If dogs could talk, it would probably sound a lot like this.
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The first Donald Trump campaign poster has been released.
The slogan is, I must admit, quite inspirational.
Dogs have feelings.
A good dog would fight to the death for it’s owner—–
Without the promise of perpetual—
Virginal POODLES.
A friend of mine on Facebook just came up with a more appropriate meaning for the letters “NDP”:
The New Diaper Party
at least in terms of political diapers! Very much fits in with Cartoon #3 here.
If there was every an ally for a Country that
DEPENDS on— Us being fools.
Pakistan rates right up there.
With Iran.
Excellent. He had better sleep with one eye open.
What’s the deal with Canada News Desk? The site hasn’t changed since last Monday…Are they that torn up by the election results?
Central Bank start buying Gold after a $1200 Rise (Chretien sold all ours $1000 lower)
“We have seen new surprising and strong demand from global central banks in the last week. This demand occurred over the last two months and had to compete with other strong demand from all sides of the gold market. As we move into the quiet season for gold and have experienced a short sharp correction so far how will central banks react? This week we received news that South America has now joined Asia, Russia, the Middle East and the Far East in buying gold for the national gold and foreign exchange reserves. Will the correction we are now seeing in the gold price affect central bank policies of buying gold?” ….more HERE
News flash: No charges will be laid with regard to the Layton leak leak.
David, thanks for that link. That must be a remnant left over from Gordon Campbell, who got us engaged in this stupidity. He’s now gone but the powers at be will be scared to ever change that for fear of getting nailed by the Green Lobby.
“Lizzie May: Keeping more & more teachers unemployed every year!”
PET Cemetery Report.
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“Tuning politics out in a depressing era
Lawrence Martin, a well-respected political reporter and author, described Stephen Harper’s campaign tactics as “taking Canadian politics to a level lower than a snake’s belly” and copying U.S.style politics.
It depresses me to think that the Conservatives under Harper could well be in power for the rest of my life. (I am 77.)
Although I have been interested in politics since I was first eligible to vote and tried to keep informed on the issues, I have decided to tune out from now on for my peace of mind.
With our first-past-the-post system, it’s possible to get a majority government with only 40 per cent of the votes. That leaves the 60 per cent who voted for change out in the cold, because, as we have seen, Harper is not interested in cooperating with the other parties.
Lois Vatcher
Duncan” http://www.timescolonist.com/news/decision-canada/Tuning+politics+depressing/4747355/story.html
I could never vote for someone with hair like that.
Canadians have returned to their Blue roots.
The Dominion of Canada: A Mari usque ad Mare; From Sea to Sea.
Conservative PM Harper is the Father of Re-Confederation.
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“Harper faces golden opportunity”
“For the first time in half a century, Quebec agenda will not dominate” http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/decision-canada/Harper+faces+golden+opportunity/4746985/story.html
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“The West is in and Ontario has joined it”
“How the election led to an unprecedented realignment of Canadian politics”
“What does this mean? It means the West, having spent most of the last 53 years in opposition, is now firmly installed in power. And it now has Ontario as its partner. This is the new axis of Canadian politics: the West begins at the Ottawa River.” http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/06/a-new-power-couple/
The USS Michael Murphy was christened Saturday by Maureen Murphy on what would have been the 35th birthday of her son.
Lt. Murphy, a Navy SEAL, was killed during Operation Red Wings in 2005 in Afghanistan. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the operation.
I recommend Marcus Luttrell’s book, Lone Survivor, for anyone interested in the details of the operation.
Happy Mother’s day to all Moms out there.
Maz2 @ 5:35 a.m.: Apparently, some ignorant idiot, named Lois Vatcher, wrote: “With our first-past-the-post system, it’s possible to get a majority government with only 40 per cent of the votes. That leaves the 60 per cent who voted for change out in the cold, because, as we have seen, Harper is not interested in cooperating with the other parties.” (What bilge!)
I guess she doesn’t know that Chretien’s Liberals won at least one of their majorities with only 38% of the vote. I wonder what Ms Vatcher thinks about that. (In case she hasn’t considered it, any country with as many political parties as we have is very likely to have majority governments with 40% or less of the vote: there’s nothing new or unethical about this—and it certainly isn’t gerrymandering by “those sleazy Conservatives”, as her faulty thinking seems to suggest.)
batb, I think, gave the large percentages of those who did NOT vote for the NDP and the Liberals. Does anyone have those numbers? It’s good to have them on hand for the lefty hypocrites and magic thinkers, who need to make room in their minuscule minds for some inconvenient truths.
