Mark my words. This seemingly innocuous little news story is probably going to be missed as one of the most significant historical changes to human existence and evolution since modern man has been on the earth.

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE51I5PP20090219?feedType=nl&feedName=ustechnology

Tech evolution will eclipse the financial crisis. Grab a beer and pop-corn, good humor.

A poll to visit re prime ministers and presidents

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/

If you need to barf, read the article, and if you still haven't after that, read the comments

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090218.wcomartin19/BNStory/specialComment/

So is it possible this is why the BC Liberals want to bring gun control back into the Provincial fold? Bill C-301. Or could it be that they really think the NDP idea to control Flack Jackets would be worth while?

Outstanding performance.

I've always wanted to have the nerve to let loose with a yodel, just at that special moment with a woman.

Vitruvius, you continue to delight us with your elucidating forays into the archives of the world-class yodelling masters.

Who, if you don't consider the question to be either impertinent or intrusive, do you consider to be the all-time greatest yodeller?

So is it possible this is why the BC Liberals want to bring gun control back into the Provincial fold? (The Gang Problem being a good excuse.) Bill C-301. Or could it be that they really think the NDP idea to control Flack Jackets and movie props would be worth while?

Lets hear it for Patsy Montana Yodeling. An old recording, source unknown.

Charles Adler was on fire today! He was able to find two Albertans who hate everything and everyone in Alberta! I wrote him a letter about it. That and a link to the audio can be found here. Enjoy!

Erik, thanks for that G&M link. The author, Lawrence Martin, is what some are now calling the Ignatieff Kneepad Media. The comments are even worse.

I do hope that Harper gets a majority next time. If not, can we continue to keep going like this forever?

P.S. I, for one, am no longer going to refer to Iggy as the Opposition Leader. Instead, I'm going to call him "The CBC's Prime Minister in Waiting" ... to clearly drive home a point that annoys me on a regular basis.

"New York Post Apologizes For Controversial Cartoon"

Homegrown Jihad: The Trailer

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2009/02/homegrown-jihad-trailer.html

Remember the terrorist training camps in America, Canada (Combermere, Madawaska Valley, just outside Ottawa, as I broke the story awhile back), Pakistan? Jamaat ul Fuqra?

Whatever happened with those? Nothing. They're still heeeeere!

Missing Kate, too, are y'all? ;)

Well, you're all welcome to visit my humble little blog while Kate's Stateside trotting her cute little furry buddies in circles to impress a bunch of tightass judges who like to feel doggie balls... there's imaginary beer in the imaginary fridge! I'm sure she won't mind if y'all come over and get imaginarily drunk at my place... just remember to take an imaginary taxi back...

Chris Horner of Planet Gore wrote on the simular style and color scheme between James Hansen's Capitol Climate Action (civil disobedience against coal power) scheduled for Mar 2 in Washington DC, and anti fascist propaganda posters from the Spanish Civil War.
Hansens propaganda is garish but I didn't think much of it as a reason for a blog post at Planet Gore. Until I noticed the forum button.

You ever wanted to berate a berkinstock sandal wearing, vegetarian, Al Gore worshipping, chowderhead from Seattle, on their way to a coal protest rally, in a public forum?

Count me in for that. So I clicked it. There I found an AGW believer so dedicated to the cause he is planning a march to Washington from North Carolina on foot. I recommended he use snow shoes and other sundries to prepare for the Gore effect blizard he is sure to meet.

And the comment went through! Hallelujah, there's no moderator on duty.

Right now, I'm formulating an answer for a single mother whose question to the forum is "Should I bring the baby?" Haven't quite hashed it out in my head what to say to someone like that.

Anyone else want in on this? More the merrier. Maybe there's an open letter to Prof James Hansen that you have been iching to write? Maybe you're a coal miner who is sick of welfair collecting morons who aim to protest you out of a job. Or maybe you just appreciate the light turning on when you flip the switch. Here's your chance to tell them about it.
Maybe you're still smarting from President Obama giving you a lecture on that "dirty" oil sand that is a principle export of your country, that makes a living for you and yours.

Come with me, and tell them.

I'm with you, Robert W. The CEEB has clearly earmarked County Iggy as the next Canadian PM and they're offering him a regular soap box for free to make sure he gets plenty of exposure.

'Sickening, isn't it? Most Canadians couldn't even think of affording his lifestyle but are contributing to free advertising by Canada's publicly funded broadcaster for this Iggy-come-lately Librano "leader."

When does this corruption end?

