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Highly recommended: Walter Russell Mead's Global Weirding Coming At Us All.

My best friend Krispian introduced me to Fred J. Eaglesmith and the Flying Squirrels back in '92 and I have been able to see him a few times in concert. I especially love the song Carmelita. His voice has seemed to worsen quite a bit over the years although it has always been raspy.

Fred Eaglesmith owns the Hobo Java and Legendary Guitar Cafe in Port Dover Ontario. It's a fascinating place with great coffee, vintage guitars and people who like to sit around and talk music.

http://www.fredeaglesmith.com/hobo_java.html

Maybe the motorcycle in the clip was part of one of Port Dover's Friday the 13th gatherings.

Thanks for this, EBD.

EBD

I've never heard of Fred Eaglesmith until now...thanks.

N

Ever thought of buying a vowel? Probably not since you can only afford one consonant eh?

He likes to do 105? Looks like the bike was going a wee bit faster than that (~ 160 mph)

UK Muslims: We Will Conquer the White House, Obama Will Be on Knees, Queen Will Wear Niqab

http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/uk-muslims-we-will-conquer-the-white-house-obama-will-be-on-knees-queen-will-wear-niqab/

One can say that this boast is much like "mother of all battles" or as chemical Ali would say, "we are winning" while listening to the guns and cannons of the US soldiers.

Nobody should let their attention off the islamist idiots though.

N,you rock.

You are a mix of James Dean and Johnny Depp,you just cut through the tripe and stick it to the man.

Your wit makes very young girls and older gays tremble with excitement.You are da man.

Now,why don't you leave the computer alone ,and go out and score one of your admirers?

Was in Ontario once when Fred came on the radio, the person with me asked why anybody would write a song about going 105km/h. I didn't even respond.

Now if we could only get rid of the metric system altogether...

Hilary White reports on her friends

When I was fifteen, I took a bus from the arctic where I had been living with my mother and stepfather, back to Victoria. My father picked me up at the bus station. I stayed with him a week and then he told me we had an appointment with the family court. We went into a court room and my father told the judge that he didn't want to care for me and that I should be made a ward of the court. The papers were signed and I was taken from there to the first of a series of foster homes. I was a ward of the state until I was 19, then a social worker told me I had to get a job. I never heard from my father again.

http://deborahgyapong.blogspot.com/

north shore of lake erie is one of ontario's best kept secrets.
clear warm water and endless white sandy beaches.
highlights include long point and fred's hobo shop in port dover.
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more great fred:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsDL7GIn1uw

"Now if we could only get rid of the metric system altogether...

Most folks that use math day to day would disagree with you.

Fred's the real deal.

The Goal of the Left.

The suppression/extirpation of the human personality.

"The Left does not want a debate or an open market in ideas. It wants to extirpate its opponents – to remove them from the field. It actually seems to believe that it is justified in snuffing out any possibility of our arguments reaching the impressionable masses – and bizarrely, it defends this stance in the name of fairness."

H/T Liberal Citoyen Kyoto Dionky: It's not fair.

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"The 'BBC Left' is using hacking to get revenge"

"Left-wing politicians and broadcasters do not want to debate ideas but they do want to remove their opponents."

"It was a broadcasters' event some years ago. I had been invited to speak on a favourite subject: the BBC hegemony in broadcast news and the risk that its own package of tendentious assumptions – that Euroscepticism was a lunatic fringe irrelevance, that anyone who expressed concern about immigration was a bigot, etc, etc – was going unchallenged in the mass media. After I had said my piece, a BBC producer in the audience asked whether, since I was so concerned about the dangers of large media organisations, I did not have the same objection to the existence of the "Murdoch empire".

"No-o-o," I replied patiently, I did not have the same objection. If I did not wish to support Mr Murdoch's enterprises I could refrain from buying his newspapers or subscribing to his television service – and no one could threaten me with arrest and imprisonment for so doing. This was, I suggested, a rather significant difference between the two media corporations."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8642161/Phone-hacking-The-BBC-Left-is-using-hacking-to-get-revenge.html

Marx and O and DL = Brothers.

Who is # One? O'Moi or Mao Stlong*?

