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  1. Sorry about the delay in the broadcast of tonight’s show, folks. I set it to auto-publish at the scheduled time but as is so often the case the Movable Type auto-publishing feature doesn’t always work, and in this instance I was at a three-krater symposium that was going so well we naturally ran quite late; though I did override Moveable Type and manually publish as soon as I got back to the studio. Anyway, I still hope you like today’s show, even late. It’s a classic American moral saga, of the sort that reminds me of the first Star Trek series and of Bugs Bunny, cartoon versions of studies of ethical behaviour as it were, right and wrong, good and evil ~ which often carry more emotional weight than a book full of 300-word sentences by some depressed French philosopher.

  3. “Live Streaming links for Climate Movie: Not Evil, Just Wrong
    18 10 2009
    Stream of Conscience: Not Evil Just Wrong to Stream Live, for Free, Over Internet This Sunday. Here’s the trailer video:
    […]
    In this movie, you’ll see Dr. James Hansen refuse to say Steve McIntyre’s name, among other things.
    WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Fewer than 50 hours from the 8 pm EDT Sunday launch of Not Evil Just Wrong — set to be the world’s largest simultaneous film premiere party in history — the documentary’s co-creators today announced options for people across the globe to watch it FREE over the internet. Live links follow:
    Relevant links and information are included below.
    What: World premiere of Not Evil Just Wrong
    When: Sunday, 8:00 PM EDT; panel discussion with Andrew Breitbart, John Fund, Prof. Richard Lindzen, and Prof. Don Roberts Emeritus to immediately follow.
    Where: One of hundreds of premiere sites across the country (and thousands around the world)
    Live Streams:
    http://www.ustream.tv/channel/not-evil-just-wrong
    http://bighollywood.breitbart.com
    urlm.in/dgkn (WattsUpWithThat?)

  4. “Obama’s fumbles on ‘Monday Night Football’ His propaganda has seeped into everything*”
    “Remember that time President Bush interrupted the Emmy telecast to tell people we should support reform of Social Security before it bankrupted the country?
    Neither do I.”
    O’prOpaganda.
    …-
    “LEAKED NETWORK MEMO REVEALS: Obama Controls Your Television Set
    by John Nolte
    On September 10th of this year the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) posted a press release informing the world that “from October 19-25, more than 60 network TV shows [will] spotlight the power and personal benefits of service,” and that this “unprecedented block of TV programming is the first wave of a multi-year ‘I Participate’ campaign.”
    On its face this all sounds rather benign in that silly, liberal do-gooder kind of way. The networks have launched these kinds of campaigns before and other than some clunky exposition awkwardly inserted into your favorite show to meet the mandate — no harm, no foul.”
    “We’ll start with Stage Right. Next week, tens, if not hundreds of millions of Americans, will be urged through the (ab)use of public airwaves to log on to the EIF iParticipate site and volunteer. Stage Right will give you a preview of what the unsuspecting and well-intentioned, including your children, will find.
    If you’re thinking it’s all about “Meals on Wheels,” think again.
    From there, Patrick Courrielche will describe how this EIF initiative fits into a broader White House plan, including the push to politicize the NEA, to redefine “art” as “service” and engage an all too compliant news, entertainment, and artistic community to start a volunteer army through these online portals.
    First the NEA, now the EIF…
    Starting to notice a pattern?
    PART II: Search and Ye Shall Find…Left-Wing Advocacy
    PART III: Serve.gov or Serf.dom?
    MORE: List of ‘Organically’ Created iParticipate Television Programs”
    http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/10/15/leaked-memo-reveals-the-white-house-has-control-of-your-television-set/
    *http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365016/posts

  6. Swine flu plays hookey.
    This widdle piggy played “no confirmed cases”.
    …-
    “No H1N1 at Carleton
    Carleton University reports there are no confirmed cases of H1N1 on campus right now, despite the move to isolate three students on Wednesday who’d been experiencing flu-like symptoms.
    Two of those students are feeling better and have left isolation.
    The third student is presently free of fever but still in isolation at her own request.”
    http://www.cfra.com/?cat=1&nid=68674

