Stellar day on the blog, girl. Go take care of yourself, you would be missed greatly...

STeve Janke is SO out to lunch on the Kenney deal. So this is what Kenney says happened. He is just innocently walking along and a group with middle eastern flags stops him, invites him to address them.

Kenney climbs the podium, says a few words, gives greetings from the PM but HE DOESN'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE! Where I come from, we have a word for that, 'horsepuckey'. Not only is he a hypocrite, he lies.

If there were a shred of evidence in his 'I'm innocent' story, then why does the Prime Minister of Canada have such an utter and complete incompetent as his Parliamentary Secretary.

You guys are stinking the joint out.

Honesty, Jason, is ALWAYS the best policy.

I remember some conversations with Bob Stanfield from my days on the Hill when I was a young Liberal political staffer. He was a very decent man with a great sense of humour.

But Preston Manning is the man who had a real impact on our nation and changed the political landscape. I have to go with Preston.

Loved the dust art. I think I'll start a blog about my desk "art".

leftdog. Could you provide evidence for your claims? Thanks.

From TCS Daily, from a poster called Jonathan Swift, about the state of Lebanon and the UN "solution":

European
United
Nations
Under
Control of
Hezbollah
Soldiers

EUNUCHS!

That just about sums up the whole, sorry mess.

Dust art? Neat!

Re dust art, I've got almost enough on the top of my computer to create some kind of masterpiece.

I hope it doesn't rain a lot in San Marcos, Texas; 'a shame to see those dust paintings dripping down the back fender.

And, Scott Wade, whatever you do, "DON'T TAKE THAT VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!"

She's (Anousheh Ansari) hot.

Letter in today's National Post:

In defence of Pluto ...

National Post
Published: Saturday, August 26, 2006

Re: The Celestial Runt That Reached Too High, Aug. 25.

I was shocked to read that Pluto has been stripped of its planetary status. It particularly shocked me that such a thing was tolerated here in Canada. Our solar system is a multicultural collection of ringed, non-ringed and various-coloured asteroids and the like, which had lived peacefully and inclusively. Yet, in one fell swoop, Pluto has been denied any rights or representation and has been dumped from the neighbourhood. Where is Clayton Ruby or Dudley Laws? Who speaks for the planet? Pluto probably has been denied its planetary charter of rights and freedoms. So where's Jack Layton or a spokesperson from the Ontario Coalition Against Planetary Derision? Why isn't there a sit-in or rally somewhere? Where's Stephen Harper? What terrible behaviour for a prime minister not to be present and accounted for while a planet has its rights and freedoms unceremoniously stripped by a bunch of yellow-card-holding astronomer types. Where's the parliamentary inquiry? Can we get Justice Gomery to help?

I, for one, am on the side of Pluto. I mean, somebody has to stand up for its rights. Maybe I'll make a Supreme Court challenge. Come on, Canada, let's side with Pluto. Maybe we could mount a 1.27 x 1022 kilogram challenge, and enlist Rick Mercer. But alas, it's probably all for naught, and in the end we'll just blame George Bush.

Mark Erwin, Toronto.

80 mpg stopped by EPA

A hydraulic system, using pistons to capture the wasted energy by compressing nitrogen gas stored in a tank, can capture as much as 75% of the wasted energy. When the nitrogen is allowed to expand, it pushes hydraulic fluid that helps the engine turn the rear wheels.

The EPA was close to developing an 80 mpg hydraulic hybrid car, but the Bush Administration killed the program in 2001. Thanks W!

http://blog.wired.com/cars/#1545312

In 2004, the EPA was working on a hybrid SUV with Ford, which quit to license Toyota's technology. However, the WSJ forgot to mention that a hybrid car developed in the 1970s was killed by the EPA.

So hydraulic hybrid technology may give electric hybrids competition, at least for larger vehicles.

It is interesting that we have the DOE funding hybrid development for energy reasons, and the EPA developing its own technology out of concerns for reducing emissions. We really need to streamline resources and have a single program.

From Wired*s Autopia. . . Scroll down 10.
http://blog.wired.com/cars/#1545312

No wonder GM and Ford are *followers* after Toyota and Honda. = TG

Hey, love the Iranian astronaut. I hope she gets lots of exposure in Iran.

As for Pluto, it's sad but necessary - it isn't one of the stellar planets - it's orbit is highly eccentric and out of the plane of the ecliptic, while the regular planets are roughly circular in orbit and roughly in the plane of the ecliptic.

I am amazed how many other Plutons are out there.

TOO THE OORT CLOUD AND BEYOND!!!

..hey, who needs science-fiction.

"Or how I learned to stop worrying about the bomb..."

Hey, did I give you permission to use that? :)

hybrid power is being set up for failure in order to discredit it.

the 'power's (pun intended) that be are doing a good job of it.

more later. much more.

pluto is/was a planet since 1930. it is part of human history. then a bunch of know-it-alls cant allow themselves to grandfather the designation.

I wish 'scientists' could make up their mind on these things.

also:
still no response here from the evolutionists as to the the REAL origin of oil and gas reserves on earth: supposedly dinosaurs were around long enough to die off and decompose in numbers necessary to leave the hydrocarbons behind. also no word on how these deposits became concentrated and 1000s of feet underground....
and no word on howcum neptune's atmosphere contains methane. maybe thats where the dinosaurs went 65,000,000 years ago, ya, neptune. they built spaceships and went there. no, it was aliens, ya aliens rounded them up and took them there. just ask tom cruise.

leftdog, you're a troll and a liar, you should be ignored by all...

leftdog posts:

"So this is what Kenney says happened. He is just innocently walking along and a group with middle eastern flags stops him, invites him to address them. Kenney climbs the podium, says a few words, gives greetings from the PM but HE DOESN'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE!"

