There's a new poll over at cnews.canoe.ca about what would give hope for a mideast peace agreement. Go over there and give them some reality!

BRIT BLOGGER UNDER ATTACK BY UK MUSLIM CENSORS:

http://tinyurl.com/36buqn

"Islamist rule over the UK may, alarmingly, be on its way. Today, the British police want to question and/or arrest the British blogger known as Lionheart. His crime? Turning his life around as a young school dropout and petty drug dealer and emerging as a believing Christian who opposes the drug plague in his hometown of Luton and who views the Pakistani Islamist and al-Qaeda control of the drug trade in Luton as both criminally and politically dangerous. For this, Lionheart has been charged with “stirring up racial hatred”—which is a crime in the UK.

Yes, Luton—where the 7/7 suicide bombers, Omar Bakri, and the hook-handed Abu Hamza of the Finsbury Park Mosque all came from."

Oh oh Kate...Kinsella has the 'bigot'label on you again!

"Ontario Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla said she rescued two children from an Indian jail this week after they snatched her assistant's purse at an event in a village where she was being honoured."

We wondered how the MSM would spin this story! Now, Dhalla "rescued" the two kids, so she's a HERO, not the uncaring villain portrayed in the Indian media.

We shoulda known a Liberal is incapable of any mean spiritedness. Way to go ,Ruby, I've taken down my Maggie Thatcher picture and replaced it with yours!

Ha...the 'voice of authority' on cyberbulling wants Michelle to die....

Maybe Joe should go over to give WK some Poo from hell...

The Wall Street Journal starting today is opening all of its editorial content and more to the public free. From what I've read Murdoch's plan is to morph from paid subscription to online ad based for revenues.

In my opinion, the WSJ is the de facto paper of record in the US now. I'm glad to see more content open to everyone. I hope the business content follows too.

That list was printed in the TO Sun just before the election..thanks to Lorrie Golstein.

The sheeple that let the TO Star tell them what to think obviously missed it.

Don't confuse them with the facts, their minds were made up.

One of these days he's going to realize that I don't care, and that he doesn't matter.

another story from CBCpravda, what they dont say is the Pembina institute has less credibility than members of the Ponoka institute.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/01/10/report-oil.html

Penny, thanks for word on the WSJ.

This sounds justifiable to me:

Man Kills 2 for Butchering Dog

One of these days he's going to realize that I don't care, and that he doesn't matter.

It's ironic how quickly the mask falls off and the underlying sexist (as well as other) attitudes are revealed when some liberals get prickly, as evidenced in two separate entries here. It's not surprising when one considers that liberalism at its worst is a patronizing philosophy, i.e. Since I'm much smarter than you, and I know you can't really look after yourself, I'm here to look after you through the imposition of government rules and programmes.

You and another brilliant female blogger are now witches (hmm... and what does that rhyme with?) while in your link above to Michelle Malkin good ol' liberal-boy Joe Roppe of Wisconsin fantasizes about force-feeding Michelle a hamburger while dreaming of her death from anorexia or bulemia.

Issues? Whew!

Warren and Joe really need to get together for a barbecue. I'll bet they could flip some burgers and talk some real man talk about those threatening skinny witches that haunt their thoughts.

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.

Heh heh.

T.R. Moreman, The Army in India and the Development of Frontier Warfare, 1849-1947

Glossary of Indian/Pushtu Words
Jirga: tribal assembly
Lashkar: tribal war party (not usually applied to less than 200 men)

Shamim Shahid, Waziri elders to reactivate lashkar

PESHAWAR - Despite agreeing to hold talks with traditional jirga of Mehsud tribesmen, the elders from all nine sub-tribes and clans of Ahmadzai Wazir tribe have decided to reactivate their traditional lashkar for self-defence as well as ensuring peace and tranquillity in the area...

Apparently ol Joe forgot, that along with anonymity, the NET also comes with a search function ;)

W.L.,

Re. Lionheart. Perhaps you recall the Channel 4 series 'Undercover Mosque' in which British imams and pious muslims were shown commiting nothing but hate speech, calling for beheadings of the British kuffr, all based on and quoted from the Quran, Hadith, Sira, etc.

Of course, these scumbag muslims weren't locked up or deported, rather, Channel 4 was investigated by the police instead.

"Without confronting the ideological roots of radical Islam it will be impossible to combat it... It is vital to grasp that traditional and even mainstream Islamic teaching accepts and promotes violence…"

David Thompson has it right. It's an insight we had all better get exactly right.

