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  2. Priceless Quote:
    “The key factor to being a successful Canadian Liberal is that you must have no short term memory at all!”
    Lorne Gunter, talking with Roy Green, May 27, 2009

  3. Very clever guy. I know it took me a couple years to really appreciate him. There’s still lots of his stuff I don’t like. I think he does that on purpose. I downloaded several out takes of Road Runner a couple years back. Every version is great and slightly different.

  4. New Religious Index
    The S&P/TSX 60 Shariah Index recategorizes equities on the S&P/TSX 60 and excludes all those that do not comply with Islamic law, which is based on the Qur’an holy book….companies on the index are evaluated once a month by outside agency Rating Intelligence Partners, and then passed on to a panel of four sharia scholars with financial backgrounds, all based in the Middle East…
    http://www.financialpost.com/most-popular/story.html?id=1633883

  5. Gunther’s right about that, Robert, although it should be more like: “The key factor to being a successful Canadian Liberal is to assume that the electorate won’t notice your hypocrisy and your absolute about-faces.”
    The Liberals threatened to take down the government late last year, and threw the country into a mini-constitutional crisis, on the grounds that the Conservatives weren’t spending enough. They were demanding way more money for stimulus. Now, all of a sudden, the Conservatives have spent more, and the Liberals are standing up in the HOC all outraged about the deficit.
    They’re absolutely shameless — there’s no other way to describe it.

  6. Robert, today there are a couple of classic examples of that:
    Liberal: Fix the EI system, Fix the EI system.
    Conservative: But it is the system you created…
    Liberal: Uhh…Fix the EI system, Fix the EI system.
    Liberal: The Finance minister is spending to much money…
    Conservative: But six months ago your threaten Canada with the coalition / election if he did not provide a stimulus / deficit.
    Liberal: Uhh…The Finance minister is spending to much money….

  8. More information on the story about the closing of Chrysler franchises:
    Dealers who give to Republicans much more likely to be shuttered

    But WND reviewed the list of 789 closing franchises and databases of political donors and found that of dealership majority owners making contributions in the November 2008 election, less than 10 percent gifted to Democrats while 90 percent gave substantial sums to Republican candidates.
    The listed franchise owners contributed at least $450,000 to Republican presidential candidates and the GOP, while only $7,970 was donated to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign and $2,200 was given to Sen. John Edwards’ campaign.
    Obama received a combined total of only $450 in donations – $250 from dealer Jane Baldock in Wenatchee, Wash., and $200 from Waco, Texas, dealer Jeffrey Hunter.
    ….
    Dealer Jim Anderer told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto he doesn’t understand why Chrysler is shutting down his Long Island dealership because he claims his dealership is quite profitable – with sales volume ranking in the top 2 percent.
    Asked why he believes the company targeted him, Anderer said, “They won’t tell us. They seem to be running for cover right now because they won’t give us a solid explanation. They come up with all these reasons, but none of them seem to make sense.”
    He continued, “This is insanity. The government is stealing my business. And they’re telling me there’s nothing I can do about it.”

  9. EBD:, the filter caught my comment. I think I know why. Would you mind releasing it? Thank you.

  10. Excellent…J Richman is a real character. I’ve got tickets to see him here in Albuquerque next weekend.

  13. The WND article also has this Youtube from Fox with quotes below the link:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2TyHM8P1dw
    Asked why he believes the company targeted him, Anderer said, “They won’t tell us. They seem to be running for cover right now because they won’t give us a solid explanation. They come up with all these reasons, but none of them seem to make sense.”
    He continued, “This is insanity. The government is stealing my business. And they’re telling me there’s nothing I can do about it.”

  14. Brent: try submitting it without the live link — they often don’t work.
    Posted by: EBD at May 27, 2009 11:23 PM
    Works fine now. 🙂

  15. I’ll try the following quote one more time. It is, as they say, the money quote. 🙂
    The listed franchise owners contributed at least $450,000 to Republican presidential candidates and the GOP, while only $7,970 was donated to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign and $2,200 was given to Sen. John Edwards’ campaign.
    Obama received a combined total of only $450 in donations – $250 from dealer Jane Baldock in Wenatchee, Wash., and $200 from Waco, Texas, dealer Jeffrey Hunter.