Janke posted:

"Kenney said he is well aware that the PMOI is also known as the MEK and is listed as a terrorist group. He then specifically recalled questioning the man who invited him — whose name he said he could not recall — at a meeting in Kenney's office after the parliamentary committee meeting. He asked if the man had any ties to "those radicals in the People's Mojahedin. And he laughed or denied it or something."
"I wanted to be sure there wasn't a connection," said Kenney. "I came away with the impression that there was no connection whatsoever."
He asked another staffer to double check, and the staffer said everything was fine."

What's the opinion of a lying lowlife like leftdog worth?

anon- leftdog is not interested in the truth. I asked him to provide evidence for his assertions and so far, he has not replied.

His assertions reject the facts - that Kenney was approached by someone within a human rights group; this person was asked if he was associated with the particular terrorist group, and denied it. A staffer of Kenney also reported that the group was not affiliated.

This means that there was no action on Kenney's part to knowingly associate himself with a terrorist group. Therefore, to conclude that Kenney 'associated' with a terrorist group is false. The difference rests with the action of 'accidental' versus 'intentional'. Kenney's interaction was accidental. Therefore to accuse him of intentional association is a smear, an ad hominem tactic that openly ignores the truth.

On the other hand, both Wrzesnewskyj and Nash intentionally and knowingly associated themselves with a defined terrorist group. Their association wasn't accidental. They openly supported Hezbollah.

It's like accusing an alcoholic of 'breaking your vow' not to drink by serving him a cup of coffee with cognac, but directly telling him that it's 'just artificial cognac for the taste, it's not real and there's no alcohol in it'. Would you then, ethically, have the right to accuse the alcoholic of intentionally drinking alcohol?

Totally off topic, Kate, and get well soon, but did you catch your hero, Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom's video on Hot Air yesterday?

WC: "As for Pluto, it's sad but necessary - it isn't one of the stellar planets - it's orbit is highly eccentric and out of the plane of the ecliptic, while the regular planets are roughly circular in orbit and roughly in the plane of the ecliptic."

Yeah, so? :) This will all be fine until we encounter a stellar system in which none of the [insert nom de jour here] "planets" have circular, planar orbits, (and we will). The term "planet" really only is a popularism from old science for ordinary folk. Physicists have never/will never, accede to a unified definition of planet in any case. This decision is less of a correction and more of a smug slap at popular science than anything really meaningful. Better to have simply grouped them as spheroid and non-spheroid reflective objects ["planets", perhaps...] and left it at that.

This isn't over. The "Take Back the Night" million mom march for Pluto and other victims of one world governance will be held on Sept 21 in The Hague, Belgium. Details to be posted on BeatifyPluto.blogspot.com soon...

“The EPA was close to developing an 80 mpg hydraulic hybrid car, but the Bush Administration killed the program in 2001.”

That evil genius is at it again. He races around the Middle East raising havoc and on his days off he busies himself ruining the local environment.
I wish I had half the energy of that demon!

As it is I have to content myself by selling odometers (imported from North Korea) to the neighbours, that read double. They are pleased that there gas mileage has increased by a 100% and never notice that the run to Hemp Warehouse now reads twice as far.

The lesson here is that you should never mess in an area of someone else’s expertise. I passed out reefers at the block party and they noticed right off that they were really filled with Arbutus bark.

Those of use whose beliefs fall between the center and the right are coming to grips with the realization that we in the West are in a fight against our own, the so-called progressives, for the survival of our own civilization.

Well, Andrew Coyne's gloves are on, the mouthpiece is in, and he's come out of his corner with an absolutely superb and muscular and unequivocal column in today's National Post. Everyone should read it.

For those who can't get their hands on a National Post, damienpenny.com has posted excerpts.

BATB, San Marcos and indeed most of the hill country around there (by San Antonio) has been in a drought for a while however that can always change with a hurricane coming ashore. By then it will only be a tropical depression or wave by then but those puppies still carry a lot of water. And Bush did not cause thre draught either.

Perhaps the NDP will be downgraded to "dwarf party status" after the next election.

Watch out Jack,Stephen has stolen the space modulator.....NDP....New Dwarf Party....kinda catchy!

Students told `Yale Shmale'

Consider it a weapon of mass attraction.

Lakehead University is poking fun at U.S. President George W. Bush and his Ivy League alma mater in an edgy new guerrilla marketing campaign intended to lure students to its Thunder Bay campus.

Dubbed "Yale Shmale," the $100,000 promotion features an image of Bush — Yale University, Class of 1968 — on posters that will be plastered on construction sites and other outdoor locations across the Greater Toronto Area.

"Graduating from an Ivy League university doesn't necessarily mean you're smart," reads the second of two posters set for release, "Choosing Lakehead does."

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/004510.html#comments

Tarek Fatah's successor writes to the Toronto Star:

As the new president of the Muslim Canadian Congress, I wish to address the concerns of the newly formed Canadian Muslim Union as well as those of the larger Muslim community. I truly hope that my explanations will be received in a spirit of tolerance, good faith and sincerity.

The Muslim Canadian Congress is a progressive Muslim group committed to fighting extremism, gender apartheid and violations of the human rights of marginalized communities. The organization has nothing but the interest of the diverse Muslim communities living in Canada at heart, though we acknowledge that at times the MCC has taken positions that run counter to the aspirations of Muslims who identify themselves as conservative or traditional.

Suffice it to say that a principled stand demands speaking out against one's own near and dear, but in so doing, we believe we are upholding the spirit of the Qur'an as it exhorts Muslims to speak out for justice even if it goes against their interests. We nonetheless remain open to dialogue, as the sentiment here is to engage rather than antagonize our co-religionists.

