wow Kate you're up early. ;)

I was wondering about the 'connection' also...not too much of a stretch to connect the dots.
...hate to repeat it but if a union leader like Perly had any connection to any CPC member this would have been headlines on MSM...CTV is doing a cute movie review on NewsNet....
Does the 'man on the street' know any of this stuff?Bloggers comment about the Liberal train wreck, but as long as MSM keeps protecting the Libs it could still safely slide in to the station.
Any one know where Peter Mansbridge is these days? Bev Oda's office calling...

VF - You said what I was thinking.....

Sigh.....

A staunch Dion supporter out west is up on drug charges allegedly carried in a backpack.
Big money involved according to media reports.
Brown envelopes in the east, backpacks in the west.
Maybe there is a lesson for young first time voters in the next election.
"Beware of Libs with backpacks and carrying brown envelopes"
So is Chretien still advising Dion?

Dion's support for the 'safe injection sites' is a blatant Vote-Buying tactic. He's after the left vote.
So is Jack Layton - now, we have Layton with his 'no fees at bank machines!'.

I think we are going to see a lot more of this 'surface-vacuuming' for votes - where Layton and Dion are trying to keep themselves in the public eye, the superficial public eye, the MSM eye that focuses primarily on local short-term public interest 'catchy' items.

They are, in effect, both moving into the Gossip Items. The big government will be left out, as the MSM won't focus on that; the MSM acts, more and more, as a Gossip Rag - and that's where we are going to see Layton and Dion trying to get voters on their side.

I wonder if Dion also supports my son getting a $7800 insulin pump and $250-$300/month supplies for the privilege of continuing to live with his Type 1 - Insulin Dependent Diabetes?

When is Dion coming out to offer these people job skills training, counselling, and alternatives to confirming a destructive lifestyle.

Thank you, Celine! I had no idea Harper was going to de-fund the injection sites. What a great idea! More reason to like the Harper government.

Maybe taxpayers should be forced to buy booze for alcoholics too. Wouldn't Dion's plan constitute discriminatory action against a class of people (alcoholics) who are "differently addicted"?

"But Mr. Dion does not personally know Mr. Holmes, according to Mr. Cunningham."

Well there it is in plain libberish.
Or "Make believe" as Mark Steyn said.
.
This means that Dion personally knows millionaire coke dealer Perley Holmes. That's why the let's elect libs cheerleading squad had to have one of Celine's handlers lie for him in their newspaper.
Dion is not responsible for the words of some hack, if Dion denied knowing Holmes, he could be proven a liar.

Now for all the pictures of Perley and Dion hiking together.

"Maybe taxpayers should be forced to buy booze for alcoholics too."

Dennis

Already done Dennis.
Our far left city council in TO buys booze to keep the homeless around and the real taps flowing.

They should buy hookers for sex addicts as well.

"Economy, Social Justice, and Heroin-Addiction Sustainability!"

When is vancouver going to allow safe smoking cigarette sites and buying the cigs. I love chocolate, is there a place I can go to get free chocolates. I think the money would be better spent on medical supplies and equipment for those that need them. I do like Laytons no bank fees idea. People have no idea that they are losing up to 50.00/month from them. We sould have a 3 strikes your out law re addicts. The 3rd time said addict is carried off to the hospital should be the last. These addicts should be asked the same question I am when my grandson is having a seizure, Do you want him resusitated, Yes I say, and get the answer But you must consider his quality of life. And, I reply, when he is not having a seizure he has a great life. Difference is that we do everything in our power to prevent them, and have succeeded (from 1 every 3 months, to 4 yrs seizure free). Drug addicts make no changes to their life.

Hans Rupprecht says
"I wonder if Dion also supports my son getting a $7800 insulin pump and $250-$300/month supplies for the privilege of continuing to live with his Type 1 - Insulin Dependent Diabetes?"

I totally agree, my wife is in the same position. What these left wing thick as plank retards don't understand is, drug abuse is a choice. Diabetes isn't. Is Stephanie's universal death care system going to fund free insulin and needles.

Next up: safe injection sites in every ATM booth.

addendum to NCF TO

"Next up: safe injection sites in every ATM booth." and subsidized daycare as well. One stop shopping. Vertical integration and all that BS.

my thoughts with your son. diabetes research continues, there is hope. Banting House is about 4 blocks from my place.

Lets not forget the 83 kilos of coke that were found on Paul Martins CSL ship. There is also the Basi drug scandal.

Drug peddlars seem to be attracted to membership in the Liberal Party of Canada.

Liberal supporter Perley Holmes brings the drugs in and then Liberal leader Stephany Dion pushes them on the streets of Vancouver.

Isn't there a law against this?

Kate,

How in the world are you making the connection between those two linked stories? The way you are portraying it, Dion is faced with making up his mind between the two, when in reality, they really have nothing to do with each other.

How about your party making up its mind as to whether you guys are Canada's "new" government, or simply the old Reform party dressed up real purttttty....:

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/175169

I am assuming that this won't be posted because of Kate's filtering.

No johnny even when you lie and bullshit we still beleive in the right to free speach. We just know your full of it.

