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Meeker on Media – “I’ve heard many rowdy listener call-in shows, but none as boisterous as this. In fact, the racket it raised is still echoing within the corridors of the CBC.”
What if we were to offer something nice in pastel, instead?
A New Zealand climate denier meteorologist in the pay of big sheep.
A number of you will thank me for linking to this I suspect.
Hurrumph. With all the money being thrown around by Cerberus these days, the least he could do is hit my paypal button.

53 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. It’s a darn shame that a woman as fine looking as that Gaia is a lefty eco-warrior.
    Is there such a thing as a Betty Ford-like rehab center for lefties needing to get their minds unscrambled? 🙂

  4. Peg Norman sure puts a positive face on the pro-choice side of the abortion debate, doesn’t she?
    Anyone who is pro-life (you notice I’ve used the terms each side likes to use for themselves) soon becomes used to the vindictiveness of many of the pro-choice folk who, ironically, actually support only one side of the abortion debate.
    ‘Anyone else notice the hypocrisy here?
    The only choice that’s allowed is “pro-choice” and the only individuals who should be allowed freedom of speech are those who voice the “pro-choice” side of the argument. Norman’s statement, “I cannot believe it…that my public broadcaster would have you [“hateful and misogynyst” pro-lifer, Patrick Hanlon] on” says it all.
    Peg Norman is convinced that the CBC should only ever voice the pro-choice side of the abortion argument. Isn’t this tantamount to propaganda, something that Pravda would do?
    It seems that John Furlong, the CBC interviewer is now in deep trouble with the CBC brass because he dared to allow a pro-life spokesperson to express his views. Well-done, Mr. Furlong. I hope that you keep your job, seeing as you were fulfilling the CBC’s mandate, which is to air balanced views on issues of importance to all Canadians.
    The CBC brass frequently forget this.

  5. Liberals only take money from people who earn it. Likewise they only give it to others who also, don’t earn it.
    It’s the story of the ant and the grasshopper but in this tale the grasshopper’s a thief.

  7. i found it interesting that hanlon refused to go on the show when she was approached. yet what happens, she is the first caller and the tirade begins. looks to me like she’s afraid of a face to face confrontation.

  8. So it Ted from “Cerberus” somehow associated with the organization that bought most of the Pentastar firm from the Tri-Pointed Star firm?
    Used to be a Dodge guy but now I’ll stick with the General. The General’s back, baby, and in the black, too!

  10. Global warming debunked
    The Timaru Herald
    Climate change will be considered a joke in five years time, meteorologist Augie Auer told the annual meeting of Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers in Ashburton this week.
    Man’s contribution to the greenhouse gases was so small we couldn’t change the climate if we tried, he maintained.
    “We’re all going to survive this. It’s all going to be a joke in five years,” he said.
    A combination of misinterpreted and misguided science, media hype, and political spin had created the current hysteria and it was time to put a stop to it. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836379/posts

  11. “That is the core reason why all of us are given the freedom to speak and why the press is given the freedom to gather news and report — to enable democracy. To give us the information we need to vote intelligently and lobby effectively and scream en masse when there is screaming to be done.”
    Start screaming.
    […]
    News black outs: Time to start screaming
    We’re drowning in a cesspool of censorship and secrecy that threatens each one of us
    By Dianne Rinehart
    The Hamilton Spectator(May 19, 2007)
    I’m trying to figure out how an inquiry the government and RCMP told us for decades wasn’t necessary is day after day giving me information that terrifies me.
    Information (hello!) we needed to know — and had a right to know — the day after an Air India jet carrying 329 passengers was blown from the sky in 1985, not 22 years later.
    Information such as the fact planes were taking off when security equipment wasn’t working and RCMP bomb-sniffing dogs weren’t available. Or that the former head of security and intelligence for foreign affairs, James Bartleman, could be rebuffed when he tried to deliver intelligence to the RCMP that warned a plane taking off from Canada would be targeted — and he didn’t scream bloody blue murder because he believed an RCMP officer’s word that they were on top of it, something we sadly now know wasn’t true at all.
    But that was then and this is now, you say? Wrong.
    Last fall Canadian Press reporter Jim Bronskill was one of several reporters who told the annual Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies conference about how hard it now is to get information that used to be public — such as the results of exercises that test the effectiveness of security staff to find weapons and other banned carry-on items at Canadian airports, for example.
    So how can the public now be assured airports are safe and lax security is being corrected? We can’t. […]
    http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_=2af2c01ffd33518d&pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1179551708210
    …-

