartz, the mayor's spokesman, told the newspaper. "He did not want them practicing and drilling in a highly visible area."
Those well meaning folks over at the World Wildlife Foundation are upset that the Canadian government is auctioning off the rights to oil and gas exploration on more than 2.9 million acres of continental shelf in the Beaufort Sea, north of the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Perhaps I would feel a little more bitter about this if the spokes person was a little more educated on the topic. click From the CTV article...
"These are areas where polar bears and bowhead whales and beluga whales and who knows what else call home," Dr. Peter Ewins, WWF Canada's director, told CTV.ca on Thursday. "Clearly these areas are important, perhaps critical, habitat for the pressured polar bears."
The citizens of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho would like a word with you. Bring your shovel! Come spring, bring sand bags, lots and lots of sand bags!
Snowfall for the winter hit 127 inches as of Tuesday night, beating the old mark of 124.2 inches set in the winter of 1915-16, and the National Weather Service is predicting as much as another half-foot or so by nightfall Thursday.
Royal Mint said it would not comment on redesign plans, but there has been speculation that Britannia will be replaced with an image representing modern Britain.
I thought I would give this one a photoshop shot... I must admit that I stole one of Kate's tag lines...
My apologies to Queen Elizabeth for ousting her off the coin and replacing her with Tony. I do however think that I did the other side of the coin justice by introducing the Mohamed Ali Pasha statue from 1905 in all its glory.
Ah yes, the house of comedy is back sitting and as per usual, they are all acting like an out of control daycare centre. Can we ever expect to have any kind of civility from our government officials again? It is rather tiring...
Harper accused of insulting 'entire Greek community'
Harper said...
"The Bloc member mentioned two people who are of Greek origin, one who was an employee here in Ottawa, another one who was a supporter of the Conservative party of Montreal.
"The fact there are two Montreal gentleman of Greek origin doesn't mean there's a conspiracy here," Harper said in French.
By Pat Benatar:
They cry in the dark, so you cant see their tears
They hide in the light, so you cant see their fears
Forgive and forget, all the while
Love and pain become one and the same
In the eyes of a wounded child
Because hell
Hell is for children
And you know that their little lives can become such a mess
Hell
Hell is for children
And you shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh
Its all so confusing, this brutal abusing
They blacken your eyes, and then apologize
Youre daddys good girl, and dont tell mommy a thing
Be a good little boy, and youll get a new toy
Tell grandma you fell off the swing
Because hell
Hell is for children
And you know that their little lives can become such a mess
Hell
Hell is for children
And you shouldnt have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh
No, hell is for children
Hell
Hell is for hell
Hell is for hell
Hell is for children
Hell
Hell is for hell
Hell is for hell
Hell is for children
Hell
Hell is for hell
Hell is for hell
Hell is for children
Hell is for children
Hell is for children
Calgary police and social services are investigating after one-year-old twins were left in a locked SUV in -20 C temperatures for at least half an hour.
Abandoned baby found in Toronto parking garage
Freezing deaths of 2 girls shock Sask. community
There are no excuses....
Suncor approves $20.6-billion oil sands expansion
Suncor Energy Inc. said Wednesday it will spend $20.6-billion on an expansion scheme that will make it the biggest producer in the oil sands of northern Alberta.
Suncor's board of directors gave the go-ahead for the Voyageur project, a 200,000 barrel-a-day expansion of the company's already massive oil sands operations near Fort McMurray. Voyageur will boost output to 550,000 barrels a day when complete in 2012. [...]
The project is the latest of more than $100-billion worth of plans to tap the oil sands to feed demand from U.S. refiners for Canadian oil. [...]
Production from the northern Alberta oil sands, the largest oil reserves outside of the Middle East, is expected to nearly triple to three million barrels a day by 2015. [...]
Toronto trustees narrowly approve black school
Angela Wilson, a community member who brought the proposal forward added:
“It's a bittersweet thing because it should have happened a long time ago and it shouldn't have brought all this pain back to our black community.”
