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Ann Coulter on the Michael Coren Show

Vitruvius, that is a great little slide show you found.

Voltaire had a great concept with that comment. It is unfortunate that so many, especially in academia and some government agencies, no longer hold to this. We lost so many good men in the wars of the 20th century to defend Voltaire's concept and now some want to shut everyone up who does not agree with them.

Speaking of which, I thought Anne Coulter acquitted herself thoughtfully during Michael Coren's show.

Great Anne Coulter coverage. And it's not over...

As she said on Coren it's logic that baffles the lefties.

However,lets not ignore the fact that 3 Libs voted against a Lib motion in the HoC today.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/03/23/politics-liberals-contraception-g8-motion.html

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. “

~ Joseph Goebbels

An ordinary guy responsible for saving 2.2 million babies nears his 1,000th blood donation. It is so refreshing to see a lone individual make that much of a difference for good.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1259627/Man-golden-arm-James-Harrison-saves-2million-babies-half-century-donating-rare-blood.html

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newsflash...

Uber-Lib Bob Rae hospitalised... after sustaining mysterious,
massive, penetrating wound... between shoulder blades.

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Thanks Vit!! Great song!! Funny how American singers of that ere "rolled" their "Rs" like the Spanish and the Italians! Just listen to Al Jolson, you'll know what I mean. I always love to listen to your late night picks!!

neo: that is hilarious...

but perhaps a better characterization is that the "Rae-gun" jammed and the mission was 'aborted'...
Well what do you know Bob Rae got NDP'd!

Newly Dumbfounded Policy

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North"

neo...you said it so much better than me...

Is it true the Liblogs are oblivious tonight?

Mississauga Matt, thanks always for posting Michael Coren onto youtube, I've taken the liberty to comment and link your work on Pamela's site,

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/03/censored-commies-and-keffiyehs-cancel-coulter-at-canadian-college.html

... strange to see people wearing table cloths for scarves?

Mississauga Matt - many thanks for your link.

From the always amusing zerohedge.com:

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/72-democrats-84-republicans-and-80-independents-think-economy-could-collapse

Sample from the comments:

The problem is not so much a collapse in the economy as a collapse in credibility.

Somehow we are supposed to ignore what we see and believe what our community organizer reads off the teleprompter.

And to sorta go along with the UofO's treatment of a guest speaker....and is a big day for "T" also

1919 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.

1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.

Ahhhhhhh....fascists/nazis rejoice.

And just think,not long until Lenin shows up!!!!

NOT Voltaire...

Thanks. That music really takes me back. It was among the tunes on the seemingly ancient records my brothers dusted off at our grandmother's summer house on Cape Cod. They cranked up an old Victrola, and we spent hours listening to that stuff, much of which was light-hearted or comic. The favorites were one about a combative man and his wife, and something like "nice to get up in the morning".

The provenance of the Voltaire quote is dubious. In any case, my version is better:
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to your death the right to say it." ;)

Toronto Star editorial, Tuesday, Mar. 23.

Obama prevailed by "staking out a bold, activist agenda for the people".

Robbing Peter to pay Paul is never "bold", it's backward, cowardly, paternalistic, arrogant, unethical and violent.

Also: "the Liberals' Canada at 150 think tank in Montreal this weekend is a chance to revitalize liberalism with bold, paradigm-shifting ideas".

See previous comment. When you stop falsely claiming to be able to spend our money better than we can, we'll consider voting for you. Now that's what I call a paradigm shift.

You're right, Mannord, the quote isn't actually Voltaire's but Evelyn Beatrice Hall's. Hall explained that she was paraphrasing Voltaire's "Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too", a phrase which, if you think about it, is saying something quite different - not opposite, exactly, just different - than the the "defend to the death" quip.

Later, the book Aphorisms Galore, among others, mistakenly attributed the "defend to the death" quote to Voltaire.

I most enjoy this modern update from Avram Grumer, in May 2000:

"I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to mis-attribute this quote to Voltaire."

Toronto Star, Tuesday, Mar. 23.

