http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/09/26/afghan-protest.html

"Hundreds of enraged Afghans chanting "death to Canada" blocked a highway Wednesday following a raid by foreign troops that left two religious leaders dead."

The sound of settled science: Northernmost Lake shows signs of global warming

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070926111530.htm

"In an article to be published in the September 28 edition of Geophysical Research Letters, the international research team led by Université Laval scientists Warwick Vincent and Reinhard Pienitz reports that aquatic life in Ward Hunt Lake, a body of water located on a small island north of Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic, has undergone major transformations within the last two centuries.

The speed and range of these transformations--unprecedented in the lake's last 8,000 years--suggest that climate change related to human activity could be at the source of this phenomenon."

Send Taliban Jack Layton-NDP and Taliban Citoyen Dion to Afghanistan to negotiate/hold talks with their Taliban buddies.
...-

Aid workers abducted in Afghanistan

KABUL - Two foreigners from the International Red Cross who helped free South Korean captives last month have been kidnapped in Afghanistan after talking with militants about the release of a German hostage, officials said Thursday. ...-
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2007/09/27/4529524-ap.html

Librano$ abandon Quebec; cut'n'run.
Retreat to Ottawa. CO2 tanks/masks shipped to "war room". Kyoto's dog food from China/Mao Stlong arriving ASAP.
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Grits lease war room
The federal Liberals have leased an election war room in Ottawa, have campaign vehicles ready to go for mid-October, and are telling organizers to remain on standby for a vote this fall. ...-

Cash-strapped Quebec Liberal wing warns of closing
The Liberal Party's Quebec wing has warned Leader Stéphane Dion that it needs a quarter-million-dollar cash injection by Friday or it will have to close its Montreal office and lay off staff. ...-
(national newswatch)

Although McArdle is a AGW believer, there is a lively (and long) comments thread here:
http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/09/that_said.php#comments

From which- the blog of a 'conservative physicist'
http://motls.blogspot.com/search/label/climate

Steve, don't worry. It's only the gang over at Alert water skiing on Ward Hunt Lake.

BTW, I've been there. It is amazing the amount of junk and garbage that scientists and polar "explorers" leave up there.

The correct term is gutting the economy. It's preferred by 8 out of 10 socialist lab rats.
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The cost of Kyoto

More news emerged this week that meeting Canada’s Kyoto-mandated carbon emissions targets would cripple our economy.

While complaining that the federal government was overestimating the emissions reductions its own made-in-Canada greenhouse gas plan will produce, the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) admitted that the cost of meeting our Kyoto targets would be “considerable” if Ottawa attempted to achieve them by 2012 — the year the treaty expires. Meanwhile, Statistics Canada reported on Wednesday that almost all of our increased carbon emissions since 1990 was due to the increased production of exports. And since exports drive our prosperity and standard of living, the conclusion was inescapable: In order to reduce our greenhouse emissions, Canada would have to curtail its exports significantly, a move that would cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and make most Canadians poorer. ...-
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=4e72d715-fb91-4759-bfd2-60e63dc6b446

maybe Danny Whine for Wine Williams will find himself in court too.

http://ctv2.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070927.wrhibernia27/business/Business/businessBN/ctv-business

Are any questions ever asked...simple questions like how efficient is the cost of heating this (ugly) place?
Check out Steve Janke's info on where our health care premium (the so-called non-tax) was spent in beautiful downtown Tranna, COTU.

The light of civilization's well wasted time...
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Halo3/Nightmap.ashx

TC....been there also.Some of the best Arctic Char fishing going. Oh.And Steve.Guess what? I have a piece of petrified wood that I found just outside Eureka! Guess GWBush planted it there!

If workers need to do urine tests why not,... Welfare bums?

Do you think Ottawa should approve applications ………….. to set up so-called sharia banks that would operate within the structures of Islamic law?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/

Taking the yellow ribbon off the old oak tree and everywhere else.

"Let's face it: Leftie girls are easy,"
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2007/09/27/2007-09-27_singles_will_check_out_eligible_candidat-2.html

Sharia Banks -Sharia Law.

how could you shake hands on a deal when most bankers would have one hand cut off already?

Anybody keeping tabs on the situation in Burma, or have we decided to bypass that completely?

It's hardly shocking to us, of course, but it's still appalling how amazingly useless the United Nations is. Wasn't it created for situations exactly like this?

Sharia bulls#$%. There should never be any law with the word "sharia" written into it in this country. It stands for the mutilation and degradation of women, period, end of story. If anyone wants anything to do with sharia, pack your bags and head back to the cesspool you came from.

