Another Reason to Can the F-35 White Brontosaurus

... because it will suck the life out of other more critical military budgets:

One of the Canadian navy's four Victoria-class submarines will be restricted in its ability to dive deep beneath the seas because of rust, according to a document obtained by The Canadian Press.

A Feb. 9, 2010, briefing note prepared by Lt.-Cmdr. Helga Budden recommends repairing seven areas of general rust and three regions of localized pitting rust on HMCS Windsor.

... the point may not be that we need submarines at all; but rather that other than the elements that got upgraded for the Afghanistan fight, most of the CF does its business with shite.

The F-35 purchase is like a struggling lower-middle class family sacrificing it's personal financial well-being because DAD is making payments on a loaded Escalade SUV that he can hardly afford to put gas in.  Worse yet, DAD bought the beast in order to impress his neighbors.

Message to Mr. Harper

If your "verbal" support of Israel is anything more that blatant pandering to the base (tossing the dogs a bone), then perhaps you can look a little closer to home and show some real support:

The CBC has an explicit policy not to use the term “terrorist” or “terrorism”— the CBC’s ombudsman says it would be “taking sides.”

But they have no problem labelling the JDL a terrorist group. Which side is the CBC on? We know the answer. Here’s a better question: Why do the Conservatives give this anti-Canada propaganda arm $1.1 billion a year?

... more from Ezra via the clawed wonder.

Readers of this blog know full well I don't think Mr. Harper is a Conservative ... nor a Liberal nor anything else but a political hack seeking power at any and all costs ... so I don't personally expect Mr. Harper to do anything about that Canadian monstrosity called the CBC.  After all, it's not like Harper has a majority ... no ... wait!

Assad "The Reformer" End-game

A top general in Syria defected on Friday and released video urging the army to quit killing freedom protesters and join the Free Syrian Army.

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The Power of Speech

The Most Difficult Job on Earth

... is covering for the most incompetent American President ever elected. The only one breathing a sigh of relief is Jima Carter ... the torch has been passed:

The Shocking Christian Response to the Oslo Massacre

... taken from Rooters News Agency, London:

Rooters has learned today that hours after the full scope of the Oslo massacre became known, Right-wing Fundamentalist Conservative Christians in a number of Southern US states, chiefly Texas, erupted into spontaneous street celebrations. Baptist and Apostolic congregations were the most exuberant in their expressions, going so far as to hold impromptu prayer-meetings where chants of Jesus is Lord, Bless the Holy Spirit, and God is great could be heard.  Congregations handed out candy to children and passersby.

Our correspondent in Fort Worth approached Pastor Billy Graham-Wafer of the 30,000 strong Fort Worth Jesus is Lord Cathedral. Although Wafer refused an interview, he did say that Christians are joyous because today was the day that God had struck a blow against the Great Cultural Marxist Devil.

Meanwhile in Ethiopia the Christian dominated government declared a national day of celebration and ordered that public executions of Muslims found guilty of polygamy be moved forward to take place at the culmination of the Day of Celebration.  At precisely 5:00 pm, nine Muslim polygamists were hung to death from construction cranes.

The Vatican issued a more sanguine response, saying that although it couldn't condone the Oslo attacks, it should be stressed that all Europeans bore some responsibility, given the reckless immigration policies enacted by EU member states. The Vatican also stated that Christians should be more private in their show of support for the Oslo killer and that a time like this called for sensitivity to the feelings of Norwegians.

Rooters has also spent the day examining Right-wing Fundamentalist Conservative Christian News Media. COYOTE NEWS, for instance, spent the day interviewing various Christian leaders, where the consensus seemed to be that although the killing of Cultural Marxists is justified and in fact required by scripture, it was improper to kill Cultural Marxist children without first giving them a chance to repent and accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

Right-wing Fundamentalist Conservative Christian Blogs reacted in a variety of ways, but most took the line that although the murders were unfortunate, the Oslo killer would go down in history as another great Christian martyr in the image of Joan of Arc or Saint Paul.  Some blogs promised to provide "how to" manuals to prospective martyrs, claiming that the Oslo martyr was God's vessel in providing a blue-print on how to punish the Great Cultural Marxist Devil.

