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What ever happened to .......

Maude Barlow ?
Apparently she writes socialist screeds under the guise of Op /Eds ... in backwater rags.

Video of Mark Steyn on TVO last night at this Youtube page

Michael J. Totten, This Is A Kosovar Muslim

I'm writing this from the capital of Kosovo, the least “scary” Muslim country on Earth. I've grown accustomed to moderate Muslims after living in and traveling to places like Beirut and Istanbul, but Kosovo is surprising even to me. Islam in this country is so thoroughly liberal (“moderate” doesn't quite cover it) that, if it weren't for the mosques, there would be no visible evidence that Kosovo is a Muslim country at all...

Forget creepy crypto-Islamists like Tariq Ramadan and his ilk, whom reporters like to swoon over. Genuinely liberal and moderate Muslims do exist. They're just not famous...

Herschel Smith, The Global Defeat of al Qaeda

I'm waiting for confirmation from somewhere - but I just heard a rumour that a school district in Calgary is banning the mailout that the Heartland Institute recently sent out free to schools across Canada. The mailout was a survey of opinions of scientists towards climate change issues.

Loads of great material at Small Wars Journal. Here is one small example:

(PDF warning; 8 pages) Craig Coppock, The Counterinsurgency Cliff Notes: Techniques for the Conventional Rifle Platoon, in Layman’s Terms

Check out the SWJ Blog, too.

Has Stephane Dion ever had to drive kids to a soccer game or track meet, or even to school? Has he ever had to commute anywhere where transit doesn't exist or is not feasible? Does he even own a driver's licence? Does he even own a car? He doesn't have a frikkin clue. Exactly what planet is he from? And I think most people in the Toronto Star's readership probably came from that same planet. We live in a big, spread out country, people. We HAVE to use cars to live our lives. Enviro-wackos want to punish us for trying to live productive lives. Transportation is a necessity and a lot of the time, cars are the only way. Duh.

Gordon Campbell will have a lot of angry people in BC ready to revolt when his carbon tax starts. There's no need to tax us more when gas is $1.32. We are already cutting back because we can't frikkin afford it! Imbeciles, the lot of them, on the enviro-religion bandwagon.

Never managed to get around to learning to read?

Join the Army says Stephen King!

http://tinyurl.com/3ulqze

First time in almost 44 years I tossed books in the garbage last night.

There was some good news about honey bees in Ohio, back in March. Anyone know about it?

"Things are looking up for honey bees this year, but keepers know only too well that a fine line separates a good year from a disastrous one.

"It's still early," said James Tew, a beekeeping specialist at Ohio State University's research center in Wooster. "If it turns cold again and stays cold, the bees will eat all their honey and starve to death."

As many as 85 percent of the honey bees across the state survived the winter, experts estimate. That's a big change from this time last year, when beekeepers opened their hives to find that a cold snap and a mysterious disease had killed off 72 percent of Ohio bees.

That translated into about 1 billion bees.

The higher numbers so far this year are good news for Ohio farmers who rely on bees to pollinate more than 70 crops, including apples, strawberries and pumpkins."

http://dispatch.com:80/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/22/honeybees.ART_ART_03-22-08_A1_8R9NFD1.html?sid=101

I dont believe Borat Dion can drive.

interesting article he wrote, who translated it for us.CBC? because usually their internet version looks quite different from his speeches.

Thanks for the TVO link.
I have read remarks wondering how such bright, well educated, modern looking young...law students.. can be so deluded by multiculturalism and the associated victim mentality. They were my first thoughts too. Then I remembered a discussion I had with my six year old a couple of months ago.

We had our usual, "what did you learn at school today" talk. He told me that today he had learned that, "sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can break my heart", complete with a crayon colored picture of a broken heart. Shocked that the school system would so radically change the words and intent of the saying, I told him the correct version and the meaning behind it. He then proceeded to argue with me on the grounds that the teacher told it to him and therefore the broken heart version must be true. Finally at supper time my husband confirmed the original,old-fashioned version.

I understand that the intent was to prevent bullying but this is the wrong way to do it. Kids need to learn resiliency not a thin-skinned victim mentality. A small example but symbolic of how even well intentioned progressive thought insidiously embeds itself. The law students are a product of this.

Choose your Canada, alright. The one represented by Steyn, Ezra and Kate or the one by the HRC and their complainants.

A POINT TO PONDER!! I read the "hard copy" of Regina Leader Post on Saturdays, the rest of the week I read it online. The Sat. edition had three letters to the editor. I'm not sure what paper has the largest circulation, The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix or the Regina L-P. I do however find it rather peculiar that a provincial wide paper such as L-P would only yield three letters to the editor in the Sat. edition.
I UNDERSTAND that a lot of letters in papers such as Leader Post, Star Phoenix, Western Producer and other major papers are often edited, or ignored. One person produced an original hand typed letter that actually had had an entire paragraph inserted into his letter to the editor of a small town newspaper. Words that could have been used in a lawsuit!! WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOME INPUT ON THIS!!
Are newspapers on their way out????

"Saskatchewan Liberals1 moving right? That might be interesting. Split vote, anyone?"

