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Steyn is on fire with his latest article.

http://tinyurl.com/3r3x22p

Globe and Mail, Wednesday, June 8. Extreme lefty law professor Allan Hutchinson discusses the Supreme Court vacancies.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/yes-we-must-pay-attention-to-judges-values/article2050569/

AH: "Brian Dickson and Bertha Wilson, for example, were justly celebrated for the way that they left their substantive mark on the law and the Constitution. It was because of their 'large and liberal' political views that they're remembered, not in spite of them. How they creatively interpreted freedom and equality was a mark of greatness, not a stain on their largely meritorious careers."

How Brian Dickson and Bertha Wilson "creatively interpreted freedom" was by trampling all over it. Section 1 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms states that the rights within are "subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a democratic society". But because the Charter was new, the judges viewed section 1 the same way a four-year-old boy views a brand new shiny red fire truck toy on Christmas morning: they couldn't keep their hands off it. The judges of the Supreme Court, mainly Dickson and Wilson, bent over backwards to use section 1 to rule against freedom of expression in infamous cases like Irwin Toy in 1989 and Taylor and Keegstra in 1990. Their legacy in this regard should not be celebrated, but condemned.

For those following the Stanley Cup Finals, here's a video I shot at Canada Place in Vancouver during the moment the Canucks won Game #5!

First one I remember was back in 1971 when Canenero II lost its Triple Crown bid. Two years later saw the greatest of them all, Secretariat, pull away from the field in epic fashion. Even though it wasn't close, it was good neck and neck in the backstretch until Big Red turned it up to a gear we haven't seen since.

Readers tip:

Australian environmental weenies believe killing camels will cut down on Co2 emissions.

Many of my Australian Vietnam Vet bloggers think that after shooting the camels we need to shoot environmental weenies.
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I agreed to send bullets.

Ahhh...that Leftist religion

http://www.breitbart.com/...5.6c1&show_article=1

Australia is considering awarding carbon credits for killing feral camels as a way to tackle climate change.

The suggestion is included in Canberra's "Carbon Farming Initiative", a consultation paper by the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, seen Thursday.

Adelaide-based Northwest Carbon, a commercial company, proposed culling some 1.2 million wild camels that roam the Outback, the legacy of herds introduced to help early settlers in the 19th century.

Talk about spoiling a headline.

Front Page Calgary Herald, Saturday June 11.

Picture of Prince Phillip and the Queen.
The caption was:
Prince William and his wife Catherine took part in the pomp and pageantry on Saturday as Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her official birthday.

People not knowing better would think the picture of the Queen and Prince Phillip was really "Prince William and his wife Catherine".

I think this falls under Too Many Reporters!

Reader Tip- amazing crash that occured early in today's running of the 24 Hours of LeMans:

http://t.co/dxr5cBH

H/T Indy Car driver Tony Kanaan who tweeted it this am.

This could have been as bad as the accident at LeMans in 1955 that nearly caused a ban of the race, and did cause the withdrawl of Mercedes Benz from racing for a long time.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=39422

Reason TV, makes sense.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwzHovOB1Vc&feature=feedu

The natural end result of socialism.

Socialism is the parent of the cohorts of communism.

“We are a Soviet-style economy,” says Mr. Stournaras.”

“Thus, the Greek economy is an inverted pyramid. “You have few people paying on one side and a lot of people taking on the other side,” he says. “This is unsustainable.”

“The roots of the Greek tragedy: bloated bureaucracy and tax evasion”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/the-roots-of-the-greek-tragedy-bloated-bureaucracy-and-tax-evasion/article2056715/

macd - yes, that's a really excellent outline of the problems of a statist, socialist economy. The unions and the public service employees are bankrupting the nation.

"But to trace the more fundamental problem, Michael Mitsopoulos, a Greek economist who is the co-author of the book Understanding the Greece Crisis, presents a few simple figures: Out of Greece's 4.3 million workers, about one million are in the public sector, two million work for private companies and 1.3 million are self-employed. The latter typically pay little tax, so the two million private-sector workers have to carry the entire country, including vast numbers of pensioners. What's more, Mr. Mitsopoulos estimates that only about 300,000 of those private-sector employees have both the income and the integrity to pay “substantial” amounts of tax.

Thus, the Greek economy is an inverted pyramid. “You have few people paying on one side and a lot of people taking on the other side,” he says. “This is unsustainable. There has to be a master plan to transfer public-sector jobs to the private sector.”

And like so many who have become dependent on the state, the Greek unionists and civil service and any and all others in the public employment - are furious and rioting against the govt.

This refusal to face reality, this assumption that a small private sector can support a massive unionized and public sector - is similar to what's going on in the US. Remember how Gov. Walker tried to pass into law that the unionized public service actually ought to contribute..just a bit..to their own benefits. They stormed the legislature; the Democratic Reps left the state to block the motion.

It's puzzling how the left views government; they seem to define it as an endless, infinite source of wealth and that they are entitled to all that wealth. They don't seem to live within reality and realize that the money comes from taxpayers and in particular, from private taxpayers - and there aren't enough of them to support the high salaries and unrealistic benefits of the unions and public service.

And notice that this is the master plan of Obama - the demise of the individual and the insertion of the state as the sole source of wealth and wisdom.

Weiner is requesting a leave of absence to 'seek treatment'. That's a very clever tactic. Since his whole identity is invested in his being a member of Congress, he can't let it go and resign.

He's obviously been hoping that it will 'blow over' and he'd wait it out. Every 'event' does eventually disappear. But, removing himself from the scene is a perfect tactic to kick-start this fading-from-memory. And he keeps his seat in Congress. Neat tactic.

Rather similar to Obama's telling the unemployed to 'just wait it out' and 'things will get better'. And thus removing himself from any causality (such as his massive spending).

"Flaherty aims to reduce number of tax brackets"

"Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says after he’s balanced the budget he wants to make Canada’s income-tax system flatter by reducing the number of tax brackets – in order to give people more incentive to work.

This would allow people to earn more money in lower tax brackets and could effectively cut their marginal tax rate."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/flaherty-aims-to-reduce-number-of-tax-brackets/article2056895/

Vehicular Jihad: Kansas Muslim Drives for Three Miles with Dead Man on Roof of Van

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/vehicular-jihad-kansas-muslim-drives-for-three-miles-with-dead-man-on-roof-of-van.html

Mao Stlong Lepolt.

You wan Mo Strong's connection to Ad$Cam Liberals Chretien/MartinJr/Bob Rae, et al?

>>> "Numerous Canadian companies have been involved in the dam project, including SNC-Lavalin, which was part of a CIDA-funded, 1988 feasibility study that upheld the viability of its construction."

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"China faces worst drought in 50 years"

"Three Gorges, and a myriad of doubts"

"Sun Jialing, a chain-smoking official, sat in his bare-walled office and contemplated the future.

It was 1996, and the colossal Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydro-electric project in the world, was under construction across the Yangtze River. It was downstream from his hometown, Fengdu, historically known as the City of Ghosts."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/three-gorges-and-a-myriad-of-doubts/article2056811/

In "David Mamet Explains His Shift to the Right," the New York Times' Andrew Goldman interviews David Mamet on the publication of his new anti-liberal book The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture.

Not surprisingly, the INTERVIEW HAS BEEN CONDENSED AND EDITED (the interviewer seemed to be having a rough time):

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/magazine/david-mamet-talks-about-his-shift-to-the-right.html

Check out Mamet's own Web site and read an excerpt from his book:

http://davidmamet.com/