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  1. Oh hi, it’s me again, Vitruvius. I have a 1.8 MB x 1034 pixel wide x 7859 high image I would like to upload somewhere to share with y’all. I tried my little blogspot thingy at the link below, and I tried my KeepAndShare account, and they all scale the image down to a smaller size than the uploaded original, which defeats my purpose.
    Does anyone know of a free public site where I can upload such an image in a fashion that results in a URL that y’all can then simply pick to view the full-size image? If detailed instructions are necessary, perhaps you could use my email account at the bottom of my web page. Thanks.

  3. No, Vitruvius, but the Astronomy Picture of the Day site takes this approach with their photos. Maybe you can find some clues there.

  4. Joe Who Alert! Joe has BDS, Red Tory strain. Did you find your luggage* yet, Joe?
    …-
    Canada overlooking Commonwealth’s influence in the world: former PM
    As Commonwealth leaders gather in Uganda this weekend, former prime minister Joe Clark is urging the Harper government to reshape Canada’s foreign policy, which he says is too closely allied to the interests of the Bush administration. (national newswatch)
    *When Clark lost his luggage at the airport, media stars like Alan Fotheringham wrote column after column on Joe the Dolt. When Clark asked a starving …
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_zolf/20040430.html

  5. “oe Who Alert! Joe has BDS, Red Tory strain. Did you find your luggage* yet, Joe?”
    Great find Maz!! This is like finding a presumed extinct animal…the once abundant but now endangered western red-footed ferret (Torius redinski)
    If you sight it again take a shot at at it and complete what nature started.

  6. Bonuses in our cities?
    Boneheads in the socialist ranks.
    There is a war in TO and Ottawa: snovelling snow with axes.
    …-
    Ottawa to axe soldiers’ bonus
    “The federal government is about to stop its practice of giving extra money to Canadian soldiers posted to some of the country’s most expensive cities.”
    “However, the Tory government will put a halt to the payments for soldiers in places such as Toronto and Ottawa.”
    ” blahblahblahbllah”, “said NDP defence critic [Taliban] Dawn Black.”
    “”It might have an impact on their morale,” added Liberal defence critic [Hezbollah] Denis Coderre.”
    …-
    http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=18ddb868-5559-487a-8496-8c285a9ce581

  7. The Premier is broadly hinting that there are big problems projected for Saskatchewan’s finances going forward. Calvert is beside himself that he has left the province with a 2 billion dollar cushion. Someone should tell the civil servants in the Finance Department. They are projecting increasing deficits for the next four years. The amounts that Premier Wall and his Finance Minister will announce next week will make us all reel. It looks like Calvert’s spending spree of the last 12 months is coming home to roost. The NDP government of the last 16 years never had a revenue problem. It is obvious that they had a really bad spending problem. Like he lied throughout the campaign, Calvert is again lying through his new teeth about the province’s books.

  8. The Premier is broadly hinting that there are big problems projected for Saskatchewan’s finances going forward. Calvert is beside himself that he has left the province with a 2 billion dollar cushion. Someone should tell the civil servants in the Finance Department. They are projecting increasing deficits for the next four years. The amounts that Premier Wall and his Finance Minister will announce next week will make us all reel. It looks like Calvert’s spending spree of the last 12 months is coming home to roost. The NDP government of the last 16 years never had a revenue problem. It is obvious that they had a really bad spending problem. Like he lied throughout the campaign, Calvert is again lying through his new teeth about the province’s books.

  11. My first post got lost in the spam filter. Let me try it this way.
    For one totally awesome picture (my best Valley Girl immitation… sorry, best I can do), google Samual Alexander Armas.
    I promise it will warm your heart.

  14. Running out of ice? Bergs? Polar bears? Ships going down i….n our oceans? In Arcantica?
    The question is: did the ship strike the iceberg; or, did the iceberg strike the ship? Either way, it’s not a pairaducks.
    MSM says it’s “a chunk of ice”.
    …-
    CTV | Ten Canadians were aboard ship that struck ice
    Ten Canadians were aboard a cruise ship that struck a chunk of ice in Antarctic waters and is currently at risk of going down. (via jack’s newswatch)

  16. Canwest | Canadian income stages turnaround versus U.S.
    OTTAWA — The global commodity boom has helped Canadian income per capita stage a dramatic “reversal of fortunes” against its U.S. counterpart, Statistics Canada said in a report Thursday. (jack’s newswatch)
    Rare birds discovered. Description: Aunty-American siamese twins, Joe Who and Citoyen Dion Who, are redfaced with poverty, red-assed with nuance feathers, and polled as a redpolled socialist. Open season declared. Bounty is good for ten years on species “povertyensis canaddensis red-green socialists”

