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John McCain is now agreeing that the 9/11 terrorists arrived in the States via Canada. I realise we suspected it initially, apparently the air was cleared on that.
Guess he didn't get the memo.

http://www.ctv.ca:80/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090424/mccain_mistake_090424/20090424?hub=World

Steyn's reponse to McCain is great.

http://www.ctv.ca:80/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090424/mccain_mistake_090424/20090424?hub=World

What Steyn response bluetech?

Ten extremely good questions for Al Gore, that he will probably never have to answer.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31584

If you wanted to launch a new political party in Norway, where would you do it? On Pakistani TV of course!

The platform includes: the teaching of immigrant children in their mother tongues, government payment of imams' salaries, and punishment of publishers of Mohammed cartoons. The leader, who has lived in Norway since 1974, believes that the U.S. is behind most of the terrorism in the world, and that the Jews were behind 9/11. In other words, he's what is commonly referred to as a moderate.

Bluetech -please post that link to Steyn. Thanks.

I tried to access comments on Kate's post @ 12:17 - "Joe Biden" (heh) but I got: THE PAGE YOU WERE LOOKING FOR WAS NOT FOUND (and that annoying constuction-workers picture). I had something very witty to say along the lines of "would he really be worse?" but I have been thwarted and cannot complain in the appropriate comments section because... well.

Jema: steyns column is at NRO's the corner and it's title is "maybe it's an Arizona thing"

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTRmMzFhZWIwZTNiMDNkZmU0ZjAyNmNmNGRiOTM0MjM=

http://www.steynonline.com/

The Worlds Greatest Mysteries...Real or Fake?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMEEo6fT0oA&feature=related

100 DAYS, 100 MISTAKES

Mark Steyn's response to John McCain.

Response to 12.17.(which I can't access) I am far on the right wing, but postings like this make us lose our credibility.

Mark Steyn's response to John McCain.

We rarely see the human face of North Korea. Here's a really fascinating, brief foreignpolicy.com photo-essay called "The Land of No Smiles":

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4878&page=0

"Renowned documentary photographer Tomas van Houtryve entered North Korea by posing as a businessman looking to open a chocolate factory. Despite 24-hour surveillance by North Korean minders, he took arresting photographs of Pyongyang and it's people -- images rarely captured and even more rarely distributed in the West. They show stark glimmers of everyday life in the world's last gulag."

It's fascinating in a dystopian way. The first photo shows an arid, austere but nominally modern subway: "Built by the Army in the 1980's with cars bought from Berlin, the metro has stops named for revolutionary concepts, like Jonu (comrade), Puhung (rehabilitation), and Rakwon (paradise)."

The third photo shows a woman in a concrete well of sorts, just beneath some stairs in the background: "This is shopping in North Korea. The clerk sits in the dark, unheated special store, waiting to turn on the lights for foreigners, the only permitted customers. 'She’s wearing a ski jacket or parka; the rest of this time they’re sitting there with the lights off, freezing,' van Houtryve says. The goods—toys, televisions, and the like—are imported from China. The store only accepts euros."

The seventh photo: "In van Houtryve’s hotel room, propaganda played in an endless loop on the three TV channels. North Korean biographers, striving to make Kim his more revered father’s equal, insist a swallow foretold his birth and attribute a spate of superhuman characteristics to him—the ability to manipulate time among them. Defectors have described him as arthritic and illiterate."

An inspirational reminder of the effective delights of communism.

h/t davidthompson.typepad.com

i sailed the black sea in my little barky in the 60's....put in at bulgarian and romanian ports(before ceausescu took power)....it was then i saw the wonders of the fascist state and command economies......

so these fotos of north korea bring back memories...

Puppy mills?

"...This is a brutal industry that belongs in a bygone era when animals were considered more like machines..."

http://tinyurl.com/chknx3

Do tell, John. I'd love to hear more, over a beer.

