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Tonight we listen to the tragic tale of an impoverished but indomitable maid who watches her family members give up the wretched ghost, one by one, in a song called simply Irish Ballad.
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  1. We now know the cause of the Costa Concordia disaster:
    “An Italian priest has a lot of explaining to do after telling his parishioners he was going on a spiritual retreat, only for it to be revealed that he was on the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship.
    “Father Massimo Donghi told his parishioners that he was heading off for a week of contemplation and prayer, but instead boarded the luxury liner at Civitavecchia, north of Rome, for a luxury cruise of Mediterranean ports…”
    […]
    “‘What do you want me to say?’ the priest told an Italian news magazine, Panorama. ‘I have nothing to add.'”

  2. Royal “we” edu-crats:
    “School officials at Shawano High School in Wisconsin have censored and punished Brandon Wegner, a 15-year-old, for writing an op-ed article explaining the Biblical view of homosexuality and supporting natural mother-father adoption, according to Liberty Counsel.
    “After Brandon wrote (his article) he was pulled into hours of meetings with school administrators and staff, without his parents’ knowledge.
    “Superintendent Todd Carlson told him that the column ‘went against the bullying policy,’ and asked him if he ‘regretted’ writing it. According to Liberty Counsel, when Mr. Wegner stated that he did not regret writing it, and that he stood behind his beliefs, Superintendent Carlson told him that he ‘had to be one of the most ignorant kids to try to argue with him about this topic,’ that ‘we have the power to suspend you if we want to’ and that the column had ‘personally offended me, so I know you offended other people!’”

  6. Cross posted from last evening’s Reader Tips. Well worth the fourteen minute it takes to watch.
    ACT! for America was formed by Brigitte Gabriel, a Christian immigrant from Lebanon. She is probably the most dynamic women I have ever heard on this topic.
    Students in North America are being propagandized with mis-information about Islam and its history in a lot of our schools. Brigitte speaks about this in a recent speech in Colorado. It is a lengthy link, but well worth listening to and sending to all your acquaintances. I hope you will take the time to watch it at:
    http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid949801312001?bckey=AQ~~%2cAAAACEco_Vk~%2c9bOat4XcfB_88ri1a3UMdKnLpH9aM8Fv&bclid=0&bctid=1271237687001

  10. Re-Jesse Ventura. I’ve been doing a bit of research on this alleged punch-out, since I watched the O’Reilly segment. There seems to be no reason to doubt the ex-sniper’s story. It’s been verified by several witnesses. Ventura, however, is pulling out all the stops to discredit him. It’s amazing the following this nutcase has. All the 9/11 Truthers, all the Ron Paul supporters, and a good many conspiracy nuts of every stripe. It’s mind boggling, considering Ventura claimed to be a full-patch Mongol, he lied about his military service, he was a fake athlete, and he’s a 9/11 Truther. Not sure if the Manson Family supports him, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

  11. KevinB @ 1:24 a.m.: Lorrie Goldstein put that in one of his Sun columns back in November. He said it wasn’t original, but didn’t know who to attribute it to.
    There is perhaps more than a grain of truth in the piece but it’s grossly exaggerated. A real-world bar owner couldn’t go too long without collecting from her patrons, and the economic devastation wrought by just one small establishment could not be anywhere near as large as the piece suggests. Only if the bar were run by the government and supported through tax dollars could things deteriorate like that.

  14. Reminds me of global trade, trading a million dollar cow for a million dollar cow. Everybody is rich, except they still only have two cows minus the brokerage and shipping.
    Ain’t having a global price fun? heh

  17. Fredericton Police Force, seized his computer as evidence of “defamatory libel.” In Canada that redundant-sounding offense is not a tort but a crime, punishable by up to five years in prison. LeBlanc has agreed to appear in court on April 20.
    at least he will be tried by a jury of his peers in a free society..
    Two Iranian bloggers are to be executed for ‘spreading corruption’ – (hanged)
    as Tehran cracks down on freedom of expression in the run up to its parliamentary elections in March.

  19. “Pacifism is a sickness, an actual moral perversity…”
    Excerpts from Kirby Ferris’s “Violence solves a lot”:

    One of the more insidiously deceptive lines of the socialist-liberal agenda is the banal phrase “violence doesn’t solve anything. How much retrospection is required to understand that Hitler wasn’t stopped by peace marches, negotiations, or ‘conflict resolution’ sessions?…
    […]
    We all might wish that evil men could be persuaded from their vile behavior with bleeding heart entreaties, a kiss on the cheek, or proper toilet training. But it ain’t that way, folks, Pacifism is a sickness, an actual moral perversity, and dangerous when its effects spread to anyone else beside the pacifist.

