Maybe the Liberals should try thinking with "the big head."

"Forget the hunt for undecided delegates, people here want to get their hands on the sought-after "I'm Liberal" thong underwear."

After the fascinating policy round-table on teenage anal sex, the up and coming moonbat wannabes' started handing out party favours. All they need to do now is turn down the lights and crank up a little Barry White.

Sunday is a day of prayer Kate.

You go to work in the morning and pray nothing goes wrong because the city people that fix machines and sell parts are nowhere to be found on Sunday.

Check out this hatchet peice from the Edmonton Journal. According to it Harpers strengths are his weaknesses as are his weaknesses. If Harper pulled this guys car out of the ditch he's criticeze him for scratching the bumper
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=07c04d37-67a7-4d9c-bc7b-274b13d3abaa&k=16912

C'mon young lady, life's too short to be working all seven.
Snap a cap and relax!
Spend more time on the SDA keyboard.

I don't come close to "working all seven" by any stretch of the imagination. I'm a self-employed artist. That means I work when I can, not when I have to.

Is Dion gay, as suggested on another thread. Is the liberal party now just a hideout for gays. Is that why anal sex was such a topic of discussion. There have been rumors re Bill Graham and teenage boys for years, we know about Scott and Pettigrews driver and him. I think the answers to these questions will have more effect on the ballot question than Are you green. Reports many in Ed voted Dinning because of Mortons view on marriage, and freedom to marry or not marry ss couples. Why is tolerance only one way thinking, their way or the highway.

Agreed with Kate, being a contract trainer, I go by a saying:

"make hay when the sun shines."

Sometimes unfortunately, this means working when everyone else is "off". But then again the benefits of working for yourself and getting the full payment outweights working the off days.

Other times it is great to be able to have time off when everyone else is working. Sure nice to go to the store on a Tuesday instead of Saturday.

;-)

...another benefit of being a contractor, you have to own up to your screw ups.

My saying should have read:

"Make hay WHILE the sun shines".

Sheesh.

tomax7: Making hay while the sun shines is the easy part. Making hay when it is raining is sometimes enough to make me want to go back working for somebody else.

For Peter Warren fans, he's on Mike on Crime right now on Corus Radio.

From bourque, the Leopards roll: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/12/02/2591769-cp.html

HI ALL. I just published this on some US blogs, mixed reviews. ANY comments from fellow Canadians? Off the wall? What?

NOTES FOR TERRORISTS - CANADIAN VIEW
I give you one piece of advice: Do not incite the American people to war. We in Canada know a lot about the US, and how they think, and how they live, much more than the average person in Bam, Iran, or Tyre, Lebanon, knows. You think that you can use hate as a weapon to build an attack against he US, but you know not what you do. The US has over 300 million people, and they are all soldiers. The US built its country by its own hands, and from the beginning, they all accepted that freedom, liberty, and democracy were not negotiable. If by some miracle, an invasion force of Iranians attempted a landing on US soil, every man, woman and child would be there to meet them. They would not relent until it was finished. On United Airlines Flight 93, a random assortment of 40 civilian Americans was suddenly called to arms in a miniature Middle Eastern war. The ex-policewoman air hostess, the environmentalist, the marketing executive, moved against the Islamists as one, and collectively said, "We are not afraid". Americans did not become timorous, or afraid after 9/11, instead they "got busy on yo’ ass". After 9/11, America did not back down, and they will not back down, because the attack incited individual Americans against every Islamist, and every person who supports Islamists, or gives comfort to them. Americans are not the same as the Russians in Afghanistan, or the French in Algeria. To defeat the US, you will have to kill every one of them, and you do not know how to do that.

You clearly do not understand how rich Americans are, how many resources they have at their disposal, how intelligent, perseverant, and creative they are. Their wealth is enormous, with massive amounts of built structure: large houses, soaring office towers, highways, schools, universities, hospitals, and military bases everywhere, spanning a continent. Honestly, if you had even an inkling of what you are up against, you would cease your pointless reverse crusade immediately.

