Wow, kind of a eyebrow-raising cartoon.

I guess there's nothing like extolling the virtues of drinking and promiscuity to the kids.

Also, I'm glad I'm not high - watching all that anthropomorphic furniture in that state would be kind of disturbing.

Thank Vitruvius, sir, I enjoyed that. Even though it's a cartoon, you can sense that it was a harder time. The toughness of life wasn't so alien to people back then, and even though it's a cartoon you get some kind of ineffable sense that this condition wasn't so much caricatured as familiar.

$134.5 Billion USD of US bonds are found and seized from Japanese nationals in Italy. Italy claims a 40% take on unreported cash and securities, They seem to think they are real; if so, what gov't. is trying to dump them?

http://market-ticker.org/archives/1114-Smuggling-Or-Counterfeit-Printing.html

If I didn't already have tickets to the monster truck show, I'd be going to see
this:

"Seattleites are in for a luscious, though-provoking treat:
Tomorrow marks the opening of "Fiber Arctic,"
a group installation featuring 20 fiber artists
pondering climate change and the way it's reshaping
the Arctic landscape."

Trust me, folks, these fiber artists are going to ponder the living hell out of climate change.

Just for you, Vitruvius:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp2ATHrwPnA&feature=related

I'm watching Michael Coren on YouTube thanks to Matt. One of the guests is some young Toronto dope whose main claim to fame seem to be because he's wearing a black beret on backwards. Oh, and he's a Michael Moore fan. :-(

Krauthammer has another great column up on the god Obama over at real clear politics. (can't wait until iphone 3.0 is released next week so I cAn start cutting and pasting links).

Someone from Hollywood with brains to see whats happening in America. A nice 10 minites of the truth.

Bringing An End To This False Prophet Obama! Jon Voight

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Bringing+An+End+To+This+False+Prophet+Obama%21+Jon+Voight&www_google_domain=www.google.com&hl=en&emb=0#

a black beret?
does he represent an armoured division?

You have to read this to believe it:

"The Canadian Human Rights Commission says it still has a role to play in fighting hatred on the Internet, but wants Parliament to curb its powers.

"It says it should no longer be able to levy fines of up to $10,000 against hatemongers and wants lawmakers to provide a clear, legal definition of what constitutes prohibited hatred.

"In a special report to Parliament, the commission also wants legal changes that would allow it to award costs in cases where accusers abuse the process and to quickly dismiss complaints that don't meet the definition of hate.

"But the commission insists that the Internet remains a potentially dangerous realm where hatred can spread insidiously...."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jmzmjBPPLXnK71gtWU-MycxfEEYA

"Holocaust Museum Shooter: Christian-Hating Socialist

On June 10, the nation tragically witnessed a memorial dedicated to commemorating an atrocity become the site of yet more death. Just before 1 p.m., longtime neo-Nazi James Wenneker Von Brunn entered the Holocaust Museum on the National Mall and opened fire in an attempt to complete the Final Solution his hero had left tentative, an omission Von Brunn dubbed “Hitler’s biggest mistake.” As former Defense Secretary Bill Cohen wandered the museum grounds, Von Brunn killed Stephen T. Johns, a black security officer, then was shot himself. As of this writing, the 88-year-old is in critical condition.

The white-wing fringe greeted the news with predictable joy. Its most popular website, Stormfront.org, saluted “White Racialist Treasure: James Von Brunn” in 2004; a thoughtful reader, seeing Von Brunn had backed up his recent threats with deadly action, wrote yesterday, “Definitely needs a bump today.” Another hoped the shooting would cause Americans to believe taking their children to Holocaust memorials is now “an insurance risk.”

Yet racists are not alone in their glee. Leftists have decided to exploit Von Brunn’s madness to engender fear of rampant conservative terrorism. They overlook one point: the shooter was not a conservative.

A review of his lengthy associations reveals Von Brunn hardly fits the stereotype of a Religious Right, GOP precinct captain. He denounced the Christian faith as a dastardly Jewish conspiracy, a “HOAX” invented by the Apostle Paul to “DESTROY ROMAN CULTURE” from within by undermining its pagan virility. (All screaming capitalization and grammatical errors in this piece appear in the original.) Like others on the racist fringe, the shooter proclaimed clearly: “SOCIALISM, represents the future of the West.”

