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  6. Glen, that video is scheduled to show up tomorrow here on SDA. Your use of the word “creepy” is very apropos!

  11. A buddy with a son on overseas active duty emailed this:
    A large jet plane crashed on a farm in the middle of rural Kentucky.
    Panic stricken, the local sheriff mobilized and descended on the farm in force.
    By the time they got there, the aircraft was totally destroyed with only a burned hull left smoldering in a tree line that bordered the farm.
    The sheriff and his men entered the smoking mess but could find no remains of anyone.
    They spotted the farmer plowing a field not too far away as if nothing had happened. They hurried over to the man’s tractor.
    “B.T,” the sheriff yelled, panting and out of breath. “Did you see this terrible accident happen?” “Yep, sure did,” the farmer mumbled unconcerned, cutting off the tractor’s engine.
    “Do you realize that is Air Force One, the airplane of the President of the United States ?”
    “Yep.”
    “Were there any survivors?”
    “Nope. They’s all kilt straight out,” the farmer answered. “I done buried them all myself. Took me most of the hour.”
    “President Obama is dead?” the sheriff asked.
    “Well,” the farmer drawled, restarting his tractor.
    “He kept a-saying he wasn’t… But you know how bad that sumbitch lies…

  14. Re: Bloopers.
    The best I ever heard was an open line radio show that ran in Moose Jaw, Sk. back in the 50`s. It was called “The Mailbag,” where visitors could just walk into the studio and talk on the air, play music, sing or whatever.
    One day a young farm lad walked in with his mom. The host asked where they were from, blah blah blah and the regular questions. The host then asked the young lad, “So where`s your dad today?” The young boy, an only child, was quick to respond that Dad had gone away for a few days. The host then asked “So are you sleeping with mom while Dad`s away?” The boy replied, “No, she`s sleeping with the hired man.”
    Now that is the epitome of embarrassment.

  15. Re: Bloopers.
    The best I ever heard was an open line radio show that ran in Moose Jaw, Sk. back in the 50`s. It was called “The Mailbag,” where visitors could just walk into the studio and talk on the air, play music, sing or whatever.
    One day a young farm lad walked in with his mom. The host asked where they were from, blah blah blah and the regular questions. The host then asked the young lad, “So where`s your dad today?” The young boy, an only child, was quick to respond that Dad had gone away for a few days. The host then asked “So are you sleeping with mom while Dad`s away?” The boy replied, “No, she`s sleeping with the hired man.”
    Now that is the epitome of embarrassment.

  17. Tonight on CBC.Ca.
    “Savings from repeal of gun registry unknown to feds.”
    The CBC claims that six months after the feds have abandoned the registry, they can`t come up with a figure as to how much they`ve saved.
    Surely — someone has the answer.
    Very convenient and almost unbelievable. The comments feature on that story are not working tonight. Technical problems they say.

  18. Toronto Star, Sunday, Oct. 28. They’re still whining about the long-form census. They still don’t get it.
    http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1278417–governing-in-the-dark-good-policy-making-requires-reliable-statistical-data
    The leftists want “evidence-based” policies, and that evidence can only come from the census.
    What this really means, as I’ve said before, is that the “evidence” will show that some Canadians have one bathroom and some have two, then the social engineers will complain about “bathroom inequality” and try to start a new social program to fix it. That’s how the scam works.
    But the proper function of government is to protect individual rights, not to count bathrooms — or to fix inequality. Not that it can, anyway, after having tried for so long already.
    As a wise person noted around here, “income inequality derives mostly from effort inequality”. All government has to do, as John Galt said, is “Get the hell out of my way!”. The left’s precious “policies” are coercive, and should never get off the ground.
    The only people who want the long-form census data are the social engineers. And they are the last people who should have it.
    Killing the mandatory long-form census was Stephen Harper’s stroke of genius.

  21. Plainzdrifter >
    “….. they can`t come up with a figure as to how much they`ve saved.”
    Ha ha LOL.
    I’ll jump in with another 2 Billion saved, plus 2 cops lives along with a couple poodles and a cat.

  22. How can they determine how much the savings are when they never knew how much it cost in the first place?
    Originally in 1995 it was supposed to cost $119M with $117M being recouped from registration fees for a net cost of $2M, but Sheila Fraser found that over a billion had been spent by 2002 and only approx $140M paid in fees. The estimate was that by 2005 a total of $2B would be spent. When the Auditor General cannot tell you how big the numbers are, you know the program is out of control, fiscally speaking.
    If I remember correctly, the Cretch had the data processing center placed in Somerside PEI to regain votes as he and Paul Martin closed the CFB Somerside airbase in 1993. It was something like 2,000 jobs. The bulk of them would be CR-3 (Clerk Recorder level 3) doing data entry, each costing $50,000/annum but there would also be supervisors, managers, directors and a huge corps of IT people too. I’d guesstimate $125M/annum just for the salaries and benefits.

