Neocitron is good, two packets and a shot of rum and you will not know your name, let alone that you have a cold!..

Stay away from the cherry stuff though..ghastly stuff, that....

Coming from good Ukranian country,all the old 'babba's' swear by garlic...whole cloves!No danger of spreading the germs around after taking this 'medication' no one can get close.Be well Kate.

Oh, sorry to hear that Kate. Garlic, soak in a sauna full of garlic, it will open up all your pores and flush the bad bugs, not great smelling, even your dogs will ignore you for days, but it works, also a big shot of rye while you are soaking. Neocitron is fake medicine. Get better!

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your
delectation, here's Mr. Don Rickles being interviewed by the inimitable Mr. Tom Snyder:

Part 1 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-tQWWJ9Nxw
Part 2 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKt0TjiaScE
Part 3 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJmCMT6wQF4

From all of us here in the studio, Kate,
we wish you our best get well quick wishes.

neo citran and vodka, sshsshhh Vitruvius

It's NeocitrAn out here in B.C., but I am sure it is the same product. My dad chews a clove of garlic when he starts to feel sick, and swears by it. I tried it once -- never again. Those prairie boys grew up tough it seems. I would rather be sick.
Vitruvius -- I never liked Tom Snyder much. Loved Don Rickles though. Nice link. Thanks.

I don't know who that "mound of sound" blogger is, but in the comments to the post Kate linked to, he suggests Louise Arbour ride in on her camel - er, white horse - to take over as Liberal leader. He's dead serious, too.

If you like Rickles but not so much Snyder, and yet don't mind
Charlie Rose, Desert, then there's an interview here you might
like, on SDA Late Nite Radio for Tuesday, December 4, 2007:

www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/007563.html#c218733

Two Extra Strength Tylenol and One Advil Cold and Sinus, take them together in the morning and 20-40 minutes later, you're functioning. Does nothing for the cold, only treats the symptoms.

....short of that, bats blood boiled with leaves of a dwarf crab apple that grows in a cemetery and then add.....can't tell you any more the leathery winged and scaly creature is talking to me about revealing secrets.

Get well soon. Try not to get too tired out, it'll come back with a vengance.

Best regards,
Pat

OK Kate - here it is. For what you have this works every time. Take Neo-citran, vit C, Cold FX (or as my mother-in-law would say - Cold Fed Ex). Take all that faithfully for 7 days. Or.... you could take nothing and your cold/flu should be gone in about a week.

'Stephane Dion' - a great punchline! Oh wait.... There has to be a joke first?

Is oil in bubble territory ??

I was told that at $50 ... and $75 .. and $100

Oil has doubled in price in a short time period.

Pension funds, hedge funds, ect are pouring mucho cash into oil futures.

Hard to believe - in 1998 oil was less than $10

Huge oil find in the Falkland Islands. Per capita income may surpase Kuwait !?

Best region for upside potential -- Sask ?

Regarding the US recession as it pertains to the housing crisis.

The crisis is that a lot of people bought houses with money they didn't have and would never be able to keep the house in any case. These people who would continue as they did, to continue taking consumer loans against the rising equity. What did they do with money? Take vacations, buy new cars and big screen TVs.

I read on a Breitbart link that a very large number of the home loan processors were of course poor black and low end white folks. These are people who are simply to stupid or irresponsible to be home owners at the best of times. That is why the built trailers.

I remain convinced that you cannot help the poor by enabling them. Some will smarten up and take advantage of the copious opportunities in North America to work and save and plan and stop buying every shiny object they see.

Most folks with brains or at least some common sense will survive this dip and the people who thought they could have a free house can go back and live in their cars and trailers where they were before.

Who was it that said "the poor will always be with us". People in the US and Canada are poor mostly because they are ignorant. We should seriously refrain from rewarding such stupidity. Our financial institutions took huge advantage of stupid people and now stupid governments are tossing out buckets of other people's money to try to bail out (reward) the losers and the greedy.

I will tell you what is going to make a lot folks a lot poorer and more desperate ... the idiotic folly of taxing the shit out everyone to save the planet. Next to the Islamic terrorists, the Greenies are biggest threat to the security and well-being of our nations.

Ron in Kelowna,

If there is an oil bubble it's made of carbon steel. It will not burst for a very long time if ever. Things have changed. There is China now. There is India now. The demand for oil is not only the domain of the USA any more. The train has left station and it ain't comin back.

The tech bubble of the 90s was an American market thing. The housing bubble was created to replace the tech bubble burst. Now there is an energy bubble, but as stated this a bubble that will hard to burst. The rest of the world is becoming more prosperous and they are building cars and houses faster than ants built an ant ant hill.

Yes, our world is now swarming with consuming pismires.

Trudeau stated once long ago on a Xmas interview on CTV that we are going to become a "society of less". It took a long time to come around, but on that point (and it may be the only one) he was right.

Regarding equalization. Today I found this site:

http://www.canadawithoutquebec.ca/

It is good to see some anglo people promoting quebec separation. That will solve the equalization problem. Quebec will stop sending 60 billions+ per year to Ottawa.

This picture is scarey:

http://www.eyeweekly.com/city/scrollingeye/article/20289

ron in kelowna:

Oil is not busting up any time soon.

Higher demand out of India, China, etc. will prevent that. Further the subprime has helped to keep the US dollar low relative to other commodities.

The silver lining is that US exports for manufactured goods will pick up handsomely. In some ways I think the US dollar decline has been engineered for long term competitive purposes.

Golds and resources near term should do well as liquidity is pumped into the system. Eventually, when discipline returns to the mortgage system in the US we will see a dollar recovery but that is some ways off as yet. The doom and gloomsters are correct that some pain will be felt. However, the pain will be localized to US banking and housing sectors. The US export sector should gradually be picking up the slackening in the housing areas.

IE. Intel should be eating other chip producers lunch with the decline in US dollar. The US has always held out its manufacturing expertise to the world that will not likely diminish anytime soon.
Those goods are now on a foreign exchange basis 30% cheaper, which would indicate a significant uptick in the US export sector going forward.

