The reasons behind the Castro resignation:

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2008/02/castro-resigns-sanctions-work.html

When I first started dating my wife she had Dan’s big album in her collection. I referred to him as Dan Fffing Hill. She didn’t get it. I’m a pretty easy going guy but every time I heard “Sometimes When We Touch" I just wanted it get him in a headlock and grind his face in the grass.
And now he shows up on the cover of MacLean’s under the headline “Every Parents Worse Nightmare”
Yah, like we have all stumbled through this same parenting problem; “Over the last year and a half, three young adults who have set foot in my house, in the well-to-do, tree-lined Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto, have been murdered.”

Jesus God...that is about the most pathetic thing I've ever seen.

"Happy Day"? Aaaggh!

And anyway, doesn't that discriminate against depressed people? Why not just call it "Day".

Hay, maybe Dan Hill can benefit from a legion of social engineers visiting him.

Good evening, ladies & gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, just by chance, we have the perfect antidote to Mr. Hill's emasculated performance. Here for you delectation is a very muscular work by San Fransisco's Taiko Dojo, performing in Tokyo in 1994:

video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-678690014893841027

Don't bother following Iberia's link above unless you want to waste your time at a liberal site that thinks it is satirizing conservatives in a Stephen Colbert kind of way (where the site owner pretends to be a conservative and says a bunch of idiotic things). The satire is supposed to communicate the usual leftist meme that Cuban poverty has nothing to do with Castro's fifty years of failed policies. Instead, rich Cuban exiles kept their fellow Cubans poor through pressuring American politicians on sanctions. What the would-be satirists and history illiterates apparently don't comprehend is that the communism and dictatorship they admire has exactly that predictable effect on its citizens anywhere it's tried - they're poverty-stricken. So what's the problem? You love communism, you love poverty for the people.

Why blame a capitalist society for not giving economic life support to a communist dictatorship? Why not blame the primary cause, the communist dictator? (Because leftists love and excuse their thugs).

I just read the Mcleans article written by Dan Hill and I must say,it really,REALLY,brought tears to my eyes.

Tears of FUC%#*G LAUGHTER !!!!!!!

That Dan Hill sure is one sniveling,simpering wimp.

Please GOD,have mercy and save us from the sheer and utter weakness of Canadian liberals.

PS. The story does have a Happy ending though..........

The violent,EVIL,street-trash,20 times convicted,scum-bag Criminal named Eric Boateng,ends up taking a "forever" dirt-nap,after he gets GUNNED DOWN in broad daylight,right in front of the Toronto Don Jail.

Wal-Mart store manager apologizes to niqab-wearing Muslim woman, because a cashier was "rude" to her. (h/t Tonight Show, Jawa Report)

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/191343.php

http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?S=7895876&nav=menu554_2_3

What might work in Dearborn will not fly in Utah.

Eric who? Why didn't his mother abort him?

"In yet another verbal attack against Israel Wednesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the Jewish state a 'filthy bacteria' whose sole purpose was to oppress the other nations of the region.

"Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Wednesday to express 'outrage'...Gillerman said it was 'outrageous for a member state to use racist, Nazi-like statements against another member state.'

Ahmadinejad: "The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime, which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a wild beast."

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1203518556526&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(A week before Ahmadinejad's remarks General Muhammad Ali Jaffari, head of the Revolutionary Guards wrote a letter to the head of Hizbullah in which he said he was convinced "we will witness the disappearance of this cancerous growth called Israel.")

Sanwin found this website. . .

http://theunjustmedia.com/

February 19 2008

** Americans are too broadly under informed to digest nuggets of information that seem to contradict what they know of the world ...

Instead, news channels prefer to feed Americans a constant stream of simplified information, all of which fits what they already know. That way they don't have to devote more air time or newsprint space to explanations or further investigations.* * Tom Fenton, CBS foreign correspondent

* * The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky for the United States to engage in military action.* * Immanuel Wallerstein

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was not involved in Kandahar blast in which 100 civilians were martyred Sunday 17-02-08, a powerful bomb which was detonated during a dog fighting competition in Kandahar, in which 100 civilian were martyred. We the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan were not involve in it and we condom this act of martyring innocent civilians.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan intelligence thinks that the targeted was a militia leader, Abdul Hakim Jan, who died in the attack, along with 35 of his men.

Abdul Hakim Jan who had enmities and discrepancy with the puppet governor and other officials, so there is a strong possibility that is act was coordinated by the puppet government to eliminate those who disagree with it.

Soon after the attack the puppet government put the blame on the Mujahideen to give the Mujahideen a bad name, but Mujahideen do not target civilians, cause they are not fighting the civilians but the invaders and its puppets, any intelligent person could see that there is no logic from the Mujahideen side to be attacking civilians, the kafirs and munafiqs use their controlled media to tell the world that Mujahideen are killing innocent civilians, but the reality is that it is them who are slaughtering innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. Reported by Zabihuallah Mujahid

=================

Surprising, just how smooth these spinners are, mixing in some obvious truths. = TG

The Wagons are being Circled. Wikipedia articles are being changed daily on the main culprits or suspects.

And now this today - Is this a threat or advice? Coincidence?

Cross posted from "From 5 feet of fury". Geist was featured in the Ottawa Citizen article on RW back in July and I believe is a member of an organization....?

"Michael Geist: E-Publishing & The Law

The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) invites you to join us at our next event…

Michael Geist: E-Publishing & The Law
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2008
Time: Registration 6:00 p.m., Presentation 6:30 p.m.

Location: MaRS Discovery Center, Suite 100, CR-3, 101 College Street (see map)

Description: Anyone who blogs, comments, sends e-mail or otherwise publishes electronically is subject to the laws of defamation and libel, according to University of Ottawa Law School professor and internationally renowned expert on law and the Internet, Dr. Michael Geist.

