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  2. On that horrific triple child killing in Merritt,I saw on news today,that RCMP had ‘dealt’ with this man 3 times earlier in wk,and at one point he was in jail.RCMP wanted him kept behind bars,but according to reporter,the JP refused and cut this animal loose.When will they ever start to listen?
    Rest in peace kids,and God bless the Mom.

  3. I know this is hard to believe, but it seems the MSM may have missed an important article in the American Geophysical Union’s EOS publication that would cast serious doubt on the theory of global warming. Not nearly as spectacular as the idea of the antarctic ice shelf falling apart which was featured in the MSM worldwide, the article indicates that the surface snowmelt in Antarctica in 2008 was the second smallest in the period of 1987-2008 and was just over a third of the average for the period. Details available on Roger Pielke Sr.’s excellent blog, Climate Science: http://climatesci.org/.

  4. The MSM did do a story that featured mention of the rate of melting of the Antarctic ice shelf today. “Hansen said that he now regards as “implausible” the view of many climate scientists that the shrinking of the ice sheets would take thousands of years. “If we follow business as usual I can’t see how west Antarctica could survive a century. We are talking about a sea-level rise of at least a couple of metres this century.”
    Of course the story was in the context of James Hansen, ramping up the hysteria. It was entitled “Climate Target is Not Radical Enough”! He now claims that the sky is falling – I mean the ice is melting and governments will have to cut greenhouse gases way more than first thought. Otherwise, like Ted Turner said, it’s going to get hot as hell and we’ll all end up becoming cannibals. (Alright, I made that last part up – not about what Ted said but that Hansen included it in his study)
    Maybe if Hansen read the, you know, actual data, instead of extrapolating and adjusting everything to reveal the truths that only he can see, he might get a clue. Or not. Found in the Guardian in the UK : http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/07/climatechange.carbonemissions

  7. No he doesnt own CNN anymore. He sold out to time-warner years ago.He owns little of time-warner and for the most part has lost his platform. That’s why you have not seen much of him for sometime now.

  10. It appears Garth is going off the deep end in slow motion. Best to ignore him as surely the people in his riding of Halton will next election.

  11. Miller renews national push for handgun ban
    Mayor’s YouTube video calls for action
    G&M
    …While he said Mr. Abdikarim’s family was right to seek a new life in Canada away from the violence in Somalia, he compared the violence in Toronto’s streets to those in his war-torn homeland.
    “Toronto is not really better than Mogadishu or Baghdad, Iraq or Afghanistan,” Mr. Warsame said…..
    http://tinyurl.com/6ccsv7

  12. “Liberal leader Stephane Dion has become an albatross for his party”
    http://tinyurl.com/6mxla5 (province)
    “I’ve got utter confidence in Stephane Dion to determine when is the right time to pull the trigger,” she said.” (Joyce Murray)

  14. Warman Continues to Threaten McGill student News Paper
    http://tinyurl.com/4vvuxx
    ” My response to Richard Warman
    Thanks to everyone for their kind words of encouragement. Mr. Warman called the McGill Tribune today, incredulous that this had been leaked to the blogosphere and posted in my personal blog
    (…)
    Respectfully, I must challenge your interpretation of my article as a whole, and your attitude during this whole matter. Instead of respecting the right of authors and writers to comment on your work, you have shown a reckless disregard for freedom of the press in many instances. Instead of stepping up in the marketplace of ideas and responding to me and my ideas in a public forum (such as with an op-ed of your own), you threaten legal maneuvers.”

  15. “Climate Target is Not Radical Enough”
    That’s Hansen-speak that in plain English means
    “Scary, scary, scary, so double my budget”

  16. I do not care how much turdeau sucked Mao’s arse.
    I do not care how much money cretin will make from the cherry.
    I do not care that mr dithers makes tons of dough shipping dirty coal to china.
    I DO CARE THAT ATHLETES WEARING THE MAPLE LEAF ARE GOING TO GLORIFY AN EVENT HOSTED BY A MURDERING COMMIE REGIME ! ! !
    OLYMPIC BOYCOTT NOW !

