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  1. Via Americandigest, this rather prescient column by The Telegraph’s Gerald Warner, written at the time of Obama’s inauguration in January 2009.
    It begins:

    This will end in tears. The Obama hysteria is not merely embarrassing to witness, it is itself contributory to the scale of the disaster that is coming. What we are experiencing, in the deepening days of a global depression, is the desperate suspension of disbelief by people of intelligence – la trahison des clercs – in a pathetic effort to hypnotise themselves into the delusion that it will be all right on the night. It will not be all right.

    It concludes:

    It is questionable whether the present political system can survive the coming crisis. Whatever the solution, teenage swooning sentimentality over a celebrity cult has no part in it. The most powerful nation on earth is confronting its worst economic crisis under the leadership of its most extremely liberal politician, who has virtually no experience of federal politics. That is not an opportunity but a catastrophe.

    These are frank, even ungracious, words: they have the one merit that, unlike almost everything else written today about Obama, they will not require to be eaten in the future.

    The whole thing here.

  8. Fast Times At Ridgemont High…
    Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, and the Cars “Living in Stereo”.. just saying
    And is it safe to turn my TV back on? Is there now a Jack-free zone?

  9. And is it safe to turn my TV back on? Is there now a Jack-free zone?
    Posted by: KevinB at August 27, 2011 11:23 PM
    I didn’t take any chances, KevinB. Currently vacationing in Washington State which is, mercifully, a Jack-free zone.
    .–
    EBD, thanks for that link. A good read.

  11. EBD, that was a good link to a very prophetic editorial by Gerald Warner.
    “this Emperor has no clothes, it will all end in tears” and this is exactly what has happened.

  12. The Guy has a million of them.
    iowahawkblog David Burge
    DISASTER UPDATE: PUBLIC FEARS WORSEN AFTER EARTHQUAKE, IRENE LEAVE WASHINGTON WITH POWER
    14 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply

  13. Lots of bodies turning up in Libya. Of course they were all murdered by pro-Gaddafi forces. After all, we’re backing the good guys right?

  16. Syncrodox, you were spot on! Great rant!!
    PS Simon Fraser University historian Michael Fellman should be fired:
    1. For being a blithering idiot
    2. For being a writer of make-believe rather than actual history!

  20. Thanks guys…but I want to add something to that.
    Critical thinking folk come in all shapes and forms and as such we affect things in our own ways.
    Most often quietly.
    Many see through the charade and carry on despite of it. Therein lies true hope.

  21. Maybe the kids will get REAL jobs.
    “With great fanfare, in front of more than 100 aspiring environmental leaders, the then-premier personally announced the creation of a Youth Climate Leadership Alliance.
    But there were no crowds, fanfares or news coverage, when those employed by the alliance abruptly discovered the government was pulling its promise to provide $3 million worth of funding to the initiative, putting them out of work in Nov. 2009”
    http://thetyee.ca/News/2011/08/26/Green-Youth-Jobs-Killed/

  24. Not quite Jack Free yet, the Sun commentator today is still yacking about yesterday’s ascension.

  25. Stealing a great line from twitter this morning,
    Hurricane Irene hits Washington, immediately down graded.

  26. “*Remembering a Canadian victim of the Gadhafi regime”
    http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00250/Martin_and_Gadha_250081artw.jpg
    *H/T: Liberal Ad$Cam MartinJr as “victim”.
    “Years later, even when Paul Martin travelled as prime minister to make profoundly ill-advised overtures to Gadhafi — even foolishly cavorting with the dictator in a Bedouin tent for news photographers — no one made an attempt to find out about the circumstances surrounding Halens’ death.”
    http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/08/27/remembering-a-canadian-victim-of-the-gadhafi-regime

  27. What a load of puke on the MSM this morning regarding the “historical” hurricane and the presidents preparedness as compared to W. during Katrina.
    tropical storm = Cat 5 hurricane
    What a friggin joke, complaining also that Irene is taking away from Obama’s success on Libya.

  30. Glenn, CNN has had the “best” coverage, complete with some great scary graphics.
    “National Hurricane Center computer models and comprehensive studies are chilling. The water is pushed into lower Manhattan, steadily rising… JFK airport goes under an astounding 20-feet of water… water in the Wall St. district could be 7 feet deep… glass all over the street, glass flying through the air… One study puts economic loss for NY at $100 billion dollars”
    http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/26/irene.preparations/index.html

  32. They’re down to only 16 articles on Jack Layton at National Newswatch today.
    Perhaps now they can get on to reporting the News instead of weeping copiously over a politician known mainly by his public persona.

  37. No orange crush, no bicycles, no eulogy? Not. It’s not fair.
    …-
    “Thousands expected to party with Toronto mayor
    TORONTO — Toronto’s movers and shakers will be lining up with thousands of regular folk on Friday to spend some quality time with Mayor Rob Ford and his brother — Doug — at the family’s backyard barbecue in Etobicoke.
    The annual Ford fest drew 5,000 people last year during brother Rob’s successful mayoral campaign, and several thousand are expected this year for what has become a must-attend for the politically hungry,
    “I’m sure you’ll see Ford Nation in full swing there,” Toronto Councillor Doug Ford said.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2011/08/28/18610596.html

  41. Ich Bin Ein “collapse”?
    “Hysteria is sweeping Germany ” said Klaus Regling, the EFSF’s director.”
    …-
    “Financial Crisis”
    “Euro bail-out in doubt as “hysteria” sweeps Germany”
    “German Chancellor Angela Merkel no longer has enough coalition votes in the Bundestag to secure backing for Europe’s revamped rescue machinery, threatening a consitutional crisis in Germany and a fresh eruption of the euro debt saga.”
    “Mrs Merkel has cancelled a high-profile trip to Russia on September 7, the crucial day when the package goes to the Bundestag and the country’s constitutional court rules on the legality of the EU’s bail-out machinery.
    If the court rules that the €440bn rescue fund (EFSF) breaches Treaty law or undermines German fiscal sovereignty, it risks setting off an instant brushfire across monetary union.
    The seething discontent in Germany over Europe’s debt crisis has spread to all the key institutions of the state. “Hysteria is sweeping Germany ” said Klaus Regling, the EFSF’s director.
    German media reported that the latest tally of votes in the Bundestag shows that 23 members from Mrs Merkel’s own coalition plan to vote against the package, including twelve of the 44 members of Bavaria’s Social Christians (CSU). This may force the Chancellor to rely on opposition votes, risking a government collapse.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8728628/Euro-bail-out-in-doubt-as-hysteria-sweeps-Germany.html

  43. Googoo News:
    “Analysis: Will Olivia run for the top NDP job?A chance to strengthen a family … Toronto Star”
    “Topless activists march through streets — but avoid the park
    Toronto Star – Rick Madonik – ‎2 hours ago‎
    A topless demonstrator chats with a man on the streetcar Sunday. Some of the women wore angel wings to en courage spectators to be “respectful.”
    http://news.google.ca/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&q&js=0

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