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Recommended: The America of 2013, by Steve McCann.

Email it to any friends of yours who, by virtue of relying on the CBC/CTV/Daily Show etc. for their information, don't have a clue what's going on.

David Blackmon at Forbes.com:

The ongoing debate in Washington over the possible repeal of what news media outlets commonly refer to as “subsidies” to the oil and gas industry has been an ongoing source of amusement and consternation to those who work in the industry for four years now. It’s somewhat amusing given the reality that, as Harold Hamm told a recent congressional hearing, the oil and natural gas industry does not actually receive any tax “subsidies” from the federal government, but frustrating because pretty much no one in the news media ever reports on the subject accurately…

Read "Oil & Gas Tax Provisions Are Not Subsidies for 'Big Oil'" here.

Here's one for "the tolerant left" file:

This lefty gun hater wants to scrap the 2nd amendment, list the NRA as a terrorist group, lynch any politician who disagrees with him and kill any gun owner who disagrees with being arbitrarily criminalized. Hitler would have loved to have this duffer running one of his pogroms but our lefty media has him and thinks nothing of publishing his criminal threats and hate speech.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/pry-guns-from-cold-dead-fingers-works-for-me/

hope this rekindling doesnt start a big fire.

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/world/archives/2012/07/20120710-114816.html

kind of a 3 year example of "Idle no more" and a stellar example to Jabba the Spence

…and in the warm evenings, as the sun sets over the Pacific, triumphant cries of "Tax this, Obama!" can be heard emanating from the balconies of wealthy former Americans…

“Ecuador is such an overwhelmingly attractive choice for retirees overseas today in part because your dollars really stretch there,” Stevens says. “You could live comfortably for $1,600 a month, rent included. The values extend to real estate, as well. A condo right on the coast that might cost you $1 million or more in California, you could have for less than $150,000 along Ecuador’s northern Pacific. We have readers who bought a little mountain place as well as an apartment overlooking the water and split their time between the two. They could never have afforded to do something like that in the States.”

¡Hola!

A heads-up Tip: Do watch The Source, if you have a chance, for Ezra's expose on the "questionable money management" on Chorizo Spence's Attawapiskat reserve. $68 grand in travel expenses in two months for one poobah, over $100 grand to another guy for "technical management", and it just goes on and on. All this expense in a, umm, "nation" that essentially consists of about "300 shacks", as Ezra put it.

Fortunately, this being a weekend, the show airs again tomorrow. Check it out -- "The Source", on Sun News.

Found this at attawapiskat.org, same place Ezra has been getting his facts:

http://www.attawapiskat.org/wp-content/uploads/20120304LetterHerMajesty.pdf

This is the letter to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth from "Chief" Spence.

EBD

They have nothing on NHL hokey Moms and their "little darlings"

Footie, or as we call it, Soccer, is nothing to kill people over.

dwright

Urban gangs in the '80s were admirably racially integrated and not particularly scary. I know this from Crocodile Dundee movies and Michael Jackson videos.

These paddys have the right attitude about how to run an urban gang and we all have a lot to learn from them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaaZsBxWeiQ

Black Mamba

Sweet. Would be considered a "hate crime" for parody, and Irony. In the "progressive world"

Hilarious, nonetheless.

dwright

And don't forget the Zoot Suit era. From the 1940s until sometime in the 50s.

Interesting report over at HotAir
Nebraska report: Keystone XL pipeline poses “minimal” risks

From the Washington Times;

(...)
In his first term, his administration pandered to environmental groups by denying the Canadian government’s application to build the northern half of the pipeline from Canada to Nebraska even though it already had been under review for three years. The decision was not only irresponsible, it was nonsensical. …
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Yet in the weeks ahead, opposition groups will continue to pressure the president to reject the Keystone XL pipeline on environmental grounds. They will press forward with their misinformation campaign, despite the fact that transporting oil by way of pipelines produces fewer carbon emissions than transporting it by truck, rail or oceangoing tankers sent overseas. Even the State Department’s environmental analysis of the Keystone pipeline noted failure to build the pipeline could result in greater emissions.

And from the WSJ;
Keystone Pipeline Clears a Big Hurdle in Nebraska

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Even in Ontario, Bald eagles are not welcome.

http://quixoteslaststand.com/2013/01/05/9094/

BCF has a little bit up about the Chief.

