Just so ya know. At 10pm CBC news is running a show called "Can Obama Save The Planet".

Nuff said.

LHC sets new energy record, CERN says

The Large Hadron Collider has set a world record by accelerating to energy levels that had never been previously reached, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Monday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/large-hadron-collider/6690033/LHC-sets-new-energy-record-CERN-says.html

Al Gore went to Copenhagen and ... lied !

[ Perhaps Mr Gore had felt the need to gild the lily to buttress resolve. But his speech was roundly criticised by members of the climate science community. “This is an exaggeration that opens the science up to criticism from sceptics,” Professor Jim Overland, a leading oceanographer at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.]

Al Gore went to Copenhagen and ... lied !

[ Perhaps Mr Gore had felt the need to gild the lily to buttress resolve. But his speech was roundly criticised by members of the climate science community. “This is an exaggeration that opens the science up to criticism from sceptics,” Professor Jim Overland, a leading oceanographer at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.] Timesonline

* CANADA BAD BOY OF COPENHAGEN *

Canada Freezes As Snow Storm Strands Thousands

[Some areas north of Toronto received as much as 100 centimetres of snow over the past three days.

Meanwhile, western Canada is in the grip of a cold snap with temperatures plummeting anywhere from -40 to -50 degrees Celsius.] ABC News

GORE and Suzuki say Canada must kill economy to make the world a colder place.

Canada gets castigated for the tar sands while China gets a pass for utterly destroying large parts of their country.

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

What lies WON'T the left tell?

Macleans cover today was about Canada's great enviromental embarrassment in Copenhagen. A check of Copenhagen's on-line English paper has no stories about this. Nada,zilch,zero. So who is upset and embarrassed? It appears that Maclean's and others are lying to push the progressive agenda. ---http://cphpost.dk/component/search/canada.html?ordering=&searchphrase=all

Playing near you.

All the Former Vice President's Men, ClimateGate

http://tinyurl.com/yaale5l

The Wages of Climategate

Climategate is all the worse because it was unexpected. The warmists really did think they had it wrapped up, that they had pulled off the AGW fraud and needed only to formalize it at the international level to guarantee themselves a free ride. This was never quite the case -- polls showed increasing public skepticism as various warming horrors failed to materialize and the day-to-day weather grew cooler. But the warmists had corralled the bureaucrats and politicians, and that, they thought, was all they needed.

http://tinyurl.com/ycotjef

Al Gore LIED? Only if he opened his mouth. The whole thing is so weird it could be a Hollyweird Movie.

"Canada Freezes As Snow Storm Strands Thousands"

Has anyone attempted to make the argument that since Canada would in fact gain quite a lot from global warming -- warmer temps, more productive farming, improved tourism, etc. -- we should NOT be expected to contribute $$'s as much as others since we are already sacrificing many benefits. In fact, we should be given dollars for carbon credits, since we contribute a great deal of cold to the world -- that has to be worth something in this nutty world.

Just so ya know. At 10pm CBC news is running a show called "Can Obama Save The Planet".

At around 9:25 Newsworld aired a report about the enviro-nuts who illegally occupied James Flaherty's office. From the five minutes I saw, the footage showed the group at all stages of their operation--planning, training for counteracting police actions, going to the office, occupying the office, being peacefully removed from the office while another stage-managed "supporters" demonstration happened, and sympathetic interviews after their release.

So the CBC either was complicit in all of this from the start, or gladly aired the tiny group's own footage as a free infomercial.

I hope the CBC doesn't have PETA or ALF and pipe-bombing on its list of approved groups and approved tactics unless they're going to warn me first where the "infomercial" is planned to be carried out.

The link that Ron referred to is here:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6956783.ece

Hyperbolic Al just scored one for us...I can hardly wait until Barry gets there.

Syncro

Whoops, talk about bad timing -- the latest issue of Golf Digest features a cover shot of Tiger Woods and Obama, promising to reveal ten things that Obama can learn from Tiger (about his golf game, I presume). Yeah right.

