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More Carbon Credit Tomfoolery:

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_11306709

"Twilight of the Clods: McClatchy VP Goes Berserk"

"So what set off this latest outburst in the closing act of the Twilight of the Clods? According to McClatchy Watch, it was a Web post by Jeff Jarvis at the Buzz Machine commenting on the fiscal woes of the newspaper industry including McClatchy:"
http://tinyurl.com/a3lo24 (newsbusters)
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"(Newspaper) Consolidation torrent continues (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)"

"It began as a trickle."

"Shutting down

Among newspapers that have said they will close, or have already closed, production plants, since 2005:"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154389/posts

Teem Canada trounces USA: 50-100. 100-50? Go, Canduh?
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"Half of the USA is covered in snow

This is something you don’t see every day. We recently heard that Canada had a white Christmas EVERYWHERE, the first time in four decades. Here we see that the USA has an increased albedo (surface reflectivity) for about 1/2 of it’s land area. The increased albedo combined with low sun angle this time of year conspires to keep ice and snow unmelted.

Look for a long and extended winter weather pattern as we head towards the spring equinox, which can’t get here fast enough."
http://wattsupwiththat.com/

"“Mike [Duffy], like a lot of people, had to leave P.E.I. to get a job,’’ said MacKinley*."

Liberal TORedStar eats its words: black crow; caw, caw, caw......
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"The Star | Editorial: Harper abandons zeal for reform -- No surprise that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's slew of mostly partisan senatorial appointments has sparked widespread condemnation."
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"Veteran Liberal applauds Duffy’s Senate appointment

*P.E.I. Liberal cabinet minister Ron MacKinley praises Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s appointment of Mike Duffy to the Senate.

“I think it’s good,’’ said MacKinley, the minister of Transportation and Public Works.
“He’s got tremendous experience in Ottawa. He knows every door to open.’’"
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=204522&sc=98

Did anyone else pick up the latest lawsuit that Wornout Kinsellout has launched against Ezra Levant? There's a link to it at National Newswatch : http://tinyurl.com/9rq4uw

This is going to be fun because it will dredge up all the unsettled adscam allegations and attach them to Ignatieff/Kinsella. Oh boy, I got what I wanted for Christmas after all!

while you are making that turkey soup. think

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/24/2454262.htm?section=australia

(Via SWJ) Joby Warrick, Little Blue Pills Among the Ways CIA Wins Friends in Afghanistan

The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an opportunity, and reached into his bag for a small gift.

Four blue pills. V[snip]gra.

"Take one of these. You'll love it," the officer said. Compliments of Uncle Sam...

Not news: Prime Minister Stephen Harper today said that a new carbon tax would hurt jobs and damage Canada’s economy. “The Opposition will increase taxes and experiment with a risky, new carbon tax, which will raise prices, undermine investments and kill jobs,” the Prime Minister said. “Canadians have to look carefully at their choices. We need to keep taxes down. Not raise them.

News: OTTAWA - Canadian families pay more in personal taxes than they do on either shelter...according to Statistics Canada's latest annual report on household expenditures.

Despite the tax-cut boasts of governments, Canadian families paid 6% more on average in personal income taxes last year, which remained the single largest expense for families, even ahead of housing.

Not really news:
Canada wants North America cap-and-trade system
19 Nov 2008 23:17:08 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds Alberta's criticism, paragraphs 16,17)
OTTAWA, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Canada's Conservative government, shifting positions in the wake of Barack Obama's election as U.S. president, said on Wednesday that it would work to develop a North America-wide cap-and-trade system to limit emissions of greenhouse gases.

Ahh. More taxes. Especially those to fight global warming.

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Naw. As long as it's our people dahling....

http://www.conservative.ca/EN/1091/107119

Wind turbines: Windigos*.
Reaping the what?
The Dr. Frankenstein windy technocrats unknowingly built a windigo.
Scientism say, Windigo is an heathen myth.
Tell that to Ethel.
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"Fierce winds too much for wind turbines to handle

NORWAY [PEI] - Norway resident Ethel McHugh got up from her chair Monday evening to investigate what she thought was a snowplow in her backyard.
"I was trying to figure out what was going on," she said.
"I just went like this," she said, placing her hand against the glass, "and as soon as my hand touched it, the vibration."
That vibration stopped suddenly within about three minutes and it was not until the next day that she learned the likely cause of both the noise and the vibration."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/9kkbx4
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"*The Wendigo (also Windigo, Weendigo, Windago, Windiga, Witiko, Wihtikow, and numerous other variants)[1] is a mythical creature appearing in the mythology of the Algonquin people. It is a malevolent cannibalistic spirit into which humans could transform, or which could possess humans."
(wiki)

Everything Victor Davis Hanson writes is good and today's thoughts on the past year are no exception....

Imagine the election chances of a candidate Obama in the Democratic primaries had he announced publicly in January what he just now concluded in December: "Vote for my change ,and I promise you more of Bob Gates at Defense, my rival Hillary Rodham Clinton (with help from Bill) at State, Gen. James Jones as national security adviser, Clinton pros John Podesta and Rahm Emanuel running my transition - and the evangelical pastor Rick Warren conducting my inaugural invocation. And what I am saying now about wiretaps, NAFTA, the Patriot Act, campaign financing, Iran, Iraq, missile defense, coal and nuclear power and taxes will have to be changed when I'm elected."

More emviromental stupidity. What happens when the juice runs out .
City Turns to Beet Juice to Combat Icy Roads

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=241513

Meanwhile, back at the AGW front: The little BIG word: if.

"or serve as a fallback position for wildlife if sea levels rise"

"Going with climate's flow(GW nuts throwing in the towel?)
Environmental advocates, wildlife officials, and land trusts charged with protecting the natural world are beginning to take a new approach to climate change: rather than focus only on stopping it, they are also thinking about how to adapt to what's coming.

That may mean accepting that certain northern species - such as moose or loon - may not be part of Massachusetts' future ecology. More immediately, it means restoring bogs that could help prevent flooding, or serve as a fallback position for wildlife if sea levels rise - and tearing down dams to give fish access to cooler waters. Both such efforts are underway."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154425/posts
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From NYSlimes:
"“We can’t have people sitting on buses freezing to death while we get out there trying to get them restarted,” Mr. Jones said."

>>> "But for the moment, at least, the planet is still cold enough ..."

"Solar Meets Polar as Winter Curbs Clean Energy (So far Polar has the edge)

Old Man Winter, it turns out, is no friend of renewable energy.

This time of year, wind turbine blades ice up, biodiesel congeals in tanks and solar panels produce less power because there is not as much sun. And perhaps most irritating to the people who own them, the panels become covered with snow, rendering them useless even in bright winter sunshine.

So in regions where homeowners have long rolled their eyes at shoveling driveways, add another cold-weather chore: cleaning off the solar panels. “At least I can get to them with a long pole and a squeegee,” said Alan Stankevitz, a homeowner in southeast Minnesota.

As concern has grown about global warming, many utilities and homeowners have been trying to shrink their emissions of carbon dioxide — their carbon footprints — by installing solar panels, wind turbines and even generators powered by tides or rivers. But for the moment, at least, the planet is still cold enough to deal nasty winter blows to some of this green machinery."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154406/posts
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"Winter Storm Blankets West, Barrels Eastward
FOXNews.com
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Grow Up!
An Obamafied American Idol Christmas.

By Mark Steyn

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmFlNDI3OWIwM2JmOTRlMzc3NTE1OGYyYTFhYTU0ZWI=