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Ed Driscoll's "Al Gore's Mansion Could Not Be Reached for Comment":

Now is the time we juxtapose, Small Dead Animals-style:

New York Times Asks: Should Air-Conditioning ‘Be Rationed Away?’

Newsbusters, June 25, 2012.

“In full view of bemused tourists and other passers-by, workers yesterday performed what looked like a comedy routine: They hoisted a standard room air conditioner to a side window of one of [Mayor Bloomberg’s] SUVs parked in the City Hall lot to see if it would fit.”

h/t Maggie's Farm

There are "certain people" who have not recalled history and have forgotten that a tyrant attempted to impose unreasonable taxes and was overthrown by gunfire.

Absolutely, James, but many others haven't forgotten, and know full well that this is the most important year -- and most important November -- in recent history, or maybe ever.

Here's to our American friends, and their battles to come. The second verse says it all.

Does spanking cause mental illness?

Opposing Views ... has a piece on this theme.

Go to town..........

Related to the July 2, 2012 posting ("It's Probably Nothing" on the US Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) there was no mention of how Canada did.

The Canadian PMI was just released this morning, and Canada's PMI came in at 54.8 (indicating expansion), the highest level in 9 months. This compared to 49.7 (indicating contraction) in US.

"The headline RBC PMI - a composite indicator designed to provide a single-figure snapshot of the health of the manufacturing sector - indicated a further strong improvement in Canadian manufacturing business conditions in June. At 54.8, up fractionally from 54.7 in May, the RBC PMI recorded the strongest improvement since September 2011."

http://www.rbc.com/newsroom/pmi/2012/0703-12-pmi.html

You can compare to the other global PMI numbers here:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/june-global-pmi-summary-euro-area-slowdown-beginning-impact-rest-world

Short version: Canada is doing very well so far.

Insert snide remark on "Dutch Disease" here...

5 Questions for the Higgs Boson Particle
An Exclusive Interview

http://www.borowitzreport.com/2012/07/03/5-questions-for-the-higgs-boson-particle/

Thanks for that vid, and the beautiful anthem. I am proud to be Canadian, but I am also proud of my American ancestry, celebrated Independence Day many times as a kid.
God Bless America!

EBD I'm not really sure it's the land of the free or the courageous or brave, more like the land of the MSM terrified confused people.
Sad but they are figuring out, albeit slowly, that the Liberal types are not their friends.
I have hope that there will be a change in November (and yes I came up with that)

So since I'm dropping music lately, here's one from my old friends, The Offspring.

Punk rock warning, fast rock, blink and miss the message.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_LxyhCJpsM

You're gonna far, kid, Obama.

D

While waiting for my comment to be freed from purgatory ... now doubt due to the embedded link ... I am reminded when I hear of the Mulberrie's Dutch Disease ... of an entirely non PEECEE joke.

Q- Why did the Dutch invent wooden shoes?
A- To keep the woodpeckers off their heads!

C'mon ....

Video posted early in error by CERN. "We've observed a new particle"

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100168877/something-like-the-higgs-boson-has-been-found-probably/

From the Telegraph article:

"Edit: Cern say that this is one of several videos they have made, one for each of the possible outcomes, as though it's a presidential election and they've written one speech for victory and one for defeat. That sounds a bit odd to me, but I dare say all shall become clear tomorrow. I've quickly taken down what the Cern press officer said to me over the phone: see bottom of the story."

We'll find out tomorrow if they really did record several videos.

Guy's lucky that abject stupidity isn't a capital offence:

The largest wildfire burning in Arizona was started during a bachelor party when one shotgun-toting celebrant fired a shell that promises to shoot “100 feet of fire, setting everything in its path ablaze…"

It turns out that John Roberts may have written both the majority opinion on the Individual Mandate and most of the dissent. How do you spell schizophrenia:

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/03/roberts_wrote_both_obamacare_opinions/

There's a valid concern that the judge's 'maintenance medication' rendered him incapable of sound judgement.

