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Lester and Flatt should be ashamed....

Hey, I thought everyone was away for the long weekend -- then I realized that's only in Canada...

/:>)

I do not have a link, but I just saw Ezra Levant on the John Stossel show on FoxNews.

BTW, I enjoyed the Vera Lynn song. Every few months I pull out her cds and listen. She was a great voice for the British people during the war. They need a Vera Lynn now, as they are being inundated with strains of the Internationale.

I'm still here! Someone has to mock phil and listen to the cats eat june bugs. Lucky you.

She really is great, Ken. And you're right, the Brits - and the rest of us - need more people of her fibre and stock.

She's still going strong, btw -- and looking good -- at 95.

I actually enjoyed that.
Happy Victoria day everyone.

cue the wails of outrage in 3...2...1....

of course, the 50 who were eliminated earlier and the other 6 who were cut at the same time don't matter...it's because s/he didn't win that the moonbats will start mewling...after all it's discrimination for 'her' and just part of the process for the 56 others.

CTVNews.ca Staff

Date: Saturday May. 19, 2012 10:51 PM ET

Transgender Miss Universe Canada contestant Jenna Talackova was eliminated from the pageant after making it to the final 12 finalists.

Talackova's name was not among those called when the final five contestants were announced at Saturday night's pageant.

Talackova competed against 61 other women in what became a controversial race.

For Dems, the economy will be a challenge:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-deputy-campaign-manager-economy-will-continue-be-
challenge_645148.html

A challenge to what? The mighty intellect of Barry, or to the re-election hopes of Barry?

I reckon she's just experienced her 15 seconds of fame and will be seeking employment ...3,2,1

The perfect gift for the person who eats everything.

That would be me. Except for raw mushrooms and sun-dried tomatoes.

Vera Lynn lives in some island off the coast of Italy nowadays (Capri?); has done so for many years.

BTW "The Blue Birds over the White Cliffs of Dover" is a song that will sing in hearts forever. I wasn't there but it will, like Psalm #23.

BTW The blue birds were Spitfires and Hurricanes and the White Cliffs of Dover were the WHite Cliffs of Dover.

I got so ticked at the grocery store when the young cashier suggested I should bring the cloth germ carriers they call grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

I get a bit cranky when a kid with no life experience that has elevated herself to the lofty level of cashier decides to 'inform' me but if you dare say "We didn't have all this 'green' foolishness back in my earlier days." they get snarky and say "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

But she was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides householdgarbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books. But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an elevator or escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the corner grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go halfway across town to the superstore that closed all the corner groceries. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with new ink cartridges instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation.

We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to tick us off.

OK maybe going too far. I was brung up as Christian; cannot really call myself that now. For me, only the New Testament is Christian, the Old Testament is not.

However, the old testament does have many things that are remarkabky good advice for any mortal, such as the Book of Job, or The Psalms.

I have many favorite Psalms, but in times of adversity, Psalm 23.4 always comes to mind:

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,I will fear no evil

http://www.usccb.org/bible/psalms/23

Make what you will of it: via Sultan Knish, this report on overseas (absentee) voting in the French election: Sarkozy received 92 percent of the vote in Israel, Hollande received 82 percent of the vote in the Palestinian Authority.

Related: "93 percent of French Muslims voted for the Socialist Francois Hollande." (h/t EuropeNews.dk)

Oh, look, a staged hate crime.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/05/lesbian-couple-charged-with-staging-hate-crime/

Hmmm.

May 2012

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Canada+cruising+major+spill+crisis+Arctic+academic+warns/6646408/story.html

Byers, author of the book Who Owns the Arctic? and a former federal NDP candidate, said he's not opposed to Canada developing and marketing the oilsands globally, but believes the resource and its export routes should be subject to close scrutiny for environmental and other impacts.

September 2008

http://thethunderbird.ca/2008/09/25/ndp-candidate-michael-byers-calls-for-end-to-tar-sands/

“We need to go after the big polluters and we need to shut the tar sands down.”

(There's even an audio clip.)

“If we are burning oil and gas in 20 and 30 years…this planet is finished,”

Alan Derschowitz says that Florida state prosecutor Angela Corey acted irresponsibly and illegally by withholding evidence from the courts when she filed her affidavit and because of that he believes she should be investigated.
(via The Rightscoop)

Thanks for the staged "hate crime" link Black Mamba. I suspect that the lesbian couples neighbors couldn't give a rats ass about their sexual orientation but probably had a lot to say about people who don't pick up after their dogs.

Black Mamba: hopefully Big Gay Al Sharpton will come to their defense. Because it's terrible being a fake victim.

