a make nice story about a real tragedy,hard to pick up in the story that anything is bad.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070418/mohammed_ballas_070418/20070418?hub=TopStories

France Surrenders Territory to Islamists

The locales are known as Zones Urbaines Sensibles — Sensitive Urban Zones. That means that these areas are off limits to French authorities.

The latest tally is that there are 751 such French conclaves, per whispur. They are listed in one long WebPage. There street addresses are typed. Map locations are provided. It is that bizarre.

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2007/04/france-submitting-to-islamic-rule-on.html

Hermaphrodites take over Quebec? I thought hermies were very rare. Trannies are far more common...

Not any more surprising than France abandoning hundreds of neighborhoods to Sharia law. See my reader tip for that one.

Old man Mulroney has an astonishing lack of confidence in the Canadian people. In calling for the feds to increase immigration he said:

"The lesson for Canada is clear: To grow and prosper we must open our doors to immigrants and refugees in greater and greater numbers, because they and they alone will provide us with the energy, creativity and brilliance needed to sustain and enhance our role as an admired and influential nation through the next millennium."

Hear that? Canadians are so lacking in energy, creativity and brilliance that we need to import it from abroad! Because - according to Red Brian - ONLY immigrants can provide this for Canada, not Canadians.

What a d-bag.

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2007/04/19/4067228-sun.html

National Post | Terror suspect wins new chance to stay in Canada

A man described by the government as a retired terrorist –or possibly a terrorist sleeper cell — has won another chance to stay in Canada after a judge ruled that Stockwell Day, the Public Safety Minister, may have ignored the man’s plea that he has renounced violence. [...]

Justice Mactavish acknowledges that Mr. Day's decision might well be the same next time but said the regulations require him to show that he fully considered Mr. al Yamani's appeal.
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MayDion Liberals: Soft on terrorism/terrorists.

Liberal judge protects terrorists.

Judge Appointed by Liberals:

Anne L. Mactavish of Ottawa, is appointed a judge of the Federal Court. She fills a newly created position. [...]

At the time of her appointment, she was Chairperson of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, a position she held since 1995.
(justice.gc)

National Post | Fantino’s critics demand resignation

Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino continued his silence yesterday, even as calls for his resignation mounted following what critics say is an attempt to bully elected officials in Caledonia, the site of an ongoing native blockade. ...-

Liberal premier of Ontario, McGuinty, who appointed Fantino, keeps his silence.

Liberals: soft on terrorism; soft on crime.
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With regard to the new Dion ads, attempting to show Dion as a gavel-pounding decisive person, the reality is the exact opposite.

First, that conference wasn't Dion's brainchild; it was a UN regularly scheduled conference, hosted in Canada for Paul Martin's electoral propaganda at the cost of over 50 million to the Canadian taxpayer. And Dion chaired it only because, as the host country of the UN conference, and as he was 'Environment Minister' - that was his duty. Remember, he was awarded 'environmental fossil of the year' designation for his lack of attention and action on the environment.

He didn't initiate the conference, he didn't call it, he didn't organize it - and all it resulted in, was more vague talk and a huge dent in our taxpayer funds.

Indeed - the conference failed. One key agenda of the Canadian contingent to that conference, was to get the US into future climate talks. It failed. The US refused. (So much for that gavel, with the sound obviously added, eh, Dion?)

The UN socialist agenda to transfer money from the industrial nations to the 'developing nations', disguised as fines for emissions, also failed at this conference. Saudi Arabia rejected the plan, and the only result was to 'agree to cut emissions'. Words, words - remember, Canada agreed to cut emissions and under the Liberals, the emissions went UP. It's easy to talk.

Actually paying any fine - or, to be truthful - actually handing over huge non-loans to third world countries who are exempt from Kyoto emission standards - remains a vague plan.

Again, under Mr. Dion's watch, the emissions went up over 24%. Hmmm. Some leadership.

Oh, and the US complained that Paul Martin's insulting comments against Bush at that conference, were 'the worst slight' since Germany's Schroeder said that Hurricane Katrina was caused by Bush's rejection of Kyotoism.
Martin opened the conference - again - that conference was NOT called by Dion, it was NOT Dion who brought everyone together - as the Liberal ad maintains. It was a regularly scheduled UN conference.

This UN Conference on Climate Change - got that - a UN, not Dion, Conference - was held during Martin's election campaign (the one he lost) and he stated that the US refusal to 'join the crowd' was indicative that it has 'no social conscience'. This - about the US. That's Paul Martin.

