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Liberal stated 8 times. conservatives mentioned 4 times and they are the government. the stories on CBC all day have been only Lieberal statements from the Danny Williams land of Bilk and Snubbing.
press your nose to the glass Danny Whiner , you're on the outside looking in.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/03/budget-vote.html

CBCpravda All Liberal All the Time
they cant even help themselves they have been the propaganda wing of the lieberals for so long.

From the deep thinkers at Treehugger.com --

6 Green Lessons We Can Learn From Communism

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/6-green-lessons-communism.php

(And, no, they're not kidding.)

CBC's Village Idiot, Heather Mallick, makes a fool of herself once again. Charles Adler goes into depth here.

This is advice from Tom Price on how the Republicans can get their mojo back - I think it applies equally well to the Conservatives in Canada ...

The Republican Party is at its best when its leadership has a bold vision and is rooted to conservative principles: personal responsibility, liberty, limited government, traditional values, providing for the common defense, and optimism about the future. But Republicans seem to have lost the ability to intelligently or ideologically define these principles and convey them to the American people.

Moreover, elected conservative leaders need to act immediately in order to facilitate the rebuilding of the Republican Party and reconnect it to the conservative movement...

Kill This Porkosaurus
by Ted Nugent
02/03/2009
I’m a hunter, and proud of it. Most of my best hours are spent in the field, sometimes chasing dangerous game. I’m on the track of one, a bigger more dangerous critter than I’ve ever hunted before: the Obama-Pelosi Porkosaurus.

The Porkosaurus is plenty dangerous by itself. It subsidizes unemployment by increasing unemployment benefits. And, as the man said, when you subsidize something you get more of it. It doesn’t spend anything -- not one thin dime -- on the one thing that economists say is guaranteed to stimulate the economy, defense spending. And its whole purpose is to feed Fedzilla and make it grow even bigger, swallowing our economy whole.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30513

The Ignatieff Effect/"Il ya un effet Ignatieff."

The pic of Iggy is a keeper.

>>> "Une jolie somme de 80 000 $" from 80 lawyer$.
"the duo convinced 80 lawyers to pay the maximum allowed by law."
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"The effect is felt Ignatieff"

""You do wrong," says the new national director of the PLC, Rocco Rossi, in an interview with Le Devoir. «Les chiffres de décembre démontrent une réaction au leadership de Michael Ignatieff. "The December figures show a reaction to the leadership of Michael Ignatieff. Il ya un effet Ignatieff. There is a Ignatieff. Nous croyons que la tendance est en notre faveur.» We believe that the trend is in our favor. "

Effet Ignatieff il y aurait. Ignatieff effect there. Un député libéral du Québec a expliqué au Devoir que, deux jours après la nomination officielle de M. Ignatieff, il s'est rendu en sa compagnie dans un grand bureau d'avocats de Montréal. A Quebec Liberal MP said that the duty, two days after the official appointment of Mr. Ignatieff, he visited his company in a large law firm in Montreal. En quelques heures ce vendredi-là, le duo a convaincu 80 avocats de verser le maximum permis par la loi. In a few hours on Friday then, the duo convinced 80 lawyers to pay the maximum allowed by law. Une jolie somme de 80 000 $! A nice sum of $ 80 000!"
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Thanks for this,Vit.Mae West.Sometimes I think I was born to late to have missed that era.

O is the product of the MSM.
What is the product? O.

"If he doesn't quit the messianic style and perpetual campaign mode, and begin humbly governing, then he will devolve into Carterism—angry that the once-fawning press betrayed him while we the people, due to our American malaise, are to blame."
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"The Impending Obama Meltdown
National Review Online ^ | February 4, 2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

Some of us have been warning that it was not healthy for the U.S. media to have deified rather than questioned Obama, especially given that they tore apart Bush, ridiculed Palin, and caricatured Hillary. And now we can see the results of their two years of advocacy rather than scrutiny.

We are quite literally after two weeks teetering on an Obama implosion—and with no Dick Morris to bail him out—brought on by messianic delusions of grandeur, hubris, and a strange naivete that soaring rhetoric and a multiracial profile can add requisite cover to good old-fashioned Chicago politicking."
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Chicken-Little (taxes-paid !) - gets Sec. of Energy post with 'O'.
------------------------------------------------- California farms, vineyards in peril from warming, U.S. energy secretary warns.

