A little off topic:

http://winnipeg.en.craigslist.ca/bks/884701168.html

When times are tough, sell your porn stash.

Obama for president: Anchorage Daily News

http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/567867.html

If you noticed, all of the members of this fine orchestra were men (and perhaps the only woman was the harpist), and this was in 1990. Nowadays, many symphony orchestras are filled with women, and it's just not the same sound.

A symphony orchestra with say too many women violinists generates a somewhat flaccid sound and the music loses it's gravitas. This is generally acknowledged in musical circles.

The reason is that only men have the deep and aggressive passion for such music, while women tend to be constrained, almost timid in their presentation. Yes, women instrumentalists can conquer the technicalities of playing, but they just can't seem to generate a passionate tension for this magnificent music.

Same goes for sex and life ... because our worlds are different.

Thanks for the link lberia.
They are another uninformed bunch or (blind by choice) to the Dems role in the housing crisis.
Seems to be a pattern, eh.

A closer look at Obamas 'acquaintance'. Very nasty people these.

http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/10/26/obama-ayers-and-the-weather-undergrounds-plot-to-overthrow-capitalism/

One of Ace of Spades guest bloggers (Vinnie) has a seriously worthwhile to listen to flaming skull post up.

Barack Obama Flaming Skull Post-Worthy Audio

One of Ace of Spades guest bloggers (Vinnie) has a seriously worthwhile to listen to flaming skull post up.

However, I can't send you the link because Kate's Movable Type spam filtering is so stupidly set up.

Go there:
ace.mu.nu

Look for the skull. And listen.

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"i-beria squeals... look, look, 'anchorage
daily news'!!!"

oh... so suddenly, alaskans aren't a bunch
of dumb as dogsh!t hicks?

funny how that works, huh troll?

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The MASSIVE Obama election fraud committed, but barely reported on: http://pelalusa.blogspot.com/2008/10/obamas-foreign-campaign-donations.html

Neo

Having it both ways is a hallmark of leftism, coooooollll!!!

Syncro

Neo

Ignore that....I was right out of my mind...burp.

Syncro

Surprise! Surprise!

"'Liberal leadership contenders can carry old debts into new campaign' says Elections Canada."

http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/october/27/liberal_contenders/&c=2

From the article in the Hill Times:

"Nine of the 11 Liberal 2006 leadership contenders still carry hundreds of thousands of dollars in debts, but Elections Canada says they don't have to pay those debts off first if any want to run again for the party's top job.

"'Nothing in the [Canada Elections] Act prevents a leadership contestant of a completed contest to run as a contestant in a new leadership contest,' said John Enright, a spokesman for Elections Canada..."

Wouldn't you think that for their own credibility, seeing as Canadians will be looking for fiscal responsibility and accountability in a governing party, that the Librano$ would want to clean up their act and begin to demonstrate that they're capable of being good financial stewards of our resources? If their own finances are in such disarray, what makes them think we'd want to entrust our country's financial well-being to a party like theirs?

What planet are they living on?

And, what's with Elections Canada? (Is John Enright any relation to Michael Enright, the rabid-anti anything c/Conservative over at the CEEB?)

STOPIGGY Kim Watch: "and everybody else's".
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NK:
"Kim Jong-Il 'being treated by brain surgeon'
Fresh doubts over the health of North Korea’s “Dear Leader” have erupted after Kim Jong Il’s eldest son was captured on film in Paris, apparently eliciting the emergency services of a top brain surgeon."

Canada:
"Tall, dark and fluent – go, Iggy
Gagnon: During the election campaign, many wondered how the Liberal Party would have fared if it had been led by Michael Ignatieff. My guess — and everybody else's — is the party would have been a formidable rival to the Conservatives"
(nnw)

The N-Word: Niger.
Slaves are only kept by whites, right?
How come blacks keep other blacks in slavery?

"Despite being outlawed, slavery also persists in other West African states."
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"Niger ex-slave wins landmark case

Hadijatou Mani says she wants to ensure her children's freedom

A West African court has found Niger's government guilty of failing to protect a woman from slavery in a landmark case for the region.

The court found in favour of Hadijatou Mani, who says she was sold aged 12 and made to work for 10 years.

A judge ordered the the government - which says it has done all it can to eradicate slavery - to pay Ms Mani 10m CFA francs (£12,430; $19,750).

Despite being outlawed, slavery also persists in other West African states."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7692396.stm

Do yourselves a favour folks and head over to the Calgary Sun's page and take a look at Ian Robinson's column from yesterday.