"...if the colored children are denied the experience in school of associating with white children, who represent 90 percent of our national society in which these colored children must live, then the colored child's curriculum is being greatly curtailed. [...]
... well. like I say, we lived in an integrated neighborhood and I had all of these playmates of different nationalities. And so when I found out that day that I might be able to go to their school, I was just thrilled, you know. And I remember walking over to Sumner school with my dad that day and going up the steps of the school and the school looked so big to a smaller child. And I remember going inside and my dad spoke with someone and then he went into the inner office with the principal and they left me out...to sit outside with the secretary. And while he was in the inner office, I could hear voices and hear his voice raised, you know, as the conversation went on. And then he immediately came out of the office, took me by the hand and we walked home from the school. I just couldn't understand what was happening because I was so sure that I was going to go to school with Mona and Guinevere, Wanda, and all of my playmates.
China and western Canada would like a word with you. And they are not going to be nice words!
-54C with the wind chill in Edmonton... This is not a joke...
On my drive home from work, in my still frozen vehicle, even though I had started it 45 minutes prior to leaving work, I was listening to 630 CHED as they interviewed a lady from Cliffs Towing. At that time, around 5 pm MST, if you were to call for a tow truck there were 150 people ahead of you already waiting. Even tow trucks were waiting for tow trucks. Basically you were shit out of luck. One of the calls they received today was to free a tractor trailer who's tires had frozen to bare pavement and could not move. Apparently the extremely cold pavement liked the heat of the tires so much it did not want to let them leave...
I really don't want to play this game anymore. Three days of this has been plenty thanks. Someone please bring us the global warming we were promised.
But I am...
This hour has 22 minutes "on the road"...
"Yes, we're going on the road. Send us an email telling us why we should AVOID your town. Are the people unfriendly? Or too friendly? Does it have an unpleasant smell? Does it have a raccoon population of 250,000 per square kilometer (we're looking at you Toronto.) To tell us why we shouldn't come to your home town, send an email to 22minutes@cbc.ca"
I would suggest you stay out of Alberta completely. Way too many conservatives for even the CBC to handle. After watching your "is CBC biased" episodes, I would guess that your staff would be linched up in a matter of minutes apon crossing the border. If you are lucky they won't tie you to the balls on the back of a pick up truck and drag you all over the province to show off the fine liberal catch they have managed to bag. Perhaps if you are lucky, they will just tie you to the hood of the station wagon like a big buck. You know us redneck conservatives in Alberta don't have a sense of humor at all don't you? We take this sort of thing very very seriously.
PS
Don't forget to buy megatons of carbon credits to offset all the hot air that comes out of the CBC. You must do your part to save the poor polar bears! You know the oil loving conservative Albertans won't...
Love Timmy
Abu Dhabi is planning to construct the world's largest carbon capture and storage project, as part of the oil-rich emirate's $15-billion (U.S.) bid to become a leader in clean technology and renewable energy. [...]
Alberta emissions plan draws flak
Lindsay Telfer, head of the Sierra Club Canada's Prairie Chapter, called the plan "a joke"
I wish that these protestors would come here and "turn up the heat outside". As I write this, it is currently -31 C, -41 C with the wind chill. That is better than the -47 C with wind chill that we woke up to this morning. It was much colder further north in the province. Fortunately, after we get through tomorrows -38 C morning, it starts to warm up a bit.
This frigid weather brings with it a bit of good news for the forestry industry in Alberta. It may do the job of killing off a good portion of the pine beetle that Dalton McGuinty seems so frantic about in the above link regarding the premiers climate change meeting in BC.
In somewhat related news...
