Steve Janke/AGWN has got a very interesting piece up about another tie-in between the oil industry and the LIEberal party; the wife of one of Goodale's "policy advisors" just happens to be both a LIEberal Party executive AND is currently working as a lobbyist for the oil industry; it makes one wonder which direction the little brown bags stuffed with cash are travelling, doesn't it?

Just read a few of the comments in the G&M re election. Seems the liberals are prepaed to blame Harper for the job losses in southern ont. and that is the area that elects a govt.
One comment was interesting. The opposition parties have painted themselves into a corner re Kyoto, leaving the anti kyoto voters all to the conservatives. When the facts are known, I think there are more anti-kyotoites than pro. Especially if you have a job, home, family etc.
One guy suggested if the vote is on a cold and snowy day, perhaps voters would stay home because of the heat from global warming.

Check out this article from Henry Champ, CBC of all places.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/reportsfromabroad/champblog/

I just sent this to Goodale. I know I won't get a response but it did feel good to write:

I am absolutely upset at all of the opposition parties for voting to implement Kyoto last night in the House of Commons. I am especially furious with you in particular.

Can you please explain to me your specific plan to get Saskatchewan on board with the targets by 2012? It is common knowledge that SaskPower is the nation's #3 worst emitter of greenhouse gas emissions and I'd like to know how many people would be unemployed and the impact to our economy if we are to make changes in this province.

I am certainly not proud that we are such a large contributor to this problem, however it is foolhardy to go blindly forward without thinking through the consequences. Is there enough money in the EI fund to help all the good folks that will be on the dole after this ill-conceived plan is implemented? And all this while your leaders (Dion, Mo Strong, et al) are unable to get the USA, China, or Russia on track as well. Add to this last week's denouncement of Kyoto from the president of the Czech Republic and we are seeing the beginning of a changing tide. If Canada dropped emissions to total zero we still would have no impact on a global perspective.

My only hope is a majority conservative government to restore some common sense on the Hill. I occasionally watch you in Question Period and can't help but wonder what it is you have in common with the people of Saskatchewan.

The only thing that makes me more perplexed is why your constituents continue to vote for you and your party. You seem like a nice guy, but I just don't think your party is on the right track on most initiatives.

I look forward to a reply that is more than a form letter from an assistant. Thanks for your time.

Herouxville protestor:

If you're not veiled, you're a slut

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1513e2ce-7fd1-4d48-97db-15a88fd0b8cf&k=16810

Did anyone catch the interview with Dr. Suzuki this morning on CTV Newsnet? To his credit, in speaking of the vote, he mentionned that yesterdays vote shouldn't not have even been an issue as Mr. Chretien ratified Kyoto so long ago.

However my issue was the fact that in questionning Dr. S, that no one asked how Kyoto could reduce GHGs....it's just taken as fact, no questions, no justifications.

If for example a debate raged on about legislation requiring that children be adopted by a man and a woman only because studies showed that children brought up in homes with parents of the opposite sex were more beneficial then the author of the statement would have to jump through hoops and be portrayed as a hate monger.

Aside: why is the Suzuki interview played when I'm trying to eat breakfast.....I'm starting to lose weight from missing breakfast so often.

My gosh, the video is priceless! Kudos to the gunner.

I don't see any PQ emitters on that list.

Four Hizb'Allah fundraisers indicted in the U.S. on RICO charges still walking free in Canada nearly a year later, while their unlucky buddy rots in the U.S. Federal Penn:

http://flaggman.wordpress.com/2007/02/14/hizballah-in-canada-windsors-nasser-in-us-jail-4-fugitives-still-on-the-run-hezbollah/

The fruit fly guy implodes

Check it out here:

And this guy calls himself a scientist? Since when does "science" have no time nor interest to listen to opposing views? Or treat something that is merely a theory/hypothesis like it is carved in stone? His indignant and condescending tone to the host say it all..

