Audi 2010 Green Car Super Bowl Commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq58zS4_jvM

I sailed on the yacht that Connors won the 1987 quarterfinals in when I was in the St Maarten on the Western Standard cruise.
$50.00 for a couple of hours of sailing aboard it.
Well worth it if you ever get the chance.
Google America's Cup St. Maarten.

RIP CTV-Ottawa

You were such a good looking station before the fire. Perhaps the Liberals will let you broadcast from Count Iggys home.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Blaze+destroys+local+newsroom+Ottawa/2534525/story.html

Vit, thank you very much for bringing this race to our attention.

In the past I have found that live streaming for major events never works that well, but I am keeping fingers crossed that this time it will.

Sky sports here:

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12992_5918298,00.html

claims that they will have live coverage, so that might in theory be an alternative if the America's Cup site bogs down.

Also espn says they will have live streaming coverage, but I think you have to pay and it doesn't work in Canada (but maybe others will find a way to get it to work):

http://espn.go.com/broadband/espn360/schedule

I have not, at this point, been able to find any other options for live coverage via the web.

Thanks Vit I love watching the America's cup.

Vit, a minor claim to fame, but a family member of mine who sails in our neck of the woods knows the father of one of the crew members who will be on the Alinghi.

He chatted with the father today, and the rumour is that the Alinghi team feels that they have this one securely in the bag. We'll know soon enough.

Another upstanding Chicago democrat bites the dust.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/100207/w0207169A.html

Some quotes from the news section of the americascup.com web site:

• Ernesto Bertarelli, Alinghi president and helmsman:

  “We are really looking forward to it. As with the last two editions we have done everything that we can to be ready. As of this point there is not much more that we could do. It would always be nice to have a few more days but it would not make much of a difference. I am very proud of the team, of every decision that has been made. We are ready, ready to go.”

• Brad Butterworth, Alinghi skipper and tactician:

  “It is still the same cut and thrust of the America’s Cup. There is no real difference in terms that you have to go out there and sail well, that part of it, and the intensity that is inside the group, that part of it is very similar, or the same as has been.”

• Larry Ellison, BMW ORACLE Racing owner and afterguard:

  “This is extreme sailing. This is the ‘X’ version of the America’s Cup. It is the limits of technology. These two boats are the fastest sailboats that have ever been built. And they are going to match off one against the other, And I think it is simply the greatest spectacle in sailing history.“

• Russell Coutts, BMW ORACLE Racing CEO:

  “I think it will be very dependent on the wind conditions of the day. It will be very interesting series. Clearly I think Alinghi will be favoured in very light conditions and I think our boat will be favoured with more wind. I think that will change as well with the mode we are sailing, if we are sailing upwind, downwind or reaching. I think that the first five minutes of the first race will be a small indication of what we’ll see.”

And for those who missed it a couple days ago, I do recommend
some of the video and textual links that I described in my previous
SDA Late Nite Radio 33rd America's Cup show on this matter.

It's going to be fast and exciting...I'll be up in front of the monitor by 4 am....to bad best of three instead of more especially with these engineering marvels. I hope winds remain steady for this time of year in that region winds tend to be spotty. Any way I am juiced for the event.

Saw the Audi commercial and I think it is a miserable failure.

After it spends 85% of it's time slagging greens it then tries to proffer the Audi as a green-friendly vehicle. IOW surrender is the correct path, not resistance. A very mixed message.

Here's one for the "Asteroid" file. AP spins the Focus on the Family Super Bowl commercial. They can't even report accurately on a 30 second commercial!

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/02/025547.php

And another one:

http://bigjournalism.com/hfontova/2010/02/03/kenneth-what-is-the-frequency-how-cbs-and-dan-rather-set-up-elian-gonzalez/

On April 16, 2000, viewers of CBS’ 60 Minutes saw Dan Rather interviewing Elian Gonzalez’s father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez. America saw a bewildered and heartsick father simply pleading to be allowed to have his motherless son accompany him back to Cuba, his cherished homeland. How could anyone oppose this? How could simple decency and common sense possibly allow for anything else?

Here’s what America didn’t see:

“Most of the questions Dan Rather was asking Elian’s father during that 60 Minutes interview were being handed to him by Gregory Craig,” recalls Pedro Porro, who served as Rather’s in-studio translator during the taping of the famous interview. Dan Rather would ask the question in English into Porro’s earpiece and Porro would translate it into Spanish for Elian’s heavily-guarded father. “Juan Miguel Gonzalez was surrounded by Castro security agents the entire time he was in the studio with Rather and Craig.”

