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Well now, this changes everything.
With all the media coverage, the Conservatives hardly need bother running these ads. Which means things went according to plan.
And… “Here’s the video clip of the CTV News from last night. Watch as they tell Canadians that it’s the Conservative GOVERNMENT who is buying ads against the Liberals’ Green Guru.”
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The bionic cat.
It’s been a long fight for Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, and now a turn for the worse.
Add yours in the comments.

95 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. I love how the Liberal crowd laughs at Dion when he sputters “That’s not fair!” and then says “Do you think it’s easy to make priorities?” More laughter from the Liberal crowd. Priceless.

  2. Ehem, a commie regime wants CWB to stay? That’s a perfect reason to do the opposite, even if there are no other reasons.

  3. to be fair to Borat Dion –
    the statements that the ads used are some of the more intelligable in English. they could have used some stumbles.
    having Iggy deliver the punch line is priceless. and having Dryden there like a big goofy Ed McMahon , Iggy even has the Johnny Carson eyeball look, just before he used to break into tears.

  4. From the Australian Herald-Sun:
    A ROW has erupted over Muslim-only washrooms at La Trobe University that can be accessed only with a secret push-button code.
    Muslim students have exclusive access to male and female washrooms on campus, sparking claims of bias and discrimination.
    The university and Islamic leaders have defended the washrooms as vital to Muslim students’ prayer rituals.
    A university student, who did not want to be identified, raised the issue with the Sunday Herald Sun this week.
    Australian Family Council spokesman Bill Muehlenberg said concerns over the exclusive facilities were valid.
    “Do we have a Christian washroom or an atheist washroom?” he said. “The whole thing is madness.”
    Mr Muehlenberg said the separate facilities were divisive.
    “If Muslims are saying ‘we are good Australians and want to integrate’, why are they insisting on separate washrooms?” he said.
    Australia, just ahead of us in Canada. Muslim no go areas. Muslim washrooms. Muslim prayer rooms. Muslim Sharia law. Muslim politicians. It doesn’t take long.

  5. Reminds me of the WHITE ONLY drinking fountains, washrooms, restaurants ect that MLK fought against.

  6. Iberia says
    What the hell is going on with the Navy? Hosting a naval exercise and not being able to participate…this is an international embarrassment:
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2007/01/26/navy-nato.html
    From the party that wants to build armed ice breakers and patrol the arctic.
    As usual a left wing loon spouts off about a topic he thinks he is in the know about because CBC said so. This is a plannned NATO exercise that has been planned for some time, one that initially did not include any Canadian participation. We don’t commence our NATO NorLant commitment until July. We were going to send out three ships as a training exercise last minute. When the funding crunch hit us we decided to leave them tied up instead. The CBC makes it sound like we had to pull out the ships out of the exercise and send them home. But then again, I don’t expect honesty or integrity from the CBC.

  7. Iberia says
    What the hell is going on with the Navy? Hosting a naval exercise and not being able to participate…this is an international embarrassment:
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2007/01/26/navy-nato.html
    From the party that wants to build armed ice breakers and patrol the arctic.
    As usual a left wing loon spouts off about a topic he thinks he is in the know about because CBC said so. This is a plannned NATO exercise that has been planned for some time, one that initially did not include any Canadian participation. We don’t commence our NATO NorLant commitment until July. We were going to send out three ships as a training exercise last minute. When the funding crunch hit us we decided to leave them tied up instead. The CBC makes it sound like we had to pull out the ships out of the exercise and send them home. But then again, I don’t expect honesty or integrity from the CBC.

