What a joy it has been to watch our athletes! I have been on the edge of my seat many times cheering for our athletes. My favorites are Virtue and Moir, they are so young and full of life they are a joy to watch. Here is their gala performance, it's an updated version of the one I posted earlier.
PM Harper is so good at interviews, and this time CTV kept it non-partisan, and I appreciate that, the question about the pants was too funny. I suspect if the athletes don't get political about the funding, that they might get rewarded for all their hard work. Personally I am in favour of continuing to support the "Own the Podium" effort. At least my tax dollars are being put to better use than pandering to some socialist program that does not produce any results except more dependency on our government and ultimately us taxpayers.
These games have been a huge success. The patriotism Canadians have shown has brought our country closer together. A tie for most gold medals by any country in the winter Olympics is truly awesome, and we have one more chance to win gold!
THREE NUNS WERE AT A BASEBALL GAME.... THREE MEN WERE SITTING DIRECTLY BEHIND BECAUSE THEIR HABITS WERE PARTIALLY BLOCKING THE VIEW, THE MEN DECIDED TO BADGER THE NUNS HOPING THAT THEY'D GET ANNOYED ENOUGH TO MOVE TO ANOTHER AREA.
IN A VERY LOUD VOICE, THE FIRST GUY SAID,
"I THINK I'M GOING TO MOVE TO UTAH . THERE ARE ONLY 100 NUNS LIVING THERE." THEN THE SECOND GUY SPOKE UP AND SAID,
"I WANT TO GO TO MONTANA . THERE ARE ONLY 5O NUNS LIVING THERE.
THE THIRD GUY SAID,
"I WANT TO GO TO IDAHO . THERE ARE ONLY 25 NUNS LIVING THERE."
THE MOTHER SUPERIOR TURNED AROUND, LOOKED AT THE MEN, AND IN A VERY SWEET AND CALM VOICE SAID,
"WHY DON'T YOU GO TO HELL...? THERE AREN'T ANY NUNS THERE!" -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Irish Virginity Test Kit
Paddy was planning to get married and asked his doctor how he could tell if his bride is a virgin.
The doctor said, 'Well, you need three things from a Do-It-Yourself shop.
A can of red paint, a can of blue paint... And a shovel.'
Paddy asked, 'And what do I do with these, doc?'
The doc replied, 'Before the wedding night, you paint one of your balls red and the other ball blue.
If she says, "That's the strangest pair of balls I ever saw", you hit her with the shovel.' ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Do you feel lucky???
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In a hospital's Intensive Care Unit, patients always died in the same bed, on Sunday morning, at about 11:00 am , regardless of their medical condition. This puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something to do with the super natural. No one could solve the mystery as to why the deaths occurred around 11:00 AM Sunday, so a worldwide team of experts was assembled to investigate the cause of the incidents. The next Sunday morning, a few minutes before 11:00 AM all of the doctors and nurses nervously waited outside the ward to see for themselves what the terrible phenomenon was all about. Some were holding wooden crosses, prayer books, and other holy objects to ward off the evil spirits. Just when the clock struck 11:00 , Pookie Johnson, the part-time Sunday sweeper, entered the ward and unplugged the life support system so he could use the vacuum cleaner. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Go Canada, we have 10 Gold medals, the best ever, and more to come!
Congratulations to Joannie Rochette, she deserved the bronze medal for her performance. She is also a shining example of what the Olympic spirit is all about. She could have quit after her mother died, but she keep on her path and succeeded, for her Mom!
Now, if our politicians would just get with the Olympic feeling, we might see some progress in this country.
I find it typical that CTV would blaze this story all over the news.
Helena Guergis apologizes for airport outburst Notice it was doorknob Wayne Easter, Liberal MP for PEI, who ran to the press with this non-story. Let's not forget another Liberal MP from PEI who wanted to hang Mulroney, which somehow didn't get reported by CTV. Seriously, I love PEI, all my in-laws live there, but something in that red soil makes them vote in Liberal misfits. I guess when you can meet your MP in the bar any day of the week, it makes them more "human". Helena was right to apologize, and it shouldn't have happened, but CTV can't help themselves and have to mention her husband, Rahim Jaffer so you don't feel too sorry for her. It really is sickening how biased CTV is. Maybe we should start following their reporters around and report all the dirt we find on them.
New Democrat MP Pat Martin says giving municipal or federal funding to the Youth For Christ project would amount to "taxpayer-funded proselytization."
Another MP that has no Olympic spirit. He thinks religious organizations are bad for our youths because they might give them a place to go when their parents are working. I wonder how may irate constituents he heard from over the last few days to make him change his mind?
A New Democrat MP now says he'll help the Christian organization he excoriated last week as a "fundamentalist group" to build an $11.7-million youth centre in downtown Winnipeg. ........ "Now that it's over, I'm going to do all I can to ensure it's a success," Mr. Martin said. "Anything happening in the inner city is better than nothing." ........ At city council, opponents such as Nahanni Fontaine (any relation to Phil?) from the Southern Chiefs' Organization likened the group's youth centre to Canada's residential schools. But the primary complaint raised by inner-city groups was that they had no access to comparable public funding.
So it was all political for Martin, and Fontaine just wanted the money for their organization without having any plan of their own, they just think they DESERVE the money. They don't want interference in their community. Right, a community that has the highest crime rates, and highest suicide rates and a little bit of God is a bad thing? What a disgusting show of victimhood. Martin was obviously pandering to his special interest groups and not to the needs of the community. Vote him out!
Our MP's need to get some Olympic style courage from Joannie. They are being dictated to by special interest groups and they are forgetting who their really represent, that silent majority that has the power to vote them out.
