Religious Fanatics See Death and Destruction as Divine

What is wrong with mankind? Throughout history he has blamed God for the hatred in his heart. Religion teaches that God creates, yet these men destroy. Certainly they are Satan in the purest sense; the opposite of God. I tried to blame the Islamic religion, but Irish Catholics, Pakistani Hindus and even Burmese Buddhists are all guilty of becoming evil- minded degenerates. No, to me, it is like some self destructive gene that eventually will end mankind unless ordinary people use extra-ordinary courage to overcome these tendencies. We used to rely on law, but even most law everywhere is completely corrupted. So, without individual fortitude, we will never progress off this planet. Rather we will self destruct. 

 Patti Regan stands in front of her house, once the home of Neil Young  Music legend Bob Dylan wanted to see how another rock icon grew up when he was in town earlier this month. Dylan casually pulled up in a cab outside John Kiernan's duplex in River Heights on Nov. 2 prior to a performance at MTS Centre to sneak a peek of the place that Winnipeg-raised music legend Neil Young once called home. "We had just got back from grocery shopping," said Kiernan, 53, a landscape architect, who lives with his partner Patti Regan and his two daughters at their home on Grosvenor Avenue. Kiernan said the family -- who have lived in the home since 2001 -- is used to having Young fans dropping by to see where Young grew up during his Kelvin High School years. But the guys stopping by that day seemed older than the usual curiosity-seekers. "So these guys were standing at the front of the house about to get back into their taxi. I noticed he was wearing these expensive-looking leather pants tucked inside these world-class boots. Then I studied his face and tried to keep cool," said Kiernan, who only then realized one of the curiosity-seekers was Dylan. "He was very articulate and introspective." Eventually, Kiernan invited Dylan -- who was unshaven and had his toque pulled down -- and his associate inside for a quick tour of the two-storey house, where Dylan asked "thoughtful questions" about how much the place had changed since Young lived there. Kiernan showed him Young's old bedroom, which now belongs to his 16-year-old daughter Julie and is painted bright pink. "When he said 'Would Neil have looked out this window when he played his guitar?' I realized what a spiritual experience he was having at that moment, knowing that he would have been doing the same thing at the same time in Minnesota," said Kiernan. Kiernan told Dylan, 67, the only room that would have changed since the 1960s was the kitchen, which has since become a laundry room, and of course the pink paint!

 The Moon Venus and Jupiter on Monday night, Dec. 1st, the three worlds will gather in a patch of sky less than 3^o across. The celestial triangle will be visible around the world, even from light polluted cities. Don't miss it!"The mammoth skewering the Moon is one of dozens of massive sculptures at Galleta Meadows depicting animals that once dominated the desert

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"November has been a good month for auroras," says Serre. "We've had five clear nights and I saw the Northern Lights every time." Serre's home in far-northern Quebec lies under Earth's auroral oval, a glowing ring around the North Pole where auroras are almost constantly active.

MEDIA MARSHMELLOWS

 A recent story by CBC exposed the depth to which the world media sank following George W Bush's assertion that Iraq was “THE AXIS OF EVIL".

A pro-Palestinian gunman fires in the air at a refugee camp , Lebanon  Remember reporters from the NY Times and the Washington Post back in the 60's and 70's. They dug for and exposed the truth. That is how Nixon was impeached. Reporters digging for the truth.  The world media today is sickeningly shallow, parroting the prose of the powerful.  There were no weapons of mass destruction. Politicians and left wing peaceniks were ignored by the press and we all sailed blindly into believing we should flatten Iraq. Which basically we did. The war has cost a trillion bucks and counting. Last year 35,000 Iraqis died by American forces. The overall result is a mushroom cloud, not of nuclear fallout as we were told to fear, but of bitter hatred of the ‘White Alliance’ as third world people lump the offenders and innocent ‘WASP’s’ as their enemy.

The media has basically bailed on the important issue beyond the fact of missing WMD: Who was responsible for the lies? Are they too busy dealing with weightier matters, such as the Michael Jackson or Kobe Bryant sex cases and all the other fluff stories they love to fill your head with? Are they overwhelmed by a bouillabaisse of homeland security stories dished out by the Department of Homeland Security? Or is it possible that "Bush Lied about Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction" is a headline that would be too darned hot to handle? Get out of Iraq you American warlords; you are the true AXIS OF EVIL! You reporters, seek the truth.

This image is a composite of visible (or optical), radio, and X-ray data of the giant elliptical galaxy, M87. M87 lies at a distance of 60 million light years and is the largest galaxy in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. Bright jets moving at close to the speed of light are seen at all wavelengths coming from the massive black hole at the center of the galaxy. It has also been identified with the strong radio source, Virgo A, and is a powerful source of X-rays as it resides near the center of a hot, X-ray emitting cloud that extends over much of the Virgo cluster. The extended radio emission consists of plumes of fast-moving gas from the jets rising into the X-ray emitting cluster medium.In X-rays, M87 also reveals evidence for a series of outbursts from the central supermassive black hole. The loops and bubbles in the hot, X-ray emitting gas are relics of small outbursts from close to the black hole. Other interesting features in M87 are narrow filaments of X-ray emission, which may be due to hot gas trapped by magnetic fields. One of these filaments is over 100,000 light years long, and extends below and to the right of the center of M87 in almost a straight line.