[quote]It turns out that John Roberts may have written both the majority opinion on the Individual Mandate and most of the dissent. How do you spell schizophrenia:[/quote]MJ

Well he has had more than > 2 stokes (seizures) of an unknown reason...That has a medical label.....but GW Bush should have Known... The vetting AG is an equally funny fellow.....

Corruption by the numbers

http://www.usa-flag-site.org/song-lyrics/star-spangled-banner.shtml

The Star Spangled Banner Lyrics
By Francis Scott Key 1814

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Cheers

Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

@OMMAG - waiting for my comment to be freed from purgatory

Try reposting with a shortened link. ( use the bit.ly URL shortening site)

I'm not sure if this really belongs here, but I have to get it off my chest.

My sister is in town for a few day this summer and seeing as see teaches at a university in Quebec I asked her opinion on the students protesting/rioting over tuition increases. Keeping in mind that my sister is a hard left NDP-dyed-in-the-wool-Socialist guess who she blamed for the entire issue? Yep, she blamed the Jews.

She started by explaining to me me that Jews don't leave their money to the Synagogue they leave their money to universities and hospitals when they die. Money the Jews got from exploiting the French Canadians in Quebec, she added.

Next she explained how at one time only white, English speaking people were allowed to go to university in Quebec. When the universities were finally opened up to French speaking Canadians there was a promise that tuition would eventually be free as a reparation for how the university's Jewish benefactors supposedly exploited the French. When tuition was raised rather than lowered this angered the French and they took to the streets.

I can testify that we were not raised by antisemitic parents, quite the opposite, in fact. I was completely blown away that my sister would ever say such things. I don't know what to make of it, but it is disturbing as I know her twisted logic is a result of 30 plus years in the universities.

Foobert, I actually wee-weeeced it already, as Barbara Walters would say. (It's at 10:30 PM)

The shortened links help, but in this case, like so many, the problem was the dreaded "&" in the live-linked URL, which will always elbow a comment to the filter.

The "&" almost always appears in the non-essential extras part of a URL string, so if someone wants to live-link a YouTube video (for example) one can simply remove the "&" and everything to the right of it.

Schocked - I can only tell you that I am so glad that none of my grandchildren are being taught by your sister. Problem is though, that they are being taught by others who actually think and believe like she does. Nothing personal re your sister but that whole Quebec student thing is so sad.

Time for the rest of Canada to have a referendum, me thinks.

To Uncle Sam--hats off from Canada!!

God Bless!

This is a rather touching tribute to America. Happy Birthday Greetings to the homeland of my MANY American friends!!!

God bless the USA and be with her this fall as her citizens choose beteen Marxist socialism and freedom.

For Lew in Tampa.

Shocked, this state of affairs is due to Stalin's people infiltrating our universities in the 1950s.

Happy Independence Day! to all patriotic Americans. Oh, and to Obama.

Sorry, couldn't resist the easy shot.

shocked: maybe she's adopted?

http://www.winnipegsun.com/2012/07/03/asessippi-biz-owner-has-sinking-feeling

A severe highway collapse in western Manitoba has cut off all its access midway between the major towns of Russell and Roblin, and is sinking prospects for businesses that rely on the heavily travelled route — especially as summer traffic heats up.

....The section of the highway — approximately 200 metres long — broke apart dramatically, falling at least five metres and resembling what some describe as the aftermath of an earthquake.....

Happy Independence Day

Martina McBride's version of The Star Spangled Banner. Yes, I love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RrJMDsToB0&list=FLkNf8o-ad2osEl7JtS1_7XA&index=287

Happy Birthday, America!

Some basic principles of economics and life:

An economy consists of all acts of production, trade and consumption performed by individuals. Trade means voluntary trade enacted for mutual benefit.

Life is not a scenario in which one person getting ahead means another falling behind. There is not a fixed amount of wealth in the world.

"People, not profits" is as vicious a slogan as there is. The proper concept is, "Profits and people: both or neither".

