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What have we become? That was and is great humor. I think that is why All in the Family is still on TV on most cable packages. I love the Internet because you find a lot of old stuff. Search for Don Rickles on Youtube. Fab stuff.

The funniest headline I've read today: "Somali Government Ready to Resolve Piracy Problems".

www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2009-04-10-voa3.cfm

For the slipped-blades file:

"Dutch TV show exonerates Osama bin Laden: 'Devil's Advocate' jury finds no proof he was behind Sept. 11"

No one ever said the Dutch were geniuses. Just look at what they've done to their society...

"Castro 'wants Obama to succeed'" - headline in Edmonton Sun

Now there's an endorsement from Fidel Totalitarianism Himself that I wouldn't want to have or brag about.

Fidel's idea of success (making people disappear) is considerably different than the North American idea of success.

Just got this e-mail.......I have no idea how I got on their sucker list....but they do sound desperate....defending their iron-rice-bowl

Dear ********,

As you know, the CBC is in crisis. Eight hundred of its creative people – 10% of all its staff – are being laid off in order to deal with a $171 million shortfall which CBC's president, hand-picked by Stephen Harper, announced suddenly just weeks ago.

These cuts will decimate programming on radio and television, and will be particularly devastating in small and medium sized communities throughout Canada.

FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting is fighting these cuts by delivering a strong message to Harper and Ottawa that the government must invest in pubic broadcasting and not allow it to wither and die.

But we can't do it without your help.

That's why I am asking you to join with me and many thousands of other proud Canadians to invest in a campaign to maintain and build the CBC at a time when our country needs it most.

We are calling on the federal government to adopt the 2008 recommendation of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to increase CBC's parliamentary grant from the present $33 per capita to $40. This would give CBC the money it needs to maintain and grow its services. It's a good first step.

The average per capita investment in public broadcasting in Western democracies is $80, so adopting the Heritage Committee's plan would bring us Canadians to only half that average.

So, how do we plan to get this message through to Harper, his caucus and the opposition parties?

For starters, over the next ten days, the House of Commons is not sitting. MP's are back in their ridings where they are more accessible than usual to their constituents. We are organizing a massive campaign to get the message out to all MP's through email, telephone and direct contact.

But we are also focusing on eighteen ridings where Conservative MP's won the last election with extremely slim margins over their opponents. These are MP's who will likely be especially sensitive to public opinion, and to facing angry constituents at the doorstep in the forthcoming election wearing responsibility for the evisceration of public broadcasting.

Imagine for a moment that Harper & Co. are thinking about a rescue for private TV broadcasters while leaving Canada's national treasure, the CBC, to wither and die. Canadians are justifiably angry about this turn of events. We must act now to focus our energy where it will do the most good.

Please take a moment right now to make an investment in our campaign for the future of the CBC.

Public broadcasting in Canada is at a tipping point. If we all join together we can turn this around and bequeath a strong CBC to our children and their children.

Whatever you can spare –$500, $250, $100, $50 or even $20 will make a huge contribution.

So, thanks, and please!

Best regards!

Ian Morrison
Spokesperson
FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting

P.S. We will keep you closely informed on the results of this campaign. Together we can make a difference!

Myth: The US financial meltdown created a world wide recession.

Realty: The world was already in a recession before the US meltdown.

IT DIDN'T START HERE: THE GLOBAL DOWNTURN BEGAN LONG BEFORE US FINANCIAL MESS

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more proud moments in cyber-socialism

he was just so proud of himself... he
couldn't keep it in any longer.

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Now THIS sounds like quite the event

http://tinyurl.com/dzzxpf

Celebrate Climate Justice and Women's Rights

WTF is climate justice????

You know all the un named quotes from the virtual party members about how Mulroney's party member status is splitting caucus?

Well I got a source that I will name that can verify another story of division in the liberal party. Seems this OMOV motion is got some of the interest groups bent out of shape.

http://liberalminute.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/liberal-minute-28-ylc-omov-amendment/

Seems they don't like their influence being watered down.

Online web petition to get rid of the firearms registry at:
www.scrapthelonggunregistry.com
Help support the Brietkreuz private members bill by signing the petition.

"As you know, the CBC is in crisis..."

Work expands to occupy the time allotted for it, nature hates a vacuum and the CBC will always bitch about not having enough taxpayers' dollars. Oh, and the sun will come up* tomorrow...oh wait - maybe not if we don't cough up the environmental extortion tax.

