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whoa! you and Iowahawk were separated at birth? I didn't know that.

Yeah, we got into an argument about whether or not it was acceptable to say henrys per ohm instead of seconds (henrys, of course, being kg m² per A² s², and ohms being kg m² per A² s³), so they separated us. But it was too late: by then, we were both smoking pipes!

Somehow I always pictured you as a Vitalis guy, not Wildroot Charlie.

[Vitalis is to transmitters as neckties are to rotating equipment. ~Vitruvius]

Love the photo of what looks like a 1940's transmitter. I can just smell the ozone coming off the DeForest Tubes!

[Our transmitter was made in '28. ~Vitruvius]

Australian insurers raise premiums in anticipation of weather disasters caused by "global warming."
When the catastrophes fail to materialize ... they pocket the change, natch.

(via Tim Blair)

Canadian men just about lost this one, open net goal post miss for the tie by the Slovacs with less then 10 seconds left. A true nailbiter!!!!

Team Saskatchewan just beat the Slovaks 3 - 2. There are three players from Saskatchewan on the Canadian men's hockey team - Brendan Morrow, Ryan Getzlaf, and Patrick Marleau (Carlyle, Regina, and Swift Current respectively) - and they scored all of our goals.

Here's my Reader Tip for the evening: if you drink instant coffee and you like to put milk or cream in your coffee, you can greatly improve the taste by either letting the freshly combined coffee and boiling water cool for 4 or 5 minutes, or by putting in a half-ounce or so of cold water before you put the milk in.

When the coffee's boiling hot, it denatures the milk. Seriously, try it! You'll see! It's night and day, it is.

There's more where that came from.

What can one say,

My tribe did well, did not win, though did very, very well.

By the way, that would be Slovaks.

An alternative to CTV for Olympic sports;

www.ilemi.com/

Kind of a keystone cops finish to the hockey game.

Vit, might be time to upgrade to an Odyssey, or dreaming big, perhaps a Commodore 64.

Love the C-64, BTW...

Good choice tonight Vit. On an Eagles related note, while in Lahina, Maui this past November, we drove past the 'Jesus' neon sign mentioned in the Eagles song, The Last Resort off the Hotel California album! I plan on making it down to Winslow, AZ one day too.

My tip...Olympics end in two days and Generalissimo Suzuki is still MIA.

Apparently Shaw Direct, the cable and satellite people, is open via their website and contact us to suggestions regarding programing. I sent them an email suggesting that with their apparent acquisition of Global they might want to consider giving Canadians a home grown version of the US FoxNews. I did this after making some changes to our satellite service and during the course of the assistance conversation the lady helping me suggested I email Shaw. She opined that she would also like to see a Canadian equivalent to FoxNews.

That transmitter looks like it mothered the 42 set we used in the 1960s. It darn near filled the back of a deuce and a half.

A defence of Helena Guergis at the airport:
http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/02/26/kelly-mcparland-helena-guergis-deserves-a-medal.aspx

[And a visit by kilgore trout in the comments.]

Hey Vit, aren't you the same guy that did the Dr Olds car commercials in the 60s/70s?

glacierman....glad we won....but watching that game...Babblekook sent out an NHL goalie and the local peewee team to play in front of him.We really did NOT deserve to win.Sheer f&*king luck.
Oh.And the women sucked in the curling.A grade 8 team could have made the last shot for gold.

Having read some of tonight's coverage of Alvaro Uribe having been disallowed to stand for President in a third term in Colombia, I found it odd that someone so effective in his task as President and highly regarded by his country could be so disrespected, 2 years ago he had a +80% approval, now it's still above 60% ... In almost every capacity of presidential function, he has brought good results to his country, and especially compared with his neighbors, brought stability and security where there was very little.
A short summation of how it looks from Venezuela, to see how an effective leader can lead while accepting a dismissal, to see a growing democracy in action.

http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2010/02/where-democracy-resides.html

"I just watched on TV the reading of the Colombian High Court ruling saying that the law to call for a referendum that would allow for a third election for Uribe is not valid because it did not follow the rules for its elaboration. It is not a judgement on whether Uribe deserves reelection, just an observation that no matter what, a president is not above the law and he must follow the rules.
Now as I am typing this there is the Uribe reply, also on Globovision, which is a concession speech of sort, with his call to follow the rule of law and that he would work for Colombia no matter where he is".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Álvaro_Uribe

As an aside to how well Colombia has done, just look how the neighbors are faring... a simple graph and translated commentary from "the people's ombudsman" in Venezuela.

http://devilsexcrement.com/2010/02/26/homicides-in-venezuela-eleven-years-of-neglect-and-incompetence/

Take it easy: so mellow and so great to harmonize to.

Vitruvius, I KNEW you'd end up being a handsome hunk.

'Terror Trio' Meets to Talk Shop

by Maayana Miskin

(IsraelNN.com) Syrian President Bashar Assad hosted Hizbullah head Hassan Nasrallah as well as Iranian leader Ahmadinajad for dinner in Damascus on Thursday night. The trio of terror-supporting leaders denounced Israel and America and discussed ways to aid “resistance groups.”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136220

8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile.

Al Gore's Weather (AGW): Present.
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"Why So Silent, Mr. Gore?

Why hasn't the Nobel and Oscar winner weighed in on the climate controversy?

Al Gore has been found. The former vice president and green guru has been MIA since the end of December, but he cropped up to be abused at the Apple stockholders meeting in Cupertino, Calif. Gore has been missing conveniently during the same period where climate scientists have come under increased scrutiny for bogus claims, doctored science and use of propaganda. Gore, the Nobel Peace Prize and Oscar winner was last seen on CBS in late December. While the TV outlets have been running archival footage of the climate advocate, he hasn’t been interviewed on air throughout the controversy.

