The Chameleon

Bingo you do share a vastly different view of what "respect" is than I. And I love opposite friendly discourse. and in terms of improving. I am not talking about taking a hit to improve American foreign policy, towards us. I am talking about taking a hit to improve the confidence of nation and the world image of Canada. So we are not seen as the lap dog to the US. Also to send a message to the US that we will not be bullied/blackmailed on every little social issue the find "not in line" with their "right wing Jesus pushing mentality". It would show that our socio-economic sovereignty and beliefs matter more that the bottom line, every once and a while. And by default, I mean Harper only won because there was no one else to vote for (who actually had a shot at winning), and no one could bear to vote for the Liberals after their sponsorship debacle. Point is if Harper ran in an election not fraught with scandal he would have lost (as it is he barely squeaked by). Whatever this will all be history soon as Harper and his pro USA/conservative agenda is going to die ala Joe Clark... Looking forward to that Non-Confidence vote....

A new Breeders album?!! For real! C'mon...

Personally, I love the way Tredeau and Chretien played the Americans and I want more of that. And yes the "roll of the dice" I talk of would make the "softwood lumber" thing a possible consequence of that. And yes sometimes average Canadians woudl have to pay for the decisions Ottawa makes for the greater good. I have no problem with paying a price in trade for a more respected and independent nation. I realize my views are not necessarily shared. My view is that if we are not willing to "take the hit" in trade, then things will never improve. We need a spine desperately in this country and Harper certainly does not have one. He is the lap dog of the US presidency. This is obvious. P.S. Harper only won the election, by default.

Exactly the "bend-over and take it" mentality you propose is in the long run not responsible and not for the good of the country. I agree we are dependent on them for many things, and that needs to change. We need to be willing to roll the dice a little bit and assert ourselves. We need to be willing to take a hit once and a while, for long term gains. Simply because we assert ourselves does not mean we won't be doing business with them. It merely means we will do it on terms that respect the Canadian identity. The US is not going to pull the plug because we don't fall in line with each and every foreign policy decision they make. This is the great myth they have sold us for years. It is a myth you have taken to heart. When Chretien or Trudeau were in power they had more independence form Washington and I felt made decisions that distanced us from the Americans, and did the country collapse? NO. Was there saber rattling from the US. YES. Did anything come of it,that was substantial....no. We need to end the Americans say jump and Canadians say "how high" relationship. P.S. Simply because the US is a superpower does not mean they have the right to negate the sovereignty of other nation be it literally or via influence as in Canada. They are finding this out in Iraq (aka Vietnam prt2) as we speak.

They look like they could be in the cast of "Friends"now. Brutal! why do cartoon,have top strive to look more and more realistic? It defeats the point of them being cartoons!

Nice the Dead deserve a Grammy! Way to go! (home)

Sadly your examples do not hold much water for me. American culture and pro sports are everywhere world wide. The push it so they can profit form international merchandising and investment. Most of the labels on my clothes are made in Asian countries, very little is made in the USA anymore, even if it is by an American company. I do not drive a car, due to environmental reasons. Furthermore most of the cars that are any good these days are Japanese or German. SO no go on that. My computer is Canadian made with Chinese/Japanese/asian guts.... Their TV and culture is exported everywhere not just Canada. (I will agree they gave us Magnum P.I., so score 1 for the US on that) Branch plants and trucks coming over the Ambassador are part of the problem. See the environment and the exporting and closing of said branch plants which crush the small "one horse" towns they have created. Regardless of what Americans may say trade between our countries will always happen. They need us as much as we need them, believe it or not. Look. I am not saying America does not have redeeming qualities. They do. They have given the world certain things that we all enjoy. What I am saying is that those things are far outweighed by the violence, death and psychotic right wing agenda they try to force down the world's throat. I truly believe the sooner we are willing to distance ourselves and stop being their lapdog as we are right now with Harper. The more respected and better off Canada will be. I am not saying let's "cut the cord". I am saying we need to revert to a Trudeau type mentality of standing up for ourselves and doing what is right for Canada. We must stop worrying that decisions we make for our sovereign nation, may not be "approved" by the US, and hence we do not make them. All I'm saying is that I guarantee you the US lawmakers, never consider what Canada will think or do, when they make policy. We shouldn't either.

WOW! That's crazy! You'd never see that today with the global warming etc....

Wow! for real?! Well good for A.I. he has put in his time in Philly and they never seemed to get very far. Let's see what he can do in Denver.

