Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here are Gene Ludwig and his Quartet performing live at the Zanzibar Blue (2005, 11:42).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Interesting article by Lorne Gunter in to days National post page A12. Warmest October ever, I wonder if he reads SDA?
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“Hell, for 35 million I’ll offer my services
on a per pregnancy diem.”
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How Obama Got Elected…
[On Election day twelve Obama voters were interviewed extensively right after they voted to learn how the news media impacted their knowledge of what occurred during the campaign. These voters were chosen for their apparent intelligence/verbal abilities and willingness to express their opinions to a large audience. The rather shocking video below seeks to provide some insight into which information broke through the news media clutter and which did not.]
http://www.howobamagotelected.com/
Thanks Boots. Did a poll on Canadian politics back in the 90’s for my EDA. Funny, these people sound just like my sample.
A Reform Party candidate once expressed the opinion that only about 25% of voters know what is going on. That begs the question; on what basis do the others make their decision on.
Two letters with censorious views in today’s Globe responded to Rex Murphy’s Saturday column on Jennifer Lynch and the Great Remembrance Day Wreath-Laying Travesty.
First of all, both of them say that freedom of expression is not an absolute right, and both claim that those of us who loathe the HRCs consider it to be absolute. This is a tricky issue, because “it’s not an absolute right” is the siren call of those who would abolish free expression in its entirety. But on the other hand, it really isn’t absolute, with libel and slander being obvious counter-examples, and there are others.
It may not be easy to tell the two sides apart, but the real anti-free-expression crowd invariably cites racism, or “the right not to be offended” – or “the right … not to feel threatened solely because of their colour, culture or religious beliefs”, as the first of the two letters did. Anyone who is directly threatened very possibly has a criminal complaint, but anyone whose beliefs are merely criticized should not have a government body they can go whining to.
Recall that, during the 1970s and probably later, the universities were infested with activist trolls screaming that “racists have no right to free speech”. Recall also that, for the past couple of decades, since at least some of these trolls have achieved a modicum of influence, they are quite willing to denounce anyone whose opinions they disagree with as “racist”. And then recall that, when extreme leftists gain real political power, they frequently turn on one another, trumping up charges of counter-revolution and the like, as with Stalin’s and Mao’s purges.
The ultimate goal of the “it’s not an absolute right” crowd is unlimited, arbitrary political power. And genuine freedom of speech is a threat to that goal. Naturally, since the racism of Adolf Hitler is the only difference between his own murderous ideology and that of Stalin and Mao, the extreme left obsesses with racism in a desperate attempt to convince people their ideology is different from the Nazis’. It isn’t. The difference is non-essential, rather than fundamental. Both theory and history prove this.
Think of the famous photo of the tanks and the student standing in front of it, which by chance was in today’s Toronto Star and is also on SDA’s front page. The genuine defenders of free speech are the student. Jennifer Lynch, Barbara Hall and the radical leftists are driving the tanks.
Letter no. 1 concludes with this paragraph: “The [CHRC] and provincial agencies give a place for those who feel threatened to challenge what they perceive as threatening words. They may be right or they may be wrong, but at least it is put out in the open for all to see. That, too, is freedom.”
If someone makes threats like “I’m gonna kill you”, the target has a criminal complaint that belongs in a court, where genuine human rights are protected by the state; in fact, that is the purpose of the state. But we know that one of the problems with the HRCs is that things are NOT “put out in the open for all to see”. Andrew Coyne was tossed out of the Maclean’s hearing in Vancouver for blogging, and Ezra Levant has written at length about the cover-ups and abuse of process going on at these phony commissions. “That, too, is freedom” channels the Marxist concept of freedom, namely freedom-from-the-rules-of-reality. It’s also similar to the false argument that “the system is working” because innocent people sometimes get let off, even though it costs the victims big bucks.
Letter no. 2 makes the fatuous argument that Murphy is “intolerant” of people who oppose free speech. He trots out the argument that free speech must be “tempered and restrained” – in other words, people must submit to arbitrary diktats from government censors.
