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What does Amanda Lang have against Ann Coulter? Meow! What a cat fight on BNN's Squeeze Play with Lang trying to take down Coulter and ending up looking like a complete buffoon. "Do you think you would be successful if you weren't so good looking?" What an embarrassment for Canada but I guess its no different in the US (see the View).

I also notice Strambopolus (sp?) had Palin on and did a much better interview at least letting her talk. I like how Palin and Coulter both end up on Canadian TV on a Friday night when no one is around to watch (except losers such as myself).

Ezra has an update on the breathtakingly arrogant and menacing tone that the University of Calgary has taken on in its efforts to shut down pro-life displays on the campus. The letter from UofC's lawyers is breathtaking in its tone and content. It boggles the imagination. UofC considers itself to be private property. If that's what it thinks, it's high time it relied entirely on the private sector for its funding, too, with NO help from the taxpayer. See how long it lasts, then.
As Ezra would say, Fire. Them. All.

Ann Coulter's great, if you like circus side-shows.
But then, that applies to almost all of modern TV,
doesn't it. Which might explain why I ignore it.

Now, in practice, I could find you a proper cat-fight in the Interwebothique. But that wouldn't be appropriate for this site, would it? Would it? Look, it all comes down to this, as Sir Humphrey says:

"Yes, there is a real dilemma here, in that while it has been government policy to regard policy as the responsibility of ministers, and administration as the responsibility of officials, the questions of administrative policy can cause confusion between the policy of administration and the administration of policy, especially when responsibility for the administration of the policy of administration conflicts or overlaps with responsibility for the policy for the administration of policy."

Ah Peticoat Junction....

I was relaxing to this ...
Little number after a bit of This .... and This !
Malmsteen is fast but heavy handed .... lends an interesting bit of furiously improvisational feel to classics.

I'm not sure the purpose of this post. The question that raged of this era was " Ginger or Mary-Ann" and/or "Betty or Wilma".

The correct answer, of course, was Mary-Ann and Betty.

[quote]Castro and his top ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, have started to criticize Obama after initially saying they wanted improved relations with the new U.S. president. Castro said this week he questions Obama’s plan to seek energy independence, and said it would hurt oil exporting countries.[/quote]

Finally the socialist (communist) reasons behind the hate (only in the USA) Oil; AGW group. Why the "Drill Baby Drill" is finding no traction with the big "O" Chicago gangsters. Connect the dots for the last 30 years of Democrat policy & Al Gore, George Soros...

Vit,
Administration demands costly overhead administration to administer the high maintenance of the administration. That sounds like something Barbara Boxer (Cal) would say to Nancy P… The “Shop until they drop” pair who made up the socialist recovery plan (>20% for California)

ural, I've more recently had the hots for Turanga Leela. I imagine she would be like Kate in the year 3000 (except with two eyes and a motorcycle helmet).

Yes, indeed, Ural, clearly, that was the answer.
More importantly, perhaps, those morals remain.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6237629/President-John-F-Kennedy-vs-FRB-fiat-money-1963-JFK-contra-mafia-sistemului-bancar-privat-FRB

and

On June 4, 1963, a little known attempt was made to strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the government at interest. On that day President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order No. 11110 that returned to the U.S. government the power to issue currency, without going through the Federal Reserve. Mr. Kennedy's order gave the Treasury the power "to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury." This meant that for every ounce of silver in the U.S. Treasury's vault, the government could introduce new money into circulation. In all, Kennedy brought nearly $4.3 billion in U.S. notes into circulation. The ramifications of this bill are enormous.

With the stroke of a pen, Mr. Kennedy was on his way to putting the Federal Reserve Bank of New York out of business. If enough of these silver certificats were to come into circulation they would have eliminated the demand for Federal Reserve notes. This is because the silver certificates are backed by silver and the Federal Reserve notes are not backed by anything. Executive Order 11110 could have prevented the national debt from reaching its current level, because it would have given the gevernment the ability to repay its debt without going to the Federal Reserve and being charged interest in order to create the new money. Executive Order 11110 gave the U.S. the ability to create its own money backed by silver.

After Mr. Kennedy was assassinated just five months later, no more silver certificates were issued. The Final Call has learned that the Executive Order was never repealed by any U.S.

http://www.john-f-kennedy.net/executiveorder11110.htm

Fritz...I watched the Lang-Coulter encounter on BNN.
Langs problem is that she is a politically correct Canadian,("How dare Anne Coulter compare single motherhood to smoking!!") and her attempt to insult Coulter bombed.
Coulter had to explain too many things to Lang.

Brilliant! Well written and insightful. Thank you!

Stand with Lowell Green.

