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Unexamined self-hatred plus emotional incontinence equals a cogent argument. Apparently.

Via Drudge

The Charlotte Observer:

A Raleigh-based group devoted to reducing the potential for voter fraud presented the N.C. Board of Elections on Friday with a list of nearly 30,000 names of dead people statewide who are still registered to vote.

The Voter Integrity Project compiled the list after obtaining death records from the state Department of Public Health from 2002 to March 31 and comparing them to the voter rolls.

“Mainly, what we’re concerned about is the potential [for fraud],” said project director Jay DeLancy. “Since there is no voter ID law in North Carolina, anybody can walk in and claim to be anyone else.”

Yes. One could, for example, vote numerous times by going to different polling stations on election night and using the names of dead people from the local list of eligible voters.

  Jingle of the Jungle

That's this week in Charlotte, right?
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Rob Ford said he would not attend.
Alison Redford did attend. Why would she ? I don't think it was a good political move on her part unless there's more gays and lesbians in alberta than I'm thinking.

Usually I try to avoid syrupy sweet stories like this (seen at Instapundit today).
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EBD, the MSNBC host has the Soledad O'Brien syndrome. Somebody, please commit her for psychiatric evaluation. On the other hand, I wonder how much SHE is being paid to spin out like that?

Warning a Christian view article:

Conscience Cause

Religious Liberty & the Affordable Care Act

by Daniel McConchie & Anna Franzonello

http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=25-05-008-c

re. EBD @ 10:05 - I love Bob Franken's apparent assumption that the rich, with their multiple "vacation homes" and "private jets", pay no taxes whatsoever.

Re: Jingle of the jungle.

Thanx--and bye the bye--there is a way of removing those pops and scratches from the sound tacks of 45s, 78s and 33.3 vinyl!

http://www.enhancedaudio.com/scratchy_records.htm

Did anyone know that it's normal for people to buy the President a mansion after he leaves office? Because I did not know that.

Related.

BTW, re. the second photo down: Sure, I could mock Michelle's blouse. Or I could remind people of this.

I think it's awesome that B. Hussien is planning on moving in 2013. If Mr. Soros was giving this house to B. Hussien with no further exchange of money, I'll just walk away from the conversation and thank God that he's already planned the move.

There comes a time when we just count our blessings.

Mamba, even worse than Obama's contemptuous "YOU didn't build that!" was Elizabeth Warren's tirade on the same subject. I'm hoping that the Romney campaign re-plays those video clips again and again in ads, first Warren, then Obama. The Democrats' talking heads all seem to use the same sound bites, following The Script.

That house in Hawaii is quite a payoff for four years, eh?

Would this be the England you remember?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-19456928

For those who care (and I realize I'm risking a mighty tongue-lashing for bringing this up), have a look at:

http://www.thespec.com/opinion/article/790558--ottawa-shamefully-silent-on-pq-plans

for a (very) little comic relief about the Quebec election (and why not to follow the media's advice on anything).

So Justin Trudeau, who is some sort of "leader" in Ottawa ("Trudeau and the whole Ottawa crew"), should shout out another "leonine denunciation of the fantasy social agenda he fancifully constructed for Harper"? Who knew?

With the Quebec vote about to healthily splinter, which is a hugely positive development for all concerned, both inside and outside Quebec, for the first time in my political memory, why don't we just have Justin intervene to screw that up? Brilliant! And with a knock against Stephen Harper's "hidden" social agenda, at that. Double brilliant!

The central Canadian media death watch continues (I'd be happy to take the next couple of hours).

Tonight's song reminds me of that old hit by Danny
Kaye and the Andrews Sisters- Bongo bongo bongo I don't want to leave the Congo.
It could be Obama's theme song at this week's DNC

And while we're on the subject of bad advice, have a look at:

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Desmond+Tutu+says+Bush+Blair+should+face+trial+International/7180672/story.html

Well past his sell-by date, Desmond Tutu should make like Kofi Annan and Snagglepuss and exit, stage right. Sadly, he has become a caricature of everything that is wrong with the Anglican Church, right down to the anti-capitalism.

