tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20241979958729471232012-02-01T08:26:02.553-05:00Liberty, Low-Carb and Heavy Metal for all!Francis St-Pierrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12471392562871410066noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024197995872947123.post-32486162072881159152008-03-25T08:54:00.003-05:002008-03-25T09:36:05.328-05:00

On a tous été bombardés des scènes de bagarres survenues lors du match entre les Remparts et les Saguenéens de la fin de semaine dernière. Il va sans dire que l'assaut perpétré par le gardien des Remparts, Jonathan Roy, est un geste disgracieux qui ne devrait être imité par aucune personne saine d'esprit.Est-ce que j'applaudis donc la sortie opportuniste de la ministre Courchesne, qui entend

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1. Ca coûte excessivement cher pour une microscopique portion.2. Je ne comprends pas la moitié des noms sur le menu parce qu'au lieu d'utiliser le mot commun ils choisissent le mot péteux français.3. L'ambiance est souvent bien trop formelle. On peut même pas faire des jokes de pets!4. Et, bien sûr, c'est souvent même pas bon.En lien avec #4, pourquoi est-ce que de grands chefs réussissent à

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Consultation médicale par Internet: Myca persiste et signeDaphnée Dion-Viens : Consultation médicale par Internet: Myca persiste et signe | Le Soleil | CyberpresseUne héroïque entreprise québécoise lancera sous peu un service de consultation médicale virtuelle. EN effet, vous et moi pourront dès ce printemps recevoir des services de notre médecin (actuel ou un nouveau) en ligne grâce aux services

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Un témoignage absolument renversant se retrouve sur le blogue de Mike Eades aujourd'hui. En fait, il est tellement révélateur et touchant que j'ai pris la liberté de le traduire en français pour que le plus de gens possible puissent en prendre connaissance.Si vous parlez anglais svp lisez le texte original qui est beaucoup plus authentique, émotif, touchant qu'une traduction peut jamais

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Quoi? Un autre top X des meilleures tounes/bands/riffs/solos/etc.?!? Et oui, pourquoi pas! Top 10 de mes meilleures tounes métal. Mais cette fois-ci, ce sera différent... un peu.Pourquoi différent? Les critères de sélection seront clairs et consistants, demeurant néanmoins tout à fait subjectifs, bien sûr.Pourquoi je trippe sur la musique? Qu'est-ce qui vient me chercher dans le métal? Qu'est-ce

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Martin Masse sur le blogue du QL dénonce avec justesse les propriétaires de stations de ski du Québec qui étalent leurs pleurnichages dans le journal, s'indignant du fait que les banques leur offrent des conditions de prêt inhumaines et réclamant (quoi d'autre?) une intervention de gouvernement.J'aimerais ajouter quelques points.Une station de ski est une entreprise extrêmement risquée à la

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Demeurant maintenant dans la région d'Ottawa, aussi connue sous l'appellation “fourmillière à fonctionnaires”, je peux enfin rendre justice à ces merveilleux serviteurs publiques que sont les fonctionnaires fédéraux. En effet, étant originaire de Québec, royaume incontesté du fonctionnaire provincial, je n'étais point au courant qu'un formidable cri du coeur était lancé chaque année par mes

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Bon, étant plutôt occupé par mes examens de mi-session, j'ai quelque peu négligé mes lectures quotidiennes depuis une semaine. Disons donc que c'est la citation de la semaine, un honneur d'autant plus grand pour Nathalie Elgrably de l'IEDM qui en est l'auteure. Sans plus tarder, roulements de tambour... :Un festival n'est qu'un mode de divertissement parmi d'autres. En l'absence de ce genre

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When a legendary explosive metal band plays one of the most crowd-blasting song ever in front of one of the craziest audiences in the world... well, this is bound to come up on Youtube sometime.Warning : this video can provoke some serious urges of jumping around in one's living room and may cause substantial damage to your carelessly stored CD collection. Watch at your own risks.

