J.R. Dunn has an excellent essay up titled Multiculturalism Hits The Wall. Do read.

Here's a touching story you wouldn't expect to find on Craigslist: A Dog in Heaven - h/t Mark Levin

When I was a kid and complained the house was cold, my Dad used to tell me that when he was young, water left in the kettle would be frozen in the morning.

Looks like what's old is new again.

A few days ago Kate posted a link to the much-publicized NASA microbe study.

Some of us were sceptical, but we were dismissed in the comments as ignorant fools. After all, NASA scientists were some of the founders of the global warming religion - so how outrageous of us to suggest they were past their prime. Heretics we were!

Well, well, well, what do we have here...

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/microbiologist+blasts+NASA+arsenic+microbe+study/3942286/story.html

OMG. Doc Watson.One of the best.Thank you,EBD.But is our age showing? :):)

TJ NASA is just doing its job. Oblamebush told it to pander to deadly things Islam, Arsenic...

"Compensation for the families of 'Air India' tragedy?"
I've had the radio on all day today and every time the story about the new anti-terror/air safety scheme comes on, some mouthpiece says something to the effect that "Air India families are still awaiting compensation."... WTF?!? Was anyone forced to board that flight? Did our government participate in the plot?

I'm very sorry for the families that lost members in this tragic crime; but I really can't see the sense in this.
The fact is that while police forces have a responsibility to society as a whole to prevent crime, they do not and can not be held responsible for protecting any individual. (otherwise, I think I deserve compensation for having my house broken into and burgled.

just got off MY train an hour ago and i must say i feel like some old engine that's lost it's drivin' wheel...

those old films....steam...jointed rail....switchtenders...cabooses...all gone now...one of the last engines in the film was a i believe union pacific 'big boy'...designed(40's 50's) to crest the grade with 3000 ton coal trains in wyoming...nowadays a 10,000 ton train is unremarkable.....even in mountain territory.

per ardua ad astra..

Toronto Star. It looks like this might be in Wednesday's paper:

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/903269--toronto-youth-brainwashed-with-extremist-views-of-islam-report-says?bn=1

"Muslim youth say extremism is on the rise and that 'brainwashing' is taking place in Toronto, according to a two-year international study on homegrown terrorism that will be released Wednesday."

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"Pamphlets containing extremist views were being handed out in downtown public spaces, such as outside Toronto Eaton Centre, [researchers] said."

"But while the literature promoted an extreme interpretation of Islam, there wasn't an overtly violent element to it, said Jonathan Birdwell, one of the authors of the report by Demos, a think-tank focused on power and politics."

The thing Robert W. posted @10:16 was so touching that in order to keep my emotions properly repressed where they belong I need to change the tone. I found this. I don't know what the h*ll it is or why it exists but I'm glad I found it. Peter Lorre's in it. Under two minutes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwRNYZs_I88

Toronto Star, Tuesday, Dec. 7. U of T slammed over 'Jewish racism' thesis:

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/902572--u-of-t-slammed-over-jewish-racism-thesis

"The University of Toronto is being criticized by Jewish groups, a prominent historian and Holocaust survivors for accepting a master's thesis that calls two Holocaust education programs 'racist'."

"The thesis, titled 'The Victimhood of the Powerful: White Jews, Zionism and the Racism of Hegemonic Holocaust Education', was written by Jenny Peto, a Jewish activist with the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid. It denounces the March of Remembrance and Hope, for which young adults of diverse backgrounds travel with Holocaust survivors to sites of Nazi atrocities in Poland, and March of the Living Canada, which takes young Jews with survivors to Poland and Israel."

"Peto argues that the two programs cause Jews to falsely believe they are innocent victims. In reality, she writes, they are privileged white people who 'cannot see their own racism'. The 'construction of a victimized Jewish identity', she argues, is intentional: It produces 'effects that are extremely beneficial to the organized Jewish community' and to 'apartheid' Israel."

If there were a contest to mindlessly trot out every left-wing lunatic-fringe sociological anti-concept (e.g., "hegemonic", "construction"), this would be a front-runner. For starters, there are plenty of poor white people around that I doubt feel particularly "privileged". Perhaps a person who claims these poor white people are "privileged" is among those who "cannot see their own racism".