Death Struggle of the Left.

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"Obama defies China, meets with Dalai Lama"

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/16/obama-defies-china-meets-with-dalai-lama/

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"'I'm a Marxist,' Dalai Lama tells Chinese students"

"Usually what we hear from the Dalai Lama is an insistant yet soothing voice for compassion and peace.

So Tsering Namgyal, a journalist based in Minneapolis, was jolted by the Dalai Lama's talk to 150 Chinese students this month at the University of Minnesota. Writing at Religion Dispatches, he says:

Midway through the conversation, His Holiness, much to their surprise, told them "as far as socio-political beliefs are concerned, I consider myself a Marxist ... But not a Leninist," he clarified.

After all, China is constantly pressing to legitimize its takeover of Tibet in world opinion. Meanwhile, the Buddhist spiritual leader is the global symbol of Tibetan opposition and what the opposition considers the obliteration of its independence and religious culture."

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2011/06/dalai-lama-china-marx-communism/1

*Liberal leader Basement Bob Rae's Uncle Mo Strong.

Mao Stlong Lepolt.

Bairding Mao: Minister Baird's Carbon Footprint.

Baird to focus, leftist MSM say.

H/T AlGorebull.

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"Curious summer weather in China"

"From NTD Television"

"Snow Covers Sichuan State Highway 318 in Summer"

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/07/16/curious-summer-weather-in-china/#more-43538

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"Baird kicks off China visit"

"Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird kicks off his first official trip to China on Sunday - a visit that will focus on building the trade relationship between the two countries."

http://cnews.canoe.ca/

This is never mentioned the environ-Mentalists;

Venezuela: Chronic Oil Leaks Sully Lake Maracaibo, Livelihoods

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/07/27/6426

I never miss an oportunity to see Fred. Nor should you. One of Canada's great songwriters and entertainers. Somewhere between a more sophisticated Stompin' Tom Connors and a less sophisticated Gordon Lightfoot wth a soupcon of John Prine thrown in just for kicks. He can be loud, crude and rude one moment and surprisingly tender and touching the next. And he's always hilariously funny. Too bad Willie P. Bennett isn't still around to join him. There's was a band!

Denyse O'Leary's wicked rewording of Board Policy vis a vis establishing Mosqueterias:

Toronto District School Board’s plan for peace re sharia-compliant schools

http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2011/07/toronto-district-school-boards-plan-for.html

scaramouche gives us a glimpse into the mind of the Canadian Council of Imams: no surprises here ...

Way to Go, Kafirs!

http://scaramouchee.blogspot.com/2011/07/way-to-go-kafirs.html

Levant on the leaving the Press Council: http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/07/16/levant-accountable-each-day

Rex Murphy on the US financial meltdown: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/07/16/rex-murphy-america-destroying-itself-from-within/

The Canadian muslim Lawyers Association has issued a statement on this matter.

It contains this gem; "It furthers the aims
of the Education Act by maximizing instruction time for its students."

See,allowing 'special' students time off to attend on-premise religious/ideology seminars during classroom time actually enhances their education,because otherwise they would take more time off to receive their indoctrination.

That the CmLA has issued a statement is not a threat because lawyer groups always get involved in school matters. Right?

The menstruating girls that have been given their own space to share their feelings about impending motherhood is just a red herring.

The best way to fix this misunderstanding is for everyone to step back and ponder,"What would allah (pbuh) do"?

http://www.caircan.ca/downloads/CMLA_Statement_re_Valley_Park_Middle_School_15_July_2011.pdf

wallyj, try this one.
(Maru, Japan's most famous cat; 6 million views!; I CANNOT watch this without laughing out loud -- even after repeated viewings).

Determination. Being engaged. Self-reliant. Self-entertained. Rapture. JOY.

I am not a religious man, but when I watch this I cant help but reflect that it's a SIN to be bored.
That's where my angel comment came from, better illustrated here than in that earlier clip that so puzzled you!

This is funny.

Prince Charles has his knickers in a knot over the press coverage that Will and Kate are receiving.

