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I thought it was Micheal Moore singing.

I prefer wenleysdale to caerphilly.

I have been called twice in the last two days , CTV asking me if I would pay extra on my cable bill to have a local channel and local news. They never asked the real question- do I want to watch CTV(tass) at all. or CBCpravda ,

I might if they were affiliated with Fox.

A better looking Micheal Moore with much more talent. I had the same thought. Thanks Vit.

Stupendous Vit. Great talent in the Old Country!

fourth one in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3OQECSDoQ

that got me on to another idea. limburger and spanish onion. or wallawalla onion , cant be beat.

http://teriskitchen.com/padutch/limburger.html

my DNA now down another generation, consequences are minor to me.

grampa cal2

Nice version of "Some Enchanted Evening". As usual I like the orchestra better than the singing; just personal preference.

Here's one place to find Jay and the Americans' excellent pop version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDiuNCr97LY

Check out the brilliant "Cara Mia" as well!

Anybody out there annoyed by David Frum lately? If that's you, you'll thoroughly enjoy the spanking he got when he phoned in to the Mark Levin radio show.

Just saw an esurance/Earth Hour ad on TV. Has it been a year already?

Wondered if you were planning another thread on people's plans for March 28.

This year I thought I'd fire up the gen set, run some extension cords, place the portable heater in the kitchen and the A/C unit in the bedroom. Then monitor the storm front as it migrates from the dining room to the bathroom. We'll see if my carbon footprint is responsible for the cataclysmic hurricanes we keep hearing about.

Aloha Folks! I visited here this evening to see how much people back in Canuckistan are discussing our homebread RINO, David Frum. Not much on SDA though thanks to The Real CJ for posting the link to Mark Levin's site. I was listening to his show but missed that on-air. Absolutely beautiful!

David Frum reminds me of Joe Clark: Well meaning to some degree but no different than a liberal in disguise. I get the sense that Frum is more interested in being invited to the right parties over the next 4 years than he is with following any modicum of conservative principles.

I just listened to the full Mark Levin discussion with David Frum. Frum is a real piece of work. He blathered on & on, trying to prevent Levin from talking and dismissing him outright.

Then he denied ever personally attacking Rush Limbaugh yet if you read his column he attacked Limbaugh about his appearance, his marital history, and other things.

Frum and Schwarzenegger should form a new party called the RINOs.

Some inconvenient truth for the Lefties:

Hitler was a gay socialist. No B.S.

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2009/03/yes-hitler-was-socialist-plus.html

So it looks like they just held elections in North Korea. Appears the governing party swept all 687 seats this time.

"The most watched race of the election was district 333 where leader Kim Jong-il was running. On March 9, 2009, North Korean media announced that Kim Jong-il was unanimously re-elected to parliament. [15] The election committee also stated that 99.98% of all registered voters took part in voting, with 100% voting for their candidate in each district."

Catmeat Kinsella sues again: Sues Conservative Party

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2009/03/lib-leader-ignatieffs-attack-clown.html

What a clown. Ignatieff's clown.

I've thought more about David Frum and his recent antics. What's most galling to me is that he keeps on insisting that he's a "conservative Republican". What precisely about his beliefs makes him conservative or Republican???

No one is saying that every conservative has to be in lockstep on every single issue but quite sincerely, Frum sounds like he should be working as Iggy's PR guy here in Canuckistan.

I think what bugs me the most about him is that he uses the same techniques as Liberals and NDPers in Canada. His dismissive tone toward any true conservative is repulsive!

New White House chief of urban development has a certain stain:

"Possible conflict of interest surfaces for President Obama's new urban czar Adolfo Carrion"

'Freeman hits "Israel lobby" on way out

'President Barack Obama's controversial pick for a top intelligence post blasted the "Israel lobby" on his way out the door Tuesday, intensifying a debate on the role Israel's allies played in the latest failed Obama appointment.

'Charles W. Freeman Jr.'s abrupt withdrawal from his appointment as chairman of the National Intelligence Council came after he drew fire on a number of fronts - including questions about his financial ties to China and Saudi Arabia.

'But the most heated opposition came from supporters of Israel - and Freeman's departure shows Obama's reluctance to signal a change to a U.S. policy in the Middle East that centers on standing beside Israel....'

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19856.html

"Conrad: Obama budget lacks votes"

There's a little more than inter-Atlantic communication difficulties dogging the upcoming G20 summit. It turns out that many in the EU don't find the United States' borrow-on-the-run strategy all that great an example:

"Atlantic stimulus rift grows"

PM Harper: standing up to tyranny.
God bless Stephen Harper.
God bless Canada.
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"Canada's clout has returned"

" We, as a country, are now a major player whose opinion is important in world affairs.

