Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio.
Tonight, for your delectation, here is Wiegenlied: Guten Abend, Gute
Nacht, Op. 49, No. 4, by Johannes Brahms:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t894eGoymio

Giovanni Palestrina - Missa Papae Marcelli - Kyrie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y28ZRYF9Q-4

Vit, for those more papally minded, a little Palestrina and a Lord have mercy.

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP

Commander in Chief

Frankenstein Battalion

2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)

Knecht Rupprecht Division

Hans Corps

1st Saint Nicolaas Army

Army Group “True North”

Good news Kate, it was a one page letter. I can hardly wait for the excuse. But I am locked and loaded with at least three more.

Time to take Lucy's crown. But only with serious cases. Have you seen what MSM has been reporting on the Sikhs - imagine showing pictures of posters with assorted assassins which were displayed at the recent Sikh celebrations - talk about bringing an identifiable group into hatred and contempt. And the Globe even had the audacity to use the word "terrorist" and paraphrase organizers making remarks which could only serve to create more hatred and contempt. Shocking! But I'll have a complaint on the move soon. The Globe and Mail will soon learn not to post this sort of reporting on any website in Canada.

And, remember, it's the process which is the real punishment.

Options For Disgruntled "Small-c" Conservatives -

(with the corollary that the individual parties currently have less support [2006 election] than the Red-Greens):

The Christian Heritage Party of Canada: www.chp.ca

The Libertarian Party of Canada: www.libertarian.ca

1.) The Western Separatists: www.westernblockparty.com

2.) The Western Canada Independence Party -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Canada_Independence_Party

________________

Quarterly Federal Subsidies (based on $1.25 per vote on January 23, 2006) -

CHP: $35,190.00 every 4 months

Libertarians: $3,752.50 every 4 mos.

Western Blocks: $1367.50 every 4 mos.

The "Party of Alberta" goes quiet.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Alberta

Income Trust flip-flop? "Separation if necessary, but not necessarily separation"?

Lamentations --> www.partyofalberta.org

"Irving’s list brings us the Nanamuit word for "robin": "Koyapigaktoruk.""
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"CATO: Climate Speculators Have (Robin's) Egg on Their Face"

"""The Inuit language for 10,000 years never had a word for 'robin,'" McCain lamented, "and now there are robins all over their villages." The BBC even titled a program on arctic warming "No Word for 'Robin': Climate Change in the Canadian Arctic."

What a shame! Pretty little birds invading the Arctic, bringing joy with their whoop of spring!

But, of course, it’s not true."

"At the same time, how about a little truth-telling about the hoax of "Warming Island," an islet off Greenland that was — erroneously — thought to be a part of Greenland, connected by land lying beneath the ice.

As Greenland warmed over the last decade, the ice melted and revealed open water underneath, thus giving birth to a "new" island. Climate change enthusiasts claimed the channel between island and mainland had not been revealed for countless millennia.

As it turns out, maps show that Warming Island, indeed, was very much an island a mere 50 years ago, when Greenland, in fact, was warmer than it has been for the last 10 years.

As sure as the robin’s song of spring, we continue to hope that America’s best newspaper (and the BBC) will sing out the truth about climate change and the bob, bob, bobbin’ of the red, red Koyapigaktoruk in the North American Arctic."
http://tinyurl.com/58u53d (fox)

Thanks for the link to The Anchoress, Kate, for news of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States: good stuff!

Here's a excerpt from his first speech, words and ideas that all Canadians need to take to heart--especially in these perilous, post-Librano times wherein Canada, with the help of the MSM, Librano-cheering, Flying Monkey Squad has all but turned our country into a Godless Banana Republic, despite our institutions' deep roots in Judeo-Christian principles and values:

[Begin quote]

Freedom is not only a gift, but also a summons to personal responsibility. Americans know this from experience — almost every town in this country has its monuments honouring those who sacrificed their lives in defence of freedom, both at home and abroad.

The preservation of freedom calls for the cultivation of virtue, self-discipline, sacrifice for the common good and a sense of responsibility towards the less fortunate. It also demands the courage to engage in civic life and to bring one’s deepest beliefs and values to reasoned public debate.

In a word, freedom is ever new. It is a challenge held out to each generation, and it must constantly be won over for the cause of good. Few have understood this as clearly as the late Pope John Paul II. In reflecting on the spiritual victory of freedom over totalitarianism in his native Poland and in eastern Europe, he reminded us that history shows, time and again, that “in a world without truth, freedom loses its foundation,” and a democracy without values can lose its very soul.

Those prophetic words in some sense echo the conviction of President Washington, expressed in his Farewell Address, that religion and morality represent “indispensable supports” of political prosperity.

