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  1. Mr. Goreacle, failed Democrat : If youall will stop telling lies about CO2, we will stop telling the truth* about CO2 and youall.
    …-
    Gore: Scientists Disagreeing with Climate Alarmism Tied to Big Oil
    As NewsBusters reported Thursday, over 400 scientists in 2007 “voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming.”
    Predictably, Nobel Laureate Al Gore dismissed this historic Senate report by stating through a representative that some of these esteemed scientists from around the world have connections to Big Oil, and, therefore, their opinions should be ignored.
    Pretty amazing coming from a man that likely has made what some estimate is $100 million in the past seven years selling this canard to the public, wouldn’t you agree? …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2hs9ar (newsbusters
    (H/T Adlai Stevenson, failed Democrat)

  2. Light reading for a cold weekend.
    The Failed State of Palestine
    Michael Eisenstadt, director of the Military and Security Studies Program at The Washington Institute, has produced a lengthy Policy Focus Paper entitled “The Palestinians: Between State Failure and Civil War.”
    Eisenstadt writes that the Palestinian Authority has “largely functioned as a de facto state since its creation in 1994” and now “displays many of the traits of a failed state:”

    On the eve of the Hamas takeover of Gaza, the PA was no longer able (and in some respects, it never was able) to fulfill the most important functions of a state: to provide for the welfare and security of its people. The clearest signs of the weakness of the PA were what Palestinians referred to as “the four Fs”: fawda (chaos), fitna (strife), falatan (lawlessness), and fassad (corruption).

    None of the four “Fs” were caused by Israel.
    [Hmm. 4F — doesn’t that mean “medically unfit for military or naval service”? Maybe that’s why they stick to rocket attacks and terrorism.]
    The full report from Eisenstadt is available here:
    http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC04.php?CID=285
    Worth reading in its entirety.

  3. Another poll gone terribly wrong.
    G&M
    Do you think the Government should make spanking of children illegal?
    YES- 15%
    NO- 85%

  4. Re: Levant, comments policy change.
    Here we can see that even a highly trained legal mind can easily confuse the true meaning of “rights” in this entitlement world we live it.
    My summary:
    We have a natural right to free speech but there is no accompanying right to be heard or to be listened to.
    I like the graffiti analogy!

  5. Greetings!
    To My few Liberal/NDP Friends:
    Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make our country great. Not to imply that Canada is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only free country in the Western Hemisphere. Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wished.
    To My Conservative Friends:
    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

  9. Quebec politicians don’t have to take money in brown envelopes, they just ask for the money openly. In fact, they don’t even have to ask for it, it just pours it.
    So what’s happening with John Edwards – has anyone besides the National Enquirer and Ann Coulter picked up this story about a supposed adultery and pregnant aide? I believe it is Newsweek that has Edwards on its cover this week – bad timing.

  10. The end result of Liberal AdScam-Martin’s regime: murderous Muslims, to wit, Mohamed Hagi Mohamud, preying on Canadians.
    The last paragraph consists of one sentence:
    “”He’s afraid of violence,” Ms. Schrack said.”
    Irony of ironies.
    …-
    Paroled violent criminal held for deportation in B.C.
    VANCOUVER — Violent and predatory, refugee Mohamed Hagi Mohamud was never apprehended by Canadian immigration authorities, despite committing a series of crimes, each serious enough for deportation. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/22f8w2 (g-m)

  12. @a different Bob (9:09 AM):
    I don’t know if they’re available yet. Actually, Kate would know better than me, because she’s in the province and I’m in Ontario.
    You can try the “General Inquiries” contact E-mail of the SLGA, linked to from this webpage, if you want to give it a “shot.”
    If you get a non-answer, you might have something to call Premier Wall’s attention to. (You could try comparing the SLGA to the LCB of Ontar-air-io if you like.)

  13. Taliban Jack Layton-NDP’s campaign song/motto/slogan: Stasi* As We Go; a Jackboot in every face.
    …-
    Former NDP candidate Francis Chartrand wanted Canada to be more like Venezuela or East Germany
    Francis Chartrand was the former NDP candidate for Riviere-des-Mille-Iles in Quebec. He was dumped as the candidate, and I posted on the shifting story as it appeared on his blog. Well, guess what. It has shifted yet again!
    Fed up with this nonsense, I did a post-by-post walkthrough of his blog. And boy, would he have made one find candidate for the NDP! Nothing like having one of your candidates demanding the nationalization of everything and espousing an East German model for Canada to follow. […]
    In any case, that means there are only two places right now where you can read about Francis Chartrand’s opinions about where Canada needed to go. One is Francis Chartrand’s entry for November 17, 2006, and the other is here on my blog.
    I have a feeling that by this time tomorrow, it will only be on this blog.
    And let’s highlight Chartrand’s view of where the NDP ought to be taking Canada: …-
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/250020.php
    (*Ministerium für Staatssicherheit)

  14. Regarding “The Earth Is Not Flat:” Has anyone here read the book When Prophecy Fails? I meant to while still in university, but didn’t get around to it. From what I remember, it should shed a certain light on the AGW crowd now that their self-confidence is being pinked by later/more detailed findings.

