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Excerpt from "The Real Barack", by J.P. Harrington at the Dartmouth Review:

"Barack Obama was born on August 4th, 1961 in Hawaii, Indonesia and Kenya, depending on whether he was applying for President of the United States, a college scholarship for international students, or for a book deal about his struggle with his racial identity..."

The whole thing here.

h/t

EBD, thank you for the Whistling In The Dark song.It was great toe tapper, twice.

The 1930s were not a great time for the people. My dad rode the rails from Saskatchewan to find work in Ontario. One night, while riding in a box car, one of the fellows was sleeping with his head just outside the open door. The train lurched, the door slammed shut and took the fellow's head off.

http://canadaonline.about.com/od/historyphotos/ig/Great-Depression-Canada/

We live about 9 kms from the Peachland fire. Have heard that one house has been lost. The wind has now (7:00pm) subsided dramatically. For those affected it is truly a heart wrenching situation.

The CBC, as usual, is trying it's "best" to compare this fire to Kelowna's 2003 fire. As of now, it is about one half of one percent as destructive/dangerous.

CBC - 'One resident told CBC News they hadn't seen orange smoke like this in the area since 2003, when a wildfire in Kelowna forced the evacuation of 27,000 residents.' *

* When the sun is behind the smoke cloud it imposes an orange/red color to the smoke. But of course that is too complicated for CBC types to understand.

#Peachland

ron, one of my wife's cousins lives in the Peachland area. Hopefully for her sake it was not her house.

Did anyone else see this gratuitous political swipe in a car review?

These msm echo chamber leftards should not be allowed to pass this rubbish off as main stream.
http://virtual.autonet.ca/doc/Owen-Sound-Sun-Times-Autos/owensoundautosept6/2012090501/7.html#6

And he is referring to debunked leftard propaganda planted by SNL. See http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/seealaska.asp

Who needs it in a car review?

Why are we subsidising and tolerating a fifth column agent who likely would be happier as a ticket taker at the 787 Dundas St W Saint Jack of the Velvet Touch mausoleum?

This is so romantic.

http://www.globalnews.ca/arrow%2Bcould%2Bfly%2Bagain/6442711404/story.html

absolute lunacy to think that the Avro Arrow can be a better aircraft for less than the f-35.

How could Lewis Mackenzie get sucked into such nonsense. And why is Global even reporting it?

Ken Kulak: Re: Rail riders.

Those accidents were quite common. When I was really young, I went to Winnipeg to visit my grandma. This was in the 50`s. The CNR--CPR police would always patrol the marshalling yards for drifters. An old guy told me that back in the 30`s, the CN-CP police had long bamboo sticks, and if they caught people hanging on to a car, a swift whack to the butt was delivered as the train went by. .

Re: Whistling in the dark.

Thanks--good performance.

Toronto Sun, Sunday, Sep. 9, Thomas Sowell.

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/09/07/obamas-dreams

"confident ignorance is one of the most dangerous qualities in a leader of a nation"

Those crazy Slovaks and their coked-up spiders.

Re; Whistling in the Dark.
I just think he's going to get mugged, ,cause being happy and alone is a calling card for creepy Leftists.
They always greet you like a friend.
Then they steal your Grandma's bank account.
I'm related to some of those creeps.
I am forced to call then "Auntie"

dwright

Globe and Mail, Saturday, Sep. 8. Ayn Rand as election issue.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/us-election/todays-ideological-battle-in-us-politics-ayn-rand-built-it/article4528662/

"Senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren took the first shot at the doyenne of unfettered capitalism and the author of the 55-year-old doorstopping novel Atlas Shrugged: 'The Republican vision is clear: "I’ve got mine, the rest of you are on your own," ' she told her fellow Democrats."

This comment is insulting to the vast majority of Americans who are quite capable of making it on their own -- provided they do not have to deal with the level and complexity of taxation, the burden of regulation, and the various hare-brained economy-distorting interventionist schemes advocated by the likes of Warren. In other words, coercion replacing the free choice of individuals.

"Former president Bill Clinton made an even clearer dismissal: 'We believe "We’re all in this together" is a far better philosophy than "You’re on your own."'"

We're all in what together? This is the siren song of parasites who wish to see themselves elected or appointed as "leaders". They cannot improve the free market because the only tool of government is coercion, and that is an economic wrecking ball. No one is "on their own" under capitalism. The economy is based on productivity and trade, which most individuals are quite capable of doing if given the freedom to do so.

