Re> MSM "cowardice" over the Muslim cartoons:

Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun and Napoleon are having an average day in hell roasting away when Alexander decides to break the tedium with a game of “what if” between himself and the other despots.

Alexander starts it off by saying “ If I only had machine guns, I could have conquered Asia “

Attila speaks up” “humph, I see you are still thinking small Alexander. If I had Abrams tanks I could have taken Europe, Asia and north Africa”

Finally Napoleon speaks: “ I see you are both still hostage to the limited strategic thinking of your ages. If I had the modern English mainstream media, no one would have ever known I lost in Russia or Waterloo.

GTA? What is GTA? Oh, ya mean Toranna?

Round 'em all up in the GTA. +

Fleeing terror suspect arrested

TORONTO - An alleged terrorist -- with links to

al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden -- has been arrested

in the GTA while trying to flee the country,

Sun Media immigration sources say. +
canoenews

fleeing terror suspect arrested, with a suitcase of cash, oh if cash could tell where its been... and is there a laptop with all his confedarates names?

"Tory MP suggests jailing bad journalists"

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060331.wtorymedia0331/BNStory/National/home

Almost fell out of my chair.... its gonna be a good friday :)

"Abu Yousef Abu Quka" boobooed;

Abu-Abu's 72 virgins poofed.

Islam: The religion of the sword and Abu-Abu boobooed. +

Palestinian miltiant commander killed in blast in Gaza City
Posted by Valin
On 03/31/2006 6:04:01 AM PST · 4 replies · 72+ views

AP ^ | 3/31/06
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - A commander of the militant Popular Resistance Committees was killed on Friday in Gaza City, hospital officials said, and witnesses said he died in an Israeli air strike on his car. Hospital officials identified the commander as Abu Yousef Abu Quka. The white Subaru in which he was driving was reduced to a hunk of twisted, charred metal. Hundreds of people gathered around the burning vehicle after the attack. The Israeli military, which has killed dozens of militant leaders, had no immediate comment. Israel Radio reported that Abu Quka was a senior Popular Resistance... +
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606763/posts

Belgium is lost to Islam?

Islam: The religion of the sword and the body-snatchers. +

Belgian Priest to Stand Trial for Hatred for Citing Fears of Coming Islamic Persecution
LifeSite ^ | March 30, 2006 | John-Henry Westen

Posted on 03/31/2006 6:02:12 AM PST by NYer

BRUSSELS, March 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Catholic priest in Belgium known popularly as Fr. Père Samuel is to be brought to trial for hate crimes according to a decision reached last week by the Belgian judiciary. According to the Brussels Journal (http://www.brusselsjournal.com ), the priest, who fled from Turkey under Islamic persecution, is being prosecuted for warning against Islamic fundamentalism.

His offending statement: "Every thoroughly islamized Muslim child that is born in Europe is a time bomb for Western children in the future. The latter will be persecuted when they have become a minority."

After hearing of his upcoming trial the priest, who was suspended by his bishop but nonetheless remains a popular clergyman, repeated his statement and warns against "the islamic invasion" of the West.

While that sentiment may seem bitter to some, it is a sincere conviction for many prelates coming from Islamic nations.

In a startling statement which received very little coverage, the Patriarch of the Greek Melkite Catholic Church, stated in an interview published last October "According to me, after 11 September, there is a plot to eliminate all the Christian minorities from the Arabic world."

The Patriarch, who oversees some 20,000 Melkite Catholics in Syria, explained in an interview with the Italian magazine 30 Days, "Islam is our milieu, the context in which we live and with which we are historically associated. We have lived 1,400 years in the middle of them. We understand Islam from the inside. When I hear a verse of the Koran, it's not something foreign to me. It's an expression of the civilization to which I belong."

Regarding the 'plot' to oust Christians he stated, "Our simple existence ruins the equations whereby Arabs can't be other than Moslems, and Christians but be westerners." If, he said, "the Middle East is cleansed of all the Arabic Christians, the Moslem Arab world and a so-called Christian Western world will be left face to face. It will be easier to provoke a clash and justify it with religion.

See the full interview in 30 Days:
http://www.30giorni.it/us/articolo.asp?id=9596

See more of Pere Samuel's case from the Brussels Journal:
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/936

(news tip from Spero News http://www.speroforum.com )
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606760/posts

More:

lgf: Eurabia
10/9/2002: Eurabia. Here’s an excellent article by Bat Yeor on Europe’s decades-long appeasement of Arab aggression: Eurabia. ...
www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=4369 - 308k -

maz2 what are you saying that the average westerner has the forethought of a newt? I guess I'd have to agree.

People think everything is static because they never read a history book to know that Islam has a long history of conquering Christian countries like Jordan, Turkey, Syria, Egypt....

Course they treat us dhimmis nice and give us special taxes and kill any who convert from Islam to Christianity.

I mean the crusades were fought after centuries of Muslim attacks and atrocities.

Now who will they stone first me or Svend.

So let me get this straight...
While the Liberals were busy robbing us blind, under their watch,a Pakistani national,who was ARRESTED in the U.S.,decides he'll use a phony name,comes to Canada and is given REFUGEE STATUS.
He then moves in with his brother-in-law,who lives in Canada but is wanted in the U.S.for drug trafficking and fraud.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE??????

And all you Liberal-lovin'lefties are convinced
that this was good government?

Does anyone think Giles Duceppe has been flying under the radar since the election? There was a lot of speculation before the election that if he didn't do well, which he didn't, that he may have to ponder his future.

There has been so much going on with the Conservatives and Liberals since then, I was wondering if his future is being discussed in Quebec. Anyone know? Nealenews linked to a Toronto Star/ Decima Poll on the 29th showing Tory support rising nationally. It also stated that Bloq support in Quebec is about the same, as on election day, at 43%. Poll says Tories and Libs tied there at 20% and NDP at 13%, it doesn't mention how, or if, those numbers have changed since. Still interesting Bloc hasn't changed since Jan.23.

