Kate, please tackle this crazy moonbat, Cindy Sheehan, and her views on Canada:

http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/05/1822652.php

Some highlights:

"Canadians are distressed that defense spending rose by 5.3 billions of dollars (roughly what the US spends for 2 weeks in Iraq) while the preschool budget is being cut and college tuition is rising. This increase in military spending coincidentally correlates with a push to recruit thousands of more soldiers who are still be told by the Canadian recruiters that their country only does peace keeping missions. This manipulation of facts and the exploitation of fear and false patriotism is being fueled by the Canadian media who seem to be turning, for the most part, into propaganda tools of their government a la our rightwing 4th estate."

Is the CBC part of the rightwing 4th estage, in her opinion?

"The first day that I was in Canada, their defense minister, Gordon O'Connor, signed the extension of the NORAD Treaty with the Bush Regime without any debate or votes in Parliament. The citizenry was outraged in their courteous way. Not so coincidentally, Gordy just so happens to be a former defense industry lobbyist who has been using his position to promote the " Canada First" position which ultimately removes Canada, once and for all, from their world peace keeping role. With Canada's support of the Haitian Government's overthrow and support of BushCo's travesty in Afghanistan, Canada was already heading down this path of destruction."

Yes, the Taliban's dark ages-style oppression and fascism wasn't a travesty at all, but opening up schools for girls is...

You have to admit, though, Brian Neale's sense of irony is cool....

From Nealenews - "Cindy Sheehan: Harper is wildly unpopular"

Next Headline: "Tories riding wave of support, Polls show"

What could one deduce from this? Could it be that a more accurate headline for Sheehan might be, "Cindy Sheehan: Harper wildly unpopular amongst socialist moonbats"? This poor woman has relegated herself to be a comedic footnote in history

Cindy Sheehan must be in a different Canada than most Canadians.

http://www.theinfozone.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=788&highlight=

and

http://www.theinfozone.net/news_stories/infozone-news_Anti-War-Protests_.html

Covers much of her foolishness.

TIZ

"This poor woman has relegated herself to be a comedic footnote in history"

Right you are... i can imagine the history books of the future looking upon the ousting of the Taliban and Hussein as a bad thing and as the free countries that did so as the bad guys. Perhaps she'd be a little bit more believable if she was concerned about her buddy Chavez wanting to be prez for 25 years.

The more she lies, the more she deludes herself about what is really happening, the more she retreats into her self inflicted delusion, the more ordinary people see her as the feakazoid she is and reject her message.

The only people who get her message are the other moonbats and "pro-regressive" types who need the lies to reinforce their own delusions about the world we live in.

Keep it coming Cindy, you are living proof of the supremacy of of the conservative cause.

What a mother.

Smitherman, Liberal Minister of Health, Ontario.

Moonbattery in its glory; the crapola from the left liberals; narcissists; self-pitying media hogs.

Smitherman is a perfect specimen of the barf/exhibitionist syndrome of the left liberals.

You are an idiotarian, Smitherman.

Drawing attention to mental health
Toronto Star - 4 hours ago
How wonderfully appropriate that George Smitherman was inspired by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health's Courage to Come Back Awards ceremony to share his own successful struggle with drugs and alcohol with Toronto Star reporter Robin Harvey. ... google news

Why is this story not front page on the Globe or Star? Or a lead item on CBC or CTV?

"Canadians back Afghan mission despite deaths-poll"
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/12052006/6/n-canada-canadians-afghan-mission-despite-deaths-poll.html

'Fri May 12, 11:33 AM EST

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Support among Canadians for the country's military mission in Afghanistan has slipped but is still relatively solid despite a rash of recent military casualties, according to a new poll on Friday.

The Ekos survey -- provided to Reuters -- shows 62 percent of Canadians support the mission in Afghanistan, down from 70 percent in early February. The number opposed grew to 37 percent from 28 percent.

Canada has 2,300 troops based in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. Four soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb on April 22, bringing to 16 the number of Canadians who have died in Afghanistan since the September 11 attacks.

The troops are due back next February and the new Conservative government is under increasing pressure to outline whether it will extend the mission.

"In some ways, what is most remarkable here is how robust support for the mission has proven to be," said Ekos President Frank Graves.

"After all, for the first time in many years, Canadians are seeing significant casualties among their armed forces," he said in a statement.

The Ekos poll of 1,013 people was carried out between April 20 and 27 and is considered accurate to within 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.'

It was, however, carried in the Gulf Times; go figure:
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=86288&version=1&template_id=43&parent_id=19

Actually it's easy. For our media good news is bad news.

Mark
Ottawa

Two columns in the Toronto Star, May 13:

1) The sensible: "Darfur would be a mess, just like Afghanistan: Chances of success for our troops slim" by Thomas Walkom.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1147470610837&call_pageid=970599119419

2) The silly: "For Harper, it's either Darfur or Afghanistan: But does it have to be one or the other?" by Jim Travers.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1147470610832&call_pageid=970599119419

Mark
Ottawa

"Hamas: We’ll recognize Israel within '67 aborders"

The Hamas movement is ready to recognize agreements signed with Israel, and in fact recognize Israel, but only within the '67 borders, senior Hamas member Khaled Suleiman said Wednesday.

According to Suleiman, the movement will be ready to accept a Palestinian state inside the '67 borders and will not operate to thwart diplomatic negotiations held by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3249568,00.html

Flying robot attack "unstoppable": experts

It may sound like science fiction, but the prospect that suicide bombers and hijackers could be made redundant by flying robots is a real one, according to experts.

The technology for remote-controlled light aircraft is now highly advanced, widely available -- and, experts say, virtually unstoppable.

www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/09/060509055355.jjazoykq.html

Charges against a dozen students accused of harassing one of their classmates at a Toronto high school may be dropped if they agree to a deal.

The 12 teens – all of whom face lesser charges in the case, which stemmed from a female student’s allegations of abuse at James Cardinal McGuigan Catholic High School – would apparently have to admit responsibility for their actions, although they’d be pleading not guilty, and agree to a court-ordered program.

The program, likely consisting of counselling or volunteer work, would have to be completed before the charges were dropped.

The Youth Criminal Justice Act allows such an alternative, which is directed at teens who are accused in a criminal case but have no previous record.

The 16-year-old complainant came forward last November, telling a teacher she had endured 14 months of sexual abuse and threats from students. The teacher then contacted police, who arrested two teens a day later.

www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20060111-002/page.asp

Pope: Lack of Love Behind Failed Marriages

Pope Benedict XVI said Friday that a lack of true love was behind an increase in failed marriages and a decrease in birth rates in much of the developed world.

www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/28/D8H92CEO4.html

Girls 'smuggled to UK for flats'

Young African girls are being brought into Britain and "deliberately impregnated" so they become eligible for council flats, MPs have been told.

Debbie Aruyo of Africans Unite Against Child Abuse (Afruca) said later some of the children were aged 12 to 16.

The victims were often sent alone into the UK, and placed in council care before falling prey to abuse, she said.

Israel will hit Iran in the next few months: Israeli officials

WASHINGTON: Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in the next “month or two or three,” an Israeli official has been quoted here as saying.

The unnamed official told Arnaud de Borchgrave, editor-in-chief of the United Press International (UPI), at the recently held national day reception at the Israeli Embassy that he believed Israel would strike Iran first in the next two or three months and that fighter bombers would not be involved as they had been to take out Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor before it went critical in 1981. For Osirak, Israel had used 14 F-15s and F-16s. This time, the Israeli said, it would be missiles. Asked if Israel would employ Cruise missiles, he replied, “with a gesture of his hand that went up and down again”, which meant that it would be the weapon of choice.

www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\05\09\story_9-5-2006_pg1_3

Israel, the Third Rail of American Foreign Policy

"No lobby has managed to divert foreign policy as far from what the American national interest would otherwise suggest, while simultaneously convincing Americans that U.S. and Israeli interests are essentially identical."

www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/4/30/224418.shtml

Thank you, Angela and Fred, thanks to your posts I now know what "Bush derangement syndrome" (Kate)is.

Cindy Sheehan is a trivia. My concern is the MSM and their relentless biased attacks against Harper. They ignore and trivialize his accomplishments and create (I mean the word) events and arguments against him.

1) Anything constructive he does, is denigrated to one agenda - partisan politics, i.e., the agenda of obtaining POWER, by votes. That's the traditional Liberal strategy but the MSM rarely commented on this when the Liberals were in power.
If Harper acknowledges Quebec's cultural distinction via the UNESCO deal, the MSM claim, not that he's defusing sovereignty, but that he's 'after votes'.

If Harper removes the exploitation by the MSM of deaths in Afghanistan, by RETURNING to due protocol, from Chretien's abuse of protocoal - the MSM doesn't inform the public that Chretien broke protocol to lower the PT flag, only as a tactic of anti-Americanism. Not respect for the military. Harper returns to protocol and the MSM claims he broke protocol!

Harper settles the softwood dispute, and the MSM claims that he 'sold out to Bush'. This ignores that Canada WAS subsidizing its lumber - something that the MSM never educated the public about - by its low stumpage fees (I bet most of the public doesn't even know the meaning).
And, that the Liberals kept the softwood from settlement because a key strategy in their maintaining power, is 'anti-Americanism'.

Harper is called all kinds of names: 'control freak' 'Big Daddy', 'cold and calculating'.. ignoring that centralist top-down governance is the mark of the Liberals - and Harper is gradually decentralizing and returning power to the provinces.
He's compared to Bush, he's set up as evil.

