Vintage Rex Murphy- 1976- Seal Hunt

[Update: CTV.ca | Some sealers park boats after slow opening day]
Seal Hunt update:
Really vintage Rex Murphy from 1976 is available here. I find it to be a rich and poor issue. The rich, Paul McCartney's and Bridget Bardot's against the poor Newfoundland Fisherman.

Presumably these same activists have never been inside a slaughterhouse, or gone into the woods with a deer hunter. They must never have visited a farm where veal is raised, or a facility where geese and ducks are forcefed to produce pate de foie gras.

Because if they had, we'd have to assume these same animal rights groups would be demonstrating in front of abattoirs and cuddling up with baby cows and baby geese. (From:ottawasun.com - Editorial - Who gives a flipper?)

Much of the commentary at Canada.com ( Forums | Share It) is the same as above:

Its plain silliness. If you don't like the seal hunt, mark your protest by not killing seals. People don't go on a hayday when its partridge season and my dad always bags like 60 of them. Could it be because partridge aren't as (GASP) cute as little seals? Furthermore, its funny how some lefties (like myself but not in this case) are pro choice when it comes to abortions, but OH NO WE CAN'T TOUCH THOSE SEALS... just plain stupid.

POSTED BY MARTY3700 At 10:57AM ET on March 19, 2006

Or another view is done well by a Canadian Senator at CBC News - Viewpoint: Your Space

Oh wait, the original sea hunt protest (1970's) was against the killing of white coat babies, then it was the numbers killed and now it is because ... the hunt is now regulated with a quota (limited numbers) and the kiling methods are better than most abattoirs. So why are they protesting? They should take all the money collected to protest the seal hunt and give it to the Newfoundland Fishermen in some kind of trust. That would be useful. It is rich against poor. Goliath versus Daivid. How many homes does Sir Paul own? He could sell one or two of them and give the money to the fishermen in a trust of some kind. Stupid, stupid bug!!!

Sore Point

Christians are extremely limited in the ways they can practice their faith in some Islamic countries, notably Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. This has become an increasingly sore point in Europe, where Muslim communities are growing rapidly and demanding rights and respect. From Scotsman.com News - Latest News - U.S. and allies press Afghanistan on Christian convert:

If you are not aware there is an Afghan man who is facing death because he became a Christian.

An Afghan judge said on Sunday a man named Abdur Rahman had been jailed for converting from Islam to Christianity and could face the death penalty if he refused to become a Muslim again. Sharia, or Islamic law, stipulates death for apostasy.

My friend, Statsguy has complete coverage. I just want to make the point that we in our western society are willing to live along side others. We love all inspite of their beliefs. I leave you with my six year old son's memory verse for this week:

"... let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
1 John 3:18"

" 18 أَيُّهَا الأَوْلاَدُ الصِّغَارُ، لاَ يَجِبُ أَنْ تَكُونَ مَحَبَّتُنَا مُجَرَّدَ ادِّعَاءٍ بِالْكَلاَمِ وَاللِّسَانِ، بَلْ تَكُونَ مَحَبَّةً عَمَلِيَّةً حَقّ

ﻝﻭﻻﺍ ﺎﻨﺣﻮﻳ 3:18 "

Grace Greater than Our Sin

Grace Greater than Our Sin:

Marvelous grace of our loving Lord,
Grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt!
Yonder on Calvary’s mount outpoured,
There where the blood of the Lamb was spilled.

Refrain

Grace, grace, God’s grace,
Grace that will pardon and cleanse within;
Grace, grace, God’s grace,
Grace that is greater than all our sin.

Sin and despair, like the sea waves cold,
Threaten the soul with infinite loss;
Grace that is greater, yes, grace untold,
Points to the refuge, the mighty cross.

Refrain

Dark is the stain that we cannot hide.
What can we do to wash it away?
Look! There is flowing a crimson tide,
Brighter than snow you may be today.

Refrain

Marvelous, infinite, matchless grace,
Freely bestowed on all who believe!
You that are longing to see His face,
Will you this moment His grace receive?

Refrain

Words by Julia Harriette Johnston
Music by Daniel Brink Towner

Our Recreation Centre

In other Yukon news our new recreation centre will be featured on CBC radio's Inside Track with Robin Brown.

This Week

March 19, 2006

The enormous Canada Games Centre in Whitehorse is a March Break dream-come-true. An Olympic sized ice rink, water slide, swimming pool, gymnasium, soccer field, the latest in fitness equipment and more are all under one roof. The Multiplex has engaged Yukoners of all ages and it has even become the cool place to hang out for Whitehorse teenagers.

Click here for the audio file.

Tourists

Yukon gets lots of tourists. My friend Statguy has a good link and some good information to all Yukon travelers. Take a look with you plan on coming up the highway. Click here for information on the Yukon.


