Wanna see some freaky Germans doing cheesy disco?

Those you my age might even remember this.

youtube.com/watch?v=BQAKRw6mToA

Sorry Vit....

This article is from Touchstone & concerns the modern Family.

Here is a bit of the screed.

The Family Factors
Lessons from History About the Future of Marriage & Family in the United States

by Allan Carlson

For three decades now, I have tried to explore and explain the historical context for our contemporary “family crisis,” our “war over the family,” our “culture war.” Here I will present what I see as six lessons to be learned from this history, and with an eye to the future.

Permanent Issues

Lesson One: The family issues never change. Or at least they haven’t changed for over two centuries, since the Industrial Revolution began. Take, for example, this peculiar story:

Jack was sitting before the hearth fire, darning his working’s wife’s sock. A tear lay in his eye. ‘No,’ the wretched man said in a thick Yorkshire accent, ‘there is plenty of Wark for Wemen and Bairns [children] in this quarter but very Little for men—thou may as well go try to finde a hondred pounds, as go to find wark abouts heare—but I hed not ment neather thee nor eneyone els to have seen me manding t’wife’s stockings, for it’s a poar job.’

The poor man “wiped away the tear,” the story continues.

‘I do not [k]now what is to become of us,’ he whimpered, ‘for she as been t’man now for a long time, and me t’woman—it is hard wark.’ When he had married, Jack said, he held a fine job and the couple ‘gat on very well—we got a firnished Home. . . . I could wark for us boath. But now t’world is turned upside down. Mary has to turn out to wark and I have to stop at home to mind Bairns—and to Wash and Clean—Bake and mend.’ At that point, Jack lost control and wept violently declaring over and again his wish that he had never been born.

Who wrote this lament about sex roles turned upside down? Was it some early version of Beverly LaHaye? Or perhaps an ancestor of Phyllis Schlafly? No, it was the proto-Communist Friedrich Engels, in his 1844 book, The Condition of the Working Class in England, a powerful indictment of industrial capitalism’s social effects.

http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=19-01-023-f

Who is misbeahvin*?

Ain't Misbehavin*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNbvH9GeGy8

Just having some fun blazing Ain*t she sweet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwTRJpDv-d4

Deep River Blooze

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pIoSkKOuvo

= TG

The march towards oblivion continues:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/2038813/European-Parliament-to-ban-Eurosceptic-groups.html

After all, if your view isn't mainstream then you shouldn't be allowed to hold it!

Enviro-Wacko Alert.
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"Polar Bear Relocation to Begin on Earth Day April 22, 2008

Seattle, WA. March 31, 2008 -- The Polar Bear Conservancy will begin relocation of the first Arctic polar bears to Antarctica on Earth Day, April 22, 2008. The relocation will be the initial step in a planned five-year program to migrate 3,000 polar bears from the Northern Arctic to the southern continent of Antarctica."
http://www.polarbearconservancy.org/Site/Media_Center.html

That site is a joke, right maz2?

I mean it HAS to be.

I can kill off 3000 bears for a lot cheaper than $10,000 a piece.

Penguins.....(not the Pittsburg variety) mind yer back sides. Some mighty hungry world's largest land predator about to move into the neighbourhood..........

I thought Vit used RSS or some such thing to automate his SDA Radio posts. Guess not judging by the lack of a post by him.

National Post Editorial today titled "David Miller's folly" re making all hand guns illegal sums it up well: "Can someone please tell us how this ignorant demagogue became mayor of Canada's biggest city"?

Like McGuinty, he got RE-elected and BY the people so who's to blame?

While we're at it let's give a good boot in the arse to all the reporters jumping on this like the usuals, Don Martin and David Akin et all, who are sensationalizing the Bernier gaffe/stupidity, they really don't have all the facts either.

Suffice to say Bernier was concerned about the wrong briefs and proved he certainly was not qualified for the post entrusted to him by Harper. He looks like a boy who has some growing up to do and not in politics. Now we have to have all the National Inquirer reportage about a woman scorned or some such crap.

