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I can’t believe it. Dion mentioned the words liberal party today in announcing his cabinet. He says he is fortunate to have such a talented pool of liberal members to choose from. But, he is still being a dictator, everyone seems to be a vice-chair and I wonder if that is because the liberal party is full of vice. He also brags that 79 of his members have been there for over 10 years and 29 have been ministers. He forgets to mention it was these people that led the corruption of the liberal party.
Even with closed caption on I couldn’t follow what he said, except he used the word WE several times. War room must be reading the blogs. He is going to have a university course for inexperienced new candidates, head professor, Gerald Kennedy. Many new and inexperienced candidates tells me that many of the sitting MPs fear annihilation in the next election and will not run. The fear spread by the msm during the last election re inexperienced candidates being elected to form a gov’t will come back to haunt the liberals. Did anyone understand what he said, or who is in the shadow cabinet, or who are critics, and what does he mean by all the committees he has appointed to advise his s/c.
The Facebook group (“jokingly”) advocating the rape and murder of Rona Ambrose is still alive and well. And so is the one calling John Baird “Queen of Canada.”
Even after I reported them.
anchorlink.blogspot.com/2007/01/continuing-adventures-of-ever-tolerant.html
He is going to have a university course for inexperienced new candidates, head professor, Gerald Kennedy
Sorry, Gerard Kennedy can’t be a professor, he dropped out of University in his first year.
I was just reading in the Edmonton Journal about a trial in Yorkton of a father who shot his daughter’s boyfriend. I vaguely recall it, but don’t remember if Kate posted on it. I haven’t been reading much lately , so apologize if this has already been covered.
From the mother of the deceased; “”Because no one told me that my son was taking morphine … I was never given the opportunity to save my son”.
The girlfriend’s family says it is all worth it in the end becuse they got their daughter away from him and off drugs. A bit reminiscent of the New Brunswick residents who went after a local dealer.
Lomborg is hated more than Bush. Ya mean George Bush? …-
Get Your Priorities Right
A rationalist crusader does the math on global warming.
BY KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
Saturday, July 8, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT
NEW YORK–Bjorn Lomborg is a political scientist by training, but the charismatic, golden-haired Dane is offering me a history lesson. Two hundred years ago, he explains, sitting forward in his chair in this newspaper’s Manhattan offices, the left was an “incredibly rational movement.” It believed in “encyclopedias,” in hard facts, and in the idea that mastery of these basics would help “make a better society.” Since then, the world’s do-gooders have succumbed to “romanticism; they’ve become more dreamy.” This is a problem in his view, and so this “self-avowed slight lefty” is determined to nudge the whole world back toward “rationalism.” …
Bjorn Lomborg busted–and that is the only word for it–onto the world scene in 2001 with the publication of his book “The Skeptical Environmentalist.” A one-time Greenpeace enthusiast, he’d originally planned to disprove those who said the environment was getting better. He failed. And to his credit, his book said so, supplying a damning critique of today’s environmental pessimism. Carefully researched, it offered endless statistics–from official sources such as the U.N.–showing that from biodiversity to global warming, there simply were no apocalypses in the offing. “Our history shows that we solve more problems than we create,” he tells me. For his efforts, Mr. Lomborg was labeled a heretic by environmental groups–whose fundraising depends on scaring the jeepers out of the public–and became more hated by these alarmists than even (if possible) President Bush. …- http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008626
just watched Dion as Mary said: What did he say??
I think i would be saying to myself: OMG What did we Do?
His shadow cabinet has 56 members, Of which How many are Women?
Dion again is accusing the PM “a year lost on Enviromental inaction”
Well that still is better then 13years of Inaction & increased “Sustainable” Emissions
File/Save under: “b-s from Al-Reuters”.
Key Words: “There was absolutely no intention on Reuters part to mislead the public.” …-
Report on Reuters actions after publishing altered photographs
January 18th, 2007, filed by David Schlesinger
Last August, Reuters published and then withdrew two photographs from Lebanon that had been digitally altered.
At that time, we immediately terminated our relationship with the freelance photographer who took and altered the images and said we’d share with the public the results of our internal investigations.
Experienced photo editors and other senior editorial staff went through thousands of images published during the Lebanon conflict. We are satisfied no other images were digitally altered.
We were not satisfied with the degree of oversight that we had that allowed these two images to slip through. We have tightened procedures, taken appropriate disciplinary action and appointed one of our most experienced editors to supervise photo operations in the Middle East. …-
via national newswatch
Dion can do anything, and he stated Kennedy will be like him, a prof, to work on getting inexperienced liberals elected, teach them how to win debates, appear on talk radio, be interviewed etc. They will attend classes. So, if there are all these nebies running, and Kennedy is the shepherd, who is leaving. We need to know. Taxpayers are paying them and we demand to know. Volpe is transport critic, will his job be getting dead voters to the polls, or trying to find enough people to attend dions speeches and getting them there. I suppose the homeless could use a hot shower and meal and JV could try to bribe them to attend. If his shadow has 56, are 28 of them women, don’t think so, another promise broken.
the liberals have been active during the Christmas break in recruiting new candidates as there are 24 retiring. I suspect that Maybe this is the main reason that the Liberals are in no hurry now to force an election.
Women in Dion’s Shadow Cabinet: I have only seen 4 names if there are more, who are they?
This is Dion’s Equality
What a cast of characters Dion has assembled for his bid to return the Natural Governing Party to the trough. Volpe–Dosanjh—McCallum—stop, stop, I can’t breathe for laughing!
Drunk on power and corruption for decades, the Liberal Party is finally rotting away. It’s the same old thieves, just different deck-chairs.
In the UK the Tories were labelled “The Nasty Party” for a while, and the Liberal Democrats “The Silly Party” Dion has managed to combine these attributes for the 21st century, and gives us “The Silly and Nasty Party of Canada”.
Dems to Impose on Conservative Broadcasters http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2007/01/dems-to-impose-on-conservative.html
No surprise the MSM isn’t making a stink about this. Such a tyrannical, fascist move by Nazi Pelosi would be much welcomed by the MSM, who simply cannot compete with the far more popular conservative media outlets.
This is a big, serious matter. If we don’t make a stink over it, it’ll pass, and we’ll suddenly find ourselves with a weaker voice… at least in America… in Canada, the Liberals already killed the possibility of getting a Canadian version of FOX News via the fascistic CRTC.
Re Dion, What a bunch of gobbly gook that came out of his mouth. First, he needs to set up a university “program” designed especially for him, so that he could actually speak English to the rest of Canada.
Then, what a suprise when Dion announced that JC and Paulie M were going to head up a committee (and again, I’m really not sure of what?) Probably, on how brown envelopes are privately passed. But the thing that really got me was even before the press conference CTV was all excited that there had been “leaks” regarding the shadow cabinet. They were just overjoyed, still not being used of a government that is operating without the need of the media or the lack of “leaks”. Talk about a Liberal love in. I think before the next election, EVERY media person that reports on the government should publicly have to state what party they are either supporting or are a card carrying member. (Don Newman????) Then, they could all have a “L” tattooed on their forehead for losers, liers, and Liberal lover’s.
