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  1. Excerpt from Terry Glavin’s superb, amusingly snarly post about Barack Obama’s fecklessness regarding Libya:
    “Leon Wieseltier puts it succinctly: ‘Barack Obama’s policy toward the Libyan struggle for freedom is no longer a muddle. It is now a disgrace’…”
    (…)
    “To be fair, it is not as though Obama is without company. Among those who would appear to concur with him are Moammar Gaddafi, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Hugo Chavez, the usual dead planets in the twin-sun solar system of Yankee paleoconservatives and bourgeois-leftish Californian ‘anti-imperialists,’ the British Workers Revolutionary Party, and the chairman of the anti-interventionist African Union, that genocidal, testicle-eating multi-billionaire and slave-master of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang. Still, one has to concede that unlike his predecessor the current American president is splendidly photogenic. Oh look, here’s a new portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama, posing with President Obiang and his missus Constancia Mangue, at the White House:
    (Photo)
    “See how handsome he is?”
    The whole thing here.

  2. Upon spotting David Suzuki’s photograph on the front of the Star’s television guide (the only reason she subscribes, BTW) my senior mother tore the cover off, crumpled it into a ball and threw it in her wastepaper bin.
    “I don’t want to have to look at that arrogant little sod all week!”, she explained.

  3. Your mom has got the right stuff, Mal.
    Photo:

    “A Palestinian man distributes sweets in the streets of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on March 12, 2011 to celebrate an attack which killed five Israeli settlers at the Itamar settlement near the West Bank city of Nablus.”

    Here are the five Israeli settlers.
    (via Harry’s Place)

  6. I’ve changed my mind. If Ahamadinejad wants a nuclear reactor, he can pick one up in Japan.

  8. WalterF
    LOL…now I don’t feel so bad about those leaky diesel subs the Brits pawned off on our gullible Libs…it could have been worse.

  9. Those Dutch folks are cyclopaths! I don’t know about playing drums on a bicycle, just pedalling in clogs would be hard enough.

  11. Beleaguered global warming religionist, Michael Mann has signed up a Canadian law firm with ties to the ultra-green David Suzuki Foundation (DSF) to help buffer him against the increasing tide of criticism for his key role in helping to corrupt climate science. Skeptics fear DSF and other warmist groups will be employing the likes of McConchie for reprisal attacks against skeptic scientists who helped derail the global warming tax raising juggernaut.
    Internationally renowned climate scientist, Dr. Tim Ball and prominent U.S. skeptic Chris Horner appear to be the first victims of a coordinated attack by discredited ‘hockey stick’ graph conjurer, Michael Mann.
    It can be no surprise that Mann chose the McConchie Law Foundation of North Vancouver, British Columbia to back him. Canadian skeptics have for some time suspected Roger D. McConchie was a shill of the David Suzuki Foundation. Mann’s threatening riposte to Horner comes one week after Mann had his lawyers issue Dr. Ball with a second official notice of an intention to sue. Ball is a retired professor who obtained his doctorate in climatology from the University of London, Queen Mary College way back in 1983 and is already defending a McConchie libel suit filed by IPCC computer modeler, Andrew Weaver.
    Green Conspiracy Trail Leads Back to Suzuki Foundation
    So what are the connections with David Suzuki? Firstly, Desmogblog are the main cheerleaders of Weaver’s (and Roger D.McConchie’s) legal foray against Dr. Ball. It so happens that James Hoggan, chairman of the David Suzuki Foundation, runs the DeSmogBlog.com website, a vociferous organ of criticism against Ball. The subterfuge of scheming between the Suzuki Foundation and DeSmogBlog has been deliciously uncovered by Donna LaFramboise.
    With Mann now appearing to have his hands deep into Suzuki’s pockets we could be witnessing the start of more legal escapades from the climate alarmist cult.
    http://johnosullivan.livejournal.com/32558.html

  12. Madison WI moves NE.
    The first of the teachers unions in Ontario have spoken. They are democracy.

  15. Sorry for the CTV link, but where else are you going find a story about the “education premier”?

  16. Thats the trouble with living in the sticks, no pro abortion rallys to attend.
    Picture strolling along behind the megaphone, with a pintsized doll mascot, BLOODIED and HEADLESS.
    Mothers (not-to-be)would be so proud
    Mascot

  20. Too right, EBD. The greatest generation – from both sides of the Atlantic – has always been impatient with posers.

  21. hi eb,
    why did you censor the very first reply to this post?
    oh, that’s because you just don’t like me, right?
    anyway, here it is again all:
    “how’s THIS for socialism?
    ca dot news dot yahoo dot com/moscow-now-billionaire-capital-world-20110309-145204-775.html”

