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  1. Good evening, ladies & gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight for your delectation we have the inimitable Mr. Leon Redbone performing three tunes for y’all: Sweet Sue, and When You Wish Upon A Star, and I Ain’t Got Nobody. The last tune is classic Redbone, if you know Leon and you’re in a hurry fast forward to 05:30. If your new to his work, you want to watch the first tune first.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKZBgahnG_w

  6. Vit:
    Shine on Harvest Moon is a keeper, occasionally good things come from Toronto!
    Cheers

  9. This “Obama Girl” thing brings up a point to ponder.
    I seem to recall that, a few years ago, a pollster was musing on UK, Canadian and US election results and why they often mismatch polling.
    Part of the reason, he noted, was that older people were far more likely to actually cast their vote than younger people were.
    “All talk but no action at the polls,” I believe he was quoted as saying.
    It will be interesting to see if younger Americans stir themselves beyond their rhetoric to follow it up at the voting booth in good numbers.
    Otherwise, the codgers will do all the significant voting and it’ll be a McCain-Clinton duel.

  10. “Commons to investigate Baird for political interference:”
    So, we’ve got the so-called Ethics Committee, with their highly compromised Chairman, Paul Szabo (CBCGate, starring Krista Erikson and co.) investigating an errant $300,000, according to the Librano$, in the Schreiber/Mulroney boondoggle and now John Baird supposedly under investigation for “political interference”–and yet, the Librano$, under Chretien and Martin, stole $40,000,000 from the Canadian public with few consequences–and the Canadian public is still out the $40,000,000.
    What gives…
    I can’t think of a time or an issue, with Chretien, Martin, and co. when there wasn’t political interference of one kind or another.
    It looks as though being the Opposition these days means harrassing the duly elected government of Canada rather than helping to govern the country: another reason not to vote Librano. Not only do they not know how to effectively govern a country, their only mode as the official Opposition is obfuscation, drive-by smears, and collusion with the state-funded CBC.
    I’m hoping for an election. I’m tired of the Librano$’ scumbag politics of total disrespect for and disregard of our Parliamentary democracy.

  12. Connie Fournier exposes more of Lucy Pieman’s playmayes
    http://tinyurl.com/2a5oao
    ”
    By (Almost) Any Means Necessary
    By Connie Fournier on February 6, 2008 2:10 AM
    On July 6, 2005, Richard Warman gave a speech for a group called “Anti-Racist Action” in Toronto. The speech was entitled, “Maximum Disruption: Stopping Neo-Nazis by (almost) any means necessary”.
    (…)
    Anti-Racist Action is an international organization formed in 1988 to ” fight fascism, racism, sexism and homophobia”. They have protested mainstream groups like Focus on the Family (where they were arrested for disorderly conduct in September 2006), and, although their official site says, ARA has never advocated violence as a solution to hate, they like to use the phrase “by any means necessary” when they are rallying their troops.
    They also sell buttons with slogans such as “Riot Don’t Diet” and “The Only Good Fascist is a Dead One” in their ARA Store.
    (…)
    Bob MacDonald of the Toronto Sun wrote the following on February 5, 1995: “Now we’ve come to the sorry point in Metro Toronto where a so-called anti-racist gang goes on the prowl armed with knives, iron pipes and machetes – looking for ‘neo-Nazis’ to attack”. Sadly, the three people who were stabbed and slashed in a subway attack were not even ‘neo-Nazis’, they were “just some guys on their way home from a party”. MacDonald goes on to write, “Metro Police Det. Wayne King, in charge of the investigation, said the ARA gang was out “trolling, looking for trouble”. “”

  13. Some “Ethics” Committee when the Liberal Chair is highly suspect as having knowledge of the collusion between CBC and at least one of his fellow Liberals on the Committee. Never mind this Dude, Pablum Rodriguez, was parachuted into a seat to pose the questions which had nothing to do with their mandate.
    Rather amusing column in today’s Ottawa Citizen Editorials by Bob Robertson, “Finally, the chef speaks”. It about sums up this witch hunt.
    At the same time as they’re skewering Mulroney, Jean Chretien with his friends Jean Pelletier and Alfonso Gagliano are trying to have Gomery’s report quashed on grounds of apprehension of bias.
    How about them apples folks? How about we demand they find the millions they tossed to the wind first, Chretien should be concerned about that.
    Of course, maybe not, Chretien has already dealt with that, he said what’s a few million to have unity or someting like dat dere. It’s always money well spent in the province of “je mes souviens”.
    Sadly the fickle electorate in much of the country don’t seem to remember much about Liberal corruption, it’s quite interested in something a Conservative PM did 25 years ago with less than 300,000 dollars, which did not come from taxpayers.

