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Acknowledge your Inner Child’s mean streak. Related: “would a hypothetical chained drowning episode make The View watchable?”
Collins Poku Duah – young gun offender. Time to build more basketball courts, I say. Ones with remote-controlled trap doors.
The carbon credit law of unintended consequences – “Kenyan farmers, whose lifelong carbon emissions are negligible compared with their counterparts in the West, are fast becoming the victims of a green campaign that could threaten their livelihoods.
Censoring Free Media (Or… Fighting Letters to the Editor)
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  1. Vitruvius’s Intarvideoweb thingies for 2007-05-27.
    The first IT help desk:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buHmE_8UmJA&NR=1
    God Inc.:
    1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2f4heaG288
    2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySqceK4SUi0
    3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gx_EYv8JYI
    4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taf3KI09WFM
    5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il8XWIi-WPE
    6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpfv1APJsz8
    The IT Crowd:
    1) video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=4174391869357140840
    2) video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=8357834123617991291
    3) video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=5362434730649082873
    4) video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=2254094333611368750
    5) video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=8228414011068398093
    6) video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=6819549943444073539

  3. Another win for junk science. The tax court has ruled that Alternative “Medicine” is now tax deductible.

  4. Unless the craziness is defeated, the Kenyan farmers are just the start.
    Albert Einstein had a sickening feeling when he realized what he had done. H-bomb.
    Who will be the first of the Kyoto Kroud to see the light and throw up.

  8. That picture of Rosie is priceless.
    What amazes me is her ability to play the victim.
    Even though Elizabeth Hasselback isnt the brightest bulb in the house she nailed it when she called Rosie O D on not answering her own rhetorical question.
    It is a cheap and intellectually lazy parlour trick to ask a controversial rhetorical question like, there are 650,000 dead Iraqi’s since the invasion….who is really the terrorist….and then try to claim that your are amazed anyone would think you were implying that american troops were terrorists….
    She deserves whatever downward sprial she is on, assuming she is even on one.
    Sad that she is valued for her ratings even though she makes idiotic comments like that and the 9/11 conspiracy theory stuff….which never did get followed up. Likely because she was bellowing in the background that she didnt actually mean to imply what she implied.
    Rosie has offically jumped the shark

  9. Now when I read this headline my first impression is that the ambush killed two dozen Allied troopers.
    “Taliban ambush of coalition convoy in Afghanistan leaves 2 dozen dead”
    Seems like a reasonable conclusion right?
    Oops!
    “Taliban militants ambushed U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces escorting supply trucks in southern Afghanistan, sparking a 10-hour battle the coalition said killed an estimated two dozen militants, though villagers said Monday seven civilians also died.”
    These people actually get paid to write this stuff?
    Ahhh, silly me, it is an AP story, all makes sense now.

  10. Did anyone else spot Christina Lawand on CBC’s Newman show this past week?
    They must feel she’s done her time in hiding and/or we have short memories of her outrageous manipulation of facts when reporting a Harper event.
    They can bring her back into view but we cannot trust a damned word she reports. She may as well go fly a kite or whatever.

  13. Vitruvius: Curses on you! Now I am addicted to your YouTube links and I have work to do! Best laugh I have had in a while.

  16. A ‘summer camp for intellectuals’
    Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is Canada’s prime place to make academic connections
    …Noreen Golfman vividly remembers the day as a nervous graduate student that she presented her first paper at the largest annual gathering of Canada’s academic community…”I had on a great pair of shoes. They were probably the highest heels I have ever worn,” she recalled…
    tinyurl.com/yphdtd
    “Poor Noreen Golfman”
    smalldeadanimals.com/archives/005452

  17. It’s illegal to post that kid’s name. And here I thought you were a law-and-order type.
    Plus basketball courts? What if they were into motorcycles?
    This is just the voice of a rural Saskatchewanian yelling back at the radio – “I have no clue what’s going on in urban areas of the country, including every province east of Manitoba.”

