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Nope, it's not a joke:

An ethics watchdog group is using the hacking scandal in the United Kingdom to call on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to cancel Fox’s broadcast licenses.

The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government (CREW) sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on Tuesday, arguing that U.S. law states that broadcast airwaves shall only be licensed to people of “good character” and used "in the public interest."

Yup. Like the good characters at MSNBC who hired Al Sharpton.

They’re asking the FCC to revoke broadcast licenses for the 27 stations the Fox network owns in the United States…

It's not the first time that proxy-Democrats have demanded that conservatives be called before the FCC to "explain how they (can) justify…"

In honour of next month's Bi-Centenial I submit the following for your listening enjoyment.

"Three dead trolls in a baggie" ( not the arrogant worms) singing a full Canadian Context War of 1812 song. Burn on brothers and sistas.

http://youtu.be/WVC677-YmfM

wondering why no investigation was done before 2007 ? wonder no more...the libranos were in office until well into 2006...but the media will blame it on Harper anyway.

The RCMP charged three former CRA workers for allegedly taking bribes or engaging in extortion to quash tax bills.

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2012/05/20120501-122956.html

Police say an investigation started in 2007 showed the Mafia infiltrated the Montreal tax office and interfered with corporate filings.

Two somewhat differing views: In "Accountable Government", D.J. Webb writes (from a British perspective) about "the real fundamental drift towards unaccountable government, technocracies in London and in the EU that retain the real reins of power regardless of who wins elections."

Tyler Cowan, writing in the NYT, thinks democracy is in fact reasserting itself, and that these unelected technocrats are increasingly being rebuffed:

Today, very few countries in the euro zone are capable of making credible commitments or binding agreements with the others. Quite simply, democracy is having its say. The French soon may elect a left-wing candidate who, in essence, wants to exempt France from fiscal rules and place more fiscal risk on Germany. The Dutch can no longer form a governmental consensus on the budget. The Irish will be putting the fiscal compact up for a referendum, and the Greeks are holding an election in May. Even in Germany there could be problems holding together the ruling coalition.

In general, voters are unwilling to give up their say over policy, or to regard the European Union or euro zone as necessarily superior to national interests. When it comes to the specifics, it appears increasingly likely that at least one national electorate will pull the plug on the entire set of bailouts and austerity programs.

one of my favourite songs Grey Lady, and one I've shared with many of my American acquaintances ;)
but be careful....the dippers will be accusing you of 'rewriting history' the same way they're yipping at Harper for not saying that France won on the Plains of Abraham...

Who can use the word FORWARD! 47 times in a short piece, teach you a thing or two, and make you laugh all the way through?
Sure, Steyn can, but so can the eloquent and virtuosic Sultan Knish (Daniel Greenfield).

Bev Oda and Justin Trudeau,a match made in the heaven of your wallet.

" Other receipts show a taste for the premium Grey Goose vodka."

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2012/05/20120502-200351.html

Winnipeg Free Press reporters making an access to information request to the provincial government are told it will cost 1.9 million dollars to fulfill.

Some of the so called non-partisan media experts who are often called upon by MSM to impart their knowledge to the unwashed are donors to the Liberals and NDP. I think we need some disclosure laws.

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2012/05/20120502-145823.html

Interesting mid east news. Interesting times indeed.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-approves-call-up-of-22-idf-battalions/

mike

What we need is democracy. With a totalitarian party to vote for.

And what a difference a week makes. Libya's National Transitional Council does the ol' roadrunner cloud:

BBC – Libya lifts ban on religious parties as voters register

Fool me twice.

Re: Are You Loneseome Tonight.

Thanks--great song--didn't know it was that old!

Posted by: Plainzdrifter at May 3, 2012 2:10 AM

You would be amazed over how many old folk songs Elvis covered. He grew up singing many of them, but put his own mark on them.

Too bad about burning out and ending up in Vegas as a parody of himself sideshow. Happens all to often.

Anyways, speaking of burning out, dying young, and the hell that is public fame, my contribution.

Amy Winehouse RIP, I wish I could of met you, and convinced you to give up the scene.
I did, 3 years after I threw up blood and went insane.
Somehow I survived.

