NP Article by David Frum worth a read.

http://digital.nationalpost.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

Five years later, the debate over the Iraq war rages as hot as when it began. We have never ceased looking over our shoulders. We have attempted to fight our way forward with our eyes fixed backward.

Mired in these old arguments, it becomes impossible to see anything new.

Just last week for example, the Pentagon released a study of 600,000 captured Iraqi documents. These documents detailed Saddam Hussein’s long history of support for Islamic terrorist groups, including Egyptian Islamic Jihad — which merged into al-Qaeda in 1998.

Yet this study was almost universally shrugged off: The debate is frozen and cannot accept fresh evidence.

I'm feeling real good right now. I just had a comment on WK's blog banned. I know we don't want to give him any attention, but Steyn linked it.
http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/1105/128/
All I said was that I would give a reward for a picture of Kinsella being thrown out of a youth sports venue public washroom for violating their privacy by taking pictures. What is so bad about that?

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anybody interested in a good book?

"In 1989, a few days after the massacre at Tiananmen Square, plainclothes police
mistook me for a student and tried to kidnap me. I fought back, screaming–in English.
The agents stopped trying to stuff me in the back of the unmarked car."

"Still shaking on the sidewalk, I belatedly realized that if only I had gone along with them,
I would have had a great story."

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Hey Gus, I was banned for less than that. I just suggested he might want to look at the Doggeral Party's website.

Oh weel, theres too much emphasis on hime anyway. I notice that while Kate regularily gets almost 100 comments WK gets only 3 or 4.

He's dropped like a stone.

Horny Toad

Do Chaney and Condaliza miss the point?

Peace between Israel and the Gaza? [ Hamas ]?

What a waste of time. Gaza is a well financed rocket launching zone paid for by Iran.

Only leverage on Acmahdinejad, like we had with North Korea, is going to reduce the rocket shower from Ghaza. = TG

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Sorry the show is a bit late, we've been preoccupied here in the studio by the Sunshine discussion. Tonight, for you delectation, here's Vladimir Horowitz performing Franz Liszt's Sonata #104 in E:

video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-8801991854246004594

Network Solutions suspends Geert Wilder's website, bans film:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/23/europe/EU-GEN-Netherlands-Quran-Film.php

Should be front page everywhere

Hey, we should start a "I've been banned by Warren Kinsella club" - I was banned for having the temerity to wipe the floor with one of his snivelling little proteges. In the end he was reduced to 'all the cool kids are doing it' arguments.

The only consolation is that he's not a hypocrite. He not only supports Warman verbally, but if he finds what you say offensive, then he'll ban you too.

I preferred him in his "freedom of speech is so January ..... look, I'm on holiday" mode.

Maybe if we get him a new Kool Kinsella Kameraphone, he'd let us all post?

This guys' new artwork has scores of men kneeling naked. Are they worshipping Mo?

http://flickr.com/photos/guacamoleproject/487246039/

NOt sure the pics are in that file, but it is on yahoo news this morning.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1205420751207&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

BBC admits its biased reporting against Israel and apologizes (because they were caught)...

Tweak the data.
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"Because in five years, the little blighters have failed to detect any global warming.
They are not reinforcing the scientific orthodoxy of the day, namely that man is causing the planet to warm dangerously. They are not proving the predetermined conclusions of their human masters. Therefore they, and not their masters' hypotheses, must be wrong."

Perhaps The Climate Change Models Are Wrong
Lorne Gunter
http://tinyurl.com/327e2j (NP)

This morning's Globe & Mail online poll:

Do you agree with the way Canada has handled Brenda Martin's case so far?

Yes

75%

4670 votes
No

25%

1547 votes

BBC story http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7273870.stm

on Stynn and Levant

How about we ignore Warren Kinsella in his time of hunger for attention?

"Network Solutions suspends Geert Wilder's website, bans film:" Posted by jim

However, a Hizbollah site is OK.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020427.php

See Mr. AIDStephen Lewis' unctuous, hypocritical words below: I knew nuttink about this pyramid scheme.

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"Local AIDS charity under scrutiny

St. Albert group claims to offer tax shelters for people who send drugs to Africa

Alberta Finance is probing a St. Albert organization that offers a tax shelter for taxpayers who donate AIDS drugs to Africa."

"The CRA says it has denied $1.4 billion in donations claimed and has audited, or is auditing, nearly 100,000 taxpayers.

