It snowed on the weekend.
No really, it snowed …………………………… a lot!
Right over the western end of London where I live we got a streamer off Lake Huron and it snowed over 70 cm, which is getting close to a yard, 3 feet, over your knees, or up to your crotch, if you’re short!
Five miles east of west of here it snowed half as much, and ten miles either way there was no snow at all……………………… as in NOTHING!
As I came down the driveway this morning an Arab woman passed me on the sidewalk, and I couldn’t help but roll down my window and say to her: “Well, how do you like Canada NOW?”
She just gave me a dirty look!
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Vancouver retailers are cashing in on the growing trend of
people — young and old — sporting ugly Christmas sweaters to celebrate
the holidays.
Drew Heifetz, co-owner of F as in Frank, a trendy East Vancouver clothing store, says that in past five years, demand for ugly Christmas sweaters has “skyrocketed.”
“Well, of course, everyone loves ugly Christmas sweater
parties. And in order to go to a sweater party, you need an ugly
sweater,” Heifetz says.
“People will come in and not just buy one; they’ll buy 10 — for their whole family or for people at their office. The popularity just keeps growing.”
Heifetz says between his two retail locations, one in East Vancouver and the other in Toronto, he sells between 25 and 30,000 sweaters a year.
He has a team of pickers that scour locations across North America year round to hunt down the tackiest sweaters out there.
Heifetz has even started shipping ugly Christmas sweaters to Europe, as the trend goes global.
“If a sweater has anything to do with Christmas, we’ll sell it,” he says.
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Now THIS, boys and girls, is showing the true spirit of Christmas!
Malls across Canada are making special arrangements so that
kids with autism can take part in a popular holiday tradition: taking a
photo with Santa.
While visiting Santa is a rite of passage for many Canadian kids, the location — crowded, noisy malls — can prove to be too overwhelming for these kids!
But this year, nine malls across the country owned by Oxford Properties are opening their doors earlier so those children can still get some face time with Mr. Claus.
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canadian-malls-offer-quieter-calmer-visits-with-santa-for-kids-with-autism-1.1558284#ixzz2lgCxvoHW
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Archaeologists say they’ve uncovered some stunning finds while digging at a construction site in Israel, including stone axes, a “cultic” temple and a 10,000-year-old house.
The discoveries provide a “broad picture” of human development over
thousands of years, from the time when people first started settling in
homes to the early days of urban planning, officials with the Israel
Antiquities Authority (IAA) said.
A local real estate company has listed the house, and described it as a “fixer upper!”
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Apparently Kate Perry wants her singing to be taken seriously!
As a result she has started to bind her large, pointy, beautiful, bouncy, tender, soft, perky tits close to her body, so that they don’t distract people from her singing.
Or, as the girl from “The Superficial” describes it……………………………..1
Katy Perry has been keeping her breasts under wraps lately because she’s a very serious artist now who can’t be taken very seriously if her giant tits are all up in your face. Which is obviously a bullshit excuse because it makes no sense, so I’ll just come right out and say it: John Mayer beats her if she shows them to anyone else. She made me promise not to tell, but it’s for her own good.
She’ll thank me later.
http://www.thesuperficial.com/katy-perry-breasts-rihanna-amas-11-2013?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thesuperficial%2FSNxk+%28The+Superficial+-+Because+You%27re+Ugly%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo
So like I said folks, she is going more for the flat Geisha look, than the Madonna pointy thingy!
BUT, SPEAKING OF GEISHA’S………………………, GIVE ME A BREAK KIDS!
Our “Asshole of the WEEK!” award goes to the members of the media who
called Kate Perry a RACIST for dressing like a Geisha during last
night’s American Music Awards!
Look folks, I can’t for the life of me imagine what is racist about Kate wearing a Geisha dress, but to call it that is the height of absurdity…..,. or the low!
In today’s world it is alright to subject kids to sexual identification issues years before they even reach puberty, BUT YA CAN’T WEAR A JAPANESE DRESS!
Good God, please save us from the nuts!
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Deer hunter killed by deer!
Comedian Jay Leggett, who produced a documentary about the joys of
deer hunting, died after being gored by a deer at the end of a hunt
Saturday.
Apparently a deer that he had shot, with its last bit of
energy, turned on him, and gored him in the back while he wasn’t
looking!