My sister had me arrested by the RCMP under the Mental Health Act for telling her that I didn't want to talk about it (true story, she's a leftist, tries to grab power if she sees an opening) ((another story for another day))

Anyways, Amy Winehouse, Rehab

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUmZp8pR1uc&ob=av2e

Nice essay defending capitalism from Nyquist
http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/jr-nyquist/saving-the-free-market#decrease
h/t Maggies Farm

PET Cemetery Report.

Just In's Focus Goose Group.

"Other receipts show a taste for the premium Grey Goose vodka."

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"evanwrobertson Says:
May 2, 2012 at 5:50 PM

Such as shame, Katamavik is an awesome group. I did some work for a local festival in Brantford, ON and Katamavik members were there bright and early and all throughout the day to help in anyway possible, including the grunt work such as set up and tear down. Trudeau should screw around on his own time and dime, not on the taxpayers money or in a way that will lend a bad image to this great organization."

"Justin Trudeau caught expensing $127 lunch for two through Katimavik"

https://bcblue.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/justin-trudeau-caught-expensing-127-lunch-for-two-through-katimavik/

so much for 'enlightened' protest...

Video: Chicago Occupiers Can’t Explain What The Signs They’re Carrying Mean…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3L8ZNPV78

how conveeeenient.....

those pesky reading contradicting the goreacle were becoming a nuisance for nasa anyway...

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/story/2012-05-02/weather-satellites-forecast-storms/54708804/1

The number of in-orbit and planned Earth observation missions by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is projected to drop "precipitously" from 23 this year to only six by 2020

That means the number of instruments monitoring Earth's activity is expected to decline from a peak of about 110 last year to fewer than 30 by the end of the decade.

..."Right now, when society is asking us the hardest questions and the most meaningful questions, we're going to be even more challenged to answer them,"...

hmmmmm...

Florida governor rejects gun ban for Republican convention

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/florida-governor-rejects-gun-ban-republican-convention-200730814.html

Tallahassee, Florida (Reuters) - Florida Governor Rick Scott has shot down a request by Tampa's mayor to allow local authorities to ban guns from the city's downtown during the Republican National Convention in August.

Citing Second Amendment protections in the U.S. Constitution, Scott told Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn that conventions and guns have co-existed since the nation's birth and would continue to do so during the four-day event beginning August 27.

"It is unclear how disarming law abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law," the Republican governor said in a letter on Tuesday.

but on the other side...

..."As governor, you have the duty to meet dangers presented by events such as the RNC where there is a threat of substantial injury and harm to Florida residents and visitors to the state," Buckhorn wrote....

what is the mayor suggesting ?
that Republicans can't be trusted with firearms ?
or that the 'protestors' can't be ?
don't worry...the protestors won't have permits for theirs anyway.

"*the new “Global Warming Mum” series. Here’s the description:".

Neo-AGW Progress Report.

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"Killer freeze takes bite out of area’s fruit crops"

"AGRICULTURE: Below-zero temperatures late last week on the heels of summer-like weather leaves farmers scrambling to assess damage"

http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2012/05/02/19709311.html

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"*the new “Global Warming Mum” series. Here’s the description:".

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/05/02/get-em-while-its-hot-global-warming-chrysanthemums/#more-62662

THe McGuinty Liberal Government in Ontario is about to kill the Harness HorseBreeding industry in Ontario with the OLG (lottery) withdrawing support from the racing venues.

Below the break is my email to Scott Taylor of the London Free Press story involving Dave Wall with cc'c to my MPP Ernie Hardeman, Tim Hudak and Dalton McGuinty included.

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Attention Scott Taylor- London Free Press.
Re: The Dave Wall Story in the FP.

Hi Scott, the email ( Apr 12) below was to my MPP Ernie Hardeman regarding the Harness Horse Breeding & Racing industry now being scuttled by McGuinty's Libs and OLG.
I am no longer involved in Breeding/ Racing Standardberds but understand that withdrawing OLG will effectively kill the Breeding Market and the ancillary related businesses.
Sheer McGiunty inspired OLG madness!!

Joseph (Joe) Molnar
77 Lindsay Rd.
Woodstock, Ont.