Big Shootout In Mexico: What's This, Saddam's Baghdad In North America?

With news footage of the mini-war...

Just across the border from Texas...

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2009/02/big-shootout-in-mexico-whats-this.html

Poll at CNBC asking if you would join the 'Chicago Tea Party after the Santelli vid yesterday. It seems he hit a nerve,

http://www.cnbc.com/id/29283701

""The dolphin just kind of attached to him and wrapped his flippers around him, more or less like a friend or a mate," he said."

>>> Goreacle said, he wishes the polar bears could be saved by Newfies.
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"Mayor of N.L. community says three of four dolphins led through ice to safety

SEAL COVE, N.L. — A group of men in a boat cut a quarter-kilometre path through ice off this tiny community Thursday and led three white-beaked dolphins that had been trapped since the weekend to freedom.

Mayor Winston May said one of the dolphins was so weakened by the ordeal that a 16-year-old boy wearing a survival suit went into the frigid water to attach a harness to it.

The animal was towed to open water, where it swam away.

"It was a real nice ending. We're all glad it ended this way," a pleased May said in a telephone interview.

The rescue ended a dramatic day where initial reports of a rescue attempt suggested it had failed.

May said earlier that the roar of the engine from the five-metre speedboat used to break the ice spooked the dolphins and it was feared they had swam under the ice and drowned.

But the mayor later revised that, saying the dolphins returned to their small breathing hole and the rescuers were able to lead them through the soupy "slob ice" to safety.

"Two just followed the boat," he said.

May said the third dolphin was too tired to break free of the ice, so the boy went into the water to help.

"The dolphin just kind of attached to him and wrapped his flippers around him, more or less like a friend or a mate," he said."
urlm.in/bsaa

The Leafs could use this guy at their home games.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmiS0RNNp28&eurl=http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforums/off-topic/483821-so-amazing.html

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1107308.html

"A teenage student from Saudi Arabia appeared in court Wednesday accused of donning a mask and assaulting a young woman Tuesday night inside a washroom at a students’ residence at the Halifax YMCA."

We expect local immigration lawyers to be preparing the case for the young man to remain in Canada.

Ignatieff performed badly. His juvenile jealousy was showing when he tried so hard to tell us he has friends in the Obama administration and Obama has read a couple of his books. It was saying 'I have friends in high places and Harper doesn't,na,na,na!

It's killing him to see the PM perform so well and it showed. His self-described arrogance and impatience was on display yesterday.
I think he a poseur who's at risk of becoming a cad to get to the top. He's off to a good start in the LPC.

That is true liz.
However, as long as the media keeps propping him and sparing Canadians the truth he'll get the usual free Liberal ride.
Kady O'Malley on a CPAC interview : "Harper managed to not screw up"...
I heard 2 other media pimps say the same thing.
Nothing about their hero Iggy 'screwing up'.

Kady screwed up?
GeOrge screwed up, too.

Here's what GeOrge the Chimp said: "great pleasure it is to be in Iowa, er, Ottawa.*"
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"Obama Flunks First Tests On Foreign Policy Charles Krauthammer

Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2009 8:35:17 PM by Kaslin

The Biden prophecy has come to pass. Our wacky veep, momentarily inspired, had predicted last October that "it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama."

Biden probably had in mind an eve-of-the-apocalypse drama like the Cuban Missile Crisis. Instead, Obama's challenges have come in smaller bites. Some are deliberate threats to U.S. interests, others mere probes to ascertain whether the new president has any spine.

Preliminary X-rays aren't encouraging.

Consider the long list of brazen Russian provocations:

(a) Pressuring Kyrgyzstan to shut down the U.S. air base in Manas, an absolutely crucial NATO conduit into Afghanistan.

(b) Announcing the formation of a "rapid reaction force" with six former Soviet republics, a regional Russian-led strike force meant to reassert Russian hegemony in the Muslim belt north of Afghanistan.

(c) Planning to establish a Black Sea naval base in Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia, conquered by Moscow last summer.

(d) Declaring Russia's intention to deploy offensive Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad if Poland and the Czech Republic go ahead with plans to station an American (anti-Iranian) missile defense system.

President Bush's response to the Kaliningrad deployment—the threat was issued the day after Obama's election — was firm."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2189648/posts

(*glObe)

Greggy is fishing for a US Senate seat.
But, there is mOre: Greggy and CNN have BDS/ODS*.
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"Visit a big win for Harper"

*As Canadian media provided excited saturation coverage of Barack Obama's arrival here yesterday, American network CNN briefly showed the landing of the president's jumbo-jet, and promptly cut away to a report on the guy on trial for throwing his shoes at George Bush."

