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  2. If only someone could have recorded these “journalists” cheering. Some names would be nice. I’ve been watching Larry King this week because he’s letting the “loyal opposition” speak and comment on the daily events of the DNC. Larry challenges and argues with every invited guest. That’s fine except, anyone that’s watched the Larry King show knows that he NEVER challenges anyone on his show. He’s known as the King of the Softball and has admitted having such a style. It’ll be interesting if he continues this argumentive style next week when the Rep. convention is on and the Dem. supporters are invited on his show. In fact it’ll be interesting to watch during the RNC if the media in general act as excited as this week. I don’t think their tails will be wagging quite like they are now.

  4. Media openly cheerleading during His speech:
    On the way down, let’s hope they hit all the LART branches.

  5. Here’s a tip: Plenty of new, hard-hitting posts up at The Canadian Sentinel; no fluff; just hard stuff, like the latest inconveniently true scary stuff about Obama bin Biden, about the Evil Empire’s test of its new, state-of-the-art, stealth nuclear ICBM and some inconvenient truth from Britain about her own green shift tax grab that strikes fear into Canadians’ wallets when they think of the LIberals’ Greed Shaft.
    http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/
    I’m all revved up again for the upcoming election campaign here in Canada. I enjoyed the last time, when I did what I could to help take down the Librano regime and look forward to kicking the Libranos’ fallen-asleep-cause-always-sitting-down asses this time…

  6. Shocked and awed by President Bush and General Petraeus!
    Will the Canadian MSM/CBC/CTV/GlobeMail, etc., report this good news?
    Rasmussen says: “President Bush isn’t getting any credit from the changing political environment.”
    Yes he is: Long live George W. Bush and General Petraeus! Long live freedom and democracy!
    …-
    Headline:
    >>>>> “Confidence in War on Terror and Iraq at Highest Level Ever”
    “These numbers also reflect an amazing turnaround over the past year.”
    “On a partisan basis, 82% of Republican voters say America is winning the War on Terror, just 34% of Democrats agree.
    Fifty-one percent (51%) of unaffiliated voters say the U.S. and its allies are winning.”
    http://tinyurl.com/6jfmlr (rasmussen)

  7. Atheism Alert.
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    “THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND PELOSI
    The Oregonian ^ | August 28, 2008 | David Reinhard
    A mid the cascade of words pouring out of Denver this week, none may have more long-term punch than the bubbly Mile High musings of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday’s “Meet the Press.” Tom Brokaw had asked about Barack Obama saying that deciding when life begins was “above my pay grade.” Pelosi showcased the Peter Principle in action. It says that people rise to the level of their incompetence. Her answer showed that the principle has nothing to do with Saint Peter.
    “I would say that as an ardent, practicing Catholic, this is an issue that I have studied for a long time. And what I know is, over the centuries, the doctors of the church have not been able to make that definition. . . . We don’t know. . . . And so I don’t think anybody can tell you when life begins, human life begins.”
    How bad was it? Her pontifications left Brokaw as dumbstruck as a host can appear at such times. He noted her church believes life begins at conception. “I understand,” she said. “And this is, like, maybe 50 years or something like that. So again, over the history of the church, this is an issue of controversy. But it is . . . also true that God has given us . . . a free will and a responsibility to answer for our actions.”
    How bad was it? Catholic leaders in Washington, D.C., New York and Denver sternly corrected her valley girl pronouncement. Like, maybe 50 years or something like that . . . free will — yeah, whatever.
    It’s one thing for a politico to bring up the teachings of her church on an issue. Sometimes it’s a risky thing in a nation built on the separation of church and state; sometimes it’s an altogether legitimate thing. But it’s another thing for someone to call herself an ardent, practicing Catholic and then make a holy hash of her church’s teaching on abortion.
    “Ardent, practicing Catholics will quickly learn from the historical record that from apostolic times, the Christian tradition overwhelmingly held that abortion was grievously evil,” Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput stated. “Some of the Early Fathers held that abortion was homicide; others that it was tantamount to homicide; and various scholars theorized about when and how the unborn child might be animated or ‘ensouled.’ But none diminished the unique evil of abortion as an attack on life itself . . . .”
    He continued: “It is always gravely evil, and so are the evasions employed to justify it. Catholics who make excuses for it — whether they’re famous or not — fool only themselves and abuse the fidelity of those Catholics who do sincerely seek to follow the Gospel and live their Catholic faith.””
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070375/posts

  8. And the Pelosi story has what to do with atheism maz2?
    This right wing atheist knew she was full of it when I read about this a few days ago. Just as you are full of yourself.
    You are becoming boringly predictable maz

  9. Atlantic Jim: “And the Pelosi story has what to do with atheism maz2?”
    Well, maybe, AJ, maz2 was making a connection between “an ardent, practicing Catholic” asserting that the Catholic Church’s teaching on abortion is still an “issue of controversy” and that its teaching that life begins at conception “is, like, maybe 50 years [old] or something like that.”
    Does it sound like Pelosi is an ardent, practicing Catholic? Or, are her arguments much more akin to those of a pro-abortion atheist?
    What do you think?

