Don't you just love multiculturalism - An Afghan bill allowing a husband to starve his wife if she refuses to have sex has been published in the official gazette and become law

Putting the die into dieting...

Can somebody more sensitively attuned to the joys of non-judgmental multi-culturalism please put this into perspective for the rest of us?

Why do you believe anything from the BBC?

I'm still working on the sound of one hand clapping, Vesuvius.

I simply asked a question. Why do you like to answer a question with another question?

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Is the above statement still operative?

Vitruvius you've got some great music in you collection there. In my humble opinion I think you could use some real dirty blues. The real thing.
Like this. Honest, loud and simple.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RA8NyvzIWk

If this guy sounds familiar it's because George Thorogood used to work as his chauffeur before he became a star. Carried on the tradition.

For every Canadian who thinks they are superior to Americans, the great Stephen Fry sets you straight... well, as much as he can.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X3IJklxYy0&feature=PlayList&p=C5E14015A63C898E&index=0

Alan Caruba notes President Obama's rapidly shrinking approval ratings, and deploys some choice words to explain why Obama is becoming "Mr. Unpopular"

[Trivia: Alan Caruba was behind the "Boring Institute," which rated politicians and other public figures on how boring they were. It created a splash when started in 1984.]

Thanks gord. Damn those dudes can play!

Kaaaaaaate!?

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090816/car_tipping_090816/20090816?hub=TopStories

...oh and you're into Yello?!? Wow...who knew?

Gord,
Darcey @ www.dustmybroom.com has the entire blues market virtually wrapped up, it's really hard to make any headway in there.
It's probably a cartel or some sort... ;) I'm just sayin'

scroll down his left side a bit, "Friday Night Blues" where it states "past episodes", and he takes a beer or 3 out for a test run each friday as well... it's good, and he's an honest broker of beer opinions to boot.

Final game in an over 35 Oldtimers tournament. Up against a tough, dirty team. Down 4 goals to zip. Goalie fires this up as we tighten our skates for the last period:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7VsoxT_FUY

Inspired a bunch of 40+ has -beens to send that real dirty team home with long faces.

Gord - I vote for "real dirty blues" too.
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Daniel M Ryan. Thanks for the link. I particularily like this couple of sentences...

"Every single president since Eisenhower has fared better than the boy wonder, the One, the Messiah, Barack Hussein Obama.

Why? Because he's an idiot and because he has no plan, no program, nothing more than a bunch of Chicago-style political tactics and a lot of socialist mush between his big ears."

Our Lady of the Cliches: Tequila Sheila Copps.

MSM pays for this*?
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"I couldn't believe my eyes".

"The Citizen headline screamed".

"it makes perfect sense".

"trotted out".

"These dynamic women".

"The rest is history."
Etcetcetc ...
*urlm.in/cxfh

Icebergs? Where?

Goreacle's AGWarmers told us the icebergs have melted away and the polar bears are dwindling down to a precious few.

Someone please fact-check this report, please. RSVP.

"HMCS Toronto and the Canadian Coast Guard ship Pierre Radisson, which are participating in Operation Nanook, sail past an iceberg in the Hudson Strait off the coast of Baffin Island. (DND/Canadian Press)"
...-

"Harper to attend Arctic exercise"
urlm.in/cxfi

Over 1/3 of American homes are underwater in their mortgages... negative net equity. On top of this, the next foreclosure tsunami is coming ashore right about now. There is no way US banks are well enough capitalized for this.

Is there nothing that The Messiah cannot do?

MSM uses "slams" frequently.

Here is the left-socialist Guardian from Little Britain:

Socialist-fascist Guardian slams O'fascist-sOcialist.
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"For I despair of the Obama administration's ability to fix this financial crisis and prevent future ones. I am appalled by the dangers it has been creating and its takeover by the same economic establishment responsible for this crisis.

Be careful, too, of the so-called science of economics. Economists have been no better in their predictions than cab drivers. Now it is continuing with the build-up of government deficit and an increased reliance on flimsy forecasts by the Obama administration.

Depression would have been warned against debt and been better prepared than Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan, respectively chairman and former chairman of America's Federal Reserve.

The best blueprint is the very opposite of the Obama administration's economic policies (its foreign policy is commendable). It has been administering pain-killers without addressing the cause of disease. Obama is strengthening those who do the wrong thing.

Take the "cash for clunkers" programme. It is a handout to those who bought the wrong – uneconomic – car.The rich who got us here are being rescued by regular Joes and being subsidised by the tax system.

Obama is giving the large institutions that failed us, like the IMF and the World Bank, even more powers."

"Cameron dare not copy Obama's disastrous economic policies"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2317918/posts

Maybe "apartheid" should be a goal

DJ beaten for shaking up Bedouin wedding in Israel

JERUSALEM (AFP) - A DJ hired to spin tunes at a Bedouin wedding in Israel was beaten up for playing Western music which some guests felt encouraged lewdness in the women, the Maariv daily reported on Monday.

