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  1. FWIW, I like the guitar in “Sultans of Swing”. Mark can sure play that thing!

  2. Thanks for that Kate!! I encourage anyone who is not familiar with this to put on the headphones and turn it up loud. Those of you who are should too.

  3. Read the comments. They’re hilarious. CBC readers in full WDR. They transferred their mental illness from Harper! Amazing how they never stop.

  4. Steyn goes to a Trump rally. It’s Steyn, so you know you have to read it.
    http://www.steynonline.com/7408/notes-on-a-phenomenon
    Trump has no prompters. He walks out, pulls a couple of pieces of folded paper from his pocket, and then starts talking. Somewhere in there is the germ of a stump speech, but it would bore him to do the same poll-tested focus-grouped thing night after night, so he basically riffs on whatever’s on his mind.

  5. ‘anyone not familiar…..’ Does such a person exist? This is classic stuff, required listening in my generation.
    H

  6. In the SJW world we know it’s not about right, wrong, sensible, moral or anything like that – these days it’s only about collecting scalps. The SJW’s and their friends at Twitter are trying to collect another conservative scalp here: http://www.mediaite.com/online/twitter-punishment-of-breitbart-journalist-sparks-revolt/
    Please take a look and tweet in support if you are so inclined. #JeSuisMilo @Nero
    You might have to look past his orientation and remember that at times the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

  7. Oh Bummer’s a shoe-in. He’s got the NSA recorded goods on all the voters. How ya gonna vote? Oh Bummer! That’s how.

  8. I concur with many of Steyn’s observations about Trump. I hope the regulars here will spare an hour to listen to one of his ‘talks’ because they are unlike any political speech you may have heard.
    The alleged evil and bigoted remarks he’s accused of making are done in such a humorous off hand way that only an idiot or leftie partisan would feel the need to find them offensive.
    I had the same impression as Steyn about the humour; hey this is pretty good stand-up comedy.

  9. Nice one again Kate.
    And yes minuteman Massey Hall sounds about the same as the old Rainbow, the acoustics in those old buildings is always a treat I guess the old timers must have known a thing or two eh … imagine that. Progress no so much, and to lefty, shouldn’t that be required listening for all generations like maybe todays, so they get a chance to hear real music.

  10. The young people who catch Trump on social media think he’s great because he riffs on all sorts of topics like late night tv hosts. I prefer Cruz who really knows his stuff but I have to admit Trump is drawing in independents and some Democrats.

  11. “The Western Spring”
    “It’s on, the long awaited fight against PC orthodoxy is finally on.”
    “The Western Spring is finally here, and before it’s done it threatens to change everything.”
    “The commotion you hear is not going to stop, it will only get worse.”
    “It’s the twilight of the gods.”
    “The tension between the forces of political correctness and the pent-up forces of repressed cultural traditions is now bursting like a spring wound up beyond containment.”
    https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2016/1/10/the-western-spring

  12. The federal government is asking for input on the next budget.
    http://www.budget.gc.ca/2016/prebudget-prebudgetaire/index-en.html
    I skimmed through the video (actual length is 42 minutes). Mix of English and French. The emphasis is on economic growth and hoping to keep the deficit steady with the GDP. We’ll see how that goes.
    Take time to contribute something positive and hope they don’t damage the economy too much.

  13. AGW RIP.
    “Normal” RIP
    …-
    “Snow falls in northern England as Met Office warns mild spell set to end
    Cold snap could bring snow to London and the South East, although forecasters say it is unlikely to cause problems” (telegraph)
    …-
    “Professor Myles Allen: Normal Weather is a “Thing of the Past””
    “IPCC Lead Author Professor Myles Allen, who […] in 2014 stated that alarmism is unhelpful, appears to have changed his mind – his new position is that “normal weather is now a thing of the past”.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/01/09/professor-myles-allen-normal-weather-is-a-thing-of-the-past/

