I saw this link over at Michelle Malkin's page:
"http://consumerfreedom.com/images/ads/fullsize/print_peta_blood.jpg". Apparently PETA kills about 90% of the dogs & cats under its care. About 14,000 in the period 1998-2005 at its Virginia Head Office. But the really, really interesting info was in the comments, where we find a link to the Last Will and Testament of PETA's founder, Ingrid Newkirk "http://www.peta.org/feat/newkirk/will.html". It seems that while she wants most of her flesh to be barbequed (no, not cremated, barbequed!), she is saving some of the body parts and we, Canada, get an ear! I'm not making this up!

For fans of the classical world:

Long-lost cave of Rome's founders discovered

Swedish court smacks down anti spanking law.

In a decision that will no doubt make people who believe that they know how to raise your children better than you do, a Swedish court has decided that spanking is not child abuse.

Don't tell socialists.

If it went through should I sue for getting the strap in school? Maybe everyone who did should get a million dollars,...

H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007

Status: Passed house, in committee

DEFINITIONS.
""VIOLENT RADICALIZATION- The term `violent radicalization' means the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious, or social change."

http://tinyurl.com/26gj8m

Hmmmm someone should clue the amending committee into the fact that the founding fathers of their nation would be convicted under all the terms of this act

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect government from dissenters but to provide a legal means for citizens to oppose a government they didn't trust. The US Declaration of Independence proclaimed the right to dissent and declared it a duty of citizenship to alter or abolish bad government....by force of arms if needed.

Funny how bipartisan DC autocrats seem to think disagreeing with them is "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention"

dinosaur - read your first sentence. Its not quite all there - you know?

It's the "hinterland", stupid; the places where the rednecked, knuckle-dragging, morons live in their tents, or caves.

Multiculturalism is dead. The elites are stonedeaf, blind, dumb. Ha labels Herouxville's revenge as "infamous code of conduct". Ha, wake up; climb down from your cloud; throw your halo way. The jig is up. We don't buy your MSM/Slop-Pail BS.
Two more things, Ha: the veil is a jail; and,
it's Herouxville's famous, not infamous, code of conduct.

Here is the condescension condensed, aka the contempt of the elites for the people of Quebec/Canada:
"After touring the mostly immigrant-free Quebec hinterland for the past three months,"
...-

'We're living in a time of hysteria'
TU THANH HA
[...]

"I want to say that I've never stoned my wife," said Bangladeshi-born Abdul Muttalib, alluding to the infamous code of conduct of the village of Hérouxville that explicitly forbids the stoning of women."
""You say you need immigrants. We're here. And yet we're labelled. We have to deal with racism," said Farrah Abdill, from Somalia." [...]

"Born in Turkey, Sibel Ataogul learned to speak French in eight months and became a lawyer. "We're living in a time of hysteria," she said. "We're in a situation of global Islamophobia."

"I'm not a terrorist; I'm not a religious extremist," said Imen Lajmi, who said her decision to wear her veil was personal and not a form of Islamic oppression against women." ...-
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071121.waccomodate21/BNStory/National/home

On a related note, In an interview with Laura Ingram on Fox News last night, it seems that the American Humaine Society is against the hunters donating food for the homeless campaign. Although, interestingly enough the real reason this director (speaking for the AHSA) was against it was that he was a vegan and like the PETA wacko, wanted to be bbq'd.

As a believer and supporter of humaine societies and hunting, I find that these idiots drive away supporters and are doing more harm than good with their beliefs.

BTW, it will be real turkey not tofu on my plate tomorrow.

The Religion of Peace (tm) in action again.

I can hardly wait until some lefty drops by to point out that "not all Muslims do this."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22793111-2703,00.html

"Meanwhile, horrifying new details emerged last night of the attempt by suicide bombers to kill Ms Bhutto on her return home from exile last month."

"Investigators from Ms Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party said yesterday they believed the bomb, which killed 170 people and left hundreds more wounded, was strapped to a one-year-old child carried by its jihadist father."

"They said the suicide bomber tried repeatedly to carry the baby to Ms Bhutto's vehicle as she drove in a late-night cavalcade through the streets of Karachi."

"At the point where the bombs exploded, Benazir Bhutto herself saw the man with the child and asked him to come closer so that she could hug or kiss the infant," investigators were reported as saying. "But someone came in between and a guard felt that the man with the child was not behaving normally. So the child was not allowed to come aboard Benazir's vehicle."

"Ms Bhutto is said to have told investigators she recalls the face of the man who was carrying the infant. She has asked to see recordings made by television news channels to try to identify the man."

Texas, I am curious. Do you turkey up for both Thanksgivings? ;)

Today’s National Post, Terence Corcoran, Battle of the Nobel climate horror disaster movies.
There should be a CONTEST to see who can come up with the word or phrase that best describes these UN climate change scare mongering freaks meeting in Bali, Indonesia.

Thread devolving into anti-Christian slamfest:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071121.wschism21/CommentStory/National/home

Thread still open.

Hitman wants to unionize Quebec Prisoners

I translated an article from French and posted it on Free Dominion.

It starts:

The prisoners at the Drummondville penitenciary have begun the process of unionizing with the CSN (Confédération des syndicats nationaux), tired of working for a bite of bread and a bit of water. Their "union leader" is a former hitman for the Hell's Angels. There is no question of striking or picketing, it is assured.

Just saw this at the top of Cherniak's blog.
Maybe Steffi should send in his video

Here's hoping they trot out Belinda again to give the award. Nothing like a flip flopper to show the youth of today how it works in Canadian Politics.

"Mulroney admits taking cash a 'colossal mistake'
Former PM worried about income when he took money from Schreiber, aide says"

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=0d2cf487-0345-49aa-8f95-7e9b3c9420d3&k=47644

"he had money pressures since he was "not a rich man" at the head of a young family with certain lifestyle expectations"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

to repeat

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Almost fell off my seat on the bus today on that one. All you nice people here who think a very connected career lawyer - with a fully indexed non-revocable Priminister-ial pension - has the cohones to state that Ben needed new hockey equipment every year - is just guilty of bas judgement - give your head a shake.

This guy stinks as much as Cretin.

Mindless partisanship is mindless people.

A BC court is set today to rule on Aboriginal Title to 2,000 square KM of land West of Williams Lake in BC. The court is expected to declare that aboriginal title exists but without much to define what that is. For starters, it is expected that Provincial Laws, like the forestry act, will not apply as Natives are the sole responsibility of the Federal government. Further, land sold to non-natives may be forfeit as Government had no legal right to sell land owned by natives. Expect evictions in Mugabe-like fashion.

As 110% of BC is claimed in similar cases by BC's natives (overlapping claims!!) it is possible that the courts will rule all of it is owned in aboriginal title. What then?

Meanwhile in Gordon Browns Britain the tax dept loses all the personal information for half of the population. They were on 2 disks sent thro the mail 3 week ago and not tracked.

