Savaged by a Dead Sheep

A word picture worth a thousand:

Watch the video. I laughed and cried. He's got a moustache and is in full drama teacher mode. Never in the course of Canadian political history has so much good, been expressed so badly. This is a rare story when I'm conflicted about the participants. I don't like Julian Fantino or Justin Trudeau. To borrow from an American politician, why can't they both lose?

Moose and Squirrel in Wrong Decision

By now most Blogging Tories know that I count Stephen Harper as a failed leader ... and worse, a tribalist hack who will sacrifice any principle in order to cling to power. Furthermore, I believe that Stephen Harper has single-handedly destroyed the conservative movement in Canada; where he has watered down the brand to the point that there is no "conservative" party left. I'm in the camp of Rex Murphy, who believes that the current batch of hacks in Ottawa are the most unimaginative soulless bunch to inhabit the hallowed halls for a long time.

Stephen Harper’s support for Fantino is just the tip of the ice berg ... but an egregious one nevertheless. Party members laud Harper for his pro-Israel stance; yet when it comes to protecting the rights of Canadians who were invaded by terrorists, Harper chooses the very man who allowed it all to happen. Fantino was once the number one man in Ontario responsible for upholding the rule of law ... but for reasons of political correctness and lord knows what, he chose very deliberately to not only abandon law and order in Caledonia, but to ruthlessly pursue those who got in the way of his actions. He also pursued and harassed with the full weight of the law those who crossed his ultra-liberal masters. Caledonia is a black stain on Canada ... there could not be a more un-Conservative moment ... it is anathema to any decent person who even moderately believes in conservative principles. Yet, Fantino is Harper's man now and will sit like a pile of steaming guano in the benches of the CPC where the stench of Caledonia will follow him everywhere.

It's been said before, that a tea spoon of dog shit in icecream spoils the batch ... the whole bucket tastes like it no matter how much you want to convince yourself it doesn't .

Yesterday we had a municipal bi-election here in Saskatoon, where I happened to bump into fellow conservatives whom I hadn't had contact with since the last federal election. To my pleasant surprise, each and everyone was filled with disappointment and disgust as to what has become of our party. The theme of beliefs was the same ... Conservatism has been destroyed by Stephen Harper in his ruthless blind quest for a majority, where he is using bait and switch and slime bucket politics to the max. So poor at communicating the conservative vision is Mr. Harper that he has resorted to the realm of most power hungry nerds ... passive-aggressive backdoor tactics where principles ... each and everyone, have a shelf life.

This brings me to Moose and Squirrel and why I think that leaving the BT in protest was a mistake. Simply, the problem is not the Blogging Tories, even though most are blind tribalists who are more than happy eating doggie poo flavoured icecream. Mr. Taylor, who runs the site, has created the model of what a robust blogging conservative aggregator should be. Mr. Taylor has remained true to the principles of openness and free speech. Even after receiving requests by some BT members to BAN the likes of me because we've stepped off the reservation, Mr. Taylor (Stephen) has allowed us to stay as long as we espouse conservative principles ... he allows debate, oft time robust and bitter, but critical in maintaining a free society.

Stephen has created what DOES NOT exist in the CPC today ... where Mr. Harper holds a death grip over a gaggle of timid MPs who are willing to swallow ever more tainted ice cream in order to cling to power. There is no debate of consequence within the CPC. Even as the former leader of the Alliance destroys the conservative movement, CPC members sit on their hands like cowed little doves.

Not the BT ... here at least, people like myself are free to toss our darts ... not just at "progressives" ... but at "progressives" within our own party.

So it is that Moose and Squirrel should have remained; simply because the BT offers a great platform for dissent.

Finally, and perhaps most important, if the BT becomes little more than an echo chamber then it will be dead ... stone cold dead as a place where the Proles can come to share grassroots notions and ideas.

It would also be irksome, that the likes of the former shock blogger "Canadian Cynic" and other Leftist Rabble who mock the BT for being just an arm of the CPC, would be proven right. Moose and Squirrel needs to be in the BT, just to prove these bastards wrong and prevent the BT from becoming an echo chamber of a mindless tribe.

They Won't Know Snow

They told us, in all seriousness, that English children wouldn't know snow:

Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.

Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain’s culture, as warmer winters – which scientists are attributing to global climate change – produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries.

[...]

“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.

That was then ... this is now.

Coming Soon: International Hang a Homo Day

A collection of notorious human rights violators voted for the amendment including Afghanistan, Algeria, China, Congo, Cuba, Eritrea, North Korea, Iran (didn't Ahmadinejad tell the world there were no gays in Iran?), Egypt, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, Sudan, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.

... what amendment you ask? Why, this one.  Won't be long and right after International Day of the Child the UN will be holding International Hang a Homo Day.

The End of an Era

One of my favorities is now gone:

Canadian-born funnyman Leslie Nielsen is being remembered as the fun-loving actor who somehow turned a 30-year career in drama into another 30-year career in deadpan comedy.

Nielsen died in Florida Sunday night after suffering from pneumonia, surrounded by friends and family. He was 84.

Malkin remembers ... click.

When You Lose the Debate

... pump up the Jam:

First, we had "climate change". Then we got "dangerous climate change". And now we have "extremely dangerous climate change", all on the basis of two-year-old recycled hype. They've lost it.

The poor bastards even have a theme song:

Cry Me a Green River

As sad ...

The defeat of this piece of legislation before the committee stage by the Conservative Senators is unprecedented. The Conservatives’ disregard for the House of Commons and this bill is underlined by the fact that not a single Conservative Senator has debated the bill even though it was presented in the Senate 193 days ago.

... as it is confusing:

Besides disrespecting the scientists who have constantly pressured the government for overseeing the measures of sustainable development, they have persisted in projecting the decisions by real changes through the financial arrangements by major oil companies (suggesting the absolute governance of progress in economics to this energy sustainability) to their own panel of scientists. We don't even dispute their message of analysis for the oil and general energy demands of the future.

Seems rather to be redundancy after redundancy after the Copenhagen Convention for us for the nature of the problem of social change addressed for the future of the truer sustainable development. This is not only our resources but what is claimed to enlightened Canadians our right heritage to our Land, and unsustainable northern Economy.