"I don't think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen," says Nobel winner Steven Chu.
'We're looking at a scenario where there's no more agriculture in California,' Steven Chu says. He sees education as a means to combat threat.
California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said Tuesday.

-Get ready folks, the inmates truly are in charge
of the asylum.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-warming4-2009feb04,0,7454963.story

The UN calls out Canada on its human rights record....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090203/wl_canada_nm/canada_us_un_rights_2

Crocodiles, oh, my....

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090204/oddities/australia_weather_flood

"The role of propaganda, using vocabulary filched from philosophy, has its beginnings in the Hellenistic period."

"Epicureanism and Empire
From the desk of Thomas F. Bertonneau on Mon, 2009-02-02 13:21

Standing at radical variance with Platonism in the ancient world is Epicureanism. Plato, the moralist and theologian – the incipient monotheist – developed in his dialogues a representation of the cosmos as grounded in a divine will, or at least in a divine intelligence. So congenial is the Platonic vision to the faith of the Gospels that seven hundred years after Plato's death and after political, social, and cultural transformations in the Mediterranean world, Saint Augustine of Hippo could see in his philosophical precursor a genuine anticipation of Christianity.

Recent historical commentary indeed takes Augustine's conclusion almost for granted and converges on an agreement close to unanimous that the Catholic religion bequeathed by Late Antiquity to the early medieval period in Western Europe quite deliberately made a hybrid of Platonic intellectualism and Gospel morality. The tradition of Platonic Christianity begins with John and passes through Justin Martyr and Origen down to Augustine himself. At least among the faithful, Plato has long received respect and "good press." In the centuries of Christendom and perhaps even down to the present moment, Epicureanism has by contrast served fideistic Christianity for an object of dismissal and even sometimes of contempt.

Plato spoke of the God in the exclusive singular."
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3780

With a reminder about the William F. Buckley, Jr./ Ronald Reagan event today at Heritage Foundation (tipped yesterday):

Rendezvous with Destiny: A Panel on Ronald Reagan

Friday, 6 February 2009

In 1964, Ronald Reagan famously said, "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness." This speech instantly turned Reagan into a national political figure and defined his belief in American exceptionalism...

To mark the ninety-eighth anniversary of Reagan's birth and on the occasion of a new documentary on his life, Rendezvous with Destiny, leaders in today's political arena will reflect on Reagan's legacy--professionally, politically, and personally...

Yuval Levin, The Meaning of Sarah Palin

But by November 4, the day of the election, Sarah Palin had been transformed into one of the most divisive figures in recent American history. There was almost no middle ground between those who had come to adore her and those who believed she represented just about every dark and dangerous element of contemporary American politics... Palin became an instant cultural and political magnet, attracting some and repelling others and dragging a helpless McCain into a culture war for which he had little stomach. Indeed, the overheated response to Palin’s presence on the national stage, from both friend and foe, was oddly disconnected from Palin’s actual actions, statements, and record. It was a turn of events no one could have anticipated, and one that has much to teach us about American political life in our day...

Angel Rabasa, RAND Corp., Radical Islam in East Africa

American geopolitical interests and the potential threats to those interests are both on the rise in East Africa. The author examines the threat represented by the spread of militant Islamism and the development of radical Islamist networks and places them in the broader context of the diverse currents of Islamic practice in East Africa and the social, economic, and political factors that have shaped the region's security environment. He analyzes the complex ethno-religious landscape in East Africa, the characteristics of the East African environment that have produced failed or weak states susceptible to exploitation by extremist groups, and the factors that have contributed to the emergence of these groups. Building sustained national resilience that is intolerant of terrorists and extremists and effective against them, he says, can only be accomplished by linking hard security initiatives with a broader array of policies designed to promote political, social, and economic stability.

[Summary and full report in PDF only.]

Nancy Nicosia et al., RAND Corp., The Economic Cost of Methamphetamine Use in the United States, 2005

This first national estimate suggests that the economic cost of methamphetamine (meth) use in the United States reached $23.4 billion in 2005. Given the uncertainty in estimating the costs of meth use, this book provides a lower-bound estimate of $16.2 billion and an upper-bound estimate of $48.3 billion. The analysis considers a wide range of consequences due to meth use, including the burden of addiction, premature death, drug treatment, and aspects of lost productivity, crime and criminal justice, health care, production and environmental hazards, and child endangerment....

