Harpers Cat is a Liberal

The Harpers own cats. Could it be that Harpers cat is a closet Liberal out to get the newly elected PM? Sneaky cat. Just kidding we all know cats are real libertarians (unlike Mr. Harper).Harper Own Worst Enemy?

Or could it be that Harper was stupid in posing for this picture which resulted in this; Harper goes to hospital with asthma attack, no lasting damage

If this had been the U.S. they would have run 24/7 news on this, as it was it was a sidebar story in the media.

Harper treated in hospital for asthma attack
CTV.ca - 3 hours ago
Prime minister-designate Stephen Harper, a longtime asthma sufferer, was taken briefly to an Ottawa hospital Thursday night after suffering an attack.
Harper goes to hospital with asthma attack National Post
Harper briefly hospitalized with asthma Reuters Canada

But wait asthma is a serious condition that is brought on by stress, furry animals and air pollution.

What would happen if under undue stress, such as Americans invading the Arctic, Harper got another attack that imobilized him? Harper rebukes US envoy over Arctic dispute

Shouldn't he have been honest with voters and told us of his condition before he ran for PM?

Didn't we have the right to know that we might have a physically challenged PM. Who at moments of crisis could end up using Canada's public health care system. The one he wants to privatize.

Which might not be such a good isea in light of the fact that asthma is a growing childhood disease.

Asthma now hits one in 10 children, study says
Globe and Mail - 7 hours ago
The rate of childhood asthma in Canada has soared fourfold over the past 20 years, to a level where more than one out of every 10 children is now diagnosed with the respiratory ...
First Report on North American Children Finds High Asthma Rates Environment News Service
Number of Canadian children with asthma jumps fourfold over the ... Canada.com
CBC News - all 11 related »

And besides fluffy animals what else causes Asthma, why air pollution. You know emissions, the stuff the Kyoto accord is all about. The accord that Stephen 'asthma' Harper wants to cancel. He might want to reconsider that since it could be bad for his and our health.

)Future of Kyoto cash, climate plan still in doubt
Toronto Star - 10 hours ago
Stephen Harper's government will give Ontario $538 million that the Liberals pledged last year to help comply with the Kyoto Protocol.
Will Kyoto die at Canadian hands? BBC News
Canada's withdrawl from Kyoto seen as unlikely Vancouver Sun (subscription)
New Scientist (subscription) - Green Consumer Guide - all 8 related »

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Al Gore and Big Oil

It's funny to hear Al Gore lecture Canada about
the political influence of Big Oil, Gore accuses big oil of bankrolling Tories when he is a shareholder in Big Oil.

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Terrorist State Refuses to Talk to Terrorist State

Ah this is ironic. The (democratically elected) Israeli State won't talk to the newly (democratically) elected Palestinian authority because Hamas won and they are militant terrorists engaged in armed struggle.

Gee Hamas sounds exactly like the founding fathers of the Zionist State of Israel, who led their terrorist war for indpendence against Arab neighbours and the British. A state that refused to recognize the existence of the Palestinians until after Munich.

Refusing to Talk

The Israeli government ``will not negotiate with a Palestinian Authority that is comprised in part of an armed terrorist organization that calls for the destruction of the State of Israel,'' acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a statement issued after an emergency meeting with security chiefs in Jerusalem.

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They Walked Like Men

An intersting discovery in the news is about the unearthing of a bipedal crocodile fossil. No not from Southern Alberta or the Gobi Desert, but bundled up and forgotten the bowels of a museum, like so many other fossils are.

Basement find has scientists going snap

Crocosaur? ... the skeleton of an early reptile shows evolutionary similarites between crocodiles and dinosaurs.
Photo: Reuters

January 27, 2006

Scientists have discovered a fossil in New Mexico that looks like a two-metre-long, two-legged dinosaur along the lines of a tyrannosaur or a velociraptor. But it is actually an ancient relative of today's crocodiles and alligators.

The discovery is a striking example of how different animals can evolve the same kind of body over and over again.

For almost 60 years, the 210-million-year-old fossil has been hiding in plain sight, in the basement of New York's American Museum of Natural History. It was in a slab of rock dug up in 1947 in New Mexico.

Now whats interesting is that this crocidile walked upright on two feet, bipedal. It occured at the end of the crocidile species dominance on the earth prior to the rise of the dinosaurs. Hey I didn't know that crocs are older than dinos.

Anyways like later developments, bipedalism appears to be an evolutionary stream that occurs in later species development, now I won't say more advanced, as that may not be the case, but in later development.

Whether that would lead to expanded brain activity and the evolution of the species into a hominid like with higher intelligence, has been speculated on. And the similarity between this croc and the species Troodon (Stenonychosaurus unequalis) which was creature speculated upon are quite startling.




But it is not nessacary to speculate, to once again be awed by what evolution shows us. Bipedalism is a late development of species.

Dino-Era Fossil Reveals Two-Footed Croc Relative

Croc Decline Key to Dino Rise?

Modern crocodiles are but one remnant of what was once a far more diverse croc family.

"Today we think of crocodiles as looking basically the same," said Nesbitt, of the American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "But in their history they took on a wide variety of different body plans."

"Some looked like reptilian armadillos or cats, and others looked like little dinosaurs," Nesbitt said.

The crocodilian family may have been at its peak during the Triassic period.

"Toward the end of the Triassic period you have this crazy diversification of these crocodile relatives, including this animal," Nesbitt said.

"It was really the heyday of the crocodile-like animals, but the only lineage to really make it out of the Triassic was the lineage that led to modern crocodiles."

Nesbitt explains that dinosaur evolution was likely in its infancy during this period.

"We're not 100 percent sure what the story is," he cautioned.

"Now it seems that dinosaurs were there with these animals, they were part of the fauna. But they remained pretty small and not very diverse.

"We don't see the typical museum type dinosaurs until the Jurassic. Nothing is really happening [in dinosaur evolution] until after these crocodile relatives are gone," Nesbitt added.

It may be that Effigia-like animals were widespread but dinosaurs were comparatively rare during this era, Norell, the museum curator, explained.

If so, dinosaur evolution might have blossomed only after most crocodile-like animals became extinct. Those extinctions might have left an attractive environmental niche for the dinosaurs.

The theory seems to be backed by the abundance of Effigia-like animals found from North America's late Triassic period.

Many fossils once thought to be dinosaurs turn out, on closer inspection, to be crocodile-like animals that, like Effigia, only look like dinosaurs.

Many of these croc-like animals "are difficult to identify without nearly complete specimens, especially skulls," Nesbitt said. "If you just have a vertebra, for example, you can't tell them apart."

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