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David Emerson, the guy who decides what amount of tax you and I have to pay directly and indirectly when purchasing foreign goods, has decided that less was now better than more. You probably won't be surprised when I say that I agree with this idea 120%.In a speech made in Gatineau yesterday to announce a new trade deal with 4 European countries, Federal Trade Minister Emerson made some

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Au Québec à tout le moins, le mot privatisation est synonyme de bafouement de nos droits de citoyens, soumission à la tyrannie capitaliste, prise en otage de la population, et autres expressions novlanguaises qui font vendre des journaux.Un vent de changement soufflrait-il sur la belle province, alors que Claude Garcia, dans un texte d'opinion publié dans la Presse, propose de privatiser

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Well, I'm extremely proud to say that I've been a low-carber for one year today. Thank you, thank you.In this time period, I've lost 40 pounds, 4 inches of waist-line, and a 22 year old curse of chubbiness. Breaking this curse is by far my greatest accomplishment. Losing the weight was easy. Just stick to the plan and stay motivated by the moving scale.Staying at my new ideal weight is the real

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Not mine though, but Pierre Lemieux's, can be found here. This great article summarizes the issue quite well, and brings a refreshing point of view on the misplaced gun control debate. Extract :In Blacksburg today, the tragic spectacle of tens, if not hundreds, of heavily armed policemen, with at least one armoured vehicle, all powerless to prevent a single gunman from killing and maiming more

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This is the province's new Premier, Ed Stelmach's, opinion.There is a price to prosperity, a substantial price, as you will see, Stelmach said in a speech...Stelmach said the province is dealing with double-digit growth hikes virtually across the board, leading to job and housing shortages and concerns about quality of life.We need stable funding for municipalities, for capital projects, and we

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I'm no fan of voting or democracy itself. Politicians are usually nothing more than ambitious individuals willing to promise the majority to do all kinds of bad things to unpopular minorities to be/stay in power.Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, is, until proven otherwise, probably of the same breed as all the others. However, one one topic at least, we share the same opinions. And

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Chavez granted powers to remake Venezuelan societyLawmakers loyal to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez approved a law on Wednesday giving him the power to enact sweeping measures by decree, a move critics say is a step toward authoritarianism. Members of the National Assembly unanimously approved all four articles of the law by a show of hands. Viva President Hugo Chavez, long live socialism!"

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Une légende urbaine affirme que si l'on plonge une grenouille dans l'eau bouillante, elle bondira instantanément pour fuir, mais que si l'eau est agréablement tiède au début et qu'on la fait chauffer graduellement, la grenouille y demeurera jusqu'à ce qu'elle soit ébouillantée et meure. La grenouille serait en effet incapable de détecter à temps l'augmentation graduelle de la température.Et bien,

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 Même heure, même poste. Il va y avoir du sport, en effet, alors que M. Masse, accompagné dans son coin "néolibéral" par René Vézina, rédacteur en chef du Journal Les Affaires, sera opposé à la toujours très rationelle Françoise David, ainsi qu'à l'ostracisé Yves Michaud, qui lobbye en faveur du bien-être des actionnaires Québécois (!) .Le sujet : Faut-il limiter la rémunération des chefs

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This year's Christmas issue of Time Magazine has its own tribute to the WWW, entitled Person of the Year: You, which is quite revealing. According to the author, the Web is slowly changing human relationships, moving from a a relationship of authority, from politician to common man, to a relationship of equality, from individual to individual. I could not agree more, and this change is all for

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Somalia: Islamic Courts Deny Al-Qaeda Operatives In Country : Yusuf Mohommed Siad Indho-adde, the chief of the Islamic Courts security section, warned African states not to send their troops to Somalia or that Somalia would the graveyard for the African troops.UN Security Council members unanimously approved a US backed draft resolution to lift the arms embargo that was imposed on Somalia in 1992

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Toronto Star's Megan Ogilvie has a piece today concerning the upcoming revision of Canada's Food Guide, which is "designed to help Canadians make wise food choices, [by translating] the science of healthy eating into a practical pattern of food choices that meets nutrient needs, promotes health and minimizes the risk of nutrition-related chronic diseases." From the article : A draft version from

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Michael R. Eades, the co-author of Protein Power, has a "beef" against food regulation. You can read it here.i{content: normal !important}i{content: normal !important}

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Great post from Bruce Sterling on Wired News. An extract : The future of the Internet lies not with institutions but with individuals. Low-cost connections will proliferate, encouraging creativity, collaboration, and telecommuting. The Net itself will recede into the background. If you're under 21, you likely don't care much about any supposed difference between virtual and actual, online and off

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Comme toute intervention gouvernementale, la loi anti-tabac qui est entrée en vigueur au printemps dernier entraîne des répercussions inattendues. Des OSBL craignent d'être à court de fonds pour Noël à cause de la loi antitabac. Certains organismes sans but lucratif de Montréal et des environs, qui se financent grâce aux soirées de bingo, se sont mobilisés mardi matin pour démontrer que la loi

