Former Quebec Cabinet Minister Marc Bellemare has launched a campaign to convince the Pope to come to Quebec City for next year's Eucharistic Congress in June.

Sign the online petition-- MORE DETAILS HERE

(I hope I did that okay. If not, my apologies).

Japan will fingerprint, photograph all visitors
FOREIGNERS

TOKYO -- Japan hopes to thwart potential terrorists from entering the country by fingerprinting and photographing ALL foreigners ages 16 and over on entry starting next month, an official said Friday.

Only some permanent residents, diplomatic visitors and children under 16 will be exempt from the measures after the system goes into effect Nov. 20, Immigration Bureau official Takumi Sato said.

Under the new system, all adults will be photographed and fingerprinted on arrival in Japan. Incoming aircraft and ship operators also will be obliged to provide passenger and crew lists before they arrive.

Resident foreigners will be required to go through the procedure every time they re-enter Japan.

Immigration officials will run the images and information through a database of international terror and crime suspects as well as against domestic crime records.

People matching the data on file will be denied entry and deported.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/623648,CST-NWS-japan28.article

Heh. Here in Canada our dear Liberals are screeching over a no fly list.

PMSH again proves himself to be in a whole different class than the Libs, and that's a rhetorical question.Libs have used QP regularly to spout off without thinking.Why would they start now?
He's playing an amazing game of chess, they are playing tiddly winks.

"Did Yamamoto really deserve what he got? Yes - and so did HIroshima. Next question?"

In this article some Japs are complaining that Tibbets never apologised and I don't blame him.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jtiRIugG8rWA_QO_4Je92Tc3s9Vg

Considering all the war crimes these bastards commited against allied prisoners, and all the comfort women they rounded up, none of which they have apologised for, Why the hell should anyone apologise to them?
Their PM still visits a war shrine that also commemorates war criminals, and they have tried to rewrite their war history school books.

What happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki was necessary to stop them and save more lives. Thats war, and those bastards started it.

I agree 100% with pissedoff. I have friends who say the bomb should not have been dropped.

right.

how many American lives would have been lost on a Normandy style raid on Japan and the following ground attack?

I hate it when people use modern "war is not the answer" to WW2 questions like how to end it.

It was the easiest way to end that war.

Now.........If people could see that defeating an enemy and letting them have free will and democratic society(Japan and Germany) maybe they could take that logic to Iraq and Afganistan.

Holy smoke the world could be a better place.

"Do you REALLY want me to start investigating former Prime Ministers? You guys might want to stop and think twice about that one..."

Well now, if P.M. S-Head has dirt on some former PMs, what is he hiding? If he knows something then we as Canadians should know it too. So, time to call an inquiry or two, on both sides of the political fence if there is substance to his claims. If he has something on the Liberals then fine out with it or shut up and call an inquiry on Mulroney? He's not playing chess as bluetech claims, he's playing poker and it's time he shows us his hand.

It was the easiest way to end that war.

Right. It's also given the U.S. difficulty in upholding a moral upper ground ever since. I'm not debating... just sayin'.

Lorne Calvert Economics. As a home owner according to the NDP website I will get a 390 dollar break per year on my education property taxes. I pay 920 dollars PIT per month. A renter paying 900 dollars per month will get a 648 dollar break per year. WTF. Please show me 1 renter that has received a bill from the city for property/ education taxes. The next thing the NDP will do is give money away to people who don't work. What's that you say? They already have this, it's called WELFARE

http://calgarygrit.blogspot.com/2007/10/saskwatch.html

I used to think Calgary Grit was someone I could disagree with but still respect. Not anymore. Serge LeClerc has worked for a number of years in the Saskatoon area helping young men get off hard drugs. I'd like to see CG make those comments to the families of the people Serge has helped. That was sooo low. CG, if you're reading this, if you had any morals you'd retract that comment in public. Wow I'm mad! I don't have a blogger account so I can't post on his site. That's why I posted this here. I hope that's OK Kate.

What a solid character this guy was. One of the reasons why the United States is so strong is people like Paul Tibbets who took risks nobody but a few folks in Iraq and Afghanistan can fully appreciate. A long life of service to his country and the world, may he meet his God with a clear conscience!

PMSH again proves himself to be in a whole different class than the Libs, and that's a rhetorical question.Libs have used QP regularly to spout off without thinking.Why would they start now?
He's playing an amazing game of chess, they are playing tiddly winks.
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Tiddly winks, good one, I usually say checkers, but tiddly winks is way better! I'm going to steal that one, if you don't mind.

He is one of the best leaders Canada has ever seen, and looking at the EU countries, he is making an impact because not only is he smart, he's principled.

Think about it, what country in the world today has a better leader, I can't think of one, although I do like Howard.

NDP surrogates demonstrate their fine sense of timing. Students may not mind too much, but their parents, who are footing the bills, might draw a connection and a conclusion on Wednesday.

