Hey Kate:
Cant remember where i saw it, but i read that Brad Wall is cleaning out some deadwood in the civil service.
Any news on that?
Im thinking PMSH can take a lesson from this.

CTV News website poll;
It’s been 2 years. How much longer do you think Stephen Harper’s minority government will survive?
A month or two
136 votes (14 %)
Until summer
199 votes (21 %)
Fall or longer
613 votes (65 %)

Total Votes: 948

Owl & Giggles gonna have to wait till Oct 2009

Ezra Levant has two important updates on his Human Rights case.

He refers to the extremely weak letters written by officials of the Alberta Human Rights Commission, trying to defend their role in censorship. Obviously, censorship can't be defended and their letter reads like an undergrad's response to a question about which they haven't a clue. That is, they are totally in support of our 'cherished freedom of speech'..but it can't always be free speech'. Ahhh..

Then, Warman and the CJC, the Canadian Jewish Congress/Bernie Farber have filed yet another complaint under the Act "against a nobody with no following" - a white supremacist conspiracy blog.

Levant is rightly pointing out that the CJC's use of the HRC, which is 'causing bullying censorship' will actually promote a backlash against Jews for insisting on such censorship.

I'll note that Levant also posts a letter from the CJC's 'figurehead presidents' trying to distance themselves from the HRC by supporting both Levant's publication of the Muslim political cartoons and Maclean's Steyn book. But note that these two publications deal with Islamism. The CJC authors still support the HRAct clause 13.1 with its 'likely to cause hatred or contempt'.

They don't seem to understand that no-one can, or should have the right to, make a legal decision based on pure speculation of the hypothetical future that is 'likely' to happen.

A muslim apostate speaks out.
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Sapping freedom inside job?
By SALIM MANSUR

"Last week I commented on the outrageousness of the Human Rights Commissions in Canada accepting frivolous complaints as is the one brought by the Canadian Islamic Congress against Maclean's magazine.

The greater shame than the HRC bureaucrats' putting chill on free speech is, however, the lack of outrage in the mainstream media, and public apathy on an issue that strikes at the heart of Canadian democracy." [...]
"A crucial element of the Islamist jihad in the West is to intimidate Muslim opponents of Islamism and turn advantageously liberal institutions against their Western critics.

If the HRCs rule in favour of the complainant against Maclean's, the political agenda of the CIC to silence critics of Islamism will be greatly advanced." http://tinyurl.com/249rav (TOSun)

Saturday, January 26, 2008
Regina man charged with promoting hatred on the Internet
Terrence Tremaine .. arrested and charged for his Internet postings. …Tremaine, who is a former lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan, now stands charged with willful promotion of hatred for allegedly posting such hateful messages on an Internet Web site between Feb. 1, 2004 and Nov. 1, 2007.

http://tinyurl.com/2qzff7

Liberals: Orcharded, Marthad, Dioned, Ralphed.
A sordid tale of Citoyen Dion's political "fondness".
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Looking To Retire 'Loser Speech'

Martha Hall Findlay; Liberal sets sights on victory in March byelection
"But like many Liberals, Mr. Dion's fondness for Ms. Hall Findlay seems to extend beyond maintaining the party's seat count in the House of Commons."
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=268196
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Why can't they just be friends?

David Orchard’s people don’t give up without a fight. In fact, David Orchard’s people don’t give up, period. This week Marjaleena Repo, Orchard’s campaign manager, issued an open letter to Ralph Goodale, Liberal heavyweight.
In it, she pretty much called him a liar. She noted Goodale’s various assurances that Orchard was well aware that he might be usurped as Liberal candidate in Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River by a Stephane Dion appointee, if they could find one, and that he had been told as much on no uncertain terms.
Then she dared him to prove any of it.
“David Orchard was not consulted about the appointment, nor informed about it before he found out about it in the media,” she said.
“David was never, to my knowledge, contacted by you to discuss the possibility of an appointment of an aboriginal woman after he started to campaign in the riding and was introduced by yourself as a candidate for the nomination,” she added.
Nor was he contacted by something called “the Green Light Committee” as claimed by Goodale.
“As you have repeated in the media your claim that Mr. Orchard was “well aware” that a female aboriginal appointment in the person of Ms. Joan Beatty was being seriously considered, and that he was informed about it before the news of the looming appointment appeared in the media, you need to provide the proof for these claims,” she winds up.
Over to you Ralph.
http://tinyurl.com/34uzo4 NPPunditland)

WL Mackenzie Redux - the fact that your comments were going to the junk filter should have been your first hint.

STOP POSTING PROFANITY IN MY COMMENTS SECTION.