  24. So..Iggy trying to ‘buy’ Que.votes,and English msm burying this?? Found link to story (in french) at Spector’s twitter page;http://tinyurl.com/66pktj3
    From the translation (thanks to Norman):
    “Duceppe can only keep Harper to minority gov’t..I can replace him”
    “IF YOU WANT OTTAWA TO PARTICIPATE IN FUNDING AN ARENA,YOU HAVE TO VOTE LIBERAL|”

  25. andycanuck 10:41 – thanks for posting that. I had been looking for just that information but CNN and G%M weren’t cutting it.

  26. re. SDH @9:43 – I suppose it would be in really appalling taste to say that, worst case nightmare scenario, we might finally be getting an answer to Kathy Shaidle’s oft-posed question: Japan – nuked too much or not enough?
    (Uli! Tovarich! You’ve been missed!)

  28. Canada’s Western Bench Strength.
    “* But westward, look, the land is bright!”
    ““Canada has got a lot to brag about, from its financial foundation, how it weathered the recession, to the vast sources of energy it has,” all re-enforcing the energy security message.”
    …-
    “Safe supply in a perilous oil world”
    “It has taken war in the Middle East to turn the tide of negative public opinion on the oil sands. After four years of beatings from the environmental movement that severely damaged Canada’s international reputation, the oil sands are re-emerging as a secure source of energy in a risky oil world.
    New imagery helped a lot. The pileups of bodies in the evening news, victims of Middle East despots firing at their own people to protect their oil wealth, make the tar pits in northern Alberta look like responsible oil in comparison.
    Signs that Joe Q. Public is good with the oil sands are emerging everywhere.
    David Wilkins, former U.S. ambassador to Canada and now a lobbyist in Washington for the Alberta and Saskatchewan governments, says the mood in the U.S. capital has changed noticeably in the past few weeks.
    “People are listening more,” he said in an interview. “People are more focused on the source of energy coming from Canada, the fact that it’s a stable, friendly country.”
    Speaking to the Calgary Herald this week as part of his first visit to Western Canada, Andrew Pocock, the British High Commissioner to Canada, said: “The oil sands, which are an immense reserve in a non-OPEC economy, assume an even greater energy security dimension than they have before.”
    The shift to a low-carbon world won’t happen overnight, and the oil sands should not be singled out for any special punishment, he said.
    It’s quite a change from 2007, when public awareness about the oil sands switched from awe about their size to disgust about their environmental impact. The “dirty oil” label caught on and Canada started being cast in the U.K. and the United States and elsewhere as an environmental bum.
    Turmoil in the Middle East provided a new framework for the oil sands, said Janet Annesley, communications vice-president at the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.
    “The energy industry, and the oil and gas industry in particular, does not provide a high engagement product in marketing terms,” she said.
    “But when people … see in the nightly news that it has to do with people, human rights and the environment, that gets their attention very quickly and [the Middle East] has provided that clear context and a shocking backdrop of reality to the energy choices they make every day.”
    The idea of buying oil from irresponsible governments who use oil money to oppress the population is contrary to U.S. values, she said.
    In contrast, “Americans see the values of Canada being aligned and have high opinions of the social structure, the environmental track record. And though they see environmental difficulties, they don’t see them out of scale to other sources of oil and they also see that given the size of the resource, the capital and the people involved, that these challenges can be addressed through technology.”
    Other developments set the stage. In the U.S., the energy agenda got a boost with the election of a Republican majority in the House of Representatives.”
    http://www.financialpost.com/news/energy/Safe+supply+perilous+world/4426496/story.html
    …-
    “*Say not the Struggle Naught availeth”
    “And not by eastern windows only,
    When daylight comes, comes in the light;
    In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!
    But westward, look, the land is bright!”
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    http://poemhunter.com/poem/say-not-the-struggle-naught-availeth/

  30. speedy @9:45
    That clip and the other one at the site “Mustangs” were awesome.
    I love that they fly The City Of Winnipeg P-51 in RCAF markings in their shows. God that airplane looks good!
    Thanks

  31. The new UK high commissioner comes off as all understanding about the oil sands now that the old one has shuffled back to London. But the Brits still interfere in Canadian politics. Andrew Pocock was ill advised to suggest Canada build new war ships in cooperation with the Brits, without even knowing that Canada’s defence minister represents a province reliant on shipbuilding. The Brits neeed better strategic planning or should stick to their little gossip fests in Ottawa.

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