Blowhard financial/economics columnist David Olive complains about foreign ownership, claiming it leads to a lack of "innovation" (the old warhorse that the other David (Crane) has been flogging for the past 20 years as if he'd discovered some mystical revelation while the rest of us fell off the turnip truck).

Olive: "Innovation is a key to productivity gains, the principal means by which we raise our standard of living".

It's part of it, sure, but the real key to productivity gains is PROFIT. Businesses produce things they think consumers want, and by making more or better or cheaper products, they make profits while raising the standard of living, a win-win situation stemming from voluntary trade of goods and services for mutual benefit. So keep the taxes low and the subsidies non-existent.

Olive: "we have not devised a national industrial strategy that incubates cash-strapped yet promising start-ups that might someday have the required heft of a Bombardier, Magna or RIM" ...

"Industrial strategy" (which can mean anything from "picking winners" to "central planning") is worthless. Consumers are supposed to make the decisions regarding which businesses succeed or fail by how they allocate their purchases. Not bureaucrats.

Globe and Mail, Tuesday, Mar. 23.

One of the most foul reads in Toronto is TV columnist John Doyle, and he was at his worst today.

He starts by deriding people who would like to watch MTV or HBO or Showcase or Fox News, i.e. all the channels that are censored or at least difficult to obtain in Canada: "Consumer greed for American popular culture disguised as a robust belief in the inherent integrity of the free market".

The free market pretty much gives individuals what they want, while the alternatives give them what bureaucrats want. So yes, we have the right to a free market without censorship. You don't have to be an unthinking advocate of American culture to understand this.

Then he gets into defending the indefensible, namely the CRTC a.k.a. the Censorship of Radio and Television Commission.

Doyle: "The airwaves belong to the nation and the citizens are entitled to a say in the use of the airwaves."

The airwaves properly belong to whichever individuals own the technology to broadcast on them. The argument for government intervention - scarcity of bandwidth - has been eliminated with the advent of cable. The notion that "airwaves belong to the people" might describe North Korea, not a free country.

Doyle: "This is what the CRTC exists to do: find a solution that assuages the interests of corporations and does the best for the consumer ... At the same time, it has to examine the interests of the unions and guild-represented actors, writers, directors and producers of Canadian programming ..."

We don't need a CRTC. Broadcasters, cable operators and all the creative industry should produce/program what they think consumers want to see and consumers can decide with their channel purchases (or pay-per-view, or whatever). Just like any other business activity. Everybody has the right to look after his own interests and to trade with others. Bureaucrats cannot possibly make good decisions that satisfy everybody.

The key phrase in the article is :

receive potentially life-saving

World's Poorest Children Among First to Receive New Life-Saving Pneumococcal Vaccines

http://www.vaccineamc.org/updatemar23_10.html

Pigs flew; they soared!

Today's Globe editorial. Not available online.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/would-be-prior-restraint/article1510057/

"Say not the Struggle Naught availeth*".

"Conservatives have been trained in a mentality of quasi-Muslim fatalism:".

"“The hell with that”.

"Intransigence is a great political asset: it is too often missing on the right."
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"American conservatives must fight on implacably to repeal Emperor Obama's healthcare coup

“This is not the end of the fight, it is the beginning of the fight.” Those defiant words of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich are precisely what American conservatives need to hear in the aftermath of Barack Obama’s disgraceful manipulation of democracy to railroad through a sweeping socialist healthcare measure that the majority of his country rejects. The struggle is no longer simply to avert a corrosively socialist imposition, but to reclaim the American governmental system and democracy from an Emperor-President.

The Obama healthcare coup d’état is naked Bonapartism and, as such, must be overturned. There will now be many siren voices telling American patriots and conservatives: “It’s over,” “You win some, you lose some” and “Time to move on.” That is the one thing they must not do. It is a phenomenon of leftist politics that, in true Leninist style, radicals never give up.

For example, when Hugo Chavez lost a referendum in Venezuela on extending his term in office, he held another 14 months later and won. When any member state of the European Union gives a “wrong” answer in a referendum it is forced to vote again until it surrenders to the demands of the ruling élite in Brussels. However, when a radical measure is passed by the left, the rules are the reverse. The leftward ratchet must never be broken. Conservatives have been trained in a mentality of quasi-Muslim fatalism: to change back to the status quo would be “retrograde”. Offering continuing resistance to the leftist juggernaut is termed “partisan”. Was there ever a more extravagantly partisan politician on the face of the earth than Barack Obama?

