So, the first time since who knows when that Delisle makes the national news and where am I? Five hours to the south east, enjoying a weekend visiting family (and getting together with a few Saskbloggers).
Judging by anecdotal reports and the number of large trees snapped and uprooted, something more than a typical prairie wind storm (plow wind or mini-tornados?) rolled through around 3 am on Saturday morning. There were reports of baseball sized hail in the area.
I won't complain about caraganas for a while. The flexible, rooftop-high weeds surrounding much of my yard probably helped to shield the house and ancient Manitoba maples from the brunt of the wind. No shingles gone, no damage aside from a few managable branches down.
Lance (Catprint In The Mash) wasn't quite as lucky - at his house a large tree went down, taking out the neighbor's dog run (no dog) in the process, and he lost about 1/3 of the shingles on the south side of his house. His server is also off line, so don't bother clicking the link for a day or two. Another home had their garage moved from its foundation.
Now that my little report is over, the thread is open for tips.
My fundamentalist Christian friend tells me that God MUST be VERY unhappy with something that is going on in Delisle.
He said the same thing when New Orleans was hit with the hurricane as God's retribution for all of the decandent sin and excess that happens there because of Mardi Gras. He had no specific knowledge of what the problem in Delisle is exactly!
If you are like me, and you think that the sound of rotating machines spooling up is one of the coolest things you've ever heard, then I invite you to visit this 49 second recording of the spooling up of the three compressors that drive the world's largest pipe organ (in Atlantic City): tinyurl.com/2yyfy6
Don't give the carraganas any credit for anything.They are still hateful and undesirable. I doubt they did much to save your property. If your house can withstand their presence no ordinary plow wind is going to do much harm. A pox on them and the houses of the progeny of their originator. Probably socialists anyway.
Global covered a Moose Jaw dog bite, and Finish wife racing, but neglected to mention our little BBQ. Not that I'm surprised, since Ms. Global reporter couldn't wait to head off to the Rider game warm-up.
Too bad about Lance's place :-(
parkadeboy's imaginary friend is, no doubt, somewhat restricted by parkadeboy's imagination.
Kate,
Tell Lance that storms like that are the reason that "Data Centres" exist.
I know it can be cool to say "I've got my own server in my house" but it doesn't look so good when it goes offline.
I'm happy that our data centre is wired with fibre on multiple backbones, is climatically controlled, and has two methods of power backup including a diesel generator - all for the sake of redundancy. Remember that the Internet was built to withstand nuclear war....but is only as strong as the weakest link.
In other news....we had friends from Saskatoon in the area and had major hail damage to their vehicle. Nasty, unforecast, and horribly nocturnal.
parkadeboy at July 9, 2007 1:06 AM , that must be where Delilah lives. (Groaner for the day.)
In the National Post, Monday
An Ontario human rights commission held a go-cart track to pay (an undisclosed amount) to a Sikh wearing a turban who was barred from renting a go-cart in 200l.
Apparently a case is coming up in Nov regarding a Sikh wearing a turban and riding a motorcycle without a helmet.
It seems that Manitoba and BC already have provisions in the highway traffic act exempting Sikhs wearing turbans while riding motorcycles.
So much for reasonable accommodation. Apparently Sikhs not wearing turbans and the rest of us are legally required to wear helmets while riding motorcycles. There is something very wrong with this picture.
Kate,
You Saskatchewan perogie eaters are such amateurs! Have a look at my street after a little windstorm.
http://www.radiowaveinc.com/Storm/After%20the%20Storm.html
There's a bad moon(bat) on the rise!
Who says wishes never come true?
Sheehan Threatens To Run Against Pelosi
Anti-War Activist Says She'll Run Against House Speaker Unless Bush Impeachment Is Pursued(AP)
Cindy Sheehan, the slain soldier's mother whose attacks on President Bush made her a darling of the anti-war movement, has a new target: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Sheehan, who announced in late May that she was departing the peace movement, said she decided to run against Pelosi unless the congresswoman moves to oust President Bush in the next two weeks.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/09/politics/main3030205.shtml
maybe the Stamps caused that wind. they certainly blew.
(I apologize if this was noted in an earlier tips thread; I was unable to gain access for a while)
Anybody want a piece of the action?
