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For those who are interested, the SDA discussion
of matters relating to Earth Hour is available here.

Complaints about welfare:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/03/26/mb-poverty-complaint.html#socialcomments

The Great Canadian Seal Slaughter, 2010:

"...there doesn't seem to be any future in this - not long-term, anyway."

"A date for when the seal hunt will open has not yet been announced."

www.ganderbeacon.ca/index.cfm?sid=333964&sc=305

Steely Dan had some of the best musical talent around and I have enjoyed their music tremendously. It would be nice if they would come close enough to the Calgary area so that I could take them in live.

SD. The best. Next time try something from Aja.

‘Sign of trouble’: B.C. sues Vancouver non-profit housing agency for years of alleged mismanagement

Van Downtown Eastside subsidized housing authority, championed by Libby Davies, mismanaged, to be generous, for years? No surprise there.

But it's worse than I thought.

"Into this culture walked Audrey Laferriere, a feisty 65-year-old former business owner who lives in the neighbourhood.
.... Last April, Ms. Laferriere was elected by acclamation to the DERA board... Ms. Laferriere says that staff and senior board members denied her access to DERA's accounts, something she found suspect. "I wasn't allowed to see the books. That was a sure sign of trouble," she says.

Ms. Laferriere didn't roll over."

etc.

Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2732209

Always enjoy the Steely Dan stuff.

With the exception of "Royal Scam", I loved all the Steely Dan albums, but seriously - the best cut from Countdown is Reelin' in the years, bar none. I wish they'd done an extended version, just so I could listen to Elliot Randall's incredible riff a little bit longer.

Steely Dan - reeling in the memories! Loved that group.

It's got that "Zenith Stereo" sound that disappeared with the Asian Invasion. Brought back good memories of a time when all I had on my mind was finding the next $10 to fill the tank on my Chevy, and had enough change to buy 6 Calgary for the road. Thanks Vit!

Joe
I loved that buffalo piss too!

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"Felonius my old friend
Step on in and let me shake your hand
So glad that you're here again
For one more time
Let your madness run with mine"
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Aye.

I will go out on a limb and predict that Bobby McFerrin's new album VOCAbuLarieS will be the best album of any genre you hear all year.

Listen to two tracks from it here

Read a review of VOCAbuLarieS here

Absolutely amazing and inspiring musicianship displayed here. Worth your money - here's an artist I have no problem at all buying his work!

A good friend of mine loved SD in university - played it endlessly. I hate it to this day.

From The Liberal PET Cemetery, Ad$Cam Wall of Shame:

So it was a fraud … the swine flu fraud.

ITYS.

Closer and closer to the Liberal Ad$Cam fraud …….>

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“Tories to recover fee paid to Dingwall for flu work

By THE CANADIAN PRESS
Fri. Mar 26 – 4:09 PM

OTTAWA — The Conservative government says it is close to recovering $350,000 in what it says were prohibited contingency fees paid to a former Liberal cabinet minister acting as a lobbyist.

Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose says Wallding International received the contingency fee in 2001 from Shire Biochem Inc. to secure a 10-year government contract to supply flu and pandemic vaccine.

Ambrose said the terms of the contract, valued between $100 million and $240 million, stipulated there would be no contingency fee paid to the consulting firm owned by former Liberal health minister David Dingwall.

The government says it is in the process of recovering the fee and an announcement is likely shortly.

It has also referred the issue to the commissioner of lobbying.

In 2005, the government was able to recoup a similar amount, plus costs, in what it found to be irregular contingency fees paid to Wallding by Bioniche Life Sciences, a pharmaceutical firm.”

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/9015828.html

http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/03/24/so-was-it-a-whipped-vote-or-not/#comment-78407

Liberal Dysentery*: IffyIggy vs Citoyen Kyoto Dionky.
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"Michael Ignatieff enters 'Dion-land'"

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/bureau-blog/michael-ignatieff-enters-dion-land/article1511552/

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"*Bonfire of the Intellectuals

Paul Berman's outraged attack on Ayaan Hirsi Ali's attackers.

Return with me now to the lusty days of yore, when engagé public intellectuals battled it out over Trotskyism, anarcho-syndicalism, and just who betrayed whom in the bloody streets of Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War—and later in the savage pages of The Partisan Review, where those battles were refought. Sometimes the intense seriousness of the intellectual combat can sound overstrained in retrospect (cf. the Woody Allen joke about Commentary and Dissent merging to form Dysentery). But in fact these were foundational postwar arguments, waged by some of the sharpest thinkers in print as they clashed over urgent questions about the future of totalitarianism and democracy."

http://www.slate.com/id/2248809/

Just heard something on the radio that seems to indicate that Ignatief is a fast learner.

Iggy agrees with the Quebec's new open face, anti- hijaab or burkah policy.

Seems he could be smart enough to look at the enemy website, SDA, just as I often check the flanks of Calgary Grit.

Maybe he saw this March 24th comment.

"Not a religious law at all. Far more a matter of national security in so very many sensitive areas.

Oh wait.. Hope you are not one of those guys who likes to wear a balaclava and
go on a wild time on the town?

The Taliban coming from the Pakistan border were seen changing into burkahs to conceal weapons.

Only the covered face makes that possible."

Hope Iggy doesn't get hold of a real issue. He may be smart enough score points.

Another Poll-gone-wrong in waiting:
http://www.ctv.ca/news/

Which side is to blame for inflaming the Ann Coulter situation at Ottawa U. this week?

TonyG: Re Ignatieff

i think this is a case of follow the leader, You see the PM had commented first & agreed with the Govt of Quebec.
I really think that the Liberals were in a conference call w/donello checking out what to do.
Do we disagree & possibly lose some votes while possibly getting some new votes? What to do what to do. Lets wait to see what Harper says first & whey the public opinion.

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hey... the entrepreneurial equivalent of
yelling bikini in a crowded souk.

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Kevin Livin re Ann Coulter and freedom of speech in Canada in the National Post:

“ … But then, Americans have given much more thought to their freedoms. Schoolchildren learn in history and civics classes to revere them. Not so here.”

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2732720#ixzz0jQ9tt6LP

That’s for sure. Since Trudeau’s Charter of Rights (sic) and Freedoms (sic), we haven’t had all that many freedoms to teach our kids – and, of course, our history has been revised leftward and we don’t teach civics.

And we’re better than Americans?

Kevin Libin not Livin

Those ranting idiots from the ' Young Liberals' disgraced us all.

We Canadians are a very tolerant lot and can easily listen to and consider the provocative ideas Ann Coulter outlines without acting in a boorish manner.

These are programmed activists and they give the rest of us a bad name.

I hope the HRC can levy fines in a fair manner, but that will only be when the snowball refuses to melt in hell.