Video: Meltdown on an alleged Air Canada flight
By Michelle Malkin • December 13, 2007 11:48 PM

What’s going on here? A South Asian man screaming “Allahu Akbar” and “f***ing white people” freaks out on a plane. He yells at other passengers to “Shoot me! Shoot me!” He’s restrained by several large men. The vid is hot on Liveleak and YouTube, where it was posted yesterday. The person who posted it claims: “I don’t know what happened here. But this happened on my Air Canada plane ride to London, England in December 6th, 2007 from Toronto…My partner and I decided we should videotape this in the interest of sharing the experience we went through on this plane with those interested.”

http://michellemalkin.com/2007/12/13/video-meltdown-on-an-alleged-air-canada-flight/

It's getting close to that time of year, so for those of you who may be in need of some formatted for printing Christmas Carol Song Sheets, I wish to draw your attention to:

sagaciousiconoclast.blogspot.com/2006/12/christmas-carols.html

Note that in Silent Night we have "Sleep in heavenly peace". In O Little Town of Bethlehem we have "Peace to men on earth". In It Came Upon a Midnight Clear we have "Peace on the earth, good will to men". In Hark! The Herald Angels Sing we have "Peace on earth and mercy mild". In Do You Hear What I Hear? we have "Pray for peace, people, everywhere", and in God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen we have "Good tidings of comfort and joy!".

Yes I know that Aristotle said "We make war so that we may live in peace", but for me, the trans-ideological beauty of Christmas is its message of peace on earth and good will toward men. Sometimes, even in war, we need to think about that. Christmas is that time for me.

Hats off to air canada on this one. If I was sitting close,I would have intervened and the situation would have escalated.Why is this not on the news? We know,don't answer. The religion of peace CANNOT DO ANYTHING WRONG IN CANADA,unless they choke their childern and then that gets a day or two of news. Two weeks ago the muzzies were up in arms about how a female could not play soccer because of the 'sacred'hijab,now a young woman has the life choked out of her,not because of the hijab,because it is now a voluntary symbol.Can anyone out there name me an Islamic ruled country,or an islamic festered country that they would want to live in?

Great to read that Jason Kenny commented publicly about the CIC/MacLeans/Mark Steyn issue.

The next step is to remove the Canadian Human Rights Commission from adjudicating anything re freedom of speech/hate speech or freedom of hate publication issues.

The radical elements in our society are trashing our social fabric because they can. They get away with using the HRCs in a manner in which they were never intended to be used and the result is Libel chill/extreme political correctness.

A subsequent step is to begin dismantling the Immigration/Refugee Boards and begin to bring some common sense to the files of Immigration, Refugees, & Official Multiculturalism. It is all tied up in a package and can be addressed - even with a minority gov't in place.

A few of us phoned the CHRC and, in a previous thread, described the responses we got. Anyone else with a story?

It almost sounded like they very quickly put the phones on automatic and/or made it very difficult to talk with a live person. I wonder just how many phone calls or information was passed on to anyone of importance. Interesting to know also if the number of calls were even recorded and passed on.

Ahem. Like any non-partisan couldn’t have called this one a looooong time ago.

forums.macleans.ca/advansis/?mod=for&act=pos&eid=43

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Trash day
Paul Wells | December 13, 2007 | 04:14:32 | Permalink
paul.wells@macleans.rogers.com
It says here (www.ledevoir.com/2007/12/13/168301.html) in Le Devoir that according to "persistent rumours," the release of the long-awaited Paillé report (op. cit., ad nauseam) is coming today. Today!

Why today, you ask? Because Muldoon is up at the Schreiber committee thingie, and while all eyes are riveted there, it's a perfect time to post a very expensive, eye-glazingly uninteresting report on the internet without further ado. The Tories have been waiting a long time to slip this one out when nobody would be looking. A long time. Two months, in fact. Turns out Muldoon is still good for something after all!

Now, releases timed for minimum attention are sensitive to attention, and one fears Hélène's story will spook the government and delay the report still further. Whenever it does come out, do be sure to remind yourself, as well as any electors in Vaudreuil-Soulanges whom you might know, that the whole production -- choice of unrepentant sovereignist commissioner with a history of strongarming political opponents; flashy press conference announcement; big budget of your tax dollars for wild goose chase; stunned incomprehension when report arrived; two-month runaround before release of report; presiding over a Tory polling binge that actually cost more than any previous Liberal polling binge; immediate promise of a moratorium on polling; immediate apology to the Senate for misleading it by promising a moratorium on polling; and now today's trash-day release -- is the work of dapper, scruffy patronage hack Michael Fortier, who will be seeking your vote in the next election. And really, why shouldn't he get it?

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In fact, not just a rumour Mr. Wells. CTV/CP have more (www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071213/polling_probe_071213/20071213?hub=QPeriod), where it is noted that Paille’s report shows that not only did he find no wrongdoing by Martin he also found that the Harper Conservatives are far worse with polling than the Liberals, spending almost double what the supposedly driven-by-polls Martin Liberals spent and polling an average of 2 polls per business day.

We’re all waiting for the chorus of outrage from readers here.

Waiting...

Still waiting...

Ah well. Maybe on Harper's next flip flop, abandoned principle, broken promise, hypocrisy, reversal, etc. we'll maybe hear a peep from the chorus.

or maybe not.

At least we know we won't have to wait long to find out with Deceivin' Stephen.

I don’t know which part of this story (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2007/12/12/2007-12-12_muslim_hero_breaks_up_train_beating-1.html)I like the most and which part I dislike the most.

Do I like the Muslim helping the Jews aspect the most? The bravery of an individual citizen standing up for what is right and to mob violence without concern for personal safety? Maybe it’s the dispelling of so many conservative stereotypes in a single story?

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Muslim hero breaks up train beating
BY MELISSA GRACE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, December 12th 2007, 2:13 AM
The Good Samaritan who tried to stop the Christmas-versus-Chanukah subway beating has two black eyes and a sore nose - but no regrets.
"I did what I thought was right," said Hassan Askari, 20. "I did the best that I could to help."

Askari, a Bangladeshi Muslim studying at Berkeley College in Manhattan, was on a Q train headed to Brooklyn late Friday when he came to the aid of young women confronted by a group of 10 thugs.
Fearful for the women's safety, he pushed one of the men away - and was then pounced on by the group, he said.

"They grabbed me and punched and beat me up," Askari said.

"They punched me first. I didn't get a chance to punch him back."

Askari, all of 5-feet-7 and 140 pounds, said he was left with a swollen face.

He said he didn't go to the doctor because he's too busy working two waiter jobs and doesn't have the money for medical care.

He was mystified as to why the men became so outraged when the women and their male friends wished them a "Happy Chanukah" while they were yelling "Merry Christmas" on the train car.
"I don't understand," he said. "They were just being nice."

One of the Jewish victims, Walter Adler, expressed amazement that Askari took the risk to try to help.

"That a random Muslim kid helped some Jewish kids, that's what's positive about New York," said Adler, 23, who suffered a broken nose and required four stitches to close a lip wound.

Askari's interference allowed Adler to pull the emergency brake, which alerted police to trouble on the train.

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(Interesting side note: Not a mention in the article of the fact that the "mob" was all white. According to standards of expert media review hereabouts, I guess we should start in on the cant of The Media bias here, right? Or do I have that wrong? I can never keep it straight with The Vast Leftwing Media Conspiracy and which media reports we have to ignore in order to maintain the myth of widespread, pervasive, conservative-hating bias.)

You're a liar, Ted.
You said you were waiting.
And then you didn't wait.
How can we trust you now?

You said you were waiting.
And then you didn't wait.

Posted by: Ted at December 14, 2007 2:42 AM
Posted by: Ted at December 14, 2007 2:47 AM
Posted by: Ted at December 14, 2007 2:47 AM
Posted by: Ted at December 14, 2007 2:50 AM
Posted by: Ted at December 14, 2007 2:55 AM

The above time sequence is typical of an impatient, attention-seeking troll. Enjoy your 13 minutes of fame and unchallenged authority!

Some days I feel like Perry Mason in
The Case of the Restless Tedhead:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zlG-i2J6qI

G'night, y'all ;-)

Over 100 Prominent Scientists Warn UN Against 'Futile' Climate Control Efforts

"Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming."