Our woman's hockey team looks powerful and set to win, our men's hockey team, made up of professional millionaires? Not so much. (Okay they did great against the Russians, I will give them that one.)
So, maybe it's not "Own the Podium" that's the problem, maybe it's our men? Come on guys, defend yourselves, or apologize like the US guys do!
Maybe you are just being the polite gentlemen that your mother's raised to hold doors open for women, and are letting the Canadian women walk away with all the medals. Yup, I bet that's exactly what's happening. HA!
A gutsy performance. I have no doubt her Mom is smiling down on her tonight. It kind of puts everything into prospective. When one of our athletes doesn't win, maybe we should think more about what they had to do to get to the Olympics in the first place.
So, let's cheer all athletes from our comfortable sofas, and have a little more respect for the effort they go through to compete for our country.
I hope that Joannie can feel the arms of all Canadians around her when she skates her long program.
Congratulations to our gold medal winners in ice dance, Virtue and Moir! They showed everyone what dance was all about. They floated over the ice, and made it look effortless.
Outstanding! What I liked about their performance was the understated outfits, the lack of tricks and the solid dance moves. Too many pairs let the costumes overwhelm their performances.
Never heard of them? Here is another dance they did, the chemistry is electric.
I don't know if they know it yet, but watching the medal ceremony, they were holding hands (the other pairs showed no closeness), and the way they look at each other is not just brother and sister, it is something more, but they are young and don't quite know what they are feeling yet. We will see what happens. Maybe that is what makes them so electric, the closeness, the innocence, the eye contact, the looking away, and then looking back, you can feel the attraction.
How young they are in this one:
Love it! She's a ballerina and he's a hockey player. Too funny!
Thank goodness they cleaned up the judging process, it was a disgrace before. Case in point, this should have been a gold medal performance, but won bronze instead.
The judges used to pick their favorites and the fix was in. It's nice to see the judges rewarding not on the basis of who they like, but who did the best job. That is why North America finally got it's first gold medal winners, and on top of that, they are also the youngest winners. Best part of all is that they are Canadian!
Watch their body language, the chemistry is there, on and off the ice.
CTV is determined to make sure everyone knows that the "Own the Podium" program is a failure. Well CTV is the failure. They fail to understand that Canadians are pumped about our athletes and we understand that they can't all be on that podium. Yet CTV continues to mention the fact that we are not in top spot on the podium. Hey CTV, we NEVER have been! We just finally won our first gold on Canadian soil. We now have 4 golds, that is awesome!
Every time CTV comments negatively on the "Own the Podium" program, they are slagging our athletes. They are making every athlete who does not gain the podium, feel like the money taxpayers put into the program is a waste of money. Canadians do not feel that way.
CTV, as the official broadcaster of the Olympics, needs to think about what they are doing to our athletes every time they yap about our not being on the top of the podium. Being lefties, the media doesn't see how negative they are and how they are hurting our athletes. Typical lefties, they can't handle success.
So, let me, a blogger, tell our athletes, what the media doesn't want to, or can't.
You guys and girls ROCK! You make us so proud whether you gain the podium or not. We see you. We appreciate all the hard work you have put into your sports. We take every turn with you on the downhill, and feel every spin on the ice. We cheer for you whether you win or lose, because you went out there and tried. That is all we can ask.
We salute you, for your dedication, your love of country, and your spirit. You make Canada what it is, the best country in the world. Take a bow.
Conservatives don't like to tell other people how to live their lives. So the idea of going out and protesting is foreign to us. Same goes for boycotting something. Lefties on the other hand use both protesting and boycotting as a powerful tool to get what they want.
It can be effective (short term) like the prorogue scheme that was led by the opposition parties. It can also go seriously wrong like during the Olympics when the protesters themselves were hijacked by even more extreme protesters. Luckily the protesters at the Olympics have cooled off and protests are now close to none existent. Funny how moderate (is there such a thing?)protesters are now scared to protest because the hard line lefties might show up and break more windows and attack more police officers. Violence is not the Canadian way. Peaceful protests are democratic, hooligans breaking windows is not. It's good that Olympic protesters realize that the hooligans do more damage to their causes then help.
Why should a small proportion of people be able to dictate to the majority? Special interest groups use their voices by protesting and gaining the media attention. Protesting is changing as the facebook group on proroguing indicates, and Conservatives are catching on. Case in point, Bed, Bath and Beyond. They backed off within a day of coming out and stating their were boycotting Alberta's "dirty" oil. Why?
You know, some of their towels are not as woolly as this train of mush. “Our third-party transportation providers” — what would those be … truckers? And what does it possibly mean “to be aware of the issues associated with fuels generally”? That they are flammable? How much they cost? That they help things to run? And for sheer doughy padding, consider, “we have asked them to lessen their use of fuels which they know would be counter to this goal, where feasible.” It has all the clarity and solidity of a spring swamp wrapped in a blanket of fog.
My guess is the wavelet of backlash from Alberta at the ForestEthics press release was sufficient to haul the monks of BBB BBB BBB out of the eco-choir. BBB BBB BBB may have thought that sending a little incense to the Al Gore contingent of The Science is Settled and The Himalayan Glaciers are Toast Church of Global Warming (pre-Climategate Division) would titillate the balance sheet among the eco-fervent. But they quickly thought better of it. Oh that old Gloria Mundi. How Sic it Transits.
So, Alberta citizens got on their computers and emailed Bedbugs and gave them an earful. Good for them. It shows that we can have an impact without having to get out in the streets and protest.
Look at the board of directors for Forest Ethics. They are all lefty do gooders with an agenda. Notice how they own "eco-friendly" companies? So, what's in it for them? Profits. That "dirty" word, that allows them to live high on the hog by pressuring companies into submission, while they rake in the profits from their own capitalist businesses. Hypocritical much?
