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  1. (1) The downward spiral at NYT continues.
    Editing Commentary, Inheriting the Times
    COMMENTARY has announced that John Podhoretz will become the new Editor in 2009….This produced a piece from the New York Times about nepotism, since John Podhoretz is Norman Podhoretz’s son and will be succeeding him a mere 14 years after his father left the post….
    Ed Lasky demolished the Times’ story in four short paragraphs, noting the irony of an article on nepotism from those who took the “paper of record” and turned it into an agenda-driven journal with (in Renata Adler’s words, writing in 2001) “no reliable, uninflected coverage of anything, least of all the news” by handing the paper from “Punch” to “Pinch” Sulzberger and then institutionalizing the nepotism with a corporate structure that prevents Pinch’s removal.
    http://jpundit.typepad.com/jci/2007/10/editing-comment.html
    (2) (Via Israpundit) Evidently Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week received a cool reception at Emory U. David Horowitz was booed off the stage:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3BuXNF7fs4
    (3) Yad Vashem to showcase Muslims who saved Jews from Nazis
    When the Germans occupied Albania in 1943, the Albanian population refused to comply with the Nazis’ orders to turn over lists of Jews residing in the country.
    The lifesaving assistance the Jews received in the predominantly Muslim country was based on Besa, a code of honor which literally means “to keep the promise.” Nearly all the Jews living within Albanian borders during the German occupation were saved; in fact, there were more Jews in Albania at the end of the war than before it started, Yad Vashem said.
    http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1192380676042&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

  4. X-Lib President Gillis says :
    ““It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees,””
    Here’s da proof from da Librano$ Boss: “She noted former prime minister Jean Chretien “would consult his caucus and, once he’d determined something, he’d push ahead.”
    Da Pusher Chretien Axiom: Da proof is da proof …
    Notice da MSM proofreader didn’t proofread: “Stephan”.
    Moral: Da principle ting is da principals, aka da Librano$’ values, Stephan.
    …-
    Sarnia-Lambton federal Liberal association president resigns
    Saying she’s disillusioned with the leadership of Stephan Dion, the president of the Sarnia-Lambton federal Liberal association has resigned.
    Anne Marie Gillis said Friday she’s disappointed that the party didn’t vote against the recent throne speech.
    Had it done so, it would have sparked an election.
    “Insiders have told me after the throne speech came down that Mr. Dion and 30 of his confreres were willing to go to the polls,” she said. “They were going to stand on their principles,” including their support for the Kyoto environmental accord.
    But after meeting with the caucus, Dion backed away, she said. “The caucus all sat on their hands,” she said.
    “It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees,” she continued. “The opposition’s role isn’t to survive, it’s to oppose. I’m a little disappointed.”
    Gillis predicts bad times are ahead for the party….-
    http://theobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=751673&auth=By+DAN+McCAFFERY+The+Observer

  6. Not on any topic above but the recent Angus Reid poll “Should Canada ban handguns” results as of this am, No running at 95% Yes at 5%. Wonder how they’re going to spin this one, or will they even publish results.

  7. China warns Dalai Lama visit could harm relations
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071028/dalai_lama_071029/20071029?hub=Canada
    CTV has not yet shut down Comments.
    Samples:
    Martin
    Well done to PM Harper.
    Though other Prime Ministers in other governments ‘thought’ the Dalai Lama was a man worthy of our admiration and supported his cause Prime Minister Harper is the first one to put his deeds where his beliefs are… and it’s about time!!!
    Andrew
    Way to go Mr. Harper. We should not allow any country to dictate to us as to who we should speak to. Clearly China considers him to be a threat. Kind of interesting since he is a man of peace. Most people would stop and question the motives and hidden agenda of the Chinese Government. I know I have . How about you?
    Adrian Telizyn
    It’s about time that Canada stood up “out loud” for what is right.
    Bravo, Mr. Harper! …-
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071028/dalai_lama_071029/20071029?hub=Canada

  9. From the dumbed down files…or if you will the we-are-comfortably-numb culture:
    41% OF AMERICANS CAN’T NAME ONE GOP CANDIDATE
    http://tinyurl.com/2hzkpn
    “”The Pew Research Center has released a new poll showing that 41% of Americans responding are unable to come up with the names of any Republican presidential candidates without prompting. In contrast, only 19% are unable to name even one Democratic candidate.
    (…)
    Hillary Clinton’s name was offered unprompted by 78% of all respondents and Barack Obama’s by 62%. However, no more than 45% came up with the name of GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani — and even among Republicans the figure was only 57%.””

