Good evening ladies & gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio.
Tonight, in honour of Mr. Ezra Levant, we have Howard Roark in
his defense in The Fountainhead:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq9udFmsNO0
Posted by: Vitruvius at January 17, 2008 12:46 AMHere's a good way to build support for a cause...criticize your allies:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-usafghan16jan16,1,163569.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=1&cset=true
However, the Conservative government will just swallow this American crap and say it tastes like chocolate icecream:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080116.wnato0116/BNStory/International/home
Support the troops!
Posted by: lberia at January 17, 2008 1:21 AMSay, has anyone noticed that Beria hasn't posted here lately?
I hope he's ok.
Posted by: Vitruvius at January 17, 2008 1:24 AMI'm excellent Vit...how are you doin'?
Posted by: lberia at January 17, 2008 1:27 AMCBCpravda All Khadr All the Time
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/01/16/guantanamo-manual.html
what happened to the picture with the beard, and what happened to Mama Khadr and the Screaming Sisters. ( good name for Kinsellas punk band)
Two more human heads found in N.E Mexico City.
TheCanadainSentinel.blogspot.com
Your holiday already booked? Better switch to Belize or Panama. . . I would.
At least avoid Tijuana and Mexico City. = TG
A US POTUS race item you might find interesting. It seems that Mr Huckabee's vaunted "God's standards" standards aren't what they used to be.
http://instapundit.com/archives2/014211.php
It looks like the fastest growing group in Canada are our aboriginal peoples. They now make up 3.8% of the Canadian population. Their median age is much lower than the average Canadian; their birth rate is much higher. There is also politics at play concerning natives who live on and off reserves.
See
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=241823
(Also has links to several related articles from yesterday's National Post.)
Posted by: cconn at January 17, 2008 5:59 AMNice to see tne msm giving Steffi a big pass on his idiotic 'invade Pakistan' theory! Have been watching both cbc/ctv this a.m.,and other than a throw-away one-liner in the middle of another story(ctv)there has been nada,zero,zip!If a Cons.had been reported as saying this,every no-name politician,would have been trotted out for numerous opposing positions..there would be countless analysts slamming how ludicrous an idea this is..it would be front page news on every paper.I checked G&M,little wee blurb,(no comments allowed)...and where are the usual mouthpieces that have lots of 'opinions' i.e.Travers,Delacourt,Weston,Taber etc.NOTHING! MSM is too busy hiding once again,the puffin-excretement.CBC can drag out Coderre to slam PMSH for not responding more forcefully for Gates remarks,yet not mention Dion's asinine thots.Putrid indeed!
Posted by: Sammy at January 17, 2008 7:41 AMToronto school board considering Afrocentric school
Toronto's public school board is a step closer to opening a black-focused school - possibly as soon as next September - after a discussion paper obtained by the National Post yesterday listed the controversial idea as a way to address the disproportionately high dropout rates among black students...
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=242313
One-third of pupils at T.O. native school suspended
All Grade 3s failed literacy test
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=232058
Posted by: JM at January 17, 2008 7:50 AMWhere's Ralph?
Citoyen Dion's Liberals splinter.
Liberal Metis rebellion in Saskatchewan; 200 Liberal troops form own caucus.
Letters sent:
"The group sent a letter to Dion Wednesday demanding he repeal Beatty's appointment. Another letter was sent to Beatty asking her to resign from the position and file nomination papers if she wanted to run in the byelection."
"The letterhead featured the official Liberal logo, along with the party slogan."
...-
Northern Grits splinter over Beatty appointment
http://tinyurl.com/2oug29 (starphoenix)
Keen was in a conflict of interest; both cook and bottle-washer; both hands in the soup; coming and going at the same time. Perfect heaven for a bureaucrat.
Hers was a bureauc-rats' paradise. No longer.
TO Red Star smothers this by using this headline:
"Concerns on rise over nuclear safety"
[...]
