You don't hear much about Albania these days. Tonight, we watch a short documentary about the northern Albanian city of Shkodër.
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Washington TImes: U.N. praises Saudi Arabia on women’s rights
Hitler finds out about Obamacare exchange problems.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/217154.php
> Black Mamba. Priceless but I was wondering if you or anyone else might know what the actual movie is called ?
If it's green and good for Gaia, don't just walk away,.....run !
http://www.cbc.ca/news/spray-foam-insulation-can-make-some-homes-unlivable-1.2224287
No surprise here but at this point, what difference does it make ? Hope he lives long enough to see her crash and burn.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/24/us-usa-clinton-soros-idUSBRE99N0UW20131024
So Postmedia Publications (Ed Journal, Cal Herald, Star P, Leader P etc) lost another $32 million last quarter. Following a $120 million loss previous quarter (included a BIG writedown). Not only was print ad revenue off 10% but subscriber revenue was down but even digital revenue was off 2%. My prediction is they will not wait for the asteroid and simply cease business at some point within the next 18 months.
Islam in Canada. Keep bringing them in. What can possibly go wrong.
http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/category/canada/
Peter I think it's called "Down Fall"
Yup. "Der Untergang" in kraut. It's actually a very good movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163/
This is good. "The Democrat Race Lie."
http://mar.gy/1LZ7g
Thanks for the movie title.
This one almost ruined my day because it puts her in the same brainwashed category as Redford.
http://www.dawsoncreekdailynews.ca/article/GB/20131025/CP02/310259785/-1/dawsoncreek/alberta-wildrose-leader-danielle-smith-now-says-she-believes-in&template=cpArt
It did ruin my day. So Danielle Smith drank some of Al Gore's snake oil. What a coward. Who were the alleged critics? Where is Vaclav Havel when you need him.
The oft used Hitler clip is from the 2004 German movie 'Downfall' (Der Untergang).
You may want to see this sad clip of an interview with the actor Bruno Ganz. He put an awful lot of himself in the part only to have the world have fun with it and even his wife and kids mocking him. He's trying to see the humor, but...
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YLqC3DIgjY"
Obama may lose his new best Muslim friend within a couple of months if the math adds up.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/10/25/iran-bomb-uranium-israel/3186567/
Interesting, thanks. You enclosed your link and it wont work. Here's the uncorupted one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YLqC3DIgjY
Great link there Black Mamba!
Also, most klansmen were Democrat voters, not just Senator 'sheets' Byrd. Whenever Republicans passed civil-rights legislation of any sort the local and state Democrat authorities would do whatever they could to stop the implementation. I reluctantly suggest Ann Coulter's book Demonic (reluctantly, because of many people's knee jerk reaction to her bombastic, grandstanding style) for a great chapter outlining Democrat's despising of equal rights until they discovered it could get them votes. Then they combined their about face with the development of a dependent class through LBJ's Great Society and a rewriting of history to cast a bad light on Republicans.
These kind of stories usually don't interest me but I thought she was long gone already. Liked her.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477191/Terrible-twilight-Doris-Day-Concerns-raised-beauty-hidden-world-45-years.html
Re: Albanian video.
Peterj I saw that too. Utterly depressing. This global warming thing has become a cult. It is a simple as that. Scary.
http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/670/964/original.jpg
h/t Rosenmops at Blazing Cat Fur
That's very funny.
They are having fun with that one too.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=628786390505265&set=vb.271564372901620&type=2&theater
Awesome!
Found on zerohedge. A depressing loss of all constitutional rights in the US as a result of the "war on terror".
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/americans-have-lost-virtually-all-of-our-constitutional-rights.html
Absolutely amazing - people in the US readily sign a petition supporting an "Orwellian police state", one based on that used in Nazi Germany. Couldn't believe what I was seeing. Are there any sane people left in the US any more?
http://www.infowars.com/americans-sign-petition-to-support-nazi-style-orwellian-police-state/
"We have made it crystal clear – in all possible forums,
Israel will not stand by and watch Iran develop weaponry that will put us,
the entire Middle East and eventually the world, under an Iranian umbrella of terror,"
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Soon we shall see which bastards will be erased from a map of the world- Iranian pres. Abnerdinnerjacket.
NSA spying, IRS, Affordable Health Care, Climate Change, etc.. will all be minor memories after this next war.