  12. Those on the “pro-choice” side of the debate are not only often vindictive and anti-choice re opinion, but intellectually vapid. E.g., Recently, I had dinner with friends who are “pro-choice”. They are well educated, savvy people. Their 20-something, sexually active–I’m sure she uses birth control– daughter, whom I dearly love (and who introduced the topic), expressed the opinion that, surely, killing the product of conception was OK, especially in the early stages when it’s not human. “You mean it’s maybe a fox or an oak tree?” I responded. Sheesh!
    I pointed out that the four people in the room–her, her mom, and dad, and I–were programmed the second conception took place: our DNA was set at that moment and hasn’t altered since. She didn’t have a response. (But at least she was still nice to me. Her mom hurried out from the kitchen to say we should cease and desist from any more discussion of the topic. I was very discouraged. As I was a guest in their home, I also did what I was told. But maybe that’s the last time I’m invited for dinner.)

  13. Its tied 2-2 with the Ottawa Senators into overtime.
    Who would have ever believed it, Canadians are cheering “Ottawa SENATORS”!!!
    AGW hockey sticks have been replaced with real hockey sticks.
    Call out softwood minister Emerson, to verify the sticks!
    Ably assisted by a couple of Russians, a Swiss, a Swede, a couple of Germans, some Americans, a gaggle of Canadians, and Dany Heatly born in my aunts residence of Freiburg.
    Go SENS, GO!!

  14. Who owns Stephen Harper?
    3w.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=a8757ce2-9c26-4b5c-bd7f-e13c68e1c006

  15. Here’s a quote from a Green Blogger that the leader of the Greens should probably answer for:
    “Our motto should be Kyoto or die!”
    Right, so what, lots of partisan bloggers go over the top – why should she answer for that?
    Here’s why – it’s from the Green Party’s Official Blog right on their website. That’s not even the worst quote of course.
    and re: hypocritical greens and their gore-esque levels of energy use. how much energy is used to download and view one of these green websites with their lush flash and graphics?

  17. lberia “censored” untold millions before Khruschev had him snuffed.
    …-
    Death Pact
    “A report released today by the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) concludes that the scale, the scope, and the sophistication of state-based Internet filtering have all increased dramatically in recent years,” according to the MIT Technology Review.
    According to the report, China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia remain the top blockers. Each nation filters not just pornography, but also a wide range of political, human-rights, religious, and cultural sites deemed subversive by those countries’ governments.
    Other countries are more selective in what they let citizens see or not see. Syria and Tunisia, for example, filter a great deal of political content, while Burma and Pakistan target websites that pertain to national-security issues….-
    http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/

  18. “”Our motto should be Kyoto or die!”
    wonder if they would prefer bullets at a firing squad wall or a 3 foot drop with a noosed rope ??
    As long as they get their wish.

  20. Palestinian Journalist: ‘Hamas Has Turned Mickey Mouse into a Monstrous Figure’
    The Jerusalem Post’s Khaled Abu Toameh has a very interesting piece on the Palestinian “unity government” and the role of Death Cult Mickey: A Mickey Mouse unity.
    ’I wonder what Farfur has to say about the latest fighting between Fatah and Hamas,“ a respected Palestinian journalist in the Gaza Strip said this week when asked to comment on the internecine violence.
    Farfur, a squeaky-voiced Mickey Mouse look-alike, is the star of a weekly children’s program called ”Tomorrow’s Pioneers,“ broadcast on the official Hamas station, Al-Aksa TV.
    Farfur has thus far ignored the street fighting that has left more than 165 killed since the beginning of the year, choosing instead to attack the ”oppressive invading Zionist occupation“ that must be ”resisted“ at all costs.
    ”Hamas has turned Mickey Mouse into a monstrous figure,“ said the journalist, who describes himself as a secular and moderate Muslim. ”When you spread such messages of hatred, especially among children, you then can’t ask why young men grow up to become so violent and ruthless.” …-
    http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

