Do You Tink It’s IZzy To Make A Green Shift?

Political Animal 72 Comments

I continue to endorse Stephane Dion’s carbony green tax grab plan.

Boy am I ever glad I’m not Stephane Dion today. […]
“Just one moment please” said the polite woman who answered the phone, in response to my inquiry. Seconds later, another person picked up the phone. I repeated that I was inquiring about ‘the green shift’ and was asked “Are you calling about us or about the federal Liberal campaign?” I could tell this person was not happy.
[…]
The answer came just as I finished stating the purpose of my call. There was no relationship, and the person I was speaking with, while very polite, was absolutely furious that this has happened. It was suggested to me that Green Shift has lost both new business and existing clients since Thursday who have been frightened off at the perception of a relationship between them and the federal Liberal Party. You can’t blame businesses for not wanting to do business with anyone affiliated with a political party, but unfortunately, this is not the case with Green Shift are they are being unfairly punished as a result of the Liberal Party’s actions.
I was told that Green Shift has worked extremely hard for 10 years to become one of the most successful vendors of green services and products only to be faced with the reality that all this work may be wiped out in a matter of days. I was told that Green Shift did a brief interview with CTV late last week but tried to keep it low key as they had not yet decided upon what the official response be. It seems today that along with a press release, a Cease and Desist notice will be issued..

More on LIberal shiftiness from Stephen Taylor…

The Sound Of Settled Science

Climate Cult 18 Comments

IPCC policies state:

“All written expert, and government review comments will be made available to reviewers on request during the review process and will be retained in an open archive in a location determined by the IPCC Secretariat on completion of the Report for a period of at least five years.”

Despite this, IPCC Review Editor John Mitchell of the UK Met Office claimed to have destroyed all their working documents and correspondence pertaining to his duties as Review Editor and the Met Office also claims to have expunged all records.

Not Waiting For The Asteroid

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“Newspaper advertising revenue growth slowed in Q1 2008 by the largest amount since the Newspaper Association of America began measuring ad results back in 1971.”

I wonder if the liberal editorial community even paused to consider what consequences might await before they embarked on the negativity campaign against the US economy in their efforts to damage Bush? Did they really think they could pull that off without slitting their own advertising throats?
The answers are “no” and “yes”, of course.

“Arm In Arm” With Bush, On iraq

Political Animal 11 Comments

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

An intriguing article by Richard Fernandez;

Barack Obama’s position on Iraq has shifted significantly over the last six years. What is interesting is how his position on Iraq matches up with developments in Chicago. Specifically, there appears to be a direct correlation between the rising and falling prospects of his longtime friend and fundraiser Tony Rezko’s attempts to secure multi-million-dollar contracts to build and operate a power plant in Kurdish Iraq and the senator’s Iraq flip-flops.

Montana Pics

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As you’ve likely noticed, I arrived home last night. The trip was an overall success – in addition to Lucy’s win reported a couple of days ago, my male puppy Minuteman Dead Cat Bounce was Best of Breed from the classes for a 5 pt major on the final day, while his cousin (Kampfer’s Tainted Sunshine) was winners and opposite over specials, for 5 pts of her own. Which means I won everything that day (and was overwhelmed by the well-wishers, as one might imagine!)
I took a few photos on the trip to Montana, these two I thought worth sharing:
This Pronghorn stood and watched for a while before charging across the highway. Then he stopped and watched, again.

This one is for our resident meterologists. Taken from the RV parking area at Billings, MT on June 18th.

Large versions are here (antelope) and here (clouds).
Thanks for your patience with the site problems while I was away, and special thanks to our guest bloggers for keeping the place humming.

The Sound Of Settled Science

Climate Cult 4 Comments

“You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling CO2”

Reid A. Bryson holds the 30th PhD in Meteorology granted in the history of American education. Emeritus Professor and founding chairman of the University of Wisconsin Department of Meteorology—now the Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences—in the 1970s he became the first director of what’s now the UW’s Gaylord Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies. He’s a member of the United Nations Global 500 Roll of Honor—created, the U.N. says, to recognize “outstanding achievements in the protection and improvement of the environment.” He has authored five books and more than 230 other publications and was identified by the British Institute of Geographers as the most frequently cited climatologist in the world.

Reid Bryson passed away on June 11th. You’ll enjoy the link, originally posted here last May.

