I've taken the time to gather together some very "interesting" info about Daisy Khan, one of the key people behind the Ground Zero Mosque. You can read it / watch it here.

The disciples of
dear-leader-Hussein-Obama-the-uniter
are divided and fighting among themsleves,

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A March trial date was set Monday to decide whether the artist who created the Barack Obama "HOPE" image violated The Associated Press' copyright when he based the image on one of the news agency's pictures.

Read it at,

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100823/business/us_ap_poster_artist

Lots of respect for John Batchelor for digging in on this and ... having the patience to wade into this mess. One of my favorites on radio.
Clara's sure led an interesting life, cool stuff that seems forgotten to many, with so much of cooking having become an act of warming up semi prepared foods.

The Onion has hit one out of the park with its latest spoof on Time magazine's plan to bring out a new edition for adults. (as opposed to their regular fare...).
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/08/23/video-time-announces-new-version-of-magazine-aimed-at-adults/

Marc, that Time Magazine for Adults spoof is hilarious!!!

Some interesting numbers and comparisons.

Little-known fact: Obama's failed stimulus program cost more than the Iraq war
By: Mark Tapscott

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Little-known-fact-Obamas-failed-stimulus-program-cost-more-than-the-Iraq-war-101302919.html#ixzz0xUXe1EjW

Feel good video

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you could almost see the corpse that used to be lloyd robertson wince...

"Not all frontline officers agree with the registry. Randy Kuntz,
an Edmonton police officer for 22 years, surveyed 2,600 officers
on the issue, and found about 2,400 want to scrap the registry."

my guess is... heads at ctv are gonna roll.

Dear EBD,

Thank you for your great advice. When I re-read my origin question, I noticed that I inadvertently omitted "working" as in "working pet". It's tough to resist a bacon/pork store-house as a pet ... I was thinking about the crackling - not a good idea when choosing a pet.

But I see what you mean, if the Lagotto Romagnolo don't hunt, as it where, I could always sell it and get lots of pigs.

Crackling Lover in Vancouver

But But...I thought Bush was the least popular EVER???

A prominent Democratic pollster is circulating a survey that shows George W. Bush is 6 points more popular than President Obama in "Frontline" districts -- seats held by Democrats that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sees as most vulnerable to Republican takeover.
That Bush is more popular than Obama in Democratic-held seats is cause for outright fear.

Read more at,

http://www.thefoxnation.com/politics/2010/08/23/dem-strategist-calls-obama-walking-radioactive-disaster

∞² @ 12.03 ... here's a guy with the goods custom built to do just that, Valentin Prieto is the man behind, probably the best known of the "Freedom for Cuba" blogs out there. He roasts the 90 pounders from time to time, in December, and when needed and such...
http://babalublog.com/2009/12/much-ado-about-pig-roasters/

marc in calgary,

If I understand what you're saying, as a pet, a pig should be a considered as short-term companion.

to all the bloodthirsty death penalty advocates, consider this:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/19/635632/scathing-sbi-audit-says-230-cases.html

a quote from the article: "Some of the injustices can be addressed as attorneys bring old cases back to court. For others, it's too late: Three of the defendants in botched cases have been executed."

did you get that? the forensics people willfully fudged the evidence to get a conviction and now at least 3 INNOCENT people are dead.

THIS is why I oppose capital punishment. it is mathematically so improbable you are going to be correct ALL the time and now we see why.

p.s. feel free to google 'charles smith pathologist'

The $5,995 truck seat:

http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/bose_ride_system/index.jsp

Actual reporting on the Omar Kadr case!

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/omar-khadr-was-not-tortured

If you'd like to see Example #57,489 of how badly the Democrats are doing in the mid-term political race, watch this ad by Missouri Republican Roy Blunt.

Apparently it, and variations of it, are being repeated over & over & over again. The verdict is simple: ANY association with Barack Obama is absolutely destructive to all political campaigns this time around ... no matter how much he thinks he's a god and no matter how much his Radical Left Nutter supporters thinks he's a God!

More vandalism on the streets of Toronto, according to a Star article:

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/851126--guerilla-action-aims-to-turn-advertising-space-into-public-space

A group of activists has been replacing ads with "art".

"'Public space should be a place for public communication,' said [the ringleader]. 'I feel like I have a right to react against (advertisements) when, in particular, they’re done illegally.'"

Translation: "Le public, c'est moi. I'll make the decisions on what the public wants. And I'll be prosecutor, judge and executioner with regards to what I believe is illegal."

Typical extreme left arrogance, similar to that demonstrated in all its totalitarian states.

Liberal Iggy: "Just Visiting"

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"Visit by Ignatieff ruined by rude people, vehicles

What a shame that the noisiest participants reduced Michael Ignatieff's visit to a one-issue event.

