Cough. 6-0 Riders.
Cheers,
lance
It’s SO started!
The eminent show-down between the best in the West and the self-declared second-best will be a study in frustration for the fans.*
Well, the fans at the Ranch, that is.
On one side we have Grey Cup quarterback Marcus Crandel starting as quarter-back. On the other we have Henry Burris who. . .well, I guess he did throw for 300+ yards last game. Course, that wasn’t against the best and stingiest defence in the league.
Sure, apparently the Stamps are “good” against the run. I suppose some might assume that means that Mr. Cates might have a hard time running. The fat and sissies haven’t gone up against our front four, they’ll wish they hadn’t. The Stamp defence is ripe for the picking. They’re good against the run in the stats because no one has to run against them. Why bother with the run when you can just throw for 450 yards or so. I mean, that’s never happened to the Stumps against a rookie QB, or anything . . . has it? [cough] Let alone against a Grey Cup Champion quarter-back?
The Stampeder secondary is craptaculous. Marcus (Yeah, I’ve two GC rings, what of it?) Crandel will Darwinize the weak Horseman, leading them to the slaughter so richly deserved. No worries though, we’ll be merciful. We’ll use bullets rather than a bolt for the slaughter.
Stamps are going so down in another home-town win . . . huh? Yeah, I know it’s in Calgary, that’s what I meant.
*err, or are the Stamps the best this week? are the Stamps still undefeated?
Leary would I be to offer a blog-banner bet on SDA, but is there another option? Stump fans?
Cheers,
lance
AFK
Kate is down in the States for a show till Monday. Guest bloggers . . . please feel free to make use of the SDA machine.
Good luck Kate . . . and Lucy who is looking to finish her American Championship.
Cheers,
lance
Screw you Dion
The words are flying. In juxtaposition to the sycophantic,
pant-staining ejaculation emanating from many of the eastern
media, we
have Murray
Mandryk of the Regina LeaderPost.
What’s most maddening is how much of a slap it is to the
principle that provinces like Saskatchewan own our natural
resources. Dion is now telling us, “So what if the western
provinces do own the oil and gas? The federal government can
simply tax the end product and transfer the bulk of any
benefit to those living in our electoral base in the east.”
You really have to read the whole thing. It’s almost
blog-worth . . . but not quite enough vitriol.
This, MR. Dion, is your plan. This is your “legacy”,
your “remembrance”. NEP II. I’ll tell you right now that we
won’t take this. We won’t take a second edition NEP. We won’t
allow our Provinces wealth
being Shafted to the east. We
will not tolerate a federal incursion into
our jurisdiction. You can lament our 2% (Canadian GHG
contribution) all you want, but it will not fly. It will not
pass and you will not win.
I know my neighbours. I know the people in my Province. We
will not allow another Easterner to kill us at the
moment of our prosperity . . . again.
Try, MR. Dion, try. As I’m writing this, what comes
up on the play-list? “I have decided to leave you forever,
I have decided to start fresh today.” Daffodil Lament,
Cranberrries, No Need to Argue
Go
help John
Murney, a Saskatchewan (not Federal) Liberal try and
convince his blog-roll of the folly of Dipsticks plan.
Cheers,
lance
Coming Full Circle
In a joint news conference that just finished, Prime Minister Harper announced $86M for the proposed South Bridge in Saskatoon. Premier Brad Wall matched the federal contribution and Mayor Atch announced that Saskatoon will be responsible for $70M.
Good. Driving from west to east in Saskatoon is a horror show at the moment. Completing Circle Drive will dramatically improve that.
Special thanks to MP Carol Skelton and MP Lynne Yelich for pushing the Gov’t on this initiative that will finally allow Saskatoon and area to live up to it’s possibilities.
Now we just have to make sure that NEP II doesn’t happen.
Cheers,
lance
Revenue Reverse
When it comes to equal opportunity slagging regarding financial matters, Andrew Coyne is as non-partisan as it gets.
Coyne says:
Altogether, these actual, honest-to-goodness tax cuts sum to about $9-billion, the bulk of it focused on the bottom tax brackets, where it will do the least good — in terms of raising productivity, I mean. The rest of what the Liberals call “tax cuts” are mostly for tax credits, ie spending programs by another name: $465 million for an “Improved Working Income Tax Benefit,” $397-million for an “Improved Employment Credit and Refundable Disability Credit,” and fully $2.9-billion for an entirely new Universal Child Benefit, on top of all the existing child benefits.
It’s not remotely “revenue neutral,” in other words. The Liberals have used the carbon tax to fund their spending ambitions. The productivity agenda has once again been ignored.
As anyone with a brain had already concluded, it isn’t about carbon, it’s about Canadians paying for a Liberal election platform.
