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def: an Air-Head who pretends to understand stupidity and then looks down their nose at others who see the folly for what it is. Intellectal-ramus also is useless when it comes to anything productive such as building a house. Habitat; Starbucks.

[ As George Orwell said -- and I'm sure, would have said specifically about the rage over CO2 levels -- there are some ideas so silly that only intellectuals can believe them. Alas, intellectuals hold power out of all proportion to their numbers in any literate society.] David Warren, Ottawa Citizen.

//www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/columnists/story.html?id=f553bdb1-b064-4795-969e-779dfbaa572b

reporters sleeping with someone they cover? hmmm.. wrong yes, but unusual? I'm not so sure. (present company excluded.)

Why Intellectuals Like Genocide
by Theodore Dalrymple (July 2007)

Seemingly arcane historical disputes can often cast a powerful light on the state of our collective soul. It is for that reason that I like to read books on obscure subjects: they are often more illuminating than books that at first sight are more immediately relevant to our current situation. For, as Emily Dickinson put it, success in indirection lies.

In 2002, the Australian free-lance historian and journalist, Keith Windschuttle, published a book that created a controversy that has still not died down. Entitled ‘The Fabrication of Aboriginal History,’ it sets out to destroy the idea that there had been a genocide of Tasmanian aborigines carried out by the early European settlers of the island.

For about the previous quarter century, it was more or less an historical orthodoxy that there had been such a genocide. ...-

http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/8744/sec_id/8744

Pope Issues Document Allowing Wider Use of Latin Mass

new york times ^ | July 7, 2007 | staff
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI removed restrictions on celebrating the old form of the Latin Mass on Saturday in a concession to traditional Catholics, but he stressed that he was in no way rolling back the reforms of the Second Vatican Council ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862234/posts

Cannibalism as doctrine: an archaic rite. God within.

Doctrine of Transubstantiation
Eleventh century dogma of the Catholic Church; proclaiming that in Holy Communion, the bread and wine of the host are transmogrified into the body and blood of Christ; doctrinal basis for the validity of what is obviously a placebo sacrament.
1959 Wasson Trans. New York Acad. Sci., 21: 333. The faithful were not obliged to accept the dogma of Transubstantiation in order to know that they had partaken of the body of Christ(deoxy.org)

Warning: don't do it on a full stomach, but take a look at Paula Simon"s column in today's Edmonton Journal.
She disses the Yellow ribbon campaign and tells us how to support the Troops the *Canadian way*.

The Rothschilds family banking trust joins the GW fear mongering crusade.

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2007/2007-06-19-02.asp

When we see ultra insiders like the Rothschilds have seen economic gains for their cartel in profiteering from the fear mongering of GW, we know the con is as big as it gets.

I wonder if the toxic irony of young Baron de Rothschild offering advice to the muddied masses to save the planet by limiting their mobility and food purchases yet the Baron jets all over the world running "eco education adventures" at 250K$ a pop, is lost on the GW disciples who blindly follow this elitist apostle of sustainability regulatory tyranny? ...well, at least regulatory tyranny for the soiled masses but obviously not for the illuminated economic elite.

I think the hammer and sicle just got a fresh coat of green paint....and it's well heeled apostles are not prepared to lead by example where the sacrifies are concerned.

lgf: sunbathing in the van allen belt.
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The Global Warming - Radical Islam Convergence

One of the London car bomb suspects told relatives he was working on a top-secret project related to global warming.

A CAR bomb plot suspect allegedly asked his family to pray for him just hours before crashing a burning Jeep into the front of Glasgow airport.

Engineer Kafeel Ahmed, 28, told relatives he was working on a top-secret project in the UK “linked to global warming” and would complete his mission.

In a last phone call he said, “An earlier presentation had failed” – an apparent reference to the two failed car bombs in London’s West End. Ahmed, who is suspected of making all three car bombs, had said weeks earlier that he would soon be “inaccessible” for up to a week. ...-
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

"The press [MSM] has re-evaluated the mission 66 times."

Blatchford: Don’t turn Canadian soldiers into victims

[…]

With every single one of the deaths of the 66 Canadian soldiers who have died in that country, the media, like baying hounds in pursuit, ask those very questions or variants of them. ...-
http://www.jacksnewswatch.info/

My disgust and hatred of journalists increases every day. Truly these people are scum.

The fact that no one in the news media writes a column or story criticizing this behavior is pretty strong evidence that thier ethical standards are just as lax.

