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The researchers report that they were studying the planet's rings, which are collectively called Eta, and discovered that they had an oddly shaped orbit -- not round or even circular. Instead, they describe it as sort of triangular. More study showed that the odd orbit of the rings was due to gravitational pull from Cressida -- one of the planet's moons. The gravitational impact is exaggerated, they note, due to the moon keeping pace with the orbit of the planet. The particles in the ring, on the other hand, move faster than the moon. This results in the moon tugging...

Dear Diary. For my sixty fifth birthday this year, my wife (the dear) purchased a week of personal training at the local health club for me. Although I am still in great shape since playing on my college tennis team 45 years ago, I decided it would be a good idea to go ahead and give it a try. I called the club and made my reservations with a personal trainer named Belinda, who identified herself as a 26-year-old aerobics instructor and model for athletic clothing and swim wear. My wife seemed pleased with my enthusiasm to get started! The...

A short but rocky stint in federal politics is now over for Belinda Stronach. Stronach says she won't stand for re-election and is planning to return to the business world as executive vice-chairwoman of Magna International. Her father, Frank Stronach, is the founder and chairman of Magna. Stronach has made headlines consistently during her three year roller-coaster ride as as an MP. She garnered much media attention with her run for the leadership of the Conservative party, then again when she defected to the Liberals, in addition to stories about her romantic connections to Peter MacKay and Tie Domi.

As potential girlfriends go, Belinda Stronach would rank as a true catch. She is single, youngish (she just turned 40), attractive, wealthy, impeccably well-connected and politically ambitious - glamorous in every respect. Two years ago, Time magazine listed her as one of the 100 most powerful people on the planet. The tabloids cut to the chase: they called her the "blonde bombshell" or "Bubba's blonde." Bubba, of course, is Bill Clinton. He has been photographed with Stronach (right) several times. The sightings seem to be getting more frequent, leading to press speculation that their relationship has moved beyond official "friendship"...

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's former chief of staff Norman Spector thinks federal Liberal parliamentarian Belinda Stronach is a "bitch." Speaking with CKNW's Bill Good yesterday morning about Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay's refusal to apologize for allegedly suggesting Stronach was a dog, Spector said, "I think she's a bitch. It's as simple as that. And I think that 90 per cent of men would probably say she's a bitch for the way she's broken up [retired hockey player] Tie Domi's home and the way she dumped Peter MacKay. She is a bitch." 24 hours' Bill Tieleman, who was sharing the...

Oh, what a dog's breakfast Peter MacKay's taunts at Belinda Stronach should come back to bite him. He should be cast into the doghouse By Dianne Rinehart The Hamilton Spectator Oct 28, 2006 There's a bigger issue behind Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay's alleged reference to Liberal MP Belinda Stronach as a dog than misogyny -- though that is surely bad enough coming from a former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. There's the issue of whether our foreign affairs minister has the "right stuff" -- in this case, maturity and a recognition of the fragility of women's human...

Belinda Stronach's use of the K word an insult to 'pretty dynamic bunch' of yarn masters The nation is still waiting for Belinda Stronach's apology for her vicious, uncalled for slur against those who knit. Not one slur, but two. The pampered, privileged, millionaire princess wants an apology from Peter MacKay for allegedly referring to her as a dog in the House of Commons. Never mind Peter MacKay -- you, Ms. Stronach, get off your royal buns right now and show you have what you say he hasn't, and apologize to the knitters of Canada and the world. "She did...

Stronach remark dogs MacKay cnews.canoe.ca October 20, 2006 By ALEXANDER PANETTA OTTAWA (CP) - Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay referred to Liberal MP Belinda Stronach - his ex-girlfriend - as a dog Thursday in the House of Commons, the Liberals say. MacKay denies saying any such thing. The purported slur prompted Toronto-area Liberal Mark Holland to lodge a complaint with the Commons Speaker, and other Liberals expressed disgust at the alleged remark. Holland says the foreign minister made the slur while exchanging jeers with the Liberals during a debate on the environment. While the government was being peppered with...

Belinda Stronach has slid while former boyfriend Peter MacKay has soared. Their failures and successes speak to the shifts in political mood.There was a moment in May 2005 when it appeared as though Belinda Stronach had managed, with a little help from her friends, to catapult herself over the entire Canadian political landscape, coming down, to considerable fanfare, among the top decision-makers in government. Without a shred of real political experience, without ever having held a job she was not appointed to by her father, without even a university degree, Stronach had claimed credit for uniting the right, placed second...

Since there is much buzz these days about an apparent relationship between Bill Clinton and Canada's Belinda Stronach, some of you might find it amusing to see just what kind of person she is. Click on the source URL to get to a list of articles about her. You will be amazed. Most of them were written durring the time she was running for the leadership of Canada's Conservative Party. After she lost the leadership race, she was elected an MP and became a member of the opposition cabinet. She basicly did next to nothing there, then jumped ship to...