Chirac of France is under investigation for fraud when he was mayor of Paris.

No links just heard it on Hong Kong TVB Pearl news

exactly hardboiled. and mulroney isnt a CPC either, both him an Cretian were quebec politicians of the first order bred in the fine tradition of Quebec politics, all handshakes are with the palm up.

Mulroney walked into a nice mansion in Mont Royale costing a cool 2 million at the time. Cretian demonstated that by walking out of politics for only about 4 years you could make several million dollars just owning a share of a golf course near a federal grant. the rest of us canajuns are just fodder for the horses of the ottawa/toronto/montreal polical elite. Cretian and the lot took it to new heights by bypassing the grant system and directing the money directly through thier adscam buddies.

The Gore brainwashing has hit small,very rural Manitoba school kids.I work with young kids,and was struck yesterday,while having lunch with a pair of Gr.2,and Gr.3 siblings.Out of nowhere,came the well memorized,brainwashed rhetoric we hear from the fearmongerers.I listened to these kids talk about how 'we are killing all the polar bears' and if we don't stop the 'smoke from all those big chimneys'that ALL the cities will be flooded out.I was stunned,as these kids are somewhat intellectually 'challenged' but they had the spin down pat.I would really like to know,how frequently this is being drilled into kids heads at school,and is there any other view being presented? I asked these kids about which teacher was telling them these half-truths..they responded.."all of them"when I attempted to challenge some of what they were saying,I was quickly denounced with,'that's not true..our teacher said some people lie' Stunning,that this GW b.s is being indoctrinated into the heads of kids so well,that even the 'special'kids are eating it up.

Spot on cal2.

The Luc Lavoi spin in that article is nauseating

I see that KHS has also named Cretian contempory Marc Lalonde as another one of his payola boys. the libs may not like it when the find KHS , the cash only man was meticulous with notes and letters to go along with that cash.

Is Luc Lavoie Mulroney's unofficial spokesperson? It may be a tactic, after all, he is a friend of his.

What's the bet the only people who'll get tarred and embarrassed after this is over will be the Libranos?
Their actions in committee yesterday is a good example of their desperate tactics. They couldn't run a two-holed outhouse. They must be getting guidance from Marlene Jennings, one of the biggest mouths in the HOC, along with exhibitionists like Dhalla and Holland.

"a different Bob" so you're saying I better go get some victory coffee and wake up.

I can't find the edit button, :)

Oh well,

PS

Here we go Bombers, here we go
Here we go Bombers, here we go
Here we go Bombers, here we go

several new protected areas in the arctic were mentioned in the calgary herald this morning. neither CBCpravda or CTV(tass) has found it within their agenda to mention something like this from the "Harper Tory Regime"

You get your new cabinet "Wednesday night at 6:00pm at Government House in Regina."

Best of luck.

dino - if the "(Bomb-ers) ever dreamed that they would beat the big Green Machine this Sunday, they would wake up and apologize! Actually I was referring to the first sentence of your posting of 9:33am. It is grammatically incorrect.

its almost winter in Canada. snow is only a few miles from Toronto, the center of the known universe.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2007/11/21/ot-snow-traffic-071121.html

maybe the "Harper regime" can call in the troops to shovel the snow. sarc off.

*
socialism in france... not dead enough

"France's high-speed TGV rail network has been damaged by a
"concerted campaign of sabotage", the SNCF state-owned rail
operator has said.

It said acts of sabotage overnight, including fires, caused huge
delays to TGV services already hit by a long transport union
strike over reforms.

*

The 'rats/MSM yeah-butters are eating crow ... caw ... caw ...-

'Morning Joe': Yeah-Butting The Good News From Iraq
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Thanksgiving is a time for reconciliation, so let's start with some sympathy for our liberal media friends. It's been a tough 24 hours for them. Yesterday, articles appeareared in the New York Times and LA Times reporting the dramatically improved security situation in Iraq.

Today brings another blow, as Thomas Friedman suggests that beyond the military successes, there might be an informal kind of political accomodation going on in Iraq that he refers to as an "ATM peace." That would be a real setback for the MSM, given its fall-back position that "there might be military progress but there's been no improvement on the political front."

But the MSM are a resilient bunch, and we're already seeing the outlines of their plan to deal with the current unpleasantness. Call it "yeah-butting."

First, Scott McClellan's excerpt from a book months away from publication is manna for an MSM starving for bad news. We'll see how much mileage the "Bush lied, people died" crowd can wring from it.

Then, as David Shuster and Mika Brzezinski demonstrated on today's "Morning Joe," there's no good-news Iraqi lemon they can't press into bad-news lemondade.

View video here. (link)...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928788/posts

Taliban Jack/Citoyen Dion are masticating crow, also.
...-

Afghan police killed 50 militants [aka,Islamist Taliban]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- U.S.-led forces and Afghan police killed 50 militants during an operation in the southern province of Uruzgan, the Afghan Interior Ministry said Wednesday.

The ministry did not release further information about the operation, though it said that no coalition or Afghan forces were killed in the attack.

Meanwhile, Afghan police reportedly killed a Taliban commander and his four bodyguards Tuesday during a separate operation in Uruzgan, China's Xinhua news agency reported.

Uruzgan, along with Helmand and Kandahar Provinces, are known Taliban strongholds and have been the target of intensifying operations in recent weeks by coalition and Afghan forces. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928906/posts

Hi , I’m the Ranting Tory at the sootoday.com web site under the columns section. I’m the Conservative voice in an NDP strong hold , so you can imagine the rhetoric I face daily over there.I have taken a liking to your stuff. Would you be objectionable if I were to post to the odd piece or two from your blog?

If you like , you can create a registered login and post it over there yourself.

Boy those Liberals are really making asses out of themselves , I would agree.

Training course for budding propagandists. Hardly surprising it's at the University of East Anglia.
https://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/schools/ssf/dev/odg/prodev/ccd

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/

something bigger than the sun, and just smaller than Tronas opinion of itself and Celine Dion's or her goofy husbands ego.

This may be my favourite op-ed of the year....

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"Affirmative Action," hyphenated Americans, and other conundrums
By Roger Kimball

What is your favorite bit of Orwellian Newspeak? Near the top of my list is “affirmative action.” It’s such an emollient phrase, so redolent of cheeriness (savor the word “affirmative”) and practicality (“action”). What it really means is “discrimination on the basis of sex, skin color, or some other item in the contemporary lexicon of victimology.” But you can—almost—forget that while the pleasing phrase “affirmative action” echoes in your recollection.

I had occasion to ponder this anew last week when I attended a dinner in New York following the latest Intelligence Squared debate. If you do not live in New York, you may not know about this splendid series of live debates organized by Robert Rosenkranz and the Rosenkranz Foundation. The resolution this evening was “It’s time to end affirmative action.” To me, the question is a no-brainer. Of course it is time to end “affirmative action.” But that is not how some of my dinner partners saw it. Nor, as it happens, did the audience for the debate. Much to my surprise, they voted heartily against the resolution (44% against, 34% for, and 22% undecided). My surprise was only increased when I looked over the transcript of the debate (I had to miss the event itself): I thought those arguing for abolishing the practice of “affirmative action” had all the good arguments.

