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Thanks Vitruvius - I would love to see more documentaries - I'm not so successful finding them myself

Michael Coren the other night discussing Sid Ryan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yMGnmIvefY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk4UMTgCwUw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v6lZndoJEk

(not sure what happened to the sound)

Vitruvius,

"Temporal measurement, or chronometry, takes two distinct period forms: the calendar, a mathematical abstraction for calculating extensive periods of time ... The number (as on a clock dial or calendar) that marks the occurrence of a specified event as to hour or date is obtained by counting from a fiducial epoch — a central reference point."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time

Your changes are giving me a headache.

Thank you for posting those video segments, Matt. Does everyone realize how incredibly naive Marilyn Churley is? Dictators and terrorists LOVE useful idiots like her.

Understood, Ural, yet for a Late Nite Radio show, especially one that is archived into the next day &c, and that is available across all time zones, the issue of which titular night it is, v. what the formal timestamp is (in some particular timezone), is open to debate. For example, if one had an 23:00 late nite show, would one do Valentine's Day on February 13th, or 14th?

An alternative, of course, is simply to ignore
my ruminations, and just Let the Music Play.

END TIMES ... for the NYT ?

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901/new-york-times

Something comes to mind. Europe - careful who you chose as role-models, friends, ideology.

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Governments across Europe declared states of emergency and ordered factories to close as Russia cut all gas supplies through Ukraine yesterday in their worsening dispute over unpaid bills. José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission President, accused the two countries of taking the EU's energy supply "hostage" amid a cold snap across the Continent, and urged them to reopen the pipelines immediately. Schools and factories were closed and trees were felled to keep home fires burning after Russia turned off the gas taps to more than a dozen countries. It was a clear demonstration of the dependence of the Continent on Russian gas supplies. Slovakia's Government followed Bulgaria by announcing that it may have to restart a mothballed Soviet-era nuclear power plant.
--The Times, 8 January 2009

Temperatures plunged to record lows in Germany and heavy snow forced normally sunny Marseille to close its international airport as freezing winter weather gripped much of Europe on Wednesday. Port authorities in the Dutch city of Rotterdam deployed an icebreaking ship for the first time 12 years, while in Britain forecasters issued a new severe weather warning. In the Balkans, thousands shivered in their homes after gas supplies to southeastern Europe were cut as a result of a contract dispute between Russia and Ukraine, reminding many of the freezing winters they endured in the wars of the 1990s.
--Reuters, 7 January 2009

Europe would be immune to this sort of disruption if those nations developed their own energy resources. But the only existing technologies that can do the job are nuclear power and hydrocarbons - coal, oil, and natural gas. The global warming theory - indeed, environmentalism in general - is a conscious and deliberate strategy on the part of international socialists to weaken and destroy the western democracies. The content of the climate agreements does not matter. The important thing is the establishment of unelected international authorities to regulate things.
--DuPree Moore, 7 January 2009

But the cash from UN grants, wind farms, carbon trading and all the billions squandered on a politically useful (to totalitarians) superstition is very clear indeed: this is big bucks. "Man-made" global warming is the new sub-prime commerce of the planet. Meantime, wrap up well.
--Gerald Warner, The Daily Telegraph blog, 7 January 2009

Efforts to sell climate policy based on ever more scary scenarios of apocalypse cannot be sustained and are likely to work in exactly the opposite manner than desired. A good example of why this is so can be found in a recent paper (hat tip Dad) that suggests that the rate of sea level rise from 2003-2008 (2.5 mm/year) is 20% lower than that presented by the IPCC for 1993-2003 (3.1 mm/year). Whether this is "consistent with" longer-term predictions is different that whether it is "consistent with" a political strategy based on scaring people. It seems pretty obvious that systems that exhibit a large amount of variability or are simply poorly understood on relatively short time scales are not very useful props in efforts to show the world moving inexorably towards doom.
--Roger Pielke, Jr. , Climate Policy, 7 January 2009
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One of the worst major newspapers in the U.S. (and I don't say that lightly) appears to be about to fold:

Source: Seattle P-I to be sold, or closed

Fold ? Probably because of what's 'above the fold' ! heh.

