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Jim Hansen’s Newfound Peers At The Capitol Climate Action Meet - Hippies, all.

{At no time did the simultaneous viewers counter ever reach 1000, the highest I saw was 970. Likewise the number of total viewers that were counted never exceeded 10,000, and the final I saw just before they went off air for the first live feed (with Hansen et al) was 9978. It appears that many people clicked to check it out, but few stayed for the long haul.} WUWT

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/02/jim-hansens-newfound-peers-at-the-capitol-climate-action/

From Comments at Watts Up with That

Allan M R MacRae (03:55:20) :

My vote for best post of the day - thank you HR. :-)

H.R. (03:03:30) :

So much for civil disobedience. Nobody seemed to have thought to bring chains and locks to chain themselves to the powerplant fence.

If there were any quick thinkers in the group they could have had everyone stick their tongues on the frigid chain link fence poles. It would have brought scores of police and emeds to the scene. That would have been spectacular publicity. (hmm… Maybe even good for a Guinness record.)

On the down (plus?) side, all those tongues stuck to the fence would have put a crimp in the chanting and speeches.

“hut ‘oo ‘e ‘ant? ‘OO coa’ ‘OOOW!!!” (Tongues stuck to fence)

Check out www.obamaforum.com ...

Half of the posts sound like they were written by an insane asylum inmate, the other half like they were written by TheOnion ...

Day By Day

Consevative comics of the year!

http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/

should read "conserative" - I so can't spell at 3.00 AM...

G&M comment of the week (at link).

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090302.wcowent03/CommentStory/specialComment/home#comment3235885

Awesome. :-)

"I like soup"

Just about says it all about the HRCs.

Nice find!

Well, it is official. Chimpy Mcjerkoff is the worst premier in the history of Ontario.

At least zimbobrae had the balls to try to control spending on civil servants. Chimpy Mcuseless......giving them pay raises.

And then the idiot has the nerve to say that the pay raises he is doling out is good for the economy.

Couple that with his 5 billion "tilting at windmills" stimulus, and one could safely say that Ontario is heading straight into the toilet.(eco friendly, composting toilet, of course).

The only positive that I can see out of all of this is the fact that the majority of the latte sipping librano jerkoffs who voted for this clown are seeing their net worth destroyed by the decimation of Ontario's manufacturing base.

Cuz, this time, them there jobs are not coming back.

WELL DONE, YOU LYING SACK OF S#$% LIBRANO JERKOFF !

All is not well in Obamaland. Some Democrats, smelling 2010 ahead, are covering their bases.

"Democratic Revolt May Slow Obama Agenda"

The Wall Street Journal is beginning to blame Obama for 2009's bear market within a bear market. It'll be an interesting tussle in the months ahead. Wall Street ain't with the poll numbers as of now, but its denizens may prove to be a leading indicator of American sentiment overall.

"The Obama Economy: As the Dow keeps dropping, the President is running out of people to blame."

"President Barack Obama just plain rude to Britain. Don't call us in future.

Why couldn't President Obama have put on more of a show for his British guests? He looked like he simply couldn't be bothered.

Number 10 may be content that they just about got away with the visit to the Oval Office yesterday, as Andrew Porter reports from Washington.

But on this side of the Atlantic the whole business looked pretty demeaning. The morning papers and TV last night featured plenty of comment focused on the White House's very odd and, frankly, exceptionally rude treatment of a British PM. Squeezing in a meeting, denying him a full press conference with flags etc. The British press corps, left outside for an hour in the cold, can take it and their privations are of limited concern to the public.

But Obama's merely warmish words (one of our closest allies, said with little sincerity or passion) left a bitter taste with this Atlanticist. Especially after his team had made Number 10 beg for a mini press conference and then not even offered the PM lunch.

We get the point, sunshine: we're just one of many allies and you want fancy new friends. Well, the next time you need something doing, something which impinges on your national security, then try calling the French, or the Japanese, or best of all the Germans. The French will be able to offer you first rate support from their catering corps but beyond that you'll be on your own."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198814/posts
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"Ted Kennedy to receive knighthood"

The Queen has agreed the honour for the brother of former US president John F Kennedy for services to the US-UK relationship and to Northern Ireland.