At the center of M81 is a supermassive black hole that is about 70 million times more massive than the Sun. A new study using data from Chandra and ground-based telescopes, combined with detailed theoretical models, shows that the supermassive black hole in M81 feeds just like stellar mass black holes, with masses of only about ten times that of the Sun. This discovery supports the implication of Einstein's relativity theory that black holes of all sizes have similar properties, and will be useful for predicting the properties of a conjectured new class of black holes.

CALGARY -- The break and enter suspect left in critical condition during an arrest earlier this week was not jolted by a Taser and his injuries are mainly self-inflicted, the head of the Calgary police union said yesterday. Mainly self-inflicted means to human rights activists that he damaged his own skull when police repeatedly "placed it on the floor". Calgary Police John Dooks said cops shot the man with a Taser during the arrest, but only one of the barbs hit the suspect, meaning he was not shocked by any electricity. Police responded to a home in the 500 block of 42 St. S.E. about 8:15 p.m. Saturday on reports of a suspicious man in a backyard. Dooks said four officers climbed in through a window and tackled the suspect. During the arrest, Dooks said the suspect went into medical distress. "At this point, it's speculation until we have medical evidence, but it could be related to his state of intoxication or his substance abuse," he said, adding the suspect's actions were consistent with drug induced, excited delirium. The suspect was rushed to hospital and was listed in critical condition last night. The suspect, believed to be in his early 30s, is known to police, said Dooks, but does not have a known history of violence.

Filming of House of Cards centred around a character who lures people into a garage, ties them to a chair and chops them into pieces, cops say before Altinger's Oct. 10 disappearance. Edmonton filmmaker Mark Twitchell, seen on his MySpace page, will appear in court today charged with first-degree murder

Durham Cops Issue  Warning After Sightings In Pickering reports of a much bigger cat on the prowl in Pickering Sunday and local residents most certainly did not want to feed this one. Durham Police issued the warning concerning a mountain lion after two reports of sightings during recent weeks. "The first incident involved an adult on Oct. 16 and the second was on Oct. 29 a 12-year-old boy reported that he had seen a mountain lion," confirmed Sgt. Jim Griepsma. The mere possibility of the large and potentially dangerous animal approaching schools or private homes prompted letters home for students in the area, leaving parents understandably on edge.

   U.S.A. FAILING. Barack Obama solemnly declared, "This is one of those defining moments when the American people are looking to Washington for. President Bush went on television again and solemnly declared, "For the financial security of every American, Congress must act.” he didn't explain why he could only get one-third of his fellow Republicans in the House to vote for the bailout.  This story is hard to report on but we will at least acknowledge it as a major event.  That’s it. Major players get all the long term benefits of worthwhile stock anyway. Servers hosting Web sites of the House of Representatives have been flooded with millions of e-mails in recent days. This story is hard to report on but we will at least acknowledge it as a major event.  That’s it. Major players get all the long term benefits of worthwhile stock anyway. Merrill Lynch is warning that Canada could be headed for a housing and mortgage meltdown similar to the one that has devastated the United States economy. A report issued by Merrill Lynch economists says Canadian households are financially overextended! They say it's only a matter of time before the "tipping point" is reached and the housing and credit markets crack in Canada. READ MY LIPS NO BAILOUT IF WE WIN GREEN IN ONTARIO 08 It may have been the oddest coalition of dissenters you'll ever see: hard-core southern conservatives allied with ultra-liberal members of the Congressional Black Caucus, blue-collar Republicans from the Rust Belt, and a couple of dozen conservative Democrats known as the "Blue Dogs." As a group they likely never agreed on anything before in their lives, and may never again. But they agreed on this - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's US$700-billion plan to rescue Wall Street from a rising tide of toxic debts was a no go.Some said it was morally indefensible that ordinary taxpayers, many of them worried for their jobs, should have to foot the bill to support rich bankers whose idea of hardship is having to sell one of their vacation homes. Others complained the plan failed to address the root of the problem: millions of ordinary people declaring bankruptcy and facing foreclosure. With public opinion firmly against the deal, many simply opted to side with the voters and let the chips fall where they may.

ENDING HUNGER  In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty" UNDP Human Development Report states that “climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century.  Failure to respond to that challenge will stall and then reverse international efforts to reduce poverty.... Looking to the future, no country – however wealthy or powerful – will be immune to the impact of global warming.” contact Patricia Young, National Coordinator (patricia.young@fao.org.) checked lots of sites providing lots of facts but no clear ways of individual acts aiding elimination of this problem   Every year 15 million children die of hunger For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years. Throughout the 1990's more than 100 million children will die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could be prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days! The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed and one-third is starving! Over 4 million will die this year.

S.I.U.   Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin called the province's Special Investigations Unit a "toothless tiger and muzzled watchdog" while presenting the findings of his report on Tuesday.  He also called for a massive overhaul of the civilian police agency. Marin, who was once head of the SIU, is calling for new legislation and sweeping internal changes aimed at re-gaining the public's shattered confidence. "The SIU has become so timid and fearful in its watchdog job role, that police oversight has hit rock bottom in Ontario," he said. "It has preferred to focus its energy on an introspective, esoteric, pie-in-the-sky journey that has little to do with holding police accountable."

