Kate, can you please take down the ad with Clifford Olsen's picture in it. Every time I come to your site I see his ugly effing face and my blood pressure shoots up. Any other picture would do but not that filthy scumbag. Thanks

Agree with Rick Rae, just didn't want to be the negative one.
The music makes one want to do the Charleston but I could never co-ordinate that hands on the knees thing.

So much for just the great wall. Here's a beaver dam visible from space. Over half a mile long.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/7676300/Worlds-biggest-beaver-dam-can-be-seen-from-space.html

And, man, why do they have to throw stuff about climate change in there? Geez.

Basically about how to turn a sows ear into a purse.

Atheism’s Gift

Christopher Killheffer
on the Good Questions That Dispel False Beliefs

In discussing the nourishing character of Scripture, C. S. Lewis noted the importance of confronting the Bible in all its moods and voices, even “something in itself so anti-religious as the nihilism of Ecclesiastes.” It’s a striking idea, that Scripture should speak in the tones of the anti-religious, and perhaps it’s an even more striking idea to suggest that exposing ourselves to those caustic tones could somehow be beneficial to us. What good could a blast of anti-religious nihilism do for a Christian life?

http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=23-03-016-v

This is quite interesting, relative to the May 3, 2010 post “Attitudes are, like, facts...”

Bill Maher Stands Up for America, Christians - Rips Islamic Extremists
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/bill-maher-stands-up-for-america-christians-rips-islamic-extremists

…the leftist host and comedian says…

1. Our American culture is better than the Middle East’s.

2. American Christians who follow their holy book literally are benign.

3. Islamofascism’s bullying to get us to suppress the first amendment cannot be tolerated.

“But he’s unwilling to take the logical next step that these ideas demand: become a conservative.”

According to Jay ingram on the Daily Planet the reason the Norwegian oil industry has an impeccable record is because the oil rigs are owned by Statoil, the government oil company.
That's why they use the acoustic valves.

Your political indoctrination begins at about the 6 minute mark:
http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/#clip297562

I dunno, my car isn't state owned but I still have to have headlights and brakes that work... I think it's called regulation?
And Norway's rigs aren't state owned, they are contracted.
The oilfield may be state owned but Statoil contracts rigs like everybody else.

They started using acoustic valves in 1993 and had a huge well on the Ekofisk Bravo platform blowout in 1977.
The West Vanguard also blew out in 1985.

Other than that though....

Good music!! Great song. Thanks.

A BP spokesman said acoustic valves do not work below 5,000 feet. I have no reason to disbelieve him. After all a half million a well isn't much in the scheme of things when the alternative is the US Justice system and damages.

There is a conflict of interests here; Glen Beck explained it all on his program today. BP is heavily invested in All Gore's carbon exchange scam in Chicago. If you want a link, I can provide it as I put it in sda comments here yesterday. Unca Mo is invested in BP also; when you own the oil companies and the price goes up because your Bolshevik pals have brainwashed the minions against 'Big Oil' and drilling for oil , the price will go up and you and your two faced pals will cash in - same goes for banks; Goldman Sacks is 10% owner of All Gore's Carbon exchange. This is the scandal of the century! Glenn connects all the dots in easy to understand chalk and blackboard style.

The American People are going to pay all involved parties for this mess in the Gulf.

Here is the link I was looking for::http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2007/3413carbon_swindle.html

Socialism: Will Turkey help?

"Germans are opposed to bailing out the Greeks."

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"The Euro Crisis: The Insolvent Are Expected to Bail Out the Bankrupt

The euro crisis is far from over. Markets are reacting with skepticism to the largest bailout ever – an attempt to prevent the bankruptcy of Greece. Former Eastern Bloc countries, such as Slovakia, are now expected to bailout Greece. On Sunday the IMF and the 15 other Eurozone countries – the member states of the European Union (EU) which, together with Greece, use the euro as their common currency – agreed to bail out Athens with bilateral loans totaling €120bn ($160bn) over the next three years. Many of these 15 countries, however, have huge debts themselves. They have agreed to help Greece, hoping that someone (read: Germany) will come to their rescue, too. Will Berlin and the IMF be able to save them all?

Polls show that between 66% and 86% of the Germans are opposed to bailing out the Greeks."