  7. MoM violence . . . maybe they are tired of murdering everyone else.
    “A suicide bomber killed five senior commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guard and at least 26 others in an area of southeastern Iran that has been at the centre of a simmering Sunni insurgency, state media reported.
    The official IRNA news agency said the dead included the deputy commander of the Guard’s ground force, General Noor Ali Shooshtari, as well as a chief provincial Guard commander for the area, Rajab Ali Mohammadzadeh. The other dead were Guard members or local tribal leaders. More than two dozen others were wounded, state radio reported.
    The commanders were on their way to a meeting with local tribal leaders in the Pishin district near Iran’s border with Pakistan when an attacker with explosives around his waist blew himself up, IRNA said. The explosion occurred at the entrance of a sports complex where the meeting was to be held. ”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/bomber-kills-top-iranian-commanders/article1328227/

  8. Swine flu kills? Sweat cult kills.
    Ass. Press calls the sweat deaths: “mishap”.
    Is James Arthur Ray another Jim Jones*?
    …-
    ” Third person dies in Arizona sweat lodge mishap
    By Felicia Fonseca, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS”
    “Neuman was among more than 50 people crowded inside the sweat lodge run by self-help guru James Arthur Ray. An emergency call two hours after they entered the lodge reported two people not breathing.”
    “Ray had rented the Angel Valley Retreat Center for his five-day “Spiritual Warrior” event that culminated in the sweat lodge ceremony. Participants paid between $9,000 and $10,000 to attend the retreat.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2009/10/18/11440556-ap.html
    …-
    *Socialist cult of death:
    After watching the story of Jim Jones and the mass suicide of the …
    One small article that day, described how Jim Jones had moved to Guyana primarily for …. Two decades later, the “Cult of Death” became the “Web of Death. …
    http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/…/Completed%20Final%20Paper.htm

  9. Canada was 22nd overall out of 30 countries surveyed by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Canada ranked 16th on broadband adoption, 20th on speed and capacity, and 25th on price. Japan, Sweden and South Korea headed up Harvard’s rankings, while the United States placed above Canada at 13th overall.
    Canada “is often thought of as a very high performer, based on the most commonly used benchmark of penetration per 100 inhabitants,” the study said. “Because our analysis includes important measures on which Canada has had weaker outcomes – prices, speeds and 3G mobile broadband penetration – in our analysis it shows up as quite a weak performer, overall
    http://sync.sympatico.ca/News/ContentPosting_CBC?newsitemid=harvard-fcc-broadband-study&feedname=CBC-TECH-SCIENCE-V3&show=False&number=0&showbyline=True&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=True

  10. Sun Circus: “his self-styled poetic social mission*”.
    Socialist missionary.
    …-
    “Cirque founder will perform while in orbit*”
    “Cirque performer killed by fall**”
    *urlm.in/dgks
    **urlm.in/dgkt

  11. balloon man is [about to be] busted. search warrants have been filed. etc etc.
    congrats to all include moi who pegged the stunt for what it was.

  12. Just returned yesterday from a vacation in the UK and France. The demographic shift is definitely going on there with lots of Africans everywhere but huge amounts of muslims especially in London. My wife and I like to just hop a double decker bus and tour around and she always says I exaggerate their impact until we got off at one stop and I told her to look around. The sidewalks were filled with muslim men standing around with a few headscarfed or burka covered women shopping.
    Even the Louvre is getting on board with the opening of a section on muslim art next year.