Hendrix's Burnt Guitar And Beatles 1st Contract Fetch Big Bucks At Auction. How much would you pay if someone offered to give you a beat up old guitar that had burn marks all over it? Chances are if you found it at a flea market in that condition, you might pony up just a few dollars. But what if you found out that axe was once owned by guitar god Jimi Hendrix - and that those scorch marks came after he set the instrument on fire in a legendary concert in London in 1967? That last fact upped the price in a big way and the famous Fender Stratocaster (top left) sold at auction in England on Thursday for US$497,557. It was bought by an American collector named Daniel Boucher, who also paid for the flight to Britain just to bid on the iconic item. He believes he got a bargain. "I thought I'd have to pay a little bit more for it, actually," he reveals. The original estimated worth of the instrument was $900,000. What does he plan to do with his expensive new toy? You may not believe it.  "I am going to play it," he promises. "I hope some of it rubs off on me."

 Long and Mc Lousy Again. A friend drove  me all the way to L&M  Mississauga to pick up my Precision where it had resided for some weeks to be set up. I went through hell to get it there, wait two weeks without it and then I was informed they declined to do the set-up due to a previous history in Brampton. What the hell is going on? Mike     In light of  the weightier matter of the store refusing to serve me after holding my bass for two weeks! I mean what the heck! And all I wanted was my inntonation corrected!  previous history Jeff, I am still very sad about the abuse I received at one of your outlets. I also miss my jazz very much. I am still unhappy and really have not been served adequately I am still requesting that you confirm some of the issues. I still feel cheated on my jazz and would rather have a replacement which though you offered verbally never was accomodatedI also feel I am owed an expanation as to how all this occurred Mike

Might they tip the balance on Oct. 14. I hope we're not stuck with another minority just because parties didn't court the Bunny Vote.

Every woman I talk to is undecided.

"Maybe if they got us involved," says dusky beauty Jacqueline O'Neil, 21, of Uxbridge, who is set to appear in Fresh Faces Special Edition.

"Maybe if they made us care."

Says Emilie Lanteigne, 26, of Ottawa: "I hear a lot of talk. I need to see action before I make my choice."

Incidentally, I hate to burst your bubble, Bubba, but Playboy's College Girls? Most of them aren't. You just have to look like one.

Cher McConnell, 23, of Etobicoke, on the other hand, has a BSc in psychology from U of T. She thought about a medical degree.

"Or something to do with makeup. I'm kind of trying to figure myself out."

This much for sure: She is Irish/Scottish with freckles and flaming hair and eyes deep as Loch Ness. You could swim in those eyes. She's a model who plays rugby.

And she hates politicians.

"They're weaselly," she says. "I don't like any of 'em

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Missouri delegate George Engelbach, wearing a hat and beard reminiscent of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, walks the floor at the start of the first session at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 1, 2008.

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 The Snowbirds perform at the 59th Annual Canadian International Airshow at the CNE on August 30, 2008.

U.S. warns of 'punitive' action on Iran

I’ll look for your application to come in the mail and I’ll hang on to your picture. Sounds like you have a ton of experience on the water which is great! I’ll be in touch when your application arrives.   Hey, thanks for the prompt reply! Where I attend for internet access restricts adobe upgrade; thus no access to filling out a virtual form. I will snail mail a hard copy. Could you at least keep my photo (below) on file as I see you request one; all of my photos are virtual. I have sailed US to NZ in the Pacific several times; NZ Cook Strait a lot on the ferries to Picton, Stewart Island and Christchurch, crossed the English Channel a few times and piloted a 14 foot sailboat through an anti-cyclone in the Cook Strait with at least a 40 ft swell! I do not get seasick even when everyone else does. I feel drawn toward a position like "Radio operator". I am willing to take any courses needed. MikePS all the qualities you asked for coincidently I have ie):The most sought-after crewmember would be eager to learn, flexible, open to learning many different skills and duties on the vessel, hard-working, honest, trustworthy and committed to being part of a team that is working together to protect marine wildlife  love to learn; learn to love.

Police say the fact Moore's wrists and ankles were bound didn't necessarily mean somebody else was involved in his death. A violent sexual offender being investigated in the disappearance of three young men was found hanging from a braided rope in his cell at the Maplehurst Detention Centre in Milton, an inquest heard yesterday. Donald Douglas Moore, 36, also had his hands and ankles bound with pieces of bed sheets when a correctional officer discovered his body at 3:34 a.m. on April 2, 2004. He was pronounced dead at the Milton hospital 12 minutes later. A coroner's jury in Hamilton started probing the circumstances surrounding his death yesterday and will have to determine if it was a suicide, homicide or accidental death.  At the time police would not release any information to the press which was noticed as being suspicious by both by the Star and the Dunstan Times. Police alledge Moore had first threatened to hang himself during a series of cellphone conversations with Peel Detective Ken Drover, who had sworn out a sexual assault warrant against him on March 13, 2004, for allegedly molesting handicapped children in the Mississauga area. At the time, Peel police were also investigating Moore for the disappearance of Robert Grewal, 22, and Joey Manchisi, 20, who were last seen on Nov. 12, 2003, and Rene Charlebois, 15, who disappeared a month later. During the phone conversations, Moore had refused to reveal his whereabouts and said he would kill himself before spending another day in jail. "I'll be dead because of my past. Turning myself in is not an option," he told Drover on March 13, 2004. "It's OK to commit suicide. Jump off a swing and hang," he said. Two days later, Halton police tracked him down at the Royal Motel on Plains Road in Burlington. A heavily armed tactical team burst into his room in the middle of the night and zapped Moore with a stun gun while he was still in bed. He continued to talk about killing himself when Drover interviewed him after his arrest. He was placed in a single cell on suicide watch at the Maplehurst Detention Centre later in the day. But a week later, a prison doctor concluded he was no longer a suicide risk. Moore was taken off suicide watch and moved to the general prison population, where he shared a cell with another inmate. Forensic pathologist Dr. John Fernandes testified Moore had died of "ligature strangulation with a braided rope," which had been looped over a hinge on the cell door. Apart from the ligature marks, there were no other signs of violence on the body. Fernandes told the jurors he was aware of other cases where people had bound their legs and hands before committing suicide. Shortly after Moore's death, Peel police learned he had been involved in the murder of the three missing men and had recruited his wife and a teenage boy to help dispose of the bodies. Regarding Charlebois, police have never determined why he was murdered and the only connection he had with Moore was that they knew some of the same people. During the teen accomplice's trial, it was learned that Moore went after Manchisi and Grewal because he erroneously believed they had stolen some of his dope, money and jewellery. Joseph Manchisi Sr., a Milton realtor, is attending the inquest hoping to find some answers about his son's missing remains. He told reporters he alerted Halton police two days after his son's disappearance that Moore might be involved. He said police told him Moore was a pedophile but wouldn't kill anybody. The inquest continues.  by plegall@thespec.com

