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Ex-Nazi Collaborator & Leader Of U.S. Left: Cashing In On Financial Disasters?

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2010/02/ex-nazi-collaborator-leader-of-us-left.html

First he broke the Bank of England, profiting massively... Now he would like to see the breaking of the Euro. And he stands to profit massively...

A secretive group of Wall Street hedge fund bosses are said to be behind a plot to cash in on the decline of the euro.

Representatives of George Soros's investment business were among an all-star line up of Wall Street investors at an 'ideas dinner' at a private townhouse in Manhattan, according to reports.

A spokesman for Soros Fund Management said the legendary investor did not attend the dinner on February 8, but did not deny that his firm was represented.

Always nice to see someone open with Godwin's law. Two no clubs.

Hey all - If we win the gold medal in hockey tomorrow it would set a world record for the most medals won in a winter Olympic - by ANY country!
We are now tied with Norway (2002) and Russia (1976).

Wow, for such a small nation, I am overwhelmingly proud.

A big WAY TO GO to all our athletes.

Let's sing our hearts out all over the country.

As a boy, the most severe punishment I endured was to be prohibited from watching Red Skelton, Bonanza or The Three stooges. Thanks Vit!

CONGRATULATIONS TO KEVIN MARTIN AND HIS TEAM!!! WAY TO GO!!!!
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Don't get much better than Red Skelton!

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But, a Throne Speech and Budget will erase all humor:

"The Canadian Press Date: Saturday Feb. 27, 2010

MONTREAL — An analysis by the Quebec Ministry of Finance suggests the province has one of the most heavily indebted economies in the industrialized world.

The 44-page document calculates the province's total debt as 94 per cent of GDP, employing methods used by the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development.

The government report, available on the ministry's website, compares the total provincial public debt to that of other Canadian provinces and to major industrialized nations.

Quebec ranks only below Japan, Italy, Greece and Iceland in terms of public debt as a percentage of GDP.

The report calculates public debt across Canada as 69.7 per cent of the country's GDP.

The report puts Quebec's total public debt at $285.6 billion."

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100227/quebec_debt_100227/20100227?hub=QPeriod

Erase all humour? Don't be silly. Humans don't work that way.

And Red from my Youtube favourites list,

The Pledge of Allegiance,

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

I agree, Jim, that's a great Skelton.

Red is one of my all time favourites - brings back memories.

They just don't make them like that anymore.

Is it that they don't make them like that any more,
or is it that we don't make us like that any more?

Canada choke full of natural gas:

"A gas shipping terminal in the city of Kitimat on Canada's West Coast was originally planned to import gas, but in 2008 the terminal owners, Kitimat LNG Inc., realized that shale gas could boost Canada's output and redesigned it to export LNG. The C$4.1 billion project is scheduled to begin construction this year, and to begin operation in 2014."

http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=88219&hmpn=1

Anyone else just feel this?

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

Felt the lastest one from Oklahoma all the way up here in the Ottawa valley region. Shook the house, although we're situated on bedrock, others may not have felt it.

Apparently, Saskabush has made a comeback and is roasting Danny Williams:

http://tinyurl.com/ylzkofa

Anne not from Cornwall:

the medal count record should be taken with a very large grain of salt as dozens of new events have been added just in the last couple of decades. Snowboarding, shorttrack speed skating to name just a two hole categories. Frankly I think they're just making some of them up to pad the number of winter events.

(ps- has anyone else noticed that there are only two events that actually involve projectiles and teams using them against each other - curling and hockey. No wonder winter is so boring.)

(pps- and why do we count medals the way we do? Short-track speed skating gets about a dozen whereas hockey only has two events. Shouldn't we be counting the number of medals given out - aren't team sports like hockey getting shafted compared to obscure events like skeleton? In my way of counting Canada won five gold at curling and have won 23 in Women's hockey and soon will have 23 more in the mens.

By that metric Canada will by a huge margin have the highest gold count and this will also more accurately reflect the relative popularity of these events. Somebody should publish a chart.)

Anne @ 10:15pm - Yes! and if we do we could call that feat "Own the Goldium"

Anyone else find it interesting that a CNN commentator(?)stated something akin to "it is impossible to predict how large the tsunami waves will be, even with all our sophisticated technology." He was referring to the buoy's recording ocean movement in real time. yet, AGWers, aka climate change scientists, insist they know when all the glaciers will melt and how high the sea levels will be. The term "Climate Change" irks me to no end - climate does nothing but change - redundancy.

Is it that they don't make them like that any more, or is it that we don't make us like that any more?
~Vitruvius

We are in the process of making us like that again.
Clem Kadiddlehopper was a hobo and reminiscent of what a lot of people experienced during the last Depression.
Of course you have to be on the other side of the Depression to look back and laugh.

Red never lost his faith in God and realizing that the blessings that he had in his life always ended every show by saying, "and may God bless."

I remember his very last show where he explained that he always said "may" because he didn't want to make demands upon God.

We always watched his show every Sunday night as a family together after Disney, often with a tuna fish casserole in our stomachs because that was all my folks could afford for Sunday night dinner.

Saturday night was Don Messer's Jubilee.

This one has it all: A little girl tortured and starved to death while being monitored by social services in the toilet that is modern Britain; broken families and all the misery they cause; and, oh yes, some Islamic craziness too.