The DJ initially put on Arabic tunes for the hundreds of guests attending the event in Aroer village in Israel's Negev desert region.

At one point, he decided to stir things up and put on a song by the British electronic music duo Pet Shop Boys, causing some women to "dance exuberantly to the foreign music," angering some of the men present, the daily said.

"The fact that women were dancing at the wedding goes against tradition and is a dishonour to their husbands," it quoted one guest as saying.

Several angry young men gave the DJ a "severe beating" after he refused to go back to playing Arabic music. Police later arrested two men in connection with the incident.

If you are a Conservative
You are a Harperite now, This from the article in the Toronto Star

"How Harperites are damaging our citizenship"
Haroon Siddiqui Aug 16/09

several incidents of canadians stranded abroad, the stephen harper government has alot to answer for: Is it racist? Anti-Muslim? Too ideological?
Prone to micromanagement? or just plain imcompetant?
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O'Rovian O'Narcissist* "had" them hooked. O reeled them in. Suckers.

Now is the summer of their discontent**.
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>>> "The Obama Administration : What Went Wrong

We are witnessing one of the more rapid turnabouts in recent American political history.

President Obama’s popularity has plummeted to 50 percent and lower in some polls, while the public expresses even less confidence in the Democratic-led Congress and the direction of the country at large. Yet, just eight months ago, liberals were talking in Rovian style about a new generation to come of progressive politics — and the end of both the Republican party and the legacy of Reaganism itself. Barack Obama was to be the new FDR and his radical agenda an even better New Deal.

What happened, other than the usual hubris of the party in power?

First, voters had legitimate worries about health care, global warming, immigration, energy, and inefficient government. But it turns out that they are more anxious about the new radical remedies than the old nagging problems. They wanted federal support for wind and solar, but not at the expense of neglecting new sources of gas, oil, coal, and nuclear power. They were worried about high-cost health care, the uninsured, redundant procedures, and tort reform, but not ready for socialized medicine. They wanted better government, not bigger, DMV-style government. There is a growing realization that Obama enticed voters last summer with the flashy lure of discontent. But now that they are hooked, he is reeling them in to an entirely different — and, for many a frightening — agenda. Nothing is worse for a president than a growing belief among the public that it has been had."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2317957/posts

*O'Narcissist: The hooker and the hookees.

"The "small people", the "rank and file", the "loyal soldiers" of the narcissist - his flock, his nation, his employees - they pay the price.

The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing. The process of reconstruction, of rising from the ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and manipulated - is drawn-out. It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the erstwhile followers of the narcissist.

This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder."
http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections
(**H/T WS)

marc in calgary. Thanks for the Link. I'm downloading a couple past shows to give them a listen. Looks like a good site.

Although you really can't go wrong with beer and blues. Unless you work for CBC. Then you could really mess things up.

And Bull. You just have to love Hound Dog Taylor. Loud and proud. No pretensions. Killer tone.

Conservatives Now Outnumber Liberals in All 50 States, Says Gallup Poll

...and remember that liberals self-identify at higher rates than conservatives so these numbers are, ah, conservative.

We'll see who's crying into their latte's in 2010.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/52602

http://economicedge.blogspot.com/2009/02/martin-armstrongs-latest-from-behind.html

I was curious about Martin Armstrong and his contraversial theories concerning the stock markets. The above blog is a very good read. Wikipedia did a sparse bio on him but just before I clicked out, I saw the last sentence "Sonia Sottenmeyor was reported to have been one of the panel judges who heard his appeal" wow. great fuel for a conspiracy theorist's fire! ha! ~kinda gave me chills!!

Check out this guy (good say-it-like-it-is Yorkshire stock) whom I just saw being interviewed on Charlie Rose: eminent physicist Freeman Dyson.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html?pagewanted=3

Excerpt from article:

Dyson has always been strongly opposed to the idea that there is any such thing as an optimal ecosystem — “life is always changing” — and he abhors the notion that men and women are something apart from nature, that “we must apologize for being human.” Humans, he says, have a duty to restructure nature for their survival.

All this may explain why the same man could write “we live on a shrinking and vulnerable planet which our lack of foresight is rapidly turning into a slum” and yet gently chide the sort of Americans who march against coal in Washington. Dyson has great affection for coal and for one big reason: It is so inexpensive that most of the world can afford it.

“There’s a lot of truth to the statement Greens are people who never had to worry about their grocery bills,” he says. ...

Red Alert: Arab Muslim on the lam.

If you see him, give him $50* for an exit visa.
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"Ottawa police issue warrant for Saudi diplomat"
urlm.in/cxhe

*"Hussein Adani said the last time he was in Kenya, he had to bribe immigrant officials with $50 to get out of the country, even though he had a valid Canadian passport."
(cbc)