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Excellent selection, EBD.

Collusion, financial chicanery, ooh and even the softball press at Microsoft is noticing the state of Canada's public finances http://money.ca.msn.com/investing/jim-jubak/article.aspx?cp-documentid=23605492

People who don't like Leonard Cohen aren't assembled properly. Nice choice, batb and EBD.

World Vision office attack in Pakistan. Six aid workers killed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8559078.stm

Democracy ruined a perfectly good Republic.

Yup, real profound, just like Sinatra and Boris - oh sorry couldn't find the little triangle -Disassembled.

Good choice of song EBD!
On the topic of democracy AT CBC.CA. Bethany College in Hepburn, Sk is having their second annual pig roast in April. Guest speaker is New York Dept of Fire Chief Richard Picciotto, who was trapped in the twin towers on 9-1-1 but managed to escape. A picture of the Twin Towers appears on the posters and the pamplets, some that have already been mailed out.

Hepburn is in a Sask. Party constituency. Now NDP MLA SANDRA MORIN is condemning the college's posters as inapropriate. (Get it--pig roast--twin towers burning.) Yet not one member of the constituency had complained.
(Question: How does that involve the Sask. Party??)
What were they supposed to put on the poster?? Tommy Douglas standing beside the wheat pool elevator with the pig on a leash??

Check the story out at Cbc.Ca, (Sask.) And PLEASE, don't let Morin get away with this!

Try, try again.

The lads who tried to build a mega mosque that would feature prominently in shots of London during the 2012 Olympic games have recently come back with an alternate plan to build a mosque with five domes and two 100ft minarets near the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.

Thankfully the locals voted it down.

holie crap . CBCpravda backpedaling faster than a one legged man on a unicycle when it comes to protecting the lieberals . 3 months of whining about the conservatives and then suddenly the revelation it was the libs all along.

http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/03/10/afghan-detainees-controversy.html

CBCpravda ALL LIBERAL ALL The time komrade

CBCpravda makes one big ommission in this story .
SNCLavalin is a Quebec contractor!!! liberal to the core.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/03/10/public-works-expenses010.html

Who doesn't like Leonard Cohen?

I LOVE Leonard Cohen's music. "The Future" and "Famous Blue Raincoat" are two of my favourites. He's brilliant.

I hate Leonard Cohen.

I love Louise. I encourage and support Warren Z.

EBD:

There's a great CBC video on "Louise." Louise was a French Canadian girl, she is now an old hippy living in California. Fantastic!

I DON'T like Leonard Cohen for the simple fact that BECAUSE he's Canadian it's almost a requirement of my citizenship that I worship him.

I don't NEED to listen to Cohen or Joanie Mitchell or shrieking Nephie fiddles to award me with some sense of 'CAN-CON consciousness'.

Why do we Canadians feel it so important to trumpted from the top of the Rocky Mountains that Leonard Cohen, Donald Southerland, Michael J. Fox and William Shatner were born in Canada? Good grief. I think the closing Olympic ceremonies about sums it up. (read: over the top cheezy Canadianna of inflatable Moose, beavers and Mounties). Give me a freaking break.

...but if Cohen floats your boat, go for it. I won't accuse you of being more or less 'assembled' than me.

Reader Tip: Rona Ambrose launches investigation into questionable Public Works contracts awarded by former Liberal government.

EDB:

Sorry, I meant Suzanne as in L. Cohen's song.

Thank-you for posting one of my favorite L. Cohen songs, EBD. It is gritty and interesting, like the man himself.

Glen Beck's take on Danny William's heart - it could be the story of any Canadian with Danny's heart problem except a Canadian without a big bank account would just die.

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/videos/?uri=channels/338017/820629

Excellent choice EBD. I took your advice and just listened to my copy.

Sorry Vit, I played it over a local share where it's digitized from my original CD. Please forgive my copyright transgressions. :)

"I DON'T like Leonard Cohen for the simple fact that BECAUSE he's Canadian it's almost a requirement of my citizenship that I worship him."

Nobody expects an Eskimo to worship Leonard Cohen.

Now return to ruminating on your seal flesh.

The natural end result of the Big Lie of socialism.

"Margaret Thatcher once said that "The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."

