Flatt + Scruggs + Maybelle Carter - Foggy Mountain Top

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZw6vFhHbEE&feature=related

Great stuff...but these gals are prettier

Mother Maybelle and The Carter Sisters - Sweet Talkin' Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGjkl-GOAyU&feature=related

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North"

Is Limited Government an Oxymoron?

Looks like a Facebook poll could be going horribly wrong...

http://apps.facebook.com/realpolls/results/mkdf73zdd

Lester and Earl, great stuff, and I don't care who knows I like it.

Two greatest genres of music ever, Baroque and Blue Grass.

Only a fool would think that singing Kumbaya in a bad neighbourhood is an effective way to keep one's self safe.

Guess what Barack Obama is

He can sure pick that banjo. Probably dating myself, but I still enjoy the style of music.

Interesting Robert. I don't have the source but I read that Irans stockpile has impurities that prevent enrichment. Iran can only produce energy grade uranium. The centrifuges cannot produce weapons grade product without destruction of the centrifuges. I read that the enrichment was going to be done by another country with the blessing of the US. bambam was played like the banjo in tonights selection.

Polka?

Did someone say Polka?

Axelrod addresses the press on the news that Fox is now an "un news network"

You know, the sad thing is that unless you're a top tier musician, you'll never make close to what a stagehand makes at Carnegie Hall - over half a mil a year!

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_en&sid=agzioCanEd0s

Fred Barnes has an excellent article on the oils sands at the weekly standard. Kudos to whoever got him to come up for a visit.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/089cagiz.asp

Here's a heads-up for those of you who want to enjoy Fox News without having to pay extra to view thru your cable TV.

Up to last week I was able to view the feed via BlinkoTV. However, they have removed the Fox feed.

I have found an alternative. You can view Fox news with your internet browser at TVPC.COM. It has a "low" and a regular feed so you can choose what works best.

In addition, it has a plethora of worldwide channels to choose from and a great archive of old TV shows.

A few weeks ago in another thread, I posted about the "slippery slope", and how even though it is decried as an invalid argumentative technique, it seems to keep cropping up in practice.

First, they banned smoking in parts of bars and restaurants, but allowed it in designated areas. Then they banned smoking in the entire restaurant and bar. Then they banned smoking on patios. Then they banned smoking in your car. Now, the Region of Peel (just outside Toronto) is proposing a ban on smoking in your own apartment or condo (as reported today in the National Post).

It seems that slope gets slipperier and slipperier all the time.

Thanks ww for the new Fox feed. Since I lost the previous feed I've been watching way too much CNN.

Vitruvius, you are angel sent from heaven. Thanks!!

Have you ever read an article by someone who just doesn't get it? Observe Tuesday's piece in the Financial Post section of the NP by former federal Liberal cabinet minister John Manley. He says Canadians are too cynical today (as opposed to in the 1960s), and a "new politics" is needed. However, the allegedly new politics turns out to be the same old garbage.

Manley: "My generation gained its political awareness in the 1960s, in an era in which government had great ambitions"; and "We truly believed that government could define the great objectives of the nation, and then move forward with vigorous determination to achieve them"

Governments should not be "ambitious" or have "great objectives"; their proper function is to protect individual rights. "Ambitious" government, which spent billions on frivolous projects designed only to buy votes, is what has brought us to our current state. Only individuals are supposed to be ambitious; they are perfectly capable of looking after their own lives provided that they don't have to pay too much to support the money-losing, hare-brained schemes of politicians who can raise money through the coercive measure of taxation rather than through proper business channels where a return on an investment is required.

Manley: "The sixties were years of great accomplishments, the formative years of the welfare state, including Medicare and the Canada Pension Plan. It was when we adopted our wonderful and distinctive flag."

The CPP originated as a Ponzi scheme, whatever its current status. Government health money gives drug addicts places to shoot up, and today's papers report a suggestion that they provide safe crack houses too. Is this what Canadians want their hard-earned income spent on, through taxation? I'm all for ending the war on drugs, but enabling addicts -- especially while drugs are still illegal -- is crazy.