Lookout (9:36am):
The numbers really don’t matter because those people assume that if you vote Liberal/NDP/Bloc/Green, you’re still voting for the others too… it doesn’t matter that you didn’t vote for Iggy or Jack, you voted left, and that’s all that matters to them.
Want to really defeat the argument? Tell them what they would have lost if less than 50% of the vote is an illegitimate government: http://www.oxygentax.com/2011/05/if-majority-is-illegitimate-at-less.html
PET Cemetery Report.
In Memoriam: ex-Liberal MP Glen Pearson.
Liberal Glen Pearson: “*We are in the presence of Royalty”.
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“The agony of defeat”
“‘It’s as sudden as death,” said one defeated Liberal MP. “The only thing you don’t go through is that you don’t have to walk into a funeral home and peek into the box and say, ‘Well, he was a nice guy.’ “”
“Writing on his election loss this week, former Liberal MP Glen Pearson spoke of the “deep sadness” he and his wife sank into the day after conceding defeat, and of the hundreds of e-mails, tweets and messages that were “brutal in their despondency.”
“It was sad and there were tears,” Pearson blogged. “I actually don’t know quite what to tell these folks, for I too am disillusioned.” http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/decision-canada/agony+defeat/4743107/story.html
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*Liberal Glen Pearson: “We are in the presence of Royalty”
Trudeau mobbed at Liberal rally
The son of Pierre Trudeau tells London Liberals to send Prime Minister Stephen Harper a message.” http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=70720
An argument made in these pages many times by — ahem — people who understand the Israel-Arab, or if you prefer, the Palestinian Jew-Palestinian Arab conflict: Jordan should be the Palestinian state and would be but for the insertion of the alien Hashemite family and but for the “Palestinian” leadership which is beholding to Arab countries who are actively against Israelis and “Palestinians” living peacefully together. He also warns that Abbas will plunge the region into all-out war and possibly WWIII. He also ridicules the artificial distinction between Fatah/PLO/PA all led by Abbas. A Voice of Reason from an Arab Dissident Introduction: The following is an interview with Mudar Zahran, a Palestinian Jordanian and former political insider who fled Jordan and currently resides in England. In an open and honest manner, Mudar briefly discusses the current unrest in Jordan, the various players in Jordan and their links to Islamic groups, his vision of a Palestinian state in Jordan as opposed to the two-state solution, his attempts at effecting change and the subsequent threats against him.
EBD: LOVED the dog teaser. LOL, I forwarded it to a few friends who reminded me that they had sent this to me earlier. I’m hot and cold on “joke stuff” often tossing it when I’m over-busy. The facial expressions and “voice” were so apt. Font stuff: When SDA launches, this end, it’s fine for a split second and seems to be in Times New Roman; then it switches fonts including mostly rectangles in place of letters. One click on REFRESH cleans it up but the font is NOT the standard sda Times New Roman, whereas it is inside the comments. For what it’s worth. I sent a screen capture to Kate.
Perhaps it’s related to one of those interminable MS updates.
Since we are on version 29 of the Osama Obama tale
This bin Laden story is so absurd at so many levels that it cannot possibly be believed except on faith.
I’ve just listened to an interview with Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration and former editor of the Wall Street Journal and Business Week.
Paul Watson interview with Paul Craig Roberts, May 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74dxhpsFrQc
Hurry this will probably go bye bye
From the comments
“Dr Steve Pieczenik’s wikipedia is being butchered as we speak. They’ve removed almost all of his credible background biographical information and made him look like a fiction writer w/ no credibility..over 60 edits and counting since this interview aired. YouTube is also sticking the view counts for lengthy periods and erasing comment ratings on these vids. Hey NWO, keep trying to hold that beach ball under the water but be warned it is getting bigger and harder to keep submerged every day.”
Poor cut and paste job on my part
Paul Watson interview with Paul Craig Roberts, May 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATOkB7Rl1F4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0h9jvllIKw
The interview Roberts refers to is the one conducted the previous day by Alex Jones with Steven Pieczenik, an old Washington insider who worked as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Senior Policy Planner under 4 different administrations and secretaries of state: Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, George Schultz and James Baker. Pieczenik was also one of the guys who set up the Delta Force for counterterrorism, and managed various hostage negotiating situations, beginning with the Iran hostage crisis in the late 70s. Pieczenik says he has become so fed up with what’s going on he decided to speak up. He doesn’t like Obama at all, and what he said in part 5 of the interview about the Bush Jr administration is so astonishing for a guy with his credentials that Paul Craig Roberts thinks Pieczenik runs the very real risk of being killed for saying what he said in a public broadcast.
