tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-138608512011-11-23T08:37:35.913-08:00Cameronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784302405286800301noreply@blogger.comBlogger9661100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13860851.post-78588851842489104612011-05-11T11:23:00.001-07:002011-05-11T11:24:17.285-07:00

Time to venture into the fray (again) with a new blog.  Cam and others may be interested, you are most welcome to check it out and critique away. The Plan

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How delusional is this guy? The former Hitler Youth compares 'neo-atheism' to Nazism.Riiiiiight, but then I am always impressed when the unrepentant head of a pedophile ring opens his mouth about the evil doing of others.

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"The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization. " Christopher Hitchens

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"How you like me now?" by The Heavy

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"If You Are One Of America's Greatest Anti-Gay Crusaders Does Taking A Little Trip To Spain With A Rent Boy Make You Gay?"

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The Carnia Nebula, some 7500 light-years away. As always a thanks to Phil Plait and http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/

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“New Rule: Stop worrying that crackpots are inserting their dogma into Texas schoolbooks. Sure, replacing Thomas Jefferson with Phyllis Schlafly is troubling, but it’s Texas. The only use Texans have for textbooks is to sit on them so they can get a better view of the football game. The last person to even notice Texas had schoolbooks was Lee Harvey Oswald.” – Bill Maher

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“Congress passed the health care reform bill. Well, that was easy.” – David Letterman

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I stumbled across this on youtube, and its a total blast from the past. Not the best Kate Bush song, but IMO her best video.Definitely look for a very very young 'Dr. House' (its circa 1986) as one of the scientists.

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Phoenix 1901

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The Criterion Contraption is flat out one of the best film blogs out there. Period. The shame of it is that he posts once a month. Maybe. Often much less. Which is a ridiculous pity really, because when he does post he gives us gems like this;"If you've gotta make a movie, though, there's one other option: work in a genre that studio executives don't pay too much attention to. Take that genre's

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Q: If you're elected, will you quit porn?A: Probably, but only because of HD...and gravity.Porn star 'Stormy Daniels' in response to questions about her bid to unseat Louisiana Senator David Vitter.

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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.– Carl Sagan, 1934 – 1996

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"I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize"- Steven Wright

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Wow - I bet Tom Ellard wishes that haircut never happened.

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“Conservatives say the award represents everything they stand against: black people, foreigners, and peace.” – Bill Maher

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"St. Francis’s sermons to the animals must have really stuck, because our furry and feathered friends have at least one of those allegedly unique Christian virtues, according to Frans de Waal. His book, The Age of Empathy, describes “Bengal tigers that nurse piglets, bonopo apes that help wounded birds to fly, seals that rescue drowning dogs, [and] a rhesus monkey [that] will forego the

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The attached link is for mature readers only, if you're easily offended or here for further updates on Cam's new baby (I'm specifically referring to you Great Auntie Mertle from Victoria by way of Amsterdam), please don't read it. This is not a link to baby photos! Thanks.A precis of what you should find at this link:South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is a feature length movie based on the

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Hello everyone!Just wanted to let everyone know that on Oct 3rd at 3:59am, Mairi Johannah Webb entered the world, and our hearts (and our kitchen!).Mom and baby are doing great, Oliver is pleased (more or less) at having a little sister, and the four of us couldn't be happier!So here's the thing; her name 'Mairi' rhymes with 'starry', and it's Gaelic. And no, neither Haidee nor I has any Gaelic

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"The statement, read out by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's permanent observer to the UN, defended its record by claiming that "available research" showed that only 1.5%-5% of Catholic clergy were involved in child sex abuse.He also quoted statistics from the Christian Scientist Monitor newspaper to show that most US churches being hit by child sex abuse allegations were Protestant and

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It seems that scientists have a love for all things Harry Potter too, going so far as to try and diagnose the young wizard's headaches based on their literary descriptions!"Although conforming to a basic stereotype, and constant in location, throughout the 6 years of his adolescence so far described they have shown a tendency to progression. Later descriptions include a range of accompanying

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Star Trek and Monty Python!

