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  1. Ann Coulter:
    “The need for a union comes down to this question: Do you have a boss who wants you to work harder for less money? In the private sector, the answer is yes. In the public sector, the answer is a big, fat NO.
    “Government unions have nothing in common with private sector unions because they don’t have hostile management on the other side of the bargaining table. To the contrary, the “bosses” of government employees are co-conspirators with them in bilking the taxpayers.
    “Far from being careful stewards of the taxpayers’ money, politicians are on the same side of the bargaining table as government employees — against the taxpayers, who aren’t allowed to be part of the negotiation. This is why the head of New York’s largest public union in the mid-’70s, Victor Gotbaum, gloated, ‘We have the ability to elect our own boss.'”
    The whole thing here.

  2. I think this qualifies under Kate’s banner of:
    “The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire”
    US farmers fear the return of the Dust Bowl
    For years the Ogallala Aquifer, the world’s largest underground body of fresh water, has irrigated thousands of square miles of American farmland. Now it is running dry
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/8359076/US-farmers-fear-the-return-of-the-Dust-Bowl.html
    As well in a different direction but stitched with the same thread. Way to go lefties, you backed the killing horse as usual. Zimbabwe is so much better today after socialism. You destroyed another Nation while creating a menace.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/8364666/Zimbabwe-to-sell-uranium-to-Iran.html

  5. I recall that place very well. That’s the gate to Dallas International Airport. Not a good place to take the wrong lane!

  6. Frank at IMAO suggests a few slogans for the Chevy Volt:
    “If you have friends push it around while making vroom vroom noises, it’s a lot like driving a car.”
    “Why pollute around you with exhaust when you can pollute far away with coal?”
    More here.

  7. Revant: the ogallalla has been running dry for about sixty or seventy years now. It is a non-replenishing aquifer of enormous size. It is not an agricultural disaster as it has been a known issue for about as long as it a has been discovered. it was good while it lasted. Growers will now have to adapt.

  8. AccuWeather.com Spring 2011 Forecast for Canada
    According to AccuWeather.com Agricultural Meteorologist Dale Mohler, the colder- and wetter-than-normal conditions predicted for the Canadian Prairies will likely cause the spring planting season to get off to a slow start, especially in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
    Mohler explained that the same thing happened in the Prairies last year with a cold, wet spring that continued into summer. “There were pretty big losses there last year,” he said.
    The situation this year may improve sooner than last year, Mohler said, but there will still be impacts.
    Cold weather will allow snow to stay on the ground longer and inhibit the soil from reaching temperatures suitable for planting. Wet soil will also prevent farmers from getting into the fields.
    Despite a slow start, Mohler said that the above-normal precipitation may be beneficial to crops on the Prairies in the long run.
    http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/46559/accuweathercom-spring-2011-for.asp

  9. I have $10 that says she stood still on the escalator in the airport before doing this.

  11. Sorry, headline reads:
    Ottawa rumour mill in overdrive about plan to take down the Tories
    opening sentence
    Pulling the trigger is not as easy as it sounds.
    Moving on from the endless and unresolved speculation over “if” the opposition will defeat the government, Parliament Hill is now abuzz over “how.”
    It’s alomost subliminal. Don’t it make you want to run out and grab a gun and…..pull the trigger and take down the tories…
    I haven’t been this traumatized since the Catmeat Kinsella event. I haven’t eaten Won Ton soup since, the won tons look like they have cat brains inside them.

  12. Good point, EBD at 10:02.
    I might disagree about working harder though, as I prefer to work smarter (even though the term has become a cliche).
    We’re getting to the stage where “expert systems” (software) monitored by “experts” can replace many white-collar jobs in legitimate industry and also government.

