you smelly bastard

I did smell like dead dog earlier today after mowing the lawn with a high fever.

lol When I read your post VX. Mid sentence I thought you were going to say;" after mowing the lawn I ran over my dog."

lol When I read your post VX. Mid sentence I thought you were going to say;" after mowing the lawn I ran over my dog."

Fertelizer!

I think we can all relate to this:

Gas prices have jumped again, surpassing the $1.20 a litre mark in most major cities across Canada.

According to Gasbuddy.com, prices in Quebec City are hovering around $129.5 a litre. In Victoria, prices are about $1.24 a litre.

In southern Ontario, in cities like Toronto and Hamilton, prices at the pump are averaging about $1.20 a litre.

Prices are even higher in northern Ontario cities.

Gas stations in the Halifax area are showing prices in the $1.28 a litre range while some stations in Winnipeg and Vancouver have prices of about $1.26 a litre, reports The Canadian Press.

Gas prices are above the $1.20 mark in Calgary, Regina, P.E.I. and Winnipeg.

Edmonton, in comparison to other major Canadian cities, appears to have the lowest price, $118.9 cents a litre.

Dave Collins, the owner of an independent filling station in Halifax told CTV Atlantic " it' s going to be a miserable summer for everybody."

" It' s really simple because we have the second highest tax regime. Only Newfoundland has higher taxes than we do. Nova Scotia is a very high road tax environment."

Diana Whalen, a Liberal MLA in Nova Scotia, agreed provincial taxes have a lot to do with the high prices in her province.

" Our party has been calling for a 4 per cent cut to the fuel tax which is the tax on every litre of gasoline. We' ve been saying that for quite a few months now and the prices at this point in time are showing we' re really not competitive with the other provinces."

The high prices have people across Canada grimacing at the pumps.

" People are frustrated by the high gas prices and bracing for $1.40 to $1.50 per litre this summer across the country," Jason Toews, co-founder of Gasbuddy.com, told CTV Newsnet on Friday. " It' s going to be a tough summer."

Liberal MP Dan McTeague is accusing refiners of taking advantage of consumers and said market fundamentals do not support the rising prices.

He told CTV' s Mike Duffy Live that refineries, the oil industry and the four major oil companies in Eastern Canada are taking advantage of consumers.

He said the only solution is to build more oil refineries, and for the federal government to toughen the Competition Act to ensure prices are fair. Though he said the feds don' t have the authority to regulate gas prices.

McTeague said he expects much of the next week explaining to his constituents why prices are so high.

" A lot of people are at the breaking point and I suspect it' s going to be very hard for a lot of us to explain exactly how we got here, but there' s no doubt this is going to cause enormous pain for just about everybody."

New Democrat finance critic Judy Wasylycia-Leis, agreed it will be a prime topic for discussion while Parliament takes a break next week.

" I think they' re going to be pretty upset their price of gas keeps going up at the same time the government is giving another $1.5 billion in subsidies to the oil sands, to the big gas companies, the big developers, and yet nothing is being done to protect consumers," she told Mike Duffy Live.

But Conservative MP Rick Dykstra said the government has taken big steps -- lowering the GST by two per cent, putting money towards renewable energies and alternative fuels, helping out the provinces and offering tax credits for bus passes.

" We think we' re trying to balance the needs of individuals and the economy with ensuring we' re working towards fighting greenhouse gas emissions and lowering them and being responsible with our country' s dollars," Dykstra said.

Edward Jones analyst Lanny Pendill said Thursday that pump prices have not even come close to catching up with refiners' soaring costs.

" The net impact has been the profitability at the refineries has declined significantly from last year' s levels,' ' he said.

" The refiner, in essence, is absorbing some of that cost increase of oil.' '

BNN' s Linda Sims reported an ease in crude oil prices Friday. Still, she said prices remained above US$114 a barrel.

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Steve in Fredericton
NO KIDDING MARKET FUNDAMENTALS DON' T SUPPORT THE RISING PRICES! We' ve (the general public) have been saying that for years.

Why is it that the largest un-tapped oil reserve in the world is Saudi Arabia (they' re all driving Mercedes and living like kings) and the world' s second largest is Canada (we' re paying $1.20 per litre and boardering on mass poverty)!?

