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Richard Evans...more money for newfies to stay home...

34,600 unemployed in NL 13.7% rate

299,600 in Que 7.1%

508,400 in ON 7.1%

In hard working AB, 72,100 or 3.4%

119,000 in BC 4.9%

Yes if it wasn't for dem der Newfies, sponging off the avails of its countymen. Let me be da first newfie to apologize for holding the country's economic vision back.

In other news Williams calls on federal Liberals to defeat govt over budget, not enough equalization for NL.

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Special K has decided to throw up a list of Blogging Tories who have
expressed concern about the federal budget. That's funny... his usual
shtick is all about how BT'ers are "mindless robots".

C'mon buddy, make up your mind.

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This man was released and Saskatoon was allerted by police as to a dangerous offender living among us. He was reported to be a VERY high risk to RE-OFFEND. Hi past crimes are sexual assault against WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND EVEN CATHOLIC NUNS. What a sick SOB. Why does it take another victim for a system to now maybe see that this man needs to spend the remainder of his life in jail? Will the justice system ever protect me and my children from MONSTERS like Warren Rattray? Probably not. How Sad a place CANADA has become when KILLERS AND PEDOPHILES have more rights than I.

via Instapundit

The Fed has never pumped this much money into the economy and to so little effect.

Watching Jon Stewart and then Colbert it seems there is something O can't do and get away with it. First tv interview was with the arab tv network. And he admitted he had lived in Muslim countries and had Muslim relatives.
It appears lots of the msm are upset with his choosing a muslim network over an american one.

For those of you with technical ability and an interest in History, James Burke is inviting people to assist on a really cool project:

http://k-web.org/public_html/home.htm

It's basically a next-generation online resource demonstrating the inter-connected-ness (is that a word?) of thousands of people / events in history.

That's something I came across. If you want to check out my site, my name should link you.

For those of you with technical ability and an interest in History, James Burke is inviting people to assist on a really cool project:

http://k-web.org/public_html/home.htm

It's basically a next-generation online resource demonstrating the inter-connected-ness (is that a word?) of thousands of people / events in history.

That's something I came across. If you want to check out my site, my name should link you.

Obama gets mad...

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/01/obama_gets_mad_mag_treatment.html

Is it time to Cull the Canada goose? In an H5N1 world, I try to make a case.

In USLand the numbers have grown so large it's beyond reality, beyond satire.

Wretchard gives up. What is a trillion dollars? What is 100 trillion dollars?
Who knows?

"Swill and forget."
"Nothing you can do will stop it."
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"“Never let a serious crisis go to waste …”

What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.”

So Rahm Emmanuel is quoted as saying in the gripping opening paragraph of the WSJ’s review of the stimulus package entitled “A 40-Year Wish List”. It argues that the “stimulus package” can properly be described as a national renovation aimed at fulfilling every liberal wish of the last 4 decades."

"In selling the plan, President Obama has said this bill will make “dramatic investments to revive our flagging economy.” Well, you be the judge. Some $30 billion, or less than 5% of the spending in the bill, is for fixing bridges or other highway projects. There’s another $40 billion for broadband and electric grid development, airports and clean water projects that are arguably worthwhile priorities. Add the roughly $20 billion for business tax cuts, and by our estimate only $90 billion out of $825 billion, or about 12 cents of every $1, is for something that can plausibly be considered a growth stimulus.

As for the other 88 cents on the dollar, don’t ask. Just read the rest for yourself. It’s going into the trough. Nothing you can do will stop it. At best, you might get some if you start on it soon. So get your choppers clattering for all they’re worth. Swill and forget. Circe would have understood."
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/

Iggy is going to take his wish list to the Hill to-day. Should PMSH hold the line and stick with what he has or fill the shopping cart. I'm torn, I do not want an election but I am at the point where I would rather do that then go through with any more spending. If there was an election how much worse could a Liberal gov't be? If they have a majority sweetness and light if not we get to experience another short term Iggy country. One must remember the majority of voters think the PM is the best one for the job and Layton is at about 14%

Interview with a hedge fund manager

"It's like a one in ten-thousand-year event, and I haven't had one in the last three months."