Yes a great bloody idea, start legal proceedings against the man that received 2 million dollars and a National Apology last time the Librals tried this. Clever as a stone.

Divert attention from the fact that the Liberal Party is DEAD!!!

Woops Harper, your real ideology is showing. Better watch out Canadians are going to see that Reform Party heritage.

"Tories decide to stop opposing death penalty for Canadians convicted abroad"
cbc.ca/cp/national/071101/n110199A.html

Well this should have the rednecks cons jumping and cheering while the progressive cons run to distance themselves on this one.
Don’t think this slipped under the Canadian voter radar.

lists.compar.com/cdn_abolition/2004-June/000516.html

I saw a documentary on the post invasion strategies of Japan back a few months ago. The American intellegence were estimating another 1 million casulties on each side on a Normandy style invasion. The was American soldiers and Japanese Soldiers/Civilians. Sadly the way it did end was the least bloody.

alboloss

""""Don’t think this slipped under the Canadian voter radar.""""

thanks for the update, better late than never

maybe this will help kanadians off shore think a little more about wot they do when away from home

Harper, wise like a fox

John Ivison
National Post

OTTAWA -Stephen Harper offered another example this week of how far ahead of his political adversaries, and the pundits, he really is. While much ink was spilled on whether Stephane Dion would bring down the government over the mini-budget, Mr. Harper was already looking ahead to the next move on the chessboard.

That's because he had no expectation the Liberals would vote against a $60-billion tax giveaway. Instead, he designed it to drain the government's coffers of funds with which Mr. Dion could launch a credible election campaign. ...-
http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=71bc2065-893d-4dad-bb24-3ae82dd7b602

New Conservative Ads

The Conservatives just released two new ads, a television one and a radio one. They capitalize on Dion's blunder when he said that he may consider raising the GST in the future.

You saw them here first! ...-
http://www.stephentaylor.ca/archives/000896.html

Uh.. albatross. This piece of slime has been on death row since the 1980's. How come it is just now that the Liberals have noticed?

"Tories decide to stop opposing death penalty for Canadians convicted abroad"
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What a misleading headline!! Not surprising it comes from CBC.

Although I'm not crazy about him, I gotta admit, Harper's response was wonderfully crafted and made a good point. Chretien and Martin both had shady business dealings while in office. It was a good move politically for Harper to call them out on that.

Elites in Canada are shaken, rattled, fearful. TO Red Star is their mouthpiece.
Multiculturalism is dead.
No cringing when the TO Red Star speaks; here is a mesage for the TO Red Star:
Down with the Red Star's "goodwill".
Vive le Canada. Long live Canada.
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Quebec's toxic identity debate

Across Canada, people of goodwill are cringing as Quebec's identity debate turns toxic. Premier Jean Charest served blunt notice this week that politicians are "fanning the flames of intolerance" toward cultural and religious minorities, and promoting a "siege mentality." That may sound alarmist to those who have not followed the debate. But Charest had reason to speak out. And not a minute too soon.

Consider Quebec's two opposition leaders. Mario Dumont of the Action Démocratique party argues that Quebec is "pretty much at capacity, in terms of intake," and wants to block increases in immigration. ...- (TO Red Star)

Italian police begin to round up Romanians

· Shantytowns demolished amid outrage over murder
· Anti-immigrant groups form vigilante patrols
[...]
The prefect of Rome, Carlo Mosca, said: "I shall sign the first expulsion orders straightaway. A hard line is needed because, faced with animals, the only way to react is with maximum severity." Italian media reports said the police were anticipating several thousand expulsions.

Mr Mosca's comments, which did not prompt controversy, came amid a nationwide outcry over the death late on Thursday of Giovanna Reggiani, the 47-year-old wife of a navy captain. Ms Reggiani was robbed, sexually assaulted, beaten and then dumped in a ditch near her home.

A Romanian of Roma origin, Nicolae Mailat, 24, was remanded in custody by a magistrate yesterday, accused of murder, sexual assault and theft. His duty lawyer said he had only admitted to stealing Ms Reggiani's bag.

The killing was the latest in a string of ugly crimes this year blamed on Romanians, who form Italy's biggest immigrant community. ...-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,2204527,00.html

Circumcision on Decline in Africa Due to Global Warming

Maybe the finest example of Global Warming Derangement Syndrome to date is the claim by an Australian mammologist and paleontologist that climate change has reduced circumcision rates in Africa. ...-
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/11/02/circumcision-rates-africa-decline-because-global-warming

My call for intergenrational equity is gaining traction:

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University graduates will have to hand over almost half their salaries to the taxman within five years, according to a report which shows the escalating financial burdens facing young people.

The “IPOD” generation of young people who are Insecure, Pressured, Overtaxed and Debt-ridden are the victims of an institutional bias that has tipped the balance between taxation and spending against young people in favour of older generations, the report from the independent non-party think-tank Reform says.

