65 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  3. Knock, knock.
    Who’s there?
    Hiawatha
    Hiawatha who?
    Hiawatha communist for the FBI.
    (one of the silly things you can never forget)

  4. A British view of Canadian politics”
    Stephen Harper should be a Tory icon
    British politicians could learn a lot from the Canadian PM’s adroit political manoeuvring
    Canada’s election on 14 October is… Wait! Come back! I’m going somewhere with this! For reasons I have never understood, many Brits see Canada through American eyes as dull and – despite its vastness – somehow gnomic. The lack of coverage here is downright shameful.
    Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, is perhaps the most Anglophile leader in the world. Shortly after taking office, he made a beautiful speech in London about what Canada owed to the mother country – a radical break with what had until then been the official line, namely that Canada was a happy multi-culti fusion drawing equally on the traditions of French settlers, Native Americans, Yugoslavs, blah blah. His speech went wholly unreported.
    British politicians could learn a thing or two from Harper. At a time when virtually every incumbent government is suffering from the
    recession, his Tories might increase their numbers. Not bad when you remember that, in 1993, Canada’s Conservatives were left with just two MPs. So how did Harper do it?
    Well, he stopped fretting about the handful of Liberal-Tory floating voters, and went after the 40 per cent of Canadians who had stopped voting altogether. He shed his party’s Establishment image, and embraced an anti-politician, decentralist, tax-cutting agenda. His party duly lost support in the posher parts of Toronto, but more than made it up in suburban and rural Canada – including Quebec. (“There are guys out there who listen to French talk radio and French country music”, Harper’s chief strategist told me).
    The result? Canada is becoming less like Scandinavia, more like the rest of the Anglosphere – though, anticipating the charge of being American patsies, the Tories have adroitly picked a fight with their neighbours over the Northwest Passage. Canada’s Conservatives, in short, have made their country freer, richer and safer. It’s about time the rest of the world noticed.
    FIRST POSTED SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

  5. I was hoping to see a post on how well the US economy is doing. No?
    Perhaps a post on the advantages of unfettered and unregulated capitalism, where only the strong survive, as opposed to the stupid socialism in other countries?
    Wait a sec…isn’t socialism the term often used when there is state intervention in the affairs of corporations?

  7. [quote]Wait a sec…isn’t socialism the term often used when there is state intervention in the affairs of corporations? [/quote]
    Iberia,
    There is a new lexicon definition.. Donald Trump used the term “socialism” to explain the Boardroom Corruption and CEO excessive pay packages/parachutes…
    Not sure what that means in today’s world of share holder abuse & self-serving goals, perhaps it’s the Drunken Sailor attitude to money that belongs to others…

  8. Socialism is the term when there ia state intervention in the affairs of individuals including industry. I’m pretty confident there are greedy people breathing in socialist countries as well.
    That being said, I can live with a bailout to the central banking system in a capitalistic society as oppose stavation and genocide for the millions who aren’t “connected” in a socialist society on a comparable crisis.

  9. How big is Lehman’s bankruptcy? Huge compared to every previous Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in US history. Worldcom/Texaco/Enron.
    Look at the comparison here:
    http://www.chartoftheday.com/20080919.htm?T
    Posted by: RCGZ at September 19, 2008 11:15 PM”
    yep. and it all happened on the waning days of dubya’s 8 year tenure.
    phase 2:
    spin spin spin spin.

  10. I guess some folks just don’t get this democracy thingy. When greedy folks start to act in criminal ways toward their fellow citizens, the government acts. That’s in a Democracy.
    In a Socialist country, the government acts to control the activities of their citizens when there is no cause. Socialist governments are almost always benevolent in the beginning. Later on power seems to bring the urge to become more powerful.
    The LNR series playing tonight illustrates the menace of the fifth column the USSR had established in North America. They had agents very active in Canada. Viktor Gozenko was one. He gave himself up to the RCMP who were so taken by surprise they didn’t know what action to take for several days, almost loosing one of the greatest Soviet spy insiders.
    What had started out a revolution of the people that was supposed to be for the benefit of the people became one of the deadliest and most dangerous empires the world has ever seen. They appear to be on the rise again.