*After eight years of the most unpopular president in modern times, simply not having to put up with George W. Bush anymore is enough to send most Canadians dancing into the streets."
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2009/02/20/8459286-sun.html

As big a screw-up as BO seems to be on economic issues, like his template Jimmy Carter, he looks to be an even bigger screw-up on foreign affairs:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/obama_being_tested_early_often.html

I can't help but worry that BO may be the worst president at the worst possible time.

I watched the press conference after. Obama without a teleprompter was an umming ahhing pausing stumbling poser and Harper came off as smooth and deliberate. the press would have said robotic if they had their change.

I was going to say visit the ctv.ca poll RE: who has closer political beliefs to Barack Obama
Harper Vs Ignatieff
However it has changed.
50/50 result

KKKKady O'Malley said Harper managed to not screw up? Guess she knew she couldn't get away with a bolus of screed so she got a little dig in,insinuating he usually screws up.

A prime example of someone who can't bring themselves to say outright how well our PM performed, she tosses out a sickening bit of crap.
Poor thing.

I remember seeing a video awhile back of Jack Layton in question period in late 2007/early 2008 where he criticised Stephen Harper's prediction of tough economic times ahead ... Does anyone else remember that video and/or know where I can find a copy of it?

"Intellectuals flatter themselves by pitting their virtues against public philistinism. Better, argues Andrew Delbanco, that they should ask how they might earn back public trust... more»
http://www.aldaily.com/

When have eggheads ever had "public trust"?

Liberal Harvard IggyEgghead say, Moi, I is an egghead; Moi trusts eggheads.
For validation of Iggy's thesises (theesI?), see below*.
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*"A New Day for Intellectuals

The election has opened the door to education and expertise, but academics will have to earn respect"
http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i23/23b00801.htm

I didn't watch but on the radio it was said Obama walked ahead of the GG. Is that not a breach of protocol? At any rate I read the business section of the Choir is sadly lacking in..people that have done real business instead of monkey business.

Privatize Crowns to boost economy: think-tank
Capital underinvestment lowers productivity, wages, Fraser Institute study says. -Saskatoon Star Phoenix.

http://www.thestarphoenix.com/Business/Privatize+Crowns+boost+economy+think+tank/1309283/story.html

I think it is clear that our biased MSM is hostile to Harper, for no reason other than that he is not a Liberal and the majority of the MSM all assume that the Liberal Party, regardless of its policies/no policies is the 'Natural Governing Party'.

This MSM ignores the Liberal corruption, ignores Adscam, ignores the stacking of the Senate with their cronies, ignores the patronage and cronyism of that Liberal Party in Ottawa - they are all part of this same 'gang'. Their anger against Harper is simply because he is there.

The fact that he is highly competent is something that they won't even refer to; it is totally and utterly ignored by our MSM.

Their juvenile adoration of Obama - and I simply fail to understand WHY - shows up when someone like Tom Clark gushes on CTV that Obama said 'he loves Canada'..isn't that great'!! Doesn't the idiot think that such a statement is not merely meaningless but only political? After all, how could anyone make such a statement about a country or person or whatever...when they have never, ever, visited the country before? Never set foot in it?

Oh, and Obama 'touched' Harper - that shows his friendship. When Bush did that, it showed his dominance over Harper.

The bias, the juvenile gushing of our MSM over Obama is shameful. And the insistent sneers at Harper - shameful. Meanwhile, the MSM is constantly, endlessly, promoting Ignatieff.

One article, if you can believe it, assures us that Obama and Ignatieff talked about mutual cafes they went to at Harvard, and tells us that both Obama and Ignatieff are 'intellects', deep thinkers...ignoring that Obama's two books are only autobiographies and most certainly not analytical or deep thoughts.

Other articles point out that Harper 'basked in Obama's light'...disgusting.

That's our MSM. By the way, does the MSM remember that Ignatieff signed the coalition agreement - the most vicious attack on our democratic rights in the history of this country?

ET, I don't know what to say about the press anymore.

The coverage is so biased it has become ridiculous. I'm sure a complaint to an ombudsman, such as the individual at the CBC, would result in a pleasant letter back, but what are the "results" of these complaints?

I remember a while ago, the CBC ombudsman said there should be more "balance". Evidence of same? Evidence of continued investigation and monitoring of the problem?

