CPC Move to Erect Monument to Victims of Communism in Ottawa

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-2-28/66762.html

"Ongoing efforts to build a monument to victims of communism came a major step closer to reality at a meeting in Toronto on Friday evening.
(...)
The meeting included an invitation to Kenney to designate land for the monument, which is to be erected in Ottawa, and a call for the creation of an international committee to facilitate the realization of the project.
(...)
Kenny: "We owe it to those people to make this project, this dream, a reality.""

"Generation Jihad"

An interesting article at Pajamas Media that discusses an emerging rap subculture in Germany but also in wider Europe: people who aspire to look and play the part of Jew-haters.

One guess as to the "ethnicity" of the profiled rappers.

http://pajamasmedia.com/2008/03/german_rappers_steeped_in_anti.php

Liberals lose candidate Rani Bellwood

Not widely reported is the decision of Liberal Party candidate Rani Bellwood to abandon her effort to win the British Columbia riding of Pitt Meadows--Maple Ridge--Mission. Not a crushing blow, but it does represent a loss of a female candidate, and another riding without a candidate even as the Liberals ponder whether to trigger an election.
This bit of news went entirely under the radar, what with the focus on the budget vote. Rani Bellwood was the Liberal nominee for British Columbia riding of Pitt Meadows--Maple Ridge--Mission. She won the nomination last summer, making this one of those ready-to-go ridings.

Not so ready now. Rani Bellwood has dropped out:
http://stevejanke.com/archives/256848.php

National Post banned at Halifax International Airport?

http://mark-peters.blogspot.com/2008/03/national-post-banned-at-halifax.html

Nice to see Jason's latest post,disagrees with WK re the Cadman affair!Hmm trouble in the Lib.party continues.

Old news but interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyoLuTjguJA&NR=1

Liberal MP breaks rank with his own party and declares his support for capital punishment.

Alta.'s oldest person boasts memories from 3 centuries

One of Queen Victoria's regular routes through London took her past the neighbourhood where a wide-eyed young Bessie Roffey lived with her family.

"Old fat chops, I used to call her," the frail resident of High Prairie recalls with a smile. "She had a fat face." ...-
http://tinyurl.com/yupcob (edjournal)

Keep track of your dog with Zoombak, using A-GPS technology; it is a receiver attached to your dogs collar that sends you an email or text message when he goes beyond his boundary.
http://www.zoombak.com/products/pet/?ls=true

This is just the tip of the iceberg. I can forsee a law forcing smokers to wear one so that the proper authorities can be notified if the smoker lights up where it is illegal. The obese can be reported if they are found wandering around Tim Horton's.

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"muttsrus says... Zoombak, using A-GPS technology"

does the national parole board know about this sort
of stuff?

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muttsrus
for you.
www.antichips.com

Not to worry about the female liberal candidate saying thanks but no thanks.
Watch for Dion to parachute Mrs Cadman into that riding.

The Associated Press goes after blogger and AP-critic Snapped Shot for posting AP photos (and presumably criticising them).

I normally detest what Rick Mercer produces, but this was funny and apropos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME6bSd2bKU0&eurl=http://www.dustmybroom.com/

Apologies if it has already been posted here.

Most females lie "more cleverly and successfully than men" about everything from cheating on their spouses and shopping binges to barhopping and facelifts, according to a new book published this week.

"Women lie as a survival technique, but also to get what they want," Susan Shapiro Barash, author of "Little White Lies, Deep Dark Secrets: The Truth About Why Women Lie," told the New York Post.

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,334381,00.html

More news from the UN on the Middle East situation, with Israel accused of "disproportionate" response to recent, ongoing rocket attacks.

Funny...Hamas/Hezbollah launch rockets into Israel with no provocation and are NOT criticized. Isn't doing something destructive for no reason INFINITELY disproportionate compared to Israel's response so such unprovoked attacks which are FINITELY (and marginally) disproportionate?

Is everyone in the UN and MSM completely daft as to not recognize this? (That was a rhetorical question)

Liberal AdScam/Shawinigate Chretien deserves a real trial .
Forget a Parliamentary inquiry. Get him into a real court under oath; perjury is a crime.
...-

Ottawa: probe Chretien, Shawinigate

The biggie

But the Mother of Scandals is Shawinigate which is still unresolved and deserves a full-blown Parliamentary investigation. This one involved millions in government money in the 1990s spent by the Liberals in the riding, and to partners, of former Prime Minister Jean Chretien. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/yvdso6 (NP)

Today's read: Adventures of a Sea Hunter, In Search of Famous Shipwrecks by James P. Delgado. The most interesting dive is on the USS Saratoga, a WW II aircraft carrier expended in one of the atomic blast tests at Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads in 1946. It was, shall we say, a glowing tribute.

