tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86110862012-01-30T11:01:13.843-05:00"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock." Ben Hecht - 1947Blairnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4881100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1162739736571750742006-11-05T09:22:00.000-05:002006-11-05T10:50:16.993-05:00

Italics mine was two years old on October 6th. I forgot about it until I got phone calls telling me the domain name I'd bought two years ago, Italicsmine.com, was about to expire; send money now. I didn't, the name is out-there, if anyone wants it. Sometimes life slaps you upside-da-hade and sometimes it runs it's fingers through your hair. I have a new career and for someone my age that's very

Blairnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1157379301732824072006-09-04T10:07:00.000-04:002006-09-04T10:15:01.756-04:00

Mr. Steyn writes thus … Did you see that video of the two Fox journalists announcing they'd converted to Islam? The larger problem, it seems to me, is that much of the rest of the Western media have also converted to Islam, and there seems to be no way to get them to convert back to journalism. Consider, for example, the bizarre behavior of Reuters, the once globally respected news agency now

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1156631461205497242006-08-26T18:31:00.000-04:002006-09-04T10:23:31.123-04:00

Oooooo About a month ago a large number of fish washed up on the shore. no apparent cause was noted at the time and it's not talked about much anymore. I have a theory.

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1156631369444928682006-08-26T18:29:00.000-04:002006-09-04T10:30:36.516-04:00

Ohhhh My theory is based on something one of my neighbours told me four years ago (and he was in a position to know). At that time the twelve or fourteen, upstream hydro-electrical generating stations had their mandate changed from 'base load' operation to 'peak load' operation, that means they would only be used at the worst time for the grid, which is during very hot summer days. Three days

Blairnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1156631285826416892006-08-26T18:28:00.000-04:002006-09-04T10:44:30.703-04:00

Ahhhh Here's my theory; the fish died after getting trashed by going through some really big turbines. There are supposed to be cages and mesh to prevent them from getting sucked into them, but there are supposed to be lots of things in this world that work flawlesly and don't. The fish were all bottom feeders, I don't know my fish but maybe they couldn't swim as hard as the top feeders when the

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1155994305793216752006-08-19T09:26:00.000-04:002006-09-04T10:40:20.913-04:00

James Judd is a top bureaucrat and appears to be in WAY over his head. He was appointed to the head of CSIS, Canada’s answer to an intelligence agency…."We don't profile because it's fundamentally stupid and we don't have enough resources,'' said Judd. "From a national security perspective, we can't afford to have whole communities feel alienated." Perhaps I’m the idiot here but I didn’t know ‘

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1155482760198494352006-08-13T11:03:00.000-04:002006-08-13T11:26:00.246-04:00

Many thoughts to digest from Mark SteynHence that statistic: Seven percent of British Muslims consider their primary identity to be British, 81 percent consider it to be Muslim. By comparison, in the most populous Muslim nation on the planet, 39 percent of Muslim Indonesians consider themselves Indonesian first, 36 percent consider themselves Muslim first. For more than four years now, I've been

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1155447382273398322006-08-13T01:24:00.000-04:002006-08-13T11:28:19.166-04:00

Logical Meme has a list of attacks by various missunderstood people. It's the kind of post you should print.Speaking of lists...."Then the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,All centuries but this, and every country but his own;And the lady from the provinces, who dresses like a guy,And who "doesn't think she waltzes, but would rather like to try";"And apologetic statesmen of a

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1155446396919521122006-08-13T01:17:00.000-04:002006-08-13T01:19:56.940-04:00

From Sea To Shining Sea has a round up of August cartoons.

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1155445044503522362006-08-13T00:46:00.000-04:002006-08-13T00:57:24.506-04:00

The Wall Street Journal has a sobering look at the methods British used in identifing the suspects the rounded up and charged with planning an airliner incedent a few days from now. For instance ..."This wasn't supposed to happen today," a U.S. official told the Washington Post of the arrests and terror alert. "It was supposed to happen several days from now. We hear the British lost track of one

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1155119748523839282006-08-09T06:25:00.000-04:002006-08-09T06:35:48.546-04:00

Ahhhh, the maistream media. This is a collection of the frauds presented by Reuters 'News' Agency. The sad thing is I don't think there's anything new here. This has been going on as long as 'news' agencies have been around. It's just being done by folks with a certain lack of sophistication. Former editors of Pravda must be shaking their heads.Years from now we can tell our grandchildren we used

Blairnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1154968528938715182006-08-07T12:35:00.000-04:002006-08-07T12:56:40.343-04:00

The Globe has a story of The Prime Minister of Lebanon revising the death toll caused by Israel downwards, from forty (40) to one (1). That's some revision.Associated Press model in Lebanon. For no apparent reason The Globe and Mail ran the above picture of a woman running with the story about the PM correcting the death toll numbers, but they credit the shot to Lefteris Pitarakis of AP. Scroll

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1154966303767359822006-08-07T11:58:00.000-04:002006-08-07T21:01:15.213-04:00

Look who's back in Crawford Texas. Cindy Sheehan, the media's dancing bear of Bush outrage takes a well deserved break from her fasting to pose for (al)Reuters photographers.Reuters model Cindy Sheehan. Yahoo News [!] has an impressive 49 images of the woman, all creditted to (al)Reuters of course.

Blairnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1154961195131245622006-08-07T10:33:00.000-04:002006-08-07T12:21:12.470-04:00

Reuters got caught publishing doctored images of the war in Lebanon, they added more smoke to a down town scene to make it look worse, but used the cloning tool and copied the buildings too. It's only done badly if you know it's done at all. I bought it the first time through.To hear Reuters tell it, it was all the doing of a 'freelance' Lebanese photographer; you know the kind. Recall that it

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1154787659735631062006-08-05T10:12:00.000-04:002006-08-05T10:24:02.880-04:00

Victor Hanson has a powerful essay this week called 'The Brink of Madness'. It's difficult to excerpt because it's too comprehensive.It is now nearly five years since jihadists from the Arab world left a crater in Manhattan and ignited the Pentagon. Apart from the frontline in Iraq, the United States and NATO have troops battling the Islamic fascists in Afghanistan. European police scramble

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1154392995973475262006-07-31T20:43:00.000-04:002006-07-31T22:41:53.116-04:00

Did you hear what they said Mel said. Oy. Movie set for Ramadan release. After I photoshopped this I had reservations about posting it. I don't want to lend anything to a meme celebrated by dullards, but at the same time I don't want to let Mel off the hook.

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1153840909640370382006-07-25T11:20:00.000-04:002006-07-25T14:13:44.260-04:00

The September Tenth News Agency, also known as (al)Reuters has found another one of those 'experts' to weigh in on the hidden effects of America's support for Israel, well not even ... it's America's 'tacit' support that's going to cause further violence. Sheesh.By David MorganWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration's tacit support for Israeli military strikes on Lebanon may have increased

Blairnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1153581592529839582006-07-22T11:14:00.000-04:002006-07-22T11:19:52.623-04:00

I'd like to draw your attention to a blog I've been reading for about a month.

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The good people at PBS (emphasis on the BS) have put up a web page for the kids about an Australian documentary called ‘Einstein’s Wife’. Apparently they want the youngins to decide for themselves that it was Mileva Maric who did the intellectual heavy lifting behind his 1905 papers on special relativity, the photoelectric effect and Brownian motion. Some outside the public broadcasting

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1152448543092756332006-07-09T08:35:00.000-04:002006-07-13T16:50:46.320-04:00

Apparently actors Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn and Danny Glover are going to fast with Cindy Sheehan until the American soldiers are brought home. Perhaps 'fast' isn't the right word here. They're acually going on rotating twenty-four hour mini hunger 'strikes'. They call it a rolling fast. Sheesh. Duh. Glover looks like he's been carbo-loading for about six months and I bet Penn doesn't make it to

Blairnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1152380338098862382006-07-08T13:31:00.000-04:002006-07-08T16:16:52.600-04:00

The Wall Street Journal reports on ten years of increased speed limits in the U.S. Nanny staters aren't going to like this....Of the 31 states that have raised their speed limits to more than 70 mph, 29 saw a decline in the death and injury rate and only two--the Dakotas--have seen fatalities increase. Two studies, by the National Motorists Association and by the Cato Institute, have compared

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1152379727012141832006-07-08T12:52:00.000-04:002006-07-11T10:19:06.440-04:00

I heard Neil Young's latest effort last week; protest songs about M. Bush. Sheesh. I got a chuckle out of the last cut, it's a hundred voice choir singing 'America The Beautiful'. Talk about appropreating a voice. It's a powerful song regardless of who sings it, but the notion that left-overs from the hippy continuum can sing it and somehow claim the moral high ground is ironic. It's mixed with

Blairnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1152374702824038052006-07-08T12:05:00.000-04:002006-07-08T12:38:49.353-04:00

I found this at Lucianne.com They don't say where they got it or who produced it. No doubt it would have been published 230 years ago because ..... hey, the 'public' has a right to know. Don't they?A missed opportunity by the NYT. Another missed opportunity by 'The Times' might be ...Allied Forces Illegally Reading 'Inigma' Coded Messages.

