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  2. You’ve gotta check this video out (Link below). It was presented to my son’s grade five class. It has been coupled with a whole lot of anti-corporation, pro-socialist environmental propaganda over the past couple of years at the school. Better check out what they’re teaching your elementary school children these days.
    http://www.storyofstuff.com/

  3. A chuckle from http://www.breitbart.com
    ‘Drone lands in North Dakota in prep for Northern Border Patrol’
    From the comments:
    1) ‘The two best exports from Canada to the US are great comedians and the best pot’
    2) ‘What’s the bag limit on those things?’
    3) ‘If we had these drones in the 90s, we could have kept Celine Dion out of the country.’
    4) ‘Good – catch all those smugglers that are flooding our economy with warm maple syrup for our pancakes.’
    And some are stunned that their govt is wasting money on this when they say it is the southern border that needs, ahem, attention.

  4. Richard, thank you for informing us about that. I’ve let Ezra Levant know. You really should consider informing the RCMP or local police. I think that woman is more than a little scary.

  5. “check out what they’re teaching your elementary school children these days.”
    Geezus David, I wish you had saved that for a morning posting. I won’t be able to sleep now!
    This video illustrates our future. Socialism/Marxism brought to you by brainwashed children.
    The only way to get back on track is to eliminate Teachers Unions. Until we bust them up and introduce competition, our future is certain. Certainly a country where everyone draws a government paycheck. Followed by bulldozers of course.

  6. How to stimulate the economy in a recession? David
    Frum amplifies a colleague at AEI with this suggestion: cut payroll taxes (temporarily) and print money (once only)
    http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OWQ2YmRjNzVmNzlmYjNiNDkzZjlmMDAwZDY5YmI1MjE=
    Normally, printing money is a banana republic solution: a form of indirect taxation. The government gets to spend the new money but everyone else’s cash is devalued. Inevitably it leads to inflation. Well, nowadays, for a limited time only, a little extra inflation is not a big problem.

