White-focussed schooling by another name.
“J-J-J-Janice MacKinnon does not speak for the people of Saskatchewan”.
A first hand account of the Harper rally.
Dizzy Lizzy’s new taste for blood. Muslim blood.
Add yours in the comments.
White-focussed schooling by another name.
“J-J-J-Janice MacKinnon does not speak for the people of Saskatchewan”.
A first hand account of the Harper rally.
Dizzy Lizzy’s new taste for blood. Muslim blood.
Add yours in the comments.
Back when I posted on the white focused schooling I used the title:
“European parents in Toronto to get the choice, of sending children to all white schools,”
Oh wait thats racist,…
Missing from the Manley report: any suggestion of the consequences of quitting Afghanistan should the Europeans cop-out (they will) and the Afghans are left to fend for themselves. This of course won’t happen; the US will step up to the plate.
Now, I haven’t read the report but no mention of this in the media.
(Afghan of course would be used as a launching platform for attacks on NA soil if we gave Osama the freedom to do so)
If we could triple the size of our combat capability, engaging al Qaeda in Darfur might not be a bad strategy.
If we don’t completely crush the enemy this war will go on indefinitely; and the UN quite clearly in not going to do that. Watch for them to accept Arafat style peace offerings soon.
Dizzy dipsh#$ May is just the latest in a long line of leftards doing the moonbat military shuffle. You know the dance, the one where you insult the military, cut the funding, and then cry like an idiot when there are no troops to send to the pet third world country of the week.
Sending troops into Sudan? Is she a total retard? The only strategy that would work there would be for us to use the same kind of firepower that the yanx used in Iraq. Is this truly what the queen of the evirojerkoffs wants?
What’s at stake at Durban II
National Post ^ | 2008-01-26 | David Frum
To call anything the United Nations does a “new low” does an injustice to all the previous “old lows.”
How do you do worse than pass a resolution condemning Zionism as a form of racism on the anniversary of the Nazi Kristallnacht, as the UN did in 1974?
Still, even by the sordid standards of the UN, the 2001 Durban “antiracism” conference was a record-breaker. Denouncing racism while conference attendees sold copies of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion — breathtaking.
Now, however, the UN faces a new challenge. Was the 2001 anti-racism conference truly the very worst it could do? Or could it push the boundaries even further, explore new depths? At Durban, the UN had allowed an antiracism conference to be hijacked by anti-Semites. But what if it allowed anti-Semites to organize a conference from the very start? What if it made hatred of Jews and the annihilation of the Jewish state the very organizing principle of the conference? Now that truly would be a record low.
And so it happened. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959861/posts
Muslim Taliban murderer now has his bowl of Allah’s raisins.
Socialist UN Lord blocked; Lord Paddy Ashdown.
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KABUL (AFP) – The US military in Afghanistan said that a Taliban-linked militant leader wanted by Washington had been killed in neighbouring Pakistan. […]
Sedgai was the third rebel commander in Haqqani’s network to die in recent months, the statement said.
http://tinyurl.com/2rvjnd (afp)…-
President Hamid Karzai moves to block Lord Paddy Ashdown as UN super-envoy in Afghanistan
http://tinyurl.com/3a39xq (timesUK)
The name of the judge who gave bail to this murderer is not named in the news report.
Who was the judge? Name the judge who gave bail to this psycho.
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Man arrested for vicious murder was out on bail
[…] “Christopher James Watcheston,”
“before his arrest he was already out on bail, under house arrest, and scheduled for two criminal trials — including one for assault.”
http://tinyurl.com/2pfhk4 (ctv)
I left this comment at The Phantom Observer’s Blog, who mentioned that he’d like to meet PMSH:
…I was very fortunate to have met our awesome PM a few years ago at a gathering in Southwestern Ontario, a riding, BTW, that returned a Conservative MP to Parliament after years “in the desert”(!) under a Librano incumbency of a good ol’ boy with whom, as it turns out, I had had a few telephone run-ins. It always irritated him that I knew my stuff and didn’t accept his canned responses to my questions…To his credit, he actually apologized to me for “being a little rough” on me…but that’s another issue.