Also from the Diane Francis Column Maz referred to:

"During Chretien's tenure as prime minister there were years when his riding got more Ottawa money than did the Province of Alberta. Or half of Africa. That's a scandal in itself."

She points out that the so-called Cadscam is "a lame scandal that won't go anywhere because the allegation is made by an author and the widow of a man who, on the record, said no bribe was offered. Then he died. It's all second-hand. End of story. Cadscam doesn't deserve an enquiry."

She notes that the "Mother of Scandals", Shawinigate, has been in the news, peripherally, because of the recent appeal court ruling that the National Post has to hand over to the RCMP documents related to the story obtained from a confidential source.

Francis: "The press freedom issue is important but really a sideshow. Whatever happens on that front, Shawinigate has never been plumbed by an inquiry and the public deserves to know what went on inside the Chretien regime."

Canadians should push for one. And as far as the media goes, it would be interesting to find out how much time -- in hours, minutes and seconds, carefully measured -- the CBC has spent on the hearsay scandals -- "Cadscam" and the Karlheinz Schreiber Orchestra -- compared to how much time they spent covering the allegations about Shawinigate.

They certainly came out breathlessly, with bells and whistles on, at the top of the hour with the Cadman "scandal", and dwelled on it at great length, and the Schreiber Orchestra's performance has obviously been covered for hours and hours on the National. The allegations surrounding Shawinigate, involving as they do allegations that the RCMP was used to goon an uncooperative BDC employee, are far, far more serious to the integrity of our government -- so how much coverage, in comparison, did CBC provide to Shawinigate?

If they didn't spend at least as much time on it, or if, say, they spent one twentieth, or one-fiftieth as much -- wouldn't that be something, eh? -- that would also be a serious scandal, inasmuch as The National is a state-run news agency.

Oop, right, reader tips:

network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/francis/archive/2008/03/02/159396.aspx

State of Israel threatens Palestinians with "Holocaust":

"The Guardian noted that Vilnai also warned that "Palestinians could bring on themselves what he called a 'holocaust.'"

"The more Qassam [rocket] fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, they will bring upon themselves a bigger shoah because we will use all our might to defend ourselves," Vilnai said, according to the UK paper.

The Guardian adds, "Shoah is the Hebrew word normally reserved to refer to the Jewish Holocaust. It is rarely used in Israel outside discussions of the Nazi extermination of Jews during the second world war, and many Israelis are loath to countenance its use to describe other events."

rawstory.com/news/2008/Israel_warns_Gaza_invasion_impending_0229.html

Shawinigate, you think Paul Szabo and the Librano cronies on that ethic's committee are going to touch this. Not with a ten foot pole. No siree they will want to concentrate on the so called Cadman bribe.

"But the Mother of Scandals is Shawinigate which is still unresolved and deserves a full-blown Parliamentary investigation. This one involved millions in government money in the 1990s spent by the Liberals in the riding, and to partners, of former Prime Minister Jean Chretien. ...-"

Hmmmm- does anyone else think that THIS may have been the reason the Libs have been trying desperately to spin the Cadman affair.

Makes one wonder.

Me thinks the Sh*# is about to his the Liberal fain!!!

"Hmmmm- does anyone else think that THIS may have been the reason the Libs have been trying desperately to spin the Cadman affair."

With the help of the Liberal MSM.

Frmgrl, the Liberals have lots of reason to spin as desperately as possible, but this might explain the "help" part you mentioned:

"The House of Commons heritage committee split along party lines over the future of the public broadcaster, with members of the minority Conservative government writing their own dissenting report..."

canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iJRKJXtgw1MbKh_TH---hEtBwi9g

"...the Harper Conservatives are insisting the CBC produce an itemized estimate of its future spending before it will commit to any new money...

"Watchdog group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting said Thursday the Conservatives refusal to commit to specific funding deliberately sets the CBC up to fail.

"The Conservative minority report...is a road map that would be extremely damaging to the CBC, especially its English television network." -- (canada.com)

In other words, the Conservatives' recommendations, if implemented, could decide whether the CBC as it operates today will stand or fall. And whad'ya know, the night before that well-telegraphed report is released, The National opens: "Tonight: Cash for Cadman?..." (Mansbridge almost shouts the words "Cash" and "Cadman", conveying exasperated disgust.)