Even When Everyone Agrees

... the result still seems to be inaction:

The Guardian noted that the Saudi king was recorded as having “frequently exhorted the US to attack Iran to put an end to its nuclear weapons program,” one cable stated.

Mr. Harper ... Call Warren

Kinsella’s most recent kiss-of-death is just icing-on-the-cake for my disdain for Fantino’s candidacy but it does help show just how Liberal connected Fantino really is.

... more at BC Blue.

Like I've been saying ... Who Stole My Prime Minister?

Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I stand here before you in the city of Copenhagen in the year 2010. This is widely considered to be an enlightened country in the heart of an enlightened continent.

Our basic freedoms have long been guaranteed — first by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as passed by the United Nations in 1948, and then buttressed by the Council of Europe in 1950 through the European Convention of Human Rights, which was later affirmed by the European Union. Our individual countries have additionally codified the same basic rights in their own constitutions.

These rights include the freedom of individual conscience, the right to assemble peaceably, and the right to practice our religion freely, or to have no religion at all. And, perhaps most importantly of all, they include the right to voice our opinions freely and to publish them without hindrance.

... keep reading.

North Korea Buffet

From hardened shelters to SAMs, this site covers it all. Be sure to keep scrolling down for all the nitty-gritty.

... but of course, if you aren't into reality, you can always nestle at the feet of intellectual giants like Jimma Carter for a more sanguine take.

There's a Run on Long-Johns in the UK

Now even the weather is mocking the warmists:

You don't have to say any more. The mercury at Llysdinam near Llandrindod Wells plunged to minus 17.3C – the principality’s lowest ever temperature for November and the UK's chilliest for the month since 1985. That temperature, incidentally, is just a fraction above the optimum for a domestic freezer.

Are We Stimulated Yet?

More than 75 per cent of money earmarked for the largest federal infrastructure program was left untouched last year, a lag the Liberals say undermines the Harper government’s claim the stimulus spending spree is creating new jobs.

... more from The Gods.

When a Warmist Recognizes the Truth

... it's an accident:

Why are the world's governments bothering? Why are they jetting to Cancun next week to discuss what to do now about global warming? The vogue has passed. The fad has faded. Global warming is yesterday's apocalypse.

Food Court Choir

Go full screen ... turn up the volume:



Back-story

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Can You Spot the Profile ?

Portland:

A Somali-born teenager plotted "a spectacular show" of terrorism for months, saying he didn't mind that children would die if he bombed a crowded Christmas tree-lighting ceremony, according to a law-enforcement official and court documents.

Update: Bad Malkin dares to profile.

Best Movie

It's got thrills, chills, spills ... suspense ... violence ... and the best soundtrack ever (crank up the volume):

Spectacular Slow Motion

Your "Progressive" Justice System at Work

To "progressives"; boys will be boys ... after all:

Jodie Lynn Bryant was enjoying a campfire in a Regina backyard on the May long weekend when a stranger in a passing car smiled, lifted a stolen rifle and took the 21-year-old's life with a single pull of the trigger.

Beware the Canadian Coalition Government

NO ... not that coalition ... this coalition:

The Coalition horrors warned of by the Conservatives have come to pass, at the hands of the Conservatives themselves. They have spent like drunken Trudeau-era Grits. They have compromised their principles and told a key part of their base to stuff it. They have put patronage ahead of promise in their Senate appointments. Short of holding another referendum on national unity, they are as bad as what they claim to abhor.

Getting the Oil Sands Facts Straight

BG:

The oil sands deposit covers an area that would equate to the size of England (54,132 square miles). For Americans without passports, that is the size of the state of New York. Of the total 170.4 billion barrels of remaining established reserves, about 80% is considered recoverable through in-situ (no tailings ponds and contrary to what is stated results in significantly lower GHG and energy intensity) the remaining 20% will be mined. Total estimated reserves are actually 1.7 trillion barrels but at this stage only 10% are recoverable at current technologies and prices.

Dripping Hate

Catty bitches in a parlour ... what passes of TV these days. Also notice the almost constant theme among leftists ... congratulating themselves on how intelligent the tribe is:

Culture Clash

Without realizing it, this US soldier just distilled down why North American culture has, until the progressive class got a hold of it, thrived. To put it irreverently, the maxim of freemen has been ... "Fuck, Fight, or Hold the Light!"

When Irish Eyes are Crying

Ireland's financial woes can be explained in one sentence.

Irish Welfare expenditures are 32.5% of the entire annual budget; ahead of even healthcare which comes in at 24.8%.

Try to wrap your head around that.

Source

Vaya con Dios

The cartel demanded Don Alejo Garza Tamez surrender his property. The 77 year old man refused and barricaded himself in his farm, killing 4 of them and wounding 2 bombers.

Don Alejo Garza Tamez

Obituary

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At What Point Can We Dispense With the Niceties

... and just call them all a bunch of liars:

Or, if you took stock performance data from poorly performing Company “A” and spliced on better performing stock data from Company “B”, and then made a new graph and used that graph to sell investors on Company “A”, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would have a veritable “cow” when they found out, wouldn’t they? People go to jail for such things.

But hey, this is Climate Science.

As for me, I won't stoop to calling them liars because the photo is obviously just a staged propoganda tool ... I'll simply stick with the more sanguine ... wankers.

The Regional Only MWP

NOT:

The presently available palaeotemperature proxy data records do not support the assumption that late 20th century temperatures exceeded those of the MWP in most regions, although it is clear that the temperatures of the last few decades exceed those of any multidecadal period in the last 700–800 years. Previous conclusions (e.g., IPCC, 2007) in the opposite direction have either been based on too few proxy records or been based on instrumental temperatures spliced to the proxy reconstructions. It is also clear that temperature changes, on centennial time-scales, occurred rather coherently in all the investigated regions – Scandinavia, Siberia, Greenland, Central Europe, China, and North America – with data coverage to enable regional reconstructions. Large-scale patterns as the MWP, the LIA and the 20th century warming occur quite coherently in all the regional reconstructions presented here but both their relative and absolute amplitude are not always the same. Exceptional warming in the 10th century is seen in all six regional reconstructions.