  10. “It’s his baggage as Jean Chrétien’s unity minister”
    Here is the admission from the MSM and Quebecers.
    Socialist-Liberal Citoyen Dion is known as Ad$Cam Dion. Ad$Cam Dion knows Ad$Cam was/is a criminal fraud foisted by Liberal Ad$Cam Chretien-Martin and thugs upon the Treasury of Canada.
    Librano$ Alert.
    …-
    “Quebecers don’t like Dion because he is a centralist
    The Liberal leader must shake that image to make inroads in this province
    JOSEE LEGAULT, The Gazette”
    http://tinyurl.com/5cdm9h

  11. “Hoping for a visit from Liberal leader Bob Rae?
    The BC riding of Nanaimo-Alberni is represented by Conservative MP James Lunney. There is no Liberal candidate yet, and no one has filed papers yet to be the candidate.
    Nevertheless the Liberal riding association president thinks the Liberals can win this riding, but it would help a lot if “leader” Bob Rae would come for a visit.
    Huh?”
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/271850.php
    From first comment (ibid): Barf Alert.
    Halton John said:
    “FUNNY NEWS JUST IN –
    The bloger Sentinel of the blog Repossessinghalton has discovered that Garth Turner is posting as a anti Conservative, barely literate poster, under the name “Milton John”. Caught red handed after leaving his IP address at a couple lotations, Barf Turncoat, is likely red faced today under his raty dirty beard.”

  12. More Barf Alert! It’s Garthwarr, Son of *”Son of Encryption”.
    …-
    “Milton John” & “John Garth Turner”… Twins at Birth or Twins at the Keyboard?
    Snip from comments:
    “So, when I see a milton john post like this:
    “I was a card carrying member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Perhaps foolishly, I ended up being a member of the Non-Progressive Conservative Party. I have never had an investment in an Income Trust. Good thing too, because I trusted Harper and faithfully voted for him.
    I have never voted Liberal. I have a little ways to go, before I become a senior.
    I am a vote that Harper has lost.” – milton john, 8:39PM Aug 26 2008″
    http://repossessinghalton.blogspot.com/
    …-
    *small dead animals: Jadewarr, Son Of Encryption
    27 Mar 2008 … Only they could plausably access the Jadewarr account, and then use her net connection. I further opine that the person, or scum bag, …
    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/008356.html

  13. Scathing satire of Democratic boilerplate speeches — from the New York Times (registration required):
    (Via Contentions) David Brooks, A Speech to the Delegates
    My fellow Americans, it is an honor to address the Democratic National Convention at this defining moment in history. We stand at a crossroads at a pivot point, near a fork in the road on the edge of a precipice in the midst of the most consequential election since last year’s “American Idol.”
    One path before us leads to the past, and the extinction of the human race. The other path leads to the future, when we will all be dead. We must choose wisely…

  14. One path before us leads to the past, and the extinction of the human race. The other path leads to the future, when we will all be dead. We must choose wisely…
    CD – LMAOROF

  16. Are these Russians showing themselves as they truly are – or what?
    First they test fire a ‘stealth’ intercontinental ballistic missile and then (according to an article in today’s Telegraph) they may be threatening to cut off oil to Poland and Germany (apparently they have done this several times already to Poland and the Baltic countries for perceived slights).
    In 2006, China claimed to have successfully fired a similar ‘stealth’ missile and this year Iran has claimed to have successfully fired a ‘stealth’ missile.
    We know that the US has been diddling around with ‘stealth’ missiles since 1991. Something tells me that the US can see so-called ‘stealth’ weapons.
    The other news is that Poland and Sweden have formally proposed an Eastern Partnership consisting of the Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan to accelerate their ability for entry into the EU. This will help them grow economically faster – which means that they are less vulnerable to the Russians and can move away from Russia due to their own growing wealth. I would not be surprised to see a separate Eastern Partnership on military cooperation. Together Eastern Europe has a bigger population than Russia and can probably stand up to Russia.
    http://euobserver.com/9/26211/?rk=1

  17. (Via ConservativeHome) Chris Rea among high-profile donors to Conservative Party
    Rea, whose hits include The Road to Hell and Driving Home for Christmas, has given the Conservatives £25,000…
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/2639731/Chris-Rea-among-high-profile-donors-to-Conservative-Party.html
    There’s a rumour I’m starting that the Stelmach Conservatives will be using this Chris Rea classic as their next campaign theme. Got to love a Spaghetti Western rock video.

