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your msm in action...

on the ctv news tonight, lloyd robertson yammers on
about an "execution style hit"... you know... as
opposed to the non-execution variety.

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Here's something I don't understand, and I don't want to put too fine a point on it, yet it remains the case that I must ask, Neo, in what sense, exactly, is it that that collection of bytes that you apparently authored, without context or reference, above, is related either to the concept of reader tips, in general, since that is the title of the topic at hand, or to tonight's SDA LNR show, in particular, since that was the only reader tip already in the discussion, versus, say, for example, it (your comment) being just some sort of generic farting in public, and in the latter case, that is to say, if so, to what degree exactly do you consider that to be appropriate behaviour?

The Eastern World it is imploding.

… a growing crisis in Eastern Europe could cause nothing less than a total collapse in the West, or as he put it: “If one spark jumps across the euro zone line, we will have global systemic crisis within days.”

Here's something else I don't understand:
what happens if the collapse is so total that
even the four horsemen can't get through?

And that my dear Vit is why I counsel getting to know your hoe.

Don't need horses then. heh

What part of that don't you understand Vit? If they can't get through then I guess the end of the world is on hold.

Course, it is a little odd that the biblical references to the anti-Christ allude to a very popular world leader.

The end of the world has to wait though . . . it is a long weekend.

Cheers,
lance

On Hold?!? Again!?! When will this new system work?

what happens if the collapse is so total that
even the four horsemen can't get through?

A black hole singularity.

Call for black hole, white courtesy telephone, please.

I'm sorry sir, that number is no longer in service.

On hold again: the story of my life; no courtesy, no longer in service. A man of means? By no means. On the other hand, I do have a trailer for rent, and if you're interested, maybe a room to let, already.

"...generic farting in public" indeed.

While not the longest I've ever seen, it truly is a finely crafted (and toned) run-on sentence. ^5 Vit

PS I liked the music too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8SfiCnwF28

Here's my video post

My mondegreen was "there's hate in Regina" rather than "there's hate in Red China"

I posted this earlier amid some scrapping among trolls and I'm sure it was overlooked. Our BC Liberal Government is acting like Liberals again and I think everyone should know. Here is the link to the recent tragedy: **http://tinyurl.com/cy8okb**
(Cut and paste inside the **'s to your address bar.)
My comments were: I would like to bring things a little closer to home. We are having a frightening criminal gang problem. This morning a woman was shot to death in a "high end sports car" in Surrey a few blocks from my home. Apparently there was a child in the car with her.
To me the reaction of the standing Liberal Government is as frightening as the gang problem. They are going to: outlaw the wearing of body armor, outlaw armor plating in automobiles, and assail gun merchants who sell guns to the movie industry. I don't think anyone would be naive enough to believe that assaults on the homes and businesses of duck hunters will not come when the Press demands victories.
Maybe this looks OK on the surface but does this target the real problem? It's the criminals stupid. There have been no arrests and would be no meaningful jail sentences if there were.
What if I want to wear body armor? What if I want to shove a garbage can lid inside my truck door?
What if I want to see a movie where real guns are used or go duck hunting without being assaulted by a Swat Team?
When the politicians panic why do they always "surround the wrong building". Or is there room for suspicion that a looming catastrophe was allowed to grow so that liberties could be denied in the name of saving us?
Posted by: Gunney99 at February 16, 2009 4:16 PM

Comments please. And no, I do not seriously believe a conspiracy is ongoing.

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"vit sniffs... some sort of generic farting in public"

i'm sorry vit... did my uninspired social commentary muddy
the corridors of otherwise enlightened highbrow discourse?

or maybe you're just feeling particularly chippy tonight?

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First, I weigh in with a great article by Mark Steyn. Obamateur Hour. here

Then hopefully I get to say that I liked both your comments Neo and Vit. Hilarious both of them.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-02-15-retireeside_N.htm

This was in the USA-Today, yesterday. We are now getting an insight to the hidden costs of Gov't civil service that have (IOU) unfunded health benefits. These are not accounted for and hidden from taxpayers. The total is more than 1 trillion

[quote]The University of Texas and the Texas A&M systems have a combined $7 billion obligation.[/quote]

How the hell did these Universities run up billions in unfunded benefits?

The only way to stop this nonsense, by Unions & worthless free-loaders, is to TAX those benefits out of existence.

I didn't make this up.

Choose your world...

