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Sorry if that has been in another thread,

but I am simply shocked by what Obama is doing to make the USA weaker ,

Here is an excerpt ( By Charles Krauthammer ,Washington Post),

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...By the end of this year, there will be no shuttle, no U.S. manned space program, no way for us to get into space. We're not talking about Mars or the moon here. We're talking about low-Earth orbit, which the United States has dominated for nearly half a century and from which it is now retiring with nary a whimper.

...Our absence from low-Earth orbit was meant to last a few years, the interval between the retirement of the fatally fragile space shuttle and its replacement with the Constellation program (Ares booster, Orion capsule, Altair lunar lander) to take astronauts more cheaply and safely back to space.

...But the Obama 2011 budget kills Constellation. Instead, we shall have nothing. For the first time since John Glenn flew in 1962, the United States will have no access of its own for humans into space -- and no prospect of getting there in the foreseeable future...

Read the whole sad thing here,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021103484.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

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And yet another fine example that multiculturalism,diversity,integration and all those other stupid,idiotic liberal nostrums are for the birds.

How much longer do we have to put up with liberal "we are the world" fantasies being imposed on us by our unseeing,traitorous left-liberal elites while the rest of the world moves on?

http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/02/23/12999371.html

As I have posted before I would urge you to read Thomas Sowell’s Intellectuals and Society. It is without a doubt one of the most powerful books that covers what we focus a great deal of our posts on, the cloud dwelling anointed elitists that deal in ideas. These people, academics, journalists and politicians have little positive influence on our society but tremendous negative impact. Some paragraphs from Sowell’s book.

This sounds like Suzuki and the AGW crowd.

“In short, bureaucracies are often able to turn the visions of the intelligentsia into the law of the land, at least within their own respective jurisdictions, subject to little correction by consequential feedback from those who know better or by those members of the public who suffer the consequences. In so far as the media think with the framework of the same vision, there may be little awareness conveyed to the general public that there are other views on the issues, much less informed criticism. Instead the public may hear that “all the experts agree” on the issue.”

On our civilization’s destruction with multiculturalism by creating tribes out of nations.

“One of the things intellectuals have been doing for a long time is loosening the bonds that hold a society together. They have sought to replace the groups into which people have sorted themselves with groupings created and imposed by the intelligentsia. Ties of family, religion and patriotism, for example, have long been treated as suspect or detrimental by the intelligentsia, and new ties that intellectuals have created, such as class and more recently ‘gender’ have been projected as either more real or more important.”

This sounds like Obama and the Democrats.

“Many among the intelligentsia see themselves as agents of “change”, a term often used loosely, almost generically, as if things as so bad that “change” can be presupposed to be a change for the better. The history of changes that turned out to be for the worst, even in countries that were pretty bad to begin with – czarist Russia or Cuba under Batista, for example – receives remarkably little attention.”

Well worth the read.

I think there's a bit more of an open question to that, Friend. There are plenty of folks in the private- enterprise space business who do not think that disabusing NASA of some of its bureausclerosis is necessarily a bad idea. It is not the case, you know, that everything one disagrees with can be laid at the feet of President Obama. The permanent civil service, that is to say, the actual administration, remains always more powerful, both here in Canada and in the United States, than it is ever given credit for (except on Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister). Of course, such knowledge tends not to play well into the hands of extremists on all sides, so naturally they are opposed to its dissemination.

Nevertheless, I do think that it remains important for us to always recall the words of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who famously noted that: "Experience has established that institutions, which at the outset were useful, often end by becoming intolerable abuses owing to the simple fact that everything around them has changed [...] and they have not".

"there may be little awareness conveyed to the general public that there are other views on the issues, much less informed criticism. Instead the public may hear that “all the experts agree” on the issue.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM450fH9KeY&feature=player_embedded

The Expert explaining to the general public what all the experts agree upon.

I'm glad he cleared that up for me. I got a warm and fuzzy feeling now.

Whenever anyone tells you, "all the experts agree", they are lying, because all the experts never agree on anything. By the time everyone agrees on something (as if that ever happens), the experts have nothing to do with it. On the other hand, without a place for meritocratic expertise within our species, our civilization, our society, we would remain without antiseptics, analgesics, antibiotics, and, when necessary, anesthetics. Would you like to live back then?

Thanks Vit! That is true country music!

