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Here come the commie pinkos:

http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100204/bc_olympics_resistance_100204/20100204?hub=BritishColumbiaHome

North Korea brain washes Robert Park and Sets him free.

http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2010/201002/news05/20100205-08ee.html

Reading Robert Park's interview, i don't think he is waiting for the Asteroid.

Communist News Network (CNN) has the story

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/04/north.korea.american.held/index.html?hpt=T2

Re: Throar singers.

If you close your eyes, you'll hear my uncle's circa 1950's 5 HP Evinrude outboard motor mounted on a 14 foot plywood boat. It brings back good memories.

Tuva or bust!

That was for you Vitruvius!

Thanks for that TJ, and my, are they not special? This will surely be their day in the sun. The Games may have their faults, but I believe that there are those who build and create, and there are those who tear down and destroy. They do so because of their great need for attention, having been losers who came out of losers who should never have had children.

Larben, couldn't have said it better!

Wow, I wonder what will be the highlight for those attending G7 tomorrow. Will it be the brief sunlight? The cold (although the forecast is for -10 instead of the normal high of -24)? The seal meat? Or the Inuit throat singing?

[As I understand it, Walter, while the Inuit do overtone
singing
, it is not technically throat singing. ~ Vitruvius]

Paul in Calgary... re: Debka file

I've been hearing a chatter on the Net for the whole January that something big is coming regarding Iran. Can not find any links...although Northrop Grunmman and Raython staying strong in a weak general market.

Good one TJ. What do you think the chances are of any MSM outlet telling Joe public who these people are and what other organizations they belong to?
Same as a Snowball where? How about where the money is coming from? Commie China? NKVD? Useful Idiots?

Not really interested in the folk art thing ....

But .... there is an interesting thing going on in the Obama White house ... Apparently they love hiring MSMers to be the voice of the administration near and far.

From Newsbusters The latest one being a former Film Critic!

For those who like the work of Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker, Moneyball, etc.), he writes an occasional column for Bloomberg news. Here's a link to four of them:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/commentary/lewis.html

Read them from the bottom up, as in they're in reverse chronological order. Very funny take on the views of Goldman Sachs (where Lewis used to work) re: the rest of the world.

I'm not so big on the folk art thing either, OMMAG (indeed, as a philistine I find myself rather committed to form following function, as the philistines did), rather, what I find most fascinating about these sorts of marginal (by modern standards) behaviours is the insight they provide into our ancient bio- acustico- neuro- psycho- physics. What a species!

Fine, no shoutbacks re Feynman and Tuva

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Pgmx2WCsY

Part I, and the rest follow of course.

Aha! You found it, Erik ;-) I'd already had that queued for a future DLDI
symposium
. It would be nice, I think, to give it its own space some day.

speaking of folk art, which we maybe aren't, but since we're on Reader Tips, did you read Barbara Kay's excoration of Damian Hirst yesterday?

http://www.barbarakay.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=428&Itemid=10

I think all art is contextual. In a society awash with cash, nobody blinks an eye paying millions for a shark preserved in formaldehyde.

In our current rational world, people are now blinking, and questioning.

a great summary of the Obamanation year

http://www.youtube.com/user/JimGeraghtyVideo#p/a/u/2/1mN2zFgy7Qg

with a surprise conclusion.

Here's a little YouTube Music Video for all the gun owners out there in SDA land.

Forgive me if it's already been posted.

PS. the singer is Australian not American.

PPS. There's also some Gun Porn in the last half of the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TC2xTCb_GU

Cheap Natural Gas and Its Democrat Enemies.

This article has a lot of links to alternate energy sources. Some of which makes no sense. For example, generating a megawatt-hour of electricity using natural gas costs $80; with wind it would cost $142, and solar would cost $396.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/cheap_natural_gas_and_its_demo.html

Just when you thought it was safe to hear "nuclear" correctly pronounced, a new phenomenon appears. Faster than a speeding succubus. More powerful than a grave-digging backhoe. Able to leap tall mausolea in a single bound. Look! Up in the sky! It's a bat! It's a vulture! It's Corpse-man!
Wait a minute. Wasn't that the guy behind Bob Rae from the photo on Jan. 25?

Toronto Star, Wednesday, February 3.

