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thought this was pretty awesome:

http://gamu-toys.info/sonota/sw/obama/obama.html

especially the vader duel

"A Hardisty man died this morning after he fell into a wood-chipper outside his cottage near Lake just after 8 am Tuesday morning. Paramedics pronounced 58-year old Henirich Erdinger dead on the scene.

"'He was the love of my life,'" said his wife Ingrid, her eyes darting nervously from side to side.

"Mrs. Erdinger, a muscular, large woman with a strong back and strong arms, still had blood on her face from her attempt to rescue him.

"'It was too late, he went in headfirst,' she said. 'There was nothing I could do.'

"Klaus Erdelman, who won the Kinsman lottery last November, had recently filed for divorce."

http://www.hardist.....

Okay, okay, I made that one up.

This financial implosion "is more akin to the collapse of Rome"

A historical take that goes looks at all the financial collapses back to the Roman economy going into the full collapse that took place between 253 and 266 AD.

Long, very long but fascinating.
HERE

lol visions of Fargo ja?
Steve Buscemi talk about darting eyes.

EBD: LOL!! i was reading that like.. holy shat... lol

Should NASA fire Dr. James Hansen for advocating civil disobedience?

Poll

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/24/guardian-headline-leading-climate-scientist-democratic-process-isnt-working/#comments

Analysis: Teleprompter telegraphs Obama caution
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D974P3SG0&show_article=1
(Courtesy Drudge)
And from the comments:

"Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science, the Obama moron. Surrounding the Obama moron are one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by the gravitational force of the Obama moron, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons."

"Held together by the Soros containment field."

Ezra Levant discussing his new book Shakedown on The Michael Coren Show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv3gimI2G_A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVe5sY1EPxI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0A8EfKpgVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEwYsXW6hk4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7FHxn0lNuQ

Newspaper bailout?
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE52N67F20090324

Uh oh its the Earth hour Police.

Council uses spy plane with thermal imaging camera to snoop on homes wasting energy

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164091/Council-uses-spy-plane-thermal-imaging-camera-snoop-homes-wasting-energy.html

Not. Deep. Enough.
Fire. Them. All.
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"CBC cuts could be deep
WAYNE THIBODEAU
The Guardian

Employees at CBC are bracing for what union officials are describing as “serious” job cuts that will be announced this afternoon at the public broadcaster.
CBC will be holding what it describes as a national town hall meeting with its staff from across the country. That town hall will be held at 12:45 p.m. AT.
Hubert Lacroix, president and CEO of the CBC, is expected to outline details of the cuts as a result of a budget shortfall of $80 million to $100 million.
Up to 1,200 employees could face the chopping block."
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=235417&sc=98

>>>> "Gee. The terrorists found the nonexistent chemical weapons program in Iraq? Imagine that."
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"The front-line shopping mall

A UK government report warned that an attack by a chemical or radiological “dirty” bomb was likely to happen in Britain within the coming years and that mall managers had better get ready."
urlm.in/byzn
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Socialism in real life: A dead end.
Warning: Goar.
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"We offer infant-to-grave services," said executive director Liane Regendanz. "We fit our solutions to our clients."

"Now there's nothing left to cut."
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"Volunteers versus the bean-counters"

"Even before the recession, community activists were cutting corners – freezing their own wages, delaying maintenance, switching to temp workers – to protect their programs. Now there's nothing left to cut. Everyone is working longer for less, going home drained.

None of this is apparent to Sam. He sees only the good St. Stephen's is doing. He's looking forward to giving more than he gets. He can't imagine losing what he's found."
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/607655

TOTUS O'Bushed.

"Mr Obama [Narcissist*] *faced down one uncomfortable question"

""This is a new world we're living in, after seven years of al-Qaeda, Iraq and Afghanistan," wrote Helene Cooper, live-blogging the news conference for The Caucus blog at New York Times.