Census Canada
We received the short form, 10 typical questions – except for one.
Why was one of the questions dedicated to finding out if you were involved in the production of food crops?
Whats up with that? Why just farming? What about all the other professions/careers/endeavors ??
gasp !!! cummuniiiiiiists in our midst !!! doing things like agitating for workplace equality, voters rights, medicare, you know, the usual assortment of ‘threats’ to ‘national security’.
blunt-objects.blogspot.com/2010/10/profunc-shouldnt-surprise-any-canadian.html
p.s., I just saw the 5th estate episode on the much hated cummuniiiiiiist cbc.
p.s. the farce see ’em pee HID the existence of the program from their boss the Attorney General.
Pundit Simpson of the Press Party has earned a top dog spot over the years in the PET Cemetery Scribblers’ Corner.
Simpson reveals he knows nothing as to what the conservative philosophy is about.
However, Simpson has come around to this:
“The man who remade Canada’s political landscape”.
The man is Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Simpson recognizes that PM Harper is a political genius.
“Mr. Harper has remade the Canadian political landscape, creating a new party, battling through minority governments, and now winning a majority that should stretch past the new four-year mandate.” http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/jeffrey-simpson/the-man-who-remade-canadas-political-landscape/article2013137/
Me No Dhimmi, thank you for your very good description re the font anomalies. (I’m glad you know how to do a screen shot. My computer’s like my car: I know how to use it but I know almost nothing about how it works—though I’m a lot better than I used to be, which is saying not much!) It sounds like you have the very same situation that I do. (I don’t really know how to refresh: I found “Refresh” in one of my files, but clicking on it doesn’t restore anything that I can see.)
My Kaspersky keeps telling me it’s detected “Behaviour similar to PDM Invader”. But it seems that my computer’s protected. (DELL has done a whole lot of things to my computer in the past few weeks and this all happened just after DELL’s adjustments: when I have another hour or more to spare, I’m going to contact DELL and report this annoying behaviour.) As I’ve said, the Rumsfeld thread seems to be connected to the problem, although I didn’t open the video.
Sometimes my name and email are “remembered” at SDA, and sometimes they’re not. In general, things are working, but, as a creature of habit, I’d really like to get to the bottom of this.
Oxygentax, thanks for the input. I’m off to a Mothers’s Day party: I’ll get back to you.
SDH, many thanks for the Mothers’ Day best wishes to all us moms out here. The same from me to all the moms. Being a mom is one of the BEST things in life. Yeah Moms! (And Dads and kids!)
For those interested … at 1:05pm PT / 4:05pm ET today (Sunday) Roy Green will be having a segment on Multiculturalism and Immigration.
I’m most fortunate to be one of his guests. http://roygreenshow.com
H/T Osama bin LaytoNDP.
“the NDP (that’s Canadian for the Socialist Loon Party) has near tripled its representation, thanks to a last-minute revelation that its leader, Jack Layton, had been found naked with a “masseuse” during a police raid on a bawdy house.”
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“Liberal Party of Canada Buried at Sea After Dying in Firefight”
“By Mark Steyn”
“Sorry about the headline. Just trying to liven up the other news of the day. I think it’s fair to say the death of Osama bin Laden has reduced U.S. coverage of today’s Canadian election from 0 percent of network airtime to 0.0000 percent of network airtime. So, in the interests of driving down Corner traffic to near undetectable levels, I thought I’d provide an update:
Canada’s Conservative party has been returned to office, and for the first time Stephen Harper’s ministry will enjoy a parliamentary majority. Always good to have one nation on the North American continent with a Conservative head of government.
On the other hand, the NDP (that’s Canadian for the Socialist Loon Party) has near tripled its representation, thanks to a last-minute revelation that its leader, Jack Layton, had been found naked with a “masseuse” during a police raid on a bawdy house. One never knows what will finally cause a party to make a breakthrough with the electorate, but Mr. Layton’s was the money shot heard round the world.
Meanwhile, the Liberals, the most successful electoral organization in any Western democracy and a party that governed a G7 nation for an unprecedented 70 years during the 20th century, has been reduced to third place for the first time in Canadian history. And a very distant third, too: 33 seats versus 168 for the Tories and 104 for the Dippers. As things stand right now, Michael Ignatieff, former Harvard prof, my sometime BBC colleague and Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, is on course to lose his own seat in Parliament — thereby conveniently accelerating his return to Harvard and/or the Beeb, and a speedy end to his ill-advised foray into Canuck politics.
