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OTTAWA — With MPs set to return to Ottawa Monday for the final stretch before the summer recess the hottest speculation is about whether or not the Conservatives will prorogue Parliament early.

www.politicswatch.com/leg-update.htm

Lorne Gunter:

"The Conservatives were running a consistent six to 10 points ahead of the Liberals in national opinion polls before their big-spending budget and green plan came out.

Now they are effectively tied with Stephane Dion and his crew.

Hmm. Do you think there's a connection maybe?"
www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/columnists/story.html?id=dcdb90e1-0eec-48bd-a370-b99aa2ab501d

Pics: Tehran Police Clashes with Women

"and a third shows a woman with a bloody face,"

According to this taxi driver, following clashes between the public and police officers in the afternoon, a mother and daughter who were beaten by police officers voiced their protest by showing their bloody faces to the public and removing their head scarves. This mother and daughter were beaten while trying to capture the clash between police officers and the public on their mobile phones.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840080/posts

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'"How does the Canadian spy service deal with countries
that have a record of human rights abuses?"'

'"Here's the deal. Everybody would like to believe that we
have an array of choices that are good choices and
bad choices. But we're going to a dance where every
girl is ugly, okay," he said this week.'

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Kurdish Region of Northern Iraq is open for business
[...]

"What they found was a part of the country that isn’t what you see on the news or in mainstream media. This truly is ‘the other Iraq,’ as the local public relations campaign touts, and it is open for business." ...-

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840124/posts

"As long as it's a Harvey's Angus Burger (and not Weetabix)"
http://www.damianpenny.com/archived/009532.html

Mark
Ottawa

This James Inhofe speech is great:

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=becca832-802a-23ad-4bfb-83e5e5c26acf&Region_id=&Issue_id=

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1933926.htm

Headline, "Ukraine on the verge of Civil War".

I do hope this is typical MSM journalistic licence.

It's kinda cool???
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=750_1180138182

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/columnists/story.html?id=38d5698e-6273-4c5f-9e86-2dc345babd63

Vancouver Sun. Barbara Yaffe's glowing column on Stapehane Dion, and how he deserves our respect, and our votes, from the lady who aspires to be Canada's Governor-General, if the universe unfolds to her liking.

And this is where Taliban Jack and the left wing moonbats want to send Canadian troops

U.N. peacekeeper in Darfur fatally shot

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070526/ap_on_re_af/sudan_darfur

Gunmen looted the home of the U.N. peacekeeper — an Egyptian lieutenant colonel — in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, and fatally shot him late Friday, the African Union and U.N. said.

The AU has faced increased hostility from warring factions in Darfur, and has lost 19 of its own peacekeepers since it first deployed in June 2004.

"Not a month goes by without a new killing, it's very difficult," said Mezni.

China's rich are now less prone to cry poor. Some facts from the profile of them:

- China's richest are all first-generation entrepreneurs.
- The best route to mega-riches in China has been property development.
- Another point wirth quoting in full: "A political connection is still extremely helpful on the road to riches. About 30 per cent of China's wealthiest entrepreneurs are members of the Communist Party, and 38 per cent of the top 100 are members of one of China's two leading political bodies: the National People's Congress, the annual parliament, and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference."

Maureen the Dowd: Re: "Tub of guts":

Will Gore's weight be an obstacle to a presidential run in '08?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840183/posts

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Canadian Moonbat's post: Re: "Tub of guts":

globeandmail.com: Harper invokes parliamentary immunity in court ...
Stephen Harper's lying is beginning to look pathological. Posted 15/05/07 at 3:23 PM EDT | Link ... So you are proud that Tub of guts is being duplicitous? ...

Gunter and Andrew should check the latest Ipsos Reid poll (for what it's worth, frankly not much), where Tories lead Libs by six per cent. Libs and opposition have used hyperbole, misinformation and negativitity, with a compliant press group, to undermine everything the duly elected government of Canada is trying to get done. Libs have new Leader, core vote 5% higher than Tories, cheerleader pressies like Taber, Oliver and Travers, and haven't come up with any policy positions, just criticisms.