"They have either used the euro, along with tricks and falsification, to live for years at the expense of others, or they have deliberately looked the other way."
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"Built on a Lie

The Fundamental Flaw of Europe's Common Currency"

"Many of the most notorious gamblers don't work on the trading floors of international financial centers, but in government offices in Athens, Madrid, Berlin and Brussels. They have either used the euro, along with tricks and falsification, to live for years at the expense of others, or they have deliberately looked the other way.

The notion that the European common currency is based on nothing but a series of lies is now taking its toll. All of the founders of the euro knew that the new currency could only be stable if all member states committed themselves to sound financial policy and, in the long run, spent only as much as they collected in tax revenue. But many ignored this principle right from the start."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,682432,00.html

Thanks, EBD. I do love Leonard Cohen -- not for his voice (though I like its grittiness) but for his lyrics. The guy gets it -- and he knows his Scripture. He's a truly educated gent.

I am going to sound ungrateful, now, so please forgive me. Democracy is a great song (and could be the subject of an entire university course, one that would be worth taking) but the song I keep referencing is The Future ('good pick, chutzpahticular!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_drEFOaPaK8 (in which Mr. Cohen is accompanied by an eye-catching and elegant backup section)

Chorus:

Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant ...

Again, EBD, many thanks. ;-)

Of Flu/AGW & Peer(sic) Review.
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"FLU SHOTS FUTILE: STUDY(sic)

Nursing Home Test; 'Didn't find' proof immunization stops virus"

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2668629
...-

"Remember Julian Simon

Today’s Climategate is predictable with some of the same players at work–and many new ones as well. Remember how Paul R. Ehrlich treated his intellectual rival Julian Simon? The Stanford University biologist refused to debate Simon or even meet him in person. He insulted Simon repeatedly in print. Ehrlich even scolded Science magazine for publishing Simon’s 1980 breakthrough essay “Resources, Population, Environment: An Oversupply of Bad News,” with the words: “Could the editors have found someone to review Simon’s manuscript who had to take off this shoes to count to 20?” (quoted in Julian Simon, The Ultimate Resource II, 1996, p. 612)."

"Examining peer review in the context of genetically modified food, Robert Horton, editor of the medical Journal Lancet has observed that “the mistake, of course, is to have thought that peer review was any more than a crude means of discovering the acceptability—not the validity—of a new finding. Editors and scientists alike insist on the pivotal importance of peer review. We portray peer review to the public as a quasi-sacred process that helps to make science our most objective truth teller. But we know that the system of peer review is biased, unjust, unaccountable, incomplete, easily fixed, often insulting, usually ignorant, occasionally foolish, and frequently wrong.”"

http://www.masterresource.org/category/hubrisconceit/

This way to the Green Egress.

See the man-made Green Bubble hockey-stick graphs.

"The worst is yet to come."
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"Terence Corcoran: Green energy bubbles

Despite bubbles, governments keep pumping air into alternative energy"

"The dot.comish quality of the solar industry is obvious. Even worse from an economic perspective are the perverse government policies driving the market. Ontario insists on local content in solar and wind equipment, thus guaranteeing rate payers will pay high prices for equipment that is available on the open market at deep discounts.

Even more perverse economically is that the subsidies for alternative energy come on top of other carbon-reducing programs. Programs such as carbon taxes in British Columbia and smart meters in Ontario compound the cost burden on consumers. If cap and trade were to be thrown on top of the green energy programs and existing taxes, the irrationality of the green energy system would become even greater.

Maybe the hissing sound of deflating bubbles will eventually shake up the politicians and consumers. The worst is yet to come."

http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/03/10/terence-corcoran-green-energy-bubbles.aspx

Eskimo @1:20 - I can't stand Margaret Atwood, if that helps.

Geoff Brumfiel, Nuclear weapons physics: Welcome to the Atomic Weapons Establishment

With the launch of a powerful laser facility, Britain's most secretive lab is opening up to academics...

Tarnak River Bridge, near Kandahar:

Michael Yon, The Bridge

The military axiom that “amateurs talk strategy while professionals talk logistics” has special meaning in Afghanistan...

For a good laugh cruise on over to the National Post and read what Elizabeth May has to say about Climategate.

I've never read so many lies in one article!
She says...don't demonize the messenger...
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=2668690&p=1

She tells the biggest wopper I've ever heard in how she describes what the scientists do at East Anglia and the CRU.
With no rebuttal allowed, (no Comments allowed).
The National Post just lost another!

