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  2. Yeah, well, no, probably not, Michele, the Immigration and Refugee Board rejected Mr. Key’s asylum application, and now his lawyer is trying to do an end-run around that through Justice Barnes, which is to be expected, as you would certainly find in the jurisprudential system of the United States of America if the tables were turned; and yet so far all Barnes has ruled is that the IRB has to take another look at some other argument, before the ax falls. Oh hey, I’ve been wrong before, we shall see, yet I remain unconvinced at this point that Canada favours refugee status in this case. Not that you said that, I’m just sayin’.

  4. Did you hear about the NDP-sponsored resolution in support of the deserters refugee claims? It’s non-binding but it did pass. Granted it was all of the opposition parties banding together. I could be wrong but it seems to match the general opinion. I hope that the Immigration and Refugee Board stands by it’s original decision. Do you know if refugee claimants can appeal further?
    http://www.nationalpost.com/newsletter/story.html?id=561149

  7. I really hate “Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This”, but “Here Comes The Rain Again” sounds like a tweak of the other one, and it’s a much better song.

  9. I used the G&M home page to vote on the Don Cherry poll and was told that I’d already voted and I hadn’t.
    M’thinks it just MIGHT be rigged.
    Pat

  10. Here is an article to fact check: http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=4fda8237-74f3-4346-90c1-897e16c95ace&p=4
    Since 1998 was the hottest year in a half century, shouldn’t that be an average DECREASE in temperature over the last decade.
    The article’s comments on intensity reductions are ridiculous as well. (“…the carbon intensity system simply has no upside.” Really? How about being a carbon reduction plan that does not punish a growing economy? How about a framework that China and India could be expected to sign on to?)

  11. The mosques of Islam are the central locations of Islam. All teachings/propaganda of/from Islam emanate from the mosques.
    The many faces of Islam are here shown.
    …-
    “Harper says new mosque shows ‘the true and benevolent face of Islam’
    CALGARY – Canada’s newest and largest mosque opened Saturday in Calgary, praised by Prime Minister Stephen Harper as an “architectural treasure”
    …-
    “Pakistan – Thousands of Islamists commemorate the storming of the Red Mosque”
    (via translation)
    Thousands of Islamist radicals gathered in Islamabad to celebrate the first anniversary of the bloody storming of the Red Mosque. The capital of Pakistan is placed under high surveillance.
    Many demonstrators deemed close to the Taliban and Al Qaeda brandissaient black flags and slogans scandaient paying tribute to the “martyrs” of the headquarters of the Red Mosque. The police established a security perimeter around the mosque, inaccessible by car, with son barbed wire and search pedestrians in the search for possible weapons.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041364/posts
    …-
    “10 Taliban killed while planting bomb
    By Noor Khan, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Gunmen in a dangerous part of southern Afghanistan assassinated an Afghan legislator, while a roadside bomb militants were planting detonated prematurely, killing 10 Taliban.”

  12. So Dion went to Calgary all decked out for the occasion in jeans, plaid shirt and stetson. Not sure if it was a take-off on the urban cowboy or just to be one of the “guys”. Someone should have strapped him to a broncho ride as a right of passage if he wants to play cowboy.
    It’s reported he gave “an impassioned twenty-five minute speech to a few hundred Liberal supporters at the Calgary Zoo”. Wonder if they were counting the animals? Liberals know where to go for a captive audience.
    The venue was very apropos to Dion’s posing as a cowboy and flogging this latest batch of Liberal
    snake oil which only he and foot-in-mouth sidekick Barf Turner are out peddling. Rae and Iggy are busy plotting to oust Dion and each other.
    Yeah, it’s a Zoo alright, a Liberal Zoo.

