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Sorta put things into perspective, Vit :)

Yea tho I walk through the valley of death....

Amazing

The Suzuki method:

http://violinjunkie.blogspot.com/2008/09/suzuki-recital-with-mr-shinichi-suzuki.html

Looks like Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley, has been caught on video doing some coke.

The buzz-word with the TOTUS security is "Keep her away from the President"!!!

More distorting lies from CBC.
"The U.S., which initially signed on to the 1997 Kyoto accord, later backed out under the presidency of George W. Bush. Obama has signalled he is ready for a shift in U.S. environmental policy, prioritizing clean energy and slashing greenhouse gas emissions through a cap-and-trade program."

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/03/28/obama-climate-summit.html#socialcomments

How I celebrated Hour of Power 2009, part one of several.

Alan -- I believe you are correct re the CBC distortion. I don't think the U.S. ever signed on to Kyoto. I think that under Clinton, support in the H of Rep. was so lacking (like maybe two people in favour) that it was never sent to the Senate for ratification. It is not correct to blame Bush for the failure to join Kyoto -- though, of course, he was not in favour.

Request for post:

Did Mississauga Matt get over to CBC-HQ with his camera (as he did last year)?

I'd also like to see 1 Younge Street (the RedTorStar bunker) during "NorK Hour".

[ DeSmogBlog could’ve flattened The Skeptics Handbook in just one sentence.
All they had to do was point to empirical evidence that more CO2 forces temperatures up. They can’t and everything else is bluster and bluff.] JoNova (from down under)

Standing Suzuki on his head.

http://joannenova.com.au/2009/03/22/desmog-accidentally-vindicates-the-skeptics-handbook/

Earlier today I received a nasty blog comment from an Islamic Extremist in Calgary. Just a few minutes ago I received another comment which had to be at least 10,000 words long and rambled like you wouldn't believe. Does anyone know if Ted Kaczynski was let out of jail on a weekend pass? Oh wait, I forgot, he's not in jail here in B.C.

Here's another stupid commie anti-semite - name of Michael Coren - who thinks the Conservatives did the wrong thing in banning Galloway:

Banning MP wrong
Ottawa's move plays into the hands of anti-Semites everywhere

" Sometimes he is right, often he is wrong. He certainly is right when he condemns anti-Semitism, which he does, and when we worked for the same radio station in London, England, I heard him take a far more forceful attitude towards Holocaust denier David Irving than I ever expressed.

But most of this is irrelevant. He is no threat and to ban him is a politically loaded and appallingly one-sided decision based on rejection of his views rather than support for the law. "

www.ottawasun.com/Comment/2009/03/28/8913696-sun.html

What exactly do the "permanent war" neocon people bring to the table anyway? You cost the GOP and CPC far more votes than you bring in. As Canada continues to receive 500,000 immigrants annually, all of whom hail from countries that are less friendly with Israel and at your invitation, your narrative becomes stupider and more of an obstacle to freedom by the day.

You are a cancer on the right and on western civilization, please join the Liberals and Democrats where you belong.

Holy crap you have to see this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAm7rfHKSyY

Galloway debates the head Canadian terrorist of the JDL terrorist group, Meir Weinstein, on Canadian TV. Just kidding, Canadian TV would never air that, it's some foreign channel.

Do I need to tell you how it ends? Your terrorist hero Weinstein is no match; I hear they had to sandbag the studio to stem the tide of flopsweat emanating from this poor fellow's brow, such was the heat Galloway applied. A violent extremist terrorist trying to explain why a sitting member of the UK Parliament is a "threat" to Canada; the comedy gods are pleased.

LOL: if we were at war with the Nazis during WW2 and a spaniard who had intimate ties with them and who had raised money for them wanted to come to Canada and speak in support of the Nazis would you let him in?

Hmmmm...."our" terrorist hero? Personally, I have never heard of the man.

I do think they should have let Galloway into Canada, as it cannot be proven that he aided Canada's enemies(read, Taliban)in any way, shape or form.

We cannot be the guardians of free speech, then turn around and bar someone who does not express our world view.

I know PMSH was not involved in this decision, but the optics are not very good.

Free speech for everyone, no matter how distasteful their views.

Gord: I never cared much for Socrates, bit too much of a liberal asshat for my liking. He said he knew nothing after a lifetime of asking questions and I take him at his word.

I will say this: why on Earth would we go to war against Nazis? To deliver half of Europe to Stalin and participate in Operation Keelhaul? No thanks; Stalin was a much greater danger, we never should have financed his slave army and allied ourselves with him, ask Kate, she'll tell ya.

Hmmmm...."our" terrorist hero? Personally, I have never heard of the man.

I do think they should have let Galloway into Canada, as it cannot be proven that he aided Canada's enemies(read, Taliban)in any way, shape or form.

