I’ve been sick all week, work and housecleaning are both behind in schedule, so I’m taking the rest of the blogging day off. Before I do, a few reader tips and stuff I’ve spotted while surfing;
Dust art.
After hearing their exchange on Charles Adler yesterday (where guest host Roy Green surprised Denis Coderre with an unannounced appearance by Jason Kenney), I was planning a post on this poor man’s tempest in a teapot – but Steve Janke beat me to it.
Revisiting this famous lie and the lying liar who told it;
“Now, let’s imagine the future. What if [Saddam] fails to comply, and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction and continue to press for the release of the sanctions and continue to ignore the solemn commitments that he made? Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction. And some day, some way, I guarantee you, he’ll use the arsenal. And I think every one of you who’s really worked on this for any length of time believes that, too. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity, even in the face of a clear message from the United Nations Security Council and clear evidence of a weapons of mass destruction program.”
RTWT.
Warren Kinsella was a wee bit inconsistant yesterday.
Is it not time to disallow the combination of the words “UN” and “demands” in the same sentence? Or– “How I learned to stop worrying about the bomb and worry, instead, that some crazy Persians might actually USE the freakin’ thing”
Uh oh – “This is going to piss off Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.”
And don’t forget to vote for Preston!
Thanks for the others you all sent that I wasn’t able to use (due to time constraints or heavy coverage elsewhere). Feel free to drop them again in the comments.
I agree, Texas Canuck. It is clear that the site LeftDog linked to is actually showing two separate original images. It’s sad, actually, such overreaching.
leftdog says: “Did you just dent Kate’s bandwidth with ALL of those words merely to divert people from the fact that the conservatives are doing the exact same kind of crap that you are blathering about with their own photoshop fabrications????”
Yeah, it’s a pretty common tactic around here. I think a caption/photoshop contest might keep this issue in the spotlight, for example:
i4.tinypic.com/25qbpuc.jpg
Eh? Eh?
Cleary we are listening to baby boomers who are just too lazy to get the bifocals out.
Photoshop. Same photo –
Intent – isolate the individual – accentuate the negative – (poli com manual page 9).
Ahhh … yeah … Bob … that really added a lot to the debate ….ahhh …. and Texas Canuk wants to know if ‘I’m ‘ on drugs …………..
Jealous.
Robert J said,
Posted by: RobertJ at August 26, 2006 02:16 PM
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hybrid power is being set up for failure in order to discredit it.**
And why not? There is no need for two autos in one. It only feeds the repair frequency and costs for same.
Pure electric is here now and trouble free.
Pure Hyrogen is here now and *ditto*.
Hydraulic hybrid is here also and provides a 75% boost to existing 35 – 40 mpg.
So hybrid is passe.
Many who own the Prius and other hybrids pay to get them converted to near full-time electric.
Just saving you money on your next car here.
The $32.G 1996 RAV4EV [discontinued when CA anti-clean air auto lobbied govt], recently sold on EBay for $64.G.
Popular? Guess so.
ht tp /TonyGuitar.blogspot.com
= TG
One of my favourite electric cars is shown at tinyurl.com/gze6l
I went over there expecting the things to be perched on his head …
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/003876.html
… and his pants down around his ankles and all I got for my efforts was an exercise in downloading… (what kind of moron puts a photo over a meg in size on a website?).
When it finally opened what do I find but damning evidence of cropping and an obvious alteration on the background, perhaps to conceal the identities of others in the photo.
How disappointing.
Of course I was distracted by this new revelation by Leftdog – that the Conservative Party of Canada is a news agency.
*sigh*
Please stop. The stupidity is making my head hurt.
Worse.
time for some comic relief:
do they still have teachers pets in school?
they did in my time.
I never was one though, but this is a tale of how I usurped the position and didn’t even know it at the time.
little bobby westgate. now there was a teacher’s pet. such a handsome chap and well behaved. well class, today is bobby’s birthday and we’re going to have a scavenger hunt for this delicious huge cinnamon lollipop . .
at this point my sharp mind goes into overdrive scanning the classroom for the most logical spot for said prize. well, long story short I figured it out. on top of the PA box. just the right height to hide something flat. unbeknownst to me in my concentration, ‘ms steep’ had continued on to tell the class that bobby westgate was going to be tipped off as to the hiding place. I was so used to be bored out of my skull I never paid inordinate attention to the proceedings until well into university.
so the time comes we all clear out of the classroom, ms steep parks the lollipop on top of the PA box, we all reenter the room and I make a beeline to my highly suspected area.
so does bobby westgate.
