Well, what else to do on a Sunday night but contemplate North America's culinary masterpiece?

http://vimeo.com/channels/cheeseburgershow#2960492

Canadians not welcome in Libya and it's all Harper's fault - "Gadhafi cancelled a planned stopover in Newfoundland last month after the Harper government made public its intention to scold the Libyan leader over the hero's welcome Libya gave a man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing."

New Super Vaccine Against All Flu Strains Developed By Israel

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-super-vaccine-against-all-flu.html

Mean while back in Bush's Amerika where the native orchids romp unmolested and the state ransacks your home for you;

"You don't need to know. You can't know." That's what Kathy Norris, a 60-year-old grandmother of eight, was told when she tried to ask court officials why, the day before, federal agents had subjected her home to a furious search.

The agents who spent half a day ransacking Mrs. Norris' longtime home in Spring, Texas, answered no questions while they emptied file cabinets, pulled books off shelves, rifled through drawers and closets, and threw the contents on the floor.

The six agents, wearing SWAT gear and carrying weapons, were with - get this- the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Kathy and George Norris lived under the specter of a covert government investigation for almost six months before the government unsealed a secret indictment and revealed why the Fish and Wildlife Service had treated their family home as if it were a training base for suspected terrorists. Orchids.

That's right. Orchids.

By March 2004, federal prosecutors were well on their way to turning 66-year-old retiree George Norris into an inmate in a federal penitentiary - based on his home-based business of cultivating, importing and selling orchids.

Mrs. Norris testified before the House Judiciary subcommittee on crime this summer. The hearing's topic: the rapid and dangerous expansion of federal criminal law, an expansion that is often unprincipled and highly partisan.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/05/criminalizing-everyone/

Another poll going horribly wrong

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/proveit.aspx

Come on guys get over there and be counted "in" or "out".

I voted out because I am not stupid.

There's been a resurgance of teh "ins" i.e. greenies and stupids and feel-goods. Or, perhaps, the "science" museum people are freeking it themeselves to serve their political masters.

Did it make you put your name and email address in if you voted "Out"? LOL... what a dumb poll.

Marcia, it does for both options.

RW, did you read their rationale for believing in AGW? It was hilariously simpleton-ish.

All right people, you might want to sit down, google "black and orange day"

Here is a page from a school on Vancouver Island:

http://www.sd69.bc.ca/school/EES/Calendar/DispForm.aspx?ID=38&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Esd69%2Ebc%2Eca%2Fschool%2FEES%2FPages%2Fdefault%2Easpx%2F

They are insane.

[ I think the BBC wanted to slip this one out quietly , but a Matt Drudge link put paid to that. The climate change correspondent of BBC News has admitted that global warming stopped in 1998 – and he reports that leading scientists believe that the earth’s cooling-off may last for decades.

“Whatever happened to global warming?” is the title of an article by Paul Hudson that represents a clear departure from the BBC’s fanatical espousal of climate change orthodoxy. The climate change campaigners will go nuts, particularly in the run-up to Copenhagen. So, I suspect, will devout believers inside the BBC. Hudson’s story was not placed very prominently by his colleagues – but a link right at the top of Drudge will have delivered at least a million page views, possibly many more.] Telegraph

[ The BBC now has serious questions to answer.]

No kidding !! It may be answering them in court.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1222977/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-The-outrageous-truth-slips-Labour-cynically-plotted-transform-entire-make-Britain-telling-us.html

"The outrageous truth slips out: Labour cynically plotted to transform the entire make-up of Britain without telling us."

Canada did very well 12th.

2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 149 countries on 25 indicators tracked across six established policy categories: Environmental Health, Air Pollution, Water Resources, Biodiversity and Habitat, Productive Natural Resources, and Climate Change Change.

Canada did very well 12th.

Link

http://www.newsweek.com//frameset.aspx/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yale.edu%2Fepi%2F

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somewhere in the ottawa area tonight...
stephane dion sleeps like a baby.

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Iggy's numbers lower than Dion's in latest Ipsos poll.

bourque.com

No wonder ole wk is doing vids with a crow on his shoulder. Can't even kick it's ass. But he could/should eat it. But prefers cat.

Here is an interesting read about the climate weather carbon hoax and who's who (not anything to do with health!):http://warofillusions.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/obama-maurice-strong-al-gore-key-players-cashing-in-on-chicago-climate-exchange/

Great find, Jema! I've passed it onto several friends!!