"One such issue was the conflict inherent in the two roles Keen performed, Hawthorne said.
As president, Keen was the chief executive officer responsible for overseeing the 400-member commission staff. But she also chaired the six-member tribunal board that makes the formal licensing decisions. In most organizations those two roles are split." http://tinyurl.com/2s33tz
Posted by: maz2 at January 17, 2008 8:17 AMWe are going to hear lot's more about Keen and her Liberal buddies. For too many years Crown corp beaurocrats sat back and collected their fat paychecks with no accountability.PMSH is cleaning up and the biased media is trying desperately to spin this...very predictable.Fife and Oliver are in attack mode.
Does anyone think for a minute that Lunn and PMSH would do this without a huge file on Keen's mistakes?
The "huge file" goes beyond Keen. The dots lead to:
Mao Stlong, aka Maurice Strong, et al.
...-
Oil for food, Canada
Tongsun Park, Maurice Strong, Reid Morden at Atomic Energy of Canada
By Judi McLeod
Friday, June 30, 2006
[...]
"That's the kind of joining of the dots bound to have some running for the antacid.
The kind of dot joining that leads back to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan point man, Canadian Maurice Strong, a place Strong most likely doesn't need to be.
According to the prosecution in the first case related to the oil-for-food scandal to be tried in America, Mr. Park had strong connections to such UN luminaries as Mr. Boutros-Boutros-Ghali and Canadian oil tycoon and environmentalist Maurice Strong. "He sold his access," said Assistant District Attorney Michael Farbiarz, "for cash by the bagful".
"The money from Iraq, `that traveled from Baghdad to Canada, `$1 million in a cardboard box' was given to Tongsun Park by Saddam Hussein's former deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, according to the (Paul) Volcker document released on Wednesday." (Marinka Peschmann, Special to Canada Free Press, Sept. 8, 2005), "In addition to the $1 million, Saddam's top aide, Aziz, who has been in U.S. custody since April 2003, provided Park with an "escort" to safely accompany him out of Iraq into Amman, Jordan." ...-
http://tinyurl.com/3ybumg
(canadiancoalition)
AN AUDIO DOWNLOAD FOR ECONOMICS JUNKIES:
http://tinyurl.com/3xh7ny
Preface: This is a speech given by Sir James Goldsmith given to the US senate in 1994 concerning the negative impacts the "most favored nations status" would have on western industrialized nations productivity, the working middle class, balance of trade and the western labor market. He explains that this clause was a "trap" inserted onto the GATT by transnational monopolists to get production to China and sell the goods back to the Americas at maximum profitability.
In light of what has happened the last 8 years his predictions were prophesy.
Sir James Goldsmith is a British industrialist and billionaire who was a major force in opposing the EU.
Posted by: WL Mackenzie Redux at January 17, 2008 9:40 AMChretien /Martin government malfeasance would have had difficulty existing without the complicity of top most civil servants.
Enabled by the leftist MSM it afforded more than a decade of vile corruption, perpetrated on Canadians.
Good on Harper for cleaning out the rot that obviously still exists in pockets of the Liberal politicised civil service and RCMP as well, for that matter.
Too bad we do not have an aggressive conservative media in Canada, because the leftist MSM continues to champion the former governing miscreants.
PMSH to make big announcement from Prince Albert within next hr..cbc making big issue re the 'new' close relationship with Premier Wall,as opposed to poor old Lorne.I can't wait to see if there will be a Q&A after,and his comments on Doofus Dion's latest faux pas.
Posted by: Sammy at January 17, 2008 9:47 AMIf I'm not mistaken, I believe that PMSH is guessting on Gormley at 10:45 this morning.
Posted by: a different Bob at January 17, 2008 9:50 AMUK to take terror fight online - Home Secretary
Internet security experts reacted with scepticism today after Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, promised to broaden the online battle against terrorism.
Ms Smith told a London conference on terror that techniques developed for use against paedophile grooming could be extended to tackle those who use the web to groom young British Muslims to become terrorists...
