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What decade are we in?
Who wants to roll back the clock?

Time is unidirectional.

Especially for those still living in the euphoria of October 1917.

Thanks for the Christmas music Vitruvius.

Frosty the snowman,
was a climate skeptic too,
He had really not much choice therein,
If he wanted to come through ...

You're welcome, Ken.

Red Orympics: Mao say, scarpels wercome.
...-

"VANOC launches ticket resale website

VANCOUVER–Vancouver Olympic organizers launched a website Monday allowing those with tickets to the 2010 Games to sell them unhindered by any price cap.

Within hours, tickets to the men's gold medal hockey game that were worth between $350 and $550 on face value were on offer for $5,000.

"We decided to, after much debate, allow a free market on the site," Caley Denton, vice-president of ticketing and consumer marketing for the Vancouver organizing committee, told reporters Monday.

Organizers say the ticket resale website will help solve the perennial problem of empty seats at Olympic events, while also providing those who can no longer use their tickets an opportunity to legitimately sell them off."
http://olympics.thestar.com/2010/article/741653--vanoc-launches-ticket-resale-website

Dr. Fruit fly should clean up his own back yard before screaming about mine!

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/12/21/bc-greenhouse-gas-increase.html?ref=rss

Poor poor Dave...

I'm aware I'm in the minority here, but I must, in my narrow-minded, cold-hearted way comment on the latest in the Lennikov affair. It states in the 24 daily that NDP MP ... no make that Liberal, Ujjal Dosanjh claims that he was merely a translator for the KGB, though my understanding is that he was an "agent". Mr. Dosanjh goes on to ask that Mr. Harper do "this one act of kindness and generosity this Christmas" and that the request is being made w/o any political criticism. Yeah, just like the KGB used to do! Mr. Lennikov, will nonetheless spend Christmas
in the Luthern Church where, through Christian charity, he has sought sanctuary. It should be pointed out here that the KGB are not wont to hire men and women who partake of the "opiate of the people" anymore than the Nazis were big on celebrating the birth of a Jew.
Perhaps if Mr. Lennikov were to confess having tried to dupe the people of Canada, by claiming refugee status and apologizing for it, we could see ourselves able to give absolution. There can be no forgiveness where there is no admission of guilt.

I just finalized the 8th of 8 computer deliveries for tomorrow. The gentleman I spoke with is from Quebec, out here all alone, and is getting back on his feet after a really bad turn of events. Other than this computer we're giving him, the only other gift he could afford to get this Christmas was a $32 watch. I'm telling you, folks, truly do take the time to count the many blessings in your life!

Hey maz2, enjoy your posts, but I really don't enjoy the Chinese dialect thing - it really weakens your posts IMHO. Hope you consider this comment thanks and cheers.

Did any of you catch Roy Green today. He started the show interviewing two BUFFOONS who are still spewing the same nonsense about "peer reviewed" papers, even though we know what this means in practice. Talk about denial!

I also resent the fact who these Greenie Warmists have NO PROBLEM trying to stir up troubles between different provinces. It's so disgusting!

What happened to saying 'Merry Christmas'?

The following commentary was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.

My Confession: I am a Jew, and every one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up trees, “Christmas trees”…I don’t feel threatened…I don’t feel discriminated against…that’s what they are: Christmas trees!

http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=34&idsub=127&id=24570&t=What+happened+to+saying+'Merry+Christmas'%3F

Erik:

I second that motion and have mentioned before what a turn-off it is.

Good for you Robert @ 10:28. I kinda like the work Sally Ann does.

Merry Christmas everybody.

Vitruvious,

Here is lovely original Christmas song written by Doug Mallory of Halifax.
Christmas Card
Brenda Russell, vocal... Stephan Oberhoff, piano & arr... Bob Mintzer, tenor saxophone

I'm no financial wizard by any means, but lemme see if I got this:
3w.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHQ2Xh55jI.Q&t=Harvard%20Swaps%20Are%20So%20Toxic%20Even%20Summers%20Wonb
right.
summers figures since interest rates were going down, then down, then down, down,down, then downdowndowndowndown, that they were going to go up at the exact moment he committed Harvard to the instruments?

note the part about who he's working for now.

thanks Revnant Dream; you gotta love Ben Stein. Saw the movie he made when it came to town; myself and I think 5 others in the whole theatre. There was a line-up all the way down Granville street to see some lame idiotic youth thingy. Guess he knows what he speaks of.

The chinese accent thing by maz? Myself? - i think its kind of funny - it takes a sec to decipher, but thats part of it.

Because I read the Telegraph blogs so you don't have to: C of E priest advocates shoplifting. Fun, innit?

Eric, set you free,
Constitution Act, 1982
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:

(a) freedom of conscience and religion
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other means of communication.
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.