They were talking about it on the following program, he was so perplexed that he more or less stomped out after the interview without so much as a thanks & goodbye.

http://svenskacanuck.blogspot.com/2007/02/fruit-fly-guy-implodes.html

Great link Maz2.....Dr. Fruit Fly loves to use general statements about Canadians wanting things done to support Kyoto....that of course is as long as the rest of the world does as well and it doesn't cost anything.....

Mister Speaker, I rise today to announce measures that my government must take to comply with Bill C288, otherwise known as the “Pablo Rodriguez Law of Unintended Consequences”.

In order to comply with the Bill and Kyoto, it is necessary to take some drastic measures to either reduce emissions ort buy credits from other signatory nations of the Kyoto Protocol who do not need to reduce their emission but get to sell these credits.

Canada got hosed at Kyoto. Jean Chretien’s Liberal government signed Canada to a treaty that means we must reduce our standard of living in order to comply. Bill 288 further obligates Canada to reduce its economy in order to comply and because of the way the Bill is worded, our Government must achieve the 2012 targets within 180 days of the Bill being granted Royal Ascent, so we must act NOW.

I am instructing a number of government department and agencies to enact the following emergency measure so that we can comply with the will of Parliament, or at least the Liberal, NDP and Bloc Quebecois parts of parliament.

Immediate shutdown of all coal fired power plants in Canada. We realize that this will hit Ontario very hard – 1/3 of Ontario’s electricity is coal generated, but look on the bright side, the lack of power will also cause the shutdown of thousands of plants and factories, throwing hundreds of thousands out of work. While we are it, we’ll close down all the top ten listed below:

Rank Company Name Province
1 Ontario Power Generation On
2 Transalta Utilities AB
3 Sask Power SK
4 Alberta Power Corp AB
5 Nova Scotia Power Inc NS
6 Syncrude Canada Ltd. AB
7 Suncor Energy inc. Oil Sands AB
8 EPCOR Generation Inc. AB
9 Petro-Canada AB
10 Dofasco Inc. On

Immediate shutdown of the entire Petroleum industry across Canada – we will need to import our oil but we are only going to import oil from countries that will sell us Kyoto Credits.

Immediately ban all wood burning fireplaces, charcoal and propane BBQ’s and summer campfires. All recreational vehicles and activities are deemed frivolous and will be banned. Sorry Bombardier, no more skidoos and water jet boats. We are investigating how to ban forest fires as well, but that has its challenges. No

A 30 cent per liter “GhG Kyoto credit buying Tax. Based on recent data that we use about 45 Billion liters of gasoline every year. This new tax revenue should provide enough money to both buy the $10 billion in foreign credits we need annually and make up for the billions in lost income taxes the Federal and Provincial governments will not collect by the 35% contraction of our economy we need to achieve

We ill not be able to afford generous EI support for all the laid off workers because the numbers could reach in the millions. Shutting down the oil sands alone will result in huge job losses in Alberta, but also in Quebec and Ontario, where tens of thousands of workers make the pipes, valves, machinery, trucks, tires, computers and other equipment that would have been purchased had we not put these actions in place to meet the requirements of the “Pablo Rodriguez Law of Unintended Consequences”.

For the tens of thousands of workers in the Financial sector, we are aware that the mortgage and credit crisis these moves will cause will result in the devastation of your industry as well but we expect that the Barons of Bay street will be able to salvage a fee jobs trading in the International Credit Trading Market, or as some have come to call it, the Kyoto Hot Air Credit Socialist Sucking Ponzi Scheme. Hopefully you will be one of the few out of the tens of thousands Financial Sector workers who will get one of these new jobs – you might even make megatonnes of money

Since there will be a huge rise in the number of corporate and personal bankruptcies , our government will be enacting new legislation to simplify the process. Simply nail a sign to your property say “We quit” or for consumer debt, place your cut up credit and bank cards in an envelope. That’s all, no lawyers or courts needed

We will also be reducing the size of the federal government payroll by at least 35% to meet the requirement to keep the budget balanced to the new and much lower levels of government funds.

