In tonight’s Tips music, dedicated to dog lovers everywhere, the late Hank Snow sings the touching story of Old Shep.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Dick Cheney had a heart transplant today, go check out the comments from the oh so civil left at ABC.
C02 doesn’t cause hurricanes, someone remind suzuki… http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/23/next-time-sue-the-weatherman/
Climate alarmists have lost a major court case that had the potential for turning every weather emergency into endless litigation. It’s a victory for the law, for science and for common sense.
…The plaintiffs claimed the power companies knowingly had endangered them by emitting unsafe levels of carbon dioxide. The case was dismissed in 2007, then resurrected by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2009. The latest ruling should put an end to it. …
…There is no statistical evidence that hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones or other extreme weather events have been increasing in frequency. Nevertheless, after every disaster, climate alarmists exploit the suffering by claiming it is an example of “global weirding.” Because warming has stopped, this vague notion – which can encompass just about any weather fluctuation – is all they have. …
…Hurricanes have always been with us. Climatologists still have an incomplete understanding of what causes them and the factors that determine their life cycle. Even uber-alarmist Al Gore said days after the Katrina tragedy that “no single hurricane can be blamed on global warming.” This may be the only thing about the climate he has gotten right. …
I haven’t looked at the Cheney heart transplant thread at ABC yet, but before I do, what’s the over under on how many posts before “shotgun”, “shoot”, “shooter”, “shot” is used in a sentence?
This is the age of Unicorns. Rationality has long fled us for Utopian intransigence. This started with people using LSD to expand their minds. Instead its poisoned society with wish full thinking dipped in dreams of the never never.
People have the audacity of stupidity, to think they can shape reality. The laws of Nature are exempted they believe by belief instead of proof.It wasn’t long ago a lot of young University educated people, killed themselves trying to thumb a ride on an asteroid. Brought to them by people named Bo & peep.This time its rainbow & flowers time again.
Hippies head for Noah’s Ark: Queue here for rescue aboard alien spaceship
Thousands of New Agers descend on mountain they see as haven from December’s apocalypse http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hippies-head-for-noahs-ark-queue-here-for-rescue-aboard-alien-spaceship-7584492.html
Heh, they were demonstrating the obvious. White countries are the richest, freest countries. But what made them that way wasn’t the whiteness, it is the Christian influence. Christianity is all about free will…
“Calgary high school students received an abrupt lesson on labour disputes Friday after Air Canada wildcat strikes grounded their flight to France.” http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
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“The sorry state of our unions”
“So it has come to this: Even union leaders are losing faith in the power of their unions.
“There used to be a time when we had great respect from the public,” says Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress. “But we’ve lost that. There’s this notion that unions are just out for themselves and not for society. You get that label hung on you, and you have to work to get rid of it.””
““The public hates unions right now.” That simmering hatred turned visceral early Friday when a man spat on a female Air Canada employee during a wildcat walkout at Toronto’s Pearson airport.” http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-sorry-state-of-our-unions/article2380055/
“Calgary high school students received an abrupt lesson on labour disputes Friday after Air Canada wildcat strikes grounded their flight to France.” http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
…-
“The sorry state of our unions”
“So it has come to this: Even union leaders are losing faith in the power of their unions.
“There used to be a time when we had great respect from the public,” says Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress. “But we’ve lost that. There’s this notion that unions are just out for themselves and not for society. You get that label hung on you, and you have to work to get rid of it.””
““The public hates unions right now.” That simmering hatred turned visceral early Friday when a man spat on a female Air Canada employee during a wildcat walkout at Toronto’s Pearson airport.” http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-sorry-state-of-our-unions/article2380055/
Socialism’s Brothers = Fratricide/Cannibalism
Uncle Joe’s Reds vs Adolf’s National Socialist Browns.
…-
“Anti-racism rally clashes with white pride march in Edmonton” http://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/25/anti-racism-rally-clashes-with-white-pride-march-in-edmonton
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“The Butchery of Hitler and Stalin”
“James Kirchick on Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder.”