Alert! Alert! A poll going wrong. See msn.com, "question of the Day".

Oh, indeed. I think Al's completely senile, but surely someone will help these poor people.

Thanks for that, Black Mamba. David's archives would be my 'Desert Island' selection of online reading….assuming, of course, that there'd be electricity on the island. And a Wi-Fi connection. And pineapple juice. And vodka. And a couple of good restaurants.

You just can't make that sort of stuff up:

As when Johnathan Perkins, a black law student, told the University of Virginia’s student newspaper that while walking home he’d been taunted and intimidated by two white police officers. Perkins’ letter claimed that "most Americans are raised in racially sterilised environments," and that "black people are accused of… playing the victim." The student’s stated hope was that, "sharing this experience will provide this community with some much needed awareness of the lives that many of their black classmates are forced to lead." A subsequent investigation, involving dispatch records, police tapes and surveillance video from nearby businesses, revealed the student’s story to be entirely fabricated. In a written statement, Perkins admitted, "I wrote the article to bring attention to the topic of police misconduct…"

Robert of Ottawa:
Not that it matters a darn, but the bluebirds over the white cliffs of dover weren't spitfires & hurricanes. It was speaking of the future, after the war was won.
I sang it in a duet to a roomful of soldiers while they were training to go overseas and to British airmen training in Canada.
Can't express the emotion it aroused every time. No one knew we could win the war for certain at that time. The song was a promise we clung to.

"Who Knew? Data on the Efficacy of the Repeal Pledge"

"Heather Higgins · 13 hours ago"

"Oh, there is nothing like data."

"Several days ago, in the wake of the Deb Fischer victory in Nebraska, I put up a post, "Mourdock, Fischer and the Repeal Pledge". Many of the comments were by people who because they hadn't heard* of the Repeal Pledge thought it didn't make any difference, or didn't believe pledges in general worked, or attributed Fischer's victory to Palin's endorsement , or to the two main candidates relentlessly beating up on each other (and it is true, without that groundwork she couldn't have prevailed). I stopped responding to the comments, because I knew the pollster was in the field right then, trying to find out from Nebraska voters as best he could the answer to those questions .

[*Small digression here, for those of you who rely on news reports to know what happened: it's probably missing stuff that no one talked about. For example, when we do messaging in a state, we almost never put out a press release about it. And where all we are doing is telling people who has signed the pledge and who hasn't, and not encouraging anyone re. how to vote, we don't even have anything to file. So there won't be any press reports about the role the Repeal Pledge played; it just won't have gotten on reporters' radar screens.]

Just to be REALLY clear: in no lifetime would I say that the Repeal Pledge gets credit for anyone's victory. A bad or not credible candidate could take the pledge repeatedly and it wouldn't make any difference. Good candidates have won without it. And by definition there are many issues, personalities, and outside groups that each are helping create the outcome.

But now we have data, and the implications for candidates of what we’ve just confirmed are huge.

Back up first: in the Mourdock race in Indiana, the campaign told us explicitly after the fact that the Repeal Pledge had been way more important than we knew. (That's the Mourdock campaign talking, not us.)

We hadn’t spent that much on promoting who had, and hadn't, signed the pledge – certainly our outlay was drop in the bucket relative to what else was being spent – but we knew it was an important contrast point that other groups and the campaign could easily amplify, and that they had done so.

We hoped the Mourdock campaign folks were right, but there was no hard data."

http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Who-Knew-Data-on-the-Efficacy-of-the-Repeal-Pledge

I'm not sure if this not waiting for the asteroid or a headline dying to be fixed...

http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2012/05/19/19777856-wenn-story.html

either way, if a stranger were to walk up to a random woman and try and kiss her, jail time would almost certainly ensue. Apparently the rule doesn't apply to reporters.

Great selection EBD. I didn't expect to like it but I did.

And the faked attacks on self-identified victims...they must want so badly for it to be true. How else can they feel important. How disappointing when the long awaited attacks don't happen. Or it's a good pre-emptive strike to draw attention from when you have done something wrong. (Black Mamba at May 20, 2012 12:27 AM)

re:

Alert! Alert! A poll going wrong. See msn.com, "question of the Day".
Posted by: gunney99 at May 20, 2012 1:33 AM

could we get a link with that ?

msn.com is a dog's breakfast the way it's laid out and you can't find anything...not that there's much to look for anyway.......

78mpg ? sure..if you only drive 10 miles at a time then charge the battery...it'd take a pint of gas to start it up...

202 mph at 78 mpg ? rriigghhttttt....

