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  1. [Seventeen years ago, post-Soviet Russia was a geopolitical doormat, too poor and weak to exert much influence beyond its borders. This month, at an international summit in Romania, Russia intimidated Western Europe into scuttling a proposal for NATO expansion. Historically, only war has caused rapid, profound shifts in the European balance of power. Russia’s rise, however, has a less malignant, if more bizarre, origin: German environmentalism.] Icecap
    http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/co2_constraints_have_major_global_security_impacts/

  3. Bolivia’s Left Wing Prez, Evo Morales:
    “If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.” (Tuesday, 22 April 2008 at the UN)
    Canada’s Maurice Strong:
    “Frankly, we may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.” (September 1, 1997 edition of National Review magazine.)
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7359880.stm
    http://www.nationalcenter.org/DossierStrong.html
    At least our very own Canadian beat him by more than a decade !!

  6. Bolivia’s Left Wing Prez, Evo Morales:
    “If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.” (Tuesday, 22 April 2008 at the UN)
    Saw that on BBC, and the woman reporting continues on “and now to the weather” like this was just a natural statement like “comunism rules” or something else dear to her heart

  8. Happy birthday, ulianov (iberia?)! You do know that some of those machines are made in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and that no one in Canada is considering their use, right?

  9. Here’s the seat breakdown of the CPC in/out election money transfers. Just curious as to how many of these were won by the CPC and if enough of these were won so that it actually made a difference, as Ralph Goodale claims, in whether or not the Liberals could have won a minority.
    None of the NL seats involved were won by the CPC. Can SDA readers help out here?
    British Columbia
    Burnaby-Douglas, George Drazenovic
    Burnaby-New Westminster, Marc Dalton
    Cariboo-Prince George, Dick Harris
    Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, Troy DeSouza
    Kelowna-Lake Country, Ron Cannan
    Kootenay-Columbia, Jim Abbott
    Nanaimo-Cowichan, Norm Sowden
    Okanagan-Coquihalla, Stockwell Day
    Okanagan-Shuswap, Colin Mayes
    Prince George-Peace River, Jay Hill
    Vancouver East, Elizabeth M. Pagtakhan
    Vancouver Kingsway, Kanman Wong
    Saskatchewan
    Cypress Hills-Grasslands, David Anderson
    Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River, Jeremy Harrison
    Manitoba
    Winnipeg Centre, Helen Sterzer
    Ontario
    Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing, Ian West
    Davenport, Theresa Rodrigues
    Kitchener Centre, Steven Cage
    London-Fanshawe, Dan Mailer
    Parkdale-High Park, Jurij Klufas
    Sarnia-Lambton, Patricia Davidson
    Scarborough Centre, Roxanne James
    Thunder Bay-Rainy River, David Leskowski
    Timmins-James Bay, Ken Graham
    Toronto Danforth, Kren Clausen
    Trinity-Spadina, Sam Goldstein
    Vaughan, Richard Majkot
    Windsor West, Al Teshuba
    York-South Weston, Steve Halicki
    Quebec
    Argenteuil-Papineau-Mirabel, Suzanne Courville
    Beauce, Maxime Bernier
    Beauport-Limoilou, Sylvie Boucher
    Bas-Richelieu-Nicolet-Becancour, Marie-Eve Helie-Lambert
    Charlesbourg-Haute-Saint-Charles, Daniel Petit
    Compton-Stanstead, Gary Caldwell
    Drummond, Jean-Marie Pineault
    Hull-Aylmer, Gilles Poirier
    Lac-Saint-Louis, Andrea Paine
    Laurentides-Labelle, Jean-Sarge Beauregard
    Levis-Bellechasse, Steven Blaney
    Lotbiniere-Chutes-de-la-Chaudiere, Jacques Gourde
    Louis-Hebert, Luc Harvey
    Louis-Saint-Laurent, Josee Verner
    Megantic-L’Erable, Christian Paradis
    Montmorency-Charlevoix, Yves Laberge
    Mount Royal, Neil Martin Drabkin
    Notre-Dame-de-Grace-Lachine, Allen F. Mackenzie
    Pierrefonds-Dollard, Don Rae
    Pontiac, Lawrence Cannon
    Portneuf-Jacques-Cartier, Howard M. Bruce
    Quebec, Frederik Boisvert
    Richmond-Arthabaska, Jean Landry
    Saint-Laurent-Cartierville, Ishrat Alam
    Shefford, Jean Lambert
    Sherbrooke, Marc Nadeau
    New Brunswick
    Beausejour, Omer Leger
    Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, Charles Doucet
    Nova Scotia
    Dartmouth-Cole Harbour, Robert A. Campbell
    Halifax, Andrew House
    Halifax West, Rakesh Khosla
    Prince Edward Island
    Malpeque, George Noble
    Newfoundland and Labrador(NONE OF THESE SEATS WERE WON BY THE CPC, ALL LIBERAL)
    Bonavista-Gander-Grand Falls-Windsor, Aaron Hynes
    Humber-St. Barbe-Baie Verte, Cyril Pelley Jr.
    Labrador, Joe Goudie
    Random-Burin-St. George’s, Cynthia Downey

