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  1. I’m not much of a football enthusiast but when feeling in need of a real
    semi feral toe tapper I tend to Google “Fat Les Vindaloo” and let ‘er rip.

  6. The gutless are everywhere!
    “Swedish police will no longer be able to give descriptions of alleged criminals for fear of being seen as racist.
    According to an internal letter, police in capital city Stockholm are instructed to refrain from describing suspects’ race and nationality, according to news website Speisa.”
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/swedish-police-are-not-allowed-to-give-descriptions-of-alleged-criminals-so-as-not-to-sound-racist-a6810311.html

  9. There was a big Kaboom.

    Scientists announced Thursday that they’ve witnessed a cosmic explosion in the form of a distant super-luminous supernova so bright it strains our grasp of physics to explain it.
    The exploding massive star has the ominous-looking name ASASSN-15lh and is only 10 miles (16 kilometers) across at its core, yet is much brighter than the entire output of the Milky Way. If you’re wondering why you haven’t seen anything so crazy-sounding lighting up the sky, that’s because it’s 3.8 billion light-years away. (Polaris, the bright “North Star” is between 300 and 450 light-years away, for comparison.) In fact, at the time the super-supernova explosion took place, life was just beginning to emerge here on Earth. . .

  13. George Michael is an average crooner (at best) … but he is one of the BEST EVER at spending time in front of a mirror.

  17. Just read an article about the Canadian inception (?)celebration and the controversy surrounding an official font that was sourced from the web. Graphic artists are up in arms about that and that the official logo was crowd sourced. Theyre also miffed that so far just 5 grand out of a $210 million budget has been spent (count your blessings).
    The telling statement blamed the situation on PM Harper. Does he get to be Canada’s “W”?

  19. On my morning constitutional I swung by my neighbourhood Shell station:
    Regular gas is 106.9 here in Vancouver.

  20. Financial Post had a brief article on Mary Jean McFall (Egg heiress, losing Liberal candidate in Leeds Grenville and an appointee as Chief of Staff in the Ministry of Agriculture.) The article mentioned the potential conflict of interest re her egg dynasty and supply management on eggs. Interestingly, the article cannot be found online and the issue is not covered anywhere else. Now personally, I think politicians should be free to choose whomever they want for a Chief of Staff — but YOU KNOW that if the potential conflict of interest had come up around a Conservative appointee, the press would have been all over it. During the Harper reign, the media was all over ANYTHING the least bit controversial. It was the cumulative effect of this hammering away that lead to the election of the Liberals. I just want to put forward yet another example of the soft-treatment Libs always get from the media.

  21. Have they bumped up the carbon tax? Guess everyone will be filling up south of the border. That is exactly why BC`s carbon tax is deemed such a success — people get their gas elsewhere while the economy appears not to be affected because of many people moving into Van who do not have cars. It is a very artificial situation.

  22. What is the Trudeau government going to do to fight terrorism after there were 7 Canadians brutally murdered by a human subspecies in the name of Islam? He had time to attend the reopening of a mosque damaged by fire in Peterborough Ontario. Wonder if he’d do the same for any other faith?

  23. Good one. Hazel O’Connor may be unheard of here in NA but when she performs live in the UK her fans are singing every word.

  25. While I self-indentify 🙂 as a person of better than average understanding of economics I must bashfully confess to a lack of understanding of why Vancouver gas prices are so sticky.
    Recently re-fueled in Blaine WA at the border and even with the precipitous decline of the C$ I was still up on the deal.
    Here are my notes from that Jan 6 refill:
    1.99 US per gallon
    1 US Gallon = 3.785 litres
    Exchange: Jan 6, 2016. 1.40
    $1.99 us x 1.40 = CDN 2.786 / 3.785 = 73.6 / litre.
    About half what we’re paying here.

  26. “Wonder if he’d do the same for any other faith?”
    Probably not but, on the other hand, would you really want the self-centred little creep attending at any function?
    Personally speaking, he wouldn’t even be welcome at one of my garage sales.

  28. Mao* and Stalin: communist brothers.
    …-
    “Missing Hong Kong bookseller ‘confesses’ on Chinese state TV”
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/17/missing-hong-kong-bookseller-gui-minhai-reappears-on-chinese-tv
    …-
    “Stalinist Confessions
    Messianism and Terror at the Leningrad Communist University”
    “During Stalin’s Great Terror, accusations of treason struck fear in the hearts of Soviet citizens, and lengthy imprisonment or firing squads often followed. Many of the accused sealed their fates by agreeing to confessions after torture or interrogation by the NKVD. Some, however, gave up without a fight.
    Igal Halfin investigates the phenomenon of a mass surrender to the will of the state. He deciphers the skillfully rendered discourse through which Stalin defined his cult of personality and consolidated his power by building a grassroots base of support and instilling a collective psyche in every citizen.”
    http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780822973522
    *Justine Liberal’s favourite dictator.

  30. I wonder if the fact that our gas, in BC, comes from south of the border has a premium attached from delivery in AM$?
    It would explain why Edmonchuck and Cheranna gas is a lot cheaper, from Canadian refineries.
    FYI. diesel in Greenieland (Victoria) 89.9
    Regular @Costco, 93.9

  31. Linda
    Statistics, statistics, and damn lies.
    The whole carbon lobby (HELLO MARC JACCARD!) have used skewed, and out of context stats, to give the rosiest, most optimistic view of carbon tax “success” as possible.
    Their reports have ignored recessions, when Campbell’s tax was brought in. The numbers showed that gas usage was down in the first year of implementation. “SUCCESS” they screamed, all the while, ignoring the financial meltdown and all the ramifications, including the recession, of 2009.

  38. That is very distressing. People who work at the Goodwill are often handicapped and will have difficulty finding work elsewhere. This smacks if mismanagement.

  39. Sophie Gregoire another narcissist with all the cliché progressive causes. How about fighting for women in Afghanistan or Christians and Jews in the Middle East.

  40. How about this;
    2014, 4M bbl/day oil production at $100 each
    2016 2M bbl/day at $30.
    Ouch.

  41. Exactly. Snowflake’s little singsong, had nothing to do with MLK. Wasnt written for him or by him. She just had to blurt out a selfcentred la de da to bring attention to herself.
    Oh and Mother Corpse and LCTV were more than happy to report the non story.
    PATHETIC

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