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  1. Re: CNN remarks about Trump (allegedly) mistakenly mentioning something that happened in ”Last night in Sweden.” I’m going to use a New York Times clip, because I don’t trust CNN.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/world/europe/last-night-in-sweden-trumps-remark-baffles-a-nation.html?_r=0
    Granted, there may not have been one grand event in Sweden at the time Pres. Trump mentioned.
    This however is an ongoing event that has obviously gotten a lot of attention. And yes, this was happening ” Last night in Sweden.”
    http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/02/trump-right-swedens-refugee-policy-led-problems-never-thought-possible/

  3. Are you sure it isn’t Hells Angle?
    Got to get it right, eh, because these 1%s are such important contributors to our history and society./

  4. Can anything be discussed on this thread? This is about Ontario health care – or lack of health care. Those of you out west might not be experiencing this.
    I’m very upset just learning earlier this evening that men and women share hospital beds because of the shortage. I hadn’t heard of it before and yet all my friends on Facebook did know and one had experienced it – but in her case, it was two men and another woman and that was in 2014.
    My sister-in-law is at this moment sharing a room with a strange man. My brother had to return home and leave her there, but I’d be damned if I’d be sharing a room with a male.
    I’ve emailed Wynne and asked about this practice. I reminded her as gracefully as I could that no politician would share a room with a member of the opposite sex (being quite sure she won’t be sharing a room with a male).
    I know definitely a Muslim female would not share a room with a male (and for all I know not with a female infidel) so I’m going to order a hijab online. I refuse to share a room with the opposite sex and pray God I never have to go into hospital.
    How on earth have we got ourselves into this mess?

  5. How on earth have we got ourselves into this mess? electing LIB gvts does it every time. Was it Einstein that said insanity is doing the same mistake repeatedly and expecting different results?

  6. Oh. Lord. I’m old. I knew what that was going to be as soon as I saw the title. Not odd that I’d seen it since we only had a few channels unless you turned the antenna to Buffalo.

  9. I consider accuracy to be important regardless of the topic. If (even) one minor detail is incorrect then everything is questionable.

  10. Iron law of unintended consquences strikes again.
    A Push for Diesel Leaves London Gasping Amid Record Pollution

    The British government provided financial incentives to encourage a shift to diesel engines because laboratory tests suggested that would cut harmful emissions and combat climate change. Yet, it turned out that diesel cars emit on average five times as much emissions in real-world driving conditions as in the tests, according to a British Department for Transport study.

    And again.

    London has encouraged people to use bicycles more, but there is a growing debate over whether bike lanes make congestion and pollution worse by forcing more cars into fewer lanes and increasing the amount of time they remain stationary. Some people have also suggested that bicycle commuters are exposing themselves to harm by being too close to exhaust-emitting cars.

    Researchers from the London School of Medicine say that cyclists inhale more than twice the amount of black carbon particles as pedestrians making the same trip.

  15. I have always been of the opinion the Thompson was an a hole.
    In this instance Thompson stood against thuggery whose motto is ‘a woman is like a rug that requires a regular beating’. At one time CBC portrayed bikers in a sympathetic light mostly to ‘take it to the man’ for their bourgeois sensibilities. That ended when CBC discovered that bikers generally hold fairly right wing views.

  17. AGW RIP.
    Leftist’s Fear Mongering Propaganda.
    …-
    “California’s “permanent drought””
    “Thanks El Niño, But California’s Drought Is Probably Forever” (wired)
    “They’ve Seen Lots of Droughts, But This One’s Different” (natgeo)
    ““It could last decades”: 5 shocking facts about California’s drought
    Droughts aren’t new to the golden state, but this one is for the ages…” (salon)
    http://alt.global-warming.narkive.com/ofBd1Bv7/california-s-permanent-drought
    …-
    “The Latest: Storm aiming for California renews flood fears” (AP)

  18. gellen, during my five night stay at the Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon four of the nights were in rooms in which I was the only male. This was a little disconcerting to say the least. So it seems all of us are supposed to become AC/DC.
    Former PM Mulroney sings Irish Eyes for Trump.
    Sentimental serenade: Mulroney sings old ballad for Trump
    http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?playlistId=1.3292340

  19. Spent a night in the Edmonton Miseracordia Hospital after an angioplasty. One of 4 was female. Not knowing that she was a she, I think I gave her a flash of my ample ass getting from the wheelchair to the bed – hospital gowns and all. Who’s going to pay for her therapy?

  20. Well it’s Harrrrrpers fault for this dontcga know? See, he was horrible, he had huge cuts to medical spending, from unlimited spending, to 6% limits on annual increases. Horrible, terrible, women and children suffering, etc. Lefties with their hair on fire, press emasculating him. And CPC gets defeated because Harrrrper evil!
    But don’t worry, Spud will save the day, why, he’s increasing annual spending now at a 3% rate! So much more than Harrrrpers limited 6% annual increase, how could th………….OH WAIT,
    That’s how we got here, Trudope does it, no Problem! In Morontariowe, all those massive deficits, green spending, and massive increases to public servants take funds out of health care. Quite simple. Socialism fails

  22. He is a leftover from the liberation theology of the 1980’s of the past century in Latin America.
    Not a fan here.
    A catholic.

  23. “I have always been of the opinion the Thompson was an a hole.”
    He blew his brains out while talking to his wife on the phone. His kids and grandson were in the next room at the time.