The Syrian civil war is plainly the fault of Barack Obama, for repudiating the Bush Doctrine: if Obama had show something other than indifference to the responsibilities of his office, the whole thing would be over by now.

Rain washed away Mount Obama.

David Southam, a key problem with Quebec, I suggest, is that it is locked into an economic relationship of dependency on the ROC. This relation is entirely its own choice and its own doing.

It has devolved to a situation where it exists within an independence of culture, defined as a rejection of others, and an overwhelming economic dependence on others.

It has refused to develop its own economic strength and self-responsibility. It has instead focused on offering its population a socialist lifestyle that is economically dependent on billions in extra revenue from the ROC. These revenues come via special economic privileges within the federation such as dairy rights, on deliberate head office locations in Montreal, on federal offices located in Quebwec, on manufacturing subsidies (Bombardier), on a high ratio of federally funded universities in Quebec and on bilingualism - which ensures employment for their educated class.

This economy, which is generated not by Quebec but by the federal government is then linked to the 'other economy' within Quebec, its black market.

Thus, Quebec deliberately has chosen a dependent economy. To then declare independence of culture, while living within economic dependence - is insane.

black mamba, yes, it's interesting that Obama's friends are buying him a 35 million Hawaii house to move to after the election.

http://hillbuzz.org/the-obamas-already-preparing-for-move-to-hawaii-in-january-2013-hyde-park-neighbors-talking-about-chicago-house-being-sold-soon-63935

I think this should be publicized. As others have said, it is hard for people to vote against Obama because to do so suggests they were wrong to do so in 2008 or, heh, are now racist. As Clint Eastwood pointed out, he too 'wept with joy for Obama' in 2008, but, it's OK now, to let him go. So, an image of a palatial mansion for Obama, bought by others (you didn't build that, Obama!), might help ease the guilt.

There's still a lot of work to do. The GOP have to lay out their plan in clear and simple terms. They have to make it easy and positive for people to reject Obama. They are right to make it, not a campaign against Obama, but, to 'let him go'.

"The people who decided to make Obama popular did so through constant repetition that translated into the peer pressure of the trend. Obama became a trending topic and everyone followed along because in an unreal world, you follow the unreal leader.

Obama is fake, his popularity is fake, but it's also real, because fake is now the ultimate reality. The purveyors of fakeness have demonstrated their ability to transform the unreal into the real through manufactured consensus. By insisting that something unpopular was popular often enough, they made it popular. And by insisting that something popular is really unpopular, they did the opposite."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/09/media_madness_and_the_reckoning.html

ET, 8:47 --

Agreed.

I'm seeing this as a potential realignment election, with the old model you describe giving way at both ends (it's evidently not working anymore to the satisfaction of Quebeckers).

I'm not seeing a way back for the Liberals -- they're stuck in the old clientelist (brokerage/patronage/"black market"/government intervention) model, just as they are at the federal level. We all know how Brian Mulroney came to prominence -- as a member of the Cliche Commission (appointed by Robert Bourassa) into corruption in Quebec's construction industry (that's a two-fer in forty years!). And just as the new Conservative Party -- thanks to Reform -- has been pushing the clientelist model out of federal politics in favour of a results-based model, I see the CAQ at least talking that language. Quebeckers have been toying with this for a while; the difference this time is that they appear to have a credible leader of and some unity around that approach.

As for the independence question, there are obviously quite a few in the movement who don't see the PQ as credible on the issue, and appear set to support Quebec Solidaire. That leaves the PQ sort of straddling the ground between moderate nationalists and hard core separatists, without really having a clear position on the issue, and stuck in the same spot as the Liberals on the economy (does the PQ really know who or what it is anymore?). Even if the PQ wins, it will apparently do so at historically low levels of support, which does not portend well for the success of its stated intentions, I would say.

However this works out longer term for Canadian unity, it looks to me like there's a real possibility of a change of direction this time -- and that can't help but be of benefit to everybody.