Great find, Jema! I've passed it onto several friends!!

Great find, Jema! I've passed it onto several friends!!

its okay , china to lead the climate change fight.

http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/#

sorry , forgot the other link.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/27/ED2K10U856.DTL

the universe is not only stranger than we imagine its stranger than we can imagine.-Eddington.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080625.html

a good idea for a category here.

http://wizbangblog.com/content/2009/10/26/weekend-caption-contest-winners-99.php#

no gams , no arms , no booty comments puleeze.

Our Enemy, The State.

"But while this was the Metropolitan Police's most ambitious operation in its 180-year history, it had nothing to do with national security."

Socialism: Criminals. Pirates. Stalin* is its model.
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"The raid that rocked the Met: Why gun and drugs op on 6,717 safety deposit boxes could cost taxpayer a fortune

More than 500 officers smashed their way into thousands of safety-deposit boxes to retrieve guns, drugs and millions of pounds of criminal assets. At least, that's what was supposed to happen. Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark investigate

The Finchley Road is one of the busiest thoroughfares heading out of London. It leads traffic north past Lord's Cricket Ground and the multimillion-pound houses of some of the country's richest hedge-fund managers all the way to the M1. At three in the afternoon it's always pretty slow going, but on this particular summer Monday the traffic was almost at a standstill.

This was partly because the normal three lanes going north had been cut down to one. But it was also because of drivers slowing down to a crawl so they could gawp at the massive police operation unfolding on a busy corner of the road.

Police vehicles - both cars and menacing armoured trucks - jammed up two lanes. Dozens of armed officers in bulletproof vests were standing ready, waiting to be called inside an anonymous-looking building. From the sheer manpower and weapons on display it looked like the capital was under another terrorist attack.

But while this was the Metropolitan Police's most ambitious operation in its 180-year history, it had nothing to do with national security. Only hours before, at a special briefing, teams from SCD6 (the Economic And Specialist Crime unit) and C019 (Specialist Firearms Command) hunkered down with technicians armed with angle grinders and drills. Also present were dog handlers, their animals trained to sniff out guns, drugs and explosives.

In all, more than 500 officers had gathered to receive orders to raid smart addresses in well-heeled parts of the capital. The locations included three of Britain's largest and most well-established safety-deposit box depositories in Edgware, Hampstead and Park Lane as well as an office and the homes of the three directors of Safe Deposit Centres Ltd, which owned the vaults - two in Hampstead and one in Barnet.

For most of those at the briefing, arriving just before 3pm on June 2 last year, this was the first they had heard of the operation. Secrecy had been paramount and, with so many involved, keeping the operation 'airtight' had been one of the largest headaches in the pre-planning for what was codenamed 'Rize'.

The police rolled through London in a convoy: scores of patrol cars, armed-response vehicles, outriders on their bikes, vans with their windows shielded by metal cages. With a Met film unit recording everything, detectives forced their way past startled security guards, demanding receptionists open the secure doors that led to the normally hushed strong rooms, which in the three centres housed 6,717 safety deposit boxes."
urlm.in/dhxg
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"*Le Fils de Fanon: 'Young Stalin' By Simon Sebag Montefiore.

12 Oct 2009 ... Most of Stalin's criminal activities were centered on fund raising activities for Vladimir Lenin. And in this time, to raise funds,"
evz-yoyo.blogspot.com/.../young-stalin-by-simon-sebag-montefiore.html

Big Fa*t Stinking Lies from MSM/Berton.

"*It's not as if wind power is controversial.

It has demonstrated its potential as a reliable and cost-effective source of clean energy and economic development the world over."
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"*Canada passing on wind
By PAUL BERTON

While the rest of the world's governments plunge ahead in developing more wind energy, Canada is dithering.

A federal program to spur investment in wind farms will expire this year, but the government refuses to say what, if anything, will replace it.

It's not as if wind power is controversial. It has demonstrated its potential as a reliable and cost-effective source of clean energy and economic development the world over.

Despite that, we are falling behind such countries as the United States and many in Europe in terms of the percentage of power produced by wind, and now it looks as if we may fall even further behind."
http://www.edmontonsun.com/comment/editorial/2009/10/26/11523681-sun.html
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**Misleading headline in Texas/MSM:

"renewable energy" = big stinking fans.

