Good evening ladies & gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. For your delectation tonight, we have an unusual version of a rock classic, here's Deep Purple's extended presenstion of Smoke on the Water, live:

youtube.com/watch?v=6MSyFA84u48

Can they start fixing their teeth now?

Um, sorry for the extra SDA LNR comment here, but I forgot to mention that there is an interesting compare & contrast version of Deep Purple performing Smoke on the Water with the London Symphony Orchestra here:

video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=1588554791959802133

Vote for the CHRC at the LGF Fiskie awards:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=28507_Fiskie-Fallaci_Finals_Now_Open&only

How about Dion is not a leader?

Or the corollary, that Harper is a leader. Those particular posts always make me laugh, which is the sole reason for your existence Kate in case you didn't know, in the context of public opinion polls, the right-wing media and the millions Harper has spent attacking Dion.

Please put Harper on a diet and get him some anger management therapy, I want him to live a long and bitter life, so I can constantly remind him of how he lost to Stephane "the carrot" Dion.

Happy New Year to all my angry, bitter and confused (about the polls) conservative friends.

Yes, Dion the leader. The same one who said he would do his best to get to Afghanistan. Of course, that was four months ago. I guess Dion's best isn't all that good.

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Yes, Dion the leader. The same one who said he would do his best to get to Afghanistan. Of course, that was four months ago. I guess Dion's best isn't all that good.

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Can you imagine having as a hero, the Liberal Bag Man during the AdScam fiasco. The man in charge of Intergovernmental Affairs, the guy with the purse strings.

It always amazes me when I see people that hold trash in high regard.

The best I can say about him is that he has a not bad dog. Not good, but not bad. Too bad it's named after a Mo Strong scam, Kyoto!!!

Oh yes. The Dion who said upon winning the Librano leadership, that he was anxious to have an election ASAP. What a joke. The only thing more pathetic than Dion are the small, angry, hateful, people that would vote for him.

I guess carbon offsets aren't so hot after all:

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=216074

Mel Reynolds
Wayne Hays
Daniel Inouye
Gus Savage
Barney Frank
Brock Adams
Fred Richmond.
John Young
Gerry Studds
Mel Reynolds
Teddy Kennedy and Bobby and john f
Bill Clinton
Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison
New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey
Colorado Sen. Gary Hart
REP. Allan Howe (D-Utah)
REP. Fred Richmond (D-N.Y.)
REP. John Hinson (D-Miss.)
REP. Robert Bauman(D-Md.)
REP. Ernie Konnyu (D-Calif.)
Michael McHaney dem. aide
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom
All democrats who couldn't keep their peckers in their pants, but you don't hear about it because why?

Interesting article from a veteran libertarian, Burton Blumert, about a certain effect that the Ron Paul campaign has had on him: "Thanks A Lot Ron Paul – You’ve Made My Home a Political Campaign Headquarters."

One point worth pondering: the MSM hostility towards Ron Paul seems to be confined to "the brass." The local newsies seem to like the fellow and his supporters.

(You can read a hint into the above paragraph if you please.)

Tread carefully, 'let there be light'. You may inadvertantly talk yourself into believing in things like original sin, and who knows where that might end up? Total depravity? Keep this up and you run the risk of turning into a Calvinist.

Gee, you'd think that with a name like let there be light, s/he'd know we're not in Kansas anymore but in CANADA.

Sure, lots of politicians have pecadillos--aren't they human like the rest of us?--though our Canadian ones seem to go less for the sex kind than the ADSCAM kind: you know? Librano$' stealing from the hard-working taxpayers to feather the nests of their friends and family and to replenish the warchest of the next election...seeing as they have very little grass roots support across the country.

let there be light needs to shake off his/her shades and blinkers to really let the light shine in. So far s/he's seeing through a glass darkly.

But your point is well taken. If any of those people run for election here in Canada, I won't vote for them.

Vitruvius,

What's nice about this thing is that the guitar player starts off with H/Ts to Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and even Eddie Van Halen which is nice because "Smoke on the Water" has one of the truly classic rock riffs. (The original guitar player was Ritchie Blackmore, I think.)

The Deep Purple guitar player did a H/T to George Harrison as well which is nice.

Come on guys, let there be light is just Robert BscBa, Bollocks, etc. Please ignore him.

Not sure "let there be light" who you're trying to enlighten. Like to think most of us didn't fall off a turnip wagon.