Crime = The Liberal party of Canada.

The message remains the same.

Judging by Jonathan Ross' post, it's still a real sore spot. Heh.

Rascally Rabbit said "hookers". In the newspeak practiced at the CBC etc., the proper term is "sex trade workers". They work hard for their money, unlike the easy money made by dirty, sweaty men working in the Alberta oilsands.

dressed up real purttttty....:

Jonnie
It's " dressed up, reeeal puurty lak "

I mean it's the cliche latent homosexual, anal rapist, stump toothed US hillbilly you were goin fer eh?!

I appologize if I misread ad hominem POS swipe.

And consider JR's souce. I made the leap and went over to read the Tranna Twinkling Red Star.( grab the gravol first) Big coverage of a lame joke about 'government employees' in the CPC MP's e-mail, cuz it has a 'racist' slant in it.
No mention of the union boss who supports Dion being nabbed with 4 million worth of drugs...well it was only coke...

Dion on CKNW this morning, is asked by a caller why he seems to think everything wrong in Canada happened in the last year under PMSH:

- well, yes we are in the penalty box, but we can come out now
- he wants to build on great things Libs have done in the past (of course with rhetoric of "social justice").

He also stated Harper government signed off on Afghan without consulting our allies. Is he kidding?

He was asked why the Liberal party wasn't cancelled after Adscam like Airborne Regiment after Somalia. He was also asked why Liberals gutted the military.

Again, he gave a non-answer. Basically he argues it was a trade-off between healthcare and the military. Funny how both declined since 93 (and before too). I guess the HRDC, Adscam, entitlements to entitlements were OK too.

He was asked about his French dual citizenship. He answered he intends to keep it because it is part of who he is. No question regarding Royal comment and what that would mean if she were elected.

Basically he said nothing. I haven't heard a firm policy, apart from dealing with "toxics."

I didn't hear anything that concerns me that this guy can capture the public's imagination.

One more thing. After PMSH's Arar announcement, Dion replied that, while he was pleased with the apology, he wants to know what Harper knew about the "change of story" (presumably RCMP Comish).

Hello, Mr Dion, the Arar scandal happened on Liberal's watch.

Keep it coming, buddy.

I really have no idea how these neanderthal attitudes are so readily embraced within Canada's "new" government.

In this thread:

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/005412.html#comments

Kate's army of cave dwellers are so baffled as to why a joke calling a person of aboriginal descent "Tonto" and "Chief" might be considered inappropriate.

Where is the mystery?

Instead of just condemning what should clearly be offensive to everyone regardless of political affiliation, the only response is a tactic of attack and obfuscate.

"The joke isn't offensive to Aboriginals..."

"The Liberals support drug smuggling..."

"An email joke is much better than the Liberals' criminal past..."

Is that the best all of you can come up with?

When Carolyn Parrish while still a Liberal MP made disparaging comments about the "influence of the Jewish lobby," I cried foul like many others did. It disgusted me.

Why? Because it didn't matter that she was a Liberal MP...what did matter was that she was completely out of line. Period.

If you choose to embrace these kinds of attitudes, then that is your choice. But trying to divert attention, or lessen the impact of finding humour in such a slur, is very telling about the horrors that the Conservative party hosts within.

And don't even get me started with the screen captures I have in my possession where Kate denigrates Aboriginal peoples...

Hmmmm the party of drug legalization supported by drug smugglers and drug money....makes sense to me.

I hate giving any business to The Red Star so let me guess without actually following JR's link. It is a link to a Red Star news article about some goof balls from the left whingers, who worship at The Church of the Perpetually Offended.

Jonathan did you forget your meds this morning.

It's almost like Dion wants to be rediculed. His dog's name for instance. The last peculiar socialist that named his dog after his agenda was "blondi". This is making it far too easy for the cartoonists. I think it may be a ploy to try and flush out da big conservative bullies and dar racist agendas no?

"And don't even get me started with the screen captures I have in my possession where Kate denigrates Aboriginal peoples..."

Is this guy serious? Somehow he is going to bring the Conservative Party down by...saving old blog posts from Kate in Saskatchewan, who has nothing to do with politics? Hey, how do I sign up for your consulting services? What a great strategy.

John,

Mr. Mayes was commenting on the joke he didn't write the friggin joke you puttz. By the way did you hear the one about the white guy that goes into the Dollar store...........ahh forget it.

Johnathan says:

"army of cave dwellers"

Would that be H.'australopithecus', H.'neanderthalensis', H. 'Australopithecus habilis', or 'Kenyanthropus platyops'?

Well at least us "small dead animals" have the good sense to 'get out of the rain' unlike yourself.

OT but, the liberals have just cost cdn taxpayers 10.5 million dollars plus 2 million for legal fees. I still don't believe Arar was tortured.
I hope that money is taxable, and I hope that it is taken out of equalization pymts to quebec. Were the liberals expecting to pay this money to Arar from drug sales, if they had been re-elected. I object to this payment, but Harper was forced into it. How many more messes are in the closet for him to clean up with our money. I wonder how much of that will find its way back to Syria, or the real cave dweller, OBL.