Beyond Parody

First they congratulate themselves on a vehicle that only exists because of massive subsidies ... then they give themselves international awards for accomplishing nothing ... but perhaps most mock-worthy ... they name an America hater (up and until 2008), one of the best dressed people on the planet for converting shower curtians into hip fashion. (pardon the pun)

International Panhandlers Meet in Cancun

Hands out stretched, begging ... with threats:

The whole concept would be a joke, if it wasn't for the fact that it had rich and powerful backers – like the WWF - with their hands out for even more of our money. As it is though, one can tell simply from the increasingly strident nature of the "warnings" that there is a climate summit coming up, and the money-grabbers are making their pitch

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Delingpole Gets it Right Wrong

The Wrong:

When the history of the greatest pseudoscience fraud in history – aka “Climate Change” – comes to be written, no media organisation, not even the Guardian or the New York Times, will deserve greater censure than the steaming cess pit of ecofascist bias that is the BBC. That’s because, of all the numerous MSM outlets which have been acting as the green movement’s useful idiots, the BBC is the only one which is taxpayer-funded and which is required by its charter to adopt an ideologically neutral position.

... only one?

Prime Minister Bait and Switch

From the Gods:

In his four years in power Stephen Harper has played bait and switch with the Canadian electorate. He has talked of conservative values, and fear mongered on the dangers of a Liberal-NDP coalition government, while running a government which is fiscally to the Left of those of Paul Martin and Jean Chretien. In Julian Fantino he has again offered Canadians a false bill of goods, a law and order candidate who, as OPP commissioner, failed to uphold basic law and order.

CBC Guano Storm

And it's a good one.

Boers on the Move

An amazing odyssey:

South Africa and Georgia have little in common aside from a tradition of wine-making and a turbulent recent history. But a group of white South African farmers say starting a new life in the former Soviet state could be the solution to their troubles at home.

South Africa's 40,000 white farmers, mainly Boers – descendants from Dutch settlers – say they fear that South Africa's government is threatening their livelihoods with land-reform policies. When they first came to Africa, the Boer Voortrekkers, or pioneers, left coastal colonies to forge a path to the interior of the country in search of fertile land. Now some of their descendants believe the answer to their problems might lie thousands of miles away in the Caucasus.

Dead Union Walking

I give them a year or two at most:

It could yet happen – never rule out the Devil's miracle. Lucifer has his powers. But the smart money is on collapse, even if it could still take longer than most expect. The core construct of a single currency, without economic governance, a unified budget, the controls and the sanctions, plus the fiscal transfers and all the other apparatus, could never work.

... in case you haven't been following; the EU bureaucrats have been praying for a crisis in order to use it to consolodate their power ... only thing is, they forgot to inform the crisis.

Oh My ... Mr. Frum Has Gone and Lost It

... gear down there big rig:

Even fierce Hillary Clinton worked hard always to be seen smiling and nodding. Palin is a ferocious hater, and she doesn’t care who knows it.

How to Get Rich in Canada

Become an Indian Chief:

In 2005, while the National Football League was negotiating its current collective bargaining agreement with players, one NFL owner conducted a survey of the league’s African-American players. While even players making the league minimum salary are comfortably within the top 1% of American income earners (and the richest players are within the top 0.1%), most of those surveyed believed average white Americans were better paid. Most guessed that 50% or more of their paler countrymen made more than they did.

[...]

A month ago, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) released a report about on-reserve compensation based on partial statistics provided by the Indian Affairs department. At the time, the CTF calculated that 30 of the country’s 577 chiefs made more than the average — $110,000 – received by the 10 provincial premiers.

... and they don't even pay taxes, and in most cases have their homes paid for ... including utilities.

If You Read Nothing Else Today

The following rebuttal is mine alone. I do not speak for my husband, for my friends, for my children, but solely for myself.

I am tired of being told to sit down and shut up.

I am tired of being told what I can and can not say.

What is “acceptable”, while my ideas and values are mocked and trampled.

Enough. I have had enough.

I remained stoic when your acolytes spit on my car and called my husband a “baby killer” when I crossed through your phalanx at Walter Reed to take my children for medical care. I refused to respond as you smashed your fists into the hood of my car, destroyed my mirrors with bottles and keyed my doors in California, my children mute and terrified as you screamed your hate and bile.

Keep Reading ... Fix Bayonets.

HT and Discussion.

Inquisition in Europe

Trial of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff ... be sure to read the "updates" at bottom to get a sense where the progressive police are coming from:

Click

I shudder as I read the judges line of questioning; thinking of all the young Canadian men who died to free Europe from fascism.  Yet today, the benefactors of that sacrifice have become nothing but the most loathsome of fascistic progressives.  They abide in every corner of Europe. 

Lord, I hope this doesn't end violently ... but then, Europe has always solved her problems with bloodshed ... and never learned her lessons for more than a generation.  It gets to where progressives are more the enemy than Islamists ... for like the pacifists of the 1930s, they give Islam its power.

Anti-Islamic Hate in America

... is a myth:

Anti-Islamic acts - 107

Anti-Jewish acts - 931

Anti-Other Religion - 109

Warmists Suffer From Same Illness as Democrats

It's a communication problem:

"Our study indicates that the potentially devastating consequences of global warming threaten people's fundamental tendency to see the world as safe, stable and fair. As a result, people may respond by discounting evidence for global warming," said Robb Willer, UC Berkeley social psychologist and coauthor of a study to be published in the January issue of the journal Psychological Science.

... on the other hand: (language warning - fuckese)

Like An Alaskan Moose in a China Shop

Pain:

A spokesperson for Harper Collins told me that “Substantial Damages will be sought”. “We intend to put them out of the business of printing protected material ever again.”

Veggies in the Gas Tank

Shall I fill it up with wheat, corn, or sugarcane?

The ETC Group, an international organization supporting sustainability and conservation, has just published its newest report, an 84-page document that presents a lengthy criticism of "the new bioeconomy." In it, principal author Jim Thomas argues that using biofuels for energy and resources isn't green -- in fact, he says, it's even more harmful to the environment than coal.

Update: And now for the rest of the story ...

Those Pesky French Youths

Progressives are Groping Civilization to Death

I recall the almost unbearable hair-pulling and moaning that issued from the left when the Bush administration decided to listen in on suspicious international communications, or when a streamlined process for eavesdropping was initiated ... oh the horror!

Yet now, that the US is willing to grope or take nude photos of just about every single living person on the planet in order to demonstrate that it is politically correct, progressives are for the most part remarkably silent. Surely, it can't be that all these lefties are secretly excited about their junk being touched ... or that they just can't wait to have some TSA agent get a peak at their unmentionables? What could it be ... the silence is so peculiar.

