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I find it kind or interesting that the doughnut burger recently originated in the U.S.

Metaphorically speaking.

Meat and sweets, unfortunately it seems most folks can only afford the doughnut hole courtesy of the big O.

Latest post from Palin:

The Sugar Daddy Has Run Out Of Sugar

http://www.therightscoop.com/sarah-palin-the-sugar-daddy-is-out-of-sugar/

Syncrodox, that sounds like a line from a comedian: "At one point in my life I was so broke I could only afford the hole in the middle of the doughnut!"

Robert W. (Vancouver)

I meant it in a black humor sort of way but Lev's contribution really drives the point home.

Whatever role Sarah Palin plays in the upcoming election cycle is going to be important.

I meant to run this on readers tips- sorry..

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/07/08/kates-marilyn-moment-in-calgary

Kate/Canada-

Please don't invite Bill Clinton over for state dinners.

And another one bites the dust:

Does this piece illustrate the typical leftist's hive mentality or what? It's CLASSIC.

"CTV Journalist Kai Nagata has quit his job -- and he wants you to know why"

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/media-watch/2011/07/journalist-kai-nagata-has-quit-his-job-and-he-wants-you-know-why

Letter to the Editor Saskatoon Star Pheonix, Somebody finally asks the question, Why the hell an the 9 th day of July 2011, are the streets in Saskatoon not clean of the SAND AND GRAVEL from the winter of 2010/11. I have been talking about this for a full month. I have emailed all city Councilors a week ago and not one of these important people has even bothered to respond. This tax and spend LIBERAL council and Mayor have turned Saskatoon into a SHIT HOLE. Saskatoon is recieving 10 million dollars from the 1% PST funding, it also recieves millions more from the 1 cent per liter gas tax funding from the Federal Government. The voters in Saskatoon are a bunch of dummies. Cruise around circle drive and you will witness a city in decay. South of college drive you will see 4 foot weeds in the ditch. This is what I'm talking about. The little things that make this city "SASKATOON SHINES" WHAT A BUNCH OF BULL SHIT. Fire Don Atchison, all councilors and Murry Totland.

The flotilla of fools has now become the flytilla of fools.
Israel is not allowing them in.
I wonder if it is because their pockets and suircases are full of humanitarian aid.

The flotilla of fools has now become the flytilla of fools.
Israel is not allowing them in.
I wonder if it is because their pockets and suircases are full of humanitarian aid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shLEbRcK9oU&feature=player_embedded

This is pretty funny.

Behind the Veil
The Truth We Don’t Know About Fairies, Leprechauns,
UFOs, ETs & Other Entities

Do you believe in fairies and leprechauns? What about UFOs and ETs? Most people would say no to the first question but would hesitate to give a flat-out yes or no to the second. Fairies, elves, gnomes, trolls, ogres—all those quaint folklore characters—are out of fashion these days, whereas serious belief in extra-terrestrial creatures and extra-sensory perception is becoming more mainstream all the time.

Read more: http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=24-04-032-f#ixzz1RgUvAnaK

Australia gets Carbon Tax: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/carbon-tax/the-price-impact-of-the-carbon-tax/story-fn9arnqs-1226091664024

Cheers

A reporter's Life and Fate.

"There is no free press."

"As a journalist, he is not embedded — to use the contemporary phrase — among soldiers as a representative of a free press in a civilian society. There is no free press. Civilians are only those who will be killed without weapons in their hands, and who have already been brutalized by Stalin before the war. Grossman is not free himself. He is all but a soldier under orders. Yet he is forced to sustain the consciousness needed to record everything he sees around him."

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"Westward Into War With the Soviet Novelist and Reporter Vasily Grossman"

"It is easier to picture the Soviet writer Vasily Grossman in May 1945, at the end of World War II, than it is at the war's outset. The flesh has dropped away. His eyes have grown larger, his face sharper. He is 39. The photographs show him always in his owlish glasses, and there is sometimes more to be read in his posture or the way he holds a cigarette than there is in his eyes, which have none of the grimness but all of the experience of the generals he interviewed.