The Internet and new technologies have ushered in a seemingly unlimited array of possibilities for access to knowledge, creativity, and public participation. Dr. Geist will highlight the role that the Internet is playing for new creativity and knowledge sharing, while identifying the business and policy challenges that this creates for journalists and journalism. The talk will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Sally Armstrong (Toronto).

There is no cost to attend the event, but guests must register online at http://www.cjf%20fjc.ca/programs.htm or by e-mail at info@cjf-fjc.ca"

I actually found the Hill article interesting. I think Hill admitted to all of the foibles and self doubt that went with being easy going.

I think he struggled with tryign to figure out how to keep his son on the straight and narrow, doing something most parents cant afford, sending him off to a private school. But shouldn't you be celebrating him acting as a parent as opposed to letting the kid do whatever he wanted.

You may not like the song, i dont, and you may not like what his Dad stated, what led to HRC's. remeber Borovoy is alive and can comment on the wrong turn they took, dan hill senior has passed on. We'll never know.

Maybe I read a different article but I saw parents who had been "liberal" in their upbringing act like parents instead of friends when it counted. I saw Hill recognize the lack of male role models in the "black" community and how this is a problem. I saw Hill struggle with his own role as a father, what it meant to be one and how far that extended outside his own family, i.e. you cant save everyone.

As I said, maybe I am missing soemthing here but I thought it was an honest well written tale. I get the feeling some want to crap over it as liberal tripe, but that isnt what is there as far as I can tell.

If it is just that people cant relate to a gentrified upper class family in the Beaches, well thats part of the story, both in how it can happen, the money was part of the problem and part of the solution. But dont let class envy get in the way, isnt that what "the others" do?

Once again, maybe I am missing something or reading too much into it. In general, I thought it was a good story and one worth reading.

I guess I am the token dissenter on this......

BTW....

Ezra correctly points out PEN comes on board for the criticism of Section 13.

http://www.ezralevant.com/

Good for them, they have been consistent in their defence of writers of free speech. You may not always agree with them on other things, but they are consistent on this point, as they should be.

Once again, I always think it is important to give credit when it is due, if only to enable you to crticize when it isnt deserved :->

Tieing back to WK and the last redoubt on HRC. WK recognized that the Macleans and LEvant cases were overreach, he said it. However, WK doesnt want section 13 removed he wanted the cases dropped to not prompt the reaction it is getting.

I think that position is becoming more untenable. The "thought crime" provision will be removed in the next Parliament. How much more "reform" will happen is another question. You wont see wholesale deconstruction though.

“Happy Day”

That’s hilarious (or would be if it were not so pathetic).

Perhaps we could all wear armbands with giant smileys on them.

Dan Hill had a greatest hit collection?

There's only six comments on the Mike Evans link, but every one is hilarious.

Kathy, thanks for expressing far better than I could the idiocy of Dan Hill's cringe-making article about "a parent's worst nightmare." I think a kid's worst nightmare is having a bleeding-heart liberal parent like Dan Hill.

As the parent of two, I marvelled at Daddy Hill's cowering repose in his studio while his family--one son and wife--was being consistently harassed, vilified, and robbed by the hooligans his son, always the best-dressed thug on the block, brought home.

It sure took Dan a long time to get hip to their jive and tell them they weren't welcome in his home. He never seems to have given his son the talk HE needed about his unsavoury lifestyle or to have set limits to the kid's behaviour--which any good parent would have done long before the situation escalated to the kind of harassment the Hill household eventually experienced.

THAT'S the problem, Stephen, a lot of us have with Dan Hill's violin-drenched sob-story about his family's brush with three murdered black teens. As usual with the lib-left, Dan declines to lay blame anywhere. It's, like, it just happened. His son just happened to make these friends, who just happened to be heavily into the gang scene, which just happened to be extremely nasty and violent. To his credit, he did admit being an absent father through most of his son’s growing up years, but that was just an aside. I suggest he should write an article about absentee fathers and the havoc they’ve wreaked on their children and society, at large. That would be more to the point.

To find out, at the end of the article, that Hill’s father was one of the asshats responsible for our bogus Human Rights Commissions, kind of puts into (im)proper perspective all of Dan Hill’s cowering and hand-wringing when faced with black thugs out to do harm to his son and family.

Sometimes When We Throw Up…

Re: "Happy Day"

Certainly it's hilarious.
Is everybody here absolutely sure that Mr. Evans wasn't making a pretty damned funny joke at the Star's and other "progressive's" expense?
I thought it was a great one!

Hill makes a big deal out of his son's confusion over his "mixed race heritage," and seems to accept without question that his only way of exploring the black side of his heritage was to hang out with wannabe gangbangers listening to thuggish rap music. That's the most tragic part of the story to me - not the early deaths of the young men who made the Hills live under siege for several years. Are there no other role models provided by the black community for their kids? Hill is a musician - what about Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, Sidney Poitier, Ralph Ellison - hell, even Hill's own father? After all these years of babble and policy bullying about Afrocentric education, black kids still turn to some dead-eyed failed criminal like 50 Cent as a default?

Dalton Minimum:

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?s=dalton

global warming and hurrican frequency NOT the cause of greater destruction:

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/noaa-hurricane-frequency-and-global-warming-not-the-cause-of-increased-destruction/

Let me get this straight, Roy Romanow Appointed a guy named Terry Bekolay to be a provincial court JUDGE. Bekolay who was a high ranking NDP past party worker(I think President of Sask. NDP). The judge is GAY and likes having sex (screwing) young men. The JUDGE befriends a disbarred LAWYER named James Bomek. Bomek seeks favors from the JUDGE by asking him to release a young man that will appear before him. The JUDGE also volunteers for a gay crisis intervention program.
WTF is going on here? The NDP should look in the mirror when they say the words HIDDEN AGENDA.

