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  1. Q: What do you call pay reforms targeting taxpayer-funded civil servants, who consistently make more than the private sector workers who are forced to pay for those bloated salaries and perks?
    A: Class Warfare:

    “On the eve of the largest national strike since 1979, the Chancellor told nurses, police, teachers and council workers they would suffer effective salary reductions until at least 2015.

    “State employees also face further reductions in their salaries under plans to abolish national pay deals, Mr Osborne warned.

    “Union leaders accused the Chancellor of launching a ‘class war’ after he chose to announce the pay reforms just hours before a national strike over pensions by two million public sector staff was due to begin.”

  3. Radical Chic Catastrophes: When Romanticism Trumps Reason
    A Czech friend of mine who was a leading dissident (and paid the price for his genuine heroism) recalls how Western radicals came to his country during the Communist period. Some sucked up to the ruthless dictators as if they were people’s heroes; others lectured democratic reformers who were facing terrible repression about how Communism would really work if it were only managed somewhat differently.
    http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2011/11/28/radical-chic-catastrophes/

  4. I was just sent a poll question on Facebook from a left-leaning acquaintance of mine. The question was, “Should Canada pull out of the Kyoto Protocol?”
    When I went to answer it, I discovered there was only one answer possible: “No”
    Lefties!

  5. Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik will almost certainly avoid prison and face compulsory mental health care instead, after a 243-page psychiatrist’s assessment concludes that he is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.

  6. Related to the link at 10:01 P.M., and also from the Telegraph, another story about the UK reducing some of the bloat on the bloat:
    “Public sector redundancies will hit 710,000 by 2017, the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast today, as dwindling growth forces Chancellor George Osborne to cut harder.”
    I think that’s what you call a win-win:
    “The OBR expects 1.7 million private sector jobs to be created between 2011-17, against 700,000 state-sector jobs lost. The finding will infuriate thousands of public sector workers who are striking tomorrow over the government’s move to cut public sector pensions.”
    710,000 *redundant* public sector jobs is, you have to admit, an almost disturbing figure.

  8. EBD: Maybe there is a sign that says it is illegal to use foul language. Looking at the expression on her child’s face, I hope she was charged with cruelty to children.

  9. Peace on earth, goodwill to all men.
    Popular Egyptian preacher Sheikh Muhammad al-Zoghbi:

    May Allah cut your tongue out! May he freeze the blood in your veins! May he inflict you with cancer and allow you no reprieve… Allah, strike them with all sorts of disease, afflictions and pain! Allah, strike them with cancer! Allah, let your prophet overpower them! Allah destroy them! Allah destroy them! Allah destroy them! Allah destroy the criminals who challenge the noble prophet! [Then, very serenely addressing his Muslim viewers:] And peace upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings.

    There was a subtitled video of that sermon and others (transcripted excerpts are still at the above link) but it has been removed by YouTube for violating its Terms of Service.
    h/t.

  15. Shamelessly filched from Gerard Vanderleun’s bookmark-worthy American Digest, this quote from a Brett Stephens article in the WSJ:
    “As with religion, (the global warming cause) is presided over by a caste of spectacularly unattractive people pretending to an obscure form of knowledge that promises to make the seas retreat and the winds abate. As with religion, it comes with an elaborate list of virtues, vices and indulgences. As with religion, its claims are often non-falsifiable, hence the convenience of the term ‘climate change’ when thermometers don’t oblige the expected trend lines. As with religion, it is harsh toward skeptics, heretics and other ‘deniers.’ And as with religion, it is susceptible to the earthly temptations of money, power, politics, arrogance and deceit.”

  16. The englishwoman on the bus was ugly and abusive, no question. Aside from anything else, that’s a disgusting way to talk in front of children. As crude as she was, though, consider that her country (at least the part she lives in) really has been taken away from her, and that to all intents and purposes she’s not allowed to notice. If any peasant dares question immigration policy, she’s a “bigoted woman”, as Gordon Brown called a lifelong Labour voter – his employer – who had the temerity to bring up the issue (as soon as he thought the mic was off).
    Why did the politicians do this to their country and what did they expect to happen?

