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  1. Seinfeld is probably the best show ever. Why can’t the CBC make good stuff like this? Oh right.. because it’s an artifical life-support basket case of rewarded incompetence.

  4. What do you really think Vic?
    Vic Toews puts some well deserved boots to the CBC.
    The story is good, the video clip on the left side is better:
    http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2011/08/20110802-172918.html
    “”I have long since given up trying to understand the state broadcaster, or the CBC as we know them more popularly,” Toews said. “I find it so fascinating that they refuse to put the names of the individuals and pictures of the individuals on their network given that these are individuals who have been found by a tribunal not to be admissible in Canada and legal warrants have been issued for their arrest.””
    (snip)
    “”I find it ironic that the CBC was always so quick to try to implicate our Canadian armed forces in war crimes in Afghanistan and never hesitant to mention that, but in this situation, when we actually have rulings from tribunals, they’re reluctant to involve themselves.””

  6. Funniest episode of all. The Library Cop.
    http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheLibrary.htm
    “Maybe we can live without
    libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we’re too old to change
    the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right
    now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees
    and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers?
    Doesn’t HE deserve better? Look. If you think this is about overdue
    fines and missing books, you’d better think again. This is about that
    kid’s right to read a book without getting his mind warped! Or: maybe
    that turns you on, Seinfeld; maybe that’s how y’get your kicks. You and
    your good-time buddies. Well I got a flash for ya, joy-boy: Party time
    is over. Y’got seven days, Seinfeld. That is one week!:

  8. http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article473011.ece
    Relax people, our freedom and liberty is being safeguarded by Hillary Clinton and the USA:
    July 12: 2011
    ISTANBUL: In what can rightly be described as a seminal step in relations between the Muslim world and the Western world, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the leading nations of the Western world led by the United States and the European Union agreed Saturday to take concrete steps to combat intolerance, negative stereotyping and discrimination, incitement to violence, and violence against persons based on religion or belief

  9. Don’t look, Ethel*.
    …-
    “The debt crisis forces the West into retreat”
    “The US debt debacle may signal the end of the American century not only economically, but also militarily and diplomatically. A minor exchange last weekend hinted at the shape of things to come. On a visit to Afghanistan, Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was asked by troops if they would get paid if the US defaulted. “I really don’t know the answer to the question,” came the reply.
    There, in a nutshell, is the new geopolitical reality confronting the US. It can no longer afford to be the world’s policeman. A large slice of the $2.4 trillion cuts package will come out of the defence budget. President Obama is already approaching foreign entanglements more as an accountant than a warrior. Few doubt that if the Americans had been fully engaged in the Libya campaign, Colonel Gaddafi would be long gone. The planned withdrawal from Afghanistan is driven as much by financial considerations as military and political ones. A former Pentagon official has calculated that it is costing $20 billion a year simply to supply air-conditioning to US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. Such a swaggering, money-no-object approach to military deployments has been a feature of the US in combat since the Second World War. No more, it would seem.
    [More]”
    “See Also:
    Chinese agency downgrades U.S. credit rating
    Moody’s affirms AAA rating, lowers outlook
    Sputtering Economy Sends Dow Plunging 266 Points
    Fears about global economy rattle investors
    Massive rout spells trouble for Wall Street”
    “See Also:
    Greece in panic as it faces change of Homeric proportions
    Greece: The create escape
    Italy under fire in widening euro debt crisis
    Equities ditched as eurozone fears bite
    Euro-Zone Debt Woes Get Messier”
    http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
    *Ray Stevens The Streaker.

  10. More cuts to the left-liberal arts:
    “Prosecutors said in court last week they suspect Savedoff also flushed an unidentified archival document down a library toilet moments before he was arrested July 9 in the Baltimore headquarters of the Maryland Historical Society.”
    H/T Our CBC’s M. Artwood.
    …-
    “Celebrated Quebec bronze artwork stolen for scrap CTV.ca”
    …-
    “Canadian indicted for theft of U.S. heritage treasures”
    “A Canadian is at the centre of a case in the U.S. involving a prominent presidential historian and the alleged theft of rare documents and other memorabilia worth millions of dollars.
    Copies of speeches penned by Franklin D. Roosevelt, an 1861 property deed signed by Abraham Lincoln and a 1780 letter sent by Benjamin Franklin to Revolutionary War hero John Paul Jones were among dozens of documents seized by the FBI and Baltimore police from 24-year-old Jason Savedoff and his apparent mentor, American antiquarian Barry Landau, 63.
    Savedoff, a former B.C. resident, had been working in New York over the past year with Landau, who’s well known in the U.S. heritage community as a collector of artifacts related to the U.S. presidency.
    Landau has appeared regularly over the years on U.S. TV as an expert on presidential inaugurations, pets and social functions.”
    http://www.theprovince.com/travel/Canadian+indicted+theft+heritage+treasures/5197524/story.html