Oh,
and and guess what?
Our gas prices will reach 30-50 dollars per gallon,
Obama your dumbness,
we sure could have used that Keystone pipeline...
The report (Above) comes as the White House is trying to persuade Congress not to go ahead with a bill to stiffen sanctions on Iran to force it to open up its nuclear program to inspection.
The White House on Thursday invited senate staffers to a meeting on Iran strategy for negotiations that are to resume next month with Iran, it said.
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As I said earlier,
Everything Obama touches turns into Shit..
O'narcissist Papers.
"Nobody showed to bid."
...-
"Burned out: Obama’s first land auction for solar goes bust"
"So much for the White House dream of solar selling like hotcakes. The first federal auction run by the Bureau of Land Management to sell chances to build solar power projects on public land went completely bust on Thursday.
Nobody showed to bid.
“We did not have any bidders come to the sale, and we did not received any sealed bids on the sale,” BLM spokeswoman Vanessa Lacayo said, Denver Business Journal reported."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/25/obamas-first-land-auction-solar-goes-bust-colorado/
Mother Theresa, the former Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, was born in Albania.
Mother Teresa ...
Uh, it's October 26 today: Is Kate out hunting?
Christie Blatchford: Brazeau, Duffy and Wallin ought to just shut up and go quietly into the good night
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/10/25/christie-blatchford-brazeau-duffy-and-wallin-ought-to-just-shut-up-and-go-quietly-into-the-good-night/
"Brazeau, Duffy and Wallin ought to just shut up and go quietly into the good night..."
Oh dear Lord, yes.
So what would you expect when Rahm Emanuel's brother, Ezekiel, aka verbal diarrhea, Rahm takes the podium?
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/10/lies-of-obamacare-4.php
Regarding Albania, it's an odd little country.
Look up King Zog and his sisters sometime.
Fascinating saga.
Good link Mamba, this is a message that bears repeating. The Dems (now infected with statist authoritarian Stalinists) spew these lies incessantly which are mindlessly repeated by their media whores - this is essentially what Hitler called the big lie - a rewrite of history through repititous partisa propagandizing. In the case of the Dem/prog/Lib/left infection of public education, the population is sufficiently dumbed down and denied access to the true historic record that the "big lie" is either questioned or can be accurateky confirmed - the truth of history is down the memory hole as Orwell said.
If is now be expunged from history that the Dem party was the party of the KKK in the south and put an number of Klan reps in congress and the senate, they opposed emancipation by Lincoln a republican) and were a majority of southern reps who opposed the civil rights amendments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_members_in_United_States_politics
- FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE 2ND AMENDMENT AND MEDIA SAID NOTHING, THEN 1ST AMENDMENT WAS ATTACKED -
Armed agents seize records of reporter, Washington Times prepares legal action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mAHdOsDYVA
Math is hard
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/25/obama-math-got-harder-for-me/
Obama: ‘I liked math, but then it started to get harder. And so that can be frustrating’
" Anger over Senate expenses scandal spills onto the streets "
Well,not really. The CBC sent out news crews with signs that said " I'm with CBC news ,come talk to me about the Senate scandal ".
Our tax dollars at work.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/anger-over-senate-expenses-scandal-spills-onto-the-streets-1.2252479
O'narcissist's TOTUS FLOTUS Papers.
"CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of a Canadian company."
...-
"Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is executive at company that built Obamacare website"
"First Lady Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the contract to build the failed Obamacare website.
Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of ’85, is senior vice president at CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the $678 million Obamacare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov. CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of a Canadian company.
Townes-Whitley and her Princeton classmate Michelle Obama are both members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni."
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/25/michelle-obamas-princeton-classmate-is-executive-at-company-that-built-obamacare-website/
Have a look at:
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21588375-trade-pact-europe-points-way-global-market-services-canada-doesnt-get-any
O'narcissist Papers.
...-
"Elderly patients sick over losing doctors under ObamaCare"
"See Also:
#1 — Full testing of HealthCare.gov began too late, contractors say
#2 — Democrats Run for ObamaCare Cover
#3 — Obamacare’s Ticking Clock
#4 — Obama the Avatar
#5 — They Broke It, You Bought It"
http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
Moving closer to Sieg Heil Obama
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AF_ACADEMY_HONOR_OATH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-10-25-15-41-39
Mind you, the "Senate scandal" is an important political news story and I can't help but remark on the way SDA seem to be completely ignoring it.