Karl Rove, Glenn Beck, and Freepers Killed Stephen Johns?

Never apt to let facts get in the way of slander, the Left immediately branded Von Brunn a conservative – and found a way to tie his actions to their favorite demons: President Bush and Fox News. Upon learning of the tragedy, Huffington Post blogger Michelle Kraus wrote simply, “Thank you very much Karl Rove and your minions.” Fellow HuffenPuffer Joseph Palermo, – also, surprise, an Associate Professor of History at California State University-Sacramento – accused Fox News host Glenn Beck of “using the public airwaves to incite violence,” calling his program “a white reactionary tour de force – incendiary, stupid, and racist.” The usually staid Alan Colmes smeared the mainstream conservative website FreeRepublic.com, an attack quickly recycled by a ThinkProgress.org reader, who added this sterling political analysis: “There isn't really a line drawn between the right wing ‘base’ and neo-Nazis any more. It's a single continuum, and freepers is right there in that gray area.”

Meanwhile, more significant voices joined in."
http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35192

Islam.
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"Upon Sober Reflection, Bahrain Reconsiders the Wages of Sin

MANAMA, Bahrain -- Every weekend, bumper-to-bumper traffic blocks the causeway into this small island nation as visitors from nearby Saudi Arabia flock to delights unavailable at home: movie theaters, bars and, for some, commercial sex.

With few other attractions, Bahrain's booming tourism industry thrives on the island's reputation as a freewheeling oasis just a short drive from major Saudi cities. Bahrain has little oil of its own; tourism, mostly by the four million Saudis who cross the causeway each year, accounts for a tenth of its economy.

All of this is endangered, as Bahraini legislators press to scrap the country's drinking laws -- currently the most liberal in the Persian Gulf -- and to impose near-total prohibition.

"I'm sorry to say, but Bahrain has become the brothel of the Gulf, and our people are very upset about it," says parliamentarian Adel Maawdah, one of the promoters of the new legislation. "It's not only the drinking that we oppose, but also what it drags with it: prostitution, corruption, drugs and people-trafficking.""
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269817/posts
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"Father Hangs Son, 15, Over Suspicions He Was An Israeli Informer

The body of a Palestinian boy was found hanging in a barn after his relatives confessed to killing him over possible links to Israel.

Palestinian police spokesman Adnan Damiri says the 15-year-old boy's father, uncle and cousin confessed to the slaying over suspicions the teenager had collaborated with the Israeli army.

He refused to give any details about the boy or his family."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269839/posts

Sounds like we are heading into the summer election. Jacko is threatening to vote against the conservative economic plan in the next week's confidence vote.

Remember, cons, in order to entice me into volunteering, you have to do something about the registry, that you kind of promised...

Merriam-webster: promise - a legally binding declaration that gives the person to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act

Aaron, would I be wrong in assuming that promise was based on getting a majority?
I believe it needs a majority in the house to rescind.

Aaron The BQ don't have their pensions locked in yet. No summer election I'm thinking.

Harper can table any legislation he wants - the Libs are broke.

"Sounds like we are heading into the summer election. Jacko is threatening to vote against the conservative economic plan in the next week's confidence vote."

"Harper can table any legislation he wants - the Libs are broke."

Okay, so which is it? Are we under the threat of an election or are we not? Very typical statements, though, of the toy-tossing pram-dwellers that raise a stink about the lack of a conservative mandate in a minority situation.

"Iggy ‘On Probation’ with his own caucus

The more I reread Paul Wells’ column from yesterday (Off Probation), the more impressed I am with his razor-sharp insight. There are some nuances that I didn’t immediately pick up on.

But upon rereading and assessing the contents with current information, it seems that Michael Ignatieff is actually the one with the proverbial car in the ditch.