  11. John Nicklin — brilliant. Thanks for the post. Regrettable that in Canada we do not recognize how the Conservatives have broken the logjam of Liberal, statist politics (if only we could see it.) Our political situation (with its mindless attachment to the Liberal Party — at least in some pockets of the country) is SO in keeping with HG Wells “In the Country of the Blind”, it is eerie.

  12. “unfettered and unregulated capitalism, where only the strong survive, as opposed to the stupid socialism in other countries?” Iberia @ 11:49PM
    Iberia, how about the successful socialist countries like Cuba, Venezuala, Bolivia. Or do you mean the stupid ones that fell off the face of the earth like Russia, Ethiopia, Albania, Vietnam.
    I prefer to think of all the successful socialist countries, but I uh, er… um can’t think of one right now. Can you enlighten us?
    Good point Mr. Shaw @12:17am

  13. Jonah Golbert in NRO:
    “Feminist author Cintra Wilson
    writes     in Salon (a house organ of the angry left) that the notion of Palin as vice president is ‘akin to ideological brain rape.’ Presumably just before the nurse upped the dosage on her medication, Wilson continued, ‘Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She’s such a power-made, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it’s easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.'”
    To reiterate: Sarah Palin’s candidacy leaves Cintra Wilson “as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.”
    There’s obviously nowhere left to go in the language of “Me-me-me”.

  14. “They meet discreetly once a month at a res­taurant in the Valley. At first, there weren’t many–Jon Voight, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper–but now…there still aren’t many. Nevertheless, they’re a resolute bunch: proud, loud, and a little lonely. They are Hollywood’s conservatives. ‘You sort of feel like you have to hide it,’ says director David Zucker. ‘When you meet, you give each other a secret look–‘Are you a Republican too?’ It’s the new gay.'”
    On October 3rd Zucker, of Airplane and Naked Gun fame, is releasing An American Carol, which popwatch.com calls “Hollywood’s first unabashedly right-wing comedy.”
    In one scene, crucifix-wielding radical Christians hijack a plane…

  15. …ideological thugs aren’t talking about actual, you know, facts. They’re doing what people of totalitarian mind-sets always do: bully heretics, demonize enemies, whip the troops into line.
    It’s pitiful, really, isn’t it. I sense a theme here, almost as if there was a common, organized game plan amongst certain, obviously “unconnected” vocal groups.
    But that’s paranoid thinking. Surely all the screechers, loonies and angry lefters are all acting independently because they (and only they) have a clear-headed grasp of the truth.

  16. Phillip G. Shaw:
    I find it interesting how right wingers manage to twist the definition of socialism to include any part of their ideology that dosen’t work or looks bad.
    “I prefer to think of all the successful socialist countries, but I uh, er… um can’t think of one right now. Can you enlighten us?”
    Posted by: RCGZ at September 20, 2008 1:22 AM
    How about Norway, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Netherlands, and, gasp, even Canada, which was once called a “second-tier socialistic country” by Stephen Harper. No doubt he would like us to be more like the US, where majority of state sponsored welfare is directed at the crooked corporations.

