I've a busy day today, so a few quick links to keep you occupied;
"See? We fix problem. Now you buy!"
"The polar icecaps of Mars are receding at several miles a year, much faster than ours and that the moons of Saturn and Jupiter are melting, in fact several of their moons were ice and are now liquid seas - how are SUV's causing that David Rothschild?
The world braces for Jewish rioting.
"How does Moore manage to simplify an argument to the point of absurdity, yet walk away with so many endorsements from people who know better? Perhaps liberals simply cherish the documentary as a day-dream — a fantasy world reshaped by leftist ideas."
Up, up and away....
Add yours in the comments.
A lot of things come to mind when thinking about moore. None of them flatering. Could we have
a write in campaign against him because, "he takes up space"? on this planet.
What I really get mad about is the coverage the darn fool gets.
Honest Ed. has passed away, he was 93.
PREMEDITATED MERGER
North American union plan headed to Congress in fall
Powerful think tank prepares report on benefits of integration between U.S., Mexico, Canada
"2007 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON – A powerful think tank chaired by former Sen. Sam Nunn and guided by trustees including Richard Armitage, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harold Brown, William Cohen and Henry Kissinger, is in the final stages of preparing a report to the White House and U.S. Congress on the benefits of integrating the U.S., Mexico and Canada into one political, economic and security bloc.
The final report, published in English, Spanish and French, is scheduled for submission to all three governments by Sept. 30, according to the Center for Strategic & International Studies."
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Now, what was that about the North American union being alarmist pap? I see Harper met with these people in Montreal last week in a closed door session.
God bless Honest Ed. May he rest in peace.
now, now, wlmr, one has to first discuss a situation before rejecting it. Because a political, economic and security network is being discussed doesn't mean that a merger of Mexico, US and Canada is the outcome. There's little chance of a political merger, but, you can't ignore the economic and security network is necessary.
With regard to the anti-semitic political cartoons in Quebec - I don't think they are similar to the Muslim cartoons in the Danish newspaper. The Muslim cartoons were critiquing the contradiction in Muslim ideology, where its followers insist it is an ideology of peace - and the actuality of the extreme violence carried out in the name of Mohammed. This is a legitimate critique.
The cartoons in Quebec weren't critiquing any contradiction in the Jewish religion and Jewish behaviour; they were openly anti-semitic. They were mocking Mario Dumont, saying that his interactions with the Jewish community in Quebec were focused on obtaining money from them. The images of the Jews, the association with money etc - were anti-semitic.
By the way - speaking of problematic situations - apparently Bin Laden's fourth son, who is 27 years old, has just married a UK woman. She's 51. It's her 6th marriage; she has three sons and several grandchildren already. Oh - and he is already married with a two-year old. She's trying to get him a visa into the UK.
As a practicing catholic, I must say I'm really looking forward to Mikey Moore's MOCKumentary on Catholicism. It must be next given all the negative press the Church receives.
It's Pick On Jack Day
Listen to the Vets, Not Layton.
Earl McRae-Ottawa Sun
We are seeing More & More of the Media taking on Layton & it is bloody well time.
Time to load up for the healthcare debate with Moore's disciples, heres a good article comparing the US system to the UK.
Basically you get 'free' healthcare in the UK but you probably die. In the US you might go bankrupt if you're not insured but you get to live.
http://tinyurl.com/33gmjr
Smiling Wolfy loves his job and the perks; a blue Volvo and free lunches. His UNO rank is Major-General. In German, his rank is Generalmajor; jawohl.
Wolfy is worried? No promotion to Feldzeugmeister?
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UN commander in Golan 'worried by Israel's actions'
Major-General Wolfgang Jilke, commander of force observing ceasefire between Israel and Syria, expresses concern over rising tensions, but points finger mainly at Israel for breaking routine in area and acting intensively Major-General Wolfgang Jilke has a very special privilege: He can have breakfast in Tel Aviv, get into his blue Volvo and make it in time for lunch in Damascus. "It only takes four hours," the Austrian officer says with a smile. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864211/posts
I'm not sure if an NA economic and security network is necessary, but they certainly are making it seem that way. Travelling by air into the US is more difficult than ever. People are arriving for one hour flights, 2 to 3 hours before departure and still missing the flights out of Pearson. This is brutal for business. As well the illegal amnesty bill, the Mexican freeway through the US to Canada, etc, etc - You'd think it's another example of the Helgelian dialectic.