  18. …where’s Global Warming when you need it?
    Frost warning for Calgary. This is AUGUST, or did I miss a couple of months somewhere?

  19. Caroline Glick, When history is not repeated
    Yet the nature of Russia’s regime which propelled its decision to launch its war in Georgia raises doubts about the viability of reaching an equilibrium of hostility with the West comparable to that which existed during the Cold War. It is true that similarities between Russia’s current behavior and that of the Soviet Union before it abound. As was the case with the Soviet Union, it is fairly clear that Russia’s current regime has expansionist aspirations far beyond its immediate borders. Moscow’s threat to attack Poland with nuclear bombs, its aggressive naval deployment in the Mediterranean Sea, its hosting of Syrian President Bashar Assad and its renewed talk of supplying Syria and Iran with advanced weapons systems all make its Soviet-like expansionist aims clear…

  21. What does everybody think of Sarah Palin? Looks like she is being considered for the Republican VP slot.

  22. (Via Comment Central) Philip Stephens, Putin maps the boundaries of greater Russia
    Surely we can see now what a provocation it was to allow the former vassal states of the Soviet empire to exercise their democratic choice to join the community of nations? And what of permitting them to shelter under Nato’s security umbrella and to seek prosperity for their peoples in the European Union? Nothing, surely, could have been more calculated to squander the post-cold-war peace.
    Such is the cracked record played over and over again by the Russian prime minister and recited now by Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s notional president. Sadly, it also finds echoes among those in Europe who prefer appeasing Mr Putin to upholding the freedoms of their neighbours.
    This Russian claim to victimhood is as vacuous as it is dishonest…

  23. Charles,
    As far as I can tell, this link to the story doesn’t require registration:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/opinion/29brooks.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
    I was just about to post it myself before I realized you beat me to it.
    It’s soooo good I can’t believe it’s in the NYT!
    Best line by far:
    “It’s about the future, and Barack Obama loves the future because that’s where all his accomplishments are.”

  24. In case you were pondering this eternal question:
    Mark Henderson, The perfect way to swat a fly: stay one jump ahead
    The right approach is to aim not at the insects themselves because they are extraordinarily good at anticipating where exactly your blow will land. “It is best to aim a bit forward of the fly’s starting position, to anticipate where it is going to jump when it first sees your swatter,” said Michael Dickinson, of the California Institute of Technology, who led the study…

  25. Having read extensively about Canada’s Human Rights Commissions and their threat to free speech on this site and many others, as well as in the mainstream media when articles appear there, I had been encouraged by the absence of references to my home province of Manitoba. I was hopefully thinking that maybe the MHRC was actually sticking to the knitting of workplace and housing discrimination cases.
    Not so, as this article in the Post describes: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=755930
    This case in Manitoba appears to be one of the more egregious in terms of being both frivolous and involving fairly extreme abuse of due process. The complaint is part of the by now familiar offended Islamic sensibility, but the respondent is more unusual; it is B’nai Brith.
    If one reads the article to the end, one will see Ezra Levant’s comment: “What goes around, comes around,” referring to the fact that B’nai Brith has, in the past, been an outspoken defender of HRC mandates and even of their questionable processes. Even so, surely B’nai Brith is entitled to due process and a speedier resolution of this case than the four and a half years (and still counting) since the original complaint.

  26. Maz2: You report that there is no Liberal candidate as yet in Nanaimo-Alberni? That makes it easier for me. I live in that riding. I am Conservative and before that I was Alliance and before that I was Reform and before that I was PC.
    I remain a Conservative and I support PM Harper but I’ll be damned if I will vote for Lunney who completely ignores his constituents until someone whispers the word “election” and, presto!, the mailbox is full of Lunney literature.
    For the first time in as long as I can remember I will not be voting in the next election for obvious reasons.

  27. Warwick: “It’s soooo good I can’t believe it’s in the NYT!”
    It’s looking bleak for Obama when even the NYT heaps scorn on his faithful. That’s the problem with being Obamessiah: you can get crucified at the end of your mission. Guess he didn’t parse the job description.

  28. Carter is the biggest a-hole the world has ever seen:
    Carter: McCain ‘milking’ POW time
    Former president Jimmy Carter called Republican presidential candidate John McCain a “distinguished naval officer,” but he said the Arizona senator has been “milking every possible drop of advantage” from his time served as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-08-28-carter-denver_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip
    Can’t the worthless creep just hurry up and die already??!!

