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for the calypso beat fans:

3w.youtube.com/watch?v=B1voj6H8CHY&feature=related

The MSM are beginning to notice that Brad Wall's government has totally mismanaged Saskatchewan's finances:

http://digital.vancouversun.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

The only question is why it took so long...

I remember the episode, and I remember the real X-15!! Thanks Mr. V!!

Copenhagen is dead before the conference even started:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/world/asia/15prexy.html?_r=1

speaking of things european, you xenophobes at SDA would be right at home in the prison cell with alex wiens:

en dot wikipedia dot org/wiki/Murder_of_Marwa_El-Sherbini

remembrance day bla bla bla:

3w dot newswire dot ca/en/releases/archive/July2007/04/c3683.html

why do you righties support conservatism and the stevie harpoon government when they too BEAT UP all those aged frail war veterans? howcum?

this is why I have utterly no use whatsoever and less than zero respect for all politishuns starting at the federal level.

beating up the veterans and then strutting around in dignified 'respectful' 'grateful' hushed tones one day a year. bloody hypocrites and harper is the worst of them.

Saw two humour sites to-day. The first is a low viewer station giving computer tips and the second is photos of science fair projects.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f8a_1258220619

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/awkward-science-fair-projects.html

hey. iggy.

at least it was a Canadian bear that got ya. LOL !!!

3w.fairvote.ca/en/node/851

More from the Left Coast.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/basic+living+income+could+wipe+poverty/2222557/story.html

"Once upon a time in Canada, there was a town where no one was poor."

"No, this is not the opening line of some yet to be written fairy tale. It's the opening line in the summary of a new report that contains some heartening news buried in a long ago and mostly forgotten experiment that ensured all residents in a small Manitoba community were guaranteed a minimum annual income for five years in the mid-1970s."

How it ended should surpise no one. That some are trying to bring it back probably shouldn't either.

Thanks, Bull. Yoo Hoo, no one has to work anymore!!!

A Christian Prophetic archaeological look at China & India By Chuck Missler. He has some interesting observations about oil & future energy use. I doubt few none Christians will like the series. Just warning you. You can find them on Ytube as well.

Kings of the East section One
1-6

Kings of the East section Two
1-5

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=new+chuck+missler&www_google_domain=www.google.com&hl=en&emb=0#q=Kings+of+the+East&hl=en&view=2&emb=0

Doug Cuthand speaking on behalf of Saskatchewan First Nations?

Dangerous mistake to scrap long gun registry

“Let’s hope Prentice is a fossil

The angrier greens get at Canada’s environment minister in Copenhagen, the happier we should be

By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN”

“the policy being pursued by Prime Minister Stephen Harper today — pay lip service to Kyoto while doing as little as possible to implement it, or any successor agreement.

Better if Harper and Prentice would just honestly explain to Canadians why this is all such a bad deal for us.

But, in the absence of honesty, the more fossil awards Prentice gets in Copenhagen, the better.”

http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/lorrie_goldstein/2009/11/15/11751531-sun.html

Speaking of Aboriginals, hope the guy suing the OPP and the Ontario gov gets his $7 million from the Caledonia bolox, and I hope they take it out of Indian tax-supported initiatives, and then send in the army,

You can hope, larben @ 8:28AM, but it won't happen. The guy will be lucky to get a nickle and if he does,it won't come from Indian coffers.

Pretty hard to fight people who are allowed to operate above our laws but there's no reason not to use the army to protect citizens who are law abiding.

O's hOpe: Fear*.
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"City blocks are locked & loaded

Call it the fortress of steel.

When the murderous 9/11 Gang of Five finally lands in New York for trial, they'll face an impenetrable wall of security -- with five times the normal number of US marshals flooding lower Manhattan and a ring of marksmen watching their every move, sources said yesterday.

National Guardsmen will be placed at major transportation hubs while the NYPD will close off subway entrances near the federal courthouse and intensify bag searches throughout the system, the sources said.

Marshals will be shipped in from out of town and snipers placed on roofs nearby the courthouse, where a death-penalty trial is likely.

Nearby streets will be shut off to motor vehicles in all directions."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386817/posts

"*CMU study: Hope can be harmful to mental health"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378591/posts

What has been allowed to happen in Caledonia through shear political cowardness by McGuinty shows what happens when the opportunity to stop this illegal act when it was small and controllable is allowed to slip by. Surprise, surprise it grows and now is entrenched.

This is the most obscene thing I have seen in Ontario as the basic right of citizens to have protection by our police and laws is ignored.