Mark steyn has written one of his very best with new words coined as well as a song:

http://article.nationalreview.com/424153/unsustainable/mark-steyn

Go directly to the America's Cup website and you'll be able to watch the race: http://www.americascup.com/en/regate/regarder-la-course/show.php

Wish I could be out sailing right now!

re: Mark Steyns article, (Gord Tulk @ 11:50)

I am so looking forward to the 2012 Presidential election. Obama and his handlers won't believe he will lose, so there won't be a concession speech prepared or loaded in the teleprompter. It ought to be a classic in tossing around blame and denial!

I had an interesting conversation with Stephen Boissoin the other day. He's the Red Deer man, who had a long fight with the Human Rights Commission. What struck me was his opinion that this was not a freedom of speech issue, but rather, a matter of him being right, and them being wrong.

For all the support he received from people like Ezra Levant, he has nothing nice to say about Ezra, or other free speech advocates. He thinks they're just using him, to further their own agenda. Stunning.

Oh well, I suppose it doesn't change the position of his supporters, that he isn't grateful.

TimR, remember the Outer Limits' original tagline?

"There is nothing wrong with your television. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are now in control of the transmission. We control the horizontal and the vertical. We can deluge you with a thousand channels, or expand one single image to crystal clarity and beyond. We can shape your vision to anything our imagination can conceive. For the next hour, we will control all that you see and hear."

that's interesting dp, although I hope that Stephen Boissioin believes he is simply correct, I had always thought it was the Human Rights Commission that had the means to an end... and an agenda to get there.

One for Not Waiting For the Asteroid. This article attempts to persuade readers that the Polar Bear population is practicing infanticide due to Global Warming.http://digital.nationalpost.com/epaper/viewer.aspx **
However, as most know, even common house cats practice this common predator trait. Only group I know of that don't is the Dog family, but I'm sure some of you could tell me otherwise.

someone is going to have to show me a torque to Reynolds number equation.

Truly, awesome boats.

I hope they have a nice windy day so we can see get their move on, and some lightdays to see them getting all tactical.

On the other hand, I miss the old 12m class monohulls, they had their downsides, but there was a limit to what you could do to one.

These things remind me of nothing else than the huge America's Cup pre war J Class. Massive racing machines accessible only to the richest consortia and men. The replacement 12m class was designed to make the race more democratic and relatively cheaper.

Back to the future I say.

Some simple limiting rules to make it back into a sailors race, rather than a materials science and fuild dynamics and computing power race with a watery component. (Meaning no disrespect to the highly qualified sailors on all these boats.)

As Ramon Daley pointed out about other sailboat racing challenges going on, Fred, this America's Cup is not the alpha and omega of sailing. It is sailing (for some value of sailing). It is a race. It is fascinating. Or it isn't. De gustibus non disputandum est.

Hmm... 2½ hours to go...

"...show me a torque to Reynolds number equation"

damn... am I going to have to dig out that old Moody Diagram now?

" Vancouver's plan to host smoke-free Winter Games were stubbed out after Olympic officials told the city to make room for people who love to puff, particularly Europeans and the media."

Love the feel of Social Engineering's loss of Control...,But Canadians must follow the LAW
I guess Canadians are easy to bully!

International liability issue:
I wonder if warning signs have been posted at all restaurants...”Washing Hands, after going to restroom, not required of employees”... BC Canada...Per HRC

Surprise surprise!

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DNM6N04&show_article=1

Just elected in, but scandalized out within one week, that's got to be a record, even for Chicago politics. Comments are hilarious.

And the wind's at 2.1 m/s with fifteen minutes to the warning gun...

And they're becalmed. Boy, does this remind me of sailing !-)

Another "gate" for you,Kate....
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
Maybe D.C. can send them some snow?

"Save the Planet by Outlawing Lampshades

We can cut down on energy use and promote egalitarianism at the same time.

One way and another, the solutions to life’s little problems keep popping into my mind.

For example, I was recently caught speeding (not by very much; my racing car driver days are long past); and rather than have my license soiled, I elected to go to the one-day speeding reeducation course that was offered as an alternative.

The course was run by two ex-policemen, a man and a woman. The course started by a Maoist-type public confession of one’s sins to all the other people in the course who had been similarly caught. The two ex-cops then successfully demonstrated that the human and other damage caused by an accident is lineally related to the speed at which it happens.

It was then that I had a blinding flash of illumination, a real eureka moment. The best, indeed only, way to prevent road traffic accidents is to prohibit people from leaving their houses in the first place! By a process of association of ideas, I remembered the slogan that was used during the war to cut down the demand for public transport: “Is your journey really necessary?”