Hi Lance - no vote splitting going on here. Saskatchewan is dominated by two parties...a socialist party, and an anti-NDP party that governs like socialists. When the Saskatchewan Liberal Party embraces its free enterprise roots, there will be a free enterprise voting option in this province again, thank goodness.

Re Sudanese rapist story:

"Last month, he told them he knows several people in Edmonton who could verify who he was, but didn't have names or contact information. "He stated that if we took him for a drive around Edmonton, he might be able to locate them," said Kristine Rondeau, who represented the agency."

Maybe Maude Barlow, Judy Rebbick or Barbara Hall could chauffeur him.

"No, honestly, we're not with those federal pseudo-Liberals, please believe us, we hate those Liberals too!"

Splitting the federal and provincial wings of the Liberal Party in Saskatchewan into completely separate organizations is now on the radar screen. It is coming.

Jack B. Nimble, the Calgary Sun (if you call that a "newspaper") has 15-20 "letters" (more like brief email) in Sunday's edition.

I had one letter published in the Calgary Herald back in the mid-90's. (again, condensed)

OTOH, an email to Ralph Klein when he was premier resulted in two signed letters in response from Ralph and Ken Kowalski. At least they had someone respond.

"Flynn observes. “Gods can’t have ancestors.”"

"Bolshevik Begats
by: Malcolm A. Kline, May 07, 2008

If you wonder why your professors cannot let go of their pet theories no matter how badly they work out when practiced in the real world, you will find part of the answer in A Conservative history of the American Left by my predecessor, Daniel J. Flynn.

“From persuasion to politics, politics to revolution, and revolution to a long march through the institutions, the Left’s methods for transforming society have evolved,” Flynn writes. “The ends, though, have remained more or less the same.”

“A brotherhood of man, human perfection, complete equality, needs provided without cost, wants pursued without consequence, heaven on earth—ideas too impractical to live in practice, ideas too beautiful to die as ideas.” Three ideas that old, new and middle-aged Left were all hostile to were private property, religion and marriage, Flynn shows.

Before the Civil War, Leftists with bankrolls tried attraction and promotion in socialistic communities such as New Harmony, Indiana. Shortages, outward migration and depleted bankrolls were the inevitable results of these experiments.

“Marx coined neither ‘socialism’ nor ‘communism,’” Flynn informs us. “He expropriated them just as he urged his followers to expropriate the bougeoisie’s property.”

“In particular, he latched on to ‘communism’ because ‘socialism’ had been so closely associated with Robert Owen.” Owen was the Scottish industrialist who created New Harmony.

“Like so many leftists who came after him, Marx refused to acknowledge his debt to the leftists who came before him,” Flynn observes. “Gods can’t have ancestors.”

Flynn’s last book was Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas. As he shows in his latest, when leading by example didn’t entice America to move in its direction, the Left in America tried another approach—force."
http://tinyurl.com/65jv4f (campusreport)

Kate, it has been stole again !

Ottawa Citizen, by David Warren - Decline Of The Media Dinosaurs

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=6500c30b-9b56-480e-977e-27a49919242c&p=2

Copywrite sda, IPO also :)

"Hamas MP: Pepsi Stands For 'Pay Every Pence to Save Israel'

Here’s one of those bizarre Arabic clips that’s like a TV show from a parallel universe, where the rules of cause and effect and logic are ... different. Who knew that Pepsi Cola was a tool of the International Zionist Conspiracy?"
http://tinyurl.com/3rvaw9 (lgf)

Posted by: lynnh at May 7, 2008 12:16 PM
We had our usual, "what did you learn at school today" talk. He told me that today he had learned that, "sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can break my heart", complete with a crayon colored picture of a broken heart.

Absolutely fascinating post. If you'll excuse me, I laughed out loud, in a "gallows humour" kinda way. Truly sickening! Re-inforces something I heard once that in the public schools boys are considered defective girls.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have fired Paul Maurice.

Mississauga Matt: What happened to Part 4 of the Mark Steyn TVO appearance? I can't find it in YouTube.

Thanks for putting the show up for us.

MND, the public system sure has changed since my day. Because of academic concerns, I had already been looking into homeschooling. Since then I have come to realize that the system also conflicts with my core values,reinforcing my decision to homeschool.

In Rangoon, where monks and civilians were clearing the streets of debris, a man who refused to be identified added: “Where are all those uniformed people who are always ready to beat civilians? They should come out in full force and help clean up the areas and restore electricity.”

State thugs are for beating citizens, not saving them, whether in the People's Army in China, or in RCMP tasers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/burmamyanmar/1934080/Burmese-prisoners-'executed-after-cyclone-Nargis-hit'.html

Yeah, sorry, I was doing a bazillion things at the same time on my computer last night, including uploading parts 3-7 at the same time in 5 different tabs in Firefox, while at the same time sucking up the rest of my bandwidth with stuff on another computer on the same network.

The part 4 upload must have failed. I'll try again when I get home; should be there Thursday morning.

I saw a documentary last night about Congo rapists: http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/thegreatestsilence/index.html
If our Sudanese rapist is anything close to the same Universe as those animals this guy should never see the light of day again.

Does our legal system even care to attempt to ascertain what his past was before Canada? How many violent rapes was this thug responsible for before getting into Canada? Two? Ten? Twentyfive-ish?

Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" may actually have something right...Canada does leave it's doors unlocked, at least at the border. But instead of that being a sign of a safer society than the U.S., it's actually a sign that Canada is grossly ignorant of the real monsters that can easily gain access to our country and prey upon unsuspecting citizens.

Hardboiled

When China had those devastating floods the People's army of China was out in full force damming rivers helping out the local’s exc. A little more honest assessment might be warranted or we begin sounding like the mouth piece we all loath, the CBC.

Shameless self-promotion but . . .

I have some questions about the MacLean's HRC complaint

Iran clerics rebuke Ahmadinejad over 'hidden imam'

Iranian clerics have told President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stick to more worldly issues after he said the "hidden imam" of Shiite Islam was directing the country's affairs.

Ahmadinejad has always been a devotee of the Mahdi, the twelfth imam of Shiite Islam, who Shiites believe disappeared more than a thousand years ago and who will return one day to usher in a new era of peace and harmony...

lynnh: Homeschooling. GOOD for you! BTW, did you know it's illegal to homeschool in California, as it still is in Germany (a Hitler era holdover).

What to do with a Sudanese rapist?

Woodchipper, feet first.

What to do with a Sudanese rapist?

Woddchipper, feet first.

Fishman has fired the Grits; G-G has conquered France; where is Citoyen Dion?
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"Fishman abandons Grits for Green"
http://simcoe.com/allistonherald/article/103212

Yes, I read about the recent decision against home schoolers in Cali.

http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/ca/

I try to keep up to date just in case we relocate to my husbands home country. You know in case we become conscientious objectors to the HRC's War Against Intolerance or weather refugees escaping the ravages of global warming/climate change/global cooling.

Food vs. fuel: a global myth

In recent weeks, a flood of reports and statements has claimed that the world's biofuel programs—in particular the U.S. corn ethanol effort—is starving poor people around the globe. Even the UN's special rapporteur for the Right to Food decried biofuel production as "a crime against humanity."

It seems so obvious: With so much corn being turned into fuel, food shortages must inevitably result, and biofuel programs must be the cause. However, that's completely untrue.

Here are the facts. In the last five years, despite the nearly threefold growth of the corn ethanol industry (or actually because of it), the U.S. corn crop grew by 35 percent, the production of distillers grain (a high-value animal feed made from the protein saved from the corn used for ethanol) quadrupled and the net corn food and feed product of the U.S. increased 26 percent...."

"Not only doesn't ethanol production take food from the world, but it has increased commodity prices and encouraged more production. We are looking at record crops of wheat, and if the weather holds, soybeans."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0506fuelmay06,0,481881.story

Over at TVO.org Steve Paikin records his thoughts on last night’s show.

He takes the blogosphere to task for all the pre-show talk about there not being a debate, and states that the debate did occur.

All credit to Steve for allowing it, but it never would have happened if Mark Steyn hadn’t forcefully pushed for it on live TV.

The thought police are at it again. Brandon Rosario's speech featured on QR 77 Dave Rutherford http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=aZoolnsmQ04&feature=related

Does this qualify as sexual harassment? You be the judge.

Thanks Mississauga Matt for posting Steyn TVO.

The victim card is a rouse. They accuse Steyn of quoting Khomeini and the Dutch Imam as examples that lead to hate. Unfortunately for them, it was leading Muslim scholars that said those things. Who therefore should be accused?

And what of the other and lead complaintant, Elmasry and his public statement on killing Israelis over 18? Rather, one of them made the assinine and misleading comparison of Hitler to Christianity and even had the gall to mention Zundel. Outright hypocrisy from devotees of a prophet who proclaimed Jews the sons of apes and pigs and declared "wherever you find a Jew, kill him."

More importantly, what of the rampant hate throughout the Quran, Hadith and Sira - the books that are the foundation of their religion? What of the Islamic school text books found in most North American Islamic schools?

The Washington Post, May 21, 2006, published excerpts of these textbooks in an article "This is a Saudi textbook (after the intolerance was removed)":

4TH GRADE: "True belief means ... that you hate the polytheists and infidels."

5TH GRADE: "It is forbidden for a Muslim to be a loyal friend to someone who does not believe in Allah and His Prophet."

8TH GRADE: "The apes are Jews, the people of the Sabbath; while the swine are the Christians, the infidels of the communion of Jesus."

9TH GRADE: "It is part of Allah's wisdom that the struggle between the Muslim and the Jews should continue until the Hour [of Judgment]."

11TH GRADE: "Do not yield to Christians and Jews on a narrow road out of honor and respect."

One may have to read that last line again:

"DO NOT YIELD to Christians and Jews on a narrow road out of honor and respect."

As far as I'm concerned Muslim's complaining of hate speech against themselves is a non-starter. Their prophet and his ideology authored text book hate and the horrendous crimes against humanity as a result.

Until they honestly confront the blatant hate in their texts, mosques and schools and remove it and until Islamic countries sign the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, amongst many other things, they have no credibility or right in any discussion on human rights.

Thanks Mississauga Matt for posting Steyn TVO.

The victim card is a rouse. They accuse Steyn of quoting Khomeini and the Dutch Imam as examples that lead to hate. Unfortunately for them, it was leading Muslim scholars that said those things. Who therefore should be accused?