    (Filched from the bookmark-worthy American Digest.)

  21. Anybody here concerned about ACTA. http://www.stopacta.info/
    This act which Canada just signed seems scarier then SOPA and PIPA combined. It essentially makes your ISP a private copyright police agency. If say SDA receives a complaint about copyright from another government that doesn’t like what is being discussed here, the ISP is legally bound to remove such material. They have the power to examine all traffic to the site, and pull the site off the web.

  23. this could happen sooner than you think…if nobody challenges the great green moonbats…
    http://www.ecoenquirer.com/Bali-global-warming-2027.htm
    (Bali – Dec. 18, 2027) Twenty years after the first Bali global warming conference, delegates from around the world attending the tenth Bali conference (Bali-X) today put the finishing touches on a new agreement to negotiate future reductions in manmade greenhouse gas emissions. According to all UN-certified scientists, those emissions are predicted to once again cause global warming, just as was experienced thirty years ago.
    The United Nations Earth Czar, Al Gore, hailed the Bali-X agreement as a critical step in global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “Today, we have continued the long tradition of cooperation that has maintained agreements enabling negotiations which provide a basis for future talks”, announced His Excellency. “We have renewed hope that the difficult, but historic, scientific consensus that was reached almost twenty years ago will not have been in vain.”
    As in previous years, the U.N. conference was the target of some criticism for neglecting mounting scientific evidence that climate change is a largely natural phenomenon. A minority of non-UN-certified climate scientists once again pointed to global temperatures that have continued their slow decline for the past thirty years. All of these comments were made anonymously due to their illegality under anti-green hate speech laws.
    “Yes, global temperatures have fallen”, admitted Mr. Gore in private, “but as we all know, this spurious cooling trend will suddenly change to rapid warming…possibly as early as next month. I am told by our UN scientists that we now have less than ten years to avert a global inferno of cataclysmic proportions.”
    Once again, the Canadian delegation expressed some concern that the world’s cooling trend might not end soon enough. Pointing to the ice sheet in northern Canada that has now survived through thirteen summers without melting, the Canadians warned that some towns in the far north might have to be abandoned as the ice sheet continues its expansion southward.
    Particularly hard hit by the advancing ice sheet have been the women and children of environmentalist families that poured into the Northwest Territories from the United States during the Great Green Exodus of 2008. The encroaching mass of ice has already destroyed the coastal resorts that were prematurely built on the shores of the Arctic Ocean in anticipation of warming temperatures.
    Frequently the target of the anti-green fringe, Mr. Gore once again was the subject of some criticism for his carbon offset business, the value of which now exceeds $2 trillion.
    Gore’s acquisition of Google Inc. to form Google Green back in 2014 is still lamented by some internet purists. Google Green advertisements continue to dominate websites around the world with the familiar Google Green logo. Anti-green demonstrators were sometimes heard outside the conference center chanting “Bring Back Coke”, an obvious reference to Mr. Gore’s central role in coordinating the international ban on carbonated drinks in 2016.
    Marring the Bali conference for the first time this year were thousands of arrests for alleged anti-green hate speech crimes. Many conference observers expected this as the inevitable result of last year’s U.N. Global Court ruling that classified anti-green rhetoric in public as a hate crime.
    Despite the usual rough spots like those experienced at previous global warming conferences, most delegates expressed optimism that the new agreement reached at Bali-X would eventually lead to large reductions in carbon dioxide emissions.
    As Mr. Gore boarded Green-1, the high efficiency Boeing 797 hybrid jet (sporting a smaller version of the standard heated swimming pool), he stated “We owe it to our children and grandchildren to pass on to them an Earth free from human interference. Today we have taken a giant first step in that direction.”

  26. Mark @2:06 – Halifax’s Muslim population has hugely increased over the last few years. You can’t walk out the door without seeing niqabs. Sometimes the full black tent.

  29. BTW, this is the Facebook page of the Reema Alharthi mentioned in the article. Notice that her “interests” include a “National Referendum on Closing the Tarsands” (Poster: “Sr*w You Harper!”) – presumably so her itshay-hole of a country can continue raking it in. And something about hating Turkish TV shows.

