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Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap…
in Caledonia
Personally, I think I’d rather have the Political Bagman Special offered to a
former Liberal Cabinet Minister
(think HRDC boondoggle) to fix the problem…
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‘Inconvenient’ Questions Senators Should Ask Al Gore at Global Warming Hearing on March 21
//www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-19-2007/0004548663&EDATE=
There’s an excellent article now available at one of my favourite publications, on the matter of the electric car that wasn’t killed: Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles for a Sustainable Future
by Andrew A. Frank
American Scientist, March-April 2007 tinyurl.com/2cqyjs
As a young girl, decades ago, Kate could already see through the fanatism that was David Suzuki. (from sda May 28 2006)
//www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/forums/electionroundtable/2006/01/your_green_cand.html
” ..I recall the summer of my epiphany and the moment I backed away from the doomsday cultists.
When his speech was over, Dr. David Suzuki drove back to the airport, climbed in a jet and flew to his next performance; the national media packed up the cameras, and the great destroyer Grant Devine just went ahead and built the thing anyway.
Today, Dr. Suzuki’s one-time congregation in the dry Southeast enjoys a recreation area and water reservoir, the good people of North Dakota are protected from flooding, while a new generation of “greenies” proselytize the religion of “sustainable agriculture” to farmers who have successfully cropped land for over a century.”
And now, just the other day, on CTV, Craig Oliver, so called “investigative” journalist, was praising Suzuki and calling him a ‘great Canadian icon’.
Being wrong about a small Sask water shed is one thing. Being wrong about the Earth’s climate is another.
And to think, I too, watched The Nature of Things and thought I was so well informed. I hope I am never so wrong again.
Plug-in Hybrid.
Interesting idea. One thing though. 30 years ago it was suggested that an overide switch on the dash was needed, most days, to keep the gasoline engine running at all times anyways. Thus defeating the purpose. Not to mention the complexity.
Most of the time passengers want either heating or cooling. Seldom is the outside temp just right. Unfortunately we are creatures of comfort.
Another interesting interview on R.Breakenridge tonight. He spoke to Terry Glavin, a left wing journalist/professor from UBC who exposses the anti-war movement and the Canadian Peace Alliance for what they are and what they stand for. And who they stand with. George Gallaway ring a bell? Check it out on QR77 audio vault Mar.19 at 8:00pm.
It seems to have got lost in the news, that Ms. May (the Green leader) is in talks with Mr. Dion, not to run a Liberal candidate in Peter MacKay’s riding.
I wonder how that particular Liberal local riding feels about this anti-democratic move? I wonder how the greens are feeling about this apparent cozying up with the Liberals? I guess for the Liberals, it’s winning at all costs! And for Ms. May, it’s the same!
Lesson learned: How To Govern Canada.
Walk softly and carry a big Quebec stick.
…-
Calculated Timidity Cools Election Talk
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has taken a page out of the political playbook of William Lyon Mackenzie King, the Liberal prime minister who governed Canada for decades through an uncanny sense of conservative caution. …- http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=45b0eeef-6af0-411c-bec2-073b664132f2
Sophistry at its finest. ..-
“No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits…. climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
– Christine Stewart, [ex-Liberal] Canadian Environment Minister …-
Statistical Analysis Debunks Climate Change Naysayers
In a thought-provoking statistical analysis, Dr. Peter Tsigaris of Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC, Canada, concludes
that whether or not climate change can be wholly attributed to human factors, it makes strong economic and environmental sense to treat it as human-caused and take action now. …
He arrived at this conclusion as a result of creating the solution for a question he posed to his statistics students. …- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803609/posts
No people on trial and under stress should have to put up with media hordes asking dimwitted questions while shoving cameras into their faces.
Barbara Black lost it and can’t blame her when she called them “vermin”. They are all that and more.
The Blacks can’t be expected to dress and live like paupers when they aren’t. Black is not newly rich, he was born to it and became a success story in his own life. A Canadian, a conservative minded individual and fodder for the usual liberal media hordes.
Of what interest or consequence is what someone is wearing on any given day?
Alas,it seems many love to see Icons brought down
and none more so than the Boors in the media.
As Canadians we should be supporting our own.
At this point we should hope Black gets a shot at
revenge, many are begging for it.
Indoctrinate U
Speech codes. Censorship. Enforced political conformity. Hostility to diversity of opinion. Sensitivity training. We usually associate such things with the worst excesses of fascism and communism, not with the American universities that nurtured the free speech movement. But American higher education bears a disturbing resemblance to the totalitarian societies that are anathema to our nation’s ideal of liberty. Evan Coyne Maloney’s documentary film, Indoctrinate U, reveals the breathtaking institutional intolerance you won’t read about in the glossy marketing brochures of Harvard, Berkeley, Michigan, Yale, and hundreds of other American colleges and universities.
“When we think of going to college, we think of intellectual freedom. We imagine four years of exploring ideas through energetic, ongoing, critical thinking and debate,” Maloney said. “But the reality is very far from the ideal. What most of us don’t know is that American college students check their First Amendment rights and individual freedom at the door.”…- http://www.indoctrinate-u.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi
Paula Todd the leftist lawyer / journalist gal covering the Black trial on CTV, last night was in a snit over Barbara Amiel’s “slut” and “vermin” shot at the pushy English female media type.
Good on Barbara, one of my favourite long time female conservative voices.