Amidst rampant B.C. wildfires and cuts to vital services and programs, demonstrations focused on eastern seal harvesting.

Minus sufficient context, the "animal rights" arguments serve mainly to undermine human rights by distorting facts and escalating prejudice against aboriginal and other subsistence hunters.

There was nary a word about the urgent need to address climate change, starting at home. Nanaimo is overrun by SUVs and trucks used more for show than need. Where is the campaign to limit the oversize vehicles that clog our streets and public spaces and pollute our air?

Where were the voices challenging the treatment of immigrants, cuts to essential services, or the B.C. (Liberal) government's promotion of an HST while demolishing vital arts and social programs?

Where were the journalists? Why did the media focus on seals if Ignatieff spoke to broader concerns and substantive issues? I say "if" because I was unable to get in to hear him.

The cafe was crowded, but the main obstacle was the rudeness of people and proliferation of vehicles outside. I finally gave up and went home.

I'm sorry not to have heard Mr. Ignatieff. I still have too little information on which to base my vote.

Valerie Alia

Nanaimo"

http://www.canada.com/Visit+Ignatieff+ruined+rude+people+vehicles/3431411/story.html

Daily poll at the Chronicaly Horrid going wrong for the hand wringers. Bottom of the front page.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/

"It is an astonishing feat."

Left-liberal MSM wowed/shocked/astonished.

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"It is an astonishing feat. Only 2½ years ago, Labor under Mr. Rudd won a majority victory, ending 11 years of Liberal government. There was every expectation that the party would win a second mandate, but policy blunders, in particular a contentious proposed Resource Super Profits Tax, eroded support and led to Mr. Rudd having the distinction of becoming the country’s first prime minister to be removed from office by his own party during his first term. Labor stalwarts must wonder now what would have happened if Mr. Rudd had been allowed to fight again."

"Australia’s Labor shoots itself in the foot"

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/australias-labor-shoots-itself-in-the-foot/article1682625/

Recall '30's science fiction soundtracks?
Check out theremin superstar Clara Rockmore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSzTPGlNa5U

That Clara is cute -- and picturesque! Thanks for sharing that clip, EBD. I'm always cheered by seeing old timers who've weathered hard times and still have a smile on their facs and hope in their hearts -- not the hopey/changey kind but the keep-on-trucking-I'm-still-here hope.

Jeff Simpson comes right out into the open with his Bolshevik beliefs.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/potash-another-selloff-another-sellout/article1682705/?cmpid=rss1

Obama's theology:

“The key to everything Obama does is that he truly is a committed, 99-44/100ths pure progressive. And when a man only reads one century-old playbook, his options are extremely limited.”

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obamas-playbook-why-he-keeps-saying-dumb-things/?singlepage=true

“ ... The key to everything Obama does is that he truly is a committed, 99-44/100ths pure progressive. That fact explains not only the content of his views but why he keeps stumbling over one controversy after the next. As Jonah Goldberg expressed it in Liberal Fascism, progressivism is 'a totalitarian political religion,' and Barack Obama is one of its most faithful acolytes. He’s simply acting in accordance with his personal theology. ...”

Mr Prentice and his Environment Canada data spill.

Question: Why does it seem like the world is run by crazy people?

Answer: Because it is.

The Ruling Class

As Kate requested of us all awhile back, I sent Angelo Codevilla's article to 46 people on my contacts list. My email question was: No Kings & Queens ruling us in the Western World. No dictators or tyrants. No Marxists. Just a .... 'Ruling Class' !!??
What do you think ??(with link)

So far, about 12 have responded, all whole heartily agreeing.

One (a retired school teacher)came out swinging, but after about 5 exchanges seemed to realize that maybe, just maybe, we are! ruled by a Ruling Class that is just as antidemocratic as anything the world has ever seen.

That Environment Canada, a supposedly benign government agency, is caught cooking the books in order to impose draconian measures on the populace is more proof we are under the thumb of the Ruling Class. It is THE! issue of the day.

Someone may have posted this already but I see that Mark Steyn has a new book coming out - After America (Amazon's smart software has correctly identified me as as illiterate neo-con knuckledragger and recommended the new book).

Socialism "in the grip of a "ferocious civil war",".

Time for a purge*, socialist Stalin says.

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"Labor war hurting bid for power

JULIA Gillard has failed to keep the lid on recriminations within Labor over its poor election campaign.

A former national president describing the internal atmosphere as poisonous, amid growing calls for the sacking of national secretary Karl Bitar.

As the caretaker prime minister faced opposition claims that her party was in the grip of a "ferocious civil war", her promise to deliver a stable minority government was compromised when former ALP president Warren Mundine attacked the party as divided, and several beaten Labor candidates vented their frustration about party bosses, who imposed a flawed campaign on candidates.

