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  1. Kate beat me to it,but RIP General.
    In other news,when is Ottawa going to call out the army to plow their streets,ala Taranno?

  7. A drop of 2 C, for example, will result in the loss of virtually all of our wheat harvest, while, if it warms, we simply adopt farming practices used to the south of us. We must concentrate on preparing for dangerous possible climate change, and that is unquestionably not warming.
    The coldest it’s been in the last 10,000 years occurred only 300 years ago. Fortunately our federal govt seems to be run by climate realists, who understand this. Some scientists have known all along that the cumulative effect of CO2 is non linear just like the cumulative effect of insulation in your attic. Only recently is their work being recognized and getting more funding.

  10. Part of Superior Court Justice John Macdonald’s judgment, dismissing Toronto business man George Foulidis’s (obvious) $6-million nuisance suit against Toronto Mayor Rob Ford:
    A reasonable person … would have understood Ford to be saying the following: “I sense or suspect corruption in Tuggs Inc.’s deal with the city. However, I’m unable to say that anyone did anything wrong. My sense or suspicion of corruption is based on the Tuggs deal having been considered by the city ‘in camera.’ In camera meetings are where more corruption and skulduggery goes on than I’ve ever seen. However, I don’t know what actually took place.”
    http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1307634–libel-lawsuit-against-mayor-ford-dismissed
    Finally, some common sense and justice from the Superior Court. One hopes in January that Torontonians will see more of the same in the Paul Magder/Clayton Ruby debacle.

  11. Battle of Ortona, 1943.
    “28 December
    Stunned Canadian patrols advanced on the castle to find that Ortona was apparently free of the enemy. In fact, they had slipped out of the city the previous night, withdrawing to the north.”
    “Ortona
    Ortona was a Battle Honour granted to Canadian units participating in actions to liberate the city of Ortona in December 1943 as part of The Sangro Campaign during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War.”
    “Personnel of the Loyal Edmonton Regiment having tea and sandwiches outside Battalion Headquarters, Ortona, Italy, 21 December 1943. Wool Battle Dress was issued out every autumn in Italy and withdrawn in the spring during the hot summer months. The soldier in the foreground is wearing typical accoutrements of the front line infantryman; a cloth bandolier for rifle ammunition has been tied around his waist, and what appears to be a shell dressing is attached to his helmet. Enameled mugs were standard issue to Canadian troops, in either a dark brown or white; both can be seen in this photo. Along with the standard two-piece metal mess tin, an example of which is held by the soldier in the centre, this formed the full complement of a soldier’s eating utensils, along with a knife/fork/spoon. Library and Archives Canada photo.”
    http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/history/battlehonours/italiancampaign/ortona.htm

  13. Good old (meant affectionately) Conrad Black puts the Christ back in Christmas and Christmas back into its rich cultural context in the West, and I say Amen!:
    … this society should recognize how much it owes to Christianity. And it should respond more purposefully than it has to this endless torrent of intolerable insults from Islamist extremists that we are all infidels.
    Tolerance is not synonymous with stupidity or faithlessness. All the West, embracing all faiths and almost all doubts, enjoys in our Christian tradition and continuing voluntary practice and dissent, a rich appreciation of man’s relations with the universe. This doctrinal tradition vastly exceeds, in seniority, variety, and intellectual rigour, those who tax us unjustly as vessels of sacrilege and persecute Christians in grossly inexcusable and under-publicized numbers in many countries.
    Christmas is a festival of life from which all can derive the pleasure each individual thinks appropriate. Merry Christmas to all.
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/12/22/conrad-black-a-good-season-for-appreciating-our-common-christian-tradition/

  14. Record Breaking & Cold Blast From Neo-AGW PR.
    Happy Merry Gored AGW! From N-AGW PR. Rub-It-In.
    …-
    “Cold Blast on the Way for the New Year”
    “The coldest air in at least a couple of years is aiming for areas from the Upper Midwest to the Northeast”.
    http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/cold-blast-on-the-way-for-the/3285242
    …-
    “people in Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick dig out from record-breaking snowfall,”.
    http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/east-coast-digs-out-from-storm-bracing-for-more-snow-1.1093896

  16. 10,000,000+ Iggy and Os? Horrors!
    Left-liberalism’s 10 Year Plan.
    It’s for the children.
    “ten years from now Harvard will enroll ten million students.”
    …-
    “The Value of Stupidity”
    “Nathan Harden writing in the American Interest argues that higher education as we know it is doomed. The short video clip below may provide an inkling why. “I want an education,” implores this lady student at a Chicago school in what passes for a class. Evidently, she doesn’t think she is getting it. Why is that?”
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/12/28/the-value-of-stupidity/#more-26500

  18. Headline at the G&M: Hour for immediate action is here, says Obama, after ‘fiscal cliff’ meeting.
    Why, sure. Oblahblah wants to get back to Hawaii. Did he ever look pi**ed getting off Airforce One in Washington: “How dare you interrupt my vacation?”

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