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400 hostages, no jail time, only in Canada:

REGINA - A teenage boy who held 400 people hostage with a pellet pistol at a Regina high school because he was bullied will avoid going to jail, but is not off the hook for his actions.

cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/04/06/9031096-cp.html

Included in "April Fool's Jokes" you don't want to be part of:

http://techdirt.com/articles/20090405/2130444402.shtml

Hope this is OK with you, Vit.

[The following paragraph is designed to be heard in the style of Gilbert Gottfried.]

I'm not a bouncer at this club, Kevin, I'm just a DJ who sometimes cracks wise between sets. Why not ask me if I'm ambivalent? That one's easy: yes and no. Seriously, I like cats too. Let's exchange recipes. Wait, wait, not again, you know, one of the problems with being a DJ is these groupies. Look, I'm not your type, honey, I'm not inflatable. If I throw a stick, will you leave? Does your train of thought have a caboose? All right, all right, enough with the wisecracks, we now return to your regularly scheduled Reader Tips.

Ummm, Vitruvius - are you, like, insulting Kevin? And if you are, why? Maybe I'm just dense tonight, and I've never really been able to truly appreciate Gilbert Gottfried, which I'm sure is my loss, but I don't get it.

Yes, yes, good critique Exetaz, the problem is my weak segue right there at the end of the first sentence of my second paragraph. I am sorry about that, Kevin, everything after the first sentence of the second paragraph is intended to be gratuitous humour, not any comment about you or your comments. I should have formatted my comment like this:

I'm not a bouncer at this club, Kevin, I'm just a DJ who sometimes cracks wise between sets. For example, and in a generic sense, without implied reference to anyone at all, here are some wisecracks (in the voice of Gilbert Gottfried):

Why not ask me if I'm ambivalent? That one's easy: yes and no. Seriously, I like cats too. Let's exchange recipes. Wait, wait, not again, you know, one of the problems with being a DJ is these groupies. Look, I'm not your type, honey, I'm not inflatable. If I throw a stick, will you leave? Does your train of thought have a caboose?

All right, all right, enough with the wisecracks. We now return to your regularly scheduled Reader Tips.

An earlier posting had a quote by Mark Steyn, while he was guest hosting Rush Limbaugh's show. I just finished listening to the Podcast and there was an even funnier line. Let me paraphrase:

Sudan is a very strange country. On the one hand many people there use modern technology like cel phones. On the other hand, a while back a rumour spread like wildfire amongst the population that if a Sudanese man shook the hand of a foreigner then within days the man's private parts would shrivel up and fall off.

Now I have a lot of sympathy for these men of Sudan because I pretty much had the same experience when I shook Hillary Clinton's hand.

SOROS SEES END OF DOLLAR AS WORLD CURRENCY...

US Recovery Is Far Off, Banks Are 'Basically Insolvent': Soros

http://www.cnbc.com/id/30069223

About a week ago at transmontanus.blogspot.com, Canadian blogger Terry Glavin took issue with an article by Christopher Hitchens about the barring of George Galloway; essentially, Glavin felt that our national media had sensationalized the story to the detriment or exclusion of facts and that Hitchens, who'd written that the barring of Galloway was evidence of "the risk of giving the power of censorship to any official," had in effect been misled by his use of Canadian media sources. The amicably curmudgeonly Hitchens responded by tacking this statement onto a following unrelated column at Slate:

"Update: In my last column, it seems I may have done an injustice to the government and people of Canada in the matter of George Galloway's canceled visit to the country. For elucidation, please consult the following blog post." In the post Hitchens refers to --

http://transmontanus.blogspot.com/2009/03/christopher-hitchens-is-wrong.html

Glavin had written,

To be clear: Despite what all Galloway's friends will tell you, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney did not ban George Galloway from speaking in Canada, or from not speaking in Canada, and neither did any Canadian official do anything of the kind, either. It did not happen. It did not occur. And it won't do to say, well, yes, but however you put it, the whole thing has only only served to draw more attention to Galloway and his "odious opinions." Something has given Galloway the attention he craves, to be sure. But he hasn't been given anything like the attention he properly deserves, and as for why this is so, well, that is a very good question. It is one of the more important questions raised by this whole affair, so I'll take a shot at answering it.

