Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

The first chick has hatched and the world awaits the second egg to hatch. A note of interest, in just under a month they have had73 million hits overall and average 3.3 million hits a day. So the operators of the site have a favour to ask of you and that is please [...]

“Sometimes when I reflect back on all the wine I drink I feel shame Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the vineyards and all of their hopes and dreams . If I didn’t drink this wine, they might be out of work and their dreams [...]

I’ve had to file this under humour as well as politics because the idea that Bush would do anything, anything to upset his friends in the oil busines is laughable at best. It’s not just an empty gesture, it’s the equivalent of sheep investigating the presence of wolves among them.
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“What is the prime minister trying to hide by dishonoring fallen soldiers?” Jack Layton, leader of the NDP
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“Mr. Bush instituted the policy of not allowing the caskets to be open to the media, and now Mr. Harper has lifted a page from George Bush’s book… This is absolutely unacceptable and un-Canadian. You don’t build [...]

Well I knew this was going to happen with Bush lite in the PM’s seat in Ottawa. The Canadian neo-cons sold out Canada’s lumber industry. Despite the fact that we have won almost every NAFTA and WTO case related to this dispute Harper and his Conservatives are agreeing to roll over and [...]

Apparently the Vatican is reconsidering its ban on the use of condoms. The spin in this case is that its for the prevention of AIDS among married couples, choosing the lesser of two evils (the spilling of ones seed, subverting “God’s will” in reproduction vs. being culpable in the infection of innocent party.)
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Check out World Science a site that publishes some of the more unusual, but still serious, scientific articles. I discovered them quite by happenstance a few weeks ago and I like them well enough to add them to my permalinks on the right.
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The Hubble Telescope turns 16 this week. In honour of that NASA has released this picture of M82. Click on link to go to site.

It would nbe nice if it had another 16 years but that is not to be.
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bizaare, somewhat long and in Japanese but still worth a look. Click on picture.

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A woman in a hot air balloon realized that she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted out to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend that I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am!”
The man [...]