  15. maz2:
    Yes, just what we need is the STASI.
    They were just delightful in 1977 and didn’t get any better in 1986.
    The further that East Germany (DDR) recedes into the rear view mirror the better.
    One has to be completely mindless to bring back every 50th citizen as a STASI informant.
    Maybe go back a little further to the Geheime Staats Polizei (Gestapo)?
    Truly madness and haven’t learned a damned thing.
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP
    Commander in Chief
    Frankenstein Battalion
    2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
    Knecht Rupprecht Division
    Hans Corps
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  17. Citoyen Dion rejects, ejects Blair Who?
    It’s da Liberal values wot done Wilson in, to wit, being caught out. The euphemism, “election campaign misspending”, is da Liberal AdScam values of AdScam Citoyen Dion.
    Any reports in MSM?
    …-
    The Blair Wilson Project
    On October 29, parliamentarian Blair Wilson resigned from the federal Liberal caucus admist allegations of election campaign misspending. And now Public Eye has learned he won’t be running for the party in the next election either. In an interview, federal Liberal communications director Elizabeth Whiting stated, “As you know, there was a comprehensive review that was done by the Liberal Party of Canada’s British Columbia’s green light committee. After that, the leader consulted with the British Columbia and the national campaign co-chairs of the party and has determined that Mr. Wilson will not be the candidate for us in the next election.” …-
    http://www.publiceyeonline.com/archives/002774.html

  18. Neil*s, [3:5} predictions for 2008
    1. AGW will be completely debunked [agreed! ]
    2. SEC will launch investigations into carbon credit companies. [ later, but very likely.]
    3. Screwzuki will scramble and say he was all about pollution, not CO2 [ I can see it now. Just as I also predicted.]
    4. Dion will retire from politics for personal reasons and spend more time with his dog, Kyoto [true]
    5. Bob Rae will become the new Liberal leader.
    [ Bob could charm Karl to go back to Germany. Why the silly Liberals missed Rae as their best hope, I*ll never understand.]
    6. Izzy will then join Dion in political retirement [Whoa, Izzy likes big easy buck$.]
    7. The CPC government will fall due to a vote counting error by the Liberals (not enough CPC members in the House at the time of the vote) [ Iffy ]
    8. Fall election – CPC/SH victory and CPC majority government – Libs decimated in Quebec [ Looks good to me. ]
    At least 6 out of 8. Good thinking Neil.= TG

  19. MSM buries the Orchard-Citoyen Dion feud in this report. It’s a clever ploy by the MSM.
    Orchard offered the apples of discord/poison/support to Citoyen Dion at the Liberal leadership convention; Citoyen Dion bit/masticated the rotten green apples full of worms proffered by Orchard. Now, a year later, Dion swallows, worms and all.
    Read also the Dionglish. …-
    “Four federal byelections offer Dion chance to solidify leadership” […]
    “Orchard’s supporters have begun an e-mail campaign, warning Dion that the Saskatchewan farmer’s effective and loyal network of organizers will withdraw their services across the country if Orchard isn’t treated fairly.
    “David Orchard has supporters across Canada – people who are prepared to support their local Liberal candidate based, frankly, on supporting David Orchard in supporting you and the Liberal party,” reads one e-mail to Dion obtained by The Canadian Press.
    “Those candidates may lose strong and active supporters should Mr. Orchard be treated with less than full respect in this matter.”
    While Dion still wants Orchard to run for the Liberals, insiders say that doesn’t necessarily mean Desnethe is the only possible riding.
    Dion himself dodged questions about the dispute, saying only: “When we’ll be ready to announce a candidate, it will be a very good announcement and we’ll be a united party behind the candidate.”” …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2czxuv (canoe news)

  20. Poor Davie Orchard, just can’t get a break in politics. He should have a chat with Garth Turner.
    Talk about all-time losers……

  21. BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Australian Prime Minister Paul Rudd paid a surprise visit to Baghdad Friday, and vowed again that his country’s troops in Iraq will be withdrawn by mid-2008.
    Keep waiting for CNN to get the Australian Prime Minister’s first name right. On the “crawl” and their web site they keep referring to him as Paul.