Spread the seed:

Further to Mr G:

Social housing in Alberta, or as I interpret it, "You haven't earned it but we should pay so you can have it, no matter how many fathers your kids have.."
http://www.muhcab.ca/

If you are fortunate to live near a proposed or gasp, an existing facility, look forward to:

-loud drunken parties at 3:00am
-celebratory throwing beer bottles across the road in honour of aquireing subsidised accomodations.
-people at YOUR sidewalk looking to score some "hoot".
-steady parade of traffic wheeled and otherwise, looking to "score".
-out of towners, dropping by to do bagsfull of their laundry, subsidised by the taxpayer.
-vandalism to spike.

Don't mind me, the novelty has, indeed, worn off...

magnificent shock waves at 1:45

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

Barbara Kay's musings on G*d, G*dlessness, and the arrogance of the intelligentsia:

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=b5b6712e-636d-4e6a-aaad-08f707e15680

Vi t, people that invent, develop, design like scientists, doctors or engineers are not considered intellectuals by Sowell. His elitists deal only with ideas primarily with each other as a ruling class with no responsibility or penalty if their thoughts cause disaster.

I think the AGW scam is a perfect example of this with a false crisis proclaimed to the masses to generate fear, embellished or phony data to support it and all the usual suspects to unquestioningly sell it, teachers, journalists, politicians and pseudo "scientitions".

Even if the data is wrong they bleat we all must act to save the world. We know the truth and danger and are doing this for the "common good" and those who stand in our way are evil.

Without the courage of the whistleblower at the CRU and those like Kate, McKitrick, McIntyre, Ball, Monckton and us on the internet it would have worked and its not dead yet.

"Thank You, Glenn Beck, for Exposing Communism’s Evils

By Jamie Glazov

Beck's efforts ensure that the millions extinguished by the communist killing machine will not be forgotten.

The tortures included laying a man naked on a freezing cement floor, forcing his legs apart, and then an interrogator stepping on his testicles, applying increasing pressure until the confession surfaced. Imagine the consequences of no surfacing confession. Indeed, many people refused to confess to a crime they did not commit.

Daughters and sons were raped in front of their fathers and mothers — for the sake of extracting “confessions.”

These are just some of the delicacies that the Stalinist machinery inflicted on its citizenry in the hope of bringing socialism into earthly incarnation. Alexander Solzhenitsyn has shared much of this horror with us in his Gulag Archipelago — a work, mystifyingly enough, that I had never heard mentioned, except with a few exceptions, by one professor in a lecture or seminar in my entire eleven years studying Cold War history in academia. It was a work that I never saw, again with a few exceptions, on any academic syllabus — and many of my courses concerned Soviet history and American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union.

Both of my grandfathers were exterminated by Stalinist terror. Both of my parents, Yuri and Marina Glazov, were dissidents in the former Soviet Union. They risked their lives for freedom; they stood up against Soviet totalitarianism. They barely escaped the gulag, a fortune many of our friends and relatives did not share. I come from a system where a myriad of the closest people to my family simply disappeared, where relatives and family friends died under interrogation and torture for their beliefs — or for simply nothing at all.

Now try to imagine me sitting in the company of left-wing “intellectuals” in the West who think they are oppressed. This is my lifelong experience. I remember one radical feminist, whom I sat next to in a graduate student lounge, lecturing me sternly about how women in the West are oppressed because they wear bikinis on beaches; with a reprimanding tone, she explained to me that this represented the way capitalism objectifies women, marginalizes them from spheres of power, and metaphorically decapitates them as human beings. I remember asking her what she thought of female genital mutilation and honor killings in the Muslim world. To this I received a stone-cold silence and a frightening hateful stare, a stare with which I have become accustomed: I would be confined to a gulag or a psychiatric hospital if this particular individual had the power to place me there. This would be done for the good of society of course. My question was heresy: she could not, naturally, admit that evil adversarial cultures and ideologies existed — under which women truly suffer real oppression — for if she did, then she would have to sacrifice her entire worldview and personal identity.

Another colleague of mine, with great moral indignation and personal angst, once complained to me about how we are being “attacked” by Pepsi commercials."

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/thank-you-glenn-beck-for-exposing-communisms-evils/

US hockey team is 25% Ryans, we have a herd mentality at every stage of our being.

http://proicehockey.about.com/od/olympichockey/a/2010-usa-roster.htm

No doubt Harper will remain wilfully blind to the example.

Alistair MacDonald, Denmark Rallies Public Behind Afghan War

Among allied forces fighting in Afghanistan, few countries have deployed a bigger share of their armed forces than Denmark, and fewer still have taken higher levels of casualties. But the small Scandinavian country is emerging as an unlikely example of how to maintain public support for the war...

