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David Harsyanyi’s “Nanny State”.
The oilsands – everything old is new again.
A hero in Castro’s gulag – “Instead of joining the president amid the pomp and finery of the White House, Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet will spend the day locked in a fetid cell in the Combinado del Este prison in Havana, where he is serving a 25-year prison sentence for speaking out against Fidel Castro’s dictatorship.”
That “stumbling” US economy – If things are so bad, why are they so good?
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  2. weblog awards
    Vote for SDA. The nearest competition for the award is a vacuous pile of fluff. Strike a blow for real content.

  3. Decry went up; the thermometer went down; the free T-shirts went on. The presidents looked down and laughed at the shivering enviro-wackos.
    …-
    Activists gather at Rushmore to decry warming
    MOUNT RUSHMORE – While audience members shivered and pulled on their free Stop Global Warming T-shirts to add another layer, local Greenpeace organizer Ferale Hubbard admitted that it was hard to think about global warming.
    “Thank you for coming and waiting in the cold. It’s difficult to think (about) right now, but we all know the disastrous effects of global warming,” she said to about 35 people who showed up Saturday afternoon at Mount Rushmore Amphitheater for a global-warming rally. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920769/posts

  4. Watched Meet the Press today, for the first time in months, and some of the other Sunday Shows. Gee, Tim never mentioned H.C, once, and had a long interview with Fred. ABC’s show George Stephenopolous (sp) had a discussion on how wrong she is to play the victim, or gender card.
    Maybe Hillory and Heather Mills will compare notes on how to be a victim, and instead become fools.

  6. As noted in the article, the good US economy is bad because there’s a Republican in the White House.
    I saw a guy on Bloomberg the other day who put the “housing crisis” in perspective. Nationally the average home price is down 4% this year. Last year it was up 20% as it had been for quite a few years in a row.
    Cause of the ruckus? Stupid bankers lending at teaser rates to people they KNOW probably aren’t going to pay.
    +20% last year, -4% this year. Woo. Quick Lefties, how many years of -4% needed to wipe out ONE year of +20% profit? MSM response = We’re all gonna DIEEEE!
    Tell you what, if the Yanks elect that grifter HillBillary two things will happen. First, there WILL be a recession, probably a beeeeyotie as money flees the sticky DemocRat fingers. Second, the MSM will proclaim it the Best Economy in 50 Years: The Sequel.
    The moral of this tale is, shut off the MSM and look at the stock charts yourself. The charts don’t lie, the MSM does.

  7. The Nanny State? – They have a ways to go to catch up to Canada.
    The Oil Sands? – Farmer Ed will regret his socialist move.
    Castro’s Gulag? – What else is new?
    US Economy? – Never, ever count out the economic resilience of the USA. Also, never ever count out the main stream media’s propensity to bring you negative, bad, depressing, suicidal views on anything and everything except the Democratic party.

  9. I challenge all Marxist/international socialist believers about to comment here on the Boston Globe story:
    You must first state that you have read the article in its entirety.
    You must state that you either believe that the facts in the article are true or if you have reason to believe they are false, and then back it up with equally hard evidence with links.
    Otherwise, just admit that you are merely a parrot of the religion of international socialism.
    Or go and try all the things Biscet did in Cuba in the United States, fly a flag upside down, start a foundation calling for “universal human rights” and see what happens. Guess what? you’ll become a celebrity all the time while you believe you have done these things in a “dictatorship” waiting for the imaginary jack-booted fascist police to haul you away.
    Now go crawl back into your hole.

  10. Something is screwed up. I voted 3 days ago but it won’t let me vote agian. What gives?
    Horny Toad

  11. Three autonomous vehicles crossed the finish line within the 6-hour time limit here at the DARPA Urban Challenge in Victorville, CA. DARPA director Tony Tether flagged the winning vehicles in as they completed the course two or three minutes apart.
    blog.wired.com/defense/2007/11/3-bots-in-the-w.html

  12. they didn’t elect dinning becuase he was a liberal , fear tactics got morton out and we got an ndp disguised as a conservative and more liberals moving into alberta every day . o well, they’ll need someplace to live so i should be able to keep working for a few more years.