I am thrilled to be referenced here on my last Duke's Place post ... but there is something wrong with the link

Please use this one.

http://dukemcgoo.blogspot.com/

Re: Globe and Mail. Here we go again. Leah McLaren wasted space with her attempt to critize Prime Minister Harper's vest. Give me a break! If its a bullet proof vest or just a little reminder to Mr. Bush, regarding Afganistan, what ever. I sent her an email telling her that, her reporting skills were wasted at this paper, that she should get a job with the Inquiry! Who does she think she is anyways? Maybe she is trying to move up in the world and get a job with CBC.
If anyone else disagrees with this style of reporting, let her know. I can tell you I seen alot of Canadian's on holidays in Mexico that wore clothing (or less) that was way more repulsive! (speedo's G-string's on very bad bodies!)
lmclare@globeandmail.ca

gta thats open to be defined. i think it stands for goofy thinking a- holes.

gta thats open to be defined. i think it stands for goofy thinking a- holes.

Watch this develop.

Is this incitement to violence/murder?

Is the RCMP investigating this incitement to murder? +

Prime target: Canadian PM assassinated in video game

Prime Minister Stephen Harper should hope life doesn't imitate art.

A new top-selling video game kicks off with a bang -- a few bangs, actually -- with the assassination of the Canadian prime minister, sparking continental turmoil that only an elite group of soldiers can undo. +
http://www.nealenews.com/

Joel Kom, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Friday, March 31, 2006

Prime Minister Stephen Harper should hope life doesn't imitate art. ...
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=18e3718f-61ec-4bf6-a785-89f8e8da2e14

From CTV:

"Canadian Harmeet Singh Sooden, who was held hostage in Iraq for close to four months, says he believes it's "highly likely" that his rescue last week was the result of a ransom being paid."

"In his first interview since his release, the 33-year-old told Reuters that it was "highly unusual" for his captors to be absent, especially on the day of the rescue."

This would explain the apparent lack of gratitude of the Christian Peacemakers towards the Coalition forces who "rescued" their representatives in Iraq. The CPT paid for the release of their people; it wasn't the result of detective work on the part of "special forces" or the Mounties or anyone else.

Yo Defense guy! You wanted more proof? Here it is!

BigCityLib--no truth but The Truth

And by saying their kidnappers were paid off only encourages more of these hostage situations to happen.

Way to put more innocent peoples' lives in danger there Harmeet.

Tool.

Shabbadoo,

I would be more worried about the various governments (including Stephen Harper's Conservative Government) who semed to be ready to lie to turn this whole episode into a Heroic Victory for the Coalition. Also worried about the number of people in the press who swallowed their story whole, and the number of people like yourself (Conservative, in other words), who are content with being lied to if its Conservatives doing the lying.

Re; the Sheik:

Are any of these Sheiks, Mullahs, Imams, or Islamic clerics of whatever standing truly moderate as they often claim to be? When you go to their websites, or read about some of their background, associations, and pronouncements in the media, they all come across as a bunch of megalomaniac dictators.

Why can't we ban these dangerous individuals from western countries?

It is sickening to read about these types of seditious/criminal immigrants having free reign in our countries, while honest, hard-working immigrants are deported without appeal for the slightest transgression of immigration rules.

BCL, of course you are right. The captives' release was actually a victory for the terrorists. Why don't you go over there and get the scoop straight from the terrorists themselves, and then let us hear all about your experiences? That is, if you survive to talk about them. :(

BCL, keep on spinning. Check your calendar. The election is over.

Bigcitylib:

'...he believes it's "highly likely" that his rescue last week was the result of a ransom being paid."'

And you are saying that constitutes proof?? Have you completely lost your senses? Proof of what, that the moonbat former hostage is musing about something he clearly has no first hand knowledge?

C'mon man...it's one thing to be provocative or argumentative with respect your view vs. the majority views on this blog; it is quite another thing to advance points that simply make you look like an idiot.

Dont know if any of you have seen this yet, but check it out!

http://www.faithfreedom.org/comics/01.htm

Dear Bruce,

The evidence for this has been building since the "rescue" itself. Check my blog for more details, including this one: the "detainee" who told Coalition forces about the house West of Baghdad was released from custody after the hostages had been picked up. Think about what that means.

Costco has pulled seal oil capsules. I don't hold a Costco membership, but if I did, I'd boycott it anyways.

No more seal oil capsules? Now how am I going to oil my seals?

BCL,
I note that in your haste to spin this story you neglected to include the following statement from the CTV story:
"Sooden did say that he had no evidence to back up his claim except for his "instinct"."

Oh well, a true Liberal never lets the facts get in the way of a good story. You should stick to talking about Harper's vest like most of the other serious media.

Google news...

Grit MP faces protest at local speech

Ottawa Sun - 13 hours ago

High-profile Liberal Michael Ignatieff's past

views supporting the US-led war in Iraq and his position on torture dogged him during a speech yesterday at the University of Ottawa. "You just stand for what ... +

Iggy supports George Bush;

Iggy supports torture;

Iggy is "dogged"; Iggy faces protest...

Bctylib said: "Think about what that means."

Dear Paul, you might least read my previous messages before you Blo Vate. This is just the latest bit of evidence that the "rescue" was a sham.

Reginacon
I guess we are all safe now that the Conservatives are in power. Now that we have "Andy of Mayberry" as our Prime Minister I sleep like a baby.

This is just the latest bit of "evidence"...

BCL, that is exactly my point. This is not evidence. The CTV piece clearly states that as does Sooden. This is National Enquirer innuendo and nothing more.

steve d.

Andy of Mayberry won't be attending any Tamil Tiger terrorist fundraising dinners.