Typical pro-Liberal BS at CTV. The Liberals were told about the problems at Chalk River in 2002 by the Auditor General.

But the headline reads "AG says Lunn knew of reactor issues in September"

The 2002 Liberal government reference is buried in the 21st paragraph of the CTV story. Guess they don't want to upstage their hero Dion when he is on his hypocritical soapbox again?

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080109/nuclear_letter_080110/20080110?hub=Canada&s_name=

"One of these days he's going to realize that I don't care, and that he doesn't matter."

Boy, you are an optimist lady...

199 "Reasons not to Vote Liberal"

I think the list needs to be Updated.
#200
Dion
#201
Dion
#202
Dion
Etc......

Have met more than just a few people who said they discovered Kate from W's rants -- are sda regulars now :)

It looks like Glenn Beck somehow ended up in the Canadian Healthscare system.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/01/09/video-mystery-of-glenn-becks-surgery-revealed/

Just heard that John Kerry is going to endorse Obama. Huge momentum boost for Hillary.

Goldman Sachs Predicts Grim

"All three categories are also suffering from intense competition from the Internet."

Grim link

http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=74025

Kate Wheeler is dissappointed:there was no bloodshed from the emergency landing at Calgary today after experiencing turbulence.
Safe landing and EMS on hand for the injured...but Kate tries for 20 minutes to squeeze some blood out of the story.
The good stuff:
experts followed procedure, safe emergency landing, minor injuries ,quick EMS response.
Isn't that a story?

Looks like the hackers are still writing for The Star .

China and EFADS move over.. here comes India!

The CBC got it wrong. I mentioned the coming low cost vehicles that Tata Motors of India will be putting on the world market. The Nano gets 55 MPG.

Now the CBC decided to mention this new trend, but they announced the price as $2500 when in fact the price is more likely 2500 Euros. Not the same thing at all.

To be fair, The New York Times says $2,500 rather than Euros. In any case it is cheap.

http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/jan/10tatacar.htm

Nissan Renault, Fiat and others are getting ready to plunge into this eco-market in India.

If you think the $299 Asusteck laptop is a bargain, India plans to provide their citizens with computers in the $10 to $20 range.

Author of PlanetIndia,

Mira Kamdar is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute and an Associate Fellow of the Asia Society. She is a regular speaker at high-level international gatherings, and has addressed audiences on India and global affairs at venues as diverse as the Asia Society in New York and in Mumbai, J.P. Morgan Private Bank, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, the University of Washington School of Business, Lehman Brothers, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Altria, the Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, and various World Affairs Council chapters.
================ mirakamdar.com/
= TG

Mark Steyn may have acquired an English accent but he still knows how to dress like a hoser.

http://i2.tinypic.com/89gp4rd.jpg

Gloria Steinem contradicts herself in the New York Times,

She first tells us it is wrong to decide which candidate you will vote for based on their sex.

then concludes,

We have to be able to say: “I’m supporting her because she’ll be a great president and because she’s a woman.”

Goldman Sachs predicts high probability of a recession in Ontario this year.

Well, I have news for you. Factor out all of the money that premier mcjerkface has been circulating around, and we are balls deep in a recession.

Once again, librano thieves have used the money stolen from the middle class to create an illusion of prosperity that helped them to win the election.

We shall see how many of these idiots vote librano next time when they are looking at a 30% decline in the value of their house, and little jimmy can't secure meaningful employment close to home.

I used to have a list of 300+ reasons wonder if I can find it? Hmmm, no election soon is there?

"The adults will stop wars for oil." Joe Roppe

Maybe this dude doesn't know that the US gets most of its oil from Canada. If the US wanted more oil, why haven't they blown Iran to bits yet; it's not like they have far to go to do it.

Laibar Singh deportation suddenly on the front burner. He's been here since 2003 on a false passport and there is no effort to oust him until there is a non-Liberal Govt. Kind of smells like the Chalk River boondoggle. And the CRC harassing employees over Co. supplied parking spots, etc. Liberal appointed bureaucrats trying to stir up anti-CPC fervor? Makes one wonder!

3w.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=fe0d4c6e-5652-4e1e-b663-552e86a268aa&k=52546

"Jackie Kennedy's comment to her mother on hearing that a leftist had been arrested for killing her husband:

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights . . . . It's — it had to be some silly little Communist. (Manchester, Death of a President, p. 407)"

The Oswald Effect; Johnny, we hardly knew ye after November 1963.
(Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism)(Book review) [...]

