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For the benefit those who find it hard to stay up-to-date with all the results from the sporting world, here’s some – admittedly late – coverage of the derby rugby match contested by local teams Hunslet and Leeds in 1910.
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  1. You know how people are complete idiots, especially those simple-minded children who don’t trust Dear Leader to do what’s best for them?
    Well now there’s a helpful comic book created by a long-term Democrat advisor explaining – yes, a comic book – explaining why Obamacare is good, with pictures and in laguage so simple even you could probably understand it!
    http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2011/02/finally-obamacare-explained-in-comic.html
    Stolen from Ace of Spades HQ

  7. Mississauga Matt – oh my. Well, if I go on a killing spree tonight I want to make it clear that it’s all Jack Layton’s fault.

  9. Mississauga Matt
    There are unconfirmed reports of self-inflicted wounds by flying darts in many regions of Canada.

  11. Alberta is getting more awesome. Did you know we have polar bears? And we border on Hudson Bay? I just heard that on CNN. (There was a story about how polar bear reproduction was going to be affected by global warming.)

  12. Really interesting video of that rugby match EBD, I was quite surprised to learn that the video coverage of the first Super Bowl just turned up last week, I wouldn’t have thought it’d be such a rare find…
    Today is a the 4th birthday of davidthompson’s blog, of particular note is his “friday ephemera” having made its mark on the weekly roundup type postings… a class act of always interesting stuph..
    http://davidthompson.typepad.com/

  13. A pouting Greece says “Show me the money, and I, in return, will take the money.”

    (Reuters) – Resentment smouldered among European governments Monday over a German-instigated drive to end wage indexation, raise retirement ages and lock debt limits into national constitutions across the euro zone.

    Chancellor Angela Merkel, backed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, presented proposals for a “competitiveness pact” to EU leaders at a summit last Friday, provoking strong pushback due to both a lack of prior consultation and the objectives chosen.

    Merkel made clear that agreement on these measures, designed to align economic policies more closely with Berlin’s, must be sealed in March before she will agree to strengthening the rescue fund for debt-stricken euro zone countries.

    According to the report the Deputy Prime Minister of Greece, a country that received the equivalent of $150 billion dollars last year in bailout money, said Merkel’s conditions are “not attractive to me.”

  14. Terry David rocking the CBSC at CKUA!
    “I said ‘ I’d like to apologize in advance to people that are offended by words like money or nothing,'” Mulligan told the Herald on Monday. “`If you’re offended by music written by Sting or Mark Knopfler, I apologized for that.'”
    http://tinyurl.com/4r58q9p

  16. “Remembering Jonestown”
    When asked what I found fascinating about cats, I say “they’re still in Eden; the last link to the Garden.” Watching cats is as far as many of us will venture to the time before Good and Evil. But in recent history the man who most tried to return to it in earnest was Jim Jones. Alas, he failed. Until September 11, the greatest loss of American civilian life occurred at Jonestown, Guyana at his direction. Jones, mistakenly described as a “pastor” by those eager to direct readers away from the fact that he was a Communist, was a self-described representative of the only world religion to ever arise in the West.
    In 1951, Jones became a member of the Communist Party USA, and began attending meetings and rallies in Indianapolis. … He … became frustrated with what he perceived to be ostracism of open communists in the United States, especially during the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. This frustration, among other things, provoked a seminal moment for Jones in which he asked himself “how can I demonstrate my Marxism? The thought was, infiltrate the church.” …
    Jones was surprised when a Methodist superintendent helped him to get a start in the church even though he knew Jones to be a communist and Jones did not meet him through the American Communist Party. … Around this time, Jones witnessed a faith-healing service at the Seventh Day Baptist Church. He observed that it attracted people and their money and concluded that, with financial resources from such healings, he could help accomplish his social goals.
    Humanity’s greatest torment since it first became self-aware was the knowledge that it inhabited a universe far vaster than it could comprehend. Unlike cats, it became terrified at the prospect of infinity. It could imagine eternal life, but it could also contemplate the possibility of eternal suffering. Men, but not cats, could imagine living life for a space and being tortured endlessly thereafter — imagine it because they themselves were capable of such things. “For … then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” The inhabitants of Eden lived merely under the rain and the sun. But man lives in a world of angels and demons.
    In that context, freedom became an excruciatingly momentous thing. If freedom was the lamp that provided glimpses into the unfathomable reaches of creation, its light revealed little. Most of the world’s religions, including Christianity, filled in the blank spaces by provisionally defining the direction of “good”. And while some were content to live in that uncertainty — almost that delusion – it was not good enough for many. Marxism’s greatest contribution to the problem was to deny the existence of freedom altogether and to supply in its stead, submission to human will. There would be no angels and demons in its world, only man. And in Jonestown Jim was going to be the man. Only when God was killed could men return to the garden and the sun and the rain arrive overhead again.”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/02/08/remembering-jonestown/#comments