The story inside makes for rather ironic reading, for example, one thing Obama can learn is "to be ruthless" (not Elin-less), and one thing Tiger can learn is "to lighten up." Yes, rather.

Lighten up?

I thought that was Micheal Jackson's specialty

Here's a breaking story on Wattsupwiththat:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/14/doe-sends-a-litigation-hold-notice-regarding-cru-to-employees-asking-to-preserve-documents/#more-14177

The U.S. Department of Energy has just ordered that all employees "....please preserve any and all documents relevant to “global warming, the Climate Research Unit at he University of East Anglia In England, and/or climate change science.”

It seems that some litigation is pending.

Oh isn't that just great!! My heros blindsided.

The surest way to irrelevance.... is to be quoted by Alfred E. Gore.

Ruined my day, I'll tell ya.....

Supposedly new Kool-aid drinker writing in the Post today:

Jonathan Abrams: Why I am no longer a skeptic on climate change.

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/14/jonathan-abrams-on-climate-change.aspx

Brutally argued and sure isn't getting alot of support in the comments. Can we stick a fork in them yet?

LHC sets new energy record, CERN says

And after all the disgraces scientific academia has engaged in we should believe them WHY????

I wonder why Brad Wall's Sask Party website says "he successfully operated two businesses," when both the country music museum and the other venture went bankrupt under Wall's management.

Someone should follow up on that contradiction.

Dennis: Great catch -- it looks to be a stunning development. Pandora's Box, I think.

Also, some potentially very encouraging news out of Hopenchangen: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6955237.ece

Only if they're pitchforks.

Syncro

Few of us had a chance to take the time to "better understand" the mind of German Nazis. No worry though, because now we can do so with the Taliban.

The Church of England’s Bishop to the Forces, Stephen Venner, has truly lost his mind!!!

Alex Tsakumis has breaking news of the retirement (forced or voluntary?) of Global's long time news host Tony Parsons in Vancouver scheduled for the 16 of this month, just prior to the Olympic's coverage.

Robert W - Is it any wonder the English Church is in open schism given the leadership coming out of Lambeth Palace?

Robert W.....I am a confirmed and practising memember of the Church of England.Have been for 40 years.THAT beyotch bishop is not mine,nor of any of the other memebers of our congration(in Edmonton...go figure)

At one point on Saturday night, Edmonton had the dubious distinction of being the coldest place on Earth. Edmonton's frigid temperature was exceeded by a station in Siberia where the lowest temperature measured on Saturday night was -48 degrees. Edmonton's -46 degrees was 2 degrees off the coldest temperature ever recorded for the Airport. Set back on January 26, 1972, the coldest temperature recorded is -48.3 degrees. Saturday also saw the coldest low ever recorded at the Airport in December.
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/storm_watch_stories3&stormfile=bccold_12_12_2008?ref=ccbox_weather_bottom_title

larben: Tsakumis reported on Carole Taylor wanting to take over from Gordon Campbelle when he steps down. Any more news on that?

Justthinkin: I was just reporting a story I heard about. Is there a parallel Church of England that he belongs to?

A Christmas Tale of Then & Now

Then (the old days):

To send gifts to friends who live in other communities around the world, I would have to purchase gifts at stores by early December, wrap them up, and then stand in line for hours at the local post office where folks with permanent frowns behind the counter would show me how much they disliked their job and often me.

Now:

I went onto Amazon.ca & Amazon.com, picked out the items I wanted, and within a few minutes, divide up who was getting what, each order well organized for each recipient.

This year I'm sending a particular new book to my Canadian & American friends. It is much cheaper at Amazon than at the local Chapters store (and I won't ever use Chapters.ca again because of a dreadful, unapologetic experience I had with them a few years ago).

Summary:

I have fond memories of Christmases past but buying gifts was not one of them!

