Slotcar racing? You call that slotcar racing? This is slotcar racing.
Hey, winters are long in Suomi.
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Diana West sees the all-too-familiar “moral equivalence among the intellectuals” in her review of Deborah Scroggins’s dual biography of jailed al-Qaida terrorist Aafia Siddiqui and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Excerpt:
As the debate over Islam and Islamic terror erupted in Holland, Scroggins writes: “Some Dutch spoke of ‘the Ayaan effect,’ a spirit of fear and rancor that seemed to have bewitched the country.” Get it? It’s not the jihad, stupid, it’s “the Ayaan effect.”
By bizarre contrast, Scroggins regards Siddiqui’s jihad with empathy-nurturing neutrality. The result isn’t so much “Islam, the West, what’s the difference?” – the trope of moral equivalence during the U.S.-USSR Cold War. It’s more: Islam, the West, who is responsible for the violence? Who is reacting to whom? Who is putting on the burka to fend off the bikini? What virgin wouldn’t hate a whore? One more time, it’s all our fault.
Or, in this case, Hirsi Ali’s fault.
Her offense? Hirsi Ali failed to submit to the never-never cant that “moderation” is a hallmark of Islam (no sacred Islamic texts support it), while she publicly flayed its teachings of conquest and supremacism.
What do I care what Justin Trudeau says? I mean on this issue and many others he’s a sack-less wonder! Charles Adler discussing the Shafia murders.
now all he has to do is repeat that process 3 or 4 million times…wouldn’t it be priceless if it turns out her husband’s job was cut due to ‘green’ technology with it’s $2 million per, but bankrupt-after-one-payday ‘jobs’
During his Google+ hangout Pres. Obama tells a woman that her husband shouldn’t be unemployed from the growth he has seen in the economy. Obama said he finds it “interesting” because he is getting “the word” that someone in her husband’s job field “should be able to find something right away.”
Obama offered to do something if she would just send him her husband’s resume.
The woman wants to know why Obama is extending visas for foreigners when there is tons of demand for American jobs by Americans.
“I don’t know what your husband’s speciality [is], but I can tell you that there is a huge demand around the country for engineers,” Obama told the woman.
“I understand that,” she responded. “But how am — given the list that you’re getting, I mean we’re not getting that. You said in the State of the Union address for business leaders to ask what can they do to bring jobs back to America
During the back and forth between Obama and the wife of an unemployed engineer, Obama asked for his resume.
“Can I ask you what kind of engineer your husband is?,” Obama said to the wife of the unemployed engineer.
“He’s a semiconductor engineer,” she responded.
“It is interesting to me — and I meant what I said if your send me your husband’s resume, I’d be interested in finding out exactly what’s happening right there because the word that we’re getting is that somebody in that type of high-tech field, that kind of engineer, should be able to find something right away.
Mississauga Matt: the first four letters of your email address elbowed your comment to the filter (I just released it), and will send future comments there as well, so you might want to change them up.
Companies aren’t hiring Americans if they can find qualified professionals overseas. It costs too much to hire Americans, compared with equally qualified people in other countries. American companies are capitalists, not patriots.
Robert W. wanted to post this here but apparently he has a life or something, so voila (and it’s pretty gross):
Mamba wonders if Bob Dylan has ever had his sinuses checked.
I’m not sure if he’s ever had the pleasure of a Sinuscopy,
but he did quit smoking around the time he recorded Nashville Skyline, producing a very different sound.
About five years ago a friend forwarded me an email subscription to an interesting little online resource called Wordsmith.org — “The Magic of Words” — which sends out a new word each day and provides its etymology, and historic/notable examples of its usage, and so on. It’s been a nice respite from inflamed partisan politics….until this morning when, out of the blue, its founder, an Indian-born vegan named Anu Garg, introduced a weeklong series on Charles Dickens characters whose names have become commonly-used adjectives and nouns with this spiel:
Next week marks the 200th anniversary of the British novelist Charles Dickens’s birth. The London of Dickens’s time was a bleak place: little social support, debtors’ prisons, pollution, and children working in factories.
If you look at the Republican presidential aspirants today you’d think they want to return to those good old times: no environmental regulations; no worker protection laws; no social safety net; and children working as janitors…
I don’t know what is it about progressives that compels them to introduce hideously time-bound partisan political contentiousness into subjects that have nothing to do with party politics. Last year, a well-known stereo review magazine lost a ton of subscribers after the Mr. Progressive publisher presumptuously decided that articles about pre-amp and turntable specs were a good place for him to harangue viewers with his views about “the environment.”
