The National Post has a story up on 'climate change'. Not the story that most would like to read,but it does question AGW and the science . http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=8926a1d3-f43f-4f8b-811d-0a0daa3e1012&k=39580&p=1

The state intrudes - Babies learn about their "rights"
. . .
As the first baby to be born at the Trillium Health Centre today – entering the world at 12:18 a.m. – he received a special visit from Success By 6 Peel’s Children’s Rights Committee.
. . .
was the first of 20 babies at Trillium to receive, among other treats, a Onesie bodysuit with Peel Children’s Charter of Rights listed on the back.

Jean Charest giving a big speech about how virtuous he and the Quebec government is because they believe in the science of climate change and because they will be doing so much to cut down on carbon emissions. Of course Mother Nature has blessed Quebec with water power and the rest of the package is just parsley on top (helping municipalities to go more green, etc.)

Of course he is all for this scam because it is another way of having more equalization money going to Quebec, just in another currency, i.e. carbon credits. At the expense of Alberta of course.

If only he would promise never to give another speech in order to to cut down on the hot air...What a pompous ass. Can't believe people still think of him as a future prime minister of Canada.

Darn! and I was hoping for an evening if "Shit From Hell"!

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who's going to enforce babies' rights?

my personal experience is the one who you *think* and whose *job description* has them defending your rights, are the first to breach them.

does this mean we will have retroactive abortion in the future at the trillium?

senator Inhofe calls for a congressional investigation into "climategate"

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=2188feb3-802a-23ad-4de4-3fbc0a92e126&Issue_id

George Monbiot ? George Monbiot ?

Now where have I heard that name before ? A global warming fanatic, right ?

Well, if he can say this , why n' he!! can't our beloved CBC even mention the biggest fraud story the world has ever seen !!!!!?????

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Even George Monbiot, one of the fiercest media propagandists of the warming faith, admits he should have been more sceptical and says the science now needs to be rechecked:

It’s no use pretending that this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they are genuine, and I’m dismayed and deeply shaken by them.

Yes, the messages were obtained illegally. Yes, all of us say things in emails that would be excruciating if made public. Yes, some of the comments have been taken out of context. But there are some messages that require no spin to make them look bad. There appears to be evidence here of attempts to prevent scientific data from being released, and even to destroy material that was subject to a freedom of information request.
Worse still, some of the emails suggest efforts to prevent the publication of work by climate sceptics, or to keep it out of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I believe that the head of the unit, Phil Jones, should now resign. Some of the data discussed in the emails should be re-analysed.

Fall of the Republic - The Presidency of B.H. Obama:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8LPNRI_6T8

Note: It's over 2 hours long, so you may need to watch it in chunks.

Anthony Watts says it all;

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If even Monbiot, an extremist, can say that much, why cannot the Liberals say far more? And will now the legion of warmist journalists in our own media dare say as Monbiot has so belatedly:

[I apologise. I was too trusting of some of those who provided the evidence I championed. I would have been a better journalist if I had investigated their claims more closely.] Monbiot

Scepticism is the essential disposition of our craft, yet too many journalists have abandoned it. Remember: the opposite of sceptical is gullible.

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Al & David, anything to add?

more on the rot in motor city aka detoilet michigan:

3w.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6926247.ece

Ron
Our MSM can't tells us anything about this scandal. They're too busy still telling us about Michael Jackson dying.

Oh, snap. NBC has pulled down the Obama-Hu skit from SNL. It's available on their website, but of course, we can't watch it from Canada as Global doesn't allow it.

Dr. Timothy Ball on Global Warming Science and the SSC e-mails.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/climate-change-bombshell-dr-tim-ball-on-the-hacked-cru-emails.html

Kevin B: not to worry:

3w.youtube.com/watch?v=XN-ui28SlHU

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BREAKING:

apparently steffi... "won't be commenting on 'his wife's tirade'".

no information yet on which hotel he will be moving to.

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neo - nails it !!

Someone left me this line on a YouTube video of Obama supporters dancing in the streets of Seattle, after his victory last November:

Obama is spending my money like a drunken sailor in a whorehouse, using his ex-girlfriend's credit card the same night she gave him a Dear John letter.

neo: Wow! And Double Wow!

Why do I sense that if Dion had been PM and Lichtenstein had said "Boo!" that he would have handed Alberta over to them?!?

I think the lieberal handlers have handed both Iggy and Borat Dion a great big cup of shut the f**k up.

they know that both of them are causing a tank in the polls. only Bob the Blab Rae on deck right now while they rig a new rudder.

