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  1. Britain today
    I was astonished at the chief decorative feature of the reception zone. Right behind the receptionist’s desk, hanging by chains from the lintel of the back window, was a stained glass work of art, a 2ft x2ft (approx) panel consisting of a schematic depiction of four Islamic green-topped domes upon arches, each crowned by a crescent. The upper two were facing upright, the lower two were inverted, as though mirroring the upper two.
    http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6194969/britain-today.thtml

  4. McAuliffe was on Fox..His claim to fame has a fuzzy list of folks.. Has GREEN Car……Who’s Money? GreenTech Automotive
    “Federal City National Bank, 1988-91, Chairman
    In January 1988, when he was 30 years old, McAuliffe became the youngest chairman of a bank in the history of the United States when he assumed responsibility for all aspects of Federal City’s operations.[31]
    Shortly thereafter, the bank loaned $125,000 to a political action committee that supported Richard Gephardt’s Presidential campaign. McAuliffe told the New York Times that he abstained from voting on the loan because he was also the Gephardt campaign’s finance chairman.[32] The bank also provided loans to former U.S. Representative Tony Coelho and the then-Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Jim Wright.[33]
    In 1991, the bank was cited by federal regulators for unsafe and unsound banking practices. Regulators forced McAuliffe and other bank directors to sign a consent agreement that required the bank to hire outside management, review delinquent loans, track bad credit, and raise additional capital.[34] In December 1991, McAuliffe acknowledged that he “knew we were in awful trouble” and that “the liquidators were ready to roll.” In what he now refers to as his “greatest business experience”, McAuliffe “rallied the board members” and merged Federal City National Bank with another institution run by Republican Richard V. Allen; Credit International Bank, thereby saving the institution.[33][34] [35]
    In 2010 GreenTech Automotive acquired EU Auto MyCar, with a signing ceremony in Hong Kong.[36]”
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_McAuliffe
    BTW: IMO He is not a Marxist

  9. Mao Stlong* Lepolt: Mao’s MSM Registry saves lives.
    *Mao Stlong, aka Maurice Strong, is Canadian “Liberal leader”, Bob Rae’s Uncle Mo.
    …-
    “Stoffer saves gun registry
    TheChronicleHerald.ca – Stephen Maher – ‎32 minutes ago‎
    OTTAWA – Peter Stoffer cast the deciding vote to save the gun registry on Wednesday as MPs voted 153-151 to kill a Conservative bill that would have scrapped the program.”
    …-
    “China threatening to kill me, B.C. reporter says
    Vancouver Sun –
    Andrea Woo – ‎1 hour ago‎
    A Surrey-based reporter says China’s Ministry of State Security is threatening his family, life and livelihood for his critical coverage of the Chinese government.”
    (googlenews)

  10. Socialism in France: Unions strike.
    Socialism is reactionary, regressive.
    Down with socialism.
    …-
    “France Braces for Fresh Strikes
    Wall Street Journal – Nathalie Boschat – ‎18 hours ago‎
    PARIS—France is bracing for more disruption on Thursday, with the country’s eight leading unions calling for demonstrations and strikes that will hobble rail and air transport in protest at plans to raise the retirement age from 60 …
    Strikers Snarl Transportation in France New York Times
    Retirement age strikes hit France The Press Association”
    (googlenews)

  13. Re Revnant Dream’s Britain Today via Melanie Phillips article:
    Quote from the blurb about the European-funded arts project called “Beyond Face Value,” aka BFV Project: “The project also aimed to promote harmony and understanding among diverse communities.”
    Why the hell is it our responsibility in the West to “promote harmony among diverse communities” (especially for Muslims) when, in their countries a) diversity is not tolerated and b) harmony amongst different cultures isn’t even on their radar, and, in fact, they’re busy stomping out harmony in order to assert their supremacy?
    All this one-sided crap has got to be recognized for what it is and stopped, or our granddaughters will be in burqas and stuck at home by the hearth, like latter-day Cinderellas: No ABCs or lattes for YOU.

