Kathy mentioned the upcomming talk by Alan Borovoy in Calgary, on the matter of the problem of the Human Rights Comissions, in an earlier post. There is one scheduled for Edmonton too, which I'm currently planning to attend:

Edmonton ~ Wednesday, January 23, 12:00 – 1:30pm
Aurora Room, Lister Hall, University of Alberta
www.chumirethicsfoundation.ca/main/page.php?page_id=136

Calgary ~ Thursday, January 24, 5:30 – 8:30pm
2nd floor, Kahanoff Centre, 1202 Centre St. S, Calgary
www.chumirethicsfoundation.ca/main/page.php?page_id=137

You need to register at the phone/email provided at the URLs.

And since, as they say, the show must go on, good evening ladies & gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, live from Rome in 1980, we have the Talking Heads performing Born Under Punches, which contains these lyrics:

Take a look at these hands. They're passing in between us.
Take a look at these hands.
Take a look at these hands. You don't have to mention it.
No thanks. I'm a government man.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVIKF03KkVM

The CANADIAN BLOG AWARDS are on again. It looks like they may be better run than last year but, there will still be multiple votes per the following blurb.

"The voting has begun. Please read this carefully: You can vote only once per category, per round. (Unlike previous years, you do not get one vote per day.) Choose carefully, and good luck to the competitors."

Access is at
www.canadianblogawards.ca

SDA has been nominated for Best Blog, Best Conservative Blog, and Best Political Blog.

Another blog well deserving of our support is ClimateAudit as best Sci/Tech blog.

Sicem!

"People have turned my political ideas into a cliche, but that is superficial. I am a dramatist who is interested in people, and I have empathy for Bush as a human being, much the same as I did for Castro, Nixon, Jim Morrison, Jim Garrison and Alexander the Great."

Oliver Stone on his next film project, a biography of President George W. Bush. John Hinderaker at Power Line says he can't wait. Neither can I.

Castro and Jim Morrison, eh?

Vit.

I'll be there, I'll be the guy in the ratty leather jacket.

Syncro

p.s. Calgary only.

Some cracks in the wall!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080120.wcomment0121/BNStory/National/home

The Globe and Mail has an opinion piece by Ezra.

Well, well.

A volcano erupted under the Antarctic ice sheet, and may still be active:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080120/ts_afp/scienceantarcticvolcanoclimate

Look for the john cross types to ignore this. I might also mention there is at least one Active volcanoe under the Greenland ice cap.

Thanks, Lori, for the tip on the opinion piece by Ezra Levant in the Probe and Fail: "What a Strange Place Canada Is." I had to search for it.

It said at the top of the article, in pale, grey font, Web Exclusive Comment.

Does that mean that the article doesn't appear in the newsprint edition?

The Underground History of American Education
John Taylor Gatto

Read The Book
Prologue
[...]
"I want to open up concealed aspects of modern schooling such as the deterioration it forces in the morality of parenting. You have no say at all in choosing your teachers. You know nothing about their backgrounds or families. And the state knows little more than you do. This is as radical a piece of social engineering as the human imagination can conceive. What does it mean?"
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/

Yep, Round the Block. These things do not appear on the paper itself. However, it's a start, anyway.

This particular location, the "Web-exclusive commentary", has been a place where they put a few controversial speakers, like Tariq Ramadan, and the ambassador to Saudi Arabia, in previous months.

Usually comments are permitted, and I was very pleased to see the commenters roast those two speakers. There are a good number of right-wing thinkers on those forums. It's not all left-wing loonieness.

It is disappointing that they do not allow comments for the piece. I would expect a huge expression of support for Mr. Levant's stand. I guess we can only expect so much....

Dead last: Canada's sickness system.

Here are the last paragraphs of this report:

"The study also notes that Canada spends more on health care than any other country surveyed, even though it obtains poorer than average results.
That means Canada ranks dead last out of 30 on yet another statistical grid called the Bang for the Buck index."

