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Tonight, in one of those rare live musical performances that fill the room with energy and practically make your hair stand on end, transformative modern duo T Coils face off in an electrifying cover version of Dueling Banjos.
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  1. A wee correction in the Winnipeg Free Press:

    Prime Minister Stephen Harper did not say Elections Canada officials were the “epitome of bureaucratic evil” and “with leftist axes to grind.” Incorrect information appeared in a column by Frances Russell on Wednesday.

    The column with the fabricated quote, notes BC Blue, was prominently featured on page A2; the correction was buried in the “local” section.

  3. “the correction was buried in the “local” section.”
    Not a surprise, really. WFP hoping as few people as possible get the correction so as to think the original claim stands. It’s similar to what the CBC did years ago when reporter Lawand smeared PMSH by meshing two clips together making it appear as if the PM endorsed women and children’s “skin burning” from bombs in the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
    The smear piece ran at the beginning of The National while the “retraction” was run the next night at THE END of the newscast where the CBC knew most of that programs audience had turned the channel.

  4. Jon, I remember the Christina Lawand incident very well. The apology/retraction was as you described: cursory, brief, and late in the broadcast.
    In the case of an opinion columnist who fabricates a quote, newspapers should either publish the retraction in as prominent a place as the original article, as BC Blue suggests, OR – and I would almost prefer this — print the retraction in the body of the text at the top of the writer’s next column.

  5. I’ll be darned:
    “The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 72% of likely U.S. Voters believe voters should be required to show photo identification such as a driver’s license before being allowed to vote….Only 22% are opposed to the photo ID requirement.”

  7. @ EBD:
    Next thing you know voter ID will be deemed ‘racist’ by the Holder led Justice Dept. which strikes me as a little “Fast and Furious”.
    Oh wait…
    Frances Russell is just another boiler plate invective creator and jumped up mud slinger.
    She needs some tesla coils in her hair, might get her neurons hopping.
    I liked the dueling tesla coils here is some classic bluegrass which don’t need any mowin’…
    Flatt & Scruggs – Foggy Mountain Breakdown – Grand Ole Opry Classics
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RvI6ZI2JWc
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  8. Yeah, well, you can say it:

    Frank Bryant said his neighborhood, the H Street corridor in northeast Washington, has changed a lot since he moved into a modest rowhouse here 35 years ago — for the better.
    Why? Bryant doesn’t sugarcoat it:
    “This was all black,” he said, standing in a small garden next to his house and pointing to his neighbors’ homes. “Now it’s mostly white. . .It makes you feel safer.”
    If Bryant were white, his words could come across as insensitive and even racist.
    But Bryant is not white. He’s black.
    And yet the 74-year-old retired chef, whose gray hair peeks out beneath his old-school Redskins cap, openly admits that he prefers to live among white people. He said this neighborhood was plagued by crime when it was majority-black.
    “It was terrible,” Bryant said.

  9. I also will never forget Christina Lawand’s egregious breach of journalistic ethics in Aug 2006. Thank goodness YouTube hasn’t forgotten.
    A quick search revealed that she recently hosted an event in Ottawa. What’s hilarious is that 2006 was the year where Ms. Lawand suddenly switched careers to become “a certified data geek”. The organization failed to explain why she suddenly quit politics then. Hilarious!

  15. Revnant Dream. so where do you draw the line?
    Would it be okay for a mother to report a child to the police if the child was breaking the law?
    Daughter did the right thing, and I read some of the comments to the story and all that I read agreed with the daughter actions.
    mike

  19. OMG WFLBG the Kony video guy’s meltdown makes my day. This is a guy whose plan was to use Bono et al. to pressure western governments into funding the Ugandan military to stop an army that left Uganda years ago. I thought I was taking crazy pills when this video got popular.
    A much better (true) story involving Kony is Machine Gun Preacher. Lefty reviewers don’t seem to like it for some reason…

  21. crime bills
    In regard to above new bills
    we need NEW decrease salary
    for all crown attorney in Canada too
    and instead
    if cut half of crown attorney who are lawyers too
    and dedicated those money
    to creat more better facility to criminal
    such as create bigger liberary
    made extenstion to jail and made more story floor and has more sport and more teacher to teach them some interest subject
    teach them laws and orders may be help
    instead of subsidize house
    in similar fashion
    rahter than let homelss stay freeze or full drug or mentall illness
    creat place can keep them safe
    like old age houses with nurse and watch 24/7
    I am sure if they give them good understand their right law and some ethic and some courses and religion and study relatioship and etcsome food intake with correct vitamin most of those criminal in jail can ger released from jail in early age too.
    these are courses should teach with no diploma and no testing just attending and hearing the any teacher about are communication understand opposit gender how to talk to women or men and relgion pscycology and money control and societlogy and law and so many courses they get thier brain working and may 90% back home
    not put them for ever for sake of only salary of crown and lawyer in court
    divide people if addication in alchol or drugs or both or divide criminal in catogray can live togehter
    in today all prison stay doing nothing because no cost deserve for them and all cost goes to salary of crown attorney who tell these above criminal
    “detaine…” order.
    I hope you know what I mean

