Newsbusters;

New York Times European correspondent Dan Bilefsky bizarrely relayed the contents of a secret police file from the former Communist state of Czechoslovakia to boost his argument that Vaclav Klaus, the new president of the European Union, is a dangerously arrogant proponent of the free market. Bilefksy’s Tuesday story from Prague, “A Fiery Czech Is Poised to Be the Face of Europe,” read more like a cautionary left-wing editorial than a news story.

More – It’s a hit that carries the fingerprints of the climate alarmists.
IBD – “Right man, right job, right time.”
Previous – “Can Your Office Provide A List Of Your Critics To Help Us Flesh Out Our Hit Piece?”

Mr. Klaus declined to be interviewed for this article. His office called a list of proposed questions “peculiar.”

Some days I’m tempted to subscribe to the New York Times just so I can cancel my subscription. But the risk that their phones might be cut off in the intervening minutes keeps me from following through.
Update – Vaclav Klaus, on global warming.

As the word “chickenhawk” goes into hiding…

“Leaving the Bush tax cuts alone. Putting Iraq-war supporters in as Vice President and Secretary of State. And now keeping Bush’s Defense Secretary on. I’m beginning to feel like I won this election!”

Jules Crittendon asks “But is it really necessary to rub it in? … Yeah, I think so.”
Not even inaugurated, and the once useful Noam Chomsky already feels betrayed…

Rove – you magnificent bastard!
Update – KABOOM!!

Why do they still have to kill Thanksgiving turkeys, when they’re available in the supermarket?.
“I’m in charge of the turkey, so I’m where I need to be to prepare for that.”
Heh.
BTW – this is the same MSNBC that published a photo of a U.S. Army captain killed during an assault on Falluja.
Update – “MEDIA DIE AS GOVERNOR PALIN TAKES QUESTIONS FROM TURKEYS.” and don’t miss this, either.
As God is my witness….

An Ignatieff campaign advisor is photographed cradling a swastika.

h/t
Plus, media accountability you can believe in. Chris Matthews announces new position as editor in chief of Pravda.
More – Who will take care of these people? (h/t steve)

Angry crowd gathers in wake of Obama victory.
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Heh. “Change you can’t spend.”

The healing continues… “A New and Kinder Obamaland”. Tastes like Chicago!

The healing begins!

Your sickening unAmerican traitorous, racist, money-grubbing, torturing, hateful ideology got struck a death blow and you and your fellow jackal-blowhards are left writhing on the floor, gasping for breath as the final death tremors subside and your bodies stiffen into rigour mortis.

We you too!

(Related)

…the same 4 out of 5 Canadians who will today cheer on a protectionist Democratic to win the White House, will tomorrow blame Harper for not forcing “those Americans” to govern like a free-trading Republicans.
(Hey Lorrie, stop whining. So what if we have all the oil – you get all the immigration!)

Yesterday the Saskatchewan Gov’t announced the members of the Enterprise Saskatchewan Entrepreneurship Council. A truly impressive list of accomplished people. I do suggest reading their bios. (PDF, 2pp.)
Now when I was reading that, a filament of memory was electrified and I just had to do a check and see if there had been an update or not.
Nope.
Maybe the B&R crowd has something? Hmm, no.
Odd. I would have thought that when six of ten seats on the council go to successful and influential women the various feminist blogs and forums would be trumpeting their success.
I guess I was wrong.
Cheers,
lance

A recent installation we affectionately refer to as “McMillan #1”
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A Laval police officer is shot to death by a homeowner in a 5am, no-knock raid ….

The report says police did not properly evaluate the risks to officers before entering the home. Furthermore, the report found that police did not find Parasiris’ name in the gun registry because they searched by address instead of by name.

When asked if an advanced search under “Occupation – Drug Dealer” might have warned the officers of the risk, a police spokesperson assured reporters that the registry database indicates that, to date, drug dealers remain unarmed.

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

CNN Money;

– The National Association of Realtors says pending home [sales] rose 7.4% from July to August, an unexpected piece of positive news for the battered U.S. housing market.
The group said Wednesday its seasonally adjusted index of pending sales for existing homes rose to 93.4 from an upwardly revised July reading of 87. The reading was the highest since June 2007.

Higher demand brought about by lower prices. Who could have predicted such a thing?
h/t Tech1

“You haven’t.”

On pace for a $9B surplus:

The Finance Department reported Friday the government took in $1.7 billion more than it spent in July, bringing the surplus for the first four months of this fiscal year to $2.9 billion.

H/t: Springer

Aesop’s
Fables

A mouse and
a frog struck
up a friendship. They were not well mated, for the mouse
lived
entirely on land, while the frog was equally at home on
land or in
the water. In order that they might never be separated,
the frog tied himself and the mouse together by the leg with
a piece of thread. As long as they kept on dry land all went
fairly well; but, coming to the edge of a pool, the frog
jumped in, taking the mouse with him, and began swimming
about and croaking with pleasure. The unhappy mouse,
however, was soon drowned, and floated about on the surface
in the wake of the frog. There he was spied by
a hawk,
who pounced down on him and seized him in his talons. The
frog was unable to loose the knot which bound him to the
mouse, and thus was carried off along with him
and eaten by
the hawk.

Cheers,
lance

The dwarves debate the elf’s fate.

Heather Mallick issues denial: “I am not a pig”.
Fox News has the story;

To which we can only add – SDA gets results!