Canadian health care system lags behind Europe, says study
http://tinyurl.com/2aykrn (canpress) ...-

"Ontario reconsiders neurosurgery funding

Province denied approval for more neurotrauma beds, but is now studying a plan to handle additional cases

The Ontario government [of Liberal McGuinty] rejected a proposal to fund two neurotrauma beds at a Toronto hospital, as droves of critically ill patients with brain hemorrhages were being sent to the United States for emergency medical care."
[...]
"[Liberal] Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman was on an airplane yesterday and could not be reached for comment."
http://tinyurl.com/yslrdp (globemail)

It appears that the liberals are planning a revolution according to Northern Ontario MP Anthony Rota as quoted in the National Post

"we haven't picked a time to overthrow the government,"

So rather than defeat the government on a non-confidence motion the liberals plan to overthrow the government. Do you think they have the support of the military for their little plan?

But otter...
'AGW causes volcanoes...dontcha know?'

Wait for it.

Bluetech~ Hey, I hear ya. They are already blaming earthquakes and tsunamis on agw... why, so much ice is melting in Antarctica that the ocean is rising .008 inches a year!!!! At that incredible rate, it will take 125 years for the next inch of Increase! And the temperatures! They are increasing at a rate of 1/4 of what the IPCC predicted for the minimum amount of temperature increase.

We're doomed.

I've got to see to the rabbits, back later.

BEWARE: The liberals are planning to OVERTHROW the government. Isn't it against the law to plan/or actually overthrow a government. Isn't that how they change government in 3rd world countries. This statement was made by a liberal, and is quoted in NNW.
Perhaps they should have had a session at their caucus retreat on what words mean. First we have Dion talking about invading a country, now they are planning to overthrow our government.
These people are getting very dangerous.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080120/keen_firing_080120/20080120?hub=Canada

she appeared to be reporting to the opposition and not the government,

Settled Science - No need to let facts get in the way...

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=fcabc522-e567-4183-8288-c5cb34bcc5b3&k=17837

That's right, Mary T, the Liberals are "getting very dangerous". Their dear leader is boldly musing about the use of NATO forces to invade Pakistan, to help them clear out the Taliban. At the same time they're yakking about bringing down our government because THE LIBERALS ARE READY! How about that? No other consideration!

How wacky does anyone who votes in this country have to be to vote for the Libranos for any reason? They'd have to be totally out of the loop for starters and care not one whit for what happens to this country.

From the WSJ on 1/19...."A history scholar selects essential works about fanaticism"....with this one specific to Canada:

Moral Panic
By John Fekete
Robert Davies, 1994

In 1993, the "Final Report of the Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women" set off what John Fekete, a man of the left and a major figure in academic cultural studies, compellingly termed a "moral panic," a fanaticism that led to willful bad science, to callous indifference to truth and criticism, to zealous bad law and policy, and to efforts to transform coercively the freedoms and dignities of an entire people. How else to save Canadian women from the violence of the warlocks except by creating a yet larger political state to infantilize both sexes and to effect a moral regeneration of men across the barbarism that is Canada? Fekete, a professor at Trent University in Ontario, offers a deeply disturbing account of the treacherous union of modern political superstitions with the totalizing exercise of power that sanctimonious passion invariably demands. His trenchant analysis of statistical fraud in the service of political aims is itself worth the reading. "Moral Panic" is an indispensable guide to the fanaticism of our times.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120070008999801641.html?mod=opinion_journal_books

(Via Center for Security Policy) Petraeus Eyed for NATO Command

The Department of Defense is considering moving the main architect of a troop "surge" strategy, Gen. David Petraeus, out of Iraq and giving him a top NATO command job, The New York Times reported on its website late Jan. 20.

Citing an unnamed senior Pentagon official, the newspaper said the department was weighing "a next assignment for Petraeus," now the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, and that the job of NATO supreme commander was a possibility...