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From the comments @ SDA:

From today's Toronto Red Star editorial:
"The best catharsis Norway can have is to expose a mass murderer for what he is, to publicly refute his twisted ideology and to bring him to justice. The light and air of a public courtroom are the best disinfectants. This case matters to other European countries as well. Rightwing nationalism is a growing scourge that can inspire a lunatic fringe. "

Can you imagine them writing the following?

"The best catharsis America can have is to expose mass murderer Nidal Hasan for what he is, to publicly refute his twisted ideology and to bring him to justice. The light and air of a public courtroom are the best disinfectants. This case matters to European countries as well. Islam is a growing scourge that can inspire a lunatic fringe."

Nope. Me neither.

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In a bid to defuse tension and improve understanding and tolerance, leading Norwegian Christians are demanding the immediate construction of the Triumphant Crusader Christian Community Centre on the site of the slaughter, comprising a cathedral, an evangelical conversion hall and a commemorative recreational shooting gallery.

The Other Oslo Outrage

Lost in all the justified outrage over the Oslo killings, is the missing "other" outrage.

How, in a first-world country which is one of the wealthiest in Europe, is it possible for 90 minutes to elapse between the time that scores of calls for help go out, and the police arrive? How, is it possible that SWAT can't be deposited in place because its helicopter is not on standby, no boats are available, and none can be commandeered in a region that is dominated by "water" and "mountain"?

Typical of the elitist Progressive media, is that the issue has become one of attempting to tar all conservatives with the Oslo murders while virtually ignoring the mind-numbing incompetence of Oslo's security forces.

In Saskatoon, Canada, where we only have a river, there are search and rescue personnel available, with boats, who could respond to a situation like this in a fraction of the time that it took Oslo's incompetent security forces to do their job.

Let's wait and see if Norway's people are citizens or subjects ... "citizens" will demand answers and will express outrage over the uselessness of their police force, and those citizens will politically rip to shreds the boobs who run Oslo's security systems; on the other hand, "subjects" will trust the elites and take their lead from what the elites say.

Physicist Brian J O'Brien on AGW

- It’s been wildly exaggerated. When he first started researching the topic, “I got rather frightened at the exaggerations that were going around.”

- It’s “certainly not proven” than man is largely to blame for any warming.

- “The sad part was that there were no senior scientists that were independent” in the field.

- He discovered that “the funding for climate change research was only going to what you call true believers and when that happens inevitably you get a bias”.

- An Australian professor of physics told him he “completely” supported his concern but had to keep his team of 65 researchers going with work, and “the only funding I can get for them and to get their PhDs is greenhouse funding from Canberra or whereever”.

- “For 20 years people have been indoctrinated with the abuse of language” so that “climate change” is meant to suggest that all change is man-made. Of course, there’s climate change. That’s not the question

- He’s worried we’re going ahead of the world in cutting emissions.

...the details.

Progressives Now Have a Face

One does not need to read much more to see the direction of travel. The demons of the left now have a face and a name – and (at last count) 93 martyrs to inspire what looks suspiciously like a pogrom in the making.

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Of course, to the "collective", the idea anyone actually acting individually is almost incomprehensible. And when they tot up in their fevered imaginations the number of putative "right wingers" (meaning those with ideas different from their own), this becomes the stuff of nightmares.

... more at EUR.

The White Collar Crime of the Future

According to the World Bank, trading in credits commenced after the Kyoto Protocol was adopted in 2005, and about $25 billion was generated over the years to 2009……….

He detailed the first arrival in 2009 of “carbon cowboys” offering villagers “sky money” for the right to use their land in international carbon trading schemes.

This led to alleged corruption of local officials who also stood to gain from these get-rich quick schemes.

... where there's Green, there's fraud.

