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  3. For anyone thinking about about installing some solar panels on the roof for power backup, this is a clear and interesting *politically incorrect blog* by the Spicy Solar Guy.
    He is an installer and knows his stuff.
    There are some very acidic arguments that he deals with.
    He installs for Akeena Solar Inc. [AKNS/Nasdaq]
    The Akeena website has THE foolproof mounting system.
    Brace yourself. Prices are rich. = TG

  7. The old words are new words: “For you always have the poor with you,*”
    The socialist War on Poverty is a Phony War intended not for the poor, but, for the rest; a Control mechanism of guilt and shame. A favourite ploy is, of course, to tax you more and more. Ask Taliban Jack and Citoyen Dion.
    “If Karelis is right, antipoverty initiatives championed all along the ideological spectrum are unlikely to work – from work requirements, time-limited benefits, and marriage and drug counseling to overhauling inner-city education and replacing ghettos with commercially vibrant mixed-income neighborhoods. It also means, Karelis argues, that at one level economists and poverty experts will have to reconsider scarcity, one of the most basic ideas in economics.
    “It’s Econ 101 that’s to blame,” Karelis says. “It’s created this tired, phony debate about what causes poverty.””
    …-
    “The sting of poverty
    What bees and dented cars can teach about what it means to be poor – and the flaws of economics
    IMAGINE GETTING A bee sting; then imagine getting six more. You are now in a position to think about what it means to be poor, according to Charles Karelis, a philosopher and former president of Colgate University.
    In the community of people dedicated to analyzing poverty, one of the sharpest debates is over why some poor people act in ways that ensure their continued indigence. Compared with the middle class or the wealthy, the poor are disproportionately likely to drop out of school, to have children while in their teens, to abuse drugs, to commit crimes, to not save when extra money comes their way, to not work.
    To an economist, this is irrational behavior. It might make sense for a wealthy person to quit his job, or to eschew education or develop a costly drug habit. But a poor person, having little money, would seem to have the strongest incentive to subscribe to the Puritan work ethic, since each dollar earned would be worth more to him than to someone higher on the income scale. Social conservatives have tended to argue that poor people lack the smarts or willpower to make the right choices. Social liberals have countered by blaming racial prejudice and the crippling conditions of the ghetto for denying the poor any choice in their fate. Neoconservatives have argued that antipoverty programs themselves are to blame for essentially bribing people to stay poor.
    Karelis, a professor at George Washington University, has a simpler but far more radical argument to make: traditional economics just doesn’t apply to the poor. When we’re poor, Karelis argues, our economic worldview is shaped by deprivation, and we see the world around us not in terms of goods to be consumed but as problems to be alleviated. This is where the bee stings come in: A person with one bee sting is highly motivated to get it treated. But a person with multiple bee stings does not have much incentive to get one sting treated, because the others will still throb. The more of a painful or undesirable thing one has (i.e. the poorer one is) the less likely one is to do anything about any one problem. Poverty is less a matter of having few goods than having lots of problems.” …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2qu85o (boston globe)
    “Mark 14:7 “For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me*.”

  8. “[Ad$cam Paul Jr.] Martin is defending his absence from the House, saying he is working hard on such important issues as poverty in Africa and the problems facing aboriginal Canadians.”
    It’s Jack and Paul’s War On Poverty. Same War; different tactics. Who is paying the war costs?
    …-
    Martin should resign as MP, Layton says
    Former PM is failing constituents by missing every House vote, NDP leader argues
    http://tinyurl.com/3bdwv5
    “Karen Redman, Liberal Party whip, said she has no problem with Martin being absent from the House. She said he keeps her aware of where he is and shows up for votes when he is asked to.”