  11. Glen good post, like stealing 40 million or whatever these stinking liberals stole is so forgotten, but the best these snakes can come up with is Cadman, Elections Canada yada yada yada, all these stinking liberals represent is failure, yes failure. Waste all the valuable time in the house of commons with trivial crap because here in opposition there is no money to steal, yes NO MONEY TO STEAL, Oh my god we have to get back into power, qquick dig up a scandal of the week call the CBC and fart bottler Fife.

  15. Glenn:
    Harrison lost by .5% and gained 3% of the vote over 2004. His Liberal opponent gained 11%.
    Anderson gained 6% of the vote over the 2004 election, and his seat would not have been in doubt. He had 60% of the vote in 2004.
    It would be interesting to hear how the Liberal and NDP advertising was handled, considering they are saying that the Conservatives were offside.

  20. John Podhoretz, The News Mausoleum
    For newspapers, these are the end times, or something very much like them. Every week provides a new marker on the road to apocalypse: hundreds of layoffs in Los Angeles, circulation scandals in Dallas and Long Island, buyout packages in New York and Washington. Newspaper-circulation numbers are released twice a year, and for the past decade those numbers have charted an uninterrupted downward curve, accelerating at speeds now approaching an avalanche.
    Designed as a monument to the daily, the Newseum may in fact be its mausoleum, with the marble First Amendment slab serving as its tombstone.

  23. Bret Stephens, Afghans Build an Army, and a Nation
    “The Afghan soldiers are a lot tougher than the Iraqis,” says Lt. James Harryman, one of the British trainers on site. “This is a warrior culture.” Between March 1, 2007, and March 30, 2008, some 370 Afghan soldiers were killed in Afghanistan – by comparison, U.S. military fatalities in Afghanistan numbered 117; British fatalities, 43; Canadian fatalities, 36. Still, Afghan soldiers routinely express shame that foreigners are doing the work of dying for their country. That job, they insist, is one they want for themselves…

  25. Spengler, Rice, death and the dollar
    The global food crisis is a monetary phenomenon, an unintended consequence of America’s attempt to inflate its way out of a market failure. There are long-term reasons for food prices to rise, but the unprecedented spike in grain prices during the past year stems from the weakness of the American dollar. Washington’s economic misery now threatens to become a geopolitical catastrophe.

  26. (Via Connecting… the Dots) Corals Flourish at “Nuked” Atoll
    Huge colonies of Porites coral growing up to 26 feet (8 meters) high flourish in the Bravo Crater in the Marshall Islands’ Bikini Atoll in this undated photograph.
    A recent international survey of the 1.2-mile-wide (2-kilometer-wide) crater, created in 1954 by the impact of the most powerful atom bomb ever detonated by the U.S., shows that some coral species have bounced back.

  28. From Powerline:
    Paris never disappoints but Parisians sometimes do
    “In an earlier post, I explained why Paris never disappoints me. The same cannot be said of Parisians.
    “At times, Americans have been disappointed by displays of French anti-Americanism. I witnessed no such open displays and there appears to be little hostility towards American visitors. However, I saw several incidents that suggested the Parisian attitude towards America itself is, to put it kindly, unfortunate.
    “In the most jarring case, I overheard a Parisian tour guide explaining to French tourists how revisionist French historians have shown that America inflicted more damage than necessary on the towns and villages of Normandy during the invasion.

  30. Night of violence
    Once again, a victory by the Montreal Canadiens has ended in violence.
    And once again, downtown merchants and police cars were the target.
    The Canadiens series-clinching Game 7 win over the Boston Bruins on Monday night was overshadowed by riots downtown.
    Celebrations began calmly but around midnight, things turned ugly.
    People began torching police cruisers then turned their fury on local businesses, smashing windows and looting several stores.
    Five or six cruisers were torched and another 10 were so badly vandalized, that they had to be towed    .
    Riot police were called in, 16 people were arrested — three of them were minors.
    They’ll face a range of charges including mischief and assaulting a police officer.
    … … …
    from CFCF 12 Montreal

  33. Hey – our team won! Let’s riot!!!
    These morons are the same ilk as the anti-globalization mobs. Get a crowd together, have some sort of event or trigger, and run around torching stuff to make up for the complete impotence they have.
    Not in their lives will they be able to command attention as a person, nor contribute anything substantive to Canada.
    I’d hope that severe jail time and full financial restitution lays before those charged and found guilty. But, this is Canada.
    We’re tolerant, eh?

