New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jack Layton is a Barack Obama groupie.

With Prime Minister Stephen Harper preparing to call an election, Smilin’ Jack arrived in Denver yesterday.

When Obama accepts his nomination in his Ancient Greek Temple setting tonight, Layton will be waving a blue and white placard with Obama’s name.

“Democrats here are talking about the same kind of change we’re talking about in Canada,” said Layton.  “Whether it’s real action on climate change, forging trade policies that work for working families or standing up for jobs and better health care, there’s a real desire here to put the concerns of the kitchen table ahead of the boardroom table.”

Part 54 – AUGUST 25 1988
‘Survivors painted a grisly picture of noiseless bombs producing yellowish smoke smelling of bad garlic or rotten apples; of people, plants and livestock dying instantly as dead birds and bees fell from the sky. The bodies of the dead burned and blistered and later turned blackish blue.’ - Peter Galbraith and Christopher Van Hollen, Chemical Weapons Use in Kurdistan: Iraq’s Final Offensive
Staff Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate [1]

Right down to the exit song, it was a Mrs. June Cleaver scenario for Mrs. Barack Obama at the Denver Pepsi Centre Monday night.

Many women watching wept according to yesterday’s blogs.  In the finale after Michelle’s keynote speech, Barack’s family waved to Daddy when he appeared on satellite video asking the audience “How about Michelle Obama?” immediately after his greeting, “Hello from Kansas City.”

But Mrs. Cleaver would never have served up a Marxist message in her brownies.

As a letter writer to Canada Free Press (CFP) pointed out, “Not once but three times she stated that her husband once told her that there is a significant difference between “what the world is and what the world should be”. 

Chris Redfern, the Democratic Party Chairman of Ohio, apparently thinks that Americans are so stingy and selfish that the only way charity work gets done is if government taxes the people to make it happen. In a recent radio interview, Redfern expressed the assumption that “unfortunately most Americans would not” help out the poor. 

Watching the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, one is tempted to venture a comparison with the alien bar from the first Star Wars Movie.  Except that would be an insult to aliens.  So let’s just say that the freak show in Denver is more akin to a trailer park, except those attending are slightly more, um eccentric.

Is this a prelude of things to come in an Obama Administration?

As we watch the Democrat Convention with its divisions and disappointments, it strikes me that Barack Obama’s voter base is shrinking. Considering that he is locked into a virtual tie so far as polling results are concerned, by November we well may be looking at a Democrat shut-out, at least at the top of the ticket.

With apologies to the Reverend Jesse Jackson.

The Gadsden Flag, named after Christopher Gadsden, an American general and statesman, came to be a symbol of the thirteen original colonies and of American freedom and spirit. 

Its origins are traced back to Benjamin Franklin from a hand carved replica he made of a snake cut into eight pieces that represented the 13 colonies, with the head being the New England colonies and the tail representing South Carolina.  This hand carved image became one of the first political cartoons in history.

America’s founders believed:

“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God…anarchy and tyranny commence.” (John Adams, A Defence of the Constitution of the Government of the United States, 1797.)

Let’s talk about the importance of protecting Canadian culture.

Okay you’re probably already bored, but don’t be.

I’ll be the first one to admit that the Chinese deserve applause for the success of this installment of the Summer Olympics. Well planned, efficient and successful in just about every way possible except for one. The entire games, except for a few highlights as Michael Phelps and his 8 swimming gold records and Usain Bolts shattering the 100 and 200 meter marks in track, were an incredible bore. The Games did more to put the world population to sleep than a snout full of ether. It just seemed to lose much of its drama and I believe the time differential and subsequent live TV presentation of events lost a lot of viewers. I’m interested in seeing what the final viewer ratings will be like.

If the devil’s greatest trick was convincing the world that he doesn’t exist, arguably the Environmentalist’ Greatest Trick is convincing the world that they really stand for conserving, rather than spending flagrantly.

As Democratic Party delegates gather in Denver, America is repeatedly being told that we must transform our economy to “green” energy.

By William Livingston and Matthew Penn, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ

We have observed spectroscopic changes in temperature sensitive molecular lines, in the magnetic splitting of an Fe I line, and in the continuum brightness of over 1000 sunspot umbrae from 1990-2005. All three measurements show consistent trends in which the darkest parts of the sunspot umbra have become warmer (45K per year) and their magnetic field strengths have decreased (77 Gauss per year), independently of the normal 11-year sunspot cycle. A linear extrapolation of these trends suggests that few sunspots will be visible after 2015.

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