Stephen Harper, not yet our PM, was unprepossessing and humble. He had given a fantastic speech–you can’t help detect the focused intelligence and understated strategic brilliance of his thinking–and when I had introduced myself, I encouraged him to not “allow” the MSM and the Opposition to paint him as “scary,” with a “Hidden Agenda.” His response? “Yeah. I’ve never really understood what they’re talking about.” I suggested he needed to be somewhat more forward in countering this kind of smear. He was thoughtful and his way of dealing with the smears has been brilliant.
‘Basically ignore them and keep moving forward. When he comes to a fork in the road, largely manufactured by the Librano$ and the MSM, he goes straight ahead. Yea! That’s our PM Stephen Harper. Go, Harper, Go!
Here’s an interesting tidbit from the BelmontClub:
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2008/01/leader-rises-but-country-falls.html
Summary: Kim Jong Il’s regime in North Korea could collapse in six months, leading to all kinds of possibilities.
It’s speculation, of course, but Janes’ is a pretty reputable source for up-to-date information on international political and military matters, so the report is worth noting.
Two other things worth noting: 1. If the NORK regime falls, it will do so very rapidly (remember how quickly things in Berlin went from “normal” to having no Wall standing). 2. If the timing in the report is correct, all of this would take place at just about the time the Reps and Dems are choosing their candidates for the US election in November. Which should allow for some serious evaluation of said candidates’ approaches to dealing with serious matters of foreign policy.
BTW, re my comment above, it wasn’s Phantom Observer who said he wanted to meet PMSH, it was a commenter at his blog…FWIW
BONO TO GORE: “It’s like being with an Irish priest. You start to confess your sins,”… “Father Al, I am not just a noise polluter, I am a noise-polluting, diesel-soaking, gulfstream-flying rock star.
“I’m going to kick the habit. I’m trying father Al, but oil has been very good for me — those convoys of articulated lorries, petrochemical products, hair gel.”
Seems narcissistic rock stars are as addicted to oil-fueled excesses as they are drugs fame and ego.
Very interesting observation about all-white schools. In general, yes, it’s white kids, middle class, who fill the immersion schools, although most schools are mixed stream: regular and immersion. At least in French immersion, most kids, in my experience, are relatively bright and reasonably to well behaved.
One of my best friends is an immersion teacher and the difference between her quite well socialized class and my special education class, heavily weighted with unsocialized, not too bright, black—sorry, but it’s true—kids was quite an eye opener. While I was exhausted after a day “in the trenches” both teaching and upholding responsible, accountable behaviour—which took constant vigilance and redirection on my part—as well as dealing with my students’ uninvolved to complainer parents, and an administration that appeased the most irresponsible parents and their kids’ unacceptable behaviour, my friend would emerge from her class smiling and relaxed. Once, when I visited her class, I was bowled over that the kids were quietly and productively engaged in self-directed group activities. When I stopped to chat, they were polite and responsive.
My black special ed students were quite a challenge. I set and upheld high standards and my students all improved markedly, both behaviourally and academically. But, as I said, this took constant vigilance and intervention on my part, with no to negative pull from their usually single mothers. This group is now in another class, with a much less experienced teacher. Their behaviour has deteriorated rapidly. Very sad.
I also taught summer school in an inner city school with many black kids, many of the girls wearing hijab. The insolence, sense of entitlement, and plain bad manners of a good number of these kids was most disturbing, not to mention that, academically, the standard was pretty low. (One “hijabbed” young miss, about 10, refused to stand for “O Canada”: “It’s not my country.” That only happened on the first day as I made it altogether clear that sitting for the national anthem was NOT an option.)