Related: How online extremists evade capture
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=242325
Natives demand royalties for land. Here we go!
Posted by: MaryM at January 17, 2008 10:30 AMJoe Molnar said:
"Enabled by the leftist MSM it afforded more than a decade of vile corruption, perpetrated on Canadians."
Correct Joe. No corrupt governing regime can exist in a democratic nation this long without the help of a compliant or cowed media...and front and center in the Chretien-Martin ass-covering brigade was CBC.
Do a little googling on "Terry Milewski" and the Pepper spraying of civilians in the Vancouver demonstrations against Suharto.
..this incident said it all to me...there's our Powercorp PM snuggling up to a despotic butcher because his boss at Powercorp has major investments in Indonesia...kind of like one power freak psychopath relating to another...so Chretien's innate "pettiness" makes him order a RCMP pepper spray attack on Canadians peacefully protesting Suharto's brutal regime.
Chretien denies it, in his typical craven way, and hangs a low ranking mounty out to blame for the media to roast...Terry Milewski was the lone Canadian journalist doing an invetigation following the pepper trail right back to the PMO....this caused the media to ask "Da Boss" if it was true he issued the orders causing Cretch to blurt out that famous line ( "Wal for me, I put da peppers on da plate")
Previous to the "peppergate" scandal, Milewski was the unnamed reporter that had traced the paper trail from Chretien's golf course sale back to a coerced BDC loan guarantee...we all know the can of worms that opened.
Obviously the peppergate scandal was the last straw, so the "boss" has CBC brass demote and suspended Milewski from Mothercorpse...as a warning to other "investigative reporters" in the MSM who may be following the many spoor trails from multiple scandals back to the PMO.
If anyone took the trouble to read the transcripts of Adscam hearings, you will note that the keeping of an unaccountable "slush fund" in the PMO which was the impetus for the CSP grant seed money was known about by the media as early as 1994.... but media sources decided that telling the Canadian people about the unaccountable money to fuel an on-going political bribery scheme was just not newsworthy until the corruption became so obvious and whistle blowers appeared in 2004.
Yeah we live in a nation where the media is almost totally controlled.
Posted by: WL Mackenzie Redux at January 17, 2008 10:51 AMGoodale suffers from amnesia: "He doesn't remember."
...-
At the time, Liberal MP Ralph Goodale was responsible for overseeing AECL as minister of natural resources. The Auditor-General's report said a copy of the document was delivered to the minister's office for review. However, it is unclear whether Mr. Goodale made any attempts to improve relations with AECL or aid in its long-term planning problems.
Yesterday, a spokesman for Mr. Goodale said he declined to comment on the issue "for the simple reason that this goes back 10 years," the spokesman said. "He doesn't remember." ...-
Documents show history of problems
Managerial and systemic 'deficiencies' at AECL go back more than a decade, say Auditor-General's reports
http://tinyurl.com/2m55rm
Sammy,
If you dig deep into the CTV site, you can find an interview panel with some MP's on Steffi's comments. The link is very long, and I'm too inept to add it correctly....
JCL
Posted by: jcl at January 17, 2008 10:56 AMCRISIS DU JOUR. How does AGW compare to a global food crisis?
http://www.nationalpost.com/most_popular/story.html?id=213343
Posted by: jcl at January 17, 2008 10:58 AM"Out of the night, when the full moon is bright, comes a horseman known as Ezra. This bold renegade carves a E with his blade, a E that stands for Ezra. Ezra, the fox so cunning and free. Ezra, who makes the sign of the E."
I can just see the video wtih our crusader on his rearing horse...