BREAKING: FORMER JAMAAT UL FUQRA MEMBER STARTS BLOG TODAY, AIMS TO EXPOSE SHEIKH GILANI'S TERROR GROUP

EXCERPT:

"I knew it was time for me to get the hell away from these brainwashed, radical lying gun running people who call themselves " good citizens"."

Go to:

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2006/03/breaking-ex-juf-member-starts-blog.html

http://nationalreview.com/script/printpage.p?ref=/hanson/hanson200603310745.asp

A well written article by Victor Davis Hanson but omits US complicity in dealing with Saddam during the 1980s.

In part, the present situation is reflective of previous misadventures of western foreign policy in the context of the old Cold War. Not a bad article if you keep the glosses in mind.

Joe Canuck said:

"Are any of these Sheiks, Mullahs, Imams, or Islamic clerics of whatever standing truly moderate as they often claim to be? When you go to their websites, or read about some of their background, associations, and pronouncements in the media, they all come across as a bunch of megalomaniac dictators."

Joe, I have seen oodles of evidence that Sheikh Gilani of Jamaat ul Fuqra isn't moderate, nor does he sound like a good Muslim, taking 30% of his brainwashed members' income to buy himself every luxury he desires. This is testimony from a former JuF member who just today came out of nowhere to start a blog to expose his former cult.

See my post; the URL, once again, is

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2006/03/breaking-ex-juf-member-starts-blog.html

This member invited us, in a comment on "The Politics of CP", that he's eager to answer any questions. His blog address is available on my latest post.

The more we keep spotlighting the enemy, the more they will be busy looking over their shoulders and make mistakes, like supposed JuF trainee Richard "Shoe Bomber" Reid, and fail in their dastardly attempts.

We must remain relentlessly vigilant.

And, Kate: thanks for the link. It's helpful not just to my blog, but also serves to make the enemy nervous, which is good. Let's flush them out and frustrate whatever their plans may be.

Good post Canadian Sentinel:

My comments reposted in another thread

maz2

The critical distinction is here:

"To force someone to remain in a faith they do not believe seems rather absurd as it negates the whole basis of sincere belief and seems closer to officially endorsing hypocrisy."

One could make the same comment in regards to equally odious systems of thought such as: National Socialism, Communism, insert other -isms as needed, which posit, in practice, that the non-adherent deserves extinction by virtue of being a non-adherent.

In short, one is hardly free to choose one's faith based on grotesque coercion, which sacrifices one's life, livelihood, or station in the community.

One might as well hang a sign about one's neck and like town criers of old and shout: "Leper, leper."

One really has to question when protesters against the "Mohammed cartoon" go to the rather absurd proposition of marching in the streets to firebomb numerous cars in France, or carry signs
bearing the inscription "GOD BLESS HITLER" in Iran.

While the Mohammed cartoon was obviously designed to bait to the point of idiocy; the response of extremists to join in the idiocy is hardly going engender sympathy or demonstrate the dignity of their faith. Your faith either grows up or it will be dismissed out of hand.
Given that the Muslim community were the originators of Al-Jabar or algebra that is taught to every high school student; they would be well served by applying a trifle bit of logic to their position and find it will have more traction in respect of world opinion.

This would be akin to the rightly offended Christian, at the recent Jesus Blow Job cartoon, identifying the offender and all those who laughed at it, to be commended to crucifixtion.

Hardly a demonstration of "Peace be with you."

If spiritual fruit is the objective; how pray tell is this accomplished by consuming religious nuts?

Just to be firmly certain: I above accidentally omitted the word "former" when writing "member". Be advised that the one to whom I refer is a former member of JuF and in fact goes by the moniker of "Fuqra Hater".

Not everyone gives in to the dogmas others try to impose upon them. This fellow certainly has a mind of his own, like most of us around here.

BCL:

I have made a point of following the "proof" you have cited on your blog. I do not consider either examples you quote to be "proof" that would meet any acceptable standard. Of course I've only spent 35 years separating information that is really BS from actual evidence that would be accepted in court, so what do I know?

As to the putting forward the information to the effect that a suspect was picked up and subsequently was allowed to phone his buddies as being proof that the rescue effort was a fraud, consider the following. And for the moment we'll assume that report was in fact correct.

You are one of the special forces making the entry assault on the target house. You are aware of countless past examples of the Taliban "surrendering under a white flag, only to shoot and kill coalition forces when they broke cover to accept the surrender. You know that these Islamist terrorists have a history of reneging on promises.

Do you really think that those brave men entering the house did so with the expectation that the captors were gone, that the place wasn't booby-trapped or that an ambush was not likely? Or isn't it more reasonable to believe that they were seriously anticipating at the very least the possibility of a firefight.

I hate to say it, but your postings that appear to sneer at the notion that this was not a rescue and it was all a put up PR stunt are very unbecoming. And frankly, I think your ideology is interfering with your logical process.

Bruce,

The key point (which you would realize if you read my blog, or at least read some of my previous messages here), is that after it was known that the hostages were safe in Coalition hands, the Coalition released the detainee (supposedly a "ringleader" of the kidnappers)who told them about the location of the CPTers in the first place. That was part of the deal. This was, mind you, supposed to be one of the guys that murdered Tom Fox. And they let him go. After the hostages were safe in coalition hands. So did the "detainee" present himself, and wait around until the hostages were found, and and when their safety was confirmed, take his payoff?

I sneer, dear Bruce, because the official line on this has been unravelling from day one. The story about Sooden is just another bit of twine coming loose. But, on the other hand, Sooden's "instinct" tells him something funny was going on with the hostagetakers that day. Since he observed them closely for several months, I would take his view seriously.

I give this another week or two before the whole official line falls apart.

As-Salaam Alaikom - The standard Arabic greeting which means “Peace be with You”, the voicing of which DISARMS any person and is expected to be returned back by “wa-Alaikom Assalam (Abdullah Barakatu)” or Peace be with you also, Servant of God.

