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Thank you for reminding me it's NOT springtime in Canada. By the way, did I ever mention I hate winter?
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It's called poutine and was created in Quebec.
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Have you noticed the size of that thing?
Yes.
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I don't give a flying fuck if that's what Adrian Peterson's daddy did to discipline him. ANY punishment that causes bleeding is improper and in most states, including Texas, is illegal. His son is FOUR YEARS OLD. He was beaten with a "switch" that caused open cuts on his arms, legs, back, chest, buttocks, and genitals. No one can tell me this is appropriate punishment for any child. This kind of "that's what my daddy did to me and I came out all right" bullshit has to stop.
It's too bad Adrian Peterson can't receive the same kind of "whooping" with the exact same "switch" in the exact same locations on his body.
Colin
I agree with Colin, and give the switch to Hulk Hogan.
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And back to Camy's original topic, what the hell is he going to look for in their DNA? A pink gene?
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Lug always looks fantastic.....as long as he keeps his trousers on.
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He's why I have to take my meds regularly, and just to avoid any confusion, or uncalled for remarks from my buddy, they're prescription meds.
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Thanks Dude and thanks guys. I try.
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The Mustard Jar is officially eight years old so,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to THE MUSTARD JAR AND RONYX.
And to celebrate, Ronyx will be starting a new story on the 10th...Closing the Barn Door.
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I think it needs to be said that I have nothing to whine about this month.
In fact the last couple of weeks have been shorts and t-shirt weeks.
Which up here means the temperature has risen above 40F.
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A very nice heartwarming short story from Colin that could be a very nice heartwarming chapter 1 to a very nice heartwarming novel.
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It's definitely not me Colin. It's one of the kids I taught many years ago. That drift is from one blizzard at the end of November. Thirty six hours before that picture was taken, there was no snow, patches of green grass even. haha
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Noam Chomsky said it, “The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.”
On a brighter note, lots of people know, and the Save Our Climate protests across Canada yesterday brought out thousands of people opposed to fracking, the tar sands period and obviously any expansion, and the building of new pipelines that would lead to tar sands expansion. Thousands turned out in Vancouver and Toronto, hundreds in smaller cities like Edmonton, and dozens in smaller towns, including remote villages in the very far north. Sadly, Calgary only had a couple of dozen protesters. But then Calgary is the home of most of the oil and gas corporations’ head offices and PM Harper’s federal riding.
Now the hope is that Harper pays attention to the peoples’ wishes and begins to support clean energy sources like wind and solar.
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Noam Chomsky said it, “The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.”
What’s worse is too many of them don’t want to know. I have friends who are careful to never watch or read the news because it’s ‘too depressing’. Their philosophy seems to be, “What I don’t know can’t hurt me.” Unfortunately it can and, sooner or later, it will.
And on to the Climate Conference in Poland. Canada has no hope of meeting carbon emission guidelines, so what did they do? Canadian delegates, actively and without conscience, tried to convince other countries to increase their carbon emissions. What part of catastrophic climate change do they not understand?
On a brighter note, maybe, the protests across Canada yesterday brought out thousands of people opposed to fracking, the tar sands period and obviously any expansion, and the building new pipelines that would lead to tar sands expansion. Thousands turned out in Vancouver and Toronto, hundreds in smaller cities like Edmonton, and dozens in smaller towns, including remote villages in the very far north. Sadly, Calgary with a population over a million, had a couple of dozen protesters. But then Calgary is the home of most of the oil and gas corporations’ head offices and PM Harper’s federal riding.
The question now is, will Harper pay attention to the peoples’ wishes and begin to support clean energy sources like wind and solar, or will he put all his energy into forcing the tar sands expansion and pipeline building before the next election in 2015?
I guess all I can do is hope for the best.
