Patrick Ruffini is back blogging. For those inside the walls of politics, Patrick is the guy you should bookmark for a sense of how to combine the art with a political campaign. He was the guy behind the official 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign blog.
Guess who authorized the Sandy Berger burglary?
The sensitive drafts of the National Security Council’s “Millennium After Action Review” on the Clinton administration’s handling of the al-Qaida terror threats in December 1999 suspiciously disappeared after Berger said he intended to “determine if Executive Privilege needed to be exerted prior to documents being provided to the 9/11 Commission.” Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft testified before the 9-11 commission about the millennium report, urging the panel to ask why the document’s warnings and “blueprint” to thwart al-Qaida’s plans to target the U.S. were ignored by the Clinton administration and not shared with the incoming Bush security staff.
” Who in cabinet has the most juice?” David Akin looks at Cabinet committee appointments.
Cjunk;
From Hitler to Saddam, from Nero to Mullah Dadullah, those bent on the subjugation of others have never shied away from using peace accords to buy time and space. Only Jack Layton and his utopian minions don’t understand this; but then again, Jack Layton types have spent all their time in the union halls and reading Noam Chomsky. They likely find reading real history icky because it deflates any utopian vision they have. Why bust up a good delusion?
The mythology of the “separation of church and state” (video) –
The words don’t appear in any official government documents authored by the founding fathers. This concept was fabricated by an ACLU attorney named Leo Pfeffer in 1947 in the Supreme Court case of Everson versus Board of Education of Ewing Township.
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Gone to the dark side
Toronto Star
“In an attempt to be taken more seriously, blondes and other wannabes are hitting the bottle…”
They include Nicole Richie, Cameron Diaz, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Rachel McAdams, J Lo, Kate Bosworth, Ashley & Mary-Kate Olsen, Nicky Hilton, Ashlee Simpson…
….and Canada’s most-famous wannabe Belinda!
Good to see Harper going Green. How many times in the past have the liberals stolen a conservative plank then once elected changed their minds or did what they pleased. Hopefully Harper and crew will present a strong platform on “Temporary climate change” that will be temporary but pleasing to the ears of the enviro idiots. Hopefully they will also come through with some meaningful anti smog legislation in our major cities that will be both useful and effective.
Battle lines forming after court condones three-parent family
http://tinyurl.com/y86m87
33%Canadian-67%American = “Canadian”
…A Toronto man serving 160 years in a U.S. jail for four break and enters has to pay $72,000 before he can even apply for a transfer to a Canadian prison and a chance of early release…
…His dad Donald, with wife, Martha, 67, moved with their three children from Toronto to North Carolina in 1978 after the family opened a furniture retail store….
….Older brother, Kevin, 44, said Derek is looking forward to being transferred to Canada…
tinyurl.com/ufepx
Western Canadian— do you mean FreeTrade, or ripping (up) off the GST ?
A new North Korean nuclear test, and no one seems to care…
http://ashesoftyranny.blogspot.com/2007/01/sound-of-saber-rattling.html
Watch Terry McAuliffe for a good look at what is going on with NY and NE Dems like the Clintons etc. I wonder if McCauliff would ever go to the Edwards camp. IMHO, those two would probably make a good political pair. And maybe his new book will reveal exactly how he personally made millions in a very short period of time investing in the dotcom bubble. IIRC, in Syracuse (where McAuliffe is from) one dot com company took lots of the local yokels for millions. And IIRC, the owner of that company built a huge Fla. mansion for himself that is protected by Fla. bankruptcy laws that do not allow for a bankruptcy sale of a persons only ‘residence’. It sometimes seems that the politicos who make one really big financial score are the types of free traders that really impress the voters. The following snip is from The Boston Herald.
Former Democratic Party boss lambasts Kerry campaign
By Associated Press
Friday, January 5, 2007 – Updated: 11:22 AM EST
WASHINGTON – Former Democratic Party boss and Clinton friend Terry McAuliffe is lambasting John Kerry’s unsuccessful presidential campaign, calling his effort to unseat President Bush “one of the biggest acts of political malpractice in the history of American
politics.”
In his scrappy memoir, McAuliffe criticizes the 2004 campaign that he was responsible for defending but ultimately lost to what he describes as a more organized Republican machine. McAuliffe calls the Kerry campaign gun-shy, distracted and incompetent.
McAuliffe is close to Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton and will support her presidential bid if the New York senator runs in 2008. McAuliffe’s book, published by Thomas Dunne Books, could serve as the opening salvo against a potential Clinton rival as Kerry weighs another bid. However, McAuliffe has kind words for other possible candidates, such as Sens. Barack Obama and Chris Dodd and Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack.
The book, “What a Party! My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators and Other Wild Animals,” goes on sale Jan. 23, but copies have already shown up in some bookstores.
McMaster University, Hamilton. The Plot Thickens:
Dr. Paul Williams, who has been sued by McMaster University for investigating terrorist activity at McMaster, in an attempt to stop Dr. Williams’ investigation.