Within the last century, Americans have become extremely interested in war. They think about it, talk about it, plan for, it and rehearse it constantly. They spend huge amounts on their military every year, building installations and weapons, many types of which you have never even heard about. Tens of millions of Americans have served, do serve, and will serve in their military. We Canadians sometimes stand back and look at the Americans bemused, because one seldom even sees any of the Canadian military presence in Canada, whereas the US National Guard units stationed near Buffalo, New York, alone, have sufficient resources at their disposal to kill every Muslim on earth. Of course the Americans are right to prepare for war, because there is always another one coming, and they know that they will probably be the main target. The US even declared a "War on Poverty" in the 1960's, but thankfully they relented before they began bombing the slums.

People who do not understand democracies constantly underestimate them. Hitler and Stalin certainly underestimated democracies. Many of those living in non-democracies think that in the current situation in the US, with huge internal dissent, Democrats shouting misgivings about Iraq, and Republicans pontificating about treachery, and the enemy within, it may seem that the factions will cancel each other out, or with more Democrat influence, the whole tide of war will change. Instead, the US is exposing its power to the world, by thinking out loud, disagreeing publicly, and nit-picking endlessly over details in floods of political television programs. The election is over, and, the war on terror will go on, as all previous US wars have done, irrespective of the party in power. To understand US policy, look carefully at what is not said, because that is where they have reached implicit consensus. Neither side is talking about ending the war on terror -- instead they are bickering about the best way to kill Islamists.

For the Middle East, the scale of this war is enormous, which is clearly evident in the reportage of Al Jazeera, which mainly features events related to the war on terror. In contrast, this war has had no real effect on the US whatsoever. It is completely trivial. The US media talks about the war a lot, but Americans are always very interested in war in general, and there are no interesting sex scandals going on at the moment. If JonBenet Ramsay's murderer were to be found, CNN would focus completely on that, and behave for weeks as if the war on terror did not exist. So far, the war on terror has cost the US roughly 6,000 lives since 9/11, while over that same period, approximately 2,000,000 Americans have died from smoking. In the World War II epoch, spanning 1933-1945, about 70,000,000 people were killed, but only about 500,000 of them were Americans, and the US became stronger because of that war. Islamists hope to obtain nuclear weapons (in fact there really are no other weapons of mass destruction). With some luck, and perseverance, Islamists may be able to detonate a nuclear bomb in Times Square, New York, and kill 1,000,000 people, but that is 0.3% of the US population. The remaining 99.7% of the US population would then do to the Islamists what the US did to Japan. Later, in the years that followed such an event, some Americans would regret having turned several Middle Eastern countries into blowing ash, but there would be a reluctant final consensus that after the Times Square bombing, it had to be done, and they would be right.

In the meantime, the US grows stronger each day. Their economy is doing extremely well, providing levels of health and prosperity that even Ali Baba could not have dreamt about. Coca Cola is finally getting to challenge Pepsi in Afghanistan. As a bonus, the US military gets to interrupt its constant war games to practice and train in a real war in Iraq. These are almost perfect training circumstances, with lots of troop rotations, a very low casualty rate, a real but evanescent enemy, and a kill ratio of much higher than 10 to 1. It is a general's dream, and it's an excellent theatre to test, develop, and refine weapons and tactics, in preparation for Iran, when that battle becomes necessary.

The most powerful method the US has of defeating the Islamists is already in play, and it will ultimately succeed. We Canadians, as the constant neighbours and interlocutors of the Americans, know their secrets. Only 5% of Americans have passports, and their biggest single foreign travel destination is Canada. The Americans’ secret method is that they do not hate very well. They’re terrible at it. They don't teach their children to hate, they constantly forget who their enemies are, and they forgive adversaries, usually before the last bullet has landed. Islamists, and so many people in the Middle East, cling to hate as an addiction, passing it on to their children, cherishing it inside themselves, using it as the centerpiece of their lives. Hate, quite simply, like other addictions, is a waste of time and energy. Americans can't concentrate very long on hate. They lose interest, or forget what the fighting was all about, or follow up their wars with reconstruction plans for their vanquished enemies. From time to time, they get mad at "Krauts", or "Japs", or "Commies", but the next thing you know, the epithets are gone from the language, and things are back to normal, with Americans welcoming their former enemies into their country as immigrants, and marrying them, if possible.

