Dion to invest Liberal $$$$$ in "registered or approved green projects."

What/where are these green approved-registered projects?

It's a fantasy in Dion's head.
...-

Liberals, Greens claim green campaigns

"We will have a zero-emission campaign, a neutral campaign," Dion said in an interview yesterday.

What this means, the Liberal leader explained, is that the party will "offset" any carbon costs it incurs by investment in registered or approved green projects.

"It means that you try to choose the best way to travel, so that you choose good buses, good planes and so on," Dion said. ...-
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/192558

The Rat said...

Jason, will those Carbon Offsets be purchased in Canada? Will the Carbon remediation be done in Canada? What company or non-profit will the offsets be purchased from? I have bought offsets for myself and I wasn't terribly impressed with the process, the description of the offset programs, or the fact that I couldn't find one in Canada. It won't look good if the Liberals send cash out of country for work in another country to cover their pollution in country. ...-
(cherniak's carbon-free blog)

Looks like Harper is extending election candy to the criminals behind the barricades in Caledonia. I smell a Fed sponsored Mohawk-run casino...how 'bout you?

http://www.caledoniawakeupcall.com/updates/07031524news.html

"Stephen Harper cabinet has discussed funding an unspecified "infrastructure" on DCE

As Caledonia turns
By 24 HOURS NEWS SERVIVES - Vancouver
March 15, 2007

The Stephen Harper cabinet has discussed funding an unspecified "infrastructure" project on land that is at centre of the Caledonia, Ont. standoff, according to Immigration Minister Diane Finley.

In a press release distributed locally Tuesday, Finley, who is the local MP, said she has asked cabinet to approve funding for the unspecified project.

"Regarding the Caledonia occupation, the minster reaffirmed her role as representing the interest of Caledonia in the dispute and indicated that she has been lobbying her colleagues for financial support for a new infrastructure facility on the site after the occupation," said the press release, based on a speech Finley gave to the local Rotary Club.

"I'm hoping that we can identify a project that will be of benefit to both communities, one that will benefit families and one which will be of lasting value to the area," the press release quotes Finley as saying.

Six Nations seized Douglas Creek Estates from a private developer about a year ago. They say the land is theirs and that they have final say on what happens on their territory.

News that the government is discussing the future of the land internally while negotiating a resolution with Six Nations came as a surprise to Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice's office.

No clarification was available from Finley's office yesterday."

Wow, I really didn't expect any kind of balance reporting when I saw the title of the following story. I was going to ask the reporter how far back did she look to come up with the conclusion "warmest on record". I wonder if David Suzuki will have to make a call to the senior climatologist for Environment Canada and remind him that the debate is over.

World had warmest winter on record
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=c7db2553-42e6-4471-9b44-ceaefcdc92cb
Suzanne Ma, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Friday, March 16, 2007

...
Scientists attribute the rising temperatures to greenhouse gases, which are produced by industrial activities, automobiles and other processes.

But Mr. Phillips said the blame can't be put solely on human beings.

"There's two sides of the debate. One that says it's our fault and the others that say 'no, this is nature.' " he said.

Also contributing to this winter's record warmth, for example, was an El Nino, a periodic warming of the tropical pacific Ocean.

This ocean-warming effect was particularly strong in January -- the warmest January ever -- but the ocean surface has since begun to cool.

Mr. Suzuki and Mrs. Sting are now in complete harmony. In Canada we have David Suzuki blowing black smoke all across Canada on his save the world tour. Now in England Trudie Styler , wife of singer Sting who is Britian's self styled eco-warrior has been exposed using a helicopter to travel a few miles to visit fellow greenie Zac Goldsmith on his Organic farm. Now if somehow we could get them to pay each other for the carbon credits thrugh Kyoto we could save the whole world. Right David? Right Trudie? Do I understand you correctly on all this?

Intifada in Montreal. Below is a link to LGF where you can view the first part of a five part film by Martin Himel that chronicles the intifada at Concordia, 2002. See link for parts 2--5. Must viewing.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24802_Radical_Islam_at_Concordia_University_-_2002&only

IMMAGRATION http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4094926727128068265&pr=goog-sl

Found this, don't know how factual but an interesting read when you subtract 80% and substitute Canada for US of A.

