Why does every Liberal I see being interviewed seem so angry?
Stephane Dion – always angry and if he had lips he would always seem to be pouting.
David McGuinty – his entire face is a scowl. He is always so angry and uses such lawyerly words about being dismayed and horrified.
Gerard Kennedy – once again so rude and interupting on Duffy today and so angry and beligerant and oh so upset about those nasty conservatives. (I can barely stand to watch when I see him as a panelist anymore – his whole persona as a buttinski know it all just makes me shake my head that this kind of person can get elected)
Those angry angry Liberals. Poor babies.
Maybe Paul Martin knows where AdScam LaFeur is?
Martin’s former Adscam communication director ambassador to Costa Rica
By Judi McLeod
Thursday, December 1, 2005
The 100-million Canadian tax dollars, with which the federal Liberal government floated its Adscam sponsorship program, may be lost forever in faraway Costa Rica.
A popular playground for well-heeled Canadians with Liberal connections, Costa Rica is home to the United Nations University for Peace. Prime Minister Paul Martin mentor Maurice Strong, being litigated against by the Costa Rican government over a land deal, is still listed as president of the UPeace council.
Canadian Adscam legends, who washed up on Costa Rican shores, include the flamboyant Jean Lafleur, a key figure in the Adscam scandal, whose communication firm executives raked in $15-million in government expenses over a four-year period.
Loud-living Lafleur has reached the dubious status of Costa Rica’s most infamous party boy, who neighbours wish would take a permanent hike.
But as loud and excessive as Lafleur’s late-night bacchanals are reported to be, he’s only a sometimes resident of Escazú. Missing from Costa Rica for the past month and a half, his expected return for Christmas has neighbours reaching for anti-acid relief.
But Mario Laguë, a second prominent Canadian with ties to the Adscam scandal is a permanent resident of the sun-blessed country. Lague, Prime Minister Paul Martin’s former director of communications, is the ambassador to Costa Rica.
That’s the same Laguë who was the senior bureaucrat in overall charge of Ottawa’s communications strategy, and the same one who reported directly to the same Cabinet communications committee, headed by then public works minister Alfonso Gagliano. Readers may recall that the disgraced Gagliano is the figure indirectly responsible for giving the Liberals their “Libranos” label.
Adscam, whose critics say was designed to put money into Liberal-friendly advertising firms, and involved double-billing, bogus invoices and payments for fictitious work, came back to haunt the Liberals on Monday night, when Opposition parties used it as the primer to call for a non-confidence vote, forcing the fall of their minority government.
“On Thursday, September 16, 2004, Pierre Pettigrew, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced Mario Laguë as the new ambassador to Costa Rica.” (Source: Diplomatic Appointments).
The antithesis of Lafleur, Laguë has kept such a low profile in his new post as Costa Rican ambassador that according to local news hounds, he’s only attended one official public function.
Laguë, who served as Martin’s communication director from December 2003 to July 2004, presented Adscam in the best possible light after Auditor General Sheila Fraser discovered and revealed it. Canadian media dubbed him as “Martin’s spin doctor”.
A Canadian government-sanctioned biography states that Laguë ran his own communications firm from 1995 to 1997.
Management at the high-rise where Lafleur lives when in San Rafael de Escazú, has been inundated with complaints from tenants, who charge that wild parties thrown by the Canadian executive and his constant Tico companion, “Larry” are keeping them awake nights.
Having read all about the Adscam scandal via the Internet, some tenants say you’d think that Lafleur would want to keep a low profile.
Meanwhile, if anyone wants Lafleur to turn down the volume more than the neighbours, it could be Canada’s new ambassador to Costa Rica.
In Quotes
Dan Cook, 01/04/07 at 11:09 PM EDT
Meet Jason Cherniak: Stéphane Dion’s 2006 Blog Campaign Co-Chair, York Region Area Director for the Liberal Party of Canada, president of the Richmond Hill Federal Liberal Riding Association, president of Liblogs, and Lawyer.
