83 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. Irwin,
    I took the liberty of giving your Muslim policy piece a reference point.
    http://bendgovt.blog.ca/
    It can be a useful item for anyone here who may wish to use it to enlighten * non-believers*.
    If you a see a flaw, [ our personal exposure, or something], I will promptly remove it on your say so.
    I think it*s excellent exposure. = TG

  3. Climate Change Blamed for First Baghdad Snows in 100 Years
    Add another item to the growing list of things caused by the liberal bogeyman known as global warming:
    SNOW!!!
    For those thinking NewsBusters has fallen prey to a satire, think again, as the following was hysterically logged by Agence France-Presse moments ago {…]
    The director of the meteorology department, Dawood Shakir, told AFP that climate change was possibly to blame for the unusual event.
    “It’s very rare,” he said. “Baghdad has never seen snow falling in living memory.
    “These snowfalls are linked to the climate change that is happening everywhere. We are finding some places in the world which are warm and are supposed to be cold.” …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2945js (newsbusters)

  4. Ted, I have been impressed in the past by some of your past contributions.
    You actually sounded like a reasonable person.
    However your ‘the CPC is in power now and Chalk River is all their fault’, shows that you know nothing and understand even less about the logistics of building, remodelling, or running a nuclear plant of any sort.
    You clearly think that its like walking into Home Depot and buying a few boards, hammers and nails and just putting them together within two months.
    Your remarkable ignorance is exactly why the Liberals should never be allowed any where near the Halls of Power again.

  5. TG,
    The investigation and article should be attributed to front page magazine:
    frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=4793D07C-A7AE-439F-8B9E-54F345BF6F77
    I only added some comments.

  7. Mark Steyn had a posting at The Corner this afternoon with this link catching my eye. Ezra Levant of the Western Standard is before the CHRC today defending himself for publishing the Mohammed cartoons:
    Today at 2 p.m. I will appear before an Alberta “human rights officer” for an interrogation. I am being interrogated for the political crime of publishing the Danish cartoons in the Western Standard nearly two years ago.

  8. While Ted is babbling about the CP’s failure to correct all the problems the Lieberals have created or ignored in thirteen years, he obviously fails to realize that this is a MINORITY government and as such cannot proceed with a much needed housecleaning lest the opposition throws Canada into another expensive election. (longest run on sentence of the day, eh)
    Slow and steady wins the race, dude.

  9. Ted is one of those people who will never let facts or reality interfere with what he espouses …..reminds me of a student in my Gr. 4 class many years ago who argued vehemently all year that a ton of bricks & a ton of feathers were not the same weight.

  10. Re: Ezra Levant/Syed Soharwardy
    Last Sunday morning, I turned on the Crossroads Christian television channel only to see a Hindu religious programme(*) and then, wonder of wonders, Muslim Insight with Imam Syed Soharwardy. The latter programme was devoted entirely to the Sudan teddy bear incident and followed predictable lines:
    (1) the British teacher should have been more culturally sensitive, although she lacked any mens rea;
    (2) Muslims are required to love Mohammed more than anything else and to defend Islam against all insults;
    (3) although the good imam abhors violence, we shouldn’t be surprised that illiterate Sudanese peasants would resort to it in defence of Islam; and
    (4) it’s the West’s fault that the Sudanese peasants aren’t educated.
    Of course, he never bothered to explain how children naming a stuffed toy “Mohammed” could conceivably be an insult to the “Prophet (PBUH)”.
    Watch for Muslim Insight — it can make for entertaining viewing.
    (*)No doubt including programming from other faiths is a condition of licensing imposed by the CRTC.

  11. RockyT:
    Well, it sounds to me like you are a better reader than you let on in that comment. I’ll just repost a comment I made on Kate’s post on this point (and suggest to other commenters to continue any discussion on Chalk River over here):
    “I’m certainly not criticizing the Conservatives for not solving the problems by now, like some here with poor reading comprehension are accusing me of doing. The fact is they are the government and they haven’t done a thing. I do work with nuclear facilities so I know it takes an enormous amount of time. All the more reason you have to start working on the problem, not ignore it and hope it goes away (eh, Mr. Dhaliwal?!?!).
    So own up to the problem instead of lashing out at the people who report to you from AECL. It is shameful the way they have viciously attacked individuals instead of taking responsibility for their own government.
    That kind of Ministerial responsibility to the public, which has been lacking for so long, is supposed to be one of the fundamentals of a Parliamentary democracy. Instead, you have Lunn, you have Tony Clement and even the bloody Prime Minister more interested in pointing fingers saying “not me, I’m not responsible”.
    Bureaucrats are professional ostriches and finger pointers – “I don’t see a problem, do you see a problem”; “it’s not my problem”; and “it was some other Department’s responsibility” – the government is supposed to be taking responsibility for everything under their purview.
    Why did Canadians switch governments if we were just going to get more of the same kind of crap. As other non-liberal commenters have said here too by the way.