My best remembered line of Barbara is when she was writing for the Toronto Sun and referring to Bob Rae then governing Ontario as a “crypto-communist.”
“Slut” and “vermin” I suspect will be mentioned in most stories written about her in the next few months by her detractors.
You go Babs!!
more on the budget – from the info web site provided via the TO Star.
The federal Action Plan for Official Languages provides for $642M over five years – now in effect and no doubt a facilitor is Law S-3. This is only a pittance of what Official Bilingualism is costing this country.
Budget 2007 is adding another $30M over two years for promotion and development of OFFICIAL languages via cultural and after school activities.
La Francophonie Summit will be held in Canada in 2008 and hosted by QC and NB (officially bilingual provinces).
Budget 2007 provides for $52M to organize this summit.
You be the judge
Headline: ‘Spiderman’ arrested
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – Police arrested a French urban climber who calls himself “Spiderman” as he attempted to scale Malaysia’s 88-storey Petronas Twin Towers with his bare hands Tuesday for the second time in 10 years. (canoe news)
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More Spiderman:
Ex-Liberal PM Martin, Jr.’s, Spiderman:
Spiderman in a Web of Intrigue :: News :: thetyee.ca
Erik Bornman’s nickname is Spiderman but the former top Paul Martin aide is now stuck in a sticky web of intrigue that includes the tainted $1 billion BC …
thetyee.ca/News/2005/05/10/Spiderman/
calgary clipper – for your information, only New Brunswick is bilingual. Quebec is unilingual. French only.
I’m strongly against bilingualism in Canada because it is factually invalid. We are NOT bilingual, we are unilingual in two languages. The majority of 80% use English, a minority of 20% use French. Only about 10% of the entire population are actually bilingual – and that’s after a full generation of pumping money into it.
I’m against bilingualism because of its rejection of reality, because of the costs, and because it has effectively divided Canada not into provinces but into Quebec and the ROC. And this is an adversarial division. This is all due to the Charter, which is in my view, primarily about the establishment of bilingualism – most of the sections refer to that – with only a few minor sections referring to rights. [And individual rights are trumped by multiculturalism and group rights.]
But at the moment, without changing the constitution, there is absolutely nothing that our gov’t can do. It’s there, in the constitution. Unless and until he gets a majority, Harper can’t move us back to the decentralized map of Canada – with powers vested in the provinces and the federal gov’t only dealing in common issues such as currency, transportation, foreign affairs, defense.
And remember, the Liberals moved us into both an autocratic centralist domination of Ottawa and a divisive bilingualism. This weakened, drastically, all the provinces, who were merged into a meaningless lump, the ROC – versus Quebec, which by virtue of bilingualism, moved into the forefront of Ottawa’s mandarisms. It will take a majority and time to deconstruct this disastrous structure and return power to the provinces. And, get rid of bilingualism – allowing Quebec to be a unilingual part of the federation.
I heard Elizabeth May on an interview yesterday say that Dion called her AFTER her announcement and is considering NOT running a Liberal against her and providing her with all the help she needs to STOP this terrible Conservative government.
Then during the budget baffle gab afterwards May on CPAC sounded EXACTLY like a Liberal. Complaints that Status of Women put back money but won’t allow advocacy and the word “equality” and the same old same old special interest group whining.
My observation: The Green Party is nothing but a lobby group, mouthpiece for special interest groups who have found a lucrative way to raise money by running candidates and getting $1.75 of taxpayer’s money per vote and a ready-made podium. Their platform is just airy fairy platitudes and they lend their voice to whatever cause needs a squeeky wheel.
It looks like May has co-opted her party to be a mouthpiece for the Liberals without even a formal merger. The next election will fill their coffers with millions of taxpayer dollars.
If the Communist or Marxist parties of Canada did the same thing would there be an outcry. But the “Greens” have an inoccuous name that camoflages their real ideology.
And May is an American born and bred rabid Clinton/Gore Democrat – so her bread is not being buttered only in Canada.
Quote of the day, by the Devil’s Kitchen:
“Socialism is worse than racism. A racist is a stupid, ignorant bigot, but at least he cannot, and will not, try to force me to believe what he believes and force me to pay for the implementation of his beliefs. Socialists do.”
Wikiislam.com:
A great site to find out about Islam, especially what’s in the Quran and Hadith’s. Written by ex-Muslims and scholars. It’s especially good because Moslems aren’t able to re-edit.
Who knew that Mo had a sense of humour (although not intentional). After reading these, can anybody take any Muslim’s claim to intelligence, seriously?
Sahih Bukhari Volume 005, Book 058, Number 188
Narrated ‘Amr bin Maimun: During the pre-lslamic period of ignorance I saw a she-monkey surrounded by a number of monkeys. They were all stoning it, because it had committed illegal sexual intercourse. I too, stoned it along with them.
Sahih Bukhari Volume 007, Book 065, Number 366
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas: The Prophet said, ‘When you eat, do not wipe your hands till you have licked it, or had it licked by somebody else.”
Sahih Bukhari Volume 001, Book 012, Number 815
Narrated ‘Abdul ‘Aziz: A man asked Anas, “What did you hear from the Prophet about garlic?” He said, “The Prophet said, ‘Whoever has eaten this plant should neither come near us nor pray with us.”
Sunan Abu Dawud Book 001, Number 0205
Narrated Ali ibn Talq: The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: When any of you breaks wind during the prayer, he should turn away and perform ablution and repeat the prayer.
