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  1. Jyrki who?
    “Jyrki Katainen, the Finnish prime minister, has threatened to withdraw support for the Greek bailout in a move that could crush the fragile signs of recovery on global markets…”

  4. Grey Lady, here’s the comment I left “Doctor” Helen:
    I am a Canadian, have never own or even fired a gun, but I DEEPLY APPLAUD all of those who choose to legally own a firearm.
    It truly boggles my mind, with the recent evidence in England of law-abiding citizens unable to defend themselves, how anyone would come to the fore to make stupid jokes about a gun owner’s private parts.

  9. Over at National News Watch there are 50 different articles and editorial type entries regarding Jack Layton. Didn’t read even 1 of them. You get the impression many think he was important.
    mike

  10. I hope fellow readers don’t mind a rant, but we really need to liberate this country from the elitist likes of language commissioner Graham Fraser. After writing him to express my feelings regarding his intention of having civil servants ‘survey’ private business in the Ottawa region in order to encourage uniform accessabiltiy in both French and English, I eventually got the following reply:
    Dear Mr. Xxxx:
    This message is in response to your recent enquiries about the observations my office will soon be conducting in Ottawa.
    Although I am chiefly concerned with the implementation of the Official Languages Act in federal institutions, my mandate also includes ensuring the equality of English and French in Canadian society. Our country’s capital in particular is of interest to me. In my annual report to be published in the fall of 2012, I intend to engage Canadians in a discussion about the image Ottawa presents to visitors from all over the country and from abroad. The capital’s hospitality industry has acknowledged that new markets need to be developed. A way to achieve this goal is to encourage shops in key locations to provide services in French as well as in English.
    We are looking at the private sector in the hope that we will find best practices that can be shared. We are not seeking to police, regulate or impose government regulations on stores. I will not name individual businesses or even compare shopping areas.
    When I have discussed this with municipal authorities and business people, the reaction has been positive.
    These upcoming observations of both federal institutions and private businesses located mostly in Ottawa are only one component of the assessment my office will make of the bilingual character of the country’s capital. No other direct observations of private businesses are planned. However, other means will be used as needed to complete this assessment, which could extend to other parts of the National Capital Region.
    While this work is under way, I will continue to work with Quebec’s English-speaking communities, in the Outaouais and elsewhere in the province, to help them meet the unique challenges they face. Among other actions, I will build on my June 2008 study Vitality Indicators for Official Language Minority Communities 2: The English-Speaking Communities in Quebec; appear in court to support the rights of this community, as I did in the Nguyen and Bindra cases; and meet frequently with provincial and regional community leaders, notably in the Magdalen Islands this September.
    In addition, I will continue to welcome complaints from both Anglophones and Francophones, wherever they live in the country, to protect the language rights of all Canadians.
    You may also be interested in reading my response to the Ottawa Citizen’s editorial on this subject, which recently appeared in their paper and which has been posted on our Web site. I trust this information addresses your concerns about the work of our office.
    Yours sincerely,
    Graham Fraser
    Both Mr. Fraser and the Prime Minister need to hear from the beleagured taxpayer – not only because of the costs, but because this ‘make work project’ has no place in private business. It is chilling to recognize the moral superiority which Mr. Fraser would choose to use as a cudgel in bringing the masses to heel in order to fulfill his mandate of ‘equality’.
    At the same time, he blithly ignores Bill 101 and the realities of English speaking people within Quebec – I recognize the inequity, but hey, if a business doesn’t want to deal with me in my own language I’ll simply take my business to those who do. That’s the free market, but Mr. Fraser and his ilk would prefer to make all of us a little less free.
    You can write to Mr. Fraser at:
    information.information@ocol-clo.gc.ca

  11. Over at National News Watch, there are a total of 50 articles and commentaries about Jack Layton.
    I never read even one. I guess a few people thought he was important.
    mike

  12. Over at National News Watch, there are a total of 50 articles and commentaries about Jack Layton.
    I never read even one. I guess a few people thought he was important.
    mike

  13. Over at National News Watch, there are a total of 50 articles and commentaries about a certain recently deceased politician.
    I never read even one. I guess a few people thought he was important.
    mike

  14. Sorry about the multiple posts about Jack Layton but my screen wasn’t showing it being accepted.
    mike

  15. How long until we can start making jokes about Jack going to the big ‘Rub & Tug’ up in the sky? What is the appropriate amount of time to wait?

  16. Both the Consumer and Gumboot Clogeroo mentioned by Eskimo are great songs but I think his all time best is his very politically incorrect Ballad of Muk Tuk Annie. It must have been too un PC as it can no longer be found on youtube.

