Truth is stranger than ..oh nevermind. It’s Michael Jackson;
Pop star Michael Jackson took a shopping trip to a Bahrain mall Wednesday, covering himself in a black abaya robe traditionally worn by Bahraini women and a veil hiding his face, along with three children _ apparently his _ with their faces covered with dark scarves. […] He was wearing an abaya, a robe with long sleeves, under which his pants, white shirt and men’s shoes could be seen, and his head and face were wrapped in a black veil. He had black gloves on his hands.
Let the Americans do it! Border security in Canada – brought to you by the same people who’ve been running our national defense.
William Norton, Deputy Chairman, London North East Area Conservatives left a kind post-election note in the comments – they have Canadian election analysis up on their blog
Tim Denton is right on the money with this one;
The emergence of Michael Ignatieff is nothing but good; he will put a few new ideas into Liberal heads. By the nature of where he has lived and what he has done, he cannot believe the smug self-satisfied parochial Liberal mindset. He will inevitably bring the cappuccino crowd around to a more realistic appreciation of the world we live in. Let him do his work among the heathen.
The current Liberal mindset is not just damaging to our trade interests – it’s dangerous to our national security.
Scientific evidence that politics is stupid.
Mathematical evidence that we pay too much for it.
Telephone evidence that sometimes they get what they deserve.
Regulating blogs at the Opinionjournal – a new project by the left in America.
Radioequalizer on blogs and talk radio.
A Liberal campaign worker posing as a CBC reporter?
Why Stephen Harper is not Joe Clark. Or as someone called him recently – Joe Where?
And finally, the granddaddy of the Canadian blogosphere weighs in on the election results.
So many more that I wish I could use. Thanks again for all your contributions. Some days I have to weed through over 600 emails, so if you don’t receive a response or see your tip used, that’s why!
Red Star of Toronto does not mention that the wounded Canadian soldiers “were airlifted” by the American forces.
God bless America.
God bless Canada.
http://www.rapp.org/url/?XZF2CZEK
“The casualties were airlifted first to Germany,…”
Kate,
a couple of good snippets in this comment. Particularly about CRTC and Canadian Content rules.
I pasted this from a comment I left at another site about your call at CBC to destroy CBC or whatever.
Re: Border Security in Canada…
I guess this falls under what used to be “Screechin Annie’s” billiwack.
Time for change here too. Customs agents can’t just be collection agents for CCRA. They have to be sworn and empowered to protect the Country.
While many would like to ignore unpleasantry, the world is a dangerous place and likely to become increasingly so.
Hopefully things will change now and we will be able to equip those who are willing to put their lives on the line to protect us with something more than “potatoe guns and canoes” as one previous commentator put it.
Hats off to the Whatcom county deputy who risked his life to do his duty.
PS to my previous post re Re: Border Security in Canada…
Can’t help but be reminded of Monty Python’s Holy Grail
….“run away…”
Advice for Petey.
If you want a friend in Ottawa get a dog.
If you can’t commit to a furry friend relationship get a pet potatoe. You could carry it around in your pocket and fondle its eyes every time the pressure gets to you.
Yeah, just like the rubes to try and squelch free speech by regulating blogs. NOT!! That is precisely the drivel that keeps coming out of the MSM so we don’t need more regulations.
This is the same crap that Martin proposed in regards to emails and internet telephony records to be handed over by simple government demand. What utter overbearing police state rubbish.
The cabal of elitists are fretting, over the fact, that the lowly plebians have had the effrontery, to actually freely express ideas, in respect of ownership of the institutions that ostensilby “guide” them. Oh my heavens we can’t have that; we need some schtick to obfuscate our true purpose in plundering the electorate of their rightful inheritance:
IE A meaningful stake in the governance of the country.
Eh, yer young whippersnappers don’t know how good you have it nowadays. In my day, we had to write our blogs on PIII-500s, and upload them by hand in the blinding snow! No help from American bloggers in Mionnesota, neither.
