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the missing link between climate change and Haiti

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583588,00.html

I've got that skit on The Ultimate Collection, a 3
disc DVD of various skits from his shows. I think they both did an excellent job on it, and I think it is the best acting I've ever seen Webb do.

Ha .... one of the only TV series that is worth keeping a DVD collection from.... ever see the one with Dom D .. doing the egg trick?

From Hot Button at The Washington Times dot com
Olberman and guest uncover ... Racist Codes!!

You might like to check out our April 14, 2008, Late Nite Radio show, Larben ;-)

Brock Lesnar SLAMS Canadian Healthcare.

Great stuff Vitruvius, I was going to say "You can't trust a dame". This would have been pretty risque stuff in 1950, and I would have been just of 1 year and 1 month old. Not often we get to use our imagination like that anymore. Beverly, Ethel and Catherine, real women's names, and now you are more likely to create a scandal smoking a cigarette on the streets than being found armed and hitchhiking [snip].

[My apologies, Larben. I snipped the last two words from
your comment so as not to spoil the ending for others who
have not yet heard the Dragnet show. ~ Vitruvius]

One of the things I like most about Carson was they always seemed to be on the verge of cracking up.

I used to like watching Tim Conway for same reason.

With reference to the first post tonight, Chavez claiming that the U.S. caused the Haiti earthquake, this is the second paranoid rumour that I've read this month originating with Putin's new KGB disinformation machine.

The first story, not sure if SDA picked this one up or not, claimed that an American space experiment had gone wrong in December, and was to blame for the world's wacky weather this winter (apparently it's wacky that Europe got snow and China got more snow than they wanted).

Now the first story was marketed to Islamic newspapers from Moscow (it claimed that Russian scientists had announced all this to Putin, although I would have to guess that he announced it to them, as in, play along or lose your pensions). Part of the reason for the story was to cover up a clear trail of evidence pointing to problems with a December rocket launch from northwestern Russia, the aftereffects of which were seen all over Norway.

This second story is aimed at Latin America.

It makes me a bit nervous that the KGB disinformation machine is being dusted off and turned back on in such blatantly paranoid stories, because when crazy, heavily armed people believe stuff like this, they are more likely than before to want to kill us without much of a second thought given to the consequences.

No doubt this suits Putin, although it seems a bit odd to make trouble for his ideological soulmate in DC. I suppose he figures that the kind of people who would vote for him might somehow be impressed by these fables, having quite a history of that sort of thing.

You might be a racist if...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/21/hot-button-86640665/

"In some places, there are codes, there are images," he (Howard Fineman, senior editor of Newsweek) told Mr. Olbermann. "You know, there are pickup trucks, you could say there was a racial aspect to it one way or another."

That's brilliant, SDH! Mr. Conway's Dentist Sketch,
which was our July 3, 2009, Late Nite Radio show,
is, I think, another excellent example of that style.

For a few good ol' boys at SDA here is friend Billy Bob and his way with the Toyota Prius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5XJsA-lFw4&NR=1

Right you are, Billy Bob. People just don't seem to realize that during a gasoline embargo, the Prius and ALL hybrids can not move anywhere. You gotta have an EV for freedom from gas.

Good one V. Jack was the classic cop actor. There was no one better. As a 10 year old I was rivetted to his voice and dedication to ridding us of bad guys on Dragnet.
I never knew he could stand up to the likes of Johnny. Great stuff!

Who knew that Claude Cooper lived in Cleveland?

I picked this item off Bourque news. I am surprised. Many people ,including myself ,have said an unkind word or two about Chavez (deservedly),but take a look at what Venezuela has sent to Haiti,compared to other countries. You may also notice the absence of Islamic countries,you know,like the ones that were helped after the tsunami.---http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gMWHbxESkvhGHn1zjsFEnmBdZEqg

SDH - Who cares? It's Brock Lesnar... it's not the best system, but still, it's Brock Lesnar...

