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  2. al gore should just shut his pie hole, and worry about lowering his own carbon footprint….he is a class A hypocrite, and the last person on earth I would take advice from…..Baird was right on, the goracle should do some navel gazing(past and present), and work on righting the wrongs that he has created…park the jet, downsize your house, and recycle your plastic(the great massager of moonbat guilt)….stay the f#$% out of my life!

  4. How about Al Gore saying the Tories’ emissions plan is a “TOTAL FRAUD”. He who’s Country did not sign Kyoto. He’s yapping on about our plan without having a briefing on it’s contents.
    A Blob who’s Running around preaching CONVENIENT LIES without the ABILITY to debate the issue has some colossal nerve.
    Baird has asked him to discuss policy, that will end it, Reverend Al knows not of what he preaches.
    Much like Ignatieff on Duffy when he criticized the government on an issue but couldn’t say what he would do with the excuse he was not in power so didn’t have to have an answer. This is a member of a Party who is humping for power.

  5. Moving to the science end of things, BBC News has a story about a team of US researchers who used a supercomputer to simulate the workings of a mouse brain for ten seconds’ worth of computer time, comparable to one second of mouse time. Details here.

  6. It just didnt take but minutes for the Naturist Naturealist Dr. Bono Suzuki to show up and but hours for the Rev. Al , the Cetacean of Mass Consumption on his Gulfstream Ecology tour.
    The Rev Al reminds me of the old Flip Wilson preacher, he just needs to wear spats.
    how did Flips address go. “Brothers, Amem, Sisters Amen – and they found them,
    in the dark ,
    in the park ,
    in the nude.”
    sounds like the Canadian Economy and its citizens after we hobble ourselves again.
    Welcome to the world economy where money moves faster than emissions.

  7. “”We want neither Sharia, nor a coup, but a fully democratic Turkey,” they said.”
    More than one Million rally for Secularism in Turkey
    Police said more than 1 million people rallied in Istanbul on Sunday in defence of Turkey’s secular system and against the military’s threat of intervention amid a political crisis over presidential elections. “Turkey is secular and will stay that way,” chanted the protestors, who carried Turkish flags and portraits of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. “We want neither Sharia, nor a coup, but a fully democratic Turkey,” they said. The crowd also called for the resignation of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted government which many accuse of raising tensions over presidential elections. Police, backed by armoured…-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse

  8. TO Star – Sunday
    Good on Harper et al for still having 44 unfilled Immigration/Refugee Board adjudicators. In their terms – a foot dragging exercise. In my terms – a well-justified strategy for mitigating against a board of Francophone and/or political patronage appointments that have made just to many dumb rulings as regards their mandate. Competence has become the least important criterion while political correctness at all costs has become the norm.
    This is a bureaucratic entity that, like the Senate, should be totally eliminated. We have a much better chance of doing the former. The refugee component is a privilege, not a right, and so what if there is a backlog. The world is a tough place to be these days and of course this is to be expected.
    What we don’t have to tolerate are people thinking of themselves/acting as judges making groundbreaking decisions that will bind this country to increasing political correctness by approving people who are not at all concerned about building Canada but more concerned about bringing & imposing their own views on us with no intent of assimilating.
    One critic – wouldn’t you know it. Our friend Algehbra, the opposition citizenship critic. This would be the same person who is enamored with his own dual citizenship and with so little time in this country, he barely knows anything that Canada is about as a country.

  9. “He appealed to members of the “greater Conservative family” and moderate Quebec nationalists to return a Conservative majority government in a new election that will come “sooner or later.”
    Harper asks Quebec nationalists to join ‘Conservative family’
    […]
    Monday is Harper’s birthday, and after his speech, which was entirely in French, he was serenaded to the Quebec birthday theme, “Mon cher Stephen, c’est a ton tour de te laisser parler d’amour,” to the tune of Gens du Pays.
    “That’s the separatist national anthem,” said Andre Arthur, the independent MP for Portneuf Jacques Cartier, who also attended the event.
    Arthur said he intends to remain an independent, but “if I only ate with my own caucus, I would eat alone.”
    Harper’s birthday cake was decorated with the blue-and-red Conservative Party logo. The prime minister will be 48. …-
    http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=829b72cb-c25c-465b-8515-36d349be4471&k=54821

  10. Poll over at the globe, re kyoto. Are you prepared to pay more for appliances etc, is one question. 5 questions, and I like the last one.

