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  3. Question: What trade agreements need to be worked out between the ”Three Amigos”. Canada and the USA have been trading cross border since the days of the Pilgrims. Mexican cowboys were riding the ranges of Southern Sask and Alberta before the two were provinces. The only thing that needs to be worked are the unfair duties we Canucks have to pay for importing goods from the Amigos!
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/three-amigos-terry-miliewski-1.3658357

  4. Our elitist masters would like us to be more accepting of immigrants, refugees and those who are a bit different than us, like let’s say they get out of a taxi and start blowing up everyone in sight.
    I would like to fly on a private plane from a private airport, like our leaders, instead of taking my chances in the 30-minute shuffle through the airport line-up.
    Seems like we have an impasse. But of course the chumps in our parliament cheered and cheered when reminded how tolerant we are. Yes, tolerant. Let’s take our chances, maybe we won’t get blown up after all. I mean, why would we? Why would they in London or Madrid, or New York City? Aren’t they tolerant and liberal there also?
    High soaring rhetoric? Or just b.s. with perfect delivery?
    Our MPs don’t have much of a clue, but some of us do.

  5. Alvin Toffler, a guru of the post-industrial age whose million-selling Future Shock and other books anticipated the disruptions and transformations brought about by the rise of digital technology, has died. He was 87.

  6. I never new he was still alive. He lived long enough to prove himself right on a lot of things.

  7. Kate, I know you’re a regular reader of Watts Up With That? Yesterday Anthony posted a very important paper (in my opinion). One of the biggest questions about the glacial cycle is why some, but not all, warm periods caused by our orbit becoming more circular cause the ice sheets to pull back. When our orbit is less circular then the earth spends more time farther away from the sun, and receives less total heating, so glaciers grow again. But only about 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 circular orbit periods results in a retreat of the ice sheets like we’re living in now. The paper suggests that the reason is CO2.
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/06/28/new-paper-modulation-of-ice-ages-via-precession-and-dust-albedo-feedbacks/
    in brief, cold water absorbs more CO2 out of the atmosphere. The phenomenon of “tree line” is the both the northern limit where trees can grow, and also the altitude limit on more southernly mountains. It’s like why most humans need extra oxygen when climbing Mount Everest – the O2 percentage is the same, but the air is thinner so there’s less individual molecules to breathe. When CO2 percentage in the atmosphere drops then then the tree line moves south and down the mountains. We nearly hit the starvation levels of CO2 for some plant types 50,000 years ago, so most of the plant growth on earth would be starved and stunted, and tree lines would have been far south and lower altitude than today. Where not even the grasses can grow you get, for all intents and purposes, a desert. Even if there is regular rain, nothing will grow because the air isn’t rich enough to support plant life beyond lichens.
    The authors suggest that dust from these deserts blows onto the ice and builds up over time. During the warmer periods, if there is enough dust build-up on the ice, the change in albedo (how reflective the surface is) means that more heat will be absorbed, melting the ice. Melting the ice further reduces the albedo, causing a positive feedback. The higher temperature results in more CO2 release from the oceans, resulting in more plants. More plants cause the desert areas to shrink, causing less dust. Then, when the orbit becomes eccentric again, the ice sheets return.
    If true, then this means the next glaciation could be slowed (but not prevented) by using more diesel and coal fire power if the particulates are allowed to escape the stack and take the place of the dust that controls the glacial cycles.
    Once again, the solution of the Greenies is setting up to make things worse.

  10. A gun used in the November Paris terrorist attack has reportedly been traced back to Phoenix where the Obama administration’s gun-running experiment Fast and Furious allowed criminals to buy thousands of weapons illegally.
    http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/06/30/fast-furious-link-gun-used-in-paris-terror-attack-may-blow-up-obamas-gun-control-narrative-358819?utm_source=BizPac+Review+Email+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6e1b3b62b3-0630166_30_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fbf9323fb3-6e1b3b62b3-31574469
    I know, I know, what a crappy long link.

  12. The Earth’s orbit doesn’t become more or less circular. The orbit precesses. Over a 23000 year period, the time of year of Earth’s perihelion changes.

  15. Makes me sick but the Oilers traded away Taylor Hall, the only guy who wasn’t a problem. If he wasn’t on a team of bums, he might have led the league in scoring every year. He had to contend with the opposition’s best checkers because the rest of the Oilers usually booked off. He was traded for a young unproven defenceman who seems to be about the same ages as him. I remember back in the 5 Stanley cup days and after the goal scorers, the rest of the team played their heart out, guys who forechecked and loved the corners. I think Dave Semenko even had a three goal night which was usually his season average.

  16. I vaguely remember a story from a few years ago that when a guest gives a speech in the House of Commons, the text is written for them.
    If this is the case, then Obama’s speech yesterday, being quoted ad nauseam, is even more full of baloney than what is being presented. No shock there.

  18. Do you think it was coincidence that it happened just before Dominion Day? Me, neither. (Yeah, I know what I called it, but I simply refuse to refer to July 1 with that Trudeauism.)
    Personally, I’d rather they chanted: “Four more beers! Four more beers!”

  19. That is absolutely embarrassing. The worst thing is, some people are expecting Obama to illegally postpone the upcoming election and stay in office. I think Liberals are a bunch of fascists. Stooges also, since Obama has not been good for Canada.

  25. True, but I wanted an explanation that wouldn’t have anyone reaching for a dictionary.

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