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U.S. nuclear site ends security contract following 82-year-old nun's break-in.

h/t zerohedge

Can I get a side of fries with that?

From the things you won't see on the next episode of Law and Order file:

"Glory Hole Radio" EBD.

Two superb columns by Daniel Greenfield, aka Sultan Knish:

1. What Orwell Can Tell Us About the Liberal Appeasement of Islam

2. Muslim Violence is Our New Law

Do yourself a favour and read them both.

Are they takin' pictures with their Bama' phones?

The next Venezuelan election is next sunday, 7 October. I'm cautiously optimistic.
Polls have shown very good results for the leading non-chavista candidate, Henrique Capriles. A former governor of the state of Miranda.

Today, long processions leading down several avenues that reportedly hold about 150,000 each. Daniel's been following the plight of his country via blogging for several years and through several elections. He gives it a showing of about 1.5 millions. With photos, er, fotos:

http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.ca/2012/09/the-biggest-electoral-march-rally-event.html#more

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrique_Capriles_Radonski

Former Democratic pollster, and now Fox News contributor Pat Caddell, with a speech that must be read from start to finish.

But all I want to conclude to this is that we face a fundamental danger here. The fundamental danger is this: I talked about the defense of the First Amendment. The press’s job is to stand in the ramparts and protect the liberty and freedom of all of us from a government and from organized governmental power. When they desert those ramparts and decide that they will now become active participants, that their job is not simply to tell you who you may vote for, and who you may not, but, worse—and this is the danger of the last two weeks—what truth that you may know, as an American, and what truth you are not allowed to know, they have, then, made themselves a fundamental threat to the democracy, and, in my opinion, made themselves the enemy of the American people.

And it is a threat to the very future of this country if we allow this stuff to go on. We have crossed a whole new and frightening slide on the slippery slope this last two weeks, and it needs to be talked about.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/09/29/mainstream-media-threatening-our-country-future/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

The CRTC is holding hearings about the renewal of licences of CBC-SRC. Already, the leftists are organizing around this consultation: Pierre Nantel, an NDP MP from Quebec is pushing the population to weigh in on the CRTC consultation, with the help of one big Montreal daily.

Why should the reds (and oranges) have all the fun? You too can enter a comment online, starting here:
http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/com100/2012/r120905.htm

Have fun with that!

If it isn't a movie setting them off,it's a cartoon,or a teddy bear,or a photo.

"Photo deemed offensive to Islam sparks riots,"

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/photo-deemed-offensive-to-islam-sparks-riots-temple-burning-in-bangladesh/article4578273/

Please check the filter.

Well well well-the Cons are going to cut something after all! Too bad it's the military.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/09/30/conservatives-twin-budgets-expected-to-carve-2-5-billion-out-of-dnd-report/

Oh and I should note that the Cons are hot for funnelling military money into national parasites 'champions'. Canada gets to have its own Military Industrial Complex!

Manny @ 11:10 p.m.:

Why should the CBC have to go through a license renewal? It was a creation of Parliament. Only Parliament can stop it from broadcasting (which it should). The license hearings are just make-work for the parasites in the regulatory agencies.

Newspapers don't need licenses. TV and radio stations shouldn't either.

On the subject of the serial abuse of statistical science for the purposes of outcome generation, which we are witnessing first hand, please see:

1. Byron York (September 29, 2012):

http://washingtonexaminer.com/rasmussen-yes-dems-likely-have-2-4-point-advantage-in-november/article/2509409

Nothing could be more more fair to the Democrats than this -- Scott Rasmussen finds a four percent Republican registration advantage, but still credits the Democrats with a polling advantage of two to four percent. How about just calling it even, as Michael Barone suggests?

2. Michael Barone in The Washington Examiner (September 29, 2012):

http://washingtonexaminer.com/barone-when-it-comes-to-polls-readers-beware/article/2509360#.UGhkX0QmY9c

The article is not Michael's best, but here's the money bit:

"Oversample them [Democrats] and you'll get overly Democratic results.

Which, many conservatives have been arguing, pollsters have been getting in polls this month. They point out that Mitt Romney is running ahead among independents in many polls but trails overall.

This can only happen if Democrats have a big lead in party identification, as they did in 2008. In the exit poll then, 39 percent of voters identified themselves as Democrats and 32 percent as Republicans.

In contrast, exit polls showed an even break on party identification in 2004 and 2010. But many September and some earlier polls showed Democrats with an even bigger party identification lead than four years before.

