Rich Noyes at Newsbusters:

"The script is always a little different, but the trend is always the same. The Media Research Center has monitored campaign coverage for 25 years, including the media’s reaction to four Republican vice presidential selections: Dan Quayle (1988); Jack Kemp (1996); Dick Cheney (2000); and Sarah Palin (2008). While most of the candidates usually received initially positive introductory coverage, in each case journalists quickly pivoted to emphasizing the attack lines pushed by the Democratic campaigns."

Among the choice quotes from the article, ABC "newsman" Ted Koppel: “(Dan) Quayle and his supporters throw a protective arm around the National Guard as though the institution itself were under attack. It, of course, is not. He and his apparent mediocrity and hypocrisy are.” CNN's Jack Cafferty: "If John McCain wins, this woman will be one 72-year-old’s heartbeat away from being President of the United States. And if that doesn’t scare the hell out of you, it should.” NBC reporter Amy Robach: "Will (Sarah Palin) be shortchanging her kids, or will she be shortchanging the country?”

Numerous other network media quotes, plus a nice video compilation, at the link.

Fareed Zakaria suspended by CNN and Time magazine for plagiarism.

I guess we'll just have to find a way to go on...

An anti-Republican nutcase exercising his Freedom of Speech

Highly recommended: Daniel Greenfield's "The Most Divisive Campaign In American History".

Excerpt:

Thieves are always looking over their shoulders. They always expect to have their ill-gotten gains taken away from them. And that is Obama's true achievement. Like Tammany Hall, he has corrupted a massive section of the population and made it complicit in his criminality. What the old political machines did to cities or small groups of vested interests, the Zero has done to tens of millions, if not a hundred million people, who want him in power not because they think he's the best man for the job, but because he's their crook. The middle man for a crime ring that begins with him and ends with them.

The true insidious evil of the man is that he is the face of a machine of power and privilege that turns Americans into UnAmericans, that corrupts and degrades every ideal and principle, suborns every office and picks every pocket, while wrapping that thievery in the flag and every bit of history that it can filch. The Hussein Way is the clearest expression of the rot at the heart of the Democratic Party, the marriage of leftist agitation and powermongering with the old urban political machines for a level of abuse usually seen only in banana republics.

Do yourself a favour and read the whole thing.

Politico, Rosner and the fabulous world of Israeli "experts"

But then, again, nothing to be surprised about here. This is what the Left always does. In Israel and abroad, this is how the Left invents perceptions based on thin air. They get together a group of people who represent no one, call them experts, ask their opinion -- in this case on nothing in particular -- and reach a definitive conclusion about something largely unrelated and then crown this stellar achievement with banner headlines. Brilliant.

http://carolineglick.com/

EBD, the Daniel Greenfield column you referenced needs to be posted at the top level. There are many brilliant paragraphs within but this one was especially powerful:

There is not a single Obama voter anywhere in the land who believes that another four years of him will make this country better. Not a single one from coast to coast. No, what they believe is that he will make the country a worse place for those people that they hate. That he will have four more years to sink their ideas deeper in the earth, regardless of how many families go hungry and how many fathers kill themselves because they can no longer take care of their families. What they believe is that Obama will grant their group more special privileges and the rest of the country can go to hell.

Thanks for that link,EBD!

As EBD said, read the whole thing.

Disney is being sued for religious discrimination. The happiest place on earth is about to butt heads and hijabs with the most miserable religion on the planet.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/disney-sued-over-employees-right-to-wear-hijab/article4479874/

Everyone's favourite RINO, David Frum, has an idiotic analysis of Ryan's appointment. As 'ET' might say, "Words. So many words."

On a somewhat lighter note:

Thai senator accidentally kills secretary - with submachine gun

dmorris @ 10:53, I agree, read the complete Daniel Greenfield column.

Speaking of David Frum. Someone on the Bill O'Reilly show suggested that David Frum would probably vote for Obama. This guy has gone over to the dark side.

After you read the Greenfield column, watch this video and you'll see examples of what he was referring to.

Finally, someone discovered where socialists come from.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19250778

I'm waiting with baited breath to hear what Meghan McCain thinks of the Ryan pick. Frum has spoken which confirms that it was a good choice. I'm sure Meghan will say the same thing as Frum.

James, here's her Twitter page. I'm now thinking that Ryan was the wrong choice ... or that a stopped clock is still correct twice a day!

Re: Johnny Yuma:

Thanks!!

