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  4. The first casualty was Citizen Dion whose cabbage head has rolled; lopped, not by the blade of Dr. Guillotine, but, by Occam’s Razor: one should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.
    Here is the razor; Heard* explained Dion; called Dion an idiot savant. Dion: finished; bammed by his own petard.
    …-
    Liberal civil war claims first casualty: Garneau quits Grits
    Garneau wanted to run in Outremont. He approached the party in January after former Outremont MP Jean Lapierre resigned, saying he was interested in running as the Liberal candidate in Outremont. However, Garneau said he was told the riding was being reserved for somebody else….-
    http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=1c651d07-42f2-47f7-959a-f2e523742e9b&k=25440
    *Bourque HotNews
    From Heard to Reid … and from Reid to Heard … To Scott Reid “Your performance in defending that idiot savant, Stephane Dion, on the Duffy show yesterday …
    bourque.org/notes.html

  5. Nike Designs Shoe for American Indians
    Wednesday September 26, 2007 3:31 AM
    By SARAH SKIDMORE
    Associated Press Writer
    BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) – Nike on Tuesday unveiled what it said is the first shoe designed specifically for American Indians, an effort aiming at promoting physical fitness in a population with high obesity rates.
    The Beaverton-based company says the Air Native N7 is designed with a larger fit for the distinct foot shape of American Indians, and has a culturally specific look. It will be distributed solely to American Indians; tribal wellness programs and tribal schools nationwide will be able to purchase the shoe at wholesale price and then pass it along to individuals, often at no cost.
    …
    Nike said it is the first time it has designed a shoe for a specific race or ethnicity. It said all profits from the sale of the shoe will be reinvested in health programs for tribal lands, where problems with obesity, diabetes and related conditions are near epidemic levels in some tribes.
    Nike designers and researchers looked at the feet of more than 200 people from more than 70 tribes nationwide and found that in general, American Indians have a much wider and taller foot than the average shoe accommodates. The average shoe width of men and women measured was three width sizes larger than the standard Nike shoe.
    …
    “It’s an excellent gesture and I know it will get a lot of support from tribal people,” Bread said. “We stand to profit from it in our physical health and well being.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6949218,00.html

  6. More extinction, please. More waves, please. More adaptation, please.
    Quote: “how to identify avenues that would achieve more equitable approaches to adaptation.”
    Charles Darwin, come back. Help us extinct the UN.
    …-
    U.N. takes on climate change
    Denver Post ^ | 26 sept 07 | Al Knight
    It’s going to be a big week for climate change. It was the hot topic at the United Nations on Monday and will be discussed again in the nation’s capital later this week.
    An endless parade of speakers has declared that the “time for doubt” on global warming is over and the time for action has arrived.
    A recent U.N. press release opened thus: “With human activity driving global warming, extreme weather events and climate fluctuations of the sort never before experienced in recorded history, U.N. Secretary General Ban-Ki-Moon today challenged the world’s nations to the decisive action this year to tackle the climate change threat head-on.”
    Elsewhere in that same document, just about every ill known to man is blamed on increases in greenhouse gases. A representative from the Women’s Environmental and Development Organization discussed what she called the “gender dimension of climate change.” She pointed out that in the 2004 tsunami, more than 70 percent of those killed were women. She proposed that the U.N. urgently address the question of how “to identify avenues that would achieve more equitable approaches to adaptation.” (Presumably, it would have been more equitable if the tsunami had killed more men.)…-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1902275/posts

  8. Our Lady of the Cliches blathers, whines, and gnashes its molars again. Sheila omits to mention that tax hole cliche: the CBC. …-
    Canadian television in peril
    By SHEILA COPPS […]
    http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Copps_Sheila/2007/09/26/4526680.php
    A sampler:
    “political masters”
    “a feeding frenzy”
    “turn […] rules inside out.”
    “not afraid to rock political boats”
    “ferret out”
    etc. …-
    Here’s one for Our Lady: ad nauseam.

  11. Thanks Vitruvius for my morning chuckle. I’m part of that generation who learned about classical music from Victor Borge and Bugs Bunny. That was the era of comedians who could make you laugh without having every second word being a N or F word. (Although, there was George Carlin’s seven words…)

  12. It’s official; the MSM is a dinosaur.
    History’s timeline is now BB and AB; Before Blogs/After Blogs.
    Quote: “the bloggers, working around the clock*,”
    …-
    Burma bloggers keep one step ahead of junta
    Guardian Unlimited – 1 hour ago
    Burmese security forces killed some 3000 anti-government protesters in 1988 but prompted barely a peep from the outside world. Today, the junta again faces mass protests, led by the country’s monks, but this time the world is watching. […]
    Although Burma has some of the most draconian internet controls in the world bloggers are managing to evade the censors to post images and provide information to the anxious world.
    In today’s coverage, the first reports of fatalities came from the Irrawaddy website. Others providing up-to-the-minute coverage include Zin Media and Mizzima News.
    Opposition activists are even using Facebook, the social networking site, to air news and mobilise support.
    Matthew Weaver is blogging on Burma for Guardian Unlimited, providing is an excellent reference point for Burmese bloggers.
    The bloggers have managed to broadcast news even though the junta blocks almost every website that carries information about the country. It even bars access to web-based email.
    Despite attempts at erecting a digital wall around Burma, the bloggers, working around the clock, have managed to post pictures and videos of events almost as soon as they occur. …-
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/burma/story/0,,2177506,00.html
    *Bill Haley rocked:We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight, We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ’till broad daylight, …-

  13. There’s a hilarious cartoon at coxandforcum.com:
    “It’s Ahmadinejad Week here at Cox & Forkum; he keeps giving us material that we can’t resist.”