[Summary and full document in PDF only.]

should be lots of unemployed looking after their own spawn.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2009/02/04/tto-daycare.html

"For those at the bottom, such money as they receive is, in effect pocket money, … reserved for the satisfaction of whims. As a result they are infantilized."

"As a Marxist has maintained, Socialism is in effect nothing but the religion of the stomach.*"

"NOT WITH A BANG BUT A WHIMPER: THE POLITICS AND CULTURE OF DECLINE"

"Theodore Dalrymple is a prolific British author of wide-ranging interests whose previous book, "In Praise of Prejudice," I reviewed on these pages in November 2007. He may best be described as a culture critic and essayist, but he has also written several unusual and riveting travel books, erudite literary criticism and books about health issues since he also happens to be an M.D. and psychiatrist. In the latter capacity, he worked in a British prison for many years and acquired firsthand knowledge of present-day social pathologies — a recurring topic in his writings. What makes his work especially original and informative is his grasp of the connections and interactions between between social, political and cultural pathologies.

The volume here reviewed, "Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline," is divided into Part I "Artists and Ideologues" and Part II "Politics and Culture." The former reflects the author's literary interests and includes essays about Samuel Johnson, Arthur Koestler, Henrik Ibsen, J.G. Ballard and new books on atheism. The second part focuses on British social pathologies and their political and cultural sources that will strike the American reader as unexpectedly similar to their counterparts in this country. There are also outstanding essays on Islamic terror and multiculturalism.

A sense of decline of the Western world, especially Britain, colors these writings."
urlm.in/bpgj

*"The Psychology of Socialism"
Gustave Le Bon
http://www.brocku.ca/MeadProject/Lebon/LeBon_1899/LeBon_1899_03.html

...can you say BOOM in a nice green way?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/04/doctor.car.blast/index.html

(CNN) -- The chairman of the Arkansas Medical Board was critically injured Wednesday in an apparent explosion after he got into his vehicle, according to CNN affiliate WMC-TV.

West Memphis, Arkansas, police said foul play is not suspected and it could have been a malfunction with the hybrid Lexus SUV, according to affiliate WREG.

Hat tip: your nemesis Ace of Spades:

Little Belgium Boy

eyes right

I've been enjoying listening to Mark Steyn guest host Rush Limbaugh's show yesterday and today. For those not aware, you can catch him here: http://wabcradio.com Great, great stuff!

Though Obama's presidency is looking beyond scary, it clearly has added much more great joke material to Mark's repertoire!

IBM Offers To Move Laid Off Workers To India

William L. Hauser and Jerome Slater, Bring Back the Draft

Why a return to mass conscription is the only way to win the war on terror.

Flying pig moment : Palestinians discover Palestinian terrorism!

"The Undersecretary of the caretaker government’s Ministry of Prisoners Affairs Ziyad Abu Ein spoke out against the rights violations and accused Hamas of “terrorism,” and said they were preventing media outlets in Gaza report on their crimes."

http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35455
via LGF

Bailout Rate of Return: -1,096%

Send now for your STOPIGGY coupons. Please do not send stamps. This is not a one-time offer.
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"The Liberal Party needs rules about ignoring Michael Ignatieff

Now that Michael Ignatieff has formerly recognized the principle of a one-use only coupon to be cashed in by MPs to vote contrary to the Liberal Party line, I have some questions regarding how this coupon works."

"# Are the coupons transferable? If the premier of Saskatchewan decides that the budget is good for the province, can the Liberal Saskatchewan caucus (exactly one MP, Ralph Goodale), lend his coupon to the Newfoundland and Labrador MPs so they can vote against the budget twice?

# There are no Liberal MPs in Alberta. Who gets that coupon? Will it be raffled off?"
http://stevejanke.com/archives/282333.php

http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2009/01/07/John-Paulson-Profits-in-Downturn

"At the beginning of 2008, he says, the general thinking was, No, we’re not going to have a recession; we’re going to have a slowdown. “Then there would be a pickup in the second half of the year. When the second half started looking as bad as the first, the general feeling became, We’re not going to have a pickup; we’ll have a slowdown.”

