Disclosure...You'll get what I give you and be grateful! Ezra whacks a mole and I whack it again just to make sure it's dead.

2 things:
1) Dr. Roy got the exact same letter as I did from CTV, about Fife's Knuckle dragging comment. Question: what should the next step be? I don't want to leave this one alone.
Link

2) I'd heard about such people but didn't think they actually existed till I saw this comment on the G&M:
" Iain's Opinion from Canada writes:
....
We are a virus on the body of the planet. Mom is gunna have a fever to get us under control again. Right now she's flagging, but once she gets that second wind ..."

To which I reply: buddy, if you think we're a virus, then why don't you do mother Gaia a favour and use some antiviral on yourself. Putz.

A leading Israeli anti-zionist "new historian" Benny Morris supports what many here have argued concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict, namely that it has always been primarily jihad-driven on the Arab side.

Via Augean Stables, links, passages, comments from the estimable Richard Landes who believes that many, esp. liberal westerners, are unable to properly frame the conflict due to cognitive egocentrism.

Failed Jihad 1948: The Real Naqba

Benny Morris passage:
Historians have tended to ignore or dismiss, as so much hot air, the jihadi rhetoric and flourishes that accompanied the two-stage assault on the Yishuv [the Jewish residents of Palestine before the founding of Israel] and the constant references in the prevailing Arab discourse to that earlier bout of Islamic battle for the Holy Land, against the Crusaders. This is a mistake. The 1948 War, from the Arabs’ perspective, was a war of religion as much as, if not more than, a nationalist war over territory. Put another way, the territory was sacred: its violation by infidels was sufficient grounds for launching a holy war and its conquest or reconquest, a divinely ordained necessity.

The Religions of Peace at work in England . . .

http://www.bravenewsworld.blogspot.com/

When the podcast is updated tomorrow, be sure to get CBC Radio's "The Sunday Edition" and fast forward to hour three, and listen to an amazing (for CBC) broadcast talking about Israel's 60th. Well worth the listen, and I don't say that lightly when it comes to CBC and its ability to be balanced when talking about the middle east.

"do mother Gaia a favour and use some antiviral on yourself"
I've run into that attitude a few times myself. I always urge them to off themselves and benefit the earth. I don't think this is cruel if they really believe it, but of course they're talking about other people.

"That John Reed wrote Ten Days That Shook the World as an employee of the Soviet Bureau of International Revolutionary Propaganda has strangely not detracted from its reputation."

"Among the Intellectualoids
Caught Red Handed
By Daniel J. Flynn

Warren Beatty's 1981 love story Reds about American Communist Party founding father Jack Reed and paramour Louise Bryant left a crucial, embarrassing detail on the cutting room floor.

Jack Reed, the playboy of the Greenwich Village Left who practiced the free love that he preached, infected his wife with a dangerous venereal disease. Neither Reds nor the two major American biographies about Reed -- Granville Hicks's John Reed and Roger Rosenstone's Romantic Revolutionary -- note this inconvenient detail. Who has time for VD when there's a free-love love story to be told?
[...]
"But Jack Reed's Ten Days That Shook the World is as much journalism as Warren Beatty's Reds is history. Soviet Russia turned out not to be the heaven on earth prophesied in Reed's book, Warren Beatty wasn't Jack Reed and Diane Keaton wasn't Louise Bryant, and free love rarely turns out as uncomplicated in real life as it does on the silver screen."
http://tinyurl.com/56d7kl

For Tim Blair fans, he is now only blogging on an official site as part of the Aussie Daily Telegraph. Here's the new URL:
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/

As part of a newspaper, it will have moderated comments only that they're just getting setup now (so comments aren't currently going through). So we'll have to hope that this change works out okay in the end.

I wonder if this is a good day to ask all those who support abortion, aren't you glad your mother didn't make that choice.
Jason C is blogging in favor of Dion's carbon tax, and proves he knows not what he speaks of.
How many of you are aware that the BC carbon tax will be applied to tires. Better get new ones before July 1st, along with a supply of propane if you use it for camping or bbqing. Lots of other items also going up July 1st.
A major refinery, owned by the US, is building in India because envirowackos have said no to building anywhere in the USA. They will supply at least 5% of the gas used in North America.
China has banned rickshaws, maybe the envirowackos could get a good deal on them to travel around the cities. Get the panhandlers off the street to pull them.