Dust My Broom has a story up about muslim unrest in Britain. The 'religion of peace' is saying that targetting them as terrorists will lead to more terorism,sorry,they say 'ethnic unrest'. That sounds kind of familiar.Link to follow.

http://dustmybroom.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13240:uk-muslim-police-attitudes-not-anglo-saxon&catid=43:drama-city

Mark Steyn on airport security.
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/21/99-year-old-granny-is-not
-the-problem/
Idiot alert in the comments... at least the initial comments. There are alot of replies, but I didn't read them to see how many were supporting and how many dissenting as I find it takes forever for Maclean's 'reply sections' to open.

Big, far-reaching decision by the SCOTUS today:

http://www.nationalreview.com/onthenews/?q=MzAxMTIzOTg0MDZkMTViZDZiNzE5NWVjMTkwYjVjYzg=

not surprisingly the community organizer and bankroller of ACORN is not happy that there will be competition:

"President Obama has reacted strongly to the Citizens United decision, calling it a “major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests.”
“The Supreme Court has given green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics,” Obama said, and instructed aides to work with Congressional leaders to “develop a forceful response.”"

More on the decision above:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/01/the_supreme_courts_radical_def.html

The november 2010 elections will see the GOP with two to three times the funds of the dems.

this is the post to which is was referring - it seemed to get hung-up in the spam filter :

Big, far-reaching decision by the SCOTUS today:

http://www.nationalreview.com/onthenews/?q=MzAxMTIzOTg0MDZkMTViZDZiNzE5NWVjMTkwYjVjYzg=

not surprisingly the community organizer and bankroller of ACORN is not happy that there will be competition:

"President Obama has reacted strongly to the Citizens United decision, calling it a “major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests.”
“The Supreme Court has given green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics,” Obama said, and instructed aides to work with Congressional leaders to “develop a forceful response.”"

Globe, Thursday, Jan. 14, Andre Picard.

The Quebec government has adopted Bill 24, which amends various laws concerning health. One item is a no-fault regime for compensation of people who suffer harm from blood transfusions, tissue or stem cell grafts. Picard claims that Hema-Quebec will see its insurance premiums drop, and that "no-fault insurance makes for a safer and more just health system", because sometimes things go wrong "through the fault of no one in particular". He gives no evidence for these claims. However, he does note that the 1997 Krever inquiry made this its no. 1 recommendation, since "the adversarial litigation process was failing patients who suffer harm from medical procedures".

I find it hard to fathom that "no-fault" is a worthwhile policy, because there is usually someone at fault for any mishap (often someone in government). An inquiry into any such incident should be able to find what went wrong and who was responsible. I suspect the whole purpose of "no-fault" is, as government control over health care expands, to get government employees off the hook for anything they should do wrong.

Plus there is the risk of what economists call "moral hazard". If you no longer will face the full consequences of your actions, you may get sloppy, then the number of mishaps may increase. It is difficult to see how patient safety can be improved through no-fault.

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Globe, Fri., Jan. 15. Canada’s alleged obesity epidemic.

"Public health efforts should focus less on trying to return Canadians to the strong-and-slender utopia of 1981, which is a losing battle, than on trying to encourage people to improve their cardiovascular health at any weight, short of mega-obesity".

Wrong. There is no such thing as "public health". It's an anti-concept that means "government control over the citizen's health". The only difference between government and other institutions is that the former can use coercion – but no one likes to be on the receiving end of coercion. There’s not much doubt that obesity is not healthy. But how much "encouragement" can the so-called public health bodies give? And how much does it cost in taxes? Maybe a person can't afford to join a fitness club because he's paying too much in taxes for vacuous "public health" announcements.

And if "strong-and-slender" was considered the ideal before but now isn't, how much money has been wasted on "public health" efforts in this direction already? Maybe there would have been more money available to deal with the real problem of SARS in 2003 had the ongoing campaigns against obesity, smoking, etc. been shelved?

The science often changes over time. People have the right to make their own decisions based on the knowledge available to them without government bodies pushing them around. Drop the "public health" propaganda, because it may be proven wrong later.

