“I guess they really do know how to fish in Alaska.”
More from Rex Murphy – “Well, colour me huffy.”
“It became very clear that we, the Protective Detail, would have our hands full at this event.”
Canada’s charter does, on the other hand, establish some pretty explicit protections for free speech. But what happens if you ask for protection from authorities when someone is infringing on your right to speak at a public forum?
Not much it seems.
In a real country, with real rights, and real journalists, this letter would provoke a national media scandal and formal investigation – but it won’t, for all of the reasons stated above.
More from Shaidle;
When I gave a speech about free speech earlier this year, there was a lot of tisking at my jab at the cops.
Now do you still trust them to protect you? If so, why?
The Durango Trend
We have Black Gold South … Black Gold West… and now Black Gold North … 800 kilometers of it.
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
I was working on a Harley tank yesterday when this came over the radio…
Councillors voted almost unanimously in favour of a 32-page staff report detailing everything from coop sizes to the creation of a $20,000 shelter for abandoned chickens.
I thought it was the solvents talking.
Tragedy For Poland
88 96 confirmed dead, as the Polish presidential plane crashes in Russia;
The president and his wife were on their way to attend a World War Two memorial service. Kaczynski’s wife, Maria, was an economist. They had a daughter, Marta, and two granddaughters.
A Polish government official said the head of the Polish army and the head of the presidential administration were also on board the plane, along with the president’s wife and families of other senior officials.
The Army chief of staff, Gen. Franciszek Gagor, National Bank President Slawomir Skrzypek and Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer were on the passenger list.
William Jacobson has more.
Richard Fernandez;
After Poland went down before the onslaught of Nazi and Soviet forces in 1939-40, Joseph Stalin and Lavrenty Beria decided to decapitate the country’s society. Since the Polish army required all university graduates to become reserve officers, the NKVD decided to kill two birds with one stone and eliminate the both the trained military manpower of Poland and its “intelligensia”. In 1940 the Communists shot more than 22,000 Polish officers in woods near Smolensk. These included an admiral, two generals, 24 colonels, 79 lieutenant colonels, 258 majors, 654 captains, 17 naval captains, seven chaplains, three landowners, a prince, 20 university professors, hundeds of physicians lawyers, engineers and teachers, more than 100 writers and journalists among others.
In true Bolshevik style, there was a cover story: the Soviets claimed the Nazis did it. But although the Nazis were guilty of many other crimes, Katyn was not one of them. “In April 1943, when the Polish government-in-exile insisted on bringing the matter to the negotiation table with the Soviets and on an investigation by the International Red Cross, Stalin accused the Polish government in exile of collaborating with Nazi Germany, broke diplomatic relations with it, and started a campaign to get the Western Allies to recognize the alternative Polish pro-Soviet government in Moscow led by Wanda Wasilewska.” That government in exile continued until the end of Communist rule in Poland in 1990. In one of the crash’s cruel ironies of the accident, the last Polish President in Exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski, was onboard the doomed aircraft.
Turning Tragedy Into a Love Story
On November 8th, 2009 I shared my friend Kim’s account of the Fort Hood shooting. From Fort Hood: One Paramedic’s Perspective;
While getting more bandaging material off my ambulance several bystanders carried a soldier to my truck that had been shot in the head, he was conscious and breathing, he kept asking me “am I gonna die?”, I told him I was doing the best I could, knowing from experience his situation appeared bleak.
Well, SSG Patrick Zeigler survived. I bet he and Jessica would appreciate a few folks “stopping by” to send their well wishes. 😉
Wiki Edits
The video released by Wiki Leaks is EXTREMELY misleading, and propagating it as “murder” is borderline criminal. Their 17 minute version edited out any mention of hostile gunfire on the part of insurgents for the purpose of defaming U.S. Defence Forces. WikiLeak head Julian Assange has since reluctantly admitted to AK-47 and RPGs being present. To their credit, they did release a full 39 minute version, but for “research” purposes only. Their edited version tells a very different story.
Reader Tips
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16 For 16
On a sadly coincidental note, the legendary 13-for-13 mare Personal Ensign died today at 26.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“They just appeared to think they knew the subject well enough, or had a set enough idea in their heads as to what this kind of story was about, that they pursued only the lines of questioning necessary to fill in the blanks of that presumed story line.”
“On nothing more than a story in the paper and armed with no evidence, Fife laid out “the issue,” based on his personal suspicions.”
Y2Kyoto: California’s Global Warming Solutions Act
Recognizing that “employment” is one of the primary drivers of global warming, California has been among the first to act. And things are turning around!
Green jobs compose less than one percent of California’s economy. That’s right, less than one percent. From 1995 to 2008, California added only 42,000 new green jobs. At that rate of growth, it would take 89 years for green jobs to replace all of the other jobs California has lost in the current economic downturn.
The project is being watched closely in Washington, where by all indications, the California example is set to go nationwide.
Fringe Movement
“I’m no expert on American politics, but I do know something about holes.”
I know what you’re thinking – “Tiger Woods?”
Another Saskatchewan Advantage
No one will ever mistake us for Niger.
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Johnny Carson, and Dean Martin performing Birth of The Blues ¤ at the Kiel Opera House in St. Louis, in 1965 (3:23).
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For those who have been following our series of photographs about SDA Late Nite Radio, including our studio, transmitter, maintenance shop, and Mrs. Clarence Upton listening to our show in Bueler, Iowa, here’s a photograph of the new equipment we’ve acquired in order to deploy the “boxed apothegm” SDA LNR feature we’ve recently introduced, as shown above. The spittoon in the photograph is, of course, standard equipment.
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Y2Kyoto: What A Relief!
I was afraid they were going to force us to eat them all.
The First American Prime Minister In Waiting
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
He’s Not Anti-Israel
Update/Correction: Visa Policy For Israeli Nuclear Scientists Did Not Begin With Obama Admin
(Original continues below):
He’s just on the other side.
NRG/Maariv (Hebrew link only, sorry) reported today that the Israeli government was stunned when every nuclear technician at Israel’s Dimona reactor who had submitted visa requests to visit the United States for ongoing university education in Physics, Chemistry and Nuclear Engineering had their visa applications summarily rejected, specifically because of their association with the Dimona reactor.
This is a new policy decision of the Obama administration. Up until now, it was routine for Israeli nuclear scientists and technicians to receive such visas and to study at US universities.
Israeli security officials have confirmed that these technicians are being denied visas solely because of their employment at the Dimona reactor.
Not only are employees at Dimonas taboo, but reportedly the US has an unofficial embargo on selling anything to be used at the site.
Recent polling suggests that 30% of Americans stubbornly continue to believe Obama is a muslim. I know, it’s a head scratcher.
h/t Friend Of USA
How Do You Say “Heh” In French?
“Money and ethnics are good for some things, afterall.”
Y2Kyoto: It’s The Population Control, Stupid
They won’t be satisfied until we’re all dead;
Officials at the Air Line Pilots Association wonder how they will follow both the FAA’s safety rules and the EPA’s proposed 25-gallon limit. “If the pilot-in-command does determine that additional [deicing fluid] is required, in excess of the allotted 25-gallons, will ground personnel be authorized to apply the requested additional fluid without penalty or a violation being levied against the airport or airline?” the pilots ask.
EPA did not respond to questions about the individual safety concerns raised by its critics.