America has spoken (but I can't wait to hear how the SDA crowd spins it)

Is there nothing that Obama can't do?

Apparently not, let's hope he can keep it up

Spin? You want spin? From the SDA crowd? Well, surely, I'm but a sole commenter here, yet my opinion is that:

"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."
-- Valery

I my opinion, the signal to noise ratio in tonight's Livery Stable Blues show, poor though it is, is much better than the signal to noise ratio in most blog comments around elections.

So I've spent the evening listening to vintage music. I abhor bad signal to noise ratios.

Well aren't you clever

I took seven years, but it looks like Osama's plan worked

To Knight 99 and all the other experts. You guys were supposed to e-mail me after the McCain victory!! I'm still waiting!! You morons deserve one another!!

Me? Clever? Say it's not so ;-)

Yet the question remains, will his plan work, in particular, in the furture? Time will tell, and as we all know, history is a harsh mistress. Well, except in the case of engineering of course, which has been steadily progressing for 10,000 years. Politics: not so much, it's more limbic.

"Canada is dividing into provinces that make things happen, those that watch what happens and those that wonder what the hell just happened. Ontario is firmly in the latter group."

John Ivision Nat Post http://tinyurl.com/5o5x8p

Glad the left is happy with their win. Too bad the LPC didn't listen to Howard Dean that time about reaching out to areas where you don't normally get seats. Good thing for Canada though Harper was. Typical Liberals, spending huge amounts of other people's money and getting little or no value for it. Damn, am I ever glad Harper will be negotiating on our behalf with Obama. Here's hoping Harper remains a bully and a meanie.

I think the American people are in for a big let-down in the ensuing months and years. Expectations
are much too high. Some view him as a Christ-like
saviour that will save them with handouts and preferential treatment. Despite the fact that
the White House and Congress are in firm Democrat control, no person will ever be able to meet their expectations.

Did I detect some misgivings in Obama's face at the celebrations in Chicago after his victory? Did I hear, just barely audible, "Be careful what you wish for"?

I wish him only the very best as he's got more than just a lot on his plate. But, the adulation of the crowds and the media has me concerned; it smacks of celebrity excess and Trudeupian pie-in-the-sky, and we know where THAT took Canada. We're going to be mopping up that mess for a long time to come.

I'm still very dubious about Barak Obama's lack of experience. He's never been the head of anything, only a team player, a "community organizer." Now he's the Commander in Chief of the most powerful nation in the world with a tremendous load riding on his shoulders. He told John McCain that he needed his help. I hope he means that and takes his advice--not only the advice of the guys in the Democratic Party who are pulling his strings.

I was extremely impressed with John McCain's gracious concession speech and his call for all of the American people to support President Barak Obama. I couldn't help think what was being predicted if Obama had lost: rioting in the streets, violence in the burroughs.

There weren't any riots in America last night.

I think the American's are going to learn the reason behind the cliche "Be careful what you wish for ..."

"Could any candidate have been elected to succeed a president of his own party whose job approval rating was 25 percent? Probably not. Could any candidate have been elected to continue his party’s stay in the White House when roughly 90 percent of Americans believed the country was on the wrong track? Probably not. Could any candidate from the governing party have been elected after the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 4,000 points before one could even turn around? Probably not."

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Yzc5MGU4YzY3OWJlN2Q1ZTdkYzdmZDZjOWNmNzY3YjE=

>>>>> O is a failure: Left Guardian newspaper.
It's over for O before it even started.
Shortest honeymoon is history: 3 hours, six minutes?
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"Obama effect fails to rouse the markets

Now the spotlight is on whether Barack Obama can avert a deep recession at a time when the US housing market is still in freefall and its economy is contracting"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/nov/05/globaleconomy-marketturmoil

YOU'VE FORGOTTEN WHY THE HOUSING MARKET IS IN FREEFALL, IDIOT!!

maz,

But it's ok, because the apologists have started to line up already:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081105/ap_on_bi_ge/financial_meltdown_11

slevine,

You mean because the Dems under Clinton forced the lending institutions (don't you just love social engineering), to lend money to completely unqualified borrowers who had no hope of ever paying it back? Or that the Dems ignored and/or repressed calls from the Reps to put the brakes on these practices that were creating a housing bubble??? You mean that?

He won. Cool. He's a master politician, pure chameleon.

Now he has to govern and to govern is to decide.

No more voting "Present". The American people, who now ride high on giddy wings of "change" will soon be cruelly slammed up side the head at the gap between hope and reality. Gas tanks won't magically fill up and mortgages won't be paid by the Loan Fairy leaving a big pile of 100's under a Believer's pillow.

