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  1. “If you do not want to respect our thousands-of-years-old civilization, its Christian values and emphasis on the traditional family and respect for each individual life, do not vote for me.
    “If you want to live in a future shaped by fashionable trends, when smoking will be banned and drugs tolerated, when marriage will be dispensed with as an institution and only (same sex) couples will go the town hall for registration… that is not my programme,” he said.
    -Vaclav Klaus
    tinyurl.com/yqm5ra

  2. Prehistoric Inuit whalers affected Arctic freshwater ecosystems
    It is commonly assumed that High Arctic lakes and ponds were not affected by direct local human activities before the arrival of Europeans, because most native peoples were primarily nomadic, maintained relatively low population densities, and practiced unintrusive hunting and gathering technologies. Our archeological and paleolimnological data show that this was not always the case.
    Thule Inuit whalers, whose winter settlements consisted of houses constructed from the bones of bowhead whales on Somerset Island between about anno Domini 1200 and 1600, markedly changed pond water quality and ecology. The arrival of whalers 8 centuries ago caused marked changes in water chemistry and the expansion of moss substrates. Although whalers abandoned the area >4 centuries ago, the legacy of these human disturbances is still evident in the pond’s present-day limnology and is characterized by elevated nutrient concentrations and atypical biota.
    This is the earliest reported paleolimnological record of changes in aquatic ecology associated with local human activities in Canada or the United States, or for any circumpolar ecosystem.
    http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/101/6/1613

  3. A high court judge in St. Vincent and the Grenadines has set February 28 as the date to hear an application for leave for a judicial review of the decision of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to stop the prosecution of Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves on rape and indecent allegations charges.
    Last month, a 36-year-old female police officer swore to a statement before Chief Magistrate Sonia Young, that on January 3, she was raped by Dr. Gonsalves at the Prime Minister’s official residence.
    But the Prime Minister, who was scheduled to appear in court on February 22 to answer the private criminal charge, has categorically denied the allegations, describing them as “false and malicious”.
    The DPP, Collin Williams said he had discontinued the charges against Dr. Gonsalves as the allegation was not likely to stand up in a court of law.
    However, Thursday, Justice Gertel Thorn set the date for a judicial review after hearing submissions from lawyers for the woman, the DPP and the Attorney General.
    http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/5548/88/

  4. Canadians as illegal immigrants?
    Looks like Canadians are getting caught up in the illegal alien drivers license dust-up here in Michigan, and are getting represented by the ACLU.
    As an aside question: are there not nursing shortages in Canada, or is this due to wage and work environment differences?
    Driver’s License Rule Roils Michigan
    By TIM MARTIN – 2 days ago
    LANSING, Mich. (AP) — When Michigan officials recently reinterpreted state law to stop nonresidents from getting driver’s licenses, critics said it had an unintended consequence.
    The crackdown — intended to target illegal immigrants — also affected legal immigrants who are not permanent residents, including employees from other countries temporarily working in Michigan.
    Businesses and universities have complained, saying Michigan’s reputation is suffering. The American Civil Liberties Union sued Wednesday on behalf of legal immigrants.
    State officials say there are nearly 400,000 foreign businesspeople, students and their families in Michigan on visas, and some have already have been turned down in their quest to get licenses, which hurts their ability to find jobs.
    “With this policy, the state is sending mixed messages to me and other registered nurses who are moving here from other countries to fill a nursing shortage plaguing Michigan,” Catherine Gates, a Canadian citizen living in Muskegon, said in a statement released by the ACLU….

  5. Posted by: Jim at February 16, 2008 2:44 PM
    “A wonderful business opportunity appears to be opening up for you; helmets airbrushed to look like turbans.”
    Maybe airbrushing turbans to look like helmets would have a larger market? Perhaps Mo, with flames, on the side and a verse on the back: “72 Virgins, or Bust”.

  6. RE nursing shortage. Here in Ontario there is a nursing shortage in hospitals. There isn’t the money to pay them, so they emigrate to where there are paychecks.

  7. Yoob and Minuteman; There is a Nursing shortage in the sense that the hospital operators will not or can not hire them. A Nurse who decides to stay in Canada cannot get a full time position for the first 3 – 5 years of practice. This is likely a method of rationing healthcare as is the reduction of operating room hours.
    When the patient is an expense rather than an asset rationing is the only way of controlling budgets. We have a health care system in Canada that is modeled after that of Cuba.
    I had the occasion to have eye surgery in a private facility,one of the rarely allowed intrusions on the public system, and there were Nurses, Nurses everywhere.

