Thankfully, the MSM can't be everywhere or Ethiopia would have the same level of coverage, in which it's okay to go to war, as long as there are no casualties.

I read on Canoe this morning the Tamil Tigers are taking a major pasting from the Sri Lankan air force. Maybe Allah is not pleased with the jihad and they're going to have to rethink their strategy. Maybe the Imams should replace the child suicide bombers, nothing like practicing what you preach.

Steyn may have a very good idea in hiring 3rd world countries to do the dirty work. It ties the hands of the MSM, ethnics vs ethnics, no "moral high ground" for the media to preach from.

Maybe some day, just maybe, the day will come when people realize the Yankees really aren't that bad, especially when compared to all the rest.

Key Word: Catastrophe: A glacier calves an iceberg. No humans involved; no loss of life of polar bears reported. Ice worms disturbed. Why is this natural event a catastrophe?

Canada's Ayles Ice Shelf Will Soon Disappear from the Map
Playfuls.com - 17 hours ago
by Dan Nicolae Alexa. A huge portion of ice broke off from Canada’s Ellesmere Island last year, but it was not until this year that scientists, using satellite photos, realized the full dimension of the catastrophe. ...-

Key Word: Not a Catastrophe? A natural event. Humans involved.

NOW . Science & Health. Losing Ground - New Orleans and the Delta ...
One of America's most vibrant and productive ecological regions is slipping into the Gulf of Mexico at an alarming rate. Every year, a chunk of land nearly ...
www.pbs.org/now/science/neworleans.html

FCC approves AT&T-BellSouth merger
After months of partisan deadlock, the US Federal Communications Commission approves the merger valued at roughly $86 billion.
======== CNETnews.com

This is pure folly. When 86 Billion$ of communications power is allowed to concentrate into the hands of a *Bull of the Woods* force like Rogers. Problems lie ahead.

Provincial government help was required for me to get fair treatment from Rogers. Keep this merger in mind when you struggle with the stubbornness of Rogers. = TG

Headline games.

Monthly U.S. toll in Iraq at 2-year high
By Solomon Moore, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 30, 2006

[These two paragraphs from the story were buried about 6 paragraphs down.]

The Marine deaths reported Friday brought the number of U.S. military fatalities in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion to 2,996, icasualties.org said, with 816 of them occurring this year. Last year, 846 American service members died; in 2004, the figure was 848.

The number of U.S. wounded is also down this year — 5,676 compared with 5,947 in 2005 and 8,001 in 2004. It is also worth noting that about 75 per cent of the wounded in Iraq have been returned to duty within 24 hours.

So Why the headline???

Headline says uptick . Story line shows downward trend.
Noticed by RL Goodson === TG

Here's hoping that 2007 advances with more public trouncings of the slop and duplicity of the MSM, more exposure of the left as the intellectually bankrupted Useful Idiots that they are, and more public exposure and political defeat of our dumber elected officials.

We will not win the WOT until these obstacles are beaten back.

Canadian passports found on 2 islamist insurgents.
www.BillRoggio.com

I'm in agreement with Penny and her 11:55AM remarks.

The MSM was referred to by another name, the Enemedia, in another post. I think I like that term "Enemedia" more than "MSM", as it's more truthfully descriptive than the neutral "MSM".

The Western International Disease of Neo-Liberalism, hydra-headed with politicians and media types is, to my thinking, far more insidious in the WOT than the Islamofascists.

The Islamofascists are essentially gangs of well-armed punks, amenable to defeat via a spectrum of internationally co-ordinated, systematically applied measures.

The acolytes of Neo-Liberalism on the other hand proffer a seductive, seditious nihilist rot to Western Civilization.

TG:

The "monthly" death toll of 113 in December was the highest since December 2004: http://icasualties.org/oif/US_Chart.aspx

Which still makes the headline misleading because the month before it was only 69, making November 2006 the 19th worst month of the neverending "six days, six weeks. I doubt six months" war.

