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  3. Citoyen Dion: Bali bound without a grip on reality; an empty brain with a profound sense of nothing but empty cliches, e.g., “Nobody’s perfect,”
    …-
    Dion’s New Year’s resolution: stop propping up Harper in 2008
    JANE TABER
    OTTAWA — Stéphane Dion says Canadians didn’t want an election this year but “2008 will be another ballgame.” …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2n4y3k
    “Nobody’s perfect,” the Liberal leader said
    Dion admits Liberals overreacted in demanding veiled voters uncover faces
    http://tinyurl.com/3a3cfa

  4. Vote for Liberal senators; receive ASdScam $$$$$ benefits in brown envelopes delivered to your ristorante table while you flush in the bathroom.
    …-
    Senate May Vote On Clemency Issue
    Liberal Senator Serge Joyal has decried Ottawa’s decision to stop seeking clemency for Ronald Smith, the only Canadian killer on death row in the United States, and has tabled a motion in the upper chamber that should force the issue to a vote next week. Mr. Joyal is seeking that the Senate “commit itself to supporting, at all international forums, the abolition of the death penalty.” (canwest)

  5. Two of the very best Editorials written recently are in the National Post today:
    “Brian and Stephen Breeds Apart” and “Man of Principle”.
    Don’t see how anyone capable of reasoned thought could disagree, they’re truthful and right on. Well, guess Libranos would of course, they’re beyond reason.
    Wonder if Steffi will pack a thong for his trek to Bali to prevent Harper from destroying the Earth?
    Has anyone asked him what he expects to accomplish and if it’s worth spewing jet fuel for? Also, who’s padding the Liberal Kitty to make it possible. Hope he’s not going on our dime to argue with our Government’s position.
    Maybe he can take Coderre along and they can go look for Timbits.

  6. Buttcrack Karl, the jailbird.
    This is the friendly witness from the Liberal-NDP Gong Show.
    Buttcrack Karl, the mooner.
    Where is the video?
    …-
    “TV images of Mr. Schreiber’s arrival at his brick townhouse contained a humiliating moment when his jeans slipped far below his waist. He was unable to pull them back up because he was handcuffed, so an officer pulled them up from behind. It is standard procedure to remove inmates’ belts while in transit.” …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2gyxao
    Packed Ottawa jail a temporary home for Schreiber
    Gets to go home to retrieve Mulroney documents

  7. From Columnist Dan Gardner in the Ottawa Citizen today : “Why we Shouldn’t Care About Karlheinz Schreiber”.
    There’s so much more common sense out there, why can’t the desperate Liberal and dippers latch onto some of it? Well, no need to answer that!

  9. Globe & Mail online poll:
    Do you agree that global warming is “an emergency unlike anything humankind has ever faced before?”
    Yes
    56%
    1653 votes
    No
    44%
    1293 votes

  10. Of all the people one might want to be mooned by,
    Karlheinz would be low on the list.
    “Buttcrack Karl the jailbird”, maz2, is a good moniker for a You Tube video but just about now the media are starting to manipulate us into sympathy mode for the newfound friend and best buddy of the Liberals and Dippers.

  14. [Brockville] Rifles ready for ultimate test
    By MICHAEL JIGGINS
    What a difference a year makes.
    Last fall, a huge question mark hung over the future of the Brockville Rifles as the unit faced a merger with the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders over declining numbers in its ranks.
    Well, no one’s doubting the historic militia unit’s future now as the Rifles prepare for what will be their biggest deployment of soldiers since the Second World War.
    By next September, up to 20 reservists and regular forces members from the unit – about 15 per cent of its total effective strength – will have their boots on the ground in Kandahar as part of Canada’s 2,500-member mission in Afghanistan.
    Wearing green camouflage fatigues and sitting behind his desk in his office at the Brockville Armoury, Rifles commanding officer Lt.-Col. Robert Parent makes no effort to conceal the pride in how his unit and the local community responded to the challenge.
    “I’m very proud of the way this regiment has stood up and contributed to the mission and I’m proud to be serving with Brocks overseas,” he told The Recorder and Times.
    Although Parent said there’s a bond between every community and its regiment, he insisted the link between the Rifles and Brockville is unique.
    “We’re one of the few regiments fortunate enough to carry the name of our community on our cap badge. Everywhere we go, we’re Brocks from Brockville.” …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2psba9

