Some people swear that Parisians are the world’s most impatient and aggressive drivers, others say it’s the Greeks. Tonight, we pull over to make a convincing case that it’s The Chechens.
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Evan not-quite-Solomon asks if info obtained from torture should be used to save Canadian lives?
The cbc crowd believes that sacrificing Canadians to protect their smug factor is acceptable.This poll asks for your opinion.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2012/02/power-politics-ballot-box-question-5.html
Of left-liberalism.
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“JFK and 19-year-old White House intern Mimi Alford — a truly shameful revelation”
“This is a story about a young and impressionable female intern in the White House — a virgin, with girlish dreams about princes and presidents. Young girls are trained to marry the wealthiest or most powerful man on the block. When the prince comes calling, few young girls can resist this opportunity.
However, they are not the ones who are abusing power and betraying both youth and a wife. That would be the prince or president himself.
And no, I am not talking about Monica Lewinsky in the Clinton White House.
I am talking, sadly, about the recent revelations by a former intern, Mimi Alford, in the Kennedy White House. Alford is no Marilyn Monroe, who was reputedly the mistress of both John F. and Robert F. Kennedy. Nor, is she Judith Exner, who was reputedly the “Mata Hari” connection between President Kennedy and Sam Giancana, a Mafia operative. These were adult women who chose to use their sexuality to further their careers.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2843669/posts
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“He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights . . . . It’s — it had to be some silly little Communist.” — Jackie Kennedy, on hearing that a leftist had been arrested for her husband’s murder.”
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm
AGW’s civil war: north vs south.
First Battle of Emissions ongoing here: casualties mount.
“The rise in emissions was also driven in part by switching away from nuclear to coal and gas for generating electricity.”
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“Snow: south colder than north as freezing weather grips UK”
“The south of Britain is set to endure colder temperatures than northern areas as the country battles against the freezing weather, forecasters warned last night.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/9067179/Snow-south-colder-than-north-as-freezing-weather-grips-UK.html
Breaking out of Alta..2 RCMP members have been shot near Killam.I pray for their well-being.
O’narcissist is now on the FBI’s Most Wanted List.
But, is O an American? Is Ron Paul on the List?
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“FBI Warns that Americans are Now a Threat to America”
“Following the pattern of other provocative statements about potential domestic terrorist threats from the Obama Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a statement exposing the threat of “hundreds of thousands” of “sovereign citizens” who can turn violent “at the drop of a hat” during encounters with the police.
Citing three specific cases in three years and a trend of an increase in arrests of believers in individual sovereignty from 10 to 18 cases per year, mostly for non-violent crimes, the FBI declared law enforcement to be “inundated” with threats.
This may be the most exaggerated and offensive example of specious fearmongering to come out of an administration which has been promoting irrational fear of generally harmless groups of citizens for three years. The FBI is taking aim at a huge body of citizens who are increasingly angry about government abuse of power and irresponsibility and attempting to turn them into a movement of dangerous potential terrorists.
These dangerous “extremists” hold such horrific views as “outrage at tax collection,” defying environmental regulations and believing that “the United States went bankrupt by going off the gold standard.” The FBI is identifying them as “sovereign citizens” and is defining them as a members of a movement, though they provide no evidence of organized or coordinated activity beyond just being angry with the government, a characteristic shared by about half the nation’s population.
I would say that the concerns over this threat were excessive, but that’s giving the FBI too much credit. Ridiculous is a more appropriate description. Statistically a three year increase from 10 to 18 cases of mostly non violent crimes associated with anti-government activists isn’t a crimewave. It’s not even large enough to qualify as a validly quantifiable trend. Given the hundreds of thousands of crimes committed yearly it’s far below the margin of error for crime statistics.
The FBI claims that they are “being inundated right now with requests for training from state and local law enforcement on sovereign-related matters.” This supposed demand for a response to a nonexistent threat probably would not be there at all had the FBI not been promoting the idea that average citizens are potential domestic terrorists for years. The FBI is creating bogeymen to justify their own actions and to distract from the government’s increasingly callous disregard for the rights of citizens.”
http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/fbi-warns-that-americans-are-now1/
H/T:
http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/02/05/challenge-to-the-incumbents/#comments
Sammy…just heard on news…both are in UofA via STARS…no word yet on their condition.
theguy, bless you for your post about Eric Metaxas. I can’t believe I’ve been so out of it that this man is new to me. What a fantastic guy and Christian! (And he’s handsome and Yale educated: people like that are just NOT supposed to be observant Christians!) The link you gave me for his unwitting—perhaps—calling-Obama’s-bluff at the Washington Prayer Breakfast didn’t work for me, so I’m including it here:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/290393/president-prophet-obama-s-unusual-encounter-eric-metaxas-mark-joseph
From there, I followed some links and came upon a Harper’s interview with Metaxas, “Dietrich Bonhoeffer—Six Questions for Eric Metaxas”/December, 2010, re his book about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “BONHOEFFER: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy”.