Being Conservative is easy . . .
Never Computer *Off* _ *Standby is best*
Energy Star applauds companies such as Cisco Systems and Pitney Bowes that have made enabling computers to “hibernate/sleep” at night a company policy. (The organization issued press releases touting the dollar volumes in energy savings at each company.)
Energy saving is only one benefit.
Quick startup in the morning saves you the loooong reboot wait.
Easier on the electronics also, say some techs.
AVG and Avast anti-virus updates upon *wakeup*. http://preview.tinyurl.com/8shgy
For standby mode: Click on the green start button, then the orange *turn off computer*, then the *standby* button.
*Wakeup* occurs when the mouse is moved. If your computer is on in the morning, it means your cat has moved the mouse while you slept.
=TG
Breaking News: Liberals Preparing Crap*, Martin says.
Liberals under Citoyen Dion, aka The Milkman, are
preparing another “Red Book*”.
“Rae, a major frontrunner alongside Ignatieff, is working on the party’s Red Book*.” http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070117/dion_shadow_070117/20070117?hub=TopStories
Foul-Mouthed AdScam Martin said:
“Screw the Red Book*… Don’t tell me what’s in the Red Book*. I wrote the goddamned thing. And I know that it’s a lot of crap.”
Paul Martin, criticizing those who dared to mention the Red Book* after he readily abandoned the book of popular promises once the Liberals used it to win the 1993 election.
(Source: Double Vision: The Inside Story of The Liberals in Power, by E. Greenspon & T. Wilson-Smith.)
Anti libs comments in the G&M again. Of course there are the usually vitrolic libs who call Albertans braindead for voting conservative, but make no mention of the braindead in the GTA who vote liberal. Am waiting to read giggles comments later today. Some question the equality issue in this mismash of mps. Who are the 24 who are retiring, is Fry one of them as she got no new job. How incompetant is dion that he needs 56 people to tell him what to do and say. Notice he used WE and Liberal today. Guess he doesn’t want to take all the blame for the corruption to come, if they get re-elected. Didn’t he steal from Harper, who announced there would be a candidate school in march, by putting Kennedy in charge of training the future seals of the liberal party.
What I notice, Mary T., is that there is a never-ending stream of news stories every day on the CBC website about every little utterance by Dion, as though each word that tumbles from his mouth is holy. And nothing is negative! No “Reality Checks”, no critics, nothing!
The liberal spin is becoming more transparent every single day! It’s disgusting! Just how desperate are they? Even Cereberus (they’re all equally biased) must see this…don’t you, Ted?
Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois. According to the U.S. Senate Historical Office, he is the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the only African American presently serving in the U.S. Senate.
Let’s play charades, kiddies!
* Three words!
* First word: sounds like “Iraq”
* Second word: act out the name of the former Iraqi dictator. YES, that IS his middle name.
* Third word: sounds like “Osamma”
WTF?
Let’s say we had a young up and comer for the republican party. He was young, charismatic, appeared on a right-wing equivelant to Oprah tv show and got a ringing endorsement. Admitted to have done drugs. Let’s say his name rhymed with Hitler or Mussolini (or any other war mongering rascal) Would the young republican get the same free pass? Nope.
Rewind things a few years…..George Bush has a normal sounding name. Even so, the left still calls him Hitler. Where’s his free pass for his admited alcohol use? Has Obama served in the military? Doesn’t appear to have. I would guess this won’t be a pre-requisite now that the dems have their newly minted “rock star” candidate. Military service will be labelled as “yesterday”.
I hate to keep harping on Obama, but watch out for this guy, the press is about to crown him the new messiah.
More Liberal cheerleading from the Globe and Mail. From the article about Dion’s shadow cabinet:
“The Decima Research survey, provided to The Canadian Press, puts the Conservatives and Liberals in a statistical dead heat in national support.
The Liberals polled 33 per cent of decided and leaning voters, the Conservatives 32 per cent and the NDP 13.
The Bloc Québécois got 10 per cent and the Green party was at nine.”
This was apparently too depressing for the G&M. Luckily, they added this tidbid to make themselves feel better:
“But when Alberta respondents are taken out of the poll, the Liberals are seven percentage points ahead of the Conservatives in the rest of the country.”
The Great Spirit… of Capitalism
Last May, 11 B.C. men were charged in connection with the poaching and trafficking of bald eagles after
an investigation that began with the discovery of 50 dead birds in North Vancouver in 2005.
G&M: We could also say when Quebec respondents are taken out of the equation.
On another news story the CIBC has Lost a harddrive containing the info of 470,000 customers, “but not to worry”
What happened to the pink book written by BS and friends. Kennedy has his work cut out for him, 29 inexperienced candidates from AB, 24 for retiring mps, a slew of newbies from Sask and MB.
Lots of coverage today re the water death, 10 fired over it. Also, violence in tv, movies, music getting a trashing after the video of the 2 girls beating a girl and posting it on the net. Of course you have the usual experts saying (for the umteenth time) that these games, movies etc have nothing to do with increased teenage violence. It is the parents fault. Of course these same experts lobbied to get all smoking out of movies, tv series, videos, advertising etc as it was influencing the young, (who are todays parents). Me, I’d rather my kids or grandkids smoked a legal cig to copy someone, instead of a gun to kill someone. Greg Watson does a hatchet job on Khan today.
From: http://www.imnotparanoid.blogspot.com
…….”We are so free here in Canada. We have freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion. But, oddly, we have no freedom of health – arguably the only freedom where life literally hangs in the balance.
We are free alright. Free to lie for days on stretchers in hospital corridors. Free to wait months for cancer treatment. Free to live in pain. Free to lick the boots of our almighty health care master while we die like dogs waiting for permission to be treated. Ahhhhh, It’s good to be a free Canadian……….
Young Muslim says: Islamism:
“This is not ideology. It’s a mental illness.”
Radicals vs. moderates: British Muslims at crossroads
CNN.com
At a recent debate over the battle for Islamic ideals in England, a British-born Muslim stood before the crowd and said Prophet Mohammed’s message to nonbelievers is: “I come to slaughter all of you.”
“We are the Muslims,” said Omar Brooks, an extremist also known as Abu Izzadeen. “We drink the blood of the enemy, and we can face them anywhere. That is Islam and that is jihad.”
Anjem Choudary, the public face of Islamist extremism in Britain, added that Muslims have no choice but to take the fight to the West.
“What are Muslims supposed to do when they are being killed in the streets in Afghanistan and Baghdad and Palestine? Do they not have the same rights to defend themselves? In war, people die. People don’t make love; they kill each other,” he said. (Audio slide show: Preying on Britain’s young Muslims)
But in the same debate, held on the prestigious grounds of Dublin’s Trinity College in October, many people in the crowd objected.
“These people, ladies and gentleman, have a good look at them. They actually believe if you kill women and children, you will go to heaven,” said one young Muslim who waved his finger at the radicals.
