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I was waiting for the bird to fall off its perch for 3 minutes.

I just found out about this guy and he could groove like crazy. Anybody else remember 'Night Music'?? I don't know how but I've seen it before. (Hiram's the guitar player just stage right of Rufus) 1ljrTtfJ9XY&p=46AF5A27F768CAC6

I sure hope Big John Bates can Keep up with Cowbell! I could certainly use a hollowbody electric guitar.

1. they don't have free single payer healthcare system, nor do they have a public option. 2. Consumer spending in this age of debt means nothing in the long term. 3. 'Significant' is very subjective. 4. SLOWED them from a depression, not 'saved'. Look at what happened at the end of the '20s - crash. When the economy tanked less than a decade earlier and no bailout the NA economy went back to normal. What's important to note is that ANY president after Bush would have the same fix it up situation. We'll have to see if they nix the 2 term limits after this next election.

Burma just got one.

Warren Zevon and Jackson Browne Warren Zevon and Jackson Browne

BradM always posts show listings. What are you looking for - music or US?

Holy great weekend after a killer show in Ottawa. Was the show taped in Hamilton?

I can only imagine that it was as tasty as the truffle cake after soundcheck.

You're one of THOSE people? Thanks for watering down democracy!

There's always room to use the toilet when you push people out of the stalls that don't have their pants down. I apologize for the inconvenience but it was very important.

saving us from inevitable combustion? By perpetuating our greedy consumerism, even if minimizing impact, is still doing nothing to change our ways. Don't buy into it, Birdy. You can't be that naive can you?

Makes me glad to be voting in the North Grenville Election instead of the Ottawa election

thank you so very much for that, DB

I thought about this too as a way to decrease traffic in the downtown core' date=' especially in terms of all the federal gov't buildings in that area. I wonder if they could be spread out in such a way to alleviate the stress on the core without creating problems elsewhere. I work in Hull, and while it wasn't initially my first location of choice, now that I drive I absolutely love it because there is barely any traffic. On an average day my door to door commute is 25 minutes. [/quote'] There's the downtown core, which everyone focuses on, and there's building the rest of the city properly as it populates. Ever see the lineups just to get out of monster home subdivisions in the morning? HUNDREDS of cars leaving in the morning and arriving in the afternoon. Whether people call it 'Barfhaven' ir 'Farhaven' it should really be recognized to be lacking in many respects. Ne-Peon, Bore-leans, Lostcester...each one could be worth exploring if planned properly.

Nope! They've discounted themselves. What a bunch of cheap assholes. They're screwing themselves out of better communities in the process. There has to be a happy medium between smaller, more responsible, accountable government that doesn't bend to special interests' whims [color:red](Minto anyone?) and one that puts strong stock in social programs and planning.

Look at the Jackets??

I just watched Pirate Radio today. Would be a great double bill with High Fidelity or Almost Famous (though Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2 movies in a row about rock and roll might not be the best idea).

Since homosexual tendencies have been accepted as part of our genetic code by the medical establishment, I wonder if anyone will ever get the funding to conduct studies to verify how much of the suicide rates are more directly connected to the genetic code and how many are purely social. Until the time comes for that to happen, here's to working towards living together in harmony.

For sure. I'm still here. If you want to read a great book that touches on these issues and addresses a perspective and issues that is/are so conveniently left out of the media check out the War in the Country Great book and important for Canadians to grasp.

Job vibes with metta!

Aah - what does 'OK' mean? Accepted practice? Publically Ethically acceptable? I think that I've created a fake online personal years ago and I comment on local politics but I'm not fabricating one for the express purpose of swaying public opinion about an incumbant.

I've also read stats (which I can't cite) that would refute the 'we need factory farms' line. Factory farms serve to reduce the number of people working. Even looking at factory farmed chickens taking into account a cost benefit analysis, the only ones benefiting from the lowered cost of production are the shareholders in agribusiness. When it comes down to quality of food/nutritional yield and cost of production, the ethically raised birds have fewer associated sanitation costs as far fewer animals are lost to disease when they're raised properly. The meat LASTS longer and is generally handled better to a far greater degree so as to keep us safer. We do not NEED factory farms. It is POSSIBLE to feed the majority of the world on smaller farms but a few people will make considerably less money on the production of poor quality food and the process that supports feeding diseased carrion to people. We NEED a more balanced diet (en masse) and we NEED to start doing things right. The only way it's going to happen is to talk about it and not prop up the impossibilities of 'moving backwards' into the future, because under the guise of progress we've been poisoning ourselves and tainting our understanding about the food that we feed to our children. No harm in discussion at all.

...And you have to prepare them to preserve those amino acids AND be able to metabolize them properly. Proper food combining is often based on the individual rather than just the ingredients. I think that it's *possible* for us to thrive on a vegan diet but so few of us actually stick to it for the long term (as veganism is a relatively young movement) that it remains to be seen how it will grow/evolve. It would be much easier, safer, and cost effective in the forseeable future to ensure people remain healthy with ethical farming practices and proper subsidies for FOOD CROP production to make high yield foods as cost effective for consumers as low yield CASH CROP derived 'foods' (what the heck do you call that stuff?). Real whole foods? Anyway, Hal - I'm not trying to change your (or anyone for that matter) stance on this. There are valid points on the side of the animal-free movement that will lend itself to the middle ground as well. I'm glad I got my name on a free run organic turkey for this weekend. Same price per pound as a Butterball and it was raised down the road. It was cute as a chick and will be dee-lish tomorrow.

I hope we get some original material here.