On the Canadian Loon & Government

In which Vitruvius reproduces the classic Hinterland Who's Who episode on the Loon, whistling the part of the loon, with a postscript comment on the nature of government and the state:

sagaciousiconoclast.blogspot.com/2006/12/on-canadian-loon-government.html

Canada's "New" government is starting to look a lot like Canada's old government:

Quebec quarrel delays military aircraft delivery
Boeing pressed to spend in province

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070119.wxboeing19/BNStory/National/home

"Mr. Fortier wants the maximum for Quebec. He is the political minister responsible for the Montreal region."

This would, no doubt, help him get re, oops, I mean, elected.

China tests anti-satellite weapon:

http://www.space.com/news/070119_china_antisat_test.html

Curious to see if the usual suspects who go ballistic (pun intended) over the "militarization of space" will be up in arms about this one. (I'm full of puns today!)

Get back to work you lazy woman. I want an argument with my morning coffee!

Cheers anyways.

That's not funny, Jose. Were you having a bad moment, or were you exposing your true stripes?

Of interest to some (h/t Afghanistan Watch) Entertainment contractor is pulling up a bit short. thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/553561.html

The C17 contract is being held up because quebec isn't happy about the size of the spin off they think they should get , they want more of it "GIVEN" to them. Hey "quebec aerospace association let me give you a hint." Come up with the best price for the services required and you will likley get the your share of the spinnoff money.

Agent Joe Pistone has now publicly stated that when he was under cover, Nic Rizzuto was a capo in the Bonanno crime family.

Here is the real reason the AdScam Librano$: Martin, Chretien, Gagliano, et al, and Know-Nothing Dion Know-Nothing; Fear, Intimidation, Revenge. ...-

Montreal mob most powerful in world: hit man

CBC interview: Mafia in U.S. Is finished, informant says

A veteran American Mafia soldier and former hit man says Montreal's mobsters are by far the most significant gangsters in the world -- outpacing the notorious Five Families of New York that became synonymous with sophisticated crime....-
national post

Ontario Liberal Gov't of $$ Herr Doktor Gott McGuinty. ...-

Speak Out

Urge the federal government to treat all Canadians fairly, including those who live in Ontario.

Use or edit the message below.

Email your comments to the Prime Minister of Canada and the Minister of Finance.
http://www.fairness.ca/english/haveyoursay.asp
The Honourable Dr. Marie Bountrogianni
Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs

careful maz...those western folk sometimes think all of us Ontario folk resemble the TO/Ottawa moonbat crowd...outside of those cities is a different story...neglect, rural decline, no family doctors, school closings, declining economy, etc, etc, etc....then throw in premier mcliar and his non-tax tax increase....one does not have to travel far from the nation's capitol to see the decline of rural Ontario...natural governing party my a$%

RE Fairness.ca:
Have you not noticed that they are using the "Old Ontario Logo".
Boss Dalton changed it last summer to give his Ad Company buddies some work and have it strangely resemble the Ontario Liberal Party Logo.

Know-Nothing Dion knows-nothing about his country, France: the dhimmis of France? Incredible/incroyable.

"751 no-go [Muslim] areas have been identified by French law enforcement officials." ...-

Ottawa should protect against hate crimes: Dion
Canadian Press

MONTREAL -- Federal Liberal Leader Stephane Dion says Canada should follow the lead of the United States and France in protecting minority communities against hate crimes.

Dion and Quebec Public Security Minister Jacques Dupuis were in Montreal today touring a Muslim school that was hit earlier in the week by vandals....-

Attention Citoyen Dion. For Your Information:

A Blog For All: No Go Zones Spring Up In France
France is in real serious trouble, and the media is seriously underreporting ... 751 no-go areas have been identified by French law enforcement officials. ...
lawhawk.blogspot.com/2006/11/no-go-zones-spring-up-in-france.html

For your weekend entertainment: spam the whining Liberals. You can edit the comment section. Send Liar McGuinty your message.

http://www.fairness.ca/english/haveyoursay.asp

Do a Cherniak on the site. There is an Ontario election this year. Dump McGuinty. Tell Pinocchio to raise his own taxes. The taxpayer revolt starts here.

What say you, kingstonlad?

So Queerbac doesn't like the C17 contract. Tough shit, if Harper doesn't start to get of his ass and stop giving into Queerbec he is done for. Said this on another blog before the election. This killed Muldoon. I want a PM who looks after Canada not Queerbec they can just pack up and f off Bombardier are the biggest corporate welfare wankers in Canada

not sure what the strategy is yet, but something has got to give...
mc'ahole got to go, mc'ahole got to go
please let's save Ontario
that damn mc'ahole has got to go

Remembering Denny Doherty

"All the leaves are brown
And the sky is grey
I've been for a walk
On a winter's day
I'd be safe and warm
If I was in L.A."

