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  1. Canadian Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Canada isn’t considering changes to the supply-management regime.
    “We fully support our supply-managed sector,” Ritz said in a telephone interview today. “We have in the past, we’ll continue to in the future. It works well for our system. It works well for our farmers.”
    I’ve been a big supporter of Stephen Harper since he was head of the National Citizens Coalition, and I was delighted when he got his majority in May. But then, after the election, Conservative Heritage Minister James Moore said that “we will maintain or increase support for the CBC”. And now today I hear that this government has no intention of tampering with Canada’s supply-management system. I realize, in politics, you have to have to compromise sometimes. But on some issues, you have to swallow hard, and do the right thing. Both of these issues fit in that category.
    Kate, I think it’s time we take action. When Mark Steyn refers to the various Canadian “Human Rights” Tribunals, he always puts “Human Rights” in “scare quotes”. I think we should do the same thing whenever our new majority “Conservative” government is mentioned. Americans have their RINOS – Republicans in Name Only. And now, it seems we have CINOS -Conservatives in Name Only. Maybe we can shame them into doing the right thing.
    If you’d like to thank Canadian Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz for insisting Canadians continue to bend over for Quebec dairy producers, his email is:
    gerry.ritz@parl.gc.ca
    The original story from Business Week is here:
    http://is.gd/b1GTbE
    CBC Quote:
    http://is.gd/LP9DJm

  2. This is funny,and really stupid.
    From a cbc article;
    ” The ex-president of the St. Jean Baptiste Society says the fact that Persichilli can’t speak French is unfair to French-speaking Canadians and journalists.”
    The poutine eating parasites in Quebec are upset,really upset,so upset that they are going to the HRC.
    Angelo Persichilli,the new talking head for PMSH,is not fully bilingual. OMFG,do any of them remember Dion and his mangling of English,the man from Quebec, that could have been PM, could barely say his own name in the language that most Canadians use daily.
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/09/03/harper-rights-quebec.html

  3. Thanks EBD for tonights selection, I have spent the last couple of evenings on you tube listening to the IPO as well the proms.
    As i type listening to Renee Fleming, maybe if Ms Fink had a portion of RF’s talent she wouldnt be such a bitter hack

  4. wallyj
    I was just gonna post that. This fits entirely with the previous Persichilli thread.
    The left in Quebec(and generally) are terrified at the prospect of life without the benifit of the teat and even worse…no leverage back to the teat.
    The hiring of Angelo Persichilli only signals PMSH’s determination to solidify the gains he made within the ethnic conservative community.
    Now I understand why the lefterds I used to argue with were so vehemetly opposed to The Calgary School.

  6. Banjo picking inbred football fans should make sure they have kleenex and antidepressants on hand for tomorrow’s game. 😛

  8. Max,spot on ,and those “people” up in Edmonton should do the same for Monday’s game.
    Syncrodox,I agree.
    Didn’t Mr. Perschelli break a story a few years ago that was really embarrassing to the Liberals?

  10. From the above A-hole test;
    “she made them take it back and make her another dish”
    Not only an A-hole,but totally clueless. I’ll bet that the staff all smiled as she ate it and smiled back.
    If you’re gonna mess with people that are bringing you stuff that you want,mess with them after you have what you want.

  11. Robert,thanks for putting that up. The hypocrisy that oozes out of the entitled is astonishing at times.
    I commented on the cbc site a couple of times about this,and as usual I’m gathering thumbs down.C’est la vie.
    A little known fact about St. John the Baptist. He is the patron saint of rappers. It’s got something to do with ‘involuntary head’.

  18. The sheer stupidity of cbc’s Nancy uh-uh Wilson astounds me daily! This a.m.,she,in that breathless cbc way,tells us about a ‘surprising’ new wiki-leak re PMSH…and OMG,’he wants to remain in power!’ DUH Nancy..who doesn’t want to keep their job?? She then says,’we’ll be keeping a close eye on this one!’

  19. Mohammedanism, aka Islam, is a cannibal.
    “No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy. — Amartya Sen”.
    H/T Lenin/Stalin/Mao, et al: communist tyrannies.
    Consider the kulaks: “Many of our farmers were forced off land their families had held for generations.”
    Case Study: The Mohammedan Horn of Africa.
    …-
    “The politics of hunger, part one”
    “War and corruption are responsible for famines, not droughts”
    “*Thomas Keneally”
    “I have never quite believed that simplistic formula invoked in so many modern famines: “caused by a severe drought.”
    Not that there isn’t a severe drought now in southern Somalia, neighbouring Ethiopia and parts of Kenya. There undeniably is. Last October to December, rains did not appear at all in the area. The March-April rains this year were late. My skepticism arises, though, because I come from perhaps the driest continent on Earth, which has suffered recurrent droughts from earliest settler experience, including the El Nino-influenced drought that seemed to run nearly non-stop from the early 1990s to last year. Many of our farmers were forced off land their families had held for generations.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-mideast/somalia/war-and-corruption-are-responsible-for-famines-not-droughts/article2152432/
    *Thomas Keneally (Author of Schindler’s List).