I don't care if it's in quotes. You interfere with the ability of some readers to visit this site on their work computers.

“Hug that tree, hippie - I just peed on it.” ( presidential candidate "Sunny" Lucas on the environment)

http://rachellucas.com/?p=584

""It took me about two minutes to explain geological history to Sunny, and before I was even finished, she interrupted to say, “So, teh icy ages, we’s stil comin of dat? Watz Goreses problims?”... No one knows exactly what Gore’s problem is, but what we do know is that he’s got a bigger hole in his ozone layer than Mother Earth does.

Sunny doesn’t like pollution any more than you do, and does her part by insisting on biodegradable poop baggies. That’s more than the other candidates can say.""

The poor old msm just can't figure out how to handle an Alpha male like Harper. They have tied themselves in knots and had so many sphincter moments their dry cleaning bills are breaking them. The probe and fail, commies at cbc and old count floyd have only been around beta males and closet dwellers for so long they can't understand this new phenomena, a man that actually makes a decision and stands by it, Oh my cover my face with my apron moment for a liberal at best. Lets give a real man a majority in the next election and send the jackulaytons and dizzy lizzys scurrying for the exits while old dion continues to sniff asses wondering what he really is.

Urine in the corn flakes this am?

FYI: I thought the filter was rejecting the URLs because they were too long or numerous.

You will also acknowledge that on the last post I edited the "profane" word...your loss it was a pretty humorous link.

Without prejudice,
a censured freespeecher.

Apparently in Eurabia a group calling itself the Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe (FIOE) has produced a "Charter" ..... Baron Bodissey translates and parses the Weasle Speak of Islamist Supremacists :

Charter?

I wonder how it would be received if such a "Charter" were to be presented by a "Federation of Jewish Zionists" or a "Federation of Christians Asserting Dominance by Divine Right" ..... ??

Global warming, I think not, read this story from China on Bloomberg news:
China's Snowstorms Halt Fuel Shipment, Flights, Power 2008-01-28 05:46 (New York)

By Zhang Dingmin and Ying Lou
Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) -- China's heaviest snowstorms in five
decades crushed homes, grounded flights, disrupted electricity
and left hundreds of thousands of travelers stranded, a week
before millions take to the roads for Lunar New Year holidays.
As many as 5 percent of China's coal-fired power plants,
which generate 78 percent of electricity, were shut because snow
hampered coal shipments, the National Development and Reform
Commission said today. Zhuzhou Smelter Group Co., China's
largest zinc refiner, said shortages forced it to cut production.
More than a foot (34 centimeters) of snow fell yesterday in
Nanjing in the east, the city's heaviest in 50 years, halting
air and rail service, in turn delaying a third of ensuing
flights in Beijing and Shanghai and throwing national train
service into chaos. Military police kept order at the Beijing
railway station today, where 400,000 passengers were stranded.
``We face a very severe situation in ensuring supplies of
coal, electricity, oil and transportation,'' Zhu Hongren,
spokesman for top planning agency the National Development and
Reform Commission, said at a press conference today in Beijing.
``The inventory of thermal coal fell due to a combination of
energy demand, massive snowstorms and the annual peak Lunar New
Year traffic. Early holidays at some coal mines also contributed
to the shortage of the fuel.''
The Chinese Lunar New Year holiday runs Feb. 6 to Feb. 12
this year. Travelers will probably make a record 2.17 billion
journeys during the period, according to the government.

Power Shortages

China's fifth year of power shortages may increase pressure
on Premier Wen Jiabao to lift caps on coal, gasoline and
electricity prices, undermining efforts to curb the fastest
inflation in 11 years. December inflation was 6.5 percent, and
the central bank raised interest rates six times last year to
curb spending. The government also capped the prices of food and
public transport and ordered banks to reduce lending.
``Energy shortages and transportation bottlenecks are
likely to aggravate inflation pressures in China in the short
term,'' Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s senior economist Liang Hong
said today. ``These latest developments will likely push up
near-term CPI inflation to levels that will be very
uncomfortable for policy makers and China's investors.''
China's 2007 electricity demand jumped 14 percent, as the
fastest economic growth in 13 years spurred new factories,
shopping malls and offices. Power shortages have affected 17
Chinese provinces, or half of the country, the Chinese planning
commission's spokesman Zhu Hongren said today. Closures of coal-
fired power plants forced 13 provinces to ration power, figures
from State Grid Corp. of China showed on Jan. 23.

