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Nice to see that whiny media whore Brenda Martin back in the news..and wishing she could return to Mexico!See story at Nat.Newswatch.

How about a story on Pravda about a rapidly advancing glacier? How could this be possible?

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/12/30/alsek-glacier.html

If Mexico promises to lock Brenda up permanently I'd chip in a nickel towards her one way bus fare.

Her name is "Ms. Ann"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuEc-nFULY8

Good to see Prime Minister Stephen Harper enjoying one of his favourite past times.
He visited the Canadian team at the World Junior's today.

http://www.tsn.ca/world_jrs/story/?id=261359&lid=sublink01&lpos=headlines_world_jrs

One of the biggest government sucklings, Mary Walsh, has made an appearance on a brand new ParticipACTION commercial. Maybe you've seen it? Featuring Donovan Bailey, Rick Hansen and MARY WALSH, of all people. I have no problem with the two athletes doing the commercial. But I have a major issue with a left wing mouthpiece hag who spends her free time slagging the PM and Conservative voters in the most vile terms, rallying for the Coalition of Idiots and being an everyday nuisance getting even MORE $$ from taxpayers doing a commercial for publicly-funded ParticipACTION.

If you're as ticked off as I am, how about visiting the ParticipACTION site and sending them a little complaint.

Watch the ParticipACTION commercial under the header Canadian Icons (well at least two of them are)

http://www.participaction.com/en-us/WhatsNew/MediaRoom.aspx

Quite outrageous, eh, Soccermom, that a 'left wing mouthpiece' should get taxpayer $$.

Any thoughts on the 18 right-wing mouthpieces who've just been given access to hundreds of thousands of taxpayer $$ as Stephen Harper's undemocratic Senate appointees?

Or, to take a case closer to home, what about right-wing mouthpiece and pseudo-journalist Randy Burton being given a taxpayer-funded job with the Sask Party government?

Any thoughts?

IDF footage on YouTube... from a Jewish friend.

http://www.youtube.com/user/idfnadesk

Undemocratic, Stephen?? It is perfectly within the PM's right to elect these senators (who, btw, have promised to resign and run in fixed elections when that comes to pass..) this may not happen for a while as the LIBERAL dominated senate prevents passage of the senate reform bill..

You do realize for decades the Liberals stacked the senate so that even when they were out of power,they would never be 'out of power' so to speak?

I ventured over to the Participation site Soccermom, to find out who this Mary Walsh was - I have never seen her before and I think I probably have not missed much!

The site almost made me feel sick as it reminded me of Turdo daze; it was that fool of a Turdo that spawned the original 'Participation' thing and almost made me hate sports.

When I was a kid moving was FUN - As a young lady, when i could finally afford a real sport, I became an avid downhill skier; skiing was fun without a helmet and smoking cigarettes on the chairlift and drinking schnapps out of a mini pocket flask. I once took off with a kite (when kite flying was all the rage) and flew to the bottom of the ski hill - I got a few instructions on the way up the chairlift. I didn't think twice about flying a kite and landing on my skis; today they would fine me and the owner of the kite!

The reason we did all those wonderful thrilling things, with confidence, was that everyone was in good shape from natural exercise, we walked everywhere, rode our bikes (without helmets and locks), cleaned the snow off any available body of water and skated, went sledding, rode horses, walked fences, played on the haystack and on old farm machinery, jumped off buildings, played tag, Red Rover, 'Scub' baseball, played on monkey bars, danced all night to the great music of the forties, fifties and sixties (it has a beat and you can jive or waltz or polka or foxtrot - it makes dancing FUN, not a job!). My family lived on a cattle/farm place so we also had lots of work type exercise - weeding the garden, picking berries and vegetables, hauling bales, cooking for hungry men, herding cattle, riding bikes/horses to make sure no little calves or foals died at birth in a March blizzard, feeding fowl, running over to get my uncle (three miles) if my Mom or Dad needed him (he had to be found when we got there - no cell phones in those days - my uncle didn't even have a barbed wire wind up ring phone - the ones with the horn mouthpiece, our phone was connected on barb wire, my dad connected it himself and we could speak to all of our neighbours, not private but free).

Participation was a joke to me and still is - if moving was enjoyable, people would move but today it is too much prep and not enough action. In my day, the action was not adult supervised or prepared for..it was a natural part of living. I am sorry for the young people who live in such a negative regulated world, a world that regulates 'safety' in activity but condones criminal actions. It is all upside down.