And just what is so wonderful about the flag? Two red bands on the side and a red maple leaf in the middle. Distinctively mundane, in Liberal colours.

Manley: "A few decades later, and many young Canadians no longer look to their governments with such confidence. Nor do they look to the future with such optimism."

Because clowns like you, Manley, caused the country to spend more than it produced, squandered its resources, and left the youth with the bill. And now you deny it all and want to get the ball rolling again.

Manley thinks that if you asked Jean Chretien to say what he's most proud of, the latter might answer (1) conquering the deficit; (2) the Clarity Act; (3) staying out of the Iraq war. But (1) the Liberals were the ones who started running up the deficits in the first place, including during Chretien's own stint as finance minister; (2) the Clarity Act was mostly Preston Manning's and Stephen Harper's idea; and (3) overthrowing a murderous dictator is always justified, although that doesn't mean we had to join in (Bush surely misrepresented the incidence of WMDs and probably only went in to save face for his dad's failure 12 years earlier, plus there's the hypocrisy issue re arming Saddam to help the US act against Iran; but the only people who object to overthrowing dictatorships are those who would like to run one themselves).

Manley wonders whether "three 'signature' accomplishments inspire a generation to pursue public service as the highest calling?"

What makes public service the "highest" calling? People should choose a career that interests them. Spending other people's money on frivolous vote-buying schemes is pretty low. Plus we'd be more respectful of those who "serve" if they didn't have union wages above the free market level plus gold-plated pensions.

Manley: "We ceased to spend what we could not afford. We no longer assumed that growth was inevitable and learned that we had to have the right mix of public policy and investment if we wanted a strong economy. We demanded results and high ethical conduct from our public officials."

All governments have spent far more than taxpayers could afford, some worse than others. Economic growth requires a free market in which participants trade with each other using their judgments as to what is valuable to them. Businesses that increase the standard of living by producing items of value to consumers make profits in return, a win-win situation. Government "public policy" schemes and "investments" shuffle resources from one pocket to another and impede economic production. A "strong economy" can do without either.

As for "high ethical conduct from our public officials", it would sound much nobler once the Liberals settle the Adscam account.

Manley: "... what I see as the erosion of public space – the declining importance we attach to collective action, and the growing distrust of the state – are dangerous if left unchecked. ... How will we resolve complex issues of public policy if the way we do politics and make public policy generates an ever-increasing spiral of cynicism that keeps our best minds focused on private matters, or working outside the institutions where public policy is implemented?"

"Collective action" is a fraud, an excuse to spend tax dollars; and there are no "complex issues of public policy" when government is limited to its proper functions. Again, as long as government relies on coercion, people cannot "vote with their dollars" to escape the consequences of failed schemes, whereas with poor business investments they can withdraw their funds. The cynicism of which he speaks has developed from the destructive waste of governments past. Manley is trying to pull the wool over the reader's eyes by pretending there's some bright shining style of government that hasn't been tried yet. There isn't. Coercion always breeds contempt for the taxpayer from politicians and public "servants".

Manley: "... we need a government that's intelligent, that invests in innovation and infrastructure and pursues policies of inclusion".

Which governments haven't got involved in "innovation" and infrastructure lately? And if "intelligent" government hasn't arrived by now, why would it be more likely to in future? Same old same old, plenty of failures.

Manley: "In the face of new and emerging health and security threats, how does Canada protect its interests and contribute as a global citizen? It is government that must set the policy framework and invest in public health and national security."

This is a typical apples-oranges mix-up. National security is a proper function of government, but individuals should be primarily responsible for their own health and "public health" is mostly another waste of tax dollars.

Manley: "In the face of emerging challenges to our industrial base, it is primarily government that must invest in education and skills development and set immigration policy to meet the needs of our aging society."

This is also same old same old. Has government never "invested" in education or training before? And do the immigration comments mean no more family-class arrivals? Like those over 65 who can collect from a government pension program despite never having paid into it?