Two daily hour long shows on national TV, Duffy and Newman, present biased, partisan attacks. The nominal Conservatives are always outweighed by the Left - the Liberals and NDP, who are essentially identical, but, are set up as a majority voice against a minority Conservative.

Major papers, the Globe, the Star - all have columns and editorials against Harper. It's incredible.

He's done more constructive work in 100 days than any pm has done in a generation - and the MSM is falling all over itself to discredit him.

Blogs need to say more.

Kate,

I saw SDA mentioned on CTV News last night regarding the Think Sask story.

Congrats.

ET you have hit the nail right on the head. WELL DONE.

Left liberals claim "God" as theirs. "God" is an abortionist, don't you know. .... "God" is calling all the left liberals to do "God's" work. ...

Viewing Abortion as "a Moral Good" (MSM Giving Lib Culture of Death Yet Another Boost! BARF ALERT!)
Posted by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
On 05/13/2006 6:40:01 AM PDT · 27 replies · 400 views

Seattle Times | 05/13/2006 | Carla Solomon
Marcy Bloom sat in a flowered sundress last week, surrounded by photographs of family and talking about faith. Down the hall were three exam rooms with white cotton curtains on the windows. Thousands of women have gotten abortions in those rooms. Bloom has held the hands of many of them. "I see this as the work God sent me to do," said Bloom, 54, executive director of Aradia Women's Health Center on Seattle's First Hill.
freerepublic

ET
The way I read those items to which you refer is that they were basically already in the works. Harper just completed a process that was already started. We were already in Afganistan. The UNESCO deal was already in the works as was the softwood lumber deal. Harper just gave them his blessing(Afganistan) or gave it the final push(softwood deal).
I think you are far too over reactive on this MSM paranoia.
There is a nice article in the Saturday Toronto Star(a liberal paper) wherein Harper is reflecting on his first 100 days. Some might view it as a puff piece for Harper.

Att: Moonbats & steve d.: Ya want pairanoya: Here it is:

It's OK to call mom in Canada. The spooks are not listening in.

Amurricans woke up to this reality....

But...in the US it is illegal to call mom.

Bush has made it illegal to call mom.

Canadians are so superior to those Amurricans....

Our Phone Calls Not Being Tracked: Agency

Canada's electronic spy agency says citizens need not worry their phone calls are secretly being tracked by the government -- a reality Americans woke up to on Thursday. neale news

From our follow-up analysis of L'affair Vellacott:

"...Vellacott never used the term "god-like powers'. Reporters like Tonda MacCharles did and attributed them to Vellacott.

...

What the Parliamentary Press Gallery missed is the fact that Beverley McLachlin is extraordinarily sensitive about this speech.

A good reporter would wonder why?

It's not on the Supreme Court website and this is not the first time McLachlin attacked the credibility of someone who mentioned the speech.

The last time -- it was a reporter.

'McLachlin urges judges to go beyond the letter of the law;
Courts should defy legislation to protect rights, chief justice says

Janice Tibbets, The Ottawa Citizen
Monday, December 05, 2005'

This pipsqueak reporter had to be squashed.

And Nancy K. Brooke, executive legal officer, Supreme Court of Canada, was sent to do the squashing. In an official rebuke ( which found it's way into the Globe and Mail), the first and well before Vellacott, she wrote:

"Janice Tibbett's report inaccurately represented what Beverley McLachlin said in her recent speech in New Zealand."

"The Chief Justice did not say that rights should be put before the constitution; nor did she say that judges should "feel emboldened to trump the written word of the constitution." What she did say is that constitutions, including unwritten constitutional norms, may supplement and sometimes trump ordinary (i.e. non-constitutional) laws."

Now compare this to how our Miss Brooke responded to Vellacott:

"I can categorically deny that Chief Justice McLachlin has ever said what Mr. Vellacott has attributed to her."

It has, Brooke told the press, "always" been her (McLachlin's) view that "it is a judge's role to interpret and apply the law."

"If a law is not clear, it's ambiguous, judges are required to interpret it, and they're required to make choices but those choices are always made in accordance with legal precedents and with the laws laid down by Parliament and the legislatures."

Somewhere between December and May, the judge forgot she believed in sometimes trumping ordinary laws."

http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2006/05/parliamentary-press-ignores-mclachlin.html

LONDON (AFP) - A British inventor unveiled a car he claims is the world's most fuel efficient -- capable of doing 8,000 miles (12,875 km) to the gallon (4.5 litres).

Andy Green, 45, spent just 2,000 pounds (2,925 euros or 3,732 US dollars) over two years creating the three-wheeled contraption in his spare time.

The car, named "TeamGreen," is 3.1 metres (10 feet 2 inches) long and a mere 0.6 metres (2 feet) wide, weighing just 30 kilograms (four stone).

"It's a labour of love," said Green, a technician in the mechanical engineering department of Bath University, south-west England.

"I think the car is important because it is a reminder to us all that the way to achieve fuel-savings is to drive lighter cars -- it's the weight of this car that is the main reason for its fuel-efficiency," he said.

Green's car is powered by a single cylinder four-stroke engine with a capacity of just 35 cc.

It will be the only British entry in a global competition in France later this month to decide the world's most fuel-economic car.

The winner of the Shell Eco-Marathon championships will be the car that runs the longest on an average speed of 30 kilometres per hour (18 miles per hour).

Two women, chosen for their slight frames, have been selected to drive the Briton's invention for the three-day event.

Green is already a seasoned inventor of environmentally friendly motors, of which "TeamGreen" is his fourth.

He holds the British record for fuel-efficiency, having achieved 6,603 miles to the gallon in one of his previous cars.

Maybe there is an end in site to Albertnas environmental destruction of the country.:)

Eh, Rod Noir(e).... en fancais, si palit for CJ MCl...?

Ici the toot news for da frenchies: Beacoup d'argent at paly, monsoireu. ... Canada is La bilingu officiel bu not for Da Quebec province, non. It's officially French honley. ... (cf. pass as)...

Six Liberal contenders don't pass as bilingual

All agree next leader must be fluent; only five give adequate replies to questions in second language
by CAMPBELL CLARK

"The others were varying degrees of catastrophes," Prof. Knoerr said.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives now place first in Quebec polls, and many Liberals from the province now look aghast at the possibility of electing a leader who speaks French less well than Mr. Harper, a former Reform Party MP from Calgary.

Former heritage minister Liza Frulla, who lost her seat in the Jan. 23 election, said the party needs to rebuild after being battered in Quebec by the sponsorship scandal, and needs a prospective prime minister who can explain a new vision directly to Quebeckers.

"We cannot allow ourselves to have a prime minister who does not have the language. We can't," she said. "Not just for us, but the message we would send is that the prime minister, or the leader of the Liberal Party, is a leader for the rest of Canada."

The Liberal leadership campaign has been sensitive about bilingualism: Two MPs who support Joe Volpe called a reporter when their candidate was not included in a mention of three MPs who speak "top-notch French."

Scott Brison has complained that his French is better than people say. So has Carolyn Bennett, who says her French needs work, but that she is acceptably bilingual.

"I've got news for her," Prof. Knoerr said. Ms. Bennett's second-language skills rated last of the 10 who felt able to complete the interview, because her errors in vocabulary, grammar and syntax were enough that a francophone listener would have a hard time following....
http://www.voy.com/178771/11293.html

Jean Heads for Haiti
Jason McIntyre
Saturday, May 13, 2006 cfra.com

Jean who? Jeancula? Jean de Brebeuf?

Au revoir, Jean. Is Plafond wid ya to make a filme noire?

Bring a report back on the death of retired Mountie, Mark Bourque, shot down while serving in Haiti.

Was Bourque snuffed? Did he know too much?

RSVP

No, steve d. - the fact that the Star had a reasonable interview of Stephen Harper can't obliterate that it had at least FOUR attacks against him. Three editorials - one that asserted that his actions in Quebec were just 'about winning votes'; one setting up a stupid analogy about Ambrose, to convince readers that she is completely ignorant and wrong about rejecting Kyoto; another editorial asserting that all of Harper's actions are merely 'electoral strategies' and that he is 'ethically' problematic. Can you imagine - editorials accusing Harper of ethical problems, when we're realizing, all the time, just how corrupt the Liberal gov't was.

And, another columnist asserting that Harper is fighting a 'relatively small' faction in Afghanistan while refusing to help the millions in Darfur. Wow. The fact that the writer's data is false, is erroneous - is irrelevant; he's asserting that Harper is inhumane.

So- in one paper, we have an interview of Harper saying that things are OK - and FOUR editorials asserting that he's unethical, that he's inhumane, that he's just out for power and votes..and that Canadians will wake up and see him for what he is.
Hmmm.

Try the Globe and Mail - there, you have almost daily Jeffrey Simpson rants - with his referring to the Conservatives as Harper's Gang, with headlines asserting that "In Harper's Regime, Big Daddy knows best' - and calling him a 'control freak'. Two articles attacking Harper's Kyoto rejection (and it should be rejected, for it has nothing to do with pollution)....

And, I've spoken about the CBC and CTV's relentless attacks against Harper.

Softwood lumber? Don't try the Monday morning quarterback tactic. The Liberals did NOT close any deal. Period. It wasn't a 'matter of time' but of will. The public were never informed that low stumpage fees ARE, in effect, a subsidy and that therefore, the US was right to impose tariffs. Harper has dealt with the basic problem - those stumpage fees, which the Liberals did not deal with. Softwood was far too useful for their strategy, which rested on anti-Americanism. Liberal Politics rests on anti-Americanism - and that's why, whenever Harper does something constructive with the US - out come the Liberal/NDP attacks that he's 'like Bush'. (I consider Bush one of the best presidents the US has ever had).

