BlazingCatFur describes his 84 year-old mother's experience with the Canadian health care system at Toronto General -- 18 hours in a public corridor, having to undress in that public corridor, that sort of thing:

http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2009/08/tgh-toronto-generally-hopeless.html

Americans, take special note.

Thanks, EBD. 'Takes me back to geodesic domes, log cabins, tepees, my perfect garden ... and a few other things!

Where're my dancin' shoes, my shawl, and my long skirt?

Only brothers can sing harmony like this.
The Louvin Brothers did it best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkUfv3DoRSw

Wow, you really have batb, batb. I always pictured you in a wimple. A stylish, jaunty wimple. And carrying heat.

For those of you who feel Ted Kennedy is getting a raw deal from some of the posters here I give you some blues to ease your pain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ0quaWNz0Q&NR=1

EBD: " ... a stylish, jaunty wimple ... " What a hoot!

An interesting poll that is going wrong for the socialists coalition.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2009/08/25/10602146-cp.html

Joel @ PTBC has commented on the media hovering over Layton, suggesting he will 'dump (Prime Minister) Harper.

Forever will I think of August 26 As Ted Kennedys Pineapple day!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZQw6KuNKqs

Again?

Is Germany’s Charlemagne About to Appear?

“As I write this article, Germany is just weeks from electing a new chancellor. That election and events to unfold from it are going to bring devastating consequences to this world. A dangerous political structure has been built in the European Union, and it’s about to get a lot worse. History thunders its strongest warning ever! It’s time that people understood that history.”

link...

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=6472.4946.0.0

Another blog mentioned that CBC news was not using Mary Jo Kopechne's name in their background and interviews on Edward Kennedy's death. I tuned in and she is referred to as a young woman or a campaign worker.

http://e360.yale.edu/content/digest.msp?id=2022

Lawsuit Re:EPA Global warming

Nicola As It Happens mentioned her name but I don't consider that program CBC. The website however was editing heavily all day. It became an exercise in annoying the moderator after a while. I did my best.

I've always thought the town hall protesters were stand-up folks. Science has proven me right:

"Research showed that those who took personal insults while upright exhibited brain activity linked to attacking but this urge disappeared when they took the same insults lying down."

Cash on the Barrel Head kind of reminds me of the Blue Grass stuff coming out of Wheeling, West Virginia. Thanks for Hickory Wind.

Bernie, if this is so,lets' hope that this time whoever it is is on our side, as heaven knows that liberals will not do anything but cave in to the threat that is hanging over Europe.

" Survivors of a 1972 plane crash who resorted to cannibalism to stay alive are urging fellow Uruguayans to sign up for a government-run organ donation program."

via barcepundit-english.blogspot.com

FARK.. Peta wants a lighthouse on Lake Michigan for a 'fish empathy center'. Good times.

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090819/METRO/908190342/-1/ARCHIVE/PETA-wants-Grand-Haven-lighthouses-for-fish-empathy-center

A nice follow-up to the post on the vandalism by the Democratic worker:

http://blogs.denverpost.com/opinion/2009/08/26/why-did-the-kid-break-the-dem%e2%80%99s-windows/

“It would be the science of climate change on trial.”

US Chamber of Commerce calls for trial on global warming...
http://wp.me/pXWI-D6

Quick, who said this:

The problems of our economy have occurred not as an outgrowth of laissez-faire, unbridled competition. They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the umbrella of federal regulations.

Surprise, surprise!

http://blog.american.com/?p=4328

More coverage of Camelot:

Will Ted Kennedy Ever Become President?

H/T Fa Cube Itches over at Aces

The National Post reported today that Fidel Castro claims that the U. S. right wing hates Barack Obama because the latter is black.

More correctly, the U. S. right wing hates Fidel Castro because he's a psychopathic life-hating mass-murdering gasbag who should have been given the Ceausescu Treatment decades ago.

Also in the Post was a letter from a woman with a masters in bioethics arguing against the use of medicare money to pay for in vitro fertilization efforts for childless couples. In vitro is not part of the treatment protocol of a malfunctioning organ, she writes, and a couple's sorrow at the inability to conceive does not justify use of tax dollars.

All of this is a reasonable point of view. But the thought that came to my mind was: then why do sex-change operations get public funding? Are they part of the "treatment protocol" of a malfunctioning part of one's brain that deals with sexual identity? Does "sorrow" over thinking oneself to be the wrong sex require other people to help you do something about it? Just wondering.

