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Remember Strippergate? How the Liberals fast-tracked desperate foreign women into the hands of organized crime and prostitution?

The Conservatives tabled legislation yesterday (Wednesday) that would prevent foreign strippers from working in Canada; Alexander Panetta of CP has a story up at cnews that follows the template of so much coverage of the Conservatives: Neutral start, brief description of what the Conservatives are trying to do...then on to the REAL story: the opinions of the usual respected critics:

"An advocacy group for exotic dancers blasted the bill as a crass move..."

"...a woman who began an advocacy website for Strippers said the Tories seem more preoccupied with embarassing the Liberals than with helping exploited women."

"'It seems to me that this move is a political one designed to remind us of the Liberal scandal rather than eliminate exploitation of women or exotic dancers,' she said."

Time to wrap-up:

"An NDP member says the government proved how little it actually cares about exploited women...'If they are truly serious about this they wouldn't be resorting to a cheap political dig...It speaks to their disregard for women, all across the board.'"

So let's see, the Conservatives table a legislation to keep help prevent desperate foreign women from being slaves for organized crime, and the final wrap-up line to the story is "It speaks to their disregard for women, all across the board."

Ahh, so that's what happened in the House yesterday...

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/05/16/4185315-cp.html

[deleted for profanity - ED]

A telling article from the Toronto Star praising an anti-semitic 'activist' and supporter of the "New" Black Panther Party.

Here's the Star:
"The journalist found instead a young, angry black woman every bit their equal – and 26-year-old Nkem Anizor basically had the press for lunch.

Coursing through little-heard accounts of history, anthropology, the behavioural sciences, and whatever discipline the reporters' questions evoked, the young activist didn't give an inch in her basic message: black youths are not gonna beg and plead for equality like their parents did."

You can find the complete text here: http://www.thestar.com/News/article/214348

For the full effect it's best to contrast that with a posting from the Shotgun Blog: http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2007/05/toronto_black_y.html

Here's an example of the comparisson - both papers quoting black "activist" Nkem Anizor's outrage at having the Black Panther leader barred from Canada:

The Star:
"We expected there would be some issues. But the idea that the entire community would mobilize against a simple rally by black people?"

The Western Standard:
“The idea that Black people must seek approval from the Jewish or any other community when addressing our own issues reflects just how deep the roots of White Supremacy and systemic racism run in Canada.”

Another readers comments reminded me of this from last night. Now I have not watched so much as 10 continuous seconds of CBC or CTV news in months. Stuff like this is why.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/05/16/lebreton-apology.html

The "good" senators got caught with their drawers around their ankles and then proceded to investigate themselves? Amazingly enough they found everything was hunky and or dory.

Thanks to cal2 for reminding me!

Another readers comments reminded me of this from last night. Now I have not watched so much as 10 continuous seconds of CBC or CTV news in months. Stuff like this is why.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/05/16/lebreton-apology.html

The "good" senators got caught with their drawers around their ankles and then proceded to investigate themselves? Amazingly enough they found everything was hunky and or dory.

Thanks to cal2 for reminding me!

Newfie Premier Williams's New Health Test: CYA.
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Newfoundland sat on news of faulty cancer tests

Globe and Mail - 1 hour ago
St. John's -- The Newfoundland government was aware for more than half a year that 300-plus breast cancer patients didn't receive potentially life-saving treatment because of faulty tests, but didn't tell the public, the legislature was told yesterday. (google news)

Like my veil, Tonto?

Ugh, Kemo Ali Baba. Good disguise for suicide bomber voters.
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Veiled voters OK at polls, election boss tells senators

Muslim women wearing veils are allowed to vote without exposing their faces in the next federal election despite a bill proposing new requirements for photo ID at the polls, the head of elections told the Senate yesterday. (national newswatch)

Ted...the link is pooched.

Oh yeah...and Prince Harry is NOT going to Iraq.

Veiled voters allowed? Fine, I'll pull a balaclava over my head and go vote.

Reading Lorrie Goldstein in Ottawa Sun today we learn Gore has been caught on tape refusing to endorse Kyoto in 1997 "until there's meaningful participation by key developing Nations".
He sure made a lot of sense ten years ago but it appears opportunism got in the way of rational thought. He needed exposure to further his political ambitions so he took on the cause du jour.
How much better can it get than winning an Academy award with all the Hollywood has-beens stumping alongside? Cheryl Crowe willing to risk it with one sheet of toilet paper per "go".