What is Liberal Citoyen Dion's Taliban policy today?
95%.
What is Citoyen's word for retreat/surrender/cut'n'run?
In his world, the word is: 'Progress'.
Retreat = 'Progress'.
Yes. Dion is a progressive liberal/socialist.
...-

Afghan Motion 'Progress': Dion
Liberal leader Stephane Dion suggests the Conservative Government's new motion on Canada's future in Afghanistan meets "95 per cent" of the Liberals concerns. (cfra.com)

Warmington calls for McGuinty to "apologise" for Caledinia"

http://tinyurl.com/2muyvh

""On the eve of the 2nd anniversary of the Caledonia crisis, it's time for the premier to apologize for a horrible wrong
By JOE WARMINGTON
Toronto Sun
Feb 21, 2008

CALEDONIA -- If Sam Gualtieri had died when he was attacked by a pack of goons last year, would Premier Dalton McGuinty have come down for his funeral?

That was the main question people here asked yesterday.

Another: If Gualtieri had become Caledonia's Dudley George, would McGuinty have called a multimillion-dollar inquiry to get to the bottom of it?

We may never know the answers since the people of Caledonia have never been able to pose any questions to our fearful leader.

The start of the crisis and standoff between the police and native occupiers at Caledonia is about to celebrate its two-year anniversary this month, and so far there has been no sign of the premier. His own staffers acknowledged he has not been here once.

If he ever decides to check out one of the province's most embarrassing messes, the first place he ought to stop is the home of Gualtieri, a 53-year-old former homebuilder who believes he was one blow away from being murdered.""

I'd just be happy if they'd arrest and charge the perpetrators which are already identified

In the French military handbook, a military retreat is a 'strategic ADVANCE to the rear'.

Dj,

You have hit upon a really good point. Hill cut his son some slack because he went through a "similar phase", confusion over his heritage and what it meant. Not being mixed race I dont know what there is to discover, I thought we were all human....but anyway.

Hill went through that phase in what, the early 70's. Very very different time, Toronto was a very different place. Not realizing that was a problem....his son would be trying to discover his "black" side with very different people.

Early 70's that would have been looking at Bob Marley, Muhammed Ali or any one of a number of soul singers, you are correct his father and some others. On the more radical side, Black Panthers (although a dying movement) the Black Muslims.

At the end of the day not too much harm you could get into exploring your "black side" in Toronto in the early 70's....worst thing would be a pot smoking rastafarian, pretty harmless.

Today, gun toting thuggery is the example given. You are right he barely touches on it mentioning the kids from I forget the area....all being raised by single moms and how they lack and crave male role models....all young boys look to older males for guidance and example, whether they know it or not.

I think the point of the article was to describe the whole journey. It was lengthy as it was. The whole thing would make a book as you delved into each of thes areas and Hill might pronounce some opinion.

I still didnt see it as soft as some are seeing it. I think Hill admits his mistakes, too easy, absentee at the beginning (a problem in any urban professional household) and describes how he found himself having to do things he never imagined. The lack of depth on some of those issues I put down to space restrictions.

I do think the lesson of the story IS Kathy's comment....it may not be explicit but its there. Hill sent his kid away to a boarding school to get him away from the bad influence. He has confrontations with these thugs. Boarding school was required to correct and protect from a too open environment.

I think the surprise to Hill was that this stuff was out there, the influences. What he diddnt do was arm his kid initially with the ability to stay away from these thngs on his own, every parents challenge. I think that goes back to the earlier point, he thought he could relate to what his son was going through, so he gave him space, but the external environment had radically changed. Thats what I dont think many "liberal easygoing" parents today get. Very very different environment.

The article is defenitely a "little sweet" but I dont know if the derision is deserved. I think Mr Hill is a different, dare I say it, a more conservative parent at the end of it. Its too late for him, but his story was a warning to parents to be aware of the things he wasnt aware of.

Some seem to want to hold him acocuntable for self admitted errors, errors in child rearing that he wouldnt make again if he had to do it all over again. I guess I see the article as a parable and a warning, others want to see it as a "he deserved it/told you so" kind of thing. I think that misses the point. Of course that wouldnt allow for some easy jokes to be made about that awful song.

All IMHO of course. All opinions are welcome.

"Messes"? Depends?
Inhuman Rights Commission "swamped with work".
"The nursing home diaper issue has brought two large, somewhat dysfunctional bureaucracies face to face."
It's an epic bureauc-ratic feud: Health Minister Gaylord Smitherman vs Depends'R-Notus Inhuman Rights Commission.
...-

Agency too busy to probe elder care
No time to look into how nursing homes treat incontinent residents, human rights panel says

Ontario's Human Rights Commission says it's too busy now to look into complaints that elderly nursing home patients are being left to fester in urine-soaked diapers.

In a letter to Ontario Federation of Labour head Wayne Samuelson, who requested an investigation last November, commission policy and education director François Larsen said the rights body is not only swamped with work but is busy reorganizing itself to meet requirements of new provincial legislation. http://tinyurl.com/ywmzzc
(TORed Star)

"Happy Day" Maybe we can get the Fonz to kick off the Festivities, Or rename it to Festivia is that what George's dad from Seinfeld's TV show wanted.
"Happy Festiva Everyone"

I don't understand what the second part of this tag line means...

Hosted with worker-owned, carbon-neutral webhosting.

carbon-neutral webhosting? WTF is that?

And where can I find that? Where else but...

http://www.newdemocratsonline.ca/

If they really want to spread their message in an Earth friendly way, they should try this...

http://www.gwpda.org/naval/s1000000.htm

You would think that the land where so much porn much porn comes would'nt have a penis envy problem.

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/02/size-does-matter.html#readfurther

I posted on the Dan Hill essay yesterday...
I found originally in the print copy while at my physio's office...

I though it was a good piece .... it takes guts to reveal so much of one's internal self like that and I think Hill deserves praise for that.
For sure .. the person that he reveals is stereotypical lib/left touchy feely with a thought process that grates on the nerves of many .... But let's be honest about it ... he DID man up when he had to.