It argues that while other developed nations, notably the United States and France, are beginning to address this intergenerational bias and to design their public policy around the interests of young people within an ageing population, the British Government has virtually ignored the issue.

As a result, the young are being increasingly asked to shoulder the burden of increased public spending on pensions and health services, which are primarily used by a growing number of older people.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2767109.ece

Prohibition has effectively returned:

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On a May night in 2005, Debra Bolton, a lawyer and single mom from the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Virginia, was leaving the Café Milano in Georgetown after socializing with some friends. She had driven her SUV only a few hundred yards before she was pulled over by D.C. police for driving with the headlights off. She told the officer the parking attendant at Café Milano probably had turned off her vehicle's automatic light feature.

Not mollified, the officer asked Bolton to step out of the car, walk in a straight line, recite the alphabet, stand on one foot, and count to 30. He checked her eyes for suspicious jerkiness and insisted on a breath test for alcohol.

The breath test revealed that Bolton's blood alcohol content (BAC) was 0.03 percent, a level a 120-pound woman could expect after drinking one glass of wine. It was well below the 0.08 percent limit that marks a driver as legally intoxicated in D.C. It was not low enough for the arresting officer, however. This middle-aged mother of two, who hadn't drunk to excess, who hadn't run a red light or run a stop, was arrested, handcuffed, and fingerprinted for an innocent mistake. She sat in a jail cell for hours and was finally released at 4:30 a.m. Bolton spent four court appearances and over $2,000 fighting a $400 ticket. She then spent a month fighting to get her license back after refusing to submit to the 12-week alcohol counseling program.

The arresting officer, inaptly named Dennis Fair, insists: "If you get behind the wheel of a car with any measurable amount of alcohol, you will be dealt with in D.C. We have zero tolerance....Anything above 0.01, we can arrest." Fair recognized that nearly everyone in D.C. was unaware of this zero tolerance policy. Still, he told The Washington Post, if "you don't know about it, then you're a victim of your own ignorance."

Bolton's arrest was not the result of a single cop's overzealousness. In 2004 D.C. police arrested 321 people with BACs below the legal limit of 0.08 percent for driving under the influence. The year before, the number was 409.

http://reason.com/news/show/122456.html

NEW YORK - The FBI used mob muscle to solve the 1964 disappearance of three civil rights volunteers in Mississippi, a gangster's ex-girlfriend testified Monday, becoming the first witness to repeat in open court a story that has been underworld lore.

Linda Schiro said that her boyfriend, Mafia tough guy Gregory Scarpa Sr., was recruited by the FBI to help find the volunteers' bodies. She said Scarpa later told her he put a gun in a Ku Klux Klansman's mouth and forced him to reveal the whereabouts of the victims.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-flamob1030nboct30,0,7355278.story

Reports of the death of Canadian newspapers are highly exaggerated, unfortunately:

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CanWest Global Communications Corp. posted an 18-per-cent increase in earnings in the fourth quarter, with full-year operating profit at the company's Canadian television operations nearly doubling.

The results in the traditionally weak summer quarter that ended Aug. 31 were helped by the sale of the company's New Zealand and Canadian radio operations, which resulted in a gain of $252 million.

Operating profits were $77 million in the fourth quarter, up from $65 million in the corresponding quarter a year earlier.

Net earnings rose to $197 million, or $1.11 per share, from $155 million, or 87 cents.

The earnings were distilled from revenue of $679 million, an increase of 11 per cent from a year earlier.

In addition to the Canadian television operations, CanWest's holdings include a chain of major metropolitan newspapers including The Gazette, as well as television and outdoor advertising operations in Australia.

"All our operations showed marked improvement over the previous year, with Canadian television maintaining its momentum vis-a-vis its audience share vs. its competitors in Canada," said Leonard Asper, chief executive of CanWest.

I'd just as soon gun for all the pain and suffering rabble has caused me, because then Suzuki would have to pay.

Must be nice to have a court as your personal plaything, some of the charges he has brought forth are really insane,

one of the ones re the girl in Calgary was for her not wanting muslims to cover their faces to vote. So the Winnipeg sun had a poll like 90+% agreed with her and presumably should be fined.

And I guess anyone who votes for said measure in the house of comments has hurt the feelings of "the most sensitive Canadian" and he should get a few thousand from all of them too,

Largs' comment above is significant.

Had the libs taken any steps to get this guy off death row when they were in power???

If not, then it is apparant that he is nothing more than a prop for the Libs:

let him die under their watch, but under the conservatives, his is suddenly a precious life worth saving.

The flood of good news from Iraq continues. Editorial and journalistic acknowledgement from The Times:

The Petraeus Curve: Serious success in Iraq is not being recognised as it should be

Rising trade and safer streets – now Baghdad needs a decent electricity supply

Dear Kate, just two housekeeping comments (sorry to bother).

You seem to have changed the default font to italics somehow...was that intentional? Also, your third tip should start "THEY miss the step...".