  24. “British Firms May Be Allowed to Ditch Metric Measurements after Brexit”
    “British manufacturers may once again be able to sell goods in pounds and ounces after the country has left the European Union, the Environment Secretary has hinted.
    Andrea Leadsom said the government would be free to change food labelling laws once Britain has ditched EU regulations, with manufacturers able to indicate weights in measurements such as ounces and pounds, volume in pints and fluid ounces, and sugar content in teaspoons.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/02/19/british-firms-may-allowed-ditch-metric-measurements-brexit/

  25. I don’t think all of you who commented will read this post, but are you saying that when you are in for a few days, you have been in a room with someone of the other sex, or more than one? My mind refuses to grasp this.
    I was trying to find a province I could move to but see there isn’t one.
    I’ve been paying extra private room coverage with my husband’s major medical insurance for years, so that’s a total waste of money then.
    How on earth can a country go to hell in what seems like only a few yeas?

  29. How on earth can a country go to hell in what seems like only a few yeas?
    Voting Lieberal does it every time.

  30. AGW RIP.
    Update: Fornicalia’s drought submerged.
    …-
    “California Braces For Potentially Devastating Floods”
    “… the scare at the Oroville dam earlier this month, and the massive floods in Los Angeles last week, pale in comparison to what the latest volley of moisture threatens to serve up.
    Today and tomorrow, California is experiencing the wettest storm of the rainy season so far—an “atmospheric river” that’s expected to dump two to three inches of rain throughout the Central Valley and nearly a foot in the mountains,…”
    http://gizmodo.com/california-braces-for-potentially-devastating-floods-1792563939

  31. Tip to Manitoba, send those US refugees to Montreal, one way bus ticket, via Toronto, in case they change their minds.
    Ralph Klein would be proud.

  32. Bingo!
    Yes, gellen, I spent five nights in the hospital, three nights with three women and myself, and two nights in a mixed ward. Lots of fun trying to cover your as*.

  33. My contempt for David Frum deepens with every encounter. I’m a fan of the Intelligence Squared Debates and have been enjoying this one titled, “Trump: Give Him A Chance”.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEEe-nNbuqM
    Frum is completely unhinged. Particularly in repeatedly referring to himself as a conservative. He baldly states that Trump is taking bribes from around the world and will remain so convinced until Trump proves otherwise. I wanted to scream, “Dave, are you continuing in your wife beating ways.” – because that was the essence of his argument.
    He’s also convinced that without the “interference” of the Russians there would have been no President Trump.
    It is brought to his attention by his female opponent that he wrote a piece in which he said Trump was kinda like Hitler, but didn’t have the character to ACTUALLY be a latter day Hitler. Then he tries to refute her by saying he meant the opposite.
    Once you’ve gone all Godwin….
    His sparring partner went on to say that they have to defeat Trump and if Trump’s supporters don’t like it, well, it’s for their own good.
    No, he says, don’t give Trump a chance because we’re all smarter than you are.
    His sad forlorn face conveying his misery however, makes watching all worthwhile.

  34. Reporters Peter Arnett & Carl Bernstein have a common operating MO on CNN
    CNN Peter Arnett, NZ Communist Reporter
    Arnett was one of the last western reporters in Saigon after its capture by the Vietnam People’s Army (NVA). Occupying soldiers showed him how they had entered the city.
    Iraq:
    About halfway through the war the CIA approached Mr. Arnett. They believed that the Iraqi military was operating a high-level communication network from the basement of the Al Rashid Hotel, which is where Mr. Arnett and a few others from CNN were staying. The CIA wanted him out so the Air Force could bomb the hotel, but Mr. Arnett refused. He said he had been given a tour of the hotel and denied there was such a facility.[13]
    The co-producers of the report, April Oliver and Jack Smith, were dismissed. They sued Time Warner, the parent company of CNN, claiming they had been wrongfully fired, and Time Warner ultimately paid millions of dollars to settle their lawsuits, along with other suits brought by military personnel who claimed to have been libeled in the Oliver/Smith report. Senior producer Pam Hill and others resigned.
    Oliver was later quoted by the World Socialist Web Site (International Committee of the Fourth International) as saying that: [Arnett’s] firing was a direct result of Pentagon pressure. Perry Smith [a retired USAF major general and former CNN consultant who resigned in protest over the Tailwind report] told the Wall Street Journal last July that CNN would not get cooperation from the Pentagon unless Peter Arnett was fired. […] They will do anything to stem the flow of information.
    — April Oliver[15]
    Iraq:
    Earlier in the interview he said:
    [O]ur reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments.
    — Peter Arnett[17]
    When Arnett’s remarks sparked a “firestorm of protest”, NBC initially defended him, saying he had given the interview as a professional courtesy and that his remarks were “analytical in nature”. A day later, though, NBC, MSNBC and National Geographic all severed their relationships with Arnett.[18] In response to Arnett’s statement on Iraqi TV, NBC stated: It was wrong for Mr. Arnett to grant an interview with state-controlled Iraqi TV, especially at a time of war and it was wrong for him to discuss his personal observations and opinions.
    Arnett responded:
    My stupid misjudgment was to spend fifteen minutes in an impromptu interview with Iraqi television. I said in that interview essentially what we all know about the war, that there have been delays in implementing policy, there have been surprises.
    — Peter Arnett
    Later that day, Arnett was hired by the British tabloid, The Daily Mirror, which had opposed the war. A couple of days later he was also assigned to Greek television channel NET television, and Belgian

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