You would think in that environment, government support should plummet, but it hasn't - why not? IMHO, there are two main reasons. First, public not engaged in politics (rarely are between elections), as poll points out. Second, the Libs are moribund, no money, no policies and no leader - IOW, non-electable. That's why they haven't conspired to defeat government, instead they are trying to run parliament from opposition dominated committees and Senate. Is there one person in Canada who actually believes Liberals have chance to form next government. I know Libs head shed doesn't - given their power orientation, we would be in election campaign if they did.

Libs are bluffing and blustering, NDP has become non-entity when this should be their time in Cdn politics, and who cares about Greens and Bloc. I think the main threat to Tories is from within, with types like Gunter demanding conservative perfection, which will undoubtably elect Liberals.

Got a sneaky feeling we will have summer fed election, depending on Quebec budget sit though. I believe Harper's strategy, now that he has outlanked opposition on left and forced them into more shrill positions,will move party to right slightly, obtaining a majority. BTW, how are criminal and civil investigations against Libs going? When will they pay back the money they stole? When will Liberal politico get nailed?

Shamrock, -- exactly !!

Kudos to CPAC for airing the SCC sitting that dealt with the two cases of the use of sniffer dogs (one in a school and one in a bus depot) Not often we get a chance to see/hear the famous 9 who basically are in command of law and social engineering in this country.

Gurmakh Kang Brown v the Queen and

A.M.(Protected Sarnia high school student v the Queen

In both cases, drugs were found but there is a Charter 8 appeal based on infringement of individual rights.

This is going to be a very important decision as it seems to be going into an area that is basically unchartered waters. It is particularly worrisome given the high preponderance of the SCC to find in favor of individual rights over societal rights. Thank God the justices (at least 1 or 2) acknowledged that there is some "balancing" of the two that is required.

A female lawyer (A. Sanders) appearing on behalf of the defendants was particularly pathetic - talking about such things as police dogs in a public place being tantamount to conveying to the public that we are a police state - that dogs may be aggessive (well... duhhhh) - schools and bus depots are no place for sniffer dogs unless there is basically a search warrant executed prior to the search, and on it went. To many of her comments were nothing but personal opinions, not legal precedence.

The Civil Liberties Assoc. was given standing and his presentation was short, very eloquent, very pointed, and he hammered home his points very well. It gives some understanding about the the difficulty society is facing in trying to get a better balance in terms of the big question of individual rights trumping all.

The Criminal Layers Assoc was also given standing and his presentation was totally surprising to me - to much along the same lines as the Civil Liberties guy for my thinking. He must have been a defense lawyer because he felt in both of these cases - the use/action taken was not warranted.

Several Provincial Attorneys General were also given standing and thank goodness for their presentations. Basically they argued that in these cases - societal rights should trump those of the two individuals concerned in both of these cases.

One of the Justices mused about whether or not special consideration in the use of sniffer dogs might revolve around how the particular individual might react to dogs generally - perhaps they are seen as unclean, perhaps they are concerned about allergies. Another referred to those "bagel" (actually Beagle) dogs that we see at airports. More than one of them heard the testimony that one of the dogs used had a reputation of true positives nine times out of ten when it identified something it was trained to detect. Well - this probability factor seemed to infer to them that perhaps it wasn't high enough to trump individual rights. And these are the people who are going to adjudicate the two cases.

Whatever decision is made on either or both of these cases is going to be a landmark decision that will have significant consequences to future situations. Dogs have a place in law/order/security and if the findings support individual rights over society in either of these two cases it will be sad indeed.

Thank-you Shamrock. Like Ron in Kelowna, I think you have summed up the situation very well.

Hammering on the good guys is the only way to keep the heat off the bad guys.

There is a majority of left wing good- for -nothings(Liberano/Dipper/Blocheads in the HOC right now! Undermining the minority from within is a good way to get the pot boiling in the wrong kitchen.