It’s occurred to me that an all-black school—presumably for the most troubled and troublesome kids—would be hell (for the all black teachers, I suppose) to work in UNLESS it set a very different standard from most public schools: uniforms, high behavioural and academic expectations, upheld on a consistent basis. In other words, Tough Love. I don’t, however, see that happening. E.g., I saw a panel discussion on TVO about the Falconer Commission: Board Director, with her pasted on smile, slogan spouting head of the union, two almost inarticulate parents, one white, one black, a yappy, chip on the shoulder, black trustee, and John Snobelen. As no one was willing to actually diagnose the problem, the solutions they suggested were mere bromides. The problem for most of the problem kids? The accepted family structure of many kids by many fathers, with no dad around the home sets these kids up for failure from the start. Their mothers are often very young, uneducated, inarticulate, chip on the shoulder women who are not able to provide the security and role modelling necessary to socialize their kids. Any school for this type of kid would have to be built on a philosophy of high structure and non negotiable authority, consistently and seriously enforced. I believe any “solution” which overlooks this is not going to make much of a difference.
In the downtown school, to continue my politically incorrect observations, a number of the black kids do have a father at home. However, these families are generally Muslim: if anyone thinks these kids are deferential to adults in authority, it’s not always true. Many of these kids are very adept at being insubordinate and playing the multicultural card.
So, an all-black school for the most “disenfranchised” black kids, an unstable and volatile mix, sounds like hell on wheels to me. Who would be their role models? A lot of them would be disgruntled Muslim kids too. I can’t think of a worse solution myself. (IF such a school were tough love and standards would be upheld, and white teachers were allowed to be part of it, I’d sign up in a minute: I’ve had a lot of success with these kinds of kids. But I don’t think that’s the kind of school the lefties in charge have in mind.)
My prediction? All-black schools, full of badly socialized, problem kids—some gang inclined and some radicalized Muslims—will be a monumental failure at producing well behaved, responsible and accountable, academically sound citizens. Such schools will, however, be quite good at indulging kids who need discipline, instead of appeasement, and reinforcing the “Black Power”, “I’m entitled” mindset, which is bad news, not only for the black kids, but for society as a whole.
I predicted that the Falconer Inquiry would be a dud. I hoped I’d be wrong. Considering the results of this report, it seems I was correct. Re the disaster I foresee in establishing all-black schools, again, I hope I’m wrong . . .
Item: Focused schools in Canada.
“8) The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
“Mixed marriages are one of the the great threats to the survival of the French-speaking community outside of Quebec.”
“The choice of marriage partners is narrower for Francophones who want to marry in the same ethnic group.”
“Exogamy is therefore one of the main factors (along with the work environment) which contributes to language transfer or anglicization.
French-speaking husbands primarily speak English as the language of communications in the home in almost all mixed marriages. This situation is appalling when we think of the generation that will come out of these marriages.”
THE HEIRS OF LORD DURHAM – 1978 – from the Federation of Francophones outside of Quebec.
Related:
“It even happens that a Quebec worker being hired for industry is required to speak English as well as French – a form of discrimination that should be rigoursly forbidden by Quebec law.” – Pierre Trudeau 1965.
In other words, Pierre Trudeau proposed passing a law in Quebec promoting French unilingualism 10 years BEFORE the Parti Quebecois passed Bill 101 in 1976.
And Trudeau refused to fight Bill 101 in Court because it was his idea from 10 years earlier.
All Liberals knew Trudeau was telling lies about Bi and Bi.
And all Liberals knew he was a blatant hypocrite when he was calling Westerners rednecks and racists when they didn’t want his perverted society.
BTW, the purpose of Official Bilingualism is to allow unilingual French Canadians, primarily from Quebec, to live anywhere in English Canada without having to learn English.
The Crooked Liberal Party du Canada – screwing Canadians since 1943 and proud of it.
As I always say, PASSION OVER REASON.
Heh.
‘Just wondering how other former Western Standard, Ezra Levant’s magazine that went belly-up a few months ago, subscribers feel about the Maclean’s mags that are coming through our mail slots for the next little while?
