Via The Null Device Blog, Julian Assange's OKCupid profile from 2007.

Whoo-hoo, danger boy! Check it out.

Also, at the same link, an Internet Archive mirror of Assange's blog/website profile. Excerpt:

"One of the devout was the lovely daughter of a New Castle minister. At some point in my unintended wooing of her, she looked up, fluttered her eyelids and said 'Oh, you know so much! I hardly know anything!'. 'That is why you believe in God,' I explained. This conversational brutality took her breath away and she swooned. I was exactly what she secretly longed for...

He has issues.

Get on the subway tonight, sit down, and across the aisle is Murray McLauchlan of all people.

I'm not a fan, but at least it was better than my last brush with celebrity on the TTC: one of the Khadr sisters.

Dan Fogelberg died of prostate cancer 3 years ago today.

Steve Crowder video - visit to Cancun

http://www.breitbart.tv/go-green-kill-people-crowder-visits-mexico/

I am calling on all the fine folks on this the site I spend most of my time on. To see if you could all help a "Conservative" buddy of mine win a photo contest.

Its not the best photo that wins because this contest is a bit like "American Idol" or a Chicago election. Its not he most talent that wins but the most votes!

You can vote ONCE A DAY... EVERY DAY, till the contest is over on the 20th.

The two guys (wayne's)(both fans of SDA) in the humorous photo are compassionate libertarian conservatives so they are worthy of your support.

So I invite you to go to this site,

http://stuckinthemuck.com/photo.php?image_id=336

where you will enjoy all the pictures of course, but vote for "Wayne Ratzlaff's" photo!

Saskatchewan had a lot of rain this year and it resulted in a tough harvest that brought many a farmer to tears as you will see in these pictures.

As you can see in the photo the two Wayne's managed to take it all in stride.

Farming is an honorable profession that doesn't pay to well so its great to see people who can find humor in every circumstance.

"An Austrian man has been convicted for yodeling while mowing his lawn because it caused offense to his Muslim neighbours."

(...)

"Mr Griese...told the Austrian newspaper Kornen that 'it was not my intention to imitate or insult them. I simply started to yodel a few tunes because I was in such a good mood.'"

The cat made him do it.

EBD, I read about the "bigoted" yodeler yesterday.

Er, did you hear the one about the guy who threw a business card away which was given to him by a man named Mohammed? Pakistsan I believe. The business card litterer was charged for insulting Islam by throwing away a business card with the name Mohammed upon it.

Of course, this might just be one of my many nightmares.
Nope, just googled business+card+Mohammed

EBD - And the next time I hear someone say "hocus-pocus" I shall have charges laid because they are obviously mimicking the Latin "Hoc est corpus meum".
from the Catholic Tridentine Mass. I'm sure Austrians have been yodeling as long, or longer than Muslim Imams have been chanting (or whatever they call the mournful noise they make)their prayers!

Speaking of Hocus Pocus:

http://ckuik.com/Hocus_Pocus_Focus

Mississauga Matt @10:14 - "...at least it was better than my last brush with celebrity on the TTC: one of the Khadr sisters."

How could you tell?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zaynab_Profile.png

More examinations of the absolutely mind-numbing, apoplexy-inducing hypocrisy of the progressive tribe: first, in this article in the Telegraph, Toby Young posts a (disturbing) video from the Sudan, and notes:

"Western feminists still won’t speak up for their sisters in the Arab world. To do so would be to fall victim to the propaganda machine of America’s military-industrial complex, apparently. Shortly after Time magazine ran a picture of the mutilated Bibi Aisha on its cover, the Cambridge English don, Priyamvada Gopal, wrote an article in the Guardian entitled ‘Burqas and bikinis‘ in which she claimed Afghan women would actually be worse off in a liberal democracy. 'This bankrupt version of modernity has little to offer Afghans other than bikini waxes and Oprah-imitators,' she wrote."

That's right, the woman who said Afghan women would be worse off in a Liberal democracy is the *Cambridge English don*.