Her name is Valerie Valen and she will never forget what being a Good Samaritan did to her life. She's the woman who tried to come to the aid of a homeless man as he was being beaten to death at Moss Park Armoury on a rainy night in August 2005. Three reservists, Jeffrey Hall, Mountaz Ibrahim and Brian Deganis, are charged with second-degree murder in the terrible crime, which the court heard began when the trio returned from a night of heavy drinking. She was passing by the park that night, and couldn't believe what she was hearing. In some stunning testimony on Wednesday, the only living witness to the crime recalls being startled by the voice of a man later identified as Hall emerging through the downpour, screaming ""f***ing bums" and that the homeless were "all a waste of skin."  Valen became a victim herself when she screamed back at the trio, warning them she was calling 911. She told a hushed courtroom that was the moment they stopped going after Croutch and turned on her. She claims she was beaten by both Hall and Ibrahim and kicked in the head and ribs, leaving her black and blue from her ear to the back of her skull. When the men discovered they were beating a woman, she alleges they didn't stop for a moment. Instead she testified Hall sneered at her, "you're a dike, and you don't matter anyway." All three are also facing charges of assault causing bodily harm for that incident.  After the beating, she says Deganis marched back up to her and shoved his dog tags in her face. "These gave them the right to kill all us homeless crack heads and bums," she concluded. Valen, who knew the victim, called him a sad homeless man who was a "little more prideful" than other homeless people. She termed him a "gentleman" who always tried to help the addicts and the working girls who hung around the area.

LEAFS LAFFING STOCK.....

With the regular season now over, the Leafs do not even appear on any sports show charts! Why? Simply they are an embarrassment; technically it is because they didn’t make it to the playoffs. This makes me happy. What? Here’s why...to me there is little worse than hoping losers will win. I used to get an ulcer watching the Maple Laffs fall apart in the playoffs. Would someone in say Vancouver be willing to trade me places so I can have a home team I can cheer for? In fact the Canucks didn’t make it to the playoffs either but somehow they looked good doing it. Also there are always good tickets available @ the front gate box office in Vancouver. Not in T.O.! In T.O. you have to go talk to some guy named Guido which is okay, except the deal has a very definite “Shady” feel to it. The fact that organized crime is allowed to gather up all those tickets is beyond my comprehension.

Renault and McLaren have both dismissed any suggestion that Fernando Alonso caused the crash that ruined Lewis Hamilton's Bahrain Grand Prix. Hamilton smashed his front wing when he ran into the back of Alonso's Renault under acceleration out of the first corner on lap two - prompting some suggestions in the paddock that the former world champion had deliberately lifted off or 'brake tested' his 2007 title rival. Renault data seen by ITV Sport proved that Alonso was accelerating normally when the accident happened, and that the speed difference was purely a consequence of the McLaren getting a much better exit from the corner.

Massa Wins, Hamilton drags his damaged McLaren back to the pits. Massa finally got his world title challenge up and running with a flawless victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix, beating team-mate Kimi Raikkonen in a Ferrari 1-2. The pint-sized Brazilian had spent the last few days fending off speculation that his Ferrari drive was in jeopardy for 2009 after error-strewn performances in the first two races.Sir Jackie Stewart believes that the current crisis surrounding Max Mosley as FIA president could be the catalyst for an overhaul of the way the FIA operates. Mosley is under increasing pressure to stand down following sexual allegations in the News of the World in recent weeks

1.  MASSA        Ferrari      +1h31m06.970s
2.  RAIKKONEN    Ferrari      +3.3s
3.  KUBICA       BMW          +4.9s
4.  HEIDFELD     BMW          +8.4s
5.  KOVALAINEN   McLaren      +26.7s
6.  TRULLI       Toyota       +41.3s
7.  WEBBER       Red Bull     +45.4s
8.  ROSBERG      Williams     +55.8s
9.  GLOCK        Toyota       +69.5s
10. ALONSO       Renault      +77.1s
11. BARRICHELLO  Honda        +77.8s
12. FISICHELLA   Force India  +1 lap
13. HAMILTON     McLaren      +1 lap