Cigarette sales tax is down by billions as the natives now control over 50% of all sales in Ontario and organized crime is moving in supplying drugs and guns. Who pays for this cowardness, why of course you and I do.

Uh oh. The newly-armed border guards have shot and killed their first victim. The gun control crazies are going to be losing their minds!

http://www.630ched.com/Channels/Reg/NewsLocal/Story.aspx?ID=1165021

In yesterday's Reader Tips commenter allan referenced the Nov 14 Winnipeg Free Press article "Wind Power Losing Steam".

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/high-hopes-for-wind-die-down-70094742.html

As a Winnipegger and a wind "denier", I took in the article and found myself falling down the rabbit hole and going behind the looking glass. Here was the Conservative Party energy critic pumping the koolaid:

Tory MLA Cliff Cullen, the party's Hydro critic: "What we need is a framework to provide a catalyst for development."

and the Dipper minister, Rosanne Wowchuk, actually channelling common sense:

"And, she said, Manitoba is blessed with cheap power, meaning ratepayers would take a hit if the province threw open its doors to wind power like Ontario has done."

Manitoba NDP not as left as McGuintyville? Or just Rosanne's inner country girl shining through the Dipper fog?

No surprise, however, about the slant of the MSM reporter, Mary Agnes Welch:

"Manitoba's green energy projects are sucking wind compared to other provinces..."

Too bad this handy reference list is not available to the masses of plebeians, ain’ it?

“The AT Readers' Complete Lexicon of Political Speech”

Like the latest intellectual invention, #5 on the list….

“Big Tent”:
A phrase used by liberal media commentators, bloggers and presenters to impose their belief and influence on an opposing ideological demographic/party. It's intended to populate an opposing party with "moderates" that will (a) make this opposing party ideologically blurry, and therefore weak, (b) make this party pliable and susceptible to Democrat influence, or (c) effect ‘change'." [Tel...]
Very handy in today’s politics even though it is wholly despicable, it is used about 99.7% of the time by the democratic “politicians”.

You can find more at the American Thinker.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/the_at_readers_complete_lexico.html

A note to the post by Bull at November 15, 2009 2:17 AM

As the ever so sweet researcher says breathless:
"This was a tremendously exciting project at the time," Forget recalled in an interview. "So everyone was eagerly anticipating the results, and then, of course, the funding cuts came and nothing much ever happened."

The researcher forgot to spell it out in non academic language, "she run out of other people’s money". Can’t really fault her, it is a common trait of the socialist/fascists.

Oregon tried the basic minimum income a long time ago. What they discovered was people didn't work. They refused to pay the cost of working when the benefits of doing so was counterproductive. Residents stayed home and jobs were filled by workers from other states until they qualified for the minimum benefits. Now that would count for creating jobs.

Exactly. If people are willing to move to find work, I'm certain that there are those willing to move to avoid it. What do you think such a place would look like before too long?

[quote]The researcher forgot to spell it out in non academic language, "she run out of other people’s money". Can’t really fault her, it is a common trait of the socialist/fascists[/quote]LEV

It is also unethical not to mention that Dauphin, Man has a ethnic dominance (Ukrainian) and any comparison to other communities must be of the same ethnic mix.. (Apples & Oranges)

Comparing Dauphin to an Irish/Scottish Community says more about the ethnic values of the communities than the social program.

In that time frame, comparing Dauphin to a similar town in the USSR (Ukrainian) would have saved a lot of money.

Nobel for Barry... Pulitzer for Jon Stewart.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YmQwNjdlYjBjMzdiMmEwNGE0MmQ1N2JhNWNlY2MxNzg=

Video link posted by Revnant Dream at November 15, 2009 4:34 AM

Thanks for the links. Fascinating stuff - I had no idea that the Chinese written language contains whole stories and history lessons in their writing symbols. Very interesting indeed - a wealth of relevant info in these videos.

more on Lou Dobbs' career move:

ca dot news dot yahoo dot com/s/capress/091115/entertainment/us_tv_lou_dobbs

(PDF warning) Charles Cameron, The Hasan Slide Presentation: A Preliminary Commentary

There is no place as private as the interior of a human skull: the mind remains inviolate.

Words can reveal some of what goes on inside us, actions can speak some of our intents and passions forcefully, at times explosively. And yet there is no place more secret -- and what a hint, a phrase, a gesture, a speech or an explosion cannot reveal, what even the best forensic examination can only label a probability, is the complex interweaving of thoughts half thought, doubts entertained, emotions pushing on through, and clashing, building at times to a perfect storm perhaps, with all doubts and constraints cast aside and the emotions unleashed in a blind and defining moment...

today's foto of B. Hussien mixing it up with the chairman's jacket... remember when bowing to Japanese royalty was offensive?