The Washington Post today follows up the Times frontpager on the Clinton marriage with a column by veteran political commentator David Broder, titled "The Shadow of a Marriage," in which Broder hints that Bill Clinton has a girlfriend. He does so in a passage that critiques the Times piece: It touched only lightly on the former president's friendship with Canadian politician Belinda Stronach. Then Broder says that the character of the Clinton marriage is the "elephant in the room" with Senator Clinton—and thus, fair game in the political process. I genuinely wish the Clintons luck on this one. I'm never...

TORONTO SUN Sat, December 3, 2005 Liberals put party before the people Ignatieff nomination demonstates Grit flaws By PETER WORTHINGTON You wanna know what's wrong with Canadian democracy, the way it's practiced by the federal Liberal party? Look no further than Michael Ignatieff and his nomination as the Liberal candidate for Etobicoke-Lakeshore. Here's a guy who was born in Toronto but who has mostly lived and worked in other countries. He teaches at Harvard, but returns to U of T in January as a "visiting professor," for heaven's sake. Ignatieff writes critically acclaimed books that only the elite read, and...

What Belinda did. Oh my.Some describe it as perfidy most heinous, that waltz across the floor of the Commons last May by Belinda Stronach from Conservative to Liberal ranks. It's certainly the view of Stephen Somerville, president of the Newmarket-Aurora Conservative riding association, once a supporter of the erstwhile Tory and now her staunchest foe in the upcoming campaign.Bringing Belinda down has become the battle cry."This election will be a referendum on what Belinda did. People are coming from all parts of Canada to work on our campaign," said Somerville, of the Conservative push to oust Paul Martin's human resources...

Belinda's lesson By LINK BYFIELD -- Calgary Sun Pardon me while I gag. It was announced from Ottawa last week that our new Minister of Democratic Renewal will spend $1 million crossing the country to find out why fewer Canadians -- especially young people -- are voting in national elections. Why is there such growing apathy, disengagement and even cynicism about politics? She's determined to find out. The minister is Belinda Stronach, who was elected a year ago as a Conservative MP by the voters of New Market-Aurora in Ontario. On May 17, the Liberals bribed her with a cabinet...

The rest of the tapes Grewal took are now online at his website (click the source link) Not only do they make it clear that he did NOT approach them first, it also exposes that Belinda and Brison were both treated the same way For you Americans unaware what this is about, the Liberals up here have been trying to bribe opposition MP's to vote with them by offering them plumb jobs like a Senate seat or ambasadorship. Grewal got them on tape doing it.

With the mainline media mesmerized by Conservative MP Belinda Stronach’s recent defection to the Liberal Party of Canada, lost from the limelight was why the Liberals would put a rookie in charge of the government till. In the power base of Liberal rule, the Human Resources Management Office (HRMO), which Stronach now oversees, is the government till. "The Expenditure and Management Strategies Sector (EAMS) has a lead responsibility within Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) for its role in the government’s expenditure and management system. In playing this role, the Sector acts as the primary point of liaison with the Privy Council...

I was amused by how many people expected me to join in the weeping and wailing over the defection of Belinda Stronach. I was so pleased with the news that I sent her a thank you note. I enjoy having time prove me right. Those who openly questioned her abilities, qualification and commitment were written off as jealous or sexist dinosaurs. Most of the media was so intent on selling the myth that she was a sharp, capable and popular conservative that they overlooked nearly all evidence to the contrary. As a leadership candidate Belinda was unimpressive. The only successes...

Here's a hilarious website with Belinda Stronach the liberal. Link HERE

When news comes thick and fast it's easy to miss the larger picture. Let's recap recent events. Back in March, the Liberals presented their budget. At first the Conservative Party said it would support the budget bill, guaranteeing its passage, but they quickly found that the Liberals had slipped in a form of carbon tax. This was unacceptable to the Tories who insisted it be removed. Stephen Harper pledged his party would vote against the budget unless a change was made. The Liberals refused, they were on top in the polls and all but openly welcomed an early election. At...

(sung to the tune of Waltzing Matilda) Crossing Belinda, crossing Belinda You’ll go-acrossing Belinda to me And we’ll pay you off with a feeding at the trough If you’ll go-acrossing Belinda to me. Belinda Stronach’s crossing the floor to the Liberals comes as no surprise to me, as I have long held the view that ‘Crossing Belinda’ was a Liberal time bomb in the Conservative Party. To call her an "opportunist" is to understate her commitment to herself. Let’s just say that Belinda has taken advantage of an opportunity that could ultimately put her into the prime minister’s office. Belinda’s...