Canadian seniors who live in nursing facilities are supposed to live on the just over $5 allotted to their meals per day. Prisoners get almost as much.

MPs get 15 times that amount every day they're in Ottawa. From our pockets. Tax-free. There's some more at my blog (linked below).

Skaff...splurt...kafffchooz,,,smock...smuck....smohjyu

CO2, goobel swarming, ice alert., kyoto advisory.

Get yer Smog here.... (More messages from the elites of Canada to all youse big. ft beer swillling, donut-eating, sweating middle-classers) ...-

Smog could have deadly consequences for baby boomers by 2026
680 News - 5 hours ago
A Smog Advisory is in effect for southwestern Ontario Monday morning, stretching from Windsor, through Sarnia and London...
smmajjjk alert .cafff

"Canadian seniors who live in nursing facilities are supposed to live on the just over $5 allotted to their meals per day. Prisoners get almost as much."

Yeah, but this isn't even means tested. Many of them, my late grandparents among them, have the funds to take care of themselves and don't even need that $5.

Next stop, Universal Senior Care! Down with teh family!!!!

maz2,

Great post...congratulations, you're finally on topic.

Oh, I'm all for cutting spending across the board. The issue here is that if our tax dollars are going to go to meal subsidies, I have less of a problem with them funding seniors' meals than MPs' meals. Besides, my grandmother is in a nursing home and my family has been told that we can neither bring our own food in to her or pay more to get better meals. The problem is the bureaucracy, not how much money the government shells out.

A mother who sexually abuses her child in Canada gets two years less a day house arrest.

A mother who sexually abuses her child in the US gets 40 years in federal pound-you-in-the-a$$ prison.

Where's the justice in this nation?

No Canadian seniors here, I'm afraid, but has anyone seen/commented on this:

http://www.siamlady.com/Movies/Pallywood.wmv

1) "Afstan: Canadians will still do combat under NATO command"
www.damianpenny.com/archived/007175.html

Also operations at the Pakistan border.

2) "Requirements of expatriate citizens/More peacekeeping nonsense"
www.damianpenny.com/archived/007172.html

'Norman Spector makes interesting proposals, points out a Liberal's misunderstanding of reality, and asks good questions (full text not officially online)...'

Mark
Ottawa

Anyone wanting to pay a stupid amount of money for rolling stone tickets? I have 2 sec 14, row 11. I paid $250 for these two tickets and will sell them for a total of $800. Let me know, 220-9081

WK has copyrighted the well known blogger use of "...".

Dastardly, no?

Here's Hungarian-Canadian CanWest columnist George Jonas openly calling for the murder of Canadian soldiers serving under the UN:

"I'm certain that Israel hit that UN observation post in southern Lebanon this week by mistake. I'm less certain that this is a good thing. Perhaps Israel should have hit the post by design. Much as one grieves for the innocent observers, the UN as a whole is a worse enemy of Israel than Hezbollah...Not just a worse enemy of Israel than Hezbollah, the UN is a worse enemy of civilization and its values."

I don't care how much you hate the UN; the above quote and the rest of the article is tantamount to full-on treason. If Jonas has that little respect for the Canada and her military then he needs to leave Canada. If a pro-Palestinian columnist were to suggest, in a Canwest cloumn read by thousands, that Hezbollah or anyone else would be justified in killing a Canadian serving under the UN there would be outrage and possibly terrorism charges, and justifiably so.

Jacke said: maz2,

Great post...congratulations, you're finally on topic

Thx, Jacke.

Scott Kesterson's reporting on the fighting in Afghanistan. Scott is a freelance photo-journalist from Oregon. Here is part of a message he sends to his readers:

"I asked a few of the soldiers how they felt about this war, a war that had begun with an attack on American soil. How did it feel being Canadian leading the fight? The answers were nearly all the same, "It's time that someone else steps up. The United States shouldn't have to carry the fight alone. We may be Canadians, but the attack was an attack on our common values and beliefs. The attack of 9-11 was an attack on all of us."

www.blackfive.net/main/2006/07/our_northern_ne.html

July 28, 2006.

Canadian Hydro Developers Inc.
Suite 500, 1324-17th Ave. SW
Calgary, Alberta T7T 5S8

Attention: Ms. Ann Hughes, Executive Vice-President & Kent Brown, Chief Financial Officer

Notice of Seizure by Six Nations Women Title Holders of "Melancthon Wind Farm" illegally built on "Haldimand Tract" at the source of the Grand River (Ontario Canada)

Dear Sirs:

According to Wampum 44 of our constitution, the Kaianereh'ko:wa/Great Law, the women are the title holders of our land. Title to our land is vested in the people through the women. We sent Canadian Hydro Developers Inc. a notice on February 6, 2006, objecting to your violation of our constitutional jurisdiction on our land known as the "Haldimand Tract". Your company built 50 windmills on our land to create energy for the non-native market. Your incursion is also a violation of international law.

Canadian Hydro Developers never consulted us nor asked us, the title holders, for our consent to enter our land and develop your wind mill project on Kanion'ke:haka territory. You were put on notice in November 2005 to discuss this project with the land owners even before you started construction. It is not only unsurrendered land, but according to our constitution it cannot be sold.

The windmills on our land are now attached to the soil. According to law they become part of the land. They cannot be removed. As the owners of the land we are now the owners of the windmills.

