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Dinocrat:

The Republicans are running two decent, intelligent family men with a clear, time-tested plan for revitalizing the economy. The Democrats’ pitch is essentially four-more-years-like-the-last-four-years. So the Democrats, with their media allies, have to change the subject to how horrible, cruel and radical these Republican men really are.

Related: at Breitbart.com, John Nolte's Story The Media Won't Tell: Obama Is Losing.

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Meanwhile, the media is behaving in a manner no less shrill and desperate than their Presidential Master. When the unemployment rate increases, the media tells us that's a good thing. When the economy shrinks from 4.1 to 1.5%, the media still call it "the recovery."

James Delingpole: Mann versus Steyn: popcorn time!

Today I'm launching a fund and I wonder whether anyone would like to contribute. Please, I implore you all, PLEASE chip in to help finance Professor Michael Mann's suit for defamation against sinister, right-wing Canadian climate-change denier Mark Steyn and the fascist-denialist organ for which Steyn writes, National Review Online!

I don't think Mann is going to win his case, not for one fraction of a millisecond. That's why I think it's so important that we give him all the financial encouragement we can at this sensitive early stage. There's a danger that Mann may yet take advice from his lawyers, realise that there's about as much chance of his defending the integrity of his ludicrous, comedy "Hockey Stick" curve as there is of…

The rest here.

Just a quick story about the depths Dems will go to get a vote. Had dinner with the in-laws last night, both Democrats. Before we had dipped a fork, my father in law tells my wife, a new Republican that if Romney wins, he is going to ban IVF. My wife and I have been trying for 5 years to have a baby.

Reduced his own daughter to tears for one vote for THE ONE.

Via Maggie's Farm, this John Hinderaker post at Power Line about the Minnesota Federation of Teachers Union's recent email (heavy on the caps and exclamation marks) sent to all Minneapolis school teachers, calling for a boycott of the Koch Brothers and consumer brands.

Excerpt:

BOYCOTT the ANTI-Union, ANTI-Teacher, ANTI-public education KOCH Brothers!

As many of you know, the very rich KOCH brothers (poster children for the 1 %) are a major funder of the effort to take down unions and public education. They fund TEA party candidates and the far, far right agenda. They truly are trying to take over the government….

The email ended with "Onward!"

Hinderaker:

“Onward”? So these are the people who are teaching our children? Yes, unfortunately. Most people who have a choice leave the Minneapolis public school system by, say, the fourth grade, if not before. These union members deliver their politicized product to a largely captive audience. What must normal people make of teachers who link to a Communist web site (“People’s World”), advocating it as a useful source of information on public policy issues? No wonder most of those who can flee the Minneapolis school system, do.

They've created a whisky from some Shackleton left behind.

It's very, very good. Extremely peaty on the nose, but very smooth and balanced, I was pleasantly surprised.

@Kyle

My wife and I are going on two years , we will go as far as we can except we will not pursue IVF.

We will pray for you and your wife , we feel you're pain. We want four kids plus the one little girl I have now would make it five.

But we will be happy with just one .

Best wishes Kyle , and your father in law sounds like a true liberal!!

Kyle & EBD's posts (@ 10:13 & 10:21pm) are instructive about the mindset of the increasingly deranged Leftist. Everything makes sense once you realize that for them, this November isn't just an "election". Rather, it's a referendum on their religion. From their point of view, the American people will be voting on the legitimacy of their Son of God, whose name is Barack Obama.

They are so incredibly scared that there are too many dumb & evil voters in America right now who simply are much too unenlightened to see the Great New Age that B.O. wishes to usher forth for humanity.

If the Leftist Son of God loses then expect two things in the months following:
- Mass depression
- More than a little violence

I just spent 20 minutes reading the history of the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Wikipedia, and then another 10 minutes reading the history of the Blue Bombers, Stampeders, and Eskimos. What a rich and storied history we Riders have! Maybe just to lighten up the mood around here, or possibly to give the Rider Nation another reason to keep cheering this season, you could post a link to this on Wikipedia?

Diehard fan; Ryan

Good, now I don't feel quite so weird about enjoying him so much at the Edmonton Folkfest a couple of weeks ago:

(Woody Guthrie's) son Arlo, himself a singer-songwriter who picked up his dad’s talent and is a much better musician than his father, is a subject of (Lawrence) Downes’ anger. “Arlo,” he writes, “is a Republican; he endorsed Ron Paul in 2008.” I wrote about this first at the time, and Arlo responded with a comment in PJM’s comments page, pleased that others would learn how he felt about radical Islam (he’s against it) and Obamacare, which he also opposes. Arlo thinks for himself, and this independence is what irks Downes, who thinks Arlo has some obligation to adopt his dad’s outworn politics.