  12. National Newswatch posts misleading headline/link.
    Doer/NDP/Manitoba has been omitted from NNW’s headline/link.
    Is NNW biased? Is NNW changing headlines? Is NNW posting disinformation?
    http://tinyurl.com/kab4z
    Headline/link at NNW:
    “Stelmach, Wall side with Harper on linking aid to budget”
    Alberta Premier Ed Stalmach and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall have disagreed with their counterparts from Canada’s two largest provinces over potential delays to a $1-billion federal aid program….-
    Link from NNW goes here:
    “OTTAWA — The premiers of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan have disagreed with their counterparts from Canada’s two largest provinces over potential delays to a $1-billion federal aid program, saying it is okay for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to wait until the federal budget is passed to deliver the cash.”
    [G-M headline]:
    Western premiers side with PM on linking aid to budget
    http://tinyurl.com/2vg53a (g-m)

  13. “No doubt including programming from other faiths is a condition of licensing imposed by the CRTC.” — This is correct. I recall it being an issue some months ago. It makes no sense to me that a station supported by Christian agencies, advertising and viewers should be forced by the CRTC to provide a “balanced” view of religion — in fact, it’s ludicrous. Christian viewers are not interested in getting a daily dose of Islam or whatever and their dollars should not have to pay for it. Same (I would think) with any Islamic, Jewish, Buddhist or whatever sponsored media.

  14. Jean Chretien has spoken from Bejing — thinks Harper should come to China (actually, the air is very bad in China and I would be worried about Harper’s asthma there) — but that aside, does anyone know what Chretien is doing in China? I know “business” but what business? Why should China have such a great requirement for former Prime Ministers of Canada (I believe Martin is also often in China, and Chretien has been there virtually since he left office. I wonder about the nature of their business. Oh — and what about when these business arrangements were made — surely not before Chretien left office. And to what extent did the Liberal’s million dollars a week to China (I think that was the figure) secure “business interests” for former Liberal politicians. I can’t help but think that that if getting a potential abuse of public office is the issue, the Schreiber-Mulroney enquiry will be focussing on the wrong players.

  15. One thing the Liberals did a really, really good job of is wining, dining, tipping and tipling at local watering holes near Parliament Hill.
    I have heard that several steak house/taverns in Ottawa have gone the way of insolvency since the taxpayer funded, big spending Liberals haven’t been throwing the money around like it was somebody else’s….wait a minute, it was somebody else’s.
    Can anyone from Ottawa confirm this street talk?

  18. It is not only the lounges and steakhouses who are complaining about this more prudent use of taxpayer funds since Harper took over.
    It is the federal civil servants themselves! HUGE angst that they cannot write off all of their meals and perks and expences and that many of those “missions” or trade tours or whatever to nice warm places in the winter have been curtailed.
    I know many federal govn’t workers and they loved their perks. Shoot – I have even unknowingly been wined and dined on the taxpayer dime at functions where they could “pick up the tab” and be the big shots. No taxpayer business involved.
    So – now you know why the Indian Chiefs and the federal civil service beurocrats are making life hard for the Conservatives. It is always follow the money.

  19. Different Bob,
    Send Ezra the Irwin item;
    Frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=4793D07C-A7AE-439F-8B9E-54F345BF6F77
    The judge should throw HRC et all out of court.
    Case closed. = TG

  20. Yes, lorraine, I know the civil service, indeed, any govt funded agency very well. The money that you get from the govt is perceived as coming from ‘No-One’. There’s no sense of that money having any identity behind it. It’s all ‘just there’. For you. For free. To use and spend as you wish.
    So – you use it, you spend it. You use as much as you can. I’ve seen it in so many places. If the daily expense limit on meals is $75.00, then you claim that amount, even if you only spent $25.00. No receipts necessary for so many of these expenses. Hotels, travel, meals. All coming from this Unknown Source. You would never, ever, dare use money this way in a private company. Never.
    Money for academic research? Handed out like largesse to students for the most superficial work, to hired friends, used to purchase new computers every two years, used to hire people to do ‘work’ that has nothing to do with the research project. Oh, and travel, constant travel, meals and hotels. A LOT of that. Short trips to New York, Las Vegas, Paris. All defined as ‘work’ and ‘research’. Sure…..
    And you are right, lorraine, for so many of these things, there’s absolutely no taxpayer business involved. None. None.
    No receipts necessary for so much of it, and, even if there ARE receipts required, the travel might have been unnecessary (but you had a great time), the people hired might have been unnecessary to the job (but they were useful for other work not linked to that fund); the new computer might be given to your buddy, since you got one with the last grant…and so on…
    And that Sweet Life of the Civil Service is a major problem in our crown corporations, which have transformed from providing services to the taxpayer, to providing jobs, safe comfy jobs, to more and more and more…civil servants.

