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Not just anyone can play the alphorn. You need a certain amount of room, for one thing, and a healthy set of lungs. In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips, the mighty Alphorntrio URU blows Hegleren across the valley and into your speakers.
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  6. I’ll loan you my cat for $1 a week. He expresses love by digging the hooks in, dimming his eyelids, purring, and drooling – lots and lots of drooling.
    It took me a few years, but I’ve finally trained him to occasionally back off and just stare instead.

  7. Facebook’s response to complaints from users:
    “We reviewed your report of Death to zionst (sic) baby killer israeli jews. Thank you for taking the time to report something that you feel may violate our Community Standards. Reports like yours are an important part of making Facebook a safe and welcoming environment. We reviewed the Page you reported for containing hate speech or symbols and found it doesn’t violate our Community Standards.”
    via Drudge

  9. During the Vietnam era; the scene of religious Monks setting themselves on Fire was a disturbing message that made everyone think.
    When the Muslin religious “leaders” set themselves on fire, or blow themselves to oblivion.. I might pay attention!

  11. Cow attack at B.C. farm kills N.W.T. man who …collapsed and couldn’t be revived after a cow butted him in the chest…he and another farm worker were moving cattle from one corral to another when the cow attacked…
    deaths from livestock attacks are more common than some may think.​ Canadian Cattlemen put out an article on aggressive cattle and one of the stats in there is over a 15-year period in Canada, 23 people were killed by cows, and this is generally dealing with the beef industry.

  12. This is how the CBC undermines anything and anybody that doesn’t follow their political agenda that includes an powerful anti-Jewish sentiment.
    On July 27–14 the CB ran a story under this headline.
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-conflict-hamas-declares-new-24-hour-ceasefire-1.2719401
    The story covered the 24 hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Soon after the shooting started again, I wrote this comment that was deleted:
    ”A message to Israel. Aim well–shoot straight!” (End of quote.)
    Lets get real, there’s a war going on, I support Israel, and I would tell the same to any soldier anywhere in the world who is in combat.
    On the same page as my comment was deleted from, this comment was allowed to be published:
    ”Putin has the support of simple minded Russians, Netanyahu has the support of simple minded Israelis. And on both these fronts Harper has the support of simple minded Canadians.” (End of quote.)
    Not only is that statement outright discrimination against anyone who has a mentally disabled family member, friend or relative, it’s also a direct insult to anyone who supports Israel, Russia or the Conservative government of Canada.
    Now you know why we need to get rid of the CBC.

  14. I have thought that the CBC should go for over twenty years.
    The horns were cool. We saw and heard them everywhere in Switzerland last summer. Even on the observation area on top of Mt. Pilatus.

  18. Globe and Mail, Wed., July 24. McGill U. poli. sci. prof. Antonia Maioni on the occasion of the passing of Quebec “intellectual” Vincent Lemieux.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/first-came-the-laval-school/article19720142/
    AM: “Long before the Calgary school emerged in political science, there was a social science tradition at Laval University that shaped the scholars, students and practitioners who would build modern-day Quebec.”
    “… the Laval school … embraced the notion of harnessing the power of the state to improve societal well-being … Laval social scientists sought to instill a collective sense of purpose for Quebeckers …”
    The problem here, obviously, is that the state cannot “improve societal well-being” except insofar as it carries out its purpose of protecting individual rights. Government action is coercive, which is acceptable for self-defense purposes only. Coercion does not produce, create, discover, invent or innovate. It can only destroy. To attempt to improve societal well-being through coercive state measures is ultimately destructive to that society.
    And if a person has a “purpose” that is dictated from authority on high, he is a slave. There is no other word for it. Free men and women do not have “a collective sense of purpose”, they choose their own individual purposes based on what is the right course of action for their own individual lives.

  19. Globe and Mail, Thurs., July 24 editorial: Let Omar Khadr speak. The Toronto Star weighed in with a similar editorial on the same day (the previous post date should read Wed. 23rd, not 24th).
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/let-omar-khadr-speak/article19733768/
    I agree with the thrust of the editorials. Since Omar Khadr will be released eventually, the question is whether he is still unrepentant and a supporter of terrorism or whether he has been deprogrammed. The public needs as much information as possible so that it can form an opinion on this matter. Khadr should be interviewed at length and the results broadcast as widely as possible as a public service.