Harper has no plans to repeal s.13 of the "human rights" act?

Then maybe I have no plans to vote Conservative in future.

From the Canadian Taxpayers Federation

Native Tax Advantage in Sask equals $329-million Over Past 8 Years

A Ten-fold increase since 2000

REGINA: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is calling on the provincial and federal governments to end tax rebates for on-reserve businesses. Information obtained by the CTF via Access to Information (ATI) requests reveal that on-reserve businesses in Saskatchewan have received $329-million in tax rebates from the provincial government since 2000.

http://www.taxpayer.com/taxpayer/news-archive?news_id=3423

Polygamy charges laid against faux Mormons in Bountiful, B.C.

Does anyone recall that when the gay marriage debate was going on, and people predicted that it would lead to polygamy, supporters said that would never happen?

A few years later, the "experts" are saying that the polygamy law will probably be found unconstitutional, if this case goes to court.

Unlike some people who post here, I don't have any objection to gay marriage, as long as the churches can steer clear if they want. The real issue in my opinion is the tax breaks and pension rights, etc., that come along with partnerships recognized by government.

But this polygamy problem shows the whole issue needs more thought, which is always in short supply ...

What polygamy problem?

The BC government wants votes, and has found an unpopular group with an unpopular faith to push around to get the votes.

But it's only a problem if the people involved in it say it's a problem, not if the big-city sophisticates in Vancouver and Victoria find it offensive. Too bad for them, the feeling is mutual in many cases.

Isn't there a certain amount of undeclared polygamy in some religions practiced in BC besides this one? Let's see the mutli-cults go after those polygamists with equal zeal.

And for that matter, the gay lifestyle often involves multiple partners. I thought that was now tres chic. Can't be bothered finding the accent, I will leave that to poseurs.

In case Iggy doesn't work out for the Libs, here's another fellow from south of the border who they might want to appoint. Language warning!

He's obviously consumed too much caffeine but when it comes down to it, doesn't everyone on the Radical Left think like this, to one degree or another?

A suggestion for late night music - Celturian is a master of the guitar!

For Saturdays, try to find clips of James Burke (of 'Connections' fame). Just an idea.

A big thanks to Irwin Daisy in the Carolyn Parrish thread for posting those video links. They were troubling to watch but also important. I just saw the one of the Hamas terrorist grabbing a child to use as a human shield. It absolutely broke my heart.

Then sure enough I found an item posted on LibLogs.ca that defends this practice! You can read it here. In case this pile of human filth deletes my comment, you can see the video near the top of my blog.

Love these bias headlines this morning from ...

Google News...

"Bombs Hit Gaza As UN Urges Truce"
-BBC

Of course no mention of Hamas still firing rockets into southern Israel.

Then when you click the link to al-BBC the story's headline is even worse...

Israelis snub UN ceasefire call

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Sources

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7820027.stm

http://www.google.com/news?rls=com.microsoftA*AIE-SearchBox

The polygamy debate is kind of useless. TO."s welfare allows for multiple wives. You can get a welfare check for each. Now as that is the case how can the attacking of the Bountiful sect be anything but religious persecution?
For me I don't get too upset over what other people do with their lives but I do like that whole "fair" thing. If one religion can marry 8 year olds and that is Ok how can you say the other is wrong for marrying at the used to be legal age of 14?

By the way, thanks for the show Vit. Appreciated.

Polygamy ?

How about child rape & sex slavery. These men use their positions of power and authority to command mothers to send young girls to them for impregnation. They are very sick puppies, preying on the most innocent of children.

And those "peaceful" communities ?

Ask them what happens to the boys when they reach 16 years old ?

"Flaherty,Ignatieff hold town hall's on the Economy"
ctv.ca

Lisa's & Lloyd were waiting for total disruption at Flaherty's meeting, She points out at the end that he recieved a Standing Ovation.