Until relatively recently, Canada was regarded benignly but didn't have much clout, other than being a sensible, affluent country that avoided controversy and was more concerned with being liked than respected.

All that changed when we evolved from being a nation whose military was almost totally consumed with peacekeeping and not making waves, to a country whose military was prepared to impose or "make" peace, and stand up to tyranny.

That's what we've done in Afghanistan, after the low point when the Chretien government refused to voice even abstract support for the American-British-Australian campaign to rid Iraq of the homicidal regime of Saddam Hussein."
http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/peter_worthington/2009/03/11/8703191-sun.html

UN's advice to O: use 'salami tactics' - taking power step-by-step as used by communists.
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"UN climate chief: US carbon cuts could spark 'revolution'

The head of the UN body charged with leading the fight against climate change has conceded that Barack Obama will face a "revolution" if he commits the US to the deep carbon cuts that scientists and campaigners say are needed.

Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said domestic political constraints made it impossible for the US president to announce ambitious short-term climate targets similar to those set by Europe. And he questioned the value of a new global climate deal without such a US pledge."
http://tinyurl.com/c2o4w8
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"Climate change: 'Obama has to do it step by step'

Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, tells David Adam about the USA's ability to meet environmental targets quickly"
http://tinyurl.com/c5fnha

Support and defend Kathy Shaidle and freedom of speech.
Tell Farber and Liberal Ignatieff's KatMeat to get lost.
Support "right-wing" bloggers.
Go Kathy Shaidle; do not retreat.
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"Controversial right-wing blogger invited to speak at London event

Some members of the city's Jewish community have brought in speakers critical of anti-hate laws"

" Now, controversial right-wing blogger Kathy Shaidle may be coming to London to speak about human rights.

The invitation to Shaidle by some members of the city's Jewish community has alarmed anti-racism activists and provided fresh ammunition to the country's heavyweight politicos over freedom of speech.

"She is a purveyor of some of the most offensive racial stereotypes I have ever read," Bernie Farber, head of the Canadian Jewish Congress, said yesterday.

"Any group that associates with or defends her is diminished by her," charged Warren Kinsella, Liberal insider and author of Web of Hate: Inside Canada's Far Right Network.

"They shouldn't have anything to do with her. They will just hurt themselves."
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2009/03/11/8704556-sun.html

Will Farber and Liberal Ignatieff's KatMeat defend this POS?
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"Accused Nazi charged in Ohio

BERLIN — German prosecutors today said they have charged retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk with more than 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, and will seek his extradition from the United States.

Mr. Demjanjuk is accused of participating in the murders while he was a guard at the Nazi camp in occupied Poland between March and September 1943. “In this capacity, he participated in the accessory to murder of at least 29,000 people of the Jewish faith,” Munich prosecutors said in a statement."
http://tinyurl.com/cf5wnr

the obama template:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/obama_and_trudeau.html

Polar Bear Poop

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Technology/Killer+whales+benefit+from+global+warming+researchers/1375674/story.html

"Scientists fear melting sea ice could one day make killer whales the Hudson Bay's top predator, a startling ecosystem shift and a blow for Inuit populations already reeling from dwindling polar bear numbers."

Reeling Inuit is more likely caused by gas sniffing than a lack of Polar Bears. They don't keep them as domesticated pets after all. Inuit not on the gov. dole actually compete with Polar Bears and fewer competitors is probably better. Who writes this biased not-news crap anyway.

Wes

(Via SWJ; NYT warning) Arthur Keller, In Afghanistan, Less Can Be More

The counterinsurgency lessons that Bill Lair tried to impart to us young spies are relevant today: Keep your footprint small. Don’t use trainers who don’t know the language or culture. Don’t let the locals become dependant on American airpower. Train them in tactics suited to their circumstances. Don’t ever let the locals think mighty America will fight their battles or solve all their problems for them; focus on getting them ready to fix their own problems. Keep the folks in Washington out of the way of the people doing the work in the field.

This is why President Obama’s plans to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan should be seen as a mixed blessing. In fact, it may be equally significant that the Pentagon has announced it is sending 900 new special operations people to Afghanistan over the spring and summer, including Green Berets, Navy Seals and Marine special operations forces. Ideally, these troops will be well trained in Afghan languages and culture, and prepared to fight in the dry, mountainous terrain the Taliban occupy...

Here's one for ya:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2009/mar/judicial-watch-uncovers-documents-detailing-pelosis-repeated-requests-military-travel

Princess Pelosi's use of USAF aircraft thanks to a Freedom-of-information request.

