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  2. Cornell professor Robert H. Frank, writing in the New York Times, doesn’t personally care much for the extended shopping hours of “Black Friday Madness”, so he’s advocating the social engineering of shopping preferences for everybody, through “an across the board 6 percent national sales tax (on top of any existing state and local sales taxes) in effect from 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving to 6 a.m. on Black Friday.”

    “This plan would leave both stores and consumers free to decide for themselves whether middle-of-the-night shopping is worth it.”

    Think about that for a second: he wants the government to (in effect) fine people for doing exactly what themselves have chosen to do, in order that they will be “free to decide for themselves” whether or not they want to do it.
    A bit like, “I’m going to beat you over the head with a cricket bat whenever you reach across the table for more potatoes. That way, you will be free to decide for yourself if you want more potatoes.”

  3. That’s great news, Imethisguy (10:05). Thousands more Canadians can now ignore CBC/CTV, and be better entertained and better informed.
    RT: Tom Trento talks to some Occupy Iowa protesters.

  5. What is Cain thinking?
    Only white men can get bj’s on the job, lie, proven to be a liar and get away with it. Heh…white dems can drive drunk, sink a co-worker in a water grave, leave them in the car alive and not report it and get away with it.

  6. EBD: Your analogy was nothing short of perfect.
    Every time I see one of these self-indulged, over-fed, smug a$$holes on the TV, pontificating about how they are so much smarter and better-informed than I (apparently my two university degrees and successful record as an entrepreneur don’t count), I have this insane desire to empty the clip at the television.
    But sanity of course always kicks in after a few seconds, especially since I paid for the TV, unlike many of the great unwashed who benefit from my taxes and get their slim screen TVs for free.
    But I still want to b1tch-slap these pompous idiots.
    Apparently, I’m getting older and more grumpy.
    Now get off my lawn!!!!! Heh.

  7. A truly sad sight: former CFL greats Angelo Mosca and Joe Kapp, now in their seventies, come to blows onstage at a charity luncheon.
    Apparently a right cross to the jaw beats a weakly-swung cane…

  10. dmorris…really?
    You are that quick to believe that stuff?
    I’m convinced it’s another lynch-job.

  11. WFAA TV (Dallas/Forth Worth): “Every day, students in Texas public schools pledge allegiance to the flags of the United States and Texas. But when a teacher in a Rio Grande Valley high school assigned students to stand and pledge allegiance to the Mexican flag and sing Mexico’s national anthem, one student refused.
    “The resulting controversy has one East Texas lawmaker wanting changes in the state’s curriculum on how culture and patriotism are taught in schools…”
    […]
    “(Brenda) Brinsdon says she stood her ground by staying seated when first-year Spanish teacher Reyna Santos assigned her class to stand and recite Mexico’s pledge of allegiance. Students stood with right arms straight out and palms down, which is how the school district says Mexicans say their pledge…”

  12. EBD, your funny little analogous clip depicting a “Brussels-based Eurocrat could also include the attitude of many Canadian bureaucrats.

  13. For all the Chev Volt drivers out there, GM is going to give you a loaner, so you can sleep at night.
    “Despite the NHTSA stating that Chevy Volt owners do not have a reason for concern, just yet, General er Government Motors is providing loaner cars to any worried drivers during the investigation. GM will begin to contact every Volt owner in order to clarify their concerns and each owner should receive a letter within the next few days.
    There’s a bit of irony in GM’s strong stance that the Volt is safe to drive, yet they’re willing to offer loaners to customers that are overly concerned. But clearly GM is in full damage control mode right now, having delivered 5,329 Volts – every one of them that has the potential to catch on fire after a major accident. We are curious as to what vehicle GM is lending to Volt owners for a comparable savings in fuel efficiency.”
    http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2011/11/chevy-volt-owners-can-get-a-loaner-from-gm-during-investigation.html
    Concern is the result of several problems with lithium-ion batteries.
    “NHTSA isn’t the only government agency taking a close look at lithium-ion batteries. There have been millions of laptop computers and other consumer electronic devices made by such major manufacturers as Apple, Dell and Sony recalled due to reports of fires – or the potential risk of such problems – over the last five years.
    The Federal Aviation Agency has restricted the transport of LIon batteries in cargo holds and a fire in a UPS jet was believed responsible for a fatal crash near Dubai in 2010.”
    http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2011/11/feds-step-up-investigation-in-wake-of-new-chevy-volt-fires/#more-44809