That old horrid ghost of regulated action (participation) just brought back to me the Turdo and the years he ruled in Canada attempting to steal our souls and spirits and independence.

EXCLUSIVE: RNC draft rips Bush's bailouts

Republican Party officials say they will try next month to pass a resolution accusing President Bush and congressional Republican leaders of embracing "socialism," underscoring deep dissension within the party at the end of Mr. Bush's administration.

Those pushing the resolution, which will come before the Republican National Committee at its January meeting, say elected leaders need to be reminded of core principles. They said the RNC must take the dramatic step of wading into policy debates, which traditionally have been left to lawmakers.

"We can't be a party of small government, free markets and low taxes while supporting bailouts and nationalizing industries, which lead to big government, socialism and high taxes at the expense of individual liberty and freedoms," said Solomon Yue, an Oregon member and co-sponsor of a resolution that criticizes the U.S. government bailouts of the financial and auto industries. Republican National Committee Vice Chairman James Bopp Jr. wrote the resolution and asked the rest of the 168 voting members to sign it.

www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/30/rnc-pushes-unprecedented-criticism-of-bailouts/

Religious affiliation wiped out by Canadian Wikipedia enthusiasts

Until a few days ago, former Prime Minister Paul Martin was still Catholic, Stephen Harper was affiliated with the Christian Missionary Alliance and the late MacKenzie King used to be a slightly unconventional Presbyterian. Then, this information mysteriously vanished from Wikipedia. A quick online search revealed that the sudden disappearance of information concerning the religious affiliations of Canadian politicians-both dead and alive-was a haphazard editorial decision taken after a brief online discussion between the likes of DoubleBlue, Ducio1234 and Skeezix1000, thus confirming the worst misgivings that so many have about Wikipedia.

...don't forget to add a second to your watches tonight.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/31/leap.second.new.year/index.html

i just hate to see stupid trolls here.(e.g.stephen)

Jema 54, you are SO right! Your childhood sounds wonderful! Mine was similar—though not so active!

My siblings and I lived in a new suburb out in the country—farmers' fields across the street—and a long walk to and from school which sat in the middle of the fields. In grade one, we and all the other kids walked (twice a day: we went home for lunch), without adult supervision. We rode our bikes all over the place. We made up games, boys and girls, in multi-age groups. We made up the rules—there were rules: we played fair or got kicked out! We negotiated our own problems: I don’t remember rancour, backbiting, or bullying. We went out in the morning, home for lunch, and home again for dinner, and then home again by dark. We watched out for one another: any of our homes could be used for a washroom break or glass of water: we knew all the moms. They were all—horrors!—home. Our language was polite: no swearing. Our extended neighbourhood was safe and so were we. (Actually, I don’t remember ANY serious physical injuries or abductions.) We were well care for, civilized, no-excuses-made-for-us—not by our parents or our peers—kids. We learned, in other words, to be responsible citizens.

Then we moved to the city and continued to spend many, many hours outside, away from the adults. We again rode our bikes, we tobogganed in the nearby ravine—no helmets—and we walked to and from school, friends’ houses, to Woolworths and the movies alone: this, from the age of eight. The city was safe and so were we.

As you said, Jema 54, just about all of this has now been turned upside down. Kids are never out of sight of an adult—and for safety, can’t be. (And the left thinks that our over regulated Trudeaupia, fuelled by the Charter, has been good for Canada.) Now, a critical mass of our kids are entitled, unpleasant, spoiled brats.

Our kids’ lack of independence and their not being allowed to set their own boundaries—e.g., schools keep them in if it’s “too cold”: it was never “too cold” for us: we learned to bundle up—has infantalized them. No wonder they behave like toddlers, no matter what their age, (So do a lot of their parents!). No wonder they bully one another: toddlers are me-me-me and don’t know how to share or negotiate.

By the decade, our schools have piled on one “Behaviour Code” after another. But, one very important thing is missing: there are no consequences: oh, maybe there are little ones for minor infractions, but the more egregious the behaviour, the less likely it is that the powers that be will “punish” the perpetrator—whoops: that word’s verboten! E.g., I know of a recent example, in a “good school” where an eight year old student told the teacher to “f*** off”. When the teacher phoned the parents—brave teacher, but the principal probably wouldn’t!—the cool response was, “Well, you obviously said something to upset him”! Our courts, using the Charter, respond to youth crime—heck, adult crime too—in the same way.