We would be glad to meet with you to discuss the full transfer of the project over to us since we now own it. We wish to explain the interests of the Six Nations people on the Indigenous territory in question so that you will fully understand our position. Also, we would like to inform you on the protocols and procedures required to deal with us on a nation-to-nation basis in the future.

Yours truly,

Kahentinetha /s/ ________________

Katenies /s/ ___________________

Cc: All media; Dalton McGuinty, Premier, Ontario, Queen's Park, Toronto Ontario M7A 1A1; Hon. Stephen Harper, Prime Minister, Government of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Toronto Stock Exchange; Montreal Stock Exchange; New York Stock Exchange; Tokyo Stock Exchange; London Stock Exchange; Hong Kong Stock Exchange; Zurich Stock Exchange; Six Nations Confederacy Chiefs; and so on...

It's obvious where this is going. Ownership of the four winds will soon be given over to the natives once and for all.

A nifty pro Israel link to add to your sidebar

http://jacklewis.net/weblog/archives/2006/07/i_stand_with_is.php

Further reports from the front lines:

Kofi Annan's War Against Israel.

George Jonas knows. Kudos to George Jonas. ...-

UNIFIL Sitting Ducks Not Evacuated

UN observers in Lebanon, who have no authority to actually do anything about the Hizballah terrorists using their positions as shields (even if they wanted to), will be sitting ducks for another month. (Hat tip: Newsbeat1.)

Having examined the Secretary-General’s report on the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), including its observations that the Force had been impeded from effectively carrying out its activities, as a result of the continuing hostilities along the Blue Line, the Security Council today decided to extend its mandate until 31 August 2006.

It’s a win-win for Hizballah! They can:

1) continue using UN posts as cover, and

2) score a big propaganda bonus if Israel happens to hit one. ...-
LGF

Brad Groat; thankyou for your post.

New article by Larry Zolf regarding PM Harper's pro-Israel stance.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_zolf/20060731.html

Finally someone with something good to say

Bob - your assumptions are incorrect. The UN personnel were not operating there as military, they were not there as soldiers, and they were not under the Canadian command. They were civilian Observers. Period. There's nothing treasonous about his post; he was quite rightly critiquing the UN.

They shouldn't have been there; the UN should have pulled them out, for Hezbollah was using their site as a military site, and was thus 'hiding behind civilians'.

By the way, what's your point that you are trying to make, about Jonas being 'Hungarian-Canadian'? Why have you inserted this into your post?

grandad - thanks for the hilarious letter from the natives. So- they consider themselves a 'state within a state'? Just like Hezbollah in Lebanon. I love the part about their ownership of the windmills. They seem to have forgotten, that if they claim ownership, then, they have to pay the bills for the construction of those windmills.

I love the 'attached to the soil. According to law, they now become part of the land". Sure. Whose law? Does a house become part of the land and can't be torn down? Didn't they just burn down a bridge in Caledonia that was 'attached to the soil'?

And their 'constitution' - ? As non-literate peoples, before The White Evil Came - they didn't have a constitution. Also, they had 'use' but not 'ownership' of the land.

Great fun. Now, is the gov't going to go all multicultural and ignorant about native cultures of 500 years ago, or is it going to tell them to 'get lost and grow up'.

Here's the response to a blogger from Massachusetts who emailed his Democratic state rep. asking what her position was on gay marriage. In her first reponse she ducked the question, here's her answer to his (polite) follow up email:

Dear Mr.. Heaney, First let me fill you in on a couple of things. One, I am in Leadership and am busy with meetings and in the House Chamber with the Membership. I rarely, esp. this time of year, have time to eat lunch let alone personally answer the hundreds of emails I receive. So, when I asked Barbara to email back that I would vote to put the question on the ballot, I was surprised to receive another reply. You were a bit rude, you know. Email does that. The loss of personal voice tones and facial expressions has not helped society. Anyways, I must say that the lack of a response to you was because I wanted to respond myself. You are an impatient man and seems to jump to conclusions.

I have always voted to put any question on this issue on the ballot. My District is in the majority on that choice. Why would you need to know anything else? However, since you are so unable to accept the public votes I have made and you want to know what my personal vote would be in the privacy of the ballot box…..well, would you chaff at such an invasion of your personal privacy???

It is a well known fact that I have no problem with gay marriage. I believe in treating people as you would like to be treated. Sort of Live & Let Live. I am not a pawn of any organization. I vote my District’s wishes. That is what I was elected to do. I cannot control how the website you refer to interprets my vote in the Con-Con.

So, Mr.. Heaney, how are you voting in the privacy of the ballot box? You have been very coy with your position.

Now, I need to get back to work. Please email if you choose but I cannot guarantee a quick response. Rep. Canavan

She'd make a good Liberal! Read the rest:
heaney.org/wp/2006/07/25/my-state-representative-told-me-off/

Thanks Bob for that tip. I found it at his website (http://www.georgejonas.ca/recent_writing.cfm?id=444)

I have to say I agree with most of what Jonas says, it took a lot of courage for him to say it. Was it actually printed in a Can-West paper? In Canada? I have difficulty with the fact that a Canadian was killed, but our Prime Minister was right in questioning why they were there at all.

I can't remember who posted the comparison of U.N. leaders and their corruptability , but that is what it has come to. The U.N. is willfully blind, ignorant, corrupt and corruptable.