  14. Goreacle Brrrreport.
    …-
    “A cold start to fall: over 4500 new snowfall, low temp, and lowest max temp records set in the USA this last week
    The Record Events map depicts the official National Weather Service records recorded for the defined date(s) or time period, which includes record high and low temperatures, record high minimum temperatures, record low maximum temperatures, record daily rainfall and record daily snowfall. Source: Hamweather Climate Center and NOAA/NWS
    Record Events for Sat Oct 10, 2009 through Fri Oct 16, 2009
    Total Records: 6257
    Rainfall: 859
    Snowfall: 297
    High Temperatures: 369
    Low Temperatures: 785
    Lowest Max Temperatures: 3473
    Highest Min Temperatures: 474
    While there are way too many lowest maximum temperature records set to list here, the record lows and the snowfall records are listed below.
    US Low Temperature Records 10-10 thru 10-18 2009”
    (More Goreacle)
    urlm.in/dgkz
    wattsupwiththat?

  15. Fred @ 9:21, that is good, good news. The Revolutionary Guard are the goons that keep the regime in power. This is yet another incident that shows the regime is in real trouble.

  16. “Even the Louvre is getting on board with the opening of a section on muslim art next year.
    Posted by: Dave at October 18, 2009 11:48 AM ”
    Yeah. But won’t that take up the two washroom spaces they have? Oh Wait. No problem. They P**s in the gutters anyways.

  17. the government going straight to the source: Seize, Sell, Go Shopping for more Po-leese!
    Feds keep money from proceeds-of-crime law
    Cities pay policing costs, profits go to Ottawa
    By Ethan Baron, The ProvinceOctober 18, 2009 9:13
    The federal government is seizing British Columbia property, selling it and keeping the money.
    Since 2002 in Surrey, 21 properties valued at more than $10 million have been forfeited to the Canadian government under federal “proceeds of crime” law.
    The properties include homes used for marijuana grow-ops and crack dealing.
    Forfeitures are ordered by federal-court judges. Properties are sold at market value. The money goes to the federal government.”….
    The ghouls just looooove your money!

  18. When the Cons stop bothering to hide their contempt for the citizen, it’s time to remind them what they stand for: Canadians first.
    Tories not so open now
    Published On Sun Oct 18 2009
    In opposition, the federal Conservatives were all for broader public access to government information. Their 2006 platform called for sweeping changes to the Access to Information Act that would, among other things, give the information commissioner the power to issue orders and expand the scope of the act to cover Crown corporations, officers of Parliament and other agencies.
    Soon after winning the 2006 election, the Conservatives made good on the promise to expand the act’s scope. But now that they have been in office for almost four years, they seem to have lost their appetite for freedom of information.
    Last week, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson quietly posted a response to a parliamentary committee report recommending sweeping changes to the information act. The proposed changes incorporated some of the very ideas contained in the 2006 Conservative platform…….”
    Sadly, Rob Nicholson the Stunned is only doing what he’s told. Robby ain’t bright enough to come up with this stuff on his own.
    Gads, even the Star sees this hypocrite for what he is.
    http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/711655–tories-not-so-open-now

  19. Thanks maz2.
    I purchased the NEJW DVD, and received shipping confirmation last week, but it still hasn’t arrived. So, I’ll be watching today online.
    Cheers…

  20. Harper’s inconvenient truth
    The prime minister knows cap-and-trade is wrong for Canada and bad for Canadians. He should say it
    By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
    Last Updated: 18th October 2009, 2:29am
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper is too clever by half on global warming.
    Politically, he’s taken the smart position — Canada will match whatever U.S. President Barack Obama does.
    That’s not only clever, but true.
    We have to match what the U.S. does because it’s our major trading partner.
    The problem is with the centrepiece of Obama’s plan — creating a U.S. cap-and-trade market in carbon dioxide emissions into which Canada will be sucked, along with the rest of the world.
    This is the wrong policy for a resource-rich, energy-exporting country, like Canada. Cap-and-trade will cost Canadians jobs. It will make Canadians poorer. It will slow our recovery.
    It will hike not just the cost of electricity far beyond what governments are already doing under the guise of “going green,” but the cost of everything…….”
    http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/lorrie_goldstein/2009/10/18/11438451-sun.html