Interesting that Forest Ethics gets 77% of their money from grants which they fail to detail in their financial report. This organization clearly has no clue what ethics are all about. Let's find out who they get their money from, and start protesting them. We are now clearly seeing how these organizations survive, not by the average citizens support, but by sucking on the government teat.
It's time for us to play their game. It's time for us to start boycotting their businesses, and it's time for us to start supporting those businesses that are driving our economic engine.
My boycott list so far:
Bed, Bath and Beyond Whole Foods TD Canada Trust Google HP
I am sure you can help me add to the list. I would also like a list of companies that are buy worthy, those that are not buying into the global warming garbage. Let's show them the power of the boycott, not by protesting in the streets, but by protesting with our money.
The opener should knock your socks off....(picture at end of post, don't peak). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Four Cats
Four men were bragging about how smart their cats were.
The first man was an Engineer, the second man was an Accountant, the third man was a Chemist, and the fourth man was a Government Employee.
To show off, the Engineer called his cat, 'T-square, do your stuff.'
T-square pranced over to the desk, took out some paper and pen and promptly drew a circle, a square, and a triangle.
Everyone agreed that was pretty smart.
But the Accountant said his cat could do better. He called his cat and said, 'Spreadsheet, do your stuff.'
Spreadsheet went out to the kitchen and returned with a dozen cookies. He divided them into 4 equal piles of 3 cookies.
Everyone agreed that was good.
But the Chemist said his cat could do better. He called his cat and said, 'Measure, do your stuff.'
Measure got up, walked to the fridge, took out a quart of milk, got a 10 ounce glass from the cupboard and poured exactly 8 ounces without spilling a drop into the glass.
Everyone agreed that was pretty good.
Then the three men turned to the Government Employee and said, 'What can your cat do?'
The Government Employee called his cat and said, 'CoffeeBreak, do your stuff.'
CoffeeBreak jumped to his feet....... ate the cookies........ drank the milk....... sh*t on the paper....... screwed the other three cats....... claimed he injured his back while doing so....... filed a grievance report for unsafe working conditions........ put in for Workers Compensation............ and went home for the rest of the day on sick leave............
AND THAT, MY FRIEND IS WHY EVERYONE WANTS TO WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ So after landing my new job as a Wal-Mart greeter, a good find for many retirees, I lasted less than a day.. About two hours into my first day on the job a very loud, unattractive, mean woman walked into the store with her two kids, yelling obscenities at them all the way through the entrance. I said pleasantly, ''Good morning and welcome to Wal-Mart. Nice children you have there. Are they twins?''
The ugly woman stopped yelling long enough to say, ''Hell no, they ain't twins. The oldest one's 9, and the other one's 7. Why the hell would you think they're twins? Are you blind, or stupid?''
So I replied, ''I'm neither blind nor stupid, Ma'am. I just couldn't believe someone slept with you twice. Have a good day and thank you for shopping at Wal-Mart.''
My supervisor said I probably wasn't cut out for this line of work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Snorkeling in Washington
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How's that global warming thingy going?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thought for the day:
This is based on an actual radio conversation between a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier (U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln) and Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. (The radio conversation was released by the Chief of Naval Operations on 10/10/95 authorized by the Freedom of Information Act.) Canadians: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid collision. Americans: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision. Canadians: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision. Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course. Canadians: No, I say again, you divert YOUR course. Americans: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH--I SAY AGAIN, THAT'S ONE FIVE DEGREES NORTH--OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP. Canadians: Well, this is a lighthouse … Your call. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Getting Even . . . .. . the Vet and the Pussycat
One December day we found an old straggly cat at our door. She was a sorry sight -- starving, dirty, smelled terrible, skinny and hair all matted down.
We felt sorry for her so we put her in a carrier and took her to the vet. We didn't know what to call her so we named her “Pussycat.” The vet decided to keep her for a day or so. He said he would let us know when we could come and get her. My husband (the complainer) said, “OK, but don't forget to wash her. She stinks.” He reminded the vet that it was his WIFE (me) who wanted the dirty cat, not him.
My husband and my vet don't see eye to eye. The vet calls my husband “El Cheap-O,” and my husband calls the vet “El Charge-O.” They love to hate each other and constantly “snipe” at one another, with my husband getting in the last word on this particular occasion.
The next day my husband had an appointment with his doctor, who is located in the same building and next door to the vet. The MD's waiting room was full of people waiting to see the doctor. A side door opened and the vet leaned in. Obviously he had seen my husband arrive.
He looked straight at my husband and in a loud voice said, ”Your wife's pussy doesn't stink any more. We washed and shaved it and now she smells like a rose. Oh, and by the way, I think she's pregnant. God only knows who the father is!”
Then he closed the door.
Now THAT, my friends, is getting even! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Women are angels.
...and when someone breaks our wings, we simply continue to fly...on a broomstick.
We are flexible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You just had to look didn't you?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Have a great weekend! Enjoy the Olympics. Go Canada Go!!!!
The Canadian pride at these Olympics is outstanding. Our athletes are doing better than we could have hoped for, and the media is whining. What a bunch of do nothing babies. It appears that a lot of the empty seats at events is because the media is staying in the brier patch instead of actually going to the events. It appears the media have prorogued the Olympics.
Own the Podium is being revved up by the media as being arrogant and too "American". They are stating that if we don't win the medal count, the project will have been a failure. Do they think we are stupid, or are they the stupid ones?
VANCOUVER — The Canadian Olympic team will likely not ‘own the podium’ at these Olympic Games.
Perhaps they can rent a part of it from the Americans and Germans.
