Their nothing but a bunch of vultures pretending to be doves and convincing the usial liberal idiots with their blather

To quote Premier Wall, quoting Monty Python:

"And now for something completely different"...........

After dispatching the lowly Stampeders, and moving on to the WF against the hated BC Lions, all of Rider Nation should get a kick out of this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PHQdikkOtk0

So, how come, for decades the West was smug in thinking they was superior to the East Block countries.

It was the system --- not the people at all.

In fact, it seems like it is now the other way around and then some;

[BERLIN - Czech President Vaclav Klaus has criticised Chancellor Angela Merkel for her efforts to fight climate change, saying politicians, journalists and scientists are exploiting an unproven issue for their own advantage.] Reuters

["Utopia is an excellent escape for politicians because they can busy themselves with far-away goals and don't have to worry about immediate problems," added Klaus. "Climate change is an excellent issue for that escape."] Vaclav

Amen, Vaclav !!!

[Klaus said many world leaders privately congratulated him for his sceptical remarks but he did not want to name them.] Reuters

Go ahead, the world will congratulate you.

"You can analyse the climate debate as a sociological trend. First, politicians have put climate protection on the agenda for self-interest and journalists then jumped aboard as freeloaders kicking up a storm with a headline-making issue," he said.

"And then come the climate researchers who want to maximise their profit by devoting themselves to an issue where the most research funds are being allocated," he said.

Way to go Vaclav.

Strange, how a few decades ago, the East Block leaders were the best at propaganda and better at being pretentious. Gore, Clinton, Dion et all have met them and raised them a bunch. Pathetic.

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/45264/story.htm

Climate Audit and Bas-ass-tronomy and Blog Awards agree to call it a draw --- 20k each.

One question --- was 'de smog blog' not even nominated ??

A. Cooper,

I congratulate the Riders on getting to play in the WF against a truly great team - the BC Lions.

I have markets here:

http://home.inklingmarkets.com/markets?term=ural+grey&commit=search

TIP: Leos

Can you imagine evidence, such as Steven Milloy's survey, in the hands of a good lawyer in a court of law !!??

And then Exhibit A -- broken hockey stick. And ashphalt. And ...

It would be all over before the journalists sat down :)

Thanks for the Klaus link, Ron.

Ron..

Your **Utopia, an excellent escape - Vaclav** PERFECT!.. a Gem.

**The Toronto Star gets letters**

71 Canadian heroes lost in 6 years of Afghanistan and the Liberal GTA is wetting pants while raising the white flag?

They can*t all be that stu.. un-Canadian. Must be the inbred Gta press.

Reach out GTA. Turn off talk shows and CBC Mansbridge. Read the Ottawa Citizen and the National Post.

Get a grip! Our freedom and flawed democratic system is at risk here.

Democracy in progress or people hanging from ropes at your local soccer field. Choose your lifestyle,.. carefully. = TG

The Other Side of Global Warming Alarmism
by Vaclav Klaus at Chatham House
2007-11-07

www.klaus.cz/klaus2/asp/clanek.asp?id=73lC09VpjtyZ

in there excitement over this they put up the ontario poll in the chart. CTV(tass) all liberal all the time

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071112/Politics_poll_071112/20071112?hub=TopStories

Will the UN get control of the internet?

See http://pajamasmedia.com/xpress/claudiarosett/2007/11/12/and_now_the_un_internet_grab_c.php

"if there's no agreement on whether a target climate even exists, what precisely is the point of taking action on global warming?"

The assumption is that nature, apart from man, is in perfect equilibrium, so that the temperatures it comes up with are the perfect ones, and that man, working against what is natural and right, is an interloping damage-doer.

This, of course, is philosophy, not science. This position actually supports the Christian view that man stands above the rest of creation, but is damaged and flawed in his actions.

Here's my kind of Volkswagen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhMIngQwDlQ

Yes, the Toronto Star gets letters. Which they then hide.

I already boycott their print edition and don't click their links, I don't know what more I can do.

Maybe we can get the Six Nations interested in a land claim against their headquarters. Two birds with one stone!

Speaking of "protesters" being allowed to rampage un-checked, here's a linky to something interesting about that peacnik business in Olympia.

http://www.sondrak.com/index.php/weblog/mad_maxing_olympia/

According to this, the local cops had orders to let the peaceniks do whatever they liked outside the port. Liberal politicians, liberal protesters, its all making sense now. Kinda like Caledonia.