While you are at Statguy's blog make sure you check the government sponsored soccer match in the Netherlands at Let's get together and have a friendly game of soccer.

A Poem for St. Patrick's Day

I share a poem my mother wrote about a year before she passed away. She was born in Northern Ireland and would have been more likely to wear orange than green but here is the poem:

When St. Patrick came to Ireland
To set the people free
He used the little Shamrock
To teach them of the love of God
Who was the "One in Three"

by May Greenshields
May 2003

She always wrote wee poems. My birthday parties were always fun because she would write rhyming clues as a treasure hunt to the "big" birthday gift. I miss her. I myself avoided green and wore a tie with alot of orange in it!

How Cold was it!!!!

Rebecca Writes about the current colder than usual weather for March we are having here in Whitehorse. It reminds of selling pizza as a soccer team fundraiser in Old Crow. We sold large pizzas for $25.00 and for $30.00 we would deliver. We actually made quite a tidy profit which provided air fare to the soccer tournament for all eight players and the coach (me). Did I mention that it was -55ºC !!! The deliveries were done by snowmobile. People phoned the school to place the orders. We made the pizzas in the school kitchen and then delivered them to peoples' homes. Here is a map of the Yukon in which you can see Old Crow at the top. It is Yukon's only fly-in community. It was very cold. I worked the phones and helped make pizza. The delivery snowmobiles used winter sleeping bags to keep the pizzas warm for home deliveries. We had no complaints about cold pizza!!!!!



(photo from http://www.oldcrow.ca/index2.htm)
(map from http://www.yukoncommunities.yk.ca/communities)

Very very bad call sinks Japan

The USA beats Japan 4 to 3 at the World Baseball Classic and you say so what?!!! It must have been a close game... well yes.

Alex Rodriguez hit a bases-loaded, two-out single in the ninth to give Team USA a 4-3 victory yesterday in the opener of Round 2 of the inaugural World Baseball Classic in Anaheim, Calif.

And yes it was a close game but in the eighth inning...

Japan appeared to take a 4-3 lead off Joe Nathan in the eighth when Akinori Iwamura flied to left with one out and the bases loaded. Tsuyoshi Nishioka beat Randy Winn's throw home, and second base umpire Brian Knight ruled safe when Team USA appealed the play. But plate umpire Bob Davidson overruled the call after consulting with the other umpires.

I watched in disbelief when even the TV commentators on ESPN2 said it was the wrong call. They replayed it four or five times and every time the Japanese player, Tsuyoshi Nishioka was tagged up at third the American outfielder caught the ball and then Tsuyoshi Nishioka ran home. It must be nice to have the adavantage home grown officials who make calls your way.
Japan may protest reversed call,as they should.

It really looks ugly.

Technically, this was true. Politically, it was a powder keg.

In asserting his right to overrule a colleague's decision yesterday, Davidson left Japan feeling terribly wronged. And with justification. {San Diego-newspaper}

SI.com - Japanese fans cry foul over Classic call: "Several Japanese baseball commentators pointed out that Nishioka was shifting his weight to his front foot before the ball reached Winn's glove but that his back foot was still on the bag and Davidson might have been fooled by this.

Former New York Mets manager Bobby Valentine, who manages Nishioka on the Japan Series champion Chiba Lotte Marines, was quoted in the Nikkansports newspaper as saying 'It was a bad call.''"

Good call or bad call Team USA will need to play better to get any respect from me.

Ump should be man without a country

TheStar.com - A-Rod, bad call sink Japan

Borrow a Page

I often read a blog done by my niece { Only a dramatization... }. It is very interesting. So today I will borrow from her format.

Current music: Soundtrack from Robots Movie
music includes
Shine------Ricky Fanté
Get Up Offa That Thing -----James Brown (Ali Dee Remix)
Love's Dance-----Earth Wind & Fire
Robot City-----Blue Man Group & John Powell Robots
(There's Gotta Be) More to Life------Stacie Orrico

Of course I would never have been remotely interested in the soundtrack if my kids did not love the movie. The boys especially like the James Brown song. I persoanlly like the song "Shine". The singer, Ricky Fanté sings in the soul singer tradition of the "Motown/Atlantic Records" style of 60's soul music. Anyway, I have to Get Up Offa [This] Thing and go and do my things...

Ricky Fante [Rewind] [Virgin Records]

Rewind definitely captures the raw and gritty soul music from the sixties and seventies. An excellent singer and songwriter, Fante brings a revival.
Ricky Fante has brought back an almost forgotten era of soul music. He’s yet another soulful offering in the company of Anthony Hamilton, Calvin Richardson, Jaheim and Van Hunt. He’s pure soul, back in the day he would have been probably been signed to the legendary Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, once the label home for some of our most revered soul singers, such as, Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, Sam and Dave and others.

