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  2. HOT STORY (h/t O’Reilly & Bernie Goldberg):
    “The story was about how the young George Bush got preferential treatment during the Vietnam War; how he wangled his way into the Texas Air National Guard back in the 1960s to avoid service in Vietnam; and how he was able to do it because his father was a big-shot, a United States Congressman from Houston. The story portrayed the Bush as a slacker. Others have said it portrayed him as a ‘cowardly draft dodger.’
    “…I recently re-examined the [CBS investigative] panel’s report after a source, Deep Throat style, told me to ‘Go to page 130.’ When I did, here’s the startling piece of information I found:
    “Mapes had information prior to the airing of the September 8 [2004] Segment that President Bush, while in the TexANG [Texas Air National Guard] did volunteer for service in Vietnam but was turned down in favor of more experienced pilots.”
    To uli, philly/manny, da sarge and bleet-bloot:
    “…Mary Mapes knew before she put the story on the air that George W. Bush, the alleged slacker, had in fact volunteered to go to Vietnam.”
    The URL again: BernardGoldberg.com – Between Manhattan and Malibu

  4. Heard this elsewhere, but thought it might give some of you a chuckle:
    “Why does a Democrat put an empty water glass and a full water glass next to his bed when he goes to sleep?”
    “Because if he wakes up in the middle of the night, he doesn’t know if he’ll be thirsty or not.”

  6. CTV.ca (local station Ottawa) is carrying a story today about 7 little piggies being left at Dalton MacGuinty’s Ottawa constituency office as protest to the perfect storm of factors ruining the hog industry right now.
    The piggies are now safe in the hands of the Humane Society and they are looking for the owners and threatening to press charges.
    Why is it that the Tamil Tigers can protest illegally for weeks on end disrupting traffic and business in downtown Ottawa and nothing happens but somebody drops of piggies on the Premier and the heavy hand of the law should be applied.
    Are Ontario’s Liberals pro-Tiger or anti-hog?

  7. well obviously it’s because the pigs can’t vote.
    but any *thing* that can vote, is their daddy…

  9. Hop on the TTC this afternoon and who’s sitting there? – Zaynab Khadr and hubaroo Joshua Boyle!
    The bride of course was completely covered. The groom, a tall pudgy fella, wore a long unkempt beard, greasy scraggly hair (no flowers this time), and visibly dirty clothes that looked slept in.

  10. The Glengarrion It is cruel to leave piglets with Liberals. They aren’t big enough to fight their way to the trough.

  14. From a piece by Tom Blumer in the WSJ titled “Shhh! Gallup Reports That Conservatives Outnumber Libs in All 50 States; Media Plays Dumb”:
    “You know this is important polling news, because the establishment media is pretending it doesn’t exist.
    “You can’t find a relevant reference to it in searches on ‘Gallup’ at the New York Times, AP.org, the Washington Post, or the LA Times. A Google News search on ‘Gallup conservatives outnumber liberals’ (not in quotes) comes up with all of eight results.
    “The news isn’t just that self-identified conservatives outnumber self-identified liberals nationwide. That’s old hat. The big news from Gallup is that conservatives outnumber liberals in every state in the union, including supposedly uberliberal Vermont and Massachusetts.”
    Strangely, the Gallup Headline is: “Political Ideology: ‘Conservative’ Label Prevails in the South”
    Blumer:
    “It’s hard not to wonder if someone at Gallup did what they did with the headline and subheadline to help ensure that establishment media outlets ignored this stunning news. I would suggest that they didn’t have to work that hard; the media would have ignored it anyway.”
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574358953782324812.html

  15. No Going Back On New Style Of Capitalism?
    By GEORGE F. WILL | Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 4:20 PM PT
    Google the title. Excellent piece.
    Teaser:
    Even more than the New Deal and the Great Society, Obama’s agenda expresses the mentality of a class that was nascent in the 1930s but burgeoned in the 1960s and 1970s. The spirit of that class is described in Saul Bellow’s 1975 novel “Humboldt’s Gift.” In it Bellow wrote that the modern age began when a particular class of people decided, excitedly, that life had “lost the ability to arrange itself”:
    “It had to be arranged. Intellectuals took this as their job. . . . This arranging has been the one great gorgeous tantalizing misleading disastrous project. A man like Humboldt, inspired, shrewd, nutty, was brimming over with the discovery that the human enterprise, so grand and infinitely varied, had now to be managed by exceptional persons. He was an exceptional person, therefore he was an eligible candidate for power.”
    I read a lot of Bellow decades back including this book which might be ripe for a re-visit. These are black times for libertarians, eh Vitruvius, even if you don’t subscribe to western declinism.