About the music: I'm surprised that a rural girl can have such urban tastes. Good on you: this stuff is America's best.

mj's Times Online article is worth a read. So are the nutbar comments, like this one:

Nancy Bowring wrote:
Meat production is one of the leading causes of climate change. It causes pollution, deforestation and other environmental disasters. If everyone at least made an attempt to cut their meat consumption by beginning with "meat-free Mondays" the impact would be huge. There are many varied and delicious vegetarian recipes to tempt those who earnestly want to save the planet. Gradually meat free could become meat free weeks. Try it!

Why2Keeotojoy.
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"The Noughties: a fond(ish) farewell

Toby Young takes an irreverent look back at a decade characterised by a yearning for chaos.

I was in a French ski resort on January 1 2000 and the first thing I thought about, when the fog of the previous night began to clear, was the Millennium Bug. Deputy US Defence Secretary John Hamre had predicted it would be ‘the electronic equivalent of the El Niño’.

Just how many planes had fallen out of the sky at the stroke of midnight? I plugged my laptop into a phone socket and heard the sound that will forever be associated with the turn of the century: ‘Eeeeee, orrrrrrrrrrrr, ooo-a-ooo-a-ooo-a-ooo-a.’

There was a pause. Had I got through? No, I hadn’t.

‘Eeeeee, orrrrrrrrrrrr, ooo-a-ooo-a-ooo-a-ooo-a.’ Dear God, how I came to hate that sound.

When I discovered that absolutely nothing had happened I felt vaguely disappointed. On the face of it, that makes me sound like a depraved nihilist – I was upset that a global disaster hadn’t occurred – but it was a sickness shared by many and, though I didn't know it at the time, symptomatic of the decade to come.

One of the most striking things about the Noughties is that when terrible things did happen – when planes really did start falling out of the sky – we greeted them with barely concealed excitement."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/6760481/The-Noughties-00s-a-fondish-farewell.html

Liberal Iffy's liberal.caca: a liberal-left projection.

"In this picture you can see the PM [PM Harper] apparently shouting out in pain as he’s being shot."
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"Ignatieff’s Liberals sink to a new low

Between an animated crapping bird and this picture below, I’d give the edge to this pic as being the new low in juvenile partisan stupidity – the PM fisting a cow (NB: read the fine print, he’s not wearing any pants): {...]

"Where is it from? Liberal.ca the official website of Michael Ignatieff’s Liberal Party.

It’s up there as part of a photo contest put on by the Liberals. One other entry jumps out too – not so much for being juvenile, but for being unbecoming of a major federal party. In this picture you can see the PM apparently shouting out in pain as he’s being shot."

[pic]

"The Liberals posted these pictures today – December 14th. Not that there’s a good time to publish things like this, but to do it today, right after that attack on Berlusconi – the one attributed to an atmosphere of poisoned partisan politics – it’s ignorant:

“I am very worried by this escalation of hatred against a single person,” said Senate Speaker Renato Schifani, a close Berlusconi ally.

Even left-leaning commentators who have led anti-Berlusconi campaigns over his corruption trials and personal problems acknowledged the attack represented a symbol of political tensions that had boiled over dangerously."

http://rjjago.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/liberals-sink-to-a-new-low/

Reporting on the blindly obvious.
WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. government must craft a plan next year to get its ballooning debt under control or face possible panic in financial markets, a bipartisan panel of budget experts said in a report on Monday.
Duh. How about 'quit over-spending right NOW'?
How do I get paid my consultant's fee?
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1419042320091214?type=marketsNews

I couldn't fall asleep so I decided to catch up on Roy Green's guest appearance on Charles Adler's show. In the first hour he took a large number of calls.

One came from a fellow named "John" from Alberta. Clearly a Leftard, he stated, "Let's face it, even the most conservative politicians in the U.S. know that Cap & Trade will have to be adopted."

This is clearly a lie. The premise is a lie. The attribution to American conservatives is a lie. Yet it so easily rolled of the deceitful tongue of the Alberta Leftist. Do you think such people "know" they're not telling the truth or have they so deeply fallen down the rabbit hole that they no longer even realize it?

