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Prior to her 2010 concert in Israel Canadian performer Alanis Morissette was harassed by the usual assortment of groups pressuring artists to boycott Israel. She didn’t back down, saying that during her previous visit to Israel she “had a great time…professionally, spiritually, and emotionally”, and then she went ahead and played – after visiting the Western Wall – telling her audience:

“We love you, we’re with you — America, Canada, all of us.”

From 1995, here’s her catchy number one Billboard hit Hand In My Pocket.
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  3. Powerline’s John Hinderaker on HBO, home of Bill Maher:

    (The most recent episode of “True Blood”) featured a Ted Cruz fundraiser at the George W. Bush presidential library. In the clip below, you can see the characters discussing the fact that only “assholes” are going to the Ted Cruz event, while a woman, having dressed for the event, describes herself as a “Republicunt.” The clip concludes with a vampire saying that of all the horrible things he has seen in the last 100 years, the Ted Cruz fundraiser is the worst.

    Later,

    It is inconceivable that any commercial media outlet would describe those who attend a Hillary Clinton fundraiser as “assholes,” or refer to “Democunts,” or whatever the word might be. If, by some chance, such a thing were to happen, it is impossible to imagine the outrage that would follow. That wouldn’t be just a war on (liberal) women, it would be gender genocide.

    Verily.
    h/t

  9. Here is a video from European parliament by an independent reporter.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvl06KvW3Wg
    If you don’t know German, it may be difficult to understand. You can click on CC and see what you come up with.
    The story is about the corruption in European parliament where the representatives come in on Friday morning to sign up and leave.
    Apparently a member of parliament gets 7339 euros, plus 3980 euro non taxable something.
    As if that was not enough one gets 284 euros for each sitting day, there are approximately 12 sitting days a month.
    Another part of the beautiful compensation is 3408 euro clear (don’t know what that means).
    Altogether it makes 14727 euros. It does seem that the pay is per month.
    The sum, apparently is more than Merkel takes in.
    Note the green socialist woman as she hides her face and thinks that to ask why she came to sign up and leave is really beyond.
    Then again, as the politicians everywhere in the whole wide world are in it for themselves and are entitled to their entitlements even if they are not.

  13. Robins have stopped singing their early morning songs since mid-July.
    Now Cardinals, and Song Sparrows are the predominant singers in the morning hours, here in Southern Ontario.
    Is that the same across this broad land?
    Just wondering.
    Hey SDA readers across Canada, can I get an answer to my bird queery?
    I AM
    Joe Molnar in Woodstock, Ontario

  15. Of O’narcissist:
    “From the start, Obama has forged a New Age persona at once cool, hip and frontally narcissistic.”
    …-
    “Curt Smith: Romney can say ‘I told you so’”
    “Since this space last critiqued America’s 44th president, Barack Obama has completed his March Madness basketball bracket, played golf and pool, been offered pot in Colorado, mocked “photo-ops” while holding them and addressed fundraisers in Texas while refusing to visit the U.S.-Mexican border.
    From the start, Obama has forged a New Age persona at once cool, hip and frontally narcissistic. Yet increasingly, he has earned contempt in this country’s most old-fashioned way — on merit. His you can’t believe it even when you see it presidency is a wreck.
    In a new Quinnipiac University national poll, America deems Obama the worst president of the last 70 years, dating to the end of World War II. He gets 33 percent, George W. Bush, 28, others far behind. Observing the incumbent, it is easy to see why. Examples:”
    http://www.gateschilipost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20140719%2FOPINION%2F140719691%2F-1%2Ftv-guide

  18. Same here Joe, robins are gone, cardinals are very vocal,it’s a refreshing change to talk about the feathered variety of birds as opposed to the birds and bird brains in the media and the people and things they talk and wright about….
    How about some gossip, it’s also nice to pile some titillating stuff on someone like Mike Duffy who’s already got his plate full,now he’s got a paternity thingy going. Bobby Fife must be ecstatic.
    Maybe a few of your four leaf clovers would make a nice gift for the “Old Duff”if you feel so inclined.

