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Cartoon - Obama's Hybrid

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_otfwl2zc6Qc/Sa1LleigmcI/AAAAAAAAJWw/VAlIuqsEvJI/s1600/cartoon.jpg

checking out some strange stuff and came across this.

http://www.rense.com/ufo6/sas.htm

lots dates before saskatchewan got electricity in 1976

I was following a school bus this morning, in southern AB. He put on his flashing lights, and I came to a stop, watching the small boy waiting to cross the road. Just as the bus pulled up, the driver angled across the oncoming lane, blocking traffic in both directions.

I take my hat off to that driver, who took it upon himself to make sure his passengers are safe, on, and off the bus. After the tragic incident near Calgary last week, I hope all drivers take a more pro-active approach. Sometimes defensive driving alone is not enough.

waiting for national geographic to do a photoshoot of thins

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&refer=exclusive&sid=aErNiP_V4RLc

however. that being said, Dr. Mengele Suzuki encouraged just such a lifestyle. mind you not on the beach by the kitsalano boathouse.

Memorial for Aqsa Parvez to go up in Pelham

A memorial is being erected in a Niagara area park to honour the life of Aqsa Parvez, an Applewood Heights Secondary School student who was strangled to death inside her family's Mississauga home.

The Town of Pelham will install a bench and plant a tree at Peace Park to honour immigrants who are caught between cultures "and are challenged to conform to both."

Pelham councillor Sharon Cook said the bench and tree will honour Parvez.

http://www.mississauganews.com/article/24647

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Pelham is about 60 miles around the other side of Lake Ontario from Mississauga

Sensationalism sells: seems what Global TV is leading the feeding frenzy on. On their 6:00 PM news broadcast they have a hair raising story of a local gun shop importing and selling "Extremely Powerful Military Ammunition" that will penetrate Police body armor, to the "Gangs". It is only available through NATO says Harvey Kirk.
The Ammunition shown on the camera is Wolf brand. It is made in Russia. It is in short supply as NATO is supplying it to the Afghan Army. It is very cheep stuff and is sold in bulk by Cabello's.
It is regularly sold to target shooters (Ball type) and there is a hunting type available as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Ammunition
What is disconcerting is that the Police are implicated themselves in this fraud. I,m not trying to exonerate the gun shop here. They have made some mistakes, but supplying the gangs? Come on!
It's the Criminals; Stupid. Stop surrounding the wrong building.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=amoql5AqN9z4&refer=worldwide

More Than 8.3 Million U.S. Mortgages Are Under Water (Update3)

By Dan Levy

"March 4 (Bloomberg) -- More than 8.3 million U.S. mortgage holders owed more on their loans in the fourth quarter than their property was worth as the recession cut home values by $2.4 trillion last year, First American CoreLogic said.

An additional 2.2 million borrowers will be underwater if home prices decline another 5 percent, First American, a Santa Ana, California-based seller of mortgage and economic data, said in a report today. Households with negative equity or near it account for a quarter of all mortgage holders.

Prices in 20 U.S. cities fell 18.5 percent in December from a year earlier, the fastest drop on record, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller index. Sales of previously owned homes, which account for about 90 percent of the market, fell in January to the lowest since 1997, and new-home purchases plunged to the lowest since records began in 1963, the National Association of Realtors and Commerce Department said.

The geographical distribution of underwater mortgages is broadening beyond states in the U.S. West and Florida, where rapid price appreciation was fueled by subprime lending, to areas in the South and Midwest, Khater said. Cities such as Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and Cleveland will have an increasing share of homes with negative equity if home values drop, he said."

Just one more thing the Fruit Fly guy didn't think about.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/03/04/mb-light-bulbs.html

Just one more thing the Fruit Fly guy didn't think about.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/03/04/mb-light-bulbs.html

that has always been obvious,whole office buildings have 80% of their heat load through lighting.
CBCpravda was screaming for this in the days of the Lieberals. now that it has leaked over as conservative policy they have jumped the fence.

they never have addressed how well these things will work on your porch, in your unheated garage or in an enclosed fixture.

Liberal/CBC hugfest goes bad.

