From the President Stalking-Horse files, here's Republican Congressman Cornelius (Connie) Mack on the peculiar sympathies of Barack Obama:

"Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez -- together with the likes of Cuba’s Castro brothers, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, and Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega -- is spewing a populist, leftist, and strongly anti-American brand of politics that is spreading throughout Latin America. There, a rebellion against Chavez’s Bolivarian Revolution is gathering that the Obama administration seems eager to quell.

"One country, Honduras, rejected the Chavista vitriol and embraced freedom, democracy, and the rule of law. This should have been seen as a win for freedom over tyranny. But instead, President Obama and his administration condemned the Honduran people and stood with a 'who’s who' list of tyrants and thugs of Latin America."

(...)

"Instead of recognizing that the Honduran people were following their constitution and the rule of law, President Obama immediately called for Mr. Zelaya’s reinstatement...The administration then cut vital aid to Honduras and revoked the visas of many Honduran officials. They threatened not to recognize the November 29 presidential elections unless the will of the Honduran people was overturned and Mr. Zelaya was returned to power."

This link comes via HotAir. Chicago's mayor Daley appeases the cult of death; http://www.wgntv.com/videobeta/watch/?watch=b98fce45-27db-4a2d-85d9-21b7f1f91b82&src=fro

Tax refugees staging escape from New York

As part of its plan to comply with a federal desegregation order now decades old, Tucson’s school district adopted racial quotas in school discipline this summer. Schools that suspend or expel Hispanic and black students at higher rates than white students will now get a visit from a district “Equity Team” and will be expected to remedy those disparities by reducing their minority discipline rates.
. . .
The administrators want local principals to examine disparate suspension rates “in detail for root causes.” I can save them some time: the root cause of disparate rates of suspension is disparate rates of bad behavior. As for the root cause of that bad behavior, the biggest one is single parenting. If the Tucson school board wants to publicize the essential role of fathers in raising law-abiding children, it might start solving the problem of disciplinary imbalance.

(via David Thompson)

Also via David's Thompson's ongoingly-superb British site, this is perhaps the most to-the-point statement I've ever seen on the whole "gun issue."

From Hill Buzz: new, and unlikely, fans of Dubya, Laura, and Dick on accounta Dr. Utopia:

http://hillbuzz.org/2009/11/10/thank-you-former-president-george-w-bush-and-former-first-lady-laura-bush/

[begin quote]

… If there are any of you out there with any connection at all to the Bushes, we implore you to give them our thanks…you tell them that a bunch of gay Hillary guys in Boystown, Chicago were wrong about the Bushes…and are deeply, deeply sorry for any jokes we told about them in the past, any bad thoughts we had about these good, good people. …

… We are now officially committed fans of George W. and Laura Bush. We are fans of Dick Cheney. Our gratitude for them makes us newly protective of them, and the continued role they play in this country. …

[end quote]

Hubba, hubba.

Antonia "get those facts out of my way, I'm typing!" Zerbisias:

"As much as I hate to admit it, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was right: Women are, indeed, a 'left-wing fringe group.'

Unhhh.

"...that's the phrase he used in September, in a not-so-closed-door speech to supporters, to describe organizations that have fought for women's rights in Canada.

"That was evident last week in Parliament when MPs, including 12 members of the NDP and eight Liberals, voted to scrap the long-gun registry, claiming it was what their mostly rural constituents wanted.

"No doubt. But how many of those clamouring constituents were women?

"Poll after poll has shown that women, including rural women, overwhelmingly supported the long-gun registry."

Don't touch that one - we all know from whence she pulled it. Commenter JNG pokes at it like a off-duty coroner wielding a swizzle stick: "I have been following this issue closely for a number of years and I have yet to see one of these polls. As a matter of fact, a reader poll conducted by the Star on November 7 showed that 62% thought it should be scrapped. A similar poll was conducted on the CBC website just a few days earlier which had 74% wanting it to be scrapped."

Zerbesias again: "One out of three femicide..." - yes, femicide - "...victims is still killed with a rifle, with country women the most vulnerable."

Yeszz, and if there were no rifles the men would have taken the women out to dinner and movie instead....

"Who knows how many women are intimidated by the shotguns and rifles...sitting in the gun rack?"

Yeah, who knows? I guess it would depend entirely on how many downtown GTA-prog twits are visiting farms at any given time.