As a kid, I had a 66 Ford Galaxy 500. I installed a "reverberator" on the back speakers. It was a cumbersome device that fit in the trunk and blew a fuse every week or so. But it did wonders to Johnny Cash and Johnny Horton songs. It was like sitting at the Center of the Arts inside the Ford.

Today, the Chinese could fit that reverb inside a hearing aid, and power it with a battery the size of an 81mg aspirin.

Ontario is not immune to the social consequences of deindustrialization: income decline among less educated people, especially men; family breakdown as men become less marriageable; diminished life chances for children raised without fathers.

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/08/11/david-frum-investing-in-ontarios-future-or-not/

Can't remember where I found the link, but it's a worrisome comment on narcissist rage. Given that Obozo is a narcissist, one has to worry about what will happen if he gets rejected. Hopefully the US military has a couple of hellfire equipped domestically based drones for the worst case narcissist rage scenario should Obozo lose in 2012.

http://drsanity.blogspot.ca/2004/09/lesson-in-narcississtic-rage.html

Highly recommend the drsanity blog as she does an excellent job of dissecting the pathology of leftists and postmodernism.

Ciao Time.

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"Italians Say Goodbye to Ferraris as La Dolce Vita Expires"

"It’s not just Ferraris. Every week about 200 second-hand Porsches leave Italy for other European countries, according to Loris Casadei, head of the Italian operations of the Volkswagen AG (VOW) brand. Exports of used Porsche Cayennes more than tripled to 1,134 vehicles in the first five months of 2012. The number of second-hand Ferraris and Maseratis leaving Italy jumped to 424 cars from 142, according to Unrae.

Luxury Tax

“The high-end car market is one of the more resilient to the crisis, and Italy is punishing it -- not a wise decision,” said Romano Valente, general manager of Unrae, which represents foreign automakers in Italy. “The luxury tax has created a perverse mechanism.”"

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-13/italians-say-goodbye-to-ferraris-as-la-dolce-vita-expires.html

Factoid: Our Ordure of Canada has 600 members.

Equality is advancing into the future with such members as Gusto, Ad$cammers Paul & Jean, Dr. Death-to-Babies, &&&&

Now we know why Don has not been added to the roster of Team Ordure.

"the 600th Member of the Order of Canada".

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"A press release this week called it “fitting” that the anniversary of Hiroshima, Aug. 6th, should also be the day for the 600th Member of the Order of Canada to sign an appeal to the government “to join in an international effort to eliminate nuclear weapons.”"

"Jonas: Don’t ban the nuclear bomb, or else…"

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/08/11/george-jonas-dont-ban-the-nuclear-bomb-or-else/

CBC is NOT covering the latest in the Khadr case.

They not only always write pro-Khadr articles,they also do not put up anything that would tarnish sweet little Omar's image,such as psychiatric reports that suggest he may not be so sweet.

FIRE.THEM.ALL.

The G&M have it;
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/us-set-to-give-omar-khadr-videotapes-to-canada-this-week/article4479225

Can anyone think of a logical reason why the National Weather Service would by purchasing ammunition?

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=bfd95987a1ad9a6dfb22bca4a19150cb&_cview=0

That's a good article by David Greenfield.

He's right; the basic current cause of the Democratic agenda of dividing the American population into adversarial identity blocs is due primarily to Obama. This is due to Obama's psychological pathology, a sociopathic narcissism, where he needs to control all others.

This is a serious pathology. If Obama doesn't feel he can control Others, he feels threatened by them. Obama's tactics of control have always been: misinformation (aka lies) and emotional manipulation by threats of apocalyptic disasters unless you accept His Will, accusations of your racism, your ignorance, your adherence to other gods than Him (your religion)...

The division of a population into adversarial groups, by race, ethnicity, gender, wealth - that's a basic strategy of control. And Obama is very skilled at inciting hatreds, envy, feelings of fear. The examples of his so doing in America are littered over the past four years.

But Obama, a sociopathic narcissist, is assisted in this path of destruction by previous Democratic infrastructures of division. Notice that each one is defined as a closed membership open only if you have specific values or qualities. These values are not intellectual as much as they are genetic or historic. And they are each adversarial against others.

There's the NAACP, the insistence that 'being black' gives you a different identity than 'being American'. You are now hyphenated: African American, which implies an identity that cannot be merged into 'being American'. Same with the growing illegals, who are also given their own unique national hyphenated identity: Illegal Americans. And what about feminists? They too insist on a separate identity.

What Obama has done, in his agenda of personal power and control over Americans, is to incite and inflame these already-existent groups, and turn them from 'clubs' into 'mobs'. His mobs. Compare with the Third Reich.