It appears that the dieting diva takes regular breals from the isolation and hardship of her bleak island existence by regular trips to an Ottawa hotel.

The island tipi may just be for photo ops with the visiting Harper-haters.

http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca/2013/01/chief-mafatma-gandhi-heads-to-hotel.html

EBD and others with extended attention spans:
As a supplement to your American Thinker link about the dire condition of America check out this most excellent review of Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West.

Nothing to hand-wring about.
It's a natural organic process.
Empires like men are born, come of age, decline and DIE.
Nuthin' to be done about it.

I attempted to read this TOME in the late 80's but abandoned it.

Teaser: In academia (the State ciphers) it's not considered to be scholarship of the first rank.

http://nationalinterest.org/article/spenglers-ominous-prophecy-7878?page=show

Apropos of nothing but just because I looked out my window:

Yea! It's snowing here in Toronto! The big-flake snow, not the drizzly kind. 'Wonder if it'll last more than five minutes. That's the kind of winter we're having.

"Yea! It's snowing here in Toronto! The big-flake snow, not the drizzly kind." etec, etc,

Posted by: batb on January 6, 2013 9:27 AM |

Yea..... batb..... It's snowing here in Woodstock, Ontario as well ...... beautiful Sunday winter morning.

AS an aside... the "murder of crows" we have been dealing with here in Oxford County and Woodstock Ontario, continues.


However an early morning "flyby" of crows seems to have diminished to 15 minutes as compared to former years a "fly by" might last for more than a half hour.

Those of us who use black plastic garbage bags on collection day, simply use an old bedsheet to cover the bags lest they become shredded in minutes by the black-winged plague.

That's not news, but it is our reality here in Woodstock, until early in March when they (crows) all leave the area.

Sam story , ten years running...........!

Thomas Friedman has an interesting column at the,yes, NYT.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/opinion/sunday/friedman-more-risk-taking-less-poll-taking.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_r=0

In it, he writes that the US ought to be "responding to the merger of globalization and the information technology revolution, which is changing every job and workplace; dealing with our mounting debt and entitlement burdens, driven by steadily rising health care costs and unsustainable defined benefits; and, finally, developing energy sources that can grow the world economy..without climate change".

Except for the last phrase, this is a good agenda. There are three modern yet basic new aspects of our economic and societal infrastructure. The reality of globalization in both the economy and information processes; that instantaneous and pervasive informational awareness of each of us without an overseer; the balancing of responsibilities and 'rights', and new energy sources.

Obama ignores it all. All. I think Harper is tuned to these changes, but, the fact is that Obama and yes, the GOP, are ignoring them...

PET Cemetery Report.

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"Feathered dinosaur used displays to attract mates
TG Daily"

"Former PM Paul Martin meets with Spence, calls her 'an inspiration'
CTV News"

A good article in the NYT by Friedman, concerned about the lack of an agenda for economic growth in Washington. He writes:

"What world are we living in? It’s a world in which we face three major challenges: responding to the merger of globalization and the information technology revolution, which is changing every job and workplace; dealing with our mounting debt and entitlement burdens, driven by steadily rising health care costs and unsustainable defined benefits; and, finally, developing energy sources that can grow the world economy without tipping it into disruptive climate change."

Except for the last phrase, I think he's got a good agenda. The reality of a global economic and societal infrastructure, of instantaneous information communication, and the need to balance wealth production with wealth consumption - these are vital.

But the GOP are trapped into being reactive to Obama. And most people are under the false impression that Obama's agenda is for the well-being of America and Americans. They assume that Obama simply has a different strategy for obtaining that result.

No. Obama has no interest in America. His focus is strictly on increasing his own power and decreasing the power of others. Period.
The radical Democrats who provide Obama's policies are communists who loathe capitalism and freedom; their agenda is to destroy both in America.

Put the two together, and it's a disaster. The GOP can't confront the personal agenda of Obama. But they CAN openly call it emotional manipulation. Nor can they easily confront that of the Obama Gang for they are primarily unelected.

Therefore, they have to promote their own agenda: to increase wealth production of the individual; to focus on the balance between production and consumption. And to stop reacting to Obama's emotional manipulation.

Friedman writes, that the government should be saying: "Given this world, here are the specific tax reforms, spending cuts, investments and policy innovations we need to grow our middle class, sustain our retirees and shrink inequality.”

