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Ah yes, we're having a similar experience. From Pennsylvania vacationing in Charleston, South Carolina. At 6 in the morning here, it was 77. It was 57 at the same time back home. And it's going up to 95 muggy degrees today (in Charleston).

i've been just checking the weekend smear campaign from msm. bono blasts harper the headline reads. when did bono and bob geldof get a seat at the G8 table. these clowns are rock stars and who cares what they think. if they don't like whats going on then write a song and donate its profits to the cause other wise they should just SHUT UP.

Bono should do what he does best....smoke some dope and get himself another groupie...yet, wait for the moonbat/dipper/librano crowd to start shouting bono this, and bono that, like it really even matters what the Irish idiot has to say about anything political....

Since it got sorta buried in the comments on the CTV thread, here is a modified version with the middle vid added in that Mr. Chiang has posted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z9M1oTag34

kingstonlad.speaking of Irish idiots,what ever became of that Sinead(sp?)?

If you want a good laugh, just check out Blatchford's column in today's Mop & Pail about CBCPravda's 7 wonders of Canada contest.

Brian Who? and the Red Tories in control of the Conservative Party? Could be.
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Hi Bill. It’s me, Brian
The deep baritone voice on the other end of the line was unmistakable. Bill Casey, just hours away from Tuesday’s vote on the federal budget bill, received a phone call from his old boss, former prime minister Brian Mulroney. (national newswatch)

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Severe weather watch in effect

Apparently hell IS about to freeze over.

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I'm the teacher who's been posting on the gulag-type working conditions of teachers: worst parents and kids treated with kid gloves by administration, while teachers are demeaned and intimidated. Often the best case from admin. is "Suck it [bullying and harassing behaviour from the above riff raff] up"; the middle road, "YOU change your behaviour to suit the kids' sensitivities"; to such further indignities as, "You need to go to re-education classes to learn to be more culturally sensitive [to the more problematic groups]." The first two happen regularly; the third just happened to a colleague of mine: allegation, minus evidence, taken as a proven charge and punishment administered. The union? Useless—made up of the same kind of inadequate person (making-great-money sycophants and toadies)—as the board flunkies. Teachers are in the swamp all day, every day, surrounded on all sides by crocodiles, including the administration. Life buoy from the union? Nope. It tells us to do what we’re told. I kid you not.

The C.W. Jefferys shooting has galvanized some brave teachers to publicly speak out. It seems what I've been saying isn't just a whine from me. These teachers, who work in a DANGEROUS setting, have also been abandoned by their union and the bureaucrats, whose main job, it seems to me, is to pretend that all is well and to tell that to their superiors. This board is in denial and meltdown.

I hope the commission set up to get to the bottom of this isn't full of the same kind of boot lickers who perpetuate the fictions of this board. I don't hold my breath. And even if the truth of the matter is named--a single parent, drug culture doesn't work and, in general, adults, not kids, have authority—try telling that to a “Charter-paid” lawyer!—there don't seem to be enough adults with integrity or balls left in the system to carry out the reforms that would be needed.

Canada's a Never Never Land full of Peter Pans. When being an adult behaving like a grown up is banned--in effect, Charter cases do that all the time--the writing's on the wall.

Rightwingprof,

Here in Eastern Pa. (Coatesville, PA, to be exact) it was also 95 degrees F. with around 80% humidity yesterday (Friday).
Supposed to be cooler for the weekend but it sure was a bear yesterday.

Ocean at Charleston warm enough for swimming?

@lookout: The Toronto Star has a feature report on the pressure to pass everyone. It's called "Failure Is Not An Option."

Thanks, Daniel, I'll check that out.

Maybe Harper should ask Bono "am I buggin' you?" Just like Bono does on a U2 album.

Like many said, who cares what Bono thinks? For the G&M to ignore Harper's leadership at G8, and have Bono's comments on paragraph one of the story is pathetic. It outs them as not only biased, but incompetent.

Nobody elected him to say or do anything. I'm sick of these "artists" bitching about the man, while the live in luxury, taking money from the great unwashed.

Lookout, your loyalty to the teachers is admirable, but neglects one important issue.
Just as in any profession, there are those in the teachers ranks who are less than desirable to put it charitably.
The important issue then becomes how to rid the professional body of these undesirables. I suggest to you that it is nearly impossible, so some of our children suffer needlessly.
If you want to really do some good in the schools, dealing with this issue would be a giant step forward.