And don’t even get me started on winter dial-ups in Florida, where we’ll all eventually end up driving Cadillacs we can’t see out of and complaining about the government full time….
O Canada, terre de nos a�eux
Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux
Car ton bras sait porter l’�p�e
IL SAIT PORTER LA CROIX
Ton histoire est une �pop�e des blus brillants exploits
Et ta valeur DE FOI TREMP�E
Prot�gera nos foyers et nos droits
Prot�gera nos foyers et nos droits
For those don’t know the original French verses of O Canada, the capitalized ones refer directly to GOD
Well, of course the Canadian Customs officers left their posts. When your Government leaves you completely unarmed, then you have to rely on the US that they love to demonize.
What are the Canadian Customs officers supposed to do…yell “STOP! or I will yell STOP, again” while a hail of bullets flys their way.
This is just another example of Government out of touch with reality.
David – the first English version:
[In 1906] Whaley and Royce in Toronto published the music with the French text and a translation into English made by Dr. Thomas Bedford Richardson, a Toronto doctor. The Mendelssohn Choir used the Richardson lyrics in one of their performances about this time and Judge Routhier and the French press complimented the author.
Richardson version:
O Canada! Our fathers’ land of old
Thy brow is crown’d with leaves of red and gold.
Beneath the shade of the Holy Cross
Thy children own their birth
No stains thy glorious annals gloss
Since valour shield thy hearth.
Almighty God! On thee we call
Defend our rights, forfend this nation’s thrall,
Defend our rights, forfend this nation’s thrall.
Glad it was simplified – ‘forfend this nation’s thrall’ is a bit hard to sing.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper walked his kids to school today.
How scary can you get?
Left’s project to “regulate blogs”?
Surely if this is linear with other leftist dogma “regulation” is only applicable to opposing opinion or dissent to the omnipotent left state.
Let’s call it what it is: Lefty contunues to put new spin on the masters’s “manifesto”….you can’t have diversity of opinion in a leftist world…one opinion, one ideal one state….
Ignorance is strengh
dissent is poison
freedom is slavery
big brother loves you.
My only reaction to the news from the Peace Arch Border Crossing (about 2 miles from where I live in the centre of the known universe) is that the Whatcom County Sherrifs did a good job, but they need to go to target practice. They only wounded the Bas**rd. It would have been cheaper all around if………You know what I mean.
“STOP or I will yell STOP again!”
ROFLMAO
I wonder how many spent bullets landed in the grass in Canada. Without the proper paper-work attached. Sounds like an international incident to me!
If a Canadian finds one, he will, of course, be breaking Federal law if he picks it up, or is aware of its existence, without the proper paper-work.
*Gaak*
How about Peter Kent to take over the CBC.
Then instead of multiple stories about the Amercians at Abu Ghraib, we could get teh truth about how benevolnet Saddam’s kids ran the jail,
from
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39045
The State Department report continues: “Under Saddam Hussein’s orders, the security apparatus in Iraq routinely and systematically tortures its citizens. Beatings, rape, breaking of limbs and denial of food and water are commonplace in Iraqi detention centers. Saddam Hussein’s regime has also invented unique and horrific methods of torture including electric shocks to a male’s genitals, pulling out fingernails, suspending individuals from rotating ceiling fans, dripping acid on a victim’s skin, gouging out eyes, and burning victims with a hot iron or blowtorch.”
Why didn’t more Iraqis complain? Possibly because of Saddam’s decree in 2000 authorizing the government to amputate the tongues of citizens who criticize him or his government. The AEI video depicts one such tongue amputation, using a razor blade while the tongue is held with tweezers.
The following, according to the State Department report, were routine in Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s rule:
* Medical experimentation
* Beatings
* Crucifixion
* Hammering nails into the fingers and hands
* Amputating sex organs or breasts with an electric carving knife
* Spraying insecticides into a victim’s eyes
* Branding with a hot iron
* Committing rape while the victim’s spouse is forced to watch
* Pouring boiling water into the victim’s rectum
* Nailing the tongue to a wooden board
* Extracting teeth with pliers
* Using bees and scorpions to sting naked children in front of their parents
Saddam also routinely tortured and murdered women. The daily newspaper “Babel,” owned by Uday, Hussein’s eldest son, contained a public admission on Feb. 13, 2001 of beheading women who were suspected of prostitution.
