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  1. A bit of Manitoba news:
    “Premier Greg Selinger and Manitoba’s New Democrats are 25 points behind the Opposition Progressive Conservatives in a new public opinion poll conducted by Insightrix Research for 680 CJOB News and Global News.
    “With the Manitoba NDP holding their annual convention today, 800 Manitobans were asked who they would vote for if a provincial election were held today.
    Forty-nine per cent say they would vote for Brian Pallister’s Conservatives while 24 per cent say they would continue to support Selinger’s New Democrats.”

  6. The CBC still stuck in full brainwash mode on Global Warming bemoans the fact that Polar bears are now forced to eat eggs to survive in the melting Arctic.
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-has-polar-bears-on-egg-diet-1.2527740
    Of course if even one “journalist” had done a little research they would have found out that eggs have always been on the menu and in fact Polar bears will eat damn near anything that moves or grows. Sadly, CBC has no journalists.
    http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Ursus_maritimus.html

  7. “(CNSNews.com) – Dr. Don Easterbrook – a climate scientist and glacier expert from Washington State who correctly predicted back in 2000 that the Earth was entering a cooling phase – says to expect colder temperatures for at least the next two decades..”

  12. CBC panders to an audience looking for an entertainment product that validates their preconceived notions. They’re not looking for any facts that get in the way of what they feel is right. The ‘journalistic’ skills needed to write a gossip column are more than adequate.

  13. 50 years since the Beatles first were on Ed Sullivan. Who could have predicted the cycle of male hair length from that evening or the wrenching of the establishment over the next decade

  14. Just glancing at the counter at the bottom of the page, and some simple math suggests that sometime around Victoria Day, the small dead animals website will have had one visit for every person in Canada.
    Just thought that was interesting.

  16. It’s bloody hilarious – and uncanny – that you managed to find a link that could connect those two profoundly disparate…dots.
    I don’t think it explains the meaning of DO’s enigmatic comment, though.
    Might have been just a random neural firing – perhaps a mini-seizure of sorts.
    The plot thickens.

  19. Osmond could do the triple back flip, funky axle and super duper lutz, all while being circumspect ’cause her Mom was watching. That’s what I call talent.

  20. Thanks, marc, mystery solved. (Still laughing at the Donny Osmond meat-thong vid, tho.) I’ve been flipping around channels watching the Olympics, but have (mostly) been avoiding figure skating, because it’s a) so snobby and b) so rigged.
    RT:

    “Table 9. Groups Responsible for Most Terrorist Attacks in the United States, 2001-2011.”

    Check out the fatalities, though, in the right-hand columm – it makes the “attacks” figure almost irrelevant.

  21. and…
    I think I’ve realized something here that I’m not quite comfortable realizing.
    That is, that the interviewer asking Donny Osmond if he’d wear a “meat thong” may not have been asking if he’d wear a thong made of meat, but rather… a thong for his meat…. er… a special type of underwear, for his meat.
    He’s a Mormon, and I think they commonly wear some special type of underwear. Which may go to explain a bit as to why Don Osmond didn’t crack a smile at all, but simply answered as though he didn’t know what else a meat thong could be.
    So, um yeah. somewhat pleased to have gotten that one from the Black “always be keeping an eye out on her” Mamba.

  24. 21 Al-Mohammeds Die In Their Own 21 Crosshairs.
    …-
    “21 militants died when a car bomb they were readying mistakenly went off, officials said.”
    “Iraq speaker targeted in blast as 21 militants killed” (AFP)
    …-
    “Rob Anders in crosshairs of Muslim group over shooting target
    Calgary Herald”

  25. peterj, thank you for that link. I have read Margaret MacMillan’s “Paris, 1919” and am now partway through her “The War that Ended Peace…”. It’s only recently that I have delved into the inter-woven complexities of societies during that time and I find it utterly fascinating.

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