So what exactly is a carbon credit? How do you use it? Where does the money go? How does this help the environment? The eco-idiot crowd is throwing these credits around as proof positive they care but it seems as useful as saying "If I had a dollar for..." nice thought but it doesn't buy squat.

...Found this, don't know how factual but an interesting read when you subtract 80% and substitute Canada for US of A...

It's more interesting when you also take into account that Canada has had the highest immigration levels amongst the G8 for the past 5 years.

Melanie Phillips takes the BBC to task. I wonder which Canadian Crown Corporation, funded by taxpayers, this reminds you of?
----------------------

In the Times, the ever-sound Gerard Baker delivers a withering and entirely justified assessment of the wretched BBC:

You really do have to leave the country to appreciate fully how pernicious the BBC’s grasp of the nation’s cultural and political soul has become. The groupthink and assumptions implicit in almost everything broadcast by BBC News, and even less explicitly by much else of the corporation’s output, lie like a suffocating blanket over the national consciousness. This is the mindset that sees the effortless superiority, at every turn, of benign collectivism over selfish individualism, exploited worker over unscrupulous capitalist, enlightened European over brutish American, thoughtful atheist over dumb believer, persecuted Arab over callous Israeli; and that believes the West is the perpetrator of just about every ill that has ever befallen the world — from colonialism to global warming.

Baker rightly calls the BBC ‘a menace’ — rightly because, although most of the rest of the media shares the same outlook, the influence of the BBC is infinitely greater. Because it is regarded as a kitemark of objectivity, balance, fairness and truth, people trust what it says and absorb the message it delivers. It doesn’t occur to them to question what it says because the whole culture has been infused by BBC-speak to such an extent that the people of Britain no longer know what it is they do not know. The BBC is the principal reason why the political centre of gravity in Britain has shifted to the left. It is an instrument of cultural Marxism and, in the influence it has well beyond Britain, the most important cultural weapon in the armoury of the global jihad in the undermining of the west.

And the British licence-fee payer is funding it.
-----------------------------

It seems to be good for the planet only if I spend money somewhere...

Do I have to buy a credit from some other country or can I just plant a few trees in my backyard?

*
You know the pretentious asshole at your sister's wedding --
the guy who bored everyone to tears with his never-ending,
melodic tribute to the seven dollar bottle of plonk at the
dinner table?

Well, apparently there's someone even more obnoxious
than that guy...

*

Arnie: Not only does Mrs. Sting fly around in her helicopter (prob. so she doesn't have to pay airline flying tax?) but Sting is an honorary board member of Dr. Fruit Fly, right along with Uncle Mo.

And Kate had a very important item awhile back.

It DOES take time and effort to read, but it's about fudging the "hockey stick"... you know, from the Inconvenient Truth.

If the Conservatives started the GW hysteria, and the Liberals found this..?? ... the media would be ALL over it. It would make Conrad Black's story look like a classified ad.
http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2007-03-04-1.html

I believe we should support the Liberals in the next federal election. Here is how it goes,sing it out:
Vote Liberal! Support Radicals
Vote Liberal! Support Terrorism
Vote Liberal! Support Criminals
Vote Liberal! Support Corruption
Vote Liberal! Support Soft on Crime
Vote Liberal! Support Arrogance
Vote Liberal! Support Right of Women to Kill their Unborn Infants
Vote Liberal! Support Left Wing Extremists
Vote Liberal! Support Fraud
Vote Liberal! Support the Darkside
Vote Liberal! Support Perverts
Vote Liberal! Support Foisting
Vote Liberal! Support Scams
Vote Liberal! Support Clueless on Crime
Vote Liberal! Support Propaganda
Vote Liberal! Support Racism
Vote Liberal! Support Anti-Semitism
Vote Liberal! Support Eco-Idiots
Vote Liberal! Support Liers
Vote Liberal! Support Warlocks
Vote Liberal! Support (add your own)

I believe we should support the Liberals in the next federal election. Here is how it goes,sing it out:
Vote Liberal! Support Radicals
Vote Liberal! Support Terrorism
Vote Liberal! Support Criminals
Vote Liberal! Support Corruption
Vote Liberal! Support Soft on Crime
Vote Liberal! Support Arrogance
Vote Liberal! Support Right of Women to Kill their Unborn Infants
Vote Liberal! Support Left Wing Extremists
Vote Liberal! Support Fraud
Vote Liberal! Support the Darkside
Vote Liberal! Support Perverts
Vote Liberal! Support Foisting
Vote Liberal! Support Scams
Vote Liberal! Support Clueless on Crime
Vote Liberal! Support Propaganda
Vote Liberal! Support Racism
Vote Liberal! Support Anti-Semitism
Vote Liberal! Support Eco-Idiots
Vote Liberal! Support Liers
Vote Liberal! Support Warlocks
Vote Liberal! Support (add your own)

Media Bias?