[End quote]

This Pope, though lacking the extrovert, charismatic touch of Pope John Paul II is, nevertheless, brilliant and compelling. His gifts complement those of J2P2, and I, for one, am grateful for his deep, clear thinking on matters of universal importance--not shot from the hip but mined from the depths of his no-slouch brain, his soul, and the Mind and Soul of the Creator of the Universe.

Oh my...from Don Surber: the ex-preident of the USA believes the dictators speak for the all the people..?
I followed the link...and yes that is a quote...
oh my!Scarry that Carter was in the White House!

From CFCF 12 Montreal,

Mugger beaten...

A mugger picked on the wrong man in the Villeray district Tuesday night.
The victim beat him so badly that he's fighting for his life in hospital.
About 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, the mugger contronted the man in his 30s at Papineau and Belanger.
The victim beat the mugger about the head and upper body with his fists.
The robber was left bloodied on the ground, and had to be transported to hospital where he's in critical condition.
So far neither the robber nor the victim has been charged.

... ... ...

Now if only more people dealt with muggers this way...any liberal wants to try and convince me there would be more muggings instead of less?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080417.wforcesads17/BNStory/Afghanistan/home

Once again, according to the MSM, the big bad Conservatives and their "hidden agenda". The shock and horror that the new CF recruiting ads don't show Afghanistan.

First off the CF ads are done by DND after all sorts market testing to actually see what will get recruits in through the door, after all recruiting ads are meant to do just that, recruit soldiers, they are not some reflection of the Conservative "hidden agenda" and attempt to hide the Afghan mission.

Second, if someone shows up to a recruiting centre and doesn't know that the Afghanistan mission is going on, it is probably best for the recruiter to send him/her on their merry little way.

I wish the media would stop trying to make controversy where there is none.

I will when they pry the chopsticks from my cold fat dead hands

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aTcgvBD7ty.0

From CTV.ca story on the RCMP "raid":

The controversy descended into regular House of Commons theatrics Wednesday when Deputy Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff began a question with the suggestion that the RCMP had to enter the Tory offices wearing "bullet proof vests."

Nice. Suggesting that the RCMP have to fear getting shot at Conservative HQ.

The media has given Ignatieff a free pass on this little slur. This deserves more attention.

Now even the Globe and Mail editorial writers are getting fed up with Conservative pork and questionable ethical behaviour.

Are Flaherty's days numbered?

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A flavour of pork

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has an unfortunate habit of taking disproportionate care of his riding and his political pals. Pork-barrelling provisions are sprinkled through his budgets. Now, as The Globe and Mail reports today, Mr. Flaherty flatly ignored the advice of his bureaucrats when he awarded an untendered $122,000 speech-writing contract to a former supporter. Worse, when asked about this contract two months ago, Mr. Flaherty implied that the bureaucracy was at fault for this violation of the Conservative government's guidelines. "What was not done was the administrative functions were not properly followed," he told the House of Commons. "That has been fixed."

That answer is not good enough, given that Mr. Flaherty is the one who broke those so-called functions when he hired Conservative Hugh MacPhie to work on the 2007 federal budget. At the time, senior bureaucrats argued that communications experts were widely available, so it would be hard to come up with a "reasonable rationale" for an untendered contract of such magnitude.[…]

There is a disturbing pattern here. In last year's budget, Mr. Flaherty ignored bureaucratic advice and qualified two cars manufactured in his area for an incentive program to encourage the purchase of fuel-efficient vehicles. […]

In this year's budget, Mr. Flaherty offered to fund a train to run through his Whitby-Oshawa riding, though many other projects, such as high-speed trains from Montreal to Ottawa, should take precedence. He also offered to fund a multimillion-dollar facility for people with disabilities, provided applicants met guidelines that conveniently applied to a pet project in his riding. Few other facilities would qualify because Ottawa has given applicants only 30 days to apply for funding.

Such ploys might have been classic in an outmoded era of pork-barrel politics. The Conservatives promised to run a clean and accountable government. Someone should remind Mr. Flaherty that those fervent promises apply to him too.

Kim Robinson is my kind of neighbour!!