Gordon Brown is to formally announce the award during his address to both houses of Congress on Wednesday."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7922703.stm

"Profiles in Treason: Joseph Kennedy, Tyler Kent And Scott McClellan"

"On November 10, 1940 Kennedy told the Boston Sunday Globe that "Democracy is finished in England. It may be here…" It isn't that [Britain is] fighting for democracy. That's the bunk. She's fighting for self-preservation, just as we will if it comes to us...I know more about the European situation than anybody else, and it's up to me to see that the country gets it."

When President Roosevelt read Kennedy’s quotes he recalled him from Britain, and ordered him to resign or be fired. After Kennedy left the oval office, FDR reportedly told the Secret Service: “Never let that son of a bitch in here again.”"
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/profiles-in-treason-joseph-kennedy-tyler-kent-and-scott-mcclellan/

What Iggy and Taliban Jack do not want Canadians to know and what the CBC will never tell us.

http://tinyurl.com/bbdrnd

Lowest in GDP negatives and the only G7 nation with positive Industrial growth.

Will Taliban Jack's head explode, again? Will he get off his "butts", again?*
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"Obama suggests stocks are cheap.

Hey ... didn't Stephen Harper say that a while ago?

Remember all the trouble Prime Minister Stephen Harper got into when he suggested last fall that Canadians take advantage of the falling stock market?

"I think there's probably some great buying opportunities emerging in the stock market as the consequence of all this panic," he said in the midst of the federal election campaign.

Man was he nailed for that. How cold, how insensitive, how oblivious to the suffering of the Canadian people.

"I couldn't believe what I was hearing from the prime minister, to make that kind of flippant comment when people are literally wondering whether they can retire, they're wondering whether they're going to be able to pay their mortgages, they're wondering how they're going to get by," said Jack Layton. "It just left me shaking my head.""
urlm.in/bulf (NP)
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*Taliban Jack: "My head exploded that year.".

""Until Montréal, most of the discussion was introspective," Layton recalled in 1999. "Then the massacre happened, and it got us off our butts. My head exploded that year. 'What must it be like for women?' I thought."
http://www.gendercide.org/case_montreal.html

"Meet Jim Karygiannis - Liberal MP and Tamil Tiger enabler"

"There is a glaring omission in this profile of Karygiannis.

The writer makes no mention of the MP's connections to the terrorist Tamil Tigers. Over the years Karygiannis has attended pro-Tiger rallies in Toronto. (see Stewart Bell's book Cold Terror for some of the details.)

After the December 2004 Asian tsunami he made a controversial trip to Tiger-controlled areas of Sri Lanka for which he was criticized by another Liberal MP, David Kilgour. Karygiannis represents a riding that has a large number of Tamil voters. He is one of the reasons the Liberal government repeatedly refused to ban the Tigers in Canada - something Harper finally did this year."

http://hogtownfront.blogspot.com/2006/07/meet-jim-karygiannis-liberal-mp-and.html
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"Threat to cut Arab group's funding has Grit fuming

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is facing a possible investigation by Parliament's ethics commissioner in the wake of his threat to axe funding to a group whose president called him a "professional whore."

Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis has filed a complaint against Kenney with Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson, saying he believes the minister violated the parliamentary ethics code."
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2009/03/04/8620256-sun.html

"Feds eye seizure of Tamil property under anti-terror act
Stewart Bell, National Post

The government took the first steps Tuesday toward taking over property in Ontario and Quebec that it says is controlled by a terrorist group involved in South Asia's longest-running civil war.

Federal prosecutors in Toronto and Montreal filed applications in the Federal Court of Canada saying they were seeking the forfeiture of the property of the World Tamil Movement, an outlawed terrorist organization.

It is the first time the government has used the forfeiture provision of the Anti-Terrorism Act, which allows the Attorney General to seize "property owned or controlled by or on behalf of a terrorist group."

The list of items the government wants to strip from the World Tamil Movement of Ontario and World Tamil Movement of Quebec fills 300 pages and includes everything from bank accounts to golf shirts bearing the Tamil Tigers emblem."
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1349723

Item #3409 in textbook media bias.

Headline of Toronto Star article:

Rush to judgment: Caps owner likens Cherry to windbag Limbaugh

If you notice, "windbag" isn't in quotes. It's the Star's characterization of the most successful talk radio host in the world, who happens to be conservative. How dare he!

The article then goes on to characterize recent comments of Don Cherry's as "widely seen as anti-European."

Yes, "widely" meaning "by us God-like Liberals", of course.