[Global warming has some science at its core. But it has been overlaid with a vast engine of continuous alarmism, propaganda, relentless campaigning, facile projections, and not a little bullying righteousness by some of its celebrity proponents.] Rex Murphy.

Read; Gore, Suzuki, Strong --- and lapdogs Chretien, Martin, Dion, Layton.

Whatever. Kyoto is now dead. It was buried at the G8 meeting. Let's move on.

PM harper brought a 'tonne of sense' to the room and the other world leaders saw the Hoax that was hoisted on them by the United Nations.

Canada can now move on. Dion et al can no longer hold up the 'Kyoto guilt trip' threat. The hoax has been busted. With no thanks to the media.

After the G8 meeting, the media (Boag et al) knew they were buried. They stuck out an arm with a but, but Bono-head said ... Pathetic.

And to think all this Kyoto madness could have been averted, in Canada's case, if only PMJC had not signed on to the scam. Who were his advisers anyways ??

Ding Dong the Witch is dead :)

"the Wayne Gretzky of the Mafia"?

Will Wayne Gretzky be heard from? How does Wayne Gretzky feel/think about this?
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National Post | Mobster Caruana fights extradition to Italy

TORONTO - A mobster imprisoned in Canada, described by the RCMP as the Wayne Gretzky of the Mafia, should not be sent to serve a lengthy sentence in Italy because his trial there was a sham, the man’s lawyer told Ontario’s Court of Appeal. ...-
(national post)

There is a crisis now in the governance of Canada.

The Liberal Party is attempting to usurp the powers/privileges of the government of PM Harper and the House of Commons.

There must be an election held now.

PM Harper! call an election .... Now.
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Liberal Senator calls for GG Jean to fill vacant Senate seats

A Nova Scotia senator wants Governor General Michaelle Jean to fill vacancies in Parliament's Upper House ...-
(national post)

This is political campaigning Kinsella style:

http://torytube.ca/

100% negative and deceptive, with more than a small dose of personal attacks. It's all there.

Bozo from U2 & that rat Geldof want HALF A BILLION DOLLARS MORE from Canadians, that's $500,000,000 bucks on top of what we're already spending. Geldof made $35 million himself last year and Bozo probably made more than that - nobody knows since he evades paying his taxes, probably because he thinks paying taxes is for suckers who can't escape their governments wasting money on foreign aid....

Taliban Jack Layton-NDP and its allies are in retreat: "Their entire fighting force on that hill was wiped out,"

Rewrite headline:

Fierce firefight kills "entire fighting force" of Islamic terrorist murderers, aka taliban.
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Fierce firefight leaves militants dead in southern Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A two-hour gun battle left several Taliban and al-Qaida militants dead in southern Afghanistan early Saturday, officials said.

Troops from the U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces were approaching two separate compounds in Zabul province where the militants were thought to live when they came under attack with small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades from a nearby hill, a coalition statement said.

"Their entire fighting force on that hill was wiped out," Maj. Chris Belcher, a coalition spokesman, said of the attackers. ...-
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2007/04/29/4138754-ap.html

Headline in Edmonton Sun "Hey Bono! Check out the facts"
Accolades to PMSH for not giving credence to this egotistical, bombastic hypocrite.

Many now say Kyoto, as we knew, it is dead. Polution, emission controls, yes. But by govmits responsible to their citizens. Not to the United Nations, Suzuki, Gore and Maurice Strong.

[ .. it is clear that whatever emerges from the coming round of negotiations will be nothing like Kyoto. A successor to Kyoto, perhaps, but not Kyoto II. ] Andrew Coyne.
[ For Canada, this is especially good news, and fully validates the Harper government's gamble -- that it could walk away from the short-term targets the Chretien government agreed to at Kyoto without serious international consequence. That there was not a word of rebuke in the G8 communique suggests we will not be made to face the penalties prescribed in Kyoto in any subsequent agreement, as would have been the case under a simple Kyoto II scenario. ] Andrew Coyne.