  14. Ken (11:02): or, deep down, of just about any socialistic, central-planning-minded person on the planet.
    Bluetech (10:43), I’m not so sure that this one’s a lynch-job. Allegations of long affairs are way, way more likely to pan out. It’s the easiest thing in the world to falsely accuse someone of sexual harassment in a private setting where there are no witnesses — “he undressed me with his eyes” or “he put his hand on my knee” — but it’s just about impossible to get away with faking a story about a 13-year long affair, especially when there’s this much media scrutiny.
    You don’t exactly need extra-strong reading glasses to read between the lines of Cain’s attorney’s statement, either:

    “This is not an accusation of harassment in the workplace — this is not an accusation of an assault — which are subject matters of legitimate inquiry to a political candidate. Rather, this appears to be an accusation of private, alleged consensual conduct between adults — a subject matter which is not a proper subject of inquiry by the media or the public. No individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or her private sexual life. The public’s right to know and the media’s right to report has boundaries and most certainly those boundaries end outside of one’s bedroom door.”

    With the sexual harassment allegations, the response was outright denial that the alleged events ever took place; this time, it’s a “hey, c’mon now, that’s none of your business.” Quite a different response, in other words.

  15. “Eurozone leaders were yesterday told that failure to tackle the crippling debt crisis could trigger a ‘deep depression’ around the world. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said meltdown in the single currency bloc was the biggest threat to the global economy.
    “It came as the Paris-based think-tank slashed its growth forecasts and warned that Britain and Europe face a double-dip recession this winter – even if the crisis does not escalate.”
    […]
    “The OECD said the ‘worst-case situation’ – including the breakup of the single currency – would wreak havoc in the global banking system and wider economy. ‘Such turbulence in Europe, with its massive wealth destruction, bankruptcies and a collapse in confidence in European integration and co-operation, would most likely result in a deep depression in both the exiting and remaining euro area countries as well as in the world economy,’ said the report…”

  16. From the NYT “Campaign Stops” blog:
    “For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class.
    “All pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up, on the one hand, of voters who have gotten ahead on the basis of educational attainment — professors, artists, designers, editors, human resources managers, lawyers, librarians, social workers, teachers and therapists — and a second, substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are disproportionately African-American and Hispanic…”
    h/t moonbattery

  17. Bluetech,this time,yeah,I do. I didn’t believe any of the 20 year old “suggestive gestures” bullshit,but this time I think it’s for real. Found it on a conservative website.
    This time it’s a claim that will have to stand up to legal scrutiny,and not with 20 year-old stories. The woman broke off with Cain only 8 months ago.
    If she’s lying,Cain will sue her ass off.
    Cain admitted to knowing the woman,they traded dozens of phone calls on their private cell phones,some as late as 4 AM,all verifiable,and Cain says he was merely trying to help her out of a tough financial situation.
    Like Ted was just trying to teach Mary Jo how to swim.
    Sorry,I liked the guy,but he’s toast.

  18. Backdoor Barney Frank
    (Fannie&Freddie’s con job)
    ? wondering how much he stole,
    is leaving Congress.
    Dingle-bat Maxine Waters might wind up with his Overloaded banking committee chairmanship.
    Talk about your disasters for an American economy..
    –
    Recent email to Military Surplus MRE warehouse:
    “Please send me 12 more cases”-

  19. Angelo vs Joe – has it really been that long ago! I’m feeling old today (not as old as them, but not as childish either)

  20. 4 AM phone calls,
    Cain says he was merely trying to help her out of a tough financial situation.
    *********************************
    Yeah!
    “Hi Sweet thing,
    If you will have phone sex with me I will pay your rent for another month”..

  21. Via Kaching (another site by Vanderleun of American Digest), this post at Gallia Watch about another one of those uber-progressive, Benetton-style ad campaigns, this one for French shoe company Eram. In each of the ads (posters), a child is shown standing with two (fashionable, of course) adults. The first ad has the words (in French):
    “As my two mommies say, the family is sacred.”
    Almost old hat at this point, a familiar, hip, progressive lifestyle promotion. Another poster reads:
    “As my dad, my mom, and my dad’s third wife say, the family is sacred.”
    Oh ho ho, modern life. Everybody’s getting remarried these days.
    Another ad, though, says:

    “As my mommy and her boyfriend who could be my older brother say, the family is sacred.”

    Is it all just a post-ironic, hip joke? Judge for yourself: the company’s published response to a priest who had criticized the a campaign said, in part, (again, this is translated from the French) —

    “By affirming that the family is sacred and having this idea expressed by children, Eram is not judging the evolutions of society, and even less do we encourage them. But we are deliberately placing ourselves on the side of all families such as they are today.”