Afghanistan was a means for the Liberals to justify that Canada is involved in world problems, but, they had no intention of staying to help. Harper does. For the Liberals - it was an election tactic.

Nor was the UNESCO deal a 'fact'. That was, for years and years, merely a promise. Now it's fact. That's quite a difference.

Black Rod - thanks for the update. That Janice Tibbett (another MSM attack against Harper's team)...is quite wrong in her article. All you have to do is read McLachlin's 30 page speech. She DOES assert that the judiciary has the right, the duty, the capacity to 'discover' these 'unwritten constitutional principles' that will 'trump' (her word) the legislature, the legislated laws, and the executive. She wrote it, and Vellacourt is quite right in his metaphors about McLachlin.

ET,good rant on the MSM,if given unlimited space I know you could easily add a few hundred more clear examples.
I see the same old lefties trying to convince themselves that this cannot be true,they are indeed the oppressed ones.They conveniently do not dare examine things closely.The Red Star indeed had a glowing editorial on Harper's many accomplishments so far.EDITORIAL!Get it?We all expect editorials to be opinionated,that is what they are for.I don't believe any regular supporter of this site would deny there are plenty of pro conservative opinions circulating,Adlers recent rant is another example.
The outrage is created when NEWS is presented in a biased fashion.I want to know the FACTS so I can make up my own independent evaluation then compare it to others.The MSM,in general,ROBS me of this ability because they cannot present a fact based story without spinning it first.
The CBC,in particular,has a habit of presenting only one view of a story,often omitting or massaging info to create a message that gives an untrue impression.
If you lefties believe coming across the odd editorial that rightfully rips the Libs a new a-hole is biased reporting,enjoy your oblivion.
Sensible people can see the difference between a good editorial openly expressing someones personal views and an unethical,dishonest press misrepresenting facts to discredit an entire political movement in this country.

Well now this is weird....

At lgf, a posting of a news item concerning Larry Darby, running for the post of Alabama Attorney General as a DEMOCRAT:

"In an interview Friday with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the “Holocaust industry.”

Darby said he will speak Saturday near Newark, N.J., at a meeting of National Vanguard, which bills itself as an advocate for the white race. Some of his campaign materials are posted on the group’s Internet site."

Perhaps he can join Cindy Sheehan's speaking tour...they're both nutty enough to deserve one another...

Wonder if history will see Cindy Sheehan as 'Iraqian Jane'?

Then again the Vetname War was a farce...

Guess two wrongs don't make a right.

...before all the war loving peacniks get bent out of shape over my Vietnam statement (as in it wasn't really a 'moral' war)

Two words:

Walmart and China.

Over at Western Standard Blog a poster jema54j makes a very interesting point:

"It has been our good fortune to be born in North America, it seems to me that a lot of North Americans spend a huge portion of their lives feeling guilty about their own good fortune; never educating themselves about the magnificent people who built this country."

What tweeked my interest was the next point:

"How many of these 'new immigrants' would go to the empty lands in the north and build themselves a life with their own two hands - no medicare, no plumbing, no running water, no money except what they earned themselves, no infra structure."

Yes, I wonder just HOW MANY...Gosh darn, Toronto and Vancouver would be half the population maybe?

Then the writer goes on with another good point:

"The people in the rest of the world should take back their own countries. We are allowing 'guilt' to trump Justice. United States is doing the same thing. I do not see this childish feeling coming from other good countries such as Australia, Switzerland, Finland, Ireland etc. We need to educate our people so Canadians know that the life we live in this country was not served up on a silver platter, it was earned by courageous pioneers."
Posted by: jema54j | 13-May-06 10:05:03 AM

...well said.

ET
If all publicity is bad. All stories bad. All media bad. Where do those that are polled get the idea they like him better than they did 100 days ago??? It is logically impossible to think better of someone when you never(according to some) hear anything good about the man??
Since Canadians find out about their politicians through the MSM it is impossible for you to be correct about the media while seeing Harpers poll numbers going up. It just makes no sense.

As regards MSM bias, I am sick and tired of them (particularly mother corp) postscripting every report on Afghanistan with "16 people have been killed".

If this is so relavent to every report why do they not do the same with everything regarding the federal Liberal party, ie: "The sponsorship program introduced by the previous Liberal government saw the theft of unknown millions of dollars."

Gerry

tro said: "If all publicity is bad. All stories bad. All media bad."

Try To Find The Hidden Message In These Hayden Photos
Posted by Sam Hill
On 05/13/2006 12:18:34 PM PDT · 50 replies · 1,673 views

Sweetness & Light | May 13, 2006
See if you can pick up on the subliminal message being provided us by our media masters: Subtle, huh? ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631733/posts

steve d- your logic is faulty.

You are claiming a direct causal link between MSM and people's opinions. You are using a simple logical connection:
IF all MSM are bad, THEN people's opinions will be bad.
People's opinions are good, therefore, the MSM are good.

What's the logical problem? First, you can't make the link as universal as you attempt. It isn't that ALL people's opinions are good; it is only that SOME people's opinions are good. Some,not all.

They are coming to a GOOD conclusion based on the data, the facts, of what Harper has done. Not the far more extensive commentary, analysis and MSM talk, that denigrates Harper.

The MSM is trying very hard to make sure that despite the actual facts of Harper's impressive accomplishments, the proportion of people who think well of him, will remain a minority gov't and not a majority and hopefully, will succumb to the Liberal New Era. That's the agenda of the MSM.

Any MSM press that, on the front page, calls the PM 'Harper's gang', control freak, that has four editorials against him in one day; where every paper denigrates him in editorials, in commentary, where every major TV show has 'experts' against him and his policies - that is why his polls are at the rate they are - still not majority. As I said, the agenda is to denigrate his accomplishments, to keep him in a minority.

After all - look how you reacted to his accomplishments. You tried to divert them to the Liberals! Softwood? You tried to assert that the deal was due to the Liberals. No it wasn't; it had been ongoing for over a decade - so much for the Liberals making a deal. Same with Afghanistan - you tried to assert that it had a military and humanitarian role, when it had only a political role for the Liberals. And so on.

You are denying the reality of these MSM commentaries. Why?

Canadian observer - that's exactly right. The MSM provide the news in a biased fashion. We aren't reminded, for example, that lowering the PT flag is, by tradition, done only on Nov 11th and that Chretien broke with tradition, for political partisan, anti-American purposes. Harper was returning to due protocol.

The MSM never informs us that the softwood dispute was because of the unfair advantage provided to Canadian foresters (BC) by the low stumpage fees, which amounted to a subsidy.
Instead, the dispute becomes an ever-handy anti-Americanism for the Liberals. Harper stopped its use as a partisan tool.

The fact that the Liberal's money laundering to divert funds from the taxpayer to their Liberal campaign in Quebec - leaves the taxpayer out of pocket by millions - is ignored by the MSM. Why aren't the Liberals returning the money?

The MSM simply doesn't provide people with facts; it provides a smithering of data and then, moves rapidly in, to distort, to expand, to create, its own view of the world. So- Harper is 'cold and calculating'; a control freak'. That's disgusting.

tomax7 - yes, Jema's post is well-said. The West is consumed by guilt, which guilt is maintained and fed by the left post-colonialists. The guilt is nonsense, for there need be no guilt in expansion of territory. That has happened with every people since man appeared on this earth. End story. The only guilt should be a deprivation of human rights (life, liberty). AND, one cannot assume the guilt of one's ancestors. No modern Canadian ought to feel guilty about what someone in 18th, 19th c Canada did.

One can pompously, now, define the Vietnam war as a 'farce', but it's easy to describe the past. When you are in that era, which was consumed with a fear that communism was the new fascism, one's conclusions must be different. Now, we no longer think of communism as a viable threat. At that time - it was overwhelming, and I think it is 'hubris' to act now, as if we are 'just so much smarter and wiser'. We aren't.

Wow ET...that pretty much says it all better than I could...

maz2:

You've mentioned Marc Bourque's death before. I'm curious as to why you appear to think that there was something behind it other than that which was reported.

FOLLOW THE MONEY

how does this sheehan girl get around and afford everything???

To the gent whose car gets 6000mpg,try pulling a 60ft air drill with it or just drive from regina to Calgary against a nice stiff breeze and see how you do.

Here we go again with the MSM trying to drive an agenda. Canadian military ask photographer(French, by the way) not to publish pictures or the taliban captured by Canadian troops sparks controversy. Or so CTV says. Do these idiots not know that public display of prisoners of war is against the Geneva convention? Lets see, it was reported by every news media covering the Irag war many times and also in Afghanistan when Canadian snipers captured a bunch of thugs. Now it is a controversy, geeesh!

Kind of like Iraqi Cindy and her latest rant. Now she has her ear on the pulse of Canada. Unless she followed a deserter I doubt she could find Canada on a map let alone show up here.

I think Casey Sheehan joined the army and went to Iraq to get away from his idiotic mother.

Is there a filter on here?

I think Cindy Sheehan's grieving mother act is wearing a little thin.

After two years, and a DOD payment of $250,000 life insurance to the "Peace Mom", she has not had the time or bothered to have a headstone placed on this young hero's grave. And, she doesn't even have to pay for one, the DOD will provide one:

"The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) furnishes upon request, at no charge to the applicant, a government headstone or marker for the grave of any deceased eligible veteran in any cemetery around the world. For all deaths occurring before September 11, 2001, the VA may provide a headstone or marker only for graves that are not marked with a private headstone.