  18. I agree with your first two points, Black Mamba……and even more strongly with the rest of your points. In some small, hard-to-explain, but resolute and implacable way, I felt sorry for her, in the same way I’d feel sorry for, say, a Korean woman in Korea who launched into a diatribe about how her area (district) and country had been overrun with people from completely different cultures…like that’s ever going to happen.
    If said hypothetical Korean woman’s city/milieu/district/neighbourhood had been well nigh overrun by, say, oh, I don’t know, white businessmen from the financial district of London, leaving her a minority in her part of her own country and, erm, surrounded by these besuited others from another culture in the traditional home of her ancestors, I doubt that a similarly frustrated, angry, end-of-her-rope speech delivered from her bench or seat would be deemed so self-evidently unjustifiable or odious, or, more to the point, that Korean authorities would *arrest her* for her expressions.
    The English woman used words — nothing more than words – to say exactly that millions of other native-born Brits say, as evidenced by their avalanche of serial comments under online newspaper articles, and her equally angry interlocutors were clearly giving as well as they got. Yes, the Englishwoman was obviously in a foul and excessively forthcoming mood, and was nasty, and was being exceedingly intemperate by English, although not by foreign, standards, but should she have been arrested for voicing, in public, a view that millions of her countrymen agree with?
    It’s not like she was advocating violence or genocide, she was just saying this is what I think is happening to England. If I was on a bus or a tram in Atlanta, or Regina or Vancouver, and I saw some unhappy black woman pontificating about whitey – and she was sitting in her seat, and issuing no threats, and making no threatening gestures – not only would I not want her to be arrested for her frustrated and rancourous vocal expressions, I’d be pissed if she was.
    I feel the same way in this case. The fact that Emma West’s grumpy, opinionated, but entirely non-threatening utterances got her arrested by British authorities – i.e. physically remanded in custody overnight, with all that entails and suggests – is quite disturbing.

  20. Very disturbing. Nobody should be arrested for speech unless they’re on the radio exhorting machete-weilding maniacs to go forth immediately and murder all the Tutsis, or aiding and abeting the enemy in time of war. I can’t really think of anything else off the top of my head. If she’d been mugged on the same trip I seriously doubt there’d have been an arrest.
    I don’t consider Britain an entirely free country anymore, and I don’t think I’m all that addicted to hyperbole.

  21. Well, it’s not a free country, Mamba, if one can be detained and arrested for speaking about what one believes, rightly or wrongly, is happening to one’s country.

    “If she’d been mugged on the same trip I seriously doubt there’d have been an arrest.”

    Exactly. And more to the point, if some surly Muslim fellow who was sitting on his seat on a tram, and not making any overt threats or threatening gestures, was caught on a cell-phone orating about how native-born Brits were nothing but defiled dhimmis, and the women sluts, would the police swoop in to arrest the fellow?
    I think it’s safe to say that everybody – including run-of-the-mill progressives, if you woke them up from a deep sleep to ask them – knows the answer to that one.

  22. Industrialized nations emit far less carbon dioxide than the Third World, according to latest evidence from Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency
    http://co2insanity.com/2011/11/15/new-satellite-data-contradicts-carbon-dioxide-climate-theory/
    http://pics.livejournal.com/johnosullivan/pic/0002dcxk/s640x480
    the color-coding system of the iconic maps showing where regions were either absorbing or emitting the trace atmospheric gas. Regions were alternately colored red (for high CO2 emission), white (low or neutral CO2 emissions) and green (no emissions: CO2 absorbers).
    Bizarrely, the IBUKU maps prove exactly the opposite of all conventional expectations revealing that the least industrialized regions are the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases on the planet.
    Yes, you read that correctly: the U.S. and western European nations are areas where CO2 levels are lowest. This new evidence defies the consensus view promoted by mainstream newspapers, such as the New York Times.

