So God made a farmer ...Paul Harvey says it well
http://www.youtube.com/embed/QuzhwkaNC40?rel=0

NP is declaring a another Liberal win in Ontario, and a lost opportunity fo Hudak.
We're toast.

Separate quickly, Alberta and Saskatchewan. You're going to have to pay for Ontario's dying auto industry and stupid green initiatives for the next 4 years.

I called it. 4 more years of shit for the poor bastards of onterrible

greenie...petard...hoist

unfortunately, the whole thing was probably paid for, or will be paid for, by taxpayers who never got to say "don't do it"

Eco-School Left Out Of Pocket After 'Unproven' Wind Turbine Breaks
Wednesday, 05 October 2011 22:15 The Daily Telegraph

An eco-friendly school has been left £55,000 out of pocket after its wind turbine broke - with governors admitting that it was based on "completely unproven technology".

The company that installed the turbine has gone bust leaving the school with a pile of scrap.

The Gorran School in Cornwall revealed its 15 metre turbine in 2008 which was designed to provide it with free electricity - and sell any surplus power to the National Grid.

The system was seen as a green blueprint for clean, sustainable energy for schools nationwide and received grants from various bodies including the EDF power firm.

But soon after being installed the wind turbine became faulty and after a few months seized up - showering the school's playing field with debris.

Since then the school has been locked in a battle with suppliers Proven Energy which has now gone into administration leaving the school with little hope of any money being returned - and a pile of scrap in their field.

Sue Hawken, chair of the school governors, said:"It has been an absolute nightmare from start to finish. "We've put a claim in but realistically I don't expect to get a single penny from this company.

"Unbeknown to us, the 15 kilowatt turbine that Proven Energy installed was completely unproven technology that never really worked.

"Proven Energy wrote to us to confirm the design fault. With that in mind we are advising owners to place their wind turbines on brake as soon as it is safe to do so.

"It is an absolute disgrace and I feel the company has acted atrociously."

The school says it will look at solar panel as an alternative in the future.

The Daily Telegraph, 5 October 2011

It's apparent that the Toronto Maple Leafs have finally assembled a veritable juggernaut! Tonight they annihilated their erstwhile division rival with a convincing 2 - 0 drubbing!

While it MAY be premature to project their final point standing at a league record 164 points, it would also be astounding if the Habs, at their current pace completed a WHOLE season with NO, ZERO, ZILCH, NADA points!

Isn't averages/trends an acceptable tried and trued concept?

Just sayin'... :~D)

From a long-suffering TML stubble jumpin' die-hard...

Actually it looks good on Onterrible (good one!)

They will continue on their way to bankruptcy, having never learned that never saying no to anybody comes with a terrible price attached.

Maybe we can change the name of the province to Onterriblybrokeio

Liked, especially, the Howdy Doody earmuffs.

So much of Ontario stuck on stupid, very sad.

Minority in Ontario. Let the inquiries (into ehealth and greenscam) begin!!

Meanwhile the conservatives have to retool the onpcp and remake it into a version of the wildrose. Another election with possibly three new leaders is likely within two years.

RE: NFB hockey film!

Thnks for showing this.

What would it take to reawaken Canada the way we were in 1953?? In the 80's, the old Montreal Canadiens and other NHLers toured Western Canada. The rinks were filled to the rafters.

They would gather at the hotel, sign seaters and have a brew with the boys after an exhibition game. I was a Ford salesman back then, I was working in the showroom the next morning when a tall guy wearing a cowboy hat showed up. He walked up to me, extended his hand and said: "Hi--I'm Eddie Shack." The team was staying nearby, he was awake before the rest of the crew. One of the best days of my life.

Every few years I actually enjoy something cultural that my taxes are spent on...

That was an absolutely impressive National Film Board documentary. Thank you for the link.

@KEN KULAK.

very nice i like that i will pass that one on to all i know.

Meant "were spent on"... Not "are spent on"...

Now we spend billions upon billions for "cultural" special interest groups.

O'narcissist's Red-Green Fraud.

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"Energy {Solyndra] Loan Guarantee Official Resigns"

"The head of the Energy Department’s loan guarantee office, which approved the ill-fated $528 million loan to Solyndra, will leave his job on Friday.

