Kanada Kev

It's a lot of fun. Remind me and I'll send you a link if you want to preview it when I get home tonight.

From the Late Show. "Experts believe that now that Fidel has resigned, he will either be succeeded by his brother, Raul, or by his idiot son, Fidel W. Castro"

I think i'd prefer this to be recited instead. It's only words strung together, so alcoholics and anti-liquor folk shouldn't feel uncomfortable with this being spoken before they start school/gov't every day. http://scribalterror.blogs.com/scribal_terror/2008/02/the-religious-h.html Bless, O Lord, this creature beer, that Thou hast been pleased to bring forth from the sweetness of the grain: that it might be a salutary remedy for the human race: and grant by the invocation of Thy holy name, that, whosoever drinks of it may obtain health of body and a sure safeguard for the soul. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

I still haven't been inside the "Crystal". My 5-year-old son was in there on the first day and loved it. It is too bad they couldn't have it with more glass as was originally planned. Looks really impressive when you go by at night and can see in and see a bunch of dinos on display. Check out this wild looking mirror-crystal thingy in the middle of the woods. How trippy would it be to stumble upon this? (more a piece of art than a building) http://www.micheldebroin.org/projects/super/index.html

DZ has finished their brand new recording "Bar Coda". Produced by long time bandmember Spice, and artwork by the master Mark Counts (JahlaPalooza, Chicken N' Ribs, etc), Butt-Boy exclaimes, "this is the best record we've ever done"! And he may be right. Killer production. Old fashioned Led Zeppelin inna reggae style with an Elvis impersonnator music. Dread Zeppelin have gone back to the basics and are takin' care of bizness. TCB, FAB. Order now so you can have this in your cd player, iPod or stocking by Critmas (that's southern for Christmas). http://www.dreadzeppelin.com/barcoda.html 1. Celebration Day 2. Lemon Song 3. No Woman No Cry 4. Ocean 5. Rover 6. Suspicious Minds 7. Out on the Tiles 8. That's Alright Mama 9. Thank You 10. Bar Coda

Thanks Booche. I am honoured. A tear has even come to my eye ... now put your cock away, please!!!

How was the show? Wish I could have been there. Just wasn't in the cards last night (even though a ticket became available to me)

Yup, i'd be totally happy for Mats if he decided to go and got on a team that won it all (just like Bourque did). I could handle Mats with any of those Western teams (especially Anaheim).

I remember a time when the Blue Jays wouldn't sign ANYONE to more than a 3 year contract. Leafs should do the same AND totally eliminate NO TRADE CLAUSES.

Mats is being given wayy too hard a time being pressured to break his contract. I completely understand the management side of things wanting to get something for Sundin. However, THEY signed the contract. LIVE BY IT. From what I gather, most no trade clauses are inserted into contracts with a reduction of the overall salary as an exchange for the "security". The Leafs should suffer for signing all their players and giving them the clause. Now, if Sundin decides he's willing to move, it won't take long before he gets deemed a traitor. I don't care what they get in return for him. The situation was slightly different, but look at what happened to CuJo when he left for a "winning team" he got screwed, and the Leaf fans despised him for "wanting to be on a winning team". Mats, you do what you want to do. I have full respect for you either way.

was this it? http://snopes.com/photos/medical/breastrash.asp

That was supposed to be in purple right?? Seriously, why would we have the public school system be a location for 'tests of faith'? Should we not replace the prayer with one from Scientology to use everyday and simply call it a test of faith for all those children who are being confused by religion in the first place? To me, it's stuff like this that further enforces that it has no place in the public school system.

Interesting piece in the Star today on this topic. Fascinating that it has its roots in the Jewish faith, and the reference to the Sermon on the Mount (which I have read before regarding the fact that prayer was meant to be private). http://www.thestar.com/article/306187

Awesome! http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/4251491.html?series=19 The Air Car caused a huge stir when we reported last year that Tata Motors would begin producing it in India. Now the little gas-free ride that could is headed Stateside in a big-time way. Zero Pollution Motors (ZPM) confirmed to PopularMechanics.com on Thursday that it expects to produce the world’s first air-powered car for the United States by late 2009 or early 2010. As the U.S. licensee for Luxembourg-based MDI, which developed the Air Car as a compression-based alternative to the internal combustion engine, ZPM has attained rights to build the first of several modular plants, which are likely to begin manufacturing in the Northeast and grow for regional production around the country, at a clip of up to 10,000 Air Cars per year. And while ZPM is also licensed to build MDI’s two-seater OneCAT economy model (the one headed for India) and three-seat MiniCAT (like a SmartForTwo without the gas), the New Paltz, N.Y., startup is aiming bigger: Company officials want to make the first air-powered car to hit U.S. roads a $17,800, 75-hp equivalent, six-seat modified version of MDI’s CityCAT (pictured above) that, thanks to an even more radical engine, is said to travel as far as 1000 miles at up to 96 mph with each tiny fill-up. We’ll believe that when we drive it, but MDI’s new dual-energy engine—currently being installed in models at MDI facilities overseas—is still pretty damn cool in concept. After using compressed air fed from the same Airbus-built tanks in earlier models to run its pistons, the next-gen Air Car has a supplemental energy source to kick in north of 35 mph, ZPM says. A custom heating chamber heats the air in a process officials refused to elaborate upon, though they insisted it would increase volume and thus the car’s range and speed. “I want to stress that these are estimates, and that we’ll know soon more precisely from our engineers,†ZPM spokesman Kevin Haydon told PM, “but a vehicle with one tank of air and, say, 8 gal. of either conventional petrol, ethanol or biofuel could hit between 800 and 1000 miles.†Those figures would make the Air Car, along with Aptera’s Typ-1 and Tesla’s Roadster, a favorite among early entrants for the Automotive X Prize, for which MDI and ZPM have already signed up. But with the family-size, four-door CityCAT undergoing standard safety tests in Europe, then side-impact tests once it arrives in the States, could it be the first 100-mpg, nonelectric car you can actually buy?

Well put. Why is it that those who want to defend what is currently there never want to see that side of the issue? Why can't people make these things private/personal? Other than the one year where my class was made to recite the prayer, every other year we always had a "moment of silence" after the anthem. This way people could think/pray/etc whatever they wanted to themselves. Nobody excluded, nobody having anything forced upon them = everybody happy. It's so damn simple.

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Good one Whitey ... i like it

MarcO ... I owe you a beer!

Yup ... it's a link to a .wma file so you may have to wait for your computer to open it's media player before it plays. You can always RIGHT-CLICK the link and "Save As" to drop it on to your hard drive and play direct.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080222.html Moon watchers blessed with clear skies over the Americas, Europe, Africa and western Asia enjoyed a total lunar eclipse this week. Catching eclipsed moonlight, astroimager Jerry Lodriguss offers this view of the inspiring celestial event with the shadowed Moon accompanied by wandering planet Saturn at the left, and bright Regulus, alpha star of the constellation Leo, above. The engaging composite picture was made by combining a filtered, telephoto image of the Moon and surrounding starfield with a telescopic exposure. The combination dramatizes the reddened moonlight while clearly showing the variation of brightness and color in Earth's not-so-dark shadow across the lunar surface.