President Obama's infamous "you didn't build that" comment probably was an ineloquent way of pointing out that no one makes everything he consumes, and that people have to trade for most of it. But that requires freedom of the individual to place a value on the items he wishes to trade for, and to be able to complete the transaction.

"'The truest measure of any society is how it treats those who cannot defend or care for themselves,' said Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan, directly repudiating his former advocacy of Rand’s philosophy of radical selfishness."

Very few people cannot defend or care for themselves. But the Cloward-Piven leftists would like to drag as many people as possible onto the rolls of government handouts, in order to overburden the economy in the hope of destroying it. They do this through numerous interventionist measures that distort the economy, as well as propagating through the culture the idea that human beings are weak, incompetent, and helpless.

Furthermore, selfishness (meaning concern with one's own interests) is not radical -- the notion that man belongs to the state, and does not have the right to look after himself, is the radical one.

"To care for others, Rand remonstrated in all her pages of lecturing prose, is to invite doom. Altruism is 'contemptible evil' and taxation a form of slavery that will inevitably 'destroy those without whom we would not be able to survive' – i.e., capitalists. And those who cannot defend or care for themselves – such as the disabled – should be left strictly to their own devices."

"'Misfortune is not a claim to slave labour,' she declared."

Frankly, nothing is a claim to slave labour. What is the problem? Again, very few people cannot defend or care for themselves. Many people are willingly benevolent to the unfortunate -- provided that their own situation has not deteriorated due to the depredations of the welfare state.

"Indeed, Rand offers no sunny havens for true believers."

False. She offers the sunniest haven of all: the full enjoyment of one's own life.

"... an abstract ideology that condemns all but a favoured minority of technocrats as 'looters,' ...

Au contraire -- the literal "technocrats", meaning those who think coercive government intervention by their genius selves can help the economy, are the looters. The average person is quite capable of being productive, trading with his neighbours, and looking after his or her own life. This is noble -- but it is precisely what the parasites condemn as "selfish".

Gord Tulk @ 12:25 AM
Agreed.
It’s not just Global reporting it now. I read some comments at the Glob and Wail. Like the reporters, most don’t know sh*t from snot about either aircraft program, but they are all experts.

Doug Hyslip of the Avro Museum in Calgary has the drawings and other information on the arrow. Knowing him, I doubt he would part with them.

http://www.avroarrow.org/rebuild.htm

Watch this and then have a drink.

http://rtr.org/vid/1461/californians-think-sears-tower-was-attacked-by-decepticons-on-september-11th-2001

I did not double post. I am innocent.

Posted by: Black Mamba at September 10, 2012 2:58 AM

Do I really want to hit that link?

Got virused yesterday, went through a DDOS shitstorm.

Might have to sit this one out, (stupid curiosity, one of these days, you will end me.)

http://www.globalnews.ca/arrow%2Bcould%2Bfly%2Bagain/6442711404/story.html

absolute lunacy to think that the Avro Arrow can be a better aircraft for less than the f-35.

How could Lewis Mackenzie get sucked into such nonsense. And why is Global even reporting it?

Posted by: Gord Tulk at September 10, 2012 12:25 AM

Insanity, why are these idiots STILL obsessed with an aircraft that did Mach 2 in 1959?

A CF-18 does Mach 2.5, from 1984.

A CF-35 has a classified top velocity.

However, it is incredibly maneuverable, stealthy, and MOST importantly can support ground troops.

The future Sergeants will thank you for helping their kids come home alive.

dwright

The Official (Unofficial) dwright music pick for the morning:
Metric, Artificial Nocturne....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmYRRcaQLno

Most of has have been there, just few of us come back...

dwright

>>> "people who got a flu shot for the 2008-09 winter seemed to be more likely to get infected with the pandemic virus than people who hadn't received a flu shot."

"Flu shot is linked to H1N1 illness"

"A strange vaccine-related phenomenon spotted in Canada at the start of the 2009 flu pandemic may well have been real, a new study suggests."

http://www.theprovince.com/health/shot+linked+H1N1+illness/7216797/story.html

nv53, 2:39a.m. -- Well said, as always.

Gord Tulk, 12:25a.m.; ES, 2:39a.m.; dwright, 3:56 a.m. -- well said, also.

On both items above, sometimes I wonder if the Canadian media is engaged in c/Conservative-baiting, but I was always come to the conclusion
that they just aren't clever enough for that tactic and are just stuck on the same old broken record that dropped off the charts forty years ago.