I think Lisa was waiting for "Beer & Popcorn" to be thrown at him.
Lloyd thinks it was all Smoke & Mirrors though,
Key Next story Ignatieff the Saviour has town hall meeting & is Perfect.

"you don't speak for me."?

That's an echo from SDA.

Bec said it here*.

"Does no one else find this bizarre? I heard an interview with, Scott Brison today saying the exact opposite of this position from 'the appointed one" re taxation etc.

It reminds me of a dysfunctional marriage, when the other spouse is glaring at the speaking spouse and thinking, shut up, *you don't speak for me.

Are these people for real? They need to be an episode of "Survivor" in the Arctic and figure out how to get along. I would personally hope that they got scurvy and dropped, like flies."

"Can the Liberal Party stand the strain?"
http://stevejanke.com/archives/280842.php
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Boob, STOPIGGY.

"Promising Tax Cuts"

Ignatieff says if he becomes PM, He'll cut taxes for low and middle income canadians, move quickly on shovel-ready infrastructure projects, and make sure people on UI recieve their cheques faster All within the first 100 days in office.
NNW-The Chronicle Herald
jan 09/09

*"when Israel is winning, get yourself a civilian massacre."

>>>> United Nations >>> **Just-In-Time-Delivery.

"Get me a Massacre: Up next — the Kfar Qana of Operation Cast Lead

Whether by Israeli accident or Hamas engineering, expect a spectacular civilian massacre in the coming days, followed by an orgy of Pallywood photography, amplified by a compliant Western media, and even greater fury in the streets of the Muslim and Western world. It’s in the Hamas playbook… and will be until the media gets sober. Here’s the background, and the obscenity that will probably be played.

Barry Rubin has laid out the various endgames open to Hamas, and how, when all else fails, it’s the media reserves you draw on to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. And it’s an old story: Arafat called the Western media, busy drinking at the Commodore Hotel in Beirut under the protection of his mafiosi while his “guerillas” participated in a civil war (1975-82) that killed 100,000 civilians, his best division.

The pattern has long been clear, and most recently carried out with explosive effectiveness in the Lebanon war of 2006… *when Israel is winning, get yourself a civilian massacre."
http://tinyurl.com/799vae (augeanstables)
(Note link to SDA)
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**"War in Gaza: Israel accused of shelling house full of children

The United Nations has accused Israeli troops of evacuating scores of Palestinians – including children – into a house in Gaza and then shelling the property 24 hours later, killing some 30 people.

In a report published today on what it called "one of the gravest incidents" of the 14-day conflict, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) complained that the Israeli Defence Force then prevented medical teams from entering the area to evacuate the wounded."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5480440.ece

(Via SWJ) Noah Schachtman, Third 'Human Terrain' Researcher Dead

For the third time in eight months, a social scientist with the Army's Human Terrain cultural research program has died.

In early November, while on patrol in an Afghan village, Paula Loyd was doused with a flammable liquid, and set on fire. She suffered second- and third-degree burns over 60 percent of her body. Loyd was rushed to a nearby medical center, where she was treated by a burn specialist. Shortly thereafter, Loyd was evacuated to the military's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, and then to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. But after a two month struggle, she was overcome by her injuries...

"Ignatieff Rising"
Track Michael Ignatieff's rise from scholar to leader in waiting.
ctv.ca politics page

The 1month anniversary of Ignatieffs coronation is saturday.
CTV.ca Politics page has had Igantieff Rising up on the politics page as long.
We could have had a pool!

