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  1. One more plug for the CBC’s “Global Warming Doomsday Called Off” — a forty five minute documentary — Haldol for the AGW crowd.

  2. Some of us always figured Trudeau envied Castro and Mao’s iron rule over their people, and, if given the chance, would have implemented many of the same rules here.
    Multi millionaire son of a capitalist, Pierre Trudeau, the “intellectual”, never seemed to appreciate the irony of his own streak of Communism.
    The last thing Canada needs, is another Trudeau in politics, the first one did enough, thank you.

  4. Nothing succeeds like success. Language warriors know success. Bravo!
    …-
    Just Walk On By
    Michael Totten has a remarkable article about a night out in Baghdad. Totten drove around with a unit visiting families in Baghdad. But these were house visits of an extraordinary kind. Or perhaps more extraordinarily, of an ordinary kind, because they had been going on for a long time. As Lieutenant Larry Pitts explained: (emphasisis mine)
    “We’ll collect info on Shias in Sunni areas and Sunnis in Shia areas,” he told me. “We make the best of it by going out and meeting the local people. It works because we have a decent reputation around here that we’ve been cultivating for a long time. Reporters would get it more if they were with us from the beginning.”
    In a society where survival is based on trust relationships, Lieutenant Pitts and his men were going the rounds of friends who were literally willing to trust them with their lives. The Americans were received as guests into the homes of their Iraqi friends where the conversation consisted of a mixture of bantar, a little shop-talk about community projects and then finally to the hard business of finding enemy agents who might be lurking in the neighborhood.
    Pitts and his men respected the boundaries of loyalty which governed Iraqi society, careful never to pit one set of allegiances against an equally valued rival set of allegiances. And after the coffee was put away and the jokes had been cracked, the question the Americans had for the Sunnis was whether they knew of any Shi’ite death squads in the vicinity; and the correspondening question for the Shi’a was whether any Sunni killers were lurking about. In this circular fashion the Americans found out the killers of all stripes without crossing any red lines in the Iraqi code of honor. They were all honorable men, including the Americans who lived within the peculiar ethical niche they had carved out for themselves.
    To Totten’s mild surprise some of the American officers appeared to have a working knowledge of Arabic. Inquiring, he found they had learned it by immersion.
    “How long did you study Arabic?” I said to him during a lull in the conversation.
    “I haven’t studied it,” he told me.
    He hadn’t? Most non-native speakers can’t hold down a conversation until they have studied Arabic formally for several years.
    “I just listen very carefully before our interpreters translate,” he continued, “and I’ve been picking it up. …-
    http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/08/just-walk-on-by.html

  5. Re the CTV (Canadian Press) story:
    Over at Canada.com in their coverage of the same story this is inside their article:
    “For Canada to meet these obligations, we would need to make massive investments in international emission credits and permits, which would undermine our ability to invest in improving our domestic environment and cleaning up our domestic industry, transportation system, etc.,” reads the note, obtained by ClimateforChange.ca through an Access to Information request.
    So in the story it says Canada would have to pay a $hitload of money to foreign companies and then we’d have nothing left over to clean up our industries. Isn’t that the crux of what has been said by Baird? The costs would be too high. And yet they come up with this jem of a title for the article:
    Analysis questions Baird’s doom-and-gloom warnings about Kyoto
    Gotta love the unbiased media.

  6. 22 minutes mocked Canada (in the morning) AM so well I can’t watch that show without smirking.
    Mansbridge in Alexandria, claiming the rising sea level, from melting glaciers due to global warming…is this his swansong?
    Question Period is a joke in itself.

  8. Republican Presidential Candidate Ron Paul is winning a significant number of straw polls to suggest he’s in for the duration:
    http://tinyurl.com/2y3gdj
    “” Unnoticed, or at least unreported by the mainstream press, GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-Tex) seems to be doing very well in straw polls – finishing first, second or third and often convincingly beating so-called “top tier” candidates such as Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani.. ”

  11. coldest August in NY since 1911, exceptionally cold summer in California . . . . maybe we can buy some unused credits from them.