Canada has ranked 12 in the 2008 Environmental Performance Index. That is a drop of 4 places from the last one in 2006(PDF). Now before all you lefties go off on some kind of tantrum yelling at Harper and his gang of thugs for this drop, take a look at the numbers. Canada's over all score was actually higher this year. In 2006 Canada scored 84 where as in 2008 we scored 86.6. The part that makes me scratch my head is Norway's move from 18(80.2)in 2006 to 2(93) on the 2008 list. Why you might ask... It is quite simple if you happened to read my post here regarding Norways rise in CO2 levels by 80% from 1990 levels. Yet in this "index" they give Norway a 92.7 and Canada a 69.3 mark for climate change policy. This again proves how the system works. They do not base anything on how well those policies are working, just how good they look on paper. No wonder the environMentals love the Liberals. They know how to write policies that look good but do little if any good in the real world.
She saw her reflection in the White House mirrors
till the landslide brought her down.
And now a video from the lady who was truly robbed last year. I give you Dilana, performing Landslide. Accompanied by Magni on guitar...
Something tells me this is not what they had in mind. Women are still far behind men in this case, but are making serious strides to close the gap...
The gap between men and women committing violent crimes has been narrowing over the past two decades.
In 1986, for every nine men accused of a violent crime, there was one woman also charged. In 2005, for every five men accused of a violent crime, there was one woman charged.
I just finished reading the whole dang thing.(PDF) I should have just read the condensed version. Why do these reports always contain more blabber than actual facts, suggestions or opinions? I guess 94 pages looks much better than one when you have spent millions in the process...
Here is my cut through all the bullshit summary...
1. Harper sucks in the communication department. Like we already did not know that. Hire someone that knows how for fuck sakes!
2. Jack, Dion, Duceppe and Elizabeth May... Shut the fuck up, as none of you know of what you preach.
3. We need back up. NATO where are you?
4. Stay in Afghanistan until the job is done, with a few conditions:
1: Diplomacy — more a prescription of what the UN and NATO need to do to put more focus on goals in Afghanistan
2: Get more troops out of NATO, if so, continue combat deployment past 2009 — a 1,000-person battle group specifically — "to reinforce ISAF’s 'clear, hold and develop' strategy in Kandahar"
3: A “signature” aid project — CIDA must change its policies to give Canada a more tangible presence in job creation and aid delivery
4: Better monitoring of progress — "International parties to the Afghanistan Compact (mentioned earlier) to conduct a full-scale review of the
effectiveness of the security, governance and development effort as a whole in 2011. That multinational review should provide inform decisions on future Canadian commitments to Afghanistan."
5: Talk to Canadians — "The Government must engage Canadians in a continuous, frank and constructive dialogue about conditions in Afghanistan and the extent to which Canadian objectives are being achieved"
The strongest impression formed by the Panel was that the Canadian Forces are doing a highly commendable job in a more violent and hazardous mission than was envisaged when they were first deployed to Afghanistan.
Canadian interests and values, and Canadian lives, are now invested in Afghanistan. The sacrifices made there, by Canadians and their families, must be respected. What we do there (or stop doing) affects the Afghan people. It can affect Canadian security. It can affect Canada’s reputation in the world. It can affect our influence in international affairs.
A premature military withdrawal from Afghanistan, whether full or partial, would imperil Canadian interests and values.
In Afghanistan there is not yet a peace to keep, no truce to supervise or “green line” to watch. This is a peace-enforcement operation, as provided for under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter.
The best person for the job has tossed in the towel. Guess I will now have to have a second look at John McCain.
All these Liberals living too fast for the easy money in British Columbia
So fast in fact, that they can manipulate time so they can work 30 and 32.5 hour days. Those Liberal lawyers are just amazing! Being a Liberal Senator does not hurt either.
It is similar to F.U.B.A.R, but in this instance it is directed at Ed Stelmach and the Alberta PC's. It is a new acronym... "Fucked up badly on royalties". It did not take long for Eddy the Seagull to discover what real conservatives already knew. Charging more does not equate to more money coming into the coffers. It never pays to get too greedy. It sure looks good on paper but very seldom does it work out in the real world.
Let the back pedaling begin
What is that I hear? Could it be Eddy the Seagulls swan song? Lets hope so...