From my external viewpoint, ombudsman seems to be a pretty sweet job - just come up with polite letters to assuage people's concerns.

I would be interested to know if anyone knows what the CBC ombudsman does to address concerns internally, rather than just reflect and then deflect external concerns.

ET:

I've been to several rock concerts.

Curiously, at some point the lead singer yells out: “I love you (name of city) or (Name of city), you're the greatest.

What's even more curious is that people are so insecure about themselves that they actually believe it.

(PDF warning) John W. Warren, Innovation and the Future of e-Books

THE LEVEL OF technological development and cultural acceptance of e-books today has a parallel with that of incunabula in the 15th century. Incunabula (denoting infancy, from the Latin for “swaddling clothes”) describe the earliest printed books, from the first use of movable type in Gutenberg’s 1454 Bible until 1501. Illuminated manuscripts were made copy-by-copy by monks, took months to decades to produce, and were kept by the church and kings. The first generations of printers sought to replicate the style of illuminated manuscripts, using similar type styles, ornamentation, and ligatures (Bolter, 1991). When printed books first appeared, far from being embraced as a technological and cultural breakthrough, they were viewed with suspicion and derision, seen as inferior or even dangerous, compared with illuminated manuscripts (Gomez, 2008). Incunabula represented a loss of control, gradually giving way to democratization of books and reading...

Did our Prime Minister meet with the President of the USA yesterday?
Not according to CTV.ca

All about Iggy.
No analysis of course, by the so-called journalists about Iggy's embarrassing egocentric behaviour.
Liberal media puffins hard at work.

"This piece** was written before Obama was elected president, and appeared in the Global Politician and The AMERICAN CHRONICLE in August 2008."

O voted: Present* (Here!).
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**"Is President Obama dangerously in love with himself? and in need of proper mental health care asap?

Subj: This is a very interesting view on President Obama from Dr. Samuel Vaknin, Ph.D., author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited":"
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090218130054AAmd6sh
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"Anyone might easily have fallen in love with Narcissus, even as a child, and when he reached the age of sixteen, his path was strewn with heartlessly rejected lovers of both sexes; for he had a stubborn pride in his own beauty.

Among these lovers was the nymph Echo, who could no longer use her voice, except in foolish repetition of another's shout. This was a penalty given to her by Hera because once Echo had held up and disappointed Hera with her senseless talk.

One day when Narcissus went out to net stags, Echo stealthily followed him through the pathless forest, longing to address him, but unable to speak first. At last Narcissus, finding that he had strayed from his companions, shouted:

*"Is anyone here?"
Echo replied: "Here!"
http://www.humanbeing.demon.nl/humanbeingsweb/Library/narc_en/narc_en_3.htm

"in the first real public speech, the Attorney General of the United States has denigrated the American people as "cowards."

"One can cite data, and refer to it in the spirit of finding constructive solutions."
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"Enough Already [Victor Davis Hanson]

Many have weighed in on Eric Holder's "cowards" slur. He obviously hasn't paid much attention to college campuses, where the obsession with race permeates departments, curricula, hiring, faculty profile, student events, funding, etc. Bumper-sticker identification and hair-trigger readiness to accuse someone of racism to further a particular ideological or even personal agenda are now 30 years old and institutionalized in higher education.

He is right on one count, however — in the university, public schools, journalism at large, the foundations, and politics, there is a reluctance in one aspect to broach the subject. It is absolutely taboo to suggest that personal behavior, particular ingrained attitudes, and pernicious cultural assumptions — far more than contemporary racial oppression — could have contributed to ordinately high rates of drug use, crime, illegitimacy, unemployment, high-school drop-out rates, sexist attitudes toward women, and incarceration among a subset of young African-American males.

One can cite data, and refer to it in the spirit of finding constructive solutions. Yet that will most often result in suffering the slur of racism, given that so many are invested in the industry of racial grievance, as Holder himself has unfortunately demonstrated. It is not encouraging that in the first real public speech, the Attorney General of the United States has denigrated the American people as "cowards.""
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NmJkOWQyZDcwZmMwMzc0ZDUxOTg5Mjk5ZjhkY2JlNWU=

Posted by: ET at February 20, 2009 10:14 AM

"That's our MSM. By the way, does the MSM remember that Ignatieff signed the coalition agreement - the most vicious attack on our democratic rights in the history of this country?"

Good post ET, smack on!

Bernie Golberg's best selling book about the "slobbering" Obama US MSM was mirrored tenfold by media slobberers here in Canada yesterday.. Giffen, Rosemary Thompson, Tom Clark absolutely gushing.

