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I just got back from a 2 week business trip to Nunavut, visiting 7 communities along the west coast of Hudson Bay and Southampton Island.

I was wondering if anyone can provide some insight. Do Inuit communities get more money for housing than Indian bands do?? If not, how come housing on reserves is often described as 3rd world quality yet the houses in the Inuit communities are of uniformly good quality? You don't see people living in dilapitated shacks like you do on reserves.

What gives?

http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1765&aid=-1

Such a society does not exist because without money you can not have economic calculation. Without economic calculation you can not hope to determine what to produce and how much of it. Such a system leads to extreme misallocation of resources which produces nothing but poverty and ultimately ends in complete self-destruction.

Not to mention that the moral code imposed on the individual by whim (in this case the 'common good') is a moral code that constantly demands sacrifice, starting with the sacrifice of reason (don't think, society knows what's best). Such a moral code is, ironically, the cause of the very class conflict that Marx was trying to solve. In such a system those who produce and 'have' are vilified and attacked with guilt while those who don't produce are rewarded because they of their 'need'. The wrong becomes the right. The upper classes are resented and made to feel guilty, the lower classes are resentful but are rewarded for doing nothing and the middle class has it worse because they resent both the upper class and the lower class and also feel guilty for not being the lower class. The logical conclusion from a standard of morality that's based on sacrifice is death. The entire social structure falls apart from a combination of conflict and non-production.

Part Two of Charles's and LGF's Downfall here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkQiyySS5wU&feature=related
[h/t Winston's Cheek in Ace's comments section]

A culture of dependency?
Could it be there's a bit more pride of ownership than you might find on the typical reserve?
"We're running out of firewood; who needs this partition anyway?"
But a larger problem is the inequity/power structure inherent in the system. If you're part of the chief's lineage, somehow you'll do much better.

From Investor's Business Daily:

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=324863352475181

"Canada Fills Obama's Leadership Void"

"Thus far, the Obama administration seems more interested in continuing its global apology tour, Latin edition, during this weekend's Fifth Summit of the Americas than he is in leading. His accusations against America are stronger than his promotion of the institutions and treaties that bring authentic democracy and prosperity to our hemisphere."

"......Canada, by contrast, is taking the lead. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said his top priority at the Summit is to champion free trade, in line with the will of the region's real democracies."

"...Right now, the hemisphere's definition of democracy is growing hazier as protectionism rises. The U.S. could lead the region on a better course, but Obama seems more interested in adulation.

What a shame that it's now left to Canada to do the heavy lifting on the actions that will genuinely advance peace and prosperity in our global neighborhood."

"You don't see people living in dilapitated shacks like you do on reserves. "

What gives?

Posted by: Scott
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The reserves I'm familliar with have relatively good housing. I've heard of some with overcrowded houses and serious mould problems, but not the ones I've seen, they're pretty good, better than my house, most of them. Only a few of the residents look after the grounds - flowers, shrubs, lawns and gardens are conspicuous by their absence, but he buildings look fine.

OT and NFB warning:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3IqAXhI2Eo

I've always loved this video, maybe because I see myself in it as the Dad.

Strange Invaders ("Googlio/Peanut/Wiggles"). It's heartwarming and funny and in the end, touching. Good stuff for as-yet unaware fathers to watch, very sweet and funny. Great for parents with little kids to watch and comment on.

Highly recommended if you want to smile.

Not a parody. This is from MSNBC:

KEITH OLBERMAN: On a more serious note, we're now joined by actor and activist Janeane Garofalo. Good to see you.

JANEANE GAROFALO: Thank you. You know, there is nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry at a speech they're not quite certain what he's saying. It sounds right to them, and then, and then, it doesn't make sense, which, let's be very honest what this is about, it's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes -- they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about --

OLBERMAN: that's right...

