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Tips thread open. I’ll be out most of the day and next, so things will get pretty slow around here unless a couple of the guest bloggers wish to pop by.

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  2. Warman Threatens McGill Tribune with Libel Suit
    Dicky’s at it again:
    http://tinyurl.com/5sw6vq
    ” My own tiny role in Canada’s biggest free speech case ever
    If you haven’t heard, my article here:
    http://tinyurl.com/6ktm4f
    might have caused a bit of legal trouble for myself and the Tribune. I was inspired (and outraged) after I read Mark Steyn’s article that was reprinted in the Gazette. At the same time, I had been doing research for a sidebar about Bill C-10 funding restrictions and the history of media censorship in Canada. What I found was a disturbing pattern — an illiberal crusade on the part of minorities to shut out unpleasant ideas using Canadian law. I wrote this up in the aforementioned op-ed, and waited. I purposely didn’t feature lawyer and activist Richard Warman very prominently — knowing that others have had trouble with him.
    Luckily, Mr. Warman is competent with Google and found the article anyway, calling up the Tribune, and sending a threatening e-mail, saying my article potentially libeled and defamed him.”
    Seems the title of the McGill article; “Fighting neo-Nazis with crypto-fascism” got Dicky’s halo in a knot…what IS it about this guy and his morbid fear of being linked to crypto fascism?

  3. Columnist Don Martin should be thrown out of the parlimentary press gallery and fired! He admitted on cbc news Sunday just now,during panel discussion about Tomgate,that all those years ago he didn’t agree with gay marriage…but he’s ‘fine with it now’So,all you high and mighty so-called journalists,maybe a few more of you should be honest,and lay off the faux outrage,and admit that people do evolve!Martin also admits,that if he ever decided to run for office,there was likely a lot of ‘stuff’ he wouldn’t be too proud of from his past.Watch your back Don…Fife will have you in the ‘knuckledragger’ category,and lump you in with the rest of us!

  4. The Olympic torch is on a relay across London, and has already come under attack several times from Tibet protetors. The BBC website has good coverage, including video. I’ve posted on events, and will update if anything interesting happens.

  6. Global Warming slams England. Al Gore “well satisfied” and David “Dr. Fruit Fly” Suzuki smiles like a Cheshire cat.
    Not.
    “Snow falls across much of the UK
    Wintry weather conditions are expected in much of the UK
    Winter weather
    Snow has fallen across much of the UK overnight, with forecasters warning that there is likely to be more later.
    Overnight snow descended in north-east England, Manchester and north Wales and headed down towards the Midlands, with similar conditions in southern England.
    With wintry conditions in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, the Met Office has issued a number of flash warnings of severe or extreme weather.
    BBC Weather warned driving would be “treacherous” in many areas.
    Snow also fell in London, causing flight cancellations and delays across the UK. ”

  7. $7.5 billion.
    I wonder if Steffi or Lizzie would take it out of the Health Care budget, or maybe not have quite so many multi-culti food festivals.
    “(1) Last week in Bangkok, 1,000 UN/Kyoto diplomats met to consider the next global warming treaty after Kyoto expires in 2012. This was a continuation of the process started in Bali last year, which will culminate in late 2009 in Copenhagen, with agreement on a post-Kyoto treaty. At least that’s the hope. In Bangkok, developing nations refused to accept greenhouse gas (GHG) emission cuts after Kyoto, which doesn’t require them to reduce emissions, unless the developed world gives them billions of dollars to adapt to global warming. China wants developed nations to contribute at least 0.5% of their Gross Domestic Product annually. For Canada, this would mean sending at least $7.5 billion per year to developing nations, in addition to foreign aid.”
    http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Goldstein_Lorrie/2008/04/06/5208166-sun.php

  10. Yes, Richard…the police chasing a guy in a wheelchair would be using “disproportionate force”. They should be sanctioned by the UN.

  11. I’m not going to bother with a link to it, but cartoonist Susan Dewar of the Ottawa Stun knows who the knuckle-draggers are today, too, just like Robert Fife. Hmm. I wonder where Dippers who holiday in Cuba rank on the moral evolutionary scale?

