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2 good news today:

- Obama will end the Iraq war in 2010.
- CanWest will go bankrupt tomorrow. (according to national news watch)

Even better news for today: most people had an ok day!

Aux armes, citoyens! There's a Globe and Mail poll about whether the CBC should have its budget shortfall made-up by the government and we're badly down 70% to 30%. Maybe it hasn't been fixed or freeped and it's just the Glib's reader base making its opinion known, but there's not much time left to try to win.

http://tinyurl.com/cxglrg

By Phillip Pullman, perhaps not universally loved at SDA, but still a worthy read about how liberty was lost in England.

How far along the same pathway are we?

http://tinyurl.com/ame2hr

Wilders denied entry to England, but Muslim extremist not only enters, but speaks at a university while public officials pay 2000 pounds (of taxpayer money) to listen to him.

Comments tell the tale. The brits are winding themselves up for a revolution.

Andy, I don't think that G&M poll is real. Put another way, I believe the results are fixed.

Speaking of not real, did the rest of you catch Obama's statement that there are 0 (ZERO) earmarks on his recent financial bill?

Charles Krauthammer said there are 8,000.

Who's telling the truth? My vote goes to Krauthammer.

P.S. I wonder when the MSM will wake-up and call Obama on his bold-faced lies?

As a wild guess, I'll say never.

Right about the same time that the CBC poll is revealed to be rigged.

And how many defections have we seen in the other direction — from the skeptics’ camp to the alarmists’ camp? Seems like it’s been a one-way street so far.

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2009/01/another-nasa-defection-to-the-skeptics-camp/
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Since CO2 is heavier than air, how does it get up there into the atmosphere and screw everything up, let alone being 0.01 % of atmospheric gases? It must be one of those sneaky, evil elements.

'The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today.

'"As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons," Holder told reporters....'

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6960824&page=1

One for the dead-newspaper file: "Rocky Mountain News to close, publish final edition Friday."

QS:

BO doesn't need tonhave as many troops in Iraq - they won't be completely gone by 2010 as they have built the mother of all military bases in Iraq - because GWB an patreaus led thecoalition forces to victory over the facists and al queda. BO and the rest of the dem leadership won't admit it even if they were watterboarded.

The good news from my perspective is that the caisse on que are insolvent without the bailouts they recieved last spring and Quebec cannot separate as it would have to declare bankruptcy the instant they did. Quebec is a pauper province right now as the caisse screwed up big time on acbp investments.

"The Gamble: How Sean MacFarland's tactics turned Iraq's tide of violence

In this exclusive extract from The Gamble: General Petraeus and the untold story of the American surge in Iraq 2006-2008, author Thomas E. Ricks reveals how a young American colonel assigned to the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi in 2006 developed the tactics that changed the course of the war in Iraq.

A LIGHT IN RAMADI

Near the end of General Caldwell's press conference on October 19, a few minutes after the spokesman had announced the failure of the Baghdad security plan, one reporter had inquired about some odd reports coming out of Ramadi, 60 miles to the west of Baghdad. Specifically, inquired the man from Reuters news agency, why were armed civilians marching in the streets? What was going on out there? Caldwell responded that he hadn't heard about that and would look into it.

It was a good question, because Ramadi had been one of Iraq's most dangerous cities for years. This time, to the astonishment of anyone focused on Baghdad, the armed men were not members of al-Qaeda in Iraq but allies of the Americans, albeit tentative ones. Ramadi, the capital of turbulent al Anbar Province, had begun to provide a counterexample to Baghdad. That turnaround, led by Col. Sean MacFarland, would take place even as the senior Marine intelligence officer in the country pronounced the province lost.

Ramadi in 2006 would become the link between the first successful large-scale US counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq, in Tall Afar in 2005, and the “surge” counter-offensive in Baghdad in 2007.

By chance, MacFarland's unit first had been assigned to replace the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Tall Afar, in the far northwest of Iraq, and had spent several months there before moving south to Ramadi. What MacFarland and his subordinates had seen there was very different from how the US military had operated in Iraq for several years. The new approach made sense to him."
http://tinyurl.com/dahbkl (timesuk)

The leftist's very own quagmire.
BDS & ODS = BDSODS.

Walkom mentions "Shades too of Lyndon Johnson"; but, does not mention the notorious JFK.
Yes, Vietnam was a Democratic quagmire.
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"Obama's very own quagmire"
Thomas Walkom

"Obama's Afghan strategy seems remarkably similar to that of Bush."

"Obama is to formally lay out his full Afghan strategy next month. But his actions to date give a good idea of what it will be: more money; more troops; a wider war.

Shades of Vietnam. Shades too of Lyndon Johnson, the U.S. president whose decision to send in the Marines turned that so-called brush-fire war into an all-out conflagration."
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/592577

maz2, it's always break the will to fight. For some, violence is all they know. I don't know if we can overcome this.

