Only in Canada, where we can't stop 16 years olds from buying cigarettes and booze, would someone try to ban plastic bags.

Leaf Rapids, Man is the winner of the "Exercise in Futility" award.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070402/plastic_bag_070402/20070402?hub=TopStories

DION TO RESTRICT BASIC FREEDOMS

This should liven things up a bit:

http://www.thiscanada.com/2007/04/02/dion-to-restrict-basic-freedoms/

Poll shows 60% of Canadians favour a NEW environmental TAX???????????

What I want to know is why the author of this article fails to reveal the name of the pollster or anything about the questions asked.

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=ce4b1268-a5c1-42d2-bb29-eca104f7feaf&k=93015

Oops. My bad. The above poll was conducted by Environment Canada. Even so, polls mean nothing without putting the questions asked into context and that information is missing from the article.

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Pte. Herbert Peterson - 808723

"One of the discovered bodies was identified
as Private Herbert Peterson, above, a soldier
from Alberta born in 1895.

Rest in peace.

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Erik - your comment that Dion is insisting on the Wheat Board's Monopoly is interesting, because it quotes Dion as saying that Harper is rejecting the WB's monopoly 'because of ideology'. Well, what on earth is the source of Dion's rejection of this - other than Dion's own ideology rejecting individual private property and freedom and his ideology of the socialist state?

Reid - agree; the questions are everything in a poll. The answers can be completely programmed and determined by the questions.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/02/wsaudi02.xml

Saudi Arabia is running a rehabilitation program for Al-Quaeda personnel who've seen the error of their ways.

ET - nobody is saying that Glorious Comrade Leader Dion is honest, bright, competent, or a leader. Just that he can pander with the best of them.

From Dion's quote, I believe there are three take-aways --- That Liberals believe:
1. You don't have the freedom to sell what is yours;
2. Barley farmers voted in a dishonest poll;
3. Barley farmers should not be permitted to decide what is good for them --- a Liberal government, and Dion in particular, is the only dingbat "smart enough" to do that.

All three are insults to farmers and voters, an attack on freedom of choice, a slur upon KPMG, and Dion's communist Nanny State rearing its ugly head again.

Time for Scott Reid to come into the picture and tell us again how only the government, not farmers, can decide how to sell their assets and products. Excl beer and peanuts, of course. As soon as he stops freaking out over the investigation into the RCMP pension fraud scandal.

Borat talked a lot about Harper's idealogy yesterday, doesn't he think that some of us don't agree with his idealogy

Breaking!!
New charges in sponsorship affair

JEAN LAFLEUR CHARGED

But they can't find him. More Liberal bagmen fleeing the country?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070402.wfraud0402/BNStory/National/home

Any senior Liberal's yet?

ctv is all over this sponsorship stuff...nothing on cbc yet,just climate change fear-mongering.

Jean is probably with Jean and Maurice :)

Sammy:

There's a reason the CBC has nothing on it. If they reported on it they would do so in a biased manner. By not reporting on it they avoid being accused of biased reporting. See how that works?

CTV's Kahane reporting that they thought lafleur was in costa rica, Does Canada have an extradition treaty with Costa Rica?

new vote on ctv.ca

Do you want plastic bags banned?

Can't wait to see how the Scottster spins this latest development...hmm,wonder who in the Cons.party he can blame?? Nuthin on Cherniak/Garthster about this either.
Also breaking in Wpg...home of prosecuting Crown Attorney(female) victim of home invasion related to case of last wk.3 arrested so far.Not sure of many details..Wpg police holding news conf.later in day(from CJOB)More "tough on crime" fallout?Wpg.judges have been taking a hammering in media recently,due to "mickey mouse" sentancing.Pitiful!

M. Strong had to move his Peace University from Costa Rica to Toronto, because of some dust-up with the government in Costa Rica, didn't he?
I wonder if he still has a hidey hole for wayward Liberals there.

So the CBC finally has a story up about Jean Lafleur. According the the Google News search the story appeared 8 minutes ago. CTV got theirs up 53 minutes ago.

http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&q=jean%20lafleur&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn

I was hoping for the headline "Dion hung by pissed off farmers in sask."

cbcPravda

Canadian politicians visit war-torn country in an effort to beef up security.On the same day, at least 13 suspected Taliban militants and three police officers were killed in clashes and an air strike in southern Afghanistan.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/04/02/stockwell.html

AdScam Lafleur is on the lam. Get him.