Grossman spent four years in and around the front lines as a war correspondent for Red Star, the Soviet Army newspaper, and the job — which became a passion — altered him almost beyond recognition. Gone was the plump, urbane and relatively conventional writer of fiction. What the war gave Grossman were the materials and the mind to write "Life and Fate," arguably the greatest Russian novel of the 20th century."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/01/opinion/01wed2.html

Neo-AGW Progress Report.

H/T "politically funded disinformers".

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"100 years ago today, “climate disruption” traveled back in time to kill 652 people"

"There’s always a lot of squawking about “climate disruption” from politically funded disinformers like Joe Romm, Bill McKibben, and their ilk anytime there is a heat wave anywhere these days. But, it doesn’t hold up. One only has to look at all the faux noise made last year over the Russian heat wave, which NOAA later analysed and said was not connected in any way to “climate change”.

The heat wave of 2003 in Europe has often been cited as proof that AGW is making heat waves worse. But, at a time when we had far less people, and far less CO2 in the atmosphere, a very deadly heat wave occurred.

History: 100 years ago today, In the US 652 deaths in a week reported during heatwave 9th July 1911 despite a lower composition of CO2 in the atmosphere. The only possible explanation? “Climate Disruption” has the power of time travel /sarc

Continue reading →"

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

AGW Circus has arrived in town.

This Way To The Egress*.

"Lincoln Electric's 340-foot, 800,000-pound towering turbine".

http://media.cleveland.com/metro/photo/9741203-large.jpg

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2746318/posts

*H/T PT Barnum

Leftists love to talk about collusion between big oil, or big pharma, or whatever. How can this direct monetary relationship between Ontario Liberals and teachers be considered anything other than collusion?
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TORONTO - This city's provincial Tory candidates will battle the resources of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Association (OSSTF) District 12 after none of them were deemed worthy of endorsement by the local's leaders.

[...]

The chosen 14 [12 Liberals] will get direct donations from the association and teachers will be encouraged to volunteer on their campaigns and vote for them.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2011/07/08/18396306.html

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Under eight years of Liberal rule, high school teacher salaries in Ottawa have risen by 24.5 per cent. A teacher with 10 years experience will earn $94,650 in 2011-12.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Ottawa+teachers+plan+repay+McGuinty+kindness/4970758/story.html#ixzz1RiCLp5rv

This story isn't getting the attention it needs...

“(The union officials) can say what they want,” Tim Squire, founder of Chiefswood Welding, told QMI Agency. “We have different rules. We have a non-union company. We don’t go by white man rules.”

The union said it has filed a complaint with Revenue Canada about Chiefswood’s payroll practices.
But Squire is defiant.

“As far as we’re concerned, all of Ontario is a reserve,” he said. “All this land is ours. With all the treaties we’ve got, we don’t have to pay taxes.”

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2011/07/08/18395496.html

What kind of accent do you have?

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=9827

I was surprised " Canadian "

Hey bruce me 2

I have to agree with DJ..the streets of Saskatoon are full of gravel and crap. The only time I saw the street sweepers was on Preston Ave, and are you ready for this.....5 of them on Preston Ave on a Saturday afternoon with traffic backed up everywhere. What the heck...I had garbage pick up on July 01.....double time anyone. Downtown 2nd Ave has not been swept ....the dirt and sand is still there. There are numerous places where the streets have been dug up and nothing left but gravel. Hey Saskatoon..don't dump on Regina, there streets are clean, well marked and another Regina plus.....there arent 50 pandhandlers, drunks, druggies floating around the downtown. Saskatoon Shines...must be from all the garbage on the streets.

Hey Don....if you want money to fix the roads, here are a few suggestions.

Privatize Garbage puck up, maintenance of parks, street sweepers, snow removal..cut the fire department by 50%...I think we had one fire in 20 years in my sub/division. I ask the quesiton, if your house is burning, do you really want the fire dept to save it....let it burn and build a new one. Fireman are really busy.....being EMS...picking up needles and now watching to see if you are watering your lawn. Just think of the millions we could save....and those saving are just for starters. There is a 100 million savings there in salary, fat pensions, medical insurance and not to mention all the equipment the city has to buy. I would privatize the entire city payroll and then Saskatoon would really shine.