“There were moments reading this book when I was forced to shut it closed, an experience utterly alien to me. Like any reasonably historically-aware individual, I considered myself familiar with the carnage that overtook Europe in the earlier half of the 20th century: the gas chambers and the gulags, the mass shootings and show trials, the wanton disregard for human life and the heinous ideas which compelled people to, actively or passively, play a part in the deaths of tens of millions of fellow human beings. Reading about this period, there comes a point when the sheer scale and horror of the events which took place — the instant incineration of tens of thousands of civilians, for instance — desensitizes one from appreciating the sheer terror and physical pain that individuals endured.
Even with the knowledge of these attrocities, there is still little than can prepare a reader for the grisly accounts of the Ukrainian Famine that Timothy Snyder details in Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Of course, I knew something about the widespread starvation that afflicted Ukrainians in 1932 and 1933. This mass culling was directly caused by Josef Stalin’s collectivization policies, which were comprised of seizing private farms and exporting whatever food was grown to the rest of the Soviet Union and beyond. Those who have studied the event in-depth will not find anything new in Snyder’s account. But most readers, I imagine, will reevaluate their conception of the depths of human depravity when they read, in particular, about the widespread cannibalism that became rampant in what Robert Conquest has referred to as “one vast Belsen.” These are tales that one imagined lay only in the realm of zombie films: parents cooking and eating their own children, children in a nursery eating each other, a starving toddler literally eating himself.” http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/80201
Maz2, is this not where we are heading now? We already have facsim in North America. Can the bloodletting be far behind?
Of Mohammed’s Misogyny: hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women*.
…-
“Book tells Muslim men how to beat and control their wives”
“Controversial guide sold in Toronto” http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2012/03/23/19543371.html
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“Rex Murphy: It’s not Islamophobia to call a jihadist, a jihadist”
“It is far too late to protest what I see as the false coinage of “phobia” words — not that I will let that stop me.
We have (from some time back) francophobia; somewhat more recently, homophobia; and, most volatile and recent of them all, Islamophobia. All of these, in one form or other, are founded on a loose analogy with the genuine phobias — arachnophobia, agoraphobia or hydrophobia, for example, which speak to a morbid and irrational dread of — in the case of these terms — spiders, open spaces and water. But the new phobia words are more terms of art, than clinical descriptions.
Islamophobia is meant to be a blanket term that refers to unthinking hostility to Islam and Muslims. There is no doubt that such prejudice exists. But there is no doubt, too, that cries of “Islamophobia” are issued to suffocate argument, to deflect or deter analysis of some behaviour that is factually related to Islam. There is no doubt either that some Muslims have acted as terrorists, either singly, or in association with various Islamist groups. To point this out is not a phobia, but a simple respect for reality.” http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/03/24/rex-murphy-its-not-islamophobia-to-call-a-jihadist-a-jihadist/
*Dict.com
Just learned that this woman is the PM of Denmark. No other comment except that I have about 17 Libby Davies’ jokes top of mind! 🙂
In the 11:30am newscast of CKNW (in Vancouver) the news reader was talking about Harper sign the free trade agreement with Japan. He then proceeded to quote an unnamed “economics expert” warning about the perils of having such an agreement with “the world’s largest economy”.
I immediately wrote CKNW, pointing out that Japan was not the largest economy. America is, and we already have a very successful free trade agreement with them.
Yet another example of the Media Party shaping all the news to fit their narrative. 🙁
I just LOVE how the msm are providing ass-cover today,for the abysmal speech Mulcair gave last eve.Just now on Goldhawk,Gloria Galloway repeats the msm mantra,that ‘he was tired’..and Goldhawk blathers that maybe he got bad advice from his ‘handlers’..blah blah.
Tucked at the end of a cbc story,likely added as an update is this little nugget of socialist poo.