He said he found it funny, you idiot.

I stated:

"...trying to divert attention, or lessen the impact of finding humour in such a slur, is very telling about the horrors that the Conservative party hosts within."

I never said he wrote the joke.

And Kate doesn't have anything to do with politics?

Hmmmmmm....:

"Stephen Taylor, co-founder of The Blogging Tories, is one of the most prominent political
bloggers in Canada. He says bloggers broke several stories during the campaign...

Taylor and Kate McMillan, of the blog small dead animals, collaborated on lengthy posts trying to convince their readers that Martin had orchestrated a dust-up with the US early on in the campaign, at the United Nations Climate
Change Conference in Montreal."

http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/mar06/bowman.pdf

Question: "Do you think you could ever be married to, or in a long-term relationship with, someone with radically different political views from your own?"

Kate's Answer: "Probably not. My political beliefs have evolved out of my lifestyle and personality."

http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2005/07/the_normblog_pr_3.html

But no, she has nothing to do with politics, eh? Hahaha

Jonathan, dude, lighten up. It was a JOKE!

Okay, how about this: let's change one of the protagonists. Go to this link (not mine so not a gratuitous self-plug):

thealbertaardvark.blogspot.com/2007/01/fw-good-joke.html

Kate's army of cave dwellers are so baffled as to why a joke calling a person of aboriginal descent "Tonto" and "Chief" might be considered inappropriate.
The joke was mocking bureaucrats, Einstein, not Natives.

mary T says "I do like Laytons no bank fees idea. People have no idea that they are losing up to 50.00/month from them." Mary.....if people are that stupid, then I don't think they should be out in public alone.

Kate has nothing to do with politics?

Hmmmmm...:

http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/mar06/bowman.pdf

"Stephen Taylor, co-founder of The Blogging Tories, is one of the most prominent political
bloggers in Canada. He says bloggers broke several stories during the campaign...

Taylor and Kate McMillan, of the blog small dead animals, collaborated on lengthy posts trying to convince their readers that Martin had orchestrated a dust-up with the US early on in the campaign, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal."

http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2005/07/the_normblog_pr_3.html

"Question: Do you think you could ever be married to, or in a long-term relationship with, someone with radically different political views from your own?

Kate's Answer: Probably not. My political beliefs have evolved out of my lifestyle and personality."

Yeah, she's very apolitical. hahaha

jonathan ross. Go see the movie 'Borat'. Go read Mordechai Richler's books. Hey- go see the movie 'Maverick'. Stop being so smug and pompously self-righteous - and learn to laugh. At yourself. At others.

There's absolutely no comparison between Parrish's criticism of Jewish influence (the Jewish lobby) - and a JOKE!!!!

Oh - you just called everyone who posts to Kate's blog an 'army'. Shocking. And 'cave-dwellers'. Shocking. Were you criticizing us - and therefore, deserving of our criticism of you? Or, were you joking - and we can laugh along with you? which is it? These are two DIFFERENT sentences and I'm sure you can see the difference.

army...ok, I did 8 yrs reg force
cave dweller....well, actually, I live in a very nice 4 level home, c/w home theatre, fireplaces, hot tub, games room, hardwood floors...u get the picture

can't speak for the rest of the knuckle-draggers, but I happen to be an atheist, pro-choice son of an immigrant

so, please, jonathon, keep your typecasting bigotry to yourself, and stick to the facts

"And don't even get me started with the screen captures I have in my possession where Kate denigrates Aboriginal peoples..."

This running "I have the screen capture" claim is interesting - I see it all the time on leftie blogs.

While I occasionally update or edit a post after the fact for typos/sentence construction or to add or correct information, I think I've only pulled two of the over 5000 made here in the past three years (one of no importance that I just decided wasn't good enough within minutes of writing it, and the other at the request of the person I linked to and quoted because it was inaccurate).

Neither had anything to do with aboriginals.

Jonathon Ross says he has "screenshots" - but neglects to provide the links to alleged denigrating commentary.

Which brings me to challenge you, Jonathon Ross - put your money on the table. Provide the links, or retract your accusation.

Jonathan is playing the typical Liberal moral superiority card.

"When Carolyn Parrish while still a Liberal MP made disparaging comments about the "influence of the Jewish lobby," I cried foul like many others did."

He cried foul to whom? The TV?

Yet, did he cry foul when the Liberal bagmen stole taxpayer money? Did he cry foul over the boondoggled billions in programs such as the long gun registry? Did he cry foul when Crime Minister Chretien was caught on camera strangling a protestor? How about when Scott Reid publicly declared "Alberta can blow me?" Or when 83 Kilograms of coke were found on Paul Martin's ship? How about Paul Martin's tax haven? Or when Coderre marched in solidarity with Muslims supporting Hamas, a terrorist group? Or the known Liberal support and fund raising for the Tamil Tigers? Or Brison's insider trading? Or the horrifying increase in CO2 emissions that the Liberals allowed to happen?

Moral superiority?

