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  1. Norway’s Jewish problem
    As The New York Times reported, in February 2009, Norway’s Queen Sonja opened the, “year-long, publicly financed commemoration of Hamsun’s 150th birthday called ‘Hamsun 2009.'”
    But while Hamsun may have been a good writer, he is better remembered for being an enthusiastic Nazi. Hamsun gave his Nobel prize to Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels. During a wartime visit to Germany, Hamsun flew to meet Adolf Hitler at Hitler’s mountain home in Bavaria.
    http://carolineglick.com/

  2. Here’s a DYNAMITE Daily Mail column!
    “Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters”
    By Max Hastings
    (Begin quote.)
    . . . How do you inculcate values in a child whose only role model is footballer Wayne Rooney — a man who is bereft of the most meagre human graces?
    How do you persuade children to renounce bad language when they hear little else from stars on the BBC?
    A teacher, Francis Gilbert, wrote five years ago in his book Yob Nation: ‘The public feels it no longer has the right to interfere.’
    Discussing the difficulties of imposing sanctions for misbehaviour or idleness at school, he described the case of a girl pupil he scolded for missing all her homework deadlines.
    The youngster’s mother, a social worker, telephoned him and said: ‘Threatening to throw my daughter off the A-level course because she hasn’t done some work is tantamount to psychological abuse, and there is legislation which prevents these sorts of threats.
    ‘I believe you are trying to harm my child’s mental well-being, and may well take steps . . . if you are not careful.’
    That story rings horribly true. It reflects a society in which teachers have been deprived of their traditional right to arbitrate pupils’ behaviour. Denied power, most find it hard to sustain respect, never mind control.
    I never enjoyed school, but, like most children until very recent times, did the work because I knew I would be punished if I did not. It would never have occurred to my parents not to uphold my teachers’ authority. This might have been unfair to some pupils, but it was the way schools functioned for centuries, until the advent of crazy ‘pupil rights’.
    I recently received a letter from a teacher who worked in a county’s pupil referral unit, describing appalling difficulties in enforcing discipline. Her only weapon, she said, was the right to mark a disciplinary cross against a child’s name for misbehaviour.
    Having repeatedly and vainly asked a 15-year-old to stop using obscene language, she said: ‘Fred, if you use language like that again, I’ll give you a cross.’
    He replied: ‘Give me an effing cross, then!’ Eventually, she said: ‘Fred, you have three crosses now. You must miss your next break.’
    He answered: ‘I’m not missing my break, I’m going for an effing fag!’ When she appealed to her manager, he said: ‘Well, the boy’s got a lot going on at home at the moment. Don’t be too hard on him.’
    This is a story repeated daily in schools up and down the land.
    A century ago, no child would have dared to use obscene language in class. Today, some use little else. It symbolises their contempt for manners and decency, and is often a foretaste of delinquency.
    If a child lacks sufficient respect to address authority figures politely, and faces no penalty for failing to do so, then other forms of abuse — of property and person — come naturally.
    (End quote.)
    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2024284/UK-riots-2011-Liberal-dogma-spawned-generation-brutalised-youths.html#ixzz1UaUBeFPD

  3. Okay, I give up. How did she cut those onions without crying? That recipe sounds like the ones from my younger days camping.You know, before freeze dried crap and gorp. Simple but outdoors anything tasted good. Only thing missing in this recipe was the obligatory wieners or Newfie Steak (if I’m even allowed to say that). I hope I’m as spry at 91 as Clara is.

  8. PET Cemetery Report.
    Multicultural blood in the streets.
    “Asian” = Mohammedans, aka Muslims, in British pc speech.
    …-
    “Three Asian men struck by car and killed”
    Three men died after being mown down by a car as they protected their neighbourhood from rioters in the early hours of the morning
    The trio – named locally as Shahzad and Harry Hussain and friend Musaver Ali – had emerged from a mosque shortly before they were knocked down by the hit-and-run driver in Birmingham.
    Kabir Khan Isakhel, a relative of one of the dead brothers, told Sky News this morning that two cars had approached at high speed and struck the trio.
    He said: ‘They were not in the way or blocking the road. The car swerved towards them. They went flying up in the air.’
    A 32-year-old man was today being questioned on suspicion of murder. Then dead trio were aged 31, 30 and 20, a police spokesman said.
    A police source said: ‘As far as we understand, there was an altercation in the street in the early hours of the morning, and these three men were allegedly mown down by one man in one car.
    ‘It’s difficult to say at the moment whether the incident is linked to earlier unrest, but we are investigating.’
    [More]”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024375/UK-RIOTS-2011-3-Asian-men-killed-hit-run-attack-protected-Birmingham.html