But the annual death toll has been basically the same in each of the last 3 years, up or down just a bit: http://icasualties.org/oif/DeathsByYear.aspx

Ted

Remember the "Environmental advisor" Mr. Amery who was let go by the Harper government last week. The guy appointed by Paul Martin at $200,000 smackers per year to "advise" Stephane Dion" on how to spend billions of our tax dollars on buying pollution credits from third world countries?
Why was he "let go"?
Well, it seems that Monsiour Dion relied heavily on this man who, while being paid by the taxpayers of Canada, participated in writing Dion's Environment platform for the Liberal Leadership contest.
nd, gosh, wouldn't you know it, he dutifully wrote himself and his own phantom job into this so called Dion environment green plan - big on international carbon trading, the worldwide Ponzi scam of the century.
No vested interest there whatsoever huh. No Dion promises on YOUR tax dollar - Liberal style of course.
Apparently this guy is not allowed to disclose any information about his release as part of his hefty settlement agreement.
Does that mean if he speaks out he does not get the money.?? Let's hope some industrious journalist (the real kind not the Liberal elite opinionistas gossip mongers of the press gallery) digs a little; compares Dion's platform with this guy's job description and tries to get him to talk.
Would be interesting to find out how many other so called public servants wrote themselves into Liberal leadership platforms. I wonder who wrote Iggy's.

TG:

The headline is technically accurate: with 113 US fatalities, December 2006 was the worst month of the Iraq War since December 2004. (http://icasualties.org/oif/US_Chart.aspx)

However, the headline was still misleading: the prior month only had 69 fatalities, making November 2006 the eighteenth worst month of the neverending "six days, six weeks. I doubt six months" Iraq War. The worst months were 135 and 137 in May 2004 and December 2004, respectively.

The number of coalition forces deaths has been basically even in each of the last three years with an average of 891 and no year more than 2% off the average. (http://icasualties.org/oif/DeathsByYear.aspx)

Ted

''guaranteeing health care,'' ''leading the fight against global warming,'' ''strengthening our middle class and ending the shame of poverty,''

What John Edwards will be campainging on. Or is it French Citizen Dion's platform?

Meanwhile real world problems are ignored.

Things like Islamic fascism: Shouldn't potential leaders have more knowledge than the general public on the greatest global threat since Hitler? How about the Somali (amongst who knows how many others) Islamofascists caught with Canadian passports? Shouldn't we relook at our immigration policies and antiquated concepts like multiculturalism and dual citizenship - at the very least to protect the lives of our own citizens and our shared wealth? How about revoking the Canadian citizenship of these Somali fascists on the spot?

How about shifting the climate change argument from the cause
to the socialist solution? Kyoto must be explained and scrutinized before the public, prior to the next election. Then once that hoax has been exposed and rejected, we can create real solutions.

And then there's poverty. Shouldn't Edwards and other Liberals realize that without an intelligent immigration policy and border control, we are adding to the welfare/poverty problem? Fighting poverty, while blindly ignoring legal or illegal immigration is a losing battle. As well, the problem/solution is foisted on the middle class (as it always is) through additional taxes. "Strengthening our middle class and ending the shame of poverty" is an oxymoron.

We have real problems that we must demand leaders (even potential leaders) to recognize. However, it can only be expected that Liberals will continue to campaign on platitudes.

hmm. that interesting about the mississippi delta.

or perhaps that should read missingssippi delta.

I never could quite figure out the levee system,seems to me setting one up to keep the flood away just made it more likely a hundred miles further downstream, til the thing was built the entire length. I would have had all the dirt piles in one place and the towns and house built on it, and isolated farmhouse owners could do the same if they chose.

cost of one pile of very handy DIRT vs cost of 'rebuild rebuild rebuild'.

why not put some of the katrina recovery money into that? THEN its a win - win situation. the naturally flooding takes place, BUT the structures are not destroyed by the water.