‘Have had a look at a couple of them and my estimation is that it’s a ratty little magazine. It’s far too cluttered, tiny photos, and somehow feels like it’s scrambling for relevance. Then, there’s Paul Wells, who I find supercilious, and the once-amusing Scott Feschuk. The only good thing about it is Mark Steyn, who I can read anytime at steynonline.com
I unsubscribed to Macleans a few years back and can’t say that I’m thrilled to be receiving it again…I won’t be re-subscribing…
How will Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson respond to this:
“In the U.S. south, is Canadian a new racial slur?”
Graeme Hamilton, National Post Published: Thursday, January 24, 2008
It was a routine e-mail from the boss sent to congratulate a junior prosecutor in Houston, Tex., who had won manslaughter convictions against an intoxicated driver.
“He convicted Mr. Sosa of a double intoxication manslaughter, got a weak jury to give him 12 years in each, and then convinced Judge Wallace to stack the sentences,” Harris County assistant district attorney Mike Trent wrote in an office-wide memo. Then came the odd part: “He overcame a subversively good defence by Matt Hennessey that had some Canadians on the jury feeling sorry for the defendant and forced them to do the right thing.”
The e-mail was sent in 2003 but came to light only this month as part of an unrelated controversy with his office, forcing Mr. Trent to defend himself against accusations of bigotry — not because he offended the people of Canada, but because “Canadian” has apparently become a code word for blacks among American racists.
“There is a double meaning to that word and I didn’t know it. I was horrified when I learned what it was, and I immediately addressed the issue with the people who brought it up,” Mr. Trent told a local Fox News reporter in a recent interview.
“I’d never heard of Canadian being used as a term for a black person or for a racial slur,” he said.
I read that article about “Canadian being a new racial slur” and I thought maybe it has something to do with Frank Stronach’s project Canadaville where he spent millions to create a community for the displaced people of New Orleans. Apparently now there is big trouble brewing between the community at large in Louisiana and the residents of Canadaville. You know what they say about good intentions.
http://www.nationalpost.com/most_popular/story.html?id=235938
Cowards: “The raiders fled empty-handed,”.
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UK: ‘I decided to die like a man’, says tycoon …
A millionaire yesterday told how he fought off three armed burglars who were holding a knife to his daughter’s throat, saying he “would rather die like a man than a dog”. […]
Mr Dwyer said he was stabbed three times in the head but managed to fight the raiders off and shut the bedroom door. But the men tried to push back in and they fought again, he said. “I have never used a weapon in my life and it was a great feeling.
“I grabbed the gun and bashed it across the knuckle-duster guy. Next thing is they took off and I chased them down the stairs.”
The raiders fled empty-handed, leaving Mr Dwyer with broken ribs and 30 cuts to his body and head. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959952/posts
(entire report here)
Posted by: lookout at January 26, 2008 10:25 AM
Absolutely terrific post. I don’t always comment but I always read your “reports from the trenches” having retreated from them in the late 70s.
Tough love! Sadly won’t happen. You’re really talking about a militaristic (in the good sense) structure here, and like you, I see zero prospect of this happening.
I myself retreated from the trenches in 1979. The triggering event was being over-ridden in my attempt to discipline a Junior high basketball star with detention on the day of a practice or game (which I didn’t know about, so I wasn’t being deliberately provocative).
The ethos, as I recall it, was that we mustn’t be punitive; that the child must be permitted to luxuriate in his special talents.
My ethos was, on the other hand, “no you gotta use his basketball as leverage … and the possible withdrawal of his participation as an incentive.”
John Dewey 1, Me No Dhimmi 0.
It’s too bad that the Conservatives can’t be honest when it comes to handing out cash to every industry with a lobbyist.
http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?pid=1305&cpcat=national&stry=51744026
The New Gub’mint rolls more than $19 billion a year to ensure they stay in the welfare trap, and keep those donations coming.
http://tinyurl.com/2dl69x
“No other nation has taken this step. The Conservative government’s decision stands as a challenge to all nations to turn words into concrete action.”
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“Rejecting Durban II: Canada to pursue full membership in Holocaust Remembrance Task Force
[…]
When the announcement was made that Canada would not participate in Durban II, Jason Kenney promised that Canada would find other venues to fight racism. One such had been identified back in June, when Canada applied to be an observer on the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research.