The bigger story in which l'affaire Galloway is a kind of defining moment involves a phenomenon that is playing out on the same tectonic scale as the emergence of a distinctly Canadian democratic socialism in the 1930s, the Quiet Revolution in Quebec in the 1960s, and the rise of libertarian prairie populism in the 1990s. As is often the case in such upheavals, journalists are the last to notice.

Something wholly new is emerging in Canada, in all the spaces where the Left used to be, in its activist constituencies, its traditional institutions, and its lexicon. Whatever name you want to give the thing, its noticeable features include a betrayal of progressive internationalism, a pathetic weakness for conspiracy theories, and a routine apologetics for antisemitism and terror. Its outlook is generally parochial, but its global engagements tend to align with fascism’s contemporary Islamist variants, even to the point of objective support for the Taliban.

To read most Canadian newspapers, you probably wouldn't have a clue that any of this was going on.

I think Hitchens' mea culpa is commendable, a good addition to public discourse which bears notice.

Here's a final excerpt from transmontanus' piece which perhaps best sums up the piece's convincing counter-argument to the whole "we're-just-making-Galloway-more-famous-by-banning-him" take on it:

When Galloway visited Ottawa two years ago, he was every bit as famous as he is now. He was the guest of honour at a publicly-advertised 74th birthday party for the Syrian Social Nationalist Party. The SSNP is an unambiguously fascist movement with shiny boots and uniforms, its own distinctive swastika, and an anthem sung to the tune of Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles.

Not one Canadian news organization reported Galloway’s Ottawa visit.

Kick the Ordure of Canada out of Canada.
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"Lawyer out of Order

Sikh kicked out of Order of Canada after disbarment"
urlm.in/cbdt

Islam: aged 11.
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"Afterwards you would go straight to heaven, with 70 girls."
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"I asked: “How would you feel about being a suicide bomber?”

He said he knew he’d be in pieces. But he also knew the difference between suicide, which God forbade, and sacrifice, which is what you become if you blow yourself up, killing the non-Muslims who want to kill your family.

Afterwards you would go straight to heaven, with 70 girls. I suspect he didn’t care too much about the girls. But when I asked him what he wanted to do when he grew up, he said: “When I’m older I’ll kill non-Muslims. If I don’t, they’ll come to our homes and kill us.”"
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"The world's youngest terrorist - aged 11 - arrested for being a potential suicide bomber"
urlm.in/cbdu

"GM and Segway unveil new two-wheeled urban [electric] vehicle"

GM Bankruptcy Plan Said to Speed Up as Board Seeks Savings Goal

(I couldn't resist going into juxtaposition mode. At any rate, GM's not going gently into that good night.)

"Obama's entreaty to Islam surprises Muslims"
(sfgate)

"Muslims attack Christian-owned shops in Alexandria"
(reuters)

O'Narcissist: "I'm" + "I" + "I" + "I" + "We" + "us".

""I'm here to tell you that's not the country I know and not the country I love," the president said."

""I am personally committed to a new chapter in American engagement," Obama said. "We can't afford to talk past one another and focus only on our differences, or to let the walls of mistrust go up around us."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090407/ap_on_go_pr_wh/eu_obama

"The Associated Press board touts new effort to fight web news piracy
By Elliot Spagat, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS"
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"Yo Ho Ho And A Bottle Of Rum - Fifteen men on a dead man's chest"

"We wrapped 'em all in a mains'l tight
With twice ten turns of a hawser's bight
And we heaved 'em over and out of sight,
With a Yo-Heave-Ho! and a fare-you-well
And a sudden plunge in the sullen swell
Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!"
http://www.privateerdragons.com/caseys_shiphold1a.html

Robert Alan Zimmerman's hOpe and change is slipsliding backtracking to Fear.