As for Wordsmith – if there are any subscribers out there – the “unsubscribe” button is right there on the bottom of each day’s email.
Hint-hint.
Gord (11:27), you’d have to have almost inhumanly fast reflexes to change lanes at those speeds.
/:>°>
Ebd: the kind I’m talking about aren’t as fast and the ability to block passing makes it tough to go too fast and cause a crash. I’ve driven traditional and digital slot cars and the difference in entertainment value is night and day.
Ahh, that makes sense if they’re not that ridiculously fast. It would be a lot more fun to be able to pass and jostle for position.
British headline: “My husband turned out to be gay and blamed me.”
He wouldn’t have turned gay if she knew how to make a decent Spaghetti a la Carbonara.
I think I might go pack bags at Sobeys…Can I help you to your car..?
EBD – excellent ricetta! I thought she was Aida Turturro – Janice from “The Sopranos”!
Harper, clever fellow, hints at possible pension cut-backs and successfully diverts attention in the media from the hot potato
Alberta pipelines topic.
Wondering about pipelines and why shipping crude is better than shipping refined value-added products?
Looked through recent posts here, however didn’t see anything. So many questions. How did China and Cinepec leverage Harper into 180 degree about face on his views re foreign infrastructure ownership?
Looking for some insight from those of you far better versed on Alberta oil than I.
Questions on my blog.
The issue of shipping crude vs refining locally and then shipping product has come up here repeatedly, Tony. You must not have been paying attention.
You ship crude; it’s a natural product, comes right out of Gaia’s veins, or gallbladder or something. Anyway, it’s natural. It’s also thick and sticky, and while combustible, it’s not very explosive. So if you get a pipeline leak, it won’t flow very far, nor very fast, nor will it (ordinarily) present an explosion hazard.
You ship product, you may need more than one line, although different products can be shipped sequentially in pipelines, with little mixing at the interface. Most of the products, particularly gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel, are much less viscous than crude oil, and will flow faster, farther, and soak into soil more rapidly if the pipeline is ruptured. Worse environmental hazard by far; and if the product spilled is gasoline, a potential disaster.
Also, it takes a long time to get a refinery permitted and built; pipelines are simpler. And refineries do emit some air pollution. All said and done, better to ship the crude away.
This writer tries his hardest exempt Joe Paterno from his moral cowardice. Rightly saying the School Directors used him as a sacrifice to cover thier own sins. Its an ode to the old boys network in sports.
The commenter’s don’t agree. They crucify Michael Novak for his blatant white wash. One calls Paterno a modern Pontious Pilate. That was mild. Boy you sure learn the full story from the Bloggers.
The Injustice Done to Joe Paterno
One of America’s greatest moral teachers for three generations gets a raw deal.
By Michael Novak http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/289587/injustice-done-joe-paterno-michael-novak
“South Africa recalls 1m ANC condoms”
“Scores of people given free condoms at the party’s centenary celebrations have complained that they are faulty”
“A South African health official says 1.35m condoms given away at the African National Congress party’s centenary celebrations are to be recalled, after claims that some broke during intercourse.
Aids activist Sello Mokhalipi complained after scores of people came to his Treatment Action Campaign offices saying the condoms had burst.
He said they poured water into the condoms and “they leaked like sieves”.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/31/south-africa-recalls-anc-condoms
O’s left-liberalism status report: OWS SNAFU.
…-
“Occupy Wall Street protesters throw condoms, drown out speakers at Rhode Island pro-life rally”
PROVIDENCE, RI, January 30, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street movement threw condoms on Catholic schoolgirls, refused to allow a Catholic priest to give a closing prayer, and shouted down a pro-life speaker at a Rhode Island right to life rally on Thursday, according to its organizer. The event marked the third time protesters associated with the movement have disrupted a pro-life meeting in a week.
About two-dozen members of Occupy Providence hiked from Burnside Park to the 39th Annual Pro-Life State House Rally organized by the Rhode Island State Right to Life Committee on Thursday. Protesters with Occupy Providence.
The pro-life organization’s executive director, Barth E. Bracy, told LifeSiteNews.com that, near the end of the rally, the Occupiers “strategically fanned out with military precision.”” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2840407/posts
Neo-AGW Progress Report.