  14. Osama Girl may be hot, but she’s a bimbo with an empty head.
    Hey, lberia, that means that you are a typical white male chauvinist pig, you like your women beautiful and DUMB.
    LOL!

  18. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3321637.ece
    A 37-year-old American businesswoman and married mother of three is seeking justice after she was thrown in jail by Saudi Arabia’s religious police for sitting with a male colleague at a Starbucks coffee shop in Riyadh.
    The religious police took her mobile phone, pushed her into a cab and drove her to Malaz prison in Riyadh. She was interrogated, strip-searched and forced to sign and fingerprint a series of confessions pleading guilty to her “crime”.
    “They took me into a filthy bathroom, full of water and dirt. They made me take off my clothes and squat and they threw my clothes in this slush and made me put them back on,” she said. Eventually she was taken before a judge.

  19. “Taking down the thought police is just the warm up.”
    Its going to be very difficult to change the CBC from its ingrained leftist culture.
    Skewed leftist documentaries have been their M O as long as I can recall, not to mention the talking heads.
    The Keith Martin motion M-466 tie in with white supremisists is a prime recent example.
    What it will take to change that culture is nothing less than privatizing the monster and let the marketplace settle their acceptance for their leftist diatribe.
    The sooner the better for the country insofar as socialist indotrination goes.

  20. Socialist Jokers: Red Ken & Citoyen Dion.
    …-
    Ken Livingstone faces controversy over joke about Muslims
    {…]
    Journalist Alex Needham asked him [Red Ken]: “Can you tell us a joke?” … Yasser …
    http://tinyurl.com/3e4g8u (london)
    Stephane Dion was asked to tell a joke on a Quebec Talk show. He responded thus: “SD: Have you heard of Bam the dog? Show host: “No.” SD: … sleep.”
    http://themaplethree.blogspot.com/2007/01/bam-dog-stephane-dions-dark-sense-of.html
    You like dat?

  22. (Via CSP) Bill Roggio, Pakistan’s Interior Minister orders negotiations with Baitullah Mehsud
    The Pakistani government and the Taliban appear close to signing the next round of “peace” accords to end the fighting in the tribal areas and the settled districts of the Northwest Frontier Province. Pakistan’s Interior Minister stated a deal can be made with Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, while Baitullah announces a cease-fire in northwestern Pakistan.
    Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz has ordered the formation of a peace jirga, or committee, in order to conduct official talks with the Taliban and Baitullah…

  24. Daniel Pipes, How to Turn Gaza Over to Egypt
    “Listen to me carefully,” President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt instructed an interviewer on Jan. 30. “Gaza is not part of Egypt, nor will it ever be …. I hear talk of a proposal to turn the Strip into an extension of the Sinai peninsula, of offloading responsibility for it onto Egypt” but Mubarak dismissed this as “nothing but a dream.”
    Hardly a dream. It’s a reality that surfaced since January 23, when Hamas operatives breached large segments of the wall separating Gaza from Egypt. That unexpected step alerted the world that an Egyptian embargo, no less than an Israeli one, prevents Gazans from leaving their territory or trading with the outside world…

  25. Actually, the HRC and the CBC are two sides of a coin – control of the minds of Canadians. The HRC oversees what you may not think, feel and say; the CBC provides you with what you may think, feel and say.
    Does Dion want an election? Or is his only method of showing that he is The Opposition Leader, is to threaten the government with an election? I can’t figure him out.
    Surely he knows that the Afghanistan mission, a UN operation, isn’t an election issue. Most Canadians are satisfied with it being ‘ratified as moral/legal’ because of its link with the (corrupt)UN. And, Canadians are gradually moving out of the sophomoric idea of being ‘peace-keepers’, a term painted into irrelevance.
    The environment and AGW is also not a major issue, since the dire predictions of the AGW cultists aren’t appearing and since the Kyotoists are now coming clean in stating that the real agenda is for the West to industrialize India and China. Nothing to do with pollution or emissions.
    Both of the above, Afghanistan and ‘global warming’ now known as ‘climate change’, are still relevant. The CBC and other MSM keep the facts out of sight. But, they aren’t major issues since hard reality sometimes filters through our massive Canadian propaganda apparatus.
    The budget? I doubt it.
    What are the issues that would require an election?
    Why does he want an election? Certainly, the MSM pundits want one; since they are all Liberal/NDP, they can’t handle the Natural Governing Party not being in power and, therefore, their own lack of power. Is it the MSM?
    Is it the NDP? The seats that the NDP is slowly eating up?
    Is it Ignatieff and Rae?