Safe in L.A.? Maybe back in the '60's.

"California dreaming
On such a winter's day

Stopped into a church
I passed along the way
Well, I got down on my knees
And I pretend to pray"

Here's the key...prayer.
Prayer for our nation.
Prayer for our leaders.
Prayer for us.

"Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
but we will remember the name of the Lord our God." Psalm 20.

The hissing snakes at the Islamofascist front organisation, CAIR have recently claimed that Canada has 1 million Muslims. I thought that was impossible because I'd read it was not more than 600,000. Then I read how they do their "fastest growing" math:

While the number of Muslims is growing thanks to higher birthrates and immigration, it’s nowhere near CAIR’s claim. Even the most generous independent estimate puts it at half that size, or 4 million.

Finding reliable data for Muslims in America is hard because the Census Bureau does not survey creed. So CAIR, which has an agenda to Islamize America, has overfilled the vacuum.

To come up with its own figure, it hired a “respected scholar” by the name of Ihsan Bagby to lead its “study.” But Bagby not only lacks independence — he’s a CAIR board member — he’s not even a trained demographer.

Worse, he admits the number he arrived at is a “guesstimation.” Here’s how he came up with it:

1. With help from CAIR researchers, Bagby called the nation’s 1,209 mosques and interviewed 416 of them, asking them how many people were involved in their mosque in any way. The average response was 1,625, which is probably high, given that two imams claimed 50,000 when the nation’s largest mosque — Dar al-Hijrah in the D.C. suburbs — has only about 3,000.

2. Bagby then multiplied that fuzzy participation figure by the 1,209 mosques and came up with 2 million “mosqued Muslims.”

3. Next, he multiplied that sum by a magical factor of three to capture Muslims who might not participate in mosque activities, and arrived at the original 6 million guesstimate for the size of the Muslim population in America.

He says his factor of three was an educated guess. More like a wild exaggeration. Or perhaps a political calculation, as it produced a number that conveniently matched the size — and potential political clout — of the Jewish population in the country, also estimated at 6 million.

CAIR then took the liberty of bumping up the Muslim count to 7 million. Now — presto — it’s at 8 million, and climbing.

“Today, 8 to 10 million Muslims live in the United States,” claims Navy Lt. Cmdr. Abuhena Mohammed Saifulislam, who serves as Muslim chaplain for the new Marine mosque at Quantico, Va.

Dalton McGuinty can sure make announcements. Just don't count on any follow-through...

As of Oct. 31... wait for it... 408 Ontario patients had obtained PET scans through the registry
and 926 patients had scans as part of the clinical trials.

Quebec provides the broadest access to PET machines; this year, it plans to do 21,000 scans.
Patients can access PET scans in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and New Brunswick.

Never mind patient access... doctors have to be sent outside the country, just to be trained
on the potentially life-saving machines.

I can't help but notice the lack of commentary about what is coming out of the Feds these days as regards equalization.

Eastern press is touting Quebec to get something like 7.2 billion with this 50% trial balloon rather than the 5.5 billion more or less on the table. Sask. is touted to lose out. NF/Lab are touted to lose out. AB is bound to somehow pay more. Baird is certainly beginning to create uncertainty in the oil patch. It seems Fortier wants "more" of Boeing's money in P.Q., and on it goes.

The number one issue is, and will remain, national unity but it will continue to boil just below the radar. It has happened before that the Federal Conservatives have underestimated just how much the West will tolerate and for my part, they are once again beginning to walk on very thin ice.

It wouldn't be a good thing if silence on the part of western bloggers is interpreted as acquiescence to go ahead with whatever pandering to Quebec is deemed necessary in order to troll for P.Q. votes while taking the western vote for granted.

The MSM has done a masterful job at convincing the public at large that all of a sudden the Environment is the number one issue in Canada. How much of this has to do with attempting to promote that which is perceived to be helpful in getting "The Milkman" et al back into power.

The new AB premier seems to be walking very softly as regards the feds - perhaps to softly - but we shall see.

Is dion asking for a travel ban to france. Seems that could be a dangerous place.
Seems to be long lineups for cdn passports. Gee, with all the anti-US bashing for the past years, I wonder why all those cdns want to go there. Wonder how many of the are liberals. Another death in mexico, and some girl stated yesterday, at that other funeral, she would never ever go to Mexico. Wonder is she goes downtown in TO. Cdns are killed there also.

LET'S NOT FORGET THIS IS THE WEEKEND OF GARY MCHALE'S SECOND MARCH FOR FREEDOM IN THE ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED ONTARIO TOWN OF CALEDONIA.