GAROFALO: ...they don't know their history at all, this is about hating a black man in the white house. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of tea-bagging rednecks. And there is no way around that. And you know, you can tell these type of right wingers anything and they'll believe it, except the truth. You tell them the truth and they become, it's like showing Frankenstein's monster fire; they become confused, and angry, and highly volatile. That guy caused them feelings they don't -- because their limbic brain -- we've discussed this before the limbic brain inside a right winger, or Republican, or conservative, or your average white power activist, the limbic brain is much larger in their, in their, headspace, than in a reasonable person, and it's pushing against the frontal lobe. So their synapses are mis-firing...it is a neurological problem that we're dealing with.

OLBERMAN: Well, what do you do about it, I mean, our friend in Pensacola there who played them like a, like a three dollar fiddle, and led them right down the garden path, had nothing but facts, and then they went "wait a minute, that doesn't sound like Rush Limbaugh!" -- if you can't get them to make that last leap to "What are we all doing here? Howard Johnson is wrong," I mean, how do you, how do you break through that?

GAROFALO: I don't think you do, for most of them. This is a pathol, it's almost pathological, or elevated to a philosophy or a lifestyle. And again, this is about racism. It could be any issue, any port in a storm. These guys HATE that a black guy is in the White House. They immigrant-bash, they pretend taxes and tea-bagging (sic) like I said most of them probably couldn't tell you thing one about taxation without representation, the Boston tea party, the British imperialism -- whatever the history lesson has to be. But these people -- all white, for the most part, unless there's some people with Stockholm Syndrome...

Later,

GAROFALO: I didn't know there were so many racists left. I didn't know that. I, I, you know, 'cause as I said, the Republican hype and the conservative movement has now crystalized into the White Power movement.

OLBERMAN: Is that not a bad long-term political strategy?

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/04/janeane-garofalo-the-republican-conservative-has-crystallized-into-the-white-power-left-nothing-but-.html

More from the same on-air interview:

GAROFALO: (If FOX didn't appeal to racists) who's going to watch? You know what I mean, they have tackled that elusive clam denna (sic)...KLAN, klan with a K, demo. Who else is FOX talking to? I mean, what is it, urban, older white guys, and, and, and, the girlfriend , the you know, the women who suffer from Stockholm Syndrome, again -- there's a lot of Stockholm Syndrome, is what I'm saying, ultimately...

OLBERMAN: What happens if somebody who was at one of these things hurts somebody?

GAROFALO: Oh, THAT is an unfortunate byproduct since the dawn of time of a volatile group like this, of the limbic brain. Violence, unfortunately, may or may not ensue.....you know, FOX doesn't mind fomenting it, Michelle Bachman doesn't mind fomenting it, Glen Beck doesn't mind fomenting it...

OLBERMAN: Lou Dobbs...

GAROFALO: Lou Dobbs! Oh man!...

EBD, I now have little doubt that there's a pyramid of sorts in the Democrat Party, all interconnected by cel phones, text messages, e-mails, and private discussion boards.

The scripts for Garofalo and Olberman were written long ago, likely soon after the Tea Party events were scheduled. Everything is pre-programmed, including the "teabagging" humour of the "deeply intellectual" liberal MSM.

The underlying message is simple: We will do whatever we want and no dissent will be tolerated. They might not crush you through violence but they will destroy your reputation and anything else of value to you.

The good news though is that the polls are clearly showing a continual drop in popularity for Obama so less & less Americans are buying this bull crap.

I have been so outraged by Susan Roegen's "performance" that I put together a video. After showing the raw video once, I then replay it, albeit with audio from Hugh Hewitt & Dennis Miller's shows. You can watch it here.

P.S. As for the text on the sidebar, I tried to put myself into the head of the man who was holding his little child. I hope they each thoroughly scrubbed themselves off afterward after being within 10' of that creepy "reporter".

P.S.2. The rally in Chicago reminded me a lot of the rally I attended back in Vancouver back in December. It and all the other ones are what shut down the attempt by the Lieberals, the Dippers, and our own MSM to insert Stephane Dion as their leader.

"That is nothing but a bunch of tea-bagging rednecks."

If you look up "tea-bagging" you'll find that that term has little to do with tax protests; but here we go again with attempts to re-define words and terms. The current definition of the term is a bit, uh, shall I say, "not for polite society". But the shock factor has always been a tactic of the left when they've nothing else constructive to add to any discussion. It's a way to vector off into off-topic, sure-to-get-a-response diversion and then counter-attack on predicted reactions rather than the matter at hand. Well-known misdirection strategy and use of straw men.

