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Stopping to change a flat tire can add precious time to a road trip, but as Lothar Schauer and Jeanette Effner demonstrate, there is another option. Not that I recommend it, or anything.
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  1. London Riots
    Olympic ambassador ‘hurled bricks at police car’ and led attack on Vodafone store during riots – and was shopped to police by her mum
    A girl chosen as an ‘Olympic ambassador’ was turned in to police by her mother who saw her among rioters on TV.
    An emotional Adrienne Ives, 47, said the decision which led to the arrest of her 18-year-old daughter Chelsea was ‘gut-wrenching’.
    She said: ‘But I had to do what was right. She won’t thank us.’
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024952/London-riots-2011-Olympic-ambassador-Chelsea-Ives-18-led-Enfield-Vodafone-attack.html

  2. Battleground Europe.
    The leftist comrades strike.
    …-
    “The attacker was identified as one Karen Drambyan, 57, a member of the United Leftist Party of Estonia, a group with strong links to the country’s Russian community.”
    “Baku-APA. A gunman who attacked the Estonian Defense Ministry building in the capital Tallinn on Thursday has killed himself, police said, APA reports quoting RIA Novosi.”
    http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=153170

  4. According to British blogger Fitwatcher, Britain’s rioting goofballs are just reacting to gentrification, capitalism, and “shiny unattainable products shoved in (their) faces through advertising.” The upright, decent citizens who want law and order restored are, in contrast, disgustingly unaware:

    “I feel utterly sickened at the attitude of large numbers of people who are suddenly supporting the police, who support the army being brought in, who want to see water canon and plastic bullets used on the streets. I am livid with rage at people who have never experienced police harassment not even attempting to understand the brutalisation this causes…”

    The sort of inverted morality wherein cretinous, pleasure-seeking perps are deemed to be “victims,” and decent people who want order restored just don’t understand what’s going on is remarkably common among members of the British commentariat at newspapers like the Guardian, but the results of this recent poll (h/t Transmontanus) suggest that a large number of British citizens do indeed understand the truth: that the cretins who assault and humiliate and rob people, loot small businesses, and commit arson are doing so because they have been liberated from the prospect of being “harassed”:

    “Asked if the police should be able to use various tactics in response to riots provoked some pretty gung ho responses – 90% of people thought they should be able to use water cannon, 84% mounted police, 82% curfews, 78% tear gas, 72% tasers, 65% plastic bullets, 33% live ammunition. 77% thought that the army should be brought in.

  5. From our ‘every woman has a right to control her own body’ file!
    By Kathy Shaidle on Thursday, August 11th, 2011 | 1 Comment
    Ew!
    An anesthetist at a Marie Stopes abortion facility in Manchester has been accused of using the hands of unconscious women to perform sexual acts on himself as they underwent abortions.
    Dr. Narendra Sharma is again facing allegations of misconduct at a hearing before the General Medical Council (GMC).
    The Manchester Crown Court in April 2009 acquitted the anesthetist of charges that he abused three other clients in the same way. (…)
    Sharma denies the allegations and claims he is a victim of racism, the same defense he offered two years earlier.
    http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/2011/08/from-our-every-woman-has-a-right-to-control-her-own-body-file/

  6. Watching the debates…we’re in trouble.
    If one of these social conservatives gets the nod, we will lose. I wish Mitch Daniels were running.

  7. Thanks Matt at August 11, 2011 10:24 PM
    That guy is creepy.
    Another of tomorrows all knowing facists, hatched in the smokey cannabis dens formerly known a universities.
    Can he even answer a straight question about the repercussions of imposing his dream?
    Must the third world forgo even minimal industrial advancement, forever staying on their knees, to placate his paranoia?
    No answer.
    So typical of those blinded by their hatred of western civilization.
    Uses public/private transportation,imports his bicycle clothes, uses the internet running on nuclear power(HORROR!) Such a flaming hypocrite, but he is not alone.
    Just for that pr&*k, I’m gonna have a campfire.

  9. @ Revnant Dream
    The part I don’t understand is if the woman were all unconscious, how would they know ? Unexplained curl in their hand or perhaps growing hair on their palms ?
    A helping hand could have a whole new meaning.