  14. The CP (Communist Press) once again shows its anti -Conservative bias. Note how the writer identifies this woman as a “A former Conservative MP” in the first sentence of the article. She was an MP 14 years ago! CP doesn’t mention her present job “mayor” until paragraph two.
    Think this article would have started “A former Liberal MP” if that was her former party? Yeah me neither….
    […]
    http://www.thestar.com/News/article/260611
    Lia Levesque
    The Canadian Press
    ST-JEROME, Que.–A former Conservative MP is urging Quebec to ban all religious clothing, such as the face-covering niqab, in public places, a hearing was told yesterday.
    Lise Bourgault, now mayor of Brownsburg-Chatham northwest of Montreal, delivered that message to the commission looking into the reasonable accommodation of immigrants.
    “We’re going to have to stand up and prohibit the wearing of all religious clothing in public places,” said Bourgault, who served as MP in Argenteuil-Papineau in southwestern Quebec between 1984 and 1993.

  15. Progress towards banning and possibly reversing muslim immigration?
    DENVER (AP) — Negative opinions about Islam are on the rise, Mormons are viewed as Christian but different and Pope Benedict XVI trails his predecessor in popularity, a poll of Americans released Tuesday said.
    (Pew research, AP)
    The survey of 3,000 adults from Aug. 1-18 was conducted for the Pew Research Center and the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
    The number of Americans who say Islam has little or nothing in common with their own religion has spiked to 70 percent in the past two years from 59 percent, the poll found.
    Another significant shift has taken place: In 2005, 36 percent of the public said Islam is more likely than other faiths to encourage violence among its believers. That number has risen to 45 percent.

  17. While I was looking up the story on the Loo lunacy, I said to myself: ” So what is a Muslim toilet… a hole in the ground?” only to find out that this was precisely what it was. I only hope it was facing the right direction.

  18. The energy industry is strongly opposed to proposed increases to oil and gas royalties in Alberta, Canada. Will its voice be heard?
    ——
    Our Fair Share, the panel’s report, says: “Albertans do not receive their fair share from energy development. The royalty rates and formulas have not kept pace with changes in the resource base and world energy markets.”…..
    ….from Robert”>http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2007/09/tom_nicholls_the_taxman_cometh.htm”>Robert Amsterdam’s site.

  19. Captain’s Quarters | Taliban Loss Ratio Worsens To 165:1
    The Taliban launched two large-scale ambushes on Afghan and NATO forces in Helmand and Uruzgan provinces this week. Mullah Omar may have wanted to see his metrics improve from the 100-1 loss ratio in Kandahar last month. Well, those numbers certainly changed — from humiliating to catastrophic: …-
    http://jacksnewswatch.com/2007/09/26/daily-blogger-292/
    Canada should cease combat as NATO test, Liberals say
    Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion says Canada should end its combat role in Afghanistan in 2009 even if no other NATO country is prepared to step in.
    (national newswatch)

  20. I’m glad that Fidel is feeling well enough to forewarn us that “irrational techonological creations in the world today are putting mankind’s survival at risk”. The result: “Extermination wars, climate changes, hunger, thirst, inequality, surround us everywhere.” Now that we have been informed, we should all eschew our computers, telephones, cars, etc.
    Haven’t we been so fortunate to receive such great wisdom from as fine bunch of intellectuals as Fidel and his buddies Chavez, Hillary, PET, Ahmadinejad, Clooney, Kim Jong-il, Naomi Klein, Gore, Chomsky, …?
    http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2007/06/25/4041/fidel_castro_warns_of_threats_against_mankind.html

  22. Dion is pathetic. He completely drops ball on Outremont file and now, at his press conference today, says that when people hear more about how nice he is, of course compared with (insert a bunch of negative adjectives here) Harper, they will vote Lib (they didn’t vote for us, but they trust us – huh?).
    Worst leader in history of LPC, IMO; and getting worse and more delusional by the day. No problem for me, though, I vote Tory. Libs must be shaking their heads in frustration right now with their amateur hour leader, out of touch with the reality that few Cdns even know who he is, he has moved LPC far left and has no resonance anyway.
    Election will exacerbate, not improve, LPC’s shortcomings (right now that is, still formidable force long term when they get a real leader, some money and some policies). When will that happen – no light at end of tunnel for Libs right now.