I’m still oblivious to the charade, I’m more convinced than ever I’m right. gee, why is everyone looking at me so funny?
up pipes a very consternated ms steep. ‘RobertJ could you move over its hard to tell who is closer you or bobby’
whereupon I refine my position dead centre under the PA box. still oblivious to the fact I have now completely spoiled the day for the teachers pet and the teacher and the whole rest of the class.
I win the prize !!
was it ever delicious. I traipsed around the schoolyard all day working on it.
and l’il ol’ me in my benevolence offer one and all a taste of MY delicious lollipop. I came from a poor family and such treats were inordinately rare.
later it was explained to me what the ‘plan’ was. well, so much for teachers pets eh? too bad we don’t ALL have our birthday on a school day.
Speaking of advertising, and Lakehead’s enormous leap into erroneous and fictional denigration of people and places, there’s an interesting comparison between the Conservative and Liberal web sites. The comparison reveals a basic difference in perspective between the two parties.
Liberal Slogan: A Party Built for Everyone
A Party Built to Win.
Conservative Slogan: Stand Up for Canada. Accountability Opportunity Security Family Community.
Notice the difference. The Liberal Party has only one focus. Power. It wants to win power. It says nothing about any principles, any policies, any mandate. Just power. It also asserts, as usual, that it is ‘unCanadian’ to be a non-Liberal. It’s a Party for Everyone. If something is for everything, then, operationally it stands for nothing.
Again, note the focus. It’s on The Party. And winning power. Period.
The Conservative website doesn’t focus on the party. Its focus is Canada. (stand up for Canada). It puts power, the power to stand up, in the hands of the individual. Not the party.
And it lists its principles and policies. Remember, the Liberals don’t do that.
An interesting difference in self-description.
The Wis-Dumb of the Unnamed Source: A Fiction By Greg Weston, he of the MSM.
Greg “Unnamed Source” Weston quotes an unnamed source; to wit, “a veteran pol”.
The reader is to swallow Greg’s wis-dumb because Greg quotes an unnamed source.
Maybe the unnamed source, “veteran pol”, was Bill Graham, he of the nuance; or, was it Jack Layton; maybe, the unnamed source, veteran pol, was Brian Mulroney, John Crosbie, Sheila Copps, Ed Broadbent, Alfonso Gagliano, Senator Jim Munson; who is Greg’s unnamed source?
Deep Throat, “veteran pol”, is Paul Martin, Jr.? Greg Weston is the “veteran pol”: in his own mind? …-
OTTAWA — A veteran pol who enjoyed a friendly and candid chat with Stephen Harper not long ago came away with an interesting and obviously lasting impression of the prime minister and the Conservative agenda.
“I don’t think I have ever met a politician with such a complete and singular focus on one thing,” the pol recalled. “Everything — absolutely everything — was about winning a majority government in the next election.” …-
cnews
Folly then, folly now
Waterbury Republican-American ^ | August 27, 2006 | Editorial
In its mostly abandoned Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans is building a memorial to Hurricane Katrina victims.
On Aug. 16, more than $100,000 worth of construction equipment was delivered to the site;
by the morning of the 19th, it was stolen from under the noses of National Guardsmen assigned to protect it.
Authorities haven’t a clue who stole the machinery or where they took it. $$$$$$$$
free republic
CTV’s headline writer is all wet, in over its head with this headline. Howler? Boner? Ignorance? Heavy water is not produced in a “nuclear reactor”. …-
Iran opens nuclear reactor in defiance of UN
CTV.ca – 8 hours ago
Iran opened a plant Saturday that produces heavy water which could be used to develop a nuclear bomb. The ribbon was cut at the new plant just days after a Thursday United Nations deadline requiring Iran to …
So Greggie Weston quotes from an unnamed source (the refuge of a lazy, entitled journalist) this tidbit about PMSH: “I don’t think I have ever met a politician with such a complete and singular focus on one thing…Everything — absolutely everything — was about winning a majority government in the next election.” …
Aside from the sleaziness of supposed “veteran pol’s” sharing of this delicious piece of intelligence to our intrepid reporter, wouldn’t it be surprsing if the Prime Minister wasn’t focused on winning a majority?
Stephen Harper may be a politician the Librano$ cannot even begin to understand (after all, he’s a man of principle and integrity, who actually works hard every day to serve the Canadian public) but he is a politician.
He and the CPC fought an excellent campaign in the last election, to fall short of a majority. Why would they not, this time around (whenever that is), not want to “finish the job”?