As for the charge that the MCC has somehow deviated from Islamic principles, I wish to first remind Muslims that our prophet encouraged dissent as a "blessing" in his community. Second, progressive Islam is rooted in the Qur'an and traditions as well, and enjoys the support of several contemporary scholars of Islam.

I also wish to remind readers that members of the MCC see themselves as Canadians first and will defend this country's security and honour with force and integrity. In this regard, our mark of distinction is our clarity in denouncing terror as murder in the name of religion.

As for those who have parted ways with us, we wish them luck in their new endeavours as we are all working toward the same goals. They continue to remain our friends, but we realize that friends must sometimes go their separate ways.

As a goodwill gesture and true to the spirit of Islam, I wish to take the lead in putting a halt to the blame game as I find it counterproductive to our interests both as individuals and members of organizations.

Farzana Hassan-Shahid,

President, Muslim Canadian Congress, Mississauga

Here's a copy of the letter of complaint I wrote to Lakehead University

Dear Sirs/Mesdames:

I am deeply disturbed by your advertisement attempting to entice students to attend Lakehead University by openly denigrating the academic and moral qualifications of Mr. Bush, the President of the USA and denigrating the academic integrity of Yale, one of the major universities in the world.. This is unethical, it is not only beneath the dignity, but it actually denies the intellectual nature of the academic world with its mission of a respect for truth, veracity and integrity. Your campaign rejects all three qualities of a university by its logical fallacies and invalid data.

First, it is a basic empirical and logical fallacy to conclude that Mr. Bush is a 'bad or undesirable person' in view of being 'not smart'. You do not have the right to make this judgment because both your data base and your premises are incomplete and selective, i.e., biased. This is methodologically scientifically unacceptable. How can a university engage in such unscientific tactics?

There are, after all, many who support Mr. Bush's policies and for you, a university, to ignore their data base and their conclusions and openly support only those who disagree with Mr. Bush, is unethical and antithetical to the scientific and truth-seeking role of a university.

Second, it is yet another basic empirical and logical fallacy to set up a correlation between Yale and 'being an undesirable person' or a 'not smart person'. Surely you must know that this is a fallacious correlation. It is a propositional fallacy to claim that IF you go to Yale, THEN you might become a 'bad person', as imagized by Mr. Bush, who is defined as 'not smart'. Your attempt to make this correlation is logically invalid, because there are no provable connections between the two statements (If and Then).

Equally, you cannot assert that IF you go to Lakehead, THEN, you will become a 'good or 'smart' person'. The same logical fallacy applies in your trying to make this connection.

For you, Dr. Gilbert, to claim that this campaign is not disparaging both Mr. Bush and Yale Univresity, is unacceptable and a denial of the truth. Your campaign is openly disparaging both Bush and Yale.

Your data base can't be denied. Your data base shows that you are verbally attacking Yale with the verbiage of 'YaleShmale' which is a recognized form of disparagement. You then make the link that going to Yale does not necessarily mean 'smart' - and your example is Mr. Bush. This is not merely ad hominem - which is unacceptable, but also empirically and scientifically invalid. After all, you ought to know that one example proves nothing and as I noted above, not all people agree with your conclusion against Mr. Bush. Yet - your advertisement ignores both this basic rule of statistics, with its requirement for a strong sample base, and ignores the fact that your data base is unreliable because it is selective.

Then, by extension, you are linking that disparagement of Yale, with Mr. Bush by linking 'Yaleshmale' with Bush. That's ad hominem and irrelevant to the academic standing of both Yale and Lakehead.

Nor is it 'fun' to use logical fallacies and ad hominem. That is the mark of an uneducated and ignorant individual. For an institution of knowledge to blatantly make use of logical fallacies and invalid data - is outrageous. After all, what is education but an attempt to give students the power to reject arguments based on unsound data, invalid logic and unscientific correlations? Yet, your advertisement uses all three!!

You then make use of a third logical fallacy, which is to insert a 'red herring' of diversion, and claim that 'it's all in fun'. No, it isn't. Disparaging a major university, disparaging a major world leader, ignoring facticity and logic, using logical fallacies in your argument - none of this is 'fun' when done by an academic institution.

Your advertising campaign is a disgrace to the world of academics.

More stupid anti-Americanism and Libranonomics, from Sun sports columnist Al Strachan in today's sports section, emphasis mine:

"Dump that money-losing aggregation known as the Toronto Raptors.

For starters, the Leafs could lower their ticket prices by about 10% because they would no longer have to cover the Raptors' annual losses.

Furthermore, the United States is full of self-centred idiots with money. It is a virtual certainty that someone with deep pockets and a lust for media attention would buy the team and move it to his home town."

slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Columnists/Strachan/2006/08/25/1775590-sun.html

I think it is inappropriate for Sun Media to publish that kind of talk. Do Sun Media's American advertisers (such as Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY)) know how much Sun Media appears to hate America? Oh, and someone tell Strachan that the market sets ticket prices, not the cost of production. Ticket prices equal whatever the market will bear, regardless of MLSE's losses in basketball. Sheesh, ya can't even read a hockey column in this country without capital-L Liberal style anti-Americanism and Libranonomics permeating every facet of the matter.

Excellant letter ET, please keep us updated. It appears that the people who run this higher education facility must have skipped numerous classes whilst attaining their own education. Regards Jake

Pluto is a non- conformist.
It was inevitable that he would be ostracized!

I will not forget my upright friend....perpendicular.

I originally put this on the wrong thread, sorry.

This is not reassuring.
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-08-26-iran_x.htm?csp=34

"Iran's hard-line president on Saturday inaugurated a heavy-water production plant, a facility the West fears will be used to develop a nuclear bomb, as Tehran remained defiant ahead of a U.N. deadline that could lead to sanctions.