  7. I’ve read some Liberals and PB/Bloc commentators claim that the CPC resistance to the “seperatist coalition” had an influence on the Quebec election results. They basically say that the PQ benefited and the ADQ suffered from events in Ottawa that occured between 1-Dec and 8-Dec. They emphasize Harper’s strong reaction to the role of the Bloc in the emergence of a coalition to take over the federal government.
    Well, I think they have their facts wrong.
    I’ll pick on one blogger’s theory but it is common even in the mainstream media:
    The Big Lebowski
    http://theliberalbag.blogspot.com/2008/12/big-lebowski.html
    Quote:
    auline Marois may use slightly more eloquent language in her speech tonight, but with the PQ performing well above the poll predictions, and keep Charest to a very slim majority (the night is young enough to even keep him to minority) this famous quote from The Big Lebowski will sum up her feelings towards Stephen Harper and his Quebec baiting/bashing, which most commentators tonight are citing as a significant factor in the PQ’s surprising result, when almost everyone had the PLQ at a comfortable 70ish seat majority, as opposed to the narrow majority he will get. Harper and the Conservative/ADQ stock is collapsing in Quebec, and the federal Liberals need to pounce on this weakness.
    End Quote.
    * * *
    1.
    The Quebec Election.
    In late November the polls had Liberal support at 46% (up from 41% in early November) but on election day they got 42%. So much for a Liberal gain from some CPC collapse based on events in Ottawa during the 7-day period of 1-Dec to 8-Dec.
    Liberal support dropped prior to those events and then levelled-off.
    In these same polls, the PQ were sitting at 34% in early November and stayed there in late November; on election day they got 35%. So much for a PQ gain from some CPC collapse based on the past week or so.
    PQ support had levelled-off in early November; there was no gain through to election day.
    Meanwhile, the ADQ were at about 14% in early November, dropped to 12% in late November, and rose to 16% on election day. Their electoral collapse had occured before the provincial election was called and the ADQ made a partial recovery in popular support.
    That’s a slight rise, not a further decline, for the ADQ during the coalition battle in Ottawa. Perhaps the ADQ benefited to some extent.
    Logically, you can’t attribute such a rise, no matter how small, to a theoretical composite collapse of the CPC and ADQ in Quebec.
    Of course, there was a signficantly lower turnout in the 2008 election compared with the 2007 election.
    That seems to have deflated the vote tallies for all parties, pretty much evenly.
    And an interesting note:
    The Green Party saw its support decline by about 50% — about as much as the ADQ’s popular vote had declined between 2007 and 2008.
    * * *
    2.
    Public Opinion in Quebec re the Ottawa power struggle.
    Harper’s stock in Quebec has gone up, not down.
    See the recent Compas poll, for example.
    http://www.compas.ca/polls/081205-CommonsTurmoil-EPCB.htm
    Quote:
    “Harper Would Win Big Majority, Sweep Seat-Rich Ontario and Overtake Liberals in Quebec.”
    End Quote.
    * * *
    When Ontario favors the CPC, expect federalists in Quebec to throw even more support to the CPC candidates.
    * * *
    2008 Federal Election Results
    http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/results.html
    The Ekos poll has the CPC at 20.2% (+/- 4%); in the 2008 election their popular vote was 21.7% so there is no precipitous drop in support.
    Likewise for the Liberals.
    However, the NDP down, the Bloc down, and the Greens slightly up.
    Ekos
    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/pictures/ekospoll.html
    * * *
    The Ipso poll tells a similar story.
    http://www.globaltv.com/globaltv/national/story.html?id=1032759
    The CPC have gone from 21.7% in the election to 24% today; the Liberals dropped from 23.7% to 21%; the Bloc and the NDP have dropped slightly and the Greens have gone up from 3% to 6%.
    The Quebec public is split about 50-50 for and against the coalition taking power.
    While the CPC got 21.7% of the popular vote in the last election, about 44% of Quebeckers say the CPC should fight and do everything they can legally do to continue governing because of the severe economic situation the country faces and the fact that the Liberals and the NDP have entered into an “unholy” deal with the Bloc separatists.
    In Quebec, only 43% say that the CPC should give up and let the coalition take power.
    About 54% in Quebec favor holding an election rather than support a deal to form a coalition government.
    And 52% support the CPC proposal to to abolish the system of political financing in which parties.
    * * *
    In sum, it is very doubtful that “Harper and the Conservative/ADQ stock is collapsing in Quebec.”
    Not when the ADQ made a slight recovery while the CPC made a strong federalist stand during he last week or so of the Quebec election.
    In fact, Charest made an apt comparison when he emphasized that Quebeckers should choose a majority government rather than repeat the minority of the 2007 election.
    It sounds like a good model for Harper and the CPC should an election be precipated prematurely by the seperatist coalition.

  8. Typo correction:
    So much for a Liberal gain or loss due to a theoretical CPC collapse based on events in Ottawa during the 7-day period of 1-Dec to 8-Dec.
    Provincial Liberal support dropped prior to those events and then levelled-off.

  9. 3) ‘If we had these drones in the 90s, we could have kept Celine Dion out of the country.’
    Who’s? Ours or theirs? Can we give them Steffie instead?

  10. ” Rare 50 year Arctic Blast Sets Sights On Southern California.
    With a week away, and a sure sign of things to come, OWSweather.com is making preparations on the server to handle the traffic from this next event. UJEAS is in line with the majority if not all the other models in keeping a near historical arctic air mass into the Southern California region.
    With a warm November, Southern California is finally ready for cold storms to make their way in. Resort level snow will be likely next week, and in pretty hefty amounts if things stay on track. OWSweather.com Meteorologist Kevin Martin predicts a 50 year event. While Martin is usually conservative on these events, the pattern highly favors it.
    “We are in a pre-1950 type pattern, “said Martin. “We know we are due for a winter storm sometime this year. The type we may be dealing with will be ranked up there with the known years before 1950, which set record low daytime temperatures into the forecast region. With this, may come low elevation snow.”
    http://www.owsweather.com/pr120808a.html