  8. WINTER WATCH: TORONTO.
    ‘Anyone in Toronto notice the deployment of the $20 million-snow removal trucks and other equipment on Toronto side streets?
    I’m living on a fairly high-traffic side street just a few blocks from two main Toronto intersections right in the middle of the city, I’ve travelled north, south, east, and west today for my groceries, and I haven’t seen an iota of evidence that Moro…er…Mayor Miller’s fleet of snow removal equipment is on the job.
    I would like to be disabused of this notion.
    Could it be that the clips on the CBC/CTV news last night were nothing more than cosmetic–either they were taken in another city or at another time? Could Mayor Miller just be making up a story to make poor, benighted, snow-up-to-our-yin-yangs-Torontonians FEEL better?
    I mean, he’s a touchy, feely, lefty metrosexual guy.
    On the other hand, maybe his neighbourhood, High Park, is being serviced…
    ‘Anyone know?

  9. What is Liberal Citoyen Dion’s Taliban policy today?
    Blah blah blah blah bleat bleat ba baaaaaa = retreat; surrenders to PM Harper.
    General Jubilation D. Dion accepts Manley report. …-
    “Defending the Liberal party’s latest position on Afghanistan, Stéphane Dion insisted he did not want to play armchair general, or tie the hands of field commanders. “We will not micromanage the military,” he told reporters. “It is for them to determine how to implement this new mission.”
    It’s good that he cleared that up.”
    http://tinyurl.com/333zlb (acoyne)

  10. “liberalism” aka socialism = psychological disorder.
    “Rossiter says the kind of liberalism being displayed by the two major candidates for the Democratic Party presidential nomination can only be understood as a psychological disorder.”
    “Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:
    * creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
    * satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;
    * augmenting primitive feelings of envy;
    * rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.”
    …-
    Top shrink concludes liberals are nuts!
    Makes case ideology is mental disorder
    Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.
    “Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,” says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.” “Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.”
    While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a life virtually free of activism and links to “the vast right-wing conspiracy.”
    For more than 35 years he has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500 patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases as a board-certified forensic psychiatrist. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2fvcwv (worldnet)

  11. There was another country where you were labeled “insane” when you disagreed with the ideology of the government. Lavrenty Beria will be smiling in his grave if you can guess which one.

  12. “WINTER WATCH TORONTO”, batb:
    Is Mayor Miller’s neighborhood being served? I’d bet my last buck on it!
    Toronto sure can pick ’em. If Miller is anything close to the stunned, gormless, clueless looking individual he looks and sounds like in news clips, what can we say?
    He’s gotta be a reflection of the electorate in the Socialist/Leftist capital of the Province. It’s a tough place to live for anyone with the capacity for reason and common sense.

  13. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080214114517.htm
    Sheep In Human Clothing: Scientists Reveal Our Flock Mentality
    […]
    Results from a study at the University of Leeds show that it takes a minority of just five per cent to influence a crowd’s direction – and that the other 95 per cent follow without realising it. […]
    Kate: This may explain why I like the herding group rather than terriers. Cheers

  14. There are lots of signs stuck in the snow banks saying that snow removal is taking place. Though no further activity has been sighted it is expected to rain tomorrow so maybe this is the intended removal.

  15. Published February 16, 1938.
    Appeasement: Nazi = National Socialism.
    “LONDON, Feb. 15 – Faced with what it knows to be the surrender of Austria to the might of Nazi Germany, the British Government publicly stuck its head deep into the sand today.
    “Oh, it is nothing very serious,” was the official attitude, although all London realized that the Trojan horse of Nazism had been pushed at last into the heart of Vienna.”
    …-
    AUSTRIA CAPITULATES TO GERMANY
    Microfiche-New York Times archives
    …-
    AUSTRIA CAPITULATES TO GERMANY; PRO-NAZIS GET KEY POSTS IN CABINET; BERLIN HAILS UNITY OF TWO NATIONS
    British Minimize Vienna Surrender; Relieved That Clash Was Avoided
    Smoother Path Seen for ‘Deal’ With Germany If Hitler Is Reasonable – Public Realizes Importance Despite Official Complacence
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971437/posts

  16. Canada’s $40 billion/year socialist medicare regime at work:
    wrinkles anyone?
    …-
    Margaret Wente: Human Rights Commissions – A day at the theatre of the absurd
    Globe & Mail: Margaret Wente
    Labiaplasty denied: a landmark test of transsexuals’ access to medical care in Ontario?
    What do human rights commissions do? The other day I decided to find out. I dropped in on a hearing at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, where the really serious cases wind up.
    This case involved a complaint by two women against Dr. Robert Stubbs, a plastic surgeon who has a private clinic in Toronto. Dr. Stubbs is best known for surgically enhancing the genitalia of people who are dissatisfied with their private parts. The women complained to the human rights commission after he turned them down for surgery.
    On what grounds, you may ask? Okay, here’s the wrinkle. http://tinyurl.com/2wnmwc (blzingcatfur)

  17. I think Vaclav Klaus is also the one who’s written extensively against AGW and calls it for what it is: a total fraud.
    We need a politician like him over here–including the US.