Neither in vitro nor sex changes sound "medically necessary" to me.

Phillip G.Shaw at August 26, 2009 11:10 PM.
& unclemeat.

Thanks for the heads up. My prayer may have been answered for the AGW stench to be aired out in a public
court.
I Hope this will Change the electorate of the USA forever.

Obama's accounting schmucks

The Ultimate Jew
Jackie Mason

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108046

How Europeans keep infant mortality rates nearly 50% lower than the USA

“ WHO statistics show the U.S. lagging behind France in infant mortality rates — 6.7 per 1,000 live births vs. 3.8 for France. - in the U.S., any infant born that shows any sign of life for any length of time is considered a live birth. - in most of the European Union — any baby born before 26 weeks' gestation is not considered alive and therefore doesn't "count" in reported infant mortality rates.”

http://tinyurl.com/nt6c6v

"Neither in vitro nor sex changes sound "medically necessary" to me."

Posted by: nv53 at August 27, 2009 2:54 AM

Some of us object to being forced to pay with our tax dollars to snuff 'fetuses' (abortion) at Morgenthaler abortiums and even hospitals.
A hundred thousand 'snuffs' yearly, in Canada.

Perhaps the snuffers and the in vitro crowd should get together, eh?

Personally, regarding nv53's 2:54 AM comment, I would suggest that any medical procedure that increases the birth rate (i.e. creating more taxpayers) of such a low birthrate country would be a good thing to cover.

Abortion and sex change operations wouldn't fit that perspective. Pregnancy is not an illness or a health problem, though complications typically arising from childbirth are a health problem. Therefore, "treating" pregnancy via abortion should NOT be covered by tax dollars.

Re: sex changes, the "illness" will not be "cured" by performing the sex change operation, therefore it shouldn't be funded either.

But, logic never enters the equation when a politician's use of public funds is concerned.

Sigh.

Don Martin thinks that the PM has sunk to a new low in his article

PM's patronage sinks to new lows
don martin - calgary herald aug 27/09

Hmmm lets think about that don, Thats like calling the kettle black when we have seen the liberals Stack the Senate over the yrs with patronage appt's so that the advantage is to the Liberals, fair play is fair play.

Tell Jane Taber how Canadians really feel about Ted Kennedy. You have to register to comment, but it's probably worth it...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/the-end-of-consensus/article1266022/

Lev @ 1220
You know what they say about a broken clock...

By the way, you're allowed to vote on the comments without registering....

Next time you are denied an authorization to carry on the grounds that police protection is sufficient, use this article:

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=1933727

Not using clickable links anymore as they take way too long to get approved. Sorry, folks!

"Caspar and the Jesus paper
August 11, 2008

There has been the most extraordinary series of postings at Climate Audit over the last week. As is usual at CA, there is a heavy mathematics burden for the casual reader, which, with a bit of research I think I can now just about follow. The story is a remarkable indictment of the corruption and cyncism that is rife among climate scientists, and I'm going to try to tell it in layman's language so that the average blog reader can understand it. As far as I know it's the first time the whole story has been set out in a single posting. It's a long tale - and the longest posting I think I've ever written and piecing it together from the individual CA postings has been a long, hard but fascinating struggle. You may want to get a long drink before starting, and those who suffer from heart disorders may wish to take their beta blockers first.

At some time or another, most people will have seen the hockey stick - the iconic graph which purports to show that after centuries of stable temperatures, the second half of the twentieth century saw a sudden and unprecedented warming of the globe. This was caused, we were told, by mankind burning fossil fuels and releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. For a while, the hockey stick was everywhere - unimpeachable evidence that mankind was damaging the planet - an impact that would require drastic measures to reverse. The stick's most famous outing however was just a couple of years ago when it made a headlining appearance in Al Gore's drama-documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. The revelation of the long, thin graph with its dramatic temperature rise in the last few decades, and the audience gasps that accompanied it, is something of a key moment for many environmentalists.

Shortly after its publication, the hockey stick and its main author, Michael Mann, came under attack from Steve McIntyre, a retired statistician from Canada. In a series of scientific papers and later on his blog, Climate Audit, McIntyre took issue with the novel statistical procedures used by the hockey stick's authors. He was able to demonstrate that the way they had extracted the temperature signal from the tree ring records was biased so as to choose hockey-stick shaped graphs in preference to other shapes, and criticised Mann for not publishing the cross validation R2, a statistical measure of how well the temperature reconstruction correlated with actual temperature records. He also showed that the appearance of the graph was due solely to the use of an estimate of historic temperatures based on tree rings from bristlecone pines, a species that was known to be problematic for this kind of reconstruction.