"He's got"!!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080416.wmerritt0416/BNStory/National/home

Boycott Mao Stlong's Red Orympics.
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"Sachin Tendulkar pulls out of Olympic relay as India mounts huge security shield"
"Sachin Tendulkar is the biggest sports star in India, and his withdrawal from the relay is a big blow to China"
http://tinyurl.com/53rqy2 (times)

"Indian capital locked down for Olympic torch relay"
http://tinyurl.com/4shav6 (times)

Global Warming strikes Ontario! From Ski Press World :
Ontario's Blue Mountain Still Open: Longest Ski Season in Mountain's History!

http://www.skipressworld.com/newsdetail.php?id=24797&languageId=1®ionId=2§ion=home&type=news&mode=read&filter=&sort=

Shellfish pose new danger for F-22s

According to a service press release, officials at Langley Air Force Base, Va., are increasingly worried about the threat posed to shiny new F-22 Raptors by local gulls. The Raptors are invisible to the most highly advanced missiles, but can’t avoid the clams and mussels dropped by the gulls.

The gulls drop shellfish onto Langley’s runways to break open the creatures and eat the insides. But left on the runway, the shells could ruin an engine or, worse, cause a crash if sucked into an air intake...

Socialism in Zimbabwe. Socialism is also the ideology of Taliban Jack Layton-NDP & Liberal Citoyen Dion in Canada.
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"Opposition supporters murdered in Zimbabwe: US"
http://tinyurl.com/6dbsx6 (zimonline)

Melanie Phillips, An Iraqi Gets It

Unlike so many in the west, this London-based Iraqi author, Aref Alwan has a grasp of history and is honest enough to acknowledge the truth about the unmitigated evil that is dominating the Middle East and the world. In a remarkable article, he identifies the Arab refusal to recognise other people’s rights which has given rise to the ‘enormous lie’ that Palestine was stolen from the Arabs in the ‘nakba’ – ie, the creation of Israel in 1948. Refusing to recognise anyone else’s rights, he says, led to the Arab persecution of Jews, Kurds and Copts and has created the monstrosity of Islamic terrorism...

I guess that's the best Ted can do; meanwhile LPC still has not repaid the $millions they took from taxpayers, opting instead to hypocritically bleat about the greatest scandal in parliamentiary history (Goodale) and bullet proof vests worn by RCMP.

When the Grits abandon their corrupt political culture, admit their wrongdoing in Adscam (and countless other pork barrel/illegal scemes), then pay back the money they owe to the taxpayers, then maybe they can point fingers. Until they do, they can shut the f**k up; or force an election.

Ted, that was predictably pathetic; and spare us the "I know what you are, but what am I" crap. Go ahead, Grits, fight an election on this one.

What's the double-sided fax thing?

Apparently Diane Finley is receiving "threats" because of the immigration proposals,and requires RCMP protection!

http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/415406

Last paragraph.

Isn't this exactly how things have gone in Europe? Any attempt to restore some balance in the system is met with increasingly shrill yelling from the median and the lefties, and eventually violence is threatened, and often committed.

If we don't fix things in the next few years, I think it will be too far gone to ever fix in our lifetimes.

It's a good thing that Jimmy Carter WAS in the Whitehouse ... well relatively speaking anyway.

He makes an excellent example of what NOT to do in so many ways. Carter Cried .... People Died!

Except for that Habitat for Humanity thing... maybe.

No, "Osama" and Hillary, this isn't a "how to" manual.

Hans A. von Spakovsky, Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: 100,000 Stolen Votes in Chicago

The "Truth About Voter Fraud," according to activist groups like the Brennan Center, is that "many of the claims of voter fraud amount to a great deal of smoke without much fire…. The allegations simply do not pan out."

Chicago, however, is known for its fires, and there was a roaring one there in 1982 that resulted in one of the largest voter fraud prosecutions ever conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice... This case of voter fraud is worth studying today be­cause it illustrates the techniques that political machines and organized political groups use to steal elections. Even in the present day, this threat is not hypothetical...

Factoid: It is illegal for a Scot to become Pope.

"sacrifice for the common good " is this freedom?

"sacrifice for the common good " is also what the Tories are doing by shovelling out $19 billion a year in direct subsidies to business.

Sacrificing your tax dollars for their common good.

Diane Finley receiving death threats?

I wonder which 'visible multicultural community' is making the threats?

This more than anything proves the immigration overhaul is the right thing to do for Canada. Keep the violent immigrants out, as they used to say in the old country.

I wonder if the Pope's visit, enthusiastic crowds, great message to get back to your roots will have any effect in November. One sure feels very uplifted after watching the pomp and ceremony, for catholics and others, as compared to how one feels after listening to the rantings of Rev Wright.
My son asked a question, the Pope is the Head of the Catholic Church, Archbishop of Cantebury is Head of the Anglican church, there is a President and council of 12 that leads the LDS church.
His question, who is the head, leader whatever of the Islamic followers. I told him some guy that died a few thousand years ago. Is there one mullah or whatever who is he.