Posted by: Nicola Timmerman at January 17, 2008 11:03 AM
(PDF warning) C. Christine Fair (RAND Corporation), U.S.-Pakistan Relations: Assassination, Instability, and the Future of U.S. Policy
Testimony presented before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia on January 16, 2008
The comments on the Federally Adminstered Tribal Areas (pp. 11-14 of the PDF) are particularly interesting. They include this nugget (notes omitted):
Similarly, political parties are not allowed to operate in FATA as the problematic Political Parties Act has not been extended there. Failure to extend the act has denied regional and non-Islamist parties the ability to cultivate and mobilize supporters in FATA, while permitting Islamist parties unfettered access to the public through Friday sermons at mosques and through access to FATA’s numerous madrassah. Thus, when adult franchise was first exercised in the 1997 elections, the residents of FATA overwhelmingly and without precedent elected religious scholars (ulema) to represent them in the national assembly. Since 1997, FATA has consistently voted for Islamist in the general elections. Without legal reform and political liberalization, I am skeptical that economic investments will help bring the hapless residents of FATA into Pakistan’s mainstream society. At some point, FATA must become part of Pakistan’s legal, political and social structure. FATA must have functioning police and courts and other amenities that Pakistanis elsewhere enjoy. Thus economic investments need to be accompanied by political liberalization and legal reform.Posted by: Charles MacDonald at January 17, 2008 11:34 AM
"Diana's mother called her a whore: court"
LONDON (Reuters) - Princess Diana's former butler told the inquest into her death on Monday that her mother had called her a whore for dating Muslim men.
Paul Burrell said Diana broke off relations with her mother, Frances Shand Kydd, after she had "expressed herself in extremely forceful terms about Diana's consorts, especially if they were Muslim."
Burrell, revealing the contents of a call Diana asked him to listen into, said Shand Kydd, who died in 2004, "called the Princess a whore and she said that she was messing around with f-ing Muslim men and she was disgraceful and said some very nasty things."
Posted by: irwin daisy at January 17, 2008 11:44 AM"Don't rile the natives, or what do Canada and Chechnya have in common?"
Jan 14: Canada's version of The Minority Report: pre-crime and presumption of guilt in Section 13 cases
* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
If I thought medication would help, I suppose I would tell a psychiatrist that I'm always on the lookout for the British counterinsurgency. I don't like admitting this to you -- paranoids generally don't unburden themselves for obvious reasons; you could be a Redcoat spy. But as there is no other way to explain the reasoning behind my view of Section 13 of Canada's Human Rights Act (see the last two Pundita posts about Section 13), I have let you in on my secret.
I am not prejudiced against the British, you understand; I'm waiting for them to make another try. There is a difference.
Section 13 is a direct consequence of Canada's official multicultural policy, which is written into their Charter of Rights and Freedoms under Section 27.
But what is multiculturalism and how did it come about in Canada? Here is the Canadian government's explanation. Yet mountains of books and scholarly papers have been published in the attempt to answer the question. None of them are worth a plug nickel in my view, unless they explain that multiculturalism was a British invention for managing native populations.
So when I review published criticism of the Section 13 complaints against Maclean's magazine, I can only shake my head in wonder at such blindness. The critics, whether from Canada or America, are doggedly determined to pin blame on human rights commissions, or Liberals and the Political Correctness movement.
Let us be clear. The war between the American colonies and Britain ended, but the ideological struggle never did. That struggle has been played out most recently in Iraq, which saw the British approach to managing the natives in Basra in open conflict with the US attempt to block Iranian weapons from entering Iraq. My nightmare is that it's being played out in Afghanistan as well.
What are the two sides in the struggle? The British colonial model (BCM) is that you allow the natives you rule in foreign lands to keep to their own ways as much as possible without your losing control over them. This approach arose out of practical needs to keep tribal rivalries from spilling into wars that the British home office would find hard to control.
To read the rest: pundita.blogspot.com/2008/01/dont-rile-natives-or-what-do-canada-and.html
Posted by: irwin daisy at January 17, 2008 12:08 PM
cruise on film
http://gawker.com/5002269/the-cruise-indoctrination-video-scientology-tried-to-suppress
Posted by: cal2 at January 17, 2008 12:13 PMIt appears Beria is posting under one of his other personalities, "the envelop please!"
