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Photo of a rare and spectacular cloud formation, called a mammatus, that appeared over Regina last Tuesday.

h/t Nag on the lake

EBD,

I have seen several pics of that formation from the 26th. That had to be some interesting wind currents...

Here is another perspective on the heat wave and general mayhem that is happening with the weather, as opposed to the warmmongers I told you so.

"Solar cycle 24 just got started a few days back. The sun announced it with a major solar flare (Big Flare Portends Beginning of Solar Cycle 24)."

“This is the biggest event we’ve seen in a year or so,”

Other than that, nobody knows what is happening, how much, how long. Even the wise guys, the `experts` don't know.

http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/nasa-warns-of-super-solar-storm-2012/

This is a classic reason Women get assaulted in Places like Egypt. Their ignorance of Religion.
Just read how stupid this Women is. There unfortunately will be many more incidences like this. Liberalism is not prone to sanity. They cannot get over the secular mindset.

UK journalist assaulted in Tahrir Square: 'Please make it stop'
From Dan Rivers, CNN

"And they were stunned, 'cause they thought I was going to be so full of hate and so full of fear. But from the very beginning, I don't blame Egypt for this. This is not the workings of the Egyptian people. This is not representative."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/27/world/meast/egypt-journalist-assaulted/index.html

@ Revnant Dream

Surely this has to be Doh muz 101 for jouranistas. n'est-ce pas?

Joe Q,

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303561504577492704004770314.html

I read the article and my first thought was, who the hell is Ann Curry? But Joe has a great point. Why does the press worry so much about important folks and not the rest of us? Heck, I would be happy to retire on a tenth of her pay out.

On this Dominion Day, away with the French Canadian doggerel glorifying treason and Popery that Trudeau shoved down our throats in 1980. Loyal Canadians deserve to sing a better hymn to the nation, remembering their real heritage.

Here's the tune that should be Canada's national anthem (alongside "God Save The Queen"): "The Maple Leaf Forever."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxOhk4Lk9aE

Here's an excerpt (excuse the length) from Dov Fischer's "The Chief Justice Done Good", in which he argues that chief Justice John Roberts drew "an unprecedented red line against Washington wielding the Constitution's Commerce Clause in the future to justify federal intrusion into the personal lives of Americans", and that the ruling "will restrict American Presidents and future Congresses for a generation and more":

There is now a formal United States Supreme Court opinion on the books, overdue by nearly a century, holding that the federal government may not wield the Commerce Clause to impose on American citizens the obligation to buy health insurance or anything else we do not want. An American cannot be compelled by federal mandate to eat or even to buy a proverbial stalk of broccoli. As a kosher consumer, the federal government cannot wield that clause to impose on me an obligation to purchase non-kosher food supplements. The rules guiding lower-court wrestling matches over federal power to invade Americans' private lives now have been reset remarkably by Chief Justice Roberts. Few today notice what he has done. Long after many of us are gone, this 5-4 opinion finally setting limits on the reach of the Commerce Clause will continue to affect American lives and protect private citizens from Washington's intrusions.

It is understandable that most Americans, who are not law school graduates, do not think in these terms, nor do most pundits outside the legal community who interpret news. However, attorneys and certainly law professors get it. We know what happened on Thursday. It was subtle and below the radar, like a tsunami beginning in the middle of an ocean, still days away from the shore. Only the trained insiders know what that rumbling will cause in the future. This was a tsunami, finally giving us our first Supreme Court precedential holding in nearly a century that reins in the federal government's unbridled abuse of the Constitution's Commerce Clause. And the liberals, excited as they understandably are by the temporary survival of ObamaCare, do not even realize what has happened to a pillar of their enterprise. And that is fine.

h/t

A considerable majority of conservative analysts seem to take the opposite view - that the decision is a bad one, and that it sets an appalling precedent - but there's more than a few who, like Fischer, believe that the recent ruling is in fact an anti-big-government Trojan Horse. We'll see, I guess.

Via Weasel Zippers, a 2005 column from Ann Coulter in which she expresses her concern that then-recent Bush appointee John Roberts "has gone through 40 years on this planet without ever saying anything controversial", adding "That's just unnatural."

Brief excerpt:

Conservatism is sweeping the nation, we have a fully functioning alternative media, we're ticked off and ready to avenge Robert Bork ... and Bush nominates a Rorschach blot.

Even as they are losing voters, Democrats don't hesitate to nominate reliable left-wing lunatics like Ruth Bader Ginsburg to lifetime tenure on the high court. And the vast majority of Americans loathe her views.

Steven Goddard:

CRU shows temperatures in Illinois barely rising, at about 0.007 degrees per year since 1850. But it is worse than it seems. Essentially all of the rise occurred before 1930.

Until about 10 years ago, NOAA , GISS and CRU all agreed that the US was not warming. NOAA and GISS decided to correct the problem by tampering with the data….

The whole thing here.

The song is cute...I am assuming that it was recorded prior to the French surrendering to the Germans in WWII, creating Vichey France, and then helpfully rounding up the jews and all other "undesirables", including a number of our downed airmen, and happily handing them over to the nazis.

