I can't believe it. Dion mentioned the words liberal party today in announcing his cabinet. He says he is fortunate to have such a talented pool of liberal members to choose from. But, he is still being a dictator, everyone seems to be a vice-chair and I wonder if that is because the liberal party is full of vice. He also brags that 79 of his members have been there for over 10 years and 29 have been ministers. He forgets to mention it was these people that led the corruption of the liberal party.

Even with closed caption on I couldn't follow what he said, except he used the word WE several times. War room must be reading the blogs. He is going to have a university course for inexperienced new candidates, head professor, Gerald Kennedy. Many new and inexperienced candidates tells me that many of the sitting MPs fear annihilation in the next election and will not run. The fear spread by the msm during the last election re inexperienced candidates being elected to form a gov't will come back to haunt the liberals. Did anyone understand what he said, or who is in the shadow cabinet, or who are critics, and what does he mean by all the committees he has appointed to advise his s/c.

The Facebook group ("jokingly") advocating the rape and murder of Rona Ambrose is still alive and well. And so is the one calling John Baird "Queen of Canada."

Even after I reported them.

anchorlink.blogspot.com/2007/01/continuing-adventures-of-ever-tolerant.html

He is going to have a university course for inexperienced new candidates, head professor, Gerald Kennedy

Sorry, Gerard Kennedy can't be a professor, he dropped out of University in his first year.

I was just reading in the Edmonton Journal about a trial in Yorkton of a father who shot his daughter's boyfriend. I vaguely recall it, but don't remember if Kate posted on it. I haven't been reading much lately , so apologize if this has already been covered.

From the mother of the deceased; ""Because no one told me that my son was taking morphine ... I was never given the opportunity to save my son".

The girlfriend's family says it is all worth it in the end becuse they got their daughter away from him and off drugs. A bit reminiscent of the New Brunswick residents who went after a local dealer.

Well, this scared the crap out of me...

www.switlo.com/opinion.php?selected=83

Lomborg is hated more than Bush. Ya mean George Bush? ...-

Get Your Priorities Right
A rationalist crusader does the math on global warming.

BY KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
Saturday, July 8, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT

NEW YORK--Bjorn Lomborg is a political scientist by training, but the charismatic, golden-haired Dane is offering me a history lesson. Two hundred years ago, he explains, sitting forward in his chair in this newspaper's Manhattan offices, the left was an "incredibly rational movement." It believed in "encyclopedias," in hard facts, and in the idea that mastery of these basics would help "make a better society." Since then, the world's do-gooders have succumbed to "romanticism; they've become more dreamy." This is a problem in his view, and so this "self-avowed slight lefty" is determined to nudge the whole world back toward "rationalism." ...

Bjorn Lomborg busted--and that is the only word for it--onto the world scene in 2001 with the publication of his book "The Skeptical Environmentalist." A one-time Greenpeace enthusiast, he'd originally planned to disprove those who said the environment was getting better. He failed. And to his credit, his book said so, supplying a damning critique of today's environmental pessimism. Carefully researched, it offered endless statistics--from official sources such as the U.N.--showing that from biodiversity to global warming, there simply were no apocalypses in the offing. "Our history shows that we solve more problems than we create," he tells me. For his efforts, Mr. Lomborg was labeled a heretic by environmental groups--whose fundraising depends on scaring the jeepers out of the public--and became more hated by these alarmists than even (if possible) President Bush. ...-
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008626

just watched Dion as Mary said: What did he say??
I think i would be saying to myself: OMG What did we Do?
His shadow cabinet has 56 members, Of which How many are Women?
Dion again is accusing the PM "a year lost on Enviromental inaction"
Well that still is better then 13years of Inaction & increased "Sustainable" Emissions

File/Save under: "b-s from Al-Reuters".

Key Words: "There was absolutely no intention on Reuters part to mislead the public." ...-

Report on Reuters actions after publishing altered photographs
January 18th, 2007, filed by David Schlesinger

Last August, Reuters published and then withdrew two photographs from Lebanon that had been digitally altered.

At that time, we immediately terminated our relationship with the freelance photographer who took and altered the images and said we’d share with the public the results of our internal investigations.

Experienced photo editors and other senior editorial staff went through thousands of images published during the Lebanon conflict. We are satisfied no other images were digitally altered.

We were not satisfied with the degree of oversight that we had that allowed these two images to slip through. We have tightened procedures, taken appropriate disciplinary action and appointed one of our most experienced editors to supervise photo operations in the Middle East. ...-
via national newswatch

Dion can do anything, and he stated Kennedy will be like him, a prof, to work on getting inexperienced liberals elected, teach them how to win debates, appear on talk radio, be interviewed etc. They will attend classes. So, if there are all these nebies running, and Kennedy is the shepherd, who is leaving. We need to know. Taxpayers are paying them and we demand to know. Volpe is transport critic, will his job be getting dead voters to the polls, or trying to find enough people to attend dions speeches and getting them there. I suppose the homeless could use a hot shower and meal and JV could try to bribe them to attend. If his shadow has 56, are 28 of them women, don't think so, another promise broken.

the liberals have been active during the Christmas break in recruiting new candidates as there are 24 retiring. I suspect that Maybe this is the main reason that the Liberals are in no hurry now to force an election.