  18. *
    Moe Real whined… “Plus basketball courts? What if they were into motorcycles?”
    Way to go, Metrosexual Moe… maybe before you start castigating all us
    “dumb as dogshit” rural rednecks… you should pick up a paper and
    read a little.
    Building more basketball courts was Mayor David Miller’s solution to
    all the black-on-black homicides in Toronto.
    What a brainwave that was.
    *

  19. Sound familiar? Lefty/socialist governments ensuring using their *own* national broadcaster?
    “CARACAS — Venezuela’s oldest private television station was pushed off the air as President Hugo Chavez’s government replaced the popular opposition-aligned network with a new state-funded channel on Monday.”
    Sounds like the Liberal/CBC marriage to me.

  20. Fat goalie, eh? Frenchy, too.
    Don…. shhhh… it’s Obese goalie … and he is a Quebecois.
    …-
    How Senators, Ducks match up
    Canada.com – 1 hour ago
    Anaheim Ducks goalie JS Giguere, who really fills the net, already has the Senators talking about his bulky equipment. There has been an unmistakable pattern for the Ottawa Senators on the road to the Stanley Cup. (ducky news, aka googoo)

  21. Miller is now famous for calling a handgun ban after a shotgun murder. It’s the gun collectors’ fault that gangstas slaughter each other for discrepancy between the amount of dope and amount of money, which totals like 5 to 50 bucks if I am not mistaken about the nature of the killing.

  22. Contact solution recalled.
    Complete MoisturePlus lens solution has been recalled. Not sure if it effects Canada but I use it and have been having problems with my eyes.
    I first learned about it on a blog (go figure) and I don’t think it has been widely reported on the Canadian media.
    Original place I read about it:
    http://right-direction.blogspot.com/
    Companies website:
    http://www.amo-inc.com

  23. C’s Farewell Tour. She’ll be back.
    …-
    We Won’t Have Mama Moonbat to Kick Around
    That’s right, the left’s symbol of absolute moral authority is calling it quits. It’s over, Johnny.
    In another whiny Daily Kos post suffering from egregious thesaurus abuse, Cindy Sheehan says her son died for nothing, the anti-war movement is full of egomaniacs and lunatics, and all her dreams have been shattered. …-
    http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

  24. Here’s a telus poll asking for support for a handgun ban.
    w3.mytelus.com/new_homepage/
    For those that like to play with such things

  25. Thunder rolls, tears rain on Vietnam vets’ parade
    THE ponytails might have greyed, and they’re not as lithe as they were 40 years ago, but for the Harley-riding Vietnam veterans who descend on Washington for Memorial Day, it’s a chance to remember and reflect on the war that changed their generation.
    An estimated 400,000 motorcyclists swarmed the capital at the weekend for the 20th Rolling Thunder event. Many were veterans sporting leather vests advertising their platoon, their tour of duty, fallen comrades — and their devotion to their Harley-Davidson.
    Some had ridden across the US in a pilgrimage to “the Wall”, the name given to the stark yet moving monument that records the names of the 58,000 US servicemen who died in Vietnam.
    Others had come from closer states. Like Jim Burgess, from Florida. He flew reconnaissance planes out of Thailand along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
    “I got 10 people up on the Wall — one from my squadron. You gotta come and visit them once in a while,” he said.
    Ben Ompad served at the Phan Rang Air Base alongside Australian servicemen in 1967-68. “They were flying Canberras (bombers) back in those days, and I was like an adopted son,” he said….-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1841096/posts

  26. Just returned to the UK from a week in Canada (scouting for a house as I’m moving back this summer).
    Saw Mayor Miller on TV decrying the pernicious proximity of the US and all the handguns flowing across the border to kill our schoolchildren.
    I found that interesting. Here in the UK, handgun crime and death would put Canada to shame. Three interesting “factoids”:
    1. Handguns are illegal in the UK. Even the police don’t routinely carry them. Essentially, only criminals are free to carry handguns (because of course, the law doesn’t apply to them: they’re criminals!).
    2. The Atlantic Ocean is a considerably larger body of water than Lake Ontario; how are all those handguns getting from the US to the streets of London, Birmingham and Manchester?
    3. You will not be surprised to know that most of the perpetrators and victims of handgun deaths tend to be Jamaican “yardies” (members of Afro-Caribbean gangs).
    Huh.

  27. Words escape me…
    http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_108083.asp
    America Dishonors Her War Dead On Memorial Day
    posted May 28, 2007
    …
    excerpt:
    The last time an American soldier died or fought for our freedom was World War II. That is the plain fact and the plain truth. To say that any soldier since World War II fought or gave up his life in order that we might enjoy our freedom is a horrible mistake in reasoning.
    End of excerpt.
    Again… I guess I really am speechless.