  17. Just enjoyed madam butterfly at giovanni caboto park in edmonton, outstanding. Outdoors in a tent.
    Ebbing summer at its’ finest.

  18. Clever facebook comment regarding the DC earthquake:
    Lorraine Greene
    BREAKING NEWS! President Obama has just confirmed that the DC earthquake occurred on a rare and obscure fault-line, apparently known as “Bush’s Fault”. Obama also announced that the Secret Service and Maxine Waters continue an investigation of the quake’s suspicious ties to the Tea Party. Conservatives however have proven that it was caused by the founding fathers rolling over in their graves.
    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=337173

  19. Clever comment regarding yesterday’s earthquake:
    BREAKING NEWS! President Obama has just confirmed that the DC earthquake occurred on a rare and obscure fault-line, apparently known as “Bush’s Fault”. Obama also announced that the Secret Service and Maxine Waters continue an investigation of the quake’s suspicious ties to the Tea Party. Conservatives however have proven that it was caused by the founding fathers rolling over in their graves.
    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=337173

  20. Mao Stlong Lepolt.
    Pray reapflog, eh?
    “China had originally planned to leapfrog”.
    …-
    “Ontario, Ottawa investing in research, jobs to fuel green future of cars”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/ontario-ottawa-investing-in-research-jobs-to-fuel-green-future-of-cars/article2139439/
    …-
    “Beijing poised to rethink electric car policy”
    “Beijing appears to be rethinking its singular focus on electric vehicles to reduce fuel consumption and improve air quality as it becomes increasingly clear that its targets for mass producing electric vehicles in China were unrealistic.
    China had originally planned to leapfrog an entire generation of conventional engine technology to develop what Beijing hoped would be an early advantage over the West in electric vehicle technology. No formal decision has been taken to abandon that plan, but top decision-makers in Beijing are understood to believe now that the original timetable was too optimistic.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-news/global-exchange/financial-times/beijing-poised-to-rethink-electric-car-policy/article2137169/

  23. Marketplace, Sunday nights on CBC(?),ahhhhh the memories…. Been singing the chorus for over 30 years now and it’s just as valid today. Stompin’ Tom is truely a Canadian visionary!

  24. Saw this today in NP. It struck me that the differences between contemporary Quebec and the age of the “grand norceur” amount only to who controls the light switch.
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/08/23/graeme-hamilton-quebec-seeks-special-status-for-select-journalists/
    Posted by: Roseberry at August 24, 2011 7:51 AM
    I had also just come across this article. Just when you think that Quebec has sunk to impossibly low depths they come up with this! My comment in the comments section was:
    “This is so perverse on so many levels, yet is par for the course with the Charest government. Charest seems hellbent to turbocharge the bernoulli effect as Quebec spirals down the porcelain funnel.”

  25. “Meet the Legal Wonks Who Brought Down the Flotilla”
    “At a radical left-wing coffee shop in Washington, D.C. last month, Code Pink founder and “Freedom Flotilla II” passenger Medea Benjamin woefully recounted the moment she realized her boat, the Audacity of Hope, wouldn’t be legally permitted to leave a port in Greece to sail to Gaza.
    “There was something called a ‘complaint’ that was put against our boat,” Benjamin explained to a crowd of anti-Israel activists stuffed into the back room of the restaurant. “Well, it didn’t take long for somebody to uncover that the person, or entity, that lodged the complaint was none other than this right-wing Israeli law center based in Tel Aviv, that knew nothing about our boat and certainly had no interest in the passengers’ safety.”
    The “right-wing” law center that caused Benjamin so much grief is Shurat HaDin – the Israeli group that single-handedly took down the “Freedom Flotilla II” simply by filing creative lawsuits. In total, nine out of the 10 boats in the flotilla never touched Israeli waters, largely due to Shurat HaDin’s work.
    Led by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and her husband Avi Leitner, the legal center is pioneering a new strategy of Israeli-self defense: Pro-Israel Lawfare.
    “There is a way of fighting back, we just have to start thinking like Jews again,” Avi Leitner told me during the Leitners’ recent visit to D.C. “And remember, the Jews invented lawfare, the Jews invented law. So you don’t sit on your hands.”
    The first step the legal center took against the flotilla was to target private companies that may have been assisting it. “We thought, what do boats need in order to sail?””
    http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/08/22/shurat-hadin-flotilla/

  27. Re: Stompin’ Tom’s The consumer:
    “We save a lot of money spending money we don’t got”
    I think we just discovered Obama’s election slogan