  21. From the brain-dead journalism department: Mindelle (Mindy) Jacobs, Sun chain, Tuesday, Oct. 13.
    You might be wondering what happened to the age-of-leisure promise of the 21st century, she asks. Modern capitalism seems to be a rich minority who can weather the storm, a fearful middle class worrying about retirement and the poor resigned to misery, she says.
    “Few would disagree that unchecked capitalism combined with insatiable greed pretty much wrecked the economy”.
    FALSE. There hasn’t been “unchecked capitalism” for over a century, if there ever was. Every year, governments in all countries and at all levels pass thousands of regulations to “check” the private enterprise economy. Some of them – such as an American rule requiring home loans to those who could not afford them – are what “pretty much wrecked the economy”. None of this should be hard to discover for anyone with a modicum of journalistic skills.
    Also, there are thousands of government employees whose jobs can only be described as parasitical – they shuffle money around, such as in the convoluted tax system or the business subsidy regime, or give handouts willy-nilly to various activist or advocacy groups and agencies who don’t produce anything. All this is a drain on the economy.
    As for greed, if this means wanting more than you deserve, then unchecked capitalism is precisely what would keep it under control. Capitalism is based on voluntary trade for mutual benefit. If someone thinks you’re too greedy and want too much in return, he won’t make the trade. Only when government gets involved through taxes and regulations can “greed” become a problem, for those who are not favoured by political decisions. Only government can employ coercion to achieve its goals. And who is greedier than politicians seeking greater power for themselves? The proper function of government is to protect individual rights – by using coercion only on individuals who use it on others first, to help the victims’ self-defense.
    Jacobs points out that the Vanier Institute for the Family says Canadians get mixed messages, frugality on the one hand but also the “loud voice of political and commercial interests urging Canadians to ‘spend, spend, spend'”. But it’s mostly those propagating the false economic theories of J. M. Keynes who are urging the spending, such as via the phony “thrift paradox” (which may of course include businessmen who benefit from their links to government). Consuming more than you produce is the road to ruin. Economic progress requires savings.
    She also has the effrontery to say, “You might want to ask your MP how progress is going on establishing a national supplemental pension plan grafted onto the CPP. Because left to our own devices, we’re not great savers.”
    We’re not great savers because the interventionist non-“unchecked capitalism” economics that has been practiced for decades punishes those who produce and save, and rewards those who don’t. That’s why no one has anything left for savings these days. Where does she think the extra pension money will come from? Pensions are like interest on savings except they are spread among large numbers of people. You have to have economic production in order to afford them. And that can only come from capitalism with as few “checks” as possible.
    In other words, a thoughtless commentator like Mindy Jacobs is aiding and abetting national economic suicide, and witlessly helping to wreck her own future.

  23. On the same token, the Globe has a feature on Saturday, Oct. 17 about pension problems, including the wipeout of Nortel’s plan, as well as an editorial on the same issue on the same day.
    At the top of the pension heap are public servants, most of whom have gold-plated versions. At the bottom are those who have never had an employee retirement plan (and who presumably can’t afford RRSPs), but whose taxes contribute to the public sector pensions.
    The editorial says government finances are getting squeezed in two ways. First, the aforementioned public sector pension plan liabilities. Second, an aging population means more spending on health care, while the proportion of taxpaying workers falls.
    Again, the only solution is to unleash economic production by dealing with its main impediments: taxes and regulation. Without doing that, you have a Ponzi scheme. Not that governments care.
    One other comment: a line in the main story to the effect that “the growing ranks of pension wounded pose long-term challenges for an economy that depends on consumer spending”. False. The economy depends on production that can only come from savings. We spend and consume because we have to; it’s the nature of human existence, living in a material world. But everything we consume has to be produced first. All economic progress comes from the productive efforts of those who find ways to make more, cheaper and / or better things.
    Meanwhile, David Olive in the Star on Friday, Oct. 16 takes the opposite tack, claiming there is no pension crisis, because the CPP is solvent for at least 75 years at present rates, as opposed to less than 30 for US Social Security.
    However, the Globe editorial yesterday notes that “The maximum CPP monthly payment for a 65-year-old is $908.75. Unless blessed with other assets, a senior who relies on the public system alone lives a life of poverty”.
    It’s the advocates of big government and opponents of “unchecked capitalism” who are 100% responsible for economic crises, including those in the pension sector.

