Cjunk's most offensive ever post:

http://cjunk.blogspot.com/2006/05/pulp-fatwa.html

Professor Arthur R. Hill in the Department of Food Science at the University of Guelph has an excellent web site on cheese chemistry, methodology, and aesthetics, including a document entitled Making Cheese at Home, which includes some helpful references, several simple cheese making procedures and information about sourcing cheese making supplies. You can access it here:

www.foodsci.uoguelph.ca/cheese/welcom.htm

Compare and contrast:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,256980,00.html

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=f9e4d280-2344-4e2f-9875-bcf5d9577041&k=64090

How can any thinking person defend Islamic law? It is an abomination against women.

On a happier note, Chelsea pulls it together to clinch a spot in the Champions League quarter-finals.

Keep the Blue Flag flying high!

Just watched the Lib cheerleaders on Mike Duffy Live....with Weston and Taber giving all that advice to Dion on bringing back the 'hidden agenda' line (I kid you not)
C'mon Stephhie...let's git 'er done!!!
I like Mcgrath (NDP pres)...she always gets the digs in to the Lib spinners.Tonite it was Sen. Poulin.

The plan to save the Liberal Party from being slaughtered. Sure fire. Fifty buck cost to the party.

http://www.thiscanada.com/2007/03/06/flipper-retiring/

"or operators of Web sites publishing the images"
...-

France Bans Laypeople From Reporting Violence

PC World ^ | Tuesday, March 06, 2007 | Peter Sayer

New French law says that only professional journalists can film or broadcast acts of violence The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday. The council chose an unfortunate anniversary to publish its decision approving the law, which came exactly 16 years after Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King were filmed by amateur...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796263/posts

Taping? Video taping? Where is/are the tape(s)? ...-

$12 Million Lawsuit Over Toronto Police Beer Bash

Two Mississauga men who say they were roughed up after taping police at a wild booze party last summer have filed a $12-million lawsuit against Peel Police Chief Mike Metcalf and 26 officers. ...-
national newswatch

FROM CHINA WITH LOVE: Industrial soot changing Pacific weather patterns

http://tinyurl.com/38uu98

"Soot from the factories of Asia is changing weather across the Pacific Ocean and causing storms like the December howler that clobbered Vancouver's Stanley Park, a new study says.

For a change, scientists aren't blaming global warming for the increase in number and intensity of storms. The new study blames sooty, sulphurous coal smoke from Asian industry -- largely in China and India -- for altering the eastbound "storm track" in the Pacific."

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>..

Somewhere Chaiman Moe is smiling secure in the knowledge he exempted China from Kyoto and profited from the coal fired energy expansion there while his Kyoto androids in Canada attempt to punish this nation to a productivity standstill for it's 2% carbon contribution.

Maybe these Chinese coal "soot storms" are what Have ruined the weather over Suzuki's Quadra Is. diggs....some one gonna pay fer that!!...Kanikistani suckers seem easy enough to shake down ;-)

Glenn Reynolds says - at instapundit.com/archives2/003103.php - that "The Secular Islam Summit hasn't gotten the attention it deserves". The following quote is from summit's St. Petersburg Declaration:

"We are secular Muslims, and secular persons of Muslim societies. We are believers, doubters, and unbelievers, brought together by a great struggle, not between the West and Islam, but between the free and the unfree. We affirm the inviolable freedom of the individual conscience. We believe in the equality of all human persons.

"We insist upon the separation of religion from state and the observance of universal human rights. We find traditions of liberty, rationality, and tolerance in the rich histories of pre-Islamic and Islamic societies. These values do not belong to the West or the East; they are the common moral heritage of humankind."

If you have not yet seen it, I highly recommend summit attendee Dr. Wafa Sultan's debate on Al Jazeera: youtube.com/watch?v=2WLoasfOLpQ

More nonsense from Richard Gwyn on Harper election call:

"This is the legality of the matter. It saves Harper from having to think up ways to so enrage simultaneously the Liberals, NDP and Bloc Québécois that they commit joint hara-kiri by defeating the Conservatives at a time when they are all down in the polls.

The politics of the matter are a bit different. While there's nothing to prevent Harper from calling an election tomorrow and explaining, "I'm doing it for no reason except that I'm going to win it," most political pros will judge this a Bad Thing for him to do.

Not bad in itself – since it would be the truth – but bad in its consequences. Canadian voters might get shirty.

So what Harper will have to do is lie. Or to fake it, to use a gentler verb.

Here the dynamics get really interesting. Voters will know Harper will be faking it. But provided he fakes well, he'll both save our sense of self-esteem and demonstrate he possesses the faking skills that are so essential to any successful prime minister.

So wait until the March 26 Quebec election. Then, provided that federalist Premier Jean Charest wins that election, watch thereafter for Harper to call a quick election. Then decide whether he's worth re-electing on the basis of whether he fakes well or ineptly."

Unbelievable. Let's see. In the latest sitting of the House, the "opposition" has killed a vital tool in fighting terrorism, passed a cynical Kyoto compliance bill, and signalled our enemies in Afghanistan that we want to pull out soon, giving them even more motivation to kill soldiers. Oh yeah, Gwyn, Harper is a liar, liar, pants on fire. This guy writes articles that appear unbiased, and then launches into some irrational argument, in this case, that Harper must lie to people to call an election, and being a big fat liar (like Chretien?) qualifies him to be prime minister. Last week he naively argued that Harper is catering to Quebec to secure a majortity government. Gwyn has been on the scene for decades, so this misread can't be chalked up to inexperience. So, what is his motive?

From "The Torch":

"Good luck runs out"
http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2007/03/good-luck-runs-out.html

"Afstan: Blogs by CTV's Tom Clark, Edmonton Journal's Graham Thomson"
http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2007/03/afstan-blog-by-ctvs-tom-clark.html

Note the fashion statements (and no cheesy comments please) at Mr Clark's blog. Photos of Canadians readying for Op Achilles at Mr Thomson's blog.

And a certain Liberal takes his licks in public:

"Scott Reid corrected"
http://www.damianpenny.com/archived/008997.html

Mark
Ottawa

vf,

I saw Liberal Senator Marie Poulin on Duffy too.

I was thinking how condescending and unprofessional she behaved. A greeter at Wal-Mart is more professional and better trained for their job.

So I looked her up, wondering what great contribution to society she must have made to cause the Librano$ to appoint her to the Senate and get a package actuarially worth millions.

Guess what her background is?

VP of the CBC !!!

The whole MSM must have figured they had a shot at one of these Senator jobs if they just kept worshiping at the feet of Chrétien/Martin.

There was a link from National Newswatch to the Hill Times on Garth who's prediction of pending election.
For some reason it's gone!

url>http://ommag.blogspot.com/2007/03/prognosticating-for-attention-world.html

Best quote =
"Garth Turner says a lot of things. I don't know how he would know this [the timing of the election] unless the Liberals intend to pull us down. I think that perhaps the tin foil hat's a little tight on his head," Mr. Hill told The Hill Times. ....""
BTW - Vitruvius you are right about that!

CPAC is carrying the daily testimony before the Major Inquiry (Air India).

Wed. a.m. will be testimony from the RCMP starting at 9:30 a.m. (ET).