`Enormous' Shortage

``The shortage is close to 39.9 million kilowatt hours, an
enormous number,'' Zhu said today in Beijing. ``The main cause
is the shortage of coal. Power plants are all working against
the clock to get more coal delivered.''
To ease the shortage, coal shipments were increased by
2,000 train carriages to 36,000 a day on Jan. 26, Railway
Minister Liu Zhijun said at a conference yesterday, according to
minutes released by the government. That's 30 percent more than
the increase at about the same time last year, he said.
Coal stockpiles at 90 power plants in central and northern
China have dropped below the ``caution line'' of three days'
requirements, State Grid said. The shortage may ease after the
Lunar New Year holidays, which start on Feb. 7, when weather
conditions may improve according to forecasts, Li Xiaochao,
spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics, said on Jan. 24.
Snowstorms may continue into February, the China Meteorological
Administration said today without being specific.

Bad Weather, Bad Policies

``Other factors also contributed to the shortage, namely
the various government controls of energy prices and transport
bottlenecks,'' said Goldman's Liang. ``Bringing down inflation
appears to be top of the macro policy agenda this year. Bad
weather and bad policy choices have made this goal even more
difficult to attain.''
China's coal production rose 9.4 percent last year to 2.3
billion tons, the statistics bureau said on Jan. 25. Exports of
the fuel dropped 16 percent and imports jumped 33 percent in
2007, leaving the nation with 2 million tons of net exports,
according to customs data.
Snowstorms in central China's Hunan, Guizhou, Anhui and
Jiangxi provinces were the worst in decades, affecting
industrial production, the meteorological administration said.
Forty-four counties in Guizhou reported power outages, with only
12 having managed to restore the supply of electricity, Xinhua
said today.
Electricity shortages may force smelters to cut their
aluminum production by up to 200,000 tons, Beijing Antaike
Information Development Co.'s chief analyst Wang Feihong said.

Smelters Disrupted

``About 800,000 metric tons of annual aluminum production
capacity might be affected,'' Wang said in a phone interview
today in Beijing. ``Assuming that the power shortages last three
months, aluminum output this year will be 200,000 tons less than
our earlier forecast.''
Zhuzhou Smelter had been cutting production since heavy
snow in mid-January led to power shortages, company trading
Managing Director Wang Jianjun said.
Snow delayed as many as 35 percent of flights from two
airports in Shanghai, China's financial hub, the airfields'
operator said. At the railway station in Guangzhou, southern
China's largest city near Hong Kong, 170,000 passengers were
stranded for 24 hours yesterday, Xinhua News Agency said.

Buses, Roads

Jiangsu Expressway Co., the biggest operator of toll roads
in eastern China, said it's allowing only trucks on its roads to
reduce the potential for accidents and fatalities, according to
a statement on its Web site. All roads to the Shangri-La resort
area in Yunnan province in the south were closed because of poor
weather, the provincial meteorological bureau said.
The biggest long-distance bus service in Hubei Province
halted all routes connecting with other parts of the country
today for a third consecutive day, Xinhua said.
Power lines linking the Three Gorges hydroelectric dam in
central China's Hubei province to Shanghai were damaged in
snowstorms, Xinhua said today, without saying when the lines
were expected to be repaired. The worst snowstorms in 50 years
have led to the closure of 18 transformer stations in the
southern province of Guangxi, it said.
``The difficulty in ensuring stable supplies of coal,
electricity, oil and transportation is increasing,'' the
planning commission's Zhu said. ``Coal supplies in China will
rise in 2008 and the government will ensure shipments of fuel
and natural gas.''

--With reporting by Wang Ying and Xiao Yu in Beijing, Irene Shen
and Li Xiaowei in Shanghai. Editor: Eugene Tang, Joshua Fellman.

Socialist country:
NickTeen badddd Satan; MaryJane goodddddess.
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Smoking needs to be taken more seriously
[...]
"Tobacco abuse has become an especially serious problem in Indian Country. We are facing an uncertain future if we don't rein in our love of tobacco." http://tinyurl.com/35bvbm (regleaderpost)
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"Marijuana Smokers Face Rapid Lung Destruction -- As Much As 20 Years Ahead Of Tobacco Smokers
ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2008) —"

"Impact On Lungs Of One Cannabis Joint Equal To Up To Five Cigarettes (Aug. 2, 2007) — A single cannabis joint has the same effect on the lungs as smoking up to five cigarettes in one go, indicates new research. Cannabis smokers complained of wheeze, cough, chest tightness and phlegm. ..."
http://tinyurl.com/2jkob7

Nobody's "censoring" you. You're completely welcome to get your own damned blog. This one is private property, and I don't need to justify deleting profanity in my comments any more than I have to justify washing graffiti from my back fence.