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/enemies_foreign_domestic/the_mao_jacket_of_obamao.php

A few issues have arisen during the past week ...

Thomas Walkom in the Toronto Star began a column with this gem:

"Governments used the recession of the '80s to curb wages. They used the recession of the '90s to gut social programs. The theme of this recession promises to be a concerted assault against unions."

Governments have no reason to curb wages. Businesses try to find the most productive workers for the lowest wage. But workers try to find the highest wage for a reasonable amount and type of work and for decent conditions. So it's a trade-off, and another illustration that capitalism is based on trade. There is no need to curb wages if the labour is productive; a worker takes out what he puts in. Furthermore, labour's wages rise with an increase in capital investment per worker. So there is no conflict between capital and labour.

The goal of the lefties like Walkom is to maintain a system where everybody lives at the expense of everybody else, where politicians promise everybody something for nothing but ultimately deliver much less than they stole in taxes, all so that they can get themselves re-elected and bask in undeserved glory. And of course "social programs" are part of this, but eventually reality sets in and paying people to do nothing is found not to be a valid economic growth strategy. It can't go on forever.

The title of the column was, Next under attack: public sector unions.

Governments don't show much inclination to curb public sector wages (which are known to be higher than free market wages), perhaps unless the international banking institutions from which they borrow get on their case. One reason we have so many recessions is that government is filled with people who produce nothing of value to the people of the country but who get paid fat public sector union wages. Rather than going after the unions per se, the first course of action should be to eliminate as many of these government jobs as is humanly possible.

It is worth noting that one person on welfare may take a few grand out of the economy without putting anything back in, but an unproductive bureaucrat may take out tens of thousands while his job decreases the overall pie. So that's why we have to cut the regulators and the subsidizers first.

The column ran on Saturday, Nov. 7.

A couple of letters have tried to compare the Berlin Wall, on the 20th anniversary of its demise, with the Israeli anti-terrorist barrier. One wondered if a U. S. president would say, "Mr. Netanyahu, tear down that wall!"

Uh, no. The purpose of the Israeli barrier is to keep the bad guys outside the wall away from the good guys inside it. Whereas the purpose of the Berlin Wall was to prevent the good guys inside the wall from escaping the bad guys inside it.

Glad I could clear that up for you.

From the not-actually-racism department:

The Windsor police chief apologized to the Muslim community because a male cop patted down a female relative of two Muslims under arrest.

Not necessary. This is Canada, not the Middle East. Cops obviously cannot engage in sexual assault during their duties, but this is routine police work. If you want to live in Canada, you have to respect our rules. We respect many of yours, as we should, but on this issue here, ours has to take priority.

Meanwhile, some U of T students were castigated for attending a Hallowe'en party in costume as the Jamaican bobsled team. A black students' association objected to the use of blackface.

Apparently, blackface became associated with undesirable stereotypes of blacks in the 19th century. But the context here is different because (a) it's a Hallowe'en party and (b) no stereotypes are being portrayed. If anything, it's a show of respect for talented athletes who thought "outside the box" and found a sport that one would not generally associate with a hot Caribbean nation.

The film '2012' came out this weekend and has already made $65 Million. Here's the trailer. It's about the earth's crust cracking, ocean levels rising, and people having to live on large rafts.

May I offer the plot of another film which we'll call '2012b'. In this one, the earth's crust doesn't crack, weather stays pretty much the same albeit a bit colder, and people go living their lives as before.

How much money do you think I'd make at the box office?

A related issue:

Girls' hockey teams in Toronto have complained about not getting enough ice time vis-a-vis boys' teams. "Human rights" complaints may ensue, etc.

The real problem is that recreational facilities are provided by the government rather than by the private sector. Governments should not engage in discrimination, although it would be difficult to add up every penny or every minute and to ensure exact equality in many cases. Furthermore, discrimination is a rather vague concept that covers many different circumstances (which is one reason the left harps on it so much: it's easy to confuse people with it). Discrimination based on race should never be legitimate, but age is a different matter entirely. Even on the race issue, the activists who are always quick to find an offence suddenly start saying that race is an amorphous concept once somebody suggests gathering crime statistics based on race.

Anyway, if sports arenas were disposed of to the private sector, it would be up to the owners to make the rules, by way of property rights. A women-only arena would be an acceptable solution. A person's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him. Those who do discriminate without good reason may find themselves open to exposure, boycotts, and so on.