"the one fact that Piereson finds most salient to probing the political effects of JFK's death: JFK was murdered by an ideological Communist."

"it was the reaction to the assassination itself, within the mainstream American establishment as well as among liberal intellectuals, that caused liberalism essentially to suffer a nervous breakdown."

"Piereson's discerning eye draws out the debilitating consequence of this: It de-legitimated the great liberal tradition of incremental reform, and robbed liberalism of its optimistic patrimony and belief in progress."

"liberalism still has not come to grips with this, preferring instead to recycle the old themes and regurgitate the conspiracy theories for the umpteenth time." ...-
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-167322331.html

One of these days he's going to realize that I don't care, and that he doesn't matter.

Yeah and that day will come when you neither do response posts like this nor any further threads on WK. I swear I didn't know who he was until I came to sda. Seriously!

MND...you have just revealed your age.. You would have known WK from the public ridiculing that he gave Stockwell Day for his faith.
(Of course WK is of the oh so open minded tolerant Liberal mind)
But c'mon...it's good for kate to give us some comic relief occasionally at his expense.

Root causes, then and now,

Disagree!

You simply have to dump professionals who are lost in a sea of detail. Can*t see things clearly.

Jihadists, [the Saudi $Billionair Bin Laden contracting family], simply offer a mat and a daily meal to young men suffering the pains of poverty and ignorance.

There is no universal school system in Afghanistan or Pakistan. The Taliban destroy schools and slay teachers simply because an educated young mind may understand fair government and personal rights and freedoms. Ability to read does not equal *educated*.

The educated in Iran are the Mullah*s main headache today.

Mosques are the preferred venue where young minds are rote trained to hate with gusto and where there are no distractions about fair government and human rights.

Scholar and leader, Winston Churchill*s papers on fundamentalist Islam, circa 1800s, read like they are current today. This is nothing new.

Afghanistan and the middle east is a long term project for us because education must be expanded and the mature population must be trained to provide reliable long term security.

If Nato troops leave, the people will revert to poverty stricken poppy farmers under the thumb of the Taliban.

With vast Oil and drugs income, the jihadists will flourish and spread exponentially.

How we plan to expand schools in Pakistan is the next challenge.= TG

blutech, not knowing WK is not an age determining factor. I didn't recall him dissing Stock Day nor do I remember what's his name that had neo cons drinking beer and eating popcorn for some reason. A waste of gray matter.
Heck, I can't even remember da guys who talks to his invisible homeless friend about da proof is da proofs and it is written on da napkin. ;-)

Parents say no to halal school dinners

A primary school which opted to serve only halal meat at lunch time has been accused of concealing the decision to provide Islamic compliant food from parents.

The Oxford primary school introduced halal meat to the school dinner menu in September last year as part of their inclusion policy, but failed to inform parents of the move until December. Parents at the school are now petitioning for an end to halal only meals...

" Trust me, I'm a liberal... "

An activist Who Opposes Voter ID Laws Is Registered In Two States!!!

...One of the individuals used by opponents to the law as an example of how the law hurts older Hoosiers is registered to vote in two states.

Faye Buis-Ewing, 72, who has been telling the media she is a 50-year resident of Indiana, at one point in the past few years also

claimed two states as her primary residence and received a homestead exemption on her property taxes in both states.

http://www.kpcnews.com/articles/2008/01/09/news/today/evening_star/doc478441f2313a5420740819.txt

What Liberal Bias?
And still the trolls will come around and lecture us on the topic of tin foil hats!

BTW - follow the links provided in the post at USS Neverdock!

1 reason not to vote Conservative, or for any other party for that matter.

bluetech: Using penny's delightful phrase, thanks for thinking of me as a "young person".
But alas! when I casually mention to cute young things that I'm an old man, I no longer get corrected and Safeway clerks have taken to asking me if I need help ... with a loaf of bread and litre of milk.

I knew about the CBC "mockumentary" on Stockwell Day and in fact my personal CBC ban dates from that vicious hack-job. I probably read WK pieces but didn't remember him at all nor did I have any clue WHO he was ... until becoming a regular visitor to sda. I've never been up on the back-room boys and fervently wish Kate would ban him and even delete comments with references to the slime ball.

error by ommission CBCpravda forgets the cancellation of the contract so many years ago by the lieberals.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2008/01/10/hillier-helicopter.html

it may not be your fathers oldmobile but it might have been your grampas helicopter.

