Pandemic?

And, so ... it's come to this ...

"Fly little white dove, fly, way up high ..... "

or, not.

Broadsided ...

Dammit! It's not the damage that concerns me ... but the two babies in the backseat of the other vehicle who were traumatized!

Please ... just watch where you're going!!!!!

This is not funny!

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h/t FIU

Nano .... Nano ...

All I can think of are crabs and whoopee cushions.


Anti-virus hardware?


Photos from the "Lloyd's Market"

Open wide ... swallow quick!

Emerging technologies pose some rather tricky questions for the insurance industry. How do you insure something that you cannot see ... let alone, find?

OUTRAGEOUS!!!!

The little punks should be horsewhipped!

Hero beaten
Andrew Seymour, The Ottawa Citizen

A Canadian soldier awarded a Medal of Military Valour for braving enemy fire in Afghanistan is angry after he says was jumped from behind and taunted by four men who beat him up in a Morrisburg bar on the weekend.

Master Cpl. Collin Fitzgerald, who was awarded a Medal of Valour for heroic actions in Afghanistan by Governor-General Michalle Jean on Feb. 19, had his foot broken in three places and needed 10 stitches to close a cut above his right eye. The 27-year-old soldier also suffered a broken nose and two black eyes in the attack, which occurred after midnight Saturday morning.

Master Cpl. Fitzgerald said Monday he had only been in the bar about 20 minutes when he was struck from behind.

"I don't even remember getting hit," he said.

"I went and sat down at one of the tables, and next thing I knew I woke up and a hole in my head and I couldn't walk on my foot," said Master Cpl. Fitzgerald, adding that witnesses told him one of the men said, 'What kind of f--king hero are you now?' as they were being pulled off of him.

"I was just covered in blood. I didn't know what happened to me," he said.

Prior to the assault, Master Cpl. Fitzgerald said he had been at the bar visiting with his fiance's brother Shawn Hitsman and some other childhood friends when he moved to the table.

After coming to, Master Cpl. Fitzgerald said Mr. Hitsman and another friend, Bobby Paradis, helped him up and drove him to the hospital.

OPP Const. Paul Murphy said a 21-year-old Morrisburg man has been charged with aggravated assault. The man has since been released from custody on a promise to appear in court. Since he has yet to appear in court, his name was not released, police said.

Const. Murphy said more charges are expected to be laid against the 21-year-old. Police also expect to lay charges against several other suspects, he said.

After serving eight months in Afghanistan, Master Cpl. Fitzgerald said, "not in a million years" did he expect to be jumped in a Morrisburg bar. He also never expected to be shown such disrespect.

"Ignorance is bliss. They obviously have no idea or any clue what the hell is going on over there," he said. "We weren't just sitting in a camp. We're getting shot at. People are dying. Buddies of mine I've seen get blown up. They really don't have any clue, and they don't know how lucky they have it here in Canada."

Master Cpl. Fitzgerald's mother, Arlene Fitzgerald, said the attack has left her shaken and upset. "He came home in one piece from Afghanistan, and he gets beaten up like this in his own home town," she said. "He just came back from hell."

Master Cpl. Fitzgerald, who is a weapons instructor at CFB Trenton, was one of the first recipients of the Canadian Medal of Military Valour.

According to the Canadian Forces, Master Cpl. Fitzgerald was recognized "for outstanding selfless and valiant actions" carried out on May 24, 2006, during an ongoing enemy ambush "involving intense, accurate enemy fire."

Master Cpl. Fitzgerald "repeatedly exposed himself to enemy fire by entering and re-entering a burning platoon vehicle and successfully driving it off the roadway, permitting the remaining vehicles trapped in the enemy zone to break free."

According to the military, Master Cpl. Fitzgerald's "courageous and completely selfless actions were instrumental to his platoon's successful egress and undoubtedly contributed to saving the lives of his fellow platoon members."

© The Ottawa Citizen 2007

Hmmm ... [Note to self: check with Major John for "Products and Completed Operations" insurance ....]

The Ottawa Citizen [subscription required]

It's time for eco-sex, Greenpeace says
Thanks to eco-undies and healthy sex toys, you can be sexy and Earth-friendly, writes Misty Harris.

You've heard of green cars, green tourism and green weddings. Now Canadians should ready themselves for green sex.

Greenpeace has released a list of strategies for "getting it on for the good of the planet," suggesting "you can be a bomb in bed without nuking the planet."

TreeHugger, an online magazine, has just published a guide on "how to green your sex life." The adult store Good Vibrations announced last week it would no longer sell sex toys containing phthalates, controversial chemical plasticizers believed by some to be hazardous to humans and the environment alike.

And you can buy everything from bamboo sheets to organic lubricant and "eco-undies."

"Green living is getting sexy," says Jacob Gordon, author of TreeHugger.com's recent green guide for the bedroom.

Most environmentalists will agree the mainstream success of the Al Gore film An Inconvenient Truth has helped give climate change a pop-culture sheen. Indeed, global warming is a cause to which everyone from Diesel apparel to Vanity Fair magazine and Starbucks are pinning their marketing efforts.

And if shopping to save the planet is trendy, having sex to clear your conscience is at the cutting edge. "It feels like people are just waking up to the fact the planet is suffering under our uses of it," says Rebecca Denk, business manager for the adult toy store Babeland, which just introduced an "Eco-Sexy Kit" featuring a phthalate-free vibrator, soy massage candle, a natural lubricant with no animal testing or derivatives, and condoms.

Other ways of "greenwashing" the bedroom, as outlined by TreeHugger, include turning out the lights, not buying PVC or vinyl accoutrements, ensuring S&M paddles are made from sustainably harvested timber, using organic massage oils, showering together, using bamboo sheets, and wearing lingerie made with renewable fibres like hemp and bamboo.

Mr. Gordon notes there's even an adult website dedicated to naked vegetarians.

Camille Labchuk, speaking on behalf of the Green party, gives the movement two green thumbs-up. "The general concern for trying to live lightly on our planet has transferred into all areas of people's lives," she says.

The road to Hell is paved with carbon credits .. [updateded]

UPDATED UPDATE: Fascinating!

UPDATE: Hmmmmmmm ... Curiouser.

HOLLYWOOD'S wealthy liberals can now avoid any guilt they might feel for consuming so much non-renewable fossil fuel in their private jets, their SUVs, and their multiple air-conditioned mansions. This year's Oscar goodie bag contained gift certificates representing 100,000 pounds of greenhouse gas reductions from TerraPass, which describes itself as a "carbon offset retailer." The 100,000 pounds "are enough to balance out an average year in the life of an Academy Award presenter," a press release from TerraPass asserts. .... [read the rest]

I was wondering at the arrogance of it all and just who was being bought off, but it looks like they're getting it ... fer free!

Via Kate and Libertas

International loonie ...

The Ottawa Citizen, 28 February 2007

A senior's momentum. Sad.

I'm starting my Christmas list early this year ...

1. stud finder

I love these new Telus ads ...

"CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?"