Tonight's tips music, accompanied by lovely footage of Europe in times past, has early saxophonist Ingrid Larssen and the Orchestra of the German Opera House playing Sehnsucht ("Longing").
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Tonight's tips music, accompanied by lovely footage of Europe in times past, has early saxophonist Ingrid Larssen and the Orchestra of the German Opera House playing Sehnsucht ("Longing").
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Highly recommended: The new East-West divide: multiculturalism vs sovereignty, by Ed West at The Spectator.
Rebel Media: “Justin Trudeau’s Greatest Misses (Not Hits)!”
Conservative majority in Senate could give Trudeau problems in passing bills?
Considering there are zero Liberal Senators right now you mean? The 21 symbolic unfilled seats aren't of any real importance eh? What will Trudeau do?
Everybody take a big guess now.
Oh the naivety. Oh it'll be Harper's fault when the Senate is opened back up by our new PM.
http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2015/10/22/conservative-majority-in-senate-could-give-trudeau-problems-in-passing-bills/#.VimgKPaFOM9
I guess Canadians have not been paying enough attention:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/10/robert-spencer-in-frontpage-justin-trudeau-canadas-obama I do not think this will end well.
So it begins with many more warnings to come.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/470396/ISIS-Islamic-State-Sweden-Europe-threat
Here's a laugh after a horrible week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv5CT7r3Txo
I'm sure this has already been posted but it bears repeating with a new Prime Minister.
http://news.yahoo.com/russia-builds-massive-arctic-military-205936509.html
Received from an American relative:
A great interview with Hannity and Trump. They discuss 9/11, middle east, and so called 'refugees'.
Waiting to hear Trump's reaction to the Canadian election.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4569411117001/donald-trump-respects-jeb-for-defending-his-brother/?intcmp=hpvid1#sp=show-clips
In case you haven't been updated Halloween is racist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rIM9fPCTAs
They were paying attention LindaL...Trudeau's actions were all done to demonstrate religious tolerance dontcha know?
I don't think it is so much of an east-west divide as it is a reluctance to allow others to determine your destiny.
Hungary, Russia, and others are protecting their sovereignty.
Unfortunately in Canada, we are not.
Mulcair said that he would only use our Armed Forces in UN sanctioned conflicts.
Justin has been all over the map on this matter.
However, Justin says that he will allow others to do security screening on the 25,000 new Canadians that should be be here for New Year's Eve celebrations.
JT embraces 'diversity'.
" Our differences will make us stronger" .
Sounds great, but it is not rooted in reality.
Both have given up our sovereignty.
Justin and Tom have decided to allow others to set the rules for the Canadian house.
They are going to flush a 150 years of national identity down the bowl to pursue a Utopian ideology.
We are not all equal.
All cultures are not equal.
All religions are not equal.
Canada is not Syria, or Sudan, or even Sweden.
The world is not a gesture away from holding hands and singing in harmony.
Some leaders realize that.
That is what makes them leaders.
Canada is adrift, a dinghy of starry-eyed fans hoping that the cute captain can read a map, or has one.
An interesting overview of the Muslim immigration situation in the US -- lots of money behind this, but the stats are pretty mind-boggling and some of the details alarming:
The Obama administration, besides proclaiming amnesty (unlawfully, by executive order) for the 12-20 million illegal aliens already in the United States (and doing everything possible to expand the legal and illegal migration flows to America), has already set in motion plans to “surge” an unspecified, open-ended number of Syrian refugees into the country, despite the fact that top intelligence officials have publicly testified that they have no way of vetting these individuals to be sure we are not admitting terrorists and other criminals.`
We all recall the negative comments on CBC that permeated the network for the duration of the Harper government. How often did they mention Mr. Harper's wife and kids?? How often did we have our comments deleted for ''pro-Conservative'' rhetoric such as ''I'm voting for Mr. Harper because I love Canada.'' (I actually had my comment deleted for writing that.) Three days after the election, Neil Macdonald is saying: ''Let's give Margaret Trudeau the respect she deserves.''
I think I'm going to be sick!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-politics-margaret-trudeau-neil-macdonald-1.3282894
He says we criticized her for dancing at studio 54. I must have missed that I remember her 60 natural Brillo pad for all the world to see. CBC ,like not mentioning Layton and the massage parlour,wouldn't say PETwoukd whack her for her indecretions
More pavilions at folkfest
Bringing 13 year old brides to Europe
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/10/22/syrian-child-brides-seeking-asylum-open-new-front-european-migrant-crisis/
Oh! Oh! Oh!
