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In tonight’s Tips music old-time country warbler Kitty Wells asks her no-good, cheating, soon-to-be-divorced husband the solemn question, “Will Your Lawyer Talk To God?”
Well, no ma’am, not directly, but he will have a series of lunch meetings with God’s lawyer and bill your ex for it.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

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  1. Church of O:
    “Roman Catholic leaders have furiously criticized President Barack Obama for approving new regulations that compel religious organizations to include morning-after (abortifacients) and other contraceptives in employee health insurance coverage….Failure to do so would result in fines being levied by the federal government that larger Catholic organizations claim would cost them millions of dollars a year.”

  4. Teachers Union Staffers Set Sail on 7-Day Caribbean Cruise
    Imagine your organization is facing attacks from all sides. Imagine it’s losing members and revenue. Imagine governors and mayors – of both political parties – publicly denouncing your industry as “broken” and move swiftly to stifle your power and influence, while you flail away helplessly.
    What to do? What else to do but go down drinking?
    That’s what members of the National Education Association’s National Staff Organization have apparently decided. The NSO is an association of sorts for teachers’ union staff – political and communications types.
    Following an “Advocacy Retreat” with the theme “Building Our Unionism,” members set sail on a 7-day cruise from Miami on February 5th “with stops at Cozumel, Grand Cayman Island and Isla Roatan.” http://townhall.com/columnists/kyleolson/2012/02/07/eag_exclusive_teachers_union_staffers_set_sail_on_7day_caribbean_cruise
    Does the Ontario Teachers Union know about this yet?

  5. (Behind the times, I just posted this at yesterday’s Reader Tips. So I’m going to post it here too.)
    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.

  6. http://tinyurl.com/76uuv7t
    The mother of a child covered in Febreze by his teacher — to mask the smell of caplin — has received a letter of apology from the school.
    Haven’t been around in a bit, but thought I would pass this along. Newfie teacher covering up the smell of caplin.
    Your laugh of the day.
    Take care folks.

  7. “Saanich police arrest man after 159 guns stolen from outdoor store.”
    Police say a remarkable thing about this case is that all the guns were registered through the long-gun registry. They praised the registry as a valuable tool in tracking and accounting for all the weapons.
    “Access to the long-gun registry has been critical to advancing the speed of this investigation,” (Sgt.) Jantzen said.
    ROLF – “Remarkable” indeed. All the guns entered into the registry were STOLEN! Extremely valuable, the long gun registry, I must say…
    full article at:
    http://www.timescolonist.com/business/Saanich+police+arrest+after+guns+stolen+from+outdoor+store/6109503/story.html

  8. SAN FRANCISCO—
    A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down California’s voter-mandated ban on gay marriages,
    The decision sets the stage for the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on gay marriage as soon as next year.
    In a 2-1 vote, a panel of the Ninth U.S. Circus Court of Appeals said California’s 2008 law, popularly known as Proposition 8,
    violated the 14th Amendment’s equal-protection clause.
    –
    How does it feel living in Califunk,
    knowing that your hard earned vote is overruled by 3 frigging clowns?

  9. Obama’s rhetorical storm
    Outside the intellectual universe of the Obama administration – where stalwart US allies such as Hosni Mubarak are discarded like garbage and foes such as Hugo Chavez are wooed like Hollywood celebrities – national governments tend to base their foreign policies on their national interests.
    http://carolineglick.com/

  14. Florence Green R.I.P.
    Fearless Leader, did you expect anything else from the Ninth Circuit?

  18. As has been mentioned before, all of Obama’s promises come with an expiry date. Every one of them.
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/07/team-obama-wants-super-pac-spending-so-obama-can-stop-super-pac-spending-romney/

    In a major reversal, President Obama is endorsing the activity of Super PACs, outside political action committees whose unlimited spending the president previously called a threat to democracy and a vehicle for foreign powers to influence American elections.
    Just as during the 2008 presidential campaign, when Obama opted to become the first major-party presidential candidate since Watergate to eschew public financing, the Obama campaign offered its endorsement of pro-Obama Super PAC Priorities USA Action with a tone of high-minded regret.

