LOL!

Nice,

Way to go Don!

Ol' Don is too polite. No doubt the tards at the CBFC will think otherwise though.

:)

Great post Kate for your SDA blog.

God bless you Don Cherry!!

You spoke for me last night Don, on CBC no less, first time in memory I got my state coerced money's worth!!

( And FYI, - My Oxford MP, Dave MacKenzie is now a committed SDA viewer !!!)

Just a note to all you lefties out there, some of my neighbours and our own porch lights burned brightly in Woodstock Ontario last night all through the 8-9 hour!

At least one Kingstonian(beside me)has it right. Could not have said it better myself!

Cherry for PM(when Harper retires).

I love Don Cherry for dishing it right back! Is there a history to the 'title'?Did Don Cherry actually give Suzuki that label?

I saw that blub on HNIC...Don was too reserved. He should have told the fruit fly to sell off one of his carbon-sucking mansions before he preaches restraint to working class folks.

KOOK?...far too kind Don...you are a gentleman sir.

Why doesn't Don have the Order of Canada yet?

That video makes you guys proud of Cherry? Exactly what is it about Cherry in that video that didn't sound like a dumbass jock in high school...including the stupidity of what he said?

Looking at some who have received the order of Canada, gotta wonder why Don Cherry doesn't merit one. Would it have anything to do with the politics of the politically correctoids?

Don should have had the last foof-off in the video.

anon,

Cherry is no dummy, he just puts in on to piss off grand intellectuals like you.

He is right on. Suzuki is a left wing kook.

Whoa!!!1!!!ONE!!! Don made fun of a nerd, and sounded dumb doing it!!!! Wish we could ALL sound that ridiculous, right everyone?!? Am I right?!?

Last I checked most houses had a heating system that functions independently of the light bulbs so I'm not sure what kind of point this is making. Torontonians can't participate in Earth hour because their main source of heat is their lighting?!?! That's what Don was implying, and most of you all just cheered on that flawed logic.

In any regard, the idea that anyone here is holding Don Cherry up on a pedestal for anything other than hockey is hilarious, but quite telling and fitting all the same.

JW: BAHHAAA HAAA AHAAAAAA!! Yep, Don Cherry is a veritable Athenian, he is. Right up there with Socrates. Oh yeah, he is the intellectual vanguard, and the dumb jock impression is all a put-on.

What Don doesn't know about anything not involving hockey could fill *city blocks*, I'm quite sure. He's parroting the lamest, most dumbass talking point in existence...what gives you the impression he even gives a sh*t enough to organize a put-on?

Hey anon
Why would we be proud of what Cherry said about Mr. Left wing kook Hypocrit? Some of us think the answer is self evident. Preaching from his massive mansions in Pt Grey or Quadra Island, Suzukook hasn't practiced science in over 40 years, plus he's a "geneticist" not a climatologist or biologist or photoplankton researcher. You are being laffed at because you are a typical vacuous liberal who is "comforted" by ridiculously useless efforts to simply blow money on things like One-Tonne challenges and Earth Hour....just to make you feel morally superior, give the "appearance" of doing something while really doing absolutely nothing.

steve...I guess you missed it: Don Cherry was dissing the global warming fear...furnaces-cold oud side-not warm in Toronto.
Enough details for you?
Watch it again.

OH PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE let Don Cherry be nominated CPC leader, and then have him run for PM. The DEATH of the CPC would be imminent, and then we could go back to having *real* conservatives in Parliament, rather than these hackjob, glassy-eyed, hypocritically moronic neocon knock-offs.

"Last I checked most houses had a heating system that functions independently of the light bulbs... Posted by: steve

Well, Steve, you better check again. The heating system and the lighting system are integrally interconnected. You do not draw heat for 30 minutes and then stop; you draw heat until a predefined temperature has been reached. Light bulbs are a non-trivial source of heat in the overall system.

The heating system sends a signal for heat based on the temperature of the room. If heat-generating light bulbs are removed from the equation, heat will be called for earlier, and more heat will be needed and drawn from the heating system.

So, shutting off the lights, and other heat-generating objects, such as TVs, dishwashers, washers, dryers, etc., is mostly an exercise in feeling good.

NIN: Wow, I see your point. Consider my mind *CHANGED*. You are SO smart, how can anyone argue with you?

I'm not even doing a \sarcasm, because I'm so totally serious. You should travel the world spreading your smartness.