  9. Who loves power? The Tories love power! >>
    Tories plan to bolster Quebec in Constitution — 3w.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080402.wquebec02/BNStory/National/home

  10. http://angryjournalist.com/
    “Angry Journalist #2792:
    Evolve or dissolve, newspaper journalists.
    After three years as a fresh-faced copy editor on newspapers, I got out of the industry and took control of my life.
    I make more money out of newspapers (which would surprise the professors who insisted I’d make the most amount of money copy editing on a news copy desk)… and holy crap, I actually get EVERY NIGHT, EVERY WEEKEND and EVERY HOLIDAY OFF. Whoda thunk it.
    You read that right – I get to spend QUALITY TIME with my FAMILY.
    Who the hell told newspapers they were a prestigious place to work, or that good people would stick around for crap pay and crap schedules?
    I’m much happier embracing online news and the collapse of the print medium.
    Those of you clinging to physical paper news are going down with the ship.”
    …-
    CBS Moves Ahead With Layoffs in News (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)
    The New York Times
    News operations at CBS stations in several cities started a series of job cuts this week even as the CBS News network moved ahead with plans to lay off about 1 percent of its nearly 1,200 employees.
    Over the last several days, layoffs were ordered at local stations that CBS owns, including ones in New York, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco. Dana McClintock, a spokesman for CBS, said the actions at the network and the local stations were not related.
    “This is not the result of any corporate mandate,” Mr. McClintock said. The moves are the latest in a wave of cuts at news operations in both television and print organizations.” …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995380/posts
    (Link to NYT here)

  11. Heavy ice has force Husky Energy to stop oil production at its White Rose Oil field.
    By Tuesday afternoon the company had already shutdown production at its Searose floating production, storage and off-loading (FPSO) vessel, and was arranging for 35 of 80 crewmembers to be airlifted from the vessel by helicopter.
    http://tinyurl.com/2a4jtv

  12. “Federalist revival good news for Tories”
    “The Dion Liberals are sitting out this federalist revival. The party that has traditionally acted as a bridge between francophone Quebec and the rest of Canada is being bypassed in favour of the Conservatives and the New Democrats.
    This week’s appointment of Gerard Kennedy, the Liberal leadership candidate who most strenuously opposed the nation resolution, as Dion’s intergovernmental affairs critic was seen in Quebec as yet another sign that the party is determined to burn its bridges in the province.”
    http://tinyurl.com/354vkw (hebert)
    Speak softly and carry a big Quebec stick*.
    (*H/T TR)

  13. How many of you reading this think the following is a “radical” statement?:
    “Immigration should not be based on race or creed, as it has in the past; nor should it be explicitly designed to radically or suddenly alter the ethnic makeup of Canada, as it increasingly seems to be.”
    The Winipeg Free Press thinks so and is trying brand it’s author – Stephen Harper – as one.
    Title of the story is: “Does PM hold radical views?”
    http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/story/4152524p-4741514c.html

  14. “he is working hard on such important issues as poverty in Africa and the problems facing aboriginal Canadians.” . . . so I can’t help but wonder — what brought Mr. Martin to Mexico? A photo op?

  16. Yet more MSM Liberal spin. The Globe and Mail has a column by Daniel LeBlanc in today’s paper, headlined ‘Tories Plan To Bolster Quebec in Constitution’ asserting that the Conservatives would ‘open up the Constitution’ to give more powers to Quebec, if they, via Quebec seats, got a majority in parliament.
    The problem is, the statements made by Cons. Labour Minister Blackburn don’t make this claim. He is quoted as saying:
    “The recognition of the Quebec nation within Canada allows us to think that we can put some meat around it, and that a majority government is more able to do a number of things, while being respectful of all of the provinces,” Mr. Blackburn said in an interview.”
    Now, where does that say ‘opening up the Constitution’? The article ends with a list of the failed Quebec Meech Lake demands, implying that any of these might be future Conservative offeriings.
    But where, outside of the author’s hypothesis, is this implied, never mind stated, by the Conservatives?

