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  1. Teach me tonight:
    “President Obama’s top science adviser said there’s a need to ‘educate’ GOP climate change skeptics on Capitol Hill as the White House seeks to advance its green energy agenda.
    “’It is an education problem. I think we have to educate them,’ said John Holdren, who heads the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, in an interview broadcast Sunday.”

  2. Now, where have I heard the word “re-educate” before?
    I would suggest that Holdren is the one that needs to be educated.

  3. I enjoyed that link, EBD. Elvis had the most magical voice – he could transport his audience anywhere at any time. “Little Egypt” brings a smile to my lips. Nobody has ever contested Elvis’s throne in the music industry; he had charm, class and BIG talent. I still miss him.

  4. Jema54, me too. When I was in grade 2 attending a little one-room school on the prairie the older girls used to dance in the girl’s “cloak room” at recess to Elvis records (45 rpms). Back in the stone age, that is. hehehehe.
    Speaking of the stone age, considering the social mores of those times and looking at the way the women in this video were dressed and prancing and gyrating around, is it any wonder our parents thought Elvis and rock and roll were bad influences. Scandalous!!! hehehehehe

  5. The CRTC has made a ruling which benefits the biggies like Bell Canada, Rogers Cable, etal and effects independent ISP’s like my provider… Teksavvy.com and subsequently their customers, such as myself, adversely.
    ………………………
    The CRTC, Canada’s media regulator, has decided to allow Bell Canada, Rogers, Shaw and other Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to impose usage-based billing YOU. These Big Telecom companies are obviously trying to gouge consumers, control the Internet market, and ensure that consumers continue to subscribe to their television services.
    This means we’re looking at a future where ISPs will charge per byte, the way they do with smart phones. If we allow this to happen Canadians will have no choice but to pay more for less Internet.
    This will crush innovative services, Canada’s digital competitiveness, and your wallet.
    Please sign the petition HERE.
    *Please also sign the petition through Facebook or through twitter by signing above.

  10. Louise – My Mom loved Elvis; my Dad, not so much. Later on in life, Dad liked Elvis too, I think Dad might have been a wee bit jealous since he was a musician and a young husband. I think that we must be the last of the one room school house kids, Louise. My school closed in 1966 and I was in the last class.
    I used to listen to a transistor radio, at home, and Elvis was all over the air waves; we lived in the highlands of Sask. (Cypress Hills) and my little radio could pick up radio stations from all over the USA. We did not have electricity out there so no TV but, like you, I watched the ‘older’ folk and learned to jive. What fun, we danced all night- every single song made me feel like dancing and the boys too. I still want to dance when I hear those old tunes.

  13. Joe, you’re going to have to explain why using a regulatory body to force Bell to permit Teksavvy to sell unlimited bandwidth packages on Bell’s infrastructure is a good thing.

  14. Joe, bandwidth is not unlimited. If all users went overlimit, do you think bottlenecks would never happen?
    The telecom providers have every right to charge more for more data usage. Why should I as a user, who might use 10GB per month, pay the same as a data hog, who might go thru 500GB?
    Please, the hype surrounding the issue is overhyped. And no, it is not gouging, it is pay as you go and is not ‘threatening competitiveness. Rather, it discourages piracy, and forces those who do download gigs and gigs of data, to pay the freight. Fair is fair. Believe it or not, the major comm providers invest heavily in high capacity networks, only to be ordered by the CRTC, to allow others to ride their coattails, (without having to bear the cost of private investment in the infrastructure of the system). Government decree.
    So yeah, fair is fair.

  17. The telecom providers have every right to charge more for more data usage. Why should I as a user, who might use 10GB per month, pay the same as a data hog, who might go thru 500GB?
    ~ DanBC
    Indeed.
    But they also could give you a discount but won’t if you use less and they won’t give you a credit on your lesser usage either so you are still sitting at a position where you are paying more for “data hogs” who use more than you do but less than the “data cliff” that has yet to be lowered once again before they charge even more.
    If I’m missing something in the equation as you see it I’m sure you can point it out.
    How fast is your computer and your download rate anyway, and are there really so many “data hogs” who download half a terrabyte every month whom you envy so much that such a business model makes sense to you?

  22. btw louise…what’s a ‘cloak room’….?
    i assume it’s for the storage or temporary placement of ‘cloaks’….and so what then be a ‘cloak’?
    sounds like a cross between a croak and a clock…am i warm?
    it’s not a quebecoise word is it?

  23. Now..now John…
    A cloak room is the room you hang your coat in, while in class.
    I went to Memorial puplic school in Hamilton at Ottawa and Main, only the front facade remains now.
    Every class room had a room the width of the class but only 7 feet deep with hooks on the wall to hang your coat, and mats underneath to leave your boots, they also doubled as punishment rooms, you could be disiplined out of sight.
    Memorial also had manually operated fire alarms, the old hand crank style siren makers at each of the four corners of the building on both floors.
    One could easily give it one crank before running down the stairs and it would wail for 3 or 4 cranks.!

  24. Memorial also had manually operated fire alarms, the old hand crank style siren makers at each of the four corners of the building on both floors.
    I went to a school just like that when I was a kid too.
    Cloak rooms, hand crank fire alarms, and the second floor had a grey painted tubular fire escape like a slide.
    They must have built a lot of them all over from the same blueprint.