When you have a violent, abusive, parasitic neighbor that bullies you into following their demented "world domination" foreign policy and blackmails you into not passing laws they disagree with, which all, hurts the way the world views you, then I say we can't push that/them away far enough.... Please name 5 crucial things the Americans have done exclusively for Canada in the last 100yrs that are significant?

True but no one had posted this.... here's the video... Video Link

NEW YORK (AP) -- The NBA has another ugly scene to recover from. This one involved its leading scorer and happened in its most famous arena. Denver's Carmelo Anthony and the other nine players on the court at the time were ejected for fighting during a wild brawl between the Nuggets and Knicks, triggered in part by a New York team that felt it was being shown up on its home floor. Multiple players, including Anthony, threw punches, and New York's Nate Robinson and Denver's J.R. Smith -- fouled hard by Mardy Collins on the play that started the brawl -- flew into the first row of the crowd while fighting during the NBA's scariest scene since Indiana players fought with Detroit fans in 2004. Smith had a red mark along the left side of his face, but there were no other injuries among the players. No fans were directly involved, even after the fighting spilled into the seats. According to the Knicks, the whole thing happened because the Nuggets still had their starters on the floor with 1:15 left and a 19-point lead. Denver won 123-100. "They just wanted to embarrass us," Robinson said. "It was a slap in the face to us. As a team, as a franchise, we weren't going to let that happen. A clean, hard foul happened and after that it went down from there." The foul wasn't clean at all. Collins grabbed Smith around the neck as he was going in for a breakaway layup. Anthony and Robinson quickly jumped in, and the melee went from one end of the court all the way to the other. Anthony threw a punch at Collins, and now awaits what will surely be strong punishment from a league still trying to repair its image after the melee in Auburn Hills, Mich. "Something's going to happen, but we shall see and wait," Anthony said. "I don't really want to comment on that right now." The NBA didn't, either. Spokesman Tim Frank said the league would "review the incident in its entirety. Until then, it would not be appropriate to comment." But the players can expect a harsh penalty with the brawl happening at Madison Square Garden, right in the hometown of NBA headquarters. "I feel bad for the league, I feel bad for the Denver Nuggets and the New York Knicks," Nuggets coach George Karl said. "Very poor display of respecting basketball and respecting the game in the best place in the world to play basketball." There had previously been some bad blood between Karl and Knicks coach Isiah Thomas over the handling of the Larry Brown firing. Karl and Brown are close friends. But Karl wouldn't talk about why he had his starters on the floor late in a blowout, in the closing minutes of a back-to-back that closed a five-game road trip. Thomas said he even told Anthony that he never should have been in the game at the time. "I just said to him, 'You know, you're up 20, you're up 19 with a minute and half to go, you and (Marcus) Camby really shouldn't be in the game right now,"' Thomas said. "We had surrendered, those guys shouldn't even be in the game at that point in time." After the hard foul by Collins, Smith got up and jawed with Collins and Robinson jumped in to yell at Smith -- who had thrown down a reverse dunk on a fast break minutes earlier. "They were having their way with us," Thomas said. "I think J.R. Smith had just made one dunk when he reversed and spun in the air. And I think Mardy didn't want our home crowd to see that again. So he fouled him." Anthony rushed in and pushed Robinson in the neck, triggering the roughest moment, when Robinson and Smith went flying into the stands while fighting with each other. Anthony then threw his punch at Collins, then backed away toward the center of the court. New York's Jared Jeffries ran from the baseline toward Anthony, but was tackled by a Denver player. The brawl stretched to the other end of the court toward the Nuggets' bench before coaches and security finally pulled Smith away and restored order. Smith was yelling as he was escorted back to the locker room, unsure why Collins fouled him as hard as he did. "I don't even know," Smith said. "That's the first time I ever seen the dude." Camby, Andre Miller, Eduardo Najera, Smith and Anthony were the Nuggets who were ejected; Channing Frye, David Lee, Collins, Robinson and Jeffries were the Knicks who were kicked out. "Clearly this isn't how we or the NBA wants to be perceived," Thomas said. "It should have been a foul and the guy takes two free throws and maybe some words, but it shouldn't have escalated. This isn't even a rivalry." Highlights of the fight were on in NBA locker rooms around the league, and players stopped buttoning their shirts or paused mid-sentence during interviews to see what happened. "Obviously, it's unfortunate. You never want to see that. It just doesn't belong in the NBA," said Dallas forward Dirk Nowitzki, who saw clips of the brawl shortly after the Mavericks had won in New Orleans. "Hopefully we can all forget about it as soon as we can." With each team forced to put five new players on the floor, Denver finished up the win and ended a two-game losing streak. Camby had 24 points and nine rebounds, and Miller added 12 points and 10 assists. Anthony was in the midst of a superb second half, having scored 23 points in 23 minutes after halftime. He finished with 34. Camby, a former Knicks center, added seven blocked shots, and the Nuggets shot a season-best 57 percent from the field. Stephon Marbury had his best game of the season for the Knicks, scoring a season-high 31 points and adding eight assists. Eddy Curry had 19 points, Robinson scored 17, and Lee finished with 12 points and 15 rebounds. Notes: With the Nuggets a frequently rumored destination for Allen Iverson, Karl already has an idea what it's like to coach the Philadelphia guard from talking to Brown. "I've probably heard all the stories," Karl said. "I've heard about his Olympic experience with him, I heard about the Olympic team experience, period. Yeah, I've heard all the stories. Again, I'm not going to put a magnifying glass on things that I've never witnessed or been a part of." ... The Nuggets gave 268-pound Nene his first start of the season to play against Curry, so starting center Camby didn't have to. Camby would have been giving up 50 pounds to Curry, listed at 285. ... Frye returned after missing 10 games with a sprained left ankle and started in place of Quentin Richardson, who was out with back spasms. Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Man that due almost looks deformed. Egads! you're telling me he's like 16/17. He looks like at least 35-40.... I feel for him, but if he can play, he will have no worries with the millions he'll make.

