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Tea Party animals not boiling over
Media portrayals of protesters as right-wing kooks are overheated.
Mark Steyn

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/tea-interests-tax-2367296-boston-parties

Good grief! Ellery Queen was my favourite, around age 12--and then I came across Agatha.

Mark
Ottawa

Oh, here's an early example of Obama's 'success' with his new friendship with Iran, with his proclamation of openness to dialogue with Iran, with his assertion that he wants to be friends with Iran.

Iran informed the world that it was going ahead with its nuclear enrichment...and...it sentenced a US citizen, a journalist, to Iranian prison for 8 years.

That's quite an impressive result for Obama, isn't it?

ET

Just wait...I think Barry is gonna redefine "impressive".

Syncro

ET: Results are so old fashioned - all that really matters is that Obama CARES and is TRYING real hard and looks cool while CARING and TRYING. (Unlike Bush who is a big meanie and looks and sounds like a square duffus.)

Yes, syncrodox, ET and Fritz - who cares about results - it's only intent that matters

Apologize loudly, and hit yourself with a bit stick

I don't know if any one here has been following the Susan Boyle story.

It appears that she recorded "Cry Me a River" for a charity CD that only 1,000 were made back in 1999.

The song is on Youtube.

Perfect song for those dark rainy nights with the lights down low...wow.

I have a suggestion/question for you all:

In the past 6 months, more than any other time before in my life, I've noticed what incredible power the media - especially TV - has to shape public opinion. Sure, not those of who frequent SDA, but that's because we go out of our way to stay highly informed. Most people do not.

So I got to thinking today about what small steps the Conservative Party of Canada could take to start changing public opinion. And the two that came top of mind - you may laugh but I'm serious - are:

1. Demand that the CRTC and cable companies make Fox News a mainstream cable news channel, just like CNN and MSNBC are.

2. Demand that the CBC immediately start hiring on-air conservative voices. Do so with hard targets in mind such as 10% by July 1, 2010 ... 25% by December 31, 2011 ....

Perhaps you think such changes are trivial. I might have at one time too but no longer do. I think they would go a long way to helping the conservative cause.

Your thoughts?

Robert W. I vote for that. Great idea. But how do you get past the Liberals. They would balk this because they want the public media sources to express only the "correct" view.

Ken, would it take the approval of the Liberals to get done?

On a completely different note I just read this story about Daniel Ortega giving a blustery speech criticizing America for everything under the sun. Apparently Obama wasn't phased by this.

Of course not. Obama AGREES with him!!!

Looks like Obama's European trip set a standard to which others expect him to hew to:

"Obama Gets History Lesson From Latin American Leaders"

[One of them was careful enough to note that there was nuthin' personal in it.]

Uh oh, looks like Fox News might get criticized again for this discussion of Canada.

Frankly, I don't think anything they said was inappropriate.

Did you notice aAl Frankin sitting in the back centre?

As for the CBC, as I keep telling the PMO, give the French network to Quebec, even if we have to throw in a few million, and put the rest up for sale. After Ontario Teachers didn't get Bell, they'd jump at the chance, and the watchers would get to pay for it!

That would be Jonah Goldberg.

Robert i like that idea. I'd sign on.

Consider the following and have a say.
Perhaps, as the wisdom is, beauty is in the eye of beholder.

A Picture is Worth Several Thousand Words

http://www.singularity2050.com/2006/12/a-picture-is-wo.html

"'Save the planet' rhetoric soars to crazy new heights

The terrifying threat of global warming is beginning to turn people's minds, observes Christopher Booker."

"Does one not get the feeling that all this propaganda over the terrifying threat of global warming is beginning ever so slightly to turn people’s minds? Caroline Lucas MEP, the leader of the Green Party, last week agreed on television that flying to Spain was “as bad as knifing a person in the street”, because air travel like this is causing people to die “from climate change”.

Dr Richard Dixon, director of the Scottish WWF, was at the same time claiming that failing to ensure one’s home is “energy efficient” was a “moral crime”, as “anti-social as drink driving”, and “we should be having a discussion as to whether it should become an actual crime”.

This echoed the recent observation of Ed Miliband, our Energy and Climate Change Secretary, that opposing wind farms should be as “socially unacceptable” as not wearing a seatbelt. Meanwhile, no doubt encouraged by this kind of talk from ministers, 100 “climate campaigners” were arrested by the police, who feared they were planning to put out of action a coal-fired power station in Nottinghamshire, to stop it continuously contributing to the National Grid 1,000 megawatts of electricity – considerably more than the average output of all the 2,400 wind turbines in the country.

