And here we had everyone threatening global warming was going to melt the ice caps by the summer of 2013. Well lo and behold, they are actually growing.
A chilly Arctic summer has left 533,000 more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year – an increase of 29 per cent.
The rebound from 2012’s record low comes six years after the BBC reported that global warming would leave the Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013.
Instead, days before the annual autumn re-freeze is due to begin, an unbroken ice sheet more than half the size of Europe already stretches from the Canadian islands to Russia’s northern shores.
This guy is OfficiallyScrewed and officially nailed.It happened after 7 p.m. Monday at a woman’s home on Thomas Argue Rd. in the Ottawa community of Carp.
They were a success at the CPC Convention. Now you can get your very own OfficiallyScrewed.com Justin “The Shiny Pony” Trudeau T-Shirt expressing your view that he is NOT qualified to be our Prime Minister.
The T-Shirt is 100% cotton, comes in white text on a harbour blue pre-shrunk t-shirt with a nice thick quality.
Impress your conservative friends, anger your liberal friends and make your statement. Graphic is below and appears on the back of the shirt. The front of the shirt has no graphic on it.
Even Kady O’Malley tweeted a photo of my shirt from the Conservative Party of Canada convention.
Let’s cover the nation with these shirts before Election Day in 2015. Purchase yours today by clicking the link below. We ship only within Canada. For ordering more than 1 at a time, please contact me at This Link. Same goes for special sizes or bulk orders. I am opening this up to severe discount for people who want to sell these as a riding association fundraiser to help battle the Liberals in the 2015 election.
*Note: Shipping via Canada Post to anywhere in Canada is between $13 and $17. I am charging a flat rate of $15 shipping and handling per shirt.
After reading this article, Old Saint Nick sent me the letter below to share….
Dear James, (aka Mayor Jim Watson),
I was surprised that you would get jealous about Toronto getting $600M for three new transit stops. After all, I have been more than generous to you and your Liberal friends with an embarassment of riches. Jeolousy won’t get you off of my “Naughty List”. You can’t possibly be surprised to know that you are on this list. But just in case you are wondering why, I have noted a few reasons below.
For starters when you got elected to the provincial legislature in 2003, the Ontario Liberal party promised to not raise taxes and immediately imposed a massive health care premium. Lying is something Santa takes very seriously.
Then Santa did his best to give the Ontario Liberals (of which you are one) more money to spend wisely. But what did they do? They decided to drop a cool Billion dollars on eHealth, but their oversight let it all go to waste.
I then gave the Ontario Liberals yet another billion dollar Christmas gift but instead of building gas plants, they selfishly wasted the money to move the plants so they could win a couple of seats near Mississauga.
And guess what? I also gave you and your Liberal cronys another billion dollars of hard earned tax money and instead of sending some to you for your choo choo train, they decided to put up solar panels and windmills that will leave a legacy of debt to be paid off by Ontarian tax payers on their Hydro bills.
And now I am hearing that cronyism is running amock as your friend Kathleen Wynn is creating a bunch of advisory boards and loading them up with liberal party hacks. This is a slap in the face of Ontario taxpayers.
To get on my “Nice List” people need to share. They need to tell the truth. They need to appreciate what they have been given and not throw these gifts away for personal gain or benefit.
I urge you to think about these things. You have the ear of your fellow Liberals. How YOU choose to use your voice will determine if you get back on my “Nice List”.
In this article in the Ottawa Citizen, The Liberals seemto be valuing a BBQ with Justin Trudeau at $999.
How much is a five-person barbecue dinner with Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau worth to you?
Federal Liberals sent out an email this week offering Canadians who donate $5 or more to the party between now and June 30 a chance to win a barbecue dinner for five with the Grit leader this summer.
It’s the party’s latest fundraising effort and is a clear attempt to combine Canadians’ love of grilling with what Liberals are hoping is Trudeau’s celebrity appeal.
“The leader loves having the chance to meet one-on-one with Canadians,” said Liberal party spokesman Olivier Duchesneau. “And obviously Canadians love to barbecue in the summer, so it was a great fit.”
But because the fundraiser is also a contest – the winner of the barbecue date will be chosen through a random draw – Duchesneau said the party was legally required to come up with a value for the prize.
And there it is in the fine print: “Approximate value of $999 CAD.”
So the Shiney Pony speaks at a fundraiser and the price is $20,000 but when you get him in an intimate 5 person BBQ fundraiser, the value is only $999. Considering he charged the $20,000 while an MP it should have gone up now that he is party leader.
