Saskatchewan Sign Kicking Party

More Money Than Brains 103 Comments

Nov.6 Update – At least some of the students involved were at the campaign office of Terry Alm today to offer their apologies. They will be helping the SaskParty take down signs after the election.

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(click to enlarge)		 Description: A political party for the youth of Saskatchewan upset that they can’t run for office or vote in the upcoming provincial election …and for any kids that just enjoy kicking politcal party signs.
Also we find it unfair that the Sask Party has 3 times the funding of any other party, so they get all the big signs. We seek to even this out.
Come out, show your support, invite your friends, and kick a few signs

Page info shows:
Andrew Rowan (Aden Bowman Collegiate) Assistant Captain
Taylor Andreas (Aden Bowman Collegiate) Assistant Captain
Brennan Rutherford (Walter Murray Collegiate) Co-Captain of Destruction
Mike Pinder (Aden Bowman Collegiate) Driver
David Fodey (Aden Bowman Collegiate) Co-Captain of Destruction
Will Hamilton (Aden Bowman Collegiate) (creator)
You’ll need a facebook account to access the page. Currently, the group has 59 “members” – most appear to be high school students at Aden Bowman and Walter Murray Collegiate.
If you have kids at these Saskatoon schools, you may recognize some names.
Update – “Hey dude, I heard your name on the radio“
The owner of the property in the photo above just called John Gormley Live (linked above). He’s a little ticked off. In the comments – “It’s as if they reported themselves to Crimestoppers.”
In a case of the apple not falling far from…. the apple – ” Do a search on Facebook for [U of Sask Sheaf Editor-In-Chief] Chuck Hamilton. View his friends, and you will see Will Hamilton is listed as his brother. I bet their parents are proud.” (Or it was until Will’s was pulled.)
More at No-Libs.
Update 2 – Now the Canadian Press has picked up the story.
Update 3 – There are NDP family ties to the Fodey kid as well.
(h/t Ryan, in the comments)

Glimpsing The Impossible

What He Said 19 Comments

Victor Davis Hanson;

We don’t know what the future will bring, but so far the period between May and November 2007 ranks as one of the most dramatic changes in the perception of a war that we’ve experienced.
And if the past is any guide, there will be fundamental political adjustments from the trivial of pundits repositioning themselves by simple silence about the war, or suggestions they were never really anti-war, or that the improvements came only because of their principled criticism — to the fundamental of having the entire leadership of the Democratic either ignore Iraq, claim the victory was not worth the commensurate cost of the last four plus years, or take proprietorship over Gen. Petraeus’s success — anything other than demanding a timetable for complete withdrawal with an admission of de facto defeat in the manner of the now infamous NY Times editorial.

Where were they then? – AJStrata takes a look back at the Champions Of Defeat.
Don Surber – “Blaming the media for victory”. That’s one you don’t hear very often.

Reader Tips

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John Hawkins interviews Ann Coulter.
“This is exactly what the US did during the Clinton years, when Yasser Arafat visited the White House 11 times, and met with President Clinton 24 times. Not only did this “consistent involvement” at the highest level not produce any progress, it raised the expectations of Palestinians to an absurd level, leaving them more intransigent and belligerent than they were at the outset.”
Not Waiting For The Asteroid – the NYT cdaily circulation falls 4.51%. Sunday is worse.
Your tips thread for today.

For The Greater Good

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“I come not to praise the competition, but to bury it.”
The 2007 Weblog Awards
At the moment, The Daily Smut is running a somewhat competitive second, jeopardizing this year’s goal of topping SDA’s 2006 record of taking 53.8% of votes cast.
This must not happen.
If we must throw Kathy Shaidle into the ditch to crack the 50% barrier, so be it. She was happy just to be nominated.
I, on the other hand, find no satisfaction until I have the leftosphere writhing in outrage and defeat.
Polls close November 8. It’s time to focus on the task at hand, jettison the wounded (“I’ll never forget you, Angry“), and close for the kill.
No mercy – because mercy is for Liberals.

“He had never felt more alone.”