We will be reducing the Federal government transfer of dollars to the provinces to meet the new fiscal capabilities of Canada’s Federal government. We will leave it up to individual provinces to decide to close schools or hospitals or whatever. It’s a provincial responsibility

Its not all bad news. Canada should be able to save a fortune in Immigration costs. We have a forecast from government experts that Canada will go to last place in the quest for skilled immigrant labour. Somehow they don’t want to come to a country with power shortages, no air conditioning, limited winter heating, no jobs and a devastated economy. Go figure. The USA and Australia will benefit form these immigrants and their skills,

Mr. Speaker, let me close by thanking the Liberals, especially the mega green leader Citoyen Dion, the NDP, under the leadership of Jack “Talban” bin Layton, the Bloc Quebecois and their inspired of Gilles “Hairnet” Duceppe for voting for Bill C288. But especially all Canadians want to thank Liberal Pablo Rodriguez for devastating our economy, depressing our standard of living to upper third world status. As we huddle in the cold and swelter in the summer heat, as we stare at our old car we can’t afford to drive, as we fondly remember how hard it was to get out of bed on a Monday morning to go to the job we used to have, we can take pride in being the best-est, wonderful-est, the most moralist international boy scouts out to help the planet be saved.

Thank you Mr. Speaker

I'm still laughing!
http://www.640toronto.com/john_oakley/john_oakley_audio.cfm?rem=64671&jor=64671#video

Fred...."PRICELESS"!!! Be sure to send this to PM Harper.

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Mr. Justice Richard Mosley has ruled that any threat that Mr. Mahjoub
may represent has been effectively neutralized by his years of being locked away.

So what the judge is saying is... "Even if he was a terrorist...
he can't be one ever again."

*

The CTF - dropping the CTF funding to CBC would be an excellent place to start!

Suzuki: "The science is in! The science is in!"

So sad. If this were the Soviet Union, Suzuki would be the apparatchik, and Oakley would be shot for being a Kulak.

Great letter Fred, however, a silver lining would be no more Bombardier ads depicting moronic employees and their cult like devotion to their employer.

Soooo who struck this deal with N.Korea???

I understood that "Arec Barrwin" and his FAGs( Film Actor's Guild) had made the world safe for pussies, by doing a benefit concert for Kim and letting him fulfil his dream of singing his song onstage with Hollywood legends------>

Kim Jong Il sings: I'm so Ronery / So ronery / So ronery and sadry arone / There's no one / Just me onry / Sitting on my rittle throne / I work very hard to be number one guy / but, stiwr there's no one to right up my rife / Seems rike no one takes me serirousry / And so, I'm ronery / A rittle ronery / Poor rittle me / There's no one I can rerate to / Feewr rike a biwd in a cage / It's kinda siwry / but, not reawry / because, it's fiwring my body with rage / I'm the smartest, most crever, most physicawry fit / but, none of the women seem to give a shit / Maybe someday, they'wr awr notice me / And untiwr then, I'wr be ronery / Yeah, a rittle ronery / Poor rittle me...

From Ottawa Watch: Mark Bourrie proves this is all Liberal/Bloc/NDP showmanship unless none of them actually know parliamentary procedure.

The Liberals' Kyoto bill
Anyone who thinks the passage of a bill by the House of Commons results in that bill becoming law had better hit the textbooks. Even passage by the Senate doesn't make the bill into a law. it must receive -- at the government's request -- Royal Assent. Then it must be published in the Canada Gazette and officially proclaimed. Can that be done without the consent of the government?
No.
Can the other parties make the government proclaim and gazette a bill?
No.
The opposition parties have only one real power: to combine and defeat the government on a money bill, thereby forcing an election. They can use that power to push compromises onto the government, but they can't make law.