  20. They believe it has not seen the light of day for twenty million years.
    …and it still hasn’t seen the light of day, they drilled down to it, they didn’t dig an open pit mine.

  22. “Ukraine freezes to death”
    “Decades-record colds that are freezing out Europe have brought far more serious consequences to Ukraine, where the harshest winter in recent history has claimed lives of 122 people, who died of hypothermia in the last fortnight alone.
    ­The strong Arctic cyclone hit many countries on the European continent, reaching as far as Italy.
    But Ukraine has become the hardest-hit country, with temperatures falling as low as -36 Celsius. Overall casualties here exceeded Ukraine’s only in the rest of Europe combined.”
    http://rt.com/news/ukraine-freeze-death-homeless-763/
    “Arctic Freshwater Dome Could Freeze Europe”
    “Sea surface in a particular area of the Arctic Ocean has increased by as much as 15 centimeters (6 inches) over the past 15 years, leading to the formation of a large bulge of freshwater. It is estimated that this region of the ocean contains as much as 8,000 cubic kilometers (1,919 cubic miles) of water.
    According to the results of a new study, which appears in the latest online issue of the top journal Nature Geoscience, it would appear that the bulge is being caused by an acceleration of the Beaufort Gyre, an oceanic circulation pattern driven by Arctic winds.
    What this implies is that a change in this wind could allow this dome to fall apart, and all the freshwater it contains to spill in the northern sectors of the Atlantic Ocean. This is where the North Atlantic Drift – one of the five major oceanic currents – releases heat from the water”
    urlm.in/lbku

  25. Ich Bin Ein Heretic*.
    *H/T Martin Luther and Giordano Bruno.
    Fwd: Environment Minister Kent.
    …-
    “Breaking Global Warming Taboos”
    “‘I Feel Duped on Climate Change'”
    “Will reduced solar activity counteract global warming in the coming decades? That is what outgoing German electric utility executive Fritz Vahrenholt claims in a new book. In an interview with SPIEGEL, he argues that the official United Nations forecasts on the severity of climate change are overstated and supported by weak science.”
    “The articulate utility executive is nervous at the beginning of the conversation. He is groping for words — not a common occurrence for the practiced provocateur. After all, Fritz Vahrenholt, 62, who holds a doctorate in chemistry, has been a rebel throughout his life. “Perhaps it’s just part of my generation,” he says.
    He is typical of someone who came of age during the student protest movement of the late 1960s, and who fought against the chemical industry’s toxic manufacturing plants in the 1970s. His party, Germany’s center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), chose him as environment senator in the city-state of Hamburg, where he incurred the wrath of the environmental lobby by building a waste incineration plant, earning him the nickname “Feuerfritze” (Fire Fritz). He worked in industry after that, first for oil multinational Shell and then for wind turbine maker RePower, which he helped develop. Now, as the outgoing CEO of the renewable energy group RWE Innogy, he is about to embark on his next major battle. “I’m going to make enemies in all camps,” he says.
    He wants to break a taboo. “The climate catastrophe is not occurring,” he writes in his book “Die Kalte Sonne” (The Cold Sun), published by Hoffmann and Campe, which will be in bookstores next week.
    He has only given the book to one climatologist, Jochem Marotzke, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, to read prior to its publication. Marotzke’s assessment is clear: Vahrenholt represents the standpoints of climate skeptics. “A number of the hypotheses in the book were refuted long ago,” Marotzke claims, but adds, on a self-critical note, that his profession has neglected to explain that global temperatures will not increase uniformly. Instead, says Marotzke, there could also be phases of stagnation and even minor declines in temperature. “This has exposed us to potential criticism,” says Marotzke.
    While books by climate heretics usually receive little attention, it could be different in Vahrenholt’s case. “His fame,” says Marotzke, “will ensure that there will be a debate on the issue.”
    The book is a source of discomfort within Vahrenholt’s party. No one from SPD leadership is willing to comment on the theories of their prominent fellow party member, from former Environment Minister and current SPD Chairman Sigmar Gabriel to parliamentary floor leader Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who was given an advance copy of the book.”
    Includes photos:
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,813814,00.html