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With NASA's high-energy Swift Observatory in orbit, cosmic gamma-ray bursts just keep setting new records. The most powerful one yet — in fact, the most violent event ever seen in the universe — flashed into view on the morning of March 19th. While Swift caught it from orbit, ground-based cameras on the hunt for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) saw a flare of visible light from the burst that peaked around magnitude 5.6 The afterglow of GRB 080319B was imaged by Swift's X-ray Telescope (left) and Optical/Ultraviolet Telescope (right). It was, by far, the intrinsically brightest gamma-ray-burst afterglow ever seen. This sets a record of a different kind: what is the farthest thing visible to the unaided eye? The usual answer is the Great Andromeda Galaxy at 2.5 million light-years, or, for a skilled observer under a very dark sky, the dimmer Triangulum Galaxy, M33, at 2.9 million light-years. But the visible-light afterglow from the March 19th burst had a redshift of 0.94, corresponding to a look-back time of 7.5 billion years

Swift's Burst Alert Telescope picked up the burst at 2:12 a.m. EDT on March 19, 2008, and pinpointed the coordinates in the constellation Bootes. Telescopes in space and on the ground quickly moved to observe the afterglow. The burst was named GRB 080319B and registered between 5 and 6 on the visual magnitude scale used by astronomers. (A magnitude 6 star is the dimmest visible to the human eye; magnitude 5 is almost three times brighter.)

Above: GRB 080319B makes a brief appearance among the stars of Bootes in a movie made by Pi of the Sky, a Polish group that monitors the sky for afterglows and other short-lived phenomena. [More]

Later that evening, the Very Large Telescope in Chile and the Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Texas measured the burst's redshift at 0.94. A redshift is a measure of the distance to an object. A redshift of 0.94 translates into a distance of 7.5 billion light years, meaning the explosion took place 7.5 billion years ago, a time when the universe was less than half its current age and Earth had yet to form. This is more than halfway across the visible universe."No other known object or type of explosion could be seen by the naked eye at such an immense distance," says Swift science team member Stephen Holland of Goddard. "If someone just happened to be looking at the right place at the right time, they saw the most distant object ever seen by human eyes without optical aid." Most gamma ray bursts occur when massive stars run out of nuclear fuel. Their cores collapse to form black holes or neutron stars, releasing an intense burst of high-energy gamma rays and ejecting particle jets that rip through space at nearly the speed of light. When the jets plow into surrounding interstellar clouds, they heat the gas to incandescent visibility. It is this gaseous "afterglow" which was visible to the human eye on March 19th. GRB 080319B's afterglow was 2.5 million times more luminous than the most luminous supernova ever recorded, making it the most intrinsically bright object ever observed by humans in the universe. The most distant previous object that could have been seen by the naked eye is the nearby galaxy M33, a relatively short 2.9 million light-years from Earth.

More trash from the Hill started when an outraged New Democrat MP complained to the Speaker that she saw Tory rep James Moore (pictured) surfing the net while Parliament was in session. That wasn't a problem until Irene Mathyssen took a closer look at his laptop. She was stunned to see what she calls a "scantily clad" woman displayed on the screen. And she insists the offending picture was in full view of others in the chamber - including those in the public gallery. "Well, I'm not an expert," she said when probed about the exact content of the pics.  "(But it was) not full nudity. It was lingerie. It was scanty lingerie. And I was startled by it." She called the conduct outrageous and said it sets a bad example. Moore, a B.C. parliamentary secretary, adamantly denied the charge. "I take great offence to what's being alleged here," he said.  "I would never do what's been talked about. I respect this House too much to even consider doing what's been described to me." It was later learned that Moore was viewing a pic of his current girlfriend, and in the end the NDP issued an apology about how their member handled the incident. Its still not right; he is there to uphold democracy and just now it needs all the attention it can garner!

TOP 3 WIERDIEST SHOW ENDINGS EVER...

#3  M*A*S*H: Goodbye, Farewell And Amen (1972-1983)  It seems only appropriate that this show should follow the one before it, because it smashed the former finale's viewing record. After 11 years - far longer than the actual Korean War lasted - the TV series M*A*S*H* signed off with a 2½ hour finale that culminated in B.J. Hunnicutt refusing to say goodbye to his bunkmate Hawkeye. But as the latter surgeon's chopper lifted off from the 4077^th for the last time, he spotted a final message written in the stones below: "Goodbye," it read. The episode wasn't the best one in the series' storied history, but it was hyped so highly that it became the most watched regular non-sporting event in the history of the medium, attracting an astounding 106 million eyeballs - or 77 per cent of the TV audience, a feat likely never to be repeated.

#2 Newhart (1982-1990)

Regardless of how you rate the others on this list, few will dispute this as the greatest single TV farewell in the history of the medium - which brings us full circle back to the late Suzanne Pleshette, who was such an integral part of it. The show concerned an author-turned-Vermont inn owner named Bob Loudon, who was surrounded by an oddball assortment of characters. In the history-making last episode, a Japanese mogul buys out the entire town, with plans to turn it into a golf course. Bob refuses to sell and eventually gets hit on the head by a golf ball, causing him to lose consciousness. When he wakes up in a darkened bedroom, he nudges his spouse and starts to tell her about this 'strange dream' he had about living in an inn, and the odd characters that populated it. And when his wife turns on the light, the audience goes bananas - it's Emily Hartley, Newhart's wife from his previous series in which he played a psychologist. Everything, right down to the bedroom furniture, is the same. And it's Bob Hartley who speaks. "Well, I was an innkeeper in this crazy little town in Vermont," he tells her as she stares at him dryly from the other side of the bed. "Nothing made sense in this place. I mean, the maid was an heiress. Her husband talked in alliteration. The handyman kept missing the point of things. And then there were these three woodsmen..." Pleshette turns to Bob and in that famous gravelly voice tells him that's the last time she'll let him eat Japanese food before bedtime.

