Fourteen years ago, on July 6, 1997 the Mars rover 'Sojourner' rolled onto the surface of the Red Planet for the first time. Here's a computer simulation of everything that lead up to this. In the background you'll hear Mars, the Bringer of War, written by Gustav Holst.
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More on how Liberalism is killing Women
We don't abort babies because they're girls – but it's FINE if they have a cleft palate
There’s a huge hypocrisy here. The same feminists who argue that a woman can choose to abort a baby for even the most banal “medical reasons” think that a woman cannot choose to abort a baby because it’s a girl.
Yet a growing number of British women are dong just that.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/cristinaodone/100095383/so-its-ok-to-abort-a-baby-because-it-has-a-cleft-palate-but-not-because-its-a-girl/
All the more reason to make massive cuts immediately
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-06/canada-government-union-targets-conservative-defeat-in-next-election.html
mike
Robert, that was a great Mars rover video. I am sure my oldest grandson will also enjoy it.
mike, maybe the government should hire another 55,000 civil servants during the next four years to give the union even more clout.
PMSH should have fired the 50,000 cupe flyer delivery force when he had the chance.
That would have put a first small dent in the anti PMSH warchest.
And i thought the guy was a strategic thinker?
wtf(what the fiddlesticks)?
New LED lightbulbs combine the energy efficiency of compact fluorescents with the warm light of incandescents. Only available in 75W and lower sizes now, they expect to have a 100W version on the market next year. Prices are high now, but, as always expected with silicon devices, should come down rapidly as volume climbs.
http://www.slate.com/id/2298444/
David Burge aka Iowahawk, is the king of right wing satire on the web imho.
Here are his tweets to Obama for the twitter hashtag event #askobama.
Needless to say Barry never answered any of his questions.......LOL
http://tinyurl.com/4yfjuyb
A couple examples,
An $8 billion high speed train leaves Chicago for Iowa City at 8:15am at 40mph. Why?
I let my Mexican drug lord license expire. Am I still eligible for the free machine gun program?
If ATMs are so bad, why do you keep treating me like one?
KevinB I thought there was a bright future in LED lights no I bought two for a trial. They don't give off a lot of light, and the white light has a decidedly blue cast. I use them in the basement because I don't like the colour. I thought one was on its last legs because it had got very dim, but it appears to have recovered. They are both in open fixtures, so they don't build up the heat that appears to kill CFLs. From my personal experience, I think they have a future, but they are not at the point where I would buy another one yet.
Given Kate's well-known disdain for the mainstream media, why not a peep about the unfolding antics over in the UK? Can you just imagine the outrage here at SDA if it were, say, The New York Times hacking into people's voicemails?
Oh right, News of the World is owned by Rupert Murdoch's right-leaning NewsCorp. So, nevermind...
This mini-movie should be shown to all children who have been forced to watch An Inconvenient Truth. It is a simple explanation of the scientific uncertainty and and political reality of AGW.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/07/07/a-mini-movie-in-blackboard-form-why-the-lefts-global-warming-agenda-is-wrong/#more-42882
Thanks for the link, Mike. You are absolutely correct about the CUPI flyer delivery crowd - they should be out looking for work as I write. Greedy postal workers who are long past their due date - why do we have so many on the public payroll? Do they think that they can still intimidate? Living in the past....
Anyone traveling in and around Saskatoon might want to wear a garlic necklace for awhile or, in an emergency, take refuge in a bat chopping windfarm.
http://healthandfitness.sympatico.ca/news/vet_clinic_warns_public_about_rabid_bats/0948b6f9
Very interesting story about Obama's dad and his polygamy citizenship scammer modus operandi.
Apple tree, blah blah blah
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2011/07/07/father_spoke_of_having_obama_adopted/
Mosques in Toronto Public Schools, now this...
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The Ontario government is allowing some elementary school students to be taught in Mandarin and Arabic by going around requirements that demand classes to be taught in English and French the official languages of Canada.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2011/07/07/18386771.html
SDA Gets Results!
My previous post entitled "Planet Entitlement" undoubtedly lead to this. You guys rock!
I know how the close-knit media world in BC works and trust me, the ENORMOUS response to David's rant about the BCTF is going to have ripples elsewhere.