I actually think our kids are suffering from cabin fever: being cooped up with not enough freedom—of the right kind. They now have the freedom to roam the internet, with all its dangers, and to misbehave and treat adults with contempt—well, there is some good reason for that. What a vicious circle!

You end by saying, “That old horrid ghost of regulated action (participation) just brought back to me the Turdo and the years he ruled in Canada attempting to steal our souls and spirits and independence”. As I said, Jema 54, you are SO right! But this has happened all over the West: in Canada, it happened that Trudeau was the incarnation of the Zeitgeist. Why has this disintegration in mores and manners happened all over the place in the past 50 years? My take: Christianity has been shoved aside. (Why was it that Canadians were willing to give in to Trudeau? G.K. Chesterton said, “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” That about sums it up. BTW, it was committed Christians—pro-lifers, mainly—who fought the Charter tooth and nail. Their concerns were prophetic.) Those with a motivating faith understand, at a deep level, that the individual is not supreme. Though not perfectly worked out, there is an understanding of putting God and others ahead of oneself. When we become our own little gods, unmoored from any sense of responsibility, but knowing our rights—the Charter has been a useful tool for allowing the lowest common denominator to do just that—watch out!)

"Russian volcano erupts

Dec 30 - The Koryakski volcano to the far east of Russia has started to erupt emitting ash which could threaten local populations.

The Kamchatka Koryakski volcano's last major eruption occurred 3,5 thousand years ago. Scientists now predict an even more damaging and far-reaching eruption."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/8jdn3u

Further Brenda Martin
"Freed from Prison, Brenda Martin wants to go back to Mexico"
cbc.ca via nnw

For your morning laugh read the Comments on cbc.ca Not favorable to martin.
Comments inc: "its a shame our government would help brenda martin and not omar khadr"
"i wonder what the fart bag Mcteague has to say now"

MSM: Reigns rains reins, you know, reigns rains reins, you know.
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"Kennedy camp reigns in Bloomberg adviser Kevin Sheekey’s Senate seat lobbying efforts

BY KENNETH LOVETT, ELIZABETH BENJAMIN and ADAM LISBERG
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

""It's just a dialing down of anything that would be harmful to her," the source said."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/7rb7eu

Fire. Them. All.
Send Fraser and his 'rats packing.
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"Don't cut official language spending: Fraser

Cutting budgets for official languages would be a mistake that could take decades to correct, Canada's Commissioner for Official Languages is warning" (NNW)

Happy Hogmanay!

a four minute interlude to mark the end of 2008

http://www.theskyinmotion.com/index.html?skyinmotion.html

magnificent even with contrails.

MSM has no memory.
Flashback to: Liberal ex-PM PMJr appoints Fox to the Senate.
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"Francis Fox helped secure an abortion for a woman in 1978

'Francis Fox, a former Trudeau-era cabinet minister, was named principal secretary.In 1978, Fox resigned as federal solicitor-general when it was discovered that he was forced to confess (in the the words of the Globe and Mail) "to the Commons that he had signed someone else's name on a hospital document to help secure an abortion for a woman with whom he had been having an affair."

Martin has made integrity and ethics a centrepiece of his new regime, but as the Campaign Life Coalition January newsletter notes, appointing a man who had an affair and lied to the hospital so his mistress could procure an abortion is "an odd understanding of integrity and character."

Martin dismissed media questions about Fox's ethics, stating, "That's something that happened a long time ago.""*
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"Sour grapes

What’s with the liberal media and so-called academic ‘experts’ trying to discredit the high profile Senate appointments of Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin? Are they truly concerned, simply jealous, or is there a deeper, hidden agenda?

First of all, how could anyone give Mike Duffy a hard time? He is such a sweetie. But aside from that, has the media checked into the residency requirements of all the other nominees, and every single sitting Senator to ensure that all past appointments have met the constitutional requirements? If not, why so much focus on these two?

The Waterloo Region Record is certainly one of those in the liberal media trying to put Mike Duffy in a bad light. Check out this headline - Duffy’s Senate appointment unconstitutional: prof. Yet, if you bother to read the story, it’s actually about Duffy’s response to the naysayers like David Bulger.