“This is not ideology. It’s a mental illness.” (Watch ‘No chance in hell’ Video)…- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769686/posts
Excerpt from Comments:
Long, but worth the read. The Faith of Islam REPRESENTATIVE of the attitude of Christendom toward Islam, till recent years at least, is Alexander Ross’s postscript to the Anglicized version, published in 1649, of Sieur Du Ryer’s French translation of the Koran. The author of the postscript directs the following invective against Mohammed and the Koran: “Good Reader, the great Arabian Impostor now at last after a thousand years, is by the way of France arrived in England, and his Alcoran, or gallimaufry of errors, (a brat as deformed as the parent, and as full of heresies as his scald head was of scurvy) hath learned to speak English. * * * If you will take a brief view of the Alcoran, you shall find it a hodgepodge made up of these four ingredients: 1. Of Contradictions. 2. Of Blasphemy. 3. Of ridiculous Fables. 4. Of Lies.” …- (more)
What, no Belinduh in the shadow cabinet?
Someone forgot to tell Stephanie that she’s way smarter now that she’s a brunette.
Question from one not “blessed” with CBC TV. Last week it was all about the sucess of Little mosque in the Prairies. Has anyone actually watched the second episode or was this a one shot wonder?
Canada Sleeps Through War to ‘Save the Internet’
Pitched battle in U.S. over ‘net neutrality’ Digital democracy at risk if telecoms get their way say opponents.
thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2007/01/17/NetNeutrality/
Hey Tex, maybe the little mosque was a…wait for it…a bomb! Maybe there will only be one show!
Your tax dollars at work in the swirling socialist cesspool of Can-uh-duh.
Gore refused to debate with Lomborg.
Dhimmi Carter refused to debate with Dershowitz.
Liberal-leftists do not debate; their words are ex-cathedra*; infallible. …-
Will Al Gore Melt?
By Flemming Rose and Bjorn Lomborg
Al Gore is traveling around the world telling us how we must fundamentally change our civilization due to the threat of global warming. Today he is in Denmark to disseminate this message. But if we are to embark on the costliest political project ever, maybe we should make sure it rests on solid ground. It should be based on the best facts, not just the convenient ones. This was the background for the biggest Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, to set up an investigative interview with Mr. Gore. And for this, the paper thought it would be obvious to team up with …
• THE FULL WSJ.com ARTICLE IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO SUBSCRIBERS….- http://users2.wsj.com/lmda/do/checkLogin?mg=wsj-users2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB116909379096479919.html%3Fmod%3Dopinion_main_commentaries
*ex cathedra: from the seat of authority; with authority: used esp. of those pronouncements of the pope that are considered infallible.
dictionary.com
Codere as defense critic, isn’t he the one who marched in the hezzie rally last summer. And, isn’t he also being sued for 900 million dollars by someone he refused into Canada. Isn’t he from Quebec, and isn’t Quebec anti war. What message does this send. As for all those commentators in the G&M saying get over it re dions citizenship, and with all the dual citizens in his shadow cabinet, what country/countries are ruling the liberals. Didn’t Volpe try to use racism in his campaign.
I asked about lmotp and was answered by someone who watched last night. Seems it was a re-run of the episode that showed twice last week. His thoughts were the series is a being re-written. Must not have got the favorable results it wanted in feedback. If even 10% of the supposed viewers gave negative reviews we will never hear about it. Even the author has disappeared from TV.
I just bit the bullet and went and read giggles comments re the shadow cabinet. She actually had a couple of good things to say about Harper. She also said the liberals detest the 1200/yr child care for parents of kids under six, so parents, watch out, if elected that will be gone, plus dion will find a way to take an additional 100/mo from you. BS in in charge of preparing women for politics, Guess she could start by talking to the presstitute covering the Pickton trial, then asking for all unfaithful wives to come fwd. Or is she going to give lessons on how to break up a family to be a successful liberal. Giggles says she got a demotion. Giggles also said dion has to learn to communicate better. When asked about the west, she said -put down your coffee etc- his first trip as leader was to the west to show his support. She forgot to mention his plan to rape Alberta, bring back groupaction, and that it is wrong for albertans to work for money as it is bad for the economy. Dion bombed out here.
Vancouver PR flack, Jim Hoggan has made quite a name for himself by slagging the credentials, motives and ethics of scientists who don’t meekly accept the revealed wisdom of AGM. He gained national notoriety with a TV appearance in which he blasted Friends of Science for accepting indirect funding from evil big oil®.
Hoggans muckraking blog (www.desmogblog.com)reportedly employs two “researchers”. Hoggan’s backers and clients include the Suzuki Foundation (he sits on its board) and other Luddite outfits. (No conflict of interest there, eh?) He rails against anyone remotely connected with Exxon for unethically touching dirty money, but he apparently has no qualms about the hefty support he has been receiving from multimillionaire internet gambling tycoon, John Lefebvre. Well guess what, yesterday, noted philanthropist and community pillar Lefebvre was arrested by U.S. federal agents and charged with money laundering. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in the slammer. He’s free on $5 million bail.
I wonder what ol’ Jim will have to say about that?
How sweet it is!
Vancouver PR flack, Jim Hoggan has made quite a name for himself by slagging the credentials, motives and ethics of scientists who don’t meekly accept the revealed wisdom of AGM. He gained national notoriety with a TV appearance in which he blasted Friends of Science for accepting indirect funding from evil big oil®.
Hoggan’s muckraking blog (www.desmogblog.com)reportedly employs two “researchers”. Hoggan’s backers and clients include the Suzuki Foundation (he sits on its board) and other Luddite outfits. (No conflict of interest there, eh?) He rails against anyone remotely connected with Exxon for unethically touching dirty money, but he apparently has no qualms about the hefty support he has been receiving from multimillionaire internet gambling tycoon, John Lefebvre. Well guess what, yesterday, noted philanthropist and community pillar Lefebvre was arrested by U.S. federal agents and charged with money laundering. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in the slammer. He’s free on $5 million bail.
I wonder what ol’ Jim will have to say about that?
How sweet it is!
The double entry doesn’t indicate that I thought my post was exceptionally worthy. Kate’s security feature tripped me up. (again)
Canadian regulars and reservists alike who end up in the landmine removal roulette game do indeed deserve generous financial bonuses.
Danger on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border
Canada should condemn Pakistan’s land mine plan.
Dateline: Friday, January 12, 2007
by Lloyd Axworthy
Lost in the flurry of news reports of Saddam Hussein’s execution was a seemingly innocuous item announcing that Pakistan is preparing to use anti-personnel land mines as a way of curtailing movement across its border into Afghanistan. This move deserves an immediate international response because of its potential destructive impact.
First, it is an admission from the government of Pakistan, one of our self-proclaimed allies in the fight against the Taliban, that it is incapable of controlling its lawless northwest territories where the Taliban and other militant groups breed and conspire in their attacks against the occupying NATO forces in Afghanistan.