  21. “A number of you will thank me for linking to this I suspect.”
    …ummm, ummm, ummm, ummmmmmmmmm
    Owie…my knuckle now hurts from biting too hard.

  22. While I am firmly against abortion of any kind my one exception is that abortion should be mandatory for liberals.

  24. Que. couple faces human trafficking charges
    A Quebec couple are facing human trafficking charges in a case that RCMP in Montreal are calling the first of its kind.
    […]
    According to The Canadian Press, the couple hired the Ethiopian woman while living in Lebanon and brought her with them when they returned to Canada.
    The couple, who are Canadian citizens, used the woman as a nanny, say police. […]
    Nichan Manoukian and his wife Manoudshag Saryboyadijan, face charges of trafficking in persons, receiving material benefit from it and withholding travel or identity documents…-
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070518/trafficking_charges_070518/20070518?hub=CTVNewsAt11

  25. tomax7…we’re on the same wave length about that particular link. And I also echo the sentiments of one of the posters under the photo regarding the ability to pick up gorgeous women…funny, it never used to be a problem for me…but after I hit 50…well, not so much…well actually…zero now.
    Of course my wife would probably have something to say about it. However, in the case of the photo’d babe, my guess is that she would probably bring her door-to-door in the neighbourhood to boast about who I’m “doing”…ok, maybe that’s the Chardonnay talking, but one can always dream… 🙂

  28. Gaia and Ouranos (earth and sky) together begat: DiCaprio.
    …-
    DiCaprio sheds light on ’11th Hour’
    Hollywood Reporter
    […]
    I want the public to be very scared by what they see. I want them to see a very bleak future. I want them to feel disillusioned halfway through and feel hopeless. And then when we get into the entire section in the second half when we talk about cultural transformation and a new way of looking at things and the alternatives or green technology and all these things, you realize there is great hope and there are options on the table. And hopefully the audience is moved and galvanized to do something about it. Hopefully. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836540/posts

  29. Russia: A People of Paradox.
    Read Chekhov’s short stories/dramas and be awed at the mysterious/paradoxical Russians.
    “the 160th (nobody can be certain of precise numbers) journalist to meet a violent end in post-communist Russia.”
    …-
    Investigative report: The Kremlin Killings
    After a series of brutal murders of dissident journalists in Russia, Craig Murray, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, went to investigate.
    His disturbing report reveals how deeply the cancer of criminality has infected Putin’s society
    One Friday two months ago, Ivan Safronov, defence correspondent of the authoritative Kommersant newspaper in Moscow, made his way home from work.
    After a mild winter, Moscow had turned cold in March and Safronov held a bag of groceries in one hand while keeping his coat closed against the snow with his other.
    Arriving at the entrance to his grim Soviet-era apartment block, Safronov punched in the security code which opened the grey metal door at the entrance to the gloomy hallway.
    So far this is a perfectly normal Moscow scene. But then – and this is the official version of events – Ivan Safronov apparently did something extraordinary.
    He walked up the communal stairs, past his second-floor apartment to the top landing between the third and fourth floors.
    Then, placing his groceries on the floor, he opened a window, climbed on to the sill and leapt to his death, becoming around the 160th (nobody can be certain of precise numbers) journalist to meet a violent end in post-communist Russia. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836530/posts

  32. The following letter recently appeared in the “Flagging Spirits . . .
    Although I am as pleased with the recent success of the Ottawa Senators, I cannot help but be alarmed at the distressing trend being adopted by some of the team’s fans. The sight of so many gasoline-driven vehicles displaying Senators’ flags flapping in the air, exerting a drag against the efficiency of the automobile is alarming. I admit I haven’t calculated the coefficient of drag that these flags are causing, but I’m sure it must be significant.
    It is one thing to show pride in one’s team, but quite another to wantonly waste fuel. What is the use of having a team to cheer for if the planet is to suffer? How sad that to show our support for the Senators, so many must show such disrespect for Mother Earth.”     J.P.

