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Memo to Environmentalists: Carbon Production Can Be a Good Thing

A new method of energy production is sending the climate change crowd into an amoral, irrational frenzy.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/memo-to-environmentalists-carbon-production-can-be-a-good-thing/

Obama bows to the Saudi king.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/04/08/bow/index.html

"Many other Americans have Muslims in their families. I know because I am one of them."
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_090407.htm

I don't see a pattern - do you?

Regarding talk show popularity, right vs left via Camille Paglia, the one feminist i respect;

"The failure of talkers on liberal radio is in large part due to an absolute inability to poke fun at themselves." How true! Liberal hosts like to snap and snip and chortle snidely, but they are weighed down by a complacent superiority complex, a paralyzing sanctimony. They mistake irony for wit. The conservative hosts love to rant and stomp and bring down the house. They're doing breakneck vaudeville while liberal hosts are primly stirring their non-caffeine green tea.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/04/08/bow/index.html

"...Where the hell is Candia, anyway? Near Candida?..."

http://minx.cc/?post=285632

Who doesn't like Buck Owens? Apparently, The Beatles liked him so much, they insisted he be signed to their label.

I particularly like "The Streets of Bakersfield". His songs all sounded pretty much the same, but they were all catchy, in their own way.

When Buck, and Roy Clark played duets on Hee Haw, it was always an amazing performance. Roy is often overlooked as a guitar player, but his talent was in a league with Chet Atkins. Their version of "duelling banjos" is the best ever.

May I present Jean Sheppard in "born to loose".

From Monday's National Post.

An alternative high school in Toronto, called the Student School, has got in trouble with the Toronto District School Board for an approach to teaching about the Middle East that "demonizes Jews", according to one trustee, and for connecting students to the "Israeli apartheid" movement. A group called High Schools Against Israeli Apartheid was founded at the school. The Student School "emphasizes social justice".

One parent suggested to the school's administrator and teacher John Morton that an alternative viewpoint be presented as well. He refused because the student council voted to officially recognize Israel as an apartheid state before her son enrolled. He refused an interview request from the National Post, but outlined the school's support for such programs in a letter to the web site Rebel Youth Magazine, a blog published by the Young Communist League of Canada.

The smaller question: Why on earth would a school of any kind, and especially a public school, feel the need to take a stand on mideast (or any other) politics?

The larger question: How long is the Canadian public going to tolerate extremists teaching kids in public schools? Given that some teachers have been fired for holding political views that were racist, and that the only difference between those views and communism was the non-essential matter of racial discrimination, should not communists and other advocates of mass murder also be fired?

And considering that communism has been responsible for the deaths of 100 million people, does that mean that "social justice" means advocating mass murder?

Everyone should see this juxtaposition. It puts Islam its real context. Its a real gut puncher I must warn. This is from Atlas Shrugged. Pamela Geller has re-produced an exceptional medley of horror, of what where up against in the Islamic onslaught against civilization. If Murder where combined with a Religion of blood, with the movie “The hills have eye’s” this would be it.
JMO

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/04/obama-insists-he-respect-blood-libel-and-calls-for-annihilation.html#comments

STUPIDITY PLUS!

The Obama Regime has renamed "The War on Terrorism" to ... wait for it ... "Man-Caused Disasters".

I wish I were kidding!

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,613330,00.html

P.S. Someone should think up a new term for: 4 years x (365 days + 1 leap-year day) x All April Fools' Days!!!

Ace, IMAO maintains that Obama did not bow - it was a "curtsy".

http://www.imao.us/index.php/2009/04/dont-believe-your-lying-eyes/

It's not just HRCs that get to ignore Charter rights anymore.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1115487.html

I can sympathize with the goal, but at least let the courts decide their fate before you kick them out on the street.

AtlanticJim..."I can sympathize with the goal, but at least let the courts decide their fate before you kick them out on the street.".
Why? So that they can continue dealing for another 3-5 years waiting for a trial date? And then have the charge thrown out because of an "unconstitutinally(sp?) long wait for justice"?
Guess what. The Indians on the reserve DO know EXACTLY who is a dealer,and who isn't. Too bad everybody else in other communities didn't.