A third letter on Murphy’s column gets things right, noting the lack of procedural justice at the HRC kangaroo courts, and that many in the world still fear the knock on the door in the middle of the night. If the “anti-racist” crowd, i.e., extreme left, have their way, we will fear it in Canada too.
Suggestion for late night radio: Danny Kaye and Louis Armstrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm6ktYq0Yxk
Oh please let it happen
Hear about a ‘Draft Martin’ movement?
Some Martinites think Paul Martin’s Bay Street cred is just what the country needs in uncertain times.
By Sheila Copps
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/november/17/copps/&c=2
Michael Savage: 1 CAIR: 0
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2008/11/savage-scores-court-victory-over-cair.html
You know the CAIR is in trouble when they can’t even get a Clinton-appointed liberal judge to side with them!
Another staggering blow to the propaganda mouthpiece of the Muslim Brotherhood!
While I’m at it, here’s another tip, and one that pokes the pointy stick of mockery at the nasty old Hamas pigwig:
Ismail Haniyeh: Pronounced “I Smell Hiney, Eh!”
Not waiting for the asteroid file:
“The all-day session was described as part “group therapy” and “part business-school class” . “There were a few calls to “radically rethink newsrooms.” One person suggested the hiring of experts such as actual scientists or bank regulators to replace some reporters.”…….
“The newspaper industry is reaching “full-blown crisis” stage and will probably not be able to halt the slide without outside help,”
Are they suggesting that B O will be the cure?
http://tinyurl.com/6knn47
A message to PM Harper and Minister Prentice.
“In spite of claims to the contrary, there is no consensus of scientists supporting the findings and recommendations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”
Note the questions below.
Your response, please.
Please post your response here.
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“Illusions of Climate Science
William Kininmonth”
“How have we come to a situation where, as some polls suggest, most Australians are so concerned about dangerous climate change that they will put aside the very tools and technologies that have sustained clean air, clean water, nutritious food and long life? More importantly, is the perceived danger real and will the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions avert the perceived danger? Although there are many uncertainties to be resolved, it is clear that the community has been the subject of more than two decades of heavily biased propaganda.
In spite of claims to the contrary, there is no consensus of scientists supporting the findings and recommendations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. There exists a large and vocal group of highly qualified dissenters (often denigrated as sceptics, deniers or worse). Published letters and opinions in the press suggest the scientific community is still divided and the community has not succumbed to the propaganda of human-caused global warming. Many in the community, with every justification, are awaiting more information about the costs and the economic and social impacts before lining up to march behind the government’s carbon dioxide reduction banner.
A widely accepted conviction that dangerous climate change is actually pending will be required before the community will support the government’s strategy to shut down fossil-fuel-dependent industries and willingly abandon the energy-dependent and satisfying lifestyle activities they enjoy. After all, in the cause of saving the planet we will all be required to give up a wide range of personal freedoms that we currently take for granted. We will want to be in full agreement that the alleged dangers are real and present, and that the course of government-imposed actions really will avert them.
Are the Dangers of Human-Caused Climate Change Real and Present?”
“Are the Alleged Impacts of Climate Change Exaggerated?”
“Is Dangerous Human-Caused Global Warming a Reality or an Illusion?”
“Is There a Sound Case for Carbon Emissions Reduction?
“William Kininmonth is the former head of Australia’s National Climate Centre. He was an Australian representative and consultant to the World Meteorological Organization on climate issues and is the author of Climate Change: A Natural Hazard (Multi-science Publishing Co., 2004). He will be among the speakers at the Australian Environment Foundation’s annual conference, “A Climate for Change”, in Canberra this month.”
http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2008/10/illusions-of-climate-science/page:printable
These fascist monsters make the HRC’s look like babes in the woods. Wonder if Kinsella and the rest of his ilk agree?
“UN MASQUERADE
RELIGION CONFERENCE’S SCARY AGENDA”
(New York Post)
THE Saudi king won much praise last week for convening talks at the United Nations ostensibly meant to promote peace and “religious tolerance.” He even snagged a private audience with President Bush.