  20. Yaacov Ben Moshe’s latest has been up at Breath of the Beast for over a week but I’m not sure it’s been highlighted here yet. I think it’s an important post b/c he’s marking the launch of an organization designed to identify and counter what he calls Cultural Blind Spots in the West (and perpetuated in the MSM) in order to resist the creep of Islamization in Western countries.
    http://breathofthebeast.blogspot.com/2008/03/second-draft-our-declaration-of-war.html

  21. A female with multiple breast piercings tried to board a Southwest Airlines flight recently, but failed to get past the metal detector. She offered to take off her shirt and bra (in private) and show the offending piercings to a female TSA agent.
    The TSA’s response? She was given a pair of pliers, moved behind a dark curtain, and forced to remove the piercings one by one. The report continues, to state that a growing number of male TSA agents gathered on the other side of the curtain, snickering and giggling.
    “Transport Security Agency”? “Terrorist-Sadist Agency” is more like it.

  23. I know it’s a day late, but the thing that’s amazing about this “article” is the fact that it quite vividly mimics the end-of-the-worlders’ AGW talking points. Makes ’em look … well, read it if you like.
    WUnderground blog: “Cyclopsychic research breakthrough proves hurricanes/global warming connection”
    Link

  24. Re: Breast rings and airport security. When a woman shows up at the airport, and refuses to take her clothes off to show her breast rings, or refuses to remove them, you have to find a pair of “wire strippers.”

  25. Rick Richman, The Bush Commitment to Defensible Borders
    Norman Podhoretz’s new article “Israel and the Palestinians: Has Bush Reneged?”… [contends] that “far from reneging on the commitment he made on June 24, 2002, Bush has in at least one key respect strengthened it in Israel’s favor since the Annapolis conference was held.”
    The “key respect” is Bush’s formal statement in Jerusalem on January 10, 2008, in which the President said the following about the final status negotiations he wants completed by the end of this year:

    “These negotiations must ensure that Israel has secure, recognized, and defensible borders. And they must ensure that the state of Palestine is viable, contiguous, sovereign, and independent.”

  26. Martin Wolf, The prudent will have to pay for the profligate
    You have enjoyed a debt-financed spending spree. But times are now harder: you find it impossible to roll over your debt; you have to pay much higher interest rates than before; or you find that the value of the assets you pledged as collateral is now less than your loan. What can you do? Provided enough of you are in trouble, you call for help from the fairy government-mother…

  27. Lemire files criminal complaint:
    From FD.
    http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1164982
    Damn this is getting fun. Soon the Harper government will have to make themselves heard unless they just want to be part of the invisible herd. Another Mr. Dithers?
    How long until Lucy gets swept into the ever widening dragnet.
    Interesting though (for Fourhorses and Backhoe) there was made mention of a “Dan Donaldson”. There is a USA version of ‘Lucy’ by the name of “Dann Dobson” – a disbarred lawyer out of Minnesota that is into the same games.
    Conspiracy?

  28. ” Soon the Harper government will have to make themselves heard unless they just want to be part of the invisible herd. Another Mr. Dithers?
    Damn LS I like that…gonna start using it now…Harper = “Son of Dithers” Or “Dithers the sequel” ;-D

  29. Massive Government social engineered,”Race Replacement” of White people is “changing the face of Canada at a STAGGERING rate”, according to new census data released Wednesday by Statistics Canada.
    1 in 6 people in Canada is a “viz-min”,soon to be 1 in 5.
    http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_21256.aspx

  30. “Dion uses Reform Document to Criticize Harper”
    ctv.ca 04/02/08
    Dion is using a 20year old document, Checkout the comments section at the end. Dion’s Desparation is resemblance of a lost Village Idiot.