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Sorry, but that's my rant for the moment. However, if those of you in the US get the chance to tell them to stuff the Keystone XL pipeline please do. I should also mention there are rallies in at least 130 Canadian towns and cities today opposing the tar sands development as well as fracking and other destructive forms of resourse extraction. Harper and his big oil buddies will be stopped. We wiil not allow greed to compromise our environment or our planet.
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Sorry, but that's my rant for the moment. However, if those of you in the US get the chance to tell them to stuff the Keystone XL pipeline please do. I should also mention there are rallies in at least 130 Canadian towns and cities today opposing the tar sands development as well as fracking and other destructive forms of resourse extraction. Harper and his big oil buddies must be stopped.
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“I recently apologized for being Canadian” says Canadian mother living in US.
How sad is that. Canada has gone from being one of the most respected countries in the world to its citizens apologizing for being Canadian. Thank you Stephen Harper.
First, I am not a “tree hugger”, I am however, according to our prime minister, an ‘environmental radical’ I assume because I am concerned about the environment, global climate change, and the world our children are going to grow up in. Unfortunately for many of us, tar sands expansion means jobs and, hopefully big paycheques. But at what cost. Harper, the media, and the oil and gas industry have gone to great lengths to convince us that climate change is not happening. Well it is. Do we have to continue the way we are going until the atmosphere becomes so unstable that the storms and droughts are totally devastating before you will believe? If we do, it will be too late. As we poison the ground water with chemicals from fracking, and in situ extraction of tar sands, destroy the land, lakes, and oceans with oil spills and chemical dumping, fill the atmosphere with carbon dioxide and cancer causing carcinogens, and clear cut the trees that remove the carbon dioxide and give us oxygen, we will exceed the earth’s ability to sustain life. No matter how big your paycheque or how many billions of dollars you may have, the earth dies, you die, as do your children and grandchildren..
The few people who benefit from reckless tar sands expansion are ignoring the risks to our communities, our climate and our economy. From reckless tar sands expansion to the growing push for shale gas fracking, the fossil fuel industry is trading our safe climate for their short-term profits. Areas in northern Alberta near the tar sands already have 6 000 times the normal amount of cancer causing carcinogens…NOW. Also, did you know that 71% of the big oil corporations are foreign owned and the billions they make don’t even stay in Canada? The RCMP have become private security guards for foreign owned oil giants at our expense.
From Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline to Keystone XL, Kinder Morgan, Line 9 and Energy East, the Harper government and global oil industry have worked together to undermine our democracy, gut our environmental laws, and ram tar sands pipelines through local opposition as well as shale gas fracking in New Brunswick.
In the west, Kinder Morgan and Enbridge’s Northern Gateway want to expand or construct pipelines to B.C.’s West Coast, quadrupling the amount of oil tankers that will ferry through B.C.’s dangerous and environmentally sensitive maritime waters.
To the east, TransCanada is pushing to turn an aging natural gas pipeline into its Energy East tar sands pipeline. Enbridge, too, is proposing to reverse its Line 9 pipeline through Quebec and Ontario to convey the tar sands’ bitumen to market. Line 9 will be an oil spill waiting to happen.
To the south, TransCanada has been lobbying hard to complete the controversial Keystone XL pipeline through the American Midwest.
The pipelines are a problem by themselves. They will carve through the countryside and threaten the coasts with catastrophic spills. They will inevitably leak toxic bitumen into the countless waterways along the way. They are opposed by local communities, including many First Nations with rights to the land, air and water.
The pipelines are also an enabler. They’re a 50+ year infrastructure that commits hundreds of billions of dollars to a dirty energy economy, and unlocks emissions growth that will help push the Earth’s climate system past a tipping point. For those of you whole don’t grasp the term ‘dirty’, it refers to chemical air pollution, immense carbon dioxide emissions, toxic chemicals dumped or leaked into lakes and rivers, toxice chemicals entering the ground water through fracking, to name a few.