Young continues:

"Priyamvada Gopal is so blinded by her ideological hatred of the West that she implies that women like the one in this video – beaten and humiliated on a public street for wearing trousers – are better off in an Islamic republic than they would be in a country like America. I wonder if she’d feel the same way if she lived in Darfur instead of Cambridge?"

Continuing with the same subject matter, here's an excerpt from an essay by Caroline Glick:

"At its most basic level, the feminist label has never been solely or even predominantly about preventing and ending oppression or discrimination of women. It has been about advancing the Left's social and political agenda against Western societies. It has been about castigating societies where women enjoy legal rights and protections as 'structurally' discriminatory against women in order to weaken the legal, moral and social foundations of those societies.

"That is, rather than being about advancing the cause of women, to a large extent, the feminist movement has used the language of women's rights to advance a social and political agenda that has nothing to do with women."

(...)

"The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and feminist movements ignore the inhumane treatment of women who live under Islamic law. If feminism weren't a hollow term, then prominent feminists would be the leaders of the anti-jihad movement. Gloria Steinem and her sisters would be leading the call for the overthrow of the anti-female mullocracy in Iran and the end of gender apartheid in Saudi Arabia."

The Globe and Mail bash the T-party over spelling on their signs.

But if you google the message on the sign, "Get a brain morans". it comes up with all sorts of examples of that sign from 2003.
From what I could find so far it looks like the sign was from a 2003 anti war protest, not a T-party protest.

Perhaps journalism is his second job?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/warren-clements/tea-party-defeats-its-own-cause-with-atrocious-spelling/article1833103/

Check the dates in the comments.
Long before the tea party.
The Glob and Plop is pushing
political steersheiB.
Pantywaists.

Great eye, Stan, and a great Reader Tip.

You're right, if you Google it there are *tons* of photos, going back long before the Tea Party, showing the same phrase on placards. It's obviously meant to be ironic, and funny . It also shows up in an Urban Dictionary thread from 2004 - "Anyone with an opposing view: Get a brain morans!"

So now, in December 2010, we get a story by Warren Clements in the big Saturday edition of The Globe and Mail showing a supposed Tea Partier holding up a placard with that phrase.....and it's titled "Tea Party defeats it's own cause with atrocious spelling."

Who's the real moran?

EBD
If my memory serves me correctly, the column by Mr Clements is showing the original image from c.2003. However there is also an Aussie 'intellekual' began using 'moran' plus 'cretan' about that same time.

Cheers

AGW Progress Report: Excellent cliches abound.

"this is the straw that breaks the camel's back."

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Cuba: Si.

"“I'm like, I can hardly walk. My fingers are numb. I am going crazy with this temperature change,” a state employee, Reina Diaz told Reuters in Havana."

"Cold snap grips Cuba with near freezing temperatures"

"December 16, 2010 — Havana, Cuba (Reuters) Record breaking cold weather engulfs Cuba with temperatures as low as 35 degrees F. (1.9 degrees C.) on the tropical island."

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/storm_watch_stories3&stormfile=cold_snap_grips_cuba_with_ne_161210?ref=ccbox_weather_topstories

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Britain:

"Snow storms could put 1,000 firms out of business"

"Almost 1,000 businesses could go bust if the final weekend of Christmas shopping is badly disrupted by snow and ice."

"Experts have warned that Britain could be shivering in temperatures colder than Siberia over the next few days.

Customers relying on home deliveries face an anxious wait, with hauliers warning that thousands of items could still be stuck in warehouses on Christmas morning.

Temperatures are expected to drop to -15C (5F) in the coming days, leaving Britain colder than the North Pole, the Arctic and Alaska.

It is feared that shops which have already been severely hit by freezing conditions in January and November will not be able to cope with a third spell of bad weather. Yesterday Amazon became the latest retailer to bring forward its final order deadline for guaranteed Christmas delivery while the shopping channels QVC and Ideal World said they could not guarantee that orders placed now would arrive in time for Christmas.