Chris Rudge, the CEO of the COC, said Thursday that it was his organization’s “goal” to finish first in Vancouver, but that nothing was etched in stone.
“Nobody ever said we ARE going to be No.1,” said Rudge. “We put that out as a goal and objective. Is the sky going to fall if we don’t? I don’t think so.”
Own the Podium was a $110-million initiative geared towards making Canada a superpower in winter sports in time for these Games. But Rudge reiterated yesterday that finishing No.1 was just a goal, and no one at the IOC is going to commit hara-kiri if it doesn’t come to fruition.
.... Rudge was asked by a German journalist if this was the first time in his memory that Canadians were this aggressive and hungry for success at an Olympics.
“That’s probably fair that we’re historically, at least publicly, a more self-effacing nation,” he said. “I don’t think our athletes ever felt that way, they always wanted to be the best. But I think as a country, we’re probably talking about it a little bit more than we have. But I don’t think that in doing that you sacrifice the kind of niceness that we always thought we had. To some degree maybe Canadians thought we had a bit of a monopoly on virtue, and I’m not sure if that’s true. We’re just like everybody else in this world.”
Own the Podium was meant to rev up our athletes and the public, same with the "I Believe" slogan that CTV is busy selling on their web site. Difference is that Own the Podium gave money to our athletes and it appears to be paying off. The "I Believe" slogan is just that, a slogan, with merchandise to match.
So cheer loud and proud Canada! My favorite sports so far has been the curling, and speed skating. Anyone cheering for someone special in the Olympics?
It's getting to the point that even the MSM can't ignore the Climategate fraud anymore. Every day now we are getting more data that shows what a house of cards global warming was. Funny how Gore and Suzuki are so quiet now. Maybe the Bug Dr. is hoping we will forget his wholehearted drinking of that koolaid. Finally, people are waking up and realizing they have been fed a load of horse manure for over 20 years.
With the freedom of information act, more information is coming out, and none of it is good. Still, some people have bought into this junk science and refuse to see the evidence right in front of their noses. Case in point:
by Flos Feb 17 2010 11:40 PM
The IPCC is simply an org put together to assess all the other science being done in the world and to report based on that. It doesn't even do any primary science on its own. You all speak of it as if it does actual science. It doesn't.
If you're going to fully debunk AGW theory, you're going to have to go to the source and debunk the actual science reports and sites that I mentioned before - i.e. NASA, Royal Society, Environment Canada, World Meteorological Organization, Scientific American...I could go on...
One fallacious report (i.e. the Himalayan one) and some questionable emails does not debunk the theory of the consensus.
So we have a denier (HA), and they are too vested in their point of view to even bother reading the excellent links posted by other posters.
This one is very interesting and it is part one of four, so I await the other three parts.
Copenhagen was meant to seal the deal before this info came out... If Copenhagen went Binding, none of this new email gold would have been noticed by people...
In August 2007, I submitted two Freedom of Information Act requests to NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), headed by long-time Gore advisor James Hansen and his right-hand man Gavin Schmidt (and RealClimate.org co-founder).
I did this because Canadian businessman Steve McIntyre — a man with professional experience investigating suspect statistical claims in the mining industry and elsewhere, including his exposure of the now-infamous “hockey stick” graph — noticed something unusual with NASA’s claims of an ever-warming first decade of this century. NASA appeared to have inflated its U.S. temperatures beginning in the year 2000. My FOIA request asked NASA about their internal discussions regarding whether and how to correct the temperature error caught by McIntyre.
NASA stonewalled my request for more than two years, until Climategate prompted me to offer notice of intent to sue if NASA did not comply immediately.
On New Year’s Eve, NASA finally provided the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) with the documents I requested in August 2007.
Read the whole thing. That's only part one, also at the site is a link to the files NASA released, so you can read them too. So "Flos" has his fingers stuck in his ears and a blindfold on, while singing "Sticks and Stones". It's more like Humpty Dumpty having a great fall, than a house of cards. Either way, global warming's goose is cooked. HA! (Okay cheesy I know, but it's late).
Whole Foods doesn't want to use Alberta oil. Well I have news for you, Ontario doesn't get their oil from Alberta, neither does Quebec, they get blood oil from the Mideast. The oil gets shipped over the ocean, in huge oil tankers that pollute the ocean and kill fish like seals and tuna and dolphins and whales. Nice.
Whole Foods is going to move into the GTA, because people living in condos want organic close by. Good for Whole Foods, only problem is that organic products are not within the 100 mile limit that eco-nuts have imposed on lefties.
“We looked at the longer traffic patterns of our customers, and that is when you start forming ideas of where to put a store,” she said.
“There is a growing awareness of where food comes from, and a growing need or desire for organic products. People know we are not an average grocery store.” ... “There has been a migration to the 416,” said Ms. Evans. “With more people moving into condos and downtown living, these people want to have easy access to grocery stores and not have to schlep their groceries too far.”
But she says Whole Foods’ decision to turn to the suburbs is comparable to a more standard grocery chain’s decision to move downtown. In both cases, they are targeting areas underserved for their product.
“They had entered the urban market, that was their first store. They are looking at pastures that hopefully will be greener for them. The suburban customer really doesn’t have access to Whole Foods,” she said.
Growing awareness of where food comes from??? Are they kidding me? Hello urbanites, do you understand that food needs CO2, you know that POLLUTANT! Yikes, you better stop eating.
Here is a quick lesson. Our farmers plant seeds that sprout into plants that take in CO2 and give off oxygen. They grow better with more CO2, fertilizer and water. Then, to get rid of those yucky bugs, the farmers sometimes spray chemicals that kill the bugs but not the plants (or people), the plants can then continue to grow and end up on your plate. Now, for a veggie to be truly organic, no chemicals can be used, so watch out for the caterpillars in your cabbage and aphids on your herbs (they especially love dill, so watch out for those dill pickles you buy). Seeing as you are "growing aware of where your food comes from", don't be squeamish if your organic veggies contain the occasional slug, they really like lettuce.