““There’s a massive cold front coming through,””.
Watch Alaska.
…-
“Wheat Advances on Speculation Cold Weather in Europe May Harm Winter Crops”
“Wheat gained on speculation that cold weather in Europe will hurt winter crops that have no protective snow cover and as Russia contemplates grain-export restrictions. Corn and soybeans rose.
Temperatures tomorrow may fall as low as minus-15 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-26 Celsius) in Ukraine, Telvent DTN Senior Meteorologist Joel Burgio said in a report yesterday. The low temperatures may damage plants that aren’t covered by snow. Russia will discuss in two weeks the possibility of starting a grain-export duty, the deputy agriculture minister said.
“There’s a massive cold front coming through,” said William Adams, a portfolio manager at Resilience AG in Zurich. “Ukraine wheat production is expected to drop a bit and that’s going to pressure wheat.”” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-31/wheat-advances-on-speculation-cold-weather-in-europe-may-harm-winter-crops.html
Britain in the deep freeze..wonder if all those windmills will help ?
Army on standby as temperatures plummet to -11C, keeping shivering Britain colder than Iceland
* Department of Health issue ‘Level 3’ cold-weather alert as freeze poses significant health risks http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2094230/UK-weather-Army-standby-temperatures-plummet-11C.html
but there’s hope for those who didn’t mindlessly sign on to the ‘global warming’ bandwagon and expect it to really happen…
Residents in a Cornish village have bought their own snowplough and gritter after they were cut off for a week in a blizzard during previous winters.
The Badgall and Laneast Action Group (Blag), have raised £2,650 to buy the plough and mechanical salt spreader.
Two farmers in the area have been designated to operate them during heavy snowfall.
Blag said residents ‘voted with their pockets’ after being cut off during the last two winters.
Further to the tip by maz2 @ 6:36 and if you are wondering where the cold weather has been and still is. The cold is sitting in northern Europe, Siberia and Alaska.
Kyiv schools to cancel classes until Feb. 5 due to severe cold http://www.kyivpost.com/news/city/detail/121544/
Mississauga Matt
While I agree with your sentiment, the truth is more like J.T is a sackless ANNOYANCE.
Carry on.
“Many in Canada failed the slain Shafia sisters”
(G-M)
Liberal-left’s agenda used political correctness/appeasement/fear of being labelled an Islamophobe to hush/chill any exposure of Mohammedanism as the vile/execrable ideology it is.
Here is Mohammedanism:
“Category archives for: Jihad Watch”
“Islamic scholars approve “electronic jihad”
There are many means of jihad, they note. Or in other words, a way to stick it to the infidel is a way to stick it to the infidel. Scholars differ on circumstances for acceptable use, and its position in the pecking order of means of jihad, bu…”
More: http://frontpagemag.com/category/jihad-watch/
Winters seemed especially long and COLD in Suomi especially during 73 years of Soviet hegemony:
“Finlandization: …is a term used to describe the influence that one powerful country may have on the policies of a smaller neighboring country…it referred to the decision of a country to not challenge a more powerful neighbor in foreign politics while maintaining national sovereignty. Commonly in reference to Finland’s policies vis-à-vis the Soviet Union during the Cold War, but could refer to similar international relations, such as Denmark’s attitude toward Germany between 1871 and 1940, and Taiwan’s relation with China since 2008.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization)
Is it just me or does anyone else find this editorial from the Toronto Star extremely hypocritical? Isn’t this the same group of “progressive journalists” who consistently chastise anyone who “dares” criticize the barbaric aspects of Radical Muslims? Isn’t this the same group who scolded Jason Kenney over his decision about the Niqab at citizenship ceremonies?!?
They and their like minded comrades have set the tone in this country for any public official to be extremely reticent about criticizing non-whites & non-Christians ABOUT ANYTHING. Now the Toronto Star Editorial Board is getting on their high horse looking to blame others?!?!? I’m speechless.
It went by in a flash while remote-hunting.
Knowledge Network, BC’s quasi public TV:
Part 1 of a series on the corporation.
= “The Pathology of Commerce”.
Soon, presumably, we’ll get something about how Eating Is Bad For You.
Some time ago my wife insisted we stop our annual contributions to KN because of its persistent efforts in white-washing islam.
I’ll continue to watch the good stuff … for FREE like 95% of its viewers.