Cheers

aithest quebecois seperatist:

the sooner the better

Investing in oil?

http://www.coskata.com/

GM and other big names invest in Coskata, why?

There is a 4 slide video showing the process. Most efficient so far. $1 per gallon. = TG

"It is good to see some anglo people promoting quebec separation. That will solve the equalization problem. Quebec will stop sending 60 billions+ per year to Ottawa."

Talk about ungrateful. Quebec has been a net winner under equalization for decades. Tens of billions sent by Canadians out of the goodness of their hearts to Quebec. And what do we get in return? 90% of Quebeckers sincerely believe that *they* subsidize *us*. Newfoundlanders believe this too.

So what's the point? Ship billions to people who hate you and deny the very fact that you've just given them billions of dollars without so much as a thank you? A nation of ill mannered beggardly ingrates?

The only problem I have with Stephen Harper as PM is that it delays the inevitable. Canada is not a country.

Nice job, baby boomers. You've raised the skankiest and most veneral diseased generation in the history of mankind:

CHICAGO (AP) - At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease

www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8VBB9D00&show_article=1

Speaking of By-elections, Martha Hall Findlay is calling for HELP. Should we read anything into that?
Are some folks around Toronto WAKING UP?

get well soon Kate, your already missed!

The Lib commenters on that link are desperate....wondering why 'the scandals' don't stick, even the 'Mulroney-Schrieber' stuff doesn't stick.
Duh!!
For them it's all about mudslinging and 'who' should be at the helm. They are so desperate they want the Cretin or Martin back!Dion is only part of the problem, according to them.
What eludes the Libs is the fact that there has been absolutely NO POLICY for Canada that has come from the Liberals...it's all about smashing PMSH and the CPC.They offer nothing to Canada.It's all about them and their COTU complex.No wonder they do well in Toronto.

Kate: Don't forget chicken soup!

If that doesn't work, just skip straight to the rum: lots of it and you'll forget you're sick. :-)

Nice job, baby boomers. You've raised the skankiest and most veneral diseased generation in the history of mankind.

Posted by: fdsafsaf at March 12, 2008 7:11 AM

Actually, that would be Gen X's kids if you were to use your brain. Oops, bad assumption there.

I do wonder though, why it would concern you. Perhaps this isn't the only trolling you do?

Phil ...I was thinking chicken soup too, but the best part about chicken soup is having it served.
Kate you are private about that but I hope you get some TLC with that chicken soup.

Chantal Hebert has pretty good column today.Sounds like Dion/Libs have some 'splainin to do over this RESP business,and where the money will come from.(link at NN)There is another column on same site re same.I think that cooler heads,and some more solid analysis is starting to show that this is just a Lib.stunt,and not thot out too well.

Some criticisms of atheism:
http://www.darrellepp.com/?p=96

atheist quebecois separatiste:

60 billion out, 68 billion (at least - EI needs to be included) back in. Net -8 billion.

You guys don;t have a prayer on your own if your math is this bad.

...

Yes there is a bubble in oil. It will fall back somewhat as the US dollar recovers some of its value.

And it will slowly lose air over the next several years as huge new reserves are brought on-line all over the world. Really we have only been looking for oil onshore up until now but the wolrd is 65% covered by h2O so there is lots to find.

As well the oilsands production methods will be revolutionized by new technology decreasing costs, timelines to production and increasing reserves by an order of magnitude or more.

All of this is predicated on improved political conditions over the next decade in places like Venezuela, Nigeria, Iran etc. I am optomistic on most of those fronts.

Jim Travers of the Star writes:

" Conservatives were as skilfully swift in positioning Dion as an impotent environmentalist as they were framing him as a weak leader."

No, Mr. Pro-Liberal MSM pundit, Dion's position as an impotent environmentalist and weak leader isn't due to the Conservatives. It's due to himself.

I went to an all candidates meeting in Toronto Centre last night. The St. Lawrence Theatre takes over 500, and it was packed. At first I thought I'd wandered into a British SitCom.

There was a troop of medallion bedecked grannies singing Songs of Peace.

Various impoverished and earnest activists, looking like Bertie Worster Without Jeeves - handing out flyers insisting that a basic income and house are a Human Right (particularly if both are provided by the Working Taxpayer. A deeply committed 9/11 Denier (It was Bush Who Did It). Others Against The Imperialist USA. Unreal.

Rae, on stage, is smug, smooth and polished. He deals with his Years of Deficit by removing it from criticism..by beginning his comments by a joking reference to it. That acknowledgment, which turns it into a joke, removes it from the table. How does he deal with Dion?

He deftly turns the tables. He accused both the NDP and CPC of having brochures that depict Dion in unflattering images, as weak, as.. The NDP countered that the images weren't altered. Rae then acknowledged Dion as a 'nerd' but continued that it wasn't 'nice' to focus on such personal things.
This ignores that he defines the CPC as The American Republican Party.

I got the impression - but I'm possibly biased as it is actually my opinion - that the Liberal Party is acknowledging Dion as a nerd and leaving him outside to play on his own in the sandbox. They can't do anything about him. They dare not have an election now (to get rid of him) because their loss in seats would be far more disastrous to the Party.
So, they'll let Dion make a fool of himself, with his claims that 'we can't have an election now because it's snowing'. Or, 'because it's Easter'. But they won't let him have an election (which he wants) because of that disastrous seat loss.

Therefore, they'll put up with him, and even, isolate themselves more and more from him. Token acknowledgments as Our Leader. But, I'm saying the Real Leader is going to be Rae. And the image he's going to present will be Experienced, Wise, Smooth and above all, Genial, Friendly, Open. Above all- open. In contrast to Harper's shyness and 'coldness'. Rae is going to be The Peoople's Man.

Their other strategy is to define the CPC and Harper as Corrupt. Their tactic is endless accusations. All unfounded. But they don't care; the Public Image promoted by their faithful MSM friends is all that matters.

