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  5. Funny – my wife is watching a 20/20 segment on the evils of guns.
    ABC: in touch with the average Joe.

  6. A poll in need of your input:
    Vote for your favourite Islamophobe from this list or nominate a worthy ‘phobe here.
    Stephen Harper’s on the list – make sure your fave ‘phobe is too.
    Brought to you by the hilariously named Islamic Human Rights Commission.

  10. Re. Patch’s cold-blooded breakup with many of its employees: that seems to be the way of the world today! All the more reason to work for yourself.

  12. …. That girl was playing clawhammer on a resonator.
    ……… I just don’t know what to think anymore.

  13. Thursday, Jan. 30, Toronto Sun, Christina Blizzard. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency wants to ban Australian staple Marmite and a few other imported products.
    http://www.torontosun.com/2014/01/29/from-marmite-ban-to-ford-to-bieber-were-a-laughingstock
    “The yeast-based spread contained added vitamins that are not permitted to be added to spreads under the current Food and Drug Regulations,” the Canadian Food Inspection Agency told me of a consignment seized in Saskatoon.
    “To sell the products legally in Canada, the importer could find another supplier who manufactures these products that meet Canadian requirements, work with their current supplier to reformulate their product to meet requirements, or make an application to Health Canada including adequate safety information,” said the e-mail.
    “These are technical violations of the regulations. There is no food safety risk associated with these products.”
    If there is no “food safety risk”, then why the hell are there regulations against them?
    Might that be because regulations are not about protecting the public, they’re about putting bums in seats in the bureaucracy?
    Fire the parasites ASAP!

  14. Conrad Black stripped of his Order of Canada.
    But also reported in the news tonight is that he has been stripped of his honorary position in the Privy Council of Canada, at the ** recommendation ** of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
    Should this turn out to be true, then I will never send another penny to the Cons as long as Harper leads the party.
    I will wait to find out the facts on this story – I never trust the press – but if what is being said in the news is true, then it means it is time for Harper to pack it in.

  18. I don’t think Mann will get very far as there is no doubt that all the wheels have fallen off the whole global warming wagon. The whole story is in this silly little song and the proof is out there for all to see.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMqc7PCJ-nc
    The IPCC, Gore, Suzuki and Mann have all been shown for what they are. Vain opportunists that were completely brainwashed by their own desire to see what was never there. The tide has turned and there is now massive evidence that Global warming was nothing more than manipulated data.

  19. Mr. Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Lib.):
    ” Mr. Speaker, today Canadians will be participating in the Bell Let’s Talk campaign focusing on mental health issues in Canada. On this occasion, we all recognize that talking is the first step toward ending the stigma and bringing about change on mental health.” (Hansard,Jan.28,2014)
    He forgot to add that talking about mental health can also be very lucrative.
    How do you spell hypocrite?
    When I’m in a hurry, JT.

  20. Sorry, dizzy, but “The Week” is not a credible source on the Mann vs. Everybody trial.
    It’s a one-note online Democrat rag, with main-page headlines like “The RNC’s endless, misguided war with MSNBC.” If you’ve been following the series of firings/resignations at MSNBC, and the crass behaviour of its talking heads, you’ll know that MSNBC has been at war with itself – and with sanity, and common grace – not with the RNC.
    Damon Linker’s assertion that “the longer (the lawsuit) continues, the more likely it becomes that Mann will eventually prevail, either by forcing an expensive settlement or by prevailing in court and winning a substantial penalty from the defendants” is not a credible or informed legal opinion. You just have read his article to understand that.

  23. As a follow-up to my previous post about Conrad Black, below please let me just quote one of the dozens up dozens of anti-Black posts on the G&M regarding this news story, many also demanding Harper’s head on a stick for not deporting Black.
    Harper, you may be a fine chess player in politics, but you are losing your principles….and you are losing them very quickly. Never *ever* did I think I would see Harper become “just like them”, another politician who cares only about his own hide.
    ====
    Good to hear!!! In spite of the fact that there are far too many charlatans who are appointed to the Order (Jeanne Bekker???What for?? Shilling ugly frocks?Pullleeze!!!), this is one occasion to rejoice. Connie can now wallow in ignominy with Allan Eagleson and Garth Drabinsky. Please throw him out of this country seeing he has renounced it but not until he has paid what he owes it in taxes on the ill gotten gains he earned here.

