The Hunter

The first song I ever heard by them was called matchstick man. Thats going back a long time, but the early days are always a good place to start.

Veteran rock group Status Quo have had more hit singles than any other band in UK chart history, according to research published by Guinness World Records. The band has scored 61 chart successes, dating from Pictures of Matchstick Men in 1968 to You'll Come Around in 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4259312.stm

Better believe it. Shoppers Drug Mart, the country's largest drugstore chain, Wal-Mart Canada and a slew of other stores have entered into agreements to stock their shelves, coast to coast, with a new line of sex toys, discreetly called "sexual well-being products." The move is especially surprising for Wal-Mart, which doesn't sell video games rated "adult-only" and recently removed a magazine from one of its stores after a customer complained that it was too sexual. But Wal-Mart Canada spokesman Kevin Groh said the product line is a good fit, as the company caters to the Canadian mainstream and, as such, carries products that reflect mainstream tastes. He added, however, that some of Wal-Mart's customers will undoubtedly disapprove. "It would be naive of us to think every product we stock would meet the approval of every single customer in the store." http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...Story/National/

When I first saw the title of this thread with her name, I thought it had something to do with pubic lice, instead of public life. Although for her they are probably one and the same.

Did you get Unite the cows yet?

Not offhand bud, but Im sure some of these fine folks will be glad to help you out.

If you dont mind, Im going to copy/paste a post by Gambit20011 from zeropaid. He also posted this at other sites. Any problem with this just delete it. The RealGambit20011 to confirm Methlabs.org was comandeered I am posting this message to officially resign from any affiliation of Methlabs.org. It is true the forums were stolen from D3f, the rightful owner, and so with that said I am leaving to side with D3f. Any further use of the name Peerguardian2 under this site is fraud as the license belongs to Cory Nelson along with the name and original version created by Method. I am sorry to bear the facts negotiations are no longer possible after Cerberius has commandeered the domain METHLABS.ORG from D3f. I can be found at irc://irc.freenode.net/methlabs & http://peerguardian.sf.net/ along with the true founders and supporters of the Peerguardian project. I am truly saddened that negotiations between D3f and Cerberius are no longer possible, as Cerberius has excommunicated him. PS- My name as well as Fox's were added to that official release of Methlabs.org without our consent. As obvious by the typo, I did not add my name to that site nor do i condone what Cereberius has done.

Holding at $1.17 a litre here, or about $4.68 Canadian a gallon. Just filled the wifes little 4 cyl Ranger for $30. It was at 1/4 of a tank.

Same old thing here. Taking dad shopping, and going to visit Mom in the home. Although we have a tropical storm thrown into the mix starting overnite, complete with rainfall, and wind warnings.

No supprise to me. Its called covering your ass, although I think its way too late for that.

Its probably the dope, and his favorite reading material that has him so fucked up.

Something really smells here. Sort of a shitty business all around. :bigsmile:

If thats figured in US funds, that would probably be about $7 Canadian. As it is with me being disabled, and the wife now driving 60 miles a day, at $9 an hour, I dont know how we are going to make it through the winter. That and the fact that she is self employed, with no Unimployment Insurance, and is soon going to be layed off in an area with high unemployment, it aint looking good.

Im not sure if this has been posted before, if it has someone can delete it. Graft in depth; Firms with White House ties get Katrina contracts; WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President Bush's former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast. One is Shaw Group Inc. and the other is Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root. Vice President Dick Cheney is a former head of Halliburton. Bechtel National Inc., a unit of San Francisco-based Bechtel Corp., has also been selected by FEMA to provide short-term housing for people displaced by the hurricane. Bush named Bechtel's CEO to his Export Council and put the former CEO of Bechtel Energy in charge of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. More here: http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/10...reut/index.html

Dropped another 4 cents a litre here, or about 16 cents a gallon. Its now around $1.25 a litre, or "brace yourself" $5 a gallon.

What the goverment has to do is implement pice controls, as the oil companies profitts are way up, and they are simply gouging. For starters they always raise the prices here for the Labour Day weekend, and Katrina was an excuse to give us a bigger hit.

Washington — President George W. Bush thanked Canada on Friday for helping the countless U.S. victims of hurricane Katrina, an expression of gratitude that stood in contrast to his failure to acknowledge Canadian assistance in the days after Sept. 11. “Canada has sent ships with disaster supplies,” the president said in televised comments during the swearing-in for Karen Hughes, the State Department's new undersecretary for public diplomacy. “Air Canada's planes assisted in the evacuation.” http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...9/BNStory/Front

Very well put, and every night it is being driven home even more. I personally see a failure at all levels, right from the busses not being moved to a bunch of federal dipshits that dont even watch tv.

I have been following the hurricane Katrina disaster very closely, and the attack by the media on politicians shocked me, as Im not used to such a responce fron the US media. Have you noticed the same thing, and if so, why do you think it is? Have the media finally got some balls, or are they more like a dog that has found a bone that tastes good? IE, gee we can really milk this for some ratings, or is it more like, we are are really sick of the BS, and are going to find out what happened. going by some of the reports I have been watching I suspect it is a bit of both, but mostly the latter. Reasoning behind this is because the press has had the total failures of the system shoved in their faces day after day, and they finally also want answers. They were reporting on the problems, while the goverment said there was no problem. Does the goverment not watch the news? Or are too used to making the news to even bother watching?

Diesel is about .22 a liter cheaper than gas here, and thats with gas dropping .09 a Litre, or about .36 a US gallon. Gas is $1.30 a litre now, but it hit $1.51 over the weekend.

Great news Mal, and it couldnt have happened to a nicer person. :good job:

Although I have been making an effort to get away from this topic, and just post news articles. I fully believe calling it a blame game is not truly the way it should be expressed. IMHO, when the commander in chief appoints incompetent people, or his conies do the same thing who is to blame? Well when the same shit happens in a company, it quite often is the CEO that gets the axe. Although impeaching GW Bush right now would only complicate matters, it should remain a viable option in the near future.

Out of the bad comes some good. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...Story/National/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4216142.stm

Multiple failures caused relief crisis The breakdown of the relief operation in New Orleans was the result of multiple failures by city, state and federal authorities. There was no one cause. The failures began long before the hurricane with a gamble that a Category Four or Five hurricane would not strike New Orleans. They continued with an inadequate evacuation plan and culminated in a relief effort hampered by lack of planning, supplies and manpower, and a breakdown in communications of the most basic sort. On top of all this, there is the question of whether an earlier intervention by President Bush could have a made a big difference. The planning Before Hurricane Katrina struck, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) was confident that it was ready. Its director, Michael Brown, said: "Fema has pre-positioned many assets including ice, water, food and rescue teams to move into the stricken areas as soon as it is safe to do so." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4216508.stm