102 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. So what’s behind the violence in Kenya? No, say it ain’t so:
    “It’s been hard to escape the news of the horrific atrocities coming out of Kenya. Just this past weekend, children were torched, burnt alive in a Kenya church. In broad daylight, a crowd of Kenyans set a church filled with hundreds of terrified families on fire and listened to their screams as flames engulfed them.
    The violence is the worst Kenya has witnessed since a failed coup in 1982. The media has been, shall we say obtuse, in describing the combatants, the murderers – what exactly is at play.
    Dr. Jack Wheeler at To the Point News lays it out for us and outlines a brilliant strategy for Obama, a Moslem in his youth with strong ties to Islam and that region. Interesting that Obama should sidle up to the agitator aligned with Islam.
    Of course, Wheeler’s bold strategy is way over Obama Hussein’s head. Don’t expect any such “action” from the actionless but the story behind the Kenya bloodbaths leads to of all places …………….. Islam. Kenya’s Muslim population is roughly 10% – that historical tipping point where the Muslims traditionally assert themselves and their Islamic law (sharia) on the poor, unsuspecting host country.
    For it is the unique nexus of bloody violence between tribes – Kikuyu and Luo – and religions – Christianity and Islam – unraveling Kenya right now that gives Obama his opportunity. After all, his father, Barrack Hussein Obama Senior, was Luo and a Moslem.
    When Raila Odinga lost the presidential election last week (12/27) to Mwai Kibaki, he claimed the vote was rigged, whereupon his tribal followers went on murderous rampages such as in the town of Eldoret, where on New Years Day dozens of people were burned to death in a church set on fire.
    Throughout Kenya, hundreds of people have been politically murdered in the last few days.
    The Evangelical Alliance of Kenya has posted on its website a photograph copy of a Memorandum of Understanding, dated and signed on August 29, 2007, between Raila Odinga and Shiekh Abdullah Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum of Kenya.
    It pledges the support of Kenyan Moslems for Raila’s election. In return, as President of Kenya, Raila agrees to 14 actions, listed a) through n) on page two. Read them all, and be sure you’re sitting down. Here’s a sample:
    b) Within 6 months re-write the Constitution of Kenya to recognize Shariah as the only true law sanctioned by the Holy Quran for Muslim declared regions.
    c) With immediate effect dismiss the Commissioner of Police who has allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists to oppress the Kenyan Muslim community.
    g) Within one year facilitate the establishment of a Shariah court in every Kenyan divisional headquarters. [Note: everywhere in Kenya, not just in “Muslim declared regions.”]
    And here is the biggest non-surprise: Raila Odinga has, in his own words, a “close personal friendship” with Barrack Hussein Obama Junior.
    When Obama went to Kenya in August of 2006, he was hosted by Raila and spoke in praise of him at rallies in Nairobi.
    http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/01/obama-islam-and.html

  2. I think the ads should be stopped.
    I think the Bilingual patronage appointments to the Boards of government Crown Corps should be stopped. We should sell the CBC, the EDC, BDC , Via Rail , the Post Office with its rediculous Purolator subsidiary.
    We are becoming hypocritical as Conservatives. The only way to be accountable and stop the patronage appointments and the faux need for bilingualism is to get rid of these government entities and privatize them, otherwise we’ll become as corrupt as Liberals.
    If we don’t want to become Liberals we need to do what ET says and start using our reasoning powers and start thinking.
    I haven’t given up on Ted yet , he might be able to save the LPOC which would be good for Conservatives to compete with and therefore good for Canada

  3. A policy platform all western politicians should take up to win votes:
    “Geert Wilders, who compares the Koran to Mein Kampf and wants it banned, has been named the Netherlands’ politician of the year in a poll run by public broadcaster NOS.
    Mr Wilders’ pithy and shocking soundbites – he warned of a “tsunami of Islamisation” – have dominated headlines, while his parliamentary outbursts have brought an adversarial style of politics to the muted consensus to which the Dutch are attuned.”
    MSNBC

  4. Why thank ya nomdeblog.
    You are right, of course, these are obviously political ads and not ads just to inform. It’s not like we’re not going to notice the tax cut and it’s not like we won’t benefit without the taxpayer funded Conservative ads. To think anything else is rather silly or the worst kind of hypocritical partisanship.
    This is unlike the child benefit ads where Canadians were actually provided information. Many Canadian parents were not aware of the process and, while there was a huge partisan benefit, you can justify the need for those ads. There is no need here other than partisan politics.
    And the Liberals were wrong to do it too, when they did it. When I call him The Right Honourable Stephen Brian Jean Harper, that is not just a criticism of the current flip flopping lying petty I-don’t-care-about-Canadians-who-won’t-vote-for-me career politician who serves as our Prime Minister.