My guess is that they’re trying to stir the pot of public opinion against Harper."
http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2008/12/31/sour-grapes-2/
*http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Fox_Francis_4662659.aspx

Stephen, if you disapprove of the Senate and it's appointment process, then I suggest you vote Conservative at the next opportunity. Harper is working to get rid of the Senate at some point and he deserves your support on this.

Interesting that the jealous media questioned the Pufsters PEI residency but had no qualms about Iggys 20 year sojourn.
Here is a guy with less experience than a community organizer that is the crown prince of lieberism .

Soccormom Mary Walsh is just Canada's version of Rosanne Barr with government support. Not right but not worth thinking about.

Hans, please translate as the Babelfish is gufuhcted up. Danke.
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"I'm freigeshprochene!

Just in case you're wondering, I was freigeshprochene, after being tackled by Canada's Menschenrechtskommissionen"
"(Translation.)"
http://ezralevant.com/2008/12/im-freigeshprochene.html

What is unconstitutional about Duffy's appointment? I'm not speaking as either in favour or not in favour of his appointment but merely as a comment on the legitimacy of a complaint that such appointment is 'unconstitutional'. Since I presume that he is over the age of 30, is a Canadian citizen; owns property in PEI (ah, the landed gentry) and has assets of at least 4,000 - then, he's constitutionally OK. That's all the esteemed Act has to say on the subject.

By the way, apparently a group of atheists have filed a lawsuit against prayer at Obama's inauguration. Incredible. As an atheist myself, I'd say it's none of my business what the president-elect chooses to include in his inaugural ceremonies.

If he is, himself, a religious individual, then for me (atheist) to impose my choice on him would be wrong. Even if he is, rather than an individual, a symbol of the nation of America -[which is their claim] - then denying the historic roots and therefore continuity of the identity of America (which identity IS religious), without the full will of the majority of Americans, would be wrong.

However, one thing to say in favour of the endless lawsuits in America, is that they do express, albeit in a costly manner, their fundamental right of freedom of thought and speech.

Yum! Honey with lead, melamine and dangerous antibiotics...

Chris Ayres, 'Honey laundering' beats US tariffs on Chinese food products

As scientists race to investigate the sudden and inexplicable collapse of bee colonies in America and Europe, international smugglers are coming up with new and imaginative ways to get Winnie the Pooh’s favourite snack into breakfast cereals and onto supermarket shelves.

‘Honey laundering,’ the authorities call it...

The reason for the elaborate subterfuge? To avoid health and safety checks, along with the import fees, and other special tariffs imposed by authorities in the US and other countries on Chinese food products ‘dumped’ on the market at below the cost of production...

The "Ba" game
Every Christmas & New Years the "Ba" is contested in the streets of Kirwall, scotland(Orkney Islands)Present form has been played since 1850
the Uppies(Up-the-Gates)play the Doonies(Doon-the-Gates)from Old Norse Gata(path or road)It was decided which team you played on if you were born Up or Doon the Gate. the game starts with the Chime of the bells from St.Magnus
to read more on the history of the game go to
www.bagame.com

My Great-Grandfather came to Canada from the Orkneys in the 1880's to work at Kennedy's Foundry here in Owen Sound, He worked their into his 80's during WWII as men were needed. My dad has told me the stories his Grandfather would relate to him(with a tear in his eye & a glass of Scotch in his hand) every New Years about participating in the "Ba" when he was a lad. He would tell of being bloody & bruised and of the Festival of food & drink after. Family that live in Scotland on & off the Islands return every year, not as participants but as spectators.
Happy New Year
"Slangiva"

Wonder if Gassy McTeague will be so anxious to rescue Brenda Martin if she runs afoul of Mexican law again?

BTW, both Wallin and Duffy are native to the provinces they will represent in the Senate. They are both property owners and have always been very proud of where they came from. They are also keen observers of politics in this country. There seems to be a lot of sour grapes from more than a few soreheads in the media.

Let them yap on, they have no interest in what best serves this democracy, it's all Liberals, all the time, everything else is wrong.

It certainly isn't democracy at it's best to have an unelected body stacked with appointed representatives of one political party, it doesn't work, it isn't working. Harper did the only thing he could do after trying without success to change how Senators are chosen. It was the only responsible thing to do.

Imagine if the coalition of stooges had made it to power and appointed Lizzie May or if Duceppe demanded a Blochead got a Senate seat?