Alas, debates are not always won by the better arguments—a fact I know to my sorrow. When I participated in an Intelligence Squared debate last year on the motion “Hollywood has fueled anti-Americanism Abroad,” I went to the debate thinking my side, which argued for the motion, would lose. But then we argued so much more persuasively than the other side (or so I thought) that I awaited the audience’s vote with confident equanimity. It was a misplaced presumption, unfortunately, since we lost by a considerable margin. As I noted at the time, “in order to win an argument, you must appeal to the audience’s emotions as well as their reason. What people yearn for, what they fear, is often more important than what they think in determining how they vote.”

Notwithstanding the results of the IQ2 debate, it seems an opportune moment to step back and reflect on the phenomenon of “affirmative action” and its ideological comrade in arms, multiculturalism.

A favorite weapon in the armory of multiculturalism is the lowly hyphen. When we speak of an African-American or Mexican-American or Asian-American these days, the aim is not descriptive but deconstructive. There is a polemical edge to it, a provocation. The hyphen does not mean “American, but hailing at some point in the past from someplace else.” It means “only provisionally American: my allegiance is divided at best.” (I believe something similar can be said about the feminist fad for hyphenating the bride’s maiden name with her husband’s surname. It is a gesture of independence that is also a declaration of divided loyalty.) It is curious to what extent the passion for hyphenation is fostered more by the liberal elite than the populations it is supposedly meant to serve. How does it serve them? Presumably by enhancing their sense of “self-esteem.” Frederick Douglass saw through this charade some one hundred and fifty years ago. “No one idea,” he wrote, “has given rise to more oppression and persecution toward colored people of this country than that which makes Africa, not America, their home.”

....continues.

http://pajamasmedia.com/xpress/rogerkimball/2007/11/18/affirmative_action_hyphenated.php

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Awesome post cal2 ..

Something less intellectual .... yet still stimulating:
The Blog Readability Test !
Do we strive to be readable? Accessible? Erudite?

How do we judge the results?

If we simply look at equivalent results from this test it puts us in some very LOW company.
I think it matters More the Why than the Whether!

Food for thought in any case....

How about an organized boycott of the sponsors of CBC's "Fifth Estate." (Airs tonight-topic-KH Schreider-Mulroney.) Question: How many brown enveloppes were delivered to the CBC in the making of this program?

"I'm not a terrorist; I'm not a religious extremist," said Imen Lajmi, who said her decision to wear her veil was personal and not a form of Islamic oppression against women." ...-

Yes a personal political statement about the importance of her religio-ethnic ideology and disdain for the customs of her adopted land.

A firm denunciation of the Islamic radical agenda would be more convincing than a defense of what amounts to the wearing of a flag.

Imagine the tone of an article where the interviewee was wearing a Stetson!

Fascists in Wolfville NS have outlawed smoking in cars carrying children. Fascists in Ellice Manitoba will expropriate a farmer's land. Municipal governments in Canada - a domain of leftist government paid activists - are using their power to undermine our rights.

Citoyen Dion: "He [Duplessis] was no friend of professors." Is STOPIGGY included?
What is an idiot savant?
...-

Over to Angry:

If Stephane Dion screws up this Karlheinz Schreiber thing...

Some people are seeing signs that not only is the Karlheinz Schreiber controversy not connecting with Canadians, who by and large aren't buying into the Liberal argument that this is a scandal that involves the current government, but they are also seeing signs that Stephane Dion's Liberals might find themselves embroiled in scandal instead.

I'm not sure that it can go that far, but I'm pretty sure that if there is any blowback at all, Stephane Dion is finished. The Liberal Party can put up with only so much incompetence. ...-
http://stevejanke.com/archives/247235.php
...-

Over to Goar: It's Egghead Dion's, How I Won My War on Poverty. Not Ad$cam?
Citoyen Dion is gored by Goar @ TO Red Star.
Read Steffi's Rags to Riches story. It's his bedtime story, even better than Bam, The Dog. The last few words are golden sarcasm; but, true.
Lines include: [...]

""You don't know what it was like for a family with five kids living under Maurice Duplessis (Quebec's 16th premier)," the Liberal leader said. "He was no friend of professors." (Dion's father, Léon, an eminent intellectual [aka Egghead], taught at Laval University.)

"We were the last in our neighbourhood to get a TV, the last to get a car. My parents had headaches about how to pay for the house.

"It wasn't until my father's books were published in the '60s that we could afford a comfortable life."

In any case, Dion says, he wants to be judged on the substance of his poverty reduction plan, not on his background."

Here is the apogee of Dion's childish Ego:

"I'm confident they (the provinces) will co-operate," he says. "I have more experience as minister of intergovernmental affairs (a post he held from 1996 to 2003) than any prime minister since Confederation."

Goar's last line: It's Cruella Goar's cruellest cut:
"What is not clear is how he will pay for his plan, how he will reconcile it with his commitments to cut taxes and greenhouse gas emissions, and how much he really knows about living in poverty."
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/278290

The RCMP budget is $1.2 billion, about the same as CBCpravda.

how about a referendum to see which one the canadian public would rather cut?

and the winner gets to taser kneel mcdonald in the middle of an antibush rant.

At the risk of offending anyone, the Globe & Mail plays it safe with it's latest poll:

Is your employer holding a seasonal celebration?

HAHA! That's TOO TRUE, cal2.

Totally AWESOME idea...

Kathy Shadle and Jonathan Kay (linked in the post) outdo themselves. A half hour later, I'm still smiling.

http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/:entry:fivefeet-2007-11-21-0000/

Union dirty laundry: SGEU locks out CEP 481

http://sgeustrike.blogspot.com/

*Wages. SGEU is offering 0%, 1%, and 2% as wage increases over the same three-year period when most SGEU members received a total increase of 10.1%. SGEU's offer does not even match the cost of living, which has been increasing at between 2-3% in each of those same years.

So, Dion says his professor father's fortunes were reversed in the 60's when he publiched his books. Dion is how old? Is it 45 or so? So was he born yet when they were so called "living in poverty". Sheesh.
This is the same Dion who claimed his favourite childhood memories were off going to the woods and talking the the little animals with a friendly old neighbour - and that old guy says he does not remember him and isn't even sure he even met him?

Bam the dog indeed.

CBC scabs

Writers' strike may help the CBC
Timing couldn't be better for new lineup, programming chief says

"Who'd have thought that we would have benefited from a strike – someone else's strike?" Kirstine Layfield, the CBC's executive director of network programming, said...

..."the strike is perfect timing for our January launch. It'll give Canadians an opportunity to go and watch something different rather than watching reruns of American shows...

