The Black Rod has an update on who's makin' the bacon in Manitoba.

For those looking for Patterico's web site that has been taken over by a squatter, here's his (temporary) new site:
http://70.32.75.225/
(Just cut and paste it as is, it doesn't need a www in front or anything.)

British socialists planning a giant database of all cell calls made in the UK, website visited and emails sent. Orwellian scheme to comply with EU directive.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7671046.stm

Ya know Vit. If Jackie was doing that schtick now,he'd be hauled in front of some HRC so fast,he wouldn't have time to put the saucer on his head. Do Jews sue Jews?Or call them hate-mongers? *sigh*. When you can't make fun of even yourself anymore,what's left.

Jackie Mason on Obama's fraud:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ5c6hxqXq4&feature=related

whither journalistic integrity and objectivity:

3w.liveleak.com/view?i=d9b_1224728546

perhaps that should be 'wither'

"Why don't you just give me a hundred grand, and we'll call the whole thing off."

Currently watching 'Chicago 10' on PBS and I Don't Get It. Maybe I need to be stoned or a yippie to appreciate the film.

Got a link,porky pig?

I remember the last show Mason did on ed sullivan. I didn't know at the time what the back stage action was but it seemed a little strained and surreal to see Mason obviously intense about something. he had been blackballed by sullivan.

and THEN, oh boy, a looooong time after he came out with his revival show. utter genius with his 'if Im looking for myself and find me, how will I know its me?' angle.

GLENN BECK What happened to him on CNN. He is off the air, anyone know what happened?

Beck is on Fox , he didnt toe the leftist line.

On the other side of the coin; cbc newsworld did a bit tonight on a recycling scam that involved 'green' companies collecting your old electronics(computers,etc.)and selling them to chinese companies that used the poor to dismantle them in less than healthy ways... Maybe mothercorp has seen the writing on the wall,and noticed the ink was blue.Unfortunately,sycophant suck-ups are useless,no matter who they serve. Time for the big broom.

Jackie Mason on Obama's fraud:

Close to 400,000 hits and only 4 stars. Must be affecting a lot of Liberal victims of disambiguation.

Valéry (1871 - 1945) said, "An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels its votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next."

Sometimes Jackie Mason is just Jackie Mason, like he was back there in '66.

Can't the great comedian simply be celebrated without bursts of righteous indignation?

Feh.

Afghanistan and NATO - not waiting for the asteroid.

http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/522612

Candidate accused of being 'traitor to Islam'. Mississauga NDP candidate says he's been threatened since election in which Tory defeated Muslim MP

Islam related death threats make their entrance into Canadian politics. Thank you very much immigration policy. The comments are fairly heartening. At least a few people see the dangers coming our way.

Comments no be working for the post above this one.......

Silly Obama YouTube video from The Nose on Your Face...posted to "yargb.blogspot.com". It was good for a chuckle.

Kate....comments not working for your 12:19 and 1:12 posts.

"Magna cum laundry"

"People like Ayers aren’t atheists, they’re true believers. GK Chesterton was right when he said that a man who declares he has stopped believing in God often doesn’t mean he believes in nothing. It only means he’s willing to believe in anything."
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2008/10/22/magna-cum-laundry/
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"Atheists Plan Anti-God Ad Campaign on Buses

LONDON — London buses have God on their side — but not for long, if atheists have their way.

The sides of some of London's red buses will soon carry ads asserting there is "probably no God," as nonbelievers fight what they say is the preferential treatment given to religion in British society."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112965/posts

At least one great statesman is speaking truth:

"The central problem that we now face is Islamic extremism, for which the only real solution is to arrest it and to demonstrate its incapacity to achieve its objectives. Otherwise, the momentum is going to become stronger and stronger."

(10/10/2008) Henry Kissinger to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy

(Via SWJ) Jason Motlagh, Reform of Pakistan's spy agency crucial

The fate of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and of stability in this neighboring country may depend to a great extent on efforts to reform Pakistan's controversial spy agency, known in the past for "hunting with the hounds and running with the hares."

U.S. officials have long criticized Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for a dual policy of cracking down on Islamist militancy while supporting militant groups in Afghanistan and Kashmir and allowing al Qaeda and the Taliban to maintain sanctuaries in tribal areas along the Afghan-Pakistani border...

(Via SWJ) Karen DeYoung, Pakistan Will Give Arms to Tribal Militias

Pakistan plans to arm tens of thousands of anti-Taliban tribal fighters in its western border region in hopes -- shared by the U.S. military -- that the nascent militias can replicate the tribal "Awakening" movement that proved decisive in the battle against al-Qaeda in Iraq...