This is the same grid, of course, 75 per cent powered by nasty, dirty, CO2 emitting fossil fuels, which Gordon Brown hopes will secretly power the electric cars he proposes to give customers £5,000 each to buy in order to help save the planet – even though his grants won’t be available until 2012. Meanwhile, as 17 of our major power stations are likely to close within six years, thanks to obsolescence and EU rules, Mr Brown shows remarkably little interest in how we are going to keep Britain’s lights on (although certainly no less, to be fair, than does Mr Cameron)."
urlm.in/cczm

Corporate fascism in Canada.

The Big Lie:
"Quebec’s Finance Minister Raymond Bachand said the government's priority is the AbitibiBowater workers."

Our Enemy, the State.
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"Quebec Rushes to Rescue AbitibiBowater

The Quebec government is hoping to avoid dramatic job losses by coming to the rescue of struggling newsprint giant AbitibiBowater.

The province is offering the company a US$100 million loan guarantee. Quebec’s Finance Minister Raymond Bachand said the government's priority is the AbitibiBowater workers."
CFRA.com

Robert W...IMHO the role of the media is not to 'change public opinion' (your words at 1:09 am), but to inform. That's an ideal, and we know that is not what is presently happening. I have difficulty with the 'make a law' concept.
As Kathy Shaidle suggested yesterday in North Bay...don't expect thing to change quickly at the government level WRT the HRC's.Get the info out at the grassroots level.
The same could be said for the media.
The internet is taking the place of the MSM . They are becoming extinct at their own hands.
I don't have another suggestion for you other than let's continue to 'out' the media on our own instead of relying on a new law.
Any interfernce from the CPoC towards the CRTC at this point would backfire.

What is going to be done about the hoards of thousands Tamil (Tigers?) flooding the streets of our Capital?

What can be done by our Canadian government? Do they want us to wage war on Sri Lanka?

We may need to take a serious look at our immigration. Too many are coming here to fight their battles in safety. They're using us a hotel with all the trimmings.

Brunch Menu.

Today's Special:
"unholy mélange of practical materialism, political pragmatism, moral and cultural relativism, and philosophical skepticism."
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"Culture & Barbarism
Metaphysics in a Time of Terrorism
Terry Eagleton

Why are the most unlikely people, including myself, suddenly talking about God?"
http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3?id_article=2488

Brunch Menu.

Today's Special:
"unholy mélange of practical materialism, political pragmatism, moral and cultural relativism, and philosophical skepticism."
...-

"Culture & Barbarism
Metaphysics in a Time of Terrorism
Terry Eagleton

Why are the most unlikely people, including myself, suddenly talking about God?"
http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3?id_article=2488

"Culture & Barbarism
Metaphysics in a Time of Terrorism

Terry Eagleton

Why are the most unlikely people, including myself, suddenly talking about God? Who would have expected theology to rear its head once more in the technocratic twenty-first century, almost as surprisingly as some mass revival of Zoroastrianism? Why is it that my local bookshop has suddenly sprouted a section labeled “Atheism,” hosting anti-God manifestos by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and others, and might even now be contemplating another marked “Congenital Skeptic with Mild Baptist Leanings”? Why, just as we were confidently moving into a posttheological, postmetaphysical, even posthistorical era, has the God question broken out anew?

Can one simply put it down to falling towers and fanatical Islamists? I don’t really think we can."
http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3?id_article=2488

Re Liz J's comments on the Tamil Tigers: Check out the Sikh Centennial Foundation:

http://www.google.ca/search?q=sikh+centennial+foundation&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

I was walking along Bloor Street last night where, outside the Royal Ontario Museum, turbaned Sikhs were loudly drumming beside statues of life-sized "baby" elephants and a host of sari-ed women and turbaned men were entering the ROM along a red carpet.

The SCF was having their annual Gala at which they were honouring Frank Iacobucci, a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada -- a Liberal appointee, I'm assuming. Others the SCF have honoured in the past? Chief Justice Roy McMurtry of Ontario; Justice Wally Oppal, the current Attorney General of B.C.; Stephen Lewis and June Callwood. Hmmm ... get the picture? All l/Liberal/Red Tory.

It seems that Sikhs are all too cozy with the lib-left side of Canada's political spectrum, perhaps a relationship that needs to be looked into. I'm with Jason Kenney and his efforts to tighten up our immigration laws and to demand a higher standard of commitment to Canada and Canada's laws and social values on the part of new immigrants. Hyphenated citizenship has been a disaster for our country, as is the toxic multiculturalism it has nurtured.

ENOUGH, ALREADY.

Oh oh. The Gore Scare Machine is gonna have to produce a new slide show.

"Only 34% Now Blame Humans for Global Warming"

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/environment/energy_update

"A woman veteran of Unit 8023":

"Now I’m too sick to work - will the government help me?”"
urlm.in/cczo

CBC is running big ads because it is going to re-run Gore's movie.

