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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5621482.ece?Submitted=true

Britain: Muslim population 'rising 10 times faster than rest of society'

"In the same period the number of Christians in the country fell by more than 2 million. "

The Great Abandoner. Charles Adler.
http://www.cjob.com/Blog/StationShared/Blog/OnTheEdge/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10020886

The liberals must purge Warren Kinsella from their party or risk being tainted with his bigoted brush.
Kinsella feels he owes no one an apology after he slandered a whole race of people, and if that is what is coming out of his mouth, what are his true thoughts?
Kinsella laughs it off and believes he is above the fray, when in fact with his musings he displays an ignorant soul.
He has shown himself to be a true bigoted punk and the liberals would be wise to dump him before his stench starts to stain their party

Nothing could stain the Lieberal party any more or less than has already been done. The Liberals are a joke and Ralph Goodale is a no good for nothing lying lawyer.

Serious question:

I've been getting a lot of recently minted coinage in my change for the past eight months

We all know that the metallurgical value of the older coinage is greater than the face value of same

It is illegal for anybody other than the government to melt coinage down

Is there a surreptitious plan to segregate older coinage, and replace it with the "less metallurgic value" new coins???

Not tin foil hat territory - a real question based on economics, not conspiracy stuff! :-)

Numismatics is likely a dead pursuit for kids

Via Ace

the results of gun ban in Britain

West Island commuters in Montreal have been up in arms over the frequent breakdown of commuter trains, a recent announcement of added trains and service that amounted to musical chairs with the same trains and the general poor customer service and communication to the freezing huddled masses waiting for trains that never come.

The solution to the unreliability of the electric trains would be to buy or lease a few diesel locomotives and some wagons whose doors can work in very cold weather. However the dead hand of environmental image seems to have ruled out even considering this as an option.

The AMT seems to pretending to add extra service and not looking at common-sense options so that the Quebec government will look more green.

Next time you are freezing on the platform or indeed in some of the unheated wagons West Island commuter, remember you are part of the undeclared environmental veto that has crept into governmental decisions everywhere.

The Ace of Spayed.
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"Pussy galore

As a notorious "country club bigot", I'm pleased to welcome the newest member of the Bigots' Bay Country Club - top Canadian political strategist and ethnic humorist Catsmeat Kinsella:

Chinese Canadian Conservative Association calls on Liberal leader to fire Senior Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella

Toronto – Alex Yuan, chair of the Chinese Canadian Conservative Association called on Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff to distance himself from the comments made by senior Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella. In a recent blog posting Kinsella likened the meat found in Chinese cuisine to cat meat.

“Back in the Big Owe for a couple weeks, so what better way to kick things off than with some BBQ cat and rice at the Yang Sheng, hangout of our youth? Yay!...”

“Kinsella repeats the most vulgar and offensive stereotypes by associating the meat served by Chinese restaurants to cat meat. He has hurt the feelings of the Chinese people and disrespected the Chinese culture," continued Yuan.

Poor old Catsmeat. In hailing the dawn of a nation of Trudeaupian pussies, he never thought he'd be the one to get spayed."
http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/1715/128/

DOwn On the Buy-O: "beggar-thy-neighbour".

From the State of Washington on the Pacific Ocean to the State of Maine on the Atlantic Ocean an iron curtain of "beggar-thy-neighbour"/protectionism is about to descend**.
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*"Terence Corcoran: It's up to Obama to avert trade war"
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"Obama's lethal game of beggar-thy-neighbour
The ‘Buy America' policy, proposed by the most protectionist Congress in memory, is a piece of disastrous economic folly"

"Trade leadership will have to come from Britain because it will not come from the America of Barack Obama. There, “economic patriotism” is the new protectionism, prettily wrapped in stars and stripes but just as damaging to the world's prospects of recovery as was the 1930s variety.

Is Mr Obama a protectionist? Instinctively, yes; he has never seen a free-trade deal he would actually vote for, and he talks about trade policy as a tool “to support good American jobs”. But as the election campaign wore on, he toned down his invective against foreign competition, and, because his economic team is basically free trade, the jury is still out.

