We'll all pay for each other, so no one will have to pay anything:

"Create full employment by expanding the public sector. We had full employment for thirty years when the public sector was increased. Vote for the Communist Alliance and let's get Australia working!"

Somewhat related to the Pat Condell video, a stunning display of obstinate refusal to acknowledge the truth on tonight's Michael Coren Show where the discussion centered around the Ground Zero mosque (aka the Obama mosque).

The guilty party is one of the usual suspects. No, not a Mohammadan nor one of that cult's leftist allies, but an associate editor of The National Post! John Turley-Ewart, who surely must know a little of what goes on the world but evidently refuses to believe his own lying eyes, spouts some of the most ridiculous inanities regarding Islam and it's relationship to dar al Harb.

His first gem is a question that he obviously thinks is clever regarding the attacks on the Twin Towers: "Do you Islam is fundamentally opposed to Western society and wants to destroy it, or it's terrorists who are Islamists who brought down the towers?"

Watch as Coren and Andrew Lawton knock that one out of the ballpark.

Then if you can stomach it, head on over to the Tamil discussion (9:54 mark) where Turley-Ewart says the Tamils are the "most recent hard-working (sic) immigrant community in this country."

Coren replies "That's such a white thing to say - some Tamils work hard, some are lazy."

Attention: Al Gore has now left the area....All displaced indigenous tribes may now return to your homelands...

"A paper published yesterday in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, confirms other studies of tide gauge records which show that there has been no statistically significant acceleration in sea level rise over the past 100+ years, in contrast to statements of the IPCC and Al Gore. Sea levels have been rising naturally since the peak of the last major ice age 20,000 years ago, and the rate of rise began to decelerate about 8,000 years ago..."

"Vote for the Communist Alliance and let's get Australia working!" Sure, especially when the re-education labour camps are opened.

John Turley-Ewart...associate editor of the National Post. I would think he would be better employed at the Toronto Star and The Globe where those who hid their head in the sand write their liberal nonsense.

Mississauga Matt, saw the show and it was a great exchange. Coren runs a great show. He needs to go national, though!

That said, I was dissapointed that Coren never brought up David Menzies' point from last week's show -- which Coren stated then was an excellent point, making it strange that he never brought it up. Menzies asked if those lefties, who focus on the legality arguement (a non sequitur since nobody apposing the mosque is arguing that), would not make that the focus of their arguments had a gun club decided to build a gun range in such close proximity to Ecole Polytechnique. Instead, they would focus instead on their moral opposition, arguing that while it would not be illegal, it would be a provocation and a way of poking the victims in the eye.

I'm sure the subject will come up again. Hopefully Coren will use it to trap some of his lefty guests.

Hey, here's a good one from the Kitty:

Alleged: someone with an IP address that appears to belong to the Toronto Star updated mayoral candidate Rob Ford's Wikipedia page, adding a line with a link entitled "Personal Blog" that led to a Rob Ford spoof page.

Journalists: your moral and intellectual superiors.

A little girl named Suzy was standing on the sidewalk in front of her home. Next to her was a basket containing a number of tiny creatures; in her hand was a sign announcing FREE KITTENS.
Suddenly a line of big black cars pulled up beside her. Out of the lead car stepped a tall, grinning man.

"Hi there little girl, I'm Mr. Ignatieff. What do you have in the basket?" he asked.

"Kittens," little Suzy said.

"How old are they?" asked Ignatieff
Suzy replied, "They're so young, their eyes aren't even open yet."

"And what kind of kittens are they?"

"Liberals," answered Suzy with a smile.

Ignatieff was delighted. As soon as he returned to his car, he called his PR chief and told him about the little girl and the kittens.

Recognizing the perfect photo op, the two men agreed that Mr Ignatieff should return the next day; and in front of the assembled media, have the girl talk about her discerning kittens.

So the next day, Suzy was again standing on the sidewalk with her basket of "FREE KITTENS," when another motorcade pulled up, this time followed by vans from CBC, CTV, and CNN.

Cameras and audio equipment were quickly set up, then Ignatieff got out of his limo and walked over to little Suzy.

"Hello, again," he said, "I'd love it if you would tell all my friends out there what kind of kittens you're giving away."

"Yes sir," Suzy said. "They're CONSERVATIVES."

Taken by surprise, Mr. Ignatieff stammered, "But... but... yesterday, you told me they were LIBERALS."

Little Suzy smiled and said, "I know. But today, they have their eyes open"

Alan, that was funny. I needed that after reading the garbage that the resident troll was spewing on an earlier thread.

Yesterday I saw a car with BC license plates with a Tamil Tiger symbol & writing clearly blazoned on it. I never took a photo of the car but had I, and forwarded the car & license plate to the authorities, do you think they would have done anything? I suspect not.