  24. Brown Adolf’s National Socialism.
    Socialism is an alimentary canal.
    …-
    “‘I Was an Asshole’
    A Look at Neo-Nazi Germany from the Inside
    Manuel Bauer was once a neo-Nazi thug, heavily involved in far-right paramilitary organizations and guilty of numerous assaults against foreigners and immigrants in Germany. He has since turned his back on the scene — but he can still provide a unique inside look. Authorities, he says, have long underestimated its danger.”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,800610,00.html

  25. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    Googlenews: “Science”.
    …-
    “Desmond Tutu, others scold Canada over climate policy
    CTV.ca – ‎47 minutes ago‎
    South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks during a climate justice rally held in Durban, South Africa, Sunday, Nov 27, 2011, ahead of the official start or a two-week international climate conference with about 190 countries beginning upcoming …”
    “British garbage worms survive in space without human help
    Register – ‎1 hour ago‎
    A worm family that originated in a rubbish dump in Bristol has successfully returned from a space mission, proving for the first time that worms can survive untended in space.”
    http://news.google.ca/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&q&js=0

  26. EBD and Black Mamba, thank you for that discussion that was so well said about the Brit woman on the bus. Rather than being offended by what she said, it made me sad and despairing about the state of Britain, elsewhere in Europe and by extension also Canada, that the progressives have led us into. Truly we are staring at the end of western civilization.

  27. According to one of the articles, the woman on the tram was arrested for her own “protection”. They could not devise an actual crime that she had committed, so they reverted to that weasel excuse.
    Why not arrest the person who posted it on Youtube without the consent of the people involved? Why not arrest the British Transport people who used the clip to identify the woman for further reprisals. She was being the loudest (or the camera was focusing on her) but other people were saying things too. So now, she and her child are at risk because they had a juicy tidbit to share with the world and they decided it was their duty to impose moral sanctions on her words. I consider their actions more reprehensible than hers.
    I heard frustration and pain in her diatribe. Also, there likely was some precipitating event which was not captured or posted in the clip.

  28. Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
    Banks donate “digest” supplies flom Mao.
    …-
    “High Peanut Butter Prices From Drought Hurting Food Banks”
    “Soon peanut butter prices will jump around 30 percent.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/
    …-
    “China, in Surprising Reversal, Moves to Spur Bank Lending”
    “The Chinese move was a particular surprise because the central bank usually announces moves on Friday evenings, to allow banks and markets plenty of time to digest the news.”
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/business/global/china-reverses-economic-policy.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
    *H/T Liberal lender Bob Rae, Mao’s nephew.

  29. Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
    Banks donate “digest” supplies flom Mao.
    …-
    “High Peanut Butter Prices From Drought Hurting Food Banks”
    “Soon peanut butter prices will jump around 30 percent.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/
    …-
    “China, in Surprising Reversal, Moves to Spur Bank Lending”
    “The Chinese move was a particular surprise because the central bank usually announces moves on Friday evenings, to allow banks and markets plenty of time to digest the news.”
    urlm.in/kdmd
    *H/T Liberal lender Bob Rae, Mao’s nephew.

  31. Of Socialism’s hen peckeryed bullies.
    …-
    “Toronto council to consider motion to allow residents to keep backyard hens
    Winnipeg Free Press”
    “New law would let Ontario schools expel bullies
    Premier Dalton McGuinty addresses students and staff at L’Amoreaux Collegiate Institute in Toronto about anti-bullying, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011.”
    http://news.google.ca/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&q&js=0

  32. http://www.hilltimes.com/news/legislation/2011/11/29/tories-will-have-blood-on-their-hands-if-long-gun-registry-is-eliminated-says/28968
    Heidi Rathjen has pulled out all the stops in an effort to save the long gun registry.
    Heidi says the Conservative government will have “blood on their hands” as the number of gun deaths will increase dramatically with the end of the Registry.
    She also says the Registry is an important and integral part of policing,and it’s been responsible for a decrease in the number of gun deaths.
    Heidi’s dragging out all the old,thoroughly debunked lies about gun related violence,and as usual the MSM helps spread the BS.