22 Minutes Comedian Attempts To Mock McGuinty, Falls Flat
Wednesday March 4, 2009
The Canadian Press

Single Female Voter struck out Wednesday because of bad timing.

Television comedian Geri Hall's attempt to mock Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty at the provincial legislature fell flat when she interrupted him fielding reporters' questions about job layoffs.
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_32618.aspx

It is excellent to see Liam Clancy do Girl from the North Country. I have not heard this before.

One thing that is interesting is that the Clancy Brothers teamed up with Tommy Makem. Tommy Makem had a tv show in Canada with Ryan's Fancy and I know my parents loved that show - it was right up there with Tommy Hunter.

The Charest government has decided that after all there will not be hearings on the huge losses at the Quebec pension fund, the Caisse de Dépôt et du Placement. Using the excuse that the Parti Quebecois and the Liberals couldn't agree on who would appear as witnesses (the P.Q. wanted Charest to appear, for instance) the hearings into how the Caisse lost $39.8 billion in one year are shut down before they have even started.

Great to be judge, jury and executioner and decide your own fate. Meanwhile the big question remains: where is the government going to steal the money to get the money back - increased deductions from pay cheques, increased fees for government services, skimming perhaps money from Hydro Quebec?

To mike at March 5, 2009 6:14 AM...

CBC is not reporting the story. Not on The National last night, not on any news cast, not on their website. All the other news organizations are reporting the story.

A search for 'Geri Hall' produces this as the latest result:

Comedian cuffed after professing her love for Harper
Last Updated: Friday, September 12, 2008 | 9:45 PM ET

And embedded within the story is this...

"Harper seemed unfamiliar with the show, well known for ambushing Canadian politicians."

Following the story in the comments section is a plethora of remarks about Harper being humorless.

Amazing! And the CBC wonders why its request for a bailout was rejected.

I guess the CBC's take on yesterday's shameful stunt by one of its employees yesterday is that if they don't report it that it simply never happened... like with Krista Erickson.

From the "When all around you is failing, blame the oil companies" file:

"US Treasury secretary attacks oil, gas tax breaks"

And yes, you-know-what is included. Watch for the dis-tract-o maneuver.

National Post: The Khaleds.

"Sympathizer of terror groups was immigration board member

It's well known that Khaled Mouammar wants Ottawa to remove Hamas and Hezbollah from a list of banned organizations and replace them with the Israel Defence Forces.

It's well known that the president of the Canadian Arab Federation recently called Jason Kenney, the Minister of Immigration, a "professional whore" for supporting Israel and criticizing the presence of Hamas and Hezbollah flags at a recent protest, prompting Mr. Kenney to say he would review the CAF's federal funding.

But it is less well known that Mr. Mouammar spent the 11 years prior to February, 2005, sitting as a member of the Immigration and Refugee Board, deciding whether refugee claimants from such North African countries as Morocco, Egypt, Algeria and Somalia should be allowed to stay in Canada."
urlm.in/buos
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"Islamic jihad head killed"

Khaled Kharb Khalad Shaalan, a leading military commander in the radical Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad, was killed in an Israeli air raid while driving driving through the Jabaliya refugee camp near Gaza City yesterday. An Israeli army spokesman said he had been "targeted and killed.""
urlm.in/buoq
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EBD:
That Liam Clancy performance was indeed beautiful. Years ago I studied classical voice (tenor) and quickly became aware of how a simple progression of chords could transform an outwardly limp melody into, in your words, a trancendent experience. Music is truly a mystery.

"Cramer: My Response To The White House"

Stand with Israel, Canada, PM Harper,and Minister Kenney.
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"Yellow and blue stars-More than just Canada must wear the blue star and vote against anti-Zionism"

"TODAY THE JEWISH star is blue, not yellow. Israel has become the Jew amongst nations, demonized, delegitimized, scorned. Yesterday, the world took aim at Jews as individuals. Today, the world takes aim at Jews as a people."

"To take an example, the Human Rights Council in January 2009, at one of its many special sessions directed against Israel, passed a typical Israel bashing resolution, this time about Gaza. The vote was 33 in favour, 13 abstentions, and only one opposed. That one was Canada."