Sahih Bukhari Volume 001, Book 004, Number 139
Narrated ‘Abbas bin Tamim: My uncle asked Allah’s Apostle about a person who imagined to have passed wind during the prayer. Allah’ Apostle replied: “He should not leave his prayers unless he hears sound or smells something.”
Sahih Bukhari Volume 009, Book 086, Number 086
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, “Allah does not accept prayer of anyone of you if he does Hadath (passes wind) till he performs the ablution (anew).”
Sahih Bukhari Volume 008, Book 07368, Number 1
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin Zam’a: The Prophet forbade laughing at a person who passes wind.
Tabari I 267
And Allah taught Adam all the names as follows: He taught him the name of everything, down to fart and little fart.
Sahih Bukhari Volume 007, Book 071, Number 614
Narrated Abu Said: A man came to the prophet and said, ‘My brother has got loose motions. The Prophet said, Let him drink honey.” The man again (came) and said, ‘I made him drink (honey) but that made him worse.’ The Prophet said, ‘Allah has said the Truth, and the abdomen of your brother has told a lie.”
Holy Blazing Saddles, Imam. It looks like the followers of Islam were the first true environmentalists seeing as how they were all knowing of greenhouse gasses.
“But Berlin Zoo holds different opinions. Its chief vet Andre Schuele says the activists’ criticisms would make him angry if he could take them seriously. “Polar bears live alone in the wild. I see no logical reason why this bear should be killed.”
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‘We want this baby polar bear dead’ say animal rights lobby
Tiny, fluffy and adorable, Knut the baby polar bear became an animal superstar after he was abandoned by his mother.
He rapidly became the symbol of Berlin Zoo, whose staff bottle-fed him and handed out cuddles in between.
At three months old, however, the playful 19lb bundle of fur is at the centre of an impassioned debate over whether he should live or die.
Animal rights activists argue that he should be given a lethal injection rather than brought up suffering the humiliation of being treated as a domestic pet.
“The zoo must kill the bear,” said spokesman Frank Albrecht. “Feeding by hand is not species-appropriate but a gross violation of animal protection laws.” …- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803791/posts
Look at all those Injuns, Tonto. Do they vote Liberal?
Ugh, Kemo Sabay. …-
McGuinty Wants Ottawa Compensation In Caledonia
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty says it’s time Ottawa provided compensation to households neighbouring a contentious aboriginal occupation.
Dion Slams Budget For Ignoring Aboriginals
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion has slammed the federal budget for ignoring aboriginals and child care, while the finance minister said it will help working families and resolve the fiscal imbalance.
(national newswatch)
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republicans and Democrats sternly warned the FBI on Tuesday that it could lose its broad power to collect telephone, e-mail and financial records to hunt terrorists after revelations of widespread abuses of the authority detailed in a recent internal investigation.
Their threats came as the Justice Department’s chief watchdog, Glenn Fine, told the House Judiciary Committee that the FBI engaged in widespread and serious misuse of its authority in illegally collecting the information from Americans and foreigners through so-called national security letters.
If the FBI doesn’t move swiftly to correct the mistakes and problems revealed
Angus Reid poll on CTV web site right side, half way down on whether Dion will be the next Prime Minister.
Results so far, overwheming NO http://www.ctv.ca/mini/budget2007/
The QC thing never ends
No sooner has $2.2 billion been transferred to QC (under what ever term you choose) than Charest has announced an across-the-board tax cut for Quebecers as part of his platform.
Tell me how Quebec ends up with a tax cut while the ROC ends up with not much more than popcorn without the beer – all in the name of fiscal balance, fiscal imbalance, equalization, or whatever. Pandering for votes in QC is the bottom line.
How sad it would be if Boisclair (in particular) or Dumont actually won the QC election and then have $2.2B to spend however they like. After all, there were no strings attached to the windfall.
Academy Award Winner and household energy efficiency expert Al Gore is appearing before the House Energy Subcommittee tomorrow morning. If you’ve got lots of time to waste you can watch it for yourself on C-Span starting at 9:30 AM. Gore apparently intends to bring bagfuls of postcards with him. Maybe he’ll bring some of those naked hippies with him, too. On with the cause….
Citoyen Dion Liberals-Taliban Jack NDP-socialists:
Soft on crime; soft on terrorists.
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Homegrown Extremism On Rise
Canada needs to do more to fight “homegrown” Islamist terrorism, says a classified intelligence report prepared for Prime Minister Stephen Harper that puts part of the blame on parents. …-
Commons Committee Summons O’Connor
The issue of enemy detainees captured by Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan just won’t stop dogging Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor….-
(national newswatch)
Islam: a death cult of infanticide.
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Brave Mujahideen Warriors Use Children in Car Bomb
There are no words.
Iraq insurgents used children in car bombing.
Insurgents in Iraq detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle with two children in the back seat after US soldiers let it through a Baghdad checkpoint over the weekend, a senior US military official said Tuesday.
The vehicle was stopped at the checkpoint but was allowed through when soldiers saw the children in the back, said Major General Michael Barbero of the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. “Children in the back seat lowered suspicion. We let it move through. They parked the vehicle, and the adults ran out and detonated it with the children in the back,” Barbero said. …- http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
“Children in the back seat lowered suspicion. We let it move through. They parked the vehicle, and the adults ran out and detonated it with the children in the back,” Barbero said. …”
AS I’ve said before, these animals would rather kill than eat. Of course the settings have to be right, lots of unsuspecting civilians gathering, handcuffed victims ready for beheadings, etc etc.