  17. Gravity is a law; not a theory. A cackler with one arm says so.
    As Ad$cam Jeancula said: “Its a proof, a proof is a proof and when you have a good proof its because it”s proven”.
    Liberal Non-leader Citoyen Dion is the Proof.
    …-
    “”If the Liberals don’t jump on this immigration issue, next Harper will try to repeal the law of gravity and see if the Liberals let it go through,” cackled one arm’s-length observer.”
    No guts, no glory, no election (Is this it?)
    National Post
    Don Martin
    “More and more a sad new sentiment is linked to a Liberal leader trying to turn two wrong options into a right move: The laughing is giving way to pity.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998344/posts

  18. The reason, the only reason, that the MSM – who are all Liberal acolytes – keep endlessly harping on ‘when’s the election’ is because they realize it’s the only way to get rid of Dion.
    They want an election because they consider that the Liberal Party is The Natural Governing Party and consider that Dion is hampering its ‘return to its rightful position’.
    They have no interest in Canada or Canadians. No interest in what is good for the country. No interest in Harper and the Conservatives, and view them only as an impediment to Liberal Power.
    I don’t think we’ve ever seen such a display of open bias in our media, as now – with the Liberals out of power – and the MSM desperate to see its return. When the Liberals were in power, was the MSM daily, hourly, speculating on ‘when’s the election’? No.
    Duffy, Newman, Fife..the CBC, CTV, the Star, Jim Travers, Gloria Galloway, Jane Taber, Craig Oliver, the Globe – it’s an endless list of Liberal acolytes.

  20. Disagree with your capitalized comments COMPLETELY kingstonlad.
    I don’t disagree that the IOCC should never have given the games to China, but since they did, and we have athletes that have been training for years to excel on the world stage, they should be allowed to do just that. Boycotting the Olympics will accomplish nothing that will change China’s behaviour. It will however, just like Earth Hour, allow us to vacuously claim that “we” made a difference.
    Let’s boycott the Financial Games. Ban altogether, or impose crippling duties on, the import of goods from China. Yeah, it might cost us a little more to live, but at least then it would be a REAL statement by Canada and Canadians that we are serious about wanting reforms. As well we would be truly directly involved in trying to make a difference.
    Do it on your own. Refuse to purchase anything made in China. Tell your friends you are doing it and why. Tell it to the Manager at Walmart. Just say no to Chinese goods. Tell your MP that we as a nation should be saying NO to Chinese goods.
    But an Olympic boycott would be a hollow act. It worked so well with the Moscow Olympics in 1980, and the retaliatory strike by the Eastern Bloc for the L.A. Games in 1984 that of course it is being considered for the Beijing Games.
    If we were going to boycott, the time would have been the day these games were awarded to China. Then the protest may have had legs.
    “Oh, but if we award the Games to China, they will clean up their act.”! Do you remember that? What a sad commentary on elitist thinking. The notion of boycotting these games is no less empty or futile than awarding them in the first place was when it comes to China’s actions.
    DOLLARS SPEAK LOUDEST.

  21. “I am a Marxist monk: Dalai Lama”
    Socialists are cannibals, devouring each other.
    Joe-Adolf signed a friendship treaty; Adolf attacked Joe in 1941; Joe survived only to collapse in 1989.
    Joe’s albatross was Yugoslavian socialist Tito. They both committed suicide.
    Socialist Mao attacks Tibet; socialist LamaTibet is now at war with socialist Mao. The Orympics is the proxy.
    The socialist-anarchist Red-Greens have sided with socialist LamaTibet against socialist MaoChina.
    Enjoy.
    …-
    “Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama calls himself a Marxist monk, because “Marxism is more ethical, unlike capitalism”.”
    http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/I-am-a-Marxist-monk-Dalai-Lama/263190/
    Stir the pot: Boycott the Red Orympics.
    Socialist Tibetlama is socialist Mao’s albatross, aka the noose, with which Mao will strangle itself.
    …-

  22. ET at 9:35 am –
    “Duffy, Newman, Fife..the CBC, CTV, the Star, Jim Travers, Gloria Galloway, Jane Taber, Craig Oliver, the Globe – it’s an endless list of Liberal acolytes”.
    ET, You say ACOLYTES – I say “LICKSPITTLE”

  23. “Climate change will Impact Beer production”
    ctv.ca
    Ok, all you fellow Knuckle draggers these scientist are really hitting below the belt, What’s next No More Popcorn!