STOPIGGY: I am not and have never been a member of Poopalapillai's Tamil Tiger Party.

Liberally Yours,
STOPIGGY.

"the CTC, made their case to plenty of Liberal MPs,"

"Tamil Tiger flags were flown and slogans chanted under the watchful eye of dozens of cops and spooks,"
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"Tamils Take Protests to Harper's Front Door

In their most in-your-face protest yet, hundreds of Tamil Canadians clogged Ottawa's downtown streets yesterday, blocking traffic on all sides of the Prime Minister's Office.

The frustrated crowd massed noisily on Stephen Harper's doorstep, raucously halting and surrounding cars they believed to be part of the PM's motorcade, and promising not to leave until Mr. Harper got the message.

Tamil Tiger flags were flown and slogans chanted under the watchful eye of dozens of cops and spooks, similar to at another mass Tamil protest in March that got deep under the skin of Sri Lankan High Commissioner Daya Perera.

Tuesday's protest certainly got points for volume, but a more subdued action last wednesday by the Canadian Tamil Congress touched more decision makers.

With the help of Liberal MP Albina Guarnieri, who represents the Tamil-heavy Toronto area riding of Mississauga East, the CTC secured coveted access to a room just outside Parliament's House Foyer last week.

From here, the CTC, made their case to plenty of Liberal MPs, including John McKay, Irwin Cotler, Rob Oliphant, Keith Martin, Ruby Dhalla and Justin Trudeau. From the Conservatives, Chatter House spotted only Foreign Affairs Committee chair Kevin Sorenson.

CTC national spokesman David Poopalapillai called for trade, travel and economic sanctions to be imposed on Sri Lanka.

He said the government should also lead the charge in expelling Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth of Nations, just like Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney did with South Africa in the 1980s.

"Canada was the champion for South Africa, and took a really leading role among the Western nations," he said. "We want the South African approach here."

Mr. Poopalapillai said the Harper government's controversial decision to slap the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam with a terrorist label encouraged Sri Lanka's government to launch its current offensive."
http://www.embassymag.ca/page/view/chatter_house-4-8-2009

So due process for you but not for them?

How very left of you Justthinkin.

MOre bOw-wOw with Buck StOps.
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"The buck stops with the top executive."

"Bow-ow-ow: Obama's painful missteps

Let the new president grow into the job -- but he'd better do it fast! Plus: Readers ask about everything from talk radio, morality, Mary McCarthy, and a big movie about a sinking ship.

In your column, you say, "President Obama has been ill-served by his advisors and staff..."

Charles
Pennsylvania

You are absolutely correct! The buck stops with the top executive. But we all know how little executive experience Barack Obama has had. He was elected for his vision and his steady, deliberative character, not his résumé. For better or worse, Obama is learning as he goes -- and surely most fair-minded people would grant him reasonable leeway as he grows into the presidency, one of the hardest jobs in the world...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224541/posts

Ahhh, Hee Haw, a show that never took itself seriously and therefore had a good time. I imagine today most of the show's content would be banned as not being PC. Mind you it would be folks like "Lucy" et al who would march to the HRC on behalf of the poor misguided rednecks who are too stupid laughing at themselves to notice the injustice.

'it was a curtsy'

heh.
What kind of dress was he wearing?
Were his heels appropriate for the dress?

Mao Stlong say to Ministel Day, Folget Sidewindel*.
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"Power Corp. company closes debenture deal"

"the Desmarais family of Montreal"*.
(TORedStar)
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"Mission aims to triple China trade by 2019

Stockwell Day says "nothing is off the table" as he embarks on a mission to China to talk trade, human rights and the environment.

Declining to disclose specific issues he might raise with officials in China,".
urlm.in/cbhg
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*Chretien hooks up with shady Chinese firm
19 Feb 2004 ... Less than two months after stepping down, Chrétien was hosted by the .... dubbed Sidewinder, which would be eventually snubbed by Chrétien's ...
www.primetimecrime.com/APNS/20040219.htm

"Early morning cyclists in Woodbine Park pass the Toronto skyline April 7, 2008."

TORedStar uses a picture from April 7, 2008.

No Goreacle/AGW in TO.

TO is a third-rate city.
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"Toronto a suburb? It's begun"
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/615455

The rogue-flight denouement:

"Flight student hoped U.S. fighter jets would shoot him down, police say"

As it turns out, his flight was an attempted suicide by military.

Experts for Goreacle: cooling ocean means cooler Goreacle.
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"Colorado experts predict fewer hurricanes for 2009

There will be fewer Atlantic hurricanes this season than in 2008, and fewer even than predicted only last December, according to a forecast released Tuesday."
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2009-04-07-hurricane_N.htm

It is a story about biker gangs? Is it a union story? Is it about Montreal city council? A couple of rogue employees at Rev Can? Yes.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090407.wraid0407/BNStory/politics/home

Yacht trips, major contracts, $21,000 a month in restaurant expenses, a city councilor named Zampino, chairman of the city's executive committee, taking trips to the Carribean with one Tony Accurso, "who has been under fire for his close ties to major union officials and municipal politicians, a number of whom have vacationed on his luxury yacht."

Zampino, who "was involved in the awarding of a $355-million water-meter contract," left politics last year to become V.P. of a firm that was a partner in the water-meter consortium.

Here comes the punch line...wait for it....

"The Quebec Federation of Labour has urged the provincial government to resist calling another inquiry."

sooooooo, looks like General Motors goin' mams up soon as in skip ahead to chapter 11 in the popular work 'How Not to Run a Car Company'.

its demographics folks; all those bumper stickers exhorting (extorting?) us to 'buy north american' target and appeal to the 50s 60s and 70s generation which is now either retired and not driving to work every day, or have failing eyesight disqualifying them from driving or they have moved on to the great parking lot in the sky.

customer loyalty? wtf loyalty did any of the big 3 give me except a tether to the repair shop for their inferior product?

I actually hope the entire economy does get dragged down in a mammoth ripple effect. that way my pension is subject to far less inflationary pressures. see, Im one of the retired and I dont even have a car any more, n american or otherwise. and as far as 'north american', does that mean the bumper sticker crowd expect us to buy a GM Saturn made in Georgia USA or wherever instead of a Toyota Camry made here in Ontariario?

looks good on them. KARMA.

New poll: Liberals 34, pseudo-Conservatives 32:

http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2009/04/and-the-poll-says-conservatives-tied-with-grits-in-canada-deep-losses-in-ontario-.html

Damian; look for an election anytime soon. Iggy will jump on this. They may be broke but will get plenty of free advertisement from their media friends.

News from bOw-wOw's AGW commissar.
Holdren speaks from under the roof, the commmunist kafya/mafia.

It's an old communist tactic: create a "crisis"; as Lenin, aka ulianov said, "The worse, the better".
AP, the Associated Press, is the preferred messenger.
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"AP Newsbreak: Obama looks at climate engineering

By SETH BORENSTEIN – 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The president's new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air.

John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed. One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays. Holdren said such an experimental measure would only be used as a last resort.

"It's got to be looked at," he said. "We don't have the luxury of taking any approach off the table."

Holdren outlined several "tipping points" involving global warming that could be fast approaching. Once such milestones are reached, such as complete loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic, it increases chances of "really intolerable consequences," he said.

Twice in a half-hour interview, Holdren compared global warming to being "in a car with bad brakes driving toward a cliff in the fog.""
urlm.in/cbjk

An old Country & Western star who is all but forgotten. Tried to post this yesterday but it didn't make it. As with Buck Owens and his Buckaroos, they don't make them like this anymore. **http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kla0PAGEWQs&feature=related **

Liberal Iggy's Tamil Tiger voters/supporters are threatening to "go onto the streets".

Tamil Tigers have issued an ultimatum to the Canadian government.

STOPIGGY.
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"Tamil protesters continue to rally in downtown Ottawa"

""Our plans now are only to protest on Parliament, but again, the emotions are running on high; people have lost family members, so if it does go onto the streets I won't be surprised," said Jesuthasan.

"We will continue to be here protesting until the government takes some sort of action, or until we're forced to leave.""
urlm.in/cbjl

"something clicked, something smelled bad".

The 'rats at Revenue Canada, aka the Taxman, scurry away from the light.