To Our Canadian. Soldiers:

A Christmas Poem
The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
My son slumbered softly, safe in my arms,
I was happy to be blessed with all of their charms,
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.
The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.
Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know,
Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.
Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps Canadian, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.
"What are you doing?" I asked without fear,
"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"
For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts..
To the window that danced with a warm fire's light
Then he sighed and he said "Its really all right,
I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night."
"It's my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.
No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
My Gramps died at ' Dieppe on a day in December,"
Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."
My dad stood his watch in that Korean Land ',
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.
I've not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.
Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
Something red and, white, ... a Canadian flag.
I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.
I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a trench with little to eat..
I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..
Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall."
"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."
"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,
"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you've done,
For being away from your wife and your son."
Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
"Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us."

Our engineers named it ...
"Dual Automatic"
BUT IN YOUR HOME IT SIMPLY MEANS
Lifetime Satisfaction

http://www.jitterbuzz.com/aplsho.html

Maz has a sense of humor; proof he is not a lieberal, fine with me. Of all the things to bitch about, my chinese friend could care less about me teasing him about his speech as does he to me when we are in his restaurant with other chinese. Lieberals have no sense of humor,but remember they are TOLERANT dammit Actung! Just imagine living every day with that Nancy Pelosi/Allan Gregg/Don Martin/Algore angry face look, keep making us laugh Maz and anybody else that trys to bring a little humor to this world. Only a self loather can't laugh once in a while.

National Post, Monday.

The British Supreme Court has ruled by a 5-4 margin that a Jewish school in London is engaging in "discrimination" for following an admissions policy based on a long-term tenet of Judaism, namely the Jewish identity of a child's mother.

This case demonstrates clearly how anti-discrimination policy interferes with the right to freedom of religion. Religious belief and practice is a private matter, and its rules are not a proper place for the state to weigh in. Next, for example, the Roman Catholic Church could be under attack because it does not ordain female priests.

However, there is another important aspect of the case: the school in question receives government funding. It is true that the law must not discriminate, and that neither can government officials do so in the performance of their duties. One could argue that if the school were to stop taking public funds, then it should no longer be subject to the anti-discrimination rules. However, this step would leave its parents at a tax disadvantage compared to those who send their kids elsewhere, whether to public school or private but with state support. This in turn is a form of discrimination against these parents, which also cannot be allowed.

Ultimately, the only solution is to remove education completely from the scope of government, whose only proper function is to protect individual rights. A voucher system is a step in the right direction, but ultimately all education should be privately owned and operated.

The moral of the story is that state support for any activity potentially leads to the destruction of legitimate individual rights like freedom of religion, thought and expression.

I'm not a dog nut... but I know when I see one having a good time...in the snow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sUL0KCIc48&feature=player_embedded

Rosie diManno, in the Toronto Star, Monday, thinks the anti-Israel bias of KAIROS (the organization that was de-funded recently) is glaringly obvious ...

I would argue that all foreign aid should be abolished. 0.0%, not 0.7%. The west didn't achieve high standards of living through foreign aid, it achieved them through capitalism. The major reason other countries are poor is dictatorship or other bad governance. We should always be willing to trade freely with other nations, unless there is a strong reason for an economic boycott, such as dictatorship (and here, more consistency than is usually shown would be desirable).

The story of the Church of England priest who advocates shoplifting by poor people, especially from chain stores, is quite enlightening.

This is not the first "odd" case from higher-ups in the Church of England, is it? A bastion of morality they are not. A bastion of Leftards they are.

This brings us back to the UN and WHY ARE WE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS OUTFIT?

Going into an environment of hatred and envy for what?

test.

Has anyone seen the 2003 film, "Good Bye Lenin!" ? I just watched it tonight. Very interesting.

"To Our Canadian. Soldiers:

A Christmas Poem
The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
My son slumbered softly, safe in my arms,
I was happy to be blessed with all of their charms,
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.
The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.
Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know,
Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.
Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps Canadian, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.
"What are you doing?" I asked without fear,
"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"
For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts..
To the window that danced with a warm fire's light
Then he sighed and he said "Its really all right,
I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night."
"It's my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.
No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
My Gramps died at ' Dieppe on a day in December,"
Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."
My dad stood his watch in that Korean Land ',
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.
I've not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.
Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
Something red and, white, ... a Canadian flag.
I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.
I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a trench with little to eat..
I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..
Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall."
"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."
"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,
"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you've done,
For being away from your wife and your son."
Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
"Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us."

Posted by: Lorraine at December 22, 2009 12:27 AM

Consider this stolen and will be proudly used Christmas day at my legion....there is no greater love then he/she that lays down their live for yours.
Per Ardua Ad Astra

Thrifty Muslim parents seek female genital mutilation without travel: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NzYwZmI2MjE4OTNmZDQ4OWYyMWNlZWQ0ODZmYzkyMWU=

And the outcry is ...???