  11. Scott Reid:
    “Their imperative could not be more clear: kill him. Kill him dead.”
    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/010209.html#comments
    …-
    “Canmore blogger guilty of threatening Harper
    A Canmore man has been convicted of uttering threats against Prime Minister Stephen Harper on a politically motivated Internet blog.
    Provincial court Judge Judith Shriar, in a written judgment released Monday, said Patrick David Fenton, 27, intended his posts, written two years ago, to be taken seriously, even though she did not believe he intended to carry out the threats.
    “I note Mr. Fenton’s admission that the words and images make him appear like a psychopath,” Shriar wrote.
    Fenton, in an expletive-riddled November 2006 entry on his blog, Drunken Soldier, wrote that he was upset a minority government was destroying the country and that he wanted to kill Harper”
    http://tinyurl.com/6qb78t

  13. Re: “check out what they’re teaching your elementary school children these days.”
    I’m sorry, I couldn’t watch the whole thing and keep my breakfast down. What a bunch of socialist claptrap. I was waiting for a cameo from Taliban Jack or maybe Miss Tin Lizzy May.

  14. MSM said this: Positively positive.
    >>>> “In a break from the recent steady flow of negative economic news,”.
    Down with the Separatist Coalition.
    …-
    “Staffing service Manpower Canada foresees steady hiring in early 2009
    TORONTO — In a break from the recent steady flow of negative economic news, staffing service Manpower Canada says its latest survey of employers points to a “hopeful” hiring outlook for early 2009.
    Manpower, which conducts a quarterly survey in 33 countries where it operates, said Tuesday that Canadian employers expect a “mild hiring climate” in the January-March period.
    The survey of 1,800 Canadian employers indicates 16 per cent expect to increase payrolls in the first quarter of 2009 while nine per cent anticipate cutbacks. Seventy-two per cent said they expected no change and three per cent were uncertain of their near-term staffing intentions.
    After accounting for seasonal variations, Manpower said 18 per cent more employers plan to add workers than expect to cut back – four percentage points more than in the current quarter, “indicating a hopeful hiring climate for the first quarter of 2009.”
    Said Lori Rogers, vice-president of operations for Manpower Canada: “Despite the global slowdown, seasonally adjusted data reveals employers in Canada will continue to expand their payrolls and at a slightly stronger pace than in the previous quarters.”
    Rogers added that hiring forecasts are strongest in Western Canada, Quebec and Atlantic Canada, “while employers in Ontario anticipate a quiet January-to-March period.””
    http://tinyurl.com/6bxm88 (canpress)

  16. Jon Stewart tackles Canadian Politics: He said of Harper, “I mean, this guy. . . his approval rating is 46 per cent and they’re trying to kick him out. You know what we call a 46 per cent approval rating down here? President Clinton!” Video at Globe and Mail, too funny……

  18. His Supreme Being, Barack Obama, meets with the Goreacle today, to discuss the crisis of climate change.
    Lord help us all.

  19. This “could be Iggy’s new theme song….
    The song sucks, but the words are fitting: (Penetration: entrance; entry; influx; invasion;
    infliltration; insertion)
    BY: Punk Rock Band: Iggy and the Stooges – Penetration
    Penetrate Me, So Fine, So Fine, So Fine
    I Get Excited, I Get Excited, I’m Alone, So Fine, I’m Alive
    Every Night In Town, Every Night In Town
    I’m Going Down, I’m Going Down, Pulsating
    A Beautiful Enemy, A Beautiful Enemy
    Take A Lay, Take Away, Get Out
    Come On And Take Me, Come On And Take Me
    I’m Alive, I’m Alive, I’m Alive
    Stay Down, Stay Down
    I Feel Fine, Every Time, Penetration

  20. Climate Justice, where else but from the Gaurdian, NNW
    http://tinyurl.com/66xqc5
    People affected by worsening storms, heatwaves and floods could soon be able to sue the oil and power companies they blame for global warming, a leading climate expert has said.
    Myles Allen, a physicist at Oxford University, said a breakthrough that allows scientists to judge the role man-made climate change played in extreme weather events could see a rush to the courts over the next decade.
    He said: “We are starting to get to the point that when an adverse weather event occurs we can quantify how much more likely it was made by human activity. And people adversely affected by climate change today are in a position to document and quantify their losses. This is going to be hugely important.”