Americans need to have the resilience to say “The hell with that”. A commitment to repeal Obamacare must be mandatory for all Republican candidates in November. Of course the nay-sayers will pose as mature and sophisticated: they are nothing of the sort – just plain old surrender monkeys. Accepting legislation that had passed Congress as the settled will of the nation was fair enough in the days when legislation did not infringe citizens’ rights (eg by forcing them to buy insurance) and when the parties on Capitol Hill respected parliamentary norms.

Barack Obama has broken that constitutional consensus and must be resisted. A commitment to repeal will become a touchstone of authentic conservatism for Congressional candidates, just as support for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is in this country. The best route to repeal may well be the Supreme Court. That apart, there are many other options. Republican attorneys general are preparing to file lawsuits in some states; Republicans in Congress, by a simple majority, could use reconciliation to reverse the tax credits and Medicaid enlargement necessary to make cover financially credible; and so on.

The first requirement, however, is the spirit of indomitable resistance. Intransigence is a great political asset: it is too often missing on the right. The object should be for the Republicans to capture both Houses of Congress. If Americans query such advice coming from the other side of the Atlantic, the answer is this: take a look at Britain’s Third World health service and welfare dependency culture and learn from that grim example where state socialism takes a developed society."

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100030966/american-conservatives-must-fight-on-implacably-to-repeal-emperor-obamas-healthcare-coup/

(*H/T AH Clough)

Intransigence?

"Intransigence is a great political asset: it is too often missing on the right."

Stand with intransigent Israel.

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"Israel, undeterred, to build in East Jerusalem

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Undeterred by turbulence in its ties with the United States and Britain, Israel on Wednesday confirmed further plans to expand the Jewish presence in occupied East Jerusalem, with more building freshly approved."

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62N1JX20100324

Brent@11:06 PM:

This can also be true for many smaller lies told repeatedly and echoed by an unquestioning, uncritical mass media machine.

For many Canadians, being "not American" is their self-identity. And many Canadians (well, OK, maybe not so much here in Kateworld) are happy to be the perpetual resentful, passive-aggressive little brother.

Coulter is scaaaary to these people, as it challenges the comfy little fake world they've set up for themselves. It's fragile since it's built on symbology, wishes and [cover both ears] 'la-la-la-not-listening' attention to anyone that doesn't think like them.

In a way it's much like adolescent behaviour.

The CRTC - Let them eat cake. No affordability issues? What about seniors on fixed incomes?

Where is the inflation to justify such an increase - we had a huge increase not so long ago in their fees.

VANCOUVER — A Vancouver-based victims' rights organization and taxpayers' watchdog group were outraged and disgusted to learn that notorious serial killer Clifford Olson is receiving more than $1,100 per month in pension payments from the federal government while in prison.

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Outrage+over+killer+Clifford+Olsen+Canada+pension+payments/2718293/story.html#ixzz0j5t2DvFT

Iffy squeals: Hi Jack and Jill …. we’re off to visit the Separatist Coalition … again.

Do you feel Martin’s pain?

No.

It’s Iffy’s pain.

Iffy’s goongoongone Show.

Is there a “physician” in the House?

Iffy’s abortion vote was aborted.

It’s so “saddened”.

“Liberal MP Keith Martin (Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca) was “saddened” by the close vote.

“Just because a majority of the House did not support it doesn’t mean … it isn’t the right thing to do,” said Martin, a physician.”

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“Liberals lose vote on ‘abortion’

In bizarre day, Michael Ignatieff’s party fails to get enough of its MPs to back motion meant to trip up Tories”

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/784402–liberals-lose-vote-on-abortion?bn=1

http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/03/23/hijacking-the-liberal-party/#comment-78219

Revnant Dream@5:10 AM:

http://www.cracked.com/article_18458_6-subtle-ways-news-media-disguises-bullshit-as-fact.html

The URL pretty much describes the content. I forget if I saw this link here or at another site.