  26. WLMK..you got that right Pontiac!
    The ARA was amongst the most vicious, empty headed, doltish thugs i have ever run across.
    Never mistake the fact that just because they are on the left, they will not resort to tactics that would make Franco blush..
    It is ironic that they employ tactics that not even the ‘fascists’ they purport to hate, would use..
    The red left has always been violent, from the first days of the revolution, to the street brawls in Munich and elsewhere in Germany, to the streets of Toronto in the late 80’s and early 90’s.
    Google Cecil street Marxists for a taste of their zeal..

  28. I agree with LizJ about Bob Robertson’s column being very funny today — it is a spoof of the Mulroney-Schreiber “ethics” investigation. It about sums up my feelings on this whole affair: http://tinyurl.com/2x4ceb . I think that between this and the frivolous Baird investigation, a number of Liberal Parliamentarians really risk losing public respect. To me they simply do not seem to be taking their Parliamentary responsibilities seriously — I can’t believe that the Government Operations and Estimates committee has nothing more useful to investigate.

  29. The Ethics Committee is itself suspect of breaching basic rules of ethical conduct.
    Paul Szabo, its chair, admits to meeting with Schreiber. Robert Thibault, one of its acolytes, admits to meeting with Schreiber, both in jail and after his December release.
    The Chair permitted a non-member, Rodriguez, to ask questions of Mulroney that were unrelated to the mandate of the Committee.
    For the sake of $300,000 of non-taxpayer money? Private money?
    As for Chretien and his gang and the Liberal Party, they owe the Canadian taxpayer over 40 million dollars. Money that they took to pay for re-election in Quebec. Why isn’t the Ethics Committee investigating this? And the fact that the Liberal Party slithers out of repayment?
    Meanwhile, Chretien, dogged as ever, is going after Gomery, to try to clear his name. The facts remain. Forty million dollars of our money was transfered to private companies in Quebec, to pay for Liberal election expenses. Not for ‘unity’ as Chretien claims. But for his own Power.

  30. Warning for Stephan Dion and the Liberal Party of Canada:
    Choose very carefully between tripping up PM Harper for political gain and crippling world security through the consequences of taking pressure off Taliban power bases in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
    A recent video in the news clearly shows how Madrassah in Warziristan, Northern Pakistan are Taliban training camps for terrorist combat tactics using children as young as eleven years
    old.
    http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1507/article_detail.asp
    One can only imagine the damage to the Liberal Party if news coverage shows the Taliban killing teachers and children and blowing up Afghanistan schools. Schools being the one real hope for young people to understand and avoid joining in terrorism.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,2253152,00.html
    Canadians can hardly be expected to vote Liberal if they see ongoing destruction of everything our troops and their families invested their lives in for Afghanistan being destroyed on the evening news. = TG

  31. Warning for Stephan Dion and the Liberal Party of Canada:
    Choose very carefully between tripping up PM Harper for political gain and crippling world security through the consequences of taking pressure off Taliban power bases in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
    A recent video in the news clearly shows how Madrassah in Warziristan, Northern Pakistan are Taliban training camps for terrorist combat tactics using children as young as eleven years
    old.
    http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1507/article_detail.asp
    One can only imagine the damage to the Liberal Party if news coverage shows the Taliban killing teachers and children and blowing up Afghanistan schools. Schools being the one real hope for young people to understand and avoid joining in terrorism.
    guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,2253152,00.html
    Canadians can hardly be expected to vote Liberal if they see ongoing destruction of everything our troops and their families invested their lives in for Afghanistan being destroyed on the evening news. = TG

  32. *
    “cal2 says… CBCpravda All Khadr , All the Time.”
    funny… the ceeb forgot to mention the part where jean chretien intervened
    to get the late papa khadr sprung from a pakistani prison.
    they’re gonna be so embarrassed when they realise their, uh… error.
    *

