928...Bridget Bardot Speaks

For those of you who are not history buffs the name Bridget Bardot may not resonate.

She was a film star back in the olden days, starting her career around the same time Gordie Howe did and for the past 3 decades she has been an animal rights activist, specifically picking on the Newfoundlanders who harvest less than 60,000 seals a year.

CBC News reports that this year's master plan from People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals poster person Ms. Bardot to stop the seal trade is to organize a boycott of Canadian maple syrup.

I know, makes no sense.

According to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada produces about 85 per cent of the world's maple syrup, the rest presumably is from Vermont and New England. We schlep more than $213 million of the liquid gold to almost 45 different countries. I love that, almost 45 different countries---I presume we sell it to 44 different countries.

If the foreign markets dry up they could just sell the excess to my mom; I swear, she must drink the stuff.

Ms. Bardot, who is 75 but, due to the fact that she never wore sunblock looks closer to 175 than 75, was a sex symbol and actress and unbelievably hot, appearing in 16 films.

She is not just an animal rights activist showcased by PETA, oh no. She is also a convicted racist in her homeland of France.

Five times.

Think about that when you are putting syrup on everything tomorrow morning.

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615...A New Strain Of HIV Discovered

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the pool this comes up, this being a new strain of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

The new strain of HIV has, according to today's edition of Nature Medicine, discovered in a woman from Cameroon. The woman, who now resides in Paris, France, was diagnosed in 2004. The 62 year old has not become an AIDS patient yet and is a bit of a mystery in that she was not exposed to Gorillas or Chimpanzees and was not a consumer of bush meat which is a colloquialism for eating our Simian counterparts and often provides the jumping off point for HIV strains to enter the Homo Sapiens world.

It, this new strain, is all a bit of a mystery. The lack of information about this new strain, is it a one off thing, is it circulating through out Cameroon, West Africa, what, what, is what concerns the scientific community.

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518...This Would Never Happen In Ottawa

Too many permits to apply for.

Plus the noise laws.

"Angry French Nortel workers threaten to blow up the factory"

Lead headline in the online edition of the Ottawa Citizen.

Using an interesting negotiating tactic, workers at the French arm of telecommunications manufacturer Nortel have forced management into talks over layoff terms by threatening to blow up their factory.

Okay, let us review, if you don't give us our jobs back we will blow up the factory and everyone will be out of work.

Everyone.

Not just those laid off.

And you, Mr. Nortel, who wants to close the factory, will get your wish.

Brilliant.

And by brilliant I mean:

Stupid.

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