"There is a class of people with radical leftist views who have made it their job — with the help of abundant grants, foundations, and trusts — to carry out propaganda campaigns, indoctrinate, subvert, and plant the seeds of the leftist worldview in people’s minds through the arts, media, education, blogging, and street protests." - Oleg Atbashian, at PJM.

Has anyone else been listening to Roy Green's guest hosting of Adler's show this past week? There have been some excellent segments including one where a devout Leftist named Annie Kidder argued that all comprehensive testing of schoolchildren should be eliminated for two years and replaced by random sample testing.

Yet when asked how she felt about the federal long form census she admitted that she didn't agree that it should be ended.

The Living Hypocrisy of the Leftist Mind continues to leave me speechless!

If you're interested you can listen to the segment here.

Man, oh man - I had to listen to those solos a few times...
Another crackin' tune, Eeb; many thanks!

Annie Kidder's blog is worth reading if you're looking for a good laugh!

My apologies, here's the correct audio link I referred to above.

"According to a report from the CBS-owned Chicago television station, the identity of the lone holdout on some of the counts against former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich has been revealed.

"Since I am not sure of the ethics or legality of exposing the identity of a jury member, I am not linking to the story.

"That said, it should surprise no one that the juror is a retired Illinois state worker, and that this person was apparently the lone holdout on up to a quarter of the counts against Blagoyevich.

"This is simply another indication of the depth of corruption in Chicago and Cook County, which is not solely the province of elected officials,-- political sleaziness in Chicago runs several, several layers deep."

EBD, you can add the courts to the list.

E.g. a judge ordered an endowment set up that gave us the leftard "pembina institue".

The judiciary; the gift that keeps on giving...

Via CanadianSense:

"The Levant Basin lies both onshore and offshore and includes most of middle and northern Israel and coastal Lebanon and Syria. The basin includes the exploration areas of Noble Energy offshore and Zion Oil & Gas onshore.

"Estimates of the amount of oil in the Rosh HaAyin discovery have rises to 1.5 billion barrels, and there is more oil off-shore...The new estimate, along with the gas and oil finds off the Mediterranean Coast, raise the likelihood that Israel will be self-sufficient for energy for the next three decades and even become an exporter of gas.

"That’s nearly $718 Billion. Most of the Levant Basin lies within the land and territorial water of Israel. Offshore, some of the ‘undiscovered’ the natural gas has been discovered and will be powering Israel in the next few years. Onshore, the ‘undiscovered’ oil, I believe, will be discovered soon.

"Looks like more bad news for those in the anti-Israel camp."

Another story regarding BC's largest cash crop with a bit of a twist:
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/more+black+bears+found+guarding+farm/3414755/story.html

Why this appears in the Vancouver Sun technology section is a mystery to me. Stumbled on this trying to find out WTF all the smoke was coming from today.

Barry Soetoro aka "Barack Obama", will be taking his "6th vacation of the year" - Telegraph.UK via The Drudge Report.

He he he, how are those food stamps and free rent workin out for ya these days?

A very interesting idea from Newt and company:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/244140/free-cities-newt-gingrich-ken-hagerty

There is no impediment to Canada spearheading a couple of these.

Loki: I was about to post the same link. I thought it was a bizarre and intersting story, definitely worth the read - guard bears - who knew! I hope they report the findings of the investigation cause now I'm really curious about TV watching bears.

A house divided against itself cannot stand,
unless it forces its illegals into Canada.

Other states with proposals that mirror the Arizona law are Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah. “We are very pleased to announce 22 states are now following Arizona’s lead to pass versions of a law that has the support of 60 percent to 81 percent of Americans according to polls,” said ALIPAC President William Gheen in a statement. “State and federal candidates are rushing to display their support for Arizona’s law and immigration enforcement. We will not stop until all American states are protected from this invasion as mandated by the Constitution of the United States.”

"35. Walt

They push old wheelchaired men off boats
They smile for cameras cutting throats
They kill at weddings, brides and grooms
They drag young women from their rooms
And stone them, laughing as they kill
While shouting it is Allah’s will
They hijack airplanes by the score
And throw the bodies out the door
They dress young kids in vests and bombs
And send the pictures to the moms
They cheer in streets as thousands die
As terror kills them from the sky
An embassy is no safe place
From this disgusting, vilesome race
With Muslims Time may have no beef
But one day we will take a leaf
From the big book of Muslim plays
And show them all the many ways
The West has found to kill a man
As quick and dirty as we can
We’re slow to anger, but we will
And one day soon there’ll be a kill
A thousand suns will burn the grass
And all the sand will turn to glass
For only then will terror end
We never break, but sometimes bend
But bend enough and something snaps
Just ask the Nazis and the Japs"

"When Did You Stop Beating Your Wife?"