Doesn't it reveal a serious lack of integrity to falsely claim that a UN conference, scheduled by the UN - was really a 'Dion-Conference'?

Doesn't it reveal a serious lack of leadership to falsely claim that you initiated, organized and led a conference - when in reality - you did none of the above?

Dion, the Fraud. And the Fossil.

"Why Mexicans Don’t Drink Molson:"

I'm glad this title is just a metaphor for Canadian protectionism and not an allegory on the Canadian Brewing industry.

Knowing something of the brewing industry, I can't say for sure why Mexicans would not drink Molson, other than they have been ordered by the current dictator to drink the adjuct thin slop their local robber barons make, or perhaps they can't afford or appreciate imported all malt beer.

But I do know why Canadians are less and less "drinking Molson"...or Labatts, for that matter. It is a issue of the local market growing up, acquiring more developed tastes and demanding a quality, taste, style diversity and freshness in their beer that large national brewers can not deliver.

After the 2 disasters that essentially destroyed the Canadian brewing culture which existed in Canada prior to 1920( prohibition and EP Taylor's industry Amalgamation/consolidation and product homogeneity)small independent local craft brewing is blossoming again in Canada.... and local beer drinkers can get pure, well made, fresh, better tasting beer from local independents than the big nationals who make a mass produced bland, sterile, engineered beverage with enormous shelf life.

In my region we have 4 independent craft brewers who keep local pubs and restaurants supplied with FRESH, flavorful beers which diplay distinctuive flavor and character that the pre-prohibition beers of the area did. The Craft brewers are killing the Big brewers in nost independent pubs/restaurants....the only place I see the national brewers product is in the typical sanitized, homogenious franchise reastaurant chains and the low end booze can hotels.

Add to this Canadian tastebuds have grown up and out grown the bland sterile sameness of the Mol-coor-batt mega brewers and now seek style and flavor diversity and you can see why the fastest growing segment of the beer industry is in imports from Europe (the cradle of brewing and still the masters of the craft)....although there is a rigorous challenge coming from the American micro-brewing industry which is producing massive hybrid beers that are much sought after in this market.

So that's why Canadians are drinking less Molson....at least this Canadian and the people I know. The Mexicans deserve the fetid slop their local robber barons produce...you need a lime slice to sterilize it and kill the taste of corn in their beer. ;-)

Taliban Jack Layton-NDP, aka Cut-'n'-Run Jack: the consummate hypocrite; a latte socialist with two tongues.

Liberal MayDion-Taliban Jack; the two-headed socialists; siamese twins.
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Liberals want troop pullout by 2009

OTTAWA (CP) - The federal Liberals plan to introduce a motion today asking that Canadian troops be withdrawn from combat in Afghanistan on schedule in February 2009. But it'll have a tough time staying alive as it won't be backed by the New Democrats, who have long opposed the war. Dismissing the motion, NDP Leader Jack Layton said his party wants an immediate withdrawal of the troops. He said they are not willing to wait two more years for an end to Canadian involvement in the war-torn country, which began in 2002 and has so far claimed the lives of...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819896/posts

While UNICEF, an UN organization, wants/believes troops will need to be in A'stan for at least 20 years in order to fulfil the destiny.

So, Jack, who do you really love? Can't be the UN...

In his latest entry in his Conrad Black trial blog, Mark Steyn imputes that the prosecution is hung up on a complex corporate structure, and that the bordeom surrounding the trial is reflective of the weakness of the prosecution's case. He repeats his hunch that the real theory of the prosecution is, "Governor Thompson and all the other bigshot American A-list heavyweights were duped by a handful of cunning Canadian non-entities."

What's interesting about this argument is that it's one of the few times that a pro-market Canadian conservative has worked America-skepticism into a line of argumentation. If America becomes openly protectionist again, the use of it will increase markedly.

I highly recommend Mandel-Campbell's book. I bought it at the Frontier Centre luncheon and I'm about 1/3 of the way through it. It goes into a lot more than supply management and the CWB, and makes for a very damning indictment of the attitudes of mainstream Canadian business and the collectivist outlook that dominates public policy in this country. It's holding back our economic progress tremendously.

Good News for Alberta - one of our first elected Senators, Bert Brown, has finally been appointed by the Prime Minister. Hopefully this bodes well for all of Canada in the future as the PM has indicated he will look at the picks of ANY Prov. in future.

One wanders, did the correct people get the cabinet posts. Today, sometimes appearance does not correspond to the plumbing.
Have Charest had them checked up at the local clinic?