  13. very dark thing was done, as such things are always done — in a very dark way.
    Yet I think it may be for the best, in a longer view of things. We might often grumble that the “ruling class” in Canada — the smug, self-serving, “progressive” political, legal, academic, and media elites, including the prime example at Rideau Hall — belong to some other world than the one from which they suck taxes. But seldom is there an event so stark, that we see them as they are. The Morgentaler award revealed that to so many Canadians.
    David Warren

  14. TonyGuitar, here’s a link you might find interesting…282 mpg Volkswagen coming in 2010.
    blog.wired.com/cars/2008/07/laugh-at-high-g.html

  15. Here is the message to be sent to socialist Citoyen Dion & his lackeys.
    Allow him to retreat to his bunker with his face intact.
    …-
    “You are very welcome here, Mr. Dion. Come back any time. But really, stop trying to pull our leg.”
    “Dion’s carbon tax talk pulling Alberta’s leg
    Don Braid, Calgary Herald”

  19. It occurred to me this morning (obsessing in my sleep?) that I ought to apologize for the somewhat self-serving link in my first comment. I just didn’t want to get caught by the spam filter for including more than one link address.
    Sorry if anyone was annoyed/offended.

  23. Gulliver is beached in the United Kingdom; tied down by the laws of socialism. The *State is our enemy.
    …-
    “Gordon Brown breaks record for new laws
    Gordon Brown has entered the record books by introducing 2,823 new laws during his first year in office. Gordon Brown has introduced 2,823 laws during his first year in office, the highest rate for new legislation by anyone at No 10. He set his record despite repeated promises to cut red tape.”
    http://tinyurl.com/6mejy4 (telegraph)
    *”Our Enemy, the State”
    http://www.barefootsworld.net/nockoets0.html

  26. already there are exemptions. ask Garth Turner if Saskatchewan can ask for one too.
    Campbell said Dion and himself have spoken of their respective tax plans, and that B.C. would not be double-taxed under the federal Liberal plan.
    “Mr. Dion actually called me and said there would not be a double tax situation,” Campbell said. “He does not want to impose something that will not work (for) British Columbians.”

  28. “Dion delivered an impassioned 25-minute speech to a few hundred Liberal supporters Saturday at the Calgary Zoo….”
    Why does the zoo sound so completely appropriate for a bunch of Libranos….?
    At least Marc Lalonde was honest enough (years later) to admit the energy policy of that ghoul Trudeau was simply a wealth grab to buy votes in central Canada.
    Borat either ain’t bright enough nor honest enough to do the same. The Libranos desperately need to buy their way back into Ontario and Quebec, that they’d screw a region for their own success.
    What kind of Canadian contemplates that upon another? Only the most vile.

  29. Bryceman’s link at 2;49 is quite interesting. I wonder to what faith the teacher belonged.

  30. RE Here’s another one for your “Tony Blair’s Britain” entries,
    It’s simple, and I have noticed that nobody seems to be bringing this up…
    If any of those Children were Christian, then this is the bottom line;
    1) Thou shalt have no other gods before me (first commandment). This was violated, causing these children to sin against their God.
    2) “If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a large millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea” (Mark 9:42)
    Maybe someone should help that teacher out by giving her a millstone to tie around herself, then she could be spared the punishment that is waiting for her later!

  33. Children: Prisoners of the UK socialist State Gulag.
    …-
    “Minister calls for children to be locked in school to stop them buying junk food
    Children’s Minister Kevin Brennan has called for secondary school children to be locked inside school grounds during breaks to stop them buying unhealthy food.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041552/posts

  34. “Disconfirmations Disconfirmed: Saddam Had Nuke Program
    The media have been telling us for years that Saddam had no WMD, so “Bush’s War”: was based on a “lie.” And those who believed Saddam did have WMD or WMD programs were delusional or worse.
    But today, on July 6, 2008, the Associated Press reports that
    * Saddam Hussein had a nuclear program
    * At the Tuwaitha nuclear complex just south of Baghdad
    * Which included 550 metric tons (over 1.2 million pounds) of “yellowcake”, or concentrated uranium
    * And multiple devices that could be used in a nuclear weapon.
    The AP does not say alleged nuclear program. It does not add “according to military experts.” It simply says “Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program.”
    That’s pretty big news, isn’t it?
    For about five years now, those of us who thought Saddam Hussein probably had at least WMD programs, if not WMD themselves, have been called not only wrong, but illogical and insane.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041598/posts