  11. Not on any topic above but the recent Angus Reid poll “Should Canada ban handguns” results as of this am, No running at 95% Yes at 5%. Wonder how they’re going to spin this one, or will they even publish results.
    because the right has more internet savvy than the left Im expecting them to adjust the ratios some by multipling factors. say multiply the favoured side by 4 for the hamfisted sinister lefties and divide the right side for the dexterous rights.

  12. Moderator: Greetings, and welcome to the First-And-Possibly-Last-Ever Pan-Computer-Programming-Language Conference (FAPLEPCPLC). I am joined on stage tonight by many distinguished, high-profile computer programming languages. Each is highly regarded by its devotees, and I for one look forward to hearing what each has to say.
    Ruby (grabbing the microphone): Um so yeah I’d just like to kick this bad boy off by saying that THE REST OF YOU SUCK A**!!! Yeah, I said it! The A-word! A**! Oh yeah! Boom, baby! Woo! Ruby FTW!
    Java (rolling its eyes): Oh, real mature. I, on the other hand, would like to state that I have important work to get done in the Enterprise, so let’s not waste everyone’s time. I suggest we proceed using the Computer Programming Languages Discussion Pattern as implemented in JSR-6942, the Java(tm) Absolutely Void-of-Acronyms Talking About Languages at Konferences (JAVATALK(tm) which by the way is not an acronym for anything) specification.
    Ruby: Dude! I just wrote a full working clone of Google while you were giving your riveting little speech there!
    Moderator: Oh, bravo, Ruby! I’d like to see that. Where is it deployed?
    Ruby: Umm….
    Read the rest:
    http://davidrupp.blogspot.com/2007/10/last-language-war-language-trolling.html

  13. X-Rookie Wilson’s Librano$ Magical Tricks.
    Blair the Builder: Let us “entertain” you.
    STOPIGGY says: “”we didn’t get it done”.
    Wilson endorsed STOPIGGY for leader.
    …-
    Rookie MP Blair Wilson eyes Liberal leadership race
    Vancouver Sun
    Published: Tuesday, May 23, 2006
    […]
    OTTAWA — Rookie B.C. MP Blair Wilson said Tuesday he will “entertain” the possibility of becoming the 12th candidate in the Liberal leadership race.
    Wilson, […] said his primarily[sic] goal is to build the party in B.C. and Western Canada. …-
    http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=1af83d24-0083-4265-be0b-34ff19c0a20f
    (via national newswatch)

  15. Just a funny government number I stumbled across. In 2005 Canada’s CIDA gave $3.57 million to Equatorial Guinea.
    Equatorial Guinea is the world’s 4th richest country with a per capita income of $50,000.
    That money is almost enough to pay for 3 of the president’s Rolls Royces, or 18 of his son’s stereo systems.
    Money well spent.

  16. The latest salvo aimed at Harper by Canada’s communist non-think tank and MSM:
    Canada’s military spending exceeds Cold War peak —study
    October 22, 2007 | National Office | Topic(s): International relations, peace & conflict | Publication Type: Press Release
    OTTAWA—Canada is spending more public money on its military today than it has since the Second World War, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
    According to the study, by Steven Staples, Director of the Rideau Institute and CCPA Research Associate, and Bill Robinson, Senior Advisor with the Rideau Institute, Canada’s military spending will reach $18.24 billion in 2007-08—an increase of 9% over 2006-07—and will continue to rise to $19.418 billion by 2009-10.
    “Military spending is higher now than it was in the peak of the Cold War, when Canada was at war in Korea,” says Staples.
    Internationally, Canada is the 13th highest military spender in the world this year, up from 16th. Within the 26-member NATO alliance, Canada has moved from 7th to 6th highest military spender, dollar for dollar.
    “One of the public’s greatest misperceptions is about how much Canada now spends on its military,” Staples says. “Canada’s military spending is so substantial that it outspends the lowest 12 NATO members combined.”
    Since September 11, 2001, Canada’s military spending has increased by 27%, and after the next two years of planned increases, will be 37% higher than 2000-01.
    By the end of this fiscal year, Canada will have spent $7.2 billion on the full cost of military missions in or related to Afghanistan, or $3.3 billion on incremental costs which exclude fixed costs such as salaries, equipment depreciation and attrition.
    http://www.policyalternatives.ca/News/2007/10/PressRelease1735/index.cfm?pa=BB736455
    Of course the CBC is using this report to confirm a vast right wing neocon agenda in order to move Canada from it’s “traditional role as peacekeepers.”
    So, let’s get this right: From the Boer war, through WWI, WWII and Korea, we were ‘peacekeepers?’
    As well, any military person I’ve known is insulted by the term. Typically saying ‘we are trained to kill. We are given weapons. We are not peacekeepers.’ Peacemaker might be a more appropriate description.
    On top of that, the report makes no mention of where our embarrassingly mothballed military was prior to any new spending.
    But lets not let facts or responsibility get in the way.
    Such is the nature of leftard propoganda.