The link to the article:

http://www.thestar.com/sports/article/596242

Here is an excellent column by Victor Davis Hanson, cautioning Obama to stop dividing America into 'the evil rich' and the 'victim poor', to stop denigrating the Office of the President by personally or, via his Press Office, attacking people (Hannity, Limbaugh) who disagree with him, to stop setting up Bush as the Evil Past and himself as the Pure Future, and to be careful about dismantling the middle class of America.

Obama The Great Divider

My comments are that this behaviour is indicative of his narcissism.

His narcissism moves him to constant selfpraise and self-description which functions as The Image which he wants people to see. The disparity between the Actual Obama and this Controlled and Manufactured Image is a problem for Obama. He has to control what you see...and since he has moved himself into a situation where the disparity is obvious, he's vulnerable to criticism. And he can't handle this; he has to stop it.

Obama will use 'divide and conquer' as a tactic to refocus people's attention; they'll focus on the 'rich' or 'the poor' or Bush or whatever.

The Democrats will try to divide the Republicans into Steele vs Limbaugh - which is silly. The 'right' side includes both and many more and it is vital that the 'right' not narrow its membership at this moment but broaden it to include as many dissenters and questioners as possible. In a year the winnowing out and the clarification of policies and focus can develop. Not now.

But I'm curious how someone as pathological as Obama, and I do believe that his psychological nature is not a mild case but a severe case, can deal with 'the slings and arrows' of being observed.

On another note - why did Obama drop the courtesy and it is a courtesy, of an official pomp and ceremony press conference, with all the Marines and the flags - for the British PM? Bush always did it and it acknowledged the importance of these other leaders and their countries. Obama's press conference with the UK's PM Brown, had them both sitting in chairs, no ceremony, and no real conference or presentation. Why? Heh - is this that narcissism again?

I always wondered why maz2's posts are so childish and now I know why.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEE25OyAUAc

From comments at Watts Up With That

A Must Read

Global Warming and Climate Change in Perspective: Truths and Myths About Carbon Dioxide, Scientific Consensus, and Climate Models

Statement to the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee by William Happer, Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University, made on February 25, 2009.

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5441

"In Norway sixty-nine years ago, Nazi bullets shattered the narcissistic dream."

"Why were people not “awake” to the obvious threats against the civilized order? The answer lies in the implied social diagnosis of Undset’s novels. Even the tentative consumerism of 1930s Norway had made citified, “cosmopolite” Norwegians self-absorbed and oblivious of evil, at least as Undset saw things. Trouble happened elsewhere, in Poland, perhaps, or in Finland. Trouble could not possibly afflict me, in the secure precincts of my world, which existed to respond to my needs. The ego saw its challenge in career, status, sex, and the acquisition of material chattels. Many people, quick to sense a trend, wanted to assimilate to the Brandesian model of the “Good European,” whose careless liberalism precluded any belief in actual evil. In the 1920s it was the “Good European.” Today it is the “Good Globalist” or the “Good Green Citizen.” In Norway sixty-nine years ago, Nazi bullets shattered the narcissistic dream."
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"Sigrid Undset Crosses Russia: The Remarkable Case of Back from the Future (1942)

Seeing things plain, not lying to oneself, not subscribing to the delusions of others – these virtues, seemingly so simple, prove in life difficult to achieve and tricky to exercise. An inevitable imitative pressure assimilates people to one another so that mere opinion, received but never vetted, comes to function as a surrogate reality, in the cave-like error of which people stumble about their errands in a lurching mockery of witting behavior. The ancients worried about false or second-hand judgment (doxa) or about superstition. Modern people must grapple with ideology. The critique of ideology is the single most important exercise that an individual can undertake who wants to stand in truth and by his own lights against the conformist pressure of public opinion, or what dissenters nowadays call political correctness.

Norwegian author Sigrid Undset (1882–1949), born to a family of Danish freethinkers and raised in Norway in an atmosphere of urbane secularity, confronted the hollowness of that ethos in the aftermath of World War One when she shocked her familiars by embracing Roman Catholicism."
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3813

(Via SWJ) Ayesha Nasir, Pakistani vigilantes take on Taliban

Do-it-yourself security teams are becoming a fixture in and around Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province, as residents grow wary of the Taliban's growing presence – and doubtful of the government's ability to protect them. Some officials have backed the vigilantes, even supplied them with weapons...

Such village militias have been credited with reducing violence in Iraq. A similar initiative is being considered in Afghanistan...