"The Canadian Jewish Congress, the March of the Living, and Irving Abella, Jewish history professor at York University, said the thesis should have been rejected ... 'It's not scholarship, it's ideology', said Abella ... 'It borders on anti-Semitism ... I'm appalled that it would be acceptable to a major university'."

That's a very reasonable take, although I'm wondering what his Lillian Hellman-quoting wife would say, considering that the ideology espoused by most persons who would do that and expect to be taken seriously is rarely too far removed from the one in question here.

"Peto received a degree in June from the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education (SESE) at U of T's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). OISE dean Julia O'Sullivan and SESE chair Rinaldo Walcott did not respond to requests for comment on Monday."

Hopefully one can still access on the Globe and Mail website the columns in which Margaret Wente had a go at Rinaldo Walcott. It wasn't pretty.

"Nate Leipciger, an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor who has participated in both programs, said he was 'very upset' about the thesis. Survivor and participant Anita Ekstein, 76, called it 'extremely hurtful'."

Well, when people's feelings are hurt, everybody knows the drill. Crank up the human rights tribunal.

The moral of the story would seem to be that if you put Kant-Hegel cult ideological extremists in charge at OISE, they'll turn it into a cesspool and eventually drag a major university down with them.

Which One Do 'Progressives' Find 'Offensive'?

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2010/12/which-one-do-progressives-find.html

nv53
Did you see the outbreak of Christianity on the news today?
Handel's Messiah In the middle of the mall, with a young Soprano leading and melting hearts and loving Christ.
EPIC
Tip Fox news, they covered the story.

nv53
Did you see the outbreak of Christianity on the news today?
Handel's Messiah In the middle of the mall, with a young Soprano leading and melting hearts and loving Christ.
EPIC
Tip Fox news, they covered the story.

http://tinyurl.com/268jqwe

Britain now afraid of Libya. How pathetic.

"The Lockerbie bomber was freed following ‘thuggish threats’ from Colonel Gaddafi to take ‘harsh and immediate action’ against UK interests in Libya.

The dictator ­threatened to cut Britain ‘off at the knees’ unless Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi was sent home and offered a ‘parade of treats’ to the Scottish government."

AGW Progress Report: "info" & "Gore effect".

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"Ottawa lacks info to combat climate change: watchdog

Toronto Star - Heather Scoffield - ‎7 hours ago‎
OTTAWA—Twenty years' of weak leadership on the environment means the federal government now has no strategy to deal with the increasing effects of climate change, says Canada's environmental auditor."
(googlenews)

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"“Gore effect” strikes Cancun Climate Conference 3 days in a row

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Anthony Watts

From the “weather is not climate department” – New record low temperatures set in Cancun for three straight days, and more new low temperature records are possible this week.

Dr. Roy Spencer, who is in Cancun representing climate skepticism on behalf of CFACT writes on his blog:

Today’s my first full day in Cancun at COP-16, and as I emerged from my hotel room I was greeted by a brisk, dry, cool Canadian breeze.

It was 54 deg. F in Cancun this morning — a record low for the date. (BTW, Cancun is nowhere near Canada).

Al Gore is not supposed to be here…but it could be that the Gore Effect has announced his secret arrival. We will check into this.

Here’s the record for today from Weather Underground:"

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/08/gore-effect-strikes-cancun-climate-conference-3-days-in-a-row/

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"The £43million summit that is polluting the planet: Cancun will generate 25,000 tons of CO2"

"mate change summit in Cancun will generate 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide, its Mexican hosts admitted last night.

That means the £43million event will produce as much greenhouse gas as an average-sized African country would over the same two-week period.

The figure includes the carbon generated by flights, transport, hotels and food – and means the conference is polluting at the same rate as Somalia or Mali."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336602/Cancun-climate-change-summit-generate-25-000-tons-CO2.html

PET Cemetery Haiti Voodoo Report: IggyIcky Liberal Leak.

United Nations Death Watch:

H/T UNaBomber Mao Stlong*, aka Maurice Strong.

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“Canada may not deserve UN Security Council seat: Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff is questioning whether Canada deserves a coveted seat on the United Nations Security … Canada may not deserve UN Security Council seat: Ignatieff”

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/863816–canada-may-not-deserve-un-security-council-seat-ignatieff

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“Haiti cholera: UN peacekeepers to blame, report says”

“UN peacekeepers were the most likely source of the cholera epidemic sweeping Haiti, according to a leaked report by a French disease expert.

Epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux conducted research in Haiti on behalf of the French and Haitian governments.

Sources who have seen his report say it found strong evidence that the cholera outbreak was caused by contamination of a river by UN troops from Nepal.

The UN said it had neither accepted nor dismissed the findings.

The cholera epidemic has killed 2120 people, and nearly 100,000 cases have been treated, according to the Haitian government.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11943902

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*Maurice Strong is Canadian Liberal leader MP Bob Rae’s Uncle Mo.

Link for my prev post>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE
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Rob Ford inaugurated as Toronto mayor yesterday.

Today, two separate incidents - mechanical breakdown and "smoke" - stop the Bloor subway at two critical stations.

Coincidence or anti-Ford activists? Time will tell..

Mao Stlong* Lepolt: ""Confucius Peace Prize"".

You wan sociarism? How much you wan?

You get Mao Piece Plize and Ilish Luin.

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"China to award own peace prize"

"BEIJING - China will award its answer to the Nobel Peace Prize a day before it is bestowed upon jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, giving the "Confucius Peace Prize" to a former Taiwan vice-president.

China was furious after Liu won the Nobel Peace Prize in October, saying it was an "obscenity" that it was given to a man it considers a subversive and a criminal.

The newly created Confucius prize, named after the ancient Chinese philosopher the Communist Party has recently co-opted as its own, was suggested in an opinion piece in the popular tabloid the Global Times three weeks ago."

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/12/08/16468501.html

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"Drastic Cuts and Punitive Interest Rates"

"The EU Is Pushing Ireland to the Brink of Ruin"

"The Irish government has just passed its fourth budget in two years. But the drastic savings measures it contains will not help the country's massive debt problem. Some economists are now predicting it is only a matter of time before Ireland defaults.

The sum is enormous: €6 billion ($7.9 billion) is how much the Irish government wants to cut from the public finances next year. The drastic course of treatment, the fourth budget in two years, was passed by the Irish parliament late on Tuesday night. It will be a huge test of strength for the small country: The average Irish household will be €7,500 worse off by 2012, according to the Irish Independent.

The Dublin government has been congratulated and encouraged from across the European Union for being so brave in sticking to its austerity goals. The unemployed, low-income workers, pensioners, students -- hardly any sector of society has been left unscathed.

Yet this huge national sacrifice will not significantly improve the country's massive debt problem. The sometimes severe cuts to social welfare payments, public sector pay and state investment pale into insignificance when compared to the massive gaps in the Irish banks' accounts. That is why investors are continuing, undeterred, to speculate on Ireland's eventual insolvency.

Irish Taxpayers Paying the Bill"

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,733522,00.html

David W. Barno and Andrew Exum, Responsible Transition

Securing U.S. Interests in Afghanistan Beyond 2011

The summer of 2011 will mark a watershed in the United States and NATO’s decade-long effort in Afghanistan. Although it is too soon to judge the effectiveness of the U.S. “surge” and NATO’s current counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy, by next summer either the unmistakable outlines of progress or deepening evidence of problems will emerge. By that time, the United States and its allies will also have a clearer picture of the choices being made by both the Afghan and Pakistani governments, which will prove central to the strategy’s long-term success or failure.

A second watershed occurs in 2014. President Barack Obama has cited July 2011 as the point at which leadership of military operations must start to transition from U.S. to Afghan security forces, and at which U.S. surge forces should begin their return home, pending conditions on the ground in Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai, for his part, has identified 2014 as the year in which Afghans should assume full responsibility for the security of Afghanistan. The November 2010 NATO conference in Lisbon signaled that the United States and its NATO allies increasingly look to 2014 as the year of full transition of NATO efforts to Afghan leadership....

Response: Joshua Foust, “A Responsible Transition”

Does Christian Dior get a royalty/kickback?

Adam Rawnsley, Al-Qaeda’s Latest Weapon: Poison Perfume

They’ve sent you exploding printer cartridges. Your Christmas present last year was a twenty-something with a bomb in his skivvies. So what’s al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s latest gift of murderous gadgetry? In a department store, they’d call it Eau du Terror.

