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The long-running debate over whether harp seals indiscriminately rip the bellies out of codfish has resurfaced.

The latest chapter has a Newfoundland blogger and advocate for rural Newfoundland taking on Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Darren Fancey of St. John's, creator of seashepherd.blogspot.com, a pro-sealing website, is challenging Watson to make good on a pledge to pay $25,000 to anyone who could document such a phenomenon.

Fancey says a photograph published in The Telegram last spring provides indisputable evidence.

"I challenge him to pay the $25,000," Fancey said.

Watson says the reward is still on the table, but says he needs more than one photo.

"A photograph doesn't mean anything. I need video evidence of it," Watson said Monday.

Fancey said references to the $25,000 reward were removed from the Sea Shepherd website the next day. Fancey provided "screen grabs" from the site, showing the site on Feb. 4, and the changes made on Feb. 5.

http://tinyurl.com/ye7kwa5

Abortion & health
Like anything that involves killing babies, abortion tends to be controversial, and remains so in Canada more than 40 years after a bunch of white males decided to relax the common-law restraints on this practice.

http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/

Schwarzenegger, Buble to carry torch

I guess they ran out ordinary Canadians (you know, the ones picking up the tab). Ken Lyotier? ... Hobo's hero.

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/torch/news/newsid=32637.html

BTW: FU Arnold.

Why not Nancy Green !!??

This poll could use a little help. David Suzuki lighting the Olympic flame? Give me a break!!

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/09/bernier-unplugged/

Ahhnold offered opportunity to carry oly-imp-ick torch? WTF?

I tell you, some peoples egos... or it it politicians celebrity worship that take over weak minds?

That poll really does need help!
(if Suzu had to run it with a twirly bulb up his butt ,,,, maybe ,,,)
It's encouraging that the Canadian Forces member is second, but it's not even close.

This is why where losing. By putting up with these Barbarians without consequences for their actions. Its time to be louder back.

Israel's Amb. Michael Oren delivers insight into American-Israel relations- over interference from Univ of Calif Irvine, Muslim Students Union agitators - 11 arrested

http://www.democracybroadcastingnews.com/

"A British phys-ed teacher has set a new world record for the longest football throw-in launching a ball more than half the length of a pitch."

163.2 feet, amazingly. His technique is perfectly legal, apparently, but it's highly, erm, unorthodox.

[quote] Ken Lyotier, who will light the cauldron at Vancouver's celebration site.

Mr. Lyotier isn't well known outside Vancouver, but he's won numerous commendations in the city for his efforts in founding United We Can, an unusual social enterprise that provides a processing point for all the cans and bottles picked up by street people. The project has allowed many of Vancouver's poorest people a way to earn extra income.[/quote]

That is funny...The Canadians greatest is a Can & bottle collector....How is the World media going to cover that... give him a title King CAN..ada

Ali was a show stopper in Atlanta, wow how far can the show fall

Shame.. Shame...Canada

I think that's as good a choice as any, somebody who actually finds a constructive way to help the homeless is both rare and inspirational. I've heard that some of the more enterprising recyclers can make a decent wage and work their way out of poverty, which should be a popular idea around this forum. Better him than some pretend celebrity like Suzuki or one of our innumerable gormless "stars" (I have a David Warren-like aversion for most of modern culture, especially lawfare).

I'm not too keen on this Olympic carnival, the sporting aspects of it are fine, but this call to worship at the altar of Zeus are somewhat OTT, and I sometimes think maybe this John Furlong guy missed his calling as a televangelist.

Instead of Own the Podium, perhaps Find the Podium might be more in keeping with our long history at the Olympics. Or switch the urine sample.

Somebody stuck a burr under her saddle!

Lisa Vandusan at the Toronto Sun, is in a real snit about Sarah Palin.
here...
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/lisa_vandusen/2010/02/09/12812566.html

Oh..oh there's gonna be a cat fight.

The MSM's Tale of the Two Prorogues.
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"Mr. Mean": urlm.in/eczd

"It was one thing when prorogation was about saving the country from the unwanted Three Stooges Coalition, and quite another when there was no story line to back it up."
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"Premier to prorogue House after Games

Toronto Star - Rob Ferguson - ‎1 hour ago‎

Brockville, Ont.–It is back to work next week for Ontario MPPs, but Premier Dalton McGuinty will briefly prorogue the House after the Olympics so the Liberals can introduce a throne speech."