Gary and supporters will risk arrest by OPP a second time in attempts to post a Canadian flag on public property ( telephone pole) where the SCC has ruled it is a charter right of freedom of expression to do so.

Mchale was arrested and help without charge the last time he went to put up a Canadian flag in a public zone where the OPP have allowed the flags of the six nations warriors to fly...however they say anyone ither than a native erecting a Canadian flag is provoking violence.

He has proven beyond doubt there is a race-based standard at work in the enforcement of the rule of law in Caledonia by the OPP and their boss in Toronto.

http://www.caledoniawakeupcall.com/latestnews.html

http://voiceofcanada.wordpress.com/

It's official and it must be true as it is a featured headline in the Vancouver Sun.

Climate Change is Real

B.C. Minister

Scott Simpson, Vancouver Sun
Published: Saturday, January 20, 2007

-A forthcoming report on climate change from the United Nations will leave little doubt that human activity is contributing to global warming, says British Columbia Environment Minister Barry Penner.

That report, from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is the first major scientific update on the situation since 2001 and will draw its conclusions from thousands of recent scientific research papers.-snip

Also , story on how NKs' dear leader pays for ICBMs and nukes. Story is buried on page a12 of the Van Sun but here is the fascinating headline(the story is locked),

-UN agency Accused of Funnelling Cash Aid to North Korean Leader -

You have to know that PM Harper's blatant sucking up to Quebec lately is treading on thin ice.

Does anybody else smell Lying Brian behind these moves?

Even the Toronto RedStar writer Jim Travers is saying (hoping?) that the CPC is opening itself up to the rise of yet another political party to represent the West. Or even the most dreaded of all Canadian political phenomenon, the Western Separatists.

I would think that all Westerners are really impressed with an UNELECTED Quebecer demanding more largesse from Ottawa.

-The Weather Channel Mess-is exploding. From a link at Maggies Farm/Drudge. Fascinating.

The Weather Channel Mess

January 18, 2007 | James Spann | Op/Ed

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. This is big money, make no mistake about it. Always follow the money trail and it tells a story. Even the lady at “The Weather Channel” probably gets paid good money for a prime time show on climate change. No man-made global warming, no show, and no salary. Nothing wrong with making money at all, but when money becomes the motivation for a scientific conclusion, then we have a problem. For many, global warming is a big cash grab.

*The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe.

If you don’t like to listen to me, find another meteorologist with no tie to grant money for research on the subject. I would not listen to anyone that is a politician, a journalist, or someone in science who is generating revenue from this issue.

In fact, I encourage you to listen to WeatherBrains episode number 12, featuring Alabama State Climatologist John Christy, and WeatherBrains episode number 17, featuring Dr. William Gray of Colorado State University, one of the most brilliant minds in our science.

WeatherBrains, by the way, is our weekly 30 minute netcast.

I have nothing against “The Weather Channel”, but they have crossed the line into a political and cultural region where I simply won’t go

just thought some of you folks might be interested in this story about Mr. Obama now that Mrs. Clinton has trown her hat in the ring. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2557001,00.html

This is an update on the "Religion of the Mothergoddess" & Her worshipers attempts a censorship by threats & bullying. By the very author of the plan to decertify any climotologist that disagree's with her fellow treasure hunters. This is a retraction??? lol (O:}

http://climate.weather.com/blog/9_11592.html

All this environmental crap is mostly a smoke screen to throw the lib/left idiots off course. Steel their loud-mouthed ideas and you defuse one of their main election planks, an old leftover ploy that seems to work with the public. Naturally, I hope like everyone else, that they actually do something positive. I think if anyone can Harper’s crew will. It would be a breath of fresh air after decades of liberal lies and grandiose promises unfulfilled.

Unfortunately, when you have such a large concentration of stupid people with voting power they do, Central Canada, it will be very hard to consistently get a working majority. Is there even a slight chance the brain dead in central Canada will ever know which side of the fence reality is on?

RALLY SUPPORTED TROOPS BY FORMING GIANT FLAG

It was a historic day at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown on Friday as thousands of people gathered to support 1,150 soldiers leaving for Afghanistan next week. ...-
http://www.canadaeast.com/ce2/docroot/article.php?articleID=93547

Meanwhile, the Islamophile CP, aka Canadian Press, runs this negative, Canadian Forces bashing, crap.
Down with CP. ...-

Canadians scramble to compensate Afghan farmers for land used to build road
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) ...-

RDREAM: Love the term treasure hunters. Maybe we should start calling all GW scientists, and their followers Pirates of the Truth, searching for treasure grants, from taxpayers pockets.

not trying a full tilt brag here, but I was at the university phys ed complex yesterday and did one of my new years resolutions already.