Carol Goar whines about the Employment Insurance system, again: "It was built for an era of full-time jobs that provided a decent income and came with health and retirement benefits. It was designed to tide over laid-off workers while they found a new job or the factory reopened. That Canada is long gone. Most of the jobs on offer now are part-time, short-term or casual."

And the sole reason "that Canada is long gone" is that it has been destroyed by advocates of Big Government, including the Toronto Star and Carol Goar with her constant pleas for a "caring, sharing society" in which the redistribution of wealth, i.e. robbing Peter to pay Paul, is the primary economic activity, not production.

Goar has complained in previous columns that since the meltdown hit in 2008, the EI system hasn't reached all the people it should have. But she was saying the same thing back in mid-decade, long before the recession. She appears to be one of the twits who just want to see lots of people collecting from our social programs rather than working, because after all they "define Canada" (or other such nonsense).

What Canada really needs is a good federal-provincial plan to abolish the Welfare State. Not overnight, mind you - the first step is to streamline the tax system and deregulate the economy as much as possible, in order to increase productivity. Good jobs with high incomes will significantly alleviate the need for most social programs. But you need capitalism in order to have good jobs and hope for the future.

National Post, Thursday, February 4.

Financial Post section:

Some comments in response to a Lawrence Solomon column of Jan. 30 were posted from the online blog, including one from a person who said (in a nutshell): My son took a course at UBC last year on man-made global warming. The professor was completely doctrinaire. She began by airing "An Inconvenient Truth" and hammered away at the catastrophic evils of industrialization. Dissenting views were neither considered nor tolerated in the "discussions" that followed ... Once upon a time, intellectual honesty was the hallmark of the academy in Canada ... Shame on UBC.

Also: Professor Bruce Pardy, law, Queen's U, on a new Ontario policy framework for environmental education, called Acting Today, Shaping Tomorrow: "Released last year, the framework's unabashed mission is to indoctrinate pupils to think about environmental issues in an orthodox, politically correct way".

And this exemplifies why the state should not be in the education business.

Also in the FP: Terence Corcoran editorial, The War on Toyota. (separate SDA thread on this issue)

NP Letters page:

Larry Hill, chairman, Canadian Wheat Board board of directors writes: "... when the government overrides the CWB board of directors, it is overriding the democratic will of farmers."

And: "... as farmers, we have the right to run our own organization."

In reality, the only genuine right involved here is that of an individual farmer to market his product as he chooses, without having to deal with one sole purchaser. Selling one's own product is not an activity that should be subject to "democratic" control, any more than deciding whether to have Corn Flakes or Rice Krispies for breakfast.

Maybe it should be a Criminal Code offense for denizens of government bodies to waste tax dollars blowing their own horn the way the CWB does.

Also: a Jan. 26 editorial about "women's studies" is still drawing responses.

Mr.g at February 5, 2010 2:08 AM
Heh! +10

Credibility is what’s really melting

Take the disappearing Himalayan glaciers.
Turns out that ‘research’ was idle speculation.
by Mark Steyn

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/03/credibility-is-what-is-really-melting/

O'Warshington.
...-

"Forecast: Crippling snowstorm imminent

Severe "Snowmageddon" storm approaching

Not just major but most likely historic snow is approaching. Please take this potentially dangerous storm seriously."

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/?hpid=dynamiclead

I got a good laugh from this letter to the editor today in the Ottawa Sun,

"Re: "Noise bylaw could be abused, panhandlers say" (Feb. 4) A union? A freakin' union? The panhandlers have a flippin' union? I spewed my Timmies down my shirt when I read that. What do they do when they reach an impasse, go get a job?"

Audio combining current affairs and the Big Band beat:

http://kathleensings.com/blame.html

Al Gore's Weather (AGW): Gone Fphishing with Pachy.

Hope and Fear + Guilt: "credits, which are seen as an important tool in curbing climate change," = indulgences.
...-

"Climate Crime

Phishing Scam Cripples European Emissions Trading

Sneaky cyber-thieves have made millions by fraudulently obtaining European greenhouse gas emissions allowances and reselling them. The scam has hampered trading of the credits, which are seen as an important tool in curbing climate change, in several European countries.