The Iraqi Women’s League in Damascus, Syria, described this practice as follows: “Under the pretext of fighting prostitution, units of ‘Feda’iyee Saddam,’ the paramilitary organization led by Uday, have beheaded in public more than 200 women all over the country, dumping their severed heads at their families’ doorsteps. Many of the victims were innocent professional women, including some who were suspected of being dissidents.”
How all those crime guns got onto streets
By MARK BONOKOSKI
Toronto Sun
January 25, 2006
Having invoked the fear factor that half the guns used to bathe Toronto in blood last year were stolen from law-abiding collectors and shooters, [ex-]Prime Minister Paul Martin went to the polls Monday vowing to ban all handguns in Canada — if constitutionally viable, that is, a caveat he later had to add when he misfired on the facts.
Toronto Mayor David Miller sang the same statistical tune, despite contrary evidence in a report tabled last month by his own police service — a report obtained through access to information that shows, if not twisted, that no more than 16% of “crime guns” in Toronto were obtained through the robbery of legitimate owners.
And that is a far, far cry from the loud headlines Mayor Miller recently created when he claimed “almost half” the blood guns came from the break-ins of homes where guns were legally registered and stored.
But politics is politics. And Mayor Miller, without question, wanted the Liberals back in power.
Back on Jan. 10, Saskatchewan Tory MP Garry Breitkreuz, the most vocal critic of $2 billion-plus poured into a dysfunctional national gun registry, issued a press released based on an academic analysis of Toronto gun-crime statistics prepared by Dr. Gary Mauser, a professor at the Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies at British Columbia’s Simon Fraser University.
And it got virtually no media attention.
The office of Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, however, must have seen the inevitable coming when it received an access for information request from Dr. Mauser regarding a Toronto Police Service report to the police board dated Dec. 1, 2005.
For this was what appeared in the preamble.
“The information that Chief Blair received was not based on a scientific analysis of raw date, but rather the estimate of an experienced police officer,” the writer stated, his name and position blacked out.
The writer was also quick to note that Chief Blair received this information “verbally.”
It was this document, however, which Mayor Miller obviously used to raise the pre-election tension levels.
The file Dr. Mauser analyzed — and Mayor Miller used to invoke the fear factor — consisted of a review of the 214 handguns which fell into the hands of the Toronto Police guns and gangs task force during 2004.
Of those guns in police possession, 82 were confirmed as traceable to the United States, 26 were not registered (meaning they had not come from legal gun owners), six were deemed “too old to trace,” and 65 were categorized as “unknown status, serial (number) removed.”
That’s 179 of the 214 guns seized.
The remaining 35 — or 16% — had been reported stolen, as required by law, by law-abiding citizens who had legally purchased and registered their weapons.
So how did Mayor Miller, through this report, come up with “almost half” the crime guns in this city as coming from domestic break-ins?
Well, the six guns supposedly “too old to trace” were given Canadian origins, as were the 26 “not registered,” as were 36 of the 65 guns supposedly deemed to have an “unknown status” because they had their serial numbers filed off.
Add to that the 35 legally-registered handguns that responsible and law-abiding collectors or target shooters had reported stolen, and its adds up to 103 guns.
That’s how Mayor Miller got his “almost half” — by using the Toronto Police Services Board’s report and giving Canadian citizenship to 68 weapons of dubious or uncertain origins when, in fact, only 35 of the 214 handguns seized in total can be honestly traced to being stolen from a legitimate handgun collector or target shooter.
Without those 68 weapons, however, there is no fear factor to trigger, and therefore no self-serving politics to put into play as part of an election platform.