The reality is, that if Granny Smith qualifies for a nude photo or grope, or that Sally Benson and her five year old both need a feel-up, the wheels have surely and completely fallen off of Progressia.

Think about it ... the progressive class is willing to submit hundreds of millions of its citizens (or is it subjects) to humiliation, discomfort, assault, and gross inconvenience just to prove a point; that sophisticated profiling is anathema to progressives. Progressives won't allow under any circumstances for us to do as Israel does, where it’s long ago been decided that the only way to protect fliers is to use less intrusive high tech, but above all else, to use sophisticated profiling methods.

But, to do so, would be to single out specific groups or actors ... an act that according to the gods of Progressia is taboo.

So here we are in the postmodern age of Android phones, nano-technology, stunningly intricate and complex science, and all manner of behavioural science ... being groped by rubber gloved zombies ... what could possibly go wrong?

Let's look at this another way. What will the response be when Abdullah Abdullah decides that getting onto an airplane is too difficult and he plans instead to machine gun the long lines at airport security? What then? Or he sets up outside the terminal and mows down the taxies and passengers as they enter the building? What then? Will the groping move to the parking lot?

Or, how about if Muhamad Muhammad and his buddies take shot guns to a shopping mall crowded with Christmas shoppers. What then ... a groping before you enter Dollar Store?

Or, what if (heaven forbid) Sgt. Allah Allah decides to kill his fellow soldiers as they gather prior to leaving for Afghanistan ... no ... wait!

You see, the logical but politically incorrect way of dealing with terrorism is to first and foremost look for terrorists. That means employing all of our knowledge and technology to look for patterns, clues, hints, and behaviours, and when found, to engage in ever more intrusive responses. It means using the Israeli method, where behaviour and appearance, above all else, trigger intrusion. What that also means, is that the vast majority of us would, unless some unlucky circumstance befalls us, simply have to suffer only the most basic of security checks.

My son's friend is Canadian born, but of Iraqi origin. When he recently passed through Tel Aviv, he became separated from his family because he was stuck with the luggage cart. In a matter of seconds, armed Israeli soldiers stopped him, asked questions, scanned the luggage, and checked his documents. His parents came back to see what was going on and it didn't take long for the family to be on their way.

So, what triggered the Israeli response? ... in an airport where my son's friend and the airport guards all looked alike. Let's see ... young Middle Eastern looking male dragging a load of luggage ... alone. Even the monkeys employed by TSA could've figured that one out.

What got my son's friend quickly on his way? ... the determination that he was a Canadian, he spoke perfect English, his sisters were not “covered” ... and he travelled with parents. And, the luggage scanned just fine. As well, the young man's response was clearly that of a Canadian lad facing submachine guns and suspicious Israeli security ... not terror, nor disrespect, but appropriate. And finally, had the young lad managed to smuggle some bizarre weapon or explosive device onto the aircraft, he would’ve been dispatched quickly by the one or more Israeli agents on board. It’s even possible that the luggage had already been sniffed without the family knowing.

But of course, that’ll never fly in progressia (soon nothing will be flying). Over on this side of the world we'd sooner grope 5 year olds, cover cancer survivors in urine, humiliate flight attendants, and take nude pictures of the very pilots who are ultimately responsible for the passengers, rather than offend one single person with profiling.

Next thing you know, terrorists will be launching fake or poorly planned attacks just to get a kick out of how we submit ourselves to ever more monkey-brained security methods ... if they haven’t already.

As for me, the TSA grope and porn-fest is just another example of how divorced from reality progressive elites are. They hold a world view, that no matter how illogical, must be adhered to. Pounding square pegs into round holes is, in the end, the only thing that progressives do well.

The Rich Tapestry of a Multi-Culti UN

Ass-crack Tech

Savage Pops a Gasket

Afghan Heavy Metal

Time to Stop Laughing at Greenies

They do a perfectly good job of it themselves:

In an almost perfect parody of themselves, the warmists are seriously telling us that colder winters could be a sign of global warming. This is just as well because the Scots are being warned that this winter could be worse than last year's record-breaking cold snap.

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Passing the Buck

Dr. Doom: (scroll down for article)

But the nub of the crisis is this: "We have decided to socialize the private losses of the banking system. Now you have a huge increase in public debt—going from 7 percent to 100 percent of GDP. Soon it will be 120 percent."

Liberty

... or grope:

Next Green Power Grab

Cancun:

That will change immediately if global emission rights are distributed. If this happens, on a per capita basis, then Africa will be the big winner, and huge amounts of money will flow there. This will have enormous implications for development policy. And it will raise the question if these countries can deal responsibly with so much money at all.

Our Would-be Masters

Staying in Afghanistan

950:

The two-year paralysis that so utterly enfeebled Canada in the matter of this country’s post-2011 re-dedication to Afghanistan is now officially over. Ottawa has come out of its coma, and now rejoins the company of the grown-ups in the 43-member International Security Assistance Force. With Tuesday’s announcement, we take our place once again as a leader in the international cause of a sovereign and democratic Afghan republic.

Welcome back, Mr. Harper:

Bending to Progressia

In the "progressive" world we have constructed for ourselves, it has become more important to be fondled by strangers and to have our unmentionables photographed, than to be even perceived as xenophobic. No matter how illogical and ineffective, progressia would turn us all into cattle in order to maintain the progressive dogma of political correctness... and to profit a few, of course.

Never Waste a Crisis

Mr Delors told colleagues that any crisis would be a “beneficial crisis”, allowing the EU to break down resistance to fiscal federalism, and to accumulate fresh power. The purpose of EMU was political, not economic, so the objections of economists could happily be disregarded. Once the currency was in existence, EU states would have give up national sovereignty to make it work over time. It would lead ineluctably to the Monnet dream of a fully-fledged EU state. Bring the crisis on.

But then, somebody forgot to let the crisis in on the secret:

Behind this gamble, of course, was the assumption that any crisis could be contained at a tolerable cost once the imbalances of EMU’s one-size-fits-none monetary system had already reached catastrophic levels, and once the credit bubbles of Club Med and Ireland had collapsed. It assumed too that Germany, The Netherlands, and Finland would ultimately – under much protest – agree to foot the bill for a ‘Transferunion’.