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070315-114454-8075r.htm

"Stephen Harper cabinet has discussed funding an unspecified "infrastructure" on DCE

soooo, casinos are now part of 'infrastructure' like utilities, sewers and roads?

when did that happen?

also, do I have any carbon credits I can hock on eBay?

Ive got it !!! trading futures mkt in carbon credits !!! I'll be the newest billionaire!!!

Baby making needed...

Licia Corbella in Friday's Calgary Sun:

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Corbella_Licia/2007/03/16/3761754.html

I volunteer!

;-)

Pentagon YouTube

Multi-National Force - Iraq established this YouTube channel to give viewers around the world a "boots on the ground" perspective of Operation Iraqi Freedom from those who are fighting it....-
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MNFIRAQ

A while back a poster was talking about setting up kiosks in malls to sell carbon credits etc. With dion planning on buying these credits in the coming election, that guy better get set up soon.
Will dion buy from algores company, or from the company that mo strong has been setting up in china, probably using all that missing adscam money.

*
George Smitherman is an ass.

"If anything, this clinic was clearly a much more tightly run operation
than any hospital I had ever been to. There was no sitting around for
hours in a big room with very sick people and endless red tape."

*

The Klein government of AB, in its eminent wisdom, granted the Tsu' Tina Nation a new casino license before gaining the nation's sign off as regards land to be used for a critical ring road extension on the west edge of Calgary. The two were "supposed to have been" (in political speak) contingent one on the other.

Consequently - the Casino will probably be newly built and running by the end of the year. The ring road is no closer to solution than it was 40 years ago - the price has just continued to go up and will continue to do so.

No doubt, Caledonia is headed the same direction but how can this be - there are still outstanding issues of a torched bridge, a trashed transmission tower, infrastructure damage, etc. etc.

It seems Stelmach and his finance minister (Oberg)
have very different views of what equalization is all about. The latter is pushing for "per captia distributions" and is o.k. with 50% included in the formula. Stelmach is maintaining his original line that non-renewable resources will not be part of the equation and many Albertans will support this.

Harper seems big on "per captia distribution" these days - which of course means that AB continues to receive the popcorn while QC, in particular. can advance their already obscene debt of $120 Billion.

With Baird talking about about carbon tax trading (so far in Canada, the US, and Mexico) and Harper maintaining he is going to include 50% of the non-renewable resources in the equalization formula along with "per capita distribution", Albertans are going to be paying very close attention to the budget on Monday.

The question becomes: Who is in charge of Alberta? Perhaps the deal has already been made.

Manning used up his political capital while trying for Federal power. Harper seems much to far on the way to doing the same thing and is about to gamble his western base for the sake of power - just as Manning did.

One week later, the great global warming swindell seems to have disappeared from the web. Is there any way to watch it now?

Well the moonbats and socialist in the US school system continue with their efforts to override the will of parents and indoctrinate children into the lore of homosexuality!

link--http://www.womanhonorthyself.com/?p=2787#more-2787--

Stop the ACLU -- there's a blogburst on!

Woman Honor Thyself --http://www.womanhonorthyself.com/?p=2787#more-2787--
Blogburst is STOP the ACLU

CORNFLAKES ON THE ENDANGERED LIST!

The Carnegie Institution, a private scientific research group founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1902, will soon publish in a science journal a study showing that "over a span of two decades, warming temperatures have caused annual losses of roughly $5 billion for major food crops". Here is the press release :

http://www.carnegieinstitution.org/field-lobell/default.html

There is one small problem : WORLD CEREAL PRODUCTION HAS INCREASED, NOT DECREASED in that time span. In the FAOSTAT web site, world cereal production increased from 1,573 Gt (1979) to 2,086 Gt (2003). During the same time range, the Carnegie people claim cereal production decreased by 40 Million tons per year.