GULAG = "a large amount of the land for these zones will be acquired via eminent domain."

"**Lack of infrastructure stalls renewable energy

Wind farms in West Texas make the state a leader in renewable power generation, but a lack of infrastructure leaves much of their potential electricity output blowing across the plains.

With more than 8,500 megawatts of wind capacity, Texas is the nation’s leading producer of wind power. It produces more than double the amount of wind energy than the next state, Iowa.

But the transmission lines across Texas can only handle about 4,500 megawatts of this production so thousands of megawatts of wind energy go to waste each day."

"According to Roark, a large amount of the land for these zones will be acquired via eminent domain."

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/top-stories/lack-of-infrastructure-stalls-renewable-energy-1.2036937

Jennifer Lynch and Moon will be facing the Justice committee today

We can follow it on CPAC.

http://www.freemarksteyn.com/

Skunks ask: What if F-22 was smaller, unmanned & had 2 noses?

Has anybody heard of the Sabre Warrior UCAV?

Matthew Fisher, Taliban deploy children, military says

A 12-year-old boy caught in the act as he placed a homemade bomb under a road in the volatile Zhari District on Friday grabbed a baby as a human shield to protect himself from attack from the U.S. helicopter that had spotted him.

The incident, in an area where U.S. forces operate under Canadian command, appears to be part of an ominous and growing Taliban strategy to use youngsters to act as lookouts, carry out attacks or as human shields, because they know that NATO rules of engagement make troops extremely reluctant to open fire in such situations...

O's Islam: False Hope* and Fear*.

"Obama offers millions in Muslim technology fund

The White House Friday highlighted a new multi-million-dollar technology fund for Muslim nations, following a pledge made by President Barack Obama in his landmark speech to the Islamic world.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371053/posts
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*O'Hope:
"We had begun to believe that life was getting back to normal. But now I think that was a false hope."

*O'Fear:
"But I fear for the future."

"*Baghdad voices: After the attacks

The double suicide bombing in Baghdad on Sunday was the bloodiest attack in the capital since April 2007.

Here, four Baghdad residents reflect on the aftermath of the bombings and the future of the country."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8326356.stm

http://www.tangle.com/view_video?viewkey=2c15b61faed98ef85771

Christians in England are prosecuted (that's right, not persecuted, PROSECUTED) for having a debate with a couple of Muslims regarding religion.

Those damn Christians and their subway bombings... oh, wait... It's hard to tell who the bad guys are anymore.

Mao Stlong ask, who/what you wan?

You wan my nephew, Boob La.... er, solly.
You wan Herrman Adolf? Comrade Uncle Joe? You wan Cadre Moi?

Same diffelence.
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"Alone

Shannon Love at Chicago Boyz surveys the British political scene and muses on whether the recent rise of the British National Party tells us anything about how a European society can be infatuated with the Left one year and switch over to fascism in a relatively short period.

Via Instapundit comes a disturbing report that one-fifth of the British electorate would consider voting for the British Nationalist Party (BNP), which is considered by almost everyone left or right to be a genuine fascist party.

How did Britain come to this state?

Simple, the current liberal order has proven itself ineffective in addressing many of the major problems that Britain faces. As I wrote three years ago, liberal orders don’t slowly evolve into authoritarian ones. Instead, they become less and less effective until they suddenly collapse into an authoritarian order. People simply lose faith that the liberal order can function and they throw their support behind an authoritarian order just to survive.

If fascism and Left wing socialism share most of their political DNA then this process is easy to understand. When the vital 5% — or whatever crucially differentiates them — flips then one becomes the other. The BNP is not a ‘conservative party’ in the American mold. It is essentially a racist but economically Left wing organization which accepts a large state role in managing the economy. Where it differs with the Left is for whose benefit the economy should be managed. For the Left the answer is: for the benefit of what it defines to be the historical victim — Muslims, immigrants from former colonies and people with special sexual needs. For the BNP the answer to the question is: for the benefit of the poor white; the indigene; the people who have lived in the British isles. The Left correctly accuses the BNP of dividing the nation. What it fails to recognize is that the BNP is simply paying them back in their own coin. This exchange of toxic currency has set up a zero sum game. It has cast the Left as the champions of one side and the BNP is happily casting itself as the champions of the other.

