Don't worry, Kate, the media will let us know the truth about AGW:
http://newsbusters.org/node/11410

I wasn't much impressed with John Baird today on Duffy Live (Wed).

He stated clearly that "we are not interested in NEP 2". Can't help but remember there was another statement a while back - "we will not touch income trusts".

Then he went on to talk about carbon trading as something "domestic" (read, probably involving QC/ON) rather than something that initially seemed to be only within Alberta.

Then he went on to say that that carbon trading would involve North America as well. Finally he ended up with carbon trading involving both the US and Mexico. The next thing you know, the name of Moe Strong might appear!

Just tried to 'edit' David Suzuki on Wikipedia.org

Error message, blocked due to site vandalism. Huh ??

Has anyone else tried ??

Harper has become greener than Kermit and the Conservatives have jumped on the climate change band wagon by giving away our money to build "hydrogen highways" etc. Who are the right wing going to vote for now?

Fox news at its finest:

http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2007/03/fox-news-at-its-finest.html

Harper.

Thanks very much for the link to Mr. Card's essay, Kate. It's on the way to the mailing list now.

Very interesting stuff, but unfortunately no link to details of the analysis. Will google it later. To piss off the climate change fanatics, I've just ordered Singer and Avery's and Michaels books from Amazon.com. Looking forward to some very interesting reading in the next few weeks.

I was reading either here or elsewhere the last day or so that communist China was going to give the people property rights. Did I read correctly? That aside, I wonder if Harper will ever try to amend the constitution to give us the same?

communist China was going to give the people property rights. Did I read correctly? That aside, I wonder if Harper "

ya aint that ironic, any of you reflex defenders of liberty in the progressive west got an answer to that?

a canuckistan constitution with narry a peep about paramount property rights and a bushist republicanist regime that comes up with 'eminent domain' crap so's da gubbamint can move in, sieze what youve built for generations, and hand it over to one of their corporate supporters.

and YOU people have the gall to support them because, well 'he's the president and we should support him in the war on terror'. bla bla bla.

On Steve Pankin's, The Agenda, last night, Janice Stein of UofT’s Munk Centre dug in on her Bush hatred. She says that “because of Iraq, the foolish idea of forcing democracy upon another nation at the point of a gun will never be tried again”. Peter Munk needs to update his sponsorship.

When asked if Japan and Germany weren’t good examples of using a gun to achieve democracy she dismissed them as anomalies.

I’d like to ask Janice Stein if she thought Pearson would have received the Nobel Peace prize on the Suez Canal if his negotiations had not been backed up by the US pointing the barrel of a gun to all the self-interested parties involved in that fiasco?

The Agenda show talked about “realism” (which to me is an arrogant term like “progressive”) now replacing neo-conism. The positioning of the discussion was dreadful by Pankin, who is usual first rate.

The show had a Harvard “scholar”, who said the realists are now finally sitting down and talking. .she sounded like Taliban Jack. She can’t seem to get the idea that the only reason the US can now sit down with Iran and North Korea is precisely because the neo-cons have used guns. .the US is no longer perceived as a weak horse run by Clinton.

Admittedly the whole ME has not yet turned into Switzerland, but it is not the status quo either. It is now on a potential path of change forward instead of backsliding centuries into Islamic tribalism.

Today, Key Porter Books will release Reflections on Islam
Ideas, Opinions, Arguments, by Post columnist George Jonas. What follows is an edited excerpt from the book's introduction: Islam's inconvenient truths

For liberals, it goes against the grain to think of entire ethnic, racial or religious groups as hostile. It especially goes against the grain to think of other groups as morally or intellectually flawed. This is a good thing.

The bad thing is that this reluctance sometimes stands in the way of a sober and factual analysis. In recent years, it has prevented many liberals from facing certain facts about Islamism and Islam, including the relationship between the two.