Big O's fawlty tower has fallen.
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"Why Obama has fallen from grace"

"the only flow of funds coming in these days is from the American taxpayer, and that, in a nutshell, has been the reason for President Obama’s quick fall from grace."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/jeff-rubins-smaller-world/why-obama-has-fallen-from-grace/article1461293/
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"Dubai tower closes to public

Kansas City Star - ‎Feb 8, 2010‎
The world's tallest skyscraper, Dubai's Burj Khalifa, has unexpectedly closed to the public, a month after its lavish opening."

Maybe they chose Ahhhnold because the torch is heavy?

Buble? "Come Fly with Me"?

Re Lisa VanDusen's snit about Sarah Palin: Despising conservatives seems to be in the blood of the VanDusen clan (she's related to Julie-don't-touch-my-hair-with-a-comb). And didn't Lisa head stateside a few years ago to help with the Obamessiah's campaign?

Now that he's tanking, she's gotta take it out on somebody. Liberals, as we know, never own up to their own shortcomings or stupidity. Someone else -- and always a conservative -- is to blame.

Big Al’s Tpiing Point Reached? Almost Reached?

Al awaits confirmation from MSM.
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“Washington and Philadelphia each need about another 9 inches (23 centimetres) to give the cities their snowiest winters since 1884, the first year records were kept.”

“D.C. prepares for Snowpocalypse 2
By Brett Zongker, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ”

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/02/08/12789011-ap.html

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/10/brace-now-for-the-tipping-point/#comment-314133

Okay, Lisa Van Dusen, if you're going to get into the hair thing: Take a look at your cousin/sister, whoever and then look at Nancy Pelosi. Her hair is a helmet, not one hair out of place, and it looks ridiculous. Too long? Too short? 'Don't know, but it makes her look like the tiny, perfect, helmeted commandant she is.

And then there's Pelosi's botoxed face, if you want to get really nasty. (I thought lib-left feminist-types put a woman's looks off limits for criticism ... but seeing as Van Dusen's opened the flood gates: Pelosi's mask is stuck in stasis. The woman can't smile or show any emotion and even though we know she's pushing 70, she's trying to rewind to her forties.

Maybe Van Dusen could pull Pelosi's looks apart -- but we know that that's just not in her DNA to criticize leftards.

an explanation for VanDusen's weedwacker hairdo. cosmic rays from having your head in space or full of space

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18624981.200

there has to be an easier way

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/

O's "Snow joke".

Best bee-ess from MSM: "lost productivity".

"the [O] government approximately $100 million US in lost productivity".
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"Washington hammered by new snowstorm

"a city already paralyzed by near-historic levels of snowfall"

"Since Friday, the U.S. capital and surrounding areas have seen as much snow as normally falls in a year."

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/02/10/us-dc-storm.html

Concerning the America's Cup and sailing, I actually get a kick out of watching this stuff even though I couldn't sail a rubber ducky in a bathtub.

I read a great book a long time ago about the one man race around the world. They leave from France and head for the Southern Ocean. The book is called "Godforsaken Sea: The True Story or a Race through the World's Most Dangerous Waters". It is by a Canuck named Derek Lundy who actually raced it. I developed a huge respect for sailing after reading this book.

Ron @ 12:54 "Why not Nancy Greene?"

I've been saying for a couple weeks now, I think they're saving Nancy Greene to light the flame at the opening ceramonies. After all, her resume includes:
1) two olympic medals;
2) major player in the development of Whistler; and
3) political connections as a Senator

Anyone have any other predictions?

Kate, please blog this one. I don't have time today to put a post together at The Politic.

Related to: _http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/011042.html

Halifax is still chugging the AGW kool-aid:
_http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1166881.html
_http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/02/10/ns-halifax-harbour-levels.html

From the AGW Fraud File.

ITYS* reporting.
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“BBC Eco Bias (Coverage & Pension activities…YIKES)

STRIKING parallels between the BBC’s coverage of the global warming debate and the activities of its pension fund can be revealed today.

The corporation is under investigation after being inundated with complaints that its editorial coverage of climate change is biased in favour of those who say it is a man-made phenomenon.

The £8billion pension fund is likely to come under close scrutiny over its commitment to promote a low-carbon economy while struggling to reverse an estimated £2billion deficit.

Concerns are growing that BBC journalists and their bosses regard disputed scientific theory that climate change is caused by mankind as “mainstream” while huge sums of employees’ money is invested in companies whose success depends on the theory being widely accepted." (more)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2448206/posts

http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/02/09/changing-the-channel-on-climate-change/#comment-74543
(*IggyToldYouSo. Not.)