Finally

What with the likes of the Official Languages Commissioner, Godin, Fola, Leyton, Iggy, et al beginning public outcries of how the New Gov't is not furthering official bilingualism, it means that we are finally beginning to get some traction in terms of recognizing that in all things federal it doesn't mean that it is only those who are bilingual who are capable/deserving of hiring, upwardly mobile transfer, & promotion - particularly at the senior level of all things federal.

.... a long way to go yet, but this has to be seen as progress. Let's hope we don't see a re-appearance of anything approaching the Court Challenges Program.

"Sex Trade workers"; The Ugly Euphemism Masking the Degradation of Women. The words mean: pimps, madams, brothels, whores, etc. Beyond that evil is this:
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The Subjection of Islamic Women
And the fecklessness of American feminism.

The subjection of women in Muslim societies--especially in Arab nations and in Iran--is today very much in the public eye. Accounts of lashings, stonings, and honor killings are regularly in the news, and searing memoirs by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi have become major best-sellers. One might expect that by now American feminist groups would be organizing protests against such glaring injustices, joining forces with the valiant Muslim women who are working to change their societies. This is not happening.

If you go to the websites of major women's groups, such as the National Organization for Women, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and the National Council for Research on Women, or to women's centers at our major colleges and universities, you'll find them caught up with entirely other issues, seldom mentioning women in Islam. During the 1980s, there were massive demonstrations on American campuses against racial apartheid in South Africa. There is no remotely comparable movement on today's campuses against the gender apartheid prevalent in large parts of the world.

It is not that American feminists are indifferent to the predicament of Muslim women. Nor do they completely ignore it. For a brief period before September 11, 2001, many women's groups protested the brutalities of the Taliban. But they have never organized a full-scale mobilization against gender oppression in the Muslim world. The condition of Muslim women may be the most pressing women's issue of our age, but for many contemporary American feminists it is not a high priority. Why not?

The reasons are rooted in the worldview of the women who shape the concerns and activities of contemporary American feminism. That worldview is--by tendency and sometimes emphatically--antagonistic toward the United States, agnostic about marriage and family, hostile to traditional religion, and wary of femininity. The contrast with Islamic feminism could hardly be greater. ...-
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=13641&R=11373CEA6

Warning: Long essay. Another sampling:

The women who constitute the American feminist establishment today are destined to play little role in the battle for Muslim women's rights. Preoccupied with their own imagined oppression, they can be of little help to others--especially family-centered Islamic feminists. The Katha Pollitts and Eve Enslers, the vagina warriors and university gender theorists--these are women who cannot distinguish between free and unfree societies, between the Taliban and the Promise Keepers, between being forced to wear a veil and being socially pressured to be slender and fit. Their moral obtuseness leads many of them to regard helping Muslim women as "colonialist" or as part of a "hegemonic" "civilizing mission." It disqualifies them as participants in this moral fight.

Glob-Mail prints the word "renegade" to describe the sharia human wrongs gang re language.

Does the G-M not have a dictionary? Renegade synonyms include: traitor, deserter, betrayer, dissenter (dictionary.com)...-

Globe | Opposition forms renegade official languages panel

OTTAWA — The three opposition parties are setting up their own renegade official languages committee in a bid to revive hearings shut down by the governing Conservatives. (jack's newswatch)

I talked about solar power satellites in a comment on the "we engineers have a saying" thread the other day. Today, space.com has an article about that very subject:

http://www.space.com/adastra/070517_adastra_solarpowersats.html

"Suppose I told you that we could build an energy source that:

- unlike oil, does not generate profits used to support Al Qaeda and dictatorial regimes.
- unlike nuclear, does not provide cover for rogue nations to hide development of nuclear weapons.
- unlike terrestrial solar and wind, is available 24/7 in huge quantities.
- unlike oil, gas, ethanol and coal, does not emit greenhouse gasses, warming our planet and causing severe problems.
- unlike nuclear, does not provide tremendous opportunities for terrorists.
unlike coal and nuclear, does not require ripping up the Earth.
- unlike oil, does not lead us to send hundreds of thousands of our finest men and women to war and spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year on a military presence in the Persian Gulf."

Time to put the Bozos in Opposition out on the election stump where the real people will decide these issues.
With the juvenile tactics going on in the HOC do we need any further proof?

Here in Ottawa for the last 10 days. Great time !! :)

If ya think one would only hear, see latte flakey thoughts here, ... think again.

