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This is comedy. NYU hippies protesting and barricading in the cafeteria. Take a drink whenever you hear "consensus discussions", "overturn the power structure through consensus" and a "rejection of non-consensus brutality".

http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2009/02/23/raw-footage-from-the-last-moments-of-the-kimmel-occupation/

The Republican's got their own slick hopey-changey visible minority dude to respond to Obama's speech. He spoke well, and made quite a few good points. I think the story about the sheriff during Katrina was a bit of a dirty jab at Bush.

Serious question: Any economists out there have any predictions about how Obama's new "Green" plan will affect the price of oil coming out of Northern Alberta?

Fact checking Obama's rhetoric

cold canadian - ouch

These are the people who will inherit our society.

Just ridiculous, and absolutely tragic.

There is a ton of abuse here, of the most horrible nature. I have never seen such brutal treatment of the English language

Unbelievable.

NDP fisheries critic Peter Stoffer suggests that the Canadian Coast Guard purposely sunk a spanish fishing trawler off the grand banks:

http://uncommontruths.blogspot.com/2009/02/this-is-first-time-in-history-steel-has.html

I'm not sure if this video was posted on SDA before, but here goes anyway: What is Islam

Because, you fool, it was filled with Tribbles!

If you don't mind, sir, I neither smoke, nor snort, nor
inject Tribbles. Indeed, the very concept is repugnant!

Tribbles? Maybe it was sea-kittens?

Good thing for this guy that he's not Canadian or else his free speech would surely be shut down by the HRCs.

For years, I've rated Stoffer as one of the few (very few) sane members of the NDP caucus, and now he's suggesting that a Spanish captain (apparently with suicidal and homicidal tendencies) scuttled his vessel in the North Atlantic, in rough water, in winter. Holy shit, Peter! He's too young to be suffering from dementia, so I guess that he's just plain nuts.

ulianov....sure you aren't confusing Tribbles with Twinkies??? I like mine deep fried....yummmmm

Obama Eyes Bin Laden-Friendly Prospect For Top Intel Post

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-eyes-bin-laden-friendly-prospect.html

Amid the criticism that has already emerged about President Obama's reported pick for the powerful position of chairman of the National Intelligence Council, there is a yet unmentioned problem that is likely cause even bigger troubles: He had business ties to the bin Laden family after 9/11.

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(...)The Journal also noted that Freeman's connections with the bin Laden family went beyond business: Freeman's Middle East Policy Council, a think tank dedicated to Mideast issues, was receiving “tens of thousand of dollars a year from the bin Laden family” at that time. Since the rumors of his appointment broke, Freeman has been criticized because the pro-Saudi MEPC also accepted donations in the millions of dollars from the Saudi royal family.

I understand that the guy also gave a thousand bucks to Obama's campaign.

finding comet Lulin, this should work for the next few days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jKJaGVlUKk&feature=related

President Obama's job-approval numbers are still sliding, although recently into the undecided category: "Obama Job Approval Dips Below 60% for First Time."

This interpretation of Obama's ABC/Post poll results says that his hoped-for end to partisanship isn't going to happen.

"Strong. But Average. And Way Divided."

Break out da tin foil!!! Der are hats that need to be made!!

Sink a nearly new, multi-million dollar 30m boat in the middle of the North Atlantic in February? All to avoid a possible NAFO fine which at their worst amount to a slap on the wrist.

No mariner ever born intentionally puts themselves in the North Atlantic in February.

Stoffer's total experience is in Ottawa and loading bags onto aircraft. Pete, lips not be moving when subject you know not.

So much idiocy in the world, it's a full-time job keeping up!

1) Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine wins the Warwick Prize for Writing and $90,000 - double the amount for the Giller and three times the amount for the GG award. Just as Obama is using "disaster socialism" to broaden the government agenda, this book wins this prize. Towards the end of the article in the Arts % Life Section of the National Post on Naomi's win, it is mentioned in passing that her husband Avi Lewis recently accepted a job with the Al-Jazeera English TV network.