I found this rant in the comments to a Salon column by Robert Reich where RR urges even more govt spending and even greater deficits and debt as the solution to America's economic problems (I particularly like the mad as hell bullet):

" Tuesday, February 9, 2010 12:22 PM
Bass-Ackwards, Once Again

Once again, Mr. Reich gets it precisely backwards. To wit:

1) Excessive spending and borrowing is how this economy got itself into difficulties in the first place ! Ever since 1974 or thereabouts, we've allowed a string of liberal Presidents (Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and now Obama) and the spendthrift and corrupt (read: vote-buying) Congresses to tell the American people that they can have guns and butter, unearned retirement benefits and military spending, without having to pay for them. We leveraged and leveraged and leveraged ourselves---both as individuals and as a culture---and now we find we can't do that any more.

Now we're de-leveraging---read "paying our debts off"---and we're feeling a little tender. Demand is sagging. People are feeling the pinch.

GOOD. IT'S ABOUT BLOODY TIME. Payback's a *, isn't it ?

In the Human body, pain is Nature's way of telling us that something is wrong. It works the same way in economics: pain is the world's way of telling us we did something wrong. Now we have to pay for it. "Worse" yet, we actually have to start living BENEATH our means, stashing money aside, and actually putting off having fun.

Oh Well. Maybe we have to start being grown-ups and become aware of the fact that Life Is Not And Cannot Be Fun All The Time. (Now THERE's a concept the average American is going to have a hard time wrapping his head around....)

The solution to that problem is rather simple: Turn the TV off. Put the Coke bottle down. Get up off the couch and GET BACK TO WORK.

2) Boomer retirements are coming. So what if they are ? They should have saved the money they blew on drugs and flashy cars in their wasted youth. They get NO sympathy from me, none whatsoever.

The correct response to the phrase "Boomer Retirements Are Coming" is:

Not. My. Problem.

If a pack of wastrel gray-hairs haven't saved their money, or gotten on the good side of their still-working children, then TOO DAMN BAD. Let them go to the town poorhouse, sign a pauper's oath and give up their right to vote in exchange for their crusts and soup. They made their choices already.

3) "Mad as hell" politics. To borrow a line from the old commercial: "Wrong-O, Mary Lou !" What motivates the so-called mad-as-Hell types isn't anger. It's fear. Fear of a government/corporate alliance that is robbing them through massive taxation and the even more massive swindle of media and advertising. Fear of having what is theirs by rights---the right of their own blood and toil and tears and sweat---being taken from them to pacify the wastrel old, the scheming megacorporations and the parasitic government workers. It's fear of having to watch the legacy that they worked for--that they, to use a much-derided word, EARNED---stolen from them by parasites.

God help the parasites---State, "beneficiaries" and megacorps alike---when that fear turns to rage.

Not "if". "When".

May that day come quickly. I bet it'll be here sooner than you think.

Your servant,

Lord Karth"

Reichs column is here: http://www.salon.com/news/us_economy/index.ht

The rant is here - comment #3: http://letters.salon.com/opinion/feature/2010/02/09/obamanomics_open2010/view/?show=all

Canadian Mao Stlong's* Red-Green China/UN.
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"UN vows to stop giving out free medicine to any Haitian hospitals who are charging patients"

"But the U.N. would consider continuing to supply non-governmental groups working at private hospitals with drugs if those groups can make a convincing case that none of their patients are being charged."
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100209/world/cb_haiti_earthquake
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"China jails Sichuan quake activist Tan Zuoren for subversion

In a sign of Beijing's renewed hard line against dissent, a Chinese activist has been jailed for five years after he investigated whether shoddy construction contributed to deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in the devastating 2008 earthquake.

The charges against Tan Zuoren, 55, a longtime activist in southwestern Sichuan province, involved “inciting subversion of state power” because of essays in which he criticized the bloody crackdown against pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.

But friends and his lawyers were in little doubt that Mr Tan’s efforts to document and produce an independent report on the collapse of school buildings in the Sichuan earthquake in May 2008, when some 90,000 people died, were behind the sentence."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7020165.ece

(*Canadian Maurice Strong is Canadian "Liberal leader" Bob Rae's Uncle Mo.)

That McLeans poll as posted by Pat [ at 1:03] really needs some help.

Join this Facebook Group !