The verdict, however, will be in very soon. At the behest of the most protectionist Congress in memory, Mr Obama may be about to repeat, at the dawn of his presidency, the same historic error that the much derided Herbert Hoover made just before quitting the White House in 1933. In the depths of the Great Depression, he signed into law the innocent-sounding Buy America Act. It required the US Government to use American suppliers in all public contracts. Less notorious than the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, “Buy America” did huge damage. It proved a disaster for US manufacturing exports and the global economy. Other governments followed suit, and it took decades to begin to reverse the closure of markets."
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*urlm.in/bola
(**H/T WC)

"Brilliant anti-abortion commercial banned by NBC

Here at I Hate The Media, we know a thing or two about advertising. Like, for example, we know a great commercial when we see it.

NBC has rejected a Super Bowl commercial created by the Catholic group. The ad, which can be seen here (to the left) is simple, riveting, and features a surprise twist. Consider it proof that a great commercial doesn’t have to cost millions of dollars.

No matter what position you take on the abortion issue, this commercial is a simple, powerful piece of communication.

Watch it."
urlm.in/bole

Radio media this morning are reporting that the Kenyan branch of the The First Dysfunctional Family is having a problem. Half-brother George Obama (of the "My brother's the President, but all I got was a mud hut" T-shirt fame) has been arrested for possession of marijauna. Well, can you blame him?

Yeah, well, it was a foregone conclusion that "the media" wouldn't run this ad. The MSM is pro-abortion, anti-child, all the way -- despite the fact that our demographic winter is devastating their industry, and so many others.

What "balance"? All liberal, all "progressive", all stupid, all the time.

Moral pygmies.

"It is illegal for anybody other than the government to melt coinage down"

Probably - its illegal to deface currency (or copy it 1:1) Taking it out of circulation would affect the money supply, but then, if its pennies, you might get the Order of Canada.

Thanks, maz2, for the link to the pro-life ad. It is powerful, which is why, of course, NBC won't run it.

But, I have a question for them: Who's going to buy tickets to future Super Bowls -- or play on the teams, for that matter -- if our demographic winter continues?

And how ironic that Obama's "progressive" policies, lifting restraints on abortion funding and stem-cell research, will only accelerate current rates of abortion.

Does anyone connect the dots anymore?

Anyone on the left coast feel an earthquake yesterday? Am hearing reports of rumblings felt on Vancouver Island.

Here's something you might like Kate, an 1100hp 256 mph Shelby;

www.shelbysupercars.com/news-071208.php

Not related to Carrol Shelby.

Post by: xiat. Thanks for the link.

Eric

Not sure as to the content of present coins. But I recall with amusement in the 70's of Americans smuggling bags of dimes and quarters across the border to melt them down. Pure silver up to 1969 I think. Hope they're not watering them down any more. Always loved the centennial coin issue - the nickel with the rabbit, dime with the fish. Seems like now every month they got to change the quarter...

Minister Prentice say, O sOlO miO, tOO.
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"Canada, US in harmony on climate change: Prentice
Vancouver Sun"
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"Big freeze expected to hit the UK

Icy winds heading for the UK will make temperatures feel "sub zero" as forecasters predict the coldest winter in 13 years.

Snowstorms from Russia are expected to hit the eastern part of England on Sunday night.

Night-time temperatures are set to drop to -2C (28F) as a blast of cold air sweeps in from the North Sea.

Particularly strong winds in some places could reach 25 to 30mph, coming close to gale force.

Wintry showers are expected on Saturday night which will turn into sleet and snow on Sunday.

'Flirting with hypothermia'"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175628/posts
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"Weather Channel founder says global warming “greatest scam in history”"
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"How Ignatieff’s war room handles a crisis

It’s been fascinating watching Michael Ignatieff’s war room handle the crisis of Warren Kinsella insulting Chinese Canadians. If it’s a sign of how they’ll operate in the next election, Liberal MPs have cause to worry – especially in ridings with significant Chinese populations, where the Liberal candidate just scraped by. I’m thinking, for example, of Ujjal Dosanjh in Vancouver South, who beat a Chinese Canadian candidate by less than a hundred votes; or Andrew Kania in Brampton West, who won a multicultural riding with less than a 250 vote margin; or even Keith Martin, in Esquimalt Juan de Fuca who won with less than a 100 vote gap. It’s not just Chinese Canadians who are upset by Kinsella’s smear, of course – any Canadian who believes in tolerance and treating minorities with respect would be mad. But those MPs in challenging ridings ought to be particularly nervous.

