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  1. A U.S. Marine squad was marching north of Fallujah when they came upon an Iraqi terrorist, badly injured and unconscious. On the opposite side of the road was an American Marine in a similar but less serious state. The
    Marine was conscious and alert and as first aid was given to both men, the squad leader asked the injured Marine what had happened. The Marine reported, “I was heavily armed and moving north along the highway here,
    and coming south was a heavily armed insurgent. We saw each other and both took cover in the ditches along the road. I yelled to him that Saddam Hussein was a miserable, lowlife scum bag who got what he
    deserved, and he yelled back that Ted Kennedy is a fat,
    good-for-nothing, left wing liberal drunk who doesn’t know how to drive. So I said that Osama Bin Ladin dresses and acts like a frigid, mean-spirited lesbian!
    He retaliated by yelling, “Oh yeah? Well, so does Hillary Clinton!”
    “And, there we were, in the middle of the road, shaking hands, when a truck hit us.”

  3. NASA blames rapid decline in Arctic sea ice on ‘unusual winds’ (not greenhouse gases)
    October 2, 2007 Recent Rapid Decline in Sea Ice caused by Unusual Winds, says NASA
    A few of our commentators on this blog found this story earlier today and I thank them.
    Anyway, in a news release from NASA Monday, a group of scientists have determined that unusual winds caused the rapid decline (23% loss) in winter perennial ice over the past two years in the northern hemisphere. This drastic reduction is the primary cause of this summer’s fastest-ever sea ice retreat in recorded history which has lead to the smallest extent of total Arctic coverage on record.
    According to the NASA study, the perennial ice shrunk by an area the size of Texas and California combined between the winter of 2005 and the winter of 2007. What they found was the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia and Alaska was dominated by thinner seasonal ice that melts faster compared to the thicker ice confined to the Arctic Ocean north of Canada. The thinner ice is more easily compressed and responds more quickly to being pushed out of the Arctic by winds.
    “Unusual atmospheric conditions set up wind patterns that compressed the sea ice, loaded it into the Transpolar Drift Stream and then sped its flow out of the Arctic,” said Son Nghiem of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and leader of the study. When that sea ice reached lower latitudes, it rapidly melted in the warmer waters.
    What about these unusual wind patterns. Well, the article does not go into that too much, but I must believe some of this is due to changes in the Arctic Oscillation (AO) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) which are large atmospheric circulations which have major impacts on the weather in certain parts of the world. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906149/posts
    Despite warming, ships to shun Northwest Passage
    David Ljunggren , Reuters
    Published: Tuesday, October 02, 2007
    OTTAWA (Reuters) – While there has been much talk that Arctic trade routes will open up as northern ice melts, shipping companies and experts say using the fabled Northwest Passage through Canada’s Arctic archipelago would be too difficult, too dangerous and totally impractical.
    In theory, the idea is tempting — the passage cuts the distance between Europe and the Far East to just 7,900 nautical miles, from 12,600 nautical miles through the Panama Canal.
    Global warming means that the summer ice cover in Canada’s Arctic is shrinking at such a rapid rate that experts predict the waters could be clear for at least part of the year within a few decades.
    […]
    Even if the ice does melt in summer the season would be very brief, perhaps from late June to late September. Then the long dark winter starts drawing in and ice forms again.
    And just because there is no ice in the passage one summer is no guarantee it will not return the next — a factor which does little to assuage vessels seeking reliable routes. …-
    http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=fec03411-cd9c-4b85-bbea-8558f8093e0f&k=54519

  4. BTW – Did anyone notice that J Chretien went straight to the front of the health care line??
    From the the golf course to the operating table in less than a week!
    Know anyone else who got that treatment?

  5. Just heard on the news, Chretien’s surgery was described as “emergency.” If so, I don’t think the prompt treatment was unusual.

  6. My wife’s uncle underwent the same procedure in BC eight years ago. He waited five weeks.

  10. Texas Canuck, Brilliant to pay in American funds .I think I may mosey down to the Coles and try that out………. As for Cretin’s heart surgery,my sister was diagnosed in the morning in Windsor,Ont. and on an operating table in London the same afternoon. Sometimes healthcare works for all.

  13. “sask ‘boy,’
    In case it hasn’t dawned on you, you’re the troll here. Go play with the children, this is an adult site.
    Posted by: irwin daisy”
    Irwin ‘Daisy’
    In case it hasn’t dawned on you, you’re the flower here. Go back to the garden, this is for Small Dead Animals. Boys count as animals, daisies don’t.
    This post is an example of trolling. Not my last one, it was a valid criticism of an author on the blog. How is Kate going to improve the quality of her blog unless she gets honest feedback from concerned readers? Where’s your concern for quality?

  14. 90% of the assets of north america are controlled by 2% of the population. or some such comparison; it changes over time.
    I’m one of the 2% and I use $100 bills to light my cigars while I check my oil stocks. As Public Relations Minister for the Evil Zionist 2% Cabal let me inform you that we plan on taking more of the money pie so there’s nothing left for you. If you catch me in a good mood maybe I’ll throw you some cake. have a good day.

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