Anon
Leave it alone already. You have now ensured that you are likely the greater KOOK of the two. What a bunch of *real* drivel.

Harper, you nonconformist....

"Harper snubs Earth Hour"
http://www.thestar.com/SpecialSections/EarthHour/article/407295

I noticed the green grass and trees behind the hypocrite and that his apparel was a shirt only, with vest. (Wearing three layers and gloves, I was quite chilly outside today.) And this arrogant, self-referential prig has the audacity to lecture the rest of us on our carbon footprint!

Well done, Don Cherry, calling a spade a spade--and, under the circumstances, with such self-restraint and politesse!

TVO had a show--by candlelight: sheesh--the other night. When the elite, all lefty, I believe, guests were asked--very sincerely by the host--what they'd do, personally, to change their lifestyles to be more "green", virtually, to a person, they said, "CUT DOWN on my air travel". Isn't that impressive? That's a luxury that most of us don't even have to think about. (I last flew a decade ago: to one place and back.) And the irony of the situation was completely lost on all of them: both the host and the self-referential, navel gazing, goodie-two-shoes guests. Good Lord, deliver us!

The elitist, wealthy likes of Al Gore, who owns a carbon credit company, David Suzuki, and the Hollywood crowd, all of whose carbon footprints make the rest of ours look like pygmies in comparison, are the last people who should be hectoring us about changing lifestyle. For them, that might mean one less vehicle or one less Riviera vacation--"Just look at what a good boy/girl I am for making this sacrifice [sic]!"

These people need to get real. As it is, the optics are very bad and I think these spoiled brats will soon be doing their pet cause more harm than good. 'Can't wait!

NIN...please don't feed the leftard trolls.It just makes them/it feel like somebody is actually analyzing their stupitity. If they are so self rightous about GW,they wouldn't be generating GHG by using their computers,would they?

The Goracle is coming! New Information imminent!

http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/407057

Although I thought all the previous information fed to us was "new" and compelling.

One radio station here in Edmonton was calling for people to have earth hour at 7:00 because the Oilers game was at 8:00. Too funny, it's still light as day here at 7:00.

It's been damned cold in Vancouver and Victoria the last couple of months. Freezing, actual snow...in March.

Apparently, Dion read a speech in Toronto by candlelight during earth hour. Changing the lighting won't help understand what he's trying to say. LOL

Don Cherry For Governor General

I think it's fair to say that I would vote for Don Cherry as Prime Minister. But it's not a new thought for me. I remember him making a comment about some retard Quebec athlete not wanting to carry the Canadian flag in Kyoto. There was a big stink about that comment too, but he was dead on the money. I saw a number of comments on the left wing sites calling Don a right wing nut job, and making moral equivalence with his support of the troops. Are these people stupid or just mentally retarded?

Also, having grown up in Kingston makes me especially proud of Don Cherry, nothing but liberals in that town. (except for kingstonlad)

Don Cherry for Prime Minister.

Justhinkin (uhhh...no you're not):

MMMMFFFF....BWAAMMMFMFMF......BWAAHAAAA HAAAA AHAAAAAAH HAHAAAAA!!!!! I tried to hold that one in, but to no avail. The comments are just so insightful, and not at all disingenuous and hasty over-generalizations. Yes, and what I just said was not at all smug.

You guys don't seriously think that moderate supporters of sustainable development plans and environmental initiatives actually believe that the whole economy should be shut down and that we should live in caves. I have to assume that you are capable of seeing the difference between justified, metered, controlled and (dare I say it?!?) CONSERVATIVE use of energy resources. If I didn't, I would have no choice but to think that you are irretrievably stupid, say, were you to suggest that the 'self-righteous' should turn off their computers if they were serious about reducing GW.

Yes, in the interests of arguing from a good faith position, I have to assume you were joking. Thus, the raucous laughter at the top of this comment.

Poor anon, it took three tries trolling before he got a bite.

btw, Don Cherry is a Canadian that I respect and admire, except maybe for fashion tips ;-)

YES YES YES...PLEASE GUYS nominate Cherry to political positions, somewhere....ANYWHERE in the CPC. It speaks volumes about this crowd about the triumph of form over function and style over substance that you dimwits would even think Don Cherry would make a good political figure.

Texas: OH SH*T DON CHERRY IS A CANADIAN ???!!!???? Well, DAMN SON, better put him in office then.