(Via SWJ) Amir Taheri, In Search of the Afghan Maliki

...the Bush administration, which had little knowledge of Afghanistan, was sucked into a project founded on a number of illusions. The chief illusion was that Afghanistan could develop a system of highly centralized government headed by a U.S.-style president and a strong executive branch. That scheme ignored Afghanistan’s historical and geographical realities. Afghanistan emerged as a loosely knit independent state in the 18th century and was accepted as a buffer setting the limits of the Tsarist, Persian, and British empires in Central Asia. A patchwork of ethnic and religious communities, Afghanistan developed a system of rule in which tribal chiefs and Muslim clerics enjoyed a great measure of autonomy under the nominal suzerainty of a distant king who never tried to impose his will throughout his realm by force. The idea that Afghanistan is a land of unruly tribes was generally recognized in the Muslim world. It was not for nothing that Muslims always referred to Afghanistan as Taghistan (“The Land of Insolence”)...

The best structure for Afghanistan is that of a loose federation in which its 18 ethnic and religious communities enjoy full economic, cultural, and administrative autonomy. Yet the system developed in Afghanistan since 2002 has gone in the exact opposite direction...

(Via SWJ) Joby Warrick, Jan. 1 Attack By CIA Killed Two Leaders Of Al-Qaeda

A New Year's Day CIA strike in northern Pakistan killed two top al-Qaeda members long sought by the United States, including the man believed to be behind September's deadly suicide bombing at a Marriott hotel in the Pakistani capital, U.S. counterterrorism officials confirmed yesterday...

Vitruvius,thanks for Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Another selection that brings back memories.I saw them in Detroit years ago. Unfortunately,they were booed off the stage by a crowd eager for Lou Reed. 'Sex and drugs and rock and roll',a classic,if you get a chance give it a listen.

"Liberal blogger: Hamas wise to use human shields

I really can't keep up. It seems like every hour another Liberal blogger says something absolutely nuts about Hamas and Israel.

Here's a member of Liblogs.ca justifying Hamas's use of civilian shields.

I'm not surprised that his site is adorned with a Teutonic Cross, which I've copied and pasted to the left.

If this appeared on a Tory site, it would be national news and the Canadian Human Rights Commission would be investigating.

I'm wondering how long the excuse of "it's just a blogger" will last."
http://ezralevant.com/2009/01/liberal-blogger-hamas-wise-to.html

Hmmm - I noticed an article saying that Ignatieff "cleaned house" of Dion's hangers ons and got rid of Communications Director, Mark Dunn.

Why is that relevant? Mark Dunn is the husband of Liberal bigotted reporter Gloria Galloway of the Toronto Press gallery.

What say ye now, Gloria?

The New Cold War

[ Ten of thousands of homes in Europe have been left with no heating, a situation which the European Commission has described as completely unacceptable.] BBC

Would it be acceptable under Kyoto ?

Fred I never said it was right. I just pointed out it is unfair to have the government supporting one and punishing the other. If it is to say the government does not support the practice then don't sanction it in another location. It's legal or it ain't. It's discrimination or it ain't.

Mississauga Matt at January 8, 2009 11:43 PM,

MM, thanks for Coren videos, I'm going to try to watch him more regularly. He certainly knows how to run a good discussion.

Marilyn Churley literally sends chills up my spine; she can efficiently represent everything despicable about people of her ilk, in a few short minutes; arrogance, shrillness, and relativism all packaged nicely in self-importance.

I particularly like the part where she says …it’s difficult [for me] these days to criticize Israel without being called anti-Semitic…

I don't know if any one else posted this; Political party Payment amount

Bloc Québécois
$758,350.39

Conservative Party of Canada
$2,623,890.17

Green Party of Canada
$324,231.20

Liberal Party of Canada
$2,187,074.37

New Democratic Party
$1,264,370.74

These are the fourth quarter payments to political parties for 2008 released by elections canada on the 5th of Jan. This is the money that 4 out of 5 parties need to survive.My money,your money,now their money.

Obama is the lefts new BETA male
It’s official: Marian Robinson, the 71-year-old mother-in-law of President-elect Barack Obama, will be moving into the White House, transition officials said on Friday.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/obamas-mother-in-law-to-move-into-the-white-house/

MSM constipation: No enema in sight.
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"CTVglobemedia is owned by a group that includes Woodbridge, the Thomson family owned investment company, Torstar Corp. (TSX:TS.B), the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan and BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE), Canada's largest telecom company."