  20. What is FSIN?
    $$$$$$ >>> socialism is the religion of the stomach.
    …-
    “Saskatchewan orders review of FSIN buyouts
    Globe and Mail – Dawn Walton – ‎22 hours ago‎
    When an internal power play went public at Saskatchewan’s most influential native organization, the provincial government was careful not to inject itself into the controversy.
    Guy Lonechild steps down as FSIN chief CBC.ca
    Top Saskatchewan chief locked out of office despite court order Vancouver Sun”
    http://news.google.ca/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&q&js=0

  24. She’s here: O’fear.
    “fear*, a white liver’d-lilly-cheeked, bashful palpitating, awkward hussey”.
    O has her trapped. Free fear.
    “Barack Obama ran on hope in 2008 – this time he’s running on fear.”
    More revelation of O. O has “White House aides”.
    …-
    “American Way: Barack Obama, 2008 man of hope and change, becomes 2012 candidate of fear and status quo”
    “So how much trouble is Barack Obama in? Well, it doesn’t get much worse.
    His approval rating is hovering just above 40 per cent. Unemployment is stuck at 9.1 per cent; the White House forecast that it would be about 6.5 per cent by now if its economic stimulus plan was passed. Essentially, the American economy is grinding to a halt.
    More importantly, what is Obama going to do about it? In terms of policy, the White House has run out of whatever ideas it ever had.
    Obama, who declined even to comment on the latest jobless figures on Friday, is like a rabbit caught in the headlights.”
    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100103027/american-way-barack-obama-2008%E2%80%99s-man-of-hope-and-change-becomes-2012s-candidate-of-fear-and-status-quo/
    *H/T Charles Lamb.

  25. Pooper scooper, Bill?
    From Oz.
    (See #10: Most Read.)
    “The big news here is that bill clinton was reputedly walking hillary’s dog.
    What are the political implications of that? They’ve always used dogs and cats as political photo ops, and gotten rid of them ASAP afterwards.
    And what was the name of this dog? Inquiring minds want to know. Surely the police officer checked for license and rabies shot?”
    http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/bill-clinton-kicked-off-beach-by-cop-after-ignoring-irene-warning/story-e6frfku0-1226129369578

  26. This is good news, eh?
    “Up to 3,000 Muslims from around the state are expected to converge Sunday on Six Flags Fiesta Texas for “Muslim Family Day” to celebrate the end of Ramadan and spread the post-9/11 message that most Muslims are peaceful and mainstream.
    “Families from as far as Corpus Christi, Austin and Waco have committed to attending the event, sponsored by local chapters of the Muslim American Society and the Council on American-Islamic Relations..
    ‘Muslim Family Day’ will spread peace at Six Flags.

  28. Great comment on Warren Buffet’s tax rate over at G&M.
    WinniMiss
    7:54 PM on September 3, 2011
    If Bershie Hathaway pays 10% on its dividends, and Buffett pays 17.4% on the balance available to be drawn out from BH after that 10% tax, that’s 27.4% on top of what the corporations would have paid on their earnings before paying the dividend to Berkshire.
    If a corporation pays 15% tax on $ 100,000 of profit, and pays the balance of the profits after tax ($85,000) to Berkshire Hathaway (BH),
    and BH pays 10% on the $ 85,000 dividend received leaving $76,500 balance to pay as a dividend to Warren Buffett (WB),
    and WB pays 17.4% on that dividend of $76,500, it leaves him with $63,189 after tax.
    The net result is the earnings started at $100,000 and after taxing it three times, the individual is left with $ 63,189 (63.189%) — and the governments received $37,811 (37.811%).
    Is that fair taxation – 37.811%? I believe so

  29. Update: Lord Black vs Da Proofessor*.
    …-
    “Jonathan Kay on Conrad Black and his new book: A man in full pay-back mode”
    “In late 2003, as Conrad Black was contemplating the prospect of criminal conviction and incarceration, he turned to his library for “insight into how to cope with a sudden, overwhelming rout and collapse.””
    “By Mr. Black’s estimation, up to 20% of prisoners in American jails have done absolutely nothing illegal to merit their sentences.”
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/09/03/jonathan-kay-on-conrad-black-and-his-new-book-a-man-in-full-pay-back-mode/
    …-
    *Da Proofessor.
    urlm.in/izyz

