Steven Brown of frontpage.com calls the NDP, “home to a myriad of current and former Maoists, Trotskyites and other assorted Marxist-Leninists…” He then goes on to explain to his American readers that Jack and co. are the “Northern Hypocrites”.
Bogdon Kipling considers the possibility that we may have turned a corner of sorts in Canada, America and Australia; our tolerance for Muslim extremism and the limpid approaches to dealing with it by the usual gaggle of bleeding hearts just may be coming to an end.
Brendan O’Neil has a different cant on Afghanistan. Now that the mission is in danger of failing, the powerbrokers have invented a new reason to be there… the war on drugs.
Opinions @ MediaRight.ca
Saw an interesting poll this morning on 630ched.com (Edmonton talk radio) I'll admit that online polls can be less than accurate, but this one is a little disturbing. Currently 63% of respondents say the cost of the Afghan mission is too high and they do not support Harper's "stay the course" message.
Even more curious, over at QR77 (CHED's sister station in Calgary)86% of the respondents agree that the media focus on Canadian deaths is distorting the view of our role in Afghanistan.
Then again, the bulk of Alberta's card carrying, piss&moan whiny socialist moonbat conspiracy theorists (read: militant teachers/nurses/public service, world-owes-me-a-living, union sissies) tend to inhabit the greater Edmonton area and not Cowtown, so I'm not too surprised by the results.
Takkiya*: Kofi, Ahmajihad has spilled the beans; smell the coffee, Kofi. ...-
Fox News | Annan Denies Claim That He Told Iran to Ignore Uranium Deadline
NEW YORK — U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday was trying to settle a flap over a potentially damaging claim made earlier in the day by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. ...-
jack's newswatch
*takkiya: wilful lying; dissembling; double talk, as advocated/approved by Islam and its partner, the UN.
This post really belongs in jaeger's section on freedom of speech at Ryerson, but I've tried three times to post my anti-charter comments and the filter has taken it three times. I give up.
My point is that Canadians don't have individual freedoms or rights. Our charter is specifically set up to promote and privilege group rights over individual rights.
Section 2 says 'everyone has the following fundamental freedoms' and b)freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication'.
Fine. Sounds great. But this is completely empty for TWO further sections completely nullify these individual rights.
Section 15, part 1, says that every individual is equal before the law 'without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability'.
BUT
part 2 immediately removes this equality, for it privileges the group, by saying 'subsection 1 does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age, or mental or physical disability'.
Got that? Think. Everyone is a member of ONE of those groups! Being 'disadvantaged' is a subjective opinion; how do you empirically prove it; anyone can claim 'emotional hurt' due to 'discrimination'.
This means that the group trumps the individual. A lesbian group can silence any and all criticism because it can claim it is 'disadvantaged'. How is it disadvantaged? Because people criticize it. Get it? It's circular.
No individual has any freedom of thought or speech in Canada, because criticism of anyone, who is automatically a member of a group, means that the group is 'discriminated against'.
Section 27 further moulds Canadians into group domination because it says that all interpretation of the charter must be group-based. It says - 'this charter shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with the preservation and enhancement of the multicultural heritage of Canadians'.
Get it? Your identity is locked into the beliefs and behaviour of a group's beliefs and behaviour.
Not your individual capacity to reason, but your group's opinions which may not have been derived by reason.
The recent incredible speech by Benedict, which was about the loss of reason in religion, particularly Islam, and in postmodernism, can be applied to our charter. We reject Reason, we reject the rights of the individual to dissent, to analyze, to comment - because if such infringes on group identities, group beliefs and behaviour - this is against our charter.
Canadians do not have freedom of speech or thought.
My apologies for putting this in this thread, but Jaeger's thread on Ryerson rejected it three times..and three times is 'out'.
Unable to access. Is the site down?
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
Yes, here comes the poppy gang.
First of all, it is great to see a fresh young face like Harper represent Canada in the UN and today on the Hill. I’m very pleased that he’s not a cynical old baby boomer like the commentators - Don Newman and Eric Marigold. These old baby boomers where on TV after Karzai’s moving speech in the House.
Despite the fact that Don and Eric are on 2 different networks they are like synchronized swimmers in their skin tight skin. They both dove deep into Muddy Waters ("We're going to miss them when they're gone") about poppies . You see, it’s really the war on poppies not the war on Islamic fascists in the Taliban.
We know, we know, the poppies are a problem. So why not cut the cameras to the streets of Vancouver and do an interview with one of the utopian, free “safe” needle- injection- while- you- wireless-cafes to ask –
why are we helping feed drug money to the Taliban to kill our troops?
Whenever I get directed to places like antiwar.com, or rabble.ca, I always feel my IQ slipping away . . .
I think the term 'dumb it down' has been taken to the extreme in their case.
War on Drugs in Afghanistan.
Allways was a subtext to the larger events..even going back to the Russians and their puppet regimes of the 70's and 80's.
This is NOT new in any way shape or form and anyone who cares about stabilizing Afghanistan understands full well the nature and history of the poppy business! It's all part and parcel of the regional challenge and difficulties.
Brendan O'Neill's feeble attempt to paint the comments of Bush, Rice and others as an attempt to justify the wider activities in that region are nothing but the shallow sophistry of a leftist ideologue!
In short a whole big load of BS from a Libcomsimp!
LGF works fine from my location!