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  6. John Robson     on the newly planned self-service medical care in the UK. Cutest quote:
    Britain may seem like just this place where Lord Durham might have been from if he’d had the gall to exist. But actually it has one of those Parliament thingies and is the big powerful country whose cultural influence we used to resent bitterly before moving on to hating the United States. It even pioneered many policy initiatives we later invented, most notably socialized medicine. It is thus highly instructive that their health system, unlike ours, includes dentists and, unlike ours, has a shortage of dentists. Almost as if … nah, can’t be.

  7. I don’t think the information about the GST should be stopped. Why not? Because this is government policy and Canadians need to be informed about it. We all know that if they aren’t informed, the Liberals and NDP will take every opportunity to misinform the public.
    Remember, that the MSM act as ‘ads’ for the Liberals/NDP. [Oh, here comes Ted, with his mechanical rebuttal that the MSM are NOT Liberal but are instead, heavily Conservative!! Ted, remember, the Opposition is not supposed to be a mechanical reaction but is supposed to be able to THINK.]
    So, the MSM are constantly misinforming the public about our current govt and its actions.SDA has often posted this misinformation from the CBC, from the Toronto Star, from CTV, etc. It’s constant.
    So, the facts coming from the govt should NOT be stopped. Not while we have the MSM busy with their constant misinformation ‘ads’ in favour of the Liberals.
    And the constant commentary by Duffy and Newman, with that travesty, Jim Travers, and Gloria Galloway, Jane Tabers, etc, etc – all clearly Liberal, all clearly anxious for an election to Get Rid of The Usurpers and Return the Natural Governing Party to Power. The comments from this set are endless; the misinformation and propaganda are endless. So, the govt has to inform the public of the truth – when faced with this enormous propaganda machine of the MSM.
    As for getting rid of bilingualism, the major part of that Charter, the handmaiden of the Liberals, is to legislate bilingualism. Almost half of the Charter is devoted to it. Individual freedoms? Rubbish – one brief section 2, which is immediately negated by privileging identity politics, privileging group ‘rights’ based on hereditary origin (ethnicity, religion, language, gender)…over any individual.
    So, bilingualism, which is an enormous fraudulent system, a totalitarian act that insists that a population be What It Is Not (bilingual) and what it can never be – remains enshrined within the mythic nonsense of Canadian utopianism. It’s not only the enormous cost to Canadians that is the problem. The real serious problem is its destruction of democracy and its insertion of an oligarchy in place of democracy.
    We are run by a small Set of people, closed to outsiders and newcomers, in the Ottawa-Montreal corridor. They are bilingual from necessity and household use. No individual who laboriously picks up the language after the ‘linguistic learning years of childhood’ is admissable. They are the ones who run our NGO, our banks, our key govt institutions, the CBC, our research funding boards – everything. No-one West of the Ottawa River is readily admissable. That’s what we’ve done to ourselves with bilingualism. By telling ourselves that we can Become What We Are Not, ie bilingual, we’ve set up an oligarchy as our govt.

  8. Linda:
    Maybe it is just an entirely purely huge big politically beneficial coincidence that this is the first meeting of this sort for Harper and the first time that I can remember the PM has decided to just hang out with the Premiers without a meeting agenda established well in advance. Maybe it is.
    Indeed, maybe we should wonder why The Right Honourable Stephen Brian Jean Harper chose January 11th as the date Johnson was to deliver his report.
    But it is all just coincidence, I’m sure.

  9. ET: please provide a single instant where I have in any way said the media is Conservative, let alone heavily Conservative.