Meanwhile, the AdScam ex-Unity Minister, one S. Dion, tainted by AdScam, walks freely. Dion sat at AdScam Chretien's right-hand, at the AdScam table, doling out the $$$$$$$$ to AdScammers such as Lafleur. ...-

Ad man Jean Lafleur charged with sponsorship fraud

[...]
An arrest warrant is out for former advertising executive Jean Lafleur after he was charged with fraud in relation to his involvement in the sponsorship program in the 1990s. ...-
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070402/sponsorship_scandal_070402/20070402?hub=TopStories

However, the program became infamously corrupt and eventually played a key role in the fall of the former Liberal government.

For some 'balanced'reporting by cbc,remember all the 'unbiased' coverage of Hollandjenningsgate fiasco??CBC was all over that..yet something as huge,as Sponsorship,mentioned so late after breaking,is quite telling.It was also telling,that crooked Lipstick Nancy(cbc) reports it in a one-line toss off,in such a sad,depressed way,yet the Stolen Boxes Incident,gor full coverage repeatedly.No media bias??Yeah,right.

Kemo sabay! Forensic audits? ...-

Federal Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice has written leaders warning of forensic audits of native organizations involved in "blockade & civil obedience to ensure monies intended for children were not used to plan these activities".

The Minister is acting like a bully - provoking more confrontations
5.81%

It's about time gov't respond to incidents like Caledonia - and the current threat by native leaders to blockade rail lines
93.9%

Other (email mornings@cfra.com)
0.19%
Total Votes: 1032

Re: Lafleur charges. Sorry, dear leader Dionsky has decreed that we can't bring sponsorship scandal up in next election. Old news. water under the bridge. So what if he was minister of intergovernmental affairs? BTW, QP yesterday was interesting; was there a single liberal on program? They are busy planning the Holland gambit. I love Stephane's comment in Sask that CWB doesn't cost farmers a cent. How naive and ignorant is that? Libs having terrible, horrible, no good, very bad time. How can Harper resist election? Maybe the Chretien comeback will happen sooner rather than later. Remember, power, power, power.

Some Healthy Attitude for first thing in the week.....

*Death's Door*

OMMAG: good one!
Everyone should go see some healthy attitude. I for one am very sick and tired of this brainwashing bandwagon that we seem to be on.

NEW CPC FRENCH LANGUAGE AD

Is posted at the CPC site:

javascript: expPopupWindow('http://www.conservative.ca/EN/4579/74924',675,475,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1);

The ad is good.

I especially like the part where it says "pourquoi retourner en arrière?" ("Why return backwards/to the past?") against a red background, and then a drain shows up and the words go down the drain. Kinda like our money under the Libs.

GREAT symbolism. Simple and effective.

Fromcbc noon news..David,in his sarcastic,sneering way,interviews Richard Cleroux,about Sponsorship.Asks RC'what do you make of the timing of this announcement,with a possible election(paraphrased some of this)cleroux responds"it is SUITABLE TIMING for PMSH"..so ya see folks..it IS all the Cons.fault! Bring on the Scottster..can't wait!

I wwas tempted to get up and tell Wayne Easter to stay out of the Wheat Board debate and I wouldn't tell him what to do with potatoes in PEI

CPAC now showing the Mar 23rd/07 Agriculture Forum from Yorkton, Saskatchewan, which was organized by CPC MP Garry Breitkreuz.

Chuck Strahl is now speaking....

Don't Donate Through Garth Turner's Website,
Says Liberal Riding Association

Garth Turner has started his cyber begging plan now asking anyone who posts on his website to donate 20 bucks via his website garthturner.com By keeping the donations UNDER 20 bucks...-
national newswatch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zu9Hfse00U

one or two decades ahead of Hugoslavia.

Eco-terrorists are advertising a "peaceful" rally all over my neighbourhood.

http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=443834074&size=l

How is this legal? How can the most active terror group in America - the Animal Liberation Front - freely advertise on the streets of Vancouver? With images of terrorists in ski masks next to burning buildings - it's pretty obvious what they're planning.

The National Press Gallery is given a tour. TO Red Star opts for a mixed metaphor: "gunning for an election with all its saber-rattling." Or, is it an Irish bull? Tonda is mix-fused; but, she gets a "taste".
...-

Tories unveil new attacks

Tonda MacCharles
Ottawa Bureau

OTTAWA — The Conservative party showed off its organizational muscle today by escorting reporters through its new sprawling campaign headquarters and launching more TV ads attacking Liberal leader Stéphane Dion.