  17. If you have the stomach for it,CBC’s “Connect with Mark Kelley” has served a load of steaming crap. I don’t know how to isolate a video clip,the BS starts about the 26 minute mark.

    The clip is about the poor residents of the Gaza Strip,who are going without electricity because their smuggling tunnels have been shut down. It then goes into how Hamas is maintaining peace in Gaza,feeding the Egypyian soldiers,however some residents are afraid of losing their identity and becoming part of Egypt. 4 minutes of pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian horse hooey,paid from your pocket.

    http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/TV_Shows/Connect_with_Mark_Kelley/1305591601/ID=1786028443

  18. Heather Mallice is at it again.
    http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/935322–mallick-who-needs-facts-in-brave-new-world-of-tv-news
    Fact fans, you’re out of luck. Ottawa’s quiet sneak attack on the CRTC regulation that bars broadcasting “false or misleading news” on radio and TV is close to triumph.
    IMO*in short she basicaly states that whatever SunTV says It will be a pack of lies!! And personaly its too bad this new CRTC ruling did not apply to Print too, Right Heather! But this is the way of the left, Whats the old saying Never Judge a Book by its Cover, Just out & out hypocrisy at its best. How does she know what they will brodcast No its the left wing nuts of Canada afraid their Socialist message will be less effective.

  19. bryanr @ 9:17, I noticed that no comments are allowed on Heather Mallice’s article.
    I would suggest to her that were such a law on “false and misleading news” passed, her articles would be the first ones censored.

  21. today in Republican history:
    Feb 9 1950
    Senator Joseph McCarthy announces he has a list of 205 State Department employees who are Communist Party members. He did not mention that J. Edgar Hoover likes to wear garters and pumps.

  22. AGW Progress Report:
    Breaking: Our Mole, lberia, aka “beagle”, aka ulianov, is a notorious Red-Green windbreaking skeptic. Stay upwind from the mad-dog wearing Red Army boots.
    …-
    “Telegraph | Prince of Wales: climate change sceptics ‘playing a reckless game of roulette’
    Climate change sceptics are “playing a reckless game of roulette” with the future of their grandchildren, the Prince of Wales on Wednesday told a European Union conference on global warming”
    …-
    “MG | Opposition to wind farms is in the air
    MONTREAL – Anger is growing in rural communities south of Montreal over proposals to introduce wind farms in the MontĂ©rĂ©gie region.”
    http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/

  23. bryanr, I read the Gunter article and also commented on it.
    maz2, thank. I thought I could smell a Bolshevik. The original name ulianov was a clue as was the namesake Lenin aka Ulyanov
    http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin
    A Lenin aka Ulyanov quote “Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers”.
    This quote of Lenin’s became a particular personal thing in our family and I am also well aware that there are those who would like to replicate the events that occurred almost a century ago.
    Btw, that wikiquote site has a nice image of Lenin that the NDP might have copied for their website shown above.

  25. Tomorrow, The Tea Party Review debuts at CPAC in D.C. … what to expect?
    “No hype. No rumors. No political double talk. Just facts and analysis – and a touch of humor – written in plain language and rooted in the values of working class and small business class Americans.”
    http://teapartyreview.com/

  26. I received this email today, for some reason I found it very funny…
    DEAR RECEIVER,
    You have just received a Taliban virus. Since we are not so technologicaly advanced in Afghanistan, this is a MANUAL virus. Please delete all the files on your hard disk yourself and send this mail to everyone you know.
    Thank you very much for helping us.
    Thanks & Regards
    Miss Aileen

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