  11. Name of the terrorist group?
    Mohammedanism, aka Islam.
    …-
    “Lawyer for war crimes suspect gets ban on terrorist group’s name”
    “A lawyer for a suspected war criminal in Canada illegally has convinced a Immigration and Refugee Board detention review hearing to put a publication ban on the terrorist group with which his client was involved.
    Arshad Muhammad, 42, came to Canada from Pakistan in 1999 with a fake Italian passport and applied for refugee status but when that failed he allegedly went underground.
    He was found after his face was published as one of 30 suspected war criminals in Canada.
    Now Muhammad’s lawyer, Lorne Waldman, wants more publication bans.
    He has been given the opportunity to go through the evidence linking his client to a terrorist organization to ask for more bans.
    “Last time I appeared by telephone and I had no idea the harm that was caused by the publicity. My client was put on a most wanted list for crimes against humanity publicly in a way that has caused great harm,” Waldman said.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/08/02/18502686.html

  12. Editorial today in the Globe and Mail on the NDP’s ill-advised appointment of Nycole Turmel as their interim leader:
    … Mr. Layton may have done Canada a service by having attracted a number of Quebeckers like Ms. Turmel to the federalist side, in the process relegating the Bloc Québécois to a rump in the current Parliament. But he and the party’s management should have paused to reflect on the consequences of appointing such a person to such a position. Not since Lucien Bouchard and Gilles Duceppe has someone whose loyalty to federalism appeared so tepid and fair-weather served as leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition.
    It would be one thing had Ms. Turmel been a Bloc supporter in, say, the 1990s, and long ago renounced that affiliation, becoming an outspoken federalist in the process. But her conversion only came this January. Even then, she wrote a letter to the Bloc that her membership cancellation “has nothing to do with the party’s policies, I am doing this for personal reasons.” Chief among the “party’s policies,” of course, is the promotion of Quebec sovereignty. …
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/nycole-turmel-and-the-ndp-have-some-explaining-to-do/article2117509/

  13. I couldn’t agree more chutzpahticular.
    Philip Baker Hall should have one an Emmy for that scene alone.

  14. Neo-AGW Progress Report:
    Sanctioned for peer review.
    …-
    “Scientists credited on ghostwritten articles ‘should be charged with fraud'”
    “Legal experts call for severe sanctions against scientists who ‘guest author’ papers written by drugs companies”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/aug/02/scientists-ghostwritten-articles-fraud
    …-
    “Bureaucrats offer up green misinformation”
    “Tuesday’s Post contained a story about allegedly revealing “briefing notes” given to Peter Kent by his bureaucrats when he became Environment Minister eight months ago. The notes were obtained under an access-to-information request. By whom isn’t clear.
    Headlined “Canada lagging U.S. on climate, Kent warned,” the story quoted Environment’s mandarins’ claims that “Climate change is the most serious environmental issue facing the world today.”
    In fact, the neophyte minister regurgitated this assertion virtually word for word in his maiden speech. Did he really believe it? Who knows? What we do know is that something rather significant happened to the Conservative government after Mr. Kent went to Environment: it won a parliamentary majority.”
    http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/Bureaucrats+offer+green+misinformation/5196314/story.html

  17. I am absolutely shocked and disgusted by the way the english-canadian medias are treating Nycole Turmel. She is treated as a leprosis woman, she is treated as if in Iran they found some iranian politician with zionist link.
    Shame on Canada. Shame on Andrew Coyne.
    I am thinking of rejoining the bloc.
    Quebecois NDPiste.

  18. Daniel Ream:
    I’m with you.I see the show as 4 members of a certain heritage who do nothing but whine, perpetuating the stereotype of that heritage. Whining makes me angry not amused.I see Seinfeld, the person, as George Carlin with a lobotomy.

  20. John: “Philip Baker Hall should have one an Emmy for that scene alone.”
    Yes! His venom and dramatic arm gestures crack me up every time. The whole ‘Seinfeld’ ensemble is brilliant. The characters are off-the-wall, and they play off each other hilariously.

  21. August 3, 1948 – August 3, 2011.
    Connect the dots: From Red Hiss to Red Turmel.
    …-
    Whittaker Chambers:
    “On August 3, 1948, Chambers testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee and presented a list of what he said were members of an underground communist network working within the United States government in the 1930s and 1940s. One of the names on that list was that of a State Department official who had participated in the creation of the United Nations: Alger Hiss.”
    http://conservapedia.com/Whittaker_Chambers
    …-
    “Harper calls Turmel’s Bloc ties ‘disappointing'”
    “Prime Minister Stephen Harper says it’s “disappointing” that interim NDP Leader Nycole Turmel spent several years as a card-carrying member of the separatist Bloc Quebecois.
    Speaking to reporters in Hamilton on Wednesday, Harper addressed this week’s revelations that Turmel spent five years as a member of the Bloc, before cancelling her membership earlier this year.
    “I do think Canadians will find this disappointing,” Harper said. “I think Canadians expect that any political party that wants to govern the country be unequivocally committed to this country. I think that’s the minimum Canadians expect.””
    http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Harper+calls+Turmel+Bloc+ties+disappointing/5199310/story.html

  22. War is coming to the Middle East , with Russia as the meddler.
    Moscow defends Assad, seeks nuclear deal with Iran by freezing sanctions
    As Moscow prepares to block strong UN Security Council condemnation of Syrian violence against protest, Russian diplomats Monday, Aug. 1, launched a quiet effort to start freezing sanctions imposed on Iran over its military nuclear program in return for Tehran satisfactorily answering the International nuclear watchdog’s
    http://debka.com/article/21171/

  27. Quebecois NDPiste: “I am thinking of rejoining the bloc.”
    Usually the rats jump off the sinking ship.

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