Listening daily to CFRA radio, I have never heard so much common sense on/in the media.

From imported native protestors to crime on Rideau street to Kyoto Kraziness, this radio station tells it like it is. And most of the listeners agree.

Yes in Ottawa, the citizens are just like every where else. It is our beloved media that tries to divide Canadians.

And, oh yes. The punk/anarchist, that some whanabe journo/political bygone trys to defend ?? Well most here think he had it coming. Other civil servants included. Rotten apple sorta thing.

CFRA website--you can listen live:
www.cfra.com/listen/index.asp

Mark
Ottawa

"Brawl Breaks out in the HOC"
First how does the media define a brawl, without consulting my Dictionary would a Brawl not be a shoving match amongst many, wrestling to the ground. Brawl in the Medias eyes is a taking the word & sensationlizing it.
Second has anyone caught it on tape, According to Mcguinty it was caught on tape. Watch for the spin, there are always 2 sides to a story. Did Mcgiunty just pull off the oldest tactic in the book, By continuous antagonizing the opponent into losing it.
Let's remember how Mr Innocent paraded around ottawa with documents that he Supposebly Found.

If you are interested in the new fluorescent light bulb and the potential cost of disposal of the same, have a look on the American Thinker’s article, Money-saving bulbs low energy bulbs?
The update should catch your attention. The arithmetic is somewhat fanciful, though in principle it works.

Finally! Absolute, verifiably, irrefutable proof that the media is controlled by liberals.

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"Critics say a proposed Tory law that will stop immigrants
from coming in on a stripper's visa solves a problem that
largely no longer exists and may make things worse."

Good Lord, do you hear that... it isn't strip club owners
exploiting women... it's that damn Stephen Harper.

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Neo: After changes made by the Liberals, there has been a veritable flood of about 10 or fewer foreign exotic dancers coming to Canada since 2004.

The Immigration Minister claims this is "getting things done for Canadians". Sixteen months. One policy. Addressing 10 people.

Meanwhile the Immigration Board and the ministry itself are in shambles and totally dysfunctional because of the Tories. Value for money?

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"Neo: After changes made by the Liberals..."

Oh, please Teddy, no more softballs... it's so boring.

-- OTTAWA -- Immigration Minister Judy Sgro is
defending the government's policy of admitting
foreign exotic dancers to work in Canada,
saying the strip club business is "a strong industry"
with "lots of customers."

BTW Ted, I loved your joke over at Liblogs
about "strippers having nothing to hide".

Might not be so funny tho', if it were your
crack-addicted daughter on the pole, huh?

Are all your lawyer colleagues so sympathetic?
Do you get to put lap dances on the
old expense account?

Just askin'.

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I called into liberal fart fancier John Moore on 1010 AM Toronto call in show regarding this, yesterday.
I explained that everyone knows that strippers and hookers are run by bike gangs and the mafia in Canada.
I asked, who were the liberals consulting with, and who convinced them that Canada requires a special status for these babes to cut the line of our immigration system.

Moore blurted something like "lobster fisherman are fast tracked too!"
Then
/Click....

The media brainwashing continues.

Irrefutable proof here below.

The erstwhile Liberal Party is now the Socialist-Communist Party of Canada.
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Trudeau [Socialist candidate] questions capitalism

Justin Trudeau called on hundreds of high school students in Windsor Wednesday to rethink the capitalist system and reconsider Canada's reputation as a model nation....-
national newswatch

Iraq? No, Jose.

Mexico.
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20 Killed in Gunbattles in North Mexico

HERMOSILLO, Mexico -- Police killed 15 armed assailants in a fierce gunbattle just south of the Arizona border on Wednesday after tracking a group of gunmen who killed five policemen into the nearby hills.

About 40 assailants, whose tactics and weaponry resembled those of Mexico's powerful drug gangs, drove into the town of Cananea, 20 miles south of the U.S. border, in up to 15 vehicles and seized four policemen in two patrol cars, Sonora state police said in a statement. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835147/posts

Mark Steyn's latest on his Conrad Black trial watch blog puts the finger on Patrick J. Fitzgerald for shoddy overprosecuting:

"I met Scooter Libby on Wednesday. He was the designated fall guy for US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's last busted flush of a money-no-object prosecution - the nothing leak of 'CIA covert agent' Valerie Plame's name to columnist Bob Novak in the Saddam-wants-uranium-from-Africa story. Libby didn't leak Miss Plame's name. The guy who did was Richard Armitage, Colin Powell’s gossipy schoolgirl of a deputy at the State Department and a man who dislikes Bush, Cheney and all their neocon warmongering works.