Dion has been known to set fashion trends. He did wonders for the back pack industry. He also brought us the infamous green scarves. Now it seems he would like to go back in Liberal time and bring back the mini skirt. Cause there is nothing like not having any new idea's of your own and simply rehashing the old... I think they call it "retro". Here I thought Dion was more of a "metro" type.
Floating bulldozer to crack through B.C. ice jam
Sorry but it looks nothing like a "bulldozer". It looks like an excavator. Funny enough, the story itself explains that it is an Amphibex Excavator. Some headline writer does not know of what he writes obviously.
It sure sounds like an expensive way to remove an ice jamb. At the beginning of this saga back in December of 07, I could not help but wonder why they did not simply blow this thing. Guess over the years we have forgotten more than we have ever learned from our elders. Its a frickin ice jamb, a few well placed sticks of dynamite would have cleared this thing in no time at all. Strange how a "third world" country like China still knows how to deal with these.
Nowadays, explosives dropped from aircraft are used to break the ice dams before they become dangerous.
Put down your drink and swallow what ever is in your mouth before hitting the play button!
No Toronto Mayor David Miller, it is not guns.
It is not terrorists.
It is not even Climate Change.
It is in fact RESPECT or the lack of, to be precise.
Much of todays society is so consumed with themselves and how important they think they are, they have forgotten, or worse, have never learned about respect. The links above is proof of that.
No respect for life. No respect for the dead. No respect for those simply just doing their job. I doubt if they have any self respect.
re·spect (r-spkt)
tr.v. re·spect·ed, re·spect·ing, re·spects
1. To feel or show deferential regard for; esteem.
2. To avoid violation of or interference with: respect the speed limit.
3. To relate or refer to; concern.
n.
1. A feeling of appreciative, often deferential regard; esteem. See Synonyms at regard.
2. The state of being regarded with honor or esteem.
3. Willingness to show consideration or appreciation.
4. respects Polite expressions of consideration or deference: pay one's respects
Without respect, we have nothing to offer anyone that is of any worth. I do not suggest that we respect anyone for what position they hold in life, or what they have done. It matters not. We need to respect everyone we encounter in our lives, and some we may never meet, for without each and every one of them, our own lives collapse. No matter how meaningless you may think their position is in life, or how much better you are than them, without them, you are nothing. We all like to think of ourselves as being independent, but nothing could be further from the truth. We are all very dependent on each other. This is simply a fact of living in a society. When that society loses respect for its members, it will collapse. We are now seeing the cracks in our societies super structure. If we don't do some major repairs to our attitudes towards each other, we are all screwed in a major way.
No, not to translate his broken English. To his credit, he has managed to get past that for the most part. Dion now only needs interpreters to translate what he really meant by what he actually said in English or French. You see, he is so damn smart that the average non Liberal just does not understand his higher being speak. It must be all those subtle nuances that we just seem to miss when he speaks. I'm guessing his higher being speak takes place during his inevitable pauses. They are not really pauses at all. That is when Dion goes into a telepathic state and transmits his thoughts to other Liberals so that they will truly understand him. The rest of us just have to wait for one of them to step up and tell us what he really meant. It really is quite simple....
The moral of this story is,
Never listen to Dion. Wait for someone else to translate or you will never know what he actually said. Now thats a quality you want in a leader...
Stephane Dion just can't seem to figure out what it is he meant by his "intervetion" comment.
Today he has changed his thoughts on the matter. The liberals call it clarifying... I call it back pedaling...
Yesterday it was...
"If [Pakistani leaders] are incapable of doing it themselves, it is something that we could envision with NATO forces — how to help Pakistan help us bring peace to Afghanistan," he said during a news conference in Quebec City Wednesday.
"It was diplomatic intervention with an effort that must be more concerted between Canada and our NATO allies,"
Stephane Dion suggests there should be an "intervention" in Pakistan to solve the battle going on in Afghanistan.