SAY WHHHHAAAATTTTT?!? 'Texas Canuck' RESPECTS and ADMIRES him????!!!!!!????? This guy is a shoo-in, then!!! Screw the elections! Cherry's our man...if he can't do it, then...well, pretty much anyone with a high school education probably could.

What is really irritating is that the wing-nut David Suzuki has been awarded the Order of Canada, but Don Cherry has not. Cherry has done more for this country and many causes than that arrogant little twirp David Suzuki has ever done.

Think of all the Carbon credits you're wasting by trolling on here, anon....

Way to go DON CHERRY! Love that Suzuki smackdown! And on CBC to boot.

Hockey is more important that Earth Hour. Hope for the Demented Dominion yet, I'd say.

My porch light went on at 8pm, rest assured.

Cherry reflects the views of more people than you think, or care to admit. His buffon act is well studied

Remember the last election was Tim Hortons versus Starbucks....if you had to think of famous Canadians you would run into in a Tim Hortons then I think Don Cherry would be on most Canadian's lists...as would Don Maclean for that matter....Suzuki would be on the Starbucks list.

You may not like him Anon but his views would be reflective of a significant number....you can piss on him but you would be pissing on those others as well. It will be interesting to see Suzuki's response, if any.

You see if Suzuki doesnt even watch hockey he has lost about 40% of the population right there.

Stephen: Tim Hortons vs. Starbucks? Sigh...it looks like grossly simplified dichotomies are still 'in vogue'.

I think Cherry is probably quite happy with his no Order of Canada, given the collection of weasels and wankers who got them under the Liberal regime the last 20 years or so.

As far as Cherry being elected to something, I think its a great idea.

If he were elected Premier of Ontario and did absolutely nothing but his Hockey Night in Canada show the whole time, he couldn't possibly cause as much damage as Dalton McSquinty has.

Say what you will and think what you like about Don Cherry but he's one guy the CBC will never get rid of because he's an Icon, even those who don't watch the game of hockey make sure to tune in to Don's segment. He's a great act,got the clothes to prove it, belying the fact he's got one hell of a lot more class, common sense and compassion in his little finger than any of his politically correct detractors.

Don is also more literate and understandable in English than Dion will ever be and "everythink like that there".

BTW, anon, you just don't GET it, quit trying.

"You guys don't seriously think that moderate supporters of sustainable development plans and environmental initiatives actually believe that the whole economy should be shut down and that we should live in caves"

What do you think the end result of implementing full-blown kyoto would be? The uncontrollable increase in our manufacturing base? Rampant growth in the housing industry? Affordable energy for all - especialy those with low incomes?

Idiot.

Why not try thinking before you comment, because - to paraphrase Twain - rather than remaining silent and appearing stupid, you're typing and ipso facto removing all doubt.

mhb23re
at gmail d0t calm

Hey y'all, let's stop feeding the troll. It's like providing a safe injection site for this fool.

"I'm not even doing a \sarcasm, because I'm so totally serious. You should travel the world spreading your smartness."

Yea NIN, THATS RIGHT!!. You SHOULD travel the world spreading your smartness!

To start off you could travel accross Canada in a big 60 passenger (Suzucki) bus. And you have enough room you could even take another person with you. Poluting you say. No problemo,just buy carbon credits-just like Suzuki.

After you have polluted all the Canadian air you could then travel to other countries by charter airplane. You know, the kind like Gore has. Hell, they may be big mega-polluters but the good point is you don't even have to buy carbon credits for those cause air travel is excluded from Kyoto.

Besides, don't worry about poluting or C02 at all because your cause is a good one. Its kinda like Gore and Suzucki,who are probably the only people on earth whose SH*T doesn't stink.

Horny Toad

With Don Cherry you get a truthful opinion. You may not like it, but you have to admire him for it. Wish there where more folks like that, than the usual weasels trying their hardest to sound like a talking social vogue ad.

As for politics, Cherry I believe would scoff at the idea. I don't think he wants to lower his morality to that of brown nosers & busybodies, who make up a significant number in the political fiddles that occur at Parliament Hill.

May his tongue never loss its aptitude to eviscerate the foes of lucid logic.

Incidentally, it's freezing in Vancouver by our standards too... snowed on Friday, hailed heavily on Saturday.

Amen West

...10 Seconds till CBC board reconvene regarding the decision to have Don Cherry back on HNIC...heads will roll.