The answer, of course, is usually a resounding no, especially in these days of the internet. I bet that if you took a spot survey of all the people who are moving about at any given moment, not one in twenty would have a really good reason for doing so. Here, surely, is scope for proper regulation: traffic police who would not only regulate the speed at which you go, but your reasons for going. If you could provide a good reason, a heavy fine would be payable, with imprisonment for subsequent offenses.

This, naturally enough, brings me to the question of global warming. It must be admitted that, for three reasons, things have not been going very well for global warmists of late, at least in Britain. The first reason is that the scientists have been caught doing the scientific equivalent of fiddling the books; the second is that we are enjoying, if that is quite the word, the severest winter in thirty years; and the third is that the economic recession has conclusively demonstrated that people care more about a decline in GDP of five percent than a rise in temperature of two degrees — if it had taken place, that is."

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/save-the-planet-by-outlawing-lampshades/

"Save the Planet by Outlawing Lampshades

We can cut down on energy use and promote egalitarianism at the same time.

One way and another, the solutions to life’s little problems keep popping into my mind.

For example, I was recently caught speeding (not by very much; my racing car driver days are long past); and rather than have my license soiled, I elected to go to the one-day speeding reeducation course that was offered as an alternative.

The course was run by two ex-policemen, a man and a woman. The course started by a Maoist-type public confession of one’s sins to all the other people in the course who had been similarly caught. The two ex-cops then successfully demonstrated that the human and other damage caused by an accident is lineally related to the speed at which it happens.

It was then that I had a blinding flash of illumination, a real eureka moment. The best, indeed only, way to prevent road traffic accidents is to prohibit people from leaving their houses in the first place! By a process of association of ideas, I remembered the slogan that was used during the war to cut down the demand for public transport: “Is your journey really necessary?”

The answer, of course, is usually a resounding no, especially in these days of the internet. I bet that if you took a spot survey of all the people who are moving about at any given moment, not one in twenty would have a really good reason for doing so. Here, surely, is scope for proper regulation: traffic police who would not only regulate the speed at which you go, but your reasons for going. If you could provide a good reason, a heavy fine would be payable, with imprisonment for subsequent offenses.

This, naturally enough, brings me to the question of global warming. It must be admitted that, for three reasons, things have not been going very well for global warmists of late, at least in Britain. The first reason is that the scientists have been caught doing the scientific equivalent of fiddling the books; the second is that we are enjoying, if that is quite the word, the severest winter in thirty years; and the third is that the economic recession has conclusively demonstrated that people care more about a decline in GDP of five percent than a rise in temperature of two degrees — if it had taken place, that is."

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/save-the-planet-by-outlawing-lampshades/

http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/moody-diagram-d_618.html and one from the Nautical society too.

torque?

Liberal Iffy: smoke on a dope.

All Fear; no Hope.
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"But the Liberals are not there yet, and after four years in opposition, they have learned to fear the Conservative machine, said one insider.

"I can just imagine [Liberal candidate] Ross Rebagliati in an ad about everybody smoking dope, and Liberals talking about raising the GST, they can take that stuff and they can really run some negative stuff. I think the Tories, unlike their historical counterparts won't drop during a writ, I think their election machine and the money they have will ensure that they either keep what they've got or improve. I'm not sure the Liberals are ready to fight a battle that right now."

"Liberals not ready to defeat Tories in spring"

http://www.thehilltimes.ca/page/view/spring-02-08-2010

Re: Maz tip the hill times
Liberals not ready to defeat tories in spring

* the Whole game plan changed on friday afternoon when Jack Layton announced his prostrate cancer.
Any political party would be commiting political suicide to drop the writ when one of the opponents is ill. Saying that, If this had not happened then Yes i believe we were going into a spring election shortly after the budget release.

O & Al Gore's Weather (OAGW): What's this? "long duration"? "unusual snow storm"?

Who's Izzi?

"“The storm is going to be a little bit of an unusual snow storm because of the long duration that’s expected,” Izzi said."
...-

"Blustery, lengthy storm could produce "blizzard-like" conditions"

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2035498,winter-weather-chicago-snow-storm-020810.article

Reminder: Boeing 747-8 Freighter first flight webcast is scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. PST today.

I guess Canadians are easy to bully!
Posted by: Slap Shot at February 8, 2010 2:00 AM

Why yes, we are Mr. Slap. A bunch of statist whiners who accept what we are told.

Canadians avoidance of conflict through the past two generations has bred a nation of pussies.

I recall during the 1988 Winter Olympics the draconian liquor laws enabled by the ALCB - where last call was at 1PM, and no alcohol was to be served on Sundays (without food purchase). Max 2.