Most concerning are the frozen dinners you buy because you have no time to actually cook anything from scratch. Read the labels. My rule is, if I can't pronounce it, it can't be good for you. Try it for one week, then you will see how stupid you are to pay extra for "organic" food, when you are stuffing your face with chemicals in all the frozen meals and canned goods you buy.
So, forget about the 100 mile limit. It's another scam just like global warming!
More heresy on the environmental correctness front.
The Montreal Economic Institute published a report today arguing that buying locally-produced food "is a poor indicator of a product’s impact on the environment and is thus not a valid way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions."
The authors, Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu, write that there are "perfectly legitimate reasons" to buy products raised close to home, but, says Desrochers, “the supposed environmental benefits of buying locally just aren’t there.”
If you knew what a "free range" chicken ate, you wouldn't eat it. Better yet, really get with nature and go out to a farm and help kill a chicken for your meal, oh and you need to pluck it, and clean it too. Good luck with that! HA! While you are on the farm, why don't you muck out the barn (compost material), and feed the livestock.
Oh heck, that probably sounds like too much work, and it's disgusting too. But you idiots will pay twice as much for something that is labeled "organic" and Whole Foods knows that, they are playing you for suckers with their we won't use "dirty oilsands" but our food is organic so you can feel better by paying 2 times more for the same carrots. Try planting your own garden then you can observe the 100 foot rule and you can feel really really special because you grew it yourself.
Next time you go into Whole Foods ask them whether the strawberries you are buying are within the 100 mile limit, ask them that same question for every single item you buy there.
It's time for Whole Foods to fess up, I bet they do not observe the 100 mile rule.
It appears that the Liberal leader is in Vancouver enjoying the Olympics. Shouldn't he be in Ottawa holding fake meetings with Liberal supporters disguised as experts?
Like the CEO of TD Canada Trust? Maybe if us little peons started emailing the bank and withdrawing our meager little savings we might have an impact. We transferred our mortgage a few years ago to a Credit Union and we couldn't be happier. They actually know our names and are happy to have our business.
Meanwhile our Prime Minister is in Haiti seeing what Canada can do to help.
Rabid lefties just can't give our Prime Minister any credit, and frankly the MSM are looking like fools by continuing with this "not working" BS when Iggy is in Vancouver, "not working".
We finally have our gold medal! Now our athletes can settle in and win more. The vault has been opened and our athletes are ready to grab more gold, silver and bronze.
Alexandre Bilodeau carved his way into Canadian history Sunday at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
The 22-year-old from Rosemère, Que., became the first Canadian to win an Olympic gold medal at home, finishing first in the men's moguls skiing final at Cypress Mountain.
No Canadians won gold at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and the country was shut out again at the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary.
Let's enjoy the moment, and all other medals we get.
Those protesters should be locked up until the Olympics are over. They should also be put on watch lists for both Canada and the US. Wouldn't they be surprised to find out that their stupidity has consequences.
Went to the mall today and bought myself some of those Liberal Olympic mitts, too bad they were made in China. The Olympic stuff was flying off the shelves.
Good job Alex, you made Canada very proud! Who's next?
I spent the day watching the Olympics. It's a great time for Canada.
We won our first medal today. Silver. Don't be sad Jenn, you did your best and that's all we could hope for. Too bad no one thought to gave her a Canada flag.
Protesters are idiots. They marred the day with their criminal actions. I hope someone see's these people and turns them in.
Canadian Sense has the pictures, do you know any of these guys? If so, call the police and get them off of our streets. They are giving Canada a black eye. Maybe the actual protesters can man up and use their signs to smack a few anarchist heads.
All in all, it was a great day for Canada, we have a medal on the first day and many more to come. Go Canada Go!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Okay, watched opening ceremonies instead of getting this post together, so it's bedtime, have a great weekend!
Got money in TD Canada Trust? Is your skin crawling and you can't figure out why? Get an itch every time you pass by a TD Canada Trust branch? You might be suffering from a Liberal infestation. It disguises itself as a totally innocent bank, but uses it's disguise to slam the Conservatives. It spouts Liberal talking points and is arrogant enough to think that you will buy it's disguise.
Mr. Clark, you will recall, was once nicknamed “Ed the Red” by oil patch executives for his role in coming up with the interventionist 1980 National Energy Program. Last week, Alberta premier Ed Stelmach referred to the program as he reacted to the study funded by TD.
“There won’t be another wealth transfer to Ottawa under my watch, I can tell you,” he said, according to the Edmonton Journal.
So, Red Ed caused all the pain that Alberta endured, and now he is the CEO of TD Canada Trust. Well that sucks.
Red Ed's talents don't end there. He is back slagging Alberta's oilsands, because he didn't destroy our province and wants to finish it off now.
As Globe and Mail reporter Shawn McCarthy has noted, it found that “Ottawa will have to lead a massive restructuring of the Canadian economy, with wealth flowing from the West to the rest of the country, if it is to meet its climate-change targets…The Conservative government’s goal of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 20 per cent by 2020 can be achieved, but only by limiting growth in Alberta and Saskatchewan.”
A prominent Canadian economist says Stephane Dion's "Green Shift" carbon tax plan is "a good start" that will leave the general Canadian taxpayer "better off."
"The idea itself is very sensible," Don Drummond, the chief economist at TD Bank, told CTV's Canada AM on Friday.
"There's a growing consensus to do something about emissions. We need to put a price on carbons. This proposes it."
