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  1. Walter

    How the GW myth is perpetuated

    http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0811-nasa_snafu.html Revised top 10 lists.
  2. Walter

    How the GW myth is perpetuated

    1934 didn't have any SUV's as far as I know. Most people did use coal or wood to heat their homes though.
  3. Walter

    How the GW myth is perpetuated

    Challenging the Cult of Environmental Disaster function createQString(s) { return escape(s);}var Heading = "Challenging%20the%20Cult%20of%20Environmental%20Disaster";var tempTitle = createQString(Heading);var Title = "&t="+tempTitle; August 8, 2007 By Ed Iverson The Cult of Environmental...
  4. Walter

    How the GW myth is perpetuated

    Please post when it happens; but not before.
  5. Walter

    How the GW myth is perpetuated

    New View of Global Warming: Hoax or Herding? 7/27/2007 11:57:02 AM Bob Prechter discussed how social herding seems to be leading to social hysteria over global warming in his June Elliott Wave Theorist. That article brought cries of outrage from some readers. As he puts it in his July...
  6. Walter

    How the GW myth is perpetuated

    Abnormally Cold Temperatures in Texas Threaten Cotton Crop By Noel Sheppard | August 4, 2007 - 11:59 ET If summer heat and drought were jeopardizing crops in the Midwest, would a climate change obsessed media be having a field day (pun intended) reporting the news whilst connecting it to...
  7. Walter

    Drying Laundry

    EDITORIAL TheStar.com - comment - The beauty of laundry The beauty of laundry Jul 31, 2007 04:30 AM In many places in Ontario, it is against the law to hang laundry out to dry. It has been that way for years due to neighbourhood covenants introduced by developers and residents hung up over...
  8. Walter

    Worst Canadian

    It couldn't happen to a more deserving person. http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/July2007/30/c2201.html
  9. Walter

    Jobs with no future

    I rarely go to a bank anymore. Bank tellers will be like the blacksmith pretty soon.
  10. Walter

    The Price is Right

    Rumour has it that Drew Carey will be the new host.
  11. Walter

    How the GW myth is perpetuated

    Al Gore's movie was anything but cold, hard facts. It is mostly about what might happen in the extreme, distant future.
  12. Walter

    How the GW myth is perpetuated

    A Word About Consensus "Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're...
  13. Walter

    How the GW myth is perpetuated

    Why let facts get in the way? By FRED WARD Monday, Jul. 16, 2007 IN JUNE THE New Hampshire Union Leader published a story "At mount (Cannon), talk is about global warming." This article quoted some participants making statements like "winters with less snow and more rain," without specific...
  14. Walter

    Which stocks have done well for you?

    Bought Mackenzie Financial years ago. It paid a nice dividend and appreciated very well. It was bought out for a good premium. I kept the stock and now it is IGM and still performing. Wish all my purchases were as sage.
  15. Walter

    Summer of the Gun II

    3 dead in overnight violence 11-year-old boy gunned down at birthday party By Sun Media Three people are dead, including an 11-year-old boy, after a spate of violent incidents throughout the city overnight. The 11-year-old boy was at his cousin's birthday party on Sheppard Ave. W. near Jane...
  16. Walter

    Kids are off to camp

    Both my children are off to camp tomorrow. One will be gone for 2 weeks canoeing with the Girl Guides through Algonquin and the other will be gone for 1 week on a hike with the church camp through Algonquin. They enjoy their camp experiences and we have a lot of wilderness in Canada where...
  17. Walter

    Port Dover, Friday the 13th

    My neighbour hopped on his bike early this morning and headed for Port Dover along with thousands of others riding their Hogs. What is it that they do there?
  18. Walter

    Orange Day

    Happy Orange Day.
  19. Walter

    Live Earth

    I'd prefer to watch a Wagnerian opera or listen to Chanticleer sing a few tunes than to listen to a lot of 3 chord music for 24 hours. The concert will probably be a yawner. I'm sure Skuzuki and Gore will call it a success, though
  20. Walter

    Dominion Day

    The word dominion gave July 1 a lot more meaning. Turdeau(sic) was a revisionist.