Victorian Britain: Use light infantry in Afghanistan, with 13-pdr. mountain guns instead of the standard 18-pdr. field artillery, etc.

U.S.: Relearn Victorian wisdom 7 years into the Fourth Afghan War?

(Via SWJ) Less Body Armor May Mean More Success in Afghanistan

Heavy layers of body armor, a proven lifesaver of U.S. troops, also may be an impediment to winning the fight in Afghanistan, where 17,000 additional American forces are being sent to quell rising violence...

Allan H. Meltzer, Why Capitalism?
American Enterprise Institute
Bradley Lecture, 9 March 2009

Despite almost continuous criticism and frequent predictions of the end of capitalism, the capitalist system has spread throughout the world. Once confined to western Europe, North America, and Australasia, capitalism has become the dominant form of organization in the entire world, including Asia, Latin America, and most of the former Communist satellites. In this Bradley Lecture, Allan H. Meltzer will discuss this evolution and explain why it has happened. His analysis concludes that some type of capitalist system will remain the dominant form of economic organization.

[Webcast available under "Event Materials."]

Gord Tulk: Your link provides interesting parallels between Trudeau's agenda and Obama's. But I think that one of the parallels -- an important one -- is wrong. Kraus attributes the introduction of universal healthcare to Trudeau, but it came in under Pearson a year or two before Trudeau became PM.

J.E. Dyer, Sonar Wars

The Pentagon released photos yesterday from a dramatic encounter on Sunday (8 March) between Chinese trawlers and the oceanographic surveillance ship USNS Impeccable. Impeccable, a civilian-manned ship belonging to the US Military Sealift Command, was conducting undersea surveillance in the South China Sea, about 75 miles south of Hainan Island...

With respect to operational surveillance, a position shallow of the 100-fathom curve, or bottom contour, off the southern coast of Hainan Island, would accord with the general vicinity reported by the Navy, and be optimal for detecting Chinese submarines operating out of Yulin naval base...

mj:

i saw that too.

Terry Teachout, Believing in Flannery O'Connor

...And though the most consequential American book of 1952 was undoubtedly Ellison’s Invisible Man, the year’s most significant literary debut turns out in retrospect to have been a slender, poorly reviewed novel about a half-crazed itinerant evangelist who preached the gospel of the Church Without Christ, a book whose all-but-unknown author was a young woman whose home was not New York but a small town in rural Georgia.

It took a number of years for Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood to be recognized as a modern classic, but once recognition came, it was decisive...

"Tamil Tigers! Freedom Fighters! LTTE! Freedom Fighters! Our leader! Prabhakaran!

This was the roar from the crowd on March 5, gathered in front of Parliament Hill.

Not just one or two, but all of them.

Loudly.

Repeatedly.

Led by the rally organizers.

So just who exactly told Liberal MP Derek Lee that this was not going to be a Tamil Tiger rally?"
http://stevejanke.com/archives/284092.php

"Another Man Down
By Kathy Shaidle

On Monday, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair announced that Charles Freeman had withdrawn his name from consideration for the post of Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), ending weeks of acrimonious debate that had been triggered by Freeman’s nomination. But while Freeman has receded from the spotlight, his selection to a critical intelligence post – despite a deeply troubling political background – lingers as a dark cloud over the Obama administration.

In the sensitive role of Chairman of the NIC, Freeman would have been privy to state secrets and would have advised President Obama on matters of national security. Yet Freeman’s ties to foreign powers raised obvious questions regarding conflicts of interest. Moreover, Freeman has made controversial public statements that fly in the face of official U.S. policy, on subjects like the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia, and even the 1989 massacre in Communist China’s Tiananmen Square.

In a 2006 interview, Freeman explained that MEPC had received a $1 million endowment, thanks to “the generosity of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia.” The following year, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud gave another $1 million to MEPC. (Alwaleed’s offer of money to New York City after 9/11 was famously turned down by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.)

Furthermore, researcher Ashley Rindsberg recently revealed Freeman’s pre- and post-9/11 “business connections” with the bin Laden family, which have donated “tens of thousands of dollars a year” to the MEPC. Rindsberg also discovered donations to Obama’s presidential campaign by Freeman’s Projects International, “a company that develops international business deals.”"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204257/posts

"Senate Committee to Stall Budget, Flaherty say's"
ctv.ca mar 11/09

*Flaherty told reporters that the Finance Committee chair has indicated the Committee will delay the vote...
Thats what he told me they were going to take more days to look at it & call witnesses
I suggested to him that he calls some Unemployed Canadians & see what they have to say to the Liberal Senators....
Ignatieff has said he will encourage the Senate to pass the budget quickly, perhaps by Mar 26...