  35. “July 06, 2008
    President Bush exonerated of ‘misleading statements’ leading to Iraq war
    Vincent Gioia
    In 2003 newspaper columnist Robert Novak wrote his now infamous “Mission to Niger” (published on July 14, 2003) in which he mentioned an allegedly failed attempt by Saddam Hussein to purchase uranium reported by the husband of a (not so) secret CIA agent, Valerie Plame, and mentioned her by name.
    Mrs. Wilson’s husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, stated in a number of interviews and in subsequent writings (as listed in his 2004 memoir The Politics of Truth) that members of President George W. Bush’s administration revealed Mrs. Wilson’s covert status as retribution for his op-ed entitled “What I Didn’t Find in Africa,” published in The New York Times on July 6, 2003. In addition, after the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, Wilson wrote a series of other op-eds questioning the war’s factual basis (See “Bibliography” in The Politics of Truth). In one of these op-eds published in the New York Times on July 6, 2003, Wilson says that, in the State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush misrepresented intelligence leading up to the invasion and thus misleadingly suggested that the Iraqi regime sought uranium to manufacture nuclear weapons.
    After the initial Novak column, fueled by Democrats, a sycophantic news media proceeded to make the matter a public spectacle for years. A special investigator, Patrick Fitzgerald, was appointed to lead an investigation (which eventually would cost $2.58 million) and he convened a grand jury.
    Despite revelation to the special investigator that the actual leaker of the name of this secret CIA “operative” (Richard Armitage) in only a few days, Fitzgerald managed to keep the investigation going thereby extending his 15 minutes of fame for years. The CIA leak grand jury investigation did not result in the indictment or conviction of anyone for any crime in connection with the leak itself; however, I. Lewis Libby, Chief of Staff of Vice President Dick Cheney was indicted on five counts of obstruction of justice, perjury, and false statements to the grand jury and federal investigators on October 28, 2005( Libby resigned hours after the indictment).
    The amazing thing about this incident, in addition to the obvious miscarriage of justice, is that at the root of the controversy was an erroneous report by Valerie Plame’s husband, Joseph Wilson, who parlayed his report into a public scandal with the help Democrats, the ever-investigative Fitzgerald and the Democrat Party house organs, has been proven to be totally wrong. Those who harped on the Bush administration and its members for both the “leak” and for going to war in Iraq despite a supposed lack of evidence of a nuclear program by Iraq’s monstrous dictator and his sons should by all rights be made to suffer the same indignities visited upon President Bush, Vice President Cheney, their aides and especially, Lewis Libby.
    Today we know that Iraq did possess 550 metric tons of “yellowcake” — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment. The effort to topple Hussein and cause regime change was indeed necessary to prevent the development of nuclear weapons. We know this because it has been revealed, albeit without the fanfare of the earlier “scandal”, that this huge stockpile of concentrated uranium, a remnant of Hussein’ nuclear program, was removed from Iraq and shipped to a buyer in Canada. It should be a great relief to the world to know that Hussein was not given enough time to further develop his nuclear program because President Bush defied his critics and took action to abort this threat.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041581/posts

  38. RE Don Cherry getting the OC — why would anyone vote “no” on this? Talk about small minded!

  39. I would consider voting ‘no’…I like Don Cherry. The OoC ‘pin’ has been tainted.
    Could we start another award program, that is independent?
    Don Cherry would get mine for being an outspoken non-politically correct media person.I’d call it the Ezra Levant award.On that note give Levant some kind of award now!(Not the OoC)

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