Send Lowell a message of support:
lgreen@cfra.com
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"Radio host Lowell Green chastised for 'abusive' remarks about Muslims"
urlm.in/bpsq

"Wiesenthal Center Skeptical Nazi Doctor Is Dead (The 'Dr. Death Reported Dead in Cairo)"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2179534/posts
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"WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Nazis during WWII

Under Hitler

After the war…
Altern Erich Post-war name: Ali Bella Regional Chief SD (Himmler’s Security Services), Jewish Affairs in Galicia In Egypt during the 50’s, then instructor in Palestinian camps
Appler Hans Post-war name: Sakah Chaffar Information services with Goebbels Egypt 1956: Minister of Information
Bartel Franz Post-war name: El Hussein Assistant Chief of the Kattowitz Gestapo (Poland) Since 1959, Jewish Affairs of the Ministry of Information in Cairo.
Baurnann, SS Standartenuhrer Participated in liquidation of Jewish Warsaw ghetto Minister of War in Cairo. Instructor for the FLP (Liberation Front of Palestine)
Bayerlein, Col. Fritz Rommel’s camp aid Egypt
Becher Hans Gestapo Jewish affairs, Vienna Alexandria, Egypt. Police instructor
Beissner, Dr Wilhelm Section Chief VI C 13RSHA Egypt"

http://tellthechildrenthetruth.com/where.html

Power Play - ctv.ca feb 06

Just watched last nites Tom Clarks Power Play 1rst segment, ted menzies,john mccallum & thomas mulcair.
Tom Clark gets Mulcairs dander up in the last half of the segment When Clark cuts him off & tells him in a round about way thats not the topic, Mulcair goes from calling Tom Clark to Mr. Clark Then Menzies rips a strip off the NDP & finally the best is the last when Mulcair complains he did not get enough time so clark gives him 20sec.
Listen closely though throughout the segment Clark keeps calling Mulcair, Muclair.

"Egypt police detain Egyptian-German activist

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police have detained an Egyptian-German political activist and blogger on Gaza Strip issues, his sister and an eyewitness said Saturday.

Philip Rizk, 26, a graduate student at the American University in Cairo, was detained by police Friday night while returning to Cairo from Qalyoubia, north of Cairo, his sister Jeanette told Reuters.

Rizk and a group of activists had been holding a march in the rural areas north of Cairo in solidarity with Palestinians and to raise awareness about the effects of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, according to Salma Said, an activist who was with Rizk when he was detained."
urlm.in/bptf

Amanda Lang is there because of her daddy Otto, nothing more. She is the typical Toronto leftard know it all who would actually need instructions to use an outhouse. Toront bitches about our oilsands, but that huge blight on the once beautiful shores of the lake should be dozed without evacuation.

The focus on the dying Dinosaur mass media is on target.
It's official: The MSM is dead.
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"Media's rapidly shrinking mass

It is time to stop focusing on the decline of newspapers and start worrying about the loss of mass media in general.

The newspaper crisis is a symptom of a broader problem. We are in danger of losing institutions that cut across income, race, culture, gender and age to provide a shared intellectual space in society. We are in danger of losing one of the few activities that forces us, even briefly, to consider people, ideas and interests different than our own.

Mass media builds community. Or at least it did.

It is not just newspapers that are ailing these days; it is also network television and general interest magazines. Even the big Internet sites like Facebook are failing to thrive.

The common narrative goes like this:"
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/583748
"Kelly Toughill is an associate professor in the School of Journalism at the University of King's College, Halifax."

Ok NOW I am starting to get nervous. Census going from Commerce to Rahm.
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/02/07/the-census-will-be-under-rahms-control/

A great George Carlin clip I found (thanks to theospark) where he gives some insight on the religion of eco-hysteria. Priceless, if you haven't seen it already give it a watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw&eurl

maz2, beat me to it !

Read the Star's own commenters' take on the article also.

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Some other possible reasons ...

Mass rejection of media conglomeration, Murdoch style ideological propaganda, infotainment passing as news, drivel designed for mass dumb down as opposed to enlightenment, failure to deliver news in context, ad infinitum ad nauseum.

Submitted by Em Cee at 5:25 AM Saturday, February 07 2009
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http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/583748

Don't think too many may have seen my post last night so I'll try again as it's very good...

I hesitate to bring up Nazi hunters, what with our own self-styled crusaders doing their part, but this is a mesmerizing documentary that someone has managed to post on youtube. It's called Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbi, and it justifiably won the best documentary oscar in 1988.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=kafkazepam&view=videos

If you can spare about 4hrs. of viewing time it is well worth it!

"The promised land

Denis Dutton

Art theory assumes that our aesthetic tastes are conditioned by the culture in which we live. But does genetic programming have more to do with it than we think?

America's Most Wanted was an audacious painting, even by the standards of the contemporary art scene. In 1993, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, expatriate Soviet artists then in New York, received money from the Nation Institute to study the artistic preferences of people in ten countries, including Denmark, Kenya, Turkey, China, the US and Ukraine. Were the people of each land drawn to abstract or to realist art? What were their favourite colours? What were the subjects they most liked to see depicted?

Komar and Melamid based their witty "Most Wanted" series of paintings on the results of the poll. America's Most Wanted combined the typical American preferences for historical figures, children and wild animals by placing George Washington in a grassy area beside an attractive river or lake. Near him walk three clean-cut youngsters, looking like holidaymakers at Disneyland; to their right, two deer cavort, while in the water behind Washington a hippopotamus bellows. The "Most Wanted" paintings for other countries looked equally absurd.