Perhaps you believe you have a higher calling and have power to "lighten our darkness" but may "we beseech thee" to take care.

Wow, I guess it is the attack of the moron troll day. First up we have a quantum idiot mumbling on about what a great leader bombardion is(we all know what a great job he did on the environment file under cretin).

And who cares what sexual acts are carried out by any American politician? When you have some dirt on any member of the CPC(and looking at pictures of one's girlfriend does not count)let us know about it.

More misreporting from Iraq - check out the response from the actual soldiers involved in the story in the comments!

http://timesonline.typepad.com/inside_iraq_weblog/2007/12/get-out-of-my-h.html

Give the troll a break folks. He just found the copy/paste function and can't help himself.

It could be the most fun we've ever had in a bi-election in the riding of Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River.

No one could concoct a better political side show than what's shaping up there.

How can Dion be so dense to take such stupid advice from a tired, old and desperate politico like Ralphie Goodale?

Liz J

Rumor has it Ralph G has been spotted at the Brick and Leons purchasing all the TV's he can lay his hands on. Of course he got them on the "no money down, no payments for 1 year" plan.

Go figure.

Syncro

Let there be light; All the things that you accused the Republicans of doing are required to be a Democrat.If you advocate no morals,it follows that there is no morality.End of story,or is morality just for others.

went to the complaints section of the hrc. page could not be displayed. i wanted to complain about them.

British standard of living to rise above American.

What a load of crap that is!! Their incomes might rise above American's incomes, but that doesn't change the fact that one pound in Britain buys less than one dollar does in the US even though you need two dollars to to buy one pound.

LOL, Syncro.

Can just picture Ralph, slicked down hair, doing a no-money-down deal deal with the Brick or Leons.

AQL stresses about PMSH physical appearance and anger?

It would be petty at this point to mention the scrawny appearance, and milque toast wimpy sitting-on-his-hands Lib so-called leader of the opposition.

So this is me being petty...

In yesterday's "Sun":

"Skip the Kyoto snow job"

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Goldstein_Lorrie/2008/01/06/4755379-sun.php

Lorie Goldstein is very well informed on this subject and is not following the Baird-bashing journalist crowd(who prefer the ill-informed rhetoric)
He joined in to a discussion on enviro issues at

http://jojourn.blogspot.com/

@kingstonlad:

There's an easy answer. There are certain liberals that are so bigoted they don't even know it. The fellow who plagued this board is someone who believes that each and every conservative is aching to subject a kind of private conduct to a thicket of laws and regulations.

I can't explain it except through psychologizing ("displacement," it's called.) Some may peg it as "fear of payback," of one sort or another.

No doubt abot it - Dion is definitely

AQuAnTumLibErAL'S REHO!

English translation = HERO!

I've just sent the following to Melanie Phillips, a fine UK journalist who's right up our alley. I'd be interested in additions and feedback.

"I appreciated your latest column. In it, you wrote, 'What is so urgently needed is political leadership based on vision, integrity and courage. Charm and charisma, however attractive, are no substitute, while soggy consensus is a quicksand which may drag us all under.'

"Canada has a fine Prime Minister with 'vision, integrity and courage' in the estimable Stephen Harper, a Conservative. He’s kept a steady course, despite both a minority government and the 'best' efforts of the despicable Liberal Party—a Mafia-like organization, run by thugs—and its allies in the MSM, who slander and libel Mr. Harper and his party at every turn.

"One of the worst offenders is the state paid for CBC: the Liberals, who consider themselves 'Canada’s Natural Ruling Party'—they’re in deep shock that they lost the last election and no longer have the taxpayers’ money in their personal treasury to buy votes and influence—have chosen CBC journalists as our TWO latest Governors General! (Both are physically very attractive. One is an arrogant Chinese Canadian, who, I believe, thought SHE was the Queen! Our latest is a black Haitian Canadian, married to a Quebecois separatist! Her slouching, disrespectful body language, while reading the latest throne speech beside the PM was a disgrace.) The Liberals also reward their journalist buddies with Senate seats—sinecures: little responsibility, other than to hold up Conservative legislation, on a part-time basis, for big bucks until the age of 75. ‘Nice job if you can get it! Now that they can’t, the MSM, which act like the official opposition, are savaging PMSH and his party: among other things, manufacturing ludicrous “scandals”, which wouldn’t have the shelf life of a tomato if the MSM weren’t willing to fuel the fire.