He can only blame Bush for so long, the MSM can only rest as a lapdog for so long but they will turn on him, question his policies, finally root out the huge gaps in his resume.

The Obama Presidency is going to be a very, very, very, VERY rich target environment.

Lock & load, rhetoric time is over buddy, now you have to make a decision, become a political target. The duck & weave, bob & shuffle times are almost over . . . just a few more months of afterglow time and then that Big O on your political chest becomes a bulls eye.

I'm looking forward to the easy political target pickings coming up.

slevine - there are many reasons why the housing market is falling. Subprime mortgages, which have been around for some time, are one cause, but there are other reasons, such as local economies which include industrial changes, rent changes, recovery from the last 'bubble' and so on.

Kindly note that the article referenced is from a hard left UK newspaper.

With regard to Obama, as Vitruvius says, 'history is a hard mistress' and for someone to campaign only with rhetoric, it's going to be a hard task to switch from the pulpit of words to the reality of actions. Actions, you see, have actual results, while words have potential results. And potentiality, alas, can remain forever potential.

Even our very own example of someone locked within rhetoric, Stephane Dion, hasn't learned the difference between the two realms.

Is it just me or do "progressives" still sound bitter, twisted and vengeful even when their side wins?

Great headline last nite at Drudge nailed it for the Big Owe landslide.
"IN OBAMA WE TRUST. HE IS GOING TO PAY FOR MY GAS AND MY MORTGAGE."

Strangely enough the headline has disappeared this AM.

Say, isn't this from the old socialist handbook 'Great Expectations and Even Greater Disappointments'?

The USA federal larder is empty, so I guess the printing presses will have some work to do eh?
And the Big Owe will have some 'splaining to do to folks.

"Queen Launches vigil for Canada's War Dead"
ctv.ca
This is quite amazing

*i attended our Remembrance Church Parade & service last sunday, Many legions & churches will hold their church service this Sunday please try to attend your local as this is a very important part of Remembrance Week.
(Normaly Sunday before the 11th, We had to change ours due to a Scheduling problem at this yrs hosting church)

We Will Remember Them

So I've spent the evening listening to vintage music. I abhor bad signal to noise ratios.

Is this a climate audit thread? The link is missing?

I like the first press release I heard this AM People think were going to do all this stuff right away, some of it's going to have to wait until the second term.

Can you abstain when you are president too.

Wonder how the markets will do, wait till 4pm then buy.

While Hussein rides his unicorn:

Roger McDermott, Medvedev’s Ambitious Military Reform Plans

Russia has announced its most ambitious, systemic military modernization program since the collapse of the USSR, scheduled to deliver a more efficient and combat-ready military by 2020. These plans betray breathtaking confidence...

Peter Brookes, Flashpoint: Polar politics

The Arctic (an undefined area, but generally above 66 degrees North latitude) may have as much as 90 billion technically recoverable barrels of oil and nearly 2 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas, based on current industry capabilities and practices, according to a just-released four-year study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). By comparison, there are more than 1 trillion barrels of proven oil reserves and more than 6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas globally; the world consumes nearly 90 million barrels of oil a day...

That is good news — but who owns it?

Get ready for big steaming piles of guaranteed irony-free 'Is There Nothing Obama Can't Do?' delivered daily by the knee-pad media right up until it is painfully obvious that the man is just human - and thereafter any missteps he makes will be because he is trying to clean up after eight years of Bush.

Fours years from now, the same people will tell us that only thing that will fix the world is four more years of Hope and Change.

Is There Nothing Bush Can't Do?

"now we have glaciers that shrink, glaciers that grow, and these both signal climate change."
...-

"Mount Shasta’s glaciers- proxy for what?
4 11 2008

The photo below I took this weekend on my way back from a station survey in the remote northestern corner of California. It shows Mount Shasta getting it’s first significant snow of this precipitation season here in California.

Our local progressive weekly recently did a story on Mount Shasta’s glaciers, which have been growing. This isn’t news, but what is news, is the conclusion that was drawn from the growth. Apparently the growth is now being viewed as a sign of “global warming” or “climate change” if you prefer. So now we have glaciers that shrink, glaciers that grow, and these both signal climate change. Thank goodness that has been cleared up.

Unfortunately, the writer and the USGS person both seem to be oblivious to the fact that glaciers are a much better proxy for precipitation than temperature, and that sublimation, not melting, is the primary agent in glacier shrinkage.

