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Of all the twits in this video, what percentage do you think would call themselves "Progressives"?!

An indepth interview with PMSH that's well worth the read.

http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/07/05/how-he-sees-canada%E2%80%99s-role-in-the-world-and-where-he-wants-to-take-the-country/

If the people in that video referenced by Robert W of Vancouver are truly representative of Americans - then they deserve Barrack Obama and to go down the rabbit hole.

Robert W.

All but two?

No matter where you live in North America, I bet it's not as crowded as this!

As everyone who works in an office knows:

Meetings are bad for you

I just spent the last 20 minutes helping a friend over the phone figure out how to print a color document in grayscale from her Mac. What a nightmare of embedded menus! Finally did solve it though.

To all of you who keep insisting to me that Macs are more intuitive than Windows PCs, I have just one thing to say to you all!

Enviros in a quandary. Weed corrupted high tech solar panels require Round-Up to kill green plants in order to save their unfeasible green power bright idea. You can't make this stuff up!

http://solarresearch.org/sk2010/images/stories/Loeschke_PVSolar_Markranstaedt_201106.jpg

It begins

Islamic extremists have called on British Muslims to establish three independent states within the UK.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2011433/Islamic-extremists-set-independent-states-UK-fall-Shariah-law.html

1954 was a great year. By this time we had a TV set (black and white, one channel only) I was 14 years old and had my first car. Ya, it was a junker (1932 model B ford) and I was only allowed to drive it on country roads, but it was a big step up from a bicycle.

Music was changing big time. Rock Around the Clock came out as well as tonights feature song.

At noon hour we would head downtown from school to the Club Cafe and plunk nickels in the jukebox to listen to the wild new music. Good times.

Remember seeing this on the Ed Sullivan Show.

While we're on the subject of 1954, may I suggest one of Sinatra's lesser known films.

Gay Leftards prove that they can hate Jews just as much as Straight Leftards frequently do!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/toronto-school-board-defends-hosting-muslim-prayer-sessions/article2087817/

The Toronto District School Board says it is meeting its obligation to accommodate students’ religious beliefs by allowing an imam to lead students in prayer on school property.

Update: Cancer Industry.

Our CBC vs Cancer Industry.

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"Is it time for the cancer fundraising community to sit down and rethink a few of its priorities? Do any of these reports make you consider shifting your giving plans in any way?"

"Canadian Cancer Society spends more on fundraising than research"

"Tralee Pearce"

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/canadian-cancer-society-spends-more-on-fundraising-than-research/article2088132/?from=sec12025

OK, this---Fast and Furious whistleblown---is getting good!

I've been saying this for years, screaming it, actually, on many occasions or simply muttering it under my breath on others, but I never thought of it as a metaphor for Canadians before....although I agree that it fits perfectly...I just wail or quietly sob in frustration "you've got the damned right of way, TAKE IT and get out of the @#$%^!! way"..and don't get me started on people who see a flashing green light on their side of the intersection and try to politely wave you through the red one you have...

via: diogenesborealis.blogspot.com/2006/09/4-way-stop-as-canadian-metaphor.html

The 4-way stop as Canadian metaphor

Twice a day, on my way to and from work, I pass through an intersection with a four-way stop. Invariably the experience leaves me dumbfounded at the behaviour of fellow motorists at the intersection - no one seems to know what to do when more than one car arrives. Then it dawned on me: the four-way stop is the perfect metaphor for the Canadian psyche. As evidenced by our often lamentable behaviour as a country, Canadians hate to go first.

David Brin used the four-way stop to illustrate human behaviour as it applies to dispute resolution: www.umass.edu/cyber/ohiostate/BrinDisputePartOne.htm

If you want to see clues about our future, step away from your computer screen. Go outside and stand near a four-way intersection that’s regulated only by stop signs.

Watch for a while as drivers take turns, not-quite-stopping while they gauge each others’ intentions, negotiating rapid deals with nods and flashes of eye-contact. You’ll spot some rudeness, certainly. But exceptions seldom rattle this silent dance of brief courtesies and tacit bargains -- a strange mixture of competition and cooperation.

The four-way stop doesn’t work in some cultures, and it’s hard to picture anything like it functioning in times past, when mostly-illiterate humans lived in steep social hierarchies and “right-of-way” was a matter of status, not fair play. Nor would robots, adhering to rigid laws, handle traffic half so well as the drivers I see, dealing with a myriad fuzzy situations, making up micro-rules and exceptions on the spot, even as they talk on cell phones or quell squabbles among kids riding in the back seat. This phenomenon visibly illustrates how simple rules can be used by sophisticated autonomous systems (e.g. modern citizens) to solve intricate problems without any authority figures present to enforce obedience.

Since I've been paying attention to this, I've noticed that when I am at a four-way stop people ignore the rule that the first car at the intersection has the right of way, but instead wave at you to go first, or sit politely waiting to go last. In frustration I sometimes take the initiative and enter the intersection when it isn't my turn just to stop the insane politeness that seems to compel people to give up their right of way. According to Brin's theory, Canadians are apparently unable to "solve intricate problems without any authority figures to enforce obedience".

It isn't just in cars that Canadians exhibit this bizarre behaviour - our pathological politeness and deference is inevitably exhibited when we hold doors open for each other. We apparently believe it is a civic virtue to make a theatrical display of opening doors for others so that we can go last. I have been in situations where someone has seen me approaching from fifty yards away and has stood there holding the door open for what seems like minutes while I mosey on up to the entrance. People do acrobatic contortions to hold a door open behind them after they have already passed through it in order to let someone go through the door first. I was once at a coffee shop with a vestibule with two double doors. Two people, one leaving the shop and one entering at the same time, stood frozen holding the doors open for each other, neither one wanting to go through first. I came up from behind and walked past both of them, still standing there motionless.