  20. My Fellow Canadian
    by Mark Steyn • Jul 28, 2014 at 10:47 pm
    “Al-Quds” is the Arab name for Jerusalem, and this event, if not quite as big as the LGBTQWERTY parade, enjoys a similar official imprimatur: the Government of Ontario gives permission for it to be held at Queen’s Park, home of the provincial parliament. At this year’s shindig, Gaza was the big grievance, and there was a lot of undisguised Jew-hatred in the air.
    But, as I said, it’s the photograph at right that’s been weighing on me: A man at the rally holding up a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini. We can’t see his face, but he’s wearing a baseball cap and in his left hand he’s holding a smart phone. So he looks like a perfectly assimilated immigrant. And yet with his right hand he’s proudly displaying a photograph of the Ayatollah – presumably his, and evidently a picture he’s fond of, because he’s gone to the trouble of putting it in a frame.
    http://www.steynonline.com/6492/my-fellow-canadian

  21. Globe and Mail, Thurs., July 24, Rob Carrick interviews Jane Rooney, “Canada’s first financial literacy leader”.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/retirement-rrsps/federal-government-to-get-seniors-up-to-speed/article19730524/
    RC: “The federal government is concerned enough about how seniors are managing their money that it has made them the top priority in improving the country’s financial literacy.”
    The fact is that if unusually large numbers of Canadians of any age are having trouble managing their finances, a major reason is taxation and government waste. This idiotic position of “financial literacy advisor” or however it’s billed is a case of blaming the victim.
    Among 35 million people some will obviously be better at managing money than others. But the real problem is that governments don’t know how to manage money. And given the re-election of the Ontario Liberals, too many Canadians obviously don’t care.

  22. Globe and Mail, Fri., July 25, Brian Lee Crowley.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/why-canadas-success-has-stumped-the-all-season-keynesians/article19759858/
    BLC: “Keynesianism essentially holds that government must compensate for the collapse of demand by private companies and consumers during downturns. Governments use their credit to borrow and then stimulate the economy by spending on, say, social benefits, public sector employment and infrastructure.”
    Keynesianism is nonsense. Demand doesn’t “collapse”, it’s the same thing as supply – the other side of the equation of trade. In tough times most people will try to save more and spend less. But this savings leads eventually to borrowing by business to reinvest in production.
    Spending on social benefits is pure consumption, because the recipients are not producing anything; better to have them gainfully employed at the market rate of labour. Spending on public sector employment is a mixed bag: Some jobs (police, courts) will be done anyway; some (infrastructure) produce goods and services, but how useful they are is an open question, and it will vary from one project to another; some (most regulators and dispensers of cash) are worthless and destructive of the economy’s potential, and they should be fired and sent off to seek productive private sector employment.

  24. Toronto Star, Sat., July 26. Heather Mallick.
    http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2014/07/25/harper_has_oxfam_in_his_charity_sightlines_mallick.html
    Subheader: “Stephen Harper is cracking down on charities like Oxfam and PEN Canada that do preventive — as well as helpful — work.”
    Is there any proof that Harper personally is cracking down? As I understand it, decisions regarding who to audit are made by the bureaucrats in the department, not politicians. If this is true, to claim political involvement is potentially libellous. Certainly politicians should have a thick skin and it wouldn’t be a horrendous case in my opinion, but the possibility is there.
    HM: “I have always been skeptical of big charities raising money for tasks that to me are clearly the function of government — medical research or feeding and housing the indigent, for instance.”
    Well, no, these are not the proper function of government, but of private investment and voluntary charity. By now, government through coercive policies creates more indigent people than any other institution in society.

  26. PETITION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
    IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED
    We, the undersigned citizens of Canada draw the attention of the House to the following: THAT : as individual Citizens of Canada WE do NOT enjoy the protection of “PROPERTY RIGHTS” within the Constitution of Canada ! hence, THE LAW of Canada!
    THEREFORE: Your petitioners call upon Parliament to forthwith, incorporate and entrench FOREVER , individual “PROPERTY RIGHTS” INTO THE CONSTITUTION OF CANADA.
    Furthermore: In the NATIONal INTEREST of ALL CANADIANS, the landlocked oil resources of ALBERTA AND SASKATCHEWAN must be made available by PIPELINE to tidewaters of Canada in order to get WORLD PRICES FOR A NATURAL resource for the benefit of ALL CANADIANS.
    WE, the undersigned Canadian petitioners urge parliamentary action, on these CanadIAN National Issues, NOW!