Here’s the arc of the war room’s response."
http://ezralevant.com/2009/01/how-ignatieffs-war-room-handle.html

Agent Smith - every once in a while - I still get an older coin - including a 1967 penny - those designs were done by Alex Colville - a great Canadian artist - love his stuff and also Christopher Pratt! I believe Colville was a student of Stanley Royle - who spent most of his time in Sheffield - where a couple of the group guys were from (Lismer, Varley) :-)

Hey it looks like the Conservatives are looking to sell the CBC. In the just tabled budget documents "the government has said it will earn $2.3 billion in asset sales this year, but has so far refused to say which assets might be for sale. Over the next five years, the government predicts it could earn up to $10.1 billion from such sales." Please tell your MP you want the CBC to part of those assets.

Opposition demand list of Crown assets for sale

What is even more funny than the refusal to run the Catholic Ad during the Superbowl is that they are going to run an ad for a website that encourages and helps married people have extra marital affairs.

The experts are not named. Cowardly MSM will not release the names of these experts who predicted the demise, aka the death of skiing in Europe by global warming.
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"Skiers welcome heavy snow in the Alps"

"The Alps have been deluged with snow two years after experts predicted the demise of skiing in Europe.

Many resorts have had more than half a metre of snow recently in less than 24 hours and more is forecast in the next few days. The conditions have been described as the best for 20 years by the Ski Club of Great Britain.

Two seasons ago there was so little snow in some resorts that patches of grass were visible on the pistes and a report said that global warming could end skiing in 462 of Europe's 666 resorts. It was too warm even to make fake snow and Italy alone was forced to cancel 104 skiing races."
urlm.in/bolv

"Mount Redoubt ready to blow, say scientists

Anchorage Residents in Alaska’s largest city stocked up on protective eyewear and masks after warnings of an imminent eruption of Mount Redoubt (right)."
"Mount Redoubt lies about 100 miles (160km) southwest of Anchorage."
urlm.in/bolw

Isn't the point of science to expose one's ideas to a beating ?

"Science has taken a beating over the past few years -- especially in the U.S. and Canada. We've put up with incessant braying from climate change deniers who, in the words of Guardian writer George Monbiot, "ignore an entire canon of science, the statements of the world's most eminent scientific institutions, and thousands of papers published in the foremost scientific journals" just so they can "pick up a crumb: a crumb which then disintegrates" in their palms."

David Suzuki With Faisal Moola, The Citizen
Published: Friday, January 30, 2009

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you've not fooled yourself, it's easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.

I would like to add something that's not essential to the science, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the layman when you're talking as a scientist. I am not trying to tell you what to do about cheating on your wife, or fooling your girlfriend, or something like that, when you're not trying to be a scientist, but just trying to be an ordinary human being. We'll leave those problems up to you and your rabbi. I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.

For example, I was a little surprised when I was talking to a friend who was going to go on the radio. He does work on cosmology and astronomy, and he wondered how he would explain what the applications of his work were. "Well", I said, "there aren't any". He said, "Yes, but then we won't get support for more research of this kind". I think that's kind of dishonest. If you're representing yourself as a scientist, then you should explain to the layman what you're doing -- and if they don't support you under those circumstances, then that's their decision.

One example of the principle is this: If you've made up your mind to test a theory, or you want to explain some idea, you should always decide to publish it whichever way it comes out. If we only publish results of a certain kind, we can make the argument look good. We must publish BOTH kinds of results.

I say that's also important in giving certain types of government advice. Supposing a senator asked you for advice about whether drilling a hole should be done in his state; and you decide it would be better in some other state. If you don't publish such a result, it seems to me you're not giving scientific advice. You're being used. If your answer happens to come out in the direction the government or the politicians like, they can use it as an argument in their favor; if it comes out the other way, they don't publish at all. That's not giving scientific advice."

Richard Feynman

http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/~loreti/science.html

Ctv is reporting a Canadian Soldier killed in Afghanistan by an IED
Sapper Sean David Greenfield,25 was killed when the armoured vehicle he was riding in struck the the IED in Zhari district, west of Kandahar.
jan.31/2009

We Will Remember Them

RIP Sean David Greenfield.