Drummond said that "in most cases" the average Canadian will "be better off" because of income tax breaks and additional federal benefits included in the plan. He also noted that the Liberal plan also addresses a "bizarre situation" on energy taxes.
Bizarre? It is TD Canada Trust that is bizarre. They are infested with Liberals, who think nothing of slagging our Prime Minister. They are so arrogant that they think they can sponsor a report from Suzuki without us smelling a rat.
The TD Bank financed Calgary-based Pembina Institute and Vancouver's David Suzuki Foundation to produce the comprehensive report. The group contracted with respected economic consultants, M.K. Jaccard and Associates Inc., to model the impacts of climate policies; Jaccard has done similar work for the Canadian government.
TD's chief economist, Don Drummond, said the bank has not endorsed any targets, though it has supported a policy of a national emissions cap. He said the bank's interest was to shed light on an area where there has been little informed debate: the likely cost of imposing regulations.
The banks interest is in sucking up to the Liberals. Mo Strong created the IPCC and is in hiding in China because of the Food for Oil fiasco. Climate change can yield the TD bank billions of dollars, that is why they are attacking the Conservatives. You see, the Liberals can not use any of their weapons on PM Harper because he has no ducks in this hunt.
It's not just me who is upset with TD Canada Trust. Sandy has an excellent post. She is too nice to promote a boycott, but I'm not. ING offers excellent savings compared to our banks, so why not switch? Dr Roy weighs in as well.
It's simple. Don't like a bank's CEO who gets millions dictating to you? Move your funds. Granted, TD Canada Trust thinks your little deposits are chicken scratch, they are only interested in the BIG OIL guys, who they turn around and slag to make themselves more green.
Switch your money to a Credit Union or any other small bank. They care about you. We switched our mortgage out of TD Canada Trust to a Credit Union and a month later we got a call from TD Canada Trust offering us a reduction in our mortgage rate. When I pointed out that we had switched our mortgage, they hung up. So much for caring about the average client. Typical arrogant Liberals.
I want Albertans to know that the CEO of TD Canada Trust was the guy who implemented the NEP (National Energy Program) that killed Alberta. TD Canada Trust also paid for a report that wanted to decrease Alberta's revenues. TD Canada Trust is no friend of Albertans. Make sure you are not their friend either. Email them. Let them know you are sick and tired of being the east's whipping boy/girl.
TD Canada Trust doesn't think you taking your $1000 out of their bank is important. If we all take our money out and tell them about it, the arrogant Liberal bank might just wake up. It might not be the tea parties like in the US, but it might be something all Canadians can get behind.
Insite promotes drug dependency, and so apparently does NDP MP Libby Davies. Now, that's okay, it's her opinion, but she accuses the Conservatives of getting their facts wrong, when it is crystal clear she is the one who is wrong. All Canadians, but especially Chinese Canadians deserve an apology from Libby and the NDP.
Libby is so wrong on so many levels she thinks she is right! Apologize Libby.
Here is the funny part. CTV claims Libby for the Liberals! Good going Gossip Girls!
Snarky petty CTV can't help themselves and call it a photo op.
Next they mix up the NDP and Liberals. I can see how that would happen because who can really distinguish one socialist party from another?
NDP MP Libby Davies told her Twitter followers there was an "impressive gathering" waiting for the prime minister and the building was covered with police tape.
"It was a peaceful protest in support of Insite (I didn't organize). Didn't see chains on doors. Police moved in and out freely," said the posting.
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He blamed Davies for encouraging the protesters, although the Liberal MP denied being a part of organizing the rally.
So, CTV has made Libby a Liberal...too funny!
Finally, Libby tells the Conservatives to check their facts, that the police didn't see any chains either. Well I beg to differ with you Liberal Libby, here is what they had to say:
Vancouver police said that about 150 protesters chained the doors just before 2 p.m. at the centre, where Harper was to take part in a photo-op at a dress rehearsal of Lunar New Year celebrations.
"Safety concerns arose after protesters chained and barred the doors to the centre, leaving the people inside the centre with no means of exit," police said in a statement.
Officers removed the chains and there were no injuries or arrests, police said.
"The protest was allowed to safely continue without further incident."
Who needs to check their facts? Right, the Conservatives had it all wrong. HA! Libby, man up, apologize!
Not just gossip, but totally biased reporting! I only link to this video so you can see how biased and incompetent CTV is. Bambi totally leads the discussion with her point of view, and then deliberately mismanages the time so that the Conservative MP does not get to respond. She even laughs about it. Sick. Gossip is normally harmless, this is not harmless, this is a concerted attempt to discredit the Conservative government and their tough on crime legislation.
Too bad for them the people leaving comments didn't agree with CTV's Liberal/NDP bias. Funny how when the comments don't agree with CTV's position, they quickly close down the comments.
B. Kelley, No sites in Ontario said We have a responsibility to provide whatever help we can for people who want to kick drug addictions but we do not have a responsibility to facilitate continued abuse. If we continue to provide these injection sites then we might as well start building nice new club houses for the street gangs, fully equipped chop shops for the car theft rings and maybe some modern, well-lit strip malls where the drug dealers can set up shop. Maybe we could even build a high rise hotel for hookers with our tax money. Someone needs to remind B.C. that the use of heroin is against the law and, when the government becomes complicit in the act of injecting it, then they are forming a virtual conspiracy to violate the criminal code. I know that bleeding hearts will wail about drug abuse being an illness. It's not! It's a self-imposed addiction and it's a criminal act. They'll also claim that supervised sites help protect the addicts from disease or, in other words, protect them from the consequences of their own stupid decisions. If they want to make the equally stupid decision to remain an addict then they should be made to take responsibility for themselves. Rehabilitate - By all means! Facilitate - No way!