Another unbelievable insult to the memory of 9/11 victims .... A
Betrayal Blogburst .... is being promoted...

What would you think if a Vimy Ridge memorial were laid out in the form of an Iron Cross? Or if you home town cenotaph featured swastikas?

Well the planners for the Flight #93 crash site memorial have designed an Islamic Crescent complete with orientation to Mecca.... and they are going ahead in spite of protests and complaints....The MSM is SILENT on the issue!

For what it's worth here is my prediction if a fall election is held:

Conservatives GAIN enough seats for a majority
NDP also GAINS
Greens will elect their first member
Both the Liberals and Bloc wiil LOSE seats

I sent this prediction to the four current leaders of their parties in Parliament. The Liberals responded with a typical auto reply.

What does everyone think of these predictions or "guesses?"

could sharia banks refuse to do loans to joos?

what would jack layton say?

Dan, completely agree with everything except for the Greens electing an MP part. Could you tell me which riding you think will go Green?

Remember the Canadian media pushing the story that last months credit crunch fiasco was a US made problem ??

[Canadian banks are struggling to contain a credit crisis that could spiral out of control here more than it has elsewhere because of a lax regulatory regime, sources have told the National Post.] Nat Post

[The crisis relates to the market for a complex type of short-term funding known as asset backed commercial paper (ABCP), which had grown out of proportion in this country partly thanks to Canadian rules that were not as tough as in other nations.] Nat Post

[HOW IT WORKS - A bank packages a collection of mortgages, credit card balances, or lines of credit into an ABCP that matures in 30 days. - The bank sells ABCP for a fee to an intermediary that assumes all the risk associated with the underlying assets. - The intermediary sells pieces of the ABCP to investors, including pension funds or corporations or individuals. - Investors are paid interest and assume there will be a buyer for their piece of the ABCP after 30 days. - For a fee, the bank supplies funds to buy the ABCP if there are no other buyers - in Canada, this feature did not work in August when investors could not find a buyer.]

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=3f92dc01-2dce-41a1-8035-358121a6725a

Hi Eugene

I took a quick look at the 2006 results in the province to the "left" of us and in West Vancouver-Garibaldi and Powell River Sunshine, the "Greens" garnered about 25% of the vote. They may do better because of May.

May really is inconsequential. Take a look at the Quebec by-elections and see where the green vote went.
Add in her recent hip replacement and see how mobile she will be during an election.
The more I see of her, the more annoying she gets. Federal politics already has Jack Layton for the annoying factor.
enough

There is a HUGE difference in "Green" brands.

The Suzuki/May Green is nothing compared to the quality of a Patrick Moore Green. Comparing rotten apples to apples.

PMSH and Flaherty announcing huge surplus and debt reduction. Canada is back!!
CTV

Bluetech
You must have gotten that news from a source other than "Canada's National Broadcaster" because CBCPravda has NOTHING relating to it whatsoever! I read it on CTV and confirmed it on the G&M websites.

Rosie O':

On one episode of "The View," O'Donnell urged Americans not to fear so-called terrorists, calling them mothers and fathers.

"Faith or fear, that's your choice," she said. "You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking."

"Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers," stated O’Donnell.

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Sums up leftard feelings.

PM Harper & Finance Mininster just announced $$14 Billion surplus.
Interesting note C-News is stating that the PM left abruptly after the annoucement & has left the finance minister to field questions.
Do you think the G&M,Star will have a field day with that one and of course the we have the typical on the comments section Re:Surplus at the G&M. The Surplus is thanks to the fine work of former PM & finance Minister Martin,(Ya right).

You could file this under "No Sh*t Sherlock!" !

WASHINGTON - A U.S. government report says more than three times as many black people live in prison cells as in college dorms.

Stephen Harper in October 2004, when Ralph Goodale announced a larger-than-expected surplus:

"These guys were lying about the surplus, and this proves why we need independent fiscal forecasts," said Conservative Leader Stephen Harper.

If the Liberals were lying in 2004, what have the Conservatives been doing in 2007?

"An Iranian resistance group claimed on Thursday that Iran is constructing a secret, new underground military nuclear facility near its Natanz uranium enrichment plant."

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1189411498550&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

No comment from the IAEA.

According to the governments of the United States and Canada, the 'resistance group,' known as the 'National Council of Resistance of Iran' is a terrorist organization.

I wonder why the Jerusalem Post refers to them as a 'resistance group' and an 'opposition group.'

Perhaps to distinguish them from the terrorist government of the Islamic Republic of Iran?

The economic announcement from Ottawa was put on the newswires by CP ..... CBC requires time to figure out how they can spin it as liberal success and/or Conservative under achievement....