Ontarians Opposed to McGuinty Proroguing Queen's Park

Think of the entertainment value for us junkies, when we read the msm's evolving spin, as the numbers get higher and higher.

a post today at babalublog with a photo of cow spine apparently being sold for human/cuban consumption...
I hope that the canadians that frequent the sunny beaches enjoy their brunch

http://babalublog.com/2010/02/a-letter-and-photos-from-cuba/#more-32919

Christina Larson, Inside the Climate Bunker

Three years ago, Rajendra K. Pachauri was accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U.N.'s climate science panel. Now the IPCC head is under fire from critics for a catalogue of recent embarrassments...

Few stars have risen and fallen so quickly as Pachauri's, who has gone from being an international climate hero to subject of increasing ridicule at home and abroad...

For any of you who have salt water in your veins:

Op SAIPH - Life Onboard HMCS Fredericton

Away from home for six months on Operation SAIPH, the crew of HMCS Fredericton live by a regimented set of rules and Navy traditions. Close up, a Navy war ship may look like a large object, but in the vast expanses of the Gulf of Aden, it is tiny, and help and supplies can be far away. Daily life constitutes training, maintenance and running operations; tasks vital to the operation of the ship and the heath and welfare of the crew onboard. And, after a long day at work, there is a good meal and a very small amount of space to call your own.

maz2, last week, the BBC pension fund was reported to be "a part" of a grand investment scheme solely investing in the greens/sustainable/carbon trade.
it appeared then, that its investment was a part/a percentage of a 4 billion investment
good for them, to throw all their pensions in that boat... 'course it explains a few things

Gord Tulk @9.28

I liked your post Gord, and I have to take issue with one point. I don't see what is wrong with Mega, or any corporation for that matter exploiting opportunities that docile voters and politicians for sale create.

If you know you can invest 100K and get a regulation or ruling that opens up a 100 million revenue stream you'd have to be nuts not to take it.

It is just playing the game by the rules in existence.

Its the rules, and the complexity of the rules that makes it possible to monopolize a business. My personal bugbear is Cellphones in Canada. It costs so little in a garbage dump 3rd world country to make a phonecall anywhere on planet because there is no CRTC picking winners. My phonebill would drop from $300 a month to $10 a month in a country like Pakistan. Ahhh, but there is a good reason for the higher bills in Canada.......um, isn't there.....

Does this feed into some nascent paranoia I have or is more subtle on the lines of " Divide to conquer" ? and I really dont mean anything so banal as a split the vote for parliamentary advantage. Who exactly is going to be the existential enemy/threat/boogieman thrown up 20 years hence that all of societies resources will need to be rallied to combat( defend against)? Money is money and will afford its own protection (that is Real Geographic Money: our rich; nouveau riche, public celebrities, rentiers are either paper or generational chimera).
Are ALL the new immigrants being led into a quicksand of host xenophobia (or paired against off each other) or is the old culture being led to a cliff with visions of a "Glory"? ( Lemmings after all are good swimmers ; their mistake,drowning, is in the scope of the challenge faced,( yes I know that it is a mixed metaphor and that lemmings are not suicidal about cliffs )) This I think is not just about resource allocation or status ( for which money is just a short hand meme), Maurice Strong has been a Judas Goat but does anyone really think that he is bright enough to have acted of his own volition? The suspicions/conspiracy raised in the story are old news: granted; the confessions and trail are more fecund.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249797/Labour-threw-open-doors-mass-migration-secret-plot-make-multicultural-UK.html

Calgary Junkie: re Mcguinty Proroguing

Interesting to note that McGuinty Has a Majority!!
So why the need to prorogue whether its 1wk 2wks or never!
Whats he got to hide? Whats he afraid of?
Didnt Bob Rae pull the same tactic in Ontario & Chretian in Federal.

EBD:

That soccer throw is fantastic! I wonder if my daughter can pick up the technique?

C'mon, one of you guest bloggers- what's taking y'all so long to get around to posting something about the proroguation of the Ontario Provincial Parliament by the Lib Prem?

No doubt the Big Old Media is going to try to hush and spin it away from the public's consciousness. But what does it say of us bloggers if we let it slide, after what we've just seen happen following Parliament's proroguation?

Are we going to let the Hard Left get away with this blatant double standard?

A post, please.

And someone set up a FaceBook page, too. Maybe we can get more members on that than for the other one (let's have a sort of little Tea Party and show 'em who the real grassroots are, eh!).

batb, go for it, hope you gave Lisa a piece of your mind.

The Collapse Of The Euro" economist vs. speculator - two interesting clips from BBC

Understand who's really behind the prosecution of Geert Wilders.