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The three-man Reaper team, known as the best in the unit, was led by Sergeant Josh Morley, a 22-year-old paratrooper from North Carolina. Morley was regarded within Charlie Company as a consummate professional, and the men in the unit knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they could always count on him and his team to come through whenever they were needed. Morley was affected even more than most of his fellow soldiers by the additional three months that had been added on to his unit’s combat tour, for he was a new father and was counting the days until the end of the deployment, when he would finally get to see his infant daughter for the first time — something he had already been waiting months to do.
The rest of Morley’s team was made up of Specialist Tracy Willis, a 21-year-old from Texas, and Specialist Chris Corriveau, a 23-year-old from Maine. Willis was well known within Charlie Company as a friendly, laid back, permanently smiling young man who was always good for a laugh and for conversation, regardless of the person and the situation. Corriveau was quieter, but had earned the immense respect of his peers at Patrol Base Olson not only for his talent as a sniper but also for his abilities as a natural leader. The team had been together in Iraq for well over a year, and the three young men were as close as soldiers could be. They knew everything about each other, from their backgrounds, to information about their families, to the punchlines of Willis’s tiredest jokes. Further, they had worked together so closely, and for so long, that they could read each other’s body language and tone of voice, and were able to function as an extraordinarily effective unit.
For this mission, the three-man Reaper Two sniper team was rounded out by a fourth man (and a second Texan), 23-year-old Specialist Eric Moser. The company armorer, Moser was not a member of the Battalion Scout Platoon like Morley, Willis, and Corriveau, but was a competition-caliber shooter, and had gone along on several OPs with Reaper in the past, serving as a “designated marksman.” His skill with firearms would end up being critical that day.

This one comes highly recommended by Bill Ardolino

Tony Snow Afflicts The Comfortable

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On October 16, former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow received the Media Institute Freedom of Speech Award.
He had a few things to say.

We also hear that the First Amendment is under siege. I think that´s true. I don´t believe anyone here would disagree with the proposition that the quality of public discourse isn´t what it once was or that it presently achieves levels of excellence and depth that it desperately needs to reach.
Yet, while it may be tempting to blame the usual suspects — the government, interest groups, angry factionalists — those forces frequently have always tried to restrict the free flow of ideas, and they always have failed.
They´re not the culprits here. Instead, there´s a new and unexpected menace on the block:
The media.
Let me explain. American journalism finds itself in a highly unusual predicament. In the early days of this nation, the press was wild, untamed, and omnipresent. Papers sprouted everywhere, and not even Ben Franklin could resist the temptation to turn his printing presses into devices for spreading gossip, maligning political enemies, and entertaining readers with items ranging from the important to the grandly weird.
Then came a period of consolidation and gentrification. Moguls controlled major media outlets and a handful of elite institutions — the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and the three television networks — shaped and defined not merely what counted as news, but what counted as acceptable opinion. The press lost its Wild West flavor and became what Tom Wolfe described as “a Victorian gent.”
[…]
Political rhetoric has turned nasty, childish, and very personal, especially on Capitol Hill, and Americans are sick of it. Hotheads seem to be enjoying a false spring of fame. And members of the mainstream press are scratching their heads and asking, “What´s going on here?” Why are the nation´s newspapers hemorrhaging readers? Why are the television networks losing viewers? Why has cable news suddenly hit still water? What is going on? Don´t Americans care about the news?
Well, of course they do: The problem is, they don´t think they´re getting news — and they´re right.

You can read the whole thing here(PDF) or here (html).

Reader Tips

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David Harsyanyi’s “Nanny State”.
The oilsands – everything old is new again.
A hero in Castro’s gulag – “Instead of joining the president amid the pomp and finery of the White House, Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet will spend the day locked in a fetid cell in the Combinado del Este prison in Havana, where he is serving a 25-year prison sentence for speaking out against Fidel Castro’s dictatorship.”
That “stumbling” US economy – If things are so bad, why are they so good?
Add yours in the comments.

Pakistan Meltdown (Updated)

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As I mentioned Thursday, things are not going well in Pakistan;

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan on Saturday ahead of a crucial Supreme Court decision on whether to overturn his recent election win and amid rising Islamic militant violence.
Eight Supreme Court judges immediately rejected the emergency, which suspended the current constitution. The government blocked transmissions of private news channels in several cities and telephone services in the capital, Islamabad, were cut.
“The chief of army staff has proclaimed a state of emergency and issued a provisional constitutional order,” a newscaster on state Pakistan TV said, adding that Musharraf, who took power in 1999 coup, would address the nation later Saturday.
Dozens of police blocked the road in front of the Supreme Court building, with the judges believed inside.

