August 28, ’08

A LEADING environmentalist has warned land developers might benefit from a proposed study to map out Nillumbik’s Green Wedge. […] Geoff Mosley said the proposed landscape character assessment study could weaken the now-strict Green Wedge environmental zone because it would look at parts of the zone, rather than the importance of the whole area.
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Dr Mosley, of Hurstbridge, said the money would be better spent educating people about the value of the Green Wedge as “the lungs of Melbourne”.

Feb.11, ’09

During question time at a packed community meeting in Arthurs Creek on Melbourne’s northern fringe, Warwick Spooner — whose mother Marilyn and brother Damien perished along with their home in the Strathewen blaze — criticised the Nillumbik council for the limitations it placed on residents wanting the council’s help or permission to clean up around their properties in preparation for the bushfire season. “We’ve lost two people in my family because you dickheads won’t cut trees down,” he said. “We wanted trees cut down on the side of the road … and you can’t even cut the grass for God’s sake.”

Iain Hall notes they were duly warned;

One of Australia’s leading bushfire experts, Rod Incoll, warned Nillumbik Shire Council in a 2003 report that it risked devastation if it went ahead with changes to planning laws proposed by green groups that restricted the removal of vegetation.
Mr Incoll, the Victorian fire chief from 1990 to 1996, and David Packham, a former CSIRO bushfire scientist and academic who also produced a report on the issue, argued against the regulations, which actively encouraged the builders of new homes to plant trees around the houses for aesthetic reasons.
Mr Incoll told The Australian yesterday the proposed planning rules were “foolhardy and dangerous and ought not to be proceeded with”.
“But they were nevertheless instituted,” he said. “That is certainly one of the things that people will be looking at as an aftermath of this tragic event.”
Mr Packham, now an honorary senior research fellow at Monash University’s school of geography and environmental science, wrote in his report, after inspecting the Kinglake to Heidelberg Road: “The mix of fuel, unsafe roadsides and embedded houses, some with zero protection and no hope of survival, will all ensure that when a large fire impinges upon the area a major disaster will result.”
Mr Incoll said that in 2003, green groups were pushing for changes to planning laws that included restrictions on the removal of vegetation, “and worse still, the requirement for planting vegetation around and almost over houses, as part of any planning permit to build a house in the shire of Nillumbik, so it gave the appearance from the outside of being a forest“.

Tell me, my dear “green” lurkers – how many more people do you plan to kill to advance your agenda?
Before you respond, let me clarify that I’m not interested in a rebuttal.
I want a number.

When historians look back at this recession it is going to be a shameful period for the Baby Boomers for they are the ones who were more or less at the helm of this financial disaster. This is not to foist all blame on them, as there is certainly no limit to the amount of idiotic, disgusting, entitlement mentality driven Gen-X’ers who more or less make up a plurality of the sub prime dead beats and thus are also to blame, but at the helm of all the financial institutions, regulatory institutions, governments and corporations were the Baby Boomers. And they were asleep.

Well, maybe not so much a “pep” talk as it is a “you don’t completely suck” talk.

An interview with former KGB agent.

Via Moonbattery, (h/t Paul).
Lots more at Roborant

It’s pretty fantastic to imagine that a magazine, read and trusted by millions of Americans (published in Des Moines, Iowa, for goodness’ sake), could be completely fooled into acting as a propaganda mouthpiece for the USSR right at the height of the cold war. Armed with another vital tool of the information age –eBay– I set out to find this issue of Look and see it for myself. By amazing luck, there it was, the October 3, 1967 issue of Look, for sale cheap. Once it arrived I busily set out to see if Bezmenov was talking through his hat or bragging.

That should give you lots to chatter about.