Now Canada has announced its intention to become a full member.
An important membership criteria? Totalitarian, authoritarian, and dictatorial regimes need not apply.
Sounds like a good idea for the UN itself.”
http://stevejanke.com/archives/253109.php …-
Canada Takes Firm Stance on United Nations World Conference Against Racism
January 23, 2008
The Honourable Maxime Bernier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Jason Kenney, Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity, today issued the following statement: […]
http://tinyurl.com/3ysxb8 (gcca) …-
Dare to be a Daniel,
Dare to stand alone!
Dare to have a purpose firm!
Dare to make it known. …-
Right on, Me No Dhimmi. Thanks for your post. I am indeed thinking–in the good sense–of some kind of militaristic discipline.
But, as we know, the simpering, sell-out powers that be haven’t figured out that these kids don’t need their egos stroked and expanded, but disciplined, contained, and redirected.
It isn’t going to happen, so millions of dollars and many more tragedies later, these kids and society as a whole won’t be any further ahead. What a travesty.
lookout – that’s a really terrific analysis of the schools.
I think your suggestions for the new ‘all black schools’ in Toronto are excellent, but as you say, probably the leftists will take charge and it will be a disaster.
[Minor point, but with these new ‘black’ schools, McGuinty broke his promise to not have any ‘identity group’ schools, eg, Faith based Schools, funded by the province.]
I agree that the French immersion schools have essentially become European ‘white’ enclaves, and they are, as noted, good schools, turning out educated responsible citizens.
Speaking of ‘black’ schools with an ‘African curriculum’, does anyone else find it bothersome that blacks in America and Canada, are hyphenated as ‘African-Americans’? I’d say that the majority have no reasonably direct links to Africa and why why focus on ‘where your ancestors of 1,000 years ago lived’?
What about calling Asians as Asian-Americans? Or European-Americans? Never mind the fact that our species apparently originated from Africa anyway…
Gunney99 at January 26, 2008 2:54 AM
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If we could triple the size of our combat capability, engaging al Qaeda in Darfur might not be a bad strategy.
If we don’t completely crush the enemy this war will go on indefinitely; and the UN quite clearly in not going to do that. Watch for them to accept Arafat style peace offerings soon.
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3200 Marines for Afghanistan in March *08
??? Police trainers follow in April *08
That*s what I heard on the radio news.
Why not send them next week? Can*t be soon enough for me. Things are going to really get nasty.
Tough job for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
[1] Help for Muslims in crushing poverty or they walk into Osama*s camp.
[2] Help Musharrif keep Osama*s hands off Pakistan Nukes.
Hey, Manley, no need to drown us in details. =TG
French immersion schools here in Edmonton have lots of asian students in them. If you want an all white school here, choose Ukranian immersion, German immersion, mandarin chinese immersion, etc. You could also choose a French only school, but these are limited to people who have one French Canadian parent. I think black only schools are a terrible mistake, especially if the students come from a culture prone to violence.
ET, excellent analysis. One could drive a Mack truck through the lefties’ inconsistencies and hypocrisy.
These “African (sic)-Canadian” kids get French every day, as well as another language in the schools too. Never mind that many can’t read or write English with any degree of proficiency. And what “international languages” are they taught? Swahili and Arabic. Does that set a few alarm bells ringing?
The lefties have complete control of the public education systems in this country and are doing incomparable damage to the fabric of our society. These things are not, of course, ever discussed by teachers at school, other than in hushed tones in an empty hall. There is no freedom of expression. In fact, boards’ “equity” policies would be used to remove from the classroom any teacher who dared to openly express such “reactionary” ideas.