Too bad he finished the story with that self doubting angst over the fate of the prick who victimized his family though.
So it is seems that's just the nature of the lefty mind ... it's too uncomfortable to face harsh realities so the default mode is doubt, denial and self loathing guilt over the coarser side of their nature.

My hometown in NL is up for Kraft Hockeyville, competing against Rothesay, NB. 1st place is $100,000 and an NHL exhibition game.

To vote for Port-Aux-Basques as Hockeyville
you can call
1-888-843-5604
service in english = 1, francais = 2
then push 2 5 to vote for Port-aux-Basques.

http://www.cbc.ca/hockeyville/finalists/bruceiiarena

For any SK senior hockey league players and fans who may be here @ SDA, this is the same town that beat out the Kindersley Clippers in the Hardy Cup Senior AA National Championship playoffs in 1989.

Thanks for the beautiful ring boys!

It's interesting to analyze Kinsella's obsession with Kate. Why? His assertions that she's a 'bigot, a racist' are unfounded nonsense. Even if she were - what's it to him? There are lots of real bigots, racists in Canada; yet, he totally ignores them. So, it isn't racism or bigotry that bothers him. What's with his obsessive focus on Kate?

Yes, he's an egoist. Just as Chretien is a rabid narcissistic egoist. The two of them share a similar pyschological neurosis. But does that explain his frothing fury with Kate? Yes, she laughs at him - that might be a part of it. The Egoist can't handle non-subservience.

But, is his disappearance into the margins of power a factor? You can only spin a narrative for a while before its fault lines dissipate the story.

Kinsella's (and Chretien's) claims of Three Straight Majorities, ignore that these majorities were due to a number of factors that had nothingn to do with their own value:

1) there were no Opposition Parties. Gosh, Kinsella, that helps, doesn't it?

2) funding for the Liberals came from a variety of sources. Above all, it was not from the grassroots citizens, but from manipulated sources:

- big corporations which were embedded within the Liberal Party by that Party setting itself up to subsidize and assist them;
- the taxpayer. Heh, Kinsella ignores that the Liberal Party stole over 40 million from the taxpayer to fund their Quebec campaign after the referendum.

3)Manipulation of the voters into Faithful Blocs.

The Liberals set up multiculturalism as a tactic of controlling the allegiance of immigrants. Immigrants were told that they could essentially bring their old beliefs and behaviour to Canada; there was no need to assimilate. These 'blocs' were then funded by the Liberals for their own schools, community centres etc. They became Faithful Liberals.
Since Ontario, and Toronto, are the key immigrant sites and also a large number of seats in the House, the Liberals were able to control their vote.
The same is true in Montreal and Vancouver.
Essentially, it was 'divide and rule'.

4) Threats. That's another emotional tactic. If anyone criticizes you, you threaten them with a lawsuit. Warren's basic mechanical reaction to any criticism is to threaten them with that. People like Ezra, who knows far more about law than Warren, laugh at his threats.

5)Propaganda. Ahh, Warren likes propaganda. This is a tactic where you LIE. Simple and basic. Warren shows us how he does this in his obsession with Kate, where he cuts and pastes quotes totally out of context, to 'prove' his allegations against her. The fact that it's false; the fact that it's legally, defamatory, doesn't bother him. How's that for ethics and morality?

The Liberals use this strategy all the time. It's based, not on reason or evidence, of course, but on the lack of reason and evidence. Pure emotional manipulation.

How about their rhetoric about Harper? The 'Hidden Agenda'? You can't prove or disprove it because it's hidden!

Anti-Americanism? That's a basic strategy of the Liberals. Have a Faithful Irrelevant Cause for All Evil. That means you don't have to face anything yourself.

Warren is using propaganda now, in his obsession with Kate. He's marginalized, he's out of the zones of power. He can't handle that. He's out of the MSM. Hmm, will the Toronto Star take him?
He's now aligned himself with Richard Warman and the CJC. That's a narrow and small zone of influence. I suspect that Warren will dig himself deeper into this neurotic hole and become more irrational, more obsessed.

Charlie Szrom, Russia's Serbia Strategy

Yet pretenses of defending international law or analysis pointing to traditional ties hide the real reason for Russia's position: Serbia lets Russia project power and accrue profit in Southeastern Europe. Russian-Serbian trade has spiked, and Russian corporations have begun snatching up Serbian assets at bargain-basement prices. Vladimir Putin has even acknowledged this, calling it "natural that a resurgent Russia is returning [to Serbia]."

(Via CSP) Charles Krauthammer, Democrats Dug In For Retreat

...Now, however, there is simply no denying the remarkable improvements in Iraq since the surge began a year ago.

Unless you're a Democrat. As Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., put it, "Democrats have remained emotionally invested in a narrative of defeat and retreat in Iraq." Their Senate leader, Harry Reid, declares the war already lost. Their presidential candidates (eight of them at the time) unanimously oppose the surge. Then the evidence begins trickling in...

(PDF warning) Based on: Anthony H. Cordesman, Creating a Stable and Secure "Iraqracy"

(Many useful maps, charts and graphs)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2ATL75Bj8yk&feature=related

and you choke on my reply! I listen and choke on vomit.