But if you take a close look at King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud’s agenda, some of it is hardly praiseworthy. In fact, if he gets any traction at the UN (or anywhere else), it’ll mark a giant step backward for both peace and tolerance.
Indeed, behind Abdullah’s Kumbaya facade was a downright scary agenda: Essentially, he wants the world’s moral blessing to restrict any and all speech about Islam, its adherents and regimes that promote them – except, of course, that which is approved by official censors. He also wants to throw the UN’s moral weight behind punishments meted out to those who violate such restrictions, even if he doesn’t say that explicitly.
Meanwhile, Abdullah failed to make even the slightest gesture toward softening his own regime’s brutal intolerance of other religions and cultures. Some parley on “religious tolerance.”
Consider one key draft resolution at the event. Introduced jointly by the Philippines and Pakistan, it openly seeks to limit press freedoms. Sure, as read by Philippine President Gloria Arroyo, the language pays lip service to the notion of freedom of expression.
But the document then goes on to emphasize the “special duties and responsibilities necessary for the respect of the rights or reputations of others, protection of national security or of public order, or of public health and morals.”
Translation: Don’t even think of publishing those Danish cartoons or anything even close to them. And forget about questioning authorities in places like, say, Riyadh.
Meanwhile, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, a dominant UN voting bloc, plans an additional resolution, to be voted on tomorrow in the General Assembly, that would openly frown on any speech that is considered defamatory toward religion.
But it’s not like the censors – and, specifically, their efforts to establish Islam as a dominant, superior religious and political force – need encouragement.
This Muslim Islamist terrorist will be out of jail in about 3 months.
Canada’s “justice system” is a travesty, a failure.
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“Montreal Jewish school firebomber gets 4-year sentence
SNIPPET: “Judge calls Molotov cocktail attack racist, hateful act of terrorism”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A Montreal man accused of firebombing a Jewish school was sentenced to four years in prison for what a judge described as a terrorist act.
Azim Ibragimov, 25, pleaded guilty earlier this year to firebombing the Skver-Toldos Orthodox Jewish Boys School in Outremont in 2006, and attempting to attack the Snowdon YM-YWHA the following year.
He also pleaded guilty to uttering threats in the form of letters that claimed the crimes were committed in the name of Islamic Jihad, a militant group that vows to destroy Israel and set up an Islamic Palestinian state.
The letters also hinted there were more incidents to come.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134010/posts
CBC reporter does not question the CBC bra$$ re “big tab”.
“Weidlich: “So when it comes to spending $100 million or committing the city to spending $100 million, why don’t you think that’s a worthwhile question to ask citizens?””
“Mayor, CBC reporter have heated exchange”
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5j9mxk (leaderpost)
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“CBC exec racks up big tab
The executive vice-president for French services at the taxpayer-funded CBC is claiming almost $80,000 a year in expenses for theatre tickets, meals and travel.” (nnw)
Big O’s Socialist Pyramid Scheme: article* written/posted in 2000.
The natural end result? Collapse/busted/melted down/zapped/dead.
But wait, the “bailout” is working.
“left-wing nonprofit groups have been able to gain control over eye-popping pools of bank capital, which they in turn parcel out to individual low-income mortgage seekers.”*
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*”The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for Cities
Howard Husock”
http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_the_trillion_dollar.html
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“The Trillion Dollar Men
“An eight year old article from City Journal describes how activist and community organizations, plus banks eager to lend, turned the low cost mortgage scene into what it is today. (Hat tip: Hot Air) How many of us read the City Journal article in 2000 and how many recognized it’s import? As a mental exercise think this: what article you are reading today will you look back on in a decade and say “Wow! What a bummer?””
