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Big increase in hurricanes is not caused by global heating, say scientists:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1896266.ece

Bill Casey, right or wrong?

I say wrong.

Not so much a hot tip, but a neat video. Today is the anniversary of D-Day. There's a great video on Michelle Malkin's blog showing what the news would be like if D-Day had happened now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px_XBJHrs4I

"Roosevelt lied, people died"

"What are we doing in France, France didn't attack us on D-Day! Why aren't we in Japan capturing Hirohito?"

"We should negotiate..."

TB Guy Tops Bush in New Poll

In the latest sign of erosion for President George W. Bush's job approval rating, a new poll released today reveals that Mr. Bush is now less popular among the American people than the so-called "TB Guy," Atlanta attorney Andrew Speaker.

While the president's approval numbers have been in a virtual free-fall in recent months, few political insiders expected him to be trounced by Mr. Speaker, who has been accused of exposing airline passengers to tuberculosis.

Additionally, the poll results are historic in another way, since they mark the first time that a sitting president has been deemed less popular than a quarantined disease carrier.

But at the White House today, official spokesman Tony Snow tried to put a positive spin on the numbers, saying that Mr. Speaker's poll numbers received an artificial "bounce" as a result of all of the press coverage he has received in recent days.

"If President Bush had been quarantined for spreading tuberculosis around the world, his numbers would be right up there with the TB Guy's," Mr. Snow claimed.

Three of ours captured is nasty news, but keep this unusual truck bombing in Kurdish North Iraq killing 50 in mind.

Turkish troops massing on the Kurds from the north side and this truck bomb hit could spark very unpleasant times.
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BAGHDAD (AP) - An al-Qaida front group announced Sunday it had captured American soldiers in a deadly attack the day before, as thousands of U.S. troops searched insurgent areas south of Baghdad for their three missing comrades.

The statement came on one of the deadliest days in the country in recent weeks, with at least 124 people killed or found dead. A suicide truck bomb tore through the offices of a Kurdish political party in northern Iraq, killing 50 people, and a car bombing in a crowded Baghdad market killed another 17.

Troops surrounded the town of Youssifiyah and told residents over loudspeakers to stay inside, residents said. They then methodically searched the houses, focusing on possible secret chambers under the floors where the soldiers might be hidden, residents said. The soldiers marked each searched house with a white piece of cloth.

Soldiers also searched cars entering and leaving the town, writing **searched** on the side of each vehicle they had inspected. Several people were arrested, witnesses said.
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070514/D8P3UTV80.html
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I'm just spitballin' here, but my guess is, the most significant benefit
of this program will be... up-and-coming pharmaceutical entrepreneurs
appreciating having a well populated, air conditioned place of business.

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Poor, beleagured David Suzuki. Doesn't Canada Revenue realise he's a CHARITY -- just like The Salvation Army, only, you know, "different"?

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/06/revenooers_chas.php

Old news...new news?

CALGARY (CBC) - Two key figures linked to the sponsorship scandal appeared before a Commons committee Wednesday and stood by their previous testimony, saying there were no inconsistencies.

Chuck Guité, the former federal bureaucrat who ran the sponsorship program and Jean Pelletier, former chief of staff to former prime minister Jean Chrétien, were called before the public accounts committee.

The committee is going over old testimony given by some of the players in the sponsorship scandal. Members say they have found a number of discrepancies between what some witnesses told them and what they told John Gomery's inquiry into the scandal.

Guité, who was convicted of defrauding the federal government of approximately $1.5 million, is currently appealing a 31/2-year prison sentence for his involvement in the scandal.

He started his testimony by asking the committee to not make his situation worse.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/06062007/3/canada-guit-pelletier-say-inconsistencies-testimony.html

Make his situation worse???

Huh???? I thought the gun ban had cured all this.

In Hamilton today, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced another $12 million to target guns and gangs, including $6.3 million to expand a program now under way in Toronto to help police in York, Durham, Halton and other municipalities across the province.

"If young people make the wrong choices, if they pick up a gun, if they join a gang, then we'll be there with the full force of the law," McGuinty said.
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/222323

Whoops.My mistake. The Lieberals(provincial) are looking out for us. Just watch the gangs and criminals flock in now to register their guns!!

