Author: lance

Great moments in Liberalism

Baiting The Left 90 Comments

Angus Reid finds that 41% of people believe that murder is a socially acceptable means of dealing with the problems life throws at us and those who depend on us.

Naturally, a strongly principled Liberal supporter desperately calls for some policy…any policy.

Meanwhile:

* Gallup Review Compares Support for Capital Punishment Among Countries – An examination of recent Gallup surveys in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada found that Americans are more supportive of the death penalty than are either Britons or Canadians. An October 2005 poll of Americans measured support for the death penalty at 64%, a figure that was significantly higher than the 44% support measured in Canada and the 49% support found in Great Britain during December 2005 polls. Support for the death penalty recently declined in both Great Britain and Canada, but remained the same in the U.S. as in 2003. (Nevertheless, American support for the death penalty is equal to its lowest level in 27 years.) In all three nations, support for capital punishment was lowest among those who were 18-29 years old. (Gallup Poll press release, “Death Penalty Gets Less Support From Britons, Canadians Than Americans,” February 20, 2006).

I can’t wait for SteveV’s endorsement of capital punishment for the truly useless in society.

Canadian Women, 7-0 After 1

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The CDN’s are taking the boots to the Slovakians.
Jenn Heil in 2nd, Kristi Richards in 3rd after the final qualifying heat for Womens Moguls.
And speaking of Canadians taking the boots to people…maybe the RC’s should start with the anarchists in Vancouver.
Charles Hamelin (heat 1) and Oliver Jean (heat 2) are going for it in the Mens 1500 semi-finals in a couple of minutes….and it looks like Hamelin’s out. Jean is down and out…No, Jean made it in because he was fouled…or something. So, Jean is in the final in an hour and a bit.
As an aside, Rod Black is much better at this stuff than CFL football.
15-0 just into the third period now for Womens Hockey…err, 16-0, 17-0, 18-0
Heil gets the silver, behind Kearney of the US.

The Toronto Morality, err, Mayoral race

Around The Blogosphere 47 Comments

So yesterday, the Toronto Star ran with a story that’s heating up the Liberal blog world. Many of the usual wing-nuts are down right offended that Giambrone has been “let out” in this manner. Phaw, more proof of the “…a women scorned.” adage.

Naturally, and as expected, the most balanced assessment comes from Calgary Grit. He makes fun of the whole schmozzle. The expected result has now been confirmed. What I wonder though, is where were those wing-nuts when Bernier was being dragged through the muck for his own sex-scandal? Oh yeah, calling for an election, or something, maybe a facebook group.

I think both of these men are tools though not for sex with beautiful women. They deserve my disrespect because they scoffed at the public trust that had been granted them.

Bernier left gov’t documents at his girlfriends house, Giambrone supposedly told his girlfriend that TTC rates where going up. Each abused the trust relative to their respective jobs. They are equal actions deserving of equal consequences.

Cheers,
lance

Climate-Gate: Leaked

Science 102 Comments

“The details of the files tell a story that FOIA2009.zip was compiled internally and most likely released by an internal source.”

Some time starting in mid November 2009, ten million teletypes all
started their deet-ditta-dot chatter reeling off the following
headline: “Hackers broke into the University of East
Anglia’s Climate Research Unit….”

I hate that. It annoys me because just like everything else about
climate-gate it’s been ‘value-added’; simplified and distilled. The
contents of FOIA2009.zip demand more attention to this detail and as
someone once heard Professor Jones mutter darkly, “The devil is in the
details…so average it out monthly using TMax!”

Update: I’ve updated the original page with new information. Many thanks to all in the comments and who emailed regarding the filenames. Cheers.

As has been pointed out to me, the filenames are Unix epoch
timestamps. (Like, duh, Lance.) This invalidates certain parts
of my analysis, but doesn’t in any way invalidate my
conclusions.

The point of the original information was to provide more
circumstantial evidence pointing to the location of the email
archives. The fact that the emails are named with epoch
timestamps that relate to the creation date of the emails
actually enhances this point.