Most Internet users are familiar with the e-mail scam known in the jargon as "phishing." A plausible-looking e-mail arrives in your in-box, supposedly from your bank or a Web site like Ebay, informing you that your account has been "compromised" and that you urgently need to log in to the company's Web site to rectify matters. The catch is that the Web site the e-mail directs you to is a spoof created by the hackers, meaning that anyone who falls for the trick is unwittingly handing over their all-important user names and passwords to the criminals.

Savvy e-mail users know to delete such e-mails straight away. But canny thieves have now used the technique to make money in a very 21st century fashion -- by fraudulently gaining access to companies' greenhouse gas emissions allowances and selling them on."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,675725,00.html

Islam: Gamil Gharbi blogger.
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"Bail denied for Marc Lepine blogger

MONTREAL — A Quebec judge has refused to grant bail to a man who named his blog after Ecole polytechnique killer Marc Lepine and allegedly made threats against women.

Judge Claude Leblond says Jean-Claude Rochefort’s online musings are troubling and a clear indication of the Quebec man’s obsession with winning a war against feminists."

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/canada/2010/02/04/12744151.html

Atlantic Jim: re Panhandlers Union

* i think alot of Working Canadians that are feeling the pinch, are going to ask "Where do I join?"

Btw: same here almost spewed my coffee

Here is the link to the original story about the Ottawa Panhandlers Union. That may well be the strangest three words I have ever strung together.......

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2010/02/03/12731011.html#/news/ottawa/2010/02/04/pf-12735551.html

Jim have you read the article & comments? They're priceless, Geeeezzz the Panhandlers Union "Sued the City of Ottawa" & Won!!! Wholy S*** They sued for 1Million & settled on a Undisclosed amount.
Must be the water in Ottawa

I told you unions were racket:

http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/944338.html

Panhandler on strike: "Don't spare a coin!"

Poldergate;
"Netherlands adds to UN climate report controversy"
(Via Drudge)
"The Netherlands has asked the UN climate change panel to explain an inaccurate claim in a landmark 2007 report that more than half the country was below sea level, the Dutch government said Friday.

According to the Dutch authorities, only 26 percent of the country is below sea level, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be asked to account for its figures, environment ministry spokesman Trimo Vallaart told AFP. "

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.8d6e5773c60565dfc6e882b0a8dcbf18.4e1&show_article=1

Hey Buddy Can ya Spare a Dime?

* i wonder if the Panhandlers Union of Ottawa has any political party affliations?

* i wonder if they are like the Ontario Teachers Union & have invested wisely on the Taxpayers Penny?

* Are they the ones that considered buying in to the Ottawa Senators?

* I wonder if Toronto's panhandlers know about it?, cause if they did'nt iam sure they do now.

*Is this another reason why Mayor Miller is stepping down so he can take a run at their Union Presidency?

* Who is the Union President?

*are they affliated with the CAW Auto-Workers Union?

This is very funny.

Islamic Terrorism - British style

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

The time of the Great Crash has not arrived just yet. As bad as things may seem now, they can get an order of magnitude worse… and that means we still have time to change course. Your daily life depends on billions of transactions performed at the speed of light, millions of tons of goods shipped across vast distances, and oceans of gasoline flowing from convenient pumps. These complex systems cannot sustain much damage before your life changes in ways you might never have imagined. The people responsible will tell you it was inevitable, or it was all your fault for living so well in the first place. They’ll try to divert your anger to their enemies, and expect you to trade your ambitions for the sustenance they will provide.

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/02/04/the-great-crash/

Kate, worth updating the ethnic cleansing thread with this pearl from the Chief:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100204/national/kahnawake_evictions

"We are not killing people" was priceless.

Posted by: Erik Larsen at February 5, 2010 1:21 AM

You should not buy it then Erik.

Al's AGW.
...-

"Snowpocalypse bears down on Atlantic region

A winter storm has brought blizzard conditions to eastern Newfoundland, prompting flight cancellations and near-zero visibility driving conditions in some areas.

Environment Canada issued a blizzard warning update Friday morning for the St. John's area."
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/02/05/12754966-qmi.html

Nothing wrong with this throat singing, but frankly, if you want to impress me, show me someone who sings without using his throat.

Being an political contortionist - is hard on the body. Whether Harper as a conservative, Iffy not as an academic, or Taliban Jack trying not to be a silver spoon socialist. It's hard on the body.

