Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night vintage music show, here are Charlie Skeete & his Orchestra, including Clifford Glover, Gene Johnson, Bill Brown, Joe Jones, Tommy Benford, Jimmy Harrison, and Leonard Davis, performing Tampekoe (1926, 4:17).
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Now, now Huffington Post, why don’t you tell us how you really feel about your hero – Big Willy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-slansky-/a-note-to-bill-clinton_b_128755.html
Great take on Palin’s effect in WSJ:
“At a time when the GOP nominee finds himself in much the same position Richard Nixon did in 1960 — the candidate of wrinkly experience facing off against the candidate of youthful optimism — Mrs. Palin channels hope and good cheer into a running mate who badly needs it.
“Mr. Obama seems to be exchanging his JFK face for a Bob Dole mask.”
“This is not the Barack Obama who inspired millions. This is not the Barack Obama who is likely to persuade all those white working-class Hillary voters that he respects their values and will look out for their interests. In short, Mr. Obama needs to relearn the lesson that propelled him to a historic nomination: cheerful and optimistic generally trumps cranky.”
Whole article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212766824265331.html
Vitruvius-
Forgive me, I stuffed the old thread with some things to throw on the back of the stove.
Thanks for your dedication!
Porter
Empire of Yin – Part 1: The Great Unbalancing
Only a cancerous Western civilization could make a Messiah of a 45-year-old “community organizer” of no significant accomplishment who has drunk deeply from the wells of communist agitator Saul Alinsky, communist poet Frank Marshall Davis, terrorists William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, and white-hating black racists Jeremiah Wright and Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3541
…what does this remind you of?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,426272,00.html
A huge pig called Bruce has trapped a terrified woman in her home in Australia.
Caroline Hayes, 63, tried to leave her house in Uki, New South Wales, to use the outdoor toilet, but the animal bit her and shoved her back inside.
Bruce, who is the size of a Shetland pony, showed up at her home 10 days ago after his owners were unable to cope with him and let him loose in the rainforest.
Hayes began feeding the beast, but he became more aggressive, demanding more food and biting her on the leg when she tried to go to the toilet.
Local rangers tried to rescue her but could not capture the huge animal.
The case has now been handed over to the Rural Lands Protection Board (RLPB), who have promised not to put the animal down.
Hayes told how she took pity on the beast, but it soon took over her home.
“When I found it, it had 15 ticks in its eyes which I actually took out,” she said.
“One of its eyes it couldn’t see out of, so I put cream in it, but apparently it’s actually claimed my land and claimed my place.
“It started getting very pushy, started pushing me around, so I started to get a bit frightened, until the stage that it started knocking on my door at 4 a.m., actually head-butting my door.”
This is a very good ad…kinda makes me weepy
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/23/video-catholic-votes-new-pro-life-ad/
Shawn, I found this paragraph interesting:
The entropic motors that seem to be preponderant in these groups may be, singly or in combination, a drive for power or money; identity politics stemming from racial, ethnic, or gender pride wounded in the past but pretending as the present ; utopian proclivities combined with naiveté; compassionate feelings overriding empirical analysis; displacement of personal feelings of inferiority – what Nietzsche called ressentiment; or ideological hatred such as what Islam preaches about the kuffar and Black Theology teaches about whitey. But the destruction wrought by such centrifugal forces comes not from them, but from a wilting of the respective majorities that ought to have been able to resist and countervail against these forces.
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“oh, gawd… it’s beyond horrific… you can
almost smell the guyanese jungle.”
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another one that’ll get caught up in the filter, but Gordon Sinclair said it 50 yrs ago…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwv-dndrMDE&feature=related
Red State Liebensraum?
Last week, I started volunteering for my local Conservative candidate. Now, for many of you in Western Canada, it may not make a difference; the Tory candidate will win in a walk. But here in Richmond Hill, we’re trying to unseat a 4 term Liberal, and the race is very close.
If you’re in a riding where the race is close, please, get out for a few hours. I can assure you that any time you can spare will be gratefully received – whether it’s putting in signs, calling people, knocking on doors, or helping raise funds. This is really “boots on the ground” territory, and we supposedly pride ourselves on being “doers” instead of “whiners”. Get out there, and bring it home!
tomax: It reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f_p0CgPeyA
Politics & Catholics with Charles Chaput: Chapter 1 of 5
http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge/post/?q=OGVjMTkyMWY1NTRmZWNmZjhlYmJmZmJmYmZlY2QwODQ=
“There is a whole culture in America that has believed the innocence of the Rosenbergs as doctrine and dogma. The texts of this culture are not scrupulous histories because such histories would undermine its beliefs.”