  14. Now we know why left-liberal Liberal Ziffy shunned visiting/holidaying at his villa in Provence, France this past summer.
    For left-liberal socialist Ziffy, Europe is a dead zone; a left wasteland; a no-go ghetto for left-liberals.
    …-
    “How the left lost it”
    “With its representatives confined to the opposition benches nearly everywhere in Europe, the left is increasingly unable to propose a real alternative in a world where ideology is progressively disappearing.”
    “Europe is now characterised by the ongoing blurring of the left-right divide, and political ideologies are increasingly seen as irrelevant. Class background is no longer important, and much less significant than nationality and regional identity. And that is why the road towards the resurgence of left-wing ideology in Europe will be long and full of potential pitfalls.”
    …-
    “European left-wing burnout
    “The whole European left should storm Sweden,” urges Le Monde in an editorial. Sweden, the “cradle of modern social democracy and of the most successful welfare state of the past half century”, has been rocked by a “double political earthquake”: the far right’s entry into parliament and the Social Democrats’ abysmal score at the polls. In an effort to explain the decline of the European left, Le Monde spoke with Italian linguist Raffaele Simone, who attributes the “triumph of the right just about everywhere on the Old Continent” to the “intellectual exhaustion of the left”.
    The left “doesn’t seem to have understood a thing about the sea change in civilisation wrought by the victory of individualism and consumption”, and until quite recently it “refused to discuss mass immigration and illegal immigrants”. Le Monde argues that the controlled immigration “needed to keep the welfare state going in our aging societies presupposes a huge integration effort that hasn’t been made”. But there may be a price to be paid for integration, the Parisian daily suggests: “Will the European-style welfare state survive by doing less in its traditional domains – health care, pensions – and more to tackle its new task: integrating immigrants?” For Le Monde, that is the crux of the message from Stockholm.”
    http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/344131-how-left-lost-it

  15. IPCC Literary Review.
    Randy Pachy’s novel “is hampering efforts to halt global warming.”
    Opening words/excerpt from randy Pachy’s novel entitled “IPCC You”:
    “It was a dark and stormy night, and as randy railroad engineer Pachy grasped graspingly his lever head, the steam engine hissed and the pressure mounted and …….”
    “The 70-year-old has also hit the headlines for ‘steamy novels’ he penned while travelling the world in his demanding job.”
    …-
    “Pressure mounting for Rajendra Pachauri to resign as IPCC head”
    “Pressure is mounting for Rajendra Pachauri to resign as head of the UN climate change panel over fears that his increasingly troubled tenure is hampering efforts to halt global warming.”
    “The Indian chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been dogged by controversy since he was forced to admit a serious error in a landmark report arguing the case for man-made global warming earlier this year.
    “Climate sceptics have long been vocal cricitcs of Dr Pachauri, but environmentalists and politicians have now joined a chorus of voices calling for his resignation after eight years in the job following an independent report last month that recommended chairmen of the IPCC should serve for no longer than six years.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/8019691/Pressure-mounting-for-Rajendra-Pachauri-to-resign-as-IPCC-head.html
    …-
    More critics: “Randy’s novel is an Hope and Fear must read.” O.
    “A rebuttal to SDA.” Canadian “Liberal leader” MP Bob Rae – Mao Stlong’s nephew.
    “Best Moonbat novel ever.” Moonbat George.

  16. I recall the song vaguely but the video reminded me that I never considered Brando a “good” actor in the vein of Henry Fonda, let’s say.
    EBD, I am taking this opportunity to announce to the world my run for Public Office in my City of Woodstock, Ontario on October 25.
    I am told I need a miracle to win because of old my age, but like Rob Ford in Toronto, I believe my two plank platform will get me a “miracle” win in Woodstock.
    Hopefully I won’t get caught in a filter.
    Thanks and thanks to Kate for letting me latch on to the best Conservative blog in Canada!

  17. Pachauri (Maz2 8:11 am) I spotted that too.
    Did I imagine it or was there a report some months back that he was aware of the error in the report but let it stand. He felt it was justified to add to the sense of urgency about the global warming situation. I don’t see reference to those comments in more recent reports. Perhaps someone out there would remember.

  18. British Labour politician Ken Livingstone says:
    “I think the fact that Sheikh Qaradawi has been banned is a disgrace; he is one of the leading progressive voices in the Muslim world…there’s a huge smear campaign organized by Zionists. When I met this man, [I found him that] he’s a progressive, humble person who is looking at how Islam can engage with the rest of the world and we should support him.”
    Sheikh Qaradawi says:
    “Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them – even though they exaggerated this issue – he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of (Muslims).”
    (via Harry’s Place.

  20. Philip Ewing, Big E preps for final combat deployment
    Sept. 24 marks 50 years since this ship’s launch and champagne christening…
    Enterprise is beginning the end of a career brimming with those kinds of superlatives: The world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which is also the Navy’s longest-serving active warship, which carries the most reactors ever put to sea — eight, two per screw, in the most complex such plant ever fielded — is working up for its 21st and final combat deployment. Then it will become the first U.S. nuclear carrier ever decommissioned….

  21. Here’s one that might be a popular thread to put up:
    Jon Stewart is organizing a counter TEA party and/or Glenn beck rally for Oct 30 in DC,
    it’s called: “Rally to restore Sanity” Or my interpretive version: “TEA partiers and Constitutionalists are insane”(?)
    It is unsurprizingly heavily promoted by the usual cabal right now: Oprah, CNN etc…
    It will be interesting to see how popular it becomes and more so, how heavily promoted and reported it will be compared to the numerous Tea parties and the huge Beck rally of late…I cant wait to see the reported attendance numbers for example…Very wide camera lenses and photoshops coming soon to an MSM outlet near you.
    Kate, this is a proposed thread with potential many updates down the road.
    I gave no links but it’s everywhere on Google.