And so the stats found themselves getting skewed. >>> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564696/posts
Reginacon: I was just going to post that!
I agree, a man that regardless of how busy he is walks his children to school. This is the beginning, wake up Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. People seeing the “scary” Harper. Man I am so proud to call him Prime Minister Harper!
God Bless Canada!
God Bless USA. Thank you again for protecting our border. If that guy got in to Canada, we would never see him again. (Until he was arrested for killing someone in this country). Wake up Canada, our border guards need to be able to defend our COUNTRY!
Grab a screen shot? Would give my school lunch for a blogspot to post this. This has won/melted hearts all across/up/down Canada. Bravo, Stephen Harper!!! Mush, you huskies. The ice worms of Canada are free, free, free, at last: The True North, Strong and Free. >> yahoo via nealenews
http://www.rapp.org/url/?0P0GHCJS
Yes, they need to be armed, but has anyone else clued in to the fact that even if they WERE, the unionized bums could still walk away from their posts if they felt threatened.
WRONG!
WRONG!
WRONG!
We need heroes in professions like these, not COWARDS!
Echoes of that incident off Richmond where the boat had capsized and there was some idiotic rule about the Navy divers not diving/being allowed to dive because of potential risk.
This is what happens when a country allows the closed-shop union mentality to permeate even emergency services/peace officers. Hey why don’t we allow soldiers to unionize, too? That way, if a combat situation got too hot or they felt threatened, they could legally refuse to fight. Teachers – when they felt ‘disrespected’, they could refuse to teach their young charges, go on strike, disobey court orders without any real consequence…..oh, whoops! That just happened here in BC (yeah, I know they aren’t emergency services, but the disgusting Big Labour culture is ruining so many things here.)
Black Rod http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2006/01/tale-of-two-tories-giant-and-mouse.html
has a very interesting post about how Reg Alcock got sidelined by a candidate the local Tories did everything to ruin and who the local media ignored.
And I’ll say it again: COWARDS!
Did anybody else happen to catch the CBC National last night where they had a graphic beside Pete’s head that said ‘Harper’ and underneath in equally large type, said ‘Heil’?
It was on screen for at least 30 seconds. I waited for there to be some sort of tie in or explanation, but they just went on to other stories.
Strange…..
“The new leader appeared a little stiff – shaking hands with his children as he saw them off.” Well, maybe that IS a little stiff, shaking hands, but maybe he had a cold or maybe THEY had a cold. So the nation gets to judge him for this,eh? Break time, please! “Harper refused to take questions during the staged photo-op…” Pardon me, “staged”? How can he get away from the paparazzi if he wanted to? More break time,please!
Scott – do they put video rebroadcasts up on CBC? It might be worth checking and grabbing a copy.
Re HEIL in info banner on left side of screen next Peter Mansbridge’s head. I saw it too as well as a caller to this morning’s Lowell Green Show on CFRA.
I’d love to see the likes of Ted Kennedy, Shrillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, the entire Canadian Liberal and NDP parties be forced to watch the Iraqi torture/murder tapes, simply so they’d shut their collective coward pie holes.
Why the media is content in giving these limp wristed moonbats a pass, I’ll never know.
Scott/Kate, the word was NEIL as in MacDonald, 5 minutes, which was their way of warning the punters he was about to surface. But the way it was highlighted, it did look like HEIL and I, too, was appalled. But why waste good Merlot? YOu expect nothing more from the CBC. It’ll be there again tonight if he’s doing a reality check about something. HEIL NEIL. Oh, NOW I get it.
Similar to why I can’t comprehend there are Paul Martin fans out there, Michael Jackson has also a tremendous following. And now, (for Frank Zappa fans) for your listening pleasure:
You take the monkey, I’ll take the Llama,
We’ll have a party: get me a Pepsi!
Michael is Janet, Janet is Michael,
I’m so confused now
Who is Diana?
He’s oxygenated
His nose is deflated
And he thinks he looks good to you
Snipets from the song “Why Don’t You Like Me?”