The controversy raged for several years, involving blue riband panels, innumerable blog postings, endless name-calling and dark insinuations about motivations and conflicts of interest. In May 2005, at the height of the controversy, and on the very day that McIntyre was making a rare public appearance in Washington to discuss his findings, two Mann associates, Caspar Amman and Eugene Wahl, issued a press release in which they claimed that they had submitted two manuscripts for publication, which together showed that they had replicated the hockey stick exactly, confirmed its statistical underpinnings and demonstrated that McIntyre's criticisms were baseless. This was trumpeted as independent confirmation of the hockey stick. A few eyebrows were raised at the dubious practice of using a press release to announce scientific findings." (More)
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2008/8/11/caspar-and-the-jesus-paper.html

Don martin and Jane Taber would be referred to by Bernard Goldberg as "slobbering" journalists.
Martin and Taber, both slobbering for political leftists.

Kennedy in life was a coward hiding behind wealth and position in his involvement in the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne.
It would be interesting if he ever confessed to his priest.
MSM slobbering over a coward, eh Jane?

Don Martin's still pissed that the tax payers don't pick up his bar tab anymore.

"Ted Kennedy: The Senator of Sleaze who was a drunk sexual bully... and left a young woman to die

[Note: This is a lengthy, blunt, factually correct obituary of Ted written by a liberal British newspaper. It is also another perfect example of foreigners doing jobs Americans won't touch.]

Senator Edward 'Ted' Kennedy stood for sleaze. Bloated and drunken, he used his standing in the Kennedy clan to chase vulnerable women - which brought his dream of reaching the White House to a shameful end.

He was the youngest of the four Kennedy brothers, and by far the longest lived.

[Snip]

As he entered the Senate, Kennedy was admired for his commanding 6ft 2in stature and the good looks that seemed a family blessing. But he was already drinking and womanising with the greed that has become known as a vice of Kennedy men.

Keeping such a vice under wraps seemed to run in the blood (as did charisma). His father, Joe, the patriarch who had got away with bootlegging in the Prohibition years to establish the family fortune, had also behaved that way.

While Ted drank and took advantage of compliant women in Washington, his wife Joan stayed at home in Boston to look after his three children. Like her sister-in-law Jacqui, she seemed to have learned that Kennedy women had to put up with humiliation.

The effort ruined her health, however. Kennedy's unending philandering turned her into an alcoholic and, in 1983, she could take no more.

She could no longer stand the hypocrisy of her husband posing for the public as if he lived for family values. She divorced, publicly confessed to her alcoholism and helped shatter what was left of the Kennedy aura."
(Link here):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2325641/posts

CTV has an on-line poll on dead Ted Kennedy that you all might find interesting.

Dear right wing people.
I'm new to this--I was given this address by "Joe Citizen," a friend of mine--very outspoken--but honest guy.

I wrote a letter to the editor in today's Western Producer, a "left leaning" Saskatoon farm paper. My letter appeared as "Standard Stuff-Opinion/Open Forum Aug. 27 issue.

In my letter, I was trying to elaborate on the importance of the Society of Automotive Engineers, as well as Ag. Engineers who once worked hard at standardizing nuts, bolts, batteries, fan belts, headlamps, bulbs, etc. in the farm and auto industry. For example, a battery from a 66 Chevy car or pickup could be used in many farm tractors--Massey Ferguson etc..
Today, it's not uncommon to find three or four different types of bolts, (Metric, SAE., etc.) on one truck, car or tractor.
"Obama the Wise one" has overlooked an important detail. When he was giving welfare money to GM and Ford, he should have included a clause that the welfare cars be assembled with standard SAE nuts and bolts. Maybe then the Americans (and Canucks) would have been encouraged to buy North American vehicles.

I want to mention that part of my WP letter was edited, the part about standard batteries, nuts bolts etc. The Western Producer is a good paper, however the editors are sometines short sighted. However, my point did get across. And by the way. I love my Crescent wrench.

Thank you for letting me write this. I see interesinng stories on this site. I'll be back.