  32. OK, Garth. Try chicken broth with 2 ASAs; it’s good for neuralgia.
    “For the first time in as long as I can remember I will not be voting in the next election for obvious reasons.
    Posted by: BCer at August 29, 2008 11:39 AM”

  34. “NBC News: Will Portland, Maine soon be without a paper?
    Brian Williams says “there are real concerns the Portland Press Herald might not be around much longer … another victim of the web and our changing times.” Watch Janet Shamlian’s report. || Earlier: Press Herald publisher says closing of paper not likely”
    …-
    More: Steve Jobs’ obit published?
    “Bloomberg: No firings over Steve Jobs obit snafu
    New York Post
    Bloomberg News editor-in-chief Matt Winkler is infamous for his impatience with gaffes, but his spokeswoman tells Kaja Whitehouse that reports that heads would roll over the publication of Steve Jobs’ obit are “nonsense.””
    Link goes to this: Steve Jobs’s obituary.
    “Oops!: Bloomberg accidentally runs Apple CEO’s obit
    Steve Jobs’ obit crossed the Bloomberg wire late Wednesday afternoon, then suddenly disappeared. “The obituary contains nothing to indicate Bloomberg has new information on Jobs’s health, at least in our quick skim,” writes Ryan Tate, who posts the obit”
    http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45
    (Beware of the green blinking banner.)

  36. I just came up with a game show idea for APTN.
    Instead of Canadian Idol it would be called Native Idle.
    you actually dont have to do anything to get on the show.

  37. I missed today’s VP announcement because of being employed,work does get in the way.Can anyone tell me if it compared to CTV’s one hour special when Obama chose Biden?

  38. Firstly, the good news:
    “Canada squeaks past recession as GDP rebounds
    Updated Fri. Aug. 29 2008 2:59 PM ET
    The Canadian Press”
    …-
    Secondly, the bad news:
    Pause for Buzz. Buzz is jobless. Say Amen, Brother Citoyen Dion.
    Buzz has been “staying in hotels for 30 years”.
    Tha’s a lot of scotch (hic). Who has paid Buzz’s expenses for 30 years?
    His union brothers and sisters, of course.
    Some free advice Buzz: try the JackAss Party.
    CAW … CAW… CAW …
    …-
    “Hargrove spurns Liberal advance
    High-profile union chief Buzz Hargrove says he won’t run for the Liberals in a looming federal election, despite overtures from party officials including Leader Stéphane Dion.
    Hargrove, who is retiring as president of the Canadian Auto Workers union next month after 16 years, confirmed yesterday he has decided not to accept a Liberal invitation to run in one of three “winnable” Ontario ridings – including two in Toronto.
    “I’ve been on the road, flying around the country and staying in hotels for 30 years,” Hargrove said in an interview.
    “I didn’t want to spend months of my life in Ottawa while my wife was in Toronto.””
    http://jacksnewswatch.com/2008/08/29/hargrove-spurns-liberal-advance/

  40. Dead Parrot :
    Thank you for this invaluable link
    Excellent example of the modes in which totalitarians who can just attack the persons not the ideas is ably represented. I would encourage all here to take 2 hours to listen to this just for learning purposes.
    Not to say the least about the information on Obama.
    http://wgnradio.com/index.php?op…4075& Itemid=467

  41. It’s a wrap.
    …-
    “American idle”
    [From comments]
    “fedya:
    Excuse me for indulging my lingering taste for conspiracy-theory, but isn’t this interesting?
    It seems to me that birthday-man Senator McCain has accomplished some rather momentous things today (conspiracy theory follows):
    1) He has not only redefined “feminism” in our country, he has hijacked the mainstream for the Republican ticket;
    2) He has anchored his administration to an aggressively anti-pork and anti-corruption stance, something only half-believable until now, by signing up the [Alaskan Republican] who toppled the worst porkers: Bridge to Nowhere Alaskan Republicans.
    3) He has put service — grass-roots and public service — at the heart of his message about America. This is going to reinvigorate grass roots community life and will no doubt energize the Repubican turnout, as a consequence.
    4) He has secured the high ground in the fossil fuel debate by signing up the single most aggressive promoter of continental gas production and pipelines, Governor Sarah Palin.
    Why, this is the BIG SHOW. Who needs next week’s convention? Right? Now for the conspiracy fun.
    McCain has this week seriously disrupted the Dem’s Big Show, just by being a class act, too. Ergo, the Dem’s will plan payback. Today, too, we have received gobs of gooey neo-Czarist grumbling that McCain is bout to “get his” comeuppance at or after the convention. Oooh… Russkie black ops… AND Obamanian ops of no discernible hue…shudder…
    NOT! Sorry guys, John McCain, aviator, may have learned a little something from John Boyd, another aviator. Certainly the good Senator seems to have gotten into Obama’s OODA loop so far he’s toying with him. [see Wikipedia on “OODA Loop”]
    Personally, I feel much better about many things today.”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2008/08/28/american-idle/#comments

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