  12. Here’s one Ontario pitbull I don’t want to ban:
    “Garth Turner was not a leadership candidate and is not in Stephane Dion’s shadow cabinet. Why would the Liberal Party be footing the bill for a backbencher who is not so much important as he is notororious to hit 10 cities in four provinces? Or is it coming out of the constituency budget? In which case, the point of how this helps the people of Halton is one worth asking.
    Or is someone else footing the bill?”
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/237817.php

  13. Bob Parks should run for president IMO – The First Black president of the US and a conservative to boot. Wouldn’t that be fun?
    Anyway … today he has a quote from Rush Limbaugh on the CNN production “Gods Warriors” by Christiane Amanpour. Highlighting the real motivation behind the production……
    Rush on Christiane Amanpour & CNN

  14. Trudeau’s boys are as rooted in reality as he was. My 14 yo daughter has a better grip on world politics and human rights. That’s an excellent article by Paul Jackson.

  15. Dalton McGoofy: “They (feds) have no intention of being bound or honouring the obligations of Kyoto,” McGuinty said. “They’ve been perfectly clear on this even before arriving in government.”
    Thank God for that. Imagine the moonbat fringe getting control of government this way. They can spare me the UN will fine us BS. They can’t even promote human rights or stop Mugabe types, and those corrupt kleptocrats are going to wag their finger at Canada, with 3% of worldwide CO2 emissions.
    Good luck promising Kyoto compliance in an election; would love to see it. Fall Kyoto election with Afghan off the radar, and opposition would force election on Kyoto? Not gonna happen. Funny how MSM doesn’t recognize bluff bluster when they hear it.

  17. Sorry, anyone who was Grant Devine’s executive assistant and then went on to co-author the risible “Battleground: The Socialist Assault on Grant Devine’s Canadian Dream” no longer has the credibility to slap anyone around.

  18. I hope they take the government to court over non-compliance with Kyoto. Only then can Canadians understand that Kyoto was based on fraudulent information. Any contract signed based on a false understanding is not valid.

  19. Aaaanyone can slap around a useless blueblood commie theatre arts teacher, who can’t muster a tear at their own fathers funeral.

  22. Islam, anyone?
    …-
    Boy, 5, doused in gas, set on fire by masked men
    BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Five-year-old Youssif is scarred for life, his once beautiful smile turned into a grotesquely disfigured face — the face of a horrifying act by masked men. They grabbed him on a January day outside his central Baghdad home, doused him with gas and set him ablaze.
    It’s an act incomprehensibly savage, even by Iraq’s standards today. No one has been arrested and the motive remains unknown.
    In a war-ravaged city torn by sectarian violence and marked by acts of vengeance, this attack’s apparent randomness stands out as an example of what life has become in a place where brutality — even against young children — is a constant….-
    (via jack’s newswatch)

  23. truthsayer – I don’t think that our Liberal dominated Supreme Court would rule against Kyotoism. But – could it even take the case/
    I don’t see how a court could make a judgment about Kyoto- after all, a court cannot validate or reject science. Only science can do that.
    The issue would be (1) whether signing a treaty means that – no matter what – the nation has to comply. Can a national court hold its own nation in bondage to a treaty if the gov’t thinks that complying with the treaty would harm the nation? I think that’s doubtful.
    And (2) what about a court deciding whether or not complying with Kyotoism would be an economic disaster. I don’t think the court can answer that, for it involves economic prediction – and that’s risky.
    So- can someone suggest the basis for someone taking the gov’t to court on this issue?

  24. I am trying to figure out how to send in a Readers Tip which is in the form of an email. Can anyone please enlighten this computer neanderthal?

  25. Islamophobia ?

    OR Just a Clear Look     at some behaviour that is highly questionable??
    “”..If the law is abused by the police, Crown Prosecution Service and politicians, so that one group escapes punishment, and another is hounded, then Britain will never win the War on Terror. ”
    ” Those who mire themselves in the semantics of cultural relativism and the politics of victimhood should take note. Britain is showing clearly how NOT to combat terrorism and the extremist ideology which fuels it.””
    Adrian Morgan