The U.N. has called on Tehran to stop the separate process of uranium enrichment — which also can be used to create nuclear weapons — by Thursday or face economic and political sanctions...

Though the West's main worry has been enrichment of uranium that could be used in a bomb, it also has called on Iran to stop the construction of a heavy-water reactor near the production plant that Ahmadinejad inaugurated...

The spent fuel from a heavy-water reactor can be reprocessed to extract plutonium for use in a bomb..."

And three years ago Iran was talking about a CANDU connection.
www.wisconsinproject.org/countries/iran/nuke2003.htm

"In a letter dated May 5 [2003], Mr. Aghazadeh informed the IAEA of Iran's intention to build a heavy water power reactor using Canadian CANDU reactor technology. The announcement complemented Iran's numerous statements of its intention to build additional reactors in order to generate about 6,000 megawatts of electricity. Immediately following this announcement, Canadian officials vigorously denied any intention of selling CANDU technology to Iran."

More here.
www.armscontrol.org/act/2003_06/iran_june03.asp

One wonders how many Iranian-origin scientists have been working at AECL or Ontario Power Generation.'

A further point: many say the Iranians should be believed when they say the programme is peaceful; should we then believe their 2003 statements about a CANDU link?

Mark
Ottawa

More stupid anti-Americanism and Libranonomics, from Sun sports columnist Al Strachan in today's sports section

Relax, Bob. While I don't necessarily agree with Strachan's assessment of those people as "idiots", there are dozens of examples of people who are successful in any other field of business but are miserable failures at running a professional sports franchise. (Can you say Charles Wang? And didn't Geroge W. Bush approve the trade of Sammy Sosa? Wait a minute...he wasn't successful in business.) I don't think this was meant as a political statement. Besides, wouldn't you concur with the statement "self-centered idiots with money" if it referred to Geroge Soros or Sean Penn? I thought so.

ET: Would you write the same letter to Lakehead if it directed its "humour" at the alam mater of Bill Clinton or Paul Martin? I see nothing wrong with "Yale Schmale". To me it's like the radio ad campaigns we've had here telling you why business should set up in Vaughn, with some funny jabs taken at Toronto. It's all about marketing and name recognition. Nobody will choose to go to Lakehead just because they put down Bush or Yale, but they might go because the campaign got them to realize that Lakehead exists.

People, there is plenty in the world to be outraged at. Some of it you even get right on this site. But don't waste time on this trivial nonsense.

Mark Collins:

This would be a case of Iranity!! given Dr. Ahmadinejad's previous 'wipe Israel off the map' presciptions for a peaceful planet.

Iranians in Space!! Hey that reminds me of Mel Brook's film satire "History of the World" with the "Jews in Space" skit.

I think that would enrage him more.

Isn't life grand? Shake hands with the devil, he can go back to his 'dwelling place' at trial.

Hey Romeo Dallaire said its the CANADIAN WAY!!

Hardline Anti-American jaymeister says: "Besides, wouldn't you concur with the statement "self-centered idiots with money" if it referred to Geroge Soros or Sean Penn? "

I estimate George Soros' IQ at 180+. The man personally brought down the British pound and other currencies. He may be the most feared capitalist of all time. His charity work appears unparallelled even by Bill "Pour Gas On The Fire" Gates. Not too shabby for a holocaust survivor.

Sean Penn is a knob, so is Charles Wang, so is George Bush. 'Roid Boy Sosa may be a bigger knob than even Bush, if Sports Illustrated's reports of his clubhouse behaviour are correct.

Back on point, I found Strachan's language to be childish, gratuitously hateful, and inappropriate in general. You think it's appropriate. I think you protest too much.

Rocci has a history. ...-

Boy made to wear sign in public as punishment

Family and Children's Services staff were called in after a 12-year-old boy was made to stand on a Brockville sidewalk with a sign around his neck calling him a liar, city police said Friday.

Police responded at 10:31 a.m. Friday after witnesses saw the boy at the corner of Perth and Delhi Streets, across from the Via Rail station, Inspector Adrian Geraghty said.

The boy was wearing a placard that indicated he was a liar, said Geraghty.

The officer at the scene spoke to the boy's mother and father about this apparent act of punishment, he said.

"We facilitated a meeting with the (Family and Children's Services)," added Geraghty. "It's in their hands."

The officer left the scene with the situation under control and the boy and mother on their way to the agency's office, he said.

No charges have been laid in the incident, said the inspector.

Rocci Pagnello, director of services at Family and Children's Services, said Friday he can't comment on individual cases.

Pagnello would not confirm or deny that this incident was being investigated by the agency, but he did say its mandate does include responding to calls about children in need of help. ...-
http://newsfeed.recorder.ca/cgi-bin/LiveIQue.acgi$rec=19170

Boomergeddon.

“If you want the God’s honest truth, baby boomers are the most obnoxious people in the history of the human race”... more»

http://www.artsandlettersdaily.com/

President G. W. Bush is far from stupid. Anyone who thinks otherwise is being silly. After he lost his first election contest, post hoc focus groups said he came across as too intelligent. Remember, he was of New England / Ivy League influence, which as I understand it doesn't play so well in Texas (so intelligent may have been meant sarcastically ;-)

Anyway, Mr. Bush is very good doing what he does, namely: politian, president, commander in chief, et cetera. How history will judge his overall effort is premature to say, but keep in mind the words of Morrie Brickman, who said "I don't know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing or imbeciles who mean it."

And, just in case you're tempted to think you know the difference, remember the words of Bertrand Russell, who said "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

ET - since you are absolutely convinced that Jason Kenney did not knowingly talk and communicate with a group that is on the CSIS and US Dept. of State list of known Terrorist organizations, then the man is so TOTALLY incompetent how does your Prime Minister continue to retain him as his Parliamentary Secretary?