[...]

The briefing gave the national press gallery a taste of how the Conservatives intend to use their new location to strictly control the flow of information.
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/198560

Ever wondered why the Liberals scream for a years long multi million dollar PUBLIC Inquiry everytime there is an indication of criminal corruption that may link to them?

I caught an insight into this today on CBC in relation to the latest AdScam charges. According to an expert "no evidence given or used in a Public Inquiry can be used in a criminal court".

So with LaFleur the only evidence the police could use was two file boxes of evidence that Gomery did not make public.

All of the other testimony CANNOT be used in criminal courts. THAT is why there are not more criinal charges. Paul Martin managed to protect everyone who testified at Gomery from criminal consequences - indcluding himself!

Soooooo - now the Liberals want a PUBLIC Inquiry on the RCMP scandals BEFORE A criminal investigation? Uh Huh. Now we know why.

Behold: Al-Ecce Cocoa found alive; it's here in black and white. Ripley said it first; bullieve it or not. ...-

Senator Barack Obama Depicted as Jesus at Chicago Art Exhibit

Fox News ^ | 4/2/07
WASHINGTON — A Chicago artist hopes his creation of Democratic White House hopeful Sen. as Jesus will bring attention to politics and religion. The exhibit, titled "Blessing," shows Obama cloaked in white and red robes with a neon halo, is on display at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Click here to watch the video report from FOX News Chicago. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1810733/posts

CBCpravda-- now the political motives are the first line of the article.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/04/02/aerospace.html

just hope the next funding isnt for the politically important province of Ontario through a grant for CBC.

Ste ( no clue on how to do the accent / ) Guevara !!! Over at Cherniaks .
http://jasoncherniak.blogspot.com/2007/04/fundraiser-with-stphane-dion.html

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The most cost-effective way... to break stuff
and kill people.

It's probably not what you think.

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Think Americas Most Wanted would help us find the adman charged today with fraud. Will the cbc cover this fraud like the cover Black's case.

Let's call Dog the Bounty Hunter.

April 02, 2007
Press shuts down blogger

A couple of weeks ago, I headed down the street to Parliament Hill to cover the budget for my blog and for Blogging Tories. ...-

http://www.stephentaylor.ca/archives/000819.html
(via national newswatch)

Everyone's seen the story about how Circuit City canned 3,400 low paid workers so they can re-hire new workers at "market wages" (read: illegal immigrant wages), right? Well here's the fine print:

"Exceptions include those employees who are part of a protected class, such as minorities, women or disabled employees, he said."

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070329/BUSINESS01/703290361/1066/BUSINESS01

So, to be clear, Circuit City fired white males exlusively, and on the basis of their race and gender, while protecting the jobs of women and minorities.

Kate ,while tis may be late for your links Whats up with Bill C-21 and Conservative thinking

by David A. Tomlinson, National President

A Conservative M. P. supplied me with a copy of its proposed "new" firearms control law. It is a grave disappointment, but I was expecting that; I know how Ottawa works. The Ministers tell their top bureaucrats to draft new laws, and what effects he wants the new laws to have. The bureaucrats then draft the new laws for Parliament to pass--laws that will have the effects the bureaucrats want them to have. Their draft Bill C-21 is scheduled to become law this fall.

In this case, the Conservative Ministers wanted new laws that would keep the firearms community in solid support of the Conservative Party--without alienating anti-gun soccer moms. The bureaucrats wanted new laws that would increase the number of their employees, the power of top bureaucrats, and the funding of their bureaucracy. You can judge the results:

To transfer a .22 single-shot Cooey rifle under the new Firearms Act section 23, "A person may transfer a firearm if, at the time of the transfer...the transferor [a dealer or an individual] has no reason to believe that the transferee is not authorized to acquire and possess that kind of firearm."

The seller just has to see the buyer's firearms licence, right? Wrong!

The new Section 23 goes on to say, "In the case of a transfer to an individual [by a dealer or another individual], the transferor informs a chief firearms officer and ­obtains the authorization of the chief firearms officer for the transfer...and...the prescribed conditions are met."

So the seller has to ask the CFO for his permission to actually transfer the rifle to the buyer who has a licence. The purpose of the licence, we were told, was to identify a person as being a person who could acquire and possess a rifle. But after spending $1 billion in tax dollars on their flawed licencing scheme, the bureaucrats who drafted this are now telling us that the licence is meaningless. A licence cannot and does not identify any person as being qualified to buy any firearm.