"The standard narrative is failing is because it is based on a market model which assumes that the reader has no access to information which may denigrate or contradict the conventional wisdom peddled by the magazine. That may have been true of Time once, but it is no longer true, except for people who work in dentist’s offices. What the information revolution has done is enable readers to do a “ground truth” check on the memetic maps they are handed. Codespeak doesn’t work like it used to. That’s why the Cordoba mosque project is losing ground and why people like Howard Dean are backpedaling."

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/08/19/when-did-you-stop-beating-your-wife/#comments

A breath of fresh air finds its way, miraculously, into the pages of the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/opinion/20budiansky.html?hp

""Officer's survey finds 92% of police want gun registry scrapped. Veteran police officer says database is dangerous for cops to use

Vaughan ON – August 19, 2010 – A national survey conducted by an Edmonton police officer reveals that 92 percent of police officers in Canada want Members of Parliament to vote in favour of scrapping the long-gun registry in September. ""

http://www.cdnshootingsports.org/2010/08/Press_Release_Police_survey_20100819.html

Charles Krauthammer provides his usual astute observation on the Obamamosque.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/244269/moral-myopia-ground-zero-charles-krauthammer?page=1

He defines it as 'moral myopia at Ground Zero'. And moral myopia it certainly is.

"No one disputes the right to build; the whole debate is about the propriety, the decency of doing so."

"Ground Zero is the site of the most lethal attack of that worldwide movement [radical Islam], which consists entirely of Muslims, acts in the name of Islam, and is deeply embedded within the Islamic world. These are regrettable facts, but facts they are. And that is why putting up a monument to Islam in this place is not just insensitive but provocative."

My term would not be 'provocative' or 'insensitive' but unethical. Ethics is a key component of being human; to turn one's back on the ethics of behaviour to others is to deny both your, and their, basic and common humanity. And that's what the Obamamosque issue is all about; its unethical nature.

EBD @ 9:59, the radical left infiltrated the educational system in the 1950s and we are seeing the results today.

maz2, that was a great poem.

Bill, that police officer's survey result will most likely not be a news worthy item on MSM.

Chuckle pics.

http://theberry.com/2010/08/19/working-extra-hard-to-be-extra-dumb-23-photos/

The 100 mile diet examined as to energy use.
'Home preparation and storage account for 32 percent of all energy use in our food system, the largest component by far.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/opinion/20budiansky.html?_r=1&hp

Very interesting Speedy !!

Another celebrity acting dumb: http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2010/08/19/ryan-reynolds-we-need-climate-change-legislation/

h/t Breitbart

Your public school enviro-Marxism training is coming along well...
---------------------------

Now this western-flavoured ode to energy conservation is among 2010's official entries for the Ottawa International Animation Festival.

[...]

After a class discussion, 23 students came up with the plot for a high noon light-bulb shootout set in a tumbleweed-infested town named "Squander."

The clever concept also pitted energy-wasting characters against energy savers.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Entertainment/20100820/film-fest-contenders-100820/

'Kay - I wouldn't normally link to FFoF because that's redundant blog-incest here, and I hate the Daily Mail 'cause of that stupid slebridee reel they have on the right side of all their pages, but... oh, man. Is this funny? Sad? Should I be angry? Make it stop:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1304674/Gay-vicar-65-marry-Nigerian-male-model-half-age.html?ITO=1490

(I mean, it's via FiveFeetofFury)

Red-Green Alert: 'bergers sited, er sighted.

It's a first.

"A large iceberg is seen on the edge of a morning fog over Frobisher Bay, Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic seen in this file photo."

...-

"PM makes return to North to strengthen sovereignty claims"

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/head+North+strengthen+sovereignty+claims/3422570/story.html

Ken (10:04), wrt the left infiltrating the educational system, a University of Lethbridge Alumnus added a late (and welcome) comment this morning in my "Going to class" post - apparently Anthony J. Hall and Joshua Blakeney aren't the only 'teachers' at U of L who are using tenure and G-funding to promote radicalism among the young students.