Back when the newly appointed Liberal Leader said he’d put PM Harper On Probation, Iggy inadvertently boxed himself into a very sticky situation as Paul Wells so eloquently illustrates:

…Now here’s the thing about probation. It is a daily state of binary possibility: Pass-fail. If I’m the opposition leader and I have Put The Government On Probation, then every day I do not announce the government’s failure is an endorsement…

Do you see Iggy’s problem based on the current situation? If he joins the Bloc and the NDP in bringing down the government, he will have to deal with the wrath of Canadian voters who would see through the opportunism and likely punish him soundly in an election.

If he backs off and supports the Government in the next money vote (which is by nature a confidence vote) then he will once again lose face with the hawks in his caucus and will also be the target of ridicule from the NDP and Bloc.

What he can’t do is simply arrange to have his caucus develop the Parliamentary flu, which might have been a face-saving tactic. He took that option away when he put the Harper Government ‘On Probation.’ Now as Wells points out, it’s a yes-no, either-or decision. No sitting on your hands or slinking out by the back door.

No wonder Iggy’s terms were so gleefully accepted when the deal was originally proposed."

http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2009/06/12/iggy-on-probation-with-his-own-caucus/#comments

I met Christine Elliott at a breakfast meeting in Woodstock this morning.
Christine, the wife of Jim Flaherty Canada's Minister of Finance is running for the Ontario Progressive Conservative party leadership.
She speaks well, is proposing a flat tax for Ontario.
She seems hesitant to tackle the Ontario Human Rights issue head on.

I hope she comes across more like Margaret Thatcher of Great Britain before leadership election day.

I also wish she picked up on the notion ( for her platform) of opening up variety stores to selling alcohol in competition to the stranglehold unionized monopoly Liquor Control Board.

How students were used as 'useful idiots'.

From the BBC

Joe: I also wish she picked up on the notion.....

Joe i could not agree more, But lets not stop there, Lets put an end to the Beer Makers monopoly of price fixing in Ontario.
I cant say how many times family visiting from Minnesota would say "you look at the flyers for grocery specials, We look at the flyers for the Beer specials!"

Bryanr and Joe;

you are living in the Ontario police-state.
Changey-Hopey is futile.

MAKE YOUR OWN BEER. it tastes better and you get to screw the government out of taxes!

You can watch sturgeon live in the wolf river cam.
Action is a little slow today.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wolfrivercam

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"We took a balanced approach, working with them and the
community," said spokeswoman Sgt. Terri-Lynn Collings.

Police escorted the group to Brantford, throwing traffic
into chaos.

can we charge the hamilton police department as co-conspirators?

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I just wandered over to an article in the Tor Star about the eHealth debackle and couldn't help but notice the Star's "open and inclusive" style of reporting. "Strating, an Albertan who had been..." is in the captian of her photograph and in the text of the article. Nobody else's province of origin was mentioned.

Another poll we should participate in.

Should David Letterman apologize for comment about Sarah Palin’s daughter?

Vote at http://www.newsvine.com/_question/2009/06/12/2922412-should-david-letterman-apologize-for-comment-about-sarah-palins-daughter

Good one, Neo! Maybe that could be a topic for at least one post today... Are the guest bloggers asleep?

That whole hope and change thingy...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Thursday tapped four big Democratic Party donors for plum ambassadorships in Europe and Latin America while naming six career diplomats to posts in Africa, the Mideast and the Pacific.

[...]

Washington lawyer Howard Gutman, who raised more than $500,000 for Obama's campaign...

Beyer, who made his money as a car dealer, raised more than $500,000 for Obama...

Vinai Thummalapally, a Colorado business executive and Obama friend who raised between $100,000 and $200,000 for the campaign...

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090612/D98OTD380.html

I've written something about Reverend Jeremiah Wright and the recent Holocaust Museum shooting. Feel free to leave your comments!

Jennifer Lynch of the CHRC lashes out at her critics:

"I believe critics of human-rights commissions and tribunals are manipulating information and activities around rights cases and freedom of expression to further a new agenda. This agenda posits that rights commissions and tribunals, and the attendant vigilance over all the rights and freedoms Canadians now enjoy, no longer serve a useful purpose. In this way, the debate over freedom of expression has been used as a wedge to undermine and distort our human-rights system. "

That's right Jenny carry on with your efforts to criminalize all Canadians for daring to disagree with you.

http://tinyurl.com/m4juat

What a load of self serving Bullshit - go smack Jenny in the comments.