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2008/11/17/the-ten-trillion-dollar-men/
Michael Lind, A Concert-Balance Strategy for a Multipolar World
The United States is a superpower in search of a strategy. Following the end of the Cold War, no new grand strategy has won the bipartisan support that underpinned America’s strategy of containment from President Truman to President Reagan. Enthusiastic promoters of globalization occasionally argue that international trade will be a panacea for conflict, at least among developed nations. The neoconservative vision of unilateral US global hegemony always lacked adequate military forces and funding to realize its ambitious goals. Now, in the aftermath of the Iraq War, the hegemony strategy also lacks public support. Most critics of the hegemony strategy, however, have failed to propose a credible alternative capable of guiding US national security…
(Via SWJ) David E. Hoffman, Report on Nuclear Security Urges Prompt Global Action
When armed men attacked South Africa’s most closely guarded nuclear facility a year ago, they penetrated the detection systems at the perimeter, cut through an electrified fence and broke into the emergency control center, shooting one worker there in the chest before escaping.
The Pelindaba facility holds hundreds of pounds of weapons-grade, highly enriched uranium. Although the attackers last November did not steal any of it, the assault highlights what a new report describes as the increasingly global challenge of keeping nuclear materials from falling into the hands of terrorists…
Chuckle of the day from 321gold.
“Letter to the bank.
Dear Sirs:
In view of the current developments in the banking market, if one of my cheques is returned marked ‘insuffucient funds’, does that refer to me or to you?
Yours faithfully
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STOPIGGY vs Boob Lea:
Wanna read the bkggdfrt from the Harvard Crimson?
Wanna wade through the claptrap?
Put on yer hipwaders, hold yer nose, and plunge into the “Shakespearean rivalry”, the “Greek tragedy”.
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““[It’s] a Shakespearean rivalry, or the rivalry of a Greek tragedy—I’m not sure which,” said Cohen.”
“Ignatieff Seeks To Lead Party
Former Harvard professor will run to lead Canada’s(sic)”
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=525350
Nash back at CAW after poll defeat
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Peggy Nash lost the federal riding of Parkdale-High Park to Liberal Gerard Kennedy Oct. 14, 2008.
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Former Parkdale-High Park MP opts not to run for Ontario NDP leadership, saying timing not right
Nov 18, 2008 04:30 AM
Tony Van Alphen
Peggy Nash, who was defeated in the Oct. 14 federal election, has returned to a top post with the Canadian Auto Workers union. Nash, 57, elected for the New Democrats in 2006 in Toronto’s Parkdale-High Park riding, resumed her $135,000 job yesterday as one of five assistants to CAW president Ken Lewenza after deciding not to seek the job of Ontario NDP leader.”
Whether a ‘worker’ in health care – or some meaningless bureaurat in Sector 7 G – these socialist peeps can’t get a job unless it is paid for by compulsory means – whether taxes or union dues.
It truly says everything about their ‘value’ and ‘contribution’ to Canadian society.
apols for the extra crap in the previous post
Good Obama post-election survey, soon to be documentary.
http://howobamagotelected.com/
CCPA is at it again. What’s “living wage” in Toronto? Should you include in a “poverty” based income document a $2000/year vacation, and $1800/year for “family dinner and movie”. Apparently that’s what qualifies as a “minimum living standard” for CCPA:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/~ASSETS/DOCUMENT/Ontario_Office_Pubs/2008/A_Living_Wage_for_Toronto.pdf
I would have never mentioned I was banned without a warning or any explanation from Little Green Footballs 4 days ago
– why would any of you care about an anonymous guy calling himself Friend of USA? –
but then I found out that,
Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs has the more votes for the category ” biggest pro-censorship ass-hat” at The Infidel Blogger Awards!!!
scroll down the page to the category “>pro-censorship ass-hat” and please vote
and take a look at what Charles Jonhson has to say about it at his site,
[…] Apparently, speaking out against Eurofascists, and not letting the LGF comments pages turn into a racist cesspool makes me as bad as or worse than the Canadian Human Rights Commission and Mohammed Elmasry […]
racist cesspool?
what???
Definitely, he deserve the title pro-censorship ass-hat.