Cherniak on Prime Minister Harper:
“Might I remind you that this same asshole PM called the former PM a criminal? Those without sins…” [March 28, 2007]
Cherniak on Toronto MP Olivia Chow:
Rumour has it “that Olivia Chow won because NDP supporters from across the city voted early and often at different polling stations in Trinity-Spadina.” [March 24, 2007]
Cherniak on an individual he neither knows the identity of, or whom he/she works for:
“What racist made the [YouTube] video?” And: “I wonder what French Canadians would think if they knew that the Conservative Party is employing a person who would put such a video together.” [March 28, 2007]
Cherniak on the Liberal Party possessing confidential Tory documents for over 13 months, despite a House of Commons shipping label stating the boxes belonged to the Conservative Party:
“It’s not the Liberals’ fault if the movers forgot some boxes.” [March 28, 2007]…- http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070401.WBwblogolitics20070401230935/WBStory/WBwblogolitics/
[Now, Cherniak parodies himself and AdScam Dion.]
Harper has dropped a French nuke
Did I call Stephen Harper an “asshole”? Yes I did. I think this report by Andrew Coyne proves it. The short story is that the federal Conservatives have begun running ads in Quebec that refer to Stéphane Dion as “vendu”.
For those who do not understand, this is a charge that Stéphane Dion is a sell-out. How did he supposedly sell out? Because he stood against a Québec separatist government’s demands for more money while he was the minister of national unity….- (cherniak)
I just love the new label that both Gerard Kennedy,and David McSquinty have given the Cons new election central…pipples,we will all now refer to this as “The Fear Factory”..all I can say to them is,’lovely shade of envious green really suits you morons!’
Nice story in Nat.Newswatch(via TO Star)
Principal Admits Throwing Excrement
A suspended TO Elementary school principal has pleaded guilty to throwing feces(excrement) on a child.
Maria Pantalone,49,was charged with 2 counts of assault..blah blah.
I couldn’t take it anymore,she testified,in describing the provocative circumstances leading up to incident.
Pantalone,is the sister of Toronto Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone…has been suspended with pay..has submitted letters of support from 19 staff members at the school.
Comment: Lorraine at April 2, 2007 3:15 PM
Should be framed as an essential note for all bloggers to keep in mind. = TG
Stupid is as Stupid Does!
“Nothing personal sir, but your packages are not allowed on passenger airlines,” said a United Parcel Service (UPS) customer service agent, sitting in an American call centre.
but CASH is good everywhere!
“And my package? The one that was flagged by “Flight Guardian”? Well, I drove to a depot close to my office and sent it off — without using an account number and by paying cash. So much for the security offered by a watch list.”
I wonder what other LISTs, there are! http://www.jordantimes.com/tue/opinion/opinion6.htm
Battery lasts 3 to 4 times the lithium ion cell.
Battery uses no exotic or heavy metals. Enviro – OK.
Battery is protein running on liquid sugar.
physorg.com/news94043039.html
Dr. Shelly Minteer … electrochemist phd.
**
Juicing up your cell phone or iPod may take on a whole new meaning in the future. Researchers at Saint Louis University in Missouri have developed a fuel cell battery that runs on virtually any sugar source — from soft drinks to tree sap — and has the potential to operate three to four times longer on a single charge than conventional lithium ion batteries, they say.**
=========== physorg.com
= TG
Hybrid battery maker is looking for ways to capitalize amid growing demand for hybrid vehicles, certain electronics.
March 14 2007: 7:53 PM EDT
CHICAGO (Reuters) — Cobasys, which produces batteries used in hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles, said Wednesday its owners have enlisted investment bankers to explore strategic alternatives.
money.cnn.com/2007/03/14/news/companies/cobasys.reut/
The venture, which is owned by Energy Conversion Devices Inc. (Charts) and
Chevron Corp. (Charts) , said it is looking for ways to capitalize on growing demand for hybrid vehicles and stationary power.
The contracts include deals with General Motors Corp. (Charts) for the Saturn Aura, Saturn Vue Green Line and a Chevrolet Malibu hybrid.
Cobasys also has a contract to develop lithium ion battery technology for the Volt plug-in hybrid *concept* car GM showed at the North American International Auto Show in January.
============ Money.CNN
Johnson Controls Inc. (Charts) and France’s Saft PA are also in the running.= TG
Get Off Our Rink! We’ll Sue, You. We Are Serious; We Are Branded; We Are Vigilant; We Are The CBC! …-
CBC up in arms over website
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has come out slugging over a “Hockey Fight in Canada” website.
The public network has served a one-man B.C.-based website with a cease and desist order, calling on http://www.hockeyfightincanada.com to stop using the Hockey Night In Canada takeoff logos and name on its site, caps and T-shirts.
“This is a real David and Goliath thing,” says graphic artist Michael Mills, who runs the business out of his Cloverdale, B.C., home.