  17. Global ‘warming’cancels some outdoor,pre-Grey Cup celebrations.Toronto a city of ‘wusses’ according to some western fans (TO Sun).Wonder if they’ve called for some of the dreaded soldiers in our streets to come help them out after a wee skiff of snow?Was listening to cbc radio(I know,my bad) last eve,and they interviewed some hardy Rider/Bomber fans,that were NOT too happy about cancellations..and the comments from the event organizer(sounded like one of those TO metrosexuals)whining about subjecting his musicians to the ‘elements’..hmm,wonder what these cry-babies would think of Portage and Main mid-Nov,and the open Bomber stadium?

  18. maz2: “CTV | Ten Canadians were aboard ship that struck ice”
    I wonder if it was the “Climate Change Challenge Antarctica Mission Trip”.
    3w.tourvacationstogo.com/antarctica_tours.cfm?npid=8542&nhr=1

  19. Booming Global Sharia Finance Market: “Adapting Finance to Islam”
    …[T]he boom in Sharia finance…is fueled by trillions of petro-dollars that major financial institutions and Wall Street believe may be the mother lode of deals and lush transaction fees to replace the collapsing sub prime mortgage and sagging private equity market deal flow. Why not. With an estimated $1.5 to over $2.0 trillion in funds from oil with prices nearing the historic inflation-adjusted high of $102 a barrel, what’s a good banker to do, but chase after it and throw a bear hug around it. Major money center banks like Citigroup, HSBC and Deutsche Bank are salivating at doing deals with Sharia compliant financial institutions with over $500 billion in assets and growing at an average compound growth rate of 10% per annum. The price of this will be creeping adaptation of Sharia finance in usual and customary transactions in both Islamic countries and even here in North America. The Times article notes the hiring of Muslim Scholars at $100,000 a throw to deliver legal opinions on what’s Sharia compliant or not….
    The NYT article underlying the blog entry is here: Adapting Finance to Islam.

  20. Layton getting in on the Act
    Layton is now appealing to the Govenor of Montana.
    Dion & Layton are saying that Canadians are against the death peanalty & the Ottawa Citizen in todays article uses a recent Harris/Decima national poll stating most Canadians are opposed.
    the poll shows 50% opposed while 43% are in favor, It does not say in the article how many Canadians were polled,When & where. So if it is the usual 1000 people Does 1000 people translate to Most Canadians?
    I don’t know about anybody else but I have never been asked the question.
    Now i have a few questions, this is a confessed dual murderer that has been on death row since 1982, How many times were the liberals in power since then?, How many times did the Liberals appeal to the Gov’t of Montana? & Why now are they appealing for a stay of execution?
    Are the liberals & now the NDP using this execution of a convicted killer of Citizens of another country In their country for political purposes Only?

  21. CANADA’S 3RD TASER DEATH AND 8TH CONCURRENT PROBE
    http://tinyurl.com/2rwhj4
    “”A third death in five weeks linked to the use of Taser stun guns by police in Canada on Thursday prompted a ministerial inquiry in easternmost Nova Scotia province.
    (…)
    In the wake of these fatalities, Amnesty International urged authorities to suspend the use of Tasers, saying it had documented 16 prior deaths in Canada that raise “serious questions about the health risks involved in electro-shock weapons.””

  22. bryanr – exactly right. This man has been on Death Row for over 20 years, and the Liberal Party formed the Canadian government for the majority of that period.
    It said nothing, ever, about this man and his sentence. Nothing.
    Suddenly, with Harper in power, the Liberals have become all worried and flustered; they’ve written to the Governor of Montana, declaring that they, the Liberals, speak of all Canadians, and ask that the sentence be commuted to life in prison. Because he’s Canadian. He’s different under the law.
    The NDP, not to be outdone in the perception of the latte crowd, have jumped on the bandwagon.
    But the real issue is – where were the Liberals with this issue for the past 20 years? When they formed the government? Where?
    As with all other issues – Kyotoism, Mulroney-Schreiber and this, Dion shows us that the Liberal Party has No Policies. It operates only within the current Tabloid Topic of the Day.

  23. Exactly, WLMR, they should ban tazers and just use real guns and bullets to stop these lawbreakers like they used to. more deader more of the time.

