Canadian's need to become truly informed or we are doomed

Canadian Spades: A chilling reality < read me

This holiday season has been rife with political controversy. As a
result, Canadians are now more engaged in politics than they have been
in recent memory. But there is a key problem; the newly engaged
Canadians lack the fundamental political knowledge to make an informed
decision regarding current events.

Mutant Chronicles to hit TV

The Mutant Chronicles: Bone Blades Ahead — Mutant Chronicles Gets Television Debut

If you haven't seen it already from downloading the torrent of the leaked DVD.

The Reform Party goals - gone

Bouquets of Gray: The Reform movement officially dead; Harper killed it <read me.

An important part of the Reform movement was its call for changes to
Canada's governance. Four planks were central to their program:

• recall
  
• referenda
• fixed election dates
  
• an elected and equal senate

Press continues to allow the lies

Dear Conservative Party of Canada « bastard.logic < read me.

When the press colludes with the PMO to spread disinformation, even unwittingly, is there any wonder why the people of Canada are so ignorant of the democratic process?

Look, I know that Goebbels is said to have once famously (and 
perceptively) quipped that if you “repeat a lie a thousand times it
becomes truth”; but one would hope that our nation’s elite would have
higher standards with regards to whom they are channeling their PR
strategy through.

Doom Doom Doom

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/pf/27959626.html

An unexpected, thick layer of solar particles inside Earth's magnetic field suggests there are huge breaches in our planet's solar defenses, scientists said.

These
breaches indicate that during the next period of high solar activity,
due to start in 2012, Earth will experience some of the worst solar
storms seen in decades.

Purple Squirrel!

Purple squirrel baffles experts - Telegraph




Don't let Ricky see this.

Nuke It at "Ground Zero"

Ground Zero: Google Maps and Nuclear Weapons
A Google map masshup where you can pick a city and nuke it and see the area of damage.

Mmm. Rotting flesh aromatherapy

Giant stinking flower reveals a hot secret - life - 22 December 2008 - New Scientist

Thundercats - Fake trailer for movie with Gigi Edgely (Chiana in Farscape) as Cheetah. Also starring: Brad Pitt, Hugh Jackman and Vin Diesel

Live Action ThunderCats: Brad Pitt As Lion-O, Hugh Jackman As Tygra? This Is A Live Action ThunderCats I Support

Check out the video.

New Seagal movie - maybe good for a laugh?

Against The Dark: Adorably Old And Pudgy Seagal Still Deciding Who Lives And Who Dies

Seagal plays Commander Tao — no, I did not make that up — a master
swordsman whose job it is to wave around objects and make blanketed
statements, and I'm assuming, say, philosophical things as well with
that name. As a fan of the man, I must say Seagal is brandishing a lot
of weaponry in this, perhaps due to his inability to do anything agile
anymore?

Man...he looks so awful they may as well use Will Sasso's impersonation as a stunt double.


didnt someone already do Blade? lol

4,300 year old tomb in Egypt

4,300-year-old tombs unearthed in Egypt - Science- msnbc.com

Pot more potent than ever

High Times in Ag Science: Marijuana More Potent Than Ever | Wired Science from Wired.com

Tombs!

10 Most Fascinating Tombs in the World - Neatorama

Beautiful Books

Dark Roasted Blend: Weird Books & Illuminated Manuscripts

Porn - the leading edge of the Internet

Thank You, Porn! 12 Ways the Sex Trade Has Changed the Web - PC World

For an industry that many people won't admit they've ever patronized, pornography has had an amazing impact on virtually every new medium, from cave painting to photography. Dirty pictures have been credited with ensuring the future of the VCR, boosting cable TV subscriptions, helping to kill off the Betamax and HD DVD formats, and (perhaps most important) driving the growth of the Internet.

In fact, the adult entertainment industry has been on top of many of the Net's most crucial tech innovations--but not because it invented any of them.

19 Disappointments

Senator Elaine McCoy Hullabaloos

All in all, regardless of the merits of some of the
individuals (Nancy Green, for instance), I think December 22, 2008
might well go down in history as the day of 19 Disappointments.

Bullshitting the Canadian public

The Galloping Beaver: Steve's CTV Christmas Special < read me!

Dear Steve :
Allow me to quote from the Coalition's Accord, signed by the three opposition party leaders including Gilles Duceppe on Dec 1:

"The [Coalition] Government will not request a dissolution of Parliament during the term of this agreement, except following defeat on an explicitly-framed motion of nonconfidence presented by the Opposition ...[that would be you, Steve]... or any vote pertaining to the speech from the throne; or on a budget vote at on any stage in the House; or on any bill to implement a budget at any stage in the House; or on any motion in the House to concur in, restore or reinstate any Estimates; or on any supply bill at any stage in the House.

