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Bam Bam hits three days in a row, a first, at -14 approval index rating.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/obama_approval_index_history

something else for right wingers to get up in arms about, regulations about smoking in public places. well THIS is why we need those regulations:

3w.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091119121300.htm

I got a sweat shirt made up at a specialty shop, goes like this: (centred and italicized in spots)

"body functions are normal
but
NICOTINE is an acquired
habit.

tell you what,you don't
blow smoke in my face,
and I won't
pyss down your pantleg"

it gets the message across.

the real one has the correct spelling for pyss

nanny nanny nanny state ooohhhh look out for the nanny state !!!

In the spirit of lefties everywhere, could we start a semi-religious "Thou Shalt Not" thread?

Thou Shalt Not:

- question the IPCC
- eat meat
- wear fur
- use "too much" energy
- [add your own here]

Union troubled by Eagle Scout project

"In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson, 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an east Allentown park.

Little did the do-gooder know that his altruistic act would put him in the cross hairs of the city's largest municipal union.

Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees International Union, told Allentown City Council Tuesday that the union is considering filing a grievance against the city for allowing Anderson to clear a 1,000-foot walking and biking path at Kimmets Lock Park."

unions... Not getting paid enough for jobs volunteers do for free.

How the Faithful City Became a Harlot

"Our politicians, frankly, here in Washington, where I am today, are more intent on scratching each other's backs, buying $3,000 suits ... going to hairdressers and dying their hair all the same color, which is what they do; and I'm afraid if we don't do something the revolution will go beyond peaceful means and I don't want to see that happen."

... shall not

- fly to winter holiday
- have a cottage

Thou Shalt Not:

- question the IPCC
- eat meat
- wear fur
- use "too much" energy
- [add your own here]
- Smoke
- profit

Source: https://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1451926&cid=30179562

I'm glad that some people are smarter than me.

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You can have billions of data points over several millenia and the only thing you can hope to prove is a strong correlation between A=CO2 levels and B=global temperature.

But you cannot prove or disprove that A causes B, B causes A - or an unknown C causes A and B. Because of the scientific method, you only have a hypothesis, which can only be judged from the quality of the predictions it made.

And here we come full circle: the theory of global warming predicts a global temperature increase over the next few decades. And then scientists urge us to do something to counter that. With large amounts of money and maybe even a reduction in our quality of life. Let's call this strategy of repentance R and the opposite strategy, doing absolutely nothing and keep on sinning S.

Now we can bring game theory into the fray:

Player Mankind M against Global Warming Theory(tm) W.

Mankind can play strategy SIN or REPENT while Global Warming can play the strategies HOT or NOT.

Now let's look at the payoff matrix:

(S, H) = it's now hot, Global Warming was right, but we saved billions of Dollars, Euros, Yuan and Rubles that happily multiplied on compound interest all those years. Let's spend the money on building dams, counter-desertificaton and storm shelters. And pour some money into researching fusion, we need it. Mankind will suffer, but certainly recover. Countries that pursued Repent anyway will now have a severe disadvantage.

(S, N) = it's cool, Global Warming was wrong. We saved uncounted billions of dollars and are probably on the way of building the spaceship for the Alpha Centauri victory condition. Countries that pursued Repent anyway now have a severe disadvantage.

(R, H) = it's now hot, but we don't know if Global Warming was right OR an unkown variable O (let's call it "Sun Output" just for kicks) was the reason. We spent billions and lost the equivalent of Earth's weight in Gold in missed compound interest. Anyway, we didn't spend enough so we lack the funds to build enough dams and shelters. Those few countries that bailed out of the plan now CAN build dams and shelters and will gain the upper hand.

(R, N) = it's cool now but we spend billions of dollars and missed a lot of compound interest. We either did enough or global warming was weaker than expected or the unkown variable C was decreasing as well. Spaceship victory condition is delayed for several centuries. Those few countries that bailed out of the plan will gain the upper hand.