  22. Way to go Joe!I haven’t lived in my hometown of Woodstock for some 50 odd years now but I’ve plenty or relatives, all of voting age,still residing there. I’ll put a plug in for you.

  23. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/09/teenager-responsible-for-chemical-bomb.html
    Read this over at Atlas Shrugs: some of the comments are quite revealing. Fireworks are illegal in Maine. On July 4th a 13 year old boy, was arrested for possession of fireworks and today officials suspended a fifth-grader in New Jersey who found a lighter on his way to school.
    There is no word as to whether or not this 13 yr old Muslim boy who was merely experimenting and accidentally exploded a bomb was arrested. One commenter thinks it was probably an adult and the youth was used as a stand in. My favourite comment was that it’s okay “we can absorb a terrorist attack.”
    One juxtapose that was made: manufacture and explode a bomb in a Mosque – allowed
    Burn a Koran – get arrested (paraphrased from memory).

  24. “Britons arrested for Qur’an burning
    Six men in England have been arrested after two Qur’ans were burned and video of the Sept. 11 act was posted online.
    Four men were arrested Wednesday and two men had been arrested Sept. 15 on “suspicion of stirring racial hatred,” a Northumbria police press release said.
    The burning took place in Gateshead, located in northern England, on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York.
    Similar Qur’an burnings around the world were spurred by a Florida minister who called for the day to be International Burn-a-Qur’an Day. Pastor Terry Jones sparked outrage in the U.S. after he initially refused to cancel the controversial event. He did call it off during a press conference in front of his church in Gainesville, Fla., on Sept. 9.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/09/23/15447616.html

  26. By using his own father’s tragic death as a means of justying the betrayal of his constituents through convoluted logic, Scott Simms has set a new standard for political sleaze.

  31. Joe,good luck,maybe you can clear out the hippies that are hanging around waiting for the return of Hendrix and Joplin.

  33. Burning the Muslim koran?
    Not.
    …-
    “Protests across Pak over Aafia Siddiqui verdict by US court
    The Hindu – Anita Joshua – ‎1 hour ago‎
    A New York court’s decision to sentence Pakistani neuro-scientist Aafia Siddiqui with 86 years of imprisonment for shooting at US soldiers in Afghanistan has triggered outrage across the country with protesters taking to the streets in many places.
    Pakistani Woman Sentenced to 86 Years for Trying to Kill Americans”
    Wall Street Journal
    (googlenews)

  34. A WAG* Twofer: Includes Canadian content.
    “A peer-reviewed paper published in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences finds that Arctic sea ice extent at the end of the 20th century was more extensive than most of the past 9000 years.”
    “For me, settled science starts out with settled raw data, then people negotiate and discuss and hypothecate from that data,” Issa said. “If the raw data’s in doubt, then the idea that we have settled science doesn’t exist. I want settled science.”
    …-
    “Rep. Issa Would Lead ‘Climategate’ Probe if House Goes to GOP”
    “The House’s top Republican watchdog is planning to launch an investigation into international climate data if he takes the helm of the chamber’s oversight panel next year.
    Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said a probe of the “Climategate” scandal will top his environmental agenda if the Republicans take over the House next year and he gets the chairmanship.”
    “I do have a backburner investigation that I’m going to want to have completed, and that is, we paid a lot of money to have international evaluation, most of it done in Britain, that turns out to have been less than truthful in some of the figures,” he said. “We’re going to want to not investigate to get our money back, but we’re going to want to have a do-over of good numbers so that everyone can have confidence.”
    http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/09/23/23climatewire-rep-issa-would-lead-climategate-probe-if-hou-44766.html
    …-
    “Surprise: Peer reviewed study says current Arctic sea ice is more extensive than most of the past 9000 years”
    “While Joe Romm and Mark Serreze bloviate about the current Arctic sea ice being “lowest in history”, science that doesn’t have an agenda (or paying thinktank) attached says otherwise:
    “More importantly, there have been times when sea-ice cover was less extensive than at the end of the 20th century.””
    “A peer-reviewed paper published in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences finds that Arctic sea ice extent at the end of the 20th century was more extensive than most of the past 9000 years. The paper also finds that Arctic sea ice extent was on a declining trend over the past 9000 years, but recovered beginning sometime over the past 1000 years and has been relatively stable and extensive since.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/09/23/surprise-peer-reviewed-study-says-current-arctic-sea-ice-is-more-extensive-than-most-of-the-past-9000-years/#comments
    (*H/T WAG formerly AGW)

  35. “But, he reasoned, if it could save at least one life, it would make a difference in some Canadian’s life.”
    Then why don’t we spend the billions of dollars on things proven to save lives?

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