  18. ‘There was another country where you were labeled “insane” when you disagreed with the ideology of the government. Lavrenty Beria will be smiling in his grave if you can guess which one.
    Posted by: lberia at February 16, 2008 5:54 PM ”
    Nice try at a deflection,but you missed. BIG difference between conservatives and communism. Mind you,it would take thought,not feelings, to acquire that knowledge,something the lefties are not known for(thinking)

  19. Justthinking:
    It’s you who is not thinking very well. Today we have links demonstrating how right wingers want to adopt ideas from both Nazis (forced sterilization) and Commies(accusing ideological opponents of being insane). Perhaps you should change your nic to justnotthinking…

  20. “The evil will, alas, simply take new forms.”
    Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
    by Simon Se Montefiore
    A Review by Robert Conquest
    “The Holocaust stood clearly as a monstrosity from the start. The communist record was more blurred, more polymorphous; and for a long while it retained remnants of its initial luster (something that National Socialism never enjoyed outside Germany). As a result, many Western intellectuals, though no longer approving, remained nonjudgmental for many years.
    There will probably always be an alienated intelligentsia, especially in tolerant, democratic societies. But the extent to which this stratum was penetrated, misled about reality, and to some degree fanaticized by Moscow’s manipulations is striking. William James wrote that philosophical opinion is largely a matter of temperament. This applies to political and other types of opinion as well. The sort of temperament we have seen during the twentieth century, combining at its worst a blend of zealotry and unteachability, can be found in earlier eras. It will doubtless always be lying in wait for us. Knowledge of its recent embodiments, although useful, will not eradicate it. The evil will, alas, simply take new forms.” …-
    http://www.powells.com/review/2004_07_06.html

  21. A poll that suggests that 40 years+ indoctrination/persuasion/law suit tantrums by the progressives/academe/chattering classes that proport to be the leaders of our ” Passing Parade” are not quite having the effect they suppose.
    http://www.lfpress.com/
    scroll down and its on the right of the page.
    Sincerely,
    Robert Albin
    Calgary

  22. Hey guys & gals,
    Stop feeding the idiot trolls like lberia, they’re only here to divert & disseminate their agenda.
    Some other trolls:
    CBCfan, libforlife,volik,JohnnyRingo,John Daly,Wanker,
    balbulikan,ADS,Jeff davidson,Lucy,Jason Cherniak,
    Johnny Maudlin,Warren
    Who really gives a rodent’s rectum what any
    of these wastes of skin think?

  23. Just a Note:
    The Fox Stock Market Monkeys today had a go at Global Warming: 3 to 1 against GW, but stopped short of calling it a fraud.
    Also Smoking: 3 to 1 that smokers have rights, the one young lady keep repeating “but they must pay”
    YES PAY:
    I think PETA should pay Indians for live beaver, or volunteer for childcare on reserves.
    I think Tree Huggers should pay per Tree not harvested, or volunteer cleaning toilets at our parks
    I think Sierra Club should pay per carbon FP of their endangered species, or volunteer picking Green Crops
    The Market “Day” traders follow these shows! I wonder how “carbon shares” in the EU will make out…Gore may have sold already

  24. Vaclav Klaus is brilliant. More than anyone else I am aware of he can really cut through the crap. Very few (if any) other politicians capable of doing the same.

  25. Good news: Vaclav was re-elected. Now THERE’S a leader.
    As lookout has pointed out, Canada sorely needs a leader like he is. For that matter, so do other European nations and the rest of the Americas.
    He’s got it right: He understands the connection between free, democratic nations and “respect [for]…our thousands-of-years-old civilization, its Christian values and emphasis on the traditional family and respect for each individual life.”
    It’s not such a difficult concept to grasp, but an awful lot of Western politicians, MSM-types, teachers, professors, and others of the chattering classes seem to be stymied by it.
    Get a grip, folks. Stand up for and extol Judeo-Christian values and what they’ve done for Western Civilization or be Dhimmied. It’s really that simple. It’s not complicated at all.

  26. “This is the first instalment!”
    By Ezra Levant on February 16, 2008 11:14 PM | Permalink | |
    First, Robina Butt complained about financial corruption at Syed Soharwardy’s Al-Madinah mosque.
    Then Robina Butt claimed Syed Soharwardy made physical threats against her.
    Then Robina Butt’s home was invaded, and she was beaten.
    Her attackers shouted “”We come from Al-Madinah; if you ever talk anything about Al-Madinah . . . this is the first instalment.”
    This is Robina Butt now.
    http://ezralevant.com/

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