h/t Revnant Dream

“Harper is an evil genius who wants to turn Canada into a dictatorship, let’s give him all our guns.” *

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

Biden’s embarrassing habit of blurting out the truth is finally put to good use;

“[The Israelis have] said, ‘Here you go. You’re in the Mediterranean. This ship — if you divert slightly north you can unload it and we’ll get the stuff into Gaza.’ So what’s the big deal here? What’s the big deal of insisting it go straight to Gaza? Well, it’s legitimate for Israel to say, ‘I don’t know what’s on that ship. These guys are dropping eight — 3,000 rockets on my people,'”

An interview with Maxime Bernier.

Apparently because Europeans did not drawl and go to church, we were supposed to believe that they had reinvented finance, and loans could be floated rather than paid back.

h/t EBD

It takes some serious Globeite spin (later in the link) to twist the testimony of former Minister on National Defence Bill Graham:

Sounds pretty much like what the current government has been saying…

Mildly related:

Congo: Jim Travers of the Toronto Star really loathes Rick Hillier

Lorne Gunter;

When the first Trudeau government passed the Official Languages Act in 1969, nearly all fluently bilingual Canadians lived along this ribbon of land. They still do.
[…]
Bill C-232, introduced by New Brunswick NDP MP Yvon Godin, would require all future Supreme Court nominees to be able to hear cases in French or English without the aid of official translators. All three opposition parties voted in favour of this distortion of reason, democracy and unity; only the Tories opposed it.

Where are our talk radio guys? I think the Honourable Member from Filibuster should be invited to explain himself.
h/t to Francesc0, who writes – “I’m hoping it’s a wedge issue with which the Opposition hopes to force an election.”
Yup. You go, go, go with this one, Mr. Ignatieff.

I have a question. We have two more sound bites of the president here specifying right-wing talk radio, but I have a question: How come we’re supposed to draw (on the basis of no evidence), a connection between conservatism and terrorism, conservative ideology and terrorism? Where is that connection? Yet we are told we must reject, despite tons of evidence, the connection between Islamist ideology and terrorism. So we can’t call Islamist fundamentalists “terrorists.” We can’t even use the word. But we can have ex-presidents and current presidents running around trying to associate conservatives with nonexistent terrorism at peaceful tea parties. Somebody needs to explain this to me.

Related: “Calling Tea Partiers ‘stupid’ and ‘losers’ hasn’t worked. Time to start calling them ‘educated’ and ‘privileged’.”

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose! – Revisited…

The rate of unilingualism among francophones is 58 per cent. Among anglophones, it was 90.6 per cent. Among allophones, 87.9 per cent.
Thus, according to the conventional wisdom as enunciated by Graham Fraser, the overwhelming majority of Canadians should never be considered for any of Canada’s top jobs.

h/t John D.

Reviewed…

In a way, it’s a story much like Cormac McCarthy’s recent best-selling “The Road.” Both follow a hero’s long march through thankless environments– in Ignatieff’s case, from the theory-throttled, dusty tower of academia to the burned-out hell-hole of representative politics. Danger lurks. Grime abounds. The narrative tension is: Can the hero be wrong about everything, survive, and still convince people he’s smarter than everyone in Moveon.org?
I was excited when I first saw this new essay: At last, Ignatieff was going to come clean about his super-duper-double-dipper errors. I expected a no-holds barred, personal excoriation. In fact, I assumed the first, last, and only sentence of the essay would be: “Please, for the love of God, don’t ever listen to me again.”
HOWEVER. . .

Don’t let the words “Huffington Post” scare you off. This is seriously funny stuff.
h/t

Setting the stage “for the most dramatic Governor General investiture evah”.

“Oh, I know democracy’s not popular with you lot….”

Related: So how’s that surrender of national sovereignty working out for ya?
h/t John B.

HINT: It begins with “K” and ends with “rugman” (pdf).

Mr. Krugman states that Canada’s advantage has been in being stricter about limiting bank leverage, and that’s true. But he then blames Reagan-era deregulation for the “dangerously interesting” US banking system and suggests that the wild American banking mustangs must thus be broken to the regulatory bit.
The thing is, in his Keynesian enthusiasm, he is neglecting the most important qualities of the Canadian financial system, the things that really made the difference and account for the fact that we didn’t have a US-style housing collapse and have to bail out our entire banking system. The stuff he cites in his column is all correct, as far as it goes, but it’s just the feathers, not the chicken.

(Here’s the Google Quick View if you don’t like the pdf.)

…and nearly got thrown out of college.

His argument is vaguely familiar.

Via Rob Zurrer who writes;

Victor Davis Hanson on what I would call a “blow off top” scenario in the bull market in government employees.
OK, I am in hope ( a foolish state) that we are dealing with the equivalent of the blow off top in the Nasdaq in 2000 , and a collapse in government employees on par with…… for example Yahoo’s plunge from $130 to $3.75 in a bit more than a year. Personally, I’m glad the US is the most heavily armed citizenry in history. I won’t elaborate…..
I just remember so well the day 3Com spun off 20% of its wholly owned subsidiary Palm, and at the end of the day that 20% of Palm was trading for a greater market value than the entire listed 3Com….. which still owned 80% of Palm.
It’s that crazy.

And more crazy – Administration Proposes New Agency to Study Climate Change

P.S.

Surely it’s just a coincidence that Ignatieff’s first major policy statement about abortion has to do with Haiti and other Third World minorities, right? I mean, it’s not like Planned Parenthood was founded by a racist woman who called blacks “reckless breeders” and had a special “Negro Project” right? I mean, Planned Parenthood would never argue that eugenics was the best solution of racial, political and social problems would they?
Right?

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Guess what? The man responsible for looking after the fat pensions of the boys and girls at the BBC is a climate change fanatic, and he is part of an international group of investment managers who bust a gut to invest in ‘climate change’ schemes. He’s called Peter Dunscombe, and he runs the £8.2bn corporation pension fund, advising trustees on a day-to-day basis about their investments. Mr Dunscombe, who addresses conferences about ‘ethical investments’, is also chairman of the Institutional Investment Group on Climate Change(IIGCC), which has 47 members and manages four trillion euros’ worth of investments; yes, four trillion. Their goal is to find as many ‘climate change’ investment opportunities as possible:

All that, and Jim Prentice’s “reputation” science, too.

At the top of his game.

Take Manhattan, but first take the Hamptons, where symptoms are readily apprehended, just as the pulse at the wrist is a telltale of the heart. Mere multimillionaires cannot afford anymore to go where within living memory actual people made a living from the farms, clam beds, and sword-fishing grounds. Now the potato fields are covered with houses that look like the headquarters of Martian expeditionary forces, ice-cream factories, vacuum cleaners on stilts, the Seagram building on its side, or shingled New England cottages monstrously swollen into something you might see after eating a magic mushroom. In simple and quiet towns that once deferred to the majesty of the ocean, the streets are now clogged with a kabuki theater of Range Rovers and $35,000 handbags.