The Olympic comittee - aghast at the backwoods/hayseed image this would leave of Alberta - obtained a special exemption for the games and temporarily - beyond.

Evenutally the laws changed, the ALCB Temeprance empire fell, and we have what resembles the laws in place across the continent - more or less.

But as with any change, it typically comes from outside a culture/system. The fact Canadians never had a revolution and took control of our nation keeps us cowering under the statist hedge-money.

Now go pay your taxes, and prepay your cable bill - like your told.

Aaron's Albanian mafia watch continues.

Does anyone understand how after smuggling $200,000 worth of pot into the US:

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/archives/2008_news_releases/may_2008/05202008_3.xml

an Albanian gangster is out shooting up night club in Canada in less than a year:

http://peelpolice.ca/News/Media%20Archive.aspx?Page=3&MainContent=2696

Isotope crisis deepens with Dutch reactor shutdown
Gloria Galloway
Ottawa — From Monday's Globe and Mail Published on Sunday, Feb. 07, 2010 10:17PM EST Last updated on Monday, Feb. 08, 2010 7:44AM EST

"It is cut to bare bones just to keep supplies going.”"

“So what we are going to see is an increase in the numbers of advanced cardiovascular diseases and advanced cancers in the years to come.”

“Nuclear medicine is such that we have the ability to do early diagnosis compared to radiology, for example. And, if you don't do diagnoses of diseases, they keep progressing,” he said

Dr. Urbain said there is no question that old reactors, such as the NRU and the unit in the Netherlands, need to be fixed from time to time.

Christian Paradis, the federal Natural Resources Minister who only recently took over the portfolio that has been a political minefield largely as a result of the isotopes issue, said in an e-mail that the government is doing what it can lessen the impact of the problem.

“The health and safety of Canadians is of the utmost importance and it is imperative that the NRU be brought back online as quickly, and safely, as possible. I speak regularly with AECL [Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.] to ensure everything that can be done, is being done,” Mr. Paradis said when asked about both reactors being put of service.

AECL, the Crown corporation that owns the NRU, has not given a start-up date for the reactor's return to service. Previous estimates of the amount of time it will take to fix leaks have proved wildly optimistic.

“But those reactors did not become 40 or 50 years old overnight, so there should have been a bit more foresight on the part of governments across the world,” he said........

So the Cons kill your parents, just as the Libranos killed your parents - one little incompetency at a time....

That radio-active thing again? It's so expensive....let's roll out billions in bullshit leaning on shovel projects for the Maritimes and Qwee-bec. They'll forget about this stuff in no time. And get party members to shout down anyone with opposing views....

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/isotope-crisis-deepens-with-dutch-reactor-shutdown/article1459423/

"At least babies can scream or throw up on a politician. Soldiers, they don't get that option"

What the Cons don't mention about their photo ops:

Rick Mercer:
There's no doubt about it; Canadians have been very generous in Haiti. People in this country have given an incredible amount of money. But once again it's members of the Canadian Forces that are doing the heavy lifting. Because really by the time most of us realize just how devastating this situation was, by the time most of us sat down at our laptops and made a donation, a thousand Canadian soldiers were already on their way to Haiti. And a thousand more show up this week.

Imagine if that was your job. Just drop everything and go to Hell on Earth and you have no idea when you're coming home to your family. Because I don't know what it's like where you work, but people at the CBC complain when the elevators are on the fritz. But that's soldiers for you. That's what they do. And that's why we admire them.

And that is why soldiers make the perfect political prop. In the old days politicians loved to get their pictures taken with babies. These days, it's soldiers. Which is why this past July, 300 Canadian soldiers were given a mission. They were told to drop everything and show up at Canadian Forces base Gagetown, in uniform in front of the cameras and clap and cheer as the Minister of Defense announced that this government was finally buying them new armored vehicles which we know they so desperately need.

And so it was perfect timing this past week, when every headline was dominated by the humanitarian crisis in Haiti that the government let it slip out very quietly that the purchase of armored vehicles is now on "permanent hold" or what a civilian would call cancelled. Turns out it was just a photo op and perhaps a new low in Canadian politics. You know, it's one thing for the government to order soldiers to put their lives at risk for Canada. That's their job.