ALL progress derives from the efforts of those who use their minds to find ways of making more, or better, or cheaper goods and services.

The crucial ingredient of the free market economy is the ability of individuals to judge the value of all items available. This enables trade for mutual benefit. It is nullified by government price-fixing, subsidies to business, and numerous other interventions that distort the market to the detriment of individual decision-making.

The only difference between government and the private sector is that the government can use coercion. It has a monopoly on coercion because its proper function is to step in when individuals violate the fundamental moral principle of a civilized society, namely that no person has the right to initiate the use of force or fraud on any other person.

Coercion does not create, discover or produce. Government intervention cannot help the economy. Only the individual is capable of looking after his own life.

Government officials have no special insight into societal problems and no magic wands to wave to solve them. If they had, the problems would have been solved long ago. Moreover, due to the coercive nature of taxation, government officials are often protected from suffering the consequences of their decisions should they be suboptimal, which is far less likely in the private sector.

High government spending eats away at capital rather than allowing savings to accumulate, which would be invested in future production. Taxes and regulation are the twin destroyers of the modern economy.

The redistribution of wealth, i.e, robbing Peter to pay Paul, is not a valid notion upon which to build a just, civilized society.

It is not a sin to have no interest in business, but artists and others should not bite the hand that feeds them.

The pursuit of happiness is the moral birthright of all men and women. All anyone really has to do in life is to find a productive career that they enjoy, or to find a useful career they can do well while having their major life interests on the side as a hobby or other pursuit.

Please refer to the works of Ayn Rand for full details.

And please remember this in November.

Here is a link to a video that explains Agenda21 i clear ominous words - surprise! surprise! Boob rahy's unca mo stlong is the 'hero'.

I wonder if Alta's gal Al was typing for her hero?

http://www.dailypaul.com/243001/agenda-21-yet-again-i-read-something-in-the-comment-section-of-dp-that-opened-my-eyes

RALEIGH, N.C. – A House Democrat says she voted mistakenly to override Gov. Beverly Perdue's veto of a bill that authorizes fracking in North Carolina but was told she couldn't change it because the outcome would have changed.

Rep. Becky Carney of Charlotte says she pushed the green button at her desk Monday night to vote to override the vote before realizing she wanted to vote red, or "no."

Governor Beverly Perdue (D-NC) should suspended women voters until the economy improves.

My last post was a bit rude, Trust me my attitude gets me in all sorts of trouble...
America thank you for the LIBERTY that the rest of the planet seems to be taking for granted these days.
Thank you for freedom of speech. and the fact that I HAVE an Internet to opinion on.
Thank you for being yourselves.
Fly your flags and be proud, you DESERVE IT.

Dwright

A California woman pursuing artificial insemination is suing the federal government for the right to choose how she'll get the sperm.

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If we refuse to donate sperm to Obamacare,
Will the government come take it?

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/03/woman-sues-fda-for-right-to-select-sperm-donor/?test=latestnews#ixzz1zdjX0K9P

And last but not EVER least,
Thank you for having a Constitution worth fighting for.

Dale

Fearless Leader, I don't know, are they going to take it orally?
Or hire a hooker.
Or just brainwash a Liberal sycophant to juice the milk pole....
Not that, never, mind nasty, etc.
D

Happy Independence Day American cousins, and may God bless America.

Thanks to all for the kind words about my country, and, hey, look, Google actually has an Independence Day theme on its site today! Small Dead Animals really does get results!

It's nice that the patriotic kids at Google are celebrating the nation's 236th birthday with a citation of the 111th anniversiary of the longest covered bridge.

HAPPY 4th OF JULY, American friends!

I hope you "rise up as of old" this November. We need a strong United States of America. Without it, the world is a darker, much more dangerous place.

God bless (the real) America!

God bless the United States of America -- and return it to sanity and stable government in November!

Happy July 4th to all of SDA's American readers! Keep the faith, hang in there, and pray ...