Few Canadians are aware how massive the tar sands are or how fast they are growing. Canada’s tar sands are already the biggest industrial project on earth, and the pace and scale of industry’s continued plans for expansion is unreal. Current production has already been proven to create a toxified local environment, with rising cancer rates and other health risks largely borne by workers and First Nations communities who live in the region. If it gets its way, the tar sands industry plans to triple production to more than 5 million barrels per day over the next 17 years. The industry has pushed the Alberta government to approve more than 100 tar sands projects covering 92,000 square km of northern boreal forest, with another 100 projects covering an additional 50,000 square km proposed – a total area the size of Florida.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently confirmed we want to prevent global temperatures from increasing more than two degrees C. This is a science driven target that every country, including Canada, has agreed is the red line we shouldn’t cross. The reckless expansion of the tar sands would make it impossible to avoiding blowing past our carbon budget. According to the International Energy Agency, the tar sands industry’s expansion plans alone, will commit the world to as much as six degrees Celsius of global warming. It would do irreversible damage to communities in the area, and it would unlock enough buried carbon to set off a “climate bomb” in our atmosphere and make it almost impossible to stop runaway climate change. This will destabilize the global climate and create a dangerous planet condemning us to a future of climate disasters, sunken coasts and economic chaos. The next ‘Sandy’ to hit North America could make the cyclone Haiyan that devastated the Philippines, or the hurricane Katrina that devastated New Orleans, look small.
We deserve the truth about the tar sands. With industry and government working overtime on massive PR campaigns that simply lie about the tar sands, it’s time for a reality check. They are even giving talks at elementary schools to brainwash the kids into thinking tar sands development is a good thing.
That’s why Environmental Defence joined academics, scientists, economists and other environmental organizations to launch TarSandsRealityCheck.com, a one-stop free shop for the 25 most important facts about the tar sands. It’s a must-visit if you want to be honestly informed about Canada’s tar sand’s industry.
The website focuses on the impacts of the tar sands on our climate, economy, water, air, land, animals and communities. The facts were compiled and peer-reviewed by internationally renowned scientists, academics and economists. Look past the oil industry’s spin. The tar sands are Canada’s fastest growing source of greenhouse gas pollution and they’re standing in the way of the safe, clean and sustainable energy that we deserve.
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“I recently apologized for being Canadian” says Canadian mother living in US.
How sad is that. Canada has gone from being one of the most respected countries in the world to its citizens apologizing for being Canadian. Thank you Stephen Harper.
First, I am not a “tree hugger”, I am however, according to our prime minister, an ‘environmental radical’ I assume because I am concerned about the environment, global climate change, and the world our children are going to grow up in. Unfortunately for many of us, tar sands expansion means jobs and, hopefully big paycheques. But at what cost. Harper, the media, and the oil and gas industry have gone to great lengths to convince us that climate change is not happening. Well it is. Do we have to continue the way we are going until the atmosphere becomes so unstable that the storms and droughts are totally devastating before you will believe? If we do, it will be too late. As we poison the ground water with chemicals from fracking, and in situ extraction of tar sands, destroy the land, lakes, and oceans with oil spills and chemical dumping, fill the atmosphere with carbon dioxide and cancer causing carcinogens, and clear cut the trees that remove the carbon dioxide and give us oxygen, we will exceed the earth’s ability to sustain life. No matter how big your paycheque or how many billions of dollars you may have, the earth dies, you die, as do your children and grandchildren..
The few people who benefit from reckless tar sands expansion are ignoring the risks to our communities, our climate and our economy. From reckless tar sands expansion to the growing push for shale gas fracking, the fossil fuel industry is trading our safe climate for their short-term profits. Areas in northern Alberta near the tar sands already have 6 000 times the normal amount of cancer causing carcinogens…NOW. Also, did you know that 71% of the big oil corporations are foreign owned and the billions they make don’t even stay in Canada? The RCMP have become private security guards for foreign owned oil giants at our expense.
From Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline to Keystone XL, Kinder Morgan, Line 9 and Energy East, the Harper government and global oil industry have worked together to undermine our democracy, gut our environmental laws, and ram tar sands pipelines through local opposition as well as shale gas fracking in New Brunswick.