Canadian Bloggers Exposed To Hatred And Contempt

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National Post;

Both she and Ms. Eliadis had harsh words for the growing contingent of bloggers who lambaste the commissions, and have been invigorated by the prominence of the Maclean’s complaints.
Ms. Eliadis singled out one in particular, blazingcatfur.blogspot.com, as “poisonous” for referring to her panel at the conference as a “Texas cage match.”
She said it was evidence of the “appalling tone” that is “illustrative of how badly this debate has gone.”

More material for the poisonous debate – “Take a moment to see how hard Jennifer Lynch, the chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, works. She jets off to Africa, at a cost of $5,800; then Geneva, for a mere $8,300, Australia, for a bargain of $7,500. I can’t remember the last time I spent $90 on breakfast, but then again I don’t work for the CHRC.”

Screw you Dion

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The words are flying. In juxtaposition to the sycophantic,
pant-staining ejaculation emanating from many of the eastern
media, we
have Murray
Mandryk of the Regina LeaderPost.

What’s most maddening is how much of a slap it is to the
principle that provinces like Saskatchewan own our natural
resources. Dion is now telling us, “So what if the western
provinces do own the oil and gas? The federal government can
simply tax the end product and transfer the bulk of any
benefit to those living in our electoral base in the east.”

You really have to read the whole thing. It’s almost
blog-worth . . . but not quite enough vitriol.

This, MR. Dion, is your plan. This is your “legacy”,
your “remembrance”. NEP II. I’ll tell you right now that we
won’t take this. We won’t take a second edition NEP. We won’t
allow our Provinces wealth
being Shafted to the east. We
will not tolerate a federal incursion into
our jurisdiction. You can lament our 2% (Canadian GHG
contribution) all you want, but it will not fly. It will not
pass and you will not win.

I know my neighbours. I know the people in my Province. We
will not allow another Easterner to kill us at the
moment of our prosperity . . . again.

Try, MR. Dion, try. As I’m writing this, what comes
up on the play-list? “I have decided to leave you forever,
I have decided to start fresh today.” Daffodil Lament,
Cranberrries, No Need to Argue

Go
help John
Murney, a Saskatchewan (not Federal) Liberal try and
convince his blog-roll of the folly of Dipsticks plan.

Cheers,
lance

Stupid Is as Stupid Does

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I wonder, could one get hauled up in front of an HRC for calling an identifiable group stupid?

Allow me to begin by stating for the record that I realize how politically incorrect it is to single out a specific group of people and acknowledge their overtly foolish behaviors. But it seems we have reached a moment of insanity, when enough really should be enough!
It seems I need to give a speech to Democrats, which I have given to my children on several similar occasions. As Forest Gump learned from his Momma, “stupid is as stupid does.” People, who persist in doing stupid things, must sooner or later be referred to as “stupid!” We have reached that point with the average Democrat voter I’m afraid…
The one thing in the world Democrat politicians might be right about is the need for their voters to be saved from themselves…
As I have explained to my children, ignorance is the absence of knowledge, but stupidity is the possession of knowledge and the refusal to use it intelligently. As we are talking about obvious fundamental truths here, not nuclear physics, an absence of knowledge is not the problem.

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A Little Known Fact

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Few people know (or care), that in the early part of the last century, Czechoslovakia was one of the most libertarian democracies of the era … and now, it would seem that the Czech spirit is still alive and well. While news of the Irish “No” has made all the news, EU watchers would be wise to look to the Czech Republic:

Few people in North America know much about Czech democratic traditions. I suppose it’s because the Iron Curtain effectively slammed shut the Czech experiment, which, prior to WW2 made Czechoslovakia what may best be described as the world leader in libertarian democracy.
To give you an example of how truly “progressive” the Czechs were … not to be confused with post-modern “progressives”, let me share with you my family’s story.

More, from a pouty BBC.

Crimethink

What He Said 25 Comments

George Jonas has been practicing crimethink against the Human Rights Commissions since their inception. He addresses the topic again:

To borrow Orwell’s language, anyone retained by Canada’s thinkpol should be a goodthinker, fluent in newspeak. He ought to bring to his task a bellyfeel about crimethinkers and the correct way of dealing with them. He should have a capacity for doublethink and recognize the importance of keeping anything malreported out of the public discourse, especially away from such prolefeed as the Internet.

’63 Race Vette

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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned I was painting a race ‘vette. A few of you asked for photos – here’s one. My portion of the work (I came in after the black base coat was completed by Lazer Auto Body of Saskatoon) was in painting the molded “bumpers” and “grill” to resemble chrome. It turned out pretty well, by all accounts.
A front and rear view.
(Just found track pics of the Scatrat, which I painted many years ago for Bob of Lazer Auto Body, as well as the Froot Loop, which I think I did in ’06.)

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