  23. Coal rises; wind fades.
    …-
    “Coal resurgence threatens climate change targets”
    “Biggest increase in coal usage for 50 years could throw the UK’s green ambitions off course”
    “Coal’s global share of primary energy consumption has risen in recent years to 30%.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/29/coal-threatens-climate-change-targets
    …-
    “Denmark Won’t Support Vestas Through Financial Hardship”
    “The Danish government won’t provide direct support to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS) should the world’s biggest maker of wind turbines need a bailout to stay afloat.
    Aarhus, Denmark-based Vestas, which has been hurt by higher-than-budgeted costs to develop its V112 turbine and cuts in green energy subsidies, said in July it agreed with its banks to defer a so-called test of financial covenants, delaying loan payments after losses eroded its cash flow. The government is now saying it won’t step in to bridge any periods of financial distress at the company to prevent it going bankrupt.
    “We cannot and will not support a single company,” said Martin Lidegaard, Denmark’s Energy Minister, in an e-mailed reply to questions. “It is against the government’s general state aid policy.””
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-29/denmark-won-t-support-vestas-through-financial-hardship.html

  26. What goes around, comes around.
    H/T The sandys of time.
    …-
    “50 years ago: The Great Atlantic Storm of 1962”
    “Guest post by Ric Werme
    This week marks the 50th anniversary of a destructive nor’easter named “The Great Atlantic Storm of 1962″ by the NWS and just “The Ash Wednesday Storm” by others. I lived in Ohio at the time, but my grandparents owned a summer house on Long Beach Island, a barrier island in New Jersey that faces the Atlantic Ocean. So, it’s a good time to talk about nor’easters in general and one little spot in particular.”
    “Harvey Cedars was about to bear the brunt of the storm:
    Over a stretch of about 600 miles, the wind pushed the water ahead of it in long swells that rose 30 feet high in the open ocean. By the time these reached the shore they were traveling at freight train speed. As the waves reached the beaches, they mounted to the height of a three- or four-story building. (Records are incomplete because the storm destroyed the recording devices on Atlantic City’s Steel Pier.) The Jersey Shore had never seen anything like it and Harvey Cedars didn’t stand a chance.
    Mayor Thomas kept waiting for the wind to shift. “It always does,” he said. “As soon as it backs around to the northwest, everyone starts to breath easier.” Nobody in Harvey Cedars breathed easily for three days and six high tides. The high tide early Tuesday morning took out the dunes and undercut bulkheads. The high tide that night wiped out the beach. The high tide Wednesday morning floated houses off their foundations, broke roads and dug new inlets across town. The high tide Wednesday night pushed the debris into whatever structures were still standing. The high tide Thursday morning was remarked on because it wasn’t quite as high as the high tide the night before. By Thursday night the storm had begun moving out, but the last high tide laid in yet more water which washed through the new inlets, one at 79th Street and the other at Bergen Avenue.
    Friday morning was clear and sunny. Everything was calm and sunny. Except there were no dunes, little beach and few houses. Near Atlantic Avenue, a wave that broke gently on the strand washed westward over the level, destroyed roadbed, to the bay, with nothing to block its progress. When it was over what was left of Harvey Cedars looked like a war zone.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/06/50-years-ago-the-great-atlantic-storm-of-1962/
    …-
    “Hurricane Sandy on course for Canada as millions in U.S. prepare for ‘worst case scenario'”
    http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html

  28. “Savings from repeal of gun registry unknown to feds.” — I don’t know why this would be of particular interest to the CBC. That was not why the registry was killed. Perhaps they should be asking about savings due to pulling out of Kyoto.

  32. This is from a backstage chat at MSNBC ” morning Joe” show.
    Obama takes offense that people are implying that “in any way we haven’t tried to make sure that the American people knew as information was coming in what we believed happened”.
    BS,and he goes on and says his first priority was to make sure that Americans were secure,then blah,blah,blah….
    He should resign and let Joe be the head lame duck until January,which is a possibility if he loses the election,and would be the better option. An enraged Obama leading the country for 2 months could do lots of damage.
    http://patdollard.com/2012/10/the-stories-keep-changing-obama-stonewalls-morning-joes-libya-questions/

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