“The CBC has parodies like the Royal Canadian Air Farce, so why can’t I do it?”
The network doesn’t see it that way.
“We take our brand very seriously and are quite vigilant in protecting it,” said CBC spokesperson Jeff Keay. …- http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/198845
http://chuckercanuck.blogspot.com/
The Bloggers are Coming! The Bloggers are Coming!
At first, the press gallery was merely concerned. Increasingly, Parliament Hill became a loitering spot for pasty-skinned geeks in flanel pyjamas, sporting Spock ears.
But they quickly switched into full panic mode when they noticed politicians flocking to these coke-sipping, techno-gadget-sprouting dweebs to offer interviews and insights in lieu of facing a scrum of press gallery pimentos asking important questions to Tories such as, “How often do you get faxes from George W. Bush?” or lobbing grenades at Liberals like, “do you look and sound so good when you wake up in the morning?” […]
Its just too bad that it looks so terribly petty.
Afterall, Stephen Taylor has done more for Canadian media than any single member of the press gallery….-
biff said:
[…]
“Sad to see you circling the wagons Andrew. I share my dissappointment with all of your former followers here.
You’ve become redundant.
I can get this stuff from the Toronto Star any day of the week.”
…-
Candace said…
Am I the only one that has noticed that Andrew is doing well to get double-digit comments anymore?
Probably one a week or two, I go, I read, I read the comments, and leave, having nothing to say that anyone wants to hear.
As Emily Letalia would say, nevermind. …- https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17821047&postID=9220588011971456786
Comments above from/at ChuckerCanuck.
Andrew is the Coyne. Inkless Wells allowed Coyne to write for him? Coyne-Wells are in decline? So sad.
Get yer wheaties here. A message from Barley Borat Dion/Ralffy Goodale/Whiner Easter, et al.
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Agencies bracing for info requests
OTTAWA – The Canadian Wheat Board is among the agencies that were brought under the Access to Information Act on Sunday, meaning its files are now open to public requests. As of April 1, the Canadian Wheat Board, five foundations, and agents of Parliament such as the chief electoral officer and the auditor general are part of the system. The government recently announced that another wave of Crown agencies, including the CBC and Canada Post, the CBC and Via Rail, will be subject to the law Sept. 1. (CP) …- http://www.primetimecrime.com/
Police search globe for former adman
Jean Lafleur has been charged with $1.58-million in fraud in relation to his work on the sponsorship program
DANIEL LEBLANC
Globe and Mail Update …- http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070402.wfraud0402/BNStory/National/home
The globe was searched? Did they have a search warrant?
Tip: He’s not there. Where is Ecce Cocoa?
Globe provides an AdScam Memory Refresher.
Take the Tour. It’s free.
Daniel LeBlanc scooped/broke the Liberal AdScam heist.
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Interactives Interactive
* How the sponsorship program worked
Internet Links Internet
* The sponsorship scandal
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* Add DANIEL LEBLANC to my e-mail alerts Globe Insider http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070402.wfraud0402/BNStory/National/home
It’s deja vu season, again. …-
‘Very active’ hurricane season predicted
The St. Petersburg Times | 4/3/2007 | By DAN ELLIOTT
The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season should be “very active,” with nine hurricanes and a good chance that at least one major hurricane will hit the U.S. coast, a top researcher said Tuesday.
Forecaster William Gray said he expects 17 named storms in all this year,…- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811233/posts
Wunder Blog : Weather Underground
The failure of preseason predictions for the hurricane season of 2006 … predictions of an extremely active hurricane season were spectacularly wrong. …-
Zimbabwe: Abandoned to the jackals/hyenas of socialism. Woe to the people of Zimbabwe.
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We are truly on our own (African “leaders” abandon oppressed Zimbabweans to ruthless dictator)
NewZimbabwe.com ^ | 04/03/2007 09:03:40 | Mary Revesai
THE Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) debacle in the Tanzanian capital last weekend when the assembled African leaders treated Robert Mugabe with kid gloves and virtually gave him the green light to continue his ruthless madness proved once and for all that African heads of state are not on the side of oppressed Zimbabweans….- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811219/posts
Doggies don’t do Yogi. Or, do they?
