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  3. The sorry Rolling Stone saga continues:

    The Rolling Stone article also said that Randall declined to be interviewed, “citing his loyalty to his own frat.” He told The Post that he never was contacted by Rolling Stone and would have agreed to an interview. The article’s writer, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, did not respond to requests for comment this week.

    I’m starting to think that some jail time might be in order.

  4. Now of course this isn’t me, but it’s one of the funnier pieces I’ve run across lately:
    Time is like a river. You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again.
    Enjoy every moment of life.
    ———————————————–
    As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man.
    He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper’s cemetery in the Nova Scotia back country.
    As I was not familiar with the backwoods, I got lost and, being a typical man, I didn’t stop for directions. I finally arrived an hour late and saw the funeral guy had evidently gone and the hearse was nowhere in sight.
    There were only the diggers and crew left and they were eating lunch. I felt badly and apologized to the men for being late.
    I went to the side of the grave and looked down and the vault lid was already in place. I didn’t know what else to do, so I started to play.
    The workers put down their lunches and began to gather around.
    I played out my heart and soul for this man with no family and friends. I played like I’ve never played before for this homeless man.
    And as I played “Amazing Grace”, the workers began to weep. They wept, I wept, we all wept together.
    When I finished, I packed up my bagpipes and started for my car.
    Though my head was hung low, my heart was full.
    As I opened the door to my car, I heard one of the workers say,
    “I never seen anything like that before, and I’ve been putting in septic tanks for twenty years.”
    Apparently, I’m still lost….it’s a man thing.

  7. For the first time in more than 20 years, Americans say it’s more important to protect the right to own guns than it is to control gun ownership, according to a Pew Research poll released Wednesday that finds “a substantial shift in attitudes since shortly after the Newtown school shootings.”
    While 46 percent prioritize gun control, 52 percent of Americans are more concerned about the right to own guns, the first time a majority has held that position since Pew started asking the question in 1993.

  10. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/polls-show-justin-trudeau-stephen-harper-in-tight-ontario-race-1.2866024
    According to CBC, new polls show that Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau are now tied in Ontario. The Liberal dominated, paid for by Canada CBC has already closed the commenting on this story.
    Read the headline carefully, and read the last paragraph with utmost care. Ontario has 13,600,000 souls. Well over one third of Canada’s pop. The Ipsos Reid online poll surveyed 8268 Canadians nationwide, however only 2000 in Ontario. Ontario has over one third of the pop., why did Ipsos Reid not interview say 3000 people in Ontario.
    I just hope they didn’t perform the survey at CBC headquarters in Toronto??
    I believe that the Conservatives are (most likely) now in the lead. I also believe that Stephen Harper will form the next government.

  14. Greenpeace jerks defile the Plans of Nazka with their stupid Global Warming message right in front of the great big hummingbird Leave it to these annoying hippy jerks to use this place in South America to push their stupid ideologies after all they defiled Mt Rushmore with a stupid anner depicting Obama the Fink and still their suckers who’ll send them money so they can pull off these stupid stunts

  15. At the risk of “jinxing” things, my prediction for the 2015 federal election is that little will change from now. The CPC will win another majority, the NDP remains the official opposition, and the Liberals are the 3rd Party in the house.
    What will be interesting is where the Green numbers go. Also interesting – if the Liberals form anything less than a majority government – is how quickly the Liberal knives will come out against Justin.

  16. The Tolerant Left.
    ” ‘The gloves are off’: Ousted (Vancouver) school board head Patti Bachus vows to continue on as Greens, NPA, Vision, fight it out online.”
    The Greens now hold the swing vote on the Vancouver School Board. The Green Trustee supported the NPA candidate for board chair. Vision supporters are now fiercely attacking the single Green Trustee via social media. More here:
    http://www.theprovince.com/news/vancouver/Green+Party+fight+over+Vancouver+School+Board+vote/10458100/story.html
    (caution : auto-play on the video at that link)
    Ya gotta enjoy a good leftist vs. progressive fight. More popcorn, please?

  17. One day you’ll realize that the conservatives always were in the lead. You think the media which is entirely controlled by the media tells the truth when it comes to polls or something?

  18. This is a big election. If Justin gets Ignatieffed it’s all over for the Trudeaupean 2.0 vision of Canada. If he keeps it in the pants and gains a few seats, he pretty much becomes PM in waiting. Whatever happens it won’t be boring.