  11. 1. A list of scandalized Bush Administration Officials to help the folks at Powerline, who recently admitted to having trouble remembering administration officials (beyond Scooter Libby) who had been accused of corruption or resigned in the face of scandal.
    http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002075.php
    2. Gore couldn’t pass Kyoto with a Republican controlled House and Senate.

  12. Gore’s “Earth in the Balance” is published in 1992.
    In 2007, we learn Gore’s mansion is still an energy hog.
    Who’s the total fraud eh?

  13. Fantino is Commissioner/Cop #1, of the Ont. Prov. Police.
    He is now the official puppet/mouthpiece of Lib Premier McGuinty.
    McGuinty is the ventriloquist; Fantino is the puppet on McGuinty’s knee. Guess where McGuinty has his hands?
    Fantino is engaging himself in politics.
    Get out of politics, Fantino. You are not elected.
    Get out of politics, Fantino.
    Fantino must resign. Hand in your badge, Fantino. You have become a pawn of Lib McGuinty.
    Resign Fantino. You have lost your credibilty. You do not speak for Ontario. You are only speaking for Lib McGuinty.
    …-
    Fantino Rips Ottawa Over Native Claims
    Aboriginal land claims and issues surrounding conflicts in Caledonia and Deseronto are federal matters and there has to be a response from Ottawa, the Ontario Provincial Police commissioner said yesterday.
    (national newswatch)

  14. Hmmm – from Paul to Pierre, and the beat goes on and what else is new.
    Felicitations to the tune of the Separatist national anthem and a red/blue birthday cake (mix the two and you get magenta – the color of minophones).
    Lets hope a string of IRB adjudicators in QC are not also part of the celebration.

  16. “But city police say there is no indication the cache is terrorist- or gang-related.”
    Conclusion:
    It’s just another “UnaBomber”; just a lone bomber; just an eccentric; just a harmless gun-explosives collector; just a tree stump remover going about its business.
    Be happy; don’t worry, Citizens. Bam; go to sleep.
    It’s a cover-up.
    …-
    Police seize ‘extraordinary’ weapons from Vancouver condo
    Guns and materials for making explosives have seen seized at a high-rise condominium in downtown Vancouver.
    But city police say there is no indication the cache is terrorist- or gang-related….-
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070428.wvanweap0428/BNStory/National/home

  17. So is the “slow-witted” crafty little Jean LaFleur going to pay back any of the stolen money? Sounds like, in pleading guilty, he will serve a Martha Stewart term in jail and continue to live the life of Riley once he gets out. Personally, I want to see him living on CPP for the rest of his life while all other monies are garnisheed ’til he dies.
    http://www.cbc.ca/cp/national/070427/n042793A.html

  18. “the showing of a documentary called Jihad on Horseback.”
    This propaganda from the socialist BBC does not mention that the genocide in Darfur is:
    Brown Arab Muslims, on horseback, killing black African Muslims.
    The quote above using the word, “Jihad”, is the only clue/allusion to the Islamic genocide. …-
    BBC headline:
    World rallies for Darfur action …-
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6604555.stm