Status of Women Agency Memo: SOW is a relic of the past.

Abolish it!

Headline rewritten for the Canadian Taliban Jack Layton-NDP:

30 Muslim Islamist murderers, aka taliban, killed.

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30 suspected Taliban killed

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Dozens of suspected Taliban fighters are dead or wounded after air strikes in southern Afghanistan (canoe news)

Betrayal by/of the intellectuals. This egghead is a colleague of STOPIGGY.
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A Degradation of the Intellect

By ADAM KIRSCH

When a man as distinguished as Patrice Higonnet — professor of history at Harvard, a leading scholar of France and the French Revolution — writes a book as bad as "Attendant Cruelties" (Other Press, 378 pages, $25.95), it is more than a shame, it is a symptom. What drove Mr. Higonnet to range so far from his professional pasture as to write this brief history of America? It was not any great expertise in the subject; the bulk of the book is a sketchy and conventional chronicle, assembled from secondary sources, and containing no facts or interpretations that will surprise any reader who paid attention in his or her 11th-grade U.S. History class. It was not any deep historical insight; for Mr. Higonnet's method is not to explain our history so much as to assign grades to its leading actors, depending on how well they suit his present-minded criteria of "inclusion" and "exclusion," enlightened "patriotism" and iniquitous "nationalism."

No, the reason why "Attendant Cruelties" got written is much simpler: It is Mr. Higonnet's overpowering hatred of President Bush. How, Mr. Higonnet keeps asking, did the country in which he has lived for decades — the country that he admires as "open-minded, welcoming, at the forefront of nearly everything, and, in so many ways, the freest country in the world" — twice elect as president a man whom he regards as evil incarnate? This is not an exaggeration. In the course of his book, Mr. Higonnet compares the president not just to Hitler — "We can understand him better if we understand what came before him. ... Hitler was a madman, but even he did not become chancellor of the German Reich just because he was a madman" — but also to Stalin: "What Stalinism was to utopian communism, Bushism is to the American creed."

With the illogicality of malice, Mr. Higonnet characterizes Mr. Bush as simultaneously incompetent and omnipotent, feckless and relentless, the bully of his advisers and the dupe of his advisers. (more)
http://www.nysun.com/article/55944
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w3.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=28289

Should have put the islamberg reference here. Thought it was kind of interesting that a town of islamberg is one and a half hours north of NYC in the catskills with reports of gunfire and other weird goings on.

Anyone catch the cbc interview with Geldolf this a.m.? He pretty much blames PMSH for 'children dying'..in outraged loud voice asks.'what is wrong with Harper?'..then says he and Bono are dedicating song at concert later today..( You're Going To Carry That Weight),to PMSH.Needless to say,cbc'er was orgasmic,and the joy in his voice over this burnt out rockstar slamming PMSH couldn't be contained.I can well imagine,the coverage this song will get on our beloved msm.

I just heard on CTV NewsNet that Paris Hilton has been released from jail, after only three days served. FWIW.

Sammy, I just caught the Geldof interview and almost puked. Why would anyone other than the CBC care what this burn-out thinks. When Bono, Geldof et al live off the wage and assets of the average Cdn taxpayer then they might have a shred of credibility (I'd still tell them to go toss off) to try and STEAL more money from my pocket.

As it stands they themselves could afford to save all these starving children with the millions and millions of dollars they have with little damage to their lifestyle, yet all these heartless bastards can come up with is begging for money from my pocket and writing a cheesy song? One of their suits could probably feed a family for several years, one of their cars could save a village, and one of their jets could save a small country.
If all these elites could stand to live the life of the average working Joe without their ferraris, mansions, yachts etc they themselves could likely save the world. Will they do it?? Not bloody likely.

The allies of Taliban Jack Layton-NDP at their work: Murder.
Socialists ignore these murders; socialists are complicit in these murders by their silence.
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Second Female Journalist Killed in Afghanistan

Two female journalists have been murdered in Afghanistan in less than one week.

Last night, Zakia Zaki, the head of a radio station, was killed in her home. The murder was particularly gruesome as she was shot several times in her head and chest as she slept in the same room with her eight-month and three-year-old sons. The sons both survived the shooting.