Reader Tip: also from foreignpolicy.com, Elliot Abrams gives Obama a "D" grade:

"The 'apology tours' are not the administration's worst offense, and would only merit a C. The D reflects the abandonment of brave men and women throughout the world fighting for human rights and civil liberties. The president's defense of his friendly chats with Hugo Chávez (Venezuela is no strategic threat to the United States) was typical: he showed no understanding or concern for the impact of his "outreach" to Chávez, or Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, or the Chinese (one could go on) on valiant people in those countries struggling peacefully for progress toward -- or back to -- democracy. Meanwhile, all the key human rights posts in the administration, at State and NSC, remain vacant. If our most famous 'human rights groups' were not left-leaning and in the administration's pocket, they'd be screaming bloody murder about this scandal."

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4890&page=1

The Steyn response to McCain.

He should have hit him MUCH harder.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTRmMzFhZWIwZTNiMDNkZmU0ZjAyNmNmNGRiOTM0MjM=

"Examining SORCE data shows the Sun continues its slide toward somnolence*
25 04 2009

Guest post by Guillermo Gonzalez"
urlm.in/cele (WUWT)

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Sol, aka the Sun: no acne? no "black pimples"?
Sol is not a teenager; he's a somnolent* old man now: zzzzz

In another era, however:

"that tranquil eye which knoweth not envy".

""the copper brute with the firey face covered with black pimples."
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"Notes From An African Diary*

In Africa I learned why those Scythian tribesmen, whose habits are recorded by Julian,
reserved their sharpest arrows to shoot at the sun.

To Julian, who was a sun worshipper, that was sacrilege.

Had I possessed a long-range gun on the journey to Lake Chad in the late summer of 1934,
I would willingly have sent a charge into "that tranquil eye which knoweth not envy".

In Africa I hated the sun with an impotent fury, the fury that made Giovanni Papini,
before his conversion, speak of "the copper brute with the firey face covered with black pimples."

On the spur of the moment, Youssef ibn Avrahim and I invented epithets even more expressive of our
helpless rage."

*Pierre van Paasen
Days of Our Years
1903-1939

Sorry abot not posting the link to Steyn.I was waiting for Vit to post Readers Tips at bedtime...
half asleep...

Atlantic Jim...I agree.
Yet we still wait for Canadian MSM to challenge McCain with facts, as Steyn has done.
But they are too lazy to challenge Canadian politicians with facts, so no surprise.

Patrick Walters, White paper orders huge military build-up

KEVIN Rudd is set to announce Australia's biggest military build-up since World War II, led by a multi-billion-dollar investment in maritime defence, including 100 new F-35 fighters, a doubling of the submarine fleet, and powerful new surface warships...

China's steadily growing military might and the prospect of sharper strategic competition among Asia's great powers are driving the maritime build-up, which will see new-generation submarines and warships equipped with cruise missiles, and a big new investment in anti-submarine warfare and electronic warfare platforms, including new naval helicopters...

Per Ardua ad Astra*.

Nazanin is a Persian.

"Nazanin is also a pilot and is licensed to fly both powered aircraft and gliders and is a Squadron Commander Royal Canadian Air Cadets, holding the rank of Warrant Officer 1st class. She is fluent in three languages: Persian, English, French and also conversational Spanish."
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"Honoring Nazanin: an Angel of Iran

Never mind the mythical angels of religion and poetry. Meet a living angel in flesh, Nazanin Afshin-Jam. Many of you may not know that we have a hero in our midst. Many of you may not know that this individual, singlehandedly, has done more for her compatriots, as well as for other people of our planet, than most of us together. This dazzling beauty, both inside and outside, has dedicated her life to the good of humanity.

We are honoring Nazanin Afshin-Jam for her tireless efforts to shed light into the shadowy corners of conflict, to expose and end the abuses that ruin the lives of so many children in Iran. Her work exemplifies the ideals of the human rights movement: "courage, an unswerving commitment to justice and a genuine concern for the rights of all victims."