Women in Dion's Shadow Cabinet: I have only seen 4 names if there are more, who are they?
This is Dion's Equality

What a cast of characters Dion has assembled for his bid to return the Natural Governing Party to the trough. Volpe--Dosanjh---McCallum---stop, stop, I can't breathe for laughing!

Drunk on power and corruption for decades, the Liberal Party is finally rotting away. It's the same old thieves, just different deck-chairs.

In the UK the Tories were labelled "The Nasty Party" for a while, and the Liberal Democrats "The Silly Party" Dion has managed to combine these attributes for the 21st century, and gives us "The Silly and Nasty Party of Canada".

Dems to Impose on Conservative Broadcasters

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2007/01/dems-to-impose-on-conservative.html

No surprise the MSM isn't making a stink about this. Such a tyrannical, fascist move by Nazi Pelosi would be much welcomed by the MSM, who simply cannot compete with the far more popular conservative media outlets.

This is a big, serious matter. If we don't make a stink over it, it'll pass, and we'll suddenly find ourselves with a weaker voice... at least in America... in Canada, the Liberals already killed the possibility of getting a Canadian version of FOX News via the fascistic CRTC.

Re Dion, What a bunch of gobbly gook that came out of his mouth. First, he needs to set up a university "program" designed especially for him, so that he could actually speak English to the rest of Canada.
Then, what a suprise when Dion announced that JC and Paulie M were going to head up a committee (and again, I'm really not sure of what?) Probably, on how brown envelopes are privately passed. But the thing that really got me was even before the press conference CTV was all excited that there had been "leaks" regarding the shadow cabinet. They were just overjoyed, still not being used of a government that is operating without the need of the media or the lack of "leaks". Talk about a Liberal love in. I think before the next election, EVERY media person that reports on the government should publicly have to state what party they are either supporting or are a card carrying member. (Don Newman????) Then, they could all have a "L" tattooed on their forehead for losers, liers, and Liberal lover's.

Being Conservative is easy . . .

Never Computer *Off* _ *Standby is best*

Energy Star applauds companies such as Cisco Systems and Pitney Bowes that have made enabling computers to "hibernate/sleep" at night a company policy. (The organization issued press releases touting the dollar volumes in energy savings at each company.)

Energy saving is only one benefit.

Quick startup in the morning saves you the loooong reboot wait.

Easier on the electronics also, say some techs.

AVG and Avast anti-virus updates upon *wakeup*.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/8shgy

For standby mode: Click on the green start button, then the orange *turn off computer*, then the *standby* button.

*Wakeup* occurs when the mouse is moved. If your computer is on in the morning, it means your cat has moved the mouse while you slept.

=TG

Breaking News: Liberals Preparing Crap*, Martin says.

Liberals under Citoyen Dion, aka The Milkman, are

preparing another "Red Book*".

"Rae, a major frontrunner alongside Ignatieff, is working on the party's Red Book*."

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070117/dion_shadow_070117/20070117?hub=TopStories

Foul-Mouthed AdScam Martin said:

"Screw the Red Book*... Don't tell me what's in the Red Book*. I wrote the goddamned thing. And I know that it's a lot of crap."

Paul Martin, criticizing those who dared to mention the Red Book* after he readily abandoned the book of popular promises once the Liberals used it to win the 1993 election.

(Source: Double Vision: The Inside Story of The Liberals in Power, by E. Greenspon & T. Wilson-Smith.)

Anti libs comments in the G&M again. Of course there are the usually vitrolic libs who call Albertans braindead for voting conservative, but make no mention of the braindead in the GTA who vote liberal. Am waiting to read giggles comments later today. Some question the equality issue in this mismash of mps. Who are the 24 who are retiring, is Fry one of them as she got no new job. How incompetant is dion that he needs 56 people to tell him what to do and say. Notice he used WE and Liberal today. Guess he doesn't want to take all the blame for the corruption to come, if they get re-elected. Didn't he steal from Harper, who announced there would be a candidate school in march, by putting Kennedy in charge of training the future seals of the liberal party.

What I notice, Mary T., is that there is a never-ending stream of news stories every day on the CBC website about every little utterance by Dion, as though each word that tumbles from his mouth is holy. And nothing is negative! No "Reality Checks", no critics, nothing!

The liberal spin is becoming more transparent every single day! It's disgusting! Just how desperate are they? Even Cereberus (they're all equally biased) must see this...don't you, Ted?

Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois. According to the U.S. Senate Historical Office, he is the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the only African American presently serving in the U.S. Senate.

Let's play charades, kiddies!

* Three words!
* First word: sounds like "Iraq"
* Second word: act out the name of the former Iraqi dictator. YES, that IS his middle name.
* Third word: sounds like "Osamma"

WTF?

Let's say we had a young up and comer for the republican party. He was young, charismatic, appeared on a right-wing equivelant to Oprah tv show and got a ringing endorsement. Admitted to have done drugs. Let's say his name rhymed with Hitler or Mussolini (or any other war mongering rascal) Would the young republican get the same free pass? Nope.

Rewind things a few years.....George Bush has a normal sounding name. Even so, the left still calls him Hitler. Where's his free pass for his admited alcohol use? Has Obama served in the military? Doesn't appear to have. I would guess this won't be a pre-requisite now that the dems have their newly minted "rock star" candidate. Military service will be labelled as "yesterday".