Some points of disquietude this a.m., however, all having to do with the United States:

1. On the F-35, even though the story cited by Gord, et al, is old and makes no sense in the current paradigm, the story does underline, in a backwards sort of way, a real strategic threat to the F-35, namely the potential scaling back or outright cancellation of the program due to the unreliability of the United States anymore, coupled with its financial mess. Recall that the cancellation of the Arrow had in part to do with economies of scale -- without orders from the US and Britain, the Arrow could not have been produced economically, as Gord implies. We're in the F-35 program for precisely the same reason -- economies of scale. What happens if the F-35 doesn't happen because of US Government action? I trust that part of the review process underway is to game that scenario and develop contingency plans.

2. Have a look at www.instapundit.com -- Glenn's got two posts up on Sarah Hoyt's article about splits in the Republican vote (scroll down for both). I have to say that the same sentiments are showing up at SDA. IMO, this meme is not helpful: if you want sound money policies and fiscal sanity, I see no alternative to the GOP. I agree that the probability of getting everything you and I want is less than 100% with Romney/Ryan, but I am pretty much certain that the chances are 0% with Obama/Biden.

3. I think that Obama is hanging on by the finger nails because of health care. My wife asked me yesterday, "Why doesn't he just clarify what Obamacare is?". Because he can't -- he doesn't know if it's good or bad, he doesn't know what he really wants and he doesn't understand what's in the Act, which strikes me as nothing more than a compendium of contradicting, NDP-style ad hoc little micro-management type "fixes" for identity group complaints; the only thing systematic about it is the government intrusion. So he's reduced to sowing confusion about the issue, which is the real upshot of the DNC.

Unfortunately, I think this has left Americans in a bad place -- some don't want it outright, some think they're getting a system like Canada's or the NHS (which they're not and which they don't understand anyway); the group in the middle would like to vote him out because of the economy, but don't really want to go back to the status quo ante on health care.

Romney/Ryan need to do better than "we'll repeal Obamacare". I think they alone are in a position to explain what Obamacare is and isn't and to put forward a reform plan that makes sense.

Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
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"Where’s Xi Jinping

Mysterious absence of China’s next leader sparks rumours"

"BEIJING, CHINA—Where is president-in-waiting Xi Jinping?

Is he nursing a bad back after pulling a muscle in a pick-up soccer game (or maybe in the swimming pool)? Has he been convalescing after narrowly escaping a revenge killing by supporters of ousted local Communist Party boss Bo Xilai? Was he in a car accident? Or is he just really busy getting ready to lead the world’s No. 2 economy ahead of an expected leadership transition next month?

Chinese micro-bloggers and overseas websites have come up with all kinds of speculation as to why the current vice-president has gone unseen for more than a week."

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1254104--where-s-xi-jinping-mysterious-absence-of-china-s-next-leader-sparks-rumours

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"Over 3,000 Students Forced to Bring Desks to Class"

"In Macheng City, Hubei Province, finding a desk assignment on the first day of school has become a question of what family members can carry from home. This year, a desk shortage has left roughly 3,000 of the 5,000 children in the total student population without desks."

http://english.caixin.com/2012-09-05/100433429.html

*Ex-Liberal leader Rae's uncle, c/o Red China.

Jesus Christ. David Axelrod goes full Godfather on Gallup for generating poll results that the Obama administration doesn't like.

http://www.dickmorris.com/obama-thugs-rough-up-gallup-for-polls-they-dont-like/?utm_source=dmreports&utm_medium=dmreports&utm_campaign=dmreports

Axelrod is trying to intimidate polling companies...why is that? I thought Team Obama was so confident?

We drove the Coke yesterday and the winds were very strong out of the west. Steady at 30+ kph with gusts easily hitting 45. The car was getting some good wind pops at times.

Any fire that got started yesterday was primed to be a big fire really soon.

And the area is very bone dry.

It's Monday September 10, 15 Degrees C in Woodstock Ontario, the sun is shining,
Dalton McGuinty is bent on F @#$%^g the Thoroughbred & Standardbred Horse Breeding Market in Ontario and is intent on fattening the Liberal Party Coffers with the proceeds of addicted Casino patrons, especially addicted seniors living on their Pensions!!

Gotya Dalton, you wily bastsrd!

I AM

Joseph (Joe) Molnar
Woodstock Ontario

Two months to go and Republican John Kerry is basically losing.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443921504577641694168291460.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories

It's that time of year, experts say.

"But in the meantime, Skow-ronski insisted the findings should not deter people from getting flu shots."
...-

"Vancouver researcher finds flu shot is linked to
H1N1 illness"

http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Vancouver+researcher+finds+shot+linked+H1N1+illness/7217609/story.html

Neo-AGW Progress Report.

H/T Citoyen Liberal Kyoto Dionky.