It would appear that the extreme fundamentalists should return to the fundmental greeting in Arab culture. Heavens, what a concept.

bcl

I already conceded that you appeared to be correct in the original thread. That said, I'm not sure what more you could want from me.

Andy of Mayberry? Thanks for that, I like it! See, we suffered thorugh years of liberal "leaders" like Goober and Ernest T. Bass. Now we have the responsible one in charge, the guy that always stepped up and got it done.
Speaking of Ernest T., has anyone else noticed the resemblance to dimwit liberal Wayne Easter?

"dear Bruce"

Hey, bigclittylib, maybe you should stiffen that wrist a little...

does Mr. Sooden have Spider Man's "spidey-sense" too?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/28/AR2005042801995.html

The rescue was a sham?

Well, that does it then. Back to Baghdad they go!

Just heard that the US has no intention of changing their upcomming requirment for US and Canadian citizens to have a pssport or passport-like document to enter and leave the US.
This will spell big trouble for Canadian tourism in the future and will impact the convention industy big time.(it already has had an impact in the way of cancelled conventions)

Altough the yanks had planned to do this they wanted the canadioan goverenment to give their input prior to the bill being passed. But the Canadian government was too busy trying to get elected to bother. And of course they were also too busy US bashing as well.

This is a good example of a political party doing whatever it needed to do to get elected-the country be damned.

So if you are impacted by this impending requirement you can thank the Liberals.Not only were they corrupt and inept(like the NDP in B.C.) but they put their own interests ahead of the interest of the country. As far as I'm concerned they should NEVER be elected.

And anyone who votes for them is a MORON.

Horny Toad

Hey Kate:

Which airline do you want to put the Christian Peacemakers? For a delicious piece of irony, let me guess "El Al"?

BCL,
You sneer because you cannot help yourself. You hold in contempt all those who dare to question or disagree with you. Above everyone else, how can you not know better than us?

Soodens insticts are so great that he went over there in the first place. So great that he disdained any security.

You do realise that he is a christian? How does that jibe with the rest of the liberal theology? Should'nt he be mocked and derided for his christianity?
enough

Update: Abu-Abu was not poofed by IDF. No. Abu-Abu was puffed by rival Islamist terrorists.

Islam: The religion of the sword and car-bombs. +

Update 3: Militant's Followers Blame Palestinians
Forbes - 5 hours ago
By SARAH EL DEEB , 03.31.2006, 10:53 AM. A top militant with ties to Hamas was killed by a car bomb Friday, and his followers blamed security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement for the assassination. ... +
googlennews

The bigclittylier should go to irag with the CPS fools and undo the "fake" rescue. Well bigclittylier should go over there anyway, I hear they still need people for landmine duty.

Horny Toad, personally I regret the new initiatives on border security that will require passports between America and Canada.

My view is that Martin, Chretien, (and of course the ever-present Mafia) are responsible for this new necessity.

If the US and Canada had just been able to remain on the same page about terrorism, immigration policy, and prosecution, I don't think there would have been any need for the US to feel it necessary to secure our border from Canada.

If everyone could have just stayed out of animosity politcs and maintained a resolve to demonstrate that our countries planned to be cooperative partners in the Anglosphere, we probably could have avoided draconian measures.

Now, because of policy during the Liberal regime, Kate will be having to drag out her passport every time she heads to an American dog show.

So BCL - if the CPT paid for the release (ransom) how come they didn't do it three months ago?? It is pretty easy to find "coincidences" to back up a conspiracy theory - that doesn't make it fact. Of course the CPT are going to try to get the "story" out that the "rescue" didn't happen because they can't stand the thought that "soldiers with guns" actually were the ones to rescue them. This is how they justify their "rescue".

I think citizens of the United States of America and citizens of Canada should have to have passports to travel in each other's countries. That's what a passport is: international travel documentation.

I have long made it clear here that the Americans, as a nation, are my friends, not just my neighbours. But are we not separate nations? Considering all the howling in Canada about how we arean't America, the irony of wanting to travel there without formal international documentation to that effect is striking.

I will fight tooth and nail against being required to carry papers in the country of my citizenship. I will (although less strenuously) fight to *be* required to carry papers in order to enter or leave a country.

It's all well and good to let people go traipsing about willy-nilly, but if you do, and at the same time you make the place where you live a good place to live, through dint of effort, you will inevitably find a hoarde of parasites descending upon you.

At that point, self-defence is a valid approach.

After trying to understand BCL's blatherings about the hostage rescue, I feel the need to ask some questions that probably never occured to bcl as it would never fit into his National Inquirer verion of things.

first, about the detainee who gave the rescurers the information to locate the hostages... could it be that he was an informer? There is no good reason to put away a perfectly good source of intel.

second, the bad guys were not there when the rescuers showed up. would you stick around with the evidence when the cavalry was on the way? I'd be firing up the old camel and getting the hell out of Dodge myself.

three, has anyone given into ransom demands before in the middle east and did this prevent further episodes?

I'd reccomend that big city moonie give his little head a shake but I'm afraid he would hurt himself.

Three, count 'em, 1,2,3, Ali Babas: poom. +

Unmanned Aircraft Kills Three Insurgents(on March 28)
Posted by MARKUSPRIME
On 03/31/2006 3:06:54 PM PST · 11 replies · 135+ views

Defense Talk ^
WASHINGTON: An MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle engaged three insurgents in the process of planting a homemade bomb along a road near Balad Air Base, Iraq, March 28 and launched an AGM-114 Hellfire missile against the group. The Predator monitored the three insurgents for about a half hour while they used a pickax to dig a hole in the road, placing an explosive round in the hole, and stringing wires from the hole to a ditch on the side of the road. When it was clear the individuals were placing a bomb, the Predator launched the 100-pound Hellfire missile, killing all three... +
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607117/posts

Why Texas - you are being just too logical here - After all - it MUST have been a "release" because BCL has been blathering about it since it happened and - well - it just must be right because he lives in Toronto and we all know that Torontonians are ALWAYS right!

