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We all miss the ocean, Phil.

Even though the death of the oceans made me sad, I’ve gotten over it by now. I’m resilient that way.

And the oil, too. And the millions of people who ate us into extinction in the ’80’s.
“Contrary to what some say, Canada wasn’t roaring to sustainability as Harper won, but running to Armageddon with an emissions record worse than Bush. It is a test for lefties.”
Lorenzo and his horses.
The Patriquin Plan — now in video.
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  3. That Lorenzo is pretty cool. I was concerned for a moment that this was going to be another story about interspecies erotica.

  4. “I was concerned for a moment that this was going to be another story about interspecies erotica.”
    Mmmm, I had the same queasy feeling.

  6. Baghdad offensive set to begin
    (Reuters) – A U.S.-Iraqi campaign to stabilize Baghdad will begin soon and the offensive against militants will be on a scale never seen during four years of war, American officers said on Sunday. Briefing a small group of foreign reporters, three American colonels who are senior advisers to the Iraqi army and police in Baghdad said a command center overseeing the crackdown would be…-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779216/posts

  7. I automatically went to click on it {as you have trained us to do}, nothing happened. Read it again, thought of the horse training video above and started laughing. I’m still laughing even after finding out it is an inoperative link.

  8. I am absolutely amazed at some of the people on rabble. The popular sentiment that Harper is bad and must be removed from office… is much more important that getting a working environment bill (both on pollution and greenhouse gases) through on legislation. Many don’t think they could get anything better from the liberals and recognize that Dion did little.
    So why is it that if both the libs or the cons are “not going to do much on the environment without NDP prodding”…. why is it better to wait for an election (or several elections) to work with the other party and not the conservatives… Why not now?
    Am I missing something??

  9. What’s so hot about fickle science?
    February 4, 2007
    BY MARK STEYN Sun-Times Columnist
    From the “Environmental News Network”: “Science Is Solid on Climate Change, Congress Told.” “The science is solid,” says Louise Frechette, deputy secretary-general of the United Nations.
    “The science is solid,” says Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
    “The science is really solid,” says TV meteorologist Heidi Cullen. “The science is very solid.”
    Rest is here:
    http://www.suntimes.com/news/steyn/241518,CST-EDT-STEYN04.article
    If anyone wants to read a good article on “global warming”. This is the one for entertainment & information.

  10. The Lorenzo piece is great, Kate, thanks for that. My dog and I loved it. Of course, I personally use “Mane & Tail” hair conditioner – tinyurl.com/2u8dp2 – so you might expect that. And speaking of man and his animals and machines, here’s a computer video animation that just warms my heart – youtube.com/watch?v=h7RcqRmBlIQ – it’s the classic Eskimo Disco, featuring Pingu.

  11. Some funny news out of palestine, by none other than thee New York Times.
    HEADLINE: “Palestinians Say Clashes Hurt Their Cause”
    Well, you know it’s going to be amusing before you even click the link, right? 🙂
    “The fierce internal clashes among Palestinian factions have shocked many Palestinians and Arab governments, who fear that the continuing bloodshed is damaging the Palestinian image before the world, Palestinians say.”
    Right. Because all those years of blowing up Israeli kids in coffee shops have made them look like saints. We can’t allow all this infighting to make them look BAD!
    Sometimes I wonder whether the NYT are intentionally trying to satire their own reporting style. Then I realize that they’re just retarded.

  12. Media silence in Canada; media silence in Venezuela. Si, Jose.
    “the Chávez regime ordered media silence on him.”
    The Fugitive (Patricia Poleo–A Journalist Persecuted by Chavez)
    At the moment the bomb was attached to the undercarriage of his canary-yellow Toyota Land Cruiser, Danilo Anderson was one building away, studying criminalistics at a nearby police academy. The unguarded lot where he had parked was outside the coroner’s office in the Caracas neighborhood of Bello Monte. It was after 6:00 p.m. November 18, 2004.
    Anderson, a 38-year-old prosecutor with the Venezuelan attorney general’s office, finished class around 9:30 p.m. He dropped off his bodyguard at a bus stop and drove down La Avenida de las Ciencias de los Chaguaramos toward the Sambil Mall, where he was supposed to meet a friend. At 9:36 p.m., someone made a cell phone call.
    Danilo Anderson blew up. …-
    For those who are following Venezuelan politics, Patricia Poleo is a journalist that the chavistas hate. She has embarrassed the Chavez regime multiple times (including proving that Chavez was protecting narcotrafficers winning her the King of Spain Journalism Award) and was one of the top reasons that Venezuela enacted a 30 yr prison sentence for ‘defaming’ government officials and why there is such a push to close non-state owned media channels (such as the recent order to close the independent RCTV channel). Currently the Chavistas are charging her with a murder in which she uncovered that a Venezuelan prosecutor, Danilo Anderson, was killed by a car bomb due to his ties with Venezuelan and foreign criminal elements. This was an excellent scapegoat for the Chavistas because the prosecutor was in charge of prosecuting hundreds of opposition members, so they made him a martyr when he was killed by the Venezuelan mob. The case against her was based upon one witness, Geovanny Vásquez, who was shown to be lying about many things (including being at a supposed meeting with Poleo in Panama when he was in prison in Colombia or that he got a doctorate in psychiatry at John Hopkins University). When the media started questioning the story of Vásquez, the Chávez regime ordered media silence on him.
    Anyways, to make a long story short, Patricia Poleo went into hiding and eventually fled to the US. And on Thursday she was granted asylum….-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779235/posts
    Socialism = Media silence = Muerte, aka Death.

