"left-wing agenda" - HA!

As for the rest, well, sadly, what's new? Oh, and that "fading farming town" had a total of around 300 in the 70s when a friend moved there, so I'd say a jump of 250 is not so "fading." Also, it's not far from where some new plants/refineries are going up, so expect it to fade to 800-900 or so over the next year or two.

MSM twits

Kate,

You have two links that are the same.

Thanks. Should be fixed.

Stephane says he will stop Stephen.

The battle of the "Steps"... hane VS hen

It will be interesting to see if the hane runs on a Hoax. Leaving the solid ground for the hen.

Who/what did you believe ??

Y2K will crash planes .. OR .. computer programers

Alien's crop circles ... OR ... kids made them

DDT should be banned ... OR .. DDT can battle malaria

Franken Foods kill ..... OR .. GM enhanced is safe

Medical Fortune Teller.. OR .. your Doctor

Media's Martian life ... OR .. Scientists, no beings

1970s Global Cooling ... OR ..Normal Variable Climate

Flat Earth Society ..... OR .. Sailors

Anti Gravity Machine ... OR.. The Law of Gravity

Time Machines .......... OR .. Albert Einstein

Mann's Hockey Stick .... OR .. Geologist's Graph

UN's wx predictions .... OR .. 3 day forcast

The hen is no Chicken Little.

congrates Kate, CTV must read this blog , they have changed the story now.

Ah... again the MSM changes its story following a blog post!

I once criticized a headline falsely labelling Harper as "angry", and hours later the headline was changed, just like that.

We get results! The MSM fears us! Hear us roar!

Hear that, CTV? We are watching you. You won't get away with your deliberate manipulation of the public anymore.

Really... is it necessary to make fools of yourselves? What's the matter with you folks?

If Steffi can stop PMSH from "pursuing a left wing agenda", her election as lib leader will not have been in vain.

Wow, John, what a stinging insult, suggesting that Stephane Dion is a woman. Of all the awful things to say.

Cal2 and CS, are you absolutely certain that nobody else would have noticed that inconspicuous slip in CTV's story?

CBC Radio News had a political "expert" on, to tell us how concerned we should all be over the "rise of the religious right"...

If you're too far to the right for Alberta conservatives then you describing you as "hard right" is a fair enough description.

Actually, being "too-right" for the Alberta PC party isn't too difficult at all; the Alberta PC party has skewed pretty far left under Ralphies watch (mainly spending amazingly large quantities of money for little or no gain on feel good social programs).

If you want to talk about the truly conservative voice in Alberta politics you'd have to go to the Alberta Alliance which is growing in popularity every day.

I never listen to Celine Dion's brother.

Left, right, who cares? Harper is brilliant, honest and gutsy and the others are...hmmmm...self-serving comes to mind.

Somebody somewhere asked whether a dual citizen such as Dion can actually become PM, assuming that would happen in the forseeable future, which I doubt.

Does anybody here know the answer?

I'm just as concerned about the rise of the religious left. After all, leftists hold their views with an evangelical fervour, a certainty of the inherent truth of their beliefs, and a contempt and fury at dissenters (aka heretics).

Whether it's the environment, the exclusive ownership and right-to-define which, will now be fought over by Dion and Layton - or healthcare and gun control, (aka social justice), the beliefs of the left are rigid and unassailable to reason and facts.

The MSM is the priesthood of the left religious movement.

ET, you'd probably enjoy Ann Coulter's "GODLESS, The Church of Liberalism", if you haven't already read it. The book is a bit over the top but certainly corroborates the point you’re making.

Yah, that "hard right" comment really irked me last night when I heard it. Thanks for dealing with it here.

"If you're too far to the right for Alberta conservatives then you describing you as "hard right" is a fair enough description."

Oh, puhleeze. Aside from his brief stint as "deficit slayer", Klein has idled away his time with spending sprees that would make Bob Rae drool. It's no secret to most Albertans that Klein was conservative in name only. He did his best to make himself "look" conservative with his occasional whining about same sex marriage, but that was just for show.

Agreed ET. But lets add one word, the 'Hard Religious Left' and repeat often:

Stephan Dion, of the Hard Religious Left, who fanatically worships the one true God - 'Kyoto' - says he has a devine mandate to force Canadians to pay tribute. Equipped with the devine command, 'convert or die,' Stephan Dion, a fundamentalist of the Hard Religious Left, is threatening the people and economy of Alberta with destruction from above, unless they pay heed to his words and prostrate themselves before Kyoto. Stephan Dion, of the Hard Religious Left, has invited all Canadians to join him in the one true faith, "before it's too late." Conversion is simple, says Dion, of the Hard Religious Left - you simply say out loud, in front of witnesses, that "there is no God but Kyoto, and Stephan Dion is a prophet.' Other prophets cited by Stephan Dion, of the Hard Religious Left, include the prophet Al al Gore and the prophet Jack bin Layton, both fundamentalist preachers of the Hard Religious Left.