Right. By remaining a Liberal inspite of all the corruption, Jonathan has proven he has the moral terpitude of a snake.

I don't think, "I have in my possession where Kate denigrates Aboriginal peoples..." compares to this punk's criminal support and affiliation.

It amazes me that we, the electorate put supposedly mature people into office and then end up with 'Na Na; he said...she said...you did a bad thing...let's get rid of him' BS.

I mean talk about grasping at thin reeds !

As was already pointed out,the guy didn't write it or say it, he just commented on it upon receiving it in his in-box.

This then begs the question of who did write it and in what context?

And that leads to the next question as to what exactly was in said E-mail, or are we so PC correct now that the masses can't know for fear of tainting their feeble minds.

There just isn't enough information available to draw a coherent conclusion.

I hear silly jokes all the time ,some clever and others over the line and depending on circumstances would rarely admonish the jokester.Instead I may choose to ignore them but that is pretty much it.After all we are not supposed to be our brother's keeper.

This whole incident borders on absurdity and is a gross waste of money and valuable time.

And also one could ask what is a disgruntled employee doing in someone's private mailbox?

However in closing I would like to note that as the Left snipes it should be duly noted that they didn't seem to mind when Hedy Fry slandered the good citizens of Prince George BC with her timely remarks about burning crosses.

Nor was she forced to resign.

Jonnie
Who were the last "peoples" to simultaneously possess armies and live in Canada's caves ?

Easy there, Kate. Jonathon is simply demonstrating that the definition of "racist" is anyone winning an arguement against a Liberal.

Cocaine.....

In water-tight steel boxes.....

Welded to the hulls of ships.....

Steamships.....

Canadian Steamships.....

In our habours.....

We're not making this up.....

This election, choose your Canada.

Hmmmm.....I wonder if that's how the tainted blood got here from Arkansas prison system.

Kate,

In answering your "challenge," I doubt that you will have the guts to post this, considering that you have filtered and eliminated my last two comments (which were not rude, nor used any profanity).

However, here is a post with the links that answer your challange:

http://www.tdhstrategies.com/2007/01/challenge-from-small-dead-animals.html

I figure that you will accuse me of trying to pilfer traffic, even though I put it up so that my proof wouldn't have to face your screening and subsequent deletion.

John Luft: Many young people, and the 30-40 age group seldom carry money. They take out 20.00 several times a day or month. Multiply that by 3.00/transaction and it adds up. I encourage my clients to take out at least 100.00/time, to save money. Think of all the places ATMs are, and watch how often they are used. Many clients do not have a checking accounts and use online banking and do not get monthly stmts. and have no idea of those charges. Until, as my grandson discovered, who just started working and has his cheques deposited, discovered he had no money and made an urgent call home. He has since been educated. I have seen people go get 20.00, plug the vlt, and go get another 20.00. Adds up, and they don't win.

If your comments were filtered, it was by the spam trap, not me.

Jonathon,

I have gone to your website, read the linked posts, and can find no instance of where Kate made the comments which you referred to as "where Kate denigrates Aboriginal peoples".

Can you not read? Or do you simply not accept that people are responsible for their own actions and the subsequent outcomes? That does not give you leave to insult Kate - or anyone else for that matter.

You've got to be kidding. That's the best you can come up with?

A post that criticizes those who make it a profession to blame everybody but the parents of neglected children - and a sarcastic response directed at none other than the the Internet's number one faux aboriginal activist and Queen of Sock Puppetry.

Nicely done.

And how about that. This "racist redneck", as I am lovingly called in your circles, was the only blogger in Canada who was angered at the death of Delores Bird enough to write about it, while apologists like you were busy slithering around the political fringes looking for racist jokes hiding in MP mailboxes.

It doesn't matter to you that this child was a drug addict, abandoned by a mother who was "out of town" for the weekend, that she was an 11 year old child prostitute who died alone in an empty apartment. No - the big story to you is that I, an ordinary citizen, criticized the institutional neglect, entitlement mentality, and apologism - by all sides concerned, native included - that brought her to that point.

Print that response.

From Jonathan's ugly little and empty blog:

"January 26, 2007 - After getting into a pointless war with the right-wing neanderthals that reside at Kate McMillan's Small Dead Animals blog, I have been challenged by Ms. McMillan to provide proof of "the screen captures I have in my possession where Kate denigrates Aboriginal peoples."

"right-wing neanderthals" Ouch!

Hey Jonathan, answer the questions posted above about your involvement with and tactile approval of a known criminal organisation.

And for those that want the proof in this thread, here you go:

Who Failed Delores Bird?
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/001100.html

Quotes:

"...we have Indian gangs running the streets of Saskatoon. They have graduated from stealing cars and vandalism to home invasions, stabbings, sawed off shotguns. Your grand social schemes are killing people and failing children."

"These people are not alcoholic glue sniffers because they live in poverty - They live in poverty because they are alcoholic glue sniffers. Their dysfunction is so profound that it is folly to leave these kids at their mercy while they "learn better parenting skills". The rate of success in such experiments is far too low, and much too temporary. The first priority should be getting these kids into a safe environment - foster home, extended family, treatment centers. Build new residental schools, if that's what it takes and tell the detractors to go to hell."

