In tonight’s Tips music, from 1926, Australian Baritone Peter Dawson remembers the lads so merry and true, so ready and undismayed, and asks, “where are the boys of The Old Brigade?”
Put your Reader Tips in the comments.
In tonight’s Tips music, from 1926, Australian Baritone Peter Dawson remembers the lads so merry and true, so ready and undismayed, and asks, “where are the boys of The Old Brigade?”
Put your Reader Tips in the comments.
Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha:
Via Mick Hartley, who adds, “Albania, let’s remind ourselves, is a Muslim-majority country.”
If you want real laugh, check out “The Angriest Guitar Player in the World”
Dogged If You Do, Dogged If You Don’t
or the introduction of the seeing-eye horse for blind Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan. And you might have concluded, as a sensitive multicultural type, that Muslims aren’t quite so keen on man’s best friend as your average infidel.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/284862/dogged-if-you-do-dogged-if-you-dont-mark-steyn
The Beeb: “China’s security chief has warned that the government needs better methods to deal with social unrest due to a slowing economy.[…] ‘It is an urgent task for us to think how to establish a social management system with Chinese characteristics to suit our socialist market economy,’ [Zhou Yongkang, a member of the politburo] said in comments published Saturday.”
Well, EBD – don’t you know that Albanians (through their criminal enterprises in Western Europe) are helping the jihadis? and that the KLA were motivated by religion more than nationalism? /sarc
Pro-Serb comments put huge discounts on 2 inconvenient facts: Blessed Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu of Calcutta (Mother Teresa) is an Albanian national hero and George W. Bush wasn’t assassinated during his visit to Tirana.
And I can give you a list of the Ukrainian Catholic churches destroyed in Srpska Krajina between 1991 – 1995.
Brezhnev doctrine – EU version
The American school system is being run by crazy people.
7 year old accused of sexual harassment for kicking a bully who was choking him in the groin.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/12/02/7-year-old-accused-of-possible-sexual-harassment-for-kicking-boy-in-groin/
9 year old suspended for 2 days for saying his teacher was ‘cute’.
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/29910470/detail.html
Both h/t Drudge
john g – I can compete with those. Little boy “handcuffed and hauled off to a juvenile detention” for burping in gym class”.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/02/remember-when-it-was-okay-for-a-7th-grade-boy-to-burp-in-class/
Bolsheviks making a comeback in Russia? Win 19.6% of the Russian vote.
http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16123833
Amusing photo and story from the guardian
http://m.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/05/carbon-dioxide-emissions-biggest-jump?cat=environment&type=article
Why wear a particle mask but no helmet?
Why wear a parka backwards? (or, Why not?)
Lots of talk of ever increasing use of fossil fuel certain to cook all of us; no mention of what global temperatures are actually doing.
“*But westward, look, the land is bright!”
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“Harper set to surpass Diefenbaker and join ‘historic company’”
“Stephen Harper and his Conservatives mark an important anniversary this week in their continuing efforts to erase all that is Liberal from the memories of Canadians.
By Friday, Mr. Harper will overtake Conservative icon John Diefenbaker’s time in office, becoming the ninth longest-serving prime minister in Canadian history.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/harper-set-to-surpass-diefenbaker-and-join-historic-company/article2260022/
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“Canadians’ political mood getting brighter: Poll”
“Canadians are feeling better about politics, the direction the country is headed and our role on the international stage, a new poll has found.
More than 63% of Canadians think Canada is moving in the right direction, up from 52% in 2010, according to a Nanos Research survey for Policy Options magazine. That’s the sharpest increase yet in the annual Mood of Canada survey.
What’s more, 48.7% of Canadians say the country’s reputation internationally has improved, up 20 points from last year, also the biggest hike in the survey’s history.”
http://www.lfpress.com/news/canada/2011/12/05/19068811.html
*AH Clough
Socialism’s natural end result: “sac…”.
The End.
“Announcing that all but the lowest pensions would be frozen next year, the welfare minister, Elsa Fornero, said: “We – and this really cost us dear, psychologically even – we’ve had to ask for sac…” But she was unable to say the word “sacrifices” and, brushing tears from her eyes, brought her presentation to an abrupt close.”
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“Austerity bites in Italy – and leaves minister in tears”
“Elsa Fornero weeps as she tries to explain sacrifices required of Italians after cabinet passes budget with austerity measures of €30bn”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/04/austerity-italy-minister-tears
Re: Dogged If You Do, Dogged If You Don’t
I believe it is time to visit the local mosque with my seeing eye Clydesdale!
Canadian Mohawks have established economic relations with communist Cuba to develop a golf course there. According to the report, the Mohawks “share much in common with [communist] Cuba” and their admiration for Castro goes back many years:
http://standing-feather.ca/cubanews.pdf
Ich Bin Ein Uber Alles’ Austerity.