  11. Doomsday: Pick One. Compare and contrast. …-
    Take # 1:
    Major Climate Change Report Looks Set To Alarm
    The most important report on the science of climate change for six years is set for release on Friday 2 February, and leaks suggest it will be an alarming read. The minimum predicted temperature and sea level rises will jump, according to media reports, while the blame will be pinned firmly on greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. Its leading line is expected to be “there is a 90% chance humans are responsible for climate change”, mostly due to the burning of fossil…-
    Take # 2:
    U.S.-Iran tensions could trigger accidental war, military and analysts say
    DOHA, Qatar (AP) – Tensions between the United States and Iran have risen to the point where a war could be kicked off by mistake, an outcome that neither Tehran nor Washington wants, U.S. military officials and private analysts say. A U.S. military official here likened the current U.S.-Iran standoff to the buildup in hostility in Europe before World War I, when a duke’s assassination triggered a tragic war that engulfed a continent. “A mistake could be made and you could end up in something that neither side ever really wanted, and suddenly it’s August 1914 all over again,” the…-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse

  12. The best article I’ve yet read on the Islamic immigration question. It succinctly explains the left/right divide that we recently saw flare up in Kate’s ‘Baby boomer’ picture post.
    Translator’s note: In this article, author and philosopher Kai Sørlander writes about the divide between the proponents of multiculturalism and immigration, whom he calls optimists, and the xenophobes and Islamophobes, here labelled pessimists. Below is my translation of the article.
    Naïvists and Human Nature
    Kai Sørlander, Author and Philosopher
    ——————————————————
    When democracy let the optimists succeed in classifying the pessimists as xenophobes and Islamophobes, it embarked upon a catastrophic course. And the media who have aided to maintain the illusion bear a particular part of the blame, says the writer.
    ——————————————————
    Political discussions often take place on two levels: a substantial level where the parties have differing opinions about some concrete issue, and a secondary level, where the aim is to get your political opponent classified in a way that implies that you yourself are right on the substantial level.
    The rest is at gatesofvienna.blogspot.com

  13. Kyoto Dion’s hatchetman is Mark Marrisen, henchman
    of AdScam Martin. Where will Marrisen lead Doggy Dion? Mush Librano$, mu$h for ca$h; in brown envelope$. …-
    EX FED. B.C. LIBERAL PREZ TO TESTIFY AT BREACH OF TRUST TRIAL
    Former Liberal president to testify
    By BILL TIELEMAN, 24 HOURS
    The president of the Liberal Party of Canada’s B.C. branch was under subpoena for over three months to testify in the upcoming breach of trust trial of former provincial government aides David Basi and Bob Virk before resigning his position in January.
    Lobbyist Jamie Elmhirst quit as president Jan. 15 but was subpoenaed by police Oct. 4, 2006 to testify. His letter of resignation to the party makes no mention of the subpoena, instead stating he was leaving to concentrate on his business and upcoming wedding.
    Elmhirst, a former aide to B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell and former federal Liberal cabinet minister David Anderson, was a business partner of Erik Bornmann and Brian Kieran in the now-defunct Victoria lobby firm Pilothouse Public Affairs. …-
    http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2007/01/29/3473285-sun.html
    babble: Globe & Mail article on Tuesday’s cabinet shuffle
    Is Paul Martin trying to prove that he’s even dumber than the people of … with Mark Marrisen and Christy Clark, with Eric Bornman and David Basi and Bob …
    rabble.ca/babble

  14. Who owns the CBC, isn’t it a government funded corporation. Therefore do not the cdn taxpayers, of all political stripes own it. If that is true, doesn’t that mean that all their footage is ours,or in the public domain, and therefore they have no right to refuse anyone to use it. Shouldn’t we the people have a right to demand they tell both sides of any story and allow liberals to lie on tv, as dion did yesterday, re Bush and Kyoto. Did they overstep their authority when they refused, and laid a complaint with telecaster.
    And consider that dion wants to increase ethanol from 5% to 10%, does that mean he wants to starve more children in Mexico.

  15. Watching question period, dion is MAD. Newman and Susan did their best to spin negatively the reason for the ads, they are scared of dion.
    Dion was appointed environment minister in spring of 2004 and took till spring of 2005 to come up with a plan, and never acted on it. Rona took about a year to come up with a plan and is blasted for taking so long. Iggy spoke, again using that look and voice that says, I am so much smarter than all of you, and I should be the leader. Harper responding to dion, You didn’t get it done.