Cheers,
lance
Fat City
Regina, fat city. Fifty percent are overweight with 23% listed as obese.
Diller says obviously inactivity contributes to weight gain as well. So a mix of healthy eating and activity is essential to being fit.. which is hard in today’s world of fast food chains, and hectic lifestyles.
Except it doesn’t seem all that hard for the other half of the population.
When 50% of your sample is going against the environmental conditions for which you lay blame then maybe . . . just maybe, the environmental conditions aren’t to blame.
Cheers,
lance
Technical Problems, Please do not adjust your set.
As most will have already noticed, there are some sever issues happening with SDA today. I don’t know if it’s a DOS attack, general internet issues or server issues.
Anyway, I’m sure the ISP will have emailed Kate about it, but as they won’t email us, I guess we’ll just have to live with it for a bit.
From what I’ve see, you can probably expect to time out when commenting, or timing out when loading SDA. I’d suggest copying your comment prior to posting just in case it times out. Then you can reload and repost if necessary.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
lance
Liberty Loving Conservatives? Not likely.
So the CPC tabled Bill
C-61 for First Reading in Parliament. Boy, it sure looks
similar to Sam Bulte’s Bill from 2006.
I wrote to my MP, Carol Skelton
in January,
2007. She replied and forwarded my note to Bernier. I
never heard a word from that satyr. I doubt I’ll hear
from his replacement.
I use Linux. Due to the nature of Linux, licensing
the Content
Scrambling System to play DVD’s is a non-starter. In order
to enjoy my bought and paid for DVD’s on Linux I must use
the DeCSS
libraries. This Bill makes my fair use illegal. Once again,
a gov’t is creating criminals.
I will be breaking this proposed law every time I play a DVD
because, my application uses an un-licenced, independent
library to unscramble the CSS used to encrypt the DVD.
I have no problem punishing thieves who distribute music in
contravention of fair use. I vociferously deny that I am a
criminal for playing a DVD on my free operating system.
I don’t have any fear of not being able to watch my DVD’s,
HD’s or Blue-Ray discs. The latter two have already
been cracked
and it won’t be long before someone releases it into the
wild.
What I do want to know though, is why are the “liberty
loving” CPC emulating the “Gun Law” and making us regular
Joe’s criminals? From this end, it looks like it is because they
were wined and dined by the Motion Picture Association,
Recording Industry Association and their Canadian cohorts.
Go read Micheal
Geist and see just what this Canadian DMCA makes illegal.
Soon after he arrives into the office on Monday morning, he
is contacted by a researcher located in the field who asks
him to track down an article and to email an electronic copy
as soon as possible. Jim finds the article, scans and sends
it via email. After work, he drops into the local HMV and
purchases a DVD copy of the movie Juno. At home, he
transfers a copy of the movie to his video iPod for viewing
on an upcoming business trip.If the Canadian DMCA becomes law, all of Jim’s copying
activities arguably violate the law.
Jim’s in for a bad life if Microsoft or Disney decide to get
nasty.
Given the lack of any concrete action regarding Section 13,
given C-61’s draconian anti-liberty statutes I will most likely be
withholding, declining, or voiding my vote come the election. I’m
really not interested in the CPC anymore. They have proven
themselves to be nothing but the same as those they replaced.
In fact, I’d rather pay a carbon tax than abdicate any more of
the liberties that I currently have.
Cheers,
lance
Reader Tips
Throw them in here please, another busy day on the ‘to-do’ list.
Reader Tips
Drop your tips here so we can all enjoy.
Apologies for the delay in getting this up, busy day. Today was Delisle’s Garage Sale day and the pit is open for free dumping. Everyone is cleaning up their yards and generally visiting with their neighbours. I’ll probably think it was a good day once my oh-so-tender blisters turn into callouses and my back stops hurting.
Pittsburgh beat Philly, which isn’t how I think the rest of this series is going to go. Detroit walked all over a tired Dallas, which is how I think the rest of this series is going to go.
An hour until the puck drops on Dallas again. Hmm, is it too early for a beer?
Cheers,
lance
Reader Tips
It’s Friday, a Friday in May . . . the weekend is coming. So, given that, I’d like you to think about:
The pond that needs to be removed, the fence that needs to be built, the shingles that need replacing, the fire-pit that needs to be moved, the Saskatoon’s that need to be replanted, the groceries that need to be bought…sigh, the hockey that needs to be watched?
and don’t what-ever you do, don’t think about our favourite friend1,
ensuring a Liberal defeat,
or worrying about old school reactionaries who aren’t happy unless everyone toes their line. As an aside, there is a difference between “editorial”, “journalism”, and “reporting”.