Yuck!!

I rarely watch CBC but knowing their past history I suspect they out slobbered them all.

I wonder if Tom Clark will ever put his email address up.
At least Duffy had the gonads to leave his public.

Mao Stlong say, Meow no rike mockely/lidicure. Sheila Katella no rike catlidicure, either.

"most mocking or casting doubt on the explanation of “eluding the cat”."
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"Angry web users force China U-turn over 'hide-and-seek' death in police custody

Internet surfers in China have taken part in an unprecedented investigation into the death of a man in police custody after an outpouring of doubt at an official report that he died in a violent game of hide-and-seek.

The phrase “eluding the cat” – the Chinese name for hide-and-seek – has become one of the hottest search items on the internet in China since 24-year-old Li Qiaoming died of brain injuries four days after he was admitted to hospital on February 8.

Police in southwestern Yunnan province at first said that Mr Li, arrested for illegally cutting down trees, was injured while playing “eluding the cat” – “duo maomao” – with other prisoners in a detention centre.

He was kicked and beaten and accidentally hit a wall, local media said. Another newspaper said that he had been blindfolded and accidentally hurt when he ran into a wall."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5772317.ece

ET: I would second Joe's comment.

The MSM has become 90% propaganda organ grinders for LIEberalism.

Of course it drives the idiots nuts that we still have'nt succumbed to the tsunami of BS that they try to submerge reality into.

PMSH held himself well but all the focus is on the triumph of the leader of the Puffin party.

The icing on the cake was how we are all supposed to believe how wise and clever they all are. Please spare me.

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group "True North"

Sent to me this morning by a Canadian friend at Microsoft in Seattle:

Glad to see Ignatieff finds time to question Obama about Khadr. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/19/ignatieff-obama.html

You get 30 minutes with the most powerful man on earth and on your list of things to discuss is some terrorist. Brilliant.

ET, absolutely brilliant post! I hope you don't mind, but I added it to my blog as well. Plus, I forwarded it to Charles Adler. Perhaps he'll read it on air today.

Erik, further to your ruminations about the Corrupt CBC, you'll be interested to read this. I've now formally complained to the CBC twice. A complete waste of time. In fact, I bet you anything that the time their drones spend responding to such complaints is used to justify budgets over there!

The market fears the nationalization of big U.S. banks on the weekend.

*"The Olympic motto is "Citius, Altius, Fortius." These three Latin words mean "Swifter, Higher, Stronger." Baron de Coubertin borrowed the motto from Father ..."

Borrowed? Pyramid Scheme. Has the Baron repaid "Father"?
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"Vancouver takes credit hit over Olympic costs
Debt rating service DBRS has downgraded the City of Vancouver by one notch from AA (high) to AA, and said Friday the trend is negative because of the financial sinkhole at the Olympic Village."

"Security for 2010 games will cost $900M(nnw)
(*janeckycom)

Ignore Aunty-American "turns the tables" in the MSM headline.

For Kingston Lad: Go Army, Air Force, Navy.
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"Canadian Chinook turns the tables, carries U.S. troops to battle

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Time was, Canadian troops were among those having to hitch rides around the Afghan battlefield on board the transport helicopters of other NATO allies.

Not any more. A single Canadian CH-47D Chinook, flanked by two CH-146 Griffon escort helicopters, turned the tables Friday as it delivered a section of U.S. troops to a forward operating base west of Kandahar, its first such mission in support of allied countries.

Col. Christopher Coates, commander of the Canadian air wing and a trained Griffon pilot, found himself battling feelings of envy.

"The hardest thing for me being a pilot here in Afghanistan is not being able to get the cockpit of one these aircraft and contribute to the mission and help the soldiers do their job," Coates said.

"I've been up on a few flights, but I wish that was my job every day, flying these aircraft.""
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/02/20/8468696-cp.html

Great pic Vit.

Bwahahahahahaha....me.I'm going to one of them 2 year colleges,get a "journalism" degree,and start working for the Ceeb. I expect my time at the degree mill will be about a thousand times longer then I last at the Ceeb.

Sorta like Glenn Beck at CNN!

Haven't seen this here before - NWO's insights on how to manipulate the masses politically

http://www.worldforum.org/new-political-compass.htm

It seems the educational experiment (refer to Yuri Bezmenov's interviews that Kate posted earlier, outlining Soviet efforts to undermine the west) is working according to plan:
"• The new data shows that a significant majority of American adults and youth now express liberal or progressive values (53%)."