  10. Sorry, typo, that should be a single “instance” not “instant”. And I’ll save you some time, ET: don’t bother looking because there is no such example because I’ve never said The Media is conservative, Conservative or heavily Conservative.

  12. Where did the epthet, ‘moonbat’ come from? Also, Bali, Gore and the Marxists:
    George Monbiot, a prominent environmentalist and author said to have been the inspiration for the epithet “moonbat,” coined in 2002 by Perry de Havilland of Samizdata, claims the US has subverted the Bali climate talks to the point of sabotage. His complaints begin with Kyoto, which was negotiated ten years earlier:
    The European Union had asked for greenhouse gas cuts of 15% by 2010. Gore’s team drove them down to 5.2% by 2012. Then the Americans did something worse: they destroyed the whole agreement. Most of the other governments insisted that the cuts be made at home. But Gore demanded a series of loopholes big enough to drive a Hummer through. The rich nations, he said, should be allowed to buy their cuts from other countries. When he won, the protocol created an exuberant global market in fake emissions cuts. The western nations could buy “hot air” from the former Soviet Union.
    Because the cuts were made against emissions in 1990, and because industry in that bloc had subsequently collapsed, the former Soviet Union countries would pass well below the bar. Gore’s scam allowed them to sell the gases they weren’t producing to other nations. He also insisted that rich nations could buy nominal cuts from poor ones. Entrepreneurs in India and China have made billions by building factories whose primary purpose is to produce greenhouse gases, so that carbon traders in the rich world will pay to clean them up.
    Monbiot’s disappointment in the outcome of the climate talks is understandable. CTV reports: “The Bali deal came after all-night negotiations and sets the stage for the negotiation of a new treaty by 2009 to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. No specific targets are included in the document, which is considered to be a ‘roadmap.’ The Bali deal only commits countries to negotiate.” The Australian reports: “The European Union’s attempt to introduce a reference to non-binding targets for developed countries of between 25 and 40 per cent by 2020 was knocked out on Friday following stubborn opposition led by Russia and the US.” What is worse, fear some environmentalists, is that the US might actually have gained a political lever with which to beat the Greens over the head. The Australian article continues:
    The White House statement indicates it will seek to negotiate different terms for poor countries based on the size of their economy and the scale of their emissions — a move that could create a wedge in the Group of 77 bloc of developing countries. “The negotiations must adequately distinguish among developing countries by recognizing that the responsibilities of the smaller or least developed countries are different from the larger, more advanced developing countries,” the US statement said. “In our view, such smaller and less-developed countries are entitled to receive more differentiated treatment so as to more truly reflect their special needs and circumstances.”
    The history of every millennial movement starts out quietly enough. At first only those who have heard voices or received messages by moonbeam come stumbling in through the tent flap. Shortly they are followed by academics who have finally found someone who understands their theories and will popularize them. Then, as the crowd swells, come the curious, lost, desperate, and heartbroken. Soon follow the peddlers who sell peanuts, popcorn, and crackerjacks to the rapt crowd; then the pickpockets, hangers-on, con artists, and small-time grifters. In the latter stages come the political entrepreneurs, demagogues always on the lookout for ready-made crowds ripe for the leading. Finally come the lawyers, regulators, and venture capitalists to turn it all into an industry. Too bad George Monbiot didn’t see which one Al Gore would turn out to be.
    Environmentalism has become the political lifeboat into which the survivors of the socialist shipwreck have crammed themselves. The need to “manage the climate” became the new foundation on which to base regulatory structures, impositions, and taxes which were formerly justified by the imperative to manage the “commanding heights of the economy.” Kyoto was the highest expression of the program to “manage the climate” and provided the same new basis for socialistic policies that Marxism once did. As such, Kyoto was too politically useful to discard. But like its socialist predecessor it suffered from the problem that it wouldn’t work. That weakness would be artfully concealed by superseding it with a successor agreement to be drafted in Bali. But delegates who came to Indonesia already knew that Kyoto’s key weakness was mandating “carbon emission” reductions. Reducing “carbon emissions” really meant reducing economic output in a world where poverty is a major problem. They were caught between the Scylla of having to maintain a commitment to environmentalism and the Charybis of recession. So the politicians and celebrities at Bali driven by the need to keep the circus going and uninhibited by the Green equivalent of a Bolshevik Party did the obvious thing: they created a shell game tricked out as an emissions control scheme. Bali would no more reduce “carbon emissions” than Kyoto did, but it would give the impression of doing so. And that would be enough, wouldn’t it? Monbiot writes:
    Hilary Benn [the UK Secretary of State for Environment] is an idiot. Our diplomats are suckers. American negotiators have pulled the same trick twice, and for the second time our governments have fallen for it. There are still two years to go, but so far the new agreement is even worse than the Kyoto protocol. It contains no targets and no dates. A new set of guidelines also agreed at Bali extend and strengthen the worst of Gore’s trading scams, the clean development mechanism. Benn and the other dupes are cheering and waving their hats as the train leaves the station at last, having failed to notice that it is traveling in the wrong direction.
    But Monbiot is wrong. Nobody has fallen for the pretense that climate negotiations are about anything except bureaucratic enlargement and corruption, other than Monbiot and his like. Benn is cheering and waving his hat as the train leaves the station, but he knows perfectly well in what direction the train is going. It is traveling all the way to the bank. And insofar as the corporate jetsetting crowd that descended on Bali is concerned, that is entirely the right direction in which it should go. The train’s got the public’s money, you say? That’s perfectly true, but then the environmentalists never had any problem with that when they thought the locomotive of history would bear the money their way.
    Richard Fernandez is PJM Sydney editor; he also writes at the Belmont Club.