Tony Guitar,

Save a couple of whatever your peddling ... they may be worth something in a couple of hundred years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henney_Kilowatt

Globe, Thursday, Jan. 14.

Ottawa is going after U. S. Steel because the company failed to live up to promises of production and employment it made when it bought Stelco in 2007. It could face fines of up to $10,000 per day plus divestiture of its Canadian operations. Question: who would buy them?

U. S. Steel argues, among other things, that the Investment Canada Act punishes a company as if it has committed a criminal offence, but does not give it the Charter rights guaranteed for those facing criminal proceedings. Specifically, the act does not allow the company to receive full disclosure of the case against it, which violates the Charter (the Supreme Court ruled in Stinchcombe in the early 1990s that defendants are entitled to full disclosure). Or as the Globe puts it, "the industry minister was not obligated to give his reasons why U. S. Steel had failed to justify its inability to meet its promises", even though the act allows for an investor to justify non-compliance.

Same issue, National Post, Jan. 16. Peter Foster weighs in on the issue, noting that the feds haven't gone after either Vale or Xstrata, who bought Inco and Falconbridge respectively, for failing to meet their own promises.

Foster on the Investment Canada Act: "The 'net benefit' the act demands from any large takeover requires a number of God-like assessments by the minister. He has to gauge its effects on economic activity, employment, resource processing, parts utilization and exports ... assess the 'degree and significance of participation by Canadians' ... [predict] the likely effects on productivity, industrial efficiency, technological development, product innovation, product variety and competition ... gauge 'the compatibility of the investment with national industrial, economic and cultural policies', and weigh the contribution of the investment to Canada's 'ability to compete in world markets ... [and] the weight of these factors can shift 'depending upon the nature of and the circumstances surrounding the investment'".

I wonder if the minister has to sacrifice a goat and read the entrails in order to make a decision?

A purchase is "of net benefit to Canada" in the only rational sense if it is profitable in a free market, which it can only be if it raises the standard of living by producing goods and services that consumers want or need. And the only way you can find out is to get government out of the way.

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Globe, Saturday, Jan. 16.

I. O. U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay, by John Lanchester. Book review.

The author claims that the financiers of Wall Street and elsewhere can "make themselves enormously wealthy while pulling down around them the very edifice that made it possible" by creating money out of nothing. He dates it to the Exxon Valdez oil spill fiasco in 1989, following which the J. P. Morgan bank created the credit default swap, or CDS, "essentially an insurance agreement passed to anyone who cared to assume the risk". And he blames Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher for banishing regulatory oversight of the financial industry plus Alan Greenspan for maintaining the folly.

The difficulty I have in believing this is that it sounds not much different from inflation, in which governments pretend they can "create money out of nothing". The world's economies have long been off the gold standard, and as I understand it, fractional reserve banking gives financial players the ability to try to conjure up something that isn't there. Plus I strongly suspect that the derivatives and other instruments of dubious distinction might not have come along had we still been backed by gold. Losing the gold standard was the major fraud that perhaps enabled a lot of minor ones to follow.

The heavy hitters of the economy are still heavily regulated, the government overseers still don't produce anything of value to consumers, and furthermore they have no crystal ball to guide them to a correct decision. Also, there have always been plenty of insurance arrangements between large financial institutions. There's nothing new under the sun.

Re: Tough guy in a foxhole
SASKATONIANS RESPOND
Jeez, Mark, I just read the burn you did on my home town Saskatoon (in your recent chat with Hugh Hewitt)--namely, "George W. Bush was Saskatoon this last week giving a speech in Saskatoon. That’s what he’s reduced to, now. He’s playing the Saskatoon circuit up in Saskatchewan."

The name Saskatoon may connote hay-seediness to you, Mark, but we don't really walk around with too many straws in our teeth and I suspect we're generally as current and informed as any other populace.

I might mention that George Bush sold out here and he got a number of standing ovations...as he did in Montreal the next day.