The department said that the official, Jonathan Silver, had said in July that he would leave soon after Sept. 30, which was the deadline for approving the loans financed by the Recovery Act. However, two loan guarantee programs remain in place, one for manufacturing advanced vehicles, the other for “innovative clean energy technologies.”"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2789164/posts

Go Blue.

Go Randy. Go Jack.

"Yet, Mr. Hillier has emerged as an easy winner, doubling his Liberal opponent Bill MacDonald."

"Jack MacLaren has easily taken the riding, despite the defection of some Tories."

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"Probably the most unusual campaign in the region is being waged in Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington. Four years ago, Conservative Randy Hillier, known for his association with a right-wing rural landowners group that took part in high-profile acts of civil disobedience as a protest against big government, took the riding but only by a very narrow margin. A former Ontario premier likened the landowners group to the U.S. Tea Party.

But now Mr. Hillier faced no end of personal problems that could have tripped up his chance for a second win. During the election, the Ottawa Citizen reported that federal authorities had slapped two liens on his Perth-area home stemming from an unpaid tax bill. He also failed to mention the unpaid taxes in a mandatory submission to the Integrity Commissioner and accused three Crown Attorneys of breaking the law. Mr. Hillier is now facing a $5-million law suit.

Yet, Mr. Hillier has emerged as an easy winner, doubling his Liberal opponent Bill MacDonald.

Mr. Hillier also worked to unseat a caucus colleague Norm Sterling, the long-time Tory MPP from Carleton-Mississippi-Mills. Mr. Sterling, a former cabinet minister, had been a Queen’s Park for 34 years. Instead, the Tories in the riding chose Jack MacLaren, also a member of the landowners movement. Mr. Sterling has refused to support Mr. MacLaren, and it is believed that some of his backers have thrown their support to Liberal Megan Cornell.

Jack MacLaren has easily taken the riding, despite the defection of some Tories."

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/10/06/ontario-votes-ottawa-and-eastern-ontario/

What happened to Liberal socialist McGuinty’s red-green fraud agenda?

Red-Green fades. Next time fade to black.

More cuts to the left-liberal Red-Green arts.

“Despite the Liberal victory, some of Dalton McGuinty’s top guns from the Southwestern region were blown away by anti-wind turbine activists in Thursday’s vote.

Carol Mitchell, Minister of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs, looked set to fall in Huron-Bruce to Tory challenger Lisa Thompson, who was ahead by more than 4,000 votes in late counting.

John Wilkinson, Minister of the Environment, was trailing by 600 votes to Randy Pettapiece, his Progressive Conservative challenger, in Perth-Wellington.

Both ministers were targeted by noisy activists opposed to mass turbine farms in the area. Several regional PCs candidates drew support by promising to oppose new developments.”

“Lambton-Kent-Middlesex, meanwhile, bucked its long traditional as an ideal provincial election bellwether. Over Ontario’s previous 39 elections, back to 1867, it elected a representative who was with the party that also won the election 33 times. Since 1929 its record has been 100% — until Thursday night.

Monte McNaughton of the PCs outdrew Liberal incumbent Maria Van Bommel by more than 4,500 votes.”

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/10/06/ontario-votes-southwestern-ontario-liberals-face-tory-challengers/

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Britain: “david-cameron-green-agenda-fades”.

“What happened to the Conservatives’ green agenda?”

“Chancellor’s attack on environment laws at conference is a far cry from the Tories’ 2006 rebrand as an eco-conscious party”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/06/david-cameron-green-agenda-fades

some interesting stuff though I dont believe the stall numbers

http://geroldblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/fly-canadian-or-swim-with-the-fishes/

Neo-AGW Progress Report.

What's this? Leftist/Red-Greens' concede.

"global warming has fallen off the political radar,".

O's Solyndra fraud is the last word. Say, Amen O.

Amen O.

"Chart: How the Climate Change Deniers Won"

Our apology for not posting this previously.