  15. Dare you to scroll down for pic of Helenback Thomas at comment # 14. Contrast to pic at comment # 3. Also, catch a pic of Helenback’s fave laxative.
    …-
    The Ever-Despicable Helen Thomas
    Captain’s Quarters ^ | Nov. 30, 2007 | Ed Morrissey
    Skip CNN’s self-inflicted wounds, and save your outrage for the doyenne of the White House press gaggle. Helen Thomas decided to get her feelings about the American military out into the open today:
    Q Why should we depend on him?
    MS. PERINO: Because he is the commander on the ground, Helen. He’s the one who is making sure that the situation is moving —
    Q You mean how many more people we kill?
    MS. PERINO: Helen, I find it really unfortunate that you use your front row position, bestowed upon you by your colleagues, to make such statements. This is a — it is an honor and a privilege to be in the briefing room, and to suggest that we, at the United States, are killing innocent people is just absurd and very offensive.
    Q Do you know how many we have since the start of this war?
    MS. PERINO: How many — we are going after the enemy, Helen. To the extent that any innocent Iraqis have been killed, we have expressed regret for it.
    Q Oh, regret. It doesn’t bring back a life.
    MS. PERINO: Helen, we are in a war zone, and our military works extremely hard to make sure that everyone has the opportunity for liberty and freedom and democracy, and that is exactly what they are doing.
    I’m going to move on.
    So should Thomas’ employer — and should have 30 years ago, when she was last coherent. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933244/posts

  17. This is fun. It looks like civil disobedience is alive and well in Britain, here’s a site dedicated to cataloguing vandalized traffic cameras.
    Good for them, if Big Brother won’t play fair by suiting up some traffic cops then they deserve it.

  21. Anonymous post from Gerry Nichols Blog
    Dave:
    I heard this story at my kids’ school the other day.
    Teacher: Which political party do you like, Billy?
    Billy: I like the conservatives.
    Teacher: Why’s that?
    Billy: Well, my mother is a conservative and my father is a conservative so I like the conservtaives too.
    Teacher: That’s not really a very good reason, Billy. If your mother was a moron and your father was a moron would you be a moron too?
    Billy: No, because that would make me a Liberal.
    12:17 PM

  22. Dion has warts. Taliban Jack-NDP is a saboteur. PM Harper is a saboteur. Would Duceppe be a wrecker? Karl is a buttcracker.
    This is a farce by a farceur named Dion.
    Citoyen says: “Fortunately, nobody in the world knew who was Jack Layton.”
    Jump to the warts!!!
    …-
    “Dion expressed distaste for the partisan conduct of NDP Leader Jack Layton, who showed up at a Montreal climate change conference chaired by Dion in 2005 and predicted the conference would fail due to Canada’s lack of credibility on the issue.
    “It was an attempt of sabotage,” Dion said.
    “Fortunately, nobody in the world knew who was Jack Layton.” […]
    “and Canadians will take him {Dion} warts and all – or not take him [Dion}. I’m encouraged.” …-
    Don’t exploit Mulroney-Schreiber affair for political gain, Dion warns Grits
    By Joan Bryden, THE CANADIAN PRESS
    http://tinyurl.com/3dr7qp
    Harper ‘sabotaged’ climate change efforts: Dion
    http://tinyurl.com/3y9csw

  23. If you didn’t see it, go to CBC web site and review Rex Murphy’s comments Friday evening in support of Harpers stance on the environment.
    Its a beaut!!