Get 'em!
Fire/Jail. Them. All.
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"Blackburn to shed light on Revenue Canada arrests

Revenue Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn is expected to shed light today on the arrest of two Revenue Canada officials and raids on six offices of a Quebec construction company.

Blackburn is scheduled to hold a news conference Wednesday afternoon in Montreal.

Daniel Leblanc of The Globe and Mail, who is closely following the story, said the Revenue Canada officials were picked up and questioned by the RCMP on Tuesday.

He told CTV Montreal that one of the officials work in a branch of the agency that deals with black-market activities. The other works in a department involved with investigating tax-avoidance.

Revenue Canada was initially investigating construction companies, Leblanc said.

"The starting point is basically a tax investigation, an internal type of investigation that Revenue Canada often does. They were looking at construction businesses and at some point something clicked, something smelled bad...and they called in the RCMP," Leblanc said."
urlm.in/cbjm

MSM is a cliche.
"The enemy?"
Debunk this "story"?

MSM is the enemy, and its own enemy.
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"US newspaper owners are “mad as hell”

US newspaper owners, their advertising revenue evaporating, their circulation declining and their readership going online to get news for free, are fighting mad.The enemy? Websites that use their stories without paying for them.

“We are mad as hell, and we are not going to take it any more,” said the chairman of the Associated Press, a cooperative of over 1,400 US newspapers, borrowing a line from the anchorman character in the 1976 movie “Network.”"
urlm.in/cbjt

The MAN F.R.O.M. Acronym*: FIRE. THEM. ALL.
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"'Smear Campaign' Liberals Send Nude Photos to CBC

With a N.S. provincial election expected this spring, the N.S. Liberals have launched what CBC N.S. described as a 'smear campaign' against a new NDP star candidate."

"WARNING ADULT CONTENT AFTER THE HOP..(sic)"
(nnw)
(*H/T)

Fidel Castro to Congressional Black Caucus members: 'How can we help President Obama?'

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/04/congressional-caucus-members-meet-with-the-castro-cousins-in-cuba.html

Further to Agent Smith's find, there seems to be some genuine reflection going on here, and Prof. Paglia's found out something we've known for some time. Kudos to her for her honesty.

"Regarding your observations about the rehabilitation of Sarah Palin and the insufferable snottiness of Dick Cavett and other good liberals: Is it possible that there might be something really ugly at the core of contemporary liberalism? You call yourself a liberal, and you vote liberal, yet you are under constant attack by your liberal compatriots. Why? Because of your open-mindedness and your "real feminism" (as opposed to faux leftist feminism).

In the meantime, the torching of Sarah Palin's church in Alaska (children were inside when the fire with accelerant was set) evokes a collective shrug in the mainstream media and other liberal precincts (if you can find any reference to the event at all). Why the all-too-frequent and downright nasty face of contemporary liberalism?

Timothy Condon
Tampa, Fla.

Yes, something very ugly has surfaced in contemporary American liberalism, as evidenced by the irrational and sometimes infantile abuse directed toward anyone who strays from a strict party line. Liberalism, like second-wave feminism, seems to have become a new religion for those who profess contempt for religion. It has been reduced to an elitist set of rhetorical formulas, which posit the working class as passive, mindless victims in desperate need of salvation by the state. Individual rights and free expression, which used to be liberal values, are being gradually subsumed to worship of government power.

The problems on the American left were already manifest by the late 1960s, as college-educated liberals began to lose contact with the working class for whom they claimed to speak. (A superb 1990 documentary, "Berkeley in the Sixties," chronicles the arguments and misjudgments about tactics that alienated the national electorate and led to the election of Richard Nixon.) For the past 25 years, liberalism has gradually sunk into a soft, soggy, white upper-middle-class style that I often find preposterous and repellent. The nut cases on the right are on the uneducated fringe, but on the left they sport Ivy League degrees. I'm not kidding -- there are some real fruitcakes out there, and some of them are writing for major magazines. It's a comfortable, urban, messianic liberalism befogged by psychiatric pharmaceuticals. Conservatives these days are more geared to facts than emotions, and as individuals they seem to have a more ethical, perhaps sports-based sense of fair play.