  30. Ich Bin Kommish Uber Grekland first; then, Ich take Paree.
    …-
    “The FT reported in its Saturday edition that Berlin is proposing appointing a euro-zone “budget commissioner” who would have the power to veto budget decisions taken by Greece to ensure that Athens implements the reforms mandated by international lenders.”
    “Germany Calls for EU Control Over Greek Budget”
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204661604577188422134155212.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

  31. Ich Bin Ein Kommish Uber Grekland first; then, Ich take Paree.
    …-
    “The FT reported in its Saturday edition that Berlin is proposing appointing a euro-zone “budget commissioner” who would have the power to veto budget decisions taken by Greece to ensure that Athens implements the reforms mandated by international lenders.”
    “Germany Calls for EU Control Over Greek Budget”
    urlm.in/kxcw

  32. Socialism’s Cinderella: Shoeless Clueless.
    “Senior media adviser Tony Hodges has been forced to resign.”
    …-
    “Occupy Wall Street, Down Under Style”
    “When the senior media adviser to Australian prime minister Julia Gillard, Tony Hodges, decided to surreptitiously sic a crowd of aboriginal protesters on opposition leader Tony Abbott, he had no idea it would backfire big time. What started as an attempt to embarrass Abbott, who earlier remarked that the aboriginal protest site which opened in Canberra 40 years ago ought to close after all this time, it turned into threat to the media adviser’s own boss. Several hundred protesters converged on the Lobby Restaurant and banged on the glass, leading to what police called a “clear threat” to Gillard’s safety. She was forced to run from the scene, losing a shoe in the process of nearly falling to the ground.”
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/01/27/occupy-wall-street-down-under-style/#comments
    http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/pm-staffer-forced-to-quit-over-leak/story-fn7x8me2-1226255738200

  33. Neo-AGW PR.
    Rise Up! With Iggy.
    …-
    “Tropical Cyclone Iggy Threatens Australia”
    “You Asked For Winter, So Head North to Alaska!”
    “Alaskans have been experiencing the most brutal winter conditions of anybody in the United States this season. Thanks to cold being bottled up across the Northwest Territories and Alaska, the season has been chock full of snow, frigid temperatures, and plenty of ice fog to go around.
    In the city of Fairbanks, January 2012 will likely be the coldest January in the last 40 years, according to the National Weather Service in Fairbanks. The average temperature through the 27th is 24.7 degrees below zero. This is the coldest average through the first 27 days since 1971 when the average was 29.8 degrees below zero.
    As of Saturday morning, Fairbanks International Airport has had a daily minimum temperature of 40 degrees below zero or lower for 14 days this month.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/

  34. Were you shocked by Mohammad’s words?
    By Mohammad’s murderous misogyny?
    It’s in his book, aka Quran, Koran. It has been the subject of many posts here, Joe.
    “The Crown says Mohammad Shafia knows exactly what he meant when he uttered words about his own kin that shocked the nation.”
    Michael Coren was asked why there was no help for the slain women. Coren replied that political correctness and the fear of being labelled an Islamophobe allowed these heinous murders to carried out.
    …-
    “The trial that gripped a nation: Warmington”
    “By Joe Warmington ,Toronto Sun”
    “The Shafia sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, along with their 52-year-old step mother Rona Amir, died June 30, 2009.
    Charged with first degree murder are their father Mohammad, 59, their biological mother Tooba Yahya, 42 and their 21-year-old Hamed.”
    http://www.torontosun.com/2012/01/28/the-trial-that-gripped-a-nation-warmington

  36. As if on cue. This view is gaining popularity and support in the gay community and gay straight alliance groups, despite what the article attempts to depict. Sexual fluidity is fast becoming the sexual paradigm of choice in sex education-the new normal.
    Cynthia Nixon Gay ‘Choice’ Comments Anger Homosexual Activists:
    “The gay community has expressed dissatisfaction with Nixon for suggesting that being gay is a choice. Nixon has made the comment twice, once in a speech and once in a New York Times interview, causing a backlash from the gay activists, who do not want homosexuality to be depicted as a choice.
    “I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line ‘I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, and gay is better,” the actress told the New York Times. “And they tried to get me to change it, because they said it implies that homosexuality can be a choice.”
    http://global.christianpost.com/news/cynthia-nixon-gay-choice-comments-anger-homosexual-activists-67835/

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