Wednesday, July 2, 2008
More rising against the hoax
A fellow blogger writes on the great Global Warming Myth.
Yes, I could be convinced, perhaps. But every time I begin to think, “Well, maybe....”, something like this drops into my mail box: [h/t to Judith]
Canada Day Surprise
What an exciting surprise to see that Honeymoon Suite is still alive and kicking! While out on a Canada Day celebration, we found out that they were booked at the last minute. Despite being 25 years later, the boys looked and sounded great.
Apparently, they even have a new album coming out. Glad to see the boys again. If you’re feeling nostalgic, look them up and see if you can catch them out on tour.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Happy Dominion Day!
David Warren’s annual lament to Canada past.
The project began officially with Lester Pearson’s new flag, in 1964—that ad-agency “red maple,” doubling as the emblem of the Liberal Party.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Biofuels Inc.
The calls are growing for the end of biofuel subsidies.
“Biofuels are economical nonsense, ecologically useless and ethically indefensible,” Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, chairman of Nestl� SA, the world’s largest food company, wrote recently in a Wall Street Journal essay.
Time to admit a mistake was made and trying something else.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
This is neat
Check out this head.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Dion’s carbon shock
How many more stories like this will it take for the Canadians to realize that chasing the imaginary green C02 monster will bankrupt them and the country?
While Stephane Dion promises the Liberals’ proposed $15-billion environmental tax would provide riches for the poor and tax cuts for all, he fails to mention consumers in most parts of the country would be in for some shocking electricity bills.
Harper’s comment of “insane” to describe the Green Shit plan is starting to make sense.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Happy Father’s Day, Edinburgh!
This is absurd.
Tina Woolnough, 45, whose son Felix attends Edinburgh’s Blackhall primary school, said several teachers there had not allowed children to make Father’s Day cards this year.
Making sense
It’s this kind of thinking that makes me happy to vote for Sen. McCain.
The presumed Republican nominee on Monday proposed a $300 million government prize to whoever can develop an automobile battery that far surpasses existing technology. The bounty would equate to $1 for every man, woman and child in the country, “a small price to pay for helping to break the back of our oil dependency,” McCain said at Fresno State University.
We need more ideas like this to spur innovation. It’s about time!
Friday, June 20, 2008
Fallen Nortel boss busted
As one of the many who lost 98% of my Nortel stock value, it’s good to see someone get charged.
It was the sort of “perp walk” scenario Nortel investors have waited years to see.
The Nortel fiasco was almost as big as the Bre-X one, except Nortel took a lot more people down with them, including many grandmothers.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Mike from Scarboro
I always liked Mike Meyers...and his tributes to his home town.
Scarborough’s Mike Myers packs his movies with messages for home
If I don’t see this movie, I will at least rent it. Go Mike!
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Firefox 3
Today is the day to download! Starting today at 1300 EDT!
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Happy (disappearing) Father’s Day
For those who are and act like fathers, it’s your day. Sadly, there aren’t as many of you as there were before.
As we celebrate Father’s Day tomorrow, we should reflect upon a sad fact: It is now common to meet young people in our big city schools, foster-care homes and juvenile centers who do not know their dads.
via Gateway Pundit
It’s good to be Right
It seems research now proves it.
Right-wingers really are nicer people, latest research shows
Friday, June 13, 2008
New depths reached
The world (and particularly South Africa) watch on as Mugabe sends his country deeper into hell.
Wife of Mugabe rival burned alive after having feet hacked off
Friday, June 6, 2008
Bald job
This week’s fired-over-a-timbit stupid company story brought to you by Nathaniel’s of Owen Sound.
A 36-year-old waitress at an Owen Sound, Ont., restaurant lost her job this week after she shaved her head to raise money for a cancer charity.
I’m not sure the saying all publicity is good publicity applies to restaurants.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Why not the Gardiner
While Toronto is busy tearing down its useful throughways and viaducts, Japan shows the beauty of them.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
She’s back!
Alanis is back in fine form, now that she’s ditched her latest flame.
Heard the whole album, and she’s as good as ever.