I think this Four Way Stop Syndrome explains a lot about our country. It explains why we feel incapable of doing anything on the international stage unless it is already sanctioned by the UN, or France. It explains why we hate to put our troops in combat situations where we might have to take some strategic initiative and kill people instead of digging wells and sand-bagging swollen rivers. It explains why we have this knee-jerk distaste of the US: we hate people who just barge in and do things. An American would never be paralyzed with indecision at a four-way stop (well, maybe in Minnesota).

For the record, folks: the first car into a four-way stop is the first car to proceed through the intersection. If two or more cars arrive simultaneously, the one on the right goes first. If four cars arrive at the same time - God help us. The UN would have to sort it out.

Thanks for the Elvis. I do hope that the Thad McCotter for President campaign uses "Thad's Alright, Mama" as an anthem.

This is why Rush continues to outflank the tired liberal media.

"Angry media should just imagine Casey Anthony had a delayed abortion"

http://www.lifesitenews.com/blog/rush-limbaugh-angry-media-should-just-imagine-casey-anthony-had-a-delayed-a

PET Cemetery Report.

"Mr. Trudeau signed the order-in-council that declared it a crime, punishable by five years in prison, for any Canadian to discuss details of the cartel in public."

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"NEIL REYNOLDS"

"AECL sale a long overdue move"

"Early in 1972, as he approached the end of his first term as one of Canada’s most authoritarian prime ministers, Pierre (“Just watch me”) Trudeau took Canada into the secret, state-sponsored international cartel that rigged world uranium prices for four years. When the existence of the cartel became known in 1976, Mr. Trudeau signed the order-in-council that declared it a crime, punishable by five years in prison, for any Canadian to discuss details of the cartel in public. Perhaps this misadventure doesn’t quite qualify as proto-fascist. But it comes close: The word describes the early stage of an alliance, with totalitarian propensities, of a state and the corporations it chooses as its partners."

"Although the legacy of corrupt government practices in the past will survive for decades to come, Mr. Harper’s sale of AECL to SNC-Lavalin is a cleansing action, long overdue – and, judged properly, a small step toward the “just society” that Mr. Trudeau professed to champion."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/neil-reynolds/aecl-sale-a-long-overdue-move/article2087796/

"Iceland's 'Gateway to Hell' volcano ready to erupt"

"ONE of Iceland's most feared volcanoes, Hekla, looks ready to erupt, with measurements showing likely magma movement.

The volcano is close to the ash-spewing Eyjafjoell, which last year caused the world's biggest airspace shutdown since World War II, affecting more than 100,000 flights and eight million passengers.

The Iceland Civil Protection Authority said it was closely monitoring the situation.

"The movements around Hekla have been unusual in the last two to three days," University of Iceland expert Pall Einarsson said.

While this might not necessarily mean an immediate blast, "the volcano is ready to erupt," he stressed."

http://www.news.com.au/world/icelands-gateway-to-hell-volcano-ready-to-erupt/story-e6frfkyi-1226089445763

"Mi’kmaq" Indians = Micmac Indians.

Beothuk Indians = 0.

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"Who were the Beothuk?"

"The Micmac Indians were one of the main eventual means to the extinction of the Beothuk Indians in the mid-1800's."

http://www.helium.com/items/1506009-beothuk-indians-of-newfoundland

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"School drops Halifax founder’s name over Mi’kmaq complaints"

http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/

"Why you didn't get to #AskObama anything on Twitter
CNN"

http://news.google.ca/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&q&js=0

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"So far the media has been keeping the story below the fold."

"Darrell Issa’s letter to Eric Holder summarizing the testimony of acting ATF head Kenneth Melson appears to suggest the Attorney General has been less than candid with Congress about Operation Fast and Furious, aka Gunwalker. Gunwalker is the name for an ATF program which sold guns to known “straw purchasers” or cartel front-men in order to trace the guns to Mexico. The trouble was the masterminds who bought the guns were already known to US law enforcement. Worse, the guns were lost to the control of Mexican thugs who went on to rampage through Mexico and US border areas, eventually killing Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

When the full extent of the fiasco became known it became clear that someone was going to have to take responsibility for the carnage. Kenneth Melson appeared to have been offered up as a sacrificial lamb, but the lamb declined to be led to the slaughter."

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/07/06/hold-my-beer/#more-15582

O's cover is blown.

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“Fast and Furious” Blows Sky-High

This morning, there was a stunning development in Congress’s investigation of the Justice Department’s “Fast and Furious” gun-running program: it was revealed that on July 4, Kenneth Melson, the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Obama administration’s intended fall guy in the scandal, broke ranks with his superiors. Without their knowledge, he gave an interview to Darrell Issa’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, accompanied only by his personal attorney. While a transcript of that interview is not yet public, it is clear that he blew the whistle on senior officials in the Justice Department.

This morning, Issa and Senator Charles Grassley released a letter that they sent yesterday to Attorney General Eric Holder. It is explosive, to say the least. You should read it in its entirety; here are some excerpts:"

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/07/fast-and-furious-blows-sky-high.php

Israel's palace coup plotters

Last Friday, Haaretz reported that former Mossad chief Meir Dagan and former IDF chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi refused to obey his order. Rather than prepare strike plans, Dagan and Ashkenazi warned that such a strike would foment a regional war. That is, rather than do their jobs, they made excuses for failing to fulfill their duty to obey Israel's elected leadership.

http://carolineglick.com/