  9. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    >>> “[Gore] did not know, as the others did, that the conference was being streamed…”
    “Here’s the essence of Gore’s “bullshit” remarks in high quality audio, plus other highlights we haven’t heard before.”
    NYSlimes is linked:
    “Gore Flings Barnyard Epithet at ‘Organized’ Climate Change Critics”
    …-
    “[Gore] did not know, as the others did, that the conference was being streamed…
    As reported by the NYT. Oops. Now we know why we heard the real Gore speaking, not just the made for TV version of Al. And… due to this story going viral, we get the “Full Monty” at last.
    From AspenJournalism.org
    These remarks were recorded in the Doerr-Hosier Center, where the event took place, through the center’s sound board. The reporter who recorded them, Brent Gardner-Smith, had a press pass to the event and was recording what he understood to be remarks that were also being streamed on the Internet and were therefore public.
    Here’s the essence of Gore’s “bullshit” remarks in high quality audio, plus other highlights we haven’t heard before. Continue reading →”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/09/gore-did-not-know-as-the-others-did-that-the-conference-was-being-streamed/

  10. Socialism is the religion of the stomach*.
    The natural end result of “liberal dogma”, aka socialism:
    “They respond only to instinctive animal impulses — to eat and drink, have sex, seize or destroy the accessible property of others.”
    …-
    “Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters”
    “A few weeks after the U.S. city of Detroit was ravaged by 1967 race riots in which 43 people died, I was shown around the wrecked areas by a black reporter named Joe Strickland.
    He said: ‘Don’t you believe all that stuff people here are giving media folk about how sorry they are about what happened. When they talk to each other, they say: “It was a great fire, man!” ’
    I am sure that is what many of the young rioters, black and white, who have burned and looted in England through the past few shocking nights think today.”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2024284/UK-riots-2011-Liberal-dogma-spawned-generation-brutalised-youths.html
    …-
    *Socialism = Stomach
    “The Crowd, a study of the Popular Mind, 1896.”
    “Socialism is in fact nothing but the religion of the Stomach.”
    http://www.fulltable.com/crowd/07.htm

  13. The Canadian Government has just issued a travel warning to Canadians planning to travel to the United Kingdom!!!!
    This after her Majesty’s Government issued a “stern warning” to the rioters.
    Please tell me I’m having a nightmare!

  14. Guess we were luckier than most = growing up on a farm after WWll and having some fresh veggies, eggs plus the handouts of Spic, Spam, Clik and Klam.
    That was the staple of most school lunches.

  15. Times have changed LS!
    My dad, originally from Landis, Sask, remembered that the way to tell the poor kids like himself at school, was that they wore jeans and sneakers and their lunch sandwiches were lobster a lot of the time!

  16. Dan Snow, BBC presenter, son of Ann MacMillan (managing editor of CBC London Bureau), nephew of historian and professor Magaret MacMillan, on the house arrest he performed in Notting Hill during riots last night:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14475244
    (Just an aside: See how the nepotism works at the state broadcasters, the BEEB and the CEEB? It seems that children of media types and politicos get an awful lot of the coveted jobs/salaries/benefits at the Canadian and British state broadcasters. Dan Snow is one of a long line of second- or third-generation recipients of nepotistic largesse. His father, Peter Snow, is a BBC television journalist.)

  17. Jason Kenny spanks Amnesty International:
    http://www.jasonkenney.ca/news/an-open-letter-to-amnesty-international/
    “When I joined AI in high school, it was to defend the rights of political dissidents like Andrei Sakharov and to oppose brutal regimes, including those still doing bloody business in Iran and North Korea. I am disappointed to learn you are now squandering the moral authority accrued in those campaigns on targeting one of the most generous immigration systems in the world, and protesting the actions of Canadian public servants applying rules and laws that far exceed our international obligations.
    I will take your points in order. You begin by expressing “concern” that the government published the names and photos of individuals “who have been accused of having committed war crimes or crimes against humanity who are believed to be residing in Canada.” Let me pause here to correct a common misconception, one shared by many in the press. These men are not merely “accused” or “alleged” human rights violators; the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) does not make allegations or accusations – it makes formal findings of fact and its decisions may be appealed to the federal courts. Every one of these men was found to be inadmissible to Canada under section 35 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. This means that the IRB found that “there are reasonable grounds to believe” that each of these men committed “an offence referred to in sections 4 to 7 of the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act,” i.e., they were complicit in genocide, crimes against humanity or a war crime. These findings were based on evidence – including, in many cases, voluntary admissions – after formal proceedings during which these men had the right to be represented by counsel.”
    Well worth reading the whole thing.

  18. Left-liberal world.
    …-
    “Cancer fundraiser drums up world record
    Vancouver Sun – ‎1 hour ago‎
    BURLINGTON, Ont. – An Ontario man beat his way into the Guinness Book of World Records Wednesday morning after drumming continuously for 125 hours.”
    …-
    “Donations destined for Slave Lake fire victims end up in Calgary dump: driver
    Winnipeg Free Press”
    http://news.google.ca/news?pz=1&jfkl=true&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&q&js=0