Flat markers in granite, marble, and bronze and upright headstones in granite and marble are available. The style chosen must be consistent with existing monuments at the place of burial. Niche markers are also available to mark columbaria used for internment of cremated remains."

She can find time to protest on at least 3 continents, get arrested various times, go on vacation in Hawaii, have photo ops with the Marxists in Venezuela but can't seem to find the time to properly mark her son's grave.

oh yea — Cindy Sheehan recently treated herself to a brand new Volkswagen Beetle convertible. She still can't be bothered to buy a grave marker for her son though.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/sheehangrave.asp

I think her "grieving Mother" act is wearing a little thin.
After two years, and a DOD payment of $250,000 life insurance to the "Peace Mom", she has not had the time or bothered to have a headstone placed on this young hero's grave. And, she doesn't even have to pay for one, the DOD will provide one:

"The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) furnishes upon request, at no charge to the applicant, a government headstone or marker for the grave of any deceased eligible veteran in any cemetery around the world. For all deaths occurring before September 11, 2001, the VA may provide a headstone or marker only for graves that are not marked with a private headstone.

Flat markers in granite, marble, and bronze and upright headstones in granite and marble are available. The style chosen must be consistent with existing monuments at the place of burial. Niche markers are also available to mark columbaria used for internment of cremated remains."

She can find time to protest on at least 3 continents, get arrested various times, go on vacation in Hawaii, have photo ops with the Marxists in Venezuela but can't seem to find the time to properly mark her son's grave.

oh yea — Cindy Sheehan recently treated herself to a brand new Volkswagen Beetle convertible. She still can't be bothered to buy a grave marker for her son though.

I've done a follow-up post of my own on the Vellacott-McLachlin SCOC-Godlikeness thing, prompted by The Black Rod's own follow-up, and I've included a link to a report on something a NDPer said which was far worse than what Vellacott said, but which isn't being treated as a big deal by the MSM.

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2006/05/msm-again-being-unfair-to.html

Contrary to above info:

This will raise your blood pressure: Big Daddy is listening. Poon has the scoop; over to you, Poon. ...

Hamilton Spectator - 18 hours ago
By Clement-Meoni Poon. A new national surveillance program has been launched to help ...
googlenews

Bruce: Gut feeling only. Have read too much stuff, maybe? But, ...

UN (hahahaha) was to probe his death, also. Seen anything?

"The bulk of the evidence used by Falcone to indict the Cuntrera-Caruana clan in 1989 was gathered by one single policeman from Montreal. Sergeant Marc Bourque of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was appointed to investigate the financial aspects after the seizure of 58 kilo of heroin in 1985."
http://www.tni.org/archives/tblick/aruba.htm

Cindy Sheehan's son went to Iraq to fight and die for DEMOCRACY and FREEDOM which, one would assume, includes freedom of speech. Yet, isn't it ironic that the same people who defend the war in Iraq as a battle against totalitarianism would like to muzzle Cindy Sheehan because they disagree with what she has to say. Cindy Sheehan paid a steep price and she has the RIGHT to say what she feels. Only a totalitarian or hypocrite would say that she doesn't.

anon,

You don't really believe that losing a son gives a woman a pass when she says things like New Orleans is occupied; when she cozies up to Hugo Chavez on his hate America rants; when she associates with, and is funded by, groups who believe the scum who explode IEDs in Iraq and kill children, moms and police recruits are the good guys?

Of course she has the right to say any fool thing she wants; we have the right to ridicule her for those statements. Only a totalitarian or hypocrite would say we don't.

Dear anon: Fear not...we don't bite...you can use your name or a more original "nom-de-blog" than anon. Regardless, I don't believe that anyone really is suggesting she shouldn't say ANYTHING...just that she shouldn't say stupid, ill-informed, false, misleading things.

As the saying goes "Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt".

"...Arthur's benediction to Bedivere: "The old order changeth, giving place to new,/ And God fulfills Himself in many ways,/ Lest one good custom should corrupt the world" ...
Le Morte D'Arthur... Tennyson.

A still small voice

...
However that may be, Jaynes' theory intriguingly suggests that hunches, guesses and intuition may hold some validity. They are the end result of a logical process inaccessible to the waking mind. My own hunch is that in the last two or three months there's been a change in the tone of the blogosphere. Nothing definite, simply a change in atmosphere in proportion to the degree of abstract tendencies of the blogger. Authors who trafficked in ideas and concepts have altered the most. Some have paused to take stock, pleading disgust or confusion; still others have returned to writing as seemingly different persons; others seem to be suffering a kind of nervous breakdown, obsessed with hatred for one or more public figures or inventing new words and finding conspiracies in everything they see.

The least affected are authors who are largely descriptive. For example Michael Totten's review of Arabs in Israel is one of those blogposts which describes what it sees even when it finds apparent contradictions. His latest post asserts that Arabs in Israel are the subject of discriminatory attitudes; yet despite this they would rather live there than anywhere else. The Lost in Space robot Model B9 had a phrase: "it does not compute". And yet of course it does. Anything computes which has an actual existence. There are other examples. Publius Pundit is opposed to Evo Morales' oil nationalization policies yet understands the history of Latin American class and racial warfare that politically drive it. The Big Pharaoh is able to cheer for Alaa and the Egyptian opponents of Mubarak while aware that the Muslim Brotherhood might be the ultimate beneficiary of an upheaval in Cairo. The ever-humorous Tim Blair points out there are things we want which we may actually dread: high fuel prices because it will wean us off imported oil and high prices because we must actually pay them.

My own theory is that all the old divisions so sharply erected between September 11, 2001 and April, 2003 have been slowly eroded by the uncertainties of the world. The Left and the Right have seen their champions turn out to be all too human, and are confounded. Issues which are a wedge on both sides of the spectrum -- like immigration or Darfur -- have scattered interest groups around like balls after a billiard break. New issues like the resurgence of a hostile Russia, the spread of Marxism in Latin America -- even the malicious buffoonery of the Iranian President -- are crowding at the fringes of the now comforting world of the War on Terror. The old play is ending and yet the new one has not yet begun. And this bothers abstract intellectuals far more than it does the men in the field. A soldier can write with perfect conviction that "the world was a slightly better place every time I pulled the trigger" because he lives in a world of specificity, but the agonized thinker can find no such comfort in cold abstractions; abstractions now in need of repair under the weight of experience. ...
Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.

After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. It was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/

Which "stupid, ill-informed, false, misleading things?"

Hey...Anon...How's this for stupid,
ill-informed,false, misleading things...!

From Nealenews - "Cindy Sheehan: Harper is wildly unpopular"

Next Headline: "Tories riding wave of support, Polls show

So is Iraqi Cindy, a liar ..or just stupid.?

Maybe if Iraqi Cindy, hung around with her ideolistic sister Hanoi Jane, she might gain some stature,some recognition...

............NOT.....................!

Harper probably is wildly unpopular with the people she hangs out with...although, I guess she could have said that there are WMD's in Iraq and not be thought a liar or stupid, eh?

It must really bug you, William, that Hanoi Jane was successful in her mission. Perhaps Cindy will be in hers as well.

maz2:

"The bulk of the evidence used by Falcone to indict the Cuntrera-Caruana clan in 1989 was gathered by one single policeman from Montreal..."

Marc was a good and dedicated investigator but that news report was not correct. I was in charge of the program, and there were quite a number of people putting the pieces together with respect to the drug aspect. Marc did a good job on the financial aspect...not enough gathered to meet Canadian evidentiary requirements, but a lot of it was admissible under Italian laws, which are significantly less onerous than here.

But that was a long time time ago, and everything that Marc developed against the Caruana-Cuntrera clan was put out there. No motive for them to take any action, it was over.

The Caruana's subsequently got busted in the Toronto area and were sentenced to big time for new drug trafficking charges, sentences ranged from12 to 22 years. Unfortunately, since being a member of the most powerful Mafia family in the world is not considered to be a "violent crime" in Canada, most of those sentenced received parole after serving one-sixth of their sentences.

Ask me why I left the RCMP; no don't bother, you can probably guess...

ET's comments about the media's tactics, and their chipping away at the soft edges of Conservative support are way more salient than most people realize, unfortunately. There are different approaches, as she mentioned: name-calling, innuendo, comparisons to Bush, calling him "evangelical" when he in fact was raised in the largest Protestant sect in the country, and on and on. During lulls, or when there is nothing specific to criticize, the MSM simply reposits, in a sideways manner, Liberal positions as being a default setting, thus leaving ambiguous subtle doubts about whether Liberal Values -- read "Canadian" -- will be maintained.

Immigration, for example, is historically one of the pillars of Liberal electoral success, especially in the coveted urban areas. Well, last night on The National, the lead news story was that an immigrant from the Phillipines on a work visa had tragically fallen ill before her two-year working requirement could be met.

It goes without saying that the illness which befell her is not her fault, and that she should not be sent home. But there was no indication that this was

You'd think not, but the first three stories were all about immigration. (The last two were Harper-neutral, not really negative, more of a "we'll see"). In one of them some GTA think-tanker pointed out -- it seemed to me like a thinly veiled threat/reminder, or a calling in of debt -- that for a hundred years, immigrants have been able to count on the Liberal party of Canada.

Gosh, you'd almost think that the LPC is losing some of its immigrant base, and that the CBC is...

Ow. Cut myself. Here's the missing piece...

