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The late Jimmy Johnstone was a star football player for Glasgow-based Celtic F.C. during the 1960s and early 70s. Standing just 5’4″ tall and weighing barely 130 pounds, “Wee Jinky” – who was recently voted by the club’s famously diehard fans as the greatest Celtic player of all time – was famous for his toughness and for the jaw-dropping dribbling skills that enabled him to maintain ball possession in hostile packs of opposing players. Turns out he could sing pretty good, too: in tonight’s tippity amusement, recorded in 1969 as the b-side to a song called “Celtic We Are”, the wee scamp who the French dubbed “The Flying Flea” delivers a heartfelt rendition of a ballad called Passing Time.
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  3. “ABOUT 11 P.M. on Sept. 9, dozens of youths with bats and pipes descended on a tidy residential area of Port Richmond looking for white teens who allegedly had attacked an African-American kid at Stokely Playground a couple of hours earlier.
    “Two fearful white teens spotted Mark LaVelle on Indiana Avenue near Belgrade Street and asked for help. Suddenly, the mob appeared. LaVelle, who said that he didn’t know the two kids, who looked to be 13 or 14, ran with them into his nearby house.
    “‘We got you, you white mother——-!’ ” LaVelle said he heard someone yell in the mob’ of black and Hispanic youths…”
    Swinging pipes, kids screaming — let the fun begin.

  4. Letter from Prague: What the Betrayal of Czechoslovakia in 1938 Can Teach Us About The World and Israel Today
    Western leaders made statements that it was all the fault of Czech President Edvard Beneš that there wasn’t peace, just like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is blamed today. In each case, the question was asked: Should this silly little stiff-necked people that is greedy for territory and doesn’t know its own interests endanger our very existence?
    Chamberlain said in a radio interview:
    How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is, that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
    http://pajamasmedia.com/barryrubin/2011/09/25/letter-from-prague-what-the-betrayal-of-czechoslovakia-in-1938-can-teach-us-about-the-world-and-israel-today/

  7. ‘So, yes, smarter women are certainly being outbred by less-intelligent women…”
    Gee, I hope Kate and some of the SDA faithful start pumping them out….before it’s too late!

  11. Of Red-Green McGuinty’s Red-Green FAIL.
    Of O’narcissist’s Red-Green FAIL.
    Of EUrope/Germany’s Red-Green FAIL.
    Of Red China’s Red-Green FAIL.
    …-
    “Ontario Liberal leader creating job plan a week before the election”
    “But he spent much of the 90-minute debate on Tuesday on the defensive over his flagship job-creation strategy, unveiled in 2009. He says building wind turbines, solar panels and other forms of renewable energy will create 50,000 new jobs.”
    (globe-mail)
    …-
    “The Secret Gov’t Bank That’s Financing More Solyndras”
    “Sitting at the center of the Solyndra scandal is an off-balance-sheet bank at the Treasury Department that dates back to 1973.
    This little-known government bank, the Federal Financing Bank [FFB], had a zero balance in 2008 for green energy projects, but now, with little Congressional oversight, it is giving out billions of dollars in loans to White House pet projects often at dirt-cheap interest rates below 1%.
    In July alone, the government bank, which had $61 billion in assets, lent nearly three quarters of a billion dollars in taxpayer funds with no Congressional checks and balances.
    Plus the bank is funding the insolvent U.S. Post Office; the White House’s expensive green car projects at Ford Motor, Nissan and Tesla Motors; a $485 million loan to an expensive solar project that’s lost $160 million over the last three years that’s backed by Google, BP and Chevron; plus the FFB is funding the teetering HOPE housing bailout program, which gives delinquent mortgage borrowers breaks on their loans.
    And according to KPMG’s audit report of the bank, the FFB is losing billions of dollars in taxpayer money because it is forgoing collecting interest costs on already inexpensive loans that are financing projects at agencies like the Agriculture Dept.
    What’s scary for taxpayers is this: The FFB can borrow unlimited amounts of taxpayer money from the Treasury for these kinds of political pet projects. Under the 1973 “FFB Act, the bank may, with the approval of the Secretary, borrow without limit from the Treasury,” says the bank’s audited statements from KPMG.
    The Treasury Department’s inspector general is now investigating the bank over its $528 million loan to Solyndra. FFB’s chairman of the board is Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, and the bank’s board executives are Treasury officials.
    Who is getting the FFB’s green energy money? As the White House and Democrats in Congress rail against tax breaks for oil companies, the FFB gave taxpayer loans to green companies with high cash burn that were spilling red ink.”
    http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/09/28/government-bank-financing-more-solyndras/?test=latestnews
    …-
    “Green energy stocks fight to hold their own”
    “With nuclear power being phased out in Germany, renewable resources are hailed as the way forward. So why are companies in the green energy sector having so much trouble impressing the markets?”
    “When German Chancellor Angela Merkel rang the death knell for her country’s nuclear industry, it shook major energy companies to their core and gave the renewables sector something to smile about. While the former grappled with the prospect of an uncertain future and massive financial losses, the latter experienced a boost on the stock markets. Albeit it a short one.
    Although sustainable power sources are the great clean hope of the energy world, wind turbine and solar panel manufacturers are far from the darlings of the stock exchange. According to Renixx, an index of the world’s 30 most important companies operating in the renewables sector, the industry is still trying to regain the composure it lost during the financial crisis.”
    “Focus on China
    Chinese wind and solar company shares have been particularly affected by the downward trend, which is largely a result of excess capacities in Europe.
    As far as Allnoch is concerned the solar market is saturated, and because China’s markets are not yet sufficiently developed, domestic business opportunities are limited.
    “Ultimately China and even the US are doing too little on their home markets,” the IWR director said. “China in particular, is putting all its effort into exporting the technology.”
    Add to this the state’s move away from subsidizing the projects it was eager to support while the going was good, and it is hardly surprising that clean energy suppliers are in a tight spot.”
    http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15419037,00.html