  25. Sorry everyone, one final comment on the Conrad Black topic. On the Toronto Sun web page there is a poll:
    Do you think his [Conrad Black’s] Order of Canada should have been removed?
    81% Yes, absolutely. 869 votes
    19% No, it’s unjust. 203 votes
    Remember, this result is the Sun readership speaking.
    We are well and truly screwed. You might as will given Shiny Pony the job. Why Harper willingly feeds the fire is beyond me.

  26. I remember an old remark from the Review’s comments section —
    “When I determined that I was a Conservative I decided that it was appropriate to subscribe to the National Review”.
    I don’t really think it has that cachet anymore. W Jr. died, they kicked his son off the paper & it has become … let’s hear it from a long-term suscriber [though not a conservative].
    // The problem is that National Review is so lightweight that it’s easy to mock. And the same holds true in varying degrees for Fox News, Paul Gigot’s opinion pages in Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, William Kristol’s Weekly Standard, Emmett Tyrell’s conspiratorial American Spectator and the nutty reports on Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network.
    Thankfully there exist The American Conservative and the libertarian monthly Reason, with its provocative substance.
    America needs first-rate publications that articulate conservative perspectives by marshaling hard facts and sound logic. It needs right-wing publications as steeped in reporting, and just as political, as The Nation and Mother Jones.
    Instead, we get an array of conservative outlets worthy mostly of ridicule. (There are, to be clear, plenty of loonies on the left and with ambiguous perspectives, but they are sideshows, not dominant.)
    Those not on the far right need quality conservative publications against which to develop, refine and test their own ideas. //
    SO when
    // This week it asked subscribers like me for donations to pay lawyers fending off a libel suit. […] I will not be sending a check to help save National Review from its own folly. My money is better spent supporting the tiny San Francisco Public Press, which does the revealing investigative journalism that the Chronicle has never provided the city of my birth.
    But I will donate to a serious, well-run and conservative magazine equal to what Charles Peters gave us. I hope you will, too. And I’ll renew my National Review subscription, if only for the laughs. //

  27. I would rephrase your “screwed” assessment: If genuine conservatives actually think Conrad Black is more important to our ship of state than Stephen Harper, and if they think that if Conrad Black gets his Order of Canada taken away it’s some sort of national tragedy, and if they won’t vote for the Conservative party in a federal election because of it, we’re “screwed.”
    Just that straight. I like Conrad Black’s writing, but let’s be realistic. “Baron Black of Crossharbour” renounced his Canadian citizenship so he could retain his British titular honour, and then, when he got out of jail, he decided he wanted to be a Canadian citizen again.
    I don’t give a royal titled crap about whether Conrad Black receives, or keeps, the Order of Canada, and neither should he or anyone else.
    It’s just not a national issue, IMO.

  28. Some old rich white dude can’t wear some of his medals in public anymore, and this is important because???

  30. PETITION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
    IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED
    We, the undersigned citizens of Canada draw the attention of the House to the following: THAT : as individual Citizens of Canada WE do NOT enjoy the protection of “PROPERTY RIGHTS” within the Constitution of Canada ! hence, THE LAW of Canada!
    THEREFORE: Your petitioners call upon Parliament to forthwith, incorporate and entrench FOREVER , individual “PROPERTY RIGHTS” INTO THE CONSTITUTION OF CANADA.
    ………………………………………..
    I AM waitng for a sponsor to provide a set of modest Camper wheels (on loan) while I walk and ride a DONKEY across Canada collecting Canadian Citizen signatures on the Petition shown above.
    I AM , Joe Molnar, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
    Joseph (Joe) Molnar

  31. Prince of Wales hits out at climate change deniers… labelling them the ‘headless chicken brigade’ (Daily Mail online)
    In an inflammatory speech, the heir to the throne spoke out against ‘the barrage of sheer intimidation’ from what he described as powerful interest groups.
    “It is baffling that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything – until, that is, it comes to climate science. All of a sudden, and with a barrage of sheer intimidation, we are told by powerful groups of deniers that the scientists are wrong and we must abandon all our faith in so much overwhelming scientific evidence.”