#1 The Prisoner (1967-1968)

The strangest and most cerebral single season TV shows in history. Patrick McGoohan played a former spy (assumed by many to be his character John Drake on the previous Danger Man/Secret Agent Man series) who resigned suddenly without explanation. He was kidnapped and exiled to a mysterious 'village' until he'd spill the secret behind his actions. But "Number Six" steadfastly refused to reveal the reasons, and the show became an allegory about the individual against society. In the final convoluted but still fascinating 17th episode, Six's quest to find out who Number One is, is finally realized - the person he's been battling all this time appears to have been himself. The finale ends with him going back to his London apartment, followed by the mysterious butler from the Village and the telltale automatic door opening - a prisoner still? An exceedingly strange ending to an exceedingly strange show, but one they would eventually give college courses to study.

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Harper said the scope of the inquiry has yet to be decided focusing on the former prime minister's business dealings with the German-Canadian arms dealer."In this case, I conclude that the integrity concerns described above do not warrant a lengthy inquiry into matters that have been investigated by the RCMP since 1995. Nor should there be an inquiry with respect to facts already known."Johnston suggests the inquiry focus on whether Mulroney acted improperly in 1993 when he accepted cash payments from Schreiber to lobby on his behalf to promote a German-built military vehicle.He rejects a full-scale inquiry that would re-examine allegations of possible kickbacks in the 1988 sale of Airbus jets to Air Canada and recent allegations that the prime minister's office ignored information from Schreiber.Johnston, president of the University of Waterloo, was appointed by Harper two months ago to sketch out the basis of an inquiry into Mulroney's relationship with Schreiber.Stick him in jail.Why not just charge Brian Mulroney; biggest Canadian sleaze of the 20th century with corruption charges. Karlheinz Schreiber has finally put the finger on his old pal. So what does the government do? Call for an inquiry? Millions more down the drain. It is apparant now that he did receive money for influence and that is corruption! Liberals are salivating at the prospect of the Mulroney-Schreiber Inqury. One is a former Primer Minister of Canada. Another is a German businessman making all kinds of allegations about kickbacks while fighting his own battle against extradition to his native country. Add in potential witnesses that could include other ex-P.M.s like Kim Campbell, Jean Chretien and former Justice Minister Allan Rock and you have the recipe for an explosive and lengthy look at the darker side of politics. Mulroney was in Toronto Tuesday night and came out firing on all cylinders. "I will be there before the commission with bells on because I've done nothing wrong and have absolutely nothing to hide," he promised. "Twelve years ago I was falsely accused. I fought and won. Now it seems I have to fight again ... so be it. I'm going to fight and win again." Mulroney looks to defend his good name, many longtime Tories are worried what the whiff of scandal will do to their party. "This has the potential to rip the party apart," suggests Conservative-turned-Liberal Garth Turner. The inquiry will investigate whether Mulroney took cash payouts while still in office - and try to determine if the current prime minister knew about it. Nothing has been proven, but many observers believe it could be the most explosive scandal to hit Ottawa since the sponsorship affair. Liberals, who have been looking for a wedge issue to dull the Tory tide after voters gave a tepid response to Stephane Dion as leader, are salivating at the prospect of what may emerge from the hearings. "This inquiry's going to open up a massive can of worms," predicts former Grit party president Stephen LeDrew. "It won't be just a small family size. It will be a huge can of worms. It really is going to turn into the shootout at the OK Corral between the old enemies."This isn't a first for Mulroney. Twelve years ago he faced similar accusations from Ottawa about the so-called Airbus Affair. He sued the government and won more than $2 million. This time, it's not money that's at stake, but a reputation. And that may be worth a lot more than any monetary reward can provide. Opposition parties claim the revelations are grounds for Ottawa to consider recovering the $2.1 million settlement it paid to Mulroney in 1997 to compensate him for the harm to his reputation. Mulroney has consistently argued he has done nothing wrong. Mulroney has failed to clear the air completely about his dealings with Schreiber. For instance, why did he say under oath in 1996 that he had only met Schreiber "once or twice" for coffee after leaving office in 1993 and "had never had any dealings with him"? It was later revealed he had met Schreiber in hotels in 1993 and 1994 and took cash payments from him totalling $300,000? Why did he not report the money on his tax returns in the years in which he received the cash, but only at some later date? What was the money payment for?

The Mona Lisa - sometimes also known as "La Gioconda", another possible tip-off about its famous subject - remains on display under heavy glass and heavy guard at the Louvre in Paris. It may be smaller in person than most art lovers expect, but it's always been larger than life in its reputation.For centuries speculation has raged about the identity of the woman with the half smile. And now German researchers claim to have found the definitive answer to the question.