Cosmotology funded by the taxpayer. For a moment I thought this would be about Harper's personal image consultant, Michelle Muntean, who gets paid an undisclosed amount of money to work her magic on Stevie.

3w.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070418/harper_stylist_070418/20070418?hub=Politics

I suppose that's what makes him Canada's Sexiest Prime Minister.

3w.youtube.com/watch?v=IxzgCBFFKpg

john, there are some;

Lorrie Goldstein, Peter Foster, Terrence Corcoran, Lisa Corbella, and others.

...speaking of bacteria...did you hear the latest? Only a month and a half late and probably consumed, but hey, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is looking out for us.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/07/07/4320726-cp.html

TORONTO (CP) - Canadians are being warned not to eat some fresh and frozen ground beef products.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the meat may contain E. coli bacteria, which can be deadly in some cases.

There have been five reported illnesses connected with the tainted beef.

Affected fresh ground beef was sold in Safeway and some independent grocery stores in British Columbia and Alberta between May 24 and June 5.

Consumers are also being told to avoid frozen beef patties sold under the Butcher's Cut and Sunny Dawn brand names.

The contaminated patties were sold after May 24 in Safeway and independent stores in Western Canada, Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Ontario west of Thunder Bay.

Ron, thank you for your input. But sorry I *HAVE* to say this, NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

If a person defending journalists can only come up with four well known examples of news people who watch dog the ethics of their own industry then that pretty much proves *MY* point.

That's like saying FOUR drug dealers saw the light and gave up dealing and turned in their suppliers so drug dealers aren't so bad.

Nope, 'fraid that doesn't work.

Journalists are low lifes who lack the humility to be satisfied as just living as an unknown "one of the crowd" and are incapable or too lazy to achieve anything remarkable themselves so they they leech fame off the triumphs & tragedies of others.

Ron, thanks for that link to Warren's article.

HWM. pay not mind to the leftoid anti-American columnist. I believe her rant is mostly about using an "toxic political baggage" symbol from those damn Yankees to make a statement. It is essentially akin to saying the "V-for Victory" sign is nothing more than a British propaganda started by Winston Churchill.
I'll give her credit though, she implores readers to lobby government for better pay and equipment for our forces, volunteering and supporting the legion. This is much better advice than Taliban Jack could ever give.

BTW, served in Edmonton twice when they actually had an airforce there by that 14,000' runway that was the largest in the commonwealth and a space shuttle alternate. It is now a parking lot thanks to Teflon Jean Cretien. And yes, I am still bitter.

There may be a hippo in her bathtub, but Ann Murray doesn't want a wind mill in her backyard.
http://novascotiabusinessjournal.com/index.cfm?sid=42458&sc=107

mazbot2:

"Cannibalism as doctrine: an archaic rite. God within."

You have something against Catholic Doctrine? You think that quoting from websites dealing with the occult is supposed to be convincing evidence?

Try this instead:

"While they were eating, Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and giving it to his disciples said, "Take and eat; this is my body." Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed on behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins. " Matthew 26:26-28

Just go back to providing random link dumps without heretical opinions.

"Carbon dioxide from man-made sources rises to the atmosphere and then stays there for 50, 100, or even 200 years. This unprecedented buildup of CO2 then traps heat that would otherwise escape our atmosphere, threatening us all.
"This is nonsense," says Tom V. Segalstad, head of the Geological Museum at the University of Oslo and formerly an expert reviewer with the same IPCC. He laments the paucity of geologic knowledge among IPCC scientists -- a knowledge that is central to understanding climate change, in his view, since geologic processes ultimately determine the level of atmospheric CO2."
Read the rest here.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html?id=433b593b-6637-4a42-970b-bdef8947fa4e

Gore: The No-Questions Gaia Engine.
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A giddy Gore discusses 'Live Earth'

ON BOARD THE ACELA EXPRESS - Al Gore tried to rein in his adrenaline as the train churned between the two North American venues of his Live Earth concerts Saturday. [...]

"I'm just so filled with enthusiasm and energy, I'm not letting you ask questions," Gore said in an interview with The Associated Press."

""We have to be prepared to keep going for long enough to get this world across this tipping point."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862333/posts

Free Offer: Acela Express.