Simpson, Jeffrey to me show details 7/22/08

With respect, I have spent some years reading the “science,” and am in profound disagreement with you, as are all the governments of Canada (even Alberta and Saskatchewan accept the reality of climate change), the two major parties in the U.S., all of Europe, even China and India and Brazil, and the overwhelming number of scientific academics such as the Royal Society, the National Association of Scientists plus almost all of them in Canada. No one seriously believes that sun spots stuff. But there’s nothing I could say or point you to that would make you change your mind. Polls here show that about 10 per cent of Canadians deny the relaty of global warming, and as the song says “they will not be moved.” It’s frustrating, I guess, because the world has passed them completely by, so they bray at the moon.

Did you all see this segment with Chris Matthews? He has consistently been one of the biggest Obama sycophants of all. Something is happening amongst the American Left.

Ron, do you think Jeffrey Simpson & Bill Good discuss such things during sauna sessions? Two very blind men they are!

that would be the same governments that run the post office and the ERCB that "accept" "the science" of AGW.

what have we wrought?

or should that be

What have we? rot!!

mmmm, so Jeffrey, when can we expect a piece on how the science was cooked, er, is settled ?

"Nemanya" maz2!

According to allegations in a new Russian-language book, it appears that former Olympics pooh-bah Juan Antonio Samaranch played with both sides of the coin of 20th century totalitarianism.

It is alleged that Samaranch - as the outgoing Spanish ambassador to Moscow in 1980 - caught the attention of "Herr Rupprecht's" "Kind Good Boys", and the Red spooks "set about cultivating Mr Samaranch as a contact."

No word on whether this led to the Beijing propaganda coup of 2008 (taking into account warming post-1989 Sino-Soviet and Russo-Chinese relations) - but the book does hint that Juan Antonio twisted arms for Sochi's successful 2014 bid.

data collection in sherman's lagoon:

3w.slagoon.com/dailies/SL091124.gif

mr fort hood shrink not doing too well:

3w.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/11/23/2009-11-23_fort_hood_shooting_suspect_maj_nidal_malik_hasan_permanently_paralyzed_from_ches.html

"The Architect as Totalitarian

Le Corbusier’s baleful influence

Le Corbusier was to architecture what Pol Pot was to social reform. In one sense, he had less excuse for his activities than Pol Pot: for unlike the Cambodian, he possessed great talent, even genius. Unfortunately, he turned his gifts to destructive ends, and it is no coincidence that he willingly served both Stalin and Vichy. Like Pol Pot, he wanted to start from Year Zero: before me, nothing; after me, everything. By their very presence, the raw-concrete-clad rectangular towers that obsessed him canceled out centuries of architecture. Hardly any town or city in Britain (to take just one nation) has not had its composition wrecked by architects and planners inspired by his ideas.

Writings about Le Corbusier often begin with an encomium to his importance, something like: “He was the most important architect of the twentieth century.” Friend and foe would agree with this judgment, but importance is, of course, morally and aesthetically ambiguous. After all, Lenin was one of the most important politicians of the twentieth century, but it was his influence on history, not his merits, that made him so: likewise Le Corbusier.

Yet just as Lenin was revered long after his monstrosity should have been obvious to all, so Le Corbusier continues to be revered. Indeed, there is something of a revival in the adulation."

http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_4_otbie-le-corbusier.html

'Trying to post on the Freddy Mercury thread and there's a server problem ... is it just me or is there a general problem?

"The Architect as Totalitarian
Le Corbusier’s baleful influence

Obsessed with concrete, Le Corbusier called this a 'garden'
Rene Burri/Magnum Photos

Le Corbusier was to architecture what Pol Pot was to social reform. In one sense, he had less excuse for his activities than Pol Pot: for unlike the Cambodian, he possessed great talent, even genius. Unfortunately, he turned his gifts to destructive ends, and it is no coincidence that he willingly served both Stalin and Vichy. Like Pol Pot, he wanted to start from Year Zero: before me, nothing; after me, everything. By their very presence, the raw-concrete-clad rectangular towers that obsessed him canceled out centuries of architecture. Hardly any town or city in Britain (to take just one nation) has not had its composition wrecked by architects and planners inspired by his ideas.

Writings about Le Corbusier often begin with an encomium to his importance, something like: “He was the most important architect of the twentieth century.” Friend and foe would agree with this judgment, but importance is, of course, morally and aesthetically ambiguous. After all, Lenin was one of the most important politicians of the twentieth century, but it was his influence on history, not his merits, that made him so: likewise Le Corbusier.