  24. It’s interesting – this call by the left (Liberals, NDP) to boycott the Olympic Games.
    Remember how these same political groups screamed at Harper when he publicly chastised China for its human rights? We were told by the Liberals that such public statements would harm our economic links with China and that Harper was Evil for such behaviour.
    Now these same groups want Canada to ‘boycott the Olympics’.
    I’m against such a boycott. It would actually serve to isolate China in its old patterns, even more. China is an emerging industrial nation. Allow it to transform itself; it isn’t an easy change.
    China moved itself with great difficulty out of a peasant agricultural economy and into industrialism. It did this in one generation by force – the Communist revolution. The next step is to make that industrialism a capitalist rather than socialist mode – it’s rapidly moving into that, promoting private ownership of land and businesses. [Canada doesn’t even have private property ownership!]
    The next step is democracy, which empowers the middle class. This is absolutely inevitable. But we in the West can impede or assist this next phase. We’ll impede it if we reject China’s participation in the world. We’ll assist it if we interact with China – and at the same time, comment as Harper has done, on their human rights.
    But freezing China out, with our self-proclaimed superiority, chastizing them for being ‘bad’ will move the Chinese into a state of resentment, isolation and a resultant indifference to the desires of the West.
    As for Tibet – I’m extremely suspicious of the whole agenda on the part of Tibet and the Dalai Lama. It isn’t as simple as he makes it to be.

  26. “Mayor’s YouTube video calls for action”
    Comments are disabled. As usual,those of us who disagree can’t put forward our point of view.

  27. Frederick W. Kagan, Why Iraq Matters
    Losing wars is always bad. One of the major reasons for America’s current global predominance economically and politically is that America doesn’t lose wars very often. It seems likely, however, that the American people are about to be told that they have to decide to lose the Iraq war, that accepting defeat is better than trying to win, and that the consequences of defeat will be less than the costs of continuing to fight. For some, the demand to “end this war” is a reprise of the great triumph of their generation: forcing the U.S. to lose the Vietnam War and feel good about it…
    Also available at http://tinyurl.com/3wql2c

  28. Bret Stephens, From King to Mugabe
    Maybe the question is better put this way: Why is it that “progressivism” seems so prone to nihilism? Friedrich Nietzsche, who knew something about nihilism, had an answer: “Man,” as he famously concluded in his Genealogy of Morals, “would rather will nothingness than not will.” Ultimate freedom, complete liberation, demands that man overthrow every constraint, or what Nietzsche called “a revolt against the most fundamental preconditions of life itself” – including life itself. In this scheme, nature and the natural order of things become subordinate to the mere act of willing. This is the essence of totalitarianism, a political order that recognizes no higher authority, no limits and no decencies…

  29. (PDF warning) Prof. Dror Ze’evi, Clans and Militias in Palestinian Politics
    In the Palestinian territories, clans (locally called hamulas, sing. pronounced hamoola) have become a focus of political activity and major hubs of local power. Since members of Hamas or Fatah invariably belong to their clans as well, when a member of one organization is killed by a member of another, and the killer’s identity is known, it is no longer just an issue of organizational enmity… Any attempt by the government to disarm militias is automatically perceived as an attempt to chip away at the power of the clans and encounters serious opposition.
    Yet, ultimately this quasi-tribal structure is detrimental to the emergence of a viable democratic culture – harnessing the power of the clans may prove critical at this stage for establishing authority in a fledgling Palestinian state – and understanding clans is thus a crucial part of the study of local Palestinian politics…