Just when you thought Rowan Atkinson couldn't get any dumber:

"Archbishop of Canterbury says Middle East Christians are suffering persecution because of 'American global project'"

Christians in the Middle East are facing persecution because of British and American foreign policy, the Archbishop of Canterbury will claim today.

dailymail.co.uk

I guess the 250 million Christians, Hindus, Jews, Zorastrians, Buddhists and Animists slaughtered by the practioners of peace over the last 1350 years don't count.

Neither do the instructions in the Quran, such as:

9:5 Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

Chances for a June election look to be very high... two former Liberal MP's in Dion's office, who lost their seats in the 2006 election, just left their posts in the OLO... only makes sence if they KNOW the Liberals have decided to take us down, and they're going back to their old ridings to start campaigning full time.

All right here: (shameless self promotion) http://canadaconservative.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-liberal-hints-for-june-election.html

MSM uses the oxymoron, "web journalism". Such much cruel kindness. Web journalists? More oxymoronism from the MSM. To MSM and its hacks: to quote General Honore: "You are stuck on stupid!" You are embedded in stupid.
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"What’s the future of web journalism?
By DAN BROWN, ONLINE EDITOR
The London Free Press"
"The Internet is changing journalism."
http://tinyurl.com/6xk65r
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"Torstar cutting 160 jobs
By THE CANADIAN PRESS"
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maz2;

I am currently in India where the focus has been on a single protester merely waving a Tibetan flag in defience during the torch run. He was roundly attacked by 12 armed Indian police officers. The reporters have been asking if the public if this makes any sense at all and to voice their opinion.

Personally, I will not be watching these Olympic proceedings at all this time. I feel the best way to have the world see the objection to China's abuses is to have the major world networks suffer significant losses to their ratings. Money talks and lost money shouts.
Leave politics to the lack lustre, spineless civil servants. Allow our athletes to make up their own minds whether to compete or not. Don't expect the media whores of the networks to voice your true opinions.
JUST.....DON"T.....WATCH.
If the viewers are the lowest in IOC history, there will be no other option than to change the way they administer the contracts. China will have been delt a huge shaming from the citizens of the free world. What more could we ask for?

Shamrock:

It is my hope that the Conservatives campaign as you do. There's no way The Right Honourable Stephen Brian Jean Harper has a chance of winning if they do.

Canadians will not care about what happened two Prime Ministers ago.

More to the point, if Harper tries to run on "accountability" and "ethics" again he will be:

(a) making the mistake of Ernie Eves and Paul Martin and many others, i.e. trying to run the same campaign twice (Eves: Dalton is "not ready", Martin: "scary Conservatives", both failed). Run a campaign about your opponent's weaknesses instead of yourself once, but try to have two campaigns without talking about yourself and Canadians will see through the tactic

(b) be lauged off the campaign trail. In two short years, the Conservatives have accomplished what took 13 years for the Liberals to accomplish:

- Flaherty's pork-barrelling

- Cadman bribery scandal

- In-and-Out scandal and RCMP raid (as Harper said "I think the mere existence of a police investigation indicates we should have a wider public inquiry into the practices that are going on here...")

- directing friendly members of the press to ask specific Conservative written questions to Liberal candidates

- when all else fails, try to silence opposition or bad news: sue the opposition party and its members, filibuster your own committees so they don't function, ignore access to information requests, muzzle independent Crown agencies by fighting them court (the Military Police Complaints Commission) or firing them in the dark of the night (CNSC)

- obfuscation, lies, deceipt, incompetence on detainees

Quite an impressive list. For such a short period of time.

What is particularly funny/ironic/sad/pathetic, is that so many of these ethical problems are exactly the same type of issues that brought the Liberals deservedly down.

- creating their own sponsorship program after Martin cancelled it (and asking fellow caucus members for "worthy causes" to sponsor before rules have been established or the program made public)

- the recurring problem of sole-sourcing contracts in breach of rules

- luring party floor-crossers with prominent posts

- income trust broken promise easily as bad as the GST broken promise

- the arrogance of Jim "Don't invest in Ontario" Flaherty and Peter "small man of Confederation" Van Loan and so many others constant attacks on Ontario has done the Conservatives more damage in Ontario already than "beer and popcorn"

My prediction? In the aftermath of the next election - which will be very disappointing for all 4 parties - will result in a total cleaning out of the leadership of all 4 for the good of Canada.

Abortion as Art: Yale Art Student induces and films miscarriages to get her art degree.

You know this had to happen at point or another.

No pictures yet. I hope the MSM sends reporters.