Looks like the Toronto gun owners are fighting back,and hoping to hit TO in their pocketbook!See torontothebad.com.His blondess wanting to close the gun clubs for responsible shooters,so these folks are telling people to drop their tourist dollars elsewhere.Article at TO Sun.

Julie's 15 minutes of fame is almost up.

she tried t get $50k from the Star for her story and then used the TV interview to revive a dead career.

Bugged her bedroom eh ?

I am sorta amazed....... this looks like it might be a decent movie!

Paul Gross's version of Passchendaele. Now if only they had left the love story nonsense out of it!

http://www.passchendaelethemovie.com/movie/indexload.html

OOPS, to clarify, "jumping on this" is referring to the Bernier affair.

The cbc has really gone over the top on this "Berniergate"..watching yesterday,they had Nil Koksal doing street interviews looking for anything negative..gee,what a stretch on the downtown streets of TO!Today,they are getting opinions from Maxime's hometown,looking for someone to dump all the blame on PMSH.I'm wondering how far the cbc has gotten thru their Rolodex of "anti-Cons. experts" Yesterday's interviews were bordering on hysterical,sexist,toward Julie,and Don Martin and Suhanna's little banter was just ridiculous.I believe it was Lib.Senate wannabe Jim Travers that said something about 'this was the worst scandal in Foreign Affairs in 40 yrs'...hey,Jimbo,maybe that's because NO media wanted to touch that other uncomfortable young boy thingy of a few yrs ago!

Liberal hypocrisy:

"38. [Liberal Minister] Andy Scott's 1998 resignation that came eight weeks too late, after a media circus wore him down for indiscreetly shooting his mouth off on an airplane."
Later, ex-PM Paul Martin, Jr., appointed Scott to Martin's cabinet.

"34. [Liberal Defence Minister] Art Eggleton and contracts to his ex-girlfriend."
Later, ex-PM Paul Martin Jr., appointed Eggleton to the Senate.

Reasons not to vote Liberal
http://www.lufa.ca/news/news_item.asp?NewsID=5399

Sammy, it's called "news shaping". LOL.

One thing about TO is that there have been very few good people who are willing to step up and run for mayor. So when election time comes around most people can either not vote or choose the best from a bad lot. In effect, Miller is the best of a bad lot and the thing that bothers people most is that Miller knows he has no competition - he just has to appease the numbskulls that voted him in.

The interesting thing is that McGuinty may be trying to download more provincial powers to TO (and other ON cities). This may have the unexpected effect of having real leaders challenge Miller and cause real change at city hall.

Theodore Dalrymple's observations on immigration problems in Britain vs France, A Confusion of Tongues:

To the anxiety about these unprecedented demographic changes—a substantial majority of the public, when asked, says that it wants a dramatic reduction in immigration—one can add a reticence in openly expressing it. Inducing this hesitancy are intellectuals of the self-hating variety, who welcome the destruction of the national identity and who argue—in part, correctly—that every person’s identity is multiple; that identity can and ought to change over time; and that too strong an emphasis on national identity has in the past led to barbarism. By reiteration, they have insinuated a sense of guilt into everyone’s mind, so that even to doubt the wisdom or viability of a society consisting of myriad ethnic and religious groups with no mutual sympathy (and often with mutual antagonisms) is to suspect oneself of sliding toward extreme nationalism or fascism; so that even to doubt the wisdom or viability of a society in which everyone feels himself part of an oppressed minority puts one in the same category as Jean-Marie Le Pen, or worse.

A progressive Liberal finds Liberal "principles" have become an albatross 'round his neck.
Liberals are racial profiling "ethnic groups". What to do?
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"Liberal Targeting of Ethnic Groups Inconsistant with our Principles

I recently had the privilege to attend a training session for the Liberal Party. While I learned many useful and helpful campaign techniques, some of the training content did concern me. For example, when we were studying Voter Contact, one of the sub categories we examined was "targeting by ethnicity," as you can see below.