It's cliche time from the MSM: "loom" (everything looms as in war looms); "tumble" (even the weeds); "clip the wings" (forget about the TO Maple Leaves); and the "soaring loonie" ( the loon does not soar, he/she/it dives).
Meanwhile, the "speculators" speculate/gamble. George Soros, the leftist pirate, speculated/won on the British pound; he almost brought on a worldwide depression by doing so. Soros uses his loot to fund the Clintons, Kyoto, et al.
Of course, the left/socialists know all: the soaring/tumbling loonie is his* and his* fault.
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High-dollar subsidies loom
Terence Corcoran, Financial Post
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The Canadian dollar's tumble is overdue
JAY BRYAN, The Gazette
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How do we clip the wings of the soaring loonie?
(national newswatch)
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* BDS/HDS

Clinton (Hill or Bill?) planted a student? It's true, honestly. Any more questions?
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Clinton's planted student speaks out, says she just wants honesty
Drudge Flash

The college student who says she was told what question to ask at one of Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign events--and whose story in her campus newspaper has now made its way around the world--said Monday that "voters have a right to know what happened, adding that she "wasn't the only one at the event who was a plant."

In an exclusive taped interview with CNN, Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, a sophomore at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, said that giving anyone specific questions to ask is "dishonest," and the whole incident has given her a negative outlook on politics.

Gallo-Chasanoff, an undecided voter, said what happened was really pretty simple: she says a senior Clinton staffer asked if she'd like to ask the senator a question after an energy speech she gave in Newton, Iowa, on November 6.

"I sort of thought about it, and I said 'Yeah, can I ask how her energy plan compares to the other candidates' energy plans?'" Gallo-Chasanoff said.

"'I don't think that’s a good idea," the staffer said, according to Gallo-Chasanoff, "because I don’t know how familiar she is with their plans."

He then opened a binder to a page that, according to Gallo-Chasanoff, had about eight questions on it.

Developing...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925002/posts

speaking of concensus . .

Despite predictions, the sky is not falling

The first key to wisdom is constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. -- Peter Abelard (A.D. 1079 - 1142)

Reading about the recent global warming rally at Kincaid Park, I wondered if the participants would be relieved if man's activities were proved not responsible for Alaska's warming weather. An intriguing question.

They probably don't know ground-based warming stopped in 1998, according to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change data. This temperature stability is occurring despite a four percent increase in atmospheric C02 over the last eight years. Lower atmosphere satellite data also show little, if any, warming since 1979, although atmospheric CO2 increased 17 percent.

In another surprising turn, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies corrected data errors this September that required changing America's warmest year on record from 1998 to 1934, thus refuting the Gospel According to James Hansen, the Institute's director. The third hottest year is now 1921.

Canadian Stephen McIntyre (www. climateaudit.org), concerned about the discontinuity of NASA's temperature record, identified the errors and contacted the Institute. The end result: Five of America's top 10 warmest years occurred in the 1930s, when only 10 percent of greenhouse gases emitted in the last century were in the atmosphere. Three of the top 10 remain 1998, 2006 and 1999. Natural variation or catastrophic warming?

McIntyre's widely-commended contribution to climate science also severely damaged Michael Mann's infamous "hockey stick" graph that is integral to climate scare mongering, and the 2007 IPCC report no longer includes it. This is fascinating stuff.

Ancient Chinese records have revealed historic warming from year one to about A.D. 240 (the Roman Warming); a cold period between years A.D. 240 and 800 (Dark Ages); warming between 800 and 1400 (Medieval Optimum); and cooling from 1400 to about 1900 (Little Ice Age). Where were man-made CO2 emissions then?

Contrary to today's predictions of catastrophic weather events, during China's warm periods it experienced fewer and milder storms, fewer droughts and floods, better crops and more prosperity. Here at home, researchers found serious droughts are becoming rare. According to www.CO2Science.org, seven droughts occurred before 1920, seven from 1921-1940 (including the Dust Bowl disaster), eight from 1941-1960, five from 1961-1980 and just three during the next two decades.