  16. CBCpravda has mysteriously slipped the headline that North Korea threatened South Korea directly today.
    CBCpravda All Ridiculous All the Time.
    back onto their usual fare, breast cancer, tasers lactating mothers , omar khadr and rufus effing wainwright.

  17. GG Jean goes one step further—http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/27/jean-hunt.html—,she goes out on the hunt. Stay tuned,rumour has it that next week she will light up a cigarette with-in 5 meters of a doorway.I’m starting to like this lady.

  18. That could be a big story, Brent, and damning for the Democrats, but for the fact that Chelsea Schilling for some reason left out an absolutely critical piece of information, namely, what percentage of dealership majority owners whose franchises weren’t closed donated to the respective parties? If it was even 60 percent donating to the Democrats and 40 percent to the Republicans, then the fact that 90 percent of the majority owners of the shut-down dealerships were Republican donors is — or should be — a scandal. But without the donation figures from the franchises that weren’t closed open, it’s hard to draw that conclusion. You’d think Schilling would include those numbers, considering that it would greatly buttress the case she’s making.

  19. Good point, EBD, I actually am hunting for that info. SDA readers interested in this may also want to read this article from American Thinker. I quote extensively from it below the link. According to this article, we have got Obama all wrong: he is NOT a socialist, he is something else.
    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/05/more_evidence_emerges_that_chr.html
    A lawyer for Chrysler dealers facing closure as part of the automaker’s bankruptcy reorganization said on Tuesday he believes Chrysler executives do not support a plan to eliminate a quarter of its retail outlets.
    Lawyer Leonard Bellavia, of Bellavia Gentile & Associates, who represents some of the terminated dealers, said he deposed Chrysler President Jim Press on Tuesday and came away with the impression that Press did not support the plan.
    “It became clear to us that Chrysler does not see the wisdom of terminating 25 percent of its dealers,” Bellavia said. “It really wasn’t Chrysler’s decision. They are under enormous pressure from the President’s automotive task force.”
    The dealer closings were not ordered by the bankruptcy judge but by the White House. This puts a whole new light on how the dealers to be closed were chosen and, more importantly, who did it.
    And Jim Hoft has found an incredible piece of information. Apparently, a politically connected group of Democrats who own six Chrysler dealerships not only were allowed to keep them, but their competition was deep sixed.
    ….
    It can happen because we are barking up the wrong tree when we accuse the Democrats of practicing socialism. Any Chicagoan recognizes what’s going on as pure gangsterism – the application of power through the use blackmail, threats, and pure muscle and the devil take the Constitution, the rule of law, and simple fairness.
    This story is about ready to explode. All the ingredients are there for a gigantic political scandal that would shake the Obama administration to its foundation and perhaps take down several high ranking officials. All that’s needed is one connecting piece of evidence that would tie the White House Automotive Task Force to some political arm of the Democratic party.
    That last paragraph echoes your own comments, EBD.

  20. One more URL, EBD, and I am turning in for the evening.
    http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/05/dealergate-statistical-evidence-that.html
    What are the Odds?
    All other factors being equal, what are the odds that RLJ’s dealerships would remain open while all other area dealerships would be shuttered? The approximate odds of such an occurrence can be calculated. 789 of the Chrysler’s dealerships are closing, which represents 25% of the total (according to MSNBC).
    Recall that Chrysler claimed that its formula for determining whether a dealership should close or not included “sales volume, customer service scores, local market share and average household income in the immediate area.”
    Thus, the odds that any, randomly selected, single dealership would remain open is roughly 75%. The odds that a single dealership would close is roughly 25%.
    In the Bentonville, AR territory, the odds that RLJ would remain while its competition gets axed is .75 * .25 * .25 = .046875 (4.6%).
    In Huntsville, AL, the odds are .75 * .25 * .25 = .046875.
    In Branson, MO, .75 * .25 *.25 *.25 = .01171875.
    In Lee’s Summit, MO, .75 * .25 *.25 *.25 *.25 = .0029296875.
    In Shreveport, LA, .75 * .25 *.75 = .140625.
    What are the odds of all of these RLJ dealerships remaining open while their competitors are wiped out? Maybe 1/10,000,000 of 1%. Yes, that’s one ten-millionth of one percent.
    Approximately the odds that I’ll win American Idol. Or that you’ll land two frisbees, simultaneously, on each of Barack Obama’s teleprompters during one of his televised speeches.
    Hello, mainstream media: anyone listening? How about you, class-action lawyers?