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1152199700524659642006-07-06T11:16:00.000-04:002006-07-06T11:32:28.450-04:00

Yahoo News announced that Canadians celebrated the 139th Canada Day.It's actually the twenty-fouth 'Canada Day', the first one was in 1982. Prior to that the day was called Dominion Day and the first one of those was celebrated in 1868 and there were 113 of them.Sigh.

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1152198533654456832006-07-06T10:34:00.000-04:002006-07-06T11:08:53.746-04:00

This is why the blogosphere rules. Casandra over at Villianis Company has done some great work.Last week The Times in it's unending attempts to slag M. Bush ran a story that the American Government was running a SECRET OPERATION which monitored fund transfers in an attempt to detect Al Quieda financing. The idea being that the SECRET OPERATION lacked congressional oversight and that it could

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1152195051855254582006-07-06T10:10:00.000-04:002006-07-07T09:48:34.110-04:00

The American Heritage Dictionary announced a revision to its collection of colloquialisms. As of last Wednesday the expression ‘dumber than a bag of hammers’ was replaced with, ‘dumber than Charlie Sheen’. Mr. Sheen acting intelligent. The revision was as a result of complaints by the Stanley Tool Company after Mr. Sheen held a press conference suggesting that the collapse of the World Trade

Blairnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1152193800935937852006-07-06T09:50:00.000-04:002006-07-06T15:58:30.586-04:00

Ottawa – Senior Liberal Party officials announced today that they’ve ‘found their man’.The announcement ended months of debate about who would make the best choice to lead the Liberal Party of Canada into the next election. The young man, an unidentified Quebecer, gained national attention by urinating on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier July 1st.Uber Liberal. “The Liberal Party has been pissing

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1151325404741075252006-06-26T08:20:00.000-04:002006-07-08T12:46:10.296-04:00

I always use the term 'idiot press' to refer to the media. I do that because I don't take them seriously. Whenever I've read or heard something where I had first hand knowledge of the event, I find the coverage to be totally off the mark. I assume this is true for stories where I have no prior knowledge also. The events of last week stun me. The New York Times is on the side of America's enemies;

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1150728409059179902006-06-19T10:44:00.000-04:002006-06-19T10:46:49.073-04:00

TORONTO - The RCMP overcame tremendous odds and announced the arrest of seventeen youths chosen at random from all walks of life and holding a coalition of diverse opinions on everything from the Kyoto Accord and Soft-wood Lumber Agreement to who should be the Stanley Cup play-offs MVP. “Some are youthful and some are young, some are male and some are even young, youthful males, while others have

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1150562094116121812006-06-17T12:29:00.000-04:002006-06-17T12:39:48.846-04:00

I just updated my look with a few visits to various menswear shops.Apparently it's now possible to smell similar to David Beckham.No wonder all those tribal civilizations are so afraid of us.

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1150558959077465072006-06-17T11:42:00.000-04:002006-06-17T11:50:17.413-04:00

Gizmag is a great site.Hanging below the kite is now considered 'twentieth century'. Kite Jousting; Opposing 'players' come flying at each other towed by boats that keep in separate lanes. Using only whiffle bats an water canon, they try to knock each other off their kites and into the water. If there is an impact it will be after the boats have past so serious injury should be minimal.

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1150206058546528852006-06-13T09:40:00.000-04:002006-06-13T11:59:36.980-04:00

TORONTO - The CBC has pulled the first thirty-four episodes of “Tommy Douglas; Creator of Worlds”, due to harsh criticism by the historical community. DVD removed. Historians in that community say the episodes where Mr. Douglas discovers the Panama Canal, ends World War II, invents the light bulb, founds the United Nations, conducts the first heart transplant, brings no-touch icing to the third

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1149980727873187402006-06-10T18:22:00.000-04:002006-06-10T19:05:28.016-04:00

About a week ago I lost the use of my right arm below the elbow. I'd like to say I lost the feeling too but I didn't, it hurt like hell. Saturday I spent five hours at the hospital and they determined it was a pinched nerve, not my heart. They gave me anti-inflams and executive strength pain killers that served no real purpose as I didn't manage to fall asleep until Wednesday night.I saw a

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1148927464603179292006-05-29T14:21:00.000-04:002006-05-29T14:31:04.763-04:00

I've just been contacted by the widow of Rafiki Baha al-din Hariri, late of Beirut.I'm supposed to contact Mr. Roger Scott (a diplomat) in London, UK regarding a large sum of money which is just sitting around.Tel: 44-704-010-8974or 44-871-733-8542Mobile 011-874-763593-795Fax: 44-207-152-9649I'm kinda busy right now, but if there are any British folks reading this, could give Mr. Scott a call

Blairnoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1148905973168375262006-05-29T08:32:00.000-04:002006-05-31T12:39:52.260-04:00

Appologies to Rene Magritte fans. 