Unfortunately for you, your case for Mr. Kenney's defence does not make your Prime Minster look very good. Kenney should resign. He employed a double standard. He is either a hypcrite or he is incompetent. Which one is it? Harper should not be very happy with his Parliamentary Secretary.

I can't help it. Sask 20, Ham 1, Qtr2. And the Little General doesn't look too happy.

Actually an Iranian and a Jew on the same flight IN SPACE would be the most enraging for Dr. Ahmadinejad and company.

So.... Chretien supports Dion; Dion does not support Hezbots;JC was PM;the Liberal Party is dead; Cherniak is the voice of the LPC, aka Librano$$$$$$$$$

3) Following up on some comments on this blog, I have asked for clarification. I am informed that Stephane Dion does consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization. He was on the committee that made that decision when Jean Chretien was Prime Minister. Consider that matter dead. cherniak

The people at 'Progressive Bloggers' want to take on those who dare to challenge the concept of the status of women- in a poll.

Too bad they didn't make everyone aware of it, but now that we know, we can zip on over, add our voice, and vote:

3w progressivebloggers.ca/

I disagree with your conjectures, LeftDog, and I would comment further, but since it's all been clearly explained above, particularly by ET, and since you've reduced yourself to simply repeating your claims expecting a different result (and you know what that means), I won't. Thanks, Kate, for the bandwidth letting me delineate my position on this matter.

jaymeister. Yes, I would write the same letter if Lakehead referred to Clinton or Martin using the same fallacious tactics. You see, a university's mandate is the promotion of the skills to achieve knowledge. Using unsound data, logical fallacies and unscientific correlations is the antithesis of their mandate.

It's not the same as some batty and ignorant news reporter making these stupid remarks. A university has a duty to knowledge, a duty against bias, a duty of scientific examination, and providng the public with conclusions that are based on invalid data and correlations - is a serious error.

There are several issues. One is the duty of a university to the legitimate exploration of knowledge. Their advertising campaign rejected this duty.
Other issues are the validity of the conclusions about Yale and Mr. Bush.

I reject Lakehead's conclusion about Yale. Their conclusion that it leads/does not lead to stupidity is fallacious. They cannot make this correlation. But if Lakehead insists on its students using the same tactics as they used in their ad - then, a degree from Lakehead would lead to stupidity.

I reject their conclusion about Bush - and Vitruvius has outlined it far better than I could.

I consider their ad offensive and not a trivial issue.

Hans on the other hand, 'an Iranian and a Jew on the same flight IN SPACE would be the most enraging for George Bush and company'

Sask 34, Ham 3 at the half (2 of 3 Hamilton points from Sask punter giving a safety).
Like watching a train wreck.... yeah.

By the way, I see that the Conservative Party of Canada has hired that discredited freelance photographer from Reuters. Seems the Conservative Party website is using him to falsify photos in an attempt to discredit a liberal candidate.

http://thedanreport.blogspot.com/2006/08/strange-conservative-party-website_26.html

Looks like another case of accusing others of doing what you, yourself, are doing. Shame on the Conservative Party of Canada

Remember when everyone on this site went MENTAL over the Reuters photo???? How do you people manage to sleep at night?

Who can you trust?

In the last few days I completely missed this classic photographic analysis of a news story by Zombietime. It describes possible fraud in depicting an ambulance allegedly struck during the Israeli-Lebanon conflict. Michelle Malkin is on target when she says, "If there were Pulitzers for Internet posts, this one would win hands down." (Hat tip: Tim Blair)

"The Israeli missiles had pierced the very centre of the red cross painted on the roof of each vehicle. Did the pious use the cross as their aiming point?" -- Robert Fisk

One poster at Samizdata had some thoughts on the ambulance picture which bear thinking about.

(1) There is no air-to-ground missile small enough that it could strike an unarmored vehicle and not destroy it through shear mass alone. If the missile detonated it would have destroyed the vehicle utterly. If it did not, remains of the missile should be easily visible inside the vehicle. Heat from the missile's rocket should have set the vehicle ablaze. An actual missile did not strike this vehicle.

(2) The supposed entry hole for the missile is normal i.e. at a 90% angle to the roof. The missile would have had to strike straight down. Only armor piercing anti-rockets fly such trajectories. We know that can't be the type of missile used because (a) they're to big and (b) they do not carry a fragmentation warhead.

(3) The large hole in the roof has an obvious flange around it. It is clearly a manufactured hole and not the result of a missile strike. Only the smaller rusted holes could have come from a fragmentation warhead.

(4) The windshield glass bends inward indicating that any blast occurred outside the vehicle. However, the front of the vehicle shows no holes or scratches. Likewise, if a fragmentation warhead detonated within the vehicle we should see a spherical hole pattern with exit holes in the sides and bottom of the vehicle. There should be visible scorching everywhere inside.

(5) The only possible scenario is that a fragmentation round detonated directly above the vehicle and at some height. In that case, there should large numbers of through-and-through holes traveling from the roof, through the seats and out through the bottom. The tires should be flat. The side door should be intact etc. The witness testimony directly contradicts this scenario.

I think someone ripped off the ventilation unit or siren from the top of the ambulance. Then stood on the roof and shot holes in it. Then they went inside and pulled down the other materials.

Read more! posted by wretchard ...-

The Red Cross Ambulance Incident

How the Media Legitimized an Anti-Israel Hoax and Changed the Course of a War

+ Introduction

+ What Supposedly Happened: The Media Accuses Israel of War Crimes

+ The Ambulance With a Hole in Its Roof: Dismantling the Evidence

+ Possible Rebuttals and Explanations of the Apparent Fraud

+ Conclusion: How a Hoax Became News

http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance/

Is this big blast of crap supposed to distract people from the photo fabrication going on at the Conservative Party Website?

