Good News .......

A 2006 study found that the average Canadian walks about 900 miles a year.
Another study found that Canadians drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a
year.

Canadians seem to be getting about 41 miles per gallon.
Good News .......

A 2006 study found that the average Canadian walks about 900 miles a year.
Another study found that Canadians drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a
year.

Canadians seem to be getting about 41 miles per gallon.

With Kate it's eyestrain, with old guys it's backstrain in dutch set season.

Have a great day .......... Cheers

Blogs of note

* Angry in the Great White North
* Small Dead Animals
* Brigitte Pellerin
* The Huffington Post

http://communities.canada.com/nationalpost/blogs/fullcomment/default.aspx

The Gun Registry

We are supposed to be seeing some kind of relief for the good guys as regards this registry and it is not happening.

S. Day has just budgeted some $14M for a pilot project. 20,000 first time applicants for a gun license are now going to have to appear personally (in front of someone ?) along with their two guarantors who support their application as part of the application process.

These first time applicants could well include many people who have used firearms a good part of their life but left the scene when Rock went bizarre with C-68 in 1998. The net effect is to further frustrate/belittle/antagonize the good guys while at the same time:

A thug gets 8.5 months for carrying, firing, concealing, non-registering, and who knows what else - a .40 cal semi-auto pistol.

The problem is not with our laws, it is with the judicial lack of penalties for the bad guys when they are outed.

And the pandering for votes continues.

Of course we all realize that a minority Government doesnt have the votes to repeal the gun registry law.
They are doing what they can by having the amnesty.
I dont have a problem with doing a better examination of prospective gun owners. If the trade off is to do away with the useless regisrty, and put in place improvements to approvals of gun owners, im all for it.

Figured I'd move this comment in here from "Only a few hours left"...

I have not seen An Inconvenient Truth; I have no plans to see it. I have polled people about it, though. In that vein...

1)Does Gore use ANY science other than the ice cores?

2)Does Gore try to bulldoze through to people that sea levels will engulf huge tracts of ocean side cities, in some cases swallowing them whole... and all within a few dozen years?

3)Does ANY part of the movie play on people's fears about climate without citing specific scientific data to back up what he claims?

I submit that if the preceeding answers are, in their turn, "no, yes, and no", then the movie is a crock of crap. If there develops in the comments here a concensus that the answers to any one of my 3 questions aren't what I tend to posit they will be, I'll BORROW (not buy or rent) the movie and watch it.

I'll bet that The Great Global Warming Swindle will prove out consideralby more factual and believeable than Al Gore.

Pop culture weighs in on the GW hysteria trend:

Cheril Crow suggests savive the planet is a matter od usung less toilet paper.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/21/AR2007042101385_pf.html

Katie Couric might not be long for the anchor desk.

Did Stephane Dion vote in the French election? I'd like to know.

I wonder why Cherniak deleted the comments on this entry:

Current page:
http://www.jasoncherniak.blogspot.com/

Original page:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:wAkaDeFaJIQJ:jasoncherniak.blogspot.com/2007/04/fundraiser-with-stphane-dion.html+site:jasoncherniak.blogspot.com+cherniak+dion+fundraiser&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ca

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Who doesn't love a good...
"I was awake during surgery"
story?

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Breaking:Boris Yeltsin..DEAD as a stick!
Reid,I was wondering same thing..and he isn't posting much lately(Cherniak)..wonder if the bloom is off that rose,and Jason has finally realized what a disaster Dion really is?

"I dont have a problem with doing a better examination of prospective gun owners. "

Easy to say if it doesn't effect you personally.

Frankly this "CEO interview" is a farce and a $14M waste of time... so we see the CPC not just being cautious as a minority government but actively engaging in expensive liberal-like charades with gun control placebos.

Seeing the bunbling and unintelligent way the CPC has handled the firearms registry file, I doubt if they have the resolve or intelligence to repeal c-68 and give us a cost effective workable replacement.

All you should need to own a gun in this country is a Canadian citizenship, a permanent address, have a clean record and keep it clean. Anything else is peripheral fluff that wastes billions in ineffective administrative posturing.

If we took all the money spent on issueing transport permits and registry data...and spent it on a police data base of people who are never to have a gun instead of juggling files on the millions of responsible owners, we would be further to a cost effective control system. When someone is convicted of a violent crime or has a mental health record....put them on the gun ban list....My guess is you'd have far fewer files in that data base than in one full of responsible people.