_http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/who-is-behind-the-persecution-of-geert-wilders/2/

Apparently Mugabe wants 51% of all foreign businesses in Zimbabwe.

Will white people surrender everything to a bully? $20 says they will, because it's not PC to answer back to a black man.

O'narcissist: the "first black President".

"*This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder."
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"First black governor calls on Barack Obama to sack senior aides

The first black governor of an American state has accused the White House of "not listening to the people" and urged Barack Obama to sack senior aides.

Doug Wilder, who was elected Virginia governor in 1989, launched a broadside against the man he supported in the Democratic primaries when most senior party figures were championing Hillary Clinton.

He had backed Mr Obama because of his promise of "change", he wrote in an article for Politico.

"Now, across many fronts – in public policy and politics alike – people have rightly been questioning whether the change has been for the better. Unfortunately, the answer so far is clear: not yet."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2448569/posts

*O'narcissist:
http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

rmgk, re your prediction about Nancy Greene lighting the flame at the beginning of the games, I think that would be a great choice, but it all depends on who makes the decision.

Who does make the decision?

She's a Conservative Senator now, so who knows if her stock has gone up or down with the Olympic organizers. If they're on the lib-left end of the spectrum, then I imagine she'll be bypassed for someone a little more politically acceptable.

This nutty business is interesting. With 5 posts above, few will see this anyway...

Comox has some really stupid regional directors who want to ban safe beach fires in a few fire rings at 'Goose Spit' here.

A few wealthy home owners up on the bluff are whining about smoke and ash. That's just the beginning of the fraud. Fires are small and within steel truck wheels so the smoke and ash dissipates only a few feet from the fire ring.

In any case this silly debate has been raging in our local papers for months now.

Long story short... my letter to the editor..

Dear Editor,

I must protest Erik Taynen's Wednesday letter," Where are our priorities?". That letter outlines a number of causes far more serious than our attempt to keep SAFE fire rings at Goose Spit.

True, the topics mentioned are serious issues, however our rights to a safe family beach fire are being trampled here!

Other communities have that basic right and pleasure. If we allow ourselves to be railroaded out of a safe venue for campfires, what other rights will be stripped from us next?

Nice try at trivializing this basic cause, Mr. Taynen, but public rights are not a trivial cause at all. Bull of the woods government can not go unchecked.

In England, wealthy landowners blocked access to beaches and the British public became so outraged that all beach access was restored and the public right was entrenched in law.

A safe fire is one in a fire RING, on the SAND beach next to a body of WATER. If that logic is banned, the public will still make camp fires, only they will be in unsafe places secluded in the woods or behind abandoned out-buildings.

I wonder if the regional directors may be victims of tainted drinking water. A. R.

Gord Tulk

Further to your forecasting and Lord Karth views..
[Quote]
God help the parasites---State, "beneficiaries" and megacorps alike---when that fear turns to rage.

Not "if". "When".

May that day come quickly. I bet it'll be here sooner than you think.

Your servant,

Lord Karth"[/Quote]

I'm wondering where things will begin to unravel first.

Some say Greece. The EU agreed to limit deficits to 3% of GDP yet Greece is bankrupt and running 13% deficits.

Close behind are Portugal, Spain, Italy and a handful more.

California is only good to this coming April..

Interesting and bumpy times ahead.

Thanks Revnant Dream - Someone had to say it, and David Warren does it as well as anyone.

AG's Weather survey:
1.Youall like my snow records?
2.Youall love "the fiercest snowstorm in generations"?
3.Youall want "“extremely dangerous” blizzard conditions"?
4. All of the above?
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"Baltimore issues call to contractors for snow removal help (FEMA offices in DC, Philly closed)

With Marylanders battling the fiercest snowstorm in generations, Baltimore officials have called on local businesses to help deal with snowfall that is choking roadways and confining city residents to their homes.

The National Weather Service warned Wednesday of “extremely dangerous” blizzard conditions in the Baltimore region, and as of 1 p.m., the seasonal snowfall totaled 72.3 inches at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. That’s the most since record-keeping began in Baltimore in 1893. The previous record, from 1995-96, was 62.5 inches."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2448786/posts

Here are the latest fascist organisations to boycott.

Bed Bath & Beyond and Whole Foods need to be put on notice that we won't be bullied by their eco-fascism.

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2547343&plckItemsPerPage=20&plckFindCommentKey=CommentKey:44ff818a-9783-4be1-8edc-74eed904c23e#pluck_comments_list