But to drag them out and use them as a political prop, that's going too far. At least babies can scream or throw up on a politician. Soldiers, they don't get that option

http://www.rickmercer.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/1/27/Politicians-Are-Not-the-Kind-of-Tools-Our-Soldiers-Need

Once again,the U.K.'s newspapers are showing the rest of the world how 'investigative' journalism is done.--- "The United Nations panel on climate change is facing fresh criticism today as The Sunday Telegraph reveals new factual errors and poor sources of evidence in its influential report to government leaders."--- The IPCC is calling this 'mistake' minor,and the basic science is still sound. The IPCC was using corporate information from a company that is involved in wave power as facts,backed by student's dissertations. Not science at all.--- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7177230/New-errors-in-IPCC-climate-change-report.html

Socialism's AGW Fraud/UN/IPCC: The Rap Sheet.

"People like Mike Hulme, Tom Wigley, Benjamin Santer, Kevin Trenberth, Keith Briffa, Malcolm Hughes, Raymond Bradley, John Holdren, Jonathan Overpeck, Caspar Amman, Michael Oppenheimer, Tom Crowley, Gavin Schmidt, William Connolley, Tim Osborn, Thomas Karl, Andrew Weaver, Eric Steig,".
...-

"IPCC And CRU Are The Same Corrupt Organization

Cost of the corruption of climate science by the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) is likely a trillion dollars already and there is no measure of the lives lost because of unnecessary reactions like biofuels affecting food supplies. Stories appear about the corruption at the IPCC and others about the leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU). Most people, including the media, don’t seem to realize the IPCC is the CRU. Some articles mention both but don’t make the connection. A recent article in the Globe and Mail is a good example.

The article is a small shift because the Globe has consistently promoted human caused warming and attacked skeptics. However, failure to make the connection allows people involved to develop defenses, withdraw from associations or go into hiding.

A Very Large Cast

Universities and governments are already whitewashing the behavior of prominent individuals like Phil Jones and Michael Mann. Nobody else involved with the scandal is facing even biased internal investigation. Many are not mentioned in the limited media reports on the scandal. People like Mike Hulme, Tom Wigley, Benjamin Santer, Kevin Trenberth, Keith Briffa, Malcolm Hughes, Raymond Bradley, John Holdren, Jonathan Overpeck, Caspar Amman, Michael Oppenheimer, Tom Crowley, Gavin Schmidt, William Connolley, Tim Osborn, Thomas Karl, Andrew Weaver, Eric Steig, and all names on the CRU emails require investigation. They had to know what was going on, partly because they all used the same vehicles of attack and deception. By investigating only two individuals the collective culpability of the CRU and the IPCC goes unchallenged. Investigation of two individuals underscores the false claim there are one or two “bad apples” but the overall science is unaffected. The IPCC received a Nobel Prize collectively; they must bear the blame collectively.

There are also those in government who acted in extremely questionable ways. Chief among these are members of the United Kingdom Meteorological Office (UKMO) including John Mitchell. He was review editor of the IPCC and initially denied access to information then claimed it was erased."

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/19788

Al Gore's Weather (AGW): Just in time for the SkinnyDippers to perform, aka CBCMercer/Canada's "Liberal leader" Boob Lae, aka Mao Stlong's nephew.

Watch for socialist Red-Green AGW's Death Count.
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"Siberian cold likely to bring sub-zero temperatures and snow

Winter will make an icy return this week as a Siberian blast of bitterly cold air sweeps through Europe and freezes Britain.

Much of the country could see snow, with forecasters saying that sub-zero temperatures could last until the end of the month."

"Already this winter has been the coldest since 1981-82 across Britain, and the coldest in Scotland in archives dating back to 1914. With a cold February now in prospect, this winter is now turning out to be unusually long and hard — more like the “winter of discontent” in 1978-79, one of the worst winters of the 20th century."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/weather/article7018518.ece

Sorry Kate, does anyone have a link to the Maurice Strong Bio by someone named Rachel.... (if memory serves me right)
Can't find it anywhere.

*
"-- TWEED -- Provincial police crime scene investigators here are combing
through the home of CFB Trenton Base Commander Russ Williams in
connection with the death and disappearance of Jessica Lloyd."

*

I'm thinking that about now, Suzuki is glad that they never passed that legislation about jailing those who ignore climate science. He'd be renamed "Cooler King".

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=290513

AssPress' "SCHRECK", aka "ADAM", reports on Mo-Allah-Babel's Tower.

Moh's tower was set in "a cutting-edge Arab metropolis".
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"World's tallest tower closed a month after opening

Associated Press ^ | Feb. 8, 2010 | ADAM SCHRECK

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The world's tallest skyscraper has unexpectedly closed to the public a month after its lavish opening, disappointing tourists headed for the observation deck and casting doubt over plans to welcome its first permanent occupants in the coming weeks.