"Hard to imagine a Bush press conference focusing so singularly on the economy, but then, these are clearly different times.""
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"Obama testing pundits' patience"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7962977.stm
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""The narcissist's personality is so precariously balanced that he cannot tolerate even a hint of criticism and disagreement."
http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

Ezra Levant: Today.
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"Tomorrow morning [Wednesday] I'm off to Ottawa.

I'll be on CFRA radio with Rob Snow and Lowell Green, who have been fighting this fight for longer than I have!

I'll be doing a lot of other interviews, including with some student media at Carleton University, the Hill Times, and CBC Newsworld's Politics with Don Newman. I'm looking forward to seeing him again."
http://ezralevant.com/

Looks like the teleprompter jokes have finally gotten to Obama:

(video) "Obama Upgrade: Teleprompters Swapped For Giant TV Monitor For News Conference"

A bit rarefied, but eye-opening nonetheless: the latest auction of British treasury bonds (gilts) failed to attract enough buyers for the planned issue.

In sovereign finance, this event's pretty rare. Imagine what would happen if, say, Tim Geithner had to announce that part of a U.S. Treasury auction went unbid for. [A hypothetical comparison, by the way; no sign of it so far in U.S. governments.]

"Gordon Brown's Britain" ain't looking too good from the finance side right now.

Out of 19 countries, guess which nationality is most optimistic about the economy? That's right, we Canadians are.

Something different:

Extreme Sheep LED Art

Did you think they'd work for nothing?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/opinion/25desantis.html?pagewanted=1

(Via Melanie Phillips) Jamie Glazov, The Obama Administration and Radical Islam

Alexiev: It is clear that after only nine weeks in power, President Obama is embarked on a dramatic reorientation, or should I say about face, of American foreign policy in the direction of appeasement of our enemies and indifference or worse toward our friends, something we last saw under Jimmy Carter...

Not sure if you knew, but the judge ordered FD to turn over IP and email addresses of the John Does.

Michael Geist wrote about it today:

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3777/125/

We are strongly considering appealing this.

A nice piece of criticism at a man who should be criticized: Gordon Brown.

The lack of leadership in the UK parallels the lack of leadership in Canada over the past 20 years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs

"PRINCE CHARLES THE SUSTAINABLE PRINCE:

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TEN YEARS LATER
Joan Veon

It has been ten years since I have been writing and studying the now established environmental philosophy of sustainable development. I was first confronted with it at the United Nations Conference on Population and Development-UNCED in Cairo, Egypt in 1994. Sustainable development was a core philosophy behind the Programme of Action called “Agenda 21” at the 1992 United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development-UNCED, now dubbed the “Rio Earth Summit.”

In Rio, conference Secretary-General Maurice Strong stated,

Agenda 21 – still stands as the most comprehensive, most far-reaching and, if implemented, the most effective programme of international action ever sanctioned by the international community. It is not a final and complete action programme, but one which must continue to evolve."
http://www.womensgroup.org/200408261636.html
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"Prince Charles Promotes Islam to President Bush

In November 2005 Prince Charles visited Washington, DC. According to a report on the internet version of the Telegraph, one of the stated purposes of his trip was to "plead Islam's cause to Bush".

Why would Prince Charles be an advocate for Islam at the White House?

For answers and insight into that question, one only has to read the speeches of Prince Charles and read the media reports about his attendance at various Islamic events."
http://www.truthformuslims.com/articles/marion_2006_02_prince_charles_promotes_islam.htm

"Feminism's deadly fallout

"Recent events have made me wonder despairingly whether decades of modern feminism have made any significant dent at all in the quality of relationships between young women and men." So bemoaned Globe and Mail columnist Judith Timson yesterday."

urlm.in/bzap

Deflecting the asteroid series? A right of centre paper continues to increase readership #s.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/Herald+reports+major+readership+growth+demographics/1426230/story.html

It would be funnier if these clowns weren't running America...
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/24/comedy-gold-maxine-waters-grills-geithner-on-the-secret-goldman-sachs-cabal-or-something/

"‘white Jews'"

