If you’re in the market for a slingshot you can go one of two ways: you can choose a run-of-the-mill, garden variety slingshot suitable for chasing small varmints away, or, if you’d rather be safe than sorry, opt for a dedicated hybrid bludgeoning-weapon/counterbalanced-slingshot like Dortmunder Jörg Sprave’s fearsome Slingshot Zombiehammer with Skull Ejector.
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Oh sweet saint of Santorini, hear our prayers.
More Climategate email fun: via Joanne Nova, this choice excerpt in which Ian Harris, a CRU programmer who was charged with updating the huge data base and who, as Nova puts it, found that “much of the center’s data and applications are undocumented, bug-ridden, riddled with holes, missing, uncatalogued and, in short, utterly worthless”, notes a slight problem with a bit of ‘data’:
Nitpicker.
NOW that’s a slingshot!!! The only mod I would make would be about a 4 foot skull penetrator,only because leftard’s brains are in their butts.
EBD….didn’t you know climate cultis…errrr….”scientists” where allowed to nitpick?
Those crazy Brits. This sort of thing could not happen in Canadian and American schools.
CBC poll up:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/01/should-the-northern-gateway-oil-pipeline-be-approved.html
Needs LOTS of help.
Goddammit EDB, your work here is priceless!
The Mutant Present
But what would a visitor from Eisenhower’s America make of our time? He might eventually get around to marveling at the iPod and Twitter, but I would bet his initial reaction would be complete amazement at the people. Instead of the sober suits and hats of a 1950 Main Street, men and women crowd the sidewalks in brightly colored leisurewear that, to his mid-century eyes, gives them the air of overgrown children, especially when slurping sugary drinks through straws from containers not dissimilar to baby bottles.
http://www.steynonline.com/4782/the-mutant-present
Wonder if that would work on Phil?
No, not a chance! Would need a 3 ft spike to reach his brain upside his nether regions, and even so, that’d be like trying to skewer a raisin with a toilet plunger.
NH Primary results at 11:00 pm: 80% reporting –
Romney 38%
Paul 23%
Huntsman 17%
no one else higher than 10%. Perry, Bachman, Cain all less than 1%.
Up to date results at NH Primary Results
Mark Steyn was on Hannity (Fox) just now, discussing the results. He called Romney “the weak frontrunner” and called into question the attacks on Romney by Gingrich and Perry regarding Romney’s style at Bain. I’m thinking that this whole debate – Perry describing the difference between “venture capitalism and vulture capitalism” – may be beneficial for the Republicans, drawing Democrats who don’t want to support another term of Obama.
Polish prosecutor Mikolaj Przybyl defends the findings of an investigation into leaks surrounding the plane crash that Killed Poland’s president, asks reporters to leave the room, then shoots himself in the head.
He is in stable condition in hospital.
On a previous thread Capt. Jack Sparrow gave us a link to an online petion that Lizzy May and friends have put up.
http://www.petitiononlinecanada.com/petition/stop-enbridge-s-northern-gateway-pipeline/647
Be nice,eh.
Sorry how does providing Democrats with material for the election help anyone here?
Now think about this. Do you think Newt just had this documentary put together overnight? I think what you’re seeing here is all part of Newt/Pelosi’s plan.
james, how ‘industry’ used to function is not how it works today, with public trading and corporations merging into rapacious global entities. There’s a legitimate debate to be had, and this may be the time to do it.
You think that Newt is working with Pelosi now? I doubt it.
You seriously think this 30 minute documentary Newt has cooked up was made since Iowa? Think about it man. Newt is working for the Dems.
“Man”?
“You seriously think this 30 minute documentary Newt has cooked up was made since Iowa?”
Obviously not, but Newt is not the only candidate talking about Romney’s role at Bain. Newt just received 5 million from a Las Vegas billionaire, which is where he got the money to make the ad in question.
Oh yeah he just suddenly got the money… and the money for the documentary film came from where and when? You watch this all unfold. Sorry I’m not buying any of this crap. A 30 minute hit job on the front runner by the guy who’s now all but lost. It’s all too convenient. I’m sure it’s all just a “mistake”.
Re. the money for Newt’s campaign:
“Adelson also has helped underwrite the political ambitions of Gingrich, providing seed money to launch a non-profit group, American Solutions for Winning the Future, that advanced the Republican’s political causes in the years after Gingrich left Congress.