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1148902919818828662006-05-29T07:16:00.000-04:002006-05-29T08:07:49.140-04:00

This is being done quietly. Starting next month The United Nations is collecting consumption taxes directly because some European governments think it should and have given it the go ahead. From a Town Hall article.One of the U.N.’s more fruitful attempts at global taxation is the formal plan to levy a tax on airline tickets. In November 2005, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, and Spain issued a

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1148738197751457472006-05-27T09:31:00.000-04:002006-05-28T09:05:27.413-04:00

Courtesy Powerline, here's a sad story about winning.The football committee of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which governs high school sports, is adopting a "score management" policy that will suspend coaches whose teams win by more than 50 points. A rout is considered an unsportsmanlike infraction and the coach of the offending team will be disqualified from coaching the

Blairnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1148471087777176622006-05-24T07:44:00.000-04:002006-06-10T18:21:37.033-04:00

OTTAWA - Yves Malo, president of the parliamentary press gallery held a press conference yesterday to announce that the press were boycotting press conferences. The announcement however went unreported by the press due to confusion amoung reporters who thought they were supposed to boycott all press-conferences, including Malo's. Yves Malo announces something. Malo then held a second press

Blairnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1148321597624903122006-05-22T14:10:00.000-04:002006-05-22T14:15:49.123-04:00

OTTAWA - Experiments on orangutans suggest humans aren't the only animals who can think ahead, Orangutans and bonobos - small apes closely related to chimpanzees - have shown that they can remember which tools they need to retrieve a treat.In an experiment, the apes had to use a metal hook to retrieve a bottle of grape juice. To pass the test, the subjects had to pick which tool was needed to get

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1148317573908555422006-05-22T13:06:00.000-04:002006-05-22T14:22:08.866-04:00

We should be so lucky. al Reuters has the story.Madonna; still clueless after all these years. "Later on, she donned a crown of thorns and suspended herself from a giant mirrored cross to deliver the ballad "Live to Tell." Video screens showed images of third-world poverty and reeled off grim statistics."I wonder if any of the statistics she quoted involved the percentage of non-elected

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1148313834887763942006-05-22T12:03:00.000-04:002006-05-22T14:55:00.520-04:00

Appearing directly below a banner add for the new Pontiac Montana SV6, one of CanWest’s typists hammered out a childish little rant about the RCMP using a General Motors SUV in the Prime Ministers motorcade, or in CanWest speak; ‘parade’. For your amusement I’ve added some missing text.CanWest Petty News Service; Ottawa CitizenTim Naumetz, (with additional material by Italics Mine)Published:

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1148307849355566262006-05-22T10:24:00.000-04:002006-05-22T10:37:21.203-04:00

WASHINGTON (CNN) --Newly released court papers said FBI agents found $90,000 in cash in Louisiana congressman William Jefferson’s freezer.Investigators stated that an August 2005 they searched Democratic Rep. William Jefferson's home and found $90,000 in cash in the congressman’s freezer. The money was divided among various frozen food containers, according to the affidavit. Agents told a judge

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1148232122614988372006-05-21T13:22:00.000-04:002006-05-21T13:36:58.166-04:00

Which one is the original? Disgraced South Korean scientist, Dr. Hwang Woo Suk (yes that's his real name) was in New Orleans last night to celebrate the election of one of his creations. Ray II was narrowly elected Mayor of New Orleans yesterday while Ray (the original) stayed in Houston and watched the outcome on CNN. "I think it's good for my clone to get he feet wet, so to speak, in politics,"

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1148229940315206022006-05-21T12:45:00.000-04:002006-05-21T15:23:06.546-04:00

UK protesters go naked over Canadian bearskinsOh no. Does this mean Bridget Bardot and whats-her-name from Baywatch are coming back? LONDON (Reuters) - Around 100 animal rights campaigners stripped naked in central London on Sunday to protest the use of traditional bearskin hats worn by military guards on ceremonial parade.Wearing nothing but bear masks and carrying placards saying "Bears

Blairnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1148225358107614762006-05-21T11:02:00.000-04:002006-05-21T11:29:18.863-04:00

Don't feel bad if the whole Iran/Middle East situation confuses you. The mavens of conventional wisdom present it that way for a reason, they have deadlines and a penchant for the visual which eclipses context. If you want to understand the bigger picture, stop whatever you’re doing and go read Mark Steyn’s essay ‘Facing Down Iran’ in The City Journal. If you don’t have time right now, bookmark

