9 Cases of Brain-Wasting Disease in Idaho

State and federal health officials are trying to get to the bottom of nine reported cases of suspected sporadic CJD in Idaho this year. Sporadic, or naturally occurring, CJD differs from the permutation dubbed variant CJD, which is caused by eating mad-cow-tainted beef and has killed at least 180 people in the United Kingdom and continental Europe since the 1990s.

Canada has again slipped, this time to 14th place, on an international index of ethical governments because of a "marked increase" in the perceived level of corruption in the government.

Once regularly ranked fifth -- with high scores that placed it in a club with perennial leaders such as Finland, New Zealand, and Denmark -- Canada has for three years been sliding on the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index.

2005 Corruption Perceptions Index

Globe and Mail: Canada's reputation loses some lustre

Sooooo - Sandie and Lisa made you sick too, Kate?

Indonesian President Accuses Western Intel Of Being Behind Bali Bombings

BLIND INDO PREZ SHATTERS ELITE?

Sunday, October 16, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.com

An extraordinary documentary produced by Australian public television, "Inside Indonesia's War on Terrorism," will be rebroadcast again on Monday, October 17 at 1PM.

In the program which first aired on October 12, the blind, former President of Indonesia – reportedly more trusted than any other official in the country - told SBS-TV Date-Line, Australia’s state-run public TV, that the horrendous Bali bombing, which killed more than 200 in Indonesia, was planned and carried out by Indonesian police or military personnel at the behest of Western powers.

http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=1359

chuckercanuck.blogspot.com ---

Gomery is full-blown bullshit. Its official.

Results of UK magazine Prospect's online poll for 100 top intellectuals. Chomsky, gasp, first by a landslide. Cunning linguists rule.
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/intellectuals/results

At least Christopher Hitchens and Amartya Sen made the top ten.

For Sen see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/13/AR2005101301576.html

And, good grief, Naomi the Hottie Klein was #11, while Michael Ignatieff was #37. That is silly.

But Hernando De Soto was #12 and Bjorn Lomborg #14.

Mark
Ottawa

Book: Undercover Economics

Companies find it more profitable to increase prices (above the sale price) by a larger amount on an unpredictable basis than by a small amount in a predictable way. Customers find it trouble some to avoid unpredictable price increases—and may not even notice them for lower-value goods—but easy to avoid predictable ones…
Have you noticed that supermarkets often charge ten times as much for fresh chili peppers in a package as for loose fresh chilies? That’s because the typical customer buys such small quantities that he doesn’t think to check whether they cost four cents or forty. Randomly tripling the price of a vegetable is a favorite trick: customers who notice the markup just buy a different vegetable that week; customers who don’t have self-targeted a whopping price rise. I once spotted a particularly inspired trick while on a search for potato chips. My favorite brand was available on the top shelf in salt and pepper flavor and on the bottom shelf, just a few feet away, in other flavors, all the same size. The top-shelf potato chips cost 25 percent more, and customers who reached for the top shelf demonstrated that they hadn’t made a price-comparison between two near-identical products in near-identical locations. They were more interested in snacking.

We looked past the fawning MSM coverage of the vice-regal visit to Winnipeg and asked some hard questions about Michaelle Jean and the company she keeps.

http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2005/10/fudging-truth-governor-general-style.html

Kate,

Try a packet of lemon Neo-Citran with an ounce of black rum. Dangerous, but delicious! (Assuming you have a cold/flu)

I just checked out Frank mags Frankelazer and it's a hoot. Just enter the URL of a site and the Frankalizer will make the necessary adjustments. For instance it makes My Blagh actually readable.

Check it out:

http://frankalizer.efrank.ca/index.html

Islam's Worst Enemies

Here’s an excellent piece by Salim Mansur in the Toronto Sun, pointing out that the enemies of the Islamofascists are ... everyone who isn’t them: Islam’s worst enemies. (Hat tip: warbicycle.)

In Bali the infidels are Hindus; in Iraq the infidels are Shiites and misguided Kurds; for Palestinians, the infidels are Jews. Americans, Europeans, Russians, Chinese, and Hindu Indians are all infidels who are present inside, or inhabit the bordering lands of Muslims, particularly the Middle East. As enemies of radical Islamists, they are to be terrorized indiscriminately, as was the objective of the London bombers this past July, with the aim that they will be compelled to withdraw from lands considered Islamic.

The internal war within the Muslim world, which is as old as Islam itself, went savagely global in the final decades of the last century. On 9/11 this internal conflict among Muslims erupted inside the United States, awakening America to the international menace of radical Islam in much the same way as Japanese militarism did 60 years earlier at Pearl Harbor.

But there are legions of Americans and Europeans, with supporters elsewhere in other continents, who are wilfully blind and deaf to the reality of radical Islam that Bush has sought to make plain in his public remarks.

They continue to insist that the violence of Muslim terrorists, despite being despicable, must yet be explained by reference to some “root causes” linked with the history of Western colonial imperialism.

Hence, these “useful idiots” (in Lenin’s memorable phrase) give pause to the vast majority of Muslims — in particular those in North America and Europe — whose silence in the face of evil feeds the bloodlust of Muslim terrorists. >>>
http://torontosun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Mansur_Salim/2005/10/14/1262941.html
via LGF

CBC is reporting that the Libs have postponed the release of the Dingwall audit by a week.

Guess the spin doctors are still applying the defibrillator...

John g.... I'm trying to stop laughhhh..

OK, You guys all have such great stuff to eat up here. I don't know how you do it.

I only have this lame Trojan warning. Comes in *Skype* Email first seen Oct 16th. see below.

C'mon, it's time to 'fess up. Libranos and NDP are both lame and badly hamstrung. They are a coalition. Not open and official, but a dependant partnership-ship all the same.

That's why real honest Liberals are voting in their own interest when they vote CPC for this one time coming up.

It will give the Liberanos a chance to move away from organized crime connections, elect a new, *Clean* leader, and regain some measure of respect.

It's not that there are no honest Liberals. It is simply a case of people who are earning the best income they ever had, along with expense accounts and bonuses
are naturally not going to stick their necks out for honesty and lose everything.

Good Whistle-Blower Protection law would change all that. Are you beginning to see how important Bill C-11 is? It takes a while before it becomes really clear. At least it did for me. 73s TG

= Warning ! =

Skype. Lets you talk instantly on the net for free.
That’s Great!…but get your own information on Skype

Do not accept or open Email RE: Skype.
Since October 16th… new Trojan

Details: http://My.Opera.com/T-G/
TG

And where is audit of Ouellet's $2 million in expenses as Postmeister General? It's been well over a year.

Mark
Ottawa

Mark Collins: And where is audit of Ouellet's $2 million in expenses ... Umm, in the mail?

(Good letter in Sunday's Citizen BTW.)

greenmamba: Thanks. For others letter on Martin's Darfur Follies, text at
http://server09.densan.ca/archivenews/051016/cit/051016bf.htm

Mark
Ottawa

The CTF is organizing a lawsuit against the BC teachers federation. If you are an effected parent, sign for the class action.

http://www.taxpayersfederation.blogspot.com

www.bourque.org

Free marijuana for a letter to your MP, your favorite newspaper on Marc Emery's behalf