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I got to thinking about the speech given by General Eisenhower on D-Day: http://www.kansasheritage.org/abilene/ikespeech.html

Here's a writing assignment for you clever folks. How you alter it, or a portion of it, to be a speech given to Israeli troops by the head of the UN? Be sure to include the UN's favoured phrase, "proportional response"!

this guy is amazing. go up and down one from this link.

http://www.stevebridges.com/videos_clinton.html

he will have to shave his head to do Obama. and learned to hum and haw.

I saw an interesting sign in the service department of my GM dealer today. It was an ad for their latest gimmick, nitrogen filled tires. It claims that filling your tires with nitrogen will; increase fuel economy, save tire wear, and LOWER GREENHOUSE GAS EMMISIONS. How, you ask? So did I. All I got was some very blank stares.

It sure is easy to get away with spreading misinformation. People rarely take notice, and by the time one person catches on, hundreds more have already accepted it as fact.

How's this for Global Warming...
(click on high def, and turn up the volume)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zvCUmeoHpw

dp - re: nitrogen filled tires... are you certain the fine print didn't specify "78% nitrogen"?

LOL....

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_1741500785/air.html

DP, interesting story about the tires. Your observation is precisely how the Radical Left effects its Thought Control amongst the Kool Aid Drinkers. It actually doesn't matter what the subject or how big the lie. It's just repeated & repeated & repeated and VERY QUICKLY it becomes fact in the minds of the Sheeple ... which includes much of the MSM.

dp; nitrogen filled tires come standard with new tires from many outlets, for example Costco. The nitrogen is dry, (ie. does not contain water vapor) and thus the tire pressure does not vary as much as with compressed air. When the tires are filled to the rated pressure, you get the rated pressure. There will be less drop in pressure (when inflation takes place on a warm day) due to a cool evening than with air, for example. Tire pressure can make a measurable difference in fuel economy.
No magic here. Many of the claims are exaggerated.

Plus, dp, you pretty much answered your own question. By increasing fuel mileage, you obviously reduce how much of that horrible, toxic, silent-killing CO2 is spewed into the lungs of Mother Gaia.

cal2, man you're right, he's awesome! Thanks.

A very sad story for so many reasons:

"Conjoined twin Faith dies on Christmas Day, weeks after her sister Hope failed to survive separation"

The Guardian

A conjoined twin who had survived 11 hours of surgery to separate her from sister died on Christmas Day, it was announced yesterday.

Faith Williams died "from the complexities of her condition" 23 days after her sister, Hope, died in an operation to separate the pair of infants. Doctors at Great Ormond Street hospital had given Faith a 50% chance of survival.

Yo Mr. V and Madame K. Check this story.

From the left, a call to end the current Dutch notion of tolerance

Excerpt:

Two weeks ago, the country's biggest left-wing political grouping, the Labor Party, which has responsibility for integration as a member of the coalition government led by the Christian Democrats, issued a position paper calling for the end of the failed model of Dutch "tolerance."

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the language of the Dutch position paper and Lilianne Ploumen, Labor's chairperson, was exceptional.

The paper said: "The mistake we can never repeat is stifling criticism of cultures and religions for reasons of tolerance."

Government and politicians had too long failed to acknowledge the feelings of "loss and estrangement" felt by Dutch society facing parallel communities that disregard its language, laws and customs.

Newcomers, according to Ploumen, must avoid "self-designated victimization."

She asserted, "the grip of the homeland has to disappear" for these immigrants who, news reports indicate, also retain their original nationality at a rate of about 80 percent once becoming Dutch citizens.

Instead of reflexively offering tolerance with the expectation that things would work out in the long run, she said, the government strategy should be "bringing our values into confrontation with people who think otherwise."

There was more: punishment for trouble-making young people has to become so effective such that when they emerge from jail they are not automatically big shots, Ploumen said.

Is it possible to imagine the NDP or the Liberals getting hit with the clue bat in this fashion? I don't think so, but maybe there's hope.

Sarah and Todd Palin are grandparents.
Mom and baby both fine.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/30/sarahpalin-usa

Yukon Gold- It's true, if you believe the claim of better fuel economy, the last claim would naturally follow. I just have trouble believing any of the claims.

Besides, what about all the co2 that's been sequestered in all those billions of tires? Maybe they should use 100% co2. Imagine how much more we could take out of the atmosphere if every tire was filled with compressed co2. Silly, right?

(Via SWJ) Burma's Stilwell Road: A backbreaking WWII project is revived

...They gave their lives to build a 1,079-mile road across northern Burma (now Myanmar) to reinforce Allied troops, a project derided by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as "an immense, laborious task, unlikely to be finished until the need for it has passed."

