The snake

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Fox News is so diverse

CBC News Toronto -- Notice any difference?

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Google is smarter than I thought

I was searching for a recent article by Ann Coulter, so I clicked on my "google" bookmark, clicked on "news", then started to type "coulter". As soon as I hit the "r" key, low and behold...

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Amazing research!

I had  no idea that monkeys were capable of conducting such complex research. We need for these monkeys to replace the ones we have in pubic office.


Note: Yeah, that was a typo. It should have read "pubic orifice". I ran out of White-out.

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Just a few headlines I came across today. It's a weird news day...

U.S. farmer eaten by his own pigs (For the metrically challenged, 318 kilos is about 700 lbs!)

Man sues U.S. for $10M for frostbitten penis ()

Skateboarder smashes into deer during downhill race (video!)

Meet the Fokkens: Amsterdam's oldest prostitutes (Yes, "Fokkens". Folks, you can't make this stuff up.)


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Faux News...or is it Fake News?

Fox News likes to proclaim themselves "fair and balanced", so imagine my surprise when I googled "republican party politics" and found "www.foxnews.com" was the third website listed. Imagine my grin when the next website down was "www.gopusa.com". Now, imagine my laughter when the next website turned out to be "www.republicans.org". When it comes to fair and balanced republican reporting, Fox News is clearly "on top".


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Odd news

If a stranger sent you a post-dated cheque for $100,000 and a suicide note what would you do? It happened and the recipient calmly put the cheque in a safe until the date arrived and sure enough, the sender had committed suicide.

The oddest part of the story is how many times it repeated the opening sentence of the story--four times! The Story.

It's no wonder people call it Faux News

I can easily imagine a few of the lines in the following video taken from a late night Fox News show being used in a Canadian comedy production. Making light of our army is as much a part of our identity as the fact that the Canada's military has participated in more U.N. peace missions than any other country, including the United States. But given that there's a war going on in Afghanistan, a war where Canadians have had more soldiers there than any other country except for the U.S., I find it to be in very bad taste. This coupled with the fact that this aired while we were honouring the latest four fallen soldiers, bringing the total number of Canadians lost in this war to 116, elevates the statements to deplorable.

Imagine that a Canadian news program went on the day after 9/11 and participants joked and laughed about how Americans can't build office buildings properly, etc. How appropriate would that be? In comedy, it's all about timing. And this segment's timing was way off. How funny does it seem now?

Love and the City

A couple of evenings ago, I had just turned on the TV and was hunting, when I stopped on a news story about volunteers teaching adolescents to cook. The story returned to Susan Hay, well-known Global TV weather girl and charity worker. The camera was close in on her face and in that moment it struck me what a truly rare young lady this is.

With bigtime looks and small town personality, she could take the world by the tail if she wanted. But what does she do, instead?

From 2001-2003, she hosted a news segment titled "Heart of the City" about community involvement. In 2003, Hay went to Africa with World Vision to help children orphaned by AIDS. She went to Africa two more times to transform lives. As if that isn't enough, Susan is a spokesperson for four charitable and research foundations, runs marathons to raise money for leukemia research, and is currently hosting "Making a Difference" seen bi-weekly on Global.

Ok, back to that instant in time I mentioned earlier. Just then, they flashed Susan Hay's e-mail address on the screen, and I jumed up and wrote her a short note commending her for all the good work she does. Despite being at the TV studio at the end of a very long and arduos day, this lovely woman took the time right there and then to respond to my e-mail within fifteen minutes of my having sent it.

The world could use a few more Susan Hays.

Not once, but twice

As for the contest, there was no winner. We'll just carry over the prize pool to the next contest. The correct answer was "bow tie pasta".

Sterling drops

One of the early pioneers of the First Nation's movement in Canada is gone. Sterling Brass died on Friday at the age of 70.

Chief Lawrence Joseph remembers Brass as a true leader who worked hard to improve the lives of First Nation's people.

He is survived by his three children Goldy Silver, Copper Nickel and Zinc Mercury.

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The Canadian Press

N.S. lobstermen told to stay clear of area near sunken, diesel-laden barge

November 24, 2008 6 p.m.

HALIFAX, N.S. — On the first day of the fall season for Atlantic Canada's biggest and most lucrative lobster fishery, federal officials warned Nova Scotia lobstermen to stay away from an area where a dredging barge carrying 70,000 litres of diesel sank in rough seas on the weekend.

An emergency response team confirmed Monday that surveillance flights spotted a long, narrow slick of some kind of oily substance about 15 metres wide and about 1,600 metres long.

Reporters aboard several news helicopters as well as small crafts that have made their way to the scene confirmed that the government's warning to lobstermen is being heeded as none of the creatures have been spotted near the wreck thus far.

File photo of lobsterman.

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BBC News - Extracts from cannabis could help reduce brain damage in stroke victims, according to new research.

American scientists say they have found that several of the chemicals in cannabis or marijuana help to prevent damage to brain tissue.

The report is likely to lead to increased pressure to make marijuana and its derivatives more widely available for use on prescription.

Seen below is the leader of the research team:

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Fed scientists, food experts demand Ritz resign

Growing demand to fire Agriculture Minister

By Peter Zimonjic, Sun Media

The federal government's own scientists and food experts jumped into the fray and added their voice yesterday to the calls for the resignation of Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz.

“Minister Ritz has repeatedly disappointed the professional scientists and inspectors who work for him during the listeria crisis,” said Michele Demers, President of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada. “The comments he apologized for yesterday are the last straw. Crisis requires real leadership and Mr. Ritz is clearly not fit to lead.”