Manley: "In the face of global energy and climate change challenges, it is government that must lead on energy policy and develop new tools to protect the planet and intelligently protect national interests."

Energy should be left to the private sector. And climate change is debatable.

Manley: "... we need a massive conspiracy among the opinion leaders of our society to restore public respect for our institutions of government and the people who offer to serve."

Does this mean rounding up the papers and media for government propaganda? That is unconstitutional.

Manley: "... we need a new and better approach to politics than we have been witnessing. I would call it a 'new politics'"

I would call it "same crap, different pile".

Yeah, nv53, John Manley, in a nutshell, is a fine one to talk.

These bloody Liberal$: All talk, no walk.

"All-time October low recorded in Bavaria

Meteorologists on Tuesday morning recorded the lowest ever October temperature in Germany, as the mercury dipped to a chilly -24.3 degrees Celsius in Bavaria’s Berchtesgaden national park."

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20091020-22693.html
...-

"Rush to Timesman: "Kill yourself" (Good for Rush)

Rush Limbaugh thinks mankind's carbon footprint would be cut down if the New York Times' environmental reporter would just go ahead and kill himself.

Limbaugh "environmentalist wacko" Andrew Revkin--also known as the global climate reporter for the New York Times -- with some choice, violent words.

"This guy from The New York Times, if he really thinks that humanity is destroying the planet, humanity is destroying the climate, that human beings in their natural existence are going to cause the extinction of life on Earth -- Andrew Revkin. Mr. Revkin, why don't you just go kill yourself and help the planet by dying?""
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367339/posts

the posting has been deleted once already. right mr vitalstatistic?

to those bemoaning the state of funding for Cdn military, here's today's skill testing question:

what did CONSERVATIVE prime minister brian mulruin do about it in his 9 years in office?

answer: nothing.

"they all do it" or in this case "none of them do it".

so stop blaming just trudeau and look at your own self in the mirror.

nv53, the Cretin already answered that question. When he was asked what was his greatest accomplishment as PM he replied, "Winning 3 majority elections."

Liberals shoot selves in foot again!!!

Cheque scandal just partisan smoke
Ottawa Sun Walter Robinson

*333million in federal for Sheppard East LRT line in Toronto which passes through Don Valley East,Scarborough-Agincourt and Scarbough-Rouge River, Three Liberal held ridings.
*133million for Union Station, Liberal held riding Bob Rae
*622million for spadina subway extension, Liberal ken dryden
*halifax NDP 18.3mill
*there is No infrastructure scandal just the usual partisan crap...

"Top Liberal attack dog's pawprints are all over this one"
party getting way too much mileage out of that dumb cheque gaffe
Montreal Gazzette: L Ian MacDonald

*Liberal David McGuinty, not known for understatement declared "We believe this is probaly the the most massive propaganda effort of any kind seen at the federal govt level in Canadian history"
His memory is either short or selective, there was something called the "Sponsorship Scandal"
(L.Ian MacDonald)

David McGuinty goes over top Again
Examiner.com
brian lilley

*McGuinty took the PM to task for signing cheques.......
*When asked whether this was normal & told the Govt of Ontario,Run by his Brother Dalton does the same thing He tried to Sidestep......

All you pig-flu deniers should read this report on the recent report from the CDC:
http://tinyurl.com/ykfrnmc

And those over 50 who've been led to believe they have partial immunity should notice that 32% of reported deaths are in the 50-64 age group.

This is the standard MO for Prentice the Dim. And as he launches his tax on everything that will do nothing (except make up for the Cons structural deficits), maybe you can reflect on the 'leadership' your Cons are providing for the nation on climate change....

Bureaucrats are like roaches, they hate the light of day.

Ottawa is cutting off public input into climate-change policy

All Canadians and their offspring have a massive stake in this debate

By MATT PRICE,October 21, 2009 8:22

Environment Minister Jim Prentice recently appeared in these pages arguing that Canada is fully engaged in addressing climate change ("Canada is doing its part to fight climate change," Opinion, Oct. 19). If that's true, it's too bad he hasn't let the Canadian people in on it.

