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If you think the 1950s were a time of innocence and wholesome good fun, tonight’s video might just change your worldview forever. Yikes.
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  5. I remember some of those ads from the 1950s.
    EBD, yes, that top-ten list is surprising. To listen to environistas go back to the caves crowd you would think Canada was the biggest culprit in the world.

  11. Here’s a note I just sent to Charles Adler:
    Charles,
    Not sure if you’re going to comment on the latest ramblings of Heather Mallick but if you do, it should be noted that there are no public comments allowed on her columns these days. Quite the champion of free speech & public discourse, isn’t she?! 🙁
    On his daily radio program, Dennis Miller often plays clips from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. Miler points out that for someone so dismissive of the intelligence of the likes of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, Matthews sure seems obsessed with talking about them endlessly. So seems to be the case with Heather Mallick when it comes to the likes of you and Ezra Levant and any other media figure whose views are different from hers. I find it fascinating how, while she constantly wraps herself in the cloak of “Progressivism”, has no hesitation whatsoever trying to wrap you and Ezra and Sun TV News in a cloak of invisibility. As in a permanent one. Surely that’s not the “Progressive” Canada that heroes of hers like Pierre Trudeau dreamed about, was it?
    Robert W.
    Vancouver, BC

  13. So global warming, government stimulus packages for the production of jobs, multiculturalism aren’t big fat lies which the media have been hoisting on the masses for decades are off the books Heather?
    What a blowhard.

  14. Personally I think they will both die in their lovers caress, but this is another view.
    Arianna Huffington’s Deal Will Save the Progressive Movement
    You look out there, you see that AOL has purchased the Huffington Post. Now all of a sudden a very far left liberal blogger such as Arianna Huffington has a huge influence in the Internet world. We cannot allow ourselves to be suppressed. We cannot allow them to take over the Internet.
    http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/02/09/arianna-huffington-s-deal-will-save-the-progressive-movement.aspx

  15. AGW Progress Report: oil sands & 0.1% & “dwarf” & “Bárdarbunga”.
    …-
    “Despite the criticism of the environmental impact of the oil sands, Birol said increasing output to 3-million barrels a day would only boost Carbon Dioxide emissions by 0.1%, the equivalent of one and a half days of China’s emissions.”
    “When it comes to Canada’s oilsands, Birol said they will have an important role to play in helping diversify the world’s dependence away from the Middle East for oil.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/2011/02/08/17199091.html
    …-
    “Icelandic volcano ‘set to erupt'”
    “Scientists in Iceland are warning that another volcano looks set to erupt and threatening to spew-out a pall of dust that would dwarf last year’s event.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/iceland/8311924/Icelandic-volcano-set-to-erupt.html

  16. Of “numerical numbness” and “statisticians have tweaked the data” and “the tyranny of quantity”.
    The Mann “hockey stick” + AGW + crime statistics.
    …-
    >>> “In describing bureaucratic number-fixation Guénon writes clairvoyantly that:
    “These interventions [in tradition] must naturally have the effect of insuring the most complete possible uniformity between individuals, all the more so because it is… a ‘principle’ of all administration to treat individuals as mere numerical units all exactly alike… thus constraining all men to adjust themselves… to the same ‘average’ level.”
    The tyranny of quantity, it will be seen, overlaps in the Venn diagram of Guénon’s commentary almost entirely with the tyranny of equality; any manifestation of quality, as such, then looms as the enemy of both. Because an egalitarian dispensation can only be achieved at the price of quality in itself, all modern intellectual activity will be constrained by mandatory simplification toward numerical dumbness.”
    “The Kali Yuga: René Guenon’s Critique of Modernity”
    http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4603
    …-
    “Conclusions about crime are ‘badly distorted’”
    “A report released Wednesday argues that statisticians have tweaked the data so much it’s nearly impossible to understand what’s happening to crime in Canada, or how effective the justice system is at cracking down on repeat offenders”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/02/10/conclusions-about-crime-%E2%80%98badly-distorted%E2%80%99/

  17. Question of the Day:
    If an artist cannot support himself on the art he produces…is he really an artist? So if a pundit cannot support himself without government welfare…is that person really a pundit?

  19. “Faces-Of-Meth” Mallick is nicely isolated at a provincial rag and isn’t going anywhere. Leave her to grind out her $700 a week crapola. I have read enough to know not to ever read anything she writes ever again.
    The reality of her pathetic occupation is there’s no such thing as bad publicity so, at this point in her career, it might be best to completely ignore her, avoid clicking a link to her, pretend she doesn’t exist. Her ignorance and bigotry is mostly a municipal problem right now, hopefully she won’t get the publicity necessary to fabricate the perception that she’s a national voice. Come on, she’s in the Toronto Star! Who cares?