  13. Well, nomdeblog, I’ve given up on Ted, because he never posts anything other than a diatribe against the CPC and above all, against Harper. It’s endless.
    That’s why I think he needs counselling because a focus like that becomes a fetish, ie, unreasonable.
    Yes, ted, you have informed us frequently that the MSM are not Liberal; that they are Conservative. You have frequently informed us that the MSM are not biased in favour of the Liberals; you frequently inform us that the Sun is ‘Conservative’. You ignore, of course, the CBC, CTV, Global. Bias exists, ted, and it’s Liberal bias. So, don’t try to now say that you haven’t done the above; there are too many posts from you denying Liberal bias in the MSM.
    And your attempt to find a Hidden Agenda in the date of the premier’s meeting is yet another sign of your fetish. Did you know that there are other meetings taking place on that same Friday? And there are quite a few job deadlines on that date. Oh, and there’s a statistics release from the economics dept, the review of fuel resources is due on that data…and…and…
    Your hatred of Harper and the CPC is pathological. It has moved into the realm outside of facts, outside of reason and into the purely subjective and psychological where you posit hidden agendas, nefarious motives, backroom deals. Those are Liberal tactics, ted. I suggest that you need counselling.

  14. Gosh this is an odd state of affairs. I’m agreeing with Ted about the GST ads and disagreeing with ET.
    ET, you are justifying ads because we have uncompetitive media. Then we should walk the talk and fix that problem not put a bandaid on it with our own ads.
    The CBC has an enormous multiplier impact on Canadian News. Akin to the Democrats de facto propaganda outlet The NewYork Times. But the NYT has lost billions in market capitalization and now it has had to react (I suspect their major shareholder Morgan Stanley told them to get some diversity of thought). Therefore the NYT has hired “neo-con” Bill Crystal to bring some balance along with David Brooks.
    But other than Rex Murphy there is not a soul on the CBC management that has ever voted Conservative. The CBC is the only entity left in Canada to have big enough budgets to fund global news. Therefore everybody else just takes the CBC headlines and put them into a sausage grinder,they add some spice and sell it as new news.
    Bottom line: if we have to buy advertising to get Parliamentary policy out accurately (and I agree it is a huge problem) then let’s fix that problem by breaking up the CBC and making sure we have competitive broadcasting in Canada. A nice side-benefit would be to get rid of all the sepratists in Radio-Canada.