But I won't hold my breath waiting for this CPC to do something they promised Canada's gunowners. Minority or not this registry could be history tomorrow by using the OICs built into the regulations.....CPC has not acted nor acted intelligently on removing these expensive and useless laws.

They seem to choke every time some dipshit utopian wails and moans that the registry is needed...yet they can provide no imperical data to prove the registry has stopped one crime.

To go mushy in the face of such lame opposition...and actually re-engage in further pointless legislative posturing, tells me the CPC hasn't the commitment to the civilian firearms issues they have made us believe they have.

Muslims aren't bias. Nope,it's us infidels....

Muslim report a study in bias.
The conclusions of the Canadian Federation of Students' recently released report on Muslim students were dutifully reported by the CBC, the Toronto Star and a dozen other media outlets.
The problems with the report began even before the task force went to work. The group was exclusively comprised of left-wing activists and religious Muslims. Among its 10 members were Sheikh Faisal Abdur-Razak, an Imam and the president of the Islamic Forum of Canada, who said during the cartoon riots that the "root cause" of Muslim violence was the publishing of the cartoons themselves;
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/Columnists/Smith_Jordan_Michael/2007/04/23/4113173.html

As an aside...watch that eyestrain,Kate. It's deadly for an artist! Why,you just might end up painting a blue line on the left side of some plywood and a red one on the right and calling it something like "The Swing Of Right To Left", and then selling it to Ottawa for a few mil! (I only request 25% for the idea,preferabbly in blue envelope. Thank you)

The camel spiders are back in the news.

"I swear I'm suffering from sleep deprivation worrying about the freakin' things," Thompson, a supply technician deployed here from CFB Gagetown, said as he sat in the shade outside Canada House, a hospitality centre and gathering spot for Canucks at the Kandahar Air Field. "They've got me paranoid."I wouldn't have any problem with shooting them." About the size of a tarantula - OK, perhaps the mother of the mother of all tarantulas - camel spiders have been scaring the spit out of soldiers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia for years.

"I woke up and thing was sitting there looking at me," Coupal, who is stationed at Patrol Base Wilson west of Kandahar said, horrified. "I picked up my boot and whacked it, and nothing happened. "So I hit it again - hammered it as hard as I could - and it didn't run or anything. It just hunched up, got an attitude and hissed at me."

http://www.canadaeast.com/ce2/docroot/article.php?articleID=131566

Here is the Wikipedia article on Camel spiders, with photos. Arachnophobics with a weak heart should abstain :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_spider

Check out this.

Loony Sheryl Crow wants limits on toilet paper usage. 1 sheet per visit.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6583067.stm

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Blowing the doors off... the Fiberal Yugo

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you can find a good horizontal bar chart for the milage of the leading six hybrids. . .

Prius Escape Accord Hylander Civic Camry Hybrids

and the snazzy Toyota concept car.

at my website. Click the TG below = TG

As a French citizen, is citoyen Dion allowed to vote in the elections in France? Just curious.... haven't heard much about him lately. Could he be overseas?

Ummmmm...I wonder whatever became of this excellent idea?

Muslims Out Of Australia

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/australia.asp

CTV - David Suzuki says "Canadians ready for carbon tax" but CTV neglects to mention its own poll that had Canadians voting 78 percent unwilling to pay carbon tax.

The Palestinian alternate universe...

http://abuyussif.blogspot.com/2007/04/injustice.html

There's a number of Catholic and Public schools who are working towards a new "School Plus" idea, put forward by the Saskatchewan government (http://www.schoolplus.gov.sk.ca/pe/main/about).

"This model builds upon the successful practices of schools and community partners to date and strengthens their capacity for meeting the needs of all children and young people through the creation of a new social institution directly supported by other human services."

A new social institution? Like the family or the church are social institutions? Do they have any idea of the havoc created by the unintended consequences of people making new social institutions? (eg: all the horrors of communism)

If you read their pdf, they talk repeatedly about development and education of children being a shared responsibility of communities. Well okay, but I thought parents had the primary responsibility.

And their education includes "nurturing the development of the whole child, intellectually, emotionally, socially, spiritually and physically".