Section 27 then creates new work for the bureaucracy. It says, "On being informed of a proposed transfer of a firearm under section 23, a chief firearms officer shall verify whether the transferee holds a licence [that requires a licence record check], whether the transferee is still eligible to hold that licence [that requires a criminal record check, and a complete check, including a mental health check, to make sure that the transferee has not fallen into ineligibility under FA s. 5(2)(a)(I), (a)(ii), (a)(iii), (b), or (c) in the interval since he was issued his firearms licence], and whether the licence authorizes the transferee to acquire that kind of a firearm...(so that the CFO can) decide whether to approve the transfer...

That hands a lot of unjustifiable power over to the CFO. The buyer has already done everything required to satisfy all that, just to get his licence. He or she has paid all the required fees for training and the licence itself. Now--just to let him buy a single-shot .22 Cooey--the bureaucracy is going to assume that the licence he already has is meaningless. It is going reinvestigate the buyer to find out if he or she is qualified to have the licence the bureaucracy has already issued!

That makes no sense at all! If the law is going to require that, the licence should be totally scrapped as being a completely meaningless document that is totally ignored.

There is no requirement in this law for the CFO to notify either the transferor or the transferee of his decision. There is no time constraint on the CFO. That is a recipe for long delays, and for inability to determine the cause of a delay in a transfer decision. I have seen far too much of this sort of bad systems design to believe this badly-designed change can possibly work well!

ANALYSIS and RED WARNING:

Transferring an ordinary rifle or shotgun by this very complex method will create very real problems. Obviously, the CFO has to do a lot before he can "authorize" such a transfer. What he "shall" do requires complex analysis of all government records pertaining to the buyer. The presence or absence of a licence is clearly not enough for the CFO to be able to "verify" the things he is required to "verify." Verify is a very powerful word, requiring hard work and solid proof to satisfy the "verify" requirement.

If Bill C-21 becomes law in its present form, the entire licence program will become meaningless and should be discarded once C-21 comes into force. The additional workload will require more staff in the office of each CFO.

Bill C-21 isn't going to save any of our tax dollars. It will make operating the gun control system even more expensive.

The bureaucrats who drafted the changes to FA s. 23 and 27 have produced a nightmare. For example, is the "notification" of the CFO to be verbal or in writing? Is the "authorization" by the CFO to be verbal or in writing? If either is allowed to be verbal, what will happen in a court case involving a transfer that may not have been done to the standard, "the prescribed conditions are met" [FA s. 27(a)(iii)]? The "prescribed conditions" are all set by Order in Council. There are already so many of them, plus so many changes to the older ones made by other Orders in Council, that no one in Canada fully understands what "conditions" are "prescribed." This is just one more step in making firearms ownership more expensive, more complicated, and riskier.

This bill, if adopted, leads inevitably into a system in which all the "notification" and "authorization" is done in writing. That must be done to provide the necessary records. Instead of a simple transfer of registration done at one national (RCMP) central processing site, transfers of ordinary rifles and shotguns will be done at each CFO's office. The processes will differ from CFO to CFO. There will be a record of the location of every rifle and shotgun in Canada--and how does that differ from registration?

There will be confusion when a rifle or shotgun is transferred from the jurisdiction of one CFO's office to the jurisdiction of another CFO's office. The confusion will probably be worse than a registration transfer, which does not require so much CFO activity. The transfer of a "restricted" or "prohibited" firearm requires all this, plus a great deal of activity in the Registrar's office. The cost of transferring such a firearm will be approximately double the cost of transferring a non-restricted ordinary rifle or shotgun. The cost of transferring an ordinary rifle or shotgun will be higher than the current cost. And this is supposed to save money? Pull the other leg!

The top bureaucrats who drafted Bill C-21 were not trying to please their Minister or the public. They were going all out to increase the number of their employees, their budget in tax dollars, and their own personal power over members of the firearms community. That is unacceptable.

If the new laws (Bill C-21, scheduled to be passed this fall) are unacceptable to you, join the National Firearms Association. The NFA fights for every member of the firearms community.

David A. Tomlinson has been fighting bad firearms legislation in Canada since the 1960's.

Sorry ,I should've provided a link instead of posting ,like your helmets tho

ET: "Dion's own ideology rejecting individual private property and freedom and his ideology of the socialist state"

OK. I get it. You're making fun of sda by carrying it's point of view to ridiculous extremes. Carry on!