"And the danger is not just in the international arena. Here in Canada, the anti-Israel forces are gathering, on campuses, in the union movement, and on the street. Now is the time for friends of the Jewish State and of freedom and democracy to come forward and let their voice be heard."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199144/posts

"Lewis MacKenzie: Harper’s right

I will never get used to the disconnect between reality and what masquerades as political debate in our House of Commons.

The latest example involves all the partisan posturing over Afghanistan embellished with an apparent dearth of knowledge of things military regarding the Prime Minister’s “we’re not going to win this war just by staying” comments – on, heaven forbid, CNN.

The usual result of a CNN appearance by any Canadian is elevation to instant celebrity status. But, in this case, the entrails of Mr. Harper’s comments regarding the Afghan insurgency continue to be dissected for political gain rather than allowing them to shed some light on a grossly misunderstood campaign.

Past words of encouragement by the Prime Minister to our soldiers while visiting them in Afghanistan – we don’t cut and run – have to be understood in the context of the moment and not as literal policy. Anyone who has had the privilege of leading and motivating soldiers understands that. Equally important is the responsibility to be honest when explaining the mission to the country’s centre of gravity – the public – while the soldiers do the dirty work for the rest of us."
urlm.in/buot

"Submitted by traveller on Wed, 2009-03-04 20:17.

I am, again, going to be a traveller here.
I crisscrossed Siberia South to North, West to East, East to West in the Trans Siberian since the early '90's.
First class had samowars, on burning wood. I provided them with my own mineral water, which I had to share of course.
I absolutely loved it, notwithstanding the obvious poverty.

I shared my sausages and bread, cucumbers and butter and they offered me their deadly home brewn wodka which I fought to refuse since I stopped drinking in 1985.

This created a chill for at least an hour.

All this for telling you that I love Russia and the Russian people, the most sentimental bastards, the most cruel out of their mind drunks you can meet.

Anybody telling that he knows the Russians is an idiot, the brightest minds, the most sentimental friends, the biggest murdering gangsters and the most devious strategic thinkers.

Pure nationalists with a crazy love for their country. Once they are fed up with Putin he will be toast, and he is coming close.
I didn't see anything of that in the article you wrote about the trip Undset made, and since I never read this book, please tell me, did she refer to the Russian soul, she was very apt at catching such things."
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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."
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3813#comment

Hilda! Don't look.
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"US urges fresh start with Russia (Hillary's mission to Moscow)

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told a meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Brussels it is time for a "fresh start" with Russia."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199772/posts
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"INSANE-LYMPICS: Rope Jumping, The Latest Russian Suicide Sport

Rope jumping makes bungee jumping look completely sane and kinda cute. There's no flex: The whole "not dying" part is determined entirely by where you anchor the rope—and where you jump.

Leave it to the nation who contrived Russian Roulette to come up with rope jumping. It looks totally simple and straight forward, until you just think for a second about the physics involved."
(scroll down for Great Leap Downward)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199775/posts

Liam Clancy's performance of "The Green Fields of France" makes the hair on my neck stand up.

Is rope jumping similar to this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdmbkeJe6zo

Interesting that he addresses oil shale and coal-to-liquid technology but neglects the oil sands, also the subject of a major RAND report.

(13 page PDF) James T. Bartis, RAND Corporation, Research Priorities for Fossil Fuels

Testimony presented before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on March 5, 2009

From The Washington Institute for Near East Policy:

(PDF warning) Preventing a Cascade of Instability: U.S. Engagement to Check Iranian Nuclear Progress

An Iran on the brink of possessing, or actually possessing, nuclear weapons would create a multitude of problems in the Middle East. Not only would the United States have to deter and contain an emboldened Iran, it could also have to forestall a cascade of destabilizing reactions by other states, whether they were to accommodate Iran, attack it, or match its capabilities. Preventing Iran’s acquisition or development of a military nuclear capability is therefore a vital national priority. To that end, the United States should strengthen its policies to prevent, mitigate, or counteract cascading instability resulting from Iranian nuclear progress. It should also strengthen policies to increase U.S. leverage in achieving a negotiated resolution of the nuclear impasse such that Iran does not achieve military nuclear capability. Confronting the Iran nuclear program also offers other opportunities to advance U.S. interests: to demonstrate U.S. commitment to multilateral diplomacy, to deepen U.S. relationships with its Middle East friends, and to strengthen the global nonproliferation regime...