Much distrust also remains on the U.S. side, particularly within intelligence agencies that have long been suspicious of ties between the Pakistani intelligence service and the Taliban. The CIA has increased its operations against resurgent extremist forces in the FATA, with at least 11 missile attacks launched by Predator unmanned aircraft against al-Qaeda and Taliban targets in August and September, compared with six in the previous eight months...

New ISI chief Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha will arrive in Washington this weekend for meetings with CIA head Michael V. Hayden...

Pictures of Obama's mom have surfaced on the internet. Let's just say, they aren't anything like Whistler's mom:

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2008/10/naughty-obama-mamma.html

As they have for many months, Daniel Pipes's articles on Obama's ties to Islam continue to lead his lists of most read and most mailed articles. Now this offering:

Daniel Pipes, Obama Would Fail Security Clearance

Instead, then, let us review a related subject – Obama's connections and even indebtedness, throughout his career, to extremist Islam. Specifically, he has longstanding, if indirect ties to two institutions, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), listed by the U.S. government in 2007 as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-funding trial; and the Nation of Islam (NoI), condemned by the Anti-Defamation League for its "consistent record of racism and anti-Semitism."

As they have for many months, Daniel Pipes's articles on Obama's Muslim past (if such it is) continue to lead his lists of most read and most mailed articles. Now this new offering:

Daniel Pipes, Obama Would Fail Security Clearance

Instead, then, let us review a related subject – Obama's connections and even indebtedness, throughout his career, to extremist Islam. Specifically, he has longstanding, if indirect ties to two institutions, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), listed by the U.S. government in 2007 as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-funding trial; and the Nation of Islam (NoI), condemned by the Anti-Defamation League for its "consistent record of racism and anti-Semitism."

A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing is Still a Wolf

Norman Thomas, a founder of the A.C.L.U. once said:

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

How true in Canada too - don't you agree.

Read the whole article with Obama, Dion and our own socialists, the Liberals in mind. Remember, Dion was a student of Marxism. Scary stuff.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5765

Pew's tales of the blindingly obvious (plus appearances by Joe the Plumber, ACORN, and the economy):

Most Voters Say News Media Wants Obama to Win

Voters overwhelmingly believe that the media wants Barack Obama to win the presidential election. By a margin of 70%-9%, Americans say most journalists want to see Obama, not John McCain, win on Nov. 4. Another 8% say journalists don't favor either candidate, and 13% say they don't know which candidate most reporters support.

In recent presidential campaigns, voters repeatedly have said they thought journalists favored the Democratic candidate over the Republican. But this year's margin is particularly wide...

I too was disappointed but not shocked to see that Glenn Beck is gone from CNN Headline News.

Now Lou Dobbs is on in that slot with a retread program of some kind with the same old tired talking heads you see on regular CNN. Candy (Miss Piggy) Crowley, Ed Rollins, David Guergin, Dana (rexia) Bash...barf.

I'm heading straight for the cable company on Saturday to get the converter or whatever I need to get Fox News so I can watch Glenn Beck and even moreso Bill O'Reilly.

Gerald J. Russello, Russell Kirk & Postmodern Conservatism

This week marks the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of Russell Kirk. Kirk, who died in 1994, is best remembered for his role in helping to create the postwar conservative movement in America. His groundbreaking work, The Conservative Mind, received national attention when it was published in 1953, upsetting the settled elite consensus (as articulated most famously by Lionel Trilling) that liberalism was the only intellectual tradition in America...

The problem Kirk faced, along with most conservatives, was that the Enlightenment, with its universalizing equality, secularism, and blinkered rationality, was already destroying traditional Western culture. How can a tradition be preserved if it is already dissolving into what theorist Zygmunt Bauman called “liquid modernity?”

Kirk’s answer was twofold...

What is a "wind-farm"? Any wind-farmers in these parts?
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"An open letter from The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley to Senator John McCain about Climate Science and Policy"

Dear Senator McCain, Sir,

YOU CHOSE a visit to a wind-farm in early summer 2008 to"

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/an_open_letter_from_the_viscou_1.html

After decades of pretending they're not biased leftward – even though everyone else knew it – America's "mainstream media" have finally, during 2008, dropped the facade of fairness and impartiality.
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=76890

No support for sealers in the comments.
"Anti-sealers profit as feds foot seized vessel's bills"
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/10/23/sea-shepherd.html

No support for sealers in the comments.
"Anti-sealers profit as feds foot seized vessel's bills"
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/10/23/sea-shepherd.html

Citoyen Dionky brays and brays.