It goes without saying that the illness which befell her is not her fault, and that she should not be sent home. But there was no indication that this was imminent anyway; the real question is this: are this woman's circumstances, and such details about her hard-luck story as reporter (Ken Chang) caught wind of really the number one news story in Canada?

You'd think not...

anon,

"It must really bug you, William, that Hanoi Jane was successful in her mission. Perhaps Cindy will be in hers as well."

Cindy is successful already. She has disrespected not only her own son, but also all the other brave soles who gave their lives in service (read soldiers, police, fireman, etc) and their families (and her own family).

A really big accomplishment.

ET
So some people are coming to good conclusions based on data and facts of what Harper has done. But these data and facts are obscured by misleading observations,data and facts,right? Apparently not.

Now you are saying that the MSM is obscuring the facts only some of the time. So yes I would say some of the MSM obscures the facts some of the time. So what else is new?

Softwood had been going on for years but was about to be settled but Martin didn't want it brought up. You even used Martins negotiator Emerson to seal the deal. These deals cannot be done from scratch in a few weeks it had to have been in the works.
It is somewhat controversial. Some say this is a managed trade addendum to the free trade deal. As long as softwood is needed in large quantities there is no tariff as soon as the market dips the tariff wall comes back up. A nice deal for somebody.

The Afganistan deal was done on the QT. I don't think many Canadians knew about it until Harper went for his political photo op. So who was using it for political purposes again? Don't give me that stuff about cheering the troops or supporting the troops that is just BS. It was a pure politically induced photo op. Not that it is a bad thing it is not. If I were Prime Minister I would have done the same thing. I think it was smart politically. But please, if anyone used the Afganistan deployment politically it was Harper.
Harper was labelled a control freak because he acted in a controlling way. Isolated his ministers from the media by moving the press away from his ministers. Then clamming the ministers up. Giving finely edited press releases instead of having members talk.
He can change his image any time he wishes. He can start giving the media lots of access to him and his ministers. It can be turned around in a matter of a few months. Is he interested? We'll see. The Prime Minister has tremendous access to media, more than any other person. He can present himself any way he wants. It is all on him one way or the other.
The Liberal misuse of money is a legal issue I think. If public money is missing or misspent then Harper should sue for it. That would bring it back as an issue. Maybe thats his plan...just before the next election!

steve d,

Your an interesting blend of lucid and stupid.

You'll have to check the facts yourself - but I recall the NDP (Glen Clark, I believe) raising the stumpage fee ... and the forestry industry crying bloody murder ... first term I think.

Larg's comment (7:48 p.m., May 13): "I think Cindy Sheehan's grieving mother act is wearing a little thin."

Typical of the MSM to champion the cause of a crusading mom, crusading on the anti-Bush side. 'Never mind the huge disconnect between her words of compassion and care for her son and the scattered life she actually lives: divorced for the second or third time, gallavanting around the country enjoying the celebrity that has come her way only because he son died in the Iraqi war and she CHOSE to make it an issue with which to embarrass George W. Bush, dishonouring her son's choice to serve and die in the U.S. Army to try to secure a better life for the Iraqi people and some stability for the world, thereby dishonouring his memory.

Sadly, journalists seem only to lionize "progressive" women who, in their vernacular, are the ones who support the left-leaning ideologies of the day. In many cases, they are divorced (well, hey, if you spend all your time with your husband and family you'd never be able to successfully force your agenda on others) and their kids become emotional orphans. That's the kind of motherhood preferred by journalists. Forget it if you're a woman who actually takes the responsibilities of motherhood seriously, which usually means establishing a safe and secure domestic situation for your family by spending significant chunks of time every day with your husband and child(ren). And God help you if you're a mom who stays home with your child(ren) rather than put them into state-run, universal daycare. In the journalistic vernacular, these stay-at-home moms are the scary ones, not the negligent, scatterbrained moms like Cindy Sheehan.

What's wrong with this picture?

Cindy Sheehan's stance is monumentally hypocritical: Loving mother grieves her son's death. How about unhinged harridan dishonours her son's memory and the sacrifices of all of the men and women in uniform who are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. Cindy Sheehan seems to have forgotten, which is another quality of these "motherly" menaces, that the U.S. did not go looking for this war. The Islamist fanatics foisted it upon the U.S., with their attack on September 11, 2001.

I'm not making these comments about Cindy Sheehan because I think she hasn't a right to speak out. I'm making them because she's making an absolute fool of herself and it disgusts me that the MSM is complicit in continuing the ugly charade that she's a caring and compassionate mother.

Can we please call Cindy Sheehan "Insurgent Cindy" or something of the sort. I find "Iraqi Cindy" to be a huge insult to the millions of Iraqis working and volunteering to build a free country.

re: Western guilt and the road to hell that the resulting good intentions can build. Tom Flanagan's book First Nations? Second Thoughts has some well-researched insights into the waves of immigration (and intertribal warfare) that occurred in North America before Europeans got here, as well as detailed analysis of our "Nation to Nation" contact since.

Some links:
Most university professors and leftists think he is the intellectual giant of our times. He also just told Hezbollah (!) that Bush is a terrorist:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20532_Chomsky_Supports_Hizballah&only

An intellectual giant who could reveal Chomsky's pea-brain status in a 30 second debate and rarely gets respect from the MSM, lefties or university profs:
http://hotair.com/archives/the-blog/2006/05/10/audio-ayaan-hirsi-ali-at-harvard/

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20487_Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali_to_AJC-_I_Used_to_Hate_You&only

And is now at risk in her adopted country:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20541_Netherlands_Looking_Into_Hirsi_Alis_Past&only

I'd welcome her to Canada!

steve d.
I'm not easily coerced or threatened.
So, I WILL give you 'the stuff' that Harper's visit to the troops was to support the military. It was not a photo-op. That's a Liberal tactic. If it had been a photo op, it would have been publicized. Get it? Photo ops have to be publicized.

Do you remember what Chretien did to deal with SARS in Toronto? At taxpayer expense, he had his cabinet flown to Toronto, to have a cabinet meeting there. Well publicized. Period.
What did he do about Mad Cow Disease? He had a photo of himself taken eating beef.

No, don't try the reductionist tactic of trivializing a qualifying term to irrelevance. No, the MSM isn't showing bias only on a few incidents. You see, first, you have to differentiate between Universal and Some. You, originally, hadn't done that.

Now, using 'some', you have to introduce a level of 'some'. And it isn't a little bias, as you are now trying to imply. The MSM is not only not providing facts a LOT of the time, it is in addition, providing a LOT of hostile and biased commentary.

Wow- that's quite the explanation. 'Softwood was going on for years'. So? Why should it have been allowed to go on for years. It was 'about to be settled' (Proof?). And 'Martin didn't want it brought up'. Hmmm. Why not? Was anti-Americanism more suitable as a tactic?

No, you cannot use a fallacious assumption that:
'These deals cannot be done quickly, therefore, it was all done before (by the Liberals?). That's a fallacious analysis (circular argument and begging the question).

No, softwood has zilch to do with supply and demand; it has to do with low stumpage fees.

No- yet again - another fallacious form of argumentation. You cannot assert that Harper was labelled a control freak because he acted in a controlling way. Sheesh - yet another circular argument.

No, Harper doesn't give 'finely edited press reviews'. There isn't any editing whatsoever; it's live interviews. And we have far more information, via live interviews, weekly, daily, from the gov't - than at any time during the Liberal rule.
Remember how Liberals answered questions in the House? They didn't; they spouted nonsense rhetoric. Remember how they kept us informed about the realities of ...anything? They didn't.
We now have the opposite. Daily, weekly interviews, live interviews - with FACTS. Not rhetoric.

Removing his ministers from trivia questions was a wise move. The Press had shown they weren't interested in substance but only in emotive gossip. That's not providing any information to the public. Actually, the public is now getting far more information, and specific information, about gov't affairs than at any time in the past decade.

Good god - you are trivializing the Liberal theft of the taxpayers' money. They STOLE that money! OK? They laundered it to pay for election work in Quebec. Now, you are saying that Harper's suing for its return can be viewed as an election strategy. Should he never sue for its return because, to you, it's 'just politics' and not justice?

This will probably get filtered too:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali's political opponents threatening to deport her:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20546_Netherlands_Elites_Calling_for_Hirsi_Ali_to_Be_Deported&only

The anti-cindy sheehan:

http://www.iwf.org/articles/article_detail.asp?ArticleID=879

ET
Harper's visit to Afganistan was all over the media. So was his brief sojourn into Mexico. Photo ops all.
Harper is a politician don't forget that. Everything they do has a political impact positive or negative. They are acutely aware of this. All politicians, even Harper.

Of course,Martin's tactic was some what anti-American. It was one way to separate him from Harper. They were trying to portray him as Bush lite. So you can't be seen to be cosying up to the Americans yourself. That is why most of us didn't know we had sent over a relatively large contingent to Afganistan. The Liberals knew it was not going to be strongly supported.
The control issue is still debatable. Time will tell on that one.
Let's not be naive, Harper is well aware that he will be in the middle of another election in 18 months. Everything he does has to be viewed through that prism. He railed on the corrupt Liberal incessantly during the last election and it worked somewhat. So if he can use the issue again just before the next election who could blame him? This is about power, getting it and holding it. If he can get a majority next time then he can govern without shackles. What we are seeing now by necessity is Harper lite. He is walking on egg shells any leader would rather have a majority. So he has to govern with that in mind. Its not evil, its called politics. Its a chess game. Charge the Liberals now and its old news in 18 months. Charge them a year from now and everyone is reminded how corrupt they were. That way you get justice and power. What is wrong with that?

steve d.
Because the leader of the country is photographed with the troops does not mean that he went to the troops with a political agenda. Because the leader of a country is photographed at a summit meeting with the other two leaders does not mean that he went there only to get his picture taken for political purposes.Because he is a politician does not mean that his actions of governance have a political rather than governance agenda.