"The List" of Islamic Terror Attacks for the past 3 Months
FYI

" The List " of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 3 Months
Date Country City Killed Injured Description
2/14/07 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 A married couple is attacked by Muslim radicals. The wife dies from injuries.
2/14/07 Iraq Baghdad 6 30 Three Jihad car bombings leave six people dead.
2/14/07 Iraq Ramadi 5 20 A Fedayeen suicide bomber sends five souls to Allah.
2/14/07 Yemen Saada 2 2 Two members of the military are killed in an ambush by radical Shiites.
2/14/07 Pakistan Dera Ismail Khan 1 0 A Shiite cleric is gunned down in a sectarian attack.
2/14/07 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 30-year-old rubber tapper is murdered by Islamic radicals.
2/14/07 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A Buddhist man is shot to death by Muslims while riding his motorcycle.
2/14/07 Thailand Yala 2 0 A Buddhist father and son, selling herbal medicines by the roadside are brutally gunned down by Islamic gunmen.
2/14/07 Iraq Baghdad 4 10 Four Christians are killed in an Islamic car bombing of their hospital. ...-
More: scroll down.

More:
Still think it has nothing to do with Islam?

Previous Years:

Islamic Terror Attacks for First Part of 2006

Islamic Terror Attacks for 2005

Islamic Terror Attacks for 2004

Islamic Attacks from September 11th, 2001 through 2003

On This Day in Post 9/11 Islamic History

More:

I didn't see listed these attacks in America

Ali R. Warrayat
An Arizona Home Depot employee jumped out of the car’s path. To drown out the man’s yells, Warrayat reached over to his car radio and blasted Arabic music before crashing through the front doors.

Charles Bishop (Bishra)
A note written by the 15-year-old boy who crashed a Cessna into a Tampa office building indicated he supported Osama bin Laden and that the act was deliberate, authorities say.

Haider Mohammed
Contacted by Palm Springs Police, FBI investigators described Muslim who was arrested after threatening to 'Kill All Jews' as "not a person of interest."

Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet
The suspect, Egyptian-born Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet, left two people dead and five injured at the El Al airlines ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport before being fatally shot by a security guard.

John Muhammad
Federal prosecutors filed a criminal complaint, charging alleged Beltway Sniper John Muhammad with 20 felony counts, including extortion and intent to commit murder. ...-
More:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785478/posts

Actually, I think the Liberals have really shot themselves in the foot here. All the conservatives need to do is come up with a plan for implementing Kyoto. The sooner they do that, the sooner the Canadian people we see that it is all smoke and mirrors. Huge tax increases couples with massive job loss. How'd you like to fight an election with that as a platform? But the Liberals will be forced to do so, because they are the all Kyoto all the time party.

So, the Conservatives realistically cost the plan, all the while making it understood that they think implementation of the plan would be a disaster. Then, drop the writ, saying "let the people decide whether or not we do this". Then the Liberals get to spend the entire campaign digging themselves a deeper grave, while the Conservatives win a majority.

I hope Harper calls their bluff.

Check out the video on Andrew Coyne's blog today, and see what the at issue panel says about this.

Harper says government will respect Kyoto bill, although it's toothless
...
"However, he adds, the bill provides no plan of action, nor does it give the government the authority to spend a cent to develop such a plan."
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/02/15/3628310-cp.html

It's Pablo Dion's mush, Kyoto. It's a bag of hammers; dumb. No flesh on dem bones. Not even good for gnawing. Pablo & Citoyen Dion have bammed you, Kyoto. ...-

One tier health care's future--compare and contrast, both in today's Globe:

"Our future well-being rests on spending to heal the planet"
http://tinyurl.com/ywjrj6

"B.C. health care's 'very, very scary' future"
http://tinyurl.com/2c2w8g

Mark
Ottawa

Wasn't there another experiment, involving dogs years ago, proving dogs could be conditioned to act in a certain way to get certain treats.
Think it was called Pavlo's dogs, not much different from Pablo's dogs. Wonder if he realized he would get tagged with this disaster and leave dion in the clear. I used to call the lib backbenchers trained seals, now they are trained dogs. No insult to dog lovers everywhere intended, but shouldn't you sue him for giving dogs a bad name.
Again, just heard a cbc talking head mention the possibility of the liberals suing the govt. Great vote getter I think.