Leftwing Elites Plotting Big Global Media

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2009/02/leftwing-elites-plotting-big-global.html

Elite members of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, recently considered a proposal for a new global television network to usher in a state of “global governance.” The concept strikes some as authoritarian, even totalitarian. But the parent company of Fox News was one of the sponsors of this year's gathering.

The media proposal, which was included in “The Global Agenda 2009” report, is to create “a new global network” with “the capacity to connect the world, bridging cultures and peoples, and telling us who we are and what we mean to each other.” Several prominent U.S. media figures signed on to the alarming and controversial proposal.

This global network would apparently include the likes of Al Jazeera and Chinese Communist media.

They want us to pay for it... via our taxes. Via global taxation.

Yet another article on Allied Bombing in WWII of German cities. This one in The National Post (An Air Raid Like Any Other) by Randall Hansen. The latter is Canada Research Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto and author of Fire and Fury: the Allied Bombing of Germany (Doubleday Canada, 2008).

As the daughter of a veteran of Bomber Command, I am so tired of these constant attacks on what Sir Arthur Harris and Bomber Command (a quarter of which was made up of Canadians) did. Do you think Hitler hestitated for one minute to devastate allied cities. Thanks in part to Bomber Command his scientists were not able to complete their work on an atomic bomb.

I guess all these academics and media types are just waiting for all the veterans to die off to tell it how it was.

How about more books about the atrocities of Mao or even the executions and organ harvesting in China prisons? I guess you can't get a Canada Council grant for these things.

First you question neo's post as to its relevance to reader tips or your oh so precious youtube and wiki search, and then you go on to make a series of posts with exactly the same relevance.

Can you explain that Vit?

"Global Cooling Continues

By James M. Taylor, Heartland Institute

Continuing a decade-long trend of declining global temperatures, the year 2008 was significantly colder than 2007, and global temperatures for the year were below the average over the past 30 years. The global temperature data, reported by NASA satellite-based temperature measurements, refuted predictions 2008 would be one of the warmest on record.

Data show 2008 ranked 14th coldest of the 30 years measured by NASA satellite instruments since they were first launched in 1979. It was the coldest year since 2000.

Satellite Precision"
http://www.icecap.us/

Fire. Them. All.

More, and, faster.
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"Funds lost over hatred

Minister called 'professional whore'

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is poised to slash federal funding to Canada's largest Arabic group after its president called him a "professional whore" for supporting Israel.

In an exclusive interview with Sun Media from London, England, where he is to speak today at an international conference on anti-Semitism, Kenney said groups are free within legal bounds to say what they like. But groups whose leaders say intolerant or hateful things shouldn't get taxpayer funding.

"We should not be rewarding those who express views that are contrary to Canada's best liberal values of tolerance and mutual respect."

One of those groups, said Kenney, is the Canadian Arab Federation whose president Khaled Mouammar called him a "professional whore" after Kenney criticized the presence of Hezbollah and Hamas flags at anti-Israel rallies in Toronto."
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2009/02/17/8413841-sun.html

Can someone, anyone, explain to me just what in hell the government is doing giving the Canadian Arab Federation any money in the first place?

This may help to explain a different bob's question.
"a former president of the CAF is now a sitting Liberal MP?"

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"Could the CAF's reluctance to criticize the Liberals in fact be a partisan decision, one that stems from the fact that a former president of the CAF is now a sitting Liberal MP? Who knows? Maybe the CAF thinks it can persuade Liberals to sympathize with Hamas?"
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"John Turley-Ewart: Gaza exposes the Canadian Arab Federation for what it now is"
urlm.in/brip (NP)

Spengler, Obama, an economic unilateralist

The silliest thing that clever people are saying about the world economic crisis is that the United States will lose its position as the dominant world superpower in consequence. On the contrary: the crisis strengthens the relative position of the United States and exposes the far graver weaknesses of all prospective competitors. It makes the debt of the American government the world's most desirable asset. America may deserve to decline, but as Clint Eastwood said in another context, "deserve's got nothing to do with it". President Barack Obama may turn out to be the most egregious unilateralist in American history...

Apparently we are losing our best and brightest (anthropomorphic) environmental scientists. At first I thought that was a bad thing. Then I did a Google search on the principal. Good luck Australia.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Technology/climate+funding+dries+scientists+heading/1297397/story.html

Not Walter Cronkite >>> ... and that's the way it's not.