Key words:

AdScam Martin; ex-Unity Minister AdScam MayDion.

What a lovely bunch of coconuts; ducks all lined up in a row: Librano$.

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"Still, the trial is expected to be full of political intrigue involving Basi and Virk, and their dealings with high-level B.C. federal Liberals tied to former prime minister Paul Martin and current leader Stephane Dion."

Former government aides go on trial
Dave Basi and Bob Virk were charged after police seized documents in raid on legislature

Neal Hall
CanWest News Service

Friday, April 06, 2007 [...]

http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=36f8681b-0a2d-40a7-a921-08c1496087f1

I'm sort of like Can. Sentinel. I just thought it meant that the cabinet was full of transgenders...(not that there's anything wrong with that). One has to add that now, you know.

re the liberal lying ad, at least the conservatives used the truth. Liberals saying truthful things about dion. Isn't that the conference where dithers interuppted his campaign for a photo op with clinton. Didn't ambrose attend the same un conference later, and also received the Fossil Award. This ad just shows that the TRUTH is a word that is not in the liberal vocabulary. Are there people so backward that they didn't know that within minutes cdns would discover how bad they were lying, trying to make dion look like a leader. At least he has the strength to pound a gavel showing his leadership if finished.

New Orleans Drive your SUV, Now I know why Gore burns 30k in electricity....

He's actually doing it to be a nice guy.

there will be less hurricanes and they will be weaker

Want to know more?
http://marginalizedactiondinosaur.net/?p=167

and so...... another "retired" terrorist is allowed to remain in Canada. Two more alleged terrorists under security warrants were recently released into into household custody. Apparently Canada is the only country in the world that allow s refugees to obtain citizenship.

Is it to much to expect that while focusing on all things green, there would have been and should still be mammoth efforts to get our Immigration/Citizenship/Refugee/Heritage files under control.

Anytime the federal government makes a little headway - it seems some politically appointed Liberal judge - or worse yet some patronage appointed IRB adjudicator - makes some inane ruling that sets out country back. These are the areas that somehow must have a housecleaning

Check out today's Edmonton Journal (Thurs)

It seems Arar is now on a speaking tour - to a "packed" house in the Windspeare (concert hall) in Edmonton last night. Packed being ????? Smiling these days must be wonderful with $12 B in the pocket.

Interestingly, he mentioned that his 10 year old daughter is now wearing the hijab and he wonders what happens if she starts playing soccer. CAIR-Can continues on its long term quest.

ooops, my bad. Above should be $12M

CC; I noticed that the other day too. Would have fw to Kate but Edmonton Journal makes it impossible to cut from digital ed.. I think it would be interesting to be a fly on the wall. Tickets are cheap enough, but... I wonder where the proceeds, if any, will go?

Half man, half women headline changed to:

"Women fill half of cabinet in Quebec"

Are they insinuating that the women are fat?

Now my bad, thought that event was still to come.

"Hear that? Canadians are so lacking in energy, creativity and brilliance that we need to import it from abroad! Because - according to Red Brian - ONLY immigrants can provide this for Canada, not Canadians."

The Star recently reported that immigrants are costing Canadians $5 billion a year in welfare, settlement, etc. Considering that various Muslim organisation claim that since 911 their numbers have more than doubled in Canada, one would have to assume that a lot of these immigrants are Muslim and on welfare. Nowhere in the world are Muslims as a whole a productive people. Most Islamic countries cannot feed their people. To claim that they "provide us with the energy, creativity and brilliance needed to sustain and enhance our role as an admired and influential nation through the next millennium" is an absolute lie.

In fact, as reported in Britain, many Muslim males are jacking the system illegally by accruing benefits and welfare through many wives.

One way or another, they feel they are entitled to their jizya (not to mention our country) and bear no qualms in manipulating the system to get it.

Further, to add to another post, Canada is developing its own Muslim no go ghettos. Thorncliffe Park in Toronto is an area becoming like that. One resident was recently granted money from the city to create an Islamic radio station catering to the area and residents.

I'm sure the right type of immigrants can help Canada prosper. However, continuing with the current Liberal (hidden agenda) immigration policy, the opposite will be true.

I'm reminded of an old saw - allow the Muslim to immigrate and breed in your country and they'll make a desert of it, as surely as they have their own.

Why Mexicans Don't drink Molson's?
What a teaser of a question! Like WLMR I agree it's because they don;t have much choice. I can say that you'd be unlikely to see visiting Mexicans here in Canada that would even consider ordering any of their cervesas!!

