Boo!

"Col Muammar Gaddafi has warned that Europe runs the risk of turning 'black' unless the EU pays Libya at least €5 billion (£4.1 billion) a year to block the arrival of illegal immigrants from Africa.

"His remarks, made during a controversial three day visit to Italy, were condemned as 'unacceptable blackmail' by Italian MPs, who likened the demand to the protection money that mafia gangs demand from businesses.

"Speaking at a ceremony in Rome while standing next to Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, Col Gaddafi, 67, said that unless his request for money was met, Europe would otherwise become 'another Africa'....

How is it that the Bedouin get’s so much attention in, of all places, Italy?
Could it be that there are some serious quantities of financial instruments involved?

This evening I'm listening to Mike Gallagher discuss Obama's Iraq speech on KRLA. One Extreme Leftist, Donna, just called up and seriously & straightforwardly said that she was convinced that Iraq was much better off under Saddam Hussein. This notion, so frequently put forward by the Left, belittles Muslims more than anyone else I can imagine. It was a beautiful thing to hear Gallagher rip her to shreds!!!

This evening I'm listening to Mike Gallagher discuss Obama's Iraq speech on KRLA: http://den-a.plr.liquidcompass.net/player/flash/audio_player.php?id=KRLAAM&uid=104

One Extreme Leftist, Donna, just called up and seriously & straightforwardly said that she was convinced that Iraq was much better off under Saddam Hussein. This notion, so frequently put forward by the Left, belittles Muslims more than anyone else I can imagine. It was a beautiful thing to hear Gallagher rip her to shreds!!!

The sycophants of the Big Government GOP seem to be falling by the wayside: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/08/31/alaska.murkowski

LONG Overdue!!!

Ukraine should not be referred to as "the Ukraine" since the Soviet collapse. On the same level as referring to "the Canada" or rags referring to "the HMCS ...."
Got tired of pointing out the two of them to MSM with little effect.

Petition up on-line to stop 'Fox News North'..from AVAAZ group (linked to MoveOn.org.)Check out: http://tinyurl.com/3aav3dy

A 13-story middle finger
BY Thomas Sowell
The proposed mosque near where the World Trade Center was attacked and destroyed, along with thousands of American lives, would be a 13-story middle finger to America.

It takes a high IQ to evade the obvious, so it is not surprising that the intelligentsia are out in force decrying those who criticize this calculated insult.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=197349

Seriously:

"President Obama's top education official urged government employees to attend a rally that the Rev. Al Sharpton organized to counter a larger conservative event on the Mall.

"'ED staff are invited to join Secretary Arne Duncan, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and other leaders on Saturday, Aug. 28, for the 'Reclaim the Dream' rally and march,' began an internal e-mail sent to more than 4,000 employees of the Department of Education on Wednesday."

(...)

"The Washington Examiner learned of the e-mail from a Department of Education employee who felt uncomfortable with Duncan's request.

"Although the e-mail does not violate the Hatch Act, which forbids federal employees from participating in political campaigns, Education Department workers should feel uneasy, said David Boaz, executive vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute.

"'It sends a signal that activity on behalf of one side of a political debate is expected within a department. It's highly inappropriate ... even in the absence of a direct threat,' Boaz said. 'If we think of a Bush cabinet official sending an e-mail to civil servants asking them to attend a Glenn Beck rally, there would be a lot of outrage over that..."

Yes, Sgt Lejaune, when referring to the country, and not the region, it's "Ukraine" and not "the Ukraine." I stand corrected.

Our parliament is so boring. Anybody remember when NDPer Jim Fulton put a fish on Brian Mulroney's seat? That, and some Reform Party guy (whose name I can't remember) going balistic, are about the only thing resembling a full out fist fight we've seen in the House of Commons.

Do you have another explanation for this other than that Chris Matthews has lost his mind?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKSo8d1ssE4

Sammy at 11:31 PM, your tinyurl doesn't work. Wanna try again?

Cartoon

Global Warming RIP

Science Finally Settled

via WUWT

Via Americandigest.org, here's an interesting article suggesting that political correctness can have an effect on poll results, as evidenced by the fact that pollsters may get significantly different results depending on whether a question is asked by a live person or an automated "robo-call." Example: a CNN/Gallup poll using human callers (pollsters) found 52% of respondents to be in favour of same-sex marriage with 46% opposed, while an automated (robo-call) poll found only 33% in favour and 57% against.

This is a Houston radio host Michael Berry urging people to get out in vote in Nov. and letting loose on Obama. A great rant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrATS4mthX4&feature=player_embedded

New news site:

Perhaps it's already well-known here but, there's a new, very good news site (much, much better than Bourque) www.nuzcanada.ca It's put out by unabashed conservatives but, so far, they haven't fallen into the trap of lacing their news items with CPC propaganda. Worth a look.