  22. Btw, is anyone else having trouble with Sun News TV tonight? I’ve had a locked-up, partially scrambled screen with no sound since I turned it on around 8 pm MST. All the other channels work fine. Anyone?

  24. SIGN OF THE TIMES
    National Review’s Happy Warrior
    There are few sights more dismal than that of a law-abiding citizen having his genitalia pawed by state commissars, but having them pawed while wearing a “Don’t Tread on Me” T-shirt is certainly one of them.
    http://www.steynonline.com/4647/treadmarks

  26. No wonder Cain’s campaign manager had the air of a man caught in a nightmare.
    But it does suggest a campaign slogan:
    Are you getting as much as you were four years ago?

  27. I had a little bit of trouble with Sun News last evening, very brief screen freezing and very brief sound loss. It happened for an hour or so around 7-8 PM MT, not too bad, just enough to be annoying.

  28. Speaking of Sun News, what happened to getting it streamed from their website? I found it a pleasure to get a bit of Sun before heading home or while computing at home. One day it was there and next day, gone.

  29. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    “… heavy rain waterlogged parts of the venue and swept away tin shacks on the outskirts of the city, killing eight people.”
    …-
    “Discord in Durban”
    “Nations gathered Monday at a UN climate conference in South Africa to work on a new agreement to curb carbon emissions.”
    “The UN climate-change summit opened in disarray on Monday after violent storms, the late arrival of the host president and a rift among some of the world’s biggest polluters. As delegates arrived in Durban in South Africa on Sunday, heavy rain waterlogged parts of the venue and swept away tin shacks on the outskirts of the city, killing eight people.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/11/28/discord-in-durban/

  30. EBD, I also could not get Sun News TV for about an hour and a half until I went to catch my nightly quota of Zs. I always have FoxNews to fall back on when the replays start or technical difficulties occur.
    I was even wondering if the Sun group was being attacked, as I could not access the papers Calgary or Toronto Sun.
    Daniel Hannan takes a strip off the EU and suggests the EU’s recipe, according to Mark Steyn, for a solution to the financial is rather gross taste wise.
    Mark’s recipe: “Mark Steyn likes to say that, if you take a quart of ice cream and a quart of dog faeces and mix ’em together, the result will generally taste more like the latter than the former”.
    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/284169/zone-out-euro-daniel-hannan

  32. Herman Cain is informed of the price for leaving the Democrat plantation an it is expensive.
    Meanwhile, half-black president Obama, who has no more experience living as a true “African-American” than does your friendly neighborhood garden variety Skinhead and will have his affirmative action contract renewed for another term. At least Dr. King rented a room in and lived in the Harlem projects for a spell, even though it was a clever photo-op.

  36. Who killed CocKyoto on his way to the Durban forum?
    “Will the Kyoto protocol suffer the same fate as Julius Caesar?”
    Did Kent, Canada’s Kyoto Slayer, act alone?
    And nominees for supporting roles in the emasculation/assassination of Mao UNaBomber Stlong’s Kyoto are: ?
    “If then that friend demand
    why Canada rose against Kyoto, this is my answer:
    – Not that it loved Kyoto less, but that it loved
    the United States more.”
    …-
    “Kyoto protocol may suffer fate of Julius Caesar at Durban climate talks”
    “How many nations secretly conceal a dagger and intend to join the countries in Durban hoping to kill Kyoto off?”
    “Just one day into the Durban talks and, as we expected, we are witnessing the assassination of the Kyoto protocol.”
    “Canada has let the cat out of the bag with its environment minister, Peter Kent, saying: “Kyoto is the past” and suggesting that formally pulling out of the treaty is an option.
    If Canada – once Kyoto’s friend, now its undisguised enemy – were to withdraw it would probably be a death blow to the only international treaty that obliges by law rich countries to reduce emissions. The world can just about live with the US outside the treaty but to have Canada formally outside too, really signals the rich countries’ diplomatic flight from the treaty that the world signed up to only 15 years ago. Japan and Russia are set against the treaty, leaving the EU as the only rich grouping of countries which is hedging its bets.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/nov/29/kyoto-protocol-julius-caesar-durban

  37. Two stories about Sask caught my eye this morning:
    “The Muskowekwan First Nation’s hopes of having a potash mine on its land are on hold, as not enough band members showed up to vote on the issue over the weekend.
    […]
    For the proposal to be approved, at least half of the First Nation’s members had to have cast ballots, and the majority of votes must be in favour.But officials said Monday that they fell short — by just 10 ballots — of having enough votes.The proposal did receive about 80 per cent support from those who did vote on Saturday.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2011/11/28/sk-muskowekan-potash-vote.html
    and
    “A German fertilizer company has approved C$3.25 billion in spending for a new potash mining operation in Saskatchewan.
    The K+S group said Tuesday it expects to have more than 1,000 people working on construction at peak periods and employ 300 when the site hits full production.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2011/11/29/sk-potash.html
    It’s too bad the forward thinking native bands are hamstrung by their political structure.