As for colds, I think that the esteemed values of Cold FX (and I swear by it), and Astragalus and garlic - are all viable BEFORE the cold finds its happy home in you. Once you're ill, I think it's time and chicken soup (homemade of course). Get well, kate.

doctor's advice
REST
lots of fluids
heat (get a sweat going under the covers)

AEI, 12 March 2008, 5:00 p.m. EST

What if Reagan Had Not Run and the Soviet Union Still Existed?

The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Two Speeches That Changed History

In two powerful speeches that took place twenty-five years ago this March, President Ronald Reagan dealt what would ultimately prove to be lethal blows to the moral and material foundations of the Soviet Union. On March 8, 1983, Reagan described the Soviet Union as an “evil empire” and as “the focus of evil in the modern world,” and fifteen days later, on March 23, Reagan unveiled his vision for the research, development, and ultimate deployment of a missile defense shield that would one day end the vulnerability of America and her allies to Soviet nuclear attack. While both speeches were widely ridiculed at the time, they are today rightly hailed as having made decisive contributions to bringing about the eventual dissolution of the Soviet Union a little less than nine years later. Join AEI senior fellow Newt Gingrich as he reflects on the lessons these two speeches hold today for presidential leadership and U.S. national security and why it is that only one person, Ronald Reagan, could have possibly delivered these two speeches, which so powerfully contributed to ending the Cold War.

Links to text and audio of the Reagan speeches here.

"My feelings are hurt, if you must know, all that effort, thought and good intentions.”"

The left's sickness from da ex-Judge. Whiner Gomery.

Da Liberal Gomery, aka da whitewasher, who exonerated AdScam Martin, Jr.

Next thing he'll want is an apology.
...-
http://tinyurl.com/3y7shv (jacksnewswatch)

F. A. Hayek, Spontaneous Order, and the Mirage of Social Justice

American Enterprise Institute, Bradley Lecture Series

For the full multimedia experience, go to the link above and click on "Video" under "Event Materials"

Audio podcast at http://tinyurl.com/27vnvp

Transcript/summary not yet available.

Web Search, EU-Style

The European Union is putting up $152 million to fund a search engine that will compete with Google.
Who was that snickering in the back of the room?

OK, maybe it was me. I can’t help it. I’m picturing an EU-approved search engine, and I can’t stop giggling.

EUgle! Bwa ha ha!

Commenter:

"It's just like Europe.
GPS wasn't good enough; they're developing their own. They thought they could get industry to help finance it, but companies know a waste of money when the see it, and want funding.
Same thing will happen here. And then, there will be all the political problems. Germany won't let any info on the Nazis, France will insist it be equally in French; the Swiss will want it in all their languages; and it will be a huge money sink that won't be done before we have quantum computers.
Meanwhile, instead of taxing and spending government money, the US will put the money to productive use."
http://tinyurl.com/2zdo8m (LGF)

The view that Quebec provides more to the federation than it receives, is a basic Quebec Urban Myth. These people insist that 'if only' they didn't pay anything to the federation, they'd be Perfect, and they consider that the federation effectively steals their money.

They totally, completely, ignore that this isn't a valid scenario. That it's a myth. That their federal taxes do not cover their expenditures that are covered by the federal govt.

These include funding for their many universities (they have more than Ontario has despite having a lower population) and remember, their tuition fees are the lowest in the N. American hemisphere and are available to any foreigner as long as they are francophone. 'Canadians' have to pay higher fees.
These include funding their transportation, roads, bridges, etc, etc. Subsidizing their industries. Setting up new industries since so many won't work in Union-Heavy Quebec. Subsidizing their welfare, their unemployment. Quebec federal taxes simply don't cover their costs.

But, the Quebec Myth is that any and all money sent to Ottawa is pure and simple theft. They feel no obligations to the Rest of Canada; they consider that any monies coming to them is theirs by Inherent Right. And they absolutely refuse to acknowledge that they receive billions more than they send to Ottawa.

And then, when others in the ROC support their leaving, support their 'going on their own' - they feel offended! Heck, the sooner the better. We in the ROC, will save a huge bundle of money by not having to support The Quebec Socialist Lifestyle. I wonder who they'd go to, to get those billions they don't have? France? The USA? I have a feeling neither country would jump at the 'chance' of subsidizing and supporting Quebec's insistence on More Money, More Money.

The new road to serfdom
[...]

"The new Left that emerged via Brundtland, Rio, and Kyoto has thus co-opted a huge coalition of self-interested or naive supporters, who are attracted by the prospect of preening as saviours of the planet. Together they are threatening to carry the globe down a new road to serfdom."

Peter Foster, Financial Post http://tinyurl.com/ywqklj

Where is Mao Stlong in this?

"Rio was organized by Brundtland commissioner Maurice Strong, a long-time committed Canadian socialist who was the strategic mastermind of the new environmental Left. From Rio emerged the processes that led to the Kyoto accord."

So Martha is calling for help. Didn't she step down for Belinda. What bribe did she take to do that.

details on gov. spitzerswallow.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0310082spitzer2.html

The CBC/MSM Liberals have added necrophilia* to their menus. Sickos.
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"The Cadman affair was also jumped on by the cast of This Hour Has 22 Minutes."

Frustrated Liberals poke fun at Cadman scandal
http://tinyurl.com/257zqt (sun)

*an erotic attraction to corpses. (dict.com)

some oops projections from only 3 years ago. kick out the stool on a few of these assumptions and you get what we have now.

http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/cooke/2005/0728.html

Gord Tulk - 65% of the world is covered by water but 65% of the best sedimentary basins are not. the most prospective ones remaining arent covered by water unless you count the ice.

Re equalization....

I think it is time that the shell game ends to prevent silly things like the examples cited.

The money Ontario has poured into equalization, I am not forgetting Alberta I just live in Ontario, has driven me crazy for years. At the end of the day Ontario didnt get much out of it. When I think about Newfoundland it pisses me off. So I am happy to end equalization and let the provinces keep their oil and gas revenue....My bet, Alberta will do some reasonable things with the surplus and Newfoundland will blow it like a sailor on shore leave.