  33. Corrected post: My intro did not appear in the above posting:
    The following letter recently appeared in the Ottawa Citizen. It is either an example of an environmentalist who has gone completely off the deep end . . . or it is an exquisite spoof of a batty environmentalist – you be the judge. (Either way, it’s funny!)
    Context: Because the Ottawa Senators are in the playoffs, lots of people are sporting SMALL Senators flags on their cars:
    “Flagging Spirits . . .
    Although I am as pleased with the recent success of the Ottawa Senators, I cannot help but be alarmed at the distressing trend being adopted by some of the team’s fans. The sight of so many gasoline-driven vehicles displaying Senators’ flags flapping in the air, exerting a drag against the efficiency of the automobile is alarming. I admit I haven’t calculated the coefficient of drag that these flags are causing, but I’m sure it must be significant.
    It is one thing to show pride in one’s team, but quite another to wantonly waste fuel. What is the use of having a team to cheer for if the planet is to suffer? How sad that to show our support for the Senators, so many must show such disrespect for Mother Earth.” J.P.

  34. “A number of you will thank me for linking to this I suspect.”
    Great optical illusion there Kate. If you stare at the page long enough you will notice some type of writing on the page as well.

  35. Gleetings to Can/US from Mao Stlong:
    Weather goody here in Beijing and foody goody. One egg loll? Two egg loll?
    Is year of dead dog.
    …-
    Why U.S. doesn’t stop tainted food from China
    san jose mercury ^ | 5/20/07 | by Rick Weiss
    WASHINGTON – Dried apples preserved with a cancer-causing chemical. Frozen catfish laden with banned antibiotics. Scallops and sardines coated with putrefying bacteria. Mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides. These were among the 107 food imports from China the Food and Drug Administration detained at U.S. ports just last month, agency documents reveal, along with more than 1,000 shipments of tainted Chinese dietary supplements, toxic Chinese cosmetics and counterfeit Chinese medicines. For years, U.S. inspection records show, China has flooded the United States with foods unfit for human consumption. And for years, FDA inspectors have simply returned to Chinese importers the small…-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836658/posts

  36. Who killed cock robin/Daddy Warbucks? The latte/champagne socialists are asking: Who robbed Canada? Who was the Unabomber? What is anarchy? What is the motive?
    Find the “racial profiling”. White; not black, yellow, green, red, brown, blue: White.
    “He [The man, who is considered of interest and not a suspect, is white] also had a dark-coloured knapsack on his back.”
    …-
    Lauded conservationist shot dead
    Garage slaying ‘robbed Canada of a hugely important figure’
    Millionaire philanthropist and avid conservationist Glen Davis, once lauded as one of the best friends the Canadian environmental community has ever had, […]
    “He wasn’t just philanthropic, he really believed in the work of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF),” said friend Sonja Bata, one of the country’s most prominent philanthropists herself, who has known Davis for a decade and served with him on the national council of the WWF. {…]
    …-
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/05/20/4194812-sun.html