  33. Marmite isn’t Australian, it’s English. Th Aussies have a cheap knock off they call Vegemite.

  34. I may be going out on a limb here, but in my opinion Morgentaler deserves what that doctor from Ohio got.

  35. AGW Kills.
    H/T Gore, Hansen, May, Suzuki, Mann, et al.
    …-
    “Bitter European Cold Snap Claims Dozens of Lives”
    “As a whole, Europe has enjoyed a relatively very mild winter this year, as one Atlantic low after another have regularly pumped mild Atlantic air over much of the continent. But that pattern was interrupted by a blast of cold air from the East about 10 days ago. The results have been deadly.”
    “123 deaths due to cold in USA”
    http://notrickszone.com/2014/02/01/bitter-european-cold-snap-claims-dozens-of-lives/#comments

  36. As of Dec. 31/13 Ontario’s Liberal Government had built or approved 6,736 wind turbines.
    Here’s the chart by county. Google : windpowergrab wordpress
    200 of the turbines where built on crown land.
    Conservative Ridings – 4597
    NDP Ridings – 1365
    Liberal Ridings – 574 (Of the 574 in Liberal Ridings 537 were in the Thunder Bay Area – Out of sight out of mind?)
    To recap: In Ontario’s actual population areas (Thunder Bay is NOT a population area.)
    Conservative Ridings get to look at 68.3% of these beautiful bird blenders.
    NDP Ridings get to look at 20% of these monuments to Gaia.
    Liberal Ridings (Other than the woods of Thunder Bay) .6%
    That’s right .6%

  37. Too much depressing news? Tired of all the left-wing media spin against conservatism?
    Why not stoke the fire, kick back and chill the kids at a nice game of Obamopoly
    mhb23re

  40. I was half way through watch that super enjoyable video before I noticed the mouth organ player had an artificial leg.

  43. “old rich white dude”
    (Using my Dad’s expression) ‘Careful now’, you’re sounding like Premier Redford’s campaign strategist from the teachers’ union.
    Like Obama says, words matter. 🙂

  44. The Order of Canada is a national award; ergo, it’s a national issue.
    I had forgotten that Conrad Black had renounced his Canadian citizenship. That does change things. I just like the guy, and see him as far more valuable to Canada than a genocidal maniac like Henry Morgentaler. Conrad Black’s voice is strong and conservative. I will of course vote Conservative, but PM Harper did not HAVE TO cancel Black’s award and it seems rather divisive and churlish for him to have done that.
    We don’t all think the same.

  45. You’re right that the Order of Canada is a national award, and in that sense is a national issue. I should have said that Baron Black of Crossharbour’s titular honours aren’t “an issue of great national importance.”
    They really aren’t, at least not to me. Your mileage may vary.
    And yes, conservatives don’t all think the same. The left? Not so much…

  46. “The left? Not so much…”
    Die-hard leftists DO appear to swallow the entire political package, no matter what the particular issue is. That’s what I find most irritating.

  47. Hard to disagree with you. I kinda got turned off when Justin Bieber got the Queen’s medal and showed up for the ceremony in painter’s overalls and a bass-ackward ball cap. No surprise it made Bieber look like the boob he is, but this time, Harper as well. A feeble (and stupid) attempt to pander to the younger mindless crowd.

  48. Justine’s Purge & Joe Stalin’s Purge.
    …-
    “Justin Trudeau’s purge of senators leaves Liberals with dramatic drop in western Canada representation” (NP)
    …-
    “The Great Purge under Stalin 1937-38”
    “While the waves of repression that rolled across Ukraine in the early 1930s were mainly directed against Ukrainians, the Great Purge of 1937-38 encompassed the entire Soviet Union and all categories of people. Its goal was to sweep away all of Stalin’s real and imaginary enemies and to infuse all levels of Soviet society, especially upper echelons, with a sense of insecurity and abject dependence on and obedience to the “Great Leader.” In a series of sensational show trials, almost all the “founding fathers” of bolshevism (and the potential rivals of Stalin) were discredited and subsequently executed.”
    http://www.brama.com/ukraine/history/terror/index.html

  49. I agree,it’s not a national issue, but unfortunately we live in an age where the latest Justin Bieber antic IS considered “national news”.
    Black’s an excellent writer, his suckholing for a peerage always has mystified me. I assume he is infected with incurable anglophilism.

  50. The PM went to Justin, who was practicing for the evening show. He apologized that he would be in his stage clothes and the PM, whose teenage son was going to attend the show, said: I’ll be in my overalls too. It was an informal meeting, obviously.
    The Queen herself has presented awards to some very questionable people. In 2012, she presented an award to BBC personality, Stuart Hall, for his contributions to British broadcasting, who later confessed to 14 sexual crimes against girls as young as 9. Sir Jimmy Savile was awarded the OBE in 1971, and received his knighthood from the Queen in 1996.
    Unlike Bieber, I’m sure they were dressed in suitable attire.

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