Saudi Arabia’s Okaz newspaper reports that al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) recently tried to kill government officials and religious clerics by sending agarwood-scented and poison-dosed perfume to their homes and offices....

things all safe and sound in the corner office of the Wall Street kleptocracy:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/pulling-back-the-curtain-on-fraud-inquiries/?hp

I love Doc Watson. I have a CD of him and his son Merle (killed in an accident on the family farm) playing some fine tunes.

Big Brother FCC Invades Internet Freedom. Rogue Agency Ignores Congress Objection To Intrusive Regulation

http://tinyurl.com/35wwkfw

http://tinyurl.com/2w2tzk4

Prepare to pay a pay-as-you-go toll to drive on the info hiway and have your travel fiscally restricted, all in the excuse of "rationing bandwidth". These guys can't run a postal service, why let them meddle with telecom tech?

Canadian Forces Combat Camera, Counter IED starts at 10000 Feet

HERON Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Contribution to the Battle Against Improvised Explosive Devices

[Presumably with thanks to Israel and MacDonald Dettwiler.]

UNaBomber Mao Stlong* Lepolt: Left-liberalism = nihilism, aka O.

"Here's WikiLeaks' bottom-line revelation: Assange and ideologues like him promote an ignorant and destructive solipsism that has nothing to do with peace and justice but a lot to do with sociopathic narcissism."

(Part II: Unabomber Lepolt to follow)

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WikiLeaks' Bottom-Line Revelation

Townhall.com ^ | December 8, 2010 | Austin Bay

Julian Assange, the man behind the WikiLeaks dump of secret US State Department cables, has been frank about his reasons for releasing thousands of classified -and stolen -- documents.

Assange says he wants to seriously damage the United States. If this damage forwards America's ultimate destruction, so be it. The son of leftist America-haters, Assange was born and weaned during the Cold War. Then the wrong side won. What the superpower Soviet Union failed to do with its armies, he, a super-empowered individual, will accomplish via the information anarchy of the Internet.

If Assange's history-shaping goal seems grandiose and detached from reality, indeed it is. However, once you understand the man's religion, his megalomania and solipsism become a bit more comprehensible if even more reprehensible.

Like other anti-American cranks on the planet, Assange holds firm in his warped faith that the U.S. is the leading source of global evil. The roots of this religion run deep, beginning with 18th century European aristocrats who despised the American Revolution. The anti-Americanism of Nazis, communists, tribalists, anarchists and now militant Islamists all rehash the same tropes, with their semi-schizoid baseline being the U.S. is simultaneously a vast authoritarian conspiracy and a heterogeneous menagerie of infidel-cowboy-capitalist idiots who dogmatically resist enlightened social policies.

Assange argues his revelations will force this conglomerate American monster to become more secretive and authoritarian. Limiting access to information, in order to stop future leaks, will reduce the monster's secretive and authoritarian effectiveness. The monster's "security state" will dumb down, and --here's the moment of religious rapture in Assange's prophecy -- this will increase global justice.

Assange also links this shackling of America to creating peace. Don't snicker too long. There are a lot of tenured gray-haired profs with ponytails who teach this dreck at notable universities and get paid for it.

Assange understands media grandstanding, but he doesn't understand people and certainly doesn't understand how American diplomats contribute to maintaining peace.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates understands people and diplomacy, and his assessment of Assange's info dump is as clear as it is historically and psychologically informed. At the Pentagon last week, Gates said: "The fact is, governments deal with the United States because it's in their interest, not because they like us, not because they trust us and not because they believe we can keep secrets. Many governments -- some governments -- deal with us because they fear us, some because they respect us, most because they need us. We are still essentially, as has been said before, the indispensable nation."

Gates added that the cables were "embarrassing" and "awkward," but the ultimate effects on policy would be "modest."

Pray that Gates is right about modest impact, but right now and for at least the next six months, the world confronts the possibility of a nuclear war in East Asia ignited by North Korean aggression. This is a time period when the world absolutely needs close -- and trustworthy -- cooperation between the U.S. and China. A big war in Korea could kill millions but will guarantee a global economic depression. Leaked cables discuss corruption in China's Communist Party and names hypocritical party elites.