Excerpt from uleth alum's comment:

"The University of Lethbridge is a great school, depending on your major. And I don’t doubt this posting one bit! It is indeed a cesspool of Marxist socialism, as I regretfully discovered when I had to venture outside of my economics courses to complete my electives. I’m not convinced that there is any Uni in Canada that doesn’t have a cesspool of some sort in liberal arts faculties, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the U of L is one of the worst. I’m not sure what was most shocking: the blatant, outright promotion of Karl Marx by my professors, or the enthusiastic agreement by the bulk of the student body. I can’t remember a time I’ve shook my head so much as I did sitting in those liberal electives. My only allies were a few other economics majors trying to knock off electives, who were clearly just as distraught as me.

"I only wonder how David Clearwater managed to keep his name out of all this. My most regretful elective course of all of them! I paid tuition for a 'new media' class, only to learn how to 'effectively' protest WTO and G-x meetings. Clearwater seemed to be a big supporter of the 1999 Seattle thugs, taking up valuable course time to have us watch 'This is what democracy looks like.' Thank you, Mr. Clearwater. What an excellent skill for me to take through life. His blatant anti-Americanism was particularly helpful to me in my quest to discern what qualifies someone as a bigot."

Let's go on strike right after our vacation is over...those crazy Greeks.....(they must follow the Ontario teachers' schedule).

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100820/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_greece_austerity_woes#mwpphu-container

Canuckistan's top soldier weighs in:

http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/08/20/natynczyk-veterans.html

meanwhile from the PMO comes a grating whine 'iss no my yob senior'.

why does the right wing support a party and leader that tolerates such crap heaped on our veterans?

When you see a cross at the side of the road do you think:

1) That someone is trying to convert you to Christianity.

2) That someone died there and their family has placed the cross in their memory.

I bet that 99% of people would choose #2 but a Leftist activist judge has chosen #1. Such decisions make me sick.

thanks for the link robert w. here's a quote:

"12 foot, steal crosses on public land throughout"

?

steal?

banned because they constitute temptation to thieves? LOL !!!

how long before a similar ruling in Canuckistan? before Veterans Memorial Highway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_416_%28Ontario%29
is renamed 'tamil refugee highway'?

That is the problem with the today's university system. A student is forced take classes that they do not want or need. I realize that the intent is to produce a well rounded graduate but most electives are all progressive nonsense. Nonsense that costs students thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of wasted time. That wasted time and money could be better spent on classes you actually want and/or shortening the time needed to get a useful degree.

Beagle, one important point to remember is that "American Atheists Inc." is actually American Leftist Atheists, just like the "American Civil Liberties Union" is actually the American Leftist Civil Liberties Union, just like ...

You get the idea!

AlMoh says, youse all bigots, "experts" say.

Deduce it from the words of "Religious scholar Aslan"/al-reuters.

It gets worser and worser. Even O's 'rats have "caved".

"“ISLAMOPHOBIA“

Religious scholar Aslan blames “Islamophobia” that he said was being whipped by the Republican Party establishment.

“They are making religious bigotry — just as they made anti-immigrant sentiment — part of their political platform,” Aslan said. “Democrats in the most cowardly fashion have completely caved in to this challenge.”

...-

"Americans still associate Islam with violence"

"NEW YORK - The furor over plans to build a Muslim cultural center near the World Trade Center site shows nine years of efforts to separate Islam from association with terrorism have largely failed, experts say.

“I’d take it one step further. I’d say that it’s far, far worse today than it was in the immediate aftermath of 9/11,” said Reza Aslan, a writer and scholar on religion, using the shorthand for the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001."

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/08/20/15089006.html

Dusk in Iraq

A troubling milestone arrived on Thursday when the US withdrew its final combat brigade from Iraq. The remaining 50,000 US forces are charged with advising and training the Iraqi military. President Barack Obama has pledged to withdraw them as well by the end of next year.

http://www.carolineglick.com/e/

"beagle" is lberia/ulianov.

"Judaic Russian Holocaust **
For the blood of Lenin and Uritzky, Zinoviev and Volodarsky, let there be floods ... Beria was noted for having his bodyguards kidnap young schoolgirls so that he could rape them in his Lubyanka office,
www.pgorg.com/russianholocaust.html

What, we can't even get new trolls these days? Just the same old retreaded idiots?

Gawd. There really IS a recession!

my my.

seems I hit a nerve.

I point out one of 82,941 speling mistacks coming out of the MSM and you people get in a tizzy.

LOL !!!

did you all see the 70th anniversary of trotsky's murder happened this week?

beria was some piece of work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beria

note how quickly he was promoted to the front of the firing squad after Stalin croaked in 1953.

and that is today's history lesson on the ultra right wing SDA.