Liz May writes garbage blog post and savaged in the comments:

http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/03/11/elizabeth-e-may-don-t-demonize-the-messenger.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

People are suddenly whining about a flyer I received several days ago which features an image which is fairly appropriate in context:

Inarticulate raving about potential hurt feelings abound.

Will conservative MPs get a special ring to get out of jail free?

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2668391

How do you spell 'fascism', Mr. Harper?

How many Liberals does it take to Change a LightBulb?
Obviously quite a few!

Ambrose orders review Into questionable Contract
ctv.ca mar.11/2010

*Lavalin subsidary called Profac..
*managing more then 300 public bldgs
*signed contract in 2004 for $6 Billion
*$5000.00 to change 6 light bulbs
*$1000.00 for a doorbell
*$2000... for 2 office plants

A "pig roast", with a pic of the WTC attack?

Must be the Sask Party:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2010/03/10/sk-fundraiser-pig-roast-dinner-poster.html

mojo at March 11, 2010 11:12 AM

That's the kind of inarticulate bleating I was talking about. The fundraiser is features a senior firefighter who was present at 9/11.

People (from opposing parties no less) who make conjectures about euphemisms about police and the word roast being juxtaposed with a burning tower need to take their meds.

Thanks, Black Mamba. For a while I was worried I'd have to go into hiding with Salman Rushdie, having just commited the ultimate in Canadian blasphemy!

Update: UN/AGW Fraud.

O’Hope has died. Fear remains.

Ehrlich: ““Everyone is scared shitless, but they don’t know what to do,” he says.”
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“Climategate Stunner: NASA Heads Knew NASA Data Was Poor, Then Used Data from CRU

New emails from James Hansen and Reto Ruedy (download PDF here) show that NASA’s temperature data was doubted within NASA itself, and was not independent of CRU’s embattled data, as has been claimed.”

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/climategate-stunner-nasa-heads-knew-nasa-data-was-poor-then-used-data-from-cru/?singlepage=true

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“Climate of fear

The integrity of climate research has taken a very public battering in recent months. Scientists must now emphasize the science, while acknowledging that they are in a street fight.

Climate scientists are on the defensive, knocked off balance by a re-energized community of global-warming deniers who, by dominating the media agenda, are sowing doubts about the fundamental science. Most researchers find themselves completely out of their league in this kind of battle because it’s only superficially about the science. The real goal is to stoke the angry fires of talk radio, cable news, the blogosphere and the like, all of which feed off of contrarian story lines and seldom make the time to assess facts and weigh evidence. Civility, honesty, fact and perspective are irrelevant.

Worse, the onslaught seems to be working:” (more)

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7286/full/464141a.html
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Hope and Fear.

“Charles Lamb:

“Hope* is charming, lively, blue-eyed wench, & I am always glad of her company, but could dispense with the visitor she brings with her, her younger sister, fear*, a white liver’d-lilly-cheeked, bashful palpitating, awkward hussey that hangs like a green girl at her sister’s apron strings & will go with her whithersoever she goes.”
(Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb)”

Leonard Cohen is the Canadian answer to Bob Dylan. While both have written some good material, their idolization by the "experts" or wanna bees, is enough to make me gag. Like dropping names to impress, it is as about exciting as a dead poet's society reunion. The fact that one is Canadian has never determined my taste in artists (musical or otherwise).

Just for the record, I've always enjoyed Dylan's Lay Lady Lay and kd lang did a great rendition of Cohen's Hallelujah at the Olympics.

Joe Citizen @ 1:19 AM, glad you cleared that up.

William in Ajax @ 10:19 AM, what the he!! is the National Post doing to itself. First they give the Dawg space for a regular column and now her???!!

Why are you silent about CPC pushing for random roadside breath tests?

You should be screaming fascism into Harper's ears.

What's next? They will start randomly searching people in the streets for parole violations, drugs and guns? If it only saves one life, so to speak. Where did I hear that?

Or if it's cons who are doing Hitler, it's fine?

See you behind barbed wire! Oh, but why am I getting my pants in the knot? I don't even drink alcohol...

Issues on which your views are sought:

http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cons/mtpcc-mdccmt/6.html#issues

Hit this poll: http://www.calgaryherald.com/index.html

Socialism/communism/fascism/nazism, etc. = tyranny of the collective.
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"Remembering a Dissident

One day, when I was nine years old, my father and I were on our way to Church. As we neared the entrance, I spat on the ground. Reflexively, my dad’s arm shot out across my chest like a railway barrier, blocking my motion forward. We stood there, frozen in time, for some three seconds until my father uttered, in a very serious but patient way: “It is ok to spit outside of KGB headquarters, but never in front of a place such as this.” I registered the message and indicated my understanding — and we proceeded on our way.