Did you just dent Kate's bandwidth with ALL of those words merely to divert people from the fact that the conservatives are doing the exact same kind of crap that you are blathering about with their own photoshop fabrications????

I think I'll send the Conservative Party photo fabricaion evidence to the folks at Zombietime.

leftcur, went to the site you listed, checked out all the telltale links but couldn't see any smoking gun(so to speak). Are you on drugs or just paranoid?

I agree, Texas Canuck. It is clear that the site LeftDog linked to is actually showing two separate original images. It's sad, actually, such overreaching.

leftdog says: "Did you just dent Kate's bandwidth with ALL of those words merely to divert people from the fact that the conservatives are doing the exact same kind of crap that you are blathering about with their own photoshop fabrications????"

Yeah, it's a pretty common tactic around here. I think a caption/photoshop contest might keep this issue in the spotlight, for example:

i4.tinypic.com/25qbpuc.jpg

Eh? Eh?

Cleary we are listening to baby boomers who are just too lazy to get the bifocals out.

Photoshop. Same photo -
Intent - isolate the individual - accentuate the negative - (poli com manual page 9).

Ahhh ... yeah ... Bob ... that really added a lot to the debate ....ahhh .... and Texas Canuk wants to know if 'I'm ' on drugs ..............

Jealous.

Robert J said,
Posted by: RobertJ at August 26, 2006 02:16 PM
**
hybrid power is being set up for failure in order to discredit it.**

And why not? There is no need for two autos in one. It only feeds the repair frequency and costs for same.

Pure electric is here now and trouble free.

Pure Hyrogen is here now and *ditto*.

Hydraulic hybrid is here also and provides a 75% boost to existing 35 - 40 mpg.

So hybrid is passe.

Many who own the Prius and other hybrids pay to get them converted to near full-time electric.

Just saving you money on your next car here.

The $32.G 1996 RAV4EV [discontinued when CA anti-clean air auto lobbied govt], recently sold on EBay for $64.G.

Popular? Guess so.
ht tp /TonyGuitar.blogspot.com

= TG

One of my favourite electric cars is shown at tinyurl.com/gze6l

I went over there expecting the things to be perched on his head ...

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/003876.html

... and his pants down around his ankles and all I got for my efforts was an exercise in downloading... (what kind of moron puts a photo over a meg in size on a website?).

When it finally opened what do I find but damning evidence of cropping and an obvious alteration on the background, perhaps to conceal the identities of others in the photo.

How disappointing.

Of course I was distracted by this new revelation by Leftdog - that the Conservative Party of Canada is a news agency.

*sigh*

Please stop. The stupidity is making my head hurt.

Worse.

time for some comic relief:

do they still have teachers pets in school?

they did in my time.

I never was one though, but this is a tale of how I usurped the position and didn’t even know it at the time.

little bobby westgate. now there was a teacher's pet. such a handsome chap and well behaved. well class, today is bobby's birthday and we're going to have a scavenger hunt for this delicious huge cinnamon lollipop . .

at this point my sharp mind goes into overdrive scanning the classroom for the most logical spot for said prize. well, long story short I figured it out. on top of the PA box. just the right height to hide something flat. unbeknownst to me in my concentration, 'ms steep' had continued on to tell the class that bobby westgate was going to be tipped off as to the hiding place. I was so used to be bored out of my skull I never paid inordinate attention to the proceedings until well into university.

so the time comes we all clear out of the classroom, ms steep parks the lollipop on top of the PA box, we all reenter the room and I make a beeline to my highly suspected area.

so does bobby westgate.

I’m still oblivious to the charade, I’m more convinced than ever I’m right. gee, why is everyone looking at me so funny?

up pipes a very consternated ms steep. 'RobertJ could you move over its hard to tell who is closer you or bobby'

whereupon I refine my position dead centre under the PA box. still oblivious to the fact I have now completely spoiled the day for the teachers pet and the teacher and the whole rest of the class.

I win the prize !!

was it ever delicious. I traipsed around the schoolyard all day working on it.

and l'il ol' me in my benevolence offer one and all a taste of MY delicious lollipop. I came from a poor family and such treats were inordinately rare.

later it was explained to me what the 'plan' was. well, so much for teachers pets eh? too bad we don’t ALL have our birthday on a school day.

Speaking of advertising, and Lakehead's enormous leap into erroneous and fictional denigration of people and places, there's an interesting comparison between the Conservative and Liberal web sites. The comparison reveals a basic difference in perspective between the two parties.

Liberal Slogan: A Party Built for Everyone
A Party Built to Win.

Conservative Slogan: Stand Up for Canada. Accountability Opportunity Security Family Community.

Notice the difference. The Liberal Party has only one focus. Power. It wants to win power. It says nothing about any principles, any policies, any mandate. Just power. It also asserts, as usual, that it is 'unCanadian' to be a non-Liberal. It's a Party for Everyone. If something is for everything, then, operationally it stands for nothing.
Again, note the focus. It's on The Party. And winning power. Period.

The Conservative website doesn't focus on the party. Its focus is Canada. (stand up for Canada). It puts power, the power to stand up, in the hands of the individual. Not the party.
And it lists its principles and policies. Remember, the Liberals don't do that.

An interesting difference in self-description.

The Wis-Dumb of the Unnamed Source: A Fiction By Greg Weston, he of the MSM.

Greg "Unnamed Source" Weston quotes an unnamed source; to wit, "a veteran pol".

The reader is to swallow Greg's wis-dumb because Greg quotes an unnamed source.