In the west, Kinder Morgan and Enbridge’s Northern Gateway want to expand or construct pipelines to B.C.’s West Coast, quadrupling the amount of oil tankers that will ferry through B.C.’s dangerous and environmentally sensitive maritime waters.
To the east, TransCanada is pushing to turn an aging natural gas pipeline into its Energy East tar sands pipeline. Enbridge, too, is proposing to reverse its Line 9 pipeline through Quebec and Ontario to convey the tar sands’ bitumen to market. Line 9 will be an oil spill waiting to happen.
To the south, TransCanada has been lobbying hard to complete the controversial Keystone XL pipeline through the American Midwest.
The pipelines are a problem by themselves. They will carve through the countryside and threaten the coasts with catastrophic spills. They will inevitably leak toxic bitumen into the countless waterways along the way. They are opposed by local communities, including many First Nations with rights to the land, air and water.
The pipelines are also an enabler. They’re a 50+ year infrastructure that commits hundreds of billions of dollars to a dirty energy economy, and unlocks emissions growth that will help push the Earth’s climate system past a tipping point. For those of you whole don’t grasp the term ‘dirty’, it refers to chemical air pollution, immense carbon dioxide emissions, toxic chemicals dumped or leaked into lakes and rivers, toxice chemicals entering the ground water through fracking, to name a few.
Few Canadians are aware how massive the tar sands are or how fast they are growing. Canada’s tar sands are already the biggest industrial project on earth, and the pace and scale of industry’s continued plans for expansion is unreal. Current production has already been proven to create a toxified local environment, with rising cancer rates and other health risks largely borne by workers and First Nations communities who live in the region. If it gets its way, the tar sands industry plans to triple production to more than 5 million barrels per day over the next 17 years. The industry has pushed the Alberta government to approve more than 100 tar sands projects covering 92,000 square km of northern boreal forest, with another 100 projects covering an additional 50,000 square km proposed – a total area the size of Florida.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently confirmed we want to prevent global temperatures from increasing more than two degrees C. This is a science driven target that every country, including Canada, has agreed is the red line we shouldn’t cross. The reckless expansion of the tar sands would make it impossible to avoiding blowing past our carbon budget. According to the International Energy Agency, the tar sands industry’s expansion plans alone, will commit the world to as much as six degrees Celsius of global warming. It would do irreversible damage to communities in the area, and it would unlock enough buried carbon to set off a “climate bomb” in our atmosphere and make it almost impossible to stop runaway climate change. This will destabilize the global climate and create a dangerous planet condemning us to a future of climate disasters, sunken coasts and economic chaos. The next ‘Sandy’ to hit North America could make the cyclone Haiyan that devastated the Philippines, or the hurricane Katrina that devastated New Orleans, look small.
We deserve the truth about the tar sands. With industry and government working overtime on massive PR campaigns that simply lie about the tar sands, it’s time for a reality check. They are even giving talks at elementary schools to brainwash the kids into thinking tar sands development is a good thing.
That’s why Environmental Defence joined academics, scientists, economists and other environmental organizations to launch TarSandsRealityCheck.com, a one-stop free shop for the 25 most important facts about the tar sands. It’s a must-visit if you want to be honestly informed about Canada’s tar sand’s industry.
The website focuses on the impacts of the tar sands on our climate, economy, water, air, land, animals and communities. The facts were compiled and peer-reviewed by internationally renowned scientists, academics and economists. Look past the oil industry’s spin. The tar sands are Canada’s fastest growing source of greenhouse gas pollution and they’re standing in the way of the safe, clean and sustainable energy that we all deserve.
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As Tim said in Codey’s Memorial, Codey was such a complicated personality, it was difficult to pinpoint what he was like. He was kind, gentle, accepting, playful, serious and loving. He was also angry. Angry that there were people who were hungry and homeless. Angry that bigotry and haters condemned those who were born ‘different’. And, he was, as all of us know, empathetic and loving beyond words.