We’ve written a few times now about the fact that US Solicitor General Donald Verrilli pretty clearly made false statements
to the Supreme Court in a key case concerning NSA warrant-less
wiretapping, but it seems that nobody really gives a shit, so I don’t
know why we even bother!
Meanwhile, this past weekend, the NY Times reported on more from the Ed Snowden documents, highlighting how the NSA was whining internally that it didn’t have enough power, and outlining how it planned to get even more. Because, apparently, spying on nearly everyone just wasn’t enough.
The goal is and has always been to weaken cybersecurity wherever possible. There’s much more in the article about the NSA’s plans and capabilities, but those two paragraphs above seem to make the key points: the NSA has a ton of power and is constantly scheming to get more, even if laws are currently blocking that ability.
Furthermore, it wants to make us all less safe in its efforts to reach that goal.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131124/20540225346/nsa-complained-it-wasnt-able-to-spy-enough-sought-to-broaden-its-power.shtml
Well, well! Just one week after he was stripped of most of
his authority, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford showed up at the launch of the
city’s 2014 budget to warn that the city is returning to its old “taxing
and spending” ways.
Right over the western end of London where I live we got a streamer off Lake Huron and it snowed over 70 cm, which is getting close to a yard, 3 feet, over your knees, or up to your crotch, if you’re short!
Five miles east of west of here it snowed half as much, and ten miles either way there was no snow at all……………………… as in NOTHING!
As I came down the driveway this morning an Arab woman passed me on the sidewalk, and I couldn’t help but roll down my window and say to her: “Well, how do you like Canada NOW?”
She just gave me a dirty look!
———————————————————–
Vancouver retailers are cashing in on the growing trend of
people — young and old — sporting ugly Christmas sweaters to celebrate
the holidays.Drew Heifetz, co-owner of F as in Frank, a trendy East Vancouver clothing store, says that in past five years, demand for ugly Christmas sweaters has “skyrocketed.”
“Well, of course, everyone loves ugly Christmas sweater
parties. And in order to go to a sweater party, you need an ugly
sweater,” Heifetz says.“People will come in and not just buy one; they’ll buy 10 — for their whole family or for people at their office. The popularity just keeps growing.”
Heifetz says between his two retail locations, one in East Vancouver and the other in Toronto, he sells between 25 and 30,000 sweaters a year.
He has a team of pickers that scour locations across North America year round to hunt down the tackiest sweaters out there.Heifetz has even started shipping ugly Christmas sweaters to Europe, as the trend goes global.
“If a sweater has anything to do with Christmas, we’ll sell it,” he says.
—————————————————–
Now THIS, boys and girls, is showing the true spirit of Christmas!
Malls across Canada are making special arrangements so that
kids with autism can take part in a popular holiday tradition: taking a
photo with Santa.While visiting Santa is a rite of passage for many Canadian kids, the location — crowded, noisy malls — can prove to be too overwhelming for these kids!
But this year, nine malls across the country owned by Oxford Properties are opening their doors earlier so those children can still get some face time with Mr. Claus.
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canadian-malls-offer-quieter-calmer-visits-with-santa-for-kids-with-autism-1.1558284#ixzz2lgCxvoHW
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Archaeologists say they’ve uncovered some stunning finds while digging at a construction site in Israel, including stone axes, a “cultic” temple and a 10,000-year-old house.
The discoveries provide a “broad picture” of human development over
thousands of years, from the time when people first started settling in
homes to the early days of urban planning, officials with the Israel
Antiquities Authority (IAA) said.A local real estate company has listed the house, and described it as a “fixer upper!”
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Apparently Kate Perry wants her singing to be taken seriously!
As a result she has started to bind her large, pointy, beautiful, bouncy, tender, soft, perky tits close to her body, so that they don’t distract people from her singing.
Or, as the girl from “The Superficial” describes it……………………………..1
Katy Perry has been keeping her breasts under wraps lately because she’s a very serious artist now who can’t be taken very seriously if her giant tits are all up in your face. Which is obviously a bullshit excuse because it makes no sense, so I’ll just come right out and say it: John Mayer beats her if she shows them to anyone else. She made me promise not to tell, but it’s for her own good.
