Sleepy Old Bear Diaries

Here are a few examples of what the British did in order to create (in 1914) what is now called Nigeria and what Obama is doing to you: 
 
Convince the people that “clinging” to any aspect of their cultural (tribal) identity or history is bad and regresses the process of “unity”. British Imperialists deeply feared people who were [...]

Weather Network has it.
Sorry … can’t make the screen capture work.
 
Oh, well, we’ll be in Montpellier, France, for the second half of July. For the week’s weather there … go here.
It is a very hard life. And I am profoundly grateful for it.

 
 
 
Citizen Docker: Making a New Deal on the Vancouver Waterfront, 1919-1939 (University of Toronto Press, 2008).
by my colleague at Cape Breton University, Dr Andy Parnaby.
I found this to be a very nice read, and an interesting exposition of industrial relations between the wars.
Order a copy for your library. You’ll be glad that you did.
Here.

Thanks to Fox News.com
 
Bilbo on a better-hair day.
 

The stark evidence of the growing imbalance between what the Government raises and what it spends is likely to intensify the political row over the public finances and may strengthen calls for cuts in spending.
Treasury figures show that welfare payments will exceed income tax receipts by almost £25 billion. Normally, income tax receipts comfortably cover [...]

… people around you:
1. argue that abortion should be always and readily and freely available, without acknowledging what in fact happens in an abortion, all in the pursuit of some bogus notion of equality;
2. argue that ‘homosexuality’ (not a particularly useful concept, given the fluidity of that phenomenon, with people moving into and out of [...]

Right now, when perhaps the greatest possible question is asked of those who believe wholeheartedly in the danger of climate change–what, pray tell, is the appropriate temperature for planet Earth?–the answer may very well be: “Whatever our Dear Leader says it should be.” But it won’t be for long. 2010 is right around the corner, [...]

Does democracy carry within it a poison pill that guarantees its own eventual destruction?
The modern democratic state — be it a constitutional republic, parliamentary democracy, or constitutional monarchy — has only been in existence for about 320 years, dating from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 when King James II of England was deposed and the [...]

Based on the premise that reliable history can only be written on the basis of sources that are contemporary with the events described, the contributors to this in-depth investigation present research that reveals the obscure origins of Islam in a completely new light. As the authors meticulously show, the name “Muhammad” first appears on coins [...]

Thanks to Blazing Cat Fur for sending me to the Canadian Sentinel:

Blazing Cat Fur’s got a contest going on, so go and vote for the best slogan to “get” Jennifer Lynch, Canada’s Grand High Liberal Fascist, who gets paid $300,000+ a year to stomp all over Canadians’ rights.
Hatred and contempt? Nah. Just derision and dismissal of [...]