Gopher is down for 3 years; out in 6 months. Harsh, too harsh. CAW. ...

Sentence raised for SK chief

REGINA - A former First Nations leader has been sentenced to three years in jail for fraud after a Saskatchewan court ruled that his original sentence was too lenient. Gabriel Gopher, 57, a former chief of the Saulteaux First Nation, had been serving a conditional sentence after he was found guilty of defrauding the band of $2.8 million. He had been sentenced to house arrest for criminal breach of trust. (CBC)
via primetimecrime.com

"Disproportionate response"

Puhhh - f***in' - leeeezzz! Well-put "where are the correct proportions actually laid out?"
This is yet more anti-semitism masquerading as intelligent enquiry.
Actually the correct response for Israel is to crush its enemies. That is after all what war is all about.

It's nice to see someone speaking the truth about the fishery. After they've travelled a hundred or more miles up rivers to spawn they're gill netted into extinction with absolutely nothing done about, because it would be racist. Rubbish!!!!

Pat

Phil Fontaine's partner, Kathleen Mahoney, is also on the Board of Trustees of The Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation.

The optics seem off to be working in the background with the AFN, while also serving as a trustee on the board of a registered charity which includes this as its mission:

http://www.gordonfn.org/CdnNorth.cfm?cp=16

"The Foundation's goal for our Canadian North programme is:

To support research and education projects that increase Northern peoples’ ability to participate in and help shape public policy."

Including:

"Modern Treaties and Governance:

To increase Northern aboriginal peoples' opportunities to review public policy, share knowledge and help form new policies that flow from their modern treaties.

Sustainable Communities:
To expand public participation in building sustainable Northern communities.

The Circumpolar World:
To support indigenous people in Canada working together to shape circumpolar policies and to support opportunities for young northern Canadians to apply their leadership potential at a pan-northern and circumpolar level."
~~~~

"As a registered charitable foundation, the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation can only provide grants to registered charities and qualified donees. We can only support activities that are non-partisan and "charitable" as determined by the Income Tax Act and consistent with the administrative rulings of the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA)."

~~~

Walter Gordon, one of the founding members, was a former Liberal MP, finance minister, and president of the Privy Council.

Not disproportionate so much as wrong target.

Hezbollah guerillas are one proper target, but for real results you must eventually hit **Head Office** in Tehran. TG
=========== and now the EV-1

One of its fans was filmmaker Chris Paine, who was once a proud driver of an EV-1. And now, the story of why General Motors decided to short-circuit the production of the electric car is what powers his documentary, appropriately titled, Who Killed the Electric Car? We reached Chris Paine by telephone in Los Angeles, California.

GM Response
While there may be plenty of blame to go around in Chris Paine's documentary, in the end, it was General Motors's decision to discontinue production of the EV-1 electric car.
To find out why, we contacted Dave Barthmuss. He's the manager for public policy, environment and energy for General Motors North America, and he was also in California.

-ww.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2006/200607/20060714.html

=== TG

Speaking of the "Aboriginal Fishery". A few years back one of the Indian bands from upsteam of the Fraser Valley complained that the bands in the FV were taking too many fish, leaving few for the interior bands.

When confronted by a BCTV reporter, the chief of the FV band said basically, "tough shit, we'll take what we want".

That summer, BCTV News found a warehouse where the chief of the same FV band, had a commercial fish dressing operation. The cameras showed huge tables full of thousands of salmon, way beyond their entitlement for "food and ceremonial" usage. A band member slammed the door shut and cursed the reporter.

BCTV asked Fisheries Canada, on air, why something wasn't done about an obviously illegal enterprise, especially in view of the on camera evidence. Fisheries blustered and stonewalled, and in the end, nothing was done.

The US State Dept has issued a warning for US citizens in Mexico.

IMO, It has good advice for Canadians too.

July 14, 2006 Dane Schiller: U.S. Embassy in Mexico City urges caution as massive AMLO rally expected

Text of message sent by U.S. Embassy to U.S. citizens in Mexico:

PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT TO AS MANY AMERICAN CITIZENS AS POSSIBLE

Warden Notice

Warden Notice Regarding Demonstrations in Mexico July 14, 2006

The U.S. Embassy advises its citizens in Mexico to avoid demonstrations that may be held in support or protest of labor disputes, election results or other causes in Mexico. U.S. citizens are encouraged to avoid any large crowds during active demonstrations.

Also, U.S. citizens should avoid participating in demonstrations and other activities that might be deemed political by the Mexican authorities. The Mexican Constitution prohibits political activities by foreigners, and such actions may result in detention and/or deportation.