  34. This is interesting:
    “Not guilty verdict in Baltovich murder trial”
    “After fighting nearly 18 years to clear his name, Robert Baltovich has been found not guilty of second-degree murder in the killing his girlfriend Elizabeth Bain.”
    “The verdict came Tuesday, moments after the Crown stunned a Toronto courtroom with the announcement that it would not bring any evidence or witnesses forward in the trial. Prosecutors also said they wouldn’t make any submissions.”
    “Ontario Superior Court Judge David McCombs, in response, told the jury the only possible verdict would be not guilty. After a few moments of private deliberations, the jury of six men and six women returned with the verdict.”
    “His lawyer, James Lockyer, a prominent advocate for the wrongfully accused, has repeatedly said he suspects convicted sex killer Paul Bernardo was involved in Bain’s disappearance. Bernardo confessed in 2005 to a series of rapes in Scarborough about the same time as Bain’s disappearance.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/04/22/baltovich-trial.html

  35. Britain Cancels St. George’s Parade Over Fear of Muslim Riots
    In 2006 Church of England officials contemplated giving Saint George the boot from his perch as Patron Saint of England because he was too offensive for modern day Muslims.
    Now, British officials have cancelled an annual St. George’s Day Parade in Bradford in fear that Muslims will riot. Many of the youngsters had already made flags of St George to carry in the parade on April 23, which was designed to boost community cohesion.
    Oh well…
    —From GatewayPundit April 21 2008,

  36. “Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth.”
    ??? I thought the centre of the earth was Toronto???

  37. Goodale suggests Election was “Tainted”, high ranking liberal questions government’s legitimacy as he makes vist to the city.
    http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com
    Was the result legitimate? Is this in fact a tainted government because it’s election was tainted?
    Ralph Goodale
    Ok Ralph And why is it that Elections Canada Have still not investigated the Liberals during the biggest Scam or Scandal in Canada’s History, So Ralph you say the election was tainted, Which Ones? Chretians 1rst majority, 2nd or Martins Minority? Did the Tainted Monies That were funneled in the Pyramid Scheme known as Adscam Help Sway those Election results, Canadians want to know?.
    Ralph visited our city last nite to speak to the local liberal riding association, Nothing in the article as too how many paid $100 a plate to listen to the Doctor of Spin.

  38. “Liberal Appointed Judge signed Warrant to Search tory HQ”
    Elizabeth Thompson-The Gazette via National Newswatch
    Something Smells Bigtime, Whats Next on the Liberal tactical list are we going to see them bring down the Government with their Scandal Tactics in order to Sway the Public opinion of their Failed Leader.
    I think this is the next move

  39. Invitation to a swindle?:
    Happy Earth Day Cal!
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    Earth Day is a particularly special day to me and the staff at Aeroplan. I believe it’s important that we recognize and take responsibility for the effects our business has on the environment.
    Obviously, no one would want to take air travel out of our program, or ask you not to fly. But we are taking steps to mitigate the effects of air travel on the atmosphere and we want to help our members also take action against climate change.
    As a company, we offset 100% of our business travel and, since December, members have been able to use their Aeroplan Miles to buy carbon offsets to offset the emissions generated by their reward travel and everyday activities. A year ago, we also introduced a new category of eco-friendly rewards that will continue to expand over the coming months.
    To celebrate Earth Day and encourage more members to participate, starting today and for the rest of the month of April, Aeroplan will match all miles redeemed for carbon offset credits by 25% instead of the usual 20%. The credits will then be transferred to the Carbon Reduction Fund, an independent, non-profit organization with the mission of funding only the highest-quality offset projects.
    If only 2,000 members each redeemed 7,500 miles to purchase our carbon offsets reward, along with Aeroplan’s match of 25%, our impact would be equivalent to taking more than 1,300 cars off the road for one year.
    We’ve made offsetting exceptionally easy for members—please visit Aeroplan.com for more details.
    Aeroplan is committed to reducing our environmental footprint. We will continue to add more eco-friendly programs and initiatives, for our employees and members, in the months and years to come. Stay tuned.
    Remember, every time you redeem online you can offset your carbon emissions with extra miles as part of the transaction—it’s very easy indeed.
    Thank you for helping us green up our world!
    Sincerely,
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  40. [BBC] Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth….

    philM — you’d have to call it “mo-time!” Wait a minute, I live on ET! They can’t do it, I’d be too confused~~~

  41. When I signed out of hotmail this morning the msn site had a feature article entitled “Global Warming Are We Toast”. The article was an expose’ on the Goracle and gave evidence against the hysteria of global warming. I later tried to go back and share the article with others, but I found that it disappeared. I was incredulous that this aticle was on a site like this. Readers gave it a four out of five star rating. I am a net surfing novice. Can anyone help me get it back?