Link Here : http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=164002

and here
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=d4b5fd23-802a-23ad-4565-3dce4095c360

For all your AGW supporters, don't worry, your faith in the new religion is much too strong to ever waver.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=501316&in_page_id=1811&ito=1490 .................. the pope has spoken ... global warming is junk science

poor ted. while the rest of us have jobs and sleep, ted is a university student whose prime occupation is making DNA contributions to his gym socks.

Pity Baird doesn't agree with the pope

"Baird says Canada wholeheartedly believes in the commonly accept science behind global warming.

Baird says Canada supports the overwhelming evidence produced by the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."

From 580CFRA web

http://www.cfra.com/headlines/index.asp?cat=2&nid=54110

So how long before Harper accepts emission targets??

The Islamic/MSM whitewash of murderous Islam continues.
The takkiya, aka lies, dissimulation, doubletalk of Islam, is exposed in these words: "rose to the defence of their religion".
Takkiya is inherent to Islam; it's a rhetorical device used to defend Islam. Takkiya is intended to deceive the infidel.
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Muslim: Girl's death not about religion

TORONTO -- Islamic leaders rose to the defence of their religion yesterday as the Muslim community continued to grieve the death of a 16-year-old girl - and deny suggestions that her slaying should in any way be interpreted as a reflection on their faith.

Islam condemns violence and teaches adherents not to force their beliefs upon others, Sheik Alaa El-Sayyed, imam at Mississauga's Islamic Society of North America, told a news conference in the suburban city west of Toronto that was once home to Aqsa Parvez. ...- http://tinyurl.com/2ov2wz

Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) [...]

Enforces extremist Wahhabi theological writ in America’s mosques [...]

According to terrorism expert Steven Emerson, ISNA “is a radical group hiding under a false veneer of moderation”; “convenes annual conferences where Islamist militants have been given a platform to incite violence and promote hatred” (for instance, al Qaeda supporter and PLO official Yusuf Al-Qaradhawi was invited to speak at an ISNA conference); has held fundraisers for terrorists (after Hamas leader Mousa Marzook was arrested and eventually deported in 1997, ISNA raised money for his defense); has condemned the U.S. government’s post-9/11 seizure of Hamas’ and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s financial assets; and publishes a bi-monthly magazine, Islamic Horizons, that “often champions militant Islamist doctrine.”

Adds Emerson: “I think ISNA has been an umbrella, also a promoter of groups that have been involved in terrorism. I am not going to accuse the ISNA of being directly involved in terrorism. I will say ISNA has sponsored extremists, racists, people who call for Jihad against the United States.” ...-
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6178

Sigh...

Ted manages to find ONE example in the ENTIRE world of a good muslim kid and uses that to try to suggest that ALL muslims are just misunderstood.

Guess what, Ted? Following on from your example, I should note that we had a pet cat once that didn't eat mice! So, therefore, all you people who claim that cats eat mice must really be fools!

For some big city lawyer, you're really quite pathetic, aren't you Partisan "Non-Partisan" Ted?

And regarding the polling...what would you like us to say or do, Ted? Renounce our support for the Conservatives because of this and run to Mommy Dion and that bastion of all that is right and good, the Liberal Party? Denounce the Tories for wasting $1M or so of taxpayer dollars and support the Grits who have wasted BILLIONS?

Get a clue. For the record, I am a card-carrying Conservative supporter and I am NOT happy with the excessive polling undertaken by the Tories...shame on them...but I am willing to overlook small transgressions as long as they stay away from the big transgressions. If I were to support big transgressions, I'd be apt to support the Grits...and there's no way on earth I'd like to do that.

If/when the Conservatives start committing big transgressions, we'll stand up and turf them out...just like we did with Mulroney.

Ted obviously hates the Prime Minister and he's having difficulties coping with this blog because the discussion here does not adhere to that particular favourite theme of his.

Best to ignore him, there's something wrong with someone like that, not playing with a full deck, missing a few marbles, know what I mean? Don't make eye contact, no sudden movements...

Another poll gone wrong? Horribly wrong? No. Big Santa by the bureauc-rats has been aborted. It's the law of unintended consequences playing the mischievous elf. The Law has been called in. Next: the HRC will spring into action and haul Big Santa into its sharia court.
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Police Probe Letters from Santa

Canada Post has stopped delivery of letters from Santa in Ottawa.

The move comes after the Crown Corporation discovered some letters to children in the Write to Santa program contained inappropriate messages.
At least 10 letters contained some demeaning or insulting language.
Santa letter program manager Cindy Daoust says Canada Post is "devastated." ...-
http://cfra.com/headlines/index.asp

HRC/CanPress/MSM promotes its brand of "racism" by using the words "Asian fishermen". It's the left-liberal-socialist brand of multiculturalism/tolerance/diversity. Note the threat to you: "an action plan to help eliminate".

Down with/eliminate the HRC and its sharia courts.
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Report says racism behind attacks on Asian fishermen
The Canadian Press [...]

The commission will release its final report in the spring of 2008. It says it will outline conclusions and an action plan to help eliminate these incidents in the future. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/ys8u37

It's a tough pill to have to swallow when reality and basic economics don't match up with your ideology and wishful thinking, but someone's gotta deliver it.

www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1692027,00.html?bcsi_scan_1E2ED1D1347D69AE=3cxg+E4OAMylpSBRlOwLuxoAAACqNPwL&bcsi_scan_filename=0,9171,1692027,00.html

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Tax Cuts Don't Boost Revenues

If there's one thing that Republican politicians agree on, it's that slashing taxes brings the government more money. "You cut taxes, and the tax revenues increase," President Bush said in a speech last year. Keeping taxes low, Vice President Dick Cheney explained in a recent interview, "does produce more revenue for the Federal Government." Presidential candidate John McCain declared in March that "tax cuts ... as we all know, increase revenues." His rival Rudy Giuliani couldn't agree more. "I know that reducing taxes produces more revenues," he intones in a new TV ad.

If there's one thing that economists agree on, it's that these claims are false. We're not talking just ivory-tower lefties. Virtually every economics Ph.D. who has worked in a prominent role in the Bush Administration acknowledges that the tax cuts enacted during the past six years have not paid for themselves--and were never intended to. Harvard professor Greg Mankiw, chairman of Bush's Council of Economic Advisers from 2003 to 2005, even devotes a section of his best-selling economics textbook to debunking the claim that tax cuts increase revenues.

[...]I decided to find out what Arthur Laffer [i.e. the one who came up with the Laffer Curve idea] thought. [...] About the best I could get out of him on the question of whether the Bush tax cuts have paid for themselves was "I don't know."

[...] But few economists in the 1970s even considered that real-world tax rates could be on the wrong side of the Laffer Curve.

[...]Laffer is convinced that the reduction of the top tax rate from 70% to 28% during the Reagan years paid for itself[...] But Reagan's tax cuts for the nonrich were big money losers, and it took the fiscal discipline of Bill Clinton to mop up the resulting red ink. Laffer gushes with praise for Clinton, but he's also a fan of Clinton's successor. "What Clinton did was, he gave Bush the fiscal flexibility to do what was right," Laffer says. [...] In other words, the Bush tax cuts were meant to create big deficits. But Laffer's O.K. with that. "The Laffer Curve should not be the reason you raise or lower taxes," he says. Perhaps not, but it does make for great campaign promises.

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One of the funniest parts of the article? Laffer relying on Muslim philosophy to explain the roots of his theories!

"The idea that high tax rates brought diminishing returns was not controversial or even new--Laffer traces it to 14th century Muslim philosopher Ibn Khaldun."

And just to be clear for the slow among us: it is not so much the cutting of taxes that I oppose - the right kind of tax cut fosters development, investing, improved productivity and competitiveness so I'm on board with Harper's latest announced cuts generally - but the politicians lying about the effect that I object to, i.e. that the tax cuts will "pay for themselves". In other words, we want tax cuts and we don't want to be honest with voters and tell them that tax cuts mean spending choices and spending cuts.

This isn't Ted the lawyer at Bay and Wellington, right? Tell me this is some other Ted.

Angus Read polling on Doer's performance in Government.... much like Troll Ted's late night excursions the majority of poll respondents seem to be out of their mind.

