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I've always enjoyed Bill Cosby as a comedien but here he speaks absolute common sense, and something that has needed saying for a long time MySpace.com Blogs - CAFFEINE BOMB MySpace Blog

Animation of Hudson River Landing.....I was impressed. Pilots did everything right. YouTube - Hudson River Plane Landing (US Airways 1549) Animation with Audio

I have been complaining of late that my computer was slowing down. It was getting to the point where just getting on to the internet would take 3 or 4 minutes. I'm running a 2.6 gigahertz AMD dual core processor that I've had for about a year. It is certainly not the fastest machine but it...

This story was in the Vancouver Sun this morning. 'Special bird' Brian is dead Bald eagle had been fitted with beak prostheses after being shot eight years ago Canwest News Service Published: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Brian, a bald eagle that attracted international attention after it received...

A drunk driving a garbage truck Manslaughter trial set to begin for trucker accused of killing five people in crashat 6:17 on March 9, 2009, EDT. THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY - A trial is set to start Monday for a truck driver charged in a crash that killed five people as they were sitting in a...

My wife and I just watched "Australia" on pay per view. It is one of the best movies I've seen in years. Australia / The Official Movie Website / Starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman

Pancakes have always been a favorite around our house. My daughter used to have three or four friends for a "sleepover", though I don't know when they actually slept. What I do know, is that I used to stand around making pancakes for an hour or more. I had a big cast iron frying pan that...

The CBC's chief correspondent, Peter Mansbridge, sits down with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington on Tuesday. (CBC) The following is a complete transcript of the interview the CBC's chief correspondent, Peter Mansbridge, conducted with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House on...

The following is a baking powder biscuit recipe that is just a bit different.* Ingredients 2 cups all purpose flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons sugar 3/4 cup milk 2 tablespoons vinegar one egg 1/3 cup butter or margarine Directions Sift your two cups of flour into...

84 Australians died in a deadly series of wildfires that wiped out whole towns. In the deadliest fire disaster in Australia's history, towering flames have destroyed entire towns and killed at least 84 people, including some who were burned as they tried to escape by car, authorities said...

U.S. television network switching from analogue to digital on Feb. 17th. We use Shaw cable and last month we bought a little digital box from Shaw. I understand that some networks will still broadcast in analogue until June but it sounds like rooftop antennas are on the way out.....Comments...

Here is a shot of M42 or the Orion Nebula taken in Vancouver a couple nights ago:

YouTube - Timothy Ferriss - How to Peel Hard-boiled Eggs w/o Peeling

Here is a recipe we have used for a few years: Curried Shrimp Ingredients one pound of large, peeled, raw, shrimp one medium white onion chopped one large clove of garlic crushed and finely chopped one medium red bell pepper finely chopped one can chunk light tuna including the juice two...

I haven't had a spyware remover program for quite a while. A few years ago I used Addaware, which was a free program from a company called lavasoft of something close to that. Does anyone know of a good, free, program to get rid of spyware?

I took this 17 pound bird out of the freeze Yesterday. I've been trying to think of something other than just baking it in the oven, We were at our children's house for Christmas so we still have this damn turkey. I have a recipe that calls for the turkey to be hacked up, browned, and...

Immanuel Velikovski, a Russian born psychiatrist, proposed a series of unlikely astronomical events, not the least of which was the ejection of the planet Venus from Jupiter. Now Jupiter has an escape velocity of 59.5 km/sec so the energy needed to spit out Venus would likely have blown the...

The Classic Middle Name It only occurred to me in the early 1990s that "Wayne" was a popular middle name among a few of the most heinous murderers of our time, e.g., the clown John Wayne Gacy (who killed almost three dozen boys and young men in the late 1970s and buried most of them...

The Tories would not neccesarily win. The trend seems to be that the Tories are losing the popular support that may have won them an election a few months back. Liberals neck-and-neck with Tories...

We all OD'd on turkey over Christmas so we cooked a nice big, ham after New Years. Does anyone have a favourite way of preparing a nice country ham? The following is one of our favourite ham recipes. Start with a ten pound, smoked, country ham. Place the ham in a large kettle with a lid and...