More importanly I want my Ontario taxes lower or at least my roads fixed in a reasonable time...this winter is getting tough on them.

Time for equalization to end. You want to help PEI....have it join Newfoundland. Quebec will always be the problem. But it might help surface the issue that they are actually paid something.

cure for a cold, I dont recommend boiling oil but a simpler version. but the referances are old.it uses the bodies defence mechanism with a little enhancement.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,742341,00.html

dont do this if you have heart trouble or a weak bladder.

take a couple of ASA , wrap yourself in a couple of green garbage bags, a couple of blankets , and a down sleeping bag, drink two pots of hot tea and elevate your temperature to 107 plus for about half an hour.

ET
I think you are right on in your estimation.
Rae will be the 'Obama-wannabee'...for all the masses who are not interested in policy...they just want the fluff.
I will continue to hope that Ontario will remember the Rea-days...a socialists dream, a hardwoking tax-payers nightmare. Rae has never received the criticism that he deserved for leaving Ontario in a mess, just as Harris has never received the thanks he deserves for getting Ontario out of the mess.
So Rae called Dion a nerd...will that make MSM?

cal2: the potential fields that lie along the subsea continental edges are huge - the falklands 60BB reserve is just one of several most of them are in ice-free areas or, like the orphan basin off of NL, are in water deep enough that make the berg risk much easier to deal with.

The global oilsands reserves that can be unlocked by technolgies like this one - http://www.petrobank.com/hea-thaitechnology.html -
will unlock reserves that run into the trillions of barrels for (far) less cost and effort than SAGD, etc.

The key element is time - things like ill-concieved royalty and carbon tax measures could lengthen the timeline to production considerably.

Who was it that said "the poor will always be with us".

John 12
1 Jesus, therefore, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

2 So they made Him a supper there, and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.

3 Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

4 But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to betray Him, said,

5 "Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor people?"

6 Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.

7 Therefore Jesus said, "Let her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial.

8 "For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me."

That "pound of mound" is one truly lame site.
It's encouraging; knowing, this is the opposition
"If we bring Louise Arbour back to Canada and make her our idol of worship she would be the first elected woman prime minister."

The comments section is fun though.

Kate - molasses and vinegar. Go easy on the former.

bluetech/ET:

It is an interesting theory - sort of like the neutron bomb play - they are trying to kill off SD without destroying any of the party structure.

There are two key impediments:

1. Iggy - the party is still split and Iggy is working just as hard if not harder than Rae to succeed SD.

2. The irrelevance of the LP in Que. Unless they think that the pop changes are sufficient that they think they can win with the urban vote in Que (15 seats?) and toronto and vancouver. (it is ironic that they may be the first federal party to turn its back on QUE) Doubtful, and twits like trudeau won't let them do it quietly.

And of course no one in the party has an answer to Rae's ontario legacy. With liberal Dalton working on meltdown #2 - the echoes of Rae's folly will become increasingly poigniant. As anyone who spend time talking to ontarions can attest, the memory of Rae has hardly faded at all.

And Rae's laughing it off will be about as effective as Ted making jokes that he no longer drinks and drives.

CTV says one thing and the opposite of it?!...

in the Business section you can read this headline,

Oil prices fall as U.S. stockpiles rise

and in the World section this headline,

U.S. oil prices hit record highs as demand grows

Oil prices fall and hit record high at the same time ???!!!....
I supposed doing anti-USA propaganda 24/7 can get confusing...

I am no expert in this, but if suddenly millions of houses in the USA are being sold for peannuts, doesn't that mean millions of people will be able to afford a house and will have money left to spend on other things, which in turn will help the economy?

And millions of people will buy those houses for peannuts, then sell them with a profit, which is money they will spend which on turn will help the economy?

The "equalization clash" article is a good one. I have felt for quite some time that the equalization clause in the Constitution will be the undoing of Canada.

Although I feel that equalization is a bad idea in principle because it is simply a socialist idea, I concede that, in certain circumstances, it does not have to be disastorous. The situation where equalization will do the least damage is one where the provinces will the most population are also the ones with the most money - the "have" provinces. As long as this situation holds, the provinces that are the main determiners of federal policy will the main payers of that same policy.

Once the less populated provinces become the "have" provinces, and the populated provinces become the "have-not" provinces, those who pay for federal services disproportionally are no longer the same as those who determine federal policy. In addition, those who determine federal policy now have the ability to make someone else pay for their policies. This will eventually end in the populous provinces requesting policies they would not have requested had they had to fund those same policies.

The transfer of wealth to the Western provinces in a country such as Canada that has an equalization program will continue to put stress upon the Dominion itself. If the transfer of wealth is a long-term phenomenom, then the only question to be asked is: will the transfer of populations to the Western provinces happen at a quick enough rate to allow thoem to become the most populous provinces before the stresses of equalization programs tear apart the Dominion?

It seems to me that populations migrate (decades) at a much slower rate than does wealth (years).

The coming battles over equalization are just beginning. Something has to give. Either:
1) Equalization has to end, or
2) The populations of Western provinces must exceed that of the rest of Canada, or
3) The Dominion will end

Paul Tuns: Human rights tribunals –
curb ’em or close ’em

http://theinterim.ca/2008/feb/12humanrights.html

""The issue goes beyond gays and Muslims. As Borovoy has noted, it is impossible to draft speech regulations that silence certain (perceived) odious views without endangering all speech.
(...)
But if curbing the power of human rights commissions is difficult or impossible, then they should be shut down completely.
(...)
Every day that the human rights tribunals continue to operate under their existing mandates, our freedoms are imperiled. If a Canadian citizen can be hauled before an HRC to defend his right to express himself, he is not truly free. The survival of Canadian democracy is at stake.""

This article capsulized the issue articulately...it should be faxed to every sitting MP.

calculating an early easter plus a calculator site. from an email someone send me.

Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20). This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.