The 1997 land mine treaty, now signed by more than 150 countries, showed that Canada can play a global leadership role.
Most important, the basic prohibition of land mines as a weapon of war was becoming an international norm, and the argument for its efficacy as a weapon was being dismissed.
The treaty’s 10th anniversary, set for the end of 2007, was meant to give its worldwide supporters the chance to assess its value and to make further progress in eliminating this destructive tool of war and its spin-off imitators such as cluster bombs.
But Pakistan’s move casts a shadow on the treaty’s accomplishments — and just might precipitate a regression where other countries feel that they, too, can flout the treaty because of the silence and unwillingness of its supporters to condemn Islamabad’s action. http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=38
=TG
More lies on Newman today. Some retired investor or financial guy says that Companies are being given a 4 year tax holiday re the Income Trust thing. The original announcement by the minister stated that no changes would take place for FOUR years. If the experts had not paniced, they would not have lost one cent. Trying to say now that the Harper govt is giving companies a 4 year tax break, thereby again breaking a promise. What double speak. At least his announcement didn’t allow martins doctor to make millions like Scotts raspberry tip did, along with many other liberals.
maryT
Little mosque was a new episode last night.
I didn’t watch it but was flipping channels and stopped for a sec.
Same garbage.
re: Little Mosque. The producer (Michael Kennedy) was on Neil Cavuto /Fox this aft. I missed some of the talk but Kennedy said he was ecstatic about the premiere’s ratings. Didn’t say how many (Google says 2.1 mill, which is hard to believe) and says some U.S. broadcasters are interested.
Cavuto wasn’t impressed with the clip. Is asking his viewers to e-mail him and let him know if they think it’s funny.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769746/posts
Exclusive: Handwritten Note From Jimmy Carter Interceding for Nazi SS* Guard Proven to Have Murdered Jews
We now have a copy of the note that Jimmy Carter sent to the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigation, interceding on behalf of a Nazi SS* Guard. We first reported on this story this morning. …-
*Schutzstaffel
The note is made by Dhimmi Carter on a letter written by the supplicant on a New York Sun letterhead.
Copy of letter displayed with Carter’s handwritten note. …-
UPDATE: The outpouring of creativity continues. A reader was moved by the Steyn Songfest to submit this contribution, sung to the tune of “Mr. Sandman,” by the Chordettes. Scott, who is serving as a judge for the competition, tells me that “Mr. Sandman” was a frequent source of inspiration:
Mr. Sandman (Chordettes)
(scat: bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum etc …)
Mr. Sandman, empty your pants,
We’ve seen you wiggling, they’re not full of ants.
Purloining papers won’t land you in clover,
Your days in the archives are officially over….-
powerline blog
Khan loaning self campaign money legal: Elections Canada
OTTAWA (CP) – Elections Canada says there’s nothing illegal in MP Wajid Khan using loans from his Toronto car dealership to finance his riding association and his election campaigns.
…
Twenty-seven riding associations have been deregistered by Elections Canada, including three Liberal associations, two NDP associations, a few fringe party associations and a host of Green Party associations. Failure to file financial reports is cited as the reason for delisting in a number of cases, including Liberal MP Maria Minna’s Toronto association.
Minna blamed administrative and technical glitches caused by unfamiliarity with the law for the delay.
Riding associations were not required to file annual, audited reports with Elections Canada until 2004, when political financing reforms went into effect. Minna said her association, like all others, is made up of volunteers who are still trying to learn the complicated new rules.
Consequently, she was careful not to criticize Khan’s old association for its tardy filing.
“Obviously, similar things could’ve happened (in Khan’s riding). Who am I to judge?” …-
cnews
Long essay on the born-again Dhimmi Carter.
Carter is one of the founders of the Red-Green religion: “…it was Carter’s way to “run conservative and govern liberal.””
Our Worst Ex-President
Joshua Muravchik
February 2007
[Excerpts}
More than a quarter-century after completing his term of office, James Earl Carter is still to be found in the thick of debates about national policies on a range of issues: nuclear arms, Iraq, North Korea, and, especially, the conflict between Israel and the Arabs. A steady stream of books and articles continues to issue forth from his pen, and he travels the world on self-selected diplomatic missions. No other former President has chosen to play a similar role. But then, Carter’s whole political career has been out of the ordinary. In order to understand the man today, it is necessary to see him in the light of his past….
His surprising tilt away from anti-Communism was made explicit in his first major foreign-policy address when he proclaimed: “we are now free of th[e] inordinate fear of Communism. . . . We’ve fought fire with fire, never thinking that fire is better quenched with water.”…
Few men who are called to politics suffer defeat gladly, and Carter was certainly not one of the exceptions. The last election he had lost was his first run for governor of Georgia, and it deeply shook him; as he would later relate, it was in the course of struggling to right his mood afterward that he experienced the epiphany of being born again. …
Nonetheless, he has striven for it mightily ever since. The effort began in the early years of his post-presidency with highly publicized activity aimed at reestablishing his credentials as a man of piety. Enrolling as a volunteer with the group Habitat for Humanity, he posed for news photos hammering nails into the timbers of homes being built for the needy. Political coloration seeped into this mission only when it took him to Communist-ruled Nicaragua, where he posed with the Sandinista dictator Daniel Ortega. …- http://www.commentarymagazine.com/cm/main/viewArticle.aip?id=10824&page=all
Support Major Sean Courty. Down with New Brunswick Power. …-
Reservist picks Afghanistan after NB Power denies leave (Canada)
DANIEL MARK WHEATON TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL Published Thursday January 18th, 2007
A military reservist who nominated NB Power for an award for supporting the Canadian Forces has resigned after the Crown corporation refused him a leave of absence to deploy to Afghanistan.
Maj. Sean Courty took the career hit in order to lead a team of soldiers from across Atlantic Canada who are leaving within three weeks for Kandahar on a six-month mission.
“I had to make a difficult decision,” Courty said. He left the job the first week of June and is now unemployed and awaiting deployment.
Courty was a security official at NB Power’s Point Lepreau nuclear generating station and a member of the plant’s emergency nuclear response team.
The 33-year-old officer has been a reserve member for the last 14 years and had been training for the Afghanistan mission for months.
“The Canadian Forces had invested a lot into my training and I had travelled on multiple international courses to make sure I had the skill set to lead this team.”
Courty, who travelled to Afghanistan in early December to prepare for the upcoming mission, said he believed his employer had agreed verbally to a leave of absence. However, when he formally requested a leave of absence in writing, he said his request was denied.
NB Power declined interview requests on the topic Wednesday. …- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769870/posts
Photo included.
Also here: http://www.canadaeast.com/ce2/docroot/article.php?articleID=92357
I can’t believe it. Dion mentioned the words liberal party today in announcing his cabinet. He says he is fortunate to have such a talented pool of liberal members to choose from. But, he is still being a dictator, everyone seems to be a vice-chair and I wonder if that is because the liberal party is full of vice. He also brags that 79 of his members have been there for over 10 years and 29 have been ministers. He forgets to mention it was these people that led the corruption of the liberal party.