  21. Hmm, the I.D. on the RJL-McLarty-Landers owners fleshes it out quite a bit more, Brent. It really does look stinky.

  22. Sotomayor against Second Amendment rights. *ttp://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/sotomayor_gun_rights/2009/05/27/218441.html?s=al&promo_code=807F-1 *.
    “It is settled law,” Sotomayor and the Second Circuit held, “that the Second Amendment applies only to limitations the federal government seeks to impose on this right.”
    And, Canadian’s Second Amendment Rights: *ttp://www.rkba.ca/ *.
    “That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions, and as allowed by law; ”
    Others (non Protestants) held previously granted rights as those defined in the Bill of 1688. Never extinguished by Canadian Parliament: upheld in the BNA Act and in the Charter Of Rights of 1982.

  25. You Can Take Chanequa Out of the Hood, But . . .: Affirmative Action @ Harvard Leads to Murder
    By Debbie Schlussel
    I love the hypocrisy of Harvard. The school preaches liberalism and tells us we should practice the same kind of race-based affirmative action and “outreach” to the inner city that Harvard preaches.
    http://www.debbieschlussel.com/

  27. Goreacle reports.
    …-
    “Canada Has a Frigid May after a Cold Winter
    By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, ICECAP
    May has been frigid slowing the planting and emergence of the summer crops in Canada. Late freezes and even snows are still occurring regularly and can be expected the rest of the month.
    See larger image here.
    The chart above shows the May 2009 temperature anomaly through May 24th. Parts of central Canada (Churchill, Manitoba) are running 16 degrees F below normal for the month through the 26th (map ends 24th). Every day this month has seen lows below freezing in Churchill and only 6 out of the first 26 days days had highs edge above freezing. The forecast the rest of the month is for more cold with even some snow today in Churchill and again this weekend perhaps further south.
    Hudson Bay remains mostly frozen though most of the seasonal melting occurs in June and July most years.
    Parts of the south central region were also cold in April averaging 3-5 F below normal. The winter (December to March) was a cold one for southwest and central Canada but warmer in the far northeast.”
    urlm.in/cnhs (WUWT)

  28. In France, Goreacle has been evicted from government.
    More, please.
    …-
    “Sarkozy in climate row over reshuffle
    President Nicolas Sarkozy’s desire to appoint an outspoken climate-change sceptic to a new French super-ministry of industry and innovation has drawn strong protests from party colleagues and environmentalists.
    Claude Allègre argues that global warming is not necessarily caused by human activity. Putting him in charge of scientific research would be tantamount to “giving the finger to scientists”, said Nicolas Hulot, France’s best-known environmental activist.”
    urlm.in/cnhu
    (More is behind FT’s firewall)

  29. GG Jean: A Haitian Voodoo* Priestess.
    …-
    “Jean is now least boring G-Gever
    Don Martin: Boring Governors-General of the past, eat your hearts out. Michaelle Jean’s heading into history as the monarchy’s most memorable Canadian representative. When Her Excellency swallowed raw seal heart she had sliced out..”
    http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/
    …-
    “Haiti: Possessed by Voodoo”
    *”Their services include symbolic or actual rituals of sacrifice and consumption of flesh and blood,”
    urlm.in/cnhw (National Geographic)

  30. Anyone catch ignatieff in a scrum after QP?
    looking for vid.
    He said PM Stephen Harper is Nixonian! He compared the PM to Nixon!!
    Nixon! LOL, i would wager that alot of Canadians dont even know who Nixon was!! And if they did they dont give a Sh**,
    I guess Ignatieff was away from Canada too long afterall.