That seems implausible. Party identification does change over time, as exit polls indicate. But it usually shifts gradually rather than suddenly, as current polls suggest."

And finally,

3. John Hinderaker:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/09/what-to-make-of-declining-democratic-registration.php

So, Democratic registration is falling, but they still have an even larger sampling advantage in the Quinnipac swing-state polls than they had in 2008, which mirrors the claimed Obama lead in those polls?

Take the three pieces together and a pretty clear picture of misrepresentation emerges. What the heck, I'd forgive you if you thought some of these American "pollsters" were actually Canadian Liberals.

Less than 10% of Americans actually respond to pollsters who call them.

Half a decade ago I pointed out to a prominent Vancouver pollster that their method of using phone banks to reach people was no longer valid because they were no longer able to get a representative sample. I was laughed out of the room.

In point of fact, I don't think that pollsters care that their results are so inaccurate. The cheques keep rolling in so why would they care? :-(

Pollsters are selling entertainment not information, just like most of the media.

Drive in Funeral Parlors would never work in BC as this province is a no Idle zone.(Heh) Wonder why every command start in northern BC is set for 15 min. or longer. Just no respect for the idiots in Victoria that came up with that law I guess.

"Fifty seven previously unidentified firearms linked to Operation Fast and Furious were recovered in sites associated with murders, kidnappings, and at least two gruesome massacres."

http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/57-previously-undiscovered-fast-furious-guns-mexican-crimes/story?id=17361775#.UGk4V44Zc23

Weasel Zippers linked to this same story, the video is in spanish with english subtitles, makes me kinda curious as to when the english MSM outside of Fox is going to pick it up? (never, I know.)

How about just calling it even, as Michael Barone suggests?

Because D+2 to D+3 is a lot more historically realistic.

This is pathetic. Yes, the Great Liberal Conspiracy has chosen this year to unleash The Misleading Polls. Didn't happen in previous presidential elections...but-but it's different this time!

LAS, 2:26a.m. --

With all due respect, whether there have been misleading polls in the past is hardly the point.

With the apparent intention of arguing that Romney was slipping, you yourself quoted an Ipsos/Reuters poll reported in the National Post just the other day that showed Obama in "good shape" with a seven point lead. Turns out the poll had an eight percent Democratic sampling advantage, if memory serves. So how about adjusting that result back to D+2 or D+3? Obama ahead by 1 or 2 points. Or how about we just call it even (given Rasmussen's party affiliation findings and the Hinderacker post noted above)? Tied or Obama behind. Paints a bit of a different picture, doesn't it?

I think the point is that for polls to be meaningful information tools, which is what they are presented to be (scientific and all that), they need to be representative of the voting population as a whole, not some subset of it. That would be a pretty basic tenet of statistical analysis. (BTW, in regard to sample bias, the confidence intervals (margin of errors) of polls is irrelevant).

Otherwise, why quote polls or even pubish them at all? There are only two reasons -- ignorance or deliberate attempt to mislead. Sort of like Obama's story about the Libyan attack -- is he incompetent or just a liar?

Just think of the critique of the polling data as a bit of "peer review", of the sort that exposed the AGW fraud. It certainly appears to me that some significant questions have been raised about the representativeness of a great number of polls: the only thing I've seen in response is dismissiveness and unsubstantiated assertion. Again, sort of like the AGW fraud.

MSM's socialism: When the sight of pollution becomes "the sight of steam".

Some victory:
"They won concessions from the union, a discounted power rate, and approval of the $33-million purchase by creditors and the courts, as well as $124.5 million in aid from the province over the next decade. Under the terms of the provincial agreement, depending on mill profits, the money could be repaid within 12 years at the earliest."

...-

"Paper mill resumes operations
Cape Breton Post - ‎7 hours ago‎
POINT TUPPER - For residents of the Port Hawkesbury area who suffered through the closure of the nearby Point Tupper paper mill, the sight of steam once again rising from the mill is likely a welcome view."

http://www.capebretonpost.com/News/Local/2012-09-30/article-3086832/Paper-mill-resumes-operations/1

Think of them as Prudent Allocation of Resources Panels.

"Oh and I should note that the Cons are hot for funnelling military money into national parasites 'champions'. Canada gets to have its own Military Industrial Complex!" - LAS.

LAS - Unless you are prepared to have your own military industrial complex there is no point in having a military. In times of national emergency that army needs to be supplied, and you can't count on anyone else to do it.