"Is Going Green Making You Crazy? It's Time for Eco-Therapy"
"Sarah Edwards fled crowded living in Santa Monica, Ca., for a secluded cabin in Los Padres National Forest to help her cope with eco-anxiety."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351353,00.html

Sarah Edwards:
http://tinyurl.com/5l5l57
Fauxtography?

Karl Kraus: "Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure."

Forgot a few others:

- record shattering spending in first budget

- the emerging University of Calgary campaign funding scandal (too new to yet get a nifty name, but we've been too busy with all the other Conservative scandals)

- record shattering use of polling to decide how to govern

MSM/Time fauxtography by the "experts" with their hubris/egoism.

Stengel-Time: "People trust us to make decisions. We're experts in what we do. So I thought, you know what, if we really feel strongly about something let's just say so."
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"Time Tramples Iwo Jima Image to Push 'War on Global Warming'"
"In our nation's history, there are few images more heroic, more sacred in a civil sense, than that of the Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima. Time has now twisted, and enlisted, that image for its "war on global warming."

Time editor Rick Stengel, making his regular Thursday appearance on Morning Joe to tout the week's cover story, naturally thought it was a wonderful idea. He also explained why Time decided to editorialize in favor of a "massive" effort to combat global warming.
View video here."
http://tinyurl.com/5breof (newsbusters:

Ted --
What Flaherty pork barreling? . . .oh ya, for the disability group (not considered "pork barreling" by many, and in any event, a bit less offensive than tactics such as the sale of the Digby wharf to Liberal insiders -- there is a lot of Liberal dirt not currently in the public eye -- (real dirt -- not innuendos and unproven allegations!) that can easily be drummed up for an election if necessary. The Conservatives do not have a "recurring" problem with sole source -- there is one example of a speech writer (an acknowleged mistake), and the rest are under $25,000 contracts. NOONE -- including other contractors want to get involved in having to develop bids for small contracts -- it's a waste of everyone's time. But now that you bring up "untendered" -- how about that DND building in Ottawa built under Chretien? I had heard (from an entirely credible source) that the building contract was never tendered, and that the contract went to friends and relatives of Liberal insiders. That could be wrong but I heard it from a source who was very likely to know.
Anyway -- I think the Liberals are making a mistake trying to smear the Conservatives -- and the Conservatives are smart enough to know that the Canadian people will not respond positively to an election fought on accountability -- primarily because I think they are sick of being jerked around by such things as unprovable allegations (Cadman) and 17-year old video tapes.
A lot of Liberal effort seems to be going into proving that the Conservatives are "just as corrupt", but I don't think anyone is really interested in this broken record. Are there any policies Liberals plan to talk about during the election. Thought not -- oh wait -- I had forgotten about Kyoto and carbon tax -- go for it!

Ted,

All of which adds up to public apathy.

Where are the millions stolen from the taxpayers? What of the billions lost in the boondoggles? Shwanigate? The long gun registry? Power Corp, Total Fina and CSL? Etc., etc., etc.

Also, how did the CBC know ahead of time to show up at the Conservative offices? For that matter, how did the Liberals and their video camera operator know? Who tipped them off in order for them to film this convenient footage?

The Conservatives govern, while the juvenile Liberals create and stage direct a scam of the week, all while voting with the government on every issue. That in and of itself is a scandal.

Furthermore, don't you have an ambulance to chase? You certainly don't have an audience here for your ludicrous smears and unintelligent comments.

I haven't read the comments above yet, but have visited the Anchoress's blog about the visit of Pope Benedict. How generous of you, Kate, to include this site. Thank you so much!

Even if I weren't a Roman Catholic—a very new one—I'd have been so impressed by Benedict's quiet reserve and humility, not to mention his obvious goodness and razor sharp mind. As one of the commentators said on CNN yesterday morning, he writes all his own addresses. And what a tour de force—stated clearly, simply, with no fireworks— were his words for all of us yesterday. My husband—not a Roman Catholic, but a believing Christian—came into the room and, in tears and smiles, I told him how proud I am to have such a man as Benedict the spiritual leader of my church. My husband was fully in sync and supportive and regretted the buffoons who apparently “run”, into the ground, the church to which he belongs.

Even here at SDA, I didn’t mention for the longest time that I was a Christian or that I became a Roman Catholic: the negative stereotyping is now so ingrained in this society, I’m sure that even some who appreciated my posts were put off once they knew I was “one of those”. Hey, even members of my family feel that way. I think dissing the Roman Catholic Church—other Christians too—is the last frontier of bigotry—and fully supported by our secular, liberal elites. What utter hogwash, and altogether hypocritical and intolerant.