Mr. Ignatieff’s only consolation is that the Bloc Québécois, the separatist party, suffered an even more catastrophic repudiation by the voters, being reduced to two (or possibly three) members. Its leader, the agreeably insane Gilles Duceppe, lost his seat. Not as bloody as a SEAL assault, but, upshot-wise, pretty much the same.” http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/266282/liberal-party-canada-buried-sea-after-dying-firefight-mark-steyn
Never offend those in your life who constantly work
with sharp knives, sharp razors, or sharp pencils.
No man is a hero to his valet.
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Addendum:
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delete or and the period after “pencils”
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add “, plus talking dogs who can rat you out”.
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CBC headline — “Lethal religious riots flare up in Cairo”
That is EXACTLY what dogs would do if they could talk!
Happy Mothers’ Day.
“With our first-past-the-post system, it’s possible to get a majority government with only 40 per cent of the votes. That leaves the 60 per cent who voted for change out in the cold, because, as we have seen, Harper is not interested in cooperating with the other parties.”
Lois Vatcher (via maz2)
So, where’s Ms. Vatcher been hanging out? In a cave? As lookout has pointed out, Chretien’s Liberal$ won with 38 per cent of the vote, and I didn’t hear her protesting – or anyone else. She may be 77 but wisdom doesn’t necessarily accompany years on the planet.
These statistics are informative:
Chretien Majority governments:
1993- 177 seats with 41.23% of vote (which means that 58.77% didn’t vote for the Liberal$).
1997- 155 seats with 38.6% of vote (which means that 61.4% didn’t vote for the Liberal$).
000- 173 seats with 41% of vote (which means that 59% didn’t vote for the Liberal$).
Bob Rae took over Ontario Legislature with 37.6% of vote (which means that 62.4% didn’t vote for the NDP).
I hope Ms. Vatcher is reading this — or any other whiners who contest the legitimacy of Prime Minister Harper and his CPC’s majority.
The Font Monster is back.
Happy Mother’s Day. A special shout-out to those brave moms who rebel against the current obsessive-compulsive parenting culture. Take pride in being considered a mediocre mom because someday your non-neurotic kids will thank you for it.
Moms Don’t Have to Be Sherpas
Mothers today think they have to be attached to their brood 24/7. It’s nuts, and bad for kids. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703992704576305643692449086.html#articleTabs%3Dcomments
People who regurgitate marxist talking points about popular vote BS are lame.
People who have assignments thinking up marxist talking points about popular vote BS are pathetic.
First past the post elections create stability through decisive results.
Proportional vote elections limit choice, promote instability, and increase corruption.
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” CBC headline — “Lethal religious riots flare up in Cairo”
I posted this as a tip earlier. An observation; The comments on CBC reflect the company line that ” all religions are equally bad”. I disagree,and have commented. My comments are not printed.
Yet,if you take a look at the 15 stories on the CBC World news page, 10 of the stories have islam involved. The other 5 stories do not have religion involved. You would think that the CBC would report up on this blatantly obvious fact.But no,political correctness reigns supreme at the money pit.
I know I didn’t do anything “right.” But I haven’t had the Font Monster thing. Weird.
I don’t know how I picked it up, but I guess it’s not that bad. You just press F5 and it becomes normal.
@ Ron in Kelowna – Nothing sinister about the question on crops on the census. If you farm in any way, shape or form, you must fill out another census (worse than the the long form). It has always been thus. Sorry.
lookout:
If you use MS Explorer, over to the right of the navigation pane (where the URL shows up) there’s a two green arrow icon just left of the red X. Pass your cursor over it and you get the description: Refresh (F5). You can click on it or use the fuction key (F5) to refresh. Have you noticed that Drudge refreshes automatically? (which I find extremely annoying).
Not getting the font monster today.
Probably a secret overnight MS update?
MND, thank you SO much: I actually found where the Refresh function is—right where you said it would be. (But my arrows seem to be blue!)
No font monster for me today either. (I really appreciate your input, but I’m afraid that the rest of what you said is “Greek” to me!)
Lookout and MND, I discovered the “refresh” key years ago, but I gave up on it, since no matter how often I clicked it, I was just as tired, hot and thirsty as I was before. I think you’ve finally put me on the right road here.
The first Donald Trump campaign poster has been released.
The slogan is, I must admit, quite inspirational.
Dogs have feelings.