"Of all the tragic sights on earth, nothing is so pathetic as watching a man sell his dignity with both eyes open."

"One of the saddest sights a man can watch is during election time in the Philippines when the poor are rounded up in dump trucks and rented buses and sequestered by politicians near polling precincts to vote. There they will receive ten dollars, if that, and an afternoon’s worth of gin and peanuts. In exchange for this meager handout they will troop to the precinct and vote for the villain. The luckiest of that sad crowd are too stupid or drunk to care. But a substantial number know exactly what is happening; they are fully cognizant that the pittance they are about to receive will be taken back from them a hundredfold by the corrupt politician. They know it with the certainty of a sentient cow walking into an abbatoir. But they take the money anyway. They take it because they need the money and the forgetfulness today. Today the money will buy some rice; the gin will let them forget. Tomorrow is a luxury they cannot afford. Of all the tragic sights on earth, nothing is so pathetic as watching a man sell his dignity with both eyes open.

Maybe it happened in Detroit because those who wouldn’t buy into it had somewhere to run. And the same kind of crew is counting on it happening elsewhere and leaving nowhere to run. It isn’t too wise to put one’s faith in the nobility of man. For a fistful of dollars and a little entertainment too many will sell out their tomorrows for a little bit more today."
...-

"Motor City

Steven Crowder takes audiences on a tour of Detroit, a place which he describes as the perfect example of liberal policy consistently implemented. One commenter says, “look at the bright side – once liberalism fully destroys an area, we can get some cheap real estate! well – that is if we have any money left to buy it”.

Detroit has achieved something extraordinary. It’s become a lost city in real time, at least on the Internet. There are sites like The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit. A pair of photographers have a glossy presentation simply called The Ruins of Detroit."
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/12/21/motor-city/

Canadian fugitive Red-Green Maurice Strong is comfortably ensconced in luxury in China. His nephews, Bob and John Rae, are comfortably ensconced in luxury in Canada. Therefore, Mao Stlong, say, ergo, thusly, dissidence not goody; ruxuly bettel.
...-

"China dissident Liu Xiaobo's trial set for Wednesday

The 53-year-old former literature professor has been an irritant for the Government since 1989, when he joined a hunger strike in support of student protesters days before the army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement on June 4.

He spent 20 months in jail and three years in a “labour re-education” camp in the mid-1990s after he refused to abandon his demands for political reforms. Detained again last December, after co-authoring Charter 08, a widely circulated petition that called for political reform, he was held in solitary confinement for six months, then formally arrested in June on charges of inciting subversion.

Mr Liu had gathered about 300 signatures from prominent intellectuals and activists across China when he published Charter 08 online to coincide with World Human Rights Day today.

Although his work is banned in China the charter has now been signed by more than 10,000 people online, according to Chinese Human Rights Defenders, a network of activists."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6963734.ece

Comrade Fidel Castro, "writing" in an Australian newspaper.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/copenhagen-the-moment-of-truth-20091222-lb3l.html

Weather like this requires an antidote like zydeco music:

Buckwheat Zydeco, Make A Change

Black Mamba, the Reverend (sic) Tim Jones looks like a former convict; no wonder he's counselling his needy flock to shoplift. (And is it any wonder that the Church of England is going down the tube?)

Revnant Dream, I know what's happened to Merry Christmas! The secular humanists awhile back figured they couldn't do a frontal attack on Christmas, so they devised "multiculturalism" as the beard behind which to hide.

Then, every time Christianity raised its head -- as it was wont to do, given that our democracy and its public institutions are built on the Judeo-Christian faith of our forefathers and mothers -- they screamed, "This is offensive to Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Jains, Rastafarians, fill-in-the-blank! We won't have it!"

Note: Most of the immigrants to our shores were not objecting to Christianity, but our socialist overlords were.

Now, of course, in our CHRCs, we have a whole industry based on our not offending Canada's non-Christian immigrants -- and other well-placed minorities. The Muslims, as battering rams, seem to be the religious group favoured by our socialist hordes: viz Robert W's post on the dearth of objections when "Thrifty Muslim parents seek female genital mutilation without travel."

Banning "Merry Christmas!" has been a very successful covert operation on the part of Canada's godless secular humanist elites, which for years have been taking over our public institutions.

The only thing for it, is to loudly proclaim "Merry Christmas!" when someone wishes you "Happy Holidays!" and if they look indignant or say anything, rejoinder with "Well, that's MY culture" -- or, "There IS no holiday without Christmas!"