The irony is, that as this MEMRI video clip shows (http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1207), these Iranian students/martyrs seem to blame the U.N. for not defending their human rights.

Rob: $800 for the Stones? Hmmmmm......lemmee think......HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Not to worry--someone will buy them from you--sad but true.

George Jonas has the most cogent take on the UN of any Canadian journalist I have ever read.
And I suspect George would be the first foreign born Canadian journalist to object to the "hyphenated' designation attributed to him by Bob at the 3:36 p.m.. time stamp.

http://www.yonitheblogger.com/

"Good For President Bush"

Excerpt:

I have watched over the years a pattern emerge when it comes to Israel fighting back.
The pattern starts when Israel is attacked.

Depending on the severity of the attack Israel may or may not respond in a limited way.
If the attack on Israel is severe enough like the invasion of Israel and the murder of six soldiers and the kidnapping of two others combined with a wide scale rocket barrage on the north of Israel.

Israel responds in the correct way with a large amount of force that goes on for a number of days.

Then in the middle of Israel fighting back there is an incident, such as Qana, at which point in time the world starts to scream about the human toll of the fighting, never mind the world is silent for years about Jewish suffering at the hands of terrorist.

The pressure in the UN starts to boil over and the American administration and it historically has not mattered Democratic or Republican sends an envoy the higher ranked the more the Israeli governments knees start to knock together.

At this point in time in this historical pattern, Israel backs down and the larger scale fight against terror is over and we are back to the daily grind fight against terror.

When Secretary of State Rice and Prime Minister Olmert , met after the incident at Qana and out of that meeting Olmert announced a stoppage of the air campaign for 48 hours.

Who could blame me for writing the post All Is Lost, for it seemed like it was deja vue all over again.

But time has passed and two things that don’t fit the pattern have occurred, President Bush has gone on the record for not pushing for a cease fire. This combined with the Defense Minister Peretz stating that the ground war may be expanded and this statement is being followed up with the inner Security Cabinet meeting now as I write this to discuss the expanding of the ground war.

So the pattern may be broken and America and Israel may just may write the most important chapter in world history in the next few days and weeks.

Posted by Yoni Tidi at 11:29 AM

I think it's safe to say most of us want world peace. An end to this constant fighting, suicide bombing, nuke threatening, and gas gouging would be a huge step for man kind.

But, what do islamofascists want? I sense that that they are now upon martyr hill and it's "do or die" time.

Anti-Israel/Anti-Semitic Bigots In Pictures. Where Is This?

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2006/07/anti-israelanti-semitic-bigots-in.html

Moonbats galore...

Whoo Hoo! I'm bookmarking this one for the next time some lame lefty invokes the poor pathetic Gitmo detainees meme rather than hardened terrorist thugs captured in the field:

The prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay during the war on terror have attacked their military guards hundreds of times, turning broken toilet parts, utensils, radios and even a bloody lizard tail into makeshift weapons, Pentagon reports say.

Incident reports reviewed by The Associated Press indicate Military Police guards are routinely head-butted, spat upon and doused by "cocktails" of feces, urine, vomit and sperm collected in meal cups by the prisoners.

They've been repeatedly grabbed, punched or assaulted by prisoners who reach through the small "bean holes" used to deliver food and blankets through cell doors, the reports say. Serious assaults requiring medical attention, however, are rare, the reports indicate.

breitbart.com/news/2006/07/31/D8J75DVO1.html

kerry above re: meal allowances....

your lucky, my mother in law and her fellow inmates gets a paltry 3.50 a day meal allowance. on top of that the place goes through chef's faster than water through a broken damn. bloddy disgusting but that good old ontario-ario for you.

While Canadians are having a "gay" old time at the outgames, Jihadis are celebrating the 1st world Jihadgames in Baghdad:

www.funkmeisters.net/2006/07/1st-jihadgames.html

Will our justice system ever learn?

Peter Whitmore is a convicted, repeat child sex offender. Why is he a free man? 2 boys in Saskatchewan will likely want to know that in a few years:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/31072006/2/national-police-hunt-western-canada-ontario-pedophile-missing-boys.html

Qana...Staged?

http://www.oldwardogs.us/2006/07/cq_putting_qana.html

Holy Smoke: Nec Tamen Consumebatur, aka, the bush is not for burning. ...-

Official Presbyterian Publisher Issues 9/11 Conspiracy Book

Christianity Today ^ | July 31, 2006 | Jason Bailey
The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were orchestrated by the U.S. government, according to a book to be released later this month by Westminster John Knox Press—a division of the denominational publisher for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1675303/posts

Hmmmm...2 boys missing in Saskatchewan, along with a convicted, serial child sex offender.

Co-incidence?

Why is Peter Whitmore a free man in the first place? How many children does someone have to molest before he finally gets locked up for good?

I am sure the parents of these boys and the boys themselves will be wondering this for years to come.

Nice justice system!

From Yahoo News...(I tried to post the link, but it doesn't work)

I really enjoy maz2's posts even when I'm not sure where he's going--let alone coming from--with them, but as for being "on topic," I don't know...

Isn't this a Readers Tips thread? Isn't anything on RT "on topic"?

'Just asking...

and PS--Thanks, maz2 for your Yoni Tidi post. Most informative and DEFINITELY ON TOPIC.