With this type of illogical 'musings' that you fall into, you end up asserting that all and every action of a politician is only for political power and has nothing whatsoever to do with the governance of the country. Wrong.

No, you are again, trying to trivialize Martin's tactics. They were not 'of course' anti-American, for anti-Americanism is not a 'natural' tactic. They were anti-American and it isn't natural or right for Canadians to be that way. Nor were they 'somewhat' anti-American. They were anti-American. Period.

And anti-Americanism is not a tactic used simply to separate oneself from Harper; it's a basic strategy of the Liberal Party. Surely, if you want to describe yourself as 'not-Harper' you do that by your policies: e.g., Kyoto, daycare, justice system, taxation, provincial relations, military, etc, etc.

You don't need to, and, ethically, shouldn't, move into setting up the leader of another country as EVIL, and then, trying to assert that the Opposition Leader (Harper) is 'like that Evil Man'. That's ad hominem - and unethical.

The way to differentiate yourself is by articulating, clearly, your differences in POLICY. Martin didn't do that; that's because he and the Liberals don't have any policies. They try to govern by propaganda, by emotion, by manipulation. Not by presenting their policies to the public, and allowing the public to decide.

No, the Liberals did not know that sending a contingent to Afghanistan would not be strongly supported. It is supported now - so- what's different? What is different is how it is presented to the public, as a task worthy of Canada, as a task helping Afghanistan, as a duty of NATO.

Are you saying that we Canadians should have elected the Liberals, again, despite their blatant and enormous corruption and their theft of taxpayer money, which they used to fund the election campaign in Quebec?

Are you saying that we Canadians should not expect the Liberal Party to return our money? They stole it. They used it for illegal purposes. Are you seriously saying that we should not demand it back? That Harper, as the Prime Minister, and therefore OBLIGATED by law to protect our needs, should ignore this theft and not demand it back ..and that if he does demand it back..then, it's 'just for his own political agenda'.?????

Canadians have been brainwashed for a generation within the Liberal ideology of centralism, top down bureaucrat-stuffed governance - and Harper is trying to change that, to reduce the size of the gov't, return power to the provinces and the people (away from the bureaucrats). He has to tread slowly because Canadians are brainwashed into this socialism..and because the Liberals and NDP have absolutely no ethics, no principles.

Department of National Defence and Canadian Forces Website.

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Write to the Troops
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http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/home_e.asp

ET- True, back in the 70's communism was a real threat. But the Vietnam war wasn't a war, was never declared, sorta like Iraq, just assumed.

I'll grant you the point about hindsight from my part calling it a farce, but at the same time, history is a true judge, which comes from hindsight.

If you don't learn from past mistakes, you're bound to repeat them...like re-elect the Liberals.

Oh darn, we did that already.

All I'm saying from talking with friends who were tunnel rats that the 'limited' engagement they were under tied their hands and therefore couldn’t win the war no matter what.

The point being the US war industry drove that engagement, not freedom of the people.

Looking to Iraq, I know Saddam was doing wrong, and short of being unpatriotic; one has to wonder about they dynamics - oil. Sudan is in worse state, some mid-African nations are going through genocide, China, well we all know about human right abuses and human body part trafficking going on over that from political and religious prisoners deemed 'expendable'.

But all in the name of cheap gas and Walmart happy face prices...

Economics 101 - this runs the world, not the military. Ironically we are paying for the Chinese to be the next superpower. Look to Canada to become a province of China called ZingXang.

Is the sun going down on Western Culture and society...

One word.

Yup.

Quebec arrogance towards tourists? Unilingual? How come?

===== Canada Free Press =====
My recent visit surprised me in that all highway signage was posted solely in French and as a unilingual Canadian I had to pay close attention to the signs in order to reach my destination. This was in sharp contrast with highway signage on provincial highways in the rest of Canada, which advises motorists in both official languages.

Things weren’t much different at commercial concerns where most of the visible signage was in French and only the most mainstream multinational corporations’ products were labeled in both languages. I thought it was particularly odd for this to be the case in places like Mt. Tremblant, where the majority of visitors and chalet owners were Anglophones either from Ontario or from the U.S.
===== http://tinyurl.com/lryub =====

The pendulum has swung too far towards a language extreme in Quebec. When tourists visit, I want them to feel welcome in my home province.

It is a dangerous distraction when those from all countries who holiday in Quebec can find no clear roadway signage in English.

Visitors from other parts of Canada also complain that there seems to be no English direction at dangerously intense highway intersections where quick decisions are called for.

France has gained well known notoriety for attitudes of contempt for visitors. Canada is my country and I protest that Quebec *chieftains* should be allowed to break our bi-lingual language rules and our Canadian spirit of all-inclusive fairness to everyone. TG

Thanks for your comments, ET. Right on: I like the pun!

As you said, PMSH has to move very cautiously. I'm sorry to say that, in general, Canadians are political babies who need to be weaned: Moving on to solid food from curdled government breast milk and lumpy, cold media pablum needs to be done gradually.

That said, go, Harper, go!! And yeah, CPC Team yeah!

MSM headline: "GG is welcomed by riots in Haiti's main prison." Not.

National Post: "Governor-General Michaelle Jean arrived in the land of her birth yesterday, bearing a message of hope"... blah, blah, blah, ...

Bush to visit Haiti?

Try again: "Bush is welcomed by riots in Haiti's main prison." Yup, gotcha. ...

Associated Press
Published: Sunday, May 14, 2006

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Prisoners rioted Sunday at Haiti's main prison, with gunfire heard within its walls and scores of inmates massing on the roof and holding what appeared to be two dead bodies.

Haitian police and UN peacekeeping troops surrounded the prison, which is located about a 800 metres from the parliament building, the site of the inauguration of President-elect Rene Preval later Sunday.

There was no official word on causalities in the riot.

According to reporters from AP Television News, about 100 prisoners were on the roof of the prison, holding what appeared to be two dead inmates. .... national post

Is Harper doing the right thing? Read, ex-RCMP Bruce, at 10:11pm above.

Did you see this yet?

Sunday, May 14, 2006
Israel to bomb Iran?

Posted by Picasa Israel will hit Iran in the next few months: Israeli official

By Khalid Hasan

WASHINGTON: Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in the next “month or two or three,” an Israeli official has been quoted here as saying.

http://TonyGuitar.blogspot.com

In this case, *Daily Times* is *A new voice for a new Pakistan*. Grain of salt? Not sure. TG

I'm sure that Kate had a post somewhere about rabble.ca coming up with a nickname for PMSH: for example Bush-Lite, Shrub, etc. For what they're worth, my thoughts on this nonsense:

"Rosie Smith," let's say, agrees with a tactic I am using to deal with a dispute I'm having with a neighbour. I, likewise, am in agreement with her handling of a conflict she's having with her neighbour.

Does that make me "Rosie-Lite"?

The reasoning behind the thinking that George W. Bush believes in something, and so does Stephen Harper, therefore Stephen Harper is a Bush clone: mini-Bush, Shrub, Bonsai, is total garbage.

I might well believe in the same things that Rosie Smith believes in because, in our experience, THEY WORK. Our agreement on certain issues does not mean, at all, that I'm in Rosie's pocket, that she has undue influence over me, or that I can be bought by her.

So, moonbats, who at every turn accuse PMSH of being Bush-Lite, give me a break.

Stephen Harper is a grown up, who has experienced life and politics in a certain way, and has come to conclusions commensurate with these experiences and the values he feels are important. In his mind, these experiences and values are tried and true, which is why he makes decisions in reference to them. If George W. Bush happens to believe in similar values, because of his experience of life and politics, it would be foolish to jump to the conclusion that he has predetermined PMSH's policies.

But that's the level of infantile left-lib moonbat thinking: Because two people agree, it means that one of them, necessarily, has to be a toady while the other one calls all the shots.

Moonbats of Canada, you need to go back to school and re-take philosophy 101. Your reasoning is faulty, which makes your politics extremely suspect.

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tomax- sorry, but I don't get your points.

1) Vietnam wasn't a war? Oh? What makes a war a war?

2) US war industry was the driving force of Vietnam? Bull. That's a typical fall-back assumption that is without validity. After all, you can say that an economic agenda is behind every war. For example, you could say that the lumber and linen industry were behind the Napoleonic Wars, because, you needed lumber for the ships and linen for the sails...
Sorry- but such a linear connection isn't valid.

3)No, Iraq is not about oil. Iraq has only one commodity; it has to sell it - and the US economy is not dependent on Iraqi oil.

4) China is not the only country with human rights abuses; no, they don't kill prisoners for body parts.
Canada a province of China? Hey- neat! Chinese was my first university degree!
But, alak and alas, it won't happen.

5)Cheap gas and WalMart? What's your point?

Sun going down???? No, it isn't.

tony Guitar - right, exactly right. Quebec is indifferent to, and even hostile to, anglophones. You cross the Ontario border, or you cross the USA border and suddenly, all signs are in French. That includes warning signs, detour signs,information about police, medical etc. No information is available to the visitor. Helpful.

And dangerous. Exactly as you say - you have to make split second decisions at 100 km an hour, and the road signs don't permit that.

