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  5. EBD: Thanks for playing my favorite Christmas song!! Hope some of you can hear this song in stereo via headphones or speakers! Sound is superb! I remember listening to this on a Zenith Hi-Fi set at Christmas time when people sat in the living room, eating popcorn and listening to Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra or Doris Day while watching the ”bubble lights” on the tree!
    RE: Bubble Lights.
    https://youtu.be/b9bFVBd_Dnc

  9. Conservative Stephen Harper’s Legacy.
    “Government debt returned 3.8% to lead developed peers in 2015”
    …-
    “World in Turmoil Parks Its Cash in Canada Bonds for Safe Keeping”
    “The country’s government bonds have been considered a haven for global investors since the 2008 financial crisis. Canada didn’t have to provide the multi-billion dollar bailouts seen in other countries during the crisis and its banks are considered among the soundest in the world.”
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-30/world-in-turmoil-parks-its-cash-in-canada-bonds-for-safe-keeping

  10. Ol’ Remus has a few words for those of us who hold a “cold dead hands” view of gun control.
    Site link: http://www.woodpilereport.com/html/index-407.htm
    Doesn’t seem to be a specific article link, so scroll down and read this sobering guest post by an Australian on how gun confiscation will proceed.
    On Assault Rifles
    Guest post by B. Chandler

  11. A very interesting read and an excellent dissertation on the gradual, but inexorable take-down of the Second Amendment.
    Thanks for the link.

  12. Two Bills in black and white.
    “I mean that as a seriously question incidentally,” Steyn said. “Why is Bill Cosby finished? He was the most beloved guy. We keep hearing Bill Clinton is the most beloved guy in America. ‘If Bill Clinton was on the ticket, he’d sweep all 50 states. It would be a landslide. Americans love Bill Clinton.’ They loved Bill Cosby – nice grandfatherly Bill Cosby. But somehow, for some reason – you don’t see ‘The Bill Cosby Show’ on TV anymore. You don’t see it on the rerun channels. He is not appearing anywhere.”
    “You’d almost think it’s some kind of like racism thing,” he continued. “That somehow, when a bunch of women make accusations against the black guy – boom, he’s vaporized. When a bunch of women make accusations against some white southern redneck — we’re talking about putting him back in the White House for another eight years as First Gentleman.”
    http://www.steynonline.com/7392/a-tale-of-two-bills
    It may look like racism, but to me it smells of payback for Cosby rejecting the narrative of perpetual black victimhood.

  15. For at least 15 years Canada has been a safe haven for many investment classes, such as government bonds and large cap high quality dividends. Believe it or not, we are somewhat insulated from worldwide deflation threats; though oil has dropped it is only part of a larger international commodity deflation equation. Slowed international demand, high consumer debt and anti-growth government policies haven’t managed to cause widespread pain yet, so we have done relatively well thanks to Harper’s prudence despite private overspending and leveraging.
    Now much larger withdrawals from the international trust account will be made by statist provincial and federal governments. Issuing debt dilutes the value of a country’s securities much like a corporation. The state’s unlimited powers of taxation as security rather than physical assets fools few prudent investors.
    Foreign investors no doubt noted & appreciated our central banker’s comments around negative yield bonds though. Was that a shot across the bow for the Trudeau government taxaction plans?
    Voters everywhere will come to regret supporting statists. The easy way out will turn out to be the hardest way back in.
    Yes I agree valuable Canadian companies are even a “safer” haven now, especially since cash & precious metals don’t look good in deflationary markets. Since it’s going to take 2-3 years for China to get its economic development act back together here we’re all in for a rough ride, with the Trudeau administration no doubt spitting into the economic and trade winds, wasting more taxpayer dollars.

  16. I think that you are right. Cosby may not be a saint, but he is getting payback for bucking the status quo.

  17. AGW RIP.
    ““Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past”.”
    “Dr David Viner,” … “within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.””
    …-
    “Montreal sets snowfall record after Tuesday’s storm”
    “Montreal saw a record snowfall for a Dec. 29 on Tuesday after 39.2 centimetres of snow blanketed the city…”
    “Environment Canada confirmed the record on Wednesday, eclipsing the 30.5 cm of snow on Dec. 29 in 1954.”
    http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montreal-sets-new-snowfall-record-after-tuesdays-storm
    …-
    “From The Independent on 20 March 2000 we got the headline:
    “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past”.
    According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/29/crus-forecast-winter-snowfall-will-become-a-very-rare-and-exciting-event/

  18. Shamrock: Your comments are always well done, both in content, and in style; a pleasure to read; a pleasure with which to cogitate.
    Thank you. You have much for us to learn from you. More, please.

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