Mountain

If I had to

Move a mountain for u

I would do it

I could do it

A shovelful at a time

For your smile

I’d walk an extra mile

I’d walk that mile

A thousand times

And it would

Still seem so worthwile

SIMPLE MINDS

Don’t you look back on a big lost world
Crying out tomorrow
Don’t you look down like the heroes say
Come tell me all about it
Take me to the streets where the bonfires burn
Take me in your arms and I’ll fade away
When I hear you say what you got to say
Anywhere you go, you know I’ll still be waiting
All the things she said, she said
Little darling close your eyes, there’ll be no compromising
Of all the things she said, she said

Throw me to the street where the heartbeats beating
“Beating all around me”
To the peaceful revolution
And the perfect wave, surround me
Tell me ’bout the ocean moving in slow motion
I see it glitter in the sun
Then it’s freezing in the moonlight
Never look back, never look back, never look away

If freedom comes and goes, you know I’ll still be waiting
All the things she said, she said
You’ve fought the fight so long, no surrender to temptation
Of all the things she said, she said

Stars will fall out for you
Luck will surrender
I’m calling out to you

Oh to be near you in the first morning light
I’d be with you, I dream about you
If I could leave here, I would leave here tonight
I’d be with you, I’d stay with you tonight
Tonight

Anywhere you go, you know I’ll still be waiting
Of all the things she said, she said
When I look into your eyes, I see a new day rising
Oh all the things she said, she said
Through the eyes of love, and to never know what hate is
Of all the things she said, she said
She said, this is our time, she said, this is our place
This is the space my heart wants to be
Little darling close your eyes, there’ll be no compromising
All the things she said, she said

Delerium & Sarah McLachlan - Silence (fades sanctuary mix)

Give me release
witness me
I am outside
give me peace

Heaven holds a sense of wonder
and I wanted to believe
that I’d get caught up
when the rage in me subsides

In this white wave
I am sinking
in this silence
in this white wave
in this silence
I believe

Passion chokes the flower
’til she cries no more
possessing all the beauty
hungry still for more

Heaven holds a sense of wonder…

I can’t help this longing
comfort me
I can’t hold it all in
if you won’t let me

Heaven holds a sense of wonder…

In this white wave
I am sinking
in this silence
in this white wave
in this silence
I believe

I have seen you
in this white wave
you are silent
you are breathing
in this white wave
I am free

Moody Blues -Tuesday Afternoon

Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon (1970)

Cross-Country Ski Skating Tips, Technique

X-Country Skiing-Free Skate Technique

A good video to help you learn or improve cross country skating.
It helps if you have skate skis, but classic skis work ok. Removing the kick wax before skiing will improve the glide.
If there are no skating trails, try snowmobile trails in your area.
Just use some caution around snowmobilers.

The Skinny Sticks

Its days like these I’m glad I can get away from the grind and spend a few hours in the woods.

-4c and sunny in January is a treat. Perfect xc-ski conditions, except for a gale last night which blew a lot of debris on the trails. Nothing like a few spruce cones stopping you in your tracks while your trying to hustle along and make some miles.

Save the silly TV weight loss gimmicks for suckers. If it doesnt make you breathe hard it aint gonna do anything but make TV models richer and the silly hypesters   selling it to you. Go find yourself some ski trails and get moving.

Greener than Thou-Part 2

I read this today and found it totally amusing. Nations  like Canada that signed Kyoto actually ended up increasing emissions  by a substantial percentage over non- signatories such as the United States.

So much for the  massive global Kyoto bureaucracy saving the planet…

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2007/12/019272.php

Greener than thou? Part 1

  The  environmental movement is beginning to turn many people off, including myself.

I do not have a problem trying to be green. I am an environmentalist.

Is it possible to be one, but doubt things like global warming, the banning of plastic bags, question the expense and carbon footprint of municipal recycling projects, and wonder if hybrids are really good for the environment, without being dammed and labeled as a heretic?

I do have a problem with being goaded and constantly reminded to be green and drive a small car or hybrid or take public transit, while I see wealthier ilk flying off  on exotic vacations and the environmentalists say nothing about the massive carbon footprint of air travel.