  19. “Communist Sympathies of Amnesty International
    In his 1980 book “Inquest on an Organization Above all Suspicion: Amnesty International,” French journalist Hughes Keraly exposed the truth regarding a left-wing bias that has always swirled around Amnesty International.
    His exposure of communist infiltration, while no surprise, is sad given that Amnesty has, indeed, done significant work in exposing human rights abuses around the world.
    Unfortunately, their work appears to have been tainted by an agenda that magnifies and in some cases manufactures the abuses of freedom-oriented regimes while minimizing and ignoring the abuses of the regimes of the totalitarian left.
    This is instructive regarding the danger of placing monitoring responsibilities into the hands of a so-called “Non-Governmental Organization” (NGO) like Amnesty International, which affiliates with the United Nations.
    This affiliation, in effect, grants this un-elected and un-accountable bureaucracy an appearance of authority and legality.
    Keraly, a sympathizer of Amnesty International at the time, went to Chile in 1979 to search for 10 men whom Amnesty had reported as having disappeared as a result of their opposition to the government of Gen. Agusto Pinochet.
    To his astonishment, Keraly found all 10 men living openly and unmolested.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/631062/posts

  20. O’lego. *O’narcissist.
    “If Chris Matthews’ leg has stopped tingling Obama must be in real trouble.”
    “*This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
    …-
    “Obama’s base losing faith”
    “Rosslyn Smith”
    “More on how parts pf Obama’s base seem to be losing faith in him.
    As James Taranto points out about the progressives who say Obama is betraying them,
    Progs loved Bill Clinton because he was a winner. They loathe Barack Obama because he is a loser. But Obama is a loser in large part because he is unwilling to do what Clinton did to make himself a winner: cast aside progressive ideology when it is expedient to do so.
    Obama isn’t betraying the left, the left is betraying Obama–and they are doing so precisely because he has done what they say they want him to do.
    Then there is this from Jim Geraghty
    Raise your hand if you expected Chris Matthews of MSNBC to label this report, about Obama planning a highly negative campaign against Romney, as “the return of Swiftboat attacks” and “going from hope and change to dig-up-and-destroy.”
    If Chris Matthews’ leg has stopped tingling Obama must be in real trouble.”
    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/08/obamas_base_losing_faith.html
    …-
    *O’narcissist:
    http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

  21. Oustanding EBD !
    Cooked the pasta and peas just for the hell of it, delicous. I used a bigger yellow onion and threw in some green onion, instead of olive oil I used a stick of butter, and three pasta’s, bowties, spirals and wagon-wheels. The potatoes really gave it great texture. This would be a welcome soup at winter time.
    Good job Clara, hope I get around that good at 94.

  22. request, cross-posted at Ace of Spades:
    If anyone has any at hand, I would greatly appreciate some links to basic data, preferably in easy-to-read graph form (because I want to show it to some lefties) of U.S. tax rates in general and how they’ve varied over – well, say post-WWII ’till now, although earlier is obviously good too.
    How much of its overall income does the average family pay back to the govt., State or Federal… this kind of thing.
    This stuff can’t not be out there. If anyone happens to know a source for something like this I’d be very grateful.

  23. Mao Stlong* Lepolt say,
    No wolly. East is Led.
    http://financialpostbusiness.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/baby-fabrice-coffrini-afp.jpg?w=620
    *H/T Moi nephew is Liberal leader Basement Bob Rae.
    …-
    “Is China left holding the credit baby?”
    “August’s dramatic financial shock, which is now both feeding off and risks fueling another economic downturn, may well introduce a third phase of the four-year-old global credit crisis — the infection of the ultimate creditors.
    The crisis, triggered by mortgage and housing bubbles in many western economies, first hobbled the banks and is now undermining the governments who where forced to bail them out.
    The United States has lost its risk-free credit rating from one agency and the euro zone is in a seemingly endless struggle with either sovereign insolvency or liquidity crises across its members.
    With faith in western powers’ ability or willingness to resolve those debt problems ebbing rapidly, the next twist in the saga shifts to the surplus countries who’ve bankrolled them.
    It’s little wonder one of the most anxious governments over the past week has been …”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2011/08/10/is-china-left-holding-the-credit-baby/

  24. Mao Stlong* Lepolt say,
    No wolly. East is Led.
    *H/T Moi nephew is Liberal leader Basement Bob Rae.
    …-
    “Is China left holding the credit baby?”
    “August’s dramatic financial shock, which is now both feeding off and risks fueling another economic downturn, may well introduce a third phase of the four-year-old global credit crisis — the infection of the ultimate creditors.
    The crisis, triggered by mortgage and housing bubbles in many western economies, first hobbled the banks and is now undermining the governments who where forced to bail them out.
    The United States has lost its risk-free credit rating from one agency and the euro zone is in a seemingly endless struggle with either sovereign insolvency or liquidity crises across its members.
    With faith in western powers’ ability or willingness to resolve those debt problems ebbing rapidly, the next twist in the saga shifts to the surplus countries who’ve bankrolled them.
    It’s little wonder one of the most anxious governments over the past week has been …”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2011/08/10/is-china-left-holding-the-credit-baby/

  25. I checked out the pasta and peas video — don’t think I will try it actually, but one of the comments said that pasta was not yet available in the 50’s off the shelves. I was surprised by that and think it cannot be correct. Now I think that pizza only crept into the culture in the mid to late fifties.

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