A good dog would fight to the death for it’s owner—–
Without the promise of perpetual—
Virginal POODLES.
A friend of mine on Facebook just came up with a more appropriate meaning for the letters “NDP”:
The New Diaper Party
at least in terms of political diapers! Very much fits in with Cartoon #3 here.
If there was every an ally for a Country that
DEPENDS on— Us being fools.
Pakistan rates right up there.
With Iran.
Excellent. He had better sleep with one eye open.
What’s the deal with Canada News Desk? The site hasn’t changed since last Monday…Are they that torn up by the election results?
Central Bank start buying Gold after a $1200 Rise (Chretien sold all ours $1000 lower)
“We have seen new surprising and strong demand from global central banks in the last week. This demand occurred over the last two months and had to compete with other strong demand from all sides of the gold market. As we move into the quiet season for gold and have experienced a short sharp correction so far how will central banks react? This week we received news that South America has now joined Asia, Russia, the Middle East and the Far East in buying gold for the national gold and foreign exchange reserves. Will the correction we are now seeing in the gold price affect central bank policies of buying gold?”
….more HERE
Vancouver School Board, Carbon Credits and Encana = Carbon Folly / Stupidity!
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/feeltheheat/archive/2011/05/07/carbon-folly-squeezing-schools-to-aid-energy-giant.aspx
News flash: No charges will be laid with regard to the Layton leak leak.
David, thanks for that link. That must be a remnant left over from Gordon Campbell, who got us engaged in this stupidity. He’s now gone but the powers at be will be scared to ever change that for fear of getting nailed by the Green Lobby.
“Lizzie May: Keeping more & more teachers unemployed every year!”
PET Cemetery Report.
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“Tuning politics out in a depressing era
Lawrence Martin, a well-respected political reporter and author, described Stephen Harper’s campaign tactics as “taking Canadian politics to a level lower than a snake’s belly” and copying U.S.style politics.
It depresses me to think that the Conservatives under Harper could well be in power for the rest of my life. (I am 77.)
Although I have been interested in politics since I was first eligible to vote and tried to keep informed on the issues, I have decided to tune out from now on for my peace of mind.
With our first-past-the-post system, it’s possible to get a majority government with only 40 per cent of the votes. That leaves the 60 per cent who voted for change out in the cold, because, as we have seen, Harper is not interested in cooperating with the other parties.
Lois Vatcher
Duncan”
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/decision-canada/Tuning+politics+depressing/4747355/story.html
I could never vote for someone with hair like that.
Canadians have returned to their Blue roots.
The Dominion of Canada: A Mari usque ad Mare; From Sea to Sea.
Conservative PM Harper is the Father of Re-Confederation.
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“Harper faces golden opportunity”
“For the first time in half a century, Quebec agenda will not dominate”
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/decision-canada/Harper+faces+golden+opportunity/4746985/story.html
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“The West is in and Ontario has joined it”
“How the election led to an unprecedented realignment of Canadian politics”
“What does this mean? It means the West, having spent most of the last 53 years in opposition, is now firmly installed in power. And it now has Ontario as its partner. This is the new axis of Canadian politics: the West begins at the Ottawa River.”
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/06/a-new-power-couple/
The USS Michael Murphy was christened Saturday by Maureen Murphy on what would have been the 35th birthday of her son.
Lt. Murphy, a Navy SEAL, was killed during Operation Red Wings in 2005 in Afghanistan. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the operation.
I recommend Marcus Luttrell’s book, Lone Survivor, for anyone interested in the details of the operation.
Happy Mother’s day to all Moms out there.
Maz2 @ 5:35 a.m.: Apparently, some ignorant idiot, named Lois Vatcher, wrote: “With our first-past-the-post system, it’s possible to get a majority government with only 40 per cent of the votes. That leaves the 60 per cent who voted for change out in the cold, because, as we have seen, Harper is not interested in cooperating with the other parties.” (What bilge!)
I guess she doesn’t know that Chretien’s Liberals won at least one of their majorities with only 38% of the vote. I wonder what Ms Vatcher thinks about that. (In case she hasn’t considered it, any country with as many political parties as we have is very likely to have majority governments with 40% or less of the vote: there’s nothing new or unethical about this—and it certainly isn’t gerrymandering by “those sleazy Conservatives”, as her faulty thinking seems to suggest.)
batb, I think, gave the large percentages of those who did NOT vote for the NDP and the Liberals. Does anyone have those numbers? It’s good to have them on hand for the lefty hypocrites and magic thinkers, who need to make room in their minuscule minds for some inconvenient truths.
