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  1. Ann Althouse and her husband confront Wisconsin labor protesters who have set up a little booth beside, and attached little protest signs and info-bits to….. wait for it….the Veterans Memorial.
    Witness the ignorance.

  6. Leonard Cohen the man is consistently honest, gracious, humble, and modest – pretty much the opposite of pretentious, in other words.
    RT: Interesting chart here. Starting with Teddy Roosevelt’s administration in 1900, and ending with Barack Obama’s, it shows the percentage of Cabinet appointments with prior private-sector experience. Even knowing what we know, the percentage figure is pretty amazing.

  8. I’m sure Corb Lund is a nice bloke (as the limeys say) but I wanna see him do this.
    syncro @1:27 – Yes. So why make a pointless comparison?

  9. Sorta like that, syncrodox, I’m not gonna disagree with that general assessment. Leonard is a great poet/musician, and Corb is a tough-ass farm boy with brains and talent; I’m sure they’d get along and respect each other if they ever met.

  11. de gustibus non est disputandum.
    (An homage to Vίtruvius, which he may or may not appreciate.)
    But really, if Leonard ain’t your bag, well then Leonard ain’t your bag, but is anything that isn’t about drinkin and cows and trucks necessarily “pretentious”? (bearing in mind that I am in favour of all those things).

  12. Cows and trucks aside…Suzanne takes you down to a place by the river…..
    Pretentious? Suzanne isn’t happy.
    Artists call them a muse…

  13. Probably my least favorite Cohen song. Too hippyish. But never mind, I like Cord Lund okay (for a Scandi). Bandwidth and such.

  15. To be perfectly honest I’m offended by your non-stop, ongoing insults against Scandinavians, Black Mamba. We’re a part of the human race, too.

  19. EBD – what can I say? Scandis went from being pillaging raping murdering Vikings to Quisling socialists without an intervening period of civilization. I think you invented skiing, though, so props where props are due.
    But please don’t haul me in front of the HRCs, you’ll get nothing but some nice earrings and a TV that doesn’t work. I will fight to the death for custody of Mr. Fluffy.
    syncro – “folk song” bollux from a man capable of so much more. (Good night.)

  20. Also I have it on good authority that everyone in Scandinavia pees sitting down. Even the women.

  21. The OIC and the Caliphate
    The Islamic agenda is not coexistence, but dominion.
    The Organization of the Islamic Conference is the closest thing in the modern world to a caliphate. It is composed of 57 members (56 sovereign states and the Palestinian Authority), joining voices and political heft to pursue the unitary interests of the ummah, the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims. Not surprisingly, the OIC works cooperatively with the Muslim Brotherhood, the world’s most extensive and important Islamist organization, and one that sees itself as the vanguard of a vast, grass-roots movement —
    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/260786/oic-and-caliphate-andrew-c-mccarthy

  23. Pretty much all entertainment is pretentious, from rodeo mimicking real life to that Cohen mimicking…well, whatever he was mimicking.
    Play actors, playing the part without any of the costs of a real life part. Used to call them drug store cowboys.

  24. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    It’s not fair*.
    (*H/T Liberal Citoyen Kyoto Dionky)
    …-
    “Hard Freeze: California Wine Country
    Posted on February 26, 2011 by Anthony Watts
    I mentioned earlier today that my friend Jan Null, former lead forecaster for the NWS in San Francisco and now operator of Golden Gate Weather Service pointed out that a number of cold records were set overnight. Looks like we are in for a second night, and it looks even colder for some areas. Napa’s wine valley may hit 26-27 tonight. 2011 may not be a good year for wine then. We’ll see. Other grape growing areas in coastal valleys will also be affected:
    Here’s the official record reports:”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/26/hard-freeze-california-wine-country/
    …-
    “DPRK experiencing record low temperatures”
    “The temperature in North Korea stayed below the freezing point for 40 consecutive days this winter, a phenomenon only surpassed by a 62-day streak in 1945, the paper said, citing a North Korean meteorologist.
    “Even last year’s winter, which had already been colder than before, did not freeze the Taedong River this completely,” the Chosun Sinbo said. “People are now walking across the Taedong river in the heart of the city.”
    The chill has frozen soil up to 42 centimeters below, 10 cm deeper than last year, the paper said. The freeze may cause a delay in the plowing season, making farming more difficult although it does have the benefit of freezing harmful insects to death, it said.
    “At present, a wave of phone calls are being made by workers in the fields of agriculture and city construction” to the local weather agency with concerns, the paper said.
    South Korea also suffered a prolonged cold spell this year with temperatures even in the usually warmer southern regions dropping to their lowest levels in decades. Heavy snowfall and high waves also disrupted ground and sea traffic in those regions.”
    http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2011/02/21/dprk-experiencing-record-low-temperatures/