  13. The nanny state’s another name for gulag for adults: NB, a kid’s word is now gospel, especially when tattle taling on some “tough love” parent or teacher.
    In the nanny state, adults are to use only “friendly persuasion” these days, even with the (most) hardened barbarians we’re “nurturing”. The worst of the lot have picked up on the game and love to play it. The leftoids, who inhabit the ivory towers of the nanny state, are more than willing to fall for it: no matter that it removes all rights and most of the morale of the adults—parents and teachers—who have the responsibility to mould our kids into responsible citizens. The law of unintended consequences: coddling kids turns them into mini—or not so mini—tyrants, who behave like toddlers. This is a lethal combination.
    On another thread, I told the story of the seasoned teacher summarily removed from his class on the false testimony of two very unreliable, troublemaker kids. The charge? (The chance of it being sexual in nature is zilch, though the accusers may have played that card.) The teacher wasn’t told . . . not on being escorted out of the school with no advance notice, and not over a week later. The teacher was removed from the board’s internet access and is not allowed to be talked about at his school. He’s a “missing person”—with intent. (I was in the school a week ago: he was not in his class. The two kids? ‘Business as usual. Probably harassing the substitute teacher.)
    If the case is ever resolved, hopefully, in favour of the innocent teacher, there will be no consequences for the children who lied. Adults give consequences; adolescents give hugs and high fives. The nanny state—where adolescent fantasies reign supreme— discriminates against adults and pretty well insures we won’t be raising many of our pampered kids to become adults.
    (I know it’s election time in Saskatchewan, but the fallout of the nanny state—the pervasive modus operandi of the Western, liberal democracies—is going to be much more far reaching than the ouster—as fine as that will be—of Lorne Calvert and his NDP minions. Unfortunately, virtually ALL political parties are complicit in the perpetuation of the nanny state. This is an issue of vital importance to all of us.)

  14. Maz2 @ 12:07
    ** Activists gather at Rushmore to decry warming **
    Looks like a bickering fun fest, but what tangible result?
    The electric car and clean coal tech are the two most required solutions to pollution, [ soaring health costs], and wars, [needlessly over valued mid-East oil reserves]. Not to mention world chemical bee kill = famine.
    Better to start with your *proven* solutions and argue their merit rather than waste hot air on a global warming that is probably mostly natural anyway. = TG

  16. Multicult’s a travesty
    Politicians score ideological points but exacerbate cultural resentments […]
    One example out of many: The Maher Arar case. The NDP rightly exposed the events to public condemnation, but their targets were only Canadian institutions and the United States. Amongst all the finger-pointing and blaming, I never heard any criticism against the Syrian government, the ones directly responsible for Arar’s torture.
    Amnesty International has denounced many cases of torture in many countries, but the only cases our politicians pick up and fight against are those involving the Americans or our government. I’m not justifying those cases at all, but when we pick and choose our targets like this, it’s no longer about fighting injustices, it’s about political posturing.
    That’s why multiculturalism failed. This philosophy has been used by our politicians to score ideological points or to rake votes from the so-called ethnics. In the process they have exacerbated the differences and the resentments. The ethnics have now realized the support they got was fake and patronizing, while those in the so-called “mainstream” are upset because they feel criminalized, powerless and muzzled. Whenever they venture into some cultural criticism, they are branded as racists.
    I say it’s time to speak out against this travesty of social justice. From the letters I’ve received last week, I’m quite confident that Canadians, from all cultures, race and religion, are ready for real dialogue based on things that unite us, not divide us. After “celebrating our differences” for half a century, let’s start celebrating things that unite us. …-
    http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Persichilli_Angelo/2007/11/04/4629559-sun.php
    …-
    The redneck bigots wrecked the “hearings”.
    Go rednecks, go. More, and faster. Bury PET’s multiculty in PET’s Cemetery between Mohammed and National Daycare.
    The observers mentioned below are: 3 experts and “Fatima-Zahra Benjelloun, a member of the Quebec City Muslim community”.
    …-
    Reasonable accommodation hearings no model to follow, observers say
    http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=2da53ef6-2616-45d1-8276-4d0e682a2ea5&k=98959

  17. Taliban Jack say: Maple Leaves beat Senators for MaoStlong Cup. No erection ’til May.
    …-
    Layton calls for referendum on the abolition of the Senate
    NDP Leader Jack Layton is calling for a referendum on the abolition of the Senate. The NDP has prepared a motion calling for a public vote on whether the upper chamber should be abolished (national newswatch)

