In his opening statement the Chief Electoral Officer said an internal review had cleared him and his staff, though when Scott Reid on a point of order required him to table the review he quickly downgraded it to “not truly a report, barely a sheet.”
So Mr. Poilievre asked who conducted the review…
h/t Rose
Related – Canada yawns over in-and-out scandal
If you’ve been searching fruitlessly for some quality gospel trumpet music, you’re in luck: here are Trumpets of Jericho (I could find no information on them, other than that the track was released in 1969) playing the quietly inspirational Steal Away.
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Via Argghhh!
A prominent British imam has been forced to retract his claims that Islam is compatible with Darwin’s theory of evolution after receiving death threats from fundamentalists.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Michael Moore, in Team America World Police;
Michael Moore in Madison, Wisconsin;
The late great tenor saxophonist Ben Webster was for years the lead tenor soloist in Duke Ellington’s orchestra. In tonight’s tips music, filmed in 1964, he and his backing trio play the mellow Chelsea Bridge.
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Still crazy after all these years.
So I could go to Washington and announce my retirement.
The top Democrat on the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee will introduce a bill Thursday that imposes new fees on energy companies for failing to produce oil and gas on federal lands they lease.
h/t Adrian
Related.
For the second time in two years, a rocket glitch sent a NASA global warming satellite to the bottom of the sea …
Wait. Don’t they already have the Teamsters?
Oh, darn.
A plan by Saskatchewan and Montana to clean up the air by pumping carbon dioxide emissions underground has been buried.
Saskatchewan Innovation Minister Rob Norris admitted Thursday that talks on the proposed $270-million carbon capture and storage project quietly ended late last fall.
“That chapter has come to a close. Those talks have been discontinued,” Norris said at the provincial legislature in Regina.”
[…]
Saskatchewan was prepared to provide up to $50 million for the project and asked the Canadian government to pitch in $100 million. Montana wanted about $100 million from a U.S. federal stimulus package.
But federal money never came in either country.
Ever wondered how big the moon, the earth, and the sun are compared to other celestial bodies? Well, they’re this big.
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“You’re growing lettuce in a cage. Of course you’re not crazy”
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Childhood Obesity Foundation;
Obesity rates in children have almost tripled in the last 25 years. Approximately 26% of Canadian children ages 2-17 years old are currently overweight or obese.
Saskatoon Wal-Mart Parking Lot;
“Why?” Is ramping up production and deliveries still a problem? Is demand weak? Are unscrupulous dealers to blame?
I wanted to find a word that could accurately describe the kind of shameless cynicism that goes into such marketing, but was worried it’d break the thesaurus. The idea that there are commercial breeding operations creating “shelter dogs” as a product to be sold to well-meaning prospective pet owners is so repugnant the first reaction isn’t horror — it’s often disbelief, even anger toward the messenger. In fact, this is a subject we are very careful about bringing up, because it is so hard for a decent person to wrap their head around. “Nobody could do something that despicable! How could you say such a horrible thing?”
In tonight’s Tips adjunct we take a look at a behemoth of a vintage race car. Powered by a 12 cylinder, 48 liter aircraft engine, this chain-driven, two-tonne, flame-spitting flying coffin could reach a top speed of over 150 mph, so strap on your leather helmet, make sure you’re testate, and take a spin on the 1908 BMW Brutus.
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Because nothing says “superpower” like telling the NYT you’re an empty threat.
“Qaddafi has lost the legitimacy to govern, and it is time for him to go without further violence or delay,” Mrs. Clinton told reporters after a special meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council. “No option is off the table,” she said, adding “that of course includes a no-fly zone.”
But officials in Washington and elsewhere said that direct military action remained unlikely, and that the moves were designed as much as anything as a warning to Colonel Qaddafi and a show of support to the protesters seeking to overthrow his government.
Has passed away from complications of surgery.
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Calgary Herald;
One can blame Furlong. Since the release of the e-mails, Furlong has struggled to split hairs by saying that while Vanoc knew the track was too fast, it didn’t know it was dangerous.
One could blame the International Luge Federation. This week, it passed the buck by saying it didn’t know the speeds were too high until the track was in operation and it was too late for any changes. But it altered the track in Turin one year before the 2006 Olympic Games because of too many accidents on a track that was too fast.
One could blame the track designer. The designer for the Whistler luge track also designed the too-fast Turin track. He has also designed the track for the 2014 Sochi Olympic luge event. Given his track record (literally) at Turin and Whistler, one would think that it’s time to find a new track designer -or at least buy this one a new calculator.
One could even blame Ku-maritashvili himself.
Via David Thompson;
VCA 2010 RACE RUN from changoman on Vimeo.