My parents are scared as hell of going into a nursing home mainly because they do have a means test and the more money you have the more they charge you to be treated like the rest of the cattle in there. Big brother has made it so everyone is eating out of the same pablum bowl unless you are extremely well off. Working your butt off all your middle class life gets you exactly nowhere. The great Canadian social experiment continues.

Re the comments on the treatment of seniors in "old folks' homes": just another indicator of our civilization going down the tubes.

I was thinking, when reading your post texas canuck, why not use their money to build a "grandma/grandpa flat" at your place? It might not work for various reasons, but maybe it's an option.

My daughters have said to my husband and I, "Mom and Dad, when we were young you took care of us. We intend to take care of you when you get too old to care for yourselves."

I realize that a lot depends on their means and what ailments might afflict us by that point (if we do reach a point where we can't care for ourselves). But their intention warms my heart.

It used to be that care of the very young and very elderly were part of "the job description" of adults in our society. The left/lib meaning of "love your neighbour as yourself" has taken on sinister overtones: Give the government your money (taxes) and it'll take care (sic) of your parents on the cheap.

After all, the perks and entitlements of our bureaucrats and politicians have to be covered FIRST.

This is progress?

If ever, EVER, one had any doubts as to the MSM and it's so called "polls" not being in the business of spin, inuendo, slant, making the news, directing Canadian policy, ect, here it is;

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=186df2ba-b1e0-4bc4-88e6-404133f27b7a

Harper at 60% approval(their numbers, so it is probably higher). Ipso's Mr. Wright also "suggerts" the new priority should be the Middle East. Excuse me, why can it not remain; good governance, law and order, fighting crime, lower taxes, and most of all, GOOD GOVERNANCE FOR CANADIANS, BY CANADIANS. It is OUR country, hands off United Nations !!

Talk about yELLING back at the radio. You Never asked ME, Ipso.

Re: the weekend thread

Schools told it's no longer necessary to teach right from wrong

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,591-2292741,00.html

Harper's Disastrous Foreign Policy

At some point, it has to be said, that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper doesn't have a clue what he is doing with regard to foreign policy! Immediately following Israel's attacks on Lebanon, Harper said that he considered this to be a 'measured response'. Within days, eight Canadians in Lebanon were dead as a result of Israel's bombing AND tens of thousands of Canadians abroad were in physical peril because of the conflict.

Historically, Canadia's foreign policy has been pragmatic and sensitive to the complexities of the world we live in. Since the election of the Conservatives, our foreign policy is now determined primarily by Harper's extreme ideology. With typical right wing thinking, he is trying to reduce extremely complex issues down to 'black or white' simplicity. This is the tory way. They do it all the time across this country. Conservatives always seem to have simple solutions to complex problems ... and they are usually wrong!

So in Harper's simplistic world view, Israel is always 'good' and arab states and entities are always 'bad'.

Canada's foreign policy has changed a great deal since Harper was elected. How are you liking it so far??

An Australian newspaper's report on how the fine folks at Hezbollah (or however it's being spelled this week) fight:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,19955774-5007220,00.html

Thanks for the insite, New Kid (BTW: youv'e been contributing around here for a while, you going to change your handle anytime [insert grin here]), although my parents aren't quite ready to be put in the "home" just yet, I was making a reference to a conversation my father and I had about this (and the government's solution).

Renting down here precludes a suite scenario but I'm sure the family will come up with a solution and not leave them on the old folks home doorstep. Having the parents move in with the kids is as foreign today as it was common half a century ago. Kind of sad really but with more and more of these "progressive" types around, the idea of being responsible for your family (in both directions) is becoming a past phase from the dim times.

"Canada's foreign policy has changed a great deal since Harper was elected. How are you liking it so far??"

I'm liking it, especially if it makes moonbats like you whine even louder.

"How are you liking it so far??"

Just fine. Thanks for asking.

"Historically, Canada's foreign policy has been pragmatic and sensitive to the complexities of the world we live in."

Would you care to give us a timeline on how your define "Historically"......and was "nuanced" the word you're looking for?

Some of my descriptons for Canada's foreign policy in recent years would be, "lack of backbone" and "inappropriate neutrality enabling evil".

How do those grab ya?

Leftdog: Check out Larry Zolf's latest on CBC.ca/news. Your (biased!) account seems to be an exact counterpoint to Zolf's (biased!) account. Interesting, n'est pas?

I've always been told that the truth is generally found somewhere in the middle between the extremes. I suspect the same will (generally) hold on the subject of Foreign Affairs, although I definitely support PMSH's stand with Israel...I stand with Israel as well.

Of course, I can't easily overlook the ever-increasing civilian deaths and WISH that they could be avoided, but you can't fight a war against terrorists disguised as and intermingled with civilians without accidentally killing some civilians...and you can't NOT fight the war against terrorists or you will die! Wishing won't get you anywhere but dead.

So, all in all, your biased "opinion" will not likely reverberate here much...being empty and wrong (IMBO).

Leftdog, love it!

"The reputation that Mr. Harper is supposed to be squandering exists mainly in the minds of Canadians like Mr. Axworthy and Mr. Graham. We are not abandoning our role as honest broker in the Middle East because we never were one."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060728.EMIDEAST28/TPStory/

Leftdog: GTA Liberalism that has controlled Canada for the bulk of the last 40 years and intensely for the last 10 or so, absolutely lacks the ability to see anything in black or white - to paraphrase Churchill, they would take a position between the fireman and the fire. Then the media would applaud and call it "nuanced" while the building burned down.