This study specifically claims that the yield per hectare cultivated has decreased. This again is false. From gramene.org, "World maize production has increased almost 300%, while the area harvested has increased only 33%, indicating a large improvement in yield per hectare."

I know nothing about this stuff; I got these numbers from a 10 min search on Google. Please prove me wrong.

A few links :

http://www.cimmyt.org/Research/economics/map/facts_trends/maizeft9900/html/maizeft9900_contents.htm

http://nue.okstate.edu/Crop_Information/World_Wheat_Production.htm

http://www.gramene.org/zea/maize_maps_and_stats.html

http://www.fao.org/statistics/yearbook/vol_1_1/pdf/b01.

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/03/study_warming_c.html#more

Have a look at Kinsella's blog. He is bad-mouthing Stephen LeDrew ..... another fellow- Liberal loser.

I just love it when I see the Liberal lawyers feeding on each other.

Hey Kate.. how about typing a few commas for a post next time and let's see how many responses you get?

Wuberman:

go to bloggingtories.ca

It's right at the very top. Front and centre.

GW Swindle

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4520665474899458831&q=global+warming+swindle

'Push the Button' has been accepted for the Eurovision Song Contest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpWYFoSrmRA

Via Normblog

Nothing political, just for fun:

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/

It is what it says in the URL

Polish Joke ...

"Our company has a global reach," ...-

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2007/03/16/3763529-ap.html

NOTICE TO THE MEDIA - Global Television's Peter Kent, to run for Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative Party of Canada in the Toronto area riding of Thornhill

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2007/16/c3672.html

Stephane Dion PREVIOUSLY on a Carbon Tax, BEFORE David McGuinty forced him to flip flop today:

March 1st at: http://www.conservative.ca/EN/2874/71930

OTTAWA – Yesterday, Liberal Environment Critic David McGuinty (Ottawa South) is musing about the Liberals supporting a carbon tax: "Every senior economist and expert who's appeared before the committee [that is studying climate-change legislation] has spoken very much in favour of a carbon-tax approach," he said. "It's not been ruled out [by the Liberals]. We don't subscribe to the government's view that it ought to be ruled out [or] dismissed with sleight of hand." (Globe and Mail, March 1, 2007)

Yet his Leader, Stephane Dion, said he is adamantly opposed to a carbon tax:

"I've always been against it. I will have other ways to get there.'' (Globe and Mail, June 15, 2006)

He said he does not understand Mr. Ignatieff's comments. After speculating on imposing a carbon tax, Mr. Ignatieff added he would not want to hit any part of the country harder than another. ``The first sentence he said is we need to protect Alberta. And in the second sentence he said carbon tax,'' Mr. Dion said in an interview. (Globe and Mail, June 15, 2006)

It is "simply bad policy," Dion says (Toronto Star, November 25, 2006)

"A carbon tax is less effective than a carbon market at reducing emissions. Some of my opponents for the Liberal leadership have suggested that a carbon tax would be the most effective measure to curb climate pollution. This is simply bad policy, for the following reasons:
A carbon tax is almost always implemented as a direct tax on fossil fuels. Given the current price of these fuels, however, it is difficult to argue that a further price signal will dampen consumption or shift demand.

A carbon tax is a flat tax – it costs each polluter a fixed amount per tonne of emissions. Such a tax will not inflate with a bull market or recede in times of difficulty. In the energy market, in particular, soaring prices make anything but a prohibitively high tax a mere nuisance for large producers.

Finally, and most significantly, valuing reductions in emissions equally across all sectors and industries eliminates the potential benefits to be had by maximizing reductions where the cost is lowest. In a carbon market, those areas that produce the least expensive real reductions will experience the highest level of interest and investment, maximizing the level of reductions per dollar spent.” (Dion, Building a Sustainable Future for Canada, Stephane Dion’s Energy + Climate Change Plan, http://stephanedion.ca/files/stephanedion.ca/SD_ECC_Plan_EN.pdf)

He said he opposed the idea of a carbon tax (Reuters, February 26, 2007)

This Liberal confusion is becoming an epidemic. Do Liberals have any idea where they stand on any issue any more?

Is McGuinty playing leadership games here, pushing policies supported by Michael Ignatieff, and not by Stephane Dion?

~~ GLOBAL WARMING SKEPTICS WIN NYC DEBATE WITH BELIEVERS ~~

In New York City, no less.