I don't believe that either Harper claims credit for this .... but assures that the benefits will be passed on to taxpayers!
Guaranteed to make Leftard heads explode! :)

OF COURSE ... CP press release on Ottawa economic announcement MUST end with NDP policy comment/talking point!

CP Press Release

Naturally! :(

USAF Photo of the Day: I Am The AC-130 Gunship -- Drop ALL Your Weapons Right Now!

2007 September 14, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, USA: U.S. Air Force AC-130 Gunship drops flares and chaff during the firepower demonstration. Much larger photo.

The Photographer
Mr. Lawrence Crespo, 99th Communications Squadron, United States Air Force ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903062/posts

Re:Shari’a banking

"While the outside world hardly noticed, a significant and rapidly growing amount of money is now being managed in accord with Islamic law, the Shari'a. According to one study, "by the end of 2005, more than 300 institutions in over 65 jurisdictions were managing assets worth around US$700 billion to US$1 trillion in a Shari'ah-compatible manner."

Daniel Pipes, Islamic economics: what does it mean?

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1189411491899&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

C-News via National Newswatch is reporting that the "Grits Have Leased a WarRoom" they have cars rented every thing in the ready to go mode in case of a fall election.
The Question is, the Liberals have money for a War Room, Yet the Quebec Ring says it needs $250Million by weeks end or its doors will close & staff will not be paid.
So where is the money coming from to be in standby if the Liberals are so cash strapped, Last spring they could not even Lease a Plane, & the Quebec wing is pleading for money.
Have they found the missing monies?

Kyoto Rose Citoyen Dion has died; has become a relic; a fossil; a dinosaur; Tyrannyosaurus Socialismus Bammed.
Fossil Dion can be seen at the Louvre, Paris. It is dimly hung between The Urinal by alby and the Mutton Chop by Warishell. It's protected by a 3-headed bust of Cerberus.
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Knocking Kyoto off its perch
Peter Foster, Financial Post
Published: Thursday, September 27, 2007

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is being roundly criticized by the usual suspects -- political opponents, radical environmentalists and Olympian editorialists -- for committing to join the "anti-Kyoto" Asia-Pacific Partnership. But for Canada to continue to embrace Kyoto is like a swimmer embracing lead weights.

In his speech on Monday at the United Nations, as part of a desperate "High Level" shindig to keep the moribund Kyoto process nailed to its perch, he didn't even mention the "K" word. Instead, he said that there was "an emerging consensus on the need for a new, effective and flexible climate change framework." In other words, Anything But Kyoto.

Kyoto is an abject failure. Its signatories do not include the United States. It does not substantially address the fastest-growing emitters, China and India. And its mechanisms -- primarily emissions trading -- are in disarray. So Canada is set to join the United States, China and India, along with Australia, Japan and Korea, in the Partnership created last year to deal with "Clean Development and Climate." Today and tomorrow Environment Minister John Baird will attend a meeting of the Asia-Pacific partners, and nine other countries, hosted by President George W. Bush in Washington. Canada will becme a full member next month at a meeting in New Delhi.

The central nonsense of Kyoto has always been the radical disconnect between its draconian political ambitions, its economic costs and its predicted climate results. It cannot be stressed enough that the protocol, even if all the signatories had met their targets, would have produced a minuscule impact on global temperatures by the year 2100, along with a totally unpredictable impact on climate. Kyoto was only ever designed to be one, tiny step in a series of more and more draconian measures that would literally have covered the world with a thick layer of bureaucratic edict. All to address a problem that is still far from clearly understood. ...-
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html?id=1316f209-80c9-43e6-b1a9-9b44744a6a6b

Health conscious terrorists enjoy life on Canada's left coast.

"The photo taken at an organic herb farm in D'Arcy, B.C., shows three Spanish men and their wives relaxing in a garden on plastic lawn chairs, their coffee mugs perched on a round patio table.

It looks unexceptional, but it isn't. When the RCMP found the snapshot during a recent raid in Vancouver, they identified the men as Ivan Apaolaza Sancho, Victor Tejedor Bilbao and Mario Ines Torres -- all wanted terrorists.

http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=1bf098f3-aff0-4248-b3f7-5bbc59b91091&k=37164

: 13:15 27Sep07 RTRS-CANADA QUARANTINES LARGE CHICKEN FARM AT REGINA BEACH, SASKATCHEWAN-CBC RADIO
13:16 27Sep07 RTRS-CANADA CHICKEN FARM OWNER TELLS CBC RADIO QUARANTINE SITUATION IS VERY SERIOUS
13:17 27Sep07 RTRS-CANADA FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY TO HOLD BRIEFING ON POULTRY QUARANTINE AT 1:30 P.M. EDT (1730 GMT)

Re:Shari’a banking
Since charging or receiving interest is forbidden in Islam they have developed interesting sleight of hand techniques to avoid dealing with “interest”.
Need money to buy $50,000 car? The bank will buy the car and sell it to you for $55,000 and you repay this amount over a set period of time. The bank retains ownership until payment is complete. The $5000.00 to the bank is considered a legitimate service charge.