  19. Re the suspended teacher in New Brunswick:
    Spinks–excellent commentary–says:
    “The teacher, Eric Cameron instructed the [aboriginal] boy to stand. The boy refused and then reportedly at the end said he refused to stand because O Canada doesn’t represent his culture. Cameron then sent the boy to the Principal’s Office. The Principal, Peggy Gorman-Mitchell isn’t sure what to do so she calls the District Office. The District under the direction of Superintendent Kathy Baldwin instructs the school to send the student back to class immediately. Cameron wants an apology from the student first but the District says forget it. Cameron is then suspended for refusing to allow the student back into class.”
    A teacher after my own heart!
    Spinks goes on to report, “You’re not hearing anything from other teachers (although there appears to be overwhelming support for Cameron) because a gag order has been placed on the Staff. If they publicly comment negatively on this issue, the teachers have been told they could be fired.”
    This is absolutely typical of the gulag type atmosphere of most public boards and schools. Openness? Transparency? No way. Teachers are kept in line through compliance to arbitrary fiats and fear of reprisals. And, unfortunately, there aren’t a whole lot of Eric Camerons (the teacher) out there.
    If there’s to be any honour or authority at all–and one cannot teach without both–the teacher did the only responsible thing. And who got punished? This is an example of the meltdown I’ve been describing here over and over.
    If children are our future–and they are–and this travesty is the present state of our publc schools–which it is–we’re in very big trouble.
    I notice that not many sda posters seem interested in the wreck of the public school system (which means nothing good for all of us). And I wonder why not.

  20. Just a small post a my blog, the_rat.blogspot.com. Some rights are rights and some aren’t apparently, and Liberals get to decide. But what else is new?

  21. Greg Watson has a column today re cutting ghg. He took some questionaire on this and come up with some answers on an individuals emmission/yr. My question is, if you change all your lightbulbs, and reduce emmission by ?%, for that house, is the reduction divided by the number of people in the home to reduce each persons yearly total of 10 tons (or is that tonnes) and if you don’t change bulbs, is the emmission/person increased by number in the home. Same with every other idea they have for reducing ghg.
    Basically, if a home emits x amt of ghg/yr how is that amt divided among the people living there. If only one person, then their toal ghg/yr is very high. If 6 people live there wouldn’t that lower their ghg/yr.
    How do they come up with a figure that each person emits x amt/yr. So, if you get married or get a roommate you could lower your output by 50%. Get divorced, you increase your output by 50%.
    This makes about as much sense as gore/suzuki crap.
    Have you ever seen co2, does it exist.

  22. Jason Cherniak picks up on what many Conservatives missed:
    “I feel like I shouldn’t write this, because I know how the Blogging Tories are likely to react. However, I have to ask the questions because I’m surprised that nobody else has.
    What are the chances that the big story about torture in Afghanistan just happened to be ready to print for the first time on a Monday when the Globe was launching a new format?”
    http://jasoncherniak.blogspot.com/2007/04/media-campaigns.html
    “Treasonous” doesn’t begin to cover this one.

  23. *
    “Accepted wisdom”… can kill you.
    Just something to consider the next time you hear Al Gore,
    or Saint David Suzuki spouting apocalyptic warnings…
    without providing a shred of scientific evidence to back
    it up.
    *

  24. Lookout
    I couldn’t agree with you more. I’ve been following the New Brunswick student case closely as I am a public high school teacher in a suburb of Vancouver.
    It’s not surprising that teachers are now being suspended for doing the right thing. The problems in our schools are cronic. The students get away with so much because they know there are no consequences.
    I, recently, disciplined a student in the hallway who was writing on the hallway walls and ceiling with a permanent marker. His punishment from admin.? Two days, in-school suspension (big deal – I say – suspension, from the school. Period). Our school youth worker, when made aware of the situation, said, “Oh well, that’s just Chris”. Apparently, this student has many other ‘issues’. Not good enough for me, I lost it on her!
    Unfortunately, cases similar to the one in New Brunswick will become more common. Sad, but true.

  25. I hear you, Ingid! ‘Great to hear from you too!
    I posted three times about schools and discipline at the “The Children Are Our Future” thread (a few below this).
    Teachers are being treated as no more than serfs in a feudal system. Medieval.
    We’re all paying and will continue to pay dearly for this travesty. The public boards are hypocrites of the worst kind.
    Citizens of this country should be questioning the HUGE salaries of the principals (around $100 000), superintendents ($130 000?), and directors (over $200 000) who ARE NOT DOING THEIR JOBS! They are a very serious part of the problem because they refuse to support their teachers re the atrocious behaviour of a critical mass of the entitled kids in our charge.
    Shame on all of them. (One problem: these people don’t seem to have any.)
    Kyrie eleison.