Louise, the Reformer was Darrel Stinson who challenged a sloppy Liberal shitbag named John Cannis to step outside when Cannis called him, without provocation, a racist. I suspect that Stinson was bluffing but, he threw off his coat, crossed the floor, and scared hell out of Cannis who must have outweighed him by 60 pounds.

Never heard of it, Zog. Thanks for that.

Thanks for posting that, Gellen. Michael Berry is a very passionate commentator!

Here's more analysis of The Speech.

Laugh of the day...

Francis Russell Wpg Free Press

Canadian Press reported last June that Prime Minister Stephen Harper had lunch with Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes in New York on March 30, 2009. Australian billionaire Murdoch owns Fox News; Ailes, a brass-knuckle Republican stragetist (sic), is its president. Kory Teneckye, Harper's recently-retired communications director, was also present.

...The tone of political discourse, already shifted sharply right with the advent of Conrad Black's National Post in 1998, is about to take a quantum leap further down that road. The signs are numerous and ominous: The internet is already doused daily with the vitriol of thousands of anonymous far-right bloggers who slander and libel politicians, the media and all opponents with vile, often illiterate postings. Parliament and the country's entire political culture is being dug ever deeper into a mire of character assassination, personal insult and attack, smear campaigns, relentless and ruthless partisanship and denigration and demonization of any and all opponents.

Linda McQuaig from the Torstar chimes in ... "There's been a tendency in the Canadian media to dismiss the threat of a Fox News transplant on the grounds Canadians wouldn't fall for that sort of nasty, right-wing extremism," she writes. "But that comforting notion may be naïve." Most people don't have time to follow politics in detail, she continues. "If they hear constant sound bites suggesting global warming is a hoax or public health care just doesn't work, after a while the message starts to seem believable."
She points out the media already blasts Canadians with a steady chorus of right-wing ideas. "A Fox-style network here -- if Harper gets his way -- would turn that into a deafening cacophony."

There’s a BCL (Big City Lib?) in the comments... laugh number two for the day

Thanks big-time for that, Glenn. Absolutely hilarious, and a really good sign. I wish, though, that I was aware of the URLs of the "*thousands* of anonymous far-right bloggers who slander and libel politicians..."

Funny how the prog worldview works: when the CBC - for example - engages in a non-stop, 24/7, years-long campaign of "character assassination, personal insult and attack, smear campaigns, relentless and ruthless partisanship and denigration and demonization" of the views of millions of conservatives and non-progs, it's just "reporting" and "Trusted...Canadian.." and all that, but when a couple dozen bloggers do something similar, only backed up with evidence, it's a hyperventilation-worthy *outrage* and - apparently - a threat to the very existence of our great nation.

Note the inherent condescension in McQuaig's assertion that Canadians are a bunch of rubes whose worldviews can be changed by *sound bites*....

*cough cough*

More please, Ms. McQuaig.

An O'zymandias Transnational (Tranzi) Conversations with The Big ZERO (co-founder of CCE*) and Mao Stlong (Canadian "Liberal leader" Bob Rae's Uncle Mo).

“I’m obviously having conversations with Mr Crook,“.

Maurice Strong, co-founder of the Chicago Climate Exchange*, Canadian UNabomber asks, which coalition you wan? Red-Green, or, Green-Red? Separatist Coalition?

“What we wanted to do was to take effective action on emissions…in a way that does not impose as great big new tax on everyone and everything’’.

“I am confident the regions will always get a better deal from a Liberal-National coalition than it will from a Labor-Greens coalition.’’

…-

“Tony Abbott scorns Labor-Greens deal as bad for rural Australia”

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/tony-abbott-scorns-labor-greens-deal-as-bad-for-rural-australia/story-fn59niix-1225912771195

(H/T WUWT)

"Chicago Climate Exchange drops 50%, new record low
Posted on August 31, 2010 by Anthony Watts

The only lower price than today’s closing price on a ton of carbon is ZERO"

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/31/chicago-climate-exchange-devalues-50-new-record-low/#comment-472003

i am not sure that it is good idea to start political career after such a great sport career-he is rich, he is loved, what else does he need? as for his intellegence, i heard him talking russian -was not very impressive....

Update: TEA.

Yoohoo! Liberal ZiffyMcGuinty.

We are here.

What are you going to do about it?

...-

"Does Canada need the Tea Party movement?