Absolutely brilliant idea for a carbon tax that would satisfy global warm-mongers and deniers. The concept was created by Ross McKitrick and can be found at www.friendsofscience.org/assets/files/documents/T3Tax.summary.pdf

Albatross, it amazes me how stupid liberals can be when they think they can score points against Harper by attacking a former PM. Mulroney's time in office was the impetus for Harper helping to start up a new party to replace the old PC's. In fact most of the dregs of Brian Mulroney's old party are probably loberal supporters. You know, like Garth, Joe Who etc.

"Hundreds of weeping family members".

The above crap/bs from MSM/CP. What a gaggle of scumbags at the MSN/CP. MSM/CP: You are a sick crew of scurvy seasick scumbags. May your rusty tub sink in Toronto harbour.
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Cdn frigate leaves Halifax harbour for six-month deployment in Persian Gulf
CanadianPress ...-

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920410/posts

from maz2's link.

14 years, now thats a wait list , and ouch.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/11/02/circumcision-rates-africa-decline-because-global-warming

Liberal Mentality Use Millions$$$$ of Taxpayer money to investigate Former(Millionaire)PM's that have Millionaire Lawyers. Conclusion Millions upon Millions spent with an end result of Millions upon Millions being paid out in Law suits, because the tracks of lost trails will never be found.
This because the Liberals are going by the word of a man that is sitting in jail waiting to be deported and both are as desperate.

Michael Coren's column today's TO Sun Nov.03/07
"Brit Leftist go Mad"
A very good read & food for thought.

Thanks for that link, bryanr. Yikes.

As for the poor chappie on death row -- didn't the Libs ignore him for more than a decade, under Chretien's gov't? And didn't the Libs also ignore another Canadian on deathrow in Texas?

But the media will run with the "scary" Conservative them again . . . sigh.

May Day! May Day! Coming in for a landing! Oooooh! Beak first, again:

"Well now, if P.M. S-Head has dirt on some former PMs, what is he hiding? If he knows something then we as Canadians should know it too. So, time to call an inquiry or two, on both sides of the political fence if there is substance to his claims. If he has something on the Liberals then fine out with it or shut up and call an inquiry on Mulroney? He's not playing chess as bluetech claims, he's playing poker and it's time he shows us his hand."

Like, 80 kilos of cocaine attached to the bottom of a CSL ship, moored at Halifax? Or, ownership in and familial ties to TotalFina? Or becoming a multimillionaire after a lifetime of 'serving the public?' Or, or, or, Power Corp?

Another brain fart from feathers for brains.

The poor Libranos are so beside themselves they're desperately trying to breath life into dead issues.
What business is it of anyone delving into dealings which may or may not have happened between Mulroney and the infamous Mr. Schreiber, after Mulroney left office?

Liberals still don't get it. They paid out our money for accusing Mulroney falsely now they want Harper to do the same?

They're also oblivious to the fact, or are in severe denial mode, that Harper is a clever Fox and their leader is a mere Chicken who keeps laying eggs.

On a lighter note, the story of circumcisions not being done in Africa due to global warming is about where we could expect global warming to end up.
Maybe an MP like Dr. Keith Martin, languishing in the Liberal fold, could take a trek over to do a study on the phenomenon. He's a guy who's got to be concerned about health issues and this would fall under that category.

Assbatross, you want this one sent to an inquiry as well?

ONE DAY before George Radwanski was given his $210,000-a-year patronage appointment as Canada's privacy commissioner, Revenue Canada forgave $540,000 he owed the federal government after years of not paying taxes, according to documents obtained by the Sun. A longtime communications consultant to Jean Chretien and other clients, Radwanski filed for bankruptcy protection in 1999 with only one registered creditor -- the federal tax department.

Documents indicate that on July 26, 2000, Revenue Canada wiped out Radwanski's tax bills totalling $606,947 for only $67,726 in payments from him.

The next day, Chretien appointed Radwanski privacy commissioner for a seven-year term.

You do realize under bankruptcy laws if you know of a change in your financial ability to repay debtors(taxpayers of Canada), you are obligated to divulge such information. The more amazing thing is Chretien kept him on despite of this, and he was only fired once Sheila Fraser dscovered more illegal dealings in his new position.

bryanr:

I think PM Harper, with a majority, can wrap himself in the Canadian flag and accomplish two things:

The replacement of multiculturalism with CanadianCulturalism and the death of Liberal hegemony.

Britain is proving to be a great test market for suicidal ideas.

David Brooks can run a better debate than Holly Preston without even being at one.

Thanks, Irwin. I was going to add that one about Crouton being a multi-millionaire.

...while we're talking about health

Government of Canada Launches Web site to Inform Families of Recalled Food and Children's Products.

http://www.healthycanadians.gc.ca/pr-rp/fr-ra_e.php

Kate, any way to display commenters' names at the top also ??