The American military is running into huge problems because they don't have the ability to produce a lot of electronic products in the US any more so they are forced to but vital componenets from their possible future enemy China. Not a good situation to be in.

I don't know what specific "national champions you are referring to but Canada has had a program since before I was in that business where we pay several companies money (Ingersoll machine and tool - for forging shell bodies, and Expro for bulk explosive filling, SNC IT for fuzes and primers) to maintain the capability to manufacture artillery ammo, so that if we need it we have a source. This isn't a business that in peacetime would be big enough to sustain them, and the government doesn't want them selling it to our enemies in peacetime. The only solution is to maintain the capability to do it, so that if we need it, its there.

It seams like a pretty rational idea to me. No artillery shells, not much point in having artillery.

Cartoon from Special Ops speaking out on the dog eating weirdo spikeing the football.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/09/28/Special-Ops-Speaks-bashes-Obama-OBL

From the I finished the internet department:

Live kitten cam from a Washington-DC-Area shelter:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/exclusive-drop-everything-and-watch-this-live-kit

No word on whether they use the Capitol replica for a scratching post or litter box.

OKEconomy> Give it a shake.

...-

"Asia struggles to shake off eurozone malaise"

"LONDON/BEIJING — Factory output in Europe and Asia wilted again in September, flagging a return to recession for the euro zone and a seventh straight quarter of slowing growth in China, business surveys showed on Monday."

http://business.financialpost.com/2012/10/01/asia-struggles-to-shake-off-eurozone-malaise/

...-

http://business.financialpost.com/2012/10/01/eurozone-warns-of-economic-and-social-disaster-as-unemployment-hits-record/

LAS - Unless you are prepared to have your own military industrial complex there is no point in having a military. In times of national emergency that army needs to be supplied, and you can't count on anyone else to do it.

That's why you stock up ahead of time. I'd rather not have a military than have a military-industrial complex like the one helping bankrupt America. What a bunch of crap. China is only America's enemy as much as America makes China into one. And even if it was, there are lots of other foreign countries to buy from.

David Frum, for once, has a good set of questions for the debate. Want to bet that none, or even similar, of these questions will be asked?

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/01/opinion/frum-10-questions-for-obama/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

Red-Green's Denouement: solution, conclusion, end, upshot.

Ich Bin Ein Red-Green Kaput.

That's all, Red-Green folks. Say Goodnight, Red-Green.

Goodnight Red-Green.

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"Berlin rejects buyer's premium for electric cars"

" Germany's transport and economy ministers have ruled out state-funded premiums to encourage car buyers to switch to electric vehicles. Their rejection coincides with government talks with the auto industry in Berlin.

Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer and Economy Minister Philipp Rösler said on Monday they did not think offering a state-subsidized premium to prospective buyers would go a long way towards stimmulating sales of electric cars.

In 2008, Germany set a target of having one million electric cars on its roads by 2020 and said back then it wanted to turn Germany into a pilot market by 2014.

But, at the beginning of this year, Germany had only 4,500 electric vehicles among its total fleet 43 million registered cars."

http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16275247,00.html

Leftist cannibals to rescue Mohammed's cannibals.

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"Dutch abortion ship heads for Morocco"

"The Dutch organization says it was “invited” to Morocco by a local youth group to raise support for the legalization of abortion in the country."

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/01/241265.html

@ LAS 11:25 AM
China is only America's enemy as much as America makes China into one.

Relax LAS. The US owes them 1+ trillion. The ChiComs wont fight their debtor.

For the first time in my adult life I was proud of my country's debt.

I'd rather not have a military than have a military-industrial complex like the one helping bankrupt America.

The US military is an inefficient state-owned monopoly, like Intourist, TASS or Aeroflot. The sooner it is deregulated, privatized, down-sized and outsourced the better.

Yeah that's exactly my point Rizwan China is not to be feared at least by us. We're on the same page.

Here is an election public service announcement...

Of Chow/LaytoNDP.

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"Olivia Chow accepts Anders’ apology — but says to cut the conspiracy theory about Layton’s death"

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/01/olivia-chow-says-she-appreciates-anders-concern-but-cut-the-conspiracy-theory-about-laytons-death/

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"Layton found in bawdy house: Ex-cop"

"He came on a bicycle. I escorted him down and he went away on his bike."

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/04/29/layton-found-in-toronto-bawdy-house-former-cop

"that's why you stock up ahead of time" - LAS

Are you proposing that Canada should have stock piled enough ammo in the 1930's to fight WW11?

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