  18. What the non-think tank thinks:
    “About the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
    The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social and economic justice. Founded in 1980, the CCPA is one of Canada’s leading progressive voices in public policy debates.”
    ‘non-partisan” and “progressive” all in the same paragraph. Slick. Oh, and with an endorsement on their splash page from non other than Naomi Klein.

  19. Speaking of Mother Nature, here is a quote from a column by David Suzuki.
    “Researchers have discovered a new species of fly in the wet tropical rain forests of Costa Rica and Panama. They named the fly Dixella suzukii – after me. That’s right, no great whale or fierce jungle cat for this fella. I’ve been immortalized as a fly. A pond-scum sucking fly at that.”
    “But Dixella suzukii is no fruit fly.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/Suzuki/2007/10/25/4604565-ca.html

  20. “Little Church In The Desert”
    A hilarious new CBC comedy about emigrants from Saskatchewan to Saudi Arabia establishing their Christian community near Mecca. Audiences will laugh at all the hi-jinks of the religious police and Wahibi imams as they adjust to their new neighbours!
    Sure to be coming soon!

  21. Liranos$ and The Chronicles of Wilson.
    Chapter Two: Da Public Funds/Taxes Are Our$.
    …-
    “Tanti, for one, says he can let his $50,000 loss go, but not his worries about Wilson’s suitability for office.
    “My concern about the whole thing, him getting into politics, [is] if he is doing that to so-called friends and everything else, what is he going to do when he’s got [public] money in his hands?
    “My $50,000 was a lot of money, but it’s not going to change my lifestyle. But now he has public funds. That’s my biggest concern.” …-
    West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast MP’s businesses ended in failure, lawsuits
    From his accounting and investment ventures, to his Vancouver steakhouses and his slice of a Polish pizza chain, Blair Wilson has billed himself as a successful businessman. But now his former associates — and even his father-in-law — say the record tells a different story. …-
    http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=376d6020-1234-45f0-b77e-4a1da2fb7f26&k=82299

  23. ID – So, let’s get this right: From the Boer war, through WWI, WWII and Korea, we were ‘peacekeepers?’…any military person I’ve known is insulted by the term.
    Exactly. Even when we were most active in “peacekeeping” missions (which never accomplished anything, btw), the primary mission of the CF remained collective defence under our NATO and NORAD commitments. Peacekeeping was never more than a sideshow.
    Rather than simply comparing our overall military spending to Iceland and Luxembourg, I’d like to see the CCPA article include Canadian military spending as a percentage of GDP or per-capita. We are pretty far down on those lists.
    Most of the recent spike in defence spending has been necessitated by the dilapidated condition of the CF’s equipment.

  24. From his accounting and investment ventures, to his Vancouver steakhouses and his slice of a Polish pizza chain, Blair Wilson has billed himself as a successful businessman. But now his former associates — and even his father-in-law — say the record tells a different story. …-
    http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=376d6020-1234-45f0-b77e-4a1da2fb7f26&k=82299
    Polish pizza chain? whats next Swiss fondue sushi, Italian wontons soup in tomato broth.

  25. Peacemaker might be a more appropriate description

    Just like the slogan says: “peace through superior fire power”

  29. Couldn’t agree more Belisarius.
    However, if they were to measure their findings against GDP, on a per capita basis, the irresponsible lack of upkeep and replacement over the years – not to mention providing the best possible protection for the CF – the planned outrage would be negated.
    As I mentioned, CBC and the Star are already running with this ‘report’ to attack Harper’s vast rightwing, neocon agenda.
    “Even when we were most active in “peacekeeping” missions (which never accomplished anything, btw)”
    Rwanda.