The first witness - Wesley Wark from the Munk Institute - gave a very impressive/compelling delivery on Monday. Tuesday's testimony was from CSIS (O'Brien) (who happens to also be a lawyer by profession). It was also very insightful but not quite as compelling.

This promises to be a very useful commission and hopefully a whole lot of what likely should have been corrected/aired in public long ago will be done now. High time and hoepfully the government will not hide behind a whole lot of redactions by repeating the same old, same old - can't do this for reasons of compromising security.

Out security/law and order is in many tatters now and the longer it is left not dealt with, the worse it is going to be.

Harper walks a tightrope in seeking an election
http://splatto.net/blog/?p=492

Poll up at the Calgary sun, would you vote for a conservative govt if it was called next month
yes-75+%
no -24+%
That 24% will be split between liberals, greens, and ndp.
Is this poll up at other sun papers.
Wonder if Jason and Dion have seen this, or even Suzuki.

Mary T

I wish that was the Toronto Sun

It appears the pentagon is full of liberal dupes who believe in the coming calamities of the y2kyoto variety.

//observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1153513,00.html

Paul Canniff: Sod Chelsea. Spurs are the team; what a final minute goal over West Ham.

Bill Maher proves once more that he is an insufferrable asshat--http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,256650,00.html--

"Cpl. Kevin Megeney, R.I.P."
http://www.damianpenny.com/archived/009000.html

Mark
Ottawa

Hey, Shamrock. This is Richard Gwyn. A low rent intellect who parlays his English Sophistication into wisdom amongst the colonials. See through his pretence to his vacuity.

“Accompanying the article is a typically superficial Newsweek Q&A sidebar, which is almost unbelievably headed: A Bombthrower's Life. The subject of this absurd headline is a woman who has been threatened with horrific violence, by Muslims varying from moderate to extreme, ever since she was a little girl. She has more recently had to see a Dutch friend butchered in the street, been told that she is next, and now has to live with bodyguards in Washington, D.C. She has never used or advocated violence. Yet to whom does Newsweek refer as the "Bombthrower"? It's always the same with these bogus equivalences: They start by pretending loftily to find no difference between aggressor and victim, and they end up by saying that it's the victim of violence who is 'really' inciting it...”

David Thompson quoting from Christopher Hitchen's
March 5th.2007 article in Slate.

http://www.slate.com/id/2161171/fr/rss/

http://davidthompson.typepad.com/

*
His research interests include cognitive science
and evolutionary biology, and sometimes he
presents students with a wooden box that he
pretends is an African relic.

“If you have negative sentiments toward
religion,” he tells them, “the box will destroy
whatever you put inside it.”

*

One of the great mysteries of modern history that I haven't heard explained is what possible excuse one could could have for carrying an ice axe around Mexico city.

Think about it. It's not like something one can secrete in the crouch pocket.

Global Media Governance - A Beginner's Guide.
Published in co-operation with UNRISD
That's right folks The UN.... wonder if good ole' Unlce Mo helped with it.

http://www.comunica.org/gmg/

WC ,

.... At least not a crotch pocket . Or maybe you meant secret ....?

For those who followed the opinion poll about our fine country being the most admired around the world, you might like to read this bit about the poll:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/325.php?nid=&id=&pnt=325&lb=hmpg1

Wow. These guys are busy little beavers.

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/gceg/gimWebNetScripted.htm

Did you read on Drudge where PETA is after the Goracle for not being a vegetarian? Where will it end??

**and places for bloggers to push their poison**

This blogsite fails to meet my minimum standard of elegance and grace, but you frontline hockey players will like it.

I have to say this first;

The aim is to free the good people of Iran from the Iron fisted grip of the Mullahs.

The West thus befriends them.

Only a precision hit to the one nuclear plant producing weapons grade material just before use, could be justified.

Otherwise, any damage to electric gen. or oil and gas infrastructure would only inflame all Iranians against the West.

Justified, yet we have no right to destroy any non-threatening property of Iranians.

However; there is always another view. . .

ht tp nukeiran.com/

= TG

A gem of a blog and about time. I'm waiting for P.E.T.
101 people who are screwing up Canada

calgary clipper: Indeed. If our media or poliicians actually bothered to watch they would learn a lot.
www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp=template&act=view3§ion_id=768&template_id=604&lang=e

But they won't. Which is a good reason, pace Prof. Wark, not to have any Commons or joint committee with access to any classified info. Just look what fools (the Commons, not the Senate) they make of themselves when dealing with national defence.

cmte.parl.gc.ca/cmte/CommitteeHome.aspx?Lang=1&PARLSES=391&JNT=0&SELID=e17_&COM=10470
www.parl.gc.ca/common/Committee_SenHome.asp?Language=E&Parl=39&Ses=1&comm_id=76

Mark
Ottawa

The Commons, not the Senate, committee.

Mark
Ottawa

Toronto had coldest february in 28 years:
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/188324

But no reference to kyoto, in a weather article, in the Toronto Star, funny enough. I wonder why.

I have one question. How much is it going to cost the Liberal Party of Canada in Carbon Credit offsets to make up for the roasting and toasting and outright "environment polluting burnup" that this party is going to endure in the next federal election? They don't have that kind of money.

Another 'stunning' (or should I say 'stunned') article by CTV:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070306/tories_toughness_070306/20070306?hub=Politics

Haven't I heard the name, Jennifer Ditchburn, before. Isn't she another one of those tired Liberals trying their hardest to spin things against Harper because they're starting to crap their pants where the popular vote is heading?

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Posted by: johnboy at March 5, 2007 11:36 PM"

well johnboy, so you have a copy of the 1956 topical britannica encyclopeadia in your possession which you use to look up 'popular expressions'.

why dont you stack them all on edge and I will demostrate what an assault rifle will do.

and with regards to the shooting range rules about 'cammo gear not allowed', that is the long standing tradition of EVERY private target range I have contacted here in very conservative eastern canada.

for good reason; we arent interested in projecting some hollywood image of machismo, we go to the range to pass the time, trade tips, and pop a hundred or so rounds down range, depending on how busy the place is. one chap who was founder and long member and the only one to achieve TWO perfect scores 20/20 in the bulls eye, was instrumental in getting THAT rule carved in granite and in the club membership requirements.

imache imache imache.

feel free to trapse around in cammo gear all you want in bollocksland like some movie extra or delusional psycho guerilla right wing rural gun nut but stay the fuk away from the gentlemen's club target ranges.

you also show complete absence in the evolution of language; it doesnt MATTER what the original root origin of words is, the only thing that matters is current common use and wide understanding.

youre like the bikers who point to the fact the hell's angels started with WW II pilots after 1945 with a lot of time and need for thrills and having fun and requisite mechanical aptitude.

it dont matter what the origins are, the thing that matters is bikers NOW are meth lab pimps and protection racket artists.

likewise your precious 'left wing california agenda' crap. sounds kinda paranoid to me really, another common trait with rightist wingnuts.

Nobody named Johnboy has commented in this thread, Robert.

*
I'm thinkin'... you might not wanna' have
your parents visit on Sado-Masochism day.

"Visiting lecturers will address technical
aspects of flogging, restraint, and role-play."

*

ya gotta sift thru an earlier tips post to find it.

the one with his march 5 addendum consisting of a personal insult. you know all about that vituvus.

nuthin in the rules says I cant cut & paste from elsewhere.