519-537-3373
Greetings Ernie,

I have, a few minutes ago left Brian Tropea General Manager of the Ontario Harness Horsemen's Association a telephone,message.
My understanding that he Tropea is about to meet with Andrea Horwath very shortly TODAY, to discuss the OLG and OHHA DEFUNDING.
While I have no direct interest in the Harness Racing Industry any longer, Ernie, I fully understand the destruction of the Ontario Harness Horse Breeding and Racing industry is imminent, should the McGuinty administration continue the castration process now underway with the OLG leading the process.
Sadly in the coffee shops in this province the average person is lead to believe that tax dollars support the Harness Racing industry and NOT the betting public through the allotted CASINOS!
I As your constituent Ernie, urge you to push your leader Tim Hudak to take up the cause of the Ontario Harness Breeding and Racing Industry and take the Liberals to a general election along with Andrea Horwath, unless she has been suckered by the corrupt Libs already.
Brian Tropea in his meeting with Horwath may well change her view of the devastation of a major industry but he needs help particularly from the SUN Media Network and of course your Progressive Conservative Party.
AS you note I have CC'd OHHA's Brian Tropea, ND leader Andrea Horwath, Hudak, and in my home town the Mayor Sobeski, Len Reeves, Warden Don McKay, also Sun Media Lorrie Goldstein, Mark Bonokoski, Heather Rivers reporter Woodstock Sentinel Review and "Small Dead Animals" conservative blogger Kate McMillan.

I hope to get the QMI SUN Media to take up the fight very soon as well.

After my discussion at Tim Horton's this morning I realized that the general public believes that the Ontario Harness Horsemen's Breeding and Racing is supported by TAX dollars,
That sir, needs clarification.

I AM,

Joseph (Joe) Molnar
etc, etc (snipped)

Posted by: Howard Hughes at May 3, 2012 8:18 AM

Early spring and late fall tourist season are dead zones, nobody makes any money, and staff know this.
Smells like astroturf to me.
I call BS on that article, I worked in Banff for 6 years BTW.

add:
Unless you operate a ski hill and "global warming" lets you stay open 'till Canada Day.

Geert Wilders on Glenn Beck TV...

Wilders on Europe:
http://web.gbtv.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=21097789&topic_id=24584158

Wilders on Islam:
http://web.gbtv.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=21095991&topic_id=24584158

HUGE support for 'bama's bill...a whopping 2%...watch for tingles to scream "it's a success"

HHS Releases First Round of Public Comments On Contraception Mandate: Only 2% Supported It…

http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;dct=PS;rpp=100;po=200;D=CMS-2012-0031

...“As a Democrat, I will vote Republican if religious freedom is not protected and respected,” said one commenter,...

gee, howie, I guess that's what the government gets by letting the deputy ministers and other leftover liebral appointees implement the curtailing of runaway wastage in their departments...Harper didn't appoint the ones that cut your supposedly 'valuable' programs of questionable effectiveness.

Instead of 'downsizing' some assistant associate deputy acting assistant associate deputy ministers (not a typo, just another layer of bureaucracy) at the EX level or chopping a few multi-million dollar useless 'programs' and 'initiatives' that only employ the deputy commissioner's son or daughter-in-law, they decide, like the cbc did, to drop the most visible things they can to 'send the government a message' that THEY make the rules, not the elected representatives of the people...

The libranos are alive and well and waiting for their godfathers to sneak back into power so the kickbacks can resume...

It's long pasdt time for a houseclearing at the highest levels of most departments, the line between performance and partisanship has been crossed too many times and invariably in favour of the loose spending liebrals.

We need accountability and wise management of resources from those entrusted to the final spending of the taxpayer's dollar, not races to see who can build the biggest empire and hand out the most cash for the least result...which is what librano bagmen do.

Oh, oh . . . more proof of massive glowball warming hits the UK.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138728/UK-weather-Rain-biting-winds-snow-Bank-Holiday-weekend.html?ICO=most_read_module

We we know where Al Gore is

Investigative journos...ignore the left-lib- commies, harrass conservatives.
Why Ford would want to Mayor of the city is beyond me.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/03/rob-ford-threatens-media-blackout-unless-star-removes-reporter-from-city-hall-beat/

Excerpt from Bloody Shovel's "On Tribalism":

"Reading this article, it finally hit me why Multicultural societies always fail: Because they are so goddamn boring. Everyone is forced to sit around discussing race and ethnicity all day long. In a creative White society, the main issues circle around new ideas and new inventions. Are we socialists or capitalists? What kind of society will technology bring us? What can we do with new engineering knowledge? That’s the conversation in a homogeneous society with a decent IQ and level of creativity (most Western European people).