Even with closed caption on I couldn’t follow what he said, except he used the word WE several times. War room must be reading the blogs. He is going to have a university course for inexperienced new candidates, head professor, Gerald Kennedy. Many new and inexperienced candidates tells me that many of the sitting MPs fear annihilation in the next election and will not run. The fear spread by the msm during the last election re inexperienced candidates being elected to form a gov’t will come back to haunt the liberals. Did anyone understand what he said, or who is in the shadow cabinet, or who are critics, and what does he mean by all the committees he has appointed to advise his s/c.
The Facebook group (“jokingly”) advocating the rape and murder of Rona Ambrose is still alive and well. And so is the one calling John Baird “Queen of Canada.”
Even after I reported them.
anchorlink.blogspot.com/2007/01/continuing-adventures-of-ever-tolerant.html
He is going to have a university course for inexperienced new candidates, head professor, Gerald Kennedy
Sorry, Gerard Kennedy can’t be a professor, he dropped out of University in his first year.
I was just reading in the Edmonton Journal about a trial in Yorkton of a father who shot his daughter’s boyfriend. I vaguely recall it, but don’t remember if Kate posted on it. I haven’t been reading much lately , so apologize if this has already been covered.
From the mother of the deceased; “”Because no one told me that my son was taking morphine … I was never given the opportunity to save my son”.
The girlfriend’s family says it is all worth it in the end becuse they got their daughter away from him and off drugs. A bit reminiscent of the New Brunswick residents who went after a local dealer.
Well, this scared the crap out of me…
http://www.switlo.com/opinion.php?selected=83
Lomborg is hated more than Bush. Ya mean George Bush? …-
Get Your Priorities Right
A rationalist crusader does the math on global warming.
BY KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
Saturday, July 8, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT
NEW YORK–Bjorn Lomborg is a political scientist by training, but the charismatic, golden-haired Dane is offering me a history lesson. Two hundred years ago, he explains, sitting forward in his chair in this newspaper’s Manhattan offices, the left was an “incredibly rational movement.” It believed in “encyclopedias,” in hard facts, and in the idea that mastery of these basics would help “make a better society.” Since then, the world’s do-gooders have succumbed to “romanticism; they’ve become more dreamy.” This is a problem in his view, and so this “self-avowed slight lefty” is determined to nudge the whole world back toward “rationalism.” …
Bjorn Lomborg busted–and that is the only word for it–onto the world scene in 2001 with the publication of his book “The Skeptical Environmentalist.” A one-time Greenpeace enthusiast, he’d originally planned to disprove those who said the environment was getting better. He failed. And to his credit, his book said so, supplying a damning critique of today’s environmental pessimism. Carefully researched, it offered endless statistics–from official sources such as the U.N.–showing that from biodiversity to global warming, there simply were no apocalypses in the offing. “Our history shows that we solve more problems than we create,” he tells me. For his efforts, Mr. Lomborg was labeled a heretic by environmental groups–whose fundraising depends on scaring the jeepers out of the public–and became more hated by these alarmists than even (if possible) President Bush. …-
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008626
just watched Dion as Mary said: What did he say??
I think i would be saying to myself: OMG What did we Do?
His shadow cabinet has 56 members, Of which How many are Women?
Dion again is accusing the PM “a year lost on Enviromental inaction”
Well that still is better then 13years of Inaction & increased “Sustainable” Emissions
File/Save under: “b-s from Al-Reuters”.
Key Words: “There was absolutely no intention on Reuters part to mislead the public.” …-
Report on Reuters actions after publishing altered photographs
January 18th, 2007, filed by David Schlesinger
Last August, Reuters published and then withdrew two photographs from Lebanon that had been digitally altered.
At that time, we immediately terminated our relationship with the freelance photographer who took and altered the images and said we’d share with the public the results of our internal investigations.
Experienced photo editors and other senior editorial staff went through thousands of images published during the Lebanon conflict. We are satisfied no other images were digitally altered.
We were not satisfied with the degree of oversight that we had that allowed these two images to slip through. We have tightened procedures, taken appropriate disciplinary action and appointed one of our most experienced editors to supervise photo operations in the Middle East. …-
via national newswatch
Dion can do anything, and he stated Kennedy will be like him, a prof, to work on getting inexperienced liberals elected, teach them how to win debates, appear on talk radio, be interviewed etc. They will attend classes. So, if there are all these nebies running, and Kennedy is the shepherd, who is leaving. We need to know. Taxpayers are paying them and we demand to know. Volpe is transport critic, will his job be getting dead voters to the polls, or trying to find enough people to attend dions speeches and getting them there. I suppose the homeless could use a hot shower and meal and JV could try to bribe them to attend. If his shadow has 56, are 28 of them women, don’t think so, another promise broken.
the liberals have been active during the Christmas break in recruiting new candidates as there are 24 retiring. I suspect that Maybe this is the main reason that the Liberals are in no hurry now to force an election.
Women in Dion’s Shadow Cabinet: I have only seen 4 names if there are more, who are they?
This is Dion’s Equality
What a cast of characters Dion has assembled for his bid to return the Natural Governing Party to the trough. Volpe–Dosanjh—McCallum—stop, stop, I can’t breathe for laughing!
Drunk on power and corruption for decades, the Liberal Party is finally rotting away. It’s the same old thieves, just different deck-chairs.
In the UK the Tories were labelled “The Nasty Party” for a while, and the Liberal Democrats “The Silly Party” Dion has managed to combine these attributes for the 21st century, and gives us “The Silly and Nasty Party of Canada”.
Dems to Impose on Conservative Broadcasters
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2007/01/dems-to-impose-on-conservative.html
No surprise the MSM isn’t making a stink about this. Such a tyrannical, fascist move by Nazi Pelosi would be much welcomed by the MSM, who simply cannot compete with the far more popular conservative media outlets.
This is a big, serious matter. If we don’t make a stink over it, it’ll pass, and we’ll suddenly find ourselves with a weaker voice… at least in America… in Canada, the Liberals already killed the possibility of getting a Canadian version of FOX News via the fascistic CRTC.
Re Dion, What a bunch of gobbly gook that came out of his mouth. First, he needs to set up a university “program” designed especially for him, so that he could actually speak English to the rest of Canada.
Then, what a suprise when Dion announced that JC and Paulie M were going to head up a committee (and again, I’m really not sure of what?) Probably, on how brown envelopes are privately passed. But the thing that really got me was even before the press conference CTV was all excited that there had been “leaks” regarding the shadow cabinet. They were just overjoyed, still not being used of a government that is operating without the need of the media or the lack of “leaks”. Talk about a Liberal love in. I think before the next election, EVERY media person that reports on the government should publicly have to state what party they are either supporting or are a card carrying member. (Don Newman????) Then, they could all have a “L” tattooed on their forehead for losers, liers, and Liberal lover’s.
Being Conservative is easy . . .