Sorry for the double post. Message got caught in the filter.

dmorris: The majority of Tamil Tigers are Hindu, so, by definition, are not engaged in jihad; in fact I believe that, at one time anyway, the Muslim Tamils more closely allied themselves with the Sinhalese than they did/do with the Hindu Tamils.

"Wind Power Faces Gathering Storm", Globe And Mail.

Time for a few Time-Stamp posts from Blogs, I would say.

I always wondered why Manitoba Hydro did NOT seem to be putting their own money into so-called 'wind farms'. I guess MH knew from the begining that wind-power was a hoax. MH did not oppose this scam, perpetuated by the media of course, they just let others put up the money.

For all you out-to-lunch "investors" out there wondering what to do, Suzuki would be a good start.

Wind Power Time Stamp; sda Sept 23/04, Green Power Blowing in the Wind.

Posted by Joe, (way back then).

I hope that they realize that for ever kW of wind power capaicty that they build, they will still need some spot generation to cover it when the winds aren't blowing - it is likely to be heavy oil/diesel or natural gas.

Either that or they need to enstate a law requiring people to run home and do their laundry when the winds pick up...

Posted by: Joe at September 29, 2004 02:12 PM

I dunno, Dave - "Enemedia" sounds like something that'd have a bag and a hose, if you follow me.

But hell, maybe that's appropriate.

Iraqi Document: Boutrous Ghali Ex-UN Chief To

Benefit from Oil for Food Program (Translation)
Pentagon/FMSO website for Iraq Pre-war documents

Document CMPC-2004-003015 (pages 90-91-92) contain a letter dated May 1993 from Hussein Kamel Hassan the former head of the Iraqi Military Industrial Committee to Saddam Hussein regarding lifting the oil export embargo on Iraq. Kamel Hassan mentioned the name of “Samir Vincent” and Iraqi ex-pat living in the US and who according to the letter has good relation with the Iraqi regime for a long time and that Samir Vincent is helping the Iraqis to have the oil export embargo lifted through his contacts with the US State Department and the U.N. Also in the letter was mentioned the name of “Boutrous Boutrous Ghali” the United Nations secretary general back then and according to the same letter Ghali “expressed his initial welcoming of the oil export embargo lift in addition to the expected financial profit for him personally”.

Samir Vincent pleaded guilty in 2005 for lobbying on behalf of the Iraqi government and make illegal deals to help lift the oil export embargo on Iraq and what is known now as the “Oil for Food Scandal”. Boutorus Boutrous Ghali was not found yet to be involved in the Oil for Food scandal.

PS: Hussein Kamel Hassan who is more known as Hussein Kamel was the son in law of Saddam Hussein and he fled to Jordan in 1995, but later on Saddam tricked him to come back to Iraq telling him that he is pardoned, once he got into Iraq Saddam ordered him killed, and he was killed.

Partial translation of document CMPC-2004-003015

In the name of God the Most Merciful...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1761387/posts

Kagame's Indictment - is France Hunting the Genocide Victims?

A French judge recently called for the prosecution of Rwandan President, Paul Kagame. The judge also issued arrest warrants for nine of Kagame's "closest colleagues." According to the indictment, the Rwandan president and his colleagues should stand trial for their complicity in the murder of former Rwandan President, Juvenal Habyarimana. Assuming the French judge has solid evidence for his indictment, is he really seeking justice? Whose justice?.... Let us assume that the French judge's claims that Kagame ordered the shooting of Habyarimana's plane are true. Would the French have indicted Winston Churchill if one of the British bombing raids had smoked Hitler out of his bunker? Well the Vichy government would have! ...-

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1761386/posts

afrol News - France "should be charged" for Rwanda genocide ...-

Citoyen Dion, Canadian Liberal Party leader, who is a citizen of France, remains silent/mute about the charges of human genocide against his country, France. RSVP, Dion.

Then there's the war against coal.

Rather than closing our coal plants, if Canada spent a fraction of the cost of creating alternative energy from scratch and instead retrofitted existing plants with clean coal technology, we'd all be better off.