The liberal mind: What's yours is mine. Canadian Wheat Board + Kyoto = the Liberal mind of Citoyen Dion.
Meet the privileged Liberals.
""This is such a privilege," Duncan told the Star yesterday.""
...-

Liberal Candidate Says No Need To Step Down

A Saskatchewan Director on the Canadian Wheat Board will not be cleaning out his desk quite yet.
Rod Flaman has been nominated for the federal riding of Regina - Qu'appelle.
Flaman says there is no need to step down. He explains before he was nominated, he asked the Wheat Board to check into it.
He says they were informed through a governance committee that he could in fact remain a director until the writ was dropped--at that point he would have to take a leave of absence.
http://tinyurl.com/2af8fl (newstalk650)
...-

Dion hand-picks Etobicoke candidate
Professor seen as prize catch, but riding official says he wasn't informed
OTTAWA–Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion is courting renewed controversy with his decision to appoint Toronto professor and author Kirsty Duncan as the candidate for Etobicoke North in the next election, replacing MP Roy Cullen. [...]
Duncan was part of the Canadian team of experts that shared the Nobel Prize with former vice-president Al Gore for work on the International Panel on Climate Change.
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/305911

(Via JCI) "The Israel Lobby" and the American Interest: Comment

The Cold War threat to world order has been superseded by an ideologically radical Islamist movement which aims to disrupt, destroy and replace the international state system in the Middle East with Islamic rule—even as it seeks to gain footholds in Europe, Southeast Asia and elsewhere for further phases of its universalist cause... Today’s overriding strategic necessity for the United States is to defend, shore up, and extend the international state system all across the Middle East. Israel, as a free, well-governed and good international state citizen is the linchpin of this strategy.

Every major problem in the region can be understood in this context...

"killed them himself"

The Don Jail is a short bike ride from the beaches.
Where was Dan Hill when Eric was shot?
Why , taking a short bike ride.

"the honesty's too much "
For sappy socialist cloud dwellers

The leg wound to Eric sounds more like a self inflicted misfire.
And not white boys from the beaches beating up a black guy.
Come on!

"No Dad I better not press charges"
Right!

*
the first thing we do... is hang all the lawyers.

"This is tragedy of monumental proportions, but my client
comes from an excellent family and an excellent background,"
his lawyer, Howard Goldkind, said. "He has a full-time job
(at a roti shop), always lived with his parents and this is
an isolated incident."

*

In the G&M. Not in the business section.

Who should impregnate their sister's lover? Nobody!
THE QUESTION

A reader writes: My lesbian sister and her life partner recently went through a major case of biological clock ticking...I was asked to be the donor. My genetic material would ensure that the offspring would look like my sister...

...A gay friend of mine is "mulling," as the tabloid headline writers say, the idea of donating sperm to a lesbian friend who wants kids....

...I would say: "For God's sake, man, don't do it! You're going to bring a child into the world but pretend for its entire life that you're not its father? Who are you, Mel Lastman?"....

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080222.wldamage22/BNStory/lifeFamily/

Some folks are missing my point about Dan Hill, perhaps because it is too unpleasant to contemplate:

I don't question Hill's sincerity for a moment. The article was indeed baldly self-revelatory.

However, I'd have preferred him to be an insincere, insensitive man who killed three hoodlums in self-defense than an honest man who didn't have the nerve.

that is all.

Dan Hill stars in Lethal Weapon 5

"Honesty Wasn't Enough"

Y'all should educate yourselves about the DCM, and its' direct impact upon you, and your wallets.

Geist is non-partisan, and honest.

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/

We've been sold down the river on this one, by an inept bureaucrat from the Indian Industry. Prentice is a moron - best left to spending taxpayor cash hidden from view. Once he gets off script, he runs.

Not a comforting feeling from a guy that spends $19 billion a year in subsidies to business in this country - every year. With $1.3B in help from Monte...(only for 905, thank you very much)

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/1039660.html

http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=47e93f27-98a8-4de8-95ec-234185411ac0

Correction to my earlier post , should read "leg wound to David"
Not Eric.

Not quite yet Lethal Weapon 1

"Hold Me Till I Cry"

The Awakening

http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/talkradio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=5

Caught a bit of this 2-part interview with Jonah Goldberg, author of 'Liberal Fascism', yesterday.

Even they were caught off guard listening to the clips of Michelle Obama's speeches.

Definitely worth a listen...and not just to what we learn about Mrs. Obama.

"The Khmer Rouge have been blamed for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people."

The natural end result of socialism: "the Khmer Rouge", a "re-enact" of crimes/murder/genocide.
AssPress calls this barbarity: "alleged crimes".
No, AssPress, there is no reasonable doubt; you cannot gloss/sugarcoat this; the Khmer Rouge communists/socialists slaughtered their own people. That is genocide.
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Detained former Khmer Rouge chief executioner to re-enact alleged crimes

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The head of the main Khmer Rouge torture center will be taken from a detention cell to the former regime's "killing fields" next week to stage a re-enactment of his alleged crimes before officials of Cambodia's genocide tribunal, a judge said Friday.
Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, has been charged with crimes against humanity for his role as commandant of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison and torture center in the capital, Phnom Penh.
The site is now a genocide museum.
http://tinyurl.com/2r4uv9

Brock describes you as the Teflon girl Kate.
True, but I'm not sure if I like the comparison to Cretien.

As usual Mr Halfbaked assumes he is speaking to people who don't already know what he thinks he understands..... offering advice on what WE should educate ourselves about.

Link dumping Trolls with NOTHING to contribute... perpetual waders in the shallow end of the splash pool imagining that they swim with sharks.

CanPress/MSM has "concrete" proof;
surly servants/bureauc-rats are "constipated".
That's news? It's been proven before; ask LGF: * 8 out of 10 lab rats say so *
John Tory's former minister also says so.
Has PM Harper pulled a fast one on the MSM & the bureauc-rats? LOL.

Warning: Included by the MSM: It's more Off:
The MSM spin/propaganda in this story is a piece of Off; incredible is the anger/venom/Harperphobia of the MSM here displayed. (*sample below)
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More performance reviews needed in public service: report

OTTAWA - A federal panel on public service reform says it's time to seek "concrete plans" for disentangling accountability rules that have constipated the bureaucracy.

About 30 per cent of government overhead costs now go to complying with rules and reporting requirements, Don Mazankowski said in interview Friday.
"You'll probably hear more of the 'web of rules,' where rules are piled upon rules, making it more difficult for public servants," said the former Tory finance minister.
"We've certainly had some clear evidence of that in this session and we're going to spend a lot more time on that."
http://tinyurl.com/38adne

* Sample of MSM/Off: "Instead, government secrecy under the Tories has reached epidemic proportions, with record numbers of complaints about denial of timely access to information that legally should be public.
The public service, meanwhile, is bogged down in paper-pushing rules that stem from the accountability legislation."