  26. Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
    “**Beware the Jub-jub bird”.
    …-
    “Slate of deals spurs Canada-China relations ahead on energy, education, investment”
    http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/from-nihao-to-yahoo-harper-woos-chinese-tourism-138915204.html
    …-
    “Ugly Highway Crash for Chinese Firm in Poland”
    “A construction project billed as a breakthrough for a China engineering concern ended in friction and failure”
    “A Polish highway project that was supposed to crack open the lucrative European construction market for a Chinese engineering conglomerate has slammed doors instead.
    On June 13, Poland’s General Directorate for National Roads and Highways (GDDKiA) announced the decision to cancel its 1.3 billion zloty (US$ 472 million) construction contract with China Overseas Engineering Group Co. (Covec). Covec’s consortium included Shanghai Construction (Group) General Co. and China Railway Tunnel Group Co. Ltd.
    The Polish government agency also handed Covec a bill for 741 million zloty to cover compensation and fines following what it claims were the contractor’s mishandlings of a project to build 49 kilometers of a 91-kilometer road between Warsaw and Berlin.
    Officials at Covec, a subsidiary of China Railway Group (SSE: 601390), have yet to formally respond to GDDKiA’s demands. But source at Covec told Caixin that the contractor had earlier requested but was denied more money from GDDKiA to cover unexpected cost increases.”
    http://english.caixin.com/2011-07-07/100276997.html
    *Liberal leader Rae’s uncle Mo Strong, c/o Red China.
    **Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll.

  28. “uhmmm… let’s see… WHICH POCKET SHOULD WE PAY THIS FROM??”
    “It was training. It wasn’t a retreat,” David Harper, grand chief of the organization representing about 30 northern Manitoba First Nations, told the Winnipeg Sun on Tuesday. “My staff deserve that.”
    Harper stressed that the trip — possibly costing tens of thousands of dollars, to what the hotel’s website describes as a “castle in the Rockies” — hasn’t been paid for with the federal funds that supported MKO to the tune of about $2 million in each of the past two fiscal years. Instead, he explained, the cost has been covered with revenue from investments that MKO holds in the private sector.
    http://www.winnipegsun.com/2012/02/07/mko-sends-staff-to-posh-banff-hotel

  30. Now is the precise time for all faith communities as in Christian denominations, Jewish communities and moderate Muslims to raise a weekly collection specifically for the nation of Israel facing an existential threat to its continued existence.
    If faith communities all across N. America engaged, the grassroots support would bolster its defence and be a huge political force versus the Iranian/Syrian genocidal program.

  31. There’s a petition to be signed at stopcorrupting children.com.
    The Ontario gov’t’s sex education curriculum is mandating that the age inappropriate all gender program be taught beginning in kindergarten where virtual babies are asking, “am I a boy or a girl?”
    Parents should be allowed to pull their children from these classes and obviously many will, if not the majority mandate or no mandate.

  32. this is what we’ve become thanks to liebralism…
    You should know that by today’s standards none of us was supposed to ever make it.
    HIGH SCHOOL — 1957 vs. 2010
    Scenario 1:
    Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck’s gun rack.
    1957 – Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
    2010 – School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
    Scenario 2:
    Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
    1957 – Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
    2010 – Police called and SWAT team arrives — they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it .
    Scenario 3:
    Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.
    1957 – Jeffrey sent to the Principal’s office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
    2010 – Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The family gets extra money (SSI) from the government because Jeffrey has a disability.
    Scenario 4:
    Billy breaks a window in his neighbor’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
    1957 – Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman.
    2010 – Billy’s dad is arrested for child abuse, Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy’s sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy’s mom has an affair with the psychologist.
    Scenario 5:
    Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
    1957 – Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock .
    2010 – The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.
    Scenario 6:
    Pedro fails high school English.
    1957 – Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college.
    2010 – Pedro’s cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against the state school system and Pedro’s English teacher. English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
    Scenario 7:
    Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed.
    1957 – Ants die.
    2010 – ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents – and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny’s dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
    Scenario 8:
    Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee . He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
    1957 – In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
    2010 – Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.
    and the worst is yet to come….