* Cue the 'scientifically enlightened' fanbois to point out the actual workings of the solar system, String Theory Certainties and portray me as a faith-based luddite whose mother they enjoyed having sex with.

Dear Canadian MP,

I am aware of a campaign to have the subsidy for the CBC increased from $33 per capita to $40.

I respectfully offer a better recommendation: Find out who my closest neighbour is who supports the CBC, increase their contribution (via a tax surcharge) to $60 and reduce mine to $0.

Sincerely,

Joe Taxpayer

"WTF is climate justice????"

A made-up socialist term created by people trying to get as many "oppressed", "marginalized", "powerless" individuals (by the organizers' own definition, of course) or rent-a-crowds together to assemble like aimless floating dust particles in sunlight? Wandering around because they were told to and are uncertain of the purpose? Sort of like useful idiots? A magnet for radicals to stir up (enter, Stage Left) manufactured outrage, discontent, badly-spelled protest signs and broken private property?

I could go on, but I ran out of question marks.

Thanks, Vit.

Great blast of reality through this PC world.

Here's one I like, courtesy Bob Newhart...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYLMTvxOaeE

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When you think about it, 800 seems like an awful lot of creative people to have kicking around. So that's ten percent of the staff. Sounds like they must have an awful lot of these types left. I say, forget the extra funding for the CBC. I am sure they will think of some creative ways to make due.

When you think about it, 800 seems like an awful lot of creative people to have kicking around. So that's ten percent of the staff. Sounds like they must have an awful lot of these types left. I say, forget the extra funding for the CBC. I am sure they will think of some creative ways to make due.

AlQaeda releases a magazine, in english, in north carolina. It's actually not easy to find, but I have a copy. I can't tell whether it's legit, cia blackops or a complete troll; but it's definitely eyebrow raising.

Other links on this:

some really lame radical islamic forum. I can say at least this; SDA has more taste in web design than anything I've seen out of the muslim underground.

internet-haganah

some information for the group that hold up their nylons up by backcombing their legs and who have boyfriends with squirrels in their beards.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513579,00.html

ontario car makers want to be entitled to their entitlements.

http://watch.ctv.ca/news/power-play/thursday-april-9/#clip159671

personally I think they should blend the civil servants pensions 50/50

I spend entirely too much time at a site called Slashdot (but only for the pictures, honest!), which is basically a daily nerd/geek comment blog disguised as news for nerds.

A lot of these people consider themselves to be experts in everything (because computers RULE!) including the environment. Some, obviously science fictions fans, of which I are one, are extremely worried about getting off this rock in, oh, say, 300 years as a way to "save" the human race.

Think of the children! Think long term! We're better than our parents' self-centered goals!

See a pattern there?

For a bunch of self-defined tech enthusiasts (there are some really excellent posts and contributors there, though), there's a hell of a lot of "mee too" thinking going on, and people that seem to be experts at twisting arguments.

Sometimes the "can't see the forest for the trees" is inverted due to "think globally, act locally".

"Too bad the folks who are so quick to listen to iffy computer models about the weather are not so quick to listen to what computer models (and common sense) say about the consequences of burdening this country with imponderable debt (the number doesn't even fit on my calculator anymore!). That is sure going to impact my children and grandchildren a LOT more than whether the sea levels rise 3 inches in the next 50 years."

I'm old enough to remember Paulsen appearing on the Smothers' Brothers show in tears telling Americans his campaign was meant only as a joke, and not to waste their votes on his parody. As I was only 15 at the time, I thought this was his appeal for voters to take their votes seriously; it's only in my senility that I realize this was an appeal to unite the Democratic vote. No matter; Nixon annihilated McGovern, and would have done so without the clumsy and stupid Watergate break-in.

Perhaps Kate when you have time a post on the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 would interest your readers.The possible effect of this act on the Canadian bloggers is something to be considered.Instapundit has a post on this Act and the power it gives the president in controlling the Internet.Anyone from the left side have a comment on this subject? Is this the kind of change you were hoping for?

Anyone else noticed that the new conservative.ca site does not include 'contact us' form?

And it begins......who should have to pay for all of these pensions promised to factory workers, lawn mower jockeys, waste disposal engineers, snow plow drivers, etc?

Where is the 100's of billions of dollars going to come from to cover all of these entitlements?

A massive tax increase will be required to cover all of these liabilities.