Now, you've been here long enough to know the rules, so stop wasting my time.

No increased cancer rates through cannabis use. Anywhere. Unlike maybe....tobacky?

Besides, vaporization is an option not available to tobacco smokers either. Sucks to be using an addictive supbstance...no?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060526083353.htm

the Religion of Peace reaches out to children...

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-6lMwXpBNAx6WZ7d_ODmvB426rQ

Hrm, Dinosaurs:

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080128/ny_times_shareholders.html?.v=11

Margaret Thatcher told navy to raid Swedish coast

MARGARET THATCHER ordered the Royal Navy to land Special Boat Service (SBS) frogmen on the coast of Sweden from British submarines pretending to be Soviet vessels, a new book has claimed.

The deception involved numerous incursions by British forces into Swedish territorial waters in the 1980s and early 1990s, designed to heighten the impression around the world of the Soviet Union as an aggressive superpower...

Children freed after Pakistan school siege

A group of Islamist militants today released unharmed some 250 children and teachers they had been holding hostage at a school in troubled northwest Pakistan after a tense stand-off with security forces...

(Via The Times Comment Central) William Safire, Politics, climate and the nature of change

John Gray interview with Danny Billions

http://tinyurl.com/23eslf

Some exerpts,

"Hibernia's total net revenues to the end of 2006 were $14.8 billion. Of that, the oil companies claimed $8.8 billion, the government of Newfoundland $1.2 billion, and the government of Canada $4.8 billion. Counting production from the smaller fields at White Rose and Terra Nova, the total figure is $18 billion, and the respective shares of the companies, the feds and the province, $10 billion, $6 billion and $2 billion."

That's quite the return, 2.6 billion in loans and investment capital repaid and net of 6 billion since initial investment made in March of 1993. I wonder how much Gov of Canada has invested in the auto sector in ON and the aerospace sector in QUE and what is the rate of return on those investments made in the same 15 year timeframe? Things that make NL'ers go hmmmmm?

"In 1972, after graduating from law school at Dalhousie University, Williams borrowed $2,500 and put together a group that successfully applied to run the first cable service in Newfoundland. The company expanded into telephone service, and Williams's own activities expanded to include an oil and gas service company and three golf courses. Ultimately, Williams was 93% owner of Cable Atlantic. In 2000, Ontario cable mogul Ted Rogers offered him $90 million for the cable side of the company. It took months of negotiation, but Rogers finally agreed to pay $251.5 million. (The telecom operations went to GT Group Telecom for $57 million.)"

First he stuck it to the telecomm giants, next it was big oil. Can you see why he is so popular? Smart strategy on behalf of the CPC baintrust to attack this guy. How's that working for you Ms. Buckler, same as Afstan I presume?

"When Prime Minister Harper was in St. John's last November, Williams presented him with a handful of brightly coloured pie charts. Perhaps most dramatic was the chart showing the net revenue from the Churchill Falls project. Newfoundland's project it may have been, but Newfoundland's revenue was the tiny blue slice representing $1 billion; Quebec, which just let the electricity flow through its transmission lines, has almost the whole pie, a large red hunk representing $19 billion. (And for the next 34 years of the contract, the Newfoundland calculation is that Quebec will get close to another $50 billion.)"

I wonder how much money Ottawa gets from Quebec's Hydro developments like they now get from oil and gas producing provinces, like the Hibernia example above? How much does SK and MAN charge AB companies like Enbribge and TCPL to ship AB and BC gas thru its provincial corridors to markets in ON, QUE and the NE USA? Hmmmm?

"To ensure that Williams understood the game, the province hired several oil company executives to explain how the cards were played. It was useful coaching. When the companies assured Williams they were not making any money from Newfoundland's oil—well, he says, at that point he knew they weren't being fair."

Sound familiar Albertans?

"At the August press conference announcing the settlement, Williams predicted that the Hebron project, whose initial cost will be $6 billion, would contribute $16 billion to Newfoundland's coffers over its 25-year life. The federal government, meanwhile, would get $7 billion. Three weeks later, Williams released a new provincial energy plan that calls for a 10% ownership stake in future offshore oil fields, yet, for the moment at least, there has been no more talk of Danny Chavez."

Will looky gee, another 7 billion netted to the feds from NL oil. This doesn't include income taxes and all the other add ons from Ottawa which goes into general revenues. How much again does Quebec Hydro send to Ottawa to be spread around the ROC? Good thing the supreme court of Canada, with 3 judges from ON and 3 from QUE and 3 from ROC decided who owns the resources off the continental shelf of NL. Good thing for Canada that those resources don't go directly to the provincial treasury, like every other province in the Confederation, and instead go to Ottawa to be than spent in Quebec. All for the greater good, heh?