The Prime Minister announced today a $1Billion program to help rural industries & Who is first to Complain? None other them Buzz Hargrove.
Its not enough, The Auto Industry needs the money claims Buzz.
Imagine That Buzz Complaining
Another announcement that got slushed in the Media, Stockwell Day has announced that Ontario will recieve $7.7million for Crime Prevention,Youth Crime Prev. programs.
Police Chiefs are welcomeing this news, as long needed fundings.
And of course the Official Oppposition has critiqued these announcements as nothing other then Pre Election Goodies.
And the Liberals should Know all about Pre-Election Paper Napkins Goodies.

Sounds like the lefties have no idea what to do about violence in black area schools. This is today's results of the Falconer report on safety in Toronto schools after the Manners boy was shot last year.

"Making Toronto's schools safe will not be accomplished with metal detectors or security measures but by being "kind and caring." But the TDSB has neither the cultural nor the financial wherewithal to restore safety and equity in its most vulnerable schools, according to a leaked report on school violence set to be released today."

As per normal with Liberals and leftists they always want greater bureaucracies.

"It also recommends the minister of education strike an implementation task force to oversee recommendations. Further recommendations in the report include:

. The hiring of 20 new full-time social workers.

. The province creates a standing educational justice committee.

. Develop an inclusive curriculum that explores ways to incorporate African-centred perspectives and other forms of cultural knowledge."

The black community continues to escalate its social costs far beyond any other cultural group. The staggering amounts spent for policing (rising from 19 to 25.2% of total Toronto budget in 6 years), the justice system, welfare, teachers, coming special schools, crime, illegitimacy, destruction of neighbourhoods and uncontrolled violence as noted in our schools can not be ignored anymore. Seeing what goes on in Africa maybe African-centred perspectives might not a good thing.

Anyone who rightly complains about this is always slapped with the race card.

The Waterkeeper Alliance and other groups already want much greater restrictions on water use in the semi-arid West. Expect ever more strident pronouncements about "unprecedented droughts" as the Kyoto/AGW scam unravels in other respects, so this study may be of use in the future:

Estimating the Value of Water-Use Efficiency in the Intermountain West

...The report evaluates the benefits of Denver Water efficiency programs and uses an exploratory modeling approach to accommodate the significant uncertainty in such estimations. The results of this study suggest that the inclusion of long-run avoided costs and environmental benefits is critical to fully recognizing the value of water-use efficiency programs. The authors find that evaluating only the short-run avoided costs leads to the conclusion that many water-efficiency projects already a part of Denver Water’s 10-year conservation plan are not cost-effective...

(Summary and full document available in PDF)

Kerry announces his endorsement of Obama.
Kiss of death, I think.

Re: delay in delivery of Cyclone helicopters. Seems to me this is a breach of contract (non-performance). These choppers are needed now, not 40 months from now.

My advice to government is to void the contract with Sikorsky (Cyclone is already obsolete, useless as ASW platform, poor range, and low load capability - and cannot operate in icing conditions).

Before officially cancelling/voiding contract, Tories should approach EH industries to get firm delivery date of EH 101, the right helicopter that was initially chosen, then cancelled by Chretien, again using our military as political prop to win election in 93.

Regarding the Falconer report on gun violence in Toronto, he said that the problem was city-wide, not just a problem in the northwest of the city "involving the black kids at Jane and Finch".

And he's absolutely correct! It also includes the black kids in the southeast of the city, too...of course, he wouldn't put it quite that way, would he?

Kerry endorses Obama...will he also keep him supplied with Heinz Ketchup?

Nick Teen says: Told ya MJane is crazy.
...-

"Doctors say cannabis abuse can contribute to mental health problems including forms of psychosis, paranoia and schizophrenia. There can be harmful physical side-effects, disrupting blood pressure and exacerbating heart and circulation disorders.:

UK: Abuse of cannabis puts 500 a week in hospital

The public health impact of the Government's decision to downgrade cannabis is disclosed today in official figures showing a 50 per cent rise in the number of people requiring medical treatment after using the drug.

Since cannabis was downgraded from a Class B to a Class C drug, the number of adults being treated in hospitals and clinics in England for its effects has risen to more than 16,500 a year. In addition, the number of children needing medical attention after smoking the drug has risen to more than 9,200.

Almost 500 adults and children are treated in hospitals and clinics every week for the effects of cannabis.