  34. Socialist EU’s Medicinal Rub.
    “The Wall Street Journal says it’s just aspirin. Europe remains in financial intensive care.”
    …-
    “Ten Days of the Condor”
    “The Fed and other central banks have acted to bail out the Euro: “The central banks are providing liquidity to the financial system by lowering the price on existing dollar swaps, making it easier for banks to get access to dollars.” The Wall Street Journal says it’s just aspirin. Europe remains in financial intensive care. “The coordinated action doesn’t directly address Europe’s government-debt and budget woes. Instead, it is aimed at alleviating the impact of those troubles on global markets.” Zerohedge reports the decision to buy the aspirin came on Monday with one member of the Fed dissenting.
    “The European debt problem can’t be solved by liquidity provisions alone,” Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa said at a hastily arranged news conference. “The step is meant to buy time for European countries to proceed with their fiscal and Berenberg economist Christian Schulz said the move was largely a symbolic gesture aimed at restoring calm.
    Seven Years of Lean: The price that may have to be paid for a European recovery was foreshadowed by its estimated effect on Britain, where officials told the public that average household incomes were going to drop by 7.4% over the next seven years. If all goes well, Britain can regain its 2002-2003 level of income by 2016. The very recent past were the “good old days” and we are unlikely to see them for a long, long time.
    BBC economics writer Paul Mason calls 29/29/2011 a “turning point in British history”, because it signals the acceptance of the necessity of a long period of belt-tightening. It is nothing short of an all-out attempt to prevent a catastrophe because it can no longer buy its way out of trouble.
    So why did Osborne make the choice to deal with deficit first, growth second? The answer came from Fitch Ratings …”
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/11/30/ten-days-of-the-condor/#more-18993

  35. Of Breivik’s ideology: “to quash his ideology.”
    Freud’s psychobabble comes to the rescue.
    Breivik’s ideology?
    Red Joe’s communism + Adolf’s brown National Socialism = Breivik’s ideology = socialism.
    ““Breivik is unaccountable and a paranoid schizophreniac. One could certainly have said the same thing about Hitler and Stalin,” Ingeborg Vea chimed in on the Twitter microblogging site.”
    …-
    “Norway split on Breivik’s likely fate in mental ward, as mass-killer himself ‘insulted’ by ruling”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/11/30/norway-split-on-breiviks-likely-fate-in-mental-ward-as-mass-killer-himself-insulted-by-ruling/

  37. My last comment was caught in the filter,so I’ll try again.
    “Climate change is melting the snow and ice, and the rising water is getting too close for comfort. Santa must relocate — fast — to make sure that all the nice boys and girls still have a Happy Holiday.”
    Do you want to get presents this year? Well,you best get mom or dad or any of your current parental units to help David Suzuki save Christmas.The message is abhorrent,the ‘gifts’ are trash.
    This is pathetic,Suzuki will have to evolve to reach the lofty heights of maggot.
    http://www.wherewillsantalive.ca/

  38. Fire/revoke CBCSuzuki’s charitable “Foundation”.
    …-
    “The worst kind of ugly climate propaganda: David Suzuki targets kids at Christmas in the name of climate change”
    “Here’s the popup message solicitation you get when you visit the website for the first time:
    Climate change is melting the North Pole and it’s no longer safe for Santa and his Workshop. So our dear old friend is packing up the sleigh to find somewhere else to live.
    You can help! Move your mouse over this website to find gifts you can buy Santa to help him set up a temporary Workshop and protect the North Pole for his return.
    Of course, you’re savvy enough to know we won’t be sending actual gifts to Santa. You will receive a tax receipt for 100% of your purchase and proceeds will be used by the David Suzuki Foundation to support our critical work to protect nature and the environment from threats like climate change.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/30/the-worst-kind-of-ugly-propaganda-david-suzuki-targets-kids-at-christmas-in-the-name-of-climate-chnage/#more-52284
    …-
    “Do Santa and climate change mix?”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/do-santa-and-climate-change-mix/article2255613/