  26. “I couldn’t agree with you more. I’ve been following the New Brunswick student case closely as I am a public high school teacher in a suburb of Vancouver.”
    So Ingrid, perhaps you can explain to me why it is wrong for this NB kid to defy the teacher and not stand for the national anthem when just a short hop away in B.C. thousands of teachers defied a court order and remained on strike-an action that resulted in 1/2 million dollar fine to the teachers union.
    Teachers are hypocrites.
    Horny Toad
    Oh, I forgot, that was to get more money for the teachers and the strike was “for the students”.

  28. Headline is:
    Muslim taliban kill two Pakistani Muslims; shot in the head; tortured before being shot.
    The Muslim taliban are allied with the left-liberal socialists; in Canada, the taliban’s allies include: Taliban MayDion-Liberals and Taliban Jack-NDP.
    …-
    Militants kill two ‘US spies’ in northwest Pakistan
    PESHAWAR: Suspected militants shot dead two Pakistani men accused of spying for US troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, police said on Sunday.
    The bodies of two men, aged about 30, were found early Sunday by paramilitary soldiers near Khirgi checkpost in the northwestern town of Jandola which borders the South Waziristan tribal district, local police official Omar Hayat said.
    A note found with the bodies read “they were spying for Americans. They were involved in fake currency business and were enemies of 160 million Pakistani people.”
    The pair were shot in the head and one also had knife cuts on his throat, Hayat said.
    “We have identified the dead men and informed their families and the bodies were kept at the main police station in the adjoining town of Tank,” he said.
    Several tribesmen have been shot dead or beheaded this year for allegedly spying for US-led forces in Afghanistan or supporting Pakistan’s campaign against al-Qaeda and other militants in the rugged area.
    Key US ally Pakistan has deployed some 80,000 troops to hunt down Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters who are believed to have sneaked into the tribal terrain after the fall of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in late 2001. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825515/posts

  29. The ‘wreck’ of public schools is a natural result of an acceptance of moral relativism in our society.
    The teachers are part and parcel of the problem, especially throught their union. Should parents be concerned that students do not recognize the teachers authority, more than they should be concerned about teachers ignoring the authority of parents?
    Perhaps we could look at the complicity of universities in training teachers to think they care more about the students welfare ,and know better what that is , than the parents.
    Parents have been put in an impossible position. They are required to pay education taxes for an education that in all likelyhood offends and contradicts in some way what they are trying to instill in their children. Many do not have the economic means to educate their children elsewhere, or live in provinces that restrict their right to educate their children at home.
    My husband worked in the public system in Manitoba and NS., as both teacher and principal. (I can tell you he didn’t make anywhere near $100,00, even though he was max in years and education. You would need a very large school for that!)The union was a waste of our family funds (yes, pricipals pay too). The teachers were as difficult as the students. They are every bit as spoilt by privilege.
    Of course there should be better discipline in our schools. But who to teach it? Where the example . Which teacher stil lives who sees teaching as a vocation instead of a job that provides rights of privilege?
    We reap what we sow, and Canada is just starting to feel the natural results of a declining society befuddled by so many ‘choices’ without any ‘realities’.

  32. The Saskatchewan Federation of Labour says that if Saskatchewan signs on to an agreement to reduce trade barriers Saskatchewan should kiss the Saskatchewan Roughriders goodbye.”

  34. Saw a story on the news about protesters marching for peacekeepers to be sent to Darfur. Great idea. Get the military recuriters to attend these marches, and sign up all these volunteers to go overseas.