However Dr. Williams refuses to be intimidated, and indeed welcomes the lawsuit because this will give him access to all of McMaster’s records through the legal process of discovery and he will be able to expose what he believes could well be the nerve center for Osama’s “American Hiroshima” project to blow up ten American cities with suitcase nukes.
Dr. Williams has 8 points, here’s one. The rest can be found at:stopdoomsday.com/article_8_points.html
1. McMaster has harbored leading al Qaeda operatives, including Adnan el-Shukrijumah, Jaber A. Elbaneh, Abderraouf Jdey, and Amer el-Maati. This finding was a result of the interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, who was taken into custody in Karachi by ISI officials on March 3, 2003. A BOLO for these operatives was issued by former US Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert Mueller on March 21, 2004. A reward of $5 million has been posted for each of these agents. Adnan el Shukrijumah has been described by the US Justice Department as “the next Mohammad Atta” who has been commissioned to commandeer the next attack on U.S. soil. McMaster is an ideal location for these operatives to study since it houses a 5 megawatt nuclear reactor, one of the largest reactors for educational purposes in the western hemisphere. The first account of these operatives at McMaster was written by Bill Gertz of “The Washington Times” in a piece entitled “Al Qaeda Pursued a Dirty Bomb.” It appeared on October 17, 2003 and remains posted on the internet.
Subsequent and considerably more substantial articles appeared on DEBKA, the Israeli intelligence website: http://www.debka-net-weekly.com/issue.pl?username=&inumber=132
latest editorial cartoon:
rona sittin in a recycle blue box.
no caption necessary.
briliant stuff.
“McMaster University, Hamilton. The Plot Thickens:
Dr. Paul Williams, who has been sued by McMaster University for investigating terrorist activity at McMaster, in an attempt to stop Dr. Williams’ investigation.”
well shucks, they were just trying to put the mothballed reactor @ McMaster to use….
does anybody seriously think the george dubya people would have LISTENED ????
9/11 happened during the dubya regime precisely because THEY chose not to be as vigilant as clinton’s people.
after all , there was that state visit by the taliban to texas when dubya was governor……
Yesterday, Jack’s Newswatch linked to a story in the London Daily Mail reporting that Fidel Castro is in a Spanish hospital for medical treatment.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=426119&in_page_id=1811&ito=1490
I haven’t seen any other news reports of this, so the item may be speculation.
That said, the story may be accurate. And if memory serves it was a Spanish magistrate who decided that Augusto Pinochet would be a ripe target for a bit of vengeance when he was admitted to Britain for medical treatment a few years ago. Fortunately, the Law Lords told him to go pee up a rope.
I have to wonder how the Spanish government would react if, say, a Cuban exile in Miami were to get an American judge to return the favour. Not very well, I would imagine.
Actually, much as I detest Castro, and as much as I love the schadenfreude of seeing these internationalist zealots hoist by their own petard, I wouldn’t want to see such an arrest warrant issued by a US judge. It would indicate some level of official support for the notion of these international courts and their extraterritorial reach, something the US is (thankfully) resisting. And that in turn would increase the political viability of any warrants issued against former American office-holders in future (think Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc).
(But oddly, don’t think Clinton. Funny how he can hob-nob all over the world doing $100K speaking engagements, and nobody seems inclined to take him to task for his various military ventures and the casualties therefrom.)
It’s a start. From the BBC:
A British Muslim has been found guilty of soliciting murder during a London rally against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad. Umran Javed was also convicted of using words likely to stir up racial hatred at the February 2006 protest by the jury at the Old Bailey.
Javed, 27, of Birmingham, had said: “Bomb, bomb Denmark, bomb, bomb USA.”
Javed had claimed his chants against the two countries were “just slogans” and that he “regrets” saying them.
Remanding him in custody, Judge Brian Barker said he would not pass sentence until several other trials relating to the protest had concluded – expected to be in April.
The maximum penalty for soliciting murder is life in prison.
Bollocks, typical bushitis crap. Even if 9/11 happened in isolation (it didn’t), it is clear that the planning and execution of this operation was underway during the Clinton administration (an inconvenient fact, eh). Meanwhile, the Clinton administration did very little to contain AQ, except for the odd telegraphed cruise missile attack on empty terrorist camps in Afghanistan. BTW, this “war” has been going on well before the US was even a nation, so give you head a shake once more. Before you issue the usual canard of “US foreign policy,” please tell me in more detail what that means, besides, of course, their support for Israel. Apparently we shouldn’t support Israel because the anti-Semites don’t approve. I’m so sick of the bushitis crowd, like the Gore movie, it should be renamed “The Inconvenient Error of Omission.”
Statscan cooking employment figures?
Economists struggle to figure out where jobs are coming from
G&M
…Economists, to say the least, are puzzled. They’re cobbling together theories to explain the divergence, but no single theory offers a full explanation for how the unemployment rate could be at a 30-year low while economic growth stagnates….