Not only are they only in French, but, Quebec has a unique tactic of putting up road signs that are irrelevant as signs. By this I mean, that Quebec views its valid population (note the word 'valid') as ONLY the resident francophones. Others are simply ignored. So, the road signs are there, by law - but- they are in the wrong language for a visitor. AND, they are placed incorrectly.

For example, a sign indicating an intersection of a highway is placed so close to that intersection, that the visitor zips past it before he realizes he should have gotten into the right lane and gotten off. The local residents of course, already know the route and don't require the signs.

Signs for intersections and curves are almost uniformly wrong. I've seen so many signs that simply show an intersection and a straight road ahead - when the reality is: an intersection and a sharply curved road. I've nearly gone off the road in fog, in blowing snow - because of those signs. The local resident, of course, knows that the road ahead is curved - even though the sign shows straight.

Quebec has the same attitude as France. There are no other peoples worth dealing with - except francophones. Go to Charles de Gaulle airport, an international airport. The bookstore is almost entirely French. Go to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, another international airport - and the bookstore is in English and Dutch; signs are in English. It's 'travel friendly'. Not in France, not in Quebec.

ET: That's ok, you're allowed to disagree.

1. If you go by the letter, WAR - A contention by force; or the art of paralysing the forces of an enemy, ok then you can call Vietnam "a war".

But one would hope we, the Western civilization follows the "rules of engagement" (Geneva). We are suppose to declare war upon another nation via correspondance and diplomatic channels...like WW2. Maybe nothing to you but that is what separates us from a primitive tribal mentality.

2. Military Industry profit from Vietnam and other places was healthy. I guess it was conspiracy that Johnson was cozy to boards of many military industrialists.

http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/vietnam/epis2.html

3. Iraq wasn't about oil? Hoookieee.

4. China doesn't kill prisioners for body parts? Hoookiee

5. Cheap gas as in Economics 101. For America to survive, she needs a steady supply of relatively cheap oil. Samolia, Sudan, other despot African nations had more genocide than Saddam, but no oil, hence no reason to go there to "liberate" them.

Walmart buys oh I'd say 80% of their goods from China, as in Communist China, as in put more American workers out of a job to get cheaper goods, what was that reason again...oh yeah, Economics 101.

If you don't get it, that's fine. Evening dusk light (twilight zone) sometimes can be confused with a early morning sunrise.

what was the name of the board the vice president of the united states sits/runs on?

Hallibsomething.

Nawww...no connection with Iraq.

Coincidence, like a past Prime Minister and some countrynamed Steamship Lines...just a minor detail, no conflict of interest here either.

tomax - thank you for allowing me to disagree; how gracious of you. I didn't know I had to seek your permission.

1) Actually, tomax, 'primitive tribes' DO declare war. Always. Their wars were often ritualistic shows of force rather than with casualties (they really couldn't afford the loss of life). Therefore, they did declare the war, chanted, painted themselves, danced, displayed and that- was that. You only got our type of war when the population was large enough to absorb loss of life...and that type of society was not a 'primitive tribe'. OK?

2)The distinct and separate nation-state is a 19th century relic, as out of date as the UN. In the era of global economic, social and communicative networking - its functionally is no longer viable.

3) I'm glad you are pleased to know that Iraq wasn't about oil. It's about fascism - yet another dangerous mode of violent collectivism (as in communism), with an expansive agenda of social and political control and imperialism. Introducing democracy into the ME, which is made up of societies trapped within a feudal tribalism and that are moving into fascism because of population pressures (exploding populations) and lack of economic and political rights - is the correct tactic of dealing with Islamofascism.

4)Glad you are pleased about China too.

5)Africa is not involved in attacks against the USA and Europe and Africa. So, it doesn't make sense to go in there. Islamofascism is involved, violently, in attacks against the US, Europe and Africa. Get the difference?

6)So what if WalMart buys from China? And you don't know much about China if you don't understand that the communist party is dissolving from the inside. China is capitalist, eagerly capitalist.
Oh - blegh - putting Americans out of work. Nonsense. If the cost of goods is too high for people to purchase because of American unions, then, why should we be forced to purchase those goods????

Do you know, for instance, what is putting the big car manufacturers in the US out of work? China? No - it's the UNIONS - those socialist empires, that are parasitic on the backs of the workers, and are destroying their jobs by focusing only on wages, benefits, and benefits and wages ...until the companies go broke..and people purchase from China.

remember, unions require workers, their salaries are paid by union dues. Unions are parasites on the workers.

Cheers, and sunrise and sunset are physical realities and don't depend on perception for that reality. I'm not a postmodernist and work with reality.

Hoookieee...I'll let you get the last word.

At least his last word isnt coming from an IDIOT!

I agree with ET that unions have harmed the North American auto industry.

However, the traditional Big Three could learn a lot from the "foreign" firms who build vehicles in the US and are winning away market share on the basis of the vehicles themselves. Surely the foreign automakers' US plants are unionized as well? If they're doing something right, the traditional Big Three must figure out what it is and adapt to remain competitive. Right?

Perhaps the failing of the Big Three has been to obsess over bean-counting rather than on getting the product right in terms of satisfying demand and in terms of quality and reliability. The Japanese and South Koreans can teach the Big Three quite a bit, I believe.

idiot...ewwwwwww....

Canadian Sentinel...

...not to mention the import plants aren't overburdened with retirement fund payouts.

Interesting next couple of years with a lot of union folk retiring...hope there aren't more BreX's, Enron's and other retirement fund zappers running around.

Well, Tomax, we'll see what happens.

Nevertheless, the Big 3 do have a few good products which I like. At the lower end is the Chevy Cobalt. Seems to be surprisingly refined, if not entirely as advanced as the Japanese. In fact, I have my eye on the Cobalt for my next set of wheels to replace my '92 Shadow, whose engine continues to perform flawlessly even now.

Then there's 300C and derivatives of DaimlerChrysler. And the new full-size GM SUVs. Perhaps it's not too late for a turnaround, though I don't see current management of GM and Ford as being particularly impressive.

Hyundai/Kia is another company to watch. Very impressive progress in product offering and sales growth.

Moonbats are choking on global "warning"(sic).

It's "West's" fault and failure, Thornton says.

Who is West? This will be called the "Black Death"? ... Utter moonbattery; complete lies. Scare-mongering from the moonbats.
...

West's failure over climate change 'will kill 182m Africans'
Independent - 1 hour ago
By Philip Thornton, Economics Correspondent. The poorest people in the world will be the chief victims of the West's failure to tackle global warning, with millions of Africans forecast to die by the end of ... googlenews

Skimmimg the thread. I do it too. Kinda hidden: Israel will strike Iran Nuke facility.

Will there be any who can put the boots to this??

See about 12 back...2:09 pm TG

Or, check via this ..
Israel will hit Iran in the next few months: Israeli official

By Khalid Hasan

WASHINGTON: Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in the next “month or two or three,” an Israeli official has been quoted here as saying.

http://TonyGuitar.blogspot.com

Shortlist of Iran related tensions
[distilled mostly from the May 6th/06 Economist]

[1] Shia vs. Suni vs. Kurd [May 14, 2006]

[2] Israel vs. Hizbullah and Hamas

[3] Iran, Syria support Hizbullah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad

[4] Qatar and Saudi Arabia fund Hamas

[5] Iran, Syria and Turkey fear Kurd nationalism.

[6] Turkey profits from Iranian trade

[7] 74% of Turks polled say USA main peace threat.

[8] Nuke Power, Pakistan depending upon Iranian Nat gas
pipeline to perk up Pakistan*s dragging economy.

[9] UAE squabbles with Iran over three Gulf islands.

[10] Iran is a big investor in Dubai*s booming market.

[11] Many Gulf nations quietly support squeeze of Iran

[12] Saudi officials have grave doubts about Iran

[13] Iran stirring up troubles in Kuwait and Bahrain where
suni are in the minority.

[14] Iran active in Iraq and Lebanon.

[15] Senior military source: Iran to act against Arab
countries who side with the West.

[16] With Wahhabist Suni vs. Shia, Saudia Arabia has ties
& cover under Pakistan.

[17] Egypt*s Mubarak angered Arab Shia, implying, *They
are more loyal to Iran than to their own countries.*

[18] Egypt and Iran have had rocky relations since 1979.

[19] More tensions arise from Iran causing disruption,
annoying Gulf nations who seek stability and peace

[20] The Iran supporting Muslim Brotherhood is the main opposition in ME countries. Much resented by Governments.

[21] Jordan*s King Abdullah: *A US strike to Iran would
cause the whole region to explode. Debate and
diplomacy are the only solution* == TG
The cure? Why it*s elementary Dr. Watson.

Mentions our reconnisance flights over Iran
border and a US buildup there. [FreeRepublic.com]

Drones operated by Hizbullah are searching out targets over Israel from Lebanon*s S. border. Hizbullah is Iran*s front line, so to speak.
www.MichaelTotten.com

2nd post, if I recall correctly. TG

Facts? Who cares about facts?

Black is white. MSM checks facts? Hey, taxi....

The BBC's Latest Star - A Baffled Cabbie
Posted by steve-b
On 05/15/2006 7:22:15 AM PDT · 5 replies · 183+ views

The Daily Mail ^ | 5/13/06
A computer expert has described his astonishment at seeing the BBC's 24-hour news channel interview a taxi driver - in the mistaken belief it was him. Guy Kewney - a white, bearded technology expert - was astonished to see himself appear on screen as a black man with an apparent French accent. He was even more shocked to see himself unable to answer basic questions about the legal battle between the Beatles' Apple Corps and Apple Computer over the use of an apple symbol.... The man, who had been waiting for his fare in the reception of Television Centre, found...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1632436/posts

Jack Layton complains: "Buzz/Martin is stalking me.