The Better Question is WHY doe we have restrictions on the transport and sale of beverages across Provincial boundaries?? The short answer is that this began as a way of the old BIG breweries to protect their local market share.

WHY are we still enforcing these antiquated laws?
1- Too many numb skull politicians who think interfering in a free market is OK!

2- Big Brewness still benefits by keeping new independent competitors OUT.

If we got rid of those ridiculous protectionist laws that limit and restrict the flow of legal goods INSIDE our own Nation we would be taking a giant step forward in strengthening our own Free Market economy!

Half Men, Half Women in historic Queer Bake Cabinet

/there, fixed that.

Svend Robinson is moving to France!!

Why Mexicans don't drink Molson? Why should they, I wouldn't drink it either - it's garbage as is the other large Canadian brewer's product. It's craft beers all the way or high quality imports (and not Corona).

The religion of peace marches on with more "isolated incidents" of abhorrent violence.

From CTV news "Police detained five more suspects Thursday in the deaths of three men who were found with their throats slit in a publishing house that prints Bibles, the latest in a string of attacks targeting Christians in the mostly Muslim country."

From AP: "MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The heads of seven men who were kidnapped by Muslim extremists on a volatile southern island were delivered to a Philippine army detachment on Thursday."

Afghan Motion Not A Confidence Vote

Yesterday, CBC was reporting [...] that the Liberals would be introducing a Motion Thursday (today) to limit the Afghanistan mission to the 2009 extension date. ...-
(jack's newswatch)
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Fox | Clash, Airstrike Leave 24 Taliban Dead in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces clashed with Taliban fighters and called in an airstrike in southern Afghanistan, leaving 24 suspected militants dead and two coalition soldiers wounded, the coalition said Thursday. ...-
(jack's newswatch)

Blazer, most deadly.

The Chevrolet Blazer (not to be confused with the Trailblazer) continues to statistically be the most deadly vehicle on the road.

Looking at statistics from 2002 through 2005, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that drivers of two-door, 2WD Chevy Blazers built from 2001 to 2004 had 232 drive deaths per million registered vehicles. The average number of deaths in the same time period was 79 deaths per million.

In General Motors' defense, spokesman Alan Adler said this in the Associated Press article, *The study doesn't really take into account driver behavior or how the vehicles are used so it's difficult to really draw much significance.*

Which, coincidentally, is pretty much exactly what he said in 2005, when the Blazer was first named the deadliest vehicle on the road.
===== Autoblog.com

Not GMs fault because . . .
Maucho Ballcaps prefer to bomb about in Blazers? Huummm. .

Centre of gravity looks pretty high to me. = TG

Where are/is PeaceGreen? Idgette Bardot is long gone back to Fwance. But, didn't the ice disappear/melt?
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Icebreakers Race To Save Seal Ships

Canadian Coastguard icebreakers are smashing through a massive expanse of pack ice to try to free about 100 sealing vessels stuck off Newfoundland's northeast coast. According to officials about 15 vessels are in danger of having ice pierce their hulls....-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820012/posts

Irwin D

Since the late '80s, In AB we have basically outsourced our elementary/Secondary schools to private and or charter schools. Many of our brightest and best are either in or moving toward these schools.

Of course English is a major thrust in these schools, but the other language/culture might be any one of many others and not likely French. (more likely to be Spanish). Parents of students in these schools are much more able financially to contribute to programming extras than are parents of children with the public sector. The AB gov't allows the dollars paid per student to follow the student as well now (this was not always the case).

A question emerges. Just who is holding the mortgage and these charter/private schools - particularly the new ones. Not likely the money is coming form individual/small business donations.

The federal government is probably providing funds - likely under the new thrust of Law S-3 - to provide the building of new Francophone schools in AB - to wit Brooks, Airdrie, Edmonton, Grande Prairie and more likely coming. Most of the teachers will come in from QC, with perhaps a few locally trained teachers. The influence will be Quebecois, not likely Francaise Standard.

The net result of all of this is that the Public Schools in AB are going downhill - rampant disrepair, generally lessening of academic standards, and facing burgeoning costs in the areas of ESL and Special Needs and increasing geometrically.

Our Universities/Colleges are focusing on bringing in foreign students as opposed to ensuring places for out own. They would rather bring in a 3.9 foreign student in the Faculty of Business rather than allow entry to one of our own who may "only have" and Grade 12 average of 80%. The latter is perfectly capable of handling the program but will never get the chance. Not to be forgotten is that the secondary institutions get about 3 times the tuition of a local as well as all of the dollars spent by foreign students who for the most part spend a lot more on "living" than do the locals.