I hate to keep harping on Obama, but watch out for this guy, the press is about to crown him the new messiah.

More Liberal cheerleading from the Globe and Mail. From the article about Dion's shadow cabinet:

"The Decima Research survey, provided to The Canadian Press, puts the Conservatives and Liberals in a statistical dead heat in national support.

The Liberals polled 33 per cent of decided and leaning voters, the Conservatives 32 per cent and the NDP 13.

The Bloc Québécois got 10 per cent and the Green party was at nine."

This was apparently too depressing for the G&M. Luckily, they added this tidbid to make themselves feel better:

"But when Alberta respondents are taken out of the poll, the Liberals are seven percentage points ahead of the Conservatives in the rest of the country."

The Great Spirit... of Capitalism

Last May, 11 B.C. men were charged in connection with the poaching and trafficking of bald eagles after
an investigation that began with the discovery of 50 dead birds in North Vancouver in 2005.

G&M: We could also say when Quebec respondents are taken out of the equation.

On another news story the CIBC has Lost a harddrive containing the info of 470,000 customers, "but not to worry"

What happened to the pink book written by BS and friends. Kennedy has his work cut out for him, 29 inexperienced candidates from AB, 24 for retiring mps, a slew of newbies from Sask and MB.
Lots of coverage today re the water death, 10 fired over it. Also, violence in tv, movies, music getting a trashing after the video of the 2 girls beating a girl and posting it on the net. Of course you have the usual experts saying (for the umteenth time) that these games, movies etc have nothing to do with increased teenage violence. It is the parents fault. Of course these same experts lobbied to get all smoking out of movies, tv series, videos, advertising etc as it was influencing the young, (who are todays parents). Me, I'd rather my kids or grandkids smoked a legal cig to copy someone, instead of a gun to kill someone. Greg Watson does a hatchet job on Khan today.

From:

www.imnotparanoid.blogspot.com

......."We are so free here in Canada. We have freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion. But, oddly, we have no freedom of health – arguably the only freedom where life literally hangs in the balance.

We are free alright. Free to lie for days on stretchers in hospital corridors. Free to wait months for cancer treatment. Free to live in pain. Free to lick the boots of our almighty health care master while we die like dogs waiting for permission to be treated. Ahhhhh, It’s good to be a free Canadian..........

Young Muslim says: Islamism:
"This is not ideology. It's a mental illness."

Radicals vs. moderates: British Muslims at crossroads
CNN.com

At a recent debate over the battle for Islamic ideals in England, a British-born Muslim stood before the crowd and said Prophet Mohammed's message to nonbelievers is: "I come to slaughter all of you."

"We are the Muslims," said Omar Brooks, an extremist also known as Abu Izzadeen. "We drink the blood of the enemy, and we can face them anywhere. That is Islam and that is jihad."

Anjem Choudary, the public face of Islamist extremism in Britain, added that Muslims have no choice but to take the fight to the West.

"What are Muslims supposed to do when they are being killed in the streets in Afghanistan and Baghdad and Palestine? Do they not have the same rights to defend themselves? In war, people die. People don't make love; they kill each other," he said. (Audio slide show: Preying on Britain's young Muslims)

But in the same debate, held on the prestigious grounds of Dublin's Trinity College in October, many people in the crowd objected.

"These people, ladies and gentleman, have a good look at them. They actually believe if you kill women and children, you will go to heaven," said one young Muslim who waved his finger at the radicals.

"This is not ideology. It's a mental illness." (Watch 'No chance in hell' Video)...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769686/posts

Excerpt from Comments:

Long, but worth the read. The Faith of Islam REPRESENTATIVE of the attitude of Christendom toward Islam, till recent years at least, is Alexander Ross's postscript to the Anglicized version, published in 1649, of Sieur Du Ryer's French translation of the Koran. The author of the postscript directs the following invective against Mohammed and the Koran: "Good Reader, the great Arabian Impostor now at last after a thousand years, is by the way of France arrived in England, and his Alcoran, or gallimaufry of errors, (a brat as deformed as the parent, and as full of heresies as his scald head was of scurvy) hath learned to speak English. * * * If you will take a brief view of the Alcoran, you shall find it a hodgepodge made up of these four ingredients: 1. Of Contradictions. 2. Of Blasphemy. 3. Of ridiculous Fables. 4. Of Lies." ...- (more)

What, no Belinduh in the shadow cabinet?

Someone forgot to tell Stephanie that she's way smarter now that she's a brunette.

Question from one not "blessed" with CBC TV. Last week it was all about the sucess of Little mosque in the Prairies. Has anyone actually watched the second episode or was this a one shot wonder?

Canada Sleeps Through War to 'Save the Internet'
Pitched battle in U.S. over 'net neutrality' Digital democracy at risk if telecoms get their way say opponents.

thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2007/01/17/NetNeutrality/

Hey Tex, maybe the little mosque was a...wait for it...a bomb! Maybe there will only be one show!

Your tax dollars at work in the swirling socialist cesspool of Can-uh-duh.