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"First-Timer, Defending Champion Claim Maui Marathon Titles KA'ANAPALI, MAUI, HAWAII (Sept. 20, 2009) – Marc Collie of Canada and women's defending champion Yoko Yamazawa of Japan each won decisive victories at the 39th Maui Marathon held Sunday, September 20, 2009. Over 2,600 runners representing 17 different countries were registered in the 26.2 and 13.1-mile events held in Maui. Collie, 38,

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A couple of months ago someone asked me what I was up to and I mentioned I was making a documentary about Richard Wagner. “Oh, I would have thought you liked Beethoven,” they said. I was too polite to pick them up by their scruff of their necks and shake them violently back and forth, but I mean WHAT? “Why’ve you got a Norwich City shield on your Twitter avatar? I thought you liked cricket.” “You

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"We (liberals) have spent so much of our time on the losing end of the past 30 years, that the impulse is to fight every battle, and challenge every press release. Moreover, media has uncovered our inner crazy. HuffPo blasts every utterance from Jon Kyl in bold font. Politico reports every feint and jab, like it's the whole fight. I'm not blaming them, they're doing well because they've figured

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Penn & Teller, Bullshit! The Vatican from Brewster on Vimeo.

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The Dalai Lama jokes around after being asked his opinion on swine flu.

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"You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do."- David Cronenberg

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"If you actually come across any strawberry-flavored gum that simultaneously (1) drives women wild with desire, and (2) serves as a contraceptive, well....name your price, sir.." - David BrinnA price beyond rubies I suspect.

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Here he is in his prime, in the fight that made both him and Micky Ward superstars;Round 1Rounds 2-3Rounds 4-5Rounds 6-7-8The amazing Rounds 9-10

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(click to enlarge - and have your mind blown)

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"Watching McCain go after Obama over Iran, is like watching Vinny Testaverde repeatedly throw deep into double coverage. McCain isn't reading the defense. He isn't looking anybody off. He's staring his reciever down. It's all he knows.He'd do well to remember that the last time he did this, Barry took it back for six. But I wouldn't count on that." Ta-Nehisi Coates

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"Tolerance is about warfare--it makes your army bigger than the other guy's army. It gives you access to weaponry that your enemies have seemingly never heard of."Ta-Nehisi Coates

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"With respect to Guantanamo, I think that the closure in a responsible manner...I think, sends an important message to the world, as does the commitment of the United States to observe the Geneva Convention when it comes to the treatment of detainees."- General Petraeus

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"If there is a Hell, it has a chorus line"- Scott McLemee

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Andrew Coyne takes apart Brian Mulroney's testimony in the Schreiber inquiry;"It isn’t just that Mulroney didn’t tell the whole truth. He didn’t even tell a partial truth: ie. I met him for a cup of coffee, once or twice, full stop. Because, as Wolson pointed out, he then went on his testimony to describe in some detail the nature of their conversation, including that Schreiber had hired Lalonde

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"If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview," - the Dalai Lama.

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Dan Larison has a terrific post concerning the suggestion that somehow Obama is not an American exceptionalist, and he rebuts the suggestion with ease.But he goes on to make the case against exceptionalism - something rare to see among conservative authors, and he ends the piece with a terrific quote from Canadian journalist Dan Gardner on why the preaching of US exceptionalism is so 'infantile';

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"It's important for people to understand that in a democracy, there will be a full investigation. In other words, we want to know the truth. In our country, when there's an allegation of abuse ... there will be a full investigation, and justice will be delivered. ... It's very important for people and your listeners to understand that in our country, when an issue is brought to our attention on

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Andrew Potter's review of John Ralston Saul's thinking on Canadian identity contained this excellent passage;"The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein liked to say that the trick to philosophy was knowing when to stop asking the questions that lead you astray. Similarly, the trick to being a Canadian is knowing when to stop obsessing over the question of our national identity. By reimagining Canada as

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"I just slapped myself. I'm torturing myself right now. That's torture according to these people." —Rush Limbaugh"If somebody can go through water-boarding for 183 times, 6 times a day .... it means you’re not afraid of it, it means it’s not torture. If you’ve found a way to withstand it, it can’t possibly be torture." —Rush Limbaugh"The idea that torture doesn't work — that's been put out from

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"It is human to revel in brutality--race is irrelevant to this fact. It is human to revel in beauty---race is irrelevant to this fact."- Ta-Nehisi Coates, on the power of poetry.

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Click on picture to enlargeThe Boston Globe has more incredible shots

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Most famous for his memoir/novel turned movie 'Empire of the Sun', Ballard was a prolific writer who penned dozens of science fiction novels and short stories over his storied career.Among my personal favourites were his short stories; The Drowned Giant (a haunting story where a giants body washes up on an English beach and gradually decays), The Garden of Time, War Fever and Dream Cargoes.Among

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Cops Vs Clowns

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...that go great together, NASA and the Colbert Report!NASA names space station treadmill after Stephen Colbert

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" You don't have to endorse American Cuban policy, to understand that no one can makes you become a despot. No one makes you lock up artists and intellectuals. No one makes you spend 50 years as the head of a totalitarian state. America didn't make Castro a dictator, anymore than Castro made America embark on a failed embargo policy. Two people arguing can both be wrong."- Ta-Nehisi CoatesThis