As the scientific method can only disprove, (S, N) provides the only definite answer: Warming was wrong. All other outcomes are unreliable:
(S, H) could mean Global Warming was right or variable O was the reason
(R, H) could mean Global Warming was right, but we did too little, too late OR variable O was the reason.
(R, N) could mean Global Warming was right and we did enough OR Global Warming was wrong and we wasted oodles of money.

to That means
- even in 20 or 30 years, we will not know for sure if global warming was right.
- those who didn't pursue a Repent strategy will always have outpaced those who did
- defect is the dominant strategy for different factions of Mankind
- we either need a New World Order to force everyone in line or the defectors will laugh at us in any possible outcome.

Great. Just great.

I leave it as an exercise to the reader to map out a more complex scenario with two players, Mankind and Warming, where Mankind can "Repent" or "Sin", but Warming can play "Hot from CO2", "Hot from the Sun" or "Cold either way". I doubt the payoff matrix favors insane spending to Repent.

Anyway, the latest predictions I heard of our holy climate priests were an increase of 2 degrees centigrade in 2100. (no, not 2010). If the global temperature was a random walk with a delta of -0.1, 0 and +0.1 every year, we can and will obtain much greater deltas just by chance alone.

Thou Shalt Not:

- question the IPCC
- eat meat
- wear fur
- use "too much" energy
- [add your own here]
- Smoke
- profit
- fly to winter holiday
- have a cottage

piper paul - fun; many thanks. You're right. I like the terms: sin or repent. Says it all.

Sarah wins another one !! They just keep coming.

[ McCain has emerged as a vocal opponent of the climate bill — a major reversal for the self-proclaimed maverick who once made defying his party on global warming a signature issue of his career.]

Sin 'er repent? I don't even know 'er!

/msg copyright holders: resistance is futile

From the "Thou Shalt Not" files, here's sinner Lawrence Solomon in Full Comment:

"You probably missed my heated on-air debate Thursday morning with Anna Maria Tremonti, host of CBC’s The Current. You certainly missed my superheated off-air debate in her studio immediately afterwards, when Tremonti lit into me for my skepticism of global warming orthodoxy. I don’t recall being berated after an interview by a broadcaster before, certainly not by a consummate professional like Tremonti. But Tremonti was visibly upset, so much so that she ended the second debate by turning away from me without the courtesy of a goodbye."

Solomon goes on to recount how Tremonti lobbed softballs and was "almost fawning" in her treatment of AGW-theory proponent James Hoggan, and he suggests numerous questions she could have asked Hoggan.

P.S. In the comments, "Science Professor" nicely exemplifies the sound, calm, rational underpinnings of the science of AGW:

"Pathetic Solomon face it you were bested by a far more competent and informed real journalist. You came across as a tired and confused old man, trying to defend the indefensible with sputtering incoherency...(...)... Despite the mountain of scientific evidence you continue to make feeble arguments that there is no consensus on the basic science of climate change amongst real scientists and the professional organizations that represent them, this is an outright falsehood. Face it, the appetite for your type of junkscience is rapidly shrinking, it doesn't wash with the credible press anymore."

Wowee.

Kate, you big meany ! He is picking up his marbles and going home.

[My focus, and this wee website's, will therefore turn more to municipal and provincial politics - and punk rock, and hockey rink philosophy, and the law, and bad puns, and clumsy alliterations, and the other stuff I like.]

(yes, no link. Nothing there)

stimulus money? what stimulus money? oh *THAT* stimulus money.

3w.examiner.com/x-662-Strange-News-Examiner~y2009m11d19-More-stimulating-misuse-of-tax-dollars-party-boats-road-signs-and-Viking-pollen

Tremonti lit into me for my skepticism of global warming orthodoxy.

Yet another celebrity (paid from the government teat, no less) thinking it's a "journalist".

I am disturbed hearing about the vitriol launched against you. Clearly someone has "issues" and could be related to possibly being just a shell into which the latest cause du jour is injected.

That's just sad.

Lawrence Solomon's incident with Anna Maria Tremonti immediately reminded me of Bill Good's shameful behaviour earlier this week on CKNW radio. Do you think these MSM Kool Aid Drinkers get plugged into a Matrix-like machine each night and reprogrammed to think a certain way the next day?!?

PDS (Paline Derangement Syndrome) is alive & well. The first part of this article by Jonah Goldberg is especially insightful into the minds of Leftists: so much hatred, so much anger, so much ignorance!