What do these words mean, if anything? "I will do everything in the coming years and months to prepare the ground for my successor".

Is Dionky delusional?
Has Dionky gone 'round the bend? Does Dionky think he's Napoleon?
Is Dionky gonna crown himself L'Empereur as his countryman Napoleon did?
The ground, of course, is the PET Cemetery.
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"I will do everything in the coming years and months to prepare the ground for my successor"
(ctv)

Dr. Andrew Bostom, Hitler and Jihad, Parts 1-3

Such concordance between Nazism and jihadism reflects an historical continuum evident since the advent of the Nazi movement. This nexus was already apparent in Hitler’s own observations from 1926, elaborated upon over the following decades by both the Nazi leader, and other key Nazi officials, and ideologues. Not surprisingly, there are two predominant, recurring themes in this discourse: jihad as total war, and the annihilationist jihad against the Jews...

"The Legend of the Seeker" debutes Nov 1.

Based on the novel "The Wizards First Rule".

For those who haven't read the book check the show out. Richard Rahl exemplifies everything that conservatives stand for wrt right and wrong.

http://www.legendoftheseeker.com/

The party of tolerance:

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/17789356/detail.html

http://www.local6.com/politics/17784129/detail.html

I just hope that nobody dies for wearing a t-shirt. This election can't come soon enouph.

Dionky Watch: Cut'n'Run.

Tail the pin on the Dionky.
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"turning tail"

"Liberals won't bring down Harper on throne speech"
http://www.cjbk.com/news/17/813468/liberals+won%27t+bring+down+harper+on+throne+speech

Boob Rae plowed:
"Bob Rae, the other 2006 front-runner, plowed through reporters on his way out of the caucus meeting without commenting."

AssPress is going down.
Faster, please.
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"AP to cut member fees by $9 million, review structure

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- The Associated Press said Thursday that it would cut assessments paid by its member newspapers by another $9 million in 2009, on the heels of $21 million in fee reductions announced earlier this year. The AP, following its quarterly meeting in New York, also said it would complete a review of its pricing and governance structure -- including a two-year notice required of papers who intend to leave the cooperative -- by mid-2009. The move comes after last week's news that Tribune Co., owner of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Newsday and other major metropolitan dailies, gave AP notice that it might cancel AP services in 2010. During a worldwide economic downturn that has rattled an already-struggling newspaper industry, AP Chief Executive Tom Curley commented that the organization is aware of "the pain and the challenges of our members," and is trying to "address these concerns.""
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={4A28B9D6-B64E-4A58-AE0F-A6752A07C06F}&siteid=nbih

"About Those Obama Mama Nudie Photos
debbieschlussel.com"
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Censored.

Sarah P. the hockey mom:
(and I thought cbc was a great promoter of the sport)
3w dot cbc dot ca/cp/world/081022/w102295A dot html

From the Told-You-So Dept.
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10.23.08
"ANALYSIS-Ethanol no longer seen as big driver of food price

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Heavy demand for corn from ethanol makers was seen as a key driver of corn futures to record highs in June, but since then the sharp decline of corn along with other commodities shows that belief was mistaken."
http://tinyurl.com/6bvdzu (reuters)
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"Corn Ethanol Boom in US, Hunger Worldwide
17 Jan 2008 ... With food prices in poor nations through the roof and a rising threat of global hunger, America's need to rethink its corn ethanol policy is ...
solveclimate.com/blog/20080117/corn-ethanol-boom-us-hunger-worldwide"

This Zo guy is great. He puts it in terms even a crack ho could understand.
He's on http://hotair.com/ site as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjo85WhbYqM

US missile attack kills nine in Pakistan

The target of the strike was thought to have been the militant network overseen by Jalaluddin Haqqani, a veteran of the US-backed mujahideen who fought the Russians when they occupied Afghanistan in the 1980s and who is a friend of Osama bin Laden...

Analysts suggested that it was likely that the US drone’s main target was Siraj Haqqani, a son of Jalaluddin who is regarded as one of the deadliest commanders in the region. Bill Roggio, of the Long War Journal website, said: “[Siraj Haqqani] is believed to be the mastermind of the most deadly attacks inside Afghanistan as well as the senior military commander in eastern Afghanistan . . . Siraj is believed to be dangerous not only for his connections with the Afghan Taleban, but with al-Qaeda’s central leadership, which extends all the way to Osama bin Laden.”