‘He’s a visionary in the gaming business,’ said Frank Fahrenkopf, a former Republican National Committee chairman, who is president and CEO of the casino industry’s national trade group. ‘He’s also an extremely wealthy man who likes and supports Newt Gingrich.’ ”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-01-09/newt-gingrich-las-vegas-donor/52473254/1
Re. the money for Newt’s campaign:
“Adelson also has helped underwrite the political ambitions of Gingrich, providing seed money to launch a non-profit group, American Solutions for Winning the Future, that advanced the Republican’s political causes in the years after Gingrich left Congress.
‘He’s a visionary in the gaming business,’ said Frank Fahrenkopf, a former Republican National Committee chairman, who is president and CEO of the casino industry’s national trade group. ‘He’s also an extremely wealthy man who likes and supports Newt Gingrich.’ ”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-01-09/newt-gingrich-las-vegas-donor/52473254/1
Romney has the Nomination, the rest are sleep walking…
BTW: It is only a Socialist that thinks that the act of firing a bad Employee is some how a Bad Act. Tell that to Donald Trump and all of America who make his show “You are Fired” a hit…Romney will get a Bump in the polls every time the MSM mentions the word “Fired” Dumb
BTW: The CBS production deck are spiking shows with the words “Global Warming”. 60 Minutes had a segment on truffles with three references, only by the reporter, to AGW. The Story had no basis for AGW. A Complaint (properly made)to the FCC could send a message that US Broadcasters do not work for George Soros.
Bain Capital were corporate raiders, pure and simple. What they did was legal, but completely conscienceless. Thousands of people working at long-term jobs with solid, if unspectacular companies lost their jobs as a result of Bain’s predations.
You think Obama and the Democrats don’t know about this, and won’t use it effectively against Romney if the GOP is foolish enough to choose him?
Obama redeemed himself in environmentalists’ eyes late last year. First, he delayed a decision to build a pipeline to bring (tar) sands oil from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who once backed a regional program to reduce greenhouse gases,
has proposed removing carbon dioxide from the list of pollutants controlled by the Clean Air Act and amending environmental laws so that cost,
as well as the health benefits, can be considered.
Now:
Someone tell me again why I should cast my valuable vote for Oblamer?
Small Dead Animals: You are sooooo totally warped and I love you for it!
Tell me the truth: Like Steve Jobs, when you were younger you smoked stuff, right?
All the best!
RV.
Neo-AGW PR Report.
Snow Freaky Suzuki’s “charitable status” in a “lockdown”
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“Foes of Northern Gateway pipeline fear revoking of charitable status”
“Environmentalists are fearful that the Conservative government is planning to limit their advocacy role after Prime Minister Stephen Harper complained that groups flush with “foreign money” are undermining a controversial pipeline review.
Mr. Harper and Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver stoked activists’ fears in recent days by lashing out at environmental groups that have taken money from U.S. donors to build opposition to the $6.6-billion Northern Gateway pipeline that would carry oil-sands bitumen to the British Columbia coast.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/foes-of-northern-gateway-pipeline-fear-revoking-of-charitable-status/article2298276/
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“European ski resorts in ‘lockdown’ after freak snowfalls cut road, rail and air links
1,000 British skiers trapped in Alps after severe snowfalls
Falling trees and rocks blocking many routes
Avalanche warning raised to stage three, or ‘considerable risk’
Holidaymakers advised to stay indoors”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084917/European-ski-resorts-lockdown-freak-snowfalls-cut-road-rail-air-links.html
“Should it be a requirement that Ottawa’s next police chief is bilingual?”
“Yes, it’s a community leadership role that requires the ability to communicate effectively with all members of the public.
8.87%
No, Vern White proved that if you hire the best person for the job, language isn’t an issue.
90.5%
Other.
0.53%”
http://www.cfra.com/
Greece decides it needs to demonstrate that price controls don’t work.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-10/greek-crisis-has-pharmacists-pleading-for-aspirin-as-drug-supply-dries-up.html
In this midst of this journalists long whine about – the injustice of per capita health transfer payments, the unfairness of capped equalization payments and a lament about the unearned wealth of non-renewable resource rich provinces (from a reporter whose experience with resource extraction is likely pumping gas at a self-serve station and putting charcoal briquettes into her Hibachi)- came this gem of a statement:
“Although virtually every federation in the world, including the U.S., has some form of federal support for its regional entities, Canada’s mushrooming phalanx of libertarian think-tanks keeps grinding out columns and op-ed articles denouncing and demeaning equalization as “welfare” for “uncompetitive” governments who aren’t “innovative” and won’t slash taxes.”