We commissioned a poll last summer asking Canadians several questions about global warming and Canada's response to it. The biggest consensus we found was on the question of whether Canada's system of carbon cuts should be worked out in the open or behind closed doors. Not surprisingly, more than 70 per cent favoured working it out in the open.

But, transparency is the opposite of what we are now getting. Instead, Prentice has been meeting behind closed doors with industry to consult about the shape of a cap and trade plan for Canada. He has also met behind closed doors with the premiers. Nothing gets written down. Nothing gets disclosed........"

http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Ottawa+cutting+public+input+into+climate+change+policy/2126254/story.html

Thanks for the link 'Gord Tulk'. A very good read.

Posted by: bryanr at October 21, 2009 9:03 AM

bryanr - Walt Robinson is a registered blowboy - trying desperately to get onto the public treasury.

His partisanship is temporary.

I see the Liberal trolls are busy this morning.

hardboiled:
Is MacDonald & Tilley ?

Hard i dont know why you even bother visiting here, No one comments anymore on anything you say, People are tired of your constant Whiney crap. Good gawd man your worse then the Liberal Opposition. Constantly whining about Harper, Prentice this that.
Every one on here knows you have a beef against the current Govt.& Dont give a shit about anything you post. Gawd man give your head a shake, have you not got the hint Yet.
BTW: If your from Ontario why not try Mcguinty for a change...

Peter Bergen, The Front

These arguments point toward one conclusion: The effort to secure Afghanistan is not a matter of vital U.S. interest. But those who make this case could not be more mistaken. Afghanistan and the areas of Pakistan that border it have always been the epicenter of the war on jihadist terrorism--and, at least for the foreseeable future, they will continue to be. Though it may be tempting to think otherwise, we cannot defeat Al Qaeda without securing Afghanistan...

New at Canadian Forces Combat Camera:

Remembrance Day 2009

Canada slips to 19th on press freedom list

By Linda Nguyen, Canwest News ServiceOctober 21, 2009

Freedom of the press is declining in Canada, according to an annual ranking of 175 countries by the international media watchdog Reporters Without Borders.

Released Tuesday, the index places Canada at No. 19, a drop of six spots from 2008.

Canada's ranking was based on three particular factors, including the ability of journalists to protect their sources, limits on freedom of access to information, and the existence of lawsuits that act as a deterrent for public participation.

In explaining the ranking, spokesperson Dennis Trudeau cited the case of Globe and Mail reporter Daniel Leblanc, who was willing to face jail time or fines instead of revealing his sources on a story.

Trudeau also said the federal government's insistence on using a "catch-all clause" that restricts the filing of access to information requests was another deterrent to the freedom of the press in the country........"

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Canada+slips+19th+press+freedom+list/2126854/story.html

Damn that freedom of speech thing all to hell, eh bryanr? How Liberal of you.

Active Registration: 782814-231501-3
Return to Public Registry
Lobbyist: Walter Robinson
Consulting firm: Tactix Government Consulting Inc.
Client: Association of Equipment Manufacturers Name change history
Version: 782814-231501-3
Type: Registration update
Active from: 2009-06-17
Activity last confirmed: 2009-10-16

A. Registrant
Consultant lobbyist name: Walter Robinson Lobbyist business address
Consulting firm: Tactix Government Consulting Inc.
880-45 O'Connor Street
Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4
Canada
Position: Principal
Telephone number: 613-566-7053
Fax number: 613-566-2026

Former public office holder: Yes

Damn that 'freedom of speech' thing, eh bryanr?

Active Registration: 782814-231501-3
Return to Public Registry
Lobbyist: Walter Robinson
Consulting firm: Tactix Government Consulting Inc.
Client: Association of Equipment Manufacturers Name change history
Version: 782814-231501-3
Type: Registration update
Active from: 2009-06-17
Activity last confirmed: 2009-10-16

A. Registrant
Consultant lobbyist name: Walter Robinson Lobbyist business address
Consulting firm: Tactix Government Consulting Inc.
880-45 O'Connor Street
Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4
Canada
Position: Principal
Telephone number: 613-566-7053
Fax number: 613-566-2026

Former public office holder: Yes

Damn that 'freedom of speech' thing, eh bryanr?