Bob should take a step back and ask if the audience approves of having to sit through another "One More Saturday Night". He's playing these tunes to death. How can he call himself an "ARTIST"? What in the hell has he created in the last 30 years? 11/18/2006 Mizner Park Amphitheatre' date=' Boca Raton, FL I: Jam > Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Minglewood Blues, She Belongs to Me, Jus' Like Mama Said > Tomorrow Never Knows > Even So > October Queen > The Deep End > She Says > Liberty II: Lazy River Road@, Victim or the Crime@, Friend of the Devil@, St. Stephen > William Tell Bridge > The Eleven > Stuff > The Eleven > Dear Prudence > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, One More Saturday Night E: U.S. Blues[/quote'] Agreed. Even in the days of the Grateful Dead "One more Sat. Night" along with "El Paso" were grossly overplayed... but.....Ratdog's "evening moods" is a great album.

Either way thanks guys! I will be digging into these ASAP!!! I feel more alive when I listen to more dead!

Wooooooohooooo!!! Yesssssss! And you all thought I was crazy! Ha! I knew it! And forget next year....JYD for the playoff run!! He is just what this young team needs. Hard-nosed veteran leadership!

The Cotton industry along with Tobacco and Alcohol are the biggest opponents of any type of hemp or marijuana industry that operates on a large scale above board. They are the ones that funnel money into the "just say no" type campaigns and all because the know hemp/marijuana would crush them and provide fuel, textiles, recreational drugs (other than alcohol) and provide farmers with a much needed crop to help them survive. The whole "weed is a danger to our children and society" racket is bogus. Really the weed is a treat to their gravy train. Even if their gravy train put so many farmers in poverty, creating a product that is hurtful tot he environment and obsolete.. Bastards!

Besides if you really want to talk gateway or first drugs then sugar and caffeine are it. We all tried those before we were teenagers! I'm glad this part of the drug war propaganda is dying.

True. I was doing this but my hard disk recorder needs repair.... Thanks anyway.

I saw many a Phish show at this venue. Had lots of killer times in the camping sites around it. Really it has been on the way out since Verizon bought it and changed the name

HI all, So I've been trying on and off for quite a while to find a program that will allow me to capture/rip streaming audio from the net to my computer. I have tried many (including stream ripper) and they only seem set up to rip from internet radio. I am interested in ripping live shows from sugarmegs.org, wolfgang's vault and others. I have tried configuring these programs too, and my sound card (SB live) is set to record wave, so what am I doing wrong? Or is there a program that will literally record what comes out of my speakers. Having a hard time with this.....

I know it's awesome. I hope this trend continues.....