For those who missed the Accountability Act being missed, we have the Conservative version of the movie '300'.

Except this is called '800', and the taxpayer federation is miffed. As well as me.

"As long as it's our people dahling.."

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1039211.html

Moral relativism is bad for the Libranos, good for us. No?

Caroline Glick, Kosovo's stark warning

The fledgling failed-state of Kosovo is a great boon for the global jihad. It is true that Kosovar Muslims by and large do not subscribe to radical Islam. But it is also true that they have allowed their territory to be used as bases for al-Qaida operations; that members of the ruling Kosovo Liberation Army have direct links to al-Qaida; and that the Islamic world as a whole perceived Kosovo's fight for independence from Serbia as a jihad for Islamic domination of the disputed province...

Dan Hill. Do I have this straight, his father was Dan Hill III, so that makes the author Dan Hill IV and not just ordinary Dan Hill? Whatever, credit for the good sense in not naming his son Dan.

The story is riveting, and these rivets are quite the problem. *picks at rivets* I'm baffled. How does something unlovely as this happen in Canada? Roger Moore convinced us that's quite impossible, because of Canada's gun laws, or Canadians' attitude toward them, or something.

I'm glad they got out of it alive. Oi.

From the Mike Evans link:

" hate to break it to Mr. Evans but everyone comes from a family of some sort. Even if you don’t like them very much, unless you were cloned in a lab you had a father and a mother and unless you were abandoned or an orphan you had some semblance of a family..."

Actually, I suspect that Mike really is a clone. Name of Ovis Sinistris Canadensis. There's a lab somewhere, maybe in Jack Layton's basement, where they turn out copy after copy of this misfit gone mainstream.

And Mark Steyn answers Iberia, as only Mark can.

Love with the perfect dictator
In the liberal breast beats a strange passion for normalizing dictatorships. Oh Castro!

http://www.macleans.ca/canada/opinions/article.jsp?content=20080220_83043_83043

I really felt for Dan Hill after reading that article. I would like to hear how you other guys would deal with it.

The Eric character (and for the record I remember the stories about him at the time in the Toronto paper about how he was a good boy who was either never in trouble, or "trying to leave his past behind) needed a good beating and he never got one.

If he got it when he was thirteen or fourteen Hill would have gone to Jail. If Hill had attempted to do it when Eric was seventeen or eighteen he would come out second best. Also, we are not dealing with people who have the same morality as normal people. A normal person would accept that he was wrong, deserved what he got, and change his ways so that it didn't happen again. The thugs who run the streets of Toronto now are completely amoral. If Dan had beaten him and won, Eric would have shot him to death or burnt his house down. If Dan had called the the police, it would have been bail before morning and then gunfire. This is exactly why in certain parts of Toronto, no one ever witnesses a crime.

I would like to think I would be brave enough to face down someone who wouldn't think twice about killing me, and doesn't even care about the consequences of doing so, but I don't think I am.

Ruth Gledhill, Sharia in Iran: 'Death to Converts'

Don't miss the links to MEHR's English translation of the Islamic Penal Code of Iran (and the detailed instructions for whippings, stonings, etc.) and the proposed new code.

For your weekend reading pleasure:

Andrew C. McCarthy, When Jihad Came to America

Omar Abdel Rahman’s arrival in New York in July 1990 lit a fuse to the city’s nascent but already functioning jihadist community. He went to work right away. It was time, the sheikh exhorted his flock in Brooklyn and Jersey City, to stop pretending that the challenge for Muslims lay elsewhere in the world. The challenge lay right here in the United States. This country, he preached, was “the big evil,” the “fiercest enemy of Islam,” and the real power behind not only the Middle East interloper Israel but such secular Islamic governments as Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt.

Sheikh Omar pilloried his followers for their empty talk, talk, talk about jihad. He wanted the real thing...

Minuteman: Just had a boo at Dan Hill's tale of woe and Kathy Shaidle's devilishly accurate assessment of Danny's testosterone-challenged response.

There is but one method for handling people like the street crud Mr. Hill's kid kept bringing home: Louisville Slugger. Just remember, its hard to burn somebody's house down while wearing a cast. Fighting back is a requirement, not an option. Success depends on fighting smart, not fair.

Then there's the problem of Mr. Hill's kid bringing home street crud. Members of a proper family act to increase the wealth, health and SAFETY of the family. If one member isn't doing that, you adjust their attitude.

I recall a friend of our family had a lot of trouble with his eldest son. The kid would steal stuff. Went to jail a lot. One time the dad went down to the jail to bail the kid out, talked to the cop on duty about what the kid had done, then turned around and walked out. After that the kid started straightening out, finally got it that Dad meant business.

Sometimes attitude adjustments are painful. Another way to put it is tragic. You suck it up and do what you gotta do. Or, as Mr. Hill did, you end up with the family's lives in danger. Call me a hard ass, but I think its better to leave a kid in jail for a couple years than go to his funeral. Or have him going to YOURS.

My two cents worth, Dan Hill is a drooling moron who BEGGED for every bad thing that happened to him. His wife would have been better off to have divorced his worthless ass and bought a dog.