[...] "As long as we don't solve the problem in Pakistan, I don't see how we can solve it in Afghanistan." [...]
In an embarrassing battlefield defeat for Pakistan's army, Islamic extremists attacked and seized a small fort near the Afghan border, leaving at least 27 soldiers dead or missing. [...]
One of these guys just isn't sane...
On the one hand we have our Prime Minister laughing at the Premier of NL for obvious reasons. Premier Danny Williams is off his rocker once again trying to make deals that no reasonable person would even consider. He must think that he is still dealing with a Liberal Government in Ottawa. Silly boy... Welcome to the real world Danny. Danny Boy makes terrorists demands look tame at times.
Don't get me wrong here. You have to give credit to Danny Boy for trying to swindle as much cash for the people in NL as he possibly can. He is certainly trying. His tactics on the other hand, lets just say the man lacks negotiating skills of any kind...
The shooting prompted renewed calls for a ban of guns in Toronto.
"Handguns need to be banned period. No exemptions. No collectors. No loopholes. Ban them," said Toronto Mayor David Miller.
Its not really the weather that has so many elderly Canadians heading to BC for their retirement. There is something else going on there. Perhaps there truly is something in the water?
[...] The life expectancy of Canadians continues to rise, and has now reached 80.4 years, according to new numbers released Monday by Statistics Canada. [...]
[...]British Columbia residents are expected to live to 81.2 [...]
Politics here in Canada are a bit slow so I have turned south. I discovered Fred Thompson and like what I see and read.
Fred... WYSIWYG
Fred's values...
Fred... Uncommon Knowledge part one
Fred... Uncommon Knowledge part two
It is nice to see a politician that is not constantly slagging those he is running against. He gives you his view on how things should be, plain and simple. Very little hype, no pompous attitude, just tells it like it is, without worrying about political correctness. Many politicians could learn a lot from Fred. Fred... perhaps that is what drew me to him in the first place? He has enough self confidence and respect for the people that he prefers to go by his first name, not his last. It gives you a more personal feeling for the man. Very informal. I wonder, if he were to become president, do you think he would still prefer Fred? I get the feeling he would...
You just gotta love the guy. Straight forward, no bullshit, common sense... What more do you want from a leader?
Now theres three words I bet you thought you would never see together. Me too! All it is going to cost the consumer is a weeeeee 10% increase in the cost of Chinese made toys. A small price to pay to know little Johnny and Janey have safe toys to play with. Ya whatever...
"The damage done to the reputation of toys made in China has been immense and it will take time to turn around,"
One permit at a time...
Six years after new rules made it much easier to get a license to carry concealed weapons, the number of Michiganders legally packing heat has increased more than six-fold.
The incidence of violent crime in Michigan in the six years since the law went into effect has been, on average, below the rate of the previous six years. The overall incidence of death from firearms, including suicide and accidents, also has declined.
"It's not easy, it's not easy, ummmm, and I couldn't do it if I did not passionately believe it was the right thing to do. [...} It's very personal for me."
Someone needs some acting lessons...
sniffle sniffle (video}
Do you remember Eddy "The Eagle" Edwards? He was the ski jumper from the UK that became a household name when he famously came last in both ski jumping events at the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988. It was not his abilities that made him soar in popularity. He was handicapped by his weight and by his vision or lack there of. He weighed 20 pounds more than his closest rival and was very short sighted.
Remind you of anyone?
He does a lot of squawking, lacks vision, is short sighted, loves to wallow in garbage, is full of shit and can't wait to drop it on the average Joe's head.
It is a challenge to find anything positive about his leadership of Alberta...
Eddy "The Seagull" Stelmack... Just another loser.
HT ABFreedom for the inspiration of this post.
Here it comes... If for some strange reason you ever wondered what it was like to live in the depression years. You may just find out if these people get their way...
OTTAWA — A federal advisory panel will unveil a long-term climate-change strategy Monday that is expected to back the idea of a carbon tax aimed at substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, The Globe and Mail has learned.
