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  3. I wonder if you click on:
    “More rat stories from WPRI.com”
    Does a story on Bagojevich pop up?

  4. “A cold Antarctica and Southern Ocean do not contradict our models of global warming. For a long time the models have predicted just that.”
    Antarctica is Cold? Yeah, We Knew That
    Real Climate 12th. February 2008
    “Scientists studying climate change have long believed that while most of the rest of the globe has been getting steadily warmer, a large part of Antarctica — the East Antarctic Ice Sheet — has actually been getting colder.
    But new research shows that for the last 50 years, much of Antarctica has been warming at a rate comparable to the rest of the world. In fact, the warming in West Antarctica is greater than the cooling in East Antarctica, meaning that on average the continent has gotten warmer, said Eric Steig, a University of Washington professor of Earth and space sciences and director of the Quaternary Research Center at the UW.”
    http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=46448

  6. Speaking of Bangkok, Confusious says, “Man who go through airport turnstile sideways going to Bangkok”

  7. This climate change shtik is getting old and it seems that most people have gotten the f*ckits.
    Can we please now move on to the shortage of fresh water scam or the plummeting asteroid doom narratives?
    2010 is coming up soon and the fear mongerers need to pull the other one to keep the funds rolling in.

  8. Well, golly gee, Obama, the Messiah. The first thing he did with his new found power was not to help the American people, but to give aid & comfort to the terrorists!! He’s a bit scarey, don’t you think?

  9. A graduate student from China was decapitated with a kitchen knife in a campus cafe at Virginia Tech by another graduate student who knew her, police said Thursday.
    Not too many details provided, but a school cafeteria is not a confined space, like, say, a bus or something.
    “An act of violence like this brings back memories of April 16,” university president Charles Steger said. “
    Why, were the events similar?

  11. Excellent, Vitruvius. I’ll replay this, cranked up to eleven, with coffee in the morning; perfect personal theme music to set up my Friday. Thanks.

  12. Greetings from the Emerald City folks. That’s Seattle, for those not aware of the nickname. Microsoft announced 5,000 layoffs today. I’m staying with a friend who works there. It would be fair to say that people here are concerned, though not frightened. I’ll be on the Redmond campus tomorrow and will get a much better feel for the mood of the place.

  13. Have fun, Robert. I was only in Seattle once but I plan to go back once they have that skytrain thing going from the airport to downtown. It seems to be a nice place except for all the liberals.

  14. If you’d like a preview of the next 4 years of futility in the Middle East, listen to Mark Steyn and Hugh Hewitt here.
    Plus, they discuss Stephen Harper at the end. Sadly, Mark’s not optimistic.

  15. yahoo.com poll tonight
    Who would you prefer to have as prime minister?
    * (57%)Stephen Harper
    * (43%)Michael Ignatieff
    How can Iggy come that close to PMSH unless it’s thanks to the non-stop media attention recently?

  16. Who would pay attention to a poll from Yahoo anyway?
    Yahoo might get better once Bartz takes over, but I’m not holding my breath.

  17. Conservatives consider removing Harper
    Yes, uli, that would be a great move for people of your ilk.
    The left (when they can’t win outright) always fractionates and stir up the pot. Y’see, the thing is that they can never hope to win the hearts and minds of people who think:
    This is just the voice
    of an ordinary Canadian
    yelling back at the radio –
    “You don’t speak for me.”

  18. EDMONTON — A man who was detained in Calgary because he spit in a public place has now been charged in connection with an Edmonton homicide.
    Edm journal.

  19. Geez, why would anyone think of removing Harper after the bang-up job he’s done defending freedom of speech and fighting the climate change lunatics?
    Oh yeah, I see now.
    Mild, isn’t it?

  20. Toronto subway shooting. Just think. The shooting and murder rate would go way down if we didn’t include the black population.

  22. Too many shootings in Toronto result in the culprit getting away. Enough, already.
    The only way Toronto is ever going to be safe — and, hey, I was on that same subway line the day before — is when these criminal hoodlums are rounded up, put in jail, and kept there. The fact that most of them are black is a deterrant to the police to do very much about them: poor guys, they’re depraved on accounta they’re deprived. Yeah, well, suck it up, Toronto’s Finest, and face facts: Lots of deprived kids — in fact, most deprived kids — don’t turn to drugs and guns. Stop coddling these vermin. And that goes for you, Mr. Miller, you and your little counsellors too.
    As a law-abiding, pay-my-bills, take-responsibility-for-my-kids, hard-working-stiff, I deeply resent the life of Riley these drug hoods are living. Looking at the shooter’s duds and reading the police description of them I realized his attire was finer than mine or my kids. ‘Gotta be a drug-related shooting, I said to my hubby.
    GET. THESE. THUGS/MURDERERS. OFF. OUR. STREETS.
    NOW.