I have $100 (US) that I will bet that Al "AGW Expert" Gore DOES NOT accept the challenge.
http://newsbusters.org/node/13662
(BTW, Scott Armstrong's methodology may be just a bit TOO scientific to qualify for Al. A good read.)
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If the reports are accurate... this is a huge intelligence coup for NATO forces...
"Afghan intelligence sources have told Al Jazeera that four senior members
of the Taliban movement have been captured in Pakistan."
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Hey kate,
Had fun chatting with you and the dogs. Hope everything is ok back home, wish Lance the best for me... maybe the blogging community should come together and help him re-shingle his house... I've planted a few shingles in my day.
Peace!
Pilot
An example of how the Media 'Dumbs-Down' the news:
This article explains how glaciers grow, live, melt, rejuvinate, slide, calf ...
http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/20070321/20070321_01.html
It is many paragraphs long. Who said glaciers were a simple phenonmena ??
[ To understand the relationship between global warming and the break down of ice-sheets it is really necessary to know how ice-sheets work. Ice-sheets do not simply grow and melt in response to average global temperature. Anyone with this naïve view would have difficulty in explaining why glaciation has been present in the southern hemisphere for about 30 million years, and in the
northern hemisphere for only 3 million years.]
[ In the case of ice-sheets it may take many thousands of years for ice to flow from the accumulation area to the melting area. The balance between movement and melting therefore does not relate simply to today's climate, but to the climate thousands of years ago.]
[ Where ice-sheets or individual glaciers reach the sea, the ice floats and eventually breaks off to form icebergs. This is inevitable so long as glaciers reach the sea. In the southern hemisphere Captain Cook saw icebergs on his search for the great south land. Ice-bergs have long been familiar to sailors in the northern hemisphere, and the Titanic struck one that had drifted farther south than usual in 1912. The actual break is a sudden, one-off event, but can be built into a typical greenhouse-horror scenario. Some weeks ago, when a piece of the Greenland ice shelf broke away, the scientists interviewed all said they were surprised at how suddenly it happened. But how else but suddenly would a piece of ice shelf break off! And this was an area that was ice free before the Little Ice Age, and possibly after as well - Arctic explorers used to get their ships a lot closer to northern Greenland than you could now.] *) Emeritus Professor Cliff Ollier., D.Sc. Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. Formerly at A.N.U., U.N.E., Canberra University, University of Papua New Guinea, Melbourne University. Has worked all over the world as a geologist, geomorphologist and soil scientist. Author of about ten books, several translated into foreign editions, and over 300 publications.
And how would the media report on this ??
30 second "news" slot.
** Al Gore and David Suzuki say Glaciers Melting And Falling Into Sea -- Our Fault. Repent. Send Money. Sky Falling. **
Stop the digging!!!!! Animal bone found in the forest!!!
What next?
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/07/09/4325727-cp.html
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' -- DETROIT -- A leading civil rights group in the United States
is putting to rest a long-standing expression of racism by
symbolically burying a racist slur generally referred to as the
"N-word."'
All the experts agree... "In the war against social injustice...
you just can't have too many P.R. stunts."
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IRAQ: Ministry to insure and protect professors
BAGHDAD, 8 July 2007 (IRIN) - The Iraqi Ministry of Finance is to give life insurance to university professors following an increase in the number of lecturers leaving the country because of violence. The initiative will also include providing university teaching staff with personal bodyguards. “Professors are being targeted on a daily basis and they are fleeing the country, leaving a gap in the educational system,” said Marwan Imad, a press officer for the finance ministry. “They will be offered life insurance and bodyguards chosen by themselves.” “They will receive a special budget so that they can hire bodyguards from...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863086/posts
So much for reasonable accommodation. Apparently Sikhs not wearing turbans and the rest of us are legally required to wear helmets while riding motorcycles. There is something very wrong with this picture.
Well, we libertarians (sorry Kathy Shaidle) think the Sikhs are right, for the wrong reason of course. To use Kate's delightful phrase, you have to be rock-hard-stupid to ride a motorcycle helmetless but that is your perogative. And the collectivist argument about the state's medical expenses is spurious. Dead helmetless riders, on a net basis, probably save the welfare state a lot of dough.