And what happens when these brave warriors get caught, they sing like birds.
Spineless cowards is what they are.
My final word on the budget (I hope)
Most of the budgets I’ve paid attention to in my lifetime have come in the past 30 years or so. They all had some things I liked and some things I didn’t but I will say this now. This budget is the very first one I can recall which directly targets the middle income taxpayer.
In all of the previous ones it seems to me that the government in power pandered to the galloping hordes of very loud special interest groups. To some extent the same holds true in this budget but it is interesting to note that the current government has, through their latest effort, diverted the motor mouths who scream the loudest by changing the rules on the “fiscal imbalance”.
If you are “His Blondness” or this guy you could have a huge problem coming down the pipes.
Therefore, I am not surprised by all the shouting and screaming.
“You see” — Canada has been a socialist dreamworld for “lo, these many years” as very loud special interest groups were able to repeatedly target the federal government for more money. All of a sudden they have to start chasing after their respective provincial premiers to get their grubby little mitts on the money which Harper has seen, in an unseemly fit of benevolence, to bequeath upon them.
He can truthfully say “Sorry, I gave it all away. Go talk to your premier — he’s the money guy now.”
And so they will go away.
Instead of chaining themselves to Harper’s front gate they will instead chain themselves to “McShifty’s” front gate “cause that’s where the rainbow ends”. You get the drift.
[…]
I haven’t given up and as one person put it in a short comment on another entry:
“I trust Mr. Harper. …”
…- http://www.jacksnewswatch.info/
Harper’s ‘Balancing’ Act: “Multiple Choice” Federalism
Without hyperbole and undue fanfare, Harper’s plan for rebalancing federalism is quite simply one of the most artful and historic in the evolution of federal provincial relations. It is bound to get lost in talk about the rest of the budget, and it is overshadowed by major constitutional negotiations like Meech Lake or Charlottetown, but the 2007 Budget is deserving of the highest accolades, nonetheless.
Harper took on a seemingly insurmountable challenge: After years of Liberal cut-backs to the provinces, he pledged to pull together a deal on equalization and transfer payments, in the face of several conflicting election promises, 10 conflicting premiers, a Quebec election, a minority government situation, and hundreds of bureaucratic, political and academic skeptics. This is no small task. Harper should be commended for promising to do so, applauded for attempting, and idolized for accomplishing it.
Sure, it’s a work in progress, but his attack on the fiscal imbalance is enough to impress anyone with even a cursory knowledge of fed-prov relations (not to mention Gilles Duceppe and Ed Stelmach). Today’s Globe article spells out the deal: …- http://www.deepredtory.blogspot.com/
“Discrimination against gays is indeed unjust; it is wrong for an adoption agency to refuse to help a gay couple adopt a child when they meet all other tests for qualified parents. But the leaders of the Catholic church not only disagree, as a great many private citizens no doubt disagree. They also believe that it would be unconscionable for them, a sin against cardinal tenets of their faith, to hand a child in their care to gay parents. True, Catholics are not forced to run adoption agencies. But requiring them to choose between abandoning a historical mission of charity, in which they have contributed much benefit, and acting as they believe their faith forbids, does place them in a position in which they think their duty is compromised however they choose. It also diminishes the chances of abandoned children finding a stable home: the Catholic agencies, by all reports, have been among the most conscientious and successful.”
Professor Ronald Dworkin.
Melanie Philips comments on Dworkins’s piece in Prospect magazine. http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1477
Cathy Seipp
Cathy Seipp’s daughter says she is losing her battle to cancer and has only a short time to live. I met her once, and briefly at the Pajamas Media kickoff in New York City. She had a glass of wine in her hand and a smile on her face. They say that Good Friday is the ultimate test of faith; but that is wrong. It is Easter Sunday. We have all of us seen paths tracked with tears, but none of us have seen an Empty Tomb. The most heartbreaking thing in life is not to know to sorrow but to see beauty and believe that we will never see anything so beautiful again. Her daughter Maya completes her mother’s last blog post at Pajamas Media.
If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,”
even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.
–Psalm 139
…- http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/
Hi Kate
Never tried this before ,hope it works.I’m trying to post what I just read over at National newswatch about the soldier charged with the death of his bunkmate in Afghanistan.(Regrettable,I will let the facts speak for themselves).What got me incensed was the lines about W.Easter talkin to our defence chief.
I’ll try to paste it in,Friggin Liebrals,Still
Malpeque MP Wayne Easter met with Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor on Monday to highlight public concern over the charges.
Easter says he stressed to O’Connor that the incident is largely viewed as an accidental shooting in a war zone under very trying conditions.
The MP said he realizes that the minister cannot personally get involved in the file.
“But I know that when you give a minister information, that information is carried on to other places,” said Easter, who served as Canada’s solicitor general under Jean Chretien’s government.
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Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap…
in Caledonia
Personally, I think I’d rather have the
Political Bagman Special offered to a
former Liberal Cabinet Minister
(think HRDC boondoggle) to
fix the problem…
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‘Inconvenient’ Questions Senators Should Ask Al Gore at Global Warming Hearing on March 21
//www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-19-2007/0004548663&EDATE=
There’s an excellent article now available at one of my favourite publications, on the matter of the electric car that wasn’t killed:
Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles for a Sustainable Future
by Andrew A. Frank
American Scientist, March-April 2007
tinyurl.com/2cqyjs
As a young girl, decades ago, Kate could already see through the fanatism that was David Suzuki. (from sda May 28 2006)
//www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/forums/electionroundtable/2006/01/your_green_cand.html
” ..I recall the summer of my epiphany and the moment I backed away from the doomsday cultists.