  35. Bio-fuels guy Rick and I had a 10 comment dbate on Corn juice vs battery juice on:
    AutoBlogGreen.com
    so I posted it on my site. This should help anyone thinking of going hybrid, pure plug-in or Corn additive to pick the winner. Click on my name below.
    The only thing holding back the EV now is North America has no idea freedom from the gas pump is here today.
    **Look ma, no gas and I save $300 a month.**
    = TG

  36. As a teacher, lwestin, I hear you and agree with most of what you say.
    One minor quibble: Re salaries: in the board where I teach, I believe, except for a few years re seniority, all principals receive the same salary: school size has nothing to do with it. (Teachers all get the same salary with seniority being the only criteria for receiving more. And that levels off at about ten years.)
    The unions–left wing and out of touch with reality at all levels: well, that’s left-wing for you!–are definitely part of the problem. The unions also treat teachers like serfs: Do what we say or we’ll break your arm. (That’s figurative language . . . ) Yes, the unions have helped with benefits, some working conditions–NOT discipline issues–and salaries, but they fully support the Charter mentality, which upholds rights–though, funnily enough, rarely teachers’ rights–and “equality”.
    When a union I know of is involved in “supporting” a teacher against the arbitrary actions of an administrator, the union officials appear to be unprepared. As well, no written documentation is recorded or distributed–elementary, my dear Watson!–and so there’s no paper trail. E.g., I know of a teacher who won a significant appeal against a malicious and unscrupulous principal: the union made no record of it. IMO, the union should have prepared a written account of the whole affair, with the outcome–which entirely vindicated the teacher–and should have cc’ed it to the teacher, the principal, the Supervisory Officer (S.O.), and the Director. (That should be standard procedure.) Holding this abusive person to account may have halted the carnage. On the contrary, though the principal was removed from the school–the parents, who were also mistreated, finally managed to persuade the S.O. to remove this very dangerous person–this principal is now at another guinea pig school and behaving in the same unprofessional and destructive manner. (The union knows all about this person and has no paperwork to document it. Morons! How about exorbitantly paid–by the teachers–incompetent, hypocritical morons!? )
    The unions are so in thrall to political correctness and moral relativism, that they’re altogether compromised. Their officials also hang out with–and, in some cases, are even married to–board administrators. Although they all started out as “lowly” teachers, most got to where they are in the union or administration because most of them are sycophants and toadies: they want the power and the big $$. Teaching as a vocation? What’s that, they’d say.
    Many teachers have problems with the unions. Do we take them on? Not usually. Useless as they often are, one might “need” them one day. Catch 22!
    In fact, it sounds like Eric Cameron might be a real teacher. Real teachers are generally despised by the powers that be. Are they supported? Are they appreciated? Not on your life. (Before the PC, moral relativists took over, they used to be.) Because they WILL speak out and take a stand–most of them choose their battles very carefully–they are considered dangerous. Do their kids make significant academic gains and learn to love learning? Do they manage their classes, their communications, their other professional obligations well? Are they committed to excellence? As far as the powers that be are concerned, their professionalism, their high standards, and verifiable successes count for nothing to very little if they don’t go with the flow. (In direct contravention of the boards’ own policies and protocols, conformism is, in reality, the educational establishment’s most valued attribute. Such bald-faced hypocrisy!)
    In fact, principled teachers get pretty much beaten up for not being sheep: fraudulent teacher appraisals, grade and subject reassignments, their classrooms confiscated and inferior spaces substituted, promotions denied, their authority undermined–a la Eric Cameron . . . the list goes on and on. (Oh, and the sheeple teachers often shun teachers who take a stand.) This kind of abuse–for that’s exactly what it is–is demoralizing in the extreme. (The unions don’t address any of this.) A career one used to love has morphed into a gulag. Generally, administrators are GLAD to see the backs of any teachers who don’t just shut up and do what they’re told.
    Once all the teachers with backbone are gone, really watch out.

  37. Wow, lookout, thank you for an informative, obviously passionate response. I didn’t know there were such huge problems (although, to be fair, I have no kids and thus pay less attention tot he education system).
    Thank you for sharing this.