Canadian government: “there is no consensus”.
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“Maxime Bernier challenges climate science

While the Harper government has been widely criticized for its stance on climate change, it has not questioned the science behind international negotiations. And, notably, the government signed the agreement negotiated at the Copenhagen conference and has submitted its emission reduction targets as required.

Today, however, in a letter to La Presse (which he says was not seen by the PMO), ex-foreign minister Maxime Bernier defends the government’s approach from the point of view of a “skeptic.”

Some excerpts from the letter:”

“What is certain is that it would be irresponsible to spend billions of dollars and to impose unnecessarily stringent regulations to solve a problem whose gravity we still are not certain about. The alarmism that has characterized this debate is no longer appropriate. Canada is wise to be cautious.””

“We now recognize that it’s possible to be a “skeptic,” or at least to keep an open mind about nearly all critical aspects of the warming theory. For example, while no one questions whether there has been warming, there is no consensus among scientists as to its degree.

Moreover, we realize that during the period of greatest concern about warming – the last decade – temperatures have stopped increasing! Meanwhile, the quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere, said to be the cause of warming according to the official theory, is still increasing. Some very serious scientists believe that we are under-estimating the influence of the sun and other factors that have nothing to do with carbon emissions.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/spector-vision/bernier-challenges-climate-science/article1479289/

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/23/climategate-minority-report/#comment-327002

Feds Scrap extra credit for Pre-Sentence Jail Time
ctv.ca feb.23/2010

*Canadians convicted of crimes will no longer be eligible for double or triple credit for time served in pre-sentence custody, Under new legislation that came into effect Tuesday..

IMO: Where is the MSM on this?
very little or nothing in the media No Praise to the Federal Govt. & Provincial AG's whats so ever for finaly eliminating this Liberal Hug A Thug law.
A must read are the comments related & to the CTV article that are i might add Closed! And view the Vid reporters question the Minister.listen very closely to the 1rst question, Nothing to do with the new law whats so ever & Gloria Galloway follows next with question to Minister Nicholson.
Joe Warmington has a great commentary in the Toronto Sun yesterday Re: this.

In the not watching for the asteroid theme, ABC news to lay off hundreds.....

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/abc-news-to-cut-hundreds-of-staff-members/

Al Gore has a blog-
(well sort of, real blogs have a feedback mechanism while Al seems confused about the difference between what a webjournal and blog are)

Repower America Reports the Facts February 23, 2010 : 2:46 PM
With all the climate deniers spreading lies about the climate crisis in the media, it's vital we arm ourselves with the facts.

http://blog.algore.com/2010/02/repower_america_reports_the_fa.html

Raphael G. Satter, Dog of war: UK Lab fetches medal for bomb-sniffing

A perky British Labrador whose bomb-sniffing exploits helped save lives in Afghanistan was decorated for canine courage in a ceremony at London's Imperial War Museum Wednesday.

Eight-year-old Treo joins a menagerie of heroic animals honored over the years with a special award known as the Dicken medal, including 32 pigeons, three horses and a cat...

The military nominated Treo for the prize in recognition of his help uncovering a series of Taliban bombs during his time serving in Afghanistan's insurgency-wracked Helmand Province in 2008. The Labrador is the medal's 63rd recipient since its inception in 1943, according to the Peoples Dispensary for Sick Animals, the charity that awards the prize...

I'd like to nominate this guy as the world's worst husband and father.

http://www.startribune.com/world/85009842.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUss

McGuinty to Prorogue
ctv toronto

IMO: of course we all know this is different, as McGuinty states It's Only for 4 days! The PM was 2 months.

Al Gore's Weather (AGW).

Hail. Consensus on size.
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"Hail, strong winds reported in Palm Beach Co.

PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL--Shortly after a severe thunderstorm warning was posted in Southeastern Palm Beach County there were reports of hail and strong winds in suburban Lake Worth.

Doppler radar indicated the storm sweeping through the county was capable of producing golf ball size hail as well as damaging winds in excess of 60 miles per hour."
http://www.wptv.com/content/breakingnews/story/hail-winds-tornado-wptv-lake-worth/2IMgJf4_qUuXB54vZ9KZOg.cspx

http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWS/home.html

"Williams' U.S. surgery had cosmetic benefits

An international expert on heart repair says he would rarely recommend the type of heart surgery Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams received earlier this month at a Miami hospital because its only long-term benefit is cosmetic."
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"HST will enhance breast augmentation

Women in the market for a bigger pair of breasts should know that the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) will push up the price by $400-$800."