According to the Governor of Parwan, where Zaki worked and ran the Peace Radio station, three people entered her home and opened fire.

Zaki had received threats in the past as she was a critic of the Taliban and the former warlords.

No one has claimed responsibility for the murder.

Earlier this week, another female journalist was killed in her home in Kabul. According to the father of the victim, Shokiba Sanga Amaaj, some relatives may have been involved in that incident, and there has been at least one arrest in the case. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846367/posts

More on Paris Hilton, from a live news conference on her release, with Steve Whitmore, L.A. Sherriff's office:

- Ms. Hilton seemed to have gotten a discharge on compassionate (medical) grounds. Mr. Whitmore said he can't go into details because of privacy laws.
- She was released to her home. Her term in jail is over.
- She was part of a category in relation to this.
- She's now under house arrest, with an ankle bracelet to monitor her movements. This place is where she'll serve the remainder of her sentence - the next 40 days.
- Her medical condition is not contagious.

Once again, FWIW. I saw the conference on CBC Newsworld.

CPAC now...Dion in The House on the Atlantic Accord and Equalization Program

This is a keeper quote:

"Three species of vulture are found in Quebec: the black vulture, the turkey vulture and the journalist."

Polls suggest the premier is toast, putting pressure on him to make an early exit
DON MACPHERSON, The Gazette

"Poser la question, c'est y repondre," they say in French - to ask the question is to answer it.

In reply to questions about ever louder rumblings out of the Liberal caucus about his leadership, Premier Jean Charest said this week he'll lead the Liberals into the next election. And even though it appears that where he'll lead them is straight over a cliff, his ministers and members of the National Assembly say - in public, at least - that they're happy as lemmings to follow him.

Of course. That's what they're supposed to say - right up until the day when Charest announces he's stepping down - which might be sooner than some people expect.

Three species of vulture are found in Quebec: the black vulture, the turkey vulture and the journalist....-
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=bcbda7e9-140a-4155-a53d-93e968f357bc

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"I haven't had a chance to post this on VoiceofCanada yet,
so you're first to know: an outside consultant hired by the
Minister of Community Safety & Corrections has met with
us regarding our complaints against Fantino, and
we are waiting for his recommendations to the Minister."

Mark Vandermaas
VoiceofCanada

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CP, aka Canadian Press, eats a wee morsel of crow.
Crow eats CP: caw ... caw ... caw ...
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Corrective on gun crime statistics

OTTAWA (CP) - The Canadian Press erroneously reported June 1 that there was a 16 per cent drop in the number of firearms crimes in the United Kingdom in 2006 compared with the previous year. In fact, figures from Britain's Home Office show there was a 16 per cent drop in the number of handgun crimes in the year ended March 31, 2005, compared with the same period a year previous.

In addition, the story should have included information from the Home Office that supports Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day's assertion that the number of overall offences involving firearms has increased in Britain each year since handguns were banned in 1997. ...-
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/06/07/4241962-cp.html

Red Harvest

ABC's The Blotter says "NATO officials say they have caught Iran red-handed, shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces."

Here's how I think the policy debate will go following this discovery.

NATO: We caught the Iranians red-handed!
Diplomats: How can you be sure it was really red? Couldn't it have been vermillion or crimson maybe?
NATO: They were caught red-handed I tell you!
Diplomats: Let's have a little nuance here.

I don't think any of this is news. Neither is this old saying: "there are none so blind as they who will not see."
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If You Want a Friend, Buy a Dog

David Frum writes: A reader draws my attention to this letter in support of Scooter Libby from Paul Wolfowitz:

I also remember how Mr. Libby offered his services pro bono or at reduced costs after he had returned to private law practice - to help former colleagues and friends with legal issues. In one case he helped a public official defend himself against libelous accusations, something that is extremely difficult to do for anyone in public office. The official in question was Richard Armitage who more recently served as - Deputy Secretary of State....-
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/

Casey is a traitor to his Party. He's been around long enough to know you cannot vote against your Party's budget and remain in caucus.

