Name That Coalition!

As is the norm here at SDA, the best ideas come from the comments – With Kate’s permission perhaps it is time to speculate on a name for the coalition. Perhaps the Traitors, Commies and Clueless party?
My favourite so far – “The Coalition of the Swilling”
Add your own in the comments. It’s time for a new thread, anyway.
Update – already several exceptional suggestions and a first-rate rant…
New Libloq
The Progressive Pork Party
The USSR – Union of Separatists and Socialists against the Right
New Libs on the Bloc
The Raucas Porkas Caucus
Bloc Torontois
“The Treasonists… The Terminally Stupid party… The Pathological Self Preservationists… The Can You Repeat the Question Again Party… The Peoples Temple of Trudeauvia Party… The F##K Democracy Party… The Entitled to their Entitlements Party… The Canada Schmanada Party… The Don’t Vote For Me, and We’ll Seize Power Anyhow Party… The Naturally Governing Seperatist Party… The Clarity Act Seperatist Alliance… The New, New France Party… The Nationalist Socialist, Seperatist Alliance… The Gerard Kennedy Just Won’t Shut the Hell Up Party… The MSM Party… The Coup D’Etat Party… The We’re Not American Party… Sorry, I could go on, but won’t.”
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Y2Kyoto: “Mr. Obama rejected that view”

“… saying that his plan would reduce oil imports, create jobs in energy conservation and renewable sources of energy, and reverse the warming of the atmosphere.

Good times!

Economically speaking, this is total lunacy. But he believes. Nor does he need Congress to act, since the EPA is already dealing with petitions to regulate CO2 as a pollutant. He simply does what he said he would do before the election, which is to regulate CO2 as a HAP. Even farms would have to go through permitting, as would large stores, etc.
Last week an EPA appeals board dumped another coal plant, and said the EPA should develop national rules for CO2 emissions. That ruling is widely believed to have placed about one hundred coal plants in jeopardy, at a time when the US is rapidly running out of electricity. Plants in Utah, New Mexico, Kansas and Georgia have all recently been stopped by legal action.
That leaves the US with no new drilling, no new nuclear plants, no new hydro plants and no new coal plants. In short, it leaves us with no real substantial new energy sources except perhaps plants that burn natural gas.

Reader Tips

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time radio show, here is Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave, CBE, as Cecil Scott Forrester‘s indomitable Admiral of the Fleet and 1st Baron Horatio Hornblower, GCB, in Disguised As a French Ship (1952, MP3, 5 MB, 21:48), with a tip of the tricorne to Her Majesty’s Canadian Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Mr. Stephen Harper, PC. Godspeed, sir.

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

STAY STEPHANE STAY! (Bumped Again)

Evening Update – via a reliable source:

This story started with a Canadian Press story that obviously did not understand House of Commons procedure. The Ways and Means Motion being voted on Monday is for tax measures only. The elimination of political subsidies will be in the enabling legislation for the fiscal update as planned, it will be a confidence vote.

With the Liberals held hostage, Jack Layton has reportedly laid out his list of demands – including both the finance and environment portfolios.
I told you this’d be worth it!
Bourque seems to be on top of the other news headlines, so I’l redirect you there…
Original post continues below:

Opposition hold coalition talks, Grits may dump Dion


One option under consideration is to suspend plans for the May 2 leadership convention and just go straight to the cage match…. developing….
Updates:
A CBC poll goes horribly wrong.
Breaking – after calls to the Saskatchewan “a leadership convention date has yet to be decided” Liberals produced a “this number is no longer in service” message, opposition parties are reported to be seeking advice on coalition-forming from Jean “when I’m finished with Paul Martin he won’t get elected dog-catcher” Chretien.
ROTFLMAO Update… via John Gormley Live. … With the opposition parties on record vowing to take down the government over the “lack of a stimulus package” in the economic update … Harper The Merciful has announced he’ll remove the party funding portion and separate it from the confidence vote… developing…
To the Liberal/NDP supporters whining that the CPC is exploiting the opposition’s financial vulnerability to play “partisan games”, I offer this advice – get out your checkbooks and shut the hell up.

Tony Blair’s Britain

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and Party Girl Police fan out across the nation;

Drunk women who stagger about in high heels are to be protected – at public expense – from twisting their ankles.
They will be handed flip-flops to wear by police outside nightclubs as they wend their way home. The scheme is part of a £30,000 drive by police and councillors to prevent ‘alcohol-related harm’.
It has been prompted by fears that women wearing stilettos or similar footwear could tumble over.

h/t

Can Your Office Provide A Quote From The Communist Secret Police To Help Flesh Out Our Hit Piece?

Newsbusters;

New York Times European correspondent Dan Bilefsky bizarrely relayed the contents of a secret police file from the former Communist state of Czechoslovakia to boost his argument that Vaclav Klaus, the new president of the European Union, is a dangerously arrogant proponent of the free market. Bilefksy’s Tuesday story from Prague, “A Fiery Czech Is Poised to Be the Face of Europe,” read more like a cautionary left-wing editorial than a news story.

