Nessie?

Could this mysterious prehistoric dinosaur shark be the creature behind the Nessie mythos? That is the idea of sea serpents even if they are in fresh water.

It certainly qualifies as a 'sea serpent' , and proves that factual experiences underlie the sea serpent mythos.

Another living dinosaur like the Sturgeon and the Coelacanth , and another entry for my cryptozoology files.

Japanese marine park captures rare 'living fossil' shark

The sharks are rarely seen alive.

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A species of shark rarely seen alive because its natural habitat is 600 meters or more under the sea was captured on film by staff at a Japanese marine park this week.

The Awashima Marine Park in Shizuoka, south of Tokyo, was alerted by a fisherman at a nearby port on Sunday that he had spotted an odd-looking eel-like creature with a mouthful of needle-sharp teeth.

Marine park staff caught the 1.6 meter long creature, which they identified as a female frilled shark, sometimes referred to as a "living fossil" because it is a primitive species that has changed little since prehistoric times.

Frilled sharks, which feed on other sharks and sea creatures, are sometimes caught in the nets of trawlers but are rarely seen alive.

Frilled sharks can grow to a length of nearly 6.5 feet and eat deep-sea squids and other soft-bodied preys.

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The Horror

Proud of his prowess as a butcher

This is the horror of Robert Picktons mass murder of 49 women in the Vancouver area. He was a pig farmer and butcher, what did he do with the womens bodies?

Accused serial killer Robert "Willie" Pickton butchered his victims after killing them A number of bones mixed with debris and manure were found in the farm's slaughterhouse in July 2002, court heard.

Lovecraftian horror registers in the the minds of the public about this case. It is more than being about mass murder and a serial killer, it is about cannibalism whether real or imagined. And as Lovecraft pointed out on his essay on the Horror in Supernatural Literature, the imagined horror is far worse.

Pickton continued his trade as a butcher, of women and animals. A 'respected trade' unlike that of the women he butchered, according to some rightwing bloggers.

Except contrary to the popluar reporting in the media, not all the women were sex workers. One at least was a bartender. Another respectable trade. And the fact is whatever streets they walked, or line of work they were in, he killed them because they were women.


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Get Over It

Me thinks they protest too much.

Canada owed an apology
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By Robert Howard. It is something quite unusual to hear Stephen Harper, Stephane Dion and Jean Charest speaking virtually in unison.

French politician defends Quebec comments

PM decries remarks by French politician

PM, Dion slam remark on Quebec

Quebec 'gaffe' causes Royal grief

French presidential candidate backtracks on support for Quebec

P'shaw, what a bunch of verbal diarrea, and political drivel.

After all Royal only expressed her opinion of what Quebecois meant to her and 'all of France', since she is a socialist and the last French President to say the same thing; Charles de Gaulle was not.

Following a 15-minute meeting in Paris yesterday with Parti Québécois Leader André Boisclair, Ms. Royal was asked by reporters what affinity she felt toward Quebec sovereignty. "It goes with our common values, which are Quebec's sovereignty and freedom," she replied.

After all the Canadian Parliament accepted Quebec as a Nation, which is what France did a long time ago.

Chickens, home, roost.

People, stones, glass houses.

Tempest, teapot.


Vive le Québec libre !





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What He Didn't Say

Boy this was a flashback, he just rehashed last years State of the Union speech, talking about the same issues.

Bush State of the Union: Work with me

What he didn't say anything about was the Post Katrina reconstruction of New Orleans and Mississipi which is as big a boondoggle as the reconstruction of Iraq.

Thanks to privatization and contracting out promoted by the White House.

Unless you consider his reference to temporary workers as being a sneaky way of saying reconstruction will commence once he has enough migrant labour.

Bush took the opportunity to again push his idea of a temporary worker program and treat those who want to come to America "without animosity and without amnesty."


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Shoot from the lip Finance Minister Jim Flaherty does it again, remember the Halloween surprise, now he is being the sock puppet for the Chinese Government;

China Wants More Investment From Canadian Banks, Flaherty Says

Making amends for the Harper almost blowing it at the APEC Conference. But wait Flaherty is singing to the choir.

His announcement was on Sunday. On Monday BMO Capital Markets releases it' s report on China and Canada, being critical of the Harpocrites playing politics and interfering with investment opportunities in China.

In a special 17-page report entitled The True North Meets the Middle Kingdom: Why Canada Must Embrace China, Dr. Cooper will highlight how China has the potential to contribute to Canada's long-term growth and prosperity.