//www.canada.com/nationalpost/columnists/story.html?id=d01cfaa5-3106-4632-a7af-39796b6c9386

[ The Kyoto accord will survive as a rallying point for environmentalists. But as a relevant policy instrument, it effectively died this week at a seaside German resort. ]
[ The new framework is not perfect. As Prime Minister Stephen Harper explained at the end of the G8 meetings "there's still some work to be done." But at the very least, we're happy to see the backside of Kyoto. ] National Post Editors.

//www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/editorialsletters/story.html?id=3d9f41ab-86d6-4265-820a-965e044cf661

The most telling indication that Kyoto is dead is ... there is not much coverage in the MSM about the G8 "climate meeting". The media will have to find another 'cause du jour'.

The leaders agreed that China, India, ect have to be included in any agreement. Good luck in convincing the developing world. They will not be fooled into joining the west's hoax.

Suzuki has known this from the beginning. That is why he has always said we should leave them alone, but keep on going.

Even CBC's Boag was knocked off his AGW horse. Can't try to bad mouth PMSH with it anymore. Sooooo at the news conference ...

Any questions for the PM, Boag ??

Awwww, ya. Hey Prime Minister, like Bono, ya know the, er, he said blah blah. ----- It's over Keith. Go home.

A look at google's MSM news site just now.

Can't find the words "global warming", nor, "climate change". It's a first; for months there has been a deluge; now, looks like a clean erase. What has happened?

This is the closest item:

Aid agencies dismiss west's £30bn as 'smokescreen'
Guardian Unlimited

Lee--from long ago--I hear you. However, I have no power to deal with the issue of bad teachers. As a union member, I'm probably not even allowed to admit that there ARE such creatures. (There are!)

As I've pointed out, the ministry and board, as well as the union, functionaries are dead wood. (Well, yes, as far as doing anything constructive is concerned. Not at covering their big fat you-know-whats.) And, considering the conditions under which teachers now work, most with any integrity are getting out. (The only good ones I know who stay are the ones who don't have the financial means to leave.) This is a matter of serious concern.

Lee, I totally understand your frustration. I share it. The public education system's one Titanic--headed straight for the bottom.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181228581339&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Look! Lots more Palestinians are eager to bless Canada with their presence!!

Nota Bene.

It's BusHarper's fault; again.
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Calling China
Bush has taken on Europe's role as a green champion by insisting that China and India join any climate alliance

Benny Peiser
Financial Post

When the history of Europe's waning pre-eminence and the rise of Asia's new superpowers is written, the German G8 summit that has just ended in the Baltic seaside town of Heiligendamm will be regarded as a momentous turning point. It will also be seen as the moment when the Western powers decided to bury their hatchets over Kyoto and start exerting pressure on their Asian challengers.

The failure of Germany and its European Union partners to push through their key goals stands for a diplomatic defeat that epitomizes Europe's shrinking influence in international climate negotiations. German Chancellor Angela Merkel had set three ambitious climate goals for the G8 summit. She wanted to sway the United States and other G8 countries to commit to cutting emissions by 50% by 2050. She also wanted them to limit the world's temperature rise to 2 C and to increase fuel efficiency by 20%. In the end, not one these targets was accepted by her non-EU partners.

German and European diplomats were taken aback during the negotiations in the run-up to the summit; not only the United States, but Japan, Canada and even Russia opposed Europe's concept of unilateral G8 targets. Germany's original plan, to push for ambitious goals with the aim of isolating President George W. Bush, fell short as even China and India came out against the idea of mandatory emission caps.

But nothing caused Angela Merkel bigger upset and sheer dismay than the refusal of Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, to back Germany's position when she visited Berlin just days before the summit. No words of support from Al Gore either. Instead, the U.S. Democrats showed Merkel and the EU the cold shoulder --implicitly at least.

The snub demolished almost overnight the commonly held assumption that the impasse over a post-Kyoto deal would be overcome with a new president in the White House. For those who still don't get Pelosi's and Gore's veiled message, Tony Blair made it perfectly plain why a Democratic U.S. president would not yield either: "Whoever U.S. president is in office, they will not agree to a climate-change deal which doesn't have China part of it."