Thanks Mike for those kind words. Yes this city has gone downhill under Atchison and company. Look around, and with all this new construction everywhere, tax dollars should be flowing in faster than they can spend them. Not so though. This group of tax and spend Liberals is out of control. A recent report by City Hall says our STREETS are deteriorating faster than can be fixed and MILLIONS of dollars are needed. I know where they can get 50,000. Two months ago CITY COUNCIL voted to spend 50,000 on a study to see what the bums think about a law that would limit there ability to beg for money on city streets. The world has gone f'n crazy. Bums that have drug, alcohol, and mental illness telling us what they think. You can't even find out who voted for this as council votes are not recorded. Theresa Dust, city solicitor brought this proposal forward and council agreed. This is insanity. Fire every one of these useless SOB'S

H/T Liberal Ad$Cam Citoyen Kyoto Dionky.

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"Canadian law too easy on fraud"

"Canada's reputation for being soft on fraud is well- deserved. Daily Feature"

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"Australia unveils carbon-reduction scheme"

"Australia unveiled plans on Sunday to slap a carbon tax of A$23 a tonne on its 500 worst polluters from 2012."

http://cnews.canoe.ca/

Here is a list of councilors and moyor in Saskatoon. Tell them how you feel. bev.dubois@saskatoon.ca,charlie.clark@saskatoon.ca
Darren.Hill@Saskatoon.ca,Mairin.Loewen@Saskatoon.ca,maurice.neault@saskatoon.ca,myles.heidt@saskatoon.ca,pat.lorje@saskatoon.ca,randy.donauer@saskatoon.ca,tiffany.paulsen@saskatoon.ca,glen.penner@saskatoon.ca, and last but not least by Big Don, (306) 975-3202, give him acall, you will get his voice mail and just leave him a message highlighting your displeasure with what is going on.

Of left-liberalism's "move on" and O's "first lady".

Graverobbing is colour-blind.

Notice that the original "statement" made by "The first lady's communications director" was clarified; not shelved.

That tactic is a Maoist/Marxist tactic.

"... she would just like to put this behind her and move on with her life."

"... but the Rev. Jesse Jackson told reporters the desecration of his original casket was very painful."

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"Ex-director of Illinois cemetery sentenced in burial scheme"

"... the White House issued a statement clarifying that first lady Michelle Obama's late father, Fraser Robinson III, was not buried in Burr Oak, but in a graveyard a few miles away. The first lady's communications director had mistakenly reported he was buried in Burr Oak."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/09/illinois.cemetery.scheme/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Wait/watch for left-liberalism's reaction. Er, it's a-boiling already.

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"Telegraph | Michele Bachmann signs controversial slavery marriage pact"

"Michele Bachmann, the Republican presidential candidate, signed a Christian conservative pledge that stated that African-American children were more likely to grow up in stable families during the era of slavery than under President Barack Obama."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/republicans/8628717/Michele-Bachmann-signs-controversial-slavery-marriage-pact.html

bruce wayne riley

Lol they had me from Missouri. I grew up in small town Alberta. Thanks for the post . It was fun.

The attention whores have abandoned their attempt to embarrass Israel.
I hope that next time they want to make a point they try self-immolation.It's cheaper and will guarantee headlines.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/07/10/canadian-israel-gaza-aid-blockade.html

Revnant Dream

I had to laugh too. I grew up in the western USA, until I was 14. My father was a seismic driller. We moved on the average every 6 weeks, from Montana to Texas to Louisiana to Nebraska, any potential oil field. I attended 56 different schools, last stop was Mineola, Texas, then we moved to Calgary Halloween night 1967. My classmates in Calgary bullied my southern drawl out of me. We are all friends now, I just talked funny, I guess they did a heck of a job.