Talk about your eco-terrorists, the proposed C-21 bill if the commentor is correct will surely kill more trees for the required paperwork.
I thought the CPC was going to add some sanity and CDF (navy slang for common sense) to the whole mess. If the bad guys don't follow the rules now, just what makes anyone think they are going to do this extra paperwork? Stuck on stupid, eh.

Why does every Liberal I see being interviewed seem so angry?

Stephane Dion - always angry and if he had lips he would always seem to be pouting.

David McGuinty - his entire face is a scowl. He is always so angry and uses such lawyerly words about being dismayed and horrified.

Gerard Kennedy - once again so rude and interupting on Duffy today and so angry and beligerant and oh so upset about those nasty conservatives. (I can barely stand to watch when I see him as a panelist anymore - his whole persona as a buttinski know it all just makes me shake my head that this kind of person can get elected)

Those angry angry Liberals. Poor babies.

Maybe Paul Martin knows where AdScam LaFeur is?

Martin's former Adscam communication director ambassador to Costa Rica
By Judi McLeod
Thursday, December 1, 2005

The 100-million Canadian tax dollars, with which the federal Liberal government floated its Adscam sponsorship program, may be lost forever in faraway Costa Rica.

A popular playground for well-heeled Canadians with Liberal connections, Costa Rica is home to the United Nations University for Peace. Prime Minister Paul Martin mentor Maurice Strong, being litigated against by the Costa Rican government over a land deal, is still listed as president of the UPeace council.

Canadian Adscam legends, who washed up on Costa Rican shores, include the flamboyant Jean Lafleur, a key figure in the Adscam scandal, whose communication firm executives raked in $15-million in government expenses over a four-year period.

Loud-living Lafleur has reached the dubious status of Costa Rica’s most infamous party boy, who neighbours wish would take a permanent hike.

But as loud and excessive as Lafleur’s late-night bacchanals are reported to be, he’s only a sometimes resident of Escazú. Missing from Costa Rica for the past month and a half, his expected return for Christmas has neighbours reaching for anti-acid relief.

But Mario Laguë, a second prominent Canadian with ties to the Adscam scandal is a permanent resident of the sun-blessed country. Lague, Prime Minister Paul Martin’s former director of communications, is the ambassador to Costa Rica.

That’s the same Laguë who was the senior bureaucrat in overall charge of Ottawa’s communications strategy, and the same one who reported directly to the same Cabinet communications committee, headed by then public works minister Alfonso Gagliano. Readers may recall that the disgraced Gagliano is the figure indirectly responsible for giving the Liberals their "Libranos" label.

Adscam, whose critics say was designed to put money into Liberal-friendly advertising firms, and involved double-billing, bogus invoices and payments for fictitious work, came back to haunt the Liberals on Monday night, when Opposition parties used it as the primer to call for a non-confidence vote, forcing the fall of their minority government.

"On Thursday, September 16, 2004, Pierre Pettigrew, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced Mario Laguë as the new ambassador to Costa Rica." (Source: Diplomatic Appointments).

The antithesis of Lafleur, Laguë has kept such a low profile in his new post as Costa Rican ambassador that according to local news hounds, he’s only attended one official public function.

Laguë, who served as Martin’s communication director from December 2003 to July 2004, presented Adscam in the best possible light after Auditor General Sheila Fraser discovered and revealed it. Canadian media dubbed him as "Martin’s spin doctor".

A Canadian government-sanctioned biography states that Laguë ran his own communications firm from 1995 to 1997.

Management at the high-rise where Lafleur lives when in San Rafael de Escazú, has been inundated with complaints from tenants, who charge that wild parties thrown by the Canadian executive and his constant Tico companion, "Larry" are keeping them awake nights.

Having read all about the Adscam scandal via the Internet, some tenants say you’d think that Lafleur would want to keep a low profile.

Meanwhile, if anyone wants Lafleur to turn down the volume more than the neighbours, it could be Canada’s new ambassador to Costa Rica.

In Quotes
Dan Cook, 01/04/07 at 11:09 PM EDT

Meet Jason Cherniak: Stéphane Dion's 2006 Blog Campaign Co-Chair, York Region Area Director for the Liberal Party of Canada, president of the Richmond Hill Federal Liberal Riding Association, president of Liblogs, and Lawyer.