They have an emphasis on every child succeeding, which is great, but it sounds like they're trying to take over the role of family because some parents aren't doing a very good job helping their kids succeed.

I don't deny that some good things may come of the program, but it sounds like our socialist government is trying to hide some social engineering in feel good terms.

Another "Do as I say, not as I do"

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstagetour/scrow/scrow1.html

the new economy, I wish suzuki were turning in his grave

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/04/23/vehiclesales.html

Awesome stuff at AGWN on Lib/RCMP links.Scandalous

So what's your ass print?

Did you use too many squares in your last wipe?

Perhaps the next phase in proving your dedication to saving the planet is be sure you go around smelling like sh*t.

That will prove that your didn't use enough paper to completely clean up.

Others will admire your scent because they know you care about their planet too.

I think we can all take a lesson from the muslims on this. a left hand swipe of the shaved and denuded and sometimes de-clited nether parts and we should all happily get into our tour bus and be on our way. the toilet roll police of Yarmouth NS will rarely find something to point out the the cameras.

maybe instead of the toilet paper Sheryl can go one arab step further and pound sand.

As an entrepreneur, I smell a business opportunity here!
I'm going to begin taking several dumps a day without using any toilet paper. Then, I can get rich eco-friendly people to pay me for the extra squares they use, so that they are "toilet paper neutral". Finally, a way to make my fortune!!

From WPG.just now:Justice DENIED again.Murder trial of gangbanger charged with shooting young Dr's son(Phil Hairt)last yr.thrown out of court..will get off scot-free thanks to Greg Brodsky.This young man got caught in crossfire of gang war while walking on city street(shades of the Creba murder)Court wouldn't allow taped testimony of 2 opposing gang members that directly linked accused to this totally senseless murder.Thanks Greg,thanks Lib.'justice' system.And sorry to all the victims in this.

Red-Green Alert!

MayDion's influence/Power has now infiltrated the MSM.

It's the Yellow Press; now a green light district.
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CanWest Deal For Alliance Atlantis Gets Green Light

The federal Competition Bureau has given the green light to CanWest Global Communications Corp.'s acquisition of Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc.
(national newswatch)

New pro-Islamic terrorism buzz word from AP, "assailants".

KABUL -- Assailants abducted and beheaded an Afghan intelligence service employee and struck one of the agency's vehicles with a remote-controlled bomb in a separate attack, killing six employees and wounding three, officials said Monday.

so. another booze swilling, carbon producing, dope smoking idiot musician wants to tell me how to live my life.....just like the morons b4 her(browne and springsteen on nuclear power), she does not have a rat's ass clue as to what she is talking about.....people will use whatever it takes to wipe their arse, end of story

Keep in mind, that while hybrids are interesting, they are a ploy to keep you invested in gas engines and gas pumps.

It is the EV owner who can still drive when refineries or the straits of Hormuz are bombed and no gas is available.

Hybrids can be damaged, [serious damage], by trying to drive on an empty gas tank.= TG

...Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died at the age of 76.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/04/23/russia.yeltsin/index.html

Liberal links to RCMP scandal are starting to seep through and they're only skimming the surface at this point. It's starting to become clear why they want a longer inquiry. The huge cost never enters into the picture when Liberals are tying to cover their asses.
This will soon be as smelly as the butts of environmentalists not using enough squares of their non-skid reversible paper.

Guess who is one of the thousands of "election observers" who called the Nigerian election a farce?

Right. That Great Canadian Farceur himself: Red Tory Joe Who?, aka Joe Cluck.

Joe's Farce was red when it was exposed that he couldn't count up to 272 votes in Canada's Parliament; Joe's Farce was finished when his government fell on its first budget (Dec. 3, 1979).
Joe knows what a farce is? Indubitably. As Joe used to say, with great specificity.

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Telegraph | Nigerian election condemned as a farce

Election observers demanded yesterday that Nigeria’s chaotic presidential polls should be re-run, as security forces were on full alert ahead of first results due to be released today(national newswatch)

Clean Air Bill to die.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070423/tories_cleanairbill_070423/20070423?hub=QPeriod

Ontario Liberal McGuinty's government to die?