Lookout (9:36am):
The numbers really don’t matter because those people assume that if you vote Liberal/NDP/Bloc/Green, you’re still voting for the others too… it doesn’t matter that you didn’t vote for Iggy or Jack, you voted left, and that’s all that matters to them.
Want to really defeat the argument? Tell them what they would have lost if less than 50% of the vote is an illegitimate government:
http://www.oxygentax.com/2011/05/if-majority-is-illegitimate-at-less.html
PET Cemetery Report.
In Memoriam: ex-Liberal MP Glen Pearson.
Liberal Glen Pearson: “*We are in the presence of Royalty”.
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“The agony of defeat”
“‘It’s as sudden as death,” said one defeated Liberal MP. “The only thing you don’t go through is that you don’t have to walk into a funeral home and peek into the box and say, ‘Well, he was a nice guy.’ “”
“Writing on his election loss this week, former Liberal MP Glen Pearson spoke of the “deep sadness” he and his wife sank into the day after conceding defeat, and of the hundreds of e-mails, tweets and messages that were “brutal in their despondency.”
“It was sad and there were tears,” Pearson blogged. “I actually don’t know quite what to tell these folks, for I too am disillusioned.”
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/decision-canada/agony+defeat/4743107/story.html
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*Liberal Glen Pearson: “We are in the presence of Royalty”
Trudeau mobbed at Liberal rally
The son of Pierre Trudeau tells London Liberals to send Prime Minister Stephen Harper a message.”
http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=70720
An argument made in these pages many times by — ahem — people who understand the Israel-Arab, or if you prefer, the Palestinian Jew-Palestinian Arab conflict: Jordan should be the Palestinian state and would be but for the insertion of the alien Hashemite family and but for the “Palestinian” leadership which is beholding to Arab countries who are actively against Israelis and “Palestinians” living peacefully together. He also warns that Abbas will plunge the region into all-out war and possibly WWIII. He also ridicules the artificial distinction between Fatah/PLO/PA all led by Abbas.
A Voice of Reason from an Arab Dissident
Introduction: The following is an interview with Mudar Zahran, a Palestinian Jordanian and former political insider who fled Jordan and currently resides in England. In an open and honest manner, Mudar briefly discusses the current unrest in Jordan, the various players in Jordan and their links to Islamic groups, his vision of a Palestinian state in Jordan as opposed to the two-state solution, his attempts at effecting change and the subsequent threats against him.
EBD: LOVED the dog teaser. LOL, I forwarded it to a few friends who reminded me that they had sent this to me earlier. I’m hot and cold on “joke stuff” often tossing it when I’m over-busy. The facial expressions and “voice” were so apt.
Font stuff: When SDA launches, this end, it’s fine for a split second and seems to be in Times New Roman; then it switches fonts including mostly rectangles in place of letters. One click on REFRESH cleans it up but the font is NOT the standard sda Times New Roman, whereas it is inside the comments. For what it’s worth. I sent a screen capture to Kate.
Perhaps it’s related to one of those interminable MS updates.
Since we are on version 29 of the Osama Obama tale
This bin Laden story is so absurd at so many levels that it cannot possibly be believed except on faith.
I’ve just listened to an interview with Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration and former editor of the Wall Street Journal and Business Week.
Paul Watson interview with Paul Craig Roberts, May 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74dxhpsFrQc
Hurry this will probably go bye bye
From the comments
“Dr Steve Pieczenik’s wikipedia is being butchered as we speak. They’ve removed almost all of his credible background biographical information and made him look like a fiction writer w/ no credibility..over 60 edits and counting since this interview aired. YouTube is also sticking the view counts for lengthy periods and erasing comment ratings on these vids. Hey NWO, keep trying to hold that beach ball under the water but be warned it is getting bigger and harder to keep submerged every day.”
Poor cut and paste job on my part
Paul Watson interview with Paul Craig Roberts, May 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATOkB7Rl1F4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0h9jvllIKw
The interview Roberts refers to is the one conducted the previous day by Alex Jones with Steven Pieczenik, an old Washington insider who worked as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Senior Policy Planner under 4 different administrations and secretaries of state: Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, George Schultz and James Baker. Pieczenik was also one of the guys who set up the Delta Force for counterterrorism, and managed various hostage negotiating situations, beginning with the Iran hostage crisis in the late 70s. Pieczenik says he has become so fed up with what’s going on he decided to speak up. He doesn’t like Obama at all, and what he said in part 5 of the interview about the Bush Jr administration is so astonishing for a guy with his credentials that Paul Craig Roberts thinks Pieczenik runs the very real risk of being killed for saying what he said in a public broadcast.