Still, I'd like to see cooperation between the US and Canada to facilitate a freer flow of business and travel. Not Mexico though.
Madonna's song written for Live Earth:
Hey you,
Don't you give up, it's not so bad
There's still a chance for us
Hey you,
Just be yourself, don't be so shy
There's reasons why it's hard
Keep it together, you'll make it alright
Our celebration is going on tonight
Poets and prophets would envy what we do
This could be good, hey you
Hey you,
Open your heart, it's not so strange
You've got to change this time
Hey you,
Remember this, none of it's real
Including the way you feel
Meanwhile:
Madonna, owner of 6 evil gas-guzzling cars and producer of 440 tonnes of CO2 during her Confessions tour, performs at Live Earth in London.
"now, now, wlmr, one has to first discuss a situation before rejecting it. Because a political, economic and security network is being discussed doesn't mean that a merger of Mexico, US and Canada is the outcome."
I;ll thank you not to patronize me like I don't understand the issue. I have followed the course of this agenda from Birth in the Bowels of the CFR to the FTA to the NAFTA to SPP and now the final stage.
My exceptions to this are that unlike the trade deal, the SPP and ensuing NAU give away massive chunks of National,Provincial and individual sovereignty.....and none of the discussions have been public!..Nothing in the house...nothing in the media.
First Martin unilaterally without Parliamentary oversight signs an agreement in principle for the amalgamation of federal bureaucracies ( effectively expanding foreign jurisdicrion in this country) then Harper does the same thing in finalizing SPP and discussing NAU.
Call me anything but uninformed on this one ET...I resent having my nation's jurisdictional sovereignty and my personal sovereignty sold to unelected 3rd party bureaucracies without deep debate in parliament....and the sweeping foreign jurisdictional expansion on this plan has such an impact on Canadian sovereignty and the constitutional strictures on government, that any end plan should be ratified by referendum.
BTW ET: I think you have a screw loose if you think economic merger with Mexico is beneficial to Canads...in any capitulation to Mexico;s 3rd world labor force and bankrupt economics we (the middle class) lose.
Funny how the melting of the gas giant moons gets NO airtime, and the melting on Mars is caused by dust. I seem to remember reading of increases in the storm activity on Jupiter and Saturn as well.
Interesting theory of this climate change causation from Discover Magazine interview of Henrik Svensmark. For Earth, anyway. He correlates increased sunspot activity with decreases in cosmic ray influx, and has a -theory- (which, Lefties, one cannot mistake for an established fact) plus some very interesting lab evidence that links cosmic rays to cloud formation. Like in a cloud chamber for studying radioactive particles.
Bottom line, fewer cosmic rays = fewer clouds = warmer Earth. That's his thinking, anyway.
How this would be linked with Mars, Saturn and Jupiter I don't know, but changes in the solar wind could lead to changes there too. (Lefties, "could" does not equal "would".)
But this is all moot seeing as how Suzuki has declared the issue settled, eh? Wonder how much Dave knows about particle physics?
I loved the comment on the Jewish cartoon article. The writer is "correcting" the article and did not know enough about the topic to know the Charest is the Premier and NOT the PM.........
wlmr- I'm sorry, but, I don't have any loose screws. I'm not talking merger - after all a merger requires ONE central authority, not two. I'm talking networking.
My point to you - and there's no need to go ballistic - is that debate and discussion is required. After all - as you point out, there's been no debate in the Chretien and Martin years. Your post was stating that merger was already agreed to, was just waiting to be signed etc...because Harper had talked with them.
A major problem with Mexico is that it is offloading its lower class - a very large proportion of its population - on to the USA. This means that Mexico doesn't have to provide an economic infrastructure for this segment, no industries, no jobs, no homes, no schools. Nothing. It's all offloaded on to the US - whose taxpayers pay for it all. The illegal immigrants send money back home to support their relatives.
But the reality is that economics is not a national issue but an international issue and can't be confined to national sovereignty. I don't think a referendum would be a good idea; the majority of citizens don't know the field of economics well enough to make informed decisions and no-one wants uninformed decisions.
On North American Trade Corridor and other initiatives - The Concept is being studied and negotiations taking place that would pave the way for an agreement.