Its health toll is revealed in official data compiled by health authorities and obtained by The Daily Telegraph.

Drug campaigners last night said the figures proved Labour's decision to reclassify cannabis in January 2004, which made the penalties for its possession less severe, was badly mistaken and had sent out the wrong signals about it being a "soft" drug. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/yq4ykf

Heard young comfortably employed lady on CBC gushing about the virtues of Gemco. . third biggest buyer of carbon credits.

http://www.gemco.org/

This has the smell of chairman *MO* to it.

The gushing sounds were so liberal some how. Just gives you that creepy rip-off feeling. = TG

Notice the Gemco mailing address..

Oak Bay, Victoria, BC

A known repository for the idle rich. Was Oil for Food a non-profit enterprise?

It*s easy to look corporate on the net. = TG

"Airlines ordered to drop extra fares for disabled"

"Canada's major air carriers have been ordered to offer disabled travellers the same fares as everyone else. ... travellers who need additional seating because of their disabilities will no longer have to pay more than a single fare for domestic flights."

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080110/disability_ruling_081001/20080110?hub=TopStories

Today, the Toronto District School Board says that one can access the Falconer Report about the shooting death of Jordan Manners in a Toronto school at www.tdsb.on.ca.schoolsafety

I've been trying to access this report, with no success. I wonder if others could try and let me know if they have any success.

This latest, apparent SNAFU by the TDSB is altogether typical.

lookout,

http://www.tdsb.on.ca/_site/ViewItem.asp?siteid=9998&menuid=9956&pageid=8753

Seems like the last period before 'schoolsafety' was a '/'.

Steve

The culture of entitlement is what killed Stefanie
Naomi Lakritz
Calgary Herald

The killing of Stefanie Rengel is proof the chickens hatched by the child-centred education philosophy have come home to roost.

The 14-year-old Toronto girl was stabbed to death near her house on New Year's Day, allegedly because of an adolescent love triangle. A 15-year-old girl and her 17-year-old boyfriend face first-degree murder charges. The girl reportedly had told her boyfriend that she wanted Stefanie dead.

Stefanie's friend, Victoria Ham, told Toronto media she didn't understand how anyone could "crush someone so filled with joy. Why would anyone want to put out that light?"

Well, Victoria, for so many years now, teachers, parents and the other adults who people kids' lives have been busy telling them how special they are, without the kids first having to do anything to prove it. These adults have walked on eggshells around an entire generation of children, afraid of saying anything the least bit untoward because it might damage kids' self-esteem.

In the process, they've abdicated their duty to teach what's right and what's wrong. Instead, everyone must be non-judgmental, which means anything goes. Every child must exist in this egalitarian specialness defined only by the fact of being present and breathing.

Competition is seen as bad, so it was eliminated, and everyone on the team, from the top athlete to the klutz, gets a trophy, negating the healthy idea that one must put in the requisite hard work in order to walk away with a prize.

Consequences are mere shadows of their former selves, either eliminated or so diluted as to be utterly ineffectual. All this for fear of harming children's egos.

These are the tenets of the child-centred philosophy, which is often symbolized by a classroom in which kids sit at desks arranged so they face each other, their backs to the teacher who is on the periphery "facilitating" the learning experience. What greater metaphor could there be for the folly of this focus on the child as supreme authority, than a classroom in which the teacher becomes an appendage instead of the central figure? ...-
http://tinyurl.com/ytthk3

Socialism protects its clients/slaves.
...-

ASIO to protect schools

TAXPAYERS are to spend $20 million on high-technology security measures to protect Jewish, Muslim and other schools at risk of hate-based attacks.
The Rudd Government plans to order ASIO and the Australian Federal Police to assess risks at all of the nation's schools to identify those with special security needs.
Education Minister Julia Gillard confirmed the plan yesterday as Jewish and Islamic community spokesmen said they would welcome help with security measures such as cameras and 24-hour patrols, bollards to restrict vehicle access and shatter-proof glass.
Ms Gillard, who is also Acting Prime Minister, said at-risk schools spent large amounts of money providing their own security at the expense of their teaching budgets.
Labor would assume responsibility for the costs of schools assessed as being at risk.
"The Rudd Government believes the resources invested in the provision of a quality education should not be diluted by onerous security needs," Ms Gillard said through a spokeswoman. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/23opmn (australian)

Socialism exists. ...-

"It seems to us quite legitimate to conclude that socialism does exist as a unified historical phenomenon. Its basic principles have been indicated above. They are:

* Abolition of private property.
* Abolition of the family.
* Abolition of religion.
* Equality, abolition of hierarchies in society."
http://tinyurl.com/3xatxp (Igor Shafarevich)
...-

Europe’s Philosophy of Failure
By Stefan Theil

January/February 2008
In France and Germany, students are being forced to undergo a dangerous indoctrination. Taught that economic principles such as capitalism, free markets, and entrepreneurship are savage, unhealthy, and immoral, these children are raised on a diet of prejudice and bias. Rooting it out may determine whether Europe’s economies prosper or continue to be left behind.

