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  2. Naomi Klein, in this month’s issue of The Progressive, advocating disaster socialism:
    “Do we want to save the pre-crisis system, get it back to where it was last September? Or do we want to use this crisis, and the electoral mandate for change delivered by the last election, to radically transform that system? We need to get clear on our answer now because we haven’t had the potent combination of a serious crisis and a clear progressive democratic mandate for change since the 1930s. We use this opportunity or we lose it.”
    Can somebody point out that Klein is advocating exactly what she had denounced only a few years ago?

  3. I mentioned this a while ago. You can see it here with all the alternative medicine.
    People don’t trust their Doctors like they used to. Hence the big insurance fee’s. The herb remidies. When going to a Dr. can take 10 hours folks look for alternatives.
    Black market, here we come
    By Linda Harvey
    After I received an e-mail from my close friend David Axelrod, I dutifully glanced through the “Reality Check” about Obama’s health care plan, prompting hysterical laughter as I wondered how in the world the Obama camp thinks this will help their case. Of course, I had also just received an e-mail from my Ohio senator, Sherrod Brown, featuring more joking points.
    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107473

  7. we now have Fausta reporting that B. Hussien Obamanation is set to raise the projected 10 year deficit from 7, to 9, count ’em 9! Trillion.
    http://faustasblog.com some good work with that logo of O’s, it looks a bit like spilt blood flowing into the river of deficit.
    nothing else to add to that.
    Naomi Klein? yes, we saw how the 1930’s ended… thanks for your input.

  8. Posted by: tomax7 at August 22, 2009 3:00 AM
    That was a very good article. Thanks for the post.

  9. O’Ramadan: O’s Escape to Islam’s Ramadan.
    …-
    “The Prez Says:
    August, 22, 2009 at 2:59 am
    Allah Akbar suckas.”*
    …-
    “OBAMAS’ VINEYARD ESCAPE(sic)”
    urlm.in/cxuq
    *http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/obamas-ramadan-message/

  10. The liberal-left is personified in a dying Ted Kennedy: Gooseberries*.
    “*What Mr. Kennedy doesn’t volunteer is that he orchestrated the 2004 succession law revision that now requires a special election, and for similarly partisan reasons.”
    …-
    “Ailing Kennedy pens political ‘will’
    Senator Edward Kennedy, who is suffering from terminal brain cancer, has written a poignant letter to leaders in his home state of Massachusetts asking them to change state law so a temporary replacement can be appointed promptly to avoid a legislative vacuum.
    The state law at present prescribes a special election within five months when one of the two Senate posts falls vacant but Mr Kennedy, a keen supporter of President Obama’s healthcare reforms, argues that this is too long.
    In the letter, in which he makes no reference to his health, he writes: “It is vital for this commonwealth [Massachusetts] to have two voices speaking for the needs of its citizens and two votes in the Senate during the approximately five months between a vacancy and an election.”
    While Democrats hold a majority in Congress, the outcome of a healthcare reform bill could hinge on a single vote.”
    urlm.in/cxut
    …-
    *”Gooseberries”
    “In our town there was a merchant who, before he died, ordered a plateful of honey and ate up all his money and lottery tickets with the honey, so that no one might get the benefit of it.”
    Anton Chekhov
    http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/555/
    *urlm.in/cxuu (WSJ)

  13. Yes, “all wee-weed up,” as opposed to the healthy idealism of the anti-capitalist crowd. Here’s Mark Steyn, talking to Hugh Hewitt:
    “Every time there was a World Bank meeting, World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, Seattle, Washington, Quebec, London, Gothenburg, Sweden, Rome, all these anti-globalization activists from the left would fly in and trash the place. They would throw bricks through McDonald’s. They would smash up Starbucks. They would do tons and tons of damage. And all the thoughtful intellectual class, by which I mean, of course, Susan Sarandon and Ben from Ben & Jerry, and Anita Roddick, the late Anita Roddick who owned the body shop which was on the target of these protesters. They threw stuff through Body Shop windows. All these people not only supported this youthful idealism, but actually donated money to help fund these rampages. And now the idea that suddenly that was acceptable, that was just youthful idealism, but someone asking a question of Senator Specter in a loud voice is the return of the mob is completely insane.”
    Verily.

  16. Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon area grossly over-estimated and in fact is decreasing quickly.
    “Gilberto Camara, the director of Brazil’s respected National Institute for Space Research, said the 20 percent tally was based on poor science but that rich countries had no interest in questioning it because the number put more pressure on developing countries to stem greenhouse gases.”
    Another myth down the drain.
    http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN2165866

  17. Rich … I posted on this matter a week ago …. also the land handouts of the Brazilian socialist government.
    Not working so well with over half of the free farms being abandoned and now covered with the first stages of jungle growth.
    Seems that keeping the land clear and producing crops was just too much work for the social welfare recipients.

  18. Quote of the week from a college student in Valdosta Georgia who came up with a t-shirt that says “RIP – the US Constitution” on the front and quote Ronald Regan on the back.
    Her name is Ashleigh Kenny.
    http://buzzdemon.com/2009/08/22/ashleigh-kenny-rip-us-constitution/
    “Perhaps one’s perception of the shirt depends on his or her perception of our Constitution. Personally, I believe it is a fundamental document that was written to insure that the government never became greater than the people. When I look at today’s society, the government’s control seems to increasingly outweigh the people’s. I cannot help but feel that the Constitution has been theoretically buried. This design isn’t meant to point fingers, it’s meant to stir an awareness of what we are losing. It’s about the power of the government increasing, while the power of the people decreases.”

  19. Had a discussion a couple of nights ago with a teacher friend of mine and her leftist husband, one of my best buddies for 40 years which showed exactly the difference in left and right wing people. The discussion was the CUPE settlement in Toronto and I stated that the Teachers were just a union also with the top grid rate of $95K ($94,700).
    Well they just exploded and said I was wrong as the rate couldn’t be that high, it was just a statistic or somehow an average. There was no way as she had retired several years ago that the rate was this high, proposterous, couldn’t be! Even though she is a teacher she had no facts to back up her statements, just the feeling I was wrong. I said its your “profession” yet you don’t even know the salary grid, it was in all the papers, even the Red Star. Said okay I will send you the data, which I did.
    She looked herself and couldn’t find it , probably because it was hidden on the Ontario Ministry of Education website! She berated me for having this hatred for teachers and I am full of anger. So far just silence from her and her husband.

  20. CP article on increased vegetation in the arctic. Note the less-than-subtle ominous undertones of the article.
    CP Link

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