Garofalo's obviously pretty bright, she's got all the buzzwords, syncopathy, demonizing and good-sounding, feel-good rhetoric down pat.

Limbaugh explained a long time ago that the reason so many media-famous people/Hollywood types are lefties is because of self-imposed guilt. That their "inner self" feels guilty because their actual contribution to the world (i.e., their "work" as entertainers) is inherently a construct, playing a role and pretending.

The fact that they earn huge remuneration for their labour causes a sort of brain malfunction and myopia (cognitive dissonance, perhaps?). They make gobs of money far out of proportion of their real worth as human beings and actual contribution to society.

In an effort to "atone" (or perhaps gain attention - we are, after all, talking about individuals that thrive on attention/adulation) for their sins and vacuosness they, uh, "make up for it" by pretending to be righteous crusaders for those that are not as fortunate as themselves.

Because they are phonies at heart, in a profession where critical thinking is not needed for success to occur, they are very vulnerable to charlatans and those seeking to play on guilt/profit from making them into useful idiots.

Great video, Robert. Thanks for that.

For all British Columbians out there . . .

CKNW has created a non-partisan Facebook group on which to discuss the upcoming BC Election. If you're a Facebook member, do check it out!

Here's footage of CNN's Susan Roesgen covering a pro-Obama protest/gathering. Note how, in stark contrast to the way she dismissed and mocked and sneered at and argued with the tea party protesters, pulling her mic away as they spoke and saying "O-kay...", this report is a glowing propaganda set-piece:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO7VccOUPiA

And in this anti-Bush protest from a few years ago,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzRBx8r3PjI

she chirps brightly over the image of a man wearing a giant G.W. Bush head with red horns, "But while a lookalike showed up with a wad of cash, Mr. Bush did not..."

EBD, I don't see much of a problem in the two videos you linked.

Will heating homes eventually be banned by the greenies???
Where will this stop???

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CITY ONE STEP CLOSER TO BANNING NEW WOOD-BURNING STOVES

Updated: Thu Apr. 16 2009 11:51:53 AM

ctvmontreal.ca

The city of Montreal has moved ahead with a new law to stop any more wood-burning stoves from being installed.

The exception to the rule is stoves that burn pellets. The new law would not extend to stoves that are already installed.

The rule has yet to be ratified, but will be on the agenda at the April 27 meeting.

Alan DeSousa, the executive committee member responsible for sustainable development, says that WOOD BURNING STOVES AND FIREPLACES ARE ESTIMATED TO BE THE SOURCE OF 47 PER CENT OF ALL WINTER SMOG IN QUEBEC

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what the f***???!!!

Ignatieff is turning out to be more fun than Dion, check out his latest genius move courtesy of 51 year old Girl Reporter Jane Taber:

"Hot: Sheila Copps. The former Liberal MP and deputy prime minister is being courted by the Ignatieff Liberals to run in the next election. Ms. Copps was spotted recently having lunch in the Parliamentary Restaurant with Michael Ignatieff's chief of staff Paul Zed. Mr. Zed would not comment on her final decision, although he said she's “like a rock star.… Even Bloc and Tories were coming up to her and bussing her on both cheeks.”

Here in Woodstock, Ontario the OPP are calling Victoria Stafford's disappearance an "abduction".
THe OPP have taken control of the search efforts in the City and renewed physical search efforts will be conducted.

"Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking

ICE is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.

The results of ice-core drilling and sea ice monitoring indicate there is no large-scale melting of ice over most of Antarctica, although experts are concerned at ice losses on the continent's western coast.

Antarctica has 90 per cent of the Earth's ice and 80 per cent of its fresh water. Extensive melting of Antarctic ice sheets would be required to raise sea levels substantially, and ice is melting in parts of west Antarctica. The destabilisation of the Wilkins ice shelf generated international headlines this month.

However, the picture is very different in east Antarctica, which includes the territory claimed by Australia.