90 Minutes ??? You've Got to Be Kidding

Police arrived at an island massacre about an hour and a half after a gunman first opened fire, slowed because they didn't have quick access to a helicopter and then couldn't find a boat to make their way to the scene just several hundred yards (meters) offshore. The assailant surrendered when police finally reached him, but 82 people died before that.

... words fail.

The Oslo Killer Was So "Right-Wing" ...

... that he didn't belong to any far right groups:

The suspect apparently had no known links to the right-wing extremist scene. "He just came out of nowhere," a police officer, who did not want to be identified, told the Associated Press. "He hasn't been on our radar, which he would have been if was active in the neo-Nazi groups in Norway. But he still could be inspired by their ideology."

"It's strange that he didn't kill himself, like the guys that have carried out school shootings," the police officer said, adding that the fact that B. was alive meant the police "might get some answers" about his motivation. The officer described the man as "cold as ice."

... I've been amused over the past 24 hours as I watch and listen to "progressives" spin themselves into pretzels trying to find some grain that would connect the Oslo killer with "violent" conservative ideology.

Also amusing is how solidly entrenched the "right/left" canard is, when in reality there is no "right and left" within the Western political system. The "right/left" canard was an invention of Stalin to differentiate his murderous ideology from Hitler's murderous ideology, and from there "leftists" have always referred to those of a "small government, more personal freedom, free-market" persuasion as "right wing" in an attempt to paint them (me) as somehow akin to Nazis and Italian fascists.  That's right, personal freedom loving small government free market believers are somehow on the same side of the aisle as the big gov. centrally controlled societies put in place by European fascists in the 40's.

Another amusing canard being spun for all it's worth is the "now you know how Muslims feel" heap of guano.  Again, pretzel best describes the logic being woven here ...

... that's right ... conservatives and Christians have committed thousands of acts of terror directed at innocent civilians since 911, and from pulpits across the world Christians are exhorted to violence towards "the other" ... and to top it all off, hundreds of websites abound where Christians and Conservatives encourage lone-wolf or organized attacks on civilians ... especially children.  Wherever Christians form a plurality, they violently squeeze out other groups or force them to live as second class subhumans.  And finally, even our armies and security forces which have been locked in combat with Islamic forces since before 911 go to the point of risking soldiers lives in order to maximize the chance of civilians being hurt or killed ... especially if they are Muslim.

As horrific as the spree-killing in Oslo is; the event sure has proved instructive whereby the "progressive" class has jumped the shark in an orgy of finger-pointing, mocking, and uppity commentary that serves only to lay bare the thin intellectual foundation that the "progressive" class is built on.  But, as Ann Coulter gets it right once again ... "mob logic" best describes the "progressive" class today.

Never have I felt more confident in being a Conservative, and although I'm an agnostic, seldom ever have I felt more secure in the understanding that the post-modern Christian faith poses no threat to our freedoms or way of life ... unlike the ultra-violently supremacist political system call Islam.

As to the Oslo killer ... he's just an animal cut from the the Loughner/Harris-Klebold cloth.

Further reading from Spencer.

Scenario #1:

1. Islamic preachers and texts preach violence and hate.
2. Islamic jihadists kill people.
3. Media and Islamic spokesmen say that only Islamophobes think #1 is even happening, or if it is, that it has anything to do with #2.

Scenario #2:

1. Freedom fighters preach free speech, freedom of conscience and equality of rights for all people, against Sharia and Islamic supremacism that denies those rights, advocating only legal means of protest and dissent.
2. Some nutcase who allegedly expressed allegiance with the freedom fighters kills people, none of whom are preaching Sharia or Islamic supremacism.
3. Media assumes that #1 caused #2 and blames freedom fighters.

When Borrowers Negotiate

There is something surreal and unnerving about the so-called “debt ceiling” negotiations staggering on in Washington. In the real world, negotiations on an increase in one’s debt limit are conducted between the borrower and the lender. Only in Washington is a debt increase negotiated between two groups of borrowers.