Well that didn’t take long…
Tories back off law-and-order plans
Crime agenda a ‘secondary issue’ as Parliament convenes for first time
Janice Tibbetts and David Akin, Canwest News Service
The minority Conservative government appears to have retreated from a plan to make its anti-crime initiatives confidence votes in the House of Commons that could trigger an election if defeated by the opposition parties. With the economy the most pressing matter for parliamentarians when they reconvene this week, the government is not in the mood to force a showdown over “secondary issues” like law and order, Kory Teneckye, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s communications spokesman, suggested yesterday.”
So much for CWB, CHRC, broad based tax reform, prop rep, and anything else. The Cons have signaled that they’re willing to run and hide the minute they have an excuse – but as long as the patronage appointments and levers of the cheque writing machines are still working.
This really is your dad’s Conservative Party…
“Abused and colonized”? Ain’t that just terrible.
Mark Mazower, Paved Intentions: Civilzation and Imperialism
If there is one thing John McCain and Barack Obama seem to agree on, it is that there remains a place for morality in world affairs. Both have lent their support to the idea that America has a duty to stand up for the cause of freedom. In both cases, their advisers have called for alliances of democracies that will bypass the flailing UN—its Security Council paralyzed by the obstruction of authoritarian powers, its General Assembly packed with petty despots who have no interest in promoting human rights. Not so long ago, the ending of the Cold War stimulated hopes for the creation of a new world order in which the United Nations would be able to regain some of the luster that it had lost over the preceding decades. It was this sense of the beginning of a new historical epoch which also directed scholarly attention back toward the start of the postwar era that had just ended. But the increasingly grim spiral of events in the early 1990s—the war in the former Yugoslavia and genocide in Rwanda—put into question the robustness of the human rights regime that had been established after the Second World War…
This sense of the need for moral leadership abroad has only been sharpened by 9/11 and its aftermath; witness the evangelism of Tony Blair and George W. Bush and the rhetorical appeal to an “Alliance of Civilizations.” Yet before this goes much further, we might want to take a deep breath and look back. For all this talk of stomping round the world to uphold or promote civilization has a long history and cannot be divorced from the rise and fall of Europe and European values over the last two centuries. While the values implicit in the idea of civilization seemed natural and uncomplicated to most Europeans over this period, they looked much more questionable to those who were abused and colonized in its name. So let this new generation of interventionists at least take stock, lest they risk drawing on the prejudiced values of past generations and finding that their moral arsenals have been even more depleted than their real ones…
Big 3 Bankruptcy would “devastate” Economy-CAW
ctv.ca
the new caw boss is crying for help
If you would stop being a leach on industry i would support a help package, But sorry when i see your brethren in the states having a $17mill. Viagra package added to their list of benefits, Go take a hike & start to live in the real world, Lets see you help too with a realistic wage & that goes for your Leach friends in the Toronto city hall. Unions are tearing that city to shreads & constantly asking for help No Make that demanding Help from the Taxpayers. Sorry Iam fedup supporting these eletist Unions and my Taxes Keep going up just to pay your GD demands. And Mcguinty is just as bad giving pay raises to his school friends Who just happen to have one of the Largest Pensions/with investments in N.America.
Why dont the CAW go ask The Teachers Union for Help they could afford it, Damm lefty Tree-hugging Commie Leaches. My GD business taxes are not going down, Is some one going to help me when i start to feel the pinch & may have to close.
“the head of Canada’s umbrella labour organization was more critical.” of the economist’s prognostications.
Canada’s umbrella industry is begging for a “bailout”; and, the head knob is in “critical” condition.
As Henry F. purportedly said, “”Any customer can have an umbrella painted in any colour he wants so long as it is black”. If Mary P. liked her black bumbershoot, black is good for BuzzCAW.
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“No severe recession in Canada: economist”
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6pp9vb
My Liberal friend and I were having a discussion a while back and he stated that the Nazis were a right wing party and I said no they weren’t they were left wing as the name even says Socialist. He responded that to me all left wing was evil and right wing good in my eyes. I said in my view it should not be “right” and “left” but “free” and “not free” which to me far better describes the political spectrum for an individual.