"What does our PM do? He bides his time and gets on with governing. He and his party are remarkably dignified and quiet: they do NOT get involved in all the in-your-face screaming, preening and mud slinging—the Liberals’ usual modus operandi. This is quite a feat, considering the provocation they endure on an hourly basis—just about every CBC newscast! This minority Conservative Government has now been in power for 23 MONTHS, one of the longest, if not THE longest minority government, I believe, in Canadian history. Despite a totally juvenile, left-wing opposition of the criminal Liberals (on record, this party STOLE taxpayer $mega millions), the loony Green Party (with no seats but all kinds of media support), the separatist Bloc Quebecois, and just about all Canada’s MSM, PMSH has not toed the left-wing party line on Kyoto, China or Israel—at international forums, he’s challenged China’s human rights records and supported Israel’s right to exist and defend itself—and a host of other issues, such as being hard on crime (these bills died on the order paper, being held up by the Liberal dominated, UNELECTED Senate), lowering taxes, supporting the military (which the Liberals gutted) and our mission in Afghanistan, money directly to parents for child care, etc.

"Stephen Harper is his own man and has the courage of his considerable convictions. He’s sharp as a tack and, in the political chess game, is about six plays ahead of the opposition, which make them hate him even more. When the Parliamentary Press Gallery tried to run the show—“Play by our rules or else”—he called their bluff and left them out in the cold. He did an end run around them and communicated directly to Canadians, on local shows and via the Internet. The media scream that he’s not accessible. Not quite right: just way less accessible through their seriously out of focus lens! (From his office, I receive regular emails of his speeches and his daily engagements and announcements.) He has a very attractive family: a photogenic, blond, outgoing (unlike her introvert husband), independent spirited wife, Laureen, who grew up on an Alberta ranch and had her own company before her marriage. She rides a motorcycle and looks after stray kittens. She’s a delight. (A little pop up’s just informed me I have a message from the PMO about an announcement he’s made: probably about the two soldiers who were killed: may they rest in peace.) They have a son, Ben, and daughter, Rachel, both photogenic and active: Ben plays serious hockey, about which the PM is extremely knowledgeable: he’s writing a BOOK about it! One would think the MSM would lap these things up. Not on your life! Bloody hypocrites: dangerous too.

"Canadians have to be among the greatest sheeple on the planet. Far too many have fallen for the avalanche of lies about PMSH and the Conservatives. Among these brainwashed citizens are too many of the flood of questionable immigrants the Liberals allowed into Canada and then, under the guise of multiculturalism—I altogether share your views on this scam—bought their votes with numerous, very generous grants. IF the Conservatives do get a majority, Canada will have a chance to really reform itself and reclaim some of its former backbone and integrity. Considering the handicaps, I believe that PMSH is doing a remarkable job. Some C(c)onservatives are displeased with his compromises and think he’s selling out. However, until he gets a majority, he has no choice but to compromise. In my opinion, politically, he’s the best thing that’s happened to Canada in a very long time."

(Via Jerusalem Post) Rube Goldberg website and Machine Contest.

Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11

Jeffrey Goldberg’s review of Matthias Küntzel’s new book “Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11” is worth reading in its entirety, and the book he reviews seems essential as well...

The 2007 London Book Festival named Kuntzel’s book as the grand prize winner of its annual competition honoring books “worthy of greater attention from the international publishing community.”

Liberal Ad$cam Update: Liberal leader Ad$cam Citoyen Dion still knows nuttink. ...-

JEAN BRAULT, president of
Groupaction Marketing Inc.
Money made from the sponsorship program: $60-million
Status: Pleaded guilty to five counts of fraud in 2006

LUC LEMAY, president of
Le Groupe Polygone Editeurs Inc.
Money made from the sponsorship program: $29.9-million
Status: Arrested by the RCMP in June, 2005, and released the same day without being charged

JACQUES CORRIVEAU, president of PluriDesign Canada Inc.
Money made from the sponsorship program: Mr. Corriveau received $6.7-million in subcontracts from Groupe Polygone, and $495,500 from Groupaction. $$$$$$$

Unsealed warrant shows Montreal firm made enormous profits
Documents reveal Le Groupe Polygone Editeurs got $475,000 from Ottawa for television ads that cost $7,300
DANIEL LEBLANC
http://tinyurl.com/32xlpg (g-m)

So what is this guy saying - the Americans should bar all men from running for public office, including himself.

As an atheist I have to say that a lot of religious types seem to have this madonna/whore complex and think sex is evil.