I now live in small town Alberta, love it here, wanna die here, but the Canadian accent, TOTAL surprise.

Missouri State Motto
Salus populi suprema lex esto.
The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law.

Indeed. Did someone say welfare?

Buddy, can you spare a "six-figure"?

PET Cemetery Hellfare Report.

H/T Canada's Cancer Industry.

Statistics included Free. We charge for fiat money.

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"Thousands of charity workers earning six-figure salaries"

"There are around a million charity workers in Canada."

"85,000." "10 highest-paid workers take home."
"more than 6,000 of them".
"$120,000". "A few hundred". "$350,000."
"12,000 workers".
"$80,000 and $120,000."
"And about 163,000 earned less than that."

It's likely the number of charity workers making six-figure salaries is actually greater since organizations must only disclose their Top 10 earners."

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110710/charities-pay-wages-canada-110710/

tlaiban laughing as 'bama arms Israel's enemies....of course since he's one himself, no big deal...

via: weaselzippers.us

While everyone in Washington was concentrating on the debt crisis this week, the Obama administration attempted to slip through a questionable arms deal that requires serious scrutiny. Though it got little attention, the Defense Department officially notified Congress on Friday that it was authorizing the sale of 125 M1A1 tanks to Egypt as well as other weapons, equipment, parts, training and logistical support. While most of the military sales to Egypt have sailed through without objection in the more than 30 years since it signed a peace deal with Israel, this is the first such sale since the fall of the Mubarak regime earlier this year. Which is exactly why the sale ought to be held up until the unsettled situation in the most populous country in the Arab world is better understood.

Congress has 30 days to register its formal objections to the proposed sale. That it should do so is imperative. The reasons for a delay are not complicated.

In the wake of Mubarak’s fall from power, the Egyptian military seems to have retained a firm grip on power. But the army seems intent on sharing power with a resurgent Muslim Brotherhood movement that threatens the foundation of the relationship between the United States and Egypt. Since the 1979 Camp David Accords, the Egyptian military has gotten all the high-tech and expensive equipment it wanted so long as it was clear their new toys would not be used to threaten or attack Israel. But as Egypt lurches toward the election of a new government that will probably be made up of Islamist elements, that peace is in jeopardy.

This means this is not the moment to be strengthening the offensive capabilities of an Egypt that has opened its border with Hamas-run Gaza and is distancing itself from an already cold peace with the Jewish state. Egypt may not yet be ready to repudiate the peace treaty or engage in military adventures, but it must be reminded there is a price for the open-ended U.S. support it has received for decades. While the despotic Mubarak could be trusted to keep the peace in exchange for $2 billion a year in American baksheesh, there is no way of knowing whether the new masters of Cairo will be so reliable.

The United States should be encouraging the new Egyptian government to build democracy and invest in its economy so as to help its impoverished people and create a society based on the rule of law. But handing over advanced tanks to the Egyptian military is not the path to either democracy or prosperity for that country. Congress must act to halt this sale immediately.

I have a neutral accent. I could be from anywhere between Kansas and Pennsyvania or just some other place.

(Which is weird 'cause I've never been anywhere in the States [airports don't count] except Maine and Noo Nawk and I actually have a horrible kinda sorta mid-atlantic accent. I hate people like me.)

95 percent voted for Obqama.

But for many in the black community, job loss has knocked them out of the middle class and back into poverty.

http://www.suntimes.com/6397110-417/the-disappearing-black-middle-class.html

O'mockelyed and contempted.

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"Tim Pawlenty at a speech in the Council of Foreign Relations, savagely noted that there is almost nothing left of President Obama’s policy of “engagement” with Iran and Syria in tones that were mocking, ironic and nearly full of contempt.

“Engagement” meant that in 2009, when the Iranian ayatollahs stole an election, and the people of that country rose up in protest, President Obama held his tongue. His silence validated the mullahs, despite the blood on their hands and the nuclear centrifuges in their tunnels.

While protesters were killed and tortured, Secretary Clinton said the Administration was “waiting to see the outcome of the internal Iranian processes.” She and the president waited long enough to see the Green Movement crushed.

