Andrewwhyte

So I'm watching the largely insignificant bowl in Charlotte. Playing for Louisville is this 6'3" 205 lb true freshman QB called Teddy Bridgewater. Good wheels, good arm, tough as nails kept getting up after about 30 knockdowns. He threw 3 picks but hey, he's a true freshman starting a bowl game. Gonna keep my eye on him.

Extremists are extremists. I say we kill them all and ask questions later. That's very extremist of you! I prefer to think of it in Kantian terms.

It isn't just the Muslim world that lives in fear of their own extremists. http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Israelis-protest-against-religious-coercion-2426305.php

So why did you bring up Whitney Houston's quote about music?

It is a response to the Quote. Music can as easily inspire hate as love; kind of like religion.

Uh huh. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z8p3I4tTxE

Seems he has the support of the white supremacists though. Stormfront, Militia of Montana, and American Free Press have endorsed him. The Black Panthers, The Nation of Islam and the Weather Underground endorsed Obama. Did you have a point? Good point. Finding some undesirable supporters is a well worn straw man. In 1972 G. Gordon Liddy was going to hire some hippies to piss on the carpet for the cameras in McGovern's hospitality suite in the Watergate hotel. Bob Haldeman nixed the idea because he was slated to occupy that suite the next week for the Republican convention.

I think there would be a spike in deaths; sort of a coiled spring effect. The increase would be unlikely to be sustained. In Canada many provinces still have very restrictive alcohol sales laws with a provincial government monopoly. In British Columbia all liquor flows through the liquor board and resellers are very restricted to location and hours of operation. 30 miles from Vancouver in Washington state liquor is sold in the supermarkets and corner stores. It has been argued in BC that increasing the availability (and the price compitition) would increase abuse problems. The fault with that logic is that Washington State does not have a worse alcohol abuse problem than BC even with its cheaper and more available product. This despite the fact that they are very similar societies otherwise.

Contact Debbie at Pacific Skydivers in Pitt Meadows British Columbia. When RiggerRob worked there he had a large hardware collection.

I got a rock.

This doesn't surprise me at all. The last ten-fifteen years or so has seen the gloves come off in the big pharma industry. We are bombarded with information beseeching us to take more and more drugs for ailments we didn't know existed let alone inflicted us. North Americans are more and more medicated. Another factor is the aging of society as seniors consume the lions share of drugs. About five years ago I was preparing myself for my father's apparent oncoming death as he faded away from us both physically and mentally. One day my sister went into the house, emptied the medicine cabinet, marched into Dad's doctor's office and dumped the contents onto his desk. The doctor professed shock that Dad was on so many meds. Some had been prescribed by specialists and some by him but were not supposed to be indefinitely renewed. This last category included the Oxycodone. Dad went from 14 daily meds down to 3 and improved markedly. I don't think my father is all that unusual. Everyone should make a point of insuring that all family members review their med regime with someone in the family once a year. Seniors should do it with a younger member of the family. Getting back to your stats. It would be useful to separate the recreational/street drug deaths from the prescribed ones.

TransCanada (the builder) really screwed the pooch when they tried to push the route through. The new route has dealt with most of the concerns of those who live in the area. The environmental lobby doesn't care about the new route, they want to shut down the oil sands due to the energy intensive process of getting it out; much of it is open pit mined. If TC had not tried to be a bully in the first place they would have been much further ahead.

When you talk of piping the bitumen to the 'coast' were you referring to the Gulf Coast? Because that is essentially what Keystone is. When I referred to refining on the coast in my post above I was of course referring to the Canadian west coast. There is a possibility to ship the bitumen from the west coast to the Gulf Coast for processing, but I doubt that would prove economical in the long run.

In Utah isn't the alcohol a worse crime worse than the child rape?

I can't say for sure but it would seem to me that the oil companies would be more likely to divert the oil coming out of Venezuela rather than exporting from Houston while importing (through Houston) to feed the US. The big difference for the US however is that the Chinese really don't want to import refined oil from Houston or Caracas. They want raw bituman. Houston has enormous refining capacity; If the bitumen from Ft. Mac goes to the coast it still might make it to Houston, but is far less likely. My preference would be to process much more of it here in Alberta, but since the people we sold the oil to already have capacity in Houston/Gulf it is hard to convince them to build more capital up here. That and labour and water shortages. An ideal location for upgraders and refineries would be on the Pacific coast before the product is loaded, but the political climate for that is not particularly favourable.

Sigh. Here in Edmonton we shovel our own sidewalks.

Is there anything that stipulates that the eyes must remain closed continuously for this exercise or can the novice open his/her eyes between iterations to check for traffic/spot?

If it is not approved that same oil will be combusted in China. We ARE going to sell that oil.

When I drove from Whitehorse, Yukon to Vancouver, BC I usually stopped to rest in Fort. St. John, BC. That was about 900 miles. I found that much driving tired me out, especially since most of it was not paved. The mountain passes were usually in hmmm challenging condition. The 800 or so miles the next day were usually a breeze.

Who could argue against that? I mean even it does nothing to infringe upon the 2nd amendment. Only when a firearm is discharged in the city will it tell anyone anything. I am sure it won't lead to voice recognition sensors in the same locations. No, that won't happen.

I think New years should be moved to perihelion.

Sigh. The terrorist are winning.

Have you considered looking into becoming a judge.

No, that's Americas oil. They owe it to you for bringing them freedom don'tcha know?

It is interesting theatre if incredibly bad policy. By inserting Keystone into it the GOP is dividing the president's labour peeps from his environmentalist peeps. Meanwhile the Dems have the GOP into a corner where they are voting against a tax cut for the middle class after they defended one for the rich. Of course it is ludicrous to even be thinking about a tax cut when the deficit is where it is, but, it's an election year adn an election is no time to discuss economic policy.