  30. Read the letter from the NLP, aka the Natural Luring Party.
    …-
    “The Liberals respond to the Johnston recommendation
    Dr David Johnston has recommended that any inquiry into the business relationship between Brian Mulroney and Karlheinz Schreiber be limited in scope and out of the public eye.
    This has generated an entirely predictable response from the Liberal Party.”
    “In response, the Liberal Party has issued this letter:
    Dear Dr Johnston,
    On behalf of the Liberal Party, I would like to thank you for your hard work with regards to setting the frames of reference for an inquiry into the Mulroney-Schreiber affair.
    Though in recent weeks, members of Canada’s natural ruling party have made statements to the effect that any inquiry ought to be wide-ranging, in truth, such an inquiry would not be effective.”
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/259677.php

  31. “It is so abundantly clear, when you look at the international statistics, the tougher the laws about handguns, the fewer murders there are, the fewer suicides, the fewer accidental deaths. It is absolutely black and white.”
    I guess David Miller doesn’t have google….
    Simon Fraser University professor Gary Mauser finds that a year after the British obediently surrendered 160,000 legal handguns, London muggings were up 53 percent, gun murders up 90 percent and robbery up more than 100 percent. By the year following, annual gun crimes overall had risen 39 percent.
    This pattern has continued. The rate of violent crime in England and Wales is more than double the United States. It is now more dangerous to walk the streets of London than New York.
    On top of that, British Olympic shooting teams are now forced to practice their sport in another country! This is doubly absurd, for it discourages establishing positive role models for how firearms should be used.
    In contrast, during the last decade, violent crime has dropped 40 percent in the United States as the number of firearms and states with concealed carry permits have increased.

  32. (Via Contentions) Michael J. Totten, Builders of Nations
    “This is my hardest deployment,” Marine Sergeant Cooley said as he unfastened his helmet and tossed it onto his bed. “We weren’t trained for this kind of thing.” He’s been shot at with bullets and mortars, and he’s endured IED attacks on his Humvee, but post-war Fallujah is more difficult and more stressful than combat. He isn’t unusual for saying so. Many Marines I spoke to in and around the Fallujah area said something similar…
    While most Americans go to school, work traditional day jobs, and raise their families, young American men and women like these are deployed to Iraq, Kosovo, and Afghanistan where they work seven days a week rebuilding societies torn to pieces by fascism, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and war. It is not what they signed up to do…

  33. Caroline Glick, Our World: Covering for the enemy
    It has taken seven months, but it appears that the Bush administration has finally buckled under Congressional pressure and is ready to give US lawmakers a full briefing on the September 6 IDF bombing raid against the North Korean-built nuclear installation in Syria. Sunday it was reported that Congress has forced the administration’s hand on the issue by making its approval of the administration’s intelligence budget contingent on receiving a full briefing on the raid…

  35. I have been calling for environmental and labor tariffs against the chicoms from day one.
    And the fact is, I do not want my country participating in any event in that commie tinpot shit hole. Period, end of story~!

  36. Shaken … that is One Very Good Blog !
    Let alone the article you linked to:
    Richard Falk Is real piece of work!
    How these types are tolerated let alone nurtured and sustained by institutions like Princeton is a real concern.
    What an embarrassment to that University!

  39. Speaking of boycotts, I’m determined to buy a pair of sealskin mukluks for next winter, and if I can find one, I’d like a seal skin, just as a throw for the couch.