  17. just got done watching Politics with Don Newman on Newsworld. Not surprisingly the new Tory ads were the topic.
    Both Newman and Bonner went back and forth, making not the Liberals’ record, and Dion in particular, the main topic for debate, but what they see as the “desperation” by the Conservatives.
    Newman then ran a series of clips from “both sides” (or was it?)
    The first clip was of Peter MacKay going into the house, being chased down by Julie Van Dusen. MacKay’s comments were all of 10 seconds.
    The next clip was John Godfrey, who spoke on the issue, attacking the Conservatives for over a minute.
    The next clip was of Ralph Goodale, also attacking the Conservatives. This one went on and on for about 2 minutes.
    The next clip was a representative from Greenpeace, attacking the Conservatives, saying they have no right to attack the previous Liberal gov’t, and Dion in particular, on green house gases emissions. He said that the Conservatives “obstructed the Liberals” on greenhouse gases. (Fact: the Liberals had a majority in 12 of their 13 years in power. They obstructed progress on reducing green house gas emissions ALL BY THEMSELVES.)
    The next clip was another environmentalist, attacking the conservatives, calling them hypocrits. This speaker as well went on for about a minute.
    In total, there was about 4-5 minutes of clips, with only 10 seconds devoted to comments of those critical of Dion.
    It’s apparent that the MSM, through it’s slanted coverage, is circling the wagons around Dion, trying to make the Conservatives’ ads the main focus to avoid the discussion being Dion’s sorry record on the environment and that of his party when they were in gov’t.

  18. rg: ‘”Bono demands that promises are kept”
    Um, or else … what?’
    Oh, I just had to add this:
    > > Bono is at a U2 concert in Halifax, Nova Scotia,
    > > when he asks the audience for some quiet. Then, in
    >the silence, he starts to slowly claps his hands.
    >
    > > He says into the microphone, in a deep solemn voice
    > >
    > > “Just for a moment, think outside yourself …
    > > outside this arena. Every time I clap my hands, a
    >child in Africa dies.”
    > >
    > > A loud Newfy voice from in the front pierces the
    > > moment
    > >
    > > “Well, Lard tunderin jasus, ya stupid arse, stop yer
    > > fockin’ clappin’, then!”

  19. BAM!!! Baird slams false info on cbc in Question Period! LOVE IT! Maybe one can hope Van Dolten and Newman will be the first to go.

  20. Jon, you have identified the reasons for the ads, besides being flush in cash and realizing negative ads do work.
    The CPC (not the government, Sandi @ CTV), feel, with some validity, that the MSM (CBC, CTV, G&M and TorStar) are giving Dion a free ride; in fact, some are accusing MSM of airbrushing him.
    The ads seek to show Dion in an unfiltered light; frankly, to raise doubts about the man among the electorate.
    It is also a shot across the bow – we have more money and material than you to launch negative ads, so watch it.
    I have another theory. A collateral benefit of these ads is to bolster the NDP, whose performance has been moribund the past few months (some say this is so because they are negotiating with Tories on environmental policy). By exposing Dion as an angry ditherer (who seems to have great difficulty setting priorities), soft Liberal supporters who would never vote Conservative may look at NDP.
    Thus, CPC can split the left-centre vote, which could give them a majority. IMHO, they are not there yet, simply because they must make inroads in major urban centres. They must follow with a superb budget that has across-the-board appeal and then sell it directly to Canadians.
    Also, Harper is taking no chances with Liberals going for snap election. He is controlling their agenda, using their words, basically daring them to call election.
    I wonder if Telestar/Patterson will try to stop these ads. There is noise (read Ezra Levant) that will happen. Fine with me, it will make Dion and Libs look really bad, and SCARED!
    The MSM can circle the wagons all they want. They don’t have that much influence anyway. The public will decide if they approve of these ads and wish to change their vote.