We cannot be the guardians of free speech, then turn around and bar someone who does not express our world view.

I know PMSH was not involved in this decision, but the optics are not very good.

Free speech for everyone, no matter how distasteful their views.

sorry about that, not sure how it happened !

Really biased Canadian Press piece on Calgary West's Rob Anders and an attempt to oust him as the nominee for his riding: "Controversial Calgary member of Parliament in nasty political fight".

CALGARY - Even with no federal election in sight, an outspoken and controversial member of Parliament is being challenged within his own party in his own riding.

On Saturday, more than 600 people stood outside for as long as 90 minutes to get into the annual general meeting of the Calgary West Conservative party.

MP Rob Anders has won the riding five times but corporate lawyer Donna Kennedy-Glans wants to replace him. She took a first step toward that Saturday by getting her supporters in the riding to vote in a new board of directors, which oversees nominations.

"It was democracy," said Kennedy-Glans. "It was very exciting." (I guess this closet Liberal isn't used to democracy).

The article goes on to slag Anders for fighting against the Beijing Olympics and for being the sole M.P. to vote against giving honorary citizenship to Nelson Mandela.

"I do think they should have let Galloway into Canada, as it cannot be proven that he aided Canada's enemies(read, Taliban)in any way, shape or form."

And I'll meet you halfway and say that if the Tamil Tigers, Jewish Defense League, the Grand River Mohawks, the Tyendinaga Mohawks, the Anti-Racist Action network, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and the Republican Party were all banned too I'd reluctantly agree with Galloway's banning as a matter of rule of law.

However, since our government encourages and promotes terrorism and terrorist groups in Canada (except for those it picks and chooses for banning as convenient) I know this move was a political one based on Galloway's flimsy association with the democratically elected government of Hamas, consisting of providing food and medicine to starving people.

Hamas and Hezbollah are democratically elected; if they are to be banned - and few countries have followed Canada's lead in this regard btw - then the GOP and perhaps even the Liberals and Conservatives may find themselves banned terrorist groups. Why not? We are using violence in Afghanistan to advance our political beliefs: gay marriage, feminism, and gay marriage. This meets the definition of terrorism and is why we banned Hamas and Hezbollah. Maybe Poland will ban the Conservatives as terrorists after what their shock troops did to Robert Dziekanski, who knows?

I want the members of the aforementioned terrorist groups executed. Instead, the government organizes rallies for them on Parliament Hill and Yonge Street, and shuts down the 401 whenever these clowns have a statement to make and threaten violence. But Galloway, 5 times elected a UK MP, is a threat? What a joke.

The "humour" in this National Post, er, humour piece is enriched by the fact that some of it could be unwitting.

For example, who but a Canadian could write a line slagging the U.S. military - "The Americans can't handle Vietnam or Iraq but he thinks they can handle us..." - in a piece complaining about an American slagging the Canadian military? We breathlessly await a complaint from Hillary Clinton to the NP.

There is also the projection of a Canadian arguing that Americans mock Canadians because "We are the last group that can be made fun of without risk." Shades of Rick Mercer...

Yes, quite the funny little "Canadian-style" piece.

Yet another diatribe about Canada as told by the centrist Toronto viewpoint. Toronto is not "New York without the stuff" but rather the Rodney Dangerfeild of the American Mid-West.

"The Gaza misery is not the outcome of some natural disaster. It is the result of deliberate choice -- something the liberal-minded westerners can barely grasp -- of Arab and Palestinian leadership to perpetuate the condition of Palestinians resulting from the events of 1947-48, and turning their despair into violence against Israel."
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"Misery manufactured by Arabs

By SALIM MANSUR

Gaza is not exceptional in terms of poverty and despair. The conditions in places such as Darfur and the flood-afflicted areas of Bangladesh are similar, if not poorer, than what is found in Gaza.

But what makes Gaza stand apart is the Arab-Israeli conflict, and how this conflict makes demands on western governments for diplomatic and material assistance for Gazans.

The Gaza narrative of this conflict is rather simple. Israel blockades the territory, which has a population of 1.5 million squeezed into an area half the size of Toronto, and Palestinian resistance spirals into an asymmetrical conflict.

There is another narrative that rarely gets into print in the mainstream media. Nonie Darwish's rare personal account of Gaza as "an Arab-made misery," recently published in the Wall Street Journal, offers this other perspective."
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Re: banning Galloway from Canada.

Didn't the British Parliment recently ban Geert Wilders ('Fitna' video) from the UK? If the Brits are willing to ban a sitting MP from a democracy, they should accept the same for their own.

It sounds like Obama's televised town hall meeting answering questions was staked with Obama campaign supporters. The ones Obama "randomly" picked for a question were anyway.

No, these info sessions are not biased or set up.....VOMIT!