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1148132196982563042006-05-20T09:36:00.000-04:002006-05-21T12:28:00.153-04:00

A fish with markings that resemble Arial Bold text has been found by Kenyan officials touring the United States.Koranic fish discovered in Erie PA. "This changes everything" said Muslim scholar el Moe al Sharpton. "First the seventy-two virgins turn out to be raisins now we find out we've had the big guys real name wrong all these years. Oy."The discovery follows last weeks disappearance of a

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1148094460206722702006-05-19T22:11:00.001-04:002006-05-21T11:45:12.150-04:00

Well it looks like someone has a chip on his shoulder and that someone is Brian Ross and he's a journalist. So there.ABC News has him on a web site called 'The Blotter', and just to make sure everyone knows he's not a blogger he says it twice. We're journalists, not bloggers. But we do have a blotter.We decided to create this space as a place to break stories, update stories and feature analysis

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1147952840900429612006-05-18T07:28:00.000-04:002006-05-20T07:43:07.366-04:00

Everyone who gets their news from the mainstream folks KNOWS M. Bush is the most reviled president ever; and we all know tthey wouldn't say anything that wasn't true. Again today UPI reports he's at a record low with 33%. Fortunately the Power Line guys did some researh and put things in context. This is the unpopularity of the past seven presidents ...*Johnson: 35%*Nixon: 24%*Ford: 37%*Carter:

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1147860920245713922006-05-17T06:08:00.000-04:002006-05-21T12:02:22.533-04:00

The twelve Danish Cartoons have nothing on this ....Somewhere there has to be an mullah with a laptop going around pressing play and going out of his mind.

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1147695931247755052006-05-15T08:25:00.000-04:002006-05-15T08:48:28.680-04:00

The United Nations can rent big hotel rooms like rock stars, drive around in white 4x4's like 'Juice', meet, study and report the situation like .... the UN, but when it comes right down to it there is only one organization on the planet with the equipment, manpower and know how to help those in trouble; The American Military. Mount Merapi; T minus ...? "In one of the villages in the shadow of

Blairnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1147613725370568412006-05-14T08:28:00.000-04:002006-05-14T21:59:42.896-04:00

Twenty-five years ago the Supreme Court ruled: Smith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735, 743-744 (1979), held that there was no actual expectation of privacy in the phone numbers you dial. Even if someone has an expectation of privacy in the numbers, it is not “legitimate.” The Court then stated that the public “typically know[s] that they must convey phone numbers to the telephone company and that the

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1147580197787842792006-05-14T00:16:00.000-04:002006-05-14T18:59:41.516-04:00

The first thing I noticed when I moved to Ottawa four years ago was that pretty much everyone in this town HATES Toronto. Specifically the hockey team. Many of the locals turn into jibbering idiots when ever the phrase 'Toronto Maple Leafs' is uttered, or they twich wildly and start swearing thru a veil of tears. Toronto was the team that disposed of the Ottawa Senators each year and everyone in

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1147528046539948212006-05-13T08:58:00.000-04:002006-07-11T10:27:34.466-04:00

Cindy Sheehan is insane. She's lost the road map and she's not coming home. Something Al Gore might refer to as an inconvenient truth.I pity the woman for what she has been through and I mean at the hands of the Democrats and the idiot press. Al Gore, John Kerry, Howard Dean and the Reverend Jesse Jackson have all dropped by for pics. She lost her son Casey, after he signed up for his second tour

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Reuters - Wed May 3, 1:42 PM ET Climate scientists identified a new effect of global warming; the changing climate is causing a vast looping system of clip-art images to form above the earth's surface. The images are mainly of arrows however raindrops and storm clouds have also been seen. Big green arrows began to appear above the Pacific ocean in the late nineties and today it was revealed that

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Found this on Yahoo, apparently these are "Members of trade unions protesting against the Asian Development Bank" meeting in Hyderabad. Of course they are; I can't believe Yahoo felt it necessary to explain such a self evident photo. They're obviously members of a sign painting union.Useful idiots protest the use of fossil fuels. The caption says, "The Asian Development Bank can boost the fight

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Today's National Post has a story written by Michael Coren about his invitation and subsequent cancellation of a CBC appearance.He's conservative don't you know and that just would look right in a country where the national broadcaster keeps telling us everyone's a liberal, they just haven't got their arts degree yet. If it weren't for the Stanley Cup there'd be no reason to watch the CBC, who I