  30. Re: “Little Church In The Desert”
    I laughed out loud at that one, and the description. Thanks phil

  31. “Martin
    Well done to PM Harper.
    Though other Prime Ministers in other governments ‘thought’ the Dalai Lama was a man worthy of our admiration and supported his cause Prime Minister Harper is the first one to put his deeds where his beliefs are… and it’s about time!!!”
    We all do what we can. 😉

  32. cal2 asked: “whats next Swiss …”
    The lesson for today: What is Dionomics?
    Answer: from Citoyen Dion, le mangeur de hot dog: “Swiss Chalet”.
    Citoyen, aka st-phane-dion, slags/slanders Swiss Chalet and its customers/families/seniors.
    Citoyen Dion: You owe an apology to Swiss Chalet, its employees, and its customers, with tens of thousands of families/senior citizens among them.
    Quote:
    “What is better for working Canadians?,” Mr. Dion asked the audience at the Canadian Club of London. “Working for a company that is hiring workers because its pays less corporate tax, or saving 40¢ on a tank of gas? Bringing a larger paycheque home, or saving a penny on a cup of coffee? Taking advantage of improved child care in Canada, or savings 50¢ on a family meal at Swiss Chalet?” …-
    Stéphane Dion assails planned GST cut
    http://communities.canada.com/financialpost/blogs/fpposted/archive/2007/10/29/st-phane-dion-assails-planned-gst-cut.aspx
    Ex-Liberal MP Wilson, who was fired by Citoyen Liberals, “was twice compelled by the courts to pay GST owing,”
    Financial allegations leveled against Liberal MP [Wilson]
    http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=18adc36b-d102-4ff6-8179-524dee83616e&k=47393

  33. From Charles Adler
    Dumb lefty blonde Lesley Stahl, while interviewing Nikolas Sarkozy, after being told not to by his handlers, asked about his impending divorce.
    He got up and walked out, leaving her slack-jawed and dumbfounded.
    I guess her forbidden question was more important than any of the newsy questions she could have asked.

  34. Freudian slip at rabble.ca
    http://www.rabble.ca/about_us/about_us.shtml?x=63538
    “Derrick joins in the tradition of rabble’s founding folk, unapologetically merging media activism and a deeply routed belief in the possibility of the internet for connecting our dispersed voices and experiences into a powerful potential for social change and social justice. When he is not working with Assistant Editor, Alexandra Samur, at bringing news and views to you, he is introducing social justice to young minds as a part-time school teacher.”

  35. Further to worries about adulterated food stuffs from China, the following discusses the contents of that classic, the Twinkie:
    “Although eight of the ingredients in the beloved little snack cake come from domestic corn and three from soybeans, there are others — including thiamine mononitrate — that come from petroleum. Chinese petroleum. Chinese refineries and Chinese factories. And there are other unexpected ingredients that are much harder to trace. So much for the great “All-American” snack food.
    When you bite into a Twinkie, you are chewing on an international nexus of suppliers. Most of our processed foods — salad dressing, ice cream, meal-replacement drinks — are processed with foreign additives: essential ones, like B vitamins for fortifying flour and the preservative sorbic acid, as well as Malaysian or Indonesian palm oil products, European wheat gluten, Peruvian colorants, Chadian gums and Swiss niacin, made from Swiss water, Swiss air (nitrogen) and North Atlantic or Middle Eastern oil. It’s a nice contrast to recall that Champagne comes only from Champagne, France.
    Like many other industries, food additives have been off-shored. No major domestic vitamin or sorbic acid manufacturers remain in the U.S. Our last vitamin C plant closed in 2005 — in fact, it closed as I was speaking to an employee about a tour — and most of our artificial colors and flavors come from abroad as well. Our chemical industry is rapidly dismantling its expensive domestic plants and either forming joint ventures with Chinese companies or simply buying chemicals from them. This leads to lower food and pharmaceutical prices, but perhaps at the cost of quality control.
    How can you have quality control when you don’t even know where the ingredient is coming from? During my Twinkie research, I was particularly surprised that many American food additive “manufacturers” buy chemicals, especially vitamins, from distributors and do not know, or don’t ask, where they come from. The distributors usually sing the same song, as they often buy from importers, and the importers buy from exporters who — no surprise — are often not able or willing to identify all of their sources.”