  17. Sarah Palin may lie, but numbers don’t. Her record speaks for itself:
    2007: the year in which Sarah Palin first obtained a passport.
    312: the number of nights during her first 19 months in office that Palin charged taxpayers a “per diem” totaling $16,951 for staying in her own home — an allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business.
    $500 to $1,200: the fee that Wasilla charged rape victims to pay for post-sexual assault medical exams, after the city cut funds during Palin’s tenure that had previously covered the exams.
    $150: the cash payment offered by the Palin administration to hunters who turn in legs of freshly killed wolves gunned down from airplanes.
    3: the number of times during her first few weeks as mayor that Palin inquired with the Wasilla librarian about banning books.
    3: the number of months after the censorship discussion that Palin fired the librarian.
    100: the approximate number of Wasilla residents who rallied to support the librarian, prompting Palin to withdraw her termination letter.
    0: the number of foreign heads of state Palin has met.
    0: the number of commands Palin has issued as head of the Alaska National Guard.
    2: the number of times in Palin’s ABC News interview that she said the word “nucular”.
    0: Wasilla’s long-term debt when Palin took office in 1996.
    $18.6 million: the long-term debt Palin racked up by the time she left office in 2002, amounting to about $3,000 per resident.
    $50,000: the amount of city funds Palin used without authorization to redecorate the Wasilla mayor’s office, including adding flocked, red wallpaper that made it look “like a bordello,” according to a former Wasilla City Council member.
    33: the percentage by which Palin increased the budget of Wasilla during her tenure, despite billing herself as a fiscal conservative and champion of smaller government.
    25: the percentage by which Palin raised the local sales tax in Wasilla to pay for a sports center, despite claims that she cut taxes.
    $27 million: the total amount of federal earmarks Palin secured for Wasilla’s town of 6,700 people while she was mayor, thanks to the help of a Washington lobbyist with ties to indicted Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) and convicted felon Jack Abramoff.
    3: the number of times John McCain specifically criticized earmarks requested by Sarah Palin when she was mayor of Wasilla, citing them as examples of wasteful spending.
    $453 million: the total amount of earmarks Palin has asked U.S. taxpayers to fund for Alaska projects over the past two years, despite McCain’s insistence that she hasn’t sought earmarks or special-interest spending from Congress.
    $506.34: the amount of federal earmarks Alaska residents will receive per capita in 2008, the highest level of any state.
    $223 million: the earmark secured for the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere” that Palin initially supported before opposing.
    $223 million: the amount of money designated for the “Bridge to Nowhere” that Palin ultimately used for other projects, rather than returning it to the federal government.
    20: the percentage of domestic energy that Palin claims Alaska produces.
    3.5: the actual percentage share of domestic energy Alaska produces.
    0: the number of people in America who know more about energy than Sarah Palin, according to John McCain.
    $600,000: the loss at which Palin sold the governor’s jet after making a show of placing it on eBay. It was eventually sold to a Palin campaign contributor who paid $2.1 million (more than 20% less than the original $2.7 million purchase price).
    1: the number of private tanning beds Palin installed in the governor’s mansion after taking office.
    1.5: the approximate number of hours Palin spent on a refueling layover in Ireland, which the McCain campaign cited as part of her foreign policy experience.
    0: the actual amount of time Palin spent in Iraq during a 2007 visit to the region, despite the McCain campaign’s claim she had visited the Iraq battle zone. She never made it beyond the Khabari Alawazem Crossing in Kuwait.
    2006: the year in which Palin declared she favors abstinence-only education and that “the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support”.
    2008: the year in which Palin’s 17-year-old daughter was impregnated by a self-described “f***ing redneck,” who wrote on his MySpace page “I don’t want kids” and “ya f*** with me I’ll kick ass”.
    9: the number of U.S. Geological Survey studies concluding that the habitat of Alaska’s polar bears is threatened by global warming, which Palin discounted as “insufficent evidence” when she sued the Bush administration to overturn its decision to list polar bears under the Endangered Species Act.
    5: the number of colleges Palin attended over six years before graduating in 1987 from the University of Idaho with a major in journalism.
    500: the number of Fortune 500 companies Sarah Palin is not qualified to run, according to McCain adviser Carly Fiorina.
    50: the number of days after Palin announced she “will fully cooperate” with an ethics investigation into the “Troopergate” scandal that the McCain campaign announced she was “unlikely to cooperate” because it had been “hijacked” by Obama operatives. The probe was unanimously authorized by a bipartisan panel of eight Alaska Republicans and four Democrats.
    28: the number of days prior to accepting the vice presidential offer that Palin said she couldn’t entertain the idea “until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day”.
    15: the number of minutes McCain and Palin spent together during their only meeting prior to the interview in which McCain offered her the vice presidential slot.
    (Sources for all points are available at Huffington Post.)

  18. Ummm Iberia
    Your first problem is using the huffington post as any type of rational reference. Those retards are so far gone left they make Gandhi look like a fascist. I would suggest you stick to the stuff your best at, like, looking in the mirror and admiring yourself.
    Two your a little behind the news cycle genius. Every single one of your ‘points’ are irrelevant or have been debuked ages ago, except of course by ideolgical wakcos desperately seeking a way out of PDS.