This tells the whole story.

"The day the democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009 , it was actually January 3rd 2007, the day democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress.
The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.
For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this:
January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress.

At the time:
The DOW Jones closed at $12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush ' s Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB GROWTH!

Remember the day...
January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.
The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?
BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!
Unemployment... to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!

Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy.
And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!

And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie?
OBAMA and the Democrat Congress
So when someone tries to blame Bush..
REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007.... THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!"

Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party.
Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 & 2011.
In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending,when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.

For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budgets.
And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009 .

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets.
That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending.After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.
If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.
In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is "I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th."

I have an interesting anecdote about Quebec's business relationship with the rest of the country. I own shares in a company that trades on the TSX called Canada Lithium. I bought it a couple of years ago as a hedge against my oil stocks in case electric vehicles took off. So far they have lost me about two thirds of my investment. All that's besides the point. The point is that the companies mine in in Quebec and if you go to the companies web site All the companies buildings, vehicles etc are labelled "Quebec Lithium Inc", even though in the rest of the country they are called Canada Lithium.

52 - zip!

The Red is over flowing in downtown 'peg . . . buckets of fan's tears.

david southam, yes, I see your points.

I fully agree with your description of the 'clientelist (brokerage/patronage/"black market"/government intervention) model' of Quebec and of both the provincial and federal Liberals.

That has indeed been the economic infrastructure of Quebec. However it's reached a critical threshold where it can't sustain Quebec because the Canadian economy is no longer dependent on Quebec subsidized produce and the economic costs of maintaining this special status and socialist lifestyle are being loudly rejected by the ROC taxpayers who are less and less enchanted by the appeal of bilingualism. The federal government and Canadians are less willing to subsidize Quebec and set up a 'makework' economy there.

A first, emotional reaction, is that of the PQ, ignoring its economic dependence, refusing to deal with it, and instead, retreating further into cultural isolation. I don't think it will work this time.

However, are they able to move on? I think that the PQ are entrenched in this model of economic dependence and cultural isolation, while the Liberals are heavily focused on the former and tend to sideline the latter. But, can Quebec move into a results-based economy?

The former party, I think it was the ADQ, tried. Bouchard repeatedly warned them and was ignored. And, they voted for the NDP and turfed the Bloc, because the Bloc wasn't maintaining or increasing the inflow of money from the federal government.

If and it's a big if, Quebec is ready to move out of this client economic model of dependence, it might take yet another election to put the CAQ in power. After all, this model has been Quebec's only model. Can they change?

ET @ 9:43, why do the Republicans not trumpet this. I hear the same Democrat talking points blaming President Bush continuously, but I do not hear this information in a comeback talking point. I do not hear this on Fox either.

ET: you are talking about "cultural isolation".

My own experience is that the anglophone people are the one who live in "cultural isolation". The american much more than the canadian or the british.

The typical american will ONLY watch american TV, ONLY listen to american radio, read ONLY american magazine, watch ONLY american movie. Most of them have no passport and never had one. Some studies have shown that 80% of american can't point China on a world map.

Now why you never accuse American of "cultural isolation"?

I suppose that for you isolation inside the american culure is ok but isolation inside the quebecois culture is not ok. What an hypocrite you are.

Ken because it takes more than 8 sound bytes for Chris Wallace to explain. However notice the format on SunNews where Ezra will expound for 10 minutes on a subject like this. But do people tune in?

The problem that we have as conservatives is that our story can't be stated in simple slogans. It takes an article or fact sheet like ETs and nobody sits still long enough , even on "emptychairday"…. admittedly, there’s a slogan that might help us.

The other reason is that conservatives like Bush and probably Romney are doers, not just hopey changey talkers. Bush seldom defended himself. He was too busy fighting wars and dealing with terrorism issues….which he did successfully and kept America safe.

Well since this is an open thread you should know what today is! Celebrate a diversity of empty chairs! The magic is in the "O" and also special historical proof of a connection between Barack Obama and...?

Quebecois, prove your points. Each one is totally fallacious and irrelevant.