Another day another soviet control scheme put in effect by big government. This time the Oabamacrats are using the mental health system to incarcerate people with dissenting viewpoints.

I’m sure the Dems are using “1984” as a state craft play book.

Free and fair elections are raaacist!

As Jamila Gatlin waited in line at a northside Milwaukee elementary school to cast her ballot June 5 in the proposed recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, she noticed three people in the back of the room. They were watching, taking notes. Officially called 'election observers,' they were white. Gatlin, and almost everyone else in line, was black. "That’s pretty harassing right there, if you ask me," Gatlin said in the hall outside the gym. "Why do we have to be watched while we vote?"

That's right, you honkey-ass mothers, even just standing there quietly drinking a cup of coffee causes the disenfranchisement of black voters:

Voting rights groups say white poll watchers in minority areas can have a disenfranchising impact even if there’s no direct interaction.…

h/t

There is no Muslim Tide.

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/08/17/chris-selley-dont-worry-people-there-is-no-muslim-tide/

Population projections from the Pew Research Center suggest the Muslim population of the European Union might expand from 4.5% in 2010 to 7.1% in 2030. In the United States, the figure might be 1.7%; in Canada, 6.6%. In France, Germany and elsewhere, studies show that the birth rate among Muslims plummets toward the national norm beginning in the second generation.

my father in law tells my wife, a new Republican that if Romney wins, he is going to ban IVF.

Inaccurate, but Ryan did vote for an absurd bill that defines human life beginning at conception and would ban IVF.

Kyle I have friends who had a baby boy born 2 months ago. They never used birth control ever since they are catholic and have been trying for over 6 years. Best of luck to you and your wife!

Sarah Palin and Michelle Malkin and many others think this is important.

http://michellemalkin.com/2012/08/27/floor-fight-grass-roots-activists-battle-attempt-to-rig-gop-convention-delegate-rules/

A change to GOP rules that would allow the candidate to veto the grassroots choice of delegates rather than the delegates choosing the candidate.

It's apparently quite a big deal and they are asking the word be spread quickly as this goes down tomorrow!

The liberal party keeps a mentally incompetent senator in power for months and über partisan Kinsella defends such excreable action - and uses rude tactics in his comment thread to boot. Perhaps he's getting a bit past it like Chris Matthews...

http://m.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1247759--liberal-senator-allowed-to-work-after-being-declared-legally-incompetent

http://warrenkinsella.com/2012/08/leave-joyce-alone-2/

"I just spent 20 minutes reading the history of the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Wikipedia, and then another 10 minutes reading the history of the Blue Bombers, Stampeders, and Eskimos. What a rich and storied history we Riders have! Maybe just to lighten up the mood around here, or possibly to give the Rider Nation another reason to keep cheering this season, you could post a link to this on Wikipedia?"
As the "waterboy" for the Roughies in the late 50's I have some fond memories of those years. Its quite an experience for a 15 year old kid to be around 20-30 year old athletes -in more ways than one.lol Altough I now live in BC I still cheer for the Riders (when they aren't playing the Lions)

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2012/08/gm-suspends-chevy-volt-production-over-slow-sales/1#.UDxLYol5nTo

Via drudge.

More bad news for Obama...

EBD, 10:00p.m. --

I know -- know -- that everybody thinks that the birth certificate thing was funny and all that, including the then/than thing, but I've been worried about it all weekend to the point of distraction. Why couldn't he have said something like, "I was born down the street, at Harper Hospital. And according to my friend, Stephen Harper, who is Prime Minister of Canada, 'I don't care where you've come from, but I do care about where you're going.'" How many easy-peasy preliminary closes do we need to flub? Is Stephen Harper the only conservative politician on the planet who knows how to thread the needle?

Now we find that the tracking polls are diverging (Rasmussen: Obama +3 and Gallup: Romney +1; plus in the swing states, according to powerlineblog.com, Rasmussen has it 48-44 for Obama). We had a nice little Romney +2 thing emerging between the two tracking polls last week, with other polls converging, which was very comfortable.

Between the birth certificate thing and Isaac, I'd say we've lost two weeks.

Congratulations to Rider fans for their new found literacy!

I'm in Winnipeg, where the Bombers are stinking up the place and have fired the coach over the weekend. Teasing Rider fans is all we have right now.

ET should have fun with this one:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/26/Obama-email-if-I-lose-your-fault

Meanwhile in the smartphone patent wars.

Samsung shares shed $12-billion on fears of U.S. ban

And Apple shares soared by 12.46% to close at $675.68 today.