"But from now on in America, it will be Diversity and Sensitivity training. It will be this tribe vs that tribe. It will all revolve around how to carve up power. No more productivity or creativity.

"It will be this goddamn 'Who Whom?' question for the rest of your life, then you die."

Barry Rubin at PJ Media:

"Suppose that during the Cold War years, the American president’s favorite leader and guide to Latin America was Fidel Castro. That would worry you, right? But such a notion is ridiculous, isn’t it?

"Not today it isn’t. President Barack Obama can’t stand Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a recent statement to French President Nicholas Sarkozy, caught by a microphone both men thought was off, Obama said: 'You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!'

"There is, however, a man who Obama loves to deal with, if not every day at least as often as possible: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan…"

[…]

"The president of the United States adores a radical, anti-American Islamist who supports radical terrorist groups, seeks to overthrow U.S. allies and replace them with other radical Islamist governments…"

He's good people.

..."Suppose that during the Cold War years, the American president’s favorite leader and guide to Latin America was Fidel Castro. That would worry you, right? But such a notion is ridiculous, isn’t it? ...

Not really...truedough worshipped castro and his soviet masters.

Try, just TRY and figure the odds of 'bama, billary, biden, pelosi, reid, iggy, truedough or any other liebral doing this for their OWN child, let alone a complete stanger....

and please go to the picture, that's something a moonbat expects to have done when they walk into a photo-op as a show of deference, not a gesture of respect...

We joke about 'jarheads' but they almost invariably have the sense of esprit d'corps and respect for their country and countrymen that can only be appreciated by someone else that has the same feelings for theirs.

http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/guard-500x575.jpg

http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/news/local/boy-made-honorary-marine-before-death

FLORA, Ind. (WLFI) - 12-year-old Cody Green has always admired the strength and courage of the marines. At 12:35 Saturday afternoon, it was the Marines admiring the strength and courage of Cody.

Cody had leukemia since he was 22 months old, but beat the disease three times. Although he was cancer-free, the chemotherapy lowered his immune system and Saturday afternoon, he died from a fungus that attacked his brain. Members of the Marines decided to step in and do something.

"They decided Cody, with the strength and honor and courage he showed through the whole thing, he should be a Marine," said Cody's father David Snowberger.

Cody was given Marine navigator wings and was made an honorary member of the United States Marine Corps. For one Marine, that wasn't enough, so he did even more.

"The night before Cody passed, he stood guard at Cody's door at the hospital all night long for eight hours straight," said Snowberger.

The tolerant left:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/02/newfoundland-mother-prevented-from-laying-wreath-for-son-at-memorial-by-labour-group/
Kind of gives away the game that these memorials by big labour have virtually nothing to do with honoring the victims of workplace tragedies, and everything to do with victim-meme political posturing cynically using the victims as political.

The tolerant left:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/02/newfoundland-mother-prevented-from-laying-wreath-for-son-at-memorial-by-labour-group/
Kind of gives away the game that these memorials by big labour have virtually nothing to do with honoring the victims of workplace tragedies, and everything to do with victim-meme political posturing cynically using the victims as political props.

I'm a Union member and I find that disgusting as both a member and a human being.

This is where the public perception of Unions comes from...idiots like this fool bryne trying to make political hay out of everything that comes along...even things such aas this that should transcend employer/employee relationships.

too little, too late, the damage has already been done and the liebral lies will only end in tragedy...unfortunately, I couldn't include the italice that set off the fabricated part of her 'transcript', so I seperated them from the rest of the 'quote' and used ellipsis...

Lilia Luciano, a Miami-based NBC News correspondent, is no longer working for the network, TVNewser has learned.