CBC scabs

Writers' strike may help the CBC
Timing couldn't be better for new lineup, programming chief says

"Who'd have thought that we would have benefited from a strike – someone else's strike?" Kirstine Layfield, the CBC's executive director of network programming, said...

..."the strike is perfect timing for our January launch. It'll give Canadians an opportunity to go and watch something different rather than watching reruns of American shows...

www.thestar.com/article/278403

Regarding the upcoming PETA barbecue, maybe John Prine had the idea:

John Prine - Please Don't Bury Me lyrics

Woke up this morning.
Put on my slippers.
Walked in the kitchen and died.
And oh what a feeling!
When my soul went thru the ceiling.
And on up into heaven I did ride.
When I got there they did say John it happened this way.
You slipped upon the floor and hit your head.
And all the angels say, just before you passed away, these were the very last words that you said.

Chorus:
Please don't bury me, down in that cold cold ground.
No, I'd druther have em' cut me up and pass me all around.
Throw my brain in a hurricane and the blind can have my eyes.
And the deaf can take both of my ears if they don't mind the size.

Give my stomach to Milwaukee if they run out of beer
Put my socks in a cedar box just get em' out of here
Venus de Milo can have my arms look out! I've got your nose.
Sell my heart to the junkman and give my love to Rose

Repeat Chorus:
Please don't bury me, down in that cold cold ground.
No, I'd druther have em' cut me up and pass me all around.
Throw my brain in a hurricane and the blind can have my eyes.
And the deaf can take both of my ears if they don't mind the size.

Give my feet to the footloose careless, fancy free.
Give my knees to the needy don't pull that stuff on me.
Hand me down my walking cane it's a sin to tell a lie.
Send my mouth way down south and kiss my ass goodbye.

Repeat Chorus:
Please don't bury me, down in that cold cold ground.
No, I'd druther have em' cut me up and pass me all around.
Throw my brain in a hurricane and the blind can have my eyes.
And the deaf can take both of my ears if they don't mind the size.

There was a touching photo in the papers today of Chavez and Achmadinejad together at the OPEC meetings in Riyadh.

Mahmoud said we should expect $200 a barrel oil soon.

Government would outwardly condemn this yet,

Both Government and the Exxon gang would be rubbing their hands over the double size of their golden egg cash flow.= TG

Hey! Vito says he's needed back in Canada!

hardboiled at November 21, 2007 10:46 AM

You said,

* * This guy stinks as much as Cretin.
Mindless partisanship is mindless people.* *
======================================

Liberals in pain will grasp at anything.

A little hardboiled thinking and one realizes that palm greasing for huge contracts is normal business every day.

The money is NOT Canadian tax revenue.

300K fades into nothingness when you consider the 200 plus DOCUMENTED Liberal scams that did suck up our tax dollars.

[Google Scamslist or BendGovernment.blogspot.com ]

And the grand Liberal spending continues. . .

================
Top 5: MPs With The Largest Telephone Bills

For the fiscal period dated April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007:

#1. Liberal MP Irwin Cotler $38,642
#2. Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla $26,558
#3. Liberal MP Joe Volpe $26,101
#4. Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj $25,940
#5. Liberal MP Mario Silva $24,357

========================= [ Thanks, Maz2 ]

One has to think a little before tossing insults.

Did you say, ** Mindless partisanship is mindless people. ** ? = TG

...Kathy Shaidle & Jonathan Kay outdo themselves...

That's hilarous. Too bad Shaidle hadn't been an invitee at the conference.

This just in: Conservatives agree that Stephen Harper is awesome, and Stephane Dion does not have it going on.

Logic is lost on the liberals..

This morning on CBC political free time we heard Claud Vachon [St Jean Que] speak..

A long tirade about Harper allowing torture in Afghanistan.

Jean, we are helping an elected government, not iron-fist dictating their every move.

Then a diatribe..
** democracy can not flourish without security for women and children and schools **, but in the next breath insists that ** Harper must commit to a pullout Nov 9, 2009 ** or something similar.

Well that*s like saying - *black is really white, believe me, and please vote for us Liberals*.

Dion, please, keep your silly soldiers off the airwaves. = TG

Hey TG - those Libranos have to keep the phone lines busy with their constituencies outside of Canada.

Any Librano hack sucks and blows the minority vote hard. That means they gotta make a few calls.

And no - 300k does not fade because of this.

Because the kleptocrats who lifted from our treasury happened to do it in grand style ((and substance!)) - doesn't rationalize a greasepot ex-PM on his way out should be accepting cash in brown envelopes from Schrieber.

Taxpayer revenue is moot anyway - this is an ethical - and possible legal topic.

And you live in quite the world - in the business I live and work in - it is unethical - and very much illegal to perform palm greasing.

You nest two arguments: 1. the Libs did it WAAAYY worse,
2. and Mulroney's amount is inconsequential and it's a normal course of business

If I didn't know any better - I'd think you were defending undocumented (and for 3 years, unreported] cash passed in hotel rooms.

Factually - this event would likely be subject to current anti-money laundering provisions in the criminal code.

But hey - the Liberals were WORSE. Surprise: of course they were!

Mindless partisanship man....is mindless.

Bend over, pray to Government, and accept the insertion gracefully TG. Politicians are just really misunderstood....

Well said Stan. Now I know where this PETA broad got her idea from.

Gullible's Travails; How Canadians Learned to Love, Kowtow, and Kiss the Ass of the Big Nanny/Daddy State.
Gullible, of course, was beached when his ship went glug-glug in a Katrina event. Gullible eventually awoke to find himself immobile; unable to rise; bound by a myriad of almost invisible threads.
The bureauc-rats and their commissars (SOBs) have done this to Canadians; many Canadians do not know this; they have willingly allowed it to come about; when they find out, they acquiesce without a whimper of a protest. Who will kick against the pricks? Who will be the Awakener? Where are you, Randy Hillier?
If ever?
TO police remind you that you are a criminal if you protect your children with an American made carseat. How good of them to remind CTV to remind us not to make a "key purchase".
...-

Cross-border shopping for a car seat illegal

Canadians who are taking advantage of the lofty loonie and doing some cross-border shopping should pass on making one key purchase in the U.S.: an infant or child car seat. That’s because it is illegal to use a car seat bought outside of Canada.

Every country has its own child seat standards and Canadian regulations differ from those in the United States. For example, U.S. certified booster seats have a lower weight limit than Canadian standards.

Car seats bought outside of Canada don’t meet standards set by Canada’s Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Cushions Safety Regulations (RSSR) or those of the Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (CMVSS), and do not bear the National Safety Mark required in Canada.

The Toronto Police Services sent out a news release this week to remind drivers that police are required to confiscate any car seats bought outside of Canada. Drivers can also be issued fines and/or demerit point penalties. Border guards can also take away the seats. ...(jack's newswatch)

Another man tasered in B.C., now in critical condition. Seems to me if the cops shot the man and killed him, there would be an inquiry and a big fuss, but taser him to death - oh well, big deal......just saying.