At that price, it costs more today to buy one share of Apple Computer stock than it cost to buy an Apple One motherboard back in 1976. Check the price in the ad - $666.66

Sweet Jesus.

"Too few Americans turn to government for assistance."

http://washingtonexaminer.com/feds-too-few-americans-turn-to-government-for-assistance/article/2506052#.UDxQA6O05ga

my father in law tells my wife, a new Republican that if Romney wins, he is going to ban IVF.

LAS says: Inaccurate, but Ryan did vote for an absurd bill that defines human life beginning at conception and would ban IVF.

LAS, what you said is also inaccurate:

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/08/15/marni-soupcoff-distortion-overtakes-ryans-ivf-proposal/

Nice try, though.

Fair enough Shamrock.

Now we find that the tracking polls are diverging (Rasmussen: Obama +3 and Gallup: Romney +1; plus in the swing states, according to powerlineblog.com, Rasmussen has it 48-44 for Obama). We had a nice little Romney +2 thing emerging between the two tracking polls last week, with other polls converging, which was very comfortable.

There's good reason most people believe Obama will be re-elected. Because he probably will be. GOP nominated another loser.

...and you leave the impresion that that amuses you las...tee-hee.

Of O's EVs.

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"You can think of the Volt as the ultimate in flex-fuel. It runs 30% on coal, 40% on natural gas, 9% each for nuclear and hydropower. Of course, the overhead losses in generation, distribution, conversion, and storage are immense.

It is also worth noting that the current Administration is against coal, natural gas, nuclear power and dams."

"11. cthulhu"

http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/08/27/electric-dreams/#comments

I heard there is a new show that NBC is going to run that uses the back drop of a new normal as the premise of this sitcom.
Getting right to the point, anyone recall the last time that a pregnancy resulted from the consummation of a homosexual union?
Guess because such a thing isn't possible, it cannot be defined as normal.
That's just natural law, legal fictions be damned.

David Southam - expect to see a repeat of the coverage of polls before the Carter/Reagan election. "All the polls" had it as close, or a slight Carter lead. The results of the election weren't even close, and the news agencies knew that if they wanted to have any kind of trust afterwards that they couldn't try to say "it looks like Carter is going to win" the day before.

Alberta's last election showed the value of polls. Bet to use them as wipes.

Actually: BEST to use them as wipes.

MSM omits the word: Liberal.
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"Senator's wife to appear in domestic violence court
CTV News - ‎44 minutes ago‎
SASKATOON - The 23-year-old wife of a 69-year-old Manitoba senator will appear in domestic violence court today in Saskatoon. Maygan Sensenberger was released on bail Monday on conditions including that she not have contact with her husband of one year ...
Related Saskatoon » Maygan Sensenberger » Rod Zimmer »
Zimmer's wife charged with disturbance on planeMacleans.ca
Senator's wife often got upset about health of much older husband: grandmotherMontreal Gazette"

http://news.google.ca/

Another sign the world has too many reporters.

Justin Trudeau describes his 10 favourite swims.

Yes, that's right. Someone at Macleans thought it would be worth an article at Canada's only national news magazine about the 10 best times Justin Trudeau has gone swimming.

http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/08/27/justin-trudeau-on-10-of-his-favourite-swims/

Merkel: Ich Bin Ein Snags.

Red-Green's Verworts Into The Future Kaput.

"Germany's switch to renewables has hit some snags."

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"Germany Hits Brakes on Race to Renewable Energy Future"

"The share of renewable energies in Germany's power mix has shot up so high that the electricity grid and the subsidy framework has been unable to keep up. Now, the government wants to slow down the process. German commentators say that the current chaos endangers the entire project."

"Now a new set of problems have cropped up, and quickly. The fast pace into the renewables future has meant that German consumers are faced with skyrocketing electricity bills and that the country's energy grid has suddenly become outdated. Indeed, Environment Minister Peter Altmaier now finds himself in the awkward position of having to put the brakes on the country's energy revolution.

Projects at a Standstill"

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-addresses-problems-with-renewable-energy-subsidy-system-a-852549.html

LAS, could you explain why it is absurd to believe that human (or other) life begins at conception?

A few questions;

What's the point of an electric car, which can run only for about 40 miles before it needs other-energy (gas) input? And, after all, its electric energy comes from yet another energy source.

I agree, David Southam, the GOP campaign will be behind two weeks, but it's all due to Isaac.

I think the 'birther' is trivial; he shouldn't have said it; it appealed only to a marginal set of doubters about Obama, but the real doubt about Obama has to be his handling of the economy. There will be other glitches on both sides.