Unemployment back on the increase in the US of A.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/state-unemployment-ticks-29-states-mass-layoff-events-pick-once-again

We're not out of the woods yet. (And this is not a hunting reference!)

ron in kelowna,

McCain must know who provided the AGW Files...
He never steps out without ""WH"" cover. Yes I know he is a Republican & Obama has the WH

When you can't compete with your neighbour's Christmas display:

http://www.dailystab.com/ditto/

"When you can't compete with your neighbour's Christmas display:"

link doesn't work.

The link works - copy and paste

Right here: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Cooler+Heads+with+Dr+Richard+Lindzen+on+Cap+and+Trade&search_type=&aq=f
You will find a lecture “Cooler Heads with Dr Richard Lindzen on Cap and Trade” in six parts. Dr Richard Lindzen is MIT climatologist. The title of the lecture is “Deconstructing Global Warming.
Have a look.

Source: http://powinca.blogspot.com/2009/04/predictions-from-first-earth-day.html

Here are some of the predictions made by the naturalists, environmentalists, scientists, media outlets, and leftist whackos in 1969 and 1970:

"We have about five more years at the outside to do something." - Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

"Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind." - George Wald, Harvard University

"We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation." Barry Commoner, Biologist

"Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction." - NY Times Editorial

"Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years." Paul Ehrlich, Biologist

"Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born." - Ehrlich

"It is already too late to avoid mass starvation." - Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day.

"Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions....By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine" - Peter Gunter, Professor

"There is growing doubt that the agricultural ecosystem will be able to accommodate both the anticipated increase of the human population to seven billion by the end of the century and the universal desire of the world's hungry for a better diet. The central question is no longer `Can we produce enough food?' but `What are the environmental consequences of attempting to do so?'" - Lester Brown, Agronomist.

"By the end of the century we'll have well over 7 billion people if something isn't done." - Paul Ehrlich

"World population at the end of the century is expected to be twice the 3.5 billion of today." - Lester Brown.

"To some overcrowded populations, the [hydrogen] bomb may one day no longer seem a threat, but a release." - Rene Dubos, Biologist

"Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support...the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution...by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half...." - Life Magazine

"At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it's only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable." - Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

"By 1980 the oxygen demand due to municipal wastes will equal the oxygen content of the total flow of all the U.S. river systems in the summer months." - Barry Commoner

"Air pollution...is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone." - Ehrlich

"[DDT and chlorinated hydrocarbons] may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945." - Paul Ehrlich

"Americans born since 1946...now have a life expectancy of only 49 years, and if current patterns continue this expectancy will reach 42 years by 1980, when it might level out."- Paul Ehrlich

"There is one good thing about the blighting of our environment, that is, that Americans don't have to worry about cannibals anymore. We've all become inedible, there's too much DDT in us." - NY Times

"We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones," - Martin Litton, Sierra Club

"By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate...that there won't be any more crude oil. You'll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill 'er up, buddy,' and he'll say, `I am very sorry, there isn't any.'" - Kenneth Watt

"Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct." - Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day

"The greenhouse theorists contend the world is threatened with a rise in average temperature, which if it reached 4 or 5 degrees, could melt the polar ice caps, raise sea level by as much as 300 feet and cause a worldwide flood," Newsweek Magazine

Great news! Just in time for the weekend!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8367141.stm

Pollster supplized:

"“I was a little surprised at the level of support.” Anderson said."
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"Canadians pleased with immigrants' handbook: poll

A new immigration handbook that adds sections on military history, legendary inventors and some of the darker aspects of Canada’s past seems to be a hit with the public, a poll suggests.

Survey respondents warmly welcomed several of the new additions to the handbook, which is used to prepare for citizenship tests.

The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey suggests that 58 per cent of people feel that immigrants have a poor, or very poor understanding of Canadian history. Only 31 per cent said newcomers have a good, or very good understanding.

Introducing the new handbook “Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship” last week, Citizenship Minister Jason Kenney said the document is an attempt to modernize and broaden the information newcomers need to know.

Kenney said those who want to become Canadians should be expected to understand their rights and responsibilities, and “the values and institutions that are rooted in Canada’s history.”

The poll suggests people like much of the new material, said Doug Anderson, Harris-Decima senior vice-president.

“For the most part, the majorities are saying this is a good or excellent addition,” he said."