And then the post secondary mouthpieces wring their hands and claim they cannot find local expertise and therefore must go offshore for instructors - particularly husband and wife teams. No small wonder.

We should be addressing the whys of it all locally rather than taking the seemingly easy way out and importing academics/skilled workers of any type.

"Half men, half women"

...where does the Abominable Snowman fit in here?

...abominable snowperson?

Ontario's Liberal premier, Mercury McGuinty, needs therapy; shock therapy.
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A few watts short of an idea

Ontario move to outlaw light bulb short-sighted
Terence Corcoran, National Post

After years of failure in giving light bulbs away, the Ontario Liberals have come up with another dim bulb idea. If free won't work, then maybe a gun will. By 2012, the province said yesterday, Ontario will "ban" the sale of inefficient household light bulbs and force the replacement of all 87 million existing bulbs in every home with new energy efficient models.

On the way out are the old incandescent bulbs, the warmglow ones consumers like, to make way for the new compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs, the ones that turn your living room into the lighting equivalent of Wong's Kirkland Lake Chinese Food Restaurant, circa 1950, the ones you can't read by, the ones governments can't even give away.

It should be no surprise that this "green" policy comes with the enthusiastic support of lightbulb makers. General Electric is on board, following a global trend as the world's bulb distributors and manufacturers eye a bazillion- dollar market-expansion bonanza. It's hard to tell who's pushing this bandwagon the hardest, green activists or corporate plunderers eager to cash in on the easiest sell in the world, a government mandate that forces everyone to buy your product.

Arm in arm with green activists, the industry has managed to get Australia, California, New Jersey, Europe, Venezuala and other states to set about replacing upwards of five billion old bulbs with new ones by varying deadlines, ranging from 2008 to 2012.

These are all election ploys by politicians, so I predict these deadlines will not hold, or if governments do try to enforce them, the world is about to crash into a global light-bulb shortage.

Here's why: ...-
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=38b2e5d7-b7a2-4e07-a1ab-a4692b714002

Fwance not completely hopeless.
10,000 EVs for postal service. When Iran pulls next stunt in strats of Hormuz and there*s no gas. You still get your mail.

How many electric vehicles does $79 million buy? If you're buying from Zap! (maker of the Xebra, the black car above), it's probably around 8,000.

Zap! isn't saying how many vehicles exactly are involved in the massive deal they announced yesterday, but suffice it to say it's pretty big news.

Just as big - or perhaps a bit bigger - was the announcement of 10,000 EVs that will soon join the French postal service fleet. The electric car revolution is coming.
===== Autoblog.com

And just in time too! = TG

and it just keeps going

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/04/19/btsc.koinange.zimbabwe/index.html

Islam: a religious cult of Human Sacrifice: Death.
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Religion of Peace Strikes Again in Philippines

They kidnap seven men, hack off their heads, and send the heads to the Philippine government in sacks—and Reuters still won’t call them “terrorists:” Muslim militants behead 7 captives in Philippines.

OLO, Philippines (Reuters) - Muslim extremists decapitated seven men they were holding hostage on the southern Philippine island of Jolo and sent the heads in sacks to two army detachments, the military said on Thursday. ...-

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

Calgary Clipper FYI - funding of AB Charter Schools- same as public - per student provided by Province. Buildings leased from local boards, usually old schools. Apparently board must provide space, no guarantee on quality. This is a very good video I found on web if you or anyone else are interested, it answers alot of Q's.(http://www.fcpp.org/main/media_file_wm.php?StreamID=369)

Speaking as a parent who just lived with a month long strike, I wish there was more choice in our area.

Just another "isolated incident" for the religion of peace. Nothing to see here... move along.

"CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida-led Iraqi insurgents issued a video Thursday purporting to show the killing of 20 kidnapped Iraqi police and soldiers, each shot in the head as they knelt in a row."

You see it wasn't "terrorists", "Muslim extremists" or even "Non-Judeo-Christian radicals". It was those damned "Iraqi insurgents"

The Economist's columnist covering the United States, "Lexington," has a column entitled "Sidelined by reality...The neocons are suffering one humiliation after another." It's just hit the Web.

Whether you like this magazine or not, or whether or not you've been alienated by it, The Economist still carries some weight. The message may be unpleasant for some, but it seems to be accurate with respect to today's political winds in the U.S.

http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9043308

The islamofascist students and our insanely PC campuses:

http://www.startribune.com/191/story/1130134.html

Nuts.

