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  1. Well…Bob,…is…punctuation…all…that…you…picked…up…on…in…that…entire…article…?

  2. alby: I find it both noteworthy and pathetic that the once mighty Liberal Party of Canada can’t issue a simple news release without grammatical errors obvious to a small child, don’t you? And to answer your question, yes, that’s all I got out of the “article”, because the Liberals have zero credibility on anything relating to the military.

  3. You’ve got it, Bob! Punctuation’s actually extremely important: it’s like traffic signs and lights, as I tell my students. (Reading through a period’s like driving through a red light: the consequences could be very significant!)
    Psst, Bob, people like albatros don’t get that some small things are really essential and, if they’re not done right, could compromise the integrity of the whole thing.
    Psst, again: I don’t think the word “integrity” is in albatros’s lexicon. No wonder he doesn’t get it.

  4. Muslims are haraming everywhere. The hair from the floor is saved/unwashed to weave toupees/false beards/wigs for Allah-Mohammed.
    This is strict lousy Sharia Law; Mo-Al will never, ever, let their wigs slip down.
    …-
    UPDATE at 4/29/07 12:10:49 pm:
    The hair obsession is not just an Iranian thing: Maan News Agency.
    Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Supreme Fatwa Council of Palestine has issued a fatwa permitting men’s and women’s hairdressers to operate on condition that they do not break Islamic law.
    The fatwa stated that women can be employed as hairdressers as long as they only cut the hair of women that want to look attractive for their husbands and not other men or foreigners; this would be Haram (forbidden).
    It also stated that if a foreign man is present in the hairdressers, women must be prohibited from entering it. …-
    http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

  5. And ya think the climate-change fear mongering is all the Libs have?? Well check out this little gem from Wpg.Free Press(courtesy of Curtis Brown)
    Liberal MP blasts wheat board vote
    Manitoba Liberals swithched gears sat.,taking a brief break from the provincial campaign to hear what their cousins in Ott.are doing to retain CWB single desk.
    Ya know him and ya love him…Wayne Easter,the federal lib.’aigeeculture’critic visited the Wheat City to fire up the prov.Grits at party’s annual meeting.
    And he didn’t mince words(gee that’s a surprise)…bunch of blah blah..then this little gem!…insert loud,obnoxious voice in your head to read this:
    ‘If the tactics Stephen Harper has used to undermine the wheat board were used in any Third World country’s voting process,the United States would be sending in the army’…”and I say that in ALL seriousness”
    Has this man lost his mind????

  6. Bob and Alby,
    Wouldn*t it be more satisfying to skip the nit-picking and focus on things that are important?
    Things that are changing our lives, like defanging Islamofascists and getting free of this stupid suckling dependency on the neighbourhood gas pump?
    Spelling errors do not offend me at all!
    Ideas make this Blogsite stand above others.
    You express a valued idea here and I will gladly steal it, spell check it and never mention your spelling errors. = TG

  7. lookout asks “I notice that not many sda posters seem interested in the wreck of the public school system (which means nothing good for all of us). And I wonder why not.”
    Private school, parochial school, home school…someplace where the parents are in charge and not the inmates.

  9. This byhhdfrt has been posted at canoe news as “Science”. What a phony coven of Gaia witches-wizards.
    Oh, the emissions. Oh, the CO2. Cue the white coats; take ’em away.
    Headline: Gore is Gone On To Greener Pastures.
    Invests in the funeral business; the only business which goes in the hole to make a profit for a prophet. Yes, Brother Gore’s Furinal Home is ready, open for business, and waiting for you. Drop in, sometime. Gore will be waiting to measure you up.
    But, there is a consolation re cremation; your mercury teeth fillings are removed; no extra charge. There is an extra charge/fee for burning your pet fluorescent lamps with you; all that extra mercury, don’t ya know.
    Send for your free prospecti now; don’t wait ’til mourning.
    …-
    Amid green living movement, advocates urge Cdns to be green in death, too […]
    Few people realize the harm traditional burials, and even cremations, do to the environment, says Caley Ferguson, vice-president of Northern Casket.
    Ferguson displayed his company’s nature-friendly “Enviro-Casket” line at the Green Living Show in Toronto over the weekend.
    He says, “It’s sort of one last way to thank Mother Nature.”
    Traditional caskets use metal hinges and fastenings, several layers of varnish and lacquer, and fancy fabrics for the interior – all of which are left in the earth to seep into groundwater once the body and wood decompose.
    And with cremation, those materials – right down to the mercury in dental fillings – are burned up into the atmosphere. The process of cremation itself is not very energy-efficient, with mass amounts of fuel needed to burn a body at high temperatures for a considerable length of time. …-
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2007/04/29/4140072-cp.html
    Warning: site has a flash hearse ready to pounce on you.