  36. Taliban Jack Layton-NDP has convened a plenary session of the NDP’s Comintern/GPU/KGB to consider the motion: STOPIGGY, er STOPUN, … and stop Muslim Taliban murderers from stopping.
    …-
    UN says 34 aid workers killed in Afghanistan this year, tells Taliban to stop
    KABUL, Afghanistan – The UN on Monday accused militants and criminals of killing 34 aid workers in Afghanistan this year and urged armed groups to stop attacking humanitarian convoys so food can reach millions of poor Afghans. (canoe news)
    …-
    Government brushes aside report that Afghan prisoners are still tortured
    OTTAWA – The Conservative government dismissed incendiary new allegations about the abuse of detainees in Afghanistan as an empty invention of the Taliban enemy. (canoe news)

  37. Key tribal leader on verge of deserting Taliban
    UK Telegraph
    An Afghan tribal leader is in talks to defect from the Taliban and take thousands of armed tribesmen with him to fight alongside British forces in southern Afghanistan.
    The Daily Telegraph has learned that the Afghan government hopes to seal the deal this week with Mullah Abdul Salaam and his Alizai tribe, which has been fighting alongside the Taliban in Helmand province.
    Diplomats confirmed yesterday that Mullah Salaam was expected to change sides within days. He is a former Taliban corps commander and governor of Herat province under the government that fell in 2001.
    Military sources said British forces in the province are “observing with interest” the potential deal in north Helmand, which echoes the efforts of US commanders in Iraq’s western province to split Sunni tribal leaders from their al-Qa’eda allies.
    The Afghan deal would see members of the Alizai tribe around the Taliban-held town of Musa Qala quit the insurgency and pledge support to the Afghan government. It would be the first time that the Kabul government and its Western allies have been able exploit tribal divisions that exist within the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
    Nato forces in Helmand have been monitoring mounting tensions within the Taliban around the towns of Musa Qala and Kajaki.
    “We have been aware in the last week that guns have been pulled and different armed camps formed within the Taliban in that area,” said a military source. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1918086/posts

  38. What is this?
    Somebody is making cold propaganda, while we have AWG in progress.
    They set up a studio to look like Algerian Sahara with sand and all and then added some snow, and then they put some kids in it, got a camera and put it on the TV news.
    Is this allowed?

  40. So, what alby is saying is that he supports Stephen Harper’s plan to cut emissions by 2050. He admits that his criticisms were unduly harsh, and that the hysteria around global warming has caused him to say some pretty rash and incorrect things.
    Oops. I forgot — being a lefty (and hopefully, one day, an intellectual lefty!) means never having to say your sorry.

  41. No Yukon, in typical con fashion you’ve once again you oversimplified things. You overlooked that the writer of the article did a bad job at describing what Lovelock was saying. What Lovelock is saying is we need to reduce GHGs, but in doing so we can’t completely stop emitting aerosols or we may likely to be creating greater problems.