May be Ugh, Kemo Sabay.
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Demonstrators bringing demands to Queen's Park

CTV.ca - 4 hours ago
Aboriginal demonstrators who staged a blockade of a rail line in eastern Ontario last week over a land claim are bringing their demands to the steps of the provincial legislature.
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I have filed a patent for the paperless rear end wiper.
It only uses a hammer a block of wood which is completely reusable.
Instructions are as follows: 1) Wipe rear with fingers. 2) Place fingers on wooden block 3) Hit fingers with hammer 4) Allow for natural reflex to place fingers it mouth and wipe clean.
Investors welcome. :)

Plastic bags are soon to be a thing of the past, but will that include baggies. The large size might become the fixture of the future in bathrooms, once toilet paper is banned. Take a tip from all those dog walkers and see how they do it. Or maybe the next thing will be to intall large litter boxes in bathrooms. Do those kyotologist believers really practise what they preach, or are they all doing as gore/suzuki do, follow the rule, do as I say, not as I do.
Any reports on gores visit to Regina.

Just visited Cherniak's blog for the hell of it and was surprised to see that Jason is scalping tickets for a Dion weinie roast. The surprising aspect to this is that there are still tickets available. Does this mean that Canadians are finally waking up to the fact that they have been screwed by the Liberals for years and are now refusing to go to the compulsary pre-party? Just asking. BTW nice to see you back SB.

Antenor:

Check my post further up. He deleted the comments associated with that blog posting.

I hope it wasn't because of this picture I linked in a reply. ;)

http://img340.imageshack.us/my.php?image=elcitoyenzd0.gif

mary T:

I stopped using TP along time ago. It's too pedestrian for my behind. I use pieces of silk. I have a feeling Citoyen does too.

Albertaman: What more can I say than just..."Yuck!"

MaryT: Did you ever see the directions on disposing the holy CFL lightbulbs?
"What should I do if a compact fluorescent bulb breaks in my home?
Do not inhale the vapor.
Do not use a vacuum for cleanup.
Sweep the pieces together with a brush or broom -- not with your hand.
Cleanup glass with a wet rag or towel and place the towel, along with the pieces, into a sealed plastic bag."

So then we'll have a new problem if they ban plastic bags.
Plus, I guess we'll have to pick up the dog poo with our hands... hmmmm. Sounds like we get the Sh%^$$y end of the stick no matter what.

CP is notorious for its lack of balance, but the following story takes the biscuit!
The News Agencies seem to be immune to criticism. Can they be taken to the CRTC! I don't think so. Can they be sued? ASgain, their defence is probably that the users are liable because they publish the material.

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Public still doubts Harper good PM
Mon, April 23, 2007
By SUE BAILEY, CP

OTTAWA -- Stephen Harper has run a pretty tight ship as prime minister and earned kudos for competence, yet his Conservatives are mired in minority-government territory.

After winning 36 per cent of the vote in last year's election, the Tories haven't moved much -- apart from a short-lived upward bounce after last month's big-spending budget.

Theories abound as to why Harper's overall positive leadership rating, especially when compared to Stephane Dion's underwhelming debut as Liberal chief, has not won more support for his party.

Pundits and political scientists alternately cite voter contentment, electoral fatigue and historical polling trends. Others raise points that aren't as easily pinned down.

"My mother doesn't like him," one Conservative insider who didn't want to be named said of Harper. "I don't know, she just doesn't like him. It's something he emanates."

Harper's personal image has come a long way since the days when his fiercest rivals wrote him off as a far-right ideologue with ice water in his veins.

"Harper is who he is," said Tim Powers, an Ottawa lobbyist and Tory backroomer.

"And like every other human being, he's not perfect. He doesn't try to be perfect. And I think people are adjusting to him as they adjusted to Martin, Chretien and to Mulroney.

"He's not this big, scary, fire-breathing, freak-show psychotic that the Liberal party described him as."

Powers says Harper is in reality closer to a "Tim Hortons dad" -- albeit a Tim Hortons dad who employs a publicly funded personal image stylist and still struggles to check a notorious mean streak.

A recent case in point was when Harper sabotaged his own spate of generally positive headlines after last month's budget. He was widely criticized, even by right-leaning observers, for suggesting in question period that Liberal MPs care more for Taliban suspects detained in Afghanistan than for Canadian troops.

Public doubts about Harper linger, said David Docherty, a political scientist and dean of arts at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo.

"There still seems to be a slight unease. He's been unable to capitalize on the problems that Dion is having."