Yes 84%

No 14%

Maybe 2%

Total Votes for this Question: 9278"

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/polls/poll_result.html

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"Palin power in Alaska as Sen. Lisa Murkowski concedes Alaska Republican primary race to tea party candidate Miller backed by Sarah Palin"

http://www.newswatchcanada.ca/

"Your genes determine whether you will respond to surveys"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/31/genetics_surveys/

Pamela Geller has launched an appeal for funds to pay for personal security because she has received so many threats to her and her family recently thanks to the MSM putting on CAIR people without rebuttal. Also they need money for security for the 9/11 rally against Ground Zero Mosque.

You can paypal the funds to writeatlas@aol.com. G Pal or Visa don't work for international clients on her site. You can specify what's its for, though its pretty obvious as the date gets closer.

Obama's speech was pure Obama, when he is not in campaign mode.

In campaign mode, which is what he likes, Obama is performing a fictional role as The Messiah. He loves that, the adulation, the adoration and he can make all the abstract promises he wants. His agenda is the adulation.

In presidential role, which Obama dislikes because it does not involve invoking adulation and requires involvement on his part with facts rather than fiction - Obama is indifferent, bored and disparaging of others.

His comments on Bush were insulting. He essentially said that the Iraq War was wrong, but that Bush, the simplistic idiot who wanted it, was still someone who loved the troops and his country. (sigh of pity and despair).

Then he went on to say that the waste of money on the Iraq War was DIRECTLY responsible for the lack of attention to the economy...and thus, the current economic recession. Obama neglected to say that the Democrats were in charge of the money since 2006 and had set up the housing fiasco. Oh, and Obama also neglected to say that his spending had cost the taxpayers MORE than the cost of the Iraq War - and with the result only in a massive deficit.

Obama went on to say that now, that money wasted on Bush's War, could now be used for the economy. Hmm. I thought the stimulus was supposed to do that - and yet - all it did was prop up the public service; it provided no new infrastructure for private sector jobs - which was what it was supposed to do.

Obama was insulting to Bush, and talked down to the American people. Obama has no respect for other people, does not wish to engage in any discussion with others (remember his refusal to debate with the Republicans over health care and his current refusal to hold press conference questions).

I think the magic is over. I doubt very much that Obama could attract the numbers to a rally now, that Glenn Beck did on the weekend. And Obama's official speeches (including in that newly hideously decorate Oval Office) are indifferent, and irrelevant.

I suspect Obama will be playing a lot more golf as he disappears from the front line and as criticism of him increases. He's going to say, more often now, that the American people are ignorant, excitable (this was the reason he gave for their attendance at Beck's rally) - and that he, the Wise Man, must do things 'for their own good' even though they are too ignorant to accept or understand.

From the UN file.

It would seem that the UN head quarters building in NYC is as decrepit as the organization itself.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Features/2010/08/29/15179671.html

Only $2 billion to repair.........

The story of one Ontario contractor on the road to serfdom, literally.

Discovery building hostage situation ends with suspect James J. Lee fatally shot

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/01/AR2010090103911.html?hpid=topnews

TEXT OF MANIFESTO...

http://tmz.vo.llnwd.net/o28/newsdesk/tmz_documents/0901_demands.pdf Via Drudge Breaking:

Sgt Lejaune @11:13 - It's funny, I saw EBD's post last night and thought "I wonder how long until..."

I never got this thing about Ukraine/the Ukraine. I mean, there are no articles in Slavic languages, am I right? So it can't be about the translation of some arrogant Russian locution; I could understand the offense in that. The Yemen and The Sudan are countries (of a sort). This "the" thing always just seemed to me like an imitation of the endless progressive attempts to be always self-righteously tweaking language to keep everyone off balance.

Ok, if you are like me and held off joining Twitter, learn from my mistake!

It's hilarious, Ezra is over there now hand Margaret Atwood her butt. Over and over and over.

Been going on for a couple days now. It's priceless!

The 140 character limit is obviously affecting my typing.

Handing, not hand........gahh

Sometimes you go to see your friendly neighbourhood legislature and a hockey game breaks out.

I believe it was Taiwan and/or South Korea who introduced this sport to the world. Here's an example of the Asians in action:

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

Meanwhile in Canada all the pols do is call each other names. Wussies!

Remember in School when the Teacher rightly mocked the Theory of Spontaneous regeneration?
We where told only the Superstitious (Those that believed in God was implied as well) folks of the dark ages would believe this old wives tale.

This is what has become of even the smartest of the Academic World. After reading this you just know where in trouble.
Of course I disagree with his THEORY!!

Stephen Hawking Says God Did Not Create the Universe: What Do You Think?

"Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists why we exist. Via Drudge

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/stephen-hawking-god-create-universe-question-day/story?id=11542128