  14. Mistah JFK, he dead leftist.
    …-
    ““Of course I worry about America,” he says. “The whole world depends on America ultimately, particularly Britain. And also, I love America—a marvelous country. But in a sense I don’t worry about America because I think America has such huge strengths—particularly its freedom of thought and expression—that it’s going to survive as a top nation for the foreseeable future. And therefore take care of the world.””
    “Carney: Why America Will Stay on Top
    Eminent historian Paul Johnson on Sarah Palin, the tea party, and ‘baddies’ from Napoleon to Gadhafi.
    In his best-selling history of the 20th century, “Modern Times,” British historian Paul Johnson describes “a significant turning-point in American history: the first time the Great Republic, the richest nation on earth, came up against the limits of its financial resources.” Until the 1960s, he writes in a chapter titled “America’s Suicide Attempt,” “public finance was run in all essentials on conventional lines”—that is to say, with budgets more or less in balance outside of exceptional circumstances.
    “The big change in principle came under Kennedy,” Mr. Johnson writes. “In the autumn of 1962 the Administration committed itself to a new and radical principle of creating budgetary deficits even when there was no economic emergency.” Removing this constraint on government spending allowed Kennedy to introduce “a new concept of ‘big government’: the ‘problem-eliminator.’ Every area of human misery could be classified as a ‘problem’; then the Federal government could be armed to ‘eliminate’ it.”
    Twenty-eight years after “Modern Times” first appeared, Mr. Johnson is perhaps the most eminent living British historian, and big government as problem-eliminator is back with a vengeance—along with trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see. I visited the 82-year-old Mr. Johnson in his West London home this week to ask him whether America has once again set off down the path to self-destruction. Is he worried about America’s future?
    “Of course I worry about America,” he says. “The whole world depends on America ultimately, particularly Britain. And also, I love America—a marvelous country. But in a sense I don’t worry about America because I think America has such huge strengths—particularly its freedom of thought and expression—that it’s going to survive as a top nation for the foreseeable future. And therefore take care of the world.”
    [More]”
    http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/

  15. Beware the leftist Jubjub birds*.
    The real scandal is on the left of Mr. Speaker.
    The real scandal is the Itchy&Scratchy Show between the leftist Pussy-Wussy Cats, namely TommyNDP and ScottyLiberal. The result? The Cat Scratch Itch.
    The cure/remedy? An election resulting in a Conservative majority government.
    Pussy:
    “Mr. Brison, the Liberal finance critic, said he would not comment on “hyperactive” speculation taking place on the Hill.
    “The rumour mill is on overdrive on this,” he said. “We’re waiting for the Speaker’s ruling. We’ll determine then what steps are appropriate after that.”
    Wussy:
    “NDP finance critic Tom Mulcair said the Liberals are “all bluster” when it comes to wanting an election.
    “We won’t back down,” he said. “But I’m not going to tell you in advance what I’m going to say about something that I haven’t seen yet. That’s just not the way it works.””
    Meanwhile, where is MIA Iggy? We know where TalJack is.
    …-
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-rumour-mill-in-overdrive-about-plan-to-take-down-the-tories/article1933251/
    “*Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
    The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
    Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
    The frumious Bandersnatch!”
    http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html