East Antarctica is four times the size of west Antarctica and parts of it are cooling. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research report prepared for last week's meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations in Washington noted the South Pole had shown "significant cooling in recent decades".

Australian Antarctic Division glaciology program head Ian Allison said sea ice losses in west Antarctica over the past 30 years had been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of east Antarctica.

"Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally," Dr Allison said."
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friend of USA:

Actually older style woodstoves - ones not equipped with a catalytic converter are a real problem for air quality especially if a lot of homes are using them for heating. In Newfoundland many communities have over sixty percent of the homes using woodstoces and in the AM the pall of smoke right down to ground level can be like a heavy fog. Even modern catalyst equipped stoves can still be a problem if the wood is not properly dried or if the operator is burning tjingslike cardboard and other garbage. So the ban in a high density city like Montreal may not be as enviro wacko as you might first think.

Warning: Naomi Klein.

"Hopeover. Hopercoaster. Hopesick. Hope fiend. Hopebreak. Hopelash."

"Which brings me to the final entry in the lexicon.

Hoperoots. Sample sentence: "It's time to stop waiting for hope to be handed down, and start pushing it up, from the hoperoots"."

"In trying to name these various hope-related ailments, I found myself wondering what the late Studs Terkel would have said about our collective hopeover. He surely would have urged us not to give in to despair. I reached for one of his last books, Hope Dies Last. I didn't have to read long. The book opens with the words: "Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up."
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"A Lexicon of Disappointment

Lookout
By Naomi Klein

All is not well in Obamafanland. It's not clear exactly what accounts for the change of mood. Maybe it was the rancid smell emanating from Treasury's latest bank bailout. Or the news that the president's chief economic adviser, Larry Summers, earned millions from the very Wall Street banks and hedge funds he is protecting from reregulation now. Or perhaps it began earlier, with Obama's silence during Israel's Gaza attack.
Whatever the last straw, a growing number of Obama enthusiasts are starting to entertain the possibility that their man is not, in fact, going to save the world if we all just hope really hard.

This is a good thing. If the superfan culture that brought Obama to power is going to transform itself into an independent political movement, one fierce enough to produce programs capable of meeting the current crises, we are all going to have to stop hoping and start demanding.

The first stage, however, is to understand fully the awkward in-between space in which many US progressive movements find themselves. To do that, we need a new language, one specific to the Obama moment. Here is a start."
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090504/klein/print

Charles Lamb:

"Hope* is charming, lively, blue-eyed wench, & I am always glad of her company, but could dispense with the visitor she brings with her, her younger sister, fear*, a white liver'd-lilly-cheeked, bashful palpitating, awkward hussey that hangs like a green girl at her sister's apron strings & will go with her whithersoever she goes."
(Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb)
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*Hope + Fear = Communism.

"... it [Communism] had one ultimate appeal. In place of desperation, it set the word: *hope.

If it was the outrage, it was also the hope of the world.

In the 20th century, it seemed impossible to have hope on any other terms."

Whittaker Chambers: Witness
http://www.whittakerchambers.org/timemagazine.html

The more I read about the benefit package that the Detroit 3 and CAW/UAW have built over the years with zero cost to the "employee" the more I am amazed they have lasted as long as they have! Out of province medical coverage, lawyers fees, day care, layoff coverage of 90% of wages and on and on. It must have be so hard for the union to think of anything else as they sucked the lifeblood out of these companies.

The scary comparison between these unions and government unions is that finally they destroy the company and it and its parasitic unions dies while the public unions grow larger every day with similar benefits and finally will destroy the entire country as is happening in the UK.

An Ace 'moron' had a great idea. Leave teabags out in the open. He suggested hanging them from magazines in a store but I think hanging them in public like on street signs would be more visable. Watch for cops. Got a CNN affiliate close by?

"The Planet Cools While Romm Burns
By Marc Sheppard

According to blogger Joe Romm of Climate Progress, websites and writers daring to question greenhouse gas orthodoxy are guilty of endangering the "health and well-being of countless billions of people." And in a surprisingly erratic response to recent criticism, the dangerous "deniers" this modern day prophet of doom singles out for suppression are American Thinker and its new environment editor.