  37. Read this mega-watt, gigawatt howler:
    “Anderson is a former chartered accountant whose firm’s clients included Ontario Hydro, so he necessarily became educated on what the nuclear industry was all about.”
    Comedy Central Ontario Hydro: best-line award for bfggakyt.
    Q: Who wrote this crap? A: Hanneke Brooymans, The Edmonton Journal.
    More bs from Hanneke: “The prospect of a planet cooked by climate change…”
    ..-
    Eco-‘Judases’ now back nuclear power
    Global warming prompts change of heart
    EDMONTON – The prospect of a planet cooked by climate change is leading some environmentalists to openly embrace what was once considered a bitter foe: the nuclear power industry.
    For the last year, Canada has even had its own chapter of an international group called Environmentalists For Nuclear Energy. And prominent academics and conservationists, such as paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey and University of Alberta aquatics ecologist David Schindler, have expressed their support for what they see as a necessary power source to meet the world’s ravenous energy demands.
    “Our argument is this: We’re going to destroy the planet with greenhouse gas emissions,” says Rod
    Anderson, president of Canada’s Environmentalists For Nuclear Energy.
    …-
    http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=7050b299-662f-409e-bd24-728e2a072063

  38. Incoming
    What an incoming Kassam rocket looks and sounds like as captured by Shlomo Wollins of Israel Reporter in his backyard in Sderot on the afternoon of May 15th, 2007. You can hear the twitter of the birds right up to the moment when the warhead impacts. […]
    As I’ve argued elsewhere people who are unwilling to accept brutal solutions had better be willing to counsel patience and invest in building capability. And maybe this applies to Iraq as much as to Gaza.
    Grozny
    http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/05/incoming.html

  39. Canadian Front Page: ‘Experts Say Many of the Claims in Al Gore’s Film Are Wrong’
    Newsbusters
    Canadian Front Page: ‘Experts Say Many of the Claims in Al Gore’s Film Are Wrong’
    Here’s something that is almost a metaphysical certitude: no major American newspaper, in the midst of all the current global warming hysteria, would dare do a front-page feature article questioning the merits of Al Gore’s schlockumentary “An Inconvenient Truth.”
    Yet, there it was Saturday, covering almost two-thirds of the front page of Canada’s National Post, right smack in the middle, with a big picture of the Global Warmingist-in-Chief, surrounded by the shocking headline:
    Even Climate Change Experts Say Many of the Claims in Al Gore’s Film Are Wrong.
    So How Did it Become Required Classroom Viewing?
    Think you’ll see that some day on the front page of the New York Times, Washington Post, or USA Today?
    While you ponder, the article was just as skeptical (emphasis added throughout):
    First it was his world history class. Then he saw it in his economics class. And his world issues class. And his environment class. In total, 18-year-old McKenzie, a Northern Ontario high schooler, says he has had the film An Inconvenient Truth shown to him by four different teachers this year. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836723/posts

  40. Islamist-Left Alliance a Growing Force
    “Where else can you sit down in a single evening and listen to senior people from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, people from the revolutionary left and the antiwar movement from around the globe?”
    — British Trotskyite John Rees at the Cairo Anti-War Conference, April 2007
    Over the past year, multiple international conferences have featured leaders of the anti-global left and Islamist groups working together. Go to any anti-war or anti-globalization demonstration in the West and chances are you will see the flags of Hezbollah and Hamas waved by people wearing Che Guevara T-shirts. And at some of these meetings, members of such radical Islamist groups as the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and Hezbollah have enjoyed starring roles.
    The roster of Islamist-left alliances quietly grows every day: Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguistics professor Noam Chomsky praises Hamas and denounces America on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television. London Mayor Ken Livingstone invites a leading Islamist, Sheikh Yosef Al-Qaradawi, who is known for supporting suicide attacks, to visit his city. Iranian President Ahmadinejad calls for a world without America even as he plays host to a Tehran peace conference attended by American Mennonites, Quakers, Episcopalians, Methodists, and leaders of the National Council of Churches.
    The key forum at this year’s annual Cairo Anti-War Conference was titled “Bridge-building Between the Left and Islam,” and focused on practical ways to increase cooperation. The aim of the conference sessions were described in one piece of literature as tackling “the challenges and prospects facing the international anti-war and pro-intifada movements” and planning “strategy and tactics for bridging the gap and uniting Islamist and leftist ranks in the face of U.S. imperialism and Zionism.” …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836683/posts