TGVweb - Acela Express Model

"Paper scale model of the Acela Express high speed train to download, print, cut out and assemble."
www.trainweb.org/tgvpages/models/model-acela.html

The real Gulag trains courtesy of Stalin, lberia, and their ilk.
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The Real Gulag: A Glimpse into the Soviet Union’s Prison Camp System

"The Gulag was a network of labor camps that existed across the Soviet Union from ... Prisoners were loaded onto trains and endured long trips in overcrowded ..."
russian-ukrainian-belarus-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_real_gulag

News flash the world will end tomorrow!!! It has to because I just agreed with lberia in his post quoting the words of Jesus.

I don't accept the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation but rather hold to the idea that if God who has no flesh said that his flesh is bread then when I eat that bread I eat the flesh of God. Likewise the wine or juice. God has no blood except that which He calls blood and so I drink it when I partake in Holy Communion.

Speaking of Edmonton Jurinal, they called this morning with a special offer.
Sadly the saleswoman said nothing about deep investigation of the hatchet job "Corruptchien" had Jean Carle at al do on Mr Beaudoin;of BDC and Auberge Shawinigan fame. Actualy, what I said was that the MSM missed the boat.

She was puzzled. Sales people SHOULD know something about what they are selling.no?

When I stopped laughing and pissing myself, I politely tolder her, that I do pick up the Urnal, from time to time, and when I like what I read, I'll subscribe.

I sure hope she doesn't hold her breath.

The blood of the martyrs; shed for Allah, says Mo.
Islam: Child killers.

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Brainwashed children plead to die as martyrs in Red Mosque siege
Times Online - 37 minutes ago
SAIMA KHAN wants to die a martyr. Life is transient, she told her father in a telephone call last week, and the real glory is to sacrifice it for Allah.
(google news)

The Globe and Mail has had a poll running all day Sat.

Do you agree with a civilian (presumably this particular civilian) being appointed Commissioner of the RCMP

At 7:30 pm MST the total count was 6602 votes with 82% recording a "yes".

I guess we will find out in due course if this support has any meaning. Whatever, no doubt it will be used as political fodder for the Yes side anyway.

Really what has been gained. The Liberals covertly and systematically molded the force into what it is today by forcing their hiring policies (a great deal), transfer (not so much), and particularly their promotion policies (covertly, of course) to the ranks of Inspector and above. Those who supported the Liberals and their ideological premises did fine while others didn't fare all that well. Dissonance was punished. The Mulroney/Liberal people had lots of time to make changes they knew should be made but it was not in their own interests to do so. It has been the rank and file of the Force that has paid the price.

Splitting the RCMP apart and setting up CSIS as was done by the bureaucrats/politicians was a disaster and many wheels have fallen off since 1983/84. This has the makings of another disaster.

Now we have a civilian head who has been a professional bureaucrat and with probably barely enough "insider" information to think he has all the answers. Not likely. He came up in the same system that has wrought far to much "bad stuff" that is affecting huge parts of the force today as well as far to many other federal institutions.

I suppose it is only fitting that the commissioner now be a politically correct politician/bureaucrat because that is in fact what the hierarchy of the Force has, in to large a part, become anyway.

While Day is making a big thing about the job search being done by an outside agency, check out the people who were in on the short-listing of the eight (?) candidates (Globe, Sat) - most all present/former politicians or bureaucrats. There was an opportunity here to consult with a whole lot of Sgts/SSgts/Inspectors, and Superintendents as to who might be capable of bringing about the changes that most all of them know are needed. These are operational people who for the most part, should have been listened to very carefully prior to the appointment but were probably not. They certainly are not going to speak their mind right now as it could be career threatening or even worse, career ending.

Now we have a government that is intent on overtly controlling the federal police force despite what they might say in defense of this appointment.

The only thing left now is to see how many present/dated politically correct politicians/bureaucrats will end up on the new Task Force that will be on the inner circle of control of whatever change occurs.

I'm getting a kick out of watching the celebs on this Live Earth fiasco.

Dave Matthews, who is a tremendous musician, could barely keep a straight face while telling the folks at home how he's getting his family to cut down on energy use. He says his daughters sometimes turn off the tap while brushing their teeth.

Cameron Diaz wasn't much better. She suggested turning the water off when you shave your legs.

Thank gawd for celebrities making the big sacrifices to ensure the planet is saved. Now I can sleep at night in my home that would get lost in Diaz's pool house.

Calgary Clipper, you have made some huge assuptions and put them out there as fact.
Show me where the Government is wanting to control the Force.
You cant claim to read Mr. Days mind.
Mr Elliot will probably make a fine commissioner.
You dont need to have a background in the force to be able to solve their problems.
I read Mr. Elliots statement, and nowhere did he claim to have the answers.
Any one person who claims to have answers to problems of this type are fools.
What i heard Mr. Elliot say is that he will work with the force, and help them find the answers. Thats what a good manager does.
In fact, in my experience, it takes someone with no knowledge of the work to help find the correct answers.
If the members of the RCMP are smart, they will get behind this man, and assisst in getting the force in shape.