  10. TG, do you happen to be long EV equities ??
    All-electric vehiches could be a nice short-trip set of wheels. But there are some, so far, unsolveable probs.
    There is nothing on the horizon to replace the lead cell. Ask the golf cart industry.
    All electric = no heater. In Canada.
    In cool, let alone cold weather, count on half the battery capacity.
    Anyone contemplating occasionaly going beyond the city limits would have to have an ICE vehicle also.
    To undertake a typical 5-6 hour, 3-400 mile (5-600km) journey at not greater than 60mph(100kph), w/o passing ability, ‘sans’ heater;
    0.75KW = 1 hp
    2500 BTU = 1 hp-hr
    gasoline: 115,000 BTU/gal
    @ 20% ICE efficiency > 23000 BTU available
    1 gal yields 9.2 hp-hr
    H Accord 20 hp @ 60 mph > 6hr/tank
    15 KV @ 60 mph ( 0.75 KV = 1 hp)
    50% discharge limit for batt/size/life trade-off
    Typical Golf Cart battery (best for EVs) 220 amp-hr 6V
    Useful power; 220 X 50% = 110 amp-hrs
    110ah X 6V = 0.660 KW-hr per battery
    For the above trip, need
    15KV > 15/0.66 = 22 batts for 1 hr duration
    For 6 hrs (when people are on a trip they like to keep moving) 6 X 22 = 132 batts
    @ 65 lbs each 65 X 132 = 8580 lbs.
    4 Tonnes for batteries alone !! We are talking truck.
    To recharge said batteries, the charger would dim the lights. All night.
    Until we have a super battery in hand, working reliably, for years, we will have go with the same battery the most sucessfull EV out their uses. The Golf Cart. Heavens knows, golfers cannot stand delays !!??
    Besides, Popular Mechanics has been talking super battery just-around-the-corner for 5 decades now.
    Drive smaller vehicles, slower and less frequently and peak oil is not near. If it ever was just-around-the-corner.
    Sorry, but I have seen too many “investors” fleeced. As the bio-fuelers are about to be. Same for windy power. And solar. Without govmit subsidies, dead in the water.
    Before ya mention a fossil toadie, everybody with some savings or a pension plan owns a part of the fossil fuel industry. Even Gore. Don’t want to ever retire ??

  11. Ottawa Citizen , page A 5 today has a little item near the bottom of page titled “Liberals knew of torture risk, report says”. This report says the Liberals have long known about the torture of prisoners.
    This came from a report in the Montreal La Presse that the Liberals got reports from diplomats in Kabul in 2003, 2004 and 2005 warning them of torture in the prisons. The Martin gov signed went ahead and signed a deal with Karzai to hand over those captured by Canadians. Before that the Canadians gave them over to US forces.
    It also says Minister of Defence in 2003 was John McCallum and he denies he ever saw the reports!

  12. Tenebris, I hear you. However, the trainwreck of the
    public education system, which includes left-wing indoctrination, extremely low standards of self-control, and high levels of self-esteem and entitlement is a trainwreck that involves all of us–for the foreseeable future.
    This is not a private matter by any means: no man is an island . . .