In the interview, Metaxas says there are a number of striking parallels between Nazi Germany and the present day USA (West). One small quote:
“ . . . A related parallel has to do with Christianity itself. What is it and who gets to decide? The Nazis didn’t like certain things about the Christian faith, so they simply decided to redefine Christianity. This is always the great danger and it’s happening in our time as well. When we decide that we want to dispense with two-thousand-year-old teachings because they don’t suit us, because they strike us as old-fashioned or culturally uncomfortable, we had better be careful. One opens the door to things one hadn’t anticipated. God’s truths are eternal, or they aren’t God’s truths. . . .”
(Hmm . . . I think of Obama’s latest, blunt and blatant attack on the Roman Catholic Church.)
Here’s the full interview.
http://harpers.org/archive/2010/12/hbc-90007864
Justthinkin,thanks for that..my son is an RCMP member,and it just shakes me to my core whenever I hear of another shooting.Mayerthorpe still too fresh.
“John Ivison: Canada’s coming equalization war”
“Caterpillar’s closure of the Electro-Motive Diesel plant in London, Ont., is troubling, not just because of the loss of 465 well-paid jobs, but also for what it says about Ontario’s ability to compete for manufacturing jobs.”
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/02/07/john-ivison-canadas-coming-equalization-war/
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“Andrew Coyne: Caterpillar’s EMD facility never really was ‘our’ plant”
“It’s a compelling story — foreigners buy “our” plant, steal “our” technology, and all with our money! Except:
EMD is not a Canadian company, and never was. Caterpillar bought it from a pair of American private equity firms in 2010; they bought it from General Motors in 2005, who bought it from its Ohio-based founders in 1930. Since 1935 it has been headquartered in La Grange, Illinois. The London branch plant was opened in 1950.
Caterpillar didn’t buy the London plant. It bought the whole company, including its La Grange operations, which is where EMD does its design and engineering work, as well as making parts. It seems unlikely it would have stashed its most valuable intellectual property at a far-off final assembly plant. (Incidentally, as the economist Michael Moffatt points out, GM moved all final assembly work to London from La Grange shortly after the Free Trade Agreement went into effect. The jobs we’re worried about losing to the States are jobs we took from them.)
Even if it were a Canadian company, and even if it possessed a Valhallah of patents, it still wouldn’t belong to “us.” It would belong to them: its Canadian owners, who shelled out good money for it, presumably in anticipation of selling it one day. Caterpillar didn’t steal the company: it paid for it. If its proprietary technology had any value, its previous owners would be just as capable of realizing this, I’m guessing, as any Toronto columnist, and of charging accordingly.
EMD never received any subsidies from the federal government; certainly not since Caterpillar bought it. Indeed, looking through the hundreds of pages of “grants and contribution” in the Public Accounts, it may be the only company in the country that didn’t. The Harper visit to which Olive refers was to promote a tax break for the purchasers of locomotives, not the manufacturers. The visit occurred in 2008, two years before the Caterpillar purchase.
It’s not clear how the foreign investment laws could have been invoked to cover a purchase of an American company by another American company, or if they could, why this should be the pretext for “demanding job guarantees.” Presumably if it is wrong for a firm to close a plant or lay off workers, it is just as wrong whether it has recently been the object of a foreign takeover bid or not. Perhaps you will say we should bar all companies from closing a plant. Okay: why would they ever open one? If workers, once hired, cannot ever be laid off, why would they ever be hired?
Of course, there’s always Olive’s suggestion of a punitive tariff, through which the cost of keeping jobs in London locomotive plants could be shared by consumers and businesses across the country. (You’re welcome.) This would recreate the system of foreign branch plants that existed in the days before free trade, small factories producing exclusively for the domestic market. Rather than lament at foreigners stealing our jobs and technology, the nationalists could once again lament at being tenants in our own land.”
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/02/06/caterpillar-electro-motive-diesel/
Eric Metaxas says, “People have a confused view of Christianity. . . .” Then he says some authentic words to “unconfuse” the confused:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URG37HmEch0&feature=related
Here’s Metaxas’s speech (from about 37 to 66 minutes) at the Prayer Breakfast in Washington three days ago—in the presence of President Obama:
http://vickigoestowashington.com/2012/02/eric-metaxas-brilliant-speech-at-national-prayer-breakfast/
This is a man I want to know more about. To start, I’m going to read his biographies of William Wilberforce and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.