He’s still been on the receiving end of many jokes during that time. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said on Twitter: “It's going to keep snowing in D.C. until Al Gore cries ‘uncle.’” GOP Sen. James Inhofe’s grandkids built an igloo on the National Mall, naming it “Al Gore’s New Home.”

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/02/26/dan-gainor-al-gore-climate-change-apple/

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"Storm`s Dizzying Path and Lashing of the Northeast"

"Northeast Snowicane Weakens as Potential New Storm Looms"

http://www.accuweather.com/news-top-headline.asp?partner=accuweather&date=2010-02-26_21:00

AGW/CRU Fraud coverup.
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"University ‘tried to mislead MPs on climate change e-mails’

The university at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails has been accused of making a misleading statement to Parliament.

The University of East Anglia wrote this week to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee giving the impression that it had been exonerated by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). However, the university failed to disclose that the ICO had expressed serious concerns that one of its professors had proposed deleting information to avoid complying with the Freedom of Information Act."

" Professor Edward Acton, the university’s vice-chancellor, published a statement he sent to the committee before giving evidence to MPs at a public hearing on Monday. He said a letter from the ICO “indicated that no breach of the law has been established [and] that the evidence the ICO had in mind about whether there was a breach was no more than prima facie”.

But the ICO’s letter said: “The prima facie evidence from the published e-mails indicate an attempt to defeat disclosure by deleting information. It is hard to imagine more cogent prima facie evidence.” (more)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7043566.ece

"Britain has some creepy of ways of policing its citizens. But turning classical music into a weapon, with Mozart a tool of state repression, marks a new low... more» (aldaily)
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"Weaponizing Mozart

How Britain is using classical music as a form of social control

Brendan O'Neill | February 24, 2010

In recent years Britain has become the Willy Wonka of social control, churning out increasingly creepy, bizarre, and fantastic methods for policing the populace. But our weaponization of classical music—where Mozart, Beethoven, and other greats have been turned into tools of state repression—marks a new low.

We’re already the kings of CCTV. An estimated 20 per cent of the world’s CCTV cameras are in the UK, a remarkable achievement for an island that occupies only 0.2 per cent of the world’s inhabitable landmass."

http://reason.com/archives/2010/02/24/weoponizing-mozart/singlepage

Here's Mark Steyn making things "perfectly clear" in a way that Obama never will.

"Relax and Deep Breathley"

"To think otherwise is to suppose that we can successfully ask a dog not to bark."

"47. Geoffrey Britain:

#42,

“Iran Announce(s) Its Nuclear: Why Is This OUR Problem?”

It will be our problem because of the entirely predictable and resultant consequences of Iran going nuclear.

Iran is a Shia nation.

Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey are Sunni nations.

Iran seeks nukes for (among other reasons), regional influence.

Shia and Sunni really don’t like each other. For a comparative historical analogy, think of the Catholic and Protestant European wars.

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/02/26/relax-and-deep-breathley/#comments

Al Gore's Weather (AGW):
Ah gets no respect.

No mention/linking ... yet.
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"Pacific under tsunami threat after massive 8.8 quake strikes Chile"
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html?hpt=T1

AlGW: Waiting, waiting... still no respect for Moi AGW science.
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"The science behind the Chile earthquake"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7043778.ece

I believe WMD were found in Iraq and they've been both since been hung.

Enought to make you weep.

"Hundreds of Chilldren Found in Mass Grave"

http://www.hrtribune.net/View.aspx?id=187

AGWAl: Maybe Moi'll get some respect/linkage now.
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"Argentina struck by earthquake

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck near Salta, Argentina, hours after a devastating quake that hit neighboring Chile earlier in the day, the US Geological Survey said."
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/argentina-struck-by-earthquake/story-e6frf7jx-1225835165804

I was wondering why CNN broadcasted a "Cyber attack simulation" a week or so ago. I predict a huge cyber attack in the near future to give Obama the power to do this:

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/83961-forthcoming-cybersecurity-bill-to-give-president-new-powers-in-cyberattack-emergencies

Here is da scary headline from MSM.

It's not quite a linkage to Big Al's AGW; however, it's closest seen yet.
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"Big quake question: Is nature out of control?"
(MSNBC)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460679/posts

Al Gore's Weather (AGW): Saved by da O'Superman, er, Spidyman, Jimmah Carter'O.

O said: "he [O] had been “born on Krypton and sent here ... to save the planet Earth”"

"WHEN President Barack Obama took office last year he was compared to Superman, even joking at a dinner that he had been “born on Krypton and sent here ... to save the planet Earth”. Last January he appeared on the cover of Spider-Man."
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"Barack Obama ‘destroys first year in office’"

"For his part, Obama has said healthcare is so important that he will get it through even if it means he ends up as a one-term president, like Jimmy Carter. He may get his wish. The latest poll by CNN/Opinion Research found 52% of Americans think he should only serve one term."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7043884.ece

Socialism.
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"Quebec among most highly indebted industrial economies in the world

Red ink accounts for 94 per cent of GDP, provincial report says"

"Quebec ranks only below Japan, Italy, Greece and Iceland in terms of public debt as a percentage of GDP."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec/quebec-among-most-highly-indebted-industrial-economies-in-the-world/article1484107/

is nature out of control? what the hell could that possibly mean? (I know.. I know, your guess is as good as mine) B. Hussien said regarding the Chilean earthquake that once again we are reminded that we cannot control nature...

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/02/barack-obama-we-cant-control-nature-video/