800 pounds on the leg press machine.

yup. not a typo. eight-zero-zero.

very good for a 55 yr old eh?

so I revised the objective to 900 and will document it when it happens then you will know Im not bluffing.

8 freakin HUNDRED pounds. 4 times my own weight. plus the weight of the bar and foot pad. and my knees arent even sore like they sometimes are at that level.

Oh, how things change
January 20, 2007

OTTAWA–Stephen Harper, who flew to Victoria this week to personally take part in the Conservatives' bid to play the "green" card they discarded months ago, is struggling to find a way to appeal to the mainstream as his reckoning with voters draws ever nearer. (Red Star of TO)...-

Red Star says: " [Harper]is struggling to find a way to appeal to the mainstream."

Here is Harper " struggling to find a way to appeal to the mainstream." Photo of Prime Minister Harper struggling. He shoots, he scores!

Well, Don, waddya think? Don: That boy Harper is a winner, for sure, eh?...-

Prime Minister Stephen Harper smiles as he makes a congratulatory phone call to Canada's U20 hockey team coach, Craig Hartsburg, from his office on Parliament Hill on Jan. 5. (Photo here):

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/173017

CNN reporting on the decline and fall of newspapers. Readership is down and so is ad revenue. Their question is IS PRINT ON ITS WAY OUT. Perhaps one way to improve newspapers is to start telling the truth, get rid of all biased and Bush hating editors, punish severly those like Jason Blair and his ilk,dDo some fact checking, tell both sides of GW, expose the false scientific "facts" and get back to honesty and fairness.
Some reporterette just stated she did not need to wear her winter coat in NY till Jan, and liked that until she started to worry about the polar bears and the ice cap. She felt guilty. Give me a break, how many of you are worrying about polar bears on your way to work.

For those interested in news on the Afghan conflict, we've moved our site to a new location.

http://www.afghanwatch.blogspot.com

Our local NDP MP is travelling the riding and offering public viewing and discussion of An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gores big movie).
Just curious if the NDP is doing this everywhere?

Vit...

Me thinks someone has a LOT of time on their hands...

Worse yet, I was wondering if I became the loon from staring at the YouTube video wondering when it was gonna change...

ha!

Global warming, er, climate change, er, climate injustice is merely the left's most brilliant propaganda campaign yet to prove:

MARKET FAILURE.

The old topics, of course, have been tried, and, er, proved to be wanting: e.g. state ownership of the means of production.

Recall, also that the NEW DEAL WELFARE STATE rose out of the propaganda of "market failure" leading to the Great Depression, which in reality was caused -- and extended -- by government intervention in the economy.

The Central Planning Elites are offended and threatened by the free market which it feels undervalues them.

Vitruvius:

Got a huge kick out of your loon production.
LOL.

Thanks.

It's interesting all the Liebral/Dipper spin that coming out about both the Equalization Payments and the Military Contracts. All of it is happening before any official announcements on the topic and always with a negative spin.

Nice thing about reading the blogs is that you get to recognize the crap for what it is.

Go Steve!!

Just wondering: Harper is from Alberta and is our PM. Dion is from Que and wants to be PM (of Que & TO). There are separtist movements in both provinces and one or both of them will go eventually. Which guy is going to have to move.
Which province leaving will do the most harm to the center of the universe, TO. Which one would demand concessions to stay. What would they be. We know que would demand our money. Alberta would demand, senate elections, firing all SCJ and start over, abolish the cbc, use the notwithstanding clause for all court rulings that are against the traditional family, give Christains & Jews the right to practice their faiths, and display symbols of same. Take away all prayer rooms in schools and public places for muslims. That is not too much to ask for is it. Que wants all your money with no strings and Alberta would give cdns freedom.

"Quebec quarrel delays military aircraft delivery
Boeing pressed to spend in province"

Isn't this just a metaphor for our confederation? Canadian taxpayers, overwhelmingly located in Ontario and the West, foot the bill for the aircraft and Quebec demands, and usually gets, the lion's share of any benefits.

Plus ca change, etc etc.

The black and white "holstein" police cars are returning to Ontario roads. Go Fantino. ...-

Long-weekend traffic ‘blitzes’ a thing of the past: Fantino

There’s nothing funny or cute about traffic safety, says Ontario’s new provincial police commissioner, who has put an end to media-friendly long-weekend vehicle “blitzes” and their high-profile spokesman.

Julian Fantino said Thursday the blitzes will be replaced by an “unrelenting” daily pursuit of aggressive and irresponsible drivers on the highways. He will also end the media hits that made OPP officer Cam Woolley a popular staple on the airwaves.

Woolley’s breezy, often funny approach to police discoveries of such violations as driving without brakes, too many people in a car or large portions of vehicles rusted away were a popular part of weekend radio and television news reports.

