NHL Considers Realignment

Only in Canada would this be a major news story :)

NHL weighs major changes

Christmas Tree Back in Court House

Attorney general enters holiday fir fight

Jesus Found!!!!

In the same day my mother found Jesus and her church. Earlier this week my mother was putting up Christmas decorations. She went to put up the manger scene and found that baby Jesus was missing. She said "whats the point of a manger scene without Jesus". And she's right Jesus is the reason for the season. OF course after consulting a noted blog writier she found baby Jesus. He was already in the manger scene hiding behind the hay loft. And in the same day mother also found her church scene (Joe was cleaning the up stairs and had managed to move everything around). Now all we need to do is put up the Christmas tree and we can have Christmas. :)

Justin Trudeau... A future PM

The Liberal Party is starting to look ahead (instead of behind them at there past failures). The party can only improve with the election of Dion. I heared the speeches on friday night on CBC Radio. Justin Trudeau opened for Kennedy. He is a skilled orator, and speech maker. One radio analysis said that if you closed your eyes you could almost hear his father talking. Afterall I'm sure everyone agree that under Trudeau's guidance Canada was better off :).
In regards to the Liberal leadership results, Harper needs to be careful against Dion. Dion is a fresh face, and possess battle scares from promoting Canadian unity in the 1995 referendum in Quebec. It was interesting to see that his supporters wore green scarfs at the convention. This possibly symbolized his connection to the Kyoto Accord (well, he did name his dog after the accord, so he must be serious about the environment and what the accord can offer).

Liberal Leadership

The Accountant Perspective, after endorsing the Democrats in the US election will step out on a limb and endorse the next Libereal Prime Minister of Canada. Stephane Dion is the best canadidate that the Liberals can hope for, he is from Quebec, can speak some English and he is also just left of centre in the political ideology spectrum. He reminds me of Jean Chretien, when he first took the lead of the Liberals in the early 1990's. Dion will have to work on his English for the rest of Canada, but he should fair fine in the next election. With the Liberals on a surprise rise in the polls, they could win a February election. Dion is the only leadership candidate that can keep them ahead of the Convervatives. Kennedy has no federal experience, Rae may not fair to well in Ontario and Quebec (key areas that he must win), and Ignatieff is too Republican to fair well in Canada (I don't know why he didn't join the Conservatives). Ignatieff's comment that every young person should do a tour of duty in a foreign country has not been too popular. In closing Dion will win the leadership race and be the next Prime Minister of Canada. The government is Harper's to loose, and Dion's to gain.

Canada to be debt free by 2021?

Its a nice proposition for the Conservative government. But with the federal portion of Canada's looming national debt being $480 billion that's 32 billion dollars a year.

There appears to be a misconception about the debt reduction. Evidently the debt will not include amounts owed against the Canadian Pension or Quebec Pension Plans. Which in the words of Liberal leader Billy Graham "is manageable". The calculation involves calculating net debt. Which means taking all liabilities and subtracting the governments assets. The value of the CPP is around 98 billion. I'm not sure what the value of the QPP is. But as you can see the overall debt reduction strategy is marginalized with the offset of net pension assets. This makes the debt reduction payments just undo 20 billion versus 32 billion. Its still a significant portion of the taxpayer's coin... But in the long run it will save your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grandchildren money a few years into the future. :)

World's biggest rubber band ball

Steve Milton, of Eugene, Oregon, created the ball out of more than 175,000 rubber bands.
Guinness accepted it as a record breaker after it tipped the scales at 4,594lbs at a Chicago weigh-in.

BLESSÈD BE THE NAME

All praise to Him Who reigns above
In majesty supreme,
Who gave His Son for man to die,
That He might man redeem!

Blessèd be the Name! Blessèd be the Name!
Blessèd be the Name of the Lord!
Blessèd be the Name! Blessèd be the Name!
Blessèd be the Name of the Lord!

His Name above all names shall stand,
Exalted more and more,
At God the Father’s own right hand,
Where angel hosts adore.

Refrain

Redeemer, Savior, Friend of man
Once ruined by the fall,
Thou hast devised salvation’s plan,
For Thou hast died for all.

Refrain

His Name shall be the Counselor,
The mighty Prince of Peace,
Of all earth’s kingdoms Conqueror,
Whose reign shall never cease.