"The problems do not only concern the plane's engines but also the fuselage and the wings, the executive said".

The above quote is that of an EADS (Airbus) executive concerning the delays in their M400 heavy lift competitor to the Lockheed Martin Hercules J Model which the Harper government has wisely selected for purchase. Very interesting. I guess the critics were right - we should have waited for the M400. The tail assembly appears to be OK.

lookout - thanks for the post; great comments.

Again, I want to bring up the remarkable process taking place in the US - a process not undertaken by any other country. For a full year, the American people openly debate the issues and agenda that concern them, via the presidential primaries. This debate is carried out in the media, in blogs, in town halls, on university campuses, in backyards and frontyards. It's a full, open debate. At the end of that time, they have clarified their concerns about themselves and their nation and are ready to vote for a candidate who will deal with these issues.

It's quite remarkable - a process of pure open democracy. In Canada, we don't dare debate our issues. We are slowly starting to talk about our concerns about multiculturalism, about bilingualism, about the kangaroo courts of the HRC, about the patronage system that is the Senate, about the dangers of Kyotoism and so on. But these discussions are primarily carried out in blogs. We don't mention them openly; no politician dares to speak about these issues.

Instead, we are fed a steady diet of Correct MindSpeak, from the govt broadcasting station, the CBC, and its offshoots in the Press (Toronto Star, G&M etc). What a difference.

That's why blogs are important in Canada. They deal with issues that the Ruling Mind forbids us to think or talk about.

A great blog by Copts (probably the most informed infidels on the planet) on Islam (sonsofapesandpigs.org)

Here's their take on the new UN resolution, bloc voted into existence by Islamic countries:

"We support, accept, join and vote with the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) for the implementation of the United Nations’ resolution A/C.3/62/L.35"

“Combating defamation of religions “and commend all members of the OIC for their unprecedented courage and their historical acknowledgment that their Allah, used to be also known by “the almighty, the all powerful, the merciful, the compassionate, the deceiver and other stolen identity ” has been now placed under the UN extinct species protection act.

Make no mistake about it; what we’re witnessing here is the cry of the wounded beast, bewildered and humiliated, not knowing where to hide. Contrary to the great majority of the anti-Islam brigades across the world that felt distressed by this (OIC) resolution, we see it as a great victory.

It’s the first time in history that a supposed religion, let alone the “fastest growing religion” as they falsely claim (we will prove that too from their own sources), is pleading with the world for protection. For Islam to survive, Islamic authorities and governments muzzled their people for 1400 years with terror and their monopoly on the information their people were allowed to access. With the internet, that monopoly is blown away forever and the truth is filling the air with millions deserting Islam. So now they figured they can keep using the sword to muzzle the world, they know Islam can’t survive without it. Their sword can still slaughter and will, but will never be able to hide the sun.

Dar el Islam is cracking and we know it, and they know it. The more you help spread the word, the faster you’ll see it crumble and be swept to the garbage of history sooner than anyone can imagine.

We can very confidently repeat what Emile Zola said “truth is on the march and nothing can stop it”

Read it all.

Drunks found in pub Friday Night by vigilant UK Nanny cops!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/LAC.20080107.SPONSOR07/TPStory/National/

"New details of the RCMP criminal probe into the sponsorship scandal and the Liberal kickback scheme have surfaced in court documents that state a company obtained $475,000 in federal funds after spending only $7,300 to run ads on a community station."

Nice work if you can get it.

Sorry, missed the previous posting

Posted by: maz2 at January 7, 2008 10:20 AM

NO, NO, NO!

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/01/07/climate-report.html

The PM had better stick to his no carbon tax guns!

I acted on a suggestion by a commenter on a previous thread about the moonbats going crazy in the G&M comments about Bill O'Reilly crashing the Democrats party and I read many of the comments.

Stepping back for a moment, if you'll recall, a few weeks ago, commenter "Gank" (or something like that) said (paraphrased): "forget the blogs, participate in the G&M comments...that's where the real action is".

After having read the comments, I can say quite clearly...DON'T BOTHER! What a load of partisan BS! Calm, rational commenters from "the other side" of the prevailing opinion are nastily slammed...no facts, just emotion and unjustified "claims".

What I found most funny was the oft-repeated claims of how biased Fox News is...particularly when I read Macleans magazine this morning and noticed an article stating that in an independent review by the Centre for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, they concluded that Fox News was "perfectly balanced". (refer to "3w.cmpa.com/releases.html")

HAHAHAHA! Partisan morons! Don't waste your time with the G&M.