  19. Huffington is not the source, but they provide the links. In any case, just because YOU think Palin’s honesty/integrity/intelligence is irrelevant doesn’t make it so.

  20. An excellent essay.
    The Undefended City
    No despair.
    By Bill Whittle
    When I first got to college, back in the last few weeks of the Seventies, I finally got a chance to see an ordinary game of Dungeons and Dragons. My immediate inclination was to play as a Paladin: the pinnacle of Lawful Good, a character required to dash in and fight overwhelmingly powerful evil forces anywhere and at whatever odds. These contests were short, depressing and hilarious, but all D&D really came down to in the end was slaying small monsters, taking their gold, buying slightly better gear and then slaying slightly larger monsters. Why not just save some time and become a Vorpal Sword distributor? Then you get the weapons and the gold, and people bring them both to you. And so a larval conservative was born. And I never played again.
    That was the attitude I took into The Lord of the Rings when the first of the trilogy appeared in 2001, just a few months after the Two Towers actually did fall and the idea of good and evil suddenly became — to me and no doubt to you too — a great deal less ironic and a great deal more real
    More at:
    http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OGVlY2RhOGM0MWE5MjNmMGM2ZjY0NzcxMjMzMTc5NWI=

  21. lberia, aka Stalin’s pervert, executioner.
    Forced Labour Camps >>>>> Death.
    Gulag: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom
    The term “ GULAG ” is an acronym for the Soviet bureaucratic institution, … Gulag camps existed throughout the Soviet Union, but the largest camps lay in …
    gulaghistory.org/nps/onlineexhibit/stalin/

  22. Iberia, You have a severe case of Palin Derangement Syndrome, and I sure hope for your sake you find a cure.

  23. For a good read today, go to National Post and George Jonas’ column, “from the pump to the Punjab, troubles aplenty”. It ends with a good summation of US politics now. Hard to disagree with him on this one.

  24. How about that, El Presidente of the the Canadian,(if you please!), Islamic Congress, Mohamed Elmasry, (more like ElMISERY), is now coming out opining the HRC’s dismissal of Macleans case was wrong!
    If he has a problem with free speech he’s living in the wrong part of the world.

  25. Iberia, hows the job growth going with all your wonderful unions in the car industry that you used to defend so much?

  26. G & M poll today 0830
    Which party do you think won the first two weeks of the federal election campaign?
    Conservatives 45% 1464 votes
    Liberals 24% 781 votes
    NDP 12% 398 votes
    Green Party 17% 540 votes
    Bloc Quebecois 1% 46 votes

  27. “as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.”
    Can somebody please give this woman a razor blade?
    Iberia,
    Only one item needs mentioning about your orgasmic partner:
    1. He was born a Muslim and prefers to socialize with terrorists and racists.
    What the hell, might as well mention a second item:
    2. His brother lives in a hovel, with no help ever offered.
    But then, why even respond to somebody who proudly chooses a moniker in order to celebrate a mass-murderer.
    You’re a sick puppy.

  28. Green Shift not a priority according to Dion.
    The comments over at the CBC story about this are hilarious. There is much worry about Dion’s dog……lol

  29. Liberals 24% 781 votes
    NDP 12% 398 votes
    Green Party 17% 540 votes”
    holy jamoley. is this true?
    I keep telling people the new democraps have a hard core support of 12% everywhere you look, poll after poll after poll they hover around that figure. and max out less than 20% every time.
    ndp. a.k.a. the party of wishful thinking. LOL !!!
    this poll tells me the waffling and sometimes undecided and sometimes vote-lesser-evil types etc have ALL abandoned mr layton’s camp.
    holy ja friggin moley. its true. 12% = 1/8.
    and their handle is an anachronism. they haven’t come up with anything particularly ‘new’ since the name change.
    lavrenti beria was the personification of evil. the gun in stalin’s hand that did the actual killing. why anyone would adopt a moniker based on his name, 50 years on, is inexplicable.
    http://www.pbs.org/opb/citizenk/newweapon/beria.html

  30. “adopt a moniker based on his name, 50 years on, is inexplicable.”
    It seems so, doesn’t it? I think it’s because lefties have a drooling admiration for the “strong man” who has the will and bloodthirsty nature to force their perfect society in place. Meanwhile, they talk endlessly about compassion and social justice.