Officials at F.A.S.T. Training, located in a suite in a two-storey office building in downtown St. Albert, would not comment on how the program works.

F.A.S.T. operates in partnership with a Toronto-based charity called Canadian Organization for International Philanthropy (COIP), which claims to work "in harmony with the Income Tax Act, rather than attempting to defy it.""

"Stephen Lewis, former United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDs in Africa, said he fears such ventures could ultimately damage the support for HIV prevention work in Africa.

"We're talking about human need," Lewis said. "It should not be subject to making money. Giving to charity should not be subject to tax receipt manipulation."

Lewis urged Canada Revenue Agency to close loopholes that allow promoters of such arrangements to operate."
http://tinyurl.com/26jxum (edjournal)

Thanks, Freedom's Voice, for the BBC link.

The story was surprisingly balanced, I thought.

Where's the CBC on this? Asleep at the switch, as usual. On one hand, I'd like the CBC to report on the HRCs. On the other hand, I already anticipate the spin.

It'll be very interesting to see how the CHRC hearing tomorrow's going to be covered.

"Allam said: "... the root of evil is innate in an Islam that is physiologically violent and historically conflictual"."

Agreed: There is no such being as a moderate Muslim; there is no moderate Islam.
Islam recognizes a Muslim or an apostate or a dhimmi/infidel who is neither an apostate nor a Muslim. A dhimmi/infidel is on a waiting list for decapitation.
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Muslim baptised by pope says life in danger

""He said before converting he had continually asked himself why someone who had struggled for what he called "moderate Islam" was then "condemned to death in the name of Islam and on the basis of a Koranic legitimisation"."
http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN431123.html

Those poor unlucky muslims! If only they targeted a civilian, their luck would be enviable for sure!

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Edmonton/2008/03/23/5080661-sun.html

Sometimes my keyboard is in such a risk of being vomited on when I read morning news! That is what I call tough luck.

Mao Stlong repolting: lights still on. You got CFLs in TO?
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Human rights in China improving thanks to Games, IOC head says
http://tinyurl.com/32h3ac (cbc)
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Death toll 130 as Olympic torch lit
From correspondents in Beijing
http://tinyurl.com/3bu3u2

Noticed a scrolling news tidbit on the morning newsticker...recalling from memory, it said:

"While working on Brenda Martin case, Tory MP wined and dined near where Martin held in filthy prison"

It's certainly not word-for-word, but close enough. How's THAT for objective news reporting?

Angry:
"The Olympic movement is a tribute to man's ability to take narcissism to pathological levels."
PM Harper: Boycott Mao's Red Olympics.
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China in a moment of profound weakness

With the violence in Tibet grabbing the world's attention, many are calling for a boycott of the upcoming Olympics.

Let me add my voice to that. By finally winning the Olympic bid, China has put itself into a profoundly weak position.

Now is the time to strike and strike hard.
[...]

With five months to go, Tibet explodes and the Chinese move in troops and start killing people. Various nations are struggling with the decision about what to do next. I wish it was different. I wish the democracies of the world were waiting for an excuse to skip these Olympics.

Why? Think about it. How many times has China deserved to be slapped down? Tibet. Darfur. Taiwan. How many times has the world decided nothing could be done? The role China plays in the world's manufacturing chain prohibits moves against Chinese trade.

But now the world has the perfect way to make its displeasure clear. Skip out of the Olympics. It hurts China, and hurts it wear it counts -- in its overcompensating pride. But unlike trade sanctions that hurts both parties, all we lose is a chance to lose in the medal count.

I can live with that. ...-
http://stevejanke.com/archives/258450.php

I posted this comment late in the day yesterday. It seems relevant to some of today's discussion as well.

I am utterly disgusted with the MSM coverage being given to the controversy regarding the Canadian Human Rights Commissions. I asked a good friend who works for Parliament and follows the news DILIGENTLY if he was aware of this controversy and he was not. Google coughs up 58 items for "Canadian human rights" -- and 291 for "Brenda Martin" -- I think there is something seriously amiss with how media make judgments about what is in fact newsworthy.

Are you going to comment on Jason Cherniak's attack on you, or are you just ignoring him?

First the planet was warming. Then the planet had a fever. Now, the planet is on fire.

What are the Warmers going to do for their next hyperbolic metaphor? Any suggestions?

What's there to say?