The following was just posted on CKNW’s Facebook page:
“Next on The Simi Sara Show – According to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Canada’s Old Age Security plan needs a massive overhaul. But according to McMaster demographics economist Byron Spencer, there is no need to rework the OAS plan. Spencer says the government does need to decide whether or not it will raise contribution rates or the retirement age. Why is the Harper government so determined to overhaul Canada’s OAS?”
If you’re on FB and would like to speak out against the nonsense being spewed by Spencer & Sara, you can go here: https://www.facebook.com/ajax/sharer/?s=22&appid=25554907596&p%5B0%5D=475237565520&p%5B1%5D=10151238664685521
Robert W:
Contribution rates for OAS?
It’s a non-contributory plan, isn’t it?
CPP is contributory: 50-50 employer/employee.
If you understand your economics, tho, it’s really 100% employee. EBD at January 30, 2012 11:22 PM
Thanks for that tip. I’m signing up.
I’ve been very impressed with your vocabulary from my first visits here (2004?).
Unsolicited advice: Don’t cancel the feed. As a conservative you simply gotta live with this overwhelmingly left/liberal cultural bias. Nose/face.
Around the time of the run-up to Bush43’s second term I got a Christmas card, outa the blue after at least 10 years of silence, from an old professor friend who added a P.S. “let’s hope we get Bush outa there”. On a Christmas Card!! How surprised I was to be presumptuously included in the WE.
Diana West sees the all-too-familiar “moral equivalence among the intellectuals” in her review of Deborah Scroggins’s dual biography of jailed al-Qaida terrorist Aafia Siddiqui and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Excerpt:
Read the whole thing here.
What do I care what Justin Trudeau says? I mean on this issue and many others he’s a sack-less wonder!
Charles Adler discussing the Shafia murders.
now all he has to do is repeat that process 3 or 4 million times…wouldn’t it be priceless if it turns out her husband’s job was cut due to ‘green’ technology with it’s $2 million per, but bankrupt-after-one-payday ‘jobs’
During his Google+ hangout Pres. Obama tells a woman that her husband shouldn’t be unemployed from the growth he has seen in the economy. Obama said he finds it “interesting” because he is getting “the word” that someone in her husband’s job field “should be able to find something right away.”
Obama offered to do something if she would just send him her husband’s resume.
The woman wants to know why Obama is extending visas for foreigners when there is tons of demand for American jobs by Americans.
“I don’t know what your husband’s speciality [is], but I can tell you that there is a huge demand around the country for engineers,” Obama told the woman.
“I understand that,” she responded. “But how am — given the list that you’re getting, I mean we’re not getting that. You said in the State of the Union address for business leaders to ask what can they do to bring jobs back to America
During the back and forth between Obama and the wife of an unemployed engineer, Obama asked for his resume.
“Can I ask you what kind of engineer your husband is?,” Obama said to the wife of the unemployed engineer.
“He’s a semiconductor engineer,” she responded.
“It is interesting to me — and I meant what I said if your send me your husband’s resume, I’d be interested in finding out exactly what’s happening right there because the word that we’re getting is that somebody in that type of high-tech field, that kind of engineer, should be able to find something right away.
Mississauga Matt: the first four letters of your email address elbowed your comment to the filter (I just released it), and will send future comments there as well, so you might want to change them up.
Companies aren’t hiring Americans if they can find qualified professionals overseas. It costs too much to hire Americans, compared with equally qualified people in other countries. American companies are capitalists, not patriots.
Robert W. wanted to post this here but apparently he has a life or something, so voila (and it’s pretty gross):
Bad News: NYC state senator wants to ban eating on public transportation (subway):
Good News: No proposal to ban champagne in taxpayer-paid chauffeured limos for politicians
N.Y. Lawmaker Wants Fines For Straphangers Who Eat On The Subway
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/01/29/ny-senator-wants-fines-for-straphangers-who-eat-on-the-subway/
Timely alternative being developed for seniors who will be reduced to eating catfood when Harper moves OAS from 65 to 67:
Four legs good, six legs better? EU to spend 3 million Euros to promote eating insects ‘as alternative source of protein’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093813/Four-legs-good-legs-better-EU-offers-3-million-Euros-research-using-insects-foods-burgers.html#ixzz1l0OITyzA
Mamba wonders if Bob Dylan has ever had his sinuses checked.
I’m not sure if he’s ever had the pleasure of a Sinuscopy,
but he did quit smoking around the time he recorded Nashville Skyline, producing a very different sound.