Cherniak scrathin'the puffin-poo to cover the Orchard fiasco.
Anyone catch the cbc coverage of Dion's opening garbled speech in Kitchener this am?.."we are here in the sauce-west area at our coke-us retreat"
Some other one-line gems:
'Certain of you's went across country'...'we went in Yukon..we care about the Nort'
re climate change plan.'it's in the Toronto Star,it's coming now' Huh? why just the Star?
On Afghan:'I feel very proud to be a Canadian there' and then mentioned 'the journalists there RISKING their lives'
"Fire Lunn,Guergis should be fired"
And from the close:"we have a lot on our burden,the WORLD counts on us..and Kitchener counts on us to drink a good beer with them tonite"
What a friggen mess,and the 'coke-us' clapping like a bunch of seals,yet I noticed the Igster looked somewhat less than enthusiastic.

oh oh Suzuki and Greepeace will have a fit over this !

UK report : Biofuels not sustainable
http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/environmental_audit_committee/eac_210108.cfm

How can we launch our rockets if we're not "pleasant and comfortable" with out fuel from Israel?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080121/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians;_ylt=AuMgwO1RhcAGTyozimBpgVsUewgF

This weekend I braved all the snow and cold and drove from home (Alberta) to Great Falls, Montana in search of a book. You may have heard about this new release, but don't count on finding it on the shelves in the People's Republic of Canuickistan.

I'm talking about Jonah Goldberg's LIBERAL FASCISM and I bought the last copy left in Great Falls. I'm already about half way through in one day and I cannot recommend it enough.

The book is a real eye-opener and it puts many, MANY political things in historical perspective. To those Americans lurking here at SDA, YOU MUST READ THIS BOOK before you vote this coming fall!

Impaired charge dropped Due to Language- National Post jan21/08

The judge threwout the charge as the defendent did not understand his rights,The defendent is spanish speaking. The officer maintained that the man failed a roadside breathalizer & he denied having drank, the officer said he(defendent) also spoke in English when questioned. Defence lawyer said that an interpeter of many languages should be available at all times much like in the USA.
The man has live in Canada since the 90's.

Hypothetical attack on U.S. outlined by China

...But while the American military mulls its options, Chinese missiles hit runways, fuel lines, barracks and supply depots at U.S. Air Force bases in Japan and South Korea. Long-range warheads destroy American satellites, crippling Air Force surveillance and communication networks. A nuclear fireball erupts high above the Pacific Ocean, ionizing the atmosphere and scrambling radars and radio feeds.

This is China’s anti-U.S. sucker punch strategy...

The article is based on a RAND Corporation report, Entering the Dragon's Lair: Chinese Antiaccess Strategies and Their Implications for the United States. Full text or summary (sorry, PDF only) available at:

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG524/

"One man says he is a 23-year-old living with his divorced mother.
"I want to travel to join jihad and I sought my mother's permission, but she would not give it to me," he says. "Can I go without her permission?"
...-

al-Qaida Solicits Questions Online (i.e. "Why haven't you attacked the US again?)

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Sympathizers submitted hundreds of questions to al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri's "on-line interview" before a recent deadline. Among them: Why hasn't al-Qaida attacked the U.S. again, why isn't it attacking the Israelis and when will it be more active in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria?

So far, there have been no answers.

Al-Qaida's media arm, Al-Sahab, announced in December that al-Zawahri would take questions from the public posted on Islamic militant Web sites and would respond "as soon as possible."

More than 900 entries - many with multiple questions - were posted on the main Islamist Web site until the cutoff date of Jan. 16. After the deadline, the questions disappeared from that site and no answers have yet appeared. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957096/posts

Unions gearing up for next pay raise.

....TTC bus, streetcar and subway operators are suffering from severe stress usually associated with survivors of combat, natural disasters and rape....

thestar.com/printArticle/295876

Regarding Ezra Levant's opinion piece in the Globe, how long until some genius accuses him of being a Jew hater?

Doug:

Some sad irony connected to the title of Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism" book:

(via Instapundit)

"Judge Monica Fernandez, a Venezuelan human rights advocate, was shot by on January 4 in what police ruled a botched car robbery. The night before the attack, she was branded an enemy of the state, a coup-plotter, and a fascist on a state television show which condemns those who dare to oppose the government’s actions."

Ah, Hugo Chavez, leftists' favourite dictator. What's the definition of a fascist, again?