  12. $7.5 billion.
    I wonder if Steffi or Lizzie would take it out of the Health Care budget, or maybe not have quite so many multi-culti food festivals.
    “(1) Last week in Bangkok, 1,000 UN/Kyoto diplomats met to consider the next global warming treaty after Kyoto expires in 2012. This was a continuation of the process started in Bali last year, which will culminate in late 2009 in Copenhagen, with agreement on a post-Kyoto treaty. At least that’s the hope. In Bangkok, developing nations refused to accept greenhouse gas (GHG) emission cuts after Kyoto, which doesn’t require them to reduce emissions, unless the developed world gives them billions of dollars to adapt to global warming. China wants developed nations to contribute at least 0.5% of their Gross Domestic Product annually. For Canada, this would mean sending at least $7.5 billion per year to developing nations, in addition to foreign aid.”
    http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Goldstein_Lorrie/2008/04/06/5208166-sun.php

  13. Globe and Mail – Sunday
    Wow! The CHRC/Tribunal debacle is finally starting to make it to the front pages.
    After $B, we now have an article in the Globe – Billingualism – a failed policy? The only thing out of place here is the question mark.
    The only formal Officially Bilingual province, NB, has finally come to the conclusion that it is – and is adjusting their primary schooling so that French immersion starts only in grade five and is optional thereafter.
    Let’s hope that AB also gets the message – after spending billions on French immersion schools but better late than never. Bernard Lord must be having fits these days!
    Now – can the federal Human Resources get the message and stop the nonsensical, not to mention abominably expensive, French language training that has become so mandatory/so useless for a bureaucrat’s promotion within the civil service.
    Who knows – we might even end up with a three-piece and start getting some MSM comment on dismantling he Immigration Refugee Board.
    CPAC’s answer seems to be to broadcast everything is French these days. Is this an attempt to try to reverse the flow – after all the Official Bilingualism Industry has had such a good run for three decades.

  14. Heads-up
    CFRA.com Sunday, April 6,5-7pm Eastern, “Prof. Gerry Cammy Show” guest Robert Latimer. Traditionally,calls taken during 2nd hour.
    “CFRA’s Steve Madely is joined by Dr. Robert Zubrin, author of Energy Victory, contends that OPEC nations, particularly Saudi Arabia, have used their enormous oil wealth to fund Islamic extremism.”
    http://www.cfra.com/chum_audio/ z…n_apr_03_08.mp3
    If you find that interesting, Ken Rockburn on CPAC Talk Politics 7pm Eastern, Sunday, April 6/08 has more of the same-
    “This week on Talk Politics Ken Rockburn talks to nuclear engineer and author Robert Zubrin about his latest book “Energy Victory”. Zubrin’s thesis is that the War on Terror can be won by breaking free of the West’s dependency on foreign oil and Zubrin provides examples of how that can be done.”
    CTS-TV Michael Coren Show 8 pm Eastern, Tuesday, April 8 has subject of “Human Rights Commissions and their victims”.

  19. So apparently Lawrence Martin has jumped on the “it’s ok to slander Conservatives” bandwagon – he referred to us as Rednecks on CBC this morning.
    Our prime minister shines on the international stage, moves us at Auschwich and all these jokers can focus on is a 16 year old tape.
    I guess if you don’t acknowledge how great SH is, you can remain ignorant.

  20. A Tribute to Charlton Heston.
    Charlton Heston: “”Political correctness is tyranny with manners”.”
    Wretchard: “And the idea that the only real rebel is an individual or that a man might march with Dr. King and yet advocate the right to defend himself is so outrageously quaint that one wonders how many today find it completely inconceivable.”
    Negro spiritual:
    Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone!
    …-
    “I will misbehave”
    […]
    ” History seems to suggest that in order to achieve the greatest universality a man must appear to be alone, just as in order to attain the greatest provincialism, membership in a mob is necessary. Maybe we live as individuals so that our only final kinship is with all humanity and not simply with a family, tribe or sect.
    In 1999, in remarks before a Harvard Law School forum Heston warned against the bondage of the crowd and appealed to his audience to reclaim their humanity and its heritage of individuality.
    You are the best and the brightest. You, here in the fertile cradle of American academia, here in the castle of learning on the Charles River, you are the cream. But I submit that you, and your counterparts across the land, are the most socially conformed and politically silenced generation since Concord Bridge. And as long as you validate that … and abide it … you are – by your grandfathers’ standards – cowards. …
    Disobedience is in our DNA. We feel innate kinship with that Disobedient spirit that tossed tea into Boston Harbor, that sent Thoreau to jail, that refused to sit in the back of the bus, that protested a war in VietNam. In that same spirit, I am asking you to disavow cultural correctness with massive disobedience of rogue authority, social directives and onerous law that weaken personal freedom. …
    So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobediences of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men, by God’s grace, built this country.
    If Dr. King were here, I think he would agree. Thank you.
    But Dr. King wasn’t there. And Heston is no longer here. And the idea that the only real rebel is an individual or that a man might march with Dr. King and yet advocate the right to defend himself is so outrageously quaint that one wonders how many today find it completely inconceivable. But that almost proves the point.”
    http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-will-misbehave.html