And what of the other and lead complaintant, Elmasry and his public statement on killing Israelis over 18? Rather, one of them made the assinine and misleading comparison of Hitler to Christianity and even had the gall to mention Zundel. Outright hypocrisy from devotees of a prophet who proclaimed Jews the sons of apes and pigs and declared "wherever you find a Jew, kill him."

More importantly, what of the rampant hate throughout the Quran, Hadith and Sira - the books that are the foundation of their religion? What of the Islamic school text books found in most North American Islamic schools?

The Washington Post, May 21, 2006, published excerpts of these textbooks in an article "This is a Saudi textbook (after the intolerance was removed)":

4TH GRADE: "True belief means ... that you hate the polytheists and infidels."

5TH GRADE: "It is forbidden for a Muslim to be a loyal friend to someone who does not believe in Allah and His Prophet."

8TH GRADE: "The apes are Jews, the people of the Sabbath; while the swine are the Christians, the infidels of the communion of Jesus."

9TH GRADE: "It is part of Allah's wisdom that the struggle between the Muslim and the Jews should continue until the Hour [of Judgment]."

11TH GRADE: "Do not yield to Christians and Jews on a narrow road out of honor and respect."

One may have to read that last line again:

"DO NOT YIELD to Christians and Jews on a narrow road out of honor and respect."

As far as I'm concerned Muslim's complaining of hate speech against themselves is a non-starter. Their prophet and his ideology authored text book hate and the horrendous crimes against humanity as a result.

Until they honestly confront the blatant hate in their texts, mosques and schools and remove it and until Islamic countries sign the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, amongst many other things, they have no credibility or right in any discussion on human rights.

oops, caught in the filter

MSM in full poison pen mode; caught out with its sick bias showing.
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[Version 1.]
Thompson: Harper’s D-Comm Hospitalized ****

"The corridors of power are abuzz today with the news that Sandra Buckler, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s communicatrix, communications director is in hospital for surgery for thyroid cancer, fortunately one of the more curable versions of a very nasty disease. The press gallery is sending flowers - although a flowering cactus might be more appropriate given Ms. Buckler’s prickly relations with most members of the fourth estate on the Hill.

That said, we wish her well and urge her to take a long, long time off to get better."
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[Version 2.]
"Harper's D-Comm Hospitalized

The corridors of power are abuzz today with the news that Sandra Buckler, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's communications director is in hospital for surgery for thyroid cancer, fortunately one of the more curable versions of a very nasty disease. The press gallery is sending flowers - although a flowering cactus might be more appropriate given Ms. Buckler's prickly relations with most members of the fourth estate on the Hill.

That said, we wish her well and urge her to take a long, long time off to get completely better."

http://tinyurl.com/5htmsb (jacks0
http://tinyurl.com/5d8goe (thompson)

From comments:
"Major99 said:

Wow. Lady she has cancer, do you really need to spit on her?"

More comments":

"j-t said:

This alleged journalism is disgusting and reveals the author's compassion and basic human respect under the circumstances. Sick.

ETJames said:

"In case there is any doubt, I do indeed wish her well."

Suuuuuure you do.

You appear to hate the woman immensely, which is wholly incongruent with wishing her well. Your post still contains barely concealed passive aggressive hatred ("urge her to take a long, long time off") that some bloggers have commented on as being offensive and has no place in the reporting of a cancer story.

Post an unconditional apology to Ms. Buckler. An acknowledgment of making a mistake is not sufficient.
May 7, 2008 2:25 PM

Cairndore said:

How un-believably insenstive.

It certainly speaks to why the said reporter is reviled by her journalistic colleagues on Parliament Hill."
http://tinyurl.com/5d8goe (thompsonmontgaz)

The recent posting on the 2005 Oreskes study ( Y2Kyoto:Wikipedia Zealots) had me wondering how much any scientific study is worth without replication.

So here is Steve Trimberger's advice(google science + replication) to high school students on this issue:

First, if you are trying to discover something new, you need to be able to record, to notice, exactly what happens. Because you don't know what is really going to happen. In some ways, this is very easy: you just need to look and see what it is. In some ways, this is very hard, because you might have a preconceived idea of what should happen, so you are really looking for what you think should happen rather that what really happens. This is a scientist's most important job: to be a good observer.

OK, so you've observed something. How do you know it is right? How do you know you observed it correctly? Or wrote it down correctly? Or there wasn't something else happening that you didn't notice (like someone bumped the table or something) that messed up your observation? Why, you just do it again. This is the second step: replication. If we observe something, and we describe what we did and other people can repeat our experiment and observe the same result, then we can conclude we've correctly observed what is true.

This is a big deal and it is the reason why scientists don't care much about reports of ESP (Extra-Sensory Perception): mind reading and stuff like that. Not because they don't like the people doing it, but because other people are unable to repeat the experiment and get the same result. It's that simple. In science, if you can't replicate it, then you don't understand it. It isn't science. Accidents and coincidences happen all the time. Nobel Prize-winner Richard Feynman said science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Posted by: Shawn at May 7, 2008 2:03 PM

I think the People's Army lent a hand to the Tibetans the Nigerians lately as well.