"The fascist conception of the State is all-embracing . . ." (Mussolini)

Brampton, ON, municipal government increased water and wastewater rates over summer to 'combat global warming'.
To be consistent, they are cutting evergreen forest at the Heart Lake Conservation Area a few months later for road expansion. They are doing so on the South side of Mayfield rd, while the North side faces unused farmland.
Trees are good for the environment, but money are better. Guess that sends clear message.

Hey Aaron, my favourite part of Heart Lake Road and Sandalwood is that cute little area they've saved as a "wetlands" preserve surrounded entirely by massive subdivisions.

A friend of mine who works construction was away all summer and didn't water his lawn once. He noticed his Brampton water bill was higher than usual, and on the bill itself it said:

"Due to an increase in water consumption for watering your lawn, you may have noticed a rise in the cost of water services."

He was outraged that he didn't use water this summer and his costs still went up.

The Times has a charming cartoon by Morland portraying Hillary Clinton as a Dalek.

We better watch Bill O'Reilly show on FOX tomorrow night when his guests will be Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn.
It appears we have to count on an American network to cover our affairs. CTV, CBC, Global have no interest in giving these guys any air time.

Rene, Mary T, LizJ:

Karen Redman leads the charge in Kitchener, the former “BERLIN”, Ontario.

Karen was the one who suggested they ‘would not be observing future losses in confidence votes….’ back on May 25, 2005

Yes taxation without representation a la the 1837 Rebellion brought to you by the former Leader of the Government in the House of Commons.

Blessed insurrectionists. What in God’s Name passes for democratic civic education these days? Lets just throw out the patrimony of western civilization democracy in one fell swoop. Canadians disenfranchised in one sweeping statement!!

Yes we all know that BERLIN didn’t like confidence votes either, back in 1933.

“Bullied” my eye, next we’ll all be loading our muskets to put down the insurrectionists in the LIEberal party!!!

Northern Ontario MP Anthony Rota as quoted in the National Post "we haven't picked a time to overthrow the government,"

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=251842

They who would defile Her Majesty like a common strumpet and leave her for dead. The only thing these goons missed was hoisting the “Jolly Roger” from the Peace Tower.

So now Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition has become Her Majesty's Disloyal Insurrectionists.

Pirates of the CarriDion Part IV has Jack Sparrow heading up the Ottawa river to hoist the Jolly Roger.

Selling their souls to Davy Jones locker, for a chance to steer the Flying Dutchman.

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP

Commander in Chief

Frankenstein Battalion

2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)

Knecht Rupprecht Division

Hans Corps

1st Saint Nicolaas Army

Army Group “True North”

Unions gearing up for next pay raise.

....TTC bus, streetcar and subway operators are suffering from severe stress usually associated with survivors of combat, natural disasters and rape....

thestar.com/printArticle/295876

++++++++++++++++++

With respect, you could not pay me enough to do that job. I would give the drivers, and the drivers only, due respect. They are always courteous in my experience, and they put up with stuff that you wouldn't believe.

Just saw the preview for new cbc "reality"show that debuts tonite (see info on cbc site).On noon news,Andrew,and producer discuss the show,takes place in Hardisty Alta.Show is The Week the Women Went,and how the men manage on their own.I found the little clip somewhat degrading to men (purposely,or maybe just an Alta man)The couple are discussing how hard it will be for husband to be home alone with 2 kids,and he jokingly says to wife 'women speak when spoken to'..both Andrew and producer give that little 'we're much more evolved than them giggle',producer says "that still makes me laugh"..little dig about the absentee oil-patch Dad's.."he was only home 6 times in 6 mos" kind of inferring what right did he have to talk to wife that way?
I can hear the feedback already,about those male-chauvinist,dirty Alta patch workers coming out of TO..just one more confirmation 'we were right all this time,and we're so much better'I'm wondering why Alta?Why not a mining or logging town in Ont?Why not a group of metrosexuals in TO,that couldn't dirty their hands?Can't wait to see how this turns out!

Ezra should be happy he doesn't live in Belarus (although at the rate we're going, it won't be much different in Canada soon):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22731177/

Editor of a journal which reprinted the MoToons got 3 years in jail. And the Muslim community lobbied for leniance!

