4600 Miles Later…
And we’re home from the annual Michigan – Montgomery County suicide run. We have some major successes to report, but I’ll just narrow it down to the “big ones”.
We began at the Michigan Terrier Ass’n, in Mornoe, where Am.Can.Ch.Minuteman Goldikova won the schnauzer specialty and went on to place in a huge terrier group, defeating 251 dogs in the cold and driving wind.
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| Minuteman Metropolis scored both of the major wins required for his American title with a Best of Breed win in Michigan and Best of Winners at the American Miniature Schnauzer Club national specialty at Montgomery County. (pictured here with my friend, Karen). |  |
Over the four days that make up the most important weekend for terriers on the planet – “Montgomery County” – Venus took home “select” and “Award of Merit” wins, as did Golda, who was also “best female” at Hatboro, while our young male, Am.Can.Ch.Minuteman Underworld was Best of Breed at Devon – the most prestigious win of the trip.
(Underworld congratulates his cousin new Am.Ch. Mystique Runway to a Legacy on finishing her title at Hatboro.)
In all, dogs with Minuteman breeding in their immediate pedigrees (represented by a variety of US kennels) made up about 25% of the entry, and took home 75% of the major awards over the weekend.
(After “the cut”. Part of the final lineup at the National. Golda and I are at the front where we would go on to win “Select”.)
We have one more short jaunt to South Dakota in a week, and after that (I think) we’ll be drawing the campaign to a close. According to my records, Am.GCh.Can.Ch. Minuteman Venus Flytrap is currently the number one female in the breed in the US, all systems. Thanks to everyone for making this “once in a lifetime” year possible!
(Click on the photos to view in larger format.)
Saskatchewan’s Rolling Canvas Revitalization Project
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Saskatchewan’s NDP gov’t puts tax dollars to work in 2007;
Work on the $1 million dollar project will be complete by July 31, 2007. The tender for painting the [100 government owned] hopper cars has been awarded to GE Railcar Repair Service Company of Regina and the contract for the decals has been awarded to Arco Graphics Inc. of Saskatoon.
Your tax dollars, still at work four years later;
Just one of 5 similarly redecorated redecorated government hopper cars spotted yesterday at Aylesbury, SK.
OWS
Made in Canada:
Soros and the protesters deny any connection. But Reuters did find indirect financial links between Soros and Adbusters, an anti-capitalist group in Canada which started the protests with an inventive marketing campaign aimed at sparking an Arab Spring type uprising against Wall Street. Moreover, Soros and the protesters share some ideological ground.
A Day in The Hood
Since September of this year, I am no longer involved with any organization as I have found the City of Winnipeg is in no way interested in making the North End a better place. The organizations seem to be in place to placate the masses, spend tax payers money, and turn community volunteers into unpaid social workers. And we seem to just keep feeding people. Events seem to always include giving food to whoever shows up. We have become another level of soup kitchens in the city.
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Right now, many people are crying victim, staying on social assistance, pulling themselves down, carrying on the alcoholic lifestyle of their parents, and contributing to criminal behaviour that is pulling the North End down, and nobody is calling them on it. They can ride the victim train the rest of their lives because anyone who questions it would be called racist. And the social services agencies give power to the victimization label, protecting the rights of those who are labeled, or label themselves as victims.
People need to be held accountable for their actions, and they need to learn to make correct decisions. They need to learn to live within Societies norms and they need to respect the laws of the land. People will never be accountable for their actions if they are given the option of being a victim.
h/t Mike
Happy 236th Birthday!
The U.S. Navy was founded on October 13, 1775. Except for a 7 year period in the late 1700’s, it has been an increasingly powerful fighting force, protecting not just American interests but also guaranteeing the liberty of free people the world over. This is a fact that a lot of people don’t recognize but should.
P.S. As Canadians perhaps we could convince our loyal opposition to send out Happy Birthday wishes to all the men & women of the U.S. Navy?! 🙂
Predator-in-Chief
The pilotless aircraft are nearly invisible and, without warning, can deliver instant death from thousands of feet away in the airspace above. Foreign governments often give us permission to cross borders with Predators in a way they would not with loud, manned aircraft.