  25. Boo-hoo. Tough life, eh?
    “Could they really have failed to realize that they were swanning through a country-sized prison camp and torture chamber?”
    “Alberta woman fears for husband stranded in Libya”
    “Canada to close embassy in Libya”
    “Cdns urged to get last flight out of Libya”
    (canoenews)
    …-
    “Canadians in Libya took their chances”
    “Canadians want to be flown out of Libya? Hardly surprising, given the chaos engulfing that country. But our sympathy and wish to help Canadian expatriates should not divert us from difficult questions raised by this situation.
    In recent years, hordes of Canadian passport-holders have looked to Ottawa to facilitate their escape from sticky foreign situations. The most striking example was the removal of roughly tens of thousands of Canadian passport-holders from Lebanon during the Israel-Hezbollah War of 2006. Difficult questions were raised at the time. Were all of these “real” Canadians, or merely Canadians-of-convenience? Had they stayed in Canada only long enough to qualify for citizenship and its promise of world-beating health care, social welfare and pension benefits? Were there security risks, especially among those from the heartland of our Hezbollah enemy? What of the costs?
    We retrieved 15,000 from Lebanon at a cost to taxpayers of $85 million, with about half returning at the end of the crisis. Did many of these evacuees not have decades of warning that they were in a lethal locale? What was their responsibility for the bind in which they found themselves?
    Similarly, Libya. Canada’s impulse was to book private charter flights to collect passport-holders in Tripoli. But the reality of hazard caught up, and charter-insurers balked at sending planes to a conflict zone. Solution: send Canadian armed forces transport aircraft to the rescue.
    Now, think of the implications. Confronted by a dreadful national debt and diminishing social services, we are diverting precious diplomatic, military and other government resources. This, to send aircraft and personnel to rescue people who are presumed voluntarily to have submitted themselves to the risks that they now face. Indeed, some of whom may enjoy dual citizenships, with a want of commitment to Canada that fact might imply.
    Libya, a pariah state for decades, has been a notoriously brutal, torturing and terror-supporting dictatorship. Is it unfair to suggest that Canadians there on business — including the oil business — were making generous salaries in part because this risk was implicitly recognized in payment schemes? Is it unreasonable to suggest that they were, at least indirectly, servants of the regime with limited regard for abuses suffered by other residents?
    As for any tourists: Could they really have failed to realize that they were swanning through a country-sized prison camp and torture chamber?”
    http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/Canadians+Libya+took+their+chances/4353668/story.html

  26. Recently, the results of a climate poll were claimed to show that Canadians supported paying a carbon tax to alleviate the problem of climate change. That poll was linked previously, but I link it again here. Numbers are running neck-a-neck now:
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2011/02/climate-change-would-you-be-willing-to-pay-a-carbon-tax-to-help-fight-climate-change.html
    I objected to the manner in which the poll phrased its questions and the manner in which it drew its conclusions. It is one of the more clumsy efforts but every such should be challenged, I believe, otherwise it becomes part of the massive pool of sludge that proponents draw upon when they’re trying to influence public policy.
    This article: http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Deceptive+climate+poll+should+ignored/4354483/story.html
    makes the point again.

  27. a well know xian broadcaster weighs in on the Oda affair.
    she doesn’t talk nice about conservatists:
    3w.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/02/21/f-vp-dueck.html
    and here I thought conservatism and xianity went hand in hand.
    ooooooo dissension in the ranks !!! time to call in the riot police !!!

  28. It’s not fair that only Maritimers get to read these gems of wisdom from “Comrade Nadeau” (former prov. NDP candidate) in his weekly newspaper column. So I thought I’d share. Here, he muses on the flowering of democracy in the MidEast:
    “What many greatly fear is that these countries may drift towards Islamism, an explosive cocktail of religion and politics. The Muslim Brotherhood is perceived with great fear, and it is thought that it could become too important a player in governments. But is the Muslim Brotherhood more threatening than the religious, political right in our own country?”
    I had no idea our “religious, political right” wanted to shoot Jews from their wheelchairs. Who knew?
    http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/1383968

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