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  4. I’ve heard that the perfect musical pitch is tossing the banjo in the dumpster and having it land on the accordion.
    Actually Strauss was my father’s favorite composer. I prefer JS Bach but I do enjoy a touch of Strauss.
    Thanks again Vit

  6. Where we played, they always banned guns. They always had plenty of beer barrels tho…
    ^5 vit


  10. Protecting you from blogs such as this one:     is Obama is “open” to a newspaper bailout bill.

    “I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding.”

  12. Holy smokes, Drained Brain. Thanks for that one:
    “The president said he is ‘happy to look at’ bills before Congress that would give struggling news organizations tax breaks if they were to restructure as nonprofit businesses.”
    Hell-O Sleepytown.
    Duh-uh.

  13. On Question Period today Ignatieff was interviewed by Craig Oliver. Naturally Craig did his usual bang-up job of hanging on every word that his intellectual superior uttered. Ignatieff informed the audience that the liberals turned down the co-alition deal,and that the Conservatives had strained the relationship with the U.S. over the past 4 years.Oliver never questioned either of these outright lies,or anything else that Mikey said.It is high time he was put out to pasture.

  17. Soooooo, Obama thinks the media is better at reporting the news in an honest way than are blogs. Awhhh,.. sure.
    [Obama said that good journalism is “critical to the health of our democracy,” but expressed concern toward growing tends in reporting — especially on political blogs, from which a groundswell of support for his campaign emerged during the presidential election.
    “I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context , that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding,” he said.]The Hill

  21. Toronto Sun, Sunday, Sept. 20.
    The City of Toronto faces massive environmental fines for allowing sewage to spill for days into Lake Ontario in 2006.
    Apparently, the city asked for permission to send partially treated sewage into the lake for a period of two days because a bad storm on Nov. 30 brought the risk of flooding basements otherwise. But employees forgot to turn the valve off for another three and a half days.
    Previously, Toronto was fined $15,000 when sewage got into the Humber River. As a repeat offender, the city faces much stiffer penalties this time. Minimum fine for a second offence is $50,000 a day. Maximum is $10 million.
    However, legal releases of sewage into the lake are common – about 30 times a year.
    Shouldn’t the employees of Toronto Water be paying the fines rather than Toronto taxpayers? Do taxpayers have to be on the hook for everything bad that government employees do? If these services were run in the private sector, an incompetent monopoly could be bought out by a more efficient business.
    ———-
    On a related note, this reminds me that there has been a number of squabbles between various departments or levels of government in Canada in recent years, some of which even got to the Supreme Court:
    – in 1991, several provinces took the federal government to court over the latter’s capping Canada Assistance Plan payments; the SCC ruled in the feds’ favour
    – the Toronto Economic Development Corporation and the city’s waterfront development body wound up in court over who would control various lands and projects
    – in 1993, the Fisheries department was trying to get people out of the business while Indian Affairs was running programs trying to get natives into it
    – the Agriculture department was paying subsidies to tobacco farmers while the Health department was running anti-smoking campaigns
    – Elections Canada and the CRTC have squared off regarding the campaign debates
    – the Competition Bureau wanted the CRTC scrapped so it could take over the latter’s functions
    – Saskatchewan and Alberta sued the feds over equalization
    – the Wheat Board went to court over the barley monopoly
    – Toronto sued the feds when Montreal and Vancouver were designated “international banking centres”
    – Mississauga and Pearson Airport went to court over the issue of to which municipality the latter had to pay its taxes
    – the CBC has to go through licence hearings with the CRTC even though there is no chance its licence will be rescinded because it was created by statute
    … among others. What a waste of taxpayers’ money.

  22. PunK RocK: Special K Allah Edition.
    Presented by Al and Moh: “Salaam aleikum”.
    You al-a-lei-Kum.
    “That’s the thing that’s so punk about it, ’cause that’s what it’s all about — feeling f—ing different.”
    … and now, … the “Kominas”.
    …-
    “Young Muslims use punk to loosen their religion”
    “The sweaty crowd chanted along with the religious references and politically charged lyrics, written slightly tongue in cheek — but mostly with tongue stuck out. Their song titles have shock value. The opening act sang a song dubbed “I Pray Every Day Because I Don’t Want to Die.” The Kominas are best known for their catchy hit “Suicide Bomb the Gap.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344329/posts

  24. Jess sittin here wating on Noon EDT.
    Breitbart says he has something new. Given his last week or so this ought to be fun!

  26. Lunch time and bored so I read a couple pieces about the Emmy awards last night Hands up, those that knew they were on.
    It occured to me that, aside from Family Guy, I did not recognize a single program in either article.
    Anyone else not watch much of anything in the way of newtork TV anymore?

  30. wallyj “that the Conservatives had strained the relationship with the U.S. over the past 4 years”
    I can’t believe Ignatieff said this — he clearly has not been paying attention to what has been going on in Canada since the Liberals took power after Mulroney . . . comments like this are red flags that he is seriously out of touch.