I really identify with this section of Benedict’s address: “The preservation of freedom calls for the cultivation of virtue, self-discipline, sacrifice for the common good and a sense of responsibility towards the less fortunate. It also demands the courage to engage in civic life and to bring one’s deepest beliefs and values to reasoned public debate.” Except for here, I usually keep my mouth shut in public: with our free speech rights now severely truncated in the “free” country of Kanadistan, the consequences for not going along with the Zeitgeist (Spirit of the Age) can be severely punitive.

One of my favourite choral pieces is Palestrina’s “Tu Es Petrus”: “You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church”. I thank God for the visit of this holy man to the USA and for God’s providence in giving the late 20th and early 21st centuries two such exceptional “Peters” as John Paul II and Benedict XVI: Alleluia! Men for all seasons (who make most temporal leaders look like pygmies).

P.S. I’ve already “outed” myself, so I might as well put in a good word, no problem for me, for GW Bush, a man who definitely knows what he is dealing with: holiness. GWB met the pope at the airport, something he’s never done before. And, when asked what he saw in Benedict’s eyes, GWB apparently replied, “God”. I suggest that GWB’s definitely onto something to which our arrogant, trite, 15 minutes of fame society and MSM should take heed.

(It’s GOD that should be paid some heed: IMO, the pope is one of His key messengers.)

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates wants university-based think tanks similar to RAND Corporation to promote research in certain areas, including:

Third, Religious and Ideological Studies. There is little doubt that eventual success in the conflict against jihadist extremism will depend less on the results of individual military engagements and more on the overall ideological climate within the world of Islam. Understanding how this climate is likely to evolve over time, and what factors – including U.S. actions – will affect it thus becomes one of the most significant intellectual challenge we face.

It has been a long time since religious issues have had to be addressed in a strategic context. A research program along these lines could be an important contribution to the intellectual foundation on which we base a national strategy in coming years and decades.

(Background here).

Did he send copies of his proposals to Steven Coughlin, the Pentagon's on-again, off-again expert on Islamism?

From your part of the world Kate.

Potash Corp Increases Price....

and from the story itself?

"Canpotex Limited has reached a deal regarding the price of potatoes that it would sell"

When did potash companys get in the potatoe business? And was not just a typo, the accompaning photo is of a bunch of taters!!

http://www.enews20.com:80/news_Potash_Corp_Increases_Price_in_Sinofert_Deal_07318.html

Liberal in and out in NB
"The problem for Liberals LeBlanc and Murphy is that their names appear on an advertisement structured the same way as the Conservatives’! "

http://www.mrdconservative.com/cgi/wp/?p=189

A crystal ball, or just plain common sense?

What he is saying, thousands and hundreds of thousands are saying and thinking — not throughout Great Britain, perhaps, but in the areas that are already undergoing the total transformation to which there is no parallel in a thousand years of English history. In 15 or 20 years, on present trends, there will be in this country three and a half million Commonwealth immigrants and their descendants. That is not my figure. That is the official figure given to parliament by the spokesman of the Registrar General’s Office. There is no comparable official figure for the year 2000, but it must be in the region of five to seven million, approximately one-tenth of the whole population, and approaching that of Greater London. Of course, it will not be evenly distributed from Margate to Aberystwyth and from Penzance to Aberdeen. Whole areas, towns and parts of towns across England will be occupied by sections of the immigrant and immigrant-descended population.

…It is this fact which creates the extreme urgency of action now, of just that kind of action which is hardest for politicians to take, action where the difficulties lie in the present but the evils to be prevented or minimised lie several parliaments ahead.

...

We are on the verge here of a change. Hitherto it has been force of circumstance and of background which has rendered the very idea of integration inaccessible to the greater part of the immigrant population — that they never conceived or intended such a thing, and that their numbers and physical concentration meant the pressures towards integration which normally bear upon any small minority did not operate. Now we are seeing the growth of positive forces acting against integration, of vested interests in the preservation and sharpening of racial and religious differences, with a view to the exercise of actual domination, first over fellow-immigrants and then over the rest of the population.

- Enoch Powell, on British immigration, 1968

Gee, Mark Steyn says the same thing, 40 YEARS LATER, when the REALITY is here for all to see, and, like Enoch Powell--treated as a pariah by all "decent" people--he's still censored and censured.

Crazy.

...too bad Mohammad's child bride didn't know about this:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/17/yemen.child.ap/index.html

SAN'A, Yemen (AP) -- A Yemeni judge dissolved the marriage of an 8-year-old girl to a man nearly four times her age, and the girl's lawyer said Wednesday that the court also ordered the youngster removed from the control of the father who forced her into the wedding.