What is PM Care Bear to do? What to do?
That evil Professor Cold Heart Harper, evil I tell you, its a conspiracy!
I have a different hypothesis of what was behind the Sweden school murders via masked man with a sword.
Has anyone noticed all the media hype about the new Star Wars movie?
Look at the photo of the culprit and the two students who posed with him thought he was just dressed up for Halloween.
So would you have guessed "Darth Vader" if he came to your door trick or treating?
Or you could follow the lefty BBC/MSM blaming "right-wing", as though leftist regimes of Pol Pot, Stalin and Mao hadn't slaughtered more than anyone else in history,(short of Mo.)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34612000
A masked man who killed a teacher and a pupil at a school in Sweden had "racist motives", police believe.
Police chief Niclas Hallgren said they had based their conclusion on what was found at the killer's apartment and "his behaviour during the act".
Media reports suggest the 21-year-old attacker had far-right sympathies.
Armed with a sword and wearing a helmet and mask, he stormed a school in Trollhattan, near Gothenburg, before being shot dead by police.
He was seen posing for a photograph with students, who thought he was dressed for Halloween, before going from classroom to classroom."
Here is the real reason Trudeau won, a professional ad agency vs. amateurs.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/marketing/the-ad-agency-behind-trudeaus-winning-campaign/article26943217/
I find something very intriguing about what's mentioned in this blog post by Canadian Cincinnatus.
The upthrust is that:
Here's why, although you can read the blog post.
Even though economists mostly railed against lowering the GST and stated it was a cynical vote-getting ploy, perhaps he was still playing chess while the rest of the world was playing rock-paper-scissors. The GST is a most efficient revenue generator so that, in lowering it, he made it more difficult to balance the budget but also made it more difficult for the next PM to blow the budget badly (or at least put a bit of a ceiling on how much he could blow it up) without raising the GST. And if that happens it'll all be on the next PM because PM Harper balanced the budget--we've seen Obama, time after time blame Bush for anything and everything that went wrong almost his entire presidency. No such luck for the new guy.
So it appears he did a great service to Canadians and left a stink bomb for Trudeau, by making it so that spending couldn't get *more* out of control and, if it did, at the end of the next PM's turn he would be reviled and the Conservatives would be seen and trusted as the ones who could bring sanity back to the public spending. Or if spending didn't balloon, that in itself is doing a service to Canadians, tying the hands of future PMs, at least partially.
Just some food for thought.
Any party that campaigns on a tax increase usually has a difficult time during election.
This is why the liberals have shunned the term carbon tax.
But I concur with your analysis and I suspect if you know it and I know it there is at least a few highly placed liberals know this.
The trick is having someone get the snub from Leisuresuit Larry for questioning his judgement and this information being leaked to a media eager to report it.
Ugh. Kemo Sabay.
“One of them is that the Pope should apologize for residential schools.”
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"Trudeau’s promises to aboriginal people feared to be unachievable"
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/trudeaus-promises-to-aboriginal-people-feared-to-be-unachievable/article26946111/
Keeping a tally of Trudeau's promises kept and broken...
https://www.trudeaumetre.ca/
Not that all promises made were/are good things to do!
Well said, WallyJ. I'm going to use part of that on a Facebook post.
AGW RIP.
"From the “bigger worries than global warming” department:".
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"Premiers agree to attend Paris climate summit"
"OTTAWA - Canada's premiers huddled by teleconference call Thursday and agreed that everyone not facing an election campaign will attend December's climate change summit in Paris with prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau, The Canadian Press has learned.
Monday's surprising Liberal majority has cleared the path for an invigorated Canadian presence at the United Nations climate conference, known as COP21, that begins Nov. 30."
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/5974302-premiers-agree-to-attend-paris-climate-summit/
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"City busting Earth Grazer Asteroid imminent near miss – just discovered 2 weeks ago"
"From the “bigger worries than global warming” department:"
"In my opinion it is obscene that the world is spending countless billions chasing the imaginary perils of the climate dragon, while neglecting a far more serious threat to people’s lives."
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/10/23/city-busting-earth-grazer-asteroid-imminent-near-miss-just-discovered-2-weeks-ago/
Oy.
Report: US spied on Israel, prepared to destroy Israeli bombers to protect Iran
LindaL:
Let's not call it 'immigration'.
The Obama Muslim Hijra (emigration jihad) surge, much of it in small town "fly-over" country:
Just another prong in the Cloward-Piven strategy: collapse the system.