RE: Schreiber-Mulroney! To all my Conservative friends! We need to be vigilant in obtaining an expense sheet from CBC's "Fifth Estate!" Don't give up!!!!

The Question. . .

How did expensive tech camera equipped cell phones become such a cheap commodity so quickly.

Hypothesis; They were first sold under rich government contract for covert use. R&D fully paid for, they become publicly available when the covert quality wore off.

Siemens, Motorola? = TG

Thought this was funny. Cut-and-paste from CTV.ca:

"Men who have never had children have a lower risk of prostate cancer compared with fathers, concludes a large stud, but the reasons for that are unclear."

I wonder who the stud is?

Re: OIC -- UN Resolution

Melanie Phillips weaves the defamation of religions resolution and several other recent events (all tipped on SDA by various readers) into her narrative on the global Islamic jihad:

Sleepwalking into Enslavement

N.B. the comments from moderate Muslim Manzoor Moghal near the end of the entry.

Daniel Ryan:
About your kind remarks about the Ron Paul supporters.
A friend sent me a puff piece from CBS blog on the Hitler Youth, aka Ron Paul Supporters, and their cult-like activity in Iowa.
Realize that these Hitler Youth -- mostly boys in liberal arts -- are actively questioning the US role in WW2 -- perhaps the most cut and dried moral issue in world history. Their cult leader, believe or not, is actively debating the Civil War of 140 years ago.
These cultists pretend to be concerned about limited government and the constitution, but if you learn to listen carefully -- just as you must always read between Islam's lines -- you will find two basic themes: All the world's problems are due to American behaviour and esp. its alliance with Israel. They do their hard-left-un-reconstructed hippie profs proud.

Ron Paul is a neo-isolationsit -- a weird cross between Pat Buchanan and Naom Chomsky. A barking mad anti-Semite and Blame America freakoid; and of course a great Kerryish hypocrite: he votes for the pork before he votes against the pork, but gets the pork for his constituents. For 10 terms in a row.

I'm a libertarian by the way!

A friend sent me a puff piece from CBS blog on the Hitler Youth, aka Ron Paul Supporters, and their cult-like activity in Iowa.

Sean Hannity would be the first to agree that they're quite, er, enthusiastic.

Re: Charles MacDonald at January 7, 2008 10:10 AM
Be sure and read this spirited exchange between Kuntzel and Andrew Bostom concerning Islamism/Antisemitism/Nazism.

Drained Brian: Key-reist!
BTW, in that little puff piece the writer mentioned how polite they were -- for example going across the street and observing silence so as not to disturb a MSM crew doing a spot, and not responding to other RP supporters going by in cars in deference to same crew. The whole piece was sweetness and light -- polite, earnest, idealistic youth. My a**.

The thing is: I just couldn't reconcile it with these kinds of video clips NOR the on-line vandalism they engaged in -- gaming all those internet polls and using anonymizer websites to hide their repeat votes. Not the kind of behaviour I expect of libertarians concerned with the constitution, free speech and the rule of law.

lookout: Great letter to the estimable Melanie Phillips!

You've nailed the key themes including his getting on, quietly and INCREMENTALLY with the job of redeemeing Canada. I have to confess I was losing my patience early on until I got that incrementalism is the only sane way to reverse two generations of servitude.

AND his wife: motorcycles and kittens! Heh, my two favourite things; but alas! I'm no longer allowed to have cats after two Bengals nearly wrecked our home before being re-located to a farm!

The Kinsella is reduced to shilling for himself in the Post today - lame.

Maybe we'll see him with a sandwich board on soon, or maybe in a gorilla outfit handing out bananas.

Is Kinsella following the goldenpalace.com strategy?

"will not constitute a salacious posting on my web site, www.warrenkinsella.com..."

The Green-Red Liberal propaganda machine spews the bee-ess.
...-

Panel pushes debate on carbon tax

The Canadian economy can transform itself into a clean-running green machine by 2050, slashing its emissions by more than half with very little economic pain, say the authors of a new report from the National Round Table on the Environment. ...-
(national newswatch)

Roundtable Chairman:
Glen Murray*
Toronto, Ontario

Members include: David Chernushenko
President
Gold and Green Inc
Ottawa
http://tinyurl.com/2ehz79 (roundtable)

*CTV.ca - [May 7, 2004] Winnipeg mayor Glen Murray to run for Liberals
Winnipeg Mayor Glen Murray is expected to announce Friday that he will run for the Liberals in the upcoming federal election. ...

come to think of it, the Liberals handed out wads of taxpayer cash, pretty easily.