"...it was Cadman's vote that would decide whether the Liberal government of the day would stand or fall. The CBC's Chief Political Correspondent Keith Boag has the exclusive details tonight. Keith?"

Alberta Girl: "Hmmmm- does anyone else think that THIS may have been the reason the Libs have been trying desperately to spin the Cadman affair?"

Almost for certain. The Librano$ are sidewinders all the time, constantly in pursuit of a diversionary tactic, in order to take the spotlight off their crimes and misdemeanors to shine it on the imaginary culpabilities of the CPC.

Unfortunately, with the willing and ready help of the MSM, Canadians are fed a constant diet of CPC "scandals." Cadscam is just the latest "scandale du jour," cooked up by the collusion of Librano and MSM hack$. It's just too bad more Canadians don't know the difference between a trumped up scandal and the real McCoy--like Shawinigate.

Travers, Delacourt, Duffy, Newman, et al. are mad as He** that their hopes for a cash-for-life Senate Seat are melting, melting...

Oh, don't forget Craig Owliver and Bob Fife in that bunch too that see their chances at a cushy senate seat dwindling.

I wonder why the MSM and the Liberals don`t want to talk about Paul Martin having a copy of this book for a year. What was his input? What did the Liberals offer Mrs Cadman?

IMO Mrs Cadman is a Liberal plant!

Related:

Canadian Press/MSM puts this out this blatant propaganda/disinformation blurb.
There is one word missing: Liberal.

MSM does get in the words: "Conservative", "Mulroney", "the late Independent MP Chuck Cadman", "the Cadman affair, etc.
Not once is the word Liberal found.
The CanPress/MSM are scumbag apologists/acolytes for/of the Liberal Party.
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P.E.I. MP to apologize for suggesting former PM Mulroney should be hanged

CHARLOTTETOWN - A Prince Edward Island MP planned to issue a formal apology Monday for suggesting in Parliament that former prime minister Brian Mulroney should be hanged.

Charlottetown MP Shawn Murphy made the comment while heckling another politician prior to question period last Thursday. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/yr5cyp

The book,Like a Rock,has been 'leaked'online..link at NN.
Anyone catch the story at McLeans about the big fuss Tories making over Shawn Murphy's 'hang'em high' comments?It's in the blog section,and states that Murphy was supposed to have 'whispered' these comments and no one else heard them? HUH??? has this loon seen the tape?or heard the clip? I guess tapes are only true if they use them to implicate PMSH.and his comments re Cadman.adler has good questions up at his Nat.Post blog re same.

I tried the link over at national newswatch and ended up with nothing but a frozen computer. I am running a set-up that a friend describes as slightly better than a commodore 64,so it might be my PC problem. Anyone have any luck linking up to the book?

http://tinyurl.com/2r924r

From the number of typo errors it looks like somebody has scanned the pages and used OCR software to make a HTML doc.

Like A Rock
Pg 272

Meantime, Srronach's defection left her former Conservative colleagues
practically messing in their pants.
According to Dona, two Conservative Party representatives came to
Chuck's office on Tuesday afternoon-two days before the big vote-and
tried to entice her husband back into the fold.
"They wanted him to vote against the government," she said. The Tories
actually walked in with a list ofoffers written down on a piece ofpaper.
Included in their proposal was a million-dollar life insurance policyno
small carrot for aman with advanced caneer.
"That was on him, so that if he died I' d get the million dollars," Dona
said. "There was a few other things thrown in there too. but it was the million
dollar policy that just pissed him tight off."
Chuck responded by bouncing them out of his office. They took the
list with them when they were ushered out the door.
The only other person in the office with Chuck at the time was his
legislative assistant Dan Wallace. But when I broached the subject with
him, he recoiled like a spring.
"I believe Dona Cadman as the day is long," he offered, "She has no
interest in fabricating anything."
After the meeting. Chuck returned to the apartment in a near rage.
"He was pretty pissed off at them," Dona recalled. "He came home,
and he was mad.
"He just said that he was insulted and that he was ashamed to have
been a part of the Conservative Parry."
Asked about this insurance policy business for Dona, Stephen Harper
said he didn't know the details.
"Ofthe offer to Chuck," Harper said, it was his understanding that "it
was only to replace financial considerations he might lose due to an election,
okay? That's my understanding ofwhar they were talking about.
"I don't know the details," he said. "I can tell you that I had told the
individuals-I mean, they wanted to do it-but I told them they were wasting
their time. I said Chuck had made up his mind he was going to vote with
the Liberals. I knew why, and I respected the decision, but they were just,
they were convinced there was, there was financial issues and. there mayor
may not have been, but I said that's not going to change the decision.
"They were legitimately representing the party," Harper confirmed. "I
said, 'Don't press him, I mean, you have this theory that it's, you know,
financial insecurity, and you know, just, you know, if that's what you say
make the case,' but I said, 'Don't press it.'
"My view was, myview had been, for two or three weeks preceding,
that Chuck was not going to force an election," Harper said.
"I just, we had all kinds of our guys were calling him and trying to
persuade him, but I just had concluded that that's where he stood and respected
that."