"What did Soviet Socialists use before they
had candles? Answer: electricity."
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"Icelanders Donate Sweaters to Chilly British Pensioners

Setting aside their own financial worries, Icelanders have been moved by an appeal to help British pensioners at risk of dying from cold. A shipment of Icelandic jumpers has been sent to warm elderly people during an unusually bitter winter.

Icelandic radio listeners couldn't believe their ears when they heard many British pensioners may not survive the cold winter. Despite being among those hardest hit by the global financial storm, the concerned listeners promptly kicked off an "Icelandic wool to England" appeal, collecting winter woolies to help the freezing pensioners."
urlm.in/bonw

The ice storm that knocked out power in the U.S. is still affecting approx. a million people.
Entire Ky Nat Guard called up.
Forty Two are dead and guess what....FEMA is a no show!
I thought 'change' could be depended on!
MSM coverage has been sparse.
Instapundit has the story (4th one down) at
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/ and there are news reports at

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WINTER_STORM?SITE=CACRU&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

and
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090131/D9625U781.html

If you would like to hear a GLORIOUS discussion of federal Canadian politics then click here (7:00) to listen to CKNW's Sean Leslie interview columnist Alex Tsakumis.

IMHO Tsakumis skewers all politicians fairly, but especially the Video Professor, Jack Layton. Absolutely hilarious!!!

Robert W, OMG, the video professor, how did I not make that association before?????

Erik, I cannot claim credit for that association but the videos are indeed quite remarkable! Though I think I might have been the first to draw up a story about Lil' Jack Layton here.

In the radio interview, the best lines of all were Tsakumis' description of Iggy:

"Michael Ignatieff is in deep trouble and let me tell you why. Michael Ignatieff is colder and harder than Stephen Harper could be after spending 2 hours getting drilled by a dentist."

Erik, I cannot claim credit for that association but the video professor resemblance is indeed quite remarkable!

In the radio interview, the best lines of all were Tsakumis' description of Iggy:

"Michael Ignatieff is in deep trouble and let me tell you why. Michael Ignatieff is colder and harder than Stephen Harper could be after spending 2 hours getting drilled by a dentist."

Katrina, my dear, listen:

"*The Eve of Waterloo, by Lord Byron
HERE was a sound of revelry by night,; And Belgium's capital had gathered then; Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright; The lamps shone o'er fair women and ..."
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"Storm ravaged Kentucky deploys National Guard

About a half a million U.S. customers are still without power after a major storm system that has been linked to 42 recent deaths knocked down power lines and placed numerous states in the southern Plains under thick sheets of ice" (nnw)
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"Racist Obama Administration ignornig white people in dire straits (Vanity)
01/31/2009 | Paul Phillips

While watching the barely-existent coverage of the ice storms in Kentucky that have the entire Kentucky National Guard mobilized, I cannot help but ask the following questions about the LACK of response from the Obama administration...and how it is a very close parallel to the Hurricane Katrina situation that was so harmful to the Bush presidency, only instead of a lot of black folks in danger, this time it's a lot of white folks...

Why aren't Kentuckians sitting on top of their houses, wailing at the constant whir of news helicopters for rescue?

Why aren't Kentuckians on TV demanding that the gummint save them, save them, save them?

Why aren't Kentuckians rioting, looting, boldly walking into shuttered convenience stores insisting that they just want food to survive and instead walking out with beer, wine and malt liquor?

Why aren't Kentuckians looting electronic stores for big-screen TVs?

Why aren't Kentuckians all being herded into a huge stadium where they will destroy the facility and murder fellow refugees?"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175958/posts
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"Obama pokes fun at Alfalfa Club dinner

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama poked fun at his volatile chief of staff in a free-for-all roasting of Washington and its politicians Saturday night.

Obama was attending the Alfalfa Club dinner, an annual black-tie event where the capital's political and business leaders give humorous speeches.

After a day where Obama readied a new road map for bailout spending and faced questions over a second Cabinet nominee with tax problems, it was chief of staff Rahm Emanuel who was a target of much of the president's ribbing.

"Now this hasn't been reported yet, but it was actually Rahm's idea to do the swearing-in ceremony again," Obama said. "Of course, for Rahm, every day is a swearing-in ceremony.

"Every week the guy takes a little time away to give back to the community. Just last week he was at a local school, teaching profanity to poor children," according to Obama. Excerpts of Obama's remarks were released by the White House."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175975/posts
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