"Statistics Canada figures show that in 1992, the year the cod moratorium began, there were 580,000 people living in Newfoundland. Every year since then, the number has got smaller. Even with Hibernia, there was not enough work to keep sons and daughters and grandchildren at home. The latest report from Statistics Canada registers Newfoundland's population at 507,000."

With the help of the Liberal initiated O'Brien report and the acceptance of the proposal of 50% inclusion of non-renewables and health and social credits determined by the "fairer" method by way of a per capita formula, you can see how the CPC has benefitted NL's position. NL will lose approximately 10 billion from what was originally promised between now and 2020 while Quebec receives an extra 60-84 billion. Thanks Steve!

"At the same time, the province should see development of endless and renewable hydroelectric power on the Lower Churchill River. This time it will all belong to Newfoundland, although nobody has yet figured out how to get the electric power to market economically unless it goes through Quebec. And then, in 2041, the old lease will expire and Newfoundland will get control of the Upper Churchill hydro operation, but that power will also have to find a way to market."

Too bad Canada doesn't have the same leadership today as it did back in the day when ON and QUE needed AB natural gas to run its infrastructure and instituted a national pipeline right-away across SK and MAN for the "greater good" of the country, heh? (Same leadership we are getting with regards to AFSTAN, Quebec doesn't like it so avoid it like the plague and don't debate or discuss it in public. Hell, they just might, gulp, leave.)

Instead, NL will have to concede to Quebec Hydro 50 billion over the next 34 years just to provide the same service SK and MAN does for free for AB oil and gas industries like TCPL and Enbridge. And Margaret Wendt of G&M fame describes NL as "the world's most vast and scenic welfare ghetto" while Quebec is applauded, with both hands, as a distinct society worthy of its own moniker of a Nation within a Nation. Yes indeed.

Whereas the CPC could have ridden on Danny's popularity in Atlantic Canada to the tune of 28 seats out of 32 (maybe even a sweep) for a generation or 2, the CPC will be lucky to keep 2 seats (and only if Bill Casey is counted as a Conservative, Mr. McKay might very well be flying back east by himself all the time) come fall of '09. That's a lost opportunity cost of 26 seats.

How's the relationship with Charest coming these days? Or is it Dumount this month?

Cheers,
Glenn

Hardboiled link @ 12:15,

Didn*t I say Pakistan was next?

Look at the leverage of just 7 insurgents.
How long before a Nuke facility gets jumped.

**
The insurgents threatened to blow up the children if they were not given safe passage, but eventually released them and fled towards Pakistan's troubled tribal area bordering Afghanistan, tribal negotiators said.

*They have surrendered themselves to the local jirga (tribal council) along with their weapons and released the children,* ministry spokesman Brigadier Javed Cheema told AFP after the seven-hour drama ended.

The incident comes amid a tide of extremist violence in Pakistan, especially in the tribal belt, that has raised fears for the country's stability ahead of key elections on February 18.**

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-6lMwXpBNAx6WZ7d_ODmvB426rQ
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Good thing 3200 marines are headed for Afghanistan. Hope March is not too late. = TG

Do you find this
Sweetheart to be as attractive as I do??

Warning : Not for weak stomachs or fluffy bunny sensibilities.....

More climate "science" from our Torstar friends:

http://www.thestar.com/World/Columnist/article/298018

A "report" claims climate change will cause unrest, using a climate protest rally as example. You know, the climate change that hasn't happened yet, but just wait a few years.

IOW, there will be civil disruption and ecoterrorism if we don't go along with Kyoto anti-capitalism and collectivism. This falls in line with Patrick Moore's assertion that anti-capitalist Maxists have found common cause with ecomaniancs.

This "study" IMO is more evdence that Kyoto, as ET and others argue, has nothing to do with climate change or science.

Speaking of weak stomachs, I just finished watching Swimmer Kennedy's endorsement of the Magic Negro on Fox news. I have never seen such utter drivel in all my life. If I didn't know better, I'd be inclined to think the MN is the second coming of Christ.
Gotta go shower now.

The Polar Bear Express

Global warming is becoming a new unified field theory for environmentalists, a crisis so urgent and profound that it even justifies leaping the democratic process. Consider the political campaign to prod the Bush Administration to list the polar bear as an endangered species -- even though many proponents admit it isn't endangered at all.

See Kate.
See Kate get wooed.
In Canada.
I am not making this up.

(Hilarity ensues at both the "Canadian Sentinel" and "Stageleft."