Never Computer *Off* _ *Standby is best*
Energy Star applauds companies such as Cisco Systems and Pitney Bowes that have made enabling computers to “hibernate/sleep” at night a company policy. (The organization issued press releases touting the dollar volumes in energy savings at each company.)
Energy saving is only one benefit.
Quick startup in the morning saves you the loooong reboot wait.
Easier on the electronics also, say some techs.
AVG and Avast anti-virus updates upon *wakeup*.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/8shgy
For standby mode: Click on the green start button, then the orange *turn off computer*, then the *standby* button.
*Wakeup* occurs when the mouse is moved. If your computer is on in the morning, it means your cat has moved the mouse while you slept.
=TG
Breaking News: Liberals Preparing Crap*, Martin says.
Liberals under Citoyen Dion, aka The Milkman, are
preparing another “Red Book*”.
“Rae, a major frontrunner alongside Ignatieff, is working on the party’s Red Book*.”
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070117/dion_shadow_070117/20070117?hub=TopStories
Foul-Mouthed AdScam Martin said:
“Screw the Red Book*… Don’t tell me what’s in the Red Book*. I wrote the goddamned thing. And I know that it’s a lot of crap.”
Paul Martin, criticizing those who dared to mention the Red Book* after he readily abandoned the book of popular promises once the Liberals used it to win the 1993 election.
(Source: Double Vision: The Inside Story of The Liberals in Power, by E. Greenspon & T. Wilson-Smith.)
Anti libs comments in the G&M again. Of course there are the usually vitrolic libs who call Albertans braindead for voting conservative, but make no mention of the braindead in the GTA who vote liberal. Am waiting to read giggles comments later today. Some question the equality issue in this mismash of mps. Who are the 24 who are retiring, is Fry one of them as she got no new job. How incompetant is dion that he needs 56 people to tell him what to do and say. Notice he used WE and Liberal today. Guess he doesn’t want to take all the blame for the corruption to come, if they get re-elected. Didn’t he steal from Harper, who announced there would be a candidate school in march, by putting Kennedy in charge of training the future seals of the liberal party.
What I notice, Mary T., is that there is a never-ending stream of news stories every day on the CBC website about every little utterance by Dion, as though each word that tumbles from his mouth is holy. And nothing is negative! No “Reality Checks”, no critics, nothing!
The liberal spin is becoming more transparent every single day! It’s disgusting! Just how desperate are they? Even Cereberus (they’re all equally biased) must see this…don’t you, Ted?
Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois. According to the U.S. Senate Historical Office, he is the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the only African American presently serving in the U.S. Senate.
Let’s play charades, kiddies!
* Three words!
* First word: sounds like “Iraq”
* Second word: act out the name of the former Iraqi dictator. YES, that IS his middle name.
* Third word: sounds like “Osamma”
WTF?
Let’s say we had a young up and comer for the republican party. He was young, charismatic, appeared on a right-wing equivelant to Oprah tv show and got a ringing endorsement. Admitted to have done drugs. Let’s say his name rhymed with Hitler or Mussolini (or any other war mongering rascal) Would the young republican get the same free pass? Nope.
Rewind things a few years…..George Bush has a normal sounding name. Even so, the left still calls him Hitler. Where’s his free pass for his admited alcohol use? Has Obama served in the military? Doesn’t appear to have. I would guess this won’t be a pre-requisite now that the dems have their newly minted “rock star” candidate. Military service will be labelled as “yesterday”.
I hate to keep harping on Obama, but watch out for this guy, the press is about to crown him the new messiah.
More Liberal cheerleading from the Globe and Mail. From the article about Dion’s shadow cabinet:
“The Decima Research survey, provided to The Canadian Press, puts the Conservatives and Liberals in a statistical dead heat in national support.
The Liberals polled 33 per cent of decided and leaning voters, the Conservatives 32 per cent and the NDP 13.
The Bloc Québécois got 10 per cent and the Green party was at nine.”
This was apparently too depressing for the G&M. Luckily, they added this tidbid to make themselves feel better:
“But when Alberta respondents are taken out of the poll, the Liberals are seven percentage points ahead of the Conservatives in the rest of the country.”
The Great Spirit… of Capitalism
Last May, 11 B.C. men were charged in connection with the poaching and trafficking of bald eagles after
an investigation that began with the discovery of 50 dead birds in North Vancouver in 2005.
G&M: We could also say when Quebec respondents are taken out of the equation.
On another news story the CIBC has Lost a harddrive containing the info of 470,000 customers, “but not to worry”
What happened to the pink book written by BS and friends. Kennedy has his work cut out for him, 29 inexperienced candidates from AB, 24 for retiring mps, a slew of newbies from Sask and MB.
Lots of coverage today re the water death, 10 fired over it. Also, violence in tv, movies, music getting a trashing after the video of the 2 girls beating a girl and posting it on the net. Of course you have the usual experts saying (for the umteenth time) that these games, movies etc have nothing to do with increased teenage violence. It is the parents fault. Of course these same experts lobbied to get all smoking out of movies, tv series, videos, advertising etc as it was influencing the young, (who are todays parents). Me, I’d rather my kids or grandkids smoked a legal cig to copy someone, instead of a gun to kill someone. Greg Watson does a hatchet job on Khan today.
From:
http://www.imnotparanoid.blogspot.com
…….”We are so free here in Canada. We have freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion. But, oddly, we have no freedom of health – arguably the only freedom where life literally hangs in the balance.
We are free alright. Free to lie for days on stretchers in hospital corridors. Free to wait months for cancer treatment. Free to live in pain. Free to lick the boots of our almighty health care master while we die like dogs waiting for permission to be treated. Ahhhhh, It’s good to be a free Canadian……….
Young Muslim says: Islamism:
“This is not ideology. It’s a mental illness.”
Radicals vs. moderates: British Muslims at crossroads
CNN.com
At a recent debate over the battle for Islamic ideals in England, a British-born Muslim stood before the crowd and said Prophet Mohammed’s message to nonbelievers is: “I come to slaughter all of you.”
“We are the Muslims,” said Omar Brooks, an extremist also known as Abu Izzadeen. “We drink the blood of the enemy, and we can face them anywhere. That is Islam and that is jihad.”
Anjem Choudary, the public face of Islamist extremism in Britain, added that Muslims have no choice but to take the fight to the West.
“What are Muslims supposed to do when they are being killed in the streets in Afghanistan and Baghdad and Palestine? Do they not have the same rights to defend themselves? In war, people die. People don’t make love; they kill each other,” he said. (Audio slide show: Preying on Britain’s young Muslims)
But in the same debate, held on the prestigious grounds of Dublin’s Trinity College in October, many people in the crowd objected.
“These people, ladies and gentleman, have a good look at them. They actually believe if you kill women and children, you will go to heaven,” said one young Muslim who waved his finger at the radicals.