Push back Poll ?

a few excerpts from,

Guess Who Really Pays the Taxes
by Stephem Moore

2. What income group pays the most federal income taxes today?

The latest data show that a big portion of the federal income tax burden is shoul­dered by a small group of the very richest Americans. The wealthiest 1 percent of the population earn 19 per­cent of the income but pay 37 percent of the income tax. The top 10 percent pay 68 percent of the tab. Meanwhile, the bottom 50 percent—those below the median income level—now earn 13 percent of the income but pay just 3 percent of the taxes. These are proportions of the income tax alone and don’t include payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare.

3. But didn’t the Bush tax cuts favor the rich?

The New York Times reported recently that the average family in America with an income of $10 million or more received a half-million-dollar tax cut, while the middle class got crumbs (less than $100 shaved off their tax bill). If we examine the taxes paid in a static world—that is, if we assume that there was no change in behavior and economic performance as a result of the tax code—then these numbers are meaningful. Most of the tax cuts went to the super wealthy.

But Americans did respond to the tax cuts. There was more investment, more hiring by businesses, and a stronger stock market.
When we compare the taxes paid under the old system with those paid after the Bush tax cuts, the rich are now actually paying a higher proportion of income taxes.
The latest IRS data show an increase of more than $100 billion in tax payments from the wealthy by 2005 alone. The number of tax filers who claimed taxable income of more than $1 million increased from approximately 180,000 in 2003 to over 300,000 in 2005. The total taxes paid by these millionaire households rose by about 80 percent in two years, from $132 billion to $236 billion.

6. What is the economic logic behind these lower tax rates?

As legend has it, the famous “Laffer Curve” was first drawn by economist Arthur Laffer in 1974 on a cocktail napkin at a small dinner meeting attended by the late Wall Street Journal editor Robert Bartley and such high-powered policymakers as Richard Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Laffer showed how two different rates—one high and one low—could produce the same revenues, since the higher rate would discourage work and investment. The Laffer Curve helped launch Reaganomics here at home and ignited a frenzy of tax cutting around the globe that continues to this day. It’s also one of the simplest concepts in economics: lowering the tax rate on production, work, investment, and risk-taking will spur more of these activities and will often produce more tax revenue rather than less.
Since the Reagan tax cuts, the United States has created some 40 million new jobs—more than all of Europe and Japan combined.

7. Are lower tax rates responsi­ble for the big budget deficits of recent decades?

There is no correlation between tax rates and deficits in recent U.S. history. The spike in the federal deficit in the 1980s was caused by massive spending increases.

The Congressional Budget Office reports that, since the 2003 tax cuts, federal revenues have grown by $745 billion—the largest real increase in history over such a short time period. Individual and corporate income tax receipts have jumped by 30 percent in the two years since the tax cuts.

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This is my favorite part and it is worth repeating;
Since the Reagan tax cuts, the United States has created some 40 million new jobs—more than all of Europe and Japan combined.

You can read the rest here

Until recently we had a leftard government here in Saskatchewan. For the longest time they too believed that governments had to have high taxes in order to have enough revenue to fund their socialist programs. Saskatchewan suffered and suffered. People left the province in droves. This government would spend a dime for every nickle it collected in taxes. The province became very uncompetative with its neighbours. We continued to suffer.

Eventually a new energetic political party appeared on the horizon, the Saskatchewan Party. This Party had some new (not so new to other right leaning governments in power) ideas on creating wealth and prosperity for its citizens. These ideas included radical stuff like lower personal income tax, lower corporate taxes , eliminating the capital tax as well as reduce the royalty rates on Oil and Gas in order to spur more exploration which in turn would produce more revenue for the government as well as create more jobs and start to bring our people back from Alberta. The Leftards scoffed at these ideas as "irresponsible and unsustainable". We would loose our precious social programs, the government would have huge deficits! Surely the electors of Saskatchewan would see through these daft ideas as just a ploy to lure voters.

Well, as time went on and people continued to leave Saskatchewan and fewer and fewer taxpayers were left to pay for higher and higher costs of social programs the suffering got worse. They had to dip into a "stabilization" fund (another word for credit card) to "balance" (not) the budget and so the spiral continued. Some ministers within the government started to get concerned with the treadmill Saskatchewan was on and they wondered what they should do. Should they dare venture into the ideology espoused by these brash upstarts in the Sask Party? Could it be that what they say about lower taxes creating wealth that in turn would actually increase revenue to the government was true?

In a fit of desperation they convinced Forlorne Calvert that they should maybe try some of these ideas. So personal and corporate taxes actually started to come down. The Capital tax was reduced and eventually eliminated. Business now had more money to expand and create more jobs. Royalty rates on oil and gas went down and the O & G industry drilled more wells than ever before. People started to come back home. The fact is Saskatchewan has never had such a revenue boom as it does today. Yes, some of it can be attributed to the high price on our commodities such as oil, potash, uranium et al. But even before $90 oil, Saskatchewan had started to move in the right direction because government had changed course. Instead of collecting more from the few it was creating an economy on the rise so it could collect less from the many and that means more wealth pure and simple.

Ted, what you just got there was a lesson in "Economics 101". I never ever took economics in school but I have run my own business for 37 years and the lessons in economics that I have learned in that period of time is much more valuable than anything I could have learned out of a book. I will bet dollars to donuts that either you are a student who has no idea as to how the real world works or you are a government bureaucrat who has no idea as to how the real world works. Either way, and as evidenced by your postings, you have no idea as to how the real world works.

Cheers!

EPILOGUE: Much time has passed and the people of Saskatchewan have come to realize that many of the changed made by the Forlorne government came right out of the Sask Party playbook so in the last provincial election the people punted the NDP for the Sask Party whose great ideas got us to where we are at and the great direction we are heading.

The rich always contribute the most to the tax base, FoU. I keep hoping that sometime, somewhere, someone will be conservative enough to create a flat income tax. I may be hoping against hope seeing as how every politician out there (no matter what the colour) loves the sweet goodness of tax payer dollars.

Subject: Sad Christmas News From Ottawa

There will be no Nativity Scene in Ottawa this year! The Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be a Nativity Scene in Canada's, capital this Christmas season. This isn't for any religious reason, they simply have not been able to find Three Wise Men in the Nation's capitol.

P.S. There was no problem,however, finding enough asses to fill the stable.

The "residents" know that the risk of a chemical explosion from a chemical plant/factory in Mississauga is greater.
The plant/town, along with Camp Petawawa, are in the riding of Conservative MP Cheryl Gallant.
""It's safe to be turned back on, of course it is," he [Fergus McCarthy] says. "Okay, someone messed up, they should have had the pump installed, but all this talk of Chalk River being unsafe by the CNSC (Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission) is bunch of baloney."
The CNSC is the Liberal-sinecure-placemen-bureauc-rats haven fingered by PM Harper as the culprits of the piece.
Go nuclear.
Ottawa is fearful? Horrors.
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Confident down to core
Chalk River residents dismiss potential dangers of working and living next to nuclear reactor

CHALK RIVER -- As the nuclear reactor in Chalk River was again fired up, the 1,100 residents of this tiny rural community on the Ottawa River 160 km northwest of Ottawa seemed immune to the controversy hanging over their town.

They know the reactor was shut down on Nov. 18 and that its restart was postponed over safety concerns. But the townspeople don't share the anxiety of nuclear catastrophe that has been seeping into the chambers of Parliament Hill downstream.

"A lot of things have been blown out of proportion in Ottawa," said Jamie Rabishaw, a former employee of the National Research Universal Reactor at Chalk River, and current owner of the town's only gas station.

"There are a lot of smart people down there and they know what they're doing. The plant should open. People need isotopes, we need isotopes, end of story." [...]

Now that Chalk River is running again, despite warnings from Canada's nuclear watchdog, environmental groups and the opposition, there is concern that a nuclear disaster could happen within striking distance of Ottawa.

But in Chalk River, the people who live in wooden-clad houses that straddle this short section of Hwy. 17 are far from worried. The sound of snowmobiles fill the night air and the Tree Top truck stop remains full of customers who eat and drink under a framed picture of the Chalk River nuclear reactor.