Cherniak has demonstrated repeatedly that he lacks the fundamental ability to comprehend the written word. He seems incapable of extracting meaning beyond what he "sees" at the surface. Even concepts that are clearly distinct, such as the difference between "carry out" and "orchestrate" seem to elude him - and consistently.

The intent of the post was carefully translated to him in his own comments section by "Kursk", to no avail.

I don't believe he's deliberately dishonest. I think he suffers an intellectual deficit of some type. It shows up in examples like this one:

"But Kursk, you're ignoring how the Nazis used their personal freedoms to take over the state and use it take away the freedoms of others. That is even more obvious in Italy, where they never even got themselves elected a first time.

The state sometimes needs to use its power to stop those who want to use the state for evil purposes in order to protect the rights of those who are threatened by the evil."

You can't help people like this, and there's no point debating them. You can see it in his writing style - he has the vocabulary of a 12 year old. His writing ability is what you'd expect to see in a fifth grade essay.

And note his keen powers of observation - he mentions my "rantings, ravings and lunacies". Yet, one of the consistent criticisms of SDA is that I seldom share my own opinions at all, leaving the reader to form their own. How did he miss that?

There's a barrier there, and I suspect it's physiological. I feel a little sorry for him, actually.

Cherniak? Who the hell pays any attention to that fool? He's an intellectual wasteland along with a number of his fellow Liberal bloggers.

Eeyore: I agree with you 100%. Guess what? I was also in Mexico, not once but twice in two years and I didn't make time to visit Brenda Martin either! The media sure can blow everything to super size. Wouldn't it be great if the media was put on a diet and we the taxpayers wouldn't have to subsidize this crap anymore!

No particular significance, although I like his update from yesterday:

Daniel Pipes, Hijabs on Western Political Women

For fun, how about collecting those instances when female political leaders, especially leftist ones, don the hijab (Islamic headscarf)?...

Radical Islamist, Pro-Hamas Rally In Istanbul; "Israel Cancer Virus That Must Be Destroyed!"

Video and transcript from MEMRI Turkish Media Blog.

Rick Richman, A Principled Peace Process

Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni may have been looking beyond the Bush administration when she met last week in Washington with a group of Middle East experts and told them Israel expects "any U.S. administration" to act in accordance with the basic principles "outlined by President Bush in a recent letter signed by the U.S. Congress."

The irony of her remark is that the morass of the current "peace process" stems from the failure by the administrations in both Jerusalem and Washington to observe the first principle in that letter...

Maz2:

The St Albert "charity" does indeed look to be a big scam. Mr. Lewis who I almost always disagree with is right on this one.

Melanie Phillips, Using law to fight a war

Since asymmetric warfare thus limits the capacity of armies to bring about a military solution, defenders of civilisation have to start thinking outside the box.

In Israel a law centre, Shurat Ha’din, is doing just that. It is forcing the terror-masters onto a different battleground altogether — the courtrooms of America, Europe and Israel.

Inspired by the Southern Poverty Law Centre in the US, which used civil litigation to cripple the Ku Klux Klan, the lawyers of Shurat Ha’din have helped hundreds of Israeli terror victims file civil suits against Palestinian terror groups and their financial patrons...

For those of us who like to delve deeper into political networks, try to connect the dots, see who is in the bakcrooms of some of our political candidates there is a fascinating site which lists all campaign donations and expences.

I just did a wee search to see if I could find out who paid off Bob Rae's million dollars in leadership expences. That info is still not on the site but I did find his initial list of cash contributors (the limit was still $5,400 if you recall) and there sure are a lot of people with the last name "Rae"...many giving the full $5,400.

So, if Bob Rae wanted to dip into his multi million dollar nest egg to pay some of his own expences, gosh, just a nice little cash gifty do to a few nice little Rae relatives who then give it back as a donation from an "individual".

It sure looks suspicious to me - but, hey, maybe the Rae family is so well off that all of them could just drop a nice little $5,400 into nice cousin Bob's hat . Pocket change for the eliute?

Anyways - good investigative data here:

http://www.elections.ca/scripts/webpep/fin/welcome.aspx?lang=e

This from another site. Something like this could be sent to MP Robert Nicholson (Nicholson.R@parl.gc.ca) and others. Can he even be disbarred for something like this?

