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Oh no! Bad Canada!

Politics

Canadians currently have their panties in a moist wad over the treatment of some of those detained by our forces operating in Afghanistan. Well, strictly speaking, the detainees weren’t mistreated by Canadian forces. They were mistreated once they were turned over to their own government.
This charge-of-the-prisoner-brigade is being led by Canada’s eastern media conglomerates, including [...]

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If you’re coming, don’t forget the bananas

Politics

(Canada is) behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee’s tea party
But before you get here, clean up your own back yard, and keep your limey prejudices to yourself.
A concerted campaign has now begun to expel Canada from the Commonwealth.
Finally! Thank you, Jesus! The Commonwealth has been an underachiever for decades now. It’s primary raison [...]

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White House gate crashers

Stupidity plain and simple

Does anyone actually care about these people? I’m sure the media will make it appear as though we do.
civil suits alleging non-payment for services, a long-running (and very public) feud with Tareq Salahi’s parents about ownership and control of their now-idle 108-acre winery and claims the couple made about accomplishments that can’t be verified. – [...]

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Leo & Lucy on cleaning up the environmental mess

Politics

You just have to love the environmentalists among us – even the ones in the motherland, if you’ll pardon the pun. Here are samples of the awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping, world-wide non-events that we should be concerned about, according to Leo & Lucy of the guardian.uk. Or, more likely, those items appealing to fast-disappearing newspaper subscribers in [...]

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I cancelled my xm radio today

Hardware/Software

Reluctantly.
There’s a fee for cancellation, unless you tell them you’ve moving out of the country – which I did. Forewarned is forearmed.
Why did I cancel? Because of this little beauty. The Myine Ira isn’t vehicle-portable, but I don’t consider that to be a problem. I never used xm on the motorcycle anyway.

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Library to go

Hardware/Software

Updated below.
Looking for some free books for your new eReader? Go here.
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There was a time in my life when, as a pre-teen (can I describe myself as once having been a pre-teen? Probably not, given my age.), and then as a teenager, I read anything I could get my hands on. I remember [...]

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XM radio has been replaced by the Myine Ira

Hardware/Software

Updated below for the Sanyo R227.
Well, almost.
I’ve been a great fan of XM satellite radio for years. In fact, I was an early adopter of the technology with the original Sony 5-channel receiver. It was a great unit for its time, but I eventually replaced it with an XM Roady some years ago. I think  [...]

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2012

Stupidity plain and simple

Nostradamus predicted it.
His lost book about it was a fake.
But the Mayans were there first with it.
Seven signs proclaim it.
It’s going to be a world-killer.
Should I stock up now? Buy toilet paper?  Build a boat?
Will Y2K12 never end? Not soon enough.

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In memory of

Personal

those who served in Canada’s Bomber Command.

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