People need jobs and people need isotopes, end of story. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/2o6tlr
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Spies, espionage, Cold War, etc.: Klaus Fuchs, Bruno Pontecorvo, etc., worked-spied at Chalk River.

ESPIONAGE AND THE
MANHATTAN PROJECT
(1940-1945)
http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/espionage.htm

Ted:
"Still waiting..."

POT-KETTLE-BLACK.

No partisan Liberal can honestly or with any intellectual integrity point the finger at any other politician on policy reversals or corruption...these were invented in the Trudeau Caucus and perfected by "tit Gar and Dithers regimes.

Sucks to be a partisan Liberal these days when all you have for talking points is raw hypocrisy.

That said, if the reports are true the Harper "handlers" need to be reminded what party policy on excessive spending on polls is...but it won't be the first time elected CPC flacks forget mandated member ratified policy once they have the power of the PMO to warp their memory.

BTW When is PM Harper going to open that conflict of interest file on Paul Martin finance Minister/CSL officer that Martin's Ombudsman shelved at his request when he became PM?

I was shocked but not surprised by the following and I doubt any conservative will be surprised ,

Nine House Democrats find Ramadan more acceptable than Christmas

( From Michelle Malkin )

From the office of GOP Rep. Steve King:

Congressman Steve King reacted this morning to the nine “NO” votes on his resolution to honor Christmas and the Christian faith. The vote shocked Capitol Hill observers because votes on similar resolutions honoring the holidays of Islam and Hinduism passed without any NO votes.

Appearing this morning on the Fox News Channel’s Fox and Friends, King said, “The [nine] naysayers didn’t make it to the floor to debate. I would like to know how they could vote Yes on Islam, Yes on the Indian Religions and No on Christianity when the foundation of this nation and our American culture is Christianity…I think there’s an assault on Christianity in America.”

The nine Members voting NO were Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) (FL), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA), and Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA). None of the nine voted against resolutions honoring the Islamic holiday of Ramadan and the Hindu holiday of Diwali.

"The rich always contribute the most to the tax base, FoU. I keep hoping that sometime, somewhere, someone will be conservative enough to create a flat income tax. I may be hoping against hope seeing as how every politician out there (no matter what the colour) loves the sweet goodness of tax payer dollars."

Personally, I favour it too..
Professionally, as an accountant.. I do not want to lose my job and like seeing the tax system complicated, it makes a lot of relatively bright people pay for our services..

Ted.s problem is that he knows exactly what is going on and he is running scared. Harper is spending a bit of extra money on polls to strategize next election plans. Once he is re-elected Harper will then save us all a whole lot of money and Ted can.t stand that.

Good catch on the UN rebuke Frenchie

NEW PEER-REVIEWED STUDIES CHILL GLOBAL WARMING FEARS

http://tinyurl.com/2udet9

""Anthropogenic (man-made) global warming bites the dust,” declared astronomer Dr. Ian Wilson after reviewing the new study which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Another scientist said the peer-reviewed study overturned “in one fell swoop” the climate fears promoted by the UN and former Vice President Al Gore.""

>> Where's "Albatross" when I need to rub this told-ya-so evidence in his AGW face....like you say Frenchie, evidence never wavers the faith of a cult follower.

"Once he is re-elected Harper will then save us all a whole lot of money."

Are you saying Harper has a hidden agenda, Arnie?

I thought we were supposed to judge him on what he is actually doing: breaking spending records, shattering spending on polling, re-introducing sponsorship programs, abandoning the very principles that got him (barely) into office, etc.

Harper did indeed learn at the foot of Chretien and his recent mentor Mulroney. Deceivin' Stephen or, the Right Honourable Stephen Brian Jean Harper.

Ted: "Are you saying Harper has a hidden agenda, Arnie?"

Are you saying Dion doesn't Ted?

Prisoners more violent than in the past: report

Updated Thu. Dec. 13 2007 9:28 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

A new report finds that Canada's prison population is more violent and requires more intervention and rehabilitation strategies than in the past.

The Correctional Service of Canada Review Panel released its 250-page report to Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day on Thursday.[...]

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Prisoners more violent than in the past?

why?
not enough free tattoos?
Jail time cut to one sixth still too much?

I wonder what our liberal-criminal-appeaser friends think of that...

Ike beat tina turner to death,

BTW When is PM Harper going to open that conflict of interest file on Paul Martin finance Minister/CSL officer that Martin's Ombudsman shelved at his request when he became PM?

WLM I'm still waiting.

You said you were waiting.
And then you didn't wait.

Posted by: Ted at December 14, 2007 2:42 AM
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Poor troll needs food hey at least you got to post if you wnet to a lefty sight they delete you.

Can't blame them their arguments are so poor.

Caroline Glick, Column One: Who's being rational

The September 11 attacks on the US intensified a dispute that had been brewing since the end of the Cold War about the definition of rationality. The two warring factions in the debate, which has raged throughout the free world, can be referred to as the rationalizers and the rationalists. Each side has given its own definition of rationality and those competing definitions have formed the basis of the camps' competing policy prescriptions for contending with the threat of Islamic terrorists and their state sponsors ever since....

Perhaps the strangest aspect of the rationalizers' disparagement of the importance of ideology is the lengths they go to in order to ignore jihadist ideology on the one hand and appease it on the other. Agents in counter-terror units of the FBI, for instance, are discouraged from studying the Koran. Their chiefs argue that only a tiny minority of Muslims in the US and worldwide ascribe to a religious-supremacist interpretation of the Koran which upholds and encourages terrorism, slaughter and war to the death against non-Muslims and therefore what the Koran says is irrelevant.

Yet if it is true that only a tiny minority of Muslims think that Islam is a supremacist political as well as religious creed, then the rationalizers should treat the actual jihadists with contempt similar to that which they exhibit towards white supremacists. After all, doing so shouldn't bother the rest of their co-religionists who reject their views. But the opposite is the case....

Friend of USA: The wealthiest 1 percent of the population earn 19 per­cent of the income but pay 37 percent of the income tax...Meanwhile, the bottom 50 percent—those below the median income level—now earn 13 percent of the income but pay just 3 percent of the taxes.

One person gets to eat an entire one-fifth of a pie, while 50 people have to share one-eighth of the pie, and the only thing you find worthy of criticism is the fact that the one happily stuffed person had to pay 6 times the price.

Rewrite headline: Here is the real story.

Blue helmeted "peacekeepers" stressed at same rate as warriors.
Liberal ex-PM Lester Pearson shaken/enraged by study; says, say it isn't so.

Key quote: "The difference is they [peacekeepers] were not able to shoot back,"
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Stress disorders hit single soldiers

Young and single soldiers have the highest rates of depression and post-traumatic stress disorders, a national survey led by a London psychiatrist has found.

The study also discovered soldiers sent on peacekeeping missions suffer similar rates of post-traumatic stress disorders as combat soldiers.

"A lot of these (peacekeeping) veterans would have been exposed to mortar fire, people shooting at them. They would have similar combat-type events. The difference is they were not able to shoot back," said Don Richardson, a consultant psychiatrist with the Operational Stress Injury Clinic at Parkwood Hospital.

The London clinic, paid for by Veterans Affairs Canada, serves current Canadian soldiers and veterans who have suffered stress injuries during their military service. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939346/posts

Yes Ted. A hidden agenda. Harper is also very very scary.

Boo!

Wow, Hana, that's deep! To each according to need, rather than means, eh? Why hasn't anyone tried that before?

Using your pie analogy, though, those 50 people couldn't even afford a crumb of the pie if the rich guy just pushed back from the table. The pie doesn't sell itself, kiddo.

Friend of USA: The wealthiest 1 percent of the population earn 19 per­cent of the income but pay 37 percent of the income tax...Meanwhile, the bottom 50 percent—those below the median income level—now earn 13 percent of the income but pay just 3 percent of the taxes.

One person gets to eat an entire one-fifth of a pie, while 50 people have to share one-eighth of the pie, and the only thing you find worthy of criticism is the fact that the one happily stuffed person had to pay 12 times the price. Shouldn't we be a little more worried about the 50 people who are at risk of starving?

One person gets to eat an entire one-fifth of a pie, while 50 people have to share one-eighth of the pie, and the only thing you find worthy of criticism is the fact that the one happily stuffed person had to pay 6 times the price.