The lawyer, Shatha Ali Nasser, said the girl is just one of thousands of underaged girls who have been forced into marriages in this poor tribal country at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.

The girl's story has drawn headlines in Yemen because she took the unusual step of seeking out a judge on her own to file for divorce.

Ted, you forgot about the "Belindog National Crisis". Don't forget that one!

You've convinced me, Ted...I'm tearing up my CPC membership card! Your job here is done. What a compelling argument. Bye now...don't let the closing window smash your fingers on the way out.

As if.

There goes the Liberal and NDP propaganda departments

The Star is cutting 160 workers from the Newspaper division

Lliberalsocialists push dope. Why? Are there government imposed sales taxes/GST on dope?
Citoyen Dion answers: It "is something in which we believe."

Meanwhile, in Canada's capital city, Ottawa:

"Plea for Help to Cover Needle Clean-Up Costs"
"The cost of the increased clean-up effort is estimated to be about $200-thousand.
Councillor Diane Holmes says it will take more than city council to lobby MPPs."
http://www.cfra.com/ ...-

Citoyen Dion (ctv):
"Without being asked about it, he told the crowd of about 150 students that Canada's only safe injection site -- known as Insite and situated in the Downtown Eastside -- "is something in which we believe."

I'm not sure if you've seen the one about the Yale art student who has impregnated herself repeatedly, then aborted the babies, for umm...artistic reasons apparently.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351608,00.html

There are just no words to describe the depravity of it. I just feel sick.

Poll finds majority of Canadians feel we make too many accommodations to visible minorities. Enter Chretien henchman Donolo to explain the numbers... urban people are "chic"... rural are "hicks"... beer and popcorn anyone?

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A majority of Canadians feel their country makes too many accommodations to visible minorities, according to a new poll.

The survey, conducted for CTV News and the Globe and Mail by The Strategic Counsel, showed 61 per cent of Canadians felt Canada was doing too much.

[...]

Fifty-five per cent of Canadians living in large cities said Canada was making too many accommodations for visible minorities in comparison to 71 per cent in communities of less than 30,000.

"I think in a lot of smaller communities, people's exposure to this is through the media, they see a lot of sensationalized stories -- the debate over Shariah law, public funding for religious schools, whether women should be wearing veils to vote," Peter Donolo, a partner with the polling firm the Strategic Counsel, told CTV.ca.

"So they'll always see these flashpoint issues whereas the reality of living in a large urban area where there might be large numbers of visible minorities is just a lot more mundane."

http://tinyurl.com/4qyxcl

CBC/Xinhua/Pravda labels MP Anders "An outspoken Calgary Conservative MP".

More "outspoken":
Boycott Mao Stlong's Red Orympics.
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"China 'worst human rights abuser in the world': Tory MP
Calgary's Anders decries 'torch goons' at Beijing Olympic relays"
http://tinyurl.com/583dfk

Kate, why don't you talk about the trapper and dog breeder who hunted down the guy who killed his kids in Merritt, BC?

http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=38e8d28e-6d0b-4f09-932c-84d915bcb419

No, no, NO!!!

Canadian Human Rights Tribunal gives away $500,000+ of taxpayer's money

I would be upset if a judge made this decision, but it is DISGUSTING that this gong show is giving away taxpayer money like this. I may be completely wrong, but I thought that in a claim of lost wages, the award is reduced by other employment that the person has had. (i.e. if I get fired wrongfully, and get a job the next day at twice my previous salary, I can't claim any lost wages because I have suffered no real loss.) This guy worked as a customs agent and then as a Calgary policeman. He has been making a good wage for the past 9 years.

Article has said this guy could get up to $650,000 of taxpayer money. This is ridiculous.

Hilarious

South Park: The Day The Internet Stood Still

http://gawker.com/380877/south-park-the-day-the-internet-stood-still?autoplay=true

For Kate and anyone else in Saskatchewan, a major spring storm is on tap. 50 cm likely over a wide area, and more isn't out of the question.

Check out the special weather statement here:
http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/warnings/SWS_bulletins_e.html?prov=sk

And the watches and warnings likely starting tomorrow morning here:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/environment/envirogeog/weather/warnings/sk.html

If traveling, please be careful.

Ted, nobody is stupid enough to take advice from you, certainly not Harper. Make you faux list as long as you want, when you get to the level of Adscam, Shawinigate, HRDC, $1B not to buy helicopters, and on, and on, and on, then you might actually have an argument.

Nice bluff and bluster - I guess "Canadians" don't want election right now. As for CPC and me, we would love an election right now, or anytime against your crew of clowns. Keep spouting your predictable and pathetic talking points - you have no money, no leader, no policies (unless anti-policies count).