About every two months or so, Margolis reminds us either in his newspaper column or when on the tube with Mansbridge, that he was a "Vietnam era" soldier for the Great Satan. My favorite (and he recycles this usually quarterly) is when he tells us, "I understand terrorism. Have I ever told you about whn my plane was hijacked?" PULEEEEZE.
Eric Margolis is nothing more than a portly version of Jack Layton.
Does portly mean FAT? and does Jack Layton mean Communist?
Perhaps Canada IS turning the corner. Even most comnenters at the Globe & pphhhiittt Mail are backing Prime Minister Harper. Both his speach to the UN yesterday and his initiative to reduce smog/air pollution. Bye,bye to those in Canada who sleasely support terrorists and the Suzuki social manipulator types.
Glad to see that there are others out there that compare our charter with islam. I think all drug addicts and occassional users should be jailed for aiding and abetting the enemy. When they sit around to bash Bush, do they ever think their use is funding the terrorists. Those poor cdns arrested in Australia are in for a big shock. Life in prison for drug smuggling. It could be worse, they could be in Turkey where they would be killed.
Johnboy, you're a quick study!
.....uhhh yes and YES!
I hardly ever watch TV anymore – except in the last couple of days- because I have to admit the events are visual.
I’d lost track of Margolis, but as Eskimo says, he’s is sooo full of himself.
Why is it that with utopians it’s all about me me me. Margolis is an incredible name dropper, names from out of nowhere that have almost no relevance to the issue at hand. Yet he throws them out there so that CTV’s Rubby the Anchor can appear to have an authority to back him up.
Margolis carries a classic Vietnam era view of the world. A friend of mine just got back from a holiday in Vietnam with the wife and kids in tow, it’s over .. move on Eric. Can’t we get Christie Blatchford on instead of Eric? I know she’s not as cute as Eric, but we conservatives are attracted to brains, looks are only skin deep.
Chavez cleverness - tough to admit
Two dams had been constructed decades ago – the Guri and Macagua. Chavez just months ago finished the Caruachi dam. Together these three dams currently generate 72% of Venezuela’s electricity.
http://oilwars.blogspot.com/
[ scroll down just past the new schools photos ]
Chavez has now initiated the construction of the capstone – the Tocoma Hydroelectric Dam. This project, which is costing $3 billion dollars, will generate another 2,160 Megawatts when completed. This is equivalent to the consumption of 69,000 barrels of oil per day. Given that Venezuela very heavily subsidizes all domestic oil consumption, anything that reduces oil consumption in Venezuela and allows that oil to be exported is very good news. If oil stays anywhere near $60 per barrel this dam should pay for itself within a few years.
===== Contrast that to the USA where Big Oil and Big Auto lobbies have such a grip on Uncle Sam*s privates that the progress of Electric and alternate fuel cars are held back. How are we moving away from oil dependency?
Only the foreign - born Governor of California is showing any initiative towards a move away from dependency on oil. In spite of the no- foreigner rule, Swartzenagger may become president on a popular groundswell.
Chavez is also building lots of new schools and modern hospitals and clinics. His people are becoming smarter and healthier. Hummm.
Considering that Iran supports the Taliban flattening of schools, I doubt that Mahmoud and Chavez are the good buddies they seem to be at the UN conference. = TG
Those who dont like the mission want us to chase the poppies so that we fail.
Leave them alone for the moment. I think it unlikely that those opposed to a a UN sanctioned mission in Afghanistan are really against Heroin. In fact they usually want to treat terrorism as a crimnal problem. Given the approach to the other criminal problem, drugs, then perhaps we should create free fire zones for terrorists.
If you want to understand what happened in Vietnam and how it relates to Afghanistan read this book
.chapters.indigo.ca/books/item/books-978076032407/0760324077/The+Sling+And+The+Stone+On+War+In+The+21st+Century?ref=Search+Books%3a+'sling+and+the+stone'
just put www in front of it. Sling and The Stone by Col. Thomas Hammes USMC. Great great book that explains the evolution of 4th Generation Warefare....from Mao to the Taliban and Iraq, includes the Intifada.
Karzai is scheduled to meet individually with each leader, except for Taliban Jack. (kick in the groin)
Who wants to discuss world affairs with a peanut brained, communist city counsellor anyway.
I just saw the tape of Afghanistan President Karzai's speach and I was impressed.The thanks and appreciation of the Afghan people for the help the west and Canada in particular, was heartfelt and sincere. After watching how difficult it was for Canada to rid itself of corrupt government, I can only imagine the uphill battle Karzai has ahead of him getting rid of the taliban.
I also saw about a minute of the CTV panel of "experts" before my stomach revolted and I had to turn it off. Comrade Margolis managed to throw a dig at Bush within the first two sentences. Pleeeease, give it a rest.
And what is with the CTV commentator Bob Fife declaring that "a majority of Canadians, slightly more than a majority". Makes it sound like everyone and their mother is on his side. The blatant attempt of the MSM to stir up falling support of the Afghanistan mission by hyping Canadian losses is pathetic.
"Buy The Book" Bush says.
ROTFLM(?)!!!
Pervez says he can't make any comments becuase his book is due out in a couple days.
Bush says; in otherwords he want's you to buy his book. What a ham.
Good ol' boys.
You people all underestimate Jack.
If his 'negotiations' with the Taliban fail, he wouldn't have any problem in switching over to the full-length, hooded burka expected/demanded of their womenfolk.
Yeah! Go get 'em Jack.
"Cigarettes and whiskey and the NDPeeeeee will drive you crazy will drive you insane"