Yet just as Lenin was revered long after his monstrosity should have been obvious to all, so Le Corbusier continues to be revered. Indeed, there is something of a revival in the adulation."

http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_4_otbie-le-corbusier.html

Excellent summation of "climategate" at the intellectual activist (via RCP) here:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/24/the_fix_is_in_99280.html

if you AR looking for a column that explains to those who are not actively following the "scandal of the century" (me thinks it could be the the greatest scandal of all human history) this is it.

The goracle in today's Toronto Star---""They have to tear up four tons of landscape, all for one barrel of oil. It is truly nuts. But, you know, junkies find veins in their toes." I am hoping that Gore will soon be spending a lot of quality time with junkies really soon.---http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/article/729836--oil-sands-threaten-our-survival-al-gore-warns

From the "more pavilions at folkfest" files:

Are you "culturally competent" or are you a "hetero-normative" cultural criminal? Take the test, then confess:

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/70662162.html?page=1&c=y

There's a cultural revolution raging right beneath our noses.

I see google ads are furiously pushing all kinds of nature ads from groups like Nature Canada.ca and the World Wildlife Foundation. They are appearing on many of the web pages exposing the Climategate fraud. They just wont quit will they.

h/t The Corner.

An actual combat veteran and sufferer of PTSD goes off on the clueless 'communicable second-hand PTSD' media.

http://www.jrsalzman.com/post/2009/11/07/PTSD.aspx

It dont look good Mr Benny

Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential tracking poll for Tues Nov.24/2009

-15

this is the Lowest Obama has yet to recieve
27% strongly approve
42% Stongly Disapprove

Iowahawk strikes again with The Secret Life of Climate Researchers.

"this hive alone will produce over 6 million metric tons of grant-sustaining climate data guano" - the man's a genius.

Ezra Levant does a tidy roping-in of Chretien's double sided take on doing business with China.

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/24/ezra-on-chretien.aspx

If the Libranos were pi$$ing taxpayer cash away on self promotion, the Cons might be a little miffed about it.

...Instead, these private organizations are happy to pi$$ away your money for their own benefit...

Tory MP apologizes for erroneous flyer
Joan Bryden THE CANADIAN PRESS
Published On Mon Nov 23 2009

OTTAWA–A Conservative MP has apologized for misrepresenting an opponent in one of many controversial flyers his party has been mailing – at taxpayers' expense – across the country.

The apology came Monday just as a secretive all-party committee was meeting to discuss what, if any, limits should be placed on so-called ten-percenters – one-page flyers that MPs are entitled to mail to households outside their own ridings.

Saskatoon MP Maurice Vellacott apologized "explicitly" and ``without reservation" for the flyer sent to New Democrat MP Peter Stoffer's riding about the long gun registry. The flyer asserted that Stoffer had "worked to support the registry" when in fact he has opposed it since its inception 12 years ago.

Vellacott appeared to suggest that the flyer was produced by the Tory party and not by him or his staff, even though it went out under his name.

"I have received an undertaking from our Conservative resource group that in the future they will proofread more carefully and nuance more appropriately any ten percenter mail pieces that are sent out under my name," he said.....

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/729766--tory-mp-apologizes-for-erroneous-flyer

J.E. Dyer, Going Rogue: The Review

I just finished Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue. I’m particularly busy right now, so the fact that I postponed other things that really need doing in order to read through it quickly is testament to the interest Palin’s account sustains...

What [Ronald Reagan] had going for him was more than an articulate appreciation of principle: he had moral courage. And that brings us back to Sarah Palin, and Going Rogue. My opinion on the Palin phenomenon is that what so many people see in her is an electable politician with moral courage. She is electable not merely because she is attractive and energetic, but because her conservatism – what she calls “Commonsense Conservatism” – is principled without shorting pragmatism. She recognizes a proper role for government, but not the idea of government as eschatological agent that even many conservatives have. What Going Rogue does is spell out Palin’s concept of governance; and it is sure to requite the anticipation of her many supporters...

Well this makes us all feel much safer does it not? Keeping in mind Fort Hood!

Obama and Janet Napolitano Appoint Arif Alikhan, a devout Muslim as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development Source for announcement:Homeland Security Press Room.http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/06/obama-appointment-arif-ali-khan-asst-secretary-dhs.html

And here's another feel good moment brought to to you by the big "O".

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is proud to announce that the DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in Kareem Shora, a devout Muslim, who was born in Damascus, Syria as ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).http://www.adc.org//

Katie Couric's future Newsweek cover?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/11/the_daily_grind_evening_update.asp

:))))

The World according to Americans

Isn't it curious that actual justice is achieved in a despotic dictatorship, and not in western democracies...