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“New Republic Editor Experiences Mental Clarity on Communism
Martin Peretz, the editor-in-chief of The New Republic, didn’t make many friends with the hard core left which nowadays makes up a large part of Democrat activists with his latest article: “Red Dusk: The Rosenberg bombshell.” It is about how many in the American left, despite the evidence that Julius and Ethel Rosenburg were indeed Soviet spies, still can’t accept their guilt just as they can’t accept the culpability of communists and communism in general (emphasis mine):
In America and in other Western societies, however, there still remain coteries of intellectuals and other high-minded people who have trouble absorbing the simplest historic truths, truths which ordinary workers in highly ideological Labour England, say, have had absolutely no difficulties absorbing. Even more so among unionized workers in the United States. The blindness of these meta-minds does not quite absolve Stalin of his crimes–but it willfully looks away from those of Castro or Che, who still hold a special place in the hearts of people calling themselves progressives.”
http://tinyurl.com/3hbke8
(newsbusters)
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…-How Stoopid is disidunce cognitivity
“Help fight illiteracy
Seventh annual Raise-A-Reader campaign hits streets this morning
Montreal Gazette
Published: Tuesday, September 23
The Canwest Raise-a-Reader campaign hits the streets Wednesday morning with 200 volunteers hawking copies of The Gazette and Le Devoir at 15 downtown locations in exchange for donations.”
(gaz)
How about this for insight and from a Liberal, Stephen LeDrew, in the National Post today, “A beating is what the Liberals need”.
Also in the National Post, Lorne Gunter’s column, “Call that a platform”? A good take on the Liberal’s hastily cobbled up “platform”.
“Trudeau say’s Harper doesn’t Understand Canadian’s”
Ctv.ca
Ya Right & you do?
*Momma say’s speak from the Heart
I would say throw Momma & Sonny from the Train If we Had Trains in Grey/Bruce but since Daddy Abolished Rail transit here back in the What? the 70’s, i can’t.
God help us if we ever have another Commie Trudeau in power.
Citoyen Dionky’s “carbon tax could be disastrous for Canada’s economy.”
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“Think-tank calls Liberal carbon tax proposal ‘poor policy’
OTTAWA, Sept. 24 /CNW Telbec/ – The Canadian Centre for Policy Studies today released a report criticizing the federal Liberal proposal to impose a carbon tax if elected, calling the plan “poor policy” that should be rejected.
“A carbon tax will drive the cost of everything up, slowing our economy and fueling inflation,” explained the report’s author Dr. David Murrell, Professor of Economics at University of New Brunswick and Senior Fellow at the CCPS. “It will be particularly harmful to Canadian exporters, who have to compete against countries like China that have no carbon reduction programs.
Given the developing crisis in American financial markets, imposing a carbon tax could be disastrous for Canada’s economy.”
The report can be viewed at http://www.policystudies.ca.”
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/cnw/article.jsp?content=20080924_070503_13_cnw_cnw
I hope everyone at SDA is cheering for the Conservative candidate, CS Leung, in Richmond Hill. I just found out the campaign manager for the incumbent Liberal is our good friend, Jason Cherniak.
Anne Applebaum, The Smart Money in Afghanistan
It isn’t the Taliban that Afghan entrepreneurs fear; it is their own government, corrupted by international money and now infiltrated by criminal networks, too.
This is the chaos that is foreign aid in Afghanistan, a place where every mistake ever made in an underdeveloped economy is being repeated…
(Via SWJ) Nicholas Blanford, Lebanon Warily Watches Its Salafis
Ideologically, Salafis shun man-made laws and politics, choosing instead to embrace only sharia (Islamic law) and believe in some of the same rigid ideals that Al Qaeda espouses.
Militant Shiite Hezbollah has been reaching out to them, believing that striking a deal with a Sunni sect, which does not even recognize Shiites as Muslims, might ease flaring intra-Muslim tensions.
