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Stephen Taylor took a look at a Alberta PC ad, and noticed something funky: the "Albertan" drilling rig in the background is an offshore oil platform off China in the Yellow Sea. Nice one Allison.
link here

the British labour party finally grows a pair...or borrows one....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2130256/Lord-Ahmed-Rotherham-offers-10m-bounty-detain-Obama.html

(Daily Mail) — A Labour peer was suspended last night after allegedly claiming he would put up a £10million bounty for the capture of Barack Obama.

Lord Ahmed of Rotherham is reported to have made the gesture after the U.S. announced a $10million bounty for Hafiz Muhammed Saeed, whom it blames for orchestrating the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

Pakistani-born Lord Ahmed, Britain’s first Muslim peer, reportedly said Mr Obama had ‘challenged the dignity of the Muslim Ummah (community)’ and said his reward also applied to Mr Obama’s predecessor as U.S. president, George W Bush.

A Labour spokesman said: ‘We have suspended Lord Ahmed pending investigation. If these comments are accurate we utterly condemn these remarks which are totally unacceptable.

Excellent eye there Stephen Taylor... I'm certain the P.C.'s I work with will have a plausible explanation for this misunderstanding tomorrow.

Kate, I've never watched the Ascot races before this, only the ladies hats... how interesting to see a straight horse race run on grass.. super cool.

'bama still spreading the bull...

http://www.tradeaidmonitor.com/2012/04/kenya-sees-spike-in-obama-administration-funded-projects.html

Kenyan businesses lately are increasingly becoming recipients of U.S. government largesse, as the Obama Administration, among pursuing other endeavors, aims to expand "livestock-related economic opportunities" in that nation.

More brilliant strategy from the PC's as Redford throws Ralph Klein under the bus...

http://blogs.calgaryherald.com/2012/04/15/kleins-wife-friends-angry-at-pc-criticism-of-sick-ex-premier/#comments

Juxtapose!

The Glaciers are growing! The Guardian 15 Apr 2012

http://tinyurl.com/d4mrzcq

The Glaciers are shrinking! The Guardian 15 Apr 2012

http://tinyurl.com/6ue4f3z

lol, someone talk to the editor and at least have the stories appear on different days!

Uh oh Alberta Health Services employee loses it over Danielle Smith and Wildrose

https://twitter.com/#!/CrudeTurmoil/status/191730653820223489

Paul, good find! The screenshot you've referred to can also be seen here.

Mark Steyn has made a point of documenting the violent fantasies of the Far Left. Michelle Lynne Tomlinson's hate-filled outburst is just the latest. :-(

Now that was horse sense:

Viktor "Frankl": The equestrian's search for meaning.

Cheers

Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

Robert W, your tiny URL @ 2.04 reads access denied.

Check out this panel, via a Power Line link.

Go to the 4:30 time and see who the female panellist is. She said she “raised” step children. Really?

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/04/14/bill_maher_ann_romney_has_never_gotten_her_a_out_of_the_house_to_work

The Globe and Mail has a column by John Ibbitson praising the Canadian Charter as a 'model for the world', claiming that its insights, brilliance and freedoms far outweight the essentially decrepit US Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The comments on the article are incredible; the G&M is a basic site of intense, frothing, foaming hatred of Harper. The viciouos verbal descriptions of Harper are comparable to those against Bush, Palin, and the infamous in the Third Reich.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/john-ibbitson/the-charter-proves-to-be-canadas-gift-to-world/article2403254/

The comments utterly and totally ignore two basic problems: The first is the Charter's focus on privileging identity-groups, setting up these groups as homogeneous and with group rights trumping those of any individual and thus, the Charter obliviates any 'fundamental rights' of the individual. [Note- we are all members of an identity group, be it gender, religion, etc. and the Charter's focus on this facet denies our individual status outside of these descriptions]

Second, the Charter's key focus is on establishing the domination of bilingualism in our federal govt - despite the fact that 80% of Canadians are not bilingual.