  31. Just now on ctv,an exchange between Wheeler,and Bob Fife re Lib party in court to prevent La Presse from releasing a list of the Que.candidates.Fife states it is ‘bizarre,and Planet Pluto stuff’
    Libs/dion have said they have over 50 candidates,yet only 30 on list,and Libs want to keep ‘secret’ the names of 12 ‘star’ candidates,as they have other jobs.Fife states Jean Lapierre finds this reason ridiculous..”someone is misrepresenting” and Fife states ‘something funny’ and questions outright lies by Libs.La Presse and Lib lawyer in court 2 pm today to fight over publishing the list.
    Fife seemed astonished by all this..look for more goodies to come!

  34. Hey, maybe Mandela’s imprisonment had a point. Will it work in Austria? (Something to get outraged about from the Brussels Journal):
    The Austrian authorities have indicted politician Susanne Winter on charges of incitement and degradation of religious symbols and religious agitation. This offence carries a maximum sentence of two years. Last January, Ms Winter said that the prophet Muhammad was “a child molester” because he had married a six-year-old girl. She also said he was “a warlord” who had written the Koran during “epileptic fits.”
    The politician, a member of the Austrian Freedom Party FPÖ, an anti-immigration party which is in opposition, added that Islam is “a totalitarian system of domination that should be cast back to its birthplace on the other side of the Mediterranean.” She also warned for “a Muslim immigration tsunami,” saying that “in 20 or 30 years, half the population of Austria will be Muslim” if the present immigration policies continue.
    Following her remarks, Muslim extremists threatened to kill Susanne Winter and she was placed under police protection. Today, the Justice Department in Vienna announced that Ms Winter will be charged with “incitement and degradation of religious symbols” (Verhetzung und Herabwürdigung religiöser Symbole). If convicted she may have to serve up to two years in jail for her opinions.
    However, Alfred Hrdlicka, the Austrian “artist” who depicted Jesus and his apostles engaging in homosexual acts of sodomy during the Last Supper, has not been indicted. Nor will he be. Depicting Jesus sodomizing his apostles is not considered to be a “degradation of religious symbols” in Austria, but referring to the historic fact that Muhammad married a six-year old girl is “incitement to racial hatred.”
    Neither has Mr Hrdlicka been threatened by Christian assassins for his “opinions.” The difference between Christian and Muslim extremists is that the former do not aim to kill those who offend them, but the latter do – which is perhaps also why the European authorities fear the radical Muslims and persecute their opponents while they subsidize those who insult Christians.

  37. NEWS FLASH Calgary is 75% non-visible minority… Who or why do we pay for this info??

  39. CPAC is carrying the NATO meeting right now.
    CTV has carried long portions of it, live.
    CBC…when we need to hear what the NATO partners are actually saying, where the heck is our taxpayer-funded CBC when it counts!
    No wonder they have lost our respect.

  40. “Michael Yon’s latest report highlights a classic example of jihadi hypocrisy: Holy Brothel.”
    (via LGF: helping moonbats sleep soundly)
    http://tinyurl.com/26dalb
    “The al Qaeda terrorists don’t save themselves for the seventy two virgins promised to suicide bombers. They love drugs, prostitutes, and the power of the gun.”

  41. The height of hypocricy. Labour minister tours asian no go zone in flak jacket. Nope. No problem here:
    (dailymail.co.uk)
    “Harriet Harman takes flak in the Commons as Tories strike in wake of stab-proof vest disaster.”
    Embattled PR disaster zone Harriet Harman must have known what to expect when she took Prime Minister’s Questions in the Commons today in the absence of Gordon Brown.
    In the wake of her embarrassing PR gaffe this week when the deputy Prime Minister went for a walkabout in her south London constituency wearing a stab-proof vest, William Hague wasted no time in drawing attention to the topic everybody had been waiting for…