The Bloc Québécois will neither move nor will it support any motions of nonconfidence in the Government during the term of its support for this agreement, and will vote in favour of the Government’s position with respect to all matters referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph."


Could that be any clearer? The agreement actually binds the Bloc to vote with the coalition on all matters of confidence and to support all budgets, throne speeches and money bills.

Steve knows this of course, but he went on Corporate Television Vehicle™ and bullshitted the Canadian public about it four distinct times in five minutes anyway. Fucking appalling. And neither of the two hosts, Lloyd Robertson nor Robert Fife, called him on it.

How is BQ veto fo a LIb-NDP coalition possible?

The Rational Number: How is BQ veto of a Lib-NDP coalition possible? < read me.

Only the partisan assumption that the Conservatives would vote against the Lib-NDP coalition consistently without regard to the matter of the vote holds up the argument of a BQ veto. Of course everything depends on the subject matter of the vote, but that nevers appears in those Conservative-minded talking points.

Baseball LSD Pitcher Dock Ellis passed away

ESPN - Former major league pitcher Dock Ellis dies at 63

In his autobiography, "Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball,'' Ellis revealed that he threw a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres in June 1970 while under the influence of LSD.

Mayan Underworld

Portal to Maya Underworld Found in Mexico?

Maya builders would have had to hold their breath and dive underwater to build some of the shrines and pyramids.

Dig this

TOP TEN ARCHAEOLOGY FINDS: Most Read of 2008

 

Harper at the helm of our economy - "making up his course as he sails along"

Buckdog: Is Harper As Phony As He Seems?



Harper and his ministers would have
us believe that circumstances have changed over the three months,
morphing from a financial crisis to one affecting the real economy. But
most of that was predictable and was, indeed, predicted. No one really
believed the crisis could be contained to a few banks and insurance
companies.

On the other hand, the political circumstances have
changed, as Harper's government was almost toppled earlier this month
by a coalition of opposition parties demanding more stimulus in the
wake of the hold-the-line economic statement. That would account for
the shift by Harper since then. But how does it explain what he said in
Peru before the economic statement about the need for stimulus?

Some
have suggested that the answer lies in a split between Finance Minister
Jim Flaherty, who actually delivered the economic statement, and Harper
on how best to address the crisis. But that is hardly credible in a
government that is as centred on the PM as this one.

One is left
with the uncomfortable feeling that Harper, far from the steady hand at
the wheel portrayed in Conservative propaganda, is making up his course
as he sails along.

List of common misconceptions

List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

11.1 Billion year old water - across the universe

Space Porn: Water Vapor Discovered Near Black Hole 11.1 Billion Light Years Away

The discovery of water vapor in a distant quasar system has
overturned established ideas about the existence of water in the early
universe.

This is the farthest, and thus the oldest,
water ever seen in the Universe. (Because the light from this quasar
took 11.1 billion years to reach Earth, it is 11.1 billion years old.)

Majel Rodenberry Passes Away

Star Trek: The First Lady Of Star Trek Passes Away



Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the most ubiquitous actor in Star Trek, died today at age 76. The wife of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, she also provided the computer voices on every version of Trek. And she played three pivotal characters: Number One in the pilot, Nurse Chapel in the original series, and Lwaxana Troi in TNG and DS9. She was providing the computer voices for the new Trek movie, and it's not clear if she had finished recording them.

Smell like meat!!!

Burger King Unveils Meat-Scented Cologne

The 8 phases of dating

The 8 Phases of Dating - by Mingle2, a Free Dating Site

Santa when you are asleep

What Santa REALLY Does While You're Asleep - BumblePigs.com

OSX upgrade crashes Mac

OSX upgrade crashes Macs- The Inquirer

readers have been finding their Macs hanging or suffering from
post-update reboot blues. The Airport and wired network connections
keeps dropping and there are audio bleeps when users try to restart.

The Mail application refuses to quit, fails to connect or crashes
while attempting to connect to the mail server. And it really hates
messages with attachments according to reports.

The upgrade is self-censoring too. Instead of warning the user that
there is a problem, the system goes mysteriously silent as if there was
no problem at all. Much like the Apple press office when it comes to
bad news.

One user reported that the upgrade made his Imac into a brick,
complete with a white screen which just bleeps at him, which is
probably a wrongly-reported RAM fault.

On the nationalization of the AbitibiBowater mill and hydro plant in Newfoundland

LA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment: Danny Boy Nationalizes AbitibiBowater

Now lets do that to other industries demanding bail outs. Like Chrysler, which is threatening to shut down productive plants in Ontario, as well as in the U.S. and Mexico. Over to you Dalton McGuinty.