Monday, May 31, 2010
When Masculine Virtues Go Out of Fashion
Sunday, May 30, 2010
In oil spill saga, mysteries of the deep persist-"Plug the damn hole!"
WASHINGTON – The impatient nation isn't getting answers fast enough in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.
What exactly went wrong? Who messed up? How much oil is pouring into the Gulf? Can the oil get to Florida and even up the Atlantic coast? What will the environmental and economic consequences be? Will the chemicals used to disperse the oil leave their own destructive legacy?
As the oil spreads, people on the Gulf Coast, in Washington and elsewhere want answers in a New York minute. But these mysteries of the deep are not yielding easily...http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100529/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_mysteries;_ylt=Ao9aa4DWAfajO3kurrNIYL1p24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTMyOWI1MnBuBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNTI5L3VzX2d1bGZfb2lsX3NwaWxsX215c3RlcmllcwRwb3MDMTUEc2VjA3luX3BhZ2luYXRlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbGsDaW5vaWxzcGlsbHNh Related Search Results:http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/drilling-mud/photo//100529/480/urn_publicid_ap_org2e5d4f589a8f4349b180897c9d6375a2//s:/ap/20100529/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_mysteries
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Dennis Hopper, Hollywood pioneer, dead at 74
Blazing Cat Fur: Franky Dimant gets it...
Blazing Cat Fur: Franky Dimant gets it...
Pigeon held on suspicion of spying
Friday, May 28, 2010
Israeli gunships head to sea to block flotilla
By IAN DEITCH HAIFA, Israel (AP) - Israeli gunships headed out to sea on Friday to stop a flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists from reaching the Gaza Strip, the military said, setting the stage for what could become a dramatic showdown on the high seas...http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100528/D9G01NEG2.html
Rainfall raises concern about basement flooding
By Jeremy Warren, The Saskatoon StarPhoenix "...The city is asking Saskatoon residents to prepare for possible basement flooding as the weather forecast calls for rain until Sunday..."http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Rainfall+raises+concern+about+basement+flooding/3081269/story.html
The Morecambe and Wise Show: Singing in the Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mDTn-QvO9I
The Morecambe and Wise Show: Singing in the Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mDTn-QvO9I
KATS Dog Agility Club "Fun for dogs, fun for people"
A man and dog were walking along a road. The man was enjoying the scenery when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead.
The man had a faint memory of dying, but he definitely remembered that the dog trotting beside him had been dead for years. The man wondered absently where the road was leading him and his dog. Oddly, the experience of being dead and seeing the eyes of his long dead dog gazing up at him didn’t seem strange at all.
After a while, the man and dog happened upon a high and white stone wall which ran along one side of the road. The wall looked like fine incandescent marble. The man raised his eyes to scan the wall and ahead, at the top of a long hill, the wall was broken by a tall arch which glowed in the warm sunlight.
The man and dog walked up the hill towards the tall arch and saw, within it, a magnificent gate that glowed like mother-of-pearl. A path leading towards the gate glimmered dull yellow, as only pure gold can. The man and dog walked enquiringly towards the gate and noticed somebody sitting at a desk, just to one side of the gate.
When the man was close enough, he called out, 'Excuse me, where are we?'
'This is Heaven, sir,' the Gate Guardian answered with a smile.
'Heaven? We made it …’ said the grinning man as he rubbed his dog’s ears, ‘…would you happen to have some water? We’re really thirsty.'
'Of course, sir…,’ replied the Gate Guardian warmly, ‘…come on in and I'll have some iced water brought right up.'
'Can my friend…' asked the man, gesturing toward his dog, '…come in and have some water too?'
The Gate Guardian’s eyes clouded a little as he replied: 'I'm sorry, sir, but we don't accept pets.'