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2009/11/20/11841221-cp.html

"Manhattan Declaration: A Pro-Life Call of Christian Conscience on Abortion, Liberty

November 20, 2009

The following is the text of the Manhattan Declaration signed by 149 pro-life and Catholic and evangelical and Orthodox Christian leaders. LifeNews.com supports the pro-life aims of the resolution.

Preamble

Christians are heirs of a 2,000-year tradition of proclaiming God’s word, seeking justice in our societies, resisting tyranny, and reaching out with compassion to the poor, oppressed and suffering.

While fully acknowledging the imperfections and shortcomings of Christian institutions and communities in all ages, we claim the heritage of those Christians who defended innocent life by rescuing discarded babies from trash heaps in Roman cities and publicly denouncing the Empire’s sanctioning of infanticide. We remember with reverence those believers who sacrificed their lives by remaining in Roman cities to tend the sick and dying during the plagues, and who died bravely in the coliseums rather than deny their Lord.

After the barbarian tribes overran Europe, Christian monasteries preserved not only the Bible but also the literature and art of Western culture. It was Christians who combated the evil of slavery: Papal edicts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries decried the practice of slavery and first excommunicated anyone involved in the slave trade; evangelical Christians in England, led by John Wesley and William Wilberforce, put an end to the slave trade in that country. Christians under Wilberforce’s leadership also formed hundreds of societies for helping the poor, the imprisoned, and child laborers chained to machines.

In Europe, Christians challenged the divine claims of kings and successfully fought to establish the rule of law and balance of governmental powers, which made modern democracy possible. And in America, Christian women stood at the vanguard of the suffrage movement. The great civil rights crusades of the 1950s and 60s were led by Christians claiming the Scriptures and asserting the glory of the image of God in every human being regardless of race, religion, age or class.

This same devotion to human dignity has led Christians in the last decade to work to end the dehumanizing scourge of human trafficking and sexual slavery, bring compassionate care to AIDS sufferers in Africa, and assist in a myriad of other human rights causes—from providing clean water in developing nations to providing homes for tens of thousands of children orphaned by war, disease and gender discrimination.

Like those who have gone before us in the faith, Christians today are called to proclaim the Gospel of costly grace, to protect the intrinsic dignity of the human person and to stand for the common good. In being true to its own calling, the call to discipleship, the church through service to others can make a profound contribution to the public good.

Declaration

We, as Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical Christians, have gathered, beginning in New York on September 28, 2009, to make the following declaration, which we sign as individuals, not on behalf of our organizations, but speaking to and from our communities. We act together in obedience to the one true God, the triune God of holiness and love, who has laid total claim on our lives and by that claim calls us with believers in all ages and all nations to seek and defend the good of all who bear his image. We set forth this declaration in light of the truth that is grounded in Holy Scripture, in natural human reason (which is itself, in our view, the gift of a beneficent God), and in the very nature of the human person. We call upon all people of goodwill, believers and non-believers alike, to consider carefully and reflect critically on the issues we here address as we, with St. Paul, commend this appeal to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.

While the whole scope of Christian moral concern, including a special concern for the poor and vulnerable, claims our attention, we are especially troubled that in our nation today the lives of the unborn, the disabled, and the elderly are severely threatened; that the institution of marriage, already buffeted by promiscuity, infidelity and divorce, is in jeopardy of being redefined to accommodate fashionable ideologies; that freedom of religion and the rights of conscience are gravely jeopardized by those who would use the instruments of coercion to compel persons of faith to compromise their deepest convictions.

Because the sanctity of human life, the dignity of marriage as a union of husband and wife, and the freedom of conscience and religion are foundational principles of justice and the common good, we are compelled by our Christian faith to speak and act in their defense. In this declaration we affirm: 1) the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of every human being as a creature fashioned in the very image of God, possessing inherent rights of equal dignity and life; 2) marriage as a conjugal union of man and woman, ordained by God from the creation, and historically understood by believers and non-believers alike, to be the most basic institution in society and; 3) religious liberty, which is grounded in the character of God, the example of Christ, and the inherent freedom and dignity of human beings created in the divine image.