Unlike his regular personality, modeled as it is on a Communist mass-murderer, this personality conveniently allows him to use expletives and personal threats.
More proof that seriously demented multiple personality disorder runs rampant amongst leftards.
Posted by: irwin daisy at January 17, 2008 12:19 PMWTF OUTRAGE OF THE DAY --
Canada has placed Gitmo on its "torture watch list".
"Omar Khadr's lawyers say they can't understand why Canada is not doing more to help their client in light of new evidence that Ottawa has put the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on a watch list for torture."
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080116/khadr_torture_080117/20080117?hub=Canada
Posted by: mark peters at January 17, 2008 12:24 PMSituation Normal: AllNotFU.
SNANFU. ...-
Current Sea Ice Synopsis
Posted: January 7th, 2008
As of January 1, 2008 Environment Canada analysis indicates sea ice cover over the Northern Hemisphere has recovered to near normal extent. However, much of the thick multi-year ice in the eastern and even central Arctic Ocean has been depleted and replaced with thinner more newly formed first year ice. (Click here to see a comparison with the last 4-years). ...-
http://www.socc.ca/seaice/seaice_current_e.cfm
More SNANFU.
“‘We Greenlanders have acclimated to changing conditions over the past 1100 years,” said Frederiksen. “Temperatures change at regular intervals.”
...-
Jan 17, 2008
Ice Returns as Greenland Temps Plummet
On Disko Bay in western Greenland, where a number of prominent world leaders have visited in recent years to get a first-hand impression of climate change, temperatures have dropped so drastically that the water has frozen over for the first time in a decade. “The ice is up to 50cm thick,” said Henrik Matthiesen, an employee at Denmark’s Meteorological Institute who has also sailed the Greenlandic coastline for the Royal Arctic Line. ‘We’ve had loads of northerly winds since Christmas which has made the area miserably cold.’ Matthiesen suggested the cold weather marked a return to the frigid temperatures common a decade ago.
Temperatures plunged to -25C earlier this month, clogging the bay with ice and making shipping impossible for small crafts, according to Anthon Frederiksen, the mayor of the town of Ilulissat, where Disko Bay is located. The mayor cautioned against thinking that the freezing temperature indicated that global warming claims were overblown. He noted that a nearby glacier had retracted more in the past two decades than in recorded history. But he noted “‘We Greenlanders have acclimated to changing conditions over the past 1100 years,” said Frederiksen. “Temperatures change at regular intervals.” ...-
http://www.icecap.us/
Irwin,
one can imagine that a person who makes threats and always sides with the anarchist may well be an ex-con who has a hate for the state.
Joining a cell at the local mosque in SanDiego California gave a group of ex-cons the validation to go on a robbery spree in Los Angeles.
They were rounded up due to a dropped cell phone. Turns out their apartment held plans to hit some federal building with explosives.
Just bucking *the system*. We will always have *system buckers* in the crowd. = TG
Posted by: TG at January 17, 2008 1:08 PMVirtual murder, virtual education
A British Muslim IT student and son of a Moroccan diplomat was accused of being "al Qaeda's top cyber terrorist" by British authorities. Younes Tsouli, 23, "posted included messages from Osama bin Laden and images of the kidnapping and murder of hostages in Iraq such as American Nick Berg."
What's interesting about the Younes case is that it marks "the first time anyone in Britain had been prosecuted for inciting terrorist murder purely based on the Internet" [...]
When the real Fyodor Dostoevsky described Ivan Karamazov's frustration with the insubstantiality of the Devil in the Brother's Karamazov he might have been talking about the virtual Jihad. Ivan denies that evil ideas matter, that they have a life of their own, but realizes to his dismay that he's talking to the Devil.