I am uncomfortable with our party targeting individuals and deciding on their usefulness or lack thereof simply based on their ethnicity. We are supposed to be a party of openness and inclusion, where all Canadians, regardless of race, religion, and background can feel comfortable and welcome.
I strongly encourage our Party to cease targeting voters based on ethnicity and instead focus on recruit the Canadian population as a whole."
http://progressforprogressives.blogspot.com/

watched the ctv report last nite getting comments from Bernier's home town. Very interesting that some stated that He was set-up. And interesting that Ralph on Duffy last nite was also making comments that they(liberals)were raising these questions weeks ago (security) when it was only a love affair gone bad & finally that the Coulliard was after 50K from the star for her story & she held the documents in question.
Something is not adding up, Was it a set-up?

Peregrine falcon cam here -- too cute!

http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/falconcameraSJ.htm

The media has gotten hysterical to the point of hilarity. Is there anyone who can't picture the glee abounding at the Star, the CBC, the Globe?

Look at Newswatch and the headlines pounding Harper and the Conservatives on a daily basis. What's next ? A TO Star editorial calling for the roundup and incarceration of Harper and all Conservatives?

Just when did Canada's media jump the shark?

bryanr asks: "Something is not adding up, Was it a set-up?"

Steve Janke was onto this earlier. Find the words, "plan", "orchestrate".
Smell the rats? The rats are MSM/Bloc/Liberals.
The plan was to sink Bernier by any means.
What will be the reaction of Quebecers?
Watch for a surge in support for PM Harper in Quebec.
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"Gilles Duceppe getting his cue during a scrum"

[...]

"Is the matter official now? Gilles Duceppe seemed to be asking if the media had put into motion their side of the plan. Whether this was the cue to start the next stage of this orchestrated attack (though there is a suggestion that the media was coerced)."
http://stevejanke.com/archives/262078.php?utm_medium=RSS

They advertised it as the "See the Ice Before it's All Gone" cruise . . . and lotsa dummies paid big$$ to go . . . .

From the Globe and Mail article:

I am on the bridge of the massive Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov, and the tension is palpable. We have hit ice - thick ice.

The ice master studies the mountains of white packed around the ship while the 24,000-horsepower diesel engines work at full throttle to open a path. The ship rises slowly onto the barrier of ice, crushes it and tosses aside blocks the size of small cars as if they were ice cubes in a glass. It creeps ahead a few metres, then comes to a halt, its bow firmly wedged in the ice. After doing this for two days, the ship can go no farther.

The ice master confers with the captain, who makes a call to the engine room. The engines are shut down. He turns to those of us watching the drama unfold, and we are shocked by his words: “Now, only nature can help this ship.” We are doomed to drift.

What irony. I am a passenger on one of the most powerful icebreakers in the world, travelling through the Northwest Passage - which is supposed to become almost ice-free in a time of global warming, the next shipping route across the top of the world - and here we are, stuck in the ice, engines shut down, bridge deserted. Only time and tide can free us.

Damn you maz2!!!

My blood pressure is bad enough without you linking in April Fool's day sites two months after the fact!

While I hope I am not the only one who got caught with the polar bear story, it was so believable, given what else has come out of the tree huggers of late.

Polar bear spoofs.
How could this be spoofed? From the socialist wackos:
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"Peace panties’ from Canada to frighten Myanmar junta"
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14682421

Inferring Human Colonization History Using a Copying Model

Genome-wide scans of genetic variation can potentially provide detailed information on how modern humans colonized the world but require new methods of analysis. We introduce a statistical approach that uses Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) data to identify sharing of chromosomal segments between populations and uses the pattern of sharing to reconstruct a detailed colonization scenario.

Our results are consistent with the consensus view of a single “Out-of-Africa” bottleneck and serial dilution of diversity during global colonization, including a prominent East Asian bottleneck. They also suggest novel details including: (1) the most northerly East Asian population in the sample (Yakut) has received a significant genetic contribution from the ancestors of the most northerly European one (Orcadian). (2) Native South Americans have received ancestry from a source closely related to modern North-East Asians (Mongolians and Oroquen) that is distinct from the sources for native North Americans, implying multiple waves of migration into the Americas.

www.plosgenetics.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000078

National Post Editorial ... "Can someone please tell us how this ignorant demagogue became mayor of Canada's biggest city"?

