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What is the #1 reason for the 9.2% increase in water taxes in Peel (Mississauga)?

To ensure adequate funding is available … No!

To fund additional work at the water treatment plants …. No!

To combat global climate change. You guessed it!

http://www.region.peel.on.ca/finance/water-rate-2007/index.htm#3

David, may I humbly suggest you ask Peel for a 9.2% decrease in your property taxes to allow you to impliment your own program to combat global warming (like paying your water bill). Just a thought.

Guess Peel just opened themselves to a class action lawsuit - no way on Earth they will be able to prove that climate change exists and that it can be combated.

Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):

* Science, not politics
* Statistics needed
* The original denier: into the cold
* End the chill
* They call this a consensus?
* The limits of predictability
* Unsettled science
* The ice-core man
* The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science
* Polar scientists on thin ice
* The sun moves climate change
* Bright sun, warm Earth. Coincidence?
* Look to Mars for the truth on global warming
* Read the sunspots
* Forget warming - beware the new ice age
* Little Ice Age is still with us
* Fighting climate 'fluff'

Other References:

* Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
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* Swedish Scientist Accuses UN's IPCC of Falsifying Data and Destroying Evidence
* Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics
* Global Warming and Nature's Thermostat
* The Real 'Inconvenient Truth'
* New findings indicate today's greenhouse gas levels not unusual
* Climate Change: Incorrect information on pre-industrial CO2
* Global Warming as a Religion ...-
More:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856614/posts

maybe Rick Mercer can offer prince chuck the 4000 tonne challenge.

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/06/26/charles-carbon.html

life of the bitch and useless

LGF: CNN.COM Weather Page Refers to "Jerusalem,[No Country]"

Little Green Footballs ^ | 6/26/07
CNN: Even the Weather is Biased Against Israel Search the CNN Weather page for “Jerusalem,” and here are the results: Clicking “Jerusalem, null” brings you to the page for Israel, of course. Could be an innocent mistake, you say? But that’s not all—not by a long shot. Their “Weather Location Selector” lists Gaza and the West Bank as countries separate from Israel—and their list of Israeli cities includes several Arab villages which have not existed since 1948. And in a related outrage, another reader emailed about Samsung’s list of support centers in the Middle East—which includes the imaginary country of...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856689/posts

many municipalities introduced user fees years back EG:bag tags, these So called user fees were just another convienent way of increasing your taxes without using the Dreaded Tax word, As municipal politicians Know that they are on the frontline for revolt from the taxpayers.
So now what we see is that they have run the course on the words user fees so they need to come up with another way to increase the tax basin so that the municipal politicians can have another way of spending Your Monies Foolishly, Hence Combating Global Warming.
BTW: i have noticed even in my city of Owen Sound the enviro's have infiltrated the council's & that is all they talk about now.

Red Star/CP spin this, and spin, and spin, and...
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Tory NASCAR ad smart, poll suggests
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/229594

For a Mohammedan-Free Denmark

gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/06/for-mohammedan-free-denmark.html

Some Danes burn Mo in effigy and Youtube it for our enjoyment.

Joe Comuzzi (officially) joins the CPC. Check out MDL (CTV.ca) for his comments re-affirming that Dion is destroying the Liberal party.

The knock on your door, at night? No. It's daytime.
The Soviet KGB/Nazi Gestapo worked under the cover of darkness.
These enviro bureauc-rats work in broad daylight; for every rat seen in the day there are 100 more unseen.

The next steps: enforcement; prison;Gulags;socialism: Death.
Is there no end to the insanity?
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The Scarlet Letter

Tim Blair follows the Global Warming environmentalist scene, featuring researchers who descend on private homes with carbon-measuring equipment and an attendant TV crew to publicly "shame" their occupants into greater Greenness.

Each week they don their orange monogrammed shirts to cordon off the toxic home of an Australian family. They arrive with energy-auditing gadgetry, sobering statistics and lips and eyebrows curled in withering admonishment. They rate these people, shame them, then challenge them to do better.