Dam high gas prices, anyways !! Who is doing it to us !?

How big is BIG Exxon-Mobile ??

[Exxon Mobil, the world's largest privately owned oil company, owns only 1.08 percent of the world's oil reserves.]

What !? Well, what about all the other Big Oils ??

[ ..the five largest private global oil companies together own only about 4 percent of the world's oil reserves.]

So who controls all the rest ??

[OPEC is an international government cartel made up of Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Libya, Angola, Algeria, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela. These nations control about 77 percent of the world's known liquid crude oil reserves.]

Add in Russian oil , state owned, and Mexico, state owned and .. they got it all.

mmmmm, so if the Socialists own/control most of the world's oil and the Global Warming Alarmists/Kyoto/United Nations/Eco Fanatics want to stop the Western World from exploring for more oil and to stop using what we do have ... well who's side are they on anyways !??

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8778

[There is enough liquid oil in the ground to last generations; and when oil sands and oil shale are included, there is enough oil to last centuries. If there were a truly free market in oil, with both the reserves and production owned and controlled by many competitive companies, the price of oil would be a fraction of today's price.]

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8778

First we knock off HRCs, then we go after Children's Aid Societies...

An update on a heartbreaking story we first brought you Thursday night. An eleven year old cancer-stricken boy remains in hospital, seized by authorities from his parents' care, and forced to undergo chemotherapy treatments. James MacDonald says there are a number of new developments -- among them, late Friday afternoon, the parents told CHCH News they are being allowed to see their child, after a day of confusion and frustration.

http://www.canada.com/ch/chchnews/story.html?id=5a0af452-3966-4e8b-b4ee-92f05f11c8

I don't know if many of you caught wind of this story, but the nanny statists know no bounds. The 11 year old has an aggressive form of cancer with a very low rate of survival. After already having been through an exhaustive regime of chemotherapy and related treatments, the family and the child together had decided that further medical abuse of their son was futile and prognosis for recovery close to zero, that they and their son's wishes were to allow him to live out his remaining time in their comfort and care.
They went to McMaster University last week for the results of some blood tests, and while there, their son was literally grabbed by childen's aid and admitted, screaming, to the hospital to undergo additional and further chemotherapy. He current is in McMaster's Children's hospital being force treated with chemotherapy. Hair loss and discomfort has already started and he is abjectly miserable.
This is a state assault of the most grievous and heinous I've every come across in Canada, and not the first time Children's Aid in this area has steamrolled over parents.

I see the moonbats are at work in Maple Ridge. A company selling carbon credits has clear cut all the trees from a section of land along the Allouett River so they can---wait for it----plant trees. Apparently they sold carbon credits and in return will plant trees. I guess they was no convenient clear area to plant them so the made an area. Maple Ridge residents are furious. I emailed the mayor to laugh at him. Thats what you get when you support envirowacks like Gore and Suzucki.

Horny Toad

beggars can be chosers. Canada's beggingist province , after record finacials from big oil. not just big oil but biggest oil , decides that the airlines should subsidize their largess of income with cheap flights.

do the newfs and Danny "whine for wine" Williams ever give up their perpetual cry for freedough. Danny is a poor example of William Wallace ---

FREEDOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!

gawd, do these newfie panhandlers ever give up on their scheming.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2008/05/11/surcharge-tourism.html

ps, I are one.and I am embarrassed.

Mark Steyn on TVO show. Debates the three Osgoode Hall law students who filed complaints against him. Initially they are reluctant to. Entertaining!

http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/
click on May 6th episode

ron in kelowna at 9:06 PM

Your link to the Cato Institute is excellent.

** Now, for the really good news. The new car you purchase a decade from now is almost certainly to be totally electrically powered. Huge strides are being made in battery technology, and even existing batteries have just about reached the point where they are sensible for automobiles. Mitsubishi has just come out with an all-electric car, the sport MIEV. And Nissan and Renault have announced they will be in full-scale production of electric cars by 2012.