Tomax, is that for real? Where can that be seen?

Maybe his new nickname should be David Sokooky?

-15 C with windchill this morning, and 6 cm of snow on the ground.

Yup, Global Warming is a serious factor here in Calgary. People like to argue that the "weather" is different from the "climate", but it is amazing the amount of contrary scientific evidence mounting against the established "fact". With NASA robot bouys showing a cooling trend in the oceans (the models require a significant warming trend to be correct), the "hockey stick" disproven by the Medieval Warming Period (although I still see it published), NASA's corrected climate data showing the 1930s to be the actual warmest decade on record (funny how that got swept under the carpet), and the investigation of the weather stations in the US for what I call "temperature neutrality" by Climate Audit dot org (they appear to be in recent temperature hotspots; I'd say that skews the data), it is astounding people can criticize Don for his opinion.

And I am not even discussing the lack of water vapour modelling, guesses at cloud effects on the global climate, and most importantly, the blatant assumptions in the model on the effects of CO2 increase on temperature (the gradient for temperature increase in relation to CO2 concentration increase is apparently an untested assumption).

Any literate or scientific mind that blindly believes AGW is insane. AGW may be a real fact, but there is severely insufficient evidence to justify a complete gutting and remodelling of our economy.

And kudos to Don for speaking his mind. Funny how Freedom of Expression is allowed for certain segments of the population, and others are shouted down and ridiculed for having contrarian views.

Hey everybody, don't forget to watch CBC's first real stab at the HRC/Free speech issue tonight on the Sunday Night version of the National -- "CBC Sunday" or whatever it's called. Ezra is interviewed in it, apparently.

If everyone who's been following the story watches it would be a win-win: if the report is reasonable, CBC will see that their ratings went up because they covered something of interest to the Trudeau's un-Canadians, i.e. actual Canadians.
If the report is another imbalanced, pro HRC/Lib-bureaucracy, 416 cover-up special that omits the salient points, it would get a tasmanian devil dustball of blogo-fury going.

7 pm, I believe.

The point to all the GW retards. It ain't happening. The pressure's going to mount as this lie becomes increasingly hard to deny. There is going to be a hugh grassroots backlash. DZ and AG and the IPCC will be changing gears as fast as Kate on her motorbike. I expect we will see a lot of back pedalling and new twists from the "save the environment" crowd.
Here's a point to ponder to anyone who has any sympathy for looking after the environment. You've done yourself and your cause a great disservice by buying into the GW lie. It is going to end up discrediting everything else you believe and stand for.

1:

[since Ln(e) = 1 :) ]

Good post. Do you (or anybody else) know of a site summarizing these anti-AGW items? I've recommended "The Great Global Warming Swindle" to friends, and it'd be nice to have an updated link reference to forward, too.

mhb23re
at gmail d0t calm

mhb: Here's another one for you: http://youtube.com/watch?v=-WWpH0lmcxA and another one http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/global-warming-01.html. Try also friends of science.

EBD, Ezra Levant has a detailed analysis of the "CBC Sunday" program at his web site. (After SDA, I head there next.)

It seems the show's not balanced--who'd be surprised by that?--but he says, if one's able to read between the lines, the HRCs don't come across well.

So, has Dr. Suzuki sold his mansion yet and moved into a two-bedroom condo?

I was at the Calgary/Edmonton game last night. We were treated during the game to Don's favorite left wing kook & a special selection of pre-teenie disciples giving the "please feel guilty for breathing" ad courtesy of ENMAX.

In a rink where everything's either artificial or terribly exaggerated, seeing Chairman Suzuki & kids smiling out the little red book message was almost enough to make me give back (albeit a little pre-digested) a $9.75 Saddledome double sawdust & charcoal special.

Don't we pay enough at these events to be crap free except for what we willingly pay for? There's no escaping the doctor's fruity fly-trap.

We love Don Cherry. Coaches Corner is the best thing about HNIC; it certainly isn't the Leafs. You can trust Don to tell the truth, even if it is politically incorrect. He always mentions the troops and pays his respects to the fallen soldiers which him a rarity among tv celebrities. Don Cherry speaks to (as Fenris would call them)Vimy Ridge Canadians.

Notice Davey's standard 'progressive' bullcrap rhetoric: 'Winter sports fans know that something strange is happening with weather and climate."
Well, at least he took a break from telling us that "Canadians know that......"