The scare tactics and bashing of all who don't conform to the AGW propaganda is working. too:

"• The survey also shows that 70%-80% of the American public as a whole support strong action to deal with global warming. The public wants decisive action now from both business and government, and people are prepared to engage with the issue themselves."

Now to exploit these for political power:

"• This polling indicates that creating an alliance between progressive values and green politics could be a winning strategy for this election."

And of course it is associated with Ted (cut the population back) Turner our very own Maurice (duty to ruin western civilization)Strong:
"The first State of the World Forum was convened in 1995 by Mikhail Gorbachev and fellow Co-Chairs Oscar Arias, Ruud Lubbers, Thabo Mbeke, George Schultz, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Maurice Strong and Ted Turner."

And to top it all off, our own CIDA is one of the sponsors. Your tax dollars at work.

This was sent me by a friend who has a business acquaintance in the US who is really pissed off.

"Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's home district includes San Francisco.

Star-Kist Tuna's headquarters are in San Francisco, Pelosi's home district.

Star-Kist is owned by Del Monte Foods and is a major contributor to Pelosi.

Star-Kist is the major employer in American Samoa employing 75% of the Samoan work force.

Paul Pelosi, Nancy's husband, owns $17 million dollars of Star-Kist stock.

In January, 2007 when the minimum wage was increased from $5.15 to $7.25, Pelosi had American Samoa exempted from the increase so Del Monte would not have to pay the higher wage. This would make Del Monte products less expensive than their competition's.

Last week when the huge bailout bill was passed, Pelosi added an earmark to the final bill adding $33 million dollars for an 'economic development credit in American Samoa '.

Pelosi has called the Bush Administration "CORRUPT" ? ?

How do you spell "HYPOCRISY" ?

Her new idea on tax shortages…she wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income

Adding a tax to your retirement is simply another way of saying to the American people, you're so darn stupid that we're going to keep doing this until we drain every cent from you. That's what the Speaker of the House is saying.

Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income. In other words tax what you have made by investing toward your retirement. This woman is a nut case! You aren't going to believe this.

Madam speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to put a Windfall Tax on all stock market profits (including Retirement fund, 401K and Mutual Funds! Alas , it is true - all to help the 12 Million Illegal Immigrants and other unemployed Minorities!

This woman is frightening.
She quotes...' We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income, (didn't Marx say something like this), in our country and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest.' ( I am not rich, are you)

When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied:
'We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long way to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as 'Americans'.' (Read that quote again and again and let it sink in. 'Lower your retirement, give it to others who have not worked as you have for it'. "

Rick Santelli - enemy of the state!

The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future (Kindle Edition)- book by Juan Enriquez

Amazon.com Review
Will America always fly the Stars and Stripes? Will its borders be the same in 50 years? It may sound crazy, but the answers to those questions are less certain than most Americans probably think. History shows flags and borders change frequently. Countries are like marriages--they fall apart all the time. Three-quarters of the countries in the United Nations were not there 50 years ago. In his book The Untied States of America, Juan Enriquez chucks out conventional wisdom and says the U.S. may not be immune to mounting global forces of national dissolution. He argues that Americans should get ready now for a messy, secession-driven future.

Enriquez is a former Mexican government official and fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs. He says growing political, racial, and economic divisions in the U.S. could provoke secessionist movements in the South and New England. It has happened before. Enriquez points to the Philippines, which gained independence from the U.S. in 1946. In Texas, he writes, 42 percent of people support secession and a confederation with the U.S. Unfortunately, while Enriquez addresses an important topic, his writing style is sensationalistic and plays loose with some facts. (For example, he claims that the Canadian province of Quebec bans toys that use a language other than French--not true--and that 94 percent of Quebec voters rejected independence for the province in a 1995 referendum; the correct number is 51 percent.) Enriquez also employs a distracting and jarring presentation style: He rarely writes a paragraph longer than one sentence, and each page is a cacophony of bolded and capitalized words and varying font sizes, a provocative choice that in this case comes off as strange and amateurish. --Alex Roslin

From Publishers Weekly
American history, both distant and recent, is troubled with violence and schisms that constantly threaten the foundations of the country. The country has endured a civil war, two world wars, slavery, genocide and now, of course, the raging battle between the red and blue states. Are we on the brink of dissolution? That's the question Enriquez poses in this fact-filled, statistic-laden book. For more than 200 pages, Enriquez, the founding director of the Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business School, gives readers as many reasons as he can for why America may be headed toward an un-united future. On occasion this means glossing over pesky details and relying on simple generalizations, such as lumping together various quotes about the deficit and social security to maximize the sense of impending doom. Enriquez skips from topic to topic, relying on the fractured narrative layout (perhaps deliberately reminiscent of essayist Paul Metcalf's work) to heighten the book's sense of urgency. The facts, dates and numbers he presents are undoubtedly interesting, but in the end they don't add up to much. What's lacking is the complexity and depth that come with focused, developed arguments, the kind that provide a meaningful context for statistical information.

dave - I don't understand why the 12 million illegal immigrants 'need the US taxpayer's help'.