Ways to do it is through humour and games, but some "societies" are so far gone that it may be hopeless.

O's Mao Stlong words:

Obama said:

"Chinese’s biggest mistake with regard to the Tienanmen Square massacre was “the failure to intervene on a timely basis to nip the demonstrations in the bud”?)"*
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"Tiananmen mothers call for probe of 1989 crackdown"

BEIJING - A group of mothers whose children were killed in the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square have renewed calls to China's leaders for a full investigation as the 20th anniversary approaches.

The Tiananmen Mothers - a group of mothers and relatives who lost family in the June 4 pro-democracy crackdown - has issued similar appeals before, but this one comes in a politically sensitive year where the government is scrambling to deal with concerns about social stability amid the economic crisis.

The open letter made public Friday called for an official investigation, compensation to the victims' families and punishment for those responsible.

It also urged Chinese leaders to "break the taboo" of the demonstrations and seek the truth behind the military crackdown against student-led protesters.

China's leaders sent tanks and troops to crush the peaceful protests on June 3-4, which were deemed a threat to Communist Party rule. Hundreds - possibly thousands - of people were believed to have been killed. The government has never allowed for a full accounting of the events and is sensitive to any criticism of its handling of the crisis."
http://tinyurl.com/cy6cxt
*http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195310/posts

"It "could lead to the end of the CBC," Steve Waddell, chief of the actors' union ACTRA, told the Star."

Looming is cutting Suzuki's "The Nature of Things" and "The National with Peter"?

Kneel MacDonald is not even mentioned. Bonner gets no mention. All of them are in "Jeopardy".

Fire. Them. All.
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"Looming cuts would shake CBC to its core"
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/593930

I now see that the Pentagon will begin allowing the photographing of coffins coming back to the US. These leftist bastards are nothing in not propagandists willing to stop at nothing to promote an agenda. The families of the returning dead should be outraged.

Kneel Mac and the sneering Suzie B and the rest of the Liberal loving CBC stale-warts will either get more vitriolic, or report the facts without the spin. If their survival relies more on sponsors, which rely on viewership, perhaps they'll choose the latter.

Cleaning up the CBC should start at the top.
At least the government has reminded them we're in a recession and that includes them.

I'll volunteer my management services to "help" the CBC reduce its budget.

Should take me about 10 minutes.

http://tinyurl.com/d8jzr7
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"When Race Doesn’t Fit
by David Yeagley

"“Gramma, I don’t wanna see no black Sanni Klawz!”

A little black girl complained to her grandmother when the elder of her black church dressed up like Santa Clause for a Christmas Party. I heard the two grandmothers in conversation, getting a big laugh out of the little girl’s complaint. I was a member of that black church. (I attended regularly, weekly, for four years.) It is a simple, small, country town church, idyllic, quaint, and full of folk wisdom."
http://www.badeagle.com/
(David Yeagley is the great-great-grandson of Comanche leader Bad Eagle."

I find the results of G&M's poll yesterday(Re CBC), Truly amazing. If you looked at the comments in the article in the same paper on the same topic the Majority were against the CBC.
So was the Poll fixed?

I find the results of G&M's poll yesterday(Re CBC), Truly amazing. If you looked at the comments in the article in the same paper on the same topic the Majority were against the CBC.
So was the Poll fixed?

* "It's the end of an era," said pressroom supervisor Bill Metcalfe, who has been with the newspaper since 1983."

** US Democratic Governor: >>> "We're losing a newspaper that has helped create history."

The PET Cemetery, leftistMSM sub-section is accepting newspapers for recycle.
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**"(Colorado Gov) Ritter: Newspaper's closure 'sad' (Official Dinosaur Media Wake®)

Gov. Bill Ritter called it "a very, very sad day."

Ritter was speaking to newspaper executives at a luncheon today at the Governor's Mansion when the news came. Someone in the audience stood and said it was official: The Rocky Mountain News was closing.

"We're losing a Colorado icon," Ritter said of the nearly 150-year-old newspaper. "We're losing a newspaper that has helped create history."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195371/posts
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Brockville, Ontario, Canada.

* "Printing presses fall silent at R&T after 188-year run

When the printing presses fell silent at The Recorder and Times in the wee hours of this morning, it marked the end of 188 years of history."
http://www.recorder.ca/PrintArticle.aspx?e=1425604

Of course it was fixed, that's what commies do. Playing fair is not in their rule book. I think it's long past time we started doing the same.

Conservatives spend so much time trying to be nice to liberals it's pathetic. We try to reason with them. You can't reason with a liberal, it's like trying to reason with a rattler. Pearls before swine maybe?

The way the world is turning against anything right and moral will only end one way. In bloodshed. I know it's a stretch from talking about a fixed poll, but fixed polls and stolen elections are all part of the left's agenda. Look at the way they are trying to suppress anyone critical of obama. Bush was fair game but not their messiah. Things are going to go downhill very fast from here.