Leftdog, love it!

"The reputation that Mr. Harper is supposed to be squandering exists mainly in the minds of Canadians like Mr. Axworthy and Mr. Graham. We are not abandoning our role as honest broker in the Middle East because we never were one."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060728.EMIDEAST28/TPStory/

oops double post, grr.. spam filter

Hey, texas canuck, nkotb acutally refers to the fact that I'm pretty new at these new-fangled blogospheres. Having come kicking and screaming into the computer age in my forties--'had to, no other choice :-( --I'm pretty amazed at myself that I'm now a blogger.

I guess at some point I might have to think of a change of name, but for now...just call me new kid on the block... :-)

"Prime Minister Stephen Harper doesn't have a clue what he is doing with regard to foreign policy!"

And Martin did? Or Chretien? Martin didn't know the difference between Libya and Lebanon. I'm surprised he could even find Gadhafi's tent.

I look forward to your answering Robert's Q: define "historically"

Yes, leftdog, please define "historically."

PS--I'm liking Prime Minister Stephen Harper's decisiveness vis a vis Canada's foreign policy very much. 'Such a change from the Librano$ wimp-wristed approach.

Just some observations about the tactics of the socialist/left.

i)Presumptions to know the minds (and hearts) of others and arguing against these 'facts'. (All knowing)

ii)Assuming a position of moral superiority and brow beating anyone with a contrary position.(Always right)

iii)Convictions based on 'common knowledge' that are devoid of logic and cause and effect thought processes.(Consensus truth)

iv)Always on the attack. No real answers to problems, just turning on people with original or non-PC views or solutions.(Totalitarianism)

I'm certainly liking PMSH so far. Open, honest, functioning gov., and blowing the moonbats minds all at the same time. The more the lefties howl, the more sleeping Canadians wake up. What's not to like?

Go, Harper, Go! More and faster!

Steve

CNN, now owned by Time-Warner, (founder Ted Turner and Hanoi Jane Fonda) has become a prime agit/prop machine for hezbollah: now serving hardcore death porn.

CNN is aiding and abetting Kofi Annan's War Against Israel. ...-

CNN: Tool of Hizballah

Allahpundit notes this example of hardcore death porn at CNN, as the barrage of anti-Israel propaganda shows no sign of letting up: Eyewitness: Mass burial in Lebanon - Jul 29, 2006.

I’d say this is shockingly over the top, even for CNN, but it really isn’t any more.

All have numbers. Coffin No. 104 has three names on it - Ali, Mohammed and Talib - all children. Nearby, Fatawi Horani is screaming and crying. Her granddaughter Marim, 15, was killed, she says, while trying to flee the fighting.

Three soldiers begin to struggle with a large body bag. Maggots are pouring from the bag - blood is seeping onto the ground. When they get the body into the coffin, the lid arches as doctors hammer nails into it.

Children are beginning to gather. It is images such as these that pass down a hatred of Israel to another generation. ...-
LGF

“In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence—bliss—the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation.”

www.davidlynchfoundation.org/message.html

new kid - good points, but:

Nursing home? I can't afford the luxury of good care, so I'm keeping the Hemlock Society in my cell phone for speed dialing when and if I need it. Here's what you get in fragile old age, and God forbid you are demented on admission to a nursing home, a minimum wage staff that is hardly sympathetic, hack nurses - the better ones wouldn't touch the crap wages, and years at the margins of quasi-neglect.

I trust and love my kids, but reality is the above.

Go, Harper, Go! More and faster!

My sentiments exactly!

Just some observations about the tactics of the socialist/left.
i)Presumptions to know the minds (and hearts) of others and arguing against these 'facts'. (All knowing)
ii)Assuming a position of moral superiority and brow beating anyone with a contrary position.(Always right)
iii)Convictions based on 'common knowledge' that are devoid of logic and cause and effect thought processes.(Consensus truth)
iv)Always on the attack. No real answers to problems, just turning on people with original or non-PC views or solutions.(Totalitarianism)

This is kind of funny if you believe the left has a monoppoly on these things. Just about every post or comment here is about what I supposedly believe or wish for, and most are off the mark. Everybody is taking the position that they are always right, and cherrypicking evidence. The whole blogosphere is about attacking and browbeating opposition, in case you haven't been reading closely. Until people realize that both "sides" are basically full of partisan s**t and make up their minds issue by issue with facts, there will be no enlightenment.

For an historical perspective on the current crisis:

"War: The nuanced Liberal perspective"
www.damianpenny.com/archived/007177.html

Mark
Ottawa

Hey, you'll always be new kid on the block to me ;-)

Penny, not all staff at those nursing homes are bad. I know of one worker who is a dear friend and you are right in one sense, the true care givers don't do it for the money. She also has tales of inept staff but the scary part is the so called loving children who dump the folks there and only do a drive-by once a month or so if even that. In the progressive reality, the definition of family has changed and not for the better.

BTW: forget the Hemlock phone number, just go for a long walk in the park on a winter's eve. Once the shivering stops, it is just like going to sleep. It isn't messy or traumatic for those who find you, and the insurance can't kick about asuicide clause.