We wish to remind U.S. citizens that even demonstrations intended to be peaceful can turn confrontational and escalate into violence. U.S. citizens are urged to avoid the areas of demonstrations, and to exercise caution if within the vicinity of any protests.

Since the timing and routes of marches and demonstrations are always subject to change, U.S. citizens should monitor local media sources for new developments.

For the latest security information, Americans traveling abroad should regularly monitor the Department's Internet Web site at http://travel.state.gov where the current Worldwide Caution Public Announcement, Travel Warnings and Public Announcements can be found.

Up to date information on security can also be obtained by calling 1-888-407-4747 toll free in the United States, or, for callers outside the United States and Canada, a regular toll line at 1-202-501-4444. These numbers are available from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday (except U.S. federal holidays). American citizens traveling or residing overseas are encouraged to register with the appropriate U.S. Embassy or Consulate on the State Department's travel registration Web site at https://travelregistration.state.gov.

For any emergencies involving American citizens, please contact the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, Office of Citizens' Consular Services Reforma Ave 305, Col Cuauhtemoc Mexico, D. F., Mexico CP 06500 Tel: (011)(52)(55) 5080-2000 or e-mail: ccs@usembassy.net.mx. For additional information, please refer to the Embassy Web site: http://usembassy-mexico.gov.

This warden message remains in effect until October 1, 2006.

The Hidden 'Man* is found in TO/GTA.

TO/GTA is the base for the Socialist Power Corp. Liberal Party of Toronto, aka, aaahs the 'Man, mam.

What, no pianos?

The hidden Jamaican soul of Toronto
Globe and Mail - 8 hours ago
Four organ-soaked, heart-pounding notes. A declaration. This is Jamaican music of an entirely different kind. Then a background chorus sings three descending "aaahs" in the most righteous R&B tradition. And ... via google news
(* H/T The Hidden Imam)

Forget the Clumsy Broadcast Company for the EV-1 and get the real story at **The Huffington Post** just google it.. or

-ww.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/who-killed-the-electric-c_b_24348.html

==TG

Nearly live blogging of what's taking place in Lebanon here.

Ports of Tripoli and Beirut attacked. Syrian-Lebanese border town attacked.

The mush minded will call the governments decision to remove race based fisheries a racist move. But I ask what is so racist about there being one law for all? By treating everyone equally, the Conservative government is showing itself to be an anti-racist force.

Bravo!

Racially segregated fisheries?
How about racially segregated towns like Caledonia, for starters?
Sorry, I forgot. This is under the control of McGuinty and his band of happy morons.

The fascists response to Israel's unilateral withdrawl from South Lebanon and Gaza - Rocket attacks - is 'disproportionate' to say the least.

Sounds to me like Phil Fontaine is a Liebrano... I see no difference between him and a Liebrano cabmin of the Chretien-Martin epoch...

And, Philanthropist: well-put.

Israel gave Palestine Gaza. Palestinians used it for a missile-launching pad in return... yet the Muslims, Europeans, MSM, vast, left-wing conspiracy, etc... they call Israel's response to an act of war "disproportionate"?!

That's another talking point to use against the left re the M.E. war.

This one is just too funny:

Ms. American Spy
(Sung to the tune of Don McLean's American Pie)

A short, short time ago
I can still remember
How the "Plame Game" used to make me smile
And as I read those D-Kos rants
I got a big bulge in my pants
And thought maybe we'd get "Chimpy" for awhile

Sing along to the whole song at:
http://intherightplace.blogspot.com/2006/06/ms-american-spy.html

http://www.donacadman.com/

Cadman? Cadman?

http://www.ericlee.info/2006/07/the_left_should_be_supporting.html

Worth reading. Especially by SDA's more leftward-tending readers. Excellent food for thought.

Another 185,000 Librano$. How many are there now?

185,000 newbies + 10 lib leadershippers + 1 dipper = 185,011 Librano$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Leadership race lifts Liberals
OTTAWA (CP) - A frenzied three-month recruitment drive by 11 leadership hopefuls has doubled the Liberal party's national membership to almost 185,000. cnews

Sex education, ethnic and gender issues, hygiene, nutrition, and, now, happiness.....are there any more psycho-social realms left for these nanny education predators to cover?

Has it ever occured to these imbeciles that adult depression and sociopathic behavior may be more related to the fact that so many of today's public school kids don't learn anything useful, aren't held to rigid academic standards and lack discipline, all of which are necessary assets to have for gainful employment in life. From my perch in mental health, those living at the economic margins have the most pathology.