  17. Neo-AGW Progress Report: The 3 Sisters.
    Red-Green Hope and Schadenfreude.
    “The event, one local wag noted, had the air of a religious revival.”
    Faith? Indeed. Charity? Nope.
    Say Amen, Tommy.
    Amen Tommy.
    …-
    “Epstein: Portland Going Nowhere
    Last October, Portland, Oregon, played host to an event immodestly called “Rail-Volution.” Portland is widely touted as a public transportation mecca and model “green” city, and more than a thousand public transport enthusiasts descended on this burg of about 580,000 to gush and gawk at the sights. When they weren’t riding demo trips on the light rail, they attended seminars with names like “Bikeways and Green Streets,” “High-Speed-Rail and Development Paradigm Shifts,” and “Sustainable Communities for the New Economy.” Portland’s mayor presided over one of the seminars, and Earl Blumenauer, the left-wing congressman who represents Portland’s east side, was a featured speaker. The event, one local wag noted, had the air of a religious revival.
    Yet even the most zealous Jacobins of the Rail-Volution would have been hard-pressed to ignore the protest that occurred just outside its doors as the seminars were under way. More than 200 employees of TriMet, Portland’s public transit agency, picketed the event, protesting proposed changes to their health care plan.
    Like many public transport agencies nationwide, TriMet is in a deep financial hole. For its current fiscal year, TriMet is facing a $27 million deficit, and there is no relief in sight. As the rail-volutionaries celebrated in the face of financial catastrophe, it was hard not to think of an old story about fires and fiddles.
    [More]”
    http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
    …-
    Speaking of Hope….. Stormy Weather vs Ralph.
    “Hope Swinimer, who has cared for the wayward pelican since he blew into Dartmouth last fall, said from the road on Monday morning that they were behind schedule due to stormy weather but approaching Bangor, Maine.
    “It’s been slow going,” said Swinimer, founder of the Hope for Wildlife Society in Seaforth. “The storm is pretty bad.”
    BTW, AGWPR says, We hope all goes well with JackNDP.
    …-
    “Storm slows pelican express”
    “Ralph, entourage clear U.S. customs despite out-of-date document”
    http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1231943.html

  19. IT’S OFFICIAL: THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA IS CERTIFIABLY CRAZY
    Charles Lewis at the National Post, March 8, 2011:
    “Good hosts [great pun!]: Anglicans mull communion for all
    “Canadian Anglicans will hold discussions this spring about whether baptism is necessary for taking part in communion – questioning a requirement of Christianity that has existed for 2,000 years.
    “‘Official teaching is you have to be baptized first. But a number of clergy across the country feel strongly about this as an issue and many have approached their bishops about allowing for an ‘open table’ in which all could take communion,’ said Archdeacon Paul Feheley, who is the principal secretary to Archbishop Fred Hiltz, head of the Anglican Church of Canada. . . .
    “Rev. Gary Nicolosi said that if Jesus did not discriminate about who he invited to his table, then the Church should follow his lead.
    “‘How, in our multicultural and pluralistic society, can our churches be places of hospitality if we exclude table fellowship with the non-baptized? This is not an academic question,’ wrote Rev. Nicolosi, the pastor at St. James Westminster Anglican Church in London, Ont., and an official Church consultant on how to build membership.
    “‘How can the church effectively minister in a post-Christian world where a significant percentage of the population is not baptized? Some Anglican churches are attempting to meet this challenge by becoming open and inclusive faith communities, ready and willing to support people in their spiritual journeys.’ . . .
    “Many who come to church do not feel welcome because they are not able to fully participate’, he said. It is akin, he added, to inviting someone for Sunday dinner and not feeding them a meal. . . .
    “Rev. Ephraim Radner, professor of historical theology at Wycliffe College, an Anglican seminary in Toronto, rejects the idea that changing 2,000 years of tradition will make the Anglican Church stronger.
    “‘The Eucharist isn’t a welcoming exercise,’ he said. ‘It is about Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. It’s not a meal like any other meal.’ . . .”
    “Rev. Murray Henderson, an Anglican minister in Toronto, said these kinds of overtures represent ‘a failure of nerve’ to put the faith first.
    “He said it is true that Jesus welcomed everyone to his table but since Christ’s death and resurrection that welcome now comes in the form of following Jesus through baptism.
    “‘We need to have the courage to convert people to Christ, to have some discipline, and then we can invite people to the communion table. It’s not about a lack of hospitality, but asking people to first make a commitment to Jesus.’”
    Read all of it @
    http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/Good+hosts+Anglicans+mull+communion/4399817/story.html
    Apparently, Gary Nicolosi’s a trained lawyer—and, apparently, an idiot, to boot. He’s definitely a hypocrite as well. Inclusion? Nicolosi: “Some Anglican churches are attempting to meet this challenge [of welcoming one and all] by becoming open and inclusive faith communities, ready and willing to support people in their spiritual journeys.”
    The Anglican Church of Canada, open and inclusive? He’s got to be kidding! I left the Anglican Church many years ago because of the kind of arrogance and exclusion he and his ilk have practised for decades, as they’ve secularized, feminized, and sexualized the Church: “Observant Christians Not Welcome” has been the Anglican Church’s unspoken, but official, policy for decades. I left because, as an orthodox Christian, I most definitely was NOT welcome.
    The Reverend Nicolosi is altogether deluded if i) he thinks his brand of Anglicanism is open and inclusive, and ii) if he thinks that the further dumbing down of the faith is going to bring more people to church. Perhaps he and his buddies might actually try preaching the Gospel.

