Our beloved CBC just devoted half of its one hour evening newscast to the deaths of a couple of entertainers - 22 minutes to Michael Jackson alone. I guess that nothing important happened today. I've always maintained a tolerant attitude towards Mother Corp, only because I regularly watch The National/Journal. Now even that has turned to slop for the intellectually challenged. For that we pay $800 million per annum?

To top it off, the CBC is advertising another "global warming" rant by that vile parasite, Suzuki, starting tonight. That caps it - I surrender. PRIVATIZE THE DAMNED THING.

Ummm...who would buy it?

EPA Suppressed Scientific Evidence Against CO2 Regulation

http://www.rightwingnews.com/#post15973

Here's a change: someone's standing up for Canada against a U.S. Democrat in Maclean's. I'm sure you've already guessed the one:

"Why Barack Obama is bad for Canada: The new President’s ambitions could have a devastating effect on our economy"

This Canada-centrism, I hope, will filter through to Canada's legislatures before I lose all my hair and teeth.

Another one for the global cooling watch, from the usual source:

"Arctic temperature is still not above 0°C – the latest date in fifty years of record keeping"

"Conn. church creates stir with gay exorcism video"

If the HRCs continue to be an irritant, that video might circulate as contraband up here. [It's already been yanked from YouTube.]

For those people who argue that Ignatieff is qualified to make policy and manage a trillion dollar economy for 33 million people because he is an experienced "academic"...

Michael HIMSELF make the distinction that, in fact, disqualifies his past from giving him any reasonable credentials for political leadership:

There's a piece by Michael Ignatieff in the New York Times Magazine. He makes a distinction between academic and political judgement.

Ignatieff writes that academics 'care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true', whereas politicians need a greater sense of reality, practicality and specificity for their judgement to be any good.

Thanks Vitruvius - lots of memories in that pick - I saw him many times in Toronto gigs as he lived nearby in Rochester NY - still have all his albums - played trumpet and fleugel horn myself back in the day - loved the mellow tone - my son grew up calling him Chuck Man Jones :)
Jim

"my son grew up calling him Chuck Man Jones"

Interesting. One of my golf partners grew up with Chuck, and pronounces his last name "man jone." Sop I suppose that's how the Mangione family did too.

Truth be told, he's a pretty ordinary flugelhorn player -- but he did more to popularize the instrument than anyone else. We owe him for that.

Hey, have you seen this news article?
New details about Michael Jackson's Death Emerge
I was wondering if you were going to blog about this...

Speaking of the CBC, I listened to Ideas on CBC I (9 PM) - the speaker was giving a boilerplate psychobabble talk about Natives and Canada. It was painful to listen to.

The speaker, I found out at the end - John Ralston Saul

Ugh.

Is the CBC still around?

I couldn't resist surfing back when I saw this Wall Street Journal article debunking the cap-and-trade scheme. The way the WSJ describes it, the tax implementation was structured in the same way as an option ARM!

"The Cap and Tax Fiction: Democrats off-loading economics to pass climate change bill"

boilerplate psychobabble ... John Ralston Saul

You can't have one without the other ...

Yep nv53 - good point.

And Ken, I really used to like to listen to programs like Ideas - there were some really good series in the past - thought provoking and interesting.

However, (extending compliments to our SDA LNR host), there has been much more interesting nourishment for the brain here than I have found on CBC I. Whilst I enjoy the musical selections, I really like some of the on-line lectures posted here.

H1N1 an engineered virus might be MSM news, but I doubt it.

Ya gotta listen...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Y4keqTV6w

h/t - http://climbingoutofthedark.blogspot.com/

Something you gotta appreciate; a pair of entertainers who don't think they should tell you how to vote. Yes it's true.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKdknYaSHgE

"CARBONGATE – Global Warming Study Censored by EPA

Source inside EPA confirms claims of science being ignored, suppressed, by top EPA management

by Richard Morrison, Competitive Enterprise Institute

Washington, D.C., June 26, 2009—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is today making public an internal study on climate science which was suppressed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Internal EPA email messages, released by CEI earlier in the week, indicate that the report was kept under wraps and its author silenced because of pressure to support the Administration’s agenda of regulating carbon dioxide.

The report finds that EPA, by adopting the United Nations’ 2007 “Fourth Assessment” report, is relying on outdated research and is ignoring major new developments. Those developments include a continued decline in global temperatures, a new consensus that future hurricanes will not be more frequent or intense, and new findings that water vapor will moderate, rather than exacerbate, temperature.

New data also indicate that ocean cycles are probably the most important single factor in explaining temperature fluctuations, though solar cycles may play a role as well, and that reliable satellite data undercut the likelihood of endangerment from greenhouse gases. All of this demonstrates EPA should independently analyze the science, rather than just adopt the conclusions of outside organizations.

The released report is a draft version, prepared under EPA’s unusually short internal review schedule, and thus may contain inaccuracies which were corrected in the final report.

“While we hoped that EPA would release the final report, we’re tired of waiting for this agency to become transparent, even though its Administrator has been talking transparency since she took office. So we are releasing a draft version of the report ourselves, today,” said CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman.

