Roy Eappen said...
Sarah Palin is an amazing choice. The misogyny of the left is always exposed in these situations.
They don't want women's rights on;y [sic] leftist women's rights.
Much of the University of Texas medical school on this island suffered flood damage during Hurricane Ike, except for one gleaming new building, a national biological defense laboratory that will soon house some of the most deadly diseases in the world.
How a laboratory where scientists plan to study viruses like Ebola and Marburg ended up on a barrier island where hurricanes regularly wreak havoc puzzles some environmentalists and community leaders.
“It’s crazy, in my mind,” said Jim Blackburn, an environmental lawyer in Houston. “I just find an amazing willingness among the people on the Texas coast to accept risks that a lot of people in the country would not accept.”
Deficit spending does not work. Government spending does not generate real productivity and large debt hinders long term growth.
I am shortly going to be writing several posts about the Catholic Church, Darwinism, and intelligent design.
Dating is a scary thing for a female, so most of us rely on that 6th sense. My antenna started twitching the minute I heard Obama speak, he reminded me of a used car salesman, promising me the car was sound, while crossing his fingers behind his back, and grinning at me.
After new ministers are sworn in at Rideau Hall they’ll be immediately driven off to Parliament Hill for the first meeting of the new cabinet in Centre Block in room 323-S.
An initiation ceremony, a rare viewing of the Hidden Agenda, and an extensive discussion of Canada’s current and projected economic footing are expected.
The McCain camp has now joined those demanding The Los Angeles Times release a 2003 video that shows Barack Obama celebrating with a group of Palestinians hostile to Israel.
Peter Wallsten wrote in April about Obama's association with former Palestinian operative Rashid Khalidi. The celebration was a farewell for Khalidi as he left Chicago for a job in New York. Wallsten called Khalidi a, "critic of Israel and advocate for Palestinian rights.
"He says, "A special tribute came from Khalidi's friend and frequent dinner companion, the young State Senator Barack Obama... Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi's wife... and conversations that had challenged his thinking.
Turns out the truck had been stopped for a routine violation, when the officer approached the vehicle he took off. The high speed chase ended here. The driver is really damned lucky that he isn't facing vehicular homicide charges. This all took place on the sidewalk beside the bus terminal at peak traffic time, right after school let out. The driver of the bus I rode today recognized me and said he'd seen the whole thing. By his estimation the truck missed me by about a foot and he wasn't sure I'd actually cleared the vehicle until it was passing me. The sudden sprint, adrenalin and knapsack I was carrying have combined to put a twinge in my neck, could have been one messy bunch worse. That's enough close calls for the time being thanks.
In defense of religion,Amen
October 29, 2008 by admin
There is satire and there is ridicule.
Sarah Dreier,of Faith and Progressive Policy an initiative of the Center for American Progress,reviews Bill Maher’s film ‘Religulous’. She demonstrates,quite convincingly,that the film is just faith bashing of the most pedestrian kind.
She writes how Maher cherry picks,using religious fanatics to illustrate how believers are supposedly feeble minded...
For whatever reason there seems to be a trend of late,Dawkins,Hitchens,and now Bill Maher of all people,aimed at ridiculing people of faith.
The question being why ?
Few Catholic reporters know much about the actual arguments and evidence in the intelligent design controversy.
Two nights ago, I finally saw the Expelled film ... the film badly needed an explanation of why there is an intelligent design controversy.
Take THAT, Affirmative Action!
In spite of no quotas, the Conservatives elect more women candidates (and a higher percentage) than any other party.
As I said when Dion came out with the quota idea, it's about quality, not quantity.
WASHINGTON - A plot by two Neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Barack Obama and kill dozens of other African Americans has been foiled, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said Monday.
... That is what our soldiers do. They hunt thugs while protecting the most defenseless. That is why we support them ... and why some of us have a hard time suffering the illogic of the greatest parasites of freedom ever known ... Western bleeding-heart Liberals.
By WILLIAM KRISTOL
Published: October 27, 2008
The Republican center is giving way, and some on the political right are in retreat. Time for John McCain to finally make his case.
Never again. When you hear those words, it evokes an image doesn't it?
Never again will the government of the day be able to play around with the date of an election for its own crass political motives.
Biden Gets First Tough Interview of the Campaign
Finally some tough questions, and Joe "Gaffe Machine" Biden can't handle it.
Orlando TV "Journalist" Barbara West's Husband is a GOP Media Consultant
Joe Biden got asked some questions from Orlando WFTV reporter Barbara West on Thursday that where [sic] completely false...