Unquestionably, this young talented Iranian born Canadian citizen has been a role model and has earned our respect, not only among most Iranians around the world, but in many other countries where she has visited and spoken about Human rights issues. She has the determination of unquestionable integrity, sensitivity to the needs of others and willingness to help wherever the help is needed. She is a courageous human rights activist, who is exposing horrific crimes about child executions in the Islamic Republic of Iran. She has helped several key cases of Iranian refugees who were going to be deported back to Iran and likely face severe persecution."
urlm.in/celk

*Motto of the Royal Canadian Air Force.

The Rasmussen presidential index is now only +3. The ratio is between those who strongly support vs strongly disapprove. It began, 100 days ago, in the +30 and has now moved into the low single digits..with a steady rise in disapproval and a gradual lowering of support.

How long can the obvious strategy of Blaming Bush be used to cover and divert attention from a drastic socialist restructuring of the country?

Obama is an 'empty suit'; a Performer without any capacity to think through a policy or program. His agenda, and his capacity, is only To Be Liked. But the BackRoom Boys, who actually run his government, have the agenda of an extreme, radical socialist USA.

Can this be achieved? America was built on individualism, on the freedom of a middle class economy and intellectual innovation. Radical socialism denies freedom, denies a middle class, denies individuals and destroys innovation. Can this agenda succeed?

So far, the strategies the Obama Gang are using is Speed, attached to Emotion; and Blame Bush.

They've accomplished Speed by pushing their Motions through (stimulus, budget) by the tactic of emotional threats: Pass the Bill without reading it or the Economy will Collapse. Oh, and Blaming Bush for the economy.

AIG? The agenda was to denigrate the Middle Class. Obama got on line with this, by participating in creating the Lynch Mob Hysteria. It backfired. The result was to attack Obama's people who wrote the bonuses into the agreement.

The result of all of this? The Tea Parties. These shocked the Obama Gang - and their reaction was to use the MSM to denigrate them..and..the Bash Bush tactic of the CIA memo releases and the Guilt Trip of 'alleged torture'.

So far, this is backfiring on the Democrats - as Pelosi is brought into the fray as a key player. Heh.

It’s spring & The Puffin Party is moulting: off with the DionkyBird feathers and on with the PuffinBird feathers:

Voila! the NarcissistBird which masticates/regurgitates with a vocabulary like this: “the really substantive vulnerability”.
That is a mark of a true Eggyhead.

Is Iggy going to a Jehovah's Watch Tower convention, an Islamic convention, a WordsmithEgoist's convention?
The convention and the book: “I”. “we”, “my”,
“me”, “I”, “I”.
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STOPIGGY:
“I hope the convention and the book, perhaps together, will mark the phase in which we start to put some flesh on the bones of a competing vision,” he said. “There’s no doubt in my mind that the really substantive vulnerability of Harper is the absence of vision. Or let me put it more sharply. He’s got a vision all right and I don’t like where it’s taking the country … He wants to permanently reduce the power and influence of the federal government in our federation and I think that will weaken Canada.”

"“Ignatieff leads ‘rallied’ Liberals into national convention”"
urlm.in/cemb

Selling socialism/soap/pseudoscience: Jamestown.

If O's image/popularity is sinking, what is next?

"But at times the sell is harder, and that calls for our next set of persuasion tactics."

The next set?

First set has run it's course.

O's Hope is dead.
Next set? O's McCarthy witch hunt.
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1. Create a Phantom

The first thing we need to do is to create a phantom __ an unavailable goal that looks real and possible; it looks as if it might be obtained with just the right effort, just the right belief, or just the right amount of money, but in reality it can't be obtained. Most pseudosciences are based on belief in a distant or phantom goal.

Some examples of pseudoscience phantoms: meeting a space alien, contacting a dead relative at a seance, receiving the wisdom of the universe from a channeled dolphin, and improving one's bowling game or overcoming the trauma of rape with a subliminal tape.