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/manitoba-loses-under-equalization-change-137076738.html
“Canada’s mushrooming phalanx of libertarian think-tanks”, eh. Is that from zero to one or maybe a doubling from one to two? I know I can hardly read the G&M, Macleans, Star, CBC, CTV, Global…without being bombarded by libertarian philosophy.
CBC has yet another ‘starving polar bear’ story up at their site. A quick perusal of the highest rated comments shows that people are catching on to their BS.
One of the concerned citizens suggested that the gov’t should make “artificial floating seal hunting platforms”. Really.
It might work. A small raft and a few 6 packs of coke and away they go,gleefully persuing artificial floating seals,but only the adult ones.The babies are so cute.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2012/01/10/mb-starving-polar-bears-manitoba.html
It appears as though the Democrat manchurian candidate Newt Gingrich has had some success in implanting their talking points into some conservative heads around here. Even if Bain Capital was/is a “corporate raider” (democrat coined term btw), what is wrong with that? You really should do some research into Bain Capital because you’ll like what you see btw.
That U of Manitoba “expert” is an annual event. Last time we heard of him he was out in a boat proving satellite ice measurements wrong.
Red-Green heads are busting with reality checks:
>>> “But in these increasingly strange climatic times almost anything could happen.”
From Switzerland:
“Skiing: Is this the best ski season ever?”
“After the prodigious snowfall of recent weeks, Peter Hardy wonders if this ski season is set to be the best yet.”
“Shortly after 7am on December 16, the pisteur charged with measuring the snowfall at the permanent weather station just above Courchevel 1850 shook his head in astonishment. Then he crouched down on the edge of the piste to check and recheck the figures.
It couldn’t be true, but it was. In just 10 pre-Christmas days more snow had fallen in the Trois Vallées than during the whole of last season.
At other resorts across the Alps an avalanche of similar records has since tumbled – and still the snow has continued to fall in prodigious quantities.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/snowandski/9006670/Skiing-Is-this-the-best-ski-season-ever.html
Mao Stlong* in Davos, Switzerland, c/o North Korea.
“”Each year, (Strong) explains as background to…the novel’s plot, the World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, Switzerland. Over 1,000 CEO’s, prime ministers, finance ministers, and leading academics gather in February to attend meetings and set economic agendas for the year ahead. With this as a setting, he then says: ‘What if a small group of these world leaders were to conclude that the principle risk to the earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? …In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized nations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring this about?’
“This group of world leaders,’ he continues, ‘forms a secret society to bring about an economic collapse. It’s February. They’re all at Davos. These aren’t terrorists. They’re world leaders. They have positioned themselves in the world’s commodities and stock markets. They’ve engineered, using their access to stock markets and computers and gold supplies, a panic. Then they prevent the world’s stock markets from closing. They jam the gears. They hire mercenaries who hold the rest of the world leaders at Davos as hostage. The markets can’t close…’ This is Maurice Strong. He knows these world leaders. He is, in fact, co-chairman of the Council of the World Economic Forum. He sits at the fulcrum of power. He is in a position to do it. ‘I probably shouldn’t be saying things like this.’””
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2003/main012003.htm
*Liberal leader Bob Rae’s uncle.
Ouch! George Lucas STUNS Jon Stewart..tells him Hollywood studios refused to back his new film Red Tails,about the Tuskagee Airmen “because the cast was all black!” Odd isn’t it,that these same elites are huge backers of The One!
see story at Newsbusters
“When Adam was expelled from the garden of eden why did God say be fruitful and multiply … that Genesis says that they “will till the earth with the sweat of their brow …”
(answers.com)
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“Europe’s pension bomb about to explode”
“Governments may have to follow the same path for their own employees as well as increasing the retirement age to at least 70 and possibly 75 to make the pensions affordable, Cowling wrote in an article published in July by Public Service Europe.”
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/01/11/europes-pension-bomb-about-to-explode/
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“As Germany stumbles, fears of euro’s ‘cataclysmic’ death”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/top-business-stories/as-germany-stumbles-fears-of-euros-cataclysmic-death/article2297888/
Coming soon to Alberta : http://t.co/QEzu72tG. 85 year old grandmother given $500 fine and 90 day license suspension for being stone cold sober and unable to provide a breath sample. Every single liberal who loves these unconstitutional drunk driving laws hate Harper’s “tough on crime agenda”, you know the “agenda” where REAL criminals go to jail…
Just caught this on Sun News. Saskatchewan will be looking for workers in Ireland.