Electrical problems are at least partly to blame for the closure of the Burj Khalifa's viewing platform—the only part of the half-mile high tower open yet. But a lack of information from the spire's owner left it unclear whether the rest of the largely empty building—including dozens of elevators meant to whisk visitors to the tower's more than 160 floors—was affected by the shutdown.

The indefinite closure, which began Sunday, comes as Dubai struggles to revive its international image as a cutting-edge Arab metropolis amid nagging questions about its financial health.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2446830/posts

O'I's my own X-Grandpa.
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"Another Look at Obama's Origins

By Jack Cashill

The murky circumstances of Obama's birth invite attempts to make the known facts fit together. This article was prompted by two e-mails. The first asked me why I had never weighed in on the birth certificate controversy surrounding President Barack Obama.

I responded that although I was troubled by the lack of documentation regarding all phases of Obama's history -- I'd be content with his SAT scores -- I could not understand why any pregnant American woman would go anywhere near Kenya.

The second e-mail was more interesting. It came from a Michigan entrepreneur named Don Wilkie, with whom I had not previously communicated. Knowing my interest in the authorship questions surrounding Obama's writing, he presumed that I was intrigued as he was by a cryptic poem the nineteen-year old Obama wrote called "Pop," the best thing that Obama himself has actually written. He was right.

"Pop" relates an encounter between Obama and a man most reviewers presume to be Obama's maternal grandfather, Stanley Dunham. Dunham would have been in his early sixties at the time. In the poem, Obama has "Pop" wondering drunkenly about the boy, "What to do with me, a green young man."

The Obama of the poem is cynical, even a little bitter. He makes several allusions to the fact that he and the old man look and even smell alike, a fact that strikes Obama as more ironic than reassuring. The poem ends, however, with reconciliation when Pop stands and asks for a hug. Writes Obama:

I see my face, framed within

Pop's black-framed glasses

And know he's laughing too.

Wilkie offers a novel interpretation of "Pop." Says Wilkie, "I think the poem zeros in on that poignant moment when Obama was told that his grandfather was in reality his father.""

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/another_look_at_obamas_origins.html
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"WHY DID THIS HAPPEN AT ALL, AND WHO IS GOING TO STOP IT?(sic)

by Neil Sankey

Another thought-provoking article appeared yesterday in The American Thinker, where Jack Cashill takes “Another Look at Obama’s Origins.”

As the author of several previous articles regarding ”eligibility,” I received a lot of ridicule and criticism, being one of the early writers to suggest the man bore a striking resemblance to Malcolm X in my articles published in the British newspapers.

I found it quite remarkable that, today, despite Jack’s intriguing aspect, in all of the hundred or so comments written, so far there is almost no criticism, and no ridicule, just a blanket acceptance that we have all been lied to and deceived. Who is he? “Anything is possible; we do not know the answer.” We have become so accustomed to this administration’s “lies and deceptions” that it is no longer an issue for some."

http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/02/08/where-are-our-security-services

Wow. Some junior 'political' staffer (read ADM or DM) pulling some fixing on FOIP got caught by the bureaucrats - who - obliged to let Canadians see what the roaches do under cover of night.

Guess who's still advocating for transparency, accountability, and efficiency in the government (hint: it sure ain't Harper and the faux-Cons)....

Don't meddle in ATIP requests, political staff told

Daniel Leblanc

Ottawa — The Globe and Mail Published on Monday, Feb. 08, 2010 11:59AM EST Last updated on Monday, Feb. 08, 2010 12:32PM EST

The Prime Minister’s Office is sending out a message to its political staff to stay out of the Access to Information process.

The warning comes on the heels of an embarrassing episode in which a Conservative official forced the department of Public Works to break the Access to Information Act and deny the full release of a report to The Canadian Press.

“[Access to Information] due diligence is and should be done by public servants and not political staff. The process must be followed and respected by all,” said PMO spokesman Dimitri Soudas in an e-mail today.

The Conservatives had tried to spin their way out of the controversy by saying that they were trying to help the news agency avoid a charge of $27.40 for the report by providing only 30 pages out of 137 pages.

However, the department ruled that the full report was to be disclosed and had actually started the process of mailing it out when an aide to the Conservative minister, Christian Paradis, ordered bureaucrats to “unrelease” the document.

The episode is similar to an instance in which officials in the Chrétien government tried to block the release of information on the sponsorship program to The Globe and Mail. That incident was revealed in 2004 at the Gomery inquiry, which helped the Conservatives win power with a promise to “clean up” Ottawa and bring increased transparency to government operations.