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s desire to win a majority most likely has more to do with the forwarding of the CPC agenda, to benefit all Canadians rather than a gaggle of special interest groups or members of one’s own party, which has pretty much been the Liberals’ modus operandi, and the acquisition of power for power’s sake.
But what would a veteran (I’m suspecting) Lib pol (isn’t that an oxymoron–or some other kind of moron?) know about a principled reason for gaining a majority government, or for that matter, what would a cheerleader journalist with his knives out for the CPC know about clean politics?
If this is the hottest news Greg Weston can come up with, maybe he’d better go back to the beach. There’s a few weeks of sunshine left…
Borys Hezbollefski gives the al-reuters video *****; Denis Coderre is waiting for the French version before commenting; Willy Graham is impressed by the nuance. …-
.. and then there’s this:
Video: Steve and Olaf( forced conversion to Islam)
reuters ^ | 08/27/06 | reuters
http://today.reuters.co.uk/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=false&storyId=eb16e63077404ca28ffbcacecb56291d0ef0f9b0&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-R4-WatchVideos-2
Excellent post, ET, about the essential difference between the CPC and the Liberals: The CPC is all about what benefits all Canadians, while the Liberls are all about power and power grabs for themselves and their cronies. It’s there for all to see, in their slogans alone.
The big task ahead is to try to get Canadians to first recognize the difference and then realize that it is in their better interests to vote ro Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the CPC.
My great concern is whether or not Canadians can overcome a deep-seated death wish that seems to have seeped into our collective sub-conscious in the past 35 years–well, since we elected Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his Desmarais-controlled surrogates.
This is why I pray. And, fortunately, I believe in miracles!
Here is a politician the liberal left/socialists could not/still do not understand:
Oh, how I miss President Reagan
This is one of the many reasons why (short video:
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13387.8
(There 3 short video clips).
Sister Toldjah.
More:
Reagan statue in Warsaw
Radio Polonia ^ | 25.08.2006
Reagan statue in Warsaw 25.08.2006 A monument to Ronald Reagan is to be erected in Warsaw. But why do Poles want to honour the American ex-president in such a special way? …- free republic
On the Editorial Page BY SHELBY STEELE
Western guilt blinds us to the nature of Islamic extremism.
Global View BY BRET STEPHENS
The many faces of Belgian fascism.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/
Q for the dubya bushists:
what do you think of the ‘lying liars’ south of the 49th who RENEGED on the softwood lumber deal, starting in 2002, egad, during DUBYA’s regime?
the WTO sided with canada.
the review panels within nafta, appointed by americans, agreed with canada
still they reneged.
what suggestions do you have oh loyal bushist, to canadians greatly negatively affected by the pilfering by the americans of BILLIONS in so called ‘levies’ imposed after the american lumber lobby’s successful campaign?? and of course in full view and cooperation by the BUSHIST white house???
THEY are the ‘lying liars’. THEY are the thieves and hypocrites.
I’ve sent letters to about a dozen embassies via fax warning them that any trade agreements or any other agreements or treaties with the americans cannot be depended on. and I cited their LIES and duplicity with the softwood lumber situation as proof.
ah republicanist extreme rightists? cat got yer tongue??? no scripted answer ready ???
RobertJ, while your at it, lets enumerate the rulings that went against Canadas position.
I heard somewhere that the NAFTA agreement did not include softwood lumber, and if that is indeed the case, there would be no relevence in any ruling a NAFTA panel made
Clinton military advisor: HARMONY documents will “connect the dots” on Hussein and terrorism
Regime of Terror ^ | 8.27.06 | Mark Eichenlaub
Lt. Col. “Buzz” Patterson (audio) interview on Saddam Hussein’s links to terrorism, GWOT, Iraq and the role of bloggers
Lt. Col. “Buzz” Patterson, author of 3 books and former military aide to President Clinton, recently made himself available for an extended interview with Regime of Terror.
Patterson called upon his military/intelligence contacts and background as he talked about al-Qaeda’s strength during 90’s and today, the war in Iraq and wider Global War on Terror, bloggers and Saddam Hussein’s support of terrorism.
Patterson predicts that the intelligence paper of the former Iraq regime, currently held in the HARMONY database and elsewhere, will “connect a lot of the dots” on Saddam Hussein’s links to terrorism.
Lt. Col. Patterson also discusses al-Qaeda #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri’s trip to Baghdad in 1998 (in which he received $300,000, possibly from Saddam Hussein himself), Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s medical trip to Baghdad in 2002 and the terrorist training that took place in the Salman Pak camp.
His new book, “War Crimes: The Left’s Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror “, …
Interview is also available for download here.