Beagler asks, who's Ziffy?

PET Cemetery asks, who's Bruce Anderson?

Liberal Ignatieff: "Just Visiting".

"Ignatieff's summer camps should lead to better team play in the fall

Bruce Anderson: Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has had, by most accounts I've heard, a successful summer tour. The consensus seems to be that the discipline such a tour demands has made him a more relaxed and impactful speaker, and left his audiences feeling he is a more affable and approachable person."
(NNW)

...-

"Iggy's summer tour a flop: poll

The Liberal Express summer bus tour has been a flop, according to a new Leger Marketing poll.

At least it's failed if the plan was to introduce Michael Ignatieff to Canadians.

Less than one-in-ten Canadians say they know more about the Liberal leader now than when the tour began, and most of them are already Liberal supporters.

Of the 8% who say they know more about Ignatieff now, 59% say their opinion of him has improved, while 18% say it's worsened.

A total of 30% of Canadians still say they know nothing at all about the Liberal leader, with women and young people (under the age of 35) most likely to know nothing about him (36% and 34% respectively).

"The issue with Michael Ignatieff, prior to the summer, was that people really did not know who he was or what he stood for," said Dave Scholz with Leger Marketing. "Now near the end of the summer tour, we're finding that only 8% of people know more about him now than they did before. That's a pretty small number.

"And when you break it out, those are more likely to be Liberal voters. He's preaching to the converted."

http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/08/20/15091861.html

Taliban Jack LaytoNDP's head first exploded* in 1991 here*.

"*My head exploded that year."

...-

"Don't blame NDP if registry dies: Layton

OTTAWA — If the long-gun registry is scrapped next month, NDP Leader Jack Layton doesn’t want Canadians blaming his party.

At least 12 NDP MPs have previously supported the Conservatives' efforts to kill the registry, as did eight Liberals at second reading of Conservative MP Candice Hoeppner's private member's bill to scrap it.

But unlike the Liberals, Layton isn't whipping his members to vote against the government, allowing them instead to "represent their constituents.”"

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2010/08/20/15090441.html

...-

TalJack*:

"*My head exploded that year."

http://www.gendercide.org/case_montreal.html

Apparently "numerate, conservative homeowners" have a much better handle than "Gullible Greens" do on their home's power consumption.

http://www.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/media-consortium-blog/2010/08/weekly-mulch-green-daydreams-clean-gulf-energy-efficien

SALT IN THE WOUND written by Rita W. Jones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-dPSh--CHU

Say Amen, al-Tommy*.

Amen al-Tommy.

...-

Advance And Be Recognized

At the top of the news is an ABC report that the Reverend Franklin Graham said President Obama was “born a Muslim,” although “it’s obvious that the president has renounced the prophet Mohammed, and he has renounced Islam, and he has accepted Jesus Christ. That’s what he says he has done. I cannot say that he hasn’t. So I just have to believe that the president is what he has said.”

The problem here is not theology or Constitutional law. People are born in cultural contexts and they have a right to change their beliefs. There is no religious test for the Presidency; it doesn’t matter whether the president is atheist, Muslim or Christian. The difficulty is political. Barack Obama had carefully crafted an image designed to minimize his Muslim roots and by necessity downplayed his Christian associations in order to reap the benefits of straddling both worlds. It was an attempt to square the circle. Now the circle is reverting to itself.

Graham described the situation accurately:

I think the president’s problem is that he was born a Muslim, his father was a Muslim. The seed of Islam is passed through the father like the seed of Judaism is passed through the mother. He was born a Muslim, his father gave him an Islamic name. Now it’s obvious that the president has renounced the prophet Mohammed, and he has renounced Islam, and he has accepted Jesus Christ. That’s what he says he has done. I cannot say that he hasn’t. So I just have to believe that the president is what he has said. The Islamic world sees the president as one of theirs.

But in order for the Islamic world to see the president “as one of theirs,” the change from Islam to Christianity had to be toned down. If the president had played up his acceptance of Jesus Christ and “renounced the prophet Mohammed” it would have not have gone well in the Muslim world. So Obama selected what seemed like a good PR strategy of fudging at the edges. It may have sounded like a good idea at the time. He would have it both ways: an “obvious” Christian with links to the Reverend Wright’s Christian church but still someone the Islamic world could see “as one of theirs.”"

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/

(*H/T The Rev. Tommy Douglas, Sask's gift to socialism).

ET, the chickens are coming home to roost just as you predicted about Obama blaming congress.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/08/obama-mosque-jobs-economy.html