Steff-Kyoto’s application to this class was rejected; its master, Citoyen Dion, is in an “upward facing belly pose.”; catatonic; prostate, even. Steff-Kyoto’s trainer, M. Cherniak, a noted Canadian Liberal legal beagle, is planning an appeal, pro bono, en deux langages. Barfff. …-
Humane Society holds doggie yoga class
By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP, Associated Press Writer
By the end of their doggie yoga class, most of the wandering and sniffing participants are passed out on their mats, in a position their instructor calls the “upward facing belly pose.”
Beans, a majestic 2-year-old Vizsla, however, is ready to play. The overgrown puppy has tried to relax with his owner, Chantale Anderson, but once Magnet the black lab heads off to explore the room, Beans is ready to go.
Mostly, however, both the dogs and the humans on a recent evening at the Seattle/King County Humane Society seemed relaxed and focused for about 40 minutes of “doggie yoga.” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811213/posts …-
MP Mark Holland Considers Legal Action Over Levant Column
[Is Cherniak, noted Canuck Fiberal legal beagle, awailable, pro bono, for the plaintiff?]
NATIONAL NEWSWATCH EXCLUSIVE:
Liberal MP Mark Holland tells National Newswatch that he is considering legal options over Ezra Levant column published Monday, April 2. …- http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/
Trail is dead; cold. “Larry” is missing, too. …-
Jean Lafleur charged with 35 counts of fraud in AdScam scandal still on the lam
Judi McLeod
[…]
“Ever since good fortune landed him in San Rafael de Escazu, Monsieur Lafleur and his constant, 30-year-old companion “Larry”, has been living the life of the wanton playboy.”
[…]
“Larry turned out to be Tico Larry Umana, described as a “Mama’s boy”.” …- http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover040307.htm
Warren Kinsella and Kathy Shaidle in the same room together. And they, … they… didn’t fight!! In fact they ggggot along.
A very, very good discussion on Steve Paikin’s The Agenda. Religion, no religion, cults, ect.
Hottest question I would have had for WK was when he mentioned that not all environmentalists are kooks. Who would you describe as the non-Kook, Warren, Patrick Moore OR David Suzuki ??
On WK mussings and RC sites.
Debate starts after Paikin’s interview with DiNovo. http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/tvoutils/globalfiles/VideoPop.cfm?spot_id=2285µsitefolder=theagenda
Belgium is instituting a bbq tax, and will patrol areas with helicopters to find offenders. Seems bbqs emit co2. I do not have a bbq, will not get one, so who wants to buy my credits. Will the kyotologists in canada promise the same tax. All those cottage owners might finally discover that cutting co2 will hit them, not just the oil industry in AB. So, how much c02 will those helicopters emit, spying on the people. Dust my broom has the story.
Seems a little odd with the Parliament 2-week break.
Not used to going more than 24 hours without seeing Goodale on CBC demanding an apology.
Hezbollah Coderre needs a good lawyer. Tip: Nasrallah is available and looking for $$$$$$$.
…-
Liberal MP Denis Coderre has launched a $45,000 defamation suit against the Phoenix Coyotes’ Shane Doan in response to the NHL player’s $250,000 defamation suit against him. …-
national newswatch
When I tried to vote for a CWB director back in the ’90’s when KPMG were in charge, all ballots were numbered and I expect because I voted for a pro-choice candidate I got a letter back saying my ballot was disqualified, but I guess it was OK then. David Peterson
More good news for the Cons!!! Trevor Kennard(former kicker with Wpg.Blue Bombers)has announced today in Wpg.he is going to run for the Cons.in next election(federally).He will be up against the ever whiny Anita Neville!Hey,we already had one giant killer,when young Bruinuoge(can’t spell that!)knocked off Reg Alcock.Lookin good!And all the Libs can do is put out feeble lawsuit announcements.Great day for Wpg.
Attention All Union Members ! In response to your latest agreement —- we’re closing down . Bye bye.
This courtesy of the Chronicle Herald in Hafilax http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/568928.html
Seems the 330 boys held out for the good bucks all right …were warned, but like Cape Bretoners who are their soulmates decided the company was jus blowin’ smoke man . Lets roll some homemades and sit around watching the other half work eh ? and BOOM .. they are done like dinner.
High costs sealed TrentonWorks’ fate, company says
“TrentonWorks’ parent company in Oregon told investors Wednesday that it just could not take any more losses from its Nova Scotia plant and won’t reconsider its decision to close it.
Some 330 jobs will be lost when TrentonWorks closes after an order for 300 railcars is completed later this year. No exact date for the closure has been set.”—
Looks good on them. The day of the union is ended. The day of the greasy fingernail begins anew …in India and China and Mexico. Get used to it . The social dynamics of the marketplace cannot be held in check.