As people move to electric cars, the need for gasoline and imported oil will quickly disappear. Nuclear and clean coal plants must expand to produce the additional electricity, but they produce energy at a fraction of the cost of petroleum. The new battery technology will also help solar and wind power become more economically feasible because they will be able to store it. Even so, solar and wind will only be a small part of our energy future because of their inherent production limits. **
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Oil will always have value for plastics, paints, solvents and chemicals.

The price will become far more reasonable as the move to dual rail [TDI] diesel, battery, biofuels, hybrids and commercial fleet conversions, [like Safeway and Walmart], continue to blossom. = TG

I normally ignore what this communist writes, but he has really gone over the top this time.

"For 10 years, Jean Chrétien tried to exorcise Quebec sovereignty with Canadian symbols."

The first words/ of Hebert's article = AdScam by the Liberal Librano$; the criminality/corruption of Chretien-MartinJr-Citoyen Dion.
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"Harper eases life for Quebec federalists"
Chantal Hebert
OTTAWA — For 10 years, Jean Chrétien tried to exorcise Quebec sovereignty with Canadian symbols. Under his Liberal regime, the federal government plastered the province with the Maple Leaf. But the premise that Ottawa could win a flag war in Quebec was always a dubious one.

Long before the propaganda exercise foundered on the shoals of the sponsorship scandal, it had insulted the intelligence of a good many Quebecers. Not all of them were sovereignists; some were in the federal cabinet. The Liberals ended up falling on their post-referendum sword.

Stephen Harper has taken a different tack, aggressively changing the rules of engagement in the Quebec-Canada debate. In lieu of the flag wars of the recent past, the Prime Minister has systematically undertaken to appropriate Quebec's nationalist symbols and claim them as Canada's own."
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/424388

Walk softly and carry a big Quebec stick.

The Toronto Star has an article sympathizing with the Burmese Generals. You'll be shocked - shocked - to learn that all of the Burmese dead are somehow America's fault:

"The assumption in the Western press is that the junta is just being perverse by not opening its doors to foreign aid workers. But it is not. It is behaving perfectly logically for a dictatorship. It knows the West disapproves of its existence. So it is understandably wary when countries like the U.S., Canada and France offer to have their troops deliver aid.

It is not even being unusually paranoid in its suspicion of the UN. The world used to belittle Saddam Hussein’s claim that some UN weapons inspectors sent into Iraq after the first Gulf War worked for the CIA. But, as former American weapons inspector Scott Ritter revealed in his book, Iraq Confidential, Saddam was correct.

So when the Burmese junta demands that UN workers entering the country have proper passports that it can check out, it is not simply being obstructionist. Self-interested maybe. But not irrational."

Major earthquake struck China today.

Any idea what area Kate is is?

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080512/China_quake_080512/20080512?hub=TopStories

SKIP-
I too agree with your comments about the Nanny State interference but.....
I am, shall we say, very close to two individuals who are very close and somewhat involved in this situation. There is a very ugly side to this story that will never be made public due to "privacy reasons". The CAS has been involved with this family for years. Their action in this regard was not precipitous.
Having said that, I guess there's a fine line to walk when a situation like this arises. I wouldn't want to be the one to make the judgement call.

(Via The Times Faith Central) 'My daughter deserved to die for falling in love'

For Abdel-Qader Ali there is only one regret: that he did not kill his daughter at birth. 'If I had realised then what she would become, I would have killed her the instant her mother delivered her,' he said with no trace of remorse.

Two weeks after The Observer revealed the shocking story of Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, murdered because of her infatuation with a British solider in Basra, southern Iraq, her father is defiant. Sitting in the front garden of his well-kept home in the city's Al-Fursi district, he remains a free man, despite having stamped on, suffocated and then stabbed his student daughter to death.