  25. Notice: Prayer meeting for the ex-Premier on Sunday prior to Cup orgy in MJaw’s Church of the Socialist Paradise, the Rev. T. Dooglas, Pastor Emeritus. BYOB. 10:am, er is that 11:am?
    The Rev. L. is a denier; in truth, Rev. is playing hard-to-get. It’s a loser’s game.
    …-
    [The Rev.] Calvert denies federal ambitions
    Former [NDP] Saskatchewan premier Lorne Calvert has ruled out a bid for federal office. (national newswatch]

  29. “Toni Vernelli was steralised at age 27 to reduce her carbon footprint”
    One can only hope it becomes an overwhelming trend amongst the moonbat nation.

  30. watched the CBCpravda national at issue panel last night,
    Andrew Coyne thought Steph could make a comeback
    Chantel Herberts last comment about Stephane Dion was something like “sometimes there are losers, especially in Quebec”

  32. from globe and mail..liberals gunning for election..
    “According to some of his advisers, Mr. Dion believes his best hope of defeating Mr. Harper will come in a head-to-head contest when the two are likely to garner relatively equal media attention and have the same campaign funds at their disposal.”
    OH,OH, HAHAAHAAAAAAAAA!!!
    bwaaa, hahahaaaaa etc etc..
    Oh please, Noel Coward, please do stop, you do go on..

  33. Caroline Glick, Column One: American folly
    The mood is dark in the IDF’s General Staff ahead of next week’s “peace” conference in Annapolis. As one senior officer directly involved in the negotiations with the Palestinians and the Americans said, “As bad as it might look from the outside, the truth is 10 times worse. This is a nightmare. The Americans have never been so hostile.”
    On Thursday a draft of the joint statement that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are discussing ahead of the conference was leaked to the media. A reading of the document bears out the IDF’s concerns.
    The draft document shows that the Palestinians and the Israelis differ not only on every issue, but differ on the purpose of the document. It also shows that the US firmly backs the Palestinians against Israel….

  35. I wonder about Dion. Is the man simply so egotistical that he can’t see reality? Or is he trapped within the utopian rhetoric of academia that he can’t see reality? Is it both?
    Or, does he see/know something that the rest of the world doesn’t? He is so sure that he, Dion, is the Right Leader, and that he, Dion, will be the Next Prime Minister, ‘if only there were an election’. His certainty ignores polls, ignores every MSM pundit who all, despite their being predominately Liberal, define Dion as a ‘wet sock’.
    He’s certain that in a ‘head-to-head’ confrontation (eg, the televised debates?) he will ‘beat Harper’. He’s certain he will return the Liberals to their rightful place as the Natural Governing Party. I must admit, that certainty is unnerving. Either he knows something or he’s demented.
    The Liberals want an election in February, before the govt can table its new budget. But heck, the govt doesn’t have to table its budget in parliament for its contents to be public. It can do so as part of its election package – and inform the public that the Liberals are preventing Canadians from access to the delights of this new budget.
    And since these items will not be empy election rhetoric, like Paul Martin’s bribes to the public during his election campaign, but instead, carefully thought out, financed and grounded fiscal items, they will be solid offerings rather than empty bribes.
    The Liberals are attempting to smear Harper by linking, wildly, Mulroney-Schreiber with Harper. That’s impossible. Guilt by association is a contemptible agenda.
    Saner minds are already speaking out in the MSM against an inquiry, against the Liberal behaviour, defining them as on a witch-hunt, as degrading parliament..etc..
    Dion has already had to abandon his empty Kyotoism. He’s nowhere in Quebec. He has no policies. His ‘attack on poverty’ is typical political rhetoric. Every politician has that agenda – and ignores that in a robust economy, there are natural scales of wealth.
    These scales will always exist. from low to high. That means that anyone who is ‘low’ can be called ‘poor’, despite in reality, not being without the basic and more qualities of a middle class life. Dion’s definition of his family as poor shows us how ignorant he is about the definition of poverty.
    Furthermore, Dion is ignoring a very real problem with his party. That problem is the NDP, which is rapidly morphing into the wolf gobbling up the Liberal sheep. The NDP has the agenda of becoming the official opposition. Now, that’s a possibility.
    Are the Liberals going to let Dion go for an election, to lose, so that they can get Rae in as their next leader? Where’s the Ignatieff camp? How long can Ignatieff go on as Deputy beside a Dion and his juvenile name-calling in the House?

  36. Can somebody help me with this as I’ve got a problem with the latest Dion/Layton position. Here are two gentlemen(?), that are pleading for clemency in a foreign jurisdiction for a convicted murderer, and at the same time they both espouse the view of Pro-Choice. So they are alright with government sanctioned murder of innocents but don’t think it is right for governments to sanction the murder of criminals? No wonder Harper didn’t take them on the latest international junket, they are an embarrassment to Canada on the international stage!