Not long after the thankless job was done, two atomic blasts finished the war with Japan, and a hard-won passage that soldiers called "the Big Snake" was abandoned to the rain forest. The road had cost 1,133 American lives, a man a mile...

More than half a century later, China now is working to resurrect it as the first major overland trade route since World War II with India, where business leaders, politicians and bureaucrats also are pressing their government to formally commit itself to the road as a link between the world's two most populous nations...

(Via SWJ) Yochi J. Dreazen, Afghan Roadside Bombings Rise Sharply

U.S. and NATO officials say that roadside-bomb technology has migrated from Iraq to Afghanistan, with militants here regularly using tactics -- such as "daisy-chaining" multiple bombs together to pierce U.S. armor -- first developed by fighters in Iraq. Militants detonated nearly 500 roadside bombs in Afghanistan in July and August alone, according to the statistics.Taliban fighters and other extremists have easy access to the large amounts of explosives that have been scattered across Afghanistan since the Soviet invasion and the subsequent Afghan civil war, according to U.S. Col. Jeffrey Jarkowsky, who heads the military task force charged with combating roadside bombs.

The increase in roadside bombs is forcing U.S. commanders here to rely more heavily on MRAPs, which can't reach many remote villages because it is difficult for them to traverse Afghanistan's narrow roads and harsh terrain.

Col. Jarkowsky said that in recent months, Afghan fighters have begun to place secondary bombs near the IEDs that are meant to kill medics and other emergency personnel who respond to the first explosions...

Deborah Haynes, Iraq death toll plummets

The number of British and US forces who died in Iraq in 2008 looks likely to be the lowest annual toll since the invasion nearly six years ago, while bombs and gunfire killed far fewer Iraqi civilians than in 2007...

World's 'largest dinosaur fossil site' found in China

The remains of an enormous platypus have been found in China amongst what is believed to be the largest group of fossilised dinosaur bones ever discovered...

"Reported killed 1940, obituary printed today: Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Wilson

A charcoal picture showing VC Wilson

Wilson's battle is depicted in this charcoal and gouache picture from 1943 (artist unknown). He was awarded the VC for 'most conspicuous gallantry'"

The oddest moment in the remarkable life of Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Wilson came when he discovered that he was officially dead, and thus joined the distinguished band of people prematurely consigned to the hereafter.

Colonel Wilson died last week at the age of 97, but his first “death” took place 68 years earlier, in the desert sands of East Africa.

On August 11, 1940, Colonel Wilson, then a captain commanding the Somaliland Camel Corps machinegun company, was involved in a ferocious firefight with Italian troops near Tug Argan Gap. On the first day he was wounded in the shoulder and eye and his spectacles smashed. Within four days, two of his frontline guns had been destroyed and his Somali sergeant killed, but he manned his machinegun as the enemy closed in.

He was formally listed among the war dead, his family was informed of his passing and he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross “for most conspicuous gallantry”.

Captain Wilson, however, was very much alive,"
http://tinyurl.com/8sxpel (timesuk)

Wiggyly Iggy caught in the traps: Hi-ho-Silver.

Watch/listen as Wiggyly flips/flops/dithers like an eel in a sandbox a la PMartinJr.

The leghold traps of the Separatist Coalition forged by Liberal Dionky, Taliban Jack NDP, and communist Bloc Duceppe have captured Iggy.
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"Robert Silver: Bring it [abortion] on (but it's a trap)"
(nnw)
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"Fate unclear for Liberals backing anti-abortion
cause

Federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is unwilling to say whether negative repercussions will befall members of his caucus who oppose legalized abortion" (nnw)
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"Liberal’s coalition negotiator speaks out

The Bloc Québécois were prepared to keep a Liberal-led coalition government alive for two years, if the coalition allowed Bill 101 to apply to federally regulated companies in Quebec." (nnw)

Liberal Wriggyly Iggy on the Iraq war*: flop-flip-flip-flop.
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"Iraq death toll plummets

The number of British and US forces who died in Iraq in 2008 looks likely to be the lowest annual toll since the invasion nearly six years ago, while bombs and gunfire killed far fewer Iraqi civilians than in 2007."
http://tinyurl.com/9t8h9o (timesuk)
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*Ignatieff says supporting Iraq war was a mistake
CTV.ca - Supporting the war in Iraq was a mistake, Liberal MP Michael Ignatieff has written in an article for the New York Times Magazine. In an (...)
www.vigile.net/Ignatieff-says-supporting-Iraq-war

Muslims declare fatwa on vitamin C?

"Death to all Juice" reads the Protester's placard.

Perhaps he's a graduate of the Islamic University of Gaza.