Jean Chrétien awarded his Order of Canada medal today.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080222.worderofcanada22/BNStory/National/home

Ad$cam Chretien, aka Jeancula*? Is it still above ground? Get him, 'fore it's too late.
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Chrétien receives Order of Canada

Former prime minister Jean Chrétien received his medal as a companion of the Order of Canada at a ceremony in Ottawa on Friday.
http://tinyurl.com/3e2x2z (jack's)

Comment:
Order to go to JAIL is more like it !!
MSM please ask old Cretch when Canadians will see the 40 to 80 MILLION you stole from tax payers ????
MSM have no problem with wall to wall coverage on Mulroney
and $225,000 from 15 plus years ago ……that may or may
be legal ?
Comment by Timwest | February 22, 2008
*Jeancula: a face you will never forget.
http://tinyurl.com/2wc8gy

What is Liberal Citoyen's Taliban policy today?
Devvvlawpment: Les maudits Americains. Dis is izz 'arper's fault.
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Bombardier gives OK to sales deals for CSeries aircraft, may move work to U.S (canpress)

CHC Helicopter sells to U.S. fund for $3.7B
(cbc)

Stephen "In general, I thought it was a good story and one worth reading" -- thank you for expressing your views on the Dan Hill piece. They reflect my reaction and thinking about the story exactly. I thought it was an honest portrayal of a difficult family situation, the reality of gangs and the vulnerability of many kids. I think that it could well be an eye-opener for some parents who see themselves as somewhat insulated from gang violence. I think that some of the cynical comments posted above (as well as Shaidle's post) are completely crass and reflect considerable ignorance about the challenges of parenting.

...one of Kate's trained pups?

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/02/22/dog.driver.ap/index.html

Truck with dog at wheel backs through traffic unharmed

From the Daily Telegraph via National Newswatch

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23257306-5001026,00.html

Too funny.

"CELEBRITIES and Madonna are among hundreds of patrons urged to get a Hepatitis A vaccination after a bartender was found to be infected,....
guests at the Socialista event, including Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ivanka Trump, Liv Tyler, Catherine Keener, Lucy Liu and Salma Hayek.

Hepatitis A is a liver disease caused by a virus and is spread from person to person by putting something in the mouth that has been contaminated with traces of fecal matter from an infected person."

Really, who would expect anything but shitty service at a place called Socialista. Hope they were all wearing their Che gear.

Up the revolution.............Ivanka Trump.

barrel strength has a post from steyn today were the canadian association of journalists has joined the campaign to have section 13.1 removed.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDAxM2E1NTY2YjAwNWQ4MWJiZTU4M2QzNDQ4OTA2ZjI=

To all those who hate the idea of calling it Family Day:

Call it Monday and get back to work. If you have a job.

Busy news day for shoveling taxpayor cash out the door and into the welcoming arms of that ultimate Canadian (?) welfare case: Bombardier

http://tinyurl.com/2mbqmk

Way to go Jim! Another $350 million from taxpayor, to the old bum on the corner. Competing with every other politician in the hemisphere to get a little stroke for their cash.

Meanwhile, the Mirabel sinkhole remains a stark reminder of such political genius of Trudeau, Prentice can't help but aspire to be that old, wet fart of a man. Heck, why buy off one bagman or organizer, when you can buy off hundreds at a time - huh Jim?

Hmm Kinsella has posted an "unsolicited" e-mail, authors name withheld of course praising Kinsella's legal acumen. I suspect he has been punked yet again.

Hardboiled,

** that ultimate Canadian (?) welfare case: Bombardier. **

I recall at least two previous gifts of the popular $450,000,000 type during the wild and wooly Cretch and Mr. Diters reigns.

$450 Million$ for the softwood gangs too.= TG

GM exec stands by calling global warming a "crock"

"General Motors Corp Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has defended remarks he made dismissing global warming as a "total crock of s---,"
http://tinyurl.com/2gdeyp (reuters)
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Stephen: "others want to see it as a 'he deserved it/told you so' kind of thing. I think that misses the point."

Then you invite other opinions: GR-8. Here goes.

Look, I stayed home with my children in their growing up years, fought the bloody feminists every inch of the way, sacrificed an affluent life style so I could spend time with my children, and talked a lot, to people who didn't want to listen, about how neglected our children in Canada, generally, are and what the tragic consequences this parental absenteeism has saddled our kids and society with.

While I stayed home with my husband's and my children, it was just our luck to have the Librano$ at the helm (no $100/month/six-years-and-under children), who hailed the feminists, wanted women only in the workforce (their taxes filled the Librano coffers and bank accounts), and lib-lefties suggesting that women shouldn't waste their time caring for their own kids but should be out "fulfilling themselves" and that anyone could care for the kids while women kicked ass with the guys.

I chose not to fall for this feminist/Librano/Dipper myth and I'm happy to say, that I have a great relationship with my children. I'm still working and probably will until I drop in the harness. My husband and I don't own a house, we drive a 10-year-old car, we haven't had a real holiday in years, we pay all of our bills on time, we volunteer in our community--AND I'm sick and tired of the fallout I have to deal with every day in a society that's totally lost its bearings and doesn't know right from wrong.

That fallout would include Dan Hill's confused and amoral son and his thug-friends--and scores like him, white, black, and mixed-race--who didn't seem to have any standards by which to discern that the company he was keeping was lethal.

I'm tired of living in an amoral/immoral society, the result of bad choices made en masse by folks who seem not to have any moral compass. Why should I feel sorry for--or laud--adults who have failed to set high moral and ethical standards for their children, just because, years later, after the havoc has been wrought, they confess to bad parenting and absentee accountability?

Those of us who were predicting these results--and we were right--were called every name in the book: Bible thumpers, fundamentalists, overly protective of our children, prudes, dinosaurs, etc., etc.

Now that, sadly, I've been proven right, I find it pretty damned difficult to get out my violin to serenade the lib-lefties who delighted in casting stones at me and my ideas.

I guess I've made myself pretty clear. ;-)

Thanks for listening!

batb, glad to see there is someone else out there that doesn't suffer from "white" guilt!

Sickens me when Cretin is awarded the highest Odour of Canada. What a travesty and for why would he be given it? For winning 3 majorities when he called elections at great expense for no other reason than there was no real opposition parties to present a challenge. Luckily he had Wornout to advise him.

Reading how he was livid after the 1995 referendum that the country had almost been torn apart yet he did nothing to prevent it even when Preston Manning warned him repeatedly about it makes me just boil. Later just an excuse to steal millions.