Maybe Warren desperately wants to get back in the clique again. Maybe the private sector isn't as good as it should be.

Trouble is - when you have the stench of politics and gub'mint on you, you're pretty much poison.

Tough to get rid of that smell when you've spent that long in a sewer.

Thanks, MND. "Spirited" is an understatement.

Moronic poll question of the day,

"Five Canadian soldiers have been killed in light armored vehicle rollovers. Should the vehicle be banned from combat zones?"

From the Sun...........

Obama is related to both Bush and Cheney. (okay... from a distance, but it's still funny)

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545460,BSX-News-wotreea09.article

Me No Dhimmi, many thanks—and thanks too for the motorcycle/kittens LAUGH! (Bengal TIGERS!!? That sounds like quite a story . . . “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!”) Merci aussi, ET.

I had a short response from Melanie Phillips: "How interesting—and encouraging. Many thanks and best wishes".

I’m a HUGE fan of Alec Guinness. He quite detested the fact that he was better known (but not that he was rich!) for the Star Wars role of Obi Wan than for his other, much more substantial oeuvre.

However, in that vein, I can’t help thinking, “Help us, PMSH, you’re our only hope”!

Homophobic? Misogynistic? Will Kate follow Mark Steyn into the docket if she lets this post stand?

Re the January 3rd Rex Murphy "outing" of the Canadian Human (sic) Rights Gulags—er, Commissions—re Macleans and Mark Steyn: over at the CBC “The National Archives”, I read every one of the 195 (or so) responses to Mr. Murphy's fine and bold opinion piece.

It was heartening to note that 145 supported Murphy, while only 47 were opposed. (There were about three responses of indeterminate position.) Honestly, the postings by those who opposed Mr. Murphy were sophomoric, and ignorant in the extreme: most were sent by people with Muslim names. I knew that SOME Muslims COULD—does that exempt me from HRC per/pro-secution?—be tricky, two-faced, and dangerous. But here, they also demonstrated sheer stupidity.

Two other things I noticed: i) The earlier postings were more anti-Murphy than the later ones, which were overwhelmingly in his favour. ii) Many of the anti-Murphy postings were eerily alike. E.g., In common, was the following IDENTICAL WORDING by A.Q. Mufti (January 5, 2008 @ 04:53 p.m.) and Javed Akbar (January 5, 2008 @ 04:22 p.m.):

“I am a regular viewer of CBC TV and listener of CBC Radio. In my opinion CBC is doing a great service to Canadians in bringing unbiased (mostly) [sic] coverage of national and international issues.

“On January 3, the National ran a ‘Point of View’ segment, in which Rex Murphy strongly criticized a group of law students who have brought human rights complaints against Maclean’s Magazine.

“This is an issue that has catapulted into one of national concern. Firstly, based merely on the media attention it has garnished appearing in every major newspaper and secondly because of the nature of the debate it raises. This debate focuses on issues such as, media responsibility freedom of speech, and the role of human rights commissions.

“It therefore, deserves more than a one-sided, three-minute, splashy ‘comment’ by Rex Murphy. We need, as Canadians, to have a proper debate on these issues which affect us all. I request therefore, that these human rights complaints be the subject of a proper news story at the very least, which represents both sides of the issues.

“We have heard from Rex Murphy, now let’s hear from the complainants.”

A.Q. Mufti also said, “I am confident, the management of CBC (TV and Radio) would do its utmost to uphold the Canadian values of freedom of speech and give its viewers a chance to see the other side of the coin.” Right . . . and

GAG. I’m a pro-life, observant Christian Canadian of British extraction, whose family has been here for over 200 years and was instrumental in the implementation of Responsible Government in 1837. Lately, as in the last three decades, has the CBC done “its utmost to uphold the Canadian values of freedom of speech and give[n] its viewers a chance to see the other side of the coin” regarding people like me? Nope.

So who the heck do these “Ali Come Latelys" think they are? More equal than the rest of us? Hmm . . . I think I know the answer to that one.

Mark Stein was referring to a statement made by an Imam in Switzerland who stated Muslims were breeding like Mosquitoes is the story.