Find an anti-Semite;

I have never infiltrated a terrorist sleeper cell, but it seems that the enablers of terrorism congregate at UCLA, specifically their “Middle East Studies” Department.
I recently attended a symposium on “Gaza and Human Rights.” It is perhaps more than a coincidence that by combining the words “sympathize” and “terrorism” one gets the word “symposium.”
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This was no human rights symposium. It was a conference on how best to spread anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, anti-Americanism, and blood libel.
The audience did have some Arab attendees, but a healthy plurality of the crowd consisted of 50 year old bald white guys and their various leftist causes that have no common links with Gaza issues outside of extremism and wrongheadedness.
The Che Guevara supporters were there, as were the Communists. Many of the students clapped when they saw others clapping, but spent the bulk of their time text messaging each other and checking their Facebook profiles. This might be the only benefit to their lack of attention span. The indoctrination process may not have succeeded, since lengthy diatribes do not fit into a 140 character Twitter world.
The spreaders of bile on this hate filled occasion was put together by Susan Slyomovics, the Director for Near Eastern Studies at UCLA. She was listed as the “moderator,” an ironic term given that there appears to be nothing moderate about her. She began this session with typical left wing academic condescension.
“I have done extensive research on Israel and Palestine. After all, this is not Fox TV. This is UCLA.”
Perhaps she meant Fox News, unless of course she was comparing her research abilities to Homer Simpson. She is one elitist that needs a research assistant to help her with her insults.

Update – Youtube spoils all the fun. You can see the video here.

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And they miss him already.
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

Oddly enough!

How did the black guy get elected?
Moral preeners please note that the “magic moment” in history “closing a chapter on one of the darkest aspects” of America’s past occurred on George W. Bush’s watch.
Discuss.

Ratings for “American Idol – Presidential Edition” lag behind original.

Via email –
“Was I mis-hearing, or did the great orator flub the oath of office?”
(Nonetheless, this will be a designated “good will” thread – an opportunity to extend our best wishes to the new US President for a safe and successful four years, followed by the longest string of paid speaking engagements in American political history.)

Via Wizbang

President George W. Bush has commuted the prison sentences of two former Border Patrol guards whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer ignited debate about illegal immigration.
Bush’s act of clemency on Monday for Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean was a victory for Democratic and Republican members of Congress and others who pleaded with the president to pardon the men or at least commute their sentences.

The editors of today’s New York Times are transported back to ’43.
h/t Stephen M.

Scratching Bill Moyers.

From the mighty nut a little smoke does blow…

A luxury home [in Edmonton] belonging to a former oilsands executive was firebombed with Molotov cocktails, Edmonton police confirmed Monday.
The blaze Saturday on the city’s south side caused approximately $850,000 damage to the home, which belonged to Jim Carter, former chief operating officer at Syncrude.
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A possible motive for the attack is still under investigation. Investigators aren’t ruling anything out, including possible links to environmental extremism.

It’s not the first attack on the Carters – their Escalade was vandalized in July.
Related? “ For the fourth time in three months, a remote natural gas pipeline in northeastern British Columbia was targeted with a bomb…”
Flashback – CBC Fruit Fly Fascist

(photo courtesy reader Chris, taken Jan.11 in Saskatoon)
Winner to receive an all expense paid virtual vacation in beautiful Tok, Alaska.
Related, a photo from reader Don – “What else do you need to say about a car that you buy out of a vending machine?“ (That’s his Cherokee in the foreground).

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“I feel as if I’m perpetually surrounded by nervous Victorian maidens fainting on couches…”

The United Steel Workers join the AK-47 Of God* in yesterday’s “Wipe the state of Israel off the planet” march.

(Video shot by SDA regular Mississauga Matt)
That’s their promise.
Trudeaupia – more European by the day.

“I guess Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress, and his best friend the Lying Jackal, and The Guy Who Is Suing Us, were all too busy chasing imaginary Nazis on the internet to be there.
I guess Truffles the Hobbit, the young Liberal Party hack who threatened to take me to court for being an anti-semite (because I joked that he was “too stupid to really be Jewish”) was too busy to be there.
But I was there

(Actually Cherniak has an excuse. He has all he can manage just holding the lid down at Hatelogs.)
Others notice “the curious silence of the CJC and the toilet warriors.”

In July of 2006, police raided the home of a 21 year old waitress and seized her boots with red laces and her knitting. Due to the actions of courageous Virtual Nazi^TM hunters, the Canadian government was able to consign the powerful symbols of hatred to a place where tolerant Canadians would never be exposed to them again.
So tell me, you loud, proud defenders of enforced Canadian tolerance – how’s that been working for you?

Or maybe, more to the point – why weren’t you there to confront them?
Because you’re not men enough?
Or because they vote Liberal?

And they’re not high enough.
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And the winner is!
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