Maz2, good post on car seats made illegal "just because". It's similar to another issue near and dear to my heart - banned importation of new vehicles purchased in the U.S. Both problems with an identical cause - Canada deliberately moving away from harmonized standards with the U.S. thereby creating barriers of convenience.

There's a new website for those caught in this government sanctioned non-tariff trade barrier to private citizens:

http://www.carswithoutborders.com/about/

Nothing like a government department using foxes to count the chickens in the coop.

"Another man tasered in B.C., now in critical condition"...... sounds like they're stuck on dangerously stupid, as in dumb and dumber.

There are more treats in San Francisco for illegal immigrants than just Rice-A-Roni.

San Francisco approves ID cards that exclude gender.
"The card really makes gender a non-issue," says Kristina Wertz, legal director of the Transgender Law Center in San Francisco…
Supervisor Tom Ammiano, who introduced the measure, says illegal immigrants will benefit most. They will be able to open bank accounts and use the card for city services such as checking out library books.”

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20071121/a_id21.art.htm

Just saw the video of a woman in Venezuala storming into a news broadcast and slapping the anchor in the face. Each time they show it they say, don't get any ideas. What would happen if someone stormed into Newman, Duffy, or any other live event at ctv or cbc.
Live tv could be so much fun.

Hardboiled -- boy a good name for you! You find Mulroney's statement hilarious: "he had money pressures since he was "not a rich man" as the head of a young family with certain lifestyle expectations" I find it to be a very credible explanation of how he got involved in the unsavoury business of accepting cash payments from Schrieber. Yeah -- Mulroney has lots more money than most of us, but how much money you actually have is not at all an indicator of how much you THINK you need. I believe that lots of rich people become quite addicted to the lifestyle and are unable to accept living on a lower plane. Of course this does not make it o.k. to resort to questionable business practices in order to maintain a certain lifestyle. But Mulroney's comments just add the dimension of psychological motive to his side of the story -- and I find the comments totally believable. The business arrangements made with Schreiber (if the current court case where Schreiber is suing is a clear indication of what was involved)also make sense, although Schrebier may also have come forward because he perceived that Mulroney would be of use to him at some point. My bet is that Mulroney will come out the winner on this one and the Canadian people will be footing the bill.

Studying the marginalized
By Subha Arulvarathan
New degree program focuses on both immigrants and indigenous peoples.

A unique new program that brings to light issues of race and ethnicity is being launched at York University.

The interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program, ambitiously named Race, Ethnicity and Indigeneity (REI), is the first of its kind in Canada and seeks to empower marginalized communities and to foster academic research and discussion...

...“I mean I think that it’s really important to recognize that the problem is trying to bring together different areas of study that have historically been kept apart, which also means bringing those communities together so that when we talk about racism, we’re also talking about colonialism as it is currently, historically and currently lived by native peoples in our country...”

http://www.thecanadianimmigrant.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=792

Mulroney pleading poverty does strike me as a little rich.

For someone whose English is a second language, what is 'Bam the dog' supposed to mean?

Flying Imams Win First Round

Six Muslim imams arrested on a U.S. Airways jet in Minneapolis last November after a passenger raised suspicions about their pre-flight prayers and boarding activities won an early victory Tuesday in their federal lawsuit against the airline and the Metropolitan Airports Commission.
U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery's opinion and order rejected almost all of the defendants' arguments for dismissal. She said the question of whether airport officers had probable cause to arrest the men must be determined by the objective facts they had available at the time.

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1564287.html

Looks like the U.S. judiciary is suffering from a similar problem as Canada's.

There are a lot of things that are good enough for 300 million Americans but put Canucks in mortal danger. There are many cars that are built in Canada, shipped to the US, but not safe enough to come back to the Great White north. Like them Bumbardier Skidoos in Minnesota.

btw, I will use any holiday as an excuse to eat too much turkey and fall asleep in my chair watching footsball. ........... Go Green, eh.

CTV poll on tazers.
http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/static/AMdefault.html
So far it's 56 to 44% against self defence.

CTV(tass) has picked up on the new national park, CBCpravda , All Liberal All the Time, doesnt see it as green enough to report as Baird is the unjolly mean green giant.

by late tonight if they can fish out Taliban Jack we should have a statement that the park is not good enough, big enough, green enough, ecofriendly enough or native peopled enough. critics say!!!

San Francisco approves ID cards that exclude gender.

In reality, ID cards should exclude name and age, as well as gender.

We cannot be demanded to incriminate ourselves. Therefore, all of these personal details must be suppressed.

I can't verify the truth behind this comment, but have no reason to disbelieve it, bad spelling and all.

From judoforum dot com the following post re disqualified hijab wearing judo contestant in Manitoba.

"I was sitting by the parents at this tournament. I heard them have multiple conversations with a variety of people who told them that their girl could not fight with hijab. Their coach told them that the officials asked her if she was going to fight with it. The coach (who is a muslim women who fought for Egypt and never wore on in compition) told them that they have to take it off if they wanted her to compete. They told the coach no. The coach goes back to the officials with the answer. A little while latter the officials come by and talk to the parent and how they could not have anybody compete with the hijab. They were told if she steps onto the mat she would be disqualified. She goes on the mat and gets disqualified. Parents are filming this as document the disqulification. The second match happens like 10 mins later and the same result. Now here is the kicker. No less than 20 mins after being disqualified from the fisrt match (or if you will 10 mins after the last match) a tv crew arrives. Coincidence? I don't think so. Even after being told what would happen, they insist to send out their daughter to make some statement. This left me with a bad taste in my mouth because this was premeditated from the get go. I also talked to a parent from that club (who is also muslim) who told me this was the case. Also this is not the first time that these parents acted a hijab crusaders. These parents also did this on the basketball federation.

Even though this might look like a case of somebody fighting against discrimination this was nothing more than a well organized media event to promote the mom's agenda and to raise he profile in the muslim community. You might want to chose to belive otherwise, but I was there and saw/heard many of the onging thought out the day and I talked to the coach, the officials, and other parents from that club (who were muslims by the way)"

http://tinyurl.com/3xj735

I have been reading about the hit that Canadian banks are taking regarding their exposure to the US sub prime fiasco.

There are many commentors showing glee at the harm coming to the big bad banks. May I remind the Schadenfreude gang that much of the wealth in those banks are shares held by moms and pops trying to be self-reliant in retirement. Many are investing to help educate their kids.

To those who bad mouth the banks and their shareholders, remember this. If those investors lose enough money they will crowding you in your government entitlement line up.

People who take their hard earned money and rather than buying a big screen TV or two, they provide funds for others to start businesses to create jobs for the very people who mock them on the side-lines of the capitalist system.

This is nothing but envy in action.