On Monday's Adler Online show, Roy Green interviewed NDP leader, Jack Layton, in the second hour. Jack raved about how the blue-green coalition (ie. labour-enviros) were fully in support of Cap & Trade to implemented in Canada.

This reveals an obvious joke:

Q: In Canada, when you mix blue with green, what colour do you get?

A: Red. Destructive Socialist R-E-D ! ! !

Taliban Jack LaytoNDP-Liberalsocialist Bob Rae Report, aka Googooreacle MSM Report:

"Coalition allies faulted Canada over handling of detainees
Globe and Mail - ‎32 minutes ago‎
A Canadian soldier guards six of ten suspected Taliban prisoners captured in a raid on a compound in northern Kandahar province on May 10, 2006."

"Al-Qaeda killing mostly Muslims
National Post"

"Pakistan car bomb blast kills 22 [Muslims]
CBC.ca"

"LIBERAL.CA PIC OF MOCK HARPER ASSASSINATION
IFFY LIBS SINK TO NEW LOW(sic)
http://www.bourque.org/
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Left-liberal ignorance is bottomless.

Re: JFK, an "icon" of the left-liberals, shot dead by a son of the left-liberals; a communist.

"He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights . . . . It's — it had to be some silly little Communist." — Jackie Kennedy, on hearing that a leftist had been arrested for her husband's murder"

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm

Current law requires either consent or a criminal warrant before inspectors can enter, Aglukkaq said, which means harm may already have occurred.

As an example, she said that during the H1N1 pandemic, health officials issued warnings about Internet scams involving fake cures for influenza.

"We can't let homes become safe havens for unscrupulous businesses who want to shield themselves from health care inspectors," Aglukkaq said.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/12/15/12157456-sun.html

Liberal or Conservative Party equals bigger govt.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/12/15/12157456-sun.html

This is Canada, our homes are an oasis of privacy," he said.

Current law requires either consent or a criminal warrant before inspectors can enter, Aglukkaq said, which means harm may already have occurred.

As an example, she said that during the H1N1 pandemic, health officials issued warnings about Internet scams involving fake cures for influenza.

"We can't let homes become safe havens for unscrupulous businesses who want to shield themselves from health care inspectors," Aglukkaq said.

Flimsy justification for home invasion by govt.

Terribly embarrassing for a purported Conservative Party.

When a Liberal Senator understands privacy better than you, a shark's been jumped somewhere.

As Liberal Iffy and his Liberals sink into their oblivion, Canadians rise above the Red-Green sludge.
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“Canada Leading Indicators Rise Almost Twice as Fast as Expected

Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) — Canada’s index of leading economic indicators rose almost twice as fast as economists predicted in November, led by gains in housing and manufacturing.

The index increased 1.3 percent, Statistics Canada said today in Ottawa, while economists surveyed by Bloomberg said the index would gain 0.7 percent, based on the median of 11 estimates.

Nine of the index’s 10 components rose and one was unchanged, marking the broadest increase in more than two years.

Canada’s economy grew at a 0.4 percent annualized pace last quarter after three earlier declines. Output will expand 2.6 percent next year after shrinking this year as monetary and fiscal stimulus revives demand, Royal Bank of Canada, the country’s biggest lender by assets, said yesterday.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aIflEHQqzYTA

Robert W -Presently there is little more except Alex thinks that Carole in union with Surrey's Dianne Watts would make a formidable team. I, having lived under Ms Watts' first run as mayor and her recent decisions on not to act in the monster housing building code boondoggle, tend to have misgivings about her suitability. That said Alex certainly knows his municipal politics better than I, and most others on the subject.

A little anecdote here.

I work in a scientific office and a discussion was just occurring right in front of me--I was more a passive observer. The discussion was about a study that was done about 10 years ago, the results of it and the decisions that were made based on the study. More on this in a second.