" One source said Charles is now looking at a makeover to attract more fans." --- Priceless.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2011/07/16/18430196.html

Yes,Maru is very entertaining,and puzzling.

The Ungrand Inquisitor*.

Arch left-liberal suppressor.

Its motto? ONE size fits ALL.

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"Anger unsuppressed"

"My charge of voter suppression sends some Tories into a fit"

http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/07/11/anger-unsuppressed

*H/T Fyodor Dostoevsky

EBD: I'm reading Global Weirding.

"The mismatch between the small 'c' conservative ideas of our leaders and chattering classes and the upheavals around us makes the times even more dangerous they than they have to be".

Huh?

The natural end result of left-liberalism/socialism.

Did someone mention coalition = catatonia?

"*he made clear that his conservative House wing will not be a part of any coalition."

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"Leadership-Starved EU Heads for Oblivion"

"Lurking behind the calamitous state of the euro is a profound political crisis confronting the European Union. The slide of the euro on the money market signals the possibility that the EU may not survive its sovereign debt contagion in its present form. However, European policy-makers refuse to acknowledge their own responsibility for this problem and are reluctant to adopt any decisive action to contain it.

Policy-makers are often drawn towards the cultivation of responsibility avoidance. However, EU functionaries have perfected the practice of responsibility avoidance and transformed it into an art form."

http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2011/07/16/leadership-starved_eu_heads_for_oblivion_99593.html

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*Say No! Coalition:

"Top Republican: House Conservatives Will Not Support McConnell Debt 'Cop-Out'"

"House conservatives will not support Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's backup plan to raise the debt ceiling, a leading House conservative told "Fox News Sunday," calling it a "cop-out."

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, slammed a plan that is looking increasingly vital as deficit-reduction talks aimed at a "grand bargain" lose steam. With time running out to reach a deal and credit rating agencies warning the U.S. risks a credit downgrade, that backup plan would allow Congress to vote on incremental debt ceiling increases worth $2.5 trillion -- only in such a way that makes it easier for President Obama to win congressional permission.

Jordan said he's not sure whether there's some combination of Republicans and Democrats that could get behind that plan and approve it. But he made clear that his conservative House wing will not be a part of any coalition."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/17/top-republican-house-conservatives-will-not-support-mcconnell-debt-cop-out/

From the Ezra Levant column, on the OPC, that Rita brought to our attention:

"Glenn Garnett, a Sun executive, told the press council why (the Sun newspapers in Ontario quit the Ontario Press Council). He wasn’t rude. He was just honest. According to Garnett, the problem was, 'the politically correct mentality ... in the selection of the cases it hears, and the rulings it renders ... we cannot be bound by the interpretations of our competitors on our obligations and objectives as journalists.'

"Garnett makes an important point: The press council includes many of the Sun’s competitors (and until last week, a few Sun Media reps)."

"So it’s in their competitive interests to disagree with the Sun’s journalistic approach to things.

"That would be like GM reviewing the latest Honda vehicle."

Apparently, parts of Britain are having problems with badgers (a protected species) giving TB to cattle. Animal rights activists are, of course, objecting to a cull of the badgers. This politician's tweet and response to the activists outrage was refreshingly politically incorrect.

A Tory politician has sparked outrage after saying he supported a cull of badgers because it would 'bring down the exorbitant price of shaving brushes'...

The mustachioed MEP, 67, said: 'I was bleary-eyed and shaving in Brussels. With badger brush in hand I thought I'd tell people why a badger cull would be a good idea. 'It was meant to be amusing. But, of course, the manic bunny-huggers have gone all po-faced.'

Under the plans, farmers would be allowed to shoot badgers in disease hotspots such as Devon, Cornwall, Gloucestershire and Somerset.

Over the past decade the slaughter of infected cows has cost British taxpayers £500million.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2015612/Activists-bristle-Euro-MPs-badger-cull-joke-shaving-brushes.html#ixzz1SO3caMtK

"There will be pain ahead."

"45. Unsk

The US is very likely going to dive deeper into depression in the coming months. Whether it is a calamitous dive into financial dissolution depends on the markets and whether we as a nation can show we have the resolve to put our financial house in order.

But the economy is still going to take a dive and the question is who is going to be blamed?