Your anti-American rant is juvenile. Do you seriously expect Americans to import radio and television shows in German for their English speaking consumers? THINK. Does Quebec do this? Hmmm?

Europe depends on American travel; it's a major source of revenue. Oh, and prove your point about Americans not having passports. Check out how many Quebecois have passports.

By the way, speaking of geography, tell me how many Quebecois could find Edmonton on a map. Or Afghanistan.

With reference to isolation, how about the Quebecois isolate communities in Florida, where they keep strictly to themselves, their own restaurants, hotels, and even, newspaper. Heh.

What about Quebec universities admitting any and all francophone students but charging double for students from anglophone Canada?

Now, tell us more about Quebec's economic dependence, and its taking over 13 billion more than it contributes from the Canadian taxpayer. All the while it does this, Quebecois like you sneer at and disparage Canada and Canadians.
And whine when we say, hey, grow up.

I think that two 'symbolic images' should become popular now.

The first is that empty chair. The second, is that image of the 35 million dollar home in Hawaii that people are buying for Obama (Obama, you didn't build it!)...to move to in 2013.

The empty chair is a clear sign that Obama is not doing the job of 'chairing' the USA. The mansion is a clear sign that Obama won't suffer being turfed out of the White House but will actually do better!

So, Americans shouldn't feel ashamed or guilty at voting him out.

Spread both images: the empty chair and Where Obama is Going in January.

Rob Ford has something better to do instead of attending Pride = thousands of outraged news articles.

Naheed Nenshi (the social media mayor) skips pride and not a peep out of the media. And not a peep out of the social media mayor himself.

How did every single one of those reporters writing about Rob Ford snubbing the gay community miss the Mayor of Redneck Calgary snubbing the Pride Parade?

RonnieBeet @ 11.45:
I recall seeing an ad in one of those free newspapers one reads while waiting for the C-train that there was going to be an islamic get together this weekend on the same date as the calgary pride parade. Calgary Muslim Heritage Day / weekend? The Mayor was contacted and simply said he had prior commitments.
I'm not a fan of the Mayor. Not at all, just trying to explain the hierarchy of where the pride parade fits just beneath islamic stuff. Just above christianity in the MSM, that sort of thing...

"First Audit Results In The Federal Reserve’s Nearly 100 Year History Were Posted Today, They Are Startling!"

"“$16,000,000,000,000.00 had been secretly given out to US banks and corporations and foreign banks everywhere from France to Scotland. From the period between December 2007 and June 2010, the Federal Reserve had secretly bailed out many of the world’s banks, corporations, and governments. The Federal Reserve likes to refer to these secret bailouts as an all-inclusive loan program, but virtually none of the money has been returned and it was loaned out at 0% interest. ”"

http://beforeitsnews.com/economy/2012/09/first-audit-in-the-federal-reserves-nearly-100-year-history-were-posted-today-the-results-are-startling-2449770.html

"“…the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012″

"Its always important to remember what has been predicted by the elders of science, and to review those predictions when the time is right. In four months, just 132 days from now at the end of summer on the Autumnal Equinox September 22nd 2012, the Arctic will be “nearly ice free” according to a prominent NASA scientist in a National Geographic article on December 12, 2007. That is also the same article in which the future NSIDC director made himself famous with this quote:

“The Arctic is screaming,”

…said Mark Serreze, senior scientist at the government’s snow and ice data center in Boulder, Colorado.

Here’s the article as a screen cap, highlights mine:

Seth Borenstein of AP wrote the story."

"So, given the proximity of this upcoming event, I’ve added a countdown for it in the right sidebar. We watch and wait until 7:49AM Pacific Time 14:49 UTC on September 22nd, 2012.

In the meantime, here’s the current sea-ice situation on the WUWT Sea Ice Reference Page"

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/05/12/the-arctic-ocean-could-be-nearly-ice-free-at-the-end-of-summer-by-2012/

Ron Paul's bill to audit the Fed is shocking and Americans should be outraged:

http://tinyurl.com/8se8sx3

"How did every single one of those reporters writing about Rob Ford snubbing the gay community miss the Mayor of Redneck Calgary snubbing the Pride Parade?"