  20. If the queue jumper at DFW was driving a Toyota then he might have an out, provided he has a good lawyer of course.

  21. P.S. The Rev. Nicolosi: “How, in our multicultural and pluralistic society, can our churches be places of hospitality if we exclude table fellowship with the non-baptized?”
    What tripe! Churches welcome all kinds of people all the time–for meals and even to sleep over: check out Christian “Out of the Cold/Heat” programs, open to one and all.
    The Anglican secularists dissemble all the time.
    Kyrie eleison.

  22. James O’Keefe’s at it again! Check this out at The Daily Caller:
    “NPR executives caught on tape bashing conservatives and Tea Party, touting liberals
    “A man who appears to be a National Public Radio senior executive, Ron Schiller [not related to Vivian Schiller], has been captured on camera savaging conservatives and the Tea Party movement.
    “‘The current Republican Party, particularly the Tea Party, is fanatically involved in people’s personal lives and very fundamental Christian – I wouldn’t even call it Christian. It’s this weird evangelical kind of move,’ declared Schiller, the head of NPR’s nonprofit foundation, who last week announced his departure for the Aspen Institute.
    “In a new video released Tuesday morning by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, Schiller and Betsy Liley, NPR’s director of institutional giving, are seen meeting with two men who, unbeknownst to the NPR executives, are posing as members of a Muslim Brotherhood front group. The men, who identified themselves as Ibrahim Kasaam and Amir Malik from the fictitious Muslim Education Action Center (MEAC) Trust, met with Schiller and Liley at Café Milano, a well-known Georgetown restaurant, and explained their desire to give up to $5 million to NPR because, ‘the Zionist coverage is quite substantial elsewhere.’
    “On the tapes, Schiller wastes little time before attacking conservatives. The Republican Party, Schiller says, has been ‘hijacked by this group.’ The man posing as Malik finishes the sentence by adding, ‘the radical, racist, Islamaphobic, Tea Party people.’ Schiller agrees and intensifies the criticism, saying that the Tea Party people aren’t ‘just Islamaphobic, but really xenophobic, I mean basically they are, they believe in sort of white, middle-America gun-toting. I mean, it’s scary. They’re seriously racist, racist people.’”
    Read more and see the video: http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/08/npr-executives-caught-on-tape-bashing-conservatives-and-tea-party-touting-liberals/#ixzz1G1ZbP2w9

  23. O’key man dumps O’promise.
    O’s sole legacy: “This is his sole* legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
    …-
    “Independent | Obama abandons key pledge by restarting Guantanamo trials
    Any last vestiges of doubt that President Barack Obama had abandoned entirely on his election pledge to close down Guantanamo Bay evaporated last night as he gave the green light for military trials there to resume and laid down the rules for holding some of the detainees inside the camp indefinitely.”
    “Human rights groups voiced disappointment. “The Obama administration has chosen to institutionalise unlawful, indefinite detentions and to revive illegitimate military commissions, which will do nothing to remove the stain on America’s reputation that Guantanamo represents,” Hina Shamsi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project, told Reuters news agency.”
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obama-abandons-key-pledge-by-restarting-guantanamo-trials-2235338.html
    *O’s sole legacy:
    “This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
    http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

  25. I notice a trend here at SDA of the regulars speaking in an oblique manner.
    whatever could that mean?
    must be something in the water out there in the prairies……
    my money is on charlie sheen going *back* into rehab and then getting another hit tv series. it’s the american way !!!