(Excerpt) Read more at: regimeofterror.com
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691017/posts
Greg Weston is one of the cabal of MSM twits with their knickers in knots because they’ve lost access to all the latest poop in government circles. They are missing the palsy relationship they were accustomed with the Libs so they have to use their imagination to keep gainful employment. Expect all sorts of wacky stuff. Harper has a little too much brain for them, they just don’t grasp it’s not him they’re tearing down, it’s themselves. Our media can’t be relied on and that’s a disgrace in a democracy.
Der Media im Deutschland;
The Geist of Herr Doktor Goebells lives. …-
Medienkritik-Facts forbidden in German media
“Facts that put the casualty rates into perspective will never make it into a German media that clearly engaged in massive self-censorship shortly before the Iraq conflict began. Several German journalists working in the United States, including some highly prominent media figures, admitted to me in interviews (conducted with the understanding that specific content such as direct quotes and identities would only be used in a graduate level thesis paper on media) that, in the run-up to the Iraq war, they were ordered (or at least strongly pressured) by editors and owners not to run stories explaining the Bush administration’s position for going to war. The owners and editors were so afraid of losing and upsetting readers that they essentially decided to eliminate an entire field of information critical to understanding why the United States acted as it did in Iraq. We aren’t going to name any names because we promised to keep identities private, but we simply can’t keep this massive media fraud quiet any longer.
Anyone who really wants to investigate this will find that what we are saying is true and anyone who believes Germany has a free press ought to take a closer look.”
http://medienkritik.typepad.com/blog/2006/08/iraq_facts_forb.html
via newsbeat1.com
Well most germans don’t take BILD zeitung as an authoritative news source. Kind of like the National Enquirer looking for alien invasions from Mars. Fluff and stuff journalism, limp wrists of the nation.
The pen is only mightier than the sword when your forget your conscience
Here’s some interesting defence news, Iran test fired a submarine-to-surface missile:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060827/D8JOQED80.html
Who killed the newspaper?
Too many slanted stories, too many fluff and voyeuristic pieces, too much sympathizing with an enemy that wants to wreak havoc on the West-too bad they didn’t do some navel gazing long ago when we thought more highly of them and their investigative pieces but alas they have degenerated and they still don’t realize their problems.Now they act merely as filters but the public is way beyond that and no longer holds them as the ultimate trusted source. …-
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13388.7
Spencerville egg farmer close to deal to restore licence
Joel Kom, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Monday, August 28, 2006
A Spencerville egg farmer who was the target of a tense raid in March said yesterday he’s close to a deal that would see the Canadian Food Inspection Agency restore his grading licence in return for his dropping legal action against them.
The deal, which could come officially as soon as tomorrow, could be quickly followed by another similar agreement with the Egg Farmers of Ontario, Shawn Carmichael said. That settlement, Mr. Carmichael said, could mean his egg operation would be up and running again, though under what conditions that would happen remains to be seen.
Reached at his farm yesterday, Mr. Carmichael said a deal with the CFIA was “close.” …-
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13388.9
“Unlawful Possession Of Laying Hens”
Brockville Recorder & Times; A 10-hour standoff between federal food inspectors and a local egg farmer backed by 40 landowners ended Thursday evening when thousands of confiscated eggs and chickens – many dead or dying after going hours without ventilation…
Posted in small dead animals on March 27, 2006 12:30 AM
Spencerville egg farmer close to deal to restore licence
Joel Kom, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Monday, August 28, 2006
A Spencerville egg farmer who was the target of a tense raid in March said yesterday he’s close to a deal that would see the Canadian Food Inspection Agency restore his grading licence in return for his dropping legal action against them.
The deal, which could come officially as soon as tomorrow, could be quickly followed by another similar agreement with the Egg Farmers of Ontario, Shawn Carmichael said. That settlement, Mr. Carmichael said, could mean his egg operation would be up and running again, though under what conditions that would happen remains to be seen.
Reached at his farm yesterday, Mr. Carmichael said a deal with the CFIA was “close.” …-
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13388.9
“Unlawful Possession Of Laying Hens”
Brockville Recorder & Times; A 10-hour standoff between federal food inspectors and a local egg farmer backed by 40 landowners ended Thursday evening when thousands of confiscated eggs and chickens – many dead or dying after going hours without ventilation…
Posted in small dead animals on March 27, 2006 12:30 AM
One can gaze skyward at night and realize that while nothing has been added or removed, we humans can amuse ourselves with news flashes of plantets promoted and demoted.
Pluto remains unchanged and logic suggests that text books that mention Pluto should also remain unchanged. = TG