Spengler, Why Israel is the world's happiest country

Envy surrounds no country on Earth like the state of Israel, and with good reason: by objective measures, Israel is the happiest nation on Earth at the 60th anniversary of its founding. It is one of the wealthiest, freest and best-educated; and it enjoys a higher life expectancy than Germany or the Netherlands. But most remarkable is that Israelis appear to love life and hate death more than any other nation. If history is made not by rational design but by the demands of the human heart, as I argued last week , the light heart of the Israelis in face of continuous danger is a singularity worthy of a closer look.

Andrew G. Bostom, Misunderstanding Islamic Antisemitism

Tory Justice Minister supports section 13. Not only that, but the legal brief is filled with leftist free-speech-leads-to-Nazis mush.

Looks like the PMO is pandering for Liberal ethnic votes again in the MTV regions? Pathetic.

See Ezra's site for analysis:

http://ezralevant.com/

"PM [Harper] unveils $30b defence strategy to Halifax military audience"
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1055345.html
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Aunty-American moonbat replies: find "anti-US sediment".

"madeinNS wrote:
"the strategy calls for ensuring Canada meets its commitments for continental security" Now who have we made continental commitments too? Would it be to the US under the SPP and NORTHCOM? "to improve Canada's ability to contribute to global security" Guess this means contributing to the 'War on Terror'. I don't understand how this will make us more secure, seeing as all its done for the US is create more anti-US sediment around the globe. They are probably less 'secure' now they ever."

Must Have Reader Tips for Monday May 12th:

h/t to Dennis Miller & Andrew Breitbart:

Mark Steyn on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paiken, May 6, 2008:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6yey3f
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6p3f7g

Darryl

THE DION TAX

Would Dion's Carbon Tax Save The Planet ?
Yes, we Canadians can save the world (299) 13%
No, he's crazy as a bed bug (1904) 82%
I don't know, tough call (116) 5%

Total Votes: 2319
(bourque)

Charles MacDonald at 12:19 PM,

** Spengler, Why Israel is the world's happiest country **

Lebanon too, was a fun, nightclubbing, high-life place, [MichaelTotten.com archive], attracting tourism until the nasty al Qaeda, [ Iranian force], muscled in over Hamas and smashed the fun stuff.

The happy and technically bright Israelis are on an official mission to have all transport become electrically powered as soon as possible. [*Smith trucks? *Think cars?]

Canadians, a few at least, are thinking too. Zenn motors Toronto have enjoyed a real boost in sales. = TG

an inconvenient cakehole.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354846,00.html

cant wait to see those electric tanks and watch those electric fighters fly by in pairs every 3 minutes. maybe they could share an extension cord.

Isreals existance is too perilous to hand over to green lunacy.

"China Loses Control of the Games

China had been hoping to show itself as a worldly and tolerant host of the Olympic Games. But the sporting festival has already become a PR disaster for the country. Repression in Tibet and ongoing crackdowns have revealed the extent to which the country remains a police state."
http://tinyurl.com/5r7wur (spiegel)

Ralph R - With techniques I possess, I was able to read between the lines a bit in this story as well, but none of the history was covered by CHCH. Regardless, what has transpired is what it is, and I would be hard pressed to defend CAS in this file on ANY level in regard to the medical actions. (I reside less than 1/2 mi from Mac, btw).

Forced administration of chemotherapy by the state, regardless of the history of file is beyond the pale. There is NO positive spin that CAS can put on their actions. That Mac is complicit is even more egregious. In the interests of disclosure, I must state that my reaction is tempered in part by my belief that the medical school at Mac is decidedly second rate.

Hopefully info comes forward that places a better context to all of this. The situation certainly reinforces a persistent negative perception of both CAS' in Hamilton.

The Conservative Party has come out in favour of Section 13 and the odious "human rights" commissions that accompany such a big government law. I have come out in favour of not voting. None of the above.

Not waiting for the asteroid - CBS News.
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NEW YORK - The "CBS Evening News" audience has taken a noticeable dip ever since the latest round of speculation over Katie Couric's job.