Lack of a credibility on climate change is seen as one of the biggest problems.

Sudan man forced to 'marry' goat.

(From the BBC)

A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal.
The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders.

They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi.

"We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said.

Mr Alifi, of Hai Malakal in Upper Nile State, told the Juba Post newspaper that he heard a loud noise around midnight on 13 February and immediately rushed outside to find Mr Tombe with his goat.

"When I asked him: 'What are you doing there?', he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up."

Mr Alifi then called elders to decide how to deal with the case.

"They said I should not take him to the police, but rather let him pay a dowry for my goat because he used it as his wife," Mr Alifi told the newspaper.

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Wrap up the women to look like walking mail boxes and then they lust after goats. The religion of sick perverts.

Librano$ here:

Ex-Ministers Say They Followed Rules Over RCMP Pension Fund

Two former Liberal cabinet ministers say they followed all the rules when an RCMP whistleblower came to them in 2004 with complaints about the handling of the RCMP pension fund
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Librano$ + Taliban Jack here:
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Calls For Defence Minister Ouster Over Afghan Detainees
Canada's opposition parties were demanding changes to the Afghanistan detainee transfer agreement and calling for the Defence Minister's resignation following accounts of gruesome torture of prisoners in Kandahar ...-

http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/

Armed Students Stopped Gunman at Virginia Tech 5 Years Ago (Before guns were banned)

Plus... I make the case that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees us the right to gun ownership, in accordance with section seven of the Charter.

It is clear. We have the right to security of the person and cannot be deprived of this right. It's in the Charter. The ban on handguns is unconstitutional.

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2007/04/armed-students-stopped-gunman-at.html

Here's a beautiful definition sent to me by a friend.

"Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

Hey, loyal readers of SDA and lurking Liebranos:
Want to feel good for the whole day?

1. Create a folder on your desktop and name it 'Stephane Dion'.
2. Whenever you want a pick-me-up, delete the folder
3. Windows will ask "Are you sure you want to delete Stephane Dion?"
4. Click yes
5. Windows will show Stephane Dion being thrown in the dumpster.
6. Guaranteed to bring a smile to conservative and lieberal alike.

" [Prime Minister] Harper accused Opposition parties of caring more about Taliban prisoners than Canadian troops when the issue came up in the Commons."

Taliban MayDion suggested captured Taliban Islamist murderers/prisoners be brought from Afghanistan to Canada for holding; at your expense.

MayDion Liberals: soft on terrorists? Not now: they have crossed a line: MayDion Liberals are Taliban sympathizers; aiding and abetting Canada's enemy.

Down with Taliban MayDion and the Taliban.
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Tories urged to change Afghan prisoner deal
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"Their call was echoed by Liberal leader Stephane Dion, who also repeated his demand for Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor's resignation.

"We need to find a solution; it cannot be the one we have now," said Dion, who at first suggested Taliban prisoners be brought to Canada, then reconsidered the idea as unrealistic."
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2007/04/23/4114150-cp.html

No power in blogs? After reading 'an astonishing act of sabotage' on SDM, I sent a copy of a 'letter to the editor' to Charles Adler regarding the NDP 'outing' negotiations between Canada and the United Arab Emirates for military assistance in Afghanistan.

Low and behold, Adler had NDP defense critic Dawn Black on today, ripping her and her party a new one over their lack of support for the Canadian military. Seems she's upset that the howitzers and self-propelled guns they use are so big that it's just not fair to the 'insurgents'.

She'd rather have our guys fighting block by block with Lee Enfields rather than 'escalate the war' by lobbing explosive shells into their mountain redoubts.

The pen is indeed mightier than the sword - so don't be afraid to wield yours!

POW: Prisoner of War: A Hero's Testament.
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Remembering Admiral Stockdale
[...]

The recent episode of the British hostages in Iran brought to mind the late Adm. James Stockdale. He spent seven years in Hoa Lo Prison, a.k.a. the Hanoi Hilton. For his valor and leadership while captive he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Though tortured 15 times, though kept in leg irons for two years, though held in solitary confinement for four, he would not aid his captors. Refusing to be paraded in front of foreign journalists, he slashed his scalp with a razor blade and beat his face with a wooden stool, rendering impossible that disgrace. Few are capable of such feats of will — Admiral Stockdale was a student of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus — and we could probably not have expected such bravery from the British sailors and marines. Yet we must remember the standards our greatest warriors have set if we are to prevail in this and coming wars.