1.bp.blogspot.com/_zENuDflPejY/SVlt-oofOqI/AAAAAAAADYM/aALYRiiZrps/s1600-h/death+to+juice.JPG

theirs,

how embarrassing, Im typing like "new"

I think the comments about Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin's newborn are disgusting and juvenile. The baby's name is Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston. And the entire situation, including the baby's name, is none of our business.

Leftist "tolerance" shredded by the left.

Please: No Schadenfreude.
(The Three Stooges' comedy trademark was exaggerated slapstick routines where a performer's apparent pain created enjoyment and laughter among their audience ...)

Down with multiculturalism, tolerance, diversity, and all the other claptrap of the left.

"The paper said: "The mistake we can never repeat is stifling criticism of cultures and religions for reasons of tolerance."
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"From the left, a call to end the current Dutch notion of tolerance

AMSTERDAM: Two years ago, the Dutch could quietly congratulate themselves on having brought what seemed to be a fair measure of consensus and reason to the meanest intersection in their national political life: the one where integration of Muslim immigrants crossed Dutch identity.

In the run-up to choosing a new government in 2006, just 24 percent of the voters considered the issue important, and only 4 percent regarded it as the election's central theme.

What a turnabout, it seemed - and whatever the reason (spent passions, optimism, resignation?), it was a soothing respite for a country whose history of tolerance was the first in 21st-century Europe to clash with the on-street realities of its growing Muslim population."

"Now something fairly remarkable is happening again.

Two weeks ago, the country's biggest left-wing political grouping, the Labor Party, which has responsibility for integration as a member of the coalition government led by the Christian Democrats, issued a position paper calling for the end of the failed model of Dutch "tolerance.""
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/29/europe/politicus.php

I hve noticed that cbc newsworld has a new on-air personality. His name is 'Mohammed', and he is now interviewing another 'Mohammed'who is in Gaza City.The usual cbc slant,as expected,Israel aggressor,Islam victim. What I am wondering "Is there an excgange program between cbc and Al-Jazeera?"

Ulianov, you truly keep proving yourself to be the "dip" in "dip##it". And your point with this latest post is?

Can you please enlighten us all by providing links to the day(s) when Toyota executives went to Washington or Ottawa seeking a bailout?

Hey, I hear in the background your CBC Comrades calling you back to the CBC comment boards. On that site, your comments would win the Gold Medal prize for Brilliance!

"Ten Years Of Proof That CO2 Is Not Driving Global Warming

Two things have been happening over the last decade that cannot be ignored by real scientists: The CO2 levels have been rising and the global temperatures have been falling. This puts the lie to the Global Warming Chicken Little Priests in the Church of Al Gore/IPCC (who use mysticism to trump science). And now even the Europeans are beginning to understand how shrill and wrong the Global Warming alarmists have been:"
[...]

"The fact is ALL the predictions of the IPCC have failed to materialize for two decades now. Not one has come true, yet there are still fools running around claiming the sky is falling."
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/7469

ulianov/lberia - your outline of the sales profit of Toyota being reduced to 'only' 555 million profit rather than the expected much higher..is nowhere near the 'Big Three' situation for these are near bankruptcy.

The profit that Toyota is clearing is indeed due to their lower production costs (no unions!) but the reduced profit is due to the global economic situation. They are able to stay in a profit zone because there are no parasitic unions attached to their industry.
And the executives are willing to take pay cuts.

The Japanese government doesn't directly subsidize Toyota; what appears as a subsidy on exports to the US is due to the lower valued Japanese yen. Note that the article, which is really a letter from a Republican Representative, is titled 'get subsidy via weak yen'. That's quite different than a direct government subsidy.

And Toyota is not asking its government for a bailout; it is looking after its own restructuring during this global recession.

CTV (tass) steals the mantle from CBCpravda

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081230/OBAMA_khadr_081230/20081230?hub=Canada

CTV(tass) All Khadr , All the Time.
actually I was hoping one of the Khadr first family of Terrorism would have starved to death by now, I guess the hunger strike isnt going as well as for the old irish slugger Bobby Sands.

One of the unintended consequences of the 'sweet omar'hoopla by the bleeding hearts club is that the coalition forces do not seem to be taking as many detainees as they once did. It is extremely difficult to abuse a detainee's rights if they do not make it into custody. Reality wins again over cheap sentiments.

ulianov/lberia - a subsidy is, by definition, a direct grant of taxpayer money to X-industry. A low value yen is not a subsidy; it's a low valued currency and affects all of the Japanese economy and has zilch to do with a taxpayer paid 'donation'.

No, the NAmerican car industry, because it was unionized, was transformed from being a researcher, developer and producer of viable cars to one that existed only to benefit the workers. That transformation has caught up with it - and that's why we see it in its state of bankruptcy.