It really REALLY ain't Churchill's England anymore is it?

"Schools should not force girls to wear skirts - it discriminates against transsexuals, warns watchdog"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1252674/Watchdog-warms-schools-force-girls-wear-skirts-discriminates-transsexuals.html#ixzz0gBwmNNAm=

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"What does a person have to do to be deemed a threat
to the general public? Oh yeah, I remember, become a
legally registered firearms owner."

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All Is Illusion [John Derbyshire]

This is a gem. A chap named Jonathan Springston, senior staff writer at Atlanta Progressive News was let go. Why? He believed in reality. In APN's own words:

At a very fundamental, core level, Springston did not share our vision for a news publication with a progressive perspective. He held on to the notion that there was an objective reality that could be reported objectively, despite the fact that that was not our editorial policy at Atlanta Progressive News. It just wasn’t the right fit.

All together now, you know the tune:
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about . . .

Source: The Corner at National Review.

Is the world going bonkers?

Consider this “Mall security guard accuses shopper of being a paedophile for photographing his own son”.
On top of that a local police makes the father delete picture of his son from the camera.
The reality here is so convoluted, it is bizarre.
How can the British live in this neurotic climate?

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/24/mall-security-guard.html

Probably good for your “government packing your school lunch” file.

CBC.ca has an article up about Bernier's climate assertions. The comments,much to my surprise,are focused on his affair with the Julie broad. Maxime urges people to be skeptical about AGW,and the lefties don't like that.

Sorry,forgot the link,--http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/02/24/quebec-mp-maxime-bernier-doubts-climate-change-science.html-

Islam.
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"Father of missing NJ baby charged with murder

NEWARK, N.J. – A New Jersey man who allegedly told police he threw his 3-month-old daughter off a bridge into an icy river was charged Wednesday with her murder.

Shamsid-Din Abdur-Raheem, of Galloway Township, pleaded not guilty last week to charges including the attempted murder of the child's maternal grandmother. Police say he assaulted the woman at her East Orange apartment and ripped the child from her arms on Feb. 16, the same day the girl's mother sought a restraining order against him.

Attorney General Paula Dow said the search for the baby was ongoing. Despite the lack of a body, there was enough evidence to corroborate Abdur-Raheem's account and to file the first-degree murder charge.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2458593/posts

Another kumbaya moment goes horribly wrong...

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/02/24/13011916-ap.html

ACORN’s New Shell
The Democrats’ money-and-muscle operation is rebranding, not disbanding.

ACORN is not dissolving. But some of its local affiliates, in an effort to suggest they’re cutting ties with the organization, are giving themselves new names.

http://article.nationalreview.com/425991/acorns-new-shell/kevin-williamson

Please forgive me, but they're not called "killer whales" for nothing, are they?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/02/24/GA2010022405140.html

'Anyone know anything about Linda Sky Grossman, author of many books used by the Toronto Child Abuse Centre and their "BOOST" program in Toronto schools?

Biographical details on this author are obscure (though her photo on the back cover is by a professional photog while the photo of the illustrator gets no such credits).

I read some of that "Atlanta Progressive News" stuff, and it's laughable (except for the unfortunate situation of the fired reporter, of course). I found more discussion at a blog called Creative Loafing. Get this, from APN's FAQs:

"Progressive news is news that brings us closer to universal health care, living wages, affordable housing, peace, a healthy environment, and voting systems we can trust."

A commenter who understands objectivity has figured it out: "'Universal health-care' is always a race to the bottom (everyone gets it, but no one wants it); 'living wages' aren't; 'affordable housing' means slums; 'peace' means subjection; 'a healthy environment' is something that no socialist/communist/progressive government has ever created; and 'voting systems we can trust', to a progressive, means a permanently stuffed ballot box ensuring the vote goes their way and only their way."

More from APN: "We believe there is no such thing as objective news. Typically, mainstream media presents itself as objective but is actually skewed towards promoting the corporate agenda of the ultra-wealthy."

And even: "Creative Loafing's slant is so inline with the bourgeois, corporate ideology of most of the corporate media in Atlanta ..."

Finally, one more rational commenter: "Without 'Objective Reality' you have no epistemological basis for knowing or deciding what is 'fair' or even what 'is'.