” Asked whether they’ll refer the matter to Elections Canada to investigate, officials said there’s no reason for that because it’s a party issue.” http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/03/24/ndp-leadership-voting-problems.html
If you can’t trust the winner of a questionable election to investigate,who can you trust? It’s not like he’s a former Quebec Liberal or something sleazy like that.
“It’s a party issue”? Shhhh! Elections Canada sticks its nose into party issues too, without necessarily being asked.
A democracy is a political system in which top government officials are elected by the populace. The word applies only to the holding of the election itself. Candidates may group together into parties, but political parties are private organizations that should not be subject to state (read: Elections Canada) oversight.
Thus it’s true that this apparent glitch in the NDP voting procedure should be no business of Elections Canada. It might, however, be the business of the police, if there was some kind of cyber-attack on the vote.
All of this means that the Liberals’ somewhat infamous situation whereby some of the candidates from their past leadership convention haven’t paid off their debts should not be any concern of the state or Elections Canada either. That might be fodder for journalists doing their job of reporting on political activites.
In a democracy, parties can run their own affairs however the hell they like. The only thing that matters from the state point of view is the vote itself and the fairness thereof. Whether parties hold riding nomination meetings or parachute candidates in, for example, is no concern of the state – it’s only the concern of the voters in that riding on election day.
Even the Danes are starting to get wise to the Bloviator In Chief.
The Cast of Communists (Marxist) including Van Jones….It can’t be good! The prick won’t survive until Nov
http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/obamas-education-dept-partners-with-soros/
Dick Cheney had a heart transplant today, go check out the comments from the oh so civil left at ABC.
C02 doesn’t cause hurricanes, someone remind suzuki…
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/23/next-time-sue-the-weatherman/
Climate alarmists have lost a major court case that had the potential for turning every weather emergency into endless litigation. It’s a victory for the law, for science and for common sense.
…The plaintiffs claimed the power companies knowingly had endangered them by emitting unsafe levels of carbon dioxide. The case was dismissed in 2007, then resurrected by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2009. The latest ruling should put an end to it. …
…There is no statistical evidence that hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones or other extreme weather events have been increasing in frequency. Nevertheless, after every disaster, climate alarmists exploit the suffering by claiming it is an example of “global weirding.” Because warming has stopped, this vague notion – which can encompass just about any weather fluctuation – is all they have. …
…Hurricanes have always been with us. Climatologists still have an incomplete understanding of what causes them and the factors that determine their life cycle. Even uber-alarmist Al Gore said days after the Katrina tragedy that “no single hurricane can be blamed on global warming.” This may be the only thing about the climate he has gotten right. …
Hot air had it already, but it is still on my mind. NO BEST SCHOOL FRIENDS ALLOWED policy in UK makes them just a notch above North Korea IMHO.
http://www.schoolsworld.tv/node/3815
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116699/No-best-friends-policy-rise-primary-schools-critics-warn-teachers-interfere-childs-play.html
Tom B.
I haven’t looked at the Cheney heart transplant thread at ABC yet, but before I do, what’s the over under on how many posts before “shotgun”, “shoot”, “shooter”, “shot” is used in a sentence?
I prefer cats.
This is not brand new, but I just came across it on David Thompson’s blog. Ann Althouse being threatened by protesters in Wisconsin. I think this is what the Manson Family must have been like.
I prefer Wilf Carter’s “Old Shep”
What happened to Kathy Shaidle’s blog? Does anyone know?
Chris Ivey – according to Mr. Shaidle she’s switching servers and “will be back up ASAP”.
I don’t have a dog.
Dad gave my dog away.
This is the age of Unicorns. Rationality has long fled us for Utopian intransigence. This started with people using LSD to expand their minds. Instead its poisoned society with wish full thinking dipped in dreams of the never never.
People have the audacity of stupidity, to think they can shape reality. The laws of Nature are exempted they believe by belief instead of proof.It wasn’t long ago a lot of young University educated people, killed themselves trying to thumb a ride on an asteroid. Brought to them by people named Bo & peep.This time its rainbow & flowers time again.