Census Canada
We received the short form, 10 typical questions – except for one.
Why was one of the questions dedicated to finding out if you were involved in the production of food crops?
Whats up with that? Why just farming? What about all the other professions/careers/endeavors ??
gasp !!! cummuniiiiiiists in our midst !!! doing things like agitating for workplace equality, voters rights, medicare, you know, the usual assortment of ‘threats’ to ‘national security’.
blunt-objects.blogspot.com/2010/10/profunc-shouldnt-surprise-any-canadian.html
p.s., I just saw the 5th estate episode on the much hated cummuniiiiiiist cbc.
p.s. the farce see ’em pee HID the existence of the program from their boss the Attorney General.
Pundit Simpson of the Press Party has earned a top dog spot over the years in the PET Cemetery Scribblers’ Corner.
Simpson reveals he knows nothing as to what the conservative philosophy is about.
However, Simpson has come around to this:
“The man who remade Canada’s political landscape”.
The man is Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Simpson recognizes that PM Harper is a political genius.
“Mr. Harper has remade the Canadian political landscape, creating a new party, battling through minority governments, and now winning a majority that should stretch past the new four-year mandate.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/jeffrey-simpson/the-man-who-remade-canadas-political-landscape/article2013137/
Me No Dhimmi, thank you for your very good description re the font anomalies. (I’m glad you know how to do a screen shot. My computer’s like my car: I know how to use it but I know almost nothing about how it works—though I’m a lot better than I used to be, which is saying not much!) It sounds like you have the very same situation that I do. (I don’t really know how to refresh: I found “Refresh” in one of my files, but clicking on it doesn’t restore anything that I can see.)
My Kaspersky keeps telling me it’s detected “Behaviour similar to PDM Invader”. But it seems that my computer’s protected. (DELL has done a whole lot of things to my computer in the past few weeks and this all happened just after DELL’s adjustments: when I have another hour or more to spare, I’m going to contact DELL and report this annoying behaviour.) As I’ve said, the Rumsfeld thread seems to be connected to the problem, although I didn’t open the video.
Sometimes my name and email are “remembered” at SDA, and sometimes they’re not. In general, things are working, but, as a creature of habit, I’d really like to get to the bottom of this.
Oxygentax, thanks for the input. I’m off to a Mothers’s Day party: I’ll get back to you.
SDH, many thanks for the Mothers’ Day best wishes to all us moms out here. The same from me to all the moms. Being a mom is one of the BEST things in life. Yeah Moms! (And Dads and kids!)
For those interested … at 1:05pm PT / 4:05pm ET today (Sunday) Roy Green will be having a segment on Multiculturalism and Immigration.
I’m most fortunate to be one of his guests.
http://roygreenshow.com
H/T Osama bin LaytoNDP.
“the NDP (that’s Canadian for the Socialist Loon Party) has near tripled its representation, thanks to a last-minute revelation that its leader, Jack Layton, had been found naked with a “masseuse” during a police raid on a bawdy house.”
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“Liberal Party of Canada Buried at Sea After Dying in Firefight”
“By Mark Steyn”
“Sorry about the headline. Just trying to liven up the other news of the day. I think it’s fair to say the death of Osama bin Laden has reduced U.S. coverage of today’s Canadian election from 0 percent of network airtime to 0.0000 percent of network airtime. So, in the interests of driving down Corner traffic to near undetectable levels, I thought I’d provide an update:
Canada’s Conservative party has been returned to office, and for the first time Stephen Harper’s ministry will enjoy a parliamentary majority. Always good to have one nation on the North American continent with a Conservative head of government.
On the other hand, the NDP (that’s Canadian for the Socialist Loon Party) has near tripled its representation, thanks to a last-minute revelation that its leader, Jack Layton, had been found naked with a “masseuse” during a police raid on a bawdy house. One never knows what will finally cause a party to make a breakthrough with the electorate, but Mr. Layton’s was the money shot heard round the world.
Meanwhile, the Liberals, the most successful electoral organization in any Western democracy and a party that governed a G7 nation for an unprecedented 70 years during the 20th century, has been reduced to third place for the first time in Canadian history. And a very distant third, too: 33 seats versus 168 for the Tories and 104 for the Dippers. As things stand right now, Michael Ignatieff, former Harvard prof, my sometime BBC colleague and Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, is on course to lose his own seat in Parliament — thereby conveniently accelerating his return to Harvard and/or the Beeb, and a speedy end to his ill-advised foray into Canuck politics.