But people are dying because of global warming, prominent climate alarmist Deborah Williams wrote (ADN, April 18, 2006), noting 31,000 Europeans died in the 2003 heat wave. Yet cold kills many times more people than heat (as Alaskans well know). Cold weather in England and Wales, 1998-2000, caused some 47,000 deaths each winter.

Because there are so many variables in climate, scientists have difficulty explaining the complex workings of solar energy levels, continental drift, changes in earth's orbit, clouds, cosmic rays, etc. Then, throw in water vapor, which constitutes 80 percent to 95 percent of greenhouse gases but is seldom mentioned or considered in computer models. Without factoring in water vapor, CO2 concentrations appear far more significant. Meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo helps clarify: "If the atmosphere was a 100-story building, our annual anthropogenic CO2 contribution today would be equivalent to the linoleum on the first floor."

Some scientists have found the courage to publicly denounce the prevailing Armageddon warnings, saying there's just too much at stake. (See here) From an Alaska perspective, it is heartening to see dedicated professionals leave their comfort zones to warn that an ill-informed public, elected officials and bureaucrats could literally transform the structure of society and its economic foundations. And for what?

Government-mandated punitive measures will do nothing to reverse warming impacts on Alaska. What will work is applying human ingenuity, mitigation and adaptation measures specifically where they are needed. Focusing attention on ways to benefit from warmer weather is also in order. Cold Alaskans' per capita energy consumption is three times the national average. Aren't energy cost savings and air quality improvements going to be significant? Extended growing seasons and warmer temperatures will also benefit agriculture and forestry, improving Alaskans' living standards.

Staging the nationwide rallies last Saturday must have cost the sponsoring organizations a fortune, along with the cost of sending 5,000 students to lobby Congress. You have to question why such fortunes are being spent, who's writing the checks, who stands to gain and lose. One thing should be clear: It's not about global warming. So, would the rally participants be relieved to find humans and industry innocent of causing global warming? Probably not.

http://antigreen.blogspot.com/

Howard Moscoe,keep your mouth shut,please.

Mulroney says:

"servants to elected officials, from lobbyists to the police authorities, as well as journalists, the only solution is for the government to launch a full-fledged public commission of inquiry which would cover the period from 1988 to today"

Notice the from 1988 to today. Maybe Stevie and Brian got together and have figured a Machiavellian way to investigate the Liberals, knowing they would have to do an end run around Canada's Liberal Party media at the CBC, Globe, Star etc. Bring it on.

The media is trying to steal another election for the Liberals. It is time for Conservatives to fight back! We must ensure the Liberals are included in this investigation. Maybe we need a class action suit against the Liberal Party to regain stolen taxpayer funds.

Also notice the "as well as journalists"

It's is about time that the biased, partisan and dishonest if not illegal tripe that passes for journalism in this country was exposed. Would love to see Travers' fat ass and some of his fellow travellers doing hard time. Ha.

The natural end result of multiculturalism:
Segregation, ghettoes, no-go zones, Afrocentrism (Black Power, aka fascism), murder, etc.
Who pays/funds all this? You do.
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Loud support for black school
Cries in favour of an Afrocentric alternative school in Toronto were loud last night as more than 300 people crammmed into Northview Heights Secondary School to debate the issue. (national newswatch)

One interesting aspect of Mulroney’s statement was to give a Public Inquiry latitude to investigate to the present day from 1988.
That would most certainly also cover the Chretien/ Martin era worm can.
My understanding according to MP Pat Martin the ND from Winnipeg, is that there now exists in the government's arsenal, the position of an Independent Prosecutor with subpoena powers, with the ability to lay charges in cases of wrong doing.
Could it be that the Liberals Chretien / Martin era of cash stuffed brown envelopes would see the light of day in a criminal court as a consequence of the Mulroney thingy?
One can only hope.

"Clinton (Hill or Bill?) planted a student? It's true, honestly. Any more questions?"

Too bad they weren't in Canada. Here the Liberals can plant their softball questions with the media. Giggles, among many, has made a living at it. It's a Canadian journalists typical career path, hopefully culminating in a sinecure at the CBC and holy of holies, maybe even G-G.

This is going out to the moonbats who come on this site and defend the islamowhackjobs who run the country of Iran. Head over to National Newswatch and check out the article concerning the hanging of homosexuals. Scroll down a little, and read about the murder of innocent women.