O is now side B.

Bob say, "I think he [O] had a job as an investment banker on Wall Street for a second — selling German bonds."

"“But we’ve got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature of politics from the ground up . . . Barack Obama. He’s redefining what a politician is, so we’ll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I’m hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to.”"

"Asked if he had read anything in Mr Obama’s book that suggested that he would be a good politician, Dylan replied: “Well, nothing really. In some sense you would think being in the business of politics would be the last thing that this man would want to do. I think he had a job as an investment banker on Wall Street for a second — selling German bonds."
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"After the summer of love, Bob Dylan backtracks on Barack Obama"
urlm.in/cbdw

Note: TimesUk places this in "Entertainment".

Never did like that song "Like a Rolling Stone". I thought it was showed hatred for the rich and for women:

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And ask him do you want to make a deal?

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
But you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

RCMP, once pride and glamorous institution degenerate into unionized shop.

RCMP, once proud and glamorous institution degenerate into unionized shop.

What type of dog should Obama get . .

http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/

Boxing Day murderer 'Cavalier' about Creba's Death
ctv.ca Apr.06/09

Psychiatrist told a Toronto court that J.S.R, the first person convicted in the Boxing day shooting of teenager Jane Creba has a cavalier attitude towards her death....

The 21yr old can only be publicaly identified as J.S.R. because he was a youth at the time....

J.S.R said he is staying contact with the Mother of his "2 Children ages 4 & 7" so he can grab them when he is released.....

*Note the ages of his kids! He is being tried as a Youth!!
Liberal BullSh** IMO

Further on this story at
Toronto Sun
"Murderer's Cold Heart"
apr 07/09

"Liberal Party Racing into Black"
Ottawa Sun Apr.07/09

The federal Liberal party is scooping up donations like a Turbo Charged Back-Hoe and its national director says it will soon clear its $2Million
Debt......

*Thats Good, Maybe they can pay back the Taxpayer's of Canada the Monies they Stole, In the Adscam Scandal!

*Also anyone heard or seen anymore on the Liberal Leadership Loans Payback Time Frame?

Listening to Adam Atlas the incoming president of the soon-to-be-renamed Canadian Jewish Congress (Quebec Region). Not only was he trying to explain why the pandering to Quebec nationalists of a name change to Quebec Jewish Congress was necessary, he also said that at the present time the Quebec Jewish Congress had no position on whether or not Quebec should separate from Canada.

Putting aside this specific case of going overboard to appease the few Jews in Quebec who are separatist and the government bodies with which the 'Quebec Jewish Congress' would interact, the whole interview with Tommy Schnurmacher on Montreal's CJAD radio station depressed me to no end.

This is just another example of the spinelessness of our politicians, judges, leaders in general. Where did this disease come from? As Tommy said, if you want respect, you have to respect yourself.

Even the leader of the free world is now apologizing for the existence of the United States.

As another example the YMCA here in Quebec changed their name to dump the Christian part so as to be more inclusive. Nobody said boo, even though the name YMCA is known around the world and has a lot of history attached to it.

Where is the vaccine to stop the spread of this spinelessness?

bryanr: You read my mind! As soon as the Liberal's are out of the "red", they can start on the outstanding debit owed to us, the taxpayers to the tune of around 14 million! That's what they got caught for......

http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2009/04/07/9034231-sun.html

"Lawyer out of Order"
Sikh kicked out of Order of Canada after disbarment
Elizabeth Thompson, National Bureau
Ottawa Sun apr.07/09

a prominent member of Canada's Sikh community has been stripped of his Order of Canada.
The order signed by Gov.Gen. Michaelle Jean after T.Sher Singh was found guilty in 2007 of professional misconduct and disbarred by the Law Society of Upper Canada...