No Sense of Justice in Ontario!

"Ontario police officers file $7.1M lawsuit against Caledonia protest organizer...
OPP Officers launching Suit against Garry McHale "

Apparently our courts are going to allow the civil servants (police) to undertake retribution against citizens who complain about those public employees failure to do their jobs!!

A sane POV on immigration from an immigrant:

At Lawrence Auster’s blog, an Indian living in the West writes:

“They say that all ‘rich nations’ will face mass immigration. But, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and even Malaysia are also rich nations. Immigration to those countries is close to zero. I think that immigration is matter of government policy and national will. If the will is there, you can have zero immigration or limited immigration. But there isn’t the will to do anything about immigration in the West. Instead they sit and wring their hands. (…) If there was ever a picture of a society that has been completely finished, this is it. You don’t have to discriminate on racial grounds or religious grounds, just reduce the annual quota to 1000 or 10000. Nothing illiberal about that. But they cannot contemplate even that! Westerners amuse me. Even the worst cowards in the so-called ‘third world’ have more spine than this.

Neither is the west responsible for over-population, fascism, sharia, violence, humanitarian crisis, hate, bigotry and all the resulting problems they've largely brought on themselves. They created these states, they can fix them. And I for one feel no guilt.

In fact, I'd wager there's an argument to be made between cutting immigration from certain countries and a corresponding reduction in CO2 emissions. Heh.

Baird says Kyoto would lead to economic collapse
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070419/kyoto_senate_070419/20070419?hub=Canada
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Kyoto has been put down/bammed by MayDion. Funeral arrangements to follow. Send donations, in brown envelopes, cash only to: Kyoto Memorial Fund, c/o Gag Gagliano, Bookkeepers, Po Box 13 Versase, Bigga Italia, Montreal, PQ. $$$$

The Red-Green Shew: Today's episode: A Party Divided Against Itself; The Schizo Party; Me-Me and May.

Cue theme song:

It's Red, Red, It's Red they say, on the far side of the Green ,,,
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Local Green proposes deal with Grits

To run a candidate or not to run a candidate? That is the question local members of the Green party will vote on next month in St. Catharines.

Former Green party candidate and St. Catharines riding communications director Jim Fannon said Wednesday he will ask local Greens at an upcoming meeting to pass a resolution declaring they will not field a candidate in the next federal election.

“I think this is the kind of motion that will show this is not politics as usual, and that the Green party does do things differently,” Fannon said. “Canadians have recently elected two minority governments. They want parities working together, and that is what this is all about.”

For Fannon, that co-operation could come in the form of local Greens throwing their support behind St. Catharines Liberal candidate and former MP Walt Lastewka, in an effort to defeat incumbent Conservative Rick Dykstra. ...-
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=492120&catname=Local+News&classif=News+Live

Just released. The newest BMW. The BMW CS. Tho mosr elegant of today*s modern cars.

Photos - click TG below = TG

Excitement causes typos.. TG

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And on the third day, she rose again... The Angry Reporter is back.
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Hmmm... nothing like a blatant fallacy, following on the heels of a sweeping generalisation.

I guess you can take the reporter out of the CBC, but...

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Someone over at dust my broom, in the comments re the new lib ad, referred to dion doing an imitation of judge judy, with the gavel. Does anyone have any photos of previous conferences organized by the UN on the environment, where the chairman had the word President in front of them. I thought the proper title was Chairman. Didn't Ambrose chair one such conference. If such a pic is out there it has to be posted, to show how the liberals distort the truth.

Has this been seen/heard in Canada's MSM: CBC, CTV, Toronto Star, Montreal Gazette, Global TV, Van Sun, Win Free Press, etc.?

Islam: a religious cult of beatings: Death.
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Islamic Fanatics Beat Journo in Canada

A journalist for the Mississauga, Ont.-based newspaper The Pakistan Post was assaulted by two men, one armed with a cricket bat, who warned him to stop "writing against Islam" and a Pakistan-based religious organization, the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) reported Thursday.

Journalist Jawaad Faizi was attacked on the evening of April 17 while sitting in his car outside the home of the newspaper's editor, Amir Arain. The two men smashed the car windows, and repeatedly hit Faizi. They fled when they saw him call 911 on his cell phone.

During the attack, Faizi said, the men told him to stop writing critically of the religious organization Idara Minhaj-ul-Quran and its leader, Cleric Allama Tahir-Ul-Qadri. Allama Tahir-Ul-Qadri is a frequent visitor to Canada, CJFE said.