Comments left on the Western Standard Blog
http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2004/12/normans_spectat_9.html

"Without the Indian Oppression Industry you'd really have no way to satisfy your own attention seeking behavior, would you?

I changed my mind. We don't need residential schools for those little 4 year olds running the streets of Saskatoon late at night. We need institutions to lock up the Indian activists and apologists, so that there's an outside chance that the concept of "personal responsibility" will take hold in First Nations communities."

Is that enough money where my mouth is, Kate?

JR

I don't understand what you are trying to prove. You have screenshots of legitimate arguments, big deal. Why would you be saving them is my question. From what I can gather, if you disagree, then it is a bigoted or racist comment and you save it to "use" at a later date to embarrass or belittle someone. Nothing to see here, I make a motion to ignore this guy.

Now he's trying to get traffic to his site. What a liberano!!!!

How about that?

Jonathan,

Kate presents her opinions on her blog that we all choose to read and enjoy.

As a person that has lived in Saskatoon, I have witnessed the exact situations that Kate describes in those links. It is unfortunate that you view your selected quote as Kate denigrating natives, while I view it as an unbiased report of what can be seen any day, any time on 20th street in Saskatoon.

Her opinions, on her blog, are some of the most refreshing on the net. Like them or not (I happen to like them) this is her blog. I do not see her painting them all with the same brush, it is you who has made that leap. Kate has merely stated a fact(which I have seen first hand) and lent her opinion.

The fact that you do not believe her or agree with her does not make her racist, it makes you naive and narrowminded.

regards,
Trevor

jonathan - you have insulted many today- control your urges- you, you Cro-Magnon overlord.

Estimates on the original occurrence of the currently active gene for red hair vary from 20,000 to 100,000 years ago.[7][8] Based on a 2001 Oxford University study, some commentators speculated that Neanderthals had red hair, and that some red-headed and freckled humans today share some genetic heritage with Neanderthals.[9

Another diversion.

Now back to the 'snow' job...

Say, isn't the NDP really looking like a fine place to take your vote if you are just too liberal to consider voting for CPC and cannot stomach voting Librano? Just think of the inroads the NDP could make in PQ if they concentrated on a few ethnic ridings in the Montreal area. Don't spread too thin in PQ, concentrate efforts. About 15 ridings would be good. NDP has a much more credible environmental story, plus Jack is right there on message with the anti-Israel crowd, and certainly on message with unions, daycare. Mmm, private healthcare is a bit dodgy, better steer clear of that one. You never know, toss in a few promises to pave the road from Ottawa to Bombardier in pure gold, for "peaceful purposes", and you just might find a few chinks in the Librano armor.

Question for the newly "Green" Libranos: were those brown envelopes made from recycled paper? I sure hope so!

Jonathon, your comments were held up because they exceeded the maximum number of links allowed.

I was in town this morning, during which time around 75 comments came in, including yours and several spammers. It may shock you to learn that I read only about half the comments posted at the best of times. I know - it's hard to believe. But after you've opened your own to reader response, and recorded over 100,000 of them, come back to me and we'll share spammer war stories over a beer.

That said, I'm not sure it's doing you a favour to release them, now that I've checked what you wrote. But your wish....

Now.

When have I claimed to be "apolitical"? (Another link would be good) I don't belong to a political party, haven't for at least 10 years, nor have I ever held any official position in one.

But apolitical?

Wow this guy isnt only a joke but a bad joke.

I wonder if he is a friend of wornout kantsellit?

Mr Ross, if your definition of denegrate means hiding the truth to avoid "hurt" feelings then you may, just may have a point. However, if you tend to get your shorts in a knot over a comment on a joke then I suggest you go back to school and take that math class again because your allegations and the facts don't add up. Or better yet, how about going for a midnight stroll in Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Kenora... There you will see lots of folks hard at work re-enforcing their reputations.

The funniest thing about Jonathon's web site and this is going some because there is much mirth & smirk from the ohh so politically correct city boy liberal's web presence, is that he doesn't even know what year it is.

If ya can't figure out the year dude, everything else you spout is tres suspect.

Check the entries for the first entries for this year over at his no-comments allowed "blog"

"January 2, 2006 - I have been delinquent with regards to this website since returning from Montreal, "

January 3, 2006 - Later on in the day I want to discuss the difficult to imagine scenarios that would bring us to an election campaign as soon as the spring - an outcome that I cannot see any party having great impetus to initiate in the near future. But for now, as promised, here are the TDH Top 10 Predictions for 2007:

January 4, 2006 - I had a couple of conversations yesterday with individuals who believe that this cabinet shuffle by Stephen Harper is an indication that a spring election is imminent. I, on the other hand, am not as convinced.