We are all going to die, just like the CBC.

Liz J: I agree with you. What is going on? I believed that the Tamil Tigers were on there international terrorist list. So, we have 25,000 plus with support from Canadian Union of Postal Workers president Denis Lemelin, the Canadian Peace Alliance, Ottawa Peace Assembly and the Canadian Federation of Students. I hope that the immigration Minister and our government start taking this very seriously. I like to make a suggestion: While they are all protesting at this rally, lets do a documentation check, heck we have them all voluntarily in one spot. What is going on with our country, sad, sad, sad.

*
a breath of fresh air...

"That's all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him more,"
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told reporters.

*

""The minute we said that," Suzuki relates, there was "instant, instant interest from the public.""

True Confessions:

Mount Fuji had a Taliban Jack Layton "head exploded"* minute.

"What Suzuki didn't tell you"
urlm.in/cczv
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*"Thinking along similar lines, Toronto city councillor Jack Layton co-founded ... My head exploded that year. 'What must it be like for women?' I thought. ..."
(gendercide)

The scalpers vs the scalpers.
Our Enemy, the Scalpers.
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"Memo: Feds' hands tied when it comes to commercialized scalping

The federal government has limited options to deal with allegations of inflated ticket prices at Ticketmaster, an internal document suggests" (nnw)

"Timothy Robinson and his friends are renting a bus from Arnprior, Ont., to ferry people to Parliament Hill."

The Itchy & Scratchy Show in Ottawa:
Potheads and Tigers.
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"Pot activists to light up on Hill
The Ottawa Sun"

Pro-Tamil demonstrators are vowing to fill Parliament Hill with thousands of reinforcements if the Canadian government continues to ignore their demands.

Protest spokesman Sarva Jeyapalan said as many as 25,000 protesters could be bused in from Toronto and Montreal on Tuesday if the federal government refuses to alter its position on the situation in Sri Lanka.

Not sure about the rest of you, but I am very uncomfortable with the fact that "Tens of thousands primed to take Hill".

This could get ugly.

CNN - in the business of suppressing the news.

CNS - Cable News Suppressor.

http://patterico.com/2009/04/18/cnn-the-latest-corporate-thug-to-use-copyright-as-a-weapon-to-eliminate-embarrassing-clips-from-youtube/

"And Spengler is ...
By Spengler

During the too-brief run of the Asia Times print edition in the 1990s, the newspaper asked me to write a humor column, and I chose the name "Spengler" as a joke - a columnist for an Asian daily using the name of the author of The Decline of the West."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/KD18Aa01.html

The "calls for unity": The socialist collective.

100,000 willing throats call for the noose/chain of socialist slavery.

The false hope: "to eradicate poverty".

The end result hoped for? "a better life for all", aka the Big Lie of socialism.
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"Mandela calls for unity at final ANC poll rally

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) – Former South African president Nelson Mandela Sunday reminded the ANC of its duty to eradicate poverty and urged unity in a surprise appearance at its final election rally. He set the tone for the theme of racial accord at the African National Congress gathering where chants of "Mandela! Mandela!" rang out from the crowd of more than 100,000 supporters at Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg. "As we strive to secure a decisive victory for our organisation in the upcoming elections, we must remember our primary task. It is to eradicate poverty and ensure a better life or all."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232805/posts

bluetech, I agree with you entirely about what the media is supposed to do, namely inform but that clearly is not what's going on anymore, is it?!

I sincerely believe that the average Canadian TV News watcher is receiving nothing short of continual propaganda from the Left. Just imagine if your worldview were shaped by watching CBC News and CNN - what kinds of things would you believe?

A delicious article detailing the demise of the Labour Party in the UK. Enjoy the bon mots!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/5178686/How-Gordon-Brown-became-The-Gordfather.html

How Gordon Brown became 'The Gordfather'
Gordon Brown has long promoted himself as a man of principle. The reality is very different, and, post-Smeargate, threatens to destroy the Labour Party

Belatedly saying "sorry" was a wretched experience for Gordon Brown. Any confession of regret is a self-inflicted wound, but Damian McBride's embarrassing exposure of the Prime Minister's secret weapon coinciding with the acquittal of Damian Green, the Conservative front bencher, has devastated Brown's tools of trade.

Since 1997, Brown's muted tyranny has efficiently intimidated his allies, political opponents and many of Westminster's inhabitants, including its journalists and civil servants. Like a Mafia godfather, Brown justified his vindictiveness by appearing to murmur, "This is business, not personal".

But overnight, the spotlight on Brown's furtive ruses against his enemies has crippled the Labour movement. To fair-minded but uninformed Britons, the combination of McBride and Green arouses suspicions about rottenness in Downing Street. The resignation of the former MP Alice Mahon from the Labour Party after 50 years of service prompted, she explained, by the scandal surrounding McBride – "I have lost faith with [the party]" she said – further spurs these suspicions.