All of this raghead nonsense could be avoided by the judicious use of liability disclaimers with teeth. You wanna risk getting mangled in machinery with your head towel, fine, sign here. Simple.
A must read for Jack Layton:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070706.wcomment0706/BNStory/Afghanistan
Imagine, Jack, military actually facilitating aid and development. Do you get it now?
as always its the police's fault.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/rcmp/ambush.html
wonder if Joe Ruel bothered to pass on the phone calls to the police before.
Second Chances [Michel Yon on the Ground in Baqubah]
Michael Yon ^ | 7/9/07
When context is other people’s children
As I write these words just a few miles from the graves I saw, the resulting controversy about whether what the man said was true, or whether his words should have been written if the writer couldn’t verify them, seems precious. There is no imaginary line of credulity that al Qaeda might cross should it go from beheading children to baking them.
No unnamed Iraqi stringer claimed that al Qaeda had taken over Baqubah. Al Qaeda said this through the press. I sit writing these words in Diyala Province just a short drive from where the self-proclaimed leader of al Qaeda in Iraq was killed by a bomb delivered by a US warplane. Al Qaeda: the organization that gleefully bragged about murdering roughly 3,000 people by smashing jets full of civilians into buildings and earth. Al Qaeda in Iraq: who proudly broadcast their penchant for sawing off the heads of living breathing people, and in such a manner as to ensure lots of spurting blood and gurgles of final pain, in some cases with the added flourish of the executioner raising up the severed head and squealing excitedly.
These are the same terrorists I often come face to face with: not on television or in magazines, but on bloodstained streets ablaze with human carnage. I remember the charred corpse of a small Iraqi boy. I remember the wailing Iraqi parents and countless other scenes that I am likely to see again and again. Back in 2005, terrorists here were intentionally attacking children. I shot the photo below on a day when they drove a car bomb through a crowd of children who had run out to American soldiers on patrol. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863157/posts
Reported to be sailing for the Middle East. A routine visit?
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"Big E" Deploys
Release Date: 7/8/2007 2:05:00 PM
By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class James H. Green, USS Enterprise Public Affairs
ABOARD USS ENTERPRISE, At sea (NNS) -- The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 1 departed Naval Station Norfolk for a regularly scheduled deployment July 7 in support of the global war on terrorism. ...-
http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=30463
DaimlerChrysler Canada to customers: sorry our cars sip so much gas, here's 20 cents
Last week, DaimlerChrysler Canada announced a series of incentives for new car buyers and leasers, including an employee price discount and a deal with Petro-Canada for 20 cents off per liter of gas for one year (of *average driving*).
So, instead of making higher-mileage vehicles, DaimlerChrysler is giving buyers a little relief at the pump for 12 months. After that, buyers are on their own.
Eligible vehicles = all 2006 models, all 2007 models (except Dodge Caliber, Jeep Compass, Jeep Patriot, Jeep Wrangler and Dodge Sprinter) and the 2008 Dodge Avenger.
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I would prefer an iron-clad transmission guarantee, or a reliable CVT drive like the Hyundai Elantra has. Or just an Elantra hybrid in fact. = TG
Anyone manage to capture Michael Moore's interview with Wolf Blitzer today?
Moore excoriated CNN! Wow!!!
Canada the peacekeeper? A myth that should die
By SUNIL RAM
Globe and Mail Update
The myth of Canada as the great peacekeeper is one of the more fanciful delusions under which Canadians live. It's time to let the myth die....-
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-19936.html
"The federal and Ontario governments announced launch of an Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) in Toronto"
http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/TopStories/ContentPosting.aspx?feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V2&showbyline=True&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20070709%2fAir_index_070709
They used to have something like it when I was a little kid, but they used to call it Fahrenheit. But then it didn't cost anything and the politicians couldn't get mileage out of it.
N.L. health chief quits amid scandals
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. (CP) - The chief of Newfoundland and Labrador's largest health board quit Monday, nearly two months after he vowed to lead the organization through a botched breast cancer testing scandal for which he apologized.
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Meanwhile, Hugo Williams of NL ... Where is NL?