  22. “Madrid: the best nights out”
    “Madrid comes alive after dark – no one would think of going out dancing before 2am. We pick the best places to go, from restaurants, bars and clubs to chocolaterías”
    “If you’d like to recommend your favourite night out in Madrid, please leave a comment”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/mar/16/best-bars-clubs-nightlife-madrid
    …-
    “Spanish towns fall from riches to rags”
    “Dried-out plants grow next to Virgen del Carmen geriatric home in Peleas de Abajo, in northwestern Spain.”
    “PELEAS DE ABAJO, Spain – Fifty years ago Peleas de Abajo was a centre of farming innovation. Now it is famous for claiming to be Spain’s most indebted municipality after investments made during the country’s boom years went sour.
    The small town in the northwestern region of Castilla y Leon is struggling to pay its bills and service a pile of debt that accumulated from an investment in a rest home 15 years ago when cheap loans were plentiful.
    The riches to rags story is typical of towns and regions across the country. After years of overspending their finances are under scrutiny as Spain tries to rein in its budget deficit just as the economy heads towards recession.
    Every euro is being scrutinized in an austerity drive to chop Spain’s deficit to the European Union limit of 3% of gross domestic product next year from 8.5% in 2011. Town halls alone generated a deficit of 0.4% of GDP last year.
    The 250 residents of Peleas de Abajo are embarrassed about the 4.6-million debt which equals about 20,000 euros per person, nearly 10 times the level to each inhabitant of Madrid.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2012/03/14/spanish-towns-fall-from-riches-to-rags/

  23. “Sex-starved fruit flies turn to booze”
    “Much like their human counterparts, male fruit flies turn to booze when they’re rejected by females, according to a new study that could have implications for people with mood disorders and addictions.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2012/03/16/19511801.html
    …-
    “DeSmog Blog headed back to obscurity”
    “After this fiasco, I hope David Suzuki starts to wonder why he’s (allegedly) funding those guys. I’m guessing that there will be another traffic spike for DeSmog in the not too distant future, when indictments and lawsuits are handed out.”
    “The blog that [broke] created the Fakegate story, only to have it blow up in their faces when skeptics fingered Peter Gleick as the culprit, forcing him to admit that he’d been the one to steal the documents from Heartland, has had its 15 minutes of fame, and is now headed back into Internet obscurity.
    On the graph below, one can clearly see the traffic spikes of Feb14th, when the story broke was first marketed, and Feb 2s1st when Gleick confessed made his limited hangout. Since then it’s been downhill for DeSmog.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/15/desmog-blog-headed-back-to-obscurity/

  25. Our New Lady of the Cliches.
    “changes in play”; “tip” … “iceberg”.
    …-
    “One gets the feeling the changes in play today are just the tip of the iceberg.”
    “Laura Rance is editor of the Manitoba Co-operator. She can be reached at 792-4382 or by email: laura@fbcpublishing.com”
    “Ripple effect of monopoly’s loss”
    “Sale of Viterra, loss of grains institute would hurt Manitoba”
    http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/ripple-effect-of-monopolys-loss-143034895.html

  26. mitchel44, good for Nancy Greene-Raine…common sense brain power that lady. Not like some, even in the Conservative Party, who have swallowed Suzuki’s bunk.

  27. Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
    “It’s not a debate anymore, it’s a fact.””
    …-
    “China hard landing already here: JPMorgan analyst”
    “China’s economy is already in a so-called “hard landing,” according to Adrian Mowat, JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s chief Asian and emerging-market strategist.
    “If you look at the Chinese data, you should stop debating about a hard landing,” Mr. Mowat, who is based in Hong Kong, said at a conference in Singapore Wednesday. “China is in a hard landing. Car sales are down, cement production is down, steel production is down, construction stocks are down. It’s not a debate anymore, it’s a fact.” His team was a runner-up for best Asian equity strategists in a 2011 Institutional Investor magazine poll.
    The Shanghai Composite Index fell 2.6% Wednesday, the most since Nov. 30, after Premier Wen Jiabao said home prices are still “far from a reasonable level.””
    http://business.financialpost.com/2012/03/15/china-hard-landing-already-here-jpmorgan-analyst/
    “Sad Industry Mantra: Make Steel, Lose Money”
    “From Baosteel to Angang, China’s mighty steel companies are in a slump that shows no sign of easing””.
    “China’s steel manufacturers are holding back nothing while scouring for contracts in the worst business environment since the 2008 financial crisis.
    The industry’s tale of woe has been punctuated by financial reports from companies such as publicly listed Guangzhou Iron and Steel Enterprises Group, which said it lost 689 million yuan last year and nearly 98 million yuan in 2010.
    Even the state-owned sector is struggling to make money.”
    http://english.caixin.com/2012-03-16/100369245.html
    *Liberal leader Rae’s uncle Mo Strong, c/o Red China.