"Globe and Mail to cut 10 per cent of its workforce, says publisher and CEO"
http://tinyurl.com/78plyz (canpress)
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"Seattle Post-Intelligencer up for sale (could close in 60 days)

SEATTLE (AP) — Hearst Corp. put Seattle's oldest newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, up for sale Friday, saying that if it can't find a buyer in the next 60 days, the paper will close or continue to exist only on the Internet."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161780/posts

Goreacle say: "a reinforcing shot of arctic air settling over the East in the days leading up to Inauguration Day."
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"The Coldest Weather Possible In Nearly 15 Years

Bitterly cold air bottled up over the depths of the Arctic will plunge southward next week, gripping the eastern two-thirds of the nation.

The frigid air will likely arrive in two waves. The first shot will blast the Midwest and Northeast early next week. The second, which will prove to be the harshest, will encompass virtually all places east of the Rockies by next weekend.

Expert Senior Meteorologist Elliot Abrams reports, "Joe Bastardi has been talking about a daytime temperature below zero in Chicago and a nighttime low near 0 in New York City... and if one of these Arctic highs makes the plunge south and east, those ideas will turn out right."

Blustery winds will usher in the arctic air, resulting in even colder and potentially dangerous temperatures.

The air Friday over a portion of Alaska was colder than the air anywhere else in the northern hemisphere. That is the source region for the air coming into the northern Plains next week.

There are early indications of a reinforcing shot of arctic air settling over the East in the days leading up to Inauguration Day."
http://tinyurl.com/8lnphz (accuweather)

Ahh, Fortier. The Cons unelected bagman from Quebec just keeps on giving - our money away, even after he's long gone.

Thanks there gerbil boy.

The federal government will spend millions more taxpayer dollars to move thousands of employees out of aging buildings and into new ones than if the move had been planned better, says a local real estate consultant.

Darren Fleming, a senior adviser with GVA Devencore, a company that provides real estate advice and brokerage services, said the situation will create an artificially high demand for office space and contractors.

"If there's only three or four sites for new office towers in town and you ask for all of them at once, you're not going to get the best price," said Fleming.

More than a quarter of the government leases in Ottawa-Gatineau will expire within the next two years.

In December, the government put out a request for three office towers of 350,000 square feet each and a 2.8 million square-foot campus.

Fleming said the total is equivalent to almost all the office space in Kanata or Nepean.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/01/09/ot-090109-real-estate.html

Pollster say, "Pollster Darrell Bricker says the bulk of Canadians clearly are "not panicked" about the worsening economic scene."
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"Canada 'moving in the right track': Poll"

"The survey's findings also say Stephen Harper's Conservatives hold a solid lead over their rivals,"
http://tinyurl.com/8v3o86 (calgaryherald)
STOPIGGY.

harboiled,

if the feds move then the owner of the current building didn't "sharpen the pencil".

OMG: 'Watching Michael Coren right now with Sid Ryan. What a windbag; he's talked five minutes non-stop and keeps intoning what a "civil society" needs to do.

GOOD G*D! He's a fine one to talk about being "civil." He's a union hack. Period. He's STILL talking, and doesn't seem to be at all interested in hearing from anyone else on the panel.

"This is what I think. I'm right (well, left, actually). 'Not interested in hearing from the other side. Wait ... there isn't another side. And that's that. So, everyone else shut up."

This gives a good insight into Jewish persecution in England. It appears the BBC is as bad as the CBC for Marxist mania.

The experience this week of a London Jew
By Melanie Phillips

wrote below about the frightening thuggery on display at the anti-Israel demonstrations in London. Here is what a reader tells me of his recent experiences as a British Jew, including what happened to him after attending the pro-Israel counter demonstration, and how he feels therefore about the way in which the Gaza conflict and its implications are being reported in Britain:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3218811/the-experience-this-week-of-a-london-jew.thtml