During the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union, the Russians used radio-detonated land mines triggered by a combination of three different notes (tones). In an – apparently successful – effort to jam these trigger tones, Finnish radio stations in one region began to broadcast, nonstop, a well-known and intricate Karelian polka that has nothing resembling a break or a pause in it. In tonight’s Tips music, we get a front row seat at Finnish accordion whiz Jussi Marttinen’s log-cabin performance of the historic Säkkijärven Polka. The guy’s *good*.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Obama Rant
Beauty link from zerohedge.
What has happened to Vίtruvius’s Experimental Election Predictor?
I have not seen an update since Apr 16?
[ It’s updated every Sunday afternoon, Jim. ~Vίtruvius ]
What happened to my last post? Please tell me WHY it was “caught” by the filter.
Oh, those lovable, zany, Wisconsin teachers:
Caller: “Can you verify that was Senator Leibham at the gas station this morning?”
Gas station clerk: “Senator Leibham?”
Caller: “Yes. Do you guys support him?”
Clerk: “I have nothing to say about that, I am not politically involved.”
Caller: “Alright, well you can tell Dick he’s not good for business, I’ll tell you that.”
“Shocked over the 26-second conversation, Hiers quickly traced the call — only to get surprise number two.
“It turned out to be coming from the Sheboygan area district school office…”
Dick Hiers, the owner of the gas station, pointed out: “I don’t pick and choose who can come into my business.”
If you want to make life easier for your local Conservative party volunteer please vote tomorrow or Monday in the advance polls. The Conservative Party (all the parties) have a giant database of every Canadian voter. They have likely identified you as a Conservative voter. If your local Conservative organization is on the ball someone will phone you until you go out and vote. So by voting early you help your local campaign concentrate on other less decided voters. And you will stop getting pestered by phone calls.
The Conservative Party voter database was created in Canada by Canadians at a cost of 100 million dollars. The inferior Liberal db was bought from Barak Obama sending our money south. What do you expect from the people who brought us a billion dollar plus long gun registry.
Warren Kinsella.com admits, while back biting other Liberals, that the LPC is finished and it will take some time to rebuild. So what are his intentions?
WK: “Personally, I don’t plan to sit out the rebuilding. After sifting through yesterday’s polls, I announced to myself – and now to y’all – that it’s time for me to take another stab at elected office. Not sure where, or when, but that’s what I’m going to do. You read it here first, etc.”
Yup, he probably thinks he should be PM too! because, well because he was Jean Adscams RH man. You know, the one who signed Canada on to Kyoto. And gave us the 62 cent Lonnie. And the golf course thing.
I’m curious how you all feel about what now seems like the distinct possibility of the NDP being the official opposition in Canada?
I have mixed feelings about it but would prefer to hear your thoughts rather than blethering about my own.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/decision-canada/McGill+business+guru+Mintzberg+fears+Harper+majority/4662467/story.html
Just another old Liberal trying to be passed off as some sort of conservative. the media keeps trying to pass off those dinosaurs as some kind of expert we should listen to… how’s that for water carrying!
You may not have noticed, but all across the country today there were huge lineups waiting at the advance polls. People have made up their minds are aren’t bothering to see what sort of pseudo-scandal de jour the media is going to dig up each day for the remaining nine days. The liberal lamestream media has lost the war.
Robert W – the choice, ruling class liberals or working class democrats ??
I believe Canada would be far better off with the NDP as official opposition (and occasionally, heh, as govt) After all, the one works for their pay while the other just “thinks”, schemes for their remuneration.
Am I wrong?
Free KevinB!!!
Kevin, for some reason the filter scored the coding in your link (and a bunch of others) as spam.
Thanks, Kate. At least I understand why; it’s hard to edit my posts to avoid the filter if I don’t know why they’re being stopped.
Thanks, Black Mamba, for your continued support.
On Dwayne’s tip:
Note to MSM: Harper keeps using MINTZ not MINTZBERG. Try talking to the right one next time.