  13. Vacancy!
    …-
    Inside America’s toughest jail (Brit paper says Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s ideas would be great for U.K.)
    HIGH above the Arizona desert, a pink neon sign flashes the word “vacancy” from a watch tower manned by armed guards. Surrounded by 25ft barbed wire fences, this is the welcome offered by America’s toughest jail — Tent City in Phoenix.
    Inside, nearly 1,000 prisoners live in army surplus tents, baking in temperatures of 122°F (50°C) in summer and freezing during winter.No matter how many criminals are locked up here, the vacancy sign is never…-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825667/posts

  14. Ron in Kelowna,
    Sorry to dash all your carefu . .
    Well to be honest. It is with some glee that you give me the opportunity.
    So easy …
    Tesco UK is a chain of stores and they have an all electric fleet of HD trucks.
    Britain gets very cold, windy, damp and is a tough test on batteries.
    **Tesco is shaping up to be known more for its environmental efforts than the products sold at its retail stores. This week Tesco.com and Modec announced that will be the first firm in the UK to operate a fleet of electric delivery vans.
    The EVs operate from Tesco’s brand new Tesco Extra environmental store in Shrewsbury.
    The Modec trucks (which we introduced you to almost exactly one year ago) can, after each overnight charge, carry a two-ton load, have a 100-mile range and a top speed of 50mph.
    Tesco says the CO2 savings from each van equals 21 tons a year (21 tons is roughly the same amount CO2 spat out by driving 51,000 miles in a car, Tesco says). And, by delivering goods instead of having people drive to the store, Tesco estimates about 6,000 car journeys are taken off the road each year per van.**
    ====================AutoblogGreen.com
    Pure electric beating out hybrids in UK commercial vehicle market 3 – 7.5 and 9 tonnes
    One big push for these clean trucks is the planned Low Emission Zone (LEZ) restrictions in London. Smith Electric Vehicles use Zebra sodium nickel chloride batteries instead of lead-acid type batteries. Newspress learned that these power packs are about 80 percent lighter than lead-acid units with the same energy storage and deliver more performance.
    =================== autobloggreen.com/page/3/
    There are used Ford Escape Hybrids $27K and Prius $18 – 24K Ron, if you want to jump right in, but I would just drive an ice Honda insight 50 – 75 MPG while you wait for a reasonable EV … GM Volt in *08? = TG

  15. The coup is being prepared. When/where/how will the Trudeau coup be attempted? Time is on the plotters’ side.
    The Long March has begun. Red Mao-China said it/did it. Mao Strong/Power Corp., et al, are bankrolling-managing Trudeau’s Long March.
    Keep your powder dry.
    …-
    “Justin Trudeau is one step closer to following in his father’s famous footsteps as an elected politician.” (national newswatch)

  16. Poor Justin, just got his foot in the door and now he has to deal with GREATNESS. The media will all be fawning over him for the next week.
    Canada AM first stop, then Duffy will be tripping over Newman to grab him, oh the hell of it all.
    Ladies and Gents, the great Justini!

  17. Al Gore did NOT have sexual relations in the oral office. And that pissed him off!
    Get over it Al.
    So anyway he’s now on a crusade. But it is,in reality, an opportunity to hawk carbon credits (whatever the f&ck that is!).
    With MILLIONS at stake, it is no surprise that he and fruitfly guy are ranting wild-eyed about pseudo science that they don’t want questioned, or examined. No peer review here, no way!
    Show me the money, is their rallying cry. All the while a whole nuclear powerplant is dedicated to keeping their lights on. Green my ass!
    I think I’ll go out and light a campfire, that ought to settle my nerves…

  19. Hey Cal2 I think the turdoh looks like Benny Hill!!!
    Speaking of puncuation, or punctual, as in deadbeat companies not paying their bills… in over six months, a cardboard sign was out on Hwy 63, the main roadway to Fort mcMurray. (I snapped a picture) I’ll encode the companies encouraged on the sign to “pay their bills” : t?r?o?j?a?n energy, who subs for x?g?e?n. Six months, I don’t thik they intend to honour their debt.
    Wonder if randomly faxing overdue notices to energy related companies in Calgary wouldmake them mad. Have to get a team ready.
    I guess that could be what started this whole “spam” thing?