  39. Pursuant to my above post,one of the trash gifts is ” Reindeer Water Wings”,only 20 bucks,but they are made of “eco-friendly neoprene and bio-based foam“.
    Suzuki should consider inhaling “methane free byproducts” from his diesel bus.

  41. Sclew Suzuki; Mistah SuzukiAGW he dead.
    “The Dollar is Dead. Gold, Oil, and megacorps are going to be the only survivors. The big investors all know this now, and shifted their resources accordingly. That’s what happened in the market today.”
    “22. wws”
    “http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/11/30/ten-days-of-the-condor/#more-18993

  42. Count Iggy tells Den Tandt: You erred here*, Sir.
    “*The Kyoto Protocol has not mattered globally since 2001, when the U.S. unilaterally withdrew*.”
    The USA did not sign onto Kyoto, Sir. The USA did not withdraw from Kyoto. The USA was never a signatory. Whose fault was that, Sir? His first name is Bill, Democratic Bill from Hope.
    Go on, Iggy …
    “Ottawa’s Kyoto pledge died years ago”
    “We didn’t get it done,” wailed Michael Ignatieff about Canada’s ineffectual attempts to meet this country’s Kyoto Protocol carbon emission targets, back when the Liberal government of Jean Chretien was serious about pretending it took climate change seriously.
    Ignatieff was spot on: Ottawa’s Kyoto commitments died in the waning years of Chretien’s third term, as the first of three Canadian prime ministers came to realize that implementing Kyoto faithfully would doom the oilpatch and Canada’s economic future with it. None of Chretien’s Kyoto plans had teeth.
    How can the Liberals continue to holler about Kyoto today, as though they were the treaty’s greatest champions? After promising to adopt it, it was they themselves who kicked it to the curb.”
    http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Ottawa+Kyoto+pledge+died+years/5787868/story.html

  43. The Bonfire of the AGW/BBC Vanities.
    “Roger Harrabin is taking unpaid leave on a Knight Wallace Media Fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.”
    Next: Throw SuzukiCBC on the bonfire.
    H/T:
    “pat says:
    November 30, 2011 at 3:23 pm
    29 Nov: BBC Ariel Mag: Roger Harrabin: A controversial conversationThe flak’s been flying again over BBC coverage of climate change
    Roger Harrabin is taking unpaid leave on a Knight Wallace Media Fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/15937222
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/30/the-genesis-of-realclimate-org-appears-in-the-climategate-emails-and-surprise-the-bbcs-roger-harrabin-seems-connected/

  44. Pursuant to my above posts on Suzuki’s scheme,I just found this out. You do not even receive the trash you buy.
    ” What you receive
    You won’t actually receive a North Pole Snow Globe, or any of the other items on this page. You are purchasing what people call a “symbolic gift” as a means of donating money to support the work of David Suzuki Foundation.”
    DELETED,DELETED,DELETED.
    I sent my favourite leftie a Christmas gift,as a gag. The silver lining is that when she opens the “gift” she may understand how much of a grifter this prick really is,but I am seriously p’oed at being ripped off by that charlatan.
    Canada’s best known climate scientist is an internet scammer. There isn’t any way to dress this up,he deserves to be boot-DELETED on the curb.

  46. “*and revenues from a first-nations-run casino in Orillia.”
    What is? Is where the money goes, Tonto. To the laundry.
    Ugh, Kemo Sabay. We have always known that.
    …-
    “*Tories take Attawapiskat finances out of native hands”
    urlm.in/kdql
    (G-M)

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