Fantino said he doesn’t want to hear any more “humorous stories about those who compromise public safety” — colourful anecdotes that he complained members of the media tend to focus on.

“I think it trivializes the carnage and the reality of the danger that’s out there.” ...-
via jack's newswatch

Media Blackout: "I Shot the Non-Muslim"

The assassination of Turkish-Armenian writer Hrant Dink is being universally portrayed as ethnic strife, a political act by Turkish nationalists against an Armenian critic.

Call me Mr. Suspicious, but when I see the entire media monolith pushing an idea like that with so much enthusiasm, I start looking for the real explanation.

And the real explanation, as with so many of these media smokescreens, is jihad. Turkish-Armenian editor shot dead in Istanbul. (Hat tip: Paul.)

NTV television said Dink had been shot three times in the head and neck.

Muharrem Gozutok, a restaurant owner near the newspaper, said the assailant looked about 20, wore jeans and a cap and shouted “I shot the non-Muslim” as he left the scene.

This little piece of essential information is now being excised from all wire service and media reports....-
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

I sent this article to Mark Steyn. More of the same in the future in a multitude of ares I foresee. As this Cult tries to dominate us all.

Seeking timeout for prayer
Muslim students weary of huddling under bleachers to pray during sporting events want Northwestern to come up with an alternative

THis is the letter that acompanied it.

More proof that Mr. Steyn is on track. This premeditated thrust continues On the West template of fairness by Islamists on all fronts

This may seem petty, but under their Religion your permitted to pray while closing your eyes. As are Christians. No need of spectacle.

That the “Religion of Demands” has now requested special prayer rooms at a sporting event with other implied else ware. Is yet another jump at an attempt to make us dance to Muslim needs. Indeed other ways of dhimmitude are suggested for Islamic convenience by their spokesman.

Where are the prayer rooms for Christians, Wicca’s, with a bevy of other beliefs systems needs? Why are their needs less than Islam’s?

In the end I predict if they give in. Next it will be to stop the game while prayers are said. Than segregation by sex, so Muslims can feel comfortable. Eventually it will be all Muslims sections with only prayers to Allah. Than even none Muslim Women will be at least forced to cover there faces. This is subtle bullying, in anticipation of major social zietgiestian change by PC mandated multicult intolerance. Used by these addicts of rage, to compel us all into this cult. Law by statute, bylaws & State decree’s, judicial fiat, we eventually will find our freedoms wrested from us by imbeciles of Liberal social dogma, applied to the Polity. Just watch.

Oh by the way, God help the mascot that’s a pig.

I fear for this civilization. Our Protestant mainline churches more interested in Poopery than Popery. Catholic Christianity has become a spiritual MacDonald’s. While venial Christians have become strip malls instead of sanctuary’s Where will the fortitude come from unless as Mark says we go back to our founding principles. Which I have to agree is nigh impossible to persuade against the prevailing cultural mind set?

America Alone opens up this Pandora’s box. With Marks Three punch approach. His Swiftonian social concern. Biting in its Mark Twain like humor, of human nature, Steeped in the prophetic tradition, of warning of the punishment of ones own twisted folly or sin as they used to call it. Of not growing up, or living in a poetic lotus land of egotism without potential reason with no chance of fulfillment. Least of all achievement, individually or socially.

Hopefully there is hope at the end of this infectivity of barbarism. In this box of misery the gods of liberalism have forced upon us all. Lets hope your not the Cassandra of this age. Only open eye’s, & ears will change the deluge to come I fear.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-0701190254jan19,1,2459251.story?coll=chi-newslocalchicago-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

RE: Turkish-Armenian Murdered

Ah ... I see , the guy runs away shouting "I shot the non-Muslim" and he is labeled a right-wing extremist by the MSM rather than a Muslim extremist.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/needtoknow/2007/01/turkeys_trouble_with_minoritie.html

Ali Ettefagh - The murder of Hrant Dink in Istanbul by right-wing extremists may well shatter Turkey's chances of joining the European Union.

Anyone catch the bit on Global about a new law in Kentville, NS to fine people for "excessive idling" of their cars.

This will, of course be for everyone's benefit. Not only will it help save the environment - it will reduce fuel costs for everyone.

OK - so it's not a national thing yet. But, how long could it take? I can't believe how scary this is getting. Instead of tackling real issues like crime, our leaders take more and more of our money and use it to repress us more and more...and most "good Canadians" think that this is good.

When did the brainwashing begin? How did it get to this point? When did we lose our way?

"Canada is a long thin string of population held together by bribes" - the ECONOMIST 1985

Some things never change. - 2007

Wonder if any cbc non muslims are starting to see the light. How many reporters have been killed by those muslims. Could it happen in TO around the cbc.