Active Registration: 782814-231501-3
Return to Public Registry
Lobbyist: Walter Robinson
Consulting firm: Tactix Government Consulting Inc.
Client: Association of Equipment Manufacturers Name change history

"Does the Vaccine Matter?"

"“It would be nice if you had swine flu,” he says. “Compared to bacterial meningitis, swine flu is safe.”"
...-

"Newman is only minutes into a 10-hour shift in the emergency room of New York City’s St. Luke’s Hospital, and already he has assumed responsibility for 11 patients. The young Italian tourist sitting on the bed in front of the doctor has meningitis, and through an interpreter, Newman tells him he almost certainly has the viral form of the disease, which will do nothing more than make him feel ill for a few days. There is a tiny chance, says Newman, that the illness is caused by a bacterium, which can be deadly, but he is almost positive that’s not what the tourist has. He says to his patient, “I can’t tell you with 100 percent certainty that you don’t have it, but if you do, you’ll begin to feel worse and you’ll need to come back.” The tourist, on learning that he might be infected with a potentially lethal disease, looks down at his feet and confesses that he is much more worried about another illness: swine flu. Newman smiles patiently. “It would be nice if you had swine flu,” he says. “Compared to bacterial meningitis, swine flu is safe.”

Late last spring, as headlines and airwaves warned of a possible pandemic, patients like Newman’s began clogging emergency rooms across the country, a sneezing, coughing, infectious tide of humanity more worried than truly sick, but whose mere presence in the emergency room has endangered the lives of others."

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200911/brownlee-h1n1/3

"Mao balked at having to dirty his hands with farm work,".

Do not shake hands with Mao Stlong of the bloody handshake.

Mao Stlong = Red pandemic killer.
...-

"Leftwing Monster: Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1935 until his death in 1976. Chairman Mao, as he became known to generations of admiring Western leftists, is arguably the greatest mass murderer in history, eclipsing even the murderous Joseph Stalin in this regard. Some 70 million Chinese, along with countless Tibetans, Mongolians, Manchus, Koreans, Hmong, Uyghurs, and other nationalities, perished at his hands during his long and brutal reign.

Mao was born into a rich peasant family in a valley called Shaoshan, set in the heartland of China in Hunan province, on 26 December 1893. Hopelessly doted upon by his mother, alienated from his hard-working father, Mao balked at having to dirty his hands with farm work, once even threatening suicide in protest. Instead he successfully insisted that his father send him away to school.[1] He arrived in the provincial capital of Changsha in 1911 at the age of seventeen, turning his back forever on peasant life."

http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=6377

"Swine Flu Cases Overestimated?

(CBS) If you've been diagnosed "probable" or "presumed" 2009 H1N1 or "swine flu" in recent months, you may be surprised to know this: odds are you didn’t have H1N1 flu.

In fact, you probably didn’t have flu at all. That's according to state-by-state test results obtained in a three-month-long CBS News investigation.

The ramifications of this finding are important. According to the Center for Disease Control, CDC, and Britain's National Health Service, once you have H1N1 flu, you're immune from future outbreaks of the same virus. Those who think they've had H1N1 flu -- but haven't -- might mistakenly presume they're immune. As a result, they might skip taking a vaccine that could help them, and expose themselves to others with H1N1 flu under the mistaken belief they won't catch it. Parents might not keep sick children home from school, mistakenly believing they've already had H1N1 flu.

