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  4. Because it is a harvest festival that bring in Oktober…
    You obviously need lederhosen.
    Handmade in Germany – Lederhosen from Berchtesgaden | Made in Germany
    youtube.com/watch?v=xEdDIyR19rY
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group ‘True North’

  5. Better visit Oktoberfest soon, because once Sharia is imposed on Germany there won’t be any more beer…

  6. Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group ‘True North’
    Thanks! Yes I know a bit about lederhosen! I worked at an Oktoberfest (1970’s-80’s) for many years, in Saskatchewan of course. We made our own sausage, perogees and cabbage rolls. We bought the beer.
    A lot of German folk in SW Sask. actually arrived here from from Russia, Ukraine etc. and were German citizens who had been invited to farm there by Czar Nicholas, knowing that German farmers could improve the land and develop a solid ag. economy. When the Russian revolution broke out, those lucky enough to flee to places such as Manitoba, North Dakota and Saskatchewan survived. The stories their ancestors told were sometimes horrific.
    We had a lot of fun. The best sausage I tasted was pork-beef mix that had been smoked using Manitoba Maples (Box Elder) in a ssmall tin shack with a bit of green oat straw thrown in. We had a real Octoberfest band. In the late 80’s, the small town dance fad died out. DWIs on Grid Roads didn’t help either!

  8. Now wasn’t that a good piece from Sheila Gunn Reid at the Rebel. Re: the NDP leadership expecting the complacent public and friendly media to just take their word for it and get the details later. Not.
    Even at the CBC no less. No costing details, nothing, with Tories and Grits in on the discussion. Pathetic. It started as “it’s already costed,” to “I don’t have the details,” to “give me a break.”
    Even ex-PBO dilettante Kevin Page doesn’t think much of their numbers, using out of date finance data and ignoring present reality, with the Opposition trying to cash in on overly “optimistic” projections of oil prices and thus taxes going forward. How ironic.
    This could very limit an NDP government’s monetary ability to stonewall pipeline expansion. (yes definite sarcasm)
    It’s like they think they can yell “squirrel!” to fake out the questioner with a diversion to another topic of their choosing.
    Answer the question Mr Finance Minister in waiting. Where’s your costing details? What were you guys smoking the day you came up with raising $3.7billion more in corporate income tax over each of the next four years? Taxing corporations is a proven job creator eh? PSAC jobs?
    My personal favourite is their non cost or revenue national carbon cap & trade program – funny didn’t the last Layton platform put it at $11billion in revenues – oh not true, Mr Mulcair just shouted it down?
    Well except for the unrecovered “internalized costs” which weren’t paid before, & because of that they are “subsidies.” That way they don’t “count” as “new taxes.” We’re just removing a “subsidy.” See how simple that is. (oh yeah, big time sarcasm)
    If that doesn’t work then they can sucker the provinces into taking the heat for their tax increases.
    I call BS on these guys. So does Ms Reid. So should the voter:
    http://www.therebel.media/watch_would_be_ndp_finance

  9. A tune for Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief, 1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group ‘True North.’
    From the king of Canadian Polka, Walter Ostanek. This was always a hit at rural Sask. Octoberfest.

  10. Opps–sorry!!
    A tune for Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief, 1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group ‘True North.’
    From the king of Canadian Polka, Walter Ostanek. This was always a hit at rural Sask. Octoberfest. We was the best there was!!
    https://youtu.be/C0RxiJLTUSM

  12. “A lot of German folk in SW Sask. actually arrived here from from Russia, Ukraine etc. and were German citizens who had been invited to farm there by Czar Nicholas,…”
    With respect, it was Tsarina Catherine II who during her reign (1762-1796)invited the Germans and many other European farmers and tradesmen to come to Russia and settle New Russia. My family went there in 1793, my wife’s in 1789.

  14. Although Russia had invited Germans to farm there they were not allowed to own land. Which is why my grandfather and many others emigrated to Canada in the 1890s.

  15. “Balkan odyssey
    As thousands of Syrian and Iraqi refugees navigate through an increasingly inhospitable Central Europe, Mark MacKinnon joins a small group in Serbia on a desperate journey through Croatia to the Slovenian border”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/balkan-odyssey-a-desperate-journey-through-centraleurope/article26438596/
    …-
    “One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).”
    ― Otto von Bismarck

  20. This is odd.
    I was watching CBC’s Newsworld this morning.
    The CBC cut their programming for 35 minutes to broadcast the whole Trudeau speech and media questions .
    They cut for 4 minutes of media questions to PM Harper.
    Hmmm… it almost seems that they are promoting the young one.

  21. “In other words, they’re just about everywhere.
    In some states there is more than one location. New York’s ‘Islamburg’ (located in the town of Hancock) is the largest operation and serves as the headquarters. The MOA compound in Colorado was the site of a 1989 seizure by federal authorities of firearms, explosive devices, forged documents, military manuals, and data on potential targets. (See here, here, here, here, here, here, and here for more information on MOA locations, including maps.)
    There is no doubt that MOA is a terror organization operating on American soil. It is well documented by the FBI whose records state that MOA has the infrastructure to plan and carry out terror attacks (here, and overseas) and that MOA leaders urge their members to commit jihad against enemies of Islam.”
    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/09/muslims_of_america_terrorist_training_compounds.html

  24. Wally:
    I’m just not finding it odd. Please see Shamrock above, and then go to Bob Hepburn, and Chantal Hebert at the Toronto Star, over the last day or three.
    The media’s re-tooling. Having well understood, or as well as they can, after seven weeks, that they aren’t going to break the base, with their borderline personality disorder carrying-on about nothing, they’ve evidently decided to get with the Liberals and try to break the Tories in Ontario, and the NDP in Quebec.
    I’m no more than 50/50, at the moment, on whether this is going to end badly for them, or end well for us.
    More, please, strength from Harper — and faster!

  25. As the election nears the polls will start to break more and more to our side I’m fairly confident. As the panic starts to set in the libdippers will start to make mistakes so massive even the media won’t be able to cover them up.

  26. AGW RIP.
    El Papa greets El Caudillo.
    Is Havana worth a mass?
    …-
    “Pope meets Fidel Castro in Havana, warns against ideology” (g-m)
    …-
    “Naomi Klein’s Leap Manifesto is Martin Luther’s 95 theses for the climate-haunted”
    “Rex Murphy: The left has finally found the key to the new social order and a way to put paid to all those prophecies of the end of our whirling, warming world”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/rex-murphy-leap-manifesto-is-luthers-95-theses-for-the-climate-haunted

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