Why does every Liberal I see being interviewed seem so angry?
Stephane Dion – always angry and if he had lips he would always seem to be pouting.
David McGuinty – his entire face is a scowl. He is always so angry and uses such lawyerly words about being dismayed and horrified.
Gerard Kennedy – once again so rude and interupting on Duffy today and so angry and beligerant and oh so upset about those nasty conservatives. (I can barely stand to watch when I see him as a panelist anymore – his whole persona as a buttinski know it all just makes me shake my head that this kind of person can get elected)
Those angry angry Liberals. Poor babies.
Maybe Paul Martin knows where AdScam LaFeur is?
Martin’s former Adscam communication director ambassador to Costa Rica
By Judi McLeod
Thursday, December 1, 2005
The 100-million Canadian tax dollars, with which the federal Liberal government floated its Adscam sponsorship program, may be lost forever in faraway Costa Rica.
A popular playground for well-heeled Canadians with Liberal connections, Costa Rica is home to the United Nations University for Peace. Prime Minister Paul Martin mentor Maurice Strong, being litigated against by the Costa Rican government over a land deal, is still listed as president of the UPeace council.
Canadian Adscam legends, who washed up on Costa Rican shores, include the flamboyant Jean Lafleur, a key figure in the Adscam scandal, whose communication firm executives raked in $15-million in government expenses over a four-year period.
Loud-living Lafleur has reached the dubious status of Costa Rica’s most infamous party boy, who neighbours wish would take a permanent hike.
But as loud and excessive as Lafleur’s late-night bacchanals are reported to be, he’s only a sometimes resident of Escazú. Missing from Costa Rica for the past month and a half, his expected return for Christmas has neighbours reaching for anti-acid relief.
But Mario Laguë, a second prominent Canadian with ties to the Adscam scandal is a permanent resident of the sun-blessed country. Lague, Prime Minister Paul Martin’s former director of communications, is the ambassador to Costa Rica.
That’s the same Laguë who was the senior bureaucrat in overall charge of Ottawa’s communications strategy, and the same one who reported directly to the same Cabinet communications committee, headed by then public works minister Alfonso Gagliano. Readers may recall that the disgraced Gagliano is the figure indirectly responsible for giving the Liberals their “Libranos” label.
Adscam, whose critics say was designed to put money into Liberal-friendly advertising firms, and involved double-billing, bogus invoices and payments for fictitious work, came back to haunt the Liberals on Monday night, when Opposition parties used it as the primer to call for a non-confidence vote, forcing the fall of their minority government.
“On Thursday, September 16, 2004, Pierre Pettigrew, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced Mario Laguë as the new ambassador to Costa Rica.” (Source: Diplomatic Appointments).
The antithesis of Lafleur, Laguë has kept such a low profile in his new post as Costa Rican ambassador that according to local news hounds, he’s only attended one official public function.
Laguë, who served as Martin’s communication director from December 2003 to July 2004, presented Adscam in the best possible light after Auditor General Sheila Fraser discovered and revealed it. Canadian media dubbed him as “Martin’s spin doctor”.
A Canadian government-sanctioned biography states that Laguë ran his own communications firm from 1995 to 1997.
Management at the high-rise where Lafleur lives when in San Rafael de Escazú, has been inundated with complaints from tenants, who charge that wild parties thrown by the Canadian executive and his constant Tico companion, “Larry” are keeping them awake nights.
Having read all about the Adscam scandal via the Internet, some tenants say you’d think that Lafleur would want to keep a low profile.
Meanwhile, if anyone wants Lafleur to turn down the volume more than the neighbours, it could be Canada’s new ambassador to Costa Rica.
In Quotes
Dan Cook, 01/04/07 at 11:09 PM EDT
Meet Jason Cherniak: Stéphane Dion’s 2006 Blog Campaign Co-Chair, York Region Area Director for the Liberal Party of Canada, president of the Richmond Hill Federal Liberal Riding Association, president of Liblogs, and Lawyer.