  10. Microbes “unexpectedly” ate the gulf oil slick five times faster than expected.
    [Slick gone three weeks after well shut off.] Woods Hole
    I guess all those microbes have always been around and waiting to eat oil – after all, mother earth has, though out millennium, spilled oil naturally at sea and on land. Mankind is now working hard in Northern Alberta to clean up the Mother Earth of all spills.
    So whats the problem?
    Drill. Baby. Drill.
    http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-whoi-microbes-consumed-oil-gulf.html

  12. Ann Coulter:
    The Daily Mail (London) traced the family’s proud Anglo ancestry of stable families back hundreds of years. The Nazi war machine couldn’t break the British, but the modern welfare state has.

  13. If a Pan-European short ban is declared for the next 15 days, does that mean the bad news is coming before, or after the ban?
    Hmmm.

  15. Mississauga Matt @ 10:24, I saw that segment and I got a chill down my spine. This fellow also advocated population reduction and I can only guess that this process would be similar to that carried out by Lenin in the early 1920s, Stalin in the late 20s and 1930s and Hitler in the 1940s except on an even bigger scale.
    Good question lookout.

  16. Just ran into this interview with Yuri Bezmenov on a WUWT comments thread and it’s well worth watching. Now I really wonder to what degree the financial and social situation in Europe is the work of incompetent politicians, or were there quite a few nudges toward the cliff from the KGB.
    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32cxf_yuri-bezmenov_news#from=embed
    EBD, I’ve always wondered about how one deals with a flat front tire on a motorcycle. Thanks for that link; amazing cerebellar function and flawlessly functioning vestibular and proprioceptive systems.

  17. Mississauga Matt, thanks for posting that video link so we now know what some of our enemies look like. I just hope CSIS is keeping tabs on these eco-terrorist kooks.

  18. “amazing cerebellar function and flawlessly functioning vestibular and proprioceptive systems.”
    In non-doctor speak – the guy practiced this hundreds of times, took lots of falls that didn’t kill him, to make the video. As a result of the practicing it looked like a display of amazing cerebellar function and flawlessly functioning vestibular and proprioceptive systems.

  19. Globe and Mail, Thursday, Aug. 11. Letter to the editor, name redacted to protect the guilty:
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/thursday-aug-11-letters-to-the-editor/article2125666/print/
    “The British Prime Minister and anyone else who thinks the riots are simply criminals running amok have their heads in the sand. What we’re witnessing are more likely the early – inevitable – repercussions of Reagan/Thatcher/Bush/Harper libertarianism. The rich and would-be rich would like to believe that effort and individual enterprise will deliver economic equity, since this belief absolves them of any moral responsibility relative to the have-nots. It stretches credulity, however, to claim that laziness is the cause of these riots.”
    What libertarianism? We live in a heavily regulated semi-socialist welfare state where governments waste ridiculous amounts of tax money. The moral responsibility they have to everybody is to cut back the wastefulness of the state so that businesses can create productive jobs for the young again and enable them to have a prosperous standard of living.
    This letter is a prime example of how leftist cretins blame capitalism for the sins of its enemies. The same is true for the unadulterated garbage found on the Fitwatch blog that EBD linked to previously.
    – – – – – – – – – –
    National Post, Thursday, Aug. 11. Letter to the editor, unknowingly in refutation of the nonsense in the Globe letter.
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/08/11/todays-letters-u-k-rioters-lack-morality/
    “The belief that governments could provide the myriad of programs they try to administer — including health care, education, pensions, housing, food, legal aid and unemployment insurance — is the biggest fantasy of them all.
    Taxing the middle class and the rich to pay for all this can only work for so long. At some point, the burden imposed by excessive taxation and regulations will prevent entrepreneurs from risking their capital. We have reached that point and yet governments continue to borrow or print money to keep the party going.”
    Exactly.

  22. Mamba, I would like to see Putin invited to be a guest tracker on the Mantracker TV series. I suspect he would be flattered by such an invitation, and enjoy the opportunity to demonstrate his mad KGB skillz.