Islam is one of the world's great religions. Islamism is a radical movement of intolerance, coercion and terror. The followers of Islam are a billion faithful Muslims around the world. The followers of Islamism include Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda, Sheikh Omar and his Taliban, the nuclear ayatollahs of theocratic Iran, the militants of Hezbollah, the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria, the late Shamil Bashayev's human bombs from Chechnya and a string of other terrorists in far-flung parts of the globe.

Unfortunately, they also include some of our neighbours down the block or around the corner.

Is there a connection between Islamism and Islam? Liberals wince when someone poses this question....-
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/columnists/story.html?id=393e7a70-4c20-434c-9528-ec3eda785024

The results for the IQSquared debate on 'Global Warming is not a crisis' are in but no transcripts yet.
Info:
http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/Event.aspx?Event=12

Results:
http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/VoteResultsAll.aspx?id=12

The results are very interesting as there was a huge swing from the crisis side to the non-crisis side with the undecideds virtually unchanged. Very good night for Michael Crichton and his teammates.

For: Online 55% Before 30% After 46%
Agin: Online 42% Before 57% After 42%
Dunno: Online 3% Before 13% After 12%

Hopefully the full transcript will be up soon so we can see the effective arguments made.

Steve McIntyre has a great website where he pursues the truth. Heavy into the science at times, but +++ worth a daily read

details here http://www.climateaudit.org/

Politicians pander to the voting public,Harper is doing what needs to be done to form a majority......It has always been that way and it will continue to be that way until our governemnt is overhauled. Constitutional Monarchy may have jumped the shark!

The Left cares naught/nada/nothing/zilch about the corpses of tens of millions of humans slaughtered/exterminated as vermin/rodents by the likes of Lenin-Stalin-Mao-Pol Pot-Castro, et al.

The Left ignores the corpses; the Left crawls across the mountains of corpses; the Left moves on to its next Killing Fields. The repetition is the essence of insanity; the same result(s) each/every time. ...-

The Killing Fields

The Internet may finally have ended the ability of the Left to cover up their crimes in the Third World. Philippine Commentary describes, in a link-filled post, how justice may finally be catching up with Jose Maria Sison, whose organization was responsible for the murder of Colonel Nick Rowe. Note the name "Satur Ocampo" in the post below. Ocampo is one of the Communists accused of mass murder. His name will appear in a US news context a few paragraphs from now. ...-
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/03/killing-fields.html

The Prius vs. The Hummer

http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/editorial/editorial_item.asp?NewsID=188

"Building a Toyota Prius causes more environmental damage than a Hummer that is on the road for three times longer than a Prius."

This stuff just keeps getting better and better!

robertbollocks is such a dope.

RE: bushist republicanist regime that comes up with 'eminent domain'

bollocks (btw, good name for much of what you spew), that was a judge who rendered the decision. And 'eminent domain' has been around much longer than the "bushist republicanist regime'. Ever see the major highway that goes to the new Montreal airport that was NEVER built?

The USA is very much the same as Canada. There are too many politicians who are too chicken to legislate the tough decisions their constituents pay them to address. On issues such as gay marriage Canadian politicians handed over the tough decision and allowed a judge to legislate from the bench. I very much hope the MPs who then voted to support gay marriage after campaigning differently are held to account in the next election.

IMO, voters need to demand that politicians and judges respect our laws as written by our legislators and NOT re-interpret it.

And bollocks, just FYI, there is no such word as 'republicanist'. The word is republican. No 'ist' is necessary.

There are a lot of sickos out there, but this one is especially creapy...

"Girl finds missing dog's head in box on doorstep"

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/03/15/dog.head.ap/index.html

What do Canadians really want? More naked Liberal politicians? I don't think so but the Liberals obviously disagree, as the numbers of cheesy, naked Liberals are multiplying. Read on....