It's bOw-wOw again.

Family phOtO:
Video here: *.
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"EDITORIAL: Barack takes a bow. The president shows fealty to a Muslim king

In a shocking display of fealty to a foreign potentate, President Obama bowed to Saudi King Abdullah at the Group of 20 summit in London last week.

Mr. Obama later said in Strasbourg, France, "We have to change our behavior in showing the Muslim world greater respect." Symbolism is important in world affairs. By bending over to show greater respect to Islam, the U.S. president belittled the power and independence of the United States.

The bow was an extraordinary protocol violation. Such an act is a traditional obeisance befitting a king's subjects, not his peer. There is no precedent for U.S. presidents bowing to Saudi or any other royals. Former President Franklin D. Roosevelt shook hands with Saudi King Abdulaziz in February 1945. Granted, Mr. Roosevelt was wheelchair-bound, but former President Dwight D. Eisenhower shook hands when he first met King Saud in January 1957. Mr. Obama's bow to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques does not help his image with those who believe he is secretly a Muslim, and why he chose to bow only to the Saudi King and not to any other royals remains unexplained.

No Americans of any station are required to bow to royalty. It is one of the pillars of American exceptionalism that our country rejected traditional caste divisions."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223965/posts

*urlm.in/cbet

Well it ain't hard to get into the black after you remove the democratic process from selecting a leader. All the donations can then go direct to the party instead of, you know, participants in a leadership contest.

And MaryM is quite correct. All surpluses in the national Liberal Party go directly back to the federal coffers until such time as the money they stole is repaid.

Goreacle's hobnailed boots with frozen hobnails.
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"Catlin Crew Officially Has Hypothermia (and Frostbite)

From the Catlin web site today -

Hypothermia Posted by Gaby Dean
Monday, 06 Apr 2009 15:58
In disadvantaged inner cities it’s known in medical circles as Urban Hypothermia. GPs adopted the term after seeing an increase, during winter, of elderly patients who have switched off their heating, fearful of the cost, and become ill as a result because of the cold.

Chronic, as opposed to acute, hypothermia is the official term.

The Catlin Arctic Survey Team have now been working in temperatures of below -40 degrees centigrade for more than 30 days. When the three (Pen Hadow, Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley) leave messages on the TVM - a machine that records the messages they phone into London HQ - their voices often sound slurred and they occasionally muddle their words.

Extreme cold affects the senses and everyday skills we usually take for granted, like speaking. According to CAS medical adviser Doc Martin, the team are constantly battling chronic hypothermia, which was to be expected. (Pen Hadow has described it as an ‘occupational hazard’).

“Chronic hypothermia affects people who are under-nourished, physically and mentally tired and not sleeping well”, says Doc. “You can see the connection between vulnerable elderly people and the physical and mental condition that Pen, Ann and Martin are in”."

"Perhaps they are preparing to come home? They are 15 km further from the pole today (722.28 km) than they were yesterday (707.83 km) and according to satellite data, temperatures have been running below normal for the last two and a half months.
And from the NSIDC web site today - It was a warm winter in the Arctic. No doubt the Catlin crew will be relieved to hear that."
urlm.in/cbew

RCMP, a once proud and glamorous institution (nee 19th century), is an armed militia, deeply politicized and deeply corrupted.

From the murder of Robert Dziekanski, to the bungling of the APEC security, the 'investigation' of Shawingigate, the raid on Juliette O'Neil's underwear drawer, the bumbled and politicized Airbus investigation, and beyond the use of state force against a civilian (François Beaudoin).

The list could go on, but honestly, unionization of the force doesn't really matters.

If anything, the stock antagonism between management and members may reduce politician's use of the force. And drop productivity 30%.

RCMP softened Taser-use restrictions

In response to national anger at the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski in the Vancouver airport, the RCMP was urged to curb multiple Taser use by its officers — but instead deleted an existing restriction from its stun-gun policy.