Last week, we declared Marc Morano the clear winner in his March 27th Roll Call TV "Green Politics" debate against Romm. And Monday, the loser decided to take me to task, defending not his frail forensic performance but rather the three over the top projections he squeezed into this opening sentence -- which I challenged as alarmist exaggeration: [The emphasis remains mine]

"On our current emissions path we are going to warm the United States 10-15 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century and sea level rise will be 5 feet or higher and a third of the planet will be desert."

After dismissing American (non-)Thinker (mighty clever these green types) as not a "credible source worth wasting time on," The Climate (Alarmists Against) Progress (touché) editor nonetheless wasted more than 2300 words worth of time attempting to discredit us. The crux of his argument was that while he admits his phraseology was far from stellar, I was way out of line in my analysis that his words were "grossly exaggerating the already hyped predictions of his fellow climate hysterics." But his supporting statements followed the same strange pattern as his original assertions -- two inflated from cherry-picked data and the third completely unfathomable.

Before refuting my refutations, Romm attempted to drain some hysteria from his words by confessing them to be poorly chosen -- not a strong rebuke opener in anyone's book. Although he suggested I was "quibbl[ing] with the word choice," he vaguely admitted that perhaps he should have specified "from preindustrial levels" and "up to" in his temperature and sea level figures, but later supported his numbers as I had originally interpreted them anyway.

Odd, as was proposing that "Readers here know the statement is an accurate representation of the latest science, thought [sic] the part on the desert needs the kind of elaboration this blog provides." I checked with Bartleby and found no form of the word "elaboration" that might describe his claim that he was referring to the Southwest United States when he said "a third of the planet will be desert." We'll get back to that later.

Meanwhile, I must confess some surprise that even the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress senior fellow would attempt to deflate my observations that his figures far exceeded those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by feigning amusement "that the deniers hide behind the AR4 when they don't even believe it or basic climate science." In reality, no one's denying or hiding behind anything and Dr. Romm knows it. The 2007 synopsis report is the single most quoted, venerated and hyped authority by all manner of alarmists, policy makers and media drones, despite representing the combined work of only 52 carefully cherry-picked UN scientists. Subsequently, holding the wild assertions flowing from the Big Green Scare Machine to AR4's (IPCC Fourth Assessment Report) admittedly arguable metrics merely contains the debate within workable frames of reference."
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Ah yes, global warming.

Denver and Wyoming have drawn the short straw and are getting up to 2 feet of that lovely white global warming joy today.

Weather forecasters are predicting a frost in the area of the US winter wheat crop (Kansas) this coming week also.

Los Vegas has seen its latest ever Apr snowfall on the 17th.
Beats old record of Apr 04 1958.

Could be a short summer this year.

The following comment came from a fellow from SE Florida who watched the video I put together of the Susan Roesgen's fiasco. I found it quite profound.

I attended the Tea Party protest that was held in my town, more people than expected showed up and for such a small town, it was pleasantly surprising. One big issue that is drawing alot of justified criticism is the President’s first spending bill, that was over 1,000 pages long but was quickly voted on and signed before anyone had ample time to even read it! Any Republican politician who thinks that it was simply an anti-Democrat or anti-Obama protest is kidding themselves, they started the out of control spending when they were in power and the donkeys just put it all on steroids once they got control of the entire government. When I returned home and watched the coverage of the various protests that occurred all around this country, I was struck by several different observations:

Despite the fact that there were nearly a thousand of these Tea Parties drawing hundreds of thousands of citizens, the crowds were energetic, but very peaceful. There were no riots, burned or overturned vehicles, physical clashes with law enforcement personnel, beatings, property damage or crude effigies of anyone being defiled or destroyed in any way, quite a departure from what we usually see from large left wing demonstrations on any subject. Most participants carried handmade signs, and people of all ages, political ideologies & ethnic groups participated.