  23. I just received an email Christmas Greetings from the Prime Minister with an absolutely delightful photo of the PM with his beautiful young family.
    Here is a link also to his on line greetings:
    http://pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=1942
    Not sure the photo of him and the family are on this page. Once again, in all my years this is the first time I have been so absolutely proud of the leader of my country. That goes back to Diefenbaker. I was disgusted with Trudeau as his amoral communist ideals were ballyhooed around the world making us seem like a backward Cuba wanna bes, (Uncle Castro is still the hero of the Trudeau boys)
    I ripped up my PC card with Clark and Mulroney , and Chretien was the laughingstock of every single international conference where he was like the stupid bufoon rich uncle who everybody put up with but laughed at behind his back. Martin-well, it was the international community that nicknamed him Mr. Dithers. Nuff said.
    I am so proud of PM Harper. He is a wonderful role model and is in this job for all of the right reasons.
    So, Marry Christmas to a leader that we can all be proud of.

  24. TG @ 6:33PM – Thanks TG. On Izzy, I should have elaborated – he goes into political retirement but takes a position at the UN, doing the same thing as every other UN bureaucrat – nothing (except lining his own pockets).

  25. Speaking of Izzy – if he become Liberal leader or heaven help us PM will his wife have to become a Canadian citizen?

  27. Yeah – I call him Izzy because it seems to fit him better – he looks like a lizard in a lot of his photos. I’m always waiting to see if his tongue comes out and flicks around.

  28. We honour Guru Nanak Dev Ji. Why not Jesus?
    Terry O’neill, National Post
    Published: Friday, December 14, 2007
    Gordon Campbell, the Premier of British Columbia, traveled to the centre of the province’s fast-growing Fraser Valley in mid-November to announce that the main entrance to the $355-million Abbotsford Hospital and Cancer Centre, which is scheduled to open next spring, will be named in honour of the founder of Christianity.
    “The naming of the hospital entrance after Jesus Christ is an enduring tribute to the commitment of the Christian community to health care,” the premier said to enthusiastic applause. “From now on, everyone entering through the Jesus Christ Main Entrance will be reminded of the many community-minded Christians who helped make this great new facility possible.”
    Regional officials confirmed that members of the Christian community in Abbotsford, which is in the heart of B.C.’s so-called “Bible Belt,” comprise a large percentage of donors to the hospital foundation.
    Missed hearing about this, did you? Well, there’s a reason: the event did not actually occur.
    But one very much like it did, in fact, take place on Nov. 15. That’s when Premier Campbell went to Surrey, not Abbotsford, to tell health officials and members of the public that the entrance to a new state of the art emergency and urgent-care facility at Surrey Memorial Hospital would be named in honour of the founder of Sikhism, a religion that has many adherents in the Vancouver suburb — adherents that are also renowned for their political clout.
    Here are the premier’s actual words: “The naming of the entrance to the Surrey Memorial Hospital’s new emergency centre after Guru Nanak Dev Ji is a fitting and lasting tribute to the dedication of the South Asian community
    to health care in this region.”
    If the announcement doesn’t ring a bell, it’s because the event received virtually no media play in Vancouver, let alone across the country. Similarly, very little has been said or written about the fact that authorities have also named the new emergency department at the William Osler Health Centre in Brampton, Ont., after Guru Nanak.
    Of course, had Campbell made the fictitious “Jesus Christ” announcement, we
    could have expected to see a crack CBC investigative team descend on the premier’s office, and scandalized critics from coast to coast raising a hue and cry over Campbell’s trampling of the principle of separation of church and state. But honour the peace-loving, charitable founder of Sikhism and opinion leaders in the best newsrooms apparently think it’s no more interesting than Campbell’s kissing a baby or cutting a ribbon.
    Funny thing, then: The issue of church-state separation seems to arise only when the “church” involved is a Christian one.
    Remember, for example, when Catholic officials voiced concerns over gay marriage in 2005? Then-foreign affairs minister Pierre Pettigrew essentially told them to shut up, famously opining, “I find that the separation of the church and state is one of the most beautiful inventions of modern times.”
    Similarly, humanists have been railing for years against some municipal councils in Ontario and Quebec for their practice of saying The Lord’s Prayer before meetings.
    All such criticism seems to be based on the presumption that the concept of separation of church and state is strongly rooted in Canadian law and tradition. In fact, no such foundation exists. As became clear in the recent Ontario election, during which the province’s constitutionally entrenched funding of a separate Catholic school system was discussed, Canada has no U.S.-style “wall” separating church and state.
    And so there’s no good reason why Premier Campbell shouldn’t have named that emergency entrance after Guru Nanak, who by all accounts was a magnificent fellow.
    Furthermore, by the same logic, there’s also no good reason why Campbell’s B.C. Liberal government can’t name the front door at that new Abbotsford hospital (which really is being built) after Jesus Christ. But don’t hold your breath.
    -Terry O’Neill is a Vancouver editor and writer
    oneills@telus.net

  30. :
    regarding post by: Lorraine at December 21, 2007 10:31 PM
    I have always been glad Mr Harper is PM but you have now twisted my thinking to being REALLY glad. Never looked at it your way. Thanks for the twist.
    :

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