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  1. Pat Condell’s latest Youtube video, this one on Islam and free speech in the West: Wake up, America
    … they’ve decided now that the Universal Declaration of Human rights gives people just a bit too much freedom and dignity for their liking. And so they’ve devised their own Islamic human rights charter which is a bit like Satan getting his own set of pearly gates and about as convincing.
    . . .
    Free speech, they tell us, carries certain responsibilities; well too true, it does, the most primary one being that what you say should be the truth. And the truth should never be embarrassing and it should never be illegal, and any government that’s so embarrassed by the truth that it makes it illegal is governing under false pretences.
    . . .
    Americans voted for change at the last election, they didn’t vote for surrender. Watch what’s happening in Europe America, cherish that Constitution and don’t let Islam anywhere near it for all our sakes.

  2. “The main emphasis of the present web site is therefore to provide the interested reader with data and other information on meteorology and climate. Climate change information needs to be both accurate and undistorted, and analysis unemotional. Respecting the notion that information always should be the starting point for personal thought, analysis and interpretation, links to sources (digital and written) are provided throughout the web site. It is definitely not the purpose to encourage a passive personal approach by providing a list of ‘correct’ answers to a list of ‘key’ questions, but rather to stimulate active, personal thought and analysis”
    h/t from the comments at Watts Up With That?
    http://www.climate4you.com/

  3. Kate:
    Care to take a guess how long it is before CAITA is given the boot from liblogs after this post?
    “http://caiti-online.blogspot.com/2009/10/liberals-tell-me-that-this-isnt-gross.html
    What do the Liberals think they are doing hosting a National Pension and Retirement Income Security Forum in Room 200 West Block, House of Commons. On October 26, 2009 that is sponsored by the Canadian Life & Health Insurance Association Inc.?
    This confirms my worst suspicions about the Liberal Party and their flaccid advocacy on behalf of income trust investors, whose life savings were destroyed by the hoax called tax leakage perpetrated at the behest of the membership of the very Canadian Life & Health Insurance Association, who the Liberals have appeared to accede to on these matters of pension security. This is like inviting the fox to guard the hen house.”……
    ……Meanwhile we have the Liberals kowtowing to the usual list of suspects at their policy forum on pensions, starting with CARP who have proven themselves to be nothing more than a faux seniors’ advocacy group/front organization for the life insurance industry, or are the Liberals too out to lunch to know that?”
    They also included some names of attendees.
    Looks like Judy (strippergate) Sgro is hosting this gabfest…is paid for by the LPC or by the tax payer (liberals being so fastidious of late over partisan use of government assets and all).
    Susan Eng, VP, Advocacy, Canadian Association of Retired Persons
    Jean‐Luc Racine, Executive Director, Federation des ainees et aines francophones
    Mike Hale, Immediate Past President, Canadian Institute of Actuaries
    Phil Benson, Lobbyist, Teamsters Canada
    Joel Harden, Pension Policy Expert, Canadian Labour Congress
    Michael Boychuk, President/CEO Bimcor Inc. (Representing the Group of 7)
    Catherine Swift, President/CEO, Canadian Federation of Independent Business
    Sue Reibel, Senior Vice President & General Manager
    Canadian Group Savings & Retirement Solutions Manulife Financial
    (Representing Canadian Life & Health Insurance Association Inc.)
    Diane A. Urquhart, Independent Financial Analyst
    James Pierlot, LL.M., Towers Perrin ? Toronto
    Kelly Law, Associate Director, Canada Without Poverty
    I wonder if Posterboy Brison will be there with his blackberry?

  5. Via Scaramouche
    Hugo Chavez is telling Venezuelans to limit their showers to three minutes, because they are “not in times of Jacuzzi,” the Daily Mail reported.
    “Some people sing in the shower, in the shower half an hour,” the country’s president said during a televised cabinet meeting. “No kids, three minutes is more than enough. I’ve counted, three minutes, and I don’t stink.”