  23. ‘Just heard the news: Moro … er … Mayor Miller is “shocked” by the shooting in the subway and says “Toronto is the safest large city in North America.”
    NOT. SAFE. ENOUGH. MR. MAYOR.

  24. Ottawa Sun byline “Posties stamp out God” – another human rights complaint – a tradition at the Cornwall post office as employees leave on their delivery route was to say Merci Seigneur pour la belle journee (Thank you Lord for the beautiful day)- 35 yr employee Orvel Murphy Jr says sometimes on a bad day, it was sarcastic – the phrase, which translates to “Thank you Lord for the beautiful day,” has now been banned at the Cornwall office by Canada Post management after a mail carrier filed an internal human rights complaint last December – Murphy Jr. said the reason for the phrase ban stems from management using “kid gloves” with an employee who has a personality conflict with others in the office – “The office walks on egg shells around him,” he said. “Management is afraid of him and their jobs are on the line.”
    http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2009/01/23/8118826-sun.html
    Jim

  25. Another Politician is charged and convicted for, get this, “humiliating a religion.”
    Earth Times:
    “Vienna – Austrian far-right parliamentarian Susanne Winter was convicted Thursday of incitement because of her anti-Muslim statements, including the claim that Islam’s prophet Mohammed was a paedophile. A court in Winter’s home town of Graz also found the 51-year-old politician guilty of humiliating a religion. She was sentenced to a fine of 24,000 euros (31,000 dollars) euros and a suspended prison term of three months, Austrian news agency APA reported.
    Convicted for repeating exactly what it says in the Hadeeth and exactly what some Muslims believe is their holy right:
    Time magazine reported in 2001: “In Iran the legal age for marriage is nine for girls, fourteen for boys. The law has occasionally been exploited by pedophiles, who marry poor young girls from the provinces, use and then abandon them. In 2000 the Iranian Parliament voted to raise the minimum age for girls to fourteen, but this year, a legislative oversight body dominated by traditional clerics vetoed the move.

  26. A Palestine in Britain. Then in Canada:
    (thedailystar.co.uk)
    “MUSLIMS want to create their own communities and remain segregated from British society.
    A shocking 44% think they should be free to develop along separate lines.”
    Next: Rockets.

  27. The Kennedy Family.
    …-
    2009:
    “Mystery and Speculation Surround Caroline Kennedy’s End to Senate Bid”*
    1964:
    “Indeed, in a long forgotten meeting at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, on a hot July day in 1964, the Kennedy family and their advisers and allies were coached by Fr. Drinan, then-Dean of Boston College Law School, and a contingent of leading theologians and Catholic college professors, to accept and promote abortion with a “clear conscience.”
    “The Passing of ‘Fr. Death'”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818654/posts
    *http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,481848,00.html

  28. batb wrote
    As a law-abiding, pay-my-bills, take-responsibility-for-my-kids, hard-working-stiff, I deeply resent the life of Riley these drug hoods are living………..
    ouch..

  29. Muslims want their own community within Britain?
    How scary is that?
    A tragedy in the making and the end of Britain as we know it for starters as they breed and grow to become the enemy within. The Muslims do not have a good record for living in in peace. Join mainstream society or get out should be their choice.
    Britain needs another Churchill.

  30. Friend of USA at January 23, 2009 7:26 AM
    I clicked your link, read the article, and watched the video there too.
    In the video the accused squirrel patron, Bruce Kert, acts out the offense on the spot where he was fined. Seen in the background, as Bruce Kert along with the interviewer and camera crew are making the vid, one can see 3 or 4 squirrels capering about. The location is definitely a major squirrel hangout.
    Bruce Kert acts out tossing a nut in the direction of the squirrel on the day of the incident. The act takes about 1 second. Bruce Kert says he found the peanuts on the ground in that location. Out of nowhere pops a By-law Officer and fines Bruce Kert $75.
    Coincidence?
    Not blooidy lackly!
    Westmount Mayor Karin Marks is a nutjob. She claims feeding the squirrels is verboten because:
    *Firstly -it’s a health issue because feeding the squirrels could cause rats in the area to get food
    *Secondly -there is the peanut allergy danger
    Now if you saw those squirrels you’d know that the rats don’t have a chance to get any food given to the squirrels.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4489792.stm
    Peanuts allergy danger? To whom, the squirrels? Is it illegal in Westmount to walk about in public with peanuts because of the allergy danger? Peanuts are biodegradable, I know, I’ve got a bag of them right now and they are biodegrading right in the bag.
    If peanuts are such a danger because of allergic reactions then maybe Westmount Mayor Karin Marks should investigate who actually deposited those peanuts on the ground in the park.
    My money is on the By-law Officer who fined Bruce Kert.

