I love this editorial in the National Post.

Here's one key paragraph on the hypocrisy in Copenhagen:

And whatever became of the 100-mile diet? Delegates who encourage others to buy only local meat and produce, so as to reduce the amount of energy needed to transport food, will nonetheless treat themselves to jumbo Indian Ocean shrimp, Norwegian salmon and fruits and vegetables from South America, Africa and southern Europe, all flown in daily to ensure maximum freshness.

They want to sample those before the global economy collapses. Then we will all be on the 100-yard diet.

Cool pics

http://www.barentsobserver.com/failed-russian-missile-visible-over-northern-norway.4663494-116320.html

Frankly, I think it's just a sign of the season - after all isn't Obama going there soon to get his Nobel prize??

PS- Vitruvius - I generally don't like jazz etc - but Pete Fountain is great - the way he just casually throws difficult phrases out there as if it's just natural

If you've ever been curious about why I frequently rave about Dennis Miller's radio program, here's a perfect example of one of his brilliant rants. What you'll see is a video I put together from something he said on his show today, in which he tries to explain the psychology of the sheeple that have lined up behind Al Gore.

"100 yard diet" - Gold, Peter, Absolute Gold!!!!

Global News' favourite son, Kevin Newman was walking on air tonight. Seems that there has been a retraction by one of the generals, saying that they now believe that prisoners in Afghanistan were given over to Afghanis and were mistreated. Grounds,he seems to think,for our young bachelor minister to step down. Oh, and an Anglican minister (only recently out of the closet) is accused of having kiddie porn on his computer. It seems to me there was a Rabbi accused of something similar, and I know some were found to be bringing illegal drugs across the border, but it just never seemed to have any staying power on the Asper's network.

Jerusalem, Jerusalem
By Morey Altman

It's been a few years since the international community has attempted to unilaterally impose its will on Judaism's holiest place, the city of Jerusalem. I'm not speaking of the Crusades, although I will. The last time was 62 years ago when the United Nations presented a plan to internationalize the city and the surrounding area.

http://moreyaltman.blogspot.com/2009/12/jerusalem-jerusalem.html

Revnant - It would be foolish to attempt this stupidity, even though the city has great significance to Christians and Muslims as well, because I think the Jews are the only ones with the tenacity to keep it open to all.

Sarah Palin's take down of Gore
"Vice President Gore, the Climategate scandal exists. You might even say that it’s sort of like gravity: you simply can’t deny it."
http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin?v=app_2347471856

It's in response to the Gore Mitchell interview this AM on MSNBC where Gore outright lies.

Her OpEd in the Washington Post this morning is what started it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/08/AR2009120803402.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

She's good! Just sets them up and just mows them down. Priceless.

This from the Guardian... Nobel peace prize: Norwegians incensed over Barack Obama's snubs

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/09/obama-nobel-peace-prize-snub

The article is unintentionally hilarious in a few ways not the least of which is this kicker:

"The Nobel peace committee has been criticised for awarding Obama the prize before he has any major accomplishments in international relations.

A White House official said that it was not necessarily an award that Obama would have given himself."

This leads me to wonder what awards Barry would give himself...a Pulitzer?

Syncro

He'd give himself a teleprompter award.

Folks, I'm waiting in Vancouver's Stanley Theatre for "White Christmas" to begin. I'm thinking this was a good year to see it before the title is outlawed and the heat & lights are turned off to save the planet!!

Benny Goodman's tune actually, here's the 78 spin of THE sextet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4kuwLghYzg

Or click on my name to follow the link, same thing.

100 mile diet? HA !

I'm on a 100 foot diet. I'm still using the squash crop I harvested, with the roast turkey on the 30th and sirloin tip this weekend.

the hypocrisy oozing out of copenhagen leaves one speechless and galled to the core.

screw 'em. screw 'em all and damn ANY Canuckistan government that signs any agreement to gut our economy based on myth and fantasy. and unceasing hypocrisy.

I think you will just love this:

The Next Ice Age is going to be caused by Global Warming!