  14. Mao* Strong Report.
    “‘Mega Mao’ no more as ridiculed golden statue destroyed
    Statue of Chairman Mao in Henan province was subject of online mockery after photos went viral this week” (grauniad)
    …-
    “Freeland to focus on India and China: ‘Two huge, growing markets’
    International Trade Minister Chyrstia Freeland says that China and India are priorities for the Liberal government’s trade agenda, as they are “two huge, growing markets.”” (ctv)
    …-
    “China’s Top Steel Province Will Cut Output in 2016, Xinhua Says” (Bloomberg)
    “Bulldozers tear down morgue and hospital in China shocking patients” (ctv)
    “Hong Kong bookshops pull politically sensitive titles after publishers vanish
    Suspected abduction of five booksellers prompts fears of mounting self-censorship in face of mainland crackdown on ‘salacious’ publications” (grauniad)
    …-
    “Xi’s plan for new economic era in China goes off the rails”
    ” When China’s President Xi Jinping convened a group of top officials to discuss the economy last month, the highly publicised meeting was seen as a moment of triumph.
    A stock market plunge last summer, and a messy currency devaluation that followed, had faded from global view.
    In the relative calm, he seemed to usher in a new era of economic management, promising policy coordination at the highest levels to prevent another bout of turmoil.
    Less than three weeks later, his plans have been derailed as China’s stock market and currency once again rattle investors around the world.
    At every turn, his efforts to manage the economy, market and currency have been undercut by global headwinds and haphazard policymaking.”
    http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/xis-plan-for-new-economic-era-in-china-goes-off-the-rails
    *Liberal Justine’s favourite dictator.

  15. Lafleche is a small town in SW Sask. Like many similar towns, they are plagued with break ins from hooligans from larger centers, people who show up at night and break into service stations and other establishments. But this time, thanks to Sgt. Sutherland and the nearby Gravelbourg RCMP Detachment, the boys received an unwanted visit on New Year’s Eve!

  16. Why NATO says it’s time to stop hugging the Russian bear
    After the cold war, America hoped that European security was permanently solved, but Russia’s recent forays into Ukraine and Syria have been followed by a shift in US rhetoric.
    In little-noticed remarks this week, NATO’s supreme allied commander, US Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, said that for too long, the United States has “hugged the bear” of Russia. But now, he said, it’s time to get tough.
    This toughness should come in the form of more US troops to Europe, he said, and more “high end” training to prepare American forces for a potential battle against the former cold war foe.
    The remarks, made while Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was visiting Europe this week, have struck some as a bit alarmist. True, Russia has invaded Crimea and used agents provocateurs, covert operations, and even some of its own Red Army forces in Ukraine.
    Defense officials do not believe, however, that Russia is poised to run its tanks through the Fulda Gap – the lowland corridor in Germany where the US military was prepared to intercept a surprise attack from the Warsaw Pact during the 4-1/2 decades of the cold war.
    Still, the comments of General Breedlove and others mark a shift in thinking, argues John Herbst, ambassador to Ukraine from 2003 to 2006 and former director of the Center for Complex Operations at National Defense University in Washington.
    “I think it’s fair to say that six to eight months ago, if Breedlove had headed off in this direction he would have been walked back by the White House,” and told to tone down his rhetoric. “But not now,” says Mr. Herbst, who briefs US military commanders, “there’s been an evolution in attitudes, among our military but within the administration as well.”
    Much of this is due to Russia’s recent intervention in Syria, as well as its aggression in Crimea and Ukraine, in which it made use of undercover Russian soldiers in unmarked army fatigues, known as “little green men,” to wreak destruction on the ground.
    Read more at:
    http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2016/0108/Why-NATO-says-it-s-time-to-stop-hugging-the-Russian-bear

  17. “Green energy blues: the only way Trudeau and the premiers will reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions is by making us poorer.”
    Canada, after annual emissions peaked in 2007 at 761 Mt (megatonnes), the global recession which started with the subprime mortgage derivative scandal in the U.S. caused our emissions to drop dramatically to 741 Mt in 2008 and 699 Mt in 2009, or by 8.1% in two years, which is a huge decrease.”
    But as the economy slowly recovered, Canada’s emissions started to rise again, to 707 Mt in 2010, 709 Mt in 2011, 715 Mt in 2012 and 726 Mt in 2013, the last year available.”
    Of course, Trudeau and Notley will argue that falling oil prices are the perfect time to begin shifting the country, and Alberta, to a new, prosperous green energy economy.”
    In other words, exactly what didn’t happen in Ontario when the Liberal government there doubled down on expensive, unreliable and inefficient wind and solar power, ostensibly to replace coal-fired electricity, first under former premier Dalton McGuinty and now under Kathleen Wynne.”
    That helped to send electricity rates soaring, which in turn contributed to the loss of hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs, while sending more and more Ontario families into fuel poverty, where they spend more than 10% of their income just to power their homes.”
    We all get less under the faux SJW of our neo politicians, but these hypocrites crush the poor with their battling of climate change and “middle class tax cuts.” When will we finally put a stop to this nonsense and elect realists, as it appears the American people are preparing to do v.v the Trump campaign?
    http://www.torontosun.com/2016/01/09/green-energy-blues