  24. Dion is a funny guy. He says don’t politicize issues, and then off to Bali he goes to, well, politicize. What a hypocrite, painting himself as a man of integrity who doesn’t like negative politics. Then, without any provocation, went negative on Harper and Tories day after he won Grit leadership last year. I suspect Dion was advised there was not way he could smear Harper with KHS/Mulroney silliness, in fact that it would bite Grits, before latest statement.
    I guess what he means by integrity of office of PM is:
    – calling our soldiers war criminals
    – reversing legislation his own previous government felt was necessary when enacted
    – abstain from voting from parliament, which is the mandate of members of parliament
    – allowing Robert Thibaut, member of Commons ethics commitee, to have ex parte meeting with KHS, who’s case in under review by our courts of appeal
    – tell us Canadians don’t want election, then they do, without ever asking them
    – parachute candidates into ridings, over protests of local associations
    – criticize government, never offering alternatives, except to say he will save the earth and end poverty (’cause he says so, apparently)
    – make zero attempt to clean up Adscam mess or return money stolen from taxpayers
    – and on, and on, and on
    Yeah, real ethical. No doubt he will be the first Liberal leader since Robert Blake (in 19th century) to not become PM.

  25. Well, Bruce, that story would make Nichols see red, he’s working against Harper, spouting off to the media who lap it up and that makes the Liberals happy to have him on the same page.

  27. Danny “whiner” Williams
    Acting Native All the Time
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071129/williams_harper_071130/20071130?hub=Politics
    lets shut off the shunt of money to the primary duff sitting province. If you think that the infrastucture deficit isnt related to sending money for people to sit on their duffs for about 2 generations and build board walks to nowhere and empty firehalls with no roads to get to them ,think again. thanks Danny for being a drag on the economy. here is a guy that made millions selling cable to two generations of TV watching duff sitters, thanks to the Canadian taxpayer.

  28. Not a doubt in the world, it’s all Liberal all the time.
    The flipping media are in a frenzy trying to get them back to power, it’s boiling up to crisis mode, we see/hear it every day.
    It’s what do the Libs have to do to get back in the game?
    How can they create or dig up some obscure incident to tar harper with?
    It’s all about Liberals and power, FORGET about the fact we HAVE good governance, we don’t NEED the Liberals.
    They can take their flipping time cleaning up the sludge left over from the corruption of more than a decade under their rule.
    If we need any reminder of sleeze we need only look at what’s going down right now in the parliamentary committee. They’re so desperate they’ll troll the jails to find birds that sing.
    Truth doesn’t matter, it’s not important for Liberals when seeking power.
    Mulroney may just cause them a peck of trouble, he’s already suing Thibeault.

  29. John_N,
    I don’t know about prospects for the suit, but I know that CAIR’s also being sued:
    “Trend-setting radio talk show host Michael Savage has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the Council on American-Islamic Relations”
    If I’ve got this right, CAIR wants to apply the word ‘savage’ to themselves and Michael won’t have any of it. Maybe I’d best read the whole article though…
    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/staticarticles/article58970.html

  30. Jeez, cal2, your on a roll. Buffoon Danny had a hard time dissing Harper today but he’s too stubborn to admit he was off base, so agreeing to disagree was a save face statement.

  33. Republicans Report Having Better Mental Health Than Democrats, Poll Finds
    Don’t worry, be happy: If you’re a Republican, those words should be easy to follow.
    A roundup of Gallup health polls over the past four years finds that Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to report having excellent mental health.
    The survey found that 58 percent of Republicans polled reported having excellent mental health. Only 38 percent of Democrats and 43 percent of Independents reported the same.
    Click here to see the Gallup poll.
    The study concluded it was unclear why there was such a strong correlation, but the relationship between party affiliation and mental health was virtually constant even within categories of income, age, gender and other factors.
    “The reason the relationship exists between being a Republican and more positive mental health is unknown, and one cannot say whether something about being a Republican causes a person to be more mentally healthy or whether something about being mentally healthy causes a person to choose to become a Republican,” the study said. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2wjfyg
    (Fox News)

  34. From the Boston Globe, regarding the hostage taking at a Hillary Clinton office in New Hampshire:
    “Talking to the families was probably the hardest part for me, because obviously it’s something that every parent can relate to,” Clinton told reporters outside her home in Washington, D.C., last evening, just before flying to New Hampshire to see her staff and thank law enforcement officials.”
    I thought the Clintons bought a large home in Westchester, NY.. I wonder if there’s a little trouble in that particular (or should that be peculiar?) paradise?