Celebrities who are Scientologists:

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/07/03/celebrity-scientologists

Is it just me, or do most of them look like earth plants by aliens?

"Next she explained how at one time only white, English speaking people were allowed to go to university in Quebec."

Shocked, perhaps you might ask your sister how it is that Université Laval was the first institution of higher learning in Canada (1663), founded before there even were any English-speaking people around?

And if, as she claims, only white, English-speaking people were allowed to go to university in Québec, how does she explain that Laval received its university charter from no less than Queen Victoria in 1852?

Anyway, enough of that nonsense!

À tous mes amis américains et à toutes mes amies américaines, je vous souhaite:

Happy Fourth of July!

I salute the USA on their birthday.....or rather half of the people in the USA as the other half seem to be liberal, progressives, etc. I don't get how these people see things as they do....sure the schools and mostly universities preach leftist b.s. but hey man/woman do you have a brain?

Note to Americans: Don't let the Obamaites take over your country this November...if you do, I fear for your outcome.

Fred (RT) asks : "Any one want to buy a windmill or a solar panel?"

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"Acciona officials have said they are not deterred by public opposition or talk of a moratorium, and that the project is in its early stages and several years away from startup."

"Kings County puts hold on wind farms"

"KENTVILLE — Large-scale wind farms will not be permitted anywhere in Kings County, at least not in the near future while county council reviews the issues around the developments.

Council voted 10-1 at its regular monthly meeting Tuesday to rescind its bylaw that would have allowed developers to erect wind turbines as long as they were 700 metres from the nearest dwelling.

Coun. Dick Killam said the vote was an example of democracy in action, as residents have expressed the clear message that they don’t want wind turbines in their communities.

“Simply put, the current wind turbine bylaw is flawed,” Killam said. “Our municipality has to demonstrate due diligence on this issue.

“We are open for business, but we want the right kind of business.”

He said municipalities and the province must do more research before allowing large-scale wind farms into rural communities."

http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/113384-kings-county-puts-hold-on-wind-farms

A flaw in a liberal mind: They believe in Perpetual Motion Machines.

Thermodynamics for them is too hard, takes too much effort to comprehend.

Leftist Report.

Who was the most frequent foreign visitor/weekender at the Clinton White House?

"Yasser Arafat's body may be exhumed over poison claim
Toronto Star"

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"Unlike Clinton, whose most frequent foreign visitor to the White House (13 times!) was Yasser Arafat, Sharansky has stressed the importance of human rights and democracy as a ..."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/clinton-reinvents-israel_594067.html

Since Quebec's permanent parasitic condition has been noticed in another thread, here's an example of their ingenuity to get off the dole.

http://news.sympatico.cbc.ca/canada/quebec_revives_asbestos_mine_with_58m_loan/ae6e4ae3

An interesting note here is that this Quebec loan was announced last Friday PM and we have not heard one little squeak out of NDP Mulcair's Mouth that Roared over Alberta's Oilsands about it.

Or does Tommy the Commy run out of balls when it comes to critizing Quebec?

Happy 4th of July to all my American cousins!

The Decline of the American Empire.

Town in Oregon cancels July 4 fireworks show out of fear of scaring the seagulls.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/03/oregon-fireworks-show-reportedly-canceled-due-to-sea-birds-concerns/

I too would like to wish our American friends happy Independence day. Best neighbors on the planet.

Elvis sings the American Trilogy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=nkjgn6bPuWo

"When I read those traders' emails, 'I got physically ill': Barclays CEO"

"Former head of Britain's third biggest bank admitted to MPs today that there was "reprehensible behaviour" by some employees at the bank in the interest rate rigging scandal. Here are the highlights of his testimony"

http://www.financialpost.com/index.html

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"No let up in gloom for Europe’s big economies"

"All of Europe’s biggest economies are in recession or heading there and there is little sign things will improve soon, surveys showed on Wednesday, backing a growing view the region’s major central banks are poised to ease policy this week."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/european-business/no-let-up-in-gloom-for-europes-big-economies/article4387915/