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Layton in a Hissy

Pity:

NDP Leader Jack Layton accused the prime minister Wednesday of ordering Conservative senators to kill a climate-change bill, the day after a surprise vote in the Red Chamber ended in the legislation's defeat.

A number of Liberals were not in the Senate when the vote occurred, and the bill died with a tally of 43-32.

A Savaging

At the Soapbox.

The Official Propaganda Arm of the IPCC

BBC:

Essentially, the communication technique recommended to the government to use on the people was the sophisticated tactic: “bluff them”. The truth is not what matters. There’s apparently no need to explain the uncertainties, and no reason to treat the voters as grown ups. Don’t mention the evidence.

Giving Praise Where Praise is Due

Unambiguous:

Now I congratulate the efforts of the Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee (disclosure: I am a founding member but not involved in their actual work); I believe they really had an effect. I congratulate those politicians, Bob Rae in particular, who put purpose over partisanship. And I congratulate the government for finally doing the best that could be done given Canadian politics (though I do regret their lying for many months when they said that Canada’s military–not combat–mission must end in 2011 because the 2008 Commons’ motion said so; it did not). Canadian politics are desperately debased all around.

Bush's War

... or is that Obama's:

Canadian soldiers are staying in Afghanistan not because of the rightness of the cause. Nor are they staying because Stephen Harper likes war. The prime minister says he made the decision reluctantly and I, for one, believe him.

Rather, Canadian soldiers will remain in Afghanistan until at least 2014 because of political events within Washington — most notably the Republican victories in Congressional elections earlier this month and the ongoing dispute inside President Barack Obama’s administration over how to handle the war.

Live Free

Story

The Borg

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Oh the Contortion We Go Through

... because it's Politically Incorrect to Profile:

The Transportation Security Administration has opened an investigation targeting John Tyner, the Oceanside man who left Lindbergh Field under duress on Saturday morning after refusing to undertake a full body scan.

Tyner recorded the half-hour long encounter on his cell phone and later posted it to his personal blog, along with an extensive account of the incident. The blog went viral, attracting hundreds of thousands of readers and thousands of comments.

Why profile? Because it works.

The Number Grows

950:

The federal government plans to keep 950 soldiers in Afghanistan past the scheduled July 2011 end to combat operations, sources have confirmed to CTV News.

The figure includes 750 soldiers to train Afghan troops and police, and 200 support staff. While their exact responsibilities and where they will be stationed are not yet clear, a senior official has confirmed that "absolutely none" will work as operational mentors who go into combat with Afghan units.

When we Say Higher Education

... he thinks Hire Education:

Ed Dante is a pseudonym for a writer who lives on the East Coast. Through a literary agent, he approached The Chronicle wanting to tell the story of how he makes a living writing papers for a custom-essay company and to describe the extent of student cheating he has observed. In the course of editing his article, The Chronicle reviewed correspondence Dante had with clients and some of the papers he had been paid to write. In the article published here, some details of the assignment he describes have been altered to protect the identity of the student.

How else are the little darlings going to have time for fascism:

I am writing to express my distress over the disruption, and subsequent cancellation, of a University of Waterloo BookStore–sponsored speech by Ms. Christie Blatchford. Ms. Blatchford—a respected columnist for The Globe and Mail—was scheduled to speak at the Humanities Theater last Friday about her new book, Helpless: Caledonia’s Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy. Prior to the beginning of her speech, members of a group called KW Anti-Racist Action took over the stage, refused to leave, and insisted that Ms. Blatchford not address the audience tonight. (A couple of them went as far as chaining their necks together.) Based on what I have read in Imprint andThe Cord, police officials tried to negotiate with the intruders, but the end result was Ms. Blatchford departing back to Toronto without giving her speech.

Judge Them by Their Actions

... because in the end, there is no other measure.

Coyne:

The story is told of the farmer who had an axe: a fine, handsome axe, of which he was very fond. Why, it had been in his family for generations. Mind you, over the years they’d had to replace the head twice and the handle three times, but to the farmer it was still the same axe his grandad split logs with.

The reaction to the Conservatives’ now extensive history of replacing their principles with something more convenient strikes me as similar. After each abrupt reversal of field, each casual discarding of the principles of a lifetime, the discussion centres on how hard this decision must have been for the Tories, how it “went against their principles.”

Yes, there’s nothing quite as hard as expediency, is there? Someday, historians will write about those Tory ministers who, under pressure, had the courage to do the wrong thing. Still, after so many such examples, it might occur to someone that these are their principles: not the ones they are presumed to have, based on past statements, but the ones they actually practice.

[..]

Perhaps there may once have been this great tension between Harper In Reality and the Harper Who May Exist in Theory, wrestling with each other over every great decision. Probably it was a struggle, jettisoning long-held convictions for short-term political gain—the first couple of times. But after the 50th or 60th time I can’t imagine he even notices. So we should stop pretending he does: stop crediting the Tories with scruples they show no outward sign of possessing.

Update: Unambiguous Message from The Gods.

Harper Against the Grain

There is almost universal agreement that the US Fed pumping money into the economy via QE2 is going to cause hyper-inflation down the road, and that the scheme is going to do more harm than good.  Fed Chairmen, Ben Bernanke, claims that QE2 by the nature of its design will not cause hyper-inflation and above all, will not devalue the US dollar.

Of special interest, is that at the G20 the loan voice speaking out in support of the US Fed was Stephen Harper.  Harper's reasoning may be a bit flawed ... that there is little else to be done ... but in general I've come to believe that 90% of pundits are wrong on this matter; and that Harper is correct.

Of even greater interest to me, is that the inverse relationship between stocks and the USD seems to be reversing.  In fact, since the QE2 announcement, the USD seems to be putting in a solid bottom (no currency devaluation there), and stocks have not crashed.  This very day, stocks were up up and until the last 30 minutes, as was the US Dollar Index.

Imagine the massive collective pie on face we will see, when and if the Greenback holds or climbs, and stocks climb as well.

Harper will be proven correct, and Benny B. will be proven the genius:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper came to the defense of Canada's biggest trading partner Thursday, challenging the many critics of the U.S. Federal Reserve's plan to create $600-billion (U.S.) to buy financial assets to come up with something better.