Fact is...50 million Frenchmen CAN be wrong, and cowards and traitors as well.

But that is something conveniently erased from the history books in France.

Hey it's reader comments, and EBD got me all nostalgic about past singers and songs that were my favorites. So as a return favour, I'll post another classic song. It was written and performed by Gordon Lightfoot (I heard him singing it live in a small venue), and has been re-recorded by a number of other singers, including Elvis, but in my mind, the absolute best version was performed by Peter Paul & Mary.

It was recorded years before WWII, Bruce, but that doesn't really matter because the lyrics are just a bunch of apolitical, vaguely prurient silliness.

RT: The Five Most Un-libertarian Supreme Court Rulings Still standing. Kinda interesting.

h/t

Thanks for the link to the American Thinker, EBD. I read another article at the Ron Paul Daily that said much the same thing, it was entitled 'Chief Justice, Crazy like a Fox'. Judge Roberts gets his dues from the goof who made the Justices his 'target' in his State of the Union Address.

Might anyone know of any good links to accurate stats on the percentage of funds that Planned Parenthood uses for abortions vs. for other activities?

On a 30- something bender.
My musical soft spot, when I put down the punk rock Fender Stratospheric Stratocaster and land to Earth.

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

Yes ABBA courtesy of the 8-track in Dad's 440 Dodge station wagon. 140 MPH on Alberta back roads, not a single crap was given that day.

[quote]I read the article and my first thought was, who the hell is Ann Curry? But Joe has a great point. Why does the press worry so much about important folks and not the rest of us? Heck, I would be happy to retire on a tenth of her pay out.[/quote] Wnmc

Joe is a mental retard. I remember Ann Curry as an over worked goffer on the Today Show... She, more than others, worked herself up an impossible ladder always loyal to NBC... The NBC Today Show is as worthless as it’s Exec Producer...

There are NBC personalities that I would not piss on their best parts; Ann Curry is not in that category. She is good people

How muslims settle disputes.

Neo-AGW Progress Report.

"Such monthly totals would not have been out of place in February," the spokesman said.

Daytime temperatures were typically 1.5-2.5 degrees Celsius below the long-term average in most parts of the country, and the Central England Temperature of 13.6C (56F) was 0.9 degree Celsius below the average for 1981-2010 - the lowest in June since 1991."

"June was wettest since 1860 and dullest for 20 years"

"June was one of the wettest, dullest and coldest on record, according to new figures."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/9368041/June-was-wettest-since-1860-and-dullest-for-20-years.html

UN gets no respect.

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"Conrad Black: The end of Canada’s love affair with the UN"

"It is disappointing that the recent outrageous criticism of Quebec by the United Nations Human Rights Council has not led to a serious debate in Canada about the country’s almost slavish veneration of the United Nations. The basic problem with the UN is that almost no one has used it for what it was ostensibly intended for: To produce equitable co-operation, or at least civilized exchanges, between all the countries of the world. It was devised by Franklin D. Roosevelt to help convince his previously isolationist countrymen that the world was less dangerous than they feared, and to disguise through international organizations and U.S.-directed collegiality the blunt fact that the United States effectively ruled the world except for what was under direct occupation by Stalin’s Red Army."

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/06/30/conrad-black-the-end-of-canadas-love-affair-with-the-un/

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"Mali Islamists destroy more holy Timbuktu sites"

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Al Qaeda-linked Mali Islamists armed with guns and pick-axes continued to destroy ancient mausoleums in the famed city of Timbuktu on Sunday, the second day of attacks on the UNESCO heritage sites, witnesses said."

Happy Canada/Dominion Day to all my Canadian friends here.

I am celebrating it with you this year from Barrhaven, ON.

Cheers!!!

I wish ALL Canadians a Safe and fun filled "Dominion Day" ........er ...... "Canada Day"

Filter-killed yesterday.

The issue isn't so much government per se as 3rd party pay and accompanying moral hazard. But of course, government intervention, even before ObamaCare, reared its ugly head via tax-incentivized employment-linked health 'insurance'.

Here's an excerpt from a 1995 Murray Rothbard piece. It contains some interesting history on government intervention in health care going back to 1910 and some of the reasons for medical care being so expensive that it triggers calls for socialization.

Government Medical 'Insurance'

But the roots of the current medical crisis go back much further than the 1950s and medical insurance. Government intervention into medicine began much earlier, with a watershed in 1910 when the much-celebrated Flexner Report changed the face of American medicine.

Abraham Flexner, an unemployed former owner of a prep school in Kentucky, and sporting neither a medical degree nor any other advanced degree, was commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation to write a study of American medical education. Flexner's only qualification for this job was to be the brother of the powerful Dr. Simon Flexner, indeed a physician and head of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Flexner's report was virtually written in advance by high officials of the American Medical Association, and its advice was quickly taken by every state in the Union.