Hocus-pocus by the AGWarmites caught by Wattsup.

Now you don't see the million square kilometers of Arctic sea ice; now you see the million square kilometers of Arctic sea ice restored.
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"Errors in publicly presented data - Worth blogging about?
16 02 2009

In the prior thread I raised a question of why there was a large downward jump in sea ice extent on the graph presented by NSIDC’s Artic Sea Ice News page. The image below was the reason, dozens of people called my attention to it in emails and comments overnight because in the space of a weekend, a million-plus square kilometers of Arctic sea ice went missing. Note the blue line.

When I checked NSIDC’s web site this morning, about 8:30 AM PST (9:30AM MST Mountain time in Boulder where NSIDC is located) the image was still up. A half hour later it remained. I checked all around the NSIDC web site for any notice, including the links they provide for the data issues.

Learn about update delays, which occasionally occur in near-real-time data. Read about the data.

Finding nothing, and knowing that it was now 10AM in Boulder, which should have been plenty of time to post some sort of notice, I decided to write a quick post about it, which was published at 9:10AM PST (10:10MST) and drove to work.

The corrected image (with the million square kilometers of sea ice restored) appeared on the NSIDC web site just shy of 3 hours later, about noon PST or 1 PM MST."
urlm.in/briw (wattsup)
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Commenters:

"Roger Sowell (22:02:30) :

Good for you, Anthony! Mega-kudos!

In stark contrast to the 1960’s when most of us had no choice but to believe Walter Cronkite when he told us, “And that’s the way it is” in that deep, believable voice, these days there are not only eyes in the sky, but many millions of people with internet access and all that that implies for data questioning, checking, cross-referencing, and publishing.

Ironic, just a bit, since Al Gore tells us he invented the internet. Thank you, Al!"

"John H (22:07:32) :

Having much experience with various government agencies I can say they do not like this kind of power in the hands of the citizenry.

To be able to call them on the carpet at a moments notice is too much for their busy little bureaucrat selves to fathom.
They are so seldom held accountable for anything they find it insulting when they are.
They do not view themselves as public employees. More like public bosses."

Apparently I'm looking forward to Obama's visit!

I didn't even know I was looking forward to Obama's visit until the CBC and CTV told me.
What would I do without them?
How would I know how much I'm looking forward to Obama's visit without them telling me how much I'm looking forward to Obama's visit?

Yesterday I was worried about the radiation from the two subs that collided and I didn't know it either.
I'm sure glad they are here to tell me what I think and what I'm worried about.
Thank God for the nanny state and the MSM!

"Colin Mochrie is an award winning Canadian actor who has appeared on Whose Line is it Anyway? and This Hour has 22 Minutes."

Paging Margaret Atwood: Help force Canadians fund my lifestyle. Moi can't do it by myself.

Look here, you dummy Canadians: Look for "me".

"If you look up Colin Mochrie or Whose Line is it Anyway? or This Hour Has 22 Minutes on YouTube you'll find entire episodes and numerous clips of me and my colleagues."

Get a job, Mochrie.
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"Canadian content is getting lost online
By Colin Mochrie, Citizen Special"

"New media broadcasting is the future. We need to set out what the rules are going to be now so everyone knows what the terrain looks like and appropriate business models can develop.

This is a battle for the future.

What we want is a place for Canadian storytellers and our stories. We want to share our talents with Canadians and with global audiences. We need to get it right now. Tomorrow is too late."
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Technology/Canadian+content+getting+lost+online/1296977/story.html

Philip Sherwell, Israel launches covert war against Iran

Israel has launched a covert war against Iran as an alternative to direct military strikes against Tehran's nuclear programme, US intelligence sources have revealed.

It is using hitmen, sabotage, front companies and double agents to disrupt the regime's illicit weapons project, the experts say.

The most dramatic element of the "decapitation" programme is the planned assassination of top figures involved in Iran's atomic operations...

Life-saving Sentinel R1 spy planes grounded by lack of crews

A NEW billion-pound fleet of spy planes able to spot the roadside bombs that kill troops in Afghanistan will be out of action until at least the middle of next year because the RAF has failed to train enough crew...

