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nice shout out to Kate from Mark Steyn on Hugh Hewitt show tonight...
http://www.hughniverse.com/category/hugh-hewitt-show/radio-show/
Bust a move!
I already posted this in a thread below, but I feel it needs greater exposure. It's kinda catchy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooPzr1vzmGY
The overlords:
The cover of Mad magazine's special "War On Privacy" issue.
Not sure bigger is always better.
http://www.france24.com/en/20130802-giant-virus-pandora-box-pandoravirus-france-aix-science?NewsWatchCanada.ca
They go out of their way to avoid saying Muslim, but anyone who's been paying attention can read between the lines.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2386812/Immigration-recession-boost-UK-population-420-000--fastest-growth-Europe.html
''CRTC rejects Sun News bid for mandatory cable spot.''
In the past--Has the CRTC been sleeping with the Canadian Wheat Board??
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/08/08/pol-crtc-sun-tv-news-ruling.html
Rich people are eeeeeevil.
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/08/08/malaria-cure/
Detroit maybe bankrupt, but it still has time to push an Eco-fascist agenda.
http://cwdetroit.cbslocal.com/2013/08/08/detroit-zoo-to-stop-selling-bottled-water/
The Detroit Zoo says it's giving up a $240,000-annual revenue when it stops selling bottled water to visitors.
"This move is part of the Detroit Zoological Society’s (DZS) Greenprint sustainability plan."
Related
Detroit Fast Food Workers on Strike
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/08/08/can-fast-food-workers-survive-on-their-pay-suggested-budget-raises-eyebrows/
Layers and layer of fact-tweaking.
http://twitchy.com/2013/08/08/lapdogs-fess-up-ap-admits-wrongly-inserting-words-to-fix-obama-gaffe/#.UgRUfRPGNvI.twitter
Transgender anchor sues BET for $2.5 million because he couldn’t host segment in drag
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/transgender-anchor-sues-bet-for-2.5-million-because-he-couldnt-host-segment
From: "We don't need no stinkin giant fans " department.
WW2 ordinance comes back to haunt offshore windfarm opening.
http://quixoteslaststand.com/2013/08/09/germanys-wind-tunnel-vision-runs-aground-you-just-cant-make-this-stuff-up/
Restaurants banning children during peak hours:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/08/08/growing-number-of-restaurants-ban-children-during-peak-hours/
Parent speaking: “Sometimes you think they’re going to be good and they are. Sometimes they’re not and there’s nothing you can do about it, and it’s embarrassing,” Meredith Boysen said.
And, therein lies the problem: "There's nothing you can do about it" when your kids misbehave in public????? Lady, the answer is you discipline them and there are lots of ways to do that. My kids were always fine in restaurants. We'd taught them how to behave at the table.
Others said that the policy punishes parents.
You're damned right it does -- and it should. Parents who can't or won't discipline their loud, bratty kids deserve to be punished. Control your kids or be barred from public places.
I'm OK with that.
Scary stuff:
Playwright and actor Harvey Fierstein says it’s time to let the world know that the LGBT community is “too dangerous to mess with” [emphasis mine] and that “Rat Putin” is the perfect guy to use to send that message. ... ‘You know what boys? Time to stop fu**ing with us,’” he said, also backing the boycott of Stolichnaya Vodka that has taken off worldwide. “It’s time for them to stop making money. Time for churches to stop raising money by demonizing us. [?????] Time for politicians to stop making money by demonizing us. It’s time to make the gay community too dangerous to do that to. ... We have to create an environment where we are too dangerous to mess with."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/01/harvey-fierstein-gay-russia-_n_3689564.html
Sure, use Putin to divert North Americans' attention away from what's happening with the LGBTQxyz community right here under our noses. Shine the spotlight on Putin, not Benjamin Levin, Kathleen Wynne, and their promiscuous, same-s*x saturated, s*x-ed curriculum they've introduced into Ontario public schools.
Divert attention away from Benjamin Levin, former Deputy Minister of Education in McGuinty's government, who's been charged with and arrested for seven counts of involvement with kiddie porn, including making and selling it and helping individuals over the internet to arrange s*xual liasons with children.
Fierstein's actually done everyone a favour with his expose of the LGBTQxyz's obscene modus operandi: We have to create an environment where we are too dangerous to mess with.
In Northern BC we have had a cold ,wet summer. Considering the Carbon Taxes we've paid to enjoy a bit of warming I feel ripped off. We deserve a refund.
http://notrickszone.com/2013/08/09/major-danish-daily-warns-globe-may-be-on-path-to-little-ice-age-much-colder-winters-dramatic-consequences/
I've seen the Movies. Once you open that closet door and let the monsters out they will always go after the children eventually.