"Unlawful Possession Of Laying Hens"

Bureauc-ratic Despotism in Soviet Russia:

slacktivist: Despotism, 1946
Over the following decades, Soviet despotism rose as a challenge to ... And because Soviet despotism was nominally about the redistribution of wealth, ...
slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2004/07/despotism_1946_1.html - 44k

Bureauc-ratic Despotism in Canada :

Defiant egg farmer facing $2,000 daily fines

By NICK GARDINER

Staff Writer

SHANLY -- An area egg farmer is facing a $2,000 fine each day he refuses to turn over his laying hens to authorities with the Ontario Egg Producers.

Shawn Carmichael, 34, received a hand-delivered notice Wednesday that he must notify the producers by Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. of his intention to turn over the chickens or face the daily fine.

Many of the chickens had been loaded in cages aboard a transport truck during a raid last Thursday before members of the Leeds and Grenville Landowners Association arrived on the scene and helped Carmichael block their exit.

Over the course of a daylong standoff, many of the birds died before the landowners took matters into their own hands and unloaded the truck while authorities backed off from their plans to confiscate the chickens and eggs.

Harry Pelissero, general manager of the egg producers' group, said the landowners' actions won't stop the proceedings against Carmichael.

"Under the Farm Products Marketing Act, we have the right to seize illegal fowl in his possession," said Pelissero. +
http://newsfeed.recorder.ca/cgi-bin/LiveIQue.acgi$rec=17457

Alberta Girl:

Reminds me of my daughter's t-shirt with the following moniker:

I'm always right, I'm never wrong.
I thought I was wrong once, but I was wrong!!!

Vitruvius,

"I think citizens of the United States of America and citizens of Canada should have to have passports to travel in each other's countries."

I don't think that anyone has a problem with a requirement for proper documentation. The problem lies with the cost of getting it.

There are lots of people on both sides of the border (that live close to the border) that would simply stop crossing. What's the big deal? It really affects business on both sides.

Although hardly an argument to do anything but ... consider a once in a lifetime trip to Disneyland for a family of 4 ... price just went up by $260.

I don't know how the gov'ts think that they are justified in charging $87 for a $2 book ... I pay $75 for a piece of lamented paper (drivers licence), but at least I use it almost daily.

On BCL - if it says nuts on the wrapper, no need to doubt whats inside. No reason to visit that blog.

Q: How many Torontonians does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Just one...to hold the lightbulb up and wait for the entire country to revolve around him.

ta-da-boom..

BCL,
Thought you might be interested in this excerpt from the hostage story re: ransom paid.

"He said he was slapped once and guns were sometimes pointed at the hostages.

But he saw his captors as "victims" who had suffered at the hands of the American-led invasion of Iraq. One of their captors brought them food and offered to clean their clothes, while another was more volatile and tension rose when he was present."

Hmmm. I would trust this guy's intuition that a ransom was paid. I wonder if the family of the hostage who was killed thinks of the kidnappers as "victims". But then I guess everyone's a victim aren't they.

Turn of the Screw.

Listen to the Red-Greens howl/rant/rave.

Turn off the money-machine, Mr. Harper. It's money belonging to the Canadian taxpayer.

Remember the taxpayers. Down with the Red-Greens. +
Environmentalists in limbo; fiscal year expires with no promises from Tories
By ALEXANDER PANETTA
OTTAWA (CP) - One group of environmentalists called it Black Friday.

The Tory government's failure to reconfirm funding for a handful of climate-change programs by the end of the federal fiscal year on Friday has triggered some consternation. Dozens of groups relying on federal cash might have to start firing staff unless they hear from the government soon, some warned ... blah, blah, blah.... +
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13239.5

"I think citizens of the United States of America and citizens of Canada should have to have passports to travel in each other's countries. That's what a passport is: international travel documentation."

You've obviously missed the point-being- that it didn't have to be this way had the liberals done their job.

Fact of the matter is that many Canadians have pasports already. But MOST Americans do not and given their attitude towards the rest of the world aren't likley to do so. They will just stay home.
And,because the majority of tourism in Canada is from the states,including conventions, this will be a BIG blow to our tourism industry.

Horny Toad

Horny Toad,

"You've obviously missed the point-being- that it didn't have to be this way had the liberals done their job."

Although I believe the Libs have truly f#cked up almost everything - I don't think we can hang this one on them. The US made an announcement - and the CDN government (Lib at that time) told us about it ... as did the US Border guys. Knee jerk to the US ... I think now both sides are trying to figure out what makes sense ... there are many Americans that live a driving distance to Canada that are not happy about this either.

On both sides of the border there would be losers.

I don't know about the "many" CDN's have passports statement ... so do "many" Americans.

Your points are well taken, Ural, and I appreciate the conundrum, though I think it is mitigated since it is countervailing, in the sense that if consumers on side A of a border stop travelling to side B, they will I imagine consume equivalently on side A instead.

Toad expresses well the counter-argument, that to the degree that tourism travel is weighted in our favour, there is a cost involved. To be honest, I don't know what the actual numbers are, and I would be interested to know, but anecdotally I don't see a lot of US tourists in Alberta, at least, most of the tourists here seem to be from overseas (insert your favourite Banff joke here), and most of the Americans here tend to be on oil patch business. Of course, Alberta tends to be quite far from the United States, except for Texas and Alaska, so that is probably the flaw in my argument.

Oh, I don't know, maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but it seems to me that some people want to go galavanting all over the world simply because it's trendy, in the process losing any appreciation for what they are actually doing, namely, travelling in a foreign country where your citizenship doesn't apply.

One doesn't have to go to Disneyland (unless one is trying to keep up with the fashionable Disneylander's, I suppose), one can find quality entertainment near home, if one looks. A mirror works for me, but I digress.