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7 May 1915. A German U-boat sinks the Lusitania.Original post card on E-Bay @ $14.00. NOTICE!TRAVELERS intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that a state of war exists between Germany and her allies and Great Britain and her allies; that the zone of war includes the waters adjacent to the British Isles; that, in accordance with formal notice given by the Imperial German

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This is how you make money in the new economy; Event CapitalizationYou capitalize on an event by drawing attention to it and providing a unique conduit for interested and sympathetic observers. Television started it, but now it has proliferated down to internet users. People are creating web sites dedicated to one current event and profiting from the traffic flow. I’ll give two examples; Stephen

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Koffi Annan picked up some serious cash when he won this years (!) ‘Reward A Transnational Official’ competition held in Dubai last in February. Congratulations big guy.Fotosearch.com He picked up a cool $500,000 dollars; it’s the Zayed International Prize For The Environment. As the National Revue observed last week, “One might note, in passing, that to date, three months after Annan accepted

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This could explain why the idiot press are being ignored by a majority of Americans. Time magazine (online) ledes with the following ....Covert operations rarely come off exactly as planned. But last week's coup at the CIA, orchestrated by White House officials and Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, went only slightly awry—and only at the last moment. Did you notice the mistake?

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Look what they’ll be burning up the launch pads with next season.Martian Haute Couture. This is what the fashionable Martian explorers will be wearing on their walkabouts. But really; what is NASA thinking, the shoulders are just so wrong!.

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It’s official; you and no one else are responsible for what you do. The Canadian Supreme Court has ruled that a host does not have ‘Duty of Care’ over anyone who attends their party. That is to say they aren’t liable for what someone does after they leave.

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Experts have been telling us for years that global warming was a threat and I always laughed, but no more. Global warming is real and it's visible and it's right outside my door. Look at the shot of my neighbours place, last month his dock was on dry land!!! The green house gasses and are causing the polar ice cap to melt and the Ottawa River to rise. It drains into the St. Laurence River which

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From Mark Steyns review of Mission Impossible I, Incidentally, it's lucky for Tom that, even for its state-of-the-art secure vault, the CIA continues to install air ducts the entire Radio City Rockettes could comfortably tap-dance down. A couple of years ago, at a loose end in a skyscraper, I tried crawling down an air duct and got as far as my shoulders. Possibly you could have got Kate Moss

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I rode the Toronto subway for sixteen years. Every year the Toronto Transit Commision lost money and had to be bailed out by taxpayers.Now I live in the country and I'm forking out about $60.00 to $80.00 a week in gas, half of which goes to various governments. Toronto is packed with artists, writers, enviro-mental cases, socialists and angry people in general, all of whom rail against "gas

Blairnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1146656259047778412006-05-03T07:35:00.000-04:002006-05-06T17:32:41.816-04:00

This is a game we used to play as kids but now it’s the game for not quite mature adults too. Both the U.S. and Canadian governments are under attack by those in opposition who just noticed their own flags. I’ll explain. In the States, the Democrats while in opposition introduced a bill which would outlaw burning an American Flag. It didn’t go anywhere. Good thing to, this was the kind of

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So there's this big kerfuffle being staged by the church of latter day communists over illegal immigrants in the U.S. They've even rewritten the National Anthem to suit. The American National Anthem started out life as a drinking song. That explains why it's played before every major sporting events sponsored by breweries. In the old days there were many more lyrics than tunes; think of the 1-4-5

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There's a lot of water fowl around here. I know these are just gulls but imagine they're Blue Herons.Gear down, full flaps. Taking a dive. This one started from a floating position and is diving to snatch something off the bottom.

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Socialists: Give apes human rightsSpain HeraldSpanish President Jose Maria Aznar at a morning press conference. The Spanish Socialist Party will introduce a bill in the Congress of Deputies calling for "the immediate inclusion of (simians) in the category of persons, and that they be given the moral and legal protection that currently are only enjoyed by human beings." The PSOE's justification is

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Who's watching the watchers?Flopping Aces has a good round-up of the CIA mole story. The mainstream press are downplaying this for the moment since it involves them and not in a good way. They've been caught fencing stolen goods and are using the, it-fell-off-a-truck, defense. It seems a long time analyst formerly with the NSA (No Such Agency) who now works at the CIA confessed to being a double

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So Anyway … I’ve been avoiding the Internet for a couple of weeks; it can be done. It reminds me of when I gave up on newspapers, magazines, movies and then television; you simply find something else to do and since it’s spring, yard work filled the gap. I didn’t know about the Easter long weekend until Thursday, that’s how out of touch I was and I must say I enjoyed the view from there