One thing Julian Falconer got right is the board’s “culture of secrecy”, but it’s only being used to open up lines of communication for students, who now have a help-line for anonymous reporting. There’s no such thing for the teachers, who have been quite conspicuously left out of the process. (The left-wing, politically correct unions are useless and leave teachers dangling on the limb over the crocodiles. Sometimes, the unions even join the board in sawing the limb off!) The word “gulag” is not inappropriate when describing the fear and intimidation teachers feel, especially when dealing with viz mins. E.g., Teachers have been summarily removed from their classrooms and disciplined on the mere allegations of troublemaker kids with reputations for being unreliable. It’s a huge mess.
Perhaps this is not new, but USA Today has a “game” to determine who I should vote for [if I could] and suggests that Sam Brownback is the best match for me, followed by Duncan Hunter and thirdly by a Democrat named Dennis Kucinich. Apparently the results indicate correctly that I wouldn’t vote for Clinton, Obama or McCain, but don’t provide a frontrunner’s name. Interesting, but I wonder about the pidgeonhole bias.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/candidate-match-game.htm
Clean energy project announced by Bush et al.
http://starbulletin.com/2008/01/26/news/story01.html
Today’s bit from Mark Steyn is a classic, in large part because he is quoting Rex Murphy writing about Mark.
My favourite line,
“……if Mr. Steyn goes before one or all of these commissions, he will be firing off columns between questions. He’ll write a column on a question while it is being asked. I urge our guardians to consider their own interests: Stay a while before essaying this profitless and useless venture.”
Almost enough to get me to buy a copy of the Mop and Pail……… almost!
http://www.steynonline.com/
Canada inks free trade deals
“DAVOS, Switzerland — Canada has successfully concluded negotiations toward a free trade agreement with Peru”
“Mr. Emerson also announced Saturday the signing of a free trade agreement with the four countries of the European Free Trade Association – Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.”
“Canada already has free trade agreements with the United States and Mexico and with Chile, Israel and Costa Rica.”
http://tinyurl.com/3xya5x (g-m)
“Among the spies he says he recruited for Russia were a Canadian nuclear weapons expert who became a U.N. nuclear verification expert in Vienna,”
Maurice Strong’s code name = Mao Stlong. Mao say, Supplies! Supplies!
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“Former Russian Spy Says [Russian] Government Stole $500 Million From U.N.’s Oil-For-Food Program in Iraq
UNITED NATIONS — A former Russian top spy says his agents helped the Russian government steal nearly $500 million from the U.N.’s oil-for-food program in Iraq before the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Sergei Tretyakov, who defected to the United States in 2000 as a double agent, says he oversaw an operation that helped Saddam’s regime manipulate the price of Iraqi oil sold under the program — and allow Russia to skim profits.”
http://tinyurl.com/yorm72 (fox)
In one French immersion classroom I taught in (supply), a student came up to thank me at the end of the day (something that rarely happens). She was Asian, and I kind of got the feeling that she was happy with my no-nonsense-I-expect-respect way of running the classroom, as I’m sure that’s what she gets at home.
Thanks, lookout, for telling it like it is. I think you should write a book. Maybe Ann Coulter’s publisher would publish it, as none of the wimp-limp-wristed Canadian publishers would.
O, Canada!
“‘Just wondering how other former Western Standard, Ezra Levant’s magazine that went belly-up a few months ago, subscribers feel about the Maclean’s mags that are coming through our mail slots for the next little while?” . . . actually I had not looked at Macleans for a number of years and I was pleasantly surprised. I find it to be more objective than many other MSM publications. There seems to be a genuine effort to provide balance. This week they have a profile of many in the Harper inner circle. (I just don’t recall seeing this type of thing as a feature in most regular newspapers.) Coverage seems fair and informative.
Interview with Geert Wilders on Fox News, Part I.
Part II
“Joan Beatty forgets name of that third party while struggling to justify her appointment.
Joan Beatty was interviewed about her controversial appointment by Stephane Dion to be the Liberal Party candidate for Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River in Saskatchewan.
Her answer to the critical question about why the nomination process needed to be suspended speaks volumes.
Interviewer: [reading from the letter] The general consensus at the meeting is that the democratic process for selecting a candidate must be followed. Constituents are tired of being told “What is best for them”. Aboriginal people, in particular First Nations, have been encouraged to participate in the political process, to vote, to be involved. Then, they are told who they have to vote for. That is not democracy.