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ttp://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1161027&sid=43368f1fc451adac74c7fbe20c9e14ce

03/ 24/ 08 10:28 am
____________________________________________________________________________________________________
To: 'registrar@chrt-tcdp.gc.ca'

Re: Warman v. Lemire

In respect to the hearing scheduled for Tuesday 25 March 2008, it has come to my attention
that one Warren Kinsella has publicly offered a reward for a photograph of Lemire and Steyn
together at the hearing despite the judge's order that no cameras be allowed in the
hearing rooms.

Since Mr. Kinsella is a lawyer, admitted at the Ontario Bar, I would think that a citation
and fine for contempt would be in order.

Thank you for your attention.

TO Star - Mon/Mar 24
Finally - we are looking at an overhaul of the Immigration File and the basis on which people are allowed into Canada. Wouldn't you know - the likes of Lorne Waldman and a whole host of immigration lawyers/advocates for immigration settlement are seeing "danger" in all of this.

The danger really is to their own well being in terms of possible loss of lucrative government contracts (now an industry) and nothing about what is good for Canada as a whole.

a drawing of Brenda Martin.

http://www.cel-ebration.com/CINDY-LOU-I.jpg

I posted the following comment on David Akin's - On the Hill Blog - in reply to his post "Newspaper readershp dropping but not newsreading".

At 71 I am not a younger reader but I also get most of my news from Blogs. I find there are some very well informed and knowledgeable people on the blogs and I can get usually get far more accurate information and from different sources. I am tired of getting personal opinion, uninformed & outright distortion of facts, personal political views, lazy, inaccurate and many times non existence research from so called and well known "Media Personalities" consisting of columnists, newscasters, pundits, Ottawa correspondents, correspondents on assignment etc. presented to me as NEWS as well as "political forums, town halls, pundits" and so on where the people, questions and answers are preordained for their political bias and slant. I feel a number of people in the media attempt to play the public as uniformed fools and suckers that can be influenced by their spin, which unfortunately in many cases is true.

Of course he still notes "No Comments". I wonder why!

Presumably this event will coincide with the release of AEI's long-anticipated recommendations for an Afghan surge, although this suggests they are backpedalling to some degree.

Winning Afghanistan: Time for a Change in Course?
Monday, March 31, 2008

At the upcoming NATO summit in Bucharest, alliance leaders will address some members’ flagging support in the face of heightened conflict. Yet while increased allied commitments of men and materiel would contribute to greater security, expanded support for one of Afghanistan’s most successful institutions--the Afghan National Army--would promote long-term stability in Afghanistan to an even greater degree.

In anticipation of the NATO summit, U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-D-Conn.) will speak at AEI on Monday, March 31, on the prospects for achieving security and political progress in Afghanistan. Danielle Pletka will moderate a panel discussion, featuring Thomas Donnelly, Frederick Kagan, and Lisa Curtis, on the challenge of creating a stable, independent, and strong Afghanistan.

Dion, le mort-vivant
http://tinyurl.com/2rcvy6 (cyberpresse)

Hervieux-Payette: «Il n'y a pas de crise» au parti
http://tinyurl.com/2ml3zd (cyberpresse)

Dion = Citoyen Dion.
parti = Liberal Party.
le mort-vivant = http://tinyurl.com/2zwpyy

Richard Ball.. I would suggest the next stage is "VAPORIZATION" , now that will change the mind of all doubters.

Just a funny as hell BBC 2004 story I stumbled across from Germany

“Nazi' dog owner gets sentenced”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3463517.stm

“The dog's owner was questioned by police after members of the public in the Berlin suburb of Lichtenrade complained that they had seen the two of them saluting together.”

Where was WK when you needed him??

What do you do if the government won't defend your life and property?

Caroline Glick, Our World: The new Guardians of Israel

Given his impossible schedule, J. enlisted his friends to help out. The sons of other desperate farmers, who also serve in combat units, they joined him enthusiastically. Within months, J. had set up an organization of more than a hundred young volunteers - soldiers, college students, and high school students from his moshav, other moshavim in the lower Galilee and surrounding non-agricultural communities.

He called the organization, Hashomer Hayisraeli Hahadash - or the New Israeli Guardsmen. The original Hashomer, or Guardsmen was established in the Galilee in 1909 for the same purpose - protecting Jewish farming communities from Arab marauders who demanded protection money from the farmers. It was the progenitor of the Haganah, which in turn, became the Israel Defense Force...