Actually, it’s more accurate to call them two groups of spenders. On the one side are Obama and the Democrats, who in a negotiation supposedly intended to reduce American indebtedness are (surprise!) proposing massive increasing in spending (an extra $33 billion for Pell Grants, for example). The Democrat position is: You guys always complain that we spend spend spend like there’s (what’s the phrase again?) no tomorrow, so be grateful that we’re now proposing to spend spend spend spend like there’s no this evening.

... "Spend like a drunken sailor" is so outdated; how about "Spend like a drunken politician!"

More from Steyn.

Appalling Slaughter

... 80:

At least 80 people died when a gunman opened fire at an island youth camp in Norway, hours after a bomb attack on the capital, Oslo, police say.

Despite Jihadists taking initial credit for the slaughter, the murderer was a nationalist.

What I find most chilling is that mass slaughter can be achieved using only firearms. Other than the Fort Hood massacre, most Muslim terrorists who target the West go for spectacular explosive finales, when mass murder and random terror can be achieved far easier using only firearms.  So far, it's been the sheer stupidity of Muslim terrorists that has prevented scores of attacks from coming to fruition when their seeking out of spectacular tools of death uncovered their plots.

Sooner or later they are going to figure it out.

For now though, we are dumb-founded by the murderous rampage a crazed Loughner-type spree-killer can cause.

As for those (far too many) ethnocentric Europeans who look down their noses at the USA for its occasional spree killings ... welcome to the underbelly of humanity.

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Presidante of the Wrong Country

"Progressive" Logic

... that Ontario is unfairly subsidizing the West’s oil and gas industry to the detriment of alternative energy suppliers of new technologies in Central Canada.

... que the laugh track.

Taking on the Progressive Pigs Comedians

Spenditol: Brilliant Political Ad

A Crushing Defeat For Warmists

National Press Club Score:

Monckton - 10

Former Greens adviser Richard Denniss - 1

Journalists - 0



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Palace Politics in a World that Stands Still

... of what revolutions are made:

Under pressure, these men (and women) – attuned only to palace politics and court gossip - will do the wrong things, mostly for the wrong reasons, misunderstanding the signals and displaying their ignorance and incompetence at every turn. And from within, the media claque and the bubble-worshippers will snarl and spit as their tiny world collapses around them.

Sadly though, we the people, will pay the price. These gilded buffoons, in their armoured limousines, skulking behind their concrete barricades and machine-gun toting thugs in blue, will cream off the last dregs of exhausted Treasury funds to line their own pockets, before the entire edifice falls apart.

From EU bureaucrats to UN operatives, the people are consistently shut out:

And with that, AFP tells us that the IPCC "weathered a firestorm of controversy in late 2009 and 2010" when several "minor but embarrassing errors" were uncovered in the massive 2007 report, leading to initiatives to tighten standards for inclusion and review of material. Pachauri, it says, was re-elected chairman of the IPCC in 2008.

Now, the point of all this is that, in Pachauri's own little world, nothing has changed. The dramas and controversies of climate change have passed him by, not ruffling a single hair on his bronzed head. The world has stood still.

Beware the life-long political class ... we have our share of that animal within the CPC. They know little else but political machinations and pursuit of power at any cost. They have no root ideological foundation and will sell their soul to retain power.

The Great American Self-Wounding

Reckless Endangerment tells us which elected officials did their bidding. If there is ever a Mount Rushmore for hypocrites, the face of Democratic Congressman Barney Frank — Fannie Mae’s friend in every sordid scrape (until nothing could be hidden anymore) — should be the first to go up. It was the complaisance and complicity of elected politicians like him that enabled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to achieve the power they did, to violate so utterly their own charters, to defy and slander their regulators (they set rumours afloat that one honest overseer was having “mental problems”) as long as the mortgage giants tossed funds into their political kitties, gave them ribbon cutting ceremonies for “minority housing,” and greased their re-election efforts.

... read Rex.