Moonbats have all the bases covered.

***** for Pete Fountain.

Just great, thanks.

I could sure go for some Yezda Urfa

Robert W and others - the 100 mile diet was shown in some cases to be less "carbon friendly"

Confirmation, of all places - on the CBC website

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/07/22/consumer-local-food.html

larben wrote, "Oh, and an Anglican minister (only recently out of the closet) is accused of having kiddie porn on his computer."

Details, please.

What the propagandize machine does not say. Speak oh great TV, oh speak. Blame it on the judges.

Justice Alice Desjardins, writing for the appeal panel, concluded the Charter can't be invoked by Afghan prisoners - whom she described as "foreigners with no attachment whatsoever to Canada or its laws."
Canada is not an occupying power in Afghanistan and is in the country with the consent of its government, said Desjardins. That government has not conceded that Canadian law should apply to its nationals.
Amnesty and the civil liberties association argued that the key question was whether the Charter applied to the actions of Canadian troops, not to the prisoners they take.
But Desjardins rejected that distinction, saying it doesn't solve the legal problem. She reasoned that Canadian actions toward prisoners can only be bound by Charter rules if it's assumed the prisoners also have Charter rights.
The refusal to apply the Charter doesn't mean the prisoners are left in a legal vacuum, said the judge. They are still protected by international human rights law.

http://www.themonitor.ca/article-cp42724026-Charter-doesnt-protect-Afghan-prisoners-court.html

Temp. at Resolute, Nunavut at 11:00 PM CST, Dec. 09-09.

-33°C

Do icebergs melt at -33°??

This is breaking news that must PO the Hopenhagen folks.
(T)wo recent results published by top scientists cast doubt on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s theory about the link between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global warming…

Paul Pearson of Cardiff University and his international team achieved a breakthrough recently, published four weeks ago in arguably the world’s top scientific journal, Nature.

They unravelled records of atmosphere, temperature and ice-cap formation 33.6 million years ago, when the Earth cooled from a greenhouse without ice caps, into something quite similar to our present day…

Pearson’s work contains a couple of remarkable results. First the greenhouse atmosphere pre-cooling contained a CO2 concentration of 900 parts per million by volume, or more than three times that of the Earth in pre-industrial days… Second, while the cooling of the Earth took place over a time-span of around 200,000 years, the atmospheric CO2 first dropped in association with the cooling, then rose to around 1100ppmv and remained high for 200,000 years while the Earth cooled further and remained in its new ice ages cycle.

We can compare these huge swings (both up and down) in atmospheric CO2 with current computer-modelled estimates of climate sensitivity by the IPCC which suggest that a doubling of CO2 relative to pre-industrial times will produce a temperature increase of 2.5C to 4C.

If the Earth started a cycle of ice ages 33.6 million years ago while having its very carbon-rich atmosphere, and if the Earth showed cycles of ice-age activity when atmospheric CO2 was four times the level that it was in humankind’s pre-industrial times, what new information must we incorporate into our present climate models?

Another key parameter in climate modelling is the warming amplification associated with increasing CO2 in our atmosphere. This amplification factor is generally believed to be greater than one, giving rise to an understanding that increases in atmospheric CO2 amplify warming (a positive feedback in the physical process)…

However since the IPCC’s fourth report, our Laboratory Earth has also delivered new data on this CO2-induced amplification factor...

UPDATE

Dr Ben Buchler of the ANU says Asten misrepresents Pearson’s findings, which include this line:

Overall, our results confirm the central role of declining pCO2 atm in the development of the Antarctic ice sheet (in broad agreement with carbon cycle modelling) and help to constrain mechanisms and feedbacks associated with the Earth’s biggest climate switch of the past 65 Myr.

Returning to Asten’s article:

(C)limatologist and NASA medallist John Christy and colleague David Douglass studied global temperature impacts of volcanic activity and ocean-atmospheric oscillations (the “El Nino” effect) and separated these from global temperature trends over the past 28 years.