I will add one more item here. I hear ads on the radio and TV regularly to "make your home equity work for you". If you are one of the suckers who thinks it's cool to sink further into debt with your mortgage so that you can pay off your credit cards, buy a new car and take that vacation you think you so richly deserve. Consider this. You are getting older and the cost of living will continue to rise.

Try to look into the future and picture where you will be a ten or twenty years. Especially if investors stop investing and you lose your job or your house.

We all have a vested interest in the prosperity of others as well as ourselves. It is folly to jeer anyone who is losing wealth. When one of us loses wealth, we all are poorer for it.

howabout everyone that goes into these competitions wear a belt made of pork rinds? or at least dipped in bacon grease.

was it a CBCpravda camera crew? suspect they would be there spending away the last 15% of the 1.2 billion tax subsidy.

Att. Aaron!
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Dr. Did Little Dion's Bedtime Tory.
Kyoto says it's a howler; Ow-wooooo...-

If anyone thinks Dion is popular in Quebec, they're in for a big shock...

When he appeared on the Télé-Québec public affairs show Les Francs-tireurs last fall, interviewer Patrick Lagacé asked him to prove that he has a sense of humour.

Mr. Dion replied by asking whether he was familiar with the world's shortest bedtime story.

“Do you know Bam, The Dog?”

Mr. Lagacé admitted he did not, so Mr. Dion recited it for him: “The car goes by, and bam, the dog. Now go to sleep.”

Mr. Lagacé was incredulous. “It's not funny,” he said as Mr. Dion laughed almost uncontrollably and, it turned out, viewers squirmed....-
http://hallsofmacadamia.blogspot.com/2007/01/if-youre-boring-horses-ass.html

another one from Pravda- you see its the joos fault.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/reportsfromabroad/macdonald/20071121.html

Over heard at the last protest outside the DC Israeli embassy:

"Hey get your balls off my boot heel!" (Riot cop to Pro-Hezbollah demonstrator)

More Gullible's Travails.
Socialist tyranny owns the citizen and the children.
Ask Ivan*.
...-

Smoke and we'll take your kids away
[...]
George:

Steve--we lost this fight long ago. When the governments ban smoking in 'public places' like bars etc. and no one fought the word 'public' we gave them free reign to impose whatever law they like on us. Public means funded by the taxpayer. Bars and restaurants are private places owned and operated by the owner, not the government. They should have been given leeway to decide if they were smoking or non smoking. Playing with words is a government's way to coerce a stupid public that no longer thinks for itself. Of course the Ontario government allowed smoking in their casinos.
Governments are under the impression that our children are theirs to control. Remember the children that were removed from the parents because they spanked them with a little stick? It didn't hurt the child but the Ontario government saw fit to do this. They neglect to mention their own actions as noted by Foster Mom above. I guess it is a 'do as I say, not as I do'? Remember Anne McLellan passing all the horrendous anti-smoking laws, while she herself smokes?
As long as we allow any government to dictate our lives this is what we will get. It is up to the citizen to say enough is enough. But we won't. something good might be on TC! ...-
http://stevejanke.com/archives/247260.php
...-

*A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Perhaps there is an analogy in the dead dog joke. I suggest that the dog that is dead is his own dog whom he named Kyoto.

I am laughing uncontrollably at that one.

Battle for Sangisar Afghanistan
Exclusive footage from Canadian reconnaissance squadron, which led weekend battle in Sangisar. Video courtesy of Cpl. Philippe Lemieux.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=695_1195651326

With a few extra minutes today, I decided to watch the CBS Evening News. What a surprise! They actually reported some good news from Iraq, noting that 1,600 refugees PER DAY are returning, and that Sunni militia are helping keep the peace in one neighbourhood of Baghdad. (Amidayah? not sure of the spelling). They showed pictures of a bustling shopping area, and noted that as little as two weeks ago, it was deserted. Now, stores are flourishing, and the only gas station for miles is back in business.

Of course, being CBS, they could not let a good story be; they had to add qualms about what might happen if the US stopped paying these Sunnis. Gee, if someone stopped paying the police, there might be problems? Who'da thunk?!

Bahbah says: "That is why the people are returning, they know the Americans and their Iraqi allies have won." ...-

Road From Damascus ~~ Iraqis are voting with their feet by returning home after exile
Times (UK) [...]

Commenter Bahbah says it best:

"The convoy [mentioned] will be protected and the path they travel is through much of Anbar province, where Al Qaeda has been decimated. The terorists no longer have the infrastructure in place to mount the kind of attacks they were doing before. The locals are pointing out the foreigners (who are usually the fodder for the suicide bombs) so the terrorist have no place in Anbar to hide anymore. I was reading an article about OBL’s missive last month about how Al Qaeda had made mistakes in Iraq and needed to regroup and change their tactics to get the locals on their side. I think the non-arab press has really missed the significance of that message. To many Jihadists and Iraqis, it was almost a declaration of surrender, for it was the FIRST time OBL has admitted any mistakes. The loss of face he suffered in the eyes of his supporters was huge, and to the Iraqis, it was a sign that AL Qaeda was losing big time. That is why the people are returning, they know the Americans and their Iraqi allies have won." ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929102/posts

Warning! Better pay close attention to John West at 6:16.

Beware also when a financial firm with a BAD reputation like HouseHold Finance fades away and a new one appears with the clean sounding name something like HBC.. or was it that old nasty.. Investor*s Syndicate?

Young folks, so vunerable to all the sharks swimming in the financial pool.

No free lunch and the pain when somebody broadsides your 6 month old $400 monthly payment car or the condition of your furniture when you start your Brick payments in January of *09.

Resist, and as the Eng guy says.. ** save your money.**. = TG

Senlis Council turns "hawkish".
The reactions by ForMin MacKay, by Taliban Jack, by Hezbollah Coderre are here. Confusion reigns. MacKay should undergo an "agonizing reappraisal*" of his policies.
...-

Attack Taliban training camps in Pakistan, Senlis Council tells NATO

OTTAWA - An international group often cited by peace activists is recommending NATO broaden the war in southern Afghanistan and attack Taliban training camps in northern Pakistan.

The Senlis Council, a European-based think-tank known more for its development and aid research, is also suggesting the number of troops in the war-torn region double to 80,000.

Pakistan is clearly unable to control its northern border and NATO could offer military assistance to the government of President Pervez Musharraf - but if the offer is rejected, training camps and insurgent hideouts should be attacked, says the council's Canadian manager. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929101/posts
(*H/T John Foster Dulles)

GM, Canadian Government Bet Jobs Against Environment

... and then they arrange to lose on both counts.

Per this column from the Globe and Mail's Jeff Simpson, Canadian auto workers were celebrating this week with the announcement that GM will spend three quarters of a billion dollars refurbishing an Oshawa, Ontario auto plant to build the come-back Camaro. It's cool. The Camaro's cool (or it was a quarter century ago), the jobs are cool (3,900 times over) and the local investment is cool.