The only "Alarmist Crap" is the reaction of certain folks who either don't know what they're talking about or are simply interested in seeing a fuss. Tom Tancredo comes to mind!
Those who would stick their head in the sand or duck back into their shell to play turtle are destined to become stock in the economic soup pot!
If you want to have leverage and real impact on Mexico or the US you need to be engaged with them.
In this shrinking world there is no place for the timid or weak to hide.
Courtesy of yesterday's www.opinionjournal.com: Harry Reid's spokesman displays his vast knowledge of economics, at least as applied to US currency:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0707/4824.html
Can you imagine the press coverage if the President had said that?
NDP calls for public funding of dental care:
http://keyes.ca/journal/2007/07/11/hampton-on-public-funding-for-dental-care/
Phantom, melting of gas giant moons? That would be big news.
Got a link to go with that?
Whoops...! Future Darwin Award candidate in the making?
Police: Driver arrested after he pulls over detective on LI
July 11, 2007, 8:30 AM EDT
BOHEMIA, N.Y. (AP) _ A driver posing as a police officer tried to pull off a bogus traffic stop, but he ran into trouble when the other motorist turned out to be a real off-duty detective, police said.
Robert Lane, 25, was to be arraigned Wednesday after being arrested on charges of criminal impersonation and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, Suffolk County police said.
Driving an SUV fitted out with flashing lights, Lane stopped the New York police detective on the Sunrise Highway on Tuesday afternoon, Suffolk police said. They said Lane told investigators the detective had cut him off.
The detective became suspicious after Lane drove up alongside him, identified himself as an officer and flashed a small police badge, Suffolk police said. The detective showed his own police ID, told Lane to pull over, followed him when he didn't and called authorities, according to police. The detective's name was not released.
No telephone number for Lane could be found at the Levittown address police gave for him, and police were unsure whether he had a lawyer.
Copyright 2007 Newsday Inc.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--odd--driverstopsd0711jul11,0,723364,print.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
Your "isolated-incident-of-the-day" from the religion of peace.
"MANILA, Philippines -- Philippine troops recovered the bodies of 14 marines, some of them beheaded, after clashing with Muslim insurgents while searching for a kidnapped Italian priest, a marine spokesman said Wednesday."
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070711/philippine_marines_070711/20070711?hub=World&s_name=
jim - in quebec the correct term for charest is 'premier ministre'. The writer was referring only to quebec - as is usual in quebec.
ET,
Related to an early posting/comments here. You might be interested to know that a certain Dr. Dawg is posting about you and your work in relation to PoMo on another blog:
Just as an addendum, this article was mentioned by a commenter in the same thread that allowed me to discover this site. I was written by a fairly tough critic of postmodernism. Does it make any sense? Anyone here have a background in information theory? I would have dismissed it out of hand once upon a time, but, given my defence of what some here consider the indefensible, I feel that I need to be consistent.
http://www.mdpi.org/entropy/papers/e2030081.pdf
The blog is:
davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2007/07/very-big-langua.html#comments
"I'm not talking merger - after all a merger requires ONE central authority, not two. I'm talking networking."
What do you think the integration of federal administrative bureaucracies is?
This is defacto administrative amalgamation under the SPP buzz phrase....once administrative functions and the economy ( monetary system?) are amalgamated any pretense of 3 sovereign government's becomes pure theater....much like the direction the EU is going...a majority of member EU states have rejected central governing (EU constitution) by internal referenda but it continues full steam ahead...this is the aggrivating thing about this Transnational progressivist agenda to remove the sovereignty of the nation-state...it's remorseless in moving the agenda forward...it resides in North America's highest levels, policy think tanks and government...and it just continues on regardless of democratic majority will....it is an agenda of the elite for the elite....and any Conservative middle class tax payer that thinks this will have some "trickle down" effect need only look to Europe to see how amalgamation has negatively impacted the working class life style..removing borders is a transnationalist way of moving cheap labor and high margin cheap labor made goods around the globe.
Sorry for being a tad gruff but Canadians inattention to this closed door integration agenda ( It ain't about free trade folks) and the potential threat to our sovereignty and economy fires up my civil indignation.
In a unilateral no borders amalgamation with Mexico??? Why not China...makes as much sense.