My head is exploding. Gimme a helmet."

Buzz/Martin's crow chorus of one crow:

CAW...CAW...CAW...

Man: "I'm being stalked by a crow"

For over a week now he has been suffering repeated attacks by a crow that lives near his house and is forced to leave his home wearing a helmet.
via nealenews

Head over to www.molarmauler.blogspot.com for a quick read on a bit of MSM public manipulation over the gun registry courtesy of the NP.

Chuck Guite draws link to Jean Chretien's office in fraud trial
MONTREAL (CP) - Chuck Guite is raising the spectre of political influence from the office of former prime minister Jean Chretien
cnews

Old crow Liberal party of AdScam/Chretien/Martin dead ...

L. Gagnon: Excerpt.

Instinctively, Quebeckers should feel closer to Bob Rae, a professional politician who knows the issues well and has taken stands popular in Quebec. He was a staunch supporter of the Meech Lake accord, for instance, and he agrees Quebec should have its own seat within the Canadian delegation at UNESCO. Thanks to his political experience, he can easily debate the subtleties of the Canadian federation and balance the needs of the provinces with maintaining a strong central government -- a topic Mr. Ignatieff is still uncomfortable with.

But Mr. Rae's poor record as Ontario premier is a terrible handicap. His name is synonymous with deficits, labour unrest and managerial incompetence. Also, Mr. Rae shares a few things with Jean Chrétien -- his main advisers include the former prime minister's alter ego, Eddie Goldenberg, and his own brother John, who led all of Mr. Chrétien's campaigns. Such close links to the former regime are not assets after 12 years of war between the Chrétien and Martin clans, not to mention the sponsorship scandal that literally killed the Liberal Party in Quebec. ...
http://www.voy.com/178771/11963.html

"Duke University lacrosse team captain Dave Evans said he is "absolutely innocent" after he became the third white player to be indicted on charges stemming from a black woman's allegations she was raped and beaten at an off-campus party earlier this year."

This is how CTV news reports the story on their web site. What does the colour of the assailants/victims matter? If race was reversed in this case, do you think the story would be reported the same way? Take a guess...

*MadMud Almonjeans* has adjusted his first impulsive rants about blowing away Israel to a moderate, **We only require nuclear for generating electricity.**

Let us be generous, Iran burns off enough waste gas to generate power for all the Gulf states.

A huge natural gas pipeline is being completed to Pakistan and that is expected to perk up a laging economy.

While the natural gas supply may not be infinate, most conservative estimates suggest at least a 200 year supply.

Nukes for power, yeah sure, muscle power, not electric power. TG

molar mauler - many thanks for catching that. What's up with the NP?

A survey is useless for providing valid information unless and until, you know the questions that were asked.
Was one of the questions asked - Do you want guns banned?...The respondent would readily assume these referred to handguns.

Most people in Canada don't know anything about the handgun or longgun registry. They don't know that handgun registration has been required for a generation and that the problem with guns in our cities is illegal handguns which of course are not, and are not going to be, registered.

Longguns are hardly a problem, but the 2 billion registration has now provided a means of employment for many Maritimers who are involved in this MakeWork project of the Liberals. Registration of these guns has nothing to do with public safety, and everything to do with public service jobs. (The gov't gets votes and the public service union gets money and votes).

There's also a disgraceful statistical myth being touted by the pro-gun registration (aka unionized public service). They inform us how useful the registration is; how it gets '5,000 requests a day'. Bull. Utter nonsense.

There aren't 5,000 gun-related crimes a day in Canada. And not 35,000 gun-related crimes a week in Canada. Nor, almost two million gun-related crimes a year in Canada. Those stats, repeated again and again, by the pro-gun lobby people - are nonsense.

It's been pointed out, on this blog, by others, that the computer system is set up so that an information request about anything, even if it's not from the police, will be compiled by the computer software, as a 'gun-request'. It could be a request about the fee for registration. It could be a request about an address. Anything. Nothing to do with crime. But, they've set up their software so that it can be used to justify the existence of the gun registry.

My point is, that we breathlessly listen to these people tell us that there are 5,000 requests a day ..and never, ever, ask them if there are really, 35,000 gun-related crimes a week in Canada?

BBC apologizes for interview gaffe; mixup had cabbie on live TV as computer expert
By DANICA KIRKA

LONDON (AP) - The BBC has admitted it was taken for a ride by a cabbie. ...

Story does not give URL for "expert". ...

Read blooger here: It's priceless....
http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/2697

Aristides said...

Again, let me say this clearly. Ahmadinejad's letter fashioned after Mohammed's 7th century missive.

Ahmadinejad copied this format for a reason: it is the Islamic precedent for the proper declaration of war.

Every other comment about the letter is beside and under the point.

The import of the letter is clear: Iran has now formally threatened America with war. Any further diplomacy must take this into account, or we are setting ourselves up for one hell of a classification error.
http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12136206&postID=114769562880526355

ET
There was another extremely complimentary piece in the Toronto Star today regarding how well Harper is doing. That makes it 2 pro-Harper articles in three days! This is a liberal newspaper too! I can only imagine what the conservative papers are writing. It can't be more positive than these two articles.

extemely complimentary, steve d? The summary:

" As a result, some of the trouble spots that may be lurking around the corner of his first year in office can already be spotted on the fronts of the environment, social policy, aboriginal rights, his relationship with Ontario and, potentially, te Afghan mission.
One hundred days into his first mandate, Harper has convinced the sceptics that he has what it takes to be Prime Minister.
But to secure a majority, he still has to convince many of them that his policies are right for Canada."

So they basically write an entire article saying "ok, we were wrong about him making a good Prime Minister, it turns out he has what it takes. But his policies are wrong for Canada. Look at his stance on the environment, social policy, aboriginal rights, Ontario, and maybe Afghanistan."

An article which grudgingly admits Harper is doing a good job so far as PM, but in reality is designed in a very subtle manner to sow the seeds of doubt about giving Harper a majority.

By the way, the article is immediately followed by this headline: "Harper's plan does not add up"
and goes on to suggest that Harper is going to copy the US plan for greenhouse gas reduction. Some choice quotes:
"In other words, the new emissions plan is not really being made in Canada. Even the title is an uncreative copy of the 'Made in America' label used by President George Bush"
This quote was preceded in the article by this:
"The new 'Made in Canada' plan is expected to be based upon the current U.S. government policy"
Yes, that's right, the journalist doesn't even know what the 'Made in Canada' plan is, just what is expected, but he's able to do an analysis and critique of it based upon "expectations".

AG Fraser is a cool lady. When is the audit to be released?

Auditor General

May 2006 Report
(To be released on 16 May 2006)
http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/domino/oag-bvg.nsf/html/menue.html

No need to call cops over leaked gun registry report, says auditor general
OTTAWA (CP) - Auditor General Sheila Fraser isn't happy some of her findings about the federal gun registry were leaked to the media, but she and her officials see no need to call in the police.
cnews

And I note - that '5,000 requests a day' totally false data, is being trotted out again and again, by those unionists, and civil service types who want to retain the gun registry (and their jobs).

If they would only think. Just a bit. Do they seriously assert that there are 35,000 gun related crimes per week, in Canada?????
No, there aren't. Those 'hits' have zilch to do with the gun registry, with crime solving, with criminal activity. They can be computer hits about anything - from paying the fee, to an address insertion, to sending out a bill, and there are double, triple hits...They have NOTHING to do with crime in Canada.

But- the MSM repeats this 'meme' again and again. Without thought.

Willy's not-so-cheap advice: cliche worth $3,000 per plate fund-raiser in TO.

"wag the dog", Willy Clinton: barf...

"But he said the last thing anyone would want to do is let the "health care finance tail wag the health care dog."
National Post

ET, same wavelength about polls and the exact question asked. No one ever thinks to question the lead-in or the preamble.

We need professional standards set for polls and the public will be aware of fairness.

Pete, I like the way you point out how the jounalist sets up hypothetical framework and then provides the results.

Notice he mentions environment, social policy, Aboriginal policy and Ontario as areas of difficulty, yet if one pauses to think, except for relations with Red Ontario, ANY government is bound to have a bumpy ride in those areas. TG

Your gun registry $1,000,000,000 and more.....

Feel safer..... vote Librano$

"Despite controversy and cost overruns, the gun registry has supporters. Police consult the firearms databank approximately 5,000 times every day and officers say limiting the types of guns listed will not help law enforcement."
http://www.voy.com/178771/12476.html

5,000 x 7 days makes 35,000 per week per year is 35,000 x 52 is 1,820,000 consults over one year.

1,820,000 consults per year?

Correct? Someone please verify.

Credit to ET who has pointed this propaganda out already.

Loopy ole moonbat Paul Hellyer is right: the aliens have landed.

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/003249.html

Bill permits 193 million more aliens by 2026
Posted by Esther Ruth
On 05/16/2006 4:50:34 AM PDT · 25 replies · 289+ views

www.washtimes.com ^ | May 16, 2006 | Charles Hurt
Bill permits 193 million more aliens by 2026 By Charles Hurt THE WASHINGTON TIMES May 16, 2006 The Senate immigration reform bill would allow for up to 193 million new legal immigrants -- a number greater than 60 percent of the current U.S. population -- in the next 20 years, according to a study released yesterday. "The magnitude of changes that are entailed in this bill -- and are largely unknown -- rival the impact of the creation of Social Security or the creation of the Medicare program," said Robert Rector, senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation who conducted...
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