....Two young children are to be adopted by a gay couple, despite the protests of their grandparents.

The devastated grandparents were told they would never see the youngsters again unless they dropped their opposition.

The couple, who cannot be named, wanted to give the five-year-old boy and his four-year-old sister a loving home themselves. But they were ruled to be too old - at 46 and 59......

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1130066/They-say-old-care-grandchildren-Social-workers-hand-siblings-gay-men-adoption.html

"Egypt attacks Iran and allies in Arab world

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt aired its grievances against Iran, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah, saying they worked together in the fighting over Gaza to provoke conflict in the Middle East."
urlm.in/bocf

This is precisely the reason for RAND Corporation's latest analytical framework, tipped yesterday:

David Kilcullen, The Accidental Guerrilla

Now, in The Accidental Guerrilla, Kilcullen provides a remarkably fresh perspective on the War on Terror. Kilcullen takes us "on the ground" to uncover the face of modern warfare, illuminating both the big global war (the "War on Terrorism") and its relation to the associated "small wars" across the globe: Iraq, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Chechnya, Pakistan and North Africa. Kilcullen sees today's conflicts as a complex pairing of contrasting trends: local social networks and worldwide movements; traditional and postmodern culture; local insurgencies seeking autonomy and a broader pan-Islamic campaign. He warns that America's actions in the war on terrorism have tended to conflate these trends, blurring the distinction between local and global struggles and thus enormously complicating our challenges. Indeed, the US had done a poor job of applying different tactics to these very different situations, continually misidentifying insurgents with limited aims and legitimate grievances (whom he calls "accidental guerrillas") as part of a coordinated worldwide terror network. We must learn how to disentangle these strands, develop strategies that deal with global threats, avoid local conflicts where possible, and win them where necessary...

It's President Bush's fault.
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"Iraqis flock to polling stations in test of fledgling democracy

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki faces votes in 14 provinces that will provide clue to general election later in the year."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article5603340.ece

Helene Cooper and Thom Shanker, Aides Say Obama’s Afghan Aims Elevate War

President Obama intends to adopt a tougher line toward Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, as part of a new American approach to Afghanistan that will put more emphasis on waging war than on development, senior administration officials said Tuesday.

Mr. Karzai is now seen as a potential impediment to American goals in Afghanistan, the officials said, because corruption has become rampant in his government, contributing to a flourishing drug trade and the resurgence of the Taliban...

They said that the Obama administration would work with provincial leaders as an alternative to the central government, and that it would leave economic development and nation-building increasingly to European allies, so that American forces could focus on the fight against insurgents...

Philip Terzian, A Misanthrope's World

One of the less appealing aspects of art scholarship and criticism in the past half-century has been the extent to which it has wasted its time defining art. To be sure, presented with the spectacle of a row of bricks or Richard Serra's "Tilted Arc" or a dead shark suspended in formaldehyde, one might be prompted to ponder the nature of art. But as with Freud's cigar, there are limits to such inductive reasoning in the realm of painting and sculpture, and we might find ourselves turning and returning to certain artists, and works of art, with relief.

In that sense, it is fair to say that no American artist of his time challenged the prevailing orthodoxy, or begged the what-is-art question, so consistently and so successfully as Andrew Wyeth. With his death last week at 91, a long, complicated, productive, and impressive career came to an end; the debate about his work, of course, will go on indefinitely.

In the marketplace of art and art journalism, Wyeth had two, perhaps three, liabilities. First, he was a representational artist...

The winner is: Canada and PM Harper.

"Peace, order and good government".

Iggy follows Dionky and Ad$Cam MartinJr to the PET Cemetery.
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"Tories put on probation; coalition declared dead
Liberals will support budget so long as Conservatives release regular status reports; New Democrats say coalition is dead"
urlm.in/bocp (g-m)

Kate,

Post this story about my Canadian brother, who coined the term shovel-ready and about how Obama is now using this phrase.