We are Christians who have joined together across historic lines of ecclesial differences to affirm our right—and, more importantly, to embrace our obligation—to speak and act in defense of these truths. We pledge to each other, and to our fellow believers, that no power on earth, be it cultural or political, will intimidate us into silence or acquiescence."
http://lifenews.com/nat5693b.html
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"Religious leaders vow civil disobedience on anti-life issues

More than 150 leaders across a spectrum of conservative Christianity on Friday released a 4,700-word document vowing civil disobedience if they are forced to take part in "anti-life acts" or bless gay marriages.

Called the "Manhattan Declaration," the six-page, single-spaced document was drafted by Prison Fellowship founder Charles Colson, an evangelical, and Princeton University professor Robert P. George, a Roman Catholic, and included a bevy of Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox bishops, archbishops and cardinals as signatories along with dozens of clergy and laity.

Archbishop of Washington Donald W. Wuerl is one of the signatories.

"Throughout the centuries, Christianity has taught that civil disobedience is not only permitted, but sometimes required," says the document which cited civil rights icon Martin Luther King and his willingness to go to jail for his beliefs.

"Because we honor justice and the common good," it states, "we will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide or euthanasia or any other anti-life act; nor will we bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family.""

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/21/religious-leaders-vow-civil-disobedience/

Victor Davis Hanson:

"(Sarah) Palin must have at her fingertips far more elucidating answers than offered by any liberal icon—or what she showed in the 2008 campaign. If Sarah Palin thinks FDR was President in 1929, or that he could speak on non-existent TV, she is through; if Biden says that, it’s 'just old Joe again.' If Obama does not know the first thing about our most prestigious medals, the language of Austria, or diplomatic protocol about presidential bowing, it’s because he is deliberately trying to be cool; if Palin did the same, she’s a buffoon hockey mom. That is the way it is, and her supporters should accept it, deal with, and overcome it.

"In other words, Palinites should assume that there is no margin of error for her at all. Like it or not, she must, like Reagan, not only communicate, but also be able to draw on abstract concepts about conservatism. It does no good to say the media is biased, or to review the talking points offered above. She must be better than, not as good as, mainstream Democratic and Republican candidates in matters of foreign policy, gottcha recall, and talking points on health care, taxes, etc. Specificity, detail, and exactness, not generalities or whines about an unfair press, will make her a serious candidate.

"The best thing she can do is to go out and talk, take her licks, promote her book, fend off foes, and gain experience in the arena of ideas—while spending her evenings reading and debating wonks and politicians. The marketplace of politics then will decide her fate, not pundits or political insiders. If she swims in the next year, she’s on her way; if she sinks, she will recede from our memory."

Hanson is exactly right, in my opinion. Her recent interview with Bill O'Reilly gave me a slightly uneasy feeling that Palin is in danger of slipping into "victim" mode and of making it seem that her politics are all about her, and that she is the issue, and that her - albeit undeniable - mistreatment by the Dem-proxy media is the defining matter at hand. In my opinion she should start brushing aside questions about the way she's been treated and start talking more about her constituency and her ideas and about what she sees as the proper role of government.

Palin's supporters and media watchers in general absolutely should continue to point out certain media elements' ridiculous, inflamed hatred of Palin, and their ridiculous, undeniable biases and double-standards, but to the extent Palin continues to do so she will just be shooting herself in the foot. It's hard - if not impossible - to imagine a Ronald Reagan or a Margaret Thatcher - or a Stephen Harper - spending most of their time talking about their mistreatment at the hands of unfair opponents.

Spot on, EBD.
I had the same "uneasy feeling". I watched the whole Hannity hour with her (bitterly disappointed), but bailed after a few minutes of the O'Reilly. As an aside, I can't stand O'Reilly. He doesn't interview; he debates. No, that's not quite right either. He measures his guests views according to the O'Reilly gold-standard take and pronounces upon their compliance or non-compliance. And his faux balance+fairness drives me nuts. With O'Reilly it really is Faux News.

Yes, the whining. But also the platitudes about "free markets" "small business" etc. And of course the obligatory nod to Reagan. No specifics.
For Gawd's sake Sarah, stop talking about "free markets". Your constituents have no concept of what that abstraction is. Talk about specific problems in the market and how they are nearly always caused by government intervention.