Sandie Rinaldo is still doing her best Dan Rather impersonation attacking everything Steven Harper does. For the first 8 minutes of her “news” cast she moved from one attack to another. Have another face lift Sandie, something to cheer you up. Your constant degrading of a good family man, Harper, is getting very tiring. Why is it progressive lefties hate anyone who represents wholesome values, and love losers malcontents and scary dicks, like Taliban Jack/ Angry Gilles/ and Count Iggula. One more week Sandie, keep tryin, but it is very transparent, does Iggy give you a tingle up your leg?
Robert, I think the NDP would be better than the Liberals have been. The NDP at least can claim some interest in democracy (“free” vote on long gun registry, calling out Iggy for not attending parliament (guess he was too busy ranting about it being prorogued)). I also agree with Ron that the NDP is more middle class, blue collar oriented (oh yeah, Liberals are too — they just love to stoop down and help the little people).
Also they’ll move towards the centre if they don’t plan to set up permanent residence in Stornoway.
If that happens, Harper will have succeeded in moving the political spectrum a full step to the right.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/06/22/us-usa-politics-obama-energy-idUSN2243134220080622
Obama has no hope for a second term if gasoline reaches $5.00 per Gallon…
The talking heads (Business) are suggesting that futures speculation does not effect the oil price, that is weak.. If it has no Effect (mute) we should shut the futures market down… We better remember ENRON… The AG (Holder) is involved and may have some surprises from a secret Grand Jury.. The FBI has been busy around Chicago…
Just Saying!
BTW: I think this Action was because they know the USSC is going to rule against the States and thier lawsuits RE: AGW. California is so Fuc*ed
When Justice Ruth(ie) says no its near 9-0
It may be that we’re beginning to see the transition Britain went through in the early twentieth century wherein the old Liberal party became a virtual non-entity, replaced by the socialist i.e. Labour party. The result was two clear alternatives for the voters. That being said, I’m not sure how much stock to put in polls since, come election day, many of the liberal/lefties may well fall back on their traditional voting patterns with the libs being the second party.
If the upshot of that were to be an NDP government at some point in the future, it may produce a couple of years of hardship with the NDP then forced to sober up, grow up and ditch its more juvenile ideological nonsense once confronted with governing and its associated reality checks. The moonbats may then migrate to the Green Party. The aforementioned may, admittedly, be a best case scenario. The other scenario may see the NDP clinging to its ideological anchors while the ship of state sinks under their watch, unable to comprehend why anchors don’t keep them and the country afloat.
Keep hearing NDP candidates and supporters saying that Jack the weasle is the only honest and houorable man in the race. I beg to differ.
Lord help us if the Cons get a minority again, the weasle will be tripping over himself to reform the coalition and meke himself PM.
@ Robert…
I think all this talk of the NDP polling better than the Bloc in Quebec, is pure MsM hogwash.!
It’s invented propaganda…
Designed to convince Canadians a Lib/NDP coalition WITHOUT the Bloc is a possible desirable/voting option.
I’m confident the ploy will fail and that the Bloc will still take 38+ of Quebecs 75 seats.
I’ve speculated elsewhere that the Liberals will be lucky to garner 40 seats this election, and if that happens …watch for Bob Rae to lead a defection of lefty/liberals over to the NDP to give them official opposition status..!!
JMHO
Ps…
Met Chris Alexanders wife and her mother yesterday, came to my door canvassing …nice people…they’ve got my vote!
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“bartinsky says… Sandie Rinaldo is still doing her
best Dan Rather impersonation”
latest ipsos poll is calling for 201 conservative member
majority… sandie-poo can set herself on fire for all the
good it’ll do.
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neo; There’s a HUGE credibility gap with that poll result. Do you have a link?
This one’s averaged between the major pollsters…
http://www.wlu.ca/lispop/seatprojections.html
That one doesn’t show the undecided, which is also suspect.
I just watched the Macleans debates with Jason Kenney representing the conservatives on CPAC. It reminded me of when I watched wrestling as a child over 40 years ago. The good guy grapples with the bad guy, then 2 more bad guys jump in and turn it into a 3 on 1 pile on. Lesson–debate any party 1 on 1, or the coalition as one.