It's vital that the GOP handle Isaac in an emotional manner; that's the only way the can handle it since they, unlike Obama, have no governmental power to assist people. So, their role has to be Romney has involved; he should even take a side trip there. Before Obama gets there.

Scott Paulsen of CBS reviews the movie "2016"

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/08/17/2016-obamas-america-movie-is-disturbingly-necessary/#blogbio

No no ET leftists believe it's EXTREME to believe that lives begins at conception. So much for "science".

Looks like St. Pancake's case fell flat...

Sorry for being callus, but encouraging this sort of "peace protest" is not a good idea. A civil rights freedom rider Corrie was not.

james, yes, I know that the left considers such an extremist view, but, they don't explain why they reject the FACT that life begins at conception.

LAS considers such a view absurd; he said it; it's up to him to explain why believing that life begins at conception is 'absurd'. Of course, when one challenges LAS at any time about his opinions, he always flees and refuses to be accountable for those same opinions.

As The Liberal Life Turns.

MSM shuns "Liberal" again.

Liberal arithmetic: 3x23=69.

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"She’s 23. He’s 69. What gives?"

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/shes-23-hes-69-what-gives/article4504707/

Of Germany's Original Red-Green Era.

"33. Annoy Mouse

The Volt is proof that communism does not work. When the batteries are shot the Volt will have less resale value than the Lada or the Yugo. So yugo buya lada volts."

http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/08/27/electric-dreams/#comments

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"Go Trabi Go!

German Show Gives Stage to Communist-Era Cars"

"A show over the weekend in Saxony offered a glimpse at around 550 vintage cars produced between 1949 and 1990 in socialist countries in Eastern Europe. The event offered an increasingly rare glimpse of life 20 years ago."

"Photos"

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/german-show-gives-stage-to-communist-era-cars-a-852339.html

MSM now loves this Liberal stomach-turner.

This is more better than the Helena Guergis/Jaffer soap.

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"Liberal senator’s wife no longer charged with endangering aircraft, but uttering threats charge added"

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/08/28/liberal-senators-wife-no-longer-charged-with-endangering-aircraft-but-uttering-threats-charge-added/

David (12:45 AM):

I have a different take than yours on Romney's remark (quip) --

"No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that (Michigan) is the place where I was born and raised."

He was, in my opinion, not raising the "birther" issue but was rather broaching the topic of the very real existence of questions about Obama's past, i.e., of the fact that it's even possible for so many people to have so many questions about this most public of public figure in ways that have nothing to do with his place of birth. Romney has consistently and repeatedly stated that he believes Obama was born in America, and that, to him, the "birther" issue is completely closed, and a non-issue. His little joke, such as it was, was making reference to the fact that his own life is, unlike Obama's, the proverbial open book, a matter of public record, and is therefore not subject to (such ridiculous, is the underlying point, in light of his previous clarification of his own views on the "birther" issue) speculation. He was just saying "You know who *I* am; there's no need to wonder or speculate about which parts of my biography are true or not."

The very existence - persistence - of these questions about Obama's past, and the fact that it's even possible for so many quotidian, should-be-factual details about a President to be missing is, IMO, the issue he was referring to, and he not only has every right to raise the issue, but he probably should raise the issue in a variety of subtle ways. One of the reasons that America has been in an unmistakably a state of decline -- social decline that is now quite ominously affecting electoral politics -- has to do with the left's success in being allowed to set up an uncrossable lattice of electrified social trip-wires charged up with "racism!" that, if you're not very, very careful to step gently over, will release the hounds of hell on your soon-to-be-apologetic ass. This state of affairs allows the left to get away scot-free on scores of different fronts that have nothing to do with race. Opposed to massive, unprecedented illegal immigration? Racist. Opposed to Obama's dismantling of welfare reform? Racist. Opposed to the federal government rolling out ad campaigns encouraging, inveigling people to go on food stamps, specifically targeting those people who don't think they actually need them? Racist. Do you merely notice that the President is an incompetent, narcissistic, quasi-communist who's bankrupting the country, and has no plan? Racist. Do you believe in the requirement of voter ID to prevent electoral fraud? Racist. Want to volunteer as a poll watcher to ensure free and fair elections? Racist.

It's at the point where even making passing, sideways reference to Obama's most obvious character defect -- his jive-ass, essentially fabricated public persona -- is supposed to be "off limits", under penalty of hyperventilation and shrieking news-cycle accusations. This has to stop somewhere, and there's no better place to start than with his opponent in the presidential race.