Makes SDA look a bit like rabble.ca; they routinely ignore news stories that don't fit their narrative.
For bitcoiniacs:
"Three high school buddies from a tiny Canadian town say that they will flip the switch on the world’s first bitcoin ATM next week. It will operate near the entrance of a downtown Vancouver coffee house.
Built by a Nevada company called Robocoin, the machine will trade bitcoins for cash and vice versa. Bitcoin is the world’s most popular digital currency, and it exists only on the internet, but it can be traded for traditional dollars and euros. Though bitcoin began as niche technology embraced mostly by internet geeks, it is gradually spreading not only to everyday people, but into the everyday world.
To buy bitcoins with the Robocoin ATM, you need to do a palm scan and then stuff the machine with as much as 3,000 Canadian dollars per day (roughly US$2,900). The machine then makes a trade on Canada’s VirtEx exchange and moves them into your online bitcoin wallet. The palm scan is to prevent people from doing more than $3,000 worth of transactions, as that would run afoul of Canada’s anti-money-laundering laws, says Mitchell Demeter, one of the Robocoin’s new owners."
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/10/worlds-first-bitcoin-atm/
Ignoring the story?
I'm awaiting an audit of ALL Senators before I pillory any specific people.
Regardless of party, once they've all been subjected to the SAME scrutiny, any found to be taking funds fraudulently
should be fired and charged.
Also, maybe you could refer us to the media shock headlines concerning the absolute fraud LIBERAL Senator Mac Harb has been accused of by the RCMP. Strangely I can't find much in the legacy media.
You are aware that the Prime Minister has been trying to have all Senators elected and answerable to their constituents?
This has been fought by the leftist parties at every turn.
Puffy, Caterwallin, and Brazen, if guilty, should be suspended, as should all Senators who submit false or misleading expense claims.
Mac Harb, the Liberal Senator who retired so he could get his $110,000+ pension, owed over $231,000 for ineligible expense claims. He paid it back and then hit the road so he could get his pension.
Legacy media, not very interested in mentioning this Liberal fraudster.
If you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide.
http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/prologue.pdf
Blogging Tories need to use social media and Twitter in particular the way flash mobs are organized in an impromptu fashion, using this method to challenge the CBC when it engages in these types of politically-motivated stunts -- except it would be much easier since, unlike a flash mob, only a single person would be needed to show up on the scene.
Use Twitter to have the closest possible person show up at the scene and stand next to the reporter (such as the one featured in the link you've provided) holding a makeshift sign, with an arrow pointed at him, with a message like: "I'm a taxpayer, come talk to me about how you feel paying this guy's salary while he uses/abuses his position for partisan political purposes."
I wonder how many seconds would elapse before the reporter and his camera operator jump in their vehicle and head to a new location to shoot, while their anchors and reporters back in the newsroom run subordinate narratives to his piece about how PMSH is trying to change the channel on criticism. Irony is completely lost on this lot.
O'narcissist Papers.
"... a mere $700 million of the $60 billion federal aid package – 1.2 percent of the total funds – has been given to victims of super storm Sandy.
Nearly a year after the devastating storm, a majority of the 24,000 families that have requested monetary assistance have yet to receive a penny from the federal aid package."
...-
"Company behind Obamacare website in charge of nearly $2 billion in Sandy relief"
"CGI Federal Inc., the mastermind behind healthcare.gov, is assisting the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the distribution of $1.7 billion in relief for Hurricane Sandy.
In a memo obtained by FreedomWorks titled, “Minutes of the 295th meeting of the members of the Housing Trust Fund Corporation held on May 9, 2013, at 8:30 a.m.,” CGI Federal is tasked with implementing the Disaster Housing Assistance Program. Additionally, they are asked to aid in the implementation of the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Program, an assistance program that had recently obtained $1.7 billion."
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/26/company-behind-obamacare-website-in-charge-of-nearly-2-billion-in-sandy-relief/
Obamacare’s Magical Thinkers
Not even the coolest president ever can conjure up a national medical regime for 300 million people. By Mark Steyn
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/362255/obamacares-magical-thinkers-mark-steyn