Some background:

A puny $200 billion cut in the deficit is still almost a 1 1/2% cut in GDP. In a flat economy such as ours that will technically push you into recession. A even more substantial cut in spending will, without offsetting stimulus, mean a even more substantial drop in GDP. Whatever optimism there was in the spring was a caffeinated optimism stimulated by the economic drug of QE3 and other temporary stimuli by Buraq and the Bernank. Since the Panic of ’08 we have become a nation addicted to temporary band aids and fixes. These temporary fixes have only dug our economic hole deeper, and created a monstrous problem we did not have in September of ’08: a looming debt trap in our government’s finances.

The Ruling Political Class has refused to either take responsibility for the havoc they have wrought or address the fundamental causes of our economic depression. To my way of thinking those causes are:

• The almost unimaginable theft, corruption and unlawful manipulation of our nation’s financial system by government agencies such as Fannie, Freddie, FHA and the FED, the TBTF banks and those parasites in and out of government closely associates with those entities.
• The unrestrained growth of the Nanny Police State and it’s resultant looting of the public coffers by the Nanny State beneficiaries.
• The near destruction of a profitable business environment particularly for small business through the imposition of literally millions of government controls, fees, taxes, regulations and mandates.
• The refusal to profitably exploit our nation’s resources, particularly oil, in a responsible way.

If recent history is any guide, the Media will try to pin the responsibility for any downturn on the Republicans unless the Pubs can be perceived as doing at least two things:

A. Actively helping to improve the situation. This is difficult because with power only in the House, the Pubs cannot enact legislation that will immediately impact the situation. Cutting the deficit and reforming entitlements are a big steps in the right direction. Moreover, through the investigative power of the House, they could be prosecuting the miscreants in our Banking mess,and shedding light on unconstitutional and ill conceived regulations, mandates etc that strangle business, and hamper resource extraction.

B. Present a comprehensive plan to get us out of this mess. That means diagnosing the problem fully and then providing solutions. If you have a well reasoned, well explained plan to fix our economic problems, it’s much tougher to blame you for problems created by others pursuing other approaches.

Since Bush I however, the Republican Establishment, with the possible exception of Gingrich, has eschewed making the case to the American public for lower taxes, and reform of our regulatory system to create a more competitive business environment. The likes of the Bushes, Dole, Mc Cain, McConnell, Boerhner, and Rove have seemingly never wanted to get their hands dirty explaining the needs of our Capitalist Free Market system. The conservative free market narrative has essentially atrophied for a lack of use. As a result, most Republican politicians no longer make the conservative case. None of the Presidential contenders has made a comprehensive case to fix the economy, much less fully diagnose our problems. Furthermore, it takes time to build a good case. If one wants to successfully plant the seed of an idea, one needs to till the fields of the minds of the American Public first. Few in the America Public understand the conditions that would give America a competitive edge again, so there is a lot of work to do.

Cutting spending alone will not fix this economy. There will be pain ahead. The Republicans need to prepare the American Public for the pain and suggest ways to minimize it. Otherwise, the Republicans are going to take the full blame for what is coming."

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/07/16/idle-speculation/

The author of this article makes a very good point - each new fairytale spawns hundreds or thousands of new rules and regulations. Eventually the fairytale is proved false but the rules and regulations remain forever. I have to add that it is not just progressive fairytales, all mainstream political parties like to make new rules to conquer make believe problems instead of tackling the real issues. Liberals and progressives are just more creative and have better story tellers.

Time For Once Upon A Time In America

A well-worn device. Just in recent memory one can recall the fairy tale about the thirty-seven million uninsured without any medical treatment which precipitated the disastrous health-care bill. The fairy tale about the earth warming because the air was polluted by industry which produced any amount of regulation and the craziest ideas for destroying the power generation industry. The fairy tale about BP cutting corners and producing the oil spill in the Gulf Of Mexico which effectively led to a ban on all drilling there. The fairy tale about greed, not the government manipulation of the market, having caused the housing bust which led to TARP. The fairy tale about public-school teachers being underpaid and overworked, about black churches burning, North Korea getting serious about nuclear proliferation, about JFK, RFK, and FDR, about thousands of FBI agents poring over everybody's library records, about self-esteem being American children's biggest problem, or the fairy tale that it makes sense for airport screeners to strip-search eighty-year-old Norwegian grandmothers rather than young men of Middle Eastern origin.