I also don't understand why income should be equalized. Are you sure she said this? It's insane; why should someone working at Macdonalds get the same income as a heart surgeon?

Also, to assert a desire to 'limit the amount the rich can invest' is equally senseless. After all, the investments of the rich are the basis of economic development; they operate the foundations that fund science research etc. Again, are you sure she said this? It's an insane comment.

And since when is a 'standard of living' a 'right'?

From what I can find out, this Windfall Tax suggestion is an 'urban myth'; in other words, it's not true. Google it.

ET, I will check out the statements behind my friend's email to verify their accuracy.

My friend has a small industrial business here and worked in Florida for 6 years and still has contacts and a business partner there. So many of his friends down there and business acquaintances are just devastated by what is happening. They are watching, as my sister-inlaws relatives in California are, the crumbling of their society and they are angry with elitists like Pelosi.

The CBC's Susan Bonner owes an apology to all Canadians!

dave, it isn't just Pelosi who is an elitist, but the Liberal and Democratic political parties are structured as a two-leveled system. There's the elites who govern, and the people who are governed. No middle class.

The elites set themselves up a Ultimate Authorities; they do this by financial and political power (cronyism, networks..notice how many of Obama's team were tax-dodgers). They do this by attributing special qualities to themselves. Obama links himself to Lincoln; Ignatieff links himself to his Russian nobility.

The system of the Liberals/Democrats operates in a way where they tax everyone, and tax the rich the most, and redistribute this money to 'even' out the income. So, those who work hard support those who work less hard.

The Republicans/Conservatives operate with a three-leveled structure. The largest portion is the middle class who move into/out of this class by merit and hard work. This class is politically and economically empowered, while in the Liberal and Democrat system, there is no middle class and the elites hold power - as long as they can, and particularly, by ignoring the electorate.

The upper class in this three-leveled system is 'mythic'. In the US, it's their heroic presidents, their generals, their heroes. Unfortunately in Canada we haven't developed this mythic class and are the weaker for its lack.

By the way, there's an interesting debate on Hot Air, which is pointing out Obama's 'flip flop' on NAFTA. A year ago during the campaign he was adamantly opposed to NAFTA and wanted it renegotiated; now, he's all soft and in favour of it. What will he be like tomorrow? Can he be trusted? Remember, as an extreme narcissist, Obama's agenda is always on himself and his power to 'make people focus on him'.

Narcissist? Where? Who?

Here:
His Majesty, the Czar of the TO Party, STOPIGGY.
Eggs by FabergRAE.

"the picture taken by Ignatieff’s official photographer"
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"Iggy does Broadway"
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2009/02/20/8469071.html

Erik Larsen: "I'm sure a complaint to an ombudsman, such as the individual at the CBC, would result in a pleasant letter back, but what are the 'results' of these complaints?"

Robert W: "I've now formally complained to the CBC twice. A complete waste of time."

I've been complaining to the CBC through "official channels" for almost 30 years. Yup: "pleasant letter[s] back" and "a complete waste of time."

In almost 30 years, I’ve seen no improvement in the CBC's coverage of things political: Their coverage is as pro-l/Liberal/anti-c/Conservative as it's ever been.

A few years ago, the CBC Ombudsman Vince Carlin phoned me at my home. He said my complaint ('can't remember the issue) was one of the "more articulate" ones that he had received and that he wanted to touch base with me. I appreciated his call and, again, I reiterated my concerns with the CBC's imbalanced and biased coverage of political issues.

He actually shared some personal information with me which included that he was American (New York, I believe), that he had worked as a journalist at the CBC, that he had then moved on to the Department of Journalism at Ryerson, and after nine years there, had been invited back to the CBC to be their Ombudsman.

Mr. Carlin seemed a thoroughly decent and pleasant man. However, isn't it a conflict of interest to have been an employee of the CBC and, nine years later, to have been "invited" back to be their Ombudsman? How can he possibly be impartial in his judgments?