Gang violence in Canada linked to Mexico drug wars

The increase in gang violence on the streets of Vancouver and other Canadian cities has direct ties to the grisly drug-cartel wars that have terrorized Mexico and some American border towns, say Canadian and U.S. police...

(Via SWJ) Yochi J. Dreazen, U.S. Strategy in Afghan War Hinges on Far-Flung Outposts

President Barack Obama is hoping to boost the flagging war effort in Afghanistan by sending 17,000 reinforcements. Most of them will be deployed to small, remote bases such as Seray, a walled compound of trenches and fortified buildings near the Pakistan border. Many of these new outposts will be in eastern and southern Afghanistan, the most violent parts of the country.

But will the troops in these tiny redoubts be able to carry out the often conflicting missions of fighting insurgents and building relationships with local villagers, or will these soldiers and Marines merely be easy targets?...

The Story of the Malakand Field Force
(Swat Valley)

Author: Sir Winston S. Churchill

"From a general survey of the people and the country, it would seem that
silver makes a better weapon than steel. A system of subsidies must tend
to improve our relations with the tribes, enlist their interests on the
side of law and order, and by increasing their wealth, lessen their
barbarism. In the matter of the supply of arms the Government would find
it cheaper to enter the market as a purchaser, and have agents to outbid
the tribesmen, rather than to employ soldiers. As water finds its own
level, so the laws of economics will infallibly bring commodities to the
highest bidder. Doubtless there are many other lessons which the present
war will have taught."

"Looking on the story of the great frontier war; at all that has been
told, and all that others may tell, there must be many who to-day will
only deplore the losses of brave soldiers and hard-earned money. But
those who from some future age shall, by steady light of history,
dispassionately review the whole situation, its causes, results and
occasion, may find other reflections, as serious perhaps, but less
mournful. The year 1897, in the annals of the British people, was marked
by a declaration to the whole world of their faith in the higher
destinies of their race. If a strong man, when the wine sparkles at the
feast and the lights are bright, boasts of his prowess, it is well he
should have an opportunity of showing in the cold and grey of the
morning that he is no idle braggart. And unborn arbiters, with a wider
knowledge, and more developed brains, may trace in recent events the
influence of that mysterious Power which, directing the progress of our
species, and regulating the rise and fall of Empires, has afforded that
opportunity to a people, of whom at least it may be said, that they have
added to the happiness, the learning and the liberties of mankind."
(Download from gutenberg.org)

A must read today in the National Post today : "Look who screened refugees" by John Ivison.
For 11 years under Liberal government this Khaled Mouammar who has called Jason Kenney, our immigration Minister, a "professional whore" was a sitting member of our refugee board. He had sole discretion who should stay in Canada. This dude has deep roots in the LPC and he wants Hamas and hezzbollah removed from the banned organizations and replaced with Israeli Defence Forces.

Sure hope the government is checking this one out and find out who got into this country for the 11 years prior to 2005.

ET - re Obama and narcissism - I wonder if the treatment of Gordon Brown on his recent visit can be linked to this.

By that, I wonder if narcissists don't really treat friends well, but instead expend all their energies recruiting new friends to satisfy their ego.

I bet that shoe fits.

see that the U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has said that the insurance giant AIG "was a hedge fund basically that was attached to a large and stable insurance company, made huge numbers of irresponsible bets (and) took huge losses".

So let's label the Quebec Caisse de Dépôt et Placement what it really is: a hedge fund that was attached to a large and stable pension company.

More importantly than who is to blame for the Caisse's huge losses, is how is the government going to make up the money? This must be watched closely since they will use all sorts of creative means to rob Peter to pay Paul.

It is very unfortunate that Mario Dumont stepped down just as the A.D.Q., the most free-entreprise party, could have claimed credit for challenging the government on the amount of losses early on. Now the Parti Quebecois is inheriting the mantle of protector of taxpayers.

Charest concealed the losses and won a majority government.

I see that the U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has said that the insurance giant AIG "was a hedge fund basically that was attached to a large and stable insurance company, made huge numbers of irresponsible bets (and) took huge losses".

So let's label the Quebec Caisse de Dépôt et Placement what it really is: a hedge fund that was attached to a large and stable pension company.

More importantly than who is to blame for the Caisse's huge losses, is how is the government going to make up the money? This must be watched closely since they will use all sorts of creative means to rob Peter to pay Paul.

It is very unfortunate that Mario Dumont stepped down just as the A.D.Q., the most free-entreprise party, could have claimed credit for challenging the government on the amount of losses early on. Now the Parti Quebecois is inheriting the mantle of protector of taxpayers.