Well, isn't he a successor of the even more ignorant demagogue Barbara Hall? Canada's biggest city (or at least part of it) has also regularly re-elected John Godfrey with absolute majorities. The Post needs to start asking the questions about Canada's biggest city that those of us who don't and wouldn't live there have been asking.

The fact that this chick wanted 50,000. to tell her story says a lot. She has said a lot of things but has not offered any proof of anything. Does she have a time-stamped photo of those files that supposedly were missing for 5 wks. NO. Does she have evidence that her house and bed were bugged, NO. Does she have evidence that Max picked out her clothes, NO.
Was a security check done on her by the liberals, when she got access to airport files? If so, what did they find out, and what was filed away for future use to blackmail her with.
The 5 Ws comes to mind, who introduced them, where did they meet, when did they meet, why was the meeting set up, and what was the reason behind it.
I do give credit to the Star for bringing out she offered to sell her story. A woman scorned-by who-liberals, Hells Angels or Max.
And what part in all this did Duceppe play, in breaking the story.
Poor Travers, it will be years, if ever, before all his a--kissing will get him into the senate.

Posted by: summom bonum at May 28, 2008 9:18 AM

"Just when did Canada's media jump the shark?"

Canadian MSM were the enablers of the worst government corruption in Canadian history during the Chretien / Martin regime.

National Post article today regarding the Western Premiers meetings says "Stelmach, Wall are isolated on global warming."

Well at last count there were four provinces in Western Canada.

Doesn't that make it a tie?

If not, then I would call it "Campbell, Doer isolated in their support of global warming."

Putting the boots to Edward Said:

Philip Carl Salzman, 'Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict'

101 people who are screwing up Canada (and 10 who are not) is now complete. Thanks to SDA for promoting the project several times along the way.

To ponder: Why did this whole Bernier story break,just ahead of PMSH's trip abroad? Isn't there something a little suspicious about the timing?MSM gets it out there to embarrass PM on the world stage,with assists going to the Libs/Bloc.
This am,the weasel Keith Boag reporting on PM's speech openly mocking and derisive,gives NO substance re what the speech contained,just all Bernier,all the time.Mansbridge cobbles together a special 'At Issue' panel last eve,so the cbc can use more tax-payer funded air time to slam PMSH.
Lots of unanswered questions,the media in overdrive now to get Cons.and are basically shutting down any common sense questions about validity of Ms.Couillard's statements.
Fair and balanced ?? Yeah,right.

David Goldblatt, Likud on the Terraces

Seventy per cent of Jewish Israelis say they want a two-state solution. That doesn't mean they have a high opinion of Arabs. Consider the hardcore fans of Beitar Jerusalem FC.

Rod Liddle, A century from now, we will be appalled that we allowed abortions at all

I may be wrong about this, but it strikes me that in a century or so, or maybe even less, we will be appalled that we allowed abortions at all. I do not mean that we should not allow them now; it is merely a suspicion that the advance of our knowledge about the life of a foetus, coupled with an improved ability to prevent conception, will mean that we will be mystified as to how such a primitive and brutal procedure could have become state-sanctioned and commonplace. I can see politicians in 2108 erecting monuments and offering apologies to the unborn dead — divorced from the reality of where we are now, and why. Apologising, in the manner of Tony Blair, with hindsight for crimes which were not considered crimes except by a furious and vengeful minority.

Ottawa cops run out of citizens to taser, begin tasering fellow cops:

www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/city/story.html?id=db91b1d5-7d8e-4257-a19a-515b69d59326&p=2

Very, very intersting story if you read between the lines.

The suspension in logic here is astounding. It appears that most people here are positing that indeed Bernier was set up by the liberals, that somehow he was co-erced into bringing classified documents into the house of his then girlfriend who was known to Bernier as the former lover a gang-land figure.

Next, we make the further step of impossible logic to suggest that in fact the entire liberal caucus, the bloc, and