Bryan

Still not seeing these shortages or rationing here in Winnipeg. Even when I expect to wait, I don't: This past Wednesday afternoon (December 22, 2010), I called my doctor to make an appointment for a non-urgent matter. I was fully expecting to wait a while, no only because this was something that could wait, but especially because this was only a couple of days before Christmas. Instead of having to wait, my doctor did what he usually does: he booked me in for the following morning. I show up right at appointment time, and get called in for my appointment within two minutes.

I already did, go back and read it.

Considering that was the point of the post, yes.

You appear to misunderstand something called reality. We had a downward trend worldwide all year, only to have Jones and Hansen call that an increase. Who is their statistician, George Orwell?

It would be "Dumb" because the last time the coalition was brought up, Harper's approval ratings shot up into the mid-50's. Yes, there are a variety of political opinions all over this country. However, the opinion that a left-wing coalition is anything but a bad thing is held by such a small segment of the population, that it would be a disaster for them if they tried it again. Like I said, I hope they do try it, it would be glorious.

It's a Conservative wet dream that the opposition would start rattling the coalition sabres again. I sincerely hope that they try it, but I can't see them being that dumb.

A already posted a link to that claim from another source (the Economist), but thank you for reinforcing my point.

It was everyone's backyards, all year long. It was the coldest year on record all over the globe, and the AGW hysterians got caught lying, again.

Does it not follow then that papers that generally sound like what the reviewers already believe to be true are essentially green lighted? There doesn't have to be any conspiracy, just a combination of unconscious confirmation bias and too busy to check.

Neither have I.

I'm very surprised that I have to document this. People have incredibly short memories. First, lets Google "2010 record cold" http://www.google.ca/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=2010+record+cold&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=N3oQTe71OpSCsQPOz8HcAg Any of that bring back memories? The daily, weekly, monthly temperatures all around the world, all year long were thousands upon thousands of new records for cold temperatures. Please, tell me you guys are not that brain damaged that you don't remember this, it was the top news story practically daily on even the most left leaning news sources. Those are the points on the graph for 2010: down, down, down. What about about Australia?: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=2010+record+cold+australia&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= Yes, it was the coldest year ever there too. So, what do the usual suspects Hadley-CRU, NOAA, and Goddard announce? http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/12/climate_change That's right, they turn around and tell us that 2010 was the warmest year on record!!!!! Now look again at this chart: http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/original-size/20101211_WOC760.gif Notice how according to Hadley, the hottest temps have supposedly been the last 15 years? Compare that to the interview that Phil Jones (the head of Hadley) gave to the BBC where he admitted that for the past 15 years there had been no statistically significant warming. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html No warming in 15 years, during which time, Jones and his cronies have been bleating non-stop about runaway warming. They knew full well the whole time it wasn't true and they still continued to make the claim. It certainly puts the Climategate emails into perspective where Jones and other CRU members admitted to falsifying data, destroying evidence, rigging the peer-review process, and circumventing the scientific method. Anyone who is paying attention can easily catch them lying. Try keeping track THIS winter. Watch the international news. Right now, all over the world, they are already breaking last winter's records, and are shaping up to have the coldest winter ever recorded, again. Anyone want to bet that at the end of the winter, Hadley will announce that THIS winter will have been one of the warmest on record?

It's not as big of a mistake as some try to claim though. Weather is the point on a graph, climate is the whole graph. The problem is, the pro-AGW crowd doesn't stick to using the real observed numbers. Last winter we had month after month of record cold temperatures all over the world, thousands of records were broken. At the end of the winter, the pro-AGW crowd proclaimed that it had been the HOTTEST winter on record, and their graph didn't look anything like the real weather that we actually had. The real numbers didn't give them the results they liked, so they just changed them. We've got the coldest winter ever already going on AGAIN right now, how much do you want to bet the AGW guys claim warming again at the end of the winter?

#s 2 and 3 are the hallmarks of the pro-AGW hysterians.

If only proclaiming it could make it so.

Unless my cable company supplies me with free boxes for all of my TVs, I won't be upgrading. I'm not opposed to the switch to digital, just the inevitable price gouge on the already way too high cable bill. I'm right on the edge of cancelling cable altogether as it is because the price exceeds the value.

Funny how so many people think that they know what SunTV's programming will and will not be, all without it having begun broadcasting.

You'd be hard pressed to find anything that lies more often than "the numbers".

I'm still happy with our health care system, at least how it is run in Manitoba. I've still never seen most of the things that those who complain are claiming are commonplace. I've never had to search more than five minutes to find a doctor, never had to wait more than a day to get an appointment, never had unreasonable waits at emergency, never had bad service, never been put on a waiting list, always get in to see specialists quickly, always get scheduled for surgery quickly, etc. I'm just not seeing the things people are complaining about. It's not perfect, but nothing is. Sure budgets are strained, but EVERYBODY's budgets are strained these days. The only drastic change I'd like to see is better direct accounting of specifically what funds go to healthcare and how they are used. I don't like that it comes out of general revenues at the whim of the feds, even though the provinces are the ones who have to implement it.

I don't see what the problem is with a 5 plant threshold. That's a lot of pot, plenty for any reasonable personal use. The reason for this kind of specificity, IMO, is to make it easier to make sure something sticks when large scale criminal organizations are brought up on charges.

How old are these police computers that the time difference in searching domestic vs international databases is even measureable?

Interesting to see how much discrepancy there is in gas prices by region. I'm not seeing the kinds of prices you guys are talking about here in Winnipeg. The stations I go to are mostly selling in the 91-95 cents/litre range.

I've known a lot of them. Not that they quit working entirely (they still need to eat), but only work for cash specifically because they don't want to pay the taxes.

This is one of the few cases where the senate actually did what it's supposed to: protect us from bad legislation. Interesting. That's not the first time I've seen reference to the Hansard transcript being different from the raw audio.

Specialty furniture has specialty prices, what's new? It's not as if a table large enough for a meeting like that is available in quantity at the Brick. The table would sell, but not until someone needs it for a similarly sized meeting. That's why a used one was available in the first place. Makes one wonder though, why they wouldn't rent something like this rather than buy it for a two day event.

I wonder where those people are then, because I don't see them at the EDA meetings. Abortion is always a hot button, but other moral issues rarely come up.