What is appalling is an individual like Professor Elmasry gets away with saying all Jews over 18 were fair game for killing, No Human Rights complaints against him, he's Muslim. It wasn't his first offense either, he has made controversial statements before.

Why are we so damned stupid as to tolerate this crap in a Country that still has freedom of speech but draws the line on "hate speech" is the question.

What Elmasry said was over the line, what Stein did was use a quote by an Imam.
This should be tossed out pronto.

Re my 10:02 a.m. post: in my letter to Melanie Phillips, I listed the juvenile, lefty Canadian opposition parties and LEFT OUT the NDP! Freudian slip?

Jack Bin Layton's such a fool and his cohorts such idiots and has-beens, no wonder I forgot about them. I did have a vague notion that something was missing: probably wishful thinking!

Well, how about that, Ralph Goodale says he had nothing to do with the picking of the candidate in Desnethe-Missinnippi-Churchill River to run for the Liberals!!
Where did the story come from then?
Are we to believe Steffi did it all on his own?

Could it be he'd go to such lengths to entice NDP women to help him fill his quota of 33% women?

What a pack of conniving fools.

"Liberal Ad$cam Update: Liberal leader Ad$cam Citoyen Dion still knows nuttink. ...-

JEAN BRAULT, president of
Groupaction Marketing Inc.
Money made from the sponsorship program: $60-million
Status: Pleaded guilty to five counts of fraud in 2006

LUC LEMAY, president of
Le Groupe Polygone Editeurs Inc.
Money made from the sponsorship program: $29.9-million
Status: Arrested by the RCMP in June, 2005, and released the same day without being charged

JACQUES CORRIVEAU, president of PluriDesign Canada Inc.
Money made from the sponsorship program: Mr. Corriveau received $6.7-million in subcontracts from Groupe Polygone, and $495,500 from Groupaction. $$$$$$$

Unsealed warrant shows Montreal firm made enormous profits
Documents reveal Le Groupe Polygone Editeurs got $475,000 from Ottawa for television ads that cost $7,300
DANIEL LEBLANC
http://tinyurl.com/32xlpg (g-m)
Posted by: maz2 at January 7, 2008 10:20 AM"

AND!!!!:....comments are...closed, sorry. Luv our LIB MSM

Note to Minister Baird: Throw the Liberal Round Table into the PET cemetery. It's a nest of Liberal placemen.
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Government says no to carbon tax

[...] "Environment Minister John Baird quickly dismissed the carbon tax proposal as a "Liberal idea," explaining that he had already addressed the concerns raised in the report by introducing a new federal green plan that sets a price on carbon emissions.

"What we're not going to do is be like Stephane Dion and the Liberals [who] constantly change their position, their policy," Baird told reporters. "Every time a report comes out, you can't change your mind." ...-
http://tinyurl.com/ysvybr (np)

The Young Pioneers*.

"the pioneers coming up with radical solutions?"
"Who are the politicians most able to force society and industry to do things differently?"
All that's missing from the left Guardian's list is Stalin's Five Year Plan/Gosplan....-

50 people who could save the planet

Stranded polar bears, melting glaciers, dried-out rivers and flooding on a horrific scale - these were the iconic images of 2007. So who is most able to stop this destruction to our world? A Guardian panel, taking nominations from key environmental figures, met to compile a list of our ultimate green heroes

If you have your own nominations, join the debate on our blog [...]

But who are the people who can bring about change, the pioneers coming up with radical solutions? We can modify our lifestyles, but that will never be enough. Who are the politicians most able to force society and industry to do things differently? Where are the green shoots that will get us out of the global ecological mess?

To come up with a list of the 50 people most able to prevent the continuing destruction of the planet, we consulted key people in the global environment debate. Our panel included scientists - former World Bank chief scientist and now the British government's scientific adviser on climate change, Bob Watson, Indian physicist and ecologist Vandana Shiva, Kenyan biologist and Nobel prize-winner Wangari Maathai; activists - Guardian columnist George Monbiot and head of Greenpeace International Gerd Leipold; politicians - Green party co-leader and MEP Caroline Lucas, and London mayor Ken Livingstone; sustainable development commissioner for the UK government Jonathon Porritt and novelist Philip Pullman.

Then the Guardian's science, environment and economics correspondents met to add their own nominations and establish a final 50. Great names were argued over, and unknown ones surfaced. Should Al [...]