Moore is a waste of oxygen and I wouldn't care less except for the fact that sheeple take his and the goracle's mockumentries as gospel.
His films should carry the disclaimer : "No brain cells were used in the making of this piece of fluff".
MSM headline news:
Tories plan icebreakers
http://www.vicnews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=36&cat=23&id=1022968&more=0
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Backgrounder -- Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ships
DND/Canadian Forces ^ | 2007-07-11
[...]
"Ice Capability: The hull of the A/OPS must be ice strengthened to operate in medium first-year ice, which may include old ice inclusions - old ice that is denser and may strike the hull of the ship. This ice capability is exclusively for the ships’ own mobility, not to provide icebreaking services to other ships."...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864255/posts
Britain is no longer censoring police info: Halm of all victims of racially motivated murder in the last decade are white. However, I wonder what religion the perps are?
Antony Barnett, investigations editor
Sunday October 22, 2006
The Observer
Nearly half of all victims of racially motivated murders in the last decade have been white, according to official figures released by the Home Office.
The data, released under Freedom of Information legislation, shows that between 1995 and 2004 there have been 58 murders where the police consider a racial element played a key part. Out of these, 24 have been where the murder victim was white.
The disclosure will add to the intense debate over multiculturalism in British society. The figures also overturn the assumption that almost all racial murders are committed against ethnic minority victims.
Senior police officers have admitted that 'political correctness' and the fear of discussing the issue have meant that race crime against white people goes under-reported. One chief constable has claimed that white, working-class men are more alienated than the Muslim community.
Peter Fahy, the Chief Constable of Cheshire and a spokesman on race issues for the Association of Chief Police Officers, said it was a fact that it was harder to get the media interested where murder victims were young white men.
'The political correctness and reluctance to discuss these things absolutely does play a factor', he said. 'A lot of police officers and other professions feel almost the best thing to do is try and avoid it for fear of being criticised. We probably have all got ourselves into a bit of state about this.
irwin daisy - hmm. I can't imagine that dawg would have any understanding of the work I do. What puzzles me is why he seeks it out. His area is, if I recall, art and literarcy analysis - and postmodernism. He has no interest or knowledge in the sciences or information theory.
The people I work with are almost exclusively in the sciences (physics, biology, bioengineering and computers) - a few in economics. But no-one in the social sciences or humanities. Dawg isn't involved in those areas. I suspect he's posting in that thread here on kate's blog under the name of ..heck..I've already forgotten...But he was a bureaucrat at SSHRC - the funding agency of the gov't for social sciences and humanities.
Why should he care about my research? Why does he bother to search it out - if it's not in his area of interest?
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"A band of disgruntled conservatives plans to throw a new party
into the mix for Ontario voters as they gear up for the provincial
election in October."
Who exactly, is Anthony Silvestro?
In the 1999 Ontario general election, running under the banner
of the "Confederation of Regions Party" in Ottawa West—Nepean,
Mr. Silvestro managed to finish 7th out of 8 candidates
with a total of 79 votes... apparently sweeping his family
and immediate circle of friends.
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I havent seen a giant gas moon since Rosie O'Donnell quit TV
The Phantom: Interesting work out in botht the solar analysis and the cosmic ray connection. The latest on the cosmic ray connection is this paper. The latest on the increasing solar connection is talked about here. Neither theory seems to be holding up.
Regards,
John
wlmr- I think that econmoic globalization is one of the major issues of our time. I think it will confront the sovereign nation-state, which was the basic political-economic structure for the past several hundred years.
I don't think we will see the disappearance the nation state, but I think we'll see, possibly, several new structures.
One, is the collapse of what is called 'statism', which is focused on a central nationalist power-maximizing control of the economy and ideology of a population. We've seen this in the decay of communism in the Soviet Union and China - and are seeing it in the collapse of tribalism in the ME.
And the mov't to capitalism, which is focused on free markets and free enterprise of individuals.
But, along with this is a switch in the nature of the economy - which increasingly deals with information and is focused on innovative technologies in manufacture and production.
Information is globally networked; there are no spatial or temporal barriers when dealing with information. So- where does that leave the old idea of the nation?
I get the sense that the 'statist nation', the big welfare state, is dissolving into more regional areas of authority. In Canada, that means, hopefully, the switch from the centralist Ottawa govt of isolated bureaucrats - to devolution to the provinces and cities.