Warman's Law
By Ezra Levant
[...]

It’s a happy ending, but the story itself is appalling. Imagine just how bad it had to get for B.C. to pass a law to specifically protect libraries from “prior restraint” censorship lawsuits. The solution was “unique” in all of North America, because the problem was unique in all of North America. I’m going to call it Warman’s Law. In my opinion Warman's notice to the libraries that he was going to sue them was a flagrant abuse of the legal system -- one so bad that a government had to pass special legislation to stop it.

I wonder if, at the end of this whole thing, the federal government will pass their own Warman's Law -- special legislation to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act. ...-
http://ezralevant.com/

here we go again.

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/02/scholars-demand-laws-criminalizing-insults-to-islam/

I just don't get this "disproportionate"response BS from the UN. If you walk up to someone who resembles Mike Tyson and flick his ear for a while,you will get a "disproportionate" response. That is life,especially when he has repeatedly told you to stop. No sympathy from me.Maybe a more proportionate response would be for Israel to launch one of their rockets for every one that the terrorists send their way.

Shawn Murphy was leaning over close to the Conservative who was trying to ask his question in QP so his flushed face could be seen while he was raving like a mad man about hanging Mulroney, getting the noose and hanging him high and so on.
One would have to wonder if there are too many liquid refreshments at lunch with some of the behaviour in the HOC QP.

His apology will ring hollow and mean nothing, he said what he feels and means, that kind of passion can't be faked.
Even Duffy mentioned it on his show and showed a short clip.

Re: the Pakistani family that had been enjoying "sanctuary" in a Winnipeg church and have now been allowed to re-enter Canada "legally":

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2008/02/29/raza-canada.html?ref=rss

It is the following point I find most interesting:

"Hassan Raza is a Shia Muslim, while Kausar is Sunni. The family fears persecution in predominantly Sunni Pakistan."

Now, does this mean that Canada has an obligation to offer asylum to any and all Shia Muslims who live in predominantly Sunni areas? And presumably also to all Sunnis who live in predominantly Shia areas? I assume that we can safely ignore Jews and Christians who live in threat of persecution, but I understand that we owe sanctuary to any woman who might have experienced domestic violence anywhere in the world. Having listened to countless interviews with immigration lawyers over the years, I am at loss to think of many categories of people Canada can legitimately turn away. Indeed, evidence that an applicant for asylum lied, presented forged documents, or broke any number of laws and regulations is taken as proof of the person's "desperation" and is assumed to count in his favour.

Just heard that Jeff Healey has died. Sad. Angel eyes are looking down now.

Another example of how Harper is patiently achieving his goals, in this case federal spending on programs.

"So he's made the incremental approach work -- all the time having the insecurity of a minority government.

"It's really quite a performance, I think . . . Over a period of a few years they've got all this in place and they never appeared -- at any one point -- they never appeared to be making a radical shift.

"But the cumulative impact of all these together is creating a new profile.''

Not only are the Conservatives boxing in the federal spending power in general, said Flanagan, "they're also boxing in the Liberals from being able to campaign on expensive promises.''

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080302/harper_economics_080302/20080302?hub=Canada

Conservatives call for the privatization of the CBC!

Just kidding. Actually, their members of the House of Commons SCCH also support--along with the Libs, the NDP, and the Bloc--stable, multi-year funding for the Ceeb, indexed to inflation.

Oh, sure, they want to see an itemized budget before they agree to funding increases, but it's widely agreed among observers that the Ceeb's mandate already surpasses their existing resources, so justifying more funding shouldn't be a big deal (and indeed, CBC execs are quite elated with the report).

Once again, SDA readers' opinions are roundly ignored by their purported political party. Face it, folks: they just want your votes, not your ideas.

Marjane...Do you actually think it is only the folks at SDA that want to turf the CBC???

Hot damn Marjane. I'll bet that when Chretien promised to cut, chop, kill the GST back in '93 YOU thought he was actually telling the truth!