Thus, I fail to see how the Charter is a model for a global world - and I am constantly astonished by the vitriol of the anti-Harper rhetoric in the G&M.

terrorists lose 35 out of 36 attackers...guess it's kind of hard to run away in a burqa...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/16/world/asia/afghanistan-violence/index.html

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) – The lone survivor in a group of 36 insurgents who carried out a series of sustained assaults in Kabul and across eastern parts of Afghanistan told officials he had been working for the Haqqani network, a ruthless, well-trained organization linked to al Qaeda.

The majority of the attackers used women’s clothing — with burqas covering their faces — in order to reach their intended positions, Mohammadi said.

They even “had bunches of flowers in their car in Kabul order to show off that they were women and they were going to a wedding party or something like that,” he said.

From digging a bit through this from Paul

https://twitter.com/#!/CrudeTurmoil/status/191730653820223489

Posted by: Paul at April 16, 2012 1:29 AM

A poll that begs for an SDA look see.

http://www.oilweek.com/index.php/en/component/acepolls/poll/2-if-an-election-were-to-be-held-in-alberta-tomorrow-who-do-you-think-would-become-the-next-premier-of-the-province.html

re. Paul and Robert W., here's the charming nurse Tomlinson's twitter thingy. Serves to confirm my prejudice against people who use the word "snark", as well as my prejudice against people who think nurses are "angels" who deserve more money. (Some nurses are wonderful selfless blah blah.)

Link.

Pat Martin (NDP mouthpiece) is in the soup AGAIN.

OTTAWA - Bombastic NDP MP Pat Martin removed a foot from his mouth long enough to offer his mea culpas for "wrongfully accusing" a private individual and his business for electoral fraud during the robocall affair.

Martin was also authorized to offer penance on behalf of the NDP for related statements made on the party website.

"I singled out a private individual, Mr. Matt Meier, along with his business RackNine Inc., and I wrongfully accused them of being part of a conspiracy to commit electoral fraud," an unusually contrite Martin said Monday, reading from a written statement.

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2012/04/20120416-120945.html

I just watched this video concerning the shaky philosophical foundations of our current scientific mindset. My brain is absolutely spinning. Many of the points made here plug into conformist thinking on various eco-issues etc, and the use of bullying techniques to shut up any "heretics" who question settled science, but you may find this mind-bending on a cosmological level as well.

The speaker is Rupert Sheldrake, who as his PhD in biochemistry from Cambridge. See his bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake

http://presentations.thelincolncentre.co.uk/temenos/20120206-video.html

Louis Farrakhan: "People tomorrow, maybe in a few days, are gon' kill their leaders, who've been sellin' them out"....

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/04/16/Farrakhan-To-Black-College-Students-%20People-Are-Going-To-Kill-Their-Leaders-In-A-Few-Days

This Just In.

It's George's fault.

"Barack Obama made a gaffe more associated with predecessor George W Bush"

"Barack Obama made an uncharacteristic error,".

...-

"Barack Obama makes Falklands gaffe by calling Malvinas the Maldives"

"Barack Obama made an uncharacteristic error, more akin to those of his predecessor George W Bush, by referring to the Falkland Islands as the Maldives."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/9207183/Barack-Obama-makes-Falklands-gaffe-by-calling-Malvinas-the-Maldives.html

The cbc reporter,Kim Trynacity, who attempted to land a 'gotcha' moment on Danielle Smith wrt the 'hate crime' candidate,explains herself,sort of.

" I will acknowledge that I could have phrased the question better,"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/albertavotes2012/story/2012/04/16/albertavotes2012-reporters-notebook-trynacity-april16.html

Barack does not make errors,the rest of the world is simply incapable of understanding his nuance.(:--)

I don't have a link to this ,but just heard on the news that Colleen Klein bought a Wild Rose membership.

Yeah,that makes me smile.

ET: "I am constantly astonished by the vitriol of the anti-Harper rhetoric in the G&M" Yes -- not much thinking going on at G&M. I think it is populated by many youth and heavy duty union types. The CBC site is not much better -- for vitriol, with the additional disadvantage that when you post something you have to wait for a couple of hours before the comment shows up. Increasingly neither of these sites is worth posting on.