Gore refused to debate with Lomborg.
Dhimmi Carter refused to debate with Dershowitz.
Liberal-leftists do not debate; their words are ex-cathedra*; infallible. ...-

Will Al Gore Melt?
By Flemming Rose and Bjorn Lomborg

Al Gore is traveling around the world telling us how we must fundamentally change our civilization due to the threat of global warming. Today he is in Denmark to disseminate this message. But if we are to embark on the costliest political project ever, maybe we should make sure it rests on solid ground. It should be based on the best facts, not just the convenient ones. This was the background for the biggest Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, to set up an investigative interview with Mr. Gore. And for this, the paper thought it would be obvious to team up with ...

• THE FULL WSJ.com ARTICLE IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO SUBSCRIBERS....-
http://users2.wsj.com/lmda/do/checkLogin?mg=wsj-users2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB116909379096479919.html%3Fmod%3Dopinion_main_commentaries

*ex cathedra: from the seat of authority; with authority: used esp. of those pronouncements of the pope that are considered infallible.
dictionary.com

Codere as defense critic, isn't he the one who marched in the hezzie rally last summer. And, isn't he also being sued for 900 million dollars by someone he refused into Canada. Isn't he from Quebec, and isn't Quebec anti war. What message does this send. As for all those commentators in the G&M saying get over it re dions citizenship, and with all the dual citizens in his shadow cabinet, what country/countries are ruling the liberals. Didn't Volpe try to use racism in his campaign.

I asked about lmotp and was answered by someone who watched last night. Seems it was a re-run of the episode that showed twice last week. His thoughts were the series is a being re-written. Must not have got the favorable results it wanted in feedback. If even 10% of the supposed viewers gave negative reviews we will never hear about it. Even the author has disappeared from TV.

I just bit the bullet and went and read giggles comments re the shadow cabinet. She actually had a couple of good things to say about Harper. She also said the liberals detest the 1200/yr child care for parents of kids under six, so parents, watch out, if elected that will be gone, plus dion will find a way to take an additional 100/mo from you. BS in in charge of preparing women for politics, Guess she could start by talking to the presstitute covering the Pickton trial, then asking for all unfaithful wives to come fwd. Or is she going to give lessons on how to break up a family to be a successful liberal. Giggles says she got a demotion. Giggles also said dion has to learn to communicate better. When asked about the west, she said -put down your coffee etc- his first trip as leader was to the west to show his support. She forgot to mention his plan to rape Alberta, bring back groupaction, and that it is wrong for albertans to work for money as it is bad for the economy. Dion bombed out here.

Vancouver PR flack, Jim Hoggan has made quite a name for himself by slagging the credentials, motives and ethics of scientists who don't meekly accept the revealed wisdom of AGM. He gained national notoriety with a TV appearance in which he blasted Friends of Science for accepting indirect funding from evil big oil®.

Hoggans muckraking blog (www.desmogblog.com)reportedly employs two "researchers". Hoggan's backers and clients include the Suzuki Foundation (he sits on its board) and other Luddite outfits. (No conflict of interest there, eh?) He rails against anyone remotely connected with Exxon for unethically touching dirty money, but he apparently has no qualms about the hefty support he has been receiving from multimillionaire internet gambling tycoon, John Lefebvre. Well guess what, yesterday, noted philanthropist and community pillar Lefebvre was arrested by U.S. federal agents and charged with money laundering. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in the slammer. He's free on $5 million bail.

I wonder what ol' Jim will have to say about that?
How sweet it is!

Vancouver PR flack, Jim Hoggan has made quite a name for himself by slagging the credentials, motives and ethics of scientists who don't meekly accept the revealed wisdom of AGM. He gained national notoriety with a TV appearance in which he blasted Friends of Science for accepting indirect funding from evil big oil®.

Hoggan's muckraking blog (www.desmogblog.com)reportedly employs two "researchers". Hoggan's backers and clients include the Suzuki Foundation (he sits on its board) and other Luddite outfits. (No conflict of interest there, eh?) He rails against anyone remotely connected with Exxon for unethically touching dirty money, but he apparently has no qualms about the hefty support he has been receiving from multimillionaire internet gambling tycoon, John Lefebvre. Well guess what, yesterday, noted philanthropist and community pillar Lefebvre was arrested by U.S. federal agents and charged with money laundering. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in the slammer. He's free on $5 million bail.

I wonder what ol' Jim will have to say about that?
How sweet it is!

The double entry doesn't indicate that I thought my post was exceptionally worthy. Kate's security feature tripped me up. (again)

Canadian regulars and reservists alike who end up in the landmine removal roulette game do indeed deserve generous financial bonuses.

Danger on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border

Canada should condemn Pakistan's land mine plan.
Dateline: Friday, January 12, 2007
by Lloyd Axworthy

Lost in the flurry of news reports of Saddam Hussein's execution was a seemingly innocuous item announcing that Pakistan is preparing to use anti-personnel land mines as a way of curtailing movement across its border into Afghanistan. This move deserves an immediate international response because of its potential destructive impact.

First, it is an admission from the government of Pakistan, one of our self-proclaimed allies in the fight against the Taliban, that it is incapable of controlling its lawless northwest territories where the Taliban and other militant groups breed and conspire in their attacks against the occupying NATO forces in Afghanistan.

The 1997 land mine treaty, now signed by more than 150 countries, showed that Canada can play a global leadership role.