  22. You know the whole Lukiwski thing, how Liberals are refusing to accept his apology because he was an adult when the tape was made and 1991 wasn’t that long ago?
    I found an old interview with Stephane Dion. It seems that he only became a federalist in 1991. In other words, while an adult, in the same year that Lukiwski was being a jackass, Dion was still a separatist.
    So to quote Liberal attack thingy Scott Brison: “[he] was an adult at the time … and should be held responsible.”
    The original interview’s in French – poorly translated here: http://rjjago.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/1991-was-a-funny-year/

  23. Dingwall, aka Punk’s Boss: “”I’m entitled to my entitlements.”
    “Dingwall entitled to golden handshake, arbitrator rules
    13 Apr 2006 … He was entitled to [the federal government’s] rational support when … when he told a Commons committee: “I’m entitled to my entitlements. …”
    …-
    ” AFFLICTED BY ENTITLEMENT
    Of course Dion is part of the problem, but the real disease affecting the Liberals is entitlement. They believe power is a swinging utility that, sooner or later, will fall in their lap.
    The reality is if they don’t find something creative, and quickly, to again be a real political party with real economic and social policies — as they were up until Lester Pearson — soon they will be a historic icon.
    They still believe the scarecrow of separatism and the blind support of the “ethnics” will bring them back to 24 Sussex.
    Maybe, but I suspect the picnic is over.”
    http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Persichilli_Angelo/2008/04/06/5208196-sun.php

  24. “the red AIDS-awareness ribbon, which Moore credits with starting this trend,”
    The ultimate morbid narcissists: Lucy Warman and the Warmanites.
    …-
    “Untying the ‘ribbon culture’
    A brilliant new book explores what the relentless rise of awareness-raising ribbons – kitsch fashion items that express the wearer’s fear of disease or empathy with victims – reveals about our morbid, narcissistic society.
    by Jennie Bristow”
    “Ribbon Culture is a brilliant little book. Drawing on her doctoral research, Sarah Moore, a research assistant at the University of Kent, provides a cogent analysis of the ubiquitous ‘awareness-raising’ ribbon and its more recent offspring, the wristband. What do these things represent, she asks, and why do so many people wear them? The answers are revealing and disturbing.”
    “to ‘show awareness’ for a ‘staggering’ range of causes:
    ‘… the Oklahoma bombing, male violence, censorship, bullying, epilepsy, diabetes, brain cancer, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), autism, racial abuse, childhood disability, and mouth cancer, to name just a few.’
    As there are clearly more causes than there are colours,”
    http://tinyurl.com/5yg5ne (spiked)

  25. Parlimentary Press Gallery Dinners 15 to 20 years ago were very raunchy affairs apparently with many things said and done that today would be a scandal.
    Does anyone know how to access tapes of these dinners??

  26. glasnost’s link – the dewar cartoon – is truly offensive. That this and fife’s and lawrence’s comments are getting a pass by the media is scandalous and a perfect indicator of how bad the left-bias is in the media.

  27. Mao Stlong say, Tibetans offensive “Opponents of the contempt sentence poem: not to be farting, Let us look at heaven and earth to avoid!”
    It’s Snow Time in Rondon.
    …-
    Olympics Photo Wire [London torch passing protest photos]
    “Police scuffled with protesters as Olympians and celebrities carried the Olympic torch through snowy London during a chaotic relay Sunday.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997587/posts

  28. What’s Next?
    During CTV’s Question Period, Tonda McCharles of the Liberal Star directly linked Lukwiski’s comments to Ecole Polytechnique. Apparently because his remarks were “only two years after Polytechnique” WTF?
    How low can these journalists stoop to smear decent people?