Millions of children are being raised on prejudice and disinformation. Educated in schools that teach a skewed ideology, they are exposed to a dogma that runs counter to core beliefs shared by many other Western countries. They study from textbooks filled with a doctrine of dissent, which they learn to recite as they prepare to attend many of the better universities in the world. Extracting these children from the jaws of bias could mean the difference between world prosperity and menacing global rifts. And doing so will not be easy. But not because these children are found in the madrasas of Pakistan or the state-controlled schools of Saudi Arabia. They are not. Rather, they live in two of the world’s great democracies—France and Germany.

What a country teaches its young people reflects its bedrock national beliefs. Schools hand down a society’s historical narrative to the next generation. There has been a great deal of debate over the ways in which this historical ideology is passed on—over Japanese textbooks that downplay the Nanjing Massacre, Palestinian textbooks that feature maps without Israel, and new Russian guidelines that require teachers to portray Stalinism more favorably. Yet there has been almost no analysis of how countries teach economics, even though the subject is equally crucial in shaping the collective identity that drives foreign and domestic policies.

Just as schools teach a historical narrative, they also pass on “truths” about capitalism, the welfare state, and other economic principles that a society considers self-evident. In both France and Germany, for instance, schools have helped ingrain a serious aversion to capitalism. In one 2005 poll, just 36 percent of French citizens said they supported the free-enterprise system, the only one of 22 countries polled that showed minority support for this cornerstone of global commerce. In Germany, meanwhile, support for socialist ideals is running at all-time highs—47 percent in 2007 versus 36 percent in 1991.

It’s tempting to dismiss these attitudes as being little more than punch lines to cocktail party jokes. But their impact is sadly and seriously self-destructive. In Germany, unemployment is finally falling after years at Depression-era levels, thanks in no small part to welfare reforms that in 2005 pressured Germans on the public dole to take up jobs. Yet there is near consensus among Germans that, despite this happy outcome, tinkering with the welfare state went far beyond what is permissible. Chancellor Angela Merkel, once heralded as Germany’s own Margaret Thatcher, has all but abandoned her plans to continue free-market reforms. She has instead imposed a new “rich people tax,” has tightened labor-market rules, and has promised renewed efforts to “regulate” globalization. Meanwhile, two in three Germans say they support at least some of the voodoo-economic, roll-back-the-reforms platform of a noisy new antiglobalization political party called Die Linke (The Left), founded by former East German communists and Western left-wing populists. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/2maw6r (foreignpolicy)

More settled science. Actually, encouragingly, there seems to be a crack in their armour: the final sentence of this greenie screed (skeptics [aka real scientists, since real science involves skepticism] are called "denialists" here) is:

"The bottom line is that there is still a lot to learn."

In other words they admit that the science is not settled.

http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/antarctic-sea-ice-47011002

Anti-Americanism at its finest.

http://paulitics.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/top-5-things-i-saw-in-america-which-as-a-canadian-freaked-me-right-out/

Actually,
#5: WTH is wrong with that? At least you know that if you don't agree with the sentiments, they're not going to jihad your head off

#4: sounds tasty, like a once-a-year treat

#3: no problem--pride in your heritage is fine

#2: agreed--make your own luck

#1: great billboard signs.

RTWT. 500+ comments, though.

Hoo boy I just went to sample that Paulitics bloog..... I suppose that passes for wit in the young socialist circles! BTW - Johann I'd agree with your assessments ( I guess that makes SDA an "Echo Chamber" again?... still? Oh well......)

Paulitics, Five Things Freakout

Curiosity got the better of me and I had a read at paulitics blog and I must say two things: 1. the lad doesn't get out much as just about every item has a Canadian equivalent, and, 2. The link from SDA probably gave him the most traffic his site has ever seen.

Flipper pie and cod cheeks anyone?

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