The attack followed telephoned threats to Faizi and Arain. The night before the attack, the two filed a complaint with the police, also reporting threats they received in January. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820248/posts

A good blog to read about baby boomers:

http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/

The traditional Seal Hunt is a well-run, economic boon to those who take part, eh? To keep'em off pogey, and all that, eh!

"...Since being stranded, many of the fishermen have angrily denounced the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for decisions they claim led to their predicament.

They said the department should have waited for the ice to clear before allowing the seal hunt. The hunt had only been postponed by one day.

Newfoundland Liberal MP Gerry Byrne demanded Thursday that the federal government extend Employment Insurance benefits for sealers who couldn’t take part in the fishery due to ice conditions..."

http://tinyurl.com/2vmuqt

From the other side, cont'd.
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Abortion Activist Called Canada’s Mother Teresa

To be published in the May 2007 issue of the The Interim It was perhaps appropriate that those paragons of the leftist media establishment in Canada, the Toronto Star newspaper and the CBC, would christen as a “secular saint” a woman who stood solidly for such “sacraments” of the left as abortion and homosexuality. However, for those aware of those aspects of June Callwood’s history and her identification as one of the who’s who of Canada’s left, it was striking that The Star, the National Post and others conspicuously omitted mentioning her abortion and gay rights activism in their numerous...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820322/posts

As I Please

Lorne Gunter

Finally, something I agree with from John Baird

John Baird, the federal environment minister who replaced the hapless Rona Ambrose in January, has done exactly what he was appointed to do -- neutralize the environment as an issue in the upcoming election.

Baird has been extremely good at his job, often sounding greener than the greenest Liberals and New Democrats. That, however, has made him a great disappointment to those who think the whole global warming scare is misguided.

I have often cringed at Baird's "green" pronouncements, but have take a tiny bit of solace in the presumption that he doesn't really mean what he says, or at the very least doesn't mean the same things Dion/Suzuki/Elizabeth May mean when they use the same words.

Stephane Dion and the Liberals decided earlier this year to put all their electoral eggs in one basket -- the environment -- and Baird has succeeded in snatching away many of those eggs....-
http://communities.canada.com/nationalpost/blogs/gunter/default.aspx

WLMR, if your version of Mexican beer is Corona then you and your taste buds have been swindled as much as the Canadians who think their Molson or Labatts is anything more than a generic blah brewed in the image of Bud, Coors and Duff Beers. That is why micro brewers are making a killing now. Serious beer drinkers are realizing taste does make a difference. And btw, I enjoy a slice of lime/lemon in my Grasshopper or any other wheat beer.

War in Sask? Grain war? Rye, oats, barley, durum, rape; who is dumping what? ...-

Richardson bids to buy out Agricore in grain war

MSN Money - 9 hours ago
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Privately held James Richardson International Ltd. offered to buy out Agricore United , Canada's largest grain company, on Thursday with a friendly all-cash bid of C$19.25 a share. ...-

Physicists bid farewell to reality?

Quantum mechanics just got even stranger.[...]

Instead, what we see may depend on how we look.

This notion has been around ever since the advent of quantum mechanics in the early twentieth century....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820354/posts
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But, Heraclitus said long before: Flux; logos (word). John said: In the beginning was the Word ...

Heraclitus of Ephesus (about 535-475 BCE) assumed as the principle of substance aetherial fire. From fire all things originate, and return to it again by a never-resting process of development. All things, therefore, are in a perpetual flux. However, this perpetual flux is structured by logos-- which most basically means 'word,' but can also designate 'argument,' 'logic,' or 'reason' more generally. The logos which structures the human soul mirrors the logos which structures the ever-changing processes of the universe. ...-

In reply to comments on gores thread. If I recall, when Preson Manning was leader of the opposition there was talk of an allowance for clothes etc for leaders of partys. Can anyone remember the flak over this. I think there is also one for the PM. Would be great to throw this back in the medias face. Maybe it is the party that pays this. Too bad some of the money can't be used to get JVD a decent hairdo.

After spending billions of dollars for new C-17s that Canada doesn't need, and after purchasing new/used tanks at the drop of a hat, our Chief of Defence Staff is asking for financial donations for the military. Yes you too can donate money to the Canadian Forces.

Every Canadian should find this both insulting and embarrasing that our military is asking for handouts, especially after all of the retoric that the conservatives spewinged over the persieved Liberal underfunding of the military (due to the con deficit). So now the cons are running the show and have turned the military into a charitable orgaization.

