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Friday afternoon, Michael Graham & Co. in Boston mocked MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell endlessly. You can listen to some of it here and here. ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!!!

And the way I see it, the Fed, ECB and global central bankers today fight a losing battle. The mountain of global debt, securities, and derivatives, along with this destabilizing global pool of speculative finance, just inflate larger by the year – and after each policy response. And the more outrageous the policy measures implemented to try to resolve each crisis, the more these desperate measures further inflate the global Bubble. Ironically, the ongoing assurances of central bank liquidity seem to ensure an eventual crisis beyond the liquidity capacity of central banks. Happy 25th Anniversary, you aged and ornery Credit Bubble. They’ll be reading, writing about and studying you for at least the next century.

http://www.prudentbear.com/index.php/creditbubblebulletinview?art_id=10721

haven't heard neun and neunzic luft ballons since i lived in germany!!

Lincoln Alexander was the first black Canadian MP. Heard his obituary on CBC this morning -- no mention of his political affiliation (Conservative).
http://m.torontosun.com/2012/10/19/lincoln-alexander-former-ontario-lieutenant-governor-dies

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/10/17/brent-sopels-twitter-slap-at-obama-stirs-rage

"If you crazies elect Obama again ..."

Re: Red Balloons!!

I prefer the German version!! Now look at what you`ve done! It took 20 years of therapy to get that tune out of my head--and now it`s back again!!

Thanks anyway!!

National Post, Friday, Oct. 19.

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/10/19/cheerleaders-in-texas-launch-a-lawsuit-for-the-right-to-call-on-g-o-d/

The issue is whether cheerleaders and other students can display messages invoking God at football games.

The case is going through the courts, but the correct answer is: Yes, they can. The separation of church and state means the public schools cannot proselytize for one religion or another. It does not mean that students must be forbidden from expressing their own beliefs.

The school system is coercive, through compulsory attendance for several hours each day, and through tax dollar support. If the coercive state can encroach upon your time to the point that you don't have any free time left, then your freedoms are destroyed.

The students should win their case, supported by their right to freedom of religion.

And the education system should be as separate from the state as the churches, based on the same principle.

The evil genius of the lefties revealed in all its glory.

They know how to solve the world's "gun problem".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tvPoncNYF5g

Sheer genius!

National Post, Thursday, Oct. 18.

http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/10/17/calling-catholic-groups-cult-like-does-not-amount-to-discrimination-ontario-human-rights-tribunal/

"The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has dismissed a complaint against a women’s studies professor who fought a Catholic volunteerism program at Brock University, saying her anti-Catholic comments were offensive, but not akin to discrimination."

They were certainly akin to discrimination, but mere comments do not amount to discrimination.

"Although the complainant was treated differently due to his religious beliefs, the tribunal wrote: 'I cannot see how the respondent’s comments about him were vexatious, or known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome, no matter how personally offensive and hurtful he found them to be. Accordingly, the respondent’s comments did not amount to substantive discrimination.'"

So does this establish once and for all that mere comments are not actionable, despite hurt feelings? Or is it still a case of Christians being fair game while anyone who offends (for example) a Muslim will be hung out to dry?

The tribunal got this one right. It's all the other ones that were wrong.

Toronto Star, Thursday, Oct. 18.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1273089--dismiss-challenge-of-ontario-catholic-school-funding-government-lawyers-ask-court

This one is rather messy and raises several different legal issues, not all of them obvious.

Suffice to say that the current system is unfair to non-Catholics, and that the proper solution is to implement a voucher system so that every parent can contribute his tax dollars to the school of his choice. Those who want a monopoly public school system, susceptible to being taken over by an ideological lunatic fringe, are beneath contempt and exceedingly dangerous to our freedoms.

I saw an article in the National Post, but this link is to the Calgary Herald:

http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/Appeal+court+upholds+ruling+favour+2002+anti+homosexual+letter/7406365/story.html

Stephen Boissoin wins on appeal; free speech is allowed again. Let's hope this is the end of it. It is unlikely to be overturned by the Supreme Court, given its ruling in Bou Malhab last year.

http://www.reagancoalition.com/articles/2012/20121019004-binder-full.html

Someone did some digging and discovered that Obama had a "binder full of muslims" back in 2009 when he was filling positions in his administration.

Of course, the real work will be finding the lefty outrage from 2009.

While the vocal styings are catchy, I would only remind you that Nena and this song are a perfect fit for the term "useful idiots". She would fit in perfectly at a convention of Obama voters...

File under "We Don't Need No Stinkin Giant Fans Or Mirrors"

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/18/president-obamas-taxpayer-backed-green-energy-failures/

Kevin Jackson @ 6:52, that would be because the left is in cahoots with the Muslims to bring down liberal democracy.

Of Canadian Ad$cam Liberal MartinJr, Dead Duck, & Lost Friends.
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"Canadian eyewitness recalls last moments of Muammar Gaddafi
'I was about two metres from him,” recalls Gourbal Djiddi Nokour, 'He was in pyjamas, basically.... Men were hitting him. He was begging for mercy"
(NP)
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"Gaddafi's family and friends: where are they now?

The Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was captured and killed by rebels a year ago. Since then many of his relatives and allies have died, been arrested or fled"
(Grauniad)
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Our CBC:

"Martin's Libya trip welcomed by Canadian business"

"Prime Minister Paul Martin Martin met with Moammar Gadhafi Sunday for about an hour and a half inside the Libyan dictator's tent at a military base on the outskirts of Tripoli.

The two men smiled and shook hands before heading for the ornate tent, not far from the remains of Gadhafi's bombed out residence, where one of his children died when U.S. fighter jets attacked the building in 1986."

"Before he was scheduled to return to Canada, Martin was invited by Gadhafi to a second, impromptu meeting Sunday evening, where the Libyan leader showered praise on Martin and on Canada."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2004/12/19/martin-libya041219.html

PET Cemetery Report.

H/T http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html
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"RCMP asked to probe if former Liberal MP used public money on son’s wedding"

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"Don’t let Liberal leadership race be the Justin Trudeau show

Rex Murphy: Someone of intellectual force must be found to battle Justin. The Liberals will not survive another cakewalk for a presumed favourite who winds up a dud"

Left-liberalism.
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"Inspiring look at science as human activity"
Winnipeg Free Press"

"Cries of "Hooray for science!" free of irony, are seldom heard these days. Yet, it is through science that we learn what is really true, and science that gave us our modern technologies, and offers the best hope for the future."

Wow, read this, a high school football coach has half the fans cheer for the opposing team.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?section=magazine&id=3789373

" Five dead this week in workplace accidents around Alberta "

Maybe the next time the women's rights activists march around demanding 'pay equity',someone can point out that while women only make 72% of what a man earns, men make up 95% of the fatalities on the job.
We want equity also.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/Five+dead+this+week+workplace+accidents+around+Alberta/7417227/story.html

wallyj, equality only when it suits their agenda.

Mao Stlong* Lepolt.

Solal panels fol sale: spy say.

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"Amid spy concerns, Chinese tech firm steers clear of Ottawa security bid"

"The Chinese telecom equipment maker accused of making products that enable Beijing to spy on foreigners says it has no intention of bidding for contracts to rebuild the Canadian government’s sensitive phone, computer and e-mail networks.

What the federal government is refusing to say, however, is whether Canada will allow other contractors to vie for the job using telecom equipment made by Huawei Technologies or other Chinese firms."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/amid-spy-concerns-chinese-tech-firm-steers-clear-of-ottawa-security-bid/article4625493/

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"Suntech Tops Drop From 5-Month High on Profits: China Overnight"

"Suntech, the world’s largest solar-panel maker, lost 18 percent to 75 cents yesterday, while LDK Solar Co. fell 13 percent to 71 cents."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-19/dangdang-tops-drop-from-5-month-high-on-profits-china-overnight.html

*ex-NDP Bob Rae's uncle, c/o Red China.