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Advertiser, Canada - 6 Jul 2007
His wave of public opinion in this province is certainly aided by a perception of the leader of Team Danny as Canada’s equivalent of Venezuela’s populist ...-
Medicine hat 12 year-old ,guilty all 3 counts. I hope that once the punk that was using her gets found guilty also,and goes to general population.
Medicine hat 12 year-old ,guilty all 3 counts. I hope that once the punk that was using her gets found guilty also,and goes to general population.
Leonardo Da Vinci drawings to go online
Thousands of Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings and scientific theories will soon be viewable for free on the internet.
Self-portrait drawing by Da Vinci: Leonardo Da Vinci drawings to go online
Leonardo chose to write in reverse because it prevented smudging
Until now the majority of the manuscripts have been seen only by scholars but the National Museum of Leonardo in his hometown of Vinci has promised to scan about 12,000 pages and create an archive.
The European Union is funding the website www.leonardodigitale.com, and 3,000 pages have been scanned so far.
The drawings, from the late 15th and early 16th century, demonstrate the artist's incredible range, touching on geometry, astronomy, botany, zoology, the art of warfare and the flight of birds. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863293/posts
Juror 'listened to music under hijab'
A FEMALE Muslim juror has been arrested in Britain after allegedly listening to an MP3 player under her hijab headscarf during a murder trial, police said overnight. The woman in her early 20s was spotted by a fellow juror listening to music as she was meant to be helping try the case of a pensioner accused of bludgeoning his wife to death after 50 years of marriage. She could now be charged with contempt of court and, if convicted, may be punished with an indefinite jail sentence and an unlimited fine. Details emerged after the defendant was convicted and Judge...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863276/posts
In Britain? No charges will be laid; it's a Muslim, don't ya know?
Another blast of Gorebull.
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Buenos Aires Gets First Snow Since 1918
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Thousands of Argentines cheered and threw snowballs in the streets of Buenos Aires on Monday as the capital's first major snowfall since 1918 spread a thin white mantle across the region. Wet snow fell for hours in the Argentine capital, accumulating in a mushy but thin white layer late Monday, after freezing air from Antarctica collided with a moisture-laden low pressure system that blanketed higher elevations in western and central Argentina with snow. "Despite all my years,...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863272/posts
"Please, Europe and America, spare us! You can cut your own emissions if you want, but don't tell us what to do. We really have much more serious and urgent threats to deal with."
Dung is killing Africans.
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It's Live Earth Versus Africa (Tell Algore we need gas & electricity - the dung is killing us)
AllAfrica ^ | 7/09/07 | Kofi Bentil
Few people in Africa will get to see Al Gore and his troupe of rock-star ecologists strutting their stuff during the series of Live Earth concerts this weekend --because most have neither television nor electricity.
That's just as well, because they would be aghast at LiveEarth's bizarre message. In Africa, we have much more serious things to worry about than climate change.
Indeed, if they achieve their objective the concerts will have done harm to the people of Africa.
Britain's former Secretary of State for the Environment, David Miliband, recently said that the rest of the world cannot aspire to the UK's standard of living because: "If the world were to have the same living standards as we have in the UK, then we'd need three planets to support us.
"Presumably Mr Miliband would disagree with Indira Ghandi, who famously said, "poverty is the greatest polluter." Miliband was replaced by Hilary Benn, who as Minister for International Development ran the Department for International Development (DfID). One might have thought that DfID would have supported economic development as a means of escaping from poverty and pollution.
But in its Rough Guide to a Better World it advocates "Development by Dung" and claims that "As poor countries develop, it is essential that they do not follow the same failed patterns of energy use." So it's dung not diesel for Africa--while India and China soar ahead because they are too big, and nuclear-armed, to stop.
Even if we accept that global warming may have a significant effect on our climate, limiting the use of fossil fuels in Africa would be counterproductive. Respiratory infections are the leading cause of childhood deaths on my continent, mainly from inhaling the smoke produced by burning wood and dung in our quaint mud huts.
Why do we burn these "renewable" but very dirty fuels? Not because we have some desire to save the Earth. No, sir. It is because we don't have access to natural gas or electricity.
The second leading cause of childhood deaths is not malaria or AIDS, it is diarrhoea, caused by drinking dirty water. Why is our water dirty? Mainly because we lack cheap, efficient means of pumping and cleaning it. That requires fossil fuels--either directly or to produce electricity.