Naheed Nenshi, super busy Muslim mayor who is attending the gay pride parade on Twitter.

Rob Ford, pasty white diet dropout playing tiddly winks at his desk. Too unenlightened to convert to the religion of peace.

Uh oh...Mr. Roboto has made an appearance in Quebec. The Liberals are outraged again.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/quebec-liberals-file-robo-call-complaint-with-police/article4516311/

Kwebekerkommie @10:38 - "Some studies have shown that 80% of american can't point China on a world map."

Why do I find that awfully hard to believe?

Travel is overrated. How does taking a package tour to Mexico or even Israel prove someone is cultured or broad-minded? It doesn't. Besides, if you live in France, sure you're going to take the train to Italy at some point. I'd say living in Texas and visiting New York is a far bigger geographical and cultural dislocation.

As ET would (did) say, THINK.

"President Barack Obama was a pioneering contributor to the national subprime real estate bubble, and roughly half of the 186 African-American clients in his landmark 1995 mortgage discrimination lawsuit against Citibank have since gone bankrupt or received foreclosure notices."

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/03/with-landmark-lawsuit-barack-obama-pushed-banks-to-give-subprime-loans-to-chicagos-african-americans/#ixzz25QpafNfh

REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007.... THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!"

So ... did you JUST figure THAT out?

Sheesh.

ET @ 9:43, why do the Republicans not trumpet this. I hear the same Democrat talking points blaming President Bush continuously, but I do not hear this information in a comeback talking point. I do not hear this on Fox either.
Posted by: Ken (Kulak) at September 3, 2012 10:38 AM

Good question Ken. The Repubs are stuck with the Democrat party choice: Mitt!! Mitt invented Barry O! Mitt wrote Barry's Health care bill, Mitt supported the O!,s bailouts and profited from bailouts, Mitt likes Barry's foreign wars (supports the bigshots invested in death - Military complex), supported Carbon Taxes to 'enable' cooling off the earth, supports mandates (like gay marriage legislated thus overiding Christian churches rights to follow their own beliefs), supports NDAA and TSA, supports EPA and EDA....

George W. had principles that he would not compromise. The new fella (MR WHO) - not so much - this has turned into a win win for the Agen da! 21/msm/people hating freaks. Barry will go cheerfully to his digs in Hawaii, he and his Czars have already won the election of 2012.

Alta had a choice (Al or Danielle) (like the repubs had a choice (Ron Paul or Mitt)...are the people all pro state slave bolsheviks or were the elections rigged? Was it a combination?

Clint Eastwood sent out a warning in a skit - was anyone listening? He quoted Ron Paul in the message to bring the troops home (from Afghanistan), the quote was attributed to Mitt R. but Mitt (to my knowledge) didn't say that, someone else said that.

Alison and Mitt must have met at the bildgebummer fest..birds of a feather.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is worried about "Right to Work" laws coming to Canada.

"Workers under threat by right-to-work movement"

From the reliably left wing Winnipeg Free Press.

http://goo.gl/I65a4

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/fyi/workers-under-threat-by-right-to-work-movement-168257906.html

Money quote;

"At present, 23 states have such laws, most of them former slave and agrarian states."

ET, you struck a nerve with sep ndp quebecois. I suspect that's because of your terminology, culturally isolate. To be fair, Quebec does have a vibrant, though different culture in many respects, from Canada and North America. There are many cultural icons in Quebec who are unknown in the ROC outside of Hull. That does not diminish their importance to Quebecers. It is true that many french-speaking Quebecers feel like foreigners in Canada, but I don't think they are anti-ROC. They are just pro-Quebecers - the oldest western culture in Canada, I might add. In a polity sense, Quebec is already an isolate culture in NA.

Quebecers are proud of their culture and wish to remain "distinct." That distinctness carries a price which I agree with you, they don't truly realize, that their culture is safest while part of Canada, not out of it, where the need for bilingualism, market access and most certainly transfer payments, would be irrelevant.