  15. If it is so frequent, ET, please find a single example – “a single” means just one, ET – of me writing that “The Media” is Conservative. I’m just asking for evidence to back your opinion, ET.
    If you didn’t have such a horrible reading comprehension problem, you would realize that I’ve never made such a claim. You see, ET, as most logical people with average reading comprehension would understand, by saying that “The Media” is not 90% biased in favour of the Liberals as you claim, I am not saying that the reverse is true. Typical of you to just make up facts to serve your purposes (like here, for another recent example: http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/007749.html#c227516)
    Ah, well, your obsession with me personally is sad and has obviously infected your ability to read and comprehend. ET, to paraphrase you, your constant malicious comments against anything I write suggests that you have a psychological problem. It has moved out of any reliance on factual or rational evidence; your posts are automatically malicious. I suggest counselling.

  16. TED, do you consider the appearance of Bob Rae on cbc, as a spokesman for various topics, to be unfair campaigning for the by-election.
    Shouldn’t those appearances be considered ads.

  17. Ted, wondering where to find bias in the media ?
    Left side of sda homepage. A few days/weeks work but there you will find a storehouse of information. Incriminating evidence that may well, someday, put an end to media propaganda.
    Afraid of a little work, Ted ?
    Oh, and you may also find your claims of Conservative media bias there too, lol.

  18. ET
    It is hopeless to try to reason with Ted (Scott Reid??) he is just another brain dead/washed $$Librano that must have been taken off the gravy train!

  19. The CBC or the BDC or the Post Office should only be doing what no other commercial entity is capable of doing.
    Let’s have a bi-partisan Parliamentary produce a list of what all these Crown Corps are doing that can’t be done elsewhere. Then publish it and have creative commercial bids come in that would perhaps take on some of these tasks. Maybe only half could be privatized. But that would cut down on 50% of the patronage appointments and 50% of the conflict of interest scenarios that the CBC finds themselves in … such as what MaryT mentions with Bob Rae.
    Then if CTV wants to hire Bob Rae, well, that’s their business ,they’ll simply drive about 40% of their viewers away.

  20. Al Gore honed his skills {sic} at Kennebunkport.
    [Gore’s book, “Earth in the Balance,” gave credence to such environmental hoaxes as blind sheep and rabbits in the Antarctica, supposedly caused by increased levels of the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation as a result of ozone depletion.] Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen
    Gore fear-mongered over the Ozone whole, told lies, got away with it and no one took him to task, when 20 years latter it is, well, not a calamity after all.
    [So what do we know now ? As far as ozone depletion is concerned, the thinning of the ozone layer that occurred throughout the 1980s apparently stopped in the early 1990s, too soon to credit the Montreal Protocol. A 1998 World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report said that, “since 1991, the linear [downward] trend observed during the 1980s has not continued, but rather total column ozone has been almost constant …” However, the same report noted that the stratospheric concentrations of the offending compounds were still increasing through 1998. This lends credence to the skeptical view, widely derided at the time of the Montreal Protocol, that natural variations better explain the fluctuations in the global ozone layer.] Ben Lieberman, Sept 14 2007
    Fooled once, shame on him. Fooled twice, shame on you.
    I bet even Big Al did not, in his wildest dreams think he would make a cool $100 Million. Will he get to keep it ?
    Oh, and who do you think one of the Skeptics at the Montreal Protocol meeting might have been ? You got it, Tim Ball. He was literaly run out of town — for crashing the party.

  21. To the letter, Ted, you’ve not said that the media are (it’s plural, people, the plural of “medium”) conservative. However, in this very thread,
    “No one ever said this government wasn’t clever at hiding from bad news. But perhaps too clever by half? Don’t expect the Conservative pliant media to pick up on this, though.”
    Posted by: Ted at January 4, 2008 10:14 AM

