Tony Blair’s Britain

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and political opinions must be pre-approved;

The slide into multi-culti totalitarianism has gone much farther than I knew.
The Brussels Journal reports that Geert Wilders has been banned from entry to the U.K. This is the first time ever that a parliamentarian from one EU country has been forbidden entry to another.

The second “victory for the Muslim community” this week! “Don’t attack us please, UK ads to say on Pak TV channels”
Really, the IRA gave up way too soon.
Update: David Thompson spells things out;

… to the best of my knowledge, Wilders hasn’t called for the murder or intimidation of anyone; nor does he advocate terrorism or use casual threats of violence to get his own way. He is, in fact, the recipient of death threats and has spent the last few years living under police protection. An honour he shares with several outspoken women, careless academics and elderly cartoonists.
One therefore has to marvel at the suggestion by the Home Secretary’s Office that in and of itself Wilders’ visit would “pose a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society” and would “threaten community harmony and therefore public security in the UK.” Presumably what is meant – but not being said – is that a significant number of Muslims with anger management issues would take it upon themselves either to threaten violence or do violence to Mr Wilders, and possibly to others too. One wonders, then, where the real “threat to the fundamental interests of society” is coming from.

A Pep Talk

When historians look back at this recession it is going to be a shameful period for the Baby Boomers for they are the ones who were more or less at the helm of this financial disaster. This is not to foist all blame on them, as there is certainly no limit to the amount of idiotic, disgusting, entitlement mentality driven Gen-X’ers who more or less make up a plurality of the sub prime dead beats and thus are also to blame, but at the helm of all the financial institutions, regulatory institutions, governments and corporations were the Baby Boomers. And they were asleep.

Well, maybe not so much a “pep” talk as it is a “you don’t completely suck” talk.

Goodbye, Founding Fathers – Hello, Tommy Douglas!

Conservative bloggers in the US have been chattering about this find in recent hours;

The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.
But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”
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Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties.

If Obama screws up the American health care system, where the Hell are Canadians supposed to go?

Reader Tips

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here are Gerry Mulligan, Bob Brookmeyer, Wyatt Ruther, and Gus Johnson performing Open Country (5:23). Brookmeyer’s performance is a delightful addition to tonight’s show; we haven’t seen enough of the valve trombone lately (not that we’ve seen enough of the Cimbasso either, yet perhaps we should save that for another show).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?

Update: The original video has been edited with the following explanation: “Some of the SDA regulars thought I took Dear Leader’s words out of context from the Al Aribiya interview. While I don’t believe that you bring a knife to a gun fight, I found some of their objections well reasoned and deleted the “offending” passage.”

An exceptional video.
Update – The First Presidential News Conference is being broadcast at the moment… yowza. He simply has no clue what he’s talking about. Can this man ah string six words together ah without ah ….?
Expect the shaking to begin from teleprompter withdrawal at any moment…
Helen Thomas just asked “do you know of any countries in the Middle East that have nuclear weapons?” Meaning – here’s your chance to finally confirm the bloodthirsty Zionists have the Bomb, oh, One Who Makes My Thighs Quiver.
From the comments – “I watched as long as I could. O Man is as vapid and dumb as a rock. The guy chatters. There isn’t a linear line in his brain. He had more disconnected angles going on than Pythagoras. My husband kept muttering “what in the name of God is he saying”. And the press, of course, sat in awe. I finally changed channels to the Westminster Dog show.”
Me too!

” The Ontario Human Rights regime is incompatible with a free society.”

Mark Steyn testifies before the the legislative hearing on the Ontario Human Rights Commission…

What impressed me most powerfully about the hearing was not Mark’s address but the hatred visible on the faces of the apparatchiks. Imagine a man boldly declaring defiance of their nascent nanny state, backed by thugs. It was never supposed to happen.

The transcript at Post-Darwinist
Meanwhile, over in CHRC land, Jennifer Lynch goes partying in VIenna on the taxpayer’s dime.

Y2Kyoto: Glimmer Of Sanity

Off with his head!

Northern Ireland’s environment minister announced Monday he has banned the local broadcast of British government ads on climate change and denounced their energy-saving message as “insidious propaganda.”
Sammy Wilson has repeatedly raised eyebrows since winning the environment post in Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government last year. The hard-line Protestant, a leading light in the Democratic Unionist Party, argues that global weather patterns are naturally cooling, not warming — and humanity should invest in coping with God-driven climate change, not trying to slow down a man-made problem.
His latest fight is against the central government in London, which funds an “Act on CO2” campaign encouraging the public to reduce their use of electricity and fossil fuels. Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, but the Catholic-Protestant coalition in Belfast has autonomy in many areas.
Wilson said the Act on CO2 ads were “giving people the impression that by turning off the standby light on their TV, they could save the world from melting glaciers and being submerged in 40 feet of water.”
He said the ads, which have been running on British television stations including in Northern Ireland over the past year, represented “an insidious propaganda campaign” peddling “patent nonsense.”
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David Ford, leader of a joint Catholic-Protestant party called Alliance, said Wilson’s views were “profoundly unrepresentative” of Northern Ireland opinion. He expressed surprise that Wilson had not mentioned the exceptional past week of snowfall.

The Law Of Intended Consequences

Har har…

General Motors has announced that it plans to invest $1 billion of US taxpayer money into its Brazil operations.
In selling the steady stream of bailouts to the US public, both the Bush and Obama administrations have argued that American jobs will be saved or created by taxpayer-funded gifts to failing companies like GM, AIG, and Bank of America.
As of this morning, no US government official had a reaction to the news.

Update – story appears to be false. (original link has been pulled).

Section 13 Debate

G&M;

Brian Storseth, a Conservative MP, has asked the Commons justice committee to review Section 13 of the act, which contains provisions that deal with hate messages. Mr. Storseth also wants the committee to review the mandate of the commission itself.
He told the committee last week that “concerns have been raised regarding the investigative techniques of the Canadian Human Rights Commission and the interpretation and application of Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.”
Mr. Storseth’s request echoes a similar motion brought by the Conservatives during the previous session of Parliament.

The Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights will be debating the CHRC today (Monday Feb.9) from 3:30 – 5:30 Ottawa time. You can catch the webcast at the link.

The Libranos

It’s an old fashioned “family” reunion;

Some federal Liberal Party activists are wondering if and why new interim leader Michael Ignatieff is giving back power to key players who backed Paul Martin in the internally bitter and divisive leadership battle with Jean Chretien to become Prime Minister.
And they are asking questions, quietly and privately, about why controversial Liberal Bruce Clark is chairing the high dollar donor Laurier Club in BC, among other roles in fundraising for the party.

h/t

Reader Tips

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here are Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, and Pamela Frank performing the third movement of Frédéric Chopin‘s Trio in G Minor for violin, cello, and piano, Op. 8 (5:39).

We also have an extra treat tonight, a wee bit of classical music comedy. Here is the only known footage from the playing of the world’s only pipe organ with an open 128 foot pipe, which would be a fundamental frequency of 4 Hertz, for those of you keeping score at home (1:29 😉

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

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