Mr. Harper made the comment before the official start of the Group of 20 Summit in Seoul. The Fed's decision last week to resume purchasing securities in a bid to lower interest rates has become a preoccupation of many G20 leaders because quantitative easing, as the policy is called, has the effect of weakening the dollar. Officials from Brazil, China, Germany and Russia suggest this is the Fed's true aim. Mr. Harper, in his first comments on the controversy, dismissed those allegations, saying the Fed is simply doing what it can to breath life into the U.S.'s sluggish recovery.

Screw You Guys ... I'm Going Home

Truly, could there be a more confused Administration:

The White House has apparently leaked to the Washington Post in another Friday night news dump that they no longer intend to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the lead 9/11 plotter and the man who murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, in federal court. However, they also don’t intend to try KSM in a military commission, either, despite using that venue for others detained at Guantanamo Bay. Instead, it looks like the Obama administration has responded to an avalanche of opposition from New York Democrats and the Right with the political equivalent of taking their ball and going home:

Filthy Racists Who Don't Deserve to Have an Event

Campus leftists are again showing their desire for free expression and free exchange of ideas, by shutting down yet another event that they don’t particularly agree with.

Wilfred Laurier University is the latest school to fall victim to these self-proclaimed activists. Christie Blatchford was set to give a talk to a small but enthusiastic crowd of people about her new book, Helpless: Caledonia’s Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy, and How the Law Failed All of Us.

Some of the usual suspects decided that Blatchford and her audience were – you guessed it – filthy racists who don’t deserve to have an event.

Welcome to the new far right ... the left.

The Crap We Go Through

... because we are too PC to profile:

John Tyner won’t be pheasant hunting in South Dakota with his father-in-law any time soon.

Tyner was simultaneously thrown out of San Diego International Airport on Saturday morning for refusing to submit to a security check and threatened with a civil suit and $10,000 fine if he left.

And he got the whole thing on his cell phone. Well, the audio at least.

The 31-year-old Oceanside software programmer was supposed to leave from Lindbergh Field on Saturday morning and until a TSA agent directed him toward one of the recently installed full-body scanners, Tyner seemed to be on his way.

Tyner balked.

Of course, the safest airplanes to travel on are Israeli ... where the concept of Political Correctness is a non-starter:

Israel's Ben Gurion Airport is considered one of the most secure in the world, even without passengers having to pass through an obtrusive body scanner.

Simply put, the security
in place at Ben Gurion is based on the premise of 'find the attacker, and you prevent the attack,' or what Rafael Ron, a former director of security at the airport, calls, 'the human factor.'

Reactor Revolution

America: What Have You Done?

I've been noticing a disturbing trend, which is that the current President of the United States only shows genuine emotion in basically two circumstances; when he is whipping up an adoring crowd and surrounded by slobbering groupies, or when he is crossed publicly. Cases in point are the rage in Obama's eyes when Joe Wilson shouted "You Lie!" during Obama's address to congress (we now know Joe was indeed correct); and when Obama soaked in the chants and applause of friendly crowds during the recent election.

Otherwise, Mr. Obama is as aloof and glib as any leader I've ever observed. Frankly, it's creepy. It doesn't help that I'm in the middle of reading the book, The Narcissism Epidemic, by Jean M. Twenge Ph.D and W. Keith Campbell Ph.D.

NRO brings us a pointed essay on the matter, called American Narcissus:

So popularity and fame once nourished him, but now his ambition is richer and he’s answerable not, like some presidents, to the Almighty, but to the gaze of his personal conscience. Which is steady. The fact that this sentence appears in the second memoir of a man not yet 50 years old—and who had been in national politics for all of two years—is merely icing.

[...]

There are lots of times when you get the sense that Obama views the powers of the presidency as little more than a shadow of his own person. When he journeyed to Copenhagen in October 2009 to pitch Chicago’s bid for the Olympics, his speech to the IOC was about—you guessed it: “Nearly one year ago, on a clear November night,” he told the committee, “people from every corner of the world gathered in the city of Chicago or in front of their televisions to watch the results of .  .  . ” and away he went. A short while later he was back in Copenhagen for the climate change summit. When things looked darkest, he personally commandeered the meeting to broker a “deal.” Which turned out to be worthless. In January 2010, Obama met with nervous Democratic congressmen to assure them that he wasn’t driving the party off a cliff. Confronted with worries that 2010 could be a worse off-year election than 1994, Obama explained to the professional politicians, “Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me.”

Winter is Here in Saskatoon

Photos taken by my daughter, Sonya.

Treating Voters Like Adults: Mad Max

Speech by the new Canadian Concervative voice ... Max:

As I said in my speech, if we want conservative values to have an influence on public debates, we have to express them clearly, with passion and conviction, every time we are asked to.

If you want people to believe you, you have to put your principles into practice.

If we want conservative principles to win the battle, we have to defend them openly, with passion, and with conviction.

Don't Leave Anything Unsaid

The Un-Politician:

How to Talk to Soldiers

Thin the herd ... indeed:

Turkey Takes on the Jeeeewwwwws

Most Expensive Movie in Turkish History has a Muslim Rambo taking on those bodypart-snatching, prisnor murdering, peace-ship attacking, blood-drinking Zionists:

Oops

Mr. Wile E. Coyote Ignatieff

Ham-Handed:

Michael Ignatieff has proven to be the Wile E. Coyote of political strategy when it comes to boxing in Stephen Harper – forever being burnt to a crisp atop his own pile of Acme Corporation dynamite.

The latest example of this tendency is the Prime Minister’s admission that Canada will keep troops in Afghanistan to train Afghan forces after the military mission ends next year — a statement completely at odds with what he said in an interview with me in January, when he asserted we would only keep a handful of troops guarding the embassy in Kabul.

How to Piss in Your Own Drinking Water

What Passes for a Bruise Nowadays

Although I strongly support Prime Minister Stephen Harper's stand on Israel, I cringe at the suggestion that the PM's stand is somehow courageous and that he's been bruised as a result.  To me, courageous is humping 140 plus lbs of radio, batteries, and ammo onto a helicopter in +40C to be deposited in the middle of Afghan badlands.  Courageous is also assuming tens of thousands of legal debt fighting punative lawfare dished out by progressives or Islamists ... and having to do it all alone without government support (because it's the government fighting you half the time).  Or, how about fighting Stephen Harper's wet-dream candidate, Fantino, who as top Cop in Ontario tries to crush you at every turn because you dare ... you dare demand that the police uphold the law.

