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  4. 4-0 Bruins – good.
    Sell CanadaPost and throw the CBC in with the deal.
    Postal strike – really, who gives a f***?

  6. madmax, that is not surprising as Sellinger and his government are collectivists.

  7. The CWB head office is in Winnipeg. Even if the CWB survives, to be competitive they will be moving a lot of their jobs to Regina/Calgary/Vancouver.

  8. Manitoba’s pro CWB stand is not about the farmers that grow wheat. If the CWB were gone tomorrow, farmers would immediately be leaving Manitoba for the US with truckloads of grain.

  9. Boston has been playing with the brakes on; the Vanc twins (Thelma & Louise) don’t like the heavy contact… 5 on 5
    Boston has a player that plays similar to the great Rocket, all heart & talent…
    Game 7 will be wide open, 6-0 Boston

  11. Now Robert – you were waiting for someone to post that – weren’t you?

  12. WalterF – Thanks for the link. If the CWB was truly Canadian it would be established in Eastern Canada. CWB was designed to ensure that Western farmers didn’t make ‘too’ much money during WWII when they prairie’s had bumper crops and demand was high. The east did not want those prairie rubes to get uppity and demand a say in the direction of the nation. The West now has a say, the Conservatives better keep that election promise to boot the wheat board and to rub out the gun confiscation registry; right away. We have been patient but the ‘due date’ has arrived. I have every confidence that Mr. Ritz and Mr. Anderson will deliver as they have both been Western farmers.

  13. I see that the great battle between labour and management in the Air Canada dispute has to do with “defined benefit” pension plans.
    Educate yourselves on this one folks because it is a big and expensive issue.
    I hope Air Canada sticks to its guns on this.

  14. Re: Postal strike.
    My commnent at Cbc.Ca was, “How are they going to wake them all up at once so they can go on strike.”
    A day later, when I checked to see how many “thumbs up” and/or “thumbs down” I got, it said: “Comment removed by moderator.”
    Geeee…..!!

  16. dBob, I’d actually never heard of Rodney Carrington before Kate sent me the link the other day. In truth, musical comedy is not really my thing but some clearly enjoy it so that’s what counts!

  17. “Obama’s SmartGrid plans”
    “and reduce the need for new power plants.””
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/14/obamas-smartgrid-plans/#more-41629
    …-
    “Wind turbines switched off on 38 days every year”
    “Wind turbines will have to be switched off on 38 days every year because it is too windy, the National Grid said yesterday.”
    “In a new report, the grid said it could not cope with the surge of power from wind farms and will have to switch off turbines to avoid overloading the power transmission networks.
    The admission casts doubt on the Government’s decision to push for a seven-fold increase in the amount of electricity generated by wind by 2020.
    Wind farm operators are given “constraint” payments to keep their turbines idle and some experts believe this will cost almost £300 million a year by 2020, with the cost passed on to consumers.
    The National Grid fears that warm and breezy summer nights could cause a surge in the electricity, combined with a lack of consumer demand. The electricity cannot be stored, so one solution – known as the “balancing mechanism” – is to switch off or reduce the power supplied.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/8573885/Wind-turbines-switched-off-on-38-days-every-year.html

  18. Hey sorry for being off topic but i just got some awsome photo’s from my aunt in deloraine in manitoba of the flooding and therei s one of a massive bulldozer buried right up to the door .
    2 questions
    How do i create a link for everyone to see it and I want to add it to the best stuck tractor contest that was on here can someone help me?
    Aagin sorry for bein off topic but i have no contact’s from here!!!

  23. Apparently, the United States is experiancing a migration issue of wealthy individuals. From the TaxProf Blog: The comments are interesting as well.

    the “Number of U.S. Expatriates Doubled in 2010 (Mar. 10, 2011): Andrew Mitchel reports that the number of individuals renouncing their U.S. citizenship (or terminating their long-term U.S. permanent residency) and expatriating from the U.S. continued to soar in the first quarter of 2011:”

  24. Weaver: Pied Piper of Red-Green AGW fraud.
    “He’s now come to the conclusion that the federal government isn’t interested, and that it’s time to concentrate on Canada’s youth — the next generation of leaders.”
    “I’m fed up speaking with the stereotypical angry, retired, grey-haired engineer,” explained the University of Victoria professor and global warming guru.”
    ““They’re stuck in their ways and think everything can be fixed and that this is not a big problem.””
    “Victoria global warming expert turns his attention to the future: youth”
    “http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Victoria+global+warming+expert+turns+attention+future+youth/4934816/story.html

  28. This is quite possibly the most insane PC event yet.
    Politically Correct Washington Supreme Court Overturns Murder Conviction
    OPENING PARAGRAPHS:
    In 2007, Kevin L. Monday Jr. was convicted for the murder of Francisco Green and received 64 years in prison. The incident was caught on a 3-minute video recording shot by a street performer, and the footage clearly shows Monday coolly and calculatingly firing 11 shots at Green on a crowded Seattle, Washington, street corner. Thus, despite the reluctance of witnesses to testify, it was an open-and-shut case.
    But now the Washington Supreme Court, in an 8-1 ruling, has overturned the conviction and a lower court that upheld it — thus forcing a retrial — claiming that the prosecutor used “racist” arguments. What is the supposed problem? While questioning witnesses, veteran King County deputy prosecutor James Konat cited a no-snitching street code in the black community and made references to the “PO-leese.”

