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CBC steps on its d!ck... yet again.

"The film's director said that, in the end, everything worked out for the best.
“Of course, I'm pleased the attention paid will mean far more Canadians
will learn about the persecution of the Falun Gong,” Mr. Rowe said."

Rational discourse 1 -- Socialists 0

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Sorry, I should've posted this here, rather than into yesterdays tips. Apparently many of Ottawa's most highly paid bureaucrats are set to retire over the next few years.

PS facing 'devastating' turnover
Top officials must be paid more, compensation advisor says

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=a5fa233d-e7f2-406a-b895-8ba2ba63ce71

Rather than paying these people more money, as this compensation advisor suggests, they should simply eliminate those positions entirely from the government payrolls. Sounds like a great opportunity for a kinder, gentler method of eliminating alot of deadwood.

Here's a really offensive quote from the Remembrance Day commentary by Vancouver's Georgia Straight newspaper:

"The trick is to wait until those troops are not so young and healthy, having had enough of disabling wounds and dead bodies, and likely to come back with stress disorders that will have them using their lethal training in inappropriate ways."

"Here's a really offensive quote from the Remembrance Day commentary by Vancouver's Georgia Straight newspaper:

"The trick is to wait until those troops are not so young and healthy, having had enough of disabling wounds and dead bodies, and likely to come back with stress disorders that will have them using their lethal training in inappropriate ways."

Hopefully on the Georgia Straight... would be ironic...not that I'm advocating that... just sayin'...

Hanging 'The Last Supper' upside down does not sound as amusing as playing Rolling Stones albums backwards to get satanic messages.

The latest circulation figures for US dailies -- only that for USA Today is up; some, like that for WaPo, are down, down, down.

http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/11/08/usa-today-and-wsj-mask-serious-circulation-problems-at-most-other-major-papers/

It's been proven if you play the soundtrack of Fahrenheit 9/11 backwards, you can distinctly hear:

"This movie is BS...Bush was right...It was a good thing to liberate Iraq and Afghanistan...The "progressive movement" is stupid and blind"

Baby boomers have disrupted every aspect of society and the worst is yet to come.

A Foundation on Ageing report said: “Nobody will be able to say we didn’t see it coming. Our over-65 population will double by 2020.

“By 2012, nearly 20 per cent of the work force will be over 55. We already face a shortage of trained caregivers. And noted economists are predicting the bankruptcy of our federal entitlement programmes for older adults if we don’t act soon.”

www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=1&newsid=110308

At the crater’s rim, something ‘mind-bogglingly cool’ (Glacier at Mt St Helens)

MOUNT ST. HELENS – Standing on Mount St. Helen’s southern rim, Cynthia Gardner sees much more than a smoldering volcano. Like her colleagues at the U.S. Geological Survey, Gardner sees an enormous gift basket packed with scientific marvels.

She finds the ongoing eruption and burgeoning lava dome fascinating enough, but she sounds almost giddy when she talks about the crater’s glacier.

“The glacier is mind-bogglingly cool,” said Gardner, a USGS geologist, “maybe even more interesting than the eruption.”

Ever since St. Helens rumbled back to life in 2004, geologists have curiously watched the dichotomy of fire and ice play out. It’s mesmerized them, surprised them and now is threatening some of their seismic monitoring equipment.

Crater Glacier is like no other glacier in the world. It’s the only glacier with lava extruding through it and forming a dome. And while most glaciers are receding, Crater Glacier is advancing three feet per day and forming a collar around the growing dome.

What will happen next as the glacier and the dome continue to grow and try to claim their share of the crater? Scientists wish they knew. [...]

CRATER GLACIER BY THE NUMBERS

3

Feet the two arms of the glacier move each day.

1,050

Width in feet of the glacier’s west arm. The east arm is 790 feet wide.

500

Estimated depth in feet of upper glacier. The lower glacier is 60 to 130 feet deep.

400

Feet the glacier arms must travel before they reunite on the north side of the dome. Scientists think that will happen this year.