You definitely do not want multiple machines naming files
based on a Unix timestamp. It has to be a single machine because
the opportunity for overwriting a file is simply too great.

Cheers,
lance

A little peace for our progressive friends

Baiting The Left 35 Comments

One of the undiscussed results of the vote on C-391 yesterday can give our head-exploding friends on the left a little comfort. There will be no election until that baby gets Royal Assent.
The slew of polls since Mr. Harper’s time was up caused no end of headache to the Liberals and Dippers, all fearing the Conservatives pulling the plug or injecting a poison-pill into some confidence bill.
They can rest easy now. Yesterday’s vote effectively ties the CPC’s hands on killing the gov’t. IMO, the PM wouldn’t dare let this Bill die on the table after having it pass second reading…after the euphoria of the CPC base over its passage. Now, if the Committee tinkers with it too much, as some are hinting. All bets are off.
Course, I really can’t see either the Libs or the Dippers playing that dice game.
Cheers,
lance
– My thanks to HJB for noticing the mistake in this post. Where would we be without anons pointing out our grammatical mistakes.

Truth In Advertising

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The bodywork on the bike isn’t even attached. I don’t know how it ever could be. There must have been a fight at the child labour factory when this thing was made, obviously the stronger five year old stole the bits that allowed this bike’s bodywork to be attached to its silver bamboo frame. So it just sits there making this thing even more ridiculous. You would expect that motorcycle bodywork would be made of plastic, true. But given the fact that this stuff a) didn’t burn and b) is as flexible as a Viagra induced erection, tells me that it is something from another planet, possibly China. I suspect that it may be some super organic, self regenerating rice paper or something.

h/t Simeon

It’s Raining Men

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Daily Mail – A British nuclear expert who fell from the 17th floor of a United Nations building did not commit suicide and may have been hurled to his death, says a doctor who carried out a second post-mortem examination.
Skynews – Four months ago another UN worker also believed to be British fell from a similar height in the same building, it has been reported.”

The Liberals Don’t Get It.

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Quite a few of the blogs and commentators in the media from the left
wing of the political perspective aren’t decrying Count Iggy and the
Liberal Party’s lack of coherent policy. Many of them are actually
calling it a strategic decision in order to eliminate negative
feedback from the Conservative advertising juggernaut. These pundits
all use the Green Shaft and the Dion experiment as proof that you
can’t tempt fate.

These Liberals are completely wrong.

The Green Shaft didn’t become the albatross around Dion’s neck
because of the Conservatives. The Green Shaft was just bad
policy and Canadians rejected it. Sure the “Tax on everything.”
slogan was catchy, but more importantly, it was true. Dion wasn’t
rejected because the CPC was convinced he wasn’t a leader, he was
rejected because he wasn’t the leader Canadians wanted.

Dear Liberals,
Policy is what I want to hear. Yeah, I may call it out,
investigate it, run the numbers, insult it and tear it down but the
fact remains that if it’s good policy one of two things will happen.

  • The Conservatives will do a Microsoft and embrace and
    extend.
  • Canadians will say, “Hey, good idea. Let’s give this set of
    jokers a chance.”

Either way, it’s good for us. Us, being Canadians, as opposed to just
Liberal Canadians, or more specifically the LPC. I know that
previously you’ve run on the idea that Conservative values aren’t
Canadian values, but seeing as that too was rejected I’m hoping that
you’re thinking that just maybe Canadians are more important than the
LPC. Maybe when Canadians get the idea you care about them more than
what elite pure laine Quebec Liberal gets to be the Lieutenant that
decides Montreal’s Outremont they’ll give you and your policies a
chance.

Why don’t you see if you can get more than a “blue-ribbon panel” and
more of a “billion for unemployed” like the soft spot to your left,
eh?

Cheers,
lance

Supporting the Troops

Baiting The Left 14 Comments

Via Ace (second most popular Conservative blog in North America), an Irish wedding party invites stranded US troops to the gathering.
I had the privilege of spending a few weeks in Sligo and Galway in the early 90’s. I found the people there among some of the most welcoming and friendly that I’d ever met.
I’m glad that the Irish are still that way.

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