If you’ve fooled around with computers for a few years you’ve heard of the Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC).

But who would have thought that Saskatchewan has its very own PARC [scientific?] research facility.

I didn’t know about this embarrassment until the latest issue of the U of Regina’s magazine “Degrees” confessed to its existence by dedicating the cover story to PARC(ca)’s tree-hugging director Norm Henderson.

For the many that don't receive the magazine, I'm sorry there's no link to an online copy, but take my word for it, the best thing U of R could do for the environment would be to save trees by not publishing such tripe. The biggest problem for me is that our tax dollars subsidize this kind of thing.

Iggy goes for a Wizz.

Iggy is a Wizard; WizzIggy wags his PeterPointer and Friday magically becomes Monday.

Is there anything Iggy can’t do*?

MSM’s headline is a lie, as usual:
>>> ” Non-confidence vote on hold until Monday
By ELIZABETH THOMPSON, Sun Media”

>>> “Canadians will have to wait until Monday to find out whether Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff will endorse the government’s economic report card or trigger a non-confidence vote.”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2009/06/12/9777611-sun.html
(*H/T SDA)

Next vital question for WizzIggy:

“Will you be watching as Canadian astronaut Julie Payette heads into space on the shuttle?”

RSVP, Iggy. Canadians are pregnant with anticipation of your non-answer.

"What a load of self serving Bullshit - go smack Jenny in the comments."

Posted by: Blazingcatfur at June 12, 2009 12:42 PM

Already have!

Here in Ontario, the PC leadership hopefuls are having to deal with the Ontario HRC (Kangaroo court) issue as they vie for the leadership race in the boonies.

I quizzed Christine Elliott on that very isssuethis morning in Woodstock.

That's right, Ms Lynch. Many of us feel that the HRCs 'no longer serve a useful purpose'. Indeed, they are extremely harmful to our basic rights and freedoms.

You assert that that the HRCs are 'vigilant' in protecting our rights and freedoms. You provide no proof. We assert, with many examples (see Ezra Levant's Shakedown) that the HRCs are infringing and seriously harming our rights and freedoms.

There is no debate about freedom of expression. It's a fundamental right, which means, it is non-negotiable. Kindly check up the Charter, Section 2.

How does this inalienable right distort or harm our human rights? What harms our human rights is personal opinions of 'tribunal commissioners', who make judgments about what other people say and write - which judgments are not based on actual events, not based on facts, on truth, on anything..other than the personal opinions of these unaccountable political appointees.

If you get a chance, check out the real clear politics page. I do so daily and in the past couple if weeks I have noticed an increasing number of columns that are commenting in the negative on barack obama's performance. And the trend seems to be accelerating. It would be a neat indicator if someone actually tracked such trends. And compared it to the approval ratings and other such metrics. I suspect that it is a leading indicator of where BO is headed and it is down.

Blazing, thanks for the link to Lynch's screed. What a piece of work she is!!

Do you think that as she approaches the end of her mortal coil she'll finally realize how incredibly UN-Canadian she has been in her professional life?

Neo, there is an incredible picture sent to me by Info@CaledoniaWakeUpCall.com showing these idiots walking down a controlled access highway blocking hundreds of trucks and cars. The police are allowing them to do this in clear violation of the highway traffic act. Just imagine being in that stopped lineup behind these indians for hours.

Gary McHale is right the OPP are just shills for the natives, I have zero respect for this force as it becomes more like the RCMP every day.

I can't figure out how to link to the site where the picture is as it was sent to me as an email adobe attachment.

cal2...does he represent an armoured division? Why yes he does,the RCD,Royal Canadian Drugoons.No disrespect to any zipper heads.

http://www.newstalk650.com/story/20090611/17828

NDP scandal.

The Right Dishonourable Paul Martin is at this very minute, on the Business News Network's "The Close", again advocating his "give up some of our sovereignty" shtick.

http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=802

This guy should be locked up so that Canada might work.

What a jerk.