Alexander T.J. Lennon et al., Democracy in U.S. Security Strategy: From Promotion to Support

Zbigniew Brzezinski, recalling French strategic thinker Raymond Aron’s advice, recently counseled that “the strength of a great power is diminished if it ceases to serve an idea.” Since its inception and throughout U.S. history, democracy has been that idea. Yet, recent setbacks warrant reevaluating the place of democracy promotion in U.S. strategy. What role, if any, should democracy have in U.S. security strategy and public diplomacy today?

Oak Park couple travel far and wide to buy only from black-owned businesses
Ebony Experiment encourages other African-Americans to do the same

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-buying-black-09-mar09,0,5889126.story

Something for Vit.
http://break.com/index/no-cellphones-at-concert.html

From the who-woulda-thunk-it file: President Sarkozy is bringing France back into the NATO command structure.

"France ends four-decade Nato rift"

Makes me wonder what'll happen to all those jokes.

When Ignatieff smiles, does anyone else think he's working out a constipated turd?

The Joos did it.
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"The tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record, the fabrication of falsehoods, and an utter disregard for the truth. The aim of this Lobby is control of the policy process through the exercise of a veto over the appointment of people who dispute the wisdom of its views, the substitution of political correctness for analysis, and the exclusion of any and all options for decision by Americans and our government other than those that it favors."

"Charles Freeman's Statement in Wake of Withdrawal From Intelligence Post"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123672847973688515.html

Liberal Ignatieff is silent.
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"Ruby Dhalla has mysterious run-in with Tamils [Updates]

Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla has had some sort of trouble regarding Tamils. The details are sketchy, and no one seems to be talking.

If it weren't for the fact that the police had become involved, we might not have even heard about it.

With the focus on Liberal MP Gurbax Singh Malhi's appearance at a Tamil Tiger rally on Parliament Hill (during which he pledged his support for the "fight"), this incident with fellow Liberal Ruby Dhalla has slipped by almost unnoticed.

It happened at a meeting during which Ruby Dhalla was discussing the situation in Sri Lanka with constituents:"
http://stevejanke.com/archives/284121.php
STOPIGGY.

Kinsella: "Any group that associates with or defends [Kathy Shaidle] is diminished by her."

HE'S a fine one to talk. Any group that associates with or defends HIM is totally diminished by HIM. Just take a look at the raggedy band of Librano politicos. And show me The Iggster's gravitas.

'Couldn't?

'Didn't think so.

"I have told the party I’m prepared to look a bit around, although I don’t want to," she said. "Anything in Nova Scotia is more palatable to me than having to move out West."

Quote from Elizabeth May

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/1110681.html

Thanks, Charles MacDonald, for the Terry Teachout article on Flannery O'Connor.

I suspect that her literary talents weren't fully appreciated in her time because she was a Catholic, not because she was a woman. Heck, Harper Lee was celebrated when she wrote To Kill a Mockingbird.

STOPIGGY, absolutely!

Why is Derek Lee not made to answer why he sent out invites to Liberals to join a Tamil Tiger rally?

Ontario! STOPMcGUINTY.
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"Draft Randy Hillier.

WHY RANDY?

STRONG
We've all seen what a weak leader who doesn't stand for anything does to our party.

Randy has spent his entire life standing strong against over-bearing authorities and defending the little guy.

A career at Queens Park sitting at a desk, pushing paper and reciting speeches no one will ever hear is not strong.

Randy is a nice guy but that is not his reason for being.

COMMON SENSE
Randy says what he means; And what he says makes sense.

Less government regulation and lower taxes are the principles he lives by but its more than just popular words. How do these principles affect everyday Ontarians.

Restricting the use of private property, lowering the value of real estate, closing down businesses and increasing mandatory costs are the real pain felt by you and I for ridiculous policies made at Queens Park.

WINNER
In the last election, our party only regained three new seats. Randy was one of them.

He fought against the tide in a riding where the Liberals had won by thousands of votes to retake the seat.

Nothing has been handed to Randy, he's fought for everything he's got and succeeded. Our party doesn't need someone who's been handed everything, we need someone who can go toe to toe with the Liberals and win."
http://www.draftrandy.com/

This little gem is on Kinsella's web . Warren gives notice---"I'm still here, however, and I'm not going anywhere; they'll have to kill me frst. I mean it." His spelling error btw. I am imagining a new band starting up soon,"Shit in Hell".

Kinsella is fast becoming a huge joke himself.
How could anyone take such a nondescript individual like him seriously when he's suing people for stuff NORMAL people would take with a grain of salt?