The majority of the news media who continually gets clobbered by Fox in the ratings no matter what the time slot tried to downplay the numbers or passion of those of us who chose to attend these rallies, disregarding the fact that many turned out in bad weather to make their voices heard, and these so-called journalists chose to insult us as well which is why Beck’s & O’Reilly’s re-runs beat the prime time programming of CNN, ABC & MSNBC combined in the ratings, Fox dominates the daily 5pm to 11pm time slot by a very large margin. As for this alleged “reporter”, she’s a total disgrace and would be utterly embarrassed if she had any professional pride at all, which she obviously lacks! She humiliated herself and thanks to the Internet, her shameful attempt to “be the story” vs. simply reporting will likely be replayed & laughed at from now until eternity.

So you're a good Conservative who wants Harper to win the next federal election with a working majority!! Stop analyzing and start an action plan!
Since 1995, the CBC have produced at least nine full length, one hour docs. on "The Fifth Estate." The topic? The Mulroney-Schreiber relationship. I would like to believe that the CBC had done that in the interest of good journalism, however I've found out differently.
Millions of dollars were spent to slander the Conservatives. No event(s) in Canada's history have hurt us (Conservatives) more than the Airbus story.
Think carefully! The story is now over 20 years old. It involves less than 5% of what was publically released through Sponsorgate, if anything at all. No one has been convicted in the Airbus story. Why have we forgotten the recent sponsorship scandal, and why are Schreiber and Mulroney on the 10:00 PM news every night?? Don't you beleive that is exactly what the CBC and Liberals, (one and the same,) hope to accomplish? To mask Sponsorgate, and pave the way for "Ignatieff."
Don't wait for election day, it'll be too late. Get out there and and help us uncover the scam behind the CBC and their obsession with Airbus. Let's clean house once and for all! If we sit still--were going to get screwed by the Liberals!
Step one--Got to www.cbc.ca/fifth/estate and check out the nine hours of slander! Then, make your judgement. Thanks for reading this!!

I enjoy reading news sources from around the world. Here's one from Israel.

Here's a snippet:

Obama's Washington believes America can live with a nuclear-armed Iran – a decision probably taken first under the Bush presidency. But Israel cannot, and may have no option but to part ways with the Obama administration on this point. As a nuclear power, Iran will be able to bend Jerusalem to the will of its enemies, make it unconditionally give Syria the Golan plus extra pieces of territory, tamely accept a Hamas-dominated Palestinian West Bank louring over its heartland and let the Lebanese Hizballah terrorize Galilee in the north at will. All three would make hay under Iran's nuclear shield, while Tehran lords it over the region in the role of regional power conferred by Obama's grace and favor.

Speaking of behavioral economics, Virginia Postrel discusses the times when we show an excessive amount of forethought:

"The Gift-Card Economy"

Long article in the Ottawa Citizen about Jason Kenney and his substantial efforts wrt immigration and multiculturalism.

Goreacle is gored. Gaia is dead.
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"Energy Update - Only 34% Now Blame Humans for Global Warming"

$$$$>>>>$$$$ "However, a plurality (48%) of the Political Class believes humans are to blame."

"These numbers reflect a reversal from a year ago when 47% blamed human activity while 34% said long-term planetary trends."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232399/posts

"Socialism and Progressivism are cannibalism."

"That is the vicious reality of Socialism."

"Don't let the bastards call it anything else."
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"Socialism is really cannibalism
Carol Negro

Apparently in our current political climate "socialism" has become a word that does not convey the horror it actually represents. It has become common and thus meaningless beyond the virtuous idea of "sharing" and "taking care of the poor".

People, especially among the ignorant -- particularly the college educated -- seem proud to call themselves "Socialists" today. And the supremely ignorant -- our politicians -- go a step further, and celebrate the word "Progressive" as though it had a glorious and honorable history.

I refuse to allow "Socialism" and "Progressivism" to be understood as benign, helpful, caring, sharing- as another way of saying "The Brotherhood of Man".

Socialism and Progressivism are cannibalism.

When I work, I use up hours of my life... my limited, mortal, human, physical life. The money I am paid represents the life I expended to earn it. My pay-my wealth-is my labor. It is the expenditure of some of my body's short, precious life on earth.

