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somewhat related:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8

Happy Canada Day!

In unrelated news, it appears the Floatilla of Fools has run aground.

True to form, the Globe doesn't let objectivity get in the way of good storytelling:
"As part of its worldwide propaganda effort, Israel’s Public Diplomacy Ministry held a “readiness exercise” this week complete with a “situation room” from which officials practised how they would send out their public relations messages under various scenarios following a confrontation with the flotilla."

I'm not saying that the Glob holds a monopoly on yellow press, but really.. sarc quotes? Well I gotta admire their chutzpah in using the word propaganda.

don't forget this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x8jWa9sIQc

If you folks haven't happened on Iowahawk's little corner of the web, do yourselves a favour and head on over.

In addition to being a world class gear head, he does some of the best satire anywhere! An example from today on twitter,

"Carbon trading: a financial market based on the non-delivery of an invisible product to no one."

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/

Isn't carbon trading "The transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries?

The latest (and shocking) Canadian total debt statistics:

http://www.bloggingtories.ca/forums/viewtopic.php?p=97522

max (1:09 am) I checked out the link and found that the Greeks still have something working in their country because they are the ones that stopped the ships (the flotilla of fools) from leaving port. My question is, why doesn't anyone do some research on the activists? You don't charter a ship without lots of dollars. So who is financing them? And why? Why are those questions not worth pursuing by any of the world's major media organizations?

AtlanticJim and capt_bob, exactly.This is all based on Al Gore's, David Suzuki's and et al's fraudulent hot air.

To add to ralph's tip, Jack's Newswatch had a few economic news items. The one below being one of them. Train wreck coming is right. Look for more Greek style riots.

http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2011/07/02/global-train-wreck-coming-5/

"Isn't carbon trading "The transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries?
Posted by: capt_bob "

Yes, Capt Bob. Plus transferring huge amounts of money to fat cat Western parasites like Al Gore, principal partner in an international carbon credits brokerage corp. That's another "Inconvenient Truth" the MSM chooses not to report in it's coverage of The Goracle, the biggest, lyingest loudmouth in the AGW global racket.

Michele Bachmann.
O'Reilly once spluttered, "Smart!!??...Michele Bachmann SMART!!??".

Here are a few quick notes jotted down from her interview with Mark Levin (h/t Kathy's weekly talk show roundup) in which Levin had lambasted Chris Wallace for his shameful "flake" question to which she countered that she was a "serious person" with a serious record of accomplishment.

- Law degree
- Post doctorate in tax law (William & Mary University).
- scholarly background
- extensive background litigating tax cases in the US tax court
- with husband started a successful small business and created "many jobs" in Minn.
- extensive experience in education reform
- 23 foster children
- started a charter school for wayward kids.

I was concerned that the liberal media would eat her alive. However, she told Levin that growing up in a liberal state and being surrounded by liberal media all her life she thinks that this strengthens her; gives her a tough skin, makes her "battle-hardened".

Charles Krauthammer is a SNOB. In an interview with Dennis Miller he dismissed her as unelectable reminding us of the Buckley rule: nominate not the best conservative, but the conservative most likely to win. WELL, CK, that menas never having a conservative government. EVER.

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/wasted%2Byears/5038304/story.html

Rex Murphy on ten years in Afghanistan.

General Canadian Jokes

http://www.indefual.net/canada/jokes/general.html

http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Canada%2Bcomplacency%2Bclimate%2Bchange%2Bembarrassment/5038886/story.html

Canada's complacency on climate change is an international embarrassment, according to the authors, two highly educated professors.

Could this be an omen?

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20110702_On_Obama_s_visit__presidential_seal_blew_off_his_limo_on_I-76__it_later_was_recovered.html

Naw...it's probably nothing.

Ok, the folks running Twitter can shut it down now.

jimmiebjr has officially won twitter for all time with this tweet.

"One. His name is Barack Obama. RT @Saturday_Trivia: How many zeroes in a Trillion? #TrivialTwitter"

An official "Canada is Great" goes out to you from those who hold you #1, above all other countries, of us below the 49th. May God Bless Both of our great nations.

Thanks Orlin, and right back at you on Monday. My daughter and her Dad are both born on the 4th of July, so it is always a memorable day for us too.

For an empirical result of the effect of unions - and removing their power - has on the economy, here's a specific example in Wisconsin, which just removed the union's right to taxpayer funded pensions, benefits and etc.

http://nation.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/01/wi-schools-go-broke-flush-after-union-curbs

"The Kaukauna School District, in the Fox River Valley of Wisconsin near Appleton, has about 4,200 students and about 400 employees. It has struggled in recent times and this year faced a deficit of $400,000. But after the law went into effect, at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, school officials put in place new policies they estimate will turn that $400,000 deficit into a $1.5 million surplus. And it's all because of the very provisions that union leaders predicted would be disastrous.