  29. Synthetized music seems so….synthetic. My favourite dueling banjos performance was a banjo vs guitar, with Roy Clark on guitar, and Buck Owens on banjo.

  30. ‘Daughter did the right thing, and I read some of the comments to the story and all that I read agreed with the daughter actions.’
    mike
    Posted by: mike at March 17, 2012 1:18 AM
    Re post written by Revnant Dream relating kid calling 911 on her Mom.
    Mike – you are what Lenin and his thugs called a ‘useful idiot’; a person who means well and is easy to hoodwink. The World Gument Communists (msm etc) cherry pick isolated events to legitimize sweeping laws and regulations that enslave all citizens via ‘do gooder’ feel good. Freedom loving people must think past this one instance and project consequences for themselves.
    Said child is a traitor to her mom in all the ways that count, she is ‘informing’ the authorities that her mom is breaking the law by drinking and driving. Said child is a dependent – ‘don’t bite the hand that feeds you’ is the key expression – said child has a cell phone, she could have called her dad (if such a person is in the picture), another relative or a taxi – she could have removed herself from the car and walked or caught a bus.
    Who would want to have a child if children are such little traitors? This is a ‘tip of the iceberg’ story. Children can be evil little critters if they are not taught compassion, gratitude, loyality and honor – eg. they will make up stories if they are seeking revenge for real or perceived slights.
    As Revnant Dream warns – this is a slippery slope – one the Russian people slid down – learn from history or repeat it.

  31. Jema 54, exactly, read Orlando Fige’s “The Whisperers” to get an idea of where this ends. Maybe mike should to.

  32. Over at Powerline yesterday, John Hideraker: GOP MOCKS OBAMA MOVIE
    “The Republican National Committee put out this satirical poster, ridiculing the professionally-produced [Tom Hanks, the jerk, and Davis Guggenheim, ditto] Obama campaign [propaganda] movie called ‘The Road We’ve Traveled.’ It [the poster] is really very funny. Maybe there is hope for the Republicans after all!”
    See this hilarious poster @:
    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/03/gop-mocks-obama-movie.php
    Be sure to read the small print.

  34. Mark Steyn has a great column at the National Review on Obama, the Ignorant and Arrogant, and his attempt to self-define himself as ‘forward looking’.
    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/293728/obama-s-history-lesson-mark-steyn
    Obama, just as he did in the 2008 election, lives in the Imaginary rather than Real World. In 2008, he ‘imagined’ Hope and Change, and posited that the Real World was Bush.
    Now, he can’t run on his own Reality, so, yet again, he’s focusing on the Imaginary World. He’s still talking about The Future, and blaming the electorate for not giving him enough time to set up this utopia. And, he’s still using his adversarial tactic, moving with ease from racism, through setting up ethnics against each other, then into class warfare, and now, he’s adding a ‘war on women’.
    Can words trump reality? They did in 2008. I think there is less chance in 2012.

  36. Re-child snitching on mother driving while impaired. I watched an interesting interview with James Roscoe’s elderly father, after the RCMP shoot out in Mayerthorpe. He related an incident that happened when his son was 14. He found some marijuana in his son’s room, and instead of discussing with his son, he called the police, and had him arrested. That sort of parenting may very well have contributed to the son’s actions later in life.
    The loyalty of a parent to his/her child should is what made homo sapiens the dominant species. Sometimes it can be destructive, but you have to accept the bad with the good. If this girl’s life was in danger, that means the parent has already betrayed that loyalty. I hate the idea of kids shitching on their parents, but dying to protect a parent is not what family is all about.

  37. I’m a bit torn on the “drunk driving mom” story. Nobody can respect a snitch under normal circumstances, so if you do snitch it had better be for a darn good reason. Now, from the article, the mother in question sounds to have been very drunk (not tipsy), and if that was the case then I suppose the daughter did the right thing. It wasn’t just a question of her own (the daughter’s) safety; we all know of innocents who were killed by drunks on the road. I agree, though, there is something deeply creepy about children informing on their parents to the authorities. That being said, remember all those self-righteous drama-queens who were “persecuted” (some were) by the McCarthy hearings. I believe E.M. Forster’s quote was sometimes cited: “If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I hope I should have the guts to betray my country”. re. McCarthy, I remember reading a Steyn article (why yes, my frame of reference is very limited) in which he wondered why the Mafia code of omerta should have become an accepted standard for personal morality.
    I’d need more information to know who to condemn here.