  20. Attention Liberal Iggy:
    Put this in your Funk’n’Wagnall.
    …-
    CFRA.
    “How should the federal government respond to the announcement that the province of Quebec and Quebec City are prepared to split the cost of a new hockey arena?”
    “1. Get in! By failing to contribute to the arena, the Conservatives will suffer politically in a crucial province and play right into the message that the federal government does nothing for Quebec
    10.8%
    2. Stay out! This means the arena will be paid for by Quebeckers and no federal money will be required
    87.4%
    3. Other
    1.64%”
    http://www.cfra.com/
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2011/02/07/may-i-call-you-stephen/#comment-60830

  23. Good Afternoon, Kate.
    Hey, I just wanted to say thank you, to you, and commenter SDH, who linked over to my place. SDH noted de Botton’s homage to the nanny state in a post I wrote. The post must have struck one of de Botton’s nerves, because he dropped me an email. It was polite, but not complimentary.
    Anyway, thanks for letting SDH post his comment and link, and thanks for being the host.
    Though I think I’ve seen your site mentioned in the vastness of the internut, I’ve not visited. I will now from time to time, now.
    Best.
    John Venlet of Improved Clinch

  24. PET Cemetery Report.
    Liberal Iggy’s O’Harvard buddy: O'”Oops!”
    …-
    “Oops!”
    “Although Saudi King Abdullah warned Barack Obama not to push Mubarak over the edge, according to reports by the Times of London, CIA director Leon Panetta believed the Egyptian president would step down.
    Just a few minutes ago, the New York Times reported that Mubarak refused to step down. Not only did the speech prove U.S. estimates wrong, it casts doubt over whether their game plan was ever working at all.
    Even as Mr. Mubarak spoke, angry chants were shouted from huge crowds in Cairo who had anticipated his resignation but were instead confronted with a plea from the president to support continued rule by him and his chosen aides. People waved their shoes in defiance, considered an insulting gesture in the Arab world.
    This followed warnings from Saudi Arabia that it would act forcefully to nullify any pressure that the U.S. president would bring to bear on Mubarak as the king read Obama the riot act. The Times of London earlier reported:
    In a testy telephone call on January 29, King Abdullah told the US President not to humiliate Mr Mubarak and said the Egyptian leader should be allowed to stay on to oversee the transition towards democracy and then to leave with dignity, The Times of London reported yesterday. King Abdullah threatened to step in with funding for Egypt if the US withdrew its $US1.5 billion ($1.47bn) a year aid program.
    Now, with Mubarak thumbing his nose at the president, the Obama administration may manage to achieve what only few governments in history have done: alienate their enemies as well as their friends. Worse, Obama’s actions have regionalized the Egyptian conflict. KSA has belayed Mubarak on the sheer cliff that he dangles from. It has forced a public confrontation between Mubarak and his regional allies and the unrest sweeping the Arab world. If Mubarak goes spinning into the abyss, the House of Saud will find itself pulled right after it.
    The narrative is set. One the one side are the aging Sunni autocrats, on the other side are the Shi’ite autocrats who are in an alliance of convenience with protesters in Egypt. And on both sides, like a ping-pong ball being swatted back and forth, is President Obama, as noisy and nearly as comical.
    Whatever happens next is fraught with peril for Washington. If Mubarak survives, it will have been in spite of Obama, and the influence of Washington over its Sunni allies will have fallen to unplumbed depths as the old strongmen openly defy the former Strong Horse in Washington. If Mubarak is overthrown, the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran will have scored a signal triumph and threaten to set the dominoes to falling. Either way Washington’s diplomatic position in the region will be in a shambles.”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/02/10/oops/?singlepage=true

  26. To PM Harper:
    End this session of Parliament.
    The lunatics have taken over.
    Close the House.
    Call an election.
    …-
    “An unexpected moral victory for transgender, transsexual Canadians
    Globe and Mail – John Ibbitson – ‎1 hour ago‎
    Once again, the House of Commons has passed legislation against the will of Prime Minister Stephen Harper – this time, to protect the rights of transgender and transsexual citizens.
    Transgendered-rights bill moves to Senate National Post
    Private member’s bill targets sale and import of cat or dog fur products Vancouver Sun”

  27. PET Cemetery Report.
    SOS to Liberal Iggy!
    Help Moi. Send money in brown envelopes. Merde.
    …-
    “Multiculturalism has failed, says French president
    French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday declared that multiculturalism had failed, joining a growing number of world leaders or ex-leaders who have condemned it.
    “We have been too concerned about the identity of the person who was arriving and not enough about the identity of the country that was receiving him,” he said in a television interview in which he declared the concept a “failure.”
    British Prime Minister David Cameron last month pronounced his country’s long-standing policy of multiculturalism a failure, calling for better integration of young Muslims to combat home-grown extremism.
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Australia’s former prime minister John Howard and former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar have also in recent months said multicultural policies have not successfully integrated immigrants.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.6b096ac0cdcfce7a0f599fbbb1c85c27.911&show_article=1
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2011/02/07/may-i-call-you-stephen/#comment-60867

  28. If you hold your breath for a moment, and listen quietly, maybe straining slightly, you can hear it.
    Yup it’s faint but unmistakeable; that’s the sound of Obama BOWING again.
    I knew it!!!

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