Snippet from:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080121/wl_canada_nm/canada_afghan_canada_report_col_2;_ylt=Avevdm6nlJhxCa3pFU9xi9z0kPUI

"There is no point bringing down the government when they're at 37 percent in the polls and we're at 30 percent," one senior Liberal legislator told Reuters, saying he did not detect any voter desire for another federal vote."

No point, like say our platform, stated beliefs, righteous indignation, scruples, or anything like that....

Filed as Media News by canoenews. It was Krista NoBias Erickson.
...-

CBC transfers reporter who fed questions to Liberal MP at Mulroney hearing
By THE CANADIAN PRESS

The CBC says it has transferred an Ottawa reporter to Toronto after she fed questions to a Liberal MP during the Mulroney-Schreiber hearings in December.

The public broadcaster says reporter Krista Erickson's actions were "inappropriate" and violated CBC policies. The broadcaster says Erickson acted on her own in providing questions to a Liberal MP and there was no bias in the news coverage.

Doug Finley, director of political operations for the Conservatives, complained to the CBC in a Dec. 14 letter that Erickson's actions raised questions about the broadcaster's impartiality.

The CBC opened an investigation after obtaining the letter.

Finley's complaint was later cited in a Tory fundraising letter. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/2zd7te

How is being transfered from Ottawa to Toronto a demotion or punishment?

Liz J advises
"We better watch Bill O'Reilly show on FOX tomorrow night when his guests will be Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn."

Heads up also to
Ezra Levant appears on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin tonight at 8 pm Eastern, repeated at 11 pm.

Also
CTS Michael Coren remarked about a program on this subject originally scheduled for tomorrow (his single topic programs are usually Tuesdays) but I believe he had to re-schedule. If anyone has more current info, please advise.

ET said:

"How is being transfered from Ottawa to Toronto a demotion or punishment? "

I live in Ottawa and travel to Toronto regularly. Trust me, it's a punishment....

Seriously, though, she should have been punted, and there should be demands that this happen.

JCL

And what about good ole' Pablo??

Iowahawk has this at his Media Violence Project. The pics/posters, etc., are worth a stop.
...-
A Public Service Message

I have to say I was heartened by the response to my investigative piece on the national crisis in journalist violence. As you know, whenever a public crisis is identified, the first steps in a solution are (a) a non-profit foundation, and (b) posters! Luckily I had some spare time today and it was too damn cold to go outside. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/2epgn3

"And what about good ole' Pablo??" . . . didn't Pablo originally claim in public that the question(s) was his own? Isn't that called lying? I think that Pablo should apologize and excuse himself from the "ethics" committee. Same with Thibaut who is being sued by someone he's investigating. The performance of the Liberals here certainly calls into question the legitimacy of the "ethics" committee.

Ici, Radio Canada. It was da zeal for da Librano$ dat made Krista collude with da Librano$. It was not Pablo's endearments.
...-

Krista Erickson reassigned

CBC just sent out this release:
[...]

"Our investigation determined there was no bias in related news coverage. However, our reporter, acting on her own, used inappropriate tactics as a result of journalistic zeal, rather than partisan interest." [...]
"Given the potential risk to the journalistic credibility of our Ottawa bureau, its reporters and CBC News generally, we have chosen on an exceptional basis to make the detailed outcome of our disciplinary process available to you, our employees and the public at large."

http://www.stephentaylor.ca/archives/000937.html

(Via Israpundit) Melvin E. Lee, The Fallacy of Grievance-Based Terrorism

The fundamental premise of much scholarly examination and public discourse is that grievances with U.S. policies in the Middle East motivate Islamist terrorism. Such assumptions, though, misunderstand the enemy and its nature. In reality, the conflict is sparked not by grievance but rather by incompatibility between Islamist ideology and the natural rights articulated during the European Enlightenment and incorporated into U.S. political culture. Acquiescing to political grievances will not alter the fundamental incompatibility between Lockean precepts of tolerance and current interpretations of Islam: Only Islam’s fundamental reform will resolve the conflict...