Dear right wing people.
I'm new to this--I was given this address by "Joe Citizen," a friend of mine--very outspoken--but honest guy.

I wrote a letter to the editor in today's Western Producer, a "left leaning" Saskatoon farm paper. My letter appeared as "Standard Stuff-Opinion/Open Forum Aug. 27 issue.

In my letter, I was trying to elaborate on the importance of the Society of Automotive Engineers, as well as Ag. Engineers who once worked hard at standardizing nuts, bolts, batteries, fan belts, headlamps, bulbs, etc. in the farm and auto industry. For example, a battery from a 66 Chevy car or pickup could be used in many farm tractors--Massey Ferguson etc..
Today, it's not uncommon to find three or four different types of bolts, (Metric, SAE., etc.) on one truck, car or tractor.
"Obama the Wise one" has overlooked an important detail. When he was giving welfare money to GM and Ford, he should have included a clause that the welfare cars be assembled with standard SAE nuts and bolts. Maybe then the Americans (and Canucks) would have been encouraged to buy North American vehicles.

I want to mention that part of my WP letter was edited, the part about standard batteries, nuts bolts etc. The Western Producer is a good paper, however the editors are sometines short sighted. However, my point did get across. And by the way. I love my Crescent wrench.

Thank you for letting me write this. I see interesting stories on this site. I'll be back.

CBCpravda at it again, implying that transport canada tortures folks not that it has a safety section about cold.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/08/27/cia-interrogation-transport-canada-cold-water841.html

Mr Harper , take down this network!

CBCpravda , All Liberal All the time.

Vit, you must "dig up" something by the long lost punk band, "The Dead Kennedys"

Danggit Vitivirus and Kate, I just spent the last 3 hours on youtube with Graham, EmmyLou, Crosy, Richard and the Byrds, then jumped over to the Mommas and the Poppas.

All I really want to do, is Baby be friends with you, LOL.

I won't get that song out of head for the rest of the day.

a different bob: "CTV has an on-line poll on dead Ted Kennedy that you all might find interesting."

A link would be helpful. I just went to ctv.ca and found a poll on the use of privacy settings on Facebook (was surprised to discover that, like me, a majority of respondents don't "do" Facebook: I thought "everyone" did ...) but none on Ted Kennedy.

Have they removed it or did I just not locate it?

Maybe they know something she doesn't;)
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090827/ENT_madonna_gypsies_090827/20090827?hub=Entertainment

batb...click 'results' in the facebook poll. It will open the page with previous polls.
The Kennedy one reveals what a great job the media has done for Canadians that follow CTV.

batb, click on view results and the next page will display a list of all recent polls. The "dead" kennedy poll is closed now with a majority of the brain dead saying teddy will be remembered for his achievments. I of course will forever remember dear teddy as a fat, bulling, coward who left a young woman to suffocate in shallow pond.

Sorry bluetech guess I should hit refresh more often;)

Here is a real winner from Gordon Brown's UK!

"Americans are heading home as Britain plans a 50 percent tax rate for those who earn more than 150,000 pounds ($248,000) a year and employers cut benefits for workers living abroad, reducing the allure of London. That comes a year after the U.K. said foreigners who have lived in the country for more than seven years must pay 30,000 pounds annually or give up the special status that shields overseas income from British taxes."

Pay 30,000 pounds annually instead of paying taxes on income that is already taxed in another country?

Would that not be a "tax"?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=alNiweY01.Mk

wooden rock , wooden shoes , wouldnt listen

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090827/moon_rock_090827/20090827?hub=TopStories

Is that a wind farm, or a tornado? Doppler radar often cannot tell the difference.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/131364/

bluetech and anon, thanks for the tech tip!

Stop the presses ---http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/08/27/may-green-leader-leaving-nova-scotia.html --- Lizzie has announced that she will not be running in the same riding again !!!! She has yet to announce where she will attempt to win,but has narrowed it down to " definetly west of Nova Scotia". I would suggest that she find one where the libs,ndp,and conservatives do not plan to run a candidate.There she would have a fighting chance.

YES! Gary Doer steps down! Now, maybe Manitoba can reclaim its right place as "Next to the armpit of Canada" instead of being the aforementioned pit.

YG...you should talk about Saskatchewan that way!

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Liberals won't topple Tories over EI , just reported. (No big surprise I guess)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/liberals-wont-topple-tories-over-ei/article1267252/