  31. Final tally; Should Khadr be brought back to Canada?
    Globe and Mail
    Yes
    39% 7218 votes
    No
    61% 11112 votes

  32. “The terrible warning of a Holocaust survivor
    Douglas Davis is shocked by what she has to say, by the anti-Semitism that is increasing all around us and by the widespread embrace of Hamas in Europe
    At my dinner table on Friday night, a holocaust survivor admits that she is trying to persuade her son to take his family out of Europe to America, Canada, Australia, Canada, Australia, Israel…’They say they can’t leave me, but I tell them: “Go, get out. My parents left my grandparents behind in Berlin and brought me to safety in England. Now I want you to leave so that my grandchildren will be safe.”’ There is an unbearable desperation in her plea. But she has a point.
    As tens of thousands of demonstrators march through the streets of Europe, the chants are modified but the message remains substantially intact: ‘Hamas, Hamas, Hamas — Jews to the Gas’. Or, more simply: ‘Death to the Jews’.”
    http://tinyurl.com/b2m3oq (spectatoruk)
    …-
    “Spanish newspaper: Europe got Muslims for Jews
    A Spanish Newspaper
    This is a translation of an article from a Spanish newspaper.
    The truth must be told! All European life died in Auschwitz
    By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez*
    I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth – Europe died in Auschwitz.
    We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, and talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.
    The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned. And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.
    They have turned our beautiful European cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime. Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.
    And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.
    We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for hoping for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.
    What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.
    * This is a summary of an article recently printed in a Spanish newspaper, but it applies to most countries of western Europe.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1531607/posts

  34. Muslims want their own community within Britain?
    …Britain needs another Churchill.
    Tomorrow I’ll be sober, and you’ll still be a barbarian!

  35. From City Journal Winter 2009
    Nicole Gelinas: Can the Feds Uncrunch Credit?
    Me: It’s 10 pages but very well worth the read. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst with a special gift for explaining, in very clear non-technical language the credit system, what happened to it, what is being proposed to fix it, based on Milton Friedman’s “The Great Contraction”. It covers good information about the changed role of banks and the need for them to re-discover their calling; the high risks of the government doubling down on one of the prime causes of the crisis: the too-big-too-fail syndrome; the possible crowding out of smaller more innovative financial institutions which would evolve in a unhampered market economy.

  36. O’s Garbage Footprint.
    The mountain came to O.
    …-
    “One Hundred Tons of Garbage Collected After Obama Inauguration
    One Hundred Tons of Garbage Collected After Obama Inauguration One-hundred tons of trash were collected by city and federal sanitation workers after President Obama’s Jan. 20 inauguration in Washington, D.C.
    The scene looked more like the leftovers of a massive college frat party.
    Heaps of plastic bottles, food wrappers, soda cans, and newspapers, which blanketed the National Mall Wednesday morning, were a stark contrast to the stateliness and splendor of President Barack Obama’s inaugural ceremony a day before.
    One hundred tons of trash were collected by city and federal sanitation workers, according to Department of Public Works public information officer Linda Grant.
    In comparison, 40 tons of garbage were collected in New York City’s Time Square on New Year’s Day 2009 — after one million people attended the celebration — according to the city’s Department of Sanitation.
    Grant said Washington’s massive inaugural cleanup effort began at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
    “By 5:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, we collected about 90 tons of the garbage,” she said.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2170265/posts