Nasrallah’s “body parts” speech prompted by internal Hizballah power struggle

One MSM reporter's epitaph for No Bias Erickson.
Nothing here. Moove 'long.
...-

"Jonathan Kay on Pablogate: The CBC does the right thing [...]
And so we can all put Pablo-gate behind us."
http://tinyurl.com/2e8dyd

Plus much more on Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee:

Caroline Glick, The audacity of truth

UNFORTUNATELY, in the anti-war frenzy now gripping much of the Democratic Party, one could say that there is nothing notable about the fact that Obama has hired anti-Israel foreign policy advisors, attends an anti-Israel church, and receives financial backing from anti-Israel billionaires. But even in this atmosphere Obama stands out - for not only does he theoretically support appeasement, he is actively advancing the interests of Islamists seeking to take control over a state allied with the US...

Kibaki is close ally of the US in the war against Islamic terror. In stark contrast, Odinga is an ally of Islamic extremists. On August 29 Odinga wrote a letter to Kenya's pro-jihadist National Muslim Leaders Forum. There he pledged that if elected he would establish Sharia courts throughout the country; enact Islamic dress codes for women; ban alcohol and pork; indoctrinate schoolchildren in the tenets of Islam; ban Christian missionary activities, and dismiss the police commissioner, "Who has allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists."

Also available at the Jerusalem Post.

A recent CTV poll gives me hope, makes me believe not everyone is buying the liberal propaganda,

Which would save more lives?

Mandatory snow tires during winter
4500 votes (62 %)

Handgun ban
2783 votes (38 %)

Total Votes: 7283

Bourque's blog is saying that Krista Erickson is guilty of writing questions for the CBC. Her ass should be fired, fired, fired!

Hmm... been a while since we've seen a link mocking those who think the U.S. economy isn't looking so good. You telling there isn't one RNC.org article about how great things are to link to?

From a poll quoted by Friend of USA:

"Which would save more lives?

"Mandatory snow tires during winter
4500 votes (62 %)

"Handgun ban
2783 votes (38 %)"

I know that, in general, Canadians are stupid. But I was disappointed by this.

Good Lord, deliver us.

lookout - are you saying that a handgun ban would save lives? But, you are assuming that a criminal would obey such a ban. Why should he?

I agree with snow tires! But, one must remember that the driver has to drive - carefully - snow tires or not.

And anyone who uses a gun to commit a crime, ought to receive a severe criminal sentence. That will reduce gun crime. Our society has to make the use of guns in crime an extremely costly and risky action. Use a gun - and it's 20 years.
Now - it's use a gun, and you are out on bail immediately...to commit another crime.

Right now, our judges don't make crime a high-risk economy. So, criminals, who are in it for the economic returns, take the low risk, of a few months in jail. If crime were a high risk endeavour, it wouldn't be viewed as an 'easy job for high returns'.

CBCpravda, gutless as ever.

two months to issue a transfer. journalistic zeal?

Well, lookout, your comment on Canadians' stupidity has validity - just look in the mirror, sunshine. You and the rest of the gun-phobics who can't seem to grasp the very simple fact that criminals don't give a damn about gun control. Taking away my guns won't make the streets any safer, since the whole point of fighting crime is taking the CRIMINALS off the street. As the experiment in the UK has shown rather conclusively, banning guns simply disarms law abiding citizens. Who's the stupid one now?

*shakes his head*

lookout,

You can conceal a hand gun
but you can not conceal the tires on your car.

That is why a summer or four seasons tire "ban" would work
and a hand gun ban can not.

No one can control or even monitor what people hide in their pockets, it is impossible to do.

it is really that simple.

You can control what tire stores sell in winter
but you can not control what is sold in street alleys.

Criminals do not give receipts or keep a record of hand guns sales.

really it is that simple.

"How is being transfered from Ottawa to Toronto a demotion or punishment?"

You have to ask?

Horny Toad

While I certainly can't speak for Lookout, I'm pretty sure she meant that it is appalling that as much as 38% of those polled are stupid enough to believe what they voted for. One of the problems of blog comments is that they tend to enhance some people's proclivities toward searching for disagreement and then attacking. Alas, such efforts are often enough incorrect to at least be interesting as a phenomenom.