These advantages explain why President Obama has exponentially expanded the program. After five years of use under George W. Bush, such drones had killed around 400 suspected terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Under President Obama, in less than three years, Predators have taken out more than 2,200.
The program is uniquely suited to Obama’s “leading from behind” approach to warfare: killing far out of sight, and therefore out of mind — and out of the news. Once the war on terror’s fiercest critic, Obama has become its deadliest practitioner.
….more by Victor Davis Hanson HERE
It’s Probably Nothing
What is the problem behind the Markets/Economy? The problem is Debt began to implode in 2008. As you can see on this first chart below, debt has been growing constantly since the 1930’s, it got into a parabolic rise in the 1990’s and 2000’s and all these new dollars in terms of IOU’s are what supported the Real Estate Blowoff of ’06, the Tech Bubble ’00, and the Stock Boom in general of ’07.
That Debt/Credit supply reversed in 2008, had a slight bounce during market/economic recovery from 08′. But this trend is exhausted….
..more charts HERE
Not one of the “99 Percent”
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips music American songwriter John Prine and contralto-voiced Irish folk singer Dolores Keane sing about the difficulties of living In A Town This Size.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Just Another “Peaceful” Leftist
From Portland, Oregon (language warning but very instructive) :
Salim Mansur’s Uncomfortable Truth
Salim Mansur’s new book, Delectable Lie: a liberal repudiation of multiculturalism, is extremely uncomfortable for Lefties to discuss. So much so, that very few book reviewers will go anywhere near it.
Yesterday Charles Adler had a superb discussion with Mansur. There was also a follow-up segment that featured this review by David Warren. If you’ve long thought there was something rather peculiar about treating all cultures equally, no matter how repugnant some other cultures might be, from these discussions you will gain much intellectual ammunition why.
Lounge Lizzard Larry saw “an air of Jesus Christ”
Publius demolishes, puts six feet under, and has pushing up daisies the myths about a certain Canadian prime minister propaganded by one of our most usual journalistic suspects..
Humorous Truth
Obama’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Here’s some stunning insight into Barack Obama that you’ll never see discussed to any extent by the mainstream media. Here’s a snippet:
… some who’ve looked up at the lighted window in the high tower believe that it must be that the great wizard is thinking. He is studying the stars to divine a profound wisdom; he is polishing his “policy skills,” a talent suggested by Wilson in his original piece. “In the first two years, the phrase I heard often in the White House was ‘Good policy makes for good politics.’” But Goldberg asks: if Obama is a policy wizard then where is the wizardy?
h/t Robert of Ottawa
Now is the Time at SDA When We Juxtapose
Nov 2008: After Barack Obama won a 52-48 victory over John McCain, a bunch of Obama supporters reached out to the “48”, assuring them that they would do better to understand.
Oct 2011: Now that their Messiah’s golden promises have turned out to be nothing more than a rusting, sinking hulk, similar 52’ers have very different messages to display.
Baiting the Left
Scramble their Brains (more likely Fire and Forget)
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation
Fund Me
James O’Keefe is at it again.
(Cursory) language warning.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips video we take a look at life on the road for a Russian rock band. (h/t David Thompson)
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Extra-judicial Activities
From an editorial in the very conservative Washington Times:
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Precedent always makes policy, but this is both a dangerous precedent and bad policy. The memo may attempt to explain how this utilitarian argument for assassination overawes constitutional guarantees of due process, but so long as the report remains locked away in the White House, we may never know…[via Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs]
Then Richard Cohen in the Washington Post (not as liberal a paper as some might think, compare to the Gray Lady editorially) :
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The Justice Department memo and its acknowledgment of Awlaki’s citizenship are ample proof that the Obama administration realized it was crossing a line. But it did so on the sneak — a memo, still secret, written by two lawyers you and I never heard of…
Otherwise:
1) Bush tortures foreigners;
2) Obama kills an American.
Go figure. Very nasty things may sometimes be needed for raison d’État. But one then keeps them covert when they may offend commonly accepted legal, and other, principles–instead of effectively boasting of them.