In the past, teachers and other staff at Kaukauna were required to pay 10 percent of the cost of their health insurance coverage and none of their pension costs. Now, they'll pay 12.6 percent of the cost of their coverage (still well below rates in much of the private sector) and also contribute 5.8 percent of salary to their pensions. The changes will save the school board an estimated $1.2 million this year, according to board President Todd Arnoldussen."

NOTE: incredible - how public service unions rip off the taxpayer.

"In the past, Kaukauna's agreement with the teachers union required the school district to purchase health insurance coverage from something called WEA Trust -- a company created by the Wisconsin teachers union. "It was in the collective bargaining agreement that we could only negotiate with them," says Arnoldussen. "Well, you know what happens when you can only negotiate with one vendor." This year, WEA Trust told Kaukauna that it would face a significant increase in premiums.

Now, the collective bargaining agreement is gone, and the school district is free to shop around for coverage. And all of a sudden, WEA Trust has changed its position. "With these changes, the schools could go out for bids, and lo and behold, WEA Trust said, 'We can match the lowest bid,'" says Republican state Rep. Jim Steineke, who represents the area and supports the Walker changes. At least for the moment, Kaukauna is staying with WEA Trust, but saving substantial amounts of money.

Then there are work rules. "In the collective bargaining agreement, high school teachers only had to teach five periods a day, out of seven," says Arnoldussen. "Now, they're going to teach six." In addition, the collective bargaining agreement specified that teachers had to be in the school 37 1/2 hours a week. Now, it will be 40 hours.

The changes mean Kaukauna can reduce the size of its classes -- from 31 students to 26 students in high school and from 26 students to 23 students in elementary school."

Unions. Parasites on an economy.

Things that make you go hmmmmm ? I've always had my doubts, but not even the National Enquirer has dug up an old 'bama flame...which makes me more than a little nervous

via: factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com

Obama: Where are his girl friends?????

Where are his girl friends? Strange that none have popped up!!!!

Strange to the point of being down right WEIRD!

OK.. this is past the ‘birthers’ questions…this is just plain old common sense, no political agendas for either side.

Just common knowledge for citizens of a country, especially American citizens, who even know that Andrew Jackson’s wife smoked a corn cob pipe and was accused of adultery, or that Lincoln never went to school or Kennedy wore a back brace or Truman played the piano.

We are Americans! We are known for our humanitarian interests and caring for our ‘fellow man.’ We care, but none of us know one single humanizing fact about the history of our own president.

Honestly, and this is a personal thing…but it’s niggled at me for ages that no one who ever dated him ever showed up. The simple fact of his charisma, which caused the women to be drawn to him so obviously during his campaign, looks like some lady would not have missed the opportunity….

We all know about JFK’s magnetism, McCain was no monk, Palin’s courtship and even her athletic prowess were probed. Biden’s aneurysms are no secret. Look at Cheney and Clinton…we all know about their heart problems. How could I have left out Wild Bill before or during the White House?

Nope…not one lady has stepped up and said, “He was so shy,” or “What a great dancer!” Now look at the rest of this…no classmates, not even the recorder for the Columbia class notes ever heard of him.

I just don’t know about this fellow.

Who was the best man at his wedding? Start there. Then check groomsmen. Then get the footage of the graduation ceremony.

Has anyone talked to the professors? It is odd that no one is bragging that they knew him or taught him or lived with him.

When did he meet Michele and how? Are there photos? Every president gives to the public all their photos, etc. for their library.

What has he released?

And who in hell voted for him to be the most popular man in the world?

Does this make you wonder?

Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from Obama’s past, saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc.? Not one person has ever come forward from his past.

VERY, VERY STRANGE. This should really be a cause for great concern. To those who voted for him, you may have elected an unqualified, inexperienced *shadow man*.

Did you see a picture called The Manchurian Candidate?

Let’s face it; as insignificant as we all are…someone whom we went to school with remembers our name or face…someone remembers we were the clown or the dork or the brain or the quiet one or the bully or something about us.

George Stephanopoulos of ABC News said the same thing during the 2008 campaign. He questions why no one has acknowledged the president was in their classroom or ate in the same cafeteria or made impromptu speeches on campus. Stephanopoulos also was a classmate of Obama at Columbia — the class of 1984. He says he never had a single class with him.

While he is such a great orator, why doesn’t anyone in Obama’s college class remember him? And, why won’t he allow Columbia to release his records?

NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA

Looking for evidence of Obama’s past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there, but none remembered him.