Im still waiting for his admission that there are in fact very liteweight nukes in existence (proof: 'suitcase' warheads) one of which is launched from a bazooka like apparatus delivering single digit kton blast.

all he wants to do is dwell and dwell on a highly refined definition of 'assault rifle'.

also he refuses to address the FACT that the old chestNUT excuse about 'guns dont kill people, people kill people' is very LIMITED in its applicability; its the friggin GUN bein used BY the 'people' killing people.

to use johnboy's logic however, shoulder launched nukes and all manner of death delivering concoctions should be made available to the 'law abidin' general public, jest laak dem guns guns guns !!!

seein as, well, shoulder launched nukes and anthrax doan' kills peeble, peeble kills peeble.

deadly compact automatic firearms of no use on a target range or for hunting game need to be BANNED from general availability despite the nra's or johnboy's wishes.

That mean nurse steal your meds again, Bobbybollocks?

Suitcase nukes? Are you serious? Too much TV, man. Really.

robertbollocks,

Nap time.

The Mole

Cherniak, after erasing blagh, has now formed the Plumbers*, Librano$ style. Who is next on Cherniak's *hit List? Could it be ChuckerCanuck?

Here is Liberal Paranoia:

Cherniak":"As I have been suggesting for a while now, there seems to be a leak in Ottawa. Clearly somebody needs to do something soon." ...-

SDA told ya-so:

July 08, 2006
The "Mole"

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/004248.html

*H/T John Dean, etc.

First Three Comments:
tjeerd said...

Maybe it was Garth Turner.

2:16 PM
Campbell said...

lol

2:48 PM
Antonio said...

THE MOLE IS BACK! ...-

Just one more c/p, please. It's too hilarious> ...-

Cherniak: Liberal GTA transit plan finally funded

Today, blagh, blagh, blagh, ...

It's about bloody time. It only took Harper a year to promise to give Ontario the money that the Martin government already agreed to give the province.

How many times can Harper announce follow-through on Liberal plans before the media stops giving him credit? This is a great day for Ontario, but

Harper should be condemned for dragging his feet. ...-

First Comment:

Campbell said...

I condemn Harper for dragging his feet! ...-

The "experts" are saying:

Citoyen Dion-Liberals are:

Soft on Crime, in addition to being Soft on Terrorists.

The Crime Expert: Doob says:

"University of Toronto criminologist Anthony Doob says the Liberals, and even the NDP, have ceded the law-and-order stage to the Conservatives: "It’s almost as if they’re embarrassed to be smart about crime."

But, Doob, the Crime Expert, adds: PM Harper is wrong on Crime!

Doob prefers the Hug-a-Thug Liberals.

""I look at this and I see one party that’s absolutely clear on its position on crime — and they’re almost always wrong — and the other two national parties are afraid to come out with strong, coherent policies."
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/563166.html

The Star | Rae to take the plunge today

OTTAWA–Bob Rae will make it official this morning – the former Ontario premier is entering the race to be the next Liberal candidate in the prized riding of Toronto Centre. ...
(via jack's newswatch)

Boob, along with Ricky the Mersey, have been spotted racing hand-in-hand, down to the waterfront, aka Lake Ontario, where they will take the Polar Bear plunge to new heights, er, lows. It's Globeail Warming; the naked truth. Three stars and four thumbs up. ...-

What Is Happening in Iraq Will End in the Defeat of Terrorism, Region's Recovery From Its Ills

MRMRI/www.aafaq.org ^ | 3-6-07 | Dr. Abd Al-Khaleg Hussein

Iraqi Columnist: What Is Happening in Iraq Will End in the Defeat of Terrorism and in the Region's Recovery From Its Ills An article by Dr. Abd Al-Khaleg Hussein was posted on reformist websites such as www.aafaq.org. In the article, the Iraqi columnist argues that President Bush’s new strategy in Iraq is already showing signs of success and that what is happening in Iraq will necessarily end in the defeat of terrorism and in the recovery of the region from its ills once and for all.

The following are excerpts: [1] "There is nothing that [some] Arabs hate more than...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796636/posts

See National Post today (Wed) re the Hijab/Soccer issue.

Where in the hell does the Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission come off weighing in publicly on a matter that may yet come before her own commission.

What she has done is basically pre-judged publicly the findings if in fact a similar issue such were to come before her commission. At least the QC HR commission has declined to comment as the matter may yet come before them.

The sooner these human rights commissions along with the IRB troughsters are disbanded - the better off society will be.

Global Poll Finds that Religion and Culture are Not to Blame for Tensions between Islam and the West
http://tinyurl.com/238gp2

Canada 'slow' in giving up fugitives
...Foreign governments normally complete requests for extradition within six months to two years. But Canada's response can be delayed for decades...

http://tinyurl.com/ywxwwn

ooopppps - make that the Ottawa Citizen, not the National Post

Jim Balsillie's governance follies
Peter Foster, Financial Post

...Will this failure make Mr. Balsillie have second thoughts about supporting CIGI, a think-tank dedicated to governance not at the corporate but the planetary level?...

...CIGI was set up in 2002, when Paul Martin, whose sharp-elbowed lust for the prime ministership always stood in distinct contrast to his mushy feel-good internationalism, was on his way to Sussex Drive. Mr. Balsillie and his partner, Mike Lazaridis, kicked in $30-million. You, the helpless taxpayer, kicked in another $30-million. Bet you didn't know that, did you?...

...International governance is a variant of "global governance," whose "shadowy promoter" is Canada's ubiquitous Maurice Strong. Mr. Strong had a profound influence on Mr. Martin's brand of globaloney. Mr. Strong sat on CIGI's international board of governors for a couple of years, but left/ was removed in 2005, the year the Iraqi oil-for-food fiasco, in which Mr. Strong was implicated, hit the fan...

sigh.

you just want me to do all the research right kiddies?

suitcase bombs do exist o head-in-the-sand-righties !!!

http://unitedstatesaction.com/suitcase-nuclear.htm under 'background'

some more in the affirmitive:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/050624.html

this one mentions a half kton device:
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/News/TerroristBombIntro.html

this is a good one, look for the mention of the davey crockett device:
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/News/DoSuitcaseNukesExist.html

FROM NINETEEN FIFTY EIGHT.

got that?

these single digit and fractional digit warheads have existed for almost 50 years, and Im still getting insults and personal attacks but NO RESPONSES TO THE QUESTIONS.

lemme see if I can get the last citation thru ...

Are Suitcase Bombs Possible?

By Carey Sublette

Last changed 18 May 2002

It is impossible to verify at the time of this writing whether nuclear devices sized to fit in side a suitcase were actually manufactured by the former Soviet Union, as alleged by Alexander Lebed in September 1997. It is certainly possibel to assess the technicial plausibility of such a claim and to provide a analysis of the likely characteristics of the weapons Lebed described.

A suitcase bomb with dimensions of 60 x 40 x 20 centimeters is by any standard a very compact nuclear weapon. Information is lacking on compact Soviet weapons, but a fair amount of information is available on compact US designs which provides a good basis for comparison.

The smallest possible bomb-like object would be a single critical mass of plutonium (or U-233) at maximum density under normal conditions. An unreflected spherical alpha-phase critical mass of Pu-239 weighs 10.5 kg and is 10.1 cm across.