"Never for one minute have I taken you for reality," Ivan cried with a sort of fury. "You are a lie, you are my illness, you are a phantom. It’s only that I don’t know how to destroy you and I see I must suffer for a time. You are my hallucination. You are the incarnation of myself, but only of one side of me... of my thoughts and feelings, but only the nastiest and stupidest of them."
We disbelieve in phantoms at our peril. They can take shape, as they did above Manhattan on a bright autumn day oh so long ago and come down for blood. We can jail Younes Tsouli easily enough but to fight the lie, the illness, the phantom, the hallucination, we must must unleash spirits of our own. Ivan's problem was that he couldn't believe in the Devil and consequently kept talking to him.
Do you believe in the Devil? Let's just say Younes Tsouli believed in the Internet Jihad.
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2008/01/virtual-murder-virtual-education.html
Cal2, don't forget:
A few fries short of a Happy Meal.
Posted by: Texas Canuck at January 17, 2008 1:45 PMRe: Linda Keen's so called "firing".
She was not fired at all. Just demoted from the head position. Get this - she still has a job on the board and still collects more than $240,000 per year!
So, a person can make a bad decision that needlessly causes chaos in health systems around the world and puts hundreds of thousands of lives at risk and we can't even fire them!!!!
And, how about this - Linda Keen's degree in plant nutrition somehow qualified her (in the mind of Ralph Goodale who appointed her) to call the shots for the entire atomic energy industry in this country.
Add that to the fact that Ralph Goodale called up his little protogee (who probably covered his butt for him when he was minister) and advised her to "stand her ground" when Lunn and others were trying to get her to see the logic in restarting the Chalk River plant.
Of course, Ralph would know this would cause a political furor against the Conservatives either way but it would appear Linda Keen was easily swayed by Mr. Goodale (who now conveniently says he does not remember all of the bad reports from 10 years ago when he was minister of AECL).
It would appear that if a full inquiry was done on this many many fingers would point back at Ralph Goodale using Linda Keen as his front girl to cause political chaos for Harper - dam n the poor sick people who would be hurt by Goodales hateful spiteful political games.
Posted by: Lorraine at January 17, 2008 2:05 PMWhy everyone should have a gun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYAear1C3Jo&feature=bz301
...if they only dressed like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k-XJHiShB0&NR=1
Posted by: lberia at January 17, 2008 2:43 PMGoodale is in high desperation mode, it's almost blowing his mind. Jeeze, keep watching for a few straggly hairs to fall to his forehead, escape the slickum goo.
Ralphy should retire to 'spend more time with his family' soon, if things keep going as they are for the Liberals.
National non-smoking REWARDS program announced for Canadian youth
....The program, which launches in conjunction with National Non-Smoking Week(January 20-26) in Canada, targets smokers and non-smokers, grades five through eight, offering them a $5,000 cash incentive to simply graduate high school smoke-free....
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2008/17/c9682.html
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2008/17/c9682.html
Melanie Phillips, Slouching towards dhimmocracy
According to Phil Johnston in the Telegraph:
Ministers have dropped the term ‘war on terror’ and will now refer to jihadis as 'criminals' in an attempt to stop glorifying acts of terrorism. ‘As you disrupt radicalisation you must be aware of how you describe it and must not do so in a way that is inadvertently inflammatory,’ said a Whitehall source.Yes, the phrase ‘war on terror’ is conceptually incoherent; but the government’s intention is not to describe what we are facing more precisely. On the contrary, its intention is to make it impossible to describe the situation truthfully. We are being subjected to an onslaught from Islamic jihadi terrorism. First the government decided to ban the use of the word ‘Islamic’ in relation to terrorism; now it is banning the word ‘terrorism’ itself... Posted by: Charles MacDonald at January 17, 2008 3:02 PM
MDS is not the only company that supplies isotopes, and it also has a risk management plan in place to deal with situations like this. Afterall AECL unions have gone on strike previously shutting down the NRU requiring MDS to have a backup plan.