(more…)"
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/

(Via SWJ; PDF warning) Maj. Jim Gant, One Tribe At A Time: A Strategy for Success in Afghanistan

I firmly believe that a relatively small number of special officers and noncommissioned officers could maintain influence on large portions of Afghanistan by advising, assisting, training and leading local tribal security forces (Arkabai) and building strong relationships with the tribes they live alongside.

One Tribe at a Time reflects what I believe to be the one strategy that can help both the US and the people of Afghanistan by working directly with their centuries-old tribal system. We can only do this by giving top priority to the most important political, social and military force in Afghanistan—the tribes. We must engage these tribes at a close and personal level with a much deeper cultural understanding than we have ever had before.

When we gain the respect and trust of one tribe, in one area, there will be a domino effect will spread throughout the region and beyond. One tribe will eventually become 25 or even 50 tribes. This can only have a long-term positive effect on the current situation. It is, however, not without pitfalls and difficulty. But it can and must be done....

Protestors Disrupt Question Period
cbc.ca Oct26.2009

*around 200 young protesters chanted slogans to support Bill C-311.......

*"The youth in the gallery showed more leadership then the MP's on the Floor"
Elizabeth May said at a Press Conference on Parliment Hill Monday afternoon following the demonstration
(Hmmmm Is this just a coincidence there is a Protest on the HoC during QP, Elizabeth May just happens to be in town & has a news conference following a Protest, Or are these the same Young Greens that said Your Parents F***** up the Planet)

The fellow that was roughed up at the HofC is named Jeh Custer. He is affiliated with the saskgreens and the Sierra Club,Lizzie's former employer. I doubt if anyone will ask Ms.May if she knew this was going down,or if anyone outside their circle really cares. Get a job,Jeh,and maybe a new name too.

From Celestial Junk via EUReferendum:

http://cjunk.blogspot.com/2009/10/bear-mountain-sports.html

Goreacle Report.

Awesome: manbearswinefluAGW.
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"WHO: nearly 5,000 swine flu deaths worldwide
(AP) – 3 days ago"
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"Regular flu has killed thousands since January

Worldwide, the annual death toll from the flu is estimated to be between 250,000 and 500,000."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hG6zmXnY6v5La-llZ8qbQIrdE-WAD9BGT8VO0

maz2, is the Paul Berton of the "Canada is dithering" article THE Paul Berton, nepotism's child, Pierre's son?

As I said in another thread, the journalist/media gene pool in Canada is discouragingly small -- small-minded, and mean-spirited.

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

batb, you mean Pierre, the Klondike prospector? Kinda miss Pierre a little. Miss Gordon Sinclair more. Them was the days when CBC was worthwhile. Don't watch listen to TV/radio anymore; except for Lowell Green. Lowell will soon be gone off air, also. Tempus fugit.

Don't know; but, that a88hole needs a reality check.

The following is compulsory reading/assimilation for/by Health Minister Aglukkaq.
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"The [O] Administration's Flu Fear-Mongering"

"Nor is there reason to think things will worsen.

In Australia and New Zealand, flu season has ended and almost all cases were swine flu. Yet even without a vaccine, those countries have reported significantly fewer flu deaths than normal.

Worldwide in seven months, swine flu has claimed almost 5,000 people, according to the World Health Organization, at the low end of the range the agency estimates die from seasonal flu every seven days.

Further, the virus isn't mutating into a worse form; it appears that the outbreak may already have crested in some states; and in fact a Purdue University study in the journal Eurosurveillance calculates that the national epidemic should peak this week."

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=510308

For the Juxtapose this thread:

Sep 29, 2009
McChrystal Says He's Talked With Obama Once Since Taking Afghanistan Command
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/28/mcchrystal-says-hes-met-obama-taking-afghanistan-command/

Oct 25, 2009
President Barack Obama has only been in office for just over nine months, but he's already hit the links as much as President Bush did in over two years.
http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0910/obama_ties_bush_on_golf.html

Yes, maz2, that Pierre, the author of "The Comfortable Pew."

Paul IS his son. At least in the "good old days," journalists had souls. There seemed to be enough moral and ethical capital left in Canada to inform their opinions.

BTW, maz2, in a summer job I had during my college years, I used to sell cigarettes to Gordon Sinclair. He was a true curmudgeon ('no problem with that!) and was much more of a gentleman than his CFRB colleague Earl Warren.