The Future Movement, which represents most Lebanese Sunnis and opposes Hezbollah, also has been eyeing the Salafis.
[“There’s a sense of trust … for existing media and there’s a sense that the Internet serves as a complement to existing media,” Zamaria said.] David George-Cosh
Sense of trust !!?? Ya, sure.
[“People look at (the Internet) as an experience or a place to be,” he said. “For example, more than three-quarters of people go online just to surf with no particular destination or purpose in mind.]
No particular destination !!?? (sda topped 10 million hits yesterday)
Puke yet ? There’s more.
[“Even Internet users who spend more than 15 hours per week online tend to find newspapers more reliable than any other source of information.”]
SPLAT !!
[The study surveyed 2,750 respondents across Canada between June 25 and July 31, 2007, with a margin of error of 1.9 per cent, 19 times out of 20.]
Who chose the respondents? Bet it wasn’t random.
Who made(up) the study ??
Ryerson University professor Charles Zamaria, the study’s principal author.
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=a23c2adc-aebc-4116-89dc-be7a05f25ca7
[“There’s a sense of trust … for existing media and there’s a sense that the Internet serves as a complement to existing media,” Zamaria said.] David George-Cosh Canwest News Service
Sense of trust !!?? Ya, sure.
[“People look at (the Internet) as an experience or a place to be,” he said. “For example, more than three-quarters of people go online just to surf with no particular destination or purpose in mind.]
No particular destination !!?? (sda topped 10 million hits yesterday)
Puke yet ? There’s more.
[“Even Internet users who spend more than 15 hours per week online tend to find newspapers more reliable than any other source of information.”]
SPLAT !!
[The study surveyed 2,750 respondents across Canada between June 25 and July 31, 2007, with a margin of error of 1.9 per cent, 19 times out of 20.]
Who chose the respondents? Bet it wasn’t random.
Who made(up) the study ??
Ryerson University professor Charles Zamaria, the study’s principal author.
RAND Corporation, More Freedom, Less Terror?
Liberalization and Political Violence in the Arab World
In the wake of September 11 through the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a key tenet of U.S. foreign policy has been that promoting democracy in the Arab world is an important strategy in reducing terrorism; at the same time, some policymakers and analysts have held that democracy has nothing to do with terrorism — or even that the growth of democracy in the Middle East may exacerbate political violence. However, scant empirical evidence links democracy to terrorism, positively or negatively. This study examines whether such links exist by exploring the effects of liberalization processes on political violence in Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, and Morocco from 1991 to 2006…
[Summary and full report in PDF only].
* Kyoto Skeptics Cleared Of Vote Violations *
[“The audio statements do not refer to the election nor do they mention any political party or candidate,” wrote Moise in a separate letter from Sept. 21, 2007, to an individual who filed the initial complaint. “They do not promote or oppose a registered party, or the election of a candidate. They take the position that the public have been misled about global warming. To the extent that all of the major parties in the 2006 federal election acknowledged the problem of global warming and were taking steps to address it, though in different ways, (the Liberals, NDP, Bloc Quebecois with the Kyoto accord, and the Conservatives with a made-in-Canada approach) it would be difficult to conclude that the audio statements by taking a position on global warming, were targeting one particular party or candidate or a particular party’s policy.”] Calgary Herald
The Kyoto Gestapo Police looses another one (aka, they should be jailed: Suzuki)
[“It was a frivolous and vexatious compliant,” said Cooper, who also works as a freelance columnist for the Herald. “It was also an attempt — fortunately unsuccessful in this instance — of stifling debate.”]
Stifling debate – the Kyoto Gang’s position from day one.
“Harper urges tougher youth sentencing
Ease Name Ban; ‘Determined to crack down on crime’
Stephen Harper announced another plank in his justice platform yesterday, telling a Saskatoon audience that a Conservative government would define 30 offences that would be ineligible for house arrest, including serious property crimes such as robbery and arson, weapons offences, home invasion, drug trafficking and kidnapping.
“Making criminals serve prison time for serious crimes is an important part of our plan to reduce crime,” Mr. Harper said, a day after pledging to clamp down on young offenders.
In the last Parliament, the Liberals, New Democratic Party and Bloc Quebecois blocked an earlier attempt by the Conservative government to limit eligibility for house arrest, also known as conditional sentencing.
