Tit For Tat

BERLIN (Reuters) - A thirsty German sold his 6-year-old step-daughter's pet beagle to the owner of a bar to pay for beer, the Bild newspaper reported Friday.

The unemployed man offered to take the dog for a walk and then stopped at a bar where he convinced the owner to buy the 3-year-old dog for 40 euros ($53).

The man spent the proceeds quenching his thirst for beer. The bar owner has now returned the dog to its owner.

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Sounds like a good deal to me!

Bono to receive British knighthood

What the fuck is the queen thinking?

Clearly Liz has lost her mind.

Time to overthrow the senile old bitch and install Helen Mirren as the new monarch.

A Baker's Dozen

Spent most of the morning and some of the afternoon baking the evil Christmas cookies (something I've not done for a while). Seems odd not having a couple of frosty beverages while I'm doing it (well, I did go for a couple of pints at lunch) but worse yet, it's odd to be doing it alone. No crisis in the kitchen, no feuding over recipes and decorating. Fuck, I miss that.

Anyhow, just waiting for the last couple of dozen to come out of the oven. And, actually listening to some seasonal music (maybe I had more than two at lunch).

Recommended seasonal listening (if you must):

Vince Guaraldi's Trio, Charlie Brown Christmas &

Tuck Andress's guitar excellence on Hymns, Carols, and Songs about Snow.


Peace!

Ya gotta love it.....

"My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle."

Henny Youngman

Purple Pros...

It appears official that his Royal Purpleness will be performing during the SuperBowl half-time show this coming February.

Can we expect another wardrobe malfunction.

I guess we'll have to wait until Feb. 4th to find out.

When It Raines, It Pours

From the Kamloops Daily News, Dec. 9, 2006

"University professors outraged by comments from TRU chancellor Nancy Greene Raine, who expressed doubt on climate change in a national media broadcast, met with her in a hastily called session Friday afternoon.

The meeting was arranged by senior administration at Thompson Rivers University following a cascade of e-mails among faculty concerned that her opinion reflects poorly on the university.

Penny powers, a professor in the school of nursing confirmed earlier Friday she had been called to the meeting with Raine.

'One of the most important goals of a university is to instill in the students an ability to assess the evidence for and against claims of any kind,' she wrote in an e-mail to faculty.

'What kind of role model do we put in place when the chancellor herself gives poorly-considered credence to widely discredited extremist opinions such as these?'

Greene Raine's comments came during a radio broadcast Friday morning about two Olympian skiers Thomas Grandi and Sara Renner, who have joined the fight against global warming.

'I am very suspicious now when I see people make blanket statements, because there are two sides to every issue', Greene Raine told CBC News in the story about global warming and the ski industry.

'And in science there's almost never black and white. We don't know what next week's weather is going to be. To say in 50 or 100 years, the temperature is going to do this, is a bit of a stretch for me.'

Canada's best-known female athlete, a developer and hotel owner at Sun Peaks ski resort, Greene Raine was named the first chancellor of Thompson Rivers University last year, She represents the university at public functions.

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Charles Hays a professor of journalism at TRU, wrote in a message to colleagues that Greene Raine cannot be the symbolic head of the university and make statements that run counter to the overwhelming weight of scientific opinion.

'And as chancellor, she has accepted a role as the symbolic head of the university. In that role, she owes it to the university not to make statements of opinion and expect that they will be perceived as merely the words of a private citizen.'

The Daily News was unable to reach anyone for comment on what took place during the meeting between faculty and Greene Raine."

This just shows that TRU is really not quite ready for prime time. How can a supposed institute of higher education have as its nominal figurehead someone making such unsupportable comments? Clearly, the administration must reconsider their appointment of this skier whose only educational "achievement" (as listed in her online bio) is an Honorary Doctorate of Laws, from the esteemed Royal Roads University. [although I think she might have been awarded another honorary degree by SFU in 2004]

Is It Time To Put The MotherCorp Out Of Its Miseries?

From Canoe.ca

Despite all the carping, criticism and finger-pointing, CBC brass keeps saying its shows are doing just fine, thanks.

Well then, let's look at the most recent national numbers:

- October 1970 (Thursday, Nov. 16): 56,000 viewers.

- Rumours (Monday of this week): 94,000.

- The Hour (Monday of this week): 82,000.

- Intelligence (Tuesday of this week): 247,000.

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Well, I can say I account for 1 of the slightly more than quarter million Canadians who watched Intelligence and I do so on a regular basis and would suggest you give it a shot (especially if you're off the grid and have no cable). I gave The Hour a couple of chances and just didn't think George S. pulled it off (he sucked up to Beck during an interview as if he was a young school girl).

Hard to see how this corporation can survive when the number of viewers of many of their shows could fit into BC place.

Not sure how or if they can resolve their horrendously low viewership but surely it is clear that the tax payers are not viewing the network they're paying for.

He's Got To Go

Well the Canuck's reign of terror (at least on their fans) appears to be continuing with last night's 4-0 loss to the Oilers.



From CBS's game summary:....

Roberto Luongo made 14 saves for the Canucks, who have lost
four of six and have scored more than one goal just once in that span.

"Our process was good," said coach Alain Vigneault, insisting his team
played better than in Saturday's 2-1 loss to Colorado. "We just couldn't
score again."

Vigneault's comments this year have often reflected this type of deep insight. Talking about "PUCK LUCK" and other such insanity Vigneault seems to be the team's apologist rather than coach.

Given the team's lack of spending/cap room I'm thinking if the Canucks are going to make a major change it's going to have to either be Vigneault or perhaps better yet Nonnis to go and give the team some type of mid-season boost.

Consequences of K-os

I think I must have been spending too much time with Therzo lately. Heard K-os being interviewed by Sheleigh Rogers on Sounds Like Canada on CBC and actually thought the music was pretty good. Got to admire this fan's effort!

Beyond Hope (almost)

In Hope tonight for my former brother-in-law's wedding reception.

Checked in to the sweet, sweet, Skagitt Motor Inn and was upgraded to their "best" room, #115 because the managers' daughter is in my Intro class this term. Free internet, who could ask for more.

Had lunch with my buddy Peter in Chilliwack.

Now, just a quick shower before leaving for a 5.5 hour stint at the Legion.

Bought some new speakers for the laptop, rocking out to John Legend before the big event. $80 and the great 2.1 sound. Fuck, ain't technology great.

Freedom 55

According to Information Week nearly half of Apple users are 55 or older.

Not sure what to make of this. Could it be that:

with age comes wisdom

or is it that

age brings on senility.

You figure it out Mac boys!!!