This Washington D.C. soul singer’s sound is reminiscent of Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett and Sam Cooke. Rewind offers pure soul with a country feel, think Bobby Womack and Johnny Taylor, music that captures the soul and simply won’t let go.

Ricky Fante’s making his brand of popular soul music and it’s so refreshing. The hot single hitting the airwaves is "It Ain’t Easy" with a D.C. Go-Go feel. Ricky Fante’s a fabulous artist; he possesses great vocals and not to mention his killer good looks, think a young Marvin Gaye, yeah, he’s fine! He fluently translates soul sessions to listeners and provides "feel good" music throughout the entire CD. The kind of music that made Bill Withers and Wyclef masters. As you listen, it’s easy to drift off to quiet places in your mind with "If it’s all." Rewind is an intimate CD, it’s full of passion and warmth, definitely one for a road trip! Fante grew up doing Elvis impressions and you feel it on "Are You Lonely"…a really cool head bobbing retro song. Other musical influences were Frank Sinatra and most of all Stevie Wonder. This wonderful vibe continues throughout the CD. Rewind is one full of soulful storytelling, a main ingredient for soul music, no hook singing with "Love Doesn’t Live Here" and "It’s Over Now," addresses relationship breakups. Then he delivers "He Don’t Love You Like I Do" in a country/bluesy fashion. Rewind is really cool and co-written with Jesse Harris (Norah Jones fame, "I Don’t Know Why" Grammy Winner) and together they create throwback music with a fresh styling.

You’ll like Rewind because it’s real and penetrates and crosses barriers to reach you where you live…the soul! Alicia Sanders from 2004 R&B Reviews:

I think I will have to buy this album. Hey, my birthday is coming up.

Canada 8, United States 6 (Baseball!!!!!)

The headline says it all. Wow. I just saw the highlights on TSN and I had the sound down because I was on the phone with my wife. I was not sure of the outcome as I watched the highlights. I knew we had pretty good baseball players but I had know idea we could beat the Americans. From what I saw it looks like we fielded well and were ahead 8-0 before the Americans rallied back. Wow.

SI.com - Canada 8, United States 6

SLAM! Sports - Baseball - Field of Dreams

I truly am a Great Uncle

As of sometime yesterday in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan I became a great uncle. My nephew and his wife Marie gave birth to a boy. So cool. Wow!!

Go Danny Go!!!!

Update[link to a real Newfoundlander with pictures of the real thing]
Table Mountains
Or check out the numbers of seals: NL-Outsidethebox [confederation]: Contrary to popular belief this is a seal

Danny Williams took on Paul McCartney and his wife over their mis-information about the seal hunt last night on CNN and it was great. Williams made them look very foolish. They made assertion after assertion and he knocked them all down. Ninety percent of the seals are killed with a bullet. The seals that the McCartneys are seen with are no longer killed.

Williams said if you go into any slaughterhouse and put white sheets on the floor, "then you're going to see blood. And that's not nice and that's not pleasant."

The truth is painful Paul but 5,000 fishermen are easier to take on than the beef industry or the poultry industry.

"There's a point where people who don't respect Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, and who don't treat us with respect, will get it back in spades from me," he said. "I certainly wasn't going to allow the McCartneys to dominate that interview.

"They target us because we're a smaller province and it's a smaller industry," the premier said after he emerged from a TV studio in St. John's. "They're not going to take on the beef industry. A seal pup makes a great photo op."

The thing that has always bothered me is that when the protest first began it was all about how the seals are killed. The practice has changed since the 1960's and 70's, as it had to be changed. Now the culling is done only for a short period and it is restricted to certain seals. The method has changed as they probably needed to but now McCartney asserts all the old lines from 30 -40 years ago and he has no basis in reality. The numbers of seals is high and the hunt is regulated. When they had success in stopping the method in the 1970's then it was all about the numbers. Now we have an increase in numbers and a restricted cull. So why are the McCartneys protesting?

Williams went on to say that the couple is being used by organizations like the IFAW, Greenpeace and PETA who raise hundreds of millions of dollars. He added that the FBI has terrorist files on these groups.

So really Paul McCartney supports Eco-terrorism! I suppose when you are a millionaire with too much time on your hands then you can protest whatever you want. Let me say I like the Beatles' music and Wings music but what right does he have to take money out of the pockets of Newfoundlanders. These guys and their families do not deserve this. I mean the cull is sterwardship!



CBC News: N.L. premier takes on ex-Beatle over seal hunt

Seal hunt supporters worry Beatle star power will have impact

Scotsman.com News - Latest News - McCartneys see red over seal culls

WWF Canada - Advocacy with Excellence

UglySeals-BeatlesParody.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)