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Hundreds rally at Texas state capitol building to protest TSA threat to blockade Texas airports It would seem the war to impose the federal police state in America has begun. After a unanimous 138-0 vote in the Texas legislature to ban TSA searches that border upon sexual abuse the federal govt...

So the catholic church annouced the results of a $1.8 million study today that says the cultural climate of the 60's & 70's was responsible for all the sexual abuse in the church and it had nothing to do with homosexuality or the celibate lifestyle of the priests. John Jay report: Key...

Thanks. If you only knew how many tries it took to get the pics with the waves creating spouts you would laugh. I think it was about 50 tries to get this one pic. Sunset Point. This one took about an hour and still didn't get the greatest quality. Sunset Point from a distance.

So here is my try using tinypic.com. Between Cox Bay and Chesterman Beach Sunset over Cox Bay Surf's up!

Thanks for the help guys, I don't use flickr so I will try the tinypic thing.

You must like the one with the surfers in the snow then. I will try to dig out a few more. Can you tell me how to embed them instead of attaching them?

I don't know how to embed them in the post so I had to do them as attachments.

Some very cool pics Durka. Looks like you have quite a high quality camera. Here are a few of mine from the west coast around Tofino.

Ron Paul, the self pronounced libertarian and constitutionalist has announced he will be running for the replican nomination for president in the 2012 election. Considering his major competition at this point is Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin what are his chances of getting the nomination and...

So here we go again. Every year there is major flooding along the mississippi river and in Manitoba. Is this really news? We know it happens every spring as it has happened for hundreds of years in the natural couse of nature itself so why are we all surprised and why is this such a big news story?

So it looks like the date is set on June 24th for the referendum on the HST in BC. Now Libs and Cons alike are calling for repayment of the $1.6 billion given to implement the harmonization. The NDP position seems to be that since the HST was actually instituted and the money was spent on...

Ok, so now Osama Bin Laden is apparently dead. So is this another phony "mission Accomplished" announcement or is it really done? Is the USA and the western world safer today? Will this lead to a pullout of troops from Afghanistan? Will this lead to any progress towards peace in the middle east...

I just finished watching this show on knowledge network and there were some pretty big name economists and financial industry big-wigs going through the factors involved in the 2008 meltdown and exposing how those same factors are still there and are about to create an even bigger meltdown in...

Two young ladies were removed from a Harper rally yesterday for the expressed reason that one had a picture on facebook of herself with Michel Iggniateff at a Liberal rally. She has stated that she was undecided on who to vote for and wanted to hear all the leaders before making her choice. The...

On Saturday March 26th, 2011 approximately 400,000 people from all walks of life gathered in central London to protest major spending cuts by the governmnet aimed at the poor and working class. The protest was initiated by a group called UKuncut whose platform revolves around some major...

According to the new bill C-32 about to be enacted into law by the federal government it will become illegal in Canada to use peer to peer sharing websites anywhere in Canada no matter where they are hosted. The bill will also make it law for the ISP's to monitor and report any such use to the...

Is there any other country in the world that has produced as many cheeses as Britain?

This has to be the cheesiest topic on here with the cheesiest comments.

Swiss...definitely..just wish it was more cheese and less holes.

There has been much disscussion recently on electoral reform and how to change the voting system but this is all moot under our present situation because it does not matter how we elect our government if, once elected, they are not responsible to the people who elect them. As an example. If...