  22. nomdeblog – do you seriously think that anyone is going to privatize and clean up the CBC? Just because it’s the right thing to do, just because it’s the functional thing to do, doesn’t mean that our govt has the capacity to do it. It would take not merely a majority govt, but a long campaign against them and their union to achieve it.
    The CBC, remember, as a public institution, is also run by members of the public unions. They are extremely powerful in socialist Canada.
    nomdeblog – until we actually ‘fix’ the CBC (and CTV and Global and Jim Travers and Gloria Galloway and Jane Tabers and Mike Duffy and…)..how do you suggest that we deal with the current situation? Not the ideal situation but the current situation which is that the current govt cannot ‘fix’ the CBC, cannot ‘fix’ the current MSM. How does it deal, now, given this reality, with such a vast propaganda machinery that spews out endless misinformation to the public?
    And remember, nomdeblog, that the USA has other MSM besides the ‘leftist’ ones. It has Fox, it has the Washington Times, it has others. The USA both enables and permits dissent and debate. Canada doesn’t. We deal with dissent by the HRC, and by having a CRTC, by having a public news agency (CBC) and by our cultural relativism.
    Oh, for heaven’s sake, ted, stop behaving like a machine and parroting others (eg, me). Write your own posts.
    And check your own posts; you’ll see how you reject any claim of bias in the MSM; you reject any notion of Liberal bias. You inform us, for example, that the SUN is ‘Conservative’; even that the G&M is ‘conservative’. Check you own posts. And don’t behave like a machine; write your own posts; don’t copy others.

  23. Oops, should be “Ted, you’ve not said that the media are conservative that I’ve seen“.

  24. Reading comprehension is your friend, ET. Try it sometime.
    I have never said there is no bias. That is just pure fabrication by you. I have never said “The Media” is Conservative. That is just pure fabrication by you. I have also never said that the Globe is conservative or Conservative. Again, that is just pure fabrication by you.
    I have said you can find liberal and Liberal bias in lots of articles. I have said you can find lots of examples every single day of articles that are favourable to the Conservatives. I have said that I don’t know if, on balance, it is 50:50 or 60:40, but it sure ain’t 90:10 as you claim. I have said that “The Media”, even if you want to say it is liberal, has been just as attacking of the Liberals as the Conservatives, especially when they were in government. I have said that any idiot who claims that “The Media” is 90% against the Conservatives is looking at the Toronto Star and the CBC ONLY.
    Does your obsession with me and my comments know any bounds, ET? Your constant malicious comments against anything I write suggests that you have a DEEP psychological problem. It has moved out of any reliance on factual or rational evidence as I’ve just shown; your posts are automatically malicious. You should stop behaving like a machine and automatically attacking. Trying reading comments first.
    I sincerely suggest counselling.

  25. ET “nomdeblog – do you seriously think that anyone is going to privatize and clean up the CBC? Just because it’s the right thing to do, just because it’s the functional thing to do,”
    Kinda like the difference between Clinton saying in 1998 “we have to take out Saddam as soon as we can” and 5 years later Bush actually taking Saddam out? Or Ted not commenting at all on this and sticking to the emotional?
    Yes, I’m saying we need to stop behaving like right wing utopians and walk the talk.
    I think when this comes up in Parliament and we hear the opposition screaming about the ads, then Peter van Loan (or whoever) should retort with what you said, “We have to do it because we can’t get the message out any other way because there is a lack of diversity in Canadian media.”
    Then we play ping pong for a few days with this in Parliament and eventually pounce with “we need to take a page from Paul Martin’s many brilliant observations, one of them being, the government should not be doing what an entity in the Yellow Pages can do. Therefore we have decided to form a Parliamentary Committee to look into justifying why any Crown Corp exists.”
    Will there be howling from unions? Sure. But most Canadains don’t belong to one and are getting upset with the Government union job security and benefits they don’t have. Finally, if in Iowa they can beat back the establishment, then we should have the courage to also at least try.
    Meanwhile ET, I concede to you that we need the ads at the moment but that we have a duty to explain to Canadians why we are doing it and why we don’t think that practice is a good idea long run and how we will try to fix it.

  26. GST:
    Sorry if this is redundant but let’s remember that merchants — involuntary, unpaid tax-collectors — are required to collect the GST. The GST cut announcements are essential because most people don’t follow budgets and those that do often forget the content especially when a new rule comes into effect many months later. Merchats DO receive notifications but when you consider the sheer blizzard of envelopes emanting from the myriad government departments — municipal, provincial, federal — it is easy to loose these in the shuffle.
    The announcements are a matter of public record and serve to notify the army of merchants and service providers of the reduction AND consumers of same so they can check their receipts. I vividly recall paying 7% GST at a restaurant a few weeks after it had been dropped to 6%. I politely reminded the merchant he needed to re-programme his point-of-sale software.
    nomdeblog: Amazed you’d seriously suggest that the Conservatives should help the Liberals select a good leader. To use penny’s delightful line: “Are you a young person?”.