And vis-a-vis Iran all I heard was "we need to talk to our allies".

I absolutely share your views on O'Reilly, Me No Dhimmi. He's a pompous, contentious blowhard, and I don't think he's a real conservative. I can imagine him switching sides without missing a beat. There's just something there that's a bit dodgy when it comes to the degree of conviction he has to any fundamental beliefs.

I agree about Palin's lack of specifics, but that doesn't even begin to explain the sheer viciousness of the attacks on her and her family, which actually occur because of what she *represents." She was mercilessly attacked right from the get-go - before anyone really knew who she was, really - because her convention speech showed her to be a real force who - for all her faults - represented a strong heartland constituency who share her anti-Big-Government values.

Attacks on Palin are NOT really about Palin, in other words. She's a bellwether of the ongoing, bullying vilification and attempts to marginalize those with non-statist views that we've seen coming from the media's Dem-supporters, and ACORN, and SEIU, and from the climate-moonies. If conservatives fully understand that they won't under-bus her.

I found interesting this posting talking about why black liberals in America insist that ALL other Black Americans MUST think & vote the same as they do. Here's the comment I added:

The most popular video (by far) that I've ever posted is this one of [black] sportscaster, Stephen A. Smith talking with radio show host, Mark Levin.

I had to introduce comment moderation because about 75% of those who disagreed with what Smith was saying or even that he was saying anything at all not in lockstep with "official" Black American "policy", consistently used a combination of the following:
- Uncle Tom
- Sitting on the stairs with masta'
- House N***er

Checking the YouTube profiles of these commenters revealed the vast majority to be strong pro-Obama supporters (based on the videos they had added as favorites) and most of whom I believe to be Caucasian.

I wonder if middle of the road Democrats realize what kind of allies they have in their ranks?

MSM/GlobeMail omits Liberal/Liberal Party in this report.

Rewrite:

Liberal Party Ad$Cam “Sponsorship player gets two years in prison”.

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“Sponsorship player gets two years in prison

Former adman Gilles-André Gosselin, who billed taxpayers $655,276 in fake invoices, pleaded guilty to fraud”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/sponsorship-player-gets-two-years-in-prison/article1370440/

PET Cemetery $pecial Edition: Ad$Cam Fla$hback$ included; Free.

Contents:

1. Stephane Dion = Citoyen Dionky, he of the French citizenship, and the Ad$Cam round table of Ad$Cam Chretien-MartinJr.

2. Liberal Iffy, lately from O’s Harvard U., “Just Visiting”.
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“Wife of former leader Stephane Dion lambastes Liberal party on Facebook

The Canadian Press – ‎49 minutes ago‎

MONTREAL – The outspoken wife of former Liberal leader Stephane Dion has some scathing criticism for the party and current leader Michael Ignatieff.”
(googlenews)

More:

“Doomed Ignatieff Broke Political Golden Rule Canada.com”

ditto, ditto.

Right now it's interesting to see O'Reilly tagging along on Beck's coattails. He doesn't see it that way, or at least wouldn't admit it.

He's a bloviator, but with redeeming features.

PET Cemetery SatNight Edition: Death Blows.

Contents:

1.Liberal Iffy said Israel was a what?

2. More Lamentations for the Lost Separatist Coalition.

Say goodnight, Iffy.
Goodnight Iffy.
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“Don’t make Israel’s defence a partisan issue

Ariela Cotler”

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=2248879
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“Dion’s wife goes rogue?

A scathing message attacking Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff appeared today on the Facebook site belonging to Janine Krieber – the wife of Mr. Ignatieff’s predecessor, Stéphane Dion.

The message, a copy of which was obtained by The Globe, says the party “is falling apart, and will not recover.” It also blames “the Toronto elites” for being out of tune, arrogant and unrealistic.

Mr. Ignatieff’s leadership is openly questioned, as is his decision to shun the coalition deal struck by Mr. Dion, NDP Leader Jack Layton and Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe.

“The time for choices is now,” the message says.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/bureau-blog/dions-wife-goes-rogue/article1372858/

If Anna Maria Tremonti berated Lawrence Solomon after the interview and wasn't courteous, but fawned over and lobbed softball questions for the global warming advocates, then she's certainly not a "consummate professional".