Skewed science

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Watch the Monk Debate on Climate Change

Jim Prentice, Minster of Enviroment: Taking a measured approach in Copenhagen

Lawrence Solomon: Australia ditches cap and trade in Climategate’s aftermath

Australian Senate Rejects Climate Change Bill

The Liberals try to campaign on the enviroment….Again

…..but it burned up on November 6.  We were at the cottage. After using the Ranger to cart away all the leaves, Tracey and Nathan decided to take it for a spin. At the last moment, mom convinced them to take the cell phone. We got a call from them, “The Ranger is on fire!”  Opa, Dad and I rushed to the scene of the fire in Opa’s truck.  Opa tried to put out the fire with a fire extinguisher but it didn’t work.  All the things that could burn did, as you can see on the photos. Here are some pictures of the event.  The pictures were taken on a cell phone and my mom’s camera.

Before- Using the Ranger to clean up our leaves

Quite the blaze

Tons of smoke- half our Ranger is in the atmosphere

Putting out the fire

A tanker, pumber, fire ambulance, and a pick-up truck that first arrived on the scene, came to our rescue. The OPP also paid a visit.

Not much left

Polaris was informed about the fire.....they didn't even care or do anything. So much for customer service.

Here is some more pictures.  This time it is landscape pictures of Quebec City and surrounding areas.  I know it may not be as exciting as the other pictures but enjoy!

Today we remember the many sacrifices Canadian soldiers paid in order for us and others across the globe to receive their freedom.  Here is a poem written by my cousin Sarah, that she recently submitted to the Royal Canadian Legion Literacy Contest,   in commemoration of this day.  She said I was allowed to publish it so here it is:

Remembrance Day Meditation

 

Our heads we bow as here we stand,

The clock is striking o’er the land;

Now is the time, here is the place,

To reflect on what brave men have faced.

Some did survive, we know not how,

Of this we think while heads we bow.

Those troops who heeded the calling drum

fought for our country and freedom.

 

The battlefield, blood soaked and charred

 “O, Canada, we stand on guard”

Oh this our beloved country-

Canada! “The True North Strong and Free”

Look at the poppy crimson bold

The crest of courage legends hold;

We did not do this on our own,

Without God’s help we’d be overthrown.

 

Now listen to the trumpet clear,

Remember those throughout the year

In rain or sleet, through cold or heat,

They will both fight, on foot and fleet.

As in this day and in this year,

Take time to shed a thankful tear,

We Canadians have a great debt,

Both great and small, Lest We Forget.

Yesterday four by-elections took place, one in Nova Scotia, two in Quebec and one in BC.   Before the members stepped down, the riding in BC was NDP, the ones in Quebec were Bloc and the one in Nova Scotia was independent.  Officially the Conservatives expected to win none of the ridings, however they won two.   They won big in Nova Scotia and took a riding in Quebec, proving they can win there as well.   The Bloc took the other Quebec riding with a large majority.   The NDP won the BC riding.  The best the Liberals did was third place in all four elections.   The party that did the worst last night was the Liberals, showing that they were no where close to winning, a far cry from the “natural governing party” they once were.  Even though they got a seat in BC, the NDP hopes of winning in Quebec and NS fell through.   The Bloc showed they still dominated in one riding, but were surprisingly defeated in another.   The Conservatives were the winners last night, taking in two seats that they previously did not have.  They showed that they can win in Quebec, a skill needed for a majority government.  Overall, even though they didn’t get the BC riding, the CPC did the best.

Here is a collage of some more pictures I took in Quebec that I randomly picked out of my hundreds of pictures.  In case you can’t figure out what the picture in the bottom right hand corner is, I will tell you.  It’s the shadow of the bridge over the Chute de Montmorency against the upper part of the falls.  If you look closely you can see one of the shadows of the people on the bridge waving; thats Cameron and I’m standing right beside him.

Last week Sunday evening Pastor Lewis did a speaker evening for our young peoples at our church (Hamilton Free Reformed Church).   The topic was on “Old Paths Paved.”  In his lecture, Pastor Lewis showed the errors of the evangelical movement and gave reasons why we should stay in the Reformed church.   He was once an evangelical pastor so his words had more power than if it had come form a pastor that had always been Reformed.  Here is a link to his lecture.  Take a listen.

http://kerugma.solideogloria.com/2009/11/walking-in-old-paths.html

Here are some more pictures I took.  The theme of this “photo essay” is the Roman Catholic Church.  Included in the pictures are the candles.  These were in almost all of the Catholic churches we visited and if you paid $4.00 you could “buy a prayer,” a similar idea to indulgences from the Reformation times.  You can also see the statues of the saints and the benches on which you can kneel down to pray to the saints.  You can see a picture of the largest church, a small country church, a church that burnt down a few times and one of the oldest churches.

 

Lately there has been a big fuss about the Canadian Seal Hunt.  These are commercial hunts of seal done every year by the aboriginals and the people living in the east in order to harvest pelts and food.  However because of the risk of offending the Inuit, the animal rights groups like PETA and Humane Society only target the Atlantic seal hunt.  The anti-seal hunt people are full of hypocrisy.   They call the seal hunt a “slaughter of poor, innocent baby seals.”    They call on everyone to boycott Canadian seafood.  They even had a bunch of famous chefs gather in Washington, DC, to support their cause.   The population of seals in Atlantic Canada is 5.6 million and the quota of seals that can be killed for 2009 is 280,000.  Thats 5% of the seal population.  If the anti-hunt groups really care about innocent and helpless animals being slaughtered, why don’t they enlist the chefs’ help for combating the slaughter of pigs.  I’m sure more than 5% of that population is slaughtered per year.  Or, better still, they should support global warming because if the arctic ice melts, the polar bears, who need the ice to hunt seals will die and the seals will not be killed by polar bears and therefore we can save the seals.   The seal hunt provides the fishermen a source of money in the long winter months when fishing is not possible.   The allegations that the seals are killed inhumanely are also false.  The seals are killed right away and not skinned alive.  The government monitors the hunt and makes sure that no laws are broken.  Finally the hunters are not even allowed to kill whitecoats.  A whitecoat is the white baby seal you see in pictures put forward by anti-seal hunt groups.  The use these pictures to promote the idea that he hunt is evil even though those seals are not actually killed.  Lets not cave into pressure like Russia did.  Stand up for Canada and support the Canadian seal hunt.