"The system was set up under the 1997 Kyoto protocol, after years of debate, but no credits could be issued until that treaty finally came into force in 2005. Since then, just over 1bn CDM credits have been issued."

...-

"Global carbon trading system has 'essentially collapsed'"

"The UN clean development mechanism, designed to give poor countries access to green technologies, is in dire need of rescue"

"The world's only global system of carbon trading, designed to give poor countries access to new green technologies, has "essentially collapsed", jeopardising future flows of finance to the developing world."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/10/global-carbon-trading-system

The Award for toxic police state hypocrisy of the month goes to the Rhode Island state police and RIDEM for harassing a local fisherman for his legal purchase of a few boxes of ammunition
– they were concerned his buying this “large amount” of ammo means he might “do something crazy”. I suppose the same authorities never asked Homeland security why they recently purchased 1.7 million rounds of ammunition – are they planning on doing something crazy?

"The car goes by, and bam, the dog. Now go to sleep." (Citoyen Kyoto)

Tales From Da Quebec.

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"Ottawa ordered to hand over long-gun registry data collected in Quebec
Montreal Gazette"

"Quebec Superior Court orders feds to hand over long-gun registry
Toronto Star"

Comment in this story from user "Hutch65" about the CPC failing to set up their own internal do not call list:

"I love the exemption for newspapers, allowing them to telemarket - i.e. the Globe & Mail calling our house and trying to scam our 13-yr old daughter into a subscription, especially after she clearly indicated that we were not available. Because that's got integrity and lawfulness written all over it. (Yes, I complained about that.)"

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/Conservatives+violated+call+rules+CRTC+says/7202390/story.html

dwright @3:44 - there's nothing wrong with the link. The content is bothersome.

How to run the Auto Industry when it's not your money.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/10/us-generalmotors-autos-volt-idUSBRE88904J20120910

A proposal for Canada to revive a new high performance Avro Arrow!

Sounds good by me!

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/made-canada-avro-arrow-could-rise-again-homegrown-163052593.html

tolerant left hard at work again...

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2012/09/06/20175911.html

Details matter:

President Obama told author Bob Woodward that he didn’t know Rep. Paul Ryan was going to attend at a major speech he delivered last year ... "I’ll go ahead and say it – I think that I was not aware when I gave that speech that Jack Ryan was going to be sitting right there ..."

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/09/does-the-president-think-this-is-a-clancy-novel.php

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/10/1129887/-Chicago-teachers-on-strike

The picture is just screaming to be editted...

http: //cheezburger.com/6576726016

Separated at Birth: Elizabeth Warren and...?

"Japan Finance Minister Matsushita found dead at home in possible suicide: police"

"Japan Times ^ | September 10, 2012"

"Japanese financial services minister Tadahiro Matsushita was found dead at his residence in Tokyo on Monday, police said, adding they suspect the country's top financial regulator committed suicide."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2929141/posts

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"September 5th, 2012"

"At last, Japan may be about to abandon its disastrous Keynesian consensus"

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/thomaspascoe/100019765/at-last-japan-may-be-about-to-abandon-its-disastrous-keynesian-consensus/

Taliban Jacques Bloc's Legacy News.

"The NDP is also being sued."

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"NDP MP seeks public’s help for legal bills in robo-calls case"

"An NDP MP is turning to the Internet to cover his legal bills in the face of a lawsuit for wrongly accusing an Alberta company of electoral fraud.

Supporters and friends of Pat Martin are trying to raise $250,000 after the Winnipeg MP was sued for comments he made about the 2011 election robo-calls scandal."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/ndp-mp-seeks-publics-help-for-legal-bills-in-robo-calls-case/article4535075/

Plainzdrifter: "A proposal for Canada to revive a new high performance Avro Arrow! Sounds good by me!

Doesn't sound like a good idea to me. At best it would be a fourth generation fighter, ie not stealth. If we cancel the fifth generation F35 we'd be better off buying off the shelf fighters like the Super Hornet or, go directly to the 6th generation - UAVs.

I have always suspected the Avro Arrow is just one more Canadian myth. It was a dog of a plane and the Chief, mercifully, put it out of its misery.

It was one of the MSM's first big demonizations of Conservatives. From that CBC et al victory, they went on to many more bouts wrestling common sense to the ground.

maz2 @ 9:04, looks good on Pat. Maybe that Marxist will learn his lesson, but I doubt it.

maz2, that link re Pat Martin's robo-call legal bill woes has made my day. ;-) The chickens have come home to roost for this shyster. Hallelujah! PTL!

There is a God!