A single critical mass cannot cause an explosion however since it does not cause fission multiplication, somewhat more than a critical mass is required for that. But it does not take much more than a single critical mass to cause significant explosions. As little an excess as 10% (1.1 critical masses) can produce explosions of 10-20 tons. This low yield seems trivial compared to weapons with yields in the kilotons or megatons, but it is actually far more dangerous than conventional explosives of equivalent yield due to the intense radiation emitted. A 20 ton fission explosion, for example, produces a very dangerous 500 rem radiation exposure at 400 meters from burst point, and a 100% lethal 1350 rem exposure at 300 meters. A yield of 10-20 tons is also equal to the yield of the lowest yield nuclear warhead ever deployed by the US -- the W-54 used in the Davy Crockett recoilless rifle.

A mere 1.2 critical masses can produce explosive yield of 100 tons, and 1.35 critical masses can reach 250 tons. At this point a nation with sophisticated weapons technology can employ fusion boosting to raise the yield well into the kiloton range without requiring additional fissile material.

The amount of fissile material that constitutes a "critical mass" varies with the material density and the type of neutron reflector present (if any). A high explosive implosion can compress fissile material to greater than normal density, thus reducing the critical mass. A neutron reflector reduces neutron loss and reduces the critical mass at a constant density. However generally speaking, adding explosives or neutron reflectors to a core adds considerably more mass to the whole system than it saves.

A limited exception to this is that a thin beryllium reflector (thickness no more than the core radius) can actually reduce the total mass of the system, although it increases its overall diameter. For beryllium thicknesses of a few centimeters, the radius of a plutonium core is reduced by 40-60% of the reflector thickness. Since the density difference between these materials is on the order of 10:1, substantial mass savings (a couple of kilograms) can be achieved. At some point though increasing the thickness of the reflector begins to add more mass than it saves since volume increases with the cube of the radius. This marks the point of minimum total mass for the reflector/core system.

A low yield minimum mass or minimum volume weapon would thus use an efficient fissile material (plutonium or U-233), a limited amount of high explosives (sufficient only to assembly the core, not to compress it to greater than normal density), and a thin beryllium reflector.

We can now try to estimated the absolute minimum possible mass for a bomb with a significant yield. Since the critical mass for alpha-phase plutonium is 10.5 kg, and an additional 20-30% of mass is needed to make a significant explosion, this implies 13 kg or so. A thin beryllium reflector can reduce this by a couple of kilograms, but the necessary high explosive, packaging, triggering system, etc. will add mass, so the true absolute minimum probably lies in the range of 11-15 kg (and is probably closer to 15 than 11).

This is probably a fair description of the W-54 Davy Crockett warhead. This warhead was the lightest ever deployed by the US, with a minimum mass of about 23 kg (it also came in heavier packages) and had yields ranging from 10 tons up to 1 Kt in various versions. The warhead was basically egg-shaped with the minor axis of 27.3 cm and a major axis of 40 cm. The test devices for this design fired in Hardtack Phase II (shots Hamilton and Humboldt on 15 October and 29 October 1958) weighed only 16 kg, impressively close to the minimum mass estimated above. These devices were 28 cm by 30 cm.

Davy CrockettW-54 Davy Crockett (38 K)

The W-54 design probably approaches the minimum size for a spherical implosion device (the US has conducted tests of a 25.4 cm implosion systems however).

The W-54 nuclear package is certainly light enough by itself to be used in a "suitcase bomb" but the closest equivalent to such a device that US has ever deployed was a man-carried version called the Mk-54 SADM (Small Atomic Demolition Munition). This used a version of the W-54, but the whole package was much larger and heavier. It was a cylinder 40 cm by 60 cm, and weighed 68 kg (the actual warhead portion weighed only 27 kg). Although the Mk-54 SADM has itself been called a "suitcase bomb" it is more like a "steamer trunk" bomb, especially considering its weight.

Minimum mass and minimum volume are not the only design criteria of interest of course, since even 25.4 cm (10 inches) is rather thick even for a suitcase and is wider than the reported 20 cm thickness of Alexander Lebed's suitcase bomb. Another approach is to instead develop a minimum diameter or minimum thickness design.

Minimizing nuclear weapon diameters has been a subject of intense interest for developing nuclear artillery shells, since the largest field artillery is typically the 208 mm (8.2 inch) caliber, with 155 mm (6.1 inches) artillery being the workhorse. Nuclear artillery shell designs with diameters as small as 105 mm have been studied. Packaging a nuclear artillery shell in a suitcase is an obvious route for creating a compact man-portable device.

The US has developed several nuclear artillery shells in the 155 mm caliber. The only one to be deployed was the W-48 nuclear warhead developed by UCRL, packaged in the M-45 AFAP (artillery fired atomic projectile) shell. The W-48 nuclear warhead measured 86 cm (34") long and weighed 53.5-58 kg (118-128 lbs). Its yield was on the order of 70 to 100 tons (it was tested in the Hardtack II Tamalpais shot with a yield of 72 tons, predicted yield was 100-300 tons).

The smallest diameter US test device publicly known was the UCRL Swift device fired in the Redwing Yuma shot on 28 May 1956 . It had a 5" (12.7 cm) diameter, a length of 62.2 cm (24.5 inches) and weighed 43.5 kg (96 lb). The test had a yield of 190 tons, but was intended to be fusion boosted (and thus would probably have had a yield in the kiloton range) but its yield was insufficient to ignite the fusion reaction and it failed to boost in this test. This test may have been a predecessor to the W-48 design.

Later and lighter 155 mm designs were also developed -- the W74 (canceled early in development), and the W-82/XM-785 shell. The W82 had a yield of up to 2 kilotons and weighed 43 kg (95 lb), but included a number of sophisticated additional features within this weight. Since it was capable of being fielded with a "neutron bomb" (enhanced radiation) option, which is intrinsically more complex than a basic nuclear warhead, and was in addition rocket boosted, the actual minimum nuclear package was substantially lighter than the weight of the complete round. Its overall length was 86 cm (34").

It is reported that designs least as small as 105 mm (4.1 inches) are possible. A hypothetical 105 mm system developed for use in an artillery shell would be about 50 cm (20 inches) long and weigh around 20 kg.

Compact nuclear artillery shells (208 mm and under) are based on a design approach called linear implosion. The linear implosion concept is that an elongated (football shaped) lower density subcritical mass of material can be compressed and deformed into a critical higher density spherical configuration by embedding it in a cylinder of explosives which are initiated at each end. As the detonation progresses from each direction towards the middle, the fissile mass is squeezed into a supercritical shape. The Swift device is known to have been a linear implosion design.
Linear Implosion System

It is quite likely, that should the suitcase bombs described by Lebed actually exist, that they would use this technology. It is clear that any of the 155 mm artillery shells, if shortened by omitting the non-essential conical ogive and fuze would fit diagonally in the package that Lebed describes, and the Swift device would fit easily. If the yield is as much as 10 kilotons, then the device would have to be fusion boosted.

A somewhat more sophisticated variation would extend the linear implosion concept to cylindrical implosion, in this case an oblate (squashed) spheroid, roughly discus-shaped, of plutonium would be embedded in a cylinder of high explosive which is initiated simultaneously around its perimeter. The cylindrically converging detonation would compress and deform the fissile mass into a sphere, that could be wider than the original thickness of the system. This type of design would make the flattest possible bomb design, perhaps as little as 5 cm. The only obvious application for such a device would be briefcase bomb, and would require a special development effort to create it.