Last word to commenter Marcus 1947: "There were 465 male victims of homicide versus 146 female vicitms. Yet according to Zerbisias, this is a 'women's issue'?"

Funnily enough, Flea sent me this last week, about women bloggers:

http://www.melissaclouthier.com/2009/10/26/why-there-are-fewer-womens-bloggers/

And yes, HillBuzz have been a fave site of mine since the middle of the election. I kept waiting to be told it was just a giant straight GOP hoax, but no, it seems to be for real: liberal gay men who cheer on women candidates, criticize their more over the top gay commrades -- and who can write really well.

EBD, good post. I instantly thought of Oriana Fallaci, another courageous female, who regrettably is no longer with us.

More science you can trust?

Large Hadron Collider: Damaged by a Time-Traveling Bird?

Sometime on Nov. 3, the supercooled magnets in sector 81 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), outside Geneva, began to dangerously overheat. Scientists rushed to diagnose the problem, since the particle accelerator has to maintain a temperature colder than deep space in order to work. The culprit?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091111/wl_time/08599193737000

Disproportionately represented? Possible, but I rather suspect observer bias on this one...as the alternative would have you arguing some variant of "the female of the species..."

But, accepting your hypothesis for the sake of discussion, let us then argue...

Greater (vested) interest?
Greater opportunity?
Greater capability?

EBD, in reference to your first paragraph. Could this be because men have been told for a couple of decades now that we are bad and anything we say is anti-societal or something. Just thinkin.

TJ, Orianna Fallaci is a perfect example of what I was talking about. It was an oversight on my part to not mention her.

Her courage has inspired other Italian *women* like Daniela Santanche. Contrast the nervous expression on the Italian male's face at 1:02 with the "don't go there, girlfriend" gestures of the old Italian woman in the orange vest at 2:42 - if you gave that lady a wooden spoon, and the guy a knife, my money would be on her.

Contrast also the Muslim guest's statement "I want to say to the Italians that...we don't ask that (the crucifixes) be removed from schools" with this:

"In 2003, the Union of the Muslims of Italy (UOMII), led by a radical convert to Islam named Adel Smith, brought a court action to have the crucifix removed from all public schools in that predominantly Catholic country. Calling the crucifix a 'small body on two wooden sticks,' and 'a miniature cadaver,' Smith and UOMII lobbied hard for their removal. Also on their agenda was the removal of an 'offensive' 15th century Giovanni di Modena fresco in the Bologna cathedral and the deletion of Dante’s Divine Comedy from the school syllabus. Smith said both showed the prophet Mohammed cast into hell and were blasphemous against Islam.

"The local Italian Court ruled in favor of Smith and the Muslims..."

(h/t Kathy Shaidle for that last one)

The Obama's most frequent visitor at the WH.

http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=ZGFmMDY4NzdkMmIwZTQ1MzU2ZDA4NGZhNzJlNGU2MTE=

FDR and Eleanor would be proud.

xiat, very important article. Crazily, 40,000 of New Yorkers pay about 50% of taxes for the 8 million inhabitants.

This explains why the bailouts were important on another level - New York State would go belly-up pretty quickly without huge bonuses in the financial sector.

And, yes - excellent point EBD. The rest of us have been beaten into submission, and keep our mouths shut.

Revnant Dream - Hope the Large Hadron Collider isn't just a typo!

Cuba announces "severe" energy cuts:

http://in.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idINTRE5AA4PW20091111

News or rumour? Lou Dobbs talking to FOX and thinking of leaving CNN re: his thoughts on immigration. Don't mind some of Dobb's stuff; was he considered the furthest right of the Left?

Tenebris, there may be some element of observer bias on this one, but I really don't think so. There are a lot of great male bloggers, but -- let's just stick to the Canadian context for a moment - I can't think of any off hand who have the cojones of Kathy or Kate.

I don't see any male equivalent of Orianna Fallaci, either, and personally I don't think John McCain or Huckabee or other Republican males can hold a candle to Sarah Palin when it comes to straight-talk and...balls.

Wrt your questions: greater opportunity is out the window straightaway - unless men are forced to stay home and do the ironing, or don't have access to computers, or don't have working mouths, or have had their typing fingers amputated while I wasn't looking. Greater opportunity? I really can't see how it's the case that women have greater opportunity to stand up and show guts.