I'd call it brilliant except, of course, as with an arsonist's house fire, it's a lot easier to destroy than to build.
Let's ignore CBC.
What's the deal?
https://www.youtube.com/v/9O9HfafzBPE?version=3
I ask.
"Hillary Clinton, Helped By Yoga, Sails Through Benghazi Grilling"
"Even after 11 hours of grilling, Hillary Clinton kept her composure," "the former Secretary of State quipped, "Yoga always helps.""
http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/hillary-clinton-helped-by-yoga-sails-through-benghazi-grilling-1235634
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"Hillary’s Benghazi Story Implodes
New evidence shows the depths of deception"
http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillarys-benghazi-story-implodes-1445599471
It's not even a week, and the government is already preparing a new batch of gun bans. Well, not officially- they're just throwing out a trial balloon via the CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/topstories/rcmp-tests-show-some-firearms-can-be-converted-to-fully-automatic-1.3284661
Did you know that Coyne is Canada's most distinguished Conservative pundit?? No-- me either, read this drivel and gag: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/425981/anatomy-political-suicide-lessons-right-canada-john-fund?target=author&tid=902877
Its more of a FANBOY site. Unreal........
I would suggest that Coyne's Conservatism would approximate our PM designate's(ouch) intellectual prowess.
I would suggest that Coyne's Conservatism would approximate our PM designate's(ouch) intellectual prowess.
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even after last monday's election, i doubt 40% of harper conservatives are
considering killing themselves.
that'd be crazy, right?
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Where the post about election percentages from earlier today go?
Me too.
An explanation is in order.
What just happened to the sarcastic comparison of media drivel then and media drivel now?
I too remember the ugly, dishonest whining from our Canadian Media Guild, in 2011.
Identical situation today… nothing to see here, isn't his hair lovely…
I guess if government can not stop wasteful spending, then paying taxes is a pointless exercise.
New mantra:Why work? It only encourages them.
PET Cemetery Report.
Today's News: Liberal Justine's Mommy & Murderer Mohammed.
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"Justin Trudeau won't move in to 24 Sussex, says Margaret Trudeau" (cbc)
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"Bombings kill at least 37 in northeast Nigeria: officials"
"At least 37 people were killed and 107 wounded on Friday in two bomb attacks at mosques in Nigeria's restive northeast, where Boko Haram has been trying to carve out an Islamic state, officials and medics said."
http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAKCN0SH0RX20151023
Find Humpty Dumpty Citoyen MulcairBloc.
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"Where in the world is Mulcair? NDP leader’s absence since election humbling leaves party scrambling"
"Mulcair has not made any public appearances or spoken with the news media since he delivered a short concession speech after the election, in which the NDP lost dozens of seats across the country and finished third." (NP)
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Here's Jack:
"Layton found in bawdy house: Ex-cop"
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/04/29/layton-found-in-toronto-bawdy-house-former-cop
Obolo's Hope and Change goose-steps onward
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WASHINGTON (AP) — No IRS official would face criminal charges arising from the political controversy over the processing of applications for tax-exempt status, the Justice Department announced Friday.
A firestorm erupted more than two years ago with the release of an inspector general's audit that said IRS agents had improperly singled out tea party and other conservative groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status during the 2010 and 2012 elections.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20151023/us-irs-investigation-11e1446376.html
Socialism's natural end result.
Ich bin ein Korpse.
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"Britain 'shackled to corpse' of EU, says Douglas Carswell
Britain’s membership of the European Union is like being “shackled to a corpse” costing businesses around hundreds of billions of pounds a year, a Conservative MP has said."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9636417/Britain-shackled-to-corpse-of-EU-says-Douglas-Carswell.html
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"The truth must be told! All European life died in Auschwitz
By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez
I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz.
We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, and talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1531607/posts
`"Justin Trudeau won't move in to 24 Sussex, says Margaret Trudeau" (cbc)` That is good. It saves us the trouble of booting him out in due course.
Needs $20 million worth of renovations?
Da-phricks that about??
Maureen McTeer suggested some years ago that they should tear it down and build something that serves as a showcase for Canadian architectual talent. I think that is a great idea. Most of us don`t visit that house anyway, so the historical meaning is pretty muted already. Give us a new PM house.
Anyone surprised at the commentary about 24 Sussex needing repairs?
Seems no one in the media thought twice about using the reference "his" when doing so.
Pride cometh before the fall.