  24. Last week, the Globe and National Post both reported on a plan to install digital information screens in Toronto high schools, similar to those found in the subway. Apparently some opponents are concerned that the school board might sell advertising aimed at a “captive audience of students”. However, board chairman John Campbell says that any revenue generation would only come from spots produced for postsecondary institutions, or for agencies like the Milk Marketing Board, Health Canada or Toronto Public Health.
    Note the anti-business bias here. Business ads are certainly intended to sell products. But public agencies like the milk board or health sector have agendas of their own, and may well engage in propaganda. The milk board shouldn’t even exist in a free society, and you can’t say that about business. At least business ads are intended to encourage voluntary purchases; government ads come from an institution that can use coercion. And of course you can’t have a “captive audience” without coercion. The pro-public education advocates are admitting they have to rely on captives.
    This situation is similar to one a decade ago, when the Youth News Network wanted to show short news programs to students, paid by advertising, in return for donations of computers or other equipment to schools. There wasn’t really any need for it, but it was opposed for the wrong reasons.

  26. Speaking of public education, here’s a letter from a student on Thursday in the NP. The issue is that a gay man suing the Canadian Blood Services because he is not allowed to donate blood, was found to have an STD when he did so previously. He didn’t know this, but he had lied about his sexual history. The NP reported this information on Oct. 6, after the story broke a few days earlier.
    The letter: “I’m pro-gay rights, so I’m wondering why the Post found it necessary to state that the blood donor was gay in this story’s headline. There are enough people against gays already – anyone who read just this headline and not the article would just have another reason to be anti-gay. This donor just wanted to help save people’s lives. I think that if gay people want to help other people they should be allowed to. They’re not the only ones who can get sexually-transmitted diseases.”
    1. The man’s sexual orientation is relevant because he wouldn’t have been up against the donation guidelines otherwise.
    2. The donor won’t be helping people by giving them syphilis.
    3. A gay person is as likely to get syphilis from a transfusion of infected blood as anyone else. They have the right not to, just like you and me.
    I hope the education system didn’t teach this student that (a) any criticism of anything a gay person might do is a violation of “gay rights”, and (b) when invoking politically correct concepts, all context can be omitted.

  27. On Thursday, Oct. 15, the Globe’s Lawrence Martin complained that Canada is further away from Nobel Peace Prize consideration than ever, and lacking in a “global conscience”, because of Stephen Harper (doesn’t “global conscience” sound like an anti-concept?).
    Martin says “the Nobel priorities are disarmament, multilateralism, the extension of an olive branch to adversaries, etc.”, but the Conservatives have a preference for a “more confrontational approach”, and have shown little interest in disarmament, whereas “the US president has also been credited with making a new opening in Russia with his cancellation of the planned missile defence system for Eastern Europe”. Is “credited” the proper word here, I wonder?
    He says Canada falsely accused the Russians of encroaching on our air space with bomber flights, after we gave “the back of the hand” to China when Harper didn’t attend the Beijing Olympics. Why should he have? Why should we dignify by our presence a regime that has murdered tens of millions, even if the blood hasn’t run as freely of late?
    Martin says that while Harper has moderated somewhat, he still “sees the world in black-and-white frames – a good guys / bad guys optic, as opposed to the one-big-family perspective”. There’s a grain of truth here, because most regimes (as with individuals, unfortunately) aren’t completely good or completely bad, and we should always be cognizant of this. However, I’m trying to think of a time when Lawrence Martin has seriously criticized any left-wing regime.
    Now the amusing part: Martin says we used to take a more evenhanded approach to the Middle East conflict, but now, while Washington shows more flexibility, “we’re about as one-sided as can be”. First of all, defending Israel’s right to exist while recognizing that they must not go too far is not “one-sided”; it’s the Arab states that want to destroy it who are “one-sided”.
    But a letter to the Globe the day after the column ran pointed out that (1) Canada led the world in boycotting the Durban II conference, pulling out months ahead when we predicted it would be a repeat of the anti-Semitic fiasco in 2001; and (2) we boycotted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the UN. “If these actions aren’t examples of having a global conscience, what is?” SLAP! It’s always nice to see a lousy journalist put in his place.