  38. 7 Afghan cops beheaded
    By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Taliban militants beheaded seven policemen after overrunning their checkpoints in southern Afghanistan on Friday, officials said.
    (canoe news) …-
    Joint Press Release: Priority Post Letter.
    From: Taliban Jack/Citoyen Dion.
    To: Taliban.
    Subject: Islam, the Religion of Peace (ROP).
    Please make sure you deploy sharp scimitars on your fellow countrymen’s heads. Dull blades make slow hacking. Louise Arbour, Canada’s UN Inhuman Wrongs watchbitch is watching youse. Iffen you need help, RSVP.
    Best wishes, and regards,
    Jack and Stephane.
    P.S. Keep up the good work.

  40. How many other blunders that liberals refused to act on during their reign are out there for PMSH to clean up. Every time dion brings one up it just shows us how incompetent the liberals were. They did not govern they just lined their pockets. Do we need an inquiry into why they fired the Via Rail guy. Wonder if Bedards fall from grace has anything to do with the payout.
    How much cdn taxmoney has been paid out to settle liberal goofs and refusal to act.
    Chinese head tax, veterans, Arar, are just a few. This inquiry will cost millions.
    Great campaign slogan, we cost the taxpayers million to find out about 300,000., but we refuse to pay back the millions we stole from cdns thru adscam. Please vote liberal, we aim to screw up.

  41. ET: are the liberals going to let dion go for an election,to lose.
    Yes they are, the liberals know that they are in big trouble & i agree not only with the Conservatives but with the NDP.
    They know that when they lose an election they will not only get rid of Dion(at the expense of the taxpayers) they will be trying to save face too. They will use the exuse that canadians would not adapt to Dion. The liberals desperately need to buy time to get Rae, Kennedy, Trudeau & Ignatief in postion for a major party shakeup, they also need to buy time to get their finances back in order, in order to launch a major campaign.
    Are they willing to chance losing official Opposition status? Yes i believe they are willing to take that chance knowing that it will take a number of years to rebuild.

  43. Compare Notes… is all going well with your Shaw Ip service?
    shot note about some irksome issues..
    ==========================================
    Dear Shaw, and lovely receptionist,
    Irked, but constructively cooperative,
    Shaw Internet Service Provider [ Problems ]
    ================================
    [ 1 ] Informed Courtenay BC office that two inch adding
    machine tape is not a proper payment receipt as it has no
    Shaw heading and tends to fade to blank. [Monthly for 24
    months. Nothing done.] [ Totally ignored ] same unsigned no
    Paid stamped 2″ slip is current November 21/2007. [It does
    have *Shaw* on the back now, but still fades away.]
    [ 2 ] While I was attracted to Shaw internet service
    advertised at $24.95. I was surprised when bills showed
    basic fee was $37.95. Checking the 2 complex pink
    installation sheets I see where the installer has placed a
    small x in the $37.95 box, not the $24.95 box. Is that bait
    and switch?
    [ 3 ] Fee rate has bounced up without notice. Was paying
    $88.00 bi-monthly . Now the bill is suddenly $ 94.82.
    [ 4 ] Friends on Shaw internet in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary
    and Winnipeg state their service is high-speed at 400 Mbps.
    My service is never above 100 Mbps and every day I get
    several **Unable to find Server error messages** where I must
    disconnect and re-connect to regain service.
    There are more points of contention but if these were
    addressed, it would help remove the sense of being royally
    reamed with a threaded fastening device.
    Shaw employees are polite and do the best they can. It is
    only the upper offices that seem isolated or insulated from
    the lowly customer.
    Shaw would enjoy a better reputation if even the questions
    of a decent receipt and fewer service interruptions in
    Courtenay were addressed.