Here's the interesting info. This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our population have ever seen it this early (95 years old or above!!!!!). And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier! Here's the facts:

1) The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if you're 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!!!!!!!!).

2) The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818.

So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!!!!!!

http://www.ely.anglican.org/cgi-bin/easter

Why Good People Believe Bad Things

Unconscious Anti-Semitism, Anti-Westernism and the Mainstream Media

How do people who are not anti-Semitic come to behave, think and speak in anti-Semitic ways? Why do well intentioned people who enjoy all the advantages of living in free and prosperous countries come to question and even revile the protectors of their good fortune? It has a lot to do with the way the media presents the world to us...

gord tulk - if the memory of Rae won't fade, then why is he going to be elected on March 17th (I hope I'm wrong, but..).
I see Rae, as bluetech suggests - an Obama type.

In fact, my experience of that meeting last night, and admittedly it was only one meeting, was that it was HARRIS who was defined as evil, while Rae was defined only as a 'spender', but, heck, that's life, that's life.
The crowd seemed heavily NDP and Liberal and Green. I was surprised at the numbers; I got the sense that it was the same.. who always come...

Rae is being supported by the LLL (Leaside Lexus Lemmings) who are well-off, with govt jobs (civil service, health care, teachers) and who want this type of life with its unions, benefits, pensions to continue without any individual responsibility. He's being supported by young people - that Obama idealism -

As for Ignatieff, my view is that he wanted an election now, to prevent Rae coming in. It might be hard for Rae to win in a general election but he'll win that by-election. I'm going to suggest that Ignatieff will leave soon back to Harvard or other think tank. There is no role or future for him in that Liberal Party. And, having to sit beside Dion and rant at the CPC can't be pleasant.

I think the BackRoom Boys of the Liberal Party have made a decision. The front room floor chose Dion - and they had no choice but to see if he'd work out. He hasn't. They daren't lose seats in an election. They have to rapidly insert a squeeky clean, genial, smiling, welcoming person - and that's Rae's Role.

Not Igatieff; he's seen, now, as too cerebral and angry. Rae is The Pillsbury Man, he's Obama, he's kind and understanding and wants everyone to Love Each Other and Get Along.

Quebec. You're right. They're in trouble in Quebec. But, they're going after Ontario and in particular, Toronto. They'll be going afte Montreal and Vancouver.

In fact, I'm suggesting that Rae's focus will be on the CITIES. He's going to be the Minister of Cities - something the CPC should have set up LONG AGO. The Liberals are going to focus on seats in Montreal and leave the rest of Quebec to the CPC and Bloc.

Ted Kennedy no longer drinks and drives? So what, he's still a Senator. And Rae's laughing off the deficit will be viewed in a similar fashion. He'll blame Harris, he'll blame the federal govt; he'll say he's for the People.

Watch. My predictions:
1) Dion is going to be treated as the Liberal Nerd and left out to play by himself in the sandbox.
2) No election if the Liberals can help it until 2009.
3) Meantime, the Liberals will fling madeup scandal after scandal at the CPC, using their buddies the MSM, to set up an image of the CPC as corrupt.
4) Rae will be presented as the Genial, Wise, Kind, Open to All, Guy. The de facto leader, A Liberal Party that welcomes ALL (and that includes the ethnic vote).
5) Rae will be presented as the Minister for Cities and the focus will be on the vote in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver.
6) Ignatieff will be offered some high academic or other position and will leave.

If the NDP have any smarts, they'll call an election soon, to prevent this Liberal Agenda. Harper may try for an election, but the Liberals and Bloc will try to vote against it. He needs the NDP's assistance.

From Bourque: "Sexaddict Governor Spent $80K on Hookers". Hmmm. Perhaps it's not the kid's summer camp that costs all that coin?

Further to the anniversary of the Star Wars speech:

(Via CSP) Radar Tech Could Shift Military Might

[P]eople watching the evolution of radar saw another step for a system that could have a dramatic effect on future world affairs, from American missile-tracking platforms in the Czech Republic to the ship-based defense of the Taiwan Straits.

The new radar system, called digital beamforming, could become a game-changing technology that may help defeat an overwhelming attack on U.S. warships by missiles. It could also answer one of the chief complaints about ballistic missile defense systems -- that decoys or other countermeasures could easily hide a warhead and spoof interceptors. If placed on satellites, new spy and environmental monitoring missions become possible from orbit.

cal2: the potential fields that lie along the subsea continental edges are huge - the falklands 60BB reserve is just one of several most of them are in ice-free areas or, like the orphan basin off of NL, are in water deep enough that make the berg risk much easier to deal with.

The global oilsands reserves that can be unlocked by technolgies like this one - http://www.petrobank.com/hea-thaitechnology.html -
will unlock reserves that run into the trillions of barrels for (far) less cost and effort than SAGD, etc.

The key element is time - things like ill-concieved royalty and carbon tax measures could lengthen the timeline to production considerably

I guess what I was saying is, just because 65% of the world is covered in water it doesnt mean that we have only looked at 35% of the potential. most of the remaining reserves are along the contineal edges which are less than 10% of the water covered area. the last really hardly explored basin is the antarctic which should hold some analogous reserves to the bass strait. the falkland rise has been known as a potential basin for a long time. I saw a subsea map on it over 20 years go. there will be bugger all out in the deep pacific or the mid atlantic. subduction basins like the gulf coast still have potential but we are talking 2 miles of water and 4 miles of drilling over that. a few of the touted big finds have been less than expected "thunderdog"
makes the tarsands as a very viable option if you can access it.

my theory is oil only occurs in three remaining places. where there is a bad environment, bad location or bad government. no where else.

The grand ethanol hoax: Corporate welfare.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams031208.php3

Ethanol contains water that distillation cannot remove. As such, it can cause major damage to automobile engines not specifically designed to burn ethanol. The water content of ethanol also risks pipeline corrosion and thus must be shipped by truck, rail car or barge. These shipping methods are far more expensive than pipelines.