Macleans poll has no right answers. I would suggest–do you want a coalition government propped up by (mathematically challenged) socialists.— Or what happens if Quebec has another referendum and our federal coalition government is only power with support of the Bloc.
Oh hell..
In Soviet Russia, radio-detonated land mines detonate radios!!!
I think the best case scenario for the conservatives would be a complete liberal collapse. some moderate libs would fall towards the tories, lefties towards ndp, andmany would stay home. i feel at least the n d p stand for something no matter how distasteful. libs stand for nothing but power.
Fritz said:
“The inferior Liberal db was bought from Barak Obama sending our money south.”
You mean this O’narcissist*?
>>> “*Many complain of the incredible deceptive powers of the narcissist.”
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“Henninger: Obama’s Likability Gap”
“Obama.2008 was engaging, patient, open, optimistic and a self-identified conciliator.
Obama.2011 has been something else—testy, petulant, impatient, arrogant and increasingly a divider.
Never forget: That historic 2008 victory came with 52.9% of the total vote and 52% of independent voters. David Axelrod recently noted “how small the margin for error is.”
Presidential personality is well inside the margin of error for 2012, but the one on display recently has not been attractive. And it’s happening a lot.
This Monday, after wrapping up a White House interview with a Dallas TV reporter, the station reported that Mr. Obama said: “Let me finish my answers the next time we do an interview, alright?”
This self-referencing, snappish tone tracks with the president’s “open mic” comments last week at a Chicago fund-raiser. Dismissing the GOP as “nickel and diming” him on budget negotiations, he asked, “You think we’re stupid?” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the president wasn’t embarrassed. But he should be. Not because his comments were caught, but because suddenly he’s sounding more like Travis Bickle (“You talkin’ to me?”) than the president of the United States.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704658704576275061542909404.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
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“*Narcissistic leaders are nefarious and their effects pernicious. They are subtle, refined, socially-adept, manipulative, possessed of thespian skills, and convincing. Both types equally lack empathy and are ruthless and relentless or driven.”
“*Many complain of the incredible deceptive powers of the narcissist. They find themselves involved with narcissists (emotionally, in business, or otherwise) before they have a chance to discover their true character. Shocked by the later revelation, they mourn their inability to separate from the narcissist and their gullibility.”
“*Barack Obama – Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?”
http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections
Taliban Jack LaytoNDP’s socialist candidate tripped up by “social media”.
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“NDP candidate’s joke upsets Jewish people”
OTTAWA – An Ottawa NDP candidate’s attempt to be funny has landed him in hot water with members of the Jewish community.
The story began Thursday when Saskatchewan resident Michael Kempton-Jones posted a description of what Passover means on his Facebook page.
The last thing he expected to see Friday was a frivolous comment left by Ottawa South candidate James McLaren, who wrote: “Is that the month when Jewish people like to buy Japanese cars?”
Kempton-Jones was shocked when he read the posting.
McLaren, for his part, was taken aback and apologetic when he explained himself.”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/CanadaVotes/2011/04/22/18056931.html
Received this email the other day, a little long but worth the chuckle:
Canadian politics made simple
I asked my friend’s little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up.
She said she wanted to be Prime Minister of Canada some day.
Both of her parents, NDP supporters, were standing there, so I asked her, “If you were Prime Minister what would be the first thing you would do?”
She replied, “I’d give food and houses to all the homeless people.”
Her parents beamed, and said, “Welcome to the NDP Party!”
“Wow…what a worthy goal!” I told her. I continued, “But you don’t have to wait until you’re Prime Minister to do that. You can come over to my house, mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I’ll pay you $50. Then I’ll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out. You can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house.”
She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked,
“Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?”
I smiled and said, “Welcome to the Conservative Party.”
Her parents still aren’t speaking to me
Rex: Then & Now. The short and curly: Caught by.
Then:
“Rex Murphy: Has a campaign ever meant so little?”