…“The bottom-line is that the Canadian economy is creating jobs, but at nowhere near the pace suggested by this morning’s headline number,” they say…
Readers a “major environmental solution” so simplistic in application it’s amazing. It promises to detoxify your home environment, your exposure to toxins, your pets’ exposure to toxins as they present in myriad cleaning agents, etc. While allowing you to save hundreds of dollars per year on products you will no longer need.
Go to Jack’s NewsWatch under Andrew Coyne article, Green push.
Get the solution for your immediate families and enjoy!
Kate, your review of the Mexican border situation is “right on” as the sanctity of international borders and those who transgress them is likely to be the overriding issue in 2007. Notice the Ethiopian army record-breaking gains in securing the borders and thus, “hemming in” the terrorists quite completely. A tactic not lost on our present U.S., Nato forces.
FYI
MIT (Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA.) is going to be offering on-line all 1,800 courses in current on-campus program late 2007. And here’s the best part. IT’S FREE.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070104/ts_csm/cmit_1
AP employee found shot to death in Iraq
news.yahoo.com ^ | Jan 5, 2007
BAGHDAD, Iraq – The body of an Associated Press employee was found shot in the back of the head Friday, six days after he was last seen by his family leaving for work. Ahmed Hadi Naji, 28, was the fourth AP staffer to die violently in the Iraq war and the second AP employee killed in less than a month. He had been a messenger and occasional cameraman for the AP for 2 1/2 years. “All of us at AP share the pain and grief being felt by Ahmed’s family and friends,” said AP President and CEO Tom Curley. “The…
“The circumstances of Naji’s death were unclear. Dozens of Iraqis are found slain almost every day in Baghdad, many believed victims of sectarian death squads.” [Don’t you know?]…-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1763106/posts
Informal SDA poll: Who do you like better today, Vic Toews, or Jonathan Toews?
A Question of Loyalty: Will your loyalty be to Australia? Or, to Islam? Choose one.
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Treatment has sheik wary of returning home
A dangerous divide is forcing Australian Muslims to abandon their homes, says Sydney cleric Feiz Mohamed in Lebanon reports Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov ———-
AUSTRALIA’S most influential firebrand cleric feels like an alien in his own country. And Sheik Feiz Mohamed is not alone. He believes a rising anti-Islamic tide has made Muslims wary of their countrymen, forcing at least eight families to abandon their homeland for the Middle East. From the foothills of his ancestral village in north Lebanon, the man with the most sway over the nation’s Islamic youth says five years into the war on terror a dangerous divide exists here.
In a rare interview, Feiz, an Australian citizen, says he is apprehensive about returning home after spending more than 12 months in Lebanon caring for his ailing father.
“Imagine me going to the Opera House and taking photos,” he says. “I can’t walk through the airport without hundreds of eyes on me. They are like foxes trying to eat sheep.
“Before I left I was at a restaurant in Sutherland (in southern Sydney) with my wife, eating spaghetti, and we were like aliens from Mars. I said, ‘Let’s get out of here’.
“We are just human beings. I am not saying Australia is negative or not good, I am saying it has changed.
“There are about seven or eight families who have left in the last few months and many more who are planning to go.” …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1763172/posts
jeez shamrock, where have you been the last 10 years or 230 years for that matter.
1. the planning started well within the clinton regime.
aq waited until the lax george dubya heyday they knew was coming in nov 2000. it was only contingent until then. EIGHT YEARS of slick willy to do it but they waited only 8 additional months after dubya took office for the lethargy and disinterest to entrench.
2. as far as the quip about this war predating founding of the union, do share your research with us please putting aq on the map in 1775 thank you.
3. whut the hell are you talking about foreign policy ?? you drunk or sumptin ?? where did I say anything here about Israel ??? talk about CRAP. now go back to the video record and check up on the TALIBAN open arms visit to texas whilst dubya was governor.
Will another Liberal jump ship? Will another Liberal turncoat? Defection by another Liberal?
SS Kyoto Dion is foundering/sinking on the reefs of the Librano$. Is Dion another Captain SSMartin, of the CSL crew, fundamentally?
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FORMER LIBERAL MINISTER ON TRACK?
With Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien expected to announce his transportation task force next week, former Liberal transport minister David Collenette is one name councillors are hearing could head up the group. …-
(national newswatch)
More:
Ottawa falls to long-time conservative and early supporter of Reform Party and Canadian Alliance, Larry O’Brien. …
canadianpublius.blogspot.com
MSM/Telegraph refuse to admit/say/recognize reality:
Headline:
Civil War in Gaza.
Muslims killing Muslims.
…-
Gaza on brink of civil war
Telegraph.co.uk – 12 hours ago
By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem. An unarmed Muslim cleric was shot dead as he drove home from leading prayers yesterday, the latest victim of the Gaza Strip violence that is threatening to spiral into all-out civil war.