In Europe, the EU is a centralizing morass - unelected and unaccountable. I can understand its intent - to prevent another set of European Wars, but I think that it will 'devolve' as well, and regional, ie, national, sovereignty won't be lost.
But I think that the economy is globally networked and there's no moving away from that. That means that we must be, globally, collaborative. It has, after all, always been this way - even if the spatial territories of trade alliances were smaller.
There will be, first, 'blocs' of networked alliances because the world is not economically homogeneous. The ME is fighting both the west and itself but it will have to modernize. Africa has a different 'disease' than the fanatic ideology of the ME - and I've no idea where it will end up.
China is, right now, waking up to the reality of the 'external gaze' of accountability. Quite a profound shift, and it is racing to catch up. India is still behind the times...etc.
I think the era of isolate nation-states is over, but that doesn't mean submersion into a global morass (such as the UN!).
Al-Qaeda on the Run: Feasting on the Moveable Beast [Video]
Michael Yon
The last major mission I did while in Baqubah in early 2005 was into Buhriz. That mission had begun with our artillery firing some 155mm shots into a palm grove on the banks of the Diyala River. The enemy in Buhriz, consisting partly of the 1920s Revolution Brigades, was tough and proficient at killing our people.
A current leader in Burhiz and member of the 1920s Revolution Brigades (1920s) goes by the name Abu Ali. On Monday 9 July, I drove in the back of a Stryker and talked on the streets of Buhriz with Abu Ali. Just months ago our forces would have shot Abu Ali on sight, and he surely would have done the same to us. Today we are allies, for now.
... “I will tell the Americans this,” I said. Ali seemed satisfied as he went off with another American unit. We loaded back into the Stryker and headed to other interesting meetings on other interesting matters, all dealing with the grinding gears of winning or losing this war, and with catching and killing al Qaeda.
Watch the interview here: ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864283/posts
All youse rednecks better get smart. The Green Police are gonna get youse. G-M has the last warning here:
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Green living habits are hit-and-miss
Globe and Mail - 1 hour ago
TORONTO - Don't start polishing that environmentally-friendly halo just yet. A national survey of household habits says Canadians have made some changes for conservation, but still hold onto habits that go against the green-living grain. (google news)
A Dry Run?
"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A man was arrested at Jacksonville International Airport on Monday after an undeclared handgun he admitted to owning was found in the checked luggage of his sister-in-law, according to police.
Ahmad Abdallah Abu Ghanam, 38, of Jacksonville, was arrested by airport police and booked into the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office."
@irwin daisy, re: your 12.47pm question whether Taborsky's paper makes sense.
It's no more silly than the Copenhagen interpretation or the philosophical foundations of the complexity movement.
Does the paper have merit? Yes. Do I like what she has done to the physics? No, but the language associated baggage of the field may be responsible for some of that.
If I ever manage a vacation this summer, the author will get an email.
"The first results from the CLOUD prototype are expected by the summer of 2007." CERN
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2006/PR14.06E.html
tenebris - my work has nothing to do with the dreadful Copenhagen interpretation, thank goodness. Or with the popular conception of complexity.
I don't understand the interest dawg has in my work, since there is no way that he has the background to understand it. And, he has no interest in that field.
But- that paper was peer reviewed and a more recent one, 2005, which sets out my quadrant model, won Best paper in a conference attended by people in physics, computers etc in the 'mathematical modelling, logic and control systems section. So- I think dawg can take his obsession with my work elsewhere.
Now, a more interesting topic is the 'northward gaze' of Canada - as we, and other countries, such as Russia and Denmark, focus on the Arctic. That's going to be quite a topic soon, for despite our claims of sovereignty, I'll bet it will be strongly and even militarily disputed by other countries- because of the resources that are there. Harper is right to start, now, to focus there. Of course, it ought to have been done under the Liberals, but, they have no awareness of any reality outside of the Ottawa-Montreal zone.
Climate Change Believers Report on Solar Radiation:
Link
I have a background in information theory, Irwin, and I had previously read the referenced paper in Entropy magazine, and a couple dozen others on related topics in semiotics and semiosis. I do have a general understanding of what those folks are trying to do (though it takes some reading to get a grasp on terms that are introduced to represent new concepts) and I think it is an interesting problem that is worthy of further academic consideration.