I gave the example to him that the Conservatives want lower taxes, smaller government and more individual responsiblity hence they are moving more towards the “free” side. Whereas Liberals want higher taxes, bigger government and less individual responsibililty as they know better than you what to do with your money and want to become more responsible for many facets in your life and will build the bureaucracy to do it so they move towards “not free”. The farther left (not free) you go the more control government has over you.
I think this is a far easier concept to explain and covers the real difference between the spectrums though to Liberals and the NDP calling them “not free” even though it is true will cause major squawking.
To the politically disinterested this labelling would instantly tell them where the parties or groups reside on the scale.
Thoughts on this?
Times of London c-c-c-calling: words to warm Warmites’ hot livers.
“several degrees below normal.”.
“a record low of minus 71.2C (-96.2F),”.
“allowing heat to escape quickly into space.”.
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“Weather Eye: polar air is set to deliver a cold snap
Paul Simons
November seems to be blowing hot and cold at bewildering speed, with another drop in temperature expected at the end of the week when polar air delivers a cold snap.
But things could be a lot worse. Oymyakon in eastern Siberia hit minus 47C (-52F) this week, several degrees below normal. Oymyakon is a village of several hundred people, and famed as the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth. Temperatures there have plummeted to a record low of minus 71.2C (-96.2F), and earned the surrounding region the title of “The Pole of Cold””
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/weather/article5182824.ece
To the politically disinterested this labelling would instantly tell them where the parties or groups reside on the scale. Thoughts on this?
Posted by: Dave at November 18, 2008 4:22 PM
To me, the labeling you describe is troublesome because you assume the ‘scale’ is a line. I think its’ more like a circle. Fascism and Communism meet at one pole, and an almost anarchic libertarianism at the other. Although, many more models probably exist.
Charles Johnson deserves the title.
I used to think highly of his blog prior to all his mostly unwarranted accusations and flame wars he started with other anti-jihadis. And his out of control assault on anybody that doesn’t agree with his views on evolution. And, and, and, the list goes on.
But his preemptive strike against Robert Spencer was the lowest of the low.
His blogs declining relevance is in direct relation to the growth of his ego. Which by now is about the size of Jupiter.
Thoughts on this? Posted by: Dave at November 18, 2008 4:22 PM
One more:
If you think about it – whether left or right wing ideology – they both contain elements of control that limit and restrict freedom. Whether the temperance and Drug War moralist socons or anti-abortion fundies running around in the ‘Conservatives’ – or the chardonnay farting moral relativists in the Libranos – who eschew fundamental concepts such as ‘freedom of speech’ and right to absolute property ownership.
I see them all as people whose approach to an issue is to either ban or control other peoples’ behavior. Tobacco is at the beachhead – because it was easy for both sides to coalesce around.
And really, the reaction to ‘ban’ or regulate is at its heart, a fundamental rejection of liberty and the freedom of the individual. Is there nuance and complexity to this? Sure.
But nuance is also a distraction that takes ones’ eyes of the right prize. And just so’s the lighter thinkers in here don’t twist off and think I am suggesting anarchy – take a minute to place Harper’s cowardice/inaction on the CWB, the gun registry, and Sec 13 control by the HRC’s into perspective. That, and a 20% increase in the structural size of government and only narrow tax mods speak further.
The Cons inaction on these items – especially with an ability to run a defacto majority for the next 6 months – speaks volumes about where their ideological roots are currently planted.
Firmly in the centre left. It’s the tragedy of conservatism in Canada, and the eternal delusion of Conservative Party supporters.
On this front, at least the Liberals are honest.
But, but SOCIALISM is so SEDUCTIVE.
Comrade Layton as Captain of Canada.
Comrade Spud Farmer as World Wheat King in the CWB.
The worst thing about socialism is that it puts inferior twits and idiots in position of power when they know SFA about the subject.