O's Copenhagen headline snuffers at work at uber-left GuardianUK.

Hope* in tatters; Fear* remains.
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"The Delayer in Chief? – Obama backs Copenhagen postponement

Briefly, this appeared on Google News:

"Copenhagen climate change summit hopes in tatters as Obama backs postponement"

That was the original title of the piece. Somebody must have complained, because it didn’t last long: Look what The Guardian changed the title to:

"Copenhagen climate summit hopes fade as Obama backs postponement"

Whether the hopes are fading or in “tatters”, it seems that the hope and climate change movement is falling apart."

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/15/the-delayer-in-chief-obama-backs-postponement/#more-12841

*Hope and *Fear:

"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)

A Canadian filmmaker who was set to begin shooting a film in the U. S. is in court trying to get the state of Iowa to honour its $6.5-m commitment to the movie. Otherwise "My credibility as a producer is basically gone", says Kevin Dewalt, who won some Gemini awards last year with a CBC miniseries called The Englishman's Boy. Which I can't say I have ever heard of.

The problem is that Iowa's governor shut down the state's film-financing office and launched a criminal investigation into its management.

Obviously the scandal is within the office and has nothing to do with the filmmakers. But isn't it time that credibility did not rely on raising money from tax dollars?

AGW moonbats have left planet earth.

Their unholy assumption to Gaia’s Hell is announced here.

Gaia’s Hell is a sub-division of the PET Cemetery, three universes beyond planet Pluto.

The AGW moonbats’ announcement:

>>> “He’s president of the planet.”

Who he? O? Not. It’s manbearpig, aka Albert Arnold “Al” Gore, Jr.

For more on the gnostic heresy, go here*.
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“Gore’s presentation on climate change draws 800 as 200 protestors gather outside

BOCA RATON — Confused Palm Beach County voters helped thwart Al Gore’s 2000 bid to become president of the United States, but he was introduced as “president of the planet” when he returned here Saturday night to deliver an environmental lecture.

The former vice president spoke on climate change at the Mizner Park Amphitheater to a crowd of about 800. More than 200 protesters gathered across the street from the event, and their boos and chants could be heard inside the amphitheater as Gore began his presentation.

Gore lost Florida, and the White House, by 537 votes to George W. Bush in a 2000 as many Palm Beach County Democrats said they mistakenly voted for conservative Pat Buchanan because they were confused by the county’s “butterfly ballot” design.

After losing the presidential race, Gore became arguably the world’s most famous advocate for curbing carbon emissions, gaining eco-celebrity status with the film An Inconvenient Truth and winning a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

“It’s an interesting twist of fate here in our own backyard that former Vice President Al Gore has taken on a new platform and is now a catalyst for world change,” said Marci Zaroff, an “eco-entrepeneur” who introduced Gore.

“So, in essence, he’s president of the people. He’s president of the planet. And the work that he’s doing is more important than any other work that could possibly be done.”"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386960/posts

*Gnosticism and civilization
Submitted by ribera on Mon, 2009-06-15 16:19.

Gnostics, basically, do not accept a surnatural God : in their opinion only Humanity can pretend to be that.

But in fact they know that God actually exists, and then the trouble begins : instead of changing their views, they have decided to negate and if possibly destroy, everything in reality which reminds God’s acts, including human deeds (as we are created by God too).

That means, in philosophical order, negation of reason, logic and causality (which show an organized universal framework, and let guess a surnatural creation).

That means, in political order, destruction of morality and religion, because the gnostic man must be freed of any determinism coming from outside of his own will and impulses, so anything the civilization brings to him is somehow suspicious.

As you say, the gnostic is “locked in resentful hostility with every orthodox judgment and indeed at war with the structure of reality, which it seeks to transform”. This is exactly what happens.

Gnosticism pretends to build a new world, which implies destroying the old one before.
We must understand that what he wants in fact is only the first part of the program. Building a new “brave new world” is only a delusion intended for seducing himself and other people, and inducing them to destroy the “old world” -that is, any organized and superior civilization (and specially, the western and christian one).

Gnosticism is an entropic mind : any differentiation from the chaos has to be destroyed, because everything which exists is, at the end, done by God.
That means that any ethnic or sexual differentiation must be destroyed and we understand now why immigration in western countries for example, or promotion of homosexuality is so promoted (by the way, androgyny is one the most basic gnostic myths, where male and female are merged in a single being)

Clearly Gnosticism, in his refusal of any reality, is some kind of lunacy.”