Ethanol is 20 to 30 percent less efficient than gasoline, making it more expensive per highway mile. It takes 450 pounds of corn to produce the ethanol to fill one SUV tank. That's enough corn to feed one person for a year. Plus, it takes more than one gallon of fossil fuel — oil and natural gas — to produce one gallon of ethanol. After all, corn must be grown, fertilized, harvested and trucked to ethanol producers — all of which are fuel-using activities. And, it takes 1,700 gallons of water to produce one gallon of ethanol. On top of all this, if our total annual corn output were put to ethanol production, it would reduce gasoline consumption by 10 or 12 percent.

Read it all...

Something about opening your mouth and removing all doubt...

A Mo museum. Wonder how they'll do that with no pictures of the lecherous pedophile? And if they sanitize his genocides, asassinations, rapes, piracy, etc., what will they have left to exhibit? Thousands of idiots kissing a stone, cutting themselves and bleeding all over the place, I guess. Oh yeah, and tortured animals at eid. Maybe a head chopping sword or two. And the women's Casper outfits.

"Dubai to set up Muhammad museum"
BBC News, Dubai

Dubai has been a bridge between East and West in commercial terms.

The Gulf emirate of Dubai has said it is to set up the world's first museum dedicated to the Prophet Muhammad.
It aims to shed light on his life in 7th Century Arabia, as well as his legacy for the world's 1.3bn Muslims.

There will also be a wing explaining the Muslim pilgrimage, or Hajj, and another for the other pillars of Islam.

Dubai, more usually known for its burgeoning commerce and tourism, is hoping to provide a bridge between the Islamic world and other countries.

The Prophet Muhammad Museum will be the first project undertaken by the Dubai Authority for Culture and Arts, which was established last week by the emirate in an attempt to widen its global appeal.

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Spread light on 7th century Arabia? Dubai Authority for Culture and Arts? Oh, pleaaase.

I have long thought that the equalization boondoggle is an area where we can cut out the middleman, in this case the feds. If Kaybec needs money to finance programs, let them go, cap in hand preferably, to say, a business oriented ministry in the AB gov't, bringing their well thought out business plan with them. If the items in the plan meet with approval, a loan is offered, with solid repayment timetables. If it is a socialist wish list, deny the money! Easy!

Some people have estimated that there are 10 million empty houses in the US right now.

Add another 1.8 million this yr and 1.8 million for the next yr. Which probably means house prices will go down for the next 2 yrs.
Why buy now?

And people still need a decent paying job to get a real mortgage and as the US economy tightens up, there will less jobs.

UCLA must be reading different tea leaves than everybody else, or smoking a bad batch.
Or unless they think rich foreigners are going to ride to rescue and pump up their economy.

But if things are so rosy for UCLA, why are central banks AROUND THE WORLD dumping hundreds of billions of dollars in the world economy?
For the fun of it?

Get well soon Kate. I probably had the same bug this past week. Neo-citron and Advil for this Doc -- that, and time.

no mention of hankypanky on the poop deck

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080311/ferry_report_080312/20080312?hub=TopStories

but it has been long speculated the hands werent on the wheel but the tiller.

Cold or flu - Oil of Oregano (P73) works fast everytime, but tastes absolutely brutal.

your right Irwin, doesnt resemble pizza at all.

buckleys tastes like ambrosia compared to oil of oregano.

So what's with the bleeding heart leftoids in Canada anyway?
"Canada allowed an abused child to rot in prison" scream the headline at National Newswatch. Yep, another poor little Khadr op ed. This time from someone named Dan Gardner at the Ottawa Citizen.

Would somebody please put this non-story out of it's misery.And by the way, the junior terrorist ended up at Gitmo back in 2002 which if I remember correctly was still during the reign of the lieberals. If memory serves me correctly that was also the time that Bill Sampson was on death row in Saudi Arabia and we all know how much the little guy from Shawinigan helped him.

will there ever be a story where a first nation accepts any responsibility for anything?

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080312/fatalfire_folo_080312/20080312?hub=TopStories

Reminder. . . TAR SANDS ... 9PM tonight..CBC.

Norway, China, India want to lease. No no no!

2 Billion$ to start.. 8 Billion$ to cook out oil.

Peter Lougheed, [thank God for reason] ** It*s not going anywhere...slow down, take it easy.**

Don*t miss it. 9:00 PM. = TG

remember last years man , ForLorne Calvert , he was trying to make a one off deal with the Chinese to lease the tar sands in Saskatchewan. you see , the prosperity on the Alberta side was to be jealous about , not to be emulated or shared with big bad corporations.

1. Get well soon Kate!

2. The US is in recession, this fact is hidden by the deliberate devaluation of the US dollar. The Fed has chosen to inflate the currency (remember Bernanke's comments about dropping cash from helicopters?) instead of doing the proper thing, i.e., let bad debts be sorted out through liquidation. This may give the impression the economy still grows as more nominal dollars are printed, but sooner or later the chickens will come home to roost. Unless the Fed resorts to hyperinflation like Germany in 1923, deflation will have the upper hand. In both cases the middle class will be clobbered, like in the 1930s. Nothing here, just history repeating itself.

3. The oil 'bubble' is here to stay, even with the US economy on the blink. Yes, massive new projects are coming online between now and 2010, but this barely allows worldwide production to remain more or less constant, as declines from existing fields exceed predictions. Some say we may pay 1.50$ a litre of gas by the summer, which may occur if oil hits 150$ a barrel. This is not as far fetched as it seems, the declining US dollar & increased demand from Asia & flat production can do it.

4. Re. offshore oil as posted by Gord Tulk. We have been extracted offshore oil for decades, major producers like Norway, Mexico, the U.K. and Nigeria get most/all of their oil from sea fields.

5. The '60 billion barrel oil find' in the Falklands is not a real find, just speculation at this point.

To conclude, investing in oil/energy is a good idea, as long as enough strength remains in the world economy. Prices will keep going higher. 'Optimists' like Daniel Yergin and Michael Lynch have been predicting lower prices for years and have been consistently wrong. Good that I didn't listen to them.