WK has now linked his website directly to David Duke's. I think that Jason Cherniak should now sever his link to WK for this thoughtless provocation.

I need to go and wash as I feel dirty from having following the link.

Is it just me or has the MSM especially CBCpravda and CTV(tass) turned off Borat Dion over the past few weeks. no antics, no running from the room, no show of support for "the who " Brenda Martin, just nothing , nada, none.

Taliban Jack Layton-NDP is a negotiator for the Taliban Islamist murderers.
Taliban Jack's position? On his knees.
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Even local Afghans come up short in Taliban dealings

Zabul elders attempt to negotiate a separate peace, finds orders from terrorist leadership in Pakistan are 'to burn reconstruction projects'
http://tinyurl.com/yum5rq (NP)

Warning: Islam is a supremacist ideology; a death cult; a theocracy embracing facets of nazism/communism/fascism/socialism.
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CAIR Exposed: Part 1
As IAP Offshoot, CAIR Followed Pro-Hamas Agenda From the Start
by Steven Emerson

"The Investigative Project on Terrorism has assembled a thorough dossier on CAIR's origins and activities which we present in installments during the next two weeks. You can read today's segment here.

Among the highlights in today's report:

· CAIR was incorporated less than a year after the Philadelphia meeting by three officials of the now-defunct Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), long a central player in Hamas' U.S. support network and a group that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service deemed in a 2001 memo to be "part of Hamas' propaganda apparatus."

· As recently as the summer of 2007, the Dallas trial charging the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) with providing material support for Hamas produced extensive evidence that IAP -- CAIR's parent -- played a central role in the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee. Much of that evidence relates to Mousa Abu Marzook, now deputy political chief of Hamas, who served on the board of directors of IAP in 1989.

The trial exhibits included a memo taken from the home of Ismail Elbarrasse, a former assistant to Marzook, which defines in chilling fashion the role the Muslim Brothers play in North America:

The process of settlement is a "Civilization-Jihadist Process" with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack….

· CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial."
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/621

(Rant mode- on)
Why was this monster EVER released and why was he not declared a dangerous offender LONG before this?
High risk sex offender released on parole & threatens to kill a groupof children twice within 48 hours of his release. Past history is unbelieveable!
Why was this monster EVER released and why was he not declared a dangerous offender LONG before this?
If anyone can get this up the ladder to where it would do the most good, please do so.
Read the horrendous details of his record here:-

http://www.ctvtoronto.ca:80/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080324/sex_offender_080324/20080324/?hub=TorontoNewHome

Just a bit of fun from The Times:

Are these the ten greatest ads of all time?

CTV makes it official - David Akin has been reassigned

story here

IOC president Rogge in 'silent diplomacy' with China (ass press)
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Beijing’s Demonstration Sports
Olympics preview.
By John Derbyshire

"The president may not be aware that under Olympic procedures, the host nation may stage as “demonstration sports” some events not usually represented in the Games. These items are typically sports characteristic of the host country’s folkways and culture.

Tibetan Snow Shooting. In their bid for a future Winter Olympics, the Communists will demonstrate their skills at picking off Tibetan refugees attempting to cross snow-covered Himalayan passes into Nepal. (This event may be scrapped because of a dispute with the Olympic authorities over the use of telescopic sights and snow goggles.)

Synchronized Slimming. Competitors here have to devise an agricultural policy so irrational that 30 million peasants starve to death simultaneously. Traditionally the winning contestant has his portrait hung in a prominent position overlooking Tiananmen Square, but for Olympic purposes a medal award will be substituted.

Organ Extraction. A test of speed and skill in wielding surgical instruments. A succession of convicted criminals, or members of obstreperous religious sects, are strapped to operating tables and their organs are removed without anesthetic, to be sold to intermediaries for transplant into wealthy foreigners. Points are awarded based on the total market value of the removed organs."
More: Buddha Tossing. Student Crushing. Toy Painting. 400-Fetus Relay.
http://tinyurl.com/338bsq (nro)

Found at a blog, 'Christian Conservative"

At Mon Mar 24, 11:09:00 AM EDT, Anonymous said…

Well, doesn't it just figure that "Alberta Girl" chimes in to defend the indefensible.

You are correct, CC, that fringe radical haters such as John West, Alberta Girl, WL Mackenzie, Maz2, OMMAG and their leader, Kate MacMillan, do damage to the Conservative brand and conservative commentary.