When his speech was over, Dr. David Suzuki drove back to the airport, climbed in a jet and flew to his next performance; the national media packed up the cameras, and the great destroyer Grant Devine just went ahead and built the thing anyway.
Today, Dr. Suzuki’s one-time congregation in the dry Southeast enjoys a recreation area and water reservoir, the good people of North Dakota are protected from flooding, while a new generation of “greenies” proselytize the religion of “sustainable agriculture” to farmers who have successfully cropped land for over a century.”
And now, just the other day, on CTV, Craig Oliver, so called “investigative” journalist, was praising Suzuki and calling him a ‘great Canadian icon’.
Being wrong about a small Sask water shed is one thing. Being wrong about the Earth’s climate is another.
And to think, I too, watched The Nature of Things and thought I was so well informed. I hope I am never so wrong again.
Plug-in Hybrid.
Interesting idea. One thing though. 30 years ago it was suggested that an overide switch on the dash was needed, most days, to keep the gasoline engine running at all times anyways. Thus defeating the purpose. Not to mention the complexity.
Most of the time passengers want either heating or cooling. Seldom is the outside temp just right. Unfortunately we are creatures of comfort.
Another interesting interview on R.Breakenridge tonight. He spoke to Terry Glavin, a left wing journalist/professor from UBC who exposses the anti-war movement and the Canadian Peace Alliance for what they are and what they stand for. And who they stand with. George Gallaway ring a bell? Check it out on QR77 audio vault Mar.19 at 8:00pm.
It seems to have got lost in the news, that Ms. May (the Green leader) is in talks with Mr. Dion, not to run a Liberal candidate in Peter MacKay’s riding.
I wonder how that particular Liberal local riding feels about this anti-democratic move? I wonder how the greens are feeling about this apparent cozying up with the Liberals? I guess for the Liberals, it’s winning at all costs! And for Ms. May, it’s the same!
Lesson learned: How To Govern Canada.
Walk softly and carry a big Quebec stick.
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Calculated Timidity Cools Election Talk
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has taken a page out of the political playbook of William Lyon Mackenzie King, the Liberal prime minister who governed Canada for decades through an uncanny sense of conservative caution. …-
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=45b0eeef-6af0-411c-bec2-073b664132f2
Conrad Black’s situation and the double-standard, differential treatment by the MSM and legal system between liberals and conservatives:
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2007/03/lady-black-rips-msm-new-one.html
Sophistry at its finest. ..-
“No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits…. climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
– Christine Stewart, [ex-Liberal] Canadian Environment Minister …-
Statistical Analysis Debunks Climate Change Naysayers
In a thought-provoking statistical analysis, Dr. Peter Tsigaris of Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC, Canada, concludes
that whether or not climate change can be wholly attributed to human factors, it makes strong economic and environmental sense to treat it as human-caused and take action now. …
He arrived at this conclusion as a result of creating the solution for a question he posed to his statistics students. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803609/posts
No people on trial and under stress should have to put up with media hordes asking dimwitted questions while shoving cameras into their faces.
Barbara Black lost it and can’t blame her when she called them “vermin”. They are all that and more.
The Blacks can’t be expected to dress and live like paupers when they aren’t. Black is not newly rich, he was born to it and became a success story in his own life. A Canadian, a conservative minded individual and fodder for the usual liberal media hordes.
Of what interest or consequence is what someone is wearing on any given day?
Alas,it seems many love to see Icons brought down
and none more so than the Boors in the media.
As Canadians we should be supporting our own.
At this point we should hope Black gets a shot at
revenge, many are begging for it.
Indoctrinate U
Speech codes. Censorship. Enforced political conformity. Hostility to diversity of opinion. Sensitivity training. We usually associate such things with the worst excesses of fascism and communism, not with the American universities that nurtured the free speech movement. But American higher education bears a disturbing resemblance to the totalitarian societies that are anathema to our nation’s ideal of liberty. Evan Coyne Maloney’s documentary film, Indoctrinate U, reveals the breathtaking institutional intolerance you won’t read about in the glossy marketing brochures of Harvard, Berkeley, Michigan, Yale, and hundreds of other American colleges and universities.
“When we think of going to college, we think of intellectual freedom. We imagine four years of exploring ideas through energetic, ongoing, critical thinking and debate,” Maloney said. “But the reality is very far from the ideal. What most of us don’t know is that American college students check their First Amendment rights and individual freedom at the door.”…-
http://www.indoctrinate-u.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi
the horror , the horror.
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/03/19/consumer-pet.html
Paula Todd the leftist lawyer / journalist gal covering the Black trial on CTV, last night was in a snit over Barbara Amiel’s “slut” and “vermin” shot at the pushy English female media type.
Good on Barbara, one of my favourite long time female conservative voices.
My best remembered line of Barbara is when she was writing for the Toronto Sun and referring to Bob Rae then governing Ontario as a “crypto-communist.”
“Slut” and “vermin” I suspect will be mentioned in most stories written about her in the next few months by her detractors.
You go Babs!!