He had Lizzy May in the sites of a high power scope.

Dear Circ,
We have a problem. "Major Papers" has not come home.
What should we do?
Yours, Lost Reader.
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"Major Papers Continue Circ Decline

NEW YORK For those holding out for some improvement in print circulation, this morning brings disappointment. The Audit Bureau of Circulations released the latest figures for the six- month period ending September 2008 and the report shows major drops in circulation at the big metros.

Across the country, publishers have put in place plans to cater to core readers and subscribers. It's too expensive to bulk up circulation in unprofitable areas such as third-party, newspapers in education and bonus day copies. Not in the core market defined by the newspaper, a reader is out of luck at least for the print edition.

All daily averages are for Monday through Friday. The percent change compares this September period to the same period last year."
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003878037

"A Parable For Our Time"

(ibloga.blogspot.com)

Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign that read "Vote Obama, I need the money." I laughed.

Once in the restaurant my server had on a "Obama 08" button, again I laughed as he had given away his political preference — just imagine the coincidence.

When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring Obama's "redistribution of wealth" concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need — the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed away from me.

I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as I've decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful.

"Obama's entire campaign is built on class warfare and human envy."

Mark Levin, National Review

I've been thinking this for a while so I might as well air it here. I honestly never thought we'd see such a thing in our country - not yet anyway - but I sense what's occurring in this election is a recklessness and abandonment of rationality that has preceded the voluntary surrender of liberty and security in other places.
There is a cult-like atmosphere around Barack Obama, which his campaign has carefully and successfully fabricated, which concerns me. The messiah complex. Fainting audience members at rallies. Special Obama flags and an Obama presidential seal. A graphic with the portrayal of the globe and Obama's name on it, which adorns everything from Obama's plane to his street literature. Young school children singing songs praising Obama. Teenagers wearing camouflage outfits and marching in military order chanting Obama's name and the professions he is going to open to them. An Obama world tour, culminating in a speech in Berlin where Obama proclaims we are all citizens of the world.
I dare say, this is ominous stuff.

Even the media are drawn to the allure that is Obama. Yes, the media are liberal. Even so, it is obvious that this election is different. The media are open and brazen in their attempts to influence the outcome of this election.
I've never seen anything like it. Virtually all evidence of Obama's past influences and radicalism — from Jeremiah Wright to William Ayers — have been raised by non-traditional news sources. The media's role has been to ignore it as long as possible, then mention it if they must,

Clearly the Prince of Darkness wants to change the Constitution of the US.

2001 recording of Obama on public radio:

"If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples. So that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be okay."

"But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society."

"And to that extent as radical as people tried to characterize the Warren court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can’t do to you, it says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn’t shifted. One of the I think tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring aboutredistributed change and in some ways we still suffer from that."

(ibloga.blogspot.com)

What's mine is mine.
What's yours is mine.

Obama's economic policy.

Hey Obama, remind me again which party is sowing seeds of division in the electorate?
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CHICAGO – Closing his case in pivotal Ohio, Barack Obama says voters can put an end to John McCain's ideas and "the politics that would divide a nation just to win an election."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081027/ap_on_el_pr/obama_19

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Documents obtained by Townhall show the Democratic Party encouraged party activists to accuse the GOP of intimidating minorities on Election Day even if no evidence of intimidation existed in the 2004 presidential election. The tactic is being used again in 2008, this time to downplay fraud charges against a predominantly minority non-profit supporting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

http://townhall.com/columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2008/10/27/dem_playbook_shows_dirty_tactics

The US is in for a ride, hope they buckle up tightly.......unless McCain's optimism bears fruit in the last lap.

Advice to PM Harper:
Don't take any advice from the >>>>> Ontario Federation of Agriculture, aka OFA.
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"Miller pushed to be Agriculture Minister
The Bruce County Federation of Agriculture is endorsing Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MP Larry Miller for the position of Minister of Agriculture" (nnw)

What's mine is mine.
What's yours is mine.

Obama's economic policy.

Posted by: Fred at October 27, 2008 8:33 AM

Critiqued perfectly 1800 years ago:

There are four types of character among people. He who says: What is mine is mine and what is yours is yours is a medium type, and some say that his type is of the wicked city of Sodom; he that says: What is mine is yours and what is yours is mine, is an ignoramus; he that says: What is mine is yours and what is yours is yours, is a saintly man; he that says: What is yours is mine and what is mine is mine, is a wicked man.
(Avot 5:13)

Great choice of tunes ... makes my Czech heart swell. Thanks.