Less of the 50 people sharing 1/8 of the pie are jobless thanks to the happily stuffed people who created jobs thanks to lower taxes, thanks to Reagan and Bush.

The 50 people sharing 1/8 of the pie live in abundance compared to only 20 years ago or compared to most other country on the planet.

Over 80% of poor people in the USA own a car, a color tv and have air conditioning.

And contrary to what a lot of people believe poor people in the USA do get free heathcare and so do illegal immigrants, and who pays for it?

People who pay taxes, and who pays more taxes ? the rich.

People on wellfare and illegal immigrant get free healthcare thanks to the happily stuffed people!

Remember when Kremlin-watchers would comment on where each politburo member stood, what he wore, his mannerisms, etc.? I guess little has changed. Parsing Putin's anti-Western fulminations:

Michael Bohm, The Jackals Scavenging Among Us

Shakalit (sl.): to beg, sponge, scavenge; to steal.

After Putin's fiery speech at Luzhniki several weeks ago, Russians and expats alike went running to their dictionaries to find the meaning of the criminal slang шакалить, which the president used to describe how certain groups -- presumably opposition and human rights organizations -- "shakalyat u inostrannyh posolstv" (scavenge like jackals at foreign embassies)....

Why did Putin use the term shakalit to describe those who receive support from Western organizations? True to his fondness for fueling speculation and intrigue, Putin cryptically threw out this prison slang without fully explaining what he meant. But in the context of a whole series of strong statements that Putin has made regarding Western meddling in internal Russian affairs, it's possible to draw up an accurate portrait of these mysterious jackals.

Like the real jackals hiding in bushes and waiting to pick at the leftovers abandoned by other animals, Russian "jackals," the argument goes, hide behind the high-flown mantras of democracy, freedom and human rights to carry out the subversive machinations and orders of Western governments -- including staging Orange Revolutions. They are a classic pyataya kolonna (fifth column). Moreover, these jackals are podhalimy (toadies) who shamelessly grovel and poproshajnichayut (beg) for Western handouts. If we adhere to the true meaning of shakalit, personified jackals are the lowest podletsy (scoundrels) who are willing to betray their motherland....

Meghan Cox Gurdon writes about the death of Aqsa Parvez:

Several Canadian Islamic groups have had the decency to deplore the slaying, which seems to have been carried out with the collusion of Aqsa’s brothers. Yet in an exquisite demonstration of moral equivalence, Shahina Siddiqui, the Canadian-based executive director of the Islamic Social Services Association of the United States and Canada, said:

“The strangulation death of Ms. Parvez was the result of domestic violence, a problem that cuts across Canadian society and is blind to color or creed.”

Oh, no, it doesn’t, Ms. Siddiqui, not this type of domestic violence, nor this particular crime: This was Shariah-based justice meted out to a Muslim girl for defying her fundamentalist father.

Ted, there is no doubt Harper and Tories are playing poltics here; but, sorry it doesn't prove (not even close) they are as corrupt as the Liberals. BTW, Ted, Libs might want to reconsider their "oh look, the Tories are just as corrupt as us." First of all, the claim is demonstrably false to anyone with a gram of common sense. Second, it serves to remind voters of the corruption they voted out, as does the recent circus of the "Ethics" committee.

Maybe you can respond to this question Ted, given the Grit and MSM silence: Why did your party allow Robert Thibault to sit on the "Ethics" committee, while he was the subject of a lawsuit with the very person he was questioning (and certainly a case with merit)? Where is the report to the "Ethics" committee concerning his ex parte meetings with KHS (who remarkably didn't send his latest affadavit to the Grits, I suspect because they were already fully aware of the details)? What did he discuss with KHS? Ted, what did Thibault know and when did he know it?

You see, Ted, the Grits have proved they can be very corrupt even when they're not in office. They have quietly slipped this controversy under the carpet. What say you about this scandal Ted?

I think some of the posters have been rather rude with you; but, I am waiting.

BTW, Ted, where is the Grit plan for Kyoto compliance. I've heard a lot of bluster about how we must show leadership on this issue, yet, Grits did nothing when they were in power, and have yet to present a single policy or proposal (which would surely soothe the hearts of Canadians who are concerned about the cost of Kyoto). Sounds like the same old same old from the Grits, lots of talking and finger pointing; no substantive action, and therefore no substantive alternative to Tories. The Grits have quite a problem here, no leader, no money and no policies, just a lot of hypocritical yapping.

Hana, you economic illiterate, wealth and income aren't a zero sum game. Many people change income brackets throughout their lives here in the States, they aren't fixed in stone. Anyone is welcome to create a bigger pie slice for himself or choose to live smaller. And, it's not about formal education either or the lack of access to one, many of America's millionaires and successful small busnessmen never went to college

The top 20% pay the lion share of taxes in this country. The bottom 50% with the poor paying almost nothing and the lower middle class with their bracket % and entitlements contributed less than 4% in taxes. Check it out for yourself.

Be grateful that with the mediocrity of your intellectual talents and that nailed shut, incurious mind of yours that other Canadians will subsidize you if you can't make a go of it because of your attitude and intellectual limitations.

shamrock- great questions to ask Ted. He won't reply, except with slithering.

By the way, what is wrong with the Conservatives polling the population? Is Liberal polling the standard, and anything different deemed as wrong? Because the Conservatives poll the population means that they are exploring what Canadians think about issues, and that includes whether/not people need more information on various topics.
What's wrong with that?

I'd also like to know, Ted, in addition to Shamrock's very valid questions concerning Thibault and his remaining on the Ethics Committee, given that he's being sued by Mulroney and given that he visited, privately, with Schreiber - I'd like to know why Rodrguez brought up an issue completely outside the boundaries of the Ethic's area of exploration. And what's the involvement of the CBC?

And, why are the Liberals fawning over Schreiber, when it is obvious that each sentence he says contradicts the next one, and when it is equally obvious that he's playing them as pawns in his own agenda: stay out of Germany.

I'd also like to know Dion's plan for implementing Kyotoism NOW, particularly when the Liberals had no plan or action since they signed the agreement.

Waiting, ted, waiting.

One person gets to eat an entire one-fifth of a pie, while 50 people have to share one-eighth of the pie, and the only thing you find worthy of criticism is the fact that the one happily stuffed person had to pay 6 times the price.

That statement is socialism defined. Socialists want to eat somebody else's pie rather than make their own pie.

Shamrock:

"Why did your party allow Robert Thibault to sit on the "Ethics" committee, while he was the subject of a lawsuit with the very person he was questioning (and certainly a case with merit)? Where is the report to the "Ethics" committee concerning his ex parte meetings with KHS (who remarkably didn't send his latest affadavit to the Grits, I suspect because they were already fully aware of the details)? What did he discuss with KHS? Ted, what did Thibault know and when did he know it?"

Decent, fair questions. I'm in no one's inner circle so I have no idea whatsoever, of course. I don't see any Conservative, NDP or Bloc members raising it as any issue and everyone knows that Harper loves bashing Liberals even more than he loves power so if the Cons, Dippers and separatists have nothing to say about this, it's hard for me to get worked up about it. Have any of them asked for Thibeault to step down? If they don't see an issue with him on the committee, it seems so far to be just another partisan blogger whine.

BTW, Ted, where is the Grit plan for Kyoto compliance. I've heard a lot of bluster about how we must show leadership on this issue, yet, Grits did nothing when they were in power, and have yet to present a single policy or proposal (which would surely soothe the hearts of Canadians who are concerned about the cost of Kyoto). Sounds like the same old same old from the Grits, lots of talking and finger pointing; no substantive action, and therefore no substantive alternative to Tories.

Again, Shamrock, you are asking the wrong guy. I don't think it should be such a big part of the platform. But none of the parties look good on this on an optics point of view, policy point of view, or leadership point of view (although I will continue to give credit to Harper for starting to stand on his own feet and resist the temptation to throw policy out the window for Quebec votes). The Liberals did not do nothing - after all, Harper managed to find $5 billion worth of climate change "nothing" to cut when he got into office before his environmental conversion - but I agree with you that it is more than a little odd to make it your central plank - until recently to the exclusion of almost all others - and not have a more detailed plan. Mind you, the Conservatives whined for almost a decade and a half about Kyoto and a "made-in-Canada" solution and they haven't gotten any further and Harper's been in government longer than Martin.