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3966

Here's an update on the Gator Ted's case:

The Federal Court declined to throw out the case brought by owner Ted Kindos who wanted (a) a declaration that people who can legally smoke pot for medical reasons cannot do so in a public place or licensed establishment, and (b) that Health Canada not renew the license of the ex-patron complainant, because the latter has not been compliant with its terms.

This is verbatim from the National Post: "Federal government lawyers sought to dismiss the case, arguing there is no dispute that requires adjudication because Health Canada does not purport to authorize permit holders to smoke marijuana in violation of any applicable law or in an establishment subject to Ontario's liquor licensing laws."

There you have it: the pot smoker is violating the terms of his marijuana license by engaging in his hobby while hanging around outside the bar. Therefore the bogus human rights complaint should be thrown out immediately.

I wouldn't go so far as to rescind the guy's license, however; but then again I don't think marijuana should be illegal.

Ethnic cleansing, Botswana style:

A South African woman was locked up for a couple of days and fined after commenting while leaving Botswana that a portrait of the latter country's president Ian Khama looked like her friend's father, who had Bushman features.

Hundreds of Bushmen (or San) were removed from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in 2002, and their water sources and storage containers destroyed. The government has refused to allow them to return or to grant them hunting licenses. In 2006 the country's High Court ruled this action unlawful and unconstitutional.

The advocacy group Survival International says that the government approved plans for a diamond mine on the Bushmen's land on the condition it not provide them any water.

The government of China claims the 1959 invasion of Tibet freed Tibetans from slavery much like the American Civil War ended slavery in the U. S. So says foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang, although Qin Gangster would be a more appropriate name.

Make no mistake, the Chinese leaders are in the running for the Ceausescu Treatment ...

Cbc has a poll up on sweet little Omar and the Supremes. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/11/13/omar-khadr-supreme-court-hearing.html? ---- So far it is not going all that well for the group,but with a little help from our freinds ,it could be worse.

"with a CBC miniseries called The Englishman's Boy. Which I can't say I have ever heard of."

Actually, considering the source, "the Englishman's boy" is a pretty good film. It chronicles the Cypress Hills incident( http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Saskatchewan/cypress_hills_massacre.htm ) from the perspective of one of the participants, and then again from the persepctive of Hollywood of the 1920s.

The Globe and Mail is yet again creating a controversy out of nothing:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/h1n1-swine-flu/hundreds-of-doses-of-expired-flu-vaccine-thrown-away/article1364102/

I know this is the headline article at NNW, so obviously just about everyone has already seen it. But pay attention to the comments of the article. Everyone is calling out the mop and pail for creating a controversy out of nothing. I've noticed this lately about many things related to the CPC. The tide is turning. Some gems:

"Wow... slow news day? Seriously, how is this even close to news? "

"A 1% wastage rate? They should be handing out gold medals to the staff at every level if they are actually delivering 99% of the produced capacity. Especially it only has a 24 hour shelf life."

etc..

O'lOser, again.
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"Bye, bye, Copenhagen treaty.

Note that comrade Obama doesn't wave his hand because the agreement about no agreement means that this advocate of the climate insanities has become a big loser once again."

"APEC meeting agrees: no Copenhagen treaty

The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Newsbusters, and other media have reported that the leaders who met in Singapore have agreed that there will be no deal on carbon regulation signed in Copenhagen which increases the chances that there will never be another carbon regulating treaty on this blue planet."

http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/11/apec-meeting-agrees-no-copenhagen.html

So, George at 12:55 am Nov 15: Are you suggesting that Canada should follow Germany's lead and prosecute people in the courts because they hold and express "xenophobic" views? Do you really think Alex Wiens should have been brought into his legal nightmare - that ultimately led to this mentally ill man comitting murder in a courtroom - for something as silly as a "xenophobic" comment in a playground. If you believe that, perhaps you would like Jennifer Lynch's job at the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission.

killkahdre

to felis corpse:

try to read between the lines.

clearly that wiens chap was cuckoo from the get-go. this translated into rabid fear/hate of Muslims and one in particular, the murder victim.

I see a common theme there with some of the very hateful comments at SDA about the muslim faith.

ALL muslims I have had contact in my life at university and the work place were decent reasonable people. not so all the arrogant 'carissssstians'.

felis @ 8:48 is right: prosecuting people for their views is what police states do. It's true however that there can in some cases be a fine line between insult and defamation.

george @ 11:37: I believe what you say about the Muslims you know, because most people just want to get on with their lives, although that's difficult when they're being told they should love death more than life. I also agree the killer was an obvious loser for any of this to happen.