So, all you dipper leftards who had something negative to say to me about the idiots in Iran......GO F#$% YOURSELF!

Regarding the recent allegations by Hans Schreiber, am I the only one who finds it a bit fishy that Schreiber suddenly comes up with all this info a day or two prior to being extradited to Germany? Is it possible that a public inquiry might result in his extradition being delayed? Typically, the MSM isn't interested in this angle.

I'm also noticing a huge discrepancy between the polling done by Ipsos-Reid and those done by the Globe/CTV bunch. Ipsos-Reid has shown Harper's government around the 40% support level for three weeks now, while Globe/CTV shows him in the low 30's at best. Normally these outfits tend to mirror each other's results. What accounts for this difference?

Proton "Youth", insurgent, peace,

Caroline Glick, Our World: Islam and the nation-state

MUSLIM MINORITIES throughout the world are being financed and ideologically trained in Saudi and UAE funded mosques and Islamic centers. These minorities act in strikingly similar manners in the countries where they are situated throughout the world. On the one hand, their local political leaders demand extraordinary communal rights, rights accorded neither to the national majority nor to other minority populations. On the other hand, Muslim neighborhoods, particularly in Europe, but also in Israel, the Philippines and Australia, are rendered increasingly ungovernable as arms of the state like the police and tax authorities come under attack when they attempt to assert state power in these Muslim communities.

Logic would have it that targeted states would respond to the threat to their authority through a dual strategy. On the one hand, they would firmly assert their authority by enforcing their laws against both individual lawbreakers and against subversive, foreign financed institutions that incite the overthrow of their governments and their replacement with Islamic governments. On the other hand, they would seek out and empower local Muslims who accept the authority and legitimacy of their states and their rule of law.

Unfortunately, with the notable exception of the Howard government in Australia, in country after country, governments respond to this challenge by attempting to appease Muslim irredentists and their state sponsors....

Michael Gove, MP, All the best motorists are conservatives

Is driving inherently right wing? The evidence, initially, appears overwhelming. Many years ago, in Reithian times, the BBC used to produce a motoring show of quite narcoleptic dullness. The original Top Gear was a programme tailored for those who found One Man and his Dog too exciting.

A dreary survey of crankshaft performance and winter roadholding for every new vehicle on the market made for a show every bit as gripping as radial and crossply tyres on the same axle.

But, over the years, something amazing happened. Not only did Top Gear become addictive viewing, it did so by doing something I don’t think any BBC programme (apart from possibly The Moral Maze) has ever done: by moving to the Right.

Thanks to Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond, the programme has become a celebration of individual freedom, capitalist excess and private-sector innovation. It is also laced with laddish distrust of political correctness, nannying and Ken Livingstone-style finger-wagging. Some viewers might find its sensibility just a bit too juvenile, even public-schoolish, with the presenters mobbing each other up and addressing each other by their surnames. But I find it totally absorbing.

...

There may be objective reasons why conservatives and cars (except in my case) mix so well. The car is a liberator, which frees you from reliance on collective provision; it’s a private space one can shape to suit one’s own or one’s family’s tastes and one of the last warm places where you can still smoke (though not for much longer)....

It's official: Tony Blair's Britain comes to America...your communicatiosn with your American relatives/friends are being monitored.

NATIONAL INTEL TZAR: EXPECT LESS PRIVACY

http://tinyurl.com/2ygjjw

"WASHINGTON (AP) - As Congress debates new rules for government eavesdropping, a top intelligence official says it is time that people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.
(...)
Kerr's comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Lawmakers hastily changed the 1978 law last summer to allow the government to eavesdrop inside the United States without court permission, so long as one end of the conversation was reasonably believed to be located outside the U.S.
(...)
The most contentious issue in the new legislation is whether to shield telecommunications companies from civil lawsuits for allegedly giving the government access to people's private e-mails and phone calls without a FISA court order between 2001 and 2007.
(...)
Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, helped connect a device in 2003 that he says diverted and copied onto a government supercomputer every call, e-mail, and Internet site access on AT&T lines.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which filed the class-action suit, claims there are as many as 20 such sites in the U.S. ""

Many thanks for the Vaclav Havel links; he's quite remarkable, isn't he? A politician with integrity and principles.