Phantoms can serve as effective propaganda devices. If I don't have a desired phantom, I feel deprived and somehow less of a person. A pseudoscientist can take advantage of these feelings of inferiority by appearing to offer a means to obtain that goal. In a rush to enhance self-esteem, we suspend better judgment and readily accept the offering of the pseudoscience.

The trick, of course, is to get the new seeker to believe that the phantom is possible. Often the mere mention of the delights of a phantom will be enough to dazzle the new pseudoscience recruit.

After all, who wouldn't want a better sex life, better health, and peace of mind, all from a $14.95 subliminal tape? The fear of loss of a phantom also can motivate us to accept it as real. The thought that I will never speak again to a cherished but dead loved one or that next month I may die of cancer can be so painful as to cause me to suspend my better judgment and hold out hope against hope that the medium can contact the dead or that Laetrile works. But at times the sell is harder, and that calls for our next set of persuasion tactics."
http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/pratkanis.htm

It's spring. Yup.
The "mad" CAWBird has returned again (from Mexico?) with its "'flu".
The symptom (it only has one)?

Its "'angry as hell'" cawcawcaw... is heard in the land.

It's nickname? Buzzard.
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"Hargrove 'angry as hell' over Chrysler concessions
But Buzz Hargrove, the former national president of CAW, said Sunday he's mad union members had to give up as much as they did."
(nnw)

Via Instapundit: Number of interesting points about food shortages and grain prices. never mind that author mention global warming.

"...the recent surge in world grain prices is trend-driven, making it unlikely to reverse without a reversal in the trends themselves."

"The grain required to fill a 25-gallon SUV tank with ethanol could feed one person for a year."

"In Pakistan an armed soldier escorts each grain truck."

These folks writing this are out to lunch. Murder is murder.

When mothers kill their children
Courts rarely accept the defence that postpartum depression has driven a mother to behaviours beyond her control

Megan O'toole and Danna Zabrovsky, National Post

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=1532303

This story has made it to the BBC,but yet to crack the CBC.---http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8019031.stm---. It reinforces my belief that brown people,esp.children,only matter to the leftards when they are killed by white people. A few months ago a similar story received wide coverage,but that was when the stray bomb was alleged to have been left by NATO troops.At that time ,the islamists and the bleeding hearts were outraged. This time with a dozen children killed,they are silent.Really now,who is a knuckle-dragging racist?

More "inflamed", please.

Liberal propaganda bureau, aka Glob-Mail, attempts to link the "inflamed" to the Liberal/MSM "Mulroney-Schreiber affair".

The Glob-Mail is a pile of recycled dung.
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"Harper inflamed isotope crisis: document
Prime Minister Stephen Harper inflamed the Chalk River isotope crisis by calling Canada's nuclear safety watchdog a “Liberal-appointee,” says a government document." (glob-mail)
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MORE LEFTIST PROPAGANDA FROM CBC.

This AM on CBC-Sunday, a writer named Victor Malarek was featured. His book "The Natashas-The New Global Sex Trade" lays the blame on men for the world's oldest profession, prostitution.
So it's my fault if I'm walking down River Street and a cute 24 year old redhead who speaks with a French-Russian accent comes up to me and says, "Hey Monsieur, would you like to 'ave zee good time?"
Let's see now. Everythime I turn the basement light on, I contribute to global warming. I start my old F-150 to go to the 7-11 to buy a quart of milk, I'm contributing to the problem even further. (Even if there was ice on the pond this minus 8° C AM-April 26-09.)
I shot my unregistered Ruger 10-22 twice last year, (gophers,) I'm a threat to public safety. I threw a plastic coke bottle in with with the newspapers last week, the guy at SARCAN looked at me like I had AIDS.
Yesterday, I called a waitress "sweetheart," and she looked at me crosseyed. (Needless to say, she didn't get the tip.)
And now I'm being blamed for prostitution. I've never been been with a whore in my life, at least not with the ones that charge for it!! So what is the next thing I'm going to be blamed for?? The Swine Flu pandemic?? No, I haven't been sleeping with Miss Piggy! (No wonder I get feelings of worthlessness!)
On the more serious side, author Victor Malarek is a former CBC-Fifth Estate reporter, His book wasn't selling, so they gave him 15 minutes of free air time at your, and my expense. Now is that fair?? You be the judge.