  30. Remember when Casual Friday was the chance to loosen up and relax at the office:
    A woman in Victoria, British Columbia was recently looking through her freezer when she came across a box of brownies. She decided to bring them into the office to share with her colleagues at Tax Services, where she works…Flash forward a few hours, and three of the people in her office, all of whom ate brownies, are being rushed to the hospital with “light-headedness, numbness in the limbs and disorientation,” according to the Vancouver Sun. Some suspected poisoning.
    What really happened, though, is that the brownies belonged to the woman’s son, who’d cooked marijuana into them and left them to freezer-burn for a year — meaning that the woman had accidentally brought pot brownies to work.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/02/pot-brownie-mix-up_n_946454.html?ir=Canada%20Living

  34. Gordon Brown’s Britain – Secret documents show Lockerbie bomber released because of Gaddafi threats
    —————————
    But the confidential papers show that Westminster buckled under pressure from Colonel Gaddafi, who threatened to ignite a ‘holy war’ if Megrahi died in his Scottish cell.
    […]
    And despite repeated denials, the Labour Government worked frantically behind the scenes to appease Gaddafi’s ‘unpredictable nature’.
    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033460/Secret-files-Labour-lied-Gaddafi–warned-holy-war-Megrahi-died-Scotland.html#ixzz1X1L1dq4u

  35. Kenya seems to be ripe for a Red harvest.
    Socialism/communism has The Answer:
    Shoot the Kulaks*.
    Wait! There is this: the common sense of the Kenyans>
    “Many Kenyan critics are blaming the situation not just on the weather but also on corrupt and negligent politicians.”
    …-
    “Kenya: Some Starve, Others Enjoy Bumper Crop”
    “NAIROBI, Kenya – In central and western Kenya, farmers have had a bumper crop of plump ears of corn and earthy potatoes. Yet in the north, skeletal children wait for food aid amid a growing emergency.
    Kenya is supposed to be East Africa’s economic powerhouse but a drought has sharply highlighted the historical neglect of northern Kenya, where 3.75 million Kenyans need food aid. Many Kenyan critics are blaming the situation not just on the weather but also on corrupt and negligent politicians.
    Small farmers in western Kenya – which has had steady rains and a good harvest – say they don’t move their crops to the drought-ravaged north because it costs too much to store and transport them and they are not assured of a market. The semiarid northern regions have long been neglected, first by British colonial rulers and then by successive Kenyan governments. Roads are often just bumpy tracks in the sand.
    “We’ve had a good harvest this year but it is hard to cover costs,” said farmer Morris Yabatsa, who grows corn and beans near the …”
    http://www.thirdage.com/news/kenya-some-starve-others-enjoy-bumper-crop_09-02-2011
    *Lenin/Stalin/lberia, et al.

  37. Commenter Libloather said:
    “rush once said, only obama could destroy the democrat party.”
    “ignored luminaries like Paul Krugman
    This is possibly the only way in which the Obozo hasn’t acted like an anti-American, economy-destroying moron. “Luminaries” indeed. It is to laugh.”
    …-
    “What Democrats can do about Obama”
    A liberal argues that the 2012 Democratic nomination should be debated — with all options open
    By Matt Stoller”
    “Obama has ruined the Democratic Party. The 2010 wipeout was an electoral catastrophe so bad you’d have to go back to 1894 to find comparable losses. From 2008 to 2010, according to Gallup, the fastest growing demographic party label was former Democrat. Obama took over the party in 2008 with 36 percent of Americans considering themselves Democrats. Within just two years, that number had dropped to 31 percent, which tied a 22-year low.
    Of course, there are many rationalizations for Obama to remain the nominee. He’s faced difficult opposition. He’s passed major legislation. His presidency is historic. The economy is hard to resuscitate. But all such rationalizations evade the party’s responsibilities to actually choose the nominee best suited to win votes. If Obama looks unlikely to get enough votes to win, he should not get the nomination.
    If would be one thing if Obama were failing because he was too close to party orthodoxy. Yet his failures have come precisely because Obama has not listened to Democratic Party voters. He continued idiotic wars, bailed out banks, ignored luminaries like Paul Krugman, and generally did whatever he could to repudiate the New Deal. The Democratic Party should be the party of pay raises and homes, but under Obama it has become the party of pay cuts and foreclosures. Getting rid of Obama as the head of the party is the first step in reverting to form.
    (Excerpt) Read more at salon.com …”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2773629/posts

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