  31. Kate:
    Over at hug hewitts blog hugh has a comment from his anonymous ad executive up ‘bear in the woods’ up. It is an excellent essay on obama’s messaging and what the GOP needs to do to combat it.
    Via robinsonandlong

  33. Gunther & Green on cjob link provided by robert w at the 10:17 mark in readers tips
    Very Good listen thanks, robert
    Gunther points out a remark made during the last Liberal Leadership race.
    *You cant learn about this country from a book
    bob rae

  34. should have been
    “there are things about a country that you don’t learn from a Book”, things that you can only learn by being here and taking part in the rough & tumble of constitutional and economic debates.
    Bob Rae
    Nobody who has been away for more than three decades could possibly be an expert about either his country or his party
    Joe Volpe

  35. !!! MUST READ !!!
    One of Sotomayor’s heroes is Norman Thomas who was a Socialist/Communist/Marxist,
    here is a quote from Sotomayor’s heroe Norman Thomas,
    “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”
    There is more info at,
    http://www.proudtobecanadian.ca/index/main/comments/17197/

  36. Brent,
    You can’t use random sample stats to justify fair/unfair for this. Chrysler picked some criteria so that 25% of the dealers would be shut down. The 25%, based on an adjusted criteria, could just as easily been 25/26/30/50 etc.
    Bias could have been introduced in the criteria and/or in its application (dealers shut down but shouldn’t have been and vice versa) … this has nothing to do with the shut down/open mix.

  37. “Dolores Hope Celebrates her 100th Birthday”
    ctv.ca may 28/09
    Bob Hope’s widow celebrated her 100th birthday, guests included Gloria Stewart, Anne Blyth, Phyllis Diller.

  40. there is nothing holy about the Qur’an.
    Its a book that teaches its followers to lie and cheat and rape children.
    What’s holy about that?

  41. IH said on May 26/09:
    It would be interesting to see how the tax burden has changed with respect to race. It’s been spewed that white people speak in “code” to avoid being labelled as racist. Well, in my opinion “class warfare” is code for “race warfare”.
    To which Wilbert responded that day:
    @ Indiana Homez
    Racists speak in code, not whites. Most whites I know wouldn’t give fools like you the time of day.
    I’m a few days late but i’d like to respond.
    Wilbert
    You’re a bloody maroon with poor reading comprehension. Your statement is one of the stupidest I’ve read considering my nigga’s call me CRACKER JON, your cracker mom calls me all the time; and, you don’t speak for white people regardless of your take on my POV, even if you COMPLETELY misunderstood my point!

  43. Hey, “nyuk nyuk,” it’s not surprising that the horrifying alleged events as seen in the alleged photographs would be delivered by you with such a prurient, excited tone. But leaving aside the moral falsity plainly apparent in your delivery, you could try to put this “story” in perspective instead of mindlessly parroting information.
    First off, the abuse at Abu Ghraib occurred between four and eight years ago, and was widely reported at the time; the photos you’re referring excitedly to — photos which the reporter didn’t see, incidentally, but described based on someone else’s description — are from this time period, so it’s an exercise in redundancy being portrayed as new information. Second, the abuse was not a part of any official policy, as evidenced by the fact that the perpetrators were punished by military authorities and widely vilified by both Democrats and Republicans and by the American people.
    Third, one has to consider the hypocrisy inherent in the statements and actions of Retired Major Gen. Antonio Taguba when he first describes in detail to a foreign newspaper some damning photos he’s seen, and then says he agrees with Obama’s decision to not release the photos, saying “I am not sure what purpose their release would serve…and the consequence would be to imperil out troops, the only protectors of our foreign policy, when we most need them.”
    His description of the horrendous scenes from photos at Abu Ghraib imperils American troops. He can’t have it both ways, and the *re*-emergence of this old story reeks of the current administration’s willingness to vilify the US’s army and security personnel in the selfish interest of attacking the previous administration for purely political reasons.
    This is a stale-dated story, the details of which obviously still excite you. Do you have any information on Amelia Earhart? I hear she didn’t land her plane, eh?

