Alan Caruba puts the D.C. Tea Party protest in historical context, and is glad to report that it was a much bigger draw than the antiwar marches Bush faced.

"The fine art of American protest"

Ah, Bernstein! I guess he was good at what he did,
except when he was throwing cocktail parties for the Black Panthers and other radical black groups.
It was pretty much a waste of time anyways, considering most of them were anti-Semites. Sorry about the negativity; the music is well arranged and conducted.

After reading all the posts everywhere today about the 9/12 gatherings all I can say is....

"THE SILENT MAJORITY FINALLY SAID SOMETHING".

Another myth is destroyed!!

The ACORN undercover films show a white "prostitute" and her "pimp" getting eager advice and support from ACORN staff on how to set up a brothel and to import underage South American girls while evading U.S. authorities and the IRS.

It is clear that the ACORN staff doesn't have any racist or protectionist sentiments. They stand ready to support a white bi*ch setting up shop with foreign talent to compete in the hood with local homegrown hos.

Proof that the American left is neither protectionist or racist!!!

Anyone else wish to weigh in on this discussion?
http://www.albertalocalnews.com/reddeeradvocate/opinion/So_what_if_CIA_tortured_suspects_56603122.html

Has anyone seen CBC.Ca and latest Liberal ploy?

They've suddenly taken a mailicious stance against the west, and the tarsands. Of course the story is not about the tarsands. it's about spewing hatred against the west and turning Ontario and Quebec Liberal.

Check out the headline: Oilsands emit more than entire countries. (At CBC.Ca.)

Pretty sad game today. While the riders look pretty good, part of the score was due to so many bad turnovers by the bombers.

I think I may have to move. Or get a paper bag like many bomber fans.

Re: Cbc.Ca attack on tarsands.

If you read the headline carefully, Liechtenstein is only 62 square miles, and has 35,000 people. Never trust a Liberal, or the CBC.

whereas if you count how many bowls of rice one can provide, at the same cost of the CBC subsidy, ... well now we're talking big numbers.
instead, we're fed horse shit from the CBC.
If the CBC were serious about its causes, we can be certain they'd stop accepting the federal government handout, and instead send that money directly to those who are underfed... ok, maybe I'm wrong.

This column discusses something I have been talking up fir about a year now. But it is the source that is remarkable. Our enemies are starting to catch on I think. Expect things to get desparate on their side in the next few years as their chance slips away.

http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/694585

Interesting article by Howard kurtz on beck and the MSM.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/13/AR2009091302573_2.html?hpid=topnews

I was saying the other day that "democratization" is an anti-concept that the leftists use to try to bring political control to activities that don't belong under it. For example, the Wheat Board: farmers shouldn't have to put their grains under "democratic" control, either of the government or other farmers. It's their own property, but today their rights are violated.

So along comes Rick Salutin in Friday's Globe to prove my point. But he starts off with another anti-concept, when he says, "What are we - shoppers or citizens?" Often the issue is phrased as a dichotomy between "consumer" and "citizen", but this is close enough. In reality there is only the individual, and he would like to live his life in freedom, without having to deal with politics any more than he has to. A "citizen", as the term is used by people like Salutin and John Ralston Saul, means "a person who, when the government says 'Jump', answers 'How high'".

Anyway, Salutin says with obvious disapproval, "Under our system, politics more or less equals elections, so you could call frequent elections our form of participatory democracy. ... Under a stable majority, everyone goes to sleep for four years". Again, people have lives to live without having to think about "participating" daily in decisions involving 33 million people. That's why we elect representatives. Whether or not they do a good job is another matter, of course. "Democracy" is precisely a means of electing a government, and nothing more.

He concludes thus: "we should vote for those ready to expand the arena of democratic participation so that we need not shoehorn the entire human political drive into the narrowness of elections". This plays directly into the hands of those who want to push people around - like "community organizers", for example.

What we really need is much smaller government, limited to protecting individual rights, and the much lower taxes that would go along with it.

Also on Friday was a Star column by Antonia Zerbisias in which she trashes PM Harper's proper decision to scrap the Court Challenges Program.

She says that last week the PM made a closed-door speech in the Sault in which he said that "women's rights are 'left-wing fringe' rights". The reality is that women should have pretty much the same rights as men. But the left-wingers would like them to be "more equal than others".

She voices objections to R.E.A.L. Women, an anti-feminist women's group, without mentioning that the amount of government money it has received over the years compared to activist left-wing women's groups is a very small fraction.