I still want one though.

Porsche's 78 mpg supercar takes shape

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/05/16/porsche-78-mpg-supercar-takes-shape

Porsche has announced today that the production version will feature an enlarged 4.6-liter V-8 engine pumping out close to 570 horsepower. The original concept featured a V-8 with a displacement of only 3.2 liters.

This engine will be matched to an electric motor in parallel and both of these power sources will be used to spin the rear axle only, either together or independently. A second electric motor will also feature and power the front axle exclusively. The combined output of the system should be around 770 horsepower, according to Porsche. The layout will also provide the option of two- and four-wheel drive modes.

Owners will be able to top up the car’s 6.8 kWh lithium-ion battery at home and this should provide an electric-only driving range of about 15 miles and top speed of 93 mph. A brake-energy recovery system working in conjunction with the standard carbon ceramic brake discs will be able to increase that driving range, however. Overall, Porsche is predicting 0-60 times for its 918 Spyder of under 3.0 seconds and a top speed in excess of 202 mph when all power sources are working. The best part is that fuel economy could be as high as 78 mpg.

that didn't stop the moonbat media from calling it "an early start to the hurricane season" and, of course, blaming it on 'global warming'...

Tropical Storm Alberto weakens off Carolina coast

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TROPICAL_WEATHER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-05-19-18-15-15

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Tropical Storm Alberto weakened slightly off the South Carolina coast on Sunday, a day after becoming an early first storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season.

The storm was not expected to approach landfall on the Carolinas' coast, but it prompted a tropical storm watch and forecasters warned that it could produce high winds, heavy surf, rip currents and scattered rain across the region.

At 11 a.m. Eastern, the National Hurricane Center said Alberto was about 90 miles (145 km) south of Charleston. It has maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (72 kph).

It's currently moving west-southwest at 6 mph (10 kph), but forecasters expect it to turn northeast sometime Monday.

A tropical storm watch was in effect for the South Carolina coast from the Savannah River to the South Santee River.

The hurricane center said the storm was expected to slow down through Sunday, then begin turning northeast and heading farther out to sea sometime Monday.

Alberto was named a tropical storm Saturday upon forming in the Atlantic. Tropical storms occasionally occur before the official June 1 start of the hurricane season.

gee, ya think ?

If I were them I'd be less worried about economic espionage and more worried about economic sabotage...and all the hidden instructions and circuits in those chinese chips that are in every piece of military equipment since clinton ok'd it...

China linked to ‘economic espionage’

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/92d6032a-a108-11e1-9fbd-00144feabdc0.html

China is the world’s biggest supporter of “economic espionage”, the Pentagon says in its annual report on the Chinese military which also claimed that Beijing’s defence budget is much higher than official numbers.

Friday’s report said China would continue to be an “aggressive and capable” collector of sensitive US technological information, including that owned by defence-related companies, and represented a “growing and persistent threat to US national security”.

...A November report prepared by US intelligence agencies said that concerted cyber espionage by China and Russia posed “significant and growing threats” to American economic power and national security.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/convicted-lockerbie-bomber-dies/article2438475/

Under the heading "Good riddance to the SOB",the Lockerbie bomber has died at home in Libya,three years late.

well...it quotes nbc so it's probably made up but one can hope...

Lockerbie bomber dies in Libya

By NBC News, msnbc.com and news services

Updated at 10:38 a.m. ET: TRIPOLI - The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people has died, his son told NBC News on Sunday. He was 60.

Abdel Baset al-Megrahi died at home after his health quickly deteriorated. "He has been suffering from cancer for a long time and God choose him," Khalid al-Magrahi told NBC.

"He was too sick to utter anything on his death bed," his brother Abdel Hakim told Reuters. "We want people to know he was innocent."

interesting tool here...

http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_national/hurricanesHistory08/index.html?SITE=AP

especially when you see that the years with the strongest hurricanes were between 1900-1910 and remember that there are a LOT more hurricanes listed today since before satellites, the ones that formed and died at sea weren't counted, most stoerms weren't named, and it took a lot more then to be called a 'hurricane' but now, every little hiccup in the atmosphere gets a name...just to skew the numbers for the goreans

sorry, Kate, but you'll probably be next...not a bad thing, really...

Pakistan blocks Twitter access over "blasphemous content"

ISLAMABAD | Sun May 20, 2012 7:36am EDT

(Reuters) - Pakistan on Sunday blocked access to Twitter in response to "blasphemous" material posted by users on the microblogging and social networking website, a senior government official said.

"This has been done under the directions of the Ministry of Information Technology. It's because of blasphemous content," said Mohammed Yaseen, chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA).