  30. xiat — scary article about the treatment of white Afrikaners. I hope Sun TV picks up on that story.

  31. Confronting our subversive institutions
    Schiffer decided that Peres’s moves to empower Israel’s sworn enemies against the expressed wishes of the prime minister and of the general public were more important than the public’s right to know what he was doing. And so he hid the information from the public. For 24 years.
    http://carolineglick.com/

  32. FaceOff.
    Face. Them. All.
    …-
    “20,000 Royal Mail workers face the axe”
    “Tens of thousands of Royal Mail workers face the threat of losing their job after the company reported a £120 million loss in its letters and parcels business following a huge slump in the number of people sending post.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-mail/8575070/20000-Royal-Mail-workers-face-the-axe.html
    …-
    “How to deactivate your Facebook account
    The Guardian”

  33. Neo-AGW Progress Report (NAGWPR): Cooling.
    AGW Leadership Stuck on Stoopid.
    “In fact, some scientists are questioning whether this drop in activity could lead to a second Maunder Minimum, which was a 70-year period from 1645 to 1715 when the sun showed virtually no sunspots.”
    …-
    BREAKING – major AAS solar announcement:
    Sun’s Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity
    “If we are right, this could be the last solar maximum we’ll see for a few decades,” Hill said. “That would affect everything from space exploration to Earth’s climate.”
    It looks like Livingston and Penn are getting some long deserved recognition. See their graph below:”.
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/14/the-major-aas-solar-announcement-suns-fading-spots-signal-big-drop-in-solar-activity/#more-41648
    …-
    Maunder Minimum:
    >>> Posted August 27, 2009.
    “Since the next maximum is still estimated to be at 2013, there’s absolutely no cause for alarm. If no substantial change occurs in the next couple of years, then perhaps that’s the time when we should start worrying.”
    http://www.universetoday.com/38505/maunder-minimum/

  34. Mao Stlong Lepolt.
    File … tellified …
    “Beijing remains terrified”.
    “the names of half a dozen big towns have been eradicated from the search engines of the country’s most popular microblogging sites.
    One of the “disappeared” cities, Dongguan, is the fourth-largest producer of exports in the country and has a population only slightly smaller than London’s.”
    …-
    “Beijing battling protest fires on all fronts”
    “AN eruption of protests throughout China has sent armoured vehicles into town centres, prompted an internet blackout by the government and left thousands across the country blogging about “crazy” violence on the streets.
    The summer surge of protests, which flared in the southern industrial hub of Zengcheng over the weekend, has been linked to a range of frustrations with modern China – furies that have drawn the government into crackdowns on activism and massive increases in the domestic security budget.
    More than 1000 migrant workers went on the rampage in Zengcheng after a pregnant street vendor in her 20s was roughed up by security guards. Such incidents, while distressing, are not uncommon. Witnesses said that the centre of town was bedlam, with smashed windows, blazing police vehicles and teargas explosions as rioters hurled missiles at an official building. One bank worker blogged that the Bank of China had ordered an immediate halt to all ATM transactions.
    In central Hubei province armoured cars were used last week to quell a riot over the death of Ran Jianxin, an official who had led the fight against corruption in the town of Lichuan but died mysteriously in police custody.
    The protests followed bomb attacks on government facilities in two other cities in the past three weeks, and ethnic unrest in the northern region of Inner Mongolia last month.
    Although few see China as a likely arena for uprisings in the style of the Arab Spring, Beijing remains terrified that the fast-rising tally of localised protests could be linked via mobile social networking and Twitter-style websites.”
    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/beijing-battling-protest-fires-on-all-fronts/story-e6frg6so-1226075255343

  35. “National Geographic: Sun headed into hibernation, solar studies predict; last time this happened, between 1645 and 1715, European canals regularly froze solid and Alpine glaciers encroached on mountain villages”
    http://www.newswatchcanada.ca/
    …-
    “Sun Headed Into Hibernation, Solar Studies Predict”
    “Sunspots may disappear altogether in next cycle.”
    “Enjoy our stormy sun while it lasts. When our star drops out of its latest sunspot activity cycle, the sun is most likely going into hibernation, scientists announced today.
    Three independent studies of the sun’s insides, surface, and upper atmosphere all predict that the next solar cycle will be significantly delayed—if it happens at all. Normally, the next cycle would be expected to start roughly around 2020.
    The combined data indicate that we may soon be headed into what’s known as a grand minimum, a period of unusually low solar activity.
    The predicted solar “sleep” is being compared to the last grand minimum on record, which occurred between 1645 and 1715.
    Known as the Maunder Minimum, the roughly 70-year period coincided with the coldest spell of the Little Ice Age, when European canals regularly froze solid and Alpine glaciers encroached on mountain villages.”
    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/110614-sun-hibernation-solar-cycle-sunspots-space-science

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