He is ignoring Obama's agenda, and that of his gang. But where are the GOP?

I guess we could add this to the, "We don't want your stinky giant fans" meme:
Seems the Czechs and Poles are installing equipment to block German "green" energy which for the longest time has relied upon the use of their power grids without their permission and better yet, without paying for it. Now they've had enough:

http://www.thegwpf.org/poland-czech-republic-ban-germanys-green-energy/

http://atlanticsentinel.com/2013/01/czechs-poles-to-keep-german-green-energy-out/

One for the, "We don't want your stinking giant fans" meme.

It seems that for the longest time German "green" energy relied upon the use of the Czech and Polish power grids without permission and, better yet, without paying for it. Now the Czechs and Poles have had enough and are installing equipment at the borders to block the resultant power surges and risks of blackouts:

http://www.thegwpf.org/poland-czech-republic-ban-germanys-green-energy/

http://atlanticsentinel.com/2013/01/czechs-poles-to-keep-german-green-energy-out/

Sorry for the double post -- still getting used to this new system.

Apparently Rep. Jose Serrano reintroduces a bill to repeal presidential term limits.

Told ya.

@NEMO2

Link please or else i have no reason to beleive anything you stated above!!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257715/Study-shows-college-students-think-theyre-special--read-write-barely-study.html

excellent article on some of the problems created over indulging todays students

paul in calgary: Here ya go.

http://twitchy.com/2013/01/05/rep-jose-serrano-reintroduces-bill-to-repeal-presidential-term-limit/

@Paul

And here ya go...again:

http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/06/new-york-congressman-introduces-bill-to-abolish-presidential-term-limits/

Quote: "Democratic New York Rep. Jose Serrano reintroduced a bill in Congress Friday to repeal the 22nd Amendment, which places term limits on the U.S. presidency.

The bill, which has been referred to committee, would allow Barack President Obama to become the first president since Franklin Roosevelt to seek a third term in office.

H.J. Res. 15 proposes “an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.”"

Terry Glavin in the Ottawa Citizen: "Idle No More? Let's get serious."

Jeffrey Simpson G&M of all places...

http://tinyurl.com/a3s6n76

"Large elements of aboriginal Canada live intellectually in a dream palace, a more comfortable place than where they actually reside."

test link @ American Thinker

"Know Your Gnostics | The American Conservative"

"One of the chief vices Voegelin ascribes to Gnosticism is the will to live in a dream world and the reluctance to allow reality to intrude upon the dream."

www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/​know-your-gnostics

"No End to Coldest China Winter in 28 Years, Forecaster Says"

"Southern China will be hit by a new cold front this week, extending the country’s chilliest winter in 28 years, the country’s weather agency said.

Temperatures in Southern provinces including Guangdong will dip to as low as minus 5 degrees Celsius (23 degrees Fahrenheit) on Jan. 11 and 12, the China Meteorological Administration said in a statement yesterday. Provinces including Guizhou and Hunan may experience snowstorms, it said."

"Freezing weather created a layer of thick sea ice on Laizhou Bay in eastern Shandong province, leaving about 1,000 vessels stranded, according to a separate Xinhua report. Aquatic producers in the region may face heavy losses as they can’t penetrate the ice to provide ventilation for sea cucumbers and other fish in their farms, the agency said."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-06/no-end-to-coldest-china-winter-in-28-years-weather-agency-says.html

Of left-liberals' Haitian Voodoo reservation.

Has MSM a riposte from ex-GG Jean?

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"Que. man's death in Haiti suspcisous: Family"

"Haiti finance minister slams Canada"

http://cnews.canoe.ca/

pkuster already mentioned this...but I just want to expand on the info he provided:
An eagles nest was removed because it is too close to a future windmill. Wher were the environmenatlists!?

http://ontario-wind-resistance.org/2013/01/05/wind-turbine-company-nextera-mnr-destroy-bald-eagle-nest-habitat/

@NEMO2 AND KAKOLA

Now i am worried , and i did not doubt you but in todays world i need something more than a word yes that is sad and pathetic seeing as my grandpa now 78 said he shook hands with a guy for his first tractor purchase !!

Anyway never doubted you but i have to see to beleive these days and even then i am skeptical ...lol hope you understand .

I also think it is funny that this never happened or was put forward under a republican president...lol ..ohh yeah republicans still have a basic understanding of freedom and liberty!! and that constitution!!