But the climate is warm and getting warmer, and Canada and GM continue to expend more energy contributing to the problem than trying to face it down.

desmogblog.com/gm-canadian-government-bet-jobs-against-environment

[. . . . ]We at the DeSmogBlog are, obviously, all about saving the world. But we try to make time in each day to be all about making money, as well. And that makes us ask: Why does GM continue betting on this loser strategy? And why does the Canadian government line up and cheer when it happens?
================== Yeah,
and why would the gbmt not issue Canada sales clearance for EVs that fully qualify under D.O.T. regulations? Two Electric vehicle firms in Quebec and BC? News video...

TonyGuitar.blogspot.com

Exxon, Chevron, Shell and GM funding is mandatory for winning any election in Canada.

Harper is betwixt a rock and a hard place. = TG

bobzorunkle at November 21, 2007 4:54 PM

Re: your comment about non-flying imams "winning first round". I gather most motions to dismiss are rejected, so I wouldn't feel dejected if I were you.

Prediction: They will lose this suit when all the info is revealed including the goings on at that little conference in which they discussed propaganda strategies, of which this staged drama was most assuredly one. They're gonna lose, and they're gonna regret this little stunt.

Mao Stlong say: do not lead editolial; consensus say.
...-
Day of the skeptics
National Post
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Is China about to get a lot smaller? Last week, the Financial Times published an extraordinary warning from Albert Keidel, a former senior official at the U.S. Treasury's Asia office; Mr. Keidel observed that mainland China has just begun participating for the first time in detailed countrywide surveys of currency purchasing power conducted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). These surveys are performed so that the World Bank can produce reliable estimates of the size and distribution of various countries' real economic power, irrespective of illusions created by exchange rates. For years, the World Bank has essentially been using very rough data on Chinese purchasing power parity (PPP) gathered in the late 1980s. The ADB issued its new preliminary PPP estimates in late July. If they are accurate, the World Bank stands on the verge of having to reduce its figures for the size of the overall Chinese economy by a staggering 40%. [...]

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the global development front, another gang of skeptics is celebrating a different act of statistical revision -- one that is unambivalently happy.

According to documents obtained by The Washington Post, the UN AIDS program, which often has been lambasted for irresponsible scaremongering, is about to admit that much of the dire rhetoric it has promulgated over the last decade is simply mistaken. The agency has traditionally based its estimates of the spread of AIDS on infection rates among pregnant women being treated in hospitals. In poorer countries, we now know, such a sampling procedure turns out to be wildly inappropriate, as it includes too many sexually active young women in major urban centres. [...]

It is remarkable that two stories of such magnitude should hit the papers less than a week apart -- that our mental image of the world should require such sudden, violent remapping in so short a time. It serves as a useful reminder that the "consensus" of global policy experts is always founded on sensitive instruments of economic, social and scientific measurement that may prove to be miscalibrated -- especially when one considers the enormous incentives for politically motivated tampering that are almost always present.

Would it be opportunistic for us to note that if we can go so far wrong in counting AIDS cases, or figuring out the spending power of a yuan, we have even less warrant to be confident of the expert "consensus" when it comes to far more complex enterprises -- like, say, predicting the future of the planet's climate? ...-
http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=9e59222b-0173-4ace-954a-3ddfc7f309ed

(Re comment above: MacKay is Defence Minister.)

That*s Canada... This is USA . . .

Gompertz, the owner of Eco Auto, Inc. He was mentioned in an article on MSNBC about eco-car dealers in the U.S.

Lynne Mason over at Electric Cars Are For Girls has gotten hold of Gompertz for a lengthy Q&A on what it's like to sell EVs and other green cars in Bozeman, Montana.

Gompertz sells ZENN, Miles, Evader scooters, SNUGG electric bicycles, and Smart cars, and will ship them to you no matter where you live in America.

How does he feel about the two NEV makers on his list? Gompertz told Mason that, **For electric cars, we chose the Zenn and the Miles. They're both excellent quality electric cars that you can plug in like a cell phone, and both easily adaptable to Montana's 35mph NEV speed limit.**

======== AutobogGreen.com
= TG

plug in like a cell phone? great, I'll plug mine into the cigarette lighter spot in my SUV.maybe I can tow it around as a spare car in case the oil runs out.

Respect and exclusion

Among the various second-tier news items crushed into obscurity under Karlheinz Schreiber's massive $300,000 wad last week was this little nugget out of Manitoba: On Tuesday, Winnipeg's Church of The Rock prevented a troupe of aboriginal dancers from performing on church premises. "Native spiritual dancing has its roots in a different spiritual belief system that is incongruent with traditional Christian worship," Pastor Mark Hughes said. "I don't think a Buddhist temple would allow a Christian pastor to speak about Jesus." ...-
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/editorialsletters/index.html

Apparently, soldiers in the US are offered a signing bonus (up to 30,000) to re-enlist. Unfortunately, if they're injured then the military asks for the balance back. Classy.
http://kdka.com/local/military.signing.bonuses.2.571660.html

but maz2 , this is Canaduh.

when Swiss air went down ,everyone except Christians were there at the memorial, they were told to stay away. the fact that most of the passengers were Catholic and the plane crashed was apparently proof enough to the government of the time that being a christian just wasnt working.

Joanne: "Another man tasered in B.C., now in critical condition."
Liz J: "sounds like they're stuck on dangerously stupid, as in dumb and dumber."

This guy was:

1) Pepper sprayed
2) Tasered
3) Billy clubed

He is in the hospital with head injuries. Which of the above three do you think is most likely to cause a head injury?

Do please tell me what the cops should have done.

Great string of posts and reader tips!

FWIW- Hardboiled you are absolutely right about Mulroney! However your gratuitous little partisan slur relegates you to half-baked!

Cal2, That was great! Now is the time to get into the comedy writer game. . . while they are out on strike. . = TG

Bolton on Hiding the Facts and Accepting the Unacceptable

Ambassador John Bolton: "I think Iran is very close to acquiring a nuclear weapons capability. I think they’ve mastered the science and technology to do so, and I think deferring to the Europeans over the past four-plus years for their negotiation, which has failed to dissuade the Iranians from this strategic decision they have been pursuing, I think it leaves us with very few options. I think we’re down to two basically: one is regime change in Teheran, and the other as a last resort is the targeted use of military force against Iran’s nuclear weapons program."

An interesting perspective from an Australian female convert:

Using Muslim women as a weapon against us

I thought it was going really well, until about fifteen minutes from the end when one of the participants blew a gasket. It was on the issue of women and the discrimination women can face in some Muslim institutions. As a speaker I don’t believe in apologetics and so I will be quite candid that there are issues we as Muslim women face, but I also make it quite clear that I don’t believe sexism is Islamic, nor is it something we have to put up with as Muslims, it’s our ‘gender jihad’ to use the proggy Muslim phrase. Anyway the participant just exploded with condescension about how oppressed Muslim women are, how excluded they are from political processes etc.