A senior Conservative source said the proposed restrictions would be handled as a confidence measure, to underline how important the Conservatives consider them to be.”
http://tinyurl.com/4nsb6y (NP)
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“Mothers of shooting victims plead for information as police offer …
The Canadian Press – 2 hours ago
TORONTO – A $50000 reward for information about the fatal shooting of two men as they sat in an SUV is being offered as their mothers once again make tearful pleas for the killer – or witnesses – to come forward.”
via Hotair:
“Render unto Obama”
First we had the Vero Possumus seal, and then the Barackopolis. One might have thought that Team Obama would have learned their lesson on hubris and self-absorption, but a deal with a British firm goes even farther. Democrats have begun striking coins with Barack Obama’s profile — and already proclaiming him President:
The coins already sold to the Democrats will be presented to the senators, congressmen, governors and other politicians they are being given to within the next two weeks.
There will also be a television advertising campaign launched in the US.
The company directors got the idea of producing the coins after seeing actress Meryl Streep talking about Barack Obama on a television programme.
When they got in touch with the Democrats the party jumped at the chance. And the coins have proved such a hit that locally produced versions have already been launched to compete with the UK originals.
The coins show Senator Obama’s face, along with a picture of the White House and the legend “President of the United States of America”.
Apparently, the coin does not include the new motto of the United States: Vero Possumus. Instead, it declares Obama President, well ahead of when Americans get to make that choice. If that seems rather presumptuous, it only appears that way to those who have not watched the cult of personality grow over the last few months.
But, Mr. Flaherty, you are giving taxpayer dollars to selected industries. That disadvantages some at the expense of others. Why?
“The government has always put money into the auto sector” he said.
Mr. Flaherty said the government has already announced its intention to embrace some of the recommendations of the Wilson report on competitiveness. The Wilson report stated that Canada’s consumers are hurt by the monopolistic practices of egg & dairy marketing boards, stifles innovation, and prevents innovation. The report was released in 2006. Mr. Flaherty said the government has already announced its intention to embrace some of the recommendations of the Wilson report on competitiveness.
He suggested however any changes to marketing boards, which many commentators say keep prices of such farm goods as eggs and milk artificially high in Canada, will have to wait until the next round of international trade negotiations.
“We support the management boards because they function well in Canada,” Mr. Flaherty said.
Why not vote NDP or Librano? The Flaherty flatulance ensures you pay twice to farmers: once through direct subsidies, and again through marketing boards, and their attendant bureaucracies.
Quick – more cheques to selected regions to buy votes! Quickly now!
Well done Jim! The socialist gulag strives forward!
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=826998
How do you know you’ve got a media-manufactured CPC “scandal”?
When National Newswatch has not one, not two, but SEVEN links to it:
* Artists ‘should be landlords, not tenants’
* Ontario premier defends arts funding
* Actors condemn Harper’s culture cuts
* PM slams Quebec arts community
* Layton stands by tough attack on Harper’s arts record
* Arts uproar? Ordinary folks just don’t care, Harper says
* French pop star launches Internet attack on Anglos for cuts to culture
http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/
GIVE ME A BREAK. If artists can’t make a go of being artists on their own, they should get another job; they should write, paint, sing, and act on their own dime, on their own time. Or, get a private patron like the artists of old used to do.
Canadian artists shouldn’t expect hard-working families, especially with kids, to subsidize their artistry. If an artist is talented, the cream will float to the surface. If not, and if no one’s interested in their art, then they need to work like the rest of us and not expect government subsidies to keep them going.
They’re not “special,” whatever they think about themselves. Tenants, indeed.
Re arts funding; and interesting poll at Calgary Sun
Should the feds increase spending on arts and culture?
Yes:
(14.11%)
No:
(85.89%)
Well the arts commmunity is reaping what they have sown. They are about to learn that most people are not willing to support them. The comments over at the Gobe and Mail and the CBC are hilarious. The arts community is beside themselves ‘Harper is using this to devide,’ ‘Harper is nasty,’ ‘Harper wants America to take over.’ They are off their rockers. Folks get out there and tell your friends about the socialists misusing your tax dollars.
Yeah, Buglady but that poll is from Calgary Sun and we know how unsophisticated those rednecks out west are.
Me bad. I forgot to add the sarcasm tag to my last.