Which is why the G8 has now kicked the ball into China's court. ...-
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html?id=05853b0c-ad58-4ea4-95a8-56723e60850c

How our major media cover defence:

"Let's hope this doesn't fly"
http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2007/06/lets-hope-this-doesnt-fly.html

Mark
Ottawa

The balance/rest of the report is the usual/mandatory CBC-Pravda anti-Harper spin. CBC even manages/segues to bring the name of ex-Liberal PM AdScam Martin, Jr., into its spin.
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N.S. prepared to cut equalization deal alone: premier

Nova Scotia's premier says he is prepared to sign a side deal with Prime Minister Stephen Harper on the Atlantic Accord, even if Newfoundland and Labrador does not.

Rodney MacDonald said Friday he is making progress in negotiations with the federal government, and that he will sign any deal that is good for Nova Scotia.

"I will sign a deal that's a Nova Scotia deal," MacDonald said.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2007/06/08/macdonald-williams.html

"Regrettably, the Zerb-hating mongrels at smalldeadanimals.com latched on to the bone she (Zerb) so casually tossed..."

-Frank Magazine on the Zerb\Weightwatchers thread.

Just noticed gormleywatch.com has been parked by GoDaddy. I wonder if the little soclialists received a cease and desist order???

Canada awakening to need to protect rights of Omar Khadr, activists say
By MERITA ILO AND ABDUL LATHEEF
(CP, aka Communist Press)

It's Amnesty International Canada, part of Amnesty International, a soviet-communist front organization with a long history starting during the Spanish Civil War.

Amnesty International (shades of the Communist International) survived the fall of the Berlin Wall. lberia is one of its progenitors; a direct ancestor.

Go here for the whole story:

The True Genesis of Amnesty International
Claudio Veliz

THE HIGH TIDE of the Cold War concealed vastly more than fanciful antics by KGB agents, and it is unlikely that we will ever know how many quiet initiatives originally designed to divide, influence, distract or, ultimately, to overcome resistance to the communist onslaught escaped detection at the time and will remain hidden forever. Some probably failed ingloriously, and most of those that succeeded at first were later crushed under the rubble of the Berlin Wall, but a few survived the Soviet debacle and went on to prosper in its aftermath, and of these, Amnesty Inter-national must be counted among those that most convincingly went on to flourish after managing the difficult transition with suitable adroitness. Only three years have passed since 2004 when the fiftieth birthday of its governing idea should have been celebrated and it is meet and just, albeit belatedly, to throw light on its true origins and rescue from obscurity the name of its real begetter. [...]

THIS STORY BEGINS not in 1960 or 1954, but in the early hours of September 3, 1939, when almost simultaneously with the declaration of war in Europe, and only a few days after the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the Winnipeg, an old, rusty and scarcely seaworthy French freighter carrying over two thousand republican Spanish refugees from the Civil War, docked in Valparaíso. This vessel had been chartered by Pablo Neruda, the Chilean poet who later became the country’s second Nobel laureate, then in France as a special Consul for Spanish Immigration. Neruda had earlier served as Consul in Barcelona and Madrid until 1937 when his robust republican partisanship earned him a swift dismissal. Back in Chile in time to help in the 1938 election that brought the Popular Front to power, he returned to France with the blessing of the newly elected President Pedro Aguirre Cerda with instructions to select from among the republican refugees detained in concentration camps in the south of France a suitable number of skilled workers and their families for resettlement in Chile. [...]

In the early 1960s I was back in London and spoke with Alec a few months after the mythical 1961 birth of Amnesty, soon to become Amnesty International. In the intervening years, Tito had refused to buckle, France was at war in Algeria, Perón was deposed, the Cominform was scuttled, Poles and Hungarians took to the streets, China was difficult, Castro was proclaimed in Cuba, the Vietnam War was on its way and all things evidently having been considered, Peter Benenson accepted Alec’s suggestion and took the helm of Amnesty International.
http://quadrant.org.au/php/article_view.php?article_id=3400

Cash-Strapped Communists Hawk Treasures (France)

The party is considering selling Mona Lisa with Moustache by Marcel Duchamp. [...]

It could get worse. Opinion polls predict Mr Sarkozy's party will take between 400 and 460 of the 577 seats in the Assemblée Nationale. The opposition Socialist Party, which is in disarray, is praying for a "symbolic" minimum of 120 seats.

That would leave the Communists on the brink of disaster, with predictions that they will hold as few as four of their current 21 seats in the parliamentary elections, thus losing the privileges and funding given to official parliamentary groups, which need at least 20 MPs to receive public cash.