  43. Here is something to have any AGW follower to have a look at.
    CARL SAGAN’S BALONEY DETECTION KIT
    Based on the book The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
    The following are suggested as tools for testing arguments and detecting fallacious or fraudulent arguments:
    * Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the facts
    * Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view.
    * Arguments from authority carry little weight (in science there are no “authorities”).
    * Spin more than one hypothesis – don’t simply run with the first idea that caught your fancy.
    * Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it’s yours.
    * Quantify, wherever possible.
    * If there is a chain of argument every link in the chain must work.
    * “Occam’s razor” – if there are two hypothesis that explain the data equally well choose the simpler.
    * Ask whether the hypothesis can, at least in principle, be falsified (shown to be false by some unambiguous test). In other words, it is testable? Can others duplicate the experiment and get the same result?
    Additional issues are
    * Conduct control experiments – especially “double blind” experiments where the person taking measurements is not aware of the test and control subjects.
    * Check for confounding factors – separate the variables.
    Common fallacies of logic and rhetoric
    * Ad hominem – attacking the arguer and not the argument.
    * Argument from “authority”.
    * Argument from adverse consequences (putting pressure on the decision maker by pointing out dire consequences of an “unfavourable” decision).
    * Appeal to ignorance (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence).
    * Special pleading (typically referring to god’s will).
    * Begging the question (assuming an answer in the way the question is phrased).
    * Observational selection (counting the hits and forgetting the misses).
    * Statistics of small numbers (such as drawing conclusions from inadequate sample sizes).
    * Misunderstanding the nature of statistics (President Eisenhower expressing astonishment and alarm on discovering that fully half of all Americans have below average intelligence!)
    * Inconsistency (e.g. military expenditures based on worst case scenarios but scientific projections on environmental dangers thriftily ignored because they are not “proved”).
    * Non sequitur – “it does not follow” – the logic falls down.
    * Post hoc, ergo propter hoc – “it happened after so it was caused by” – confusion of cause and effect.
    * Meaningless question (“what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?).
    * Excluded middle – considering only the two extremes in a range of possibilities (making the “other side” look worse than it really is).
    * Short-term v. long-term – a subset of excluded middle (“why pursue fundamental science when we have so huge a budget deficit?”).
    * Slippery slope – a subset of excluded middle – unwarranted extrapolation of the effects (give an inch and they will take a mile).
    * Confusion of correlation and causation.
    * Straw man – caricaturing (or stereotyping) a position to make it easier to attack..
    * Suppressed evidence or half-truths.
    * Weasel words – for example, use of euphemisms for war such as “police action” to get around limitations on Presidential powers. “An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public”

  44. Behold the albatrosses of Citoyen Dion’s Blairwitch Project; brought to Canadians by the Librano$.
    Liberals Marlene Jennings and Mark Marrisen and Citoyen Dion, et al: dumb and dumber and dumbest than a bag of hammers.
    Liberals: The party of AdScam, laboured and brought forth the “Blairwitch” project.
    Ivison: “At the moment, the Liberals are behaving like the crack suicide squad from Monty Python’s Life of Brian, who attack by impaling themselves on their own swords.”
    “Similarly, Mr. Dion must take the heat for this fixation of the “in and out” scam. It was raised in the House again yesterday, to the great glee of Government House Leader Peter Van Loan, who rose to answer in the Prime Minister’s absence.
    Liberal MP Marlene Jennings said Mr. Wilson had done the right thing by stepping aside and called for a number of ministers “implicated” in the election saga to do likewise. Hardly able to contain himself, Mr. Van Loan pointed out that the “Blairwitch” project had been well-known to the Liberal party, who only forced Mr. Wilson to resign when it became front-page news.
    He then proceeded to read all the allegations into the public record, pointing out that their stark nature was a far cry from the confusing muddle of accusations levelled against various Conservatives. By this point, it was all over for Liberals, who were forced to defend the position of their leader and their member.”
    Liberals picked wrong wedge
    John Ivison, National Post
    http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/columnists/story.html?id=25ab1f0c-90e2-48ee-b84a-cbbd3c172046&p=2
    Posted by: maz2 at October 30, 2007 05:05 AM

  45. Mao Stlong say: MacChalles and Red Stal goody guys.
    Plime Ministel Halpel big fat Canadian. Eat too many egg lolls, dim sum.
    …-
    Harper’s historic meeting sparks Beijing’s fury
    Oct 30, 2007 04:30 AM
    Tonda MacCharles
    Ottawa Bureau
    [TO Red Star]

  46. Alberta’s Red Premier Stelmach is out of the socialist closet. Next? Rent controls.
    It’s the Big Nanny State; the impossible dream of utopia. How does Big Brother Stelmach do it? The usual socialist way: more bureauc-rats, higher taxes, and confiscation/extortion of private money, euphemistically called the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund.
    Stelmach “to unveil” his socialist backbone. Ralph Klein, a socialist, was a good teacher/mentor.
    Notice the usual socialist/progressive propaganda by CBC Pravda: “an initiative”. Stalin/Mao named their initiatives Five/Ten Year Plan/Great Leap Forward.
    …-
    Stelmach to unveil new homelessness office
    CBC.ca – 17 hours ago
    Premier Ed Stelmach is set to announce an initiative to build 11000 new affordable homes in Alberta over the next five years, CBC News has learned. (google news)

  47. Wayne Ewart
    It appears the climate scientists pass the test with an A+.
    I particularly liked what that list said about inconsistency.

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