In front of a NYC crowd, no less.

This is why Suzuki will not debate Tim Ball or Patrick Moore.

//newsbusters.org/node/11461

Even the AGW-pushing-rag, Scientific American, conceded defeat.

" ..The hosts--the Rosenkranz Foundation and Intelligence Squared U.S.--asked the audience to vote both prior to and after the event. Early voting skewed heavily against the motion: 57 percent in the audience favored dismissing it while only 30 percent supported it. But that was before anybody opened their mouths.

By the final vote, 46 percent of the audience had been convinced that global warming was indeed NOT a crisis, while just 42 percent persisted in their opinion that it was. The whole debate, for better or worse, can be heard on WNYC AM 820 on March 23 at 2 PM EDT."

://blog.sciam.com/index.php?p=462&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Yes, this is the same Scientific American that tried to bully our own Patrick Moore. And lost.

March 6, 2002
MEDIA RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN THREATENS GREENSPIRIT FOR PUBLISHING BJORN LOMBORG'S RESPONSE TO THEIR ATTACK ON HIM
Scientific American has threatened Dr. Patrick Moore, President of Greenspirit and former International Director of Greenpeace, for publishing Danish scholar and author Bjorn Lomborg's detailed response to their 11-page editorial attack on him on the Greenspirit website (www.greenspirit.com). Scientific American had previously threatened to sue Lomborg and he felt compelled to remove the text of the editorial from his website (www.lomborg.com) thus effectively gutting his ability to defend himself.

//www.greenspirit.com/lomborg/pages.cfm?num=2

After reading this i wonder id Dion has ever really had his own idea:

OTTAWA (CP) - Liberals are double-dog daring the Conservatives to embrace Kyoto.

Turns out Stephane Dion is not the only former Liberal environment minister to name his canine companion after the international climate change treaty. David Anderson, who held the environment post before Dion, also has a dog named Kyoto.

"She's suing for identity theft," Anderson quipped in an interview Thursday.

Dion, the newly minted Liberal leader, has been photographed extensively with his white husky, Kyoto. He got the four-legged symbol of his commitment to battling climate change shortly after the Liberals were turfed from power last year.

Anderson was way ahead of him.

The good people at the Pembina Institute who WROTE Dion's new Carbon tax which is not really a tax but a levy and not for automakers or any of the good guys just those awful nasty Alberta emitters plan have now issued a news release aplauding the plan they wrote.

Ah - what a little encestuous group they all are when seeking to foool all of us little stupid people.

Media Release

Mar 16, 2007

Pembina Institute Welcomes Dion's Proposal for Reducing Industrial Greenhouse Gas Pollution

Media Contact: Matthew Bramley, Marlo Raynolds

The Pembina Institute today congratulated the Leader of the Opposition, Stéphane Dion, on his proposal for reducing greenhouse gas pollution from heavy industry. Mr. Dion's proposal would place a Kyoto-level cap on industrial emissions, creating an incentive for companies to undertake all emission-reduction opportunities costing up to $30/tonne of carbon dioxide.

"This is the strongest proposal for regulating industrial greenhouse gas pollution made by any political party in Canada. It sets a new standard against which the Harper government's soon-to-be-announced regulatory framework must be judged," said Matthew Bramley, Director of the Pembina Institute's climate change program.

"We welcome the proposal because it sets the right targets and the right timelines - those laid out in the Kyoto Protocol. And it puts a high enough price on emissions to drive large-scale deployment of low-emission technology in Canada," Mr. Bramley added. "But we would have preferred to see a limit on the extent to which companies can defer emission reductions."

The Pembina Institute has shown that Kyoto-level targets for heavy industry are affordable. The Pembina Institute's Fair Share, Green Share proposal, presented last month to the parliamentary committee considering amendments to the government's Clean Air Act, calculated that the cost would only be around a dollar per barrel for oil sands companies - a small amount compared to fluctuations in the price of oil.

Last week, Alberta's government released a draft regulation for industrial greenhouse gas pollution based on "intensity" targets that would allow emissions to continue increasing.

One of the Pembina Institue's most prolific autors and paper writers has been Kevin Taft, Leader of the Alberta Liberals.