North State ice age

Global warming melts glaciers elsewhere, but not at Mount Shasta
By Christy Lochrie

This article was published on 10.09.08. Chico News and Review, here is an excerpt:

First, the good news: Mount Shasta’s seven glaciers are on the grow. The largest, Whitney Glacier, has averaged a 60-foot-a-year growth spree for the past 50 years, according to Dr. Slawek Tulaczyk, a professor of earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Now, the bad news: The 14,000-foot volcano’s glacier growth isn’t a reliable canary in a mineshaft when it comes to global warming woes."
http://wattsupwiththat.com/

"the Kremlin's clear message is that America is to blame,"

Ivan Russian says it's O's fault.
...-

"Russia to move missiles to Baltic"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7710362.stm

EUgenics: "parental "precrime"".
Where does abortion fit in?
Socialism is the shining path to "parental "precrime"".
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"Guardians of the unborn[Netherlands][Forced contraception for 'unfit' mothers]

The Dutch parliament is considering whether protecting unborn children should supersede the rights of parents to procreate

Women in the Netherlands who are deemed by the state to be unfit mothers should be sentenced to take contraception for a prescribed period of two years, according to a draft bill before the Dutch parliament.

The proposed legislation would further punish parents who defied it by taking away their newborn infant. "It targets people who have been the subject of judicial intervention because of their bad parenting," explained the author of the bill Marjo Van Dijken of the socialist PvDA. "If someone refuses the contraception and becomes pregnant, the child must be taken away directly after birth."

When I see how some parents treat their children and come across adults who wish they'd never been born because of the abuse they endured as kids, I get some idea of where Van Dijken is coming from, but her proposed solution strikes me as far too draconian.

In fact, I have serious misgivings about the implications of this proposed law, and it raises a torrent of questions in my mind. Is it really the state's role to protect the unborn and does it have the right to control people's bodies in such a way and to deprive them of the basic right to procreate? Whatever happened to the presumption of innocence? Just because a parent was bad with one child, does it mean (s)he will repeat the offence?

Have we got the right to exercise pre-emptive "justice" – and could this be the first step towards a "minority report" approach to parental "precrime"?"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126095/posts

Maybe 'forced contraception' is simply dealing with a societal issue under the 'Bush Doctrine'.

8-D

Less provocatively, it's hard to imagine how permitting a crack addled 21 year girl popping out children while collecting welfare in Winnipeg is a compassionate government move either.

If facilitating or preventing the increase of FAS babies, or other types of handicap/lifelong disability, if doing something or doing nothing can be rationalized by using the force and power of the state, what can't be rationalized under the power of the state?

Sadly here in Canuckistan, the Cons haven't even move to improve the state of property rights in this country.

Batb: "I'm still very dubious about Barak Obama's lack of experience." This concerns me also. There was recently a media being asked about his lack of experience with financial issues -- and the response was "well, he's run this campaign involving millions of dollars." I was appalled. Since when does running a campaign count as experience for running the country? Having said that, like you, I wish him well. If he proceeds cautiously, exercises wisdom and has good advisors, he may do o.k. Time will tell.

YOU'VE FORGOTTEN WHY THE HOUSING MARKET IS IN FREEFALL, IDIOT!!

Just read a good 8-page summary of the history of the mortgage crisis (American Thinker, I believe, including a link to a longer 20-page piece).

The striking irony is this: Fannie Mae was created in 1933 during a depression -- which the government made GREAT -- to "solve" the liquidity problem in home mortgages.

SO ... the agency was created to solve a problem created by goverment itself; it continued to exist long after the crisis passed; it became the very root cause of the financial meltdown 75 years later.

I don't know if this was posted before,if so,oh well.Elections Canada recount,Dosanjh wins by 20 votes. Damn.

Gag Order on Ad$Cam Breaker:

>>>>>> "Reporter Daniel Leblanc, who broke the story about the federal sponsorship scandal,"
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"Quebec judge forbids Globe and Mail reporter from writing about adscam talks

MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court justice has banned a Globe and Mail journalist from reporting on negotiations between a communications firm and the federal government over sponsorship scandal money.

Reporter Daniel Leblanc, who broke the story about the federal sponsorship scandal, was forbidden by Justice Jean-Francois de Grandpre on Wednesday from writing about negotiations between lawyers for Groupe Polygone and Ottawa aimed at reaching an out of court settlement in a civil suit.

"The judge ordered Daniel Leblanc not to publish any information about the defendants in the civil action and the federal government," said Mark Bantey, a lawyer for the Globe and Mail. "He did suggest that any article dealing with the negotiations might interfere with the proper administration of justice."

De Grandpre was forced to suspend proceedings in the case after the newspaper's lawyer filed an appeal against a decision earlier in the day asking Leblanc to answer questions from Polygone's lawyers regarding his confidential sources.

But as a parting shot, de Grandpre also added a publication ban even though neither the government nor Polygone lawyers requested it."
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2008/11/05/7317976-cp.html

Hey, apparently this Obama guy is a black man.

Just thought a few people might need a chuckle.