  41. Finally !! Some intelligent reporting from our Canadian media.
    //www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=7050b299-662f-409e-bd24-728e2a072063
    Of couse they still have to lead (cause-it-bleeds) with phrases (that are false) like “a planet cooked by climate change”.
    But at least the MSM is now starting to report (years after the blogs) on sensible environmentalists, such as Canada’s Patrick Moore and Gary Lewis.
    The jist of the story is Nuclear energy can replace a lot of CO2 emmiting plants.
    “When we burn fossil fuels we release the waste directly into the atmosphere and use the atmosphere as a kind of a dump,” he says. “We’re sending the carbon dioxide and the air pollution away into the air from our cars and from our power plants and from the gas that is being used in the oilsands.”
    “With nuclear power that waste is contained all through the process, and it isn’t difficult to contain it. I think people have this idea that the nuclear waste is roiling around trying to get out, when in fact it’s in the form of solid pellets.” Patrick Moore.
    “[Gary] Lewis is a contractor who does mechanical design work for Syncrude. He believes nuclear power would be great for the oilsands. But the foundation of his support for nuclear power began when he lived in northern Manitoba, where he met his Cree wife. There he witnessed the devastating effect the Churchill River diversion project had on the aboriginal people, destroying their way of life.”
    Dion’s Quebec Hydro, ya hear that ??
    David Suzuki is diametrically opposed to Patrick Moore.
    But then Suzuki is opposed to anything that is not burning wood in a cave 🙂

  42. Canadians don’t care for Sicko
    Moore’s health-care film gets rough reception
    …We Canucks were taking issue with the large liberties Sicko takes with the facts, with its lavish praise for Canada’s government-funded medicare system compared with America’s for-profit alternative……I suggested to Moore that Sicko makes Canada’s health system look so great, it wouldn’t be surprising if Prime Minister Stephen Harper – of whom Moore is no fan – handed out DVD copies of it as campaign material in a future election…
    thestar.com/printArticle/215801

  43. *
    For anybody who pissed away their adolescence actually studying,
    obeying their parents and not ingesting all sorts of weird chemicals…
    it’s not too late to get it on.
    You too, can go back in time… just like Mr. Peabody and Sherman.
    *

  44. In the May 19th issue of The National Post, George Jonas has written a fine, hard hitting article about abortion and the lack of both honesty and candor in discussing this issue in Canada (and elsewhere).
    With respect, I also notice that this issue is generally sidestepped even at sda, the “home”, it seems to me, of honesty and candor on a whole lot of other hot topics.
    Here’s the link to the article. (I hope my post goes through.)
    http://digital.nationalpost.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

  45. JM, I hope it is just a coincidence that you commented on another ‘Moore’ !!??
    There is a world of difference between Patrick and Michael.
    One walks the walk. The other just talks and makes garbage.
    I wonder what Michael thinks of the burning fuel truck making the steel soft and collapsing the San Fran Bay bridge ramp ??

  46. Thanks, lookout. You’re right about the side-stepping when it comes to the topic of abortion, admittedly a painful subject for some.
    I’ve commented over at Jack’s Newswatch on just that article, pointing out that we need to reopen the debate on abortion, especially as so many medical personnel are refusing to either perform or attend at this procedure–one needs to ask Why?–and revisit the issue of “informed consent” when it comes to this surgical procedure.
    All women are being ill-served by the blackout in the media and the public, in general, when it comes to this topic.
    I have two daughters, so it’s of particular concern to me that if they were ever to undergo such a procedure they be given accurate information about the possible side- and after-effects, as happens in all other surgical procedures.
    This is not happening in most abortion clinics in Canada, nor is there any law protecting the fetus at any stage in its development, up to and including the birth process. Canada is the only developed country that has no protection for the child in the womb. It’s time we revisited this travesty of justice as well.