I got the info from World Net Daily...Google it.

Galloway was banned for providing financial support to terrorist organizations - not because the government does not like his viewpoints. It is against the law in Canada to support terrorist organizations and as such Galloway should not be allowed in. Canadian who wants to find his views can do so with a bit of googling. His being banned will likely cause him more attention and spread his views further which is probably not a bad thing as they are so ridiculous.

Anyone else see Harper on Fox News Sunday - Wallace sure tried hard to get him to comment on American domestic policy.

A lot harder to pass the buck when your daughter's been (allegedly) caught on tape.

"'Friend' Of Biden's Daughter Shopping Tape Of Her Allegedly Doing Cocaine"

This item made Drudge, through Breitbart and AFP: Canada says will defend its Arctic.

"It is against the law in Canada to support terrorist organizations"

No it is not, and this is a key point.

When terrorists openly rally on Parliament Hill beneath the noses of MPs the jig is up. People support terrorist organizations all the time in Canada. Terrorists like Weinstein and Shawn Brant and Paul Watson appear openly on television, they fundraise, and in one case a CBC news team even filed a sympathetic story on the ARA terrorist group on Newsworld. Jason Kenney of course spoke to an Iranian terrorist group. And on and on.

Terrorism is effectively legal in Canada. I see no reason why Galloway should be singled out when our country is already overflowing with terrorists and terrorist supporters. We look ridiculous to the rest of the world for singling out a UK MP when we have an open door immigration policy that lets terrorists in by the planeload.

Cutting back on electricity use certainly has an effect on electricity rates. Yup...it causes them to RISE.
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"The subsidiary of Toronto Hydro Corp. said yesterday it has filed an application with the provincial regulator to increase electricity distribution rates by 6.3 per cent as of May 1.
The hike is needed to cover a $10.4 million loss in revenues associated with conservation programs that began in 2005...
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/194785

LOL - your assertions are not facts; they are just your personal opinions and, quite frankly, I disagree with all of them.

First, it is invalid to say that because we fought fascism in Europe, this enabled Stalinist communism to emerge as a power. The situation was not Either-Or, but BOTH. Facism was a violation of freedom and so was communism.

Second, because Galloway is a sitting member of the UK parliament does not mean that he ought to be admitted to Canada. His non-parliamentary behaviour is what Canada is focusing on.

Third, your lumping of both factually terrorist and factually non-terrorist organizations is invalid. The Republican Party is not a terrorist organization.

Fourth, our government does not promote or encourage terrorist organizations in Canada. I'm sure you already know the anti-terrorist laws, as well as the criminal hate laws.

Fifth, Hezbollah was not democratically elected. Hamas was but not for its militant but for its socioeconomic agenda.

Sixth, we are not using violence in Afghanistan to advance our political beliefs; namely, feminism and gay marriage. What utter nonsense. We are fighting anti-Afghanistan terrorists there who seek to take away the freedoms of the Afghan people. Afghan freedom rests in their right to democratically control their society's political, economic and societal systems. This includes a constitution and the rule of law. The content of both, rests with the Afghan people. Not us. Grow up.

Seven, the RCMP are not a branch of the Conservative Party.

Eight, it is against the law in Canada to support terrorist groups. Oh - and the people you mentioned are extremists - and Weinstein is indeed obnoxious - but being pig-headed, extremist, bigoted and stupid doesn't make him or them a terrorist.

Try again. This time, use some facts.

LOL. Word of warning. DO NOT engage ET in ME,and especially Pali things. She is very thoughtful,and usually right,but when it comes to Gaza,Palis etc,she is pigheaded anti- Israel. She thinks Hamas is going to give Galloway's money to the poor...ROTFLMAO.

PM Harper's government "showed a surplus"?

But, there it is at the end of an MSM piece by BRIAN LAGHI, c/o Globe-Mail.
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"The government showed a surplus of a $37-million in January, down from $1.2-billion in January, 2008."
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Nice post, vitruvius.

Since I'm an 'infosynthesist', which naturally includes the others (photo, chemo, thermo), then, these deep ocean 'hydrothermal vents' do indeed suggest that our planet has the basic capacity to self-organize its current life forms and even, test out new ones. That suggests that early life emerged within the capacity for metabolism and the later process of self-governed replication came, well, later.

"LOL - your assertions are not facts; they are just your personal opinions and, quite frankly, I disagree with all of them."

You're awfully uppity for a Tamil Tiger terrorism supporter. I won't be lectured on anything by a Tamil Tiger terrorism supporter, thankyouverymuch.

LOL - nope, your posturing of false superiority isn't the way to answer criticism of your comments.

It's a common yet fallacious tactic - to run from criticism by attacking the person who criticizes. Heh - nice try but it's an invalid tactic. My criticism stands. Be strong; face your criticism and don't run away.