Now:
“These are the musings and imaginings of a man and a party looking for some path past the grim anticipation of a bad showing.”
“Ignatieff’s coalition comments come too late to be a mistake”
“The pledge not to form a coalition was always meant to be porous, always meant to leave open some room for the (presumptive) second-place Liberals to find a way around the (presumptive) first-place Conservatives. The word coalition itself is sufficiently elastic to cover many combinations, from a strictly defined written arrangement, to some loose, tacit agreement among three losing parties. And the Liberals, when they wish to be, can be as semantically adept as Bill Clinton at his more inspired.
Further, the hard-headed strategists in the Ignatieff campaign most certainly knew that leaving the door ajar, just a tad, was just the smart thing to do — as long as it wasn’t too obvious. Never close down an option if you do not have to.
The Liberals want room to manoeuvre after election day — the ability to say they had never really ruled out some combination with the other parties if the chance to replace a minority Harper government does present itself. They just didn’t want this scenario at the forefront of their campaign.
Till this week. That’s the telling point of the exchange with Mansbridge. Was it a stumble? Or was it stage two of the necessary preparation for the post-election period? I go with the second option. Mr. Ignatieff, three weeks into the campaign, was surely not caught off-guard by the question.”
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/04/23/rex-murphy-ignatieffs-coalition-comments-come-too-late-to-be-a-mistake/
Considering the Liberals’ ties to Mo Strong and the One World Government crew, as well as their chummy relationship with Canada’s MSM, which goes hand in hand with the Liberals’ utter lack of morals and Mafia like cheating—e.g., Adscam—seeing them bite the dust would be just fine with me. The sooner, the better. (Schadenfreude: sweet!)
The poll (seat projection) that has the Conservatives winning 201 seats also has the BQ winning only 4 seats. That is highly unlikely. IMHO,this projection is rubbish,even though it was made by something called “Fair Vote Canada”.
http://www.canada.com/life/Projection+shows+Tories+would+seats+strong+majority/4657941/story.html
Anna, your friends little girl has my vote! Good one.
The 201 seat projection was an average across Canada based on the Ipsos percentage. It was crudely done, and with the Bloc only getting 4 seats it is also totally misleading. I am concerned that making this a headline will send all the Harper fear mongers to the voting booths, some of whom might have just sat out the election. Given its flaws, this should not have been given such high profile media attention.
The Liberals have an ad out targetting the NDP. I like it,especially the part where they denounce the NDP for having inexperienced candidates.
Mike,you might want to stop flogging that horse,you are still riding it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV37nQyzqKA
“Meanwhile, the Bloc has struggled as the devil in holy water”.
That is hilarious. It’s a unique Quebec/French Catholic perspective. More, please.
“”The biggest loser of the campaign, the mayor of Quebec,” said one observer.”
http://tinyurl.com/3vuttnp
Robert- I’d prefer the clarity of an NDP opposition. All the debates would be black and white, left and right, etc. It would be much easier to pick a side, and go with it. If the socialists win, so be it. I’ll move to Idaho.
Thank you all for your responses to my question about how you’d feel about the NDP becoming the official opposition in Canada.
Here are my thoughts:
I absolutely detest the “limousine liberal” smugness exhibited by soooooo many Liberals I meet here in Vancouver. They are holier than thou. How do I know this? Because they keep on telling me so … over & over again! Yet so many of them are hypocrites to the core and believe in the 2-tiered system that always results from socialism and communism. So good riddens.
But what about the long term implications of the NDP being the other party in power? Such is the case here in B.C. On the provincial level in my province, the NDP has been in power twice since 1972. BOTH times they bankrupted the province. To be very specific, their policies caused massive economic problems that hurt the province for many years to come. They were soundly booted out and rightly so.
But having an NDP opposition, what choice does this give to the average voter? Little to none. I don’t want to vote for a party because “they’re the only alternative” or “the least worst evil”. I haven’t been happy the BC Liberals and I haven’t been happy with the federal Tories. But both parties intuitively know that voters like me have no other choice so they get complacent. And complacency generally leads to corruption.