Btw, National(Lieberal)Newswatch seems to have given up on any pretence of being a balanced news gatherer. It is more like the Tor Star daily talking points memo.
Thank G*d for all of the unsophisticated rednecks, eh Texas Canuck?!!!
I used to be sophisticated until I grew up. Now I’m an adult redneck. 😉
Thanks, Buglady, for backing up my theory. I was pretty sure I was right!
batb – My sentiments about the arts exactly. CTV.ca has 7 video links about the arts funding cuts – no agenda there, eh?
Harper is finished now, he’s lost the urban-latte-drinking-metrosexual-artsie-fartsie vote. Conservatives were REALLY banking on that demographic come election day. LOL
Hot off the presses:
“London’s Olympic Park toilets to turn away from Mecca out of respect for Islamic law”
The headline in the UK’s Daily Mail On-Line reports. Like who gives a crap about which direction you are sitting when in the “reading room”. I guess the loos can’t be 180 degrees away from Mecca either lest they be accused of mooning Mecca.
Anyhow, everyone knows there is just one directional rule: never wizz upwind.
McGuinty’s Death Watch.
Liberal-socialist McGuinty speaks.
McGuinty: “Arts” before Death.
McGuinty say, “”A society doesn’t reveal itself through its roads and its golf courses,””
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“McGuinty rejects demands for investigation into C. difficile deaths in Ont.
TORONTO — Premier Dalton McGuinty is rejecting Opposition demands for an independent investigation into the C. difficile deaths in Ontario hospitals.
Conservative health critic Elizabeth Witmer wants to know why the Liberal government “is afraid” to have an investigation into the deadly outbreak of C. difficile in some hospitals.
Witmer says the infectious disease has killed more than 500 people in only 22 of Ontario’s 157 hospitals, and she complains the Liberals refuse to take action to find the true extent of the problem.
She says the Liberals either don’t want to get to the root cause of the outbreak or really know what happened.
Witmer notes the Liberals called for an inquiry into SARS, which killed 44 people, and support a federal inquiry into the listeriosis outbreak that is blamed for 18 deaths across the country.”
http://tinyurl.com/3jtvf8 (canpress)
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“McGuinty, others defend arts against Harper
Ontario’s Premier Dalton McGuinty added his voice to defend the arts in the wake of controversial remarks by Conservative Leader Stephen Harper.
“A society doesn’t reveal itself through its roads and its golf courses,” McGuinty said Wednesday at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
“It reveals itself through its architecture, through its literature, through its music and its art.”
http://tinyurl.com/5xhlak
“Poll fever: Hallucinations and mirages
It’s all rather sad, really. A Liberal blogger posts about a Liberal surge. The big Conservative lead was just an aberration. The NDP is fading away. It’s a whole new ball game.
Poor sod. She was looking at a poll from last year.”
“Ruth at Yappa Ding Ding is walking on air. There is new poll from Nik Nanos, and the Liberals are surging:”
http://stevejanke.com/archives/274142.php
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For Ruth:
“Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it look as though they’re here to stay Oh, I believe in yesterday Suddenly, I’m not half the [wo]man I …” (beetles)
What progressives do not yet realize is that being called a redneck, unsophisticated, cowboy etc is not really offensive to most of us knuckledraggers. Probably because non-progressives have a sense of humour and can laugh at these “insults”. OTOH, progressives get quite angry if you accuse them of being racist or sexist. If you really want to push their buttons accuse them of shopping at WalMart or being a unsophisticated urban redneck. Drives them crazy.
Love how these losers pop up at election time and get a sympathetic ear from the usual subjects, including the media.
Never does it occur to them their artistic productions may not appeal to enough people to be self supporting. They may need to get a job in the real world instead of bumming from the taxpayers who do have real jobs.
Neither does it occur to them their work doesn’t sell because it’s CRAP.
Thank God for Stephen Harper’s plain old common sense.
While I am the first to agree that State funding of welfare cases in the ‘arts’ (ie: the ones who can’t sell a piece) should be extremely focused, it amazes me that the ‘conservatives’ in here don’t speak to the massive farm subsidies doled out by the Canadian government.
In terms of total dollars spent, it is upwards of $40 billion per year in direct and indirect subsidies – 10 times that of ‘arts’ funding. Which simply translates into Monsanto and Dow and Agrium making superior profits vis a vis taxpayer money.