Hey, you'll always be new kid on the block to me [grin]

Penny, not all staff at those nursing homes are bad. I know of one worker who is a dear friend and you are right in one sense, the true care givers don't do it for the money. She also has tales of inept staff but the scary part is the so called loving children who dump the folks there and only do a drive-by once a month or so if even that. In the progressive reality, the definition of family has changed and not for the better.

BTW: forget the Hemlock phone number, just go for a long walk in the park on a winter's eve. Once the shivering stops, it is just like going to sleep. It isn't messy or traumatic for those who find you, and the insurance can't kick about a suicide clause.

Dang it Kate, that sp*m filter is really a pain. My last post is in never never land and I didn't even swear or have a link.

.cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2006/07/27/1705970-ap.html

Pull no punches! . . . Israeli motto?

48 hours be dammed! Olmert*s statement to Rice makes it clear to me that Israel has thorough intelligence and plans to take out pre-defined military assets in order to reduce Hezbollah as much as possible.

10 to 14 days seems to be Olmert*s estimate of how long that will take and heaven help any Lebanese woman and children who refuse to leave the area.

Olmert told Rice over the weekend that Israel would need 10 to14 more days to finish its offensive, and Justice Minister Haim Ramon told Army Radio on Monday he did not believe the fighting was over yet.

.tinyurl.com/ovt4l

Israel is desperate to get this done. Should there be a face-off between Israel and an opponent like Iran, Israel realizes they cannot have a well equipped Hezbollah at their back. This is an essential security measure that cannot fail.

The plan is here: .tinyurl.com/r5wwd

Just scroll down past the history for the meat of today*s plan if you are pressed for time. =TG

Texas Canuck; I've lost a few too. They were links to MEMRI.

Belmont Club is open 24/7. Lurkers welcome. ...-

Monday, July 31, 2006
Just Another Word For Nothing More to Lose

Tigerhawk and Walid Jumblatt raise different aspects of the central problem in Lebanon. First Tigerhawk reminds us to two things:

http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/

From comments:

Tony said...

Whew! Wretchard, of all the posts, this one is most startling, like the fog parting to reveal the iceberg. Nothing's changed, the ship and the iceberg are on course, only the passengers now see what is happening. Other than that, nothing changed, history grinds on in its own momentum.

A hundred years from now, history will look back on 9/11 as the day this world war burst from smoke to flames, and at first the fire burned slowly. Nothing more to lose, indeed.

Let’s re-visit the Third Conjecture and hope we can keep it there, though hope has dimmed lately.

Texas; If your comment was regarding New Kids' handle, it's up (so is mine about George Jonas). I agree with you on the kid, was going to mention it too. Quick Chick? as in fast learner?

penny...
you must have been to where my mother in law is incarcerated. you hit it right on. also add short staffed and will not get anyone to make up the difference. we went through that senario a few days ago. after the papamedics were called in and a lot of knashing of teeth from my wife they finally called in additional staff to cover the midnight shift.

should have read paramedics...geez.

Castro who?

The comments are not solicitous, not caring, and not nuanced. There are cuss words, even. Tsk. ...-

Castro hands power to brother during surgery

CNN ^ | 7/31/06 | CNN
Cuban President Fidel Castro is transferring power provisionally to brother Raul while he undergoes an operation, Cuban TV announces. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1675437/posts

gov't run institutions scared the jebus out of me when i was younger...all the lost souls and the perpetual pungent smell of amonia.I once was taken to my grandmother at a facility called Kipling acres in Toronto.It was back in the days when they still washed the diapers,and the stench permeated the place.

What i remember most was how, if you were on the second floor(as she was)and somebody from the first floor made their way there,they were driven away.

This was done by the denizens of the 2nd floor who were being territorial with one of the last places they would ever have control of.It was sad.

I know the facts now and always suspected there was a degree of elder abuse going on there.I remember a certain lady that was "prone to accidents" with a distinctly closed handed bruise mark slapped on her upper arm.I might have been six,but i knew that the staff took care of these"unruly " members physically if they dared step out of line.

Hopefully,Karma will prove to be a real b*tch of a payback for some...

texas and spike, they haven't dragged me kicking and screaming there yet. My observations are of a nurse still caring, but disgusted at the reality that's out there.

spike, as General Mc Arthur observed "old soldiers never die; they just fade away"....thanks for the hypothermia tip. I have no intention as a Republican of going out in the narcissistic political agenda Democrat style. A frigid moonless night, sans a sweater....cripes, I live in Florida now! I'll have to make do with shark attack.

On the lighter side of the news from the Vancouver Sun ...

The report also quotes a poll of 750 B.C. residents commissioned by the RCMP that found 68 per cent of those surveyed were concerned that their family may be a victim of crime.

This is despite the fact only 14 per cent had been burgled in the past two years and only five per cent had been assaulted.

tinyurl.com/zna6k

Commenter NahnCee mentions Harper? Who is Harper? Where he from come?

Here is hoping Prime Minister Harper or someone from his office reads SDA. (LOL).

Stand with Israel and Canada's Prime Minister Harper. ...-

NahnCee said...

Don't you think that Olmert, Dubya and Blair are in hourly phone contact, coordinating it all?

Maybe with Howard, Harper and Koizumi on the black phone beside the red phone. I don't see Putin involved, but maybe India is also in the loop. And I think Bush is obviously working very closely with Abdullah in Saudi Arabia, and maybe Jordan.