What's next, an Israeli flag with a Nazi swastika over top? :-(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10995111

Notice the map with the red outline where China says is their
claimed territorial waters in the China Sea. Too bad if you happen to be Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia or Brunei.

This is the link to the City of Saskatoon's recycling survey. Please inject some reason into this.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JML7L5J

Michele - we have forced recycling in Calgary - with our tax dollars paying for it. I store my river rafts in my blue recycling bin - and still take my own recycling to the common site - I think it's more efficient.

But - I may be wrong - I watched a recycling truck go by and pick up for those that left stuff out in their bins - and the guy was pretty slick - super fast with minimal delays.

And - I see this as a prelude to garbage in bins picked up by machinated trucks.

I want to see the data though!!

Red-Green Show: Bugery & Lizard May.

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"Green party convention to focus on serious platform"

"Green Party leader Elizabeth May shows off her western finery while entering the Calgary Stampede President's Breakfast in July."

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Green+party+convention+focus+serious+platform/3405810/story.html

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"Banning pesticide caused bed bug boom"

Thank environmentalists for a growing bed bug plague in Toronto and elsewhere, a senior city health official told the Sun.

“We’re seeing an increase in bedbugs in the First World,” Reg Ayre, the healthy environments manager, said Monday. “It used to be a Third World problem.”

Then came chemical bans designed for a healthier world.

Developing countries used DDT in the 1940s and 1950s to control the little bugs who drill into their human host sucking blood to breed. They prefer warm beds to lie in wait for often unsuspecting hosts."

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/08/16/15043016.html

The Separatist Coalition is reality.

The Separatist Coalition’s sleeper agent is the Liberal Party, aka Liberal Ziffy/Rae, et al.

Like all fascism, like all rats, the Separatist Coalition emerges from the underworld when it deems the time is ripe.

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“The Bloc’s silent partner
Quebec Premier Jean Charest

The Quebec Liberal Party is complicit in separatism’s continued appeal to Quebeckers”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-blocs-silent-partner/article1674906/

http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/08/16/time-to-invoke-the-notwithstanding-clause/#comment-88061

mississauga matt - thanks for the Coren clip. And, how tiresome that the argument reduces to 'the legality' of putting the mosque there - when that isn't the issue at all.

The issue is ethics and it's interesting how the reality of ethics has so disappeared from our vocabulary that we instead use vague terms such as 'seemly, classy, proper' etc. Ethics is not a subjective value where moral truths are particular to the individual but a universal value, an acknowledgement of reality.

EBD, I Like LA's a snappy little tune to wake up to! Thanks.

Re maz2's post on a re-emergence of bed bugs in Toronto: For those who don't like making their bed in the morning, don't make it and you may find, if bed bugs are a problem, that they're less of a problem.

When I lived in a tropical country, one of the women who'd grown up there told me not to tuck in bedclothes, to leave the bed unmade, folding the bedclothes and leaving them at the bottom of the bed. That way, there were no nooks, crannies, or folds for the bed bugs or any other creepy crawlies to snuggle up in.

As a result, we never found a scorpion in our beds or any other nasty lurkers. We found them other places!

Living in the Twilight Zone!

NDP Premier of NS telling Quebec where to head in by stating the blindingly obvious.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1197296.html

Living in the Twilight Zone!

NDP Premier of NS telling Quebec where to head in by stating the blindingly obvious.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1197296.html

Ok, wierd, I know I only hit Post once.......

To quote Woody Allen from Annie Hall, on L.A. vs. New York: "I don't want to live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light."

(Now my only experience with Los Angeles is LA [M@&#er%*(!ing] X, so I'm biased.)

Liberal Ziffy's O'Harvard buddy: Ramadanned, Rahmmedanned, and Ramadamned.

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"Historic journey

See how Barack Obama continues to make history as the 44th president."

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"Democrats: We were blindsided by President Obama's Ground Zero mosque comments

"Several Democratic campaign operatives complained that without a heads-up, they did not have the time to war-game how to handle questions from the news media or GOP attacks.

"They did the right thing - they just didn't do it the right way," lamented another Democratic source.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has spent three days on the phone doing damage control with angry Democrats and urging them not to go public against the President, Democratic sources said.

Obama went ahead with the Ramadan dinner remarks even though his top political advisers had not reached a consensus on what he should do. Emanuel was one of the skeptics."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/08/17/2010-08-17_surprised_pols_call_obama_a_party_pooper.html

Here's Elbows # 9: Getting the AGW Puck Outta Here, Gordy.

"It’s the sheer spectacle that’s worth attending to."