  29. Well…it worked for the HRC’s..now let’s get going with the lack of journalistic principles.
    platty provides this link with a good post.
    Apparently there are Broadcasting Standards that should keep Fife and others accountable.
    Write the Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council.
    http://www.cbsc.ca/english/complaint/index.php

  30. Top items at National Newswatch.
    “Harper’s handling of gay slur MP is key: pollster”
    “Peter Mansbridge’s mother passes”
    …-

  31. Brian, re “…two years after Polytechnique…”
    We’re on quite a tight schedule up north here, if you catch my drift. At Jason Cherniak’s, after a commenter named ruralsandi said she was unwilling to forgive Litiwski, on the grounds that the putative rules governing such expressions were apparently already in place, another commenter chimed in: “I agree with Rural Sandi. 1991 was four years after equality legislation was enacted in my province…”
    Well, then.
    Litiwski should have taken a lesson from Australia’s missing prime minister, Liam Quinn, who was set to win an election the next day when someone found a wax-cylinder recording he’d made at a Bar-B-Que some thirty years earlier, which contained this damning exchange:
    Quinn: Hey mate, look at the hoo-ha’s on that badonka-donk. (burps) Bruce…Bruce, where’s the can opener? Where’s…c’mon, this beer isn’t going to open itself!
    O’Byrne: Open it with your *ss. (laughter)
    Quinn: I’m not gay.
    O’Byrne: Aah, ya’ homo…
    Quinn: YOU homo! (laughs)
    O’Byrne: No, you first. (laughter)
    Quinn: Like this? (laughter)
    Both were summarily executed at 5 am the following morning.
    Litiwski’s lucky that the reporters are letting him get away with merely having to wear a blue “C” at all times, and sharing the blame for the Montreal massacre.

  32. Craig Oliver warns viewers of the ‘hard and savage’ words of Lukwiski. Give me a break. I think that media,libs,and ndp will only be happy if the guy has sex with Svend or Siskay on camera, on Harper’s desk.

  33. I saw that, Wally J. His eyes started to flutter when he said the words “hard and savage” and he seemed to have a hard time catching his breath.
    I sure hope he’s okay. He’s the sort of reporter this country — particularly the GTA area — can’t live without.

  35. Apologies if this has already been posted, as the item is a few months old but I’ve only now seen it.
    Y2Kyoto: from the NCPA, the (non-partisan) National Center for Policy Analysis, comes study #308, titled “Global Warming: Experts’ Opinions versus Scientific Forecasts”. It’s a 10-20 minute read, but even the executive summary (1 page, about 2 minutes’ reading) gives you the meat & potatoes of the study. Conclusion: it ain’t good for the IPCC.
    A few choice quotes:
    “Climate models are, in effect, mathematical ways for experts to express their opinions.”
    “He found that while the models included some basic principles of physics, scientists had to make a number of “educated guesses” because knowledge about the physical processes of the earth’s climate is incomplete.”
    “Furthermore, individual models have produced widely different forecasts from the same initial conditions, and minor changes in their assumptions can produce forecasts of global cooling.”
    “When models predict global cooling, the forecasts are rejected by modelers as “outliers” or “obviously wrong.” This suggests that when the models are averaged together to create consensus estimates of temperature change, the results are biased due to the omission of models that show cooling.”
    ” Of the 140 forecasting principles, the audit found that 127 forecasting principles are relevant to the procedures used to arrive at the climate projections in the IPCC report. Of these 127, the methods described in the report definitely violate 60 principles, 12 appear to be violated and there is insufficient information to assess the use of 38.”
    “In fact, it has yet to be demonstrated that long-term forecasting of climate is possible.”
    Click here for the link.