“This is not ideology. It’s a mental illness.” (Watch ‘No chance in hell’ Video)…-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769686/posts
Excerpt from Comments:
Long, but worth the read. The Faith of Islam REPRESENTATIVE of the attitude of Christendom toward Islam, till recent years at least, is Alexander Ross’s postscript to the Anglicized version, published in 1649, of Sieur Du Ryer’s French translation of the Koran. The author of the postscript directs the following invective against Mohammed and the Koran: “Good Reader, the great Arabian Impostor now at last after a thousand years, is by the way of France arrived in England, and his Alcoran, or gallimaufry of errors, (a brat as deformed as the parent, and as full of heresies as his scald head was of scurvy) hath learned to speak English. * * * If you will take a brief view of the Alcoran, you shall find it a hodgepodge made up of these four ingredients: 1. Of Contradictions. 2. Of Blasphemy. 3. Of ridiculous Fables. 4. Of Lies.” …- (more)
What, no Belinduh in the shadow cabinet?
Someone forgot to tell Stephanie that she’s way smarter now that she’s a brunette.
Question from one not “blessed” with CBC TV. Last week it was all about the sucess of Little mosque in the Prairies. Has anyone actually watched the second episode or was this a one shot wonder?
Canada Sleeps Through War to ‘Save the Internet’
Pitched battle in U.S. over ‘net neutrality’ Digital democracy at risk if telecoms get their way say opponents.
thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2007/01/17/NetNeutrality/
Hey Tex, maybe the little mosque was a…wait for it…a bomb! Maybe there will only be one show!
Your tax dollars at work in the swirling socialist cesspool of Can-uh-duh.
Gore refused to debate with Lomborg.
Dhimmi Carter refused to debate with Dershowitz.
Liberal-leftists do not debate; their words are ex-cathedra*; infallible. …-
Will Al Gore Melt?
By Flemming Rose and Bjorn Lomborg
Al Gore is traveling around the world telling us how we must fundamentally change our civilization due to the threat of global warming. Today he is in Denmark to disseminate this message. But if we are to embark on the costliest political project ever, maybe we should make sure it rests on solid ground. It should be based on the best facts, not just the convenient ones. This was the background for the biggest Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, to set up an investigative interview with Mr. Gore. And for this, the paper thought it would be obvious to team up with …
• THE FULL WSJ.com ARTICLE IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO SUBSCRIBERS….-
http://users2.wsj.com/lmda/do/checkLogin?mg=wsj-users2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB116909379096479919.html%3Fmod%3Dopinion_main_commentaries
*ex cathedra: from the seat of authority; with authority: used esp. of those pronouncements of the pope that are considered infallible.
dictionary.com
Codere as defense critic, isn’t he the one who marched in the hezzie rally last summer. And, isn’t he also being sued for 900 million dollars by someone he refused into Canada. Isn’t he from Quebec, and isn’t Quebec anti war. What message does this send. As for all those commentators in the G&M saying get over it re dions citizenship, and with all the dual citizens in his shadow cabinet, what country/countries are ruling the liberals. Didn’t Volpe try to use racism in his campaign.
I asked about lmotp and was answered by someone who watched last night. Seems it was a re-run of the episode that showed twice last week. His thoughts were the series is a being re-written. Must not have got the favorable results it wanted in feedback. If even 10% of the supposed viewers gave negative reviews we will never hear about it. Even the author has disappeared from TV.
I just bit the bullet and went and read giggles comments re the shadow cabinet. She actually had a couple of good things to say about Harper. She also said the liberals detest the 1200/yr child care for parents of kids under six, so parents, watch out, if elected that will be gone, plus dion will find a way to take an additional 100/mo from you. BS in in charge of preparing women for politics, Guess she could start by talking to the presstitute covering the Pickton trial, then asking for all unfaithful wives to come fwd. Or is she going to give lessons on how to break up a family to be a successful liberal. Giggles says she got a demotion. Giggles also said dion has to learn to communicate better. When asked about the west, she said -put down your coffee etc- his first trip as leader was to the west to show his support. She forgot to mention his plan to rape Alberta, bring back groupaction, and that it is wrong for albertans to work for money as it is bad for the economy. Dion bombed out here.
Vancouver PR flack, Jim Hoggan has made quite a name for himself by slagging the credentials, motives and ethics of scientists who don’t meekly accept the revealed wisdom of AGM. He gained national notoriety with a TV appearance in which he blasted Friends of Science for accepting indirect funding from evil big oil®.
Hoggans muckraking blog (www.desmogblog.com)reportedly employs two “researchers”. Hoggan’s backers and clients include the Suzuki Foundation (he sits on its board) and other Luddite outfits. (No conflict of interest there, eh?) He rails against anyone remotely connected with Exxon for unethically touching dirty money, but he apparently has no qualms about the hefty support he has been receiving from multimillionaire internet gambling tycoon, John Lefebvre. Well guess what, yesterday, noted philanthropist and community pillar Lefebvre was arrested by U.S. federal agents and charged with money laundering. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in the slammer. He’s free on $5 million bail.
I wonder what ol’ Jim will have to say about that?
How sweet it is!
Vancouver PR flack, Jim Hoggan has made quite a name for himself by slagging the credentials, motives and ethics of scientists who don’t meekly accept the revealed wisdom of AGM. He gained national notoriety with a TV appearance in which he blasted Friends of Science for accepting indirect funding from evil big oil®.
Hoggan’s muckraking blog (www.desmogblog.com)reportedly employs two “researchers”. Hoggan’s backers and clients include the Suzuki Foundation (he sits on its board) and other Luddite outfits. (No conflict of interest there, eh?) He rails against anyone remotely connected with Exxon for unethically touching dirty money, but he apparently has no qualms about the hefty support he has been receiving from multimillionaire internet gambling tycoon, John Lefebvre. Well guess what, yesterday, noted philanthropist and community pillar Lefebvre was arrested by U.S. federal agents and charged with money laundering. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in the slammer. He’s free on $5 million bail.
I wonder what ol’ Jim will have to say about that?
How sweet it is!
The double entry doesn’t indicate that I thought my post was exceptionally worthy. Kate’s security feature tripped me up. (again)
Canadian regulars and reservists alike who end up in the landmine removal roulette game do indeed deserve generous financial bonuses.
Danger on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border
Canada should condemn Pakistan’s land mine plan.
Dateline: Friday, January 12, 2007
by Lloyd Axworthy
Lost in the flurry of news reports of Saddam Hussein’s execution was a seemingly innocuous item announcing that Pakistan is preparing to use anti-personnel land mines as a way of curtailing movement across its border into Afghanistan. This move deserves an immediate international response because of its potential destructive impact.
First, it is an admission from the government of Pakistan, one of our self-proclaimed allies in the fight against the Taliban, that it is incapable of controlling its lawless northwest territories where the Taliban and other militant groups breed and conspire in their attacks against the occupying NATO forces in Afghanistan.
The 1997 land mine treaty, now signed by more than 150 countries, showed that Canada can play a global leadership role.
Most important, the basic prohibition of land mines as a weapon of war was becoming an international norm, and the argument for its efficacy as a weapon was being dismissed.
