The Incomplete Kennedy

Moonbats 25 Comments

Bob Owens;

Dark fantasies of Obama’s pending death have been brewing for over a year, well before his win over Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucuses on January 3. His recent success has proven to be fertile ground for those promoting more paranoia.
A day after the Iowa caucuses, Huffington Post contributor Joseph A. Palermo wasted no time in stating that Obama might be assassinated, and went so far as to preemptively assert blame […] On the day of the New Hampshire primary, numerous polls (wrongly) indicated that Barack Obama would defeat Hillary Clinton by a substantial margin. Three foreign news organizations used the occasion of a pending Obama victory to push the meme yet further.
[…]
But where are these threats against Barack Obama coming from in the blogosphere and on other corners of the internet, and who is making them?
The simple answer is “the usual suspects” — the pundits themselves.

Or maybe it’s just that after a few paragraphs of gush about style and charisma and speeches that “elevate”, the resume-challenged candidate doesn’t give them much else to write about.
Related: as the old saying goes – “who needs enemies?”

All About Fred

Political Animal 61 Comments

At the Corner tonight.

We’ll know soon–in my judgment, Thompson need only sustain this performance for a couple of days before votes, and money, start moving in his direction. But tonight the one consistent and authentic conservative in this race made himself the man to watch. When Fred roars, he roars.

I missed the debates. Too bad, because he’s getting rave reviews.

Winner: Thompson. This performance was so commanding, I wanted his last answer to echo back to the lights in the back of the auditorium, blow out all the lamps and spotlights, for the theme to “the Natural” to play, and for him to trot around the stage in slow motion while sparks showered down in the background.

Also weighing in Brendon Loy, and this from the New York Times blog;

Mr. Thompson rocks tonight. Asked about the recent confrontation between United States warships and Iranian speedboats, he suggests casually that if Iran’s Revolutionary Guard becomes more hostile, the Iranians will see those virgins they’ve been looking for.

Clips at Hotair.

If Only Popes Wore Machetes

Religion Of Submission 26 Comments

“I’ve censored myself”

… Perry told the Times, admitting that he treads lightly around radical Islam. “With other targets you’ve got a better idea of who they are but Islamism is very amorphous. You don’t know what the threshold is. Even what seems an innocuous image might trigger off a really violent reaction so I just play safe all the time.” Self-censorship thus boils down to self-preservation. “The reason I haven’t gone all out attacking Islamism in my art is because I feel real fear that someone will slit my throat.”

Raise Fist

Radioactive 55 Comments

Apply Liberally;

Another shocking case of police brutality has come to the fore. The Ludhiana police has thrashed two young children black and blue for attempting to steal the purse of a visiting MP from Canada — Ruby Dhalla. The young children aged nine and five were beaten brutally and were shown no mercy by the police officials. Even their age factor didn’t deter the Punjab police to beat them for a minor crime. The two children reportedly snatched Dhalla’s purse from the sofa where she was seated. The purse had the MPs passport and her valuables in it.

My source advises that “it just made Mike Duffy, and Graham Richardson said that her staffers chased the kids down and handed them over to police for the ass kicking.”
And she should know as the Opposition critic in charge of child care issues!
Video here.
Update: Good points in the comments – this should mark the end of Liberal allegations about our troops turning Taliban detainees over to Afghan police, yes? If it’s good enough for a 5 year old Indian girl…

I Feel Like I’m At McDonalds

Political Animal 47 Comments

‘Cause I’m lovin’ it;

Disgruntled Liberals in the province’s north have organized a meeting for Saturday to protest federal Liberal Leader Stephane Dion’s decision to bypass a nomination meeting for an upcoming byelection.
Those involved say the issue has united Metis and First Nations communities in opposition to the appointment of former NDP provincial cabinet minister Joan Beatty as the Liberal candidate in the March 17 vote in the riding of Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River.
The move has pre-empted a nomination meeting that would have seen free trade critic David Orchard facing off against Prince Albert educator John Dorion.
[…]
Sources say Dion’s hand was forced by Saskatchewan Liberal Ralph Goodale, who is dead set against the idea of having Orchard as a Liberal candidate in a winnable riding, in spite of the fact Orchard played a key role in helping Dion win the party’s leadership in 2006.

It almost makes up for the “Wacky and Karwacki” moment we were deprived of during the provincial campaign.

Y2Kyoto: The Thermominator

Great Moments In Socialism 30 Comments

California utilities…

…would control the temperature of new homes and commercial buildings in emergencies with a radio-controlled thermostat, under a proposed state update to building energy efficiency standards.
Customers could not override the thermostats during “emergency events,” according to the proposal, part of a 236-page revision to building standards. The document is scheduled to be considered by the California Energy Commission, a state agency, on Jan. 30.
The description does not provide any exception for health or safety concerns. It also does not define what are “emergency events.”

Oh, That Liberal Media

Media 47 Comments

Stephen Taylor;

Tonight, I’m hearing from a very well-placed source that Krista Erickson has cleaned out her desk and is going on “stress leave”. Whether this indicates a hushed firing or a quiet reassignment outside of Ottawa politics after a short leave is unclear.
UPDATE: I’ve heard that she is moving to CBC Sports.
I should also mention that everyone that I’ve spoken to at the CBC about this has, for the past few weeks, told me that they do not approve of the ways by which Erickson pursued this story. From an outside source I’ve heard that she will issue an apology tomorrow.

Related: “Mr. Carlin – tear down that wall!”
Another Update (at the original link);

UPDATE 1/9, 5pm: A well-placed source at CBC has amended some of the details given above. Erickson’s reassignment to sports (or anywhere else) has yet to be confirmed (or even acknowledged by CBC management). Further she still has her desk at CBC Ottawa and that she has not yet issued an apology today.
Outside of that, what remains is that Erickson has been the topic of meetings held by senior management for the past couple of weeks and that a disciplinary review has been held.

Y2Kyoto: The New Vocabulary Of Communism

Great Moments In Socialism 87 Comments

Your farm is their farm;

An environmental report warns farming, fertilizer and diets are responsible for a large chunk of the pollution blamed for global warming. The Greenpeace report, Cool Farming, estimates direct and indirect agriculture industry activities are contributing 17% to 32% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Overuse of fertilizer is believed to be one of the leading culprits, releasing an estimated two billion tonnes of nitrous oxide — a greenhouse gas estimated to be 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide — into the atmosphere.
While Greenpeace Canada is urging the Harper government to implement a new tax on fertilizers, converting the new revenues into assistance for greener farming practices, the report’s author, Pete Smith, a professor of soils and global change at the University of Aberdeen, also suggests consumers have a role to play.
“This is not [about] having a go at farmers,” said Mr. Smith, a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2007 report.

“This is just trying to look forward to the future and see how we can move forward in a sustainable way that’s both climate-friendly and allows us to feed the people that we need to.”
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