We went to Vancouver this summer, thought the boys would like to see ChinaTown, boy did we get out of there fast, the addicts, boarded up apartment houses, people vomiting in the street at noon, it was a real eye opener. Then we went to Kelowna, and took the boys to City Park, right downtown, what a mistake, the druggies had taken over the park so that families could not enjoy it anymore. But the lefties think this is okay and should actually be encouraged with Insite because it might save one junkie from a disease? How about saving our children from these parasites on society?
On Monday, I picked up my son after jazz band and drove a friend of his home. On the way they were talking about how a kid they knew took 6 Ecstasy tablets and was in a coma for awhile and how he had been expelled but was hanging around the school anyways. I asked them if there were drugs in school, and they both said yes. They called the kids doing drugs stupid, and I hope they are not influenced into trying any drug because of peer pressure. One kid they had known since grade one, who was an honour student, found drugs after his parents divorced and has now dropped out of school. This is a school that has a full time police officer and brings in drug sniffing dogs, and this is in a really good area of the city. It really scares me. So, when I see stupid comments like this one, blaming the drug users, I can only shake my head. The dealers are in our schools and they are targeting our children.
ouifyg said "We believe we have to get to the source of the problem, which is with the drug dealers and the drug peddlers, and that's why we've introduced tough new legislation to combat drug dealers and drug peddlers,"Wrong Mr. Saxton. The source of the problem is the drug users. It doesn't matter how much you crack down on drug dealers, as long as people are buying it someone will sell it. It's all about supply and demand, the foundation of the capitalist society we live in. The only way to stop drugs is to stop the demand for drugs.
In a lefty world, all guns would be banned and all drugs would be legal, except cigarettes, those would be banned. Sex education would start at age 10 (see Planned parenthood...what an oxymoron their name is) and no pop would be allowed in schools because that is unhealthy.
Don't give me this crap about helping druggies by giving them clean needles, you are enabling them and not helping them. Why do diabetics have to pay for their own clean needles, that they need to stay alive? Why don't you lefties get right on that problem? Nope, someone needing a drug to save their lives just doesn't count with you guys. BC Bud is a BILLION dollar enterprise, and that's okay with lefties, they want it legalized. I don't, for my kids future. Lefties need to put down their drugs and get real.
Go after the dealers, HARD! One dealer in my kids school is one dealer too many! Ask any parent of teenagers, and they will feel the same way as I do. Or do you lefty parents sit around with your kids, smoking marijuana, telling them how cool sex is at any age? (The kid that was a honour student...his parents did just that) Are you encouraging your daughters to go out there and really experience life to the fullest by selling their bodies to get heroin so they can get through the next day?
Right, I thought not. If Columbia can fight drug dealers, and win, so can we.
So the IPCC is taking some real heat, and your everyday person on the street is starting to get the picture. I have never been fooled into thinking that "global warming" was what the eco-nuts were concerned about, they forgot about REAL pollution in their rush for grant money and jobs. Face it, without a disaster in the future all the environmentalists had no jobs, except maybe tree hugging. So, here are 10 "global warming" myths that they have been shrilling about for years:
10. The U.S. is going it alone on Kyoto and global warming. 9. Global-warming proposals are about the environment. 8. Climate change is the greatest threat to the world's poor. 7. Global warming means more frequent, more severe storms. 6. Global warming has doomed the polar bears! 5. Climate change is raising the sea levels. 4. The glaciers are melting! 3. Climate was stable until man came along. 2. The science is settled -- CO2 causes global warming.
And finally, the number one myth....
1. It’s hot in here!
Here is the link to the article that posted those 10 myths. Look at the date! Funny, it's as if someone had a crystal ball and saw into the future.
Those myths are just as relevant today as they were in 2007. The only difference is that the lies are being exposed and the truth is slowly emerging from the mist of eco-goo into the true light and the big guys like Gore and Suzuki are in hiding, hopefully in the caves they want all of us to live in.
Where are the Liberals defending Dion's green plan? Where is Pablo wanting Kyoto targets met? Where has Iggy disappeared to again? Maybe he's in a third world country trying to tell women why they need an abortion. It seemed to be all quiet on the Hill today. Have they all gone back into hiding in their ridings, to twiddle their thumbs, because they don't really understand what an opposition MP does except disagree with anything Conservative? Sad really.
So, the feminists blathered all over the place about a Focus on the Family ad, yapping about how it should not be allowed, and giving it lots of advance publicity so that we were watching for it. We have satellite so we get the American commercials. If the feminists hadn't created such a fuss, I would have had no clue that this commercial was an anti-abortion ad. See for yourself:
I see nothing wrong with the ad and if more people go and visit Focus on the Family, that's the whole idea isn't it? I think all the feminists look like fools right about now, but that is nothing new for them. I guess they are just jealous because they didn't think of creating their own ad. I suspect their problem is that it's hard to create a positive ad about abortion. Maybe they can team up with Iggy, and he can talk about abortion as a means of contraception for women in third world countries, that would be a real hoot!
If you want to see all the Superbowl ads, go here! I'm not sure the video is going to work, so if it doesn't, you can see it at the Focus on the Family site. They actually have two ads, but I only saw one of them during the game. By the comments at the Superbowl ad site, the ad had a very big impact, all because the feminists couldn't shut their mouths, exactly the opposite of what they wanted. HA!
My favorite Superbowl ad is the Doritos: Dog gets Revenge.
The Democratic agenda is "running out of time," former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Saturday at the National Tea Party Convention, claiming that the conservative tea party movement is part of a brewing "revolution" that constitutes the "future of politics."