"But in the end he squeaked through." ...-
http://tinyurl.com/3a2lbk (guardian)

* Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the ...
The Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union, also Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization (Russian: Всесою́зная пионе́рская организа́ция и́мени В. И. ...

The Question. . .

How did expensive tech camera equipped cell phones become such a cheap commodity so quickly.

Hypothesis; They were first sold under rich government contract for covert use. R&D fully paid for, they become publicly available when the covert quality wore off.

Siemens, Motorola? = TG

Is this supposed to be a joke? It's certainly got all the elements of one, except the humour.

Do you have the faintest clue of how electronics are made? Adding a feature like a CCD camera or enough memory to hold a bunch of tunes costs a few dollars at most. The fab plants over in the far East are so sophisticated nowadays, they can get a few hundred prototypes out in a couple of weeks, once they get a design, and they get the bugs out so fast, they can start producing thousands in less than a month.

Do you have the faintest clue of how cellphones are marketed? You don't pay anywhere near the actual cost of the phone, so long as you lock yourself into a plan for 2-3 years. The phone companies will subsidize the hardware because they know you probably won't leave after the initial contract is up. My Bell plan costs me about $600/yr before taxes. That's over $3,000 in the five years I've been with them. I lost my phone recently, and when I went for a replacement, Bell gave it to me for free, if I agreed to extend my contract for 2 more years.

Finally, why don't you wander down to Future Shop or Best Buy, and price out 42" plasmas? When I worked with AT&T Canada, we had four or five of these up in our Network Operations Centre, monitoring the status of lines and switches across the country. They were over $10,000 a piece. Now you can get them for just over $1,000, and that's in just five years.

I was watching CNBC today, and they were reporting live from the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. A GPS system in a watch? A portable DVD player with 13-hour battery life for $200? Don't you get the new economics? Manufactured stuff will get cheaper and cheaper; it's stuff that you can't force faster production upon that will get more expensive - like food, health care, and other personal services. I'm expecting to see $5,000 cars from China in a few years; I'm also expecting to see $4 loaves of bread, and $9.99/lb ground beef. The world is changing, my friend. Get on the bus.

I believe a metal is in order. I watched an entire episode (one full hour) of CBC's new hit drama Border. I admit I changed the channel three times because Ithought I could not longer 'take it', but I perserved and watched the enire program. For those of you who were watching paint dry or other important activities I will give you a synopsis. Americans are evil. CSIS is controlled by a deputy minister who lurks around in dark places such a limo's with blacked out windows or back alleys. Americans are evil. One out of every two terrorist suspects are innocent but we send them to Syria to be tortured anyway. And you guessed it, Americans are evil. Based on the previews for nexts week's episode the plot is: Americans are evil, Americans are corrupt, and Americans are evil. Move over American screenwriters guild there's a new kid in town.

Symptoms of Offended Muslim Syndrome (OMS)
Irritability, agitation, anxiety at the sight of women who are not fully covered
Prolonged rage or unexplained killing sprees
Significant changes in immigration patterns
Brooding about the past glory of the Caliphate
Decreased effectiveness and minimal work productivity
Difficulty in understanding new information without a trial lawyer
Feelings of despair or hopelessness about the existence of Israel
Recurring thoughts of death to the infidels
fivefeetoffury

"Unsealed warrant shows Montreal firm made enormous profits
Documents reveal Le Groupe Polygone Editeurs got $475,000 from Ottawa for television ads that cost $7,300"

The same company received $1.6 million from 1998 - 2002, and spent $98,000 on the projects contracted for.

How much of the difference went into the coffers of the Liberal Party of Canada?

KevinB,

I got a charge out of that. You are sooo correct.

This Motorola E815 cell phone is a well designed delight. The battery service lasts a week and the performance in weak signal areas is top of the line. Other E815 owners in user forums rave about them too. Bell seems fair enough. Avoid Rogers at all costs.

$5K cars from China, yes I am aware and that will shake up the market along with $2500 Euro vans that run on compressed air made by Tata motors - India.

BendGovernment.blogspot.com

Looking forward to the all solid state $299 laptop by Asustek. Makers of the commonly known Asus motherboards.

Yup, you are right. Food is going up while stamped out chips in stamped up toys are going to be ever cheaper to buy.

You can get a working Quartz watch at the EFADS dollar store $1, and I just bought beautiful chronograph watch [2 year warr.] with a Rolex type bracelet, big box store clearance for $12. Polished nickel and stainless. Looks like a $2k watch. = TG