Liberal party leader Stephane Dion is Citoyen Dion of France and Citizen Dion of Canada.
Dion and his ilk have one goal; the destruction of Canada as a sovereign nation state.
The goal of Dion is utopia; a socialist utopia in Canada. Down with Dion and socialism. ...-

Introduction: utopia vs. nationhood
The New Criterion ^ | January 2007 | Roger Kimball
Excerpt:

Today, the nation state, that territorially based network of filiation bound together through shared history, custom, law, and language, is under greater siege than at any time since the dissolution of the Roman Empire. The external threat of radical Islam—pardon the pleonasm—may be the geatest threat to Western civilization since 1571 when the Battle of Lepanto checked the incursion of what we used to call the paynim foe into Europe. Daniel Johnson is undoubtedly right when he observes that “We must rid ourselves of any illusion that we can eliminate the contrasts between Islam and the West: the Koran is not about to be interpreted less literally, Muslims are not about to embrace Western ideas of toleration or terrorism, and jihad will remain a fundamental part of the Islamic attitude to the rest of mankind.” But in the end, perhaps the greatest threat to the West lies not in its external enemies, no matter how hostile or numerous, but in its inner uncertainty—an uncertainty that is all-too-often celebrated as an especially enlightened form of subtlety and sophistication—about who we are. Johnson is right, too, in stressing the importance of the nation state as a bedrock of Western identity—a foundation we can abandon, whether through the embrace of judicial or bureaucratic fiat or the slow-drip method of unchaperoned immigration, only at our peril.

The attack on the nation state—a less orotund formulation might say our unwitting self-demolition—proceeds apace on several fronts. The essays below offer a sort of pathologist’s report as well as some suggestions for therapy. As to the latter, it’s a never-ending prescription, but its fundamental requirements are clear. As Keith Windschuttle puts it below,

there is no mystery about how to combat the long campaign waged by the intelligentsia to undermine the nation and to create “community without nation.” It requires a contest for ideas and a contest for the electorate. It means rejecting racial, ethnic, sexual, and religious compartmentalization, as well as the vast legal and ideological baggage accumulated in its train. It means regarding victimhood not as a virtue but a weakness. It means reviving national history as a political narrative and putting the interests of the democratic majority first. In the English-speaking world, it means reviving the values of the thousand-year-old British tradition. The fact that so many influential Western political and intellectual figures have today either forgotten or discarded these once elementary values and interests is a measure of how much ground there is to reclaim. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1770904/posts

MSM, especially G&M and TStar are falling over themselves to find some crack in Harper's armour. It's kind of funny to read. PMSH is a dictator, and then when he does what they want on the environent, he has stolen ideas from Liberals.

G&M has story about Dion - is he cold or is he brilliant. Conclusion - not only is he brilliant, he is a warm, funny guy too. I don't know where they get that from.

I don't think they can keep it up, but they will try. Looks like they have a year before the writ is even dropped. Taber, Oliver, Travers et al will be utterly exhausted by then, given the flurry of policy announcements and budget coming this year.

Assuming Dion doesn't put his foot in his mouth, and it isn't buried like his "don't go north, young man" quip, Harper is still in great shape.

I feel really good about CPC prospects, possibly a majority, given we will likely start with better support than last election.

We are in for a treat of alarmism, misrepresentation, malice of forthought and outright chicanery from the Liberals and their fearless, though waning, MSM supporters.

Liberals know they must prevent CPC majority at all costs. Trouble they went at all costs last time to prevent majority; plus now the second team is in, waiting for their opportunity.

The Liberal Party of Canada's ability to direct your life, and of course your wallet, is threatened, once again. The only thing that can save them is the Dion "Dream-On" team!

Good Luck Mr Harper

Librano$: Lying liars.
There is no end to their pathological evil. The vileness of the Chretien-Martin criminal regime is shown here.
Citizen Dion was/is a prominent Librano$ who participated willingly, with forethought, in this corrupt regime.
Canadians must reject Dion and his Librano$. Down with the Librano$. ...-

Former Liberal adviser said he did no real work

[This paragraph captions a photo of Martin with a Sikh bandana and RubyRuby in headdress.]

Prime Minister Paul Martin speaks with Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla before speaking to the Sikh community during Khalsa day celebrations in Toronto, on April 24, 2005. (CP PHOTO/Adrian Wyld)

OTTAWA — Liberals may be basing their skepticism about the value of MP Wajid Khan's report to Stephen Harper on their own experience with special prime ministerial advisers.

Onetime Liberal MP Sarkis Assadourian says he never did a day's work after being appointed a special adviser to former prime minister Paul Martin.

Shortly before the 2004 election, Assadourian agreed to step aside in his Brampton riding so that a star recruit, Ruby Dhalla, could run for the Liberals in his stead. In return, Martin gave him a job as a special foreign policy adviser.