  22. re: China and the CWB.
    “115 million tonnes sold to China since the 1960’s”.
    Some quick arithmetic: let’s be charitable and start at 1970. 115 m tonnes in 36 years = 3 m tonnes/year. 3 million tonnes = 6 billion pounds.
    6 billion pounds/1 billion people = 6 pounds per person per year. 6 pounds per year = 0.5 pounds per month = 227 grammes/month. 227 grammes/30 days = 7.5 grammes/day. That’s enough flour to make a cookie per week.
    Is this really a significant market for Cdn wheat? (And I’m asking, because I don’t know.)

  23. Another collateral benefit,
    the ads expose the press.
    It’s like looking at the before and after airbrush photos on Vanity Fair. Ever since seeing those every time I look at a cover I think “I wonder what she looks like in the morning”.
    After seeing the MSM Dion airbrush, folks look at him unedited and realize what kind of crap the press has been feeding us.

  24. Liberals attacking liberals, liberals laughing at liberals, love it.
    Media running scared, they are being exposed as biased liars re liberals. I missed Bairds response in QP today, but caught the end, and he looked mad.

  25. “Remember headlines late last year such as “Greenhouse gases help make 2006 warmest year ever”?
    What didn’t get reported was the fact those doom-laden records were based on only the first 11 months of last year.
    When the temperatures for December were added to the mix last week, 2006 turned out to be the coolest year in the past five.”
    …-
    National Post | Lorne Gunter: Preaching the climate catechism
    On Friday, the United Nations’ global warming spin factory will switch into high gear with the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report.
    Actually, the spin will come mostly in the Summary for Policy Makers. The report itself, running to several hundred pages, will consist mostly of dry scientific papers that are usually far less definitive about the causes and effects of climate change.
    Expect the summary — which is not written by scientists, but by politicians and activists — to be highly alarmist. It will almost certainly insist that since the last report in 2001, proof of a coming man-made climate disaster has mounted and the scientific consensus has grown stronger….
    You’ve no doubt heard there is an international scientific consensus that the planet is warming, that the warming will likely be catastrophic and it is being caused by human-produced emissions. The IPCC shows how this vaunted consensus is reached, not by getting all scientists to agree, but by defaming or ignoring those with opinions and research cast doubt on the dogma.
    That’s not science, it’s shunning, the ancient religious punishment for heretics….-
    http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=34b2c4eb-1788-4242-a04d-eaa286afa9c7

  26. An advisory for an upcoming gov’t/corporate/real estate/banking consortium to target long overdue market corrections for mortgage rates/rental rates by at least 50 PERCENT. Median home in 1970s at approx. 60,000 compared to same median home today (three bedroom boxed bungalow) at approx. $300,000.
    CEOs reportedly on the “fast track” over the weekend. Time for derailing “the untouchables” to date. Reversing pay the mortgage or feed the kids dilemna of decades.
    SDA represents maximum exposure
    Thanks for the forum.
    BTW, juxtaposition of the cocaine run across the border versus Dion’s support of B.C’s safe injection sites — more than apropos, absolutely priceless. A repeat run from time to time would help keep the drug issue front and centre.

  27. Well at least one Liberal agrees that the MSM is pro Liberal (commenting on the Conserverative ads):
    “It is very dangerous and my hope lies in both the media, the Lib party and Canadians rejecting the condesending attitude. I fear it needs to be pointed out however. We consume media without thought nor debate now it seems. That is frightening.”
    From that ‘spectacularly obtuse’ catnip blog.

  28. “both the media, the Lib party and Canadians”
    Telling words; the word “both” unites “the media” and the “Lib party” into an entity, aka the Media-Lib party, or is it the Lib-Media Party? Same difference.
    Rewrite: both the Lib-Media-Media-Lib Party and Canadians.