Douglas McWilliams, the chief executive of the Centre for Economics and Business Research, said: "As many as 800 or 900 businesses could go bankrupt which otherwise wouldn't have, because this is the straw that breaks the camel's back.""

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/8208798/Snow-storms-could-put-1000-firms-out-of-business.html

Fun duet, EBD. I love Baby, It's Cold Outside!

Another great duo is Dinah Shore and Buddy Clark (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8S_NFtVutE).

"Huhne: the final nail in the coffin of Cameron's lousy Coalition?"

"The mining and refining of neodymium is so dirty (involving repeated boiling in acid, with radioactive thorium as a waste product), that only one country does it: China."

"But just to show you how barmy the whole business is, here is Matt Ridley in the Times explaining why solar and wind power don’t even make sense on Huhne’s own terms of “energy security” and eco-friendliness:

"For a glimpse of a truly scary future dependent on volatile suppliers look no farther than Mr Huhne’s favoured approach, the dash for wind. Every wind turbine has a magnet made of a metal called neodymium. There are 2.5 tonnes of it in each of the behemoths that have just gone up to spoil my view in Northumberland. The mining and refining of neodymium is so dirty (involving repeated boiling in acid, with radioactive thorium as a waste product), that only one country does it: China. This year it flexed its trade muscles and briefly stopped exporting neodymium from its inner Mongolian mines. How’s that for dangerous reliance on a volatile foreign supply?

Besides, wind does nothing to reduce carbon emissions. As Robert Bryce shows in his book Power Hungry, even Denmark, which can switch off imported Norwegian hydro power when the wind spins its many turbines, has failed to save any significant net carbon emissions through wind. The intermittent nature of the wind means that fossil-fuel power stations have to be kept going, or inefficiently powered up and down. Besides, the total power produced from even the biggest wind farms is so small that, as a strategy for reducing carbon emissions significantly, wind power is a failure.

Yes, gas has carbon in it, but half as much as coal for each unit of energy. So a dash for gas to replace coal would dramatically and rapidly reduce carbon emissions. Given Mr Huhne’s nuclear allergy, it is probably by far the most effective and low-cost way to do so. Solar is expensive (and strangely inefficient at night); tidal destroys ecosystems; wave is an engineering nightmare; there is no room for more hydro; and biofuels use just as much fossil fuel in their production as they produce in “green” fuel.

Shale gas has environmental risks — the water and chemicals used in the hydraulic “fracking” process must be safely disposed of — but environmental benefits too. Unlike renewables it is not land-hungry, taking up remarkably little space. A typical shale gas well has a footprint one 3,000th of the size of woodland producing the same amount of energy in firewood. Unlike coal and biofuels, it does not require transport by road and rail as it can be piped. Unlike oil, it cannot spill (and though it can explode, it rarely does). Unlike coal, its turbines work at small scale almost as efficiently as at large scale, so power stations can be many and local, supplying heat as well as electricity. It can be burnt near where people need power, requiring less investment in ugly pylons and transmission lines. Unlike coal it does not emit sulphur, mercury or other pollutants."

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100068571/huhne-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-camerons-lousy-coalition/

Mississauga Matt @10:14 - "...at least it was better than my last brush with celebrity on the TTC: one of the Khadr sisters."

How could you tell?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zaynab_Profile.png

Posted by: Black Mamba at December 17, 2010 12:38 AM

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She was with her "flowers in his hair" hubby, Joshua Boyle, son of (Judge) Patrick.

If you ever wanted to see a clear example of how hard leftist Councillors view their citizens check the 6 who voted against repealing this vile tax. Despite the fact that the $64 million generated by this tax went straight into the black hole of general revenue not dedicated to roads as promised by Miller they voted to continue to penalize their constituents because the left never meet a tax they don't like.

Of course why their constituents keep voting them back in can be explained by examining the demographics of their wards. The majority of voters are takers from the public purse, public employees, welfare, art grants....