Greater capability? Yeah, I think it's probably somewhere in that ballpark.

Ken (9:04): there may be some truth to that. Or maybe it's the case that when the current generation of men were growing up there were more (physical) repercussions to aggression, and that this folds over into adulthood.

Hard to say. Interesting topic, though.

Lou Dobbs is leaving CNN. Anyone with an over/under on when he shows up on Fox?

I don't think Lou Dobbs fits in at fox whatsoever.

that erik prince is sure some piece of work:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/world/middleeast/11blackwater.html?_r=1

I once sent a letter to Blackwater hqts supposedly from the 'commanding general American Forces, Iraq' 'advising' him that if Blackwater personnel EVER held guns onto American military personnel again
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-169660025.html
then Blackwater would be declared a hostile entity and their operatives were to be killed on sight by any means.

I didn't get a response. LOL !!!

Erick Larsen...re: going belly up

At Kathy's (8:38) link, here's Melissa Clouthier:

"Over and over, the women who blog are tougher. Like the shotgun wielding Western expansionists of yore, women bloggers take shots and can shoot back."

Verily.

Orianna Fallaci had the drunkard Chris Hitchens in a rage because she refused, in her last illness to tell him the contents of her private discussion with Pope Benedict. Orianna had an abortion once and wrote about it,though I never read it, but no woman, not even Fallaci can go through that, unscathed. If that's what it was about, it's certainly none of Bitchin Hitchen's business!

hmmm...interesting idea...how about putting Jack Layton on trial for crimes against humanity ?

It's political correctness. A lot of us would speak out but we suffer from angry white male syndrome.

I watched the Daniela Santanche video yesterday... it's love, I know it. ;)
Where is Canada's Daniela?

I know you wanted to only mention Canada's blogging women, so I'm not going to mention the name *Pamela*.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/11/pakistan.hero/index.html

Christian janitor died saving Muslim students

The premier of Saskatchewan thinks it's kind of a joke that he's run a huge hole in the province's finances, judging by his recent potash comments to Gene Simmons.

I wonder if those Saskatchewan residents who will be paying for the Wall Government's fiscal miscalculations will be laughing quite so heartily as Brad Wall and his out-of-province friends...

Regarding your comment about Women taking the hard stands; it's kind of like Nixen going to China. Does that make sense? No man could take the stand that these women do and survive the attacks from the left. When it is a Women that states the facts from the Right Wing side, alot of the ammo has been removed from the left's quiver.

I can see it, just have a hard time putting it into words.

EBD, thank you for that opening observation. I think you may an excellent point. May I respectfully add one more brilliant woman:

"We are gripped by a kind of madness in our society in which demonstrable facts and common sense are turned upside down in the service of an ideology - that is to say a governing idea to which all facts are wrenched to fit - even if it's demonstrably absurd. And this ideology is that people who are members of ethnic minorities, who come from Third World countries, basically can do no wrong and that if we criticize them or if we hold them to account for terrible deeds that they do, we are guilty of racism - because we are The West.

In this mindset the Third World ethnic minorities, who are deemed to be oppressed, can do no wrong. Or to be more precise, if they do wrong they must not be held responsible for that wrong. While we in the white skinned capitalist dominant West must always be held responsible for everything that happens, even if we are the victims.

This is a kind of absolutely Alice Through the Looking Glass, upside down, Orwellian, Kafkaesque, mad world in which truth and lies have been turned inside out, right and wrong turned inside out, justice and injustice turned inside out."

-- Melanie Phillips on Charles Adler's show, November 11, 2009

Thanks a lot Robert - not only did I hear Phillips this afternoon on Adler, that segment was actually the spur that got me thinking about the subject of tonight's post - I just forgot about it when it wrote it.

Phillips showed a pointed, utter absence of the - slightly-defensive - self-consciousness about being seen as a demagogue that men tend to have; she came across instead as a strong, calm, determined, unafraid, unapologetic, unvarnished-truth teller. She's a perfect example of what I'm talking about.

Wind , solar and perpetuum mobile

Stephen potash is taking a hiatus due to the financial hardships worldwide but it is necessary to feed the world so it will make a comeback. You can get by a year or two but the soil becomes depleted and must be renewed.
I think women bloggers are tougher and I agree that males being tough would be eaten alive. Women get more forgiveness and deservedly so, most politicians are men. That and passionate men not in the Arts are considered somewhat flakey. We are supposed to suck it up buttercup and not get too involved with issues.