BTW, check out my 5-star review of /America Alone/ on Amazon.ca

Wayne Eyre
Saskatoon

MARK REPLIES: No, no, no. It's parodic sophisticated condescension:

Here's Obama in Oslo getting his Nobel from the cool Euro-lefties, and here's the reviled Bush playing Saskatoon. I do a bit more of it in my weekend column.

Haven't been there in a while, but I love Saskatoon (in fact, my good health has been attributed to it). Love Swift Current (up to a point). And Saskatchewan is the home province of the great Kate McMillan, for whom my admiration is boundless. What's not to like?

UNWORTHY

Mr. Schmidt:

“Trudeau said government has no business in the bedroom, and here I say the government has no business in the stomach of the people either.”

Down with Liberal PET Mr. Iffy’s and McGuinty’s socialism.

Socialism is a religion of the stomach. Bury socialism in PET’S Cemetery.

We do not have the stomach for socialism.
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“Top Court ruling a defeat for Canadian Wheat Board

The Canadian Wheat Board cannot spend money on advocacy to protect its monopoly, following a Supreme Court of Canada decision Thursday against hearing an appeal from the Winnipeg-based agency, which asserts that it has been silenced by the Conservative government.

Without giving reasons, the high court declined the appeal application to a Federal Court of Appeal ruling that sided with the federal government in its 2006 order from then-agriculture minister Chuck Strahl for the board to refrain from spending its money on lobbying.”
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Court+ruling+defeat+Canadian+Wheat+Board/2468693/story.html
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“Acquittal for farmer who sold raw milk

Distribution only allowed through ‘cow-sharing’

Ontario dairy farmer Michael Schmidt won his 16-year legal battle for the right to share raw milk products yesterday, and in the process won a ruling that food freedom advocates hope will help expand the ability of Canadians to eat what they want without government interference.

Minutes after being acquitted in a Newmarket court on 19 charges relating to his distribution of raw milk and cheeses, Mr. Schmidt celebrated with a glass of his milk, telling reporters and supporters, “Trudeau said government has no business in the bedroom, and here I say the government has no business in the stomach of the people either.”"

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=2470235

http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/01/21/whats-daltons-game-with-samsung/#comment-72945

Mr. Schmidt:

"Trudeau said government has no business in the bedroom, and here I say the government has no business in the stomach of the people either."

Down with PET's socialism.

Socialism is a religion of the stomach.
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"Top Court ruling a defeat for Canadian Wheat Board

The Canadian Wheat Board cannot spend money on advocacy to protect its monopoly, following a Supreme Court of Canada decision Thursday against hearing an appeal from the Winnipeg-based agency, which asserts that it has been silenced by the Conservative government.

Without giving reasons, the high court declined the appeal application to a Federal Court of Appeal ruling that sided with the federal government in its 2006 order from then-agriculture minister Chuck Strahl for the board to refrain from spending its money on lobbying."
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Court+ruling+defeat+Canadian+Wheat+Board/2468693/story.html
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"Acquittal for farmer who sold raw milk

Distribution only allowed through 'cow-sharing'

Ontario dairy farmer Michael Schmidt won his 16-year legal battle for the right to share raw milk products yesterday, and in the process won a ruling that food freedom advocates hope will help expand the ability of Canadians to eat what they want without government interference.

Minutes after being acquitted in a Newmarket court on 19 charges relating to his distribution of raw milk and cheeses, Mr. Schmidt celebrated with a glass of his milk, telling reporters and supporters, "Trudeau said government has no business in the bedroom, and here I say the government has no business in the stomach of the people either.""

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=2470235

Gotta love those sharp as a butter knife media types out there.

Guess what they are reporting all over the place the last day or so?

John "Perfect Hair" Edwards, has a "love child"!

Ya don't say?

Can it really be classified as news if everyone has known about it for a year? Wouldn't it then be olds?

[quote]the 7.0 magnitude Haiti quake was caused by a U.S. test of an experimental shockwave system that can also create "weather anomalies to cause floods, droughts and hurricanes."
[/quote] Chavez

It’s a secret, but 10 Indian drumming groups are synchronizing a standing wave., that will get rid of California... first the mud slides...