  23. O’narcissist* crushed woman:
    ““… President Obama has become a weather vane. He was supposed to be the wind,” wrote one obviously crushed woman.”
    “Like many others, I wanted Mr. Obama to bang his fist and tell the world he’s angry about the useless game of ideological chicken being played in Washington. I wanted him to say to the American public: You deserve better than this. But I guess that’s awkward when you’re part of the mess.
    If nothing else, he needs a new speechwriter.”
    “*This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
    …-
    “What ever happened to ‘Yes, we can’? Signs of the ‘Obamaclypse’”
    “The psychological needs of a nation in crisis are exactly the same as individuals in personal crises: We want to be reassured that it won’t always be like this, and we want to know that there is a plan to get us out of the mess. What’s the first step? And the one after that?
    But the truth is, we don’t really want our economic reassurance to come just from our leaders and their words. We want it in bank statements and investment reports that tell us we’re all not going to be dead broke, and we want it in job offers and promotions and startups that allow us to think we’re “safe for another year.”
    Woe betide the leader who cannot address those needs and then even fails at weaving a web of reassurance. “Withholder-in-chief” was one headline in The New York Times, while many letters to the editor summed up even the Democrats’ (especially the Democrats’) profound disappointment in a leader they had counted on to be a transformational president, but who has instead tepidly presided over the daycare antics of a divided Congress during the debt-ceiling debate.
    “… President Obama has become a weather vane. He was supposed to be the wind,” wrote one obviously crushed woman.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/news-and-views/judith-timson/what-ever-happened-to-yes-we-can-signs-of-the-obamaclypse/article2126841/
    …-
    *O’narcissist:
    “This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
    “The “small people”, the “rank and file”, the “loyal soldiers” of the narcissist – his flock, his nation, his employees – they pay the price. The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing. The process of reconstruction, of rising from the ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and manipulated – is drawn-out. It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the erstwhile followers of the narcissist.”
    http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

  24. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    Sea levels are rising. Right?
    Wrong.
    …-
    “How low will the river go?”
    “Area tourism operators, shoreline businesses and recreational boaters are watching water levels drop on the St. Lawrence River with trepidation.
    Levels on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River are down about a foot from the high-water mark experienced in June when concerns were being raised about soil erosion and docks being submerged after heavy spring rains and extensive snowmelt from the winter.
    But now, despite a reduction in the amount of water flowing through the Robert Moses Saunders Power Dam in Cornwall, the alarm is being raised over fears that a further drop in water levels appears inevitable.
    “We always expect a bit of a drop, but our hope is it doesn’t get as bad as last year,” said Mark Janus, co-owner of Caiger’s Resort on the 1000 Islands Parkway near Rockport.”
    http://www.recorder.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3253240

  25. Loki @ 12:46 ponders ” , I’ve always wondered about how one deals with a flat front tire on a motorcycle “.
    Usually you have it repaired while the rest of the bike and yourself is being put back together. A flat on a bike can be very scary.
    Years ago, I was travelling across country and in between Nowhere,Montana and Middle of Nowhere,Montana I had a rear flat. This was minutes after taking off the helmet,luckily I had just cracked a beer(tricky,but it can be done)and was not exceeding the suggested speed limit. I did not crash.
    I got off the highway and started taking the wheel off. A woman,one of those bad Americans,pulled over(she was alone),and then waited while I got the wheel off. She then took me into the nearest town, about 20 miles away,brought me to the garage to drop off the wheel,then took me to her family bar while it was being fixed. When the tire was patched,she drove me back to my bike.
    Rural American hospitality at it’s finest.

  26. PET Cemetery/McGuinty Report: Duped/suckered by Liberal McGuinty.
    Red-Green AGW Fraud Relief Fund now accepting donations for Rita, et al. Tax receipts available.
    Send to McGuinSocialism.caca.
    ““I am worried sick about it. If they don’t connect us, what are we going to do?””
    Sue McGuinty? Yup.
    …-
    “Energy”
    “Solar power among renewable projects languishing from Hydro One delays”
    “Rita Van Geffen is worried about losing her retirement nest egg. She and her daughter poured $105,000 into a solar project on her farm west of London, enticed by an Ontario government program that promised lucrative, long-term payments for green power.
    Her ground-mounted solar panel has been ready to feed energy into the electricity grid for almost a year, but Ms. Van Geffen is still waiting to hear when it will be hooked up. She’s not alone.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/hooking-up-with-ontarios-hydro-one-not-so-easy/article2127342/

  27. Mississauga Matt at August 11, 2011 10:24 PM
    I watched that the other night. The only thing that kept running through my brain box was Tom Clancy’s “Rainbow Six”.