Their understanding of and importance of “truth” is quite different from Northern European based cultures.

Hey, why do we let so many uptight fundie Indians immigrate to Canada, anyway? Say yes to diversity and teh sex and no to Indian immigration!

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Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty has been arrested in India over an on-stage kiss with the Hollywood actor Richard Gere.

Shilpa Shetty and Richard Gere provoke fury with on-stage kiss
The kiss took place during an Aids-awareness rally

The Celebrity Big Brother winner was in tears when she was held at Mumbai Airport on her way to the opening of the Miss Bollywood musical in Germany.

Gere, 58, caused an outcry by grabbing Shetty, 32, and swept her backwards and kissed her at an Aids-awareness in New Delhi earlier this year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/27/wshilpa127.xml

Addition to what muttrus posted - Wanted ETA terrorist appears in National Film Board of Canada documentary and played in a flamenco band appearing in Vancouver.

http://www.dustmybroom.com/?p=7767

"this is pathetic" a good post to read over at Instapundit by Mark Steyn.More privilege for some again.

Hot off the presses at Research and Development Corporation:

Byting Back -- Regaining Information Superiority Against 21st-Century Insurgents

RAND Counterinsurgency Study -- Volume 1

Full document or summary (both in PDF format) available at:

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG595.1/

"this is pathetic" a good post to read over at Instapundit by Mark Steyn.More privilege for some again.

Dhimmitude in Vancouver.....

Vancouver's hookah-parlour owners are celebrating after winning an exemption Thursday from a proposed new bylaw that will ban smoking on most sidewalks in commercial districts, in bus shelters and even in taxis passing through Vancouver.

In giving the bylaw unanimous approval-in-principle, Vancouver city council members bowed to arguments that hookah lounges provide an important cultural space for the city's Muslims and granted them a temporary exemption...

"Among the dead was journalist Kenji Nagai of the Japanese video news agency APF News. Japanese broadcaster Fuji posted a photo on its Web site showing a man believed to be Nagai lying on his back — apparently wounded in the chest but holding a video camera in his hand — with a soldier pointing a gun at him at point-blank range."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070927.wmyanmar0927/BNStory/International/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

Growing the Liberal Lexicon

Stephane Dion came out swinging today when talking about the Throne Speech. Here's his daisy-cutter-sized zinger:

"This hidden agenda will be stopped"

Wow. Hidden Agenda. That's fresher than the apples on the slopes of Oka. And it got me thinking, there's a whole slew of expressions that Stephane Dion should resurrect to keep his rhetoric young and punchy. So, here's my contribution....

Bling-Bling. Don't call it a surplus, call it "bling-bling". As in, "you know, a Liberal government would know exactly how to spend all that bling-bling."

Hammer Time. ...
Not. ... etc
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https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17821047&postID=6189334779889385941

Springer said: "Listening to Dion today, as he waved pages from Tom Flanigan's book, crying "dis is prooof of 'arper's 'idden hagenda!"

"Excuse my french but, ..."

Jason say: Libs clackup over at Mao Stlong's Foo-Carroll place. One clack? Two clacks? Dion clacky?
...-

Liberal blogger demands Stephane Dion denounce Jamie Carroll's Chinese crack

http://stevejanke.com/archives/241909.php

Tali Jack claims the Surplus is undemocratic Lookout another threat to Take the Government Down.

OMMAG posted on the Flight 93 Crescent of Betrayal.

This thing's not dead?!! I thought a new design had been chosen and was moving forward? WTF?

Here's a couple more links on it.
errortheory.blogspot.com
crescentofbetrayal.com This is a pre-release manuscript of a book on the subject.

This is A Big Deal for the Americans. Get going boys.

Sharia banks. Hmmmm.

So which limb do I lose if I miss a payment on the loan I took out with them?

Just wondering.

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Goldstein_Lorrie/2007/09/27/4529837.php

Folks, he's clearly a hoax
By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN

What follows is my personal expression of gratitude to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his many contributions to the field of Holocaust studies ...