  27. Black Mamba, when you say “he feints” do you mean he’s faking the faint? :-).
    Yeah, when I was allowed to have cats (before the two Bengals disaster), after an extended time away I used to ask my cat if she missed me. All I could get out of the exchange was a stare from which I inferred, Oh, were you away? OTOH, my wife, a cat whisperer (before the Bengals) would always admit, A little bit, which I’m sure won’t surprise most SDA regulars.

  28. This is a very positive article. I think the much ballyhooed environmental concerns about oil and gas are more from white latte socialist greens than Native Bands.
    I believe a new generation of Native leaders will see the opportunity in developing the lands they’ve inherited rather than sitting there in poverty to satisfy a few greens and the Tides Foundation.
    The few dollars doled out by the American and Saudi backed enviro- activists stays with the Chief,doesn’t benefit the Band members. Now, this Band will have millions in royalties coming in,and it will be pretty difficult for the Indian politicians to steal it all.
    Good luck to them,hopefully this Band will soon become self-sufficient and get off the dole.

  29. The hypocrisy is the only thing that bugs me about it since there seems to be very little or no back lash from the expected parties.

  31. I would be curious to know if Huatong Petrochemicals Holdings Ltd., listed as it is on the Hong Kong stock exchange, is either:
    1. a SOE, and therefore proscribed; please see this:
    http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-07-29/blame-ceos-for-slowing-chinese-investment-coates-says
    or
    2. somehow related to:
    http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/companyOfficers?symbol=0852.HK
    which I get when I Google Huatong Petrochemicals Holdings Inc.
    Strong? Strong? How does that ring a bell, exactly? Heck, it’s almost like something maz2 would post…
    You don’t suppose, do you, that someone is making mischief, using the HKSE to funnel (or worse) SOE money into a situation that will certainly require a SCOC ruling on Canadian and FN sovereignty, thereby easing Mr. Trudeau, Jr.’s journey through his gilded life and conversely complicating Mr. Harper’s and ours, do you? Oh, never mind! You might think that, but I couldn’t possibly comment.

  33. On the other hand, we could go with this:
    “2005 Oil-for-Food scandal and hiring practice criticisms
    In 2005, during investigations into the U.N.’s Oil-for-Food Programme, evidence procured by federal investigators and the U.N.-authorized inquiry of Paul Volcker showed that in 1997, while working for Annan, Strong had endorsed a check for $988,885, made out to “Mr. M. Strong,” issued by a Jordanian bank. It was reported that the check was hand-delivered to Mr. Strong by a South Korean businessman, Tongsun Park, who in 2006 was convicted in New York federal court of conspiring to bribe U.N. officials to rig Oil-for-Food in favor of Saddam Hussein. Mr. Strong was never accused of any wrongdoing.[21] During the inquiry, Strong stepped down from his U.N. post, stating that he would “sideline himself until the cloud was removed.”
    Shortly after this, Strong moved to an apartment he owned in Beijing.[21] He said that his departure from the U.N. was motivated not by the Oil-for-Food investigations, but by his sense at the time, as Mr. Annan’s special adviser on North Korea, that the U.N. had reached an impasse. “It just happened to coincide with the publicity surrounding my so-called nefarious activities,” he insists. “I had no involvement at all in Oil-for-Food … I just stayed out of it.”[21]”
    as part of this:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Strong
    As Kevin Spacey says to the camera, “Raymond Tusk!”
    Lifted straight out of “House of Cards”.

  34. 3rd cache of bombs… soon enough, we may see a trend?
    “The United Nations Relief & Works Agency For Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced Tuesday that another rocket stockpile has been found at one of its schools in Gaza. This instance marks the third time since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge that a weapons arsenal has been found at an UNRWA school in Gaza.”
    http://pamelageller.com/2014/07/third-rocket-stockpile-found-un-school-gaza.html/

  36. As do most drugs under the circumstances cited.
    Getting drunk kills brain cells no matter the age.

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