Something Canadians can be proud of.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=1226235

Liberal Iggy sends out Hezbollah Coderre to announce the death of the Separatist Coalition.

Hezbollah Coderre is not waving the Hezbollah flag.

Hezbollah Coderre is waving the white flag of surrender.
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"Coalition at an End: Coderre"
http://www.cfra.com/?cat=3&nid=62762

DJ 11:47 Jan 27: "How Sad a place CANADA has become when KILLERS AND PEDOPHILES have more rights than I."

DJ, the problem is we Canadians are a timid lot and look to government to wipe our little noses and change our little diapers.
The "Justice Industry" is not going to protect us -EVER!
We have to get government out of the way. That's why, nomatter what kind of budget, we have to keep Harper in power.

Liberal Iggy has had a Dionky Re-do-do-doo?

MSM covers; Iggy kisses MSM:
"I'd like to thank the Press Gallery for this brief interruption."
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"Technical problems beyond our control

This time the technical problems are not our fault. That was the message from Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff's office this morning after his newser was delayed due to audio problems at the National Press Theatre.

In fact, the Liberal leader went out of his way to say "I'd like to thank the Press Gallery for this brief interruption."

The Liberals are a little sensitive about technical difficulties after the infamous video episode in December when then leader Stephane Dion was trying to reply to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's speech to the nation about proroguing Parliament."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/politicalbytes/2009/01/technical_problems_beyond_our.html

Evidence #3459 that most humans are irrational,

(Merriam Webster's definition of irrational)

a (1): not endowed with reason or understanding
(2): lacking usual or normal mental clarity or coherence b: not governed by or according to reason

From CTV / Montreal

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Obama inauguration gets more coverage than Sept. 11

Updated: Wed Jan. 28 2009 4:53:17 PM

The Canadian Press

A survey of media reports around the world says the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama received more coverage than the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001.

Montreal media company Influence Communication says the inauguration and associated events took up 60.54 per cent of all news coverage in 160 countries during a 24-hour period from Jan. 20 to Jan. 21.

Not surprisingly, the U.S. media gave the inauguration the most prominence - 71.12 per cent of all coverage.

Canada comes in at 61.45 per cent.

In all, Influence Communication says if a person were to try to take in all electronic media coverage worldwide it would take 38.5 years to do so, or 20 (m) million minutes of air time.

By comparison, Influence says, the Sept. 11 attacks got coverage amounting to about 30 years of air time.

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(((shaking head in disbelief)))

This is so wrong on so many levels:

(CBC News)

"Hockey player says Burnaby fight was religiously motivated"

Izaiah Buksh is suffering from bruises and will need to undergo a root canal after what he says was a religiously charged fight that broke out at a ball hockey tournament in Burnaby, B.C., on Sunday.

The 20-year-old, who was playing in the B.C. Muslim Sports Association-sponsored event, said he was warned not to play in the tournament because, though he's a Muslim, he is not a Sunni.

The mood of the game turned tense early on when his team took an early lead. Buksh said the opposing team, made up of Sunni Muslims, told him, "You guys shouldn't even be here. You're not Muslim."

Violence ultimately escalated after a play where the opposing goalie swung his stick at Buksh.

Buksh said he went to tell the referee, and when he turned around, he was attacked by a player.

That's when the fight broke out.

"Another player on my team came in and then my dad and the coach came in. At the end, it was most of the gym to three or four guys," Buksh recounted.

He estimates his group was outnumbered about 10 to one.

Buksh's father, Ahmed, said he feared for his son's safety.

"It was basically a riot by that time and swarming — one of my sons fell down."

1. The only thing in Canada that is always "shovel-ready" is political B.S., and not only from the Liberals.

2. I don't think the Ohbummer inauguration got more coverage than 9/11. In Sept. 2001, regular programming was pre-empted for at least a week.