CBC has two stories up about high-profile murders today. One is about two of the men charged in the Jane Creba shooting.The other is about the soldier charged in the murders in Ontario. The CBC has closed the Creba story to comments,while allowing comments on the other. They have closed comments on all the Toronto 18 stories. They have closed all comments on the murders of the 4 'inconvenient' females in Kingston.I think their comments policy is crystal clear, though unwritten. If a story points in the direction of a 'diverse' person(s),the rabble ( us taxpayers) shall remain muted. FIRE.THEM.ALL.

O's retreat from AGW has begun. Looks like it's a feint?

O'AssPress's censors forgot to snip/cut this:

>>> "But a U.N. report that preceded the conference in Copenhagen has been widely disputed after much of the data in it was found to have been gathered unscientifically."

But, the pic of the belching stacks gets through.

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"Administration Proposes New Agency to Study Climate Change

A new Climate Service agency will operate with NOAA's National Weather Service and National Ocean Service, the Commerce Department announced Monday."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/08/administration-proposes-new-agency-study-climate-change/

As Pres'O says, Let me be clear as mud, with full O'paque transparency and O'pennesssss;

It's George's fault.
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"Jobless rate falls to 8.3%: StatsCan".
(googoonews)

US Christians pissed that Christian hate crimes laws cover Christian hate crimes. Still awaiting Muslim hate crime category - developing....

Christians claim hate crimes law an effort to ‘eradicate’ their beliefs
By Stephen C. Webster
Saturday, February 6th, 2010 -- 2:15 pm
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Christians claim hate crimes law an effort to eradicate their beliefs. A Christian group in Michigan has filed a lawsuit alleging that a package of hate crimes laws named after murder victim Matthew Shepard is an affront to their religious freedom.

Far from the intended purpose of severely punishing criminals who commit unspeakable acts against a persecuted minority group, the religious activists claim the laws are a guarded effort to "eradicate" their beliefs.

Filed by the Thomas More Law Center -- which bills itself as the religious answer to the American Civil Liberties Union -- the complaint claims that protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people "is an effort to eradicate religious beliefs opposing the homosexual agenda from the marketplace of ideas by demonizing, vilifying, and criminalizing such beliefs as a matter of federal law and policy."

http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/401/

CBC has hit a new low.
"A military commander from Canadian Forces Base Trenton in eastern Ontario has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two women."
The picture they managed to dig up for this front page story is of "Col. Russell Williams, centre, and Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Walter Natynczyk, left, speak to Defence Minister Peter MacKay during his visit to CFB Trenton on Jan. 17."
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/02/08/belleville-jessica-lloyd-dead-missing.html
Looks like CBC is trying to link Conservatives with murder and rape.Wouldn't you know the story is closed to comments.

CBC has now closed and presumably deleted the comments on the Col.Williams story. Better late than never.Better still though would be to allow comments on all the crimes.

"From this moment on"

[...]

"The Left doesn’t want to govern, it wants to rule given the chance. It is as always willing to leave its own Big Tent behind at the decisive moment. The continual calls from the Democrat Left for Obama to ‘grow a spine’ are really coded calls to say that the moment is now; that the President must ‘’seize the day, seize the hour”. It’s not as Cost imagines, a call to compromise. It’s a call to say that the time for compromise is over. They can drop the mask; they can hoist the Jolly Roger."

"2. Walt:

THE VAMPIRES OF THE LEFT(sic)

They lay in darkness, waiting dusk
They cannot stand the light
They smell of rotting flesh and musk
They hate us of the right
They live by parasitic law
They are the vile undead
They eat the flesh of good men raw
They kill or go unfed
Oh yes they smile when meeting you
They bend but do not break
The only thing that we can do
Is drive a wooden stake
Into their shriveled putrid hearts
And with bare hands dismember
The rotting heads and separate parts
Beginning this November"

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/02/08/from-this-moment-on/

alan
What,they couldn't find a picture with the Prime Minister,they had to settle for MacKay?

O'gored by Al's AGW.
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"Look out Mid-Atlantic, here comes "Son of Snowmageddon""

"Issued by The National Weather Service Baltimore/Washington, MD 3:04 pm EST, Mon., Feb. 8, 2010

... WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TUESDAY TO 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY(sic)."

It may be a different naval race that matters:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=118083§ionid=351020205

Blazing cat fur had this on his site. Too funny.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DfCoy_kQh08/S3CpoXbIyQI/AAAAAAAABhA/jmD7hN3xQ04/s1600-h/Global+Warming+Hoax.jpg

Al Gore's Weather (AGW): Ahm pleased to announce, on behalf of Gaia, O's regime is sclewed ... agin. Ah repeat, O's .....ed, agin.
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"Federal Government in Washington DC CLOSED on Tuesday
Office of Personnel Management ^ | February 8, 2010 | OPM

Federal Government Operating Status in the Washington, DC, Area the following message applies only to Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Federal agencies in the Washington, DC, area are CLOSED.

