The First American Prime Minister
I miss Jason Cherniak.
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Roy Rogers’s whiskered sidekick Gabby Hayes never had a chance to record “Angel of the Morning” – he sadly passed away years before the 1981 hit was released – but the late Walter Brennan did release a cover version of Kenny Rogers’s 1969 hit Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town.
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Election 2011: The Debate Open Thread
Stay on topic, keep your comments brief.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
A number of politicians and bureaucrats in Washington D.C. are seeking to step up the Internal Revenue Service’s powers, and technology, to essentially audit taxpayers before returns are even filed.
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
After suffering seven straight quarters of losses, today the merchandise giant Wal-Mart will announce that it is “going back to basics,” ending its era of high-end organic foods, going “green,” and the remainder of its appeal to the upscale market. Next month the company will launch an “It’s Back” campaign to woo the millions of customers who have fled the store.
(Settle down. You had to know I was going there eventually.)
Related – “A bitter harvest”.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Celebrate Diversity!
Finally – a reason to admire the French.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Barack Obama, June 4th, 2009 – “I’ve come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world…”
Muslims, April 12, 2011 – Pakistan has demanded that the United States steeply reduce the number of Central Intelligence Agency operatives and Special Operations forces working in Pakistan, and that it halt C.I.A. drone strikes aimed at militants in northwest Pakistan. The request was a sign of the near collapse of cooperation between the two testy allies.
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
See what happens when you allow Greens into a debate? Have a happy famine, Bolivia!
Bolivia is set to pass the world’s first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans. The Law of Mother Earth, now agreed by politicians and grassroots social groups, redefines the country’s rich mineral deposits as “blessings” and is expected to lead to radical new conservation and social measures to reduce pollution and control industry.
The country, which has been pilloried by the US and Britain in the UN climate talks for demanding steep carbon emission cuts, will establish 11 new rights for nature. They include: the right to life and to exist; the right to continue vital cycles and processes free from human alteration; the right to pure water and clean air; the right to balance; the right not to be polluted; and the right to not have cellular structure modified or genetically altered.
Controversially, it will also enshrine the right of nature “to not be affected by mega-infrastructure and development projects that affect the balance of ecosystems and the local inhabitant communities”.
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Little opposition is expected to the law being passed because President Evo Morales’s ruling party, the Movement Towards Socialism, enjoys a comfortable majority in both houses of parliament.
Socialism – what can’t it do?
Because Nothing Says “Electable!” Like Renaming A Continent
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It’s going to take a lot more than one cop to bring this guy down.
h/t Dave S.
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Free Bernie Farber!
“You two-timer! It’s him or me, bub”.
Take Me, Obama
The first stage is Denial.
What have they done with President Obama? What happened to the inspirational figure his supporters thought they elected? Who is this bland, timid guy who doesn’t seem to stand for anything in particular?
Not Watching For The Asteroid
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Via Drudgereport
Who knew the Liberal “big tent” was white with two eye holes?
Whether Michael Ignatieff wants him or not, a jettisoned Liberal candidate will be running for the Grits.
The Liberal Leader booted Quebec candidate André Forbes from the party last week for once describing aboriginal people as “featherheads” and questioning their work ethic.
But Mr. Forbes did not pull out of the race and will remain a Liberal on the ballot in the northern Quebec riding of Manicouagan.
The First American Prime Minister, On The Importance Of Voting
“I am an American Democrat. I will vote for Kerry in November,” Ignatieff told The Glasgow Herald in 2004.
Confessions Of The Gullible
Over the past fortnight I’ve made a deeply troubling discovery. The anti-nuclear movement to which I once belonged has misled the world about the impacts of radiation on human health. The claims we have made are ungrounded in science, unsupportable when challenged and wildly wrong. We have done other people, and ourselves, a terrible disservice.
I began to see the extent of the problem after a debate last week with Helen Caldicott(1). Dr Caldicott is the world’s foremost anti-nuclear campaigner. She has received 21 honorary degrees and scores of awards, and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize(2). Like other greens, I was in awe of her. In the debate she made some striking statements about the dangers of radiation. So I did what anyone faced with questionable scientific claims should do: I asked for the sources. Caldicott’s response has profoundly shaken me.
More moonbat epiphany here.
h/t Eric A.
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In 1961 the late Mitch Miller – who passed away just last year at the ripe old age of 99 – debuted his Sing Along With Mitch program on the NBC television network. The format of the show was as straightforward as its visual presentation: a bunch of upright folks, typically standing in loose formation on an open set, would cheerfully and exuberantly sing oldies, while the affable and outgoing Miller would animatedly enjoin the home viewing audience to sing along using the handy onscreen lyrics. Later in the shows, a celebrity guest or two would typically join in on the fun. Take a trip back through time and watch part of a 1963 episode of the unabashedly démodé Sing Along With Mitch.
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In his own words
Here’s the straight-talking, amiable, bright, and level-headed Prime Minister that the broadcast media seem intent on hiding away behind their own editorializing, caricaturing talking heads:
h/t Alberta Ardvark