Read more: http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/12/17/chris-selley-an-obviously-unfair-end-for-the-vehicle-tax/#ixzz18NIivIip

christmas a big deal in abu dhabi apparently.

http://beta.ca.news.yahoo.com/uae-hotel-erects-11-million-dollar-christmas-tree-20101215-095709-398.html

so SDA, where does that fit in your anti-Islam screed?

Via drudge: Red Cross bans Christmas from all its 430 fundraising stores because "we must not upset Moslems."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-152361/The-Red-Cross-bans-Christmas.html

"Get a brain morans" is code for "Get a brain Korans".

and the reserves can get us free smokes in exchange

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20101217/study-recommends-free-alcohol-for-homeless-addicts-101217/

Baby Its Cold Outside..

Fur flies over Justin Trudeau's Christmas Card

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/flies+over+Justin+Trudeau+Christmas+card/3987833/story.html

*IMO:
We all know It will be ok cause daddy did it too, Now if a Conservative wore furs in a Christmas Card OhMy the Outrage..

Washington: Lawmakers OK bill for louder hybrids

Silent hybrid vehicles may soon be a thing of the past.

Auto safety regulators would have to set minimum sound levels for hybrid and electric vehicles under a bill approved Thursday by the House. Blind pedestrians say the quietness of hybrids can pose risks for them because they use sound cues to travel safely.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/16/political-scene-782768745/

EBD,

There is no mystery regarding the feminists and the abused women of Islam. Women are frightfully abusive to each other. Check out any office where a lot of women work and look at the knives sticking in the backs of all of them.

They are competitive beyond cage fighting. They are the driving force behind the envy, selfishness and self-centeredness, found in the progressive movement.

They are the ones who work in the juvenile educational system where the never ending demands for less work and more money have killed public education ... they are the ones who resort to telling the kids how 'special' they are knowing it's all lies. It impresses the parents who whole-heartedly agree. Most of the kids in government schools are little idiots who will graduate to become big idiots because they will learn nothing of value from the unionized retards who pretend to educate them.

My wife will not work in an office that doesn't have a reasonable compliment of men to keep things sane.

Women eh?

Just a few thoughts of the subject.

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/12/16/bc-alcohol-study-free-liquor.html

A study in B.C. calls for free alcohol for homeless people.

Well, why SHOULD the heroin addicts get all the breaks!

Just for fun, if you're suspicious that a photo has been used somewhere else try using a tool called tin eye.

"Via drudge: Red Cross bans Christmas from all its 430 fundraising stores because "we must not upset Moslems."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-152361/The-Red-Cross-bans-Christmas.html

Posted by: Mark Peters at December 17, 2010 9:27 AM"
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If the Red Cross in England doesn't want to upset Moslems...well then what are they doing being the Red "Cross" ?

Hint which religious leader does the cross represent? Mo, Buddha, Vishnu, Gia or Christ? Maybe, they should add this question to the the Red Cross employment application form?

It was taken from the Swiss flag

"The region of Schwyz in central Switzerland, one of the three founding members of the Old Swiss Confederacy, and the one, whose name was later in history used to denote the confederacy as a whole, was granted immediacy in 1240 and carried a red flag from the middle of the 13th century on (yet still without the white cross). In 1289 they supported King Rudolf of Habsburg in a war against Burgundy and received as a recognition the right to represent the crucifixion of Christ and the tools used to torture him in the upper right field on their flag. Originally they painted this symbol on parchment and fastened it on the banner. Only later the cross symbol was painted directly on the banner."
http://history-switzerland.geschichte-schweiz.ch/history-flag-switzerland.html
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Where do they think the "Red Cross" of St. George on the British flag represents?
Or why was it worn by the Knights Templar during the Crusades? As opposed to something like a Crescent?

The the Red Cross is getting this stupid why would anyone trust them enough to donate blood or money?