  19. Toronto Star, Tues., Dec. 9. Alan Freeman, Senior Fellow, University of Ottawa Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.
    http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/12/08/finance_department_now_a_factfree_zone.html
    AF: “Since Stephen Harper began governing Canada almost nine years ago, one of his goals has been to turn the federal government into a fact-free zone.”
    AF: “The scrapping of the long-form census. The muzzling of government scientists. The systematic elimination of independent voices like the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy. Harper simply cannot abide evidence-based advice that gets in the way of his partisan policies.”
    If there is one issue that is truly “fact-free”, it is the idea that government can solve this or that economic or social problem. They’ve been trying for decades, with marginal if any success. Yet the advocates of big government still press for more and more spending despite the lack of evidence.
    Social engineers loved the mandatory long-form census because it supposedly told them about social problems that government should deal with. For example, if the census showed that a lot of people had two bedrooms in their house while others had four, then there was “bedroom inequality” that government should throw money at.
    But the nature of government is coercive, and coercion does not solve problems, except when one employs it in one’s own self-defense. Coercion cannot invent, create, discover or innovate; all it can do is destroy. That’s why social engineering is a guaranteed failure. And the evidence of decades of trying backs this up.
    AF: “That’s why we have a government, to hear the pitches of special interest groups, get independent advice and make public policy in the interest of all Canadians.”
    This is part of the problem, special interest groups having an influence on “public policy”. The proper “public policy” is freedom — in which government backs off and lets everybody get on with living their lives, provided they let others do the same.
    The specific financial issue Freeman objects to is a $550-m tax cut in the form of Employment Insurance premium reductions for small business, for which the finance department allegedly did not conduct an analysis. But issues like this have been around for years and have undoubtedly been studied to death already. Do we really need more make-work for the bureaucracy? We should be cutting it.
    Then there’s Milton Friedman’s dictum that “any tax cut, any time, anywhere” is beneficial. Finally, if it weren’t for government intervention in the economy that distorted wages and prices and created unemployment, we wouldn’t even need EI.
    The true “fact-free” zone is the one in which activists and advocates claim without justification that government coercion can solve economic or social problems.

  20. Toronto Star, Tues., Dec. 9. Carol Goar on alleged “ageism”.
    http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/12/09/senior_citizens_are_mobilizing_against_ageism_goar.html
    She describes a group of senior citizens — left-wing ones, no doubt — which has a few goals. One is “to reclaim the name ‘senior citizens.’ Older Canadians don’t like the way society casually shortened the phrase to seniors, dropping the most important word.”
    Is this a pressing issue? Who cares?
    They also want to “mobilize a broad array of organizations … to fight ageism”.
    The “evidence” of ageism? Lack of government funding for some initiatives that the activists think would benefit seniors. And a Pan Am Games brochure that doesn’t depict any of its volunteers as senior citizens.
    Good grief. I guess when they run out of big and medium-sized issues, they have to find some small ones.
    Maybe they should ask governments to cut taxes so they can fund the things they want and need for themselves out of their own pocket?

  21. It’s time for Ontario to pull the plug on the Feed-In Tariff (FIT) program and rid the province of wind turbines and solar farms which are killing wildlife, eating up farmland, destroying the province’s economy, making our electricity prices the highest in North America and hurting every strata of society — except the select few, largely foreign-based financiers the province has chosen to reap guaranteed profits for the next two decades.
    Wind turbines and solar wouldn’t exist without massive government subsidy which is then billed to every power user in the province, making Ontario power the least efficiently produced and most expensive overall.
    http://www.newswatchcanada.ca/ed1-Time-to-pull-plug-on-expensive-useless-wind-turbines.html

  22. It’s time for Ontario to pull the plug on the Feed-In Tariff (FIT) program and rid the province of wind turbines and solar farms which are killing wildlife, eating up farmland, destroying the province’s economy, making our electricity prices the highest in North America and hurting every strata of society — except the select few, largely foreign-based financiers the province has chosen to reap guaranteed profits for the next two decades.
    Wind turbines and solar wouldn’t exist without massive government subsidy which is then billed to every power user in the province, making Ontario power the least efficiently produced and most expensive overall.
    newswatchcanada.ca/ed1-Time-to-pull-plug-on-expensive-useless-wind-turbines.html

  23. Swindle-mills
    Bird blenders
    As I write this, solar panels are producing no electricity anywhere in Canada.

  24. If only we could pull the plug on the showboating Wynne and her scandal and debt ridden regime. Wynne is making a real fool of herself as she tries to avert attention from her own mess by demanding a meeting with PM Harper. We all know she’s rooting for Trudeau to win power, picking a fight with PM Harper is all part of her plan, she needs someone to manipulate, cede to her demands for more money from the ROC through equalization.
    Three more years of this economic disaster. Thanks Toronto.