0.33

Area of glacier in square miles, more than twice that of Mount Hood’s White River glacier. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923673/posts

Had it not been for the Weblog contest, I never would have known about Pharyngula. Now THAT is something to behold. Yesterday, I wasted a couple of hours following one thread (that's like confessing to watching porn) and I've never seen anything quite like it on the web.

PZ Meyers describes himself as "an associate professor at a small liberal arts college" but he comes across as a knuckle dragger. He tolerates no disent, and his idea of repartee is to tell visitors to "f_ck off". His lobotomized cheering section is even worse.

For a really good look at what warmists are all about, check out this thread, which had more than 700 posts when I last looked. Then, try to post the link on other blogs so that as many rational people as possible can see the really ugly face of the apocalyptic warmist religion.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/11/hello_stan_palmer.php

Who the h**l is Ralph Surette?

"Appearances can be deceptive, especially in politics. If Stéphane Dion makes it until Christmas intact, the odds are that he’ll be our next prime minister in any election in the spring or beyond."

Talk about living in denial. Oh yeah, he argues, Harper was in Dion's position. One exception - Harper proved himself to be a leader who runs a clean government (the Mulroney and POW "scandals" are unproven inventions of the Libs, pushed faithfully by their allies like fool above) unlike Liberals who were mired in worst scandal of theft in Canadian history.

No I do not protest too much. Let's have an election, all you Harper haters. Oh, no Canadians don't want one (what BS), but I thought Tories were imploding? I can't wait for the investigation into Shawinigate, golf course hotels burning down. I mused with a friend last night that perhaps when ALL investigations are completed, and if allegations proven in criminal court of course, Mulroney could share a cell with Chretien.

Feminists hold bake sale on college campus and charge white males more for same goods:

"Imagine going to McDonald's and hearing that, because you're a white male, you pay full price for a Big Mac. Meanwhile, the girl behind you pays three-quarters of the total amount for the same thing.
NOW (National Organization for Women) @ SDSU brought that reality to San Diego State yesterday at the Aztec Center by holding a pay equity bake sale. The prices for cookies reflected the difference of pay between genders and races."

media.www.thedailyaztec.com/media/storage/paper741/news/2007/11/07/City/Men-Pay.More-3083314.shtml

"...Our over-65 population will double by 2020..."

Our policy on handing out temporary citizenships isn't going to help matters.

You can come home again, former Canadian discovers
..."This is really a second home to me," said Ma, who had to renounce his Canadian citizenship when he accepted a Hong Kong government post in 2002....

thestar.com/printArticle/275271

chinavitae.org/biography/Frederick_Ma%20Si-Hang%7C2453

Lon Borgerson (former Sask Rivers MLA) had his facebook campaign managed by his expat daughter from Toronto where she now lives. The group is called "Elect Lon Borgerson in Saskatchewan Rivers". Judging by the photos it appears she flew down to take in election night, but whisked back to Toronto right after. Perfect example of the NDP's youth retention policies in action.

her name is Erika Borgerson, and you can clearly see her as the group moderator. It also shows her affiliation with Toronto by her name.

She writes:

"...Although we did lose in this election, I hope that all of us who were inspired by Lon can channel this energy into action within our own communities.

All the best,
Erika"

Again, she lives in TORONTO. 'Our own communities'? Is she talking about Windsor? Guelph? Hamilton?

"Liberal leader Stephane Dion has pledged that his party would reduce poverty.....but they’re all unfounded: Canada has no official poverty statistics. Nevertheless, CTV and other news outlets repeat the numbers uncritically."

More at Magic Statistics.

http://magicstatistics.com/2007/11/09/dions-anti-poverty-commitment-based-on-spurious-statistics/

Richard Landes on the al Durah blood libel

COMMENT FROM POWER LINE:
During my whirlwind tour of Israel this past summer I had the great good fortune of meeting Boston University Professor Richard Landes. Professor Landes has doggedly sought the exposure of fraudulent journalism out of the Middle East. He has pursued his quarry both at Second Draft (where he has specialized in Pallywood and the staged Al Dura affair) and at Augean Stables. Pajamas Media has now posted his excellent column summarizing the pervasive evidence of staging in the case of Al Dura and the reaction of France 2, the organ responsible for broadcasting the production.