Now that's a bruising!

The Gods Agree:

The Prime Minister has been courting the Jewish vote for years, and being pro-Israel plays well to the Conservative Party base. Getting "bruises" for defending Israel shows just how principled the Tories are on international affairs. Then again critics of the government's foreign policy are not traditional, or likely, Conservative voters. It's easy to be principled with so little at stake.

Memory Lane

One forgets how deranged it got:

The Afghan Surge Crests

With a massive air campaign:

The U.S. and its allies have unleashed a massive air campaign in Afghanistan, launching missiles and bombs from the sky at a rate rarely seen since the war’s earliest days. In October alone, NATO planes fired their weapons on 1,000 separate missions, U.S. Air Force statistics provided to Danger Room show. Since Gen. David Petraeus took command of the war effort in late June, coalition aircraft have flown 2,600 attack sorties. That’s 50% more than they did during the same period in 2009. Not surprisingly, civilian casualties are on the rise, as well.

83 Million

Your Must Read of the Day

Dear Adler:

My grand dad's family came to Canada from Germany, and settled in Walkerton, Ontario. They farmed, he learned how to butcher. In 1916, with war raging and Canadians being lost by the hundreds on an almost daily basis he joined the fight. But not for the Kaiser, not for his homeland of birth. He went to fight for CANADA. This German by heritage Canadian boy went to fight for the country that had given his family hope, peace, and livelihood. Notice there is no hyphenated German-Canadian description. He came HERE. He was CANADIAN of German birth. In August of 1918 he served with the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles, and while on a mounted charge against dug in German positions, he was shot through the left shoulder. Only one of about a dozen from his squad to make it back to the lines. The difference between just another white cross in a small French cemetery, and my ability to write this to you is truly a matter of a few millimetres. After the war, he married and had several children, including my mother. She is now 87. She tells of how she didn't learn to speak English until she was about 5. They still only spoke German at home, and they had moved to Kitchener, where a vibrant Canadian community of German descendants thrived. (Previously, Kitchener was known as Berlin, but the name was changed by those living in the community to honour Lord Kitchener, whose leadership in the Great war was legendary).

... keep reading.

Generations

To Our American Friends

Where They Came From

Highway of Heroes

Maple Leafs are Falling

The Poem

Remembering Afghanistan

In Flanders Fields

Inscribed Forever On Saskatchewan's Lakes

Saskatchewan lakes bear their names.

Eurabian Gollum

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2012: For the GOP to Lose

As elections go, 2012 doesn't offer a favorable field to Democrats ... in fact, it's a minefield:

"The 2012 Senate landscape shows a daunting picture for the Democrats," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, chairman of the GOP's Senate campaign committee. "They're not only defending twice as many seats as Republicans, but a number of them are in states where the Obama-Reid agenda is deeply unpopular."

Shower Curtains Hit the Big Time

In India:

This is very unprofessional reporting. What we’re dealing with here is a hostile Indian press, cherry picking little snippets of the truth in order to make the story fit their point. For example, not one comment about this outfit:

... much much more.

Of course, I thought the lady was pretty classy to shake it up with the kids.

Canada's Top Panhandler

Spends 1.6 Million tax dollars per year:

Yes, but Stephen Harper is Prime Minister, and Lord Iggy is Leader of the Opposition. You lead a quasi-socialist rump that will likely never win power (we pray). The job of the NDP is to whine petulantly that more money should be spent to help the poor, the sick, the unionized and the overeducated. Do you really need $1.16 million to beat Canadians over the head with your begging bowl?

The US Money Pump ... A Contrarian View

The standard view among almost all pundits is that the US Fed is smothering the world in green backs ... CIBC though, begs to differ:

Fears that the Federal Reserve is drowning the global economy in U.S. dollars are overblown and that means that commodities and the Canadian dollar are likely to pull back, according to CIBC World Markets chief economist Avery Shenfeld.

In a new report, Mr. Shenfeld predicts that the Canadian dollar will fall to 93 cents by March and remain there through June.

Jim's Travesty

Adrian:

For all of the examples of media maturity displayed above, it is therefore with disappointment that I read the Toronto Star’s most dishonest scribbler, Jim Travers, characterize this mission as being anything other than the necessary, humanitarian role it actually is.

The Peculiar Strategies of the PMO

As a staunch conservative my frustration with the Harper PMO grows daily ... at times it's hard to tell if what passes for strategy within the PMO is simply confusion. Or, is it far-sighted manoeuvring too complex for us yokels to grasp ... but then maybe what we are witnessing is just the thrashings of the out-of-touch political class. Then again, it could be the shrewd actions of those who have inside knowledge ... or, could it be the doings of small people engaged in pissing contests with bureaucrats and political enemies. Take your pick.

And that brings us to the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Harper administration, and the shameful treatment of our veterans. From personal experience, having dealt with DVA some time ago during the lingering illness of my father-in-law, I can attest to the fact that the mandarins that skulk around the offices of DVA are as soulless a bunch as ever existed ... turf warring, budget clutching bastards who epitomize everything we proles have come to loath about bureaucracy. I personally feel it's because DVA staffers deal primarily with the very elderly ... a group easy to bully, confuse, and give the run-around to.

But I digress ... at issue here is Mr. Stephen Harper's ham-handed handling of the current veteran's crisis. The matter is made for politics gold, where bold clear compassionate action would win hearts and minds here at home; where the Prime Minister who had no problem bailing out the unions could extend a few crumbs to our veterans and in doing so raise his stature among every single Canadian (except perhaps the mandarins). It pains me then, to watch Mr. Harper turn political ice cream into dog shit:

As Remembrance Day approaches, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government is facing a perfect storm – with nary a desert in sight. In the past week, news reports slammed the Department of Veterans’ Affairs efence for its callous treatment of veterans and their families. Outgoing veterans’ ombudsman Pat Stogran threatened to sue the DVA over soldiers’ disability claims. Vets and their supporters staged a protest on Parliament Hill. The debate over the $16-billion-dollar F-35 contract raged on. And now, the future of Canada’s mission in Afghanistan is again an open question.

Keep Reading ...

Read about even more political gold just begging to be made simply because it's the right thing to do ... click.