Why the uncertainty about who has and who hasn't had H1N1 flu?"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367513/posts

hard: Nothing to do with freedom of speech at all
Its your constant crap, You are critical of everything.
Ok robinson is regst lobby i see that now over at nnw, But what about the other 2 i mentioned ?
No response to that. Face facts, Canadians are Not Displeased with what the govt's response to the downturn & other issues. Only the Opposition, Because their job is to oppose, However we are in hard economic times Canadians are sick & tired of the bs from the opposition.
here is an example, whenever their have been hard Economic times History shows that the Governing Party usually takes a hit for it, Thing is Not happening this time. Liberals were counting on the economy downturns to be able to turf the conservatives & it did not work it backfired Just like everything they try. Canadians look at the Liberal's still as a party that Robbed the country & a bunch of Hasbin hacks. Nit picking at things that dont interest canadians. they just cant get over the fact They Lost, Conservatives won.
Hey & just so you know i was a liberal until Adscam. I will never vote liberal again No Matter Federal Or Provincial, In fact i joined the party.
And speaking of provincial the EHealth scandal will make Adscam look like a walk in the park. anyways thats enough said i would never respond to you & here iam feeding a troll.
all the best

Do you notice that there's never any talk of "acid rain" anymore? What happened to that? It seems to have been replaced by "global warming". But with temperatures getting colder, that seems to have been replaced by "climate change".

I wonder what's coming next?

AGW/Mann not mentioned?

Please forward to PM Harper and Minister Prentice.
…-

“Scientists Study old Hockey Stick

Kate Yule
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Scientists in New Brunswick are hoping that tree-rings on a very old hockey stick will help them determine its exact age.

The hockey stick, originally from Cape Breton, is thought to date back to the mid-1800s. It’s made of sugar maple from Pottle’s Lake.

Colin Laroque, head of the dendrochronology lab at Mount Allison University, said tree-ring aging is being used to compare the hockey stick to living trees near North Sydney, N.S.”
http://www.cfra.com/?cat=4&nid=68791

Ahhh Lester's silky tones and Earl's driving rhythms. Preserved for posterity. Too bad the other Bill Monroe alumnus were not as posthumously appreciated - like Benny Martin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3R6HV732RY&feature=player_embedded#

Liberal Ad$cam.

>>> “a source code-named Ma Chouette.”

The mole within the Liberal Party: does the mole’s burrow have a backdoor?

The coverup continues.
…-

“‘If it hadn’t been for [Leblanc] and his sources, we may never have known what happened in the sponsorship scandal.’—Dennis Trudeau, Canadian vice-president, Reporters without Borders”

“The sponsorship program, designed to enhance the federal government’s profile, funnelled millions of tax dollars to Liberal Party-friendly advertising firms for little or no work.

The adscam was instrumental in virtually wiping out the Liberal Party in Quebec, driving the Grits out of power in the 2006 federal election.”
…-

“Globe adscam sources appeal in Supreme Court”

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/10/21/quebec-sponsorship-scandal-scoc-globe-appeal.html

Ok robinson is regst lobby i see that now over at nnw, But what about the other 2 i mentioned - Posted by: bryanr at October 21, 2009 12:47 PM

I hadn't seen their commentary, but yes, I agree that the whole cheque thing is a non-story beyond the logos, and agree in general.

The point about my post on Robinson is that he's a blowboy without disclosure, that's all.

You ain't feeding a troll man. I am a conservative who is disgusted with partisanship, and pissed with the Con's behavior in office.

They are governing as Liberals.

Where credit is due at the least, they have done a flip flop on Afghanistan - and are not running away in 2 years. Good on them.

But Prentice is installing a Green Shift, with no public consultation, after being critical of the Libranos Green Shift. That's hypocrisy. they need to get called on it. If it offends your sensibilities, so be it.

Ignore what you find distasteful. That way, you're beliefs will never be challenged again, and you can rest easy.

Peace

"Am I paying for that?"

"Why, yes, yes you are...."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9aJKDqqP4A

Socialism > fascism > communism > nazism > feminism > greenism > maoism > obamaism> talibanJackism > iggyism >>>>
...-

"National Socialism

In 1944, Ludwig von Mises published one of his least-known masterworks: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War. Drawing on his prewar experience in Vienna, watching the rise of the national socialists in Germany (the Nazis), who would eventually take over his own homeland, he set out to draw parallels between the Russian and German experience with socialism.