What do you say to that point being raised in the letter by Chief Marcel Head?
Joan Beatty: Well, you know, if I was, you know, a long-time Liberal member, you know, the process is in the [Liberal Party] constitution, you know, it’s a process that’s been used by all parties, including Harper last year, twice I believe. And the process is there, and sometimes the leader has to use that process, and that’s what he did in this case…At the end of the day, democracy is at the polls, when people can vote for themselves who they want to support. Whether it’s a Liberal, a Conservative, or whoever.
Or whoever?
Or whoever?
Joan, that other party? The name you could quite recall? They’re called the NDP. You know, the party in Saskatchewan that just dropped a load of money to get you elected just so you could quit a few weeks later to join the Liberals.
“Or whoever”…that’s pathetic.
But her whole answer is pathetic.”
http://stevejanke.com/archives/253119.php#respond
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Battered Liberals plan strategy today
Controversy over Liberal leader Stéphane Dion’s appointment of Joan Beatty, as the Liberal candidate in the Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River riding, is likely to continue today at the association’s annual general meeting. […]
“David [Orchard] will be there and John Dorion, the other candidate will be there,” said Repo. “The appointment was done in such a way that the members were left out completely … that will definitely be one of the topics at the meeting.”
http://tinyurl.com/29r355 (paherald)
What is worth doing?
Now with natural gas prices rising steeply, U.S. power utilities are expected to build the equivalent of 280, 500-megawatt coal-fired electricity power plants between 2003 and 2030.
China is already constructing the equivalent of one large coal burning power plant a week with two thirds of energy production coming from dirty coal. 16 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are in China.
http://alt-e.blogspot.com/
India is the third largest producer of coal in the world, also getting over two thirds of its energy from coal. If these new coal plants are built, they will add as much carbon dioxide to the atmosphere as has been released by all the coal burned in the last 250 years.
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Ooops, tough. Let*s talk Global warming, Goracle, and FruitFly guy. It*s more fun. = TG
I thought the Prime Minister made a speech yesterday. The headlines from CBCpravda , lies by ommission. maybe the highpriced help is off for the weekend.
CBCpravda – All Liberal All the Time
Calgary police charge man in C-Train killing
A 21-year-old Calgary man police say was known to them has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Arcelie Laoagan. more »
Minor hockey coach charged in alleged assault of 3 players
A hockey coach in Toronto has been charged with assault after two of his players were allegedly struck with a hockey stick, and another player was reportedly hit with a helmet. more »
Treasury ekes out $100M surplus in November
The federal budgetary surplus was a slim $100 million in November as spending rose faster than revenues, the Finance Department said Friday. more »
Anti-abortion ad pulled from buses in St. John’s
Metrobus has pulled an anti-abortion advertisement from its buses and shelters in St. John’s after complaints from the public. more »
Prepare for hard economic times: Harper
Canadians cannot afford to be complacent about the economy because recent problems in financial markets won’t be disappearing any time soon, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told members of his caucus Friday. more »
Dion says he knew of change in detainee transfer policy
Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion says if he was told the Canadian army had stopped transferring detainees to Afghan authorities in November, the government had to know too. more »
Jennifer Teague’s killer heads to prison after pleading guilty
An Ottawa man was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to planning and committing the murder of 18-year-old Jennifer Teague in 2005. more »
Governor General’s visit to B.C. cut short
Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean cancelled the last planned stop on her visit to British Columbia, where the Queen’s representative in Canada received a rough reception from protesters. more »
Student stabbed at high-school basketball game
A 14-year-old boy has been charged with assault and weapons offences after a stabbing at a Winnipeg high-school basketball game. more »
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Savid Warren: “My first comment, at least to them, had to be: “So why did you fire all your neoconservatives*?””
“Neoconservative = “A neoconservative is a liberal who’s been mugged by reality.” H/T W. Kristol.