  28. Self correction; Should have referred to the Coriolis Effect rather than the Bernoulli Effect.

  29. Fred: Bung hole? Bung holes.
    BTW, What is a bung?
    …-
    “Intel’s solar spinoff files for bankruptcy”
    “SAN FRANCISCO—Spectrawatt Inc., the solar cell manufacturer that was originally spun off from Intel Corp. in 2008, has filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. bankruptcy code, according to multiple reports.
    Spectrawatt (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.) closed its factory last December, laying off 110 people. The factory opened in May 2010.”
    http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4219234/Intel-s-solar-spinoff-files-for-bankruptcy

  30. Occasionally, you see a glimmer of hope that feminism might grow up and realize that choice is not replacing right wing patriarchy with left wing matriarchy. I see no ideological difference between those who insist you must stay at home with your kids and those who berate you for choosing to be a stay at home parent. Both are control freaks of the highest order. The following article manages the usual insults, references to victimhood and the need for expanded government service to free women from their children. As a bonus, she even manages a a Nazi references to explain why German mothers might actually want to be SAHMs.
    Motherhood as a Retreat From Equality
    “Does she mind being financially dependent on her husband? Putting her professional life second to his? “I don’t think about it that way,” she said. “I put my child first.”
    I met several German mothers like Jutta on the playground and was torn between sympathy and impatience…
    Bascha Mika, author of a controversial best-selling book, “The Cowardice of Women,” published in Germany this year, thinks women have largely themselves to blame. According to her, they aren’t putting enough pressure on politicians, are failing to negotiate equal terms in relationships and often voluntarily retreat into a traditional mother role that spares them other hard questions about identity and purpose in life…
    “What’s the matter with us?” Ms. Mika asks German women. “Don’t we want to be free and equal?” “We are collaborating with a system that reduces us to motherhood,” she writes. “We voluntarily choose to be powerless and adjust to self-inflicted victimhood. That’s cowardice.”
    Whether the term “cowardice” helps anyone more than Bertelsmann, Ms. Mika’s publisher, is questionable. The power of tradition and lack of comprehensive state child care are strong barriers to effective gender equality. ”
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/world/europe/24iht-letter24.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
    Via hotair

  31. What goes around comes around.
    Ontario Liberal-socialist McGuinty’s Walkerton.
    …-
    “Globe | Health officials baffled by E.coli spread in southwestern Ontario
    Health officials remain baffled about the source of E. coli contamination this summer in the southwestern Ontario Grey and Bruce Counties.
    Eight people have fallen ill in the last few weeks with the same E. coli strain that killed seven people and sickened hundreds in Walkerton, Ont., 11 years ago.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/health-officials-baffled-by-ecoli-spread-in-southwestern-ontario/article2139292/