Well it turns out that her husband, Wade West, is a political and media consultant for Republican politicians. The GOP talking points Barbara West used in her interview may have come directly from the McCain Palin communications team via her husband Wade.
Some students burst into tears when a high school biology told them they’d be studying evolution. Another teacher said some students repeatedly screamed “no” when he began talking about it.
Other teachers said students demanded to know whether they pray and questioned why the had to learn about evolution if it was just a theory.
The health of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates has been at the forefront of this U.S. election campaign, particularly because at age 72 McCain would be the country's oldest president if elected.
To prove his physical fitness, McCain released more than 1,000 pages of medical records last spring.
Three weeks ago, John McCain, who would be the oldest president in history if elected, released 1,173 pages of his medical records to the press. He did so only after a series of delays, however, and then granted a pool of about a dozen news outlets access to them for three hours, with no photocopying allowed.
We need to rebuild and renew the Liberal Party and Liberalism in Canada. Liberal 308 is a pilot project for this renewal. What does Liberal 308 mean?
A motion to reopen the same-sex marriage debate was easily defeated in Parliament on Thursday, as expected...
Thirteen Liberals supported the motion...
Same-sex marriage became legal in Canada last year when the Liberal government passed Bill C-38 in response to a series of court rulings that said gays had the right to marry.
That bill passed 158-133.
Thirty-two Liberals voted against it, ...
Tough to win an election when the Big three networks all conspire against you… by burying anything that might compromise the Democrats.
Manitoba and Winnipeg are once again leading Canada in murders, according to a Statistics Canada report released Thursday. There were 62 homicides in Manitoba last year — the highest number since data were first collected in 1961, and up from 39 killings in 2006.
On a per-capita basis, Manitoba recorded the highest homicide rate in the provinces, at 5.22 per 100,000, almost double the rates of second-place Saskatchewan and third-place Alberta. Among major cities, Winnipeg led with 3.55 homicides per 100,000 people. Edmonton was second at 3.28 and Calgary was third at 3.14.
Tories brace for deficit, plan to share blame
What was gained? Nothing, except showing how scared the lefties are of Sarah Palin.
Palin’s drag on the ticket?
Fifty-five percent of respondents say [Palin]’s not qualified to serve as president if the need arises, up five points from the previous poll.
In addition, for the first time, more voters have a negative opinion of her than a positive one. In the survey, 47 percent view her negatively, versus 38 percent who see her in a positive light.
That’s a striking shift since McCain chose Palin as his running mate in early September, when she held a 47 to 27 percent positive rating.
Now, Palin’s qualifications to be president rank as voters’ top concern about McCain’s candidacy - ahead of continuing President Bush’s policies, enacting economic policies that only benefit the rich and keeping too high of a troop presence in Iraq.
For the 77th consecutive month, FNC finished first in total day and prime time ratings during May. FNC was the sixth highest rated cable network on all of basic cable during prime time for the month (CNN and MSNBC finished 19th and 26th) and the seventh rated network in total day (CNN and MSNBC were 19th and 27th).
FNC also had 11 out of the top 13 programs in cable during the month in Total Viewers. The O'Reilly Factor was the #1 program in cable news for the 90th consecutive month, and saw gains in Total Viewers year-to-year (26%).
Rachel Maddow, a woman who does not own a television set, has done something that is virtually unheard of: she has doubled the audience for a cable news channel’s 9 p.m. hour in a matter of days.
More important for her bosses at MSNBC is that “The Rachel Maddow Show,” her left-leaning news and commentary program, has averaged a higher rating among 25- to 54-year-olds than “Larry King Live” on CNN for 13 of the 25 nights she has been host. While the average total audience of her program remains slightly smaller than that of Mr. King’s, Ms. Maddow, 35, has made MSNBC competitive in that time slot for the first time in a decade. The channel at that hour has an average viewership of 1.7 million since she started on Sept. 8, compared with 800,000 before.
Dr Henry Morgentaler, no hero in the blogosphere
On July 1st the Canadian government announced the award of its highest civilian honour, the Order of Canada, to Dr Henry Morgentaler, holocaust personality, humanist and abortionist extraordinaire. Of course, it was ultra-controversial with Canada’s Catholic and pro-life groups. But a wave of wider protests have washed up the very steps of the Governor General’s house, and scores of past recipients of the award have returned their medals.