ET and Jim Travis ... correct.

* * Rae, on stage, is smug, smooth and polished. * *

How soon after his election will he then win Libs leadership from Dion?

I forecast that here and have mentioned it on a couple of Liberal sites like Calgary Grit.

Interesting because Rea is a true threat and a worthy opponent. He will keep Harper and the CPC on their toes. All the better. = TG

GreenNeck,

* * Optimists' like Daniel Yergin and Michael Lynch have been predicting lower prices for years and have been consistently wrong. Good that I didn't listen to them.* *

Maybe 16.7 trillion in reserves and only 1.8 trillion of oil reserves consumed so far is why they thought as they did.

Politics, [ a blow-up in Iran / Pakistan / Venezuela ] and no new refinery will keep prices high.

Uncertainty in other words.

WSJ says demand has dropped 4.3 %.

TDI diesel, truck fleets like Safeway and Walmart going green, GM buses in 56 cities using 50% of normal fuels and a vast number of other efficiencies like hybrids, hybrid taxi fleets and Brazil on Ethanol is making a dent in oil demand.

ExxonMobile sees this coming and are getting us to pay off their capital costs early.= TG

"A radical foreign-policy adviser to Barack Obama — flushed from the shadows after calling Hillary a name — speaks volumes about her enigmatic boss and his worldview.
Power, 37, believes in projecting "soft power" — engagement, trust-building, debt cancellation, nation-building — rather than military might, even against terror states. She's convinced Obama that simply reaching out to Tehran, not threatening it, will neutralize the nuts there."
http://ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=290128154450510

"Maybe 16.7 trillion in reserves and only 1.8 trillion of oil reserves consumed so far is why they thought as they did."

Not sure where you got these numbers, but in any event you're confusing resources with reserves.

More accepted figures are 1.1 trillion bbl already consumed; 1.3 of proven reserves (including 0.2 trillion in Alberta's oil sands); known oil in place is another 2-3 trillion. To arrive at 16.7 you need to include very speculative resources.

In any event the cost of oil is dependent on the producers ability to meet oil demand now, not in 50 years with still uninvented technology. The fact that resources are abundant doesn't mean the rate of production will be. Just look at Alberta.

Your numbers only mean we'll have oil for a long time, but production may still decline year over year, as it gets harder to produce the remaining oil. This is what gets called 'peak oil' and it has nothing to do with running out of oil.

We are nearing that point, and that's why I'm an oil bull, no matter how much there is.

Two new Youtube "Lucy" videos, download 'em before they vanish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E8dwqimRkw

http://youtube.com/watch?v=c5PUSDbnHfo

With the never ending demand for plastics, paints, pills and potions, there is every reason to remain * * bullish on oil * *.= TG

from Hot Air
Canada has an estimated 1.6 trillion barrels of oil on its territory, much of it locked in tough-to-excavate tar sands in the province of Alberta. By comparison, oil-rich Saudi Arabia has an estimated 270 billion barrels left. It isn’t even close.

Yet, according to the Financial Times of London, Canada’s government recently sent U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates a letter of warning that it might not be able to sell the U.S. any of its oil, which the Pentagon desperately needs for national defense.

For that, you can thank the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, passed with great gusto and self-righteousness by the Democratic Congress.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/11/mullahs-or-mounties-which-do-we-prefer/

Former PMPM intervenes in Mexian money laundering case. The accused is 51 year old Brenda Martin.
Any relation?

http:/www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=368355

The Archbishop speaks:

http://www.cfra.com/chum_audio/Terrence_Prendergrast_Mar12.mp3

Meet Mockely Burka.
Mockely not funny, say Moh.
...-

Norway Welcomes Their New Overlords - Update: 'Fashion Show' is Actually an Art Project, But ABC News Doesn't Mention It

Norway eagerly submits to the suppression of women, and ABC News helps with yet another sick, whitewashed series of excuses for misogyny: The Burqa Gets a Makeover.

Opening with this ludicrous statement:

The burqa is the wardrobe of choice for many Muslim women

UPDATE at 3/12/08 11:41:42 am:

Wow. Here’s an interesting update to this story, emailed by reader Kristian. It appears that this Norwegian “fashion show” is actually an art project, mocking the burqa—not seriously promoting it—and several Muslims watching the show were angry and humiliated. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/ypasad (LGF)

TG- Rae won't be the Liberal leader 'de jure'. Only 'de facto'. Dion is their duly elected leader and until he steps down or there is a review that knocks him off - Dion is The Leader.

I'm only saying that fewer and fewer of the Liberals will pay any attention to him. The MSM will also ignore him. The attention will be on Bob Rae.

I don't think the CPC need to be 'kept on their toes'; they can do that themselves. I worry about Rae because he's unscrupulous and fits in well with the Liberal Strategy - which is singular - an unprincipled Agenda For Power.

That's their only interest. How they obtain power; how they retain power - they don't care about ethics or due process. Or the law. They are master manipulators and will do an 'Obama' on us by setting up a Canada-Of-Hope...along with Bob Rae.

I'm also betting Ignatieff will leave.

Exposing the heart of darkness of another socialist myth:

Love cheats, nepotism and corruption: royal scandal in the anthills of egalitarian society

Ants may be held up as ideals of social co-operation but they can be as sneaky as humans beings and their colonies are rife with corruption – with those from the royal line the worst offenders.

DNA fingerprinting techniques have shown that nepotism rules when it comes to determining which larvae grow up to be queens...

More on Geert Wilders and "Fitna":

Joseph Loconte, The Latest Dutch Film Debacle

The sorry fact is that Holland and much of Europe are ill-prepared for a contest against religious extremism. This latest debacle is less about Islamist militancy, however, than about the moral vertigo created by Europe's liberal and secular ideologies. European approaches to religion, pluralism, and immigration are failing miserably--and few seem to understand why or what to do about it...