I had considered starting a blog, until I caught on to SDA and Five Feet of Fury. I decided very quickly that I preferred their words to my own.
They stir the pot.
I took up song writing instead.

here's an example of your preamble - out on the street in fine form. Suzanne Reny did not give an inch.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/woman+against+anti+Royal/2208426/story.html

Why did the D.C. pedestrian cross the road?

vit ?

i'm confused...are you suggesting harry abrams...warren kinsella and the right revdrpoodle are cross dressers or transgendered ?

India's Northern Railways Company hires boxers and wrestlers to threaten to kick the poo out of ticketless riders.

xiat - that article about the individual states going broke is a big worry of mine.

Obama, Reid, and Pelosi can look high and mighty, expand programs, and lord it over everyone

Although they have a tax base to fund them, the Fed will gladly print all the dollars required to keep the "national show" going.

Individual states can't print money - so it's either tax baby tax, or go hat in hand to the feds. And the feds will demand behaviours in return.

It's going to get ugly. Sigh.

John, Vitruvius was clearly suggesting exactly that. Telepathically. Through me.

I feel used.

Theodore Dalrymple on The Cult of Insincerity:

"The desire to blur limits and boundaries, in order to overturn society, has long marked out a certain kind of leftist. Because in social phenomena there are always borderline cases, they wish to undermine the very idea of categories. They are like people who would deny that anyone is tall because there is a fine gradation between tallest and shortest. Thus, because some things were considered crimes that are so considered no longer, and some things that were once legal that are now deemed criminal, they deny that the crime is anything other that an arbitrary social construction. A criminal is someone who merely has difficulty in his relations with society as some men have difficulties in their relations with their wives (and vice versa). What more natural, therefore, than that they should all attend the same day care centre, where they will be cured of their difficulties by psychological means?"

(...)

"There is a moral exhibitionism, which is generosity of spirit at other people’s expense. This, I think, is one of the sicknesses of our age, the desire to appear more-compassionate-than-thou."

Wow: "Generosity of spirit at other people's expense..."

Oooh. Ooooh! Dawg!

Doug Casey lay the smack down on Howard Dean and Karl Rove. Fascinating debate.

EDB and Robert W: I posted the links on Melanie Phillips yesterday. Should read my posts occasionally.

There are few sensible news anchors or commentators on CNN, and today I heard that Lou Dobbs, who tells it like it IS, has aired his final show on that network.

If the USA is fortunate, Dobbs will run for President as an Independent, in 2012. Maybe Ed Rollins, as VP?

"I don't think Lou Dobbs fits in at fox whatsoever."

Dobbs had been muzzled at CNN for some time, especially in the last year since the WH inVasion...He was not happy there anymore. His farewell speech says it all; that there's too much PC and ideology going on in the MSM and that the Country is chsnging fast...Lou needs to be unleashed and my bet is FOX will have a spot for him.

Re Lou Dobbs' resignation video - he states he was proud to help build the world's "first" news network.

Not "finest", and not "best"

That word "first" was definitely chosen (and articulated) carefully. A nice underhanded insult methinks.

I've had a couple of women change the locks on me!! Very humbling. On the last change of locks, her boyfriend came home from the rigs. I was sorta glad I had chucked the key!!

That's true, what I've seen of him has been completely washed. We'll see what happens. I just seem to remember a few years ago he was probably the most anti-bush media figure out there. Beyond ridiculous actually. Something along the lines of "George Bush is destroying the middle class" blah blah blah...

Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Ezra Levant, Sean Hannity,Mark Steyn, and many others.

allan, Lou Dobbs is an INDEPENDENT, not a Republican.

Dobbs could see the damage being done by turning a blind eye to illegal immigration and by not securing the border. He's against the outsourcing of jobs Americans can do and FOR more manufacturing being done by Americans. Rather than capitulating to global organizations, Dobbs is pro-American and proud of it.

What I like about him is that he calls a spade a spade. He has a big ego, but he would make a sterling leader.