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"Chart: How the Climate Change Deniers Won"

"Remember when Republicans still cared about climate change? Four years ago, GOP presidential candidate John McCain was proudly proclaiming that he'd cosponsored a bill to cap carbon emissions. But at this month's Republican debate in California, every presidential wannabe except Jon Huntsman denied that man-made climate change was a problem. And in another depressing sign of how far global warming has fallen off the political radar, hardly anyone on either side of the Solyndra tempest has argued that betting on the company was important for non-economic reasons. What happened here? In short, the climate change deniers won. Here's a handy chart of how they pulled it off.

Other must reads:
Josh Harkinson on "The Dirty Dozen of Climate Change Denial"
Kate Sheppard on "Climategate: What Really Happened"
Chris Mooney on "The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science""

http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/09/chart-climate-change-spin-cycle

Yet another example of "The Science is Settled"....the mocking, ridiculing and finally ostracizing seem particularly "unscientific"....

http://news.yahoo.com/vindicated-ridiculed-israeli-scientist-wins-nobel-183256852.html

Well, I hope those remaining true conservatives in the Ontario PC Party take this as a lesson that, after 3 consecutive losses, putting up an empty suit unwilling to take any positions other than, in essence, "I'll adopt the Liberal platform - but not as much!" isn't going to get them anywhere. Find a leader with some spine, man, and develop some firm, not-Liberal positions for him to promote! Lord knows after what's probably coming up economically, people might finally be willing to listen.

Anyone else catch CBC TV news this morning talking about XL Pipeline Hearings in DC?

Moron woman is talking about the wonderful protesters but the video was showing big groups of Union guys protesting for the pipeline.

Her comments . . "Oh that is that is the wrong video we are showing, that is the video of the ANTI-DEMOCRATIC protesters"

So if yu support building a pipeline, a project that has passed all technical and environmental reviews, you are being anti democratic.

A very revealing peak behind the CBC greenie kimono.

What a dumb twat.

Funny you don't hear any conservatives whining about popular vote counts do you?

Just posted this over at kinsellas site but I think it bears repeating here:

Alinsky would be proud. The LPO ran a textbook radical campaign - adhering to left-wing American MO of S I N

Shift subject

Ignore facts and

Namecall (especially that, it seems)

And, in territory where this is a relatively new strategy - Canada , much of the US prior to 2008 - it can be devastating as the response by the victims of the attacks often only make the damage worse. That certainly seems to be the case in Ontario.

But in areas where the opponents are wise to to the tactic it can be bent back on the attack with devastating results - most famously chris Christie, governor of new jersey. On many blogs and comment pages in the US right-wing and independent commenters are now invoking a SIN!! SIN!! SIN!! comment when they see a left wong commenter engaging in the practice - very effective.

Lets see if the opcs get a handle on this in time for the next election.

(cross-posted on SDA and elsewhere in case it is deleted here)

A friend told me that his relative was had the Canadian naturalization ceremony yesterday in Ottawa.

I guess part of the ceremony is either singing or listening to O Canada. Well get this.. it was done in THREE languages. English, French and ARABIC.

If any reporters want to talk to a witness please let me know.

http://news.yahoo.com/poll-cain-surges-opens-20-point-lead-romney-132015440.html

Herman Cain opens a 20 point lead in the GOP field.

My thoughts: We've seen a few candidates move up, and then down in the GOP field. I think that Herman Cain has the potential to stick around, and maintain his support... IF... he has done his homework on his weak issues such as foreign policy and government in general. He is weak on these two fronts; but, he has one major strength that's not being talked about; that strength being a lack of legislative record. Barring personal skeletons, Herman Cain has no legislative record to harp on in a negative way. No Romney-care, No Amnesty, no nothing. This is very positive for Cain because it means there isn't much ammo for the MSM and Dems to fire with. They can't play the "race card" against Cain, nor can they point to a previous political record. IF... Cain holds-up under questioning in the aforementioned areas; and, his 999 plan pans-out or proves legitimate, he's got a real chance, and I like it.

"If you are not rich, it's your fault" - Herman Cain

TEST

An unfortunate update about the guy who shot at the parasite stealing his ATV from his farmyard.

The thief, who failed to appear in court at first, was eventually tracked down and given 30 days. The farmer was sentenced to three months in court today.

Grrrrrrrrr.

http://www.lacombeglobe.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3327166