Noted Green activist goes red
Environmentalist Briony Penn climbs out on a limb with the Liberals
SID TAFLER

Special to The Globe and Mail

VICTORIA -- Briony Penn, a leading light of the environmental movement on the West Coast, has announced her candidacy for the Liberal Party in the next federal election.

Ms. Penn, 46, filed her nomination papers yesterday for the riding of Saanich Gulf-Islands, currently held by Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn.

Her decision to join the Liberals and resign from the Green Party, which she has supported for more than a decade, will likely enhance Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion's reputation as a champion of the environment but bitterly disappoint Greens loyal to Leader Elizabeth May.

Ms. Penn, a well-known eco-activist, author and media personality who once portrayed Lady Godiva in a protest in downtown Vancouver, said she is running for the Liberals "with my green shirt on" as part of an unofficial Liberal/Green alliance she sees developing across the country.
-snip-

"The Earth is crumbling, we've got to get solutions in place right away," Ms. Penn said from her home on Saltspring Island.

-snip-

But she is best known internationally for her nearly-nude horseback ride down Howe Street in Vancouver as Lady Godiva on a bright but cold day in January, 2001, to protest against logging on Saltspring.

She was accompanied by several bare-breasted protesters as she rode on her brown horse to the offices of the logging company, watched by executives from the windows of their office towers. The ride attracted attention around the world and helped mobilize opposition to the logging of the bucolic island between Vancouver and Victoria.

And she already has a warning for Mr. Dion. If he is elected and doesn't take action on environmental issues, "I'll get back on my horse and take a ride around Ottawa."

"...I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan,” Mr. Mohammed is quoted as saying in a transcript of a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, released by the Pentagon.

“For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head,” he added.: Globe&Mail

Re: yet ANOTHER Tigercat, I'm just guessing but could it be payback for sending Steel Town the Little General???

Re: Ms Penn as a Lieberal, somehow I think she is backing the wrong horse so to speak. With the Greens actually getting more press and respect than the Dippers you would thing she would stick to her home turf. First Garth and now Lady Godiva, somehow being a Lieberal leader isn't so much fun, eh Mr Dion.

Ahhh, Lady Godiva. That brings back (fond) memories of University Engineering Week before the PC days.( and beer came in stubbies)

"...December 31, 2006
A Year Ago Today
The sitemeter here at SDA crossed the 1.5 million visit mark on Dec.31, 2005. In the past 365 days, there have been over 2.5 million more."
---------------------------

After inception, sda quickly attracted 1.5 million visits in the first couple of years or so.

In 2006 sda added another 2.5 million for a total of 4.0 million.

It looks like sda will add another million by the first quarter of 2007.

At this rate sda will add 4 million in 2007 for a grand total of

'EIGHT MILLION VISITS' !!

Can you say exponential growth ?? Time to go public ??

You must be doing something right, KATE !!

Accomplished this by being a good 'News Auditor'.

Even "well connected" political hacks from Chretien's PMO can't top this.

Yet another Tigercat... funny, I was saying sort of the same thing when the Bombers signed two, soon to be three, Roughies.

And yet again, bollocks proves he can't go half a day without saying something ridiculously stupid.

Want to REALLY find out how the Liberals stack up on being "tough" on crime?

Hansard is a treasure trove of wimped out Liberal arguments proving they are hypocrits on this issue. It will prove they are really soft on Criminals! Victims - bah. Just a bunch of crybabies. OUR Liberal judges are "holitic" don't you know.
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/housechamberbusiness/chamberpublicationindexsearch.aspx?Parl=39&Ses=1&Language=E&Mode=1

Put Hansard in your favourites and you can pretty well throw any Liberal road to damascus change of heart for political power posturing for almost every argument.

Will Kyoto Dion cut BS? Will BS go back to her roots? What are Toronto roots? Dion goes gaga over Martha's roots?
...-

Dion appoints Hall Findlay to run in plum riding

...
"I am very excited that we have found a place that matches Martha's Toronto roots," Dion said in a statement."
...
Fife said observers expect Dion to continue appointing women to prominent ridings in anticipation of a coming election.