  36. Saving SDA reader*s hard earned money.
    [ Email from Mac ]
    After the workout and a shower, he came out, saw the locker open, and thought. . . Hmm.
    He dressed and just flipped the wallet to make sure all was in order.
    Everything looked OK. – all cards were in place.
    A few weeks later his credit card bill came – a whooping bill of $14,000!
    He called the credit card company and started yelling at them, saying that he did not make the transactions.
    Customer care personnel verified that there was no
    Mistake in the system and asked if his card had been stolen.
    *No,* he said, but then took out the credit card, and yep – you
    guessed it – a switch had been made. An expired similar credit card from the same bank was in the wallet.
    The thief broke into his locker at the gym and switched cards.
    Verdict: The credit card issuer said since he did not report the card missing earlier, he would have to pay the amount owed to them.
    How much did he have to pay for items he did not buy? +$9,000!
    Why were there no calls made to verify the amount swiped?
    Small amounts rarely trigger a *warning bell* with some credit card companies.
    It just so happens that all the small amounts added up to one big one!
    Scene 2:
    At a restaurant the waitress returned with the wrong card.
    She apologized, and hurried back to the counter under the watchful eye of the man.
    All the waitress did while walking to the counter was
    wave the wrong expired card to the counter cashier, and the counter
    cashier immediately looked down and took out the real card.
    No exchange of words — nothing!
    She took it and came back to the man with an apology.
    Verdict:
    Make sure the credit cards in your wallet
    are yours.
    Check the name on the card every time you sign for something
    and/or the card is taken away for even a short period of time.
    Many people just take back the credit card without even looking at it, *assuming* that it has to be theirs.
    ** FOR YOUR OWN SAKE, DEVELOP THE HABIT OF CHECKING YOUR CREDIT CARD EACH TIME IT IS RETURNED TO YOU AFTER A TRANSACTION! **
    SCENE 3:
    Yesterday I went into a pizza restaurant to pick up an order that had been called in.
    While waiting, The clerk picked up his cell phone and started dialing.
    I noticed the phone because it is the same model I have, but nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Then . . .
    He gave me back my card but kept the phone in his hand as
    if he was still pressing buttons.
    Meanwhile, I’m thinking: I wonder what he is taking a picture of, oblivious to what was really going on.
    It then dawned on me: the only thing there
    was my credit card, so now I’m paying close attention to what he is doing.
    He set his phone on the counter, leaving it open.
    About five seconds later, I heard the chime that tells you that a
    picture has been saved.
    Now I’m standing there struggling with the fact that this boy
    just took a picture of my credit card.
    Yes, he played it off well, because had we not had the same kind of
    phone, I probably would never have known what happened.
    Needless to say, I immediately decided to cancel that card as I was walking out of the pizza parlor.
    All I am saying is, be aware of your surroundings at all times !
    Whenever you are using your credit card, take caution and don’t be careless. Notice who is standing near you and what they are doing when you use your card..
    Be aware of phones, because many have a camera phone these days.
    When you are in a restaurant and the waiter/waitress brings your card and receipt for you to sign, make sure you scratch the number off.
    Some restaurants are using only the last four digits, but a lot of them are still putting the whole thing on there.
    I have already been a victim of credit card fraud and, believe me, it is not fun. The truth is that they can get you even when you
    are careful, but don’t make it easy for them.
    FORWARD THIS TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN THINK OF. LET’S GET THE WORD OUT! JUST BE AWARE
    [ Email from Mac ] = TG

  38. Stuff we prefer not to know about.
    Investment firms tap Fed for billions
    The lending facility is seen as similar to the Fed’s *discount window* for commercial banks, where the Fed acts as a lender of last resort. Commercial banks and investment companies pay 2.5 percent in interest for overnight loans from the Fed.
    Banks also stepped up their borrowing from the Fed’s discount window. Banks averaged $7 billion in daily borrowing for the week ending April 2. That compared with $550 million in average daily borrowing for the previous week.
    money.cnn.com/2008/04/03/news/economy/fed_credit_crisis.ap/index.htm
    ================================== CNN
    = TG

  39. http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=651bb999-1f91-46eb-a534-c579ce3901e2&k=26168
    “There are the country’s three biggest cities – Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver – and then there is the rest of Canada.
    For more than a decade, the Conservative party or its predecessors have not been able to elect a candidate in the cores of those cities.”
    Getting very sick of this. Once again, the myth that the Conservatives are shut out of Canada’s three largest cities. Is the liberal media really that afraid of the LPC being known as an Eastern regional party?
    Calgary and Edmonton, both MUCH larger than Vancouver, elected NO liberals. How many times does this get mentioned?