This Means . . . Federal agencies in the Washington, DC, area are closed(sic)."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2447123/posts

W-K has surfaced.
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"Libel filings show battle between hate-hunter and conservative blogger

TORONTO • Richard Warman, Canada's top online hate-hunter and scourge of free speech advocates, offered his first public response on Monday to the online campaign against him led by conservative blogger and lawyer Ezra Levant.

In court filings for a libel suit, Mr. Warman calls Mr. Levant's conduct toward him "obsessive," states he "has no respect for authority," and says it is "surprising" he is a member in good standing of the Law Society of Alberta.

"Mr. Levant is in the habit of fabricating extremely serious allegations of misconduct against others," Mr. Warman states in an affidavit filed in Ontario Superior Court.

"He describes various human rights tribunals across Canada as ‘kangaroo courts.' He vilifies their members, he accuses their lawyers of lying to them (without any evidence) and he mocks those who would dare to disagree with him."

In a brief hearing on Monday, Mr. Levant's lawyer Peter Jacobsen said Mr. Warman has made "irrelevant and scandalous accusations," and that he will file a full written response in two weeks. Mr. Levant declined to comment on them on Monday.

Of all the libel suits that arose from the vicious public debate over hate speech in human rights law, none are as richly layered as this one, known officially as Richard Warman v. The National Post Company, Jonathan Kay, Ezra Levant, Kathy Shaidle, Fivefeetoffury.com, smalldeadanimals.com, Catherine McMillan, Mark Fournier, FreeDominion.ca, Constance Wilkins-Fournier.

There are others, including one that goes to trial this morning in Ottawa, brought against Mr. Levant by Canadian Human Rights Commission lawyer Giacomo Vigna.

Khurrum Awan, a lawyer whose hate speech complaints against Maclean's magazine brought the issue to Canada's front pages, has another on the docket against Mr. Levant.

They all arise out of the blog-driven backlash against Section 13, the internet hate speech section of Canada's Human Rights Act, and in particular the activism of Mr. Warman, who has brought every case in the last decade or so, often by posing as a hatemonger online."

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2538327

Michael I. speaks up about the Olympics, " People are going discover we've always been an Asian country, facing out to Asia." I didn't know that.---http://www.ctvolympics.ca/news-centre/newsid=32532.html

alan "Looks like CBC is trying to link Conservatives with murder and rape."

I don't really think so. I think the pic was just selected for shock value as in "Look how high up this guy was!" It certainly shocked me.

I don't think Barry Dunham is concerned his real birth certificate would show his birth was in Kenya or Montreal, not Hawaii. More likely his problem is an illegitimate one.

I sort of cooled on America's Cup racing when they outlawed hand operated keel angle jacks, depleted uranium keel ballast, and crews had to be less than 50% millionaire lawyers. Who wants to watch a bunch of stress engineers wetting themselves as the Kevlar mast and airfoil strain gauges suddenly enter the red zone on their laptops.

Re: I had an interesting conversation with Stephen Boissoin the other day. He's the Red Deer man, who had a long fight with the Human Rights Commission. What struck me was his opinion that this was not a freedom of speech issue, but rather, a matter of him being right, and them being wrong.

For all the support he received from people like Ezra Levant, he has nothing nice to say about Ezra, or other free speech advocates. He thinks they're just using him, to further their own agenda. Stunning.

Oh well, I suppose it doesn't change the position of his supporters, that he isn't grateful.

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1...I don't recall this conversation NOR saying what you claim here...funny how people interpret what they hear, if they even heard it. Although, I do speak top a lot of people.

Let ME respond directly.

1. OF COURSE THIS IS A FREEDOM OF SPEECH ISSUE as I have proclaimed for the last 8 years. Plus, I am right too. Freedom of speech is the secondary battle for me, meaning, my initial issue was the homosexual agenda...this issue remains a problem.

2. Nothing nice to say about Ezra or free speech advocates?.....GET A GRIP. That is pure nonsense. Free speech advocates defended me and many are many friends. Ezra generated some great attention to my case..he was a piece of the big puzzle for sure. Ezra has his own agenda and motives. I will leave them between he and God.

3. I am very grateful for the divinely inspired support that I received. To insinuate otherwise is blatant ignorance, maliciousness and stupidity.

Stephen Boissoin
sboissoin@gmail.com
403-304-5400