Cherniak on Prime Minister Harper:
"Might I remind you that this same asshole PM called the former PM a criminal? Those without sins..." [March 28, 2007]

Cherniak on Toronto MP Olivia Chow:
Rumour has it "that Olivia Chow won because NDP supporters from across the city voted early and often at different polling stations in Trinity-Spadina." [March 24, 2007]

Cherniak on an individual he neither knows the identity of, or whom he/she works for:
"What racist made the [YouTube] video?" And: "I wonder what French Canadians would think if they knew that the Conservative Party is employing a person who would put such a video together." [March 28, 2007]

Cherniak on the Liberal Party possessing confidential Tory documents for over 13 months, despite a House of Commons shipping label stating the boxes belonged to the Conservative Party:
"It's not the Liberals' fault if the movers forgot some boxes." [March 28, 2007]...-
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070401.WBwblogolitics20070401230935/WBStory/WBwblogolitics/

[Now, Cherniak parodies himself and AdScam Dion.]

Harper has dropped a French nuke

Did I call Stephen Harper an "asshole"? Yes I did. I think this report by Andrew Coyne proves it. The short story is that the federal Conservatives have begun running ads in Quebec that refer to Stéphane Dion as "vendu".

For those who do not understand, this is a charge that Stéphane Dion is a sell-out. How did he supposedly sell out? Because he stood against a Québec separatist government's demands for more money while he was the minister of national unity....- (cherniak)

I just love the new label that both Gerard Kennedy,and David McSquinty have given the Cons new election central...pipples,we will all now refer to this as "The Fear Factory"..all I can say to them is,'lovely shade of envious green really suits you morons!'

Nice story in Nat.Newswatch(via TO Star)
Principal Admits Throwing Excrement
A suspended TO Elementary school principal has pleaded guilty to throwing feces(excrement) on a child.
Maria Pantalone,49,was charged with 2 counts of assault..blah blah.
I couldn't take it anymore,she testified,in describing the provocative circumstances leading up to incident.
Pantalone,is the sister of Toronto Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone...has been suspended with pay..has submitted letters of support from 19 staff members at the school.

Comment: Lorraine at April 2, 2007 3:15 PM

Should be framed as an essential note for all bloggers to keep in mind. = TG

Stupid is as Stupid Does!

“Nothing personal sir, but your packages are not allowed on passenger airlines,” said a United Parcel Service (UPS) customer service agent, sitting in an American call centre.

but CASH is good everywhere!

"And my package? The one that was flagged by “Flight Guardian”? Well, I drove to a depot close to my office and sent it off — without using an account number and by paying cash. So much for the security offered by a watch list."

I wonder what other LISTs, there are!

http://www.jordantimes.com/tue/opinion/opinion6.htm

Battery lasts 3 to 4 times the lithium ion cell.

Battery uses no exotic or heavy metals. Enviro - OK.

Battery is protein running on liquid sugar.

physorg.com/news94043039.html

Dr. Shelly Minteer ... electrochemist phd.
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Juicing up your cell phone or iPod may take on a whole new meaning in the future. Researchers at Saint Louis University in Missouri have developed a fuel cell battery that runs on virtually any sugar source — from soft drinks to tree sap — and has the potential to operate three to four times longer on a single charge than conventional lithium ion batteries, they say.**
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= TG

Hybrid battery maker is looking for ways to capitalize amid growing demand for hybrid vehicles, certain electronics.
March 14 2007: 7:53 PM EDT

CHICAGO (Reuters) -- Cobasys, which produces batteries used in hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles, said Wednesday its owners have enlisted investment bankers to explore strategic alternatives.

money.cnn.com/2007/03/14/news/companies/cobasys.reut/

The venture, which is owned by Energy Conversion Devices Inc. (Charts) and
Chevron Corp. (Charts) , said it is looking for ways to capitalize on growing demand for hybrid vehicles and stationary power.

The contracts include deals with General Motors Corp. (Charts) for the Saturn Aura, Saturn Vue Green Line and a Chevrolet Malibu hybrid.

Cobasys also has a contract to develop lithium ion battery technology for the Volt plug-in hybrid *concept* car GM showed at the North American International Auto Show in January.
============ Money.CNN
Johnson Controls Inc. (Charts) and France's Saft PA are also in the running.= TG

Get Off Our Rink! We'll Sue, You. We Are Serious; We Are Branded; We Are Vigilant; We Are The CBC! ...-

CBC up in arms over website

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has come out slugging over a ``Hockey Fight in Canada" website.

The public network has served a one-man B.C.-based website with a cease and desist order, calling on www.hockeyfightincanada.com to stop using the Hockey Night In Canada takeoff logos and name on its site, caps and T-shirts.