I'll tell you what this winter sports fan knows Davey :
I know you've got your head so far up Al Gore's backside they need to slap an oxygen mask on your backside so you can breathe!
And you can probably see Stephanne Dion's boots up there as well.

Has anyone else--well, who hasn't?--seen Dr. Fruitfly's ads, telling everyone to unplug, turn off, etc.? ('Wish he would.) They're HILARIOUS!

In one, the Wizard of Flaws pokes his head through a hole in a living room wall and tells the surprised young people to check for energy-leaking cracks, etc. in their house.

Hmmmm. 'Doesn't look like the ads were done by candlelight. I wonder what kind of energy kleig lights consume?

And I wonder how much the Canadian taxpayer is paying Dr. Bigfoot to tell the rest of us to unplug, while he lights up our lives, first-class all the way?

Bear in mind, in utopian totalitarian circles, Dubya is considered to be about as dumb as Don Cherry.

The question is ... if Dubya is so dumb, how did he manage to win two elections?

The GW crowd is actually doing the environmental cause a disservice. By selling us such a monumental lie they are going to lose all credibility for any real environmental issues. People will have a hard time taking anything they say seriously.

Al Gore can celebrate EARTH DAY by keeping his piehole shut and cutting down on all that HOT AIR

Was Suzuki recorded at this palatial, 30 room multi-million dollar mansion in Point Grey, his palatial, 20 room, 10 hectare Quadra Island mansion, or one of his other carbon farting gigantic mansions? And did he arrive there on his new private jet, or one of the older ones in the fleet? Oh the stupidity and hypocrisy of the Liberal left is hard to fathom, isn't it?

Very nice to see the media allowing coverage that does not put Suzuki on a high horse. Quite shocked the state owned politically correct CBC didn't bleep the comments.

Suzuki and his ilk are moonbats...plain and simple. I did much prefer the term global warming however using climate change covers all the basis...hot...cold...cool..warm..rainy...snowy......

Best thing EVER

DrD:

Great links! Many thanks.

mhb

So sad to see that people are so void of brains as to believe this f...ing liar Suzuki and waste billions on a hoax, as young couples and families cannot afford a house. 400.000 for a first time house, 75,000 for two vehicles, 1400 per month for utilities, ah yes priceless you thought. No believing assholes like Suzuker and Gore is left me speechless, as Mar 30 here in southern Alberta the temperature is 10 degrees farenheit. Thank you Don Cherry, we could ony wish there more MEN like you and me.

algore needs to go on a diet, he's the size of a rhinocerus. He'd sure stink up a bathroom real good.

Al Gore has a very large Carbon Fatprint. He must be planning to hang out with that other fat pig, Michael Moore. Speaking of which I think MM has lost his Hollywood Cachet. He looked surprised at the Oscars this year.

Someone should trot out the photo of Suzkook in the buff, well almost buff, he sacrificed a fig leaf to cover the jewels.
Not sure what the message was to accompany the photo, it wasn't that memorable, the photo was the story.

God bless Don Cherry!

I guess those less-than-sharp razors like Suzuki have trouble comprehending that light bulbs, used indoors during the heating season, do not increase electrical consumption. They produce heat. The heat is absosrbed into the building and simply supports the cost of heating. Or to put it more simply kilowatt = heat. Its that simple. Are you heating with electricity? Try this: Turn on all you lights all night and measure your electrical comsumption for the week. Do your normal thing the following week. You will find the electical consumption will be the same. If you are heating with other means such as oil you still are supplementing the heating cost.

These useless gesture moments remind me of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer refuses to wear a ribbon for some awareness walk, and is beaten up by an angry mob.

I was in a ski shop in Rockies as this moment was supposed to be happening, and someone walked in to declare, "Why are your lights still on?" The employees, mostly from Down Under where I believe this non-event started, all looked at him blankly.

He was a teacher. I assume then the Suzuki tentacles into society start in the classroom.

"Tomax, is that for real? Where can that be seen?"

No John, sorry, it was wishful thinking.

Don Cherry knows hockey. He should stick to what he knows.

Stupid Tory tricks. Paving a backroad to Leader Sask that should be put back to grid. I've driven out there acouple of times. Who the hell is that for? Not a lot of population out there. Farmers tell me it's the oil trucks destroying the road. More polution. Let the oil companies pay for it. It sure as hell ain't for the farmers.

that's why you get the order of canada...........