Therefore, my advice to Islamists is to just give up fighting the US and forget about it. Your hate will not even be reciprocated, and you will probably still be welcomed as immigrants during the conflict. In the meantime, remember it's not the Americans’ fault that your son wants to play with X-Box, or your daughter wants to wear Prada. If you don’t like Coca-Cola, don’t buy it. By flaunting your hate, you expose your jealousy, and humiliate yourselves. At the end of the war on terror, those who hate will be no better off than they were, while the US, by not hating, will be ever brighter, as "the shining city on the hill".

The g&m has a story that Dion says an election could come any time soon. There were 127 comments, but not only are comments closed, they have been removed. Wonder what the people were saying, must not have been good. Also, the ssm debate is on Wed. One reason for this is that the PM said there was never a free vote in the HofC, and there should be. But, guess what, Dion is talking about forcing all liberals to vote NO. So much for his talk of freedom etc. He is on Giggles now, and cdns will finally have the opportunity to see how bad his english is. Is that really a guy you want to represent us on the world stage. He is certainly bragging himself up, and giving the Chretains a lot of praise. I think he sent a message to all sitting mps. He said new blood and new ideas are needed. So, who will not run next time. BS and Iggy come to mind, Paul Martin, maybe Scott. Other suggestions.

House Bill 5882 creates the Coercive Abortion Prevention Act. Its purpose is to prohibit the putative father of a pregnant woman's child from coercing or intimidating the woman into terminating her pregnancy. While preventing violence or threats of violence against pregnant women is an admirable goal, the proposal goes way beyond this by interfering with constitutionally protected personal prerogatives.

The proposal actually makes it a crime for a man to "change or attempt to change an existing housing or cohabitation arrangement" with a pregnant significant other, to "file or attempt to file for a divorce" from his pregnant wife or to "withdraw or attempt to withdraw financial support" from a woman whom he has been supporting -- if it is determined that the man is doing these things to try to pressure the woman to terminate her pregnancy.

This violates men's rights. The U.S. Constitution's protected liberty interests safeguard privacy in areas such as contraception, abortion, marriage, procreation, child rearing and sexual conduct between consenting adults.

www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061130/OPINION01/611300306/1008

rebarbarian: "Making hay when it is raining is sometimes enough to make me want to go back working for somebody else."

True, true.

But that's when you weld the combine and fix things around the farm while waiting for the next sunshine...

;-)

If I'm not mistaken, SDA should hit 4,000,000 visits in the next day or so. Thanks, Kate.

So, if my math is anywhere near correct, the Libs are still at least $15 million in the red, while the Conservatives already have a couple of million cash in the bank. No idea about the NDP or the Bloc. But, that still means that the bottom line is a simple one-no election until the Libs can figure out where their next paycheque is coming from. Plus, all of the leadership candidates have a pile of debt that they have to deal with, within the confines of the Elections Act. They won't have time or the resources to deal with an election.

Marcel Masse named to Dion's transition team, it was Masse who was Treasury Board president during Adsscam. The more things change, the more they stay the same. The Lie-beral Party of Canada remains criminally organized. Suprised?

content advisory !!! (grossness courtesy cbc)

things the CBC thinks is funny:

I channel surfing and stumble on an AIr Farce episode, so I stop to see if its a recent one.

yep.

the new guy is in the 'tim hortons' detailing the chewy gummy phlem you hack up coughing.

chortle chortle.

so I proceed to deselect all the cbc channels from my satellite dish channel choices.

blech. they're reduced to toilet humour now; bad sign.

If anyone cares...cbc radio has Rex Murphy on,with chat about Dion's win.Dion himself just finished,interesting caller fr.Fort M.called,asked him about environment plan,and Fort.M.Lots of talk about "sustenabul" development,and carbon-credit buying/trading.Maybe it's in audio vault (cbc)It was a big love-in,all Lib.callers.

The crows are back in Woodstock Ontario!
For the past six or seven years (I have lost track)
a gargantuan flock of crows descendeds in the area of Oxford County in southern Ontario, early in December and stays until late winter or early spring.
The city of Woodstock appears to be the evening roosting spot. st
They come in starting at about four o'clock and an unending stream will follow until dark.
We made the national news here two or three years ago, but that story can now be repeated every fall.
The past three years or so the City paid some scare crow guy ( probably with firworks) thousands of dollars to scare them from the city core because they were fouling the streets and the noise is particularly annoying.
What pisses me off is that I can't feed small birds in my feeder because the crows overwhelm the feeder.
My neighbours have the same issue.
I know this is not a world shattering thing but winter is easier to accept with a few simple pleasure such as watching nuthatches, juncos, cardinals etc. at the feeders.
Years ago when I was a kid in Manitoba we had an eccentric old neighbour who in his poor Enlish used to say "Lord Stone The Crows" .
I think I know now what he was talking about.