By Frank Zappa
From the album, “Broadway The Hard Way” circa 1988
Once again, we are thanking our freinds from the U.S. for their ability to handle a situation we could not deal with ourelves. Remind me again, why is it a bad thing for our Prime Minister to have a good relationship with the President of the U.S.A.?
Hey Platty, reminds me of when our first rotation of troops arrived back in Edmonton from thier first tour in Afghanistan, onboard a Malaysian Airlines 747. Yep, Malaysian Airlines. I assume the Russian Antonov wasn’t available.
Funny how Trudeau had such a woody for the old CCCP and Castro. Yet in the end we had to outsourse to our former communist enemy to bring our boys home. Good grief.
Well friends,
I think it is time we make arrangements for a funeral – for anti-Americanism.
Shortly our friends on the other side of the blogosphere will band together their outrage in a collective effort to bash Harper. This act, although silent and going un-noticed will have the bonus effect of toning down the anti-Americanism.
Once the first ‘summit’ between the two countries commences then we will see it glimpse up again as the environmentalist college students with the ‘F’ average entering their 8th year as Liberal Arts majors creep out from behind the flourescent lights and dawn their ‘summer touques’ to attend the first protest against the two countries.
One word of advice. Go home and look up “figure head”….
On a sad note…..Bush is far more deserving of criticism than Harper. At least Bush has some years. Harper doesn’t even have ‘days’. Then again, the people who are complaining already don’t have “scruples.”
Michael Jackson in drag — well at least he did it on the other side of the world.
Armed border guards? Yes.
A poser? At the CBC? Totally believable.
The conservative policies are stupid.
1)Lets give 1200$ for daycare
I eat noodle soup and can�t even afford to take a bus to work
My sister Lives in a 2500 square foot home, planning on retiring at age 50
With the three cars and a van. Now we have to give her 2400$ a year from my pocket, who made her to have kids? Canada needs more people sure; this is why we have immigration, quit looking for government handouts.
2)Criminals should not be allowed to vote
So like they do in the US, Imprison people without a trial or a reason why, and take your vote away, so you can�t vote them out of office.
3)No more that 1000$ in political donations
Perfect so instead of cash that you can track. The bribes now will be stuff you can�t track promises of high paying jobs ECT.
4)GST reduction
4.5 billion a year in lost revenue
Hello Mc fly ever hear of the national debit what happens when the economy tanks.
I remember Brian who raised debt and taxes, in a time when the economy was good. It looks like the same party to me.
Unfortunately we have no real choices and I had to vote conservative
I saw the word HEIL also, and of course I figured the next story would be about our neo-con new Prime Minister. I also believe that little slip-up was no slip-up. They just skipped over to another story. I am so glad we have Stephen Harper – I don’t care if it is a small minority, It gives him time to get some of his platform through and it will allow the Citizens of this country to know him. The new Conservative party is only 2 years old and I think they’ve done a great job coming all that way in just a short time.
Peter:
What you wrote was totally untelligible. Try English next time…
…are you for real?
EPW
I know we were asked not to feed the trolls. But Peter is just asking for it. Can I can I can I? Oh very well then.
BTW, I am for parents getting tax credits for their childrens sports — either for enrolment fees, and/or equipment.
Peter,
“Hello Mc fly ever hear of the national debit ”
$20 million dollardaily withdrawal limit?
No political party will have the exact beliefs of everybody. Pick and choose the policies that really matter to you and choose accordingly.
I noticed the “heil” also. It didn’t look like Neil to me.
Let’s hope for some big changes at the CBC. I heard that Mulroney tried to be friendly. He should have dismantled it while he could. Harper won’t be able to go that far but he can start the ball rolling and finish it off after the next election.
enough
Last night on CPAC I saw this stupid cow from Ontario answer the question “after all the scandal,why did you vote Liberal?”
She stammered “I would rather lose my money than my freedom”.
Good God.there’s no hope.
Kate,your spelling of Joe Clark is incorrect.