The attacks came as Tony Abbott sharpened his pitch to the three independents who will anoint the next government by saying only the Coalition could provide stability, while Labor infighting was a recipe for chaos."

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/labor-war-hurting-bid-for-power/story-fn59niix-1225909632518
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*Socialist Stalin's Purges:

"The Great Purge

The Great Purge/The Great Terror Joseph Stalin changed his name each of the six times he escaped from being arrested or exiled. One of the names he used was Stalin, Russian for " ...
www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/ ~bsilva/ projects/ russia/ stalin

Liberal Iggy dips into the Liberal/Librano$ pool.

Iggy's catch? Cauchon*, Liberal/Librano$ Ad$Cammer.

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"[Liberal] Ignatieff tabs Cauchon as Quebec adviser

OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has reportedly tabbed former cabinet minister Martin Cauchon to advise him on Quebec.

That position has been vacant since Jean-Marc Fournier, Ignatieff's former principal secretary, resigned last week to become Quebec's justice minister.

The gap widened on Aug. 12 when Ignatieff's communications director, Mario Lague, died in a motorcycle accident while on his way to work.

Cauchon served as justice minister and revenue minister in the Jean Chretien government before leaving for the private sector in 2004."

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/9017631.html

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*Liberal/Librano$ Ad$Cammer Cauchon:

andrewcoyne.com: "Adscam widens" ****

Carle testified that he also arranged sponsorship-related talks with then-cabinet minister Martin Cauchon, former public works minister Alfonso Gagliano and now-retired public servant Chuck [Guite]..."
www.andrewcoyne.com/2004/02/adscam-widens.html

PET Cemetery Report:

We regret that our "Liberal brand" has been dragged into this phony report by CBC/Radio Canada.

We Liberals demand that Bloc Duceppe be appointed overseer/censor along with ex-GG Jean (Is she still in Sask.?).

(c.c Liberal Ziffy, Ottawa.)

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"Bellemare names names at judges inquiry"

"Quebec's former justice minister has named names in his first morning of testimony before a provincial commission probing allegations of cronyism in the province's selection of judges."

"On Tuesday, Bellemare told the commission that Liberal fundraiser Franco Fava spoke to him in 2003 about Marc Bisson, a lawyer he was told should be named to the bench because he is the son of an influential party organizer who helped elect national assembly members in the Outaouais region.

Fava, a retired businessman and lawyer, has worked for decades as a Liberal party fundraiser.

Bellemare also named Lynne Gosselin-Després and Michel Simard as two other Quebec judges he says he appointed based on recommendations from party organizers."

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/08/24/bellemare-testifies-at-judge-commission.html

maz2 your Stalin link from 11.42am isn't working, I tried adding http:// to no avail. I looked at the site that's hosting this, just lovely that they're going solar. uff. :)

Liberal gun math again.

200 cushy government jobs only costs us $4 million a year?
The assistant dog catcher's assistant employed by the government makes more than $20,000.00 per year.
And that doesn't leave much left over for computer upgrades and such...

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"Blair acknowledged "legitimate concerns" about the $1 billion initially spent on setting up the registry, which some police officers also want scrapped. But he said the registry now costs only about $4 million a year to operate and that officers use the registry up to 11,000 times a day, both to investigate and prevent crime.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/08/23/gun-registry-police-chiefs.html#socialcomments#ixzz0xY9g5sww

AND:

"MIRAMICHI, N.B. - The creation of a civil servant payroll centre in New Brunswick would provide employment for federal workers who face layoffs if the long-gun registry is abolished, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday.

Harper said the establishment of the facility in Miramichi would more than make up for any job cuts at the Canadian Firearms Centre, which administers the registry and employs about 200 people in the city."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100819/national/harper_payroll_centre

Liberal anti-English Act named as such; Liberals pissed
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/08/24/qc-nazi-act-wikipedia.html

Far be it from me to violate Godwin's Law here, as I disagree with it being called Nazi; however, the point being made is extremely valid. It's kind of funny, too, how most of the comments are in agreement about the spirit of the Wikipedia ... er ... alteration.

marc in calgary: This should work.

http://www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva/projects/russia/stalin/great_purge.htm

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"Early Snow in Russia
Posted on August 24, 2010 by Anthony Watts

By Steven Goddard

Russia has seen it’s first snow accumulation of the season."