  21. The extra large Toronto Star empire was still writing about Boob Rae sticking around, 8 hours after the story was broke by Paul Wells in Macleans.
    If this happened in my business – heads would roll.
    In the MSM, profits continue to decline…

  22. You’ve gotta check this video out (Link below). It was presented to my son’s grade five class. It has been coupled with a whole lot of anti-corporation, pro-socialist environmental propaganda over the past couple of years at the school.
    Posted by: David Rvachew at December 9, 2008 1:14 AM
    I had my 14 year old nieces over for a weekend visit. In talking with them about school, they mentioned they were learning about ‘consumerism’. I asked what that meant, and they said a variety of phrases and terms, but neither one could articulate the concept in any which way.
    A perfect summary of this socio-political fluff coming through in the public education system: concern without specifics.
    Because closer examination of such a socio-political philosophy would reveal it is a society and human loathing construct – that focuses on engineering others’ behavior.
    Reducing packaging, building more durable goods, and a range of ideas are out there to reduce waste creation.
    Unfortunately, the inverse of ‘consumerism’ is viewed as an idyllic ‘Star Trek’ vision of fantasy – where inherent human conflict is denied, opinion homogenized, and fealty to your superiors is military in tone and consequence.
    A lib-leftist paradise.

  24. Palin along the Yukon is good enough for me*.
    “She makes her underwear from hides of grizzly bear. And bathes in ice cold water every day …”.
    …-
    “Palin urges Obama to seek closer ties with Canada
    Just a few days after signing a historic agreement that will see a Canadian company build a massive pipeline to flow natural gas from Alaska to Alberta, Gov. Sarah Palin says she is working to strengthen relations with Canada, and Barack Obama should too.
    Palin, who recently lost her vice-presidential bid on a shared ticket with presidential candidate John McCain, spoke to CTV’s Canada AM from Fairbanks, Alaska, just after signing the deal with TransCanada pipeline. She granted the company US$500 million to plan the pipeline, with construction set to begin in 2011.
    She suggested the contract is an example of cross-border co-operation that Democratic president-elect Barack Obama can learn from.
    “I want to grow the relationship we have with Canada,” Palin said.
    “I know Alaska is doing all we can to grow that relationship and we’ve gotta have faith that the newly elected administration will see the light on that and work very hard to increase and strengthen the relationship between our two countries.”
    She said Alaskans and Canadians have much in common, from a shared love of hockey to an appreciation for the outdoors, hunting and fishing.”
    http://tinyurl.com/6fvmar (ctv)
    Commenter said:
    “Vahan
    Palin is lucky she is sitting on oil. Otherwise she would have been forgotten a long time ago. This is the same reason we are mired in the middle east. Look at all the tragedies around the world, how often does the “world” step in to oust other “tyrants”. What you have no oil for us, oh o.k go ahead and slaughter. Hey bubble head up north has oil let us respect her while she takes away rights from women to chose. Come on wake up she is a tyrant to.”
    …-
    (*H/T Hank Thompson)

  25. Will O sue O Or O mag Or O?
    Oh, well, O will have tO be a fOrmer “media titan”.
    …-
    “Oprah Winfrey rues dramatic weight gain
    Monsters and Critics.com – 29 minutes ago
    By April MacIntyre Dec 9, 2008, 15:51 GMT The latest admission from media titan Oprah Winfrey in the January issue of “O” magazine (out Tuesday) is that she is on the wrong side of 200 pounds and has “fallen off the wagon” regarding food and weight …”

  26. FWIW:
    ICOS (formerly Senlis Council), Struggle for Kabul: The Taliban Advance
    The Taliban now holds a permanent presence in 72% of Afghanistan, up from 54% a year ago. Taliban forces have advanced from their southern heartlands, where they are now the de facto governing power in a number of towns and villages, to Afghanistan’s western and north-western provinces, as well as provinces north of Kabul. Within a year, the Taliban’s permanent presence in the country has increased by a startling 18%.
    Three out of the four main highways into Kabul are now compromised by Taliban activity. The capital city has plummeted to minimum levels of control, with the Taliban and other criminal elements infiltrating the city at will…