About five years ago a friend forwarded me an email subscription to an interesting little online resource called Wordsmith.org — “The Magic of Words” — which sends out a new word each day and provides its etymology, and historic/notable examples of its usage, and so on. It’s been a nice respite from inflamed partisan politics….until this morning when, out of the blue, its founder, an Indian-born vegan named Anu Garg, introduced a weeklong series on Charles Dickens characters whose names have become commonly-used adjectives and nouns with this spiel:
I don’t know what is it about progressives that compels them to introduce hideously time-bound partisan political contentiousness into subjects that have nothing to do with party politics. Last year, a well-known stereo review magazine lost a ton of subscribers after the Mr. Progressive publisher presumptuously decided that articles about pre-amp and turntable specs were a good place for him to harangue viewers with his views about “the environment.”
As for Wordsmith – if there are any subscribers out there – the “unsubscribe” button is right there on the bottom of each day’s email.
Hint-hint.
That’s old school slot car racing. New digital sets allow you to change lanes and use the brakes thus you can have up to six cars on a two lane track. Fun. And fair – not like the old sets where one lane was faster than the other.
http://www.shopatron.com/products/productdetail/Digital+PLATINUM+Race+Set/part_number=C1276T/359.1.1.1.28155.28156.0.0.0?pp=8&
Jeezus…sure hope Sobeyes’ didn’t do that…
Thanks EDB for removing that screed.
Ok Gord…if you haven’t seen it, here’s Scalextric’s longest track race, 2.75 miles!
Complete with Top Gear commentary!
Gord (11:27), you’d have to have almost inhumanly fast reflexes to change lanes at those speeds.
/:>°>
Ebd: the kind I’m talking about aren’t as fast and the ability to block passing makes it tough to go too fast and cause a crash. I’ve driven traditional and digital slot cars and the difference in entertainment value is night and day.
Ahh, that makes sense if they’re not that ridiculously fast. It would be a lot more fun to be able to pass and jostle for position.
British headline: “My husband turned out to be gay and blamed me.”
He wouldn’t have turned gay if she knew how to make a decent Spaghetti a la Carbonara.
I think I might go pack bags at Sobeys…Can I help you to your car..?
EBD – excellent ricetta! I thought she was Aida Turturro – Janice from “The Sopranos”!
Harper, clever fellow, hints at possible pension cut-backs and successfully diverts attention in the media from the hot potato
Alberta pipelines topic.
Wondering about pipelines and why shipping crude is better than shipping refined value-added products?
Looked through recent posts here, however didn’t see anything. So many questions. How did China and Cinepec leverage Harper into 180 degree about face on his views re foreign infrastructure ownership?
Looking for some insight from those of you far better versed on Alberta oil than I.
Questions on my blog.
The issue of shipping crude vs refining locally and then shipping product has come up here repeatedly, Tony. You must not have been paying attention.
You ship crude; it’s a natural product, comes right out of Gaia’s veins, or gallbladder or something. Anyway, it’s natural. It’s also thick and sticky, and while combustible, it’s not very explosive. So if you get a pipeline leak, it won’t flow very far, nor very fast, nor will it (ordinarily) present an explosion hazard.
You ship product, you may need more than one line, although different products can be shipped sequentially in pipelines, with little mixing at the interface. Most of the products, particularly gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel, are much less viscous than crude oil, and will flow faster, farther, and soak into soil more rapidly if the pipeline is ruptured. Worse environmental hazard by far; and if the product spilled is gasoline, a potential disaster.
Also, it takes a long time to get a refinery permitted and built; pipelines are simpler. And refineries do emit some air pollution. All said and done, better to ship the crude away.
This writer tries his hardest exempt Joe Paterno from his moral cowardice. Rightly saying the School Directors used him as a sacrifice to cover thier own sins. Its an ode to the old boys network in sports.
The commenter’s don’t agree. They crucify Michael Novak for his blatant white wash. One calls Paterno a modern Pontious Pilate. That was mild. Boy you sure learn the full story from the Bloggers.
The Injustice Done to Joe Paterno
One of America’s greatest moral teachers for three generations gets a raw deal.
By Michael Novak
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/289587/injustice-done-joe-paterno-michael-novak
Remember, don’t judge. All cultures are equal. Blah, blah, blah.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/31/world/asia/afghanistan-strangulation/index.html
“South Africa recalls 1m ANC condoms”
“Scores of people given free condoms at the party’s centenary celebrations have complained that they are faulty”
“A South African health official says 1.35m condoms given away at the African National Congress party’s centenary celebrations are to be recalled, after claims that some broke during intercourse.