The Governor General's office said Friday that a total of seven Order of Canada medals have been returned to protest Morgentaler's nomination, including former New Brunswick lieutenant-governor Gilbert Finn, B.C. priest Lucien Larre, another anonymous Canadian and families of three deceased recipients.
"A friend recently sent me this article about a "gay-friendly" high school. If we were living in a biblical society, homosexuality would be punishable by death so such a school would be unnecessary. Although I'm against the special accommodations, perhaps this new trend of segregation will protect straight kids from these predators. With any luck, some radical will blow up the gay school. No, I'm not condoning vigilantism--I'm merely saying that it would be poetic justice."
MCCAIN: And finally, there's $200 million of [Obama's] campaign contributions — there's no record. They're not reported. You can report online now — $200 million that — that we don't know where the money came from — a lot of strange things going on in this campaign...
So what's going to happen? The dam is broken. We're now going to see huge amounts of money coming into political campaigns, and we know history tells us that always leads to scandal...
WALLACE: But are you suggesting that there's...
MCCAIN: But I'm not suggesting...
WALLACE: ... anything illegal or improper?
MCCAIN: No, no. I'm saying that history shows us where unlimited amounts of money are in political campaigns, it leads to scandal.
The Republican presidential nominee from Arizona landed at the Columbia Regional Airport around 12:30 p.m. As McCain disembarked from the plane, a man yelled, "Go get 'em, John."...
A crowd of about 15 people assembled outside the airport's fence to see him descend from the plane.
Okay, here's a rule of crowd estimation. It is okay to say a crowd was thousands, or hundreds, but it can never be "about 15", if there are "about" 15, you've got time to get the number exactly right.
I don't believe we will see gulags or the end of democracy if Obama wins, but I do believe his presidency would erode the conservative values of individualism, personal ambition, personal responsibility, the rule of law, the constitutional right of freedom of the press (because of the fairness doctrine), and the free market's role in society.
I Have to PAY for Canadian Budget Statistics???
Fellow SDA'ers, as I am merely a humble guest writer, I thought it would be appropriate that instead of deluging you with stories from the US, I try to pull some interesting statistics and charts about Canada so that we may all take home an exciting and interesting education in Canadian economics.
My goal was simple; compare health care expenditures as a % of GDP and the budget over time to provide all those interested a measure as to just how much of your budget goes to the health care system as well as what percent of your income goes to health care.
I found a great site called Statistics Canada that had all the data a budding economist could ever want. I quickly found the database where I could pull all the necessary information and upon clicking the "enter" button, received this little notice; ...
(Your request contains 4 payable series, at a cost of C$12.00.
What in the name Puff the Magic Dragon is this?! I have to PAY to get what should be public information? Is this some kind of attempt to keep economic information from the poorer masses or some bureaucrat's idea of a power trip?
Nothing like keeping vital information that would empirically disprove socialism away from the population.
Posted by Captain at October 19, 2008 11:47 AM
Harper defends database shutdown
Prime Minister says Co-ordination of Access to Information Requests System too costly; Dion says PM leads most 'secretive government in the history of our country'
Mr. Harper was forced to explain in the House of Commons Monday why his government quietly killed off a database called the Co-ordination of Access to Information Requests System.
Created in 1989 and revamped in 2001, the CAIRS database is a monthly compilation of all Access requests received by federal agencies. Canadians could use it to see the information that had already been made public or was in the process of being released, and could then make a request to see the documents themselves.
The database “was deemed expensive, it was deemed to slow down the access to information, and that's why this government got rid of it,” Mr. Harper said during Question Period.
St. John's mayor wants seat for Newfoundland at federal cabinet
They had their chance. It's what's known as a federal election.
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The mayor of St. John's is calling on the public to convince Ottawa to appoint somebody from Newfoundland and Labrador to be responsible for the province at the federal cabinet table.
The Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper doesn't have an MP from the province after losing races for all of its seven seats during Tuesday's federal election.
It's time the mayor had a talk with Danny Williams about that little ABC thing.
Wall Street banks in $70bn staff payout
Pay and bonus deals equivalent to 10% of US government bail-out package
Financial workers at Wall Street's top banks are to receive pay deals worth more than $70bn (£40bn), a substantial proportion of which is expected to be paid in discretionary bonuses, for their work so far this year - despite plunging the global financial system into its worst crisis since the 1929 stock market crash, the Guardian has learned.
Staff at six banks including Goldman Sachs and Citigroup are in line to pick up the payouts despite being the beneficiaries of a $700bn bail-out from the US government that has already prompted criticism.