  31. Citoyen Dion asks, ““Do you know Bam, the Dog?”
    Oui, it’s da time to heat da dog. Eat Kyoto.
    …-
    “Save energy – eat roast mutt
    “Eat your dog – because its carbon footprint is bigger than a Toyota Corolla’s.
    That’s what Wellington city councillors have been told by Victoria University research fellow Brenda Vale, who is an authority on sustainable architecture.
    Her latest co-authored book, Time to Eat the Dog, investigates ways to modify behaviour to save energy. It will be published next year.
    She told a city council briefing last week that all pets should be edible because their carbon footprints – or pawprints, as the case may be – contribute to global warming.
    Acting mayor Ian McKinnon said she explained that “a big dog can have a carbon footprint that is the equivalent to a small car and therefore the best way forward, if you are going to have a pet, is to make sure it is edible”.
    To enable this to happen, the council would need to ensure that it was legal for humans to eat cats and dogs. Or it could ban traditional pets and let people keep conventional food animals, such as chickens and pigs, in their homes.”
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/4699105a11.html

  32. Gosh Iberia, you mean she should have sold a used jet for the same price as it was bought new?
    Or my favorite, Carly Fiorna also said none of the 4 Candidates where qualified to run a corporation. Why did you omit that detail?
    One tanning bed installed in the installed in the Governors mansion. The horror! Especially when they get so much sunshine in the Alaskan winter.

  33. When Orchard loses, it will be a first in Canadian politics: an Orchardectomy.
    …-
    “”Dion tried to patch it all up by hosting Orchard for dinner in January at his Ottawa residence. Orchard said he left “not too much the wiser for it.””
    “Orchard seeks elusive win in Sask.’s North”
    http://tinyurl.com/4ut6cx (saskstar)

  34. G & M poll today @ 10:50 a.m.
    Which party do you think won the first two weeks of the federal election campaign?
    Conservatives 43%
    Liberals 22%
    NDP 7%
    Green Party 27%
    Bloc Quebecois 1%
    (Thanks, spike.)
    I wonder why they huge spike in the Green Party in just two hours. They’ve gone up 10%. Interesting–eat your hearts and guts out MSM!–that the Conservatives are polling at almost TWICE the Liberal numbers, despite the constant leg-ups the Librano$ got from the MSM going easy on their gaffes while they hammered the CPC for theirs.
    The MSM lib-left/Librano bias is working against the Liberals and in favour of the CPC. I wonder if the reporters/journalists will notice…or, if they notice, will it make any difference to their lamentable coverage?

  35. GR-8 post, John Nicklin.
    Suggestion: Highlight your points in separate paragraphs. That makes a multi-point comment far easier to read and more likely to be read by more people … 😉

  36. “Tancredo Proposes Anti-Sharia Measure in Wake of U.K. Certification of Islamic Courts”
    “Jihad Prevention Act” would deny U.S. visas to advocates of ‘Sharia’ law, expel Islamists already here
    ( WASHINGTON, DC ) — Amid disturbing revelations that the verdicts of Islamic Sharia courts are now legally binding in civil cases in the United Kingdom, U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) moved quickly today to introduce legislation designed to protect the United States from a similar fate.
    – – – – – – – – –
    According to recent news reports, a new network of Sharia courts in a half-dozen major cities in the U.K. have been empowered under British law to adjudicate a wide variety of legal cases ranging from divorces and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.
    “This is a case where truth is truly stranger than fiction,” said Tancredo. “Today the British people are learning a hard lesson about the consequences of massive, unrestricted immigration.”
    Sharia law, favored by Muslim extremists around the world, often calls for brutal punishment — such as the stoning of women who are accused of adultery or have children out of wedlock, cutting off the hands of petty thieves and lashings for the casual consumption of alcohol. Under Sharia law, a woman is often required to provide numerous witnesses to prove rape allegations against an assailant — a near impossible task.
    “When you have an immigration policy that allows for the importation of millions of radical Muslims, you are also importing their radical ideology — an ideology that is fundamentally hostile to the foundations of western democracy — such as gender equality, pluralism, and individual liberty,” said Tancredo. “The best way to safeguard America against the importation of the destructive effects of this poisonous ideology is to prevent its purveyors from coming here in the first place.”
    Tancredo’s bill, dubbed the “Jihad Prevention Act,” would bar the entry of foreign nationals who advocate Sharia law. In addition, the legislation would make the advocacy of Sharia law by radical Muslims already in the United States a deportable offense.
    —————–
    Meanwhile the terrorist organisation, CAIR, is sponsoring legislation that would make Tancredo’s bill a hate crime.