Most important, the basic prohibition of land mines as a weapon of war was becoming an international norm, and the argument for its efficacy as a weapon was being dismissed.
The treaty's 10th anniversary, set for the end of 2007, was meant to give its worldwide supporters the chance to assess its value and to make further progress in eliminating this destructive tool of war and its spin-off imitators such as cluster bombs.

But Pakistan's move casts a shadow on the treaty's accomplishments — and just might precipitate a regression where other countries feel that they, too, can flout the treaty because of the silence and unwillingness of its supporters to condemn Islamabad's action.

http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature7.cfm?REF=38

=TG

More lies on Newman today. Some retired investor or financial guy says that Companies are being given a 4 year tax holiday re the Income Trust thing. The original announcement by the minister stated that no changes would take place for FOUR years. If the experts had not paniced, they would not have lost one cent. Trying to say now that the Harper govt is giving companies a 4 year tax break, thereby again breaking a promise. What double speak. At least his announcement didn't allow martins doctor to make millions like Scotts raspberry tip did, along with many other liberals.

http://meteo.lcd.lu/globalwarming/

Excellent links on "Global warming"

maryT

Little mosque was a new episode last night.

I didn't watch it but was flipping channels and stopped for a sec.

Same garbage.

re: Little Mosque. The producer (Michael Kennedy) was on Neil Cavuto /Fox this aft. I missed some of the talk but Kennedy said he was ecstatic about the premiere's ratings. Didn't say how many (Google says 2.1 mill, which is hard to believe) and says some U.S. broadcasters are interested.
Cavuto wasn't impressed with the clip. Is asking his viewers to e-mail him and let him know if they think it's funny.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769746/posts

Exclusive: Handwritten Note From Jimmy Carter Interceding for Nazi SS* Guard Proven to Have Murdered Jews

We now have a copy of the note that Jimmy Carter sent to the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigation, interceding on behalf of a Nazi SS* Guard. We first reported on this story this morning. ...-

*Schutzstaffel

The note is made by Dhimmi Carter on a letter written by the supplicant on a New York Sun letterhead.
Copy of letter displayed with Carter's handwritten note. ...-

Consumer reports car seat report with drawn...

http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/TopStories/ContentPosting.aspx?newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20070118%2freport_carseats_070118&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V2&showbyline=True

UPDATE: The outpouring of creativity continues. A reader was moved by the Steyn Songfest to submit this contribution, sung to the tune of "Mr. Sandman," by the Chordettes. Scott, who is serving as a judge for the competition, tells me that "Mr. Sandman" was a frequent source of inspiration:

Mr. Sandman (Chordettes)
(scat: bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum etc …)

Mr. Sandman, empty your pants,
We've seen you wiggling, they're not full of ants.
Purloining papers won't land you in clover,
Your days in the archives are officially over....-
powerline blog

Steff cant talk but 'e can write.

http://www.parl.gc.ca/INFORMATION/ABOUT/PEOPLE/KEY/BIBLIO.ASP?LANGUAGE=E&PARAM=182

Khan loaning self campaign money legal: Elections Canada

OTTAWA (CP) - Elections Canada says there's nothing illegal in MP Wajid Khan using loans from his Toronto car dealership to finance his riding association and his election campaigns.
...
Twenty-seven riding associations have been deregistered by Elections Canada, including three Liberal associations, two NDP associations, a few fringe party associations and a host of Green Party associations. Failure to file financial reports is cited as the reason for delisting in a number of cases, including Liberal MP Maria Minna's Toronto association.

Minna blamed administrative and technical glitches caused by unfamiliarity with the law for the delay.

Riding associations were not required to file annual, audited reports with Elections Canada until 2004, when political financing reforms went into effect. Minna said her association, like all others, is made up of volunteers who are still trying to learn the complicated new rules.

Consequently, she was careful not to criticize Khan's old association for its tardy filing.

"Obviously, similar things could've happened (in Khan's riding). Who am I to judge?" ...-
cnews

Long essay on the born-again Dhimmi Carter.
Carter is one of the founders of the Red-Green religion: "...it was Carter’s way to “run conservative and govern liberal.”"

Our Worst Ex-President
Joshua Muravchik

February 2007
[Excerpts}
More than a quarter-century after completing his term of office, James Earl Carter is still to be found in the thick of debates about national policies on a range of issues: nuclear arms, Iraq, North Korea, and, especially, the conflict between Israel and the Arabs. A steady stream of books and articles continues to issue forth from his pen, and he travels the world on self-selected diplomatic missions. No other former President has chosen to play a similar role. But then, Carter’s whole political career has been out of the ordinary. In order to understand the man today, it is necessary to see him in the light of his past....
His surprising tilt away from anti-Communism was made explicit in his first major foreign-policy address when he proclaimed: “we are now free of th[e] inordinate fear of Communism. . . . We’ve fought fire with fire, never thinking that fire is better quenched with water.”...
Few men who are called to politics suffer defeat gladly, and Carter was certainly not one of the exceptions. The last election he had lost was his first run for governor of Georgia, and it deeply shook him; as he would later relate, it was in the course of struggling to right his mood afterward that he experienced the epiphany of being born again. ...
Nonetheless, he has striven for it mightily ever since. The effort began in the early years of his post-presidency with highly publicized activity aimed at reestablishing his credentials as a man of piety. Enrolling as a volunteer with the group Habitat for Humanity, he posed for news photos hammering nails into the timbers of homes being built for the needy. Political coloration seeped into this mission only when it took him to Communist-ruled Nicaragua, where he posed with the Sandinista dictator Daniel Ortega. ...-
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/cm/main/viewArticle.aip?id=10824&page=all