I do have an issue with the environmental organizations harassing our politicians into making car manufacurers produce cleaner vehicles while any Joe can drive as much as he likes. What is the point of a manufacturer producing an expensive  environmentally mandated vehicle that produces 2 grams less emissions per mile while the public has unrestricted access to gasoline?

And really what is the point of  driving a small vehicle while I see huge mansions going up in the suburbs and the environmentalists say absolutely nothing about the huge carbon footprint involved in the building and maintaining of these monoliths?

It is starting to become evident to many that environmentalism has really just  become social elitism. Al Gore, Scharzenegger and the Hollywood crowd can do as they please,while pointing the finger at lesser mortals and moralizing about the need to save the planet. The jaded public is just starting to say “you hypocrites” in return, and smirking at the downsizing of thier Hummer fleets, the selling of an extra mansion etc.

And to put a tax on emissions from smokestacks and tailpipes is just plain ludricous. Silly and irresponsible because the majority of nations who gleefully signed Kyoto are failing  socialist states who were streetsmart enough to see Kyoto as a good blame game and a never ending source of funds via carbon taxes to prop up the failed myth of socialism . If these leaders simply do not care about thier own people and keep them repressed, what makes the naive western politicians think they even care about the environment? Kyoto was seen by the socialists as a clever blame game, a tool for blaming all the ills of their backwards nations on the “greedy” west.

And could have the rise of environmentalism come at a more opportune time? With the collapse of Communism in the early 90s, there needed to be something to prop up socialism in the world. What better way to deceive the west than by using Kyoto and  the hype of global warming to do it?

And the idea of  blaming European colonialism to blame all of Africas ills on the west was starting to wear thin after 60 years of no progress.Was there a  better way to keep the blame game going than by using environmetalism and the “polluting” western world to keep the myth of developing nations alive, just in the clever form of another myth like global warming?

This is Global Warming??Al Gore? UN? Greenpeace?

 No this picture was not taken near the North Pole or in the  Canadian Arctic.

I am really glad I had the camera with me and I stopped on this windswept cold highway just 8 miles north of North Dakota  close to the US/Canadian border .With the wind chill the temperature was close to -40F at noon yesterday.

The photo just shows you how ridiculous and far fetched the whole contrived nonsense of climate change/global warming reallyhas become.

While Al Gore ,and other crazy alarmists are herding 15000 of your elected politicians to the sunny resorts of Bali in the southern hemisphere to do some more of thier  expensive tax funded grandstanding to prop up thier inconvenient truth nonsense, North Americans have been shivering through what may become the coldest December on record.

Why doesnt the UN, Al Gore and others hold thier  annual alarmist GW meetings and do thier grandstanding, thier incessant scolding, thier handwringing in the middle of winter in the Northern Hemisphere?

Could it be that thier carefully contrived nonsense would be exposed for the silliness it really is when Al Gore  is standing in a snowbank here and shivering  while moralising to the rest of us?

No , he’s smart enough to know he would would look totally ridiculous in front of the CNN cameras. 

But in sunny Bali, the odds are in his favor to keep thier  convenient environmental lies intact.

Nabucco

Nabucco Verdi

Hubble and the Glory Of God- Part 2

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth….

Cartwheel Galaxy

Diamond Galaxy

The “Eye of God”

Blue Galaxy

Kristy Thirsk-Delerium-”Flowers Become Screens”

Delerium

The lovely Kristy Thirsk of Delerium. This is a remix of  the classic Delerium song “Flowers Become Screens”

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Soaks my skin - through to the bone
Pain is nothing that a downpour won’t erase
Rain - you can’t hold on to it
A treasure you cannot frame
Rain - somehow I’m drawn to it
I feel engaged, one and the same
When heavens dressing beads off my face
The pain is nothing that a downpour won’t erase

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A Poem For Byzantium- Delerium- Joanna Stevens