China executes 2 for tainted milk powder scandal
The Associated Press

China executed two people Tuesday for their roles in a tainted milk powder scandal in which at least six children died and more than 300,000 became sick.

Zhang Yujun was executed for endangering public safety and Geng Jinping was executed for producing and selling toxic food, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

Their sentences were upheld in March by an appellate court in the northern city of Shijiazhuang. China requires death sentences to receive final approval from the Supreme People's Court in Beijing, after which most are carried out by lethal injection.

Xinhua said news of the execution had been issued by the Shijiazhuang Municipal Intermediate People's Court, although a court clerk who answered the phone Tuesday said he was unable to confirm the sentences had been carried out.

The case was one of China's worst-ever food safety scandals, involving tainting of infant formula with the industrial chemical melamine, which can cause kidney stones and kidney failure.

Melamine, used in the manufacture of plastics and fertilizer, was added to watered-down milk to fool inspectors testing for protein, and to boost profits.

xiat, other than a few changes in North America, that would describe the thinking of 97% of Canadians!

The changes, by the way, would be:

Canada: "Home, Sweet Home"

USA: "Home of Disneyland & Disneyworld"

Mexico: "Winter Margarita Fun"

Kate: CFP has a new column up by Dr Tim Ball about John Holdren, Obama`s Science Czar and his tie in to Climategate....thought you might like to link....

Here's a very touching video of the Olympic Torch Relay across Northern Canada:

http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-videos/olympic-torch-relay---northern-highlights_186850g110288-gJ.html

http://www.jrsalzman.com/post/2009/11/07/PTSD.aspx

Posted by: Matt Hillier at November 24, 2009 9:49 AM

Thank you for that link, Matt.
What this man has written eloquently enough(IMO) debunks all the defenders of the Fort Hood terrorist having *PTSD* by proxy.

Every single U.S. lender specializing in sub-prime has gone bankrupt. The largest sub-prime lender in the
world is now the Canadian government

http://www.beearly.com/pdfFiles/Canada's%20Sub-Prime%20Mortgage%20Time%20Bomb19112009.pdf

from todays American Thinker: The Wilding of Sarah Palin .. "Robin of Berkeley" note, it's only a 2 minute read at most...

"The Left's behavior towards Palin is not politics as usual. By their laser-focus on her body and her sexuality, leftists are defiling her.
They are wilding her. And they do this with the full knowledge and complicity of the White House."

"And from Atlantic Magazine's Andrew Sullivan: Sarah Palin's vagina is the font of all evil in the galaxy.
Nothing is off-limits, not actress Sandra Bernhard's wish that Palin be gang-raped or the sexualization of Palin's daughters."

"It has been almost two years since I woke up and broke up with liberalism. During these many months, I've discovered that everything I believed was wrong."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/the_wilding_of_sarah_palin.html

Apologies in advance for the long post. But.

This shows the glaring hypocrisy of the Cons - who are implementing draconian minimum sentences for marijuana growers, while those who actually destroy lives get health care, 'treatment', a nice warm bed, and dental coverage.

While an herb that can't be taxed draws billions in censure and the force of the state upon it, true evil in our society becomes the fuel and part of the bureaucracy.

Edmonton sex offender allegedly breaks conditions of release by trick or treating

By TONY BLAIS, COURT BUREAU

Last Updated: 24th November 2009, 12:55pm

Convicted sex offender Mackenzie (Max) Setter, 30, allegedly broke the conditions of his release while trick or treating, say cops. (Sun file)
Convicted sex offender Mackenzie (Max) Setter, 30, allegedly broke the conditions of his release while trick or treating, say cops. (Sun file)

A high-risk sex offender who nearly bludgeoned to death a seven-year-old girl and is living in Edmonton under strict conditions has been arrested for trick or treating.

Mackenzie (Max) Setter, 30, had voluntarily consented to a Section 810 recognizance – which is a type of peace bond with attached conditions that is used by police to monitor recently released offenders in the community – on Sept. 3.

As part of the conditions, Setter was banned from being alone with children under 16 and from being within 100 metres of any park, playground, pool, day care, school or anywhere else where unsupervised children are found.

However, Sun Media has learned that Setter apparently breached those conditions by going out trick or treating on Halloween night.

Crown prosecutor Tania Holland said Setter had gone to his mother’s north Edmonton home on Oct. 31 and stayed in her apartment while she took her five-year-old niece out to collect Halloween goodies.

After they returned about 8:30 p.m., Setter left to go to the residence of his father and step-mother and began walking toward the Coliseum LRT station, said Holland.

