Barrel Strength

Unleash your inner geek, Prime Minister!

O QanaDa, juHqo’maj je vav saq.
Batlh je rewbe’, qod Hoch roghvaH ra’.
tiDu’ wew Hot’bey, legh HoS je tlhab.
Da ‘u’, O QanaDa, pe’av Hochlogh.

joH’a’ jegh juHqo’ yay je tlhab.
O QanaDa, pe’av Hochlogh.
O QanaDa, pe’av Hochlogh.

And the translation:

O Canada, our home world and fatherland,
Honour and love in all its people command.
Our hearts glowing, we see strength and freedom.
Throughout the universe, O Canada, we will stand guard for all time.

God give our home world victory and freedom.
O Canada, we will stand guard for all time,
O Canada, we will stand guard for all time.

The German government tells Greece to sell off some of its islands to pay its debts.

Al Gore wrote an op-ed in the New York Times this past weekend, in the same tone as Geoffrey Sachs’ latest in the Guardian. Nothing is wrong with the AGW craze, some little mistakes were made, the scientific consensus is overwhelming, floods, droughts, snowfall, species extinctions, alarums, dismay, send money. You know the drill. Former chief nerd at the Hadley CRU Phil Jones admits there has been no appreciable warming for past 15 years, but Gore’s buddies over at NASA find we have lived through the hottest decade since records have been kept. Oh and thnks to Gavin Schmidt and all the unindicted co-consprators over at NASA who have based their findings on reducing weather stations to low-lying and more urban locations.

Gore’s lyrical hymn to his wisdom can be found here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28gore.html?ref=opinion

Full of gnostic hyperbole:

“From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption.”

Is there no end to his megalomania? Apparently not.

Geert Wilders, the oppressed Dutch politician, under fire from the establishment for saying true things about Islam, has the momentum in forthcoming national elections.

See the article by Paul Belien in the Brussels Journal.

Will everyone please pay attention to the Wilders phenomenon? It is a huge issue, whether a leading national politician can be thrown in jail for saying that Islam is an enemy to civilization, and there is no defence possible under Dutch law? Except by taking over the government, that is.

Changing the lyrics to the national anthem? Surely this is a mind-fuck! But whose minds? I notice the Tory blogosphere is responding with the same tentative feeling I have: have they gone mad? Is the spirit of Sheila Copps guiding our Fearless Leader? It is rather as if Stephen Harper has expressed a taste for rubber bondage fantasies in Chatelaine magazine. So out of character!

Or is this a precursor to the restoration to acceptance of “The Maple Leaf Forever”?

We suspect everything except the government having an outburst of political correctness. Say it isn’t so, Stephen!

I think it is a distraction, but from what?