Let me put it this way, David: if a white Democratic president -- let's call him Liam C. MacMurtry -- had all of Obama's past associations with known radicals/terrorists, and had the same dodginess, and sneering narcissism, and incompetence, and contempt for the American people, and, more to the point here, had bald-assed lied about his past as much as Obama has (remember, for example, that it was Obama himself who claimed to be a foreign student when it suited his autohagiographic myth-building), I don't think that a quip made by his Presidential rival that made passing comment on the fact that it's even possible for there to be so much uncertainty about MacMurtry's background would cause even the slightest gasp, let alone hyperventilation or excessive concern, on the part of conservatives/Republicans.

As for the polls, I don't necessarily trust them. I think that on election day there are going to be more people motivated to save the country by booting Obama out than there are people motivated to give him four more years. It's a lot easier to pick up the phone and answer a pollster's question, or to hit a button on your phone, than it is to walk/drive to a poll on election day.

If the polls are tied a few days before the election I think Romney would win by a comfortable (maybe 3%) margin, but...we'll see.

If you pour a Scotsman a wee stiff dram or two he'll bend your ear at length, and if you keep pouring he will probably bust up the place in a brawl...
Been there. Done that.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/08/28/liberal-senators-wife-no-longer-charged-with-endangering-aircraft-but-uttering-threats-charge-added/

methinks the argument was he wouldnt support her career as a gold digger.

needs lessons from Olivia Chow.

Mao Stlong* Lepolt.

How many turips you wan? You wan pails of warnuts?

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"Chinese turn backs on stock market, invest in walnuts instead"

"BEIJING — China is trying hard to revive interest in its ailing stock market, but some investors are instead shelling out big money on an asset they can hold in the palms of their hands — walnuts.

With more traditional investments like stocks and property offering only small, or sometimes negative, returns over the last few years, a market in so-called “cultural playthings” has sprouted up, sending prices for large walnuts, for instance, into the tens of thousands of dollars.

Look how well these have aged. Playing with these kinds of walnuts isn’t for ordinary people

Once the toys of China’s imperial court, the walnuts — which when rotated in one’s palm are thought to stimulate blood circulation — are making a comeback among the wealthy, some of whom see them as not only a place to put their cash, but as a distinctly Chinese status symbol.

The bigger, older and more symmetrical, the better, says collector Kou Baojun in Beijing, who owns over 30 pairs of walnuts, most of which are over a century old and have taken on a reddish shine from years of polishing in the palm.

“Look how well these have aged. Playing with these kinds of walnuts isn’t for ordinary people,” Kou said."

http://business.financialpost.com/2012/08/28/chinese-turn-backs-on-stock-market-invest-in-walnuts-instead/

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"*Tulip Mania"

"Tulip mania (or tulipomania) was an extraordinary period in Dutch history (around 1620 to 1637) when speculation in tulip bulbs went wild. The prices went up to astronomical levels (up to the equivalent of $US2 million per bulb!) before the bubble burst in February 1637."

http://www.squidoo.com/tulip-mania

*See ex-Liberal leader Bob Rae.

Mao Stlong* Lepolt.

How many turips you wan? You wan pails of warnuts?

...-

"Chinese turn backs on stock market, invest in walnuts instead"

"BEIJING — China is trying hard to revive interest in its ailing stock market, but some investors are instead shelling out big money on an asset they can hold in the palms of their hands — walnuts.

With more traditional investments like stocks and property offering only small, or sometimes negative, returns over the last few years, a market in so-called “cultural playthings” has sprouted up, sending prices for large walnuts, for instance, into the tens of thousands of dollars.

Look how well these have aged. Playing with these kinds of walnuts isn’t for ordinary people

Once the toys of China’s imperial court, the walnuts — which when rotated in one’s palm are thought to stimulate blood circulation — are making a comeback among the wealthy, some of whom see them as not only a place to put their cash, but as a distinctly Chinese status symbol.

The bigger, older and more symmetrical, the better, says collector Kou Baojun in Beijing, who owns over 30 pairs of walnuts, most of which are over a century old and have taken on a reddish shine from years of polishing in the palm.

“Look how well these have aged. Playing with these kinds of walnuts isn’t for ordinary people,” Kou said."

http://business.financialpost.com/2012/08/28/chinese-turn-backs-on-stock-market-invest-in-walnuts-instead/

...-

"*Tulip Mania"

"Tulip mania (or tulipomania) was an extraordinary period in Dutch history (around 1620 to 1637) when speculation in tulip bulbs went wild. The prices went up to astronomical levels (up to the equivalent of $US2 million per bulb!) before the bubble burst in February 1637."

http://www.squidoo.com/tulip-mania

*See ex-Liberal leader Bob Rae.