Spend Like a Drunken Progressive

After working hard to compile a list of Obama's rather questionable record of fiscal promises and actual executions, the gist of which is represented best by the violent clash between myth and realty in Christina Romer's "The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan" whose epic failure is defined by one simple chart, we were disappointed to learn that Paul Ryan had already done this. And leaving Paul Ryan's politics aside, the facts do speak themselves. They speak even louder when one considers the din raised by the same president who back in 2006 said: "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better." Indeed they do president Obama. Indeed they do. So without further ado...

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The First Law of "Progressive" Dynamics

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Doubt in the Green Lair

The last IPCC report, which was issued in 2007, forecast an ocean level rise of up to 59 centimeters by the end of the century. Now, the UN experts must once again sift through hundreds of reports, and the haggling over their findings is not unlike the bargaining for the best price at the bazaar. On the one hand, researchers have published forecasts that are far higher than the result reported in the last IPCC report. On the other, sea level measurements have yet to prove any meaningful rise though there is agreement that they are, on global average, rising.

... eventually it'll dawn on green useful idiots like the editors of D.S. that when science produces wildly differing results, you don't have anything approaching a consensus and any consensus that comes, will be forced.

Global Warming Consensus

... is clearly arrived at by intent:

We shall argue that consensus among a reference group of experts thus concerned is relevant only if agreement is not sought. If a consensus arises unsought in the search for truth and the avoidance of error, such consensus provides grounds which, though they may be overridden, suffice for concluding that conformity is reasonable and dissent is not. If, however, consensus is aimed at by the members of the reference group and arrived at by intent, it becomes conspiratorial and irrelevant to our intellectual concern.

Give a Muslim an Inch...

... and he'll take your school (just as a warm-up act):

Just so. Not some exotic photojournalism essay from an upcountry village in Krappistan. But a typical Friday at a middle school in the largest city in Canada. I forget which brand of tampon used to advertise itself with the pitch "Now with new [whatever] you can go horse-riding, water-ski-ing, ballet dancing, whatever you want to do", but perhaps they can just add the tag: "But not participate in Friday prayers at an Ontario public school."

... and you thought we were joking when we warned, again and again, that Muslims, (being ruthlessly supremacist), will begin to push as soon as they can form enclaves.  We have a problem though, and it's as serious as Islam ... as our blog header suggests.

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Mr. Harper ... What's that Smell?

... oh, it's your best friend from Vaughan:

Were it not for journalist Christie Blatchford’s book about political lawlessness during the Caledonia siege, little of the democratic abomination would have been publicized. The media was largely silent. Christie’s book, Helpless…How the Law Failed All of Us has become something of a classic, and an indictment of the government, the OPP and journalistic negligence that failed to adequately report the standoff.

... just pause for a minute to consider what kind of political animal it'd take to crap all over Conservative principles and invite ... nay, pave a golden path for an utter embarrassment and disgrace like Julian Fantino to sit on the CPC side of the aisle. I cringe.

Had Chretien or Martin muscled Fantino into an LPC riding and parliament, Tories would be screeching like apes (and rightly so) ... but when the Tory PM does it, it's called Chess.  Truly,  blind craving for power not only poisons the political class, but a great number of those who slavishly cheer on "their team".  It's enough to make an agnostic of the pope.

"Progressives" ... Haters Inc.

Just so we get, just so you don’t get charges of sexism, because only Michele Bachmann was involved, I sometimes think about fucking the shit out of Rick Santorum.

... yeah ... cute.

Just imagine for a minute if someone on FOX crawled in the guano like this ... the outrage would have "progressives" from across North America raging.

You Can't Make This Stuff Up

Before the fall brings us down, before the election season begins in earnest with all its nastiness and vulgarity, before the next batch of stupid scandals and gaffes, before Sarah Palin tries to convert her movie into reality and Joe Biden resumes his imitation of an embarrassing uncle and Newt and Callista Gingrich [FIG.1] creep us all out, can we just enjoy Obama for a moment? Before the policy choices have to be weighed and the hard decisions have to be made, can we just take a month or two to contemplate him the way we might contemplate a painting by Vermeer or a guitar lick by the early-seventies Rolling Stones or a Peyton Manning pass or any other astounding, ecstatic human achievement? Because twenty years from now, we’re going to look back on this time as a glorious idyll in American politics, with a confident, intelligent, fascinating president riding the surge of his prodigious talents from triumph to triumph. Whatever happens this fall or next, the summer of 2011 is the summer of Obama.