  26. [Cabinet members and presidential advisers had assembled in the West Wing of the White House. Mr. Reagan entered the room and sat down. Ever the actor, he waited for silence, finally stood and said: “Gentlemen and ladies. I hate inflation. I hate taxes and I hate Communism. Do something about it.” Then he walked from the room.
    They did, indeed, do something. They cut tax rates across the board by 25 per cent and launched the longest and most powerful bull market in U.S. history.
    As noted last week by New York Times financial journalist Floyd Norris, the Dow Jones industrial average had hit bottom at 776.9 on Aug. 12, 1982 – 25 years ago. In its quarter century bull run, the Dow reached its peak close – 14,000.41 – only six weeks ago before giving up more than a thousand points in a precisely timed silver anniversary correction.]Neil Reynolds
    In the meantime, what was Trudeau up to ?? Wrestling inflation to the sky.
    Taxing.
    Promoting the Moral Hazard
    Praising Castro
    Good thing Canada has US economic coatails to hang on to.
    http://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070822.wrreynolds22/GIStory/

  28. Izzat al-Douri the red-haired Joker in the deck? Not. Izzat’s the red-haired King of clubs, #6 on the wanted list.
    …-
    Iraq: Baathists ‘disown al-Qaeda'(To open “Dialogue” With Iraq Government!)
    Baghdad, 22 August (AKI) – The leader of Iraq’s banned Baath party, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, has decided to join efforts by the Iraqi authorities to fight al-Qaeda, one of the party’s former top officials, Abu Wisam al-Jashaami, told pan-Arab daily Al Hayat.
    “AlDouri has decided to sever ties with al-Qaeda and sign up to the programme of the national resistance, which includes routing Islamist terrorists and opening up dialogue with the Baghdad government and foreign forces,” al-Jashaami said.
    Al-Douri has decided to deal directly with US forces in Iraq, according to al-Jashaami. He figures in the 55-card deck of “most wanted” officials from the former Iraqi regime issued by the US government.
    In return, for cooperating in the fight against al-Qaeda, al-Douri has asked for guarantees over his men’s safety and for an end to Iraqi army attacks on his militias.
    Recent weeks have seen a first step in this direction, when Baathist fighters cooperated with Iraqi government forces in hunting down al-Qaeda operatives in the volatile Diyala province and in several districts of the capital, Baghadad.
    Although the Baath party was officially banned after US-led forces in 2003 toppled the regime of Iraq’s late president Saddam Hussein, its members have fought in the insurgency.
    Until just a few months ago, former Baath party members were helping Islamists carry out terrorist attacks against US forces in Iraq….-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884880/posts