“Ginkgo no help for preventing Alzheimer’s: study
CBC.ca”
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“Paul Martin gets the last laugh – and the G20 changes everything
Jeffrey Simpson: Somewhere”
Hardboiled, I am suggesting a line or scale with a centre marking for the individual with the Conservatives and Liberals as examples of positions on this scale.
The examples you suggested for the Conservatives move the indicator more to the left as it moves towards the center. Eliminating the Gun Registry would move the indicator to the right again. The Green Shaft would have moved the indicator sharply to the left as the Liberals would have increased taxes and created a bureaucracy to control it, all punative for the individual.
A common item we always see in the MSM is “the religious right” a misnomer as it is a controlling group with fairly rigid rules impacting the freedom of the individual hence it is “not free” and therefore left of centre.
My whole point here is that the non-political person, in my experience, is totally confused by our current terminology as my example of the religious right shows.
Wish there was some way to make this terminology easily understood.
Irwin Daisy,
Well said, I totally agree.
Gremlins in this ‘puter have mixfused the story ’bout CTV.
It’s: Hiring freeze, layoffs to come at CBC: memo.
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“Hiring freeze, layoffs to come at CTV: memo
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 | 5:20 PM ET
CBC News
Layoffs, a hiring freeze and revisions or delays of new projects are in the cards at Canadian broadcaster CTV, according to a memo staff received Tuesday.
In the note, CTV CEO Ivan Fecan blamed both the global financial downturn and “the ongoing structural issues affecting conventional television” for the new operational plan.”
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/11/18/ctv-cuts.html
The world’s navies are powerless to stop thugs in a speed boat — and so Multi millon dollar piracy acts will continue ?
[Alarm grows as governments and navies are rendered legally powerless to conduct security operations on the high seas] Times On Line
And from the comments at the Times, we are again seeing that the people of Eastern Europe are smarter than those in Western Europe – the biggest backers of the UN.
[If the governments of the world have become so politically correct and unept as to allow piracy on the high seas then may be those governments deserve all of the problems they are now receive during negotiations..
Edwin, Bucharest, ] TOL
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5183710.ece
Another example;
[Washington – Czech President Vaclav Klaus said Tuesday he is ready to debate Al Gore about global warming, as he presented the English version of his latest book that argues environmentalism poses a threat to basic human freedoms. “I many times tried to talk to have a public exchange of views with him, and he’s not too much willing to make such a conversation,” Klaus said. “So I’m ready to do it.”] The Earth Times
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/208338,czech-president-klaus-ready-to-debate-gore-on-climate-change.html
Posted by: Dave at November 18, 2008 6:25 PM
I see what you are getting at Dave. I can’t help but think ‘free’ versus ‘control’ is on the right path, but inertia to traditional labels is a son of a gun to dislodge.
A left side might show less free, but without the rigid moralism of the tambourine banging temperance types, but the right looks with disdain about the left controlling behavior in the same fashion – sans traditional orthodoxy.
At the bottom, I can’t really distinguish between the two. Hence my disdain for both who claim to have the moral ‘high ground’.
The citizen is still subjected to the same party apparatus which seeks to enrich itself at others’ expense, in the guise of leadership.
Dave:
Re: “Thoughts?”
See, from “Trudeaupiate” at “Best of SDA”,
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/002593.html
Read all the comments, too, such as:
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/002593.html#c25758
Cheers!
Mad Mike
Fire.
Them.
All!
http://tinyurl.com/6bdem9
Globe and Mail
Your friend’s new fuchsia fedora might be hideous. But don’t call it gay, or you might get a language lesson from the conversation cops.
Students at Queen’s University who sprinkle their dialogue with an assortment of “homo” or “retarded” could find out the hard way that not everyone finds their remarks acceptable.
A sampling of some behaviour that could warrant attention from university-appointed student
facilitators, tasked with policing students’ offensive language
at Queen’s:
If a student uses the phrase “That’s so gay” in conversation.
If a student calls someone or something “retarded.”
If a student writes a homophobic, racist or other derogatory remark in a public space, such as on a residence poster or classmate’s door.
If a student avoids a classmate’s birthday party for faith-based reasons.