Sorry, there is a military budget to take care of such things, and if there is a shortfall in cash for taking care of military families, maybe he should ask for it from Harper, not charity.

If I'm going to donate money to a cause, it'll be for some starving child or family facing a disaster in some developing country, not the military which should be taking care of it's own.

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/204269

Hillier is an embarrassment to this country and needs to go now.

"Perceived" even

Once more birdbrain39 takes dubious facts (anything from the Tor Star is dubious) and spins it into his idea of an original thought. If I didn't know better I'd say he was a lieberal speech writer.

Don't like the Toronto Star huh? Well how about Cnews? They're a part of the Redneck Sun aren't they?

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/04/17/4046013-cp.html

Why would I buy Corona, when Brewhouse is half the price and made with clean water?

Al-Quaeda Wing of Liberal Party: Chapter Friggin Three [...]

Today, the Grits waged jihad on the mission with such verve that surely had Kevin Potvin pumping his fists in the air and their newest candidate considering his next anti-western screed. Here are the highlights.

Liberal MP Colleen Baumier thought life under the Taliban was preferable to Afghanistan today:

"Under the previous U.S. backed Taliban there may have been oppression, but there was not fear for people's lives every single day because of suicide bombers."
Why mince words, Mrs. Beaumier, you are one sick pig. I guess your only problem with the military ads of 2006 was how positive a picture it paints of a Conservative government.
So, Jay Hill calls the Taliban evil and compared them to the Nazis. But manning the Taliban defenses is Hizbullah-sympathizer and Liberal MP, Denis Corderre:

"This is outrageous....How dare he say that." ...-
http://chuckercanuck.blogspot.com/

Capture a photo of Taliban-Sikh Layton in a Sikh headpiece, praying, in a Sikh temple, hands together, etc. ...-

Conservative, Liberal and NDP members of Parliament, as well as B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell, attended the event. A week after the parade, federal NDP Leader Jack Layton visited the temple that organized it.

The federal Conservatives have expressed their regret for participating in a Sikh parade that celebrated an Indo-Canadian viewed by many in Canada as a terrorist and murderer.

But other political parties continue to remain silent on their participation in the event they say was a celebration of Sikh culture.

The parade April 7 in Surrey, B.C., has enraged the Indian government and Air India families because organizers included Talwinder Parmar in their display of Sikh martyrs and saints.

Parmar, who was killed 15 years ago by the Indian police, led the 1985 Air India bomb plot which killed 331 civilians, mostly Canadians.

"I love him. He's a great man. Because he never guilty." ...-
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/04/19/parade-politicians.html

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CN rail line shut down again.

Speak OPP, speak...

Just heard a Napanee OPP constable on radio station CJBQ say that
the CN rail lands are, "the jurisdiction of the CN police".

"Whew, that was a close one guys... see you back the Tim Hortons."

No problem here... move along folks.

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Red is Green; Green is Red; (H/T George Orwell, 1984) the Red-Green Show is NoDmanParty, aka NDP.

MayDion are furiously, frumiously bandersnatching; kalloo-kallay.
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NDP urged 2004 deal, ex-Green leader says

OTTAWA–Former Green party leader Jim Harris says NDP Leader Jack Layton sought a deal with him before the 2004 federal election, so he's baffled why New Democrats are suddenly saying that it's wrong for the Greens and Liberals to co-operate in the next campaign.

"Methinks they doth protest too much," Harris said in an interview yesterday, describing a meeting he held at a College St. café in Toronto with Layton before the 2004 campaign. [...]

According to Harris, the question [from Taliban Jack-NDP] was something like: "Why don't you just not run any candidates and endorse the NDP and me?" ...-
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/205303

"She had to balance on her walking stick as she pulled out [her] .38-caliber handgun."

Love you, Venus.
(Photo in comments)
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"One tough beauty queen" Venus Ramey, 82, shoots tire, stops intruders

Friday, April 20, 2007

Venus Ramey has earned lots of fame in her 82 years.

She was Miss America 1944 and later a candidate for Cincinnati City Council and worked to save Over-the-Rhine's historic buildings. She performed on Broadway and in movies.

Now, though, she's in the news for another reason.

After confronting a man she said was stealing from her Kentucky farm, Ramey pulled out a gun and shot out a tire on his truck so he couldn't leave, allowing police to arrest him and two others.

"He was probably wetting his pants," Ramey said Thursday from her home in Waynesburg. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820798/posts