Actually, you are not giving dogs a bad name. But maybe You are giving "training" a bad name. ;)

I mean really, just because my dog farts, it doesn't mean I trained him to do it.

The Liberals a flailing and flatulating, but this time no one's catching and bottling them, so all of Canada is beginning to smell the stink.

Latest pressed release from The Mole at libca.

Flatulence and CO2 from Citoyen Dion; en farncais, even. Oh, so solly, Citoyen.
That was your K-9 phharrt, eh, Kyoto? Atta boy. Phhewwwff...-

Withdraw French Attack Ad On Goodale: Dion To Harper

The Prime Minister should immediately ask that his party withdraw their French attack ad that smears the reputation of the Honourable Ralph Goodale....-

Le Premier ministre a de le devoir de demander à son parti de retirer leur publicité négative qui fait ombrage à la réputation de l'honorable Ralph Goodale....-
http://www.liberal.ca/news_e.aspx?type=news&id=12257
(via national newswatch)

Rae Doesn't Support Dion's Terror Stand

Old battle lines within the Liberal party over Canada's anti-terror obligations have been drawn again, with Bob Rae and former cabinet minister Herb Dhaliwal the latest to weigh in. Now Rae, who came in third in December's leadership race, says he has concerns about letting the provisions die. ...-

Liberals Plan To Poach Female NDP Candidates

The federal Liberal party is attempting to increase its contingent of female candidates by trying to poach elected or formerly elected politicians from Jack Layton’s New Democratic Party. ...-

http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/

Do we have another taped conversation of promises made coming out of their poaching tactics. Have they not learned anything. With cell phone cameras, recording devices etc they should be very very careful.

Here's an idea that's never been tried before and is SURE to work:

Chavez threat to seize food shops
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6364515.stm

Have you been dusted?
Are you sure?
How would you know?

Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:31:25 -0700
Subject: [W-RP] And Where are We Headed?

RFID 'Powder' - World's Smallest RFID Tag
Added: Feb 14th, 2007 8:32 AM

The world's smallest and thinnest RFID tags were introduced yesterday by
Hitachi. Tiny miracles of miniaturization, these RFID chips (Radio
Frequency IDentification chips) measure just 0.05 x 0.05 millimeters.

Hitachi's mu-chips are already in production; they were used to prevent
ticket forgery at last year's Aichi international technology exposition.
RFID 'powder,' on the other hand, is so much smaller that it can easily
be incorporated into thin paper, like that used in paper currency and
gift certificates.

Science fiction fans will have a field day with this new technology. In
his 1998 novel Distraction, Bruce Sterling referred to bugged money:

"They always played poker with European cash. There was American cash
around, flimsy plastic stuff, but most people wouldn't take American
cash anymore. It was hard to take American cash seriously when it was no
longer convertible outside U.S. borders. Besides, all the bigger bills
were bugged. (Read more about bugged money)"

These tiny RFID tags could be worked into any product; combined with
RFID readers built into doorways, theft of consumer goods would be
practically impossible.

These devices could also be used to identify and track people.

For
example, suppose you participated in some sort of protest or other
organized activity. If police agencies sprinkled these tags around,
every individual could be tracked and later identified at leisure, with
powerful enough tag scanners.

A few modern trends are worth knowing about early. = TG

Trudeau Urges Capitalist Shift For Planet

Capitalism is an excellent system but it must be committed differently if the planet is to survive, Justin Trudeau told a business crowd yesterday in London. (national newswatch)
...-

Capitalism’s
Gravediggers

Socialism is what socialists want, so socialism is what they work for, not the reforms of the “social activists.”

Socialists promote socialism because that is all a socialist can honestly promote.

If you find a “socialist” promoting “social activism,” you will have found a non-socialist ignoring socialism and working for reforms, not solutions.

A tiny group of socialists cannot solve the world’s problems; only a huge, socialist majority can do that.