Support Major Sean Courty. Down with New Brunswick Power. ...-

Reservist picks Afghanistan after NB Power denies leave (Canada)
DANIEL MARK WHEATON TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL Published Thursday January 18th, 2007

A military reservist who nominated NB Power for an award for supporting the Canadian Forces has resigned after the Crown corporation refused him a leave of absence to deploy to Afghanistan.

Maj. Sean Courty took the career hit in order to lead a team of soldiers from across Atlantic Canada who are leaving within three weeks for Kandahar on a six-month mission.

"I had to make a difficult decision," Courty said. He left the job the first week of June and is now unemployed and awaiting deployment.

Courty was a security official at NB Power's Point Lepreau nuclear generating station and a member of the plant's emergency nuclear response team.

The 33-year-old officer has been a reserve member for the last 14 years and had been training for the Afghanistan mission for months.

"The Canadian Forces had invested a lot into my training and I had travelled on multiple international courses to make sure I had the skill set to lead this team."

Courty, who travelled to Afghanistan in early December to prepare for the upcoming mission, said he believed his employer had agreed verbally to a leave of absence. However, when he formally requested a leave of absence in writing, he said his request was denied.

NB Power declined interview requests on the topic Wednesday. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769870/posts

Photo included.

Also here:
http://www.canadaeast.com/ce2/docroot/article.php?articleID=92357

U.S. official: Chinese test missile obliterates satellite

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/01/18/china.missile/index.html

The FLQ "2" is back in the news in Quebec...

well it'll be something to talk about instead of all that weather that seems to keep happening.

some cops just dont 'get' it

a mechanism as common and ubiquitous as the use of a bit of humour that GETS THE ATTENTION AND INTEREST of the public is NOT a bad thing.

fartino is nothing more than a egotistical communication-skills-challenged 7th degree DIPWAD

"OPP to ditch traffic blitzes
TheStar.com - News - OPP to ditch traffic blitzes
New commissioner Fantino says there's nothing funny in highway carnage; denies he's trying to muzzle Sgt. Cam Woolley

January 18, 2007
Canadian press

Ontario's provincial police force will no longer use media-friendly roadside traffic "blitzes" – long a staple of long weekend newscasts – as part of their effort to get dangerous drivers off the road, says OPP Commissioner Julian Fartino.

Instead, provincial police will simply be "unrelenting" in their pursuit of aggressive and irresponsible drivers, Fartino writes in an open letter on the force's website – a change in tactic that reflects his tough, no-nonsense "

...i feel soooo dumb - just blocked root access to my web server following a tutorial...

Well ok, not too dumb, in the stupid vi command I did set up another account, but can't log in...

Guess I know enough to be dangerous now.

I miss Windows, at least I'd get a BSOD.

rob, wonder if the OPP boss will get tough and no-nonsense in Caledonia.

Cnn:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/17/warwithin.overview/index.html

"These people, ladies and gentleman, have a good look at them. They actually believe if you kill women and children, you will go to heaven," said one young Muslim who waved his finger at the radicals.

"This is not ideology. It's a mental illness."

Find Canadian Maurice Strong: The Mao Virus.

Evil Strong, a deadly cancer on planet Earth: Mentor of Canadian ex-Liberal Prime Minister of Canada, Paul Martin, Jr.; Uncle of Bob Rae, Canadian Liberal; etc. ...-

HOW KIM JONG IL BILKS U.N.
Aid agency concealed scamming since 1999. Has North Korean leader Kim Jong Il subverted the United Nations Development Program, the $4 billion agency that is the U.N.’s main development arm, and possibly stolen tens of millions of dollars of hard currency in the process? (national newswatch)

Mao Strong:

CNS:
The special envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General to North Korea, Mr. Maurice Strong, stated on April 8: "You cannot divorce peace and security in ...

Who would have thought.

Pride of the West
Calgary hopes to become a top destination for gay tourists, but can the hometown of the reform party pull it off?

canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=3f43b908-6cde-4423-8a13-74bdd88b225e

Key Words: Dion, Chretien, Unity, "Treasury Board submissions" = tax dollars $$$$$$$$.

Citoyen Dion, aka The Milkman, uses the Know-Nothing defence.
AdScam Dion also used the Know-Nothing defence while testifying at the Gomery Inquiry.

"We had a partnership fund, a climate fund and a plan to regulate industry."

AdScam Dion , Chretien's Unity Minister, also had a Unity Fund*; a plan which bilked the Canadian tax base of tens of millions of $$$$$$$ = Librano$.
...-

Don't know, wasn't there, Dion says
Mike De Souza, CanWest News Service

OTTAWA - Liberal leader Stephane Dion says he knew nothing
"This meeting, if it took place, I wasn't aware [of it]. Certainly not," Mr. Dion said at a news conference. "It's for sure that there are always discussions with the Americans on a number of topics, but I didn't receive a specific plan to multiply the use of the oilsands by five, or by two or three. Never as minister of environment did [this type of recommendation] arrive on my desk.