  29. meanwhile the Euro hystericals continued hypocrisy
    http://antigreen.blogspot.com/
    Thursday, August 23, 2007
    EUROPE’S CARBON CON JOB
    With all the supposed truths out there about global warming, here’s one that doesn’t get reported very often. Europe isn’t the climate-change champion that its leaders, and their American apologists, would have you believe. It’s true that emissions — both in absolute terms and on a per capita basis — remain higher in America than in the EU-15 (the countries that belonged to the European Union before its 2004 expansion, and which are widely used as a comparison for the U.S. when the subject is global warming). And when it comes to decrying the planet’s impending doom and making grand gestures about preventing this, Europe is second to none.
    Let’s assume, though, for argument’s sake, that most Americans believe global warming is a real danger, that carbon dioxide is public enemy No. 1, and that the only question is what to do about it. Before following Europe’s lead in adopting a cap-and-trade system or mandatory renewable energy targets, wouldn’t you want to know that those actions will lead to something better than the status quo? So would I. And the numbers show that if America is the Great Carbon Satan, Europe is certainly no angel.
    Since 2000, emissions of CO2 have been growing more rapidly in Europe, with all its capping and yapping, than in the U.S., where there has been minimal government intervention so far. As of 2005, we’re talking about a 3.8% rise in the EU-15 versus a 2.5% increase in the U.S., according to statistics from the United Nations. What’s more, preliminary data indicate that America’s CO2 output fell by 1.3% from 2005 to 2006.
    If these numbers hold up, it would mean U.S. emissions growth is nearly flat so far this decade. Europe hasn’t yet released figures for last year, but it did report in June that emissions from the participants in its carbon-trading scheme, which account for almost half of Europe’s CO2 production, rose slightly in 2006. The news gets worse for Europe when you consider that during this decade, the U.S. population has grown at roughly double the rate of the EU-15 while the American economy has been expanding about 40% faster. It seems Europe is becoming less efficient in its carbon production while U.S. efficiency is improving.
    Now, few people — this writer included — would look at these statistics and conclude that Europe should necessarily adopt America’s more passive approach. When you talk about CO2 emissions during this decade, or even go back to the globally accepted “base year” of 1990, you’re working with a small sample size. And there really isn’t much difference between a change of 3.8% and one of 2.5%. So why would the U.S. instead want to adopt Europe’s policies?
    As a measure of the gap between Europe’s rhetoric and its reality, nothing beats its emissions trading scheme. The idea is that CO2-intensive companies — chiefly those that produce power or use a great deal of it — receive a certain number of permits to emit the gas. If they reduce their emissions and end up with a surplus, they can sell the extra permits to firms needing more allowances. In this way, market mechanisms are supposed to punish or reward companies for their carbon output, encouraging them to reduce it in the long run.
    In Europe, however, the “market” consists of demand that government has created artificially and — more important — supply that the state distributes arbitrarily. Not surprisingly, companies lobbied hard to ensure favorable allocations when trading began in 2005. The number of permits exceeded actual emissions and prices plummeted. Today, allowances for 1,000 tons of CO2 are priced at about 11 euro cents, hardly high enough to prod a company to cut its carbon instead of just buying more permits.
    If you think the U.S. Congress — whether led by Democrats or Republicans — would be more likely to shun special interests in the name of environmentalism, then I’ve got some tariff-free Brazilian ethanol to sell you. Brussels claims it’s correcting the system for the next trading period, which runs from 2008 to 2012, but a number of holes will remain. For instance, it’s expected that companies will be able to buy permits outside the EU from other countries and then import them to cover their needs. A large influx of permits could depress prices in the same way that the EU’s own overallocation did the first time around.
    That’s particularly true if third countries are lax in their issuance of permits. “These [non-EU] credits have already been exposed as highly flawed, and often fraudulent,” Max Andersson, a Green member of the Swedish Parliament, wrote this month in a study for the think tank Open Europe. “They don’t always reflect absolute reductions in emissions, whilst many of these credits are generated from projects in developing countries that would have happened anyway.” The result, he concludes, is that emissions might not fall but rise.
    Another potential problem: An energy-industry source says that, in many EU member states, the allocation will likely be done in a way that gives sufficient permits to most of the firms that use a lot of energy, leaving a shortage for electricity producers. There might be some logic in that — instead of relying on manufacturers to reduce their energy consumption, power companies would have more of an incentive to produce electricity in a way that doesn’t create as much carbon in the first place.
    It would only work, though, as long as the power companies didn’t buy additional permits and pass the cost along to customers instead of investing in real carbon-cutting measures. It would require competition to keep them from that temptation, though, and there’s the rub: The main players in large markets like France and Germany are still effectively insulated from rivals and can set prices as they wish. Brussels has been trying for years to create a pan-European energy market, but it may be the better part of a decade before it’s finished.
    European policy makers have plenty of motivation to goad Washington into going along with their approach before too many people realize it isn’t working. At a summit in March, EU national leaders dramatically raised the stakes by pledging a 20% cut in CO2 emissions by 2020. That’s a real laugher considering their scant chances of meeting their Kyoto commitment of 8% by 2012. Their move is best seen as a bluff intended to pressure the U.S. into the game. Here in Europe, the grand gesture is always the most appealing play

  30. CANADIAN TAXPAYER’S FEDERATION PETITION TO ABOLISH THE INDIAN ACT
    https://secure.lexi.net/ctf/petitions.php?petition_id=8
    Abolish the Indian Act
    To the Federal Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development:
    Treating one ethnic group of Canadians differently from another is wrong both morally and intellectually. However, Canada’s Indian Act does precisely that.
    There are no legal or constitutional barriers to ending the exercise of federal jurisdiction over Indians. Though the federal government has sole jurisdiction, that does not also mean that it must exercise it. Therefore, the federal government can abolish the Indian Act and the policies of segregation at any time.
    I the undersigned believe:
    To end the practice of segregation and to achieve equality for all Canadians, the Indian Act must be phased out over the next 20 years.