And, I think/hope the Liberals have trapped themselves. My speculative claim is that they have been involved in Schreiber's sudden allegations, urging him on, as they promise him that he won't be extradited. The MSM has been perfectly silent on the fact that Schreiber is well-known as 'unreliable' (a nice word for lying) and that he's desperate not to be deported to face criminal charges in Germany.

The Liberals have been trying to link Harper and Mulroney, to besmirch Harper's name (they have no ad hominem on Harper himself). So, they are trying to link Harper and Mulroney.

Read that braindead Liberal pawn, Jim Travers in the Toronto Star today. His claim is semantic. Mulroney is a 'Conservative'; Harper is a 'Conservative. So, the two are ideologically and operationally linked. One is a crook; the other is a crook. Because of the name.

So, if Paul Martin is a tax dodger, then so is Stephane Dion.
If Jean Chretien is a money launderer, then so is Stephane Dion.
If staff in Chretien's office laundered money, then, so does Stephane Dion.

That's the Liberal/MSM 'logic'.

Travers also claims that staff in Harper's offices worked in Mulroney's office. Well, the civil service in Canada doesn't approve of firing civil service personnel. So, when one party comes to office, they can't fire all the staff and hire new ones. They have to retain personnel. So, his point is that the staff were somehow 'infected' with Mulroney's Sins..and...have infected Harper...etc.

However, I wonder, if Mulroney's call for a full inquiry won't 'hoist the Liberals' where they don't want to do. It would involve Martin and Chretien.
Oh - and Dion. After all, he was 'staff' in their time, wasn't he?

"It is therefore not coincidental that when hysterical, historical and cultural ignoramuses started lobbying transoceanic charges of crypto-Nazism at Vlaams Belang and The Brussels Journal"....

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2655

A must read at the Brussels Journal, eloquently written, a rebuttal to LGF's charges.

LGF's has been a useful aggregator, putting the face of Islamofascism out there for the public, but, I think Charles Johnson and his Kos-like minions, a common complaint is the censorship of opinion at his site, have made a serious misjudgment in taking a very broad and unknowlegeable position in accusing various conservative groups in Europe of being fascists and racists at their core.

Sorry - 'Klaus', not 'Havel'. Both are great.

There was a comment that the supposed cartoon in The Star was not fit for The Star to run.I disagree.By running that cartoon it shows the bias of The Star and the absolute disregard for our system of govt..They forget that we had an election and have a minority govt.held in place by the liberal party.The Star had a self appointed role of supporting the liberals and being an unelected official opposition.They liked their role.For years they were buddies of the liberal govt but now they are on the outside and its not the people of Toronto or Canada that they mean by the cartoon,its themselves.Maybe they should move The Star to Venezuela then that govt may listen to them.

So what are the real dollar results of 30+ years of civil rights and progressivism in America? Over the last 30 years income has:

-stagnated for white males
-actually declined for black males
-increased, err, 500% for women? WTF? What a scam!

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_re_us/income_gap;_ylt=AgsmARq4XMksePk62ZPhcnEDW7oF

" WASHINGTON - Decades after the civil rights movement, the income gap between black and white families has grown, says a new study that tracked the incomes of some 2,300 families for more than 30 years.

Incomes have increased among both black and white families in the past three decades — mainly because more women are in the work force. But the increase was greater among whites, according to the study being released Tuesday.

One reason for the growing disparity: Incomes among black men have actually declined in the past three decades, when adjusted for inflation. They were offset only by gains among black women.

Incomes among white men, meanwhile, were relatively stagnant, while those of white women increased more than fivefold."

I agree Penny. Charles Johnson's war is not helpful for the cross Atlantic counter jihad blogs and the focused message they've collectively been getting out.

He should just drop it. Self righteously attacking his allies is beyond ridiculous, it's destructive. It can only end up in two weaker camps.

This is one of Jerusalem Post's "must see" videos:

Jewish Girls Gone Wild

*
The Proton Kaboom... official vehicle of "Survivor: Gaza Strip".

*

The puffin feces of the Liberal Party, aka Citoyen Dion's birds-of-a-feather.