See Section 4.2 of the Nuclear Weapons FAQ for more details.

Source of weapon and test details The Swords of Armageddon, by Chuck Hansen, Chuckelea Publishing, 1995.

gives new meaning to the theme song from the davey crockett television show with fess parker and buddy ebsen eh?

"king of the wild frontier"

well looks like johnboy wants the entire continent turned into a wild frontier with all manner of wmds available to us 'law abidin citzins' seeing as 'gahns daon kills peeble, peebles kills peebles'.

LOL !!!

take it out in the parking lot !!! LOL !!!

the number of times Ive heard that and been left all alone in the parking lot waiting for some inebriated snot to show up. heh heh heh.

maybe they thought I had a SHOULDER LAUNCHED nuke at the ready.

aaaaand one more:

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/News/Lebedbomb.html

page down to the bottom, past the photo to the part about "mock up provided by the cia"

next Q:

would the cia provide a "mockup" of a weapon they knew could did not and could not exist? hmmmm? you know, in an effort to oh, say, get a budget increase to get more intelligence on it????

ya, ya, thats it, its all a cia plot to squeeze more money out of congress. shoulder launched/suitcase nukes are a fabrication by the cia to justify their jobs !!! waa hooo !! the truth will out !!!

heh heh heh.

I still want to buy one though... LOL !!!

Dude, you're seriously out to lunch. Suitcase nukes are X-Files worthy, that's it.

You can flex your internet muscles all you like. Go back to hating cops... at least you were funny then.

From your own quote: "It is quite likely, that should the suitcase bombs described by Lebed actually exist, that they would use this technology."

So, even your own sources HAVE NO PROOF OF ANYTHING, and instead speculate on speculation. Wow, thanks for that conclusive proof.

Hey, Robby, I'm sure there's a late-night call in show somewhere that would love to hear some more of your awesome theories.

no proof? you didnt read the davey crockett part ?? wtf constitutes proof in your parallel dimension there mr yukon???

you been wandering the 'yukon' wilderness way too long looking for your 'gold', dude.

in an age when miniaturization is the key, suitcase bombs, the progeny of technology that has existed for 60 years, DO EXIST.

The Hissing Snakes at the terrorist front organisation - CAIR - are at it again:

What Is CAIR Afraid Of?

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 3/6/2007

Politics And Islam: The first Secular Islam Summit was a success if for no other reason than it intimidated the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the PR machine of militant Islam.
The Washington-based group that boycotts airlines and bullies radio personalities and politicians into toeing the Islamist line is clearly worried about the message from Muslim reformers.
It dispatched its henchmen to Florida to shout the reformers down at their confab earlier this week. CAIR also posted on its Web site no fewer than four stories bashing the event and its courageous speakers, many of whom are women calling for an end to inequality and mistreatment under radical Islam.
CAIR declared the summit illegitimate because few of the participants are "practicing Muslims," and those who are, it claims, are merely pawns playing into the hands of "Islamophobes."

"In order to have legitimate reform, you need to have the right messengers," asserted CAIR spokesman Ahmed Bedier.
And who might that be? The four CAIR executives who have been successfully prosecuted on terrorism-related charges? The CAIR co-founder who said the Quran should replace the U.S. Constitution as "the highest authority in America"?

For the rest: investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=258076311558394

Globe&Mail

A super agency?
Yes, Canada should propose one, says MAURICE STRONG, who first put global warming on the world agenda
By MAURICE STRONG

The pettiness with which the current controversy on Canada's response to climate change is being argued is nothing to be proud of...

A bomb cannot fit under a hijab? Maybe. Maybe not.

A cross-dressing Taliban can and did attempt a burqa. Verb: To burqa: to fit a fleeing bomb-maker under a burqa.

Who was his dresser? Taliban Jack? ...-

Afghan soldiers captured a Taliban leader Mullah Mahmood, an expert bomb-maker, who tried to flee a security operation in the south dressed in a burqa. (AP/Breitbart)...-
http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/03/crossdressing_taliban.php

'Smore:

Mohammed-Allah's Bum Boy: Inshallah. ...-

No Threat

Interesting piece of news. Reuters reports that: "An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent threat. ...-
belmontclub

It's about time:

2nd Annual
Rally Against Islamofascism Day

Saturday March 31st 2007

On Saturday March 31st Americans of all ethnicities and of all religious backgrounds are urged to take to the streets in peaceful protest of Islamic radicalism. The primary locations of the rallies will be in front of several offices of the Council on American Islamic Relations deemed by many as a radical Islamist front organization.

Watch the trailer for Channel 4's documentary airing in the UK tonight, "The Great Global Warming Swindle":

http://flaggman.wordpress.com/2007/03/06/global-warming-the-biggest-scam-of-modern-times-channel-4-documentary/

So when will "Passionate Eye" pick this one up?

It appears that Dion is not the only leader that will not allow candidates not to run, unless they are women, in certain ridings. The leader of the green party has tried to nix the nomination of the only declared candidate in a vancouver riding to run, as she wants star candidates. She expects to win about 20 seats in the election.
National Newswatch has the story.
Another liberal, in addition to Andy Scott is stepping down. Waiting for Goodale to do the same. Seems like a lot of rats are leaving the sinking ship. Corbella takes a bite out of Suzuki today in her column, also at Newswatch.

David Thompson has a great post on the Islamothugs clamoring for 'respect.'

(davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2007/03/respect_my_auth.html#more)

Respect My Authoritaay!

I received some email in response to the Clerical Umbrage piece. Apparently, I’m being terribly disrespectful towards the Dean of Southwark, the Bishop of London and believers more generally. All of whom should, I’m told, be held in high regard “because of their sincerity” and irrespective of what they say or how little sense it makes. The offending passage – well, one of many offending passages – was my statement that, “If the Bishop of London feels relegated to the margins of intellectual credibility, perhaps he should consider his own role in getting there.” I won’t rehash the reasons for that particular comment. I do, however, want to address the notion that claims of religious sincerity should be taken at face value and afforded great weight, regardless of their content and political implications.

"If a person writes an article claiming that Muhammad was the final prophet of Allah and a yardstick of human virtue, they are expressing a preposterous idea. If that person then demands that I refrain from saying this, and refrain from explaining why, they are making an equally preposterous demand."

With depressing regularity we hear of the “sincerity” and “deep feeling” with which certain beliefs are held, as if sincerity and vehemence were testament to the veracity of those beliefs and a marker of their immunity from critical scrutiny. But an argument stands on its merits, not on the vehemence with which it’s held or the volume at which it’s shouted. And not, as the Bishop of London seems to imply, because of veiled threats of public disorder if those beliefs are challenged. Nor is a belief made admirable or true by the number of people who can be said to share it. When Iqbal Sacranie claimed that “millions of Muslims” were “deeply offended” by unflattering statements of the obvious, then those “millions of Muslims” may well be mistaken or dishonest and perhaps a little prideful.