"So there was never any 'conspiracy', and never any 'crime'. Patrick Fitzgerald knew this. The prosecutor understood from the beginning that (a) leaking Valerie Plame’s name was not a crime and (b) the guy who did it was Richard Armitage. In other words, Armitage was aware that the public and media perception of this 'case' was entirely wrong: there was no plot by Bush ideologues to damage a whistle-blower, only an anti-war official making an offhand remark to an anti-war reporter. Yet Fitzgerald chose to let the entirely false impression of his 'case' sit out there month in, month out, year after year glowering over the White House, doing great damage to the Presidency on the critical issue of the day.

Now Fitzgerald has done it again...."

He also announces in the same entry that he's receiving offers to write a new book, on what's wrong with the U.S. justice system.

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"maz2 wrote... Iraq? No, Jose. Mexico."

Mexico vacation checklist

Bring suntan lotion AND kevlar...

" -- MEXICO CITY -- Gunmen fatally shot a
high-ranking intelligence official as he was
on his way to work at the Attorney General's
Office on Monday, officials said."

The bad guys are downing the police
infrastructure... think they give a crap
about the lives of gringo touristas?

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You are absolutely right, neo. My apologies. The Conservatives are doing their best to protect the 17 immigrant exotic dancers who have arrived in Canada since they took power. Well done!

Now how many hours of government time, how much money was spent in developing this brave new legislation, how much money to implement, print and enforce this courageous and creative law? How much of that time and money could have been spent directly helping strippers, if that was the intent.

Shame on anyone claiming this was a petty partisan ploy of distraction from a government without priorities or even a sense of direction. Shame I say!

Those 17 immigrant stippers deserve just as much close attention by Canada's New-ish-like Government (TM) as any other constituent group.

HELP ! has anyone else been unable to listen to U.S. radio stations online? over the last two weeks a "box" comes up each time i click to "listen" at a radio web site. the box is titled "Licensed Content Access Request" and you end up with three choices, 1- U.S. military, 2- outside U.S., 3- inside U.S., it seems to know my I.P. and the fact i'm from outside U.S.A. i haven't heard any talk of these and am wondering if i've picked up some sort of virus or something, would like to hear from anyone on this and if theres a way around it ? Carl

CBCpravda All liberal all the time.

another distorted headline.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2007/01/23/patronage.html

Carl

I noticed the same thing to great annoyance. I found a comment on one radio site that said this had to do with bumper music rights - Clear Channel only has them for the US and not international. Hence international traffic is blocked. As far as I can tell this is only a problem for Clear Channel and most other networks are ok. I would be curious if anyone has other information on this?

thanks Fritz, so do you know where to go to listen to Beck, Rush & Savage?

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Do We Really Kill Trees?

The short answer is "Yes". We run a burgeoning business of clearing trees from grasslands so the Antelope won’t be scared. As silly as that previous sentence sounds it is the truth. So, you can have a clear conscience that you removed a terror inducing tree in an effort to improve the antelope state of mind – which makes them better targets during hunting season. Although we don’t completely follow the logic of the game and fish department on this, we go along with it.

I'm listening to Rush right now at http://www.kvor.com/ - You need to register.

MSM's Role, Losing the Information War
Jawa Report
Don't miss Jonathan Foreman's article in National Review from yesterday. Jonathan explains how the MSM's distaste for working with coalition forces, rooted in a liberal distrust of government, actually hands the information battlespace to the enemy.

Via National Review: A knowledgeable, thoughtful, and clear-eyed reporter might also consider that local civilians in areas dominated by the Taliban almost always claim that there are no Taliban, and have never been any Taliban, in their area. They make this claim out of either fear or loyalty. During fierce fighting in September in the same Panjwayi area, the local elders also claimed, absurdly, that there were no Taliban around, even though more than 500 of them were killed in pitched battles there and the area is at the center of the movement’s heartland. More important, it is standard operating procedure of the Islamists in Afghanistan — as it is in Lebanon and Gaza and Iraq — to claim that all casualties on their side are civilians. Indeed, the Taliban would be grossly incompetant at asymmetric and information warfare if they didn’t make that claim. (Just as al Qaeda operatives and sympathizers would be foolish if they did not cry “torture” when detained at Gitmo or elsewhere.)...

