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  1. Video of a conversation between an “Occupy Wall Street” protester and an elderly Jewish man. Language warning.
    h/t breitbart

  2. I just put it on another thread. But I will also put here.
    For people who are in GTA — Michael Coren will be at North York Central Library in Toronto tomorrow (05.10) from 7pm to 8:30 pm talking about his book.
    ( NYCL is on 5120 Yonge St.)

  4. Green jobs farm in Colorado sheds jobs after receiving $200M in stimulus funds
    President Barack Obama’s “green jobs” initiatives suffered another major blow late Monday, as the nonprofit National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, Colorado, announced a plan to lay off roughly 10 percent of its staff through a voluntary buy-out plan
    Via Drudge:
    http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/04/green-jobs-farm-in-colorado-sheds-jobs-after-receiving-200m-in-stimulus-funds/

  5. The Manitoba election was a joke. Hugh McFadyen ran to be the NDP-lite, and the voters said why not vote for the real thing, then?
    He’s done. We’ve got a half-billion structural deficit and it’s getting worse, and all Hugh can do is to try and outspend the NDP?
    Brutal. The Tories were routed, and deservedly so.

  7. Excerpt from Daniel Greenfield’s “The Power of Weakness”:
    “(The weak’s) choices have been made for them by the ‘Man’, the ‘Patriarchy’, the ‘Privileged’ and the ‘Military-Industrial Complex’– all different names for the defined power structure and the people who are responsible for it. Since the choices have been made for them, they have no choice but to lash out. When they kill, it is not an action, but a reaction…”
    “There are no more personal failures, whether economic or marital or ethical, only collective ones– and the strong are responsible for their own failures and for everyone else’s, while the weak are not even responsible for their own failures.
    “On the collective scale, choice is nearly irrelevant. Only people with power have choices. The idea that the man waiting in the alley with a knife has a choice is a heresy because he is not a man with a knife, he is a collection of social statistics which assign him an automatic level of responsibility based on his race, gender, socioeconomic status and all the other variables. Whether or not he stabs someone with a knife, is not up to him, it’s up to how society treats him.”
    Read the whole thing. Highly recommended.

  10. Toronto Star, Tuesday, Oct. 4.
    http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/provincialelection/article/1064036–campaign-finance-rules-too-loose-study-says
    Star: “Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals are the beneficiaries of ‘loose’ campaign finance rules that allow unlimited anti-Tory ads by third party groups like the Working Families coalition, making a ‘mockery’ of spending limits for political parties, says the author of a new study obtained by the Star.”
    “While federal rules on third-party ads limit spending to $188,000 per group, there is no such cap under provincial law, Robert MacDermid, an associate professor of politics at York University, said Monday.”
    Nor should there be, and the federal cap should be removed as a violation of freedom of expression. This is the issue Stephen Harper took to the Supreme Court in 2004. He should have won, but didn’t, perhaps due to a faulty Charter of Rights more than anything else. With a majority government, he has the opportunity to set things right.
    However, near the end of the article is what really caught my eye:
    Star: “NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said ads should be restricted to the official campaign period, and pre-campaign ads by parties or other groups — such as those seen over the summer — should be outlawed.”
    “‘I talked about perhaps getting rid of some of that inequality that exists, restricting advertising to that campaign period time and making sure all ads, negative or otherwise, were clearly indicated to which political party or leader, actually, took responsibility of that ad,’ she told reporters in Brampton.”
    There’s only one problem with this. When the federal third-party spending limit was upheld, the Supreme Court majority said that there was plenty of time outside the election period for third parties to have their say, so the cap shouldn’t be that much of a problem. Now here we have a call to ban all political free speech outside the election period (Horwath’s exact opinion on a potential third-party ad cap during the election period, as advocated by Professor MacDermid, is not noted in the article).
    It is difficult not to get the impression that ultimately the goal of the proponents of restrictions on political advertising is not electoral fairness (although that is not enhanced by banning anyone’s speech), but simply to restrict the expression of political opinion as much as possible.

  11. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    The “W” word beats the “N” word every time.
    White vs Black: Winter is Nice.
    AGW is racist.
    …-
    “Winter returns to the Sierra; Snow above 6,000 feet”
    “A cold weather front took aim at Northern California Tuesday, packing a potent punch with as much as 10 inches of snow for the Sierra peaks, the earliest return of winter conditions to Tahoe since 1969, according to weather forecasters.
    According to the Central Sierra Snow Lab, the flurries predicted with this storm will make the shortest duration between snow storms since 1969. The lab – located in Norden – got its last measurable snow on July 1 – 96 days ago.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2788026/posts

  16. Now, if that video featured the mother of a famous cellist, we’d have Yo-Yo Ma’s ma’s yo-yo…

  17. Now, if that video featured the mother of a famous cellist, we’d have Yo-Yo Ma’s ma’s yo-yo…

  19. Toronto as a province? Councillor wants to revisit idea
    http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20111005/ontario-province-111005/20111005?hub=TorontoNewHome
    A Toronto city councillor thinks it’s time to revisit the idea of making the city a province.
    Giorgio Mammoliti feels the city is getting shafted by the federal and provincial governments.
    **I wrote in comments “i think toronto should be the center of the universe, oh wait they all ready are”
    see if that gets posted

  21. Liberal socialist McGuinty’s socialist god is dying.
    …-
    “The Ticking Euro Bomb”
    “How a Good Idea Became a Tragedy”
    “The Greek crisis has revealed why the euro is the world’s most dangerous currency. The euro was built on a foundation of debt and trickery, where economic principles were sacrificed to romantic political visions. The history of the common currency is the story of a good idea that turned into a tragedy of epic proportions.”
    “Before Germany’s Horst Reichenbach had even stepped off the plane in Athens, the Greeks knew who was coming. He had already been given various unflattering nicknames in the Greek media, including “Third Reichenbach” and “Horst Wessel” — a reference to the Nazi activist of that name who was posthumously elevated to martyr status. The members of his 30-strong team, meanwhile, had been compared to Nazi regional leaders.
    The taxi drivers at the airport were on strike, while hundreds stood in front of the parliament building, chanting their slogans. One protestor was wearing a T-shirt that read: “I don’t need sex. The government [skcuf] me every day.” Within the first few hours, Horst Reichenbach realized that he had landed in a disaster area.
    Reichenbach is the head of the task force the European Commission sent to Athens to provide what Brussels officials call “technical assistance” in the implementation of necessary reforms. For the Greek media, the task force is the advance guard of an invasion force, the bureaucrats that have arrived to transform beautiful Greece into a German colony.”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,790138,00.html

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