More – It’s a hit that carries the fingerprints of the climate alarmists.
IBD – “Right man, right job, right time.”
Previous – “Can Your Office Provide A List Of Your Critics To Help Us Flesh Out Our Hit Piece?”

RE: Barbara and not volunteering at church anymore.

“I had the same experience.”

After years of volunteer work, taking vacation days to teach a “genius” class of bright kids from our church school (itself clearly a social crime in the brave, new and disgusting “Beneath the Wheel” world of leveling education), I was told I had to undergo vetting for criminal behavior. I told them to go to hell, a place they profess a deep knowlege of. Others, more compliant, will take my place, and argue that it is not so bad, and well intended. Like helping the Jews by resettling them in the East, perhaps?
The mark of the socialist is to classify, since that is simplier than having to think. Thus to the nazi, Jews were a class of subhumans, and to Pol Pot’s murder squads, those who wore glasses were intellectuals, thus a threat to the perfect agrarian society, and should be shot. To the racketeers of the Left, white men, who largely were the inventive and operational core (for whatever reason) during most of the development of Western Society have to be the class of oppressors (although very few ever were). But why? Because that is where the money is! Western Culture brought us the toilet, the telephone, antibiotics, photography, ships of the sea and air, institutionalized curiosity (a.k.a. Science) and the engineering that makes science useful. It made freedom possible, because it made us rich (well, overall). But like the Nazi’s, who went after the Jews with invented claptrap and insane ideas, because the Jews were where the money was, the rise of the sensitivity culture is a piracy culture, an extortionist racket.
At the root of this piracy is the legal system, which has developed an infuriating, disproportionate ability to collect damages beyond all proportion. Thus churches and corporations, being largely productive(the magic word is “have assets”) are thrown open to ruin by the disconnect between the jury awards and reason, since the ethical spine of the jurors themselves is the pivot. Most jurors are well meaning, but suckers for spending other people’s money (as are, co-incidentally, your governments, which in the midst of a developing depression, want an even larger division of your labor…why should (socialist) public pensions and salaries and other comforts be inconvenienced by your troubles?).
What has really created a problem is that as socialist dogma in the public schools spreads it has infected jury pools with irresponsible, self-absorbed free-lunch types. At least in part because of this, sexual abuses, and God forbid, personal slights and perceived unkindness, which we all know will occur from time to time, become the fodder for disproportionate and destructive awards extracted from well-meaning and/or productive organizations. Small wonder then that the “touchy-feely” elements of the legal rackets promptly step forward with antidotes for the very venoms they spew. The price is reasonable! Just a few thousand dollars per session, or per backgrounder, plus the decency, dignity and presumption of innoncence once promised to us as citizens, and always deserved by decent people. So what if you get thrown under the bus by the indifference of law and the vile greed of the hyperbolic, extortinate left: on the one hand they have the opportunity to extravagantly loot productive organizations, on the other to to make money immunizing against lawsuits. What’s not to like?
This degrades society and wastes resources, but it is easier for institutions and corporations to become the handmaidens of fraud-peddling social engineers, abusing and insulting volunteers or employees, rather than take a principled stand against this abuse.
This is truly a high tech middle ages that is evolving. The age of reason is over.

h/t to PiperPaul

The Sound Of Settled Science

A scientific research station in Ely, Nevada, part of an “air quality and environmental monitoring program”.

It is an impressive station with multiple state of the art sensors, solar power, and a datalogger with a satellite uplink to DRI’s HQ.

And dual parking lots.
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Update and correction – this is not part of the USHCN climatology network as originally indicated, but a scientific research station run by the Department of Energy and Desert Research Institute.

Full Steam Ahead

Star Phoenix;

Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan will require the equivalent of 32,526 direct and indirect positions during construction of capacity expansion projects over the next four years, says a company executive.
When expansion projects are complete at its Allan, Cory, Lanigan, Patience Lake and Rocanville operations in 2012, the company will be responsible for the creation of an additional 14,583 direct and indirect jobs in Saskatchewan, Wayne Brownlee, PotashCorp executive vice-president and CFO, said at a Canadian Club of Saskatoon luncheon Wednesday.
[…]
The company is spending nearly $6.5 billion to add 8.95 million tonnes of annual capacity to its potash mines — including its Picadilly, N.B., operation — over the next four years. It expects the new level of capacity to be fully ramped up by 2014. In Saskatchewan, this means an investment of $4.8 billion, said Brownlee, and in a difficult economic environment, the timing couldn’t be better for the province.

Reader Tips

Good evening, EBD here. Welcome to Vitruvius’ SDA Late Nite Radio.
Several weeks ago I had the good fortune to see American songwriter Lucinda Williams performing live in a small local venue. By the end of the two-and-a-half hour concert I knew I’d witnessed something very special. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Ms. Williams singing the title track from her 1998 release Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.
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Faster, Please.

Nov. 19

Heritage Minister James Moore has warned CBC executives that excessive spending on hotels, theatre tickets, and charity dinners “does not sit well” with Canadians, and has asked the Crown corporation’s board of directors to rein in the spending.

Nov. 26;

John Cruickshank has resigned from the top job at CBC News to take the position of publisher of the Toronto Star.

h/t to Dan C.

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