In light of the above references to transubstantiation I thought it might be of interest to look at a definition from MacGregor's Dictionary of Religion and Philosophy for consubstantiation.

"Against the eucharistic doctrine of transubstantiation, which by the 12c. had become widely accepted and then made the de fide as the official doctrine of the Church by the Lateran Council in 1215, Luther offered an alternative formula. According to the transubstantiation theory, the substance of the bread and wine is changed during the mass when the priest consecrates them. Luther offered instead the theory of consubstatiation, according to which, after the consecration, the substance of the bread and wine, on the one hand, and, on the other, of the Body and Blood of Christ, co-exists. He used the analogy of iron put into the fire: they are united, yet each remains unchanged. Both doctrines depend on and perpetuate the categories of an Aristotelian philosophy, which, despite its brillian ingenuity, in the time of the 4c. B.C.E., is generally regarded as outmoded in respect of this part of its vocabulary; nevertheless, both transubstantiation and consubstantiation were serious attempts to state the Catholic doctrine that Christ is really present in the consecrated bread and wine, not only symbolically as a wedding ring is a symbolic token of a marriage, although by no means necessary to the reality or validity of the marriage."

While this is all a bit of an oversimplification, can you see on the basis of these two arguments why the major rift in Christendom should be sustained???

Neither can I.

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"I get by with a little help from my friends... I'm gonna
try with a little help..."

Former Liberal MP Jane Stewart has been appointed to
a $700-a-day post on a panel to examine the horse
racing and breeding industry in Ontario.

Stewart served as chief negotiator in the Caledonia land
dispute. Her year-long stint paid $225,370 based on
a $1,300 daily rate.

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Greg in Dallas

The late Rev Grady Nutt once posed this question; What do you have when you have two Christians in a pew? Answer; A Fight!

Truth be known there is much more keeping the protties and the dogans apart than the mass/communion debate. I hold that if everyone thinks the same no one is thinking at all so in my view competition between the churches improves all the churces. Put another way, the fear of challenging authourity is the one sure way to bring about dictatorship.

When you see this, you are likely to wonder why we put up with pumping smelly gas for Chevron, Shell and Exxon-Mobile, [ why do we work for them for free??], what sheeple we seem to be.

Here is poetry in motion whether it is compressed air or steam, it sure as heck need not be gas or diesel.

www.greensteamengine.com/

Scroll down for the animations. = TG

Toronto City Council should copy from Zimbabwe: The final/ultimate Business Tax Plan. Throw the business owners in jail; expropriate their businesses.

As socialists say, it's a Great Leap Forward.
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16 Business Leaders Arrested in Zimbabwe

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Police arrested 16 more business leaders in a crackdown on those suspected of violating the government's order to slash prices by 50 percent, the official media reported Sunday. The mandated price cuts are a desperate attempt to confront inflation that has spun out of control during Zimbabwe's economic crisis. The falling prices have caused stampedes, panic buying and near-riots by impoverished Zimbabweans. Among those arrested in the latest sweep were the directors of Edgars, a leading clothing and fashion retailer, and supermarket and gas station owners. Also taken into custody were Michael Fowler and Zed Koudanaris,...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862530/posts

Jane Stewart is a fine example of what family connections in the Liberal Party will net you, a lifetime of patronage beyond your abilities.
She's gotta be getting pretty puckered from hanging on to the Porker teat that BOONDOGGLE PRINCESS.

"Also, after the security operation Fazaullah, through his illegally-run FM Radio, had issued a statement saying anyone who supported the crackdown was an 'infidel'. He called the religious leaders supporting the present government as "rebels of Islam"."

War within Islam: Muslims killing Muslims.
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Pakistan facing another Lal Masjid
The Hindu ^ | 7/8/07

Islamabad, July 8 (PTI): Battling the radicals holed up in Lal Masjid, Pakistan security forces are gearing up to take on another set of well entrenched extremists led by a cleric, in a tribal area, who has issued a decree asking people to attack anyone supporting the crackdown on the Islamabad mosque.

The Government has decided to launch a massive operation against the banned Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM) leader Maulana Fazalullah in the tribal Malakand agency of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), media reports said here.