CBC News has learned that on Feb. 3, 2009, two sentences were erased from the main document that guides officers' actions — the first limiting Taser usage to one shot and no more than 20 seconds at a time, and the second requiring officers to warn suspects before deploying a stun gun.

When the 'lieberals' pay back what is owned to the Canadian public with what they got caught stealing. I will plant banana trees on the farm.

This fella doesn't really mince words. One doesn't see this in a newspaper very often...

No income, no trust

By BRENT FULLARD, GUEST COLUMNIST

Lie. Conceal. Fabricate. That was the theme our association used in billboards across the country in the aftermath of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's broken income trust promise.

You would think someone as litigious as Harper would have sued our association for libel. Especially for the full page newspaper ads we ran under the headline of: "Jim Flaherty, your tax leakage analysis is fraudulent."

The reason these public statements did not invite a libel lawsuit is because the best defence against claims of libel is the statements being made are true.

After all, Harper did lie, conceal and fabricate when he broke his election promise to "never" tax income trusts, with his demonstrable lie that income trusts cause tax leakage.

An argument he fabricated by leaving out all of the taxes that are paid to Ottawa by the 38% of income trusts held in RRSPs, and concealed within his 18 pages of blacked out "proof."

Meanwhile our claim that Jim Flaherty's tax leakage analysis is fraudulent is derived from the definition of fraud, which is "an intentional deception made for personal gain or which causes damage to another."

Based on this definition, Flaherty's income trust tax is a fraud since it was based on the intentional deception of his fabricated tax leakage claims, and the policy resulted in Canadians permanently losing $35 billion of their hard-earned retirement savings.

Scandals

These events have enormous relevance to today and the financial scandals that have been perpetrated on an unsuspecting public by the likes of the AIGs, Bernie Madoffs, and Bear Stearns of this world.

The income trust tax and the enormous havoc it created in Canadians' retirement savings, and the massive number of takeovers that ensued (worth $108 billion), mostly by foreigners such as Hong Kong billionaires and middle eastern oil companies, is the real scandal Canadians should make themselves aware of.

Unlike the present day financial meltdown Harper assured us during the last election "would have happened by now" if it was going to happen at all, or the raging debate over how much Harper is responsible for the financial calamity all around us, the damage caused by the income trust tax is something that is the sole consequence of a decision Harper made.

Today's financial meltdown has, no doubt, sensitized a larger number of Canadians about what it actually means to lose half of your retirement savings or to lose the very basis for one's retirement income.

The trust takeovers to date by foreigners have caused Ottawa and all taxpayers to lose more than $1 billion in annual tax revenue, a number that will soon climb to $7.5 billion. And for what? The privilege of having foreigners own more of Canada and the privilege of imposing enormous losses on Canadians saving for retirement?

Unlike today's other financial meltdown, this is an outcome Harper owns, lock, stock and barrel, based on his policy of lie, conceal, fabricate.

Since the car companies are just topping up their pension plans with taxpayer cash, the suppliers might not have had the cash flow to stay along for the ride. Until now....

OTTAWA, April 7 (Reuters) - Canada's industry minister said on Tuesday the government would increase the amount of cash available to Export Development Canada to insure receivables to auto parts suppliers by C$700 million ($569 million) to a total C$1.25 billion.

Industry Minister Tony Clement also said on Tuesday the government would guarantee warranties on new vehicles by Chrysler [CBS.UL] and General Motors Corp until "the period of uncertainty" in the auto sector ends.

"It will help consumers know that they have confidence when they buy a vehicle from GM and Chrysler during this uncertain period, that their warranty ... will be there for them," Clement told reporters."

Since the next announcement will be for the auto dealers themselves, it won't be long until the direct purchase subsidies will begin.

The public has no idea how large a commitment of taxpayer money has been made to preserve a relatively small portion of our economy.

Our 'conservative' government does, and they won't provide totals.