  28. “… environmentalism seeks the destruction of the energy base of the modern world, along with the elimination or radical reduction in the supply of all goods and services that depend on it.”
    The Arithmetic of Environmentalist Devastation
    Ludwig von Mises Institute ^ | 5/23/2007 | George Reisman
    A major demand of the environmental movement, put forward as essential to combating global warming, is the imposition of a massive rollback in global emissions of carbon dioxide accompanied by a freeze on such emissions at the sharply reduced level imposed.
    In this spirit, Britain’s Stern Review, published in the fall of 2006, seeks a reduction of 25 percent by the year 2050. Going considerably further, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has urged a 60 percent reduction.
    Such pronouncements can be made openly and repeatedly only because the immense majority of people do not take the trouble to understand their implications. They do not because what is required to do so is a combination of making connections between various facts and performing calculations. These are activities that are widely perceived as onerous. Nevertheless, this level of thinking is essential if people are to understand the implications of environmentalism’s demands.
    In purely verbal terms, those implications are that environmentalism seeks the destruction of the energy base of the modern world, along with the elimination or radical reduction in the supply of all goods and services that depend on that energy base. It seeks this on the grounds that these goods and the energy on which they depend entail the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The goods and services in question are air conditioners, automobiles, airplane travel, housing, food, clothing, refrigerators, freezers, television sets, telephones, washers, dryers, books, computers—everything that depends on the production and use of oil, coal, or natural gas, which all release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in being burned. The destruction of the energy base and the production of goods and services is implied by the fact that in order to rollback the emission of carbon dioxide, it is necessary to rollback the production and use of energy in these forms. But rolling back the production and use of energy reduces the production of goods and services.
    Turning now to the arithmetic of environmentalist destruction, I will proceed to calculate the extent of the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions per person that is entailed in the environmentalist demands. This will serve as a guide to the extent of the reduction in the production and use of energy per person and thus as a guide to the reduction in the production of goods and services per person. Proceeding in this way, it will be very easy to prove that environmentalism seeks the destruction of the energy base of the modern world, along with the elimination or radical reduction in the supply of all goods and services that depend on it.
    Let me start with the 25 percent reduction in global carbon dioxide emissions urged by the Stern Review. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1841126/posts

  32. Any bed with Rosie in it has nothing but wrong sides.
    Don’t know Gene Simmonds or any other celebrity. They work very few bingos around here. Nor do they sell popcorn that I’m aware of. In other word the relevance of their ideals escapes me at the moment.
    I have on high authority the intellectual summercamp is holding the position of coatcheck for Stephane Dijon. He’s clearing his calendar to take the opportunity for increased personal growth.This will include studying hot-dog eating.
    “The last time an American soldier died or fought for our freedom was World War II. That is the plain fact and the plain truth. To say that any soldier since World War II fought or gave up his life in order that we might enjoy our freedom is a horrible mistake in reasoning.
    End of excerpt.”
    I guess two planes in 2 New York towers isn’t enough,for some people.
    ….i need a day off

  33. “The California Democrat [Pelosi]pointed to her delegation’s weekend stop in Greenland, “where we saw firsthand evidence that climate change is a reality; there is just no denying it.”
    “It wasn’t caused by the people of Greenland — it was caused by the behavior of the rest of the world,” she said.”
    Did anyone in the media think of asking this twit if the Greenland farms are still viable ??
    You know, the farms that were there a 1000 years ago —- when it was much warmer than now. Even after all our man-made warming we are supposidly undergoing.
    “Scientists [which ones ? Gore and Suzuki?] have noticed [noticed ? like a casual glance ?] that Greenland’s output of ice into the North Atlantic had increased dramatically, doubling over the decade that ended in 2005.” [Glaciers also calf more ice when they are getting thicker, as some of the world’s glaciers are]