Cherniak on Prime Minister Harper:
“Might I remind you that this same asshole PM called the former PM a criminal? Those without sins…” [March 28, 2007]
Cherniak on Toronto MP Olivia Chow:
Rumour has it “that Olivia Chow won because NDP supporters from across the city voted early and often at different polling stations in Trinity-Spadina.” [March 24, 2007]
Cherniak on an individual he neither knows the identity of, or whom he/she works for:
“What racist made the [YouTube] video?” And: “I wonder what French Canadians would think if they knew that the Conservative Party is employing a person who would put such a video together.” [March 28, 2007]
Cherniak on the Liberal Party possessing confidential Tory documents for over 13 months, despite a House of Commons shipping label stating the boxes belonged to the Conservative Party:
“It’s not the Liberals’ fault if the movers forgot some boxes.” [March 28, 2007]…-
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070401.WBwblogolitics20070401230935/WBStory/WBwblogolitics/
[Now, Cherniak parodies himself and AdScam Dion.]
Harper has dropped a French nuke
Did I call Stephen Harper an “asshole”? Yes I did. I think this report by Andrew Coyne proves it. The short story is that the federal Conservatives have begun running ads in Quebec that refer to Stéphane Dion as “vendu”.
For those who do not understand, this is a charge that Stéphane Dion is a sell-out. How did he supposedly sell out? Because he stood against a Québec separatist government’s demands for more money while he was the minister of national unity….- (cherniak)
I just love the new label that both Gerard Kennedy,and David McSquinty have given the Cons new election central…pipples,we will all now refer to this as “The Fear Factory”..all I can say to them is,’lovely shade of envious green really suits you morons!’
Nice story in Nat.Newswatch(via TO Star)
Principal Admits Throwing Excrement
A suspended TO Elementary school principal has pleaded guilty to throwing feces(excrement) on a child.
Maria Pantalone,49,was charged with 2 counts of assault..blah blah.
I couldn’t take it anymore,she testified,in describing the provocative circumstances leading up to incident.
Pantalone,is the sister of Toronto Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone…has been suspended with pay..has submitted letters of support from 19 staff members at the school.
Comment: Lorraine at April 2, 2007 3:15 PM
Should be framed as an essential note for all bloggers to keep in mind. = TG
Stupid is as Stupid Does!
“Nothing personal sir, but your packages are not allowed on passenger airlines,” said a United Parcel Service (UPS) customer service agent, sitting in an American call centre.
but CASH is good everywhere!
“And my package? The one that was flagged by “Flight Guardian”? Well, I drove to a depot close to my office and sent it off — without using an account number and by paying cash. So much for the security offered by a watch list.”
I wonder what other LISTs, there are!
http://www.jordantimes.com/tue/opinion/opinion6.htm
Battery lasts 3 to 4 times the lithium ion cell.
Battery uses no exotic or heavy metals. Enviro – OK.
Battery is protein running on liquid sugar.
physorg.com/news94043039.html
Dr. Shelly Minteer … electrochemist phd.
**
Juicing up your cell phone or iPod may take on a whole new meaning in the future. Researchers at Saint Louis University in Missouri have developed a fuel cell battery that runs on virtually any sugar source — from soft drinks to tree sap — and has the potential to operate three to four times longer on a single charge than conventional lithium ion batteries, they say.**
=========== physorg.com
= TG
Hybrid battery maker is looking for ways to capitalize amid growing demand for hybrid vehicles, certain electronics.
March 14 2007: 7:53 PM EDT
CHICAGO (Reuters) — Cobasys, which produces batteries used in hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles, said Wednesday its owners have enlisted investment bankers to explore strategic alternatives.
money.cnn.com/2007/03/14/news/companies/cobasys.reut/
The venture, which is owned by Energy Conversion Devices Inc. (Charts) and
Chevron Corp. (Charts) , said it is looking for ways to capitalize on growing demand for hybrid vehicles and stationary power.
The contracts include deals with General Motors Corp. (Charts) for the Saturn Aura, Saturn Vue Green Line and a Chevrolet Malibu hybrid.
Cobasys also has a contract to develop lithium ion battery technology for the Volt plug-in hybrid *concept* car GM showed at the North American International Auto Show in January.
============ Money.CNN
Johnson Controls Inc. (Charts) and France’s Saft PA are also in the running.= TG
Get Off Our Rink! We’ll Sue, You. We Are Serious; We Are Branded; We Are Vigilant; We Are The CBC! …-
CBC up in arms over website
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has come out slugging over a “Hockey Fight in Canada” website.
The public network has served a one-man B.C.-based website with a cease and desist order, calling on http://www.hockeyfightincanada.com to stop using the Hockey Night In Canada takeoff logos and name on its site, caps and T-shirts.