It was common in those days, as it is in ours, to identify the Communists as leftist and the Nazis as rightists, as if they stood on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. But Mises knew differently. They both sported the same ideological pedigree of socialism. "The German and Russian systems of socialism have in common the fact that the government has full control of the means of production. It decides what shall be produced and how. It allots to each individual a share of consumer's goods for his consumption."

The difference between the systems, wrote Mises, is that the German pattern "maintains private ownership of the means of production and keeps the appearance of ordinary prices, wages, and markets." But in fact the government directs production decisions, curbs entrepreneurship and the labor market, and determines wages and interest rates by central authority. "Market exchange," says Mises, "is only a sham."

Mises's account is confirmed by a remarkable book that appeared in 1939, published by Vanguard Press in New York City (and unfortunately out of print today). It is The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism by Guenter Reimann, then a 35-year old German writer. Through contacts with German business owners, Reimann documented how the "monster machine" of the Nazis crushed the autonomy of the private sector through onerous regulations, harsh inspections, and the threat of confiscatory fines for petty offenses.

"Industrialists were visited by state auditors who had strict orders to examine the balance sheets and all bookkeeping entries of the company or individual businessman for the preceding two, three or more years until some error or false entry was found," explains Reimann. "The slightest formal mistake was punished with tremendous penalties. A fine of millions of marks was imposed for a single bookkeeping error."
http://mises.org/story/47

Bela Fleck and his Flecktones did a pretty good cover of this as well...

Actual headline by/from Taber/Globe-Mail.

Liberal Skanks.

Truth has prevailed: the MSM has revolted against the Liberal Iffys.

The MSM names the corrupt, miserable, Liberal Ad$cam Jeancula Chretien assistant: Barney Kinsella.

Also, PEI MP Liberal Easter: the “doorknob”.
...-

“Liberal prank fails miserably

Wayne Easter’s stunt to embarrass government MPs today misfired. Instead, he embarrassed himself.

Never one to quit, however, the PEI Liberal MP scrummed with reporters anyway, explaining what would have happened had his stunt worked.

Mr. Easter, who produced a doorknob at a press conference this week to underscore the fact that the Harper Conservatives are hailing routine maintenance in buildings as economic stimulus, had planned today to stop Tory MPs as they left their caucus meeting to ask if they were ashamed of signing their names to super-sized, taxpayer-funded government cheques.

He wanted to ask them, too, if they would stop. The PMO has said that it’s okay to sign their names on the cheques, just don’t use the party logo anymore.

And so he stood outside of their Centre Block caucus room, cameras and reporters at the ready. Liberal war-room guru Warren Kinsella, the man behind so many of these stunts, was lurking nearby in the Hall of Honour.

The problem, however, was that the Tory caucus had already ended and there wasn’t a Conservative in sight.

Oops. On to plan B.”

First comment:

“Q. What does one doorknob say to another doorknob?

A. Does it feel as good for you as it does for me?”
urlm.in/dgyp

maz2, I always admire your findings, some of which contributed to enlargement of my personal library. Thanks and keep up good work!

I see the Liberal trolls are busy this morning.
Posted by: Ken (Kulak) at October 21, 2009 10:42 AM "

where would dat be ken kluck?

Im training my dog to sniff out lieberals sose I can bean them with a paint gun. red of course.

LOL !!!

this is too easy.

"maz2, I always admire your findings, some of which contributed to enlargement of my personal library. Thanks and keep up good work!

Posted by: Aaron at October 21, 2009 2:55 PM "

Aaron....hear,hear. He is like SDA's own news aggregator. What I really like is the lack of bias.

Note to maz2 @2:14,
I am a "loyal" Conservative, but Bill C6 (consumer products saftey bill) fully encapsulates all that you so accurately expose in your post. I know that many in caucus are not big fans either. It is antithetical to all the Conservative brand is supposed to stand for and in my view driven by the usual suspects, none of whom are elected...comments?