So, I would suggest, when one does go to Disneyland it should be appropriately respected as the great international adventure it is, and so one should have to save up and prepare for such experience. At least, my parents did, when they took me there 40 years ago. It's not like we had to get shots or anything.

On my driver's licence is says "Operator's Licence", and has some accompanying information for local use.

On the inside front cover of my passport it says:

"The secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada requests, in the name of Her Majesty the Queen, all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let, or hindrance, and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary."

This is an ancient guest / host tradition, and even though it's a lumpy phenomenon (sample lump sizes include family, tribe, and nation), I don't think we should necessarily throw the whole thing out to save a few bucks on a trip to disneyland.

Wonder if the terrorist they just caught in Ont had a passport to cross into the US with his huge stash of money. I also wonder if these people were found due to the spy program in the US, and monitored calls were reported to the RCMP. BC better hope relations with the US are much better in 2010, and americans get passports or the games will be absent a lot of visitors.

Oh my! So many Conservatives to smite, so little time.

Dear enough,

Yes the CPTers, being christians, are pretty mockworthy. But sometimes Christians are driven so transcendently kooky by the their beliefs that they do stuff I can actually admire. So far my opinion of them is their nutters, but they caught hold of a "good one".

Dear Texas Canuck,

According to most of the U.K. papers, the "detainie", your "informant", calls the house to tell everybody to get lost. The cavalry sweeps in and picks up the CPTers. When the "detainies" keepers are told that the CPTers were where the "detainie" said they were, and are now safe in allied hands, the detainee is released.

Why would an informant call the people he was finking out and tell them to get lost? Unless he wasn't afraid of retaliation, which means that the term "informant" doesn't really apply does it? Why would an informant not be afraid of retaliation?

As to the rest of you, your blithering, and not very skillfully either. Buy a thesaurus.

Good news from Iraq.

The Islamist jihadists are ripping/tearing at each others throats.

Go to it; knock yourselves out.

Islam: The religion of the sword and Muslims killing Muslims. +

Iraq's al-Qaeda-Affiliated Council Criticizes Ba'ath Party
Radio Free Europe ^ | March 31 2006

Posted on 03/31/2006 5:09:05 PM PST by jmc1969

The Mujahedin Shura Council, an organization that includes Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi's Al-Qaeda-affiliated group, criticized the Ba'ath Party in a March 30 Internet statement for trying to lay claim to the jihad.

Referring to an earlier Internet statement attributed to Ba'athist fugitive Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri (see "RFE/RL Newsline," March 27, 2006), the Mujahedin Shura Council said: "Voices from time to time try to distort pictures, confuse matters, and describe jihad in ways that it is not. Among those voices is what was reported by the media about a leader and follower of the Ba'ath Party who had embraced much of the Christians and seculars' rubbish and governed over this land when Muslims were in a temporary lapse [not in power]."

Calling al-Duri a "little tyrant" who has the blood of Muslims on his hands, the council said the Ba'athist "pictures jihad as if it were an extension to the apostate regime that he represented." The council said that those who carry the banner of jihad are loyal Muslims who denounce Ba'athist agendas. +
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I've got it, let me try to put it in the vernacular. Very late one Saturday evening / Sunday morning 30 years ago I was hanging out cooling off and drying out in the parking lot beside the Probe discotheque just off Melrose in Los Angeles when nature called.

So naturally, for a boy from Alberta, I discretely retired to the back alley to piss on a telephone pole. But I was wrong, the LAPD didn't think it was discrete at all. Upon informing me of my transgression and requesting identification, I whipped my Canadian passport out of my glam-rock jumpsuit and said, I'm sorry, officer, we do this all the time at home.

He smiled at me, knowing full well I was bull-shitting, and said (as if recalling the words on the inside front page of the passport), "Don't do that again in these parts, son."

I don't know whether or not a driver's license would have cut it that situation. But when you are in a foreign land, I think it's probably not a bad idea to be able to invoke a guest mulligan per the tradition.

At the same time, maybe it's a good idea to remind people of the associated responsibilities (I didn't do that again in those parts). The exercise of getting a passport, and the danger of losing it, might be good for that.

A few things about the passport issue.

* Are we forgetting that there are thousands of miles of forested and prarie border areas, where the only distinction is a 40' clear-cut line? What about the coasts? It's like trying to stop the titanic from sinking with a cork. Actually, it's exactly like the gun registry in that it'll only affect the law-abiding types..

* For those who are saying "What's the big deal, other countries require a passport": The deal is, there is absolutely massive amounts of trade and tourisim. Let's not forget too that travel between most EU countries is border-check free, and immigration free for EU citizens. And they've got a pile more "terrorist types" over there. Seems we're regressing here in N.A. Now, if we ever tried creating a "North American Zone" with common entry requirements, security checks, and mobility rights, etc like what has been done in the EU, we'd hear cries of "We're loosing our national identity" from people in Canada, and "We don't want to let just anyone in" from those in the U.S. So, that'll never happen.

* One more point, the reason I think a lot of people hate this change so much is that it's not a new law that's making an activity that most people feel is wrong illegal. It's a new law that is taking away a privilege (yes, I'll conceed it was a privilege) that most of us have always taken for granted.

A few months ago I drove to a ski resort just barely on the U.S. side of the line. U.S. Border Patrol officer took one look at me, one look at the skis in the back of the car, smiled and the only words he said to me were "It's 25 below without the wind, and you're going skiing, yer crazy, have fun!". Come 2008 that same crossing will require an over-priced passport, something my forgetfull, head-in-the-clouds self will probably... forget.

Good news from Gaza.

Civil War In Gaza: Update. +

Killing of militant commander sparks gun battles in Gaza

· Palestinian security forces blamed for explosion
· Hamas promises to bring killers to justice

Conal Urquhart inTel Aviv
Saturday April 1, 2006
The Guardian

A commander of a militant Palestinian group accused of firing missiles into Israel was killed yesterday in an explosion which led to gun battles that killed at least two people.