BTW, Turkey will NOT be allowed to do anything to the Kurds. If anything, America will be aiding and abetting the Kurds to take over Turkey since it seems to be sliding into Islamism. ...-
belmont club comments

One of my favorite South Park episodes. This site also has all the Family guy season vids as well.

The Smug Attack

An Excellent social parable of the times.

http://pic6.piczo.com/respectmyauthoritah/?g=15881729&cr=6

We should definitely support Israel. The IDF states that they need at least 10 to 14 more days because they simply have not killed enough babies yet! We simply cannot allow these little hizbollah muslimofacist tots to grow up to hurt capitalism!

BYE, BYE H'BOLLAH! ALL OF YOUR CIVILIAN SHIELDS AND CIVILIAN BODY ARMOUR TACTICS ARE ABOUT TO COME TO AN END, BYE, BYE

There will be NO CEASE-FIRE. Ground operations into southern Lebanon are about to begin in earnest. The Israelis will turn over a de-H'bollahed southern Lebanon to UN military forces. In my opinion the Israelis should have done this last week, but it's better late than never.

somebody hand me a club so I can smash the ISLAMOFACIST DIPPER TROLL

the truth hurts doesn't it 'greg'????

You tell me!
"These leanings never completely ceased. Hitler's Mein Kampf currently ranks sixth on the best-seller list among Palestinian Arabs. Luis Al-Haj, translator of the Arabic edition, writes glowingly in the preface about how Hitler's "ideology" and his "theories of nationalism, dictatorship and race… are advancing especially within our Arabic States." When Palestinian police first greeted Arafat in the self-rule areas, they offered the infamous Nazi salute - the right arm raised straight and upward.

The PLO and notably Arafat himself do not make a secret of their source of inspiration. The Grand Mufti el-Husseini is venerated as a hero by the PLO. It should be noted, that the PLO's top figure in east Jerusalem today, Faisal Husseini, is the grandson to the Führer's Mufti. Arafat also considers the Grand Mufti a respected educator and leader, and in 1985 declared it an honor to follow in his footsteps. Little wonder. In 1951, a close relative of the Mufti named Rahman Abdul Rauf el-Qudwa el-Husseini matriculated to the University of Cairo. The student decided to conceal his true identity and enlisted as "Yasser Arafat.""
http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/antiholo/arabnazi.html

Oh what's this? Video of heavily armed terrorists using a UN ambulance for transportation! My, my, what will they think of next?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ONKb9J2YeU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fnodeadyet%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F2006%2F07%2Fterrorists%2Dusing%2Dun%2Dambulance%2Ehtml

oh and what's this that nemo found? Why it's video of people faking a battle in which they claim multiple dead and wounded? How can this be true? I didn't see it on CBC! And those foreign reporters! Surely they're not faking those news reports, why that would be like saying Dan Rather was biased!

http://www.siamlady.com/Movies/Pallywood.wmv

smash smash stomp stomp

Shanghai Constructs Underground Bunker Capable Of Sheltering 200,000 People

(h/t: Drudge Report)

Naveed Haq, now widely portrayed as a Muslim American so angry at Israel that he shot up a Jewish charity in Seattle, had recently converted to Christianity.

seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/279493_convert31.html

Oh greg, sweetie darling! you might want to consider decaf. Or are you practicing your wine pressing again in your bare feet? I really do recommend the decaf.

"He converted to Christianity, but, as with many other endeavors in his life, drifted away from the faith." Guess the rot had already set in.

other greg,

that Pollywood video you posted the link for was extremely revealing. I wonder how quickly that could change worldwide sentiment if it was played on a national channel?

You know we all agreed that the electric vehicle could free us from oil wars. Well at least that is some part of it.

Well, Uh oh, is the shocking problem with the GM EV1 or with GM?

TonyGuitar.blogspot.com

He drove one for six years. = TG

Tiny steps Tony, tiny steps.

I have an electric weed wacker now.

Yeah, but I can*t wait to save $40 in gas every few days. That was funny though.

Battery run tools, video cameras, and lap tops run longer now due to tech advances by one of the Tesla Motors founders.

Their 245hp Roadster takes 3 to 5 hours to recharge and gets to 60 in 4 seconds. Range is about 250 miles. Many EVs out perform gas Vehicles. = TG

Thanks to nemo for pallywood earlier in the thread.

TG: The terrorist's trappings include an electric car-bomb. Muslim Islamist terrorists love electric car-bombs.

Posters, money transfers, a logitech joystick to practice on, the late ZMan's e-mail address; but, then it gets ugly, TG, crawdaddy ugly: Body parts from WTC 9/11, a suicide note from the wife of a victim of 9/11, and more objects from Hell.

Warned ya, TG: crawdaddy ugly, hellish ugly from Muslim Islamist terrorists, TG. ...-

Read more at the link below, dare ya. RSVP, TG. ...-

A Terrorist's Trappings: The Zacarias Moussaoui Trial Exhibits

I could probably spend a lifetime going over the 1000+ exhibits that the Eastern Court just posted from the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui.

The exhibits include everything from the document giving final instructions to the hijackers (aptly prefaced by the acronym BS) to receipts from Circuit City. ...-
http://www.rightsideredux.com/2006/08/terrorists-trappings-zacarias.html
via free republic

Now it is official:

The Socialist Power Corp. Liberal Party of Toronto, aka The Liberal Party of Canada, has declared itself: anti-Jewish, anti-Israel.