  37. lberia – the problem with your anti-Palin outline is that almost all the points have been refuted or deemed irrelevant. Plus, one can make up the same trivial numberlist about anything and anyone. Try it with Obama. Whew. That would be quite something.
    You could do the same list with positive actions. And? The numbers and the act are irrelevant.
    Now, your list of successful socialist countries is invalid. They aren’t economic or even political successes – and – you have a problem with the definition of ‘socialism’. It’s undefined. What do YOU mean by socialism?
    My view of it is a two-class social infrastructure with a small governing Set, defined as professionals, primarily supported by the govt. This Set makes the rules for the worker class – who are defined as non-intellectuals, who work in small, medium business. [Large corporations are tied to govt]. This is not a successful economic or social infrastructure but it is politically powerful because the govt moves into more and more funding of itself..and increases its political support among these people who live off the govt.
    Therefore, these states INCREASE their dependents: increase welfare, increase immigrant dependents, increased bureaucracy. To fund this increasingly dependent population, taxes must go up..the govt must find new sources of revenue (eg, Dion’s Carbon Tax).
    What happens then, is that the economy grinds to a halt, because the money is being spent on supporting a huge dependent population rather than a population starting up new business, developing new technology, etc. That’s what has happened in your ‘socialist countries’ in Europe. They’ve ground to an economic halt.
    Oh, and by the way, capitalism works. Why? Because, although you reject a successful business from being…heh..successful, with goods that are actually wanted by the consumer. Instead wish to have the taxpayers support businesses that are unsuccessful..ie..where no consumer wants to buy their goods ..because the goods are yuck..but the govt and taxpayer still have to support them..eg, much of our arts and culture ‘industries’.
    Capitalism puts the onus on the producer to make goods and services that people actually want. They’ll pay for those products. Your socialism rejects the Will of the Consumer. Instead, it sneers at consumers..and insists they support shoddy products, bad technology, crappy art,..because…well..why? Socialism was never very good at rationality.

  38. I think Conrad Black’s comment sums it up nicely as far as the US election is concerned. I still believe that a tax-cutting ex-combat pilot is a better bet than a soak-the-rich ex-social worker.

  39. lberia need to get his ideologies straight. Here’s a hint – socialism (the real thing, not the soft left liberalism you refer to) and democracy cannot, and have not ever, existed in the same space.
    He should read a political science textbook and learn something.

  40. Another random Muslim attack:
    “Screwdriver attacker wanted to stab victim’s ‘brains out'”
    (wscountytimes.co.uk)
    A DRUGS-SMOKING dad-of-two who stabbed a woman colleague six times in the head with a screwdriver has been detained indefinitely.
    Ashraf Khan, 27, of Martyrs Avenue, Langley Green, went ‘berserk’ after colleagues at a Crawley sorting office noticed he had been acting strangely.
    Hove Crown Court heard yesterday (Thursday) how Kahn shouted and ranted about the Koran before pulling the weapon from his kaftan.
    Khan then set upon colleague Mbakdo Ceesay, who had asked him how he was.
    She was stabbed six times in the head with the screwdriver as other workers at Hays DX in Crawley tried to pull him off her.
    Khan then went for his manager hitting him in the face with a roll of cellophane shrink wrap.
    Miss Ceesay was taken to hospital where her wounds were stitched and glued together.
    Khan, later told cops: “She made me angry. I don’t like her, she should be dead. I stabbed her in the head to take her brains out.”