Many of you may add to some of the absolutely bizarre over the top rhetoric this group, headquartered in Alberta and a magnet for raging grannies and every left wing, socialist, communist, marxist anything but evil capitalist or free market rages out there.

Of course this Dion/Pembina plan will "hurt" businesses. Large corporations aare "evil doers".

I lament my country - these people are also incredible propagandists - no wonder they flog Kyoto - who do you think they get funds from?

And, why oh why does CTV and CBC always use these people as "opinionists" on any of these issues without stating their affiliations?

The Carbon Neutral scams are now rampant. Now you too can do what all of the famous polluters like Al Gore does and ease your concience by buying carbon credits.

This will never change the weather ,, which is every changing. This will never have any effect whatsoever to the earth BUT you can help wily entrepreneurs get rich by removing you from your money.

http://www.carbonneutral.com/pinfo/co2-emissions.asp?gclid=CLeyzYCA-4oCFShMYQod1xi0Ew

Guess who is on to Al Gore's big lie ??

The New York Times !! CNN too !!

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL4s5qdvaug

YouTube's 'Great Global Warming Swindle' videos have registered 100,000+ hits in less than a week.

The word is getting out. No thanks to CBC, CTV,
G&M.

And to think our school kids have to sit through the Gore/Suzuki fictional drama. Pathetic.

seems Ms Plame resent being outed by white housers. or is that hosers.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/politics_usa_crime_plame_dc

naturally the republicanist practice of blaming, or in this case, 'Plaming' the victim has already been done long ago.

Carte du Jour, aka The Menu: Chef Dion. Henglish for brekky, lunge, and diner? Mush for Kyoto?

Da grassroots are da first step; den, da rest flows.

"But it doesn't mean that we want an election."

He said Harper is wrong when he says Dion has called for an election. "My English is good enough to make the difference between "we want an election" and "get ready for an election." ...-

"If there is an election, we need to be ready and it's quite a job to be ready,"Dion added. "You need a lot of work and this work started in December, the moment I was elected because if there is an election we cannot say to the other parties 'No, no, no, we're not ready, be kind with us.'

"When there is an election, you need to have your grassroots ready to go, your candidates, your platform, your advertising, your narrative for every day. It's not something you may improvise in two days. But it doesn't mean that we want an election." ...-

Liberals suspect Harper of trying to trigger an election
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=662c9214-b2c2-4455-b1b3-c0f17f1ffc06&k=90418

Proof-positive that WK (musings) is an egotistical pr**.

Can't stand the line up at an Orlando airport so he publishes a tirade against our biggest (85%) trading power. The one and only reason he, and we, can live such an affluent lifestyle. Pathetic.

What's the matter ?? Your friend Dion's self destruction a burr under ya saddle ??

Understanding the Death Fatwa on Taslima Nasreen

In a news conference a couple of days ago the President of All India Muslim Personal Board Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan said that if the Government of India doesn’t restrict Taslima Nasreen from entering India then he was announcing a 5 lakhs (approx US$11,363) reward for any faithful Muslim who would behead Taslima.

Taslima Nasreen is a woman who grew up in Bangladesh and became a rationalist and who has criticized religion in her writings. She wrote various newspaper articles that dared to criticize Islam as part of the force behind the oppression of women in her native land as well as a later novel called Lajja (Shame) that highlighted the plight of the countries minority Hindus who faced pogroms and mistreatment particularly in the wake of the Babri demolition in neighboring India.

She was forced to flee Bangladesh when similar death fatwas were pronounced on her there and the Government banned her books to appease this fundamentalist rage. She gained asylum in Sweden but preferred to move back to West Bengal where her native Bengali language is spoken and was as close to home as she could return in relative safety.

Taslima is not the first and will certainly not be the last critic of Islam to face such death fatwas which have been a regular feature accompanying Islam’s 1400 year history. From the earliest days of Islam it was made clear that criticizing the Prophet of Islam Muhammad was totally unacceptable and the sentence for such act should be death....-
http://islam-watch.org/others/Death_Fatwa_Taslima.htm

didnt need to see this:

popped into the vet clinic (Im a mutt you see) to discuss the upcoming recommended procedures for the 4 legged missus.

in comes a young couple with a victim of a car impact. apparently dead from the unblinking eyes.

it was a black long haired terrier type.

mr insensitive had to take a time out to blubber for a moment.

I thanked the young couple for stepping forward to act on behalf of the critter.

life is so fragile.