“This is a real David and Goliath thing,” says graphic artist Michael Mills, who runs the business out of his Cloverdale, B.C., home.
“The CBC has parodies like the Royal Canadian Air Farce, so why can’t I do it?”
The network doesn’t see it that way.
“We take our brand very seriously and are quite vigilant in protecting it,” said CBC spokesperson Jeff Keay. …-
http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/198845
http://chuckercanuck.blogspot.com/
The Bloggers are Coming! The Bloggers are Coming!
At first, the press gallery was merely concerned. Increasingly, Parliament Hill became a loitering spot for pasty-skinned geeks in flanel pyjamas, sporting Spock ears.
But they quickly switched into full panic mode when they noticed politicians flocking to these coke-sipping, techno-gadget-sprouting dweebs to offer interviews and insights in lieu of facing a scrum of press gallery pimentos asking important questions to Tories such as, “How often do you get faxes from George W. Bush?” or lobbing grenades at Liberals like, “do you look and sound so good when you wake up in the morning?” […]
Its just too bad that it looks so terribly petty.
Afterall, Stephen Taylor has done more for Canadian media than any single member of the press gallery….-
biff said:
[…]
“Sad to see you circling the wagons Andrew. I share my dissappointment with all of your former followers here.
You’ve become redundant.
I can get this stuff from the Toronto Star any day of the week.”
…-
Candace said…
Am I the only one that has noticed that Andrew is doing well to get double-digit comments anymore?
Probably one a week or two, I go, I read, I read the comments, and leave, having nothing to say that anyone wants to hear.
As Emily Letalia would say, nevermind. …-
https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17821047&postID=9220588011971456786
Comments above from/at ChuckerCanuck.
Andrew is the Coyne. Inkless Wells allowed Coyne to write for him? Coyne-Wells are in decline? So sad.
Get yer wheaties here. A message from Barley Borat Dion/Ralffy Goodale/Whiner Easter, et al.
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Agencies bracing for info requests
OTTAWA – The Canadian Wheat Board is among the agencies that were brought under the Access to Information Act on Sunday, meaning its files are now open to public requests. As of April 1, the Canadian Wheat Board, five foundations, and agents of Parliament such as the chief electoral officer and the auditor general are part of the system. The government recently announced that another wave of Crown agencies, including the CBC and Canada Post, the CBC and Via Rail, will be subject to the law Sept. 1. (CP) …-
http://www.primetimecrime.com/
Police search globe for former adman
Jean Lafleur has been charged with $1.58-million in fraud in relation to his work on the sponsorship program
DANIEL LEBLANC
Globe and Mail Update …-
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070402.wfraud0402/BNStory/National/home
The globe was searched? Did they have a search warrant?
Tip: He’s not there. Where is Ecce Cocoa?
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Daniel LeBlanc scooped/broke the Liberal AdScam heist.
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It’s deja vu season, again. …-
‘Very active’ hurricane season predicted
The St. Petersburg Times | 4/3/2007 | By DAN ELLIOTT
The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season should be “very active,” with nine hurricanes and a good chance that at least one major hurricane will hit the U.S. coast, a top researcher said Tuesday.
Forecaster William Gray said he expects 17 named storms in all this year,…-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811233/posts
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The failure of preseason predictions for the hurricane season of 2006 … predictions of an extremely active hurricane season were spectacularly wrong. …-
Zimbabwe: Abandoned to the jackals/hyenas of socialism. Woe to the people of Zimbabwe.
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We are truly on our own (African “leaders” abandon oppressed Zimbabweans to ruthless dictator)
NewZimbabwe.com ^ | 04/03/2007 09:03:40 | Mary Revesai
THE Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) debacle in the Tanzanian capital last weekend when the assembled African leaders treated Robert Mugabe with kid gloves and virtually gave him the green light to continue his ruthless madness proved once and for all that African heads of state are not on the side of oppressed Zimbabweans….-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811219/posts
Doggies don’t do Yogi. Or, do they?
Steff-Kyoto’s application to this class was rejected; its master, Citoyen Dion, is in an “upward facing belly pose.”; catatonic; prostate, even. Steff-Kyoto’s trainer, M. Cherniak, a noted Canadian Liberal legal beagle, is planning an appeal, pro bono, en deux langages. Barfff. …-
Humane Society holds doggie yoga class
By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP, Associated Press Writer
By the end of their doggie yoga class, most of the wandering and sniffing participants are passed out on their mats, in a position their instructor calls the “upward facing belly pose.”