The result of their analysis is a CO2-induced amplification factor close to one, which has implications clearly at odds with the earlier IPCC position… What this means is that the IPCC model for climate sensitivity is not supported by experimental observation on ancient ice ages and recent satellite data.

So are we justified in concluding that the concentration of atmospheric CO2 is not the only or major driver of current climate change? And if so, how should we re-shape our ETS legislation?

I don’t know the answer to these questions, but as Nobel prize winning physicist Richard Feynman observed: “It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.”

(Thanks to reader Ian.)

Robert W at 9:52

I agree Dennis Miller ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDAl42BjSHU) is at his best "not too hot... not too cold...just right"

Temp. at Resolute, Nunavut at 11:00 PM CST, Dec. 09-09.

-33°C

Do icebergs melt at -33°??
Posted by: Joe Citizen

DENIER!!! If the Goreicle says it's melting, who are you to try and confuse us with facts. Shame!!

Not sure if it has been linked here before; Lord Monckton on with a rundown of some of the shysters. Worth it if you've got a spare 1/2 hour.
http://www.cfact.tv/2009/12/07/lord-monckton-on-climategate-at-the-2nd-international-climate-conference/

Is there anything that Obama can't do?

http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/211949

Read The article....Obama's going to increase armed forces to 1 million inside the continental U.S.!

Paul, that "WeLoveSarahPalin" channel is mine. Yes, the name is silly but as Dennis Miller would say, it irritates beyond belief just the right people. So I ain't changin' it!!! :-)

A great segment with Lord Monckton on the Dennis Miller Show today:

http://fetch.noxsolutions.com/dm/mp3/ChristopherMonckton_120909.mp3

I don't think you can melt ice at -33°C no matter what the pressure, but I haven't tried to interpret a phase diagram in 15 years, so I could be wrong.

Mississauga Meltdown!

Carolyn Parrish strikes again

I was curious to see if the Canadian medical association (CMA) had changed their warmist views following the climategate revalations. Physicians are supposed to practice evidence based medicine and I assumed that the CMA would have utilized the new evidence to update their views. Nothing could be further from the truth as can be seen on a statement which comes up when one accesses their web page:

As world leaders began to meet in Copenhagen Dec. 7 for the UN Climate Change Conference, leaders of Canada's three major national medical organizations had already warned Prime Minister Stephen Harper about the "underacknowledged" threat that an altered climate poses for human health.

"Heat waves, drought, sea level changes, catastrophic weather events and the loss of arable land are not abstract events of the planet Earth," stated the Nov. 25 letter, signed by the presidents of the CMA, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and College of Family Physicians of Canada.

The letter added that such events "directly and indirectly harm humans," citing as an example the "catastrophic" heat wave in Europe in 2003 that caused more than 35,000 deaths and massive crop damage.

For the rest of the article go to:
http://www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/10043457/la_id/1.htm

This is utter crap and and I will be writing a letter to each of the organizations letting them know that they are complicit in scientific fraud. Most doctors haven't the slightest clue about climatology and are quite ready to accept a carbon tax as it will have a minimal effect on them given their incomes. The CMAJ has published papers in which it attacks the health consequences of poverty and unemployment yet it is quite ready to increase both of these "medically adverse" situations by supporting carbon taxes.

Incidentally, physicians likely own more SUV's than the general public and fly far more than the general public. Presumably they think they can absolve themselves of these sins by purchasing carbon indulgences.

I'm not a member of any of these organizations as I initially refused to join the CMA after it was printing junk science articles in favor of C68. I think it is time to let these people know that:
(1) they have no expertise in climate science
(2) their actions following climategate will likely severely impact the credibility of medicine
(3) in view of the contrary evidence that now exists, their continuing to support this view constitutes malpractice.

The CMA can be reached via email at: cmanews@cma.ca

Sure George, how about me match you dollar for dollar?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091210/ap_on_sc/climate

Goreacle Report:

"and catastrophe looms."
...-

"Climate change 'Plan B' awaits if diplomacy fails (geo-engineering)

COPENHAGEN (AFP) – Just five years ago, anyone who talked of easing Earth's climate crisis by fertilising the seas with iron, scattering particles in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight or building a sunshade in space courted ridicule.