  47. Armet is an automotive firm, [offices in many countries Canada, USA, Russia, India], who make armoured trucks.
    They make the Gurkha and the Balkan and you could buy one instead of a Hummer. Photo of the Balkan on my blogsite. Hit TG below.
    Just a thought or two that could Make the Balkan a good step above any competition. Something you may have had thoughts about, maybe.
    The Balkan is a real shell of safety, yet it could be made more secure if you think about it*s weak points.
    [1] Blocking the exhaust = failure
    [2] Intake air [ oxygen], substitute inert gas = failure
    [3] Damage to cooling radiator = failure
    [4] No gas or diesel = failure
    There are more, but the point is BatteryPack operation avoids all these security weaknesses.
    An on board biofuel 3 cyl 4 stroke genplant can extend the range anytime. anywhere.
    I am Just a fan of moving away from old fashioned ICEngine and all the needles systems and moving parts and the silly need to stop in for gas or diesel. What a drag that is.
    Not to mention that once there is a national emergency your local pumps will be for military, police and utilities use. Our gas and diesel toys will be anchored to the driveway.
    The dawn of the *Electric Vehicle*. Exciting times.= TG

  48. Thanks, batb.
    I’d say that women are being both patronized–by feminists, no less!–and infantilized by the political correctness surrounding the abortion issue.
    Yes, it may be painful to know the full truth about what abortion does–kills, brutally (dismembers, burns out) an inconvenient, living human being–but women, as free agents, need to be both knowledgeable about and responsible for their actions.
    Concerning abortion, not only does it both dehumanize and annihilate a tiny, defenceless human being, it often seriously damages the mother, not only emotionally and spiritually, but physically as well.
    Please let’s be honest about this issue.
    I know many women who’ve had abortions. I love them and do not condemn them. Nearly always, they were misinformed by the–now fantastically wealthy–Henry Morgentalers of this world, and often they felt they had NO choice: “pro-choice” is a politically brilliant label but, ethically, hollow to the core.
    As I recently pointed out to a young person of my acquaintance, “choice” always has to be considered in context. In the context of abortion, I pointed out that NO ONE is against the choice to give birth. The only disputed “choice” is to kill the pre-born child, which is why I consider “pro-choice” to be a euphemism for “pro-abortion”.
    “Pro choice”: let’s consider this concept in some other contexts. Who’d be “pro-choice” concerning spouse beating, segregation by race [NOTE Caledonia, etc.], STOP signs, paying one’s rent, terrorism, slavery, etc.?
    Out of context, “pro-choice” is as phony as David Suzuki.

  49. Thanks for your insightful comments, lookout. No surprise that your comment–and now, probably mine–will end this thread. The Canadian public has been so brainwashed that when an attempt is made to open an-up-to-now forbidden subject, abortion in this instance, to intelligent debate there is a deafening silence.
    ‘Just a reminder to anyone who thinks that abortion-on-demand is the private reserve of Canadian women because it is a cornerstone of our so-called liberation and self-fulfillment: A great many tiny females have been aborted since 1969 (in Canada, over 100,000 abortions are performed every year). Were their rights upheld: first, their right to life and, second, their right to be liberated?
    When it comes to gender selectivity, it is much more likely for females in the womb to be aborted than their male counterparts.
    Women’s liberation? I think not.

  50. It’s good to know I’m not the only one, batb.
    Abortion’s also a topic open for public debate because the Canadian taxpayer foots the bill: 100 000 x how many $$ ? I’d imagine the cost of abortion to the Canadian public is at least $50 000 000–and that’s just for the procedure, not all the side effects: even clinic and hospital procedures are often not “safe”. And there are many later side effects, both physical and emotional.
    Then there are all the jobs lost because there are so few children, taxes not paid–who will pay for health care and pensions?–etc. (Also read what Mark Steyn has to say about our population deficit.)
    And isn’t it interesting that there seems to be no objection from the usual suspects about the two-tier system: Morgentaler and others run for-profit private clinics on the public purse.
    The dollar and cent cost of abortion is astronomical. We ignore it at our peril.
    These are not the main reasons I’m against abortion, but they’re important issues that Canadians should be considering.
    The moral cost of abortion to our society is even more astronomical. We ignore that at our peril.
    I don’t think I’m a troll but the silence here on this one makes me feel like one.
    What’s up?

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