``This is a real David and Goliath thing," says graphic artist Michael Mills, who runs the business out of his Cloverdale, B.C., home.

``The CBC has parodies like the Royal Canadian Air Farce, so why can't I do it?"

The network doesn't see it that way.

``We take our brand very seriously and are quite vigilant in protecting it," said CBC spokesperson Jeff Keay. ...-
http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/198845

http://chuckercanuck.blogspot.com/

The Bloggers are Coming! The Bloggers are Coming!

At first, the press gallery was merely concerned. Increasingly, Parliament Hill became a loitering spot for pasty-skinned geeks in flanel pyjamas, sporting Spock ears.

But they quickly switched into full panic mode when they noticed politicians flocking to these coke-sipping, techno-gadget-sprouting dweebs to offer interviews and insights in lieu of facing a scrum of press gallery pimentos asking important questions to Tories such as, "How often do you get faxes from George W. Bush?" or lobbing grenades at Liberals like, "do you look and sound so good when you wake up in the morning?" [...]

Its just too bad that it looks so terribly petty.

Afterall, Stephen Taylor has done more for Canadian media than any single member of the press gallery....-

biff said:
[...]

"Sad to see you circling the wagons Andrew. I share my dissappointment with all of your former followers here.

You've become redundant.

I can get this stuff from the Toronto Star any day of the week."
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Candace said...

Am I the only one that has noticed that Andrew is doing well to get double-digit comments anymore?

Probably one a week or two, I go, I read, I read the comments, and leave, having nothing to say that anyone wants to hear.

As Emily Letalia would say, nevermind. ...-

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Comments above from/at ChuckerCanuck.

Andrew is the Coyne. Inkless Wells allowed Coyne to write for him? Coyne-Wells are in decline? So sad.

Get yer wheaties here. A message from Barley Borat Dion/Ralffy Goodale/Whiner Easter, et al.
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Agencies bracing for info requests

OTTAWA - The Canadian Wheat Board is among the agencies that were brought under the Access to Information Act on Sunday, meaning its files are now open to public requests. As of April 1, the Canadian Wheat Board, five foundations, and agents of Parliament such as the chief electoral officer and the auditor general are part of the system. The government recently announced that another wave of Crown agencies, including the CBC and Canada Post, the CBC and Via Rail, will be subject to the law Sept. 1. (CP) ...-
http://www.primetimecrime.com/

Police search globe for former adman

Jean Lafleur has been charged with $1.58-million in fraud in relation to his work on the sponsorship program

DANIEL LEBLANC

Globe and Mail Update ...-
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070402.wfraud0402/BNStory/National/home

The globe was searched? Did they have a search warrant?
Tip: He's not there. Where is Ecce Cocoa?

Globe provides an AdScam Memory Refresher.
Take the Tour. It's free.

Daniel LeBlanc scooped/broke the Liberal AdScam heist.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070402.wfraud0402/BNStory/National/home

It's deja vu season, again. ...-

'Very active' hurricane season predicted
The St. Petersburg Times | 4/3/2007 | By DAN ELLIOTT

The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season should be "very active," with nine hurricanes and a good chance that at least one major hurricane will hit the U.S. coast, a top researcher said Tuesday.
Forecaster William Gray said he expects 17 named storms in all this year,...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811233/posts

Wunder Blog : Weather Underground

The failure of preseason predictions for the hurricane season of 2006 ... predictions of an extremely active hurricane season were spectacularly wrong. ...-

Zimbabwe: Abandoned to the jackals/hyenas of socialism. Woe to the people of Zimbabwe.
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We are truly on our own (African “leaders” abandon oppressed Zimbabweans to ruthless dictator)

NewZimbabwe.com ^ | 04/03/2007 09:03:40 | Mary Revesai

THE Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) debacle in the Tanzanian capital last weekend when the assembled African leaders treated Robert Mugabe with kid gloves and virtually gave him the green light to continue his ruthless madness proved once and for all that African heads of state are not on the side of oppressed Zimbabweans....-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811219/posts

Doggies don't do Yogi. Or, do they?

Steff-Kyoto's application to this class was rejected; its master, Citoyen Dion, is in an "upward facing belly pose."; catatonic; prostate, even. Steff-Kyoto's trainer, M. Cherniak, a noted Canadian Liberal legal beagle, is planning an appeal, pro bono, en deux langages. Barfff. ...-

Humane Society holds doggie yoga class

By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP, Associated Press Writer

By the end of their doggie yoga class, most of the wandering and sniffing participants are passed out on their mats, in a position their instructor calls the "upward facing belly pose."