Khalil al-Quqa died when his car exploded outside a mosque in Gaza City. The Israeli army denied responsibility and members of the group Popular Resistance Committees, later blamed the explosion on Palestinian security forces.

The killing sparked gunfights and angry protests and at least two men were killed at the funeral. When Abu Abir, a spokesman for the PRC, called a news conference to discuss the killing, rival gunmen, believed to be Preventive Security agents, showed up, sparking a shootout. Hospital officials said two teenage boys, aged 13 and 15, were wounded, one seriously. The PRC said one of its members was abducted.

Mr Abir told Associated Press the security service had been trying to kill Mr Quqa for some time, and that agents of Mohammed Dahlan and Samir Masharawi, two Fatah leaders, were seen spying on Mr Quqa's home on Thursday. He said Mr Quqa was a former member of the security services, who were upset about his defection. "This is not the first time they tried to kill him," he said. "There is a long history of conflict between us. The Preventive Security always tries to demean our members." + ... more
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1744522,00.htm

Last Saturday, a remarkable thing happened, I met a Canadian.

My wife and I were in a part of downtown Fort Worth called Sundance Square to attend a Saturday night performance of La Boheme. (Yes, Texans do occasionally do things in addition to running cattle.)

As I came down in the elevator, I fell into conversation with a guy attending some health care product convention. As he was from Canada, I reeled off a few news items that I've learn posting up here.

I also told him how much I appreciated Harper's trip to Afghanistan and the Conservative victory. Naturally, he was surprised that a Texan would know something about Canada and its politics.

My point is that I realized something that Canadians realize every day -- there simply is not much difference between us.

This guy (from Saskatchewan) could easily have been an American.

It was obvious that we both had read some of the same literature, the same philosophers, there just was no reason on God's earth not to trust him as much as one American would trust another.

While I appreciate that Canda is an independent country with its own orientation that is not America and does not wish to become part of America, I still see no reason aside from purely security issues for the citizens of our two countries to require the official barriers that we do with other countries.

And I don't think that these barriers would have become necessary if it were not for the political antagonism and immigration incongruities that have kept North America from having a single standard, much like our military cooperation.

You went to a disco and showed the cop a CDN passport? And you talk about responsibilities? ... the shame. Now I need a passport and a label on the back that says " Disco Sucks".

I'm not sure that, had I gone to a disco, I would admit it. You probably feel better now though.

Bee Gees ... shutter ... shutter ... GOT to HAVE a beer.

MNF spokesman on the no-mosque-entered incident

Yesterday, Multi-National Force Iraq spokesman, Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch provided further information on the “no mosque entered” incident during his weekly press briefing. Here is what he said. ( To read the entire transcript, go here and scroll down.)

At that same MNF-Iraq site you can read MNF-Iraq commander, Gen. Chiarelli’s comments on that incident, that the scene was re-arranged after the fact for propaganda purposes. This whole affair reminds us of what Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said the other day. Paraphrasing here: While terrorist propagandists have a well-oiled machine that gets their version out immediately, it takes many hours or days for our side to get out the facts, the truth. Why? Because we care deeply about the facts and the truth. Last Sunday the Iraqi special operations forces had indications that a kidnapping cell was working out of this target complex. We have seen a rash of kidnappings in Iraq.

Last Thursday, I talked to you about the hostage rescue of the Christian Peacemakers team and how we had planned in detailed operation to release those hostages. This is exactly the same. This was led, planned and executed by the Iraqi special operations forces, based on detailed intelligence that a kidnapping cell was occupying this complex.

The operation consisted of about 50 members of the Iraqi special operations forces and about 25 U.S. advisors. But the U.S. advisors were there purely in an advisory role. They did none of the fighting; there wasn’t a shot fired from a U.S. servicemember during the conduct of this operation.

They surveyed the battlefield in advance, looking for sensitive areas, and they said, “Okay, there are mosques in the area, but the nearest mosque is about six blocks from the target point complex.” So a decision was made to do the operation—focus on this kidnapping cell and try to rescue a hostage, an Iraqi hostage—an operation planned, led and executed by Iraqi special operations forces.

As they got in the area with their vehicles, they immediately started taking fire from this compound. Now, remember, there are many buildings in that compound and many rooms in the building. They took fire right away; they returned fire. Went into the specific building of choice, they had additional gunfire exchange.

All told, 16 insurgents were killed, 18 were detained. We found over 32 weapons and we found the hostage—the innocent Iraqi, who just 12 hours before was walking the streets of Baghdad. He was walking the streets of Baghdad en route to a hospital to visit his brother, who had gunshot wounds. He was kidnapped and beaten in the car en route to this complex. When he got there, they emptied his pockets, they took out his wallet, and in the wallet was a picture of his daughter. And he asked for one thing—he said, “Please, before you kill me, allow me to kiss the picture of my daughter. That’s all I ask.” The kidnappers told him, “Hey, we got you, and if we don’t get $20,000 sometime soon, you’re dead.” And they showed him the bare electrical wires that they were going to use to torture him and then kill him. And they said, “We’re going to go away and do some drugs, and when we come back, we’re going to kill you.” He was beaten, he was tortured. He was tortured with an electrical drill.

Twelve hours after he was kidnapped, he was rescued by his Iraqi special operation force rescue unit. He is indeed most grateful. He’s most grateful to be alive, and he’s most grateful to the Iraqi special operations forces.

The closest mosque was six blocks away.