The quick answer to the obvious question,is they are looking for “workers”.
http://www.leaderpost.com/business/Saskatchewan+looks+Ireland+workers/5947367/story.html
Rob Ford makes another 911 call. CBC missing in action,so far.Via BCF.
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1113981–rob-ford-s-house-surrounded-by-police-after-break-and-enter-report?bn=1
now THAT’s chutzpah…
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/01/10/syrian-refugees-in-israel/
The Israeli Army’s Chief of Staff Benny Gantz says Israel is preparing to take in refugees following the downfall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. The interesting part is that Israel is expecting refugees from the Alawite minority and to house them on the Golan Heights.
The Assad family and most of the regime are Alawites at war with the Sunni Muslim majority. The Golan Heights was taken from Syria in the 1967 war when Damascus used it as a platform to shoot at and shell Israeli civilians in the Galilee far below.
When Assad demands the Golan Heights back, he does not have it in mind as a refugee camp under the stewardship of his enemies for his overthrown clan.
Unemployed graduate sues ministers for being ‘forced’ to stack shelves in Poundland
– Cait Reilly has been looking for work since graduating in the summer
– She volunteered at a museum until ordered to accept two-week placement
– Her lawyer says the ‘forced labour’ breaches her human rights
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085142/Unemployed-graduate-sues-ministers-forced-stack-shelves-Poundland.html
I know it sounds like a clear issue of ‘get off your butt and get to work’ but is benefits (welfare) a right or a contract? If it is a contract that obligates you to go wherever and whenever the government wants then it would certainly help our labor shortages. Is that giving gov’t too much power? How about decreasing your welfare if you refuse and/or increasing it as an incentive to take entry level work.
BTW, the CATO Institute has a post that addresses the Heritage Foundation’s Defense Spending as a Percentage of the Total Federal Budget (including additional charts):
“Obviously, the big story in the federal budget over the past 40 years is the dramatic rise in spending on transfer payments. Does the Heritage Foundation really want to suggest that when spending on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid rises, military spending should rise commensurately? That when President Bush creates a trillion-dollar Medicare prescription drug entitlement, he should also add a trillion dollars to the Pentagon budget to keep “Defense Spending as a Percentage of the Federal Budget” at its previous level?”
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/misleading-images-on-defense-spending/
Cbc now has the mayor Ford story on their website. It is buried in the Toronto section,and comments are not allowed. Contrast that with the Marg Dela*unty story,which was put up on the Canada page and the rabid left were allowed to denigrate the Mayor.
The unbiased cbc always highlights the stories that puts conservatives in a bad light,but does the opposite or ignores stories that reflect badly on the rest.Perhaps,it’s time for them to investigate themselves again.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/01/11/toronto-ford-incident.html —No comments allowed
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/10/24/ford-toront-mayor-this-hour-police248.html — 1,125 comments
Ok, so if the Tea Party and Sarah Palin were responsible for the Tuscon murders, can we equally blame the CBC for the Mayor Ford death threats?
Elsie Bennett @4:13 – I tried reading that story in order to form an opinion about it. I really did. But I just got a little bit too distracted by the story on the sidebar about the woman with two… it’s the 10th one down. Damn you, Daily Mail.
Mao Stlong Lepolt*.
Guest Commentator: Jabberwock**.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!”
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“Eager to sell Alberta oil, Harper schedules return trip to China”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/eager-to-sell-alberta-oil-harper-schedules-return-trip-to-china/article2298735/
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“Fisher: Canada playing bigger role on world stage, at last”
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Fisher+Canada+playing+bigger+role+world+stage+last/5967820/story.html
*UNaBomber Maurice Strong, c/o Red China, is Liberal leader Bob Rae’s uncle.
**Lewis Carroll
Go to the corner, Mamba. Take the Cap of Shame.
Speaking of the sidebars, I found the picture that went along with this article a bit, well, look for yourself.
‘Most runway models meet the BMI criteria for anorexia’, claims plus-size magazine in powerful comment on body image in the fashion industry
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2085226/Most-runway-models-meet-BMI-criteria-anorexia-claims-plus-size-magazine-powerful-comment-body-image-fashion-industry.html#ixzz1jCKytJeN
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Sober+senior+fined+drunk+driving/5976530/story.html
I’m incensed about this. I can’t wait for tonight’s Reader’s Tips to post it.