The mask of socialism ripped off in Burma and Zimbabwe. Socialism is the ideology of Liberalsocialist Citoyen Dion & socialist Taliban Jack Layton-NDP.
Socialism = Death.
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"Myanmar Survivors Face Disease as Relief Awaits Entry (Update4)
May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Survivors of the Myanmar cyclone, now estimated to have killed as many as 100,000, are at risk of cholera and other infectious diseases as the United Nations urges the military government to accept foreign help."
http://tinyurl.com/5oww3g (bloomberg)
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"Post-Election Violence Worsens in Zimbabwe
JOHANNESBURG, May 7 -- Gangs of ruling party youths beat to death 11 opposition activists in a single remote Zimbabwean town Monday, setting a gruesome new standard for the post-election violence surging through that nation, according to opposition party officials.

Two large truckloads of youths, led by two senior members of President Robert Mugabe's party, marauded through Chiweshe, a rural area about 90 miles north of Harare, the capital, and beat prominent members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change with branches, gun butts, bicycle chains and whips, party officials said. Four of the victims were teachers, and at least two were elderly.

The deaths brought to at least 32 the number of opposition activists killed in the past two weeks, said party spokesman Nelson Chamisa. Thousands of others have been beaten, tortured, arrested, kidnapped or chased from their homes since the March 29 election, opposition officials say."
http://tinyurl.com/64ljak (wapo)

A new Libmedia attack on "bookish" LibCitoyen Dion is starting. Who/what group is behind it? Boob? Iggy? Hezbollah Coderre? Worn? Apps? Zed? Judy? Jeancula? PaulJr?

Boob say, ""Liberals insist these "ritual denunciations," as Bob Rae dubs them, are having no effect.
"It's all part of the game," Rae shrugged."
No comment from STOPIGGY.
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"Tories trash talk Dion to put him off his game

OTTAWA — It's the political equivalent of a hockey player trash talking an opponent just before the opening faceoff.

Conservative MPs have taken to taunting Liberal Leader Stephane Dion every time he's about to skate on to Parliament's centre ice. They use members' statements - which precede question period in the House of Commons each day - to indulge in psychological warfare apparently aimed at putting Dion off his game just as he's about to rise to ask the first question of the day.

For example, St. Catharines Tory MP Rick Dykstra used his final statement Tuesday to accuse Dion of planning to spend billions, hike taxes and push the country into deficit.

"One person wants to bring this country and our economy to its knees," Dykstra thundered in conclusion. "Who is that? It is the person who is about to stand up."

The bookish Dion has never seemed comfortable with the hyper-partisan cut and thrust of question period.

Being hectored by a Tory backbencher before each day's performance "can't help but have some effect," said political scientist David Docherty of Wilfrid Laurier University.

The Tories must think it works. They've been employing the tactic steadily since about the beginning of April."
http://tinyurl.com/4vncfr (canpress)

John Delury, "Harmonious" in China

Due to the rapid progress of modern science and technology, humanity is entering a new age. In this new era, all people seek peace and development. The development of science and technology offers a future with limitless promise to mankind, but at the same time confronts humanity with new problems. This reminds everyone of the necessity to diligently strengthen the building of culture and broadly increase the cultural sophistication and degree of civilization of humanity, in order to achieve “harmony” among men, as well as between human society and nature. This alone accords with the fundamental interest of all humankind.

These grand words sound like something Chinese Communist Party (ccp) General Secretary Hu Jintao or Premier Wen Jiabao might say in explaining their agenda of “constructing a harmonious society” as they manage China’s “peaceful rise” to great power status. In fact, they were spoken in October 1989, just months after Hu’s political patron, Deng Xiaoping, ordered the military to suppress a peaceful, nationwide protest movement. The occasion was a government-sponsored celebration of the 2,540th year of the birth of Confucius. In the brief welcoming remarks quoted above, party elder Gu Mu, an economic reformer under Deng, argued that there was an urgent need to look back to Chinese tradition and its emphasis on “harmony” (in Chinese, hexie)...

Soccormom @ 11:45,

I think you are correct. .

$200 oil *Super Spike* within 6 months?

autobloggreen.com/2008/05/07/200-oil-super-spike-within-6-months/1#c12011538

Steamed indeed!

Nothing Iran would like more. = TG

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354424,00.html

all I can say is Im happier than a p1g in sh1t and grinning from ear to ear.

and taliban jack is as constipated as ever.

Canadians support a carbon tax: poll

They must have polled all NDP supporters or something. Like we need another bloody tax on our lives.

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2008/05/07/5499131.html

"Absolutely tasteless media"
[...]

"****Update: Here's Susan Delacourt & the RedStar's take:

It is being reported - and debated - in other quarters of the blogosphere (sorry, we'll let you find the links yourselves).

Yes, it seems to be true - the Prime Minister's communications director, Sandra Buckler, has undergone surgery this week associated with thyroid cancer.

The Star would just like to say at this point that we wish Ms. Buckler the speediest of recoveries and all the best for a happy, healthy return to work.

*****Update: It seems Liz [Thompson] has sent a personal appology and a bouquet of flowers to Sandra. Better late than never."
http://rightfromalberta.blogspot.com/
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"“Wolves!” ********"
http://tinyurl.com/5u6nc4 (jacks)

I'm loath to link to his site, but WK has issued a challenge to debate Steyn.

Seriously, S**theels? Steyn would mop the floor with you.