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"The McShane and Wyner Gordie Howe Treatment Of Mann"

"Gordie Howe—Mr Hockey to you—didn’t need his stick, his hockey stick, to plaster his opponents against the boards. Nor did he have to wave his blade, Tim-Dr. Hook-McCracken1 style, in order to fill the other team with fear. No, sir. Old Number 9 relied almost solely on his elbows to raise temperatures on the ice and score goals.

Statistically speaking, McShane and Wyner emulate Howe by applying a forearm check to the throat to Mann’s proxy reconstruction of temperature, cracking his hockey stick irreparably, leaving his models sprawling on the ice.

Like old school players, McShane and Wyner start with a little trash talking, albeit using sophisticated phrasing: “In fact, Li et al. (2007) is highly unusual in the climate literature in that its authors are primarily statisticians.” And they quote Boss Wegman—who once picked on me, publicly in print, for being a prof. at a med. school, but I hold him no grudge; just don’t let me get him out on the ice—”While the literature is large, there has been very little collaboration with university-level, professional statisticians.” The authors also show off their team, my pal Tilmann Gneiting, as well as Larry Brown and Dean Foster, all men of statistical brilliance.

But we can tell these taunts were included as a matter of form, thrown in because it is traditional. They don’t spend much time on them, and instead focus their efforts where it counts, exploiting Mann’s huge, gaping statistical five hole.

There’s little point in summarizing the statistical methods the pair use to pummel Mann: the paper is not especially difficult and can be read by anybody. It’s also so that the boys haven’t said much new2, but what they do say, they say well and plainly. It’s the sheer spectacle that’s worth attending to.

Hip check! “[A] random series that are independent of global temperature are as effective or more effective than the proxies at predicting global annual temperatures in the instrumental period. Again, the proxies are not statistically significant when compared to sophisticated null models”

High stick to the chops! “[I]t is possible that the proxies are in fact too weakly connected to global annual temperature to offer a substantially predictive (as well as reconstructive) model over the majority of the instrumental period.”

Scientific deke! “[T]he proxy record has some ability to predict the final thirty-year block, where temperatures have increased most significantly, better than chance would suggest.” Proxies and temperatures have less measurement error the closer to we are to now. This implies the relationship between proxies and temperature is not stationary, as is usually assumed. That means a model applied to data now won’t work for older data. And that means we should be even less certain."

http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=2773

H/T:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Talk weird. My pocket watch, a newish ( one month old Walmart $24 special "George"' battery driven FOB. not a wrist watch but meant to be a pocket device: One of the 1 3/4" outer diameter time estimating devices just... jumped one hour. Accurate to the minute but one hour advanced( I am spelling the numbers to be precice). My consternation is because of the Trouser Pants of time and that whilst I am of no consequence a note needs be made. Did anyone else notice something odd last night Aug 16 2010 ? Please attack my credibility or perceptions instead of my right to make such observation as it was such a weirdness that I had to make a statement.
Genuinely Puzzled

Andrew Coyne seems to believe that the Elite Ruling Class is best for us.

And does he really believe media polls are not rigged? If the Coynes, Heberts and Simpsons of the world did not have "opinion" polls to cite, they would have no material at all to use.

Coyne agrees with
"It isn’t just that the Tories habitually ignore the expert consensus on a wide range of issues—crime, taxes, climate change—it’s that they want to be seen to be ignoring it."

Can you believe that !?

Coyne ?? Get serious.

"To whip up popular hostility to intellectuals is to invite the public to jump on its own funeral pyre."

Well, we finally know what it takes to get Hollywierd types mad at Barry O.

Traffic.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/08/obama-traffic-la/comments/page/1/#comments

No. No. No.

No to the Liberals.

No to the Tamils.

No to the TORedStar.

No to Liberal Garneau/Ziffy/Rae, et al.

No to the Liberals’ compassion.

No.

Say No to the Liberals.

No.

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“Liberals urge compassion for Tamil migrants

The Liberals are urging the Harper government to show more compassion for the boatload of Tamil migrants who landed in British Columbia last week.

Liberal MP Marc Garneau says that since the MV Sun Sea arrived last Friday, the government has been fixated on suspicions that the ship is part of an organized human smuggling ring and that some of its passengers may be terrorists.

Garneau is urging Public Safety Minister Vic Toews to “lower the tone” of the government’s rhetoric.”

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/848825–liberals-urge-compassion-for-tamil-migrants

http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/08/16/time-to-invoke-the-notwithstanding-clause/#comment-88126

What about us?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/17/ground-zero-church-archdiocese-says-officials-forgot/

More green wet dreams.

Artificial meat? Food for thought by 2050

Leading scientists say meat grown in vats may be necessary to feed 9 billion people expected to be alive by middle of century

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/16/artificial-meat-food-royal-society