Written in 1998.
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""There are terrible times coming. If only I had succeeded in smuggling out $10,000 or even $5,000, I would leave Germany with my family. Business friends of mine are convinced that it will be the turn of the ‘white Jews' (which means us, Aryan businessmen) after the Jews have been expropriated. The difference between this and the Russian system is much less than you think, despite the fact that we are still independent businessmen.""
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"National Socialism

In 1944, Ludwig von Mises published one of his least-known masterworks: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War. Drawing on his prewar experience in Vienna, watching the rise of the national socialists in Germany (the Nazis), who would eventually take over his own homeland, he set out to draw parallels between the Russian and German experience with socialism.

It was common in those days, as it is in ours, to identify the Communists as leftist and the Nazis as rightists, as if they stood on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. But Mises knew differently. They both sported the same ideological pedigree of socialism. "The German and Russian systems of socialism have in common the fact that the government has full control of the means of production. It decides what shall be produced and how. It allots to each individual a share of consumer's goods for his consumption."

The difference between the systems, wrote Mises, is that the German pattern "maintains private ownership of the means of production and keeps the appearance of ordinary prices, wages, and markets." But in fact the government directs production decisions, curbs entrepreneurship and the labor market, and determines wages and interest rates by central authority. "Market exchange," says Mises, "is only a sham.""
http://mises.org/story/47

Robber fatally shot in Miami Burger King holdup

"Blogger's T-shirt gesture breaks taboo on Tiananmen rebellion

References to the 1989 army crackdown on student demonstrators in Tiananmen Square are taboo in China. If mentioned at all, the protests are described as a “counter-revolutionary rebellion”.

However, one young Chinese man has now posed boldly on a blog hosted by one of China’s biggest servers wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the date – June 4 – but in a code that may take time for censors to spot.

His T-shirt reads VIIIIXVIIV. The photos are accompanied by a hint that reads: “Here’s a clue – these are four numbers.” Whoever posted the photos of the T-shirt yesterday was well aware of the risks involved. That person placed a brief posting above the photos, reading: “This year this kind of T-shirt is very much in fashion. The design is very beautiful (those who don’t understand should do some careful thinking, those who understand shouldn’t say a word)."

Several readers have posted comments. One reads: “This is too easy. VIII (8) IX (9) VI (6) IV (4). Do I get a prize?” Another says: “Where can I buy these?”"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5973959.ece
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VIIIIXVIIV

http://hudiezhanchi2002.blog.sohu.com/112928470.html?act=1237951624972#comment

"See Who Says Pope Was Right About Condoms, AIDS

A senior Harvard research scientist confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI, who endured heavy criticism for declaring that condom distribution programs worsen the AIDS epidemic in Africa, was actually correct.

Dr. Edward C. Green, director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, told National Review Online last week that despite AIDS activists and media outlets pounding the pope for downplaying the effectiveness of condoms, the science actually supports the Catholic leader's claim.

"The pope is correct," Green told NRO, "or put it a better way, the best evidence we have supports the pope's comments.""
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213864/posts

I caught a snippet on the radio today about how Ignatieff and Rae are still collecting donations of up to $1,100 for the liberal leadership race. Sounds fishy to me. I'm pretty sure Iggy did an end run around the rules to get coronated,thereby scuttling the democratic wishes of the liberal supporters and the race. Business as usual.

Yeah,you can still donate;----https://secure.michaelignatieff.ca/contribute/default.aspx

Iggy wants a DionkyReDo ...

"'We're out of time. We're out of time.' - Michael Ignatieff, asked in radio interview about donation scheme."
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"Steve Janke: Liberal in-and-out scheme leaves Ignatieff scratching for answers

'We're out of time. We're out of time.' - Michael Ignatieff, asked in radio interview about donation scheme

Liberals are scurrying to spin the message after I wrote about the fundraising tactic espoused by incoming Liberal Party president Alfred Apps in an email to high-powered Liberal donors:

Each donor/purchaser can donate up to $2,200, paying up to $1,100 by cheque or credit card to the Liberal Party of Canada and $1,100 to the "Liberal Party of Canada (Michael Ignatieff)". The Ignatieff Campaign account is in surplus and any surplus automatically reverts to LPC under the Elections Act.