Paulson is astounded that some optimists continue to expect that somehow the formerly unsinkable economy will remain afloat, at least long enough for the government’s rescue boats to arrive. “Now that we’re in a recession, they’re probably admitting, ‘Okay, we’re in a recession, but it will probably last just two to three quarters.’ So they’re always underestimating the severity of the magnitude,” he says.

Paulson’s own view of the current situation is much darker. He predicts that the recession will last well into 2010 and that unemployment will reach 9 percent, a sharp increase from its current perch just below 7 percent. “We have a long way to go before we reach the bottom,” he says."

http://nalert.blogspot.com/2009/02/rahm-emanuel-lives-in-illegal-apartment.html

Carteritis? Looming?
Is this house a HabforHumanity house?

this is highly unlikely anywhere. do we need an expert to say it. I mean WTF?

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090204/IVF_octuplets_090204/20090204?hub=TopStories

A previous VDH: "The media has forsaken us."
A warning from VDH.
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February 3rd, 2009 9:07 pm
"Hope He Can Change

An Obamaplosion

I get loads of quasi-hate mail about questioning Obama’s candidacy and governance. But I am worried, not about Obama, or the politics of governance, but about the nation itself. The media has forsaken us. But after only two weeks we are in a crisis stage of confidence, and the story is spiraling by the hour out of control. I write here not to score points, but to warn readers that this is all very serious. Obama is our President, and we must hope he does something fast to save his administration from general ridicule that will incur real dangers for all of us abroad.

Again, anyone who cares about the US, at home and overseas, must be worried, very worried, about the disastrous last two weeks. Even the fawning media–that is responsible in some way for the crisis, given that they chose to be Pravda-like in encouraging the messianic style that got a haughty Obama in his present mess–will soon start bailing in efforts to restore their last fides. If a Dick Morris figure does not come to the rescue soon, Obama’s soaring rhetoric of hope and change will become the stuff of Leno/Letterman and general laughter. Bush was unfairly demonized, but no one abroad thought he was predictably soft and would be so-so about protecting US interests, or that his words and his deeds would be so often in direct antithesis.

What happened? Count the ways, and then let us see what might be done pronto!"
http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-obamosion/

2nd most despised political figure in NL picks aparthis own party and Danny Williams.

Bond Papers.

There was Danny Williams praising Sarek for letting members of caucus buck the whip:

“He shows real courage this early in his leadership to be making a move like that. The MPs are being allowed to do what they need to do on behalf of their province and I think the fact that a national leader recognizes that is very important.”

Williams’ own caucus, of course, is not allowed to think for themselves without permission from the Premier’s Office, let alone follow the direction of another party leader.

CBCpravda's story or Hennessey story contradicts the statement of facts presented in court and signed off. the guy is a grow op owner, thug and liar. His family was involved in covering it up , lying about his whereabouts when questioned.

CBCpravda seems to be on the same page with this guy as they are with Khadr.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/03/mayerthorpe.html

Iggy: “head waiter to the provinces.”*
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"Ignatieff takes heat for allowing rebellion

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former right-hand man warned Michael Ignatieff Tuesday that his leadership could be in peril after his decision to allow a rebellion by his Newfoundland and Labrador MPs."
urlm.in/bpgw

*"Trudeau famously dismissed Joe Clark as a prime minister who tried to be “head waiter to the provinces.”" (star)

I'm curious of others thoughts on this story. It's about the capping of executive pay for those U.S. companies that have received substantial help from the gov't.

Part of me recoils at the thought that the gov't is controlling the pay rates of a private company. On the other hand, any company that goes deeply into the gov't trough for funding (think Bombardier here in Canada) isn't really a private company any longer, are they?

For some time, I've been appalled by the extraordinarily high salaries of crown corporation heads. We're always given the argument that "in order to get the best people...." But the thing is, so few of these people turn out to be remotely the best people. Rather, they're just well connected political lackies.

Your thoughts? (Perhaps a separate thread, Kate?)

Scratch a ...-

"Bloc Québécois MP criticized for email with anti-Israeli links

A Bloc Québécois MP who sent an controversial email to fellow members of Parliament this week was accused in the House of Commons on Wednesday of "circulating propaganda which promotes terrorist organizations."