Codey knew that many other teens who were coming to realize they were gay and, not unlike him, very likely in need of help and understanding. That gave him an idea that turned into a dream, a dream to start a website. A website at which everyone was welcome, but which was dedicated to help gay teens. A website with information for gay teens. A website with stories that gay teens could relate to. A website that let them know that, whatever they may be going through, they were not the only ones. They were not alone. Things got better for the characters in the stories, and things would get better for them. Thanks to the Dude, his dream became a reality and Codey’s World was born, under the umbrella of AwesomeDude. Codey even became personally involved with other teens, often staying up all night, changing lives around the world. His love for others and talent as an author is unsurpassed and his stories will change lives forever.
Codey’s life was difficult, more difficult than most of us could ever imagine. But one thing that never changed was the size of his heart, his empathy, or his ability to accept love and give love. He loved his family. He loved Tim. He loved his friends. He loved each and everyone of us, whether he knew us or not. He loved us and wanted nothing but the best for us, whether we were gay, straight, bi, transgender, young, old, or in between.
Then, just two months shy of his eighteenth birthday, Codey’s health issues caught up with him and on November 4th, 2007 he left us. Today, six years later, we still miss him, we still love him, we still remember him, and we are still keeping his dream alive. And, of course, let’s not forget he still loves us.
Here’s one of his favourite songs for our enjoyment…as we remember a very special young man, Codey.
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I was kinda wondering when Codey's World forums would make the big change. Unfortunately three or four members occasionally posting doesn't cut it.
Losing the old post is a shame but, as you said, we needed a fresh start. We were going nowhere.
And...once again Colin, I don't know where you find the time to do all that you do.
Grant
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Four years ago today, on November 4th, we lost Codey. Let us never forget him, his courage, his compassion, his love of writing, or his dream.
http://www.codeyswor....php?f=3&t=2341
You can light a candle in his memory at
http://www.gratefuln...?l=eng&gi=codey (48h)
and/or
http://www.penguinhu...all/codeyscloud (forever)
Sorry I didn't post this sooner.
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You have been missed...have no doubt about that.
And, without doubt, I can say it's good to have you back.
Woohoo! We can do the happy dance now kids.
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Very nicely done, James.
Simply wonderful.
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Don't worry about terrorists...the most dangerous people live right here in America
in The Raccoon's Den
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You might find this headline interesting. Canada more at risk from environmentalists than religiously inspired terrorists: RCMP
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/news/canada-more-risk-environmentalists-religiously-inspired-terrorists-rcmp
Our Nazi fundamentalist PM, Steven Harper, the worst prime minister Canada has ever had, and the Harper (not Canadian) government, place oil and gas development and financial gain above any and all other issues. In particular, environmental issues. We have gone from about 2.5 million protected rivers and lakes to 159. Don't want any environmental issues slowing down our pipeline building. Besides, what's a couple of ruptured pipelines here or there? The rivers will carry the oil away. Also, assuming floating a dozen or more huge oil tankers filled with diluted bitumen from the tars sands, through very narrow rocky waterways or the St. Lawrence River every day isn't an issue, we have 3 protected oceans. Not sure which 3 because the Arctic, Pacific, and Atlantic sure as hell aren't included. And, lets not forget the contribution to global climate change, one of the worst greenhouse gas producers in the world, the tar sands development itself.
Just for interest's sake, organizations under watch by the RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) include Idle No More, ForestEthics, Sierra Club, EcoSociety, LeadNow, Dogwood Initiative, Council of Canadians and the People's Summit, the Vancouver Observer reported in 2013. Since I belong to and support Idle No More, LeadNow, Dogwood Initiative, Council of Canadians, Greenpeace, and SumofUs, should I assume I'm being investigated by the RCMP and CSIS?
It's funny how I once used to be proud to be a Canadian...not any more.