"They (the ministry) have been discussing with them (Twitter) for some time now, requesting them to remove some particular content," he said.

Pakistan blocked access to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and about 1,000 other websites for nearly two weeks in May 2010 over blasphemous content.

What could possibly go wrong?

" Activists says goal is 'family friendly protest'"

Yes,of course,bring the kids down. There will be face-painting,chanting,marching,one-sided games of catch,and oodles of clowns.

Timmy,can you spell 'human shield'?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/05/20/nato-summit-chicago-protest.html

Excellent observations re: recycling, Bemused. Thanks for giving permission to forward the content.

My family recycled cloth flour/sugar sacks, we used them for grain bags and pillowcases and containers to filter milk for cheese. I still have a few flour sack pillow cases that I embroidered when I was a little girl. Excellent cotton, very high thread count and not bleached.

Coffee tins and tobacco tins were never tossed, they were used as nail containers, cookie tins, small item organizers etc. Gum was saved in the tinfoil of the inner wrap.

That gal at the cash register could learn a lot from older folk but she is probably a preacher not a listener.

time for yet another regime to be toppled and handed to al qaeda and the 'islamic brotherhood'...what could go possibly wrong with that ?

next will be a staged'uprising' in the Gaza and West Bank with 'bama tripping over himself to hand those over to the 'brotherhood' he seems to be ever more a part of...and then Israel, which is his end goal, after all.

http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/228459-sen-lieberman-white-house-inching-closer-to-military-response-in-syria

(The Hill) — With the evident failure of an international peace plan designed to end the violence in Syria, recent actions by the Obama administration indicate the White House could be inching toward a military response, a Senate Armed Services Committee member said.

“I think they’re moving toward some more real action,” Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Ct.) told The Hill regarding the White House’s evolving position on Syria.

re:
Excellent observations re: recycling, Bemused. Thanks for giving permission to forward the content.
Posted by: Jema54 at May 20, 2012 1:26 PM

That appeared in my inbox awhile ago but I only got around to posting it now (with just a few little tweaks)

I assume it's been making the rounds of the 'net so long that nobody knows where it came from originally so the permission isn't mine to give.

once again, a pity we can't post pictures...but maybe that's a good thing...

as the old military prayer goes when coming under fire...

"oh Lord, for that which we are about to receive, make us truly grateful"

works for 'bama too..

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rYmjgxIIfaU/T7k1jclTujI/AAAAAAABoao/GtO5tJYhFIk/s1600/ob.jpg

Roger Kimball:

"An agency spokesman who claims to have been responsible for the 'born in Kenya' wheeze has publicly said that it was a mistake, a typographical error, a slip of the pen that just went 'unchecked' for, um, sixteen-seventeen years. I can understand that. She meant to write 'Hawaii' and wrote 'Kenya' instead. Could happen to anyone. They look and sound enough alike, don’t they, that no one noticed. You meant to write 'there' and you wrote 'their' instead. You meant to write 'cup' and you wrote 'floccinaucinihilipilification' instead. No one — no one at the literary agency, not the author himself — could be expected to notice. You understand that, right?"

Kansas Anti-Sharia Bill Awaits Governor's Signature

A bill that would ban Sharia law in Kansas has passed both houses of the legislature and awaits the signature of the governor.

Last week, SB 79 was unanimously approved in the Kansas House by a vote of 120 to 0 and then approved in the State Senate in a vote of 33 to 3.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/kansas-anti-sharia-bill-awaits-governors-signature-75136/

video from 7-11 shows trayvon martin to be not quite the scrawny little kid that the media insisted on putting out the picture of...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ged_UF4uAcI

Undead Breitbart is the best zombie ever!

Look, teaching is not a profession which attracts geniuses. I put this following item down to stupidity more than totalitarianism.

On the other hand, some Scandi country just made home-schooling illegal, IIRC.

Teacher in North Carolina informs student that criticizing Obama is a criminal offense. And she sure does throw a fit.

I loved the sixties Bee Gees.
Robin Gibb, who founded the band, is dead at 62, from cancer.

R.I.P. Robin Gibb.

Cowards for AGW.

"Morris said he hopes the cancellation of their voyage still draws attention to global warming and the melting of the polar ice caps."

...-

"Ice warnings halt U.K. rowers' Atlantic crossing"

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20120520/rowers-olympics-ice-atlantic-crossing-120520/

Thanks for that EBD. One of my sites is opti-grab.ca in honour of the Steve. May I go off the farm now?

Best Shoes and Regards,

PiperPaul