Charest concealed the losses and won a majority government.

Sam Schulman, President Hamlet

I think we are seeing something very different, and very special, and to those who know their Shakespeare as well as they know their Obama, something poetic. Obama is not a hypocrite, a programmatic radical, or an incompetent--anyone with the patience to read his books can see that he is a 20th-century liberal of a very conventional type: incurious, superior, and vain. What is unique about him is what is unique about Hamlet. Obama avoided the path that so many ambitious men of his own generation have followed--Eliot Spitzer and Andrew Cuomo--from law school to bigger and bigger government offices. Instead, he followed Hamlet's course. He deliberately prolonged his youth, avoided responsibility and serious challenges, put his great gifts to work in the tiniest possible ways--all in order to protect his illusions from contact with very much reality. And now, in this particular job, he is up against the real world for the very first time. Obama's trajectory is Hamlet's, a youth spent as the recognized, indulged, and inevitable Prince, untrammeled by responsibility or experience. But now he is a character in a play that Shakespeare never wrote: Obama has become the king that Hamlet would have been had he enjoyed the services of Axelrod and Plouffe instead of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern...

erik larsen - I completely agree. I think that Obama's shabby treatment of Brown, PM of the UK, is a clear example of his narcissism.

Nothing to do with friendship. Narcissists don't have friends; they have followers. Anyone who is not a follower is someone who, possibly, can't be controlled. Therefore, that person is ignored or denigrated. That's what Obama did to Brown; he effectively denigrated him to irrelevance by treating him without respect. Obama refused to treat him as an equal - something which Bush always did, with a full dress marine guard and flags and a proper press conference.

Stelmach cries, WE NEED MORE WINDMILLS, PLEASE!

Ed Stelmach, Alberta's version of "our fair share" Danny Williams.

Conservatism is dead in Alberta.

RIP

I always liked "You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd", myself.

Roger Miller died too soon.

Dean Martin oozes cool.

at a million a worker , maybe we should pay them half that to go away.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090226.wagenda_morgan02/BNStory/National/

"Comedian Crashes McGuinty Scrum"
G&M mar 04/09

*Geri Hall from this hour has 22min interupted a scrum on the lost jobs at US steel in Hamilton,
Peter Kormos loses it.

looking for video

More childish reports from the MSM; plus, adult comments.
It's not fair.
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"Optimism returning to housing market, RBC survey finds

Confidence appears to be seeping back into the housing market, with a majority of Canadians saying it's a good time to buy, according to the Royal Bank of Canada's annual homeownership survey."
http://tinyurl.com/bjbf55 (G-M)

Adult Comment:

"doom and gloom USA style OOUCH from Vancouver, Canada writes:

I wonder if the Royal Bank has a financial interest in people buy homes? Too bad the globe wouldn't do there own survey with none leading questions to get the answers they want. Next they will be asking realtor's if it is a good time to buy.

Financial propaganda"

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/04/saskatchewan.economy/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

(CNN) -- Normally, "hot spot" isn't the first phrase that comes to mind when talking about Saskatchewan, Canada.

But with most of Canada suffering from devastating job losses, this cold province is becoming exactly that.....

Manitoba is doing good as well.

>>>> "it was one of the finest seven-minute performances by a Canadian prime minister in the entire television era."
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"Harper takes the straight talk express to U.S.

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper went on CNBC's The Kudlow Report in New York last week and left economist Larry Kudlow, the show's exuberant host, dazzled out of his mind. Rightly so. In its own way, it was one of the finest seven-minute performances by a Canadian prime minister in the entire television era.

Mr. Harper was assertive without hint of the aggressor, confident without hint of the braggart, critical of the United States (and, implicitly, of President Barack Obama) without hint of the anti-American.

In his subsequent blog on this interview, Mr. Kudlow called Mr. Harper "an impressive statesman." Canada, he said, was "lucky to have him at the helm."

It was, simply put, a memorable conversation. Excerpts would make excellent Conservative TV commercials in the next federal election. Here are a few selected excerpts of their exchange:"
http://tinyurl.com/bwee9z
(G-M without Comments. Why no comments?)

Mao Stlong say, burned sour balls goody.

*"China got burned."
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"Tycoons tumble as ailing China turns against capitalism

How the dream has gone sour for those who got rich on the back of political patronage - then lost it"
urlm.in/buls (timesuk)
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*"Which way did he go, George?"
urlm.in/bult (belmont)

And here's something else on Obama.