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/24/snow-in-russia-in-august/#comments

August 24, 2010 4:00 A.M.
Ayn Rand and Whittaker Chambers
With a word on Atlas Shrugged in the contemporary scene.
By: Jason Lee Steorts

‘From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged,” Whittaker Chambers wrote here 53 years ago, “a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: ‘To a gas chamber — go!’” What he did not write is that Ayn Rand throws in a gas chamber.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/244381/greatly-ghastly-rand-jason-lee-steorts

Kate caught on video tape in England! ;-)

http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Caught+video+Claws+come+British+woman+threw+trash/3437922/story.html

From the hellpit of the Red-Greens: left-liberalism /environmentalism is a mental disorder.

Pitt: "Eco-warrior"; "movie star", is an exemplar of the Professional Left.

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"Brad Pitt: Death penalty for BP bosses"

Eco-warrior Brad Pitt is so appalled by the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico he wants those responsible for the chaos to be executed.

The movie star insists he's an opponent of the death penalty, but he'd make an exception for the BP bosses behind the 100-day-plus oil leak, which has become America's greatest environmental disaster."

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/08/24/15124931-wenn-story.html

Here's Example #117,819 of CNN's version of "Fair and Balanced Reporting". Please note that there was not one word of George Soros, even though the woman in pink receives her pay cheque from him.

"Harper touts climate change research hub from afar as climate rages

2010/08/24 18:14:00

CHURCHILL, MAN. – Canada’s new Arctic research station will turn a spotlight on the environmental challenge that is transforming vast regions of the north – climate change.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper confirmed Tuesday that will be one mission of the new northern research hub which he announced will be located in Cambridge Bay on Victoria Island.

“I anticipate that the high Arctic research station will become a hub on climate change, as well as a wide range of other issues,” he told reporters here as he announced the location of the station, first promised in 2007."

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/851931--harper-touts-climate-change-research-hub-from-afar-as-climate-rages

"“This is the biggest environmental scandal in history and makes an absolute mockery of international efforts to combat climate change."

>>> "The biggest environmental scandal in history

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Anthony Watts

A UN board could rein in $2.7 billion carbon market to prevent the double dipping of CFC manufacturing incentives and carbon credit sales, as discovered to be happening in China.

Guest post by Ric Werme"

"UNITED NATIONS – An obscure U.N. board that oversees a $2.7 billion market intended to cut heat-trapping gases has agreed to take steps that could lead to it eventually reining in what European and U.S. environmentalists are calling a huge scam.

At a meeting this week that ended Friday, the executive board of the U.N.’s Clean Development Mechanism said that five chemical plants in China would no longer qualify for funding as so-called carbon offset credits until the environmentalists’ claims can be further investigated.

This is coupled with the production of the “ozone friendly” refrigerant HCFC-22 (chlorodifluoromethane). A byproduct of production is another gas, HFC-23 (trifluoromethane) which has been determined to be 11,700 times more powerful than CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

Not only are the manufacturers able to sell carbon credits for producing HCFC-22, they can also sell “certified emission reductions” (CERs) for destroying HFC-23, to the tune of about $100,000 per ton!

Not surprisingly:

“The evidence is overwhelming that manufacturers are creating excess HFC-23 simply to destroy it and earn carbon credits,” said Mark Roberts of the Environmental Investigation Agency, a research and advocacy group. “This is the biggest environmental scandal in history and makes an absolute mockery of international efforts to combat climate change."

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/24/the-biggest-environmental-scandal-in-history/#more-23859

PM Harper does not use the words, "climate change" in his official release.

PM Harper uses the word, "climate".

>>> Is TORedStar (see above) writing its own "narrative"/advancing the Red-Green agenda? Is TORedStar spreading disinformation?

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"From the Prime Minister's Web Site (http://www.pm.gc.ca/)

PM announces High Arctic Research Station coming to Cambridge Bay

August 24, 2010
Churchill, Manitoba

Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that the new Canadian High Arctic Research Station will be located in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.

“Through our Northern Strategy our Government is committed to realizing the full potential of Canada’s North” said Prime Minister Harper. “By building this leading-edge research station, we are advancing Canada’s knowledge of the Arctic’s resources and climate while at the same time ensuring that Northern communities are prosperous, vibrant and secure.”

The Canadian High Arctic Research Station will be a world-class, year-round, multidisciplinary facility exploring the cutting-edge of Arctic science and technology issues. It will create jobs, strengthen Canada’s Arctic sovereignty, promote economic and social development and it will help protect and understand the northern environment, contributing to the overall quality of life for Northerners and all Canadians.

The Canadian High Arctic Research Station is an integral part of Canada’s four part Northern Strategy: to assert and defend Canada’s sovereignty, to protect the unique and fragile arctic ecosystem, to develop a strong Northern economy and to encourage good governance and greater local control and opportunity."

Revnant Dream @ 4:34:

Looks like National Review is still attacking the only thing that can lift us out of the doldrums. Sad.