BC Blue: “Postmedia issues “clarification” for Stephen Maher’s false Conservative donor story”

“I feel very much for Miss Provost but unfortunately being shot does not make you an expert in firearms or firearms control any more than being run over by a car makes you an automotive engineer.”

h/t Mark

Am going to totally ROFLMAO when Obama sends troops to secure Syria’s chem weap0ns and finds “Made in Iraq” stamped on the crates.

— Bill Hobbs (@billhobbs) December 6, 2012

“Honestly, who do the two of you think you are to demand that my blood be shed so that you may preen about what wonderful people you are?”

h/t Viewer from afar

If I were John Boehner, I’d say: “Clearly there’s no mandate for small government in the election results. So, if you milquetoast pantywaist sad-sack excuses for the sorriest bunch of so-called Americans who ever lived want to vote for Swede-sized statism, it’s time to pony up.

h/t bluetech

Shamelessly filched from American Digest’s Sidelines, this excerpt from Sal Traina’s A Real Threat To America:

Suicide bombers don’t care about the effects of their actions on others. They believe that their awful actions will be rewarded afterwards by their almighty ruler, Allah. They believe they will be taken to paradise. They are taught from a very young age that Americans are the real evil in the world, and that to kill them is a noble and Godly act.
In the United States, we have suicide voters. These radical progressives and liberals don’t care about the effects of their actions on others. They believe their almighty ruler, government, will reward them with a utopian society that cares for them from cradle to grave. These domestic terrorists are indoctrinated in our public schools from a young age to believe that Americans are the real evil in the world, and their greed must be avenged with social justice policies that redistribute their wealth.

Related:

The fact is, liberalism isn’t really an objective. Conservatism might be an objective, but liberalism is merely a direction. Dog chasing the car. It doesn’t really know where it’s going, nor does it care

(Note: EBD repost from Reader Tips)

h/t Melinda Romanoff

Via Sun News; Prime Minister Stephen Harper accepts the 2012 “World Statesman” award from the Appeal of Conscience Foundation.

Transcript

And my dog doesn’t;

One would think, given the divergent outcomes, that a serious economist would advocate for countries to follow the successful example of northern Europe rather than the failed strategies of the south. Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman doesn’t seem to see it that way. Throughout the crisis, Krugman has attempted to explain away or even mock the Baltic countries’ success even as they have continued to inconveniently disprove his arguments.

On the other hand, if an empty chair can win the Peace Prize…
(h/t Sean)

Manhattan on 9/11, from space.

How Change Happens. Your Saturday morning essay.
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(Mouse over is your friend.)

Of course, it still could be that they’re just trying to give poor Paul Krugman a stroke.

h/t

Groups like the $PLC, the ADL and the now defunct Canadian Jewish Congress raking in multi-millions in donations to “monitor” idiots like this dumbfuck.
And… So what?
People are still dead.

The background. On January 2, 2013, if we don’t get the budget mess sorted out, sequestration will be implemented. Which will hit the defense industry right between the eyes. Knowing this, certain Defense Industry honchos have “threatened” the government with filing WARN (layoff notices) informing employees of possible firing owing to the sequestration of funds away from the industry.
The law specifies “60 day notice”. That would put the filing right in front of the 2012 presidential election.
Just to underscore that these bums are lower than low, the DOL has decided that WARN notice filings in anticipation of sequestration would be INAPPROPRIATE. They so stink, I could freakin’ scream.

… “Questions have recently been raised as to whether the WARN Act requires Federal contractors—including, in particular, contractors of the Department of Defense (DOD)—whose contracts may be terminated or reduced in the event of sequestration on January 2, 2013, to provide WARN Act notices 60 days before that date to their workers employed under government contracts funded from sequestrable accounts. The answer to this question is “no.” …

In addition, the preamble states that “it is not appropriate for an employer to provide blanket notice to workers.” Id. at 16058. Thus, in cases where it may be difficult to identify the worker who will actually lose his/her job because of the elimination of a particular position, the regulations provide that notice must be given to the worker who holds that position at the time notice is provided. 20 CFR 639.6(b).” …
The DOL is so full of crap, it’s not funny anymore. Usually, they are all over companies, urging them to file so that they can be prepared to help anyone displaced. Unless of course, it might mean a few votes lost by the Administration. I frankly cannot believe my eyes.

But that’s just part of a page that merits a full read.

h/t Shippedout

Rick Santelli: “4/5ths of the reduction in unemployment is due to the drop in the labour force participation rate. And that is a biggie.”

Via