"They put out a press release and he said to the media and the nation with a straight face I was working with him as (his) adviser on the south Caucasus and Middle East," Assadourian said in an interview.

"The whole thing was a lie . . . I never a single day worked in his office. I was never paid a single penny."

At the same time, Martin named MP Sophia Leung as a special adviser on international trade and emerging markets. She stepped aside in her Vancouver riding for star recruit David Emerson, who later defected to the Tories.

At the time, a Martin spokeswoman said that Assadourian and Leung would not be paid for their advisory roles as long as they remained MPs. Whether they'd be paid after the election was to be "decided at that time."

Assadourian said that after the election, Martin's office wouldn't even return his phone calls, although he ostensibly remained a special adviser.

Asked if he regrets accepting Martin's job offer and giving up his seat, Assadourian said: "I regret knowing him as a person."

Martin eventually appointed Assadourian to the Immigration and Refugee Board. ...-
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070120/libs_khan_070120/20070120?hub=QPeriod

Dion is the dictator, and the power of leading the opposition has gone to his head. I will appoint female candidates, (left them out of his shadow cabinet), I don't want Trudeau or Kennedy to be candidates, they are not my star people. Wonder who is his stars. My dream team, I will have no green house gases. Whereas Harper says the New government, etc. All those msm talking and writing heads, kissing a** for years, seeing their senate appointments going the way of the dodo bird. Giggles was hoping to be the next GG, but she would be eliminated as a liberal PM will appoint some muslim terrorist.

Vitruvius - Loved the loons post.

Sorry I couldn't comment on your pizza post ... I couldn't get a youtube on The Moon Is Made Of Green Cheese by Steve Bledsoe ... which fits the food theme that you propose.

I suspect that you are advocating to get rid of the Potato Bar's 1000 toppings as well as the free potato (free to all that don't pay for it or toppings). The teat suckers don't like this type of stuff much.

Stephane Dion, leader of the Canadian Liberal Party of Canada, and wannabe Prime Minister of Canada, is a citizen of France.
Has Dion made any public statement(s), any public comment(s), in regard to the charges of genocide made against France?
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France accused on Rwanda killings

BBC NEWS ^ | 2006/10/24 | NA
A former senior Rwandan diplomat has told a tribunal that France played an active role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Former Rwandan ambassador to Paris Jacques Bihozagara said French involvement stemmed from concerns about its diminishing influence in Africa. France has denied playing any role in the 100-day frenzy of killing in which 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died. After the hearings, the Rwandan panel will rule on whether to file a suit at the International Court of Justice. The panel is headed by former Justice Minister Jean de Dieu Mucyo and its proceedings, which began in the Rwandan capital, Kigali,...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1770975/posts

Thanks Ural and Me No Dhimmi, I'm glad you enjoyed tinyurl.com/y6u8kn - The reason the image doesn't change, Tomax7, is that this was my first experiment with using YouTube to post an audio file, and apparently it has to have some sort of image to go with it, so I just picked one of the default ones to see if it would work at all. Next time I'll try to be a bit more creative.

Vitruvius, you need to put a cautionary advisory on your site: "do not play while holding/drinking hot liquids"

Another example of mis reporting by the media, re the Energuide Program. Lots of antiHarper crap for dropping this program. Today, we find out that the program doesn't stop till March 31, 2007, end of fiscal year. Cheques still going out for that program. As was stated, you can't drop a program instantly, if it has been put in the budget. Guess the government has been greener than the media and liberals have said. A new program, starting today, was announced, and it is directly aimed at individuals and businesses, to cut back daily emmissions. Grants available up to 5,000./pd after retrofitting is done. Also, it was stated much money was paid for audits but the nothing was done, this time, you get an audit, do the changes then get the money. Now all the critics are out attacking the announcement. Seems the Harper is willing to spend the money in Canada, instead of buying hot air from China.

Eastern block countries continue to phish-farm the west for criminal profit. Jan/20-21/06.

Bad part is that there is no cooperation in closing their servers nasty habits.

Good part is it hardens our defenses over time, but what a waste of time.

since midnight GMT the Trojan has accounted for over two thirds of all malware reports seen at Sophos's global network of monitoring stations, accounting for an infection rate of 1 in 200 of all emails being sent across the net.

Subject lines used in the malicious emails include, but may not limited to, the following:
230 dead as storm batters Europe.
British Muslims Genocide
Naked teens attack home director.
A killer at 11, he's free at 21 and kill again!
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has kicked German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Attached to the emails are files with names such as Full Clip.exe, Full Story.exe, Full Video.exe, Read More.exe, Video.exe which contain malicious code.