The Return of Big government

It's by Fred Barnes. Some comments, "When Barack Obama met with TV anchors at a White House lunch last week, he assured them he likes being president. "And it turns out I'm very good at it," he added. Well, not exactly. What Obama is actually very good at is campaigning. He did it for two years as a presidential candidate, and it's pretty much what he's been doing in the six weeks since he was sworn in.

It's working. Despite the bad economy he inherited, the political circumstances, for Obama at least, are favorable. He's popular, as new presidents usually are. He talks about "hard choices" but hasn't made any. With large Democratic majorities in Congress, he's free of worry about rebellion on Capitol Hill. Despite glitches in picking his cabinet, his cool demeanor is unshaken. He governs campaign-style, largely with speeches and announcements. No wonder he enjoys being president. Accountability comes later.

But there's a problem. Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy. "

"That's the world Obama continues to inhabit. Like a candidate, he's a quick-change artist, constantly switching roles. Twice last week, he insisted he doesn't favor "big government." Then he proposed a budget that would vastly expand the size and reach of the federal government, add $600 billion to the deficit, and produce a one-year shortfall of $1.2 trillion (or more). This prompted House Republican leader John Boehner to proclaim, quite accurately, that the "era of big government is back."

And that's what is interesting - the gap between the world that Obama lives in, his own fictional rhetoric - and reality. A reality that he will only deal with if he can control it, control how people act towards him. What happens when reality is stronger than his fictional world?

Into the PET Cemetery with Dionky and Kyoto and Lizzy and the Separatist Coalition, say STOPIGGY, the Liberal Expunger.
Will Iggy follow?

Dionky whimpers, bam that dog*.
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"These days, Liberal officials are said to be struggling to put together a proper tribute for Dion at next month's Vancouver convention. Whatever shape it ultimately takes, in all but name, it will be a funeral for the stillborn concept of a united left."

"Ignatieff swiftly expunging Dion legacy"
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/596133
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*"The car goes by, and bam, the dog. Now go to sleep." Mr. Dion laughed, but a columnist with La Presse wrote that the moment demonstrated "that he lacks ..."
portal.sre.gob.mx/canada/pdf/doesi19.pdf

J.E. Dyer, Hit 'em Hard II

Reverse! Reverse!

As events accelerate with Iran’s nuclear programs – as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff informs us Iran has passed the key threshold of possessing enough low-enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon — we may ask ourselves: Is it still possible to use kinetic force against Iran’s nuclear programs today? And is it still a realistic option?

The answer to both questions is yes...

"China got burned."

This blog report from the Council on Foreign Relations is chock full of acronyms, e.g., MAOSTLONG.

Commenter twofish says:
"One curious thing about all of these numbers is that they don’t give any sense at all about who in China actually controls what money."

Answer? Mao Stlong.
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"Secrets from the Treasury’s Survey: It looks like China bought a lot of equities just before the stock market tumbled"
http://tinyurl.com/cdxpxg

I thought you might like this Kate. motosketches.blogspot.com Its in Italian but the motorcycle art is outstanding in my opinion.

Having my Hopes Dashed once again, believing the Leafs might have a chance at the Stanley Cup this decade(lol), And while watching the trades today I missed this on the News.

"Court Order's Ottawa to Seek Clemency for Canadian on Death Row"
Globe & Mail Mar.04/09

*A federal court of Canada Judge has Ordered the federal govt to resume diplomatic efforts to spare the life of Canadian Ronald Smith....

*Mr Justice Robert Barnes said that the Canadian Government could have a profound influence on whether Mr Smith is Executed.....

And this Doozie

"Senator Predicts NFLD Separatist Party"
Toronto Star Mar.04/09

*Thats a warning from Liberal Senator George Baker.....

IMO SEE Ya's
that goes for the Murdering Scum too

"Comedian crashes McGuinty's Scrum"
G&M mar04/09

video is now there with the article, However dont look for the article in the Politics section Its in the Arts.

My condolences bryanr.

But usually the Leafs are out of it by Xmas.
You've improved!

"As any damned fool can see, the Israel-Palestine problem is the major problem facing the world today."

"Terra incognita"
urlm.in/buno

Lord, bryanr, you scared me there. I glanced quickly at your post and I thought at first that it said, "Comedian crushes McGuinty's Scrotum".