Oh, and by the way, Ulyanov (Lenin) was devoted to propaganda.

"“2008 will be the hottest year in a century:” The Old Farmers’ Almanac, September 11, 2008,"

http://wattsupwiththat.com/
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Al-Reuters:

"2009 to be one of warmest years on record: researchers

Next year is set to be one of the top-five warmest on record, British climate scientists said on Tuesday."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156381/posts

This is interesting. It is Marlene Jennings being quoted in the Canadian Jewish news.-------"Jennings said the fact that the NDP and Bloc have already stated that they would vote against the Jan. 27 budget regardless of what it says is why they “are not fit to form a government".-------Jennings said that Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe “did not come happily” into the policy agreement but did so because he was “pushed by the unions,” his support base in Quebec. Similarly, the NDP, she said, was “pushed by the unions” outside Quebec.----The complete article via NNW----http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15964&Itemid=86---Interesting,she is at the center of the coalition bubble and admits that the Bloc and NDP are not fit to govern,and that they are being controlled by the unions,YET,she thinks this power grab will be good for Canada. The libs are all about power,nothing else.Damn the country,full speed ahead.

Ulianov,you really should learn some manners.

Further to your comments above wallyj at 8:12pm from the same article it is interesting to note that part of the package would have allowed "French Only" within Federal regulated companies in Quebec. The whole article is here, - http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15964&Itemid=86

It's about time we started exposing this to the light of day.

Palin Country: Alaska: Where the sled dogs are "hardened by this stuff".
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"Bitter cold moves in to Interior
Temperatures could drop to 50 below zero in parts of Alaska

FAIRBANKS - Bitterly cold weather slid over from Canada and settled into Interior Alaska with forecasters saying temperatures could continue to slide to nearly 50 degrees below zero in coming days.

Over the weekend, the mercury at Fairbanks International Airport dropped to 39 degrees below zero. Areas in the Interior outside the city were even colder; 46 below on the Yukon Flats, 41 below in Fort Yukon and 44 below in Central, according to the weather service.

Rick Thoman, lead forecaster at the National Weather Service office in Fairbanks, said temperatures rose a few degrees on Sunday, but that was it.

"The temperature will probably continue to go up and down randomly," he said. "With no clouds and no wind on the valley floor, temperatures are pretty much probably going to be stuck."

Fairbanks had experienced a relatively mild winter prior to Christmas. It had only dropped to 30 below once, in early December.

The howling winds and frigid weather were too much for several mushers, including four-time Iditarod winner Jeff King and his dog team, who pulled out of the Gin Gin 200, a 200-mile race along the Denali Highway.

For the men, Brent Sass came in first, ahead of more well-known mushers such as four-time Yukon Quest and two-time Iditarod champion Lance Mackey who was fourth.

Mackey, resting Monday at the lodge in Paxson, said it was blowing so hard and the teams were getting so turned around by the wind that it almost made him laugh.

"It was almost comical. Your sled was going sideways down the road," he said.

Further down the trail, when temperatures dipped to 50 below, it wasn't so much fun, he said.

"There were a lot of people not wanting to put their teams through that," Mackey said. "It is all about the dogs in a situation like this... They get hardened by this stuff. That is why we do it.""
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/123008/sta_372411706.shtml
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The "stuff" is on the move south:
North America Temperature map here:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/975eys

"To say that the unions were forcing the NDP to vote against the upcoming budget(is) absurd..."---I did not say that the unions were forcing the NDP vote and neither did Jennings. You are lacking in both manners and reading comprehension.--- "And speaking of organized labour, the NDP only pays lip service to the interests of the unions." Ummmm,you may be wrong on that,or should I just call you a big,fat,juicy liar.

Iberia

The fact of the matter is - you commie, fascist (and may I add, cowardly) dickhead - the Japanese auto manufacturers not only came from a far behind market position, achieving the number one spot within a generation, but they also crushed the competition into the dirt in the process.

Not without a cheating, treasonous (if not naive) partner, though.

The NA auto unions.

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So, here's the rub: Let's see if the workers are smart enough to stay employed, with or without the unions. And the unions - with or without their heads.

"wallyj, are you a retard?"---No,still voting Conservative.

A party which was on the ballot.

And you?

"If you can show me a time when there were no strikes or no labour unrest under an NDP government, you can call me a liar." Let me put my retarded mind on to this statement. Unions,NDP,and corporations.Hmm,I say the unions and the NDP are alike,and the corporations are their enemy(for simplicity's sake). You say that labour unrest and strikes during a NDP gov't suggests the NDP/union is not against the corporations. Something just doesn't jive in my retarded brain....I won't call you a liar,but I do suggest that you call employee assistance.