Picture of Maher Arar making man-love with Jack Layton, and post reviewing Arar’s connections to terror suspects (including Mohammed Kamal Elzahabi, as exposed by the Globe & Mail on Saturday):
http://flaggman.wordpress.com/2007/03/18/maher-arar-why-the-us-wont-and-shouldnt-let-go/
more on the budget – from the info web site provided via the TO Star.
The federal Action Plan for Official Languages provides for $642M over five years – now in effect and no doubt a facilitor is Law S-3. This is only a pittance of what Official Bilingualism is costing this country.
Budget 2007 is adding another $30M over two years for promotion and development of OFFICIAL languages via cultural and after school activities.
La Francophonie Summit will be held in Canada in 2008 and hosted by QC and NB (officially bilingual provinces).
Budget 2007 provides for $52M to organize this summit.
You be the judge
Headline: ‘Spiderman’ arrested
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – Police arrested a French urban climber who calls himself “Spiderman” as he attempted to scale Malaysia’s 88-storey Petronas Twin Towers with his bare hands Tuesday for the second time in 10 years. (canoe news)
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More Spiderman:
Ex-Liberal PM Martin, Jr.’s, Spiderman:
Spiderman in a Web of Intrigue :: News :: thetyee.ca
Erik Bornman’s nickname is Spiderman but the former top Paul Martin aide is now stuck in a sticky web of intrigue that includes the tainted $1 billion BC …
thetyee.ca/News/2005/05/10/Spiderman/
Gloria Galloway complete ignores the question of state overreach and targets social conservative moral values in her article about a MANDATORY HPV vaccination program.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070319.wbudgethealth20/BNStory/budget2007/home
Go over and give it all heck.
calgary clipper – for your information, only New Brunswick is bilingual. Quebec is unilingual. French only.
I’m strongly against bilingualism in Canada because it is factually invalid. We are NOT bilingual, we are unilingual in two languages. The majority of 80% use English, a minority of 20% use French. Only about 10% of the entire population are actually bilingual – and that’s after a full generation of pumping money into it.
I’m against bilingualism because of its rejection of reality, because of the costs, and because it has effectively divided Canada not into provinces but into Quebec and the ROC. And this is an adversarial division. This is all due to the Charter, which is in my view, primarily about the establishment of bilingualism – most of the sections refer to that – with only a few minor sections referring to rights. [And individual rights are trumped by multiculturalism and group rights.]
But at the moment, without changing the constitution, there is absolutely nothing that our gov’t can do. It’s there, in the constitution. Unless and until he gets a majority, Harper can’t move us back to the decentralized map of Canada – with powers vested in the provinces and the federal gov’t only dealing in common issues such as currency, transportation, foreign affairs, defense.
And remember, the Liberals moved us into both an autocratic centralist domination of Ottawa and a divisive bilingualism. This weakened, drastically, all the provinces, who were merged into a meaningless lump, the ROC – versus Quebec, which by virtue of bilingualism, moved into the forefront of Ottawa’s mandarisms. It will take a majority and time to deconstruct this disastrous structure and return power to the provinces. And, get rid of bilingualism – allowing Quebec to be a unilingual part of the federation.
I heard Elizabeth May on an interview yesterday say that Dion called her AFTER her announcement and is considering NOT running a Liberal against her and providing her with all the help she needs to STOP this terrible Conservative government.
Then during the budget baffle gab afterwards May on CPAC sounded EXACTLY like a Liberal. Complaints that Status of Women put back money but won’t allow advocacy and the word “equality” and the same old same old special interest group whining.
My observation: The Green Party is nothing but a lobby group, mouthpiece for special interest groups who have found a lucrative way to raise money by running candidates and getting $1.75 of taxpayer’s money per vote and a ready-made podium. Their platform is just airy fairy platitudes and they lend their voice to whatever cause needs a squeeky wheel.
It looks like May has co-opted her party to be a mouthpiece for the Liberals without even a formal merger. The next election will fill their coffers with millions of taxpayer dollars.
If the Communist or Marxist parties of Canada did the same thing would there be an outcry. But the “Greens” have an inoccuous name that camoflages their real ideology.
And May is an American born and bred rabid Clinton/Gore Democrat – so her bread is not being buttered only in Canada.
Quote of the day, by the Devil’s Kitchen:
“Socialism is worse than racism. A racist is a stupid, ignorant bigot, but at least he cannot, and will not, try to force me to believe what he believes and force me to pay for the implementation of his beliefs. Socialists do.”
Wikiislam.com:
A great site to find out about Islam, especially what’s in the Quran and Hadith’s. Written by ex-Muslims and scholars. It’s especially good because Moslems aren’t able to re-edit.
Who knew that Mo had a sense of humour (although not intentional). After reading these, can anybody take any Muslim’s claim to intelligence, seriously?
Sahih Bukhari Volume 005, Book 058, Number 188
Narrated ‘Amr bin Maimun: During the pre-lslamic period of ignorance I saw a she-monkey surrounded by a number of monkeys. They were all stoning it, because it had committed illegal sexual intercourse. I too, stoned it along with them.
Sahih Bukhari Volume 007, Book 065, Number 366
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas: The Prophet said, ‘When you eat, do not wipe your hands till you have licked it, or had it licked by somebody else.”
Sahih Bukhari Volume 001, Book 012, Number 815
Narrated ‘Abdul ‘Aziz: A man asked Anas, “What did you hear from the Prophet about garlic?” He said, “The Prophet said, ‘Whoever has eaten this plant should neither come near us nor pray with us.”