The proposal will put pressure on both the Harper government and the Liberal Opposition, which have rejected a carbon tax that would penalize oil producers in the West most heavily.
The recommendation will raise a number of questions on Parliament Hill; specifically, whether a carbon tax is inevitable, who would collect the revenue, and how much a tonne of carbon is worth. [...]
Generally speaking, a carbon-tax measure would be designed to increase the cost of burning fossil fuels such as oil and gas. Such a tax could target industry or consumers.
If you listen to the ecofreaks, or if you are just frugal like me... you most likely have switched, or are at least thinking of changing all your light bulbs to CFL's. Some governments are forcing you to change and not even giving you the option. That includes the Canadian government. By now, everyone knows that they contain mercury, which in itself can be a minor hazard should you break a CFL bulb. You probably also know that the vast majority of CFL bulbs are made in China. Read cheap labour and cheap product. China is not known for their quality assurance now are they. Not to mention that their environmental record is deplorable. Now studies are revealing that they can be more dangerous to some people than we ever thought. For some people at least, this may not be the brightest solution.
They can cause skin cancer, aggravate existing medical problems, trigger migraines, and...who knows what other studies will discover in the future...
Day of Martyrs of the Colonial Repression - Angola
Head of State's Birthday - Samoa
Independence Day - Myanmar / Burma
Martyrs of Independence Day - Zaire (Democratic Congo)
Trivia Day - United States of America
The first of these tales is one that can not help but pull at your heart strings.
Via CTV
Elderly Quebec husband, wife die just hours apart
A 75-year-old Quebec man died in a Joliette hospital just hours after learning his wife had passed on, ending a romance between two hearts that friends said were inseparable.
In the comments...
MSM
How beautiful was this relationship?......we can all learn from it. My condolences to the family....know in your heart what is meant to be will be!!
KC
If that's not true love, then I don't know what is. It's always nice to hear that you can find love no matter how old you are.
I offer my deepest condolences to the family of this couple.
The Associated Press
PARIS -- The Dakar Rally, the epic motorcycle, car and truck race across the Sahara desert, was cancelled Friday by organizers citing "direct'' threats of terrorism from al Qaeda-linked militants.
How much do you want to bet that the organizers never asked the racers whether or not they still wanted to race. I would bet that the vast majority would have voted in favor of going ahead with the race. Perhaps bonus points for every terrorist that they ran over or killed in some other less glorified manner. They might even want to make a movie about it...
Baby mammoth could shed light on warming, even though it apparently froze to death...
This one is a bit puzzling. How did this so called "Arctic" weather make its way down to California without first affecting at least part of Canada? It also apparently is coming in from the south west... Did the "Arctic" move on me? Arctic storm bears down on California. Anyone? Anyone at all?
If, and that is a very BIG IF, our planet is supposed to be in some radical human caused warming, how is that this is being predicted at all? World to cool slightly in 2008
2nd New Year's Day Holiday - Russia
Ancestry Day / Forefather's Day - Haiti
Bank Holiday - UK
Berchtold's Day - Liechtenstein, Switzerland
Bridge Day - New Caledonia
Labor Day - Ukraine
New Year's Day 2nd Day - Romania, Taiwan
New Year's Day Holiday - Mauritius, New Zealand, North Korea, South Korea
Victory of the Armed Forces Cuba
Kaapse Klopse - South Africa
Cassé Gateau - Voudon
It's not just New Years Day...
Founding of Republic of China - Taiwan
Independence Day - Cameroon, Haiti, Sudan
Independence Day of the Slovak Republic - Slovakia
Junkanoo, New Providence and Freeport - Bahamas
Liberation Day - Cuba
National Flag Day - Lithuania
National Tree Planting Day - Tanzania
Prayer Week - Niue
St. Basil's Day - Bulgaria
Universal Fraternity - Macau
Mary, Mother of God - Vatican City State
World Peace Day - Vatican City State
Global Family Day - International
Unofficially... Global Hangover day - International