Politicians and political parties have been - at their whim - using Canadian's personal orifices for years whenever the need hits.

Sore back indeed.

Jack Layton's 'future' up in the air
NDP leader to make announcement about 'immediate' plans
By QMI AGENCY

New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton listens to a reporters' question as he holds an impromptu press conference in this December 2009 file photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

OTTAWA — Federal NDP Leader Jack Layton has scheduled an announcement later today in which he is expected to discuss his “immediate future as NDP leader,” according to an announcement from his office.

Layton’s colleagues declined to discuss the nature of his remarks, but the NDP leader is thought to have suffered a back injury of some sort.

His spokesman declined comment this morning.

The 59-year-old former Toronto city councillor has been NDP leader for seven years.

I think all art is contextual. In a society awash with cash, nobody blinks an eye paying millions for a shark preserved in formaldehyde.
- Erik Larsen

That, my good man, is the essential truth. The very fundament.

As a result of the meltdown I made up my mind -- finally -- to study money and government-cartelized banking fraud and have allocated ALL my reading time to this subject for several months now and am in process of tranmogrifying from the resident marxism bore to the banking bore.

With a 100% reserve banking system firmly anchored in specie (gold or silver) this kind of nonsense simply wouldn't obtain. Moreover, I've also come to feel that all the partisan cheerleading we do here is a gigantic distraction. It really doesn't matter which party gets power. Without a banking system along these lines and totally separated from government, the state will continue to expand -- perhaps a tiny bit slower here, a tiny bit faster there -- as does the universe itself.

PM Harper scores ... again.
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"Deal exempts Canadian companies from Buy American provisions

OTTAWA — The federal government says it has struck a deal with the U.S. to exempt Canada from the buy America clause in the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

International Trade Minister Peter Van Loan said the deal would allow Canadian companies access to state and local public works projects in exchange for American access to construction contracts in Canadian provinces and cities.

“Preserving and creating jobs is the Canadian government’s top priority,” said Van Loan. “Today’s agreement further strengthens the Canada U.S. relationship to the benefit of Canadian workers and businesses.”"

http://www.torontosun.com/money/2010/02/05/12753926.html

Me No Dhimmi: perceptive, and eloquent.

Required reserve ratios are a good place to start, and a lynchpin of modern politician/banker cash and body fluid swapping.

The only value that gold has is what's perceived ;-)

"Police department lawyer Edward Hart says there was more marijuana in Chiofalo's system than the meatballs could explain."

What is sadder: a man who won't own up to his actions, or a narco-state popping an otherwise benign individual?

Ex-cop claims pot-spiked meatballs
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK - A former New York City counterterrorism detective who says he was unfairly fired as a result of a failed drug test he blamed on his wife's marijuana-spiked meatballs has lost a court bid to get his job back.

A state appeals court upheld Anthony Chiofalo's dismissal Thursday. The 22-year veteran was suspended in 2005 after failing a random drug test and was fired in 2007.

Catherine Chiofalo told police investigators she secretly substituted marijuana for oregano in meatballs, hoping a failed test would make her husband leave police work.

Anthony Chiofalo's lawyer, Philip Karasyk, says he's considering options for continuing the case.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2010/02/04/12747851-ap.html

"Layton’s colleagues declined to discuss the nature of his remarks, but the NDP leader is thought to have suffered a back injury of some sort."
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2010/02/05/12757726-qmi.html

PET Cemetery Salutes Jack with an Ode to Taliban Jack LaytoNDP:

"There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse.
And they all lived together in a little crooked house."
(traditional)

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=2523954

Arson associated with Conservative MP's office?

More details needed, but photos of the offender were caught on the security surveillance tapes.

Unions Teachers/city workers/politicians/ get Raise's even in tough times, Meanwhile the poor slug that is struggling to make ends meet gets stiffed over & over, Iam sorry i dont agree with this Below at all.
Stop bending over to the Powerfull Unions No wonder the Socialist's in this country are gainging ground, When they keep feeding them the Propoganda & before you say it Ya Ya i know its the same bunch of Hypocrites....

*The Alberta Govt will seek to freeze the min wage @ $8.80, Emplyoment Minister Thomas Lukaszuk says the goal is to protect jobs & keep small business's viable..
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