The result: every medical school and hospital was subjected to licensing by the state, which would turn the power to appoint licensing boards over to the state AMA. The state was supposed to, and did, put out of business all medical schools that were proprietary and profit-making, that admitted blacks and women, and that did not specialize in orthodox, "allopathic" medicine: particularly homeopaths, who were then a substantial part of the medical profession, and a respectable alternative to orthodox allopathy.

The Dutch abandon multiculturalism....

http://my.telegraph.co.uk/riteman/riteway/16309435/the-dutch-abandon-multiculturalism/

This post appeared on Telegraph blog My Telegraph

Be careful how you use it. The source is uncertain.

If true, this is a major developement, though this here correspondent thinks that it is late, the muslim critical mass is established.

Are there enough collective guts to do same in Canada?

EBD at July 1, 2012 12:37 AM

Haven't read the link and won't.
This has gotta be the dumbest argument ever invented by conservatives: that the Roberts ruling drew a red line around government power via the commerce clause. It would have to be described as sheer reality-phobic fantasy thinking: that a "conservative" judge could not be this feckless and stupid; that his behaviour has to be long-seeing and tactically clever, politically.

SHOCKINGLY STUPID.

For, we now have a PRECEDENT which says the government can actually coerce ANY behaviour under the rubric of TAXATION.

NOW, even if this ruling "energizes the base" and the Repubs win congress and the senate it cannot be redeemed by this outcome.

Even with a "red line" around the commerce clause as it stands, this clause is so FAR off its original intention that you must simply laugh at the notion of a red line.
The sheer size and scale of federal power today is living breathing proof of a dead-letter constitution.

Here's a new tagline from one of my favorite movies:

"You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles."

Seems appropriate under the circumstances.

"The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations." - Thomas Jefferson

"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." - Benjamin Franklin

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Benjamin Franklin

"Fifty Million Frenchmen Can`t be Wrong!!"

Guess not!! There would be no USA if it wasn`t for Lafayeyette and Co.

Opps-sorry--that was Lafayette!!

PET Cemetery Report.

Dominion Day & Ralph won't relax.

"Help the Liberals; send them some empties"

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"Why is Ralph Goodale putting pressure on me?

"The veteran Liberal MP is after me to send money to the party. Just a few days ago fellow MP Kirsty Duncan mass-mailed Canadians claiming 10-year-old Bangladeshi children were personally disappointed in Stephen Harper over Canada’s climate change policies. Now Mr. Goodale is following up with offers to let me pick the next Liberal leader if I’ll just send him some cash."

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/07/01/help-send-this-national-political-party-to-summer-camp/

Plainzdrifter we returned the favor twice. Once in 1917, and again in 1944, and we still get that thrown in our face.

To follow the same line of thought, there would be no France without Eisenhower and company...

Robert W. at July 1, 2012 3:44 AM

I have no way of knowing if this is
real, or planned parenthood propaganda.

What Planned Parenthood actually does, in one chart

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/what-planned-parenthood-actually-does/2011/04/06/AFhBPa2C_blog.html

5 truths about Planned Parenthood, abortion giant

http://www.facebook.com/notes/lets-find-1000000-people-against-abortion/5-truths-about-planned-parenthood-abortion-giant/10150172435502327

Licia Corbella's visit to the " Power of Unity" conference. Take note that she was told she was not welcome and forced to leave after a while.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/Corbella+Cleric+prompts+feelings+gratitude+Canada/6866841/story.html

Also,an added bonus,the muslimsofcalgary have put up an unpublished letter to the Herald editor where Licia is called a bigot,and that her information " she found on the internet, apparently hate blogs or forums". Oh my.
Apparently these 'hate blogs' have " third party content that may have been linked to or displayed on their website years ago". Years ago is May 10,2012.

http://www.muslimsofcalgary.ca/data.php?s=5&&ts=14&action=3&id=1965

http://www.ottawasun.com/2012/06/30/only-one-national-day

John Robson has certainly stirred the fires of separatism in this article!

The anti-Canada rage is apparent in the comments of most Quebec respondents,who insist they DO NOT hate Canada, as that isn't sophisticated, but their comments belie their claim.

Bad poet! No "Hero of the Soviet Union" medal for you: http://www.robertwservice.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=312

re. EBD @12:37 - I think I would have preferred it if The Supremes had said "this abuse of the Commerce Clause is unconstitutional, so that makes Obamacare unconstitutional".

Taxes, forsooth.

Well, I would have preferred to it too, Black Mamba. Personally, I think Roberts was either blackmailed, off his meds, was a Trojan Horse nominee, that he spends too much time worrying about public opinion, or...(?)

Just to be clear (and I'm not suggesting that you are unclear on the concept, this is just for the record), when I provide a link to a particular article, whether it's written by Mark Steyn, Heather Mallick, or Sheikh Mohammed "The Decapitator" Lalalalalala, it doesn't mean that I'm touting the viewpoint therein. Generally, when I agree with or am impressed by the viewpoint/reasoning of an article/essay (by, say, Sultan Knish or Mark Steyn) I almost always say so.

The rumour is, he was on his meds. Anti-seizure medication, specifically.

"Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong."

Au contraire, mon frere...