He has a personal agenda going on according to rumor. He has plans to run provincially. He's feathering his nest and spending his capital at the expense of the Conservatives.

He has given some clout to the Liberals and the MSM, he's their new hero.
If there is a new deal being struck with Nova Scotia he'll be out of the loop and back to selling used cars.

How about Quebec going the carbon tax route? That may just turn Quebecers off the Kyoto idea. It's a bit different when it hits the pocket books as opposed to the ROC handing them carbon credits.

It'll be interesting to watch.

MSM's Fables*: The Fox Eats More Crow, Pt. II.
The moral: Be sure to marinate crow before eating.
(*H/T Aesop.)
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Fox News apologizes again for showing wrong congressman

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel issued a second on-air apology Wednesday for mistakenly running tape of a different congressman while reporting on the indictment of Representative William J. Jefferson on bribery charges.

House judiciary committee chairman John Conyers of Michigan, whose picture aired while Fox anchors talked Monday about Jefferson’s indictment, had been unhappy with Fox’s apology Tuesday. Both congressmen are black.

Conyers was reportedly upset that Fox’s first apology was nonspecific and didn’t mention he was the victim.

On Wednesday, Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum explained to viewers that a production assistant picked up a tape that had been identified as a meeting about Jefferson. The picture showed Conyers.

“We regret this mistake,” MacCallum said. “We in no way meant to suggest that there was any connection between the Jefferson indictment and Congressman Conyers. We have extended our apology privately to the congressman and we do so here as well.”

A Conyers spokeswoman had no comment about the second apology....-
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2007/06/07/4242242-ap.html

Maybe CTV could learn something from Fox News. They made an error and applogized TWICE! I doubt if they threatened Youtube or Conyurs with a copywrite suit.

Jack is so ironic.; tsk, tsk.

It's not the Gaza Strip; it's the Jane-Finch Strip in TO, Ontario. Good news, though; "Officers recovered that bullet, as well as several shell casings."

No recovery of the criminals reported?
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Bullet from shootout hits girl’s bedroom

A gunfight that sent a bullet hurtling into a child’s bedroom has resulted in nine charges against a 23-year-old man.

Police responded to a report of gunshots on Driftwood Crt., in the Jane St. and Finch Ave. W. area, around 5 p.m. yesterday.

They say two groups of people were firing at each other between two apartment buildings on Driftwood when a bullet went through a window and hit the wall of a bedroom occupied by a 12-year-old girl.

Officers recovered that bullet, as well as several shell casings.

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o Note: Sounds like the Gaza Strip....-

http://www.jacksnewswatch.info/

"D-Day: Crisis On Omaha" (2007 version from the People's News Network)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px_XBJHrs4I

Mark
Ottawa

Suzuki should be told that when Rev Can receives a huge number of complaints or suggestions about a person or organization, they must do an audit. If his org is being audited re charitable status, I think it is because hundreds of us lodged a complaint. You do not have to give your name, just your reasons. Thanks posters, time this guy was called to account. Lets hope donations drop to zero and he will have to spend his own money.

PMSH snubs Bono! If ever I needed another reason to vote for the man this would be it.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN0526853020070607?feedType=RSS

this not on CBCpravda or CTV(tass)

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/07/petraeus.iraq/index.html

National Newswatch reporting:

Behold the Socialist Party of Canada:

Hug-a-Thug Liberal-Librano$ and Stuck-On-Stupid NDP.

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'Appalling, despicable decision' hauling a sick Pelletier back: Kinsella
A couple things struck me, when I went looking for stories about the appalling, despicable decision of some MPs to haul a sick Jean Pelletier back before a House of Commons standing committee.
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Mirror, mirror: 'Who pays PM's primper?' gets no response
The cost to taxpayers for Stephen Harper's personal stylist is destined to remain the prime minister's beauty secret.
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Montreal man killed by his brother for being a bad Muslim

When a society imports large numbers of people from a culture that tolerates this kind of murder of the religiously deviant, or at very least from countries in which many people believe that if El-Mehdi really was a bad Muslim, then he deserved everything he got, then no one should be surprised when this kind of thing happens in the new land. No one dares address the idea that it is permissible to murder apostates in Islam. No one would dare require immigrants to renounce this idea. No one would dare require mosques to hold programs teaching against this idea, and other Sharia provisions, if they want to stay in the West. No, they're imported wholesale, with no consideration of the ramifications.

