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.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Oh deer
To think I had one of these guys around my neck on the weekend at this place.
A python in southern India got more than a mouthful when it ate a 6-month-old deer. The snake snuck into a deer enclosure at a zoo and swallowed the much-larger animal.
Chuck em out
Fathers are now a step closer to becoming irrelevant, at least in Britain.
Fathers were last night effectively declared an irrelevance in modern Britain.
Women don’t need to get married for financial security any more, and now they don’t need men for children.
How fast can the family unit unravel now? Not fast enough for the socialists.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Keep Victoria’s name
Nice to see the Star on the right side of the Victoria Day “controversy”.
Today is known across the country (except Quebec) as “Victoria Day,” in honour of the queen who reined for a record 64 years. But some have suggested the name is an anachronism and should be changed.
Now let’s bring back Dominion Day.
Global cooling in Niagara Falls
I really wish global warming would kick in again, because damn it was cold in Niagara Falls. Second time I’ve been there at this time of year when it’s been close to freezing with the wind.
That said, we were prepared and went to a great waterpark off the strip. If you have small kids, then this is a great place to go that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Open it all up
So Sears may or may not be in trouble.
Grocery stores are closed, but you can get food in restaurants today. Why are grocery store retail workers “protected”, but not those serving you food (and collecting pst/gst).
At least 11 Sears Canada stores in Ontario opened their doors to the public on Monday, even though the provincial government warned the company that it would be against the law.
It’s time to let the stores decide whether or not to open, and not the government.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Mandatory training
Instead of picking on the truckers, most of whom are professional, accident free drivers, I think it’s time to bring in mandatory driver training for all first time (driving) licence holders.
It just might prevent tragedies like this.
A family friend of two young women involved in a fatal car crash that claimed three lives in central Ontario said she’s “heartbroken” by the unexpected loss of the pair who babysat her son the day before they died.
Driving a vehicle is just not taken seriously by most four wheelers.
Doing u-turns in front of tractor trailers at night on empty country roads is clearly the result of inattention and inexperience.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Telus your new friend
Meet my new 595u:
AirCard USB modems offer portable wireless broadband solution to meet the needs of both mobile and fixed wireless customers
You may see more posts now that I am connected during business hours.
So far, with Telus` $75 per month unlimited data, I am quite pleased.
Flint, ON
Wonder if Michael Moore will write a movie about Windsor.
This once-mighty industrial city survived ups and downs for decades, but now it’s staggering under hits that just keep coming
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Laptop stolen on Air Canada flight
I see that I am not the only one who’s laptop was stolen. A friend was bringing my laptop back from Mexico, and it was stolen out of his checked in luggage. It was an older laptop (4 years is ancient), and it was missing the battery, but it still sucks.
For those who don’t know, Casey’s laptop, a $3300 Macbook Pro, was stolen out of her luggage after our return from Las Vegas this weekend.
Clearly the moral is never leave anything of value in checked luggage.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Take a look
Mother nature in all her glory.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Have a lick for Irv today
Another Canadian who made it big in the US dies...sad. Makes me want to get a chocolate fudge for 5c extra.
Irvine Robbins, a co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins franchise that popularized novel ice cream flavours, died Monday at age 90 in California.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Meet the devil
More info on one of the most sadistic pieces of trash the modern world has ever known.
Elisabeth Fritzl was forced to help build the dungeon where she was kept by her sadistic father Josef, it emerged yesterday.
Monday, April 21, 2008
GM Settling Suits Over Engine Coolant
The most commented post here is on the GM Dexcool problem. Well, after years of headbanging, it appears (former) GM owners have won!
-General Motors Corp. has agreed to settle a series of class-action lawsuits claiming a faulty engine coolant damaged thousands of customer vehicles.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Bucket list entry #1
Here’s a place you may wish to put on your bucket list.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Enviro-terrorists killing the poor
More proof that climate change idiots are doing more harm than good.
Climate-change remedies can lead to greater poverty, starvation and disease, as well as widespread ecological destruction - some of the very misfortunes that they’re supposed to prevent. In our haste to address global warming, we have yet to think seriously about our policies’ unintended effects.
The results have been disastrous, and they’re only getting more so.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Turning on my lights
Don has a good post on the ridiculous Earth Hour ecoterrorism.
By the way, of course, the WWF should award some special prize to the North Korean government, for that government keeps North Koreans not in any meager “Earth Hour,” or even “Earth Day,” but in what WWFers might call “Earth Decades”—very little light ever. This picture of the Korean peninsula speaks volumes—the Dark Ages today; a society keeping its carbon footprint tiny. Of course, in doing so it keeps itself also desperately poor, often even to the point of starvation.
I really like this pic of how the North Koreans keep their lights off all the time.