At what point can we simply use the “M” word without being blamed for polemics and just call it an established fact …

… more @ Celestial Junk on finding your inner Marxist.

Naw, we don’t need to count *every* vote….
On October 14 Liberal Ujjal Dosanjh won his seat in Vancouver South by a margin of 33 votes, which under Elections Canada rules triggered an automatic recount. Here’s the curious thing, though: the judge in charge of the recount didn’t open all the ballot boxes. According to some sources, only 28 out of 184 ballot boxes — fifteen percent — were counted, after which the judge declared Dosanjh the winner by a now diminished margin of 22 votes. The Conservative candidate, Wai Young, said only “a sampling” of ballot boxes were recounted.
A sampling? In such a tight race, and with each counted box showing the race to be tightening, why on earth is it reasonable to stop after counting fifteen percent of the ballot boxes? Is it just too tedious, or…? And if a recount of fifteen percent of boxes brought Donanjh’s lead down from 33 to 22, wouldn’t that suggest that there might be some other, different numbers further down in all those uncounted ballot boxes? In Brossard-La Prairie for example, the BQ candidate who was declared the winner on election night by a margin of 102 votes was found by a recount to have lost to the Liberal candidate by a margin of 69 votes — a 172 vote swing.
Joanne at Blue Like You:

“What it all really boils down to is this: Why was there only a partial recount done in Vancouver South when the vote differential between the incumbent and the closest runner-up started to decrease?

“The second question is, do we have a right to know? Should Canadian voters be given some kind of explanation as to why this decision was made?

“The third question is, what kind of recount process is occurring in all the other ridings? If every vote gets counted in all other recounts, then why is Vancouver South the exception?”

This whole recount-“sample” procedure is fishy. There’s no good reason to not count all the votes cast. The usual suspects in the MSM aren’t concerned about the issue, but you can find info and links at Blue Like You.
UPDATE: Candidate Wai Young will be taking her case for a full recount to the BC Supreme Court on Thursday. (h/t Ruth)

Because a) evidently women are incapable of formulating intelligent questions all by themselves and b) all women should be in the tank for Obama/Biden.
Didn’t she read the memo?

… they have no shame either:

Arctic Ice Melting “even in winter”
Yes, The Sunday Times did print this tosh as a headline. It even quoted
Peter Wadhams, professor of ocean physics at Cambridge University, saying: “This is one of the most serious problems the world has ever faced.”
This is the same Prof. Wadhams who told the Telegraph, last week: “The warmer temperatures will also take longer to dissipate, the autumn freeze will take longer, meaning thinner ice.”
Booker, in this week’s column has reported that the Arctic ice cover is 31 percent up on last year, while Anthony Watts reports “sea ice area approaching the edge of normal standard deviation”.
But there is no end to the tosh these warmists and their fellow travellers dribble out. Two weeks ago, the girlie environment correspondent, Louise Gray was writing in The Daily Telegraph that a “Green Christmas [was] more likely than a white one”.

… more.

… but the place to be at:

While Ontario and other provinces struggle with harsh economic realities … yet refuse to shed their socialist pocket digging ways … Saskatchewan thrives. In fact, Saskatchewan has become Canada’s place for new beginnings.
[…]
Saskatoon is a boon for tradesmen, truckers, and most blue collar workers. Tradesmen in particular will find the place a Mecca where their skills are being begged for and where the newly announced tax structure will add plenty of punch to good wages. An added bonus, is that the recent housing boom has caused Saskatoon’s many longtime residents to enter the market as sellers to capture higher prices, and the incredible glut of homes for sale has caused a temporary 27% drop in house prices.

“One man, one vote” is the foundation of our democracy. More than one-hundred million Americans cast their ballots in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, yet in the end the victory was won in Florida by a margin of approximately five hundred votes — about 0.000005% of all votes cast. The integrity of voters’ lists is, as Mark Steyn wrote, “a national security issue.” Elections must be fair, and not fraudulent; it’s not so much an issue of who holds power, it’s more about the existence of democracy itself, which “turns on our ability to convince voters that regardless of the results, they are honest results.”
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, aka ACORN, is a left of centre community organization that has been undertaking massive voter registration drives, primariliy in inner city and poor neighbourhoods. All efforts to get out the vote are a valuable contribution to democracy but ACORN, who have received $800,000 from Barrack Obama’s campaign, and whose national political action committee has endorsed him has been engaging in what is undeniably voter fraud at the local level by “registering” large numbers of non-existent and dead voters, and by registering single voters multiple times, and, in some cases, by encouraging their employees to engage in such fraud.
ACORN has been particularly active in key battleground states with a eye to the upcoming election. Even if a only small portion of the ACORN’s fraudulently-registered potential multiple-voters are activated, those votes would far exceed — would dwarf — the 500 vote margin of victory in the last election. In other words, we’re not just talking about just particular neighbourhoods here. ACORN has scope. In Kansas City, four Acorn employees were indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting 15,000 fraudulent voter registration forms; in Lake County Indiana, a Republican state in the last election but now a battleground state, “ACORN turned in 5,000 new registrations. The authorities there started reviewing them, and quit after they found that the first 2,100 were all fraudulent.” In Marion County, also in Indiana, there are 33,000 more registered voters than there are eligible voters. In Ohio — and this can’t be all attributed to ACORN — there are 200,000 more registered voters than there are adult residents. In Cuyahoga County, an ACORN employee signed 73 voter registration cards, sometimes in exchange for cigarettes; an employee of an ACORN affiliate was given crack cocaine for fraudulent registration.

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Recall the days of Ozone hole scares … where the Freon in our AC units was treated like poison to the planet and warnings of sheep in Argentina and Antarctica all getting cataracts filled the pages of the broad sheets or beamed from TV shows like The Nature of Things.
Massive sweeping measures were taken worldwide to reduce chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and with the same zeal and certainty that warmists show, “scientists” told us it’d take decades for the bans and reductions to even begin to have an effect. We were warned to “change” our ways before it was too late. Since then, the Ozone Hole pushers have moved on to other things … from Rain Forest deforestation to the biggest canard of all time … AGW.
Here’s the latest on Ozone Holes … seems like the whole hole-frenzy may have just been a mound of hooey after all:

Just wondering … what is the junk they put in AC units now … and why must I pay to have old units “safely” depressurized?

A page taken from the Marxist playbook is to create the impression that your side is the undisputed and overwhelming favorite … that opposing “it” is not only silly, but puts you in the “lowbrow” category. In extreme cases, the clear impression that opposing is not conducive to one’s health also comes into play. Of course it’s easy to do this with KIDS … but pulling off the stunt with adults takes the cooperation of the news media.
So it is, that the overwhelmingly pro-Obama press, in the United States and even here in Canada, is bending over backwards to create the impression that a McCain vote (especially Palin vote) is for losers.
Steyn, as usual, gets it right:

cross-posted @ Cjunk

I love zydeco … but this takes the cake:
… By Poor James and The Swamp Crows.

Rage laden analysis here.

Something Kate might be interested in.