It is, frankly, the ravings of these sorts of Conservative supporters, and the extent to which the gov't occasionally plays to them, that has affixed a permanent glass ceiling on their public support. This ceiling will continue to lower the more these fringe dwellers are perceived to be representative of their party.

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The topic at the blog is something John West apparently said about Kinsella. This was relayed to Kinsella by Christian Conservative (who BTW, is against free speech). The same bigot Kinsella who continually insults Christians, including Stockwell Day. Kinsella links to the post, stating something to the effect that they are friends. The whole think is bizarre to say the least.

I thought those being written about and attacked should know.

A trip back in history:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/106554/page/1

HYPE ALERT: WHY CYBERSPACE ISN'T, AND WILL NEVER BE, NIRVANA
The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

Last chance for a one-of-the-kind Kool Kinsella Kameraphone (knee pads included):

http://thejagwire.blogspot.com/2008/03/for-sale.html

Irwin daisy:
What John West said was a scummy insult re: Kinsella's dad. It was not relevant.It was on another blog, not relayed to CC.
Christian Conservative has high standards,and freely commented on the insult.
The comment re: posters here was not by CC but by an 'anonymous' poster.

Jonathan Kay hits a Home Run: How the human-rights industry somehow convinced Canadians to cheer on an alleged neo-Nazi

http://tinyurl.com/2svapf

Fat BBC caught by blogger erasing/deleting its own lies.
BBC = leftist scumbags.
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"BBC erases all traces of Bush speech lies; so what have we learned?

Exhibiting a thoroughness worthy of Orwell's Ministry of Truth, the BBC has been busy erasing all traces of the corporation's blatantly dishonest reporting of President Bush's speech on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion.

I'll provide a quick recap for anyone who's new to the story (you might also want to read, in the following order, my previous three posts) before bringing things up to date."
[...]

"It's inconceivable that the headline and sentence which created such a misleading impression of Bush's speech were simply 'editing errors'. I used to work as a sub-editor on a daily newspaper in the UK, and a story as important as this would one have been seen by perhaps six different journalists before the paper went to press.

I've no doubt that at least as many BBC journalists would have been involved in putting together the Bush story, and senior ones too. The BBC is fat with British taxpayers' money, and its news-gathering operation is probably the best-resourced and most over-manned in the world; they wouldn't have farmed this job out to the intern.

The journalists who edited the report knew exactly what they were doing. They had access to the full transcript of the speech, and the video. They cut-and-pasted, or typed out, Bush's 'incriminating' words. It's clear that the decision to manipulate his words, and to headline the story with a lie, was approved at a high level.

Even for a news organisation with an undisguised political bias, the manipulation of a key speech by such an important figure would be despicable behaviour. The BBC's actions are made worse by the fact that it maintains the pretence of impartiality, although anyone familiar with its reporting on issues from Israel-Palestine (see also this story) to global warming knows this isn't the case.

As I wrote in my second post, the BBC is trusted by, and influences the opinions of, millions of people around the world, and such influence demands a similar degree of responsibility. It's one thing to 'bash Bush', but the BBC's selective and biased reporting on the war on terror can only embolden the jihadists and their state sponsors (anyone who seriously doubts there's a link should read this), while simultaneously undermining the political and public support that US, British and allied troops so desperately need.

I've been calling the BBC for its biased reporting since I started blogging last year, but my beef with the corporation has now become personal – my brother is due to deploy to Afghanistan with the British Army in September. The situation there is dangerous enough without the BBC stirring the pot – I would hate to think of he, or any coalition soldier, being targeted by some previously friendly Afghan who's been enraged by the latest exaggerated, context-free BBC report about coalition forces causing civilian casualties."
http://monkeytenniscentre.blogspot.com/2008/03/bbc-erases-all-traces-of-bush-speech.html

Re: David Akin - now that we know CTV is going to reassign Akin for his nefarious role in fabricasting the NAFTA/Obama story one still wonders what CBC is going to do with Susan Bonner - also a NAFTA news fabrication cohort with Akin as her "source".

I think the results of the PM's criminal investigation on this non sotry story is going to heap a whole lot of hurting on some of our dear esteemed media outlets.

this deal too good to pass up.

http://shop.newsmax.com/shop/index.cfm?page=products&productid=69&s=al&promo_code=47E1-1