Beans, a majestic 2-year-old Vizsla, however, is ready to play. The overgrown puppy has tried to relax with his owner, Chantale Anderson, but once Magnet the black lab heads off to explore the room, Beans is ready to go.

Mostly, however, both the dogs and the humans on a recent evening at the Seattle/King County Humane Society seemed relaxed and focused for about 40 minutes of "doggie yoga."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811213/posts ...-

MP Mark Holland Considers Legal Action Over Levant Column
[Is Cherniak, noted Canuck Fiberal legal beagle, awailable, pro bono, for the plaintiff?]

NATIONAL NEWSWATCH EXCLUSIVE:

Liberal MP Mark Holland tells National Newswatch that he is considering legal options over Ezra Levant column published Monday, April 2. ...-
http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/

Trail is dead; cold. "Larry" is missing, too. ...-

Jean Lafleur charged with 35 counts of fraud in AdScam scandal still on the lam
Judi McLeod
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"Ever since good fortune landed him in San Rafael de Escazu, Monsieur Lafleur and his constant, 30-year-old companion "Larry", has been living the life of the wanton playboy."
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"Larry turned out to be Tico Larry Umana, described as a "Mama's boy"." ...-
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover040307.htm

Warren Kinsella and Kathy Shaidle in the same room together. And they, ... they... didn't fight!! In fact they ggggot along.

A very, very good discussion on Steve Paikin's The Agenda. Religion, no religion, cults, ect.

Hottest question I would have had for WK was when he mentioned that not all environmentalists are kooks. Who would you describe as the non-Kook, Warren, Patrick Moore OR David Suzuki ??

On WK mussings and RC sites.

Debate starts after Paikin's interview with DiNovo.

http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/tvoutils/globalfiles/VideoPop.cfm?spot_id=2285µsitefolder=theagenda

Belgium is instituting a bbq tax, and will patrol areas with helicopters to find offenders. Seems bbqs emit co2. I do not have a bbq, will not get one, so who wants to buy my credits. Will the kyotologists in canada promise the same tax. All those cottage owners might finally discover that cutting co2 will hit them, not just the oil industry in AB. So, how much c02 will those helicopters emit, spying on the people. Dust my broom has the story.

Teaching little kids to blow themselves up...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,263666,00.html

Seems a little odd with the Parliament 2-week break.

Not used to going more than 24 hours without seeing Goodale on CBC demanding an apology.

Hezbollah Coderre needs a good lawyer. Tip: Nasrallah is available and looking for $$$$$$$.
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Liberal MP Denis Coderre has launched a $45,000 defamation suit against the Phoenix Coyotes' Shane Doan in response to the NHL player's $250,000 defamation suit against him. ...-
national newswatch

When I tried to vote for a CWB director back in the '90's when KPMG were in charge, all ballots were numbered and I expect because I voted for a pro-choice candidate I got a letter back saying my ballot was disqualified, but I guess it was OK then. David Peterson

More good news for the Cons!!! Trevor Kennard(former kicker with Wpg.Blue Bombers)has announced today in Wpg.he is going to run for the Cons.in next election(federally).He will be up against the ever whiny Anita Neville!Hey,we already had one giant killer,when young Bruinuoge(can't spell that!)knocked off Reg Alcock.Lookin good!And all the Libs can do is put out feeble lawsuit announcements.Great day for Wpg.

Attention All Union Members ! In response to your latest agreement ---- we're closing down . Bye bye.

This courtesy of the Chronicle Herald in Hafilax http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/568928.html

Seems the 330 boys held out for the good bucks all right ...were warned, but like Cape Bretoners who are their soulmates decided the company was jus blowin' smoke man . Lets roll some homemades and sit around watching the other half work eh ? and BOOM .. they are done like dinner.

High costs sealed TrentonWorks’ fate, company says
"TrentonWorks’ parent company in Oregon told investors Wednesday that it just could not take any more losses from its Nova Scotia plant and won’t reconsider its decision to close it.

Some 330 jobs will be lost when TrentonWorks closes after an order for 300 railcars is completed later this year. No exact date for the closure has been set."---
Looks good on them. The day of the union is ended. The day of the greasy fingernail begins anew ...in India and China and Mexico. Get used to it . The social dynamics of the marketplace cannot be held in check.