You just can’t make it up.
(My apologies if this was already posted, just wanted to make sure it got some press)

Think an Obama/Democrat Majority of the US Congress.
I feel like I owe all Canadians an apology that the Toronto stock market is at least tangentially affected by ours.
If any SDA’ers find themselves in the Twin Cities area, feel free to look me up and I shall buy you a compensatory/guilt ridden drink.

Every time a Canadian lad wants to wander astray and run afoul of the law, he thinks of Bach … or Einstein … Michelangelo, or even that most brilliant of Canucks … Oswald Avery … and his heart is filled with pride and he pursues violent no more:

Jim Knight, the schools minister, claimed lessons in the scientific and cultural innovations of Islam over the centuries would give young Muslims a sense of worth and reduce their risk of becoming alienated and falling under the spell of radicals.
He said it could also bring divided communities closer together, by teaching children from other backgrounds about the debt we all owe to Muslims – from coffee and pinhole cameras to the three-course dinner and advancements in maths.
Mr Knight spoke at the launch of an exhibition in Parliament about Islamic innovations, which has been developed by an education group dedicated to improving knowledge about Muslim history in Britain.

… enter BBC with more of the same.
Personally, I have a better solution … board games.

… or at war with “them”:

Obama has chosen another course. Though he comes out of the McGovern-Jesse Jackson left, he has shed past positions like support for partial-birth abortion as fast as he has shed past associations, from William Ayers to ACORN, from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to his fellow parishioners at Trinity United.
One question remains: Will a President Obama, with his party in absolute control of both Houses, revert to the politics and policies of the left that brought him the nomination, or resist his ex-comrades’ demands that he seize the hour and impose the agenda ACORN, Ayers, Jesse and Wright have long dreamed of?
Whichever way he decides, he will be at war with them, or at war with us. If Barack wins, a backlash is coming.

And “war”, it will be … click.
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Support for conservatism may be growing among Canadian voters, but the left has one considerable reserve strength that’s going to help them for a long time: language. Through what amounts to propaganda the left has been successful at co-opting formerly non-political words, with the result that now many common, undeniably positive sounding words are in effect free-ranging promo-pieces for the left’s worldview. “Fairness”, “empathy”, “peace”, “equality”, and “the earth” have become political word-weapons, and even the word “conservative” has come to imply an agenda that includes opposition to “empathy” and “fairness” and “justice.”
The same use of language that has allowed media outlets like the CBC and the BBC to posit, without coming out and saying it, that big-state bureaucracy is a synonym for peace and justice and fairness, has also helped enable academic institutions to promote entirely political agendas — who on earth would be opposed to “social justice?” British blogger David Thompson has been amply detailing, in a number of his posts in the last several years, the extent of blatant ideological bias in academia, particularly in Britain and the U.S., and he notes the common use of “fuzzwords” meant to disguise the promotion of an activist agenda. Reading his articles, it becomes disturbingly clear how common it is for universities to demand that students, often those studying to become teachers, toe the line of an ideological agenda as a precondition to further study. The implications go far beyond academia:

I’ve been told I make too much of these academic issues, as if such things are unimportant or indicative of nothing in particular. But given the number of incidents of this kind gradually swelling the archives, I’m inclined to wonder exactly how egregious and pervasive this phenomenon has to be before concern becomes legitimate. After all, if you want to propagate tendentious ideology and make it seem normative, respectable and self-evidently true, insinuating that ideology into schools and universities would be a pretty good way to do it. “Debate” can then be had on what is most likely an unequal footing, thus arriving at the approved conclusions with a minimum of informed and realistic opposition. If faculty and students are obliged to regurgitate that ideology and perhaps internalise it, while mouthing fuzzwords like “social justice,” all the better. Is it enough to bemoan certain socio-political trends or bias in areas of the media if one doesn’t also address the place where many of these things originate? And are we supposed to believe that the ideologues who push for such measures are going to get tired and desist of their own volition, and then politely roll back the idiocy they’ve been so keen to put in place?

Read the whole thing, including the links, and, if you’re inclined, check out his highly entertaining archives.
Brainteaser for SDA commenters: When one hears positive-sounding words like “social justice” or “peace” or “equality” in any political context one implicitly hears “the left.” Are there any words primarily associated, in common usage and across the political spectrum, to the conservative/right, that are universally viewed as positive, or good? Hint: don’t hurt yourself in the attempt.