The man thought for a moment, pursed his lips and then turned back towards the road. With his dog beside him, he continued on the way he had been going. After long walk and at the top of another long hill, the man came upon a side road – nothing more than a dirt track which led through a farm gate. A gate that crookedly leaned wide open and looked as if it hadn’t been used for years. There was no fence to be seen – only a gate. As the man approached the derelict gate, he saw a man just inside. This man was chewing on a straw and sitting on the grass with his back leaning against a tree while he read a book.
'Excuse me…' called to the man to the book-reader. '…do you have any water?'
'Yeah, sure, there's a pump over there, come on in,’ replied the book-reader, gesturing into the farm-yard.
'How about my friend here?' The man waved a hand towards his dog.
'There’s a bowl by the pump,' replied the book-reader
The man and dog walked through the gate and sure enough, there was an old-fashioned hand pump with a bowl beside it. The man filled the water bowl and placed it before his dog. Then he placed his mouth under the pump outlet and drank. When the man and his dog had both slaked their thirst, they walked back towards the book-reader who was still sitting with his back against the tree.
'What do you call this place?' the man asked.
'This is Heaven,' casually answered the book-reader.
'Well, that's confusing…' the traveller replied, '… a guy just back down the road told me that his gate led to Heaven.'
'Oh, you mean the place with the gold path and the pearly gates?’ answered the book-reader. ‘No. That’s the gate to Hell.'
The man furrowed his brow for a moment and asked: 'Doesn’t it annoy you that the guy at the gate to Hell is pretending that it’s the gate to Heaven?'
'Not at all…, replied the book-reader, laying his book on his lap ‘…I’m just happy that he screens out the people who would leave their best friends behind...'http://www.katsdogagility.co.uk/rainbowbridge.htm Homeless man and dog:http://realneo.us/content/homeless-man-cuddling-dog
The BP 'top kill' live feed: The armchair explorer's guide
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Family asked to pay for car damage after dog run over
images May 27 03:40 PM US/Eastern "A car insurer has asked a Canadian family to pay for repairing a broken bumper after their dog was struck by the vehicle and died, local media said Thursday..." http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.ce790ff71ff6bbbca9e18d3940bfe8d9.531&show_article=1
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Major Apt Fire 100 Bk Ave U.S.- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
I know this building, lived in it for a year. Keeping a finger on the social media pulse of Saskatoon:http://communities.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/blogs/mousingaround/default.aspx
Natives of North America-photographer Edward S. Curtis
Beavers responsible for Poland's flooding
Researchers alarmed at bacteria in Canadian bottled water
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/technology/Researchers+alarmed+bacteria+Canadian+bottled+water/3069562/story.html
Oil, oil, oil and more oil!!
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.'
Louisiana Fishermen Helping in Spill Cleanup Report Getting Sick: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/25/louisiana-fishermen-reportedly-getting-sick-cleaning-gulf-bp/Biden " ...All of BP's attempts to stop the leak have failed, despite the oil giant's use of joystick-operated submarine robots that can operate at depths no human could withstand. Millions of gallons of brown crude are now coating birds and other wildlife and fouling the Louisiana marshes...." Heat on White House to do more about Gulf spill: http://www.examiner.com/a-2646224~Heat_on_White_House_to_do_more_about_Gulf_spill.html Sam Champion and Philippe Cousteau Jr. diving into the Oil Spill:
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Harry Chapin's The Rock
The rock is gonna fall on us, he woke with a start
And he ran to his mother, the fear dark in his heart
And he told her of the vision that he was sure he'd seen
She said: "Go back to sleep son, you're having a bad dream!"
Silly child--
Everybody knows the rock leans over the town
Everybody knows that it won't tumble to the ground
Remember Chicken Little said the sky was falling down
Well nothing ever came of that, the world still whirls around
"The rock is gonna fall on us," he stood and told the class
The professor put his chalk down and peered out through his glasses
But he went on and said; "I've seen it, high up on the hill
If it doesn't fall this year then very soon it will!"
Crazy boy--
Everybody knows the rock leans over the town
Everybody knows that it won't tumble to the ground
We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears
You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years
"The rock is gonna fall on us." He told the magistrates
"I believe that we can stop it but the time is getting late
You see I've done all the research my plans are all complete."
He was showing them contingencies when they showed him to the street
Just a madman--
Everybody knows the rock leans over the town
Everybody knows that it won't tumble to the ground
Everybody knows of those who say the end is near
Everybody knows that life goes on as usual round here
He went up on the mountain beside the giant stone
They knew he was insane so they left him alone
He'd given up enlisting help for there was no one else
He spent his days devising ways to stop the rock himself
One night while he was working building braces on the ledge
The ground began to rumble the rock trembled on the edge
"The rock is gonna fall on us! Run or you'll all be crushed!"
And indeed the rock was moving, crumbling all to dust
He ran under it with one last hope that he could add a prop
And as he disappeared the rock came to a stop
The people ran into the street but by then all was still
The rock seemed where it always was or where it always will be
When someone asked where he had gone they said: "Oh he was daft.
Who cares about that crazy fool." And then they'd start to laugh
But high up on the mountain
When the wind is hitting it
If you're watching very closely
The rock slips a little bit
And he ran to his mother, the fear dark in his heart
And he told her of the vision that he was sure he'd seen
She said: "Go back to sleep son, you're having a bad dream!"
Silly child--
Everybody knows the rock leans over the town
Everybody knows that it won't tumble to the ground
Remember Chicken Little said the sky was falling down
Well nothing ever came of that, the world still whirls around
"The rock is gonna fall on us," he stood and told the class
The professor put his chalk down and peered out through his glasses
But he went on and said; "I've seen it, high up on the hill
If it doesn't fall this year then very soon it will!"
Crazy boy--
Everybody knows the rock leans over the town
Everybody knows that it won't tumble to the ground
We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears
You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years
"The rock is gonna fall on us." He told the magistrates
"I believe that we can stop it but the time is getting late
You see I've done all the research my plans are all complete."
He was showing them contingencies when they showed him to the street
Just a madman--
Everybody knows the rock leans over the town
Everybody knows that it won't tumble to the ground
Everybody knows of those who say the end is near
Everybody knows that life goes on as usual round here
He went up on the mountain beside the giant stone
They knew he was insane so they left him alone
He'd given up enlisting help for there was no one else
He spent his days devising ways to stop the rock himself
One night while he was working building braces on the ledge
The ground began to rumble the rock trembled on the edge
"The rock is gonna fall on us! Run or you'll all be crushed!"
And indeed the rock was moving, crumbling all to dust
He ran under it with one last hope that he could add a prop
And as he disappeared the rock came to a stop
The people ran into the street but by then all was still
The rock seemed where it always was or where it always will be
When someone asked where he had gone they said: "Oh he was daft.
Who cares about that crazy fool." And then they'd start to laugh
But high up on the mountain
When the wind is hitting it
If you're watching very closely
The rock slips a little bit
Cheeky chipmunk has his hands (and mouth) full storing nuts after awaking from hibernation
More pictures: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1280781/Cheeky-chipmunk-hands-mouth-storing-nuts.html
Bear kills two Hizbul infiltrators in cave
Prince of Pot Marc Emery extradited to U.S.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Prince+Marc+Emery+extradited/3052515/story.html
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Ditch the kilt for graduation, Alberta high school student told
"Hamish Jacobs is fighting for the right to show a little leg..."http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/05/21/ditch-the-kilt-for-graduation-alberta-high-school-student-told/
Thanks Blazing CAT Fur:http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2010/05/multicult-madness-kilt-wearing-banned.html
Bumper stickers not funny: city
By Betty Ann Adam, The StarPhoenix...http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Bumper+stickers+funny+city/3060018/story.html
A month in, outrage over Gulf oil spill grows By KEVIN McGILL and VICKI SMITH
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