Today, such advocates -- "geo-engineers" -- are getting a respectable hearing.

Their ideas are still beyond the scientific pale, for they remain contested as risky for the environment and laden with unknowns about cost, practicality and legality.

But mainstream scientists who once dismissed these projects are now looking at them closely.

And some grudgingly accept that at least some concepts are worth exploring as a possible "Plan B" -- a last-resort option if political efforts to tackle global warming fail and catastrophe looms.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404461/posts
...-

"At Least 16 Die as Huge Snowstorm Batters U.S

A gigantic storm dumped more than a foot of snow across much of the Midwest and New England as it marched eastward Wednesday, creating blizzard conditions, burying cars under huge drifts and providing ammunition for a massive campus snowball fight in Wisconsin.

Even more snow fell in some areas, with 16 inches reported in Des Moines and nearly 19 inches just south of Madison, Wis. Gusts of up to 50 mph created snow drifts between 8 and 15 feet tall and even knocked down a two-story Christmas tree in downtown Champaign, Ill.

The storm was blamed for at least 16 deaths, most in traffic accidents. Hundreds of schools canceled classes, power was knocked out to thousands of people from Missouri to New York and hundreds of flights were canceled."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404460/posts

Lookout 11:50 - You want details, watch Global News, they have them all. The fact that the Bishop of Antigonish is Roman Catholic, that this guy is a recent convert to that lifestyle, and that he is an Anglican priest, but never hear of the religious and cultural affiliations of people like Bernie Madoff or Bernie Ebbers or ... on and on.

Its beginning to look alot like Christmas

grey/bruce/owen sound are getting intense snowsqualls today, Up the pennisula they are getting the brunt of it.
Schools bus cancellations on the local radio are fast & furious.
Outside my store window traffic is slowing down as snow picks up.

Hey Brian, how's Sauble Beach looking? :~)

DOES WHAT THE PUBLIC THINK ABOUT GLOBAL GOVERNANCE MATTER TO THE ELITES PLANNING IT?

http://tinyurl.com/yhkjs67

From the mouth of the beast:
"Does Public Opinion Matter? World Attitudes on Global Governance"

My short answer is 'no', they will plough through with anti-democratic control systems anyway. The longer answer is 'yes' they do care what we think but only so much as to how effective their brain washing of the public has been. They can't spring the trap until the majority of us will gleefully give up our freedom and democratic franchise to a omnipotent global bureaucratic elite. (all hail Landru)

Climate scares are a great motivator for this. Stay tuned to further CFR rumblings on deconstructing democracy.

I dunno Matt cant see(Sauble) it from here.(yah yah i know smart a$$ lol)

radio is saying schools there closed no buses, Govt radar looks like they are getting just socked.
It comes & goes 5 min ago i could not see the car dealership across the street here in Springmount, now it has cleared again.
Hate to do it, with christmas shopping & all. but if this gets worse i may call it a day at 1.

Looks like Obama's Nobel Pizza Prize comes with a few strings attached - count me shocked and surprised: (From the Red Star)

Sudan's Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, the voice of the G77 at climate change talks here, insisted that the developing world's top demand be met, and he urged Obama later in a meeting with reporters to immediately commit to deeper emission cuts that the ones he announced a few weeks ago, which work out to about 4 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020.

"That is the first step (Obama) should take while he's waiting for the Congress to ratify the Kyoto protocol," he said. "This is what we expect of him as a Nobel Prize winner."

Springmount!

The Springmount drive-in, the motel, the pool place, the Fyre Place ...

Springmount! yup you got er matt iam close to all those

Minxin Pei, Why China Won't Rule the World

Conventional wisdom can be devilishly hard to dispute. For example, most pundits agree that the Great Recession helped China more than any other state. At first glance, this claim seems obviously true. Unlike the United States and the other major Western powers, which saw their economies plummet and their financial institutions come close to ruin, the Chinese economy has kept on growing. Chinese financial institutions, considered technically insolvent only a few years ago, now boast balance sheets and market capitalizations that Western banks can only dream of. With its economy expected to grow at 9 percent in 2010, China will soon surpass Japan as the world's second-largest economy (measured in U.S. dollars). Pundits like Martin Jacques, a veteran British journalist, are predicting that China will soon rule the world—figuratively, if not literally.