Justin Who, M.P., [not] points his fingers; it's always your fault; the left-liberal/socialist creed. It's always Flip Wilson's theology*: the Devil made me do it*.
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Facebook at fault, Trudeau says

Justin Trudeau appears to be a man in a hurry, judging from his profile on Facebook. For several weeks, he has presented himself on the popular website as a Member of Parliament - despite the fact he has never been elected. ...-
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071113.wtrudeau13/BNStory/National/home

Embattled Liberal MP returns
Beleaguered Vancouver-area MP Blair Wilson is to return to the House of Commons today, two weeks after quitting the Liberal caucus. ...-
national newswatch

Dennis at 9:55 am: I have made this point a couple times prior here at SDA. When the polls indicate that they are accurate to plus or minus 2% 19 times out of 20 and you see two polls that are several percentages out of line with each other (AND they don't match with election results), then you should consider that you have proof positive of either:

- an incorrectly-estimated tolerance (it CAN'T be plus or minus 2% if they are beyond 4% of each other); or
- deliberately-skewed results; or
- the people who respond to polls are motivated to respond to the polls for some reason and they don't represent the actual opinion of Canadians in general.

Why doesn't anyone talk about this publicly? Polls, perhaps, give only rough approximations of attitude and, in my opinion, cannot realistically come even close to the stated tolerance...but since all sides of the political spectrum make use of the this political tool and most Canadians are morons, then why not play the game?

Frustrating.

Your editorial "cartoon" showing Prime Minister Stephen Harper insisting that Toronto be bombed, and Gen. Rick Hillier obeying this command, is pure slander. It is not a political critique. Furthermore, it slanders all of the men and women who died in the world wars. These people gave you freedom and your response is to spit on this freedom.

Edwina Taborsky, Toronto

Way to go ET, glad the Red Star published your letter. Would love to see people actually hurt this leftist rag by refusing to buy it!

Joe B. at November 13, 2007 7:55 AM
said....

Here's my kind of Volkswagen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhMIngQwDlQ
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Tough black Volkswagon, tough black cause, a jihadist solution. . .

Joe and I say.. don*t miss this.= TG

A stink bomb has landed in the laps of the artsy-fartsies.

"Toronto-based Vera Frenkel, 69," sniffs the aroma of "competition"; turns livid, chokes, gags, and barfs.

Portrait of Vera here:
http://www.aeac.ca/images/0011_b.jpg
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Harper's gallery gambit 'stagecraft,' critic says

The Canadian arts community reacted at worst with outrage, and at best with skeptical optimism yesterday to a plan by the Harper government to hold a competition among developers in nine Canadian cities to build the Portrait Gallery of Canada in one of them.

Toronto-based Vera Frenkel, 69, the 2006 winner of the Governor-General's Award for media and visual arts, called the plan "an odious form of stagecraft" and "obviously a horse designed by a committee that's turned into a rhinoceros with some rather peculiar horns."

She made the comments in the wake of last week's announcement by the ministries of Canadian Heritage and Public Works saying they would be seeking private-sector support in building the much-delayed gallery. The cities from whom Ottawa is requesting proposals from developers this spring are Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa-Gatineau, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City and Halifax. ...-
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071113.wportrait13/BNStory/Entertainment/home

Ha ha Alistair, nice link...

My off the cuff calc would show that it would take about 133 million quarters before the city of Toronto would lose 2 million dollars on the exchange rate difference by accepting US quarters. That is about 756 tonnes of quarters, or a stack of quarters 233 km high. If you spread them all out flat, they would blanket an area of about 20 acres. The city of Toronto would need to collect 5% of the quarters minted by the US in 2006 to lose $2 million on the difference in the exchange rate.

Finally, TTC would need 12.1 million adult cash fares paid in quarters to collect this many quarters.

***Assuming 6% premium for CDN dollar, and neglecting bank fees, which would drive this number way up***

I never was a Saab fan. If this is so wonderful in 1992, where is it today? Does it only work in a new Saab for a year?.. six months?

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7091492525320672012

Saab motor inhales traffic exhaust and burns wasted carbons. = TG

From: AutoblogGreen.com

http://survey.rabble.ca/

Anyone interested in letting Rabble know what we think of them?

Checked out that rabble survey...couple of humourous points.

1) Question 32 is missing
2) The employment status question defaults to "unemployed"
3) There is an "other" answer to the gender, male/female question. There is even a text field allowing you to describe what you consider your gender to be.
4) The how much do you give on average to a charity maximum range is a measly $100+ option.
5) Surprisingly, on the annual income question, there is no option to select less than $10,000. I expect that will leave many babblers scratching their heads.