... via Big Gov.

Finally the GOP Senate Grows a Pair

... some details.

The Worst US President?

Given that the J. F. Kennedy myth was created by President Lyndon B. Johnson to launch his socialist revolution, Tom Ricks may have more of a point than he realizes:

As I studied the Vietnam war over the last 14 months, I began to think that John F. Kennedy probably was the worst American president of the previous century.

In retrospect, he spent his 35 months in the White House stumbling from crisis to fiasco. He came into office and okayed the Bay of Pigs invasion. Then he went to a Vienna summit conference and got his clock cleaned by Khrushchev. That led to, among other things, the Cuban missile crisis and a whiff of nuclear apocalypse.

Wait for it ...

By the Time the F-35 Sees Service ...

... we'll be teleporting:

IT SEEMED like a great idea at the time. When Lockheed Martin won the contract in 2001 to develop what became known as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the aim was to produce a relatively cheap tactical aircraft with radar-beating stealth capability that would replace at least four other types in service. The biggest military programme in history would not only provide the backbone of America’s fighter fleet for the next 50 years but would also bring in sales from the United States’ closest allies. At least 3,000 F-35s would be ordered from the outset (over 2,400 by America alone). The result would be huge efficiency savings, initially from the scale of production and subsequently from the Southwest Airlines model of running just one basic type of aircraft across 90% of the fleet. Deliveries of operational aircraft were meant to begin in 2010.

Clear Enough For You?

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Harper Always Did Have a Hidden Agenda

... but the joke is on conservatives:

Mr. Harper’s most significant accomplishment has been not to make the country more conservative, it has been to make the Conservatives less conservative. The Canada-is-more-conservative canard needs a good culling.

The Tory government has spent at record levels — a 40% rise in program spending over five years. It has vowed to continue escalating transfers to the provinces for health care funding in seeming perpetuity while swearing allegiance to the Canada Health Act. It has interfered in international business deals (quashing the Potash takeover, for example), and domestically expanded a system that funnels billions of taxpayer dollars into private enterprise through development agencies. It has defended the supply-management practices that inflate consumer prices for goods such as milk and eggs. On thornier issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage, Mr. Harper has resolutely avoided taking a social conservative stance, even though there is a wing of his party that would dearly like to see him do so.

As Cheap Shots Go ...

... a thing of beauty:

"You Lie"

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Battling the Green Monster

If Mr. Harper wanted to make a really bold move, part of his national energy strategy would be to hold hearings on the state of climate science; but then that would invite the wrath of the ENGOs, the United Nations, the European Union and the Obama administration. While Mr. Harper has a majority, he is also, as noted, a pragmatist, and knows that there is just so much inconvenient truth that any politician can afford to promote.

A pragmatist ... yeah ... like Chamberlain.

If "Progressives" Ran Business

1. We’d have a doubling of our back room office staff with rostered days off, possible 9 day fortnights & committee meetings to decide on which fair trade coffee we should all begin drinking! Every store would have a children’s crèche of course. Selling tools would immediately become a strangely secondary issue for Julia.

2. With all of those extra staff to pay, that amazingly none of us here realised we ever needed before, Julia would think it quite okay to begin increasing all selling prices at TradeTools. She would absolutely believe that all customers would fully understand that our cost base had markedly increased, but be amazed when many started taking 24 years of hard won business elsewhere in confusion & frustration!

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The Harper Doctrine

... all huff and puff:

Another reason why experts are skeptical of a new "muscular" foreign policy is that the government does not currently have the capability to carry out many grandiose plans—and will be entering a period of having fewer resources available, not more.

This, they say, explains the "militarism"—a rhetorical way to counterbalance these realities.

First, it's important to note that the military as it stands is still small compared to some of its allies, and so the capability to carry anything out is necessarily limited, says J. L. Granatstein, a senior research fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute.