Read the censored report here:"
urlm.in/cqqq (WUWT?)

One in 25 deaths across the globe can be directly
attributed to alcohol consumption, according to new research
from the Toronto-based Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=1733173

Next time you want to bully a proponent of drug legalization, remember that, hypocrites!

MSM In Mourning: an MSM Star/Etoile Has Fallen.
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"Quebec in 'quiet decline, departing Legault laments

PQ finance critic plans return to private sector

François Legault, a standout as Parti Québécois finance critic in the National Assembly session that ended last week, resigned yesterday.

And in going, Legault went beyond the usual kind words for friends and adversaries to say he is worried about Quebec's future.

"I am worried because I sense that Quebec is going into a quiet decline," he said. "And unfortunately, too often with resignation and indifference.""
urlm.in/cqru
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"PQ critic Legault leaving politics

Former PQ Cabinet Minister François Legault said he's leaving politics because he's disheartened over Quebecers' apathy toward politics.

Former PQ Cabinet Minister François Legault said he's leaving politics because he's disheartened over Quebecers' apathy toward politics."
urlm.in/cqrv

So let's get this straight Aaron. You want to legalize another intoxicant to add to that figure?

"Class action suit for botched cancer tests

A class-action suit has been filed against the Quebec government over its alleged mishandling of breast cancer tests for thousands of patients."

urlm.in/cqse

Any farmers and agronomists here?
How bad and real is the newest scare: UG99 wheat fungus?
Is it going to play out just like SARS and bird flu - i.e. as non-pandemic, non-issue? Or is it really going to cause global famine?

@AtlanticJim: I WANT the powers to concentrate on the primary causes of death and suffering and leave the secondary and tertiary alone until the former are resolved successfully to the society's satisfaction.

Getting cops and innocent people killed and spending billions of tax money in order to make it look like they are doing something about the secondary cause of death is unethical, if not outright criminal.

Here is the document that all need to get familiar with before arguing what should and what should not be done by the government under the guise of saving Canadian's life:

Mortality, summary list of causes, 2005

Do your homework, read the table 1.1 and weep - the "majour cause of death" as trumped by the government - motor vehicle accidents and firearm discharges - are at the bottom of mortality causes. Speaks volumes about where money can be better spent - fighting cardiovascular diseases and tumors. You would think that's where they would put money? Wishful thinking.

There are even more deaths by suicide than accidental poisoning (which includes overdose) and almost 2x more falls.

Is there a lesson here ?

'Pig In A Poke' or 'Bird In hand Worth Two In The Bush' or 'Don't worry, I Promise To Pay You Back' or, simply a Ponzi.

Cautionary tale about pensions

http://www.ottawasun.com/comment/columnists/michael_harris/2009/06/25/9928701.html

I blame the Hippies - Utopia is in their genes.

"Liberals will lose election says Sen. Duffy"

Hey, Barry ! have a look before your house votes.

“We have become increasingly concerned that EPA and many other agencies and countries have paid too little attention to the science of global warming. EPA and others have tended to accept the findings reached by outside groups…as being correct without a careful and critical examination of their conclusions and documentation.” CEI

[Breaking late tonight, CEI has released the draft version of the censored study that the EPA doesn’t want you to see. You can read the entire 98-page document here.] Malkin

http://cei.org/news-release/2009/06/25/cei-releases-global-warming-study-censored-epa

[Washington, D.C., June 26, 2009—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is today making public an internal study on climate science which was suppressed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Internal EPA email messages, released by CEI earlier in the week, indicate that the report was kept under wraps and its author silenced because of pressure to support the Administration’s agenda of regulating carbon dioxide.

The report finds that EPA, by adopting the United Nations’ 2007 “Fourth Assessment” report, is relying on outdated research and is ignoring major new developments. Those developments include a continued decline in global temperatures, a new consensus that future hurricanes will not be more frequent or intense, and new findings that water vapor will moderate, rather than exacerbate, temperature.

New data also indicate that ocean cycles are probably the most important single factor in explaining temperature fluctuations, though solar cycles may play a role as well, and that reliable satellite data undercut the likelihood of endangerment from greenhouse gases. All of this demonstrates EPA should independently analyze the science, rather than just adopt the conclusions of outside organizations.] CEI

"The Iranian Election and the Revolution Test"
An interesting Stratfor article analysing the Iranian uprising

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090622_iranian_election_and_revolution_test

Rich: see here for the discussion at SDA.

Found this at Hot Air
Cap and Trade must be stopped...

Repost…

I just spent the last several hours going over the “300 page amendment”

I’m a half-arsed speed reader, and even being an ol’ man with limited mental abilities, I can tell you that this “amendment” would put contractors and builders out of business, if enacted and enforced, will make individual home ownership a thing of the past. Even if you went all out to comply with their “green” requirements, and had unlimited funds and could actually get a loan to build a new house, informing the lender (which you most likely wouldn’t have to) that you intended to build to the new “green” code in this amendment, you couldn’t build a house with one room for less than you would now pay for a three bedroom home.