Go buy Flavors of Entanglement
Monday, June 2, 2008
Oil prices solved
A good article showing that, once more, the oil crisis is actually (US) government made.
The underlying cause, of course, is that oil, coal and natural-gas prices have all gone berserk - with no relief in sight.
Friday, May 30, 2008
War on car continues
Driving a car in Toronto in the future just got harder.
A proposal to tear down part of the Gardiner Expressway will kill plans to extend Front St., Toronto’s deputy mayor said this morning.
Can we expect anything less from the anti-car cabal running Toronto?
As for the Don River portlands, what view of the lake exactly are they expecting to see? Last I looked, a decrepit Keating channel, buttressing a small bay, blocked by an island of squatters is the actual “lake view”.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
A (Youtube) Star is born
Why is this girl so contagious?
via JWalk
Isn’t working in a meat packing plant punishment enough?
I love J-Walk’s comment.
Isn’t working in a meat packing plant punishment enough?
Personally, I think the country is better off keeping those who defy the odds and get into the country, and take a sh*t job. They’ve obviously got balls and sticking power.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Roid rage
Another form of drug abuse.
Right or more often the case wrong, athletes have been taking anabolic steroids since the early 1960’s.
via JWalk
Oil exec charade
Mark agrees with me that interviewing the oil execs on prices is a useless operation.
I was watching the Big Oil execs testifying before Congress. That was my first mistake. If memory serves, there was lesbian mud wrestling over on Channel 137, and on the whole that’s less rigged.
I wonder how long we are going to let eco-terrorists ruin the Western way of life.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Black and white and the Star
J Kay notes that the Star never gives the most important part of a suspect’s description - the skin color.
So why does the Toronto Star refuse to publish the most detailed physical descriptions of the attacker as possible?
Mother, Inc.
It’s not easy being a SAHM these days, so hopefully this will encourage those that are:
A woman, renewing her driver’s license at the County Clerk ‘s office, was asked by the woman recorder to state her occupation.
She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself.
‘What I mean is, ‘ explained the recorder, ‘do you have a job or are you just a ...?’
‘Of course I have a job,’ snapped the woman. ‘I’m a Mom.’
‘We don’t list ‘Mom’ as an occupation, ‘housewife’ covers it,’ Said the recorder emphatically.
I forgot all about her story until one day I found myself in the same situation, this time at our own Town Hall. The Clerk was obviously a career woman, poised, efficient, and possessed of a high sounding title like, ‘Official Interrogator’ or ‘Town Registrar.’
‘What is your occupation?’ she probed.
What made me say it? I do not know. The words simply popped out. “I’m a Research Associate in the field of Child Development and Human Relations.”
The clerk paused, ball-point pen frozen in m midair and looked up as though she had not heard right.
I repeated the title slowly emphasizing the most significant words. Then I stared with wonder as my pronouncement was written, in bold, black ink on the official questionnaire.
‘Might I ask,’ said the clerk with new interest, ‘just what you do in your field?’
Coolly, without any trace of fluster in my voice, I heard myself reply, ‘I have a continuing program of research, (what mother doesn’t) In the laboratory and in the field, (normally I would have said indoors and out.) I’m working for my Masters, (first the Lord and then the whole family) and already have four credits (all daughters). Of course, the job is one of the most demanding in the humanities, (any mother care to disagree?) and I often work 14 hours a day, (24 is more like it). But the job is more challenging than most run-of-the-mill careers and the rewards are more of a satisfaction rather than just money.’
There was an increasing note of respect in the clerk’s voice as she completed the form, stood up, and personally ushered me to the door.
As I drove into our driveway, buoyed up by my glamorous new career, I was greeted by my lab assistants—ages 13, 7, and 3. Upstairs I could hear our new experimental model, (a 6 month old baby) in the child development program, testing out a new vocal pattern. I felt I had scored a beat on bureaucracy! And I had gone on the official records as someone more distinguished and indispensable to mankind than ‘just another Mom.’
Motherhood! What a glorious career! Especially when there’s a title on the door.