Mystery Of The Mona The University of Heidelberg say they've solved the mystery once and for all with the discovery of some long ignored notations scribbled in a book owned by a friend of the artist in 1503 - the date the artwork was believed to have been painted. And they definitively point to del Giocondo's wife as being the model for Mona. The notes are from a Florentine official and indicate da Vinci was working on three paintings at the time - including one that was a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo. "All doubts about the identity of the Mona Lisa have been eliminated by a discovery by [manuscript expert] Dr. Armin Schlechter," a university statement assures. Art experts agree the findings appear to be the real thing and are the earliest mentions of the woman and the work known to exist, potentially ending a puzzle that's raged for more than 500 years. Housing costs are getting beyond the reach of many ordinary Canadians. While many Canadians own homes, a new report says the country's poorest struggle just to keep a roof over their heads. "Fewer than nine per cent of all housing units completed in Canada's largest cities between 2001 and 2006 were rental units." As well, the report says homelessness remains a growing problem for urban Canada, requiring cities to establish close to 20,000 permanent shelter beds. "Many low-income families, including children, are living on the brink of homelessness or living in substandard housing," said Hogg, who is also a York Region councillor living in Richmond Hill, Ont. "Families on social assistance are faced with difficult housing choices, including living in unaffordable, inadequate, illegal or overcrowded housing conditions," she said yesterday following the report's release. "And there are signs the underlying fundamentals are getting worse."

Family Day is not only a day off from work, it's also going to be a day off from some traffic tickets, too. The city has confirmed the suddenly-called February 18th holiday, promised by Premier Dalton McGuinty during the last provincial election campaign, has forced it to figuratively tear up more than 1,000 tickets given out by traffic enforcement officers. The reason: those due to challenge the fines on the date when the hastily called holiday is held won't be able to get their due process because the courts will be closed. The result is a withdrawal of the yellow tags and a free ride for some motorists who received them. Most of the infractions affected are for minor offences, like parking or speeding. But the city is adamant it will still prosecute major cases. That means anyone caught going more than 30 kilometres an hour over the limit or charged with careless driving can still expect to face a judge. Affected drivers will receive a letter from the city confirming their ticket has been quashed.

Judge Lectures O.J., Raises His Bail To $250,000. An angry judge doubled O.J. Simpson's bail to $250,000 on Wednesday for violating terms of his original bail by attempting to contact a co-defendant in the armed robbery case against him. Simpson, clad in jail attire, grimaced as the amount was announced, acknowledging that he understood. This jail time has reportedly cut big time into his search for the lying murdering bastards who killed his wife. Simpson has searched throughout most of the golf courses of the free world in a failing to apprehend the lying murdering scum who fits the blood soaked glove (over another glove).