There are enormous opportunities for Canadian banks to provide savings and investment
vehicles, personal loans, credit cards, online banking, commercial loans and foreign exchange
services—just to name a few. Those that are there have joint ventures with Chinese
companies and a growing presence in Beijing and/or Shanghai, in addition to the Hong
Kong ventures they have had for many years. At the end of last summer, BMO became the
fi rst Canadian bank to receive permission to provide banking services such as loans, deposits
and trade fi nance in Beijing in the renminbi. It was also the fi rst to be granted permission
to sell derivative fi nancial instruments such as futures and options contracts. It was the fi rst
foreign bank to buy into a Chinese fund-management fi rm, taking a stake in Fullgoal Fund
Management Co. Ltd in 2003. RBC has a fund-management venture with a local bank in the
works and Scotiabank has a 12% stake in a regional bank and a presence in Shanghai.
Canadian banks will also benefi t from off ering Chinese investment products to domestic
and U.S. clients. Those same mutual funds developed for the Chinese market will be
quite attractive for North American or European investors that want a piece of the Chinese
growth story. Many Canadians, for example, have strong business and familial connections
with China and Chinese is the third most commonly spoken language in Canada.

Hmm, ok both are talking, now who is listening?

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Common Sense of The Common People

90 per cent of Canadians don't think they're wealthy, survey finds

Well the majority ain't that's true, but 10% of these folks are lying to themselves if not to pollsters.

Butdespite all the whooping over the boom in capitalism from the boys on Bay Street and Wall Street, well folks don't feel it in their pocketbooks.

Salary concerns were a prime consideration for many respondents in the Mackenzie Investments study, with 40 per cent saying they expected their incomes to hover around the same mark over the next 10 years, dipping or rising marginally.

And for all the criticism of the Boomers they at least recognize that we are in a debt crisis, which government and business refuse to see.

According to the poll, 79 per cent of respondents said they feared that if shopping continued
to be viewed as a recreational activity, Canadians could face a crisis where they spend too much with little regard for the future.

"Overspending today but worrying about not having enough in the future is like waiting for your roof to fall in — it certainly isn't worth the wait," John Dale, executive vice-president of Mackenzie Investments, said in a release. "The 'haves and have-nots' in the future may be determined in part by the 'shop and shop-nots.' "

But their kids are shopoholics. It is the truimph of consumerism over productivity, the triumph of the American ideology of the lesiure class . Their parents had the middle class dream their kids live it. But it is still a dangerous myth.

But the study noted that more than any other demographic, young people tended to see shopping as a recreational pastime. About a third of respondents between the ages of 14 and 19 said they spent money as part of a larger socializing ritual, as compared with 13 per cent of all Canadians.

More than 92 per cent of young Canadians expect the same or more expensive lifestyles as their parents, it reported, suggesting their expectations may not be realistic.

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The Ultimate Republican Team

This would be a chicken hawks ultimate fantasy dream team for the Republican entry in the 2008 Presidental race.

Tim Russert did not challenge Sen. John McCain's dubious claim that it is not "clear-cut" that the war is unpopular nationally because, if it were, Sen. Joe Lieberman "would not have been re-elected in the state of Connecticut."

Since both have experience being has beens in previous races.

John McCain, Republican, President

Joe Lieberman, Independent Yankee from Connecticut, Vice-President


McCain vehemently opposes the non-binding resolutions and the idea of putting a cap on the number of troops in Iraq.

The Arizona Republican got strong support in his use of the morale issue from his allies Sen. Joe Lieberman, independent Democrat from Connecticut and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

And, Lieberman asked, Senate passage of a resolution of disapproval of this new strategy in Iraq would give the enemy some encouragement?

“That’s correct,” replied Petraeus.

Lieberman said, “I want to make a plea to my colleagues” to not pass a resolution of disapproval of Bush’s troop surge. He urged them to consider Petraeus’s testimony about the effect on morale and to delay any move to pass a resolution of disapproval.

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Silent Tories

Another example of the Harpocrisy of the New Canadian Government.

While the Conservative Ministers of Finance and Industry were in China during the Chinese Satellite Weapons Test, this is all they said; Canada's New Government Focuses on Strategic Partnership with China

Now where was all that Conservative bombast and outrage that PM Harper mustered up and blasted the Chinese with when he was attending the APEC meeting? Why like most of the Tories Hot Air statements it's a blowin in the wind.

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Arar Redux

So two days before Public Security Minister Stockwell Day visited the U.S. and in advance of the Leahy Senate Hearings, U.S. Homeland Security issued a letter to Canada saying that Arar was still considered a 'terrorist' by the United States.

Maybe Gonzales, who cosigned the letter, shouldn't have lied to Senator Patrick Leahy and just handed him this letter.

A letter that Stockwell Day said proved nothing.

Still waiting for the New Government of Canada to get tough with the U.S. on this...still waiting...yep waiting....waiting still....

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Scooby Secrets

File this under little known facts.

‘Scooby-Doo’ cartoonist dies at 81
Iwawo Takamoto said he created Scooby-Doo after talking with a Great Dane breeder and named him after Frank Sinatra’s final phrase in “Strangers in the Night.”

Actually Frank never said Scobby-doo it was "doo-be-doo-be-doo,"

This is another case of mis-hearing lyrics. I do it all the time so do most people.


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