In fact, he hasn't been impartial in his judgments. He admits journalistic failures and indiscretions on the part of CBC employees -- e.g., Julie Van Dusen and Ms. Erikson -- but there are no permanent repercussions or consequences for Van Dusen, Erikson, or ANY CBC journalist. They continue to get full pay by Mother Corp[se] and are, eventually, restored to full status at the CBC and to full view of the Canadian taxpayers who are paying their inflated salaries.

As I said somewhere else, who will rid me of this meddlesome MSM (or, as my husband just said, "the new priest[hood])? (Check out Henry and Thomas a Beckett ...)

Check out Henry II and Thomas a Beckett re the "who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?" quote.

Robert W.
I tried but the page won't load.I would like to know what Bonner said,the usual CBC tripe,or did she manage to go even further?

Pretty funny. Adolph Hitler facing foreclosure of his home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNmcf4Y3lGM

>>>> "They will dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama’s detractors of racism."

Dr. Vaknin* saw this coming.
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"NY Times Feeds Into Notion that Republican Opposition to Stimulus Bill is Racist

South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn appeared on WIS-TV yesterday in a round table setting to discuss how the stimulus bill will affect South Carolina. During the debate he stated that he was insulted by opposition to the plan; specifically targeting GOP Governors of Southern States by implying that their opposition was a "slap in the face of African-Americans" as if race was a determining factor.

Rather than actually quote Congressman Clyburn on these claims the NY Times chose to demagogue the issue by providing their own rationale in a caucus blog post that appears designed to embarrass South Carolina's Republican Governor Mark Sanford."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190312/posts

*http://jacksnewswatch.com/2009/02/19/jack-hello-earth/

CTV is not using "Canadian diplomat" as shown here previously.
CTV reads SDA.
SDA gets results.
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*"the recent abduction of diplomat Robert Fowler"

*"Harper, Cannon head to U.S. after Obama visit"
urlm.in/bshc

O The Narcissist:

"The narcissist shapes the world around himself and reduces others in his own inverted image."
(H/T Dr. Samuel Vaknin)
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"Invoking his own name-and-shame policy, President Barack Obama warned the nation's mayors on Friday that he will "call them out" if they waste the money from his massive economic stimulus plan."

"Obama warns mayors not to waste stimulus money"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190412/posts

>>>> "AL Gore says sea ice will disappear in 5 years. Now we know how!*"

Go here* for the "know how".
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*"Sea Ice Sensor Degradation Hits Cryosphere Today
20 02 2009

You may recall that I posted about how the National Snow and Ice Data Center has an issue with the DMSP satellite sensor channel used to detect sea ice. Cryosphere Today is a few days behind in update compared to NSIDC, and here is what their imagery now looks like before and after."

Commenter: "Mark J (15:31:44):

*AL Gore says sea ice will disappear in 5 years. Now we know how!

It is imperative that this data is corrected and maintained accurately. So much media attention is paid to melting sea ice. This is one of the major emotional drivers that sway many in the public over to the Anthropo Global Warming camp. It’s an easy one for the media to grab. Honest and expedient sea ice information is not only suggested…it is REQUIRED."

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/02/20/sea-ice-sensor-degradation-hits-cryosphere-today/#comments

You all talk a good game here among friends, but when I post a link where you can go and actually confront the skulls full of mush - and I am talking about simple headed teenagers who are being programmed by media - on their misguided belief in AGW I get a big fat no show.
The hell with all of you posers.

batb @5:07 PM - Excellent commentary as usual. WRT "...indiscretions on the part of CBC employees--e.g., Julie Van Dusen and Ms. Erikson--but there are no permanent repercussions or consequences for Van Dusen, Erikson...."
I've often been critical of Van Douchebag's over the top bias and leftoid 'journalism', but I can't recall the occasions re your specific reference of these two.
Can you enlighten? Thx

Snagglepuss, re Krista Erickson, check out:

http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2008/01/national-post-misses-mark-in-erickson.html

http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html

re Julie Van Doesn't:

Heck, pick any one of her tirades over the years. When she opined on the CBC, however, that CPC Cabinet Minister David Emerson should have got "his tush" over to a media scrum -- like, how DARE he not show up? -- there were a lot of complaints to the CBC about her injudicious use of words and Vince Carlin admitted that she could have been more professional, or words to that effect.

If you find a link, I'd be happy to know!

In honor of Kates dog show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YunO4Wc8E28&feature=related