She notes the CCP was designed to fund court cases that "advance language and equality rights guaranteed under Canada's constitution". The problem is that language and equality rights are so ill-defined as to be meaningless. It's bad enough that the Supreme Court has to "make up law", let alone the fanatic and amateur bullies at the Human Rights Commissions.

She specifically mentions the Keegstra case of 1990, "which kept a Holocaust denier from teaching his anti-Semitic ideas to Alberta schoolchildren". No one objects to stopping him from doing that, and he was rightly fired (although the school board should have done the job). The problem we have is that he went to jail merely for expressing an opinion, thanks to the shallow mind of then-chief justice Brian Dickson, who had absolutely no clue what "freedom of expression" meant or where it came from and why.

She also mentions the Brooks v. Safeway case of 1989, "which forced employers not to discriminate against pregnant staffers". That's not quite right: the staffers were ineligible for health benefits only for a 17-week period around the birth (10 before, 7 after). The exclusion also applied to ailments unrelated to the pregnancy. The result of the ruling, whatever its merits, would be to increase the costs of the coverage.

Finally, she objects to an apparent Harper comment, "imagine how many left-wing ideologues [a Liberal government] would be putting in the courts". The courts are full of left-wing ideologues already, to the detriment of the country. You can read practically any Supreme Court judgment going back to the 1980s to see ample evidence of this.

Saskatoon $50-million library expansion:
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Library+designs+expansion/1986492/story.html

I bet less than a thousand people use this library.

The glorious MSM, hard at work yet again. :-(

First-Ever Find: Temple Menorah Relief by Jewish Eyewitness

by Gil Ronen

(IsraelNN.com) The Israel Antiquities Authority has uncovered one of the world's oldest synagogues in an excavation at Migdal, near the Sea of Galilee (Kinneret).

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133388

Allen, I feel your pain. The Bombers bombed big time, just like my Houston Texans.

MH "I bet less than a thousand people use this library." -- Not so, they are BIG library users in Saskatoon.

"The United States has entered a crisis."

"When Fantasy is Fatal

We all live in two worlds. One is the real world, the objective world, and the other world is inside of us: the world where sensory data is received and processed, where experiences are sorted, where thoughts and dreams swirl, where imagination reigns and reality is interpretted. While we are drawn by our senses to what is real, we are drawn by hopes and desires to what is imaginary.

Over 100 years ago, in his study titled The Crowd, Gustave Le Bon wrote: "Concerning the faculty of observation possessed by the crowd, our conclusion is that their collective observations are as erroneous as possible, and that most often they merely represent the illusion of an individual who, by a process of contagion, has influenced his fellows...." According to Le Bon, "It is legendary heroes, and not for a moment real heroes, who have impressed the minds of crowds."

The human mind craves fantasy. But fantasy itself isn't stable. Myths and legends are constantly shifting. What was believed yesterday, is laughed at today. Every age thinks itself wise and looks back with disdain on the folly of earlier ages. But the lesson we should draw is this: If people in earlier times were foolish and gullible, then we are fatally foolish and gullible ourselves. We ought to have learned something, especially regarding our own nature, by studying the past.

Given the deadly situation we find ourselves in today, our fantasies must prove fatal. A fatal fantasy is one that gets people killed. The Nazis, for example, were homicidally obsessed with their own racial superiority. In earlier centuries the Spanish Inquisition burned thousands as heretics, and various communities throughout Europe burned thousands more as witches.

This last example illustrates my point. Witches are now considered fantastical. The casting of spells, flying through the air, the summoning of spirits and reliance on feline familiars no longer occasions judicial inquiry. Yet we are no less fantastical in our beliefs than our witch-burning forebears. Instead of burning witches, we destroy entire industries in order to save spotted owls; we squander trillions fighting imaginary man-made global warming; and we dehumanize ourselves with the unstated assumption that consciousness is the epiphenomena of chemical reactions within the brain. And what testifies to this bottom-line assumption of ours better than modern psychiatry? If you feel bad, take a pill. (There is no question of properly ordering one's conscience.) As we become increasingly depressed and deranged, the final remedy is to prescribe drugs. We even prefer to medicate our children instead of spanking them. And with regard to our political and economic fantasies, medieval and ancient thinkers would ridicule us as the greatest fools of all history; for we believe in universal human equality and the U.S. dollar.

