top scientific discovery.

Top American researchers and analysts have disected the reason for United States President George W. Bush's unique grasp of the English Language.

Brilliant. Freaking brilliant.

(Props to Expat for the link)

still digging our hole...

When we finish digging our hole from Garneau to the other side of the world, we now know we'll end up in the south Indian Ocean!

From That Canadian Girl via Darren Barefoot.

the incredible grandinite blog survey!

An email from Aaron of Grandinite fame...

Friends of the Canadian Blogosphere:

As I stated, not one month ago, on Calgary's QR 770 with Rob Breakenridge: you have not heard the last of Aaron Braaten.

I bring to you the Great Canadian Blog Survey at Canadianeconomist.com.

There's info on the site if you want to direct people straight to the survey and cut out the middleman. If you get a pop-up, that's the survey.

Please help me publicize it. If you link to it, just respond to this email so I can acknowledge you in the final reports.

Let's get 'er done.

The more respondents the survey gets, the faster the report will come out and the sooner you 'linkers' are immortalized in Canada's best blog survey, done by a blogger for his fellow bloggers.

Plus you will be helping a budding young economist finish his master's thesis.

Five minutes out of your busy day of blogging. Five minutes is all I ask.

To those of you who link to it: thank you. For those of you who do not, please take my survey!

Cheers,

Aaron Braaten

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Founder of:

http://www.canadianeconomist.com
http://www.albertablogs.com
http://www.grandinite.com

born with a tail on martin.

Don Martin that is.

Derek, from Born with a Tail, has posted his review of National Post columnist Don Martin's inward looking five-part series on why Alberta is better than the rest of Canada. We very much enjoy the Raymakerian-style of blog posting.

Check it out.

everytime a bell rings, a political hack loses his moustache.

Rod! Say it ain't so!

From Wednesday's Edmonton Journal...

"...the moustache, Love said he "hacked it off" because he got tired of looking at it after 35 years."

Rod Love (seen here), who is "not a lobbyist," recently re-left Premier Ralph Klein's Office as Chief of Staff for the second time to rejoin the private sector. He also parted ways with his trademark massive moustache.

Mr. Love, who has been heavily involved in Kleinesian politics since 1980 was also one of the geniuses behind Stockwell Day's "leadership" of the Canadian Alliance, and Belinda Stronach's Conservative leadership bid. He is also very supportive of the Jim Dinning camp of the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership race, so don't rule him out briefly coming back to the Premier's office after Dinning smacks the bejesus out of the Ted Morton/Lyle Oberg/Mark Norris group only to be defeated in the next election (yes, you heard it here first!).

Alberta Liberal leader Kevin Taft is suggesting that the Alberta Government instate a cooling off period for insiders like Love, who hop in between the private consulting jobs and high level political positions. The issue came up after Mr. Love's new consulting firm took out a large advertizment in last Tuesday's Globe & Mail business section praising the experiences of Mr. Love.

Currently, there is a one year cooling off period for retiring or defeated Cabinet Ministers.

We tend to agree. A cooling off period for political insiders wouldn't be so bad.

And yes, if you would like to see the newly moustachless Mr. Love, check out this coverage by Kevin Rich at CFCN Calgary.

when is a blog dead?

How long does a blog have to be dormant before it's considered to be "dead?"

Is the Child of Reagan dead?

gross? yes.

Warning! Only the eight year-old in us found this funny. Be warned.

the two faces of u.s. senator mary landrieu.

Louisiana Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu...

Last week: "I'm not angry at anyone."

This week: "If one persons criticizes our sheriffs, or says one more thing, including the President of the United States, he will hear from me - one more word about it after this show airs and I - might likely have to punch him - literally."

(props to Mr. Taylor for the CNN coverage).

debt is good: hancock

From the Calgary Herald...

[Advanced Education Minister Dave] Hancock disagreed that graduating with student debt totalling as much as $20,000 is unacceptable.

"It's the best investment you'll ever make," he said, adding it took him a decade to repay his student loans.

So, at what point did personal debt become good and government debt become bad?

klein on e-bay

Klein auctions off his "maverick brand" on E-Bay...

one good lookin' blog

After some back-to-school shopping, we've brought back some of the latest blogging fashions from the far east.

Any comments?

wtf

Dr. Phil is on Larry King Live talking about New Orleans with US Surgeon General Richard Carmona.

Seriously: WTF?

how mr. smith got his groove back.

As per his email request, we'd like to announce that Mr. Steve Smith has resumed his blogging ways.

the fire that daveberta built...

Isn't it nice?

blog of the week: the wingnuterer

Do we even need to explain this one?

Check out the Wingnuterer!

walk the line

Sweet.

We're looking forward to this one, but we're a little concerned at Joaquin Phoenix's acting... it usually sucks... hopefully he'll pull it off...

links galore...

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zorph is relentless!

and the saga continues...

...as the armies of darkness muster their armies in the west...

the evolution of daveberta...

...according to the Ontariocentric Zorpheous...



...in which we totally kickass.

happy birthday alberta.

Today is the 100th anniversary of the only province that we have ever had the pleasure of calling home. Today in 1905, the Province of Alberta and its sister Province, Saskatchewan, were officially born from the great expanse known as the North West Territories and its respected Districts.



We love our province. We love its natural beauty and diversity. We love that you can drive through the near deserts of Drumheller and Milk River to the majestic and amazing Rocky Mountains to the incredibly beautiful north filled with forests and lakes and the bald-ass prairie which spans as far as the eye can see all within one province. We love that an area so diverse and vast in its own is also part of an even vaster and more diverse country.



Our family first came to Alberta in 1896 as pioneers. They traveled from Sorel, Quebec and settled north of Edmonton. They were hard working farmers, breaking land and farming through brutally hard conditions. Along with thousands of other pioneers, they started with nearly nothing, but together they succeeded in building healthy and vibrant communities across this province.

We remember hearing our grandfather telling us stories about the 1930's when he and his brother drove a covered wagon to homestead in the Peace Country because the local mine had shut down due to the Depression.

We remember our grandfather telling us the story of how our great-great-uncle, Lionel Tellier (who also served as the Independent MLA for St. Albert from 1940-44), fought the Canadian government to the Supreme Court for the right to have French enlistment forms in Alberta during the First World War.



Albertans live in an incredible place. As a Province, we have an unbelievable amount of wealth in natural resources, but we also have incredible potential and an untapped wealth of resources in the form of our citizens.

Alberta has the potential to do great things as we moves into the 21st century; incredible things for our people, and incredible things for Canada.

As we celebrate this 100th Anniversary of this great province, let's not forget the potential all Albertans have, not as politicians or protectionists, but as leaders in strengthening our position as the best province in the best country in the world.

We love our home, our province, and our country.

Happy Birthday, Alberta!