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4417

Here is what Somali's really think about Canada as this turd returns to be buried in his sandbox. Of course its not all bad, a few less..

"The eulogy says he was born in Boramo, Somaliland, in 1987, just before civil war erupted in the region. He was still a toddler when he moved to Canada with his family.

"As Allah willed, he was to grow up in the lands of infidelity and corruption, but he was never swayed in his determination in pleasing Allah and striving to perfect his mannerisms," it says.

It quotes his younger sister saying that he was "the glue that held the family together." His parents were helping him "in settling down and getting married" when he left the "kaafir [infidel] land of Canada permanently."

Together with a group of youths from his mosque, he traveled to Saudi Arabia, and from there crossed to Somalia, where he became Abu Hamzah Muhammad al Muhajiri and died within a year."

Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2986731#ixzz0n3XdVAhv

PET Cemetery Report.

Karlheinz Schreiber “sought refuge in red herrings”.

Liberal Ziffy will issue a press release asking for an inquiry into ButtCrack Karl’s red herrings.

Ex-Liberal MP Paul Zed is in hiding.

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“German court convicts arms dealer of tax evasion

AUGSBURG, Germany — A German court on Wednesday sentenced a Canadian-German arms dealer, who was a key player in a party funding scandal that helped propel Chancellor Angela Merkel to power, to eight years in prison.

Karlheinz Schreiber, 76, who holds dual Canadian and German citizenship, was found guilty of withholding more than 7.5 million euros (9.7 million dollars) in taxes between 1988 and 1993 by a court in the southern city of Augsburg.

The presiding judge said that Schreiber’s statements during the trial were “not credible.”

“It was noticeable that the accused sought refuge in red herrings and was consistently silent on the really decisive questions,” he said.”

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hWHX_r3_4ItfOpA9n6ZjQV

Socialism's Ashes.
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"Bank hit by petrol bomb catches fire in Athens: police"
Financial Post

"Three dead from fire as Greek protesters clash with police"
Globe and Mail -

"Merkel, IMF warn of contagion in euro zone crisis"
Reuters
(googlenews)

Be afraid, the global well is going dry: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/voices/2010/04/freshwater-scarcity-the-greatest-crisis-most-americans-have-never-heard-of.html

Ash:

"caught forecasters off guard,".

"pose a danger only to ascending or descending aircraft.".

...-

"New wave of volcanic ash shuts airports

DUBLIN, Ireland - A new wave of dense volcanic ash from Iceland snarled air traffic Wednesday in Ireland and Scotland and threatened to spill into the air space of England."

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/05/05/13829236-ap.html

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hey greece, not to be obnoxious...
but here's a thought...

"more socrates... less caligula"

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"Kate, can you please take down the ad with Clifford Olsen's picture in it. "

Me too -- agree. I cringe every time I see it and try to quickly scroll past.

Ignore the old rules here are the latest new rules, of course subject to change. Anyone who believes they may be a terrorist please identify yourself to the attendants. Thankfully Shahzad only spent 5 months learning to make a bomb and obviously didn't complete the full course.

"The U.S. government imposed new rules Wednesday requiring airlines to make more timely checks of terrorist no-fly lists after the near-escape of accused Times Square car bomber Faisal Shahzad.

Law enforcement officials found a Kel-Tec 9 mm pistol inside the Isuzu Trooper that Mr. Shahzad used to drive to Kennedy airport -- prompting calls Wednesday from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for a federal ban on selling guns to Americans with suspected terror ties."

Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2990429#ixzz0n5pqSsbq

CBC has a story up on KHS's eight year sentence. It is not in the Canada part but under world news and politics. I am wondering when the calls for a public inquiry to investigate the dealings that CBC had with this man. Millions were spent helping KHS,a convicted criminal,we must know how many.Where is the outrage of the money wasted by the CBC coddling a criminal? http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/05/05/schreiber-conviction.html

From the ITYS Dept.

The question posed above at May 5, 2010 8:16 AM was:

>>> "Socialism: Will Turkey help?"

Wretchard has answered:

"Probably easy pickings for the Turks to conquer them [the Greeks] again, or at least take most of the Aegean islands."

"May 5th, 2010 1:55 pm
That’s the Way You Do It"

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/05/05/thats-the-way-you-do-it/#more-8891