Bret Hart has returned! The Excellence of Execution has been on Monday Night Raw twice and is showing signs of sticking around. A true Canadian hero, possibly the most famous Canadian world-wide(possible exception:Ben Johnson).

That is one clarinet player! Look at his age! He looks like Colonel Harland Sanders!

Israeli-Canadian designed the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games medals

(via the Vicious Babushka)

The medals for the Vancouver Olympics are very ugly. The only ones worse were the ones in Salt Lake City (maybe Nagano, can't remember) that had the hole in it. Looked like a bagel... the winners got the silver and bronze so as to avoid the connfusion.

My Cuz sent me this. Jedi Mind Trick. Great laugh.

http://joannenova.com.au/2010/02/the-jedi-mind-trick-falters/

Dick Cheney in hospital after experiencing chest pains.

I checked at CNN, the G&M and Ceeb and, sure enough, the oh-so-tolerant lefties are showing their compassion.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/dick-cheney-resting-comfortably-in-hospital-after-chest-pains/article1477623/
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/02/22/us-cheney-hospitalized.html
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/22/cheney.hospitalized/index.html?hpt=T1

Stumbled on this to-day. Cute take on the differences between cats and dogs.

http://nedhardy.com/2010/02/20/dogs-are-happy-cats-are-evil/

OK ... I'll bite .... where in the world did you come across the Benko Band??

Things to do while your waiting for global warming and a job.

"Ohio Man Builds Four-Room Igloo, With TV, Cable"

http://tinyurl.com/ygracqp

Funny Stuff, Speedy at @10:51 PM - I'd bet Kate would heartily agree.

The Olympic medals look like someone left them on the dashboard on a hot summer's day.

Founder of Whole Earth Catalog says go nuclear!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/02/22/brand.nuclear.power.pro/index.html?eref=rss_mostpopular

In other news: we've all been had.

A new book, The Lomborg Deception, makes the claim that Bjorn Lomborg in his book, Cool it, (which I personally enjoyed) was deliberately deceptive in his use of references. Apparently he cited papers whose conclusions flew in the face of his own. It looks pretty bad.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/233942?

[I'd be very skeptical of that Newsweek story. ~ Vitruvius]

When you really want to drive 20 miles in a stream:

The Corvair in Action (1960)

http://www.archive.org/details/Corvairi1960

Another Harper promise met. The 2-3 for 1 sickening deal for time served is now gone.

Climategate Meets the Law: Senator Inhofe To Ask for DOJ Investigation (Pajamas Media/PJTV Exclusive)

"Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) today asked the Obama administration to investigate what he called “the greatest scientific scandal of our generation” — the actions of climate scientists revealed by the Climategate Files, and the subsequent admissions by the editors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).

"Senator Inhofe also called for former Vice President Al Gore to be called back to the Senate to testify.

“In [Gore's] science fiction movie, every assertion has been rebutted,” Inhofe said. He believes Vice President Gore should defend himself and his movie before Congress."

Hat Tip to Instapundit.

P.S. Limiting discusion here doesn't bother me. Thanks for letting me post tips.

Al Gore's Weather (AGW): It's just anecdotal evidence from the MSM; ask John Cross.
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"There’s no business like snow business"

"Headlines yesterday mentioned yet another new snowfall record: Moscow Covered by More Than Half Meter of Snow, Most Since 1966"

"This year’s February is quite unique from the meteorological point of view. Not a single thaw has been registered so far and the temperature remains way below the average throughout the month."

http://wattsupwiththat.com/
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"Bleak winter partly caused by El Nino could be worst for 31 years

The long, hard winter looks like dragging on into March. And if the bitter winds carry on for the next two weeks, there is a very good chance that this winter will turn out to be the coldest across the UK since 1979."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/weather/article7032757.ece
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"Where is all the snow? Toronto Star"
"Snow hits TO Toronto Sun"

The(hug a thug) Liberal whining should start in 5,4,3,2,1

"No More Double Dealing"
as of Tuesday,criminals like Clay Davis wont be given 2-for-1 credit for time served

Joe Warmington Toronto Sun
feb 23/2010

*Its quite a system that see's a career criminal recieving his 100th conviction at 2pm and being set free from incareration at 2:30pm.
But 2-for-1 justice has come to an end.
As of Tuesday recieving 2-for-1 time served while in custody awaiting trial is no longer in effect.