JOHN adds: I would urge our readers to read Landes's article with care, because it has implications far beyond the Al Dura case. First, Landes argues that western journalists are widely aware of the fact that much of the Palestinian video footage that comes to them is staged, but they prefer that their own consumers in the West not be in on the "secret." Second, Landes notes that the Islamic Mass Media Charter, which sets out a code of ethics for Muslim journalists, implicitly encourages false reporting by establishing, as principles of journalism, the twin obligations to "censor all materials" where necessary to protect the umma, and to "[t]o combat Zionism and its colonialist policy of creating settlements as well as its ruthless suppression of the Palestinian people."

Andrew: We already face a shortage of trained caregivers. And noted economists are predicting the bankruptcy of our federal entitlement programmes...

...don't worry, we've already planned ahead, it's called Solyent Green and Logan's Run.

Sci-Fi movies ahead of its time.

For we Deniers who sometimes have difficulty when faced with the charge that "You can't explain Global Warming", the FP has a great article on Rhodes Fairbridge (http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html?id=bfeddc8e-90d7-4f54-9ca7-1f56fadc7c2b). Oh, you might also want to look at the purchase of Florida Real Estate - maybe by no later than 2010.

interesting poll on CTV.ca
How will you be honouring Canada's war veterans on Remembrance Day?
Silence at 11am. 43%
will attend a service 34%
watch tv specials 23%

How will you be honouring our Vets at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month?

I will be marching and attending our Cenotaph service.

How They Did It - Executing the winning strategy in Iraq.
The Weekly Standard ^ | November 10, 2007 | Kimberly Kagan

The surge of operations that American and Iraqi forces began on June 15 has dramatically improved security in Baghdad and throughout Iraq. U.S. commanders and soldiers have reversed the negative trends of 2006, some of which date back to 2005. The total number of enemy attacks has fallen for four consecutive months, and has now reached levels last seen before the February 2006 Samarra mosque bombing. IED explosions have plummeted to late 2004 levels. Iraqi civilian casualties, which peaked at 3,000 in the month of December 2006, are now below 1,000 for the second straight month. The number of coalition soldiers killed in action has fallen for five straight months and is now at the lowest level since February 2004. These trends persisted through Ramadan, when violence had typically spiked. "I believe we have achieved some momentum," General Raymond T. Odierno, commander of coalition combat forces in Iraq, said modestly in his November 1 press briefing. Since security was deteriorating dramatically in Iraq a year ago, how U.S. commanders and soldiers and their Iraqi partners achieved this positive momentum deserves explanation, even though hard fighting continues and the war is not yet won.

"As we assess the security gains made over the past four months, I attribute the progress to three prominent dynamics," General Odierno explained. "First, the surge allowed us to eliminate extremist safe havens and sanctuaries, [and] just as importantly to maintain our gains. Second, the ongoing quantitative and qualitative improvement of the Iraqi security forces are translating to ever-increasing tactical successes. Lastly, there's a clear rejection of al Qaeda and other extremists by large segments of the population, this coupled with the bottom-up awakening movement by both Sunni and Shia who want a chance to reconcile with the government of Iraq." These dynamics worked together to improve security.

After President Bush decided to change strategy and increase the number of U.S. troops in Iraq, the goal became to secure Iraq's population from violence in order to allow civic and political progress. Generals David Petraeus and Odierno implemented the new strategy and determined how to use the additional troops.

Generals Petraeus and Odierno conducted three successive, large-scale military operations in 2007. The first was ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923807/posts

"The parallels between Nazism and Islamism are overwhelming." ...-

MCB Leader: UK Should Be More Islamic, Less Like Nazi Germany

The leader of the radical Islamic front group calling itself the Muslim Council of Britain, Muhammad Abdul Bari, has issued another series of veiled threats, Nazi comparisons, and whining complaints: ‘UK will become Nazi Germany’ if it’s not careful when tackling terrorism, says Muslim leader.
As for “integration,” he thinks it should be a “two-way process”—in other words, Britain should continue surrendering, or risk becoming Nazi Germany. It’s such insanely overblown rhetoric that it’s hard to believe anyone takes it seriously. ...-
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=27865_MCB_Leader-_UK_Should_Be_More_Islamic_Less_Like_Nazi_Germany&only

Nazis and Islamists

By Paul Belien - During the Second World War, the Nazis worked on plans to build the "Amerikabomber," an airplane specially devised to fly suicide missions into Manhattan's skyscrapers.