  42. McGuinty like all LIEberals, buying support one terrorist group at a time… This one cost taxpayers $250,000
    ===========
    Yesterday, I blogged the news that Ontario Khalsa Darbar — a massive Sikh temple in Mississaugua, Ont. that received a quarter of a million dollars from the McGuinty government as part of its infamous $32-million ethnic slush fund — had lost its Canadian government charity registration.
    http://tinyurl.com/5al6h5

  43. Global warming-climate change is dead.
    The socialist* doomsayers/fearmongers have another apocalypse for you.
    …-
    “Rising Food Prices ‘A Silent Tsunami’
    The Telegraph (UK)”
    …-
    *Socialist Death. Here is Uncle Joe Stalin’s Menu.
    Ukraine Famine”
    An estimated 14 million people died of starvation, mostly in Ukraine but also in the North Caucasus, Kazakhstan and Russia. In a three-part series, …
    http://www.faminegenocide.com/resources/ukraine_famine.html”

  44. Posted by: Robert at April 22, 2008 1:38 PM
    Robert – here is the link. Honest dude, spend some time and work the whole internet thing out. It ain’t hard, and being dependant upon others when you don’t have to be is really, really, liberal.
    http://green.sympatico.msn.ca/article.aspx?cp-documentid=473924
    That moron Goodale hasn’t mentioned where the $60 million the Libranos stole in Adscam was spent on during the previous 2 elections.
    Brown envelopes handed out in Quebec maybe? Or was is simply Libranos being incestuous – keeping the money in the family?

  45. Michael J. Totten, The Case of Bilal Hussein
    Last week, Associated Press photographer (and alleged insurgent collaborator) Bilal Hussein was released from custody after an Iraqi tribunal decided his case fell under an amnesty law passed earlier in 2008. The United States military had accused Hussein of working with insurgent groups in Anbar Province, in part because of his uncanny ability repeatedly to photograph insurgents in action.
    I don’t know if he’s guilty or not, and he deserves the presumption of innocence. Either way, his case brings attention to an issue most consumers of news from Iraq rarely consider: the fact that large media companies–the Associated Press and other news wire agencies and newspapers–work with some sketchy characters in Iraq…