A large roundup of news links and analysis at Pajamas Media. This is a situation with grave implications for the region and beyond, (and needless to say, the campaign in Afghanistan). Musharraf’s military rule or a democratically elected Taliban – how’s that for a choice?
Update – Jonthan Foreman on the under-reported facts:

In the Punjab, far from the frontier there was a major suicide bomb attack against the Pakistani Air Force, killing eight officers and cadets (probably a reprisal for air strikes in Waziristan in October). There was intense fighting in the Swat valley, a popular vacation area on the edge of the tribal area, with Pakistani helicopter gunships striking militants of the TNSM, a.k.a. the Pakistani Taliban. Another suicide bomber exploded himself and seven other people in a high security area of Rawalpindi near General Musharaf’s official residence (on the anniversary of a Pakistani missile attack on an extremist TNSM madrassa last year). Whatever Musharraf’s actual motives, I can think of lots of countries where this level of violence might prompt a state of emergency….
The State Department response — calling for immediate free elections — is idiotic. Break down Pakistan’s instability into just some of its component parts — Islamist militancy, tribal unrest, deep-seated ethnic separatism, feudal oppression, sectarian hatred, an incompetent and corrupt ruling elite, an ill-educated population, a paranoid and conspiratorial culture — and it’s far from clear that dictatorship is the disease or elections the cure.
It’s interesting that the official Indian reaction has been so careful. Said a Foreign Ministry spokesman: “We regret the difficult times that Pakistan is passing through…We trust that conditions of normalcy will soon return, permitting Pakistan’s transition to stability and democracy to continue.” New Delhi clearly realizes that Musharraf for all his faults may be preferable to any alternative. …

And:

It would be hard to think of a bigger mess than Pakistan: nuclear; half the population radically Islamic; vast sanctuaries for the architects of 9/11; a virulent anti-Americanism in which aid and military credits are demanded but never appreciated; dictatorship at odds with America’s professed support for Middle-East constitutional government-all the while doing little to hunt down al Qaeda while assuring us that the possible radical alternative, with some reason,
is far worse.

That about sums it up, I’m afraid.

The Sound Of Settled Science

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An interview with “climate denier” Dr. John Christy on The World Tonight. (Christy is director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and a participant in the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).

O’BRIEN: I assume you’re not happy about sharing this award with Al Gore. You going to renounce it in some way?
CHRISTY: Well, as a scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, I always thought that — I may sound like the Grinch who stole Christmas here — that prizes were given for performance, and not for promotional activities.
And, when I look at the world, I see that the carbon dioxide rate is increasing, and energy demand, of course, is increasing. And that’s because, without energy, life is brutal and short. So, I don’t see very much effect in trying to scare people into not using energy, when it is the very basis of how we can live in our society.

Weekend Election Roundup

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“What really struck me though was that Calvert was riding in this old RV that had blue smoke puffing out of the tailpipe. It had to be at least 15 years old. It looked like it was from a different era.”
Tales From The Doorstep. Grab the Kleenex.
“Will trade for Rider playoff tickets.”
Don’t forget your election market trades for today!
Birkbeck predicts and so can you – in the comments. There are 58 seats up for grab, currently the NDP hold 30, the SaskParty 28.

2007 Weblog Awards: My Picks

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I don’t have favourites in every category, but I’ve selected a few that stand out;
Best Blog – a tossup between Michelle Malkin and honourary Blogging Tory, Captains Quarters.
I like the Anchoress for Best Individual.
Best Online Community – Little Green Footballs.
My choice is the Belmont Club for Best Conservative, in a tough field. (link fixed)
Science blog– Climate Audit of course!!!
Milblogs are another tough field – Michael Yon is my choice here.
In NZ, Australian, I go with Tim Blair.
We’re in the running for Best Canadian, of course. Remember – you can vote daily.

Y2Kyoto: The Killing Kompost

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Annually, the UK dumps….

6.7 million tonnes, meaning each household jettisons between £250 and £400 worth of food each year. Most of the waste – which nationally costs £8bn – is sent to landfill where it rots, emitting the potent climate- change gas methane.
Ms Ruddock, the minister for climate change, warned that, although many people had not made the connection between scraping food into the bin and climate change, waste food presented a bigger environmental problem than packaging. “We cannot fail to do what is necessary,” she said.
“At this rate we will not have a place to live which is habitable if we don’t address climate change globally and the UK has to make its contribution.”

C’mon Brittania – after all, natural vegetation ceased its Gaia-destroying practice of dying and rotting shortly after the Kyoto Protocols came into effect.
What’s your excuse?
Related – “scientists predict that by 2050 there will be 32.9 scare stories for every person in Britain”

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