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  1. Obama in 2006:

    You have already drawn some of the brightest minds from academia and policy circles, many of them I have stolen ideas from liberally, people ranging from Robert Gordon to Austan Goolsbee; Jon Gruber; my dear friend, Jim Wallis here, who can inform what are sometimes dry policy debates with a prophetic voice.

    John Kerry in 2009:

    “According to Gruber, who has been our guide on a lot of this, it’s somewhere in the vicinity of an $8 billion cost…”

  5. Agreed, I saw the presstitutes were predicting Conservative Party demise in both riding’s over the weekend. Justine visited Yellowhead and was so warmly received doncha-know.

  10. Paul: Re: by-elections.
    Looks like a solid win for both Whitby-Oshawa and Yellowhead.
    Once again, the CBC and other ”Justinian” networks and media sources were wrong.
    In Whitby–they had predicted a Liberal victory, or at least a ”very slim” Conservative win.
    At the time of writing–the Conservatives are leading in Whitby by 1926 votes.
    In Alberta–no contest.
    Justine weeps!

  12. Always great to hear Maddy Prior. Anyone who records an album titled “Sing Lustily and With Good Courage” is bringing us music not commonly heard. Also love her Christmas album (with the Carnival Band) “A Tapestry of Carols”. Heard this on CBC FM many years ago, with the commentator mentioning that one carol sounded as if it came from a bar at Stampede (or words to that effect). Commentator was right: great song and great album.

  13. A scientician speaks up;
    Yes, the sky is falling, the bears are dying, and it is all your fault.
    ” A polar can move over an area of about 600,000 square kilometres in a year. ”
    Sure, if the bear gets stuffed and put on top of a VW bus.
    ” They have to understand that this is an issue that needs to be solved from an intergenerational fairness perspective.”
    He is channeling Mr. Suzuki with that one.
    http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/in-conversation-with-andrew-derocher-282801011.html

  14. Justin Trudeau has shown his infinite wisdom in a statement that implies that the people of Whitby-Oshawa had (in tonight’s by election) ”voted for change.”
    After losing to the Conservatives by nearly 3000 votes, and after the CPC obtained over 49% of the pop. vote with 6 candidates running, the message I got is that the voters want Trudeau out of Ottawa. (Kandahar sounds like a good place for him to go.)
    We won’t discuss Yellowhead!
    So what next? The Liberals are going to release 99 red balloons on the Hill at dawn tomorrow??
    Enjoy the songs!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRFyKRlPfEg (English)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng_dwm6hBTM (German)

  16. Here..
    http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/business/electric-vehicles-move-closer-to-widespread-use-experts-say-1.2837990
    I am not knocking electric cars per se, although they are a long way from making a difference in a cold northern climate. However, you have to wonder about the lack of intelligence when a promoter says,
    “‘Maybe when the power goes out or maybe when electricity prices are high, you can use your electric vehicle as an alternative in order to charge your home, to provide power to your home.” 
    Martin Rovers, director of energy services at PowerStream
    That is so outragiously idiotic it hurts.☺

  17. Good grief. CTV news was all about how Justin picked up more of the popular vote in Whitby and Yellowhead. Not that the Conservatives had kept the ridings, but that increases in liberal votes ‘bode well’ for the 2015 elections.
    According to CTV, Stephen Harper handed out tax cuts while Conservative cabinet ministers “sprayed the area” – with what? – and still the Liberals made apparently fantastic gains.

  18. The Conservatives won both ridings but the big winner according to the Media Party was their darling Justin, he came second which means in their world he’s cruising to the top,going to take it all in 2015.
    Each and every one of us who take pride in this country have to start stumping to ensure this immature Liberal leader does not get to pose as leader the country. He’s not leading the Liberal party, he’s being led, managed, an empty suit with strings attached. This would make a great pairing with Obama’s empty chair, what fun the leaders of Russia and China would have.

  20. “…an empty suit with strings attached.”
    I figure more like a baby Justine doll. Pull the string and the eyes flash and a little voice says, “My name is Justine. I want to move forward and look at your root causes”. Over, and over, and over.

  23. The Trudeau puppeteers are proving to be as amateur as their puppet. They forget what they programmed their puppet to say on any given subject and it’s blatantly obvious on the issue of allowing ridings to choose their candidates rather than being chosen.
    As for Leslie,if he’s anything close to as stunned as he looks he should not be a winner, he’s already made some bimbo comments not well covered by the Liberal media. People at the riding level are being deprived of their democratic right to chose who they want to represent them and should send a message by not supporting the chosen one.

  28. I have a happy memory of playing this song as a DJ at my college radio station. I remember comparing Maddy Prior’s voice with that of Annie Haslam of Renaissance. Two distinct vibrations, but both beautiful.

  29. According to a new study (PDF) by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and Americans for Tax Reform, the “Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers tied for the lowest jurisdictional tax rate at 38.5%,” while the Florida Panthers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Dallas Stars and Nashville Predators were “close behind at 40.5%.”
    The Montreal Canadiens, meanwhile, were the most expensive team to play for in 2014, based on the tax rate players pay in Quebec (54.0%), while the Los Angeles Kings were the most expensive American team to play for (53.0%).
    Two years ago, the four teams in Florida, Texas and Tennessee, where there is no state tax, were tied for the lowest tax rates in the NHL. According to the study, they can blame President Obama for no longer being able to say that:
    http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2014/11/17/study-oilers-flames-players-have-lowest-taxes/

  35. @Matthew: Thanks for providing the update on Nanaimo. Delighted to hear that Bill McKay is the new mayor. Even more delighted to find that Pattje, the old hate filled gay Nazi refugee was voted out. Watching him again formulate the resolution I again found myself wondering when he was going to raise his right arm in the Nazi salute.
    Despicable people!

  36. @don morris: Manson couldn’t get it up anyway so marriage is meaningless in a sexual sense. But I’ll be thinking about Charlie’s plan for “Helter Skelter”, his name for a race war which he felt was imminent but needed just a little push to ignite (i.e., his murders), as I watch the events unfold in Ferguson, MO.

  37. AGW Kills.
    “… cold that has been blamed for at least 19 deaths in traffic accidents on icy roads since Saturday, at least three deaths from weather-related heart attacks in Upstate New York and the death of a 16-year-old boy from exposure in Nebraska.”
    “Winter Whack: Nation Faces Arctic Chill; Almost 6 Feet of Snow Forecast Near Buffalo”
    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/winter-whack-nation-faces-arctic-chill-almost-6-feet-snow-n250586
    “A NASA satellite captured snow-band clouds over the Great Lakes on Tuesday”
    http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_47/773551/pc-141118-weather-great-lakes-01_a1007843808c2027bc4d91ad3da1781d.nbcnews-ux-480-400.jpg

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