Time we started refining our own oil to cheaply supply the Canadian market.

Man, its about £1.20 in the UK, which is what $2.42 in Canada? Still can' t believe 76p of that £1.20 is on tax alone! I know the government has to maintain the country' s transport links, but when the tax is over half the total cost its ridiculous.

Its not like I can just stop driving though in order to boycott this.

I envy anybody who lives in a locale with good public transportation.

Meh. Some poor redneck beat his wife to death with a broken chair leg, and then kidnapped his daughter and forced her to watch him hang himself. Nothing really new here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/7360871.stm

Not my area, but those crazy Welsh.....

A man posing as Darth Vader attacked a Star Wars fan, who had founded a Jedi Church, a court has heard.

Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, from Holyhead, Anglesey, admitted assaulting Barney Jones and cousin Michael with a metal crutch. They suffered minor injuries.

Hughes, who was drunk and dressed in a black bin bag, shouted " Darth Vader!"

Earlier, when Hughes failed to arrive on time, District Judge Andrew Shaw issued an arrest warrant, adding: " I hope the force will soon be with him."

LOL!

lol Jedi church. That asshole got exactly what he deserved.

The guy who did it was a total thug though, he has previous. Drank the best part of a 10 litre box of wine, god knows how he managed to climb over a fence.

Dressed in a black bin bag

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

On the front page today in denmark´:

A young man did some robberies, and raped his ex girlfriend, since he was an immigrant from Iran, his parents lied him younger so they would get more money in child support from the goverment.

On the papers he was under 15, so he cant be prosecuted in anyway for the crimes he commits, but the girl he raped told the police he was 17, so they did a dental exam and he is older than 15.

So he can look forward to a prison sentence and maybe a one way ticket to Iran.

Sort of old, but a few weeks ago some guy shot a police officer in the throat, but he managed to survive some how, and escaped in a truck with WV license plates. He drove from Northern Virginia all the way to Wisconsin until they finally caught him.

I envy anybody who lives in a locale with good public transportation.

and its a hell of a lot cheaper than car petrol.

Damn skippy.

He drove from Northern Virginia all the way to Wisconsin until they finally caught him.

So... Mass... buddy.... what did you do this weekend?

Edit: scratch that, you' re Minnesotan aren' t you?

Ok, this isn' t from my state, but it' s from the guys just north of us.

Evidently scientifically proven truth means nothing in the face of a religious ceremony up in Kentucky.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1736006,00.aspx?cnn=yes

For nearly two years, James Rhoades, a university librarian in Tallahassee, has been fighting to establish in law what science and fact already have shown beyond any doubt: He is the biological father of the boy dubbed J.A.R. He' s got DNA tests to prove it, and videos and loads of pictures of him with the boy. In the photos too are the boy' s mother, J.N.R., whom Rhoades met while taking an online graduate course. She was — and still is — married to another man, who was stationed at a Pensacola Air Force base during their affair in 2005.

Last week, in a decision that underscores the tense relationship between science and law, a divided Kentucky Supreme Court told Rhoades that he could not press his paternity claim, no matter what evidence of fatherhood he might have, because J.N.R. was, and remains, a married woman. When it comes to defining fatherhood in the Bluegrass State, where Ricketts and her husband now live, the marital " I do" mean a lot more than DNA.

America should grow up and seperate god and religion.

That' s a political correctness issue, more than it is religious VX. It' s the BS Leave it to Beaver 50s family mentality that infiltrates every portion of our country.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1736006,00.aspx?cnn=yes

Ridiculous.

They give the husband more rights than the father. This was the SUPREME COURT TOO! WTF!?

The laws protecting marriage from an outsider challenging praternity are clearly outdated and need to be changed. Human stupidity.

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I can tell you guys what will be in my local news tomorrow.

" Stanley Cup dreams crushed for the Montreal Canadians."

That' s a political correctness issue, more than it is religious VX. It' s the BS Leave it to Beaver 50s family mentality that infiltrates every portion of our country.

might be so, but its probably because the rules of god are more important than science, and bastards arent seen in a good light in the bible.