I beleive in the benefit of the doubt for anyone -- a few times. But when the same mindless drivel runs up in the hundreds ----- disgard as damaged goods, scroll past.

cnews.canoe.ca poll;

Should Canada bring back the death penalty?
Yes

67%
No

28%
Not sure

5%

Total Votes for this Question: 1040

PM Harper is in demand!

Find the wee little 3-letter weasel word, "but", with which Glob-Pail/MSM, hopes to negate all that has been said before.
Glob-Pail/MSM = Weasels.
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The battle for B.C.
Many ridings are wide open in the next federal election. How can party leaders woo voters to their side?

VANCOUVER -- The city's board of trade just can't wait for lunch next week with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. It isn't about the menu, but rather the attention.

The board in Canada's third-largest city had been clamouring for a prime ministerial visit pretty much since Mr. Harper got the job in 2006.

He has agreed to speak on Wednesday - the last day of a three-day swing through British Columbia for the Prime Minister. [...]

"We sold out in a day and a half," he said, referring to the $65 seats for the event for members to hear Mr. Harper's take on crime, taxes, China and the management of the Canada-U.S. border. [...]

"Normally with 440 people, we'd have to take a week to sell. This is really good. We could have got twice that many. There's a lot of demand," he said.

But ..."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071103.BCPOLITICS03/TPStory/TPNational/Politics/

paulsstuff at November 3, 2007 11:36 AM

Sure let's see it all out on the table.

GYM at November 3, 2007 6:03 AM
and
Largs at November 3, 2007 6:53 AM
Spoken like a true redneck.

Louise at November 3, 2007 7:03 AM
How exactly do you see that as misleading?

Biff, the government, Tory or Grit can "protest" all they want about Canadian on death row, it won't change the result one bit. This change in policy will not change a thing. Liberals made representations for other Canadians, and executions went ahead.

Dumb issue for Liberals to pursue. Harper nailed them again by saying, while Tories not interested in gettting in Canadian capital punishment debate, Grits want to debate US capital punishment.

If Harper is so bad, why is this best Grits can come up with, save demanding inquiry into their libel settlement with Mulroney, in light of new allegations.

Maybe they could explain the link, I don't see it (Mulroney received $300,000 in cash, while sleezy in itself, the money was belatedly reported to Revenue Canada, also sleazy). We already knew Mulroney was sleazy fellow, though rank amateur compared to Chretien; that's why Reform Party cum CPC formed in the first place.

Harper is right, Libs should be careful what they wish for. Peter Van Loan also nailed them with "we're more interested in recovering the $40 million that went missing from Adscam."

Neither of those issues will resonate with voters. Liberals better come up with some policies that will increase their 25% base (which would vote Lib if Donald Duck or Clifford Olsen was their leader) to where they can challenge Tories. Otherwise they risk handing Harper majority next time around. I still can't believe Liberal establishment (A-team so far sitting this one out) will let Dion run in general election.

Or, they could take comfort in polls that prove that Canadians could care less about politics between elections, especially now that hockey season has started again.

Alby

Give it a rest...this slimeball should have been killed years ago.

It is a known fact that 68% of Canadians support the death penalty. YOU are on the wrong side AGAIN!

...OK, I'm confused.

The general consensus among Great Lakes experts is that warming temperatures will lower the water levels over time. While lake levels are constantly fluctuating, climate models predict that water levels will drop by more than one metre for lakes Michigan, Huron and Erie by 2030.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2007/11/01/4623338-sun.html

Citoyen Dion: Attention/Attention. Dig this.
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The Glory of the France

BG Robert Doughty (USAR Ret), a former history instructor at West Point, claims to be the proud owner of the largest collection of French Army jokes in existence. That's ironic because he and Professor Michael Neiberg of the University of Southern Mississippi have just brought the French Army of 1917 back to life, and reminded the audience of the fact that during the Great War that army was widely regarded as the epitome of self-sacrifice and valor. The image of the French as cheese-eating surrender monkeys is a revisionist portrait, minted long after the fact. In reality French defenses of 1917 featured "suicide trenches", manned only by volunteers, far in advance of the main line of resistance, who did not expect survive. One of the most evocative anecdotes was of Georges Clemenceau in tears after an inspection of a suicide trench, remarking that of all the marvels a man might hope to see in life, nothing could compare with that.

I will post a few more observations after the presentation on the German Army.

Nothing follows.

posted by wretchard at 11/01/2007 04:52:00 PM
33 Comments:

NahnCee said...

THat was then.

This is now.

What has France done for the world lately, other than inflict their pedophiliac soldiers on third world victims, allow their Muslims to multiply and run amok with the barbecue every night, and try to screw America and act as a "counterbalance"?

France has got a lot of making up to do before I'll even admit they're human, let alone having "valor".

In the meantime, bring on the jokes.
11/01/2007 06:14:00 PM
chigalum said...

Suicide Trenches? That's gotta be a French Military joke right?