GM in 'earnest' bankruptcy talks

NEW YORK/DETROIT – General Motors Corp. is in "intense" and "earnest" preparations for a possible bankruptcy filing, a source familiar with the company's plans told Reuters Tuesday....

Quick!! Finish the following sentence....

"Your conservative government gave $4 billion to GM because...."

Ignatieff exploits Tory rift by praising Mulroney

STEVEN CHASE

April 7, 2009

OTTAWA -- Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff offered unexpected praise for Brian Mulroney yesterday and criticized Stephen Harper for failing to show the veteran Tory due respect....

...Robin Sears, a spokesman for Mr. Mulroney, said the former prime minister was "not amused" to hear that Tories last week were telling reporters he no longer belongs to the party. Mr. Sears said Mr. Mulroney remains a member, adding that his family "deeply appreciated" birthday greetings from Mr. Ignatieff and Liberal MP Bob Rae...."

Royalty indeed. "Not amused". Sniff.

And conservatives rally around the guy who took envelopes filled with cash while in office.

Stay on your knees, and accept rule from above.

"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here*."
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"Fear

To hear liberal mouthpieces in and out of the administration tell it, a sweet rationality guides the minds of those who agree with Barack Obama’s economic policies, not an emotion so debilitating it prevents even the acknowledgment of their consequences.

Fortunately, a great many Americans recognize such drivel for what it is: propaganda spewed by wolfish shills whose job is to quash the notion that much public opinion is being driven by an understandable, transient fear that the president and his liberal allies in Congress are happily (actually, ecstatically) taking advantage of.

Those wolves, by the way, come dressed in all manner of sheep’s clothing, a fact exemplified by White House Budget Director Peter Orszag, who, sporting a suit, tie, and two glittering diplomas, answered a reporter’s question about how the administration can speak of “fiscal rsponsibility” when it is creating a “spiraling debt” with this low-down, pusillanimous lie: “I don’t know what spiraling debt you’re referring to.”

But to return to the point at hand, those of us who are actually trying to be reasonable about the president’s proposals are accumulating plenty of evidence to support the notion that fear has frozen millions of minds.

How?

Simple. We listen carefully, finding that almost invariably, expressions of concern about the consequences of the president’s policies elicit responses that are nothing short of astonishing in their intellectual deficiencies.

Common among those responses is “He [Obama] has got to try something,” an embarrassingly vacuous utterance that allows us to immediately draw two conclusions:

1) It can’t claim even a distant relationship with any rational idea.
2) It does, however, shout its sister and brotherhood to the kind of childish irrationality that responds to a “why” with an implacably resolute, perfectly smug “because.”"
http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/dicintio/2009/04072009.htm

*Dante: Inferno, aka Hell.
"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate."

O joins Comrades Trotsky, Lenin, aka ulianov/lberia, Pol Pot, Taliban Jack, Mao Stlong, et al.
Forgot: Toommy Dooglas, EMay ......

Tovarisch O.
Da.
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"Club for Growth calls Obama its 'Comrade of the Month'"

"According to the Club, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) were Obama's competing nominees for the month of March."
http://tinyurl.com/d2ud3c

"First female commander takes control of Warship"
ctv.ca apr 07/09

A 20yr veteran of the Canadian Navy became the first woman to take command of a warship on tuesday when she took the HMCS Halifax out on the water during a early morning news conference.
Cmdr Josee Kurtz, who joined the forces in 1988, is the 11th commander of the frigate.

The O' sneaks into Iraq

"Obama visits Baghdad, says Iraq must take Over"
ctv.ca apr 07/09

Feds to guarantee warranties if automaker fails

Updated Tue. Apr. 7 2009 3:03 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

While warning Canadians to be prepared for possible bankruptcy filing by North America's largest auto maker, the federal government announced further steps Tuesday to boost General Motors and Chrysler -- guaranteeing auto warranties on their vehicles while the companies attempt to restructure...."