She’ll thank me later.
http://www.thesuperficial.com/katy-perry-breasts-rihanna-amas-11-2013?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thesuperficial%2FSNxk+%28The+Superficial+-+Because+You%27re+Ugly%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo
So like I said folks, she is going more for the flat Geisha look, than the Madonna pointy thingy!
BUT, SPEAKING OF GEISHA’S………………………, GIVE ME A BREAK KIDS!
Our “Asshole of the WEEK!” award goes to the members of the media who
called Kate Perry a RACIST for dressing like a Geisha during last
night’s American Music Awards!Look folks, I can’t for the life of me imagine what is racist about Kate wearing a Geisha dress, but to call it that is the height of absurdity…..,. or the low!
In today’s world it is alright to subject kids to sexual identification issues years before they even reach puberty, BUT YA CAN’T WEAR A JAPANESE DRESS!
Good God, please save us from the nuts!
———————————————–
Deer hunter killed by deer!
Comedian Jay Leggett, who produced a documentary about the joys of
deer hunting, died after being gored by a deer at the end of a hunt
Saturday.
Leggett, 50, collapsed
and died next to his all-terrain vehicle at the end of a hunt on the
first day of deer season in his native Tomahawk, Wisconsin, according to
Lincoln County sheriff’s spokesman Mike Caylor.
Apparently a deer that he had shot, with its last bit of
energy, turned on him, and gored him in the back while he wasn’t
looking!
Jay slowly bled to death………………………….., and so did the deer!
Leggett’s 2011 film “To
the Hunt: Deer Season in Tomahawk, Wisconsin” documented deer camp life
and “the fun, family and fraternity of the hunt,” according to
promotional materials.
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Meanwhile, this past weekend, the NY Times reported on more from the Ed Snowden documents, highlighting how the NSA was whining internally that it didn’t have enough power, and outlining how it planned to get even more. Because, apparently, spying on nearly everyone just wasn’t enough.
No, the NSA was fairly
explicit in wanting to get rid of the “nearly” qualifier in that last
sentence. Its goal was to be able to spy on “anyone, anytime, anywhere”
and it didn’t want anything like pesky little “laws” or “civil
liberties” to get in the way of that goal.
Written as an agency mission statement with broad goals, the five-page document said that existing American laws were not adequate to meet the needs of the N.S.A. to conduct broad surveillance in what it cited as “the golden age of Sigint,” or signals intelligence. “The interpretation and guidelines for applying our authorities, and in some cases the authorities themselves, have not kept pace with the complexity of the technology and target environments, or the operational expectations levied on N.S.A.’s mission,” the document concluded.Once again, we see that the claims from the NSA that it’s concerned about “protecting” people from “cybersecurity” issues are completely bogus.
Using sweeping language, the paper also outlined some of the agency’s other ambitions. They included defeating the cybersecurity practices of adversaries in order to acquire the data the agency needs from “anyone, anytime, anywhere.” The agency also said it would try to decrypt or bypass codes that keep communications secret by influencing “the global commercial encryption market through commercial relationships,” human spies and intelligence partners in other countries. It also talked of the need to “revolutionize” analysis of its vast collections of data to “radically increase operational impact.”
The goal is and has always been to weaken cybersecurity wherever possible. There’s much more in the article about the NSA’s plans and capabilities, but those two paragraphs above seem to make the key points: the NSA has a ton of power and is constantly scheming to get more, even if laws are currently blocking that ability.
Furthermore, it wants to make us all less safe in its efforts to reach that goal.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131124/20540225346/nsa-complained-it-wasnt-able-to-spy-enough-sought-to-broaden-its-power.shtml
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Rob Ford rails against ‘taxing and spending’ at Toronto budget meeting!
Well, well! Just one week after he was stripped of most of
his authority, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford showed up at the launch of the
city’s 2014 budget to warn that the city is returning to its old “taxing
and spending” ways.
Mr. Ford took the unusual
step of attending Monday’s budget launch to express his disapproval of
staff’s recommended 2 per cent residential tax increase, which will
total 2.5 per cent when a special levy for the extension of the
Scarborough subway is included.
“In just one short week
we can all see old ways of taxing and spending here at city hall coming back ,” he said. “I will not stand by and let this happen and the
taxpayers in this city should not either.”
- See more at: http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/sid/218638932/scat/71df8d33cd2a30df#sthash.ifdB0zr0.dpuf
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