Maybe the unnamed source, "veteran pol", was Bill Graham, he of the nuance; or, was it Jack Layton; maybe, the unnamed source, veteran pol, was Brian Mulroney, John Crosbie, Sheila Copps, Ed Broadbent, Alfonso Gagliano, Senator Jim Munson; who is Greg's unnamed source?

Deep Throat, "veteran pol", is Paul Martin, Jr.? Greg Weston is the "veteran pol": in his own mind? ...-

OTTAWA -- A veteran pol who enjoyed a friendly and candid chat with Stephen Harper not long ago came away with an interesting and obviously lasting impression of the prime minister and the Conservative agenda.
"I don't think I have ever met a politician with such a complete and singular focus on one thing," the pol recalled. "Everything -- absolutely everything -- was about winning a majority government in the next election." ...-
cnews

Folly then, folly now

Waterbury Republican-American ^ | August 27, 2006 | Editorial

In its mostly abandoned Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans is building a memorial to Hurricane Katrina victims.
On Aug. 16, more than $100,000 worth of construction equipment was delivered to the site;

by the morning of the 19th, it was stolen from under the noses of National Guardsmen assigned to protect it.

Authorities haven't a clue who stole the machinery or where they took it. $$$$$$$$
free republic

CTV's headline writer is all wet, in over its head with this headline. Howler? Boner? Ignorance? Heavy water is not produced in a "nuclear reactor". ...-

Iran opens nuclear reactor in defiance of UN

CTV.ca - 8 hours ago
Iran opened a plant Saturday that produces heavy water which could be used to develop a nuclear bomb. The ribbon was cut at the new plant just days after a Thursday United Nations deadline requiring Iran to ...

So Greggie Weston quotes from an unnamed source (the refuge of a lazy, entitled journalist) this tidbit about PMSH: "I don't think I have ever met a politician with such a complete and singular focus on one thing...Everything -- absolutely everything -- was about winning a majority government in the next election." ...

Aside from the sleaziness of supposed "veteran pol's" sharing of this delicious piece of intelligence to our intrepid reporter, wouldn't it be surprsing if the Prime Minister wasn't focused on winning a majority?

Stephen Harper may be a politician the Librano$ cannot even begin to understand (after all, he's a man of principle and integrity, who actually works hard every day to serve the Canadian public) but he is a politician.

He and the CPC fought an excellent campaign in the last election, to fall short of a majority. Why would they not, this time around (whenever that is), not want to "finish the job"?

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's desire to win a majority most likely has more to do with the forwarding of the CPC agenda, to benefit all Canadians rather than a gaggle of special interest groups or members of one's own party, which has pretty much been the Liberals' modus operandi, and the acquisition of power for power's sake.

But what would a veteran (I'm suspecting) Lib pol (isn't that an oxymoron--or some other kind of moron?) know about a principled reason for gaining a majority government, or for that matter, what would a cheerleader journalist with his knives out for the CPC know about clean politics?

If this is the hottest news Greg Weston can come up with, maybe he'd better go back to the beach. There's a few weeks of sunshine left...

Borys Hezbollefski gives the al-reuters video *****; Denis Coderre is waiting for the French version before commenting; Willy Graham is impressed by the nuance. ...-

.. and then there's this:

Video: Steve and Olaf( forced conversion to Islam)
reuters ^ | 08/27/06 | reuters

http://today.reuters.co.uk/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=false&storyId=eb16e63077404ca28ffbcacecb56291d0ef0f9b0&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-R4-WatchVideos-2

Excellent post, ET, about the essential difference between the CPC and the Liberals: The CPC is all about what benefits all Canadians, while the Liberls are all about power and power grabs for themselves and their cronies. It's there for all to see, in their slogans alone.

The big task ahead is to try to get Canadians to first recognize the difference and then realize that it is in their better interests to vote ro Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the CPC.

My great concern is whether or not Canadians can overcome a deep-seated death wish that seems to have seeped into our collective sub-conscious in the past 35 years--well, since we elected Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his Desmarais-controlled surrogates.

This is why I pray. And, fortunately, I believe in miracles!

Here is a politician the liberal left/socialists could not/still do not understand:

Oh, how I miss President Reagan

This is one of the many reasons why (short video:

http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13387.8

(There 3 short video clips).

Sister Toldjah.

More:

Reagan statue in Warsaw

Radio Polonia ^ | 25.08.2006
Reagan statue in Warsaw 25.08.2006 A monument to Ronald Reagan is to be erected in Warsaw. But why do Poles want to honour the American ex-president in such a special way? ...- free republic

On the Editorial Page BY SHELBY STEELE
Western guilt blinds us to the nature of Islamic extremism.

Global View BY BRET STEPHENS
The many faces of Belgian fascism.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/

Q for the dubya bushists:

what do you think of the 'lying liars' south of the 49th who RENEGED on the softwood lumber deal, starting in 2002, egad, during DUBYA's regime?

the WTO sided with canada.

the review panels within nafta, appointed by americans, agreed with canada

still they reneged.

what suggestions do you have oh loyal bushist, to canadians greatly negatively affected by the pilfering by the americans of BILLIONS in so called 'levies' imposed after the american lumber lobby's successful campaign?? and of course in full view and cooperation by the BUSHIST white house???

THEY are the 'lying liars'. THEY are the thieves and hypocrites.

I've sent letters to about a dozen embassies via fax warning them that any trade agreements or any other agreements or treaties with the americans cannot be depended on. and I cited their LIES and duplicity with the softwood lumber situation as proof.

ah republicanist extreme rightists? cat got yer tongue??? no scripted answer ready ???