  31. Pooing on the MSM pOOh-bahs.
    A juxtapOO. All the poo that MSM is unfit to print/broadcast.
    …-
    “The Story Behind the ACORN Story
    By Andrew Breitbart
    Everything you needed to know about the unorthodox roll out of the now-notorious ACORN sting videos was hidden in plain sight in my Sept. 7 column, Katie Couric, Look in the Mirror. ACORN was not the only target of those videos; so were Katie, Brian, Charlie and every other mainstream media pooh-bah.
    They were not going to report this blockbuster unless they were forced to. And they were. What’s more, it ain’t over yet. Not every hint I dropped in that piece about what was to come has played itself out yet.Stay tuned.
    When filmmaker and provocateur James O’Keefe came to my office to show me the video of him and his friend, Hannah Giles, going to the Baltimore offices of ACORN – the nation’s foremost “community organizers” – dressed as a pimp and a prostitute and asking for – and getting – help for various illegal activities, he sought my advice. In the past, Mr. O’Keefe created brilliant social satire that rocked his college campus and even made its way on to the talk-radio and cable-news shows, but the magnitude of his latest adventure had the potential to rock the political establishment.
    I was awed by Mr. O’Keefe’s guts and amazed by the footage, but explained that the mainstream media would try to kill this important and illuminating expose about a corrupt and criminal political racket, and that the well-funded political left would go into “war room” mode, with 25-year-old Mr. O’Keefe and 20-year-old cohort Miss Giles in the cross hairs. I felt I had a moral obligation to protect these young muckrakers from the left and from the media, and to devise a strategy that would force the media’s hand.
    Once the American public saw with its own eyes the grotesque, common practices of ACORN’s housing offices, Mr. O’Keefe and Miss Giles could no longer be a legitimate focus of media scrutiny. Kill the messenger doesn’t work with the American people when they realize that the message is so devastating and honest. I think the video exposed the misuse of public funds and systemic manipulation of the tax code in the name of “helping the poor.”
    If Mr. O’Keefe dumped the videos on YouTube, the political powers would have killed the expose before it got traction. I half-joked that he should secretly tape pitching the major television networks exclusive use of his videos for their nightly news broadcasts. But a simpler, less controversial method proved as fruitful.
    I told him that in addition to launching his compelling and stylized Web videos, we needed to offer the full transcripts and audio to the public in the name of transparency, and to offer Fox News the full footage of each video before each was released.We had to devise a plan that would force the media to see the evidence before they had enough time to destroy these two idealistic 20-something truth seekers. Mr. O’Keefe agreed to post the full audio and full transcript of his video experiences at BigGovernment.com.
    Thus was born a multimedia, multiplatform strategy designed to force the reluctant hands of ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post.”
    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/21/the_story_behind_the_acorn_story_98396.html
    …-
    “Pro-Life “Live Action” Investigator behind ACORN Sex-Racketeering Exposé
    Exposing pro-abortion university health clinics and Planned Parenthood’s criminal cover-up of child rape were the first major sting operations of undercover investigator James O’Keefe, who is now famous for exposing the systemic corruption within ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. ACORN is one of the “community organizer” groups closely affiliated with President Barack Obama, which helped him capture the presidency; but the group now has been exposed for having officials willing to abet fraud and child sex trafficking.
    James O’Keefe is a 25 year-old Rutgers graduate and a veteran of Live Action films, the group led by UCLA student Lila Rose, 20, which began a series of sting operations in order to uncover a culture of corruption rife within the abortion industry.
    In one such operation, O’Keefe placed phone-calls to Planned Parenthood development offices posing as a “donor” requesting that his money be used specifically to abort an African-American child who might someday steal his own child’s spot in college through “affirmative action.” No staffers hung up the phone, and one was even recorded saying, “We can definitely designate it for an African-American.”
    In 2007, O’Keefe posed as a 23-year old “boyfriend” accompanying Rose, also posing as his 15-year-old “girlfriend,” in another sting that showed a Los Angeles Planned Parenthood staffer offering them advice as to how to arrange for the abortion and cover-up the statutory rape.
    Rose later developed this operation into a nationwide sting in which she showed that Planned Parenthood staffers were willing to cover up the statutory rape of 14 year-old girl by her 30-year-old boyfriend. ”
    http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/sep/09091613.html

  32. AtlanticJim “Anyone else not watch much of anything in the way of newtork TV anymore?”
    Me — I did not watch because I knew I would not recognize anything. These days I watch news, HGTV, sometimes PBS . . . and that’s about it.

  34. Nice pic ‘Vit’. Takes awhile to load video, so I didn’t link to ‘geese’ until I seen the shotguns.
    Thanks for the links ‘maz2’.

  37. On today’s (Monday’s) Dennis Miller radio program he interviewed a weasel-like Leftist named Sam Tanenhaus, who has written “The Death of Conservatism”.
    Within minutes, Tanenhaus was making a direct comparison between those participating in the Tea Party marches and the Weather Underground.
    Dennis Miller was dumbfounded and rightly so. Where does one go after hearing a supposedly intelligent person making such a statement?!

  39. good job iggy, remind everyone that the auditors caught the liberals with their hand in the piggy bank.
    by the way, how are libs coming on paying back the stolen money? anyone heard an update?

  40. Red Kalert, sources say. Who will open the Kcesspool lid? RSVP.
    …-
    “* Kinsella on a Hill Times source ‘Weasel Hunt’: “I intend to find out who you are and I intend to take a chainsaw…” (NNW)
    …-
    ” Ignatieff has ‘put absolutely nothing on the table,’ say Liberal insiders
    ‘We’re looking at a massacre’ in next election if Grit Leader Michael Ignatieff doesn’t put anything substantive on the table.”
    “urlm.in/dbfz (HillTimes)

  41. Re: the punk-rockin’ Muslim band and their song “I Pray Every Day Because I Don’t Want to Die.”
    Osama Bin Laden claims that Muslims differ from others in that they do want to die. Does that make this band infidels or apostates or something?

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