Clean coal reduces pollution emissions to 96.4% (compared to natural gas at 97%). It pretty much eliminates particulate matter and mercury at the same time. In fact, on top of already burning clean coal, Denmark is in the process of building a plant that also reduces C02 to zero. They also burn wood, hay and garbage pellets along with coal.

We have a 250 year supply of coal. And it's always proven reliable, unlike acres of ridiculous wind mills. (See what happened to Germany's multi-billion dollar investment in acres and acres of wind farms)

But, the envirofascists have it in for coal. And of course, common sense. All at our expense.

Read the T.O. star this morning.

Lovely piece in there about how the warm weather is not due to global warming, and this is the head of environment canada talking.

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/167048

National Post reporters are apparently too lazy to bring up the parliamentary website to make sure it has cabinet ministers' names spelt (and identified!) correctly.

Treasury Board President James Baird?

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=aa5bf8ed-96c3-450a-99b6-449b0c17578c&p=2 (it's on the second page, along with a mysterious hyphen in the middle of "MacKay").

We need to start calling bias and stupid mistakes wherever and whenever we see them. It doesn't matter whether a newspaper was founded by a conservative or not.

A sovereign Palestine? No chance

Paul Sheehan puts away prejudices and preconceptions to consider the viability of a Palestinian state.

For the sake of reality, let's put aside whatever views and prejudices you may hold on the Palestinian question. Put aside any animosity about grasping Jews or murderous Arabs. Put aside the Holocaust, and Muslim anti-Semitism. Put aside hopes and judgements. Simply look at what has happened on the ground. Stripped of all emotion and prejudice, right and wrong, one reality becomes clear: there is no chance of a sovereign, autonomous Palestinian state. Not within our lifetimes. No chance. None.

Not only won't there be a sovereign Palestinian state, there can't be.

It's no longer viable. At every historic juncture since Israel was created in 1948, rhetoric has taken precedence over pragmatism in the Arab world. As a result, every one of these historic junctions has resulted, without exception, in material defeat for the Palestinians....-
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/a-sovereign-palestine-no-chance/2006/12/31/1167500013390.html?page=fullpage

Fact-Checking the NY Times, Update 1

Since there was nothing in their Corrections section about it today, I’ve emailed the New York Times requesting a correction for their false reporting about LGF in this article: Hard Choices Over Video of Execution. Specifically, this section:

No national American television organization has thus far allowed the moment of the drop to be shown.

But the same niceties were not observed on numerous Web sites, which have posted the complete video, including the moment that Mr. Hussein, noose around his neck, falls, and a close-up of his face afterward. Some prominent sites, like Google’s video site and the conservative blog Littlegreenfootballs.com, have posted the complete cellphone coverage of the execution, including the moment Mr. Hussein falls from view.

UPDATE at 1/2/07 3:49:56 pm:

The New York Times’ false report has now been repeated by the San Francisco Chronicle: ...-
LGF

Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down, in his WSJ article today, isn't very sanguine on the prospect of a unified democratic Iraq:

"People in these countries . . . don't want peace. They want victory. They want power. Men, women, old, and young. Somalia was the experience that taught us that people in these places bear much of the responsibility for things being the way they are. The hatred and killing continues because they want it to. Or because they don't want peace enough to stop it."

www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009466

Deal reached, Bedard lawyer says | January 2nd, 2007

MONTREAL – Canadian and U.S. officials have reached an agreement to return former Olympian Myriam Bedard to Canada to face a charge of parental child abduction, her U.S. lawyer says.

But Kevin McCants said he will renew efforts to have the two-time Olympic gold medallist freed from a Maryland jail if Canadian police don’t move swiftly to take her home.

“She’s ready to come out, ready to get this matter resolved in Canada,” McCants said in an interview today.

McCants said he wanted Canadian police to come to Maryland today to return Bedard to Quebec, where she faces the charge involving her 12-year-old daughter.

