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Can depression and feelings of resignation about mortality be ethereal? Well, yes, at least musically: Tonight we get a young-Bob photo combined with the wise-old-Bob perspective in a track from his 1997 album Time Out of Mind called Not Dark Yet.
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  2. It’s September. The traditional month for stock market crashes, or their genesis.
    Be careful on this one. The market is priced for perfection, and there’s a lot of imperfect circling out there.
    Like this: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-01/asian-property-prices-are-falling-if-theres-global-financial-crisis
    Or this: http://jugglingdynamite.com/2014/08/29/japan-flounders-afresh-endless-stimulus-schemes-a-bust/
    Or any of the wars out there.
    Also check out this from Martin Armstrong. It’s hard for the uninitiated to understand, but well worth trying to grapple with: http://moneytalks.net/article-and-commentary/todays-best-money-making-ideas/stocks-a-equities/13340-must-read-phase-transition-cycle-inversion.html

  3. Toronto Star, Tuesday, Sept. 2. Federal departments duel over economic status of middle class. (also in abbreviated form in the National Post)
    http://www.thestar.com/business/economy/2014/09/01/federal_departments_duel_over_economic_status_of_canadas_middle_class.html
    “Finance Canada has issued a rebuttal of a politically embarrassing report on middle-class economic woes that was compiled last fall by experts in another federal department.”
    “Last October, bureaucrats at Employment and Social Development Canada wrote a scathing internal report on the plight of the middle class …”
    “In April this year, Finance Canada economists put together a more detailed rebuttal for the new minister, Joe Oliver, using the same data but interpreting them in a more positive way.”
    But one of the middle class’s biggest headaches is the vast numbers of civil servants at all levels of government who produce nothing of any value to Canadians. Economic studies, no matter what their conclusion, fall into this category because politicians will inevitably try to use them to justify further interference with the free market which, since it is coercive and therefore cannot create, invent or discover, is always to the detriment of Canadians and the country’s economy.

  8. So is the media taking a new tact against the Conservatives with this headline in the National Post: “Conservative conundrum: Canadians tire of Harper while giving Trudeau the benefit of the doubt”
    Ivison writes: The biggest problem the Tories have is not the failure to date of their attacks on Trudeau it’s the slipping popularity of their leader”. What? Don’t know where these scribblers get the idea they’re speaking for all Canadians when they’re so firmly stuck in the Liberal/Left tent they can’t see the light.
    A leader who is competent, who actually leads through knowledge and experience, is doing a better job than any of the G7 leaders and this twitty bit of journalistic piffle tells us it’s all about popularity. So, in case you don’t know it, there’s the answer, we’re tired of good leadership and want to have Harper replaced with a bimbo, the choice of those who would like to see Canada reduced to a banana republic by an admirer of Commie China regime and Castro.
    God help us.

  9. That is NOT funny, they rear end some guy and when he gets out to talk to the other driver four a$$-holes jump out and give him a beating. If you think that’s funny you need serious mental help. Go see a shrink.

  10. That is NOT funny, they rear end some guy and when he gets out to talk to the other driver then 4 fools in costumes jump out and give him a beating. If you think that’s funny you need serious mental help. Go see a shrink.

  12. Did you see the latest Nanos poll for mayor of TO…
    John Tory has a comfortable lead in the race to become the next mayor of Toronto with 42% of decided very likely municipal voters indicating they would vote for him if the election was today according to a survey conducted by Nanos Research for CTV News and the Globe & Mail. Rob Ford (28%) and Olivia Chow (26%) are second and third respectively.
    Love that the Dipper darling (whose husband liked dipping at massage parlours) is behind Ford!
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/tory-takes-14-point-lead-over-ford-in-new-globe-poll/article20312607/

  13. Thank you, Reverendken!
    Now I don’t need to waste my time watching garbage.
    I’m beginning to accept that when You Tube rates something as “may be inappropriate”, It’s probably a waste of time.

  15. But their liberal bum-buddies haven’t got their hands in the cookie jar dealing out to them sweet things and positions on quango boards and justices of the peace.

  16. I’d say the Middle East has already organized Obama, he’ll be lucky if they don’t organize the nose on his face.

  18. PET Cemetery Report.
    Liberal Justine’s Platform: tv.Pot*.
    …-
    “Uruguay’s Pot Revolution Played Out”
    “Lacalle Pou has tapped into the angst with a proposal to partially repeal the dope law. Although the political hard right wants to ditch it entirely, the Blancos salvage parts (allowing home cultivation, for example) but rule out sales in pharmacies and drop the plan to register consumers.
    That’s not the only thing awry in Uruguay. Poverty is low, but the economy is growing at an uninspired 2 percent annual rate and the tight labor market has pushed inflation above 8 percent. Teachers walked off the job yesterday in a 24-hour general strike over wages and “authoritarian punishment.
    A crime wave also hasn’t helped, fed by the growing presence of drug gangs and the country’s huge number of firearms. (With 32 civilian firearms per 100 inhabitants, Uruguay ranks 9th of 170 countries in gun-ownership.) It was the spiking drug-related violence that inspired Mujica to decriminalize marijuana, to “steal the market from bandits,” he said. Now it’s one of the reasons why Uruguayans are turning on his government.”
    http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-09-03/uruguay-s-pot-revolution-played-out
    …-
    *tv.Pot:
    “Join the Liberal Party of Canada and Help Legalize Marijuana!”