Ah, finally.

Unlike those Dippers and their claims upon Tommy Douglas, we now have Stephen Harper and our Conservative government to thank for introducing Universal Car Care.

Where no car in Canada is left to fend for itself.

"Gun registry: Triumph of symbolism over substance

It should be a no-brainer.

The registry of long guns in Canada, that has cost the country over $2 billion with little or no effect on shootings, accidental or otherwise, should never have been implemented.

Why no federal government (until now) has moved to disband the whole thing stands as testimony to the hesitancy if not cowardice of politicians.

A noisy minority might protest -- belay that, certainly will protest -- if (when) a vote is taken to revoke the registry of long guns as Prime Minister Stephen Harper hopes when Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz's private members bill comes before the House."
http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/peter_worthington/2009/04/07/9035901-sun.html

Hope and Fear*: The sisters united at last; 'til Death do us part.

*""flicker of hope in the middle of the imperialist darkness," but said he feared the president could be assassinated..."
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>>>> "Obama's global debut seen as mostly successful
Reuters"

"Europeans discover Obama’s arrogance
Hot Air"

"Obama Bashing in Bavaria and Paris
Spiegel"

*"Libya's Gaddafi says fears Obama assassination

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi Tuesday called Barack Obama a "flicker of hope in the middle of the imperialist darkness," but said he feared the president could be assassinated..."He (Obama) speaks logically. Arrogance no longer exists in the American approach which was previously based on dictating to the rest of the world in order to meet its own conditions,".."
(Reuters)

Is it just me, or does something strike you very wrong with this:

Feds consider $150-million fund for broadcasters

OTTAWA — The federal cabinet is considering a $150-million fund for the country's private broadcasters to help rescue local TV stations and their newscasts, The Canadian Press has learned.

This one looks like it has tempest qualities:

"US moves on Iran nuclear trade

"New York prosecutors joined the Obama administration on Tuesday to shut down a Chinese-based network that allegedly supplied Iran’s nuclear and missile programmes with the unwitting aid of some of Wall Street’s biggest banks.

"The move comes as the US seeks to slow down Tehran’s progress towards nuclear weapons capability and Barack Obama, US president, tries to win time for possible negotiations with Iran. It is also likely to prove a test of the administration’s relationship with Beijing, which to date has been unenthusiastic about sanctions on Tehran.

"Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan district attorney, unsealed an 118-count indictment, accusing Li Fang Wei, a Chinese national, of setting up front companies to disguise the illegal sales...."

There's three other links to related stories on the top left of Drudge.

"Pakistsan, as well as the rest of the world has now taken obama’s measure."

"Th[i]s man-boy is actively sabotaging the United States national security. Home Land Security should raise the threat level to the top of the scale simply because of obama."
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[Commenter] Habu:

“He made him an offer he couldn’t refuse”
“He put a gun to his head and said either his brains or his signature would be on the contract” Micheal Corleone explaining to Kay some of the finer points of negotiation.

Pakistsan, as well as the rest of the world has now taken obama’s measure. They have read our blogs, they know his agenda is too large, that we are broke, and that he is dealing from a position of weakness the world has not seen the US in since before WWII. Further obama has now cut from defense the airborn laser and the missle defense, while getting nothing in return.

Ths man-boy is actively sabotaging the United States national security. Home Land Security should raise the threat level to the top of the scale simply because of obama.

Pakistan should have a gun put to it’s head given their absurd request for aid unchecked.

“Trust us”…yeah

Our intelligence has already uncoverd the depth of Pakistani trust through the treachery of the ISI.

We need to encourage India, if need be through an operation similar to the forgery by British agent Ivar Bryce,of a fake South American map outlining what Hitler’s plans were for that continent. Bryce worked for William Stephenson (who Ian Fleming model Bond, James Bond after) who had been given the mission: Provoke America to go to war with Germany. Well we need to provoke India to take out Pakistan.