EBD, what you wrote above in response to the Phillips' quote hit a real chord with me. I've come to the conclusion, based on tons of anecdotal evidence, that I must come across as "The Angry White Man" to anyone who only knows me on a superficial level.

In essence, all that any of us are saying is that Political Correctness makes zero sense and, worse than that, is extremely harmful to our society.

To the Extreme Leftists (which admittedly there are more than a few of here on Canada's Left Coast where I live) nothing I can ever say will ever alter their ignorance one iota. But to open-minded middle of the road folks, perhaps it will make a difference.

Though speaking one's mind about respecting common sense & Canada's traditional values certainly doesn't make me the Fun, Party Guy amidst most single females. At least not here.

Robert, you - seriously - don't come across at all as an "angry white man." Trust me on that one. The stereotypical "angry white man" - in my own lexicon - is someone who comes across as a) ineloquent, and b) having a privately-subducted but loudly publicly-manifest fear that his penis is being cut off at every turn, which is then channeled into - ineloquent - rage.

You're comprehensively missing the boat on both counts. Get with the program, Robert!

I think, though, that you've provided a consideration-worth clue as to why women bloggers - the most exemplary and notable among them, anyway - have more balls: maybe they're not defensive or self-conscious about being seen as "the angry white man."

Wait...did I say "maybe?"

/:>@>

Stunning 3D recreation of US Airways Flight 1549, which ditched in the Hudson River on Jan 15, 2009.

http://www.exosphere3d.com/pubwww/pages/project_gallery/cactus_1549_hudson_river.html

or

http://snipurl.com/t719s

Here's a Reader Tip that I'm sending because this just isn't getting enough coverage.

Canadian border guards nab Syrian with $800K in gold

"A Syrian man is awaiting a detention hearing in Vancouver after he was caught crossing the U.S.-Canada border with nearly $1 million in gold and several items that could link him to a listed terrorist organization.

When Khaled Nawaya, 35, pulled up to a Surrey, British Columbia, border crossing on Oct. 6, he said he was heading to a new job as a flight instructor at a small B.C. airport. He was already approved to be a permanent resident and had been cleared by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Interpol and Canadian immigration.

Nawaya told Canadian Border Service officers he was bringing $10,000 in cash with him, but when they searched his car and his pockets they found more than $800,000 in Canadian gold coins and about $100,000 in cash.

The border guards also discovered a pro-Palestinian scarf, DVDs of 9/11 conspiracy theories and a ring bearing the insignia of Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based entity that Canada has officially listed as a terrorist organization."

This whole conservative women bloggers versus conservative male bloggers can only serve one purpose: a gender divide and conquer strategy. I think conservatives are not stupid enough to take the bait and be so easily manipulated.

divide - I totally am that stupid.

Speedy @10:41 - "Women get more forgiveness and deservedly so"; I think not, in this instance. A woman will be treated with gallantry by her allies, but when it comes to her enemies, those to whom she's a hate-figure, all bets are off. Michelle Malkin has published some of the hate-mail she gets on a very regular basis - yowza! Coulter is automatically portrayed as a joke and a hysterical harpy, even though her arguments are, as far as I know, invariably watertight.

And you do remember how paternally indulgent the establishment and press weren't towards Sarah Palin?

I think Tenebris is onto something @8:56; men are more courageous than women on average - and I'm certainly not talking about Kate, Kathy, Orianna etc. - but they're also prissier. I'm not sure, re. Speedy, about "passionate men" being considered "flakey", but I do admit that men feel obliged "take prisoners" (sort of "be reasonable, old chap") in a way that women don't. Otherwise, unless they're very talented, they tend to wind up coming off like Kinsella - silly and mildly deranged. Exaggerated as his archetype is, I link you to Kipling's poem.

" ... women are disproportionately represented among the group of conservatives who take courageous stands and give no quarter to useful idiots." Amen.

Hey, it's women who have babies. 'Nough said ;-)

Could I add that women who hate political correctness tend to really hate political correctness because that mindset is so redolent of how all-female groups interact: i.e. Mind your manners, don't upset anyone, don't stand out or be energetic, and never mind what's actually true or logical, nobody really cares about that. Some women just get sick to death of the whole thing sometime around middle-school and it pushes them over the Rubicon.

EDB and Robert W and Gunney99: I posted another link on Melanie Phillips a few days ago re the Fort Hood massacre.