[…]

Note: I can hardly wait to hear what she has to say just as soon as she’s free to talk.

“Ya hear the ‘thumpa, thumpa, thumpa’ of pounding hooves much like the sound a million bison used to make as they thundered across the western plains in a wild stampede. Well, that noise ain’t bison. That be the sound of Liberal hooves pounding the dirt as they head for the hills. A ‘buffalo wolf’ is about to be uncaged. A very unhappy and hungry ‘buffalo wolf’ of the female variety.”

It will be interesting to see who can run the fastest....-
jack's newswatch

Mistah Stlong: One Chely, two Chely, ... ten billion Chely? Buzz Hargrove, where are you...caw...caw?

The Evil Mistah Stlong, Rae Bob's Uncle Mao. ...-

CANADIAN LEADING CHINESE AUTO INVASION

It was some 28 years ago when the New Yorker magazine described Canadian Maurice Strong as the man upon whom "the survival of civilization in something like its present form might depend."

Nobody paid much attention to the bland man with the big boast. Strong, after all was then making all of his inroads at a place no one pays much attention to, the big spending United Nations where diplomats have blondes and pinkie rings.

TodayÕs world is poised for the debut of New Year 2007, and the enemy has moved right up to the front gate with no one there to chase him away.

From the distance of China, Strong who once worked simultaneously for the United Nations as senior Advisor to the UN Secretary General and for the Rockefeller and RothschildÕs Trusts, has hatched a plan that will see the Chinese Chery rolling off the assembly line in Detroit.

ItÕs not just that the 77-year-old Strong, one of the most ignored yet most powerful and enigmatic figures on the international scene for decades, is going into the car business to turn a big buck, heÕs going to decimate the American car industry.

The architect of Kyoto, Strong has insisted that "the United States is clearly the greatest risk to the worldÕs ecological health" and has continued to advocate a new economic order based on the redistribution of the developed worldÕs industries and wealth to the Third World.

Strong has boasted for decades that North Americans will eventually be driving Chinese-built car. The only thing that has changed is that Chinese cars built on American soil will now be sold worldwide.

"The Chinese recognize the automobile industry has always been a major factor in any industrialized country and they are aspiring to be the largest producer in the world," said Strong. (Jason Kirby, Financial Post, Sept. 16, 2000).

Unfortunately, the man who has predicted the emergence of China as the worldÕs next superpower, is now a man whose time has come. ...-
http://www.aggregator.ca/content/view/558/138/

Maurice Strong: The new guy in your future!

By Henry Lamb
January, 1997

Shortly after his selection as U.N. Secretary General, Kofi Annan told the Lehrer News Hour that Ingvar Carlsson and Shirdath Ramphal, co-chairs of the U.N.-funded Commission on Global Governance, would be among those asked to help him reform the sprawling, world-wide U.N. bureaucracy. His first choice, however, announced in the Washington Post on January 17, 1997, was none other than Maurice Strong, also a member of the Commission on Global Governance. ...-
http://www.sovereignty.net/p/sd/strong.html

Chinese Cherry Chevys in Canada, on our streets, in Windsor, in Oshawa courtesy of the Kyoto-man. Don't tell Jack Layton.

There has been a lot of bashing of the CBC here, and much of it richly deserved. However, tomorrow (Wed) night, they will be airing a special that I could only see the CBC doing, regarding the 50 greatest inventions made by Canadians. There are some that most of us are well aware of - the phone, the Robertson screw, the combine, etc. - and some I had frankly never heard of.

For example, I hadn't been aware that a Canadian invented the retractable beer carton handle, but it makes sense. But the Wonderbra? Green garbage bags? UV degradable plastic?

Anyway, it looks like fun - poutine is on the list - and my two daughters and I expect to laugh a little, learn a little, and enjoy the time together. It starts at 8 pm in Toronto; check local listings.

KevinB, I learnt a long time ago,.. anything on the CBC, you cannot take at face value. Nothing. In the past I was a vitual slave to the National, a real news hound. Have not watched it for almost 2 years now.

