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  4. What does that matter? The federal government has deployed the federal police force and the army to the border to help illegal immigrants to enter this country illegally. Breaking Canada’s law is the policy of Canada’s government.

  7. Jimmy Webb, composer of those great Glen Campbell songs:
    Wichita Lineman:.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X2TXwREYOY
    Galveston
    The first 60 seconds is a very evocative open tuning intro: stay the course, it’s an amazing performance off his 1972 album Letters.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_YK_L_Fr4Q

    Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb (on piano).
    Glen sings it sorta 1/2 way between Jimmy’s version and his own hit version.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YW5EvReWJF0

  8. Please release my post with links to Jimmy Webb’s own performances of Glen Campbell songs.
    Took quite a while to put it together

  9. On rare occasions when I have something held, knowing that no matter how innocuous it is I’m never going to see it again, I reword it and resubmit.

  10. Thanks Creepy Clown 2.0.
    I had a sense that may have been the problem.
    Here’s composer Jimmy Webb’s version of Galveston.
    The first 60 seconds is a very evocative open tuning intro: stay the course, it’s an amazing performance off his1972 album Letters.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_YK_L_Fr4Q

  12. AGW RIP.
    …-
    “Five facts about the newly-leaked U.S. climate change report”
    “As of Tuesday, August 8, however, the New York Times released the Climate Science Special Report’s 5th order draft. According to NYT reporter Brad Plumer, this version has not been made public before now, and is the version currently at the White House for review. This is the true leaked report.” (weathernet)
    …-
    “Expert Software Engineer Calls Level Of Fraud In Leaked US Gov Climate Report “Sickening””
    “Software engineering expert Tony Heller has put out a video blasting recent claims made in report by U.S. government officials.
    In the video below Heller, who also operates the influential Real Climate Science site here, says that there is an “extremely high probability of fraud by government climate scientists” regarding the recently leaked report by scientists from 13 U.S. government agencies. Heller in fact says:
    The level of fraud in this report is really quite
    sickening.””
    http://notrickszone.com/#sthash.JX7yitPX.dpbs

  14. Actually, that is useful info. I have had things disappear on occasion and have been puzzled about the reason. Thanks.

  15. Im still waiting for a sidebar or SUMPTIN indicating the criteria that gets a post shunted into never-never land.
    until then I edit and edit until the ‘offending’ content is excluded and voila!!
    p.s., sometimes I do a ‘copy’ on the post *before* posting sose I don’t have to recollect and retype.
    also, long delays with the spinning arrow, those I just ‘pause’ and then ‘continue’. oftentimes that’s enough to shove it onto the blog WITHOUT completely reposting from scratch.

  18. AGW RIP.
    h/t Our Enemy, the State.
    “The fake industries all have the same angel investors — governments — and the same promoter touting their wares — again governments.”
    …-
    “Lawrence Solomon: How Tesla’s Elon Musk became the master of fake business
    Musk’s genius is primarily in the subsidy-seeking realm. By 2015, U.S. governments alone had given his companies US$5 billion through direct grants, tax breaks, cut-rate loans, tax credits and rebates”
    http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/lawrence-solomon-how-teslas-elon-musk-became-the-master-of-fake-business/wcm/12e8fd62-b49d-40d1-90e4-03105e49a514

  19. http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/derek-fildebrandt-airbnb-1.4242395
    Alberta UCP MLA shoots self in foot.
    I expect more intelligence from an elected government representative than to do something so stupid and borderline unethical,knowing very well that they will be found out and the MSM will use it as ammunition against conservatives for months.
    This guy must be as dumb as Mike Duffy.
    Where,oh where, are these “best and brightest” we are always assured run for political Office in Canada?

  21. Mike Duffy isn’t dumb. Senate rules were very lax. He was never convicted of anything. He did exactly what was expected of a Senator, but the media (specifically Glen McGregor who was mad about Duffy suing Frank magazine) started a witch hunt against Duffy. The media picked it up because they saw it as a way to bring down Harper. I would love to know who paid Duffy’s lawyer for that trial that was happening during the election. It was being deliberately drawn out to hurt Conservatives. I suspect it was Soros money from somewhere. There seems to have been a lot of foreign money spent during the election (a report has been issued on this), but the media is more or less ignoring it.
    Now, we seem to have a new Duffy — at least that is my contention about the role that Justin Trudeau seems to have taken on. He is essentially the PR guy for the Liberals. He gallivants around the country drumming up support for the Liberal Party. Exactly the same as Duffy on the Conservative side. What is particularly egregious, however, is that Justin is supposed to be running the country. Harper did not have time for this kind of thing because he was actually running the country. Previously, that sort of building of party support in communities was an important part of a Senator’s job. Now, of course, with the new process for appointing Senator’s their role is to monitor, and if necessary obstruct the government based on personal whim. Crazy times.