Now I gotta GO CLEAN MY KEYBOARD.

The Goremobile Super Bowel Ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuYIsG0MUQY

the truth behind the Polar Bear Picture

Carole "CJ" Williams
January 26, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

Last March, global warming fanatic Al Gore used a picture of two polar bears purportedly stranded on melting ice off the coast of Alaska as a visual aide to support his claim that man-made global warming is doing great harm to Mother Earth. The one he chose, but didn’t offer to pay for right away, turned out to be a photo of a polar bear and her cub out doing what healthy, happy polar bears do on a wave-eroded chunk of ice not all that far from shore in the Beaufort Sea north of Barstow, Alaska.

The picture, wrongly credited to Dan Crosbie, an ice observer specialist for the Canadian Ice Service, was actually taken by Amanda Byrd while she was on a university-related research cruise in August of 2004, a time of year when the fringe of the Arctic ice cap normally melts. Byrd, a marine biology grad student at the time, was gathering zooplankton for a multi-year study of the Arctic Ocean.

rtr at
http://newswithviews.com/Williams/carole7.htm

Citoyen Dion Liberals: Soft on crime.

"Federal Liberal Leader Stephane Dion says he won't press the Liberal-dominated Senate to push tough new gun laws through Canada's Upper House."
http://tinyurl.com/ywreqf (TOSun)
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Man shot twice in Ont. home invasion

A man was shot twice in the legs during a Richmond Hill home invasion that has police looking for two suspects.
Police said two men armed with handguns stormed into a house in the Bayview Ave. and Elgin Mills Rd. area on Sunday at 8:25 p.m. Once inside, the invaders demanded money from the three people in the house. http://tinyurl.com/yq2yot (TOSun)

Here's an article printed in the Ottawa Citizen :

http://www.prowomanprolife.org/Freedom_to_discuss_the_choice_080128.pdf

They put the 'lie' to the lazy liberal mantra 'its settled'.

Question: I really don't want to seem rude or like I am attacking an individual here but does anyone know if Liberal MP McCullum (I think he was once a cabinet minister) has had a stroke or something?

The way he talks and sort of rambling and sometimes unstable and drawling I have wondered if he is either drunk or on drugs or has some kind of illness. I can't remember him being quite that way in the past?

Anybody?

@lmf

John McCallum is a drunk. A few years ago when he was Minister of National Revenue (maybe Defence?), they would not let him on an Air Canada flight out of Toronto because he was so loaded.

Mark Steyn, First They Came for Piglet: Excessive deference to Islam.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080128/west_chill_080128/20080128?hub=TopStories

It aint Trono , so "no troop for you"

(Via Israel21c.net) Leah Stern, Israel's electric future

Israel will become the first country to mass-produce electric cars in an ambitious new scheme with Better Project Place, and carmakers Renault and Nissan. If all goes well, oil imports to the country could be cut by half within a few years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmOW0z__AMI

Great spot for research into media
use:

http://www.frankwbaker.com/mediause.htm

Could someone please send some co2 to my house. It is -35 and we need global warming now.
Last night my son phoned from Fort St John, BC and it was -54, with a strong wind.

Rhetorical Questions:
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"Just How Crazy Is Al Gore?

Just how crazy is Al Gore? That was the question that popped, once again, into my brain as I read a January 24 Agence France Press news story out of the Davos meeting of business and political elite. Gore asserted that, “the North Pole ice caps may disappear entirely during summer months within five years…”

I was instantly reminded of the story that ran in The New York Times in August 2000 claiming that the Pole was free of ice for the first time in 50 million years. It wasn’t, of course, because people who have actually been to the Arctic quickly noted that, in the summer, some ice actually does melt there. The Times retracted it three weeks later."
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/1589

Just how crazy was Paul Ehrlich, aka The Prophet of Doom?

Paul Ehrlich: "“In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.”"
"Five years is all we have left if we are going to preserve any kind of quality in the world."

- Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day 1970"

We're all DOOOOMMMMED.

"Asteroid to sail past Earth early Tuesday.
Asteroid 2007 TU24 will pass within about 540,000 kilometres, or 1.4 lunar distances, of Earth, reaching its closest approach at 3:33 a.m. ET."

http://technology.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/NewsandOpinions/ContentPosting.aspx?feedname=CBC-TECH-SCIENCE&showbyline=True&newsitemid=science-asteroid

Now how are the Goracle/the leftards going to blame this one on AGW/Bush????

"John McCallum is a drunk".