On the other hand, I consider the Angry Studies folks' use of so-called postmodern bafflegab, to attempt to hide their limited understanding of reality, which wrongly considers race, class, and gender to be of more than passing interest, to be unworthy of my time, except in self defense of course.
Based on the journals in which I've read ET's work, I support her contention that: "The people I work with are almost exclusively in the sciences (physics, biology, bioengineering and computers) - a few in economics. But no-one in the social sciences or humanities".
Perhaps that's at least partly why I find perusing said journals interesting, even while I find the Angry Studies journals to be contemptible.
Montrealers choose NDP leader as their pick for PM: poll.
Whether it's due to "the Mulcair effect" or his out-front position against Canada's military mission to Afghanistan is unclear, but NDP leader Jack Layton is on a roll in Montreal, a new opinion poll suggests. (national newswatch)
Taliban Jack is on a roll? For PM? Oh, it's premier ministre. Merde. Thought it was Prime Minister.
mexamericanada, has a nice ring to it.
Tenebris and Vitruvius,
I think you both misunderstood my post. I have no knowledge of ET's field. However, I was merely letting her know that Dr. Dawg was mischieviously referencing her work on another blog based on a PoMo debate that started here.
Sorry for the confusion.
Understood, Irwin, indeed, I've commented over there. Sorry I wasn't more clear.
"Climate Change Believers Report on Solar Radiation:"
Wow the temperature has gone up .4 degrees in the last 40 years, a little less than half a degree, boy that’s scary. I notice they conveniently omitted any mention ,let alone explained the warming on Mars, Venus, Saturn and juniper.
John Cross, you have hit upon the exact reason I think global warming is crap. The article you quote is for propaganda purposes only.
They're comparing cosmic rays to radiation from Chernobyl. That's like comparing a spitball to a Saturn V. Its a pitiful effort to gin up some correlations that disagree with Svensmark and company. For a like-minded approach see any article by Kellerman on gun control.
As to the Yahoo article, where'd they get their data? Same satellites everybody has been arguing about? What makes these guys special then?
Mars, melting. Jovian and Saturnian moons according to Kate's article, melting. Storm systems on Jupiter and Saturn, increasing.
Tell me something that disproves those observations or explains them by some mechanism other than changing solar flux, and I'll have another look at Algore and Suzuki.
Anyone else see the link here? Like 1 + 1 = 2?
"Montreal has proved a particularly alluring logistical base for francophone Islamists. Forty minutes from the U.S., it boasts a large airport, multiple bridges and a bustling port, all attractive targets. Over the last decade, about 20 Montrealers have been involved in terrorist plots."
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/columnists/story.html?id=4f4c655d-6ca1-4b07-89b2-3c8527ab532c
"...but NDP leader Jack Layton is on a roll in Montreal, a new opinion poll suggests."
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=7c26ad7b-23b7-4afb-a0b8-68b7db5a4400&k=84891
Red-Green show has new writers.
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Adriane Carr fake website constructed by one of Carr's supporters?
The Green Party candidate for Vancouver-Centre, Adriane Carr, is the target of an online joke in which the domain adrianecarr.ca offers a strong endorsement of Liberal Party incumbent Hedy Fry....-
(national newswatch)
thanks, vitruvius, for your comments.
I admit, I don't understand dawg's obsessive interest in and need to denigrate my work. Of course he doesn't understand it; the terminology of science and semiotics isn't within his area of 'expertise'. But because he doesn't understand it, doesn't mean it isn't understandable. As I said, a recent paper outlining my quadrant model won best paper in a scientific conference; obviously, some people understand the focus.
Now - hopefully, dawg and his obsession can be ignored, and more interesting issues can be discussed. The poll showing Layton as 'most favored to be PM' in Montreal, was only carried out among 200 people, I think. So, it's hardly reliable.
But, interesting - Dion polled the lowest of the four (CPC, NPD, Bloc, Liberal). And the national poll shows CPC at 37, Liberals at 28, NDP at 17. In Quebec, the Bloc is 31 but the CPC is very close at 28. Liberals are 17, NDP are 12.
So, I think Harper is doing the right things - despite the attempts to sabotage his agenda by the Liberal Senate, the MSM and even the civil service.