  38. from CBCpravda – the joy of a pravda-psuedo-celebrity
    I wouldn’t be my father’s son if I expected anything to be handed to me. I’ve always worked for everything I’ve ever had in my life,” he said.
    Trudeau is attempting to begin his political career in a riding currently held by Bloc Québécois MP Vivian Barbot.
    But dear Justin – daddy got his handed to him

  39. Thanks, Johann. It’s truly that bad. (And my above posts are only the tip of the iceberg!) Most teachers can’t wait to get out.
    In spite of being–figuratively–overloaded with a monster curriculum and reams of useless paperwork, as well as gagged, handcuffed, and kicked when they’re down, many teachers do a fine job. (But that’s IN SPITE of the system, not because of it.)
    And Johann, you may have no kids, but the ones I teach and the entitled lout who wouldn’t stand for “O Canada” may be working for you or, heaven forbid, one day be your boss.
    None of us is exempt from the radioactive fallout of the dysfunctional public education systems we all fund and whose “outcomes” will be living and working (sic) in a neighbourhood near you!
    Yikes! Head for the hills! (But there aren’t any more hills.) I think it’s time to take a stand and fight back. If it’s not too late . . .

  40. Thanks, Johann. My brief response to you is being held. Maybe you’ll see it later. Cheers.

  41. Warning. Pro-choice is an euphemism/double-talk for: abortion.
    …-
    ‘Pro-Choice’ Epitomizes ‘Double Speak’: Why Euphemisms are Necessary
    Lying is at the heart of all injustice, as yesterday’s Communists talked of “equality” and provided equally miserable conditions or today’s Islamists deny the holocaust ever occurred while plotting a new one. Here in America, as Kathleen Parker makes abundantly clear in her column today, the advocates of unrestricted abortion have deliberately used sterile language to conceal the nature of the act which eventuates in the death of a developing human being. Parker introduces her readers to such expressions as “disarticulate the fetus” and even “reduce” or “separate the fetal calvarium.”
    Herewith, a brief translation:
    Disarticulating a fetus, which sounds like suspending a pre-born’s instant-messaging privileges, means to dismember it. Reducing a calvarium — a thoroughly desirable-sounding procedure, like lancing a boil — means to suck the brains from the baby’s head. Separating the calvarium means to sever the head with scissors….-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825571/posts

  42. As I wrote at my blog lookout, if the students do indeed bail out of school in protest waving Canadian flags, that little School District just bought itself some national media attention. They would be wise to be very clear as to what their stance is on this issue.

  44. Glenn – maybe we can trade Newfoundland with the United States for Alaska.
    And, according to many Newfies who are now making good money working FULL TIME (what a new concept to many NLers) they may be working in Alberta BUT they pay provincial taxes TO Newfoundland. !!!
    Imagine that, Danny Williams. How many millions and millions of dollars of taxes are you collecting from your residents working in Alberta?
    Now, if NL was it’s own country there may be some big time different rules in place. These people may have to pay taxes where they live (Alberta) instead of where they send money home to (Newfoundland).
    Tell us again, Mr. Williams, about why the rest of us canadians should pay your province a larger share than anyone else?
    Are you going to make the same argument to your fellow Premiers as you have made publically to bad mouth the Prime Minister?
    What support will you have when Lorne Calvert, the other whiner complaining his people are more special than the rest of us, is defeated in the next election?
    You call yourself a “Conservative” and yet whine like a socialist. It is really really not helping you politically with the wonderful Newfies who work here in Alberta but vote back home.
    But, go ahead and leave Canada. I’m guessing not a lot of your residents will go with you.