JR is basking in the moral relativism of the Libs, and ignoring the game being played here by the media:
Find a corny e-mail joke that makes fun of government employees with reference to a charactar named Tonto,twist some shame and racism into it because an MP said 'great joke'and make sure it gets to print so it looks bad on CPC.
Ignore the story about a union boss who gets arrested for carrying 4 million dollars worth of dope , and trying to cross the border illegally,AND has a huge promo comment on the Dion webpage.Not much to twist there.
Does it bother you a lot that right-wing cave dwelling neanderthals have access to this info JR?

Jonathon, I was lamenting that you don't allow comments on your site. You made some pretty vicious accusations against PMSH on the oil sands thing. Perhaps your views have moderated on that one, now that you realize that the conference was arranged by the Liberals you love, and only occurred a couple of days after the election PMSH won, before he had even been sworn in? Or did he have some kind of time machine, where he secretly arranged the meeting before winning the election? I'm afraid unbalanced comments like those on your site make a lot of us question your rationality.

Kate's comments outrage Jonathon in that way that Liberals get all flustered when debating, because the 'correct' answer is just so obvious to them that they can't articulate what is wrong with their opponent's arguments.

JR won't allow comments because he has said so many nasty things about Jason Cherniak that he lives in mortal fear that CJC will rip him a new one every day for the nonsense that JR spouts . . . reads like trash chatty gossip at a teenage girl's sleepover party.

Than gawd he's liberal and their embarrassment.

From: Where the crickets, are free range.

"Jonathan Ross is a communications professional with extensive experience within federal, provincial and municipal politics from across the country. An accomplished writer that has been published over 40 times in newspapers such as the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and the Vancouver Sun, Jonathan has worked within several political environments, including the offices of the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and the Minister of Natural Resources.

Herb Dhaliwal, March 19:

"I think the world expects someone who is the president of a superpower to be a statesman. I think he has let not only Americans but the world down by not being a statesman."

Hey Jonnie, that sounds just like your illogical ad hominem baseless preconception dressed up as a POS swipe.

Did you write that crap for Herb while he "sustainable developmented" the richest fishing grounds on earth into a fuckin desert ?

Hmmm. Jonathan said he put up the proof on his website so that it wouldn't be subject to Kate's screening and deletion, but when I went to check it out all I got was a "file not found."

Boy, you guys handed his a$$ to him. I love seeing Kate get in a fight with another blogger.

"An accomplished writer that has been published over 40 times in newspapers"

Someone tell him that letters to the editor of some pinko commie rag in Tranna doesn't count as "published writing".

OT: There's a punk rocker on Adler right now about to offer up his opinion on the Arar affair. Hurry up and get the family gathered around the crystal set, this could be breaking news.

Or is that breaking musings?

Gawd, Adler must be hard up for "expert opinion".

I wonder how many "communications professionals" there are with similar resumes. Hundreds? Thousands? Good thing there are blogs so they can keep busy and biggen themselves until they give up and get a steady job.

Holy crap, you're right. He's gone all "not found" on his link. For someone who bragged about screen captures of my blog ....

another ass handed to another lying liberano by a girl... HAHAHAHAHA

He still there, guess he decided he didn't want that particular link though, cause it is gone. No mention on his site of this chat at all.

Well, I'm just glad he saved it all here for posterity!

Congrats Johnathon, you've just received more hits in one day that you have in a year. And tomorrow, everything will be back to normal.

heh heh!

You rock, Kate. Will you be my valentine?

On $hit, here comes the Mrs. Gotta go!

More on JR, tiresome that it is. Your words remind me of the old skit where some burnout plays records backwards, thinks the babble is a secret message, and then sneers at those who do not see it.

Oh yeah I forgot, da proof is da proof!

Jonathon Ross,
I appreciate Kate's compassion for Canadian citizens, namely Indians who have been mistreated by government. I congratulate her for her passion when she speaks out against what is obviously an abusive situation in regard to Indian children.

How could anyone possibly read her quotes and not understand that she is trying to bring attention to people who live in an untenable situation and are helped to remain there by activists and politicians who specialize in creating welfare dependency. Once government and popular opinion have managed to distinguish these people with a special "victim status", they become a victim's aristocracy with entitlements that allow them to continue in their squalid situation.

Today, I met someone from the Chippewa Nation, and we chatted about someone I met several weeks ago who was a Rosebud Sioux (South Dakota). And we are very familiar down here with manipulation of the Indian people for the gains of both government and reservation politicians as well.

Kate should be appreciated for being forthright about a terrible social problem with the capacity to spiral out of control, aided and abetted by political forces that want to keep the present situation into perpetuity.

How can anyone mistake Kate's intention when she clearly says:
"The first priority should be getting these kids into a safe environment - foster home, extended family, treatment centers. Build new residental schools, if that's what it takes and tell the detractors to go to hell."

Not that it matters, but I am part Cherokee.

ah, Greg, it does not matter to the moonbat/librano/dipper crowd....I am half Italian...one day, in our pub, my brothers and I were throwing some Italian jokes at each other....completely minding our own business...some dipper idiot came over and had the nerve to call us racist louts...we explained that we were Italian, and having some fun with it...oh no, she cried, that is even worse...I told her to go f#$% her hatbadge, and she left with a very perplexed look on her face

Drug cases sounds familiar

Long-time followers of the news can be forgiven for thinking there was something familiar in the Vancouver Sun's report today that the business manager of Ironworkers Local 97 in Burnaby, B.C., is facing drug charges after the U.S. Border Patrol "seized cocaine valued at more than $4 million in eastern Washington" last week.