Yet before declaring this the Chinese century, you might want to take another look at what's actually taken place in the country over the past year...

Great pic 'Vit'. Very easy listening. Thanks.

Posted by: 'Robert W. (Vancouver)' at December 9, 2009 9:50 PM

Thanks for the link.

Update on Kajaki Dam, Helmand province, Afghanistan:

Josh Fortune, Protecting the Dam

Michael Mann is interviewed on accuweather.com...under the Canada link...and then "Bag of tricks"...
I've heard of bullshit trying to baffle brains but this is ridiculous.

Posted by: Charles MacDonald at December 10, 2009 11:08 AM

Thanks for the link.

Gee, I don't think it's politically correct to call them "dim", is it :^))

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/10/polls-show-dim-support-for-health-care-bill/

Well, isn't this curious?
This was at the bottom of Bourque.com
CBC website based in California???
wonder what that's about.

http://geotool.flagfox.net/?ip=72.246.43.10&host=www.cbc.ca

lookout, here's a link to the Global coverage of the Rev. Robin Barrett:

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/global-video/index.html?category=National+Post/Global+News&video=ne

There's an article on this disturbing finding in the main section of the National Post, the link for which I don't seem to be able to locate.

What is it with these social-activist priests, involved in equity rights, sexual abuse reconciliations, anti-poverty crusades, etc.? It's almost like they're using these do-good, feel-good, everyone-will-think-I'm-a-good-guy involvements as a beard.

Did NASA manipulate data?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-uAwbkIUoM

Bomb sniffing dogs on Vancouver buses during the Olympics have a group of people upset.No,it isn't the cat-loving crowd. The story is closed to comments. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/12/10/bc-bomb-dogs-vancouver-transit-muslims.html

hidden in the back pages of cbcpravda

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/12/09/quebec-sponsorship-scandal-gagliano-affidavit.html

The irony in the bomb-sniffing dog story is that if it wasn't for the actions of a certain religion there would be little need for the dogs. This is like the Hell's Angels complaining about checkstops. Of course,the moderate Hell Angels would be silent.

Earlier in this thread I mentioned that I attended a performance of "White Christmas" in Vancouver. Toward the end the lead actor encouraged everyone in the audience to sing the famous song ... and they did!

I got to thinking that some Leftard may file a claim with the BC Human Rights Commission, citing exclusion and discriminatory practices by the theatre and actors! Years ago I would have thought such a thing impossible but after all we've seen in the last few years, ANYTHING is possible in our often silly culture these days.

Hey Mississauga M.
Dunno about Sauble but here in Sarnia I can see America from my house. How about them apples, eh?

Pure beauty:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J0O8wTzvIc

Morten Lauridsen's version of O Magnum Mysterium.

I heard it sung last night by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, but their rendition isn't available on youtube. This one's exquisite too.

Googoo News' Juxtaposition.
...-

"Shellfish catch plunge in report wrong: NS
CBC.ca - ‎3 hours ago‎
The Nova Scotia government says it miscalculated figures in a report that showed the quantity of shellfish caught off the province's shores plunged by more than half over a three-year span.
Number of black NS students in special programs 'alarming,' report says The Canadian Press"

What part of this does the propaganda machine not understand. If the international court has something to say about Canadian soldiers breaking international laws, speak up or maybe substitute other troops.

"Justice Alice Desjardins, writing for the appeal panel, concluded the Charter can't be invoked by Afghan prisoners - whom she described as "foreigners with no attachment whatsoever to Canada or its laws." "They are still protected by international human rights law."

http://www.themonitor.ca/article-cp42724026-Charter-doesnt-protect-Afghan-prisoners-court.html