  36. One more reason why the Church of England is now only the second largest denomination in England:
    Archbishop of Canterbury calls for Sharia law in the UK
    The Archbishop of Canterbury has called for the UK to adopt Sharia law for Muslims.
    Dr Rowan Williams suggested today that it “seems unavoidable” that elements of Islamic law be accepted into the British legal system…

  37. More on “moderate Muslims”:
    Bruce Thornton, What’s in a word?
    …Muslims who want to integrate their faith with liberal democracy, pluralism, human rights, and economic development exist and deserve our support. But I challenge anyone other than scholars to name one of their spokesmen. The moderates surveyed by Joshua Muravchik and Charles Szrom in their recent Commentary article — Kamran Bokhari, Said Edin Ibrahim, Amr Hamzawy, or Abdel-Aziz el-Sherif — have a negligible influence with the Muslim masses compared to that of bin Laden or the Muslim Brotherhood or the mullahs of Iran. And these moderates are just as marginalized in the West, where instead the duplicitous Tariq Ramadan is promoted and celebrated as a “moderate” despite his adherence to the radical doctrines of the Muslim Brotherhood. If large numbers of Muslim moderates existed, and if such moderation were typical of most Muslims, then wouldn’t these spokesmen have a higher profile and a greater constituency among their co-religionists?
    If you missed it, the article by Muravchik and Szrom is available here.

  39. Charles MacDonald,
    Good insights as usual.
    I suspect the fanatics like bin Laden and the Brotherhood have Saudi wealth and bomb-blast [free] editorial mention to keep them in the news.
    Moderates, on the other hand are low key and tend not to demonstrate and so are almost ignored by the MSM.
    If Muslim moderates could afford to rent the GoodYear blimp and display a message of peace, that would certainly help because the *Fundamentalists* would likely bomb it.
    Campaign ideas for moderates. = TG

  40. Actually, charles macdonald, I think that the above comment by Thornton has a lot of empirical and logical holes in it.
    He asserts that moderates have a ‘negligible influence with the Muslim masses’ but provides no empirical data base.
    He asserts that Bin Laden and the Muslim Brotherhood and Iranian mullahs have more influence, but provides no empirical data base.
    He informs us that moderates, ie, non-extremists, are ‘marginalized in the West’ but provides no data base.
    Further into his post, he informs us that communism failed because it “grew out of modern superstitions like ‘materialism, atheism and scientism’. Wow. I’m not sure what he means by scientism but if he means a belief in the scientific method – that’s not a superstition. Neither is materialism; neither is atheism. Furthermore, his outline of the emergence and imposition of communism is factually and analytically false.
    His outline of Islam is that familiar, and I consider, erroneous focus on The Texts, which ignores historical and current context as causal of Islamic fascism and considers it to be a direct result of The Texts.
    He then considers only the ‘Blowback’ theory for Islamic fascism, which is equally erroneous in my view, which considers that it’s merely a reaction to ‘American/Western imperialism’ in the ME. No.
    There’s a third, far more empirically and logically grounded reason for Islamic fascism. I’ve outlined it before and won’t again; a dysfunctional political and economic structure in the ME – tribalism.
    And, the emergence of Islam was due to contextual reasons as well, a reaction of a pastoral nomadic economy to Byzantine settlements of their land base.
    Islamic fascism in the ME is due to that dysfunctional tribalism which refuses power to the people.
    Islamic fascism in the West, however, is due to multicultural decontextualization, where peoples are ghettoized and their ideologies are not subject to tempering from local contextual realities of other people, the economy, etc. The ideologies then becomem Purist. That’s dangerous, for an ideology must always be locked to reality, economic reality, and not only to the imagination.
    By the way, are you another name for Irwin Daisy? The two of you seem twinned with each other.

  41. The people supporting baby Khadr are making ridiculous arguments – whether or not he actually threw a grenade. Who cares – he was involved in an attack, he is old enough to be considered a soldier – so he is at least a POW who will not be released until cessation of hostilities – IOW never. The CBC, Avi Lewis and Justin Trudeau need another poster boy badly; siding with a sociopath at war with Canada is really bad optics.
    Oh, lberia, nice article about Holland trying to dredge up Ottawa Mayoralty race nonsense. If he is so sure of himself, as article points out, perhaps he’d like to make his accusations outside privilege of Parliament.
    BTW, Holland could also comment on allegations, to which Speaker of HofC has yet to rule after almost a year, that he removed, without authority, personal files packaged for delivery.
    Holland is a hypocrite who dredges up non scandals when he is possibly involved in extremely unethical conduct as detailed above.
    What a laugh; this bunch has no chance of getting power back anytime soon, and they can bluff and bluster about defeating Tories over this or that, but they haven’t got the testicular fortitude, or money, or policies, or leader, to actually do it.
    But, I hope they do go for it anyway, though I doubt they actually will pull the plug.