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Shortly after posting this I will be boxing my laptop up and sending away for repair and reloading (Windows XP sucks) because you can't just re-install the operating system you have to wipe the hard drive clean and start again. I'm going to lose all the photo editting and posting software and a number of other things that haven't occurred to me. I'm also a tad burnt out of blogging, you need

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I've never seen someone 'decry' something, so I'm not sure what the deal is however it's a media based story about the media. The Toronto Star 'reports' ...Media unions decry Harper tactics We've had national daycare in this country for decades; it's called the Parliamentary Press Gallery. The kiddies have their shorts in a knot. Harper must be doing something right.Italics Mine

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This is something everyone should be concerned about. Like any Albertan has the right to do, Saudi imam Syed Soharwardy has filed a complaint with the Alberta "Human Rights Commission" over the Danish cartoons.Go to the Western Standard's Shotgun Blog and read the comments.Italics Mine

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Susan Riley is one of the anti-American typists employed by the Ottawa Citizen. Based on the drivel she came up with today, I think she may also have ghost written some of the Liberal Party Election adds. Now she's typing to warn us about the Stephen Harper government ...Susan Riley, The Ottawa CitizenPublished: Wednesday, March 29, 2006Three words of advice to Liberals about to embark on a

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Unless of course you're German. Italics Mine

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Not satisfied with being the next big thing (so to speak) in Canada, obesity has headed south and now CNN is asking rhetorical question, " Obesity: A looming national threat?"Naw, just another way to keep warm in the winter and guarantee you'll float when all the arctic ice melts and covers the dry land we take for granted.Italics Mine

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This will probably get put on the back burner by the mainstream press in favour of another 'Bush Popularity Down' story ....Moussaoui lays claim to 9/11 role, targeting White HouseALEXANDRIA, United States 28/03/2006 04:33Al-Qaeda agent Zacarias Moussaoui told how Osama bin Laden ordered him to fly a fifth hijacked jet into the White House in the September 11 attacks, in stunning testimony which

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Donald Rumsfield visited the crash site of Flight 93 yesterday. I don't think I've seen a story of anyone else doing this.The real memorial to flight 93. The things left by visitors; hats, flags, licence plates and flowers were left by people who thought it mattered that they leave something behind. Some folks even put up a 'temporary' plaque to honor the passengers. Good for them.Forty names. 

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Mark Steyn on Christianity in Afghanistan.For what it's worth, I'm with the Afghan Ulama Council in objecting to the insanity defense. It's not enough for Rahman to get off on a technicality. Afghanistan is supposed to be "the good war," the one even the French supported, albeit notionally and mostly retrospectively. Karzai is kept alive by a bodyguard of foreigners. The fragile Afghan state is

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So when he taught a class at Columbia's School of Journalism, the conventional wisdom held that Al Gore was becoming the boring professor he was always meant to be. When he began distributing his speeches through MoveOn.org, the pundits intoned that he was merely proving himself the wild-eyed liberal they'd always suspected he was. When he started the Gen-Y oriented Current TV, the commentators

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Half a million people showed up in a demontration in Los Angeles to protest a new immigration law which outlaws .... illigal immigrants. That doesn't sound right to me but I'm new.This is ironic. Why do so many people want to live under the laws of the Great Satan? They spend their days and nights trying to sneak into the country, but not to destroy it, they do it so they can work. They WANT a

Blairnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611086.post-1143456583383555522006-03-27T05:46:00.000-05:002006-03-27T06:43:56.076-05:00

Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever... More And More Land Is Being Devastated By Drought... Rising Waters Are Drowning Low-Lying Communities... By Any Measure, Earth Is At ... The Tipping PointThe climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame. Why the crisis hit so soon--and what we can do about it?This is Times Cover Story. Yawn. Compare that story to the one they ran thirty-two

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Now entering the ring, a new contender; childhood obesity. Let the fight begin.Tax junk food to fight obesity: CMA head Canadian Medical Association President Dr. Ruth L. Collins-Nakai spoke at a luncheon meeting at the Chateau Laurier.Dennis Bueckert, The Canadian PressPublished: Wednesday, March 22, 2006OTTAWA -- Junk food should be taxed to combat the epidemic of childhood obesity, says Dr.