  28. The National Post reported on Friday, Oct. 16, that the UN’s Independent Expert on minority issues, Gaye McDougall, has chosen Canada as her eighth investigative destination since being appointed in 2005. Her previous seven targets: France, Greece, Hungary, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan.
    “Every would-be immigrant in the world knows Canada ranks at the top in its treatment of minorities, thanks to its constitutional guarantees, independent judiciary, elected parliament, vigorous civil society and free press – that all can speak for affected minorities and provide remedies when needed”, said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch in Geneva, which is host city to most of the UN’s human rights branches. “But there is not a single domestic institution that will speak for the two million black African migrants persecuted in Libya, the ethnic minorities repressed in Tibet, or the women subjugated in Saudi Arabia”, he said.
    Amusingly, the UN statement announcing McDougall’s Canadian probe includes a reference to the term “visible minorities” (noting that they represent 16.2% of Canada’s population in 2006), which the UN’s anti-racism watchdog told Ottawa to stop using two years ago. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination told Canada in 2007 that the use of the term “may not be in accordance with the aims and objectives” of the UN’s anti-racism convention.
    Is this the UN version of the iron fist in the velvet glove, that one “may not” be in accordance? I’m just wondering who are the parasites who have nothing better to do than to decide which expressions are politically correct and which aren’t. I’m still trying to figure out the difference between a “coloured person” and a “person of colour”. Like all things left-wing, it’s just based on fantasy and whim.

  29. I know it’s close to the nightly open thread but I just have to drop this in now…(not sure if it was covered on a previous open thread.)
    http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20091016/food_tampering_091016/20091016?hub=Toronto
    Ont. grocery store sees 2nd meat tampering incident
    Updated: Fri Oct. 16 2009 12:07:25 PM
    CTV.ca News Staff
    For the second time this year, a discount grocery store in southwestern Ontario finds itself at the centre of a food tampering investigation.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency, with the help of police, are investigating how a 2.5-centimetre-long needle ended up in a package of pork sausage sold at a No Frills grocery store in Guelph, Ont. — the second time that the same store has had a problem with tampering in 2009.
    Guelph police Const. Kevin McCord said a consumer found the needle in the sausage after frying it up and putting in their mouth.
    I didn’t even know about the first one….this really tics me off. Muslims trying to kill Canadians through their purchases of pork?
    Currently not buying these kinds of pre-packaged meats these days, thankfully an excellent butcher is only 10 mins away, but we use to and honey garlic pork sausages on the BBQ are one of my favs.
    Excellent reads nv53.

  30. Mao Stlong say, Chinee swine fru vaccine goody. Tly it. You’rr rike it.
    Say Hi to Moi nephew, “Liberal leader” Boob Lae. Boob eat swine, too.
    …-
    Pat MacAdam*:
    “Recently, I saw a newspaper photo of a Chinese assembly line turning out H1N1 vaccine doses. That jarred me. My body temperature rose and I set off a new round of global warming.
    I don’t want an H1N1 vaccine from a country that has exported tainted fish, killer pet food, unsafe tires, and poisoned toothpaste, drugs, candy and vitamins.”
    …-
    *”I’ve had my fill of half-empty glass”
    http://www.ottawasun.com/comment/columnists/pat_macadam/2009/10/17/11436646.html

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