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  1. Doug Mainwaring in the Washington Times:
    “The Tea Party is the leading edge of a ‘Great Awakening’ in America. In many ways, it appears to have the force and vitality of one of the religious awakenings that have occurred throughout our nation’s history. It is more than a populist movement. It is more than a reactionary group expressing voter dissatisfaction and anger. It can’t be boiled down to election results. It will not be co-opted neatly by the Republican Party. It is something much, much bigger.
    “The Tea Party movement represents a resounding declaration of the end of big, overreaching government.”
    (…)
    “Men and women across this great land are on fire with zeal for our founding principles, and that zeal is spreading like a wildfire. They are willing to invest their lives to protect and uphold these truths for the sake of their children and for the sake of their country to preserve the one nation on earth fated to be a city on a hill for all the world to see…”
    The whole thing here.

  2. Thank-you for that link EBD. I really like that article – it says something very loud and positive. It is like finding the lost key to a fabulous old car, trying it out and discovering that the car still runs.

  3. I think most men have a yearning just to take off and leave all their responsibilities behind, and never put down roots. Happily, few actually do, though I have met some and must admit that I envy them in a strange and sad sort of way. Probably most of them had an unhappy childhood or were orphans.

  4. I really liked that article too, Jema. It’s well written, straight-up, and positive.
    RT: This is perhaps the best take on the 10:10 vid that I’ve read to date.

  6. RE: Big Rock Candy Mountain.
    Hobos have all but disappeared. They stuck close to the railroads. I remember my Uncle driving my brother and I down to “The Forks” in Winnipeg. Today it’s a mall and a park, in 1960 it was a hobo jungle. Guys stood around oil drums that were filled with fire wood, trying to keep warm. My uncle drilled into us that if we didn’t stay in school and get an education, we’d end up as hobos.
    We lived on a Saskatchewan farm, we had hobos drop by asking for food. Dad would get them to do odd jobs for a meal. After 1965, they disappeared. In the 70’s we had hippies drop by from time to time. But they were different. They were lazy, you couldn’t trust hippies, but most hobos were honest.

  8. Excerpt from a letter to the editor of the Washington Examiner:
    “Re: ‘Government, journalists cower at threats to cartoonist,’ Sept. 20”
    “There are three reasons I don’t read your rag. First, I have an advanced degree. Second, I have an opinion that is not wholly borne [sic] of regurgitated Fox News talking-head rubbish. And third, I am not cowed by your insipid ‘analysis’ of the so-called news.
    “In your editorial, you analogize the Muslim faith to the Ku Klux Klan. While I do agree that it is unfortunate that journalist Molly Norris had to go into hiding because of death threats from Islamic radicals, I can’t support your comparison.
    “The KKK is not a religion with diverse viewpoints and millions of devotees committed to a common cause of peace…”
    Why no, no it’s not.
    Guh.

  9. SDHH – thanks for the heads-up on Walid Shoebat. This guy is passionate and honest and it is time we all, Christians, Jews and other religions wake up to what is going on here and in Washington. I know his frustration, everytime a Christian opens his mouth these days, they are told to be tolerant. Tolerance is not listed as a virtue folks, we were not asked by Christ to be tolerant we are told to be faithful.

  11. Re: The Repugnant Enviro-Zealot Video
    Iowahawk: “And somehow, throughout this entire process, not one of the hundreds of people involved seemed to have questioned the wisdom of an advertising message advocating the violent, sudden death of people who disagree with it.”

  12. The coddled criminals seem to have an afinity for, and prefer to stay in Tranna, Montreal, or Vancouver.
    One of very few official policies that runs in my favour. Works for me.