The "comments" at his site are funny, too--wanna talk baout sock puppets!!!

Nope.. I*ll take your word for it. No way would I waste time supporting traffic to a bottom feeder site like that. = TG

FARMER: Ivbinconned, [ Love that handle], replied to . .

** Are gas/diesel and fertilizer/feeds your biggest cost jump of late? **

with this interesting view. . .

Thanks TG. Yes fuel and fertilizer companies are the biggest benificeries of the commodity spike but the iron (machinery) companies are doing well too as there has been a pent up demand to replace old equipment and to modernize.

I have always wondered why it is that here, where I live, a few miles from [Sask.]potash mines...I could never afford to buy it and put it on my potashed starved land, yet the Chinese could afford to buy it half way around the world!!

Transportation curbs my desire to go places yet we ship dead weight in the form of fertilizer to our competitors over seas!!??

no-libs.com/index.php/2008050612835/MyBlog/Nature-Nazis/An-Exercise-In-Futility.html
================== No-Libs.com

Do we *citified* consumers ever consider the squeeze farmers are in. Maybe we better. = TG

PS: The Agri-giants like our *Cargill*, must be huge in China.

The previously missing Part 4 of Mark Steyn on TVO is now up and can be seen here

The latest in Canada's fight against the thought police:

no-libs.com/index.php/MyBlog/Thought-Police/Macleans-to-Muzzies-You-ve-been-served.html

Shane O: "I just heard a rumour that a school district in Calgary is banning the mailout that the Heartland Institute" -- if this is true, it is appalling . . .but also likely to backfire. Once kids become aware that something has been banned, they will be all over the net to try to find out what it is. Mission accomplished. It is just necessary to make sure that the Heartland video is accessible (I think it is), and that word gets out about the banning. If you do find out which school district, let everyone know. I should think some of the more informed parents would find this appalling as well.

CTV(tass) takes over where CBCpravda left off.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080507/omar_khadr_080507/20080507?hub=TopStories

CTV(tass) all Khadr all the time. when will they learn we dont give a $hit about this peice of $hit. ship mama Khadr and the rest of the welfare sisters down to Gitmo with him.

2 things, and I apologize if they're repeats:

"UN teacher by day … Islamists' chief bomb-maker at night"

And they wonder why we distrust the UN.

"Josef Fritzl: I deserve credit, I'm no monster"

What does he want, a friggin medal? I didn't kill my co-workers today. Give me a raise!

What the F--- did I hear today on the radio? A survey in Canada shows that some 60% of people surveyed support a carbon tax? Have 60% of us gone stark raving efffing MADDDDD? A carbon tax on top of $1.32 gas is, and I know this is a really bad comparison but,like trying to put a fire out by throwing gasoline on it. Is there anything more daft? Make no mistake. No small or large "C" conservative would ever advocate such lunacy. This is Ontario and Quebec all the way.

Those country cousins of ours would love nothing more than to have a made in Canada energy policy. Many will remember when we had such a thing. Caused mega damage to the oil industry in Alberta. mainly. You see PET (Trudeau), thought that he should set the price of a barrel of oil for domestic consumption rather than the price we sold to others for. This little strategy by the worst PM Canada ever had nearly caused the dismemberment of our country.

My suggestion is just the opposite. If Central Canada thinks we should revert back to the '70s and have a made-in-Canada oil pricing policy, I am all for it!!! The big difference this time is that the oil producing provinces get to set the price for the oil that constitutionally belongs to them. Wouldn't it be interesting and facinating to see BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba form their own little OPEP ("P" means provinces) in this case.

I know that I am in a fantasy world with this one but when you look at the damage the NEP did to the petroleum industry in Western Canada, if Central Canada starts to talk a NEP by another name or structure we in the West must be ready to wage serious war with them. The more you listen to talk shows today the more people call in to say that they cannot understand why we pay world price for oil right here where we produce it.

Lets be ready to counter this movement and as the price continues to move upward the cries of Ontario and Quebec will get louder and louder.

"A survey in Canada shows that some 60% of people surveyed support a carbon tax? Have 60% of us gone stark raving efffing MADDDDD?"

No, ADB, they aren't. Canadians have been sold a load of bull on the carbon tax, and think that adopting a carbon tax is the 'right' thing to do for the environment. Attaching property rights to pollution would be a much more effective way to reduce pollution without crippling the economy. It would take a few court cases to set a precedent, but it would result in innovative ways to maintain productive while minimizing/eliminating pollution.
A carbon tax will ruin the economy without reducing pollution emissions.

Gannett renames Newspaper Division:
http://gannett.com/news/pressrelease/2008/pr022708b.htm
Forbes on print circulation falling again:
http://www.forbes.com/business/2008/04/28/newspapers-circulation-advertising-biz-media-cx_lh_0428newspapers.html

LindaL - I was being vague earlier - the school division is the one I teach in, and I confirmed that it's banning the Heartland material. I'll abstain from saying which district it is just now, as I'm in direct communication with one of the people responsible for the ban, and I want to approach my communications with him in good faith. To give out too much information might compromise my communications with him.

I told him directly that the act of banning the material only increases my interest in it.