  44. bryanr – yes, nice point. The Liberal’s only way to get rid of Dion, is to yet again, make use of the taxpayer’s money.
    Remember, they made use of the taxpayers’ money during Chretien’s era, to fund their campaigns in Quebec. That’s many millions of dollars that they laundered via fake Show The Flag campaigns when the money was really being used to fund their electoral riding expenses.
    Then, they (Chretien) accused Mulroney – the first time – and the taxpayer, yet again, was on the hook. Two million dollars to pay Mulroney’s lawyers.
    And, Martin, in his desperate attempt to define himself as ‘not part of Chretien’s Gang of Crooks’, fired quite a few of that group. And now, the taxpayer, yet again, is having to fund the Liberal Follies.
    Now, Dion, in his attempt to besmirch Harper, is playing a Guilt By Association folly. He’s in cahoots with Schreiber, whose agenda is to stay out of Germany, to accuse Mulroney, yet again, of nefarious deeds. Dion doesn’t give a damn about Mulroney. Or Schreiber. He’s trying the Guilt By Association tactic to smear Harper. Anyone who, at any time, was in the same room as Schreiber, who ever talked to him, who ever shook his hand, is Guilty.
    Guilt by Association. Wasn’t one of Dion’s three planks in The Dion Agenda (besides Kyotoism and Unity)..wasn’t one of these planks all about Social Justice???
    Is defining someone as guilty without a trial – is that Dion’s Social Justice? That’s a violation of the sacred Liberal Charter.
    Is violating the Charter – is that Dion’s Social Justice?
    Is defining someone as guilty by association – is that Dion’s Social Justice? That’s also a violation of the Charter’s freedom of association. Not for Dion. Guilty by Association.
    Dion The Demented, thinks he’ll win in an election. The backroom boys hope he’ll lose. But, I doubt if they want to lose Official Opposition status.
    I’m beginning to suspect that they are trying to make the best of a terrible situation.
    They have to get rid of Dion. The only way is via an election. BUT – the longer they wait, the more the NDP will be, not merely nibbling, but swallowing their electoral base. They might like to wait, to get more money, to try to get a team together – but – their worries are not only the Conservatives. But the NDP. I think they weren’t taking the NDP threat seriously before. Now they are. That’s why, I think, they want to go in February.
    So, their current agenda is to Smear Harper by a despicable tactic: Guilt by Association. However, how are they going to deal with the NDP – who are already talking over, through, and under, the Liberal squeak.

  45. “We think a dynamic of return to work has begun,”
    MSM headline says “First Success”. Wrong. It’s his Fourth Success:
    1. First Success: Being elected; routing the Socialists.
    2. Second Success: Reconciling France with the USA/George Bush.
    3. Emulating Thatcher; Bringing the socialist unions to their knees/senses.
    4. Fourth Success: Strike is over/dead.
    Vive Sarkozy.
    …-
    Collapse of Rail, Subway Strike Is a First Success for Sarkozy
    President Sarkozy of France is on the verge of a breakthrough in his ambitious plan to wean his country off the restrictive working practices he believes stand in the way of national prosperity.
    Yesterday, the strike of rail and subway workers that has crippled France for nine days was clearly crumbling, as workers began returning to work in large numbers and union branches conceded that support for the dispute is collapsing.
    “We think a dynamic of return to work has begun,” Julie Vion, a spokeswoman for France’s state-owned railroad network, SNCF, said. …-
    (via jack’s newswatch)

  46. Accidently caught about 30 seconds of CBC News last night — I believe one of my bedsheets blocked the remote sticking me on the channel — and was gobsmacked at the portrayal of the valiant heroic Dion the Demented (good one ET). And they showed him thrusting his valiant fighter arms up in the air doing an excellent impersonation of Mr. Bean or that Martin Short character Ed Grimly.

  47. A big Second Amendment case coming before the US Supreme Court soon is the 1976 Washington DC gun ban. I thought these stats were interesting:
    Illegal guns continue to be widely available in the district; criminals have easy access to guns while law-abiding citizens do not. Cathy L. Lanier, Acting Chief of Police, Metropolitan Police Department, was quoted as follows: “Last year [2006], more than 2,600 illegal firearms were recovered in D.C., a 13% increase over 2005.” Crime rose significantly after the gun ban went into effect. In the five years before the 1976 ban, the murder rate fell to 27 from 37 per 100,000. In the five years after it went into effect, the murder rate rose to 35. In fact, while murder rates have varied over time, during the 30 years since the ban, the murder rate has only once fallen below what it was in 1976.
    A good write up at the WSJ on this case.

  48. ET: i believe liberals scriptwriters are trying hard to change the channel, focus.
    Just look at the topics over the past few weeks in & out of QP.
    khs/mulroney, teen taliban pow’s, montana.
    dion performance raters(msm)have been silent as of late with the exception of a few & now we see just today G&M are liberals plotting for a Feb. election.
    So yes they are desparate to change the channel or get the negative focus off of dion for now in order to get dion to think he could go for a general election. He will with out a doubt lose, but this will clear the way for those in waiting however i think it will backfire bigtime.

  49. KHS wants time to Review his papers
    CTV.ca is reporting karl wants out so he can go to his Ottawa home & review what he has tucked away, Liberal MP Szabo says not an unreasonable request.
    Ok so if he knows so much why does he need to go home to review papers,Also Can they not be brought to him in jail, like he has so much to do.

  50. The Liberals are behaving like drug addicts in withdrawal.
    We have withdrawn the finances and power they are addicted to and now observe the dementia and writhing spasms as they get their just deserts.
    No sympathy from here.

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