  27. Michael J. Totten, Iraq at the End of the Surge
    Last week I wrote that many Americans and Iraqis I spoke to in Baghdad recently expect a surge of violence after American troops withdraw from Iraqi cities as stipulated by the recently signed Status of Forces Agreement. Many readers seemed surprised by that pessimistic forecast and wondered, after two years of good news, if it could even be true. “Your report and that of Michael Yon,” Richard Everett wrote in the comments section, “published on the same day on the same subject are at so great variance that one has to ask; ‘are you two in the same country?’ He is positive, you are not. Why the extreme difference?” …

  28. Seth Kaplan, Fixing Fragile States
    Fragile states have marched from the fringe to the very center of U.S. security concerns. Whereas once defense analysts worried only about competing powers such as the Soviet Union and China, now even the weakest of countries is considered a potential threat…
    We have, at least for the moment, stopped ignoring fragile states. Indeed, everyone seems to have an opinion these days on how to fix fragile states. Presidents and generals, academics and aid specialists, even financiers and business executives are volunteering prescriptions for countries where the only growth industries are violence, corruption, and decay. Yet, for all the talk, there is little understanding of what ails places such as Pakistan and Afghanistan, why past efforts at helping them have failed, and what ought to be done to turn them around. Moreover, despite the increasing awareness of the importance of fragile states to the West’s own security and well-being, much of the tens of billions of dollars in aid spent attempting to reform these desperate places is funding policies that actually undermine them…

  29. MSM prints the word Conservative? No.
    …-
    “Air Canada said it will comment this afternoon once Transport Minister John Baird discusses the agreement at a news conference in Montreal.”
    …-
    “Canada reaches civil aviation pact with European Union”
    http://tinyurl.com/68nwaw (canpress)

  30. Welcome Jim (The Red) Prentice to Environment – where cap and trade and legislated production levels is coming….in a big way…
    Poor countries ‘need carbon cuts’
    By Richard Black
    Environment correspondent, BBC News, Poznan, Poland People in developing countries will need to make big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions if “dangerous” climate change is to be avoided, a report warns.
    Researchers at the Third World Network calculate that even if rich nations make deep cuts, the developing world will face per-capita reductions of 60%. It suggests this would pose challenges to these countries’ development. Meanwhile, another report warns that current proposals for cutting developed world emissions do not go far enough…..
    Prentice warms to critics ahead of climate talks BILL CURRY and MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
    …..OTTAWA and TORONTO — Through a series of casual chats on Parliament Hill, Environment Minister Jim Prentice has personally invited his opposition critics to join him at the UN’s global climate-change talks taking place next week in Poland. It is a small but symbolic gesture that signals a clear change in tone on the environment file from the Harper government…..
    …..The Tory government has said it wants to establish a North American cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions. “We look forward to collaborating closely with the Obama administration,” Martin said.
    Environment Minister Jim Prentice is to address the Poznan meeting on Thursday, formally laying out Canada’s position…”
    Well now. That’ll fix all of the growth issues the civil service is having. Jim’s handiwork has seen a 5.1% increase in the executive of the civil service – in the last year alone.
    Way to go Jim!!!

  31. “UN suspends leading carbon-offset firm
    Emissions trading rocked as Norwegian company is left in limbo.
    Quirin Schiermeier
    As international climate talks began last week in Poland, the United Nations (UN) suspended the work of the main company that validates carbon-offset projects in developing countries, sending shockwaves through the emissions-trading business.”
    Don’t tell me there is corruption at the UN and people are getting rich off carbon trading. They were our last hope of honesty in the new world government, oh the horrors! Any way we can blame Dion or Bush?

  33. “Obama vows to end global warming ‘denial’ after Gore talks
    CHICAGO (AFP) – President-elect Barack Obama said Tuesday his administration would brook no further delay in tackling climate change after discussing global warming with former vice president Al Gore.
    Sitting between Gore and his vice president-elect Joseph Biden following the hour-long meeting, Obama told reporters: “All three of us are in agreement that the time for delay is over. The time for denial is over.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145724/posts

  34. The Tory government has said it wants to establish a North American cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions. “We look forward to collaborating closely with the Obama administration,” Martin said.
    Done! Gore has a direct line into Canada’s environmental policy for ‘global warming’, no less.
    The earth is saved!!!

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