Melanie Phillips, Kate, and Kathy rock!

Re my baby remark: The thing about women is that they've been gifted with a perseverance that many men lack. Men will forge ahead, with visions of the future -- and G*d bless them for it -- whereas women deal with the minutiae of life, which tends to give us a certain amount of tolerance for messes and life-in-the-process-of-happening ambiguities.

Giving birth or being in labour -- it's hard work bringing a child into the world, even harder work taking care of and civilizing a small human being over the long haul -- requires a certain amount of grit.

I know that many women of true grit don't have children; they are, however, women and the toughness and no-guffness are built into the female DNA. I'm not sure what this says about the surrender-laydown-monkey women on the left, except that they have compromised themselves by becoming radical feminists, by trying to be men without a peni*, and have allowed themselves to be allured by the perks of a desk in an office and the "power" (sic) that comes with it.

batb - argh! Read the Kipling poem, woman! Read stanzas 7,8 and 9.

Oh, and passive-aggressive. It's the passive-aggressivity of political correctness that a certain type of female recognizes and is repelled by.

Okay, you're all on your own now.

"good girl".

Rebelious woman anthems?

The one that "warms" my heart is Martina McBride's "Independence Day".
Good for her..

not to say there is any double-standard or anything but what would the expected lifespan be of a man calling Muhammad a pedophile on national TV?

Whether he was one or not seems not to matter to the Muslims in the audience.

this is the news while Syrians coming into Canada with 800k and various hezbollah intentions is not.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091112/autos_car_wash_091112/20091112?s_name=Autos

"Was Hasan psychotic?".

Notice the past tense: "was".

No. Hasan is a murderer from Islam's jihad. Islam is a death cult waging war on the West.

MSM is attempting to dissasociate a Muslim murderer from Islam.
...-

Military Doctors Worried Hasan Was 'Psychotic,' Capable of Killing Fellow Soldiers

U.S. military doctors overseeing Nidal Malik Hasan's medical training were concerned he was "psychotic" and possibly capable of killing other American soldiers, before the Army major allegedly went on a deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas. Psychiatrists and medical officials at Walter Reed Army Medical Center held a series of meetings beginning in the Spring of 2008 to discuss serious concerns about his work and behavior, National Public Radio reported. One of the questions they asked: Was Hasan psychotic?"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384602/posts

CFRA Polls

"What's your reaction to the new citizenship guide that embraces Canada's military history and rejects barbaric cultural practices including violence against women?

1. I don't like it: it puts too much emphasis on military history and we need to be more sensitive to the cultures of new Canadians
1.97%

2. I like it: it's time newcomers understood their responsibilities and that Canada won't tolerate gender-based violence disguised as a cultural practice
96.9%

3. Other 1.11%
http://www.cfra.com/

Two-part documentary. Don't watch if you're squeamish:

Shamrock Black Salerno EMT

A story about the triumph and tragedies of a trauma ward in Afghanistan.

Stemming the 'Evil Flowers'

In Afghanistan, Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) are now the number one killer of coalition forces, and the 2009 campaigning season is seeing a record number of IED attacks. At this week's Wednesday Lowy Lunch, the Commander of Australia’s Counter-IED Task Force, Brigadier Phil Winter, described how Australia and its partners in Afghanistan are dealing with the lethal harvest of what Afghans are now calling the 'evil flowers'...

Chuck upchucks this AGW barf alert:

"ninety-two [months] to be precise" until AGW apocalypse.
...-

"Goodbye Dotty Prince Charlie

I’ve been trying to ignore the Royal visit under the principle of if you can’t say something nice don’t say anything at all, but my patience has been sorely tried.

Prince Charles, who can’t even keep the present day straight in his own mind can somehow hone in on the exact month of impending environmental doom:

“I am afraid we now have less than 100 months — ninety-two to be precise — to take the necessary action to limit catastrophic climate change.”

I admit that it was very touching to see Charles standing there beside our GG yesterday for the Remembrance Day ceremonies in Ottawa, but now it’s time for him and Camilla to go home.

And don’t rush back too soon, Charles. We wouldn’t want you to have to pay another royal fortune in carbon credits for your transportation sins."

http://www.bluelikeyou.com/

Victor Davis Hanson: The Fort Hood massacre was right on schedule:

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDM4YWY3NmRlNWQ4OTFhNWYxZTE3ZDdlNzdhM2I0ZGU=&w=MA==

Prepare yourselves.