*
But if machines can read your mind when you want them to,
they can also read it when you don't. And your will isn't
necessarily the one they obey.

*

Proof positive that WK reads sda ??

He is still defending the twit, Dion.

" ..I will make another bold prediction: if Charest loses, the federal election becomes Dion's to lose. For no other reason that the only leader who can effectively fight a new referendum is a federalist francophone. Voters get that.", WK.

Ya, right. Dion can't fight his way out of a brown paper bag. Even if it is a green one.

Quebecers elected Federal Libs for a century cause they're gonna separate, ya know. just wait, anytime now. Ontario is also tired of being threatened.

sda posters demand that a Canadian PM grant Quebec a place in confederation like any other province. Not a place on the perverbial perch-of-threats.

NOnono, send in the Peasekeepers from Canader; the iconics from Lethter Pearthon's daze; blue helmutts.

First job is meshing the ranks: "...and will mesh a heavily armed military, humanitarian agencies, diplomats and politicians..."

Once the mesh is done, send in Taliban Jack's
cohorts.

Here is the crapola, a PHD of left-liberal-socialist skjt from CP:

"Combat may be a necessity, if only to provide security for relief workers and reconstruction efforts."

Read the bs from CP, aka Communist Press; dare you. ...-

Future peace keeping likely means more combat, experts says say[sic].

OTTAWA (CP) - The iconic peacekeeping missions of the past, with blue berets on a ceasefire line, so beloved by the Canadian public, are likely gone forever, lost in a harsher world.

Experts say missions of the future are likely to be more muscular - like Afghanistan - and will mesh a heavily armed military, humanitarian agencies, diplomats and politicians in an uneasy, but vital alliance. Combat may be a necessity, if only to provide security for relief workers and reconstruction efforts. ...-
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/03/17/3770161-cp.html

'Fascism is in fashion'

Murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya was fearless in her pursuit of truth. In this shocking extract from her final book, she chronicles the death of Russian democracy

The day of the elections to the Duma, the [same] day Putin began his campaign for re-election as president. In the morning he manifested himself at a polling station. He was cheerful, elated even, and a little nervous. This was unusual: as a rule he is sullen. With a broad smile, he informed those assembled that his beloved labrador, Connie, had had puppies during the night. "Vladimir Vladimirovich was so very worried,' Mme Putina intoned behind her husband. "We are in a hurry to get home," she added, anxious to return to the bitch whose impeccable timing had presented this gift to the United Russia party. ...-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2036087,00.html

For those following the March of Eagles heres a video.

Video: A Gathering of Eagles
Posted by: Mary Katharine Ham at 3:09 PM
I was down at the Gathering of Eagles rally this morning on the mall. I filmed a bit, though this is pre-moonbat confrontations, so it's pretty tame.

But the speakers--particularly a WWII vet whose name is not on the line-up, so I'll have to track it down-- were moving, the crowd impressive, and the display of about 10,000 American flags far more beautiful than the rag-tag papier-mache army of the Left nearby.

http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/3481ea7e-a21f-45e8-93b1-d12bfe72ee4f

Catalyst Could Turn CO2 Into Fuel

A new catalyst that can split carbon dioxide gas could allow us to use carbon from the atmosphere as a fuel source in a similar way to plants.

"Breaking open the very stable bonds in CO2 is one of the biggest challenges in synthetic chemistry," says Frederic Goettmann, a chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany. "But plants have been doing it for millions of years."

Plants use the energy of sunlight to cleave the relatively stable chemical bonds between the carbon and oxygen atoms in a carbon dioxide molecule. In photosynthesis, the CO2 molecule is initially bonded to nitrogen atoms, making reactive compounds called carbamates. These less stable compounds can then be broken down, allowing the carbon to be used in the synthesis of other plant products, such as sugars and proteins. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802521/posts

Commenter said:

I work for a company that among other things makes custom motorcycle frames. One of the pro welders has been giving me TIG welding lessons. After decades of melting stuff together (it won't dignify it by calling it welding, at least as I do it!) I think whoever came up with the idea of inert (argon) gas shielding should be nominated for sainthood.

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kinda like how IBM fer instance had contracts via dutch subsidiary to provide punch card equipment to help run the death camps?

so just who is the 'bad guy' in that line of code?