The Grits have quite a problem here, no leader, no money and no policies, just a lot of hypocritical yapping.

Hard to disagree with that, frankly, although the policy platform is just about done and "less money than the Conservatives" is not the same thing as "no money". Calling a politician "hypocritical" is a little redundant, of course, so I'll leave that conclusion to others, but "yapping" is the calling card of opposition parties in Parliamentary system, for good or ill. It's less the yapping that bugs me about the Liberals in Ottawa, but the lurching from issue to issue with their yapping without trying to define their policy direction to Canadians. Right now, there ain't nothing really to get excited about.

Like I've said before, the best thing going for Harper right now and keeping him in government is Dion, and the best thing going for Dion and keeping Conservatives from a majority is Harper. There is quite a bit of talent and leadership in the Conservative benches. Too bad for Harper he isn't keen on unleashing much of it.

Ted - you have, or used to have, your own blog. Why don't you resurrect it, instead of whining about the content here?

"Tax Cuts Don't Boost Revenues"

Well no thay detract from revenues...personal rveneues...the real issue is justifyinging any government increase in revenue.

Income tax is redundant it is not needed to pay for government operational expense.,,,it has become a cash cow for personal transfers to individuals and other govenments which also tax us.

The real question is do we need income tax ( no we don't if we had monetary reform) and id we do do wee need both income and consumptive taxation that confiscate 50% of our income.

Arguing over revenues to the feds is a strawman...the issue is are the revenue increases remotely justified...from my perspective they are not.

So, ted, you only take action when the 'Cons, Dippers and separatistes' take action. You have no principles of your own that guide you. Hmm. That does indeed sound Just Like A Liberal.

Actually, ted, the Conservatives have done a lot more on the environment than the decade of Liberal rule. By the way, your reduction of Liberal rule to Paul Martin's brief phase, ignores the decade of Chretien-Dion's era of Do Nothing On the Environment.

The fact that you hate Harper, for your own psychological reasons, is your problem.

Via Drudge:

Looks like Little Steffi Dion has a case of the sour grapes. He wants to stick it to little children now.

www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=6d76283a-320e-458c-97b2-242e815ea95d

"By the way, what is wrong with the Conservatives polling the population? Is Liberal polling the standard, and anything different deemed as wrong? Because the Conservatives poll the population means that they are exploring what Canadians think about issues, and that includes whether/not people need more information on various topics.
What's wrong with that?"

I'll tell you.

Using taxpayer money to find out what the population is 'thinking', for the sole purpose of crafting a communication strategy or adjust current ones, is propaganda.

It is the gub-mint taking your funds, and shaping their message as opposed to presenting policy, and selling it.

It is sleazy, and inherently manipulative.

And I do not want my taxes spent on focus groups and communications consultants that are simply party operatives before and during elections. These consultants are a large group of political hacks, bagmen, and 'organiizers'. And spending on them is just rewarding loyalty with taxpayer cash.

Moreso - if a government needs to poll to find out what it's doing - or what it should do - it is incompetent. Pure and simple.

Man - give your head a shake. And donate lots to the politicians. They'll give you all the attention you can ever want. but keep taxpayer funds out of it.

Sorry, I just missed this gem in Hana's utterance...Shouldn't we be a little more worried about the 50 people who are at risk of starving?" I cant' resist.

Hana, starvation, I think not. The biggest problem with poor Americans is obesity, but, don't let any facts interfer with that fossilized worldview of yours.

You really have to check this letter out! And while you're at it, check out the signatories. One of the points made is that not only does the approach currently proposed by the UN not help, it actually increases human suffering.

Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations

http://www.nationalpost.com/most_popular/story.html?id=164002

Dec. 13, 2007

Don't fight, adapt
We should give up futile attempts to combat climate change

So it IS Ted the lawyer! Wow!

Hey Ted, have you fallen on hard times? Seemingly no blog of your own anymore, up 'til the wee hours posting what appears to be drunken gibberish, up early the next morning doing the same and proving Global TV's assertion that you can be drunk the next morning.

This is like a modern day version of It's A Wonderful Life.

Miss. Matt:

Ted needs to recall the noted german saying:

"Jeden tag betrunken ist auch ein geregeltes Leben."

Translation:

"Everyday drunk is also a disciplined life." :)

Cheers

Mao Stlong, via Xihhua, send noose to Taliban Jack Layton-NDP.
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Taliban commander killed in eastern Afghanistan (Mullah Sangeen)
Xinhua News Agency ^ | December 14, 2007

KABUL, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Afghan army backed by the U.S.-led Coalition forces have killed a senior commander of Haqqani Network, which is loyal to the Taliban, in an operation on Dec. 11 in eastern Afghanistan, said a Coalition statement issued here on Friday.
Mullah Sageen, who is responsible for attacks on Afghan forces and improvised explosive device bombings, was the second in command to militant commander Siraj Haqqani, the head of the Haqqani network, the statement said.
Meanwhile Sageen is the second major Haqqani network member killed in the last 45 days, it added.
Sangeen carries a reward for 20,000 U.S. dollars and Haqqani carries a reward for 200,000 U.S. dollars offered by the U.S. government. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939296/posts

Ted, remember the promise to get rid of the gst. How much money did it cost taxpayers for Chretain to cancell the helicopters and other contracts.
Remember, libs signed the Kyoto thingy 13 yrs ago, and did nothing, and prepared no plans.
As for the libs fawning over KS, they have to or he will turn on them and explain why/how Thibault came to him with a plan to keep him in Canada if he -----------, or vice versa, KS called the libs or cbc and offered a scheme. Did money change hands, probably. Also, if KS gets to trial in Germany, what will he say he did to grease liberal palms in his world wide dealings.
If he ever gets on a plane to leave Canada, there better be a recorder there. He will sing, sing, sing. Liberals have hitched their wagon to a very dangerous person.
--May has just said Canadas stand at Bali might someday be termed criminal. Notice the Green protesters in Bali, all very young. What kind of world will they give us if they ever get into power.
AGW-plagarized from another blogger-AL GORE WINDBAG.

Charles MacDonald posts re Putin and the "Shakalit". Putin knows the slang; he surfaced from the NKVD/KGB.
More here on the thieves ...-

"The thieves in the Gulag Archipelago

Recently, while scouring through the epic volumes of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago" ­ III and IV ­ I discovered some interesting observations made by the illustrious Nobel Prize-winning author about the nature of thieves in the former USSR "in freedom" as well as in the gulag's corrective (destructive) labor camps. We learn that in the Soviet Union, even at the height of Joseph Stalin's reign of terror and bloody purges (at least 20 million lives), the thieves were considered "socially friendly" elements, and were useful and used extensively by the Soviet government.
The thieves not only terrorized the population as haters and defilers of private property, but were also used as informants, and in the gulags as "instructors" in the cultural and educational sections or as officers by the internal security police (the MVD). Needless to say, they were also useful to the repressive apparatus as the proverbial stool pigeons and enforcers of hard labor and terror against ideological (political) prisoners. When needed, they even worked hand in glove with the security forces in carrying out mass murder in the extermination camps of the gulags.
While citizens were arrested, hauled up to the gulags for slave labor and saddled with long prison sentences (10- and 25-year sentences were typical), Solzhenitsyn writes:

Sentences [for the thieves] were bound to be reduced and of course for habitual criminals especially. Watch out there now, witness in the courtroom! They will all be back soon, and it will be a knife in the back of anyone who gives testimony!
Therefore, if you see someone crawling through a window, or slitting a pocket, or your neighbor's suitcase being ripped open ­ shut your eyes! Walk by! You didn't see anything!
That's how the thieves have trained us ­ the thieves and our laws!
In the destructive-labor camps of the Soviet Union (1918-1956), the thieves robbed, tortured and murdered political prisoners with impunity. Indeed, they were rewarded with higher food rations, better living space and other privileges for collaborating with the guards and fomenting terror.
It makes hair stand on end when we see that parallels can be drawn between today's coddled thieves of the soft-left (social) democracy of Great Britain and the erstwhile, hard-left communist utopia of the former USSR.
Solzhenitsyn writes that fear of exceeding the limits of self-defense for individual Soviet citizens "led to total spinelessness as a national characteristic" on the part of the individual and total omnipotence on that of the criminal state. When a military officer, mind you a Red Army officer, defended himself from an assailant and killed the hoodlum with a penknife, the officer got 10 years for murder. "And what was I supposed to do?" the officer asked. The Soviet prosecutor replied: "You should have fled!"
"Flee!" That distant Soviet echo reverberates in modern British society ­ "Scream, run, shout!" ­ and not only in the United Kingdom, but also in other former members of the British commonwealth, such as Canada and Australia. In those nations, there is no recognized right to self-defense, and citizens are also told to run and flee from assailants. Human dignity ­ self-defense, private property ­ out the window! But what if they cannot run and their shouts are not heard? Are women supposed to allow sexual predators to rape them? Tony Martin, who lived on an isolated 350-acre ranch, was told by the British constable that he should have shouted!
Astonished we learn (or relearn) from Solzhenitsyn that in the heavily militarized Soviet Union, "The State, in its Criminal Code, forbids citizens to have firearms or other weapons, but does not itself undertake to defend them!"" ...-
http://www.haciendapub.com/wnd.html

There's a war on, man. Let's get on with it, and without all this handwringing and snivelling about the poor Islamofascist crackheads. From the "Bring Our Khadr Home" file:

Ben Macintyre, 800 years on, still a great read

When the grumpy barons forced King John to put his seal on Magna Carta in a field near Staines in 1215, they were acting out of pure feudal self-interest. They did not intend to forge a document enshrining the rights of the individual against the State; but that is what Magna Carta evolved into, and remains.

Today perhaps one third of the world's population is governed in accordance with the broad principles laid down in an English meadow eight centuries ago: that no person is above the law, and no person may be persecuted by power. The most enduring legacy of Magna Carta is, of course, the writ of habeas corpus, the most fundamental defence against unlawful executive detention and arbitrary rule...

Times of crisis and war, when national security is under direct threat, may justify the temporary suspension of individual liberties, but in the six years since 9/11 we have seen a steady erosion of the principles of the Magna Carta, with the seizure, imprisonment, exile and delay outlawed by that great document increasingly deployed as accepted instruments of foreign policy.

Well, Ted, (specifically, the Ted of 8:17 AM), you've finally bumped into anti-mainstream thought. When reading that clip of yours, and your sallies at Arthur Laffer, I thought of a certain parallel.

As of now, supply-side macroeconomics is about as well-established, in terms of results, as Keynesian demand-management theory was as of long ago. The central finding that tax rates have an optimum, implying that it's not in the government's self-interest to set marginal rates too high, has been confirmed again and again. The overall point that tax rates can be moved below the optimum too, is little heard of, just as the critics of Keynesian economics, as well as the noters of Keynesianism's bias towards inflation, were little heard in demand-management's heyday.

Congratulations, Ted. You're in a position similar to that of the Austrian School as of about 1960. It's hard to argue with a rising tax take: you'll find that out if you ride that position seriously.

Of course, economics is one of the few disciplines where the saying "the last shall be first, and the first shall be last" has a practical value. Eventually, the government will cut taxes below the optimum rate and find that the tax take diminishes along with the shrinkage of marginal rates. I don't see that point on the horizon, though.

Until then, you might as well enjoy the embattled-minority state that your position pretty much guarantees you.

BDS, HDS, and, MDS; all symptoms displayed by the MSM pundits/hacks/reporters blathering about the Liberal-NDP Gong Show.
Summary: The corrupt, the corrupted, and the corruptible; all seduced/waylaid by Buttcrack Karl and his cronies, the Liberal-NDP Buttcrackkissers.
This Gong Show is in itself a Great Canadian Political Scandal.
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The Mulroney Impeachment Proceedings - Part I

Its been mildly entertaining to watch the Canadian counterpart to BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome): MDS (Mulroney Derangement Syndrome) on full display by various members of the Canadian media. Andrew Coyne, in his latest foam flecked blog post, waxes histrionic as he loads his Herman Melville harpoon to confront his chin whale: ...- (chin is crossed out; whale is the hotlink)
http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2007/12/14/the-mulroney-impeachment-proceedings-part-i/

Just had a look at the Globe and Mail website. The latest in the "neck compression" death of Aqsa Parvez has her brother being released on bail. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071214.wslaingirl1214/BNStory/National/home

The story was posted at 1:21 PM EST and comments were closed less than 20 minutes later. Perhaps the pack of truth being dealt by their readers is a little too much for them.

Mike Duffy (CTV) reported yesterday that the CBC was accused of feeding questions to Liberal members of the Ethics Committee to put to Brian Mulroney. Nothing has shown up in the MSM.

Does anyone know anything about this serious accusation?

@penny (both 11:05 AM and 12:20 PM):

This hans fellow is in a worse position than he may know. The bulk of the wealth in the hands of the rich is productive assets. You can't eat a mine or a factory as if it were a pie. (Rocks, steel and ceramics don't taste that good.) Nor can you (directly) eat a dividend cheque, and you certainly can't eat money that has to be reinvested to keep a business alive and growing.

As far as starvation is concerned, you're right about obesity rates amongst America's poor, if I recall correctly. It's ironic that the Americans who 'eat their money' to the point of obesity are the ones who don't have much to begin with. World starvation has causes which, once fleshed out, would drive the squeamish to either moralize or change the subject (perhaps for a second time.)

Missaugua Matt: Actually it is the opposite. I never seem to leave work these days and look for a little distraction.

Kate: C'mon. You know very well my comments about the whining are directed at the likes of Janke and some readers here. You know very well that if I have an issue with a point you make in your blogging I direct it directly at you and not some sideways indirect attack.

MaryT: Can you please explain to me how one party's bad government in any way excuses another party's bad government, because that in effect is what you are saying. That because you think the Liberals gave us many years of bad government that Harper is entitled to give us several more years of bad government. Wake up, sheeple! You get the bad government you allow.

Shamrock: I was good enough to respond honestly to your comments. No response?

Anyone else?

From a link at Drudge: "Obama edges Clinton in [New Hampshire] poll." The fellow shouldn't be counted out as of yet.

Prisoners more violent than in the past: report

Updated Thu. Dec. 13 2007 9:28 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

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How long before some leftard comes along and blames this on AGW? Let the countdown begin....

Sorry missed Daniel Ryan. Daniel - I'm not quite sure what your overall point is, but it seems you are playing a bit a bit with theories.

No one denies that there is a point at which increased taxes result in diminishing revenues, just as I am sure no one would argue that at some point tax cuts down to zero would end up with no revenue. But economists are pretty much all in agreement that tax rates have never come close to that rate, even in most of Europe since you would have to be taxing at least 70 to 90% of someone's income before you see the reversal of revenue, i.e. taxing a population at 70-90% of their income will start to see tax revenue decline, but every range before that means the higher the tax dollar the higher the tax revenue.

Like I said, I am generally in favour of smart tax cuts (i.e. across the board and not market skewering narrow tax cuts, and those that don't create a deficit like Bush's). But let's have an honest debate about it. Tax cuts and better productivity and competitiveness and individual spending power vs. programs and spending.

I can't stand those who would try to lie to the public by saying you can have your cake and eat it too. Saying we can cut taxes as much as we want and balance the budget and we won't have to change a thing about any of the programs (because we know if we were honest, you wouldn't vote for us).

Gordon Brown signs the EU 'Reform' Treaty:

Why? Why would Brown do it?

One reason is that he is a Socialist and Socialism is a global religion. It hates nation states. It wants one allegiance to one global state in which national politicians such as Master Blair can play lofty roles. Socialism is an ignorant religion that ignores the scientific facts of freedom, the essential connection between a people being free and being prosperous, the indisputable link between a people’s safety and education and happiness and their ability to make local decisions about their police and their schools and their livelihoods.

But there is another reason for Brown and Miliband and Blair and Heath and Clarke and Major and Heseltine and all the rest of them to support the creation of the EU and the destruction of Britain, aside from the obvious reason that they do not like Britain much, do not understand or love her history, do not forgive her imperfections and seek to support her real goodness, and do not understand political or economic science, and that reason is this –

Continued....