Ignatieff does not have the Willy Graham feathers of nuance in his mouth.

Iggy joins Kofi Annan's War Against Israel.

(Reporter Pringle now labels the Muslim Islamist terrorists: "Hezbollah militants". That's better; Pringle is now semi-conscious; not fully asleep.)

Ignatieff Slams Tory Response to Mideast Fighting
Josh Pringle
Tuesday, August 1, 2006

Liberal MP Michael Ignatieff is calling the Conservative Government's response to the Mideast crisis "inadequate."

The Liberal leadership candidate slams Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives in an opinion piece published in Tuesday's Globe and Mail.

Ignatieff also calls for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.

He says if Canada lines up with the Europeans and moderate Arab states in calling for a ceasefire, the tensions in the Middle East could ease....-
cfra.com

Foreign Affairs Committee is meeting right now,and being covered on CPAC...and it is hot, hot, hot!

The Liberals are showing again, what they are willing to do....hijack the meeting, even though CIDA and the Red Cross people were there to update and seek direction, as per the agenda.

There are 4 members of the Liberal Party on this committee and 5 Liberals, (caught and pointed out by the chairman), thrust up their hands on one crucial vote.

The BQ's MP has a *lengthy* motion that is now being discussed...

Effectively this forced the debate to jump from hearing from these witnesses, sending them out of the room, to go on to the political aspect.

The committee will be asked to vote on these very critical, sensitive matters *BEFORE* witnesses were heard from.

Peter Van Loan is embarrasing the CPC, he sounds like a child. He just Godwin'ed himself, the 'tard, and came dangerously close to calling 68% of Canadians terrorist supporters. Not cool.

Francine Lalonde has been on this committee since '89, is considered pro-Israel, and is not on board with the CPC on this one.

Alexa McDonough's speech was on the money. Her POV is informed and she spoke with REAL moral clarity. She looks like Churchill compared to Van Loan.

Gee Bob, you must be watching CPAC through rose coloured glasses. The opposition are definitely trying to hijack the agenda. They voted down hearing from witnesses and then when all witnesses have left they call to hear from the same witnesses. Incredible. Madam What's-her-name informs the chair that she has been there since '99 and that they do it (change their minds) all the time so his ruling is wrong. Your tax dollars at work.

Now the weenies are debating whether they should vote for a ceasefire or a sustainable. Opposition has problems with that. The opposition has decided that they wanted a ceasefire but not a sustainable one.

For all of the opposition's attempt to pass a motion using the terms 'immediate ceasefire' in their meeting today, the EU has already diluted their expecations of the parties to this war.

From the Financial Times: ft.com

"EU waters down Lebanon ceasefire plan
By Daniel Dombey in Brussels

Last updated: August 1 2006 17:20

European Union foreign ministers called on Tuesday for an immediate cessation to hostilitites in Lebanon, watering down demands for an immediate ceasefire at the insistence of Britain.

In a joint statement the 25-nation bloc said: “The Council calls for an immediate end to hostilities to be followed by a sustainable ceasefire.” It also said the EU was ready to contribute troops to an international force in Lebanon.

Ministers had struggled to overcome internal divisions on whether to call for an immediate ceasefire to the conflict on Lebanon.

At the emergency meeting in Brussels, Britain, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic had objected to a earlier draft statement put forward by the Finnish presidency of the EU which said: “The Council called for an immediate ceasefire.”

Britain, by contrast, insisted that a ceasefire has to be “sustainable” and that the UN should move straight away on the dispatch of troops."

Wordsmiths are working all out, though...that is clear;)

Bob, we could not have been watching the same meeting.

Mercifully, the Committee to Waste Tax Dollars by Spending All Day Playing Stupid has ajourned for the day. Maybe we should make the Hezbollah watch these proceedings but then again the Geneva Convention on Torture and Cruelty to Animals would have something to say.

Maz2,

Yes, that sure is a mess of evidence.

It*s great when evidence becomes de-classified so we can all look it over.

You have to wonder what Ex- PM Martin was trying to keep us from seeing when he had a security clamp-down on some 8000 Ottawa public servants for a term of not 7, not 14 but for LIFE term.

Is the US government too open?.. too honest?

Is the EX- Liberal government too tight fisted? .too... of course the Libranos are! = TG

The Nuance Party of Canada/Toronto, aka Librano$, is a complete mess/shambles/collapse. Go, Librano$

Media Release
Vancouver, August 1, 2006 – Vancouver lawyer Mason Loh launched an appeal of the Vancouver-Kingsway Liberal nomination meeting which was held on Saturday, July 29th. The appeal will be heard by the Party’s Permanent Appeal Committee.

Loh stated that: “The nomination for the Liberal Party candidate ought to have been a large contest with many candidates and thousands upon thousands of new Liberal Party members. Instead, the process was manipulated to nominate a party insider … .” His notice of appeal calls upon the Liberal Party to hold a new nomination meeting in the riding.

Loh was joined by former Vancouver-Kingsway Liberal MP Sophia Leung, long-time City Councillor and Liberal activist May Brown, and dozens of his supporters. Loh called the conduct of the meeting “not transparent, fair or even-handed.”

The Vancouver-Kingsway nomination was the first in Canada to be called in anticipation of the next federal election.