Wondering if anyone has checked out "All Garth,All the Time..I love myself" blog? Thot it was a little sad,that being a former Cons.MP,he has the Brokeback Conservatism poster as top post.What a tool!

Who will produce a brokeback poster with dion, scott and graham and pettigrew. Everyone should flood the cbc talkback line asking when they are going to blast dion for his lack of english and geeky looks like they did Preston Manning and his looks and lack of french. They should also ask the question in very broken english with an accent. At least we know he might have 4800 votes from all across canada in the next election. Will all those delegates etc really vote for him, without any consideration to the candidate they are voting for. Talk about AB being sheep. I hope he gets fewer seats than Martins last try. Maybe he is the one to break Kims record. Dion does look a lot like an early Manning. Perhaps we could have a side by side photo. Who will be his make over stylist. Mannings is probably unemployed. Give him a bag of popcorn and a beer.

Taleban Jack Layton/NDP's Taleban is in a

quagmire.
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"Dozens of Taleban" die in battle (Nato forces in southern Afghanistan)
BBC ^ | Sunday, 3 December 2006

Nato forces in southern Afghanistan say they have killed about 70 Taleban fighters following an ambush. Troops fought a four-hour battle after a large-scale insurgent attack near the town of Musa Qala in Helmand Province, the alliance says.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747941/posts

Maurice Strong's mentor said: Kill policemen.

Maoism is responsible for the death of up to 70,000,000 humans.

Mao's death list has added 16 more dead humans.

The natural end result of socialist justice; Death.

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Maoist rebels kill 16 policemen in eastern India

AP ^ | December 2, 2006
NEW DELHI: Suspected Maoist rebels set off a land mine, killing 16 police in eastern India on Saturday, police said. The officers were traveling in a van over a bridge in Jharkhand state when the blast hit their vehicle, killing them, said local police chief M. S. Bhatia. There were no survivors, he said. Police were carrying out searches in the area, Bhatia said. The rebels, who claim to be inspired by Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong, have been fighting for more than two decades in several Indian states, demanding land and jobs for agricultural laborers and the poor. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747948/posts

Maoism, aka communism, aka socialism, in Nepal.
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Peace in Our Time: Munich in the Himalayas
newsblaze.com ^ | Dec 2, 2006 | Thomas A. Marks

You have to hand it to the "Fierce One." A man oversees the greatest crimes Nepal has ever experienced, and now he's being hailed as a peacemaker?

What has to be watched, of course, is what happens now that the paper has been signed. "Talk's cheap," as the saying goes.

This is how it was with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Daniel Ortega was the smiling face, and behind the scenes the behavior of the Sandinista version of "Maoism" alienated tens of thousands by stealing their land and meager belongings in the name of "socialist" solutions. They poured into the resistance movement called the contras.

The left to this day tries to portray the contras as a creature of the CIA. They can't deal with the reality: the Americans couldn't even run fast enough to keep up with the popular upheaval. Literally, say my friends (both American and Nicaraguan) who were involved in the campaign, the American effort simply could not arm all the peasants who showed up demanding the right to fight the regime.

In Nepal, a similar popular upheaval looms. For promises have been made to the Maoist cadres and militia which simply cannot be kept - there aren't enough belongings to steal from those who "have" in order to pass out to those who "have not." The Maoists already have displayed their way of dealing with this reality. Thus the rampant lawlessness which has afflicted the land....-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747946/posts

Currently (Sunday) at the Glib and Pale's web site:

Do you think Stephane Dion and the Liberals can defeat Stephen Harper and the Conservatives in the next federal election?

Yes (52%) 8011 votes
No (48%) 7396 votes
Total votes: 15407

The Age of Fallibility: The Consequences of the War on Terror
by George Soros. Public Affairs, 259 pp., $24.00
John Gray
http://www.georgesoros.com/review-johngrey

**No doubt part of the answer is in the trauma induced by the terrorist attacks, which the administration exploited to stifle criticism of its policies. Yet this can hardly be the whole story. Soros tells us that he *watched events unfold after 9/11 with a bias rooted in my adolescent experience of Nazism and communism.