The Telegraph has an article on the promotional EU poster.
" Alongside the symbols of Christianity, Judaism, Jainism and so on is one of the wickedest emblems humanity has conceived: the hammer and sickle."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100185609/you-thought-the-whole-eussr-thing-was-over-the-top-have-a-look-at-this-poster/

Yes, the English version of this song was all right, but a bit bland. The German lyrics are a good deal meatier, and more importantly, she really sings them like she means it. What a nice little moment of nostalgia. Thanks.

An AGW/Red-Green Cold.

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"1) 1997 World Series, Game 4

Perhaps the most memorable World Series game in terms of how cold it was occurred back on Oct. 22, 1997 in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Florida Marlins played Game 4 against the Cleveland Indians in a winter-like chill. At first pitch, the temperature was 38 degrees with a wind chill of 18 degrees. Snow flurries fell throughout the game and ice patches formed on the infield. This game is officially the coldest World Series game on record. MLB didn't track weather records until the 1970s so it's certainly possible there were colder games prior to the 70s."

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/looking-back-at-the-coldest-wo/423058

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"THE CAUSES OF THE EARLY "PALATINE" EMIGRATIONS"

"To the curse of devastation was added an unkind prank of nature, when at the end of 1708 a winter, cruel beyond the precedent of a century, set in to blight the region. As early as the beginning of October the cold was intense, and by November 1st, it was said, firewood would not burn in the open air! In January of 1709 wine and spirits froze into solid blocks of ice; birds on the wing fell dead; and, it is said, saliva congealed in its fall from the mouth to the ground.(11) Most of Western Europe was frozen tight. The Seine and all the other rivers were ice-bound and on the 8th of January, the Rhone, one of the most rapid rivers of Europe, was covered with ice. But what had never been seen before, the sea froze sufficiently all along the coasts to bear carts, even heavily laden. (12) Narcissus Luttrell, a famous English diarist of that day, wrote of the great violence of the frost in England and in foreign parts, where several men were frozen to death in many countries. The Arctic weather lasted well into the fourth month. Perhaps THE EARLY PALATINE EMIGRATION 5 the period of heaviest frost was from the 6th to the 2.Sth of January. Then snow fell until February 6th. 14 The fruit trees were killed and the vines were destroyed. The calamity of this unusually bitter weather fell heavily on the husbandman and vine-dressers, who in consequence made up more than half of the emigrants Of 1709."

http://www.horseshoe.cc/pennadutch/history/european/knittle.htm

A Jack Layton Moment:

"“While he is in good health for his age, he is not as resilient as he was in his youth and has medication he needs to take daily. I hope that the Israeli Defence Forces respect his human rights and legal rights and treat him with the respect and dignity he deserves,” said Paul Manly."

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"Activists, former Canadian MP in Israeli custody after ship tries to breach Gaza blockade"

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/activists-former-canadian-mp-in-israeli-custody-after-ship-tries-to-breach-gaza-blockade/article4626090/

"Re: Red Balloons!!

I prefer the German version!! Now look at what you`ve done! It took 20 years of therapy to get that tune out of my head--and now it`s back again!!

Thanks anyway!!

Posted by: Plainzdrifter at October 20, 2012 1:55 AM

One of the many annoying things I've been known occasionally to do is ask people what tune they have stuck in their head. I find it's a wonderful test of a song's quality: can I be forced to listen to this in the privacy of my brain off-and-on for up to a week and not hate it forever? (In very few cases is the answer yes.)

David Frum has a very good article in the National Post today "Why Benghazi Matters." The issue makes it clear that Obama's Middle East Policy is in shambles. If a cover-up is proven and the reasons made clear, Obama is toast: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/10/20/david-frum-why-benghazi-matters/