  13. Re: The Repugnant Enviro-Zealot Video
    from Iowahawk:
    That has to be satire, c’mon……

  14. What’s got to be satire, eastern paul? Have you seen the video? Iowahawk”s musings seem to be a fairly accurate supposition of how this vile promotional video came to be made. I like the “After introductions, small talk, and pastries,” (‘only thing missing is the lattes) … just another day in the green fascists’ dysfunctional neighbourhood.
    larben, you’re so right. Nothing in the Scriptures tells us to be either “nice” or “tolerant” — in fact, Christians and Jews are admonished to actively resist evil. We’re also told not to say “peace, peace where there is no peace.”
    Jesus said, “Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. … a man’s enemies will be the members of his household. … And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it” (Matthew 10:34).
    Other wise words: “All it takes for evil to flourish is for good wo/men to do and say nothing.” This politically correct “tolerance” crap is killing us.

  15. PET Cemetery: The Frog Chorus.
    Socialists Chow-Dion-Trudeau, et al chant:
    It’s not fair… It’s not fair … It’s not fair …
    Choir/chorus leader Liberal Iggy: “Just Visiting” … “Just Visiting” … “Just Visiting”…
    Go home, Iggy.
    Kudos and bravo to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.
    More, please.
    …-
    “Elite unit hunts immigration offenders
    Three dangerous immigration offenders are being rounded up each week in the Toronto-area by a heavily-armed joint-forces Immigration Task Force headed by the RCMP.
    The elite unit was created to go after some of the worst immigration offenders following the tragic 1994 murders of Const. Todd Baylis and Vivi Leimonis by illegal immigrants.
    The unit’s members have arrested more than 3,000 hardened cons who were sought on warrants for deportation or extradition from Canada, said unit commander RCMP Cpl. Tome Delov.
    Delov said about 200 dangerous offenders yearly are arrested by his officers.
    Officers extradited former financier Karlheinz Schreiber to Germany in August 2009 following a parliamentary inquiry into allegations that he bribed former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. They also extradited to the U.S. this year Yassir Ali Khan, and Mohammad Al-Sahli, both 30, who were sought by the FBI for allegedly trying to establish a separate Islamic nation within the U.S.
    “Many of the fugitives are sought for extradition and we have to go after them,” Delov said on Thursday. “Our officers go out and find them and bring them before the immigration process.”
    He said some countries refuse to issue travel documents for their returnees, who are involved in serious crimes involving drugs, firearms or violence.
    “The fugitives are sought on immigration or criminal warrants,” Delov said.
    “Our officers make about three arrests a week.””
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/10/03/15568906.html
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/10/03/lawrence-martin-admits-he-is-biased/#comment-91772

  16. O’channels Nixon: Liberal Iggy’s O’Harvard buddy.
    O’narcissist: Moi, I, am not a crook.
    There is no O’eighteen minute gap for TOTUS.
    Moi, I, am not a crook.
    Moi, I am no…..
    Moi, I..
    …-
    “Loneliest man in DC
    He’s tried homey backyard settings, large campus ral lies and teamed up with a crass hip-hop show. Wherever he goes, he floors the rhetorical pedal, as when he likened his slow-motion polices to the time it took to “free the slaves.”
    Barack Obama has gone from a failing president to flailing at ghosts. Even allowing for desperate times, his desperate measures are a national embarrassment.
    Emancipation? Give us a break.
    With each passing day, his denunciations of dissent and inflated claims of economic progress turn off the independent voters who will decide the midterm elections. He is ignoring the sensible advice to listen to the majority of voters and build a governing coalition.
    Instead, he recklessly bets the remainder of his presidency on maintaining the huge liberal Democratic majorities that helped him impose a string of unpopular policies on America. If he fails, and there is good reason to hope he will face a Republican Congress, he’ll be the loneliest man in Washington.
    He is losing much of his White House team, yet the obsequious hagiography continues. When Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel departed Friday, he claimed the last 20 months were “the toughest time any president has ever faced.”
    This is farce masquerading as fact, but there is no sign Obama is willing to bring in new aides who could help him chart a new course.
    If anything, he is doubling down on his self-aggrandizing Big Government agenda
    (Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com …”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2601071/posts

  17. Video of Lars Vilks in Toronto (the audio quality is poor, sorry).
    I should have video of Lars Hedegaard up early this afternoon.