No one could have predicted the circumstances inside 10 Downing Street when the Prime Minister heard Damian McBride's confession that his vicious emails were about to be published. Autocrats need henchmen and so, in Brown's instant calculation, McBride's sin was not the authorship of lies about the Tory leaders, but his carelessness to get caught. As usual, the Prime Minister sought to avoid responsibility and fought tooth and nail to save his jackal. "Juvenile," was Downing Street's first dismissive reaction. Reluctantly, after 30 hours spent seeking to rescue McBride, Brown announced a job vacancy.

The aftermath is incalculable, not least because the juxtaposition of McBride's moral bankruptcy and Britain's financial bankruptcy is not coincidental.

... more at the link

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group "True North"

Robert: "Just imagine if your worldview were shaped by watching CBC News and CNN - what kinds of things would you believe?"

We see the evidence of that everyday. But you are preaching to the converted here.
I'm just saying laws aren't the way to go.
I'd rather scratch the CRTC along with the HRC's and gun control.Well heck...the CBC too.That would be a start.
I'll just do my best at this level to enlighten those who 'believe' Canadian MSM. It's a start.

"UN Watch Turns Tables on Libyan Chair, Exposes Durban 2 Hypocrisy

Qaddafi rep panics and cuts off torture victim testimony
The U.S. has decided not to attend the Durban II conference opening Monday in Geneva -- click here for more.

Meanwhile, the top story on Swiss TV news last night was the surpise "coup d'eclat" by UN Watch, when it turned the tables on the Libyan chair of the Durban II planning committee, in a showdown yesterday that exposed the U.N. hypocrisy whereby the chief organizers of a world "anti-racism" conference are themselves the worst perpetrators of racism and discrimination. See the full exchange below, and related legal brief. Click here for dramatic video (in French). Stay tuned for the YouTube video of the full debate.

___________________

United Nations Durban Review Conference
Preparatory Committee, Third Substantive Session
17 April 2009, Geneva

Statement by United Nations Watch
Delivered by Ashraf Ahmed El-Hojouj

Thank you, Madame Chair.

I don’t know if you recognize me. I am the Palestinian medical intern who was scapegoated by your country, Libya, in the HIV case in the Benghazi hospital, together with the five Bulgarian nurses.

LIBYAN CHAIR NAJJAT AL-HAJJAJI, BANGING ON GAVEL: Stop... stop.... I ask you to stop. You are, you are not addressing the agenda item... I will allow you to resume only if you address the agenda item we are discussing.

[Victim resumes testimony]"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232913/posts

On this second week of Easter, a great article by British writer A.N. Wilson: "Religion of hatred: Why we should no longer be cowed by the chattering classes ruling Britain who sneer at Christianity."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1169145/Religion-hatred-Why-longer-cowed-secular-zealots.html

A.N. Wilson became dismissive of Christianity before the truth of it slowly dawned on him, realizing that his companions on the way are greats like J.S. Bach, Samuel Johnson, T. S. Eliot, Dostoevsky, "and all the saints."

from the article:

[begin quote]

Like most educated people in Britain and Northern Europe (I was born in 1950), I have grown up in a culture that is overwhelmingly secular and anti-religious. The universities, broadcasters and media generally are not merely non-religious, they are positively anti.

To my shame, I believe it was this that made me lose faith and heart in my youth. It felt so uncool to be religious. With the mentality of a child in the playground, I felt at some visceral level that being religious was unsexy, like having spots or wearing specs.

This playground attitude accounts for much of the attitude towards Christianity that you pick up, say, from the alternative comedians, and the casual light blasphemy of jokes on TV or radio.

It also lends weight to the fervour of the anti-God fanatics, such as the writer Christopher Hitchens and the geneticist Richard Dawkins, who think all the evil in the world is actually caused by religion.

The vast majority of media pundits and intelligentsia in Britain are unbelievers, many of them quite fervent in their hatred of religion itself.

[end quote]

He could be writing about Canada.

bluetech, I share your sentiments but waiting for those things to happen seems much like waiting for Senate reform. The Fox News thing is incredibly minor and who could credibly argue with it, especially after the Roesgen fiasco. As for the CBC, it just annoys me to no end to see my tax dollars put toward an organization that his helping to destroy the fiber of my country.

Hans, thank you for posting that article. When I read it I kept on thinking, "Hmmm, an orchestrated smear campaign against one's opponents. What does that remind me of?" Then it came to me: The Democrat Party of the USSA.

My Philadelphia friend, Tania, just posted a Tea Party video. You can watch it here.