"One of the things I loved was when you tell them the audit result,” says Carbon Constable Fitzgerald, whose daytime cover is head of the science department at Geelong’s Oberon High School. “Most of them were expecting to come off pretty well but they were all genuinely, absolutely floored. They can’t believe it. It’s a great moment."

Tim Blair's only regret is that they don't audit the energy consumption and travel logistics of the TV crews they bring with them. Mine is why they don't get a life. Don't these guys have anything better to do than spend their days telling other people how to live? ...-
http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/

NATO Forces Winning Battle Against Taliban in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, June 26, 2007 – Though the number of insurgent attacks in Afghanistan has increased as officials predicted it would with better weather, coalition forces are winning the battle against al Qaeda and the Taliban in NATO’s Regional Command East, a U.S. official in Afghanistan said today.

“The enemy continues to use all means available to him to attack our forces and disrupt the lives of Afghan civilians,” said Army Brig. Gen. Joseph Votel, deputy commander for operations at Combined Joint Task Force 82.

Speaking via teleconference from Bagram Air Base, Votel said the enemy is using improvised explosive devices, rockets, mortars and direct action against NATO’s International Security Assistance Force and Afghan security forces.

“The insurgents use intimidation tactics to frighten the population into abandoning their support for their government and disrupt development and governance activities,” he said. “In many places, we see this insurgent tactic failing as Afghan citizens reject these efforts and, in some cases, literally fight back against the insurgents.

NATO officials expected the Taliban to launch a spring offensive, and planned to blunt that move, the general said.

“Our operations since the spring have had a significant effect on the Taliban insurgency here,” Votel said. “We continue to be focused on neutralizing insurgents and creating a security environment that will allow development and extension of the legitimate government of Afghanistan.”

Coalition and Afghan forces have killed or captured dozens of Taliban commanders and sub-commanders, leaving cells without experienced leadership or direction, he said. The forces also are controlling many areas of the region previously held by the Taliban. The security the forces provide has allowed the Afghan government and aid organizations to build roads, schools and district centers. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856800/posts

Storyteller
The famous novelist on politics, and how writing can change the course of history.

BY EMILY PARKER

[...]

And herein lies the power of Mr. Vargas Llosa's work: He finds that tyranny takes its toll in places we hadn't even thought to look. As for the value of freedom, perhaps he puts it best in "The Feast of the Goat": "It must be nice. Your cup of coffee or glass of rum must taste better, the smoke of your cigar, a swim in the ocean on a hot day, the movie you see on Saturday, the merengue on the radio, everything must leave a more pleasurable sensation in your body and spirit when you had what Trujillo had taken away from Dominicans 31 years ago: free will."

We begin to wrap up our interview. We both drink red wine. A room nearby houses Mr. Vargas Llosa's private library--I notice that some of the volumes are bound in leather. He tells me that there are more than 18,000 books. His collection is clearly a point of pride, but it is also a tangible representation of his belief in the power of words. Or as he would say it: "I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated." ...-
http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010248

Woah! This would be *Limitless Energy* if proven viable for large Electric Power plant generation.

SALT WATER as a fuel. Seems Salt Water held in a tank in an intense high frequency RF field can be made to release intense energy fuel. [ see demo ]

myrepublicanblog.blogspot.com/

Thank*s to Gayle for bringing it to my attention. A different kind of [ salt water ] Hydro power plant.

Great! Goreacle*s water rising mamma and S.W. power plants burning it will give us a happy balance. = TG

in other news:

Starburst Fruit Chews are exactly as their name would indicate: chewy. But one Boston-area woman says the candies are so chewy, they should come with a warning label.

Victoria McArthur, of Romero, Mich., is suing Starbursts' parent company, Mars Inc., for more than $25,000 for "permanent personal injuries" she claims she sustained after biting into one of their yellow candy in 2005.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,286855,00.html