"It's still a tiny military for a G8 country; 65,000 regulars is not very much. Its capabilities are extremely limited," he argued.

Harponomy

O-conomy:

The U.S. trade deficit surged in May to the highest level in more than two and a half years, driven upward by a big increase in oil imports.

The Commerce Department said Tuesday that the deficit increased 15.1 per cent to $50.2-billion in May. That’s the largest imbalance since October 2008.

Harponomy:

Canada’s merchandise exports increased 1.2 per cent in May while imports rose 1.1 per cent.

As a result, Statistics Canada reports the country’s trade deficit with the world narrowed to $814-million in May from $857-million in April.

A Suicide Note

... from Down Under:

The Greens' deputy leader, Christine Milne, said: "This is the moment where Australia turns its back on the fossil fuel age, and turns its face towards the greatest challenge of the 21st century, and that is addressing global warming."

The Pot At the End of the Progressive Rainbow

... is always default:

Nothing demonstrates more clearly how the Social Welfare State is on life support than the fact America’s fastest growing cohort of the unemployed are federal, state and local government workers. Last month government cut a record 39,000 jobs; over the past eight months governments have cut a combined 238,000 positions. With federal, state and local governments all threatened with debt defaults and the public angry over failed spending; the American Social Welfare State is doomed! Can you hear that catchy tune from that great American economist Fergie:

“If you ain’t got no money take your” – you know the rest.

At the Core of Every Progressive

... is a little fascist:

The authors of the books we offered to ban were Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, Andrew Breitbart, Ayn Rand, Michael Savage, Bill Clinton, Michael Moore, Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler and Barack Obama. While there were in fact less than two handfuls of individuals who did tell us they don’t think any books should be banned, unfortunately there were a shocking amount of guests at this book fair who were quite open to the idea, and in fact lined up quite excited for the opportunity to voice their opinion.

Participants overwhelming chose Sarah Palin who received 53 votes putting her at 36% overall, Glenn Beck at 23% and Ann Coulter at 22%.

That Sinking Feeling

As was reported last week, Europe has suddenly found itself shocked, shocked, that the bond vigilantes decided to not pass go and go directly to the purgatory of the European core, in the form of the country that, at €1.5 trillion euros, has more debt than even Germany, but far more importantly, has a debt/GDP ratio of over 100%, and has the biggest amount of net notional CDS outstanding (not to mention that it has dominated Sigma X trading for the past several weeks). Italy.

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Suicide

... bound and determined to die:

Costly new incentives to encourage energy companies to invest in renewable power sources such as wind farms will put an extra £160 a year on the average household bill over the next 20 years.

The huge rise is on top of drastic increases in bills being faced already by consumers. Last Friday British Gas, which posted profits of £742million last year, announced gas price rises of 18 per cent, which followed Scottish Power saying it would increase rises of 10 to 15 per cent.

... and in other news ... Most Aussies want to destroy their economy says a new poll.

Here's the real-deal though; As "green" mania fails and causes ever more hardship with nothing to show for it, politicians will do what they've always done ... centralize ever more power in order to pound square pegs into round holes that much harder.  "Green" is simply code for massive government and bureaucratic power, make no mistake.

That's why, for example, Stephen Harper is so loath to part with Global Warming nonsense.  Being the power hungry micro-managing nerd he is, letting go of control buttons and power levers is totally and completely outside his nature.

President Hussein's Friends

Change You Can Believe In

Birther Fun (Part 2)

During the most recent 24 hours, I spent a few hours by looking for some additional anomalies in the long form Obama certificate. And I have spent a very similar amount of time by trying to look for alternative explanations - i.e. methods to create a multi-layered PDF file with similar bizarre properties that have been observed in the official PDF file.

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The "Progressive" Justice System

For seven days, she listened to excruciatingly painful detail from Turcotte, her husband of six years.

For the first time, she heard how Olivier moaned and tried to roll away from his father as he gripped a knife in both hands and stabbed their son. She heard that a defenceless Anne-Sophie tore out her hair during her attack.

