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Some members have expressed an interest in astronomy and telescopes. My son and I have been amateur astronomers for quite a few years now. During that time we had a variety of different telescopes. I currently have a couple small refractors and an older Meade 7" Maksutov reflector. Doc...

This lady probably makes the most beautiful e-cards out there. We have some friends who have a membership and they send us these cards on birthdays, Christmas, etc. Each year I promise myself I will sign up but my procrastination seems to get the better of me. Meanwhile, you can look at all...

Here is a link to Cloudeight Internet where you can get an add-on to Firefox that makes it appear as Internet Explorer to those sites that try to be I.E. only sites. http://tinyurl.com/ywnhj5

B.C. government just spent $200,000.00 on a party for German ferry bulders. They have also announced that ferry fares are going up again. http://tinyurl.com/37fett

The world's top greenhouse gas polluters, including the United States, have a "special responsibility" to produce fewer emissions, U.S. President George W. Bush said Friday, amid growing international pressure for the countries to accept binding targets on reducing emissions. Bush told...

Canada 'September 20, 2007 12:00:00 AM MDT')); Wednesday, September 19, 2007 Canadian dollar reaches parity with staggering U.S. greenback THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - The Canadian dollar reached parity with the U.S. dollar...

None Dare Call It Genocide Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.... Well, it's about time that we think about the numbers, even though the US military has decided that body counts are not worth their time. Opinion Research Business, a highly reputable polling firm in the UK, has just completed a detailed...

The loonie's strong flight continued Tuesday night as it crept above 99 cents US in overnight trading after North American markets closed. Earlier, it had closed in regular trading above 98 cents US for the first time since Jan. 25, 1977. The Canadian dollar gained 1.36 cents to close in...

The following link is to a slide show of what I think is one of the prettiest aircraft ever built The CL-13.........Everyone would know it better as the F-86. Canadair built about 1800 of these, all but the first fifty had Canadian Orenda engines. Canada sold these aircraft to Britain, West...

Java Ribs 4 Racks pork back ribs (about 6-8 lbs) Sauce ingredients 2 tbsps instant coffee 1 cup catsup 1 cup beef stock 1 medium onion chopped 1/2 cup Packed brown sugar 2 tsp Each chili powder and paprika 1/2 tsp Each cinnamon and ginger Two tablespoons instant cofee powder 2 tbsp...

Mattel announces yet another major recall Associated Press September 4, 2007 at 9:54 PM EDT NEW YORK — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in co-operation with Mattel Inc., announced late Tuesday that it is recalling about 700,000 Chinese-made toys that have excessive amounts of...

Two large right feet found on Georgia Strait beaches 'Finding one foot is like a million to one odds, but to find two is crazy' RCMP corporal's 'best guess is that they are from missing persons' Sunny Freeman, Vancouver Sun Published: Friday, August 31, 2007 The forensic...

Acquittal, but not innocence, likely for Truscott Sentenced to death in 1959 for the murder of a 12-year-old, there is no avenue for the Canadian legal system to declare him innocent...

Saturday, August 25, 2007 Six dead, 20 injured after vehicle plows into a wedding celebration in Abbotsford ABBOTSFORD, B.C. (CP) - Six people are dead and up to 20 are injured after a pick-up truck plowed through a group of people leaving a pre-wedding celebration...

The AVRO Arrow would still perform with the best if we had one. At the time, there was nothing to touch it. When the Arrow was scrapped I made a promise to pee on either Diefenbaker or his grave....alas I haven't yet done either. If you compare the performance with any of the aircraft listed...

http://www.randonneurs.bc.ca/rocky/photo-pages_2004/073.html http://www.dsphotographic.com/g2/canada/albertabadlands/hoodoos/Hoodoos+-+003.jpg.html Wheat field in Saskatchewan Niagara Falls Quebec City Bay Of Fundy...At high tide these people would be fifty feet under water.

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I've run across several stories about poor water services in Bagdad, as well as with stories about how the power grid is getting worse. What some of the press are saying is that under Saddam these services were allowed to deteriorate. BULL! Both the water purification plants and the power...

Russia plants flag staking claim to Arctic region Comments (117) Friday, August 3, 2007 | 09:14 AM ET A...

Visitors to Google Earth put Nanaimo on map HAYLEY MICK AND SIRI AGRELL From Monday's Globe and Mail...