Haven't we heard all this before? Top B.C. labour guy? Blue-collar union? Drug-importation charges? Southeastern B.C.? Yes, yes, yes, yes and yes.

Back in 1983, the leader of the Trail, B.C., local of the United Steelworkers of America was arrested on charges of conspiracy to import $3 million work of marijuana and $1 million worth of cocaine for the purposes of trafficking.

Those charges died in March 1985 because a key Crown witness went missing. That witness, Alan McTeer (a distant relative of Maureen McTeer), resurfaced in 1994 and claimed he had been pressured into false implicating the Trail union leader.

The case remains noteworthy because of what that Trail union leader, free of the otherwise career-limiting encumbrance of drug charges, went on to achieve in the world of organized labour. Specifically, he became the relatively moderate (although strongly pro-NDP) president of the B.C. Federation of Labour and now holds the same position at the Canadian Labour Congress.

The man's name is Ken Georgetti. ...-

http://www.drugpolicycentral.com/bot/article/westernstandard.blogs6520.htm

I'm sure JR just assumes that all conservatives are racist, since that's what he's been told. He never bothered to read the substance of Kate's comments to see what her point was. He saw the word "Indian" and that was enough for him. Now he's feeling quite stupid, having been put in his place by Greg.

Hey Hey Jonnie.... I been calling, and no one answers...

Hey, what the hell happened to Jonnie??

Ahh, another one bites the dust.

Great thread Kate.

Getting back on topic. If the liberals are in favor of safe injection sites, then how about drunk driving lanes?

Yes, back on topic. Dion takes a somewhat enlightened approach to drug policy, and some guy gets busted for smuggling cocaine. What's your point.??

BTW...the injection site/drunk driving lane thing was nonsensical the first time out. It doesn't get better with age.

future safe injection sites should also carry gov't approved hi-grade dope. free. no infections, no OD's, no talc in the spoon, no lib hacks making obscene profits on the illegal drug trade ' cause it won't be illegal anymore. sex trade workers will then be free to follow other persuits, unless they truly love their carrers as STW's -- otherwise, brain surgery, corking, metal sculture, knitting, running day care centers. . . . like that.

ta

As usual on Fridays Newman had his This Week in Politics video clips. There was dion at the caucus meeting telling reporters that he had his vision for Quebec and he was sure all cdns would accept it. I wish he had said he had a vision for canada and he was sure all quebecers would accept it. Why wasn't that on all the news programs last week, or in the papers. Bet Newman didn't realize that was in his clip.

Injection site purpose: reduce the risk of long-term harm drug users might cause themselves/others while performing an illegal action.

Drunk driving lane purpose: reduce the risk of long-term harm alcohol users might cause themselves/others while performing an illegal action.

Difference? drug users are somewhat enlightened, alcohol users are nonsensical.

Maryjane... the 'some guy' you speak of had a very large endorsement letter on Dion's personal website.

http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5659&Itemid=41

And Dion staff says he doesn't know him.... yet they put that big endorsement letter on his personal website?? Nice work. Sure took it down in a hurry too didn't they...

"Mr. Dion's staff said the Liberal Leader does not know Perley Edmund Holmes, a union official arrested last week and charged with intent to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine allegedly worth $4.3-million (U.S.)."

Big coke smuggler endorsing Dion i guess is a non-issue...

Send in the next nitwit Librano apologizer please.

What exactly in blazes is "enlightened" about Safe Injections Sites for Illegal, exhorbitantly priced narcotics which can only be acquired with monies obtained through other illegal activities, which invariably victimize society at large. ie. theft, muggings, home-invasions etc.

Addicts will not succumb to death through infections -- their deaths will be arrived at after much much longer periods of tremendous suffering, abuse and misery,for them, and for society as well.

Maybe the really enlightened approach would more accurately be the establishing, or expanding, of the number of Safe Recovery & Rehabilitation Sites, coupled with an extremely hard-hitting campaign to eradicate the importation, production, distribution of illegal substances, with harshest of penalties for preying, and "hooking" of ever younger victims.

The "some guy" drug smuggler busted, turns out to be a supporter of Dion and his policies. Understandable. The addicts get to live longer, and do the crimes to feed the "safe" addiction, using the product Dion's pal "imports."

As for Newman and his video show....nice how they make the Conservatives out to be the whack-jobs on Dion's waffling flips and flops regarding the issue of the return of a thug "banned for life." Or one year, whichever comes first. Gotta love that ideaologically and doctrinaire driven, elitist-supporting and biased film clip eitting. YAY CBC. The home of sanitized asnd Lib-friendly news.

Funny, I've never, and I mean never, seen a Lib blogger win an argument with a top conservative blogger.

Libs arguements are feeling/emotive based. But when confronted with facts in an argument their "arguments" are exposed for what they are: emotional tantrums.