2) Montreal authorities are considering a ban, not just on wood-burning fireplaces, but on wood-burning stoves, so that no new bagel or pizza wood-burning stoves could be used by new establishments and existing establishments cannot expand in their premises. The beginning of the end of Montreal bagels...

3) They are going to make a musical of Spiderman (well, maybe that last one is not so bad).

"A spokesperson for Heritage Minister James Moore said he was already in discussions with the CBC and indicated the door was open to help the corporation."

Shut. The. Door.

Fire. Them. All.
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"Stumbling CBC seeks federal help"

http://www.thestar.com/Entertainment/Television/article/592706

Who ever said Dippers were sane?

STOPIGGY plays Tags*.

*Tags omitted: Dingwall, Cat Meat, Chretien, Ca$hBagliano, Ad$Cam.
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"Look who’s back in the party

Wajsman returns to the Liberals after being ‘banned for life’

*Tags: Beryl Wajsman, gomery commission, Groupaction, Joe Morselli, liberal party of canada, Michael Ignatieff, Paul Martin, sponsorship scandal"

http://blog.macleans.ca/2009/02/25/look-who%E2%80%99s-back-in-the-party/

What does banned for life mean in the Liberal Party?
Ten years or sneak back and hope no one notices?

"The fact that no media were allowed on this trip went by without a single bleat of protest from the puppets of the 4th estate."
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"Media hypocrites cried “Shroud of Secrecy” at Bush; but where are they now?

On Monday AG Eric Holder secretly visited Guantanamo Bay prison facility."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193600/posts

>>>> *"The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man. Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. They will dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama’s detractors of racism. This will cause a backlash among the whites."

"They will dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama’s detractors of racism."
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"Apology not accepted: Sharpton not satisfied with Murdoch's statement on controversial Post cartoon

The Rev. Al Sharpton was still not satisfied Tuesday after New York Post owner Rupert Murdoch issued an unprecedented personal apology over a controversial cartoon that was branded racist.

Standing on the steps of City Hall, flanked by several City Council members and civil rights leaders, Sharpton continued his calls for a boycott over the illustration, which critics say compared President Obama to a chimpanzee."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193584/posts
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"Barack Obama is a narcissist.

Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love believes “Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist.”"
http://jacksnewswatch.com/2009/02/19/jack-hello-earth/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN5Pd6ABEVc&feature=related

dedicatied to Mr Stoffer , former baggage handler and rugby player. whos had a few too many hits to the head.

I guess the dippers arent getting any airplay with the video professor in hiding , IgMcMuffin on the billboards and Stephen Harper making intellegent dialogue in the USA, still no word from CBCpravda on the visit to CNBC to explain banking

The Left-MSM-TORedStar has now completely descended/immersed itself in ODS, Obama Derangement Syndrome.

Leftists have abandoned their Great Black Hope.
Some change; some hope.

All the left has now is: Fear, "a white liver'd-lilly-cheeked, bashful palpitating, awkward hussey that hangs like a green girl at her sister's apron strings & will go with her whithersoever she goes*".
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"Obama's very own quagmire"

"Obama is continuing the policy, started by his predecessor George W. Bush, of bombing suspected Taliban hideouts in Pakistan. As well, the U.S. has sent about 70 military "advisers" into that country."
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/592577
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*(Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb)

I didn't watch Obama's speech because I can't stand pulpit evangelical preaching but I saw a bit of Jindal's Republican response.

Are the Republican's idiots? Are they falling into Obama's trap of racism? Obama uses racism to prevent dissent and criticism; he and his team have 'dripped' the theme that IF you criticize Obama, it's due to a deep unconscious racism on your part.

The uproar over that cartoon shows it; the focus is on Obama as a chimpanzee, utterly ignoring that this is a metaphor for stupidity and that Bush was regularly, daily, called ChimpBush. When you confront the Rev Sharpton etc with these facts, he ignores you. The result? You can't criticize Obama.

Equally, Obama's definition of 'bipartisan' isn't both parties working together. What it really means is that there is no dissent. The Republicans simply agree with everything he says.

Obama is a narcissist whose need to Control how people act takes precedence to policies, programs etc.