We should be stomping our little feet and DEMANDING that the Liberanos pay back the millions they stole from taxpayers for adscam/ RCMP/ foundations/trusts CWB ....... We should be squawking about Mo Strong and the Power Corps gang of thugs who used taxpayers $$ as seed to buy oil for cash from Saddam so that they could build big bank accounts for themselves and their friends at the expense of the starving , beaten, tortured, murdered people in Iraq.

Instead, Conservatives criticize the people (Conservative MPs and PMSH) who 'brought' us to this place in time where something good for the people of Canada can actually happen!

Brilliant - if you live in the dark.

Mayor Miller and the socialist gang would like us to believe that Toronto schools are just peachy, the only problems is those pesky guns...
Toronto Sun has an article by a former teacher from the school where a young boy was killed this week...not exactly an atmosphere for learning.Guns aren't the problem.

Are you willing to pay $2.00 a litre for gasoline if it means meeting Canada's Kyoto Targets?

Vote in this poll
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Liberal Site (Red Tory) defends Nazis to attack Harper.

Read it, especially the comments.

Chilling is the only word to describe the depths of today's left.

Here:

http://tinyurl.com/yq455p

To give some sense of the above site's comments, after admonishing some of the comments, I'm told to go

"F--K off and go die in a gas chamber."

See above tiny link.

I love animals, especially on the grill. Lately, I prefer domestic animals all cleaned, cut up and wrapped at the supermarket meat counter.

http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2006/05/animal-lover.html

Report from Uganda:
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Kobusingye: Activist DDT Opposition Prolongs African Malaria, Misery, Death

The 2007 World Health Assembly is wrapping up and people are commemorating the birthday of Silent Spring author Rachel Carson. Meanwhile, millions of Africans are commemorating still more deaths from a disease that the chemical she vilified could help control.

I just got out of the hospital, after another nasty case of malaria. I’ve had it dozens of times. I lost my son, two sisters and three nephews to it. Fifty out of 500 children in our local school for orphans died from malaria in 2005.

Virtually every Ugandan family has buried babies, children, mothers and fathers because of this disease, which kills 100,000 of us every year. Even today, 50 years after it was eradicated in the United States, malaria is the biggest killer of African children, sending 3,000 to their graves every day.

In between convulsions and fever, I thought about the progress we’re making – and about those who would stop that progress. I ask myself, why do some people care more about minor, hypothetical risks to people or animals than about human life? ...-
(via jack's newswatch)
http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/article_21282711.shtml

www.aims.ca/library/Equalization3.pdf

The CPC has turned off this voter with regards to the Accord and Equalization. They wouldn't entertain the Atlantic Institute for Marketing Studies' own recommendations because not enough money would flow toward Quebec.

They phoned again the other day looking for my pledge. I told them I already gave their money to Kate at Small Dead Animals and that they should be canvassing Quebec for election money since they are the ones who will get the handouts again at the detriment of the rest of the nation.

Read the link and decide for yourselves which would/could be an exellent nation building project. SASK would have been a big winner as well.

CPC is pathetic and Liberal lite!

Glenn

Biff, good job, you did a real number on Red Tory. What bothered me was his circular argument whereby Jews don't really care, so obviously it's Harper pandering for votes because, well, Harper panders for votes. Love it when people get nailed by their own comments, hoisted on their petard.

"Battle of Ypres, where 6,035 Canadians were lost in a 48-hour period."

Former Ottawa Olympian Barbara
Ann Scott Honours Her Father's Military Legacy
Gord McDougall
Friday, May 25, 2007

Olympic Figure Skating champ Barbara Ann Scott King presents her father's Medals to the Governor General's Foot Guards in a ceremony at the Cartier Square Drill Hall Friday evening.

Colonel Clyde Scott was awarded the Silver Cross Medal while serving the Iron Second in World War I. Colonel Scott was in the Battle of Ypres, where 6,035 Canadians were lost in a 48-hour period. He was among numerous soldiers left for dead on the battlefield, but a diligent St. Bernard and the sympathy of a German soldier resulted in his rescue.

A number of photographs and other memorabilia will be included in the presentation.