New York Sun editor Seth Lipsky writes to note that Admiral Stockdale is "the great example" and provide us a link to the Sun's editorial on the occasion of Admiral Stockdale's death in 2005. Here it is:
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http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017406.php

If the Liberals were in the real world they'd be calling for the resignation of their incompetent leader, Stephane Dion after his inane performance today in HOC.

He and Taliban Jack are all atwitter over the possible abuse of Tally prisoners, the ones who set land mines to kill and maim our troops and behead real live foreign journalists in public.

DION OFFERED AS AN OPTION WE COULD BRING THE PRISONERS TO CANADA, THESE INHUMAN WRETCHES!!
With our Rights we'd have them for life, if we sent them back they'd be tortured!!!!!

Alienated:
"5. Windows will show Stephane Dion being thrown in the dumpster.
6. Guaranteed to bring a smile to conservative and lieberal alike."

...not before it crashes your system first.

"Hey, where'd all my hard drive and cache go?"

Heard on cbc radio tonite,that it was the LIBS.that signed the deal to hand over the prisoners,so what are they yelling abpout now??Oh yeah,they're Liberals

great summation of the facts about Israel and her struggle for survival (ET probably would not agree)

Israel at 59 - Facing Unpleasant Facts in the Middle East
By Steven Plaut
Haifa, Israel

http://www.frontpagemag.com/blog/index.asp

Manitoba's having an election and our local media is getting in the first licks!
Sexist Invention!

Is there anything anywhere re gore in Regina, and how many went.

I watch this all day:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070423-5.wm.v.html

Highlights include the 8:02, 14:31, 20:29, 20:51 and 22:30 marks...

Just wish to send some news from New Brunswick.

U.N.B. is suppose to sell some beautiful area to big companies.

Go have a look. Maybe you can give the readers some pointers?

Thanks

Here's the link -

http://oldmaison.blogspot.com/2007/04/unb-and-city-of-fredericton-all-set-to.html

How about an 'amnesty policy' for the climate fear-mongers ??

If they give it up now, they will not be included in any upcoming suits.

Of course Gore et al will have to refund their ill-gotten $$millions.

Here's something I came across - looking up some information on Wilipedia. The topic is ancient Egypt: "Along the Nile, in the 11th millennium BC, a grain-grinding culture using the earliest type of sickle blades had been replaced by another culture of hunters, fishers, and gathering peoples using stone tools. Evidence also indicates human habitation in the southwestern corner of Egypt, near the Sudan border, before 8000 BC. Geological evidence and computer climate modeling studies suggest that natural climate changes around 8000 BC began to desiccate the extensive pastoral lands of Egypt, eventually forming the Sahara (c.2500 BC). Early tribes in the region naturally tended to aggregate close to the Nile River where they developed a settled agricultural economy and more centralized society. There is evidence of pastoralism and cultivation of cereals in the East Sahara in the 7th millennium BC."

Funny I don't recall hearing from paleo-meteorologists on the great global warming 'debate'.

Given entire civilizations are moved around by the weather, I didn't think large man-made greenhouse gas emissions did such a job on the environment 12,000 years ago. Maybe their civilization fully enacted the Kyoto Protocol in 3 years...

Congrats hardboiled you discovered the end of the ice age and the beginning of the Holocene.

"Funny I don't recall hearing from paleo-meteorologists on the great global warming 'debate'."

Yes hardboiled climatologists are quite aware of this?

I visited Rabble today. Check out what the clowns are saying with regards to our military and "war crimes".

http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=009377

I really enjoyed the smack-down by a commenter named Webgear. Got awfully quiet after his/her post. And Webgear... thank you for your service.

Off to take a shower.

Not convinced? Check out this scorcher:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070418-3.wm.v.html

Highlights include the 5:47, 18:35, 19:48 and 22:53 marks...

This is the link for that 3 bar graph green on black at the top of my screen.
You can see it in the auto screen shot on my blog.
http://www.tucows.com/preview/220564

Called *Cool Beans* It shows you:

[1] CPU pressure use
[2] Room left on your hard disk
[3] Virtual memory room

If the top bar goes red and hard over, you know when your computer is working through something. = TG