My conceptual framework was also based on that experience.* He is far from claiming that the United States is becoming a totalitarian regime—it remains *a functioning democracy with an independent judiciary and the rule of law.* He suggests that there are some *similarities in propaganda methods* between totalitarian propaganda and opinion management by the Bush administration, and refers to the work of George Lakoff, whose work in cognitive science has enabled the manipulation of public opinion to be better understood.

But he remains bemused by the success with which the administration has been able to impose its interpretation of reality: *How is that possible? It is almost as if people were clamoring to be deceived.*
============= G. Soros / Gray

I agree with George Soros that these world scale crises as they arise through time are always unique and there is no fixed law or formula for solving them.

Opinion management by the Bush or any administration is not likely to work very well when news is so mixed with entertainment, oddities, and MSM spin.

It is difficult to make the public aware of the well organized threat to democracy, free trade and our way of life, when the threat is so complex and many faceted.

We have an open and free press yet, there are many pressures, like political correctness, that shape, diffuse and confuse the news so a clear understanding of today*s world conditions is hidden from a majority of the public.

A large sector of the public do not have the energy to try to understand today*s news. Another large sector is fully engaged with Playstation3, entertainment television, and chat internet. With such large public sectors so distracted and uninformed, it is no wonder that getting any clear government message to the population is so very difficult to do in these times.

===================== G.S.
The missing element here is the pivotal political role of millennialist religion. The attacks activated apocalyptic beliefs widely current in sections of the American population, which the Bush administration has been able to mobilize in support of its agenda. This was not simply cynical manipulation, for there seems little doubt that Bush shares these beliefs. Millenarian belief systems of the kind found on the Christian right are not explanatory theories that can be overturned by contrary evidence. They are myths, which serve a need for meaning rather than truth. The worldview of the Christian right embodies a view of history that is framed in eschatological concepts, according to which American power can be used to rid the world of evil. In theological terms the belief that human action can eradicate evil is decidedly heterodox. Judged by empirical standards it can only be termed irrational.
=============== G. Soros

Theories are many and some have merit but the simple truth is that Iran mullahs, Amhadinejad, Al Qaeda, Osama and the Taliban and Hizbullah continue to train and organize in order to cripple the Western democracies.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the Shiia and the Sunni are at each others throats but if the Mullahs do manage to get some cooperation there, the threat will be all the more immediate.

Billion$ dollar pipelines are being completed across Pakistan to supply oil directly to China.

Russia suffers rampant crime and members of the Mafia have made their way into government there. Russia continues to operate identity theft and internet crime servers while refusing to cooperate with Western law enforcement, thus condoning the crime.

This simplified partial picture tends to make the timing of Iran*s threatening motions more understandable.

What percentage of the North American / Canadian population has this thumbnail picture, however flawed, in their mind*s eye? Withdraw troops? Send more troops? No brainer. = TG

Immigration lawyers are telling those fleeing the violence of Iraq that the best way to get into Canada is to make it here physically first, even if illegally.

Those who manage to come to Canada -- often using fake passports, smugglers or both -- and then apply after landing have an excellent chance of acceptance.

Meanwhile, the majority, those who apply overseas, often face long waits, inexperienced visa officers and bleaker odds of success.

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061202.wximmig02/BNStory/National/home
"I'm telling clients, 'If you can make it here, that's your best bet,' " says Chantal Desloges, an immigration lawyer who handles many Iraqi cases.
...
"I don't want to hear about how you get here, but if you do, your chances of getting in are virtually 100 per cent," she said.

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061202.wximmig02/BNStory/National/home

andycanuck said: Currently (Sunday) at the Glib and Pale's web site:

Heh, that's my fave re-name for Canada's national birdcage liner.

Vit: If I'm not mistaken, SDA should hit 4,000,000 visits in the next day or so. Thanks, Kate.

Oh oh oh, maybe I'll win that fridge, missed it on the 3 Million mark.

Or do I get a Sask pothole calendar with Kate on a Harley?

Dion: "The plan we had in 2005 that Mr. Harper just burned with greenhouse gases..."

Dion: Citizen of France; citizen of Canada;

Socialist, Maurice Strongist, Kyotoist,

Libranoi$t.