Being offended by criticism, or claiming such, doesn’t by default entitle one to anything. Assuming otherwise is hubris. This is because there are a great many reasons why a person may claim to be offended, including vanity, vindictiveness and dishonesty, or a desire to exert political leverage, or to prevent exposure as a fraud. If a person holds beliefs that are patently absurd, even disgusting, that person cannot seriously expect others to pretend otherwise, especially when those beliefs are asserted in the political realm. Broadly speaking, I’m not overly interested in a person’s religious affiliations or their metaphysical outlook. Ideas about God and His alleged preferences are, I think, a private matter. If consenting adults wish to commune with the numinous by sticking pins in their eyes, that's their business rather than mine. However, when religious ideas are asserted publicly with political intent, then those ideas become fair game, much as any other political assertion does.

When representatives of various religious movements demand that their ideas be respected on an a priori basis, it’s hard not to register the creaking pomposity and its surreal implications. What is being demanded here is not respect per se, which, given the nature of many beliefs, would very often be bizarre. More often than not, what's actually being demanded is deference and double standards, and, in some cases, fear. And despite the endless talk of ‘feelings’ and ‘sensitivities’, what we’re really dealing with is a struggle for territory and authority. Of course, ‘authority’ is a much less fluffy concept than ‘sensitivity’ and less likely to meet with sympathy.

When future historians look back on 2006, they may well regard it as the year when many people forgot the difference between tolerance and respect. Or pretended to forget the difference, and then got shirty with anyone who dared to point it out. Respect generally implies some appreciation for the intellectual, moral or aesthetic qualities of a thing; some recognition of its worth - of the fact that it is deserving of consideration. One could, for instance, respect the Sistine Chapel as a work of devotional art and the result of almost superhuman effort. And one could do so without a particularly high regard for the theological ideas it depicts.

One might likewise respect the right of believers to practise their religion, provided it complies with the law and matters of routine decency. But one is under no obligation to respect the particulars of those beliefs, or to acquiesce to any political demands made in their name. Those who protest most loudly against any perceived affront to their beliefs will probably know that most of us don’t in fact respect many particulars of those beliefs, whether in terms of basic philosophy or sexual politics, or in some cases sheer jaw-dropping bonkersdom. Nor do those indignant believers have any right to such respect. If a person writes an article claiming that Muhammad was the final prophet of Allah and a yardstick of human virtue, they are expressing a preposterous idea. If that person then demands that I refrain from saying this, and refrain from explaining why, they are making an equally preposterous demand.

In October, in the wake of the Muhammad cartoons hysteria, Oliver Kamm commented on the Channel 4 Dispatches debate on freedom of speech and neatly summarised a central issue: “One of the Danish Imams who led the initial protests against the Jyllands-Posten cartoons declared under cross-examination… that he was entitled to respect. He was, and is, entitled to no such thing. He is entitled in a democratic society to no more and no less than religious and political liberty. Whether he enjoys respect as well is entirely up to him; it is not up to our political and juridical system. The notion that in suffering offence he is done an injustice is false and pernicious. It's also dangerous, because it places no limit on how far the state should regulate people's lives.”

Amen to that.

Another refinery fire, this time in Alberta. How many is that in the past few months. Does anyone have info on how many, and how often there were refinery fires and other shutdowns/year in the past 10 years. Didn't OBL say to attack all countries that export oil to the USA. Canada has been on the hit list for years. As these fires are isolated and in various provinces, who would suspect them of being attacks by terrorists. Most of those supporting the libs and ndp think just because we have not had an attack like the WTC we have been left alone. How long before someone starts to put all the little attacks together.

aaaaand here be a picture of the davey crockett.

black & white mind you since it was many years ago.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/russia/suitcase/comments.html

note the source: PBS, not likely to engage in fantasy or wild speculation.

also note the 'bazooka-like' appearance of the device exluding the tripod.

got it yet there yukon/johnboy ?

Some things just don't go together. Phrases like "..concealing a magnet inside his rectum..." and "...posed no apparent threat. ..." should not appear in the same story.

When flying I have often thought that the folks at TSA were overpaid, especially the dude handing out baggies at the screening area, however I believe this nutbar here made up for all the easy money. "Yo, bobby, get me that rubber glove will ya?"

aaaaand declassified (because it happened so long ago) scratchy video of the 1 kton range devices I mentioned in a previous post and which got such a hateful response from johnboy:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/russia/suitcase/

find it on the 2nd screen down and feel free to comment but stfu with your sarcasm and truly pathetic cracks about 'meds' and 'nap time'.

hmmmm.

no smarminess from yukon/johnboy yet.

must be they gots a magnet rammed up their arse.

or maybe the 0.000000023 kt nuke device I heaved over the fence landed in their lap.

LOL !!!

Feel Good Cars Corporation (FGC) is tuning up for the production of its ZENN low-speed electric vehicle.

Of particular note is that in September 2005, FGC entered into an agreement with the taciturn EEStor to acquire worldwide exclusive rights to purchase EEStor’s new Energy Storage Unit—a high-power-density ceramic ultracapacitor—for the small vehicle market and golf carts (up to 100 HP and 1,200 kgs curb weight).

The EEStor ESU is projected to offer up to 10x the energy density (volumetric and gravimetric) of lead-acid batteries at the same cost. In addition, the ESU is projected to store up to 1.5 to 2.5 times the energy of Li-Ion batteries at 12 to 25% of the cost.

As a solid state energy storage device, the ESU is projected to have virtually unlimited life of deep-cycle usage in addition to being rechargeable in just minutes.

greencarcongress.com/2006/04/feel_good_cars_.html

The technology, about which not much information is currently available, is considered a potential “game-changer,” and attracted a $3M lead investment from heavyweight venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. = TG

Photo - TonyGuitar.blogspot.com scroll down.

What comes after gay marriage?? Read here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6424937.stm

Maz2 - You're right about that unbiased reporting from Jennifer Ditchburn. But did you know that Anthony Doob, our favourite criminologist who seems to have a hate on for the Tory criminal Justice platform, donated 500 dollars to his local NDP candidate in the last federal election? It took me five minutes to find out - why didn't Jennifer Ditchburn check?

Check it all out here:
http://uncommontruths.blogspot.com/2007/03/uncommon-truths-asked-who-is-anthony.html
Uncommon Truths asked: "Who is Anthony Doob"

Maybe the phrase "Fill'er up" wasn't the best use of words, CJunk. Bobbyballs is off his meds and has taken to cut & pasting pages of crap in the comments here. Of course if you disagree he will challenge you to a fist fight behind the mall to prove his manhood. Just my observation.

"Candidate's appointment to judicial panel questioned".

CBC is indignant, offended, etc.

The CBC's real agenda is hidden: Appoint only left-liberal socialists.

The law perfesser from TO-Academia is The Authority:

University of Toronto law professor Lorraine Weinrib said it's impossible to have an impartial committee to appoint judges when one of its members is a political candidate.

"The government is introducing a partisan political element into the committee process by appointing someone who has this engagement in the election process," she said. ...-

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2007/03/07/tell.html

Egmont MP throws rotten eggs at Citoyen Dion.
L'Omelet Dion has Egg on face; smells the H2S, and CO2s off. ...-

Veteran P.E.I. MP to retire

After 19 years in federal politics, Egmont MP Joe McGuire will not run in the next federal election, a P.E.I. newspaper is reporting.

The West Prince Graphic says McGuire has already told his Liberal riding association to prepare to pick to a new federal candidate.