Now, Muslim women, feminism, gender issues etc. is an area I feel pretty comfortable with, so I started to explain that experiences for Muslim women vary from culture to culture and as soon as I opened my mouth she just rolled her eyes and looked away. It didn’t matter that I pointed out the Muslim world has produced more female prime-ministers than Australia has, that women in Muslim majority cultures have alternative fora for accessing religiousity and spirituality (eg. historically Muslim women might visit the popular shrines moreso than mosques in some areas, or hold religious meetings and circles in homes etc.) and that while sexism does exist in the Muslim world, the experiences of Muslim women can very depending on a whole range of factors including class, socio-economic factors etc. There was nothing that I could say to this woman that would shift her from the idea that Muslim women are universally oppressed and victimised and by implication it is the fault of Islam and Muslim men.

I think it rattled me because I felt my candidness and openness with the audience had been used against me. It’s the issue I think all Muslim feminists have to deal with - when our desire to combat un-Islamic sexism and discrimination to improve the lives of Muslim women (and by extension Muslim men) is turned against us and used as a weapon to fire shots at our beautiful religion and our dear Muslim brothers, fathers, and sons.

SDA wil hit 7 million this week! Wow!
Congrats Kate, and thanks.

No doubt when I suggested tough military vehicles be all electric on my blog, No rad, no air intake or exhaust to block etc, some may have chuckeled . .

Well, who da thot it..

youtube.com/watch?v=JVKieR8_1pM

Also a video of rental cars that stack to a space of one pick-up truck.

Write up is at AutoBloGreen.com

Scroll down a few. = TG

Is anyone else getting fed up with the four feet high shrimp and armchair General, Denis Coderre accusing our Forces of handing over Taliban Prisoners to be tortured? It appears he went to Afghanistan on his useless trip to test the Tim Horton outlet because he learned nothing and got a cold welcome. Now he appears to have it in for the Forces.
Isn't it about time the Speaker of the House, Mediocre Millikin, called the little prick out of order?

Brokaw: Washington Post Print Paper 'Probably' Dead in 10 Years
Yes but,even he is behind the times on this one.
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2007/20071120095553.aspx

I want the writers to stay off so long that we have to watch reruns of "adventures in rainbow country" and "the forest rangers"

everyone can pay CBCpravda their due.

hacksaws cost a ton in Trona

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2007/11/21/tto-downspouts.html

Trona ,where we cant do anything ourselves.

9pm, fully 21 hours after the calgary herald, cbcpravda, "on time , none of the time"

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/11/21/north-land.html

this was too much for pravda's liberal agenda,they just couldnt believe it

hmph. halfway there !!!

Report Puts Hidden War Costs at $1.6T

By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics WriterWed Nov 14, 6:23 AM ET

The economic costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are estimated to total $1.6 trillion — roughly double the amount the White House has requested thus far, according to a new report by Democrats on Congress' Joint Economic Committee.

The report, released Tuesday, attempted to put a price tag on the two conflicts, including "hidden" costs such as interest payments on the money borrowed to pay for the wars, lost investment, the expense of long-term health care for injured veterans and the cost of oil market disruptions.

The $1.6 trillion figure, for the period from 2002 to 2008, translates into a cost of $20,900 for a family of four, the report said. The Bush administration has requested $804 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined, the report stated.

For the Iraq war only, total economic costs were estimated at $1.3 trillion for the period from 2002 to 2008. That would

'lyin' brian mulruin, canuckistan's version of fiddler on the roof:

3w.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=0d2cf487-0345-49aa-8f95-7e9b3c9420d3&k=47644

'if I were a rich man, yada dada dada dada da da deee . . . .'

and STILL you righties defend him to the last drop of blood, stolen nickel, gasp, etc etc.

Funny CBC report on the protection of the two large northern areas (link posted by cal2). John Baird does not seem to have been given the courtesy of a first name. Pretty sloppy journalism I would say.

Hardboiled

If Mulroney did anything illegal including accepting bribes then I hope that for the sake of Canada that he be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Of course I would hope the same standard apply to every holder of elected office or public trust including every living PM former or office holder. Trying to be impartial here, I think that what JC & PM did or were alleged to have done makes BM look like a piker.

Hillary Clinton a lesbian?

With her “personal” aide who’s been described as “mysterious” and “glamorous”?

The speculation that the former first lady has a thing for ladies has the pundits panting. The rumblings from the edges of the press brigades are gathering force as the smell of scandal to the press is like blood in the water to pirhanas. The story is that the Los Angeles Times is sitting on a major sex scandal involving one of the candidates. Given the fact that if it involved a Republican, it would have appeared well before any facts were fully gathered, attention turns to the Democrats.

Now someone in the government, a Department of Justice official speaks–off the record, of course–at Big Head DC:

“I am close enough to Hillary and [her personal aide]Huma [Abedin] to tell you that this ‘rumor’ is true,” the official says. “It is well known inside her campaign that Hillary and Huma are an item.

“If you call Hillary’s residence in DC first thing in the morning, Huma answers the phone,” the official continues. “Same thing late at night and on the road. It’s a closely guarded secret that Hillary’s inner circle guards at all costs.”

UPDATE:

Hillary Clinton a lesbian? Coming out?

The rumors, whispers and speculation has been heavy this week about the relationship of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s relationship with her personal aide, Huma Abedin. Supposedly, the Los Angeles Times has a story about a sex scandal involving one of the presidential candidates that it’s been sitting on.

The blogosphere’s been a-buzz.

Read rest of the story:

http://www.bloggernews.net/111403

Comments are being screened on SDA now???

cal2 - Christians weren't told to "stay away" from the Swiss Air memorial service. That was during the period of Chretien's office issuing a ban on Christians using the name of Jesus in public. So the prayer must not end, In Jesus' Name. Ditto at the 9/11 memorial service on the hill in Ottawa.

No John - comments that include multiple references to sex are almost certain to trigger the spam filter.

I haven't had time to clear them. Too busy.

Watch CBC's interview with Mr. Dz's Mom.

Reminds me too much of my Mom. She's a Hungarian immigrant who raised me solely by her hard work. I remember how upset she was when I got lost in Paris, France one time.

Imagine finding out after the fact all this could have been avoided.

http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/bc/ondemand/video/CISOWSKItaser.wmv

But the coldness of the RCMP continues. Note the part where she arrives after bussing it back to Vancouver and has to WAIT 20 minutes in their office for someone to tell her her son is dead.

meantime three cops walk by her and look at her that made her more nervous. The female cop breaking the news even called her by a wrong name to boot.

Plus she's standing when they tell her after initially sitting. Stupidity abounds with that detachment.

"Ditto at the 9/11 memorial service on the hill in Ottawa"

...oh SO that is what that gathering was.

Shameful.

Brian Mulrooony wants to make a deal.

If the Liberals return the 300 Billion$ they stole to Canadian Government coffers..

Then Brian will return $300K to the Government of Germany from whence the bonu$ came. = TG