  41. Knut was hand-reared? Knut kills carp for fun?
    …-
    “Shock at Polar Bear’s Carp Kill (The Horror!)
    Germany’s celebrity polar bear Knut has triggered a new controversy by fishing out 10 live carp from his moat and killing them in front of visitors.
    Critics say Berlin Zoo should not have put live fish inside Knut’s enclosure. But German media report that the carp were put there to eat up algae.
    There is speculation that hand-reared Knut killed the carp just for fun.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998503/posts
    Meanwhile in Nunavut:
    “Inuit hunters have long argued that the bear population is still very healthy.”
    “Sport hunt slow in High Arctic
    Karen Mackenzie
    Northern News Services
    Published Monday, March 31, 2008
    Nunavut – Grise Fiord welcomed its first polar bear sport hunter of the season last week but only time will tell whether others will follow.
    The commercial hunt has been slow in many Nunavut communities, while American clients await a U.S. decision on whether to list polar bears as a threatened animal under its Endangered Species Act.
    “Everything was in a lot of limbo because of this U.S. decision, but that hold is off for a little. It looks like we’re going ahead,” said Marty Kuluguqtuq, the sport hunt co-ordinator for the Iviq Hunters and Trappers Organization (HTO).
    The community allocated 10 of its 35 tags to the sport hunt this year, all of which have been claimed by American hunters.
    One hunter visited the community and bagged a bear last week.”
    http://tinyurl.com/6oxppg

  43. Meet the new anti-Semite head of the UN Human Rights Council’s anti-Israeli demonization team, same as the old anti-Semite head of the UN Human Rights Council’s anti-Israeli demonization team – only more so.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7335875.stm
    The next UN investigator into Israeli conduct in the occupied territories has stood by comments comparing Israeli actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis.
    Speaking to the BBC, Professor Richard Falk said he believed that up to now Israel had been successful in avoiding the criticism that it was due.
    …
    That reluctance was, he argued, based on the particular historical sensitivity of the Jewish people, and Israel’s ability to avoid having their policies held up to international law and morality.
    ———
    Cause Israel has always been given a pass from the UN and the “international community.”
    This guy needs a beating – not a new bully pulpit to bash the Jews from.
    Why in hell does PC idiocy dicatate that we have to give our tax dollars to this moral ceaspool?

  44. For a trip down memory lane, visit Calgary Grit, for his post on Trudeau’s win several years ago.
    He won on the 4th ballot.
    One disgruntled cabinet minister, (on the divorce law) said, FOR ABORTION, HOMOSEXUALITY AND EASY DIVORCE, VOTE LIBERAL. How prophetic he was.

  45. CTS-TV Michael Coren Show 8pm Eastern, repeat 12 noon next day-
    Tuesday, April 8 – Human Rights Commissions and their victims
    Ron Grey
    Kathy Shaidle
    Dr. Charles McVety
    Paul Tuns

  48. CSL Ad$cam Martin Jr., the Librano$ MP for the Riding of RaeBob’s Uncle Mao Stlong/PowerCorp/Desmarais, says there really is no “Kelowna Accord”. It’s a figment of CBCPravda’s imaginative propaganda machine.
    Paully & Mao Stlong say/say, Do not believe in Kerowna Accold.
    …-
    “Martin urges Tories not to ignore Kelowna Accord”
    (canbroadcorpingcastration)

  49. ET, I agree with your opinion about not boycotting China’s Olympics. I also agree with your POV on the Dalai Lama.
    I am quite suspicious of this religious leader’s Ghandi like posturing vis a vis the riots, etc. He is not an innocent bystander. Given that his country was annexed, there’s no reason for him to act like it either. However, the Olympics is not the venue and causing embarrassment is an unseemly tactic for a so-called holy man to to support.
    Regardless, I wouldn’t support any leftist religious icon anyhow.
    China is obviously changing. It is difficult. And it won’t be without it’s problems. There is a certain amount of freedom allowed that would have been unheard of even ten years ago.
    Repeating Russia’s collapse into criminal anarchy with the end of Communism is something they and the world may well want to avoid.

  50. someone here earlier refered to Garth’s Blog, Harper & legion & nazis.
    Anyways i have finaly had a chance to go and read the blog & the legion ref. in the blog, I have emailed Mr.Turner to inform him that the RCL part he refers in his blog is a Bogus Piece that is Circulating the Legion’s Dominion Command has issued notices to all branches. The bogus mail shows the sender as the Royal Canadian Legion. the bogus piece also use’s a RCL emblem at the end of it, However that emblem was disc & a new logo has been in use for a number of years.

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