  26. What will HRC find under the Liberal Rock*?
    …-
    “Resident Doctors File Human Rights Complaint”
    Three resident doctors have filed complaints with the Human Rights Tribunal against the University of Ottawa and several officials.
    A media release announcing the complaint alleges “discrimination, reprisal and intimation” as the basis of evidence filed with the Tribunal.
    The medical doctors say evidence for reprisal and targeting is unambiguous in the form of emails between Ottawa Hospital executives, including emails leaked by an “inside source and sent to hundreds of faculty and residents.”
    Dr. Waleed AlGhaithy, Dr. Khalid Aba-Alkhail and Dr. Manal Al-Saigh will hold a media conference on Wednesday.”
    http://www.cfra.com/?cat=1&nid=78343
    …-
    *Liberal Rock:
    “U of O Pres Alan Rock OK’ed Coulter warning letter”
    “Ex-Liberal cabinet minister and current University of Ottawa president Alan Rock has finally come out of hiding and now admits he knew and condoned the warning letter sent to Ann Coulter by vice-president of academic affairs, François Houle. (see threat here)
    In an interview with the Ottawa Citizen, Rock said:
    “It was sent on behalf of the administration with my knowledge, so I share responsibility”
    and that he knew little about Coulter but:
    “when I found out she was coming I went to her website to learn more and was taken aback by what I saw and learned. In fact, I found myself using intemperate language when I was talking about her to colleagues.”
    and on taking partial responsibility 3 weeks afterwards:
    “I learned in politics that the worst thing you can do is sneak out the back door.” (see story here)”
    http://bcblue.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/u-of-o-pres-alan-rock-oked-coulter-warning-letter/

  28. Trudeau rose today to critique jason kenney and any wrongdoings he supposed have committed as a minister.
    Kenney replied that he would like to know how many times the liberal member for papineau was out giving speaches for which he recieved a monetary payment, when he was supposed to be in the HOC.

  30. O’gitmo: Liberal Iggy’s O’Harvard buddy.
    Democrat trashes O’gitmo.
    …-
    “Dem Sen. Joe Manchin: Obama has “failed to lead” on spending”
    “Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia took to the Senate floor Tuesday morning to criticize President Obama for a failure of leadership in the effort to deal with the deficit and debt.
    Manchin deemed the two budget proposals expected to be considered Tuesday – a Democratic plan containing $6.5 billion in new cuts and a Republican plan to cut about $60 billion – flawed. The former, he said, “doesn’t go nearly far enough” to address the nation’s fiscal woes, while the latter “blindly hacks the budget with no sense of our priorities or of our values as a country.”
    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is bringing both proposals up for a vote even though neither is expected to pass; he says he wants to get the votes on the record and show that compromise is necessary. Manchin denounced the strategy as “political theater,” asking, “why are we voting on partisan proposals that we know will fail, that we know don’t balance our nation’s priorities with the need to get our fiscal house in order?”
    Manchin, who is facing a tough reelection campaign in 2012, then went after the president.
    “Why are we doing all this when the most powerful person in these negotiations – our president – has failed to lead this debate or offer a serious proposal for spending and cuts that he would be willing to fight for?” asked Manchin. “How does that make sense?”
    He went on to say that “this debate will be decided when the president leads these tough negotiations. And, right now that’s not happening.””
    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20040584-503544.html

  31. I know I should stop stealing stuff from Ace of Spades HQ, but, good lord: The executive producer of Sex and the City is putting together a show called “Good Christian B*tches.”
    As Ace says in his post: “They just hate us, really” (us being anyone who borders on what might be described outside of L.A. as “normal”).

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