Khurrum Awan from TVO:

38th PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION
Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration
EVIDENCE
CONTENTS
Tuesday, February 8, 2005

Mr. Khurrum Awan: Sure. I just want to quote the denial provision that was actually there. Bill C-18 allowed for the denial of citizenship to an applicant when:

there are reasonable grounds to believe that a person has demonstrated a flagrant and serious disregard for the principles and values underlying a free and democratic society....

This clause is way too open-ended. For example, what are the values underlying a free and democratic society? What are Canadian values? What level of dissent is permissible? Are unpopular or non-mainstream opinions covered? The vagueness of this provision results in uncertainty in the law and really does not satisfy the requirement of fair notice to citizens regarding what the law is. Again, it results in excessive discretion with the executive branch of government because it is effectively deciding what constitutes the values of free and democratic society, rather than the courts or the public at large.

Bill C-18 allowed denial of citizenship due to criminal charges and convictions abroad—although different countries may have substantially different criteria of criminality. Many members of the Islamic community can attest that in their country of citizenship, minimal dissent is criminal.

I came to Canada about five years ago, and I'm of Pakistani origin. It's interesting to see every other day in the newspapers that a certain member of the opposition gets thrown into jail because President Musharraf decided that person's values were going to be a threat to public order.

So we recommend that any power to deny citizenship must specify clear criteria, first of all, and should be assigned to the courts to determine the factual basis, and that there should be full rights of appeal. There must be a clear mechanism to establish reliability if criminal charges are brought.

http://cmte.parl.gc.ca/cmte/CommitteePublication.aspx?SourceId=101501#T1145

Next on TVO:

The three law students debate three imams on proper dress, whether a Muslimah should speak in public and what Mark Steyn's shariah punishment should be for insulting Islam.

EXILED IN SUDAN

Abdelrazik sues Ottawa to bring him home
Suit asserts government connived to keep Canadian citizen in de facto exile through mix of negligent or bad-faith actions
PAUL KORING

May 8, 2008

Abousfian Abdelrazik, once labelled an al-Qaeda operative by Canada but now given "temporary safe haven" in the Khartoum embassy, filed a court action yesterday in Ottawa seeking to force the government to fly him home from Sudan.

Mr. Abdelrazik wants the federal court to order the minister to bring him home, even if it means sending a Canadian military aircraft or chartering a private plane..........

theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080508.SUDAN08/TPStory/TPInternational/Africa/

So the Liberals are going to ratchet up their Global Scaring Campaign with a huge "revenue neutral" carbon tax. Revenue neutral? Boy, you would have to be pretty new to believe that.

Liberals don't give tax cuts to just anybody. I expect tax cuts, if any, will go to the disabled lesbian survivors of Maltese boy scout troops etc.

And if you're okay with that, ruminate on giving the government billions to design a new program:

1. 2 billion for new offices (real estate bribery fee included)

2. 5 billion for new computers(3 billion cost overrun and bribes included)

3. 10 billion for new employees ( with benefits and incomes far superior to the taxpayers paying them)

4. 10 billion advertising and consultants(often referred to as re-election expenses in Liberal Party)

5.Priceless - the baby boom that will arise as we all try not to freeze in the dark.

Revenue neutral? Isn't the whole idea to change behaviour? What idiot believes that the Liberals won't manipulate the beheezuz out of this.

Imagine giving the Liberal Party control of your heat. Albertans better hope they keep election dates in the warm weather. I could see the Liberals turning off the heat in Alberta during an election campaign as a vote getter in Ontario and Quebec.

Not that it matters.As a Canadian now, you pretty well need a Planning Advisory Commmittee okay to cut your grass. I only see it getting worse. Canadians seem to like the bended knee position. I'm still waiting for a good Anarchist Party to vote for.

Interesting insight vis a vis the three Muslim students on TVO.

Sam Harris:

"Muslims appear to be far more concerned about perceived slights to their religion than about the atrocities committed daily in its name. Our accommodation of this psychopathic skewing of priorities has, more and more, taken the form of craven and blinkered acquiescence."

And particularly insightful concerning the smirking Muslimah when Steyn said he was receiving death threats:

"Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we peaceful Muslims cannot be held responsible for what our less peaceful brothers and sisters do. When they burn your embassies or kidnap and slaughter your journalists, know that we will hold you primarily responsible and will spend the bulk of our energies criticizing you for "racism" and "Islamophobia."

...

"Our capitulations in the face of these threats have had what is often called "a chilling effect" on our exercise of free speech. I have, in my own small way, experienced this chill first hand. First, and most important, my friend and colleague Ayaan Hirsi Ali happens to be among the hunted. Because of the failure of Western governments to make it safe for people to speak openly about the problem of Islam, I and others must raise a mountain of private funds to help pay for her round-the-clock protection. The problem is not, as is often alleged, that governments cannot afford to protect every person who speaks out against Muslim intolerance. The problem is that so few people do speak out. If there were ten thousand Ayaan Hirsi Ali's, the risk to each would be radically reduced."

huffingtonpost.com/sam-harris/losing-our-spines-to-save_b_100132.html

(Of all places)

(Via Comment Central) Lisa Margonelli, Waste Not: A steamy solution to global warming

Ta-Nehisi Coates, ‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’
The audacity of Bill Cosby’s black conservatism

From Birmingham to Cleveland and Baltimore, at churches and colleges, Cosby has been telling thousands of black Americans that racism in America is omnipresent but that it can’t be an excuse to stop striving. As Cosby sees it, the antidote to racism is not rallies, protests, or pleas, but strong families and communities. Instead of focusing on some abstract notion of equality, he argues, blacks need to cleanse their culture, embrace personal responsibility, and reclaim the traditions that fortified them in the past. Driving Cosby’s tough talk about values and responsibility is a vision starkly different from Martin Luther King’s gauzy, all-inclusive dream: it’s an America of competing powers, and a black America that is no longer content to be the weakest of the lot.