Great post at wattsupwith that on negative feedback from clouds. As a non-climatologist, it seemed obvious to me that clouds cause cooling (as is immediately obvious to anyone who happens to have a thundercloud pass over them on a hot summers day). Not so to the folks at IPCC who have been assuming that clouds cause positive feedback. No wonder all of their models are so out of touch with reality. Check out:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/12/suggestions-of-strong-negative-cloud-feedbacks-in-a-warmer-climate/#more-8407
and this is a link that should be emailed to all politicians. An easier to understand source for cloud negative feedback may be found at:
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2009/05/
Dr. Roy Spencer has several peer reviewed publications in which he has demonstrated that more clouds mean cooler temperatures.

"Heirs to Fortuyn?
Muslim immigration and sclerotic welfare states push Europe right (sort of).

When the New Left emerged in the 1960s, something else was born that would mark American elites for decades thereafter: the notion that social-democratic Western Europe was far superior to the capitalist United States. Pity the poor American professor whose every junket to a European academic conference was marred by his continental colleagues’ sneering over cocktails about his nation’s shame du jour—Vietnam, Watergate, Iraq—or about American racism, capital punishment, or health care. For much of the American Left, Western Europe was nothing less than an abstract symbol of progressive utopia.

This rosy view was never accurate, of course. Europe’s socialized health care was blighted by outrageous (and sometimes deadly) waiting lists and rationing, to name just one example. To name another: Timbro, a Swedish think tank, found in 2004 that Sweden was poorer than all but five U.S. states and Denmark poorer than all but nine. But in recent years, something has happened to complicate the Left’s fanciful picture even further: Western European voters’ widespread reaction against social democracy.

The shift has two principal, and related, causes. The more significant one is that over the last three decades, social-democratic Europe’s political, cultural, academic, and media elites have presided over, and vigorously defended, a vast wave of immigration from the Muslim world—the largest such influx in human history. According to Foreign Affairs, Muslims in Western Europe numbered between 15 and 20 million in 2005. One source estimates that Britain’s Muslim population rose from about 82,000 in 1961 to 553,000 in 1981 to 2 million in 2000—a demographic change roughly representative of Western Europe as a whole during that period. According to the London Times, the number of Muslims in the U.K. climbed by half a million between 2004 and 2008 alone—a rate of growth ten times that of the rest of that country’s population.

Yet instead of encouraging these immigrants to integrate and become part of their new societies, Western Europe’s governments have allowed them to form self-segregating parallel societies run more or less according to sharia. Many of the residents of these patriarchal enclaves subsist on government benefits, speak the language of their adopted country poorly or not at all, despise pluralistic democracy, look forward to Europe’s incorporation into the House of Islam, and support—at least in spirit—terrorism against the West. A 2006 Sunday Telegraph poll, for example, showed that 40 percent of British Muslims wanted sharia in Britain, 14 percent approved of attacks on Danish embassies in retribution for the famous Mohammed cartoons, 13 percent supported violence against those who insulted Islam, and 20 percent sympathized with the July 2005 London bombers.

Too often, such attitudes find their way into practice."
http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_2_pim-fortuyn.html

Chicago style - Obama fires inspector general when fraud uncovered
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Obama's move follows an investigation by Walpin finding misuse of federal grants by a nonprofit education group led by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former NBA basketball star. Johnson and a nonprofit education academy he founded ultimately agree to repay half of $847,000 in grants it had received from AmeriCorps.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090612/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_national_service_inspector_general

This sounds like a great idea, or something.
'US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive
Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic "shrink to survive" proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.'
Yes...we can.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5516536/US-cities-may-have-to-be-bulldozed-in-order-to-survive.html

"Jennifer Lynch tries to bully CTV into cancelling my appearance on the news

By Ezra Levant on June 12, 2009 5:05 PM |

This evening, Jennifer Lynch, the chief commissar of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, tried to have CTV Newsnet kick me off their interview program Power Play, hosted by Tom Clark.

To their great credit, CTV refused to be bullied -- and it was Lynch who wound up off the show."

http://ezralevant.com/2009/06/jennifer-lynch-tries-to-bully.html
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Abolish Human Rights tribunals.

Fire. Them. All.

Link to Tom Clark and Ezra's tv presentation :

http://watch.ctv.ca/news/power-play/friday-june-12/#clip182575