  6. xiat,
    If I’ve misread your (Moonbat) post…plse correct me…BUT…if you were my neighbour…you’d better Fu**in’ hope that I wasn’t listenin’ to U and might (just might) take care of what U don’t have the B**ls to take care of for yourself !!!
    Cheers…

  9. Dept. of Schadenfreude: (from Richard Russell)
    Even high-earning celebs mess up. Don’t let it happen to you. Keep a low overhead and pay your taxes.
    Annie Leibovitz — She was broke; she put up the copyrights for all her famous work. She could lose the rights to all her work. Now she’s working on a deal for a $24 million loan.
    Victoria Gotti — Beautiful daughter of a deceased mob leader. A court says she owes $700,000 on her Long Island mansion. Good thing she owes JP Morgan the money and not the mob.
    Boxer and former champ Evander Holyfield — Like Mike Tyson, he’s got troubles. He’s facing foreclosure threats on his 109-room suburban Atlanta, estate, plus he has other troubles.
    Jose Canseco — He earned millions as a baseball star, but he didn’t keep up payments on his LA home. It was foreclosed last year. He wrote a lot about steroid use in his book, “Juiced.”
    Larry Dykstra — He won an all-star ring with the Mets in 1986. The ring fetched $56,000 at an auction. He filed for bankruptcy protection in July, saying that he owes more than (are you ready?) $31 million.
    Stephen Baldwin, actor brother of Alec. Filed for bankruptcy; owes $1.2 million on his New York property plus he owes $1 million in taxes, according to court documents.

  12. On Thursday the Supreme Court of Canada struck down a piece of Quebec legislation, Bill 104, that banned certain methods non-francophone parents had used to enable their children to attend English-language schools in that province. Under Bill 101, the French Language Charter, only those parents who were educated in English themselves and those with a child who had a year of education in English (which could be outside Quebec) could obtain English-language education in the public system. Some grade-one-only unsubsidized private schools sprung up within the province to enable parents to get around Bill 101. Thursday’s judgment merely said that a blanket prohibition was not justifed, and that each child’s case should be judged individually on its own merits.
    The real problem of course is Bill 101 itself, which violates the rights of non-francophones. The heart of the matter is the spurious notion of “protecting the French language”, which is an anti-concept. The purpose of government is to protect individual rights that humans possess, which includes the right to live one’s life using the language(s) of one’s choice. Languages do not possess rights. Failing to understand this is the mistake that has caused so much grief.
    In the Gosselin case (2005), some francophone parents who wanted to send their children to English-language public schools were turned down by the Supreme Court. This discriminatory ruling meant they have fewer rights than anglophone parents.
    Quebec is entitled to name an official language, and since French is that of the vast majority, it would be foolish to pick any other. But maintaining the dominant status of French must depend on the individual decisions of the province’s inhabitants to continue speaking it. 500 years ago there was little or no French in Quebec. 500 years from now, there may not be either. Or possibly the entire North American continent will be speaking French by then. Either way, it’s no concern of ours today — it will be up to our distant descendants to choose, not us.
    I repeat: languages do not have rights, and therefore cannot be “protected” by government. Only the individual’s right to speak in the language of his choice should be protected.

  13. Also on Thursday: the B. C. government will stop the prosecution of the polygamists in Bountiful and will seek a reference at the Supreme Court of that province as to whether the federal legislation prohibiting polygamy is unconstitutional under the Charter of Rights. (Why it goes to the B. C. Supreme Court instead of the Supreme Court of Canada is unclear to me)
    Governments cannot stop people from making any kind of living arrangements with any number of people of the opposite and/or same sex that they wish. The real issue is things like tax deductions for one’s spouse, joint pensions, and the like. When the gay marriage issue was up in the air, its proponents denied that it would be a “slippery slope” that would ultimately lead to polygamy. Only a few years later, that has seemingly been proven false. Since gay partnerships are pretty much analogous to straight ones except that no offspring can result from their conjugal activities, there’s no reason to prevent them from having a spousal tax break, and so on. But there’s also no reason to allow anyone to claim for more than one.