The treaty’s 10th anniversary, set for the end of 2007, was meant to give its worldwide supporters the chance to assess its value and to make further progress in eliminating this destructive tool of war and its spin-off imitators such as cluster bombs.
But Pakistan’s move casts a shadow on the treaty’s accomplishments — and just might precipitate a regression where other countries feel that they, too, can flout the treaty because of the silence and unwillingness of its supporters to condemn Islamabad’s action.
http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=38
=TG
More lies on Newman today. Some retired investor or financial guy says that Companies are being given a 4 year tax holiday re the Income Trust thing. The original announcement by the minister stated that no changes would take place for FOUR years. If the experts had not paniced, they would not have lost one cent. Trying to say now that the Harper govt is giving companies a 4 year tax break, thereby again breaking a promise. What double speak. At least his announcement didn’t allow martins doctor to make millions like Scotts raspberry tip did, along with many other liberals.
http://meteo.lcd.lu/globalwarming/
Excellent links on “Global warming”
maryT
Little mosque was a new episode last night.
I didn’t watch it but was flipping channels and stopped for a sec.
Same garbage.
re: Little Mosque. The producer (Michael Kennedy) was on Neil Cavuto /Fox this aft. I missed some of the talk but Kennedy said he was ecstatic about the premiere’s ratings. Didn’t say how many (Google says 2.1 mill, which is hard to believe) and says some U.S. broadcasters are interested.
Cavuto wasn’t impressed with the clip. Is asking his viewers to e-mail him and let him know if they think it’s funny.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769746/posts
Exclusive: Handwritten Note From Jimmy Carter Interceding for Nazi SS* Guard Proven to Have Murdered Jews
We now have a copy of the note that Jimmy Carter sent to the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigation, interceding on behalf of a Nazi SS* Guard. We first reported on this story this morning. …-
*Schutzstaffel
The note is made by Dhimmi Carter on a letter written by the supplicant on a New York Sun letterhead.
Copy of letter displayed with Carter’s handwritten note. …-
Consumer reports car seat report with drawn…
http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/TopStories/ContentPosting.aspx?newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20070118%2freport_carseats_070118&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V2&showbyline=True
UPDATE: The outpouring of creativity continues. A reader was moved by the Steyn Songfest to submit this contribution, sung to the tune of “Mr. Sandman,” by the Chordettes. Scott, who is serving as a judge for the competition, tells me that “Mr. Sandman” was a frequent source of inspiration:
Mr. Sandman (Chordettes)
(scat: bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum etc …)
Mr. Sandman, empty your pants,
We’ve seen you wiggling, they’re not full of ants.
Purloining papers won’t land you in clover,
Your days in the archives are officially over….-
powerline blog
Steff cant talk but ‘e can write.
http://www.parl.gc.ca/INFORMATION/ABOUT/PEOPLE/KEY/BIBLIO.ASP?LANGUAGE=E&PARAM=182
Khan loaning self campaign money legal: Elections Canada
OTTAWA (CP) – Elections Canada says there’s nothing illegal in MP Wajid Khan using loans from his Toronto car dealership to finance his riding association and his election campaigns.
…
Twenty-seven riding associations have been deregistered by Elections Canada, including three Liberal associations, two NDP associations, a few fringe party associations and a host of Green Party associations. Failure to file financial reports is cited as the reason for delisting in a number of cases, including Liberal MP Maria Minna’s Toronto association.
Minna blamed administrative and technical glitches caused by unfamiliarity with the law for the delay.
Riding associations were not required to file annual, audited reports with Elections Canada until 2004, when political financing reforms went into effect. Minna said her association, like all others, is made up of volunteers who are still trying to learn the complicated new rules.
Consequently, she was careful not to criticize Khan’s old association for its tardy filing.
“Obviously, similar things could’ve happened (in Khan’s riding). Who am I to judge?” …-
cnews
Long essay on the born-again Dhimmi Carter.
Carter is one of the founders of the Red-Green religion: “…it was Carter’s way to “run conservative and govern liberal.””
Our Worst Ex-President
Joshua Muravchik
February 2007
[Excerpts}
More than a quarter-century after completing his term of office, James Earl Carter is still to be found in the thick of debates about national policies on a range of issues: nuclear arms, Iraq, North Korea, and, especially, the conflict between Israel and the Arabs. A steady stream of books and articles continues to issue forth from his pen, and he travels the world on self-selected diplomatic missions. No other former President has chosen to play a similar role. But then, Carter’s whole political career has been out of the ordinary. In order to understand the man today, it is necessary to see him in the light of his past….
His surprising tilt away from anti-Communism was made explicit in his first major foreign-policy address when he proclaimed: “we are now free of th[e] inordinate fear of Communism. . . . We’ve fought fire with fire, never thinking that fire is better quenched with water.”…
Few men who are called to politics suffer defeat gladly, and Carter was certainly not one of the exceptions. The last election he had lost was his first run for governor of Georgia, and it deeply shook him; as he would later relate, it was in the course of struggling to right his mood afterward that he experienced the epiphany of being born again. …
Nonetheless, he has striven for it mightily ever since. The effort began in the early years of his post-presidency with highly publicized activity aimed at reestablishing his credentials as a man of piety. Enrolling as a volunteer with the group Habitat for Humanity, he posed for news photos hammering nails into the timbers of homes being built for the needy. Political coloration seeped into this mission only when it took him to Communist-ruled Nicaragua, where he posed with the Sandinista dictator Daniel Ortega. …-
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/cm/main/viewArticle.aip?id=10824&page=all
Support Major Sean Courty. Down with New Brunswick Power. …-
Reservist picks Afghanistan after NB Power denies leave (Canada)
DANIEL MARK WHEATON TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL Published Thursday January 18th, 2007
A military reservist who nominated NB Power for an award for supporting the Canadian Forces has resigned after the Crown corporation refused him a leave of absence to deploy to Afghanistan.
Maj. Sean Courty took the career hit in order to lead a team of soldiers from across Atlantic Canada who are leaving within three weeks for Kandahar on a six-month mission.
“I had to make a difficult decision,” Courty said. He left the job the first week of June and is now unemployed and awaiting deployment.
Courty was a security official at NB Power’s Point Lepreau nuclear generating station and a member of the plant’s emergency nuclear response team.
The 33-year-old officer has been a reserve member for the last 14 years and had been training for the Afghanistan mission for months.
“The Canadian Forces had invested a lot into my training and I had travelled on multiple international courses to make sure I had the skill set to lead this team.”
Courty, who travelled to Afghanistan in early December to prepare for the upcoming mission, said he believed his employer had agreed verbally to a leave of absence. However, when he formally requested a leave of absence in writing, he said his request was denied.
NB Power declined interview requests on the topic Wednesday. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769870/posts
Photo included.
Also here:
http://www.canadaeast.com/ce2/docroot/article.php?articleID=92357
U.S. official: Chinese test missile obliterates satellite
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/01/18/china.missile/index.html
The FLQ “2” is back in the news in Quebec…
well it’ll be something to talk about instead of all that weather that seems to keep happening.