Aids activist Sello Mokhalipi complained after scores of people came to his Treatment Action Campaign offices saying the condoms had burst.
He said they poured water into the condoms and “they leaked like sieves”.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/31/south-africa-recalls-anc-condoms
O’s left-liberalism status report: OWS SNAFU.
…-
“Occupy Wall Street protesters throw condoms, drown out speakers at Rhode Island pro-life rally”
PROVIDENCE, RI, January 30, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street movement threw condoms on Catholic schoolgirls, refused to allow a Catholic priest to give a closing prayer, and shouted down a pro-life speaker at a Rhode Island right to life rally on Thursday, according to its organizer. The event marked the third time protesters associated with the movement have disrupted a pro-life meeting in a week.
About two-dozen members of Occupy Providence hiked from Burnside Park to the 39th Annual Pro-Life State House Rally organized by the Rhode Island State Right to Life Committee on Thursday. Protesters with Occupy Providence.
The pro-life organization’s executive director, Barth E. Bracy, told LifeSiteNews.com that, near the end of the rally, the Occupiers “strategically fanned out with military precision.””
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2840407/posts
Neo-AGW Progress Report.
““There’s a massive cold front coming through,””.
Watch Alaska.
…-
“Wheat Advances on Speculation Cold Weather in Europe May Harm Winter Crops”
“Wheat gained on speculation that cold weather in Europe will hurt winter crops that have no protective snow cover and as Russia contemplates grain-export restrictions. Corn and soybeans rose.
Temperatures tomorrow may fall as low as minus-15 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-26 Celsius) in Ukraine, Telvent DTN Senior Meteorologist Joel Burgio said in a report yesterday. The low temperatures may damage plants that aren’t covered by snow. Russia will discuss in two weeks the possibility of starting a grain-export duty, the deputy agriculture minister said.
“There’s a massive cold front coming through,” said William Adams, a portfolio manager at Resilience AG in Zurich. “Ukraine wheat production is expected to drop a bit and that’s going to pressure wheat.””
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-31/wheat-advances-on-speculation-cold-weather-in-europe-may-harm-winter-crops.html
Britain in the deep freeze..wonder if all those windmills will help ?
Army on standby as temperatures plummet to -11C, keeping shivering Britain colder than Iceland
* Department of Health issue ‘Level 3’ cold-weather alert as freeze poses significant health risks
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2094230/UK-weather-Army-standby-temperatures-plummet-11C.html
but there’s hope for those who didn’t mindlessly sign on to the ‘global warming’ bandwagon and expect it to really happen…
Residents in a Cornish village have bought their own snowplough and gritter after they were cut off for a week in a blizzard during previous winters.
The Badgall and Laneast Action Group (Blag), have raised £2,650 to buy the plough and mechanical salt spreader.
Two farmers in the area have been designated to operate them during heavy snowfall.
Blag said residents ‘voted with their pockets’ after being cut off during the last two winters.
Further to the tip by maz2 @ 6:36 and if you are wondering where the cold weather has been and still is. The cold is sitting in northern Europe, Siberia and Alaska.
Kyiv schools to cancel classes until Feb. 5 due to severe cold
http://www.kyivpost.com/news/city/detail/121544/
Mississauga Matt
While I agree with your sentiment, the truth is more like J.T is a sackless ANNOYANCE.
Carry on.
“Many in Canada failed the slain Shafia sisters”
(G-M)
Liberal-left’s agenda used political correctness/appeasement/fear of being labelled an Islamophobe to hush/chill any exposure of Mohammedanism as the vile/execrable ideology it is.
Here is Mohammedanism:
“Category archives for: Jihad Watch”
“Islamic scholars approve “electronic jihad”
There are many means of jihad, they note. Or in other words, a way to stick it to the infidel is a way to stick it to the infidel. Scholars differ on circumstances for acceptable use, and its position in the pecking order of means of jihad, bu…”
More:
http://frontpagemag.com/category/jihad-watch/
Mohammed’s Way:
“Can We All Just Get Along? For The Kids & Old People? RODNEY KING …”
…-
“Calgary mayor calls in psychologist to make council get along
Kelly McParland: Naheed Nenshi is so dismayed by his council’s inability to get along that he called in a psychologist to mediate a special meeting on Monday”
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/01/31/blog-nuggets-calgary-mayor-calls-in-psychologist-to-make-council-get-along/
Our national news source has a story up about the cold snap in Eurasia,58 dead so far;
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/01/31/europe-coldsnap-deaths.html
Comments are not allowed.