It was defence, believe it or not. I remember when he was called to an emergency press conference and his appearnce made me wonder if he had the flu, or had been drinking. But I assumed a minister would not be drinking in the afternoon, at least not more than a drink with lunch. Weeks later he announced he had some kind of problem and would be swearing off the sauce. What a sacrifice; lib miniser announces he has decided not to drink on the job.
It didn't help much. Of course, now he has more time...

If the out of control USA satelite drops into your back yard, call me.

I*ll buy it, and I promise not to re-sell it to the Chinese or Putin. Trust me. = TG

The incident when McCallum was stopped from boarding a flight was well covered up, not a big story, he's a Liberal. He had an explanation,he had dinner at his mother's and was over served with wine.

Don't know if it was from Vichy or VIMY, not that he's know, he doesn't know the one from the other.

... t, u, v, w, x, y, z. The MSM thesaurus, dictionary, lexicon runneth over.
The MSM is not "almost disorienting"; the MSM is disoriented, dizzy, flummoxed, befuddled, etc.
Never did they expect a Prime Minister such as PM Harper. The MSM is in shock. It's Bruce Cheadle of the CanPress who has swallowed his tongue.
Over on the Speaker's left, Taliban Jack Layton-NDP and Taliban Citoyen Dion-Liberals are aghast, agog, agape with awe.
Stand with PM Harper: no truck, nor trade, with the Muslim Taliban murderers.
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"For a flinty-eyed, take-no-prisoners partisan who practices wedge politics and pressure tactics with vulpine zest, Harper's change of tone was almost disorienting.
So was the venue."
http://tinyurl.com/2ewmev

I have written to the National Newswatch about this before but no response. Today's web page has 18 articles attacking Harper and his government. Everthing from Afghan detainees to his "weird" tight control on government. There are 5 positive articles with their pictures on Dion/Iggy with the lead showing the Liberals are in front. Though their are also 5 on Harper 4 show him in a negative light.

Who controls the National Newswatch? It seems to be another MSM liberal organ. It is easy to see why conservatives have a constant uphill battle to form a government and even harder to keep it. Though the Liberals have zero policies Canadians continue to support them.

Dave .... I check it (newswatch) every day and I don't know that I can blame the folks who post the watch.

Seems to be reflective of the Canadian Media Establishment.

Did I hear someone ask "What Left wing bias" ?

Let us know if you get a response eh!

Yes, National Newswatch has also been infected by some virus --- Reuters, AP ??

Have faith -- the 'Power Of The Pen' is being made redundant by the 'Power Of Electrons' -- at the speed of light.

The Old Media will probably never completely fade away though -- even 'Check-out Counter Tabloids' have a certain segment of customers.

...please remember to adjust your clocks to

ClockWork Orange...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326128,00.html

A father was stabbed and beaten to death in front of his 7-year-old son by a gang he was trying to protect the child from in almost exactly the same way his own father was killed 23 years ago, according to the Daily Mail.

David Martin, 40, a window cleaner, was trying to protect his son from a band of bullies who were picking on the boy during a football game outside his house in South London.

The youths stabbed Martin with a Samurai sword and beat him to death with golf clubs and cricket bats while the child looked on, the Mail reported.

Martin's own father was also beaten to death 23 years ago by a group of youths with a metal bar who were teasing Martin and turned on his dad when he intervened.

"I can't believe this tragedy has happened twice to the same family," an elderly witness to the crime, who asked not to be identified, told the Mail.

"Asteroid to sail past Earth early Tuesday.
Asteroid 2007 TU24 will pass within about 540,000 kilometres, or 1.4 lunar distances, of Earth, reaching its closest approach at 3:33 a.m. ET."

...if we move to Newfoundland, do we get to live another half hour more?

Narcissism = Stephen Harper

http://forums.macleans.ca/advansis/?mod=for&act=dip&pid=102818&tid=102818&eid=48&so=1&ps=0&sb=1

The REALLY CREEPY leader of Canada's New Government.

Snow slams China; half million stranded at train station
[...]

In the past week, the snowstorms have hit the provinces in central, eastern and southern China -- places that are used to mild winters, not extreme wintry blasts.

"We've never seen such a cold weather lasting for such long a time," said Tang Shan, a man in his 70s in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province.
The last time we had one here was over 50 years ago, and not this bad."
http://tinyurl.com/2spzjn (cnn)
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It's Confucius's revenge.
Mao Stlong say: "The last time we had one here was over 50 years ago, and not this bad."