"EDITORIAL: Tigers at bay

The Tamil Tigers, one of the world's most violent terrorist outfits, are surrounded in northern Sri Lanka and about to be destroyed - but Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and European self-styled peacemakers are getting in the way of victory."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238217/posts
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Meanwhile, JOe & its Democrats push for O'McCarthy's witch hunts.

The prey is not Tamil Tigers murderers, not commie Reds; but, Republicans.

"Democrats push for interrogation investigations
The Associated Press - ‎2 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON (AP) - A leading Democratic senator said Sunday independent investigators should determine whether Bush administration officials ought to face charges over the harsh interrogation techniques used against suspected terrorists"

PS: Kate--thanks for posting my words.

I wandered back to the cbc site to see if they had anything on the 12 brown kids killed in Pakistan.Still nothing. I did notice a very short story on the Pope naming 5 saints. I am not a religious person at all,believing that all religions are just organized superstition,but I checked out the comments anyways. I was shocked,shocked I tell you,to find that about 95% of the comments are derisive and mocking towards the Catholic church. The leftards really do not understand tolerance or hypocrisy,do they?

Oops,link for above--- http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/04/26/pope-saints.html#socialcomments ---

>>>> "the private Israeli security forces aboard the MSC Cruises ocean liner fired on the pirates Saturday with pistols and water hoses,".

>>>> "But analysts say the unprecedented use of weapons by the ship's security force could make things worse". Get that?
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"Cruise ship fends off pirates with gunfire

NAIROBI, Kenya - The small white skiff approached the Italian cruise ship Melody after dinnertime as it sailed north of the Seychelles, the pirates firing wildly toward the 1,500 passengers and crew on board.

What the pirates didn't expect was that, in the darkness, the crew would fire back."
urlm.in/cenr

Bonhomme Dionky gets a Dionky doodoo redid; but, with d’elegance simple.

Translation:
Merde, Alois, merde.

“But first, Liberals must pay ritual respects to the man they couldn’t get rid of fast enough.”

“… at Dion’s request, they’re keeping it “simple and elegant,” lasting only about 45 minutes and costing no more than about $20,000.

Ignatieff is expected to introduce Dion, who will briefly address the convention.

Get this bee-ess: >>> “Insiders close to Dion say he’s still bruised by his experience and would likely quit politics altogether should an appropriate opportunity to do something else arise. His friends are hoping he’ll be able to parlay his international environmental credentials into an important role on the world stage.”
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"“Man behind infamous Dion video to produce tribute”"
urlm.in/cenf

Fact:
The two men are not "Canadian diplomats".

Fact: They are hirelings/agents of Moon-United Nations.

What was their mission?
They were searching for Saddam's yellowcake, (urania) aka WMD material.

Honourable mention goes to "Niger's Tuareg* rebels", aka Muslim Men of the Veil.
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"Sahara Focus' role in the release of the Canadian diplomats."
http://www.menas.co.uk/algeria_focus/news_article.aspx?article=498

*Tuaregs:
"While it is the Tuareg men who veil their faces, Tuareg women wear a veil which covers their entire bodies. It is usually made of a indigo or black gauzy ...
www.kenzi.com/JEWELRY/HTML/veilweights.htm

Here's a grim listing of obama cabinet appointments. I never (NEVER) thought I'd say this, but here are cabinet appointees that make Sheila Copps look competent.

Best line of the article:

"Funniest end of civilization ever"

mhb