  14. Hi Vit
    Can you please tell me what I did wrong in posting “The Warning”
    Frontline special.
    (it was withheld for review)
    Was it a format error?
    It’s up at Rush’s site for Friday for anyone else.
    Tks

  16. Doc Holiday has the swine flu.
    …-
    “Ditch sick note rule during outbreak, OMA tells employers
    Hamilton Spectator – ‎9 hours ago‎
    Ontario’s doctors are asking employers to scrap the usual request for sick notes from employees during the swine flu outbreak.
    Sick notes? No time, OMA says Globe and Mail
    Forgo sick note from workers home with flu, doctors advise employers The Canadian Press”
    (googlenews)

  17. More Doc Holiday/swine flu compassion from the left-liberals on the Mean Streets of Vancouver, the Indian reserves, etc.
    Bringing the swine flu to the herd.
    >>> “isolated communities,” = Indian reserves.
    “Residents of Canada’s poorest postal code join pregnant women, all people with chronic medical conditions, children under the age of five, isolated communities, health-care workers and care providers for at-risk people at the front of the immunization line.”
    >>> Drug addicts = “sometimes on the streets.”.
    “If we do approach them on the street, we try to take them into a nice clean area where they can sit down and have their injection,””.
    >>> “Armed with a backpack full of supplies, an allergic reaction kit, a cooler of vaccine vials and a syringe disposal, nurses like Vancouver Coastal Health’s Shabin Mere will bring the clinic to the patient.”
    …-
    “Downtown Eastside ‘high priority’ for H1N1 shots
    Large number of residents ‘susceptible to complications with the flu’ due to pre-existing medical conditions, addictions”
    urlm.in/dhlt

  20. “G” – your post was grabbed by the filter because it included a couple of keywords/symbols in the blacklist. It’s an automatic process, don’t take it personally.

  21. xiat, later, but for now many thanks for that earlier link (Mises.org I think) on the question: Is Limited Government an Oxymoron..
    Me: YES.
    I presume you’ve read Albert Jay Nock’s Our Enemy the State.

  23. This may be OT, but I saw an ad in Saturday’s Star Phoenix announcing Lizzie May is coming to Saskatoon. Anyone think she’ll publicly defend the “Your parents f***ked up the Planet” camapaign. Maybe we should welcome her with a Cadillac Escalade loaded with corn/

  25. When Lizzie shows up in Saskatoon,if anyone has the chance,please ask her how the proposed $50 a tonne carbon tax would go over during a recession. You can be sure that the cbc will never ask that one.

  27. Not “Czars”.
    >>> O’s Commissars*.
    …-
    “Things to watch for during a “Declared National Emergency”
    As I predicted—though I was unsure whether it would be the H1N1 virus or the collapse of the dollar—the Communist Puppet would use something to cement his total control over every aspect of our lives.
    From the day he took office, Obama and his puppet masters have been building a shadow Government with all power vested in them. The Czars he has appointed, who were not vetted and approved by Congress nor elected, now have the authority to control every aspect of American commerce.
    I challenge you to look at the Executive Orders that have been signed over the last 30 years and are still in place. Also carefully read the provisions of the Violent Crime Control Act. They are listed here America In Peril and I include a partial list below.
    You will see that with the Executive Orders already in place, combined with the provisions of the Violent Crime Control Act, with the stroke of a pen Obama can suspend the Constitution, the Judiciary, Elections and in effect declare himself president for life.
    (Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370196/posts
    …-
    *Commissar: “An official of the Communist Party in charge of political indoctrination and the enforcement of party loyalty.”
    (dictcom)

  28. wallyj 6:13pm
    Speaking of Lizzies proposed $50.00 tonne carbon tax,i noticed that on the CCX (Chicago Climate Exchange) Carbon Financial Instruments are now trading at .10 cents per tonne! Just think in May of 2008 they were trading over $7.00 per tonne! I wonder if the uncovering of the hockey stick scam has anything to do with this wipe out? People that thought they were going to get rich trading carbon credits are now losing their ass…i love it!

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