Gary J. Schmitt and Daniel Twining, Don't Dumb Down Afghanistan

But is lowering the bar in Afghanistan a workable strategy? Does de-emphasizing the building of a capable, democratic Afghan state, moving away from a full-scale counterinsurgency effort, and focusing instead on keeping the Taliban and al Qaeda at bay lead, in Vice President Biden's words, to "a stable Afghanistan that is not a haven for terrorists"? More likely it results in an Afghanistan that is unstable, balkanized, and home to more, not fewer, terrorists. The real, on-the-ground choice is between a democratic Afghanistan whose governance extends throughout the whole country or no legitimate government at all, with every man, family, tribe, and ethnic group looking out for its own...

ODS is the flipside of BDS.

OSlobbering elites and Canadian MSM are barfing on themselves and each other.
Stand back.

Here is the test for ODS: The Canada that George Bush visits brings out Aunty-American; the Canada that O visits brings out Cohen, et al.

Where is Aunty-American ex-Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish*? Deep underground with the trolls. No middle for Parrish-Liberals.
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"Meeting in the middle
Cohen: The Canada that Barack Obama visits this week is closer in values and instincts to the United States than at any time in a generation. In many ways, we are becoming more like Americans. And, in many ways, Americans are becoming more like us." (nnw)
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*"On her way out of a meeting, Parrish was overheard on a boom mike saying "Damn Americans, I hate the bastards." (wapedia)

Ulianov: "I'm looking forward to Obama convening a war crimes trial."

Thanks for the link to the article in Harper's. Problem is, you've made an uncritical leap from that account to your assumption that there will be a trial. The following highlights the weakness in this article:

“The Nelly account shows that health professionals are right in the thick of the torture and abuse of the prisoners [at Gitmo]—suggesting a systematic collapse of professional ethics driven by the Pentagon itself. ... Neely’s account demonstrates once more how much the Bush team kept secret and how little we still know about their comprehensive program of official cruelty and torture.”

Like so many anti-Bush administration types, the author is too lazy to check the truth of the allegations, relying instead on the "three UC Berkeley law students" (great source!) who compiled the account, and too lazy to construct the case that a "comprehensive program of official cruelty and torture" really did exist. He prefers to move straight to the sentencing and to rely on an equally lazy readership. He seems to have found some fertile ground in one of SDA's commenters.

I'm afraid you'll need to find something more productive to do in the next few years than wait for this war crimes trial.

"Can someone, anyone, explain to me just what in hell the government is doing giving the Canadian Arab Federation any money in the first place?"

a different Bob

While you're at it please explain to me what in hell the government is doing giving the Canadian/ any-("F"ing)-thing Federation any money in the first place?

Was the late ex-Iranian a US doctor or bio-weapon scientist?

Iranian media this week offered a glimpse into the purported double life of an Iranian-born American physician alleging he was a secret bio-weapons scientist. They reported that Dr. Noah McKay (formerly Nasser Talebzadeh Ordoubadi) died in mysterious circumstance Saturday, Feb. 14 aged 53, vaguely accusing "intelligence agencies" of causing his death...

Arkady Ostrovsky, Reversal of Fortune

Vladimir Putin’s social contract has been premised on an authoritarian state delivering rising incomes and resurgent power. But the economic crisis is unraveling all that. And what comes next in Russia might be even worse...

Muslim Man starts TV network to portray Muslims in a more positive light. Then beheads his wife...

http://www.buffalonews.com/437/story/578644.html

"Get a job, Mochrie"

My sentiments exactly. This bozo who I've often found funny is now shilling for his entitlement to be seen, not because he is humourous but because he is Canadian. How pathetic is that? The fact that he crosses the border most times to work in another country doesn't dawn on him. Canadian talent shouldn't have to have government big brother giving them a captive audience. Captain Kirk didn't need no nanny state to boldly go where these namby pamby actors wish they could go.

Remember, Shatner is the Price Line Negotiator while Mochrie is the Snack Fairy. Just sayin'.

The CRTC already has a strangle hold on what we get on cable, satellite or who we can get cell service from. Leave the frikkin' internet alone. Last thing I need is a bilingual home page.

"Geert Wilders' Party Explodes after Expulsion (Now second largest in the Netherlands)

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Critics say the freedom to criticize Islam in Europe has been put in jeopardy after Dutch politician Geert Wilders was banned last week from entering Britain because of his attacks on Islam.

But while the controversial politician may have failed to enter the United Kingdom, the Dutch public has rallied around Wilders, and support for his party has exploded."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2187515/posts

Scroll down to:
"To: GonzoII

Did someone say "explode"?"