  44. CTV.ca Poll
    “the opposition parties are demanding Finace Minister Jim Flaherty be fired”
    Do You Agree?
    Yes 34%
    No 66%
    Of course this is a Non-Scientific poll, But it is kicking the Sh** out of the Liberals demands

  45. Ah, yes, the reordering of Obama’s Fascist States of Americuba
    A local pastor and his wife claim they were interrogated by a San Diego County official, who then threatened them with escalating fines if they continued to hold bible studies in their home, 10News reported.
    “The county asked, ‘Do you have a regular meeting in your home?’ She said, ‘Yes.’ ‘Do you say amen?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Do you pray?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Do you say praise the Lord?’ ‘Yes.'”
    The county employee notified the couple that the small bible study, with an average of 15 people attending, was in violation of county regulations, according to Broyles.
    Broyles said a few days later the couple received a written warning that listed “unlawful use of land” and told them to “stop religious assembly or apply for a major use permit” — a process that could cost tens of thousands of dollars.
    http://www.10news.com/news/19562217/detail.html

  46. Couple Ordered to Stop Holding Bible Study at Home Without Permit
    I’m not a particularly religious person, but this is insanity.
    Question: Do you think the San Diego County would have had the same approach if the couple were Muslims?

  47. Political correctness on trial.
    ““What, what, nigger?”” vs “”What, what, nigg**?””.
    …-
    “Theodore Dalrymple
    A Modern Witch Trial
    Racism: the charge against which there is no defense
    Men may be created equal, but not all murders are equal. Some are quickly forgotten, except by those immediately affected by them, while others—by no means always political assassinations—have a lasting political impact. Among the politically significant kind was the murder of Stephen Lawrence, a young black man, in a London suburb on the evening of April 22, 1993. Five or six white youths set upon Lawrence and a friend, Duwayne Brooks. One of the attackers supposedly shouted, “What, what, nigger?” immediately before Lawrence was stabbed to death. Brooks managed to evade the attackers, who ran away.”
    http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_2_otbie-racism.html
    …-
    “A Modern Witch Trial – Racism: the charge against which there is no defense
    City Journal ^ | Spring 2009 | Theodore Dalrymple
    Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:28:28 PM by T.L.Sink
    Men may be created equal, but not all murders are equal. Among the politically significant kind was the murder of Stephen Lawrence, a young black man, in a London suburb in April, 1993. Five or six white youths set upon Lawrence and a friend, Duwayne Brooks. One of the attackers supposedly shouted, “What, what, nigg**?” immediately before Lawrence was stabbed to death. The perpetrators escaped conviction. The police investigation into the murder was a model of incompetence of the kind that every Briton now expects of our boys in blue. But the Lawrence murder took on a wide social significance because of its racial overtones. The botched investigation became a cause celebre – the perception being that racism alone could explain the police’s failure to bring the perpetrators to justice. There followed a festival of political and emotional correctness which have rarely been equalled. This year, on the tenth anniversary of the PC report, the press and criminologists are celebrating it for bringing about a “paradigm shift” in the sensitivities of British police about “diversity” – police now think about race all the time, it seems.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260075/posts

  48. Jason, Robert W.:
    Hey that is just like the East German Stasi.
    Next Christians will be banned from attending university, just like the old days.
    Ideological purity must be maintained!!
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  49. Upon challenging my local gun shop about their failure to re-stock a rather innocuous ammunition, .22 sub-sonic, I was told not to expect it soon because there is a shortage of all types due to Americans hoarding ammunition. This seemed a bit over-the-top, but if one Googles “ammunition shortage” one will find a plethora of comment on the subject.
    The Canadian view on the matter seems to be that it’s “the war” causing the shortage. The American take leans toward Obama causing the shortage. Some of the dialogue reveals very strong (suppressed) attitudes and emotions held by, perhaps many, US citizens.
    Nonetheless, I have gophers to deal with.

  50. When your ammnuntion don’t work no more, Glasnost, that’s when
    it’s time to talk to me: the explosives expert. Blow ’em up, I say!

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