Near the end of the trial, her nerves frayed, Gaston stormed out of the courtroom as defence lawyer Pierre Poupart gave his closing arguments to the jury, claiming Turcotte was a sick man who had no idea he was harming his children.

... read it all and discover how the increasing trend of murdering your own children in order to take out revenge on your ex-spouse, now has been legitimized in Canada. The new precedent ... "I was upset!"

A detailed version of events can be found HERE.

Sarah Palin is an Idiot

Imagine the tsunami of ink that would be spilled if Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin proclaimed that Abraham Lincoln built an intercontinental railroad during the Civil War. Yet months went by before I heard about this:

... the video.

Putting the "P" in Progressive

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Birther Fun

It takes a physicist:

I lost most of my interest. The birthers gradually began to resemble those who doubted moonlanding. Well, the analogy surely wasn't that perfect but I did decide to wait for another good reason to doubt that Obama's Hawaii birth certificates are legitimate.

Well, the surprising event came today. I received a Tea Party Telegram by e-mail that claimed to have new evidence that the certificate is forger. I thought: well, it's some kind of conspiracy rubbish again. However, they claimed to have an analysis by Mara Zebest, a photoshop expert with quite some experience:

Combat Mission Over

For better or worse ... it's done:

Canada's front-line fighting role in Afghanistan officially ended Tuesday when soldiers handed battlefield combat responsibilities over to the Americans.

Canadians have been working toward completion of the combat mission since Parliament voted in 2008 to end the mission by July 2011.

Poop and Change

... O-conomy

Hey buddy, can you spare a square?

The city is so hard up for cash that it’s rationing toilet paper in women’s public restrooms — to the point where bathroom attendants are doling out a few measly squares per patron — along the world-famous Coney Island boardwalk.

The Post witnessed stone-faced Parks Department employees leave toilet-paper dispensers empty last week and instead force astonished female beachgoers to form “ration lines” in the bathrooms.

Ass-wipe rationing in the U - S - of - A ... your "progressive" future is here America.

Goodbye Kandahar

Dr. Toryalai Wisa:

The Afghan people know what this combat mission has cost Canada -- and especially the families of our fallen troops -- assures Kandahar's provincial governor.

In an exclusive interview with QMI Agency, Dr. Toryalai Wisa, a Afghan-Canadian academic who oversees the area our combat soldiers will soon be pulling out of, says the level of sacrifice is understood.

Wisa recalls conversations he's had with family members of dead Canadian soldiers: "My heart is still with them -- I express my very deep, deep appreciation from the bottom of my heart.

"(Canadians) did not spend only the taxpayers money here...they have sacrificed their youth here."

The governor added: "We shall never forget that. That will be part of Kandahar history."

Rex:

It used to be that the only purpose of war was victory. On Afghanistan, even after a decade of involvement there, that clarity is still not present. A mission that began in the fevered days after Osama bin Laden’s attack on New York and Washington, and which sought in those early days the defeat of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and the rout of the Taliban, also quickly took on a secondary burden: that of rebuilding or helping to rebuild the Afghan state, of introducing some elements of Western-style democracy into the country, and of assisting as well in the building of its most basic infrastructure.

Agenda 21

Progressive "initiatives" are like Kleenex tissues ... you get rid of one scheme and another pops up:

Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment.

A Peek Under the Hood

... reveals nothing but garbage:

According to S&P, both versions of the Paris model would lead to losses for creditors and the bonds affected would therefore probably be defined as default cases. That is precisely what EU governments are trying to avoid.

Even the eco-maniacs are figuring it out:

A minimum price of €16.11/tonne of CO2 equivalent has scared carbon traders away from Greece's first primary auction of emissions allowances.

Greece plans to sell 10m EU allowances (EUAs) and put a first batch of 1m up for auction on Wednesday (see EDCM 7 June 2011).

But only 6,000 were actually sold, at the set minimum price of €16.11/tCO2e. Just two companies were bidding for the EUAs.

Ahhhh!