HILARY: His life was marked by grand achievements, high adventure, discovery, excitement -- but he was especially proud of his decades-long campaign to set up schools and health clinics in Nepal, the homeland of Tenzing Norgay, the mountain guide with whom he stood arm in arm on the summit of Everest on May 29, 1953. Yet he was humble to the point that he only admitted being the first man atop Everest long after the death of Tenzing. He wrote of the pair's final steps to the top of the world: "Another few weary steps and there was nothing above us but the sky. There was no false cornice, no final pinnacle." "We were standing together on the summit. There was enough space for about six people." "We had conquered Everest. "Awe, wonder, humility, pride, exaltation -- these surely ought to be the confused emotions of the first men to stand on the highest peak on Earth, after so many others had failed," Hillary noted. "But my dominant reactions were relief and surprise. Relief because the long grind was over and the unattainable had been attained." "And surprise, because it had happened to me, old Ed Hillary, the beekeeper, once the star pupil of the Tuakau District School but no great shakes at Auckland Grammar (high school) and a no-hoper at university, first to the top of Everest." "I just didn't believe it." He said: "I removed my oxygen mask to take some pictures. It wasn't enough just to get to the top." "We had to get back with the evidence. Fifteen minutes later we began the descent." Then, upon arriving back at base camp, he took an irreverent view: "We knocked the bastard off." His philosophy of life was simple: "Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself," he said in a 1975 interview after writing his autobiography, "Nothing Venture, Nothing Win." But Prime Minister Clark, announcing his death, Friday January 11, 2008 Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, died Friday. Hillary was anything but ordinary. "Sir Ed described himself as an average New Zealander with modest abilities. In reality, he was a colossus." "He was an heroic figure who not only 'knocked off' Everest but lived a life of determination, humility and generosity...The legendary mountaineer, adventurer and philanthropist is the best-known New Zealander ever to have lived." Close friends described him as having unbounded enthusiasm for both life and adventure. "We all have dreams -- but Ed has dreams, then he's got this incredible drive and goes ahead and does it," long-time friend Jim Wilson said in 1993. Hillary summarized it for schoolchildren in 1998, when he said one didn't have to be a genius to do well in life. "I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it," he said before planting some endangered Himalayan oaks in the school grounds. Hillary's pace slowed in his final years. He made his last visit to the Himalayas in April 2007 when he and Elizabeth Hawley -- unofficial chronicler of expeditions in the Himalayas for 40 years -- met the 2007 SuperSherpas Expedition in Kathmandu. A year earlier, he joined a flight of New Zealand dignitaries who flew to the Antarctic for the 50th anniversary of the Scott Base, which the adventurer helped build in 1957. Unlike many climbers, Hillary said when he died he had no desire to have his remains left on a mountain. He wanted his ashes scattered on Waitemata Harbour in the northern city Auckland where he lived his life. "To be washed gently ashore, maybe on the many pleasant beaches near the place I was born. Then the full circle of my life will be complete," he said.Spokesman Mark Sainsbury said Hillary's family had accepted the offer of a state funeral, on a date not yet set. Tributes quickly began flowing. "Sir Edmund's name is synonymous with adventure, with achievement, with dreaming and then making those dreams come true," said Australia's acting prime minister Julia Gillard. "He was a hero and a leader for us. He had done a lot for the people of Everest region and will always remain in our hearts," said Bhoomi Lama of the Nepal Mountaineering Association in Kathmandu. Hillary remains the only non-political person outside Britain honoured as a member of the Britain's Order of the Garter, bestowed by the Queen on just 24 knights and ladies living worldwide at any time. In his 1999 book "View from the Summit," Hillary finally broke his long public silence about whether it was he or Tenzing who was the first man to step atop Everest. "We drew closer together as Tenzing brought in the slack on the rope. I continued cutting a line of steps upwards." "Next moment, I had moved onto a flattish exposed area of snow with nothing by space in every direction," Hillary wrote. "Tenzing quickly joined me and we looked round in wonder. To our immense satisfaction we realized with had reached the top of the world." Before Tenzing's death in 1986, Hillary consistently refused to confirm he was first, saying he and the sherpa had climbed as a team to the top. It was a measure of his personal modesty and of his commitment to his colleagues. He later recalled his surprise at the huge international interest in their feat. "I was a bit taken aback to tell you the truth. I was absolutely astonished that everyone should be so interested in us just climbing a mountain." Hillary never forgot the small mountainous country that propelled him to worldwide fame. He revisited Nepal constantly over the next 54 years. Without fanfare and without compensation, Hillary spend decades pouring energy and resources from his own fund-raising efforts into Nepal through the Himalayan Trust he founded in 1962. Known as "burra sahib" -- "big man," for his 6 feet 2 inches -- by the Nepalese, Hillary funded and helped build hospitals, health clinics, airfields and schools. He raised funds for higher education for Sherpa families and helped set up reforestation programs in the impoverished country. About $250,000 a year was raised by the charity for projects in Nepal. A strong conservationist, he demanded international mountaineers clean up thousands of tonnes of discarded oxygen bottles, food containers and other climbing debris that litter an area known as South Col valley, the jump-off point for Everest attempts. His commitment to Nepal took him back more than 120 times. His adventurer son Peter has described his father's humanitarian work as "his duty" to those who had helped him. It was on a visit to Nepal that his first wife, Louise, 43, and 16-year-old daughter Belinda died in a light plane crash March 31, 1975. Hillary remarried in 1990, to June Mulgrew, former wife of adventurer colleague and close friend Peter Mulgrew, who died in a passenger plane crash in the Antarctic. He is survived by his wife and children Peter and Sarah. His passport described Hillary as an "author-lecturer" and by age 40 his schedule of lecturing and writing meant he had to give up beekeeping "because I was too busy." By that time he was touring, lecturing and fund-raising for the Himalayan Trust in the United States and Europe for three months at a time, speaking at more than 100 venues during a tour. He was known as ready to take risks to achieve his goals but always had control so nobody ever died on a Hillary-led expedition. He was at times controversial. He decried what he considered a lack of "honest-to-God morality" in New Zealand politics in the 1960s, and he refused to backtrack when the prime minister demanded he withdraw the comments. Ordinary New Zealanders applauded his integrity. He got into hot water over what became known as his "dash to the Pole" in the 1957-58 Antarctic summer season aboard modified farm tractors while part of a joint British-New Zealand expedition. Hillary disregarded instructions from the Briton leading the expedition and guided his tractor team up the then-untraversed Shelton Glacier, pioneering a new route to the polar plateau and the South Pole. In 2006 he entered a dispute over the death of Everest climber David Sharp, stating it was "horrifying" climbers could leave a dying man after an expedition left the Briton to die high on the upper slopes. Hillary said he would have abandoned his own pioneering 1953 climb to save another life. "It was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat, say `good morning' and pass on by," he said. "Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain." Named New Zealand's ambassador to India in the mid-1980s, Hillary was the celebrity of the New Delhi cocktail circuit. He later said he found the job confining. He introduced jetboats to many Ganges River dwellers a decade earlier, in 1977, when his "Ocean to the Sky" expedition travelled the Ganges by jetboat to within 210 kilometres of its source.The last segment was by foot and two mountain peaks near Badranath, where the Ganges rises, were also climbed. He sought adventure in places as distant from each other as the Arctic and Antarctic. Hillary didn't place himself among top mountaineers. "I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back." "I have a lot of enthusiasm and I'm good on ice," he said. The first living New Zealander to be featured on a banknote, he helped raise nearly $530,000 for the Himalayan Trust by signing 1,000 of the sparkling new five-dollar bills sold at a charity auction in 1982.They were snapped up by collectors round the world. Honoured by the United Nations as one of its Global 500 conservationists in 1987, he was also awarded numerous honorary doctorates from universities in several parts of the world. One of his accolades was the Smithsonian Institution's James Smithson Bicentennial Medal for his "monumental explorations and humanitarian achievements," awarded in 1998.Throughout his life Hillary remembered his first mountain he climbed, the 2,940-metre Mount Tapuaenuku -- "Tappy" as he called it -- in Marlborough on New Zealand's South Island. He scaled it solo over three days in 1944, while in training camp with the Royal New Zealand Air Force during the Second World War. "Tapuaenuku" in Maori means "footsteps of the Rainbow God". "I'd climbed a decent mountain at last," he said later. Like all good mountaineers before him, Hillary had no special insight into that quintessential question: Why climb? "I can't give you any fresh answers to why a man climbs mountains. The majority still go just to climb them."