  34. Stompin’ Tom had many greats, but for my money his all-time career peak was “The Martin Hartwell Story”.

  36. COMMUNIST LINKS OF THE NDP AND THE BLOC QUÉBÉCOIS
    (http://jack-and-gilles-went-up-the-hill.blogspot.com/2011/06/has-far-left-hijacked-quebec.html)
    Excerpts:
    “…Jean Duceppe, the father of Gilles Duceppe, is a founding member of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) led by Jack Layton today…
    …In the 1980 referendum, Gilles Duceppe, who was 33 years of age at that time, did not vote “Yes”, because to do so was interdicted by the Communist Workers’ Party (PCO).6 When it came to a choice between the far-left and the independence of the Quebec people, we can therefore see which one took precedence with Gilles Duceppe, and this at an age when his choices cannot be attributed to youthful indiscretion…
    …The links between the sovereigntist milieu and the communist-style far left are still current news because the Communist Party of Québec called upon its sympathisers to massively support the Bloc Québécois during the recent federal elections of May 2nd, 2011:
    [TRANSLATION:]
    “The Communist Party of Québec calls for a massive vote for the Bloc Québécois, except in the ridings of Outremont (where the Bloc Québécois has no chance of taking it and where the NDP Member, Thomas Mulcair, deserves to be re-elected); the same goes for the riding of Gatineau-Aylmer where Nicole Turmel, who for many years was a respected union manager, and who, in the last provincial elections had also called for a vote for Québec Solidaire, is also running for the NDP. In these particular federalist ridings, the CPQ would rather call for a vote for the NDP.”10
    …Today, the NDP is a full member of the Socialist International,14 a globalist political association which brings together socialist and communist parties of all stripes. The Socialist International moreover congratulated the NDP and its leader Jack Layton on their performance during the May 2nd, 2011 federal elections.15…
    …A provincial branch of the NDP has already existed in Québec. The NDPQ (New Democratic Party of Québec) was founded in the 1960s as the result of a concerted effort by the Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec (FTQ), one of the principal workers’ trade union locals in Québec at the time.16
    …The NDPQ was later merged with the Communist Party of Québec which in turn merged with the Union des Forces Progressiste (UFP) to finally merge with none other than Québec Solidaire.19 …
    …As was said before, Québec Solidaire emerged from a fusion of the New Democratic Party of Quebec and the Communist Party of Quebec.
    Amir Khadir, moreover, declared that the rise of the federal NPD was hoped for by a number of “progressive” sovereigntists:
    [TRANSLATION:]
    “A strong ascent for the NDP was desired by a number of progressive sovereigntists, including me. But not at the price of sweeping out the Bloc Québécois. Québec Solidaire had moreover called for a vote to support progressive candidates, whether bloquist or new-democrat.”25
    We are thus not far here from the official position of the Communist Party of Quebec, as cited above…
    …Amir Khadir confirmed his past support for l’Organisation des Moudjahiddines du peuple iranien (OMPI), an Islamic socialist organization devoted to the overthrow of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.27 He also ran under the banner of the Bloc Québécois in 2000.28 If a politician as far left as Amir Kadhir felt so at ease with the Bloc Québécois, there must be a good (ideological) reason?
    A number of the adjutants of Québec Solidaire entertain questionable links with far-left microgroups such as anarchists and communists, certain of which are very active in Quebec community groups and college and university student associations…
    THE CREATION OF THE CÉGEPS: INTENSIVE FAR-LEFT
    “PROGRESSIVE” EDUCATION
    The CÉGEPS were created in 1967 with the passage of Bill 60 in the Quebec National Assembly.
    It was also a time of rapid expansion of the Quebec university and college network. The social studies faculties were quick to embrace a vulgarized version of French university Marxism from the 1960s, recycled through countless professors recruited in Europe or via mass-hiring of Quebecers fresh from the mould of their studies in France. This is how an entire generation of young Quebecers was initiated to “Marxism”, to “communism” and to “anarchism” through “philosophy” courses dispensed in our collegiate and university institutions.57, 58
    Yuri Besmenov, a former Soviet KGB agent, explains to G. Edward Griffin the four stages of ideological subversion. In this short clip, Besmenov explains one of the stages prior to sudden and rapid military overthrow of the target nation: ideological subversion by pumping marxism into one or more generations of students. KM…”
    “…A Former KGB Officer Explains The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion:
    1 – Demoralization
    2 – Destabilization
    3 – Crisis
    4 – Normalization
    …”
    (http://jack-and-gilles-went-up-the-hill.blogspot.com/2011/05/four-stages-of-ideological-subversion.html)
    “MEMBER PARTIES OF SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL
    Full Member Parties:
    Canada: New Democratic Party, NDP/NPD
    Original url:
    Canada: New Democratic Party, NDP/NPD”
    (http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticleID=1780&Search=canada)
    “JACK LAYTON and other CANADIAN MPs & Senators PETITION to Demand a WORLD GOVERNMENT at UN.
    UNPA Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly: Canadian Senators and MPs support a world government in defiance of Canadian Parliament as the supreme lawmaking authority for Canada (31 May 2011)”
    (http://www.calameo.com/books/00011179004bc23996143)
    Since Jack Layton and the NDP are FULL MEMBERS of the Socialist International (SI), it would be interesting to see who turns up to pay their last respects since Layton’s demise especially since it is a State-sponsored funeral (Fidel Castro turned up for Trudeau’s funeral).
    The following are also members of the Socialist International:
    – Hugo Chavez of Marxist Venezuela
    – the Castros of Communist Cuba
    – Daniel Ortega of Marxist Nicaragua
    – Moammar Gadhafi of Libya’s “Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya”
    I could care less that Jack Layton was “a great guy who would have a beer with somebody” (on the taxpayers’ dime no less). His political legacy and established NDP connections to Socialist tyrants is clearly disturbing and may threaten the future of Canada — far more significant than the brief inspiration we have derived from Layton’s heroic battle with cancer.
    (BTW, many of us have had family members who experienced much more prolonged and painfully horrific battles with cancer — there have been many cancer heroes in our midst who died alone and without the fanfare of State funerals).

  37. Socialism: “prompting the government to seek additional measures to boost revenue.”
    >>> Where? Shoot the kulaks*. S’course:
    “and an exceptional levy on France’s richest taxpayers.”
    …-
    “France Cuts Growth Forecast, Unveils Austerity Measures”
    “PARIS—France cut its gross domestic product growth forecasts for 2011 and 2012 on Wednesday and unveiled austerity measures as it seeks to rein in its budget deficit against a backdrop of slowing growth.
    Prime Minister François Fillon said the slowing situation in the U.S. and the European sovereign debt crisis were weighing on the French economy, prompting the government to seek additional measures to boost revenue.”
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904875404576527972323147058.html
    *H/T Lenin/Stalin/lberia et al.

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