  13. Hillier Eyes Politics
    Randy Hillier says “it is time to bring our strong rural voices directly to Queen’s Park.”
    The former President of the Lanark Landowners Association has announced he plans to run for a seat in the Ontario legislature.
    Hillier plans to seek the nomination for the Ontario Progressive Conservatives in the new riding of Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington.
    Ontarians head to the polls for a provincial byelection in October. …-
    cfra.com

  14. Sampling of latest liblogs entries:
    07-02-04 17:57 EST
    Coal Pollution and Global Warming go hand in hand
    Coal pollution in China; a portend of our future, image courtesy of http://www.theglobeandmail.com
    The coal pollution in China is pretty bad. I wonder if this pollution was created by solar activity or some other obscure ‘naturally’ occuring[sic] event?
    I don’t think so. This pollution is created by humans….-
    ‘nother entry:
    Carbon Neutral City (Video)
    Dong Tang, the world’s first carbon neutral city, is currently being designed and developed in China. …-

  15. PSAC = Public Service Alliance of Canada; the union of the federal bureauc-rats.
    The PSAC is engaging in politics; read their attack on the Harper Conservative government.
    Bureauc-rats, indeed. …-
    PSAC ready to defend federal public services
    “We cannot allow the Harper government to sell off our public services
    and dismantle this country,” said Gordon.
    “We have already witnessed cuts that
    are affecting our ability to respond to environmental crises in our fisheries
    and forests. We have seen the government slash funding to the Status of Women
    and to literacy programs, end the Court Challenges, close the Canada Labour
    and Business Centre and shut down many other programs that promoted the
    health, human rights and equity of Canadians.”
    …-
    http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2007/04/c4524.html

  17. maz2 @ 8.43 pm
    an interesting aside to the “sudden death” of Danilo Anderson is the story from his sister Lourdes of what was found to be of his estate, after his death. A Toyota Land Rover, the Toyota Autana in which he was killed, 2 jet skis, a farm, an apartment in Maiquetia (a very good area), and…. about $500.000 US in cash. It’s quite a sum for someone that earns at best $17.700 US / year.
    Alek Boyd at http://www.vcisis.com has been all over the corruption and cover-ups regarding this.. more at http://www.vcrisis.com/?content=letters/200502140613
    Miguel Octavio @ The Devils Excrement has an analysis from last week of the upcoming financial meltdown in “oil rich” Venezuela. It seems some people just can’t print the paper money fast enough…
    http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/ and scroll down to tuesday, January 30.2007
    In November – December 2006 I was there and exchanged (in the Caracas airport) american dollars at 1:2500 while the official and regulated rate is 1:2150 the rate in Caracas is now below 1:4500
    and regarding “Socialism = Media Silence = Muerte, aka Death…
    Venezuela imports about 80% of its food, when they reach the point of no return in this financial game, it’s not going to be pretty for the +40% still living in poverty.

  20. I should have stimulated interest in the link above by the quote below.
    “The roots of the CLOUD experiment can be traced as far back as two centuries, when the British Astronomer Royal, William Herschel, noticed a correlation between sunspots and the price of wheat in England.”

  22. another interesting turn of events,was the article on bilingualism on cbc,and the need for politicians in particular to be able to speak french.I will give the Lang.commish credit for saying that PMSH was a good example,and praised him for quite often beginning his speeches in french,even when in Washington.They also interviewed Keith Martin (Lib),who can’t speak french,but is taking lessons..what I did find interesting,was the fact that the other “leader”,can’t speak comprehensible English.Why,if Harper is expected to be fluent in French,shouldn’t Dion be expected to be at least understandable,in English? If PMSH flubbed one turn of phrase in french,media would be all over him,but no one says a word,about Dion’s mangling of english.Why????