The Conservative government accuses Maria Mourani, the MP for the Montreal riding of Ahuntsic, of distributing propaganda in support of Hamas, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Earlier this week, the MP forwarded an email to all 308 members of Parliament.

The email, which Mourani sent using her parliamentary account, included links to articles and videos that questioned the legitimacy of the Jewish state. One video included images of armed militants."
urlm.in/bphp

Scratch Jimmah ...

Find:
"Carter:--If you want to talk about ancient history, Christians believe that in the second coming, Christ can't come back to the Holy Land until all Jews are either dead or become Christian."
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"My Eight Minutes With Jimmy
by Michael Medved

If you’ve got only eight minutes to confront a world leader whose impact and outlook you’ve despised and denounced for decades, then what’s the best way to take advantage of the interchange?

That was the dilemma facing me last Friday when former President Jimmy Carter agreed to a brief interview on my nationally syndicated radio program. We tried on many past occasions to book President Carter on the show but made no way headway with his representatives. This time, in the midst of the national publicity tour for his new book We Can Have Peace In The Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work, his handlers gave us twenty-four hours notice of his willingness to participate in a brief interview.

I’m certain that President Carter knows that I’ve spoken about him frequently on the air, almost always with contempt and derision. I’ve identified him as the worst president of the twentieth century – and perhaps of American history. Yes, I’ve described him repeatedly as “the worthless Jimmy Carter” and coined the deliberately disrespectful designation “The Worthless One.”

If nothing else, his determination to look past these insults in order to face down one of his harshest critics and to defend his controversial ideas demonstrated confidence and courage rarely displayed by his fellow liberal Democrats. Public figures like President Obama, Vice President Biden and Secretary Clinton have never agreed to conversations on my show (or any other conservative radio show) despite the fact that I’ve never assaulted them with anything like the vitriol I reserved for President Carter.

Preparing for our short conversation, I agonized over the right approach to the former president."
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Jimmah and Millard and Marx, Groucho, that is.
Millard should have deployed Groucho's Defence*.
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"Habitat for Humanity co-founder dead

AMERICUS, Ga. — Millard Fuller, the millionaire entrepreneur who gave it all away to help found the Christian house-building charity Habitat for Humanity, died Tuesday. He was 74."
"One of Habitat’s highest-profile volunteers, former president Jimmy Carter, called Fuller “one of the most extraordinary people I have ever known."
"But a scandal that had smouldered for years flared anew in 2004 to sully Fuller’s legacy."
"Fuller acknowledged he had kissed and hugged the women who made the 1990 complaints, but argued they had misinterpreted his actions."
urlm.in/bphr
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*"(When discovered by his wife, kissing the maid) I was just whispering in her mouth.)"
(quotations)

Un-porken-believable.
Osama's my Uncle, too.
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"RFK Jr.: Hog farmers bigger threat than Osama

Environmental lawyer turns committee hearing into diatribe against pork

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today turned a congressional subcommittee hearing into a diatribe on the dangers faced by the United States, affirming that hog producers are a far greater threat to the nation's future than Osama bin Laden – and his terror network.

Kennedy's comments came in response to a question from U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.

King asked whether a comment attributed to Kennedy in a published Iowa report in 2002 was accurate. In that, Kennedy stated that, "Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network."

"Is that an accurate quote?" asked King, whose state includes thousands of small businesses producing pork.

"I believe it and I support it," Kennedy said."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178592/posts

(Via SWJ) Christopher Brown, Afghanistan Is Not Iraq, So U.S. Best Not Surge Ahead Blindly

One possible option could be the dividing up of the country into two or three separate countries along tribal lines. Such a strategy would offer certain short-term advantages but would likely result in the new nation from the western portion falling completely under the control of Iran, the southern Pashtu homeland becoming a source of instability for the region, and the northern portion following its Tajikistan neighbor, becoming an economically weak state that would eventually, out of survival interests, become a quasi-satellite of Russia.

A better option, although far more costly in terms of time, resources, and lives, would be a smart surge based on a whole of society development approach. Such a strategy must move the development efforts out of Kabul and other major urban areas and into the rural regions where the majority of the population lives and where our enemies operate with increasing impunity...

...ah the green boom was a bomb after all.

Nuts.