  19. “Bardarbunga volcano update: Formation of depression in glacier, worries about possible subglacial eruption”
    “The eruptive activity at the Holorhaun fissure has remained stable, but ongoing deformation, although slower now, continues to worry scientists monitoring the events.”
    “However, GPS and radar measurements indicate that more lava is being intruded into the dyke at depth than what is erupted at the surface. It is feared that new fissures open, or that the existing one might become longer, and possibly open under the ice cap. In that case, significant ash plumes and floods would be generated as magma would react violently with ice and water.”
    http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/bardarbunga/news/47491/Bardarbunga-volcano-update-Formation-of-depression-in-glacier-worries-about-possible-subglacial-erup.html

  20. I think maybe we’d be needing to take up smoking pot if the Liberals get into power with Trudeau as their pseudo leader. We can then stop critiquing Obama, we’ll have a dud of pour own.

  21. Millions disagree with you, so lighten up with the silly personal accusations on a public forum.

  22. I think maybe we’d be needing to take up smoking pot if the Liberals get into power with Trudeau as their pseudo leader.
    That’s one of the oddest excuses to get stoned I’ve ever seen. But hey, whatever works for you is OK.

  24. AGW Regress Report.
    Jack says, It’s cold here too, Olivia.
    …-
    “Cold year: 2014 USA temperature record lows outpace record highs nearly 2-1”
    “… record temperatures are absolute, and there is no possible way that any adjustments can be made to such records. Otherwise, they become meaningless. So, rather than rely on adjusted temperature data, a good independent indicator of warming or cooling is the number of temperature records that have been set. While NOAA/NCDC doesn’t make it easy to track such things, I have spent a considerable amount of time manually downloading and saving the high/low records from each month of 2014 and compiling the data in a spreadsheet.
    The results so far through August of 2014 indicate that on balance, 2014 has been a cool year for the USA as this graph shows:
    Summer of 2014 has also been cool, with record lows outpacing record highs at nearly 2-1 (3405/1782):”.
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/09/03/cold-year-2014-usa-temperature-record-lows-outpace-record-highs-nearly-2-1/

  25. “Much of today’s commentary revolves around the president’s inability to articulate a policy towards ISIS.”
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2014/09/03/writing-on-the-wall/#more-39059
    …-
    “Ozymandias”
    “I met a traveller from an antique land
    Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
    Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
    Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
    And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
    Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
    The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
    And on the pedestal these words appear —
    “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
    Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
    Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
    The lone and level sands stretch far away.’
    Percy Bysshe Shelley

  26. JUNEAU (AP) – Alaska will now have an official state bolt action rifle. Gov. Sean Parnell signed legislation in late July giving that distinction to the pre-1964 Winchester Model 70, in a range of calibres. The bill, sponsored by Senate President Charlie Huggins, refers to the gun as the “rifleman’s rifle.” The bill says the gun helped Alaskans “establish a firm foothold” in the wilderness between 1930 and 1963.

  27. “Early on Aug. 29, a column of some 70 Ukrainian armored vehicles rushed from Ilovaisk, a city in Donetsk Oblast, through a corridor offered by Russian troops.
    After driving 10 kilometers, the fleeing Ukrainians were instead trapped under massive shelling by cannons and tanks. The armored vehicles caught fire.”
    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/witnesses-tell-about-attacks-on-ukrainian-soldiers-trying-to-leave-ilovaisk-at-least-100-killed-363204.html

  28. Our Enemy: Mohammed.
    Mohammed beheads “US hostage Sotloff”; “US hostage Sotloff” was a Jew (search).
    …-
    “Sun | Top Trudeau adviser breaks ranks, blames Israel for civilian deaths
    OTTAWA – A retired Canadian general [Leslie] who hopes to be elected as a Liberal MP next year believes Israel’s military forces fired “indiscriminately” on Palestinian women and children in the recent Hamas-Israel conflict.”
    http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2014/09/20140902-231532.html
    […]
    WORLD
    #6 — BBC | Islamic State ‘beheading of US hostage Sotloff’ sparks outrage
    An Islamic State video purporting to show the beheading of US hostage Steven Sotloff has sparked outrage.”

  30. Marijuana makes inexperienced smokers paranoid,so maybe ativan (TM) or something of the sort will be better.
    I hope Justin doesn’t follow in his Daddy’s footsteps, but after Ontario’s recent election, have little faith in the voters.
    The CPC should get creative in their ads, use some hype and humor,to point out that JT has never held a real job, has never so much as had Paper route,and now wants to run the Country.
    Surely there are some creative people in the Conservative ranks who can see the potential for ridiculing the Baby Messiah.
    Before the last Provincial election in B.C., the NDP ran a beauty of an ad, featuring a cereal, ”Cristy Crunch”. At the end of the commercial, the actor turns the box upside down and a little train falls out,a reference to the BC Rail scandal.
    It was funny and entertaining.The CPC needs to attack Trudeau with the same type of ad, not just continue the ”reefer madness”” BS that is NOT working.

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