"It wasn't something that we were looking at. Instead, we were looking at how we could accelerate the sustainable use of this resource -- how we could use a pipeline that would help us capture CO2 and we had a plan for that. We had a partnership fund, a climate fund and a plan to regulate industry." (via national newswatch)

Dion, Chretien: Librano$

CBC News Indepth: Federal sponsorship scandal
Jean Chrétien's opening statement before the Gomery inquiry, Feb. 8, 2005. ... I also signed Treasury Board submissions to fund national unity initiatives, ...
www.cbc.ca/news/background/groupaction/chretien_statement.html

Stéphane Dion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dion had a prominent role within the Chrétien administration at the time of the sponsorship scandal, and his position as "National Unity" minister

PRINCE CHARLES ACCUSED OF 'GREEN HYPOCRISY'
Prince Charles is being accused of hypocrisy after planning to fly more than 11,000 kilometres with a staff of 20 people on a jumbo jet to accept an environmental award. (national newswatch)

"Former American vice-president Al Gore, who recently made a documentary about climate change, will present the award at a glitzy ceremony attended by actress Meryl Streep."

Prince Chuck's theme song:

Green, green, it's green they say, On the far side of the hill. Green, green, I'm goin' away ...

At the Montreal daily La Presse, another online poll turns horribly blue. "Will Canada succeed in reducing its greehouse gas emissions?" 68% say no, 20% say yes.

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/

AdScam Dion on Liberal Unity; together, with Moi's Dream Team, we can/will be above Canadians and rob them blind.

AdamRadwanski.com
Now, with Adscam and a growing list of regional tensions threatening national unity again, ... "To me, unity is above partisan politics," Mr. Dion said. ...-

National newswatch has the link:

A united front

LIBERAL LEADER Stephane Dion, a onetime unity minister, has his eye on ensuring his party’s unity going into the next election....-

Little Mosque loses some viewers
Toronto Star - 15 hours ago
CBC-TV's much-hyped comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie had a significant drop in viewers this week after its much-hyped premiere, but still managed a respectable showing in the ratings. ...-

Here is the spin from the Red Islamophile Star:

"loses some viewers"; "had a significant drop in viewers". ...-

Mosques in Toronto, Canada are used to indoctrinate Muslims with Muslim Islamist jihad-terrorism:

Teacher witnessed transformation of some bomb-plot suspects
Amiruddin says Khalid used to come to his mosque to pray, sometimes in the ... and unreliable witnesses are cited as a judge stays murder charges against (cbc)...-

AMS CERTIFIED WEATHERMAN STRIKES BACK AT WEATHER CHANNEL CALL FOR DECERTIFICATION
James Span Blog, Drudge, others

Well, well. Some “climate expert” on “The Weather Channel” wants to take away AMS certification from those of us who believe the recent “global warming” is a natural process. So much for “tolerance”, huh?

I have been in operational meteorology since 1978, and I know dozens and dozens of broadcast meteorologists all over the country. Our big job: look at a large volume of raw data and come up with a public weather forecast for the next seven days. I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can’t find them. Here are the basic facts you need to know:

*Billions of dollars of grant money is flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global warming, the money dries up. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1770133/posts

"Sod Off, Swampy"

This one is an oldie (almost 2 years old) but it's still the story that makes me laugh more than any other I've read.

This is what happens when a bunch of silver-spoon environmentalist students go up against some working-class oil traders on the London Petroleum Exchange...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1487741,00.html

Many comments in g&m re Khan's report, saying it doesn't exist. How long did it take for certain reports to be made public from ad firms in Que, only to discover that millions were paid and no work done, or just a figure changed from one year to the next. How long did it take for a contract to be made public showing a deal re a golf course. With info out that que might get more money re equalization Ont posters are very upset and calling for an end to the equalization program. Just maybe that is Harpers hidden agenda, let the center of the world call for an end and he will do it. I propose a new name for dions party, since he has a problem saying liberal, The Hypocrital Party. By complaining about everything Harper says or does, and with SDA and others exposing how the libs said and did it first at a much higher cost, just maybe the hypnotic trance TO voters have been in for years will be broken. Read report on latest poll today in the paper, and of course they state take AB out of the mix Libs are 7% higher. Have they taken Ont out of the mix, or at least the GTA. Of course not, just more spin.

Where's the Outrage?

Dion announces his shadow cabinet But is strangely minus many women in key jobs. Did Dion not just state 1month ago that he will fix the Gender Imbalance in his party?