The map aided FDR in his attempt to get us engaged in the war but did not have full effect until 12/7/1941. It did mute for a considerable time the anti war American Firsters, a Pro German movement.

Pakistan is another rogue nation and must be dealt with with a gun at it’s head, not a sugar bowl of weaponry and money…all to go unaccounted for. Sign the contract Pakistan, or else."
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"Strategic debt

"“Pakistan urges ‘unconditional’ aid” according to Al-Jazeera, which apparently means a demand for little or no accounting of the monies given them because how can friends operate, except on “trust”."
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/04/07/strategic-debt/#comments

Could this* have been a dry-run for a Islamic jihadist plot/terrorist attack?
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*"U.S. immigration officials said Leon was born in Turkey with the name Yavuz Berke, but moved to Canada and became a naturalized citizen last year."

*"Canadian student's plane joyride into U.S. called suicide attempt"
http://tinyurl.com/d82mhb
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More here:

"Report confirms terror dry run

Flight 327 Update. Will all those who ridiculed Annie Jacobsen for "hysteria" over "musicians," and derided her for "racism," now apologize? What do you think?

And what about those who think the Flying Imams case is a legitimate one of racist profiling? Will they now acknowledge that there is a genuine threat to American air travel? Again, what do you think?

And why has DHS covered up all these probes and dry runs? Are they more concerned about a fictional "backlash" against Muslims than about preventing another jihad terror attack? Do they think that keeping the public ignorant, fat, and happy will help prevent another jihad terror attack? This goes hand-in-hand with the polite fictions about Islam and jihad that dominate the public discourse -- it's as if in both cases that the truth is just too terrifying to contemplate, and so we'd rather play pretend.

Well, if we wish to survive, maybe it's time to grow up."

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016675.php

Last last last post post post: "The Last Rant".
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The last rant: Failing papers ‘bring me joy’ (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

The more the problems of the media mount, the more that newspaper-bashing comments are flowing to this blog. As of today, the media bashers can save themselves the trouble, because I will reject them, one and all.

Before I turn off the spigot, I want to share the mother of all anti-MSM rants to illustrate the virulent hostility that many feel toward the press. Journalists and publishers ought to know what they are up against. After taking note, they should move on to more constructive pursuits.

The following 1,181-word broadside scourges journalists, publishers and even journalism educators, whose ranks I joined earlier this year as a member of the adjunct faculty at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.

Like the authors of most such efforts, the writer is anonymous. (UPDATE: The ever-vigilant Mark Potts notes that, unbeknownst to me until now, a similar version of this post appeared at AngryJournalist.Com.) And now, here’s the last anti-media rant you’ll see on this blog:

By Anonymous

Seeing newspapers fall apart brings me joy. Not for those suffering loss of income of course, but rather ..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224489/posts
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Flashback:

"Assignment in Utopia
[By Eugene Lyons. Published in 1937 (New York) by Harcourt Brace]

XV

The Press Corps Conceals a Famine

“THERE is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.”

This amazing sophistry, culled from a New York Times Moscow dispatch on March 30, 1933, has become among foreign re­porters the classic example of journalistic understatement. It char­acterizes sufficiently the whole shabby episode of our failure to report honestly the gruesome Russian famine of 1932-33.

The circumstance that the government barred us from the afflicted regions may serve as our formal excuse. But a deaf-and-dumb reporter hermetically sealed in a hotel room could not have escaped knowledge of the essential facts. Reporting, as we did daily, industrial victories in the Baikal region or Tajikistan without per­sonal investigation, we had small warrant for withholding and minimizing and diluting the famine story because we were pro­hibited to make personal investigation. Whatever doubts as to the magnitude of the disaster may have lingered in our minds, the prohibition itself should have set at rest.

The episode, indeed, reflects little glory on world journalism as a whole."
http://www.colley.co.uk/garethjones/soviet_articles/assignment_in_utopia.htm