The broadcast averaged 5.34 million viewers last week, breaking a record low for CBS News' flagship show that had been set the week before, according to Nielsen Media Research. The "CBS Evening News" - No. 3 in a three-way competition - had nearly 2.5 million fewer viewers than No. 2.

http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/2008/01/08/4759308-ap.html

Unionized labour killing auto sector in Ontario. Of course Ontario Liberals blame it on... who else? Harper government
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While GM, Ford and Chrysler have been shutting Ontario parts plants and curtailing assembly output, non-unionized carmakers Toyota and Honda have been expanding their assembly operations in central and southwestern Ontario, aiming to cash in on the market share gains in the United States.

[...]

"We need a federal partner as well," [Ontario's Finance Minister] said. "Mr. Flaherty's continually turned his back on the automotive sector."

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008/05/12/5541906-cp.html

Caroline Glick, Jeffrey Goldberg's Meltdown

Jeffrey Goldberg over at the Atlantic is positively apoplectic that I dared to question his Zionism in my column last week, “Anti-Zionism at 60.” That column critically analyzed present day anti-Zionist discourse as it manifested itself – among other places -- in Goldberg’s Atlantic cover article this month entitled “Will Israel Survive?”

Sandy discovers liberalism is a mental disorder.
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"Sandy: What ridicule & hate sounds like

Posted on 12 May 2008 by Sandy

Here is some of what those at the Canadian Cynic blog have written about me in relation to the Harper government’s list of accomplishments. In fact, that blog has been lampooning me since I first published the list. But, up to now, it was not so obviously hate filled propaganda — the very thing they accuse me. Interestingly, their desperation and vile speaks for itself.

This is not what the blogosphere should be about."
http://tinyurl.com/57nrnj (jacks)

*Michael Savage Explains the Mental Disorder of Liberalism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0HCiPliiGw

Sandy: Harper Gov’t Accomplishments

Posted on 20 April 2008 by Sandy

Updated May 12th, 2008 to include: (1) $10 million to educate Canadians about the internment of Ukranian Canadians in work camps during WWI and $5 million to educate Canadians about the Chinese Head Tax — under “Righting Historical Wrongs;” and (2) the unveiling of the “Canada First Defence Strategy.”
Harper Government Accomplishments
Accountability

The Federal Accountability Act was passed which: (Link)

* Provides protection for whistleblowers;
* Bans political contributions by corporations and unions;
* Reduces personal political donations from $5000 to $1000 per year;
* Strengthens the power for the Auditor General to ‘Follow the Money;’ and
* Added fixed election dates.

Child Care

* Child Tax Credit ($2000 for every child under 18);
* Universal Child Care Plan; (Link)
* Universal Child Care Benefit — $1200.00 per year for every child under age six; (Link)
* New tax credits for kid’s sport (up to $500 per child under age 16), textbooks, tools and apprentices; and
* Free Medical Alert Bracelets for Children. (Link)
[More] ...-
http://tinyurl.com/67zdtv

after some of the leftoids visit this , could someone post the list of occupations that SDA represents. we had the rundown about a year ago.

http://www.redstateupdate.com/

I think Robert Fife thinks this is the right.

Remember - Right is Correct and Left is Sinister.

From Ezra's blog:

Finally, Rob Nicholson, the Conservative government's Justice Minister, has weighed in on section 13, the thought crimes provision of the Canadian Human Rights Act.

He's in favour of section 13.

Here's a 50-page legal brief (3 MB file) his department filed, against Marc Lemire's constitutional challenge to that section.

So the Conservative like the Inquisition, & section 13. I guess waiting for their answer is now over. Canada is finished, dead, history. Time to think of making our own Republics with real freedoms. Or a peaceful 2nd American revolution. Madness reins in Ottawa no less than it did in Mad King Georges court. Since our turn coat champions have thrown in with the totalitarians, & corruption in the name of the supreme court. Cop out. I am finished personally with any National politics involving any of these crooks. They are nothing but shills for there own attainment at our expense. There not worth used toilet paper. I dare any of them to prove otherwise. This for me was the final betrayal.

Rob Nickelson is no conservative. I consider him in the parlence of the HRC's an Injustice Minister. The Consrvatives don't know it yet but they just died politicaly from this buffoons enabling of these star chambers.