Mao Stlong Lepolt:

Fleeze, deep fleeze.

Condorences to Moi nephew Bob Lae*, Canada's Liberal leader*.

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"Rare deep freeze prompts chaos across southern China

A cold weather snap has brought ice, snow and chaos to much of eastern and southern China, paralyzing highways, cutting power and damaging crops across an area not used to sub-zero temperatures, state media reported on Friday (December 17).

Thick ice caused a ten kilometer pile-up on a major stretch of highway in south-eastern Guangdong (pron: gwang-dong) province on Thursday (December 16), forcing authorities to deploy excavators to clear the roads, China's state television CCTV reported.

CCTV has forecast that temperatures would creep back up again in some areas on Friday (December 16) but said the cold snap in subtropical Guangdong may continue until Sunday (December 19)."

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/storm_watch_stories3&stormfile=rare_deep_freeze_prompts_cha_171210?ref=ccbox_homepage_category2

*Condorences:

"MP Bob Rae hurt in fall

Liberal MP Bob Rae was taken to hospital Wednesday evening after he slipped and fell on the ice on the way to the party's Christmas bash. Rae reportedly hurt his shoulder. The ..."
www.windsorstar.com/news/hurt+fall/3985051/story.html

The science is settled. Skeptics need not apply.

An astronomer argues that his Christian faith and his peers' belief that he is an evolution skeptic kept him from getting a prestigious job as the director of a new student observatory at the University of Kentucky.

Gaskell mentions evolution, saying the theory has "significant scientific problems" and includes "unwarranted atheistic assumptions and extrapolations," ... Gaskell said he is not a "creationist" and his views on evolution are in line with other biological scientists.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/17/scientist-alleges-religious-discrimination-ky/

bryanr: Even though I think that Justin Trudeau is a first-class twit, I voted that it is acceptable for people to wear fur in Canada -- or anywhere they like, for that matter.

My main concern is what all these furs cost the Trudeaus who certainly comes across as a coddled, rich, entitled family at a time when most Canadian families are scrambling to make ends meet and pay all the bills.

Justin's timing's off, just like his politics and his brain.

AGW Progress Report.

Our AGW word from NipponLand:

"Fukuoka", as in "Fukuoka today".

"La Nina

The same conditions may produce a cold snap across Japan till the end of December, said Nakamura, who correctly predicted the heat waves in the country during the summer."

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"Tokyo, Osaka Brace for Cold Snap That May Boost Demand for Power, Heating"

"Japan is forecast to have colder temperatures starting today as the weather patterns that caused freezing conditions in the U.S. and Europe envelop the country, boosting demand for gas and power from companies including Tokyo Electric Power Co.

The temperature in central Tokyo may fall to 4 degrees Celsius (39 degrees Fahrenheit) tomorrow, from a low of 6.6 degrees yesterday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. In Osaka, Japan’s second-biggest urban center after Tokyo, a low of 3 degrees is forecast for tomorrow and snow is expected in other southwestern cities including Fukuoka today."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-16/cold-snap-may-effect-tokyo-parts-of-japan-boosting-demand-for-power-gas.html

An article in The Vancouver Sun Digital http://digital.vancouversun.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

Demarketing Alberta by Vivian Krause.

It presents the United States Übermensch giving money to the Canadian Übermensch to make sure that Americans have steady and safe supply of the “dirty” oil from Canada.

Krause writes:

…..Canada Shipping Act to prohibit oil tanker traffic on the north and central coast of British Columbia.
(What is “kind of like” interesting is that as far as disasters go the south coast of BC can go to hell)

…..tanker ban was led by the Dogwood Initiative. In 2009, a U.S. foundation paid $30,000 to the U.S. Tides Foundation…

Another U.S. foundation paid the Dogwood Initiative “to help grow public opposition to counter the Enbridge pipeline construction ...”

In 2006, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund paid $100,000 to the Pembina Foundation and $100,000 to the Westcoast Environmental Law Research Foundation…..