Scary enough?

Why I feel old. A US man buried in the rubble in Haiti used an i-phone first aid app to treat a fractured leg and a headwound. Ok maybe this stuff isn't just a fad. ;)

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34933053/ns/today-today_people/

Dust My Broom has a story up about muslim unrest in Britain. The 'religion of peace' is saying that targetting them as terrorists will lead to more terorism,sorry,they say 'ethnic unrest'. That sounds kind of familiar.Link to follow.

Posted by: wallyj at January 22, 2010 12:40 AM

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Sure does sound familiar. On the drive in this morning AM 640 morning man John Oakley said he was going to have on a Canadian Islamic Congress dude who will be saying that airport profiling and other imaginary bad treatment of Muslims will drive Muslim yoots into extremism.

See, it's OUR fault, not that of Mo and the dirty Koran.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and ask if you can see/hear the sexist stuff:
or just media drivel.

http://us.cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2010/01/22/am.costello.bipartisan.cnn

The discussion is on the possibility that Brown will foster bi-partisanship in Washington...based on his history as being an 'independant type'.

Palin irritated other Republicans...and that was not okay with the media.

Ok, I know this is a TorStar link and all, but THIS guy used to be a Liberal party honcho?

Mayoral hopeful Rocco Rossi targets TTC, unions

"Rossi, who has worked as a business executive, run a non-profit foundation and most recently served as national director of the Liberal Party."

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontomayoralrace/article/754281--mayoral-hopeful-rocco-rossi-targets-ttc-unions

BFBS, Afghanistan Dogs

There's been a big increase in the demand for British military dogs from Commanding Officers out on the ground in Afghanistan. The unique ability of dogs to detect IEDs - the biggest threat to British troops in Helmand - is making them an increasingly popular asset. The military working dogs work all across Helmand Province.

Who says the polar bears have a problem??

Or is that pole-er bares??

I still want to comment on the Haitian infrastructure, where an elite of about 30 families control all the wealth of Haiti, including the govt - and provide NOTHING for the mass of the population.

No infrastructure of health care - which is primarily provided by external agencies (doctors without borders); no educational system - and half the population is illiterate; no road system and therefore no means of a market trading economy; no security. Nothing. But here's a CBS outline of how the elite live in Haiti.

"Although Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake destroyed many buildings in Port-au-Prince, it mostly spared homes and businesses up the mountain in the cool, green suburb of Petionville, home to former presidents and senators.

A palace built atop a mountain by the man who runs one of Haiti's biggest lottery games is still standing. New-car dealers, the big importers, the families that control the port Л they all drove through town with their drivers and security men this past weekend. Only a few homes here were destroyed.

"All the nation is feeling this earthquake Л the poor, the middle class and the richest ones," said Erwin Berthold, owner of the Big Star Market in Petionville. "But we did okay here. We have everything cleaned up inside. We are ready to open. We just need some security. So send in the Marines, okay?"

As Berthold stood outside his two-story market, stocked with fine wines and imported food from Miami and Paris, his customers cruised by and asked when he would reopen. "Maybe Monday!" he shouted, then held up his hand to his ear, for customers to call his cellphone.

The police are operating out of a well-supplied station in Petionville, where the parking lot was filled with idle police trucks. There have been few reports of looting here, even though the town has banks on every corner. Hervé Delorme, executive marketing director of Sogebank, stood outside a branch and said the building was safe and sound. "Only because of the electricity and communications we do not have the technology available to open," he said.

Across the street, one of the few pharmacies in the area was open. It was guarded by three Haitian police officers with rifles who let one customer in at a time. Down at the General Hospital, families wandered through the courtyard filled with patients with amputated limbs and open wounds, begging foreigners for medicine."

Notice - they have pharmacies. Police. Fuel. Food. And who do they want to control the peasants? The US marines.

These people have gotten enormously rich on the backs of international aid. After all, as noted, they control the ports, the distribution of goods, the electrical system - everything. And the international aid comes in with free supplies and these families take their 'dispensation fee'. Oil coming in? They take their fee.