Hippies head for Noah’s Ark: Queue here for rescue aboard alien spaceship
Thousands of New Agers descend on mountain they see as haven from December’s apocalypse
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hippies-head-for-noahs-ark-queue-here-for-rescue-aboard-alien-spaceship-7584492.html
On Blazing Cat Fur’s blog: http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca/2012/03/topless-8-year-olds-george-soros.html
Pretty damn disgusting. Where is the efn outrage on this stuff???
Neo-Nazis have commandeered Edmonton
Heh, they were demonstrating the obvious. White countries are the richest, freest countries. But what made them that way wasn’t the whiteness, it is the Christian influence. Christianity is all about free will…
“Calgary high school students received an abrupt lesson on labour disputes Friday after Air Canada wildcat strikes grounded their flight to France.”
http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
…-
“The sorry state of our unions”
“So it has come to this: Even union leaders are losing faith in the power of their unions.
“There used to be a time when we had great respect from the public,” says Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress. “But we’ve lost that. There’s this notion that unions are just out for themselves and not for society. You get that label hung on you, and you have to work to get rid of it.””
““The public hates unions right now.” That simmering hatred turned visceral early Friday when a man spat on a female Air Canada employee during a wildcat walkout at Toronto’s Pearson airport.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-sorry-state-of-our-unions/article2380055/
“Calgary high school students received an abrupt lesson on labour disputes Friday after Air Canada wildcat strikes grounded their flight to France.”
http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
…-
“The sorry state of our unions”
“So it has come to this: Even union leaders are losing faith in the power of their unions.
“There used to be a time when we had great respect from the public,” says Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress. “But we’ve lost that. There’s this notion that unions are just out for themselves and not for society. You get that label hung on you, and you have to work to get rid of it.””
““The public hates unions right now.” That simmering hatred turned visceral early Friday when a man spat on a female Air Canada employee during a wildcat walkout at Toronto’s Pearson airport.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-sorry-state-of-our-unions/article2380055/
Socialism’s Brothers = Fratricide/Cannibalism
Uncle Joe’s Reds vs Adolf’s National Socialist Browns.
…-
“Anti-racism rally clashes with white pride march in Edmonton”
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/25/anti-racism-rally-clashes-with-white-pride-march-in-edmonton
…-
“The Butchery of Hitler and Stalin”
“James Kirchick on Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder.”
“There were moments reading this book when I was forced to shut it closed, an experience utterly alien to me. Like any reasonably historically-aware individual, I considered myself familiar with the carnage that overtook Europe in the earlier half of the 20th century: the gas chambers and the gulags, the mass shootings and show trials, the wanton disregard for human life and the heinous ideas which compelled people to, actively or passively, play a part in the deaths of tens of millions of fellow human beings. Reading about this period, there comes a point when the sheer scale and horror of the events which took place — the instant incineration of tens of thousands of civilians, for instance — desensitizes one from appreciating the sheer terror and physical pain that individuals endured.
Even with the knowledge of these attrocities, there is still little than can prepare a reader for the grisly accounts of the Ukrainian Famine that Timothy Snyder details in Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Of course, I knew something about the widespread starvation that afflicted Ukrainians in 1932 and 1933. This mass culling was directly caused by Josef Stalin’s collectivization policies, which were comprised of seizing private farms and exporting whatever food was grown to the rest of the Soviet Union and beyond. Those who have studied the event in-depth will not find anything new in Snyder’s account. But most readers, I imagine, will reevaluate their conception of the depths of human depravity when they read, in particular, about the widespread cannibalism that became rampant in what Robert Conquest has referred to as “one vast Belsen.” These are tales that one imagined lay only in the realm of zombie films: parents cooking and eating their own children, children in a nursery eating each other, a starving toddler literally eating himself.”
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/80201
Maz2, is this not where we are heading now? We already have facsim in North America. Can the bloodletting be far behind?