Pima county GOP fires chairman for speaking out against SWAT-enforced police state.
http://www.theagitator.com/2011/07/05/pima-county-gop-to-boot-chairman-brian-miller-for-criticizing-the-jose-guerena-raid/
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I disagree, PMSH handled it perfectly. Anything else would have been viewed as "overboard".
Regarding the 2015 election: as it stands right now, the CPC should return a majority regardless of the anti-Harper campaign. A similar campaign has been waged in Sask against Brad Wall to no avail. The bottom line is, there's no credible opposition as the Left is still fighting amongst themselves like it's 2010. Also, it is very difficult to regain the vote of someone that has now switched parties(former Liberals voting CPC). It was a very long and difficult process for the Liberals to alienate their supporters to the point of voting CPC, and they'll not be going back anytime soon. THEY, now like us, have no other option but to vote CPC in the foreseeable future. I maintain that PMSH’s real genius is gradually eliminating the Voter Subsidy keeping the Liberals on life-support over the next few years. Their own denial of the current situation, along with hopes of an NDP bust, will keep the Left in disarray for the next election cycle at least.JMO
IMO PMSH should continue with picking-away at the socialist infrastructure over a long period of time instead of massive changes over a short period.
Juxtaposition time!
IMO PMSH should continue with picking-away at the socialist infrastructure over a long period of time instead of massive changes over a short period.
That "long" meaning "infinite" as in "will never happen"
Toney Clement confirms that unlike those mean Liberal types who actually cut the civil service, transfers, and other spending, the CPC will maintain socialism in Canada: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2011/07/05/18378566.html#.ThOJbsvDAsB.twitter
THEY, now like us, have no other option but to vote CPC in the foreseeable future.
Repeating this does not make it true. There are other options such as the Libertarian Party or simply not voting.
" Oh right, News of the World is owned by Rupert Murdoch's right-leaning NewsCorp. So, nevermind..." --- Davenport.
AKA 'never tired of being wrong'.
Theres been a parliamentary report on anti-Semitism released.
Mario Silva,former Liberal MP,has come up with this gem, " "Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic," Silva said, but he added that denying its right to exist, or seeking its destruction, COULD be considered anti-Semitic acts".
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/07/07/pol-antisemitism-report.html
The comments at CBC COULD be considered anti-Semitic,but I think they are just good old-fashioned Jew hating.
Hey Ladies !!! Tired of those Egyptian police or the 'Department of the preservation of virtue and prevention of vice' 'checking' YOUR virtue ? Well with our new product, that's all about to change...now even if they say you look like a virtuous virgin, you'll still be stoned to death because you must have had the infidel surgery...because Allah wills it...
TORONTO - The Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW) plans to investigate just how common it is for women to have their hymens repaired.
"I am hoping to do this research, but now it is just in the initial stages," Alia Hogben, executive director of the CCMW, said.
On Thursday, QMI Agency reported a story about Dr. Dimitrois Giannoulias of Toronto, who performs the surgery.
Giannoulias has a private clinic and performs the surgery for women who have arranged marriages in the Middle East, where brides need to be virgins or they can face severe consequences.
When he was contacted again, he refused to talk about how common the surgery was performed.
"It is legal. It is a sensitive subject. I'm not speaking to you about it," he said.
"I first heard about this two years ago in Europe," Hogben said. "Doctors making life easier for their patients because women need to be virgins at the time of marriage, but I don't think that should be a factor here.
"I hear it is popular in B.C., but no one is keeping any stats."
The Ontario ministry of health doesn't track these surgeries, which are not covered by OHIP.
"This is not considered a medical necessity so it is not insured," health ministry spokesman Andrew Morrison said. "We wouldn't track something like that."
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario wouldn't discuss the matter.
"I have no comment on that," college spokesman Jill Hefley said. "It is a legal procedure."
The Canadian Institute for Health Information also doesn't keep statistics on hymen surgery.
"I have no comment on that," college spokesman Jill Hefley said. "It is a legal procedure."
I'm not a lawyer but I think that putting the cherry back in the pit is a medical procedure.
So it looks like the Prince and Princess are too good for the hats -- I believe they have ruined some of their street cred.
Now if they could just finish taking care of Ronald Smith Jr.
Mexican National Executed in Texas, Despite International Pressure
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/07/white-house-seeks-delay-mexican-mans-execution-as-supreme-court-mulls-case/#ixzz1RTXSnAcv