Another hectic and nail-biting week (if you’re a Habs fan), but we made it through. Unfortunately with my schedule now completely out of hand, I had precious little time to do any blogging. At least nothing substantive, but it’s Friday, who needs anything substantive? Before you find yourself a terrasse and settle in for the long weekend, here’s some useless drivel to put you in the right frame of mind.
Montreal Mayor Gerald Tremblay is fighting back after new allegations of corruption were levelled at city hall. The city’s auditor general reported two new incidences of irregularities in the awarding of public contracts. The mayor claims these allegations are not new at all, in fact he’s known about them for some time. The good news, according to Mayor Gerry, is that his recent re-election has given him the mandate to clean up city hall …the same city hall over which he presided when most of these questionable contracts were awarded.
That’s a crazy as letting oil companies police their own drilling activities …wait…what?
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Montreal Gazette sports writer Pat Hickey is closer to finding the culprits who vandalized his car after game one of the Habs – Flyers series. His car was parked in the lot outside Wachovia Center. The tires had been slashed, a hubcap busted in half, it was doused in beer and the license plate stolen.
A few days later, Hickey discovered that some pinhead had posted a photo of himself with the missing license plate on his Facebook page. Reporters from the Philadelphia Enquirer (figures) tracked down the man, who immediately denied it was him. The American Idiot of the week told reporters he just found the photo on the Internet and posted it for fun, but said he also knows who the actual vandals were.
I can’t decide which is more unbelievable, the fact that he’s dense enough to post that photo on his Facebook profile or the fact that he can operate a computer.
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So, who do you call when all the so-called experts can’t figure out what to do about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Why, Kevin Costner of course. Apparently during the filming of the slightly less toxic Waterworld, Costner began investing in a technology that uses massive, stainless steel centrifuges which can apparently sift oil out of the ocean. The Coast Guard plans to test six of the devices this week…because they’ve basically run out of other ideas.
My suggestion for Costner’s company slogan?
…wait for it…
‘If you spill it, they will come.’
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Can someone please explain to me why I’m getting Al Jazeera English on my Illico box? I think I’d rather trade it in for the Golf channel. Hell, if I’m going to be accused of being an evil western infidel, I should at least be allowed to act like one.
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Scientists revealed that they have created the world’s first synthetic living cell. For those of you who don’t know much about biology, a synthetic cell is a living organism designed by artificial DNA created in a lab with lots of clear tubing and beakers filled with bubbling green liquid. The bacterial cell is able to reproduce itself according to how the DNA was programmed, by definition a living organism.
Biologists have hailed this breakthrough as having the potential to engineer living cells capable of producing vaccines or fighting disease in the human body.
Which is crap, because really they just want to create artificial humans that will then turn on their creators culminating in a futuristic battle to save the future of humanity led by a guy who looks like Keanu Reeves.
And they say you can’t learn anything from the movies.
Enjoy your weekend,
Go Habs, Go
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