"They control all the major sectors of the economy, from banking and telecommunications to apparel factories and food. They attend the French schools here, and they go to university in Miami. They vacation in Europe. They live farther up the hill that rises above the squalor of Port-au-Prince".

Oh, and a quirk: They have special license plates:
"The license plates speak to another quirk of Haiti's elite: Most have finagled posts as honorary consuls of any number of countries. It's sort of a status symbol, like owning the latest iPod."

Thanks 'ET'.
I still want to comment on the Haitian infrastructure, where an elite of about 30 families control all the wealth of Haiti, including the govt - and provide NOTHING for the mass of the population.

No infrastructure of health care - which is primarily provided by external agencies (doctors without borders); no educational system - and half the population is illiterate; no road system and therefore no means of a market trading economy; no security. Nothing. But here's a CBS outline of how the elite live in Haiti.

"This is a problem that should be addressed"!.
The only donation I've made so far is through our government. I think they have answered the call for the disaster area quite well.

By the way, here comes hit number 16 million -- that was fast.

Before the deflation was The InflatiOn.

"Perhaps the inevitable outcome was disappointment—and on this Obama has not disappointed."
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"The Incredible Deflation of Barack Obama
By Mortimer B. Zuckerman

The air is seeping out of the Obama balloon. He has fallen to below 50 percent in the poll approval ratings, a decline punctuated by his party's shocking loss in the Massachusetts special election.

Why?

Barack Obama was undoubtedly sincere in what he promised, even if his promises were within the normal range of political exaggeration. The first trouble is that his gift for inspiration aroused expectations, stoked to unprecedented heights by his own staff, that he would solve the climate crisis on Monday, the jobs crisis on Tuesday, the financial crisis on Wednesday, the education crisis on Thursday, Afghanistan on Friday, Iraq on Saturday, and rest on Sunday. His oratorical skills were highlighted by the contrast with President Bush, who mangled words so much that his incoherence became, as Tina Brown wrote, "a metaphor for incompetence." Expectations were spurred, too, by Obama's recognition that Americans yearned for a new kind of politics, a rejection, as he put it, of "politics as usual."

Perhaps the inevitable outcome was disappointment—and on this Obama has not disappointed." (more)

http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/mzuckerman/2010/01/21/mort-zuckerman-the-incredible-deflation-of-barack-obama.html?PageNr=1

G'I'm O.
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"Obama: 'Bowl of Chili, I Can Afford' (Millionaire Prez Buys Man Cheap Birthday Lunch in Ohio)

In Elyria, Ohio, today, the president's motorcade made an unscheduled campaign-styled stop at a bar and restaurant in Elyria -- Smitty's, bearing the slogan: "Where Friends Meet'' - for a hamburger lunch.

Greeting Shawn Hatcher, celebrating his 42nd birthday, the president proclaimed: "Nothing wrong with 42. I am 48... I am going to buy this guy's lunch." Told the man's order was chili, Obama said: "A bowl of chili, I can afford.""
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2434975/posts

"The UN has dropped the 31 January deadline by which time all countries were expected to officially state their emission reduction targets or list the actions they planned to take to counter climate change."

PM Harper plays them like a fiddle.

Joke's a little lacking without the punchline...

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/22/polar-bear-forecast/jc

MSM/TimesUk claims Choo-Choo is a "climate change expert".

Al Gore's Weather (AGW) says: Me too.

The "errors" were not errors.

The "errors" were deliberate lies/fabrications with the intent to instill Fear in an unquestioning public.

Choo-Choo is gonzo.
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"UN climate change expert: there could be more errors in report

The Indian head of the UN climate change panel defended his position today even as further errors were identified in the panel's assessment of Himalayan glaciers.

Dr Rajendra Pachauri dismissed calls for him to resign over the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change’s retraction of a prediction that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035.

But he admitted that there may have been other errors in the same section of the report, and said that he was considering whether to take action against those responsible.