"To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically, I can say that photography is the art of writing with time. When you capture an image you capture not only a piece of space, you also capture a piece of time. So you have this piece of specific time in your square or rectangle. In that sense I find that photography has more to do with time than with light." - Gerardo Suter - "Black & White Magazine for Collector of Fine Photography", February 2001

Happy New Year

Tax cuts under Harper's Cons? Nope...

OTTAWA -- Higher EI and Canada Pension Plan payments will wipe out tax cuts for many Canadians in 2009.

Workers earning $42,800 or more will pay $90 more in payroll taxes. That will eclipse the $39 most taxpayers will save thanks to a hike in basic personal exemptions.

The EI payment is staying the same, at $1.73 for every $100 of earnings.

But because the maximum insurable earnings level is rising to $42,800 in 2009 from $41,100, workers making the top income or higher will wind up paying more. The same applies to the CPP.

Stephen, it was pefectly democratic for Harper to appoint those senators. You would have preferred he leave them so the Coalition of Idiots could stack it with even more Liberal hacks and perhaps a few separatists?

Of course, that's a rhetorical question, idiot.

If Mary Walsh wants to be Canada's darling, she should tone down the political rhetoric. A good chunk of the country can't stand the sight of her anymore... vote whatever you like, Mary, just keep it to yourself and have some class when talking about the PM if you want to continue to receive paycheques from the taxpayer.

On the other hand, her interior and exterior ugliness may hasten the defunding of the CBC...

Imagine if the coalition of stooges had made it to power and appointed Lizzie May or if Duceppe demanded a Blochead got a Senate seat?
Posted by: Liz J at December 31, 2008 11:23 AM

That's the problem with acting without honour: you become your enemy.

Harper could've taken the high road. He could've chosen not to appoint partisan bagmen and insiders.

He could have said "No. We will not appoint people to the Senate. It is an anachronism, an unelected and irrelevant institution in this new century. And I will not increase government spending on it. Because, it is the right thing to do."

But instead, 18 blowboys get connected to some green, and the Cons are now no different from the Libranos. If the coalition had appointed Senators, so what? More irrelevance from the Senate? Their ideological stripe a different colour?

By doing the grease, Harper has become the grease.

Doing the right thing takes courage. Harper has shown exactly how much courage he has, and is now fully open to the opprobrium and criticism that the Libranos and others lay on.

Harper had a choice to change the paradigm. He didn't. At least the partisans will be happy. And Canada as a whole has lost another opportunity to become a better nation.

freigeshprochene = frei geshprochene = frei gesprochene = freely spoken
Menschenrechtskommissionen = Menschen rechts kommissionen = HRC

There's an incisive article by Michelle Malkin, Dec 31, National Review, about the golf course assets of the UAW, and the golf spending habits, funded by the Union, of their union staff.

The UAW owns and operates Black Lake Golf Course (and how does this help the auto worker?), which has lost over 23 million over the past five years.

But, for example, in "May and November 2007, the UAW forked over nearly $53,000 for union staff meetings at the Thousand Hills Golf"..and over 50,000 at other golf courses. For union staff meetings. Heh. Paid for by the workers' dues of course.

Malkin writes: "Perhaps, the union bosses might argue, they need all this fresh air and exercise to clear their heads in order to make wise financial decisions on behalf of their workers. If only. UAW management has proven to be a money-squandering corruptocracy with faux blue-collar trim".

And "In February 2000, the union poured $14.7 million into Pro Air, a Detroit start-up airline that, well, didn’t get off the ground. Plagued by safety problems, the feds shuttered the company less than a year later."

That's what I mean by defining Unions as no longer systems working for the well-being of the employees but corporation institutions of their own, engaged in massive capitalist ventures with the employee's money - failed ventures.

The union bosses, with their six figure salaries, bonuses, benefits, golf courses and etc, are corporate bosses and yet, unlike a legitimate corporation, these union corporations don't provide any service to their customers. Unions are parasites and the sooner we sideline and delegitimize them, the better.

this was so important it was breaking news before the story could be written.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/12/31/afghanistan.html

CBCpravda All Ridiculous , All the Time

Stephen, it was pefectly democratic for Harper to appoint those senators - Posted by: Soccermom at December 31, 2008 11:39 AM

No, it wasn't democratic. It was constitutional. Democratic means citizens vote for their representatives, not have someone without a majority appoint unelected bagmen and sycophants to a patronage gig.

You should be careful with that there name calling. It works both ways. And it does nothing to advance arguments, nor delineate positions.