When they got close to the compound, they took fire, and they returned fire. When they got inside the room, a room in this compound, they realized that this could have been a Hussainiyah, a prayer room. They saw a prayer rug. They saw a minaret. They didn’t know about that in advance, but from that room and from that compound, they were taking fire. In that room and in that compound the enemy was holding a hostage and torturing a hostage, and in that room and in that compound they were storing weapons, munitions and IED explosive devices. Very, very effective operation, planned and executed by Iraqi special operations forces. “

John B. Dwyer 3 31 06
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Veritas Odit Moras; Truth Hates Delay. (Seneca)

That you do not appreciate the difference between "Disco" and "a discotheque" is not my problem, Ural, but for the record (ahem), the former existed from '77 to '79, and the latter has existed, globally, since the '50s. Now-a-days, they're called "dance clubs". I've have had memberships in private discotheques in a half-dozen countries; I danced every weekend for over twenty years. And in spite of all that, my favourite song is still Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (BWV 565).

And when I had my little run-in with the LAPD, I was consulting to the California Department of Eduction on Distance Learning and Outcome Based Curriculum. I was wrong (about the pissing), but they treated me like a guest, because I had proof. I tend to try to extend the same courtesy to visitors to Canada. Other's mileage may vary.

That said, I think I'm probably on the wrong side of this argument. Nominally I argue that there's no good reason for Canada and the United States to be separate countries in the first place (or at least Alberta, Texas, and Alaska), so as I mentioned much earlier, perhaps I'm just being sentimental.

After all, my colleagues and customers are largely American. But then, after after all, we all carry passports.

Greg (outside Dallas),

TX, I find, is the oddball state. I have my customers calling me from around the states all the time. The folks from TX seem to be the best informed about Canada ... better than a lot of border states.

Got a call from Ft. Worth this week ... I told him I'm in Canada, but ship from the US. That lead into about a twenty minute discussion about Canada, the elections, his opinions on it, etc.

How else can I put it - impressed.

Been to your airport a few times - did a couple of days in Dallas and Plano. Gets a little warm there (I think my body actually developed new sweat glands).

Vitruvius,

Your right ... my ignorance is not your problem. I apologize.

As far a relieving yourself - foliage would have been a better choice. A telephone pole kinda indicates that you were trying to make a statement.

That's cool, Ural. Though I should note that technically I was probably too intoxicated to be making a statement, it's more likely I just wasn't being careful enough to be polite enough to use the foliage, as you mention.

Y'all may be interested to know that there are nine flights a day between Calgary and Houston. Many billions of dollars a year in business. With passports.

There is the problem of tourism, to some degree. But I think Canada will likely fail if it attempts to become a world-famous cold beach. We live here for a reason, at least relative to many other countries, and that's because there are valueable resources to harvest here, where most people just think it's too cold, distant, and desolate. I happen to love it, but to pretend otherwise is I think skating on thin ice.

It's all about supply and demand.

Thank yout o Robert and the Costall family.

Robert worked to protect and extend freedom and fair civilized government

As with others like the RCMP who are suddenly in the wrong place at the worst possible time, we can not fail to remeber how these heroes along with firefighters and other emergency workers make every day of our free way of life possible.

without heroes like Robert Costall, our way of life may well be taken over by those who like to rule with gun muzzels, kidnapping and terrorizing. They are powerfully ruthless, but a small minority.

The majority of decent people everywhere pray this evil cult will be overcome and freedom from oppression will become the norm in Afghanistan and Iraq. TG

A part of editorial from the National Post, and apt commentary from lgf:

The Christian Peacemaker Teams are up to their usual ungrateful tricks. Not only do some CPT activists still refuse to show any gratitude toward the coalition soldiers and spies who helped rescue three of their members in Iraq last week, one of the hostages — Canadian Harmeet Sooden — is now even insisting the entire rescue mission was “contrived,” presumably to give the coalition a public relations boost amid continued bad news about the insurgency in that country.

Speaking in Auckland, New Zealand, yesterday, Mr. Sooden insisted it was “highly likely, highly probable” that a ransom had been paid for his release and that of two fellow CPT prisoners, Canadian Jim Loney and Briton Norman Kember. Both the Canadian and New Zealand governments seemed genuinely shocked by his contention and emphatically denied his claim. ...

Here’s a suggestion: The next time peaceniks are taken hostage in a war zone while attempting to thwart the efforts of Western coalition forces, when those same forces come to save them and before the helicopters lift off to safety with the hostages aboard, the soldiers should ask the former detainees how they feel about being saved. And if there is a moment’s hesitation for philosophic reflection or any hint of ingratitude, the soldiers should be free to return their passengers to the desert with all good wishes for fair treatment by the first jihadis who pass by.

'Nuff said...

Followed the "Leftist Taboo" link to Celestial Junk to-day and read the comments. I had no idea that the screech of over-torqued wingnuts could be so entertaining. They should charge admission to that site.

Islamist terrorists "blast Baquba [Iraq] mosque".

Has anyone seen/heard/read this in the MSM?

Silly question, yes? +

Militants blast Baquba mosque, terrorists killed in Mosul, Samarra (two die as IED self destructs)
Kuwait News Agency ^ | 206 Apr 2

Posted on 04/02/2006 8:24:40 AM PDT by Wiz

BAGHDAD, April 2 (KUNA) -- A group of militants on Sunday blew up a mosque in Al-Kubba area, 15 kilometers northeast Baquba, a Coordination Center source told KUNA.

The source added there were no losses in life in this incident.

Meanwhile, Iraqi Police said two explosive devices detonated while a police patrol was passing injuring three Iraqis, two patrol policemen included.

This comes as the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced the death of two terrorists and the arrest of 21 individuals in suspicion of involvement in separate incidents in Mosul, Northern Iraq .

A ministry statement said the two first terrorist were ambushed while the second was killed in confrontations with commandos.

In another development, the US Army said it found six bodies in the trunk of a car western Baghdad and that all corpses were gagged, blind-folded, with tied hands and feet and covered in plastic shroud.

The army also stated another body was found near some explosives and it is believed the man was killed while trying to plant the explosives. + more
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