Joking aside, the project produced some fascinating results. That people the world over tend to prefer realistic art was perhaps predictable. That their favourite colour is blue was curious, though not astonishing. The art theory shocker was this: not only were landscapes the preferred subject for paintings worldwide, but tastes across the globe all gravitated toward a specific kind of landscape - a bluish scene with trees and open areas, water, human figures and animals. This was the case whether the respondents lived in the desert, the city or a rural area - in other words, their landscape preferences were not conditioned by their actual experience.

Arthur Danto, a Columbia University phil­osopher and key figure in American art theory, weighed in with the suggestion that the results were a product of the worldwide calendar in­dustry."
http://www.newstatesman.com/arts-and-culture/2009/02/landscape-human-art-savannahs

I have got to start reading the poster's name before I read the post,that way I can just skip over idiots like oolinov.

Another great rip by Mark Steyn:

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/obama-hope-water-2301373-walk-didn

"Artist who created Obama 'Hope' posters arrested"
ctv.ca feb07/09

*the artist famous for his Hope posters has been arrested on outstanding warrants..

The socialists openly plan their utopia under the rubrics of: "to help families" and "welfare reform".
These socialists even have a "poverty agenda".

The colour? Red.
Our Enemy, the State.
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"Ont. finance minister looks at welfare reform

NIAGARA FALLS -- Ontario's welfare rules are too strict and may need to be relaxed to help families cope with the economic downturn, the province's finance minister says.

Under the current directive, applicants must have cashed in and used up most of their assets before they become eligible for help.

"As part of our poverty agenda, we are looking at those rules," Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said yesterday. "The asset rules really do penalize, in a sense, so we are looking at that as part of the overall poverty agenda and we'll have more to say about that in the coming weeks."

There has been a 6% rise in Ontario Works cases in the past year."
urlm.in/bpul

Surprised? Shouldn't be.
O's first telephone call was to the head of the Palestinian authority*.
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"Pres. Obama Invites Hamas Terrorists to America

By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.

The "presidential determination" which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.

President Obama's decision, according to the Register, was necessitated by "the urgent refugee and migration needs" of the "victims."

Few on Capitol Hill took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.

The charter for Hamas calls for the replacement of the nation of Israel with a Palestinian Islamic state.

Since its formation in 1994, Hamas has been responsible for hundreds of terrorist attacks, including the 2002 Passover suicide bombing. The leaders of the movement signed the World Islamic Statement of 1998 – a document, penned by Osama bin Laden, which declared war on America and Israel.

President Obama's executive order is expected to bring hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, many with ties to radical Islam, to our shores, furthering a process that was inaugurated in 1995 by Senator Ted Kennedy and the Cedar-Hart bill."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180541/posts
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*Obama's first call abroad to Palestine: Official
"This is my first phone call to a foreign leader and I’m making it only hours after I took office," Rudeina quoted Obama as telling Abbas. ...
www.vancouversun.com/Life/Obama+first+call+abroad+Palestine/1202283/story.html

Some needed satire - via Gerry Nicholls

http://gerrynicholls.blogspot.com/2009/02/real-drug-problem.html

Unfortunately this is not satire.
Paper tigers- cardboard cops

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/4410417/Police-spend-20000-on-cardboard-officers.html

The suppression of free speech on Canadian radio doesn't stop with Lowell Green. Yesterday CKNW's Jon McComb [rightly] went after BC's Attorney General, Wally Oppal. I blogged about it.

Today I was informed by a regular reader that the audio I referred to has been made unavailable by the station. Might the Attorney General's office have threatened CKNW with legal action?

Free Speech: Alive & Well in Canada . . . NOTTTT!!!!

The looney left and the looney and Charlie Smith and white male voters and the The Dogwood Initiative and more Charlie Smith and the loonie and more.
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*"However, it’s worth noting that in Canada's decentralized federation, federal health and labour ministers have far less power than their federal counterparts."

*This might help the federal Liberals win support from the Conservatives, who’ve traditionally attracted a disproportionate degree of their support from white male voters."

*"Michael Ignatieff puts female MPs at the back of the Liberal bus"
"By Charlie Smith"
http://www.straight.com/article-200487/michael-ignatieff-puts-female-mps-back-liberal-bus
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"Royal Canadian Mint warns critic of oil tankers to halt its loonie campaign
By Charlie Smith

The Royal Canadian Mint has sent a legal warning to a B.C. environmental group not to deface the loonie.

The Dogwood Initiative has urged people to attach “notanker” decals to loonies to register their opposition to a proposed pipeline across north-central B.C."
http://www.straight.com/article-200480/royal-canadian-mint-warns-critic-oil-tankers-halt-its-loonie-campaign?#

Zinni say:

"“As a sorry offer to placate me they offered ambassador to Saudi,” Zinni said. “I told them to stick it where the sun doesn’t shine.”"

Who's them?

Meanwhile, echoing BB, Guardian say,

"‘Thrill is gone’: Obama feels heat"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5683520.ece
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Too early?

"BB King and Gary Moore playing The Thrill is Gone. Awesome.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqAuuIDU2sw"

Re: "Amanda Lang is there because of her daddy Otto"

I remember the catchphrase, "'Otto Lang' is two four-letter words" ...