So, the Republicans fall into the trap. They present their very own 'visible minority' man, Jindal, to counter Obama's speech. But Jindal can't carry it off; his speech is wooden, uninspired and he reads it like a polished up Dion.

They needed someone like Linsday Graham or Mark Sanford - tough guys - to present the Republican image. But to fall into Obama's racist trap, ie, to try to show that their criticism of Obama has nothing to do with 'race' (white man criticizing) was the height of stupidity. Obama and the Democrats will use the race card whenever they can; they'll have their stooges (Sharpton and whoever) go out and claim whenever a criticism is made, that 'it's all about race'.

The Republicans will have to ignore this - and present simple, clear factual statements of dissent.

"Darsan is a two-way flow of vision. While the devotee sees the god, so too the god sees the devotee, and the two make contact through their eyes.*"

Boob had a Road To Damascus "event": Hindu vision.

Boob's prayer: "O [Obama], illuminator of darkess, day by day we approach you ...*"

(*H/T Boorstin, The Creators)
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"Bob Rae embarrasses Canadians with his man crush on Barack Obama"

"Rae, who attended the meeting, said he was "struck by how down to earth" Obama was and said that president made eye-contact with everyone."

http://stevejanke.com/archives/283300.php

Hildabeast: "Anger" "sharply worded"

>>> "pogroms*"
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"Clinton warns Israel over delays in Gaza aid.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has relayed messages to Israel in the past week expressing anger at obstacles Israel is placing to the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. A leading political source in Jerusalem noted that senior Clinton aides have made it clear that the matter will be central to Clinton's planned visit to Israel next Tuesday.

Ahead of Clinton's visit, special U.S. envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell is expected to issue a sharply worded protest on the same matter when he arrives here Thursday. "Israel is not making enough effort to improve the humanitarian.."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193667/posts
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*"Night of Broken Glass"
The pogroms became known as Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass," for the shattered glass from the store windows that littered the streets. ...
www.ushmm.org/outreach/kristall.htm

I am so disappointed in the complete lack of coverage by MSM of the Prime Minister's U.S. visit. There was a Canada.com piece re his meeting at the U.N. -- and a nice pic -- but as far as I can tell it is not showing up in the dailies. I think this is unfair to Canadians -- they do not get a balanced picture of Conservative initiatives. In addition, most Canadians love getting attention in the U.S. and would want to hear about his interviews -- so why the media black-out on this?

Cold canadian, I think it is wrong to call these protestors "NYU hippies". First of all, the main protestor apparently didn't even go to NYU. Secondly, I believe the correct term is "dirty smelly hippies".
For those that didn't follow the link, do so, it is a fine and highly amusing example of moonbattery in action.

Nicola Timmerman - thanks for ruining my day! Klein and Lewis in the same post. Ugh

I would LOVE to see Thomas Sowell debate Naomi Klein, I'm sure he doesn't have time for lightweights and fiction writers though

ET - yes, every time Obama said that in the past week "only small changes were needed for agreement", but that Republicans were "playing politics", and were not "working together" - I was yelling "Well, then make a bit of a concession in order to be seen to be work together, you control freak!!!!"

Also, CNN reported that 99% of respondents loved Obama's speech. I could only watch a brief bit last night before turning off the television - clearly the campaign continues, and this was just a modified stump speech - he was talking about the progress made in health care - and I guess the new code word for "the Bush years" is "the last ten years" - ie "we have made more progress in the first 100 days than the last ten years".

He REALLY needs to start acting "presidential". The mystique surrounding the job is evaporating quickly.

I think ET is onto something. So much so that yesterday, after I posted a comment about my disgust over CKNW's Bill Good incorrectly depicting Dennis Miller as an extreme right-wing nut, I received a comment ... asking how I could defend the publishing of the 'monkey cartoon' in the newspaper.

At the time, I just said "Huh?!?" but now it appears that legions of Obama supporters have the safety off and are ready to pull the trigger on the Race Card whenever they get the chance.

Imagine if we get 4 or 8 years of this nonsense. Their truly will be a race war in America if this continues.

Gag.