Barbara Ann Scott King is visiting Ottawa this week from her home in Florida, where she lives with her husband, Thomas King. ...-
http://cfra.com/headlines/index.asp?cat=1&nid=49717

It Happened One Night

One of the greatest sea disasters of the Second World War was the sinking of the US Army Transport Dorchester in the late winter of 1943 by the U-223 off Greenland. The waters were frigid; the torpedo struck at night. The lights instantly failed and 904 men struggled in the pitch black to find their way up on deck through the unfamiliar passages, some only in their skivvies. The ship sank in 20 minutes. Six hundred and seventy five men went down with her. It is remembered as one of the greatest losses of life in a single day for the US Army. But it is also remembered as the moment of the Four Chaplains. This is their true story....-
http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/

Headline? Canadians To Be Watched By Autonomous Hovering Eco-Police Drones.
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Climate hysteria now invading our homes and businesses By Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris,

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Ontario environment minister Broten's ban of used oil heating just the latest example of an increasing intrusion into daily life by governments that ignore science

"That government, dedicated to saving the environment from the evils of technology, had been voted into power because everybody knew that the Green House Effect had to be controlled, whatever the cost. But who would have thought that the cost of ending pollution would include not only total government control of day-to-day life, but the onset of a new Ice Age?" -- Ref.

It has been 15 years since these words were first used to promote Fallen Angels, the science fiction classic written by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn. Looking at the World of 2007, it is tempting to conclude that they were not just writing fiction but were also making a forecast of the direction we were headed if environmental extremism ever really took hold in government.

Sadly, that is exactly what has happened over the past decade and a half. In a public and government relations coup of unprecedented proportions, governments world-wide have been frightened into bowing before "so-called" romantic environmentalists, a well-funded but misguided movement that has thoroughly distorted the public policy debate. Anyone who questions their dogma is to be silenced, shunned and disgraced. Policies that in other fields would be subject to intense, independent audits before even being suggested are now being announced routinely and promoted aggressively by environment ministers who have no knowledge or interest in what science really says about the impact of their decisions. 'It looks good in the press; it will keep environmentalists off our backs; the science is irrelevant - just do it!' must be the advice politicians are receiving from back room strategists.

Of course the mother of all baseless policy decisions was Jean Chrétien's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on behalf of Canada in December 2002. His environment minister, David Anderson, admitted to the Ottawa Citizen at the time, "His [Chrétien's] critics, who frequently denounce this [ratification], fail to realize it is one of the signs of his genius that he doesn't want to know too much about certain things. He gets the right gut feeling. And he's got the antenna, which very few people have, the political antenna."...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840362/posts

Only now is the general public starting to wake up to the long term impact of Chrétien's cynical and irresponsible decision.

http://portauxbasquesonline.ca/Forums/showthread.php?t=231

Excellent Vid on Canadian soldiers.

Ever heard of the 'Urban Heat Island Effect' ??

Tim Ball, a truly great Canadian, has known about it for years. Did experiments in Winnipeg years ago. Not a controversial or a calamity kinda thing, so the media ignors it.

This from California.

"Today I visited Marysville's Fire Station, just off Hwy 70 at 9th and B Street, where they have the station of record for the city using the MMTS electronic sensor installed by the National Weather Service. The data from this station is part of the USHCN (US Historical Climatological Network) and is used in the computer modeling used to predict climate change.

The Marysville station is located behind the fire department building on a patio and is probably the worst site visited so far. In addition to the sensor being surrounded by asphalt and concrete, its also within 10 feet of buildings, and within 8 feet of a large metal cell tower that could be felt reflecting sunlight/heat. And worst of all, air conditioning units on the cell tower electronics buildings vent warm air within 10 feet of the sensor. Oh and lets not forget the portable BBQ the firefighters use a "couple times a week." The area has been constantly added to, what was once a grass rear yard was turned to a parking lot, then more buildings added, then a cell tower with one, then two electronics buildings and the air conditioners...no report on how long the firefighters were BBQ'ing back there, when they figured out why I was asking all the questions they clammed up.