The 1998/2002 reports regarding AECL have been posted on the Auditor of Canada government website for all the public to see since they were first issued. The media needs to get their facts straight.
This entire episode has made both parties look bad, to Canadians and potential investors. If it turns out that AECL is in the process of being privatized, hopefully all of what's happened doesn't have a negative impact on it's saleability or price.
Posted by: JM at January 17, 2008 3:13 PMWL Mackenzie Redux's reminder of Terry Milewski's travails over his "pepper on my plate" reporting of the Chretch in Vanacouver.
Like the traffic "memory" that lingers after an accident on the 401, the internet has exactly the same effect on issue's such as the Milewski punishment by the CBC.
Quite enlightening when placed alongside of the recent CBC acting as 'assistant of talking points' for the Libs at the opposition dominated parliamentary "ethics commission", eh?
oh no , some of Ed Stelmach's voter base wont like this.
http://www.gov.ab.ca/home/NewsFrame.cfm?ReleaseID=/acn/200801/22887889795A5-AA94-8312-8BF835E01B01EE07.html
Greenland faces bitter cold. Global warming called off?
http://www.cphpost.dk/get/105114.html
According to Herb Dhaliwall in a recent interview HE tried to privatize AECL when HE was Liberal minister.
So what has changed? Nothing. There is still no viable buyer for a white elephant that is costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars to sustain because it is a medical neccesity and also the main employer in Chalk River.
Surely there is an option. Could another country take over and build an isotopes plant and take the burden off the Canadian taxpayer?
We obviously have not got the skilled beaurocrats who can manage this properly.
Posted by: Lorraine at January 17, 2008 3:27 PMBeria is a liar. This is why people should have guns: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ytn8uplERY
Posted by: Aaron at January 17, 2008 3:55 PMBase finally getting new Hercs
After long decades of service, CFB Trenton's workhorse airplanes are getting exactly what they need: reinforcements.
Federal ministers announced a contract to buy 17 new C-130J Hercules transports for $1.4 billion Wednesday.
The planes are to begin arriving in 2010.
Col. Mike Hood, commander of 8 Wing-CFB Trenton, was part of a crew flying one of the base's older Hercules to Ottawa Wednesday.
He compared the effect of the announcement to the recent arrival of the CC-177 Globemasters in Trenton.
"It's a real morale booster," said Hood. "People want to be part of an organization that has the best equipment (and) great capability. This is just the next step."
Though older Hercules models are flown elsewhere in Canada, Hood said the new J-models will be based in Trenton. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/2ltraq (bellevilleintelligencer)
The new UN supremo: "Afstan: Lord High Paddy Ashdown".
Mark
Ottaw
Let the puffin-poop covering begin.Over at Liberal.ca,the headline reads:
Conservatives Grossly Distort Stephane Dion's recent Comments on Pakistan....yeah right!
I guess the FEW in the MSM that have also pointed out what a dangerous remark it was are 'distorting' as well eh Stef?
Article just went up on Montreal Gazette site as well..Dion says Pakistan comment was misinterpreted.
I found first line of article interesting..As the Pakistan gov't.was preparing to denounce him,Lib.leader SD yesterday debunked reports he favors NATO military incursion to root out insurgents who use Pakistan as a base for terrorist attacks in neighbouring Afghan.
I am wondering what Pakistani canadians are thinking of the Lib "leader"now..and will it affect their voting practices???
News, just heard..
Canadian Detwiler, [ space related firm ], is to be sold to Minisota based arms, [Mines and scatter bombs , [ good kids killers ], maker.
The US bomb maker has it*s mines in the oceans, desert sands, and rural roads dirt.
With the Canadian Detwiler purchase, they will be able to hang their bombs in space.
Can we soon expect to see the flare of Russian *Sputicks* when they bump into mines hung in space by the new [US] Detwiler? = TG
Posted by: TG at January 17, 2008 7:34 PMTG: You're welcome to your Pink Floyd world. More here.
