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From eye problems to isp problems. (Posting this from a friend’s computer). I have no idea how much access I’ll have today, it depends on why my connection comes back up. Urgh.
Well, my eyes need the rest anyway.

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  1. Heh, how coincidental, was blown off line for the last couple of hours as well. Little storm with high winds for a spell.
    OH NO!! The internet gremlins are out to get us!!! It’s Bush’s fault, no wait Harper’s! No wait it’s those damn capitalists and big business again!
    /channeling any alarmists in keeping with the above post.
    🙂

  4. Amazing !! In Afghan, too !
    Global Warming can go up, down, sideways, backwards, forwards .. an amazing piece of work. So are the Alarmists, for they have no shame.

  5. Things must be really bad in Afghanistan if poppies won’t grow. Poppies are considered by many to be a weed plant and I’ve almost given up trying to control where poppies grow in my garden. I thought it would be nice to plant a few additional varieties along with the indiginous papaver somniferum that came with the house (grows very well in the BC interior) and it didn’t take long before poppies took over the whole garden. Finally I had to resort to putting down plastic sheets on the garden and cutting holes in them to plant tomatoes. Poppy seeds are apparently viable for up to 100 years and every time I disturb the soil anywhere I get new variants popping up as well as some particularly vigorous poppies that somehow make it up through the plastic.
    Young poppies look like lettuce and can be used in salads. I’ve had crops of poppies coming up in late December (when the climate was warmer) and I’m very suspicious about the Afghani poppy story.

  6. Priorities, people. We should be celebrating the fact that the Taliban has less opium to sell to make heroin for the junkies in Vansterdam’s Downtown Eastside. The Taliban then use the money to buy explosives to kill our soldiers. As I said in Reader’s Tips yesterday:
    “The first thing that popped into my head when I read ‘Freak weather destroys Afghan poppies’ did not have anything to do with global warming.”
    [It was] “this logical equation:
    “No poppies -> no opium/heroin -> no money -> no explosives -> no jihad.
    “In regards to this story, please think of our soldiers before Al Gore. Thank you very much.”

  7. Socialism is an old phenomena: homogenized beer; regulated & taxed by a bloated bureaucracy; ersatz beer for the masses spuriously labelled as purity.
    Beer, aka swill for rent: Reinheitsgebot.
    …-
    “Germans Toast the Anniversary of Their Beer Purity Law
    The German ‘Reinheitsgebot,’ or beer purity law, started 492 years ago. Germans find reason to celebrate the drink even the mild-mannered Benjamin Franklin once called “proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.””
    “On Wednesday, Germans mark their own contribution to the history of beer, the Reinheitsgebot, or purity law, which strictly regulated the price and ingredients of beer at the start of the 16th century.”
    http://tinyurl.com/5hwgoz (spiegel)

  8. “Mary Beard – A Don’s life
    Does size matter?
    I had a quick peek at the excellent new Cranach exhibition at the Royal Academy this week.”
    “This Cranach show had caught the headlines a few weeks ago when London Transport first of all banned his nude Venus advertising poster from the underground, then relented. So we can now see her on the tube in all her glory.
    But seeing her in the flesh sprang a couple of surprises.
    First of all, there is no good reason at all for giving this painting the title ‘Venus’. She has no particularly Venus-like attribute – no little Cupid for example. ‘Venus’. it turns out, is a just a way of putting a bit of classical respectability onto this rather pert girl. We have no clue who she was, or was meant to be.”
    http://tinyurl.com/ywuqs2 (times)

  9. I wonder what Home Depot and Canadian Tire will do with all the ‘pestcides and herbicides’ that they take off the shelves in law infested Ontario.
    Perhaps they could donate it to the military, and our soldiers would have more ‘weapons’.

  13. CIA to describe North Korea-Syria nuclear ties
    CIA officials will tell Congress on Thursday that North Korea had been helping Syria build a plutonium-based nuclear reactor, a U.S. official said, a disclosure that could touch off new resistance to the administration’s plan to ease sanctions on Pyongyang.
    The CIA officials will tell lawmakers that they believe the reactor would have been capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons but was destroyed before it could do so, the U.S. official said, apparently referring to a suspicious installation in Syria that was bombed last year by Israeli warplanes…

  15. I just heard on CBC that the leader of the Taliban in Pakistan has ordered his fighters to stop their attacks. Don’t know if this means no more cross boarder attacks of just those against Pakistan. Violators will be hung upside down… don’tknow what that really means.

  16. Rick Richman, An Intolerant, Violent Nationalism
    Benny Morris has a fascinating essay in the May 7 issue of The New Republic, reviewing Hillel Cohen’s new book “Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948.” One of the points that emerges from it is that Palestinian “nationalism” has in fact always been a jihad…

  17. Melanie Phillips, Questions For The West
    Here is a remarkable article by an Iranian, Daniel Shaysteh, a former Muslim who has now converted to Christianity. He describes a childhood upbringing in which his religion taught him to hate those who were not Muslims, and how he eventually came to reject Islam altogether. What jumps out of the article, however, is his scathing condemnation of the west for failing to grasp what he knows from first-hand experience to be the truth…

  20. To Charles McDonald. The moral of the story is simple. You have to love the little Christers!!

  21. Loki, re: poppies. At the risk of putting my foot completely in my mouth, I enjoy poppy seeds on my buns 😉 /rimshot please
    Also poppy seed/lemon cake and danish.

  22. Even the UN sees the folly in biofuels. But not @sshat McGuinty. He said this week that Ontario’s biofuel program will remain in place. Why am I not surprised?
    —————
    An August 2007 United Nations report warns of “serious risks of creating a battle between food and fuel that will leave the poor and hungry in developing countries at the mercy of rapidly rising prices for food, land, and water.”
    http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm1879.cfm

  23. One of the points that emerges from it is that Palestinian “nationalism” has in fact always been a jihad…
    Hee hee. Countdown to ET showing up and denying the obvious: 10 … 9 … 8 …

  24. Notice the cbc was all agog over the raid by EC, thought it was legal etc. Showed it over and over. But, cbc is going to court to prevent Montreal Police from getting their video of the riots. So I guess that the cbc supports thugs causing millions in damage.

  26. Meanwhile, in California, the Don Quixotes of the Warmite religion are jousting with reality. Reality is winning. The report is hilarious.
    …-
    “Antarctic Deep Sea Gets Colder”
    “At the same time satellite images from the Antarctic summer have shown the largest sea-ice extent on record.”
    http://tinyurl.com/6yfe84 (scidaily)
    …-
    “Electricity Industry Wrangles Over California’s Greenhouse Gas Law”
    “Customer bills could soar under a plan to require public energy suppliers that rely heavily on coal to buy the right to pollute from private suppliers with cleaner nuclear and hydroelectric power.”
    “Fighting global warming is the feel-good cause of the moment.
    But in California, the self-congratulation that followed the 2006 passage of the nation’s first comprehensive law to curb emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases is fast turning to acrimony.
    A ferocious behind-the-scenes brawl over how to regulate electricity plants, the biggest source of carbon dioxide after motor vehicles, has pitted Southern California’s public power generators against its for-profit utilities.”
    http://tinyurl.com/6zdrfy (latimes)
    (Pic of windmills, semis, highways, smog, etc.)

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