  38. Shocka. Goreacle’s LipSynch for O.
    MaO StlOng say*, Fligid Fingels gOOdy for Rip Synch.
    But, don’t worry, sisses an’ bros: ““No one’s trying to fool anybody. This isn’t a matter of Milli Vanilli,””
    …-
    “The Frigid Fingers Were Live, but the Music Wasn’t (Inaugural Performances Lip-synched)
    The New York Times ^ | January 23, 2009 | By DANIEL J. WAKIN
    It was not precisely lip-synching, but pretty close.
    The somber, elegiac tones before President Obama’s oath of office at the inauguration on Tuesday came from the instruments of Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and two colleagues. But what the millions on the Mall and watching on television heard was in fact a recording, made two days earlier by the quartet and matched tone for tone by the musicians playing along.
    The players and the inauguration organizing committee said the arrangement was necessary because of the extreme cold and wind during Tuesday’s ceremony. The conditions raised the possibility of broken piano strings, cracked instruments and wacky intonation minutes before the president’s swearing in (which had problems of its own).
    “Truly, weather just made it impossible,” Carole Florman, a spokeswoman for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, said on Thursday. “No one’s trying to fool anybody. This isn’t a matter of Milli Vanilli,” Ms. Florman added, referring to the pop band that was stripped of a 1989 Grammy because the duo did not sing on their album and lip-synched in concerts.
    Ms. Florman said that the use of a recording was not disclosed beforehand but that the NBC producers handling the television pool were told of its likelihood the day before.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2170214/posts
    …-
    *C-PWN / Beijing Olympics – Original Child Beijing Olympic Singer …
    8 Aug 2008 … Original Child Beijing Olympic Singer ‘Too Ugly’ : The musical director of the spectacular opening Olympic ceremony has revealed the little …
    http://www.celebritypwn.com/pwn/beijing_olympics/10050/

  39. Fritz.. good catch! I can’t believe how stupid we looked. Unfortunately I could believe the rest.

  43. “the murder of a culture”.
    “Peter Lorre – Rick, Hide Me!”
    …-
    “The most dangerous men
    A gay man, a film maker, a Muslim woman and a politician from a minor political party. Why should these unlikely individuals — who are really from the margins of society — have come to the center of European history in the early 21st century? The reason is that they were caught up in events by being on the edges, by being the first to see, like ordinary people in movies who find themselves the first to discover a danger whose magnitude they only gradually discover. The four of course, are Pim Fortyn, Theo Van Gogh, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders. Bruce Bawer describes their accidental destiny in the City Journal.”
    […]
    “What time is it? When Rick asks Sam in Casablanca what time it is in America he knows the answer already. It is almost too late.
    Rick: If it’s December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?
    Sam: What? My watch stopped.
    Rick: I’d bet they’re asleep in New York. I’d bet they’re asleep all over America.
    It would be a mistake to think that Fortuyn, Van Gogh, Ali and Wilders suffered their fates because they were involved with the ‘Muslim issue’. Islam was only incidental to the perilous currents swirling around them. No. Things ran deeper than that. What these four found themselves in the midst of was the greatest mass suicide event of the last 100 years: the repeal of the enlightenment; the murder of a culture. The court that issued the ideological fatwah against him wasn’t a clerical court in Southwest Asia, but a secular one in the heart of modern Europe. They’re not coming at us from the outside; they’re here.
    (more…)”
    http://www.pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/
    “The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, …
    http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/780/”

  44. Apparently the inauguration music was prerecorded. ‘It would have been a disaster if we had done it any other way,’ Perlman told The New York Times. This occasion’s got to be perfect. You can’t have any slip-ups.’
    I guess that message didn’t get through to John Roberts or The Big O himself. Perhaps a pre-recorded version would have done this trick for swearing in, thereby avoiding the embarrassing error that precipitated the ‘do-ver’ ‘out of an abundance of caution’.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1126945/Classical-musicians-played-recording-Obamas-inauguration.html

  45. For another military assessment of the incredible heroism that won Zvicka the Order of Courage (equivalent to the VC or Congressional Medal of Honor), see Chaim Herzog, The Arab-Israeli Wars, at 288.
    Abraham Rabinovich, At the helm
    There were moments after the first Grad rocket hit Ofakim at the start of Operation Cast Lead when Mayor Zvika Greengold felt almost as stressed as he had that first night of the Yom Kippur War. The tank he commanded then stood alone blocking a Syrian armored brigade on the narrow road to Golan divisional headquarters…

  47. I don’t have cable so I ended up watching a documentary Fly Me to the Moon at 9 p.m. on CBC Thursday night. Halfway through the CBC started dumping on one of its favourite bête noire, Bomber Command during W.W. II (shades of that ani-war series The Valour and the Horror which stirred up our vets so much).
    Anyway I have written to the CBC to say how pissed I am to have this gratuitous insult to air vets once again paraded before us.

  49. “Humiliating a religion”?
    I guess they won’t be showing that Piss Christ work of alleged art in Austria any time, then, will they?

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