Sad. But that's the way events will continue to play out until conservatives finally understand that stories are not only the way people learn what to believe, but by and large they're the only way.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/time_for_once_upon_a_time_in_america.html

CBC has had a story up on their website for the last 24 hours that has the headline," Canada Post mistake could cost girl Brazil trip ".

There is no proof given that Canada Post has made an error. The girl's package may have gone missing after delivery.

I have requested 4 times that they correct their inflammatory headline to no avail. It is still there. Meanwhile ,the postie bashing is going on strong,and 90% of my comments that say ' hold on,the facts aren't in' are not being published.

Anyone have any suggestions? I feel violated,and my co-workers are likely feeling the same. Are we not ENTITLED to the benefit of doubt?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/07/16/ns-canada-post-mistake.html#socialcomments

Wallyj, assuming this statement is accurate -

"The package was scanned as being delivered one minute after it went onto the truck in Truro."

- it suggests a cock-up of some sort on the part of Canada Post. I can't imagine where the information contained in the statement would have come from, if not from Canada Post.

Yes ebd,that statement likely came from Canada Post. However,the early scanning does not mean that the package was not delivered.

Wally, I'm no expert on Canada Post's protocols, but aren't packages usually scanned as "delivered" at the resident's door after the package has been signed for?

Of course they are,(nudge,nudge,wink,wink,).

The proper protocol would be to scan at delivery,but in the real world,items that do not require a signature often are (read 'will be')scanned when received by the delivery personnel.

This procedure,if it does happen, does not affect my assertion that the package was put into the mailbox,and later removed by parties unknown. Also,proper procedures may have been followed throughout the delivery process,yet the CBC has written a story,without a factual basis, that foments hatred towards an identifiable group.

Soon,there will be another reason to pray for an asteroid.

Mao Stlong Lepolt.

Bairding Mao.

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"That Munich Moment

Virginia Sen. Jim Webb said that an obsession with the Middle East has distracted Washington from the dangers in the Western Pacific. He told David Gregory on “Meet the Press” Sunday that while it was mesmerized elsewhere the U.S. had let China expand unchecked. “Our situation in East Asia with respect to China and China’s expansionist military activities has deteriorated. We are at a point in the South China Sea right now where we are approaching a Munich moment with China, and it’s not being discussed.”

Not even Gregory wanted to discuss it, according to Nicholas Benton at Maritime Security Asia. “Last weekend on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” anchor David Gregory repeatedly ignored the comments by Virginia’s U.S. Senator Jim Webb about an “Munich moment” in the South China Sea that is extremely important to U.S. strategic interests.”"

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/07/17/that-munich-moment/#more-15791

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"Balance of BC's lumber trade shifts to China in May
Vancouver Sun (blog)"

http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/

Canadian Hindu Advocacy, with Jewish and Christian groups, announces Picket against TDSB

The Canadian Hindu Advocacy, along with JDL-Canada, Christian Heritage Party, and two Christian ministries, will be holding a press conference to announce a multi faith picket against the Toronto District School Board, to be held next week. The purpose of the protest is to express opposition to TDSB pandering to Islamic interests and allowing sexist Islamist practices into our secular TDSB schools.

The protest will be held within the next two weeks; the precise location, date, and time will be announced at the press conference. The five organizations will then be available for moderated Q and A.

Our press conference will be held at the Toronto Zionist Center (788 Marlee Avenue) on Monday July 18th, 4pm. SECURITY WILL BE IN PLACE, and all interested media are asked to confirm their attendance.

Ron Banerjee
Canadian Hindu Advocacy
416-857-3537

MND @ 11:34 a.m.:

A smarter cat would have pushed the box closer to the table before engaging in a flying leap.

I like Fred Eaglesmith as a musician, but frankly, putting eagles on an anvil and pounding them with a hammer seems to me to be just cruel.