Last person I would take advice from is you, hardboiled. In fact, I usually scroll past your comments because i know they contain nothing but bile.

Have a nice New Years.

Another Muslim Christmas present:

"EXTREMISTS TARGET CHURCH IN BRITAIN"

(Burtanmail.co.uk)

ISLAMIC extremists have been condemned after plastering Burton streets with stickers bearing the slogan 'Jesus was a Muslim' - one day before Christmas.

The stickers appeared on the morning of Christmas Eve on lampposts in the Horninglow and Shobnall areas of town, and outside religious buildings including St Chad's Church, in Hunter Street.

The stickers - believed to originate from fundamentalist Muslim group Islam For The UK, as they included the group's website address - provoked an angry response from people living nearby.

"I think it's disgusting that someone would do this the day before Christmas, when we are supposed to be spreading racial harmony," one resident, who asked not to be named, told The Mail. "It's a real slap in the face for Christians."

Another resident said: "Apart from anything else, they have made a right mess of the streets - the stickers are not easy to peel off."

Julia Elliot, churchwarden of St Chad's Church, said she found the stickers 'very hurtful and very offensive', while Ron Clarke, East Staffordshire Borough Council member for the Eton Park ward where the church is located, condemned the extremists responsible.

"I think it's very disappointing that we've got this small element making things difficult, as opposed to everyone else trying to integrate, harmonise and work together," he said.

............

"Small element?" 2 million Muslims in the UK isn't exactly small.

The Muslims in Europe are manufacturing their own demise. It's fun to watch.

"2008 Ends Spotless and with 266 Spotless Days, the #2 Least Active Year Since 1900, Portends Cooling
31 12 2008"

"This will bring the total number of sunspotless days this month to 28 and for the year to 266, clearly enough to make 2008, the second least active solar year since 1900."

"The total number of spotless days this spolar minimum is now at around 510 days since the last maximum. The earliest the minimum of the sunspot cycles can be is July 2008, which would make the cycle length 12 years 3 months, longest since cycle 9 in 1848. If the sun stays quiet for a few more months we will rival the early 1800s, the Dalton Minimum which fits with the 213 year cycle which begin with the solar minimum in the late 1790s."
http://tinyurl.com/9c63oa (watssup)

hardboiled, the Senate has never been democratically appointed—an oxymoron.

So, even though PMSH waited for over THREE years to fill the vacancies, all the while trying to convince the provinces and the Liberal-stacked Senate to allow elections, they wouldn't. So, he didn’t have a lot of choice, did he? Do you think the Coalition party weasels have any qualms about our undemocratic Senate? Of course not.

Forget about saying that at least the undemocratic, power hungry lefties aren’t hypocrites: neither is Harper. He made a necessary political decision—because of lefty non-compliance—and has required his appointees to both support Senate reform—which your guys never do—and step aside if elections ever become the order of the day.

With his hands tied by the left-wing political parties of this country, PMSH is adhering to the spirit of reform, which, in reality and for the time being, is all he can do. (And, with more Conservative appointees, the reality of reform becomes a little more likely. To leave the seats vacant for non reform minded lefties to fill would actually be against the PM's principles. Got it?)

Totally in agreement with Soccermom, I assume that your moniker describes your brain. Smarten up—if that’s possible.

hardboiled calls conservative appointees bagmen and sycophants and then cautions about name calling.Once again I believe your conclusions are a little scrambled.

h.ryan.

I think its a little hard for him to keep it together ,ensconced in his mums basement with only a Wii and a computer for pals.

The state of California, which is one of the biggest economies in the world is basically bankrupt. People owed tax refunds won't be getting them, and businesses owed money won't be getting paid. see http://newmediajournal.us/usa.htm#1231 and have a happy new year.

Well said Lookout. You have sumerized the 'senate situation' in a nutshell. If you don't mind I would like to send this brief, comprehensive explaination for appointments to some of the squawkers that I know. Would you mind if I copy and paste your post?

For those in SK--and this includes you, Kate--careful if going out this afternoon/evening. Heavy snow and blowing snow will make driving interesting.

Johann...ditto for AB. And jema54...remember banana seats on bikes.Boy. Could you ever jump them suckers into the nearest bush(or tree)

SDA nation vote here.

http://www.new7wonders.com/nature/en/vote_on_nominees/?firstselect=1:67

its a bit of a pain , you have to vote for 7 things.

dinosaur park needs help as the NBrunswicks are in front.