Our fantasies are many, and fatal."
http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2009/0911.html
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More re Gustave Le Bon:

small dead animals: Reader Tips
29 Jul 2009 ... O's Beer Belly socialism: GUSTAVE LE BON and the Crowd ... *Socialism is in fact nothing but the religion of the Stomach." . ...
www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/011907.html

Lawrence Solomon has an interesting column in Saturday's Post where he describes on-going Russian research, now colloborated by Swedish scientists, that suggests that oil need not be dinosaur, ie fossil, based.

The trick is that deep down in the Earth's mantle, 25 miles or so, super duper (my words) heat can transform water, calcium carbonate and iron into oil. What rises through fissures we harvest. And, it's happening all over (under) the world. They can even predict where to drill!

A seemingly potential endless supply of Texas tea. Cool!

Joanne at Blue Like You posts this*.

The left-liberal Canadian MSM has been pegged/skewered by Joanne.

MSM = MMS.
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*"# Joanne said:
September 14th, 2009 at 7:48 am

And right on cue, we have our Media Manufactured Scandal (MMS) right before the PM meets Obama in Washington.

How predictable. They’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one."

http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2009/09/13/on-trust/comment-page-2/#comment-62913

First Baltimore, then D.C., now New York...

Acorn Prostitution scandal #3: http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/14/acorn-video-prostitution-scandal-in-new-york-ny/

What's next??

Allen - the Blue Bomber fan - revenge is always sweeter served up cold. Some Bomber players were beaking off to the media prior to the Labor Day game. It carried onto the field in Regina with the very first play when a Bomber started to taunt a Rider player.

What you saw yesterday in Winnipeg was the best example of the term "all hat and no cattle."

Its a hard lesson to learn but today I think the Bombers know that, in the end, you gotta play the game.

At the recent "Council of the Federation" meetings hosted in Saskatchewan, Premier Wall said that he had presented Rider jerseys to each Premier who province did not have a CFL team and then stated "that included Gary Doer. Wall wasn't kidding.

a different bob, don't rub it in too much. Just savour the moment.

nice kinsella slam: http://kinsellawatch.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/harper-and-women/

Fry Hedy and women.

Aunty-American from the rear: a beach shot.

SOW is shocked.

"Double standards on that gender thing: The question of Hedy Fry and gender issues is on my mind because I discovered this curious piece of artwork by Zac Mallett, Hedy Fry's media director:"
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"Hedy Fry defines the concept of Liberal responsibility (and double standards too)"
http://stevejanke.com/archives/292234.php

Despite Baird's name on this, Jim Prentice the Dim is actually the point guy on the file. He's been on this since his first run at Indian Affairs - the same indian industry he's been in his whole adulthood: living off of taxpayers.

What's a lifer bureaucrat to do?

Transport Canada 'fictitiously' expensing millions
Bill Curry
Monday, Sep. 14, 2009 10:35AM EDT

Federal public servants at Transport Canada are routinely filing millions of dollars in expenses – including overtime, salaries and computers – toward a construction project that doesn't exist.

Further, The Globe and Mail has learned that public servants who object to the scheme are routinely overruled by their managers.

The Mackenzie Valley pipeline remains a mega-project that is perpetually on the horizon – yet it lacks the financial backing and environmental approvals to green-light construction.

The project seemed closer at hand when a fund was set up at Transport Canada six years ago so that the department could oversee the expected increase in air traffic and other transportation needs.

Though the pipeline remains in limbo, the department has kept the fund alive year after year, using it to cover millions in expenses that have nothing to do with the pipeline.

Documents released through access-to-information requests list the expenses, which total $10.7-million since 2004. Expenses continued to be billed to the pipeline project this year.

Goreacle Report: AGW moonbats re-captured.

The rest is here*:

"UPDATE: News travels fast. Within about 30 minutes of posting this essay poking a little fun at CT, the correct images are back online now which you can see here:"

*http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/14/cryosphere-today-arctic-is-now-ice-free-antarctica-unaffected/#more-10804

Anybody see the clip of Kanye West grabbing the mic away from award-winner Taylor Swift to proclaim that Beyonce should have won?

Tacky and thuggish. www.drudgereport.com

Twelve percent of shipping is dormant. Ships are parked when they should be busy for Christmas.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1212013/Revealed-The-ghost-fleet-recession.html

"Sun-blessed Terry Fox Run raises $115000
Calgary Herald"
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"Introduction to Skin Cancer
Skin cancer is more common in people with light colored skin who have spent a lot of time in the sunlight. Skin cancer can occur anywhere on your body, ..."
www.south-seas.com/introto.html

A socialist reminds us of what a coalition government looked like 4 years ago....socialists, separatists, and faux-cons only a short time away from introducing the largest single orgy of spending in the history of the nation...