  20. Pretty much as you described, Joe, here in leafy St. Paul’s Toronto.
    MM

  21. Allah~Mohammed’s Non-Hidden Agenda.
    Cut!
    …-
    “Here comes the hidden agenda again: Harper still stalked by the evangelical bogeyman”
    “Chris Selley: It remains an ugly facet of mainstream Canadian politics: Self-styled progressives and their media fuss over the purported threat of evangelicals” (NP)
    …-
    “ISIS orders all women and girls in Iraqi city to undergo female genital mutilation, UN says”
    “The Al-Qaeda splinter group has ordered all girls and women in Mosul, a city of about 660,000, to undergo female genital mutilation, the UN warns”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/07/24/isis-orders-all-women-and-girls-in-iraq-city-to-undergo-female-genital-mutilation-un/

  22. Let us know when your MP Wacky Doc Bennett starts singing in “leafy St Pauls Toronto” ……

  24. Will they be touring on bicycles, horseback or horse and buggy? That’s gotta be the ugliest looking trio ever.
    BTW, old gramps Suzuki is still on our payroll at CBC, guess he needs the dough to keep his various homes.

  28. AGW Regress Report.
    Wave! It’s Me & AGW Kills Air Conditioning.
    “The waves of cool air have been due to the jet stream taking up a position unusually far to the south over the central and eastern part of the nation for July. Usually the jet stream takes up residence along or just north of the United States/Canada border.”
    …-
    “Energy Demand to Remain Low as July Ends Cool in Midwest, East and South”
    http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/cool-end-to-july-forecast-midw/30826895

  29. I have about 20 “four leafed clovers” encased in wallet sized clear plastic and if DUFFY or anyone else wants one they can be had for the asking at TIM HORTONS Coffee Shop at Highway 401 and Norwich Avenue in Woodstock Ontario.
    FREE, FOR THE ASKING!

  30. Fury and frustration still mount over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and justly so. But before accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of war crimes or dismissing the entire episode as a tragic fluke, it’s worth looking back at another doomed passenger plane—Iran Air Flight 655—shot down on July 3, 1988, not by some scruffy rebel on contested soil but by a U.S. Navy captain in command of an Aegis-class cruiser called the Vincennes.
    A quarter-century later, the Vincennes is almost completely forgotten, but it still ranks as the world’s seventh deadliest air disaster (Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is the sixth) and one of the Pentagon’s most inexcusable disgraces.
    In several ways, the two calamities are similar. The Malaysian Boeing 777 wandered into a messy civil war in eastern Ukraine, near the Russian border; the Iranian Airbus A300 wandered into a naval skirmish—one of many clashes in the ongoing “Tanker War” (another forgotten conflict)—in the Strait of Hormuz. The likely pro-Russia rebel thought that he was shooting at a Ukrainian military-transport plane; the U.S. Navy captain, Will Rogers III, mistook the Airbus for an F-14 fighter jet. The Russian SA-11 surface-to-air missile that downed the Malaysian plane killed 298 passengers, including 80 children; the American SM-2 surface-to-air missile that downed the Iranian plane killed 290 passengers, including 66 children.
    After last week’s incident, Russian officials told various lies to cover up their culpability and blamed the Ukrainian government; after the 1988 incident, American officials told various lies and blamed the Iranian pilot. Not until eight years later did the U.S. government compensate the victims’ families, and even then expressed “deep regret,” not an apology.
    __________________
    news.nationalpost.com/2014/07/24/everyone-seems-to-have-forgotten-the-time-the-u-s-shot-down-a-passenger-jet-killing-290-and-then-tried-to-cover-it-up/

  31. Light bulbs – it would be interesting to run the numbers in a more realistic fashion under Canadian conditions.
    – During the non heating, long daylight 3 months .. on for only 1 hour/day.
    IOW, for only one hour is the 95% heat emitted a negative.
    – During the heating season, 9 months, when ever the light bulb is on, 95% of its energy use is converted into useful heat.

  32. The economic comparison between LED and incandescent does not change when they’re operated under the same conditions.
    If you heat with electricity, then heating with incandescent lights won’t change heating costs. If you heat with any other fuel, then electric heating with lightbulbs will be more expensive, and using LED lights will save money on your bill.

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