Sorry Wretchard, most of us will resist any attempt to rehabilitate France's reputation.
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http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/11/glory-of-france.html

louise...out of respect for kate I know we should ignore the trollbird, so I'll direct this to you:
Let's ask CBC:
When did CPC 'start' opposing death penalty for convicted murderers abroad?

I think that someone should open an inquiry to have the Chretiens explain why Powercorp purchased a 2 million dollar mansion for them a few months after papa jean left office. This little gift was also put in Aline's name for some reason or other. Hmmm....

We're forgetting: the victims deserve to die because they're part of our big bad SOCIETY that marginalized the killers, etc., etc.. The killers need understanding and sympathy.

Rehabilitation, not punishment! And if the rehabilitated guy gets out and kills again, too bad so sad. The victims and their families just have to suck it up. We've got an ideology to protect here!

Innocent people killed via capital punishment by bloodthirsty conservatives? I'm sure there were a few, and I hope DNA and other technological advances turn those few into nil. Victims killed by liberal ideology that releases killers back into society? Hundreds. But they don't count. Ideology does.

What Stickwell Day said is that Harper's government will no longer lobby to have the self-confessed murderer brought to Canada to serve his term here. He never once said that he would stop lobbying to commute the death sentence. Just another LIEberal misrepresentation of the the truth.

Liberalism is not a mental disoreder as some have avowed, it is evident by the repeated posts from the likes of alba, ted, et al that the liberal cranial space has been voided and then filled with the red "kool-aid" jelly. This mush prevents then from being able to participate in a discussion of any nature. Why do you people even bother to try and debate with them. Is it not apparent that they are beyond hope. They cannot accept the fact that for more than fifty years they have been voting for nothing but charlatans, and con-men. The National Energy program, Wage and Price controls, the promise to abolish the GST, capital punishment, samesex marriage, abortion on demand, HR scandal, Radwanski scandal, Adscam, helicopter fiasco, submarine purchase, relocation allowances, My Gawd the list is endless. People that keep voting liberal or keep espousing liberal ideals cannot be reasoned with therefore it is better to let them crawl away into their own little world where they think everything is beautiful and let them shrivel away in peace.

Louise at November 3, 2007 7:03 AM
How exactly do you see that as misleading?
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Because it leaves out a very critical part of the CPC's position, which is described in the article, namely:

"We will not actively pursue bringing back to Canada murderers who have been tried in a democratic country that supports the rule of law,

...

"It would send a wrong message. We want to preserve public safety here in Canada.""

and it then goes on to spend almost the entire article explaining and defending the Liberal Pary position.

I want my tax dollars back.

"when proponents of the death penalty can come up with a convincing proposal to make for 100% flawlessly accurate verdicts ALWAYS, then I will consider my opposition to it.

steven truscott,
guy paul morin,
and a big fat bunch of others who would not be here
if the bloodthirsty right wing conservatists had their way."

Truscott was convicted decades ago. Guy Paul Morin was aquitted because of advancements in DNA testing. This same testing is being used to verify someone's guilt. With technology today, I have no problem convicting and carrying out the sentence when the science proves guilt, or in the case of Paul Bernardo where guilt is admitted.

And all you left-wingers the ones who rant about the science of Al Gore, surely your not going to discount the science of DNA testing?

Circumcision on Decline in Africa Due to Global Warming
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Which the climate fascists will take as further proof of human caused global warming.

Glob-Pail is decoupled/disconnected from reality. OTOH, Glob-Pail may be deliberately lying, you think?
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[Headline]

Dollar's climb sparks fears of economic disconnect

Globe and Mail - 11 hours ago
The rocket-propelled Canadian dollar flew past $1.07 (US) yesterday, fuelled by strong economic data that have many forecasters wondering whether the economy is decoupling from its troubled southern neighbour.
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America's Amazing Long Boom Turns 25
US News & World Report

TheLineMustBeDrawnHere

As this week's economic events show—the second straight quarter of nearly 4 percent growth in gross domestic product and job growth twice what Wall Street expected—betting against the American economy is one of the all-time losing wagers. Mortgage mess, credit crisis, high oil prices—whatever. The boom keeps booming.

Over the past 25 years, the United States has enjoyed a marvelous stretch of almost uninterrupted economic growth. In fact, November marks a wonderful double anniversary. The current six-year economic expansion dates from November of 2001, while the long economic boom dates from November 1982.

So what explains this extended period of growth and prosperity?

To a great extent, surprisingly, there is not a lot of debate about this, at least concerning the broad strokes of economic success. "We did something really radical," says Lawrence Lindsey, a former director of the National Economic Council for President Bush. "We decided to let markets work." Deregulation, free trade, and tax cuts were all just different facets of the same basic idea: a bit less government, a bit more markets. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920253/posts

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOSSSS!!!!

(sorry Kate, but we've a Grey Cup to win)

Speaking of murder and death, here's a name from the past: Helmuth Buxbaum has died in jail.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/11/02/helmuth-dies.html

He was the fellow convicted of aranging a contact killing of his wife, which got a lot of media attention back in '86.