  20. ” .. have a 100-mile range and a top speed of 50mph.”
    Ezactly. Not practical for most people. Short trip runabout, ok.
    ” .. Vehicles use Zebra sodium nickel chloride batteries instead of lead-acid type batteries. Newspress learned that these ..”
    But did they learn correctly ?? Media not known for intelligence, ya know.
    Why does the golf cart industry not use the Zebra ??
    Enough band width taken up for now. Wait for Kate to topic “green feasibility” some day.

  21. Agusta! Agusta Justin!
    Tonight, Stephane Dion (and by extension, Mother Earth) must be in full panic mode. Wimping away from an attempt to topple the government over the isue dearest to his heart, Mr. Dion now has in his midst a person with the stature (read: celebrity) to replace the leader. So long as it was Iggies and Raes nipping at his heels, Mr. Dion had nothing to worry about – no one swaps a Hyundai for a Chrsyler. But offer them a Mercedes and how can you expect them to refuse?
    Were I a Liberal, this is what I would do: (1) abstain from group sex for 12 hours; (2) think about myself and how scrumptious I am for the next 12 hours; (3) forget everything I’ve ever said and kiss the purple of the next Emperor Liberalis, Justin Trudeau.
    Otherwise, you’ll spend the rest of your days at some dive with Stephane Dion drinking away your blues and dreaming of what might have been.
    Update: For giggles, check out Red Tory’s YouTube highlight of Justin Trudeau speaking. It is a wonderful glimpse into the empty headedness of Liberals. As you watch this nervous glib freak prance back and forth and back and forth and back and forth, remember – this is their last hope and in the quiet of night, they each say a little prayer to him.
    Labels: Flicking Fidel’s flipping out by now. …-
    http://www.chuckercanuck.blogspot.com/

  22. OK Ron,
    Investment wise.. Rick is invested and says. . .
    **I agree with your assessment of Altair. I am a stockholder and major advocat. And the nanosafe could displace 80% of the gasoline mileage today. I hope a major battery manufacturer buys them out soon, for, maybe $10/share. 😉 But there will be a need for ethanol for years because of heavy transport, trucks, etc even if all cars become electric only.**
    Likely paid $5 share and in for several blocks. Rick probably wants to double his money. Free enterprise.. can*t blame him. = TG
    See Debate on my site.

  23. OOPs. Seems all is not well in Trudeua-land, er I mean Papineau Quebec.
    Some have cried foul that there were numerous Liberal voters for the nomination who do NOT live in Papineau.
    Parachuted in to vote for the boy king from other ridings. This was noted by some residents of the area who KNOW some of the strangers in their midst and they have names.
    There are some now claiming that there are those who used the addresses of friends in the riding to purchase their memberships. Many young student types.
    Ah well – typical Liberal nomination. It would be more of a surprise if it was not rigged I guess.