  26. With due respect, SDH and DanBC,there is essentially no true competition in Canada as regards to telephony or internet.
    Canadians pay the highest rates in the world for those services.
    Understandably the infrastructure in a vast country like Canada was very expensive to put in place originally, but is not justification to hold users as hostages in perpetuity.
    I totally agree with the family operated ISP Teksavvy.com in their protest.
    And for what it is worth, I am not a down load hog.

  28. I called my ISP the other day they are a great local company who have invested heavily in their infrastructure and provide great service. They told me Bell pushed for the ruling and they aren’t happy about it,and that cable users won’t be affected but DSL users will be.The problem I have is that all of the smaller companies have ran fiber optic cables throughout the rural areas at their expense even to the point of installing fiber optic service wires to homes expenses which get transfered directly to their customers? Why should customers other than Bells pay for work they have neglected to do in the first place or has yet to be done?It might be interesting to note if you encounter one of Bells fiber cables out in the boonies which is rare and need a locate, you call someone in India.

  29. Here’s an excellent article by Melanie Phillips about one of the “protected” groups in our society: one, whose activists DEMAND respect and tolerance, while resolutely refusing to offer the same to its political opponents. In fact, political opponents, as Phillips documents here, are given the Alinsky treatment: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Let’s add threaten and bully it.
    “January 31, 2011
    “The west’s cultural totalitarians
    “Daily Mail, 31 January 2011
    “One week ago, I suggested on this page that some gay people were in danger of turning into the new McCarthyites by demonising and attempting to silence all who disagreed with the gay rights agenda . . .
    “In my article, I expressed concern that attempting to bar a Christian GP from the government’s advisory council on drugs because of his views on homosexuality, bombarding the school curriculum with irrelevant gay references, and prosecuting Christian hoteliers for refusing to accommodate gay men in the same bedroom were examples of a frightening intolerance.
    “The response to this warning against an attempt by the gay lobby to silence dissent? An eruption of tweets on Twitter suggesting that I should be killed. Yes, really . . .
    “All this because, having acknowledged the legitimacy of trying to protect gay people from true prejudice and discrimination, I suggested that Christians should not face discrimination against their beliefs!
    “If the gay lobby had set about trying to prove my point, it could hardly have done a better job. Indeed, the total inability of those who subjected me to such abuse to realise that they are, in fact, spewing out the very hatred, intolerance and incitement to violence of which they are accusing others would be hilarious were it not so terrifying . . .”
    And, yet, this group is constantly deferred to and allowed to bully and harass anyone who doesn’t agree with them. Read about it:
    http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=793

  30. Oz, That’s a pretty strong argument for usage based billing.
    Joe, what you’re proposing is not competition.

  39. john begley at 2:47 AM, my God, dear Begley! I thought you, of all people, would know. It must be a throwback to the days when, instead of coats, people wore cloaks, so they could whip them off and throw them over the puddles for ladies to walk on. They be like capes, as in Superman and other assorted heroic types. Why they had to separate the girls cloak room from the boys, is a question that never occurred to me to ask.
    I could tell you one more story about the girls cloak room though. Also in grade 1 and 2, we had a teacher who liked to listen to the World Series on the radio and using white and red chalk, kept a big score sheet on the blackboard while the entire class listened to the games. Lest the school superintendent might by chance come by, one of the pupils had to be stationed in the girls cloak room to keep watch out the window. If said superintendent did show up, we would all dutifully take out our Dick and Jane while the teacher wiped the evidence off the blackboard. I’m not sure what I learned from that, but I remember it much better than most of the stuff in the Dick and Jane readers.

  40. Come now, Mr. Begley. Surely any fool knows that a “cloak room” is a device used by the Chinese to weave mourning shrouds.

  41. ‘Interesting, Ken @ 11:56 AM . Thanks for sharing that.
    Yes, the MSM has completely skewed this issue, so that, as usual, black is white and vice versa. Democracy is totally sabotaged when the people who vote are fed a steady stream of lies.
    I don’t agree with the “gay” agenda and the many other ones that allow adult sexual license full rein, at the expense of the well-being of our children: I or any other citizen of a free country should be able to present our case without being demonized.
    Homosexual activists, who have denounced oppression, have now taken on the role of the oppressor: e.g., they use all means available to them—lots these days—like the Human Rights Commissions, to round up and punish those who disagree with them. In fact, there’s very little public debate about the gay agenda because it’s now considered “hate” speech by our lefty elites. School boards and Protestant churches are cheerleaders for the gay agenda and woe betide any employee—likely to be an ex-employee—who dares to openly challenge the worm-ridden status quo.
    And “Glenn Beck [and people like me] are the crazy one[s]”! Good Lord, deliver us.

  42. So what happens when an mega-star musician bumps heads with the EPA eco-nuts in California over building eco-mansions on a cliff?
    Who’s going to win this one?
    Not that I care, but I say let them build and watch them burn during the next wildfire season.
    Popcorn anyone?
    What? It’s just as good a stimulus program as the cash for clunkers to me.

  47. The ghoulship HMRS Beagle has hove into sight, aiming fire wildly into the night, from the mouths of his mighty portside mounted 1/2mm cannon.

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