That was my dad’s moral clarity and sharp, quick-witted way with words; and the sacred values that spawned those words made a profound impression on me from the moment of my birth. I was born into a family of Russian dissidents — a father and a mother, Yuri and Marina Glazov, who put their clenched fists up and went toe-to-toe with the Evil Empire.

Throughout my youth, my dad shared many stories with me, which included how he had always been aware, even in his youth, that he existed in a slave camp masquerading as a country and that he perpetually dreamed of escaping it. He spent his young years studying maps, trying to decipher which body of water he could swim across to escape the communist paradise he languished in. But his life ended up going a different way: he confronted the slave masters, rather than escaping the prison they had built.

My father was a scholar at the Soviet Academy of Sciences and a professor at Moscow State University. His main field of study concerned Oriental languages and cultures, with a specialty in the Chinese, Sanskrit and Tamil areas. Despite his rewarding career, my dad put everything on the line and began to attend human rights demonstrations in Moscow on behalf of political prisoners. He also started to sign letters of protest against the political repressions that were heightening in the country in the 1960s, connected as they were to the re-Stalinization of the Soviet Union after the Khrushchev thaw. The activities my dad engaged in could land a Soviet citizen in the gulag or a psychiatric hospital for decades.

On February 24, 1968, my father signed the Letter of Twelve, a letter written and signed by twelve Soviet dissidents to the Supreme Congress of Communist Parties in Budapest denouncing Soviet human rights abuses. He was immediately fired from his work for being “unprofessional” in his scholarly studies (even though he previously had received high praise for his academic studies)."

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/03/11/remembering-a-dissident/

Just an observation;Over at the cbc website,they don't have a story on the detainee crisis featured today. Yesterday,they finally put up a story that linked the detainee deal to the liberals. I don't think that this is a coincidence. FIRE.THEM.ALL.

Black Mamba: "I can't stand Margaret Atwood, if that helps."

It helps enormously, Black Mamba, because I can't stand her either; she makes me gag, and it's good to know that I'm not the only one who finds her ghastly.

'Get a load of this: "Canadian literary icon Margaret Atwood says she's joined the star-packed cast of the film, 'Score: A Hockey Musical'":

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100310/entertainment/film_margaret_atwood

... "Atwood says she plays herself in a brief cameo, and sings."

This is one film I'll never see. I can't think of anything worse than Margaret-I-can't-seem-to-open-my-mouth-Atwood singing in a musical -- about hockey.

Yuk, yuk, and YUCK!

K Stricker at March 11, 2010 11:24 AM

"inarticulate bleating"?

Baaaaaaah...

She sings!? That's awful. She has an excellent voice for silent film.

Black Mamba: "She has an excellent voice for silent film."

LOL!

MmmHmm.

Where is everyone?!

A beautiful musical meditation this Lent from Loreena McKennitt (via The Anchoress):

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/grace_notes/_loreena_mckennitt_the.php

When the world is too much with you, it's not a bad idea to spend some time with St. John and the Eternals. Suggested by The Anchoress' compilation today where she shares:

“The Lord measures out perfection neither by the multitude nor the magnitude of our deeds, but by the manner in which we perform them.”
— St. John of the Cross

batb: "Black Mamba: 'She [Atwood] has an excellent voice for silent film.'

"LOL!"

This is in regard to: "Canadian literary icon Margaret Atwood says she's joined the star-packed cast of the film, 'Score: A Hockey Musical' . . . Atwood says she plays herself in a brief cameo, and sings."

HELP!

The kids of a good friend of mine, a singer, went to the same school as Atwood’s daughter. My friend and Atwood happened to be standing in a gaggle of parents at the school’s holiday fest, when some carol singing—yes, this was decades ago!—broke out. My friend reported that Atwood was tone deaf and sang, in a weedy voice, altogether out of tune.

I guess that, in Atwood’s movie performance, the new technology will be able to both ameliorate any handicaps and still vouch for the result being Atwood’s own contribution. (In this case, it seems that duplicity might actually be a worthwhile exercise!)