The discussion went deeply into how a lot of the decisions in our organization are made based on "feeling", rather than science, how ignorance is rampant and "we're giving the ignorant a forum to spout their ignorance". The people having the discussion cited as an example climate change, where they're clearly AGW swallowers. They talked about "how the science of AGW is sound" and how decisions thereon should be made on this "sound science", just like they should be in our organization.

They then went on, without a hint of irony, to discuss how this earlier study in our organization was invalid because it was based on a small sample--12, to be exact, whereas in such a study you would usually look for 50 to 100 samples before coming to any conclusions. No irony about this example of invalid science when juxtaposed against the Briffa samples. Sorry, sample (singular). And these people are scientists.

I tell this story to show that there's an alarming amount of cognitive dissonance out there, even amongst scientists. I don't think these people I work with are bad people or bad scientists; I think it's more that they've been so indoctrinated by the AGW alarmists that they can't see the contradictions in their own definition of how science is done.

That, or maybe they have been so sheltered that they don't know about Briffa and hiding the decline...

Live webcast of Boeing 787 Dreamliner's first flight is set to begin at 9:40 a.m. PST today.

Essential reading from an influential officer who reports directly to Stanley McChrystal:

(PDF warning) Christopher D. Kolenda, Winning Afghanistan at the Community Level

The "Yes Men" pulled a hoax on Canada. Roy Green just had an African woman named Bernadette as a guest. She was one of the hoaxers.

How "charming" for her to wave her proverbial finger at us, scolding us for being such horrible world citizens. Why doesn't she turn around and start criticizing the legions of African dictators & kleptocrats who have taken Billions of Dollars from Canadians and stolen it?!

Why not??? Because that would be difficult. And one thing we've learned through this entire Copenhagen farce is that it is MUCH easier to criticize Canada and the U.S. than it is do anything else. Pathetic!

Elizabeth May just stated on Roy Green's show that she has read ALL of the e-mails from East Anglia and she has found that they've said & done absolutely nothing wrong.

Aren't you so relieved?!?

Goreacle Report In chorus: The Snow Miser Song*.

"He's too much!
[Snow Miser]
I never want to see a day
That's over forty degrees
I'd rather have it thirty,
Twenty, ten, five and let it freeeeEEEEEEeeze!"
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"Updated Forecast For Copenhagen: Heavy SnowFall, -12C/10.4F (God has a sense of humor)

Heavy snow and temperatures 22 degrees below normal are now forecasted for the Global Warming conference in Copenhagen.

As weather forecasts are updated, here is a screen shot as of apprx 11:20pm EST:" (more)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407994/posts
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*Snow Miser Song
http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-snow-miser-song-lyrics-crestopher-dumapias.html

Dec 15. Everett Washington.

Boeing's latest aircaft, the 787 Dreamliner, has its maiden flight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ6XyvSvjgg&feature=player_embedded

Google is auto-suggesting "Climategate" now. Not sure how long they plan to keep it up, but they lost me for good two weeks ago. I have used them only to google "Climategate", just to annoy them.

Insanity reigns in the UK. Notice the number of children of these muslim parasites. And the UK wonders why they flock there!

A muslim convert mother of eight is living in a $4.5-million London mansion with British taxpayers picking up the tab for the rent. Single mother Francesca Walker gets $155,000 a year in housing benefits plus other allowances of $26,000 to rent the mansion in the up-and-coming Notting Hill district of London.

Somali asylum seeker Nasra Warsame, 40, seven of her children and her mother have been housed by Westminster council in a six-bedroom house valued at more than $3-million near the Edgware Road Underground Station in central London. Cost to the taxpayer: $2,765 a week, The Times reported. Her husband Bashir Aden, 50, who is unemployed, and another child are living in a two-bedroom apartment in the neighbouring borough of Camden.

- Toorpakai Saindi, an Afghan mother of seven, is paid $20,700 a month to live in a seven-bedroom property, complete with a large garden, in Acton, west London. Cost so far to the taxpayer: $290,000.

now come folks, we knew all along that;

Tiger is the world's best SWINGER.