Prostrating ourselves before our enemies, doesn’t make them our base friends:

Calling himself a “conservationist,” Mr. Prentice stressed the need to make greener choices and develop an economy that rests more lightly on the planet. He said that Canada’s 54 coal burning plants, currently in the process of being phased out, will be replaced by wind and more sustainable technologies. This will reduce Canada’s energy emissions by 60%.

Sheep in sheep’s clothing.
Update: Epic Win

“Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense” ~ Churchill

I gave money for earthquake and flood aid … and all I got was this smelly,  useless, blood-soaked, soiled, discarded,  repugnant, t-shirt.

… not convinced? … click … click … click … click … click.
… the winner … click.
EUR on Splattergate

In his address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 23rd, Barrack Obama said:

Yesterday, I put forward a new development policy that will pursue these goals, recognizing that dignity is a human right…

We’ll have to wait to see how that one pans out. In the meantime, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, described as the inventor of the world wide web, claims that “a right to the freedom to access the internet could even be linked back to Magna Carta.”
JuliaM’s priceless response:

I’m pretty certain when that was written, the right to 24 hour access to ‘Maidens who doth show some ankle!’ and the ability to download the latest hot top ten madrigal wasn’t foremost in their thoughts…

The Japanese government has set new national guidelines under which businesses would face massive fines if their employees’ bellies exceed a certain circumference:

Companies and local governments must now measure the waistlines of all employees and family members over the age of 40…(Japanese company) NEC (is) facing 19 million dollars in penalties if it’s employees don’t slim down.

So…who’s hiring?

Spencer:

A small victory indeed: after all, why is there an “Islamic Heritage Month” at all at Canada’s Department of National Defence? When is Jewish Heritage Month? Christian Heritage Month?
Still, any victory is…a victory. Delic is head of the Canadian Islamic Congress, about which you can read below. Kudos to Blazing Cat Fur, Steynian, and the incomparable Kathy Shaidle. Details: “Blazingcatfur Gets Results! MacKay Cancels DND Speech By Canadian Islamic Congress,” from Blazing Cat Fur:

… the inevitable tetchy response.

… dripping in profanity (be warned):

Jobs are a byproduct of healthy industry. They are not a goal in and of themselves and they most definitely are not something the government itself should be trying to encourage or create.

Should be done in something like this:

Some lighter fare. Using guns to pick up chicks.

Go green, and stay in bed with painful cramps:

(Investigators from Channel 7 news in Denver) tested several reusable bags…and took the lab results to Dr. Michelle Barron, the infectious disease expert at the University of Colorado Hospital.

‘Wow. Wow. That is pretty impressive,’ said Barron. ‘Oh my goodness! This is definitely the highest count,’ Barron commented while looking at the bacteria count numbers. ‘We’re talking in the million range of bacteria,’ she said.

Adrian almost looks a right Pathan, at least in the first photo (order changed for firing effect):

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Though almost a shalwar kameez in the second too (a Pathan friend in Pakistan once gave me an outfit). Positively Dillonesque, eh?

Redstate:

Any man who claims you owe him a living is a cannibal.
Whether foreign or domestic, he is a cannibal.
If you choose to help him, that is one thing.
If he demands you “help” as his “right,” he is a leech,
a sycophant, a parasite.
He is a cannibal seeking to survive by consuming you.

ht

Essay @ WUWT:

What are they saying? That it’s okay to ostracize, bully and dismiss those who don’t agree that climate change is uber alles (Oops! Godwin alert, Godwin alert) and that skeptics or the children of skeptics are fair game for… whatever.
As there is no real attempt at humour in the video, there’s no point in pretending it’s a parody. It’s instructional. It’s not even aimed at helping children work towards reducing emissions. It’s about helping children take aim at those who do not.

To flesh things out with a glimpse into what passes as discussion among the “eco” class, here’s an oldie from our dear friend, Paul Watson:

Who should have children? Those who are responsible and completely dedicated to the responsibility which is actually a very small percentage of humans. Being a parent should be a career. Whereas some people are engineers, musicians, or lawyers, others with the desire and the skills can be fathers and mothers. Schools can be eliminated if the professional parent is also the educator of the child.
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We should not be living in human communities that enclose tiny preserved ecosystems within them. Human communities should be maintained in small population enclaves within linked wilderness ecosystems. No human community should be larger than 20,000 people and separated from other communities by wilderness areas. Communication systems can link the communities.
In other words, people should be placed in parks within ecosystems instead of parks placed in human communities. We need vast areas of the planet where humans do not live at all and where other species are free to evolve without human interference.We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and become Earthlings. And as Earthlings, we need to recognize that all the other species that live on this planet are also fellow citizens and also Earthlings. This is a planet of incredible diversity of life-forms; it is not a planet of one species as many of us believe.

… and some Frakking thoughts from Donna and Nova.
Update: This didn’t take long …

… does the “P” stand for pork:

“In terms of financing these things going forward, we’re going to have to respect the precedents we have had in the past and be sure any treatment we’re prepared to make to one city we’re prepared to make to all,” Harper said last month during a speech in Saskatchewan.

… we are soon to find out exactly what the CPC is made of.
Bernier