  13. First Compass Vote, and now this:
    Check out the latest student indoctrination site.
    http://www.studentvote.ca/home.php
    My Grade 5 daughter actually came home with this drivel last night:
    http://www.studentvote.ca/2011resources/Elementary%20Resource%202011%20-%20English/18.%20ON%20Worksheet%204.1%20-%20ELEM-ENG.PDF
    From:
    http://www.studentvote.ca/2011resources/primary.php
    And there’s another for Secondary Students:
    http://www.studentvote.ca/2011resources/Secondary%20Resource%202011%20-%20English/18.%20ON%20Worksheet%204.1%20-%20SEC-ENG.PDF
    And the cast:
    http://www.studentvote.ca/team.php
    And it’s all “powered by” “The Mark”:
    http://www.themarknews.com/
    Check out their “Contributors”….

  14. Here is a question for you. Do you think that they put something in the water for the citizens of Calgary? Is there in fact an alternate reality?
    “The survey found that 61 per cent of Calgarians are OK with paying more property taxes….”
    http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/City+survey+Calgarians+with+higher+taxes+maintain+improve+quality+life+What+think/5475170/story.html#ixzz1ZLbL5Iqo
    There are something @ 1million people living in the city and surrounding area, they asked 1000.
    If you go to the middle of the article there is an unscientific poll as opposed to scientific, meaning highly sophisticated, poll. You will note that as you may well expect the unscientific poll is opposed to tax increases. But you just can’t have any Dick and Harry have their say, scientists know better whom to ask, otherwise they would have no job.
    What was the question?
    OK, things are not as simple as that, though they are not as complicated as the “experts” would have you believe or they would otherwise have no job either.

  15. Gum Registry News.
    H/T Liberal Ad$Cam Chretien.
    …-
    “Surrey family devastated over loss of daughter in deadly shooting
    Vancouver Sun”
    “Accused killer teen shows young face of Winnipeg gang war
    “Winnipeg’s street-gang war took another tragic turn this week when police announced a 14-year-old boy is the suspected shooter in the city’s 32nd homicide of 2011.”
    Montreal Gazette”

  18. This from the London free Press http://www.lfpress.com
    For those of you who are unaware, the big story in the news is about an incident where a fan tossed a banana on the ice during a NHL exhibition
    game in London. The banana was tossed at a Philly player as he was participating in a shootout. The player is a Negro. Londoners have been self-flagellating over this all week denying that they are racists. Finally a 24 year old male admitted to being the tosser after police set up a task force to catch the offender. The police chief has since asked for calm and has warned against vigilante justice. The offender has been charged with ” committing an illegal act on public property”??????
    It has to be one of the most vomit inducing stories of the century.

  20. Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
    Come fry with me.
    Check out Moi stling theoly & roan shalks (below).
    …-
    “China successfully launches ‘Heavenly Palace’ space craft”
    ““The military enjoys unique advantages in organizing and coordinating such large-scale activities, and its involvement in aerospace missions is an international practice,” Defence Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said this week.”
    urlm.in/jipu
    …-
    “China’s runaway bosses spotlight underground loan market”
    “A string of Chinese entrepreneurs have gone into hiding to avoid repaying loans, according to state media reports, highlighting a credit squeeze on private firms and the dangers of steep interest rates in China’s vast and growing informal lending market.
    Many cash-strapped firms are unable to borrow from banks amid a credit clampdown by Beijing, and some have turned to China’s underground lending market — which pools money from individuals and firms — at annual interest rates as high as 100 per cent.
    The staggering rates, at more than 15 times China’s benchmark lending rates, have pushed some firms to the limit.
    In just one day last week, Chinese media reported that nine bosses of small-sized firms in China’s entrepreneurial capital of Wenzhou, in eastern Zhejiang province, had skipped town after realiZing they could not repay their corporate loans.
    “The private lending craze has fuelled an economic bubble, and the ‘runaway episode’ in Wenzhou is a landmark event in the bursting of such a bubble,” the official Financial News, a paper run by China’s central bank, said in a report on Wednesday.
    Among the bosses who have reportedly gone into hiding is the chairman of one of Wenzhou’s prominent spectacles makers, Zhejiang Center Group Co. Ltd.”
    urlm.in/jipv
    *Mao is Liberal leader Basement Bob Rae’s Uncle Mo Strong.