  27. I don’t think, nomdeblog, that we have as strong a grassroots population of individualists as in the USA. Remember, the very basis of the USA is freedom of speech and action, while in Canada, we reject such freedom and subsume it within the constraints of group homogeneities.
    We have the HRC, which roots out free speech and insists on deference to group based beliefs and behaviour. We don’t have many, if any, publications that present debate, dissent, discussions. Indeed, even in Parliament, the Opposition Party totally misunderstands its role and behaves like a machine and simply opposes any and everything the govt proposes. Without critical analysis, without thought.
    So, I fully agree that we have to open up the argument to get rid of public systems such as the CBC, Via Rail and so on. As soon as possible. But, I’m sceptical whether Canadians, at least in Ontario and Quebec, can handle such independence of mind and action!
    Ted, I know that you can’t handle independence of mind and action; that’s why you are copying my posts. That’s the Liberal mode!
    But, ted, you are doing your usual equivocation and slithering. The point is, ted, that there IS bias in our MSM; that this bias IS predominantly Liberal. And equivocating whether it is 90% or 95% or 85% is your usual slithering tactic. Stick to the basics – that the Canadian MSM is heavily biased in favour of your favourite party, the Liberals.

  28. MND “nomdeblog: Amazed you’d seriously suggest that the Conservatives should help the Liberals select a good leader. To use penny’s delightful line: “Are you a young person?”.
    Not young , maybe not wise either? BUT this is like in business; there’s no worse competition than stupid competition.
    Also think about how much better the GOP would be if they had straonger competition than idiots like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid? Now Hilary.
    But the LPOC does need a John Manley or his common sense ilk and maybe that’s what Harper is trying to do, allow Manley a chance to come back so that we have some real debate in Parliament instead of the childish antics of Pancho Villa ( spelling ?) who needs help from the CBC to ask a question.

  29. al Qaeda is spoiling our fun and must be crushed!
    Dakar rally canceled
    By Mac Morrison | 01/04/08, 10:27 am et
    The organizer of the annual Dakar Rally has canceled this year’s event–planned to start on Saturday and run to Jan. 20–due to fears regarding safety after terrorist actions and threats against the rally.
    Three men believed to be linked to Al Qaeda killed four French tourists in Mauritania in Africa on Dec. 24. The rally was set to spend eight days in Mauritania, and organizer ASO feared it would be unable to guarantee the safety of participants and others involved in the nearly 6000-mile trek.
    The cancellation is the first in the rally’s 30 years. The ASO says future Dakar events are not at risk.
    **Based on the current international political tension and the murder of four French tourists [on] Dec. 24 linked to a branch of Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb, but also and mainly the…
    http://tinyurl.com/2uhuc8
    =========================== AutoWeek
    = TG

  30. I suppose I should be flattered with your obsession over me, ET, but with your habit of inventing facts (and in particular fabricating things I’ve said), I think your obsession is a bit fanatical and tiresome. Let go of the obsession, ET; you’ll feel better about yourself and it’s a first step on the long road to recovery. Twice weekly counselling may also help.

  32. Canadian Juniors leading 4-1 over Americans with 2 1/2 minutes to go in the 3rd!!!!!!!!!!!

  33. 1998 was a crucial year for the AGWarmites; however, the crucialist year was 1934. Met Office (UK) repeats the Big Lie.
    …-
    2008 forecasted to be among hottest years on record
    […]
    “although the Met Office said would be unlikely to beat the current warmest year of 1998, which was 0.94 degrees above the long-term average.” …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2unlrs (ctv)

  34. I must apologize to Vitruvius. He is right, this is the eighth year of the third millenium. I must stop posting at four-thirty in the morning. Y2K sill remains a scam.