  35. Bigfoot:
    Yep, got that email about 5 months ago. It’s one of the reasons I nearly went ballistic when they showed “A Convenient Lie” to my kids at school, but wouldn’t allow anyone to present an opposing view. As I’ve ranted here before, Gore happens to have a large stake in the largest “carbon trading” credits firm in the world; he’s got a serious conflict of interest, but no one calls him on it.
    My biggest problem is I’m so infuriated by the MSM’s refusal to call out Gore for “talking the talk, but not walking the walk”, while, as noted in another thread, Bush has actually reduced CO2 emissions and lives in an environmentally friendly house, that I practically start foaming at the mouth when I meet one of these AGW hypnotees. I really need to start that anger management class!

  36. CTV does some artful editing to misrepresent the statements and the people who made them on a Statistics Canada story:
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071201/shortchanged_seniors_07121/20071201?hub=Canada

    NDP accuses government of shortchanging seniors
    The New Democrats are accusing the federal government of shortchanging seniors to the tune of about $1 billion.
    They say that Statistics Canada’s inflation rates were by about 0.1 per cent a year on its Consumer Price Index between 2001 and 2006. That led to lower pension payments for seniors, and the NDP’s seniors critic says the government now needs to make reimbursements.

    Then a whole bunch of Layton-speak on the hardship of seniors. And then this statement:

    John Campbell, president of the Retired Ontario Firefighters Association, told The Canadian Press that the Statistics Canada report amounts to “stealing money out of our pockets.”
    He said some seniors may have been short-changed by as much as $500 a year.

    A couple of points regarding this article has me shaking my head:
    (1) Reference the Canadian Press article (http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jOrbVFsQmmgUMTimaZFtPjpG9zmQ) and you see that the comments about $500 a year were made by a Don MacLeod, president of of the Municipal Retirees Organization of Ontario. He is also referencing an Ontario Municipal retirement fund – I expect that the federal government has no control on this.

    The CPI is also used by other sources like the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System when calculating payments, said Don MacLeod, president of the Municipal Retirees Organization of Ontario.
    “We think it could be as much as $500 per year for some people,” he said, adding that more than 100,000 seniors receive OMERS payments.

    (2) Secondly, the NDP seems to be batting for the little guy when a 0.1 percent miscalculation can make a $500 per year difference in payments. You need a $500,000 a year pension to get such a difference. I doubt the 0.1 percent would be a big issue for such a pensioner. However, the CTV article leaves you with the impression that many pensioners are suffering a $500 shortfall and that its all the federal government’s fault. (i.e. vote NDP or Liberal – they care)
    CTV should have their knuckles rapped for all of the misrepresentations in this story.

  37. One year after the anniversary of Stephane Dion’s Liberal Leadership victory many Canadians rate his job at communicating his vision for Canada and his work at unifying the Liberal party as average or poor. Dion comparatively does better on his work related to opposing Stephen Harper.
    Question: As you may know Stephane Dion was elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada one year ago. Would you rate the job he has done on the following as very good, good, average, poor or very poor?
    Communicating his vision for Canada
    Very good/good – 22%
    Average – 32%
    Poor/very poor – 32%
    Unsure – 15%
    Uniting the Liberal Party after winning the leadership
    Very good/good – 19%
    Average – 30%
    Poor/very poor – 33%
    Unsure – 17%
    Opposing the Conservative Government
    Very good/good – 26%
    Average – 32%
    Poor/very poor – 25%
    Unsure – 17%
    http://www.nanosresearch.com.