The newspaper says federal Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion spoke with McGuire on Monday and asked him to run in the next election, but McGuire declined, saying it is time to spend more time at home and enjoy his grandchildren. ...-
jack's newswatch

Mr. Bollocks tendency to indulge in virtual sociopathic behaviour has been well documented before, for example, here: www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/005281.html#c127807

Free terror suspect, judge orders Ottawa
Toronto Star - 11 hours ago
Husnah al-Mashtouli, with sons Ossama, 8, right, and Ahmed, 20, celebrates after learning her husband Mahmoud Jaballah will soon be released from ‘Guantanamo North.
Terror suspect Jaballah to be released, son says CBC British Columbia
Second al-Qaeda suspect ordered freed Globe and Mail
...-

Socialist-Liberals Citoyen Dion, Hezbollah Coderre, et al, are soft on terrorists.

Liberals defeat anti-terrorism bill ...
Mr. Dion had whipped his caucus, telling Liberal MPs that they must vote against extending the provisions in the bill ...
anticorruption.ca
...-

On Duffy last night Rosemary Thompson (Liberal lover extraordinaire) was on and on about Stephen Harper chasing votes with the transit funding through several Liberal ridings.

What would she have said if the announcements were for several Conservative ridings?

There's no winning with the Liberal MSM but I wish someone would have asked her that!

PM Harper has read the Greek Myths (Midas). Check out Harper's answer. What a man!

What a Prime Minister. He loves the "Roaring Game". ...-

Harper rocks the house (The Brier House)

Excerpt:

Harper sat in the end seats two rows back of a character who bills herself as King Midas -- aka Robin MacPherson of Hamilton -- who wore the Midas crown and was draped in gold head to toe.
"Just trying to bring a golden touch to the event," she said.
Harper was asked if he could use her as finance minister.
"We don't want everything turned to gold but we could use a little."...-
http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1173221414860&call_pageid=1112274690688&col=1112274690756

RE: Joe McGuire retiring...

CBC has it under a rather bland headline: Choice could have been different: McGuire

Bourque's link to the same CBC article makes it much more plain: PEI MP QUITS BECAUSE OF DION

Gotta love the CBC headline writer.

*
"They cannot do anything in our
young peoples' brains," Aghazadeh said.

You mean, like... splatter them
all over the sidewalk?

Two words baby... Gerald Bull.

*

This joke is too funny...

A west Texas cowboy was herding his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy,
"If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"

The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his AT&T cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.

The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with hundreds of complex formulas. He uploads all of this data via an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1586 cows and calves."

"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the cowboy. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car. Then the cowboy says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"

"You're a consultant for the National Democratic Party." says the cowboy.

"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"

"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked; and you don't know anything about my business........ Now give me back my dog."

This report does not mention that this is Muslim genocide: brown Arab Muslims killing black African Muslims. ...-

U.S. says Darfur genocide continues

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Washington issued a damning human rights report on Sudan, saying genocide in Darfur continued and blaming both government and rebel forces for attacks in the remote region.

It said there was widespread impunity for crimes including torture and that thousands more people had been killed by government forces and its allied militias, known locally as Janjaweed, in Darfur in 2006.

"Genocide continued to ravage the Darfur region of Sudan," the report released on Tuesday said. ...-

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797012/posts

What's the rush? Librano$ jumping ship; how many since Citoyen Dion took over from CSL AdScam Martin, Jr.? 6,7,8...? More to come.

Dion's Dream Team bubble has fallen to Earth; smell the rotten eggs, Kyoto? Kyoto holds his nose.... ahhhgggowowoo. ...-

Liberal MP Jim Peterson is set to announce his retirement from politics, leaving his Toronto seat vacant for recent party leadership candidate Martha Hall Findlay. (national newswatch)

Excellent article on how the Conservatives are managing to reverse Liberal slush funds with programs to allow any nut to sue free.

In other words their social engenering fund for freaks.

It also reveals a fund that is completley open to abuse & sounds like another LIb scam for money. Plus yet more patronage appointments for lefty friends

The Trough Runs Dry

While small fish like the court challenges program are being trimmed, there still remains a whale that has not been addressed. The Trudeau Foundation was established by the governing federal Liberals in 2002, handing over a $125-million slush fund, without Parliament's approval, to create the research centre. The intention was to have "a living memorial to the former prime minister," and to give scholarships to doctorate students who must research fashionably leftist topics in the areas of "human rights and social justice, responsible citizenship, Canada and the world, and humans and their natural environment."

Recipients of the foundation's scholarships are hand-picked by an autonomous, "non-partisan" board of directors that includes unsuccessful Liberal leadership candidate Bob Rae, a former policy adviser to former prime minister Jean Chrétien, Chaviva Hosek, Trudeau's son Alexandre, and former director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Roy Heenan. Just for good measure, recipients of the $50,000-per-year scholarships are "mentored" by the likes of Lloyd Axworthy, Chrétien's minister of foreign affairs, and Monique Bégin, Trudeau's minister of health and welfare. By design, none of this is subject to parliamentary accountability, unlike other federal agencies or Crown corporations.

To date, the federal government hasn't looked into the possibility of reclaiming the public funds stashed in the Trudeau Foundation, and Industry Canada, which supposedly oversees the endowment,

The rest is in the Westyern standard. Registration is free to see the article.

http://www.westernstandard.ca/website/index.cfm?page=article&article_id=2334&pagenumber=1

so when are one of you rightards going to provide any google documents or sources to challenge my now PROVEN assertion that miniture shoulder lauunched nukes exist and have for a very very long time? and considering THAT is the case it is very plausible and somewhere in the hundreds of labs and facilities in the world, a working model of a suitcase bomb exists too.

no takers? ah just more about the meds and rampant hypocricy: take a look at the size of the irwin daisy's addendum.

my posting right before the biggy was the url for it, I just wanted to save y'all the trouble of having to navigate over, seeing as your pea sized republican dinosaur brains might get alllll mixcht hup which tab is the right one. plus theres the shove-it-in-yer-face factor.

so why no protests on mr daisy? hmmm ???

ah, 'cause he doesnt specialize in cutting up all your right wing sacred cows for a grand ol' virtual neighborhood barbeque.

tex still cant read: I dont challenge to a fist fight, I merely dont back down anymore. Ive never lost a serious fight in my entire life but the infestation of gang types in the once peaceful and safe new world necessitates resorting to things like nuclear deterrence. is that the one you picked up on st vitus?? nuclear deterrence; an 8 year old kid practicing nuclear deterrence because no one in the edjukashun cystem cares to halt the bullying. when I realized just why such drastic action WORKED so well, it was a pivotal moment in my understanding the ways of the world visa vie *others* inclination towards and penchant for violence.

p.s. feel free to call up the cops here in bollocksville and tell them I am in the process of advertising far and wide the HOME ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER of the superintendant of uniformed division 'in case they have a problem with the cops' and need redress. you know, in case they get laughed at reporting a crime or oh, say beat up like John Sharpe the frail retired millionaire philanthropist. how 'bout I give you the 519 number right now???

like I said in my recent letter to the man *sent to his HOME ADDRESS*, next time one of his fukwad cop subordinates *laughs in my face* as I report a crime, HE can expect a call from my cell phone and a grand opportunity to find out whats so godam funny about stolen property. mind you this deterrence too seems to be working seeing as the incident happened at the begining of august 2005 and not a peep since from the comedians-with-badges.

never lost a major fight in my life.

heh heh heh.

incoming !!! and lots OUTGOING TOO !!!