“Engagement” meant that in his first year in office, President Obama cut democracy funding for Egyptian civil society by 74 percent. As one American democracy organization noted, this was “perceived by Egyptian democracy activists as signaling a lack of support.” They perceived correctly. It was a lack of support. …

The Obama “engagement” policy in Syria led the Administration to call Bashar al Assad a “reformer.” Even as Assad’s regime was shooting hundreds of protesters dead in the street, President Obama announced his plan to give Assad “an alternative vision of himself.” Does anyone outside a therapist’s office have any idea what that means? This is what passes for moral clarity in the Obama Administration.

By contrast, I called for Assad’s departure on March 29; I call for it again today. We should recall our ambassador from Damascus; and I call for that again today. The leader of the United States should never leave those willing to sacrifice their lives in the cause of freedom wondering where America stands. As President, I will not.

We need a president who fully understands that America never “leads from behind.”

There is very little left of the President’s sweeping initiatives anywhere one looks."

"Overload"

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/07/10/overload/#more-15636

" I have a neutral accent. I could be from anywhere between Kansas and Pennsyvania or just some other place." --- BM

I thought I had a neutral accent also. You really have to tape yourself to notice how you sound.
My ex says I have a blonde accent.

Grew up in Saskatoon, lived in Ont for four years when with the CF. Back in S'toon since 1994. My accent came back as 'northern US'

I don't know if this has been previously mentioned on SDA,but just in case it wasn't.
There are leaked reports that the UN will acknowledge that the legal blockade of Gaza is legal.Watch for a resolution that says this report should be ignored.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/un-report-gaza-blockade-legal-israel-doesn-t-owe-turkey-apology-for-marmara-1.371841

What kind of accent do you have?

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=9827

I was surprised " Canadian "

I was surprised I wasn't..I was 'neutral'

but then I started playing with the answers and if you say you pronounce 'about' as anything other than 'about'...then you're Canadian...

the problem is that nobody I know says 'aboot' except a few southern moonbat Ontario transplants who also say 'youse'...both of which drive me nuts..

that's what out culture boils down to folks, 'aboot', 'youse' and hoser...none of which I have ever heard anyone say outside of television and a few semi-literate Ontarians

Back to the original story: I was rather offended at the 'check out the hicks' tone of the reportage. Especially as it comes from effete Easterners who would never survive out West, either working really hard (as we do for 342 days of the year) or partying really hard (Stampede).

BTW, the 'real' donuts on the fairway are those mini-critters. You get to watch them being cooked, and the smell almost overpowers that of the grilled burgers, hotdogs, etc.

"southern moonbat Ontario transplants who also say 'youse'"

Bemused,I used to say youse,now I use you,you know what I mean?

@ southernmoonbat

sometimes transplants improve in their new surroundings ;)

You're right Bemused.
Most will improve,some are rejected.
The reason I commented is because I did use the term 'youse' when I first came west. I wasn't aware of it until someone pegged my hometown because of it, and the expression "you know what I mean". Both are common around the Detroit area.
Cheers.

funny thing is...I see little difference in accent between Alberta and the East....east of Quebec, that is...until you get into Cape Breton and Nfld of course...there are some local dialects, of course, moreso here than in other parts of Canada, but overall, the general 'neutral' accent prevails...then again, someone else's 'accent' just means 'unlike yours' and we all have one, even those of us who trained to become 'broadcast neutral'

Western accent. I used to get told I sounded like I was from Wisconsin when speaking with American clients over the phone. Born and raised in AB - BC for the last 20+ years.

I hear the difference in accent very strongly whenever I travel between east and west; haven't done so in a while. And I get used to it real quick, but it's definitely there.

Maybe you've got a tin ear, bemused? I hope I don't say that cruelly, because some of us just do, through no particular fault. Every county in the Maritimes has a distinct accent, and there are striking accents (yes, plural) in eastern Ontario. I had to be educated into hearing them, but some spot them right off, and some never get them.