Seriously Ted, take some time off. Posting from work at 2:50 am is not good. I picture you unshaven, hair long and unkempt, clothes filthy, family just about ready to kick you to the curb. Take a break from work and the computer.

On the other hand, how is it that you're such a staunch Liberal supporter and you have to work long hours? Nobody should vote Liberal unless they arrange to get one of those brown paper bags full of loot beforehand. You're giving your vote away for nothing, and look what it's doing to you. If you're going to vote for the crooks, make sure you get a "taste" (as they say on the Sopranos).

Matt:

"I picture you [...] hair long and unkempt"

Gotta have some in the first place before it can get long and unkempt.

how is it that you're such a staunch Liberal supporter

What makes you think I am?

Ted, I have no idea what I'm supposed to respond to. I don't agree with you posts that Harper is delivering bad government, that I or anyone else thinks he has a right to do so. He doesn't; but, he has delivered excellent, though not perfect, government.

BTW Ted, WRT idea that tax cuts decrease revenue (if you made that remark, pardon me it's Friday if you didnt't). Arthur Laffer developed a function and the "Laffer curve" for which I believe he won a Nobel Prize in Economics, back when a Nobel Prize actually was an achievement. He showed that, depending on where tax level where when enacted, tax cuts might decrease or increase revenue; the same with tax increases. In a nutshell Laffer argues that in a high tax regime, avoidance overtakes tax increases (witness the growth of the underground economy over the Chretien era). If we are in a low tax environment, then tax cuts could actually decrease revenues. Again it depends on how much governments are extracting in tax revenues.

Probably no the greatest explanation; then again, while I've taken lots of economics courses, I am not an economist.

Sorry, Ted that's all I have time for right now. I will, if you like, give you more detailed response later, since you were good enough to respond to my points, many of which I do take issue. Like I said, later.

Shamrock:

The discussion on tax cuts started here: www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/007630.html#c221931. The point at which the Laffer Curve actually comes into play is the issue. Economists say about 70-90% taxation levels; Republican pres candidates say the rule pretty much applies always; Conservatives say that they can cut taxes without affecting services or revenues; the Dippers seem to say that only taxation at levels above 120% might decrease revenues; the Liberals say... who knows depends on the day of the week.

Glob-Pail says PM Harper/Conservatives have gone critical; are radioactive. Hot! Right on!

All is "timely, apt, relevant and correct." This government is "exemplary and laudable'".
The Liberal CNSC of AdScam Chretien/Martin is a "failure to evaluate the broader consequences to "life safety" of Canadians.
This is an exemplary endorsement for the next election; it's a wrap. Go Conservative.
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Ottawa calls it right on Chalk River row
JATIN NATHWANI

From Friday's Globe and Mail
The decision to rush through legislation to overrule the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and restart the Chalk River reactor to resume production of medical isotopes could not have been more timely, apt, relevant and correct. The ability of all parties in the House of Commons to take necessary action is exemplary and laudable, in sharp contrast to the CNSC's failure to evaluate the broader consequences to "life safety" of Canadians. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/3bwgwf

He must not have received the memo that all wingnuts should gather in Bali.

Col. Muammar Gaddafi criticises France's human rights record during his visit to Paris. And of course its mistreatment of women:

Colonel Gaddafi has also been preaching the rights of women. He wants to ease “the tragic conditions of the European woman, who is forced sometimes into a job that she does not want,” he told a hall full of fans on the Champs Elysées. “I want to save the struggling European woman.”

I can tell you what my point is flat-out, Ted: with respect to the economics profession, you're in the outs.

Economics is supposed to be the home of subtle and counterintuitive reasoning, but in North America, the mainstream is the school that gibes with remembered and widely-published data (give or take a generational lag.) As of now, that mainstream is post-Keynesian supply-side economics.

If the tax rates go down - here - and the tax take goes up - here - then that cut in rates gibes with supply-side theory. That was my point, expressed more explicitly this time.

Part of my earlier comment deliberately left you an out: just because supply siding is mainstream now doesn't mean that it will be so as of (say) 2020 or 2030. Until the point where you can brandish a full-blown domestic trend and yell "Hah!", though, you're going to have an uphill climb.

If you want an honest summing-up, here it is: supply-side economics has worked. It has succeeded in its overall goal. Any flaws in it, including any "day-one" flaws, are as yet subtle and non-evident to the everyday news consumer.

This is as honest as I can get regarding the point I made in my last response to you.

(Via Israpundit) Ramesh Thakur, Reach out to Israel

...Having taken out Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981, in the early 1980s apparently Israel thrice proposed to India that they should jointly attack and destroy Pakistan's nuclear plant at Kahuta. The Israeli air force was confident of achieving the pinpoint accuracy needed to destroy the facility, but needed refuelling facilities in western India because of the distances involved. India thrice refused: enmity should be made of sterner stuff.

How things have changed. India and Israel discovered common concerns in the growth of Islamic fundamentalism in Central and South West Asia. By the 1990s they were united in the trauma of terrorism as an everyday reality. High-level and well-publicised delegations exchange visits all the time, security cooperation seems to be deepening and broadening, bilateral trade is thriving, Israel is India's second-biggest military supplier and India could become Israel's best military market. Young Israelis have fallen under the spell of the romance of India....

Muslim imam "was planning"? "a weekend hunger strike". Two days? Some strike. It's bee ess.
It's over already before he started his strike? What a load of bs.
Takkiya from the Muslim/imam/priest.
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Calgary imam goes on hunger strike

CALGARY - An imam from Alberta was [sic] planning to go on a weekend hunger strike to bring attention to domestic violence and how it is completely against the teachings of Islam. [...]

Here is a page from its whine faith list:

"Soharwardy, who is also national president of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, said family violence plagues every group in society, but it seems that faith is only used as an excuse when it comes to Muslims." ...-
http://tinyurl.com/37a5aa (canoe news)

My younger daughter in New Mexico alerted me to this story which is all the buzz out west.

It's stomach churning.

Notice in the last sentence the difference between the victim's and the sociopathic perpetrator's careers. Enough said.

Soharwardy likes to create the impression that he speaks for Muslims at large, but at best he apparently represents something like 5000 (or even less) of Calgary's more fundamentalist Muslim population - out of something like an estimated 55/60k Muslims in Calgary who are not part of this group at all.

In fact he might easily be considered in some quarters as one of the present day "three amigos" who are prone to over-use the Human Rights Commissions - just because they can. Not the way to win friends and influence people these days nor is it the best way to resolve inter-cultural dissonance.

Libel Chill is in the air and doing considerable damage to our social fabric. It will get worse until the Human Rights Commissions are reigned in as regards freedom of speech/publication issues.

Salim Mansur, a Muslim, knows takkiya when he sees/hears it. Takkiya veils murderous Islam with lies, lies, and more lies.
Mansur is but a handful of Muslims to speak out with courage; he is a fearless, brave Canadian.
Mansur rips/slags the appeasers/useful idiots in our midst.
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Toronto Sun | Salim Mansur: Bigotry, terror masked as faith

News stories of Muslims — and from the Muslim world — continue to be deplorable and to reveal how terribly the malady of a broken civilization is consuming its own people, while threatening the freedom and security of others.

In the Greater Toronto Area a Muslim father, in a rage over his teenage daughter not complying with his fundamentalist belief — the wearing of prescribed garments for women in public — allegedly strangled her to death.

This is the latest of seemingly endless atrocities committed by Muslims, and from the Muslim world, with the most vulnerable victims being women and children.

The cold-blooded murder of 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez was not like any other crime that cuts across ethnic and faith boundaries, as Muslim apologists in Canada will do their best to characterize it.

The murder was prompted by an ideology of bigotry and terror masked as a faith-tradition — an ideology of radical Islamism at war with the modern world of freedom and democracy. [...]

But the greater frivolity is the HRC's willingness to hear the complaint from an organization whose president, Mohamed Elmasry, is on public record in Canada for the suggestion -- though later retracted under duress -- that Israelis in general over the age of 18 are legitimate targets for Palestinian suicide-bombers.

The murder of Aqsa Parvez and of countless other women among Muslims will continue not merely because Muslims cower in silence in their fear of radical Islamists, but also for the apathy of the Western public and politicians supinely appeasing and accommodating Muslim organizations such as the CIC. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/yv4pxg (toronto sun)