...You might expect journalists to take some note of these practices and of the propaganda element of the war, and accordingly to exercise a little caution, if not skepticism, before they unquestioningly parrot an allegation of mass civilian deaths. (Surely they must be aware that reports of an atrocity can have enormous real world effects? Surely they have some sense that various Afghan players might lie in order to advance their cause?) Generally, however, they do not. For the most part, Taliban claims are assumed to be true. Statements by Coalition spokesmen, on the other hand, are a different matter. Such officials are said to make “claims,” and they are essentially assumed to be propagandists, if not flat out liars, by many correspondents (who won’t say as much in print, of course, but ask them about it over a drink)...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835225/posts

Ted - I'm totally confused. You seem against this new law preventing 'importing strippers'. Could you explain why?

After all, the Reason for doing so, was to prevent their being allowed in, under that job description, and then being trapped by their sponsors within prostitution. Why are you against this?

As for governmental services to help those who are already here, they already exist (police, laws, women's centres).

Again - why are you opposed? Other than the fact that you, for your own unexplained reasons, hate Harper.

By 'unexplained', I mean that your statements that the gov't is without direction or priorities are strictly your own conclusions. You don't provide any evidence for your conclusions; you just state them and expect others to accept them. Hmm.

The Quebec parliament has voted unanimously against the proposed redistribution of House of Commons seats, to more fairly represent the increased population bases of BC, Alberta and Ontario.
After all, BC and Alberta together have the same population as Quebec, but have ELEVEN (11) fewer House seats. The proposed legislation would add seats in the House, so that these populations get equal representation.

Quebec's provincial parliament and the Bloc are completely opposed. They say that by doing this, Quebec will be 'marginalized'; they insist that Quebec, regardless of its population, must be privileged in the House and Senate.

Why? They define Quebec, not by its population base, but by its language and history. They define Quebec as a 'founding nation', with a privileged language, and these must be expressed within the political legislature. That is, they must be given an authoritative role in gov't. They reject

But that did little to satisfy Bloc Quebecois House leader Pierre Paquette, who asked, "Does the government realize that it can't, one the one hand, recognize the Quebecois nation and, on the other, accelerate the watering down of the political weight of this same nation within the House of Commons?"

From the Montreal Gazette, "So the Quebec nation is official recognized, at least in words," Simard added, calling it aberrant that Quebec's weight in Ottawa rests solely on its share of Canada's total population."

Can you imagine - it is 'aberrant that Quebec's weight in Ottawa rests solely on its share of Canada's total population"????

Heck - the democracy of it all.

And the Bloc, in the House, stated "Does the government realize that it can't, one the one hand, recognize the Quebecois nation and, on the other, accelerate the watering down of the political weight of this same nation within the House of Commons?"

So, the Bloc states that the Motion recognizing the 'Quebecois are a nation' is really 'the Quebecois nation' (two very different things) and insists that Quebec be privileged, politically, in the House.

Gillray’s Ungloomy Morality
City Journal ^ | Winter, 2002 | Theodore Dalrymple

Those who admire and wish to propagate the bourgeois virtues—prudence, thrift, industry, honesty, moderation, politeness, self-restraint, and so forth—are sometimes haunted by an uncomfortable question: how would the world be if, as is not very likely, everyone were to adopt these virtues as his own? Would not the world be a duller (though of course a much better ordered) place—a kind of giant Lucerne or Vevey? It is surely not a coincidence that the iconography of hell is so much more vivid and interesting than that of heaven, a location that induces a deadly boredom even as one strains to imagine what its attractions might be. Vice is like suffering: each individual instance of it is regrettable, but what sensible person would wish to eliminate it altogether? Indeed, life without the possibility of vice, and therefore without its actual practice, would be deprived of all moral meaning. And once the world is made virtuous, will there be no more cakes and ale?

The problem of upholding virtue and denouncing vice without appearing priggish, killjoy, bigoted, and narrow-minded has become so acute that intellectuals are now inclined either to deny that there is a distinction between the two or to invert their value. There is no higher word of praise in an art critic’s vocabulary, for example, than “transgressive,” as if transgression were in itself good, regardless of what is being transgressed. Likewise, to break a taboo is to be a hero, irrespective of the content of the taboo. Who is more contemned than he who clings stubbornly to old moral insights?