CTV.ca Poll

"Should Ottawa Resume Efforts to spare a Canadian from Execution in Montana"
mar 05/09

Yes 695 27%
No 1895 73%

"Cramer: My Response To The White House" 'link'
Posted by: Daniel M. Ryan

Thanks Daniel. A very good read.

I thought prosecuters are supposed to prosecute. Why did they jump to agreement that Vince Li is not guilty of murder? They didn't even mount an argument. Not only was this murder, it was first degree murder. Li stalked this poor kid from the last stop. That takes organized thought. I don't care if he's a psycho, he belongs in prison.

There are a lot of cops wishing they'd shot that guy when they had the chance. The sad thing is, they'll transfer those feelings onto some poor bastard that had too many drinks, and lips off at a border guard.

Another one of those wonderful examples of the stupidity of Toronto's socialist government doing what it does best, pissing money away.

As Michele Mandel points out in 2002 Toronto spent $2 million a year on "special diet subsidy" for those on welfare that had to buy special foods because of a medical condition. In 2005 Ontario Coalition Against Poverty saw this as a loophole to get more money from those who work and give it to those who don't or won't. This has now risen to $4,100,000 A MONTH!

The case worker who blew the whistle on this sees dozens and dozens of these claims as whole families go to the same few doctors who sign the form to get this additional money, some $250 a month per person.

Where are the auditor trip lines that ring alarm bells when payments soar for these costs? The thing is nobody at these socialist sinkholes really cares as Miller's response is always just raise taxes or create new ones.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/michele_mandel/2009/03/05/8634556-sun.html

"A great day for Canada's criminal justice system", say's CTV's justice "expert".

Vince Li get's room and board. He'll be given a new life after a couple of years. Don't be surprised if you see him in West Edmonton Mall, hitting on some ittle white girls, before you know it. Make sure you don't get in his way.

Michael S. Chase et al., The Future of Chinese Deterrence Strategy

Recently published Chinese sources that include previously unavailable information on nuclear and conventional missile strategy and campaigns are shedding new light on China’s evolving approach toward deterrence and Chinese views on the problems of deterrence and nuclear strategy. By drawing on some of these sources, which include a variety of Chinese language books, academic and technical journal articles, military media reports, newspapers and periodicals, and key sources from the secondary literature on the SAC, it is possible to trace the evolution of China’s deterrence strategy toward an approach that some have called “effective deterrence.”...

That's it, no more CTV. Their legal expert, Steven Skurka, is also part of the HRC machine. CTV must die, swiftly.

Further on the Vince Li case:

Greyhound bus killer found not criminally responsible

Vince Li has been found not criminally responsible in the unprovoked killing and beheading of fellow passenger Timothy McLean on a Greyhound bus last summer.

Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench Judge John Scurfield said Thursday that Li, 40, could not be found guilty of murder and is not criminally responsible for the crime because he was mentally ill at the time of the killing.

Masood Aziz, Failure Is Not Realism

It's time to stop making excuses for why Afghanistan can't be won.

The United States needs a new approach in Afghanistan. We need to ensure that money is spent wisely and strategically -- and not be scared away by the challenges ahead. The fears of some that a long-term commitment in Afghanistan won't be worth the effort are utterly unfounded. Three common mistaken assumptions have become the rallying cry of new "realists" advocating inaction. It's time to fact-check those excuses...

Holy Global Warming Batman.....bats need heaters in their caves.....??

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090305/ap_on_sc/bat_die_off_2

Banner headline at Cnews.ca,

"Chris Brown is charged with two felonies, including assault and making criminal threats."

Am I supposed to know who this guy is, or is it a centre of the known universe thing?

I'm sorry, but............. baaawwwahhhhaaaaa!!!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1159627/Just-wanted-Barack-Obamas-blockbuster-gift-25-DVDs-Brown-reaffirm-special-relationship.html

I really hope that whole URL comes through.

Ich bin ein beginner for sure.... ROFLMAO!!

@Merle Underwood (10:37 AM):

Glad to, Merle. It's only a matter of time before an aspirant pundit or blogger figures out how to get under Obama's skin and pull a Cramer.