  42. Archbishop of Canterbury converts to Islam:
    http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23436203-details/Adoption+of+Islamic+Sharia+law+in+Britain+is+'unavoidable'%2C+says+Archbishop+of+Canterbury/article.do
    “Controversial: Dr Rowan Williams believes the introduction of Sharia law to Britain will help maintain social cohesion
    The Archbishop of Canterbury has today said that the adoption of Islamic Sharia law in the UK is “unavoidable” and that it would help maintain social cohesion.
    Rowan Williams told BBC Radio 4’s World At One that the UK has to “face up to the fact” that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.”
    Aside from kicking him out of the church, I’d support hanging him for treason!

  43. maz2, Charles MacDonald … ET?
    maz2: Thanks for link to Ibn Warraq responding to Tariq Ramadan, putative “moderate muslim” hero. I recently ordered this book which contains basically translations of what he says in Arabic — the secret to uncovering these Fifth Columnists upon whom desperate Western appeasers are relying for peace and tranquility.
    Brother Tariq: The Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan
    I first became intriqued with this Islamosmoothie when I received a e-mail from a old friend who is a born-again Christian and who is desperately worried about Caliphate Islam. He was certainly fooled!
    Ramadan is the grandson of Hassan al Bana, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.

  44. All your religions belong to us.
    An Islamic group based in the UK has issued a death fatwa against a playwright whose London stage production depicts Jesus Christ as a homosexual.
    Terrence McNally was sentenced to death by the Shari’ah Court of the UK as his play, Corpus Christi, opened in London on Thursday night.
    The play depicts Jesus Christ and his followers as a group of homosexuals. He is seduced by Judas Iscariot, but is later crucified as “king of the queers”. It caused an outcry among Christians when it was staged during the Edinburgh Fringe festival during the summer.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/493436.stm

  45. “The largest Ukrainian “diaspora” in the world outside Eastern Europe resides in Canada.”
    Ukraine has come a long way
    Super Tuesday also arrived in Eastern Europe on Feb. 5 at 11.15 a.m. Eastern Standard Time when gigantic Ukraine was invited to the World Trade Organization. This is geopolitically significant, and brings Ukraine’s 46 million people into the Western fold and the rule of law. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/29vjfv (FP)
    RIP: Obituary.
    Danylo Shumuk, 89, rights activist, “the eternal prisoner”.
    “He emigrated to Canada on May 23, 1987, when he was reunited with his nephew, Ivan Shumuk of Vernon, British Columbia, whose decade-old effort to free his uncle and bring him to Canada finally succeeded. He lived in Vancouver and in Toronto and continued to be outspoken about human and national rights causes.”
    http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2004/270413.shtml

  46. ET, RE: your 12:11
    I often wade through your interesting empirical data bases and sometimes wince at how you find holes in others’ conclusions.
    Very sharp, however where are your suggestions?
    All that detailed background must give you useful answers.
    How do moderate Muslims gain a higher profile voice? I suggested the GoodYear blimp.
    What are the more worthy and effective answers, really? = TG

  47. Spot the socialist engineering theory in the quote below… Any surprise that this comes from academia?
    —————-
    But Professor Grace-Edward Galabuzi of Ryerson University says a curriculum that assumes sameness, or colour blindness, does not necessarily lead to equality.
    He says society sometimes has to do things differently for some groups to ensure equitable outcomes.
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008/02/07/4832661-cp.html

  49. This is curious — though I am not sure how useful it is. Google now has an election map which includes spontaneous comments from people around the globe (esp. U.S., of course). I gather Romney has just dropped out: http://tinyurl.com/3caoag

  50. Oh yes the meddling busybodies want equitable outcomes alright! OttRob……
    BTW – Our media friends have been working overtime on the piece of poo story about Lisa Klassen who was speeding on a known dangerous bit of road and managed to put her car upside down in the Red River.
    They’ve got it all figured out… the evil SUV did it! Poor Lisa can’t conveniently remember a thing.
    But the twits apparently don’t understand that the electronics on the car record what happened with speed throttle and brake systems the police can prove it was her own fault.
    I want to see the report on the black box.

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