However, the political future of Belinda Stronach -- one of the Liberals' most prominent female MPs -- has come into question in Ottawa recently, Fife said.

"She has been more or less eclipsed since the Liberal leadership race. She doesn't have a critic's job, she rarely ever gets up in the House of Commons to ask questions, and people here in Ottawa are wondering whether she is going to run again for the party," Fife said.

"Her office and she herself insist that she is, but there are some doubts here."

Stronach and Hall Findlay have a history. In 2004, they ran against each other in the Newmarket-Aurora riding north of Toronto, with Stronach -- then a Conservative -- coming out the victor.

Hall Findlay later won the Liberal nomination for the riding, but stepped aside after Stronach crossed the floor to the Liberals in May 2005....-
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070315/findlay_riding_070315/20070315?hub=Canada

Storytime in the Suzuki household where all dreams are possible...

Once there were three little pigs who lived together in mutual respect and in harmony with their environment. Using materials that were indigenous to the area, they each built a beautiful house. One pig built a house of straw, one a house of sticks, and one a house of dung, clay, and creeper vines shaped into bricks and baked in a small kiln. When they were finished, the pigs were satisfied with their work and settled back to live in peace and self-determination.

But their idyll was soon shattered. One day, along came a big, bad wolf with expansionist ideas. He saw the pigs and grew very hungry, in both the physical and ideological sense. When the pigs saw the wolf, they ran into the house of straw. The wolf ran up to the house and banged on the door, shouting, "Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!"

The pigs shouted back, "Your gunboat tactics hold no fear for pigs defending their homes and culture."

But the wolf wasn't to be denied what he thought was his manifest destiny. So he huffed and he puffed and he blew down the house of straw. The frightened pigs ran to the house of sticks, with the wolf in hot pursuit. Where the house of straw had stood, other wolves bought up the land and started a banana plantation. At the house of sticks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted, "Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!"

The pigs shouted, "Go to hell, you carnivorous, imperialistic oppressor!"

At this, the wolf chuckled condescendingly. He thought to himself: "They are so childlike in their ways. It will be a shame to see them go, but progress cannot be stopped."

So the wolf huffed and puffed and blew down the house of sticks. The pigs ran to the house of bricks, with the wolf close at their heels. Where the house of sticks had stood, other wolves built a time-share condo resort complex for vacationing wolves, with each unit a fiberglass reconstruction of the house of sticks, as well as native curio shops, snorkeling, and dolphin shows.

At the house of bricks, the wolf again banged on the door and shouted, "Little pigs, little pigs, let me in!"

This time in response, the pigs sang songs of solidarity and wrote letters of protest to the United Nations.

By now the wolf was getting angry at the pigs' refusal to see the situation from the carnivore's point of view. So he huffed and he puffed, and huffed and puffed, then grabbed his chest and fell over dead of a massive heart attack brought on from eating too many fatty foods.

The three little pigs rejoiced that justice had triumphed and did a little dance around the corpse of the wolf. Their next step was to liberate their homeland. They gathered together a band of other pigs who had been forced off their lands. Their new brigade of porcinistas attacked the resort complex with machine guns and rocket launchers and slaughtered the cruel wolf oppressors, sending a clear signal to the rest of the hemisphere not to meddle in their internal affairs. Then the pigs set up a model socialist democracy with free education, universal health care, and affordable housing for everyone.

Please Note: The wolf in this story was a metaphorical construct. No actual wolves were harmed in the writing of the story.

Danish scientist: Global warming is a myth

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 15 (UPI) -- A Danish scientist said the idea of a "global temperature" and global warming is more political than scientific.