Palin, who delivered the keynote speech on the closing night of the three-day gathering of conservative activists, aligned herself squarely with the movement, frequently using the word "us" in describing it.
"This is the future of our country. The tea party movement is the future of politics," she said.
Interesting how a real grassroots movement will influence the elections in the US this year. The prorogue movement in Canada could only wish that they would have the same impact. The problem with that is the prorogue movement is not a real grassroots movement, it's a phony media driven lefty movement, and a weak one at that.
The Republicans better stand with Sarah, no matter what she decides to do, because she has the tea party standing with her and they are a powerful voting block. The Democrats and the media are still trying to pretend that the tea party is a non-entity. Typical lefties, they think unions and special interest groups are the ones with the power, and ignore the average voter. It will be interesting to see how many of the candidates that the tea party supports actually get elected this year. It should be a big wake up call for the Democrats, but they tend to be voter deaf.
I ordered a burger at McDonald's and the kid behind the counter asked, "Can you afford fries with that?"
CEO's are now playing miniature golf.
If the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you call them and ask if they meant you or them.
Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.
McDonald's is selling the 1/4 ouncer.
Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's names.
A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico .
Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.
Motel Six won't leave the light on anymore.
The Mafia is laying off judges.
Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen.
Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. Oh Great!! The guy who made $50 Billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $1.5 Trillion disappear!
And, finally... I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I called the Suicide Lifeline. I got a call center in Pakistan , and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Somewhere near Rochester , New York , Ed set out to bag his buck at 5:30 a.m.
By 11:30 a.m., he was exhausted and hungry--and still no buck.
At 12 noon, the mighty hunter Ed guards the remains of his lunch While a passer-by snaps a quiet photo
While trying not to startle the deer with a belly laugh. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summer's almost here ...
we can now see the deer moving around in the back yard.
Yep, won't be long. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ While undressing for bed one night, good ole Bill notices something like a red rash around his you know what. Alarmed, he thinks, "I can't let Hillary see this!" He makes an appointment to see his doctor at Bethesda Naval Hospital, the very next day. "Doc," he says, "I've got this red ring around my, you know. What is it and how do I get rid of it?"
The doctor says, "Well, I'm not exactly sure what it is, but take these pills for a week, and see if that takes care of it. If not, come back and we'll try something else."
Bill takes the pills for a week but unfortunately; the red ring is still there after 7 days. He goes back to the doctor and tells him the pills didn't help. The doctor prescribes another medication, capsules this time, and gives him the same instructions. Take them for a week, and come back if it's not improved.
He takes the capsules for a week, and damn, the red ring is still there! He goes back to the doctor and asks, "What next?"
The doctor gives him a cream in a tube this time. "Rub this on every day for a week and let me know.
"Bill goes back in a week and says, "Great news Doc! The rash is gone! That stuff in the tube was wonderful! What was it?
The doctor replied, "Lipstick remover." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lemon Pickers Wanted !!
The woman applying for a job in a Florida lemon grove seemed to be far too qualified for the job. The foreman frowned and said, "I have to ask you this:
"Have you had any actual experience in picking lemons?"
"Well, as a matter of fact, I have!" "I've been divorced three times, owned 2 Chryslers, and I voted for Obama." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kids, you gotta love them:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Answer the following questions to win tickets to the 2010 Super Bowl on February 7th.
1. Which student seems to appear tired/sleepy? 2. Which ones are male twins? 3. Which ones are the female twins? 4. How many women are in the group? 5. Which one is the teacher? 6. Which two just finished a joint?
Guess your not going to the Super bowl either! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last night, Daniel and I were sitting in the living room and I said to him, 'I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug.'
He got up, unplugged the Computer, and threw out my wine.
He's such a b*stard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After I retired, my wife insisted that I accompany her on her trips to Target. Unfortunately, like most men, I found shopping boring and preferred to get in and get out. Equally unfortunate, my wife is like most women- she loves to browse. Yesterday my dear wife received the following letter from the local Target.
Dear Mrs. Naragon, Over the past six months, your husband has caused quite a commotion in our store. We cannot tolerate this behavior and have been forced to ban both of you from the store. Our complaints against your husband, Mr. Samuel, are listed below and are documented by our video surveillance cameras. 1. June 15: Took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in other people's carts when they weren't looking. 2. July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minute intervals. 3. July 7: He made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the women's restroom. 4. July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official voice, 'Code 3 in Housewares. Get on it right away'. This caused the employee to leave her assigned station and receive a reprimand from her Supervisor that in turn resulted with a union grievance, causing management to lose time and costing the company money. 5. August 4: Went to the Service Desk and tried to put a bag of M&Ms on layaway. 6. August 14: Moved a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area. 7. August 15: Set up a tent in the camping department and told the children shoppers he'd invite them in if they would bring pillows and blankets from the bedding department to which twenty children obliged. 8. August 23: When a clerk asked if they could help him he began crying and screamed, 'Why can't you people just leave me alone?' EMTs were called. 9. September 4: Looked right into the security camera and used it as a mirror while he picked his nose. 10. September 10: While handling guns in the hunting department, he asked the clerk where the antidepressants were. 11. October 3: Darted around the store suspiciously while loudly humming the ' Mission Impossible' theme. 12. October 6: In the auto department, he practiced his 'Madonna look' by using different sizes of funnels. 13. October 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people browsed through, yelled 'PICK ME! PICK ME!' 14. October 21: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, he assumed a fetal position and screamed 'OH NO! IT'S THOSE VOICES AGAIN!' And last, but not least: 15. October 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door, waited awhile, then yelled very loudly, 'Hey! There's no toilet paper in here.' One of the clerks passed out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Finally, your stupid time wasting game of the week.... Guess Your Number!