That's what I'm doing, anyway ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stooqnYR__Y

"Don't bring a gun to a snowball fight." New York: Off duty cop pulls a gun after his vehicle was hit during a snowball fight.

Re: the Maz2 chinese speech issue:

Maz2 has the right to write how he wishes. Others have the right to encourage him not to do so.

My mommy taught me that it would not be nice to make fun of someone on the basis of their accent...to do so would be inappropriate and rude. I would encourage Maz2 to not be inappropriate and rude.

Regardless..."do as you wish and say what you want, 'cause those who mind don't matter and those that matter don't mind".

Merry Christmas!

Eeyore - exactly. I thought my comment was polite

I find dialect speech very distracting and demeaning (also when applied to Obama BTW by some other posters).

As an example, I don't sidle up to fat people and make "oink oink" noises. I just don't think it's right, or funny in the least.

So, I can either choose not to read specific posts, or avoid this site altogether if it really bothers me that much. However, as you say, there's nothing wrong with making feelings known either way. Cheers!

batb - I just have to wonder whether the rev.'s congregation is really comprised of devout churchgoers hovering on the brink of burglary and prostitution. According to some thingy I just read online and therefore completely trust, only 6% of the U.K. population attends Anglican Church regularly, and the average age is 51. But maybe Tim's bunch are abnormally vigorous and depraved... um, er... oppressed, I mean. Who can say?

J.E. Dyer, The Great Lie of the Twentieth Century

Don’t confuse riches with strength. Americans aren’t too hard a target for Bolsheviks because we are rich. We’re too hard a target because we are strong. Individual liberty makes us so. We are free to live our lives in ways that make people strong, starting with religious worship and philosophical liberty, according to our individual consciences. The unique, interrelated empowerments of men and women marrying, creating a family unit, rearing children, owning property, and building an economic future are available to all of us...

But there is more than one way of attacking our reality of liberty and strength. If we want to remain too hard a target for Bolsheviks, what has to be beaten back is the assault on our freedom represented by the Democrats’ “health care reform” proposals. If the state can control a sixth of our economy, it can control – at first, and on day one of the brave new world of “reformed” health care – a sixth of our lives. It won’t stop with that either. That sixth will metastasize rapidly into half, and then three-quarters...

Karlyn Bowman, Public Cooling on Global Warming

In addition to divisions at Copenhagen between rich and poor countries, climate activists had to contend with some depressing poll results. Four new polls showed declining support for the belief that global warming is real...

Black Mamba - I've attended an Anglican Church a few times recently - and the congregation was essentially two major groups - the 65++ crowd, and the new Canadian crowd. No kids disrupted the service, because there were no kids.

Kevin A. Hassett, Marxist Professors Are Gift to Climate Skeptics

The revelation that climate scientists at the University of East Anglia manipulated data and conspired to corrupt the peer-review process has been very bad news for those hoping to enact laws to limit greenhouse gas emissions...

The public's skepticism toward the scientists is part of a bigger problem, one that threatens the fabric of our culture. Academe has been so politicized, and so radically disconnected from the population, that ordinary citizens no longer trust anything that it produces--even science.

The sad fact is that explicit or implicit political litmus tests are far more important than science at universities and so-called peer-reviewed journals. Universities may pay lip service to "diversity," but diversity of thought is taboo...

batb- I volunteer for a kid's breakfast program at one of our local inner-city schools. Last day before the break several teachers wished us all, without exception "Happy Holidays". My reply in every instance was "And a merry Christmas to you, too".
More than a few frowned because this happened in the presence of some students.
I consider that my Christmas present to all those present and would do so again without hesitation.
They are all assholes.

The chickens coming home to roost:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2009/Launch_Feedback

The little leftard brains at Wikipedia Foundation must be exploding at the rate of chain reaction.

"The ‘Science’ Mantra

Science is one of the great achievements of the human mind and the biggest reason why we live not only longer but more vigorously in our old age, in addition to all the ways in which it provides us with things that make life easier and more enjoyable.

Like anything valuable, science has been seized upon by politicians and ideologues, and used to forward their own agendas. This started long ago, as far back as the 18th century, when the Marquis de Condorcet coined the term "social science" to describe various theories he favored. In the 19th century, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels distinguished their own brand of socialism as "scientific socialism." By the 20th century, all sorts of notions wrapped themselves in the mantle of "science."

"Global warming" hysteria is only the latest in this long line of notions, whose main argument is that there is no argument, because it is "science.""

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell122209.php3

Atric - whata go dude. 'happy holidays vs Merry Christmas' It's almost like a political statement these days.

Hey atric! Way to go!

Just think: If a whole bunch of us start pushing back, people may begin to get the message.

'No way should celebrating multiculturalism (sic) mean shoving the host culture into a cubby hole in the basement.

Stand up and be counted!