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In the interest of continuing to bring you stunning achievements in music and dance from around the globe, here is the 1960s Québécois trio Les Baronets (Celine Dion’s manager/husband René Angélil is the guy on the left) in a live televised performance of C’est le Freddy. Now that’s choreography.
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  1. Dogs love to stick their heads out of car windows to sniff the air. But if you accelerate to higher and higher speeds, will they think twice about their activity?
    Noop.
    h/t David Thompson

  3. A very fresh item from the mighty David Suzuki.
    http://www.themarknews.com/articles/6547-demanding-respect-for-nature
    My favourite parts…..
    “When I got involved with First Nations communities in remote areas, one of the first lessons I learned was about the importance of respect. Without respect for each other, we don’t listen, and we fail to learn. Instead, we try to engage in conversations set within the perspective of our values, beliefs, and ideas.”
    Suzuki and respect…..!
    “I was impressed with my grandson’s response to his first birthday cake. He loved the novelty of the sweetness (his parents restrict his candy intake), but he only took three bites and was sated. If only we were all able to control our appetites so well. As a species, we have developed an insatiable hunger for stuff and the technological power and global economy to fulfill that consumptive demand.”
    Suzuki on hunger for stuff….like owning multiple homes.
    “Now, the consequences – which I would never have dreamed possible when I was a boy – are apparent: The oceans that cover 71 per cent of Earth’s surface – the oceans that I was taught in high school were a “limitless source of protein” – are a mess, beset not only by overfishing, but dead zones bereft of oxygen, immense islands of plastic debris, and changing pH from carbon dioxide dissolving in the water.”
    Suzuki on how AGW has diverted time, effort and money from more worthy areas, wait….actually that’s my observation.

  4. Topless Protesters March In Toronto
    http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110828/topless-protest-march-toronto-110828/20110828/?hub=TorontoNewHome
    Can someone explain to me why, if it’s LEGAL for women to go topless in Ontario — and it is — the media chooses to pixelate exposed breasts in their reports to this story?
    Could it be that they’ve decided that such displays of nudity make many in the public uncomfortable?
    If this is true, then why do they show such overt displays of nudity from the Dyke March, namely topless women, whose breasts aren’t pixelated?
    Do lesbians and the organizers of the Dyke March have special dispensation? Are their breasts different in some way? Just wondering.

  6. Just a note, in case you hadn’t heard already, some developments have taken place in the legal realm that impact on all “anonymous” internet posters on conservative blogs and forums in Canada. The details can be found over at FD.
    You could be next, so learn the facts and help out in the fight if you can and if you feel it’s the right thing to do … which it is.

  7. I try to ensure the victims of my posts, not feel they’ve been libeled.
    What I intend is that they feel INSULTED, the poor thin-skinned dears….

  13. EBD, that was so funny, I had tears from 70 kms on, the last one was priceless, a big FU to the air current, thanks for that.

  14. No else had the courage,
    so i will..
    Most of you at SDA are climate racists.

    One day climate change skeptics will be seen in the same negative light as racists, or so says former Vice President Al Gore.
    Gore explained that in order for climate change alarmists to succeed, they must “win the conversation” against those who deny there is a crisis.
    “I remember, again going back to my early years in the South, when the Civil Rights revolution was unfolding..

    I have never seen a man that is in such a desperate need of a trip to a massage parlor..

  16. Of all the great tunes to come out of the British Invasion after the Beatles, Les Baronets cover “Do the Freddy”.
    I guess that explains Rene Angelil’s association with Celine Dion.