Since none of the high-profile Muslim groups in the U.S. have declared the execution of apostates, as sanctioned by Islamic law, to be impermissible and wrong in all circumstances today, and none have renounced jihad warfare against unbelievers in order ultimately to subjugate them, is that really a wise course to take?

Jihad Watch reader Marc has kindly sent in this translation of this French article, "Killed his own brother: 'He was a believer in Satan,'" by David Santerre in Le Journal de Montréal:

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"He is a believer in Satan," said Najib Bellari about his brother El-Medhi, just after he stabbed him to his death at a downtown restaurant where he was working on October 24, 2005.

This is what two of his coworkers declared about the 36-year-old defendent yesterday, during the trial for the murder of his brother, in front of judge Marc David.

According to their testimony, from Najib Bellari’s point of view, his elder brother was a bad Muslim.
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The night of the murder, Najib Bellari, who currently studies administration in his native Morocco, returned to Basha on Sainte-Catherine Street, the restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. (more) ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846720/posts

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"The students' e-mails also report that Chavez has now threatened to shut down the Internet."

Security Forces Kill Student in Venezuela, Eyewitnesses Report

Students seek to bypass government media blackout

Venezuelan police, in riot gear, prepare to face a crowd of college students calling for media freedom in Venezuela.

At approximately 3:20 p.m. this afternoon in Caracas security forces murdered a Venezuelan student who was taking part in the ongoing peaceful protests against Hugo Chavez's regime, eyewitnesses said.

The student who was killed was named Andreina Gomez Guevara. She was 24 years old and attended UCAB, the Catholic University of Venezuela.

Students inside Venezuela are using the Internet to try to get out news about this murder and these demonstrations to the outside world. They complain that media inside Venezuela has either been silenced or intimidated, preventing a true picture of events there from being reported, and they appeal for help. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846674/posts

See pic here: Tianenmen Square, China: Redux.

Venezuelan students kneel down to block a police vehicle dispersing the crowd with a water cannon...-
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-6-1/55953.html

Re Bill Casey. His position is very, very popular here in Nova Scotia. Press reports say he has had hundreds of e-mails in support of his stand. Just thinking ... what if SDA readers let him know,politely,what THEY think?

caseyb@parl.gc.ca

lots of stories here for us deniers/

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=c47c1209-233b-412c-b6d1-5c755457a8af

[She said she is personally "broke" because of her $50,000 salary and called her job "grueling." Liz]

I thought the "Greens" always preached that the $money$ lifestyle had to go. Suzuki sending us back to the cave sorta thing.

A lot of Canadians with a real job make less than 50k I would think.

//www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=481fd40f-5f97-4f61-84d2-e586e548674d&k=28536

Genius Nikolai Tesla demonstrated this in the year 1904.

Indeed: The metaphor of dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants (Latin: Pigmaei gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident)
[wiki]
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Goodbye wires... MIT experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846897/posts

Good morning Kate,

I didn't see a Friday tip thread and thought this article was worthy of comment.

From the CBC: Quebec to collect nation's 1st carbon tax at http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/06/07/carbon-tax.html

Quebec will implement Canada's first carbon tax in October, collecting just under one cent a litre from petroleum companies in the province, which will raise about $200 million a year to pay for energy-saving initiatives such as improvements to public transit.

The tax will amount to 0.8 cents on every litre of gas sold in Quebec, and 0.9 cents on each litre of diesel fuel.

About 50 companies will be affected by the tax.

Oil companies will be hardest hit. They will pay about $69 million a year for gasoline, $36 million for diesel fuel, and $43 million for heating oil.

Natural gas distributors will pay about $39 million, while electricity distributor Hydro-Québec will pay $4.5 million for its thermal energy plant in Tracy, Que.

Natural Resources Minister Claude Béchard said Wednesday he hopes the petroleum industry will pay the tax without passing on the cost to drivers when they fill up their cars at the pump. Good luck with that!

...oh and a happy birthday to me. Well June 7th.