  40. One socialist-communist country will cannibalize-digest another socialist-communist country. It’s the tiger vs the chicken. It’s Mao Stlong’s-Red China’s imperial aggression.
    Mao Stlong say, “Most stresses “conditions” for the word: eggs due to the temperature changes due to chicken, but the rock temperature can become chicken.”
    …-
    “Laos fears China’s footprint [China to build Chinese city in Laotian capital]
    VIENTIANE, Laos – A high-rise Chinatown that is to go up by Laos’ laid-back capital has ignited fears that this nation’s giant northern neighbor is moving to engulf this nation.
    So alarmed are Laotians that the communist government, which rarely explains its actions to the population, is being forced to do just that, with what passes for an unprecedented public relations campaign.
    The “Chinese City” is a hot topic of talk and wild rumor, much of it laced with anxiety as well as anger that the regime sealed such a momentous deal in virtual secrecy.
    The rumblings are being heard even among some government officials, and foreign organizations operating in Laos are being told to refer to the venture as a “New City Development Project” rather than a “Chinese city.””
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997633/posts

  41. “…equality legislation…” EBD @ 2:20 pm
    …someone ask Rural Sandi if that is the legislation that determines gays are equally susceptible to insults and slurs as the rest of Canada…?
    or is that the legislation the guarantees that the media can insult all Members of Parliament equally…?
    or is that legislation that guarantees equal privacy for all citizens …gays and straights, and politicians…?
    or was it legislation that protects the rights of straight parents to educate their kids as equally as it protects the gays to interfere with education…?
    oh my …this equality legislation can really be a distraction….
    Help us rural sandi…

  43. Nestor Pistor’s record was nominated for Comedy Album of the Year in 1980.
    But an unknown by the name of Rich Little won it that yr. heh.

  44. Tibet: Chinese police wound 10 demonstrators at Lingque temple 3694762
    ““The monks called the head of Daofu county and warned that if those detained weren’t released, all the monks would continue protesting even if it meant they would be killed. So the county chief released those who were injured and detained.””
    http://tinyurl.com/54oqgl (times)
    …-
    Mao Stlong say, No mole plotests, prease. Mao tiled of plotests.

  45. Gee just what we need more of .To be cut off from the world. Next we will have them after the internet, than comes the jamming of all signals. This is not about the buses, its a bunker mentality anti capitalist in character, (The arts community is now being turned into political teat sucking infants as well)if not anti Democratic. Another nail in our heads against free expression, because we all know who the Canadian content exults.
    Ontario sets Canadian content rule for transit funds
    Maria Babbage
    THE CANADIAN PRESS
    http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/349229

  46. Alberta Girl,we are seeing the death throes of the liberal establishmnet that has run this country (into the ground) for 80% of its life.
    They are getting shriller and shriller as the realisation that a majority conservative government, unlike the faux-conservatives of Mulroney or Diefenbaker, is on the horizon, with the establishment in disarray. Ah, the apoplexy.
    I fully expect the media to openly come out anti-Harper in the next election, beyond the editorial pages.

  47. Maz2, the Liberals still behave as if they are in power. They expect the “government” to do as they wish. They are confused by not being in power. “This surely cannot be?”. And, for them, it is a given that they will be back in power next election – which is why they are delaying the next election.

  48. The socialist Order of the Day*.
    “P.S. Find tougher people.”
    “Seize all their grain.”
    Mugabe’s Stahlhelme, aka “war veterans”, are on the march; at their rear, forcing them onward are Lenin’s commissars with machine guns at the ready. Lenin’s message* to the socialists below.
    …-
    “Zimbabwe’s war veterans set their sights on white farms”
    http://tinyurl.com/4ckkdr (times)
    …-
    *”Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. The interests of the whole revolution demand such actions, for the final struggle with the kulaks have now begun. You must make an example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so people can see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages per my instruction in yesterday’s telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people can see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so. Reply saying that you have received and carried out these instructions.
    Yours, Lenin.
    P.S. Find tougher people.”
    http://tinyurl.com/4ckkdr (everything)

  49. …take a healthy break Kate, we can survive.
    http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/04/06/1359243.shtml
    ” ‘I haven’t died yet,’ said Michael Arrington, the founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, a popular technology blog. The site has brought in millions in advertising revenue, but there has been a hefty cost.
    Mr. Arrington says he has gained 30 pounds in the last three years, developed a severe sleeping disorder and turned his home into an office for him and four employees.
    ‘At some point, I’ll have a nervous breakdown and be admitted to the hospital, or something else will happen. This is not sustainable,’ he said.”

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