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  5. The progressive left is coming! Hide the culture:

    Historically, a 20 meter [65 foot] fir tree taken from the forests of the Ardennes has adorned the city’s main square, the Grand-Place. This year, however, it has been replaced with a 25 meter [82] foot new-age-like structure of lighted boxes. Moreover, the traditional Christmas Market in downtown Brussels is no longer being referred to as a “Christmas Market.” Instead, it has been renamed as “Winter Pleasures 2012…”

  7. Kate, it’s likely others have commented on this, but since the Sandy storm your site has been loading very slowly, and the comments are sometimes extremely slow to load.
    Perhaps they sank your server?

  8. I recall the event very well. At the time, there was little mention as to how the dog died. The end justifed the means. It woke the Americans up as to just how powerfull the USSR had grown. Thanks!

  9. National Post, Wednesday, Dec. 5, George Jonas.
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/12/05/george-jonas-kill-the-human-rights-commissions-before-they-kill-our-freedoms/
    There is not much more I can add. However, I take issue with this comment:
    “When the social engineer or ‘human-rights’ commissar suppresses human rights, he doesn’t do so because he’s an ogre, but because he’s a do-gooder.”
    He is an ogre, but he’s pretending to be a do-gooder. Coercion is only good in self-defense, and government equals coercion.

  10. National Post, Tuesday, Dec. 4, letters page.
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/12/04/todays-letters-transnational-crime-is-changing-so-must-justice/
    The writer of the first letter listed, one John Ekstedt, makes a grave error, in that twice he refers to jailed terrorists as “political prisoners”.
    A political prisoner is a person who is in jail only for his opinions. The commission of violent actions motivated by those opinions takes the prisoner out of the realm of “political” and into the common realm of “criminal”.

  12. @KATE
    I agree with rws sometimes it take forever to load the comments …just letting you know i log on here from several computers in several spot’s throughout the day and the same problem occurs !!
    Not always but definatly frequently !!

  13. Your medical history may be disclosed “to protect the President”.
    http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/7226
    “Under the heading of “National Security,” the notice states that the treating medical facility may disclose your health information to federal officials “in order to protect the President, other officials or foreign heads of state.””
    “After being transferred to four different departments, I ended up talking to a representative of the facility’s legal department…When pressed whether this one sentence was a recent addition and assured that she would not be publicly cited, her response was simply “I’d rather not say.” At that point, my inquiry was promptly terminated.”

  14. I hadn’t heard that Mighty Sparrow piece before; thanks EB!
    Jonathon Coulton for all his goofy politics can craft a tune, say what you like. He wrote “Space Doggity” in response to a SongFu songwriting challenge to come up with an homage to Bowie’s “Space Oddity”. Try to keep a stiff upper lip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEXqLkj9J10

  15. “Winter is definitely here.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/06/britains-freeze-deepens-temperatures-13c
    …-
    “The escape from uncertainty: a theory of liberalism
    Kristor writes:
    I learned something about liberalism driving to the train this a.m. from two highly intelligent drive time radio jocks on one of our local conservative radio stations here in the Bay Area. One asked the other, “Do you think that liberals really, really believe in their hearts that when the government runs our whole medical system it will be better than it is today? I mean, how can you be awake and believe that? How can they avoid the conclusion that it will be far worse?””
    http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/014989.html

  16. On another note, http://www.homelandsecurityus.com has, by far, the best analysis of Benghazi out there. Better than Fox, Beck, or anybody else. It’s an absolute must read. I won’t post too many links or it’ll get caught in the spam filter, but Doug Hagmann has laid out what happened at Benghazi so clearly, it’s shocking in its simplicity, and sad that no media has gone anywhere near it.

  18. More escape from uncertainty:
    Mann on Mann’s fraudulent hockey stick graph, etc.,
    “as well as his degree of certainty on his research.”
    …-
    “Michael Mann Weighs in on the Climate Change Debate”
    “AccuWeather.com’s Evan Myers interviewed the Penn State climate scientist about his views on human-induced global warming, as well as his degree of certainty on his research.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/climatechange/climate-extremes-controversial-1/2409737

  22. I’m concerned that Obama, a pathological narcissist, a sociopath, is moving from his Up Front Persona, where he presents himself as a hapless Victim (of Bush, of Wall St, of the rich, of the Japanese tsunami etc)…who just wants to do good and help the world and….and campaigned for Four FULL years using this persona…has now switched to his other side.
    Obama’s other persona is a malicious, vindictive dictator. Obama needs to destroy. We’ve seen that in his getting his personal kicks from the utterly pathological act of personally selecting Who Will My Drones Kill Today. But now, Obama is bent on destruction of anyone who has rejected him, on anyone whom he feels is not submissive to His control.
    He’s trying to destroy the GOP, and small businesses because they choose individualism and independence rather than dependence on Him.
    Don’t people realize how deranged he is?

  23. “Once again, reality trumps models – Pacific SST’s are flat”
    “Model-Data Comparison: Pacific Ocean Satellite-Era Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
    Guest post by Bob Tisdale”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/12/06/once-again-reality-trumps-models-pacific-ssts-are-flat/#more-75386
    …-
    “The escape from uncertainty: a theory of liberalism”
    “This evening, driving home from the train, I reflected upon this notion of the liberal drive to rub out uncertainty, and remembered Twain’s aphorism that only death and taxes are really certain. What is the liberal platform? Taxes, of course, but mostly death: abortion, euthanasia, the destruction of the family, of marriage, of enterprise, of property, of gender, science, religion, the arts, and morality, national suicide, zero population growth, radical environmentalism, on and on, the familiar litany.
    Eliminate the uncertainty in life and you eliminate all the adventure thereof, leaving only the certainties: death and taxes.
    Who else hates uncertainty and mess more than anything? Gnostics. Interesting.”
    http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/014989.html

  26. Dough-ha!
    …-
    “Monckton Banned From UN Climate Process For Offensive Stunt”
    “Christopher Monckton, Lord Crazypants of Brenchley, made a fool of himself today at COP18 in Doha, Qatar by impersonating a delegate in a plenary session. He was immediately debadged and escorted out of the conference, and is likely being deported from Qatar right now.”
    “The UN now confirms that Lord Monckton has been permanently barred from the UNFCCC process.”
    http://www.desmogblog.com/2012/12/06/monckton-banned-un-climate-process-offensive-stunt

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