Luciano last reported for NBC News March 31. Until that point, she had been reporting mainly on theTrayvon Martin story. Sources tell TVNewser Luciano’s dismissal came after an investigation which also led to the firing of a seasoned NBC News producer over a similar, misleading edit. In a story for the “Today” show on March 20, Luciano used part of the George Zimmerman 911 call in which an entire phrase (italicized below) was taken from a later part of the conversation:

Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good or on drugs or something.

...He’s got his hand in his waistband. And he’s a black male."...

Dispatcher: Are you following him?
Zimmerman: Yeah.
Dispatcher: Okay, we don’t need you to do that.

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/05/02/trudeau-enjoyed-high-life-on-taxpayer-dime

Well,well,well! Seems Bev Oda isn't the only one who likes to live high on the taxpayer's dime!

Young Justin Trudeau,when he worked for Daddy's invention,"Katimavik", ran up expenses at twice the rate of the other workers at that project!

Gee, never woulda guessed!

Bin-Laden's favorite journalists. Color me unsurprised, especially Eric Margolis...

"from different countries. In Britain, the two journalists Atwan and Fisk, and probably others, in America Brian Russ, Simon Hirsh and Jerry Van Dyke and others, in Canada Eric Margolis and
Gwynne Dyer."

The "tolerant" left on display, AGAIN. This is one brave kid.

School feuding with student over his wearing a "Jesus" shirt:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/05/03/ns-jesus-shirt-student.html

That sort of thing makes me almost apoplectic, Soccermom.

Do you think he would have been suspended for five days for wearing a T-shirt that said "Life is wasted without the music of 50 Cent"?

Yeah, I know, it's a rhetorical question.

Enjoying the reek yet Albertans who voted for the Conservative crooks?
After all the crocodile tears this will make what? 34% raise 3 years ago under Red Ed, now another 34% after the Conservative progressives ritual tear fest of frenetic denial?

GUNTER: Who gets a 34% pay hike?

Now those exorbitant salaries are being cited by Mr. Justice Major as one of the main reasons to recommend a 34% increase in MLA pay.

How convenient.

I’m not suggesting this was all along some grand plot or conspiracy to justify a huge raise for MLAs, but it hardly seems reasonable to insist that politicians deserve a giant raise just because for the past 10 or 12 years they’ve been very free with taxpayers’ money when it comes to civil-service pay.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/2012/05/02/gunter-who-get-a-34-pay-hike

Enjoy the stench you created.

Wages for Public Union employee's ,is the equivalent of devaluing your currency!!!!
It excites inflation, not growth.

"Analysis: Star reporter's behaviour embarrassing
By Peter Worthington QMI Agency"

"TORONTO — Maybe it's just me, but I think everyone relishes stories where reporters confront politicians — and even more so when politicians challenge reporters.

That's one of the entertaining things about having Rob Ford as mayor. One is never sure when there'll be an outburst. Keeps us media types on our toes."

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2012/05/03/19713086.html

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"China to stamp out journalistic malpractice"

"China will start a three-month crackdown this month on news organizations and reporters conducting illicit journalistic practices such as blackmail and receiving kick-backs, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday.

The crackdown will begin on May 15 and will target journalists involved in blackmail or who demand to be paid to do news reporting. Journalists without proper accreditation conducting those activities will also be scrutinized, Xinhua said, quoting a statement from China’s media regulator, the General Administration of Press and Publication.

China does not have an independent or free press as media outlets are controlled by the government."

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2012/05/03/19711686.html

Sort of re. EBD @12:02 - Benzion Netanyahu died a few days ago, aged 102. Interesting life, interesting family. Many people don't know that another of his sons died in the spectacular Entebbe operation.

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=268100&R=R2

New York trying to outdo Ascot. Scroll down to see The Divine Miss M, aka Bette Midler, aka Mrs. Martin Von Haselberg, every bit the New York matron:

http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/1908015

dwright:

Thnaks for the heads up. I have six sisters thik like that!!

I've got 28 years in AA!! Ican relate.

dwright:

Thanks for the heads up. I have six sisters who think like that!!

I've got 28 years in AA!! I can relate.

So, I wonder why this is coming up?

Obama was sexually warm, but emotionally cool, early girlfriend says

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/obama-was-sexually-warm-but-emotionally-cool-early-girlfriend-says/article2421724/

(He actually had early girlfriends?)