For example, Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia, who also graduated in 1983. In 2008, Root says of Obama, “I don’t know a single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me. I don’t have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia …EVER!

Nobody recalls him. Root adds that he was also, like Obama, “Class of ’83 political science, pre-law” and says, “You don’t get more exact or closer than that. Never met him in my life, don’t know anyone who ever met him.”

At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who’s kind of the, as we say in New York, ‘the macha’ who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him.”

Obama’s photograph does not appear in the school’s yearbook, and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia.

NOTE: Root graduated as valedictorian from his high school, Thornton-Donovan School, then graduated from Columbia University in 1983 as a political science major in the same class in which Barack Hussein Obama states he was.

Some other interesting questions.

Why was Obama’s law license inactivated in 2002?

Why was Michelle’s law license inactivated by court order?

It is circulating that according to the U.S. Census, there is only one Barack Obama but 27 Social Security numbers and over 80 aliases.

WHAT!?

The Social Security number he uses now originated in Connecticut where he is never reported to have lived.

No wonder all his records are sealed!

Well, I guess it IS true.
The world is run by crazy people.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2010335/Russia-deploy-thousands-troops-protect-nations-interests-Arctic.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Speaking of the world and crazy people...CSI doggy doo...

http://watch.ctv.ca/news/#clip494394

The natural end result of left-liberalism/socialism:

paranoid insanity.

"irony is the only weapon left to its opponents."

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"Telegraph | Kim Jong-il’s half-brother under house arrest because of resemblance to Kim Il-sung

Kim Jong-il’s half-brother has been reportedly placed under house arrest in Pyongyang because his resemblance to his father and founder of the nation, Kim Il-sung, could derail the transfer of power to the Dear Leader’s son."

http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/

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"Belarus: Let no-one laugh in Lukashenko's madhouse"

"On the occasion of the Belarusian Independence Day celebrations on 3 July, anyone who dares to applaud Alexander Lukashenko risks being sent to jail. The dictator’s regime, which is in a desperate situation, is well aware that irony is the only weapon left to its opponents."

"Alexander Lukashenko, the boss of Belarus, may well be an illiterate peasant, but he knows a thing or two about irony and how harmful it can be to those in power. Armed with this knowledge, he has decided to implement a number of measures that will guarantee him a place in the despots’ hall of fame.

At next Sunday’s [3 July] Indepenence Day celebrations, anyone who dares to applaud his speech, the troops on parade, or, worse still, agents of the secret service, which in Belarus is still called the KGB, will be arrested.

The only applause that will be allowed will be for veterans and ex-servicemen. “We will intervene in all other cases," announces deputy police chief Igor Essiev, who appears visibly pleased by the prospect of yet another dragnet while he turns his suspicious gaze on passers-by in October Square.

Armed with their handcuffs and truncheons, Essiev and his agents, who appear determined to give no one the benefit of the doubt, make a habit of conducting random identity checks on young people and old ladies carrying home their groceries. And although they are unwilling to admit it, they would also like to impose a ban on smiling, which is another gesture that is now beginning to irritate the regime.

The fact is that smiling and clapping is about all the Belarusians can do to express their opposition to an increasingly authoritarian government."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2742970/posts

Financial stewardship: Canada's Floatilla of Fools' interpretation

Donations: ~$340,000
Results: $30,000 in medical supplies, stuck in Greece.

Sounds pretty rough...
"Corriveau said that the 50 people aboard the Tahrir, the flotilla’s Canadian vessel carrying $30,000 in medical supplies, are staying close to the boat and are ready to lift anchor at any moment.Of the 50, about 30 are Canadian, five of them from Quebec, said Lorraine Guay, a rehabilitation nurse and activist who has visited Gaza and Israel. The others are from Denmark, Australia, Belgium, Turkey and Germany. Despite their forced inaction, the crew’s mood is cheery and forward-looking, Corriveau said. Particularly gratifying, he noted, is the warm support from the locals in Greece’s largest island. “Restaurant owners are feeding us for free and we’re getting all sorts of offers from pharmacies for free medical stuff to bring with us,” said Corriveau."

So uh.. the ROI on the Canadian contribution to the Gaza expedition is less than sales tax everywhere but Alberta.

Seeing as how I'm talking to myself already, now seems as good a time as any to mention that "rabbletv" is now showing up in the google news aggregator.. and Sun News Network is not. Someone please do something!This is NOT A GOOD SHOWING.

OK last post of the night I promise...

More people will be in my backyard tonight.. why don't I get a news story?

capt_bob @ 9:52 a.m.: "Isn't carbon trading 'The transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries'?"

No, that's foreign aid.