Here.

My favorite line: the child's mother is described as having "...low self-esteem and depression..."

(I wouldn't usually bring up something I found on Mark Steyn's website - he links to this article in the sidebar - on the grounds that it's probably sort of redundant, since people who read SDA likely read Steyn too. But this one just bothers me too much.)

@Vitruvius at February 27, 2010 10:57 PM

"Is it that they don't make them like that any more,
or is it that we don't make us like that any more?"

the enquiring mind - always promoting thoughtful questions. je vous remercie pour ca.

Vitruvius, thank you very much for this. I knew you would come through. Now I know what I will be watching when the hockey game gets boring on Sunday afternoon. I am already laughing just thinking about Red.

Still nothing in the news about 200 IT workers getting the punt from the Alberta Government in Edmonton.

Yeah, well, nothing times nothing equals nothing.

Gord: I get what you're pitching, but I have to disagree. I find the winter games far more entertaining than the summer games. That may be partly because of CBC's horrible coverage of Beijing, but whatever. In my evaluation, the Biathlon is probably the most entertaining and the most martial of all the events of summer or winter. Just ask the Fins.

Kind of reminds me of Chretien

Boozy ape sent to rehab

http://www.montrealgazette.com/travel/Boozy+chimp+sent+rehab+Russia/2616639/story.html

Can't help but think Islamic ideology was behind that little girl starving to death..

Revnant Dream - The poor chimp will have to attend AA meetings for the rest of its life.

BBC: Canada revel in record gold medal haul

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympic_games/vancouver_2010/8539912.stm

"Canada have become the most successful ever hosts of a Winter Olympics after guaranteeing that they will finish top of the medals table in Vancouver."

Considering the way weather has been such a big topic about the Winter Olympics this year, I took a look at Sochi, Russia, home of the 2014 Olympics, in Google Earth. Sochi is located on the Black Sea, just north of Georgia. According to a weather forecast there, it,s supposed to reach 14 C with showers today. They may have more snow problems than Vancouver/Cypress/Whistler had.

That match at three pm eastern isn't over yet ;)

I like Canada's chances, but, well, I don't need to remind you all what happened when last they met.

As an American, I just ignore medal counts. I do this because I spent the time of the Winter Olympics in Sydney, it must have been '96. A skier came home to Australia having won a bronze medal and she was a national hero. I never looked at the Olympics the same way again.

Chile-Haiti: Earthquake Agreement.

“On Port-au-Prince’s streets Saturday, many people had not heard of Chile’s quake. More than half a million are homeless, most still lack electricity and are preoccupied about trying to get enough to eat.

Fanfan Bozot, a 32-year-old reggae singer having lunch with a friend, could only shake his head at his government’s reliance on international relief to distribute food and water.

>>> “Chile has a responsible government,” he said, waving his hand in disgust. “Our government is incompetent.”
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“Chile built for resistance, Haiti to crumble”

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/02/27/13054566-ap.html

What message would you send into space?

Last day to submit your entry...

http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2010/02/what-message-would-you-send-into-space.html

AGW's Weather: no comment.
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"UN's climate link to hurricanes in doubt

Research by hurricane scientists may force the UN’s climate panel to reconsider its claims that greenhouse gas emissions have caused an increase in the number of tropical storms."

"... the latest research, just published in Nature Geoscience, paints a very different picture.

It suggests that the rise in hurricane frequency since 1995 was just part of a natural cycle, and that several similar previous increases have been recorded, each followed by a decline.

Looking to the future, it also draws on computer modelling to predict that the most likely impact of global warming will be to decrease the frequency of tropical storms, by up to 34% by 2100."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7044158.ece

Bull: coverage has a lot to do with it i suspect. I too like the biathlon. Activities like skicross are somewhat entertaining but things like luge are unwatchable on tv and must border on torture in person.

Meanwhile in the summer olympics we have soccer, volleyball (Women's) beach vollyball, basketball, team handball, tennis, baseball (not next time apparently), golf (next time).

I would really like to see the IOC open up the winter olympics to take in activities that do not involve ice and snow, but that are played in the winter - bowling and darts to name two.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28gore.html?pagewanted=all

Al Gore's essay in the New York Times.

Is it that they don't make them like that any more, or is it that we don't make us like that any more?
Posted by: Vitruvius at February 27, 2010 10:57 PM

I actually GOT this one. A profound observation. Others have observed the family viewing of that era, which also included things like family dining. My earliest TV memory is sitting in the LR with two parents and 4 siblings debating what the images were, the reception was that snowy. And yeah, we all watched the obligatory Skeleton and we all laughed, which was rare in the presence of my father.

I don't think I'd like Red today but at the same time I don't like that I don't like.

Well, "Nazi collaborator" is shorter and more concise than "European who survived the war intact", but there's little else to recommend its use. For several years there were just three classes of people in Europe: Nazis, Nazi collaborators, and corpses. Only one is really blameworthy.

Sentinel @ 9:54, it may not be "ex".

Vitruvius, it is the latter. Today's mores stifle Red's style of delivery and content.

Thanks again for the show. It was great. What is the best thing to take for sore stomach muscles? I am not sure how we do without black and white these days. Just think ladies, the Mazola Oil people were concerned about our ingestion of saturated fats even in the old days.