There is only one answer.....either a pension plan signs off on never receiving any contribution from any level of government(Ontario's civil servants are among the best payed on the planet, the least they can do is cover their own pensions), or it is rolled into one pension plan, that covers every citizen of Ontario, and that you cannot draw on until you are 65.

Anything else is not fair to me, my children, or my grandchildren.

One other thing....a newly elected conservative government in Ontario could lead by example, and throw the MPP's overly generous pension plan into the fund as well.....I am quite sure the "reitred" MPP's on the program would survive!

ooooops....retired

Breeder, Biden and O'dOggy.

Muslims dO nOt Own dOgs.
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"Breeder regrets dog sale to Biden

It was a proud moment for Linda Brown when then-Vice President-elect Joe Biden selected her kennel to purchase his new German shepherd puppy.

That was in mid-December.

For Brown, that proud moment was short-lived.

After the story about the puppy sale ran in the newspapers and on TV newscasts, three dog wardens from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture showed up on Brown's doorstep for a kennel inspection.

And they showed up again and again for four visits over four months.

She said she has also received death threats from animal activists against her and Biden, which were reported to the Secret Service and the FBI."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226297/posts
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"WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama's back, still no puppy

He told Jay Leno the puppy he promised his daughters would be in place when he got back from a NATO summit in Europe. But Barack Obama has been back at the White House since Wednesday.

So Mr. President ... where's the patter of little puppy paws?

What we know so far, based on what Obama and his wife, Michelle, have said, is that the choice is down to either a Portuguese Water Dog or a Labradoodle. Michelle Obama also has said the dog is coming this month.

Monday is the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn, and 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old Sasha have no school that day.

Mrs. Obama said Thursday that the dog will arrive "soon ... so soon."

The president cracked jokes about the promised puppy when Leno sought details of its whereabouts.

"This is Washington. That was a campaign promise," Obama said when he appeared on Leno's talk show last month, as the audience roared with laughter. "No, I'm teasing. The dog will be there shortly.""
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226264/posts

Rosa Brooks: MORON!

Here's an analysis of an L.A. Times columnist's last column, in which she calls for a massive government bailout of all American newspapers.

For a Canadian perspective, just imagine if ALL the media was like the CBC. Indeed, this is the Radical Left's wet dream but is something we all need to fight vigorously against.

When you eventually get over to the actual column, be sure to read the comments. Some are absolutely priceless!

Incredible skill with a samuri sword.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5e1_1239290966

O and the Democrats:

From the State of Washington on the Pacific Ocean to the State of Maine on the Atlantic Ocean, O and the Democrats have dropped "An ever-thickening border" Curtain.

Where is Aunty-American*?
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"U.S. protectionism remains alive -- to Canada's detriment

An ever-thickening border between the two countries imposes annual costs of $15 billion to $20 billion on Canadian exporters, official says

Despite a warm, fuzzy glow that followed Barack Obama's February visit to Ottawa, Canadians are witnessing serious signs of greater U.S. protectionism and a thickening border."
urlm.in/cbru
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*ex-Liberal MP:
"[PDF]
Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish apologized to United States ambassador ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
the remarks Ms. Parrish made. Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish ... Hate those bastards," after addressing possible .... Mississauga MP calls U.S. 'bastards' ...
ensign.ftlcomm.com/ensign2/pdfarchive/ottawaCitizen/Parrish.pdf

Cal2:

I find more disturbing what Mr. Stanford said at the end of the interview, specifically that it's the government and the corporation's responsibility to provide a pension, not, apparently, the worker's responsibility to provide for themselves.

That right there is a good reason why any government shouldn't guarantee their pensions.

The "volunteer position" and the "volunteer position".

That should be edited to read: Kat Meat, "a two-dollars-a-year-man".

Can't find "Ezra Levant" in this prop-piece.
Not strange?

Oh, wait .... yes, Ezra Levant is mentioned here:

"Kinsella has five ongoing lawsuits in Toronto alone, against Paul Martin, Public Works Minister Christian Paradis, several journalists and author/pundit Ezra Levant, from whom Kinsella is seeking $5 million in defamation-related damages."
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"The “Prince of Darkness” is back in the Liberal fold

And where there is Warren Kinsella, there is drama…"

>>> "Kinsella’s return to the Liberal fold–he went into quasi-exile from the Liberal Party during Prime Minister Paul Martin’s regime, and [>>>>] has an ongoing defamation lawsuit against Martin–"

"And Kinsella’s lawyer served Maclean’s with a notice indicating that Kinsella had resigned from the Canadian Jewish Congress, where he had served as a volunteer–although Maclean’s hadn’t asked about Kinsella’s relationship with the CJC, which is wholly independent from the CIC. For the Liberal Party’s part, spokesperson Daniel Lauzon said Kinsella “was speaking in his own name, and not for the Liberal Party of Canada” in the emails to the CIC. The Liberal Party, Lauzon later added, was never involved in Kinsella’s attempt to block the two bloggers from travelling to Israel."