Fazalullah is a close associate of Lal Masjid cleric Abdul Aziz, arrested while trying to sneak out from the besieged mosque in a burqa four days ago, and his younger brother Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who is leading the resistance.

Fresh deployment of troops started following an announcement of war against security forces by Fazalullah after the operation against Lal Masjid, the Post daily said.

The situation is alarmingly deteriorating in Swat district as most of the students of the madrassas affiliated to Lal Masjid are hailing from the region. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862533/posts

Forgot to ask, did Jane the Boondoggle Princess settle anything for her "efforts" with the Caledonia Indian Thugs? Did she pluck a feather or two?

Yeah, like Liz said; What did the taxpayer get for Pocahontas Jane's efforts?

Bigg News: Digg It. It's front, centre, top of canoe news' website.

MSM/CP has gone bonkers. MSM/CP has gone hard on the MayDion Red-Green Librano$. This must stop. Ditchburn will be ditched.
MSM needs to be re-brainwashed. Send for Jeancula with da Can-values; Jeancula will bribe them back into line. ...-

Environmentalists accused of being too cosy with Liberal party
By JENNIFER DITCHBURN

OTTAWA (CP) - Canada's high-profile environmentalists have set themselves up as the Earth's lobbyists but some critics accuse them of concealing less lofty sympathies.

Insiders from three federal parties told The Canadian Press they have concerns that some of the activists judging climate-change action have become too cosy with the Liberals.

They say the Liberals had a poor record on acting to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions while in power for 13 years but faced much less criticism than the current Tory government. ...-
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWS/home.html

Like some other of her colleagues such as Christina Lawand, Jennifer Ditchburn and all the MSM can be taken with great skepticism on all they report on.
If they appear on side with the Conservatives watch out, there's a counter to that coming soon.

We cannot trust any reportage they dish up and they have done it to themselves. We now know they've been doing it to us for decades and it reached a crescendo when the Conservatives took power.

Sebastian Vivar Rodriguez

All European Life Died In Auschwitz

I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz.

We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862708/posts

AdScam Chretien: Da Untouchable Librano$.

Gomery Report: A whitewash; an exercise of cover-up, lying, fraudulence.
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Gomery mulled misconduct letter against Chretien, transcripts show

OTTAWA — Justice John Gomery’s letter of warning to Jean Chretien in May, 2005 said an allegation of misconduct against the former prime minister was being considered in Gomery’s final report which would tie Chretien to untendered 1995 pre-referendum contracts including one with Lafleur Communications for an outdoor advertising campaign in Quebec, a transcript of a private meeting reveals. [...]

In the end, Gomery’s report of findings did not allege misconduct on Chretien’s part even though it did lay much of the blame for the mismanagement of the sponsorship program on Chretien and his former chief of staff, Jean Pelletier. ...-

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=7c97fdd5-9061-4ef3-9edc-73e3f14ea20f&k=21552

The Indian Elites Meet To Talk Wampum; how to extract more $$$ from suckers.
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Hundreds of native chiefs and delegates meet in Halifax for annual assembly

HALIFAX (CP) - Roughly 500 First Nations chiefs and delegates will meet to talk about the national day of action, land claims, language retention and fishing rights at the Annual General Assembly in Halifax this week. ...-
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/07/08/4323786-cp.html

The case for mistrusting Muslims

By Theodore Dalrymple

ARRIVING IN BRITAIN by air the day after two men crashed a gasoline-laden Jeep Cherokee into the main terminal at Glasgow's international airport, and a couple of days after two car bombs were discovered in the heart of London, I was surprised by how calm everybody was.

Apart from the prohibition of passenger drop-off and pickup next to the terminal building at Birmingham Airport, everything was as usual. Men and women in Muslim garb mingled in the crowd with perfect tranquillity, expecting neither violence nor even verbal reproach.

Was this a sign of the admirable tolerance of British society, or of its bovine complacency born of an inability, or unwillingness, to make the effort to defend itself? Was it decency, cowardice or stupidity?

I really don't know anymore, which is an indication of the problem: Only time will tell, and by then it might be too late.

A friend who met me at the airport said something that must by now be true of many ordinary British people. Just as we used to wonder, on meeting Germans of a certain age, what they had done during World War II, so she wondered, when she found herself next to a young Muslim on a bus or a train, what he thought of the various bombings perpetrated by his co-religionists and whether he might be a bomber. She found herself looking for the nearest exit, as we are all enjoined to do by flight attendants before the plane takes off, in case of the need for swift exit....-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862500/posts