The abhorrent lever of socialism is all it is. Much as the $25 billion per year in direct and indirect subsidies to for profit business in this country.
Yet given the audience, all the readers here can do is complain about a fraction of the waste that attends the majority of government spending.
You get to pay for it. Oh, and you get to pay $4 billion a year for the ‘arts’ too. Better get the signs painted.
Long live the statist gulag. Conservatism is dead in this country.
Let me re-phrase that: Conservatism is dead in this country: selectively chosen and driven by partisan parsimony.
That better for the ‘cons’ out there?
Mohebat Ahdiyyih, Ahmadinejad and the Mahdi
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad surprised not only many Westerners but also many Iranians when, during his first speech at the United Nations, he prayed for the hasty return of the Hidden Imam, the Mahdi, Shi‘i Islam’s messianic figure. Demonstrating his priorities, he repeated the prayer in December 2007 when addressing Arab leaders at the Gulf Cooperation Council meeting in Doha…
The inspiration for Ahmadinejad’s thinking can be found in traditional Shi‘ism. As with other monotheistic religions, Shi‘i teachings promise the return of a messiah. For Twelver Shi‘a, the messiah will be Muhammad al-Mahdi, the Twelfth Imam, who went into occultation in 874 CE and is expected to return before the Day of Judgment to lead the righteous against the forces of evil…
Remember The old joke
My brother is an Artist, he draws a cheque from the government every month.
EXCUSE ME, hardboiled?
It seems to me that it’s the Librano$ that have put artists on the agenda. That’s the issue we’re responding to.
Maybe you could explain why your parties of choice–Dipppers? Librano$? Greens?–haven’t brought up the farm subsidies. Breathe down their necks, not ours.
Thanks.
hardboiled. A party of one very angry man.
A couple of odds and ends:
A Northwestern University study on the difference between liberals and conservatives. Relatively lame, but perhaps marginally interesting.
http://www.physorg.com/news141480041.html
Strong leaders who punish freeloaders and cheats can benefit society: research (I’m thinking…PMSH’s tough on crime stance)
http://www.physorg.com/news141468609.html
hardboiled. A party of one very angry man.
Gore: mugged by reality.
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“Gore: ‘We Are Losing Badly’ in the Climate-Change Battle”
“Of the current fight against global warming, Gore said: “This is a rout. We are losing badly.””
“Gore was responding to a question from former President Bill Clinton about the recent financial crisis’ potential to impede efforts to pass climate-change legislation.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/24/gore-we-are-losing-badly-in-climate-change-battle/
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From comments:
“I really liked Green Al better when I worked for his father at Island Creek Coal Company at a surface mine in Kentucky. Al Gore Sr. was the chairman of the board of Island Creek Coal. Through the strong relationship between the Gores and Dr. Armand Hammer the chief of the parent company Occidental Petroleum, young and upcoming politician Al Gore Jr. worked side by side with his father and Dr. Hammer to complete the Island Creek to China deal in the early 80,s. It was the first transfer to China of modern mining techniques and technology in the U.S. Yes young Al was full of great ideas and enthusiasm back then also, you could say the group was instrumental in creating modern China’s coal industry. What the heck if was the coal and mineral business, the Gores new how to turn a buck in coal and mineral most of their lives and if anyone would care to check I would say they still do.
Another note Mr. Gore may have a hard time growing organic vegetables on the back 40 in Tennennse, anyone who cares to can go to Google Earth and just east of South Carthage, TN on the Cookeville Hwy. You can see the Gore home place with a large Zinc strip mine in the back of it. Mr. Al has picked several hundred thousands of dollars in royalties from this operation, but he knows how to run an open mine in a green manner.
Comment by D R M – September 24, 2008 at 7:48 pm”
Hardboiled is entitled to his opinions. Just as we are entitled to disagree with them.
Hardboiled, you are correct that there is no free-market, capitalistic, libertarian political party in Canada. Such a party could not exist in our current political climate. The closest thing we have at the moment is the Conservative Party of Canada which is why so many of us support that party. With the Conservative Party in power we have a hope of slowly inching Canada back towards its libertarian roots. When this is accomplished the party you crave will most likely come into existence. Until that time, hold onto your ideals, celebrate the progress and share in our hope that the rough road we follow will lead to the country we all remember.