  18. An explanation of quebec . . .
    “I live in Quebec, a province that always seems to be teetering on the verge of separation from Canada and striking off on its own as an independent, majority-French-speaking country. It boasts only two major industries, forestry and electricity generation tied to the American market; relies on transfer payments from the federal government in the usual futile attempt to make up for its annual budgetary shortfall; runs the largest deficit in the country; is burdened by a bloated, parasitic, and non-productive bureaucracy, especially in transportation and education; and is entangled in so much ministerial red tape that business cannot move freely in the market place. As a result, separation would quickly lead to great economic suffering or, at best, a living standard more or less equivalent to Slovakia’s ”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/is-quebec-the-future-of-the-u-s/

  19. Melanie Phillips’s new column: “From human rights to pagan rights”
    http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=769
    [Begin quote] Will someone please tell me this is all a joke?
    Until now, Druids have been regarded indulgently as a curious remnant of Britain’s ancient past, a bunch of eccentrics who annually dress up in strange robes at Stonehenge to celebrate the summer solstice.
    However, according to the Charity Commission, they are to be recognised as a religion and, as a result, afforded charitable status, with the tax exemptions and other advantages that follow . . .
    How on earth has our supposedly rational society come to subscribe to so much totally barking mumbo-jumbo?
    . . . The defining characteristic of such [New Age] faiths is a spirituality which is concerned with the self rather than the world beyond the individual.
    These beliefs were, therefore, tailor-made for the ‘me society’ which turned against Biblical constraints on behaviour in the interests of others . . .
    And they were then legitimised by the doctrines of equality of outcomes and human rights — which, far from protecting the rights of truly religious people, aim to force Biblical morality and belief out of British and European public life altogether.
    This is because human rights and equality of outcomes are held to be universal values. That means they invariably trump specific religious beliefs to impose instead equal status for all creeds.
    But if all creeds, however absurd, have equal meaning then every belief is equally meaningless. And without the Judeo-Christian heritage there would be no morality and no true human rights.
    There is nothing remotely enlightened about paganism. It was historically tied up with both communism and fascism, precisely because it is a negation of reason and the bedrock values behind Western progress.
    The result is that, under the secular onslaught of human rights, our society is reverting to a pre-modern era of anti-human superstition and irrationality. From human rights, you might say, to pagan rites in one seamless progression.
    Anyone who thinks radical egalitarianism is progressive has got this very wrong. We are hurtling backwards in time to a more primitive age. [End quote]
    A recent example can be seen in the juxtaposition of the God loving Restoring Honor Rally and the secular, socialist One Nation Rally in Washington, DC. While the progressive elites excoriated the former, they will, as usual, given the latter, “rights and equality”, Me-Me-Me group a free pass: the MSM will avoid showing the large number of socialist signs and the small number of (bussed in, at union expense) people, as well as the mountain of garbage these hypocrites left behind. “[H]urtling backwards”, indeed.

  20. Lawrence Ulrich, The Greening of the Supercar
    Someday soon there will be an affordable and clever electric vehicle that will conquer the world, as the Model T and Volkswagen Beetle did in their day. In the meantime, there’s the Tesla Roadster, a US $109 000, 300-horsepower, two-seat toy for rich, environmentally conscious gadget hounds. Yes, for every Nissan Leaf or Chevy Volt with mainstream pretensions, there’s a battery-powered land rocket that’s way more Bugatti than Beetle.
    Makers of automobiles more associated with tearing up the earth than with saving it are suddenly rushing to outdo each other in the automotive industry’s next big battleground: electric and plug-in hybrid cars. Their pitch is the familiar best of all worlds: cars that look hot, go fast, run clean, and consume either no gasoline or very little….