Your reverse pop psychology is laughable. Keep living the delusion, though.

Obama's take on the issue of tax redistribution scares the hell out of me...
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/17/video-obamas-redistributionism-on-capital-gains-taxes/

Ah, Shamrock. When you have no argument against the facts of Harper's failed 2 years, what else is left but to launch personal attacks. Clearly, you've learned well from Harper's own example.

Biofuel Madness: Environmentalism exploited for political purposes
By Dr. Tim Ball Tuesday, April 8, 2008

"How did we get to “biofuel madness”? Environmentalism exploited for political purposes is the short answer. Sadly, biofuels are just the beginning. Other madness includes the carbon credit shell game that does nothing to reduce CO2; the myth that fossil fuel resources are running out; the myth of the viability of other alternative energies; the myth that pollution problems are getting worse in most of the world; the erroneous belief that CO2 is a pollutant; the failure to build adequate traditional power sources and the significant lead time to build these once the power shortages hit home, are just some of the existing problems of the exploitation."

Read the rest at
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2557

Ted, Yawn. Yes, what a failed record - more legislation passed than three Grit administrations put together - all with Liberal support, er, abstention that is.

You really are pathetic. Clearly, you've learned from the Grits "own example" of obfuscation, corruption and spurious talking points. Keep up the good work - with your help, we're sure to secure a Tory majority.

Ah, yes. That mythical Conservative majority.

Let's see now, a very divided opposition party with no real leader and no vision and no policies and no backbone and afraid of their own shadow and no money... while Harper controls the government, controls his caucus, controls the agenda, is tactical "genius", inherited a solid economy with a fiscal surplus, has a united party, spends like a drunken soldier on people and ridings who might vote for him, has loads and loads of money (and most of it seemingly legal), constant attack ads the media is happy to repeat for free...

... and yet...

... and yet...

... he's hasn't moved a fraction in the polls since the last election and some polls have him behind. What kind of leader is that?? He's gone after the next election: he'll "win" but by less and then he's gone.

The best, perhaps the only thing, going for the Conservatives right now is Dion and the Liberal Party. The best, perhaps the only thing, going for the Liberals right now is Harper and the Conservatives Party.

Ted, useless garbage like you have no place in polite society. Take your blinkered hatred and moral corruption elsewhere. No one is as blind as a cretinous liberal partisan, and no one is as corrupt. The liberals stole millions from the taxpayers, yet run free with nary an apology or admission in sight. They sit on their hands, totally bereft of principle because they are afraid of facing the electorate. In the meantime, Harper's government has done more good for the country in two years than Chrétien in 13. Case in point: Chrétien put the lives of men and women better than he (or you) will ever be at risk by starving our armed forces then sending them in harm's way. If aircrew had died because of an ancient Sea King crashing because it had not been replaced by the EH101 Chrétien cancelled out of political opportunism, he would have been guilty of murder. Don't even argue with me on this - it was crass politicking with the lives of humans.

Harper has done nothing less than miracles in the last two years correcting the criminal neglect of Chretien and his moral degenerates.

There is a reason Dion and the rest of corrupt filth are digging at any scandal they can manufacture: they are the Canadian equivalent of Mugabe's ZANU-PF: useless, corrupt and utterly bereft with only one goal in mind - power.

That being said, Ted, kiss my a$$ you retard

"have no place in polite society"

Oh Brave Anonymous, how would you know what polite society would accept or not?

And how does corruption under a past Liberal leadership make Harper's corruption and incompetence acceptable for people like you?

ted:

What corruption and incompetence?

Real-world example please and leave the tinfoil hat off.

None of the made-up scandals are going to stick.

Tough luck for your ilk.

Ted: "Ah, yes. That mythical Conservative majority...Let's see now, a very divided opposition party with no real leader and no vision and no policies and no backbone and afraid of their own shadow and no money..."

Gotta agree Ted, Tory majority will be difficult, but not impossible;though the fun part is getting you to admit your leader and party are a joke.

BTW, Ted, Canadians make final decisions about who they'll vote near the end of election campaigns. Before that polls (which, I guess you're referring to)are what dogs pee on.

The Liberal Party of Canada is unelectable right now, and it drives Ted et al crazy, even though he doesn't actually like Liberals.

Libs campaign platform will be a mix of stopping a Tory majority and admitting they're idiots; it's priceless. Their only (slim) chance for power is to convince Canadians that Tories are just as slimy, incompetent, arrogant and culpable as they are. The once proud LPC has become a caricature of itself, afraid to face the people or parliament, bleating on hystericaly and hypocriticaly, looking sillier by the day.