A recent magnificent exhibition of the work of the great British caricaturist James Gillray (1756–1815) at the Tate Gallery in London demonstrates that the criticism of morals and manners was not always associated in Britain with puritanism, bigotry, and small-mindedness but on the contrary was once vigorous, joyful, and uproariously funny. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835172/posts

Fritz, when you registered, did you claim to be from Canada, or some place in the USA? thanks so much !

Carl - I registered as Canadian.

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It looks like we will no longer have US online radio streams.

Ontario Liberal Premier McGuinty tells Pope Benedict to: Flick Off, Pope.

McGuinty was a Roman Catholic.
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Premier pops off on Pope

[...]

"I have a different constituency than does the Pope," McGuinty said when asked in a scrum about the Pope's statement last week."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835318/posts

Stalin Who? asked, “How many divisions does the Pope have?”

Iran: Whipped for Two Beers

Norwegian-Iranian Mamand Mamandy had a brutal meeting with police after drinking two beers while on holiday in Iran. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835311/posts

Count the lashes: 1 2 3 4 ... = 130 lashes.

Islam: Public lashings; public stonings: Death.

Shrike a symbol for Landowners

By Tom VanDusen - AgriNews Staff Writer

The prey impaling Eastern Loggerhead Shrike, an endangered songbird that hunts like a hawk, is quickly becoming the symbol of Ontario Landowners Association resistance against legislated habitat protection requirements.

Black and white and a little smaller than a robin, the name of the rare bird was invoked twice recently, once in connection with an OLA bulldozing protest beginning May 7 and the second time when association members presented to the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry on Parliament Hill May 1.

The OLA has announced plans to mount the bulldozers to graphically indicate their objection to lack of compensation provisions in the proposed provincial endangered species legislation.

The focus of the protest will be Woodlawn, the rural Ottawa hamlet which is home to rookie OLA president Jack MacLaren.

MacLaren said three river-front lots encompassing about five acres which belong to his brother will be cleared of habitat by the Carleton Landowners with 16 other county OLA chapters invited to follow suit.

"These lots are worth about $200,000 each. If they were declared habitat for endangered or threatened species, they’d become almost worthless."

That’s possible because the land in question is covered with hawthorn, the spikes of which are used by the loggerhead shrike to impale its prey, MacLaren said. ...-
http://www.agrinewsinteractive.com/fullstory.htm?ArticleID=8416&ShowSection=News

Quebec: he assaults his deaf-mute daughter several times and pleads guilty.

He only risks five years in jail. I translated a Cyberpresse article. I thought it was completely outragrous.

Another outrageous one from Quebec: School principal wanted to punish fourth-graders by making them write about oral sex. The parents found out and she reneged. Still, pretty outrageous.

Muslims do not wish to be associated with the terms Islam, Islamic, or Islamists. Wonder why? Wonder how they can separate themselves from what they are part of?
Well, maybe it's clear enough why since the terrorists we are currently fighting in the world today are doing so under the banner of Islamic Terrorists.
Those Muslims who are trying to live in our Western Democracies are fearing repercussions so are trying to distance themselves.

Carl and Fritz,

[ This will explain recent loss of media from the USA.]

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Hope they can*t clamp down on *Skype*, I could lose all of my $14.75 investment. = TG

Ed Minchau at May 17, 2007 8:57 AM, said . .

I talked about solar power satellites in a comment on the "we engineers have a saying" thread the other day. Today, space.com has an article about that verysubject:
http://www.space.com/adastra/070517_adastra_solarpowersats.html
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Tesla had designed a method of power distribution based on resonance, much as windings in a transformer relate.

There was a community primary plant and resonant equipment in each home to supply power to your wall sockets.

The idea was never advanced because fee payment collection was deemed to be difficult.

The inventor of superior FM radio was laughed into poverty by RCA and Westinghouse who had a vested interest in inferior AM radio. AM Sets were selling like hot-cakes.

Today the EVehicle is up against ExxonMobile, Chevron and General Motors. =TG

Tony & Carl

Re: Internet radio streams in the US.

The SaveNetRadio Coalition

The future of Internet radio is in immediate danger. Royalty rates for webcasters have been drastically increased by a recent ruling and are due to go into effect on July 15 (retroactive to Jan 1, 2006!). If the increased rates remain unchanged, the majority of webcasters will go bankrupt and silent on this date. Internet radio needs your help! The Internet Radio Equality Act has recently been introduced in both the House (H.R. 2060) and Senate (S. 1353) to save the Internet radio industry. Please call your senators and your representative to ask them to co-sponsor the Internet Radio Equality Act by clicking below.

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