  18. Vitruvius,
    Do you know what you call a boomerang that won’t come back ?? !
    It’s called … a stick!

  19. With the recent revival of Ronald Reagan in newly published books and many websites, I thought I’d remind everyone of another great leader from that era. An amazing woman who turned her country around after it was sacked by PM Callaghan of the Labour Party.
    The Right Honourable Margaret Thatcher.
    There is wisdom in her words that would still apply today, if only anyone would care to listen.

  20. When I clicked on the Charlie Drake link the first thought in my head was “allo my darling!” the wife looking over my shoulder said the exact same thing. We both cracked up.

  24. Four of my friends and I from various points across Canada sent in a comment to CBC.Ca. The story was about Omar Khadr, and the federal government of Canada’s appeal to the supreme court, hoping to get a reversal on the high court’s decision that would force Canada to ask for Khadr’s release.
    We had all agreed on our statements ahead of time. Of the four statements, only two were published. We printed out our statements. None of the text carried foul language, we simply stated that we wanted Khadr detained in the USA.
    Question: If the CBC hides reader comments, how much of the actual story can we believe??
    My buddies have phoned CBC in Toronto–to date–no reply!!

  25. Hot off the press: Ted Kennedy has died.
    Juxtapose: In an unrelated story, a fellow named Beelzebub is stoking the coals.

  26. Mary Jo Kopechne, witness for the prosecution.
    I don’t like the defendant’s chances.

  27. “Piglets left outside Ontario Premier’s office to decry handling of ‘swine flu’*”
    …-
    “The AIDS epidemic that wasn’t
    Someone’s got to say it:
    The outburst over aboriginal HIV and AIDS last week by a public health official in Saskatchewan was bizarre and disgraceful.
    Dr. Khami Chokani, medical health officer for the Prince Albert Parkland Health Region, found himself in the headlines on Thursday after telling the Prince Albert Daily Herald that “HIV in this province will kill 15% to 30% [of the aboriginal population].
    Not all at one time, but over a five-to-10-year period.” Dr. Chokani and the province’s top public health official, Dr. Moira McKinnon, quickly back-pedalled on the prediction, calling the figures a “worst-case scenario” and admitting that it is “highly improbable” they will pan out.”
    urlm.in/cyeu
    *urlm.in/cyex

  28. BuckStop Iggy.
    LibIggy’s Blind Spots and A. Apps: Where does the buck stop?
    “they add excitement to a generally sterile environment.”
    …-
    “Love is blind, but co-workers ain’t
    Employers need to be clear about dating policies
    Office romances maybe forbidden fruit but they continue to flourish despite, or perhaps because of, employers’ attempts to prohibit them because they add excitement to a generally sterile environment. With work and office romance such popular bedfellows, employers have an onerus legal burden to ensure a harassment-free environment.
    Office romances are inevitable in a professional environment where work-life balance is an anachronism — impractical and often unattainable. If employers want to protect their company’s interests, they will have to monitor these relationships.”
    urlm.in/cyez
    …-
    “Progress For Progressives”
    Is this professionally appropriate?
    “In interviews last week some said the new staffing choices have created an awkward situation, as Mr. Davey and Ms. Fairbrother have been a couple since they met while working on Mr. Ignatieff’s first run for Parliament, in 2005.
    The Liberal power couple live on Sparks St., near Parliament Hill, in the small apartment which Mr. Ignatieff and his wife, Zsuzsanna Zsohar, vacated when they decamped to Stornoway, the official residence of the leader of the opposition, when Mr. Ignatieff took over from former leader Stéphane Dion (Saint-Laurent-Cartierville, Que.).
    “How can you be critical of her?” said the Liberal source.
    “[It’s] awkward in the sense that you have two people dating and if somebody has an issue about how communications are done, or with a quote, or a story, or just media, who do you take it up with?
    And so if the buck is supposed to stop with Ian then it’s kind of an awkward situation that you’re going behind her back to complain to Ian about it. If that relationship didn’t exist, that would just be sort of the norm.”
    http://progressforprogressives.blogspot.com/2009/08/is-this-professionally-appropriate.html
    More: “Progress For Progressives”.
    “Alfred Apps: Not cool anymore
    Forgive me for saying this, but I think Apps is slowly being put out to pasture by Michael. Of the big three who went to down to Boston to lay the groundwork for his homecoming and ascension to leader, Apps is the one guy who isn’t getting a reward from the big guy.
    Dan Brock has been lured away from a high-paying gig in Toronto to be Michael’s Principle-Secretary. He’s on the upswing in the inner sanctum of Stornoway and getting accolades from the media.”
    urlm.in/cyfb