  29. Just watched the three CPC Ads featuring Le Rat and am still laughing. It’s so unfunny it’s………. “Unfair”.
    Pat

  30. SUZUKI TO LAUNCH ELECTION-STYLE ENVIRONMENT TOUR
    David Suzuki is launching an election-style, national tour this week — starting on the East Coast — to urge Canadians to make the environment their top political issue. …- national newswatch
    Suzuki is a modern Canadian Johann Tetzel; selling indulgences, i.e., Kyoto carbon credit$$$$, for the anti-Pope from China, Mao Strong I, of the Red-Green religion.
    Abbe Dion, Mao Strong’s cure, today, in the Canadian Parliament charged/attempted to brand PM Harper as being a heretic.
    The Red-Green religion has started its war of propaganda against the heretics. …-
    Indulgence – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Luther had already preached against indulgences, but he wrote the 95 Theses partly in reaction to the promotion of indulgences by Johann Tetzel, ..

  31. 95 theses, I thought it was 95 feces! boy do I feel dumb after that reenactment gone terribly wrong.

  32. Welcome to the future. Particularly Ontario & Quebec. People still think we have no problem? I mean do you liberals or lefties actually think this group of murders are going too stop if we leave in defeat . Your as nuts as the Eurabians than.
    Quran becomes top selling book in Denmark
    Berlin, Jan 29, IRNA
    Germany-Denmark-Quran
    The holy scripture of Islam – the Quran – has become the top selling book in Denmark one year after the blasphemous caricature crisis shook up the Danish society and the Muslim world, the Munich-based Focus news magazine reported Monday.
    The Quran was ranked second during the important Christmas book sales period.
    Buyers of the Quran include many young Muslims who grew up in Denmark but do not speak Arabic.
    The Danish government has stepped up efforts in recent months to reach out to the Muslim community by hosting international Islam conferences and holding inter-religious dialogue seminars.
    http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjMyNTY4MjJjMjhmYWU1ZWFiMGVjODJkOWNiNGIzMmQ=

  33. The Bible has been translated into many languages. Has the koran ever been translated into anything but the bunch of scribbles it appears to be.

  34. Israel should bomb Gaza quickly, Palestinian blogger says
    Eilat suicide bombing prompts journalist Fadi Abu Sada to publish blog on Palestinian News Network; Abu Sada says, ‘If Israel attacks houses in Gaza and attempts to target the leaders of the Palestinian resistance, this would be the only solution to stop the fighting’
    Following the suicide bombing in Eilat Monday, Palestinian journalist Fadi Abu Sada offered his two cents on the attack and the infighting in Gaza through his blog on Palestinian News Network :
    “Israel poising to respond on Eilat attack, it could be by the aerial bombardment and artillery, or perhaps they will try to assassinate Palestinian resistance leaders, what a ironically, we really want that to happen quickly, it might be the only solution to stop the bloody fighting between brothers in the Gaza Strip. …-
    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3358590,00.html

  35. Confused? Wanna waste some time? Read this. …-
    Nigeria: The Weather is Confused
    Extract:
    Canada is also a culprit in GHG consumption. …
    This had hardly settled down when two Canadians
    renounced their citizenship because they felt “betrayed’ by their country which had not done anything concrete to ratify the Kyoto protocol on climate change. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1775858/posts

  36. The Name Is ‘Power’ and It Fits
    Excerpt:
    And the family connections, he added, were often coincidental. André married France Chrétien long before it was obvious her father, Jean, would become prime minister. Paul Martin, another former Liberal prime minister, was already a Power executive when Paul Desmarais bought the company. Brian Mulroney, a long-serving Conservative prime minister, was Power’s outside labor lawyer well before he entered politics….-
    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/business/26fund.html
    Desmarais + Chretien + Martin + Mulroney = Power.
    Forty years of Librano$: fascism in Canada.
    Stephen Harper is not mentioned. Harper is blocking the road for the Power bus. Will Harper survive? Powerful forces, with Power’s money, are ranged against the Conservative Party.
    Who is missing from the lineup?
    Hint: His initials are: MS. …-

