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In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips we cross the Atlantic and then head north to watch Finnish babe magnet Tapani Kansa woo fellow vocalists Terhi Panula and Anu in a scorching Finnish TV performance of Pelkkää Tulta (“Pure Fire”).
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

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  1. From a post by “Joan of Argghh!” at Primordial Slack, published the day before last year’s 9/11 anniversary:
    “The Marxist Media, ensconced in their small opinion labs, study the populace as a great Experiment. They observe, but cannot resist the urge to meddle. They profess their purity of heart and yet project onto their subjects all manner of racism and debauchery even when they don’t actually see it. They assume it is an occult blood factor, sins that we hide, horrors that they want so desperately to see. Their voyeurism knows no satiation, and so they proclaim to see what is not there. Not finding all the debauchery and sin they imagine means work for them, and they are supremely lazy. So they drop the casual lie and it is picked up often enough and degraded through so many iterations that when it finally arrives back at them, it sounds like an inscribed truth: Americans are racist at heart, xenophobic, backwater hicks. Rubes to be ruled by their betters.
    “Tomorrow the Marxist Media will do its level best to find itself in our graces. They will deign to enter the house of mourning, seeking to bring some gift of gravitas that they imagine the little people will appreciate…”
    The whole thing here.

  2. Home of the Big O:
    “A few months before last February’s citywide elections, Hal Baskin’s phone started ringing. And ringing. Most of the callers were candidates for Chicago City Council, seeking the kind of help Baskin was uniquely qualified to provide.
    “Baskin isn’t a slick campaign strategist. He’s a former gang leader and, for several decades, a community activist who now operates a neighborhood center that aims to keep kids off the streets. Baskin has deep contacts inside the South Side’s complex network of politicians, community organizations, and street gangs. as he recalls, the inquiring candidates wanted to know: “Who do I need to be talking to so I can get the gangs on board?”
    “Baskin—who was himself a candidate in the 16th Ward aldermanic race, which he would lose—was happy to oblige. In all, he says, he helped broker meetings between roughly 30 politicians (ten sitting aldermen and 20 candidates for City Council) and at least six gang representatives…”
    The whole thing here.
    h/t

  3. Primordial Slack; by Joan
    If/when we have an armed rebellion in the USA, it is the MSM that must be the first target….Once they are gone we will have a better chance that “truth” is reported and the conflict will end quickly. The MSM can’t be trusted by anyone.

  5. Oakland releases photographs of 11 occupying thugs who are banned from going within 300 feet of Frank Ogawa Plaza.
    301 feet away – that’ll teach ’em!
    Frank Ogawa, an American of Japanese descent who was forced into a Utah detention facility for the duration of WWII, was unavailable for comment.

  6. During an appearance on MSNBC, Democrat Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren – who once said she provided the “intellectual foundation” of the Occupy Wall Street movement — pedals hard to try to distance herself from the one percent:

    “I realize there are some wealthy individuals — I’m not one of them — but some wealthy individuals who have a lot of stock portfolios.”

    Howie Carr of the Boston Herald:

    Now she’s claiming she was, you guessed it, quoted out of context. Just ask the Globe. You see, she “only” owns one stock — IBM, shares worth between $100,000 and $250,000. She doesn’t have stock portfolios, she has mutual funds, which are full of stocks. You see the distinction, right?
    Her flack elaborated: “She does not have a broad portfolio of stocks in individual companies.”
    What she has is a broad portfolio of mutual funds which have a broad portfolio of stocks in individual companies.
    The estimates are that Granny Warren’s overall net worth is $14.5 million, not bad considering that according to her TV ads she began life swaddled in a gunny sack in the back of Ma and Pa Joad’s pickup truck, fleeing the Dust Bowl.

  8. The journalists think they are leading us into utopia, while they are actually leading us into the gulags.
    McNaughton’s brilliant artwork captures what is happening. People on their knees looking for handouts. Sad.

  9. Kathy Shaidle’s “Inconvenient Truths About Sundance”, at Taki’s Magazine:
    “Middle America’s quaint pastimes are mocked. Quirky teens navigate suburbia’s dark, surreal underbelly. Filmmakers make films about filmmaking. Families are weird, the planet is dying, baby boomers are awesome, everyone’s gay, and America sucks.
    “Welcome to the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, which, as you can see from this year’s lineup, was indistinguishable from every previous Sundance Film Festival…”
    The rest here.

  13. LAS: he was saying that RIM is valuable to Canada. You think RIM shareholders would be stupid enough to blame Harper for low share prices? Everyone else sees it this way:
    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=RIMM+Basic+Chart
    Blame the hospital for trying to save the life of the hapless pedestrian who didn’t look both ways before crossing the street.

  14. It’s not hard to read between the lines and see where the Harper is going. RIM is at fault for its own problems and now Harper is going to make it worse for them.

  15. Imagine my insomulant (it is so a word, or should be) delight when, sleepless in Charleston, I log onto the Intartubes and casually peruse the open thread only to see moi featured at the top.
    I am heartened by and grateful for your kind comments. It only encourages me, you know.
    :o)

  17. Great column at Power Line today, THE CHURCH OF GOVERNMENT by John Hinderaker:
    “Liberals tell us that the most important principle is the separation of church and state. That applies, of course, only until liberals want to enlist the church in support of the state. The state, in their view, is the real church. So Michael Ramirez envisions our president as the Pope of the Church of Obama, who destroys all lesser faiths. Like Christianity, for example: . . .”
    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/02/the-church-of-government.php
    Ramirez is a superlative artist along with his razor sharp wit.

  20. Neo-AGW/UNaBomber Progress Report.
    “cold-weather-kills-children”.
    Left-liberals say AGW has become “a humanitarian crisis”.
    Send $$$$$>>>
    …-
    “Driven Away by a War, Now Stalked by Winter’s Cold”
    ““There are 35,000 people in those camps in the middle of Kabul, with no heat or electricity in the middle of winter; that’s a humanitarian crisis,” said Michael Keating, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Afghanistan. “I just don’t think the humanitarian story is sufficiently understood here. You’ve got a lot of people who really are in dire straits.””
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/world/asia/cold-weather-kills-children-in-afghan-refugee-camps.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

  22. Time for a federal cabinet shuffle. Watching Peter MacKay comment on the Iranian situation, this morning, was disturbing. No matter if he hates his in-laws, or loves his in-laws, he should not be making decisions that involve his in-laws.

  24. I agree, coach (12:37). I would go even further and say that Stephen Harper should excuse himself from any governmental decisions having to do with Britain or Scotland, that Barack Obama should leave the room when any government business involving Kenya is being discussed, and, especially, that Joe Flaherty should obviously not be involved in making decisions that touch on the financial problems in Ireland.
    I wouldn’t stop there, though…

  26. re. EBD @12:54 – and nobody Jewish gets to deal with Israel. That’s a given. Not that criticism of Israel has anything to do with anti-semitism, oh dear…
    And EBD is biased towards Scandis, and whatever Finns are. That much is clear.

  29. coach said: Time for a federal cabinet shuffle. Watching Peter MacKay comment on the Iranian situation, this morning, was disturbing. No matter if he hates his in-laws, or loves his in-laws, he should not be making decisions that involve his in-laws.
    ———————————————–
    Just curious, what did he say?

  34. Didn’t feel the earthquake here in Victoria. They’re so common I often mistake them for a passing garbage truck or whatever.

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