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to welcome you to the opening of our three-day international conference to consider the question of whether Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad actually exists and whether his recent trip to New York ever happened.

Of course, even by raising these issues in the most scientific and objective way possible, we already know what the reaction of many of our fellow citizens will be.

They will say how dare we question whether President Ahmadinejad exists and whether his trip to New York happened, because the historical record is incontrovertible.

[...]

The King & King - queer tales for Grade 2 kids.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298307,00.html

A fairy tale about two princes falling in love sparked a backlash — and a lawsuit — against a teacher and a school last year when it was read to a second-grade class in Massachusetts.

But the three frontrunners in the Democratic presidential race suggested Wednesday night at their debate in New Hampshire that they’d support reading the controversial book to children as part of a school curriculum.

Where's SPURWING PLOVER????
Haven't heard from him in a coon's age.

Tomax.
Two fairy princes falling in love in Massachusetts? Sounds like everyday life in that state to me.

...would you let this guy operate on you?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298278,00.html

RICHMOND, Va. — A controversial leader of a U.S. Muslim group resigned from a Virginia state board hours after Gov. Tim Kaine learned during a radio call-in show about incendiary comments the appointee made about Israel, Islam and U.S. foreign policy.

Dr. Esam Omeish, who is a top surgeon at a Washington, D.C., area hospital, also is seen in videos found on YouTube.com that show him advocating "the jihad way," decrying the Israeli invasion last year of Lebanon, and calling for President Bush's impeachment.

Oh Danny Boy .... The Pipes the Pipes are caaalling...!
NAFTA LAWSUIT over the NL premier's reneging on agreements!

Consequences...............
Could cost Canadian Taxpayers Billions!

It's cracks, not clacks. Crackup, not clackup.
Citoyen Dion is cracking up.
Canadian Press, aka CP, is leading the mutiny. ...-

Liberal rift widens as members criticize Dion and a top aide

OTTAWA - Stephane Dion and his palace guard were under attack on two fronts from Quebec members of his own Liberal party on Thursday.

Several MPs and senators demanded that the Liberal leader dismiss one of his closest aides over alleged remarks about Quebec.

And a candidate who was set to run for the party called The Canadian Press without any prompting - saying he was asked to do so by a well-known Liberal - and announced he was no longer interested.

Paul Leduc, a three-term mayor of a large Montreal suburb, says that he's changed his mind about running for the Liberals and that one of the party's household names provided him with phone numbers for journalists and urged him to go public with his story.

The former Brossard mayor had been endorsed in April by the Liberals' provincial election commission to run without a contested nomination - but he said Dion kept him cooling his heels all summer.

"I never heard any news from Mr. Dion or his entourage," Leduc said.

"A leader who doesn't follow a recommendation, I call that inaction and indecision and it's a lack of respect not only for me, but also for the commission, and for members of my riding." ...-
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/09/27/4531590-cp.html

Stephane Dion is openly challenged ...-
http://stevejanke.com/archives/241937.php
(Solly. Missed this link. Steve has a lot smore.)

He comes across as hot-tempered and emotionally unstable. Not necessarily what we'd look for in a first lady.
google it

Hi Kate
Cant Post this to

Censorship At Columbia

Notice how many fewer human transported bombs have been exploded in Israeli pizza parlors since the weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq.

http://rm.angusreidforum.com/?cid=1922&rs=TSEnGG

Do you want Justin Trudeau to win a seat in Parliament?
YES 21%

NO 79%
Angus Reid Poll. It just doesn't get any better for the Liberals.......

Citoyen Dion leads the crackup.
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Confidence in Dion reaches crisis level

Chantal Hébert

Big parties are like big ships. They are designed to be virtually unsinkable but once they start taking on water they tend to go down quickly.

The listing Liberal Party of Canada is fast approaching the point of no return.

Over a bit more than a week, the cracks caused by a triple by-election hit have expanded into a gaping hole. ...-
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/261488

PM Harper as matador preparing the political kill while Citoyen Dion stands, head down, contemplating his Hobbesian choice: now, or later.

Politics is a blood sport.
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Two unpalatable choices for Dion

Before the bull dies, he bleeds.

First, the passes with the cape, then the picadors, ultimately the sword.

The matador almost always administers the coup de grace when the bull has moved out of his querencia, the place in the ring in which he has decided to make his stand. To dispatch a bull while he is still in his querencia is very dangerous work.

Even political matadors understand that principle. Sword in hand, Stephen Harper is about to tease Stephane Dion out of his comfort zone. As isolated as a doomed bull, Dion has just two choices left: Now or later. ...-
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/Columnists/Harris_Michael/2007/09/28/4532672.html