  37. so whats the status of ms rinaldo’s complete revision of the separation between ‘government of the day’ and ‘various political parties’?
    also, memo: dont make huge investments in time and money building on land whut aint yers….
    http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/cottage_land_dispute
    I blame ye olde dept of indian affairs for most of this, the balance in the lap of the gullible and presumptuous soon-to-be-former cottage owners who thought they were ‘getting a deal’ by not having to buy the land as well as the materials that went into the buildings, and oh, say, the equivalent of the price of a candy bar on the part of the natives who didnt fight fair and instead used tactics common to the owners of retail property who routinely boot established businesses from the premises in an attempt to extort ever more rent.

  38. The Health Nazis are on the rampage; the New-Old Fatheads. …-
    CALGARY MULLS TRANS FATS BAN
    Calgary could become the first Canadian city to ban trans fats from its restaurants, the local health authority has announced. (national newswatch)
    Meanwhile:
    Trans fat alternative may have its own problems
    Reuters ^ | January 24, 2007 | Amy Norton
    Cholesterol-raising trans fats may be disappearing from supermarket shelves and restaurants, but one type of fat taking their place may be no healthier, new research suggests.
    Artificial trans fats are formed when food manufacturers add hydrogen to vegetable oil to make it solidify, in a process called hydrogenation. Partially hydrogenated oil boosts the stability of a food’s flavor, as well as its shelf life, and the oils have long been a key ingredient in baked and fried foods.
    Research has shown that trans fats in these oils may be even worse for heart health than the saturated fat found in foods like meat and butter. Not only do trans fats raise “bad” LDL cholesterol, as saturated fat does, but they also lower heart-healthy HDL cholesterol.
    With trans fats so out of favor — New York City recently banned them from restaurants, and other cities may follow suit — the search for alternatives is on.
    However, one of those replacement fats — so-called interesterified fats — may carry their own health threats, according to a study published in the journal Nutrition & Metabolism. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1773503/posts

  39. martin luther was anti-semitic.
    apparently forgot Christ Himself is JEWISH.
    as is The Old Man…..
    cant win ’em all eh marty??!!
    KKK types and of that ilk likewise forget who The Boss favours…..

  40. Direct quote from The Strong Conservative Blog
    “universal health care still intact (unfortunately)
    either Jan.25/26

  41. Vancouverites in midst of 1982 recession effectively planned a total boycott of mortgage/rental rate payments and billboards, signs were mass advertized across entire city. Neither MSM print or broadcast picked it up. The feed was essentially cut. Blogosphere obviously wasn’t up yet. Neither did any other city across Canada afford coverage.
    Boycotts work when applied enmasse.

  43. Ah, finally… the Ten Smartest Female Canadian Bloggers
    “So, to recap… Libnip and Kinsella, the self annointed judges of all that is good, smart and female in the Canadian Blogosphere, will soon grace us with their decision about the very smartest Canadian womyn bloggers.”

  44. I read your link Neo, too funny. “I won’t talk about Kate, neither will all of my 10 bloggers”.
    What an idiot.

  45. Newspaper giant Torstar helps launch free online classified site LiveDeal.ca
    Canadian Press
    Published: Monday, January 16, 2006
    TORONTO (CP) – Newspaper giant Torstar (TSX:TS.NV.B) launched a free Canadian online classified site Monday as part of its $3-million-US joint venture with California-based LiveDeal.com.
    Canadian counterpart LiveDeal.ca derives its classified content from Torstar dailies to provide a *comprehensive* online marketplace that connects buyers and sellers, the newspaper company said.
    *I think the principal difference between it and current newspaper sites is that it has a lot more functionality,* said Tomer Strolight, president of Torstar Digital.
    . . . .
    *Local e-commerce is the next wave of the Internet, and LiveDeal.ca and Torstar are leading the charge, leveraging the power of the Internet to enhance classifieds,* said Simon Jennings, general manager of LiveDeal.ca.
    http://preview.tinyurl.com/2hg526
    = TG

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