Albert Speer, the Nazi minister for armaments, recalled in his diary: "It was almost as if [Hitler] was in a delirium when he described to us how New York would go up in flames. He imagined how the skyscrapers would turn into huge blazing torches. How they would crumble while the reflection of the flames would light the skyline against the dark sky." Hitler hated Manhattan. It was, he said, "the center of world Jewry." Less than 60 years later, Hitler's plans were executed by Muslim immigrants living in Germany. At the 2003 trial of the network around Mohamed Atta (the pilot who flew into the World Trade Center), Shahid Nickels, a German convert to Islam and a friend of Atta's, said that the Islamists had targeted Manhattan because it is "the center of world Jewry, and the world of finance and commerce controlled by it."
The parallels between Nazism and Islamism are overwhelming. Yet the subject is a taboo. ...-
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071107/EDITORIAL/111070001/1013/editorial&template=printart

Al Gore and Michael Moore, diversionairies.

They divert your attention from the real priorities.

Zog @ 12:35 calls Al*s sheep, *Warmists*. Right.

Fact:

[1] World*s dirtiest industry = coal gen plants.

Hundreds of Coal fired gen plants are under construction in the US and worldwide, WITHOUT costly clean coal tech.

[2] Cities worldwide function in a cloud of fossil fuel pollution that burdens our public health costs and environment.

Exxon, Chevron and GM among others have a vested interest in lobbying governments to stall the electric car.

GM crushed the most viable 1993 EV-1 electric family sedans in a secure compound in Arizona. Rent the DVD, *Who Killed the Electric Car* and then think!

France delivers mail with a fleet of EVs. Gas cut-off? No problem. Bills get delivered. Bills get paid. Commerce continues. Many Taxis in Paris run on COMPRESSED AIR.

TonyGuitar.blogspot.com

Tata Motors, [ India] , make and sell cars that run on COMPRESSED AIR. There are more than 300 manufacturers of electric motorcycles and bikes in China.

AutoBlogGreen.com

These two priorities [above], must be addressed before any further wasted debate on global warming.

Al Gore almost became president of the United States. That requires backing from Exxon and GM.

Is Al Gore diverting the American people from the true priority of our industrial pollution with the global warming debate?

Obviously! = TG

For shame: a post by Damian Brooks on a horrible Toronto Star cartoon--see "Comments" and send those letters to the editor.

Mark
Ottawa

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/977781.html

"The Tories, meanwhile, picked up the story and dashed off a crude TV ad ridiculing Dion for his suggestion (he’d take away your precious one per cent GST cut), which, according to reports, they ran on American football broadcasts beamed into Canada! The implication here is that people who watch American football are stupid and that if you can manipulate enough stupid people, you can win."

It seems that the author is implying that people who watch football are stupid! Because he is implying that the only reason you would advertise something to football viewers is to fool them or to manipulate them.

Typical elitist liberal arrogance.

A typical Dion voter.

Red tape is so onerous in Canada that EV makers are moving to the US. And..

Canadian firm joins with India Manufacturer for most modern of Lithium based battery.

Electrotherm to make batteries for electric vehicles in India
Indo-Asian News Service
November 7, 2007

-- India's first Lithium ion polymer batteries will be manufactured in Gujarat. City-based Electrotherm (India) Ltd has inked a memorandum of understanding with Canadian firm Electrovaya to form a joint venture for this purpose.