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While looking for a stop sign graphic for my new environmental movement I found a site dedicated to oddball signs. Check it out.When safety becomes a way of life. Ya think? A number of things come to mind here. Italics Mine

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It's been months since the last 'sky is falling, ice is melting, sea is rising' alarm, but that ends today with a new 'study' appearing in an impressive 365 news sources world wide. To help clarify just how awful the future is I've worked up a little graphic. Start at th bottomEverything is much worse than expected. I have a kayak so I'm O.K., but the rest of you are going to drown. Sorry.Italics

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From The OnionWe now see cases of information-overload across the country—a truly terrifying disease, especially among those who watch excessive amounts of television or read two or more newspapers a day. The result: cynicism, apathy, fatigue, and consistently strained retinas.Sadly, the country's most informed are the most at risk. These brave but misguided souls continue to live a waking

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NEW YORK - Responding to criticism for his statement 'Bush makes me sick', John Green, executive producer of the weekend edition of GOOD MORNING AMERICA, said he was just responding to a new opinion poll which ABC plans to use as a news story.The opinion poll asked 200 anti-Bush Whitehouse correspondents, chosen at random, to pick one of four sentences that 'best describe your feeling about the

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This seems too dumb to be real ...St. Paul, Minn. Officials Ban Easter BunnyThe Easter Bunny has been sent packing at St. Paul City Hall.A toy rabbit, pastel-colored eggs and a sign with the words "Happy Easter" were removed from the lobby of the City Council offices, because of concerns they might offend non-Christians.A council secretary had put up the decorations. They were not bought with

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This is not a good sign.....We may have to change the name of this column to “Unhappy Warrior”, or “Reluctant Conscript”, or “Impending Deserter”. The last few weeks have made me consider not the possibility that we might lose this thing (which I’ve always weighed) but that we might lose it more easily than even the gloomiest of us thought. The “Cartoon Jihad” might have been explicitly devised

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OTTAWA - Former Prime Minister Paul Martin announced today that he will seek the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada. Mr. Martin, a business man, said he noticed the strikingly low-grade of people who have come forward to enter the race since the previous Prime Minister resigned and said he was pretty sure he could "trounce any of 'em, even if I'm pissed".Martin announces candidacy. When a

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This is one of ironies finest hours, The United Nations report on Denmark finds all Danes are racists and xenophpbes. This is from the organization that provides a forum so dictatorships can get together and vote on what they want. Like the destruction of Israel. Sheesh.“Their uncompromising defense of a Freedom of Speech without limits or restrictions is not in accordance with the international

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March 21 (Bloomberg) -- Australian banana growers may take two years to recover after Cyclone Larry, the most powerful storm to hit the nation in 30 years, flattened as much as A$320 million ($230 million) of crops.Sugar growers will also struggle to recover after the category five storm, packing winds more powerful than Hurricane Katrina, damaged cane fields yesterday, ruining farmers hopes of

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OTTAWA - Air Canada announced today that it has signed a deal to aquire nine thousand new single passenger aircraft to replace its ageing fleet of multi-passenger aircraft now in service.New aircraft seats one. The Sperwer, which is Dutch for Sparrow Hawk, is a twin-tailed, propeller-driven craft that is a little bigger than a snowmobile and has a Bombardier engine about the size of what a

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Dr. Sanity has an observation on how to be the infallible critic in society.Thus you have the infallible logic of the critc of prevention, and the ready-made fall guy in whoever is courageous enough to try to prevent something terrible from happening.The infallible logic is this: since the terrible event was prevented from occurring, what possible evidence exists that it would have taken place?

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From the Chicago Sun-TimesRight now, in the generally squalid Arab world, you'll find four types of regimes:1. Dictators with oil (Iraq, Libya)2. Monarchs with oil (Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states)3. Dictators without oil (Egypt, Syria)4. Monarchs without oil (Jordan, Morocco)Numbers 1 and 3 are, almost by definition, unreformable: In essence, they have to be overthrown or made to see that the only

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In Toronto a thousand of yesterdays people showed up to protest Canada's twenty-two hundred soldiers currently in Afghanistan. Hardly worth the effort, no doubt they'll get full value for their outrage.From the CBC ...In London, organizers hoped to attract 100,000 people, but police estimated the crowd at about 15,000.About 500 protesters in Australia chanted, "end the war now," while 2,000

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AP, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN & Reuters News Agency combined some of the results of six separate polls and simultaneously reported that President Bush is the most ridiculed, hated, dispised, reviled, mistrusted and just plain unpopular person (let alone president) ever, ever, ever, forever and a day, or ever will be, ever. So there. Period. End of discussion. Stamped it!Bush discusses the media, "Why do

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I hope this doesn't get out. Cholesterol bombs. Italics Mine

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She may be an 'A' list celebrity in Europe but she's 'C' grade over here. Her schtick (cause) is fur; she's against it and she's coming here to tell us about it. I have a challenge for Ms. Bardot; we have curious and vicious little animals around here called Fishers, in Europe they're called 'Sables'. These things kill for laughs and can take out a beighbourhood of domestic animals in a few

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