Entitled to his entitlements? What was the money for? It's a secret. Only his hairdresser knows for sure.

In case you didn't click:

" Neither David Dingwall nor Canada Post will say what Mr. Dingwall did for the Crown corporation to earn $280,000 in 2002 and 2003"

"Canada Post has blanked out the information that shows how much Mr. Dingwall’s firm was paid in earlier years, and it also excised the information that shows what work he was to provide.

There is one fragment of text left from the 1997 agreement.

"As per our discussions of last week, we would like you to advise us on the political and social implications of . . ." and the document cuts off there."

"In 2005 testimony before the Gomery inquiry into the sponsorship program, Mr. Clermont testified that Mr. Dingwall’s political adviser at the time, Warren Kinsella, repeatedly called Mr. Clermont to request that the Crown corporation hire certain Liberal law firms and advertising companies. Mr. Kinsella has disputed Mr. Clermont’s claims.

A spokesman for Canada Post said Tuesday that the Crown corporation won’t reveal what Mr. Dingwall’s firm did to earn the money."

"It seems silly that Canadians can’t know what service one high-profile Liberal provided a Crown corporation headed by another high-profile Liberal, says John Williamson of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation"

"According to Gomery inquiry testimony in 2005 from Jean Lafleur, who was later convicted of fraud and imprisoned for his role in the sponsorship scheme, Mr. Dingwall worked as an unregistered lobbyist for another Crown corporation in 1998 and 1999.

Mr. Lafleur testified that his firm paid Wallding $133,000 to lobby his former colleagues in cabinet on behalf of Via. Via funnelled the money through Mr. Lafleur’s firm, Mr. Lafleur testified, so that Mr. Dingwall’s name could be kept off the books. Mr. Dingwall, through his lawyer, then denied that he worked as a lobbyist, saying he was retained to provide "strategic advice."

I would like to see the Liberals try to run on a carbon tax -- I don't care what the polls say, I don't think that Canadians would actually support this in an election -- especially when it is pointed out that with the increase in fuel prices, food prices (and other necessities) will increase and already poor people will suffer most. (usually these things are not explained in the context of a poll). I also think that the Conservatives should take up a strategy to build an additional refinery which would promise to reduce gas prices.

Bumped into Kathy Shaidle , Right Girl, and two or three hundred other happy warriors at Mark Steyn's interview and book signing last night @ Indigo .

The line up for book signing was at least an hour and made for a good time to get acquainted and have a few laughs.

Mark did turn the table on Heather Riesman, during the interview, and had her explaining why it appeared she did not stock his book America Alone when first in print.
(She wasn't sure, but the head of purchasing said from the front row, They ran out)

Heather also had "no idea" what this "HRC thing" is all about, and almost got away without making a mention of it, until someone in the audience quite rightly interrupted her wrap up.
To be fair, her conversion is in progress and she seemed willing, open and understanding, much more than can be expected from an ex-Rosedale liberal.

Most importantly In private conversation after the signing Mr. Steyn mentioned that the financial stress on some of the bloggers from the various law suits is draining on some of the defendants.
Sorry my hearing is so bad that I missed the names but
He mentioned that not so much himself, but some of the "others" could use some financial assistance to pay the parasi... er uh lawyers.

Nice to meet everyone, thanks again!

Al Gore's mentor, Professor Paul Ehrlich forecasted that "65 million Americans would die of starvation between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999 the U.S. population would have declined to 22.6 million."

Why don't intelligent people take the AGW idiots seriously? It's not just the non-Science.

Town Hall:

"Now that another Earth Day has come and gone, let's look at some environmentalist predictions that they would prefer we forget."

At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind." C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said, "The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed." In 1968, Professor Paul Ehrlich, Vice President Gore's hero and mentor, predicted there would be a major food shortage in the U.S. and "in the 1970s ... hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death." Ehrlich forecasted that 65 million Americans would die of starvation between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999 the U.S. population would have declined to 22.6 million. Ehrlich's predictions about England were gloomier: "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000."

In 1975, the Environmental Fund took out full-page ads warning, "The World as we know it will likely be ruined by the year 2000."

Harvard University biologist George Wald in 1970 warned, "... civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind." That was the same year that Sen. Gaylord Nelson warned, in Look Magazine, that by 1995 "... somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct."

townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2008/05/07/environmentalists_wild_predictions

My hats were a hit....
http://girlontheright.com/
(Free one for Kate)

Maybe this can help pay for the lawyering.

The poll question about the carbon tax must have been as follows:

Would you support a carbon tax if it was totally revenue neutral, thereby costing you nothing, and was very good for the environment?

Anyone would say "sign me up."

Wait for the election, Dion will get trashed over this.