  36. PET Cemetery Report.
    “Europe’s deep freeze is no laughing matter.”
    …-
    “John Ibbitson”
    “With Ontario lagging, will the West be prepared to sacrifice?”
    (G-M)
    …-
    “Foreign Policy: Freezing In The Dark”
    “It is getting to be a European winter tradition. In 2006, 2009, and now again in 2012, temperatures plunge, and Russia interrupts its gas supplies. But while this spectacle is sadly familiar, Europe’s response continues to be hampered by internal divisions, Moscow-friendly European gas companies, and the Kremlin’s clever machinations.
    Europe’s deep freeze is no laughing matter. Heavy snow fell in Rome for the first time in a quarter-century, Venice’s canals have begun to freeze, and temperatures in Ukraine have plunged as low as -32 degrees Celsius. As a result, more than 300 people have died across the continent.”
    http://www.npr.org/2012/02/07/146513127/foreign-policy-freezing-in-the-dark

  37. “Ja, schweinhund, ja, es ist gut:

    “Animal abuse is on the rise in Germany, with bestiality brothels being set up across the country…”

    But isn’t that illeg…

    “Sex with animals was banned until 1969…”

    Oh.
    From the comments:
    “I think it’s hypocritical for somebody who KILLS animals (by eating meat) to condemn somebody (for) sexually assaulting them.…”

  38. Cruella MP. Who dat MP? Which party is the breastfeeder from?
    See Our CBC.
    …-
    “MP says her baby was kicked out of House
    CBC.ca”

  39. Den Tandt’s conclusion is a left-liberal fallacious myth.
    Canada had only one founding people: the English, via the British Crown.
    Canada is a gift from the British monarchy.
    Den Tandt: “The founding myth of two peoples, English and French, based in Upper and Lower Canada, is now just that – a myth.”
    …-
    “Den Tandt: Census shows Ontario no longer a place to grow”
    http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Tandt+Census+shows+slow+fade+Ontario/6120192/story.html

  40. Via, Gold man Jim Sinclair:
    Employment statistics as taught by the two revered classical economists, Abbott and Costello. Courtesy of CIGA Lew
    COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.
    ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It’s 8.3%.
    COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?
    ABBOTT: No, that’s 16%.
    COSTELLO: You just said 8.3%.
    ABBOTT: 8.3% Unemployed.
    COSTELLO: Right 8.3% out of work.
    ABBOTT: No, that’s 16%.
    COSTELLO: Okay, so it’s 16% unemployed.
    ABBOTT: No, that’s 8.3%.
    COSTELLO: WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 8.3% or 16%?
    ABBOTT: 8.3% are unemployed. 16% are out of work.
    COSTELLO: IF you are out of work you are unemployed.
    ABBOTT: No, you can’t count the “Out of Work” as the unemployed. You have to look for work to be unemployed.
    COSTELLO: BUT THEY ARE OUT OF WORK!!!
    ABBOTT: No, you miss my point.
    COSTELLO: What point?
    ABBOTT: Someone who doesn’t look for work, can’t be counted with those who look for work. It wouldn’t be fair.
    COSTELLO: To who?
    ABBOTT: The unemployed.
    COSTELLO: But they are ALL out of work.
    ABBOTT: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work. Those who are out of work stopped looking.
    They gave up and if you give up, you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed.
    COSTELLO: So if you’re off the unemployment rolls, that would count as less unemployment?
    ABBOTT: Unemployment would go down. Absolutely!
    COSTELLO: The unemployment just goes down because you don’t look for work?
    ABBOTT: Absolutely it goes down. That’s how you get to 8.3%. Otherwise it would be 16%. You don’t want to read about 16% unemployment do ya?
    COSTELLO: That would be frightening.
    ABBOTT: Absolutely.
    COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you. That means there are two ways to bring down the unemployment number?
    ABBOTT: Two ways is correct.
    COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?
    ABBOTT: Correct.
    COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?
    ABBOTT: Bingo.
    COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of the two is to just stop looking for work.
    ABBOTT: Now you’re thinking like an economist.
    COSTELLO: I don’t even know what the hell I just said!

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