It is up to every individual to create that majority, and to use it turn off the tap of capitalism, so that the problems can be solved.
http://www.capitalisms-gravediggers.ws/index.php?display=cgd.vs.activism

Green Agenda Profitable, Premier Declares

Premier Gordon Campbell says his government's ambitious green agenda could actually be an economic booster as environmentally conscious people around the world learn they can offset the greenhouse gases they emit by paying for tree-planting in British Columbia.(national newswatch)...-

The siren song of the greens: Plant a tree, blahblahblah.
It's Kyoto, a la BC Campbell: Greed is Green.

Telegraph | Storm whips paraglider to heights of 32,000 ft

A champion paraglider described today her terror at being flung to a height greater than Mount Everest by a tornado-like thunderstorm in Australia. ...-
jack's newswatch

The Myth of Daedalus and Icarus

The symbolism of the boundaries in which Icarus must fly is also a significant theme of the Daedalus and Icarus myth. ...-

"The great psalmist said in Psalm 8:4, "What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? ...

The socialist world herein described: clouds, visions, dreams.

Be afraid; very afraid. Socialism is the destroyer of nations; a murderous ideology; a plague of Death.

Facilitated by the CBC; paid for and organized by the taxpayers of Canada. ...-

"The guests of honour were, of course, David Suzuki and Stephen Lewis, in conversation facilitated by the CBC's Eleanor Wachtel."

Quote: "Together, they can leap over tall buildings, walk on water, and deactivate an explosive device using only a paper clip and their combined sense of moral outrage."

"Various people stood in the cold"

(It also didn't hurt that the new Raffi song "Cool It" was playing on a continuous loop.)"

...-

February 13, 2007
Suzuki And Lewis: Running Out Of Time, But Not Hope

The atmosphere outside of the (Elgin and) Winter Garden Theatre last night was similar -- not quite the same, but similar -- to that of a rock concert. Various people stood in the cold, holding signs that said "Need One Ticket, PLEASE," while the large crowd jostled around three or four groups handing out flyers and pimping petitions. "Mary," yelled one woman, excitedly. "There's a petition to ban Styrofoam!"

Inside, there was a much calmer atmosphere, inspired by a mix of anticipation and the soothing influence of the Winter Garden's decor, which includes fake tress and a mural of mountains and the sky. (It also didn't hurt that the new Raffi song "Cool It" was playing on a continuous loop. Nothing controls a crowd like Raffi.) It was an appropriate atmosphere to hear from two of Canada's most respected voices on the environment and social justice. (The decoration also allowed for an amusing moment in the question and answer period, when the moderator called upon "the woman standing in the back beside the tree."). ...-
http://www.torontoist.com/archives/2007/02/_the_atmosphere.php

Liberals Call General Hillier A Conservative 'Prop'

A Liberal MP is accusing the country's top soldier of being "a prop'' for the Conservative party after he described the 1990s as "a decade of darkness'' for the military. Gen. Rick Hillier, the chief of the defence staff, said in a speech to a defence group today that the Canadian Forces faced troubled times from 1994 on in a period when the Liberals worked to balance the federal budget with heavy budget cuts. ...-

Which Librano$ is "accusing"?

Here he is: Librano$ D. Coderre; anti-Jewish, anti-Israel; pro-Hezbollah. Coderre is more than soft on Muslim Islamist terrorism. Coderre is an active supporter of Hezbollah which has, as its publicly stated goals, the destruction of Israel and the extermination of all Jews.

Liberal MP Dennis Coderre marched in a parade in Montreal with flags and supporters of Hezbollah. Coderre: "We Are All Hezbollah Now."

"Liberal defence critic Denis Coderre blasted Hillier's speech, saying it was highly political and inappropriate that he described the Liberal era in such a way." ...-

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070216/hillier_prop_070216/20070216?hub=Canada
(national newswatch)

Kyoto is a dead dog/chien froid; bammed by its owner, Citoyen Dion. The crow chorus chants: caw...caw...caw... give the poor dog a bone.

Liberal leader will pay dearly if he wins next election and can't deliver on costly, divisive promises
Feb 16, 2007 04:30 AM
Chantal Hébert

Over a period of little less than three months, Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion has turned his green armour into a straitjacket.