While en route, Setter decided to go trick or treating and stopped at nine homes in a five-block area, said Holland, adding he wore work coveralls with a bandanna on his head and collected half an ice cream bucket of candy.

Setter also allegedly stopped off by a playground area near Eastwood elementary school.

“He is not supposed to be alone where children are expected to be congregating,” said Holland.

Setter was charged after police learned what he had allegedly done and he apparently admitted it.

The convicted sex offender appeared before a justice of the peace Thursday and was denied bail and was also in court briefly yesterday. His next appearance is on Dec. 7.

In 1999, Setter was sentenced to nine years in prison after being convicted of attempted murder and aggravated sexual assault for a brutal June 14, 1995, attack on a seven-year-old girl in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. when he was 16.

The victim had gone to a neighbourhood park after school and was last seen with Setter and other young girls playing hide-and-seek. She was found unconscious, partially hidden by a fallen tree, and had been bludgeoned by a rock. Setter’s DNA was found at the crotch of her pants.

The victim, now 21, was left permanently brain-damaged with the mental capacity of a five-year-old child.

Setter’s sentence expired in February and he decided to move to Edmonton, prompting city police to issue a public warning in July.

On Sept. 3, Setter agreed to let authorities keep tabs on him for the next two years.

According to National Parole Board documents obtained by Sun Media, Setter was released to a B.C. residential facility in October 2007, but was suspended the following spring for multiple breaches of his release plan.

Those breaches include having a relationship with a woman, despite being forbidden from doing so without permission, wearing a jacket belonging to the woman that contained a crack pipe, being deceptive with staff and not participating in a sexual offender maintenance program.

The documents also reveal Setter had been hanging out with other sex offenders and was spotted walking by two playgrounds while carrying two teddy bears.

The parole board documents also show Setter was kept detained in prison following his statutory release date because officials believed he was likely to commit an offence causing serious bodily harm to another person.

At the time of the 1995 attack, Setter had been investigated for making sexually aggressive calls to a family, threatening to rape all family members, including their pets.

He had also harassed several young girls on the street, waved a knife in front of one of them and was suspected of trying to push the one he threatened into some bushes.

File information reveals Setter’s elementary school years were characterized by fights, mischief, thefts and vandalism and he once slapped and punched his babysitter and was physically abusive to a younger brother to the point where medical treatment was required.

He was also reported to have taken part in dismembering animals as a revenge method while a member of a satanic group and writing notes to girls at school about rapes, murder and suicide.

Psychiatric reports prepared on Setter state he demonstrates sexual deviant tendencies and sexual sadism and has issues with abandonment and betrayal by females.

He has also been classified as being a high risk to re-offend both sexually and violently.

Two weeks ago, a close female friend of Setter’s said he was being targeted unfairly by the community, noting residents in the Capilano neighbourhood had plastered his face on posters stuck to telephone posts and street lamps. A Facebook group was also tracking his whereabouts.

The friend said the posters had run Setter out of the neighbourhood and forced him to relocate elsewhere in the city – something she thinks is unfair since she claimed he was making considerable steps to change his ways.

Sgheebeeshee corners the market: on Liberals Iffy, Dionky, et al.

Iffy's lib.caca off to the PET Cemetery.
...-

"Pulling the plug on 'onprobation.ca'

I guess the Conservatives have paid their debt to society or been on really good behaviour.

That's the conclusion one could draw from the fact that the Liberal website, www.onprobation.ca, is dead."

http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/2009/11/pulling-the-plug-on-on-probation.html

When parents are highly stressed, they can't be attuned to their children – who seek comfort and relief from the pain they feel. ... The ADD child is emotionally wounded, insatiable, driven by unconscious emotional hunger. When I [Gabor Maté] realized I had ADD, at the age of 52, I felt I had discovered what had kept me from attaining psychological integrity, wholeness.

http://www.healthzone.ca/health/articlePrint/729710

I don't know if this has made it here yet,probably,but if not the CRU has issued a statement of denial.---http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2009/nov/homepagenews/CRUupdate

From the CRU statement----"We have, therefore, decided to conduct an independent review, which will address the issue of data security, an assessment of how we responded to a deluge of Freedom of Information requests, and any other relevant issues which the independent reviewer advises should be addressed. "--------------------
Now,I am not a scientist,but doing a review of their security and their procedures for processing information requests does not really address the main issues of fudging data and ostracizing dissenters,does it? This seems like an attempt to stifle the uproar by allowing them to answer the matter is being investigated. Our politicians do it all the time.