Sunan Abu Dawud Book 001, Number 0205
Narrated Ali ibn Talq: The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: When any of you breaks wind during the prayer, he should turn away and perform ablution and repeat the prayer.
Sahih Bukhari Volume 001, Book 004, Number 139
Narrated ‘Abbas bin Tamim: My uncle asked Allah’s Apostle about a person who imagined to have passed wind during the prayer. Allah’ Apostle replied: “He should not leave his prayers unless he hears sound or smells something.”
Sahih Bukhari Volume 009, Book 086, Number 086
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, “Allah does not accept prayer of anyone of you if he does Hadath (passes wind) till he performs the ablution (anew).”
Sahih Bukhari Volume 008, Book 07368, Number 1
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin Zam’a: The Prophet forbade laughing at a person who passes wind.
Tabari I 267
And Allah taught Adam all the names as follows: He taught him the name of everything, down to fart and little fart.
Sahih Bukhari Volume 007, Book 071, Number 614
Narrated Abu Said: A man came to the prophet and said, ‘My brother has got loose motions. The Prophet said, Let him drink honey.” The man again (came) and said, ‘I made him drink (honey) but that made him worse.’ The Prophet said, ‘Allah has said the Truth, and the abdomen of your brother has told a lie.”
Holy Blazing Saddles, Imam. It looks like the followers of Islam were the first true environmentalists seeing as how they were all knowing of greenhouse gasses.
Yes, Virginia; Muslim brothers kill Muslim brothers.
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Rival Militants Clash In Pakistan (Al-Qaeda vs Taliban)…-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803826/posts
“But Berlin Zoo holds different opinions. Its chief vet Andre Schuele says the activists’ criticisms would make him angry if he could take them seriously. “Polar bears live alone in the wild. I see no logical reason why this bear should be killed.”
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‘We want this baby polar bear dead’ say animal rights lobby
Tiny, fluffy and adorable, Knut the baby polar bear became an animal superstar after he was abandoned by his mother.
He rapidly became the symbol of Berlin Zoo, whose staff bottle-fed him and handed out cuddles in between.
At three months old, however, the playful 19lb bundle of fur is at the centre of an impassioned debate over whether he should live or die.
Animal rights activists argue that he should be given a lethal injection rather than brought up suffering the humiliation of being treated as a domestic pet.
“The zoo must kill the bear,” said spokesman Frank Albrecht. “Feeding by hand is not species-appropriate but a gross violation of animal protection laws.” …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803791/posts
Look at all those Injuns, Tonto. Do they vote Liberal?
Ugh, Kemo Sabay. …-
McGuinty Wants Ottawa Compensation In Caledonia
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty says it’s time Ottawa provided compensation to households neighbouring a contentious aboriginal occupation.
Dion Slams Budget For Ignoring Aboriginals
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion has slammed the federal budget for ignoring aboriginals and child care, while the finance minister said it will help working families and resolve the fiscal imbalance.
(national newswatch)
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republicans and Democrats sternly warned the FBI on Tuesday that it could lose its broad power to collect telephone, e-mail and financial records to hunt terrorists after revelations of widespread abuses of the authority detailed in a recent internal investigation.
Their threats came as the Justice Department’s chief watchdog, Glenn Fine, told the House Judiciary Committee that the FBI engaged in widespread and serious misuse of its authority in illegally collecting the information from Americans and foreigners through so-called national security letters.
If the FBI doesn’t move swiftly to correct the mistakes and problems revealed
Angus Reid poll on CTV web site right side, half way down on whether Dion will be the next Prime Minister.
Results so far, overwheming NO
http://www.ctv.ca/mini/budget2007/
The QC thing never ends
No sooner has $2.2 billion been transferred to QC (under what ever term you choose) than Charest has announced an across-the-board tax cut for Quebecers as part of his platform.
Tell me how Quebec ends up with a tax cut while the ROC ends up with not much more than popcorn without the beer – all in the name of fiscal balance, fiscal imbalance, equalization, or whatever. Pandering for votes in QC is the bottom line.
How sad it would be if Boisclair (in particular) or Dumont actually won the QC election and then have $2.2B to spend however they like. After all, there were no strings attached to the windfall.
Academy Award Winner and household energy efficiency expert Al Gore is appearing before the House Energy Subcommittee tomorrow morning. If you’ve got lots of time to waste you can watch it for yourself on C-Span starting at 9:30 AM. Gore apparently intends to bring bagfuls of postcards with him. Maybe he’ll bring some of those naked hippies with him, too. On with the cause….
Citoyen Dion Liberals-Taliban Jack NDP-socialists:
Soft on crime; soft on terrorists.
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Homegrown Extremism On Rise
Canada needs to do more to fight “homegrown” Islamist terrorism, says a classified intelligence report prepared for Prime Minister Stephen Harper that puts part of the blame on parents. …-
Commons Committee Summons O’Connor
The issue of enemy detainees captured by Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan just won’t stop dogging Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor….-
(national newswatch)
Islam: a death cult of infanticide.
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Brave Mujahideen Warriors Use Children in Car Bomb
There are no words.
Iraq insurgents used children in car bombing.
Insurgents in Iraq detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle with two children in the back seat after US soldiers let it through a Baghdad checkpoint over the weekend, a senior US military official said Tuesday.