Mao speak good English: "over 50 years ago" = Gleat Reap Folwald, 1958*.
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*Great Leap Forward (with posters). [The first poster presented is the inspiration for Maurice Strong's Gaia Ark, a ripoff of Noah's Ark. It's a must see.]
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"On the basis of an exaggerated belief in the power of ideology on human consciousness, the radicals were convinced that by putting "politcs in command", the objective difficulties created by lagging industrialisation and mechanisation could be overcome in a relatively short time. By relying on willpower, and by giving supremacy to the human, subjective dimensions of history, the people would be able to bring about a quick transformation of the concrete obstacles they encountered in the physical world. To mobilize this willpower, the Great Leap Forward, obviously, was accompanied by a concerted propaganda effort, the depth and breadth of which had hitherto not been seen." http://tinyurl.com/3deoxt (posters here)

Amir Taheri, How to crush the terrorists

In the foothills of the Hindu Kush, every season is regarded as auspicious for something. Winter is for taking a new concubine. Spring, however, is reserved for fighting. This is why as Afghans look forward to their new year, Now Ruz, on March 20, they are also preparing for an upsurge in a war that started with the overthrow of the Taleban seven years ago.

Last spring the Taleban and its al-Qaeda allies suffered serious defeats at the hands of Nato, especially British, troops. The jihadis lost two of the four provinces they controlled, including Helmand, the jewel in their crown. This spring they are determined to defend their two remaining provinces while taking the war into the rest of Afghanistan with suicide attacks...

There was a G &M news report re Robert Thibault meeting Schreiber in a restaurant. I vaguely remember the original note on this (may have been Jane Taber) . . . anyway, a letter to the editor of G&M today asks about the appropriateness of an "investigator" having a meal in an expensive restaurant with someone he is supposed to be investigating. Thibault is also being sued by Mulroney -- the ethics on this one totally stink. Actually, I wonder if meetings with Thibault will turn out to be Schreiber's next "get out of jail free" card.

Stephane Dion and Jack Layton are not the only politicos who get elected on pie in the sky airy fairy unachievable promises:

Only three sustainable homes built in UK so far

Gordon Brown's dream of "eco-towns" with tens of thousands of homes powered by wind and solar power has failed to grip the public's imagination. Officials have confirmed that only three low-carbon homes are being built in the UK.

The Prime Minister made the plan for 100,000 sustainable homes a key element of his pitch for the Labour Party leadership last summer. But individuals have failed to match the Government's enthusiasm for cutting household emissions.

Only three households have taken advantage of a tax-break for all new zero-carbon homes, the Treasury revealed last week.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/only-three-sustainable-homes-built-in-uk-so-far-774647.html

Is this true ? I have never heard of McCain's Cappers before.

http://www.usvetdsp.com/nov07/mccain_deceit.htm

Tories pushing for strict fuel-economy standards
Series: Business The Canadian Press

Released: 17/1/2008 8:18 PM | Time: 2:07

Description:

A federal push for new vehicle fuel-economy standards is unlikely to produce concrete results before several political cards fall into place on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border.

An auto industry insider scoffed at the *political timing* of a two-month consultation process launched Thursday aimed at reaching new rules for fuel economy.

Tory Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon said the process will create rules starting in the 2011 model year that will aim to have the average Canadian passenger vehicle do at least 35 miles on a U.S. gallon by 2020. *I would suggest to you there will be an election in the next 60 to 90 days, the timing of (the consultation period) may have played into that,* said James H. Miller, executive vice-president of Honda Canada Inc.

www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?main=broadcast&bcid=1501&cpvid=1

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OK, We Canadians are dragging on this. Look what Israel can do while dodging rockets and missels.

youtube.com/watch?v=OmOW0z__AMI

Charles MacDonald @ 4:45 ThankYou Charles.
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Rove, equating Harper and narcissism shows you obviously don't really know what narcissism is.
Google 'Nesbit-Larking Trudeau'.

Read it and throw up and ask yourself how the immature Trudeau could have been a PM for 14 yrs.

Or maybe you should visit Dr Sam Vaknin's website on malignant self-love to familiarize yourself with the word first.

Have a nice read.

...something has gone wrong. The actual temperature, predicted to go up and up, has not cooperated and has instead stayed the same and even has gone down. What do to? Let's take a "What would a scientist do" quiz and find out. Your model has predicted that temperatures will go up because CO2 has, but unfortunately temperatures have gone down. Do you:

1. Abandon the model and seek a new career

2. Discover where the model went wrong; publish results admitting why and how you were wrong

3. Sit and wait: after all, the temperature is bound to increase sooner or later, hence validating your model

4. Believe that the model cannot be wrong, else so many people wouldn't believe it, and so posit some new source that is "holding back" warming, and only if that new source weren't there, your model would be perfect.

http://wmbriggs.com/blog/2008/01/28/is-climatology-a-pseudoscience/