David Herman, Ignatieff: an intellectual in politics

Michael Ignatieff, the telegenic intellectual and writer, has had three separate careers in three different countries. Now the former presenter of the Late Show is tipped to become the next prime minister of Canada

J.E. Dyer, Another Hobby Horse

Thomas Sowell writes today about the potentially “fatal trajectory” our nation is on; and there is a lot of material for discussion in the issues he brings up. But one is of particular interest, because even the flawlessly logical and precise Dr. Sowell gets the wording wrong – as almost everyone does. He writes:

Although, in some sense, the United States of America is still the strongest nation on earth militarily, that means absolutely nothing if our enemies are willing to die and we are not...

Democratic nations invariably put the proposition in Sowell’s terms: whether we are willing to die or not. But the Ugly Truth (neigh-h-h) is that the successful use of force for national security objectives depends not on being willing to die, but on being willing to kill...

Mark Steyn is back in Maclean's! You can read his latest here. Be sure to read the comments too. There's a twerp named David Wheatley who has a real hate-on for Steyn. The other comments ably handle him though!

Will the Rev. Al Sharptongue accuse Byrd of racism?
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"Senator Byrd: Obama in power grab

Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the longest serving Democratic senator, is criticizing President Obama’s appointment of White House “czars” to oversee federal policy, saying these executive positions amount to a power grab by the executive branch.

In a letter to Obama on Wednesday, Byrd complained about Obama’s decision to create White House offices on health reform, urban affairs policy, and energy and climate change. Byrd said such positions “can threaten the Constitutional system of checks and balances. At the worst, White House staff have taken direction and control of programmatic areas that are the statutory responsibility of Senate-confirmed officials.”

While it's rare for Byrd to criticize a president in his own party, Byrd is a stern constitutional scholar who has always stood up for the legislative branch in its role in checking the power of the White House."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193733/posts

Commenter rface said:

"I hope he’s prepared for that KKK thing to blow up in his face now. He’s disagreed with a black man."

Bryd and others are right.

Obama is moving into a socialist nationalized governance that intrudes on States Rights and therefore, violates Amendment 10, which gives all, that's ALL, duties not specifiically outlined in the constitution as federal ...to the states.

It's good that a Democrat is saying this, for at the moment, it's the Republian governors (eg, Sanford and others) who have been expressing this concern.

And the 'you can't criticize a black man because that shows that you are really racist' is a strategy that will be used by the Obama team more and more and more.

Obama is a narcissist; his psychological need is to assure himself that HE is in control of how others act and react. Couple that with his socialism which is equally a form of central control - and his reliance on race, on misinforming people, on manipulating them...that's quite an explosive set of affairs.

Robert W, Mark Steyn -- nail on head !!

The world is starring at a massive Ponzi Scheme - Pension Plans.

I have to disagree with ET concerning Gov. Bobby Jindal. The 36 year old is a Rhodes scholar, an Oxford grad., not that that is critical except it portrays a certain level of intelligence. Since he defeated the unlamented former Gov. a Democrat the State has made great strides even in New Orleans where the same mayor remains who messed up in Katrina. The preparedness of the State to a natural disaster has been remarkably improved by Jindal. He is an up and comer in the Party. He is also a fiscal conservative.

taxpayer , get ready to be sued for this kerfuffle.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/02/25/bc-kicking-resort-ski-resort-rescue.html

Revolutionary economics:

The German State is sending money back/directly to the taxpayer who was robbed by the State; the taxpayer spends the money to buy a new car; the workers go to work.
Prosit!.
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"German automaker Opel boosts shifts at plant as demand soars

BERLIN — General Motors Corp.'s unit Opel said Wednesday it will introduce extra shifts at a German plant after demand for its Corsa model soared thanks to a government bonus for buyers who scrap their old cars.

The government last month introduced a 2,500-euro (US$3,200) bonus for people who scrap aging cars and buy new ones. The effort to boost the ailing auto industry is part of a 50-billion-euro economic stimulus package for Europe's biggest economy."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hktPzzFbbsW-gd4rh52SBoiIiX0Q

mikew - you are missing my point. The rebuttal to Obama's speech was NOT supposed to be a campaign presentation for Jindal. It had nothing to do with him and I assure you that I'm aware of and respect Jindal as a governor, a politician and a Republian.