  46. UPDATED
    British Columbia
    Burnaby-Douglas, George Drazenovic DEFEATED
    Burnaby-New Westminster, Marc Dalton DEFEATED Cariboo-Prince George, Dick Harris WON (incumbent)
    Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, Troy DeSouza DEFEATED
    Kelowna-Lake Country, Ron Cannan WON (previously held by CPC)
    Kootenay-Columbia, Jim Abbott WON (incumbent)
    Nanaimo-Cowichan, Norm Sowden DEFEATED
    Okanagan-Coquihalla, Stockwell Day WON (incumbent)
    Okanagan-Shuswap, Colin Mayes WON (previously held by CPC)
    Prince George-Peace River, Jay Hill WON (incumbent)
    Vancouver East, Elizabeth M. Pagtakhan DEFEATED
    Vancouver Kingsway, Kanman Wong DEFEATED
    Saskatchewan
    Cypress Hills-Grasslands, David Anderson WON (incumbent)
    Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River, Jeremy Harrison DEFEATED
    Manitoba
    Winnipeg Centre, Helen Sterzer DEFEATED
    Ontario
    Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing, Ian West DEFEATED
    Davenport, Theresa Rodrigues DEFEATED
    Kitchener Centre, Steven Cage DEFEATED
    London-Fanshawe, Dan Mailer DEFEATED
    Parkdale-High Park, Jurij Klufas DEFEATED
    Sarnia-Lambton, Patricia Davidson WON, (seat previously held by Liberal Roger Gallaway)
    Scarborough Centre, Roxanne James DEFEATED
    Thunder Bay-Rainy River, David Leskowski DEFEATED
    Timmins-James Bay, Ken Graham DEFEATED
    Toronto Danforth, Kren Clausen DEFEATED
    Trinity-Spadina, Sam Goldstein DEFEATED
    Vaughan, Richard Majkot DEFEATED
    Windsor West, Al Teshuba DEFEATED
    York-South Weston, Steve Halicki DEFEATED
    Quebec
    Argenteuil-Papineau-Mirabel, Suzanne Courville DEFEATED
    Beauce, Maxime Bernier WON, (seat previously held by Liberal Claude Drouin)
    Beauport-Limoilou, Sylvie Boucher WON, (seat previously held by Bloc Christian Simard)
    Bas-Richelieu-Nicolet-Becancour, Marie-Eve Helie-Lambert DEFEATED
    Charlesbourg-Haute-Saint-Charles, Daniel Petit WON, (seat previously held by Bloc Richard Marceau)
    Compton-Stanstead, Gary Caldwell DEFEATED
    Drummond, Jean-Marie Pineault DEFEATED
    Hull-Aylmer, Gilles Poirier DEFEATED
    Lac-Saint-Louis, Andrea Paine DEFEATED
    Laurentides-Labelle, Jean-Sarge Beauregard DEFEATED
    Levis-Bellechasse, Steven Blaney WON, previously held by Bloc Real Lapierre
    Lotbiniere-Chutes-de-la-Chaudiere, Jacques Gourde WON previously held by Bloc Odina Desrochers
    Louis-Hebert, Luc Harvey WON previously held by BLOC Roger Clavet
    Louis-Saint-Laurent, Josee Verner WON previously held by BLOC Bernard Cleary
    Megantic-L’Erable, Christian Paradis WON previously held by BLOC Marc Boulianne
    Montmorency-Charlevoix, Yves Laberge DEFEATED
    Mount Royal, Neil Martin Drabkin DEFEATED
    Notre-Dame-de-Grace-Lachine, Allen F. Mackenzie DEFEATED Pierrefonds-Dollard, Don Rae DEFEATED
    Pontiac, Lawrence Cannon WON previously held by liberal David Smith
    Portneuf-Jacques-Cartier, Howard M. Bruce DEFEATED
    Quebec, Frederik Boisvert DEFEATED Richmond-Arthabaska, Jean Landry DEFEATED
    Saint-Laurent-Cartierville, Ishrat Alam DEFEATED
    Shefford, Jean Lambert DEFEATED
    Sherbrooke, Marc Nadeau WON previously held by liberal Francoise Boivin
    New Brunswick
    Beausejour, Omer Leger DEFEATED
    Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, Charles Doucet DEFEATED
    Nova Scotia
    Dartmouth-Cole Harbour, Robert A. Campbell DEFEATED
    Halifax, Andrew House DEFEATED
    Halifax West, Rakesh Khosla DEFEATED
    Prince Edward Island
    Malpeque, George Noble DEFEATED
    Newfoundland and Labrador Bonavista-Gander-Grand Falls-Windsor, Aaron Hynes DEFEATED
    Humber-St. Barbe-Baie Verte, Cyril Pelley Jr. DEFEATED
    Labrador, Joe Goudie DEFEATED
    Random-Burin-St. George’s, Cynthia Downey DEFEATED
    Out of a total of 65 in/out ridings involved, 47 were defeated while 18 ridings were won by the CPC. Of the 18 winners, 7 were by CPC incumbents or were seats previously held by CPC members. Of the 11 remaining winners, 7 were previously Bloc held seats and only 4 were Liberal held. Of the 127 seats held by the CPC, if we take away the 11 won seats from the Libs and Bloc and re-assign them to those parties the seat breakdowns are as follows CPC 116, Libs 100, Bloc 55 others are irrelevant, sorry Jack, but not too sorry.
    So, in looking at Ralph Goodale’s assumption that not spending the extra million over these ridings would have probably led to a Liberal minority, the facts prove that Ralph’s assertion is false. As was overheard on Parliament Hill in the not so distant past “A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It’s a proof. A proof is
    a proof. And when you have a good proof, it’s because it’s proven.”
    So there, we’ve proven that Ralph is just another @sshat, gratuitous Liberal politician.
    Cheers Y’all!

  48. Maybe somebody should ask Goodale how many seats Liberals would have lost in 3 prior election, if they hadn’t misappropriated $millions for their campaigns.
    Anyway, Goodale’s assumptions and remarks are so silly as to not merit any response.

  49. Thanks for that info Glenn, verrry interesting indeed. Poor Ralphy, can’t catch a break in his quest to GET something on the CPC. Expecting him to jerk off his stool on one of his appearances on Duffy Live.
    He was admonished in the HOC by the Speaker on one occasion for shooting off his mouth , off camera/microphone, must have been pretty bad for that to happen. Apparently he just can’t contain his frustration at having to sit in Opposition.

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