LOL !!!

Why would Dion want all his rivals in the HofC, to outshine him on everything, and the ability to speak english to add insult to injury. Doesn't he know they will be out to get him. Shades of chretain/martin feud for the next 5 yrs.
Anybody heard anything from dion during his tour.
It would not surprise me if the liberals have great trouble gettin 308 candidates, if over 100 of them have to be women.

Chairman Mo proposes Kyoto Kops.

and another thing mr st vitus, and all you other righties and fans of the police busy dredging up the past, do google the name 'al gramolini' or some speling variation, the former CHIEF of police here in bollocksville, BUSTED and pleaded GUILTY to fraud in 2001 for fudging his expense acct whilst off at various out of town functions.

we expect this from politishuns of all stripes (prison garb?) but the cop at the top ???? egad, what is the world coming to.....

so whatayasay st vitus, you tell me a manner, some conduit where I can deliver to just you the home phone number and residential address of the present supt of uniformed dvsn here in bollocksville. can u do that where you are??? then whut u do is call the dipwad cop @ 519-4??-????, identify the circumstances of the call and REMIND Mr R. B. for the 10th time if EVER robertbollocks get fukin LAUGHED IN THE FACE by the prycks-with-badges behind the counter at cop hqts, HE gets a call immediately regardless of the time of day sose the comedians have a chance to share the source of humour.

what, what I say, what IS the world coming to.....

sociopath my ass, I just dont take CRAP from ANYONE anymore.

like I say, dig dig dig, post post post !!!

kaBOOOOOOMMMM !!!!! whoa !!! 'nuther pint size nuke just popped !!! har har har !!!

Thanks for that excellent link, Bill. If I may, in my humble capacity, I'd like to recommend that Kate or proxy promote it to a main page article.

speaking of dredging up stuff there st vitus, tell me again about the constant speed of light?

how about THIS to support MY assertion it aint so constant as we've been led to believe.....

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/27mar_stoplight.htm

ah but youre vastly superior in intellect than all the resources of NASA....

and yuh still aints answered the big Q 'QUESTION' how ye olde electrical induction woiks.

nope.

(catgotchertongueeh???)

ponder this all:

how did The Boss fling all those stars and galaxies out so far as they are, and do it in the brief time alloted by the Genesis description? give er take half a million years?

here's the trick:

nature works like a big huge immense desktop computer.

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yep.

time as we experience it consists of QUANTUM 'moments' of such fleeting duration that they ...... cannot be subdivided. ie quantum.

somewhere in those vast expanses is an object generating time waves at some frequency, JUST LIKE THE OCCILATOR CRYSTAL IN A DESKTOP COMPUTER.

tick tick tick tick tick of unimaginable rate.

and all things quantum occur in one of these quantum moments, and then a bit more progress in the next quantum tick and so on.

so here's how He did it, its so simple really; explains absolutely EVERYTHING ELSE....

He waited until everything was 'in place' *and then turned this eternal all governing quantum clock on*

its why things appear to have taken such a long time (20 billion +/- years) to happen; they didnt really, the light we see via hubble for instance did NOT take said 20 or 15 or whatever billion years to travel, no, those photons travelled MOST of the distance to earth in the wink of an eye.

and when He switched on the quantum clock, ie, 'started' TIME, all those photons whooshing everywhere instantaneously suddenly lurched to a SNAILS PACE once subjected to the delay imposed by the now all imposing limitation of TIME.

I hit upon this realization some 3 months before the prestigeous Scientific American magazine did a special feature and mentioned planck time = 1.0 X10E-43 if I recollect. I got a copy here somewhere.

cogitate THAT o wise one. aka smartass.

(p.s. DISTANCE is ALSO quantum, the stuff they teach in high school math is useless misleading PAP)

Thanks for promoting Bill's link, Jaeger. Hi ho, hi ho, it's over there we go ;-)

robertbollocks...are you off your meds??

Costumed hero Captain America is killed by a sniper in the latest issue of his eponymous comic book. Will you miss him?
• Yes
• No
this poll could use a little scalability

German couple seeks to have their incestuous relationship made legal.

What slippery slope?

...It's an ugly story, folks. For example, nowhere, not once yesterday, did I hear anyone ask how the alleged victim is doing. There was lots of talk about available courtrooms, legal fees, scared suspects worried about their futures, books being written, conspiracy theories and legal manoeuvring.

But never did anybody mention the girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted at a party of students from Cawthra Park Secondary. How is she coping?

Outside the court, one of the defence counsel talked about the trauma of putting young people "who have never been in trouble" in the situation of being "behind bars with hardened criminals. There is a victim in every crime and sometimes the accused is the victim. I feel sorry for him."...
torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Warmington_Joe/2007/03/08/pf-3713979

National Post - Thurs/Feb 8

Not often I pay much attention to what the UN is saying/recommending these days but this is one exception.

They came out saying, amongst a lot of other things, that Canada should stop using the term "visible minority".

I have felt for a long time that the use of this term is a very negative way to identify/isolate people and it is high time that the use of this term is discontinued.

I can only try to imagine how people who have been here for decades as well as their Canadian born children must feel when referred to/thought of as a "visible minority".

Lawyer fined for 'abusive' act
...Mr. Justice Barry Davies of the Supreme Court of B.C. ordered Merchant Law Group, a Regina-based firm founded by controversial lawyer and former Liberal politician Tony Merchant, to pay the damages because of "duplicitous" actions by him and an associate. The judge found that Mr. Merchant and Earl Shaw, a former lawyer employed by the firm, improperly claimed about $250,000 in fees from injured truck driver...after they received an $860,000 settlement from insurers in 2002...
theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070308.RMERCHANT08/TPStory/?query=merchant

Legal fees irk residential school claimants
september 22, 2006
...Ball is also looking at how much to pay lawyers from the Merchant Group law firm, which says it represents 10,000 people who attended the schools in the 20th century and says for years it worked for free on many of the files. The firm, headed by Regina lawyer Tony Merchant, has been guaranteed between $25 and $40 million, amounts that had some former students shaking their heads on Thursday...The government doesn't want to pay any money to Merchant until his firm has gone through a verification process....
cbc.ca/news/story/2006/09/22/residential-fees

Clipper, it is not the fact that the term "visible minority" is being used but rather the PC context. for example, would two caucasian anglo-saxon males residing on the Stoney Reservation be classified as visible minority?
They clearly are the minority but it doesn't suit the social engineering playbook.

Perhaps I'm old school but I was taught to treat everyone with respect. The amount of respect I have for them then varies according to that persons actions or lack of. I really don't give a rat's patootie on whether or not you are **** or your great relative was insulted, enslaved or taxed by others. If you haul out that excess baggage then my respect for you will be adjusted accordingly.

JM: the merchant 40 million in fees story is in the current Frank Magazine as well.

they seem to get the jump on a lot of this stuff somehow.

the funniest clip I *ever* did see on the MSM was a story about the long term effects of bussing in the south.

"90% of those affected were minorities"

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what friggin mathematics are THEY using to say NINETY PERCENT OF A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G is the 'minority'?????