Please bear w/ me, I’m not nearly as diligent as Kate when it comes to checking scheduled (meaning written in advance and published at a time in the future) posts. Apparently, they have to be rebuilt before accepting comments. Many of you are in time-zones that really don’t jive with mine (hello, computer geek!). Don’t be surprised if you have issues commenting on this post until 9 or so CST.
1 I’ve been deleting comments related to that person as per Kate’s ban. I don’t know enough about MT to set up a more elegant system. Please refrain from responding to that person until I can viciously and gleefully “restrict his right to free speech”. (That would be lance at catprint dot ca, Mr. Johnny DownInTheDumps.)
Cheers,
lance
Reader Tips
Drop them in here for everyone to enjoy.
For the technological inclined,
I’m currently rebuilding a Radius server to authenticate a Cisco PIX VPN tunnel over OpenLDAP.
OpenOffice 3.0 Beta is available for testing.
DOE Pumps $126.6 Million Into Carbon Sequestration.
Cheers,
lance
Reader Tips
Play nice, don’t soil the bed and stop worrying, hockey resumes in two more days.
What to do with a Sudanese rapist?
Saskatchewan Liberals1 moving right? That might be interesting. Split vote, anyone?
Vote Liberal, because a carbon tax on $1.32 gas is win-win! Isn’t something like half the cost at the pump due to tax already? I’m expecting the next brilliant display of Liberal politics to be Dion charging a carbon-tax at their BBQ circuit this summer…probably during the Stampede.
1 No, honestly, we’re not with those federal pseudo-Liberals, please believe us, we hate those Liberals too!
Cheers,
lance
The Tiger In Elections Canada?
Anyone else check that little box on their tax return authorizing Revenue Canada to share your data with Elections Canada?
“Most disturbingly, investigators have found sets of voters lists issued by Elections Canada that held the names of persons residing on given streets in various areas of Scarborough,” reads the affidavit. “Furthermore the lists had yellow highlighter placed on names of Tamil heritages. These lists were confirmed to be periodic lists distributed to candidates and Ministers during elections years.”
Cheers,
lance
Due Process
We’re being rushed! The Conservatives in the Senate try and force the issue.
Yesterday, the government’s representatives in the Senate brought forward a motion pre-empting hearings and debate, saying the Senate “intends to pass” their crime bill by March 1st,.
( …. )
Parliament is now recessed for a week, although the Senate’s committee has extended its normal schedule in order to sit all next week in hearings on Bill C-2. That’s the real work of the Senate. The ultimatum is mere political posturing. Unfortunately, rather than speeding things up, it has done nothing more than impede progress on other important issues currently before us.
I guess, Bill C-42, An Act to amend the Museums Act is more important than protecting our children or putting drunk drivers and dangerous criminals in jail for longer.
So, Alberta, how’s that Senator working out for ya? Just asking, cause I figure your representative should have your input, you know the drill: Senator Elaine McCoy, senator@albertasenator.ca. You can find her blog on Progressive Bloggers which I know is fully representative of Alberta.
Cheers,
lance
Bonus points for the freespeechers in the crowd by reading the Other Business,Other,No. 3 and finding a reference to free speech somewhere in all that back-slapping.
Blatchford on Afghanistan
Via The Torch, Christie on Afghanistan this week:
“I pretend no expertise in politics, diplomacy, soldiering or Afghanistan, but I have been in Kandahar, well outside the safety of Kandahar Air Field, four times in less than two years, and note the following.
On Mr. Dion: A few days before Mr. Dion and his No. 2, Michael Ignatieff, made their surprise tour to Afghanistan last weekend, the federal Liberal Party made its formal submission to Mr. Manley’s panel.
In other words, before the Liberal leader met Canadian troops and posed in the cute camo outfit (I would knock the block off whoever lent the gear to him, by the way) he had his mind made up – the combat mission, as the party’s submission said, should end as scheduled in February, 2009. His visit there was a disingenuous and fraudulent exercise in bullshit public relations.
Pakistan: Dion, meet foot
As previously mentioned, Dion stepped on a landmine . . . but he didn’t know . . . .
“We are dismayed by the statement of the leader of Opposition,” the government said in a statement released late Thursday by the Pakistan High Commission in Ottawa.
“It shows a lack of understanding of the ground realities.”
Update: “As a result of unclear reporting and a partisan Conservative response, the Pakistan High Commission has been tricked into making a public statement on the matter.” Elfin Ears
Upperdate Apparently this reaction is because of Stephen making a phone call! h/t to BB in the comments.
INVASION!
Unhappy with his plans to pull out of Afghanistan combat operations being ignored by everyone, Dion struck out on a new tack today.
Jack! is sure to have some fun with this.
Cheers,
lance
Tolerance
I’ll let the author speak for herself:
I can see how an ID course might worm its way into some backwater institution like Pigfucker U out in Yeehaw, Alberta… but U of T?!? What are they thinking?!