Even if the information is accurate, this is a case where revealed candor damages personal relationships among key U.S. diplomatic personnel and Chinese leaders. China is a face culture, and the leaders have lost face. A mature appreciation of the common danger should override personal anger, but another leak revealed that China sees North Korea as a "spoiled child" and that it believes Korea will ultimately be reunited with South Korea absorbing the North. This revelation weakens China's political leverage with North Korea at a moment when any leverage is precious.

Assange, of course, did not consider how he increased the threat to the lives of millions of Korean, Japanese and Chinese when he dumped his filched documents. His faith-based narrative of American evil excludes the possibility that American diplomats are collaborating with China to avoid war and eventually put an end to North Korea's armed brinksmanship without a nuclear explosion.

Here's WikiLeaks' bottom-line revelation: Assange and ideologues like him promote an ignorant and destructive solipsism that has nothing to do with peace and justice but a lot to do with sociopathic narcissism."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2639294/posts

*UNaBomber Mao Strong is Canadian Liberal leader Liberal MP Bob Rae's Uncle Mo Strong.

Maz2,

On a positive note, with carbon emission priced at $0.05/ton, the Cancun Climate Brigade could purchase dispensation for their sins for the low, low price of only $1250.

"A clown, a professor and a university don...".

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"Clown, prof in massive kid-porn bust

Toronto Sun - Irene Thomaidis - ‎45 minutes ago‎

A clown, a professor and a university don are among those netted in a massive international child-porn bust, police said Wednesday."

(googlenews)

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"The treason of the intellectuals & “The Undoing of Thought”"

"”The irony, alas, is that by removing standards and declaring that “anything goes,” one does not get more culture, one gets more and more debased imitations of culture. This fraud is the dirty secret that our cultural commissars refuse to acknowledge."

https://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-treason-of-the-intellectuals----The-Undoing-of-Thought--4648

liberals still taking on water & are sinking fast
latest poll from Angus-Reid puts Conservatives 38%
Liberals 26% And Ignateiff going down with the ship 46%(liberalvoters) believe liberals should change leaders before the next election.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/43641/conservatives-keep-lead-in-canada-as-liberal-voters-ponder-change/

Governor Chris Christie reads 'Twas the Night Before Christmas with the Boston Pops.

One more time:

David Wood, Baltimore Man Accused in Terror Bomb Plot

In a second foiled terrorist bombing incident, an American Muslim was arrested Wednesday for allegedly planning to blow up a military recruitment and induction center near Baltimore, Justice Department officials said.

The Baltimore man, Antonio Martinez, was said to be a U.S. citizen who converted to Islam. He had been under surveillance for several months, and was arrested when he tried to plant a phony bomb given him by undercover agents....

"Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education (SESE) at U of T's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)."

Department of Sociology and Equity Studies? WTF?!

Doesn't taking on that moniker mean that they have already decided to abandon scholarship completely?

AGW Progress Report: “Experts*” say we warmistas are winning.

“*Experts say cold snap is ‘once in a lifetime.”

“Frozen solid: The River Ouse in the centre of York was iced over for the first time in 50 years today”.

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“Britain to endure record cold snap as forecasters predict sub-zero temperatures will last until Christmas”

“* Scotland bringing in Army to clear snow from blanketed streets
* Icy roads ahead in UK with showers of snow, sleet and rain to fall
* Overnight lows of -15C in Scotland and -5C in England expected
* Experts say cold snap is ‘once in a lifetime’”

“Britain faces another two weeks of the big freeze with freezing winds, snow and ice set to cause chaos on the roads and for Christmas deliveries.

Forecasters said drier conditions could be expected over the coming weekend but the return of north-easterly winds could bring another six inches of snow, with no suggestion of the severe weather easing off ahead before the Christmas period.

The gloomy forecast for the next fortnight came after heavy blizzards moved south overnight, with snow falling as far south as Ipswich in Suffolk.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336705/Britains-big-freeze-continues-FORTNIGHT-sub-zero-temperatures.html

http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/12/06/time-out/#comment-56913

More on the decline of America. Punch a Hippy!

More Wednesday Stupid: Berkeley City Council wants to honor the soldier who sent classified material to WikiLeaks

http://www.nationalreview.com/the-feed/254837/more-wednesday-stupid-berkeley-city-council-wants-honor-soldier-who-sent-classified-