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  1. This is a fun article trying to rationalize why Powerful men sleep with other Women.
    Personaly I agree with this explanation: http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/#clip276676
    Cheaters run on overdrive
    Power can unleash changes in the brain, says a psychologist. Just look at Tiger Woods, John Edwards and Jesse James.
    http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-banks10-2010apr10,0,5031066.column?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews+%28L.A.+Times+-+Top+News%29

  2. Thanks for the link Vit, but I still think Patrick Stewarts’ best comedy work was in Star Trek TNG.

  3. The Future Shop joins forces with The David Suzuki Foundation:
    “Be Green and Win!” contest. Participate by visiting http://www.futureshop.ca/greencontest and tell us what you’re doing to help the environment to have a chance to win a $1,000 Future Shop gift card. We’ll donate $1 to The David Suzuki Foundation for every act of green submitted.
    Nick Heap of the David Suzuki Foundation joins (The Future Shop) Tech Blog as a guest blogger!
    Please join me in welcoming Nick Heap to the Tech Blog as our featured guest blogger!
    Here’s my welcome:
    “I won’t spend a dime at the Future Shop as long as it is associated with The David Suzuki Foundation.
    Suzuki is an eco-hypocrite – telling others to go green, while he owns multiple residences and burns tons of jet fuel traveling from Vancouver and Ottawa to Conventions and Conferences, flying first class, no doubt, since the Future Shop, via the David Suzuki Foundation, is paying the bill.”
    You can welcome Nick too!
    http://tinyurl.com/yclg3dl

  4. Vitruvius: “Alas, Stewart never thought of that. Or Did He?”
    Probably not. It’s more of a Sit-Down Comedy routine.

  5. Ah. So, de gustibus non disputandum est then, as we dead
    Romans say. Well, whatever, we’re not supposed to chat here,
    so I’m out: good night. As always, thanks for this space, Kate.

  6. Rex nailed it. The hatred directed to Sarah Palin is nothing but the same old urban contempt for all things rural.
    “She’s rural, she came into national politics from (ugh) Alaska. She and her husband have the unerasable stigmata of the modern working class.”
    It’s the same condescending thinly-disguised hatred we get from Queen’s Park chicken-necks when they arbitrarily restrict our rural land-use, telling us stupid, country bumpkins that we just have to suck up the loss of income because it’s all about the “greater good.”
    It’s the self-seving patronizing of Suzuki,earning the thunderous applause of a well-heeled crowd of Ottawa bureacrats (who had paid hundreds from their government salaries for the privilege of hearing the great man) by telling them that, “if you’re the type of person who shops at Wal-mart, you’ve demenonstrated to me that you don’t give a shit about your Country.” As if any one of them – with their six and seven figure salaries – have ever felt the necessity of doing so.
    It’s the craven cowardice of McGuinty, who bowed down and kissed the arses of tax-payer subsidized parasites (environmental NGOs)and allowwed them to write his endangered species legislation – in exchange for their applause on radio and TV.
    And it’s deceit, as practiced by the likes of Stephen Harper, Jim Prentice,John Tory and a host of other so-called “conservatives” who pretend (just prior to election) to care about rural property rights, but have not taken one meaningful step towards acquiring them for Canadians.

  7. Ah yes, John Tory. I remember (vaguely) him, Jamie MacMaster. I wonder how that fake conservatism is working out for him lately.

  8. Sooke, I left a similar message and included my thoughts on aiding a fraud. Coca Cola got a similar message some time back when they showed support for the Copenhagen scam. Presently I am a Pepsi drinker, at least for now.
    Maybe if they get enough of these messages they might rethink their stand.
    What is going on these days? Everybody is becoming a social activist in their own eyes and attempting to ram their nonsense down everybody else’s throat.

  9. The cowards at futureshop have locked out any comments, you now have to register. That took less than 2 hours from my post telling them I will do everything in my power to make sure everyone I know spends there money elsewhere.

  10. Here is a dandy for ya, crazy beyond crazy.
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/04/11/climate-craziness-of-the-week-british-campaigner-urges-un-to-accept-ecocide-as-international-crime-proposal-to-declare-mass-destruction-of-ecosystems-a-crime-on-a-par-with-genocide/
    Ecocide = genocide.
    I say the sooner we build the wall (thunder bay north)and start a country with some spine and logical thinking the better. Where us the anarchist you speak of when we need him/her.
    Your right the whole world is run by crazy people.

