Adam Huras, The Canadian Press Life imitates classic SNL
SHEDIAC, N.B. A countrywide bidding war has begun to boil over a 100-year-old, 10- kilogram Bay of Fundy lobster.
An Ontario woman slapped down $3,500 Friday, eyeing a family feast. A Vancouver woman, who wants to fly to New Brunswick to release the lobster named Big Dee-Dee, says she needs the weekend to rally donations to become the highest bidder.
Its now the animal lovers versus the meat eaters for the rights to the crustacean caught earlier this month. . . .
Breau originally bought the lobster from his usual buyer, astonished by the size and age of the sea creature. He then sold it to a local restaurant, but then backed away from the deal after his phone began to ring with offers.
At first the bids were small but after a television newscast made the story national, a bidding war shot the price up.
"In Ontario they want to cook it for a big luncheon," said Breau. Their offer stood at $3,500 as of Friday afternoon. That price may double by the time his auction closes on Aug. 8. Big Dee-Dee could feed about 16 people, according to Breau.
Lobsters go for $8.99 a pound in his store, meaning this particular lobster at 22 pounds would retail for around $200. . . .
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The bigger lobster gets .. the tougher it gets.
Better off spending the money on more smaller ones.
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A Vancouver woman, who wants to fly to New Brunswick to release the lobster named Big Dee-Dee, says she needs the weekend to rally donations to become the highest bidder.
I remember the last time one of these ditz's did this. She took a film crew out to watch her return our lucky crustacean to the briny deep and she tossed him in. Banded claws and all.
I wonder how long he lasted...
Hat tip Gateway Pundit. Apparently the sea-ice over the Arctic is 1 million square kilometers larger than this time last year. So much for the Big Melt. Lot of scienterrific pictures at the link.
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In climate circles when the problems of the surface temperature record are brought up, global warming believers tend to switch their argument to 'but the ice is melting'.
This has been rather sarcastically called, 'The retreat to the ice'.
So a large increase in both northern and southern hemisphere sea ice this year over last year is particularly embarassing for the warming believers.
BTW, the southern hemisphere increase is probably more significant
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I have suggested to a friend in Cleveland that he have a special small "warm room" in his house, so if next winter is arctic cold, and the price of home heating oil is sky high, or worse, in shortage, he and his son will have a warm place to sleep for eight hours a day and hang out, even if they can't heat the rest of the house.
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A couple of sweaters with a Thermacare wrap underneath against the back, a knit cap, and thick socks are almost as good, Anonymoose. Better, if the power goes out, along with a camp stove or a couple of home-made paraffin-soaked cardboard in a tuna tin thingies for heating soup and hot chocolate.
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For those in the southern climes, don't forget that not heating most modern homes means you just allowed your water pipes to freeze. That really compounds your bad day.
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Yeah, that will ruin your whole weekend. Under the house with frozen fingers and lead solder, catching the floor joists on fire as you writhe in misery and thrash about with a propane torch.
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Under the house with frozen fingers and lead solder, catching the floor joists on fire as you writhe in misery and thrash about with a propane torch.
That's if you still have copper pipes. Lot's of new housing have gone all plastic. I think they just split and have to be replaced.
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Not exactly Steve, plastic Pipes are much easier to replace, and dirt cheap as well, just hacksaw out the split section, two plastic slip-joints, a bit of glue, and whatever pipe length is needed and 5 minuites of labor.total cost about 5 bucks.
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The African National Congress (ANC) and its alliance partners will establish a full-time political school in Gauteng to develop and train their members, the ANC said on Monday.
The announcement follows a Gauteng tripartite alliance summit which took place at the weekend.
The Alliance, consisting of the ANC, the SA Communist Party, the Congress of SA Trade Unions, and the SA National Civic Organisation, said the institution would be up and running by January 2009.
"We agreed that there is a need to develop a comprehensive strategy that will assist us in deploying our cadres in all key areas in which the transformation agenda is being pursued," ANC provincial secretary David Makhura told reporters in Johannesburg.
AJMER: For Mohammed Jakir, an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh, begging may have begun as a compulsion but through his ingenuity he turned it into a career option.
The 42-year-old amputee, who begged in Indian cities for more than two decades, is today known to be a rich man in Bangladesh.
Indian intelligence sleuths, who nabbed Jakir after learning about his all-too-frequent visits to Bangladesh, claim that his wealth in that country could be around Rs 75 lakh!
Jakir crossed over to India illegally in 1986 at the Benapura Indo-Bangladesh border. Without hands to work with, he realised begging was his only option and he did so for years on streets near Gateway of India, Mumbai. The money he made not only supported his family in Mumbai but also helped him save.
"I earned a lot in Mumbai. Indians have sympathy for the handicapped. One man even donated Rs 1,100 to me," revealed Jakir during interrogation by the cops in Ajmer, who arrested him on Saturday night. It's learnt that Jakir, son of Mohammed Ali, is from Mohammedpura district, Bangladesh.
"My earning was so good that I could marry Naseema, a teenage girl, and buy a house at Murtinagar and raise a family with her," he says. They had five children, four of them girls.
Naseema eventually left for Delhi with her kids. "Somehow, the hearts of people changed; their sympathy faded. Two years ago, I left Mumbai and arrived at Ajmer for 'Urs'. It proved to be the right decision.
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Apparently this guy knows how to save. I wonder why the cops picked him up. Is being a successful begger a crime? Or is he so tight with his money that he wasn't supporting his family?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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