  45. OH NO and G O D Help Canada.
    ANOTHER Trudeau!!!! Justin just won the Liberal nomination in Papinaue Quebec.
    He beats out a 30 year town counsellor who actually LIVES there. Are the people there NUTS!!!!
    They voted for a NAME looking for a Saviour with a kid who has glorified his Dad’s youthful communist dalliances and worships “Uncle Fidel”.
    This country’s entire fabric has been muddied and torn and smeared by Trudeau number one, then his sidekick Chretien and still with a whole batch of Trudeau appointed Liberal senators.
    Can we ever ever ever get this country back on track? Now we have the mopheaded child who will be quoted for every communist blathering he can come up with by the media who worships the DNA.
    Who else here is just disgusted by this?
    i

  46. Fatties told they can flick a switch to flick off the fatties, aka syndromeX.
    “Sometimes called syndromeX, this consists of obesity and its consequences,”
    It’s easy, too. A pill for fatties; a form of fat.
    Miss Piggy did it; so can youse fatties.
    Message to fatties: Flick Off.
    …-
    New pill would give obese easy route to health
    The Australian ^ | Jonathan Leake
    SCIENTISTS have created an exercise pill that tricks cells into thinking they are undergoing serious exertion and so helps the body burn extra fat. The drug hints at radical new potential treatments for obesity whereby fat people would be able to use drugs to slim down rather than dieting or exercising. The drug, a synthetic form of fat, has only been tested on animals. It appears to work by flicking a master switch within cells that regulates the laying down or burning of fat….-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825596/posts

  47. Conservative Over-Spending on Afghanistan Leaves No Funds for Critical Search-And-Rescue Equipment
    April 26, 2007
    OSLO – The minority Conservative government’s flurry of spending on tanks and other equipment for the Afghanistan mission has left Canada’s military without enough money to upgrade its search-and-rescue capacity, Liberal Defence Critic Denis Coderre said today.
    “The purchase of new search-and-rescue aircraft was the number one equipment priority for the Canadian Forces in 2003,” Mr. Coderre said from Oslo, where NATO is meeting on the Afghanistan mission. “But this government’s recent spree of equipment purchases has stretched the budget so thin that this critical purchase has been shelved indefinitely.”
    The military’s purchase of 15 search-and-rescue planes was supposed to replace the 40-year-old Buffalo aircraft on Canada’s West coast as well as the aging Hercules transport planes used for such missions.
    But, according to news reports, the $1.3-billion program to buy a fleet of new fixed-wing search-and-rescue aircraft has been derailed by the hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on equipment for Afghanistan, including a $650-million order for Leopard tanks and multibillion-dollar purchases of C-17 and C-130J transport aircraft and Chinook helicopters.
    Mr. Coderre noted that since aircraft such as the C-130J won’t be delivered for at least three more years, there should still be money in the military procurement budget for search-and-rescue aircraft.
    “What is it going to take before the Conservatives acknowledge they must proceed with this program – a large-scale disaster that our military can’t respond to?” Mr. Coderre said.
    http://www.liberal.ca/story_12735_e.aspx

  48. Careful maz2 what you say. Might I remind you that you posting in a blog of mostly conservatives, and well cons tend to be on average, well shall we say gravitationally challenged? Besides, by putting up such a statement like that, you are in fact insulting your very own prime minister.

  49. Iranian Muslim men wear make-up/cosmetics?
    By the beard of Allah-Mohammed, it is so. That Allah-Mohammed is such a gay blade.
    Allah’s motto: Look sharp; be sharp.
    See Haddith LXVVIV, Vol 256, Chpt. 1,894, Page 45,678, Par. 1,768, where it is written …
    …-
    Iranian authorities now “clamping down on Western hairstyles” for men
    Mosters & Critics ^ | April 29, 2007
    Iranian authorities are clamping down on barbers in Tehran, ordering them strictly to avoid making hairstyles for men considered by the administration as ‘Western’ and not in accordance with Islamic norms, a press reports said. The daily Etemad quoted a spokesman of Tehran’s Barber Association as saying that offenders of this new instruction would lose their licence and the association’s support. The instruction, which did not clarify what hairstyles would be taboo, also includes a ban on make-up and cosmetics for men in barber shops. Tehran police earlier this month warned women and men in Iran to observe the Islamic…-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825594/posts

  50. Re: albatross @5:12
    Breaking news…Liberal Party of Canada too illiterate to put out a simple, properly punctuated news release…notice incorrect comma usage (“But,”) and incorrect use of hyphen (“multibillion-dollar”)…Bob blames affirmative action…developing….

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