  42. FOXNEWS.COM
    “British Imam and lawyer say Muslims ordered to kill, rape non-Muslims”
    A report posted on Islam Watch, a site run by Muslims who oppose intolerant teachings and hatred for unbelievers, exposes a prominent Islamic cleric and lawyer who support extreme punishment for non-Muslims — including killing and rape.
    A question-and-answer session with Imam Abdul Makin in an East London mosque asks why Allah would tell Muslims to kill and rape innocent non-Muslims, including their wives and daughters, according to Islam Watch.
    “Because non-Muslims are never innocent, they are guilty of denying Allah and his prophet,” the Imam says, according to the report. “If you don’t believe me, here is the legal authority, the top Muslim lawyer of Britain.”
    The lawyer, Anjem Choudary, backs up the Imam’s position, saying that all Muslims are innocent.
    “You are innocent if you are a Muslim,” Choudary tells the BBC. “Then you are innocent in the eyes of God. If you are not a Muslim, then you are guilty of not believing in God.”
    Choudary said he would not condemn a Muslim for any action.
    “As a Muslim, I must support my Muslim brothers and sisters,” Choudary said. “I must have hatred to everything that is not Muslim.”
    ———————-
    Question: Why are these Muslims not put in jail, deported and their mosque closed?

  43. heh, irwin daisy: I presume you saw that infamous interview in which Anjem Choudary made it clear that non-muslims were NOT innocent so killing them can’t be tagged “killing innocent civilians”.
    BTW, read the other day that he gets 25,000 pounds a year welfare. He continues to openly espouse jihad and openly recruits.
    As long as this stuff continues you can safely assume that not even the first tiny step toward jihad-resistance has been taken, contrary to ET’s optimism.

  44. Top reasons to end Muslim immigration:
    1. Western prison systems can’t handle the huge influx.
    2. Back bacon is a Canadian symbol. So is beer.
    3. If a Muslimah in full burka is standing beside a postal box, confusion results as to where to drop the letter.
    4. The head of government is no good without his head.
    5. Muslims are confusing other victims groups.
    6. Too many Muslims become lawyers.
    7. Less than 1% of the population should not take up 25% of the news.
    8. We were looking forward to the 21st century, not the 7th. We did that already.
    9. Suggestions?

  45. P.van Loan dishes it up to Steffie in QP..lots of digs in about the Libs trying to shut down the media in court over the candidates list…most delicious to watch tho,was Iggy,he had to cover his mouth as it appeared he was grinning like the proverbial ‘cheshire.’ Van Loan stated that Lib ‘candidates’ embarrassed to be outed. It was hinted by Fife,that the list was deliberately leaked,could be Coderre’s revenge? Fife begging someone in Que.to leak list to him,and he would put it out there.
    You know the Libs are in deep deep doo-doo when Travers on Adler just now speaks about what a doofus Dion is.How long can this go on,before open mutiny?

  46. bush 2.0 turned the exalted stars and stripes into a scrap of paper:
    3w.dubyaspeak.com/incidents.phtml?page=5#oldglory
    why do you right wingers so quickly defend those who desecrate the flag?

  47. irwin daisy and me no dhimmi – Sociopaths, such as the ‘imam’ you describe are not representative of a whole population. After all, Turner, the ‘head’ of CNN is, thankfully, not representative of all Americans.
    I’m optimistic because my point of view is economics and demographics. That is, the world population is too large to be sustained by any other economic mode other than industrialism. And the industrial mode requires democracy.

  48. There is a place in this world for Ms. Warman …
    It’s called Belgium and Austria looks like it’s firmly in the grasp of Warman’s peers as well!!

  50. Philip Carl Salzman, ‘Culture and Conflict in the Middle East’
    Culture and Conflict in the Middle East attempts to explain why, in the Middle East, we so reliably find relentless partisanship, unending conflict, and conscienceless repression of those not holding power.
    I argue that a major influence is Arab culture, grounded in Bedouin culture….
    Postcolonial theorists, inspired by Edward Said’s Orientalism, take a harder line, arguing that no generalization about the Middle East is valid, because such generalizations suppress the variety and diversity of reality, essentialize where no essence exists, and imposes disparaging interpretations in the service of imperialism and colonialism. But my judgment is that these postcolonial arguments are unsound and without foundation…
    Longer excerpt from the book here.

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