RobertJ, while your at it, lets enumerate the rulings that went against Canadas position.
I heard somewhere that the NAFTA agreement did not include softwood lumber, and if that is indeed the case, there would be no relevence in any ruling a NAFTA panel made

Clinton military advisor: HARMONY documents will "connect the dots" on Hussein and terrorism
Regime of Terror ^ | 8.27.06 | Mark Eichenlaub

Lt. Col. "Buzz" Patterson (audio) interview on Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism, GWOT, Iraq and the role of bloggers

Lt. Col. "Buzz" Patterson, author of 3 books and former military aide to President Clinton, recently made himself available for an extended interview with Regime of Terror.

Patterson called upon his military/intelligence contacts and background as he talked about al-Qaeda's strength during 90's and today, the war in Iraq and wider Global War on Terror, bloggers and Saddam Hussein's support of terrorism.

Patterson predicts that the intelligence paper of the former Iraq regime, currently held in the HARMONY database and elsewhere, will "connect a lot of the dots" on Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism.

Lt. Col. Patterson also discusses al-Qaeda #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri's trip to Baghdad in 1998 (in which he received $300,000, possibly from Saddam Hussein himself), Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's medical trip to Baghdad in 2002 and the terrorist training that took place in the Salman Pak camp.

His new book, "War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror ", ...

Interview is also available for download here.

(Excerpt) Read more at: regimeofterror.com

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691017/posts

Greg Weston is one of the cabal of MSM twits with their knickers in knots because they've lost access to all the latest poop in government circles. They are missing the palsy relationship they were accustomed with the Libs so they have to use their imagination to keep gainful employment. Expect all sorts of wacky stuff. Harper has a little too much brain for them, they just don't grasp it's not him they're tearing down, it's themselves. Our media can't be relied on and that's a disgrace in a democracy.

Der Media im Deutschland;

The Geist of Herr Doktor Goebells lives. ...-

Medienkritik-Facts forbidden in German media

"Facts that put the casualty rates into perspective will never make it into a German media that clearly engaged in massive self-censorship shortly before the Iraq conflict began. Several German journalists working in the United States, including some highly prominent media figures, admitted to me in interviews (conducted with the understanding that specific content such as direct quotes and identities would only be used in a graduate level thesis paper on media) that, in the run-up to the Iraq war, they were ordered (or at least strongly pressured) by editors and owners not to run stories explaining the Bush administration's position for going to war. The owners and editors were so afraid of losing and upsetting readers that they essentially decided to eliminate an entire field of information critical to understanding why the United States acted as it did in Iraq. We aren't going to name any names because we promised to keep identities private, but we simply can't keep this massive media fraud quiet any longer.

Anyone who really wants to investigate this will find that what we are saying is true and anyone who believes Germany has a free press ought to take a closer look."
http://medienkritik.typepad.com/blog/2006/08/iraq_facts_forb.html
via newsbeat1.com

Well most germans don't take BILD zeitung as an authoritative news source. Kind of like the National Enquirer looking for alien invasions from Mars. Fluff and stuff journalism, limp wrists of the nation.

The pen is only mightier than the sword when your forget your conscience

Here's some interesting defence news, Iran test fired a submarine-to-surface missile:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060827/D8JOQED80.html

Who killed the newspaper?

Too many slanted stories, too many fluff and voyeuristic pieces, too much sympathizing with an enemy that wants to wreak havoc on the West-too bad they didn't do some navel gazing long ago when we thought more highly of them and their investigative pieces but alas they have degenerated and they still don't realize their problems.Now they act merely as filters but the public is way beyond that and no longer holds them as the ultimate trusted source. ...-
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13388.7

Spencerville egg farmer close to deal to restore licence

Joel Kom, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Monday, August 28, 2006

A Spencerville egg farmer who was the target of a tense raid in March said yesterday he's close to a deal that would see the Canadian Food Inspection Agency restore his grading licence in return for his dropping legal action against them.

The deal, which could come officially as soon as tomorrow, could be quickly followed by another similar agreement with the Egg Farmers of Ontario, Shawn Carmichael said. That settlement, Mr. Carmichael said, could mean his egg operation would be up and running again, though under what conditions that would happen remains to be seen.

Reached at his farm yesterday, Mr. Carmichael said a deal with the CFIA was "close." ...-
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13388.9

"Unlawful Possession Of Laying Hens"

Brockville Recorder & Times; A 10-hour standoff between federal food inspectors and a local egg farmer backed by 40 landowners ended Thursday evening when thousands of confiscated eggs and chickens - many dead or dying after going hours without ventilation...

Posted in small dead animals on March 27, 2006 12:30 AM

Spencerville egg farmer close to deal to restore licence

Joel Kom, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Monday, August 28, 2006

A Spencerville egg farmer who was the target of a tense raid in March said yesterday he's close to a deal that would see the Canadian Food Inspection Agency restore his grading licence in return for his dropping legal action against them.

The deal, which could come officially as soon as tomorrow, could be quickly followed by another similar agreement with the Egg Farmers of Ontario, Shawn Carmichael said. That settlement, Mr. Carmichael said, could mean his egg operation would be up and running again, though under what conditions that would happen remains to be seen.

Reached at his farm yesterday, Mr. Carmichael said a deal with the CFIA was "close." ...-
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13388.9

"Unlawful Possession Of Laying Hens"

Brockville Recorder & Times; A 10-hour standoff between federal food inspectors and a local egg farmer backed by 40 landowners ended Thursday evening when thousands of confiscated eggs and chickens - many dead or dying after going hours without ventilation...

Posted in small dead animals on March 27, 2006 12:30 AM

One can gaze skyward at night and realize that while nothing has been added or removed, we humans can amuse ourselves with news flashes of plantets promoted and demoted.

Pluto remains unchanged and logic suggests that text books that mention Pluto should also remain unchanged. = TG