An underlying cause of many health problems in Africa is malnutrition. This is a consequence both of inefficient farming and poor food distribution. To rectify this situation will mean using cheap and relatively clean fuels, such as gasoline and diesel.
(Of course we also need better roads--which can only be built using machines that burn... fossil fuels.)
Our already poor and struggling countries are being sucked into a giant movement to save the Earth--with aid money as the carrot and the stick. If we are cajoled into using more expensive "renewable" forms of energy, we will remain uncompetitive and our rates of economic growth will remain low or shrinking.
That would be a tragedy because economic growth has been shown to be the best way to reduce poverty and improve health. Please, Europe and America, spare us! You can cut your own emissions if you want, but don't tell us what to do. We really have much more serious and urgent threats to deal with. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863255/posts
The unbearable smog/pollution from governments/MSM.
Why/how would a fictitious "index" cause someone to "breathe a sigh of relief"?
This "index" will clear the air in TO? What a load of dung, aka bkhhdrmt.
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New Index Measures Air Pollution In Toronto
CityNews - 8 hours ago
Toronto residents worried about smog will breathe a sigh of relief Monday after a new air pollution index is launched. ...(google news)...-
Here is the "pollution": Muslim carnage.
A potent mix of routine ingredients aimed to kill
Guardian Unlimited
The jury in the July 21 terror trial heard that the bombs would have caused carnage had they exploded as intended on London's transport system....-
(google news)
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001483.html
Syria Invades Lebanon
By Michael J. Totten
A few days ago Lebanese daily newspaper Al Mustaqbal quietly reported a limited Syrian invasion of Lebanon. (Via Naharnet.)
Syrian troops on Thursday reportedly have penetrated three kilometers into Lebanese territories, taking up positions in the mountains near Yanta in east Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.
The daily Al Mustaqbal, citing sources who confirmed the cross-border penetration, did not say when the procedure in the Fahs Hill overlooking Deir al-Ashaer in the Rashaya province took place.
The sources said Syrian troops, backed by bulldozers, were fortifying positions "in more than one area" along the Lebanese border, erecting earth mounds and digging "hundreds" of trenches and individual bunkers.
This happened immediately before I left town for two days. When I returned I was surprised to find no mention of this whatsoever anywhere else in the media. I assumed the story had to be false. How could Syria invade three kilometers into any region of Lebanon without triggering a diplomatic and media storm?
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070709/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_turkey_1
Iraqi FM: Turkey massing 140,000 troops
By BUSHRA JUHI, Associated Press Writer Mon Jul 9, 10:25 AM ET
BAGHDAD - Turkey has massed 140,000 soldiers on its border with northern Iraq, Iraq's foreign minister said Monday, calling the neighboring country's fears of Kurdish rebels based there "legitimate" but better resolved through negotiation.
The Turkish military had no comment to the remarks by Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, a Kurd from northern Iraq, and it was unclear where he got the figures. If they are accurate, Turkey would have nearly as many soldiers along its border with Iraq as the 155,000 troops which the U.S. has in the country.
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Check out the G&M....another poll gone wrong!
Did Al Gore visit Argentina Lately
http://tinyurl.com/2jkpz6
Choose: Transubstantiation vs. Consubstantiation.
Priests are the same everywhere, in all religions: theocrats.
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Roman Catholics better Christians, Vatican says
The Vatican said Tuesday that Christian denominations outside the Roman Catholic Church are not full churches of Jesus Christ.(national newswatch)
Western civilization has evolved along two separate pathways: civic society and government. Thomas Paine said that government punishes; civic society rewards. The two cannot be made one.
Socialism's methods include crushing/enjambing civic society into government only. Socialism kills civic society before it kills its people.
Firstly, the socialist soldiers/cadres prepare the shining path to socialist tyranny: Hell as [Live] earth.
Sue-Ann Levy understands. Find the words "good socialist soldiers".
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We'll be lining up for taxes
"I've said it before but I can't help repeating myself. This is the most inane tax to be dreamed up to date by one of the good socialist soldiers -- in this case Coun. Adam Vaughan." ...-
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Levy_Sue-Ann/2007/07/10/4327660-sun.html