  33. I found it amusing to see on the TV news last night that Newfoundland Premier Danny Millions Williams drives a VIPER!!!!
    Isn’t that some kind of snake?

  34. Speaking of snakes, Premier Whinney Williams is grinning from ear to ear after signing a big deal with the oil companies. Maybe he will be willing to share the wealth with the poor maritime cousins? Not!

  35. Reason number 3,456,231 why Tommy Douglas should not be cannonized a saint. Headline from CBC (imagine that):
    “Sterilization malfunction at Sask. hospital prompts blood test alert”
    or “I lost my Appendix in Leader but gained a new disease”

  36. Is this Kyoto court challenge the one from Friends of the Earth? Is so, then FOE Canada suggests that there may be an out for the government. This excerpt is from their legal opinion document. Page 5
    http://www.foecanada.org/images/stories/pdfs/CEPA/canada%20opinion%2030102006.pdf
    “In addition, openly denouncing the Kyoto Protocol and abandoning its targets could, in itself, constitute a violation of international law. While Canada could, in principle, withdraw from the Protocol as of 2008, withdrawal at such a short time before the start of the commitment period could infringe the international law principle of good faith. Since the Government of Canada has not made its intentions clear as regards the Kyoto Protocol as a treaty and its membership, no final assessment on this issue is possible.”

  38. Doctors should not eat in front of Muslims during Ramadan says Scottish NHS
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2258664.ece
    Summary: On his radio show, Neal Boortz claimed that because “Muslims don’t eat during the day during Ramadan” and “fast during the day and eat at night,” they are “sort of like cockroaches.” Immediately following the remark, Boortz said, “I did that for Media Myrmidons” — his term for Media Matters for America.
    http://mediamatters.org/items/200708150002?f=h_latest

  40. Ban the CMA. Enough of the busybodies.
    …-
    Smoking ban
    Vancouver Sun – 1 hour ago
    Smoking in private vehicles should be banned to protect children from dangerous second-hand smoke, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) said today.
    …-

  41. Beauty contest poll at angus reid site – would you vote for justin turdeau if you could?
    Already headed in the right direction 2 to 1 vote NO, but as little help could not hurt.

  42. For what it is worth on the CTV site I hit the contact us button. They list forums on everything but their news shows.
    I then emailed them on the propaganda piece on Kyoto and Canada asking why they don’t label it an op-ed.
    No wonder more people all the time, looking for facts are turning off the mainstream media.
    What is funny on the CTV forums is the ones on News Shows have all been closed. I guess they hate the idea of having PEOPLE offer their opinions.
    BKG

  43. So where’s the conservative blog coverage of the police plants in the protest at Montebello? The YouTube video is damning… A line of riot police allows three masked “protesters” to GET BEHIND THEM, before taking any action whatsoever?
    This one stinks to high heaven.
    I might think the protesters are loons, but this kind of police action is appalling and has no place in this country. No wonder the reputation of Canadian law enforcement organizations continues to swirl ’round the toilet bowl on the way into the sewer.

  44. Where is Hillary? Find Hillary.
    …-
    Has Maliki Ended The Insurgency?
    Earlier today, the Italian news service AKI reported that the presumed leader of the largest insurgency in Iraq will start cooperating with the Iraqi government. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, one of the highest-ranking members of Saddam Hussein’s government, reportedly pledged to work with Iraqi and American forces to fight al-Qaeda in Iraq:
    The leader of Iraq’s banned Baath party, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, has decided to join efforts by the Iraqi authorities to fight al-Qaeda, one of the party’s former top officials, Abu Wisam al-Jashaami, told pan-Arab daily Al Hayat.
    “AlDouri has decided to sever ties with al-Qaeda and sign up to the programme of the national resistance, which includes routing Islamist terrorists and opening up dialogue with the Baghdad government and foreign forces,” al-Jashaami said. …-
    http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/
    Clinton urges ouster of Iraq’s al-Maliki
    By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer 28 minutes ago
    Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday the Iraqi Parliament should replace embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki with a “less divisive and more unifying figure” to reconcile political and religious factions.
    Clinton, the 2008 Democratic presidential front-runner, made her comments the same day President Bush reaffirmed his support for al-Maliki before a veterans’ convention in Kansas City, Mo. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885080/posts

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