I wonder if that performance was done in the same concert hall in Prague that burned down a couple of weeks ago?

(Via SWJ) Bill Maxwell, Army needs rebuilding

Because the military is all-volunteer, the biggest problems are recruitment and keeping personnel in the ranks for the duration of their enlistments. To meet recruitment goals and to keep troop levels adequate during this era of the so-called war on terror, the military, especially the active Army and the Reserves, has been forced to lower its standards for enlistees.

The result, some officials acknowledge, is that the Army is ailing, and the problem is reflected in the rate of desertions. More soldiers and enlistees are deserting in numbers that have not been seen since Vietnam, when the draft was in effect...

Brought to you by the Toronto (Red) Star, the oh-so-tolerant left. Gotta love some of the comments.

http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/525056

Spengler, The world isn't flat, it's flattened

Faddish conventional wisdom over the past few years held that American influence was fading as technology radiated to the far reaches of the world. When America's economy went into a ditch, though, the supposed economic superpowers of the future went flying, like children on skates holding onto the back of truck...

The financial crash exposes the fragility of large swaths of the world. The political consequences will be terrible. The worst of it is that America will not be around to moderate the melee, not if Democratic Senator Barack Obama is elected president, that is. Those who objected to America's role as world policeman will get what they wanted, but they won't like it: a religious war reaching from Lebanon to Pakistan, and Colombian-style narco-war spreading to Mexico and Brazil...

Peter Ford, China's land reform aims to revolutionize 750 million lives

In what the official news agency Xinhua called a "landmark policy document," the ruling Communist Party's Central Committee agreed last weekend to allow small farmers to sell their right to till the land. The plan is designed to consolidate landholdings, encourage uneconomic farmers to seek other employment, and boost rural incomes.

The decision did not privatize agricultural land, which remains collective property. But "it marks a huge improvement in tenure security for farmers and contains many, many good points," says Li Ping, a lawyer with the Seattle-based Rural Development Institute, which advocates wider land rights for peasants. "This new policy is really, really good."...

Is anybody else finding the expense to get to and participate in the Conservative convention a bit much? Have you found any solutions such as bunking in with a Conservative family in Winnipeg?

Are the delegate fees just tax-deductible in part by the person attending or can they be transferred to a spouse?

Its nice to see the Wall Government is considering its own NEP. So much for free enteprise in Saskatchewan.

Are the delegate fees just tax-deductible in part by the person attending or can they be transferred to a spouse? Posted by: Nicola Timmerman at October 27, 2008 12:31 PM

The irony of seeing 'conservatives' in here bawling about Obama's degree of marxism, yet miss the whole point of Canadian political parties suckling from the public teat - is too much.

Why my taxes go to support Libranos or Dipper's or Other is wrong. I wish to decide who gets my financial support.

Sadly, partisans have latched on the treasury well. And the hipocrisy of you 'Cons' is revealing.

Libranos in drag.

Keith C. Smith, CSIS, Russia and European Energy Security: Divide and Dominate

Officials of the Putin/Medvedev administration routinely deny that Russia employs its energy resources for political purposes. But Russia’s actions demonstrate again and again that the Kremlin leadership will use its enormous energy wealth to increase its political and economic influence in Europe and the wider world...

Moscow's recent attempt to set limits to the national security policies of Georgia and Ukraine are only the latest manifestation of Russian insecurities and the shortsightedness of its foreign policies. The brief but deadly war waged by Moscow against Georgia over South Ossetia and Abkhazia was to a large extent meant to warn Georgia and Ukraine that NATO membership will not be tolerated... In the short run, however, Moscow will have severely damaged Western efforts to route new non-Russian oil and gas pipelines through Georgia, thereby making Europe even more dependent on Russian pipelines and "goodwill." Europe is not likely to tolerate this high level of dependency on an authoritarian Russia over the long run...

[Full report in PDF only.]

Kurt Luchs, Frodo in a World of Boromirs

One mark of a great metaphor is that it functions on several levels. In this respect J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings can be, and has been, interpreted to mean any number of things by its central metaphor of “One Ring to rule them all.”...

For me the Dark Lord’s terrible ring holds another meaning, one that might serve as a warning for any age, but particularly, I fear, for our own. I see in it the lure of political power, specifically the ultimate power of the modern nation-state. And I must admit, even in trying to discuss this concept with most of those nearest and dearest to me, I feel like Frodo in a world of Boromirs...