Quietly thanks to the Federal Govt's Bill C-25 the very landscape of the Justice system has changed.
more....

*A must read, The comments to this article.

The esteemed Harry Reid, drumming up support for his new stimulus bill, has made two remarkable claims.

The first is that it will create jobs. What is remarkable about this is its predictive authority. The first stimulus bill has no verifiable data to show that it created any jobs. It saved bureaucratic jobs in various state govts but had no effect on the private sector. Yet Reid insists that his new bill will 'create jobs'.

The second claim, equally unsubstantiated but also glaringly illogical, is that it will prevent violence and abuse. You see, Reid declares that men (that's all men) who are without work are abusive, while women (all women) who are without work are not abusive. So, he's moved a 'hasty generalization' tactic, a logical fallacy, in to his attempt to get the bill passed. He wants you to pass this bill because it will prevent domestic violence. Now, if you vote 'no', this means that you support domestic violence!

Gosh. When will the voters kick him out? And the rest of his crew?

"'It's my health, it's my choice,' Danny Williams says
Globe & Mail"

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"N.L.'s Eastern Health Authority settles $17M lawsuit - CKA News **
A $17.5-million settlement has been reached in the class action lawsuit against Newfoundland and Labrador's Eastern Regional Health Authority by breast cancer"
www.canadaka.net/link.php?id=51007

Al Gore's Weather (AGW).

New Met Opera premiere: Ah wanna a Citoyen Dionky redo in Frenglish.
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"Met office pushes a surface temperature data “do over”"

http://wattsupwiththat.com/
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"Liberal party infighting explodes over Dion's video 'mess'
The most news and entertainment portal from a Canadian perspective. ... Mr. Dion struggling to understand a question in English and asking to redo his response."
www2.canada.com/ ottawacitizen/ news/ story.html?id=75cec445-91cd-4e0a-befe-01a9f5c6cfd1

Next up in gun control: replicas, including air pistols.

_http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/02/23/ottawa-fake-guns-firearms-act.html

Un.freakin'.believable.

Canada is becoming a nuthouse.

Kate you might want to give this one a read.

http://www.bworldonline.com/main/content.php?id=6756

Commentary -- By Jeffrey D. Sachs

The attack on climate science

NEW YORK -- In the weeks before and after the Copenhagen climate change conference last December, the science of climate change came under harsh attack by critics who contend that climate scientists have deliberately suppressed evidence and that the science itself is severely flawed. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global group of experts charged with assessing the state of climate science, has been accused of bias.

The global public is disconcerted by these attacks. If experts cannot agree that there is a climate crisis, why should governments spend billions of dollars to address it?

The fact is that the critics -- who are few in number but aggressive in their attacks -- are deploying tactics that they have honed for more than 25 years. During their long campaign, they have greatly exaggerated scientific disagreements in order to stop action on climate change, with special interests like Exxon Mobil footing the bill.

No it's not.

Quite right, Vito. It's been a nuthouse for some time, and if anything is just beginning to mature nicely, like a fine claret.

More cuts to the arts.

The Eliminator strikes with a Sethwan. CBC next; after Mao's Red Orympics.
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"Massive Cuts at ABC News; 300-400 Positions to be Eliminated

ABC News has begun the process of eliminating 300 to 400 positions at the news division by asking employees to participate in a buyout of their services. In a move that has been rumored for weeks, and coming on the heels of layoffs at CBS News, ABC's cuts are a combination of union and non-union jobs affecting all areas of ABC News. Developing..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2457691/posts

I suffered a nasty computer meltdown,likely from hackers,and have been away for a while...Does anyone have any links or updated info on the mass murder trial of the inconvenient females in Kingston?

You just can't make this stuff up:
Teachers filmed lap-dancing at school event

At least most of the comments at the end of the story are sane...