  28. Rise Up*! Rise Up*! Pop! goes the leftist’s dreams.
    Harvard Rebel Yell: O & I.
    “**When Michael Ignatieff resigned as leader of Canada’s Liberals at a press conference in Toronto on May 3rd, members of his team were seen at the back of the room in tears.”
    …-
    “Americas
    Obama urges voters to voice anger at Washington’s partisan ‘theatrics’”
    (googoo)
    …-
    **
    “Iggy Pops: The Michael Ignatieff Experiment”
    “When Michael Ignatieff resigned as leader of Canada’s Liberals at a press conference in Toronto on May 3rd, members of his team were seen at the back of the room in tears. They were grieving not just for their party—which the previous day had suffered the worst defeat in its history, coming a first-ever third place in the federal election, behind not only their Conservative Party tormentors but also the left-wing New Democrats. They were grieving even more for the death of a dream, the sad end of a six-year experiment that they had once believed would conclude with a unique man, Ignatieff himself, pulling the sword of political governance out of the stone of political theory and coming to power in Canada as a contemporary philosopher-king.”
    http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/articles/2011-JulyAugust/Smith.html

  29. That would have been hell for the poor driver if the tire changer had a large meal of beans and cabbage…

  30. macd (Iggy Pops: “The Michael Ignatieff Experiment” 8:14
    I thought the writer was even-handed and somewhat accurate until I came to this line: “Ignatieff appeared at times too clever by half; the folksy Harper consistently spoke directly into the camera…” (election debates) One term I would never use to describe Mr. Harper is “folksy”. To explain the titanic failure of Mr. Ignatieff by describing his opponent as a warmer, fuzzier being is off track. I might describe Mr. Layton as folksy, but never Mr. Harper.

  31. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/gun-collector-sues-toronto-police-for-seizing-legally-owned-firearms/article2127176/
    “A gun collector who was arrested outside his east-end apartment during a midnight raid has launched a $6.5-million lawsuit against the Toronto police, his former landlords and a tipster.
    Peter Sedge, 59, said he was removed from his Beaches home at gunpoint wearing only his underwear during the May, 2008, seizure of about 120 legally collected firearms.”
    The article is interesting but it’s even more interesting that, after receiving comments all in support of Mr. Sedge, the G&M disabled them.

  32. Mao Stlong* Lepolt: Feeding the Red-Green Dragon.
    You wan “Bloody GDP”?
    “**China’s the head of the dragon of the leading economies in Asia,” said Tait.”
    …-
    “**Is China next in Harper’s travel plans?”
    http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/China+next+Harper+travel+plans/5243339/story.html
    …-
    “China’s railway troubles have spooked the modern emperors in Beijing”
    “China’s decision to suspend all new high-speed railway projects, pending further checks on the safety of its much-vaunted high-speed railway network, is yet another indication of how deeply the Wenzhou rail disaster has spooked the powers-that-be in Beijing.
    The government in China may be autocratic, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t keen to be seen to respond to public outrage, particularly when it feels the noose of hostile public opinion, which has veered towards lynch-mob mentality of late, tightening around its neck. Even the trusted party mouthpiece, People’s Daily, warned after the accident about the risk of “Bloody GDP” – putting economic gain above people’s lives. (And as the railway corruption scandals have shown, China’s major investment projects tend to bring “economic benefits” to party officials more quickly than anything else.)”
    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peterfoster/100100545/chinas-railway-troubles-have-spooked-the-modern-emperors-in-beijing/
    *Liberal Bob Rae’s Uncle Mo Strong.

  33. CNN has tribute to the 30 soliders who died in the copter crash. Most were SEAL unit.
    What are they all doing on the same chopper?

  35. Prime Minister Harper happens to be in Honduras today on the last leg of his trip to Latin America. As with Colombia, Honduran democracy has been under constant attack from Marxism over the years especially with its resurgence sponsored by Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Apparently, the Marxists have even taken over the Gay rights movement in Honduras!
    Link to their revisionist depiction of the revolutionary Ché Guevara — humorous lampoonery on the People’s Cube:
    http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/gay-che-t7628.html

  37. $ue Liberal McGuinty. Yup.
    It’s for the children.
    …-
    “eHealth Ontario workers start class action suit for wage increases, bonuses”
    “Ontario’s Liberal government vowed Friday to fight a proposed class-action suit by employees at scandal-plagued eHealth Ontario, who have taken the first step in the legal action to get pay raises.
    Hundreds of employees at the electronic health records agency were promised merit increases of 1.9 per cent and bonuses averaging 7.8 per cent this year, despite a Liberal government order to freeze public sector wages for two years.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ehealth-ontario-workers-start-class-action-suit-for-wage-increases-bonuses/article2128175/

  40. peterj
    Rembember what I say because its to true never to forget. Someone is always watching, someone is always listening. With the phones you have these days nothing is hidden. Besides you can bet someone walked in on him, or filmed it .

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