"How is being transfered from Ottawa to Toronto a demotion or punishment?"

I would question that myself. Perhaps Ms. Erickson should have earned herself a transfer to "redneck central" in the middle of Calgary

"Which would save more lives?"

I would change to the poll to:

"What would save more lives?"

1) More laws.
2) Personal responsibility.

I would change the question to: what would live
more lives; in which case I'd pick your (2) Ural.

Vitruvius,

Try as I might ... can't out better your comment. Of course this means your buying the beers when I get back to the frozen North (thawing very rapidly ... Gore wouldn't lie).

As a but, but, I will add ... when driving to fast, when on ice, snow tires do nothing ... a lot of fenders benders happen ... this only a concern if the government is the insurance company.

The handgun thing ... I guess it makes sense for some to ban legal owners instead of tackling the criminals ... easy targets first.

Out better? I don't even know 'er.

oops!

I thought lookout was a anti-gun liberal

Vitruvius @ 11:22 wrote, "While I certainly can't speak for Lookout, I'm pretty sure she meant that it is appalling that as much as 38% of those polled are stupid enough to believe what they voted for."

Thanks, Vitruvius. You're exactly correct.

But I didn't--obviously--make my point clear.

That AS MANY as 38% of those polled think a ban on hand guns would be helpful shows that one can certainly fool some of the people some of the time: in Canada, it seems like too much of the time.

My blood boiled when that idiot Toronto mayor, David Miller, intoned that banning hand guns was the answer to the latest rash of shootings in Toronto. Then a friend of mine--an intelligent, lefty useful idiot--enthused to my husband and I about David Miller's excellent idea. In unison, we both said, "Bollocks. He's a complete idiot!" My friend was nonplussed. "He is?" A few explanations later and she was beginning to see our point. Sheesh!

for the world to see

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

jihad of the graphite guerrillas onto the RC church. they need to make this into a show on CBCpravda, little bean counters on the prairie, this isnt about lawyers it about billing.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/01/21/jaffer-investigation.html

The NP has a lead editorial today re the uselessness of banning hand guns.

Yeah, Pablo has to have lied when he said he wrote the questions. He was parachuted into a Liberal chair on the Committee, the questions were outrageous, the Chair, Szabo allowed them without question.

The so called discipline, hardy har, meted out to the CBC gal who supplied them with the questions has to be enough proof of collaboration. Someone went on a fishing trip to get them, our money at work.
But then, why are we surprised, he's a Liberal, lying is permitted, especially when the truth doesn't fit their agenda.

Agree, sending Erikson to Toronto is hugs and kisses all 'round. She'll be a star.

US opens personnel files on al-Qaeda recruits

Rear Admiral Gregory Smith, a spokesman, said that the US military had gained a much better understanding of the terrorists it was fighting thanks to a treasure trove of biographical records that US troops discovered during a pre-dawn raid on some tents pitched near the town of Sinjar, on the Syrian border, last October.

Those records gave details of more than 600 foreign fighters who were smuggled into Iraq to join al-Qaeda in the 12 months leading up to August 2007. They included photographs of many of the men — gnarled and fresh-faced, scowling and smiling, bearded and clean-shaven — as well as ages, nationalities, home towns, relatives' telephone numbers, aliases and other details...

Watch for this initiative to unravel due to multicultural objections. Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding will offend the Hindus. Muslims, vegans, Nigerians, etc., will all find something to offend them unless the plan caters to their particular requirements to the exclusion of everyone else's.

Cooking lessons to be compulsory for teens

Teenagers will be given compulsory cooking lessons at school, under government plans to ensure that all pupils know how to make eight different healthy meals...

Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, said that he wanted members of the public to come up with ideas for the classic English dishes and international cuisine that children should learn to cook.

(Via Center for Security Policy) Maj. Stephen Coughlin, "To Our Great Detriment": Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad (Master's thesis, National Defense Intelligence College)
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http://www.strategycenter.net/docLib/20080107_Coughlin_ExtremistJihad.pdf