ET nails it when she called him a narcissist egoist.

Someone should give Preston Manning an Order of Canada. He really is an unsung hero of major proportions.

batb at February 22, 2008 6:30 PM "Thanks for listening!"

Glad to listen, batb. I could hear a lot more of what you're saying on this subject.

fc

Those who deserve the Order of Canada--like Preston Manning, Ted Byfield, Gwen Landolt--because they've actually contributed to the moral and ethical fibre of our nation, will be relegated to the dustbin of Canadian history, largely because we don't revere our history: What history?

It's now herstory and it started a second ago--or maybe in the '70s, with the Magus, Trudeau.

Thanks, Antenor and felis corpunlentis.

Don't get me started... ;-)

felis corpulentis...is what I meant to say.

"I find it pretty damned difficult to get out my violin to serenade the lib-lefties who delighted in casting stones at me and my ideas." Well said Batb

The Hill article highlights a segment of or society, supported by government programs, that is loosing the ability to raise their children.

"expect similar Castro nostalgia to the nth degree: Havana not as quaint as it used to be, full of ghastly American banks and fast-food outlets."

Heck, no need to wait. I recently overheard a conversation between two recently retired teachers who were bemoaning the fact that once Fidel was gone that Cuba would no longer be 'authentic' and that without doubt it would be 'less charming'. I couldn't help but interject that what they describe as authentic charm, most Cubans would likely consider poverty and oppression.

The fact that the fancy hotels from which they ventured to find that 'authenticity' are off limits to the Cubans who labour for them in servitude just didn't resonate with them at all.

Socialism. It's authentic!

"and lib-lefties suggesting that women shouldn't waste their time caring for their own kids but should be out "fulfilling themselves" and that anyone could care for the kids while women kicked ass with the guys."

Right on, Batb! CTV news just featured a piece on a yuppie Mom who was aghast to find that her 'wonderful nanny' was neglecting/abusing her two twin infants, who appeared to be no more than 10 mths. old. She had a video camera remote to her workplace and saw it all happening in real time.

Her regret was not with running back to work shortly after popping twins out of her womb, but that she "hadn't installed the video camera earlier". These kids should have been enjoying being breastfed and loved. Instead, they were foisted off to a stranger with "great credentials" but no real connection to them - just give them to someone for whom their needs and lives were just a job.

Her home however, was quite impressive for someone of her age. Heaven forbid we do with the old 'bricks and boards' for our books and stuff. After all, we deserve it. As for what our kids deserve..... not so much.

batb...wohoo! and thank you!You could be telling our story!Those years at home were worth it indeed! But it was that experience of high taxes on our family (4 kids) that drove my passion for change.
batb and lookout...we have probably rubbed shoulders at REAL Women conferences...one of the best had Lynk Byfield and Gwen Landolt.

Batb, you've got me on a roll, too.

Despite the best efforts of my wife and myself - and we do walk the walk - our daughter/son-in-law exemplify the "I want it all and I want it now" generation.

Both in their early 30's with high income jobs and one child (whom we love to bits, of course). Up to their eyeballs in debt. Their 'starter home' is in the best part of town, but mortgaged to the hilt in order to pay for the 25' travel trailer (used 3 - 4 weekends/yr), the 21' boat with a 200hp outboard - also used just a few times a year. The fabulous dining room set for eight, with the large china hutch of course.

Oh, and did I mention she's leaving for Costa Rica next week, leaving her soon to be three year old at home with a Dad who hardly ever sees him because his failing 'small business' is the most important concern in his life?

Yet everytime we see them, they moan about how hard life is, how stressed they are, how much they'd like to have another child but first they need to get their life in order. Of course the massages and pedicures are necessary due to the stress levels and there's money for the tanning salon so she doesn't look too pasty on the Costa Rican beaches.

What really pisses me off though is the position they put us in as Grandparents. For the most part we simply say no if they ask for babysitting time. But occasionaly we cave in because we feel that the wellbeing of our grandchild is better with us than with the alternative.

Yet in contrast to so many others in society, they are considered exemplary parents.

Google "disregard for science"

Harper, what an idiot.

Guff,

Is it possible your thirty-somethings are Liberals? You described a friend*s family to a T.= TG

Antenor, felis corpulentis, erl, No Guff, and bluetech: I hear you loud and clear.

We have a tragedy of epic proportions in North America--exemplified, No Guff, by the Mom/Nanny/Twins situation reported on CTV and your own daughter's and son-in-law's preoccupation with their "lifestyle."

The tragedy that seems to have eluded the attention of our affluent society--and the MSM--is the massive number of neglected children in a so-called First-World nation. Teachers see it in the classroom every day; others see it on our streets, on our subways, and in malls. Much of it is benign neglect--the kind your daughter, No Guff, bestows upon her son (she doesn't "mean to")--but it's neglect, nonetheless.

And that's what gets my crank going: small, vulnerable human beings being relegated to a place in their families' priorities well below careers and all the mod-cons "necessary" to keep up with the Jonses. Little people have bodies, minds, and souls that need constant nurturing; you can't rewind the tape down the road after you realize you've made a mistake.

The next thing that gets my crank going are Poltical Parties, like the Librano$ and Dippers, that feel that the only good mom is a salary-earning mom: all the more $$$ for their coffers and, heck, women who stay home with their own children tend to think for themselves and aren't so easily herded into the socialist/feminist 1984 barnyard. So, tax them to the max: families that dare to make the care of their children a priority. 'Can't have THAT. (At least the CPC is moving in the right direction on this one...letting families choose where some of their taxes go vis a vis the care of their children, rather than Big Brother Government, which the Libs and Dippers are all about.)

Our children are actually our most precious "resource" for the future. We've treated far too many of them like chattle, just another GAP/Roots-adorned accessory on the road to success.

'A heavy and tragic failure of insight and foresight on our part--and we are reaping the Maelstrom. And the cost to too many of our children has been life-shattering.