  35. No, the announcement of the GST tax cut is not an advertisement for the CPC; it’s an informational announcement of this gov’t. Would you prefer silence about the govt’s actions, because to announce anything, in your mind ted, is equivalent to an advertisement for a political party.
    I got mail when Martin cut taxes,

  36. Egghead “expert” is a worshipper/adherent of the religion/cult of Science; egghead damns the heretic; consigns Huck to the trash bin.
    Egghead says he has the Archangel Logic on his side. It’s the same Logic used to “prove” AGW/Big Tobacco Bad.
    …-
    US ‘doomed’ if creationist [Huckabee] president elected: scientists
    […]
    ” “The logic that convinces us that evolution is a fact is the same logic we use to say smoking is hazardous to your health or we have serious energy policy issues because of global warming,” University of Michigan professor Gilbert Omenn told reporters at the launch of a book on evolution by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).”
    “I would worry that a president who didn’t believe in the evolution arguments wouldn’t believe in those other arguments either. This is a way of leading our country to ruin,” added Omenn, who was part of a panel of experts at the launch of “Science, Evolution and Creationism.” …-
    http://tinyurl.com/yt8vux (breitbart)

  38. New sunspot marks the start of a new, 11-year solar cycle
    WASHINGTON – A new solar cycle is under way.
    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says that the first sunspot of a new 11-year cycle has appeared in the sun’s northern hemisphere. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2uophy (canoenews)…-
    Read the sunspots
    The mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change – and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling.
    […]
    ” … we need to continue research into this, the most complex field of science ever tackled, and immediately halt wasted expenditures on the King Canute-like task of “stopping climate change.”
    R. Timothy Patterson is professor and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University.
    http://tinyurl.com/2xjwma (finpost)

  39. Maz2 … “experts at the launch of “Science, Evolution and Creationism.”
    I’ve now heard that the same experts at the CBC that were called upon to plant questions on Stock Day will now plant a question for Regis Philpin to ask the Incredible Huck. And for $64,000 the question is “ which way does the Niagara River run?”
    Obviously anyone that doesn’t know that isn’t fit to look into Social Security because they are directly related.

  43. CBC drops its what?
    BTW, NatPost/CanWest ran a full page colour ad today on behalf of CBC. Cost to you? Would CBC ombudsman give Canadian taxpayers the cost? Why is CBC advertising in the print media? It’s a scratch your back/my back relationship between the CBC and the MSM.
    It’s AdScam, 2008 version, by the Liberal CBC/CanWest.
    The winner is CanWest. The losers? …-
    CBS Drops Its Ombudsman
    CBS News, which set up the website Public Eye in 2005 “to bring transparency to the editorial operations of CBS News,” is shutting the site down, according to the TVNewser website. There have been no new postings on the site since shortly after editor Matthew Felling was abruptly let go last month. A spokesperson for CBS Interactive told TVNewser, “We weren’t able to find a sustainable business model for Public Eye. We are exploring ways to maintain a similar spirit of public discourse by engaging the CBSNews.com audience and building a community around multiple voices.” Kevin Roderick, who oversees the L.A. Observed website, commented, “It’s sad to see a project begun with such excitement (and such a budget, oy — there were THREE editors at one time!) come to such a quiet and unlamented end, without even time for a whimper.” …-
    http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2008-01-04/
    (scroll down)

  46. Maz2,
    Diverted my attention with *CBS drops the Ombudsman* and so going over to the imdb.com/news, I stumbled onto destruction of some of the internet by a clumsy Jack Black and his request for help in rebuilding same.
    http://bekindmovie.com./submit.html
    To fix things, you get some stuff together and make a YouTube type video, then upload it to relace damaged net content.
    It*s called sweding..
    =========== Bekindmovie.com
    = TG

  48. PS,
    When you go over to BeKindMovie.com and menu to the trailer cubes on the right, the bottom right selection is an entire French movie called *La Lettre. = TG

  49. I guess “let there be light” has it shining through one ear and out the other. Runciman is a provincial politician and has no input to the federal Young Offenders Act.
    Note that the federal Liberals constantly attack any attempt to toughen this weak, stupid act which was of their design. If Toronto wants to actively pursue and punish these murderers they will have to stop mindlessly voting Liberal!

  50. BNG, it is too awful for words!
    Is there anyone who can sit in on the court date Feb 7th, 9:30 AM Camrose, AB?
    This needs attention in so many ways!

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