Mr. Ignatieff’s only consolation is that the Bloc Québécois, the separatist party, suffered an even more catastrophic repudiation by the voters, being reduced to two (or possibly three) members. Its leader, the agreeably insane Gilles Duceppe, lost his seat. Not as bloody as a SEAL assault, but, upshot-wise, pretty much the same.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/266282/liberal-party-canada-buried-sea-after-dying-firefight-mark-steyn
Never offend those in your life who constantly work
with sharp knives, sharp razors, or sharp pencils.
No man is a hero to his valet.
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Addendum:
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delete or and the period after “pencils”
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add “, plus talking dogs who can rat you out”.
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CBC headline — “Lethal religious riots flare up in Cairo”
How’s that for spin? A group of peace-loving muslims show up at a Christian mass with firebombs and machetes.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/05/08/egypt-trial-church-riots.html
That is EXACTLY what dogs would do if they could talk!
Happy Mothers’ Day.
“With our first-past-the-post system, it’s possible to get a majority government with only 40 per cent of the votes. That leaves the 60 per cent who voted for change out in the cold, because, as we have seen, Harper is not interested in cooperating with the other parties.”
Lois Vatcher (via maz2)
So, where’s Ms. Vatcher been hanging out? In a cave? As lookout has pointed out, Chretien’s Liberal$ won with 38 per cent of the vote, and I didn’t hear her protesting – or anyone else. She may be 77 but wisdom doesn’t necessarily accompany years on the planet.
These statistics are informative:
Chretien Majority governments:
1993- 177 seats with 41.23% of vote (which means that 58.77% didn’t vote for the Liberal$).
1997- 155 seats with 38.6% of vote (which means that 61.4% didn’t vote for the Liberal$).
000- 173 seats with 41% of vote (which means that 59% didn’t vote for the Liberal$).
Bob Rae took over Ontario Legislature with 37.6% of vote (which means that 62.4% didn’t vote for the NDP).
I hope Ms. Vatcher is reading this — or any other whiners who contest the legitimacy of Prime Minister Harper and his CPC’s majority.
The Font Monster is back.
Happy Mother’s Day. A special shout-out to those brave moms who rebel against the current obsessive-compulsive parenting culture. Take pride in being considered a mediocre mom because someday your non-neurotic kids will thank you for it.
Moms Don’t Have to Be Sherpas
Mothers today think they have to be attached to their brood 24/7. It’s nuts, and bad for kids.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703992704576305643692449086.html#articleTabs%3Dcomments
People who regurgitate marxist talking points about popular vote BS are lame.
People who have assignments thinking up marxist talking points about popular vote BS are pathetic.
First past the post elections create stability through decisive results.
Proportional vote elections limit choice, promote instability, and increase corruption.
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” CBC headline — “Lethal religious riots flare up in Cairo”
I posted this as a tip earlier. An observation; The comments on CBC reflect the company line that ” all religions are equally bad”. I disagree,and have commented. My comments are not printed.
Yet,if you take a look at the 15 stories on the CBC World news page, 10 of the stories have islam involved. The other 5 stories do not have religion involved. You would think that the CBC would report up on this blatantly obvious fact.But no,political correctness reigns supreme at the money pit.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/
I know I didn’t do anything “right.” But I haven’t had the Font Monster thing. Weird.
I don’t know how I picked it up, but I guess it’s not that bad. You just press F5 and it becomes normal.
@ Ron in Kelowna – Nothing sinister about the question on crops on the census. If you farm in any way, shape or form, you must fill out another census (worse than the the long form). It has always been thus. Sorry.
lookout:
If you use MS Explorer, over to the right of the navigation pane (where the URL shows up) there’s a two green arrow icon just left of the red X. Pass your cursor over it and you get the description: Refresh (F5). You can click on it or use the fuction key (F5) to refresh. Have you noticed that Drudge refreshes automatically? (which I find extremely annoying).
Not getting the font monster today.
Probably a secret overnight MS update?
MND, thank you SO much: I actually found where the Refresh function is—right where you said it would be. (But my arrows seem to be blue!)
No font monster for me today either. (I really appreciate your input, but I’m afraid that the rest of what you said is “Greek” to me!)
Lookout and MND, I discovered the “refresh” key years ago, but I gave up on it, since no matter how often I clicked it, I was just as tired, hot and thirsty as I was before. I think you’ve finally put me on the right road here.