  11. Socialism: 0.Zer0000000000 >>>
    …-
    “Letters From Zimbabwe: Cathy Buckle
    Saturday 10th April 2010
    Dear Family and Friends,
    When you ask people how they’ve survived this dreadful decade in Zimbabwe, almost everyone mentions the name Gideon Gono (Governor of the Reserve Bank.) People say they would have been able to salvage something if it hadn’t been for Gono’s incessant printing of money – and bragging about it; for his inability and unwillingness to control government spending; for his looting of foreign currency from private bank accounts, and for his removal of zeroes from the currency: 3 were taken off in 2006 and 10 in 2008. It’s hard to understand how any of us survived really and inevitable that we will feel the repercussions for a very long time to come.
    For the first time in most people’s lives we do not have savings to fall back on in case of accidents, illness or unemployment. Savings accounts we had in banks, post offices and investment centres have disappeared as each removal of zeroes literally stole our money away in front of our very eyes. You have to look at your bank balance, remove thirteen digits and then understand the state we are in here. Life insurance policies and pension funds have been similarly looted.
    Anyone who held their assets in cash and savings and not in immovable property, has lost everything. Anyone who held their assets in land, livestock, crops or anything to do with farms and agriculture, has lost everything.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2490930/posts

  12. Red-Green socialism’s long reach: Russia > Zimbabwe > USA >>>>
    …-
    “Tycoon’s tyrant ties threaten Nets deal
    A New Jersey congressman says he will demand a government inquiry into Mikhail Prokhorov, the Russian billionaire poised to buy the New Jersey Nets, for his extensive business dealings in Zimbabwe — a bombshell that could blow up the $200 million team deal and threaten the future of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards, The Post has learned.
    Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., a member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, wants to know if companies controlled by Prokhorov in Zimbabwe violate federal rules that forbid American citizens and companies, and subsidiaries set up in the United States, from doing business with brutal strongman Robert Mugabe, his regime or associates.
    “This is disgusting,” Pascrell said. “Obviously, the Board of Governors of the NBA didn’t do their job properly when they vetted this deal.”
    He said the project received tax-exempt bonds.
    “It’s being financed partly by the taxpayer, and the public has a right to know,” he said.
    Prokhorov’s Renaissance Capital investment bank has interests in the Zimbabwean stock exchange, banks, a cellphone company, mining and a swanky, private big-game reserve. The company is intertwined with Onexim, the $25 billion Prokhorov-controlled investment fund behind the deal to bring the struggling NBA team to Brooklyn.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2490916/posts

  13. Corporations like Coca Cola, Future Shop etc: are symbols of encroaching Fascism. History tells us that one goal of Fascists is to tie Corporatism in with social programs.
    Germany is a good example. Many major corporations promoted the Nazi ideals in social engineering. Physical exercise, organic foods, animal rights, tobacco control,the environment etc. etc.

  14. Al’s AGW Upadte: Good news.
    “because winter returns.” “(with snow)”.
    From the Weather hEad who “keeps the wolf from our doors in London,”.
    …-
    “Bursting through”
    “By the end of this week those in the north of Scotland will need an even bigger shrug, because winter returns. How far and how fast the cold wet weather (with snow) in the north moves south is uncertain, so let us just say next weekend will be colder everywhere, turn unsettled, and bring the first rain to the south for over a week.
    Some scientists blame our cold winter and delayed spring on the enlarged Arctic sea ice this year. Last Thursday a rocket from Russia launched a European satellite into orbit to measure how fast the Earth’s polar ice caps are melting. By checking ice depth we can anticipate the rate of melt and have early warning of a weakening Gulf Stream.
    Our climate is dependent on this phenomenon. This stream of ocean from the Gulf of Mexico, moving at some 50 miles a day towards Britain and Ireland, keeps the wolf from our doors in London, whereas other cities of the same latitude (Berlin, for example) have big falls of snow for long periods every year.
    Francis Wilson is head of weather at Sky News”
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/weather/article7094312.ece

  15. Well Snooke, your post and horny toads posts have both been cleansed from the site at futureshop.

  16. I think it may be time for a full sized letter campaign to futureshop on the Suzuki thing.

  17. Left-liberals have built prison walls around their clients.
    The Separatist Coalition’s clients are hostages of left-liberalism.
    Left-liberalism with its “privacy” “tolerance” has built GULAGS in Canada.
    Now, everyone is a hostage; each person in his allotted GULAG.
    Socialism is a Prison with many GULAGs.
    (H/T GULAG, Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn)
    …-
    “Pardoned sex offenders evade record checks due to tighter privacy”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/pardoned-sex-offenders-evade-record-checks-due-to-tighter-privacy/article1528232/
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/04/11/how-many-cons-vote-conservative/#comment-79372

  18. CBC,with another display of politically correct journalism. A murder in Saskatchewan,and a murder in Manitoba. Both stories are on-line. One involves natives,the other doesn’t. One story allows comments,the other doesn’t.Sorry,no prizes for guessing correctly which one is closed to comments.—http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/04/11/man-neepawa-homicide.html http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2010/04/11/sask-prince-albert-homicide-arrests.html

  19. I stumbled accross an article that I found quite interesting due to the fact it addresses editors of newspapers, particularily those who look after the letter to the editor section, and the sociopaths-a certain kind of sociopath I hadn’t hitherto heard of. ET came to mind when reading the article as did Kate’s “The World is Being Run by Crazy People” – this article offers a plausible solution as to why Kate’s catch phrase is so true and points out what happens when a sociopath is in charge.
    http://users.hal-pc.org/~rcanup/sap.html

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