Oh, and I don't support any terrorist group, so don't try yet another non-factual assertion.

Try again.

TORedStar reporting: edited to protect the innocent.
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"Fox News love-in"

"basked in praise"

"with the conservative news network,"

"trumpeted"

"Wallace went on to praise"

"revelled in the praise"

""I know in Canada there have been some criticisms in the past that we were perhaps too activist, intervening too much – but we're emerging from this with probably the only truly free-market financial system in the world.

"So a happy medium of regulation is probably the way to go."
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/610188

I linked to this Aussie site last nite and now

' Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later. '

Did sda overload an already great 'Suzuki-unmasked' site !?

http://joannenova.com.au/2009/03/22/desmog-accidentally-vindicates-the-skeptics-handbook/

Humourous column by Lorrie Goldstein on Earth Hour can be found at:

http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/lorrie_goldstein/2009/03/29/8923481-sun.html

Loved the bit with Professor Irwin Corey. I would say he makes as much sense as David Suzuki and Al Gore. However I wouldn't want to insult Professor Corey.

"PA dismantles W. Bank youth orchestra

Palestinian authorities disbanded a youth orchestra from a West Bank refugee camp after it played for a group of Holocaust survivors in Israel, a local official said on Sunday.

Adnan Hindi of the Jenin camp called the Holocaust a "political issue" and accused conductor Wafa Younis of unknowingly dragging the children into a political dispute.

He added that Younis has been barred from the camp and the apartment where she taught the 13-member Strings of Freedom orchestra has been boarded up.

On Saturday, The Jerusalem Post found that leaders and representatives of the Jenin refugee camp condemned the participation of Palestinian teenagers from the camp in a concert honoring Holocaust survivors in Holon last week."
urlm.in/bzrl
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"King Abdullah’s Doomed Dog Dies in Israel

(IsraelNN.com) The Jordanian Royal family’s dog was treated in an Israeli veterinarian hospital in the midst of Operation ‘Cast Lead’, Israel’s daily Yediot Acharonot reported Sunday. In a secret operation, the sick dog was transferred to the Beit Dagan hospital for treatment."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2217485/posts

"Global Warming Skeptics Handbook"

joannenova

urlm.in/bzrn
(HTML)

Interesting article on Jason Kenney

Mao Stlong say, Hello. This is Canadian Maurice Strong with a message to all my fellow Canadians.

I have you copied; now, sullendel.
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"Behind the China-based cyber spy plot

The Canadian researchers responsible for uncovering one of the most politically explosive cyberspace spy networks are calling on policy makers and intelligence agencies to do more to shut such networks down.

"We need to begin thinking about ways of implementing arms control in cyberspace," said Professor Ron Deibert, head of the Citizen Lab at Toronto's Munk Centre, one of the co-authors of a report that uncovered a vast network of infected computers, many belonging to highly sensitive political offices around the world.

"What we were witnessing was an international crime taking place," Prof. Deibert said of the way in which attackers infected, controlled and began mining data from computers around the world."
http://tinyurl.com/atzas

QuO Vadis? and the "black president" O'drama queen.

"Such a group has rarely surrounded a foreign leader on a visit to these shores since the days of the Roman emperors*."

"As a result, 200 of the U.S. state employees accompanying the president will be members of the secret service, prepared at all times to take a bullet to save Obama's life."

"from extreme racists enraged by the election of(sic) black president."
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"500 staff, armoured limousines, fleet of decoy helicopters: Obama to sweep into UK w/ huge security

A massive security operation is underway to protect Barack Obama on his first visit to Britain as president.Such a group has rarely surrounded a foreign leader on a visit to these shores since the days of the Roman emperors.

Assassination attempts are feared possible not only from Al Qaeda, and its Britain-based supporters, but also from extreme racists enraged by the election of black president."
urlm.in/bzsb

*Hadrian's Wall History
When the Roman Emperor Hadrian visited Britain in 122 A.D he recognised the difficulties in establishing control in Caledonia and saw that it would be ...
www.northeastengland.talktalk.net/HadriansWall.htm

A heads up for all the liberal supporters out here. You can still donate to Bob Rae's leadership campaign. Go here----http://bobrae.ca/en/donate ----,and remember that,just like Michael's campaign,any extra money will go to the LPC. Do it now,before anyone wises up to this creative scheme.

I think I just did a Galloway.

CTV online poll, looks like the lefts scaremongering isn't working and Kevin Page should have his PBO budget reduced to zero.

How do you think the Canadian economy is faring, compared to the U.S.?
Better 68%
Worse 4%
Still waiting to see... 29%

I still don't understand why the Galloway issue is tied to free speech. It isn't about suspending free speech but preventing a terrorist supporter from entering the country. Make him sneak in like the rest of them.