When the government starts improving the weather

I hope this doesn't give the HRC 'roos any ideas:

John Garnaut, Chinese petitioners end up in 'black jails'

Thousands of Chinese are abducted and detained in illegal "black jails" each year for trying to lodge complaints against officials, a human rights report says...

Officials at various tiers of government have created this network of extra-judicial abductions and detentions as a way to improve their work performance appraisals, as merit points are deducted when complaints are made against them...

Sooke: Thank YOU! That's the coolest thing I've seen in some time!!

Divide: That wasn't the purpose of EBD's comment, nor mine either. I was pointing out that if a conservative oriented male chooses to speak up for what he believes in our baseline Leftist culture, that there are often negative repercussions.

If a conservative oriented female chooses to do the same, there is probably a similar price to be paid amongst her female friends (single females tend to be the most Leftist of all groups) but perhaps a positive for her is that she'll be the rare exception in the proverbial herd and attract the attention of a conservative male!

China is just one big bubble. Hence the next phase in global economic crisis is coming.

My comment was not meant to insult anyone. This whole discussion stems from the interviews that Carrie Prejean has been doing. She has a book out and an accompanying sex tape (having sex with herself). The premise of her book is how conservative women are Palinized and treated unfairly in MSM. Although, I agree that conservative women are judged much harsher than liberal women, I do not think Carrie Prejean is the best person to speak out about this matter. I would not be surprised if she was actually a liberal plant aiming to make conservatives look stupid. It all just seems so contrived. She did not even answer the question she was asked by Perez Hilton - should same sex marriage be legalized, not if she agreed with it. A simple answer would have been - it is up to the voters. Instead she went on about how marriage is between a man and a women which had nothing to do with the question. She was also supposed to disclose her semi-nude pics which she did not. Nothing sells like controversy and Trump knows it. Liberals are having a field day screaming hypocrite.

Early on I supported Carrie Prejean but after her latest stint on Larry King, I sense that she's just the Christian equivalent of Paris Hilton (though much better looking).

When the government starts improving the weather
Posted by: xiat at November 12, 2009 2:07 PM

Interesting to see how many citizens died as a result of the government's action. A Bloomberg article mentions several incidents resulting in mortality.

Sad. A perfect articulation of government intervention within society.

tantric zantrapuss! Vit - you need to release some more funk out of the studio one of these days....

Bow Wow Wow, Yippie Yo, Yippie... Nay? 'Atomic Dog' Infringed
By Caleb Groos on November 4, 2009 5:24 PM | No TrackBacks

A federal court of appeals has upheld a lower court decision that "D.O.G. in Me" by the group Public Announcement (featuring a guest spot by Shaquille O'Neal) infringed copyrights in George Clinton's funk classic "Atomic Dog." "Bow wow wow, yippie yo, yippie yeah" (the Bow Wow refrain) first gained notoriety amongst those listening for signals from funk master Clinton's mothership in 1982.

Bridgeport Music, the owner of rights to many of Clinton's songs has been pursuing 476 infringement actions against various artists who borrowed from Clinton. (The funkmaster himself isn't seeing any of this money and has spent years litigating with Bridgeport over disputed royalties.)

One of those 476 cases made it all the way to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which upheld a verdict of infringement of Cinton's dogtastic classic.

The Court of Appeals also gave us this gem regarding the Bow Wow refrain's origin:

"[Songwriter David Spradley] recorded the initial tracks in the studio and recalled that 'when George arrived he had been partying pretty heavily so he was, you know, feeling pretty good,' and was unsteady at the microphone. Spradley and Garry Shider 'got on either side of him. We just kind of kept him in front of the microphone' while Clinton recorded the vocal tracks that same night."

http://blogs.findlaw.com/decided/2009/11/bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-nay-atomic-dog-infringed.html

Black Mamba: "batb - argh! Read the Kipling poem, woman! Read stanzas 7,8 and 9."

Gotcha! Did! He gets it!

Didn't read Kipling's poem this morning (mea culpa); 'was in a rush to get to work. In the shower, I thought EXACTLY along the same lines as his -- that women are MOTHERS and are totally fierce about protecting their bairns -- or their convictions -- from crappy, self-serving, lying, compromising cowards.