Originally I thought Firefox tabs were a great thing. Now that I have 45 open at any given time...

Ann Coulter has pegged Ottawa University as "bush league". Well they sure proved that didn't they?

Liberals confused as to which way to vote?

We must remember some are very hurt that that they are Not Invited to the $695 Per person Liberal Thinkfest disguised as a Celebration of Canada's 150th. Intentional Confusion makes you wonder?

BTW on the Entrance Fee, Just where does this money go? Is it intended to boost a Political Party's coffers? But it is not a Liberal fundraiser Or is it?

I have been saying for Yrs that the Liberals have been infiltrated by disgruntled Dippers(Rae,Dosjanh)are the proof in the pudding with Rae's Motion on Condoms? or Rae & Dosanjh constant attacks on our Armed Forces with their allegations that Canadian Soldiers committed torture, Iam sure this issue has to be weighing on the few liberal MP's that are more to the center.

The natural end result of Liberal Iffy/Rae’s PET Cemetery left-liberalism: apartheid.

Left-liberals’ apartheid is euphemistically called “affirmative action” by the left-liberals.

Black apartheid against their fellow blacks.

“before being chased away by a blast of buckshot.”

“scenes reminiscent of the apartheid-era.”
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“South Africa police fire buckshot at township rioters

PHOMOLONG, South Africa (Reuters) – South African police fired buckshot on Tuesday to disperse township rioters who threw stones and looted shops to protest over poor housing and lack of rail services.

Hundreds of people in the Phomolong township near the South African capital Pretoria blocked roads with rocks and burning tires, in the latest attempt to persuade the government to supply much-needed infrastructure.

Scores of similar protests have taken place across the country in the past two months in scenes reminiscent of the apartheid-era.

“People have been trying to use formal ways with government, but been given a cold shoulder, so protests are just the best thing they can respond to,” a protester told Reuters, before being chased away by a blast of buckshot.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100323/wl_nm/us_safrica_protests

For many Canadians, being "not American" is their self-identity.

Agreed, PiperPaul. This certainly could never have developed without at least some lying by media. However, the populace is also responsible to do its own due diligence - something in which many have been derelict.

“revelations of malpractice by climate scientists.”

Look what youse skeptics have wrought. Good work.

“The museum had intended to call it the Climate Change Gallery, but has decided to change this to Climate Science Gallery to avoid being accused of presuming that emissions would change the temperature.”

>>>> “The decision by the 100-year-old London museum reveals how deeply scientific institutions have been shaken by the public’s reaction to revelations of malpractice by climate scientists.
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“Public scepticism prompts Science Museum to rename climate exhibition

The Science Museum is revising the contents of its new climate science gallery to reflect the wave of scepticism that has engulfed the issue in recent months.

The decision by the 100-year-old London museum reveals how deeply scientific institutions have been shaken by the public’s reaction to revelations of malpractice by climate scientists.

The museum is abandoning its previous practice of trying to persuade visitors of the dangers of global warming. It is instead adopting a neutral position, acknowledging that there are legitimate doubts about the impact of man-made emissions on the climate.

Even the title of the £4 million gallery has been changed to reflect the museum’s more circumspect approach. The museum had intended to call it the Climate Change Gallery, but has decided to change this to Climate Science Gallery to avoid being accused of presuming that emissions would change the temperature.

Last October the museum launched a temporary exhibition called “Prove It! All the evidence you need to believe in climate change”. The museum said at the time that the exhibition had been designed to demonstrate “through scientific evidence that climate change is real and requires an urgent solution”.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7073272.ece

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/23/why-joe-bastardi-see-red-a-look-at-sea-ice-and-gistemp-and-starting-choices/#comment-351854

This term is off-topic, but may become useful in the future:

Confusopoly

"Adams introduced the word confusopoly in this book. The word is a portmanteau of confusion and monopoly (or rather oligopoly), defining it as "a group of companies with similar products who intentionally confuse customers instead of competing on price"

I suppose it could also refer to political tactics, say, for example, multiple screechy special interest groups all clamouring for special consideration while chipping away at the proverbial goose that lays the golden egg.