"Liberalism is not a mental disorder as some have avowed"

No. However, leftarditis is a disease:

Lynda Hurst
Feature Writer
Toronto Star

It emerged this week that Karl Marx, the father of communism, suffered from a chronic and excruciating skin disease with known psychological effects that might have had an impact on his political theories.

The 19th-century revolutionary thinker had a condition called hidradenitis suppurativa, in which the sweat glands in his armpits and groin become blocked and inflamed and his skin covered in boils and carbuncles.

Or so argues Sam Shuster, a professor of dermatology at Britain's University of East Anglia.

"In addition to reducing his ability to work, which contributed to his depressing poverty, hidradenitis greatly reduced his self-esteem," writes Shuster in the current British Journal of Dermatology.

"This explains his self-loathing and alienation, a response reflected by the alienation Marx developed in his writing."

But does it also explain communism? Could Marx's anger over the class struggles of history and the ongoing oppression of the proletariat have been fuelled by his disease?

Marx published Das Kapital in 1867, the same year in which he wrote to his Communist Manifesto co-author Friedrich Engels that "the bourgeoisie will remember my carbuncles until their dying day."

Though hardly known for it, was Marx joking? Entirely?

He started complaining about pus-discharging boils in 1864, when he was 46. Shuster says that hidradenitis, which causes swelling, skin thickening and scarring, could also explain a number of his other physical ailments, among them joint pain and a painful eye condition. His attempts at treatment, which included arsenic and lancing, would hardly have helped his concentration or his mood.

Shuster based his retrospective diagnosis on Marx's correspondence with friends in which he frequently wrote about his ill health, describing his skin lesions as "curs" and "swine." His only consolation, he said, was that the carbuncles were "truly a proletarian disease."

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"This explains his self-loathing"

A symptom that sounds all too familiar.

CBCpravda , All Liberal All the Time

http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_zolf/20071028.html

...don't forget this weekend/tomorrow is Daylight Saving Time.

Snooze happy. Fall back, Spring forward.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/03/time.change.ap/index.html

Their study of risk to pedestrians is preliminary but confirms previous findings of higher deaths after clocks are set back in fall.

It's not the darkness itself, but the adjustment to earlier nighttime that's the killer, said professors Paul Fischbeck and David Gerard, both of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Fischbeck, who regularly walks with his 4-year-old twins around 6 p.m., is worried enough that he'll be more cautious starting Monday.

"A three times increase in the risk is really dramatic, and because of that we're carrying a flashlight," he said.

Fischbeck and Gerard conducted a preliminary study of seven years of federal traffic fatalities and calculated risk per mile walked for pedestrians. They found that per-mile risk jumps 186 percent from October to November, but then drops 21 percent in December.

They said the drop-off by December indicates the risk is caused by the trouble both drivers and pedestrians have adjusting when darkness suddenly comes an hour earlier.

Missed it! Yesterday was the 90th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.

Dierdre McCloskey has written an interesting comparative review of two books, one new and one old, concerning two parallel figures - Joseph Schumpeter and John K. Galbraith.

The first book (the new one) is about Schumpeter; the second one (a reissue of the pre-personal-computer bestseller The New Industrial State) is by Galbraith, and introduced by his son.

Both of these men were middle-class gentry. Schumpeter got the patronage of Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk, who considered him (with some justification) to be a brilliant lad, and Galbraith was swept up by the Roosevelt Administration. I don't have any explicit backing for it, but I have a hunch that the young Galbraith was a scholarship student at Upper Canada College in his youngsterhood - one those "I can be Leacock" admissions.

Both worldviews, despite their incompatibility, have an underlying similarity. I rather suspect that the people who support government monopolies (which is what social democracy basically is) think that they can schmooze the government monopolists more easily than they can private businesspeople, whether monopolists or not. Perhaps a social democrat can be sent on his/her way with one of these two retorts: "So, some of your best friends are bureaucrats, are they?"; "So, you want to hob-nob with the Ottawa man, do you?"

Schumpeter did let the cat out of the bag in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy but he couldn't go far enough with the implications: to the gentryperson, business is a great place to be from, not in. Social democracy gets much of its staying power through plain snootery, which is backed up by the relative lack of a particular kind of family in our civilization: the "business family" in which the scion is proud to go into the ancestor's business.

Two items from the Sunday Times:

Saudi Arabia is hub of world terror:
The desert kingdom supplies the cash and the killers

It was an occasion for tears and celebration as the Knights of Martyrdom proclaimed on video: “Our brother Turki fell during the rays of dawn, covered in blood after he was hit by the bullets of the infidels, following in the path of his brother.” The flowery language could not disguise the brutal truth that a Saudi family had lost two sons fighting for Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

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An analysis by NBC News suggested that the Saudis make up 55% of foreign fighters in Iraq. They are also among the most uncompromising and militant.

