Superstar Of The Month: Miikka Kiprusoff

OK, I'm gonna be a little biased with this month's superstar. The Superstar of the month for April 2007 is Miikka Kiprusoff, the goaltender for the Calgary Flames.

He wins this award for playing outstanding hockey and being the best player for the flames during their short lived playoff run. Even though the Flames were eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs in six games, by the Detroit Red Wings. Kipper was the sole reason the series even went to a 6th game. If it wasn't for his play, the Flames would of gotten swept in 4. I have no doubt about it. He was facing 40+ shots a game and was still able to keep his save percentage above 90%. On 2 occasions he faced 50+ shots. He made over 2000 saves, in 74 games played, during the season and post season.

Congrats Kipper for being the Superstar of the month for April 2007

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Superstar Of The Month: Sidney Crosby

The Superstar for the month of March is Sidney Crosby. For becoming the youngest player in NHL history with two 100-point seasons and for leading the Pittsburgh Penguins into securing a spot in the playoffs.

The Pittsburgh Penguins are a few years ahead of schedule, as predicted by the media. In only his second season Sidney Crosby has lead the Penguins into the post-season. And not just squeaking into 7th or 8th spot. But, what looks like, at least 5th place. Unless they can catch the New Jersey Devils at which they could be as high as 2nd. Currently they are tied, in points, with the Devils but have fewer wins. So they end up in 2nd in their division.

Congratulations Sidney Crosby, you're the Superstar of the month for March 2007.

New Affliction Discovered: Delusional Calgaria

An affliction that affects 4 out of 5 Nova Scotians living away from home in Calgary. Symptoms include loss of balance, blurry vision and separation anxiety. Sufferers may show signs of acceptance of high costs in Calgary, lack of awareness of new opportunities to have a better life back home in Nova Scotia, and occasional upset stomach. To find out the symptoms and more go to Delusional Calgaria.

Aside from the comedy aspect. This would be a good thing for Calgary and Alberta as a whole. If a good chunk of maritimers return to their home province(s). Demand for things such as affordable housing, health care and other services will drop. Thus helping to lower the cost of living for the rest of us. And slow down the rate of inflation, which Alberta and more specifically Calgary lead the nation. It'll also help in slowing things down around here. WERE OUTTA CONTROL! and it's starting to feel a little normal. But that's for another rant at another time.

Dion's 'Top 10' Kyoto Excuses

The 2007 Federal Budget was released the other day. There's a good chance the tories will be turfed and there will be a spring election. It's possible Stephane Dion and the liberals will win. If they do, the liberals will immediately be confronted by a horrendous problem - how to keep their promise to implement the Kyoto accord.

Here then, with the obligatory nod to David Letterman, are Prime Minister Stephane Dion's Top 10 excuses for why the Liberals will not be able to implement the Kyoto accord... again.

#10: "Kyoto ate my protocals"

#9: "This is unfair. This is unfair. You don't know what you speak about. Do you think it's easy to make priorities?"

#8: "I firmly believe that as a good citizen, I have a moral obligation to implement the Kyoto accord on global warming. Meaning, of course, as a good citizen of France."

#7: "Yes, implementing the Kyoto accord is important, but right now our priority has to be reducing medical wait times."

#6: One year later: "Yes, implementing the Kyoto accord is important, but right now our priority has to be getting our soldiers out of Afghanistan."

#5: Two years later: "Yes, implementing the Kyoto accord is important, but right now our priority has to be reducing medical wait times."

#4: Three years later: "Yes, implementing the ... aw,to hell with it."

#3: "Define 'implement'."

#2: "I lost the liberal plan to implement the Kyoto accord while I was looking for the liberal plan to scrap the GST."

And Prime Minister Stephane Dion's number one excuse for not being able to implement the Kyoto accord?

"Ladies and Gentlemen, Environment Minister Belinda Stronach."

A Different Point Of View

I read this article in the Calgary Sun (gasp!) last night. So I thought I should post it just to give a different perspective on global warming. Enjoy.



Debunking global warming myths

By LICIA CORBELLA

The British documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle is, well ... great.
The program, which aired last Thursday in the U.K. to much buzz, has since been watched by hundreds of thousands of others around the world via the Internet. It exposes numerous lies and myths presented as fact by those who believe in the unproven hypothesis that human-created carbon dioxide (CO2) is the driver of the Earth's warming climate.
The same broadcaster -- Channel 4 in the U.K. -- that recently exposed the extremist ideology being preached in Britain's supposedly "moderate" mosques has now similarly helped to tear away the veil of lies and religious zeal surrounding the global warming industry.
The film features an impressive group of experts in the fields of climatology, oceanography, biogeography, meteorology, and paleoclimatology from reputable institutions such as NASA, MIT, The International Arctic Research Centre, the Pasteur Institut in Paris, the Danish National Space Center and the Universities of Winnipeg, Ottawa, London, Jerusalem, Alabama and Virginia.
That should help top the claims there is a consensus of scientists who believe in man-made global warming.
Expert after expert in this film blasts craters into the theory that CO2 -- which only makes up 0.054% of the earth's atmosphere -- has ever driven climate. Ice core records, in fact, prove the opposite, that CO2 lags warming by as much as 800 years.
The main cause of warming is, not surprisingly, the sun.
"The analogy I use," says Dr. Tim Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg, "is my car's not running very well, so I'm going to ignore the engine, which is the sun, and I'm going to ignore the transmission, which is the water vapour and I'm going to look at one nut on the right rear wheel which is the human produced CO2. The science is that bad."
The film starts off covering indisputable facts. There was a Medieval Warm Period that was warmer than today -- that led to incredible wealth in Europe when the bulk of the continent's great cathedrals were built and when Britain had thriving vineyards. Then came the Little Ice Age that started in the 17th century and was so cold London's Thames River would freeze so solidly festivals were held on it.
About 10,000 years ago, during a time known as the Holocene Maximum, it was much warmer even than the Medieval times.
Dr. Ian Clark, Prof. of Isotope Hydrogeology and Paleoclimatology at the U of Ottawa, notes polar bears (which have become the poster-animal of the global warming industry) survived that sustained warm cycle and that volcanoes produce more CO2 every year than all human activity.
What's more, prior to 1940 temperatures on Earth were rising long before industrialization took place.
Then, when carbon dioxide emissions rose markedly in the post-war economic boom period, temperatures fell for the next three decades, again, in direct contravention of the theory being espoused and believed by so many.
Ironically, in the 1970s, just as scientists started predicting another climate catastrophe -- an impending ice age -- the planet started warming again.
The documentary ends with a quote from Dr. Fred Singer of the U of Virginia.
"There will still be people who believe this is the end of the world, particularly when you have, for example, the chief scientist of the U.K. telling people that by the end of the century the only habitable place on the Earth with be the Antarctic and humanity may survive thanks to some breeding couples who move to the Antarctic. I mean, this is hilarious," he says with a chuckle.
"It would be hilarious, actually, if it weren't so sad."
See the film at:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog?entry=24760&only


The link hasn't worked for me. But if you email the columnist at the Calgary Sun. I'm sure she'll send you the full link.