[G&M] Love the comment about Kinsella's brain...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/bureau-blog/liberal-prank-fails/article1332469/

A "controversy" is arising out of Abbotsford, BC over this video.

The usual suspects in the bleeding heart crowd are complaining about how the police dealt with these 2 drug dealer suspects. Give me an F#&#%&@ing break! We're now going to side with criminals who might have weapons with which to attack the police?!?

Bourque.org issues apology to Mr. Warren Kinsella...

Quote: "We published a headline on October 16th, 2009 that suggested Warren Kinsella is solely responsible for the fortunes of the Liberal Party of Canada. We have removed that headline and the photograph, and retract that suggestion."

http://www.bourque.org/

Look> Liberal biasses.

The entire post* for your delectation.

Iffy is pickled in brine, kosher, and all.

Including the fairy tale: Punked; Jill, the Code Pink Vicked Vitch of the EasterIffy Liberal Party.

More, please.

Go home, Iffy.
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*“Hey Libs: Pick one and go with it!

* October 21, 2009 12:53 PM
* By Rosemary Barton

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Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and the Liberal Women’s Caucus unveil the party’s ‘Pink Book III’ after their morning caucus meeting Wednesday on Parliament Hill. (Sean Kilpatrick/CP)

Running communications for a political party is a trying task at the best of times.

Even more so when you’re competing with…yourself.

Picture it: the Hall of Honour of the Centre Block. Liberal MP Wayne Easter and the party’s spin-machine, Warren Kinsella, camped outside the door to the Conservative caucus meeting. Clearly waiting to do something.

But, what…

Three sombre -looking Liberal staffers stand behind Easter with 8 x 10 photos of Conservative MPs who have, according to Easter, denounced the whole cheque-signing “scandal”.

Easter explains how this is must be stopped.

Wouldn’t be a bad little stunt if only: in the room right next door the Liberal caucus is launching the Pink Book on women’s issues.

Cameras and reporters gathered around Easter.

And although there were other reporters and cameras in the room for the launch, one media event can’t outdo the other.

Suddenly, Ignatieff’s director of communications, Jill Fairbrother arrives in the scrum and abruptly whisks Easter away.

She didn’t look pleased.

And the “stunt” ended awkwardly.

A sign of duelling communications strategies?

For the record, Jill Fairbrother says the two events were intended to take place 20 minutes apart, but ended up being at the same time because the Conservatives left from the back door.

Fairbrother says she was not “displeased”, but simply “rushed”.

The tale of our raw camera tape is here.”

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/politicalbytes/2009/10/hey-libs-pick-one-and-go-with-it.html

Do you notice that there's never any talk of "acid rain" anymore? What happened to that? It seems to have been replaced by "global warming". But with temperatures getting colder, that seems to have been replaced by "climate change".

I wonder what's coming next?
Posted by: Robert W. at October 21, 2009 12:48 PM

It's already here!

Climate Change on Acid

Henceforth, be it resolved that Mr Easter will be known as "bowel movement".

He's full of it, as you can easily tell. The reporter had it right.."desperate".

Cat fight:
Blazing Cat Fur. Funny video

http://www.blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/

Dennis Prager had a stunning interview with liberal writer, Michael Tomasky today. In it, Tomasky stated that he had no idea about Anita Dunn's Mao comment.

As Prager said afterwards, this doesn't make Tomasky a dummy but does illustrate how deep in their own bubble those on the Left truly are.

Robert W.:

The chief contributors to acid rain were coal fired electricity plants in the mid-West, whose emissions were carried by the prevailing winds into Ontario.

After the causes of acid rain were established, many of these plants were forced to install "scrubbers" on their stacks to remove sulfur dioxide from the exhaust. This proved highly effective in lowering the sulfuric acid content of Ontario rain.

It's sorta like eliminating CFC's helped reduce the size of the hole in the ozone layer. Sometimes this stuff works.

I still don't believe in AGW, though.