Kate herself might do so, although she really doesn't need the publicity.

Somebody wanna explain to me why the Tamil Tigers - a terrorist group banned by the government of Canada - just held a very large, well organized rally on Parliament Hill at noon today?

Rally. For an actual terrorist group. Numbering about 3,000. Right on Parliament Hill. And a complete news blackout, natch, of this terrorist rally. No cops taking pictures of terrorist supporters and financiers who largely comprised the crowd.

No counter demonstration, nothing from any of the 308 MP offices who witnessed an actual terrorist rally under their noses. Not a rally featuring some terrorists, but a rally explicitly supporting an actual terrorist group banned in Canada.

I'll remember this the next time anyone says anything about "fighting" "terrorism".

jim: Re: "And the CBC wonders why its request for a bailout was rejected." -- Just for the record, this is not why the CBC request for funding was rejected. It was rejected because they are already too expensive and there is a recession on.

Time for a reality cheque at CBC. Their obvious bias does have one impact, however, and that is that a lot of people (myself included) do not care at all that they are not getting extra funding and indeed would not object to cuts.

New study: Arctic Ice Gone By 2013:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090305/wl_canada_nm/canada_us_canada_arctic_1

Goreacle's Mao Stlong joke: Supplies, supplies.

Brits kicked in the bollocks by Goreacle.

"It came as the BBC faced embarrassment over a television weather forecast inadvertently predicted that temperatures colder than anything ever recorded would hit Kent.

Forecaster Daniel Corbett was presenting the weather on the BBC News Channel when an error on a screen behind him listed temperatures in the country as -146F (-99C)."
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"Travellers stranded as snowfall takes forecasters by surprise

An unexpectedly heavy snowfall left hundreds of drivers stranded on roads and thousands of rail passengers facing travel chaos as wintry weather returned to much of England."
urlm.in/buqi

"Torstar laying off 60 at printing plant"
http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090305.wtorstar0305/BNStory/Business/home

Asteroid? We don't need no steenkin' asteroid!

"Rousseau wanted to unify the people in a democracy of the One".
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"Wolfe in sheep's clothing? (On "The Future of Liberalism" by Alan Wolfe.)"

William D. Gairdner

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196903/posts

CBC's reality cheque!! Good one, lindaL

"the current Liberal delegate selection form for the upcoming convention asks prospective delegates to

"Irrevocably declare [their] support for the following Leadership Contestant,""

Pledge of Allegiance: I irrevocably declare and promise to do my duty in love and loyalty to Iggy and our Party.
So help me PET.
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"Advice for Michael Ignatieff

Who better than Dalton Camp to offer some (posthumous) guidance on what it means to be a party leader?"
urlm.in/buqw

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1159627/Just-wanted-Barack-Obamas-blockbuster-gift-25-DVDs-Brown-reaffirm-special-relationship.html

UK PM gives Big O a pen holder made from an Victorian anti-slaving ship. In return is given 25 DVD's...

Vince Li is said to be not criminally responsible for the brutal killing because of insanity?
How about something called criminally insane? Would that at least keep him off the streets for the rest of his natural life?

Goreacle duz Oz.
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"Australia Bush Fires: Snow falls days after wildfire threat

Snow has fallen on the bush fire-ravaged Australian state of Victoria, just days after the region was under extreme fire alert."
urlm.in/burc

Liberals support Conservative budget on third reading, goes to Senate despite Iggy's bluster.
204 to 78 against.

Why have the Canadian MSM ignored this item?

Is it because the Liberals have a weak leader again?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aB_nScmMJ8e8&refer=canada

Someone explain semantics to me, please. Vince Li was found not guilty of murder, in the murder of Tim McLean. That's what they've been saying in every media outlet. They're admitting that McLean was murdered. They're admitting that Vince Li committed the "murder". They've found him not guilty. Was there, or was there not, a murder?

For him to be found not guilty, the event needs to be redefined. It was not a murder, but an unfortunate misunderstanding. McLean did not die, he was redirected. What those people witnessed was a failure to communicate. A collision of universes. Matter vs anti-matter.

I'm about to snap.