  34. Finally
    The TO Star has run an article (Tues) questioning the wisdom efficacy of Official Multiculturalism in Canada. If Harper is tuned in – he might do well to get off the instant/high powered move to green and get on this one.
    I have about given up on any move to reduce Official Multiculturalism federally to “small m” multiculturalism (integration with allowances for reasonable accomodation) and really only believe that it can be done at the provincial level mow – if it is to be done at all.
    The extreme political correctness mode we find ourselves in today was initiated by Trudeau et al, perpetuated by Mulroney et al, and simply has to be taken apart by Harper et al (the Liberals sure are not about to do it now or anytime in the future) before we end up like to many places in Europe.
    Australia seems to have moved to legislate important factors that “must be accepted” by those wanting to immigrate to Australia. Read integrate.
    It is about integration and not this mythical beast that has been forced on decades of public school teachers (hence on society generally over the decades)- that of Canada a a Mosaic. Teachers had to/still do use prescribed text books and since at least 1984 in Alberta, those prescribed text books in Social Studies include the concept of Trudeau’s mosaic.
    It is now up to the younger baby boomers who basically know nothing other than this concept to really put the question to themselves – is it (the mosaic concept) working for you and your children now or does it have to change significantly.
    The Trudeau concept of the Mosaic was born out of nothing more than that we in Canada must have something unlike that big, bad, U.S. (melting pot -read integration) so let’s invent a new model of social engineering and call it the mosaic.

  36. NL judge gives green light to breast cancer lawsuit
    Canada.com – 1 hour ago
    ST. JOHN’S, NL – Newfoundland’s Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for a class-action lawsuit against the province over faulty cancer testing.
    (via google news)
    Where is the blathering shyster demagogue known as Danny Williams, aka the Premier of Newfoundland-Labrador? Where is Williams’ mea culpa? Who will Williams blame?
    Williams will blame You-Know-Who for this scandal.

  37. If the Democrats get their way and bring the US military home. I know who I’d deploy them against.
    ORCAS ISLAND, Wash. – Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans’ graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday.
    Forty-six flag standards were found empty and another 33 flags were in charred tatters Sunday in the cemetery, authorities said. Swastikas drawn on paper appeared where 14 of the flags had been.
    Members of the American Legion on this island off Washington’s northwest coast replaced the burned flags with new ones Sunday afternoon.
    The vandals struck again on Memorial Day after a guard left at dawn, the San Juan County sheriff’s office said. This time, the vandals left 33 of the hand-drawn swastikas.

  38. Miller and McGuinty, Davie and Dalty, a finer example of vacuous wind-bags you’d be hard pressed to find anywhere but are aptly working and serving from Toronto, the bastion of the Left.
    As for Buffoon Danny Williams, let him keep on cooking his own goose, the rest of ROC have little sympathy for his plight to have his cake and eat it too.
    What part of equalization does he not understand? When you have, you share, when you don’t have, you receive, Newfies know that well and Danny McMillions is acting like a real jackass taking himself down in stature every time he opens his massive mouth to spew vitriolic rhetoric.

  39. Maybe this is what is needed to end the lunacy.
    ———–
    Green group sues government over Kyoto gap
    TENILLE BONOGUORE
    Globe and Mail Update
    May 29, 2007 at 10:51 AM EDT
    The federal government may have to explain to the Federal Court why it is not sticking to the Kyoto Protocol thanks to a landmark lawsuit filed in Ottawa on Tuesday.
    In papers filed to the Federal Court on behalf of Friends of the Earth Canada, it is alleged the government is violating Canadian law by failing to meet the international agreement to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
    //www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070529.wsierra0529/BNStory/National/home
    ————–
    Can you imagine the fun PM Harper’s lawyer would have questioning the hippies ??
    *You say what ?? That mankind can adjust the Earth’s thermostat ??
    *If not a warmer Canada, one with a kilometer thick ice sheet ??
    *So who makes Canadian’s law for them. Our Prime Minister or Maurice Strong ??
    *Wasn’t there already some hippy, so-called proffessor claiming that it was international law ??
    Case dismissed. Kyoto Kult also dismissed.

  41. Kick CIDA out of Afghanistan. Dissolve CIDA; throw the Liberal boondoggle to the winds. Down with CIDA and all its graft.
    …-
    Minister denies CIDA ‘non-existent’ in Kandahar
    A report by an international think-tank that says the Canadian International Development Agency’s contribution to Canada’s mission in Afghanistan is virtually non-existent is simply “not true,” says the minister in charge of aid and development. …-
    national newswatch

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