Now that he has led the opposition parties into passing a bill forcing the Conservatives to implement the Kyoto Protocol, the worst thing that could happen to him would be to win a snap election this spring and then be forced to live by the terms of Bill C-288.

A Liberal government would face two stark choices:
# Preside over a major federal-provincial crisis that would make the occasional Ottawa-Quebec blowouts sound like Chinese New Year firecrackers.
# Own up to the fact that the bill the party sponsored is a legislative sham, on par with the 1993 Liberal promises to eliminate the GST and renegotiate NAFTA.
It is one thing to want, as do a majority of Canadians, the federal government to act in the spirit of Kyoto; it is another to pretend that any regime can live up to the letter of the accord without making some highly divisive and costly choices.

There is a widespread consensus – stretching way beyond Conservative ranks – that Canada cannot even come close to meeting its Kyoto greenhouse emission reduction objectives in time for the 2012 deadline without launching a major offensive against the energy industries of provinces such as Alberta, and/or inflicting a crippling hit to the already flagging auto industry in Ontario, and/or diverting a debilitating amount of federal resources to a single cause.

And that, in turn, means the other parties have Dion exactly where they want him, stripped of his environmental edge in the lead-up to a possible election.

Nothing now distinguishes the Liberal bottom line on climate change from that of the NDP, the Bloc Québécois and the Green party.

Dion is as saddled to the moribund Kyoto battlehorse as Gilles Duceppe, Jack Layton and Elizabeth May. More so than any of them though, he could be crushed under its weight in the next election. ...-
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/182294

What’s Jimmy Carter Afraid Of?

Once again, Jimmy Carter has shrunk from debate. ...
Everyone agreed that the best person for this interchange was Ambassador Dennis Ross, who was the main negotiator on the Arab-Israeli situation in both the first Bush administration and the Clinton administration. He was responsible for organizing Camp David II, Clinton’s last-ditch effort to find a resolution to the situation. Ross agreed to appear, but Carter pointedly refused to appear with him or with any other expert. No explanation was given....-
http://www.jacksnewswatch.info/
...-

Carter, the chicken-sdft, liberal-left sack of bones, is an intellectual coward. Go, Jimmah; go now; say goodnight, Jimmah. Goodnight, Jimmah.

Steffi slips Lady Dippers some tongue...

-- OTTAWA -- The federal Liberal party is attempting to increase
its contingent of female candidates by trying to poach elected or
formerly elected politicians from Jack Layton’s New Democratic Party...

"... the NHS has tried to implement a number of preventive measures, up to the point of offering free tango lessons to patients."

Tango lessons for fatties-smokers? Shake that ash.!
Arriba! ...-

Deny Surgery to Obese and Smokers, Says UK Health Minister

London (CNSNews.com) - As Britain grapples with what's been called an obesity epidemic, a leading government minister here says grossly overweight people should be denied surgery.

Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt said in a newspaper interview this week she approved of doctors refusing overweight patients knee and hip surgery, until they lose weight.

Hewitt also said smokers should have to give up the habit before they are allowed to undergo surgery such as heart bypasses under Britain's National Health Service (NHS).

Overweight patients and smokers should be given access to programs that will help them lose weight and quit smoking, she said. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1786117/posts

The Unintended Genius of Iraq

Before Iraq: Muslims wanted to kill Americans After Iraq: Muslims want to kill other Muslims. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1786108/posts

...-

Rewrite headline:From the "I-Told-You-So Department".

The Intended Genius of Iraq.

Muslims killing Muslims. Inshallah. ...-

"How Austria Supports Terrorists

February 16, 2007: The United States has captured nearly a hundred Austrian (Steyr-Mannlicher) HS50 12.7mm (.50 caliber) sniper rifles in Iraq. These rifles were part of a shipment of 800 sold to the Iran national police in 2005, at a cost of some $20,000 each. The Austrians believed that the Iranians wanted the rifles for use against Afghan and Pakistani drug smugglers. The United States saw the weapons as eventually being used against U.S. troops, and placed sanctions on Steyr-Mannlicher, forbidding it to do any business with the United States military..."

www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmurph/articles/20070216.aspx

Great Britain: Intended dhimmitude. ...-

UK Tabloid: Muslim Fanatic Works on Train System

British tabloid The Sun specializes in overheated language, but this really is an outrageous story: Muslim fanatic works on trains. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

A MUSLIM fanatic who dressed as a suicide bomber at a rally threatening terror attacks has got a job on TRAINS.