  22. Maz2 – a manager of a Tim’s in the downtown Vancouver a couple of years back, went to a meeting called by merchants and others in the area regarding what was to be done about the open selling and dispersal of illegal drugs in the neighbourhood by illegal immigrants from mostly Central America. Questions were asked (natch!) about why they weren’t being rounded up and sent back. Police mentioned a lack of political and judicial will, and – money. The interminably stupid member from Vancouver East, Libby Davies, relict of Bruce Erickson, and neo-lesbian, said if we were to do that they would be put in jail on arrival!

  23. Great suggestion in one of today’s Letters to the Editor in the Edmonton Sun.
    Name the next tailings pond they build at the oilsands project after James Cameron.

  25. Yesterday we celebrated a micro victory with the cancellation of that imam’s speech at DND. However, I’m sure the one-way “outreach” will continue apace. The elites seemed to be hard-wired into this suicidal lunacy.
    Here’s Andrew McCarthy explaining why islamic outreach doesn’t work with some revealing information about the FBI.
    Read and shake your head. The outreachee, it seems, is OK as long as he’s not actually indicted!

  26. Noose from commissar Taliban Jack LaytoNDP.
    Ich Bin Ein Murderous Muslim.
    “Wulff announces Islam is part of Germany,””.
    “We are a nice nation!”.
    …-
    “Interrogation in Afghanistan
    German Authorities Reserved about Terror Warnings
    The CIA and American military are currently interrogating a German jihadist at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan. His warnings of impending attacks in Europe, apparently financed by Osama bin Laden, have alarmed US authorities — but the German intelligence community is more skeptical. By Holger Stark more…”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,721026,00.html
    …-
    “Germany
    A nation nice to Muslims
    “Wulff announces Islam is part of Germany,” reports Berliner Zeitung. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the reunification of Germany on 3rd October, President Christian Wulff reminded his fellow citizens that the slogan “We are a nation,” chanted by East German demonstrators in 1989, should also apply to the social integration of immigrants. The daily notes that the situation of Germany’s four million Muslims has been the subject of heated debate in the wake of the publication of a contentious book penned by Thilo Sarrazin. For Berliner Zeitung, Wulff, who is a Christian Democrat, simply wanted to communicate a relatively banal message: “We are a nice nation!”
    http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/352031-nation-nice-muslims

  27. Re: The Repugnant Enviro-Zealot Video
    No doubt they are a bunch of the freakazoids, but the video is, well,let’s say it’s “out there”.
    “Over the top” doesn’t quite cover it.
    I suspect someone is having fun at the greenies expense.
    If they really are behind its creation well, then the LOONIES ARE FREE, indeed.And I have given them waaaayy to much credit!

  28. eastern paul: according to The Guardian, it’s “edgy”. Yunno, hip. Avant garde.