  29. Bill Gates: Head up. Hand down.
    It’s not all there in black and white.
    …-
    “Microsoft apologizes for changing race in photo”
    “Black man’s head had been replaced with that of white man on company’s Polish website”
    >>>> “The colour of his hand remained unchanged.”
    urlm.in/cyfe

  30. “Sen. Ted Kennedy dies at 77
    The liberal lion passes on the eve of an epic battle over health care, his defining issue
    World Leaders Rush to Pay Tribute to Kennedy
    Republicans Join Democrats in Mourning Kennedy”
    (canadiannewsreader)
    …-
    2006:
    “He [‘Fr. Death’] was one of a number of “progressive” Jesuits who helped convince a generation of Catholic politicians — including the Catholic Kennedy family — that they could support liberalized abortion laws yet still remain in good standing with the Catholic Church.”
    “At Georgetown, Sen. Edward Kennedy eulogized the priest who had provided political cover for him on abortion for more than three decades”.
    “The Passing of ‘Fr. Death’
    Fr. Robert Drinan, S.J., died at the end of the same month he presided over the inaugural Mass for the new U.S. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. For liberal Catholics, his passing was an occasion of nostalgia for the hopeful days that surrounded the changes brought by Vatican II. He was one of a number of “progressive” Jesuits who helped convince a generation of Catholic politicians — including the Catholic Kennedy family — that they could support liberalized abortion laws yet still remain in good standing with the Catholic Church. As an elected member of the House of Representatives, Fr. Drinan provided a much-imitated model for Catholic politicians who wished to support the pro-abortion movement while claiming to be faithful to Catholic moral teaching. Indeed, in a long forgotten meeting at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, on a hot July day in 1964, the Kennedy family and their advisers and allies were coached by Fr. Drinan, then-Dean of Boston College Law School, and a contingent of leading theologians and Catholic college professors, to accept and promote abortion with a “clear conscience.”
    Yet, for orthodox Catholics, Fr. Drinan’s death was a requiem for a sad time in the Church — and for the country. It was a time when Catholic priests like Fr. Drinan enabled Catholic politicians and voters to rationalize support for pro-abortion legislative initiatives. Prolife Catholics sadly recall that, while serving as the Democratic Representative from Massachusetts from 1970 until 1980, Fr. Drinan could be counted on to provide some of the most extreme pro-choice votes, supporting legalized abortion and its public funding, and opposing prolife initiatives. When he left Congress in 1980, he continued his tireless support for abortion in his position as President of Americans for Democratic Action when, for example, he sent out a fundraising letter urging “the moral necessity of electing candidates to Congress who favored legal abortion and its public funding.” In the midst of the partial-birth abortion debate during the Clinton Administration, Fr. Drinan published articles in The New York Times and the National Catholic Reporter supporting Clinton’s decision to veto the ban on partial-birth abortion and urging members of Congress to sustain that veto. All the while, Fr. Drinan remained on the faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center, from 1981 until his death this past January.
    What perplexes orthodox Catholics most is that Fr. Drinan remained a priest with “full faculties,” enabling him to administer the Sacraments and to preside over the Mass at Trinity University in Washington, D.C., for pro-choice politician Nancy Pelosi, a Trinity alumna — despite the fact that for more than 2,000 years the Catholic Church has affirmed the moral evil of abortion. Church teaching has been unambiguous, mandating that life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception — and condemning abortion and infanticide as abominable crimes against Natural Law.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818654/posts

  31. Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi may be pro choice Catholics but have they ever been convicted by the press of the most heinous of crimes —–
    pocketing a host?

  32. From the excellent blog posted by OMMAG.
    Is this future of Canada’s Health Care? Flying in docs from Cuba or South America to do shifts for overworked family docs?
    ttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208663/Test-foreign-doctors-coming-practice-Britain-say-GP-leaders.html
    Yikes
    This was the result of capping docs from working more than 40hrs/week.

  37. Today Ted changed his name to “dead”. The band “Dead Kennedys” just got a new member. I think he plays the organ.

  38. Funny how those on the left can fawn over the murderer Kennedy and cry crocodile tears over the likes of Khadr. Fans of Kennedy are essentially endorsing drunk drivers. Fans of Khadr must have also cheered the release of the Lockerbie bomber to Libya.