  21. “Newspapers should refrain from publishing the opinions of average Australians, academic Robert Manne has said.
    Professor Manne says they should report only the views of a “core” of experts in key debates.
    At a book-signing in Sydney last night, he also urged the media to embrace greater contributions from controversial left-wing commentators such as US linguistics professor Noam Chomsky and Beirut-based commentator Robert Fisk.
    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/newspapers-shouldnt-print-opinion-from-non-experts-manne/story-e6frg996-1226150263405
    Considering the slant of the majority of journalists, is it possible for them be more left-wing? Can progressive journalists really ignore the opinions of average citizens more than they do now?
    h/t Andrew Bolt’s blog
    BTW, did anyone mention that Bolt has been found guilty of being insensitive to the racial sensitivities of very white looking aboriginals? A truly pathetic judgment in terms of protecting free speech and free press.
    http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/silencing-me-impedes-unity/story-e6frfifx-1226150249249

  22. “‘What kind of price do you want?”
    Mao Stlong’s favoulite question.
    …-
    “‘Rats’ and ‘black mouths’ gnaw at China stocks”
    “SHANGHAI — Even before China’s great stock market bull run of 2006-2007, Wang Jianzhong had become known as China’s “god of stocks” for his prescient picks.
    Such was his influence at the market’s peak that reports by his company, Beijing Shoufang Investment Consulting, republished in dozens of influential newspapers and websites, were themselves often cited as a reason for a particular share price rising.
    By late 2006, it was generally expected that whichever companies Wang recommended in his columns would be among the biggest gainers the next trading day in the Shanghai and Shenzhen markets.
    Wang knew it as well, and put that knowledge to use.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2011/09/29/rats-and-black-mouths-gnaw-at-china-stocks/

  24. Line of the week goes to Dennis Miller(he was on O’Reilly last eve..gave his endorsement to Herman Cain)..”here’s a bumper sticker for you Billy,Cain versus Unable!” I love it!

  25. Sammy,
    I rarely comment on the Rep. candidates because they seem to have a high flame-out factor. I’ve listened to some Herman Cain speeches and he makes sense on a lot of issues (although his opinions of homosexuality are out there). I still like Gary Johnson and Ron Paul but that is due to my libertarian impulse and tendency to cheer for the underdog.
    Cain certainly understands liberals and the media: SIN tactics- They shift the subject, ignore the facts, and resort to name calling. His classic line in the following video “Stupid people are ruining America”.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZDkacOveF0

  26. You wan fleaked out?
    Go hele:
    “Click here to see more on why people are freaking out >”
    A: “Beltway Greg on Sep 29, 1:36 PM said:
    Let me help you here. China and India have been cooking the books for about ten years.”
    MS/BobRae Report.
    …-
    “Everyone’s Asking Their Broker Today: “Why Are My China Stocks Getting Killed?””
    “Chinese stocks are getting killed.
    Why?
    Goldman put out the following desk note specifically in response to the flood of questions coming from investors.
    1) Concerns about Chinese PMI and possible slowdown of Chinese economy.
    2) Merrill note yday discussing possible slowdown in China.
    3) Market selling things that worked in the past – Gold, NFLX, etc.
    4) Ongoing corp governance issues.
    5) Qtr end might cause wholesale selling of anything Chinese due to uncertainty of “growth issue” in China.
    6) Sector is broken and market is in attack mode. Desk has seen shorts being layed out.
    Here are some of the stocks getting killed right now:
    Sina (SINA): -10.34%
    Sohu (SOHU): -9.89%
    Baidu (BIDU): -9.89%”
    http://www.businessinsider.com/everyones-asking-their-broker-today-why-are-my-china-stocks-getting-killed-2011-9

  28. O’No Joe. Repeat after Moi, I-Own the depression, not Bush.
    …-
    “Joe Biden: The economy belongs to us, not Bush
    CBS News ^ | Thursday, September 29, 2011 | Brian Montopoli”
    Vice President Joe Biden said in a live interview with Miami public radio station WLRN Thursday that the Obama administration – not the Bush administration – now has ownership of the struggling U.S. economy.
    Biden said Americans have “good reason to be upset” because they lost jobs because of the recession, “something they didn’t have a thing to do with creating.”
    “Even though 50-some percent of the American people think the economy tanked because of the last administration, that’s not relevant,” said the vice president. “What’s relevant is we’re in charge.”
    (Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com …”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2785507/posts

  32. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    Let it row, let it row, let …
    …-
    “Getting ready for more global warming: Heathrow airport triples snow clearance fleet”
    “It seem airport operator BAA has realized that Global warming has really dumped on them the last two years and rather than be caught with their pants down again, they 3x increased their equipment and staff ready to clear snow.
    From BBC: Heathrow airport triples snow clearance fleet”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15105627
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/

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