  38. …and in other whitewash news:
    The CBSA report was one of four probes, including a provincial public inquiry, into the death of Robert Dziekanski on Oct. 14.
    Alain Jolicoeur reported the results of the CBSA investigation.
    * No one from the CBSA has spoken to Dziekanski’s family since the death, or offered an apology.
    * No one will be disciplined, because the investigation found no wrongdoing.
    * 30 officers were on shift at the time, but no one could find Dziekanski when a family call came through asking for his whereabouts, because they assumed he would be in the secondary investigation area.
    * When the call came, no one checked to see that he had actually passed through primary investigation three hours earlier, even though that information should have been available.
    The report acknowledged the following failures.
    * CBSA lost track of Dziekanski for more than six hours. According to a timeline issued by CBSA, Dziekanski arrived at 3:20 p.m., passed primary inspection at 4:09 p.m. and wasn’t again identified until 10:40 p.m., when he tried to exit the CBSA hall.
    * (when he tried to exit the hall) a CBSA officer advised him he needed to go to secondary, and directed him toward that area (but) Mr. Dziekanski spoke little or no English and a Polish interpreter was not readily available.
    * A call from Dziekanski’s family was made at 7 p.m. to CBSA, but they couldn’t confirm that Dziekanski had made it through primary inspection.
    I suppose the conclusion is the CBSA processes are busted if in spite of the individuals’ best efforts a man died on their watch.
    Here’s the recommendations by the CBSA to remedy the system.
    * more cameras,
    * improved interpreter services
    * the option of more patrols and security checks within the CBSA secure area at Vancouver International Airport.
    * people referred for further examinations will report to the secondary examination area within a “reasonable amount of time,”
    * stepped-up patrols and better communication between travellers and those awaiting their arrival.
    http://justice4robertd.blogspot.com/

  40. “IN retrospect, it was not a good idea to have left his pistol at home.*”
    “the blogger wrote a piece saying that police officers should not be armed with handguns.**”
    …-
    Times | France stunned by rioters’ savagery
    *IN retrospect, it was not a good idea to have left his pistol at home. Called to the scene of a traffic accident in the Paris suburbs last Sunday, Jean-François Illy, a regional police chief, came face to face with a mob of immigrant youths armed with baseball bats, iron bars and shotguns. …-
    (jack’s newswatch)
    Pomo Christian | A Truly Dumb Idea
    I read what is, quite frankly, the most shockingly dumb idea on a fellow BT blog today. Now, I’m sure the gentleman involved isn’t stupid, but his idea sure is.
    In reacting to the taser death in Vancouver, **the blogger wrote a piece saying that police officers should not be armed with handguns. Now, …-
    (jack’s newswatch)

  42. If a spring election is called, will the Conservatives achieve a majority government?
    Yes
    56%
    No, but they will keep a minority government
    36%
    No, they will lose
    8%
    Total Votes for this Question: 529
    Past CNEWS poll results

  43. If a spring election is called, will the Conservatives achieve a majority government?
    Yes
    57%
    No, but they will keep a minority government
    36%
    No, they will lose
    8%
    Total Votes for this Question: 552
    Past CNEWS poll results

  44. Well — last week I was calling for deportation of Schreiber, but after seeing him in the hearing last week and viewing the pants picture, I’ve become a fan. I’m starting to like someone who can manipulate the political “elite” and thumb his nose at a system that is rife with injustice anyway. Who is hauling Chretien into court for screwing that guy at the Business Development Bank and putting out untendered contracts? Mr. Schreiber was just looking after his interests — they all were — but suddenly it is only Mr. Schreiber who gets handcuffed and his belt taken away. I am beginning to think he is a rather endearing character. Of course he was operating on the in the greyer regions of legality, but what I think is interesting is to ask how much worse his actions were than those of many others. He might have been doing some “paying off”, but what about all those unknowns who were accepting payoffs. I think I now ant to keep Mr. Schreiber around. He promises to be amusing for quite some time.

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