So when someone takes my money, they steal my hours of labor. They consume not only the fruits of my labor, but my labor itself, that labor which is the very expenditure of my life.

When someone loots and consumes the money I have earned, they consume the part of my life devoted to producing what they have taken.

What is that but cannibalism? A selfishness so profound, so inhuman, so greedy, so barbaric that it encourages and celebrates-and seeks to legally require- the consuming of the life's blood of one human by another.

That is the vicious reality of Socialism.

Don't let the bastards call it anything else."

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/04/socialism_is_really_cannibalis.html

Piper Paul (waaay up the thread), the Roesgen videos aren't offensive in and of themselves. It's all about context; I linked to them for comparative purposes, to show her differing treatment/coverage of the tea party protesters on the one hand and non-Republican protesters on the other.

Night and day, in my view; where she was confrontational, lecturing and condescending to the anti-Obama protesters, she was pretty much laudatory and helpful -- promotional, really -- on behalf of the the pro-Obama ones.

"...the crowds were energetic, but very peaceful. There were no riots, burned or overturned vehicles, physical clashes with law enforcement personnel, beatings, property damage or crude effigies of anyone being defiled or destroyed in any way"

Never fight with a pig. Not only will you be dirtied and bloodied afterwards, the pig will have enjoyed the experience and encourage more.

Mark Steyn, in the Orange County Register:

"The American media, having run their own business into the ground, are certainly qualified to run everybody else's into the same abyss. Which is why they've decided that hundreds of thousands of citizens protesting taxes and out-of-control spending and government vaporization of Americans' wealth and their children's future is no story. Nothing to see here. As Nancy Pelosi says, it's AstroTurf – fake grass-roots, not the real thing.

"Besides, what are these whiners so uptight about? CNN's Susan Roesgen interviewed a guy in the crowd and asked why he was here:

"'Because,' said the Tea Partier, 'I hear a president say that he believed in what Lincoln stood for. Lincoln's primary thing was he believed that people had the right to liberty, and had the right …'

"But Roesgen had heard enough: 'What does this have to do with your taxes? Do you realize that you're eligible for a $400 credit?'

"Had the Tea Party animal been as angry as these Angry White Men are supposed to be, he'd have said, 'Oh, push off, you condescending tick. Taxes are a liberty issue. I don't want a $400 'credit' for agreeing to live my life in government-approved ways.' Had he been of a more literary bent, he might have adapted Sir Thomas More's line from 'A Man For All Seasons': 'Why, Susan, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world … but for a $400 tax credit?'

"But Roesgen wasn't done with her 'You may already have won!' commercial:

"'Did you know,' she sneered, 'that the state of Lincoln gets $50 billion out of this stimulus? That's $50 billion for this state, sir.'

"Really? Who knew it was that easy? $50 billion! Did those Navy SEALs find it just off the Somali coast in the wreckage of a pirate skiff in a half-submerged treasure chest, all in convertible pieces of eight or Zanzibari doubloons?

"Or is it perhaps the case that that $50 billion has to be raised from the same limited pool of 300 million Americans and their as yet unborn descendants? And, if so, is giving it to 'the state of Lincoln' – latterly, the state of Blagojevich – likely to be of much benefit to the citizens?"

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/tea-interests-tax-2367296-boston-parties

Paul, do you really not see what's so outrageous about Roesgen's recent performance in Chicago?

If not, I'd be happy to share two of the Golden Rules of Journalism with you.

Here's a subsequent interview with the man in the yellow shirt, who Susan Roesgen disgraced herself in front of. His name is Norm.

I was checking out Robert W's link to the Tea Bag video.

I found this while going through the related vids on the Tea Party at You Tube:

Acorn? at Tampa Tax Day Tea Party

It may not be anything related to ACORN of course BUT it just might be typical of the Chicago thugs and their friends.

Want a good laugh? Read this silly article extolling the "passion and policies" of Michael Ignatieff:

http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/620550

"A convention at the end of the month in Vancouver will seal his leadership and some basic platform commitments. This week, Ignatieff signalled some key planks.