  23. ‘Real’ Bhutto heir denounces family business
    …But now, two weeks on, she [Fatima Bhutto] has broken that silence to launch a blistering attack on her cousin’s appointment, accusing those around him of perpetuating dynastic politics and trying to cash in on his mother’s blood.
    In an interview with The Times – her first with the Western media since Benazir’s death – the 25-year-old newspaper columnist also rejected her own claim to the Bhutto legacy, calling for a new era of politics based on platforms rather than personalities…

  24. an excellent start to the kangaroo court in Alberta against Ezra Levant and our freedom of speech.
    http://ezralevant.com/2008/01/kangaroo-court.html
    Read what Ezra says about our long history of a right to freedom of speech and expression – and how the HRC is violating this right.
    “We have a heritage of free speech that we inherited from Great Britain that goes back to the year 1215 and the Magna Carta. We have a heritage of eight hundred years of British common law protection for speech, augmented by 250 years of common law in Canada.
    That common law has been restated in various fundamental documents, especially since the Second World War.
    In 1948, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which Canada is a party, declared that, quote:
    “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
    The 1960 Canadian Bill of Rights guaranteed, quote
    1. “ human rights and fundamental freedoms, namely,
    (c) freedom of religion; (d) freedom of speech; (e) freedom of assembly and association; and (f) freedom of the press.
    In 1982, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guaranteed, quote:
    2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
    a) freedom of conscience and religion;
    b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
    Those were even called “fundamental freedoms” – to give them extra importance.
    For a government bureaucrat to call any publisher or anyone else to an interrogation to be quizzed about his political or religious expression is a violation of 800 years of common law, a Universal Declaration of Rights, a Bill of Rights and a Charter of Rights. This commission is applying Saudi values, not Canadian values.”
    That’s right; 800 years of a right to freedom of speech, and these HRC are stepping in to deny us this fundamental right.

  25. ET, I read that little rant from Esra. He read that thing out infront of those HRC wankers? That guy has got rocks like Gibraltar. “You may begin your interrogation.”
    Awesome.
    But I have to say I’m not even faintly surprised by the HRC actions. In Canada we have no right to property and no right to self defense. A man’s home is not only no longer his castle, he doesn’t even own it. We should think the right to free speech is somehow sacred? Untouchable? Doubt it.

  26. Go Ezra — I think if the MSM does not report what is happening here, they are being seriously remiss. This story is very important from the point of view of freedom of speech. But maybe Canadians don’t dare about that.

  28. Does anyone really believe that support for PMSH has declined by 23% in Alberta? Last week conservatives were up 7%, now they are behind by 2%, with libs improving mainly because of support from AB. After the fiasco of pollsters in NH, does anyone believe them anymore. Of course I should mention that when called I said I would vote liberal. Wonder how many other PMSH supporters did the same thing.

  29. MaryT, thanks for the post; I watched the dippers ranting about the Schreiber inquiry on TV today and being given a load of airtime to do so. (That along with the usual lib/dip twaddle and ranting.)
    Overload must be from gnashing my teeth overly.

  30. From The Daily Mail, 11th January 2008
    How Hillary Clinton made a pact with the devil for political power; by SALLY BEDELL SMITH
    Extracted from The Clintons At The White House by Sally Bedell Smith, to be published by Aurum Press on February 4
    “Vice-President Al Gore was the biggest victim. It was a given in the White House that Hillary had to “sign off on big decisions,” and even before Clinton’s inauguration, her adviser Susan Thomases was quoted saying that Gore “would have to adjust to a smaller role.” SBS
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=507762&in_page_id=1879&ito=1490

  31. More information for the pollsters, Ed Stelmach will win the next AB Provincial election, perhaps with a smaller majority, but it will be a majority. The new Alliance/Wildrose party will also get seats, (more than the greens) The last poll showing us up 7% never did give a breakdown of the prairie provinces. Anyone every find out what that was. Falling 23% in less than a week is a little (make that impossible) hard to believe.
    It is almost written in stone that liberals who move here from the east, vote liberal ONCE, then are strong conservatives. Can’t wait for Dion to appoint women to run here.
    I think these pollsters got provincial and fed polls mixed up, just picked up a Prov poll and ran with it. Pre blog days they could have gotten away with it.

  32. It appears to me that they did just that Mary T. Further the pole guy said the puffins MAINTAINED their lead in Que. – the puffins were behind the Conservatives in the last poll. Why do those idiots use the antiquated terms Tory and Grit? They probably confuse the people they phone using those misnomers.

  33. If Dion causes an election based on this poll, he will have to campaign on keeping the billion dollar fund and holding an inquiry. Of course, if elected he will immediately break those promises. He just wants to get back at the trough before all leadership debts have to be paid off, using that money in secret foundations liberals set up years ago. Notice there have been few if any fund raising events for those that lost the leadership.
    Then they have to raise money for an election.
    After all their bluster re the conservatives breaking election laws, they would not do the same thing, would they.
    Takes a long time, but the actions of Chretain cancelling the helicopter deal years ago are coming home to roost.

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