Poll gone wrong:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/polls/poll_result.html

Frontline Afghanistan

The next president of the United States will inherit a foreign policy nightmare: wars on two fronts, an overstretched military, a resurgent Taliban and a reconstituted Al Qaeda based far from America's reach.

In The War Briefing, airing Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS (check local listings), award-winning FRONTLINE producer Marcela Gaviria and correspondent Martin Smith offer harrowing on-the-ground reporting from the deadliest battlefield in the mountains of Afghanistan, and follow the trail to the militant safe havens deep inside the Pakistani tribal areas, probing some of the most urgent foreign policy challenges facing the next president...

"Effigy of Palin Hanging by Noose is Halloween Fun, Owner Says

Ghosts, goblins, gargoyles . . . and Sarah Palin hanging by a noose? That's the latest imagery of the Republican vice presidential candidate and her running mate John McCain on display at a West Hollywood home that has been decorated for Halloween." (jacks)
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"Attempt To Assassinate Obama Thwarted
10/27/08"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2116776/posts

Socialism's natural end result: starvation, Death, Genocide.
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"We must food-bomb hungry Zimbabwe

This long-suffering country urgently needs a unilateral airdrop of food and medical supplies

Most crises blow over. A few blow up. But one or two live in our memories, scars on the conscience of a world that had knowledge of tragedy, the capacity to intervene, yet failed to act.

Zimbabwe is no Rwanda. Not yet."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5019353.ece

Big Blue Wave

Monday, October 27, 2008
VIDEO: Family Coalition Party Tour of Freedom...Speaking out against the HRC's
This summer, Don Pennell, the founder and former leader of the Family Coalition Party of Ontario, went on a "Tour of Freedom" to give speeches denouncing the Human Rights Commissions.

For those of you who are aware of the issues, it's nothing new. However, the speech is very edifying. This is what is known in religious circles as "building up the faithful."

For those who are not familiar with the controversy, this is a nice summary.

The speech is about an hour long and I divided it in to nine parts because videos on YouTube must be less than 10 minutes each (and I'm too lazy to get a Director's account).

If I get the time, I hope to make a "highlights" video. For now, this will do.

If you would like to promote this video, I recommend that you link to this blogpost so that they have easy access to all 9 parts.

http://bluewavecanada.blogspot.com/2008/10/video-family-coalition-party-tour-of.html

Jack:
"“Ahah”…and here all this time you thought she* was wrong!!".

Who is "she"*?
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) — A jury found U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska guilty Monday of all seven counts in his federal corruption trial.

The jury found Stevens guilty of “knowingly and willfully” scheming to conceal on Senate disclosure forms more than $250,000 in home renovations and other gifts from an Alaska-based oil industry contractor."
http://jacksnewswatch.com/2008/10/27/ahahand-here-all-this-time-you-thought-she-was-wrong-1/

*She:
"This is a sad day for Alaska and a sad day for Senator Stevens and his family," Alaska Gov. and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said Monday.

"The verdict shines a light on the corrupting influence of the big oil service company up there in Alaska that was allowed to control too much of our state. And that control was part of the culture of corruption that I was elected to fight, and that fight must always move forward regardless of party affiliation or seniority or even past service," she said."

The facts behind Steve Murphy's famous question to Dion:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1086881.html
It turns out that
1. No-one promised the interview would not be aired.
2. Mr. Murphy was perfectly aware that Dion's non-answer meant either that he didn't understand the question OR He didn't have a good answer.

Yeah, that was some serious attempt.

First they were going to get some weapons, then they were going to go on an incredible killing spree and not get caught, and then, and only then, there were going to don white tuxedos and top hats and kill Obama. Yeah, this was a serious plot against the prez alright.

Worthy of front page news world wide.

Hardboiled:

And what are YOU doing to further the great cause of doctrinaire Conservatism?

Besides flogging the already converted but realistic(after all it IS Canada)C/conservative partisans herein?

What are the Great Ideas you have?

Please include your answers and roadmap to ensuring your ideas are implemented.

Surely months of exhortation to be real Conservatives(presumably like yourself), reject the wobbly Harper and follow the one true way has been based on solid, achievable ideas that you have just been frothing at the mouth to reveal to us?

Why wait for spring? Tell us now.

Or admit that you and you're comments are nothing but soft, runny, undercooked, tasteless and totally lacking in substance.