This to me is a blatant attempt to bypass the donation limits the party has to set on the value of things. Recall when they had their “Sky is the limit” auction?
In that case they were forced to back down because people were bidding to exceed the donation limit of the prize. Well in this case the value received by the Liberals in $5 ticket prices far exceeds the value of the $999 claim and it will also likely exceed the $1200 limit per person.
It may be “legal” but it is still optically circumventing the rules via technicalities.
Liberals….OfficiallyScrewing over Canadians since 1867.,
3 years ago when Michael Buble said that Vancouver Canucks were Vancouver’s team and not Canada’s team, I cursed them.
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That’s right. Me. A scientific individual resorted to the three pronged curse invoking some pretty powerful stuff!!! Right in the heart of the finals against Boston in 2011. To rehash from my 2012 blogpost:
I gave this the good old triple curse.
First you take your index finger and touch the lid of one closed eye (with the other open) and you say “ACK ACK ACK”. This is the Malochia or Evil Eye. Then you give the Devil’s curse and say “SIX SIX SIX, number of the beast.”
This is all followed by the ultimate sports curse from the movie Caddyshack. This is simple in that you just say “Noonan!!”
Put it all together and you have a very powerful curse. In this case, the Curse of Michael Buble!!!.
“ACK ACK ACK!! SIX SIX SIX! Number of the Beast! NOONAN!!”
And what has happened so far?
2011 – They lost in game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals.
2012 – They were a one seed and lost in 5 games to the lowly 8th seeded Los Angeles Kings.
2013 – They were a 3 seed and lost in 4 straight to the 6th seeded San Jose Sharks.
I am going to anxiously wait by the phone for Mr. Buble’s phone call telling me Vancouver’s bandwagon (if they ever make the finals) is big enough for all of Canada….Provided they are not playing another Canadian team that is.
For those long time followers of this site, you know that I have had my ons and offs with low carb diets having very good success with them for controlling blood sugar levels, cholesterol levels and dropping a few lbs when needed. Well I miss bread. So I have done some digging and have come up with what I call a very passable recipe for buns that have:
No sugary carbs
No cholesterol
No gluten
No fuss.
The recipe is a mixture of three others that I found online, and I have tried to come up with a configuration that works well and here is a pretty good pass at it. (I may tweek this if adjustments work better than this configuration)
Ingredients: (makes approx. eight (2 to 3 inch) dinner rolls)
1 cup ground almond flour (blanched)
2 TBSP ground Psyllium Husk flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp sea salt
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
3 egg whites
2/3 cup boiling water
1) Preheat oven to 350F. Start your kettle of water to boil. Grease a cookie sheet.
2) Mix almond flour, psyllium husk flour, baking powder and salt in a mixing bowl with a mixer. (I use plastic hollow paddles and not the usual metal crosses)
3) Make sure your water is at a boil before starting this step as it will be needed quickly. Mix the egg whites and vinegar in with the dry goods and keep mixing. It will start to solidify but it will be clumpy at this point.
4) Pour in the boiling water while you continue to mix. Within 10 or 15 seconds of mixing, it will become a very sticky dough mixture. For me it slides off the paddles quite easily but will stick to your hands quite a bit.
5) break into small clumps of about 1/2 inch high and 1.5 or 2 inch diameter and place onto cookie sheet spread out.
6) Immediately put into oven on the bottom rack for 55 or 60 minutes.
I took them out, broke one open with my thumbs and picture is below. Some soft butter and a knife were close at hand for a pleasurable snack. The rest I am keeping for Easter dinner and a few to bring to work tomorrow.
NOTE: I tried making a bigger loaf of this but the inside simply does not cook as well as the smaller versions.
Pictures and nutritional information are below based on plugging the ingredients into a Fitday.com calculator.
Buns On Tray (click to enlarge)Cracked Open Bun. Beautiful Air Pockets (click to enlarge)
Nutritional Info (click to enlarge)More Nutritional Info (click to enlarge)
Watching March Madness with another tasty little treat. This porter from Great Lakes Brewing Company is nice, dark, coffee and toffee overtones. Reminds me a bit of Young’s Double Chocolate Stout. I bought it for the name. I will buy it again because it’s good. And how good you ask?? Well after 1463 ratings at ratebeer.com it has a score of 99/100 overall and 100/100 in style. Yowza. There are not many that can beat this puppy!!!!