I can tell you with certainty, the temperature data from this station is useless. Look at the pictures to see why, and is it any wonder the trend for temperature is upward?"

//www.norcalblogs.com/watts/2007/05/how_not_to_measure_temperature.html#comments

The Urban Heat Island Effect skews 'its-our-fault' data.

If you are standing in the middle of your city, it seems that the whole world is city. In the whole scheme of things though, cities are a drop in the bucket to the world's surface area total.

The Earth's surface area is about 510,000,000 sq. kilometers.

I wonder what the total surface area of all the world's cities is. Not counting the opened spaces, just the built up areas --- where the Kyoto Kult likes to put their "warming" thermometers.

I would bet this 'city area' is a very, very small percentage of the Earth's total surface.

How many recording thermometers are out in the cool boonies ??

On whose team would you want to play?

Would you prefer Kenny's midgets, or, Cpl. Mike Barnewall's Giants?

Would you prefer Kenny as your coach, or, the "toy soldier" as your coach?

Who is Kenny?
He is a freelancer journalist?

Not.

Kenny is a Liberal senator; a coward; a charlatan; a parasite Librano$$$$$ ...

This Liberal POS opens his "freelance" article with the obligatory, invidious Aunty-American reference to President George Bush.

Here is the vileness of Kenny's smear:

Our gung-ho PM talks a good game on the military, but he is quietly selling out its future
COLIN KENNY, Freelancer [sic]

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Still game for action

By KATHLEEN HARRIS, SUN OTTAWA BUREAU. OTTAWA -- Just months after a land mine blasted off his leg in Afghanistan, Cpl. Mike Barnewall is whizzing along the ice rink in a fast-paced, raucous round of hockey. (google news) ...-

Montreal Gazette | Kenny: Stephen Harper is a toy soldier

George Bush Sr. once muttered ruefully about “the vision thing.” He was annoyed because his critics complained that he didn’t have a grand sense of what was coming over the horizon, and what America should do to prepare for it. ( via jack's newswatch) ...-

Troops honour latest casualty

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - The mournful skirl of bagpipes echoed across the tarmac at Kandahar Airfield on Saturday as Canadian soldiers, for the first time in more than a month, sent a fallen comrade on the first leg of his long journey home.

Eight members of Cpl. Matthew McCully's squadron, their faces taut with the physical and emotional weight of the task at hand, carried his flag-draped coffin to a waiting Hercules.

On either side, hundreds of troops, including members of the Operational Mentoring and Liason Team to which McCully belonged, and the Afghan National Army soldiers he helped to train, stood stock-still in rigid salute as the coffin passed by.

Among the attendees were Lt.-Col. Rob Walker, commander of the battle group, and Brig.-Gen. Tim Grant, commander of Canadian forces in Afghanistan, who stood alongside Arif Lalani, the newly appointed Canadian ambassador to Afghanistan. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840486/posts

This story shall the good man teach his son;

The old veteran will teach his son.

And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world,

And on this day from now until the end of the world,

But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; ...-

Shakespeare: Henry V. ...-

All Honour to Cpl. Matthew McCully.

R.I.P.

The Tax Court of Canada has decided that Alternative "Medicine" is now deductible. Better dig out your receipts for those old healing crystals.

Grattis The Brusselles Journal.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6407847019713273360&q=milton+friedman+video

Hunt for 'traitors' splits Taliban(Someone is seeing American boogiemen...)

Taliban insurgents fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan have been hit by a wave of defections and betrayals that has resulted in a witch-hunt within the militant movement....-

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840660/posts

Firstly, Taliban Jack Layton-NDP's head exploded; now, his cover has been blown.

Taliban Jack is an American agent/mole; a traitor.
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Truly the funniest photoshop that I've seen.

http://www.parkwayreststop.com/archives/2188

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Hey Dalton, you're a real class act.

Please tell me how "a real ban" would have prevented a couple of
17 year olds... who aren't legally allowed to possess, never mind
register a handgun... from murdering one of their neighbours.

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