  24. Lorraine,
    thanks for your bigoted response.
    I have spent 10 years working hard and paying taxes in Alberta, as do all my employees as well, 8 of whom are also NL-Expats. I like to think that in some miniscule way I and many of the other tens of thousands of NL’s, have helped AB become a strong and vibrant economy and strengthened its place in Confederation.
    I am thankful for AB’s contribution to Equalization because it afforded my provincial government with the ability to bring in an education system parallel to the rest of the country and I was able to use that first rate education to be gainfully employed in the provinces of NS, Ont, Man, Sask, AB, BC and the Territories. I would suspect many other Newfies work and live in other parts of Canada as well, contributing and paying taxes in those jurisdictions. AB especially has seen an enormous benefit of the highly educated available workforce which is somewhat fluent in English, enough to get by at least. SK, another equalization receiving province for much of its past, has also seen a large number of its young and educated workforce moving to and directly benefitting AB.
    Harper “couldn’t” keep the promise of granting NL the same as AB received, with regards to equalization and the removal of oil and gas revenue, because Dalton McGuinty wouldn’t agree to it at the first ministers meetings last fall. If Harper gave NL what he promised , Dalton and his brother David of the federal Liberal party would have been screaming about the fiscal imbalance between Ottawa and Queens’ Park and the Libs would have cleaned the Conservative clock in Ont. There goes Harper’s majority, back to AB getting screwed worst than it is now.
    I don’t blame Harper at all. It just finally all makes sense now that no matter what the outlying country, AB included, wants or wishes this country only exists to provide for Que/Ont. The greater good. I will use my wealth and knowledge henceforth to help NL like I did here in AB with its cause and way of life. I will be returning to NL this summer Lorraine, we just made our decision this weekend in fact.
    Glad to see that you don’t mind Quebec getting an extra 3 $billion in the new deal. I guess with the sheer numbers of Quebecers flocking west to fill all those job vacancies they are only receiving the taxes those Quebecers are paying into AB and Ottawa. Surely you have noticed all those hard working Francophonies coming into your neighbourhoods, buying houses and vehicles, going to church, coaching little leagues, and speaking their language all around you, non?
    Disclaimer: Danny Williams makes Jack Layton blush and I despise them both, equally.

  25. G;enn- I apologize if my comments seemed bigotted. They were not meant to be at all. You said it better than I could. NL could not receive more per capita than the other provinces or there would be no equalization.
    We have many NL friends and of course appreciate them like we appreciate every other fellow Canadian here in Alberta or anywhere in our great country.
    That is why I balk at any province wanting to be “more special” which was my point.
    Quebec and Ontarion “get more” because they have more people. That’s the bottom line in “equalization” but that has not stopped moneys from flowing for other special projects in any of the provinces.
    I just don’t think Danny Williams or Lorne Calvert get it that their citizens are as special but equal to those of us from the other provinces not MORESO. The unequal allocations to “buy favours” was supposed to have been solved by this new formula.
    Do you agree with that?

  26. Lorraine,
    Yes, I agree with that.
    The problem though is that while in opposition Harper bought support from Danny and cons like myself outside of the new formula using favours in order to get office. So either he lied to get what he wanted or it was such an outrageous promise which couldn’t possilbly be implemented; in which case Harper and the CPC are/were incompetent, you get to pick. The real reason why is the Que/Ont elephant in the room but I digress.
    Harper and the Cons won’t be in Ottawa forever. Than it will be back to “Alberta can blow me and who needs Alberta when you have Quebec”, Scott Reid and Jean Chretien respectively. We know how that storyline plays itself out.
    Apology accepted also.
    Good Luck

  27. Lorraine, please tell me where, on the TD1 Tax Return, it allots provincial taxes of a working Nflander, living in AB on Dec 31 of any given year, to another province. I know businesses have to allot taxes on income earned in each prov, to that prov. Of course, if these workers go home for Christmas and New Years, they are not in AB Dec 31, but that doesn’t mean they live in Nfld.
    I just opened a return and changed the prov to Nfld. Reduced husbands refund by over 900.00, and wife would have to pay over 1000.00, instead of the 6.54 she will pay.

  28. Government warned of Air India bombing: CBC
    The inquiry looking into the 1985 Air India bombing will be told Monday that government agencies were warned a number of times an airline attack was imminent, the CBC has learned….-
    (google news)

  29. Government warned of Air India bombing: CBC
    The inquiry looking into the 1985 Air India bombing will be told Monday that government agencies were warned a number of times an airline attack was imminent, the CBC has learned….-
    (google news)

  30. This just in: Poisonous PET food from China.
    Mao Stlong, China’s coal-tar baby, sends gleetings to Canadians/Amelicans:
    You wan one egg loll? Two egglolls. COD.
    It’s PET food. Poisonous PET food.
    …-
    Chinese Workers Admit Lacing Pet Food
    As American food safety regulators head to China to investigate how a chemical made from coal found its way into pet food that killed dogs and cats in the U.S. and Canada, workers in this heavily polluted northern city openly admit that the substance is routinely added to animal feed as a fake protein. …-
    (national newswatch)

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