  40. Olgans? You wan olgans? How many you wan?
    Wong say Mao Stlong say.
    …-
    ” Executions fuel China’s organ transplants
    By Gillian Wong, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    The majority of transplanted organs in China come from executed prisoners, state media reported Wednesday”.
    urlm.in/cyfx

  41. “This is a government that is mean-spirited,” said Mr. Edney [Omar Khadr’s Canadian lawyer], who has had two recent visits with Mr. Khadr. Mr. Edney suggested there are racial overtones to Ottawa’s decision, given that the same government sent a private plane to Mexico last year to bring home Brenda Martin, who was convicted of fraud-related charges.
    “Was that because she was an Anglo-Saxon?” he asked.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawas-masochistic-khadr-decision-assailed/article1262977/
    Does this idiocy never end? Has it not occurred to Mr. Edney that in the Brenda Martin case she didn’t murder anyone? That she hadn’t undertaken VOLUNTARY spy and terrorist training in a foreign country in order to undermine Canada and her allies in the war against terrorism?
    It seems that “multiculturalism” has opened the doors to the “r”-word’s being used every time someone from a visible minority doesn’t get their way – even when it’s clear that they’ve broken both international and Canadian laws.
    If being “mean spirited” (oh, boo hoo) is what it takes to ensure that Omar Khadr isn’t “repatriated” (sic) to Canada, then I’m all for it. I’d call it, however, being clear-eyed and clear-headed, in order to protect the rights of law-abiding Canadians. Someone’s got to watch out for them — and isn’t that our government’s mandate?

  42. I saw this as part of a small article in a trade journal for ocean monitoring equipment and immediately thought of SDA since it involves, both crazy EU laws and electronic waste disposal. Topics well covered here.
    The piece is part of an article written about a British tech firm that makes underwater sensors etc.
    “WEEE. Another example of ill-conceived legislation. There is no doubt that recycling is to be encouraged, but the laws in the EU covering the treatment of WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) have been poorly constructed to deal with business to business equipment, and barely constructed at all when it comes to international business. An EU manufacturer or distributer selling in their own country is responsible for the future cost of recovering and recycling any equipment they supply, and any old equipment it replaces. Not only is this law country specific, and therefore not enforceable cross-border within the EU, but a non-EU company selling directly into the EU has no obligation at all, and therefore does not need to factor this cost into their price. We pay people to dream this stuff up, you know.”

  45. I hope we all can refrain from taking cheap shots at the passing of Ted Kennedy. Whatever he may have done in the past should be left alone,it’s all water under the bridge,so to speak.

  47. Attention K-Mart Irregulars.
    Laugh-Out: The Liberal W-Iggy-Way.
    …-
    “Warren K said…
    Your posting here is a disgrace. You are making insinuations that even the Conservatives would never dare to do, at least in the open.
    Remove me from your blogroll, immediately. I want no association with you.”
    …-
    *Progress for Progressives
    Is this professionally appropriate?
    “In interviews last week some said the new staffing choices have created an awkward situation, as Mr. Davey and Ms. Fairbrother have been a couple since they met while working on Mr. Ignatieff’s first run for Parliament, in 2005. The Liberal power couple live on Sparks St., near Parliament Hill, in the small apartment which Mr. Ignatieff and his wife, Zsuzsanna Zsohar, vacated when they decamped to Stornoway, the official residence of the leader of the opposition, when Mr. Ignatieff took over from former leader Stéphane Dion (Saint-Laurent-Cartierville, Que.).
    “How can you be critical of her?” said the Liberal source.
    “[It’s] awkward in the sense that you have two people dating and if somebody has an issue about how communications are done, or with a quote, or a story, or just media, who do you take it up with? And so if the buck is supposed to stop with Ian then it’s kind of an awkward situation that you’re going behind her back to complain to Ian about it. If that relationship didn’t exist, that would just be sort of the norm.”
    *http://progressforprogressives.blogspot.com/2009/08/is-this-professionally-appropriate.html

  48. Canada need to help more farmer to have more food and sell it to more than 1 billion hunger in the world and then later made them independt by sell them manafacture equipment to built themselve and when those done bring more immigrant here to able to feed them within
    exiting farmer need to get under more control
    some land in West of Canada are under study of wild animal to give them road for animal can travel up or down and put fence around them now in those road can around it made zoo that peopel can see those animal go up or down and used horse rider to made horse farmer used their horse to show it like Robhin hood movies road for bicycel and road for horse rider around all fence wild animla is best zoo possible to see it live and wild but security need it more around it and animla need food to eat taht is also need under consideration.
    people who travel need to give thier first nation passport stamp for in and out of country they born to do not face stop in border and in border need one person who take care of forigner passport issue internatioanly to take care of their national security in air line of forign country
    normal peopel will fear when they deal with harrasing lawyer who intentionaly inter all TORT in Canada civil law to scared all claim out of game and all peopel accept their betryal ways

  49. Elle Macpherson Can’t Counter London Gloom as Americans Flee
    By Tommy Stubbington and Andrew MacAskill
    Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) — Andrew Wesbecher moved to London from New York in 2006 to sell software to banks and hedge funds. This month he joined the exodus of American expatriates fleeing high taxes and the city’s shrinking financial industry.
    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=alNiweY01.Mk

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