"Whoever is behind this spam campaign has generated an aggressive storm of email in the last 12 hours, and some inboxes will be feeling battered by the deluge. On average, 1 in every 200 emails that people have received since midnight are likely to be infected by this Trojan horse," explained Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. *Receiving or reading the emails themselves does not mean that you will be infected. However, users must be very careful not to click on the attached file inside the emails as that will install a Trojan horse on their computer and put your PC in peril.*
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If nothing else, todays discussion by the critics is bringing out the fact that it will cost homeowners over 5000. (15,000) to meet Kyoto. Wonder how many y2kyoto supporters are aware that this will hit them in the wallet, not just Alberta oil industries.
Liberal critic trying to say the minister of natural resourses was recently meeting in Washington and did he cut a deal to increase oilsands production by 5 fold. Guess he hasn't read SDA. He should be told that dion knew nothing about said meeting, by and for the liberals, a year ago. How out to lunch are the cbc moderaters to let him get away with that stmt. Another e-mail going to Bev asking for cbc funding to be cut 75% and the money be re-invested in environmental programs.

Hackers steal Skr8m from Nordea accounts in trojan attack
Cyber fraudster have looted more than SKr8 million from Nordea bank accounts in just three months after unleashing a trojan program which is designed to steal account details and passwords.

According to local press reports, Russian criminals have been using Trojan viruses to infect the computers of Nordea customers. More than 250 customers are thought to have fallen victim so far.

The Trojan e-mail encourages recipients to download a spam-fighting application. The program activates when users log in to online accounts and saves any data submitted - including one-time passwords used by Nordea customers. The application also displays an error message asking the customer to resend the info so the criminals end up with two access codes.

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Problem: Russian authority does nothing.
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3www's.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmVU08zVpA&eurl=

Warning, don't drink coffee while you watch this, it could be hazardous.

this one didnt make CBCpravda , it agin their liberal strategy.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070120/libs_khan_070120/20070120?hub=Politics

This guy makes me proud to be a newbie. And makes me ashamed to send money every month to NB Power.

"A military reservist has resigned after NB Power refused him a leave of absence to deploy to Afghanistan. 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."

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

Digital democracy at risk if telecoms get their way say opponents.
By Bryan Zandberg
Published: January 17, 2007

TheTyee.ca
Net neutrality. A bland phrase capable of sparking a digital revolt.

In the United States it's the hot-button Internet issue of the day, a threat deemed so grave to free expression it gave rise to a stunning right-left coalition and galvanized celebrities and rock icons like REM with church groups, rights groups, academics, the CEOs of Google and Amazon, web pioneers Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee and the 1.5 million Americans who sent a petition to Congress. (Not to mention providing the raison d'être for this hip short film primer on the topic.)

In Canada, on the other hand, the latest count on Kevin McArthur's online net neutrality petition clocks in at, well, a paltry 217 signatures. [ This site is a must see =TG] . . .

neutrality.ca/

It's not that the fight over net neutrality doesn't matter in Canada. At issue here, as in the United States, is whether telecom companies can favour some Internet sites over others by charging different rates to different customers and making some sites much easier to access than others. Critics say the practice threatens the Internet's level playing field and would stifle smaller independent voices on the web.

thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2007/01/17/NetNeutrality/?source=enews220107

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So once again the bullies at Rogers AT&T get to push us around some more. These same *Bull of the woods* giants who were denied the right to amalgamate by US regulators yet did an end run and got their way after all. = TG

Digital democracy at risk if telecoms get their way say opponents.
By Bryan Zandberg
Published: January 17, 2007

TheTyee.ca
Net neutrality. A bland phrase capable of sparking a digital revolt.

In the United States it's the hot-button Internet issue of the day, a threat deemed so grave to free expression it gave rise to a stunning right-left coalition and galvanized celebrities and rock icons like REM with church groups, rights groups, academics, the CEOs of Google and Amazon, web pioneers Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee and the 1.5 million Americans who sent a petition to Congress. (Not to mention providing the raison d'être for this hip short film primer on the topic.)

In Canada, on the other hand, the latest count on Kevin McArthur's online net neutrality petition clocks in at, well, a paltry 217 signatures.
[ This site is a must see =TG] . . .

neutrality.ca/

It's not that the fight over net neutrality doesn't matter in Canada. At issue here, as in the United States, is whether telecom companies can favour some Internet sites over others by charging different rates to different customers and making some sites much easier to access than others. Critics say the practice threatens the Internet's level playing field and would stifle smaller independent voices on the web.

thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2007/01/17/NetNeutrality/?source=enews220107

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So once again the bullies at Rogers AT&T get to push us around some more. These same *Bull of the woods* giants who were denied the right to amalgamate by US regulators yet did an end run and got their way after all. = TG