The joint venture (JV) will set up an advanced Lithium super polymer battery plant with a capacity of up to 10 MW hours a month. The batteries will be sold in the zero-emission electric vehicle market in India and overseas.

http://tinyurl.com/32s7gy
=========== EDTA Media Web Watch
= TG

Yes, sf, I alluded to this article, by Ralph Surette, above. Does he actually think if Dion hangs around long enough, the Tories and Harper will "implode" and guarantee a Grit election win? Answer: apparently he does. Perhaps he hasn't notice the Tories are gathering strength, and once an election held, the voter will get their first real look at Dion. Then you will see an implosion all right. What a laugh - Harper is a mean spirited loser, their policies are terrible, he is in bed with Mulroney. Oh, well fine, defeat the government so they can "implode." Well no, Dionsky says, Canadians (Liberals always assume their values are Canadian values) don't want an election. They are projecting their own weakness and stupidity on Harper. Maybe that works OK in the seminar room, but it's disastrous in an election campaign. Dion's fallacy ridden end poverty policy, using bogus statistics, won't change that one bit. Neither will freaking out about Mulroney or accusing our soldiers of war crimes. In fact, I suspect, it will blow back on them, especially when I, and many others, remind the voters of their tactics - inventing scandals, smearing our soldiers, moving left of Layton, saying hardworking Canadians in oil patch are after "easy money;" heck, even Dion's ridiculous "Bam the Dog" joke. All of it will be used during election campaign to illustrate why his party is dead and he "is not a leader."

In investment lingo, Dion is in bear market and Harper in bull market (spare me the smart ass comments on that one). Remember, in a bear market, all news is bad news, in a bull market, all news is good news. That's how it will play out. Jane Taber can write two Tory-negative articles in one day, opine how Tories in trouble over Mulroney revelations (the last time anyone had revelations about him, they cost the taxpayer $2 million), because of unsubstantiated allegations from a man trying to avoid criminal extradition.

What a laugh - bring it on, we can't wait to kick your a**, by showing Grits lack a leader, policies or money.

ABC actually let different sides of the global warming debate speak. Refreshing!

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/11/10/shocking-skeptical-global-warming-story-abc-affiliate

Adding to maz2 post above re: Nazis and Islamism:

The Al Qaeda Reader and Mein Kampf

"The medium is the message."

On signing a bomb
[...]
"So what did I scrawl on the bomb?"

DATELINE: From Somewhere In Southwest Asia

Today I put a note on a bomb, a 500 pound JDAM, Joint Direct Attack Munition.

Perhaps putting a note on a bomb strikes some as either romantic, foolish, or vicious– or perhaps a combination of the three. The act certainly has shades and colors of all three characteristics, and perhaps a dash of steelly sentimentalism. In my case it also contains a kilogram of deserved anger.

I was on a concrete work stand with USAF ordnance personnel who prepare and fuze the bombs. Day in, day out, at the end of a long runway in the desert they tighten the screws and add the gizmos that turn a hunk of iron and high explosive into a weapon with a very big bang. One of the airmen passed me a black marks-alot and asked me “Would you like to send a message?” I suppose the weapon will eventually be tucked beneath the wing of a fighter plane headed for Iraq or Afghanistan. Those are the logical destinations. But I sent my message to Pakistan’s most famous resident, Osama bin Laden.

Recall Osama said that people will follow the “strong horse.” In his mind the United States was “the weak horse”, a nation of couch potatoes, spoiled brats, and libertine wastrels –cowards all.

But Osama has had a tough six years. Consider the consequences of 9/11. ...-
http://austinbay.net/blog/?p=1851

Have you seen Voteonit.com lately?

(1)The gas price question... Tough to alter.

(2)Cellphone fee fraud .... Possible.[Lawsuit in fact]

This is an edit of the mild humble letter they provide into something tighter and more effective... [ I think.]

**Dear sir, [Ooops, gender neutral]Gmint of Canada.

I am writing to protest deceptive cell phone billing practice of charging System Access Fees.

It has been more that 20 years since cell operators were charged for access. This is a very deliberate ploy on the part of cell phone companies to advertise very low cost cell phone packages and passing off these add-on costs to the consumer as if they had no control over it.

In fact, what they are doing is padding their own pockets. Please stop this unethical practice and force cell companies to advertise their true prices. Thank you.

$6.95 a month for 1 year = $83.34 Customer refund due.

10 years overcharge = $833.40 Customer refund due.

20 years overcharge = $1666.80 Customer refund due.