Half the foreign fighters held by the US at Camp Cropper near Baghdad are Saudis. They are kept in yellow jumpsuits in a separate, windowless compound after they attempted to impose sharia on the other detainees and preached an extreme form of Wahhabist Islam.

In recent months, Saudi religious scholars have caused consternation in Iraq and Iran by issuing fatwas calling for the destruction of the great Shi’ite shrines in Najaf and Karbala in Iraq, some of which have already been bombed. And while prominent members of the ruling al-Saud dynasty regularly express their abhorrence of terrorism, leading figures within the kingdom who advocate extremism are tolerated.

Hillary Clinton puts her war room on attack

Clinton has recruited rapid rebuttal experts to take on what she calls the “Republican attack machine”, but they are proving equally lethal against her Democratic rivals.

Their philosophy is similar to that of the mysterious unofficial website www.Hillaryis44.com – a reference to her would-be status as the 44th president – which warns darkly that one of the clearest threats to her election will come from “Democrats who repeat Republican propaganda to undermine Hillary”.

The pink website, which looks beguilingly amateurish while being deadly professional, solicits confidential tips on her rivals and is believed to be a “back door” into her war room.

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Hillaryis44.com provides some intriguing hints about what may be to come. It includes a list of questions for Tim Russert, the moderator of last week’s debate and host of NBC’s Meet the Press, to ask Obama when he next appears on the show. They include such topics as Obama’s alleged ties to shady financiers and friends of the mob in Chicago and other supposed ethical and political lapses.

As Clinton herself has said, “When you are attacked, you have to deck your opponent.”

Re-Al W at November 3, 2007 1:34 PM

Are you actually trying to quote an on line poll as being valid?

Latest from the: "I Told You Department":

Alberta Premier Stelmach is a socialist.
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"Tommy Douglas, you've finally won over Alberta."

Shades of Tommy Douglas!
Alberta has basked in prosperity until Honest Ed came along and changed the rules

By TED BYFIELD
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Byfield_Ted/2007/11/04/4629591-sun.php

Thousands return to safer Iraqi capital
yahoo ^ | 11/3/2007 | STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD - In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said Saturday.

Saad al-Azawi, his wife and four children are among them. They fled to Syria six months ago, leaving behind what had become one of the capital's more dangerous districts — west Baghdad's largely Sunni Khadra region.

The family had been living inside a vicious and bloody turf battle between al-Qaida in Iraq and Mahdi Army militiamen. But Azawi said things began changing, becoming more peaceful, in August when radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army fighters to stand down nationwide. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920559/posts

The Petraeus Curve
The Times (London) 11/03/2007

Is no news good news or bad news? In Iraq, it seems good news is deemed no news. There has been striking success in the past few months in the attempt to improve security, defeat al-Qaeda sympathisers and create the political conditions in which a settlement between the Shia and the Sunni communities can be reached. This has not been an accident but the consequence of a strategy overseen by General David Petraeus in the past several months. While summarised by the single word “surge” his efforts have not just been about putting more troops on the ground but also employing them in a more sophisticated manner. This drive has effectively broken whatever alliances might have been struck in the past by terrorist factions and aggrieved Sunnis. Cities such as Fallujah, once notorious centres of slaughter, have been transformed in a remarkable time...

The current achievements, and they are achievements, are being treated as almost an embarrassment in certain quarters. The entire context of the contest for the Democratic nomination for president has been based on the conclusion that Iraq is an absolute disaster and the first task of the next president is to extricate the United States at maximum speed. Democrats who voted for the war have either repudiated their past support completely (John Edwards) or engaged in a convoluted partial retraction (Hillary Clinton). Congressional Democrats have spent most of this year trying (and failing) to impose a timetable for an outright exit. In Britain, in a somewhat more subtle fashion admittedly, Gordon Brown assumed on becoming the Prime Minister that he should send signals to the voters that Iraq had been “Blair's War”, not one to which he or Britain were totally committed.

All of these attitudes have become outdated. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920527/posts

The Liberals couldn't, wouldn't do a bloody thing about commuting sentences passed down in the US. This is about as lame an issue as it gets to get mileage out of when about 68% of Canadians still support the death penalty for proven murderers so if it's votes they're after,they're barking up the wrong tree.

So too is trying to get something going on the Mulroney-Schreiber issue which we paid dearly for thanks to desperate Liberals.

It's time they look inward and clean up their fractured party. They can't just boot Dion until he runs in an election. They can thank the verbal diarrhea inflicted Gerard Kennedy for crowning Dion king and also depriving us of a real Opposition in the HOC.
We now have 95 butts sitting on their hands while giving us nothing but bluster and buffoonery.

Mazz. I too read the article by Mr. Byfeild. It made me angry enough to send a comment to the Alberta PC's. Basically to say they have lost mine and my families vote. along with anyone I can convince. A still proud albertan reduced to watching a supposed Conservative government act like the NDP. For shame.