More “Green” reality from Lorrie Goldstein;
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/23/mcguintys-green-death-march
Join the Islamic book of the month club
http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/03/24/angry-response-to-wife-beating-book
Is Canada cutting its ties to the USA’s sinking ship?
Of Mohammed’s Misogyny: hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women*.
…-
“Book tells Muslim men how to beat and control their wives”
“Controversial guide sold in Toronto”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2012/03/23/19543371.html
…-
“Rex Murphy: It’s not Islamophobia to call a jihadist, a jihadist”
“It is far too late to protest what I see as the false coinage of “phobia” words — not that I will let that stop me.
We have (from some time back) francophobia; somewhat more recently, homophobia; and, most volatile and recent of them all, Islamophobia. All of these, in one form or other, are founded on a loose analogy with the genuine phobias — arachnophobia, agoraphobia or hydrophobia, for example, which speak to a morbid and irrational dread of — in the case of these terms — spiders, open spaces and water. But the new phobia words are more terms of art, than clinical descriptions.
Islamophobia is meant to be a blanket term that refers to unthinking hostility to Islam and Muslims. There is no doubt that such prejudice exists. But there is no doubt, too, that cries of “Islamophobia” are issued to suffocate argument, to deflect or deter analysis of some behaviour that is factually related to Islam. There is no doubt either that some Muslims have acted as terrorists, either singly, or in association with various Islamist groups. To point this out is not a phobia, but a simple respect for reality.”
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/03/24/rex-murphy-its-not-islamophobia-to-call-a-jihadist-a-jihadist/
*Dict.com
This is from BlazingCatFur. The new Black Panthers have put a bounty on George Zimmerman’s head.
I can’t see this ending well.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/black-panther-rage-10g-capture-trayvon-killer-article-1.1050370
Just learned that this woman is the PM of Denmark. No other comment except that I have about 17 Libby Davies’ jokes top of mind! 🙂
In the 11:30am newscast of CKNW (in Vancouver) the news reader was talking about Harper sign the free trade agreement with Japan. He then proceeded to quote an unnamed “economics expert” warning about the perils of having such an agreement with “the world’s largest economy”.
I immediately wrote CKNW, pointing out that Japan was not the largest economy. America is, and we already have a very successful free trade agreement with them.
Yet another example of the Media Party shaping all the news to fit their narrative. 🙁
I just LOVE how the msm are providing ass-cover today,for the abysmal speech Mulcair gave last eve.Just now on Goldhawk,Gloria Galloway repeats the msm mantra,that ‘he was tired’..and Goldhawk blathers that maybe he got bad advice from his ‘handlers’..blah blah.
Tucked at the end of a cbc story,likely added as an update is this little nugget of socialist poo.
” Asked whether they’ll refer the matter to Elections Canada to investigate, officials said there’s no reason for that because it’s a party issue.”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/03/24/ndp-leadership-voting-problems.html
If you can’t trust the winner of a questionable election to investigate,who can you trust? It’s not like he’s a former Quebec Liberal or something sleazy like that.
“It’s a party issue”? Shhhh! Elections Canada sticks its nose into party issues too, without necessarily being asked.
A democracy is a political system in which top government officials are elected by the populace. The word applies only to the holding of the election itself. Candidates may group together into parties, but political parties are private organizations that should not be subject to state (read: Elections Canada) oversight.
Thus it’s true that this apparent glitch in the NDP voting procedure should be no business of Elections Canada. It might, however, be the business of the police, if there was some kind of cyber-attack on the vote.
All of this means that the Liberals’ somewhat infamous situation whereby some of the candidates from their past leadership convention haven’t paid off their debts should not be any concern of the state or Elections Canada either. That might be fodder for journalists doing their job of reporting on political activites.
In a democracy, parties can run their own affairs however the hell they like. The only thing that matters from the state point of view is the vote itself and the fairness thereof. Whether parties hold riding nomination meetings or parachute candidates in, for example, is no concern of the state – it’s only the concern of the voters in that riding on election day.