  29. Mohammed’s OPEC, Our Enemy: RIP.
    …-
    “OPEC is ‘effectively dissolved’ and the oil crash will continue, Wall Street giant warns”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2014/12/10/opec-is-finished-and-the-oil-crash-will-continue-warns-bank-of-america/?__lsa=dd21-1742
    …-
    “‘It’s a disaster:’ OPEC ‘powerless’ to halt oil slump without others’ help, warns Gulf heavyweight”
    “Former president says OPEC is no longer able to stem the bloodbath in oil markets alone, and producers outside the cartel must agree to cuts” (FP)

  30. Here is a quote from moi at sda, during the Liberal Leadership (ahem) Race:
    “We do want Trudeau to win this thing… don’t we?”
    I have always felt that Justin Trudeau was a gift to the Conservatives and Canada. Here is my reasoning, which I have said here before…
    It was a long time, coming moving votes from the LPC to the CPC. Last election the scales finally tipped the CPC way. Former Liberal voters moved to the CPC for what MUST be economic issues. In other words, they didn’t switch parties because of Stephan Harper’s hair. When the NYT is posting stories about how the Canadian Middle Class is the best paid in the world, among other economic indicators; I simply see NOTHING that would sway these voters back to the LPC.

  33. O’narcissist’s Bow Job* for naught.
    …-
    “The Relentless Production of Shale Oil Is Breaking OPEC’s Neck”
    “All it can do is gape at the falling price of crude and contemplate the destruction of their cartel at the hands of the Americans, whom they thought they had supplanted for good 40 years ago. Energy economist Philip Verleger says shale is to OPEC what the Apple II (AAPL) was to the IBM (IBM) mainframe.”
    http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-11/shale-oils-relentless-production-is-breaking-opecs-neck#r=rss
    …-
    *O bows to Saudi King:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WlqW6UCeaY

  34. Whining Whinnie will be the death of Ontario yet. I couldn’t help but notice that she was whining to the media that PM Harper wouldn’t come to meet with her. Maybe the b*tch could jog over to see him instead.
    It won’t happen in my lifetime but I’d love to see Toronto become it’s own province and let the rest of us alone.

  35. “French parliament prepares new end-of-life legislation
    French parliament to debate a draft law that will give doctors in France the right to put terminally-ill patients into a deep sleep until they die”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11290282/French-parliament-prepares-new-end-of-life-legislation.html
    …-
    “Defector: North Korea ‘Experiments On Disabled People Before Leaving Them To Die'”
    http://www.businessinsider.com/defector-north-korea-experiments-on-disabled-people-before-leaving-them-to-die-2014-12?IR=T

  36. I am not a senior. I am not a senior citizen. I am an old man, a very bad-tempered old man. And that’s that.

  37. Pity the man who hears the pipes and wasn’t born in Scotland…..
    It is said that an Irishman must talk to God if he wants to talk with an equal….( an inebriated Paddy told me that)
    This night I learned something new, (rare), that haunting song from the movie “Empire of the Sun” is actually a Welsh lullaby…and the lyrics are welsh as well….

  40. “the first time a majority has held that position since Pew started asking the question in 1993.”
    You mean its the first time the majority has been large enough to overcome the sample jiggering and statistical malfeasance Pew has been doing on their results since 1993. You have to read the actual papers to realize just how full of schlitz they are. The propaganda has stopped working.
    What this really means is that oblivious liberal leaning twits in the suburbs of places like New York and Chicago have suddenly awoken. New York particularly got a rude awakening with Hurricane Sandy and the (lack of) official response there to, what with pukes stealing gas out of cars sitting in people’s driveways in Scarsdale and all.
    The fact that their government isn’t going to keep its promises and that their comfy situations are at risk became apparent in 2008, and despite electing The Messiah in 2008 and again in 2012, things have only gotten worse. Lots of these formerly sleeping doofi are now wide awake, unemployed and wondering how they are going to keep up the car payments.
    Barry “The One” Obama is the best gun salesman there has ever been. Sam Colt may have invented the revolver, but Barry has sold more of them in 6 years than Mr. Colt did in his entire lifetime.

  41. Calgary Mayor Nenshi, the purple princess, thinks Alberta will have a hillbilly reputation if Gay/Straight Alliances are not set up.
    http://www.calgarysun.com/2014/12/11/calgary-mayor-lack-of-gay-straight-alliance-support-tarnishes-albertas-standing-in-canada
    He must be confused, did he never see the hillbillies in deliverance?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_99103&feature=iv&list=PLD38FA73D26201F34&src_vid=ntC0xJo2bSU&v=WqNMjZpSbnU
    http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=deliverance+movie&FORM=VIRE3#view=detail&mid=31E637D6716F632A850631E637D6716F632A8506

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