You know, whenever I read the issues concerning reporting by middle easterners [about the Iraqi situation], I am haunted by the feeling that, since large numbers of ME islamists would rather we infidels would just rot in hell, and that many will say quite openly on camera, that it would their pleasure to kill us, I can't help but think that ME islamic journalists will tell the infidel reporters and news businesses pretty much whatever they want to hear, or will pay for, since we are all going to hell anyway, and anything that helps that along (and makes a shekel or two) can't be all bad...

*every time* without exception, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, some roughly dozen times now I have had personal involvement, at the time, of a story that made the printed press, they got it wrong. every time. players, events, quotes, objectives, something about the reporting was off base. every time.

tomorrow's Wall Street Journal headline:

'maz2 stock reaches all time high, rumours of 3 for 1 stock split'

dig dig dig post post post we are in the golden age of blogs people.

"work was the last resort;economic dependence on state handouts was the natural condition of man."

The natural end result of socialism:
infantilization; the walking dead; zombies...

Excerpt:

A young woman was charged with assault, under the influence of alcohol and marijuana, on a very old lady about five times her age. Describing her childhood, the young accused mentioned that her mother had once been in trouble with the police.

“What for?” I asked.

“She was on the Social [Security] and working at the same time.”

“What happened?” I asked.

“She had to give up working.” The air of self-evidence with which she said this revealed a whole world of presuppositions. For her, and those around her, work was the last resort; economic dependence on state handouts was the natural condition of man. ...-
http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_urbanities-language.html

Thats becuase ETHIOPIA dosnt belong to the euroweenie union

UN seeks support for renovations of outdated building
Jan 2, 2007
Montreal Gazette
...It’s the taxpayers of the United States, Japan, Canada and Western Europe who, after all, will be footing more than 80 per cent of the $1.9 billion US cost of the makeover, grandiosely called the Capital Master Plan...

....Add the $4.5 million the UN plans to spend on fixing up the UN chief’s official residence (complete with a new $200,000 kitchen), and the world body’s total spending on real estate upgrades will exceed more than six months of the cash it hopes to spend on 27 million people struggling to survive wars or natural disasters in 29 crisis-stricken countries....

....Calling the headquarter’s renovation plans “ridiculous,” Trump says the UN overseers are a “bunch of incompetents,” and claims he could do the job for $700 million....

tinyurl.com/y3mda3

More of the Donald (audio)
July 2005
Last week, we caught the amazing testimony of Donald Trump in the Senate International Security Subcommittee, where Trump just blew the room away because he spoke in real terms about real dollars and real stupidity and incompetence going on with the United Nations Rebuilding boondoggle. If you missed the testimony, go here....

...Here's the audio for those who want it...

radioblogger.com/images/07-22thedonald-qa.mp3

Headline for Coyne's story in MSM:

2007: YEAR OF THE ELECTION

...-

Headline:

Election Monday, October 19, 2009.

http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca

Fox/MSM calls the killing/3 dead Muslims a: Truce.

There has never, ever been a truce in Gaza. If the Muslims are not killing Israelis, they are killing each other.

Civil War in Gaza: Muslims killing Muslims. ...-

Hamas-Fatah Truce on Shaky Ground as Gaza Violence Kills Three FOX News

AWARD WINNING JOURNALIST SUSPENDED FOR PLAGIARISM
The publisher of two Prince Edward Island newspapers has suspended one of his longest-standing columnists for plagiarizing work off the internet. ...-
c/p internet News via nationalnewswatch

Poll at CTVThere is word of an impending cabinet shuffle. Do you think Rona Ambrose should be shuffled out of environment?


Yes 3705 votes (75 %)

No 1252 votes (25 %)


Total Votes: 4957

sniff sniff, no new readers tips...

But alas, for the diehard who read back blogs...

http://www.caledoniawakeupcall.com/updates/070103expositor.html

Mowhawk sign: "You are no longer in Canada"