Monday, September 14, 2009 12:57 PM
On not running with the crowd
Brian Topp

In the winter of 2005, then-opposition leader Stephen Harper met intensively with Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe ("the separatists") and with Mr. Layton ("the socialists") to discuss a proposal to defeat the Paul Martin minority government at the first opportunity, and to replace it with a Conservative government supported in the House by the balance of the opposition. Mr. Harper canvassed this proposal with the Governor-General of the day in writing....."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/brian-topp/on-not-running-with-the-crowd/article1286858/

The photo with Harper and Jack and Gilles is hilarious. Let the partisan memory hole begin

Acorn.

part 1. Baltimore
part 2. Washington
part 3 Brooklyn New York.

http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/09/14/third-time-on-the-acorn-hooker-advisory-train/

how many to build a trend... ?

Re: "When Fantasy is Fatal ... We all live in two worlds. One is the real world, the objective world, and the other world is inside of us: the world where sensory data is received and processed, where experiences are sorted, where thoughts and dreams swirl, where imagination reigns and reality is interpretted. While we are drawn by our senses to what is real, we are drawn by hopes and desires to what is imaginary."

We do not "live in two worlds" except in a metaphoric sense. There is only one world, the one we live in, and it is indeed described by the term "objective reality". The inner world of the self is nevertheless part of that reality. It is a monstrous mistake to argue that "the world where sensory data is received and processed, where experiences are sorted, where thoughts and dreams swirl, where imagination reigns and reality is interpretted" is a world outside of the real one. This unfortunate dichotomy stems directly from Immanuel Kant, whom Ayn Rand called "the most evil man in human history" precisely for his attempt to separate reason from reality. The decline of philosophy, the rise of statism and the horrendous bloodshed of the past two hundred years are its consequences.

Sensory data is processed through reason, and formed into concepts that enable man to understand the world around him. The question of the validation of knowledge is central one epistemology, and ultimately to human survival.

We all have our imaginations, and indeed we can and should ponder on how things ought to be instead of how they are (which is an ethical question, and also therefore the province of reason), but emotions are not tools of cognition.

Michael Moore sees the light and misses the point.

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2009/09/14/michael-moore-on-newspapers.aspx

That he even sees the light is quite astounding.

Is this what a coalition gov't would look like?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html

"Large area in Scarborough evacuated due to threat of explosion (Toronto)
CP24 ^ | September 14, 2009

Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 4:42:11 PM by Squawk 8888

Police have cordoned off an area in Scarborough after a suspicious package was found in a car parked outside a tow truck company, located close to a propane cylinder.

The area they have cleared stretches nearly two kilometres in all directions from the site of the discovery, at 2671 Markham Rd. It is bordered by Finch Avenue, Tapscott Road, Middlefield Road and Morningside Avenue."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339565/posts

Surveillance footage of the Bryant/Sheppard killing has made it to the internet. It removes any kind of doubt I might have had about the situation. This is a incident of the most despicable kind of vehicular homicide. We can now see that all of the discussion around Sheppard's alleged drinking and possible road rage are completely irrelevant....."

http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/ontwowheels/archive/2009/09/14/new-youtube-footage-of-the-bryant-sheppard-incident.aspx

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090914/national/fedelxn

None other than the disgraced Jennifer Ditchburn has written this article: “Election tension slackens with NDP poised to support Conservatives.”

Is anyone else feeling totally abused by the media’s constant talk of an election throughout the summer and the Liberal$’ and NDPs’ constant threats of bringing on an election this fall?

Now that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called their bluff (no backroom deals) and the NDP know that their support is bottoming out, they’re thinking of supporting the CPC?

When does this blackmail ever end? I’m getting sick of it. I can only imagine how Stephen Harper and his party feel.

This is the message I got, hardboiled, when I copied and pasted the link you gave and tried to open it:

"Sorry, there was a problem with your last request!

"Either the site is offline or an unhandled error occurred. We apologize and have logged the error. Please try your request again or if you know who your site administrator is let them know too."

Hmmmm ...

Soccermom: Thuggish, it was. To her credit, Beyonce stepped up and came to Taylor's defence. There's also a rumour that Obama himself called Kenye a jackass.