  17. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    …-
    “Mystery factor clouds climate science”
    “Climate scientists have discovered a mystery factor in climate change models, following new research at the CERN particle accelerator, near Geneva.
    First results from the CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets) experiment show that trace vapours in the atmosphere, which until now had been thought to account for all aerosol formation, actually only explain a minute proportion of atmospheric aerosol production.
    The research, published in the journal Nature, also shows that ionisation from cosmic rays may play a significant role in the process.”
    “The CLOUD group also aims to investigate the extent to which cosmic rays affect cloud cover; and to understand how solar activity may affect climate change.”
    http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/08/29/3304715.htm
    …-
    “Why are we so fixated on blaming humans for a million-year-old process? Why do we insist we’re more powerful than the sun?”
    “Cloud Matters”
    CHURCHVILLE, VA—Regular readers of this column will recall our prediction (July 19th) of a climate debate bombshell in the form of Denmark’s Henrik Svensmarks’ theory on clouds, cosmic rays and the earth’s temperature standing up to intensive laboratory scrutiny. We also predicted that the results would not be welcomed those who have a vested interest in man-made warming.
    Well, the verdict is in: More cosmic rays do indeed produce more low, wet clouds that cool our planet—implying that the sun is in charge of our climate, not CO2. The big new experiment, done by the world’s most sophisticated particle study laboratory, CERN in Geneva, is now published in Nature.
    Almost predictably, the results were greeted by Michael Lepage of New Scientist as confirmation that humans control the earth’s clouds! “Organic vapors, released by organisms such as trees, marine bacteria and livestock, appear to play a far more important role in cloud formation than suspected,” LePage wrote. “‘This was a big surprise,’ says Jasper Kirkby at CERN, whose team made the finding. Since our activities have such a huge impact on the biosphere, this hints at a previously unknown way in which humans can affect the climate.’ he says.”
    Wait a minute. Humans only began to raise cattle, build cities, and burn charcoal about 6000 years ago. For eons before that, the planet itself had lots of dust from droughts and winds, sea spray from the oceans, and ammonia emitted as deer and antelope played.
    Cosmic rays create the Dansgaard-Oeschger cycle, a moderate 2–4 degree kink in earth’s temperatures every 1500 years on average. Svensmark found this cycle correlates with a solar cycle found in the Carbon 14 in trees and Beryllium 10 in ice. Those “cosmic particles” are created when cosmic rays strike our atmosphere. We’ve also found a strong link between the extent of the low, wet clouds and the earth’s temperature.
    CERN found the secret—the earth’s trace emissions of ammonia help to stabilize the cloud seed clusters created by the cosmic rays. Thus the world’s biggest particle physics lab confirms cosmic-cloud connections found in earlier experiments by Svensmark and by Denmark’s Aarhus University. .
    If humans were putting up that much more pollution than nature did, CERN shows in fact it would currently mean more cooling of the earth, not warming: more “pollution;” more clouds; and a colder earth.”
    http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/39820

  18. Monday, August 29 – Globe & Mail
    “The leadership race effectively begins Monday morning, I would say,” Mr. Martin said. “It won’t be a divisive race, it will be a uniting experience and respectful experience,” Mr. Martin said. “That’s the tone Jack has set; he’s raised the bar for civility in political discourse in this country, and the first demonstration is going to be a very interesting but respectful leadership race.”
    Hahahahaha

  22. Thanks EBD. It’s nice to see one of those big Broadway dance numbers again. And good to know the Canadian entertainment industry could give Fred Astaire a real run for his money. Almost brought tears to my eyes, it did.

  23. Letter to the editor at the G&M this morning:
    “Canadians are funny people. They love Jack Layton and Tommy Douglas but elect politicians like Stephen Harper, Gordon Campbell, Mike Harris and Ralph Klein. Go figure.”
    I guess the writer from B.C. doesn’t realize that the frenzy over Jack Layton’s death was a media-manufactured phenomenon. (How about it’s the CBC that loves Jack Layton and Tommy Douglas — and they never stop telling us and shoving it in our faces?) He might have also wondered why there weren’t more than 8,000 mourners who filed past Layton’s coffin in City Hall; in a city of 5.5 million, 8,000’s hardly a show of overwhelming love, a fiction our mainstream media has been manufacturing over the past seven days.
    The reason Canadians elect people like Stephen Harper is because he and his party are serious politicians who get things done for all Canadians, not teat-sucking statists who love to grandstand and make grandiose policy pronouncements which, if implemented, would bankrupt the country — and benefit only their special interests.
    I feel sincere sympathy for Jack’s family and friends but am glad this media-circus frenzy of the past week is over. It did no honour to Jack, his party, or Canadians.

  24. Dear god.
    That “C’est le Freddie” was hit number 2 on the hit parade in Quebec in 1965.
    Number 2

  25. yes going topless in Ontario has been legal for about twenty years now. Some woman was arrested for indecent exposure while mowing her grass ( Just the green stuff on the lawn, not the other “mowing your grass”) and she took it to the supreme court of Ontario on a sex discrimination basis.

  26. Why any woman would want to go topless in public — except to cause a stir — is beyond me.
    Two boobs flopping down Bloor Street? The horror! The horror! (Mine, at any rate…)

  28. Sooke:
    You’re right.
    However, can you imagine these guys doing “All day & all of the night”, “House of the risin’ sun” or “Satisfaction”?
    Thank our lucky stars that they didn’t.

  29. Guess manbearpig, Al Gore, is right then.
    “Most of you at SDA are climate racists.” @3:28am
    If you can’t overcome facts with fiction then it’s time to pull the race card, that’s getting cliché amongst Liberals any more.
    They’ll have to come up with something newer and more effective, where is Adolf H. when they need’m the most?
    Oh yeah, Stalin helped us send his keester to the 900,000 polish virgins.

  34. …
    “4) When things turned violent, many of the student protestors actually turned on their fellow CUT rioters and tried to prevent them from looting and destroying property. Chilean media published these accounts. Foreign media did not.”

  35. Revenge of Taliban Jacques Bloc Separatist.
    …-
    “Quebec language agency to go after companies with English names
    Winnipeg Free Press”

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