When my kids were growing up, I was often unpopular in my town because of the politically incorrect stuff I said OUT LOUD, but I was damned if my kids -- and others' for that matter -- were going to be lied to and put at risk.

Beware the aroused female!!!!

Speaking power to truth – the unfortunate case of David Nutt

November 1, 2009

Sitting 3000 miles away from London in Washington DC, I’ve been following the dismissal of Professor David Nutt as the UK government’s senior scientific advisor on the misuse of drugs, with interest. Not being steeped in British drugs politics, I was only vaguely aware of the tensions between the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, which Nutt chaired until Friday, and UK policymakers. So as the story broke, I found it tough to disentangle whether this was a case of a respected scientist demonstrating a blindingly naive understanding of policy, or a government forfeiting science in favor of ideology. But the more I dig into the situation, the more it seems to highlight a worrying disdain for science and evidence amongst policy makers.

....I’m constantly surprised at how hard it is to ensure that recommendations and decisions are informed by “evidence,” rather than the evidence being cherry picked and massaged in support of predetermined ideas.

Even in a supposedly science-savvy administration, this is a very real challenge. For a whole host of reasons, the system is biased towards people who see knowledge as a tradeable and malleable commodity, and who have a startlingly loose attitude toward evidence. Even well-meaning players in the policy arena sometimes seem to struggle with listening to what the evidence says, rather selectively using it to make a point.

But the grounds for Nutt’s dismissal also struck a more personal chord. Having a son at middle school and a daughter at high school, I have been dismayed at how “evidence” is sometimes misused in the push to prevent children from abusing drugs (both legal and illegal). My evidence is largely anecdotal, but it seems that in their “drugs education,” there is a tendency for inconvenient facts to be avoided and, on occasion, information to be “massaged” in the effort to steer the kids toward a safer and healthier lifestyle.

Read more: http://2020science.org/2009/11/01/speaking-power-to-truth-the-unfortunate-case-of-david-nutt/#ixzz0WgqHN5eB

Report from the SDA ITYS Dept.

Our Enemy, The State.
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"H1N1 a 'dud' pandemic, Ont. health official says

The huge investments governments made in swine flu pandemic planning might not have been justified, an Ontario health official said Thursday.

"It's really not causing — and is not going to cause and nowhere has caused — significant levels of illness or death," said Dr. Richard Schabas, Ontario's former chief medical officer of health.

"But governments moved ahead regardless. They ramped up their response, spent a huge amount of money on vaccines and other things. I'm not sure the $1.5 billion includes the cost of new ventilators, the cost of Tamiflu stockpiles … the huge investment that's been put into planning for what has ultimately turned out to be, from a pandemic perspective, a dud.""

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/11/12/h1n1-vaccine-costs.html

batb - and don't you love the picture? A sort of flapper Mona Lisa.

(I always love Kipling, but The Female of the Species is very heightened. Really, we're all androgyns. Not necessarily annoying Leo DiCaprio-in-Titanic androgyns, but still)

The Wall -

by Pink Floyd

Another Brick in the Wall
We do not need no education

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_bvT-DGcWw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH9J2_7AzoU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySO-gryuO-c&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRcQZ2tnWeg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHk6clzLeMM&feature=related

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd

Re: "We are gripped by a kind of madness in our society in which demonstrable facts and common sense are turned upside down in the service of an ideology - that is to say a governing idea to which all facts are wrenched to fit - even if it's demonstrably absurd. And this ideology is that people who are members of ethnic minorities, who come from Third World countries, basically can do no wrong and that if we criticize them or if we hold them to account for terrible deeds that they do, we are guilty of racism - because we are The West." (Melanie Phlllips quote)

I'm going to be technical on this one. The ideology involved is Marxism along with its offshoots including political correctness a la the Frankfurt School. Turning demonstrable facts upside down in the service of the ideology, etc., is a tactic that derives from the nature of the ideology and its overall lack of a basis in reality. Calling everyone one disagrees with "racist", including those who point out wrongdoing by non-westerners, is another tactic in the service of the ideology.

To overcome a non-reality-based ideology one needs an ideology that properly describes reality, and that is the one formulated by Ayn Rand.

The supremacy of women bloggers relative to the men is undeniable, but for the life of me I can't think of any possible explanation for it.