"Lauzon says Kinsella’s role as head of Ignatieff’s war room-a volunteer position-won’t begin until an election is called. (Conservative spokesperson Ryan Sparrow wouldn’t comment, citing the Kinsella’s lawsuit against Paradis and the Conservative Party.)"
urlm.in/cbsj

Obama Reaches out to 'Moderate' Pirates

http://exurbanleague.com/2009/04/09/obama-issues-statement-on-the-pirate-attack.aspx

Comment by: "max americana

Egad! A fake news story on the front page of the LA Times?! I’m shocked! Absolutely shocked!"
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"Uproar over 'news story' ad on front page of LA Times April 10, 2009

WASHINGTON (AFP) – An advertisement dressed up as a news story on the front page of the Los Angeles Times has reporters at the newspaper fuming and the publisher defending the move.

The advertisement, for the NBC television series "Southland," appeared on page one of the Times on Thursday. Although it was labelled "advertisement," the ad resembled a news story complete with a bold-type headline.

According to the blog MediaMemo, more than 100 staffers at the newspaper signed a petition protesting the appearance of the fake news story ad on the front page.

"We the journalists of the newsroom strenuously object to the decision to sell an ad, in the form of a phony news story, on the front page of the Los Angeles Times," mediamemo.allthingsd.com quoted the petition as saying.

"The NBC ad may have provided some quick cash, but it has caused incalculable damage to this institution," it said. "Placing a fake news article on A-1 makes a mockery of our integrity and our journalistic standards.

"Our willingness to sell our most precious real estate to an advertiser is embarrassing and demoralizing," the petition said."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226503/posts

cal2 re the Power Play segment about the pensions. I was struck by the union economist guy saying "We were worried about underfunding. We complained years ago that they were underfunding the pensions and the government let them get away with it." It apparently did not occur to them to have the workers actually contribute something to the pension fund -- I guess they weren't that worried.

Liberals Citoyen Dionky and Kat Meat are united in infamy: Iggy's Liberal party.

Liberal Iggy*:
I am not now; nor, have I ever been a member of the Tamil Tiger Party*.

Kat Meat:
"Another potentially controversial resolution, also from Quebec, urges a Liberal government to expand the mandate of the Canadian Human Rights Commission to include citizenship status and socio-economic class as prohibited grounds of discrimination."

Citoyen Dionky:
"Carbon tax resurfaces in Liberal policy
resolutions"
urlm.in/cbqy

*STOPIGGY:

"Tamil Protest Continues
Tamil demonstrators are pledging to continue their protest for a fourth day."
(cfraOttawa)

When you feel like getting away, and cannot for a time, this big rig trucker's site will go a very long way to keeping the travel bug ready to hit the road.

Enjoy!

http://www.bigrigtravels.com/

Revised headline for the Front Page:

>>> Liberals use bribery as a political tool/tactic.

Ex-Liberal PM Paul Martin,Jr., says: I know nuttink. It's Jeancula's fault.

Check out the words here from the sycophant MSM:
>>> "The highly regarded, 46-year-old former MP for the toney Montreal riding of Outremont, a fierce loyalist to Martin's predecessor, Jean Chretien,"
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"Ex-justice minister 'offered contracts': Report

A Vancouver lawyer claimed under oath that former Liberal justice minister Martin Cauchon offered him federal prosecution contracts if he bought a table at a fundraising dinner for ex-prime minister Paul Martin, according to documents filed with the Supreme Court of Canada."
urlm.in/cbtp

What??????

Liberal Party du Canada is CROOKED??????

Man o man, what a surprise!

I'm flabbergasted and speechless.

BTW, what exactly was the penalty imposed on the Crooked Liberal Party du Canada over the Adscam fiasco by Elections Canada?

The Liberal mind in all its delusions. A fable of today.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=robot+chicken+&www_google_domain=www.google.com&hl=en&emb=0#

Friday, April 10th, 2009

7pm PDT / 8pm MDT / 9pm CDT / 10pm EDT

Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant will be appearing live on Chicago radio station WGN.

You can listen live here.