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Archive for October 2008

More Leftist insanity.

Posted by: sleepyoldbear on: 31 October 2008

“If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. And it’s not a coincidence that President Bush recalled soldiers from Iraq for Dick Cheney to lead against American citizens in the streets.”
–Erika Jong.
Here.

Kate has it right.

Posted by: sleepyoldbear on: 30 October 2008

You Might Be A Liberal
 
If you believe that women who stay at home to raise their children are repressed by a male-dominated society, but that women who wear hijabs are expressing freedom of religion - you might be a liberal.
If you quote the John Howard Society on the ineffectiveness of incarceration, and MADD on the effectiveness [...]

Snow fell as the House of Commons debated Global Warming yesterday – the first October fall in the metropolis since 1922. The Mother of Parliaments was discussing the Mother of All Bills for the last time, in a marathon six hour session.
In order to combat a projected two degree centigrade rise in global temperature, the [...]

James Travers in the Cape Breton Post this morning …

Posted by: sleepyoldbear on: 30 October 2008

…and here he is on the Toronto Red Star site.
 
This has to be one of the most vapid columns I have ever read.
Totally uncomprehending. No connection with reality.

Sort of how I feel about my own profession from time to time.

Posted by: sleepyoldbear on: 29 October 2008

The traditional media are playing a very, very dangerous game — with their readers, with the Constitution and with their own fates.
The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I’ve found myself slowly moving from shaking my head [...]

Lay the blame where it belongs.

Posted by: sleepyoldbear on: 28 October 2008

Fact Number One: It was liberal Democrats, led by Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, who for years— including the present year— denied that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taking big risks that could lead to a financial crisis.
It was Senator Dodd, Congressman Frank and other liberal Democrats who for years refused requests [...]

You don’t have to lie to dish the dirt on Obama.

Posted by: sleepyoldbear on: 27 October 2008

Shame, Cubed
Three separate reasons to be appalled, each more disgusting than the last.
By Bill Whittle

The Drudge Report this morning led off with a link to audio of Barack Obama on WBEZ, a Chicago public radio station. And this time, Barack Obama was not eight years old when the bomb went off. 
Speaking on a call-in radio [...]

Michael Coren says …

Posted by: sleepyoldbear on: 27 October 2008

… 
Leave your car in a handicapped parking spot and you’ll be fined.
Abort your handicapped child
and you’ll receive government financing
 
 
* MICHAEL COREN great Canadian broadcaster, author & columnist
 
 Thanks, Robert.

SF has a story on Catholic resurgence in Quebec.

Posted by: sleepyoldbear on: 27 October 2008

I’m just off to church actually, so I don’t have much time to blog. But this column from Marie-France Bazzo is excellent news. She’s complaining about the rise of conservative Christians in Quebec.
She wonders where conservative Catholics had been for thirty years. But, she says, ever since the Bouchard-Taylor commission, they have begun speaking out.
I know where [...]

Tim Birdnow has a whizbang report on Obama.

Posted by: sleepyoldbear on: 27 October 2008

Go here.