Is it any wonder that U.S. foundations are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on “conservation” initiatives that would land-lock Alberta oil within North America?

Environmentalists say an oil tanker spill on the West Coast would be catastrophic. They’re dead right. But to say the only acceptable way to prevent such a risk is a complete ban on tanker traffic is like saying the only way to avoid a fatal car accident is to never get in a car.
(Übermensch overlooks things like this, arguments based on logic are not allowed.)

It is a rather long article, though very informative.

beagle Capitalism.

bryanr at 10:05 PETA vs. Trudeau.

Loony left attacks elitist left.

Isn't this one of the situations where we are supposed to pray for an asteroid?

http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/12/17/post-picks-petas-beef-with-justin-trudeau/

Classic comment from an English guy on the snowfall and cold weather in the UK.

"Great. Ever since we have had the snow my girlfriend has done nothing but stare through the window
If she carries on like this I will have to let her in!
- Jim_99, EU Dump (UK), 16/12/2010 11:11"

For some reason, when I saw this picture I immediately thought of our web mistress and host.

http://tinyurl.com/24srdzb

TGIF, eh.

AGW Progress Report:

AbNormal is on the case.

>>> Ab says, "The issue is polarized".

See da proof* below.

"Filtering out the climate-change BS
Globe and Mail - Norman Spector -" ‎

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*Da proof:

“*HAVOC AS BRITAIN TURNS INTO A SNOW-GO ZONE(sic)

LARGE parts of Britain were at a standstill today as ice and snow plunged the country into its coldest December for 100 years.

After a foot of snow fell in some areas, airports were forced to close and motorists were facing what the AA is calling “the worst driving conditions imaginable”.

Paul Michaelwaite, forecaster at Netweather, said: “It is going to be really cold right up until Christmas and towards the New Year. There may be the odd interlude, but it is mainly a very cold picture for all of us.””

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/218072/Havoc-as-Britain-turns-into-a-snow-go-zone

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“Snow Chaos
Petra Brings Germany to a Slippery Standstill

Blizzards continued to batter Germany Friday as the cold-weather front “Petra” brought highways to a halt, closed airports and caused chilly mayhem across the country.

Some people, at least, didn’t mind the chilly weather in Germany. Many school children had a day off on Friday as bus companies canceled services, claiming they are unable to guarantee children’s safety on the treacherous roads.

School kids may be the only ones not complaining though, as traffic chaos makes road, rail and air travel nigh-on impossible. Those wanting to fly in or out of the country faced delays and frustration at airports. Frankfurt Airport, Germany’s largest air hub, was forced to close completely on Thursday night while the runways were cleared of snow. Although the airport was open again on Friday morning, it had to cancel 246 flights on Thursday, according to Heinz Fass from Fraport airport authorities. Around 200 flights were reported canceled on Friday. In Berlin, Tegel Airport announced on Friday morning that one-third of all flights had been canceled.

Petra Causes Havoc

The low-pressure system known as “Petra” was extremely busy overnight, “.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,735270,00.html

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“Rome’s fountains covered in ice amid freezing weather

Some of Rome’s most famous fountains have turned to ice amid sub zero temperatures in the Italian capital.

Snow and sleet are forecast for the city while snowfall has been reported in the southern region of Calabria and on the island of Capri.”

(BBC)

More at WUWT?

This is how they're going to take them one at a time.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/218056/Farmer-misses-fox-but-shoots-prowlers

Don Van Vliet — the iconic experimental musician known as Captain Beefheart — died today due to complications from multiple sclerosis at a hospital in Northern California, according to reports. He was 69.

http://www.spin.com/articles/captain-beefheart-dies-69

Yeah Beagle..you showed us alright..erecting a big, multi-million dollar tree will now result in the mass conversion of all those oh-so-peaceful Muslims.

Good Lord, what's next..the erection of a giant Cadbury Creme egg at Easter in the Emirates with the resulting mass conversion?

Will wonders never cease?