There is no movement of air, it is perfectly still, and the rain is falling straight down from above here in Woodstock Ontario on this 14th day of August, 2012.

A little late perhaps, for some crops to benefit, but perfect timing for others.

WE here in Canada are truly blessed.

Meanwhile, Saskatchewan floats on oil and potash, Alberta boasts oil sands and Dalton McGuinty ScREWS the Standardbred Horse breeders in Ontario. eh?

Canada? Impotent? Potent?

"A September-like air mass will dive down from Canada behind a potent cold front later this week and this weekend, bringing a refreshing blast of fall-like temperatures to many."

"From Heat Waves to Cold Waves: Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh"

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/from-heat-waves-to-cold-waves/69839

http://observers.france24.com/files/imagecache/observers_70_85/user_avatars/flout%C3%A9C2_2.jpg

Mao Stlong* Lepolt: You make change?

Name, prease.

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"Just one rumour and a Chinese city's shops all close"

"In a commercial street in Shenyang, store-owners closed up shop after hearing a rumour about inspections.

In Shenyang, in China’s Lioaning province, it has been difficult to find any shops open for business for the last three weeks. A simple rumour about a purported operation to inspect small businesses — carrying the risk of thousands of yuan in fines for infractions — has caused many shops to close up for the time being.

In Shenyang, a city of eight million in China's north-east, the commercial districts contain row after row of shuttered shops. As the city prepares to host the National Games in 2013, local authorities had in January expressed a desire to crack down on sellers of counterfeit goods. Inspections were supposed to take place from June 15 to August 15. Three weeks ago, a rumour starting spreading among shop-owners that the authorities would impose fines that would be prohibitively expensive and unwarranted.

On Chinese social networking site Weibo, for instance, a commentator who claims to be a shop-owner in Shenyang posted a long anonymous letter in which he lays out the ways in which the authorities have hassled shop-owners over the past few weeks. “They stop people and give them fines. All shops, without any exception, have been fined. (…) It doesn't matter if your business is above board. If they come see you, they will invent all kinds of excuses: outdated health equipment, or inadequate fire alarms, for instance, and they will lock you up until you pay a fine, which can go from 10,000 yuan [1,280 euros] to 500,000 yuan [64,000 euros].”"

http://observers.france24.com/content/20120813-just-one-rumour-all-city-shops-close-shenyang-lioaning-national-games-stores-inspection-fines

*Ex-Liberal leader Bob Rae's uncle, c/o Red China.

Big Nanny State tans itself with SprayTan.

ST is available in all leading Drug Stores.

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"Oakville, Ont. bars people under 18 from tanning in salons" (G-M)

Here's an example of Democratic coercion and use of taxpayer dollars to fill the halls at rallies, in this case, for Jesse Jackson Jr and Nancy Pelosi.

The whistleblower, a young student, claims she was ordered to attend the rally AND to bill the government agency for which she worked, for the travel, food and hotel costs. Hmmm.

Affidavit of Marcy Bailey

http://www.scribd.com/doc/102812331/Affidavit-of-Marcy-Bailey

Once again proving twitter is for twits, today someone posted that Margaret Thatcher died on twitter and it went out on one of the wire services.

You think a snare drum might've helped her cause, James?

CBC has finally put up the Khadr story,a full 18 hours after the Globe had it up.

They were likely having trouble spinning it and/or deciding whether or not to print it .

FIRE.MOST.OF.THEM.

Neo-AGW PR Report.

It's a nert. It's a stain. It's a wig leaf.

"“It’s a massive carbon storehouse,” said Faisal Moola, the Suzuki Foundation’s director of science."

http://i.thestar.com/images/4e/75/931d1e1b4e139971f707b7e44cfd.jpg

Those were the days...classic television

Johny Yuma carried a sawed-off shotgun & wasn't aftaid to use it.
Lucas McCain aka The Rifleman carried a specially modified Winchester carbine and he wasn't afraid to use it
and John Randall (Steve McQueen) carried a sawed - off Winchester carbine (!) and he wasn't afraid to use it.

My favourite line from Wanted Dead or Alive was "drop it or I'll blow you out of your shirt".

Thanks for the link to that old song EBD. Johnny Yuma was a Rebel and he wondered alone...in and out of Yankee country! He needed that gun Scott. It is a song about the west and about the defeat of the Confederacy in the Civil War 1861 - 1865. The Yankees called the Confederates Rebs and the Confederates called the Yankees 'Yanks'. The Rebs fought for 'states rights', the 'Yanks' fought for a strong union with a strong central gument. Yanks won.

Many country western singers and songwriters were/are from the South.