Beans, a majestic 2-year-old Vizsla, however, is ready to play. The overgrown puppy has tried to relax with his owner, Chantale Anderson, but once Magnet the black lab heads off to explore the room, Beans is ready to go.
Mostly, however, both the dogs and the humans on a recent evening at the Seattle/King County Humane Society seemed relaxed and focused for about 40 minutes of “doggie yoga.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811213/posts …-
MP Mark Holland Considers Legal Action Over Levant Column
[Is Cherniak, noted Canuck Fiberal legal beagle, awailable, pro bono, for the plaintiff?]
NATIONAL NEWSWATCH EXCLUSIVE:
Liberal MP Mark Holland tells National Newswatch that he is considering legal options over Ezra Levant column published Monday, April 2. …-
http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/
Trail is dead; cold. “Larry” is missing, too. …-
Jean Lafleur charged with 35 counts of fraud in AdScam scandal still on the lam
Judi McLeod
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“Ever since good fortune landed him in San Rafael de Escazu, Monsieur Lafleur and his constant, 30-year-old companion “Larry”, has been living the life of the wanton playboy.”
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“Larry turned out to be Tico Larry Umana, described as a “Mama’s boy”.” …-
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover040307.htm
Warren Kinsella and Kathy Shaidle in the same room together. And they, … they… didn’t fight!! In fact they ggggot along.
A very, very good discussion on Steve Paikin’s The Agenda. Religion, no religion, cults, ect.
Hottest question I would have had for WK was when he mentioned that not all environmentalists are kooks. Who would you describe as the non-Kook, Warren, Patrick Moore OR David Suzuki ??
On WK mussings and RC sites.
Debate starts after Paikin’s interview with DiNovo.
http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/tvoutils/globalfiles/VideoPop.cfm?spot_id=2285µsitefolder=theagenda
Belgium is instituting a bbq tax, and will patrol areas with helicopters to find offenders. Seems bbqs emit co2. I do not have a bbq, will not get one, so who wants to buy my credits. Will the kyotologists in canada promise the same tax. All those cottage owners might finally discover that cutting co2 will hit them, not just the oil industry in AB. So, how much c02 will those helicopters emit, spying on the people. Dust my broom has the story.
Teaching little kids to blow themselves up…
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,263666,00.html
Seems a little odd with the Parliament 2-week break.
Not used to going more than 24 hours without seeing Goodale on CBC demanding an apology.
Hezbollah Coderre needs a good lawyer. Tip: Nasrallah is available and looking for $$$$$$$.
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Liberal MP Denis Coderre has launched a $45,000 defamation suit against the Phoenix Coyotes’ Shane Doan in response to the NHL player’s $250,000 defamation suit against him. …-
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When I tried to vote for a CWB director back in the ’90’s when KPMG were in charge, all ballots were numbered and I expect because I voted for a pro-choice candidate I got a letter back saying my ballot was disqualified, but I guess it was OK then. David Peterson
More good news for the Cons!!! Trevor Kennard(former kicker with Wpg.Blue Bombers)has announced today in Wpg.he is going to run for the Cons.in next election(federally).He will be up against the ever whiny Anita Neville!Hey,we already had one giant killer,when young Bruinuoge(can’t spell that!)knocked off Reg Alcock.Lookin good!And all the Libs can do is put out feeble lawsuit announcements.Great day for Wpg.
Attention All Union Members ! In response to your latest agreement —- we’re closing down . Bye bye.
This courtesy of the Chronicle Herald in Hafilax http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/568928.html
Seems the 330 boys held out for the good bucks all right …were warned, but like Cape Bretoners who are their soulmates decided the company was jus blowin’ smoke man . Lets roll some homemades and sit around watching the other half work eh ? and BOOM .. they are done like dinner.
High costs sealed TrentonWorks’ fate, company says
“TrentonWorks’ parent company in Oregon told investors Wednesday that it just could not take any more losses from its Nova Scotia plant and won’t reconsider its decision to close it.
Some 330 jobs will be lost when TrentonWorks closes after an order for 300 railcars is completed later this year. No exact date for the closure has been set.”—
Looks good on them. The day of the union is ended. The day of the greasy fingernail begins anew …in India and China and Mexico. Get used to it . The social dynamics of the marketplace cannot be held in check.