  38. Thanks for posting that CBC poll,grok. I voted the Party line,but that photo of an infant,Santa,and a bunch of guns was so stupidly provocative! It just gives more figurative ammunition to the anti-gun nuts.
    On the Joe and Angelo show,when I moved out here to B.C. in 1966,Mosca was STILL the most hated man in the universe,Hitler would have won in a popularity poll over Angelo,because of the infamous sideline hit on the Lion’s favourite receiver Willie Fleming,which put Willie out of the game. Fleming was never the same after that hit.
    Mosca went on the pro-wrestling circuit in the late ’60’s,and in Hamilton was cast as a good guy,but when he came to B.C. he was the ultimate villain,used to pack the old Agrodome in Vancouver with about 6000 fans screaming for his blood.
    Angelo,when interviewed by BCTV’s Rasslin’ MC Ron Morrier,used to claim he was glad he’d hurt “our Willie” and the fans would scream in rage.
    Until today,I always thought it was theater,but after seeing that Mosca/Kapp clip,maybe it wasn’t.

  40. Socialists! Unite! Enough of the fratricide*.
    H/T Red Joe/Brown Adolf.
    …-
    “Neo-Nazi suspect held in Germany”
    “Man believed to have aided six murders and an attempted murder by Nationalist Socialist Underground”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/
    …-
    “*fratricide
    mid-15c., from L. fratricida, from frater “brother” + cida “killer,” or cidum “a killing,” both from caedere “to kill, to cut down” (see concise). Related: Fratricidal.”
    (dict.com)

  42. CERN – a place where advanced science meets The Time Machine Eloi:
    “A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.[…]
    Police said Mr Cole, who was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his age, would not reveal his country of origin. “Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I’m here to stop it ever happening.” ”
    http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/man-arrested-at-large-hadron-collider-claims-hes-from-the-future-49305387/
    via Reason.com
    BTW, what kind of sick, twisted bast**d hates free chocolate?

  43. Cain:
    I wonder if he consulted his wife about providing, um, “financial assistance” to this financially desperate lady. If I were wealthy enough to do this, and the project were innocent, I would most assuredly discuss it with my wife and demur if she had any qualms.
    It’s kinda like a married man or woman having dinner with an old flame. It is a delicate operation but possible especially in a long-dated marriage. If the encounter was to be perfectly innocent, a wise spouse would practise full disclosure.
    Like dmorris, I liked him – a lot. But, clearly, he’s toast. And as mentioned earlier, what is it with the PIMP HAT. He lost me immediately when he played the race card with the first accusations, confirmed with the nutty smoker ad, doubly-confirmed with the emergence of the PIMP HAT.
    That he hadn’t a clue about foreign policy [I’d like a lot less of the stuff!] mattered not one whit to me. A successful CEO could be quickly and adequately briefed on these matters. We need only look at the royal cock-ups more seasoned mavens of foreign policy have foisted upon us to see the veracity of my view.

  44. Go North Young men…Go North!
    Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Sunday the government would eliminate tariffs on dozens more products….[ http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCATRE7AQ0KA20111127 ]
    On the other hand if you stay;
    Buried in an ostensible jobs bill signed by President Obama last year is a little-noticed job-destroying government regulation that threatens to trigger a massive outflow of capital…[ http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/fatca_a_ticking_time_bomb_for_the_economy.html#ixzz1f84evNrX ]

  45. “As Wheat Board shrinks, new grain contracts appear”
    “When the only buyer of wheat and barley in Western Canada was the Canadian Wheat Board, there was no need for a futures market in those grains.
    Wiith the Wheat Board losing its monopoly, ICE Futures Canada — the former Winnipeg Commodity Exchange — is set to list three new futures contracts to help farmers and grain handlers determine pricing and hedge.”
    “There will be competition, however, as the Minneapolis Grain Exchange is also planning to allow Canadian farmers to deliver grain against its spring wheat contract starting in 2013.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/streetwise/as-wheat-board-shrinks-new-grain-contracts-appear/article2253812/

  47. “canadian government harper government”
    google it.
    we are now in a nazi state where the government of the day is officially named after one individual.
    but ‘leftists’ are the bad guys ???

  48. Exactly, kind of like the little crook from Shawinigan government,the Trudeau government, the Martin government.

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