The response wasn't supposed to be a campaign speech for Jindal - not even as another 'visible minority' and a clear-headed politician - but a speech outlining the Republican Party. It was incorrect of the GOP to mix up and therefore muddle these two agendas: the Response of the Republican Party, and the attractiveness of Jindal as a politician. You DON'T MIX agendas.

As the reponse of only one agenda, the GOP to Obama, it was important that it be presented well...not just as written..but as felt. Jindal didn't do it. And saying that he is, himself, a good candidate for higher office is irrelevant. It wasn't supposed to be about him. That's adding another agenda.

The Republicans, by focusing on him, were in serious error.

He was difficult to follow because of his flat unfelt and wooden delivery. You know what it sounds like if someone is reading a text that they don't understand...so they are just reading the words in a kind of monotone... That's what it was like! So, you couldn't grasp what he was saying, couldn't visualize what he was talking about.

This was an important speech. Not for Jindal. For the Republican image as a strong political party. It failed to present that image...just an image of someone reading who had no understanding of what he was reading.

And note further, how Jindal DID move out of the fact that it ought to have been ONLY a Republican Party speech, and not a Jindal speech. That is, he aligned himself with Obama, telling people that his parents also came from a foreign country to America. He muddied two agendas.

I'm saying the Republicans picked him to counter the racism aspect of all of Obama's campaign strategies - and that this was a mistake.

Yes, Jindal has a great personal political record but last night's speech wasn't a campaign speech for him. It was the Republican Party's reaction to Obama - and had NOTHING to do with Jindal as a politician. It had to do with the Republican party and its agenda, its themes, its beliefs.
It required a PERFORMER - someone who could present the REPUBLICAN party's themes with passion, with simplicity, with clarity. That's all that was needed - a performer. Not a personal campaigner.

Jindal was wooden, dead, read the speech as written rather than as emotionally felt. It was terrible. That image that he presented ...made the Republican Party wooden, dead, reading from a script...and passively accepting the Democrat's below the scenes view that 'all white men are racists'.

a precedent for the big 3 automakers.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29371453/

if GWB had said this the press would be all over him like a fat boy on a twinkie.

http://jalopnik.com/tag/who-invented-the-automobile/?id=5159895&skyline=true&s=i

Beverly Thomson had Brad O'Leary(Audacity of Deceit)as a guest this morning on Canada AM.
I cannot say the Interview exact words as the Vid for this has Disappeared from the CTV.ca article(obama says Day of Reckoning has arrived)
I guess O'Leary was To To critical for ctv's likening, But this is fairly close to what was said, anyways here goes.
BTW: anyone else see this

Oleary stated Obama, last nite in his address made note that in his Budget there will be No Provisions, Oleary stated that this is Not true as there are 9,000 provisions in it.
o'leary also stated that Obama said 95% of Americans will see a Tax Refund, Oleary also pointed out that this is not True Either as 32% of Americans Pay No Federal Tax so how could they get a rebate for not paying & if they do then they are creating a welfare state.

So help me out, anyone see this or catch it on tape.

I found the Vid. If you go to the Article(Obama say's Day of Reckoning has arrived) on CTV.ca you will see a canada Am vid at the bottom if you click on that to play you will see other Vids related & there it is the Interview with Brad O'Leary, so they did not make it disappear they Just hid it.
I also should make a correction i used the term "Provisions" it should have said "ADD ONS"

The New Modellers Show.
CBC vs CTV.

A slambangfest of conflicting opinions. Right whingers take it on the CHIN. Tune out.
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CBC say,

""In the context of the falling advertising revenues, it's too soon to say, but the model is perfectly sound and valid," he said of the CBC's decision to invest in U.S. shows."*
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"CTV says economic model for TV is broken, shutters two Ontario stations"
http://tinyurl.com/bhk6y5

*"Tories talk tough as CBC seeks financial help"
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/592977