As Freud observed to have a good life you need bascially only two things, love and work. Schools need to deliver, as should be their limited scope, on the work preparedness part of Freud's equation.

Allah akbar: Mubin sang like a canary.

Imam Hindy is in a hissy fit.

Nada Farooq is beating her chest: curse Mubin, Allah, and make Nada happy.

Tarek is going fatah.

Allah/Mubin akbarked.... caw ...caw ...caw... ...-

Muslim Extremist Admits He Was Spy Who Revealed Canada Bomb Plot
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 7-16-2006 | Toby harnden

Muslim extremist admits he was spy who revealed Canada bomb plot

By Toby Harnden

Muslim leaders in Canada have reacted with fury after a radical advocate of Sharia law revealed that he had been a government spy who helped to uncover an alleged al-Qaeda plot, writes Toby Harnden.

Mubin Shaikh, 29, came forward to confirm that he was recruited by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the country's equivalent of MI5, and directed a 10-day winter training course in guerrilla tactics.

During the course, which Mr Shaikh set up in a field in the remote village of Washago, Ontario, young Muslims allegedly dressed in camouflage, used guns for target practice and taped a video used to recruit others.

He said that he was initially asked to befriend the leader of a "cell" of 17 Muslims who allegedly planned to blow up the parliament buildings in Ottawa and Toronto's stock exchange. The 17, arrested last month, face terrorism charges.

"This is like the pot calling the kettle black," said Tarek Fatah, of the Canadian Muslim Congress. "He was the embodiment of extremism in the city and his spying calls into question whether he's acting out of sincerity, or is trying to fish himself out of his own troubles."

Aly Hindy, the imam of the Salahuddin Islamic Centre in Scarborough, Ontario, attended by some of the 17 suspects, said Mr Shaikh and Canadian intelligence had encouraged and entrapped young Muslims. "The government and the people keep saying that we should not make our young people radical. CSIS is the one radicalising the youth. I call him CSIS Shaikh."

But Mr Shaikh, who has declined an offer to enter Canada's witness protection scheme, is unrepentant, calling the suspects dangerous "fruitcakes" who deserved to be jailed.

The self-professed fundamentalist believed in holy war in Iraq and Afghanistan but not in Canada, he said.

"I wanted to prevent the loss of life. There are no combatants on the downtown streets of Toronto," he said.

Nada Farooq, the wife of Zakaria Amara, one of the accused 17, said: "I know this man. May Allah curse him and make him suffer." ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666458/posts

The Pentagon Attack Simulation

Maybe this video, one of the most amazing computer simulations I’ve ever seen, will finally convince the Truthers (aka, 9/11 conspiracy rubes) that American Airlines Flight 77 really did deliberately plunge into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, carrying 53 passengers, six crew members, and five Islamic terrorists from Saudi Arabia screaming “Allahu Akbar!” in the cockpit. ...
It’s a clinical presentation, but absolutely horrifying if you allow yourself to imagine what the passengers experienced as the plane flew only feet off the ground, snapping lamp poles in its final approach. ...-
via LGF

Over at canadian sentinel's blog I had to re-read a posting twice...

Australia's Prime Minister John Howard:

"Immigrants, not Australians must adapt. Take it or leave it. I am tired of this Nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture."

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Gadzooks Batman, finally someone is calling the airhead leftist's ideology bluff!!!

Ironic a nation founded as a British penal colony is leading the charge against political correctness...then again, fitting isn't it?

Two things:

1) penny: I couldn't agree with you more. I'm a career teacher--literacy specialist--with a sterling track record. (I used to be respected. Now, when I advocate for higher standards, which I'm able to deliver in favourable circumstances--e.g., timetabling and curriculum demands--I get, figuratively, bashed over the head.)

The regulations and sycophantic enforcers (read: admin.) of the ministry and board I work for actually HINDER my ability to do the job properly. The public school teaching culture is a political quagmire. Altogether mixing my metaphors, doing my job in the gulag is like wading upstream in molasses in January, while shackled, hand and foot. Oh ya, my mouth's covered in duct tape too.

The failure of public education to set high standards, academically and behaviourally, rather than appease, and the ministry's inability to devise a "learn to mastery" curriculum--it needs to be "narrow and deep", not "broad and shallow" as it is now--is an utter scandal. Heads should be rolling.