  18. “Canada’s long-form census is back for 2016”
    “A day after taking office, the Liberal government announced the 61-question long census form will be restored for 2016 census”
    http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/11/05/liberals-restore-mandatory-long-form-census.html?utm_source=change_org&utm_medium=petition
    …-
    “Argentina’s new government jumps into emergency mode”
    “The government declared a “national statistical emergency.” It instructed the agency responsible for collecting and publishing statistics to stop. No longer – at least until the agency is overhauled – will Argentines have information about gross domestic product, inflation, poverty and other indicators.”
    “Imagine that happening in Canada, or just about anywhere else: A government closes the country’s statistical agency because its numbers cannot be relied upon. So manipulated were those numbers by the previous government of Peronista president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner that the International Monetary Fund refused to accept them.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/argentinas-new-government-jumps-into-emergency-mode/article28079038/

  19. The Justine government gargoyled.
    Find Media Party’s lingering HDS.
    …-
    January 6, 2016:
    “Trudeau reportedly soaked up the sun in Caribbean”
    “While there is no record of Stephen Harper vacationing in the Caribbean during his decade as prime minister, that doesn’t tell us much about his vacation habits. Harper’s handlers were more cautious of media taking a photo of their boss on his private time.”
    http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/the-gargoyle-trudeau-reportedly-soaked-up-the-sun-in-caribbean
    …-
    January 10, 2016:
    “Trudeau will reimburse government for costs of family travel to exclusive Caribbean resort”
    “His predecessor, Conservative PM Stephen Harper, did on occasion reimburse DND for flights, but in amounts that appeared to represent the lowest possible economy fare prices.”
    http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/the-gargoyle-trudeau-will-reimburse-government-for-costs-of-family-travel-to-exclusive-caribbean-resort?google_editors_picks=true

  20. A pepper spraying in Vancouver:
    http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/trudeau-condemns-vancouver-pepper-spray-attack-on-syrian-refugees-this-is-not-who-we-are
    A shooting in Calgary:
    http://pamelageller.com/2016/01/muslims-open-fire-on-popular-nightclub-in-canada.html/
    Will the Prime Minister be continuing with his “this isn’t who we are” ?
    Or is he still in denial?
    These 2 events seem almost too close together in time to be separated by prime ministerial nuance…

  21. “Europe has barely even seen the start of the migrant influx, Germany’s Development Minister has warned.”
    “Gerd Müller said only 10 per cent of Syrian and Iraqi migrants have reached Europe so far and “eight to ten million are still on the way”, with even more to come from Africa.
    “The biggest movements are ahead: Africa’s population will double in the coming decades,” he told Bild am Sonntag, adding: “In the Sahara up to one million people have died trying to escape.””
    “Mr Müller’s comments echo those of Heinz Buschkowsky, an MP from the Social Democratic Party who predicted the total number of migrants reaching Germany by 2020 would be between five and 10 million.
    “The situation is irreversible,” he added. “The people who are here now, this society is challenged to integrate them and to offer them a perspective on life.”
    He also blasted those who treat the migration debate with empty platitudes such as “refugees welcome”, saying: “This social romanticism, these beautiful speeches, for someone who comes from experience is very difficult to bear.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/10/only-ten-percent-of-migrant-influx-has-reached-us-so-far-says-german-minister/

  22. Liberal Wynnetario.
    AGW Kills Bridges.
    “OPP are advising that the Highway is closed. The highway closure effectively closes travel by road across Canada.”
    …-
    “Nipigon Bridge Heaves – Cold Weather Impact”
    “Update – 19:14EST – Greenstone – The Municipality of Greenstone has declared a State of Emergency due to the closure of the Nipigon Bridge.”
    “THUNDER BAY – DEVELOPING – The Nipigon Bridge has been closed due to cold weather. Reports are that the bridge heaved.
    OPP are advising that the Highway is closed. The highway closure effectively closes travel by road across Canada. The option now is for vehicles headed west or east to detour through the United States. Westbound traffic from Thunder Bay would have to travel south to the Pigeon River Border crossing and then from Duluth to Sault Ste Marie.”
    http://www.netnewsledger.com/2016/01/10/nipigon-bridge-heaves-cold-weather-impact/

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