He says a Liberal economic renewal strategy would include employment insurance reform; a national early learning and child-care program that would retain the Conservatives' taxable $100-a-month benefit for preschoolers; a national affordable housing strategy; improved access to post-secondary education; more federal money for basic science and research; basic literacy, numeracy and language training; and pension reform."

All left wing "priorities" that seem geared to taking NDP, rather than Tory, votes. So, what if EKOS puts Grits 7% ahead of Tories, I feel there is nothing to fear from this empty suit. Add to it they have no money, the economy is having the temerity to recover with Canada leading the way, and Canadians are now quite comfortable with Harper as PM (except for the 62% "majority" that is).

Harper will tie a coalition cowbell around Ignatieff and his "progressive" cronies. Canadians will be reminded Ignatieff gleefully signed on to it, though he had the influence to kill it. It will be very clear, whenever the next election happens, that anything short of a Tory majority will result in a "progressive" takeover, though it's doubtful Ignatieff will be stupid enough to support a coalition government, just a minority with separatists holding the balance of power.

Policies versus power; same old same old from the Grits. BTW, when are they going to pay back the money stolen from the taxpayers? Instead we get this laughable Mulroney/Schreiber BS. Harper will mop the floor with Ignatieff if he tries to use that one.

Canadians need to be reminded that it was the Mulroney administration, which now pales in corruption comparison with the Chretien reign, that Preston Manning, Stephen Harper and others recoiled against and founded the Reform Party.

Mulroney has far more in common with Chretien than he does with Harper. Those two are cut from the same cloth. Mulroney himself demonstrated that with his consistent insults aimed at Reformers (what was that again, something about Tories in pantyhose?).

Canadians under siege.

The natural end result of Liberal PET's multiculturalism.

The Liberal Party of Canada and Ignatieff are leagued with/an ally/sponsor of Tamil Tiger murderers.
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"Tamil protesters threaten huge rally Tuesday

Up to 25,000 demonstrators to be shipped in if demands not met

Pro-Tamil demonstrators are vowing to fill Parliament Hill with thousands of reinforcements if the Canadian government continues to ignore their demands.

Protest spokesman Sarva Jeyapalan said as many as 25,000 protesters could be bused in from Toronto and Montreal if the Canadian government refuses to alter its position on the situation in Sri Lanka."
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/OttawaAndRegion/2009/04/18/9160236.html
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Liberal Iggy:

I am not now; nor, have I ever been a member of the Tamil Tiger* party.
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"Liberal MPs mark Tamil Tiger's death
BILL CURRY

From Tuesday's Globe and Mail

November 6, 2007 at 4:51 AM EST

Liberal MPs took part in a community event last night commemorating the recent death of a senior member of the Tamil Tigers in defiance of the Conservative government's decision to list the organization as a terrorist entity.

S. P. Thamilselvan, 40, the public face of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, was killed in an air strike by Sri Lankan authorities last Friday. The LTTE has long fought for an independent Tamil state; Mr. Thamilselvan was both the political chief and top peace negotiator in talks to end the decades-old civil unrest in Sri Lanka.

Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis told The Globe and Mail last night that he was on stage at the event alongside fellow Liberal MPs Derek Lee, Maria Minna, Yasmin Ratansi and Borys Wrzesnewskyj.

Mr. Karygiannis said he met Mr. Thamilselvan personally when he visited the region after the 2004 tsunamis and had the approval of then-prime minister Paul Martin to do so. The LTTE should not be on Canada's terror list, he said.

"Here you've got a Conservative government that wants to divide and conquer and pit one community against another community," he said. "I am encouraging the Canadian government to get involved and speak to both sides in order to find a long-lasting peace in the region."

The Scarborough MP said the Conservative policy divides immigrants from Sri Lanka along Tamil-Sinhalese ethnic lines.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government added the LTTE to the terror list as one of its first acts upon taking power."
http://www.elakiri.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-50704.html

Dirtman:

How then do you explain the near - constant complaints from FSIN & AFN about poor housing conditions on reserves?

BTW I don't think I said the problem existed on every reserve.

Scott

I have always thought Janeane Garofalo was quite attractive on the outside, but I had no idea she was so ugly on the inside.