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“The ‘we are all Germans’ cure for Europe”
At the height of the Cold War, in 1963, John F. Kennedy went to West Berlin and famously told an audience of 450,000: “Ich bin ein Berliner” – I am a Berliner. The speech underlined American support for West Germany shortly after the Berlin Wall cut the city in half.
Today, as the euro zone teeters on the edge of destruction, the new rallying cry could be: “Wir sind alle Deutsche” – We are all Germans. Germany, and perhaps Germany alone, can save the euro zone. But how?”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/eric-reguly/the-we-are-all-germans-cure-for-europe/article2258832/
Of AGWRed-Green’s “Holy Grail of “grid-parity.””
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“UK green energy projects fall by wayside in dash for gas”
“Number of new wind turbines built this year is down by half on last year and the pipeline of new projects has stagnated”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment
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“Installers, homeowners cash in on solar industry slump”
“The dramatically falling price of solar panels worldwide is giving a lift to companies installing them in fields and on factory and home roofs in Canada.
In the past year, over-production of panels, along with intense competition and weak markets, has sharply pushed down the price of solar modules and panels.”
“Virtually everyone in the sector believes the time will come – likely within the next decade – when the price of solar power equipment falls to the point where solar is competitive with other forms of power generation. At that point FIT-like support won’t be needed and the sector will have reached the Holy Grail of “grid-parity.””
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/installers-homeowners-cash-in-on-solar-industry-slump/article2259666/
Socialism: It’s for our children.
“Elsa Fornero cries as she tries to explain sacrifices required of Italians after cabinet passes €30bn of cuts”
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/12/4/1323042094144/Austerity-bites-in-Italy–003.jpg
The charge? “Walking while non-First Nation”
Oops.
Something amusing for a manic Monday.
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/04/awww-some-occupiers-so-traumatized-they-may-need-therapy/
Here’s a poll (in the Edmonton Sun) that doesn’t seem to need any help.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/poll/who-would-you-like-to-send-dead-flowers-to
Of left-liberalism’s War Against Our Western Civilization.
Oz: “Muslim Emergency Management Plan,”.
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“Globe | Gatineau’s values guide for immigrants stirs controversy”
“One of Quebec’s biggest cities is throwing out the welcome mat to immigrants with a 16-point guide to local values, which range from refraining from bribing officials, killing people for honour, to cooking smelly foods.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/gatineaus-values-guide-for-immigrants-stirs-controversy/article2259694/
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“New clamp on Muslim haters”
“MUSLIMS are being urged to report hate crimes under a special disaster plan to deal with the fallout from terrorist attacks.
Under the Muslim Emergency Management Plan, backed by the state and federal governments, Victorians will be given advice on how to react to anti-Muslim incidents, even if they are considered minor.
Muslim victims of abuse are encouraged to save evidence, take photos and report any incident to police and their local mosque or Islamic organisation.
And in another initiative, Victoria Police is introducing new strategy to deal with violence and threats motivated by prejudice.”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/new-clamp-on-muslim-haters/story-fn7x8me2-1226212747924
RE: CBC.Ca headline: “Queen to get royal pay freeze”
Quote CBC:
“Even the Royal Family is feeling the financial pinch these days, with the Queen’s income to be frozen until 2015, according to reports.
From £38.3 milion ($60.7 million Cdn) of taxpayers’ money in 2008, the Queen’s pay has effectively fallen each year.
By 2013, that will be down to £30 million ($47.5 million).
Back in 1991-02, the Queen got £77.3 millon ($122 million) in taxpayer funding to cover household expenses.” (End quote.)
My comment on CBC.Ca was:
“Our Queen (My grandparents were from Avignon, France) also got cuts to her well being. Thanks to a gentleman named Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.”
Needless to write, it never got published.
Left-liberalism:
“The school has an ongoing character education program that has been active for a couple years, he said, and officials will be putting further focus on that program.”
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“Hate crime charges considered against teen”
Manitoba Justice is considering hate-crime-related charges in the case of a Winnipeg high school student accused of lighting a Jewish girl’s hair on fire with a lighter after spewing anti-Semitic comments at her.”
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“Nativity scene removed from Montreal-area town hall”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/12/05/19070361.html
and in the mean time, yet another “science is settled, oh wait a minute…”
In this process I realized that this historical physiological model has become what Waller terms a ‘Foundation Myth’ (Waller 2002) and, as a consequence, has escaped modern disinterested, intellectual scrutiny. The reasons for this serve as a warning of the fallibility of scientists and the current scientific methods under which we labour.
source How does a foundational myth become sacred scientific dogma? (Training Science)
CBC poll of the day.
Should Canada opt out of the Kyoto Protocol?
http://tinyurl.com/6pr7zo5
Red Bishop’s Threat.
His canons are not amused.
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“Williams: riots could happen again”
“Rescue those who think they have nothing to lose or face further unrest, says archbishop of Canterbury”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/