And for all the charges of bigotry libs level and conservatives, most of the classic lib arguments are inherently bigoted - the "politically correct" variety: we're all knuckle dragging racists.

Question the conditions on reserves - racist

Question the rise of radical islam - racist/islamophobic

Very good analysis mitch...and the litte rant by jr worked here the same as it does in the mainstream....a diversion. The original topic that Kate put out here was the connection between Dion and Perley Holmes. I don't see this anywhere in the MSM....but the corny joke mildly connected to a CPC MP made big news in TO Star.
Unbelievable!

vf, its not so much a diversion as it is a tool to attempt to stifle debate. It gives them moral license to shut you out, after all, how could you trust anything said by a "racist".

Party of Guns, Drugs, Crack Pipes..._

Vancouver Sun
Published: Friday, January 26, 2007

Police investigating an alleged cross-border cocaine-smuggling incident involving Perley Edmund Holmes, the business manager of the B.C. Ironworkers Union Local 97, have seized 43 guns from a home in southern B.C. ...
Massie would not say if the house searched belonged to Holmes,...-

reverse evolution.

It appears that us Neanderthals have survived and the "Johnny come lately" Jonathan has not.

One of my hobbies is following comments made in various papers, blogs etc, by the names of the posters, on various topics. During the smoking debate in vancouver many posters supported the ban, but ironically, these same posters, when posting on safe injection sites were in favor of them. Most of them were liberal or ndp supporters, by posts on political topics. They also flipflop on other topics, the environment, suzuki etc. Some have changed their name, but the spelling, language, sentence structure, ideas are the same, so they can't hide.
Another example of this is the outcry re Emmerson, but no outcry when Chretain appointed the unelected Dion and Tobin to his cabinet, or even mentioning it. My conclusion is that ndp and liberal supporters have no firm values, morals, and the only climate change they are afraid of is the climate change brought about by a Conservative majority. They will use every deceitful tactic imaginable to see this doesn't happen.

Here is a story about the Ironworkers giving up double time in the oilsands in return for plane trips in and out. IIRC, the other unions were not too pleased.

Ironworkers reach deal to work at Horizon

Union to fill 500 jobs on $11-billion project

Sarah O'Donnell, The Edmonton Journal

Published: Saturday, April 22, 2006

EDMONTON - Free direct flights to work and hundreds of guaranteed jobs have enticed an ironworkers union to break ranks with other building trade unions to help build a huge oilsands project.

The workers gave up on longstanding demands to be paid double time for some overtime hours in order to secure work at the $11-billion Horizon construction project.

In exchange, they will have access to direct flights from Edmonton to the Horizon site 75 kilometres north of Fort McMurray. And the deal may lead to more than 500 jobs that might have gone to non-unionized workers, said Darrell LaBoucan, business manager for Local 720 of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Ironworkers.

Those jobs either would have (gone) to the non-union sector or they would have (gone) maybe to offshore people, maybe temporary foreign workers," he said.

The union is the only member of the Alberta Building Trades Council to have signed a formal agreement with Horizon Construction, which is owned by Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.

The trades council has historically demanded that its workers be paid double time for most overtime. The ironworkers will be paid time-and-a-half instead, most of the time.

The ironworkers also agreed to a schedule that will allow crews to work for 10 days straight, followed by four days off. Traditional schedules see tradespeople work five eight-hour days followed by two days off, or four 10-hour days followed by three off.

When is Dion coming out to offer these people job skills training, counseling, and alternatives to confirming a destructive lifestyle.

Posted by: Hans Rupprecht ;

Well said!!!! A damning account of these profiteers of the liberal poverty industries priorities. Who they really consider needy.

How these programs morph into forever co-dependency government funded enabling soul destroying millhouses of misery.

How tolerance for dehumanization threw drugs, can make you money. Should be these liars slogan.

Dion & his bunch are among the worst for viewing people as children. Actively trying to destroy them with a symptom of there own bribery.

The way the real individuals with real, not addiction problems of their own making. Get no help is more than a scandal in this Country. What a waste of our tax dollars. Which you can be sure will be funneled into more insanity.

The experts on any topic re crime say a person has usually committed an offence numerous time before getting caught. So, is this Pearly's first offense or first time getting caught. He is about to find out that the US has a much tougher stance on drug smuggling than canadas slap on the wrist.
Also thought BC was in favor of gun laws. Who needs 45 guns, unless to sell on the blackmarket. I presume they are not registered. Wonder if he was involved in that tunnel they found a few years ago.

Read in another blog that custom officers followed fresh footprints in snow, and caught Pearly trying to walk across the border with a backpack. Reminds me of working for customs in late 70s and looking out the window and seeing a guy with a huge suitcase walking, leaving footprints in fresh snow, along the border road. When he got about 2 blocks further north he was met by the RCMP and custom officers. This was about 3pm on a very clear day. Of course on our next coffee break we all headed over to see what 100,000 of marijuana looked like, packaged in clear plastic bags. How stupid can these smugglers be. His truck was on the US side, and he walked across as he was afraid of having his truck seized.