  23. Duffy IS sharp as a sack of hammers,and a selfish asshole in my estimation. There’s a good reason Mulroney and Chretien turned him down when he hinted to them that he wanted a Senate seat;they were better judges of character than Our Stephen.
    He lived most of his life in the political world of Ottawa,knew the ropes inside and out, and managed to sucker Harper into appointing him to the Senate.
    He knew damned well that claiming an expense allowance for housing in a town he’d lived in for 25 years, was at best unethical and could do great harm to the CPC once he was found out.He didn’t give a damn, thought he was one of the elite who thinks laws and rules are made for little people not stars like him.
    Duffy was wealthy enough he could have foregone the housing allowance,but his greed and blatant disregard for what is RIGHT overrode his judgement,putting Harper in a situation he didn’t deserve.
    Duffy probably cost the CPC the election. Wtf is wrong with these people that they are SO greedy,making a six figure income AND expenses,that they will try to squeeze every last nickel out of the taxpayer? Do they not have any sense of what we used to call common decency?
    Stephen Harper was a poor judge of people,made enough bad appointments to sink his ship.As Kate McMillan once said,Harper could have appointed HER to the Senate and she wouldn’t have screwed around with expense accounts,but Stephen chose a “Star” from the media elite,and look what it cost us ordinary Canadians,NOT Harper or Duffy
    We can blame Soros,the media,the Liberals,the Left,the Druids, but OUR guys f***ed up BIG TIME and though THEY won’t suffer the consequences, left us Little People stuck with the consequences of their stupidity and/or greed.
    I don’t have much use for anyone of any political persuasion who is so self enamoured that he will jeopardize the integrity of the Party that made him what he is.
    Intelligence wise,I put Duffy up with Kaepernick, too blind to see he has it made, too narcissistic to care about the consequences of his actions.

  24. Ah, the numbers stations! They’re old friends to me. During the mid-1980s, I was an active shortwave listener and I often came across those signals out of the allocated broadcast bands.
    There was a great deal of speculation as to their source and their purpose. The numbers were believed to be a code as they were given out in regular groups. Because they could be in either English or Spanish, the belief was that they were used to send instructions to Cuban agents.
    By the early 1990s, I hadn’t heard much about them, though, it seems, they’ve shown up a bit more frequently in recent years.

  25. One problem with the whole Duffy scenario is that he was in fact maintaining two residences — and doing renovations in PEI to make his cottage habitable all year long as well as renting a place in the winter there. In my view, he was as entitled as the rest of the Senators to be paid for maintaining two residences and the Senate rules on this were quite lax. If claiming for PEI was inappropriate, the Senate finance people should have nipped it in the bud.
    I don’t know Mr. Duffy, and he seems to have made a lot of enemies, but many other people found him quite sociable and agreeable. The business of Harper “not being a good judge of character” is nothing but pundits making up a talking point after things turn sour. The suggestion was that Pamela Wallin was also deemed to be a poor choice — and she was an excellent choice until the media went witch hunting. Once again, the problem was not these individuals, but the very lax Senate rules and the media/opposition choosing to exploit the issue when they did. No one is perfect, but Harper’s Senate choices were as appropriate as those of Chretien and Mulroney’s choices. Those choices just did not get the same hyper scrutiny.
    PS — Perhaps Kate should apply for one of those “nominate yourself” Senate seats that Trudeau has on offer.

  26. Well done & Thank you Mr. Runciman.
    …-
    “Thanks Mr. Runciman for a job well done!”
    “Seven years ago, on January 29, 2010, when former PM Stephen Harper appointed Runciman as a Senator, many remembered his excellent record in provincial government and cheered that appointment. We hoped, of course, that his appointment and many others like his, would result in an elected Senate — which of course we now know will never become a reality given the way the Trudeau Liberals are running the show.
    The crux of the matter is that Bob Runciman is a statesman of high regard and I wish him well in retirement.”
    https://cotmblog.com/2017/08/10/thanks-mr-runciman-for-a-job-well-done/

  27. Yes, Musk has done a grand job exploiting “free” money from governments up until now, making his company worth a ridiculous amount of value, despite having NEVER made a profit. What does that say about professional investors?
    The rubber hits the proverbial road by end of the year for Tesla, when they are supposed to ramp up production from 1000 cars per month to 20,000.
    Maybe he can walk on water by then too

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