University of Copenhagen Professor Bjarne Andresen has analyzed the topic in collaboration with Canadian Professors Christopher Essex from the University of Western Ontario and Ross McKitrick of the University of Guelph. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1801424/posts

desmogblog has this re Essex and McKitrick :

"Essex, appointed Tuesday to the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), has distinguished himselves in certain circles as one of the climate "experts" who deny the international consensus that humans are causing climate change. He co-authored a book, Taken by Storm, with the notorious climate change denier Ross McKitrick (he of the anti-hockey stick campaign) and he has been touted from the beginning as one of the Friends of Science, the oil-industry funded front group that lobbies against climate change policy. Essex has been a featured speaker at Fraser Institute Kyoto-bashing sessions, and he was one of 19 Canadians who signed the Letter of 60 to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, again urging inaction on the climate file."

Little Pigs Three are renamed: Dhimmi 1, Dhimmi 2, Dhimmi 3. O, to be in Al-England. ...-

School festival renames 'three little pigs' for fear of offending Muslims

"Organisers of a children's music festival have altered the popular characters and lyrics because of the multi-cultural nature of the youngsters involved and their parents in the audience.

But yesterday Islamic leaders condemned the politically correct move as misguided and said decisions like this were turning Muslims into 'misfits' in society."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1801384/posts

"Harper has become greener than Kermit and the Conservatives have jumped on the climate change band wagon" --
this is true . . . but I contend that they have had little choice. The Harper Conservatives were being pilloried by the opposition and the press for not paying enough attention to the global warming issue. (Unfortunately, there seems to be little interest in the truth re AGW at this point.) Harper's earlier statements such as "Kyoto is a Socialist scheme" are being thrown back in his face -- again noone particularly concerned that he may have got it right. Quite frankly, if tons of money is now being spent on reducing green house gasses, don't blame Harper. Blame an ill- informed Canadian electorate. That's what was wanted, and they will pay for it. (I realize that I also will be paying for it, but the reality is the Canadian public has demanded this.) The credit system is problematical, but I am at least relieved the Harper (so far) stands firm on not sending large sums to China, Russia, etc. in order to meet Kyoto targets.

From Bloomberg, Feb 26 2007.

Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) — The smartest money in global warming stocks may be scurrying to the exit just when the enthusiasm for alternative-energy companies is at an all-time high.

“As an investment play,” global warming is “a bubble” and “social short-term craze,” said Ken Fisher, who oversees $35 billion as chairman of Fisher Investments Inc. in Woodside, California.

Anyone looking for corroboration of that assessment may find it in the so-called short selling of U.S. alternative-energy stocks last month, which climbed 45 times faster than the average for Standard & Poor’s 500 Index members.

By itself, I don't know that global warming is a viable investment theme,'' said Malcolm Polley, who oversees $1 billion at Stewart Capital Advisors LLC in Indiana, Pennsylvania. ``It's largely Wall Street's answer of trying to create something where there really isn't anything that exists. (Bloomberg)

//www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aqBr9N4m4Rko&refer=home

The Gores, Suzukis and Maurice Strongs of the world may be steering the naive of the world into the poorhouse. For an entire generation.

Al Gore and David Suzuki to Speak During Youth Summit on Climate Change
Montreal On March 22nd,

Media are allowed in the hall during David Suzuki's speech,
but at the request of Al Gore's representatives, journalists will not be
permitted during his presentation. ...-

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2007/15/c3018.html

The Global Television/PBS North American Debut "Faith Without Fear" Follows Controversial Canadian Irshad Manji As She Speaks Out Against Violence and Injustice Under The Banner of Islam

Faith Without Fear premieres on PBS Stations, Thursday, April 19th - 9pm
ET/PT and on Global Television, Saturday, April 21st - 8pm ET/PT.
Once described by The New York Times as "Osama bin Laden's worst
nightmare," Manji, the best-selling author of The Trouble with Islam Today,
traveled throughout Europe, the Middle East and North America speaking out
against injustice and violence taking place under the banner of Islam.
Inspired by Islam's holy book the Qur'an, Manji seeks answers from the
Muslim community on how this religion of justice and freedom has become an
ideology of fear, and challenges believers to standup for Islam's fundamental
principles as set out by Allah. She refers back to ijtihad, the ancient Muslim
tradition of independent thinking, and encourages Muslims of the 21st century
to embrace this practice. ...-
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2007/15/c2959.html