Welcome to Your "DARK" Progressive Green Future

Don't forget to turn out the lights:

Town halls are plunging our streets into darkness as they try to cut energy bills, damning research reveals.

Up to three-quarters of councils are planning to turn off street lamps or dim the lights in an attempt to save money and meet climate change targets, a poll has found.

But police fear that darkened streets will act as a haven for burglars, muggers and vandals – and motoring experts warn that there may be more accidents on the roads.

The campaign against "Fox News North"

… the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored.

... keep reading Donna Laframboise.

Sarah Palin and the World Revolt

Caribou Barbie shoots and scores once again ... despite the fact that she can't read.  At least this time, it would appear that reading isn't a strength among world leaders either:

The assault against Bernanke’s easy money has reached such fever that President Obama felt it necessary to defend the $600 billion in new-money printing in a news conference in India.

Meanwhile, World Bank president Robert Zoellick has actually called for putting gold back into global money, in order to use it as an international reference point to measure market expectations over inflation or deflation. The former Treasury and State Department official wants a successor to Bretton Woods. To my way of thinking, Zoellick is dead-on right.

And then there’s Kevin Warsh’s opus op-ed in Monday’s Wall Street Journal. I have written about Warsh in the past, and his sound-thinking views. Taking a bit of a shot at Bernanke’s QE2, the Fed board member basically says: Look, you want better growth, reform the tax code and stop regulating. “The Federal Reserve is not a repair shop for broken fiscal, trade, or regulatory policies,” he writes.

Typical Left

When you lose the arguement ... throw things:



The Discussion.

From 700 to 39 to Zero in a Day

The other day we told you that Warmist "scientists were moving to defend the richest government grant scheme in the history of humankind.

We were told there were 700 hundred of them ... by day's end there were 39 ... now there are none. And perhaps, there never were any.

True North Strong and Free

Readers of this blog are very aware of my harsh criticism of Stephen Harper and the CPC. I hit the CPC on a number of issues, but largely for becoming over the past couple of years a party where hardly any principle won't be sacrificed for politcal expediency, where the base is taken for granted, and where straight honest talk is a thing of the past.  The CPC treat Canadians like children.

I juxtapose the hacks who abide in the CPC, and all of Canada's political parties for that matter, against ordinary Canadians who in the simplest of ways show love for their country, love for their fellow Canadians, and the most abiding love for their own.

When you read the entry at the bottom, consider the bold and heartfelt actions of a Canadian mother, and compare this to the slimey and shadowy way in which our Prime Minister and those he opposes have dealt with Afghanistan and those who have served there.  Our political class seldom lie to us ... but they seldom tell the truth either.

If I have hope for my country it's because it is populated by millions of citizens, on both sides of the aisle, who are in their daily lives and deeds giants compared to the tribalists and unimaginative self-serving hacks who govern.

Is it not time that the proles take out the trash in all Canadian Political Parties ... that's my challenge to Liberals, Socialists, and Conservatives.  Why not replace your self-seeking representatives with more Canadians who can truly move and inspire the nation with word and above all else ... deed.

I give you Wendy Hayward ... the Un-Parliamentarian:

For Wendy Hayward, serving coffee to the troops in Afghanistan goes beyond a job or a form of service -- it's a direct connection to her son.

Cpl. James Hayward Arnal, 25, was killed in July 2008 by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan.

His mother, in an effort to honour her son and see for herself the place and the work that he loved, took early retirement from her job in Winnipeg and flew to Afghanistan.

Say No ... To Fantino

There should be no room in the CPC for double dealing, freedom crushing, self-serving ladder-climbers like Fantino ... click.

The HRCs Must Go

The Details

Harper Draws a Clear Line

A great Harper moment:



It's clear that Mr. Harper is fully capable of making strong and unequivical statements ... it's too bad that when it comes to Canadian politics, the usual fare he dishes up is anything but clear and concise.

A Shoulder to Cry On

Whatever happened to "suck it up and move on":

A staffer for a congressional Democrat who came up short on Tuesday reports that a team of about five people stopped by their offices this morning to talk about payroll, benefits, writing a résumé, and so forth, with staffers who are now job hunting.

But one of the staffers was described as a “counselor” to help with the emotional aspect of the loss — and a section in the packet each staffer was given dealt with the stages of grief (for instance, Stage One being anger, and so on).

[...]

While Tuesday was definitely a major loss for the Democrats, I hadn’t heard it cast in a stages-of-grief way before.

Robo Wars Part Two

With the SEC in the tank for High Frequency Traders, there is little likelihood of flash crashes being addressed anytime soon.  Expect more of the same with another market wide crash likely the next time panic selling takes place.  And of course, covering for the HFT firms will be CNBC and all the other financial networks ... offering fluff pieces like the following that don't even scratch the surface:

To some analysts, these mini flash crashes are a sign that another big one is possible, if not probable. Others say these abrupt reversals are simply the way modern, lightning-quick markets work, and that investors had better get used to it.

The crashes continue even as Washington regulators investigate the structure of modern markets and as a report traced the main trigger of May’s big crash to a poorly timed trade by a mutual fund in Kansas.

The lesson for investors and traders ... don't use electronic stops, unless they are simply alerts.  Imagine coming home, finding out that your favorite and most productive stock sold off at a bargain ... only to be trading at the same or higher price it had been at when you went to work in the morning.  That's what happened during mass flash crash this summer ... billions of dollars vanished never to be returned in stocks that weren't on the  "cancel trade" list ... and there were many.

The Soul Searching Begins

What is going to happen to the Global Warming fraud, if it loses it's official propoganda arm ... the MSM science reporter:

There is much introspection going on among environmental journalists. Last week, in a remarkably candid piece Margot O’Neill of the ABC reveals for the first time, what the flummoxed and frustrated would-be journalists are discussing behind the scenes.

The admissions are extraordinary. Despite the fact that hardly any of the journalists wrote about Climategate, for many, the emails from East Anglia were not just important, but a defining moment. (Though not, apparently, because it dinted their faith in the global warming dogma.) Instead, it was the effect Climategate had on editors and others in the office: people who had previously thought climate science was scientific, and environmental journalists were journalists. Suddenly others realized they had been cheated of the real news, sideswiped by a development none of the supposedly “investigative” reporters saw coming.