Never understood why credit is never given to the politicians that manage to balance the books and do the right thing. Canadians should be a bit smug in their superior fiscal austerity over the US.

Because, it’s like, totally unAmerican to work for what you want.

Commentary/analysis here.

Better hold your breath … or the O-bots will get you.
Barack Barry Dunham Hussein Obama is clearly off the rails now … either that, or he’s willing to say anything to get elected. He promises to fix the economy, yet at the same time vows to declare CO2 a dangerous pollutant.
Think about the implications for a minute … as you exhale dangerous pollutant from your miserable evil lungs:

Barack Obama will classify carbon dioxide as a dangerous pollutant that can be regulated should he win the presidential election on Nov. 4, opening the way for new rules on greenhouse gas emissions.
The Democratic senator from Illinois will tell the Environmental Protection Agency that it may use the 1990 Clean Air Act to set emissions limits on power plants and manufacturers, his energy adviser, Jason Grumet, said in an interview. President George W. Bush declined to curb CO2 emissions under the law even after the Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the government may do so.

… by the way, I wonder how McCain will one-up The Big O on this one?
It never ceases to amaze me that millions … nay, billions, of people worldwide suck this guys pronouncements up like manna from the gods. I guess that’s what cult of personality is all about … I can hardly wait until American liberals raise the next generation of O-bots. In celebration of that eventuality, I present a little hyperbole … just for fun mind you:

Cradle-to-grave Nanny pampering and all the free love in the world wasn’t good enough for Mohamed Moumou … so in order to find his inner Mo, he cut loose in Mosul and had a blast:

Abu Qaswarah, al Qaeda in Iraq’s second in command who was killed by US forces in Mosul, was a naturalized Swedish citizen who was wanted by United States, according to information obtained by The Long War Journal.
Abu Qaswarah, whose real name is Mohamed Moumou, was killed in Mosul during an Oct. 5 raid on an al Qaeda command center. He detonated his vest after being mortally wounded and killed three women and three children.
The US military said Abu Qaswarah was a Moroccan who trained in al Qaeda camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the 1990s. He had close connections with Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the slain leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, and commanded al Qaeda forces in northern Iraq before being appointed second in command.

In the meantime, America seems to have no intention of giving Cambodiastan a free ride … click.

From the Cjunk “wishful thinking” file:
In a surprising yet welcome move, most major North American and International news outlets today reported on the IPCC and Warmist admission that predictions of an ice-free arctic in 2008 were simply wrong. Furthermore, most MSM outlets quoted two studies that pointed to “winds” and “circulation”, not global warming, as the likely causes of arctic ice depletion. Most surprising of all, was NASA’s Dr. James Model Hansen, who told reporters, “I was wrong … just simply wrong … predicting an ice free 2008 was clearly hyperbole … and for that, I apologize.”
Even Al Gore got into the act, and expressed regret at fanning the flames of sensationalism … while environmental groups around the world moved cautiously toward a more open view of the situation. Pepper Misty Leaf, of Arctic Ice Salvation stated, “We didn’t realize it was the wind … and now that wind dynamics are changing, we may see more … not less ice in the near future … polar bears will be happy!”
David Suzuki even got into it when he told reporters that, “We knew it couldn’t all have been attributed to Global Warming … the models are, after all, only as good as the formulas and data that go into them. The planet is a solar driven beast … and we need to look a lot closer at the the sun.”
But the final word goes to the IPCC, which plans on revising its outlooks. “Someone, somewhere, is not telling the truth … either that, or we just don’t know as much about the climate as we thought,” said IPCC head, Rajendra Pachauri’s. He added, that since he believes in reincarnation, he intends on pursuing the matter even into another life.
Watts Up, has more:

A difference of: 1,576,563 square kilometers, now in fairness, 2008 was a leap year, so to avoid that criticism, the value of 6,857,188 square kilometers can be used which is the 10/13/08 value, for a difference of 1,369,532 sq km. Still not too shabby at 24.9 %. The one day gain between 10/13/08 and 10/14/08 of 3.8% is also quite impressive.
You can download the source data in an Excel file at the IARC-JAXA website, which plots satellite derived sea-ice extent: