"Do minors require their parents' consent to become suicide bombers?"

Not if, as westerners believe so ardently, they have a right to "control their bodies".

"Do minors require their parents' consent to become suicide bombers?"

Not if, as westerners believe so ardently, they have a right to "control their bodies".

Dion faces ouster
Quebec Grits say they'll yank his membership if he doesn't resign (sun)
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Lorraine summarizes:

Gee - that sure didn't take long.

The PowerCorp, Desmairais, Maurice Strong elite cabal behind Bob Rae are making their moves to annoint their new socialist saviour./puppet man.
The final step will be to pay off Dion's $800,000 leadership debt before the June deadline I'm sure they can find 800 or so "individuals" to all contribute their $1,000 in keeping with the election rules (wink, wink).
Then a nice plausible story (aided by the pliant panting Liberal media) - maybe about poor Dion's failing health or his wife's and VOILA - the cabal will be back in the power seat and all set to begin picking our pockets again, and rewarding their friends and making nice yummy deals with communist China, just like before they were so rudely interrupted by those pesky Conservatives..
http://stevejanke.com/archives/258608.php
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Stephane Dion = Small Dead Animal
http://tinyurl.com/2lun8b

'Islamic Scholar' Denounces Pope

The public relations tools of radical Islam spring into action: Scholar denounces Muslim baptism.

A Muslim scholar involved in high-level dialogue with the Vatican has denounced the Pope’s baptism on Saturday of a prominent Italian Muslim convert.
http://tinyurl.com/32xq4s (LGF)

Commenter said:
I surprised they haven't found a way to blame this on the jooooos.

Tim Blair is organizing an Earth Day alternative, The Hour of Power.

Ideas include:

- lighting 37 vats of whale oil ... to spell the phrase, “Let there be light.”

- I think I’ll decorate my house in Christmas lights, spelling out

SUPPORT

EARTH

HOUR

Then I’ll flip on the lights at 8 pm. Maybe I’ll make them flashing.

If any neighbors * ask if I support Earth Hour, I’ll point to my light display and say “Of course”.

- Thunderdome-style carbon footprint: Face the space heater and the air conditioner to each other. Switch both on. See which wins.

Two go in. One comes out. Drink beer while cheering for your favorite.

"Gee - that sure didn't take long."

My take exactly - Bob Rae (and backers) is in the house folks...the transfer of leadership can begin.

Now they just have to hold off that pesky Stephen Harper with pseudo scandals and hope against hope that they don't screw up and vote for something that forces an election before the placeholder leader, Dion is out of the way.

Any re-actionary non-conforming 'global warming denier' want to try this for Earth Hour?

wizardsofwinter-sm http://media.putfile.com/wizardsofwinter-sm

Sorry...try this:

http://media.putfile.com/wizardsofwinter-sm

Vote Yes at GlobeMailPoll.
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Does your workplace encourage/tolerate April Fool's pranks?

Yes
29% 383 votes
383 votes

No
71% 953 votes
953 votes
http://tinyurl.com/2rts9x

On Thur. Mar 20th 2008 at 6:00 Pm EST.
Just after the M Duffy show,

Dr Tim Ball had a brief appearance on CTV Newsnet.
The interviewer did his best to belittle and dis-
credit, but Dr Ball held his own quite well.
In less than 2 minutes Dr Ball explained and
debunked the (Co2 as cause of global warming
charade).
That appearance was/is the only time I've ever
seen Dr Ball given any airtime on our MsM.
I've searched for a copy of that interview.
It doesn't exist, it's gone, it only showed once
that evening, at time, not many would be watching.
Shame on CTV and our Biased MsM.
I hope someone has a copy of that interview and puts it up on YouTube.

That should be ..(at a time)...

That interview was accurate and devestating to the Gore/Susuki kool-aid drinkers,
thats why the interview has vanished.!

William...I saw an interview by Dan Matheson last week with Tim Ball...perhaps the same one. Yes he clearly debunked the relationship of CO2 to climate change. I thought Matheson handled the interview well. But it was short and probably not 're-played' as much as they would a Gore or Suzuki interview.

Yes Bluetech...thats the one, with Dan Matheson.
I thought Matheson came across as condescending.
That interview should be required viewing, for anyone (students) forced to watch Gores
inconvient lies film.
For a while there, I thought maybe I was the only person to see it.

I am tempted to put an ad in the paper: granting martyrdom, volume discounts for devout jihadis.

Some of Dr. Ball's views here:-
http://www.fcpp.org/main/publication_detail.php?PubID=864

Newfoundland premier flabbergasts while "Eastern Health chairwoman apologizes".
Williams is da boss. Where is his apology?
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Newfoundland Leader `Flabbergasted' by Canada Tax Row

March 25 (Bloomberg) -- Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams said he's ``flabbergasted'' that Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty decided to attack the economic policies of Ontario, the country's wealthiest province.
http://tinyurl.com/2uubrr
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"Dawe had to repeat her apology after a technical breakdown forced a brief break in proceedings.

The apology came after patients and relatives of deceased patients gave heart-wrenching testimony about how they were affected by the mistakes."

"Eastern Health chairwoman apologizes for botched breast cancer tests
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - An executive with Newfoundland's Eastern Health Authority said Wednesday she's sorry for the pain and anxiety felt by patients who may have missed treatment because of botched breast cancer tests."
http://tinyurl.com/2pokg8

The PowerCorp backroom boys of the Liberal Party have been busy. In the backroom.

They've gotten Bob Rae in the House; he is a long time part of their Gang (PowerCorp, Desmarais, etc); they'll move him in as leader. It will happen in the next two-three months. Bets?

They have to get Dion out, and they are approaching that via the Quebec branch of the party, fomenting and encouraging revolt and bad press.
I'll even bet, as noted by Steve Janke, that Powercorp will manage to pay off Dion's leadership debts, just as they've probably paid of Rae's debts.

They also have to deal with a major competitor for the left vote, the NDP Party. Word is that the tactic is to have two Big Ontario Names of the Left, Buzz Hargrove and Toronto Mayor Miller, brought in to directly run against Jack Layton and his wife Olivia Chow in Toronto ridings.

Their strategy of dealing with Harper is One Fake Smear A Week. They aren't interested in the truth of these allegations; it's the MSM publicity they want, to gradually, brainwash the public against Harper and the Conservatives. It's like telling people weekly that 9/11 was a 'Bush job' or that Elvis is still alive. Say it often enough and you'll get a reasonable percentage of people who'll follow the line.

So, what's left? Policies? Heck no. The Liberals don't rule by policies but by propaganda and bribing the taxpayer..with the taxpayers' money.

The question then becomes: are Canadians, as a people, 'run' by propaganda (the Liberal way) or by fact-based policies (the CPC way).

We'll just cleverly ignore those active volcanoes right underneath this section of the ice sheet...it's warmin' I tells ya'.....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080326/ap_on_sc/antarctica_collapse_10;_ylt=AsM73U_YeRvtEkxg_LUgZzn0kPUI

'Nice Cow, Pretty Cow' ...At a demonstration training recently cowboys could be heard gently singing to the cows and praising them for good behavior.

(Via ICT) Terror trial for Toronto-area youth begins

BRAMPTON, Ontario: A teenager charged with belonging to a terror cell that planned attacks in southern Ontario pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in the first trial related to an alleged 2006 plot.

Authorities announced the arrest of 17 suspects in June 2006 after they allegedly tried to obtain three tons of ammonium nitrate. They accused the suspects of plotting terror attacks in Canada and said they were inspired by al-Qaida...

Abigail Lavin, Feudal to Translate

Chinglish
Found in Translation
by Oliver Lutz Radtke
Gibbs Smith, 112 pp., $7.95

Virginia Woolf once wrote that "humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language."

Of course, Mrs. Woolf couldn't know about 21st-century Shanghai, where people communicate in a foreign language to side-splitting effect, day after day. The foreign language, in this case, is English--or more accurately, "Chinglish." This term means different things to different people, but for the purposes of Oliver Lutz Radtke's new book, it refers to the delightfully awkward, syntax-defying, and at times purple prose found on English-language signs, clothing, and packaging in China. Radtke, a German sinologist, first came up with the idea for a book on Chinglish while studying at Shanghai Foreign Languages University...

Crybaby federalism, indeed.

Paul Wells, as usual, gets it, nails it and gives it good.

And before the kool-aid drinking Conservatives dismiss this as "liberal media", remember that this is writer who had glowing things to say about Harper and the prospects of a Harper government in his book, Right Side Up.

And folks, this is the reason why Harper and the Conservatives have not budged in the polls since being elected, despite a weak/no opposition from the Liberals or the NDP, despite casting every government tool at casting the Liberals in the worst light (a lot of it deserved, too), despite have spent mega-millions on their state-of-the-art, cutting edge Death Star war room, despite having a pliant and weak media regurgitating their talking points, despite all of their advantages.

At root, while many conservatives and Conservatives most certainly "get" what Canadians want, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance most assuredly do not.

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"Our appeal followed the time-honoured advice for raising money by direct mail -- make people angry and afraid, and set up an opponent for them to give against."
— Tom Flanagan, Harper's Team

Ontario led the country in job growth last month, nearly all of it in full-time work, much of it through a construction boom that produced job growth outstripping the loss of industrial jobs by 50 percent. Given the troubles of Ontario's main export market it is a stellar performance.

But Stephen Harper needs somebody to pick on, and Stéphane Dion refuses to show up for the fight. So Dalton McGuinty's Ontario government is the latest designated target, and we are all being asked to sit and smile through yet another of the Prime Minister's asinine tantrums.

Today is budget day at Queen's Park. Pierre Poilièvre, the reliably pliable eastern Ontario Tory MP, has been sent to Queen's Park to critique the budget on behalf of the federal Conservative party. (UPDATE: And the Conservative party's website is now doing a limbo dance under its own previously rock-bottom standards.) This merely extends a show that has been going on for a while now. For weeks the Prime Minister's yappy little budget terrier, Jim Flaherty, has been making apocalyptic pronouncements about the Ontario economy and the McGuinty government's stewardship. Ontario is "the last place" to start a business, and it's headed for have-not status, and it was the "strongest economic province in the federation" when his party delivered its last budget at a car-parts plant somewhere.

Now the truth, if anyone wants some, is that unemployment in Ontario is down nine-tenths of a percentage point from the days when Flaherty and his friends were running up a hidden 5.6 billion dollar deficit. But then, nobody should depend too heavily on Jim Flaherty to pick a winner: he has the unique distinction of being the only man in Canadian history who managed to lose to both Ernie Eves and John Tory.

As for Ontario's chances of becoming an equalization-receiving province, here's Don Drummond of TD Bank saying the biggest culprit if that ever happens will be the Harper-Flaherty government. "They seem to be bent on making Ontario's situation worse at the moment," Drummond says.

Of course they are. For then Harper will have created a bogeyman Ontarians can be angry and afraid of, so he can do some fundraising against them. It's what he does.

The Senate, the CBC, assorted arms-length commissioners and regulators having exhausted their amusements for our impatient leader, he has now turned his distracted, essentially random fury on the voters of Ontario. This is because they voted wrong.

They had their instructions. Nearly two years ago Harper went to a John Tory fundraiser and called Tory "the next premier of Ontario." But just because Tory can beat Jim Flaherty doesn't mean he can beat a pro, and Ontarians stubbornly decided to elect somebody else.

Surely by now Ontarians should know that the big guy doesn't like it when his orders are ignored. And his contempt for Ontarians' electoral decisions, when the voters of that province have the gall not to vote Harper's way, is a matter of long record: witness his childish rant in the aftermath of Stockwell Day's 2000 election defeat. (And understand this: if anyone ever manages to beat Stephen Harper fair and square in a general election, we will see a display of gracelessness in defeat without precedent in the history of Confederation. This is simply guaranteed. It is what he does.)

There are two things going on here. One is the baselessness of Flaherty/Poilièvre/Harper's attack on Ontario's budgeting. Oil is at historic highs, the dollar is up a quarter in the last years, the U.S. real-estate industry is essentially imploding, five central banks pumped hundreds of billions of liquidity into the market in a co-ordinated push -- and the problem is Dwight Duncan's business-tax rates? Come on.

The other is the impudence of Harper's control-freakery. We know he likes to run everything, but here's the deal: if somebody signs up to be a Conservative staffer, you can tell them what to do, OK? You don't get to run the Senate. You don't get to push bureaucrats around for kicks. You don't get to muzzle public servants, tell reporters how to cover you, pick the next US president or write Ontario budgets. There's a Canadian constitution that says so, and just because you boycotted the 25th-anniversary celebrations of the Charter of Rights doesn't mean the separation of powers, which isn't even in the Charter, goes away by fiat.

Stephen Harper is such a clever tactician that his little games can be so fascinating we overlook their significance. The significance of this one is, well, significant: he's badmouthing his own country's industrial heartland and running roughshod over the prerogatives of a legitimately-elected government for the sake of cheap political points and to prop up his serial loser of a finance minister. It's not funny.

(Via The Times Comment Central) Renate Flottau, Fury and Tension Grip Europe's Newest Country

Kosovo may now be an independent state, but Europe's youngest country remains a trouble spot. The Serbian minority is arming itself, violence has erupted, and the peacekeeping forces are struggling to contain the situation. Will the unrest last months -- or decades?

Apparently the Liberals are considering a cap on immigration:

"Liberal immigration critic Maurizio Bevilacqua says the bill is a covert attempt by the Harper government to limit the number of immigrants.

"They're going back to the Diefenbaker era," he said, referring to a failed attempt by the 1950s government of former prime minister John Diefenbaker to cap immigration applications.

Despite his criticisms, Mr. Bevilacqua conceded his party, which has allowed all election-triggering legislation to pass since the fall, has not decided how it will vote on the bill"

The AEI Iraq surge final report:

Frederick W. Kagan, Iraq: The Way Ahead, Phase IV Report

AEI's event for Winning Afghanistan: Time for a Change in Course? has been postponed until 11 April.

Rick Richman, Opting Out of History

...The Sun’s editorial page yesterday asked rhetorically why Baker would “want, in the middle of a new world war, to spend his time putting the gloss on the advocates of an appeasement and pacifism that would have handed the world to Hitler without a fight?”

The answer is that arguments about history are frequently arguments about the present. So FDR lied us into World War II; LBJ lied us into Vietnam; GWB 43 lied us into Iraq. For a certain part of the intelligentsia, it is never Nazism, Communism or Islamism. It is always the American president...

A few excerpts from a Salim Mansur piece called,

Multiculturalism is a sedative

Perhaps the most apt manner to describe multiculturalism as an ideology and government policy in western liberal democracies would be what the incomparable English writer, journalist and non-conformist, Malcolm Muggeridge, wrote in his 1970 essay, The Great Liberal Death Wish.

Perhaps also no contemporary of Muggeridge (1903-90), nor anyone after him, made as incisive a dissection of the deepening liberal malaise in the 20th century as he provided. He also exposed apologists of liberalism and their untiring efforts to discredit and dissolve the West as a uniquely gifted civilization.

[...] Muggeridge again: “Previous civilizations have been overthrown from without by the incursion of barbarian hordes; ours has dreamed up its own dissolution in the minds of its own intellectual elite.”

Multiculturalism is in appearance the most pleasing of liberal barbiturates offered to stave off the West’s demographic decline through immigration. For it to work the requirement demanded is suspension of critical and discriminating thinking replaced by politically correct speech that must offend none except, if need be, the patient (the West) requiring the cure.

And so Muggeridge would have said that multiculturalism being one big swindle it is a “sedative rather than a stimulant, a slough rather than a precipice; blurring the edges of truth, the definition of virtue, the shape of beauty; a cracked bell, a mist, a death wish.”

Ted,

You and assorted other fringe leftists are the only ones who care about what Paul Wells thinks. And then only if he writes against Harper.

The fact of the matter is that McGuinty is a liar. He broke close to 50 promises in his first term.

Ontario has the highest corporate tax in the country, which he refused to do anything about. In fact, rather than creating business incentives, he created a program to retrain layed off workers. Talk about a defeatest attitude.

On the front page of the National Post:

"Even in bad times Liberals spend big."

That's why Flaherty and the Conservatives have been speaking out against McGuinty. They know what the disasterous fallout from their ridiculous budget is going to be. Of course, the whiny loser McGuinty will come begging to the Feds to bail him out, despite the warnings.

So, no. McGuinty isn't just a legitimate target to be outed, he's a dangerous, fiscally inept politician that is leading Ontario into financial distress, if not ruin. Just like Peterson did before Rae got his turn, to finish the job off.

This kind of thing is common on the CBC, I'm guessing others are just simply more sensitive to blatant media agendas when they occur elsewhere:
http://monkeytenniscentre.blogspot.com/2008/03/bbc-erases-all-traces-of-bush-speech.html

"That will be easy because they don't have any."
Haha...
Even Democrats don't cry this hard very often:
http://perfunction.typepad.com/perfunction/2008/03/dan-abrams-rush.html

I am not sure that the scandal a week strategy will work in the way the Liberals and MSM hope.

It will solidify LPC support among those that would never vote CPC anyway. Places like downtown Toronto and Montreal. On the other hand, I think the constant scandals will just desensitize many voters or turn them off politics altogether.

The CPC just needs to be able to use the tactic against the LPC. Perhaps ridiculing the growing "Scandal-A-Week" list could become the CPC counter strategy. The LPC "scandals" are not based on clear facts or real fears. It may not be that hard to get the public to ignore or even ridiculed the constant scandals. Think of the "soldiers on the street" fiasco.

Taking kool-aid drinking to a whole new level: the Conservatives make the mix, fetch the water, buy the cup, mix the drink and serve it to you. All you have to do is drink. No thinking necessary, certainly not of the independent kind.

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Conservative headquarters scripting calls to radio shows
ALEXANDER PANETTA

The Canadian Press

March 25, 2008 at 6:15 PM EDT

OTTAWA — Next time you're listening to your favourite radio phone-in show, those pro-Conservative opinions you hear from callers might not be as spontaneous as they sound.

Some of those apparently ad-libbed musings are actually being choreographed at the Conservative Party of Canada's national headquarters.

The governing party has produced talking points for grassroots supporters on a variety of issues, feeding them lines on everything from climate change to child care.

For Conservative supporters, the process is as simple as 1-2-3.

Surf the party website. Type in your postal code. Click on a topic you'd like to discuss on the radio.

And the website spits out the times, phone numbers, and names of local talk shows to call — along with a handy list of good things to say about the Conservatives and bad things to say about their opponents. The website includes similar advice for letter-writers to newspapers. [...]

“We want people to phone in and express their own opinions. We don't want people phoning in and reading from a script,” said Mark Sutcliffe, who hosts CFRA's The Chatroom.

“(But) I don't think we get a ton of calls like that.”

The Conservatives describe the practice as state-of-the-art politicking.

This is a good point form piece to give a clearer understanding of what the flare-up with Muqtada al Sadr and the thieving groups of crooks and smugglers are doing in Basra.

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Who is in control of Basra?
In the wake of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Shia majority in Basra drove out Sunni and Christian minorities.

Now the port city has become the scene of a violent power struggle between rival Shia militia groups. Technically, it is under the control of Iraqi government forces led by General Mohan al-Furayji, but he claims the militia groups are better armed.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/25/iraq1
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On veut la tête de Dion

"Un suicide politique"

http://tinyurl.com/2slvev
Le Journal de Montréal

Citoyen Dion says, This is not fair.

"Video calls for defeat of 'Rome' in Canadian terror case"

COLIN FREEZE, From Wednesday's Globe and Mail

TORONTO — A speech glorifying acts of violence in the name of Allah given at an alleged terrorist training camp in Ontario encouraged a group of Toronto men to attack the West by decreeing that the “new Rome” must fall, according to evidence revealed yesterday in a Crown factum.

“Rome has to be defeated. And we will be the ones that do it,” reads a transcript of a call to arms given to more than a dozen recruits gathering inside a tent north of Toronto, according to trial evidence revealed yesterday.

Trying to motivate recruits, all wearing camouflage at the camp, the speaker said they were the barbarians inside the gate of North America. According to the Crown filings, he said: “This is our life's mission. And Allah has already purchased us, lives and our wealth in exchange for heaven.”

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These are true Muslims, doing exactly what allah commands them to do, even reciting the verse that informs them "to kill and be killed":

Quran (9:111) - "Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.

But, what a second, this Sura must have been taken out of context. They are obviously misunderstanders of Islam. It's the religion of peace (TM).

Clinton related to Trudeau
ctv.ca 03/26/08

Go Figure, Now if they could only trace him to Stalin.

Ted,

And the Liberals? They get their talking points from the CBC, which is funded by all taxpayers, including Conservatives.

Are you really that stupid? Put your moonbat wings on and go chase some ambulances will ya.

Canada's journalist throw a "Human Rights" party.

Apparently they don't invite right leaning journalists:

...journalism giants Linda McQuaig,
Heather Mallick, Haroon Siddiqui and John Honderich.

News release click here

It must be a CBC/Toronto Star presentation.

Dont expct a mention of the attack on the fundamental freedom known as speech.

But hey, everyone can see Strombo's new piercing. Kewl! Rawk on party dudes.

Aha, and the liberal (anti-gun, anti-self defense, anti-free speech) opinions spouted in MSM are NEVER, I repeat - NEVER orchestrated by the liberals. Aha!

Ted, you are raving.

irwin daisy, my sentiments exactly re Ted.

I can't see a single thing wrong with the CPC providing some facts to rebut the constant propaganda of the left--everywhere in Canada, with billions of taxpayer $$: our MSM, our schools, our universities (in today's NP, read Barbara Kay's expose of the very dangerous politically correct take over of our law schools = the end of the rule of law), our courts, our text book publishers, most of our churches, etc., etc., etc.

Ted’s allies have taken over the country in the most substantial ways and he’s worried about a CPC web site that encourages citizens to be informed and speak up in public forums? Quelle horreure! Democarcy: tut, tut, we certainly don’t want any of THAT in Canada.

Yeah, Ted, it’s democratic: one has to decide to go to the go to the CPC site and then actually go there, read the information, and then decide or not to use it. How is that different from getting information from the Star, which considers itself part of the official opposition to the Conservative government? No one forces anyone to read the Star or go to the CPC site and then use information, which perhaps one didn't have before, to use in a public forum.

Ted, perhaps you should really be concerned about the publicly funded propaganda forced on the populace via our thoroughly lefty public school and court systems, to name only two of the main conduits of “groupthink” smothering this country. Unlike the CPC site, the people involved here are force fed the actual lies of the left, layer upon layer, for decades.

My advice, Ted? Don’t sweat the small stuff—really small.

Sorry lefties, the USA's fall has been posponed,

March 24 (Bloomberg)—Sales of existing homes in the U.S. unexpectedly rose in February for the first time in seven months, easing concern credit restrictions and falling prices would hurt demand.

Tickets for JHR’s 5th Annual ‘Night for Rights’ are now on sale! Visit our event website at www.night4rights.com to buy tickets and for additional info.

In brief, the 5th Annual Night for Rights will bring together over 1,200 of Toronto’s best and brightest to THE BERKELEY CHURCH on FRIDAY, MARCH 28th.

The night will feature:
High-end Raffle, with prizes including a Vespa and Air Canada flights to ANY Air Canada scheduled destination
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A couple of things:

1)In a church? How non PC.

2)Did any of the journalist solicit a critical opinion from the (non right wing think tank) Pembina Institute to see if the Air Canada prize is environmentally friendly?

P.S. Under taxpayer funded purveyors of groupthink, please add CBC and TVO.

For women who have too many sexual partners to keep track, and for the men asked to pay child support, here is a paternity home test kit, that will tell you who the father is,

click here to see the product sold in the USA

Ted - this is for you because you seem to think the Liberals left you out for coaching on how to contact the media.

You might even say the Conservatives copied this media coaching from the Liberals so I guess mimicry is a form of flattery:

Hee you will find listings of radio shows to call in to, where to send letters to the editor and
Gosh - it even prompts you to "check out our newsroom to find information on the Liberal position on today's issues."

http://www.liberal.ca/speak_e.aspx

lynnh, I believe that THE BERKELEY CHURCH is now a theatre.

Isn't it interesting though, that these people seem completely indifferent to the human rights abuses happening in Canada right now. I wonder if the CHRC kangaroo courts and our own, real home grown human rights abuses--Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn--will be on the agenda.

These people are such navel gazing hypocrites.

"Obama distant relative of George Bush"

(Toronto Star)

I wonder how the moonbats are going to square that one.

So I guess what I'm hearing from readers here is that Conservatives are just as much non-thinking, kool-aid drinking, robots for the cause of keeping their party in government as the kool-aid drinking Liberal supporters.

Glad we cleared that up.

Some days even I look back upon the Reform Party and the Reform Party grassroots membership with a great deal of nostalgia.

Ah well. The more things change... etc. Meet the new boss (and his robot followers), same as... etc. etc.

Are you like me ?
Experiencing So much relief ?
I can't remember that last time I had a good nights sleep worying about DB Cooper and what might have happened to him!

It is interesting that Ted and others use bad economic news to support whatever allegation they aspire to make. If the Canadian economy worsens, rest assured they will say it's Harper and the CPC's fault. But they take the opposite tack in defending McLiar by saying oil is at historic high, dollar is up, etc. The Liberal government is bereft of any workable ideas to encourage growth and prosperity in Ontario. Oh but wait, it's not their fault. We must blame Harper!

No, Ted, you're not hearing what you think you are. ('Glad to clear that up.)

P.S. Try drinking less Liberal Kool Aid.

Actually, lookout, I'm drinking some hot black coffee right now, but thanks for asking. Started drinking it regularly a few years back. Find it opens my eyes to some political truths. Back then, I used to have a definite respect for Harper.

Actually, lookout, I'm drinking some hot black coffee right now, but thanks for asking. Started drinking it regularly a few years back. Find it opens my eyes to some political truths. Back then, I used to have a definite respect for Harper.

At least back then he stood for something more than "the Liberals are bad" and "I hate Ontario".

Whew, glad to hear that it not a church.heh

Actually, I am sure that this is a good cause. It is just that the press these days is so pompous and self righteous that it is hard not to make fun of them.

Bob Rae, the soft spoken sweetie-pie, boy next door persona and all that jazz. Engaging in dirty tricks or allowing his supporters to undermine the chosen Leader kind of blows his cover.
He's coming close to what we call in plain English a shit disturber of the highest order if that's what's in the works with him and the desperate Liberals.

"“Did Mohammed say that adulterous female monkeys should be stoned?”"
"“Is drinking the urine of prophets salutary according to sharia?”"
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"Islam’s ‘Public Enemy #1’
Coptic priest Zakaria Botros fights fire with fire.
By Raymond Ibrahim

Though he is little known in the West, Coptic priest Zakaria Botros — named Islam’s “Public Enemy #1” by the Arabic newspaper, al-Insan al-Jadid — has been making waves in the Islamic world. Along with fellow missionaries — mostly Muslim converts — he appears frequently on the Arabic channel al-Hayat (i.e., “Life TV”). There, he addresses controversial topics of theological significance — free from the censorship imposed by Islamic authorities or self-imposed through fear of the zealous mobs who fulminated against the infamous cartoons of Mohammed. Botros’s excurses on little-known but embarrassing aspects of Islamic law and tradition have become a thorn in the side of Islamic leaders throughout the Middle East."
http://tinyurl.com/yvy7bs

Any Italians here?

Read what Obama's mentor has to say about you (and more anti-white and anti-USA stuff)

(CNSNews.com) - Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for two decades, slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of Trumpet Newsmagazine.

"(Jesus') enemies had their opinion about Him," Wright wrote in a eulogy of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November/December 2007 issue. "The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans."

Wright continued, "From the circumstances surrounding Jesus' birth (in a barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman government that said his daddy had to be in), up to and including the circumstances surrounding Jesus' death on a cross, a Roman cross, public lynching Italian style. ...

"He refused to be defined by others and Dr. Asa Hilliard also refused to be defined by others. The government runs everything from the White House to the schoolhouse, from the Capitol to the Klan, white supremacy is clearly in charge, but Asa, like Jesus, refused to be defined by an oppressive government because Asa got his identity from an Omnipotent God."

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Anyone still doubts Jeremia Wright is a racist?

But Obama can not disown him... of course...of course...

HRC complaint in Delaware to protect our new messiah Obama...
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DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware state human rights commission is investigating allegations that a fifth-grade teacher told her class she wouldn’t vote for Barack Obama because he is “scary” and a Muslim.

The mother of a 10-year-old student complained, saying her daughter’s teacher made the comments during a mock primary on Super Tuesday last month at a southeastern Delaware elementary school. The student is a Muslim.

The Democratic presidential candidate is a Christian, but he’s had to fight against false Internet rumors suggesting he’s really a Muslim intent on destroying the United States.

The Indian River School District says it has resolved the issue after meeting with the mother and the teacher who allegedly made the comments.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/03/26/5109051-ap.html

Even if ethanol is making a tiny dent in gasoline prices, seeing $5.40 on the gas station sign is enough to make anyone forget about six or nine measly cents.

[But, but, full service! We pump and wipe.]

The $5.40 price is currently available to lucky drivers in Gorda, California, south of the Bay Area on Highway 1.

Two reasons for the high price: 40 miles until another gas station and pump profits pay for the town's generator, which supplies all of the electricity in the area.

Local NBC affiliate NBC11 reports that the price is high enough to get some customers to tell the station owner to go to hell. Another said the owner *should be shot for charging that much for gas.*

C'mon, people. It's time to stop getting mad and start getting greener.

http://www.nbc11.com/news/15701062/detail.html
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Exactly right, irwin and others. The Liberal McGuinty govt is setting up a disastrous short-term scenario.

Fling money at a serious infrastructural problem. Not to solve it but to buy time.

The serious infrastructural problem in Ontario is its high corporate taxes that effectively reject the development of new industries, and reject small and medium entrepreneurial development. Ontario has instead opted for a top-down economic mode, which sees large industries, such as automanufacturing and forestry, heavily subsidized by the govt.

In addition, Ontario has become a bloated bureaucracy, with an enormous percentage of its citizens employed by the public: civil service, health care, education, security, social workers, etc etc. These too, are unionized and therefore, cost-heavy and inefficient.

These all provide unionized jobs, which are, in themselves eventually too costly to function in an open market. They either go under, or, as in Ontario, require more and more taxpayer money to pay...the unionized taxpayers there. Peter pays Paul...

McGuinty is now subsidizing 'retraining'. That's a different name for 'unemployment insurance'. Why is he doing this rather than lowering corporate taxes to enable new businesses to set up in Ontario? Is it that he can't afford to lose the existing taxes so that he can subsidize the auto industry and the enormous bloated public bureaucracy? What does he want from these people? Their VOTES!!

Why isn't he doing as Flaherty wisely suggests? Change the Ontario economic infrastructure from a socialist mode focused on unionized jobs that gobble money without providing services - to one that encourages small to medium size entrepreneurial non-union businesses to develop and one that encourages and enables investment?

He's buying time. If he undertook the restructuring of Ontario, he'd lose his voting bloc - that massive block of unionized Liberals in the public employment and the big industries subsidized by Ontario. He needs money. Lots of money. From taxes. From Ottawa, Ottawa, Ottawa. To feed them and keep them HIS.

McGuinty has political ambitions. He's buying time, of only a few years. He's planning to leave as Premier but he wants his voting block. I'll bet he's after the leadership of the Liberal Party..after Rae.

I suggest that's what it's all about. I think he's after the federal leadership of the Liberal Party. He doesn't want to upset his Voting Bloc in Ontario - that enormous civil service, those subsidized industries. He wants their votes when he moves to the federal level.

Typical self-absorbed Liberal, eh?

Well, Ted, it looks like the CPC isn't the only Party giving their supporters tips on calling radio shows and writing letters:

http://www.liberal.ca/speak_e.aspx
"CALL YOUR LOCAL RADIO STATION
Adler On Line
with Charles Adler National Nationally Syndicated
Weekdays
2pm-5pm EST 1-800-665-2202
Rutherford
with Dave Rutherford Alberta 770 CHQR Calgary
630 CHED Edmonton
Weekdays
9am-12pm MST 1-800-563-7770
1-800-663-0630"
Those are just two of fourteen shows listed plus
CALLING TIPS such as
"Plan what you are going to say before you are on the air."
"Check our newsroom to find information about the Liberal position on today’s issues".

Ted:
I wouldn't spend too much time here. You might wind up at the back of the line, at the Liberal feeding trough. And being Liberal it's a long line. See if you can get there before the next McGuinty tax increase.

How bright is FORD?

Is selling Jaguar to Tata Motors [India] a smart move?

Will Ford kick themselves in the collective butt when Tata presents an Electric Jaguar dream car to compete with the Tesla Roadster?

A Jag is normally a deluxe tinkerer*s car, but a no-maintenance PEV Jag is a dream car.

** Tata Takes On Ford Brands For $2.3 Billion
Lionel Laurent, 03.26.08, 8:20 AM ET **

http://tinyurl.com/33kl6a
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Posted by: irwin daisy at March 26, 2008 12:44 PM - Ted's got a point - especially if the Cons are using political donations to create propaganda - instead of fact based policy discussions.

And no - I don't care if the Librano sleaze does it more, and better, and with biased reporters...blah blah.

Creating fabricated talking points for empty minded sycophants isn't what the political process exists for.

And, Corocan - not exactly a Librano - gets it 'right' on the leprechan's profligate spending - just like a little drinken sailor: "On the positive side, Mr. Flaherty has laid out a war zone over the future of fiscal policy in Canada. Unfortunately, in view of his own spending record, it looks like a one-sided war only taxpayers and Canadian business can lose."

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=4c77d7f8-5257-409f-972e-030ac07b4ccf&k=77578&p=1

TG

It is good for TATA ang good for Ford.

Ford unloads a luxury brand that has been treading water and raises cash.

Tata proves itself an international competitor by purchasing it. It can use the technology to make its other brands stronger.

It is an introduction to North America/Europe to Tata for most who are unfamiliar with the name.

Quality is really what affects brand loyalty. If there is a serious drop in the first few years, it will be particularly bad.

Interesting comments over at The Austalian concerning immigration.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23431666-7583,00.html

Obama advisor blames the Jews.

So far, Obama's team has been anti-white, anti-jew and pro-dead terrorist (Che) and pro-police state.

I'd say you can judge someone by the friends they keep.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125688

Obama Advisor Blames US Jews for Lack of Mid-East Peace

by Avi Tuchmayer

(IsraelNN.com) Once again, a furor surrounding US Presidential candidate Barack Obama has erupted, this time over a senior military advisor to the Obama campaign with a history of anti-Israel remarks. He has strongly criticized pro-Israel Jews in the United States for allegedly torpedoing peace efforts in the Middle East.

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1968: The year of the posturing rebel

The student unrest in Paris and London 40 years ago filled our writer with revulsion. The protesters enjoyed enviable freedom and had no idea how lucky they were
Tom Stoppard

"A small incident which must have confirmed some people’s worst suspicions about me occurred when I was asked to sign a protest against “censorship” after a newspaper declined to publish somebody’s manifesto. “But that isn’t censorship,” I said. “That’s editing. In Russia you go to prison for possessing a copy of Animal Farm. That’s censorship.”"
http://tinyurl.com/38vykg (times)

Commenter said:
n 1968 I was 38 years old, have survived both the Nazis and the Bolsheviks and knew at an emotional level that the imperfect liberal democracies were (and remain) districts of paradise. The rioting students could be excused their immaturity, ignorance and idiocy, but the preening middle class left led by their intellectuals have no such excuse: what I have learned the (very) hard way, has already been available to anybody who could read. The "events" of 1968 are unforgettable and unforgivable.

Sever, Sydney, Australia

Some Canadiana fun for your kids: (and us big kids)

http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/feature.asp?pageId=56

Who is using Citoyen Dion?
Boob? STOPIGGY? Punk Rocker? AdScam Chretien-Martin? Alfonso Gagliano? Power Corp/Desmarais/ Maurice Strong? Hezbollah Coderre? Szabo? Pablo? Garfff? Lizzy? Lisa? Jim? Herby? Mutt and Jeff? Ted? lberia? Who? Ralfff? ???????
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Pierre-Luc Bellerose might be an idiot, but is he a useful idiot?

There is some excitement around today's news story that a former Liberal candidate Pierre-Luc Bellerose has announced his intention to seek Stephane Dion's ouster from the Liberal Party.

Liberal bloggers are almost universally scornful of Bellerose. I think they have a point. Bellerose is hardly the poster boy for a loyal Liberal Party member. And his plan seems like a stretch.

But that doesn't mean Bellerose can be so easily dismissed. He might be an idiot, but is he a useful idiot? And if so, who is using him?
[...]

[Curran] I'll tell you who [Bellerose] is. A quitter. That's who. He never ran in Joliette. He was a candidate that quit. He's a vile little puke that should be the first of many to be kicked to the curb.

OK, James, but what do you really think?
http://stevejanke.com/archives/258672.php#respond

The Real McCarthy:

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=291251427194163#

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Near the start of "Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies," Evans asks, "Can we in fact name one certifiable communist McCarthy ever came up with in all his speeches and contentious hearings?"

According to Evans, "it's indeed hard to cite one such person — just as it's hard to eat one potato chip or salted peanut."

He then provides a list of 10 McCarthy targets that turned out, indeed, to have been spying on this country.

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Well Looks like the CPC isn't the Only party giving their supporters tips....
Good Catch Muttsrus

With the HOC returning next week are we about to see another session of abstentions, mudslinging & slanders.
I really do think that it is time the PM sits down with his caucas & advisors and decide that a visit to the GG is in order, it will most likely not be pretty all the accusations of a set time limits and all, But this HOC is out of control & the Government would have no alternative then go to the people.

BBC: Anti-Semitic Scum

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

In a news item on March 7, following the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva attack, the BBC showed a bulldozer demolishing a house, while correspondent Nick Miles told viewers: "Hours after the attack, Israeli bulldozers destroyed his family home. Later, mourners set up Hamas and Islamic Jihad banners nearby."

The house, however, was not demolished; the BBC was embarrassed when news reports from other broadcasters showed the east Jerusalem home intact and the family commemorating their son's actions.

Last week, the BBC apologized live on its news program, admitting it had used footage of another house being demolished.

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In a second incident, in a news item entitled "Israel jets strike northern Gaza" on March 14 on their News Web site, the BBC reported that Israel was deliberately targeting civilians in an operation targeting Kassam rocket launch sites in Gaza, and claiming that the United Nations secretary-general had described it as an attack on civilians.

"The Israeli air force said it was targeting a rocket firing team... UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned Israel's attacks on Palestinian civilians, calling them inappropriate and disproportionate," the report said.

In a letter to the BBC, Manchester Jewish community member Jonathan Hantman wrote,

"It is one-sided for the report to describe Israel's operations as 'attacks on civilians' while not describing the Palestinian rocket attacks, to which Israel was responding, as 'attacks on civilians' or 'acts of terrorism.'"

Hantman also pointed out that Ban's attributed comments were made weeks earlier to the UN Security Council and not in reference to that particular attack. He added that it was also wrong to mention the UN secretary-general's condemnation of Israel without mentioning his condemnation of Palestinian rocket attacks in the same statement.

Etcetera

Interestingly, Gerry Nicholls, one of the few remaining true conservatives around, seems to agree with me about Conservatives scripting TV and radio responses and letters to the editor.

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Gerry Nicholls

26, March, 2008 | 3:38 pm

This story symbolizes exactly what’s wrong with Canada’s conservative movement.

Rather than pushing free market ideals and values, all too many Canadian conservatives simply regurgitate Tory propaganda.

This serves only to debase the movement.

True conservatism is about fighting for what’s right; it’s not about cheerleading for politicians, especially when those politicians are conservative in name only.

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And folks, no, whining that the "Liberals are just as bad" doesn't make Nicholls comments any less true.

They really could have had a majority government, you know. If only they had any sense of what they were doing or even the remotest hint of wanting to govern for the good of Canada and all Canadians instead of just for those who might vote for them.

Plus: Exglusive Excerpts from Liberal Smotherman's Diary*, McGuhinty's Healtthh Minister. Peepys' Diary it's not.
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Ontario’s [Liberal] Budget Goes Nowhere Fast!

The economy is eroding and prices are soaring for consumers. Indeed, when compared to just twelve months ago, the mood of your average Ontarian is much grimmer when it comes to the economy. Most specifically, Ontario is regaining the dubious honour that it had twenty years ago when it became dead last in Canada and even dead last in North America in terms of economic growth. The largest province of confederation, uniquely challenged by its close affiliation with the United States’ service sector and high concentration of manufacturing sector jobs, is melting down before our very eyes.
http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2008/03/25/ontarios-budget-goes-nowhere-fast/

*TUESDAY

Major confession, diary. I tried out an incontinence diaper today. It was so ... freeing. I had three large coffees from Tims -- but no winners :(-and then I sat through a three-hour meeting with a bunch of bureaucrats.

No pee breaks! It was so much more efficient. Made a bit of a stumble at lunch, though, by having the side dish of asparagus. Won't make that mistake again! I think this will really help in my discussion with the nurses' union. Five hours seems to be the limit before things get a little soggy. I think I'll publicly float the idea tomorrow. Right after I shoot up an eight-ball of smack to get a better feel for drug addiction."
http://canadianmedicine.blogspot.com/2008/03/smitherman-diaper-remarks-earn-derision.html

Oh who reads Gerry Nicholls? I don't bother because he never has anything good to say about Stephen Harper. It must be something about both of them being ex-National Citizens Coalition heads that brings out the animosity. If I want to hear someone bashing Harper , I'll turn on my tv.

Agree on Gerry Nicholls, he's no friend of the Conservatives. He just doesn't get the concept that it's impossible to go all out on Conservative ideology in this Country after decades of Liberal rule without a majority. Going by Gerry's ideas we'd never make it. It's got to be a weaning process and that takes time.

Oh noooooo...Ted has a David Orchard type 'conservative' in his corner.

What a boob.

Deal with the brutally slanted Liberal media, Ted. Otherwise all your arguments around here are moot. Nobody believes you and nobody cares what you think.

Ted . . .
"Rather than pushing free market ideals and values, all too many Canadian conservatives simply regurgitate Tory propaganda." -- I don't think this statement makes a lot of sense. Surely "propaganda" is driven by ideas and Tory "propaganda" is about free markets, etc. I think "propaganda" is the wrong word here because it suggests negative manipulation, when probably what is being referred to are just key points a person might want to make about an issue. Surely "regurgitating" happens when people repeat the central arguments about something -- all the parties do that. To single out Conservatives in this instance is just silly.

In any event, it's important to recognzie that publishing talking points is not primarily about the exchange of political ideas -- it is about media relations, window-dressing, how to make a good impression and how to have an impact. The Liberals have a stable full of supporters who regularly write letters to the editors to drum up support and get out their mssg. on whatever issue. (I guess the Conservatives do that too, but I have noticed that newspapers are not as generous with publishing letters from Conservative supporters.) But I digress, all the Conservatives (and Liberals it looks like) have done in this case is to pre-package the message for supporters who might want to help get the mssg. out. If you want to "sell" ideas (or just convince people), you have to present those ideas in a clear and succinct fashion. That is not always easy for ordinary folks to do. Points like this can also help people think more clearly about the issues.

My main point is that the "talking points are simply a media relations tool, and media relations are just one aspect of political activity. The BIG ideas, leadership, Parliamentary dicourse, etc. are also a part of the mix, and all of it is important. Seems a bit trivial to pick on something like this. I really don't think Mark Sutcliffe has to worry much about people reviewing a few points and then phoning in and reciting them like robots.

Mao Stlong's Maoist Man.
Communist Mao say, Lama Nazi, aka National Socialist, and Me: blothels.
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"Chinese ambassador to Canada mounts media offensive

OTTAWA — China's ambassador to Canada held an extraordinary news conference Wednesday where he likened Tibet's traditional governance to Nazi Germany and called the country's exiled spiritual leader a serial liar.

"The Dalai Lama has been telling lies to the world for decades," Lu Shumin told a group of invited journalists at the Chinese Embassy."

Commenter said:
" Ooooo! A hissy- fit from the Chicom envoy. Nice - me likee. Now please pass the noodles."
http://tinyurl.com/ytr6wx (Gobeemailee)
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Mao's Attempt to Remake Man
Monday, Jul. 12, 1971

The thought, culture and customs that brought China to where we found her must disappear. The thought, customs and culture of proletarian China, which does not yet exist, must appear.

—Mao Tse-tung to French Minister of Culture Andre Malraux, 1965 http://tinyurl.com/398xcv (time)

"A balloon advertises Earth Hour in Sydney, Australia
World Wildlife Fund/Reuters"

The "balloon" is Edison's incandescent bulb; not a compact fluorescent light, aka CFL. Grab/save.
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Earth Hour's soft fascism
Peter Foster, Financial Post

"the absence of light is associated with primitivism and ignorance. Is it not significant, therefore, that radical environmentalists are seeking to persuade citizens of the world to flick the switch?"
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=399189

"The full phrase is "dixitque Deus fiat lux et facta est lux" ("And said God let there be light, and light was made"), from the Greek "και είπεν ο Θεός ..." (wiki)

Anyone else fed up with all the hype about this Khadr spawn held in Gitmo for over five years?
There's a big push to get the dear boy to his home of convenience, Canada and into the arms of his Mommy who bragged about being proud if her sons martyred themselves for the "cause'.

The media and their friends on the Liberal/Left are trying to put the onus on the Conservative government for not doing enough to help the "poor, innocent boy". What did the Liberals do about the situation when they were in power?

The whole family of Khadrs should have their citizenships revoked and sent packing to where they came from.

The globe and mail commenters were in full outrage over the CPC talking points being scripted and how the CPC supporters are brainwashed.. The Globe headline is "Conservative headquarters scripting calls to radio shows" but somehow none of the liberal commenters seem to be able to find any evidence of this scripting.
Seems they are the ones that were brainwashed by the Globe.
It's not going well for them.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080325.wtorytalk0325/CommentStory/National/

Is Liberal Citoyen Dion a putz or a shmuck?
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[Liberal]Quebec MP challenges Dion to 'show what he's made of'

"Ms. Folco said" "“I am not in favour of a putsch*."
http://tinyurl.com/35sgvc (g-m)

*putsch
1920, from Ger., "revolt, riot," from Swiss dialect, lit. "a sudden blow, push," of imitative origin."
(dict-com)
*putz ?

Proof that guns don't kill people, frickin' idiots with guns kill people:

http://www.khqa.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=112401

Officials are trying to decide whether to file charges against a Missouri man who fatally shot his wife while trying to install a satellite TV system in their home.
Her husband fired the shot from the inside of their home after several unsuccessful efforts to punch a hole through the exterior wall using other means.

Definitely a finalist for the Darwin awards!

Stan @ 9:48pm

I left a comment at the Gobs of Mail site and suddenly comments are closed... after they checked my submission.

Too much vinegar in my opinion, I guess..

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You (Tony Robinson, from Courtenay, Canada) wrote: Aww cmon Globs of Mail.

You helped the liberals *script* Karl Scheiber the notorious liar from whom no evidence of any sort could ever be trusted . .

and That fizzled.

You encouraged liberals to *script* the Cadman family . . .

and that fizzled.

Is your nose out of joint because the CPC offers few *freebies* your way?

Do you want those free spending
Demarais, Maurice Strong, Paul Martin, Power Corporation cronies filling your pages with advertising paid for out of our tax dollars. . . again?

I understand your pain, but please, try to re-discover *not too biased reporting* again.. OK? = TG

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