Aishiteruze Baby AMV ~ Delerium - A Poem for Byzantium

This song is off Delerium’s “Poem” CD.  Vocals by Joanna Stevens

Delerium - A Poem For Byzantium Lyrics

Unbidden shadows of you formed yesterday
I ran away to a room here on the bay
Interrupted life again, another new beginning
Where the silence echoes you’re no longer with me

Here and now, i feel that i’m embracing freedom
Even though i may be alone, but that’s ok

Through the darkness i would walk in the streets
Confessions never seemed to provide me with a release
Held me down and tried to cure me tried to give me reason
But nothing could separate this burdened mind from me

Here and now, i feel that i’m embracing freedom
Even though i may be alone, but that’s ok
And looking out to a different sky will disengage me
Absence is never the answer, i know, but it serves as my shade

I do not seek and do not intend to find
A calmer ocean or a sun that will never rise
My world will never change and time will bring you to mythoughts
And i’ll move on and then forget you all over again
Moving on, i can forgive you all over again

Here and now, i feel that i’m embracing freedom
Even though i may be alone, but that’s ok
And looking out onto a different sky it seems so easy
Absence is never the answer, i know, but it serves as my shade
 

Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in History’ « The800lbGorilla.com

Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in History’ « The800lbGorilla.com

Hubble and The Glory of God

Psalm 19:1

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmanent sheweth his handiwork…..

Chocolate Almonds… mmmm or Hmmm?

I bought a package of chocolate almonds the other day. I decided to buy some since I had a craving for them, regardless of a little known fact that may make you think twice about buying some in the future.

 Ok….. right on the package it says “Made from the finest select almonds”.
But when I bite into most of them to check out the quality of the almonds , I get a totally different visual story. Most of them are small, and discoloured. I wouldn’t say they were rancid, but getting close.

A high quality almond is  large and white throughout, not brown or yellow.

I guess there is a reason for chocolate coated almonds , raisins, nuts, or whatever. It is to make something palatable that would in its original form  would probably be unmarketable.

I wish some of the manufacturers of these “Fine Chocolate Almonds” would stick to truth in advertising   when it comes to hawking thier hyped up products, and that more consumers would take them to task for the   claims on thier packages.

The Rise of The Third Reich, Don’t mess with Germany!!

Triumph des Willens - Adolf Hitler Schlussrede

Being a  German  a generation removed from  the Nazi madness, I find it fascinating to watch Hitlers speeches to the German nation on YouTube.

These  video archives of probably the most powerful orator in history, can inspire adoration or loathing of the man.

I can see now how the impoverished German masses, humiliated by the west’s dictates  after Germany’s defeat in WW1, could idolize him in an era of weakwilled politicians. A  bankrupt, humiliated, starving German race capitulated not only to the unreasonable demands of the west, but also to the clever machinations of a  madman who  fully understood the Teutonic mind .

The torchlight ceremonies, the pomp and pageantry, the Wagnerian music , the symbolism, the mass meetings, a powerful orator inspiring and inciting the masses all appealed to   the Teutonic psyche  humiliated  by  the  bitter aftermath of WW1 . Hitler and the Nazis were only too happy to fill this void .

What is a humbling thought is, without the hindsight of history, would I have adored the man, or loathed him?

I do not know.

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Compact Flourescent Bulbs increase C02 Emissions

In certain situations it  does not make any  economic or environmental sense to buy these bulbs, no matter how much they are hyped.

Lets say you live in a temperate zone where your house is heated by a gas or oil furnace and you get on the environmental bandwagon and install these bulbs. The bulbs are of course much cooler and therefore radiate less heat energy than normal incandescent bulbs.

What  happens is that the heat coming from these bulbs actually heat the room and the house  by a small amount. In fact your gas furnace now has to make up the difference  to maintain the set thermostat temperature by staying on a few seconds longer each time. Over the course of the winter heating season this adds up to a few hours each month. So by installing these “energy saving bulbs” you simply make  your  fossil fuel fired furnace stay on longer in maintaining the dwelling temperature, thus increasing your carbon footprint.