  41. ET,
    “lberia – the problem with your anti-Palin outline is that almost all the points have been refuted or deemed irrelevant.”
    Most of the stuff is irrelevant. Some of it is not. To top it off, not much of it has been refuted. Where has it been refuted on a factual basis? Republican hacks and apologists have simply been pointing to similar flaws in Obamas repertoire, and not neccessarily refuting any of the above.
    I think you would be wise to pay heed to Republican Senator Chuck Hagels outburst. He is hardly Huffington, and it would be a stretch to call him a left-winger.
    Heres some choice quotes from an interview from a couple of days ago, available in the Omaha World-Herald.
    “She doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials,” Hagel said Wednesday in an interview. “You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don’t know what you can say. You can’t say anything.”
    But apparently you, ET, either have plenty to say on it, or know people who do.
    “”I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, ‘I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,'” he said. “That kind of thing is insulting to the American people””
    Insulting to the American people. Not so, say the Palin apologists. I wonder wear you stand.
    “”But I do think in a world that is so complicated, so interconnected and so combustible, you really got to have some people in charge that have some sense of the bigger scope of the world,” Hagel said. “I think that’s just a requirement.””
    Lets hear the refutations out there.
    “”I think it’s a stretch to, in any way, to say that she’s got the experience to be president of the United States,” Hagel said.”
    One heartbeat away from ruling the most powerful country in the world.
    But how is that relevant? After all, this isnt about the role the President of the United States plays and the requirements of that office. No, this is about Republicans beating Democrats, because Republicans=good, and Democrats=bad. Partisan hackery at its blinding worst.
    This isnt about Republicans and Democrats, this is about the office of the President of the United States, and someone who may soon be one heartbeat away from it. .

  42. “the drumbeat of the left.”
    “The main thing that is being ignored in all this is human nature. It is all based upon the arrogant presumptions of the elitist cultural Marxists concerning how people ought to act. It leads to totalitarianism and destruction.”
    …-
    “The Drumbeat
    The drumbeat. It’s always there. Day and night. Rain or shine. Winter or Summer. Sunday or Monday. It comes at you from every direction. It comes over the TV, the radio, at work, at school, in music, in the newspapers, from the politicians, in conversation with others, even in church. It wears you down. It robs you of the will to resist its message. Even short-lived victories, which stop it briefly, leave you with the knowledge that it will return; each minor victory bound to be lost to the redoubled efforts of this patient and persistent force. You can’t escape it. It never stops. It never gives up. It never ends. It rains upon you from every possible angle, from every possible source.
    It’s the drumbeat of the left.”
    http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/the_drumbeat.html

  43. Putin’s communist training in Stalin/Beria’s KGB brings “a black month” to Russia.
    Black years ahead for Russia.
    This report from Pravda, aka The Truth.
    What a shame.
    …-
    “Financial crisis to boost prices on food 30 percent up
    The current financial crisis will strike a significant blow on Russia, the former vice prime minister of the Russian government, Boris Nemtsov said in an interview with Novy Region news agency. The prices on basic foodstuffs may rise 30 percent, whereas small banks will go bankrupt, and many Russians will thus have to forget about consumer loans.
    September has become a black month for Russia, Nemtsov said. The politician advised all Russians should purchase foreign currency, particularly US dollars, to rescue their savings. The crisis may bring only one piece of good news for the country: the prices on residential real estate may drop, he added.
    “The current events and the default of 1998 have only one thing in common – they both are financial crises. The current crisis has a completely different nature. In 1998 Russia suffered from a crisis of the budgetary system, whereas the current events will mostly affect the corporate sector – banks, state-run companies and corporations, such as Gazprom, Rosneft and others,” Nemtsov believes.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086596/posts