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Old School Freight Train's cover of the Blondie classic 'Heart of Glass'

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"War doesn’t educate little girls; it kills them." - Ian Garroch Mason at 'Sans Everything'

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"The fact that I expected it to be lousy doesn’t make it any less disappointing. So, all of that to find that the whole thing was a three-way mashup of The Matrix, No Logo, and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? Ugh." - Andrew Potter echoing my own thoughts on the final episode of BSG

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"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - Bob RogersPersonally I prefer the 'Prince of

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"The problem with American foreign policy goes beyond George Bush. It includes a Washington establishment that has gotten comfortable with the exercise of American hegemony and treats compromise as treason and negotiations as appeasement. Other countries can have no legitimate interests of their own—Russian demands are by definition unacceptable. The only way to deal with countries is by issuing

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David Cronenberg to receive the French Legion of Honour.

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Wherein Paul Wells totally pwns Christine Blanchford.Ouch

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'Heavenly Peach Banquet', by Monkey

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(click to enlarge)

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"A federal bank takeover is a bad thing obviously. I wonder though if we conservatives understand clearly enough why it is a bad thing. It’s not because we are living through an enactment of the early chapters of Atlas Shrugged. It’s because the banks are collapsing. Obama, Pelosi, et al are big-spending, high-taxing liberals. They are not socialists. They are no more eager to own these banks

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"But then, I have no party in a lot of ways — as, in fact, do a lot of Canadians. It isn’t just free marketers who haven’t got a party. Federalists have no party, in the sense of a party willing to defend the national interest against the pull of provincialism and Quebec nationalism. Democratic reformers have no party. Classical liberals (or as Barbara Frum used to call herself, “1950s liberals”)

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It's the bacteria...

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...That Go Great Together - Tron and Depeche Mode!

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Hi-Res picture of Shuttle Cockpit. Click to enlarge.

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"Man is a marvelous curiosity … he thinks he is the Creator's pet … he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea."-- Mark Twain Letters from the EarthWhich brought to mind the following;'We will make great pets' - Perry Farrell (Porno

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A company in Japan is making an Obama 'Action Figure'. Sweet.

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"We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you. For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims,

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(click on picture to enlarge)

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(click to enlarge)

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Speaking of Franken, it increasingly looks like he will win his campaign to be Senator of Minnesota over Norm Coleman.Here's FiveThirtyEight's take on the defeated Coleman's next moves;"Let's be frank: Norm Coleman doesn't have much of a future in electoral politics. Defeated Presidential candidates sometimes have nine lives, but defeated Senatorial candidates rarely do, and in his career running

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"I can not say this enough- it is untenable for Israel to live under constant rocket and mortar attack, and it is undeniable that the attacks have skyrocketed in recent months. It is also morally reprehensible for these attacks to be launched from schools, mosques, and hospitals, and the use of human shields is disgusting, and Hamas is now reported to be urging the continuation of suicide

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Here is a Flickr pool of Farside cartoons brought to life.ROVER STRIKES BACK

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"The latest twist in this ancient and hopeless struggle is hard to address without equal measure of distaste for Hamas's religious barbarism and dismay at Israel's apparent determination to commit slow suicide." - Andrew Sullivan

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Oh this show had too much potential to have it end so soon.Sorry I can't blow up the pics bigger but the link has larger versions.

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It's that time again, here is the flotsam and jetsam that has built up in my files the last few months;- In the spirit of Kamandi, here's a collection of images from sci-fi where the Statue of Liberty is featured prominently.- Popular Mechanics investigates that most pressing of questions; 'which Terminator is the toughest'?- So long as we are immersed in apocalyptic imagery, here is a series of

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A couple of weeks ago we here in Canada and a nice little political dust-up. If you are interested in a great summary of the events, Macleans has a fantastic piece, linked to the title, detailing the timeline and the people pulling the strings.What's missing is a detailed account of what was said in the 2 and 1/2 hours that Prime Minister Steven Harper met with Governor General Michelle Jean.

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A survey of over 1000 Canadians reveals a striking lack of basic knowledge about the democracy they live in.

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This story just made me laugh out loud.Because, you know, prayers work better when you anoint the vehicles first. Or some such thing. I never really got the whole prayer business to be honest.

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“Crito, we ought to offer a cock to Asclepius. See to it, and don’t forget.” - SocratesThe journal Arion poses the question of what to make of Socrates famous last words and as is often the case in philosophical discourse, the meaning we attach to them depends in large part on which philosopher is doing the interpretation.

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