“I know a lot of climate sceptics are after my blood, but I’m in no mood to oblige them,” he told The Times in an interview. “It was a collective failure by a number of people,” he said. “I need to consider what action to take, but that will take several weeks. It’s best to think with a cool head, rather than shoot from the hip.”"

"The “co-ordinating lead authors” were Rex Victor Cruz of the Philippines, Hideo Harasawa of Japan, Murari Lal of India and Wu Shaohong of China."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6999051.ece

O. M. G. What next?

Canadian Press headline:

"Horrific images from Haiti are traumatic for Canadian children, roundtable hears":

"[Toronto Board of Education] Trustee Soo Wong says children as young as three and four are experiencing post-traumatic stress from watching the horrific images.

"'Every day there's new updates of another child being rescued, more pictures of the disaster ... These kind of images have significant post-traumatic concerns for our children,' she said."

So? Who's problem is this, anyhow?

'THE PARENTS of kids who let them watch TV at the age of three and four and see these images. And guess what? I've talked to kindergarten kids whose substandard parents let them watch Chucky and Hallowe'en.

Of course, the Toronto school board would stick their nose into families' business, probably hoping to find more work -- if more work were needed in our wimpy, irresponsible, unaccountable, "therapeutic" society -- for their psychologists and social workers.

If kids are being traumatized by the images from Haiti, DON'T LET THEM SEE THEM.

Duh.

Boxer wants EPA to do what Congress wont regarding Cap and Trade
(via HotAir)
Senators try to thwart EPA efforts to curb emissions
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 22, 2010; A02
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The newly activist agency is pressing ahead. It finalized its scientific finding that greenhouse gases qualify as a pollutant last week, and by the end of March it plans to finalize rules regulating greenhouse gases that cars and trucks emit and rules for identifying any facility emitting at least 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide as a target for regulation.

It's that step, targeting coal-fired utilities, oil refineries and other major emitters, whose products and services ripple through the entire U.S. economy, that is sparking a major lobbying and litigation fight.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/21/AR2010012104512_pf.html

That's the CO2 is a pollutant meme; hence the pushing of CCS to push up utility costs from fossil fuels. (Obama's war on coal)

I just filled in a survey from the Alberta Education ministry. There's a note with it saying the survey is available in
English, French, Punjabi, Cree, Korean, Tagalog, Chinese, Blackfoot, Arabic, Spanish

Since when did the education department become the UN? And if I speak Vietnamese, or Portuguese, or Farsi, am I a second-class citizen? How much does this cost? What does it mean to have 2 official languages?

CBC Newsworld.Evan Solomon has a couple of the Facebook movement on now. The one kid ,who just turned 18,was just asked by Evan if he has always been a political activist.(He hasn't). OMG,they want to have a cross-Canada democracy torch relay. Stay tuned,they are having another story coming up," who are these facebook activists" Anyone want to bet that it will be a cross-section of diverse Canada,old,young ,liberal,conservative,white,green,ethnic,everyone under the rainbow hates Harper, FIRE.THEM.ALL.

One of the sites that I found through here,Dodo Can Spell, has an interesting story about lunching with friends and their take on IED's,and no, euterine is not the correct spelling. ..http://dodocanspell.blogspot.com/

VERY,VERY,interesting. If you have ever wondered about what Maher Arar is up to now that he has 10 million dollars of our money in his pockets,well,here some of what he has spent our hard-earned money on. ----http://prism-magazine.com:80/---- I found this link through cair-can. . If I remember correctly,a Halifax cartoonist was brought up before the HRC's for a cartoon that depicted this very scenario.---PRISM MAGAZINE – THE SECURITY PRACTICES MONITOR

Launched by Maher Arar, Prism is an online not-for-profit magazine that focuses on the in-depth coverage and analysis of national security related issues. Our contributors have extensive experience in this area. They include prominent human rights activists, veteran journalists, and practicing professionals such as lawyers and university professor.

Forbes Magazine has named Monsanto the company of the year...can you hear the leftist heads exploding?

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0118/americas-best-company-10-gmos-dupont-planet-versus-monsanto.html