  30. Ontario socialist McGuinty’s Electrification Plan.
    Stalin said:
    “there is o n l y o n e “single economic plan” — the Plan for the Electrification, and that all other “plans” are just idle talk, empty and harmful.”
    Russian socialist/communist Lenin/Stalin’s Electrification Plan.
    Same difference.
    …-
    Russian socialist/communist Lenin/Stalin’s Electrification Plan:
    “J. V. Stalin
    A LETTER TO V. I. LENIN
    Written in March 1921
    First published in: Stalin.
    A Symposium on His Fiftieth Birthday.
    Moscow-Leningrad, 1929
    From J. V. Stalin, Works
    Foreign Languages Publishing House,
    Moscow, 1953
    Vol. 5, pp. 50-11.
    A LETTER TO V. I. LENIN
    Comrade Lenin,
    During the last three days I have had the opportunity to read the symposium: A Plan for the Electrification of Russia.[8] My illness made this possible (it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good!). An excellent, well-compiled book. A masterly draft of a really single and really state economic plan, not in quotation marks. The only Marxist attempt in our time to place the Soviet superstructure of economically backward Russia on a really practical technical and production basis, the only possible one under present conditions.
    You remember Trotsky’s “plan” (his theses) of last year for the “economic revival” of Russia on the basis of the mass application of the labour of unskilled peasant-worker masses (the labour army) to the remnants of pre-war industry. How wretched, how backward, compared with the Goelro plan! A medieval handicraftsman who imagines he is an Ibsen hero called to “save” Russia by an ancient saga. . . . And of what value are the dozens of “single plans” which to our shame appear from time to time in our press — the childish prattle of preparatory-school pupils. . . . Or again, the philistine “realism” (in fact Manilovism) of Rykov, who continues to
    page 51
    “criticise” the Goelro and is immersed to his ears in routine. . . .
    In my opinion:
    1) Not a single minute more must be wasted on idle talk about the plan.
    2) A p r a c t i c a l start on the work m u s t b e m a d e immediately.
    3) To this start must be devoted at least one-third of our work (two-thirds will be required for “current” needs) in transporting materials and men, restoring enterprises, distributing labour forces, delivering food stuffs, organising supply bases and supply itself, and so on.
    4) Since the staff of the Goelro, for all their excellent qualities, lack a sound practical outlook (a professorial impotence can be detected in the articles), we must without fail include in the planning commission live practical men who act on the principle — “Report the fulfilment,” “Fulfil on time,” etc.
    5) Pravda, Izvestia, and especially Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn [9] must be instructed to popularise the Plan for the Electrification both as a whole and as regards its concrete points dealing with individual parts, bearing in mind that there is o n l y o n e “single economic plan” — the Plan for the Electrification, and that all other “plans” are just idle talk, empty and harmful.
    Yours,
    Stalin
    Written in March 1921″
    http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/LL21.html
    …-
    Ontario socialist McGuinty’s Electrification Plan:
    “Power struggle in Ontario”
    “Breaking down your buck
    Lots of organizations vie for a slice of your Hydro dollar. Here’s how your money gets distributed.
    13¢
    Harmonized Sales Tax
    47¢
    Electricity also includes electricity lost as heat during transmission
    23¢
    Distribution costs: The amount charged to take electricity from transmission lines and deliver it to your home.
    8¢
    Transmission costs: How much
    Hydro One charges for delivering power from the generating stations to your local energy distributor.
    4.5¢
    Debt retirement charge: Goes to retire the $7.8 billion “residual stranded debt,”-the remnants of a $19.4 billion debt that appeared when Ontario Hydro was carved up during a restructuring of the energy sector in 1999. It’s applied at a rate of 0.7¢/kWh.
    The debt is slated for retirement by 2018.
    Regulatory charges: Here’s where it gets tricky. The Independent Electricity System Operator gets a roughly 0.66¢ cut. Since electricity can’t be stored, the IESO must constantly monitor and predict demand so it can ensure the right amount of juice is available in the system. It also looks for the best deals from generators -nuclear and hydro suppliers usually offer lower rates since it’s more troublesome for them to scale back their production. The IESO also acts as a financial clearing house, funnelling money from you to the rest of the energy sector’s hungry hippos. Like the Ontario Energy Board. The OEB, which regulates the energy and natural gas sectors, pays for its operations through the entities it regulates, levying a Wholesale Market Service Charge based on an assessment of a distributor like Hydro Ottawa.
    Then there’s the Ontario Power Authority, which funds its $65.1 million operating budget through energy consumers. The OPA ensures the infrastructure is in place for Ontario to have a sufficient supply of power and solicits private sector investment in the energy market. It also promotes green energy and conservation programs. Its cut is about 0.44¢. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation also gets cash. NERC enforces reliability standards for the electricity grid in Ontario, New Brunswick and the United States, though it also deals with other Canadian provinces. That’s a lot of bang for your 4.5¢.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2010/10/04/15572611.html

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