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gilbert Arenas got on quite a roll, putting up the most points in franchise history and more than anybody, except Wilt Chamberlain, has scored against the Lakers. In a Kobe-like performance, Arenas had 60 points and outscored Los Angeles' Bryant by 15 Sunday night in the Washington Wizards' 147-141 overtime victory. Arenas had 16 points in the five-minute extra period, including 14 in a row for the Wizards during one stretch. His scoring total was the most against the Lakers in 40 years. Chamberlain, who played for the Warriors in Philadelphia and San Francisco and then for the 76ers before joining the Lakers, scored 60 or more points against them multiple times, the last a 65-point outing in 1966. Arenas went 17-of-32 from the floor, including five-of-12 from three-point range. He made 21 of his 27 free throws and had eight assists and eight rebounds. Forty-three of his points came after halftime. The previous franchise high was 56 by Earl Monroe on Feb. 13, 1968 - also against the Lakers in overtime - when the Wizards were the Baltimore Bullets. "It was bound to happen," Arenas said. "I'm a scorer, so I was going to have one of those days where I was clicking. Most of the time when I've scored 46 in three quarters, we were blowing the other team out, so I didn't get to play in the fourth. "But tonight was that time. It was a close game and I stayed in. I found the rhythm, especially in the fourth quarter and in overtime, and I never looked back." Arenas' previous high was 47 points, against Miami last Dec. 30. Asked how the Wizards' guard scored so many, Bryant said, "First of all, he shot 27 free throws. We as a team shot 30. Think about that." Washington shot 60 free throws and made 47. Bryant added, "Some of the shots he took tonight, you miss those, they're just terrible shots, just awful. You make them and they're unbelievable shots." Lakers coach Phil Jackson said Arenas was spectacular. "He made a lot of different shots, drives, three-pointers, and still had that energy left to finish that game off," Jackson said. Bryant, coming off a 53-point performance his previous game, went 15-of-24 from the floor and eight-of-10 from the line. He made 7-of-11 from beyond the arc, part of the Lakers' franchise-record 44 shots from three-point range. They made 19, including five-of-nine by Vladimir Radmanovic. Bryant, who scored just four points in overtime, finished with 10 assists and eight rebounds. Antawn Jamison had 25 points and 13 rebounds for Washington, and Caron Butler scored 27. Radmanovic, starting in place of the injured Lamar Odom, had 27 points, and Luke Walton had 15 points and a career-high 11 assists. Washington led by as many as 17 early in the fourth quarter, but the Lakers came back to catch them at 126-126 and send the game into overtime. The victory was the Wizards' fourth in five games against the Lakers, but only their second in the last 14 meetings in Los Angeles. Washington also won for just the third time overall in 11 road games this season, and the Lakers lost at home for only the fourth time in 17 games. Arenas had 12 points in the third quarter, including a three with 31 seconds left to put Washington ahead 90-80 to start the fourth period. Washington was up 59-49 at halftime, with Jamison scoring 17 points and pulling down eight rebounds. Arenas also had 17 first-half points. Bryant, who took only one shot in the first quarter and whose only points came on a pair of free throws, scored 16 in the second quarter. Arenas scored 12 points on six-of-nine shooting in the first quarter, Jamison had 10 points, and DeShawn Stevenson added four for all the Wizards' points in their 26-20 lead. Radmanovic had 10 points to help Los Angeles stay close. Notes: Bryant had scored his season-high 53 points as Los Angeles came from 21 points down to beat Houston in double-overtime on Friday. .. The Wizards' 11-point victory over Miami on Friday had put them at .500 for the first time since they won three of their first six this season. .. Washington was without C Etan Thomas, not on the trip because of a sprained left ankle. Los Angeles F Odom is out for at least a month with a sprained right knee.

read: we can rape their resources. :crazy: like we haven't benefitted off anything from them! Regardless whatever we have gained from the Americans they have repaid us in bullying influence in our politics and laws behind the scenes. Our resources are another matter entirely. They need to be protected from American interests at all costs..... Heads up "fresh water is the new oil" And we are sitting on most of it.

OK I take it back I have just found credible confirmation.... Story Link Anastasio charged with drugged driving THE ASSOCIATED PRESS photo Trey Anastasio performs on Oct. 29, 2006 at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas. Anastasio was accused of driving under the influence of drugs in an upstate New York town near the Vermont border early Friday, Dec. 15, 2006. The former Phish frontman was pulled over by an officer who saw his car failing to keep to right side of the road at about 3:30 a.m., Whitehall village police said. (AP Photo/ Keith Shimada) WHITEHALL, N.Y. -- Trey Anastasio was accused of driving under the influence of drugs in an upstate New York town near the Vermont border early Friday. The former Phish frontman was pulled over by an officer who saw his car failing to keep to right side of the road at about 3:30 a.m., Whitehall village police said. A search turned up quantities of the painkillers hydrocodone and Percocet, as well as the anti-anxiety drug Xanax, that had been prescribed for someone else, police said. Anastasio, who was driving with a suspended New York license, was charged with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and driving while intoxicated-drugs, police said. The 42-year-old guitarist was released and scheduled for a court appearance at a later date. Anastasio lives in Vermont and has been performing solo since Phish broke up in 2004.