The record for the coldest US temp in history was about to be broken until…the ‘battery died’ in the weather station…and the one closest to it went conveniently ‘offline’…can’t be having record low temperatures when there’s global warming going on now can we ?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/30/bitter-cold-records-broken-in-alaska-all-time-coldest-record-nearly-broken-but-murphys-law-intervenes/
Winters seemed especially long and COLD in Suomi especially during 73 years of Soviet hegemony:
“Finlandization: …is a term used to describe the influence that one powerful country may have on the policies of a smaller neighboring country…it referred to the decision of a country to not challenge a more powerful neighbor in foreign politics while maintaining national sovereignty. Commonly in reference to Finland’s policies vis-à-vis the Soviet Union during the Cold War, but could refer to similar international relations, such as Denmark’s attitude toward Germany between 1871 and 1940, and Taiwan’s relation with China since 2008.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization)
Is it just me or does anyone else find this editorial from the Toronto Star extremely hypocritical? Isn’t this the same group of “progressive journalists” who consistently chastise anyone who “dares” criticize the barbaric aspects of Radical Muslims? Isn’t this the same group who scolded Jason Kenney over his decision about the Niqab at citizenship ceremonies?!?
They and their like minded comrades have set the tone in this country for any public official to be extremely reticent about criticizing non-whites & non-Christians ABOUT ANYTHING. Now the Toronto Star Editorial Board is getting on their high horse looking to blame others?!?!? I’m speechless.
It went by in a flash while remote-hunting.
Knowledge Network, BC’s quasi public TV:
Part 1 of a series on the corporation.
= “The Pathology of Commerce”.
Soon, presumably, we’ll get something about how Eating Is Bad For You.
Some time ago my wife insisted we stop our annual contributions to KN because of its persistent efforts in white-washing islam.
I’ll continue to watch the good stuff … for FREE like 95% of its viewers.
The following was just posted on CKNW’s Facebook page:
“Next on The Simi Sara Show – According to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Canada’s Old Age Security plan needs a massive overhaul. But according to McMaster demographics economist Byron Spencer, there is no need to rework the OAS plan. Spencer says the government does need to decide whether or not it will raise contribution rates or the retirement age. Why is the Harper government so determined to overhaul Canada’s OAS?”
If you’re on FB and would like to speak out against the nonsense being spewed by Spencer & Sara, you can go here: https://www.facebook.com/ajax/sharer/?s=22&appid=25554907596&p%5B0%5D=475237565520&p%5B1%5D=10151238664685521
As Kate says “It’s probably nothing”… Archer Daniels Midland’s 2nd quarter profits fell 89% and Cargills 88%.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-31/adm-profit-misses-estimates-after-corn-costs-rise-oilseed-earnings-fall.html
“The ACLU is not pleased with Facebook’s ‘sentiment analysis tool’ that provides data exclusive to Politico.
Citing three concerns, Christopher Calabrese of the ACLU’s Legislative Office, argues that Facebook should justify the use of users private communications for analysis.”
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/aclu-criticizes-facebook-election-sentiment-tool/350691
Robert W:
Contribution rates for OAS?
It’s a non-contributory plan, isn’t it?
CPP is contributory: 50-50 employer/employee.
If you understand your economics, tho, it’s really 100% employee.
EBD at January 30, 2012 11:22 PM
Thanks for that tip. I’m signing up.
I’ve been very impressed with your vocabulary from my first visits here (2004?).
Unsolicited advice: Don’t cancel the feed. As a conservative you simply gotta live with this overwhelmingly left/liberal cultural bias. Nose/face.
Around the time of the run-up to Bush43’s second term I got a Christmas card, outa the blue after at least 10 years of silence, from an old professor friend who added a P.S. “let’s hope we get Bush outa there”. On a Christmas Card!! How surprised I was to be presumptuously included in the WE.
Lo and behold, the MSM’s current fight against Stephen Harper appears identical to the Liberal’s fight against Stephen Harper.
Shocker!!!
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/featured/prime-time/867432237001/scaring-seniors/1424219134001