The chart the Global warming fanatics do not want you to see.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/11/12/global-temperature-chart-not-gore-s-movie

Steve Madely (CFRA, Ottawa) interviewed Ms Blatchford about her new book about Afstan, "Fifteen Days", on the morning of Nov.13. Here's the audio--about twenty minutes, worth a listen.

Mark
Ottawa

Bitter lemon juice from the CBCJuicer. The BDS is giving CBCPravda strep throat. Pravda says Canada has no lemon laws. Thank goodness for that.

Att Pravda: It's caveat emptor, stupid: "Let the buyer beware".
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U.S. lemons found on Canadian car lots

Hundreds of vehicles labelled lemons in the United States are turning up at Canadian dealerships where some unsuspecting customers are being offered defective cars, CBC News has learned. ...-
jack's newswatch

The mayor and Liberal/Librano$ Libby: pimps/madams.
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Vancouver Mayor, [Liberal] MP Support Prostitutes’ Call for Legal Brothels for Olympics
LifeSiteNews ^ | 11/13/07 | Hilary White

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, November 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of Vancouver prostitutes has been joined by Liberal MP Libby Davies and the Mayor of Vancouver in calling for the Canadian government to legalise brothels and set up a system of government regulated brothels to service johns at the Winter Olympics. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925303/posts

maz2@7:07 PM

"A group of Vancouver prostitutes has been joined by Liberal MP Libby Davies and the Mayor of Vancouver"

Libby Davies and the Mayor of Vancouver have become prostitutes? I didn't know that.....I thought that being a dipper was bad enough but now she becomes a Liberal AND a Prostitute. I don't know which is worse.

Vaclav Klaus wrote:

The highly publicized forecasts made by some leading environmentalists are based on experimental simulations of very complicated forecasting models that have not been found very reliable when explaining past developments. They were mostly done by software engineers, not by scientists themselves.

Software that is hard to learn/understand, outputs pretty graphics and (by its nature is) easy to manipulate (its conclusions) is a good way to fool some of the people all of the time. If those "some of the people" don't ask basic questions about the GIGO phenomenon and do take the resulting information at face value, well...

Many people these days know how to use consumer-level software and have generally gotten good results with web browsers, "Word", fairly simple image editors/HTML generators, and similar programs. But, with some complex software, a simple, obscure checkbox enabled or disabled in the background can make a HUGE difference in the output.

"They were mostly done by software engineers" Vaclav Klaus

He wouldn't be thinking of this guy, would he ?

Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.

What's In A Name ?

That city in Japan --- Kyoto --- the one the United Nations made [in]famous, will miss the targets. By a lot.

[Car emissions in Japan are up by 18% as more people drive, and home emissions are up by over 37% as more people live longer, live alone and have more appliances] Ethical(?) Corporation

http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?contentid=5506

So what does Ali al-Naimi, Saudi's Arabia's powerful Oil Minister have to say about todays high world oil prices ??

Fine with him ? Nope.

Should go higher ? Nope.

It's because there is none left ? Nope.

[he blamed “pessimists,” “gurus” and “experts” preaching Peak Oil that are “agitating the speculators”] Globe Investor

RIYADH — The world's biggest oil producer thinks the price of crude should be closer to $60 (U.S.) a barrel than $100, pointing specifically to the cost of production in Alberta's oil sands as a likely long-term benchmark for the commodity.

60 dollars a barrel !! Instead of a hundred.

“pessimists,” “gurus” and “experts”, eh ?

Thank you Al Gore, David Suzuki and Maurice Strong.

Because of you, the little guy is paying through the nose and making Big Oil rich.

http://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071113.wenergyopec1113/GIStory/

My wife is from Malaysia and drove a Proton (licensed built copy of the Camry) I have also driven different models. I suspect that most Malaysians would want Proton to improve the quality control rather than give them a compass. This appears to be a stunt to sell cars, which sales are suffering from competition. Also Proton tried previously to setup a deal with Iran that fell through.
Interesting note, Protons sold in Malaysia have no heaters, but have great A/C.

Breaking News Ex-Premier Lorne Calvert attacked by wolves

http://www.saskabush.com/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=2007%2edb&command=viewone&id=3&op=t