Cell operator theft 1 Million customers = E 166.68000,000,000,000 ++

Cell operator theft 15 Million [Actual Avg ] Cutomers = Mind blowing. Calculator not able to calculate.

Thank you Rogers, Bell et all. = TG
====================

I*ll let the math pros fix the numbers. My little calculator goes to E for error on this one. Hope the lawsuit gives us all some pro-rated refunds. = TG

Andrew Sullivan, The right wants wicked witch Hillary as president
Sunday Times, 11 November 2007

Not many things unite conservatives and Republicans these days. The libertarians seethe openly at the Christian right. The fiscal conservatives scowl at the compassionate free spenders of the Bush years. The foreign policy realists despise the Woodrow Wilson-like idealists who dragged them into Iraq.

Even the Christian right is split. The younger evangelical leaders are increasingly interested in questions of social justice and the environment. The current establishment, represented by James Dobson’s Focus on the Family organisation, regard Rudy Giuliani as beyond the pale. The old guard, Pat Robertson, has just endorsed the cross-dressing former mayor of New York to defeat what he called Islamic “blood lust”. Still others want a third party.

...

So what can possibly bring them together? I asked this of that old war horse Patrick Buchanan a while back. Despite massive differences in social policy, Buchanan and I found ourselves in somewhat uncomfortable agreement about the sorry state of the American right. But he had hope in his heart. “There is one candidate who can truly still unite the party,” he said, a little Hibernian twinkle in his eye. “The only trouble is she’s running for the other side.”

"One of the cooler periods in recent centuries was the Little Ice Age of the 17th century, when the Thames River in London froze over each winter. The next cool period, if the pattern holds, began in 1996, with the effects to be felt starting in 2010. Some predict three decades of severe cold."
...-

Climate change by Jupiter
Financial Post | Saturday, November 10, 2007 | Lawrence Solomon

The alignment of the planets, and especially that of Jupiter and Saturn, control the climate on Earth.

So explained Rhodes Fairbridge of Columbia University, a giant in science over much of the last century whose accomplishments are perhaps unsurpassed for their breadth, depth, and volume.[...]

Changes in sunspots and other solar activity, scientists have realized for more than two centuries, correlate closely with the climate of Earth, explaining the ice ages and periods of great warming. But what, Dr. Fairbridge wondered, causes these changes in our sun? ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923965/posts

Does anyone know how much the United Nations costs Canada annually ??

The price tag of the huge Hyppie, sea-side Kyoto love-in, about to take place in Bali ?? --- where they will scolled us for driving a few blocks to work.

[The meetings at the Dec. 3-14 conference begin each day at a leisurely 10 A.M., with a two-hour break for lunch, and wrap up their work on assigned topics by 6 PM. Except on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday — Dec. 6,7, 8 and 10 — when all meetings will be devoted to “informal groups.” On Sunday, Dec. 9, there are no meetings scheduled at all. In other words, the workaday UN conferees will be jetting to Bali for a routine in which they spend almost half the 12 days of the conference engaged in unstructured activities, start work mid-morning, lunch from 1-3 P.M. and knock off in time for cocktails.] Claudia Rosett

http://pajamasmedia.com/xpress/claudiarosett/2007/11/06/more_on_the_uns_december_pajam.php#comments

An Aussie perspective on Fort McMurray:

Aida Edemariam, Canada's oil: black gold with a black heart

Bureau warns on tainted discs
Taipei Times - Taiwan

Around 1800 of the portable = MAXTOR = hard discs, produced in Thailand, carried two Trojan horse viruses: autorun.inf and ghost.pif, the bureau under the ...

taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/11/11/2003387202

The tainted portable hard disc uploads any information saved on the computer automatically and without the owner's knowledge to www.nice8.org and www.we168.org, the bureau said.

The affected hard discs are Maxtor Basics 500G discs.
================ Taipei Times
Maxtor, American workers are not cheaper but far more reliable. Bring the jobs home. = TG

Hey Weapons, Your*re a gas... I laughed out loud. = TG

Hey, weaponofmassbs, if you want to be a troll at this sight, you'll have to do much better. Our trolls are far more entertaining than your utterly stupid comments. They actually make a somewhat lucid point from time to time, an act clearly foreign to you, so get your diapers changed.

