They love their milk and honey, but they preach about some other way of living. And when they’re putting down the country that way, they’re walkin’ on the fightin’ side of Merle.
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Mitt Romney’s Speech Falls Short of Democratic Expectations
“Many of you felt that way on Election Day four years ago. Hope and Change had a powerful appeal. But tonight I’d ask a simple question: If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now that he’s President Obama? You know there’s something wrong with the kind of job he’s done as president when the best feeling you had, was the day you voted for him”.
“First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.”
Full transcript HERE
Full Video HERE
Clint Eastwood Speech at RNC HERE
The Bradley Effect + The Shy Tory Effect = Landslide
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Another day, another wind-power let down in Ontario;
Right now, two-thirty p.m. on Wednesday August 29 2012, the provincial wind fleet is letting its hair down, enjoying the productivity equivalent of a glass of vino in the middle of the afternoon. That is to say, the wind fleet is not producing very much at this moment, even though it is continually touted as the energy of the future. […] Though theoretically capable of generating around 1700 megawatts at this moment, the wind fleet is actually generating only 84 MW.
h/t Rob
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“the fact checkers have made a mockery of their own profession by stepping all over their own biases to refute Ryan.”
Saskatchewan Ranked 2nd Best Labour Market in North America
Led by Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada’s Western provinces are among the best-performing labour markets in North America, concludes a new report from the Fraser Institute, Canada’s leading public policy think-tank.
Not so fast….
In five provinces—Newfoundland and Labrador, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia—more than 25 per cent of all workers were employed by various levels of government.
Small wonder Saskatchewan flirts with deficit budgets in a time of economic expansion. Now is the time to fix this. Get ‘er done, Mr. Wall.
The full report (pdf) is here.
Let’s Erect A Plaque At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton
Happy ending: State funeral for late NDP leader Jack Layton cost $368,326.
h/t Manny
Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and the sun never sets on the Islamic empire: Mohammed the #1 baby name in England
America: 70 Years of “Progress”
Ever wonder what “Progressives” think of as “progress”?
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h/t Linda
Paul Ryan Talks To His Fellow Americans
“Behind every small business, there’s a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores – these didn’t come out of nowhere. A lot of heart goes into each one. And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them. After all that work, and in a bad economy, it sure doesn’t help to hear from their president that government gets the credit. What they deserve to hear is the truth: Yes, you did build that.”
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
After the deadliest single loss of US forces in Afghanistan, Barack Obama sent out form letters to the parents.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips the late June Christy treats us to her confident, relaxed, swinging vocal stylings in a 1945 studio performance of Mean To Me.
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Paul Ryan
I just got an email from David Axelrod. For $3 my name will be entered in a draw to choose Obama’s new running mate.
#GOP2012#paulryan— katewerk (@katewerk) August 30, 2012
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Amazing artworks done with ballpoint pen.
The 1911 Colt Auto Just Won’t Die
Resurrection, for some Marines:
9mm or .45 cal: Which pistol should USMC have?
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Impact on the Body
The 9mm round has been statistically shown to have a better penetration of the human body including full penetration. The downside is that not all of the kinetic energy is transmitted to the body and is lost upon exit. The 45 round however, has a very good chance of transmitting 100% of its energy to the body and not penetrating. Hence “knock down power.” This debate has raged hotly for decades on these specific points.
Tactics
The pro M9 crowd says having a fast round improves accuracy and the increased capacity of the smaller round provides more shots per magazine which could be a lifesaver.
The pro 45 crowd says that where you would need only 1 round of a 45 you would need 2 or more from an M9.
When the M9 was tested, it was not tested on insurgents wearing body armour that were hopped up on drugs. I say this to try and level the debate on this issue from different eras. To play devils advocate, if you were only shooting at an enemy wearing a couple layers of shirts, then the 9mm could have worked with a double tap.
Now that I have made my position clear on the 45 cal. for general combat ops, I would hope to generate some buzz from individuals who have had trigger time on this issue in theatre…
It’s Probably Nothing
Yeah, it seems as paranoid and nuts as it did when it was said about Bush, but this stuff is not being said in an extremist corner of the internet — it’s being said in a middle-class suburban salon in an area where 30% (or more) of the businesses are now shuttered, and houses are being foreclosed upon and then re-occupied seemingly overnight, creating what the stylist called “a neighborhood full of changes and no hope. Forget about new small businesses,” he said, gesturing across the street, where a small food shop’s “opening soon” banner had become sun-faded and worn, even as the door remained locked. “That guy is never going to open.”
“I can’t get a loan,” the woman in the next chair told me. “I want to consolidate my kid’s college loans into one loan, and the credit union says they don’t give loans to consolidate student loans. I told them, I have job-security and excellent credit — what if I just want a loan for myself, a personal loan?” She was in high dudgeon and her voice grew louder in a perfect arc of Long Island umbrage-taking. “They said they’d need to know what it was for. I said, ‘it’s my personal business what the loan is for! Maybe I want to go on vacation, throw a wedding, pay off college loans, why do you have to know?’, and they said, no, they had to know what the money was for, because they’d be paying it out for me — like I’m a child who can’t be trusted with money! So, I figure, okay, it’s a credit union, I’ll try my bank. They said they don’t make personal loans anymore! It shook me up. I felt like maybe I didn’t realize how bad things are.”
The Tolerant Left
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Open mike at ABC News;
“They aren’t concerned at all,” the person says on tape. “They are happy to have a party when black people drown.”
Update: The ass-covering begins…
Ann Romney
In case you missed it.
Luckily for her, she’s white.
It’s Probably Nothing
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In tonight’s Tips music Loudon Wainwright III delivers the – vaguely portentous – musical warning Be Careful, There’s a Baby in the House.
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