Refrain

Words: Wil­liam H. Clark; re­frain add­ed by
Ralph E. Hud­son

My Mother's Cats

My Mom, took this picture of all her cats. The seem to like sitting on the furnace. It must be the hot steam coming from the heating system.

People are Crazy...PS3 Released

PS3 was released and promptly sold out. I can't imagine anyone wanting a game or whatever it is, at a costs of over $600.

There is one thing I would like to point out. According to newspaper reports, there were shootings and muggings in the USA, but in Canada people stood in an orderly straight line patiently waiting for the retail doors to open.

I guess Canadians have learned a lot more about having patience. It must come from having the USA as a neighbour :)

Whatever the reason, Canadians do appear to be more well-behaved and liked in the world. Maybe its because we don't say anything that might offend someone else. An execption being a recent, post made before the American election.

Reader's Digest Sold

Read about the Reader's Digest sale in the TorontoStar

Sanders first Face seen from Space

KFC has the honor to be the first brand to be visible from outer-space, according to company officials. The 87,500 square feet logo was created by tiles placed in the Nevada desert, near the super secret Area 51. The stunt marks the revamp of the KFC logo, which now features a more streamlined image of Colonel Sanders.

Giuliani tests presidency waters

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has taken a key step towards running in the 2008 US presidential election.

Tis a Glorious Church

Do you hear them coming, brother,

Thronging up the steeps of light,

Clad in glorious shining garments,

Blood washed, garments pure and white?

Refrain

’Tis a glorious church without spot or wrinkle,

Washed in the blood of the Lamb;

’Tis a glorious church without spot or wrinkle,

Washed in the blood of the Lamb.

Do you hear the stirring anthems,

Filling all the earth and sky,

’Tis a grand, victorious army,

Lift its banner up on high!

Refrain

Never fear the clouds of sorrow,

Never fear the storms of sin.

We shall triumph on the morrow,

Even now our joys begin.

Refrain

Wave the banner, shout His praises,

For our victory is nigh!

We shall join our conqu’ring Savior,

We shall reign with Him on high!

Refrain

-- Ralph E. Hud­son

Jesus as Santa Claus?

This advertisment was in the paper last week. I think its just a advertisment from the United Church to make people think of the reason for the season.

November 11

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved, and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

-John McCrae

Spectacular storm rages on south pole

The dark eye of the "hurricane" spans about 8000 kilometres and is surrounded by rings of clouds that tower about 30 to 75 kilometres above it.
"It looks like a hurricane, but it doesn't behave like a hurricane," says Andrew Ingersoll, a member of Cassini's imaging team at Caltech in Pasadena, US. "Whatever it is, we're going to focus on the eye of the storm and find out why it's there."

It is unclear how long the storm has been there because Cassini has never before seen the pole at such a high resolution. And scientists are still puzzling over how it formed.

8,000-calorie burger

The Quadruple Bypass Burger has four slabs of beef weighing 2lbs, three cheese layers, four bacon rashers, lettuce and tomato.

The Heart Attack Grill in Tempe, Arizona, has wheelchairs to carry customers out of the restaurant.

Customers can also order the smaller Triple Bypass Burger and Flatliner fries cooked in pure lard.

A spokesman said: "You have to be a real man to dine here."

Study finds facial expressions are inherited

Scientists have found that family members share a facial expression “signature”—a unique form of the universal facial expressions encountered worldwide. In a rare study taking into account blind subjects, Gili Peleg, et al. have discovered that family members were identified by their facial expressions 80% of the time, giving scientific support to the observation that a child “has his mommy’s smile.”

Canada Not too Corrupt

The corruption perceptions index (CPI) published by Transparency International places Canada 14th on the list for the least corrupt country. Sadly our American friends are way back in 20th spot, only 140 spots ahead of Iraq. Isn't it good to leave in a almost corrupt free state, not like some of those other states that appear to disenfrancise their citizens. I guess in the least corrupt states, they have more bureaucrats to hide the corrupt nature of their politics while those less fortunate countries on the bottom of the index are more transparent. Long live the Dominion!!

(Domion of Canada, for those who don't remember their Canadian history, i guess its an inside joke)