Mark
Ottawa
Could someone, perhaps Lookout, explain what the curriculum in an Afrocentric school as is being proposed by the Toronto School board would be?
Thanks, just curious.
Posted by: Dave at January 17, 2008 8:52 PMFrom Kelli Arena and Bill Mears
CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Canadian who has pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy to kill Americans and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction against U.S. property will be sentenced Friday, his lawyer said.
Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, 25, pleaded guilty shortly after his arrest in 2002. His indictment and plea were unsealed late Thursday at the U.S. District Court in New York.
Prosecutors recommended last June that he be sentenced to life in prison.
Jabarah, also known by the nickname "Sammy," also allegedly pledged allegiance to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
The government had been investigating Jabarah since his arrest overseas. Court papers allege he was trained in al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan.
He met with bin Laden and al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in the summer of 2001, was given money and told to carry out attacks on U.S. embassies in Southeast Asia, the government says. Those plots failed.
The indictment alleges Jabarah and other al Qaeda members "unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly combined, conspired, confederated, and agreed to kill nationals of the United States."
He later allegedly went to Oman to set up safe houses for al Qaeda members fleeing Afghanistan. There, he was arrested.
Jabarah's guilty plea and sentence were first tied to a cooperation agreement. U.S. officials said he initially helped ongoing terror probes, while staying in an FBI-arranged house under the around-the-clock watch of federal agents.
But "Jabarah was secretly planning to exploit the perception of cooperation," to carry out a "martyrdom mission" to kill American agents and prosecutors, U.S. officials said.
Knives, rope and directions for making explosives were found in his possession
desperate newfies call for help with something
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/national/story.html?id=142cbb3f-9205-459a-ac6a-25e709a177d4
Mark 7:52,
I like all the fill-in on the Torch posting.
My comment was just speculative since I know next to nothing about it all.
There is just something sour about any firm that makes cluster bombs and land mines. Mines stick around for years and blow children apart as they play.
The Torch does supply a lot of interesting info. = TG
Posted by: TG at January 17, 2008 10:27 PMWildrose/Alliance
Do I dare to hope there is finally an alternative to vote for in Alberta other than the PC(politically correct/progressive conservative)party? Funny how the initials are the same. I'm not a member yet but I am going to make sure I check it out.There's a
merger meeting in Calgary:
Saturday January 19, 2008 Westin Hotel
10:00 AM 5:00 PM 320 - 4th Ave SW, Calgary, AB
For Information contact Jane Morgan: 1-888-262-1888 or e-mail: info@albertaalliance.ca
For you people in the Red Deer area there's a meeting on Monday, January 21st
7:30pm North Hill Inn
Northland Suite
7150 Gaetz Ave.
If you lose hope then you really are doomed......keep hope eternal.
Posted by: sumbuddy at January 17, 2008 11:32 PMmethinks Danny Whine for Wine Williams wanted someone , anyone to listen.
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/national/story.html?id=142cbb3f-9205-459a-ac6a-25e709a177d4
actually the ROC wants to give Danny a "Great Big Cup of Shut the Fu k Up"
Posted by: cal2 at January 17, 2008 11:40 PMCHERNIAK BLAMES CONSERVATIVES FOR TRICKING PAKISTAN INTO ENTERING DOMESTIC POLITICS..looks like he's the next reincarnation of his glorious leader!He lays out this latest theory (cue the space alien scary music)in bizarro,cherniak logic.
His laying out the chain of events,by blaming Peter Kent of Canwest News,then Peter McKay..oh those dirty peters..,then it's Stephen Taylor's fault,for 'tricking the Pakistan high Commision into making a statement(see Taylor's blog)..this led to misleading reports in Pakistan newspaper...I didn't realize Cons.bloggers had that much power!
He wraps up this fairy tale,by saying McKay/Cons should be 'ashamed for trying to create an INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT..defying all known tradition in Canada!...gotta lay down now,I'm dizzy!