  19. Is Britain lost to Islam/EU?
    The Spanish and Napoleon could not conquer Britain; Hitler could not conquer Britain. They were the enemy without.
    This enemy, Islam/EU, is within Britain. The Labour/socialists, alone, could not bring John Bull to his knees; the socialists willfully opened the beaches/the gates to Islam/EU.
    John Bull is on his knees. The coup de main will come soon, unless …-
    What are we doing to stop our beloved Britain being taken over? [by Islam/EU]
    Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 3rd November 2007
    This is too frightening and too important to ignore any longer. If we don’t want to become a neglected outstation of the European Superstate, stripped of our nationhood, powerless to decide who lives here, controlled by laws we don’t make and can’t change, ruled by a government we cannot throw out, we have rather a short time in which to do something about it. You may think none of this matters to you, but the trouble is that it does, whether you think so or not. The European Union is interested in you, your liberty and your money, even if you don’t care about it….-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920909/posts

  20. @The Phantom:
    In lieu of any leftie doing so (I know this says something about me), I’ll answer your question: between 4 and 5 years. At the end of 5 years of 4% declines after a 20% increase, the price will be at 97.8% of the price before the 20% increase.
    If you want to check my brute-force calculator work, here are the numbers I got:
    Year 0: 100.0%
    Year 1: 120.0%
    Year 2 [start of 4% declines]: 115.2%
    Year 3: 110.6%
    Year 4: 106.2%
    Year 5: 101.9%
    Year 6: 97.8%.
    After brute-forcing it, my brain woke up enough to realize that the inverse of a 4% decline is a 4.167% increase (rounded to four significant digits.) So, the exact time needed to go from 120% to 100% at a 4% decline rate is approximately equal to the time needed to go from 100% to 120% at a 4.167% compounded growth rate. The time I got for the latter was roughly 4.5 years, which roughly squares with the above tabulation.

  25. CIPPIC calls for online *do not track* list
    By: Greg Meckbach
    ComputerWorld Canada (02 Nov 2007)
    As the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hosts a two-day workshop in Washington, D.C. on online behavioural advertising.
    A Canadian lobbyist is calling for a do-not-track list that would let Web surfers block sites that could monitor their surfing habits. [………]
    *If people feel their privacy is protected, they will feel much more comfortable in conducting business electronically,* said Lawrence Surtees, vice-president and principal analyst for IDC’s Canadian Communications Practice.
    *Some Canadian marketers or end users using Internet marketing techniques may come to see that it curtails their efforts. On the other hand, I think privacy is not only essential, but privacy on the Internet and in e-commerce, in general, is good for business.*
    http://tinyurl.com/yt7mug
    ==================== IT World
    Or you can set your computer to *pop up* a cookie permission window for every cookie attempt. I deny them all with no hinderance to site access 99% of the time. = TG

  26. “He is that rare sort of man capable of seeming both average and condescendingly superior at the same time. A Conservative cartoon come to life.”
    Funny, I wonder if that’s how liberals view all Conservatives? Average and yet perceived as superior to them – what does that say about your average liberal? Oh, and why do those crazy Conservatives not trust the fair and balanced media anyway?
    http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5imzDBBgFOniUoGhG5ds8SX5FKxZQ

  29. Gaia is frigid there and bringing up there; snow and early ice, too. What is going on with her? There oughta be a law. …-
    National Post | Early ice cuts off supply by barge
    HAY RIVER, N.W.T. – People in Fort Good Hope are rationing toilet paper this fall. …-
    Indonesian volcano building up awesome amount of energy: scientists …-
    Snow blankets Edmonton
    Edmonton’s first real blast of winter left most people unfazed. …-

  30. Fisking of Atlas Shrugged??
    Ok! …..So a work of fiction is being characterized as a “How to Manual”…!?
    His inference to current economic situations is fair … and …I’ll buy the criticism of some of the premises of the book ….. but North’s artistic ability or at least knowledge of art it is at best as specious as the premise that great men have some special motivation.
    Basically a finance geek’s take on literature.
    Unable to differentiate between the literary and the literal.
    North Sounds like a kid who’s been disillusioned upon learning that the tooth fairy didn’t actually leave those coins under his pillow!

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