  44. prezzie/lberia – you are what is called an ‘intellectual sophist’, which is to say, you are a leftist. A socialist.
    That’s someone who considers that there is a SET or class of people who are superior to the rest. This group must form the government and make all decisions for the hoi polloi, the peasants.
    They are against capitalism because capitalism is based on, indeed requires, individualism. Individual choice. You, the consumer, get to choose what you will consume.
    The Intellectual Sophist, the socialist, rejects this. As our esteemed HRC bureaucrats have told us, freedom of speech is an ‘American concept’ and not for we (socialist) Canadians. You, the consumer, are NOT free to make up your own mind and choose what to consume or reject..in speech, in print, in ‘arts and culture’, in manufactured goods and services.
    No way. You may not choose. You may only consume what the Rulers have chosen for you. The Rulers select what can be spoken, what can be manufactured, what can be purchased. That’s socialism.
    Capitalism empowers the individual. It’s up to the individual..and if the people choose to reject someone’s film, or book, or manufactured product…that’s the way it is. The choice and the power, rests with the people.
    Socialism..nope. There are no choices. The Rulers Rule. Period.
    The rejection of Palin fits into this mindset of the left, which is deeply elitist, class-based and undemocratic. They don’t consider that an ‘ordinary person’ has any right..or capacity..to help US make decisions. Remember, a capitalist government is there to help the people make decisions in their government. Not to Rule over them.
    So, the rejection of Palin clearly shows the elitist disdain for someone who is not a member of their Set. It’s incredible how 19th c colonialist the left is! You can almost see the sneers, as they sit around their lattes (Victorian tea)..and sneer at people ‘in business’, who don’t ‘own land and titles’.
    Heh – the left. They are the 18th, 19th c. regressives.

  46. ET, I love the way you make things up:
    Show me where I write that I “consider that there is a SET or class of people who are superior to the rest. This group must form the government and make all decisions for the hoi polloi, the peasants.”
    Show me where I am “against capitalism because capitalism is based on, indeed requires, individualism.”
    Show me where I reject Palin because she is an “ordinary person.”
    I mock what you call “capitalism” because it isn’t true capitialism…it’s a ponzi scheme that is enabled by irresponsible governments. It allows theft from ordinary people to enrich the corporate elite, the people who actually consider themselves “superior to the rest”, then it steals from ordinary people again by expecting taxpayers to bail out the crooked corporate elite when their schemes falter.
    I don’t reject Palin because she is “ordinary” nor do I hate her. She is dishonest and manipulative, but far too many people are willing to overlook this becasue she comes in a nice package.

  47. The Toronto 18 terrorist training camp video:
    49th-parallel.blogspot.com/2008/09/video-of-toronto-18-terrorist-training.html

  49. batb,
    The darker side of cut and past, my apologies. I only noticed the screwy formatting after I posted.
    Luckily, the message is intact.
    Too bad such messages have to come from another country and not from our own. I suppose it goes along with our human nature to denigrate the local and elevate the foreign.

  50. lberia – I love the way you make things up.
    You aren’t aware that you consider yourself within a superior Set of people; your sneers show it. You write:
    “Perhaps a post on the advantages of unfettered and unregulated capitalism, where only the strong survive, as opposed to the stupid socialism in other countries? ”
    That shows that you view capitalism, as it operates within the will of the consumer, as ‘only the strong survive’. And you reject a strong product, a strong service. You support weak products and services.
    You also don’t know that capitalism requires individualism – which means: individual freedom. Which means: freedom of speech, freedom of thought; freedom of choice.
    Rubbish- capitalism, as it is now, is not a Ponzi scheme. It’s a system where individuals have the freedom to develop products and services; if those products and services are not wanted by the consumer – ..there it goes.
    The thefts that you refer to are carried out, not by capitalism, but by SOCIALIST governments.
    Socialism is the ponzi scheme, based around taking money from the taxpayer, to fund whatever the Elite Set of Intellectual Sophists want – in the name of businesses (Bombardier), golf courses (Chretien’s), art and film, books, schools and etc.
    The Liberals have moved us into a SOCIALIST govt..and Harper is gradually trying to move us back into realism, into pragmatism, into capitalism.
    Equally nonsense- that Palin is dishonest and manipulative. So, you support Obama who is not dishonest and manipulative! Wow.

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