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Kyle Dabruzzi, Inverse False Alarms

Law enforcement's premature dismissal of terrorism as a motivating factor is puzzling--and harmful.

http://tundratabloid.blogspot.com/

check out the bit on the right side about lying.

Notice how there haven't been any Liberal trolls around today. They're TOO BUSY fighting among themselves. It all started when Cherniak advised LibLogs to get with the program. Some of them are really T'D off. One Blogger has quit and torn up his lIBERAL MEMBERSHIP CARD.
Cherniak does it again.

Along with George Baird, a CBC producer Christine Layfield, who dumped family to shack up with her employee George Stoumboloupolous is named World Economic Forum "young global leader"

Leadership sure ain't what it used to be.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/03/12/global-leaders.html

"Liberals Mull Next Move in RESP Standoff"
cbc.ca
Liberals are meeting wed behind closed doors to decide whether to head to the polls over their education bill.
Flaherty said it would have the effect of draining $900million from the coffers & could plunge the Government back into a deficit. But the Liberals say the figure closer to $700million.

$900mill vs $700mill not much of a difference so how do the liberals figure that this would not be deficit territory, Remember the Gun Registry. The liberals have a way with quoting Numbers.

Martin hears a Who.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/03/12/martin-mexico.html

ET: "I'm also betting Ignatieff will leave."

Me too. I'm just astonished that he's stuck around as long as he has. After the fiasco that was the LPoC Leadership Convention, producing One Lame Duck Dion, I was thinking that Iggy should cut his losses and head back to academia at Harvard.

I'm sure his wife wishes he had.

...should HAVE cut his losses and HEADED back to academia.

Iggy does not look comfy in his seat. It is about to get even worse.

The old goalie, Dryden, is showing himself to be quite the tool, he's coming off about as stunned as it gets.

Harvard economists’ study: Media’s anti-war rhetoric emboldens Iraqi insurgents

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/12/harvard-economists-study-medias-anti-war-rhetoric-emboldens-iraqi-insurgents/

Not that it's a huge surprise, but in case anyone is interested in what one of WK's kids is up to:

"Anti-Racist" Defends Pro-Terror Anti-Semite

MSM does not mention/use: AGW, global warming, climate change in this piece.
The culprits are the socialist controllers/ academics/boffins/technoc-rats from the south, aka the crushing bureaucracy of Big Government.

"Paulusi Novalinga said the frigid waters of the Hudson Strait, off the northern coast of Quebec, are teeming with beluga."
""We're suffering here and people from universities, who think they know everything because they come two weeks out of every year, make our quotas," he said.""

""Every man is his own king when he's out on his own land," said Novalinga, whose association, Anguvigaq, represents 5,000 hunters.

"When you live there your whole life, nobody can tell you what to do.""
...-

Inuit beluga hunters say food source, culture threatened by shrinking quotas
By Andy Blatchford, THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://tinyurl.com/33dh6d

Kate ..I hope by now you are feeling better...and WOW!...You could right a book about all these interesting remedies...almost makes me want to get sick so I can try them!!...lol
no...not really.

Just curious...did you get the flu shot?
(Hope not!...that's stuff for another post)

Maybe I am being a little cynical,hard to believe ,but did someone wake up Paul Martin and tell him that his cousin was being held in a Mexican jail?

Political correctness tightens its grip.
A left-liberal is choked off by the anaconda of political correctness.
The Gramsci revolution eats its own.
...-

Clinton fundraiser quits over race remark

WASHINGTON — Geraldine Ferraro stepped down Wednesday from an honorary post in Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign amid a controversy regarding her comments that Barack Obama wouldn't be succeeding in the presidential race if he weren't black. http://tinyurl.com/2rhhea (G-M)

I firmly believe that the environmental movement to inhibit carbon dioxide emissions is not only the biggest scientific farce since PIltdown Man but also is the single greatest threat to human freedom.

Carbon cap and trade legislation must be fought tooth and nail for this would cede total economic control to government (try North Korea for a comparable example). Government would have the power to decide what businesses can expand (thus increasing their carbon quotas) and what if any new businesses can start up.

A perfect example of what would happen is milk marketing boards. Inefficient dairy farmers are maintained. New dairy farmers cannot get a quota. The public pays a very high price for inefficient milk production. These high prices impact the poor most of all.

Two outstanding articles that support the foregoing thesis are:

David Warren - Famine Watch
http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/

Vaclav Klaus - Climate alarmists pose real threat to freedom
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,233558915-7583,00.html

ET, We shall see about that during the Libranos leadership convention, and Iggy may indeed float southward once again.

There is more insight about Liberal future prospects here on S.D.A. than on many LibBlogs like CalgaryGrit.

Painful topic for them we suspect. . . eh? = TG

After pretty much everything possible has been done by our Government re the Brenda Martin in Mexico aside from starting a war, Paul Martin trots his butt down to visit and attempts to be the big hero?
Good to know he's still around and able to travel. No doubt the Liberals are trying to politicize this unfortunate situation as well. Those Conservatives just are not doing enough, yadda, yadda.

The best thing would be to issue a travel advisory on Mexico, that would get their attention and action when it hits them in the bread basket.

From the "Truth is Stranger Than Fiction Dept":

I am urging family members to check this out
the next time they bang on the bathroom door complaining that I've "been sitting in there forever!"

yechh.

mhb23re
at gmail d0t calm

Reminder. . . TAR SANDS ... 9PM tonight..CBC.

Norway, China, India want to lease. No no no!

2 Billion$ to start.. 8 Billion$ to cook out oil.

Peter Lougheed, [thank God for reason] ** It*s not going anywhere...slow down, take it easy.**

Don*t miss it. 9:00 PM. = TG
Posted by: TG at March 12, 2008 1:10 PM

CORRECTION . ..

Maybe there will be less SPIN on this CBC Documentary. ./
TAR SANDS, THE SELLING OF ALBERTA
Thursday March 13, 2008 at 9pm on CBC-TV
repeating Sunday March 16 at 8pm ET on CBC Newsworld
========= CBC.ca
= TG