  38. crime bill— continue….
    in law in Canada I guess people can not walk naked and you can get arrested or show private body party to people in public
    again I guess except giay pride etc…
    Now when you buy new cloth from for example Walmart you go to dress change room to try the new cloth is fit to your body or not
    espeically some women dress
    nobody stand up in shoping mall and try the new cloth and show thier body part to people walk by or to stranger
    another related topic that kids and young teengare should protected form pediffilles and other similar siex offendors
    when they allow to use under age children in internet and other dance club is illegal
    at end when we go to YMCA and any sport club
    and cultureally all men in change room they change their cloth and if teeneger boy and young boy are there and other old fox men are there they are usually can see each other private body part
    BUT why
    is this is not illegal that change room is like live alive play boy magazine that even if you do not like to see some one else woemn naked you force to see and because you entered in sport club and you enter in women and men change room it means they are allow BY LAW to walk naked
    if they built too many nice area why not built change room enough or use curtain to not allow anybody see their body of other whne they change their cloth
    Therefore change room of all sport club are doing illegal job every day and allow older men watch younger men naked or other women to women too
    because you want to change your cloth it is not necessary and need other to see you naked then stop pronegry from change room men in ymca and other sport club using crim bills
    I am sure menister never walk naked in any place before!!
    check crime bill new news
    check seix offender in new crime bill
    you know
    how you deal with lawyer who are made plan against accused illegal how upper law society can punsihed so many illegal lawyer– second issue
    thier issue in some restriced muslim if they come and testify that x person has boy firend or girl frind while thier family are aginst then that witness point can made her or his life in geperdiz is crown attorny understand put every culture in witnes point can be not safe for both parties because cronw not understand muslim culture
    crown or judge asked restriced muslim a question who wear scarf
    Are you girl freind to accused man on bench?
    No houner I never met that man ever in my life
    she is liar she only scared to tell the truth from muslim community

  39. Final cuts to the left-liberal arts: self-inflicted demise/death, critic says.
    …-
    “Entire performing arts industry is to blame for the demise of the Vancouver …
    Toronto Star – ‎23 minutes ago‎
    Matthew Jocelyn The Vancouver Playhouse announced on March 9 that, crippled by chronic deficit-related issues, it was closing its doors the very next day, a few months shy of its 50th anniversary.”

  41. I get a kick out of the CBC. I make a comment on CBC.Ca at, say, 3:00 PM CST Mar. 17-2012 in Saskatchewan.
    They list my comment as having been posted at 1:00 PM ET.
    Hellooooo CBC! When its 3:00 PM CST in Saskatchewan, its 5:00 PM ET in Montreal or Ottawa.
    Before you (CBC) solve robocall, you may want to learn how to use a watch. Helloooo!

  42. http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1147810–known-to-police-chief-bill-blair-releases-crime-hot-spot-maps-used-to-focus-toronto-policing-efforts?bn=1
    Toronto most likly is not safe place to leave any more
    who should be blame
    Board of education
    or people or law authorites
    check list of death shooting and rubbery and other crime happend in past 5 years in Toronto
    this is not safe place and need remove somepeople or change them or fire some here
    as also list of inmate in jail are dying for reason like suicide and other issue excluding national death

  43. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/In-final-days–Osama-planned-to-kill-Obama–attack-US/925157/
    “In his final days, al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was planning assassination attempts against US President Barack Obama and another attack on the American soil, according to a media report here on Saturday.”
    “‘Bin Laden noted snidely that killing Obama would pave the way for Vice-president Joe Biden to assume the presidency. The al-Qaeda leader said Biden was “totally unprepared” for the job,’ [CNN’s National Security Analyst Peter Bergan] wrote …”
    Narcissistic rage, the psychological hallmark of the terrorist.
    Aren’t you glad Ohbummer doesn’t come across as being particularly angry?

  44. Senator Nancy – way to go !!
    Finally! some realistic and sensible words from a Canadian politician.
    Very good – every word of it !! Factual, timely, responsible. The most intelligent words I have ever! heard from any! Canadian politician. Way to go !!
    I would be very interested to hear how others are reacting to Sen Nancy. I bet the Sky Alarmists will not challenge her science at all. She will probably just receive some ad hominem attacks.

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