According to Le Monde newspaper, the director of a "large modern art museum" said he had been visited by a Communist Party delegation, asking him to value the large Fernand Léger fresco, Liberty I write your name, which hangs in the party headquarters. "I was led to believe they were in the process of selling their last assets," he said.

A member of the party told the newspaper: "It's true, we're scraping around in the bottom of drawers so we don't have to sell the family jewels."

The Communists built a property portfolio thanks to decades of funding from Moscow which, until 1990, was estimated to have sent about £1 million a year. Much has since been sold, but the party still owns several apartments, including one used by Lenin during a visit to Paris. ...-

Mona Lisa with Moustache here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1847733/posts

Psst ... More on Duchamp here: The Fountain, aka The Urinal ...-

http://www.beatmuseum.org/duchamp/fountain.html

Fulford mentions Thorsell, aka Big Brother, who pushed the homosexual agenda while at the Globe-Mail. Fulford knows Thorsell's agenda. Fulford revels in "love" and "hope".

It's TO, the centre of the universe, as usual, at its narcissistic worst.
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This is why people hate Toronto
No, not the new ROM - but the pretentious, self-parodic ceremony that launched it

Robert Fulford, National Post
Published: Saturday, June 09, 2007

TORONTO -The temporary bleachers have long since been cleared away but Torontonians who attended the opening of the Royal Ontario Museum's (ROM) new addition last Saturday night are still trying to forget. It was an occasion to delight those who despise the pretensions of Toronto. No doubt they will savour, till their dying days, how dreadful it was. But we who love Toronto hope we can (as mourners are advised to do) put it behind us and move on. Still, it's better at the beginning to talk than suffer in silence.

Imagine, then, this spectacle: Like Big Brother in George Orwell's 1984, the face of William Thorsell, director of the ROM, suddenly loomed several stories high over Bloor Street, projected onto the museum's new cladding. It was realistic enough to be terrifying. And it spoke! It said, of course, that this was a great moment, but the disembodied god-like presence left us trembling.

Thorsell and several others, magically revealed by celestial technology, turned out to be the show's highlight. Most of the evening was dead ordinary, but the Big Brother imagery at least delivered an element of primitive horror. And its spiritual implications fit the evening's theme. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1847712/posts

Ron from Kelowno notes:
"if only PMJC had not signed on to the scam. Who were his advisers anyways ??" . . . I don't believe he consulted with them. I think "our Kyoto obligations" were incurred because of a cavalier and thoughtless decision that was Chretien's alone. I am sure that the fact that this might be possibly ruinous for the country never crossed his mind.

Paris Sronach blasts PM Harper (Globe)

Says PM should make Canadian taxpayers give more $$s to Africa. Bonohead agrees.

11:25pm edt, eighty nine percent (89%) of the Globe's own readers think BS should put a rag in it. Globe Sat edition would do.

G&M stresses that Belinda is helping the latte-left help Africans fight malaria. But the Globe fails(guilty by omission, again) to mention that malaria has been rampant in Africa the last 30 years partly because one of their own eco-freaks wrote a piece of fiction 40 years ago.

Rachel Carlson's 'Silent Spring', killed millions. www.greenspirit.com

General Electric is spending a 'geen bundle' betting on Kyotoism (GE's Green Gamble.)

[ The ecomagination project is a major part of Mr. Immelt's effort to remodel the $163-billion company ]

[ And it rests on his belief that global political leaders – such as those attending the G8 summit in Germany this week – will impose tougher new environmental standards, including limits on greenhouse gas emissions. ]

OOPS !!

Unless he read the Nat Post he won't know Kyoto died at the G8 :( Most media, though, are ignoring the death of a scam. Aiding & Abeting.

[ If Mr. Immelt is wrong about oil prices and carbon constraints, some future CEO could be taking billion-dollar writeoffs in the company's wind power portfolio, or its nuclear division, or its clean-coal investments. ]

Nuclear, sure. Clean coal, ok. WP is a fraud.

2 out of 3 ---- a hold :)

ron in Kelona, don't forget that the introduction to Silent Spring was written by Al Gore.

LindaL I belive Chretein signed on to Kyoto because his buddies at Power Corp "Mo Strong and the big D" told him to.