Most of all Quebeckers by and large don't understand their polity and french culture are not currently self-sustaining. Yes that is somewhat ironic, given their fierce self-determination. Even if Quebecers elect the PQ this week nothing will really change, however.

ET, apart from the "It" you mention when describing Quebec (the nationalist political, media and academe), Quebecers are friends to the ROC and share many values, like their wonderful contribution to our military, to hockey. Think of Wayne Gretzky setting up Mario Lemieux for a Canada Cup winning goal against the Russians. We are united on many fronts and either would be somewhat diminished with the loss of the other.

Having said that the era of Quebec appeasement has passed, and likely never to be revisited simply because the economic stucture of Canada has irrevocably changed - which should be clear to all by now.

So. the PQ can make whatever ridiculous demands they wish and the feds will ignore them. It won't change anything because Quebecers intuitively know they are better off within than without Canada.

Sep ndp quebecois, from their point of view, just didn't like you dissing Quebec culture. Maybe so, but the message to Quebecers is get over this notion that electing separatists is a riskless game. The contrary is true, as pequistes meander away at their utopiate goals, as Quebec falls further and further behind economically, and eventually, culturally.

Though Quebec has not separated they already suffer some of its negative effects; they need to wake up to that.

The degradation of journalism:

"Mark Mazzetti's emails with the CIA expose the degradation of journalism that has lost the imperative to be a check to power"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/correspondence-collusion-new-york-times-cia/print

Thanks Jema.

Tip: Btw, I just made a small donation to Watts.

"Obama In Uphill Fight to Win North Carolina as Convention Nears"

"Polls Show No Sign of Republican Bounce After Convention"
(Bloomberg)

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>>> "threatening to revive the debate about energy costs as President Barack Obama seeks re-election."

"Hedge Fund Bulls Push U.S. Gasoline to Labor Day Record"

"Hedge funds raised bullish bets on gasoline to more than a three-month high, helping push prices at the pump to record levels for the U.S. Labor Day holiday, as Hurricane Isaac roared toward the Gulf of Mexico and a deadly blast closed Venezuela’s largest refinery."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-03/hedge-fund-bulls-push-u-s-gasoline-to-larbor-day-record.html

shamrock, I disagree that quebecois just didn't like me 'dissing Quebec culture'. And I disagree with your view that Quebec is not 'anti-ROC'. Otherwise, you and I share many similar views on the situation.

First, I said nothing about Quebec culture other than that it is isolate. That's a fact. As to whether it is 'of value', it is as 'of value' to its members as is the culture of PEI, or Newfoundland or Alberta or etc.

But, Quebec's rejection of the ROC is a reality and evidenced not merely by the FACT that their universities welcome all international francophone students to the same low internal Quebec resident tuition, but charge DOUBLE that for any student from the ROC. Despite the FACT that the Canadian taxpayer funds those many, many Quebec universities.

There's also the FACT that they reject the use of other languages on signs, reject the use of English within their province; that's a clear rejection of the ROC.

The FACT that Quebec takes over 13 billion more from the Canadian tax revenue than it inputs is hardly something for Quebecers to feel proud of. But they instead demand, constantly, more. And more.

I repeat that this dependency cannot be sustained and agree with you that Quebec is falling behind economically and cannot make up for this lack with a focus on and only on, cultural isolation.

Mao Stlong* Lepolt: Gleetings flom nephew Bob.

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"China’s inventories pile up as demand flat-lines"

"You know it’s going to be a bad year for China’s exporters when all manner of goods – including the kitchen sinks – are gathering dust in storerooms."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/chinas-inventories-pile-up-as-demand-flat-lines/article4515218/

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"China’s slowing manufacturing brings hope of government intervention"

"A separate private report released Monday by HSBC Holdings and Markit Economics showed China’s manufacturing contracted last month at its fastest pace since March 2009."

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1250522--china-s-slowing-manufacturing-brings-hope-of-government-intervention