Environmental Fossil Award winner: 6 time-winner.

Chretien's man: Da proof is da pr...proven.

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Canada's new Liberal leader says he'll honor

Canada's Kyoto commitment if elected

TORONTO: The new leader of Canada's Liberal party said Sunday he will honor Canada's commitment to the Kyoto protocol if he unseats Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper in an election widely expected next year.

Stephane Dion reiterated his commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions in his first press conference since winning the leadership of the Liberal party — which ruled Canada for most of the last century.

Dion was environment minister under former Prime Minister Paul Martin and he is a strong supporter of the Kyoto Protocol to cut greenhouse gas emissions — he even has a husky dog named Kyoto. Harper's government has effectively opted out of the global accord, a position that Dion railed against during his campaign. The U.S. has not signed the protocol.

"The plan we had in 2005 that Mr. Harper just burned with greenhouse gases we'll enable us to respect our commitment to Kyoto," Dion said. "Not only will we will honor our commitment but strengthen our economy with more energy capacity, more recycling than waste. We'll have the best plan for energy and climate change that we've ever had." (AP)

A poster on another thread has signed him/herself as Dionista. How long before that name is given to all of Dion's supporters. The new liberal leader, Dionista, the anybody but man. Maybe Rae and Scott shouldn't have shown their butts during the campaign, or were they advertising themselves. I don't think Dion will get away with his poor english skill unless the msm quits slamming Harper for his french. Never again will a politician be bashed for his french skills without someone commenting, What about Dions english, and more people in Canada speak english than french. Glad to read the DND is dropping french as a qualification for enlistment or advancement. That needs to happen in all federal departments so your ability to speak fractured english will not entitle you to a big paying job. Just think of the improvement in running those depts is ability, knowledge of job, etc were prioities. Maybe ADSCAM would never have happened if those in charge could have read and spoke english.

Dion's 'poking Albertans in the eye'

Dion aims at oil patch's 'advantageous tax treatment'
By ALAN FINDLAY, NATIONAL BUREAU
(cnews)
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Chretien: protected petro profits

How Ottawa [Chretien] Sabotaged Our Kyoto Pledge in 2002

Chretien: protected petro profits

Quiet deal with oil industry locked in failure.
By Mitchell Anderson
Published: October 4, 2006

The Environment Commissioner warned last week that the federal government must do "something drastic" to begin to deal meaningfully with climate change. But don't count on anything more than hot air when Harper releases his long awaited "Made in Canada" climate policy sometime this month.

The reason dates back to a deal quietly penned between Ottawa and Canadian oil industry in 2002 that essentially killed any chance Canada had to meet our obligations under Kyoto agreement. ...-
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/10/04/Kyoto/

Stephane Dion,

new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada,

is a citizen of two countries;

France and Canada.

Stephane Dion may be the next Prime Minister of Canada.

What are the implications of this for national unity?

What say you?
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The Hill Times, December 4th, 2006
NEWS STORY
By Simon Doyle

How PM shored up Quebec caucus

Two MPs cried, one minister didn't have to resign

"On the stairs in the House foyer last week, Mr. Harper stopped briefly following the vote on the motion to tell reporters it was a "historic" night. "Canadians across the country said yes to Quebecers and Quebecers said yes to Canada," he said. "In politics, you take risks. That's what we did, but national unity, national reconciliation are more important than any one party or than any one individual." ...-
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2006/december/4/quebeccaucus/&c=1

Sask. bloggers create online interactive community
Monday, December 4, 2006

Karen Brownlee, Saskatchewan News Network; Regina Leader-Post
Published: Monday, December 04, 2006

REGINA -- When Lance Levsen began exploring American blogs, he didn't realize it would lead him back to his small town near Saskatoon.

....

"Blogging has made him a richer person, which surprised Friesen."
(national newswatch)

Re: Same sex marriage debate once again rejoined

France did myriad psychological and sociological studies and decided against. Parliamentarians would be well advised to look at the conclusions which include not insignificant ramifications for future civilization. As population thinning agenda not advisable.

Nov. 22/06 Israel approves SSM. Poll results in Ireland cite 80 percent would approve SSM. Who's working this agenda and why? I refer to this agenda as the "square peg forcing itself into the round hole." Six or seven countries now signed on -- Canada being fourth one -- relegates all natural laws to trash heap. The SSM issue MUST REFLECT MAJORITY DECISION by referendum, not free vote on floor.

Widest view of history proves when natural laws of humanity are subverted to this degree, no economic powerhouses (such as Canada now enjoys) will survive natural disasters of biblical proportions.

Take heed Canada, gov't....last chance to reverse decision. Israel might possibly have jeopardized its entire existence by decision Nov.22. and effectively signed onto "the express bus to another Babylonian exile." Based on the theory that history repeats itself most times.

Letters to our MPs advised here.

The Liberal Mind:

The Psychological Causes of Political Madness

By Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr, MD Monday, December 4, 2006

Dr. Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr.,a forensic psychiatrist, explains the madness of liberalism in his new book The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness. You can read an excerpt below, and read more at his website libertymind.com.

Like all other human beings, the modern liberal reveals his true character, including his madness, in what he values and devalues, in what he articulates with passion. Of special interest, however, are the many values about which the modern liberal mind is not passionate: his agenda does not insist that the individual is the ultimate economic, social and political unit; it does not idealize individual liberty and the structure of law and order essential to it; it does not defend the basic rights of property and contract; it does not aspire to ideals of authentic autonomy and mutuality; it does not preach an ethic of self-reliance and self-determination; it does not praise courage, forbearance or resilience; it does not celebrate the ethics of consent or the blessings of voluntary cooperation. It does not advocate moral rectitude or understand the critical role of morality in human relating. The liberal agenda does not comprehend an identity of competence, appreciate its importance, or analyze the developmental conditions and social institutions that promote its achievement. The liberal agenda does not understand or recognize personal sovereignty or impose strict limits on coercion by the state. It does not celebrate the genuine altruism of private charity. It does not learn history’s lessons on the evils of collectivism.

What the liberal mind is passionate about is a world filled with pity, sorrow, neediness, misfortune, poverty, suspicion, mistrust, anger, exploitation, discrimination, victimization, alienation and injustice. Those who occupy this world are “workers,” “minorities,” “the little guy,” “women,” and the “unemployed.” They are poor, weak, sick, wronged, cheated, oppressed, disenfranchised, exploited and victimized. They bear no responsibility for their problems.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748225/posts

The CP, aka Canadian Press/MSM, trots out the hoary, old, cliched metaphor: "axe". As in axe murderers, those Tories are.

Why are they axing a "safe-tattoo"? CP asks. Don't tattoos cause aids? CP asks.
In prisons. In Canada.

"Love, Mom" is a favourite taddoo. Ask Mom Boucher.

Chop, chop.
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Tories axe tattoo program at federal prisons despite AIDS concerns

OTTAWA (CP) - The Conservative government is axing a safe-tattoo program for federal prisoners despite concerns the move will increase the spread of AIDS and hepatitis C

Intesting Kim Jong...insurance scams support his government.

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Question of loyalty

New Liberal leader Dion deserves citizenship scrutiny

Calgary Sun
Monday, December 4, 2006

By EZRA LEVANT

Stephane Dion is the new leader of the Liberal Party. And he is a citizen of France.

Imagine the shrieks from the media if the Conservatives were to elect a leader who is a dual citizen of the U.S. He would be called a U.S. poodle at best or a spy at worst. Every time he opined on a subject, it would be scrutinized through the lens of Canada-U.S. relations. Everything from military spending to foreign treaties like Kyoto would be looked at through the question: Was the Prime Minister of Canada truly pursuing Canadian interests, or was his loyalty to his other homeland at play?

Even Michael Ignatieff, the second-place finisher in the Liberal contest, never took U.S. citizenship despite 30 years living there. It was chutzpah that Ignatieff, a de facto American, returned to Canada to lead us. But at least he had the sense to remain a Canadian, at least legally.

So what is Dion's excuse? The man wasn't born abroad, as was our other leading dual-citizen, Michaelle Jean. And at least Jean had the taste to renounce her French citizenship (after public outcry) upon acceding to the post of governor general. But Dion was born right here in Canada. Yet he is a dual citizen of France.

When it comes to making decisions about the war on terror, and Canada's role in Afghanistan, will Dion be unduly influenced by France, a country that has taken up the role of lawyer and arms dealer for every terrorist state in the world, even defending Saddam Hussein until the eve of his overthrow? ...-
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