Can you build a new home or anything else and not comply with this new “Green” code? Without a law degree and reading it again with others, I can’t say for sure. But it appears at first glance you could, but would be open for ligation and of course no taxpayer money for any credits or tax breaks and with possible fines and other penalties.

That is not counting the restrictions on where you can build, how you obtain your electricity, water, gas and access to your property. Which if you have to go by the new laws and restrictions on this new amendment, you couldn’t build an outhouse, let alone a residence.

I’m going to bet that this amendment has been months in the making and has just been waiting for the right time to be tacked on to something that the powers in charge think has a chance of passing. I’m also going to state that no one other than the staffers and those that instigated the bill have any idea what is in it, let alone read or considered what is in the bill.

Of course the bill that this amendment is attached to is even more dangerous and will have a disastrous effect on our Nation. So…what are we going to do about it?

I’m going to stay home today and send dozens of e-mails, make dozens of phone calls and demand that my friends all do the same.

What are you going to do???

Papa Ray
West Texas

Papa Ray on June 26, 2009 at 11:12 AM

Papa Ray on June 26, 2009 at 12:03 PM

Paging Canadian Louise Arbour, "top UN human rights watchdog*".
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"Uganda: Human Rights Body Wants Death Sentence for Perpertrators(sic) of Torture

Kampala — Uganda Human Rights commission is advocating for the Death sentence as an extreme penalty to perpetrators of Torture.

The demand is made on the eve of the UN International Day against Torture, its part of a campaign to eradicate torture and on Humanity."
http://allafrica.com/stories/200906260793.html
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*Canada has squandered international goodwill: Louise Arbour
3 Jun 2009 ... One of the world's leading human-rights experts says Canada has ... Louise Arbour, former Supreme Court justice and United Nations high ... Canadian Supreme Court Justice and top UN human rights watchdog, Arbour said she ...
www.canada.com/Canada...Louise+Arbour/.../story.html?id

Vitruvius and everyone else.
Sorry for duplicating that which had already been posted. Thanks for the heads up.
In the future, I'll try to do a better job of 'keeping-up' before posting.

No apologies necessary, Rich. Do check out
Mr. Friedman's essay from the week before,
too, available at the link I posted supra.

"Cash injection" didn't work?
Obviously, more cash is needed*.
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"Little change in survival rates despite cancer spending plan

Cash injection has failed to have impact, study shows"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/mar/20/cancer-survival-rates-no-impact
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*Seaway News > Local News > Daffodil Month
This April, Canadian Cancer Society volunteers will be knocking on doors in our ... Since the first Daffodil Month campaign more than 50 years ago, ...
www.cornwallseawaynews.com/article-318671-Daffodil-Month.html

Jackson: Gnostic and Androgyne.

“… “androgyny is one the most basic Gnostic myths, where male and female are merged in a single being.””

““Ribera” adds that the Gnostic schedule of destruction necessarily includes “any ethnic or sexual differentiation.” Yes – because such differentiation is a structure in reality that the Gnostic experiences as an intolerable because limiting imposition. “Ribera” sees in this nihilistic propensity the roots of the promotion of “immigration in western countries” and of the similar promotion of “homosexuality” and other powerfully non-normative behaviors. He points out that “androgyny is one the most basic Gnostic myths, where male and female are merged in a single being.” Interested readers will find abundant confirmation of this point in any of the standard works on Gnosticism – in Hans Jonas’ Gnostic Religion, for example, and in Kurt Rudolph’s Gnosis. Some apologists for Gnosticism, like Elaine Pagels, have praised the Gnostics for their promotion of the Androgyne, evaluating Gnosticism as superior to Gospel Christianity on the basis of the concept.”
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“Two Readers Reply to Borges, Blixen, and Voegelin”
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3983

TO is a third-world city.
Spare no tears for TO.

The natural end result of socialism here:

“Toronto’s Canada Day celebrations cancelled

It’s appears Canada Day is going to be a big fizzle in many parts of Toronto, with festivals, celebrations — even the city-sponsored fireworks display — cancelled.”

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2009/06/26/toronto-cancellations.html

Joe Molnar mentioned the American frog on the EPA/AGW Scam thread.
Bufo bufo is fine. Frog's Legs are goody with unsalted butter + sea salt in a hot frying pan. Mmmmm .....

Never have eaten toad legs, though.

And, "Scientists think".
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"Legless frogs mystery solved
Matt Walker
Editor, Earth News

Deformed Common toads (Bufo bufo) each with a hind leg missing
Deformed toads, each a product of 'selective predation'

Scientists think they have resolved one of the most controversial environmental issues of the past decade: the curious case of the missing frogs' legs."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8116000/8116692.stm

Re: "I sense that Quebec is going into a quiet decline"

40-50 years after the Quiet Revolution, it's the Quiet Decline?

Seriously, the whole western world seems to be going into decline (the fully socialist world is permanently there) because of the growth of taxes, regulation and Big Government generally (featuring reams of unproductive bureaucrats). The populace is anaesthetized like lobsters in a pot, to pilfer a famous phrase.