1) maz2 at March 24, 2010 8:51 AM
2) maz2 at March 24, 2010 9:14 AM

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1)"South Africa police fire buckshot at township rioters"

- Don't worry, maz2, once we stop Global Warming/Climate Change all this violence will stop

2)...has decided to change this to Climate Science Gallery...

- Aww, crap. I'm wrong again.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100324/business/nb_power_sale

thank goodness.

The feds should move immediately to outlaw any provincial crown corp from buying assets in another province. Had this deal gone through NB would have become a serf province to Quebec.

b_c @ 5:42, you nailed it !!

Pigs ARE flying over the G&M this morning.

An editorial, no less. Not just some op-ed piece.

Is our beloved media starting to see the light? Or just begrudgingly following the blogsphere's lead?

One step at a time, though, on the G&M thing.
The commenters there are, by and large, missing the point.

Written in September/October 2009, as she notes on her blog:

(PDF warning) Leah Farrall, The evolution of command

According to recent reports, the intensified airstrike campaign against Al-Qaeda in the tribal borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan has damaged its operational capacity, and brings into question the ability of Al-Qaeda’s senior leadership (AQSL) to effectively govern the organisation in such increasingly challenging circumstances. Yet assumptions about Al-Qaeda’s degraded capacity are often based on the death or capture since 2007 of a dozen or so militants, many of whom were not Al-Qaeda members. Rather, they were individuals associated with Al-Qaeda to varying degrees who, for the most part, played a limited role in its internal command and control processes. Al-Qaeda appears to have faced few problems replacing senior leaders detained in the region or killed in airstrikes...

ron and b_c, do you guys still read the globe? Do 15 push-ups.

It would be nice if those us who live in the boonies could get the jist of the globe editorial.

Vit, you are forgiven, if only because you right nine-thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand. ;-)

The only question I have is: WTF?

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LC23Df03.html

"The deal enables the US government to hold back from formally producing any evidence against Headley in a court of law that might have included details of his links with US intelligence or oblige any cross-examination of Headley by the prosecution.

Nor can the families of the 166 victims be represented by a lawyer to question Headley during his trial commencing in Chicago. Headley's links with the US intelligence will now remain classified information and the Pakistani nationals involved in the Mumbai attacks will get away scot-free. Furthermore, the FBI will not allow Headley's extradition to India and will restrict access so that Indian agencies cannot interrogate him regarding his links with US and Pakistani intelligence."

"Enough!"

"We’re taking our country back!”

The Spirit of '76.

God Bless America.

...-

"The Tea Party Express III: Just Vote Them Out! Tour

Join us for the biggest Tea Party Express national tour to date. Starting March 27, 2010 with a Mega Rally in Searchlight, NV (hometown to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid) we will take this message across the nation all the way to the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 15th:

“You, the politicians in Washington, have failed We The People with your bailouts, out-of-control deficit spending, government takeovers of sectors of the economy, Cap & Trade, government-run health care, and higher taxes! If you thought we were just going to quietly go away, or that this tea party movement would be just a passing fad, you were mistaken. We’re taking our country back!”

Join us from March 27th to April 15th, 2010
as we tell Congress and the White House: “Enough!”"

http://www.teapartyexpress.org/

Thanks Matt for the Coren/Coulter posting...I think it is in part 4 that Ms. Coulter says that she has been called a lot of things but never a racist. Unfortunately,she cannot say that any longer. Tonight on CBC's show,"Connect with Mark Kelley",there is an interview with a large child who claims to represent the "students".He asserts that AC attacks people based on,amongst other things,race.The child goes on to say that they were opposing AC because they want a campus where ideas can be discussed safely. Hopefully tomorrow night the students and citizens of Calgary will act in a mature mannner and show her that Canadian universities are not totally comprised of shrieking socialists waiting to be fed the gov't worm.

Forgot the link,sorry ---http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/ID=1450288084

Re: "they want a campus where ideas can be discussed safely"

Ideas like the productive benefits and ethical goodness of capitalism, and the evil destructiveness of socialism, perhaps?