  23. Lambchop is alive and roaming in Saskatoon Greystone. A copy of the pamphlet that was posted here a month or so ago just flopped out of my mailbox, along with the usual pizza adverts.
    By the way, Peter Prebble, the local MP here, made his non-contribution to the global warming debate in the form of a newsletter last week. It’s called “Climate Crisis…Local Action! A Special Report On The Climate Crisis and The Part Saskatchewan People Can Play To Make A Difference.” Seriously. It reprints such non-facts as Mann’s famous hockey stick graph, recommends Al Gore’s non-movie, and throws in a pitch for the government’s non-idea of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050. It’s very green, very silly, and goes on for twelve long and increasingly funny pages.

  24. Anyone interested in the Ontario election?
    Dilton McGuinty says funding faith based schools is divisive but not the Catholic faith based schools. He calls them “Public ” schools when the only thing public about them is they’re funded by the public purse. This is more than property tax designation, they’re getting the same grants and more from the public purse as the true public schools. Buildings, staffing, the whole thing parallels the Public System.
    Hypocrite and liar about to be returned to power in a brain dead province according to the polls.
    Breaking most election promises last election, he lied, he, a product of the Separate Catholic system. Not a good role model.

  25. PPG/MSM and the S-Word.
    …-
    Harper snubs annual press gallery dinner
    By Bruce Cheadle, THE CANADIAN PRESS
    OTTAWA – Amidst a new round of fall election speculation, the Prime Minister’s Office has made one thing clear: Stephen Harper won’t be bringing the house down next month.
    Harper’s director of communications issued a curt notice Wednesday that her boss will not be attending the annual Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner, scheduled for Oct. 27.
    No reason was given for the prime minister’s cancellation.
    Shortly after, Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean also announced she’s taking a pass, which could put the long-standing social event on hold for a second straight year. …-
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/09/26/4528384-cp.html
    McGuinty snubbed by cancer patient
    OTTAWA — An unhappy cancer patient confronted Premier Dalton McGuinty today about Liberal plans to reduce wait times for surgery in Ontario by refusing to shake McGuinty’s hand at Ottawa Hospital.
    It was an unexpected glitch for the premier who spent the day promoting his government’s boost to health care and his promises of further investments to benefit patients and their families.
    McGuinty was strolling through the cancer wing in the hospital when he spied Mike Brady and extended greetings and his hand.
    “How are you doing, sir,” McGuinty asked.
    But Brady, 63, who has colon cancer, refused. “I’ve got cancer and you are not helping any,” Brady told the premier. “That’s not true,” McGuinty replied before heading off for his announcement about reducing wait times at the hospital.
    The exchange was caught on videotape. …-
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes2007/News/Liberal/2007/09/26/4528170-sun.html
    (Find that video?)

  26. You can’t confirm gossip without passing it around so here goes: a native associate has told my wife that Tamra Keepness’ remains have been found on a Saskatchewan reserve. No way to confirm, were told to wait for the news flash later in the week. You probably have a post similar to mine every month.

  27. Monsieur Great Leader Citoyen, the sign at the front of the bus says: Ne Crachez Pas. Comprends, la?
    …-
    The rising cost of Stephane Dion’s leadership
    […]
    And then Stephane Dion spit on a Canada’s first man in space:
    In the spring, when Liberal MP Lucienne Robillard announced she would not run again, Garneau filed nomination papers — as did several other candidates.
    “I said this is the fit for me. I live here, I work here, I know people here,” said Garneau, a Westmount resident. “This is the natural place for me.”
    However, Garneau became discouraged when Liberal Leader Stephane Dion announced three or four days later he would handpick the Liberal candidate for the riding.
    “Mr. Dion said he would choose the nominee and in my own mind I was not sure that I would be that nominee.” …-
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/241713.php

  28. James Lovelock, the man who started all this Kyoto Gaia thing (Maurice Strong worships Gaia religion) now says carbon-credits and Gore style Kyoto Socialsm(?) won’t work after all;
    [Such feedbacks, as well as the inertia of the Earth system and that of our response, make it doubtful that any of the well-intentioned technical or social schemes for carbon dieting will restore the status quo.] James Lovelock
    Well intentioned !!?? Social schemes, yes, but well intentioned — NO.
    Oh well, what’s a few $Billion down the drain, especially when it kept the Gore Suzuki crowd rolling in cash.
    But wait !! Jim has a new idea —- giant pipes in the oceans that will air condition the world 🙂
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/09/26/sciwater126.xml

  30. Maz2: That is a disgusting story of McGuinty and the cancer patient. McGuinty took off, didn’t stop to inquire how the patient felt he could improve the problem.
    Why on earth any thinking person with a scruple or two could vote for McGuinty after all his lies and his hypocritical take on the issue of faith based schools is beyond comprehension.
    To say nothing of his nonsense about not in favor of allowing access to private clinics with our
    OHIP cards. Boggles the mind.

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