Whoa.. that new Liberal attack on the NDP is bad. Bringing up Jack’s 26 years of experience probably isn’t the best way to attack him – especially when he’s standing next to the carpetbagging Count. Total failure.
I disagree with everything the NDP stands for. But I respect that they stand for something. The Liberals, however, stand for nothing except for power attainment. Our parliament will be a much more civil with a strong left and strong right to battle it out over ideas. We may be spared the ridiculous faux scandal a day we have been subjected to.
I agree, Rick. The Liberals are political whores: they stand on no principle. They’ll go for anything they think will get them a handful of votes. E.g., Driving through the Jewish parts of my city, which used to vote uniformly Liberal, there are very few red and white signs: there are still few blue and white signs—but a lot more than there used to be, and more than there are Liberal signs. A very good sign, I’d say.
The Real Co-Conspirators Behind The 2011 Coup
http://burpnrun.blogspot.com/2011/04/real-co-conspirators-behind-2011-coup.html
Well worth the read. This guys’ done his homework. There’s a lot more to this Coalition of Three Thugs than meets the eye.
My spidey sense is saying that Jack Layton’s surge in the polls in Quebec is because he’s in cahoots with Gilles Duceppe.
NDP vote/Bloc vote? All in the service of the Coalition of The Three Thugs.
Say it ain’t so, Jack … Gilles?
CTV.ca First Time Voter Guide
Last two paragraphs.
Un-freaking-believable.
Give it legs, Kate. I don’t have the following.
CC’d: JoanneBLY
(I saved to pdf for posterity should it disappear down the memory hole.)
For the eve of Easter, here’s an interesting article, at Real Clear Politics, “How Easter and Christianity undermine atheism” by Anthony DeSefano. It’s an apology for Christianity. I like it!
Among other things, he says: “. . . If human beings were going to invent a religion based on wishful thinking, they could come up with something a lot ‘easier’ than Christianity. After all, why not wish for a religion that promised eternal life in heaven, but at the same time allowed promiscuous sex, encouraged gluttony, did away with all the commandments, and forbade anyone to ever mention the idea of judgment and punishment? . . .”
(With apologies to many fine Christians—some in my own family: DeStefano’s too polite, I guess, to point out that these contradictions perfectly describe the Anglican Church!)
Here’s the article:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-04-21-Easter-lesson-for-atheists.htm?loc=interstitialskip
I’ve just had a comment caught in the filter. Did it not like my swipe at Anglicanism? I’m stumped!
I think Kate’s been playing fast and loose with wildcards in her regexps. I don’t make it through a lot of times, either.
My apologies to Anonymous:
Jack and Gilles went up the hill
To fetch a whack of power,
Gilles said done!
I’ll give you some –
And Jack became man of the hour.
(Let’s see if a lousy latter-day nursery rhyme makes it through the filter!!!)
Anybody see this yet? Iggy is attacking the NDP for proposing a cap and trade plan saying it will damage the economy. You can’t make this stuff up.
“The Liberals point out that the NDP platform envisions rather magical sources of funding, including from a cap-and-trade system to limit industrial greenhouse gas emissions that would take years to set up and may end up costing governments more in lost business taxes than they ever raise in revenue.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/liberals-tories-zero-in-attack-ads-on-layton-as-ndp-surges-in-polls/article1996503/
soundofmusak @ 6:30 pm.
These are the paragraphs that you speak of;
So if you click on the private member’s bill called C-449 – “An Act regarding free public transit for seniors,” you’ll see that just about every Bloq Quebecois and Conservative MP voted against it and most NDP and Liberal MPs supported it.
(The bill called for the creation of a fund so that seniors could ride transit systems for free during off-peak hours. The bill failed, by the way: 175 nays to 105 yeas.)
Well.at least they didn’t direct new voters to the CBC vote compiss.
maz2 @ 7:05 a.m.:
If James McLaren were a candidate in Vancouver rather than in Ottawa, he’d stand a good chance of being $15,000 lighter.