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En fait, pas exactement... Mais c'est tout comme si on en croit son PDG. En réaction au projet de loi visant à permettre aux supermarchés d'avoir plus d'employés sur le plancher en fin de soirée et la fin de semaine en soirée, M. Bouchard mentionne dans un article de la Presse Canadienne : "Pour un consommateur qui une fois dans sa vie va aller acheter un steak à 3h00 du matin, on va bulldozer

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A passionating document entitled Vaccination : What you need to know can be found on the Vaccine Risk Awareness Network (VRAN) website. The article is an excellent overview of the main medical arguments against vaccination. One not so surprising argument put forward is that high-carb diets could have a great negative impact on a person's immune system.From the article : During the late 1940’s

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The CBC reported minutes ago that Augusto Pinochet died this morning.Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet has died, a military hospital in Santiago said Sunday.Days earlier, he had been moved from the Santiago Military Hospital's intensive care unit to an intermediate care room.Pinochet, 91, had been at the hospital since Dec. 3, when he suffered what doctors described as an acute heart

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I've recently discovered the Swedish black/death metal band Dissection. Having never been a huge fan of guttural vocals and relentless blast beat in the first place, it was a surprise when I happened to enjoy the selection Pandora had made for me of a band with a name that cliché of black/death. The band's music is quite original, with pleasantly aggressive vocals, an almost progressive rhytm,

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It has been brought to my attention that Harvard professor of economics Gregory Mankiw, the author of the textbook used in my Microeconomics course, has started the Pigou Club. The purpose of this club : to get the American government to raise Pigouvian taxes, or what we common people usually call green or social taxes. Well, that was bound to happen.The best thing about the Pigou Club, however,

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India might me a rising superpower, but there is apparently at least on category in which Westerners have nothing to fear. A BBC News article reports on a study made on more than 1000 Indian males, and males only. The results : the average Indian shares the Japanese South Park Character Syndrome. But hey, as says "Sunil Mehra, the former editor of the Indian version of the men's magazine Maxim :

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Pour ou contre Wal-Mart? Martin Masse à Il va y avoir du sportÀ ne pas manquer sur les ondes de Télé-Québec vendredi le 8 décembre 19 h 30 (ou en rediffusions, les dimanche 10 décembre 18 h 30, et lundi 11 décembre 14 h 30) à l'émission Il va y avoir du sport de Marie-France Bazzo, un débat intitulé «Pour ou contre Wal-Mart?» Pour l'occasion, les panélistes invités sont, dans le coin droit:

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Conserving nature is like money in the bankAsk folks what they value about nature and most would probably be quick to mention aesthetic and spiritual properties like beauty, serenity and peace. We hold these values dear to our hearts because they resonate with strong emotional ties. But there are other, even more pragmatic, reasons to value nature - reasons even a hard-headed economist can't

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Because I  normally have much respect for Penn and Teller : Bullshit! , it pains me to watch them make fools of themselves on a topic as sensitive as 9/11. The team acclaimed for their witty ability to expose the flaws in "common knowledge" had to join the mainstream current and fall right into the trap of logical inconsistency. Because a few nuts are making absurd claims about what happened on

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News.com had an article yesterday entitled IRS taxation of online game virtual assets inevitable. From the article :Most governments are only beginning to become aware of the substantial economic activity in online games, but the games' rapid growth and the substantial value of the many virtual assets changing hands in them is almost certain to bring them into the popular consciousness. "Given

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Friday was World AIDS Day , a day "dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection." In honour of this terrible affliction, I thought I'd introduce you folks to some good readings on the topic of the HIV/AIDS scam. You read well, HIV/AIDS is a scam, and here's why :Out Of Control : AIDS and the corruption of medical science The moving story of Joyce Ann

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Jason DecayGeddy LeeI went to see the Metal Earthquake last night in Ottawa's Cafe Dekcuf. Great gig guys.The main attraction was a band named Cauldron from Toronto. Although the guys were a little too gay-looking for my tastes, they put up a good show. Their writing is original and they sound great on stage. They remind me of the early Megadeth albums, which is in all respects a very good thing.

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Bienvenue a tous, welcome everyone!Premier commentaire, qui se doit d'etre bref et sanglant. J'irai donc droit au but : je n'ai aucune idée de ce qui adviendra de ce blogue dans les prochains mois, et encore moins les prochaines années. Il y aura fort probablement des liens vers des articles écrits par des auteurs au talent certain. On y trouvera probablement aussi quelques tirades colériques

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