So i ask again where is the outrage from the Women's Activist Groups that Mr Dion has very few Women in his Shadow Cabinet, I guess Only the Shadow Know's.
Then again "Dion Knows Nothing"

Geostrategy Direct January 24, 2007

U.S. signals Gulf allies that attack on Iran is possible this year

WASHINGTON — The United States has let its Gulf Arab allies know that an attack on Iran could take place in 2007. Diplomatic sources said U.S. Central Command and the U.S. intelligence community have conducted discussions with Gulf Cooperation Council states. "There has not been a U.S. commitment, but the discussions have been interpreted as an expression of intent," a ource said. So far, the U.S. Navy has sent two strike carrier groups to the Gulf. The source said the naval build-up would be completed by February as...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1770222/posts

Taliban Jack Layton-NDP is huddled-fuddled with Liberal MP "We Are All Hezbollah Now" Coderre, aka Know-Nothing Dion's Defence critic.
Jacky says his head is ready to explode, again; Coderre says, oui, oui; fuddle-duddle, Jacques. ...-

AFGHANISTAN: CAPTURED SPOKESMAN REVEALS RIFTS WITHIN TALIBAN

Kabul, 19 Jan. (AKI) - The recent arrest of Taliban spokesman Mohammed Hanif, has led to further revelations about the divisions and differences within the Afghan militant group. According to Afghan security sources, cited in the Saudi newspaper 'al-Watan', after having revealed that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar was living in the Pakistani city of Quetta under the protection of the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, Hanif has reportedly also explained the workings within the Taliban.

According to the report, Hanif said that the Taliban is divided into three groups. The first group is made up of former members of the Taliban regime in Kabul who are fighting only to prevent from being caught and are probably not close to Mullah Omar. A second group, Hanif said, is composed of people linked to Islamic extremists in Pakistan and a third group is close to al-Qaeda and is said to be the most agressive and violent.

It is not clear which group is close to Mullah Omar, but it also emerged that in the course of a war within the group, some important leaders or mullahs have been killed.

Hanif also said that Mullah Omar ordered the killing of Mullah Dadallah accused of having indirectly helped the Americans of killing one of his adversaries last month, Mullah Othmani, among the most important military commanders within the Taliban, in the course of an attack in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1770209/posts

The Weatherwoman, the "climate expert", (all bow down and kiss Heidi's ags), responds; the lady with the Da Vinci Code ripoff title: The Climate Code.
Does Heidi have the key(s) to the Code? Will Heidi unveil the key(s)? Will Heidi's key(s) fit the Code? Does Heidi have a key? Watch the Weatherwoman implode, live, in a cold front near you. ...-

A Very Political Climate (Weather Channel climate expert responds to blog fervor)

The Weather Channel ^ | 01/19/2007 | Heidi Cullen
I wrote a post recently that has generated some pretty strong reaction and I wanted to take a moment to stop the spin. I am a scientist. And I'm a skeptic. AND after more than a century of research -- based on healthy skepticism -- scientists have learned something very important about our planet. It's warming up -- glaciers are melting, sea level is rising and the weather is changing. The primary explanation for this warming is the carbon dioxide released from -- among other things -- the burning of fossil fuels. With that knowledge comes responsibility. Here at The...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1770190/posts

I finally understand what dions job was as unity minister. Unite all taxpayers money into liberal brown paper bags. Funny how he didn't know about that meeting in Texas, as environment minister, and then condem Harper for not talking to a minister about something before making an announcement. Can't wait for parliament to start again. Just watch the dream team on the front bench, cbc says this will be his cabinet if elected. Do cdns really want those has-been crooks to lead us.

2 experienced back country skiers found dead in a collapsed snow cave. Rescue efforts postponed for a skier who fell. Guess it is time to ban skiing in the outdoors as it is dangerous to your health. It has killed high profile people, a Kennedy and a singer turned US congressman.

I have just received an e-mail from Lisa Williams, head of TWN in response to my e-mail re interview with David S. It states that views expressed where his only and does not reflect the twn views and they will have other experts on.
Problem is, I never watched the show, did not send an e-mail with comments. Reply is to me, using my name and current e-mail address. Problem is, said e-mail was supposedly sent by me on Jan 13, with this e-mail address. Considering I did not get this e-mail address until Jan 15/07, and it took a few days to get it changed, as my old one is still active, what is going on.
I supossedly sent the message, Climate change is a farce and David is a liar.

Ha!

mary T.'s comment 11:04am.

Maybe PMSH should produce Khan's report...written on a paper napkin! Didn't Chretien diffuse Shawinigate (read: Canadian msm said 'satisfies us') by doing as much?

Dion has probably seen the report and knows nothing, just like he knew nothing about the Houston meeting, planned by the liberals. Wait for a couple of years and the cbc will break the story, only to be ridiculed for trying to make something public, that has been on websites for years. Remember the photo ops of Martin, Fox and Bush, and the press conference regarding praising the co-operation between the 3 countries. It was on the American news.
If as the cbc tries to claim, this meeting was organized by Harper, he sure works fast. 2 days after election he has Bush and Fox eating out of his hand. How long did martin hold onto the auditor generals report that taxpayers paid for.

Q: Who was Kofi's key-man in North Korea?*

Secretary General Orders Audits of U.N. Programs

NY Times ^ | 1/19/07 | Warren Hodge
"UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 19 — Ban Ki-moon, the new secretary general, called today for outside examination of all United Nations activities after a published report that the United Nations Development Program in North Korea was making unaccountable payments in hard currency to local staff members and the Pyongyang government. Mr. Ban’s sweeping order sought “an urgent, system-wide and external inquiry into all activities done around the globe by the U.N. funds and programs.”...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1770498/posts

* The Honorable Maurice F. Strong
Special Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Undersecretary-General of
the United Nations, and Personal Envoy of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the
Korean Peninsula.