Trust in God and your guns. Just my opinion folks.

bryanr - not only was the poll probably fixed but it went against other polls on the same question in other newspapers which polled the exact opposite. And, as you note, comments were almost completely hostile to the CBC.

On another note - [atheist]quebecois separatiste - kindly get your facts straight. The Iraq War was over about three months after it began. What took place after that, was internal insurgency against, not the Americans, but against the new Iraqi government.

Kindly brush up on some history. The ME has governed itself by tribalism for thousands of years. To move into democracy, where no tribe is dominant over others and where the people, each and every person, has political and economic power - rather than an elite tribe...was quite a change. The fighting going on in Iraq was internal tribe vs tribe; those tribes didn't want to lose their elite control and hand over power to the people in a democracy. That's what the US and other countries were doing; helping the new democracy develop. Kindly learn some facts.

What's your point about CanWest? The lack of entrepreneurship in Quebec, about 18.6% lower than in the rest of Canada, ought to be of more concern to you in your agenda of an independent Quebec.

Buh bye!!

And don't let the door hit you in the a$$ as you head back to nice safe and stable Somalia.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2009/02/27/8551876-sun.html

Buh bye!!

And don't let the door hit you in the a$$ as you head back to nice safe and stable Somalia.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2009/02/27/8551876-sun.html

The Winnipeg Free Press poll numbers were jumping all over the place yesterday. I mean, the totals would go from over 1000, back to 500 and back up again. So, yes, there was fixing, and it was internal.

Brianr, I don't think the poll was fixed. I think somewhere an email went out to hundreds, maybe thousands of union members, who were voting en block, possibly repeatedly (possible to do that if you clear your cache).

RE CBC - nice letter to the editor in the National Post today re a guy's experience in Montreal at the CBC

Re "poll fixing" - I don't know what that means. If someone circulates the poll to employees at the CBC in a mass e-mail, and asks people to head there to vote, is that vote fixing?

If SDA directs traffic there for voting, is that vote fixing?

I'm sure the numbers are real, it's just that word gets out to some people in greater numbers than others. And those who like "free stuff" will still want "free stuff".

For Leonard Cohen fans:

Rick Richman, First He Took Manhattan

The incomparable Leonard Cohen performed last week at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan – his first U.S. performance in 15 years...

You can listen to 12 songs from the Beacon Theater concert, recorded live...

Erik: CBC en mass
thats a very good point & would not surprise me, Afterall are their not over 10,000 CBC employee's sucking the taxpayers of this country dry.

Vitrivius/Kate:

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think SDA has covered the growing and very worrying Obama not being fit for Potus re: His American citizen legality.

Some in the US army including now a retired General wants proof.

Read latest at World Net Daily (Google it)

Or see the hundreds of youtubes on it with the most important being the Orly Taitz action suites and her (She's a lawyer) ripping up the US media (At a media scrum!) for completely blacking out this all along.

IMO, this is huge! Am I wrong? Did I fell into a truther trap a la moonlanding conspiracy?...With what I see; I don't think so.

Worth looking into folks!

RHTT - I don't know if it's a huge issue or not. Issues only become huge when they get mass media traction and public outrage.

Obama is American born, but if I had to guess, he and his mother's travels and activities may have resulted in him forfeiting citizenship. I don't know, and really I don't think it will make any difference.

In any case, it's too late now. Other people have tried to challenge this even before the election. It won't get mass media traction, and even if there was some procedural event to let citizenship lapse, nobody will pay attention.

Which is maybe as it should be. Article II Section 1 is *so* 1776.

erik- how could Obama's travels have resulted in him forfeiting US citizenship? That doesn't, to my knowledge, happen. Just because you live in another country doesn't mean you forfeit your citizenship.

If he forfeited US citizenship, he'd have to be a citizen of another country - and which one is that? And, in that case, he'd have to have entered the US with the passport of that other country.

It's a non-issue. His legitimacy would have to be determined by the US Supreme Court, and it has already acknowledged him, twice, by swearing him in as President.

What it needed, now, is to concentrate on make it very public and very clear - his agenda to deprive Americans of their constitutional rights and freedoms.

The story of Obama's birth is that he was born in Kenya and his mother took him to Hawaii when he was about 6 weeks old so he would be an American citizen and there were some fudged documents.

Kenyans have said they were there for his birth in Kenya, including his grandmother on his father's side, but these voices were "quieted".

If he WAS born in Kenya he could not be President of the United States.

Thanks ET - you are right - my laziness caught up to me - I should have reread before I posted:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/citizen.asp

There was some other stuff about him being registered by his mother as a citizen of Indonesia, and not the US, blah blah blah.