So, if you’re like me and your electrical energy comes from a  hydro dam or nuclear or windpower , installing these bulbs actually increases C02 emssions by a significant amount over the heating season.

Think twice before you buy these expensive bulbs. In my experience they are no more durable than incandescent, yet many times more expensive.

And they only make sense in certain situations,

1.If your electricity is already generated by coal gas or oil, and your home  heated by fossil fuels.

2.During hot summer days when  you use your airconditioning a lot.

Hazy Shade of Winter

The Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter

I think its the right time of year for this song. The Bangles, doing a cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s Hazy Shade of Winter. They actually do a better version than S&G, in my opinion.

Time, time ,time, see what’s become of me

While I looked around for my possibilities

I was so hard to please

But look around, leaves are brown

And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Hear the salvation army band

Down by the riverside,  it’s got to be a better ride

Than what you have planned

Carry your cup in your hand

And look around now,leaves are brown now

And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Hang on to your hopes, my friend

That’s an easy thing to say, but if your hopes should pass away

Simply pretend

That you can build them up again

Look around, the grass is high, its the springtime of my life

Ahhh, seasons change with the scenery

Weaving time in a tapestry

Wont you stop and remember me

At any convenient time

Funny how my memory slips,looking over manuscripts

Of unpublished rhyme

Drinking my vodka and lime

But look around,leaves are brown now

And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Look around,leaves are brown

There’s a patch of snow on the ground

Angel

She stands so alone, on a hill

Overlooking her town, so forlorn

Paper thin,yet something within

So strong …1994

That  picture of her…so sad and blue

Concealed the majesty within,

Treasures hidden in that soul

Gems of trust and love and wonder

This woman of song

She told me of tears that burned

Of her fine love once spurned

Of angels that shouldnt cry, but only fly

And help this world

God looked at her that day

And said

You’ll be an angel  for others

Some day

In a darker hour

You were that gentle power

Kirsty

Angel…..

Chan Marshall and Cat Power- Willie

Cat Power - Willie (Live)

Chan Marshall and  her band Cat Power singing  “Willie”

Feargal Sharkey- A Good Heart

Feargal Sharkey - A Good Heart

Here’s a great song you never hear on FM. Feargal Sharkey, former lead singer of the UK band The Undertones. 1985

Simple Minds Vs Coldplay

Simple Minds vs Coldplay - Don’t You Forget About Coldplay?

I dont know what to make of this but its an interesting concept actually. A mashup of Simple Minds 1983′ hit  ”Dont You Forget About Me, and Coldplay’s “Clocks” circa 2003? 

The Corrs- My Lagan Love

The Corrs - My lagan love

A classic Irish tune, performed  by the Corrs.
Whether vocally or instrumentally performed by violin, piano or harp, this is always a superb piece.

Phil Coulter does  an amazing  piano rendition of it, as well as Celtic Woman on the violin.

VW TDI or Toyota Prius- Which is really “Greener”?

According to the logic the environmentalists use, a VW TDI should be ”greener” than a Prius Hybrid. Since environmentalists go by gas mileage figures alone in targeting different vehicles, why then is a VW TDI which gets better mileage than any hybrid vehicle, left out of the environmental hype?

It is almost comical, that the same environmental attitude which condemns SUVs because of thier poor gas mileage and hence their “earth wrecking status” , will endlessly hype and endorse hybrid vehicles simply because they are hybrids. Even though they get much poorer mileage than a VW TDI diesel, which can easily beat a hybrids mileage by 10-20%, the politicians and thier environmental counterparts will go to great lengths to make the public buy a hybrid using  large rebates.  While the efficient VW TDI diesel sits unnoticed by the environmental movement, the Prius and other hybrids are in the spotlight, getting there by using  some very flawed environmental logic.

And the Europeans, who have elevated the most reliable, economical and efficient engine the world has ever known  to new heights of environmental friendliness and fuel efficiency, are closer to meeting  thier Kyoto goals  through the massive public  use of the diesel engine in consumer vehicles.

 Canadians and Americans   are spending huge amounts of public tax dollars in a futile effort to become greener through the misguided hype of hybrid technology.