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Getting the real story in Gaza
David Warren , The Ottawa Citizen
“The media accounts of this event were incoherent, and understandably so. For even people in the Bush administration were puzzled, and I found myself being asked if I could explain it to more than one of them. When the people who supposedly control the CIA and the State Department are reduced to asking armchair journalists to explain breaking news, well: the world is in a fine state, isn’t it?” http://tinyurl.com/yuqyru (ottawacitizen)
Kate, there is an absolutely moronic rant by an arrogant, self-important, pompous a$$ – no wait, he signed it as a Canadian Wheat Board Director – over at Agriville that you should put on your site to show your readers what kind of sick and twisted Liberal wackjobs are running the CWB.
This guy is going to regret this one for the rest of his life.
He deserves a couple of pages in my coming book on The Compulsory Wheat Board, 60 Years of Disservice to Western Farmers and Proud of It.
As a side matter of interest, I signed into Agriville way last yr, but somebody or something prevents me from making comments on it.
In fact last Sept, for about a week, when I tried to even read it, I was redirected to the Alberta Beef Producers website, no matter what was in my address bar.
Gee, I wouldn’t think my dispassionate, unbiased observations on Western grain marketing would be ruffling any feathers.
Just for a quick chuckle —
Desmogblog, a global warming propaganda website run by slick Vancouver PR firm, James Hoggan and Associates, steps on a rake:
(desmogblog writer) Littlemore’s complaint:
“This is classic “Echo Chamber” PR: you start with a lie; you pass the lie around; and after you repeat it enough times, it starts to sound like the truth.”
… is Littlemore’s boss, James Hoggan’s, advice:
“So, when communicating new information: repeat, repeat, repeat […] Your “new” truth may also require many repetitions.”
from Tabers column today…given the upcoming start of the Mulroney Schreiber affair
“Sighting: Arms lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber and MP Robert Thibault, the Liberal point man on the Brian Mulroney/Schreiber hearings, were spotted having dinner at a swank Ottawa restaurant this week. Mr. Thibault said yesterday that Mr. Schreiber invited him and he thinks it is good practice to interview witnesses. Mr. Schreiber is expected to be back before the House of Commons committee looking into the controversy next week.”
I wonder who paid. And how can you consider this a fair situation now…..just asking
This guy had better learn to watch his back…
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44382000/jpg/_44382681_clinton203getty.jpg
Remember David Emerson?
One of the smartest moves our Prime minister made.
He just inked a trade deal with Peru.
Of course this trifling little development is lost in more weighty matters, lol.
Ahem, there are now 2 CWB directors comments on Agri-ville.com.
The sweet one is in Commodity Marketing, ‘Farmers are making millions and millions of dollars…’ -Vader.
Actually its worth a trip over there for all conservatives to see what 1930s state corporatism, and its pathetic leadership by the self-appointed elite, can do to a person’s mind.
I wonder when his hangover will wear off?
how bad can it be. everyone knows that KFC amounts to 33% of a reserve diet.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080126/kfc_delivery_080126/20080126?hub=TopStories
After numerous rounds of *We don’t even know if Osama is still alive*, Osama himself decided to send George Bush a letter in his own handwriting to let him know he was still in the game.
Bush opened the letter and it contained a single line of coded message:
370H-SSV-0773H
Bush was baffled, so he showed it to Condoleezza Rice. Condi and her aides had not a clue either, so they sent it to the FBI. No one could solve it at the FBI so it went to the CIA, then to MI6 and Mossad.
Eventually they asked RCMP for help. Within a minute RCMP emailed the White House with this reply:
*Tell the President he’s holding the message upside down.*
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Oh no, AB-HRC? = TG
For the British nanny state series and canadian medicare series:
British doctors: only the healthy get free healh care.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/27/nhs127.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox
Ouch! double ouch!
The official is identified only by his Russian code name, ARTHUR, but other sources identified him as Tariq Rauf, 54, a Pakistani-born Canadian who is chief of verification and security-policy coordination at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
http://tinyurl.com/32efqn
Your link explains much, Al. Thanks for that.