… from Huffpo?

That tone of extreme hostility I experienced brings me back to the death threats in Wisconsin. Frankly, the bile and invective in that threat reminded me of the tone I saw directed at me from many so-called liberals because I committed the heresy of taking a different position from them on the issue of collective bargaining for public sector employees… based on something FDR said.
Is this really what liberalism has come to in 2011?

… from the “great moments in irony” file:

Does “interculturalism” have legs? In Quebec probably. It’s respectable cover for dumping Trudeau-era multiculturalism, something which even the son of Pierre seems to be cool with doing. In the ROC it would only be a half-way house. A step to assuage the squeamish before the whole idea of multiculturalism is put into the ashcan of history. The choice that we face is a stark one. Either we are to accept Diefenbaker’s ideal of One Canada, or we elect for ourselves the fate of a vast sub-arctic Balkans. Without a common cultural center, this is a house that cannot stand.

… think about it:

INEFFECTUAL, invisible, unable to honour pledges and now blamed for letting Gaddafi off the hook. Why Obama’s gone from ‘Yes we can’ to ‘Er, maybe we shouldn’t’…
[…]
Obama’s campaign slogan was mesmerisingly simple and brimming with self-belief: “Yes we can.” His presidency, however, is turning out to be more about “no we won’t.” Even more worryingly, it seems to be very much about: “Maybe we can… do what, exactly?“

Look at the bright side … seldom before have so many satirists been given so much to work with.

Tamara K:

Dear news media:

Remember back in the ’50s and early ’60s, when we set off something like 900 atomic bombs
in Nevada? And how we just let the fallout blow wherever and it landed all over the eastern
US? And how it wiped out life as we know it and all that was left from Colorado to the
Atlantic were six-legged rats battling two-headed cockroaches in the glowing ruins?

Yeah. Exactly. So shut up with the panic already.

Via

“From the top floor we watched everything get swallowed,” 73-year-old Tsuyoshi Kinno said. “People relied too much on the order and bureaucracy. They became too obedient. In the olden times they would have just got straight to the mountains, to higher ground.”
[…]
… if you rely on government, its neglect may kill you, and having done so it will lie and deceive to obscure its actions and its responsibility for them. Salvation lies not in government but in making government conform to the wishes and needs of the people. Government is a poor master. But it can be an adequate servant, if forced to be so.

… hai!

Could use some input.

Take for example the experience of an acquaintance of mine (name withheld for obvious reasons). He used to be a provincial social worker; one of his jobs was to write pre-disposition reports for the courts, where he advised the courts on how to wrist-slap young offenders. He also monitored his “clients”, ensuring they were living up to court imposed conditions. Here’s the clincher … in his entire career he witnessed the “turning around” of only two offenders. One he managed to effect, and the other was the product of a persistent mother.

… more at Cjunk.

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For years now large groups of kneeling Muslim men in France have been gathering en masse to pray in the streets, often blocking native French pedestrians’ access to the sidewalks, while local gendarmes look the other way.
In the interests of accommodating the public-access needs of the native French, a Muslim group has graciously stepped forward with a simple and straightforward solution: they are asking Church of France authorities to allow them to use empty Catholic churches:

Hassan M. Ben Barek, a spokesman for the (Banlieuses Respect) Collective, said the measure would “prevent Muslims from having to pray on the streets” and being “politicians’ hostages”.

No word yet on whether Jews and Catholics will be granted permission to pray in mosques during off-peak hours.

Despite all the little warmist wuzzies hyperventilating about ice extent, this is beginning to look as if it is the year of the icebreaker. We’ve had the Okhotsk Sea, then the Baltic and now St. Petersburg at the eastern end of the sea.
From there we get reports that icebreakers have been called in to free dozens of ships that have become trapped in ice in the Gulf of Finland. At least 97 ships were still waiting for help as of Tuesday, although this is down from 160 ships two days previously.

Global Warming in the Baltic, and now the 600mb has been struck by AGW.