Sick Omar Khayam cleans carriages unsupervised for rail giant First Group. And he has even got keys to onboard electrical cupboards.

Furious train drivers last night claimed the safety of staff and passengers is being put at risk. One driver added: “It’s an astonishing security breach. We cannot believe this man is employed in a job giving him access to locked places on trains where bombs could be hidden and never be found. He has keys that could be passed on to others for the electrical cupboards in carriages. It is a risk too far.” ...-
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

The ad in question involves the income-trust scandal and features a newspaper headline blaring, "Goodale's office under investigation." [sic]

Goodale Considers Legal Action Over French Attack Ad
National Newswatch - Liberal MP Ralph Goodale is rumoured to be weighing his options surrounding a French attack ad currently running in Quebec by the Conservative party. Among other things, Goodale is demanding PM Stephan Harper have the ad pulled immediately, or....
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Income Trust Woes Liberals' Fault: PM
Prime Minister Stephen Harper lashed out at former Liberal finance minister Ralph Goodale, saying Goodale owes Canadians an apology for misleading them on the involvement of his department on inside tax information being used for personal gain. ...-
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Susan Delacourt's comments, while on with Don Newman today, on the media panel discussion regarding General Hillier's recent comments:

" ...I don't want to go too far on this, for fear of walking out of here, but I do think that we have a disturbing thing going on here, or it feels like we do, with the RCMP. Whether it's...it's people who carry guns getting political and sidling up to the government.

I think it makes everyone a little bit nervous.

It makes me nervous..."

So, there we have it coming back...'people with guns in the street'....

Rwanda snubs France to join Commonwealth

The Weekend Australian ^ | 17th February 2007 | Jonathan Clayton

RWANDAN President Paul Kagame says his country will cement its bitter divorce from France and the French-speaking world, which he holds responsible for the 1994 slaughter of up to one million of his countrymen, by joining the Commonwealth. "There are many benefits for us in joining the Commonwealth - cultural, economic, political," Mr Kagame said. He has been invited to attend the November Commonwealth summit as an observer and said: "I hope they will then approve our membership. I am looking forward to it." Mr Kagame, a lanky former guerilla fighter with an austere manner, rarely shows emotion. But the softly-spoken 50-year-old struggles to contain his anger when discussing France in Africa.

"They are the ones who armed and trained the militias ... the evidence is everywhere," he said. "They continued to do so even after the genocide started."

The bitter relations between the two countries came to a head in November when a French judge accused Mr Kagame and several of his top aides of shooting down the aircraft carrying former president Juvenal Habyarimana. The incident triggered the 100-day massacre of Tutsis and of moderate Hutus opposed to his regime.

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He later took command of the RPF and can barely conceal his pleasure at the thought of how Paris will view his country's membership of the Commonwealth, the English-speaking club of countries with colonial ties to Britain.

He smiles as he asserts that his "entire experience of France and French influence" has been negative. Other than the recent creation of the Rwandan cricket board, it is hard to imagine an act more calculated to put French noses out of joint than joining a body so closely associated with the British empire. ...-
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Baroness Thatcher Honoured

Baroness Thatcher is a personal hero. She was a stalwart against communism.She was a staunch ally of President Reagan. She restored the United Kingdom to economic health and helped defang the unions. She is to have her statue officially unveiled on Feb 21 in the House of Commons next to Sir Winston Churchill's statue. She will the only living prime minister to be so honoured.
Baroness Thatcher recently helped open a Cold War Museum in Shropshire, in the presence of HRH Princess Anne. ...-
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