Just clicked on SDAs' oldest archive link, for May/2003, and it went to a SFH webpage (featuring Cats Meat, I presume). Yuk. Hope I did not catch anything.

Today in History: Dare to be a Daniel, dare to stand alone.

RIP, Giordano Bruno.
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"Refusing to recant, Bruno was burned at the stake
in Campo dei Fiori on February 17, 1600."

http://burningtaper.blogspot.com/2006/01/great-heretics-in-history-giordano.html

"The CRTC already has a strangle hold on what we get on cable, satellite or who we can get cell service from. Leave the frikkin' internet alone. Last thing I need is a bilingual home page."

TC fyi

I am constantly blocked from listening/viewing items on the internet because I'm Canadian. I'd say approx. 50% of the stuff I try to download.

Indiana Homez: What do you mean you're blocked from downloading things on the Internet? Sorry, I don't believe it. I'm the IT biz and don't believe it.

Care to share any examples?

The snake of socialism with its three tongues: Hope and Change and Fear.
Socialism is older than the Pyramid Scheme of ancient Egypt.
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"Klaus’ speech argues that it is no such novelty but an ancient and corrupted thing; that underneath the smooth production values, the cunning sound-bites and outwardly youthful appearances, the deceptive packaging of hope and change, this progressivism is nothing but freedom’s old enemy — and man’s."
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"Notes from the underground"

"To listen to Klaus is therefore to simultaneously hear echoes of the past and intimations of the future. For as Klaus notes in his recent speech about ‘Europeism’ which is excerpted after the “Read More”, some of the ideas which his generation fought so hard to defeat behind the Iron Curtain have found new and darker homes in the intellectual centers of Western Civilization; and now stride forward in their mutant forms into the public space. But while Klaus’ speech is ostensibly addressed to Europeans, it is really pitched at a wider audience. In the United States — and even the repressed and fundamentalist societies of the Middle East — an expanded state control over the individual is being increasingly pitched as the face of the future. Klaus’ speech argues that it is no such novelty but an ancient and corrupted thing; that underneath the smooth production values, the cunning sound-bites and outwardly youthful appearances, the deceptive packaging of hope and change, this progressivism is nothing but freedom’s old enemy — and man’s.

(more…)
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/02/17/notes-from-the-underground/#comments

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watch peta turn around... and start campaigning FOR tasers.

oops... there i go... spoiling the ambiance, yet again.

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C 'mon Neo, you're in Canada. Where everyone, especially Conservatives are expected to obey the plethora of keep off the grass signs. Following instructions is a Canadian value. Ya aint a real Canadian Boomer unless yer telling someone, somewhere how to go about their business.

Takkiya of Imam OMuslim.
Takkiya of Gaia priests Moon-Gore.

Their goal is masked/hidden by their rhetoric. They speak from their teeth. Their goal is the same: Power, absolute power.
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"Obama quotes Muslim holy scripture (Presidents used to quote verses, now, "hadiths")

O: "”In Islam, there is a hadith that reads “None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2187630/posts
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"Green growth is essential to any stimulus [By Ban Ki-moon and Al Gore.....]"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2187625/posts

I have consistently been blocked when looking for music(rap), and new episodes of shows (ie South Park). It has been suggested to me that I attempt to use a "proxy server" to create the illusion that I'm in the US. As for specific examples, I can't provide any, I haven’t bothered to keep track, but I will keep this discussion in mind and forward you the info in the future. Perhaps the web sites are voluntarily preventing me from viewing such sites but it's not an IT issue.

Check it out, the teleprompter is back...

Wonder how long it will be before a picture of the brilliant one reading from it during a press conference leaks. My guess? Never

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/02/17/amspecs-prowler-obama-get-high-tech-help-get-through-press-conferences

Remember when they accused Bush of being wired in the debates? Let's see... one of them can win a debate and get through press conferences without help, the other stumbles so badly that whenever he opens his mouth, everybody's IRA takes another body blow. Which is which?

Tim in VT, thanks for pointing to Newsbusters, I could easily become a fan (particularly of Jodi Miller).

Has anyone determined BO's IQ yet. It seems that much has been said about previous presidents' test results on public record.

Perhaps they could publish BO's SAT scores, or his Navy GC Test scores (just kidding about that latter one).

Glasnost, a current Google ad asserts that Hussein's IQ is 148. No doubt the testing was performed by his press secretary.