  23. Mao Stlong sends gleetings to all leaders of this bog in Canader.
    Vote Kyloto;send money. We send credits to youse.
    One smogloll, 2 smoglolls? You get them from China. …-
    China’s Poison for the Planet
    By Andreas Lorenz and Wieland Wagner
    Can the environment withstand China’s growing economic might? As one of the planet’s worst polluters, Beijing’s ecological sins are creating problems on a global scale. Many countries are now feeling the consequences….-
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,461828,00.html

  24. “That summary report does not come from the scientific community.”
    Take the IPCC report and shove it. …-
    Independent summary shows new UN climate change report refutes alarmism and reveals major uncertainties in the science
    TORONTO, Feb. 5 /CNW/ – An independent review of the latest United
    Nations report on climate change shows that the scientific evidence about
    global warming remains uncertain and provides no basis for alarmism.
    In 2006, independent research organization The Fraser Institute convened
    a panel of 10 internationally-recognized experts to read the UN International
    Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) draft report and produce an Independent Summary
    for Policymakers. The result, released today and available at
    http://www.fraserinstitute.ca, is a detailed and thorough overview of the state of
    the science. This independent summary has been reviewed by more than 50
    scientists around the world and their views on its balance and reliability are
    tabulated for readers.
    “While a lot of effort goes into producing the large IPCC reports, its
    complex message is often obscured by its accompanying Summary for
    Policymakers. That summary report does not come from the scientific community.
    Instead it is developed through political negotiations by unnamed bureaucrats
    from various governments….-
    http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2007/05/c2017.html

  25. PRIME MINISTER WON BATTLE WITH PARLIAMENT HILL MEDIA: SEARS
    But CP, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, CBC, TVA and Le Devoir refuse to go on PMO’s list in protest. …-
    national newswatch

  26. NATO names ‘killed’ Taliban chief
    KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — A day after saying it killed a “key” senior Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan in a precision airstrike, NATO’s International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) Monday identified him as Abdul Ghafour….-
    More, please, and faster.

  27. *
    More welfare obviously the answer
    Because the culture of dependency has been working so well
    for the last hundred years…
    One in 10 aboriginal children is in foster care,
    compared to one in 200 non-aboriginal children…
    *

  28. The peace-loving Saudi’s funding terrorist camps? Say it ain’t so!
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2007/02/05/3531788-cp.html
    “Throughout the 1980s and much of the ’90s, Saudi wealth and charities fuelled an explosive growth of madrassas throughout the Islamic world. Students of different ages, some as young nine, are taught to read and then take religious studies.
    Some madrassas, particularly those near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, preach fundamentalist doctrines. Many of their students are poor and have few other options for education. They became easy recruits for the extremist Taliban movement.
    President Hamid Karzai’s government, supported by donor countries, will be competing against these well-financed Saudi schools”

  29. Juat as bad back in the 70s when all those wackos were predicting the end of the world how we would all be wearing gas masks when we went outside or that our cities would we under domes and how we would have to evacuate the coast becuase of all the dead fish and how we have only ten years left to save the planet what a bunch of sorry eco-freak liars

  30. *
    The Doggerel Party has the edits
    for Stephane Dion’s op-ed.
    In the spirit of Martin Luther King, Steffi
    pulls out the inspirational stops —
    “I have a dog…“
    “I call on the Prime Minister to cure
    cancer by the end of next week.    ”

  31. Freedom and Its Discontents
    by Theodore Dalrymple
    Conclusion:
    Which of us listens without impatience and even anger to the arguments of our opponents? If you believe in global warming as the result of man’s activities, can you abide the obviously crooked arguments of the sceptics, who are in the pay of, or at least in mental thrall to, the polluting multinationals? Or if you believe that Al Gore only wants is to increase the power of governments, preferably with him in charge of the largest of them, can you listen without a rise in pulse rate and blood pressure to the arguments of climatologists who insist that it is we – I mean, we humans – who are causing a rise in global temperature? What is truth said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.
    La Rochefoucauld said that love of justice in most men is only fear of suffering injustice. By analogy, love of free speech in most men is only fear of being shut up. If they were a bit stronger than they are, they would just have monologues, the most pleasurable of all speech forms. Who among us has not taken part in a conversation in which his principal concern was with what he was going to say next, hardly bothering in the meantime to listen to the others, except to await a pause into which he may interject his wonderful words?
    The threat to free speech does not inhere, therefore, solely in governments, but in our hearts. And in the modern world, a peculiar threat comes from right-thinking monomaniacs who associate to form pressure groups. With the decline in the grand ideology of socialism, we have not seen the decline of ideology, but the rise of micro-ideologies. Ideology has been divided into fragments and privatised, as it were, but it remains just as ideological. And few pleasures are greater than those of the exercise of power, especially in the name of the greater good. To be both powerful and virtuous, how delightful!
    Please don’t reply to any part of this article. I won’t read it: I know I’m right. …-
    http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?frm=5507&sec_id=5507

  33. And what about all those wackos and cultist around when Haleys comet passed thru. Wasn’t there a mass suicide about the.

  34. My 5 yr old granddaughter just demonstrated a magic trick for me she learned in kindgergarten today. (magic trick sounds better than scientific experiment)
    Take a glass- fill halffull of water, add ice cubes to raise water to rim.
    Question-what will happen when the ice melts. How full will the glass be.
    The teacher then said, think of the glass as the ocean, and the ice as an iceberg. What happens when the iceberg melts. Is the water warmer or colder than before you added the ice. Is the water higher, lower or the same as you started.
    Try it yourself. Throws algores theory of raising sea levels out the door.
    There are still some teachers out there that have a unique way of teaching. That message will stay with those young kids for a long time.

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