It is as follows:
Joke Lark
Reginacon, that woman on CPAC might have just shot a few people on Yonge Street and was lamenting that if she didn’t vote Liberal, she might go to jail.
Iron Lady…
No doubt you’re correct.
Torontonians are no longer allowed to complain to us about gun crime in their streets and we are no longer allowed to empathize.
Let the Liberals charge in and save the day!
FoxNEWS Heads to the left…
http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/4292_0_2_0_C/
I’m sure we could have predicted this after recently learning one of the biggest owners is Muslim and Arabian. I don’t remember who, but he called in during the Paris riots and protested their use of the word ‘Muslim’ on the headline.
Anyway, there goes my last shred of centrist media…
Coroner says: Nah, don’t need to see/examine the corpse. It’s daid they said. AdScam Liberals: not daid enough. Dosanjh walks; Shapiro dives. What is to be done with Shapiro? >>>>
Probe clears Dosanjh of wrongdoing
By JOHN WARD
Exceprts:
…
“I do not find, based on the corroborated testimony of the witnesses, that Mr. Dosanjh induced, or otherwise offered any specific reward to Mr. Grewal to change his vote.”
…
“The commissioner interviewed 21 people in the course of his inquiry. While he was given Grewal’s tapes and transcripts of the conversation, which were conducted in Punjabi, he did not use them in making his findings.”
…. via cnews
http://www.rapp.org/url/?OFJF7S21
how could he make any decision without seeing or hearing a translation of the tapes??
with the long line of Liberal appointees I was really surprised that Gomery came through. Actually I suppose the Libs were too.
Well it seems quite clear to me now, Toronto, Montreal and Vancover are Soddom and Gomorrah. What did God do with them? Harsh you say? Umm maybe not but silencing this influence would be a good idea. Changing electorial districts to be based on land mass would be a good solution. idiot urban dwellers forcing their retarded beliefs on us rural folk will be dealt with this time around!
St. John – following Jon Stewart:
STOP! . . . I really mean it, eh! STOP! Or I will file a report on you, in triplicate, in the permanent file!”
Shooting in the leg – hey, our American law enforcement units have worked very hard to become proficient at shooting to wound (because of lawsuits alleging racism), so be nice! They are obviously talented professionals! ;^)
Warning: Rough language. >>
1) It’s both traditional and honest to provide a link to a source. Perhaps you hesitated because your source, in this case, is a fringe-dwelling windbag who enjoyed his brief 15 seconds of fame by posting “Fuck the Jews” on his Blahg.
2) Derek Burney is a very experienced political operator who helped Brian Mulroney run two successive PC governments. His choice by Harper was smart, both tactically and symbolically.
There are lots of smart people posting interesting and insightful comments on blogs. Typically, you’ve found a stupid person posting boring and obvious, and offensive comments.
Nothing changes. >>>
http://www.voy.com/178771/124915.html
here for the post referred to:
http://www.voy.com/178771/124899.html
Maz2…”And so the stats found themselves getting skewed. >>>”
The old saying comes to mind… “liars figure, and figures lie”
Cut the CBC; paste the for sale sign in the For Sale ads. Sell CBC to the highest bidder.
The money received, $5 billion goes to arm border guards.
Down with the CBC. >>>
CBC apologizes for ‘Harper-heil’ graphic, says it was a bad cut-and-paste job
The CBC has apologized to a viewer who complained that a news graphic appeared to juxtapose the name of the prime minister-designate with the German word “heil” — a salute usually associated with Adolf Hitler. The graphic was flashed during Tuesday night’s edition of The National. It appeared beneath a shot of a Stephen Harper election sign. In an e-mail to the viewer, the executive producer of The National explained the graphic was a freeze frame of typing intended to promote the show’s “campaign confidential” segment. An editor chose to capture part of the word “their” for the graphic and with a cursor before the “r”, it seemed to spell heil. “We sincerely apologize for that,” the e-mail said. >>> nationalpost.com