The emphasis was in the original email, not added by me. The message is clear. There is a moribund leadership campaign in which Michael Ignatieff is the only candidate. There won't even be a vote at the convention, just an acclamation.

In effect, there is no campaign. But the legal fiction of a campaign allows people to donate to the leadership fund. Money will be parked there until the campaign is finished, and then the surplus will be moved to the party.

Igntatieff was asked about this fundraising technique in an interview with CFRB's Brian Lilley:

MI: I can, I can assure you categorically that the Liberal Party under...I can assure you that the Liberal Party under my leadership will be fully compliant with both the letter and the spirit of all election law and that, uh, uh, every Canadian who wants to will know where every single dime raised by this party...

BL: Do you still need to be raising money for a leadership you've already won?

MI: We're out of time. We're out of time. I've given you my answer. We will be fully compliant and full transparent about everything we do."
urlm.in/bzbn
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Canadian Sentinel has posted this:

"From blogs to the media, and now to Parliament and beyond. Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre has just tabled this letter in the House of Commons:

March 25, 2009

Commissioner of Canada Elections
c/o Elections Canada
257 Slater Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0M6

Dear Commissioner,

Today's Ottawa Citizen is reporting that Michael Ignatieff's Liberal leadership campaign is inviting supporters to "double their donations to the party by contributing to Ignatieff's leadership campaign at a fundraising dinner next week." The article indicates that donors are being encouraged to circumvent the $1,100 annual donation limit to the Liberal party.

The law is designed to prevent donations over $1,100 to any political party, not to allow powerful insiders to flow an extra donation through a leadership campaign to the party.

These reports raise serious concerns and if accurate, could constitute a violation of the Elections Act. I expect you to make the proper inquiries to ensure compliance with the Elections Act.

Sincerely,
Pierre Poilievre, MP Nepean Carleton"
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/

Another "honor" killing?

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...Police say a Laval man shot his wife and then turned the gun on himself in a murder-suicide that has orphaned three children.

Mahmoub el-Hage and his estranged wife, Jinane Ghannoum, were found dead Tuesday afternoon in the basement of the family home on De Mézières Place in the Laval-des-Rapides neighbourhood...

...Laval police Sgt. François Dumais said the couple had been going through a messy divorce and had a history of domestic violence....

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/03/25/mtl-murder-suicide-laval-0325.html

An MSNBC poll!

"Should the motto "In God We Trust" be removed from U.S. currency?"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10103521/

"EU leader condemns US ‘road to hell’

European Union hopes for a new era in relations with the US were thrown into chaos on Wednesday when the holder of the EU presidency condemned American remedies for the global recession as “the road to hell”.

Barely a week before Barack Obama is due to arrive in Europe on his first official visit as US president, Mirek Topolanek, the Czech Republic’s prime minister, put the 27-nation EU on a collision course with Washington.

His attack compounded the confusion that has engulfed EU policy after the Czech leader lost a no-confidence vote in the country’s parliament on Tuesday, forcing him to offer his government’s resignation midway through its six-month EU presidency.

Mr Topolanek said EU leaders had been disturbed at a summit in Brussels last week to hear calls from Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, for more aggressive policies to fight the global downturn.

“The US Treasury secretary talks about permanent action and we, at our spring council, were quite alarmed at that . . . The US is repeating mistakes from the 1930s, such as wide-ranging stimuluses, protectionist tendencies and appeals, the Buy American campaign, and so on,” he told a European parliament session in Strasbourg.

“All these steps, their combination and their permanency, are the road to hell.”"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2214804/posts

Peter just announced the "cuts" during a program break.
That will be the lead story on "The National".

Peter then announced a "special report": "circumcision"(sic).
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"CBC to cut up to 800 jobs, sell assets"
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/03/25/cbc-layoffs.html?ref=rss

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