Unfortunately, heads are, but it's usually the heads of the teachers who try to challenge the idiocies (and idiots) of the system. The unions are generally altogether non pro-active: They miss all kinds of opportunities to hold the boards accountable. E.g., When involved in cases where admin. has egegiously ignored and misused board rubrics, the union doesn't produce or disseminate any documentation. Really! (Most board and union types--virtually all on the left of the political spectrum--are cut from the same cloth. Many are married to and/or party with one another.) Another scandal.

2) Very trite but just to satisfy a longstanding curiosity: I was once on a panel with Kathleen Mahoney discussing government family policy. She smugly told me she had 5 children. Wow! I thought. This woman doesn't seem to have a motherly bone in her body. (And 5 kids while pursuing a full-time, big-time legal career?) Does she have any kids of her own, any step children? Just wondering.

That's "egRegiously"!

If Israel's response is "disproportionate", then so was ours to 9/11 and so is any country's response who fires upon helpless terrorists (aka civilians carrying weapons and spewing hate).

Two Mounties shot by gunman in northern Saskatchewan die: PMO source
SASKATOON (CP) - Both of the RCMP officers who were shot by a gunman in early July have died from their wounds, according to a source in the Prime Minister's Office.
via cnews

Globe and Mail web page also reports the deaths of both RCMP officers. What a sad day for Canada.

May they rest in peace.

Tomax7... You said..

**
Over at canadian sentinel's blog I had to re-read a posting twice...

Australia's Prime Minister John Howard:

"Immigrants, not Australians must adapt. Take it or leave it. I am tired of this Nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture."

----------------------

Gadzooks Batman, finally someone is calling the airhead leftist's ideology bluff!!!

Ironic a nation founded as a British penal colony is leading the charge against political correctness...then again, fitting isn't it?**
Posted by: tomax7 at July 16, 2006 01:03 AM
=== and I am sure glad that you did. = TG

Artic_Front said...

It would be de-cried by the entire world, and might be a bit over the top, BUT, a few cruise missles lobed into the homes, offices and parliament buildings of both Iran and Syria to cull the nut-jobs, completely de-stabilize the balance of power, and give those folks in both countries who long for real freedom a chance to take back their nations from the radical element.

And I agree. Israel is missing the target. The target is the commander of Hezbollah. That is Ahamadinejad in Tehran, not Ratwala in Lebanon.

The electric car would cut out Iran*s oil wealth advantage. The EV-1 is here but GM is trying to bury it. 800 lease drivers loved it but GM took them all back and crunched them. Google- TheHuffingtonPost
= TG

Iranian Alert - July 14, 2006 - Iran's war with

Israel and the US becomes clear to the MSM

Regime Change Iran ^ | 7.14.2006 | DoctorZin
Top News Story Iran's war with Israel and the US becomes clear to the MSM.

The New York Times finally reported that the expansion of the Gaza crisis into southern Lebanon, confronting Israel with a conflict on its northern and southern borders, has demonstrated that the central issue at stake is regional, not local. It is the broader problem of radical Islam and of Iran.

The Telegraph reported that Israeli commanders regard the northern border as their "front line" with Iran.New York Sun in an editorial argued the risks of 'Restraint' in the present Middle East conflict.The Boston Globe in... more:

The Experts Weigh in. We are at war with Iran.

* Michael Ledeen, National Review Online reminded us that Israel's present war in the Middle East is just an extension of Iran's 27 year declared war on the US.
* Yossi Klein Halevi, The National Review Online argued that the next Middle East war--Israel against genocidal Islamism--has begun. He argued that the goals of the war should be the destruction of the Hamas regime and the dismantling of the Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666749/posts

Imagine this in the hands of the Librano$$$$$$$

Delinquent-taxpayer Website Nets $12 Million
Posted by Diana in Wisconsin

JSOnline via AP ^ | July 16, 2006 | Staff Writer from AP
MADISON, WI (AP) -- A state Web site designed to shame tax scofflaws into paying up has netted more than $12 million, eight times more than expected, a revenue official said. When the site was launched six months ago, revenue officials estimated it would collect $1.5 million. "Public scrutiny helps," said state Rep. Frank Lasee, R-Green Bay, long a supporter of legislation to create the Web site. "I think what happens is your friends and family and neighbors say, `gee, you are living pretty high on the hog and yet you owe the government money.'"The site launched in January with...
free republic

Which side are they on? NY Times photographer in the room with terrorists as they attempt to kill American soldiers

The New York Times settles the question definitively with a disgusting pictorial tribute to Iraqi terrorists killing American soldiers.
via nealenews

Beheading Nations: The Islamization of Europe’s Cities
www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1183