"Where is the Summer Heat?"
"Will Summer Return in the Midwest, Northeast?"
"The latest indications are that cool weather will continue to be more far-reaching and longer-lasting in the East."
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/will-summer-come-back/16233182
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"Major Danish Daily Warns: “Globe May Be On Path To Little Ice Age…Much Colder Winters…Dramatic Consequences”!"
"Another major European media outlet is asking: Where’s the global warming?
Image right: The August 7 edition of Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten, featured a major 2-page article on the globe’s 15-years of missing warming and the potential solar causes and implications."
http://notrickszone.com/
The New York Times, to scare its readership into bed, is reporting the fate that awaits white-collar criminals in Russia. Apparently in Russia, people who defraud the public get real time in Siberian labour camps, not holidays in minimum security Club Feds, and policemen get promotions for making life hard for rich crooks, not pink slips.
God help all on Wall Street and Bay Street if that catches on in North America.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/09/business/global/russias-stimulus-plan-open-the-gulag-gates.html
People with the ability to walk and chew gum at the same time have always known this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2387903/Using-mobile-phone-car-does-NOT-make-driving-dangerous-claims-study.html
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/09/europe-bails-on-green-energy/#more-91331
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"Europe Pulls The Plug On Its Green Future"
"As country after country abandons, curtails or reneges on once-generous support for renewable energy, Europe is beginning to realise that its green energy strategy is dying on the vine. Green dreams are giving way to hard economic realities."
http://www.thegwpf.org/benny-peiser-europe-pulls-plug-green-future/
"Baird hopes 'decency will prevail' at Sochi Olympics
CBC.ca - 58 minutes ago
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said he hopes "decency will prevail" when it comes to Russia's anti-gay law and that while he is concerned about Canadians going to the Olympics there, a boycott is not the answer.
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"Misopaedia and the Insolence of Gay Monarchy"
"Today’s issue of depreciating childhood dovetails perfectly with my previous installment on infantilizing adults: both are reflecting a loss of the sense of maturity and responsibility in our Western culture. For instance, today every newborn is burdened with a four to six figure number of debt depending on his or her whereabouts ( cf. David Willets; “The Pinch – How the Baby Boomers took their Children’s Future-and why they should give it back”, Atlantic Books London: 2010, p.259, 269). Now the first dramatic example of instrumentalizing childhood was the Bohemian version of the Dreyfus affair. In Prague it was the Jewish cobbler Leopold Hilsener who was falsely accused of ritual murder. A little Christian girl called Anezka Hruzova had been found dead on the 1.4.1899 in Polna. And it was the first Czech president after gaining independence in 1921, Professor T.G. Masaryk, who made is name with the revision of the court indictment finally exonerating Hilsener. Nevertheless since then the West is drifting towards a gradual and not merely symbolical - think of child rape and “pedophilia”- reversal of the Abrahamic abolition of child sacrifice."
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/5086
... and further, an illuminating article by Robert Oscar Lopez about his experience as a child brought up in a two-mother household and how he, a bisexual male, made the decision to give his child, with a female, a mother/father household in which to grow up ... and how he has been excoriated by the LGBTQxyz lobby for appealing for responsibility and accountability in parenting from LGBTQ individuals:
I had a recent meeting with a priest, who said something to me that I would have never taken seriously prior to a year ago. He said, "You are fighting against real darkness." He was referring to my involvement in a movement to protect the rights of children to be raised by a mom and dad.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/08/the_political_problem_of_evil.html?utm_source=08-09-13&utm_campaign=AT+Newsletter+08-09-13&utm_medium=email#ixzz2bVLboLtC
I agree--much like idiots should be banned from the internet.
BTW, article above by Robert Oscar Lopez h/t Blazing Cat Fur:
http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca/2013/08/the-political-problem-of-evil.html#disqus_thread
Did you read Robert Oscar Lopez's article?
To what idiots on the Internet are your referring?
http://englishmanif.blogspot.ca/2013/08/lets-walk-this-russian-anti-gay-law.html
Beneath all the hype, the truth is that Russia has not banned homosexuality and the fine for propagandizing the gay lifestyle to minors amounts to $156.00.
h/t b_marco@BCF
"Nuclear power plant in Pickering, Ont., gets five-year licence extension
Victoria Times Colonist"
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Ontario Generation by Fuel Type:
Nuclear 11,030 MW.
Wind 544 MW.
Total Demand 18,617 MW.
http://www.ieso.ca/