Radical Islam at Concordia University [Montreal, Canada] - 2002

In September 2002, we covered the story of the violent demonstrations at Montreal’s Concordia University that forced the cancellation of a speech by former Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
Today IDF Dave emailed a link to a documentary on this event;
and it’s absolutely shocking. This shows the thuggish, extreme nature of the Saudi-funded Muslim Student Association in a way that hasn’t been exposed before; they believed they had the upper hand, and they had utter contempt for the Canadian authorities. It was a little intifada, right in the middle of Montreal.

And note that all of this occurred at the time of the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

There are four other parts to this film, and you can view them here:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

More of the bloody cowards are caught

The police have apprehended three of the four vermin who attacked a decorated Canadian soldier,Master Cpl Collin Fitzgerald. The fourth is still at large. If anyone has any information about this crime.Please contact the OPP. This last guy needs to be caught. This crime cries out for justice.
Police have charged 22-year old Ian Tait and 19-year old Jeremy Stewart with assault.

Twenty-one-year-old Travis Baldwin was arrested earlier in connection with the assault and police continue to seek a fourth suspect. (CFJR)

I really hope that if these hoodlums are guilty they are given long custodial sentences. This is beyond disgusting....-
http://torydrroy.blogspot.com/

And more news from the Quebec campaign trail. Boisclair the racist?
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070315/boisclair_eyes_070315/20070315?hub=TopStories

The real story is the CTV Montreal video where Jean Charest gets attacked by a factory worker:

FW: "Moi, j'aimerais vivre en Alberta...chaque fois que tu parles, ca me coute de l'argent"

Translation: I think I'd prefer living in Alberta, every time you talk it costs me money.

Classy.

that was a judge who rendered the decision."

uhuh.

and just which republicanIST president appointed said judgey judge?

I like the courtroom move to apply the very same eminent domain thing to the very same judgey judges OWN home. forgot the web sites on that one. google it yerself.

oh by the way mr concreep:

And bollocks, just FYI, there is no such word as 'republicanist'. The word is republican. No 'ist' is necessary.

this is most interesting, the amount of mangling of unpopular names 'talibanjack' 'borat dion' howcum I dont get to do the very same thing without some purist like you raising objection?

answer of course is right wing HYPOCRICY.

yukon jackoff iron pyrite meanwhile cant get thru the day without a pathetic personal insult. emphasis on pathetic.

Any time I can expose you for a bozo, Bollocks, I'll do it. I guess I'm going to be busy. Don't you have some cops to hate? Suitcase bombs to build? Targets to shoot with sniper-like accuracy?

Ace, no need to make things up, the guy never mentions Alberta. Here’s the actual text, translation mine.

« Comme vous aviez dit à votre dernier mandat, on va baisser les impôts. » Like you had said in your last mandate, we will lower income taxes. -Richard Lévesque

Then Charest tells him that the Liberals have delivered 65% of the promised income tax reduction.

« J'ai perdu du pouvoir d'achat en maudit depuis que vous avez dit ça, vous êtes mieux de rien dire, ça me coûte trop cher quand vous parlez. » I have lost a hell (of a lot) of purchasing power since you said that, you better not say anything, it costs me too much when you do. -Richard Lévesque

I’m just curious to know what you think the story would gain by falsely reporting it?

Maple Stump - I genuinely misheard what he said in the first quote as I only replayed the clip once. And your translation on the 2nd half is indeed more accurate.

Actually I dislike all the Quebec candidates...so no I'm not part of the MSM conspiracy.