In the end, John McCain may have had a harder battle to convince people that he was a natural born US Citizen, given that he was born in the Panama Canal Zone.

In the end, I agree it's a non-issue. We are where we are now.

Tea at the Tea Party banned?
Will American patriots rebel?
Have Americans become Odhimmis?

Where is the "... Spirit of '76 (history), a patriotic phrase related to the United States' declaration of liberty from the United Kingdom in 1776"? (wiki)
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"(Iowa) State Officials Ban Tea From Tea Party-(Violates Clean Water Act!)

Via Snapped Shot and STACLU comes news that Iowa state officials have banned the use of tea by Tea Party protesters holding an event tomorrow in Cedar Rapids.

The tea violates environmental standards because it will discolor the water:

A Cedar Rapids group will do a symbolic tea dumping into the Cedar River on Saturday because state officials won’t let them use the real thing.

An anti-tax group wanted to pitch in real tea like the Bostonian revolutionaries opposed to England’s tea taxes.

Tea, although natural and quite tasty, is considered a pollutant that can’t go into a body of water without a permit, said Mike Wade, a senior environmental specialist at the DNR’s Manchester field office.

“Discoloration is considered a violation,” Wade said. What would our Founding Fathers say?"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195525/posts

The whole Obama-not-born-in-US thing is a sign of how pathetic some republicans have gotten. Conservatives have moonbats of their own, it seems.

EVEN IF he was not born in the US.... EVEN IF.... would the US, Canada, or the world be better off if this became an issue? There's no way he will out of power. It would just create more chaos at the worst possible time.

Look, we better accept the fact that 8 years of Bush's weak domestic policies (I'm being diplomatic here...) opened the door for the next democratic POTUS. It happened to be Obama because the man is a good talker. But practically ANY democrat candidate would have beaten any republican candidate, because that's the nature of politics. The repubs had their kick and the can, and did a shitty job domestically.

There's not much we can do about it, and now we have to eat shit while Obama and his cronies try to deconstruct and reconstruct the US according to their ideas.

But.... if conservatives in the US spend the next 4 years fighting last year's battle and not preparing for the next battle, and for gubernatorial battles, and for house battles, to gradually take back the ground that (I believe) Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich took, and that George Bush those he appointed lost, then we will have 8 years of unopposed Obama, and then possibly a constitutional amendment so that as the US is falling apart in 2016, only the SHOO (strong hand of Obama) can keep things together for yet another term.

It sucks that a socialist is running the US.

It sucks more that Republicans have forgotten what a US Republic is all about, and what the words of Jefferson and Madison were all about. Because in the long run, that's the most damaging thing of all.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com
Pamela Geller covered the issue of B. Hussien Obama and his bogus american citizenship.

interesting to see how the media empires dominos are starting to accelerate...
Rocky Mountain News had weekday home deliveries of about double the Calgary Herald.. so who will be next?
will it be San Fran's Chronicle? should we have a poll?? jaja.

Re: my comment above. Just read the column by Johnathan Kay in the Post today.

http://tinyurl.com/cfbckm

Maybe it's time for a third American political party. It would result in 10-20 years in power for the Democrats, but maybe that's a price worth paying...

TracKing the Kat Meat.
STOPIGGY + Kat Meat = Liberal Party.
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"McNeil eager to celebrate 'rebirth' of N.S. Liberals at annual meeting"

"On Saturday, Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella will be the guest speaker in the afternoon and federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff will deliver a speech in the evening."
http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1108597.html

Obama has never produced an actual birth certificate. the copy of one shown has inconsitencies with the labling of the day.

something like where it says race , it is filled in as african american community organizer. instead of black activist.

Rebirth of a liberal? Isn't that like a snake shedding it's skin? It's still a snake.

Lori - re the death of conservatism - I do think it is happening.

Many reasons, but primarily because of the loss of the elusive "Puritan work ethic" - which encouraged self-reliance, accountability, and hard work.

Now, our society wants everything for nothing.

Where is the sacrifice that Obama has been talking about? He is essentially asking the *Chinese* to sacrifice their wealth, by continuing to buy US treasuries that will undoubtedly decrease in value.

Well, look for China to come in and buy up American companies/properties in the next year or two - they have to do something with all their USD.

Re:"yes, there was fixing, and it was internal." We know there was fixing going on (I was thinking CBC employees), because the majority of CBC fans are simply not blogging/Internet demographic.

"Obama has never produced an actual birth certificate" -- Moreover, he has spent about $800,000 in legal fees avoiding having to produce the $10 certificate. I think media will start paying attention to this when the public becomes sufficiently disillusioned with Obama and want to get rid of him. I think this will take a couple of years.

there is evidence that the birth certificate shown has been altered. its the Rathergate thing except the bloggers havent pursued it yet.

http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=78962771448&h=3Vbf6&u=kBl23

Cute "Toothpaste for Dinner" comic