Then again maybe you're tired 'cause it's past your bedtime.

Here in america we have our big city mayors trying to sue the gun makers when we have already passed a law prophibiting these kind of lawsuits they only want the usial amount from the lie a day liberal left-wing news media

BTW, Free trade is not the problem.

Some things are naturally poorer quality abroad.

Dell learned a severely expensive lesson when cheaper India based customer services cost them million$ and they reverted to home based service in recovery mode.

Lots of similar corporate fiascoes. = TG

http://voiceofcanada.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/lets-remember-jack-tomorrow/

This is a very good piece. I wish everyone would read this, especially about Jack. Let's all send him a message that we have not forgot him. He is a WWII vet that lives next door to DEC land. He fought for our country, now the law will not protect his rights or his freedoms.

"Does anyone know how much the United Nations costs Canada annually ??"
53 million in 2006.

Passchendaele's 90th anniversary marked
CONSTANT BRAND
The Associated Press

THE PASSCHENDAELE, Belgium — Experts believe some 100,000 soldiers remain unaccounted for 90 years after one of the First World War's bloodiest battles. On Saturday, the eve of Armistice Day, the anniversary of the battle's end was marked with solemn tributes. The ceremonies were led by a Canadian delegation. [...]

Jim Prentice, Canada's Industry Minister, led an official national tribute and personal family pilgrimage with his wife Karen to the tiny village to honour his great uncle private Roy Urquhart who at 22 years old fought and died during the opening hours of the Canadian offensive Oct. 26, 1917, that led to the end of the Passchendaele combat.

“He died in the opening hours of the battle and his body was never recovered,” Mr. Prentice said in an interview near the spot where he believes his great uncle was killed trying to reach a ridge where German machine-guns cut down thousands of advancing Commonwealth troops.

“Its a remarkable story. The Canadians rise out of the trenches and march essentially up this hill and suffer 16,000 casualties in 10 days to capture this ridge that no one else was able to capture and they do so under horrific circumstances ... marching essentially directly into the maw of machine-gun fire,” Prentice said, before he placed a photo of his great-uncle at the foot of a Canadian memorial on a ridge overlooking Passchendaele.

“From the time I was a little boy seeing his picture on the mantle at my grandmother's house ... It's an important part of who I am. It's extremely emotional.”

His uncle's name is listed among the 55,000 missing soldiers engraved on the walls of the arched limestone Menen Gate war memorial located in nearby Ieper, better known to the soldiers of the 1914-18 war by its French name, Ypres. ...-
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071110.wpasschen1110/BNStory/International/home

In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
...-

The latest scam from the corrupt UN's mouth:

"Click a mouse, feed a mouth in UN campaign
Reuters Canada"

Surprise, surprise.
...-

GTA still cool to Tories

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in Toronto over the last week, and so was Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion. If the polls are right, it's Dion who's still more welcome here. The Greater Toronto Area is still not friendly territory for the..
(national newswatch) ...-

61 scooped up in gambling raid
CBC News - 9 Nov 2007
Toronto police have arrested 61 people at a north-end social club which allegedly housed an illegal gambling operation. The arrests were made at about 11 pm Thursday at the Thornhill Social Club and capped an 11-month investigation.
(google news) ...-

"Political smears name of the game [Harper proves there's no place for the timid in politics]
Toronto Sun ^ | 2007-11-11 | John Snobelen"
[...]

"Given his [PM Harper] policy pedigree it is surprising that his grasp of political tactics is what has changed the game." ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924103/posts

Of course, an extra big trunk for bombs as well. (from LGF):

"The Malaysian carmaker Proton has announced plans to develop an “Islamic car”, designed for Muslim motorists.

Proton is planning on teaming up with manufacturers in Iran and Turkey to create the unique vehicle. The car could boast special features like a compass pointing to Mecca and a dedicated space to keep a copy of the Koran and a headscarf.

The idea came during a visit to the Middle East by a delegation of Malaysian politicians and businessmen."