The vehicle was stopped at the checkpoint but was allowed through when soldiers saw the children in the back, said Major General Michael Barbero of the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. “Children in the back seat lowered suspicion. We let it move through. They parked the vehicle, and the adults ran out and detonated it with the children in the back,” Barbero said. …-
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
“Children in the back seat lowered suspicion. We let it move through. They parked the vehicle, and the adults ran out and detonated it with the children in the back,” Barbero said. …”
AS I’ve said before, these animals would rather kill than eat. Of course the settings have to be right, lots of unsuspecting civilians gathering, handcuffed victims ready for beheadings, etc etc.
And what happens when these brave warriors get caught, they sing like birds.
Spineless cowards is what they are.
My final word on the budget (I hope)
Most of the budgets I’ve paid attention to in my lifetime have come in the past 30 years or so. They all had some things I liked and some things I didn’t but I will say this now. This budget is the very first one I can recall which directly targets the middle income taxpayer.
In all of the previous ones it seems to me that the government in power pandered to the galloping hordes of very loud special interest groups. To some extent the same holds true in this budget but it is interesting to note that the current government has, through their latest effort, diverted the motor mouths who scream the loudest by changing the rules on the “fiscal imbalance”.
If you are “His Blondness” or this guy you could have a huge problem coming down the pipes.
Therefore, I am not surprised by all the shouting and screaming.
“You see” — Canada has been a socialist dreamworld for “lo, these many years” as very loud special interest groups were able to repeatedly target the federal government for more money. All of a sudden they have to start chasing after their respective provincial premiers to get their grubby little mitts on the money which Harper has seen, in an unseemly fit of benevolence, to bequeath upon them.
He can truthfully say “Sorry, I gave it all away. Go talk to your premier — he’s the money guy now.”
And so they will go away.
Instead of chaining themselves to Harper’s front gate they will instead chain themselves to “McShifty’s” front gate “cause that’s where the rainbow ends”. You get the drift.
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I haven’t given up and as one person put it in a short comment on another entry:
“I trust Mr. Harper. …”
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http://www.jacksnewswatch.info/
Harper’s ‘Balancing’ Act: “Multiple Choice” Federalism
Without hyperbole and undue fanfare, Harper’s plan for rebalancing federalism is quite simply one of the most artful and historic in the evolution of federal provincial relations. It is bound to get lost in talk about the rest of the budget, and it is overshadowed by major constitutional negotiations like Meech Lake or Charlottetown, but the 2007 Budget is deserving of the highest accolades, nonetheless.
Harper took on a seemingly insurmountable challenge: After years of Liberal cut-backs to the provinces, he pledged to pull together a deal on equalization and transfer payments, in the face of several conflicting election promises, 10 conflicting premiers, a Quebec election, a minority government situation, and hundreds of bureaucratic, political and academic skeptics. This is no small task. Harper should be commended for promising to do so, applauded for attempting, and idolized for accomplishing it.
Sure, it’s a work in progress, but his attack on the fiscal imbalance is enough to impress anyone with even a cursory knowledge of fed-prov relations (not to mention Gilles Duceppe and Ed Stelmach). Today’s Globe article spells out the deal: …-
http://www.deepredtory.blogspot.com/
“Discrimination against gays is indeed unjust; it is wrong for an adoption agency to refuse to help a gay couple adopt a child when they meet all other tests for qualified parents. But the leaders of the Catholic church not only disagree, as a great many private citizens no doubt disagree. They also believe that it would be unconscionable for them, a sin against cardinal tenets of their faith, to hand a child in their care to gay parents. True, Catholics are not forced to run adoption agencies. But requiring them to choose between abandoning a historical mission of charity, in which they have contributed much benefit, and acting as they believe their faith forbids, does place them in a position in which they think their duty is compromised however they choose. It also diminishes the chances of abandoned children finding a stable home: the Catholic agencies, by all reports, have been among the most conscientious and successful.”
Professor Ronald Dworkin.
Melanie Philips comments on Dworkins’s piece in Prospect magazine.
http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1477
Cathy Seipp
Cathy Seipp’s daughter says she is losing her battle to cancer and has only a short time to live. I met her once, and briefly at the Pajamas Media kickoff in New York City. She had a glass of wine in her hand and a smile on her face. They say that Good Friday is the ultimate test of faith; but that is wrong. It is Easter Sunday. We have all of us seen paths tracked with tears, but none of us have seen an Empty Tomb. The most heartbreaking thing in life is not to know to sorrow but to see beauty and believe that we will never see anything so beautiful again. Her daughter Maya completes her mother’s last blog post at Pajamas Media.
If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,”
even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.
–Psalm 139
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http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/
Hi Kate
Never tried this before ,hope it works.I’m trying to post what I just read over at National newswatch about the soldier charged with the death of his bunkmate in Afghanistan.(Regrettable,I will let the facts speak for themselves).What got me incensed was the lines about W.Easter talkin to our defence chief.
I’ll try to paste it in,Friggin Liebrals,Still
Malpeque MP Wayne Easter met with Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor on Monday to highlight public concern over the charges.
Easter says he stressed to O’Connor that the incident is largely viewed as an accidental shooting in a war zone under very trying conditions.
The MP said he realizes that the minister cannot personally get involved in the file.
“But I know that when you give a minister information, that information is carried on to other places,” said Easter, who served as Canada’s solicitor general under Jean Chretien’s government.