Probably the main reason for my unorthodox view of politics (as in my instant approval of Sarah Palin) is that I had much more childhood contact with working-class life than appears to be the norm among current American columnists. One of my grandfathers was a barber, and the other was a leather worker at the Endicott-Johnson shoe factory in upstate New York. Thanks to the G.I. Bill, my father was able to attend college, the only one in his large family to do so. I was born while he was still in college and mopping floors in the cafeteria. Years later, he became a high-school teacher and then a professor at a Jesuit college, but we never left our immigrant family roots in industrial Endicott. To this day, I have more rapport with campus infrastructure staffers (maintenance, security) than I do with other professors or, for that matter, writers. Don't get me started on the hermetic bourgeois arrogance of American literati!

"Modern Pharaoh: Obama Holds Stunt Seder Passover Minstrel Show @ White House

As you may know, tonight at sundown is the start of the Jewish holiday of Passover. We hold ceremonial dinners the first two nights to commemorate our slavery in Egypt and redemption into freedom by G-d.

So, it's ironic that the President--who is the worst President for us ever and the one who pandered to the West's and the Jews' worst enemy all this week in Europe--is holding a Seder. It's sickening.

Sadly, the ignoramus the fancy high-dollar Jewish donors who get to spend this evening with the couple that followed anti-Semitic Jeremiah Wright and employed Farrakhan acolytes, don't even realize that they are the new stars of the Barack Hussein's Matzoh Minstrel Show. Don't they realized they are being patronized? They are holding a Seder with the man who has been negotiating with HAMAS since last summer. Hello . . .? I guess it's lost on those Jews that while he eats some Matzoh (unleavened bread, which Jews eat on Passover), tonight, Barack Hussein Obama has been partying with and reaching out to those who allege that Jews make Matzoh out of gentile blood.

I wonder what Black Americans would think if a Jewish President invited them for a dinner of fried chicken, chitlins, and sweet potato pie, all while he began to take away their civil rights or told Black Africans to give up their land to White interlopers and pandered to the Klan in Europe that same week."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225238/posts
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"Passover Is Near: Eve of April 8

The sociological compulsions of Passover 2009 are imminent and inevitable. Any human being who has ever left his comfort zone for something new and better, however difficult and fearful, has experienced the essence of Passover. Anyone who unconsciously yearns for the older way, no matter how dark, unpromising, limited, and slavish, also knows Passover.

And here we have America, so bold, so new, so grand in the beginning, now yearning for subjugation, for servile ways, for infantile status. America, racing to the womb, leaping into the dream of a carefree life. Momma Obama is the voice of that weakness, that dark place of slavery.

Moses was certainly not a liberal. Barry
would have been stoned, if he ever got
into the camp.

Yes, it is the original comfort zone: total dependency. Mindless, floating utopia. To leave it, to be born, to be willing to experience the rip-roaring birth, as America once did, is not something anyone seems willing to even talk about. Oh, yes, the talented talkers of conservatism wondrously glorify the ideologies of the founding fathers. But they all fail, totally, to recall the agony of birth! The talkers and the would-be conservative politicians ignore, utterly, the price paid for the implementation of those sacred ideologies of the fathers. War. Violence. Citizens’ resolve.

The fathers were willing to pay the price to be born. Today’s Americans are apparently not. America is aborting itself.

Interestingly, the yearning for a central government was a malady found in the early Israelites after they had settled in their new country. They decided they wanted a king, like all the other nations. The God-bit wasn’t working. (See, I Samuel 1-8, especially ch. 8.) They couldn’t live by principle. They couldn’t live as independent tribes or families. They wanted a visible, commanding person, to handle everything. To wit, they wanted a nation–their idea of a nation. An old idea, a hackneyed idea. An Egyptian idea. They wanted to go back to Egypt, sociologically."
http://www.badeagle.com/

ACORN drafts the amnimal kingdom.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=806_1239154328

'at some point something clicked, smelled bad and they called in the RCMP' LeBlanc said'

Yes I would say it clicked -they apparently found private Rev Canada office documents in the offices of the construction company!

And here I thought the Duplessis era was over in Quebec.