Agreed, Irwin Daisy. I find Dion a hard core member of the religious left. What is also disturbing is his focus on himself as the High Priest of this movement.

He doesn't talk about 'team players' or use the pronoun 'we'. Harper does that - he'll refer to 'our government policy', 'our decisions'. He doesn't say 'my government', 'my decision'. But Dion does - his comments are filled with self-references. That's disturbing; that's similar to the extremely narcissistic Chretien.

Another disturbing facet of Dion, is his tendency to preach, which means that his rhetoric is filled with stereotyping, with false definitions. He is now calling the Conservatives 'neo-conservatives'. Good god, does he actually know what the term means? The CPC is the opposite of a neo-conservative! Yet - here he is defining them, using a term that it not only operationally invalid but that has been moved in the popular press into a meaning that is purely derogatory.

A problem, to me, is that Canadians are particularly susceptible to this type of utopian hyperbole. We, as a country, are cocooned within the economic and military largesse of the US. We don't have to move into the hard pragmatic world of competition. We remain, therefore, in a kind of protected, and self-authored fictional world - where we talk about 'our values' of tolerance, goodwill, peace, the environment etc etc, totally ignoring that we are able to self-define ourselves as such, because we are not required to move out front and act in the Real World.

We are a nation of cloud-dwellers, and I don't know if we can, ever, stand with our feet on the ground. We prefer those clouds - and Dion and the Liberals are masters of Newspeak.

The question, however, that must also be asked, is the role of the NDP and Bloc. They are also cloud-dwellers and readily able to live happily in that dream-world since neither will ever be called down to Earth to govern. Meanwhile, they can continue to live on those clouds, funded and fueled and protected by the Ground Dwellers, the peasants working on the ground. The competition between the Three Cloud Dwellers- the Liberals, the NDP and the Bloc, for control of the Ground Dwellers, the people will be fierce. Can the Ground Dwellers, represented by the CPC, survive this onslaught?

"rise of the religious right"...
@ Knight of Good Mr. Iron Man at December 4, 2006 07:59 AM

Very scary indeed. Recently, noted for ... gasp... FORGIVING!
http://tinyurl.com/yg7tu5

Of course there is more than one "religious right".
http://tinyurl.com/ya4dxs

I object to Dion's name-calling. I object to his calling Harper a 'control freak'. I object to his claim that the Conservative agenda is 'neo-conservativism'. Since the CPC agenda has nothing 'neo-conservative' about it, then, Dion is using it as a derogatory name-calling. I object to the reduction of rhetoric in the House to name-calling.

If anyone is a 'control freak' - it's Dion, with his assertion that HE is 'da boss' of the Liberal Party.

I object to his first-day immediate re-introduction of the traditional Liberal attack on America. I object to this constant rhetoric of anti-Americanism. I object to the definition of Canadians as only -anti-American. Can't we be anything other than hostile to our neighbours?

I object to his pompous claim of three basic areas of any governance: social justice, the economy and the environment' as the domain of the Liberals. These are basic areas for any and all political parties. So- how pompous can you get to claim that as 'private property'?

"The MSM is the priesthood of the left religious movement."

I belong to the religious left. The MSM does not present anything anywhere near my point of view. I'd say it was closer to yours :-)

Kyoto will play a major role in the liberal election campaign. Time for us to find out what is in tht accord. Where can one find a copy of it. We need to expose it, we need to let cdns know what it will cost, we need to explain what credits mean and will cost. The anybody but man has already hinted Ft Mc will be hit hard. Will Danny Williams need more money for EI when Ft Mc loses thousands of jobs and all those from NFLD go home. Will he feed all the families being supported by Alberta income for their men. Does anyone know what Kyoto really is other than the altar of the hard religious left, in other words, the golden calf.

...I always thought "hard right" was an emergency command to avoid a land mine or dangerous obstacle coming up fast ahead.

How fitting. Avoid the Liberal and the dirty slough pit hole they created out of this once proud Dominion.

I think, ET, if we are smart on the blogs (and MSM), we'll be able to counter Dion's 'neo-con' name calling. Of course, neo-con is an anti-semetic term - it's origin was in the theory that the Republican party had been taken over by Zionists (read Jews) like Richard Perle, etc.

Hence, we can paint Dion as anti-semetic, and therefore a racist, based on his own calumny. We can easily paint him as part of the old Liberal regime and therefore corrupt. He was a minister and was part of the regime for 10 years. The fact that he can't relate to 80% of the country (English Canada) and particularly the west, goes without saying. His environment message won't hold water either, given his (as minister of the environment) and his party's performance - an increase in smog emissions by 30% during their time in government.

Hatchet job time. But unlike the Liberals, we'll do it with the truth.

Oh, and now Dion, the Hard Left Religious Fundamentalist.

Just wait until he starts speaking in English (if you can call it that) on a national and daily basis.

exile: "I'm part of the religious left..."

It seems the plan is organically growing, they're taking it on as their own mantra.

What I find scary is the fact that Dion is Chretien "boy". JC was like a proud papa when his "boy" got the top job. All of those fishing trips paid off I guess. Nothing has changed in the Lib's, different face same old players in the back room.

From the same CTV article:
He told co-hosts Jane Taber and Craig Oliver that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is pursuing a right-wing agenda -- and he intends to stop him.

it says right wing, not left

I don’t think we fully understand how hard it is for our opponents to operate in their utopian world even with the MSM as their propaganda machine.

Clinton is really the only person in modern history who could combine his charm (I did not find him charming, but obviously a lot people do) with utopian, feel-good policies.

Chrétien lasted 13 years only because Liberals assumed their real saviour Martin was in the wings. As it turned out the Dithering new emperor wore no clothes and the Liberals got no-where.

Back in the USA, the Dems only have 2 key front-runners Hillary (with a high dislike rating even among Democrats) and Barack Hussein Obama (voters will be trying to decide if they know that name, or not). However the Republicans such as McCain, Giuliani and Mitt Romney will do well against the Democrats. So I think the facts will win the White House again in the USA over the utopian mush.

Therefore while we’re ringing our hands on how to beat utopianism supported by the MSM, let’s just see if Dion turns out to be a Clintonesque media star delivering utopian polices or if he’s just another dull bag of hammers. In short, we have a tough time ahead of us but I much prefer our team’s odds to theirs.

Matt, read the comments above yours.

Pay attention to all the attention given dion on his first day in Ottawa as leader of the OPPOSITION, even if he is speaking like a PM. Notice all the defeated MPs standing by him on the stairs. That is your future cabinet if he ever becomes PM and those not in the House will be the heads of crown corp, with the ability to steal your money. His first act will probably be to use the whip to force all his caucus to vote against the motion re SSM. That is not a good sign he will be open and listen to people. Trained seals have returned to Ottawa, and they will have to learn to jump higher. I would say that he will expect his caucus to KHA but people like Scott and Pettigrew would get the wrong idea.

"It's no secret to most Albertans that Klein was conservative in name only. "

So Klein didn't have a conservative bone in his body either? :D

10 years in the Liberal structure, Intergovernmental Minister during Ad-Scam and knew nothing, Environmental Minister and did way, way less than nothing. This guy is Cretin's buddy and the enemy of honest and thinking Canadians. The sooner that he is exposed as "Same-Old, Same-Old Liebral" the better and you can bet the MSM won't be doing it. They've got Morton fish to fry.

Jack Layton just made a big goof, he never congratulated Dion, or thanked Graham, as Harper did. Then he asked about Royalty pymts to Big Oil and Ass, (laughter from all), oops Gas co. His time ran out and Harper responded with, Was he referring to me with his stmt. Notice the seating arrangement has changed for the liberals. All defeated candidates now on front row, so we know who his cabinet will be if ever elected. Iggy actually asked a question, didn't see BS anywhere.

Well after watching Dion's first question period as Liberal leader i feel far better about Harpers chances in the next election.

Dion looked like a peewee playing in the NHL.Harper is head and shoulders a better leader and speaker.

For all those who voted for Ed Stelmack I hope your as deliriously happy as the Liberal Leader Taft who was giddy with Joy. As was Brian Mason the socialist. Gee I wonder why.

Ruthford & Layton where so happy they almost had a sexual experience on air. As well so did EVERY commentator .Liberal or psudo conservative. Lesley Primo was almost in tears of joy. The left is in paradise. This love affair now by the left towards EDDY speaks volumes. You where played like a 5 cent violin.

Lovely going, voting for a do nothing , "nice" Guy who was elected because he's Ukrainian & rural. No platform mind you, but as everyone says, he's a "nice" guy.

You must be as happy as the lefties with this stinker. One good thing will be the end of the Alberta Conservatives once this lemon is exposed in 2 years time. Wait & see.

Even his acceptance speech was as weak as Tiny Tim. He promised to be a "Nice" guy. Oh joy.

As for Harper being on the left. I think Dion has eaten to many frog legs. They have effected his mind to such an extent he has Jell-O for brains.

In the next 2 years one should watch for the many scandals that will arise from this same group of status quo junkies. The WCB is already under investigation. Government departments will follow. Ralph’s team was so inbreed & Eddy being his boy. Nothing will change. he said as much today.

Harper it looks like will be squeezed out. Not only by a media lost in the liberal anal cannel. But the East in general. When they see this weak link, they will ravage this Province.

We will see in two years. Everyone thought Getty a "nice" guy too. A great football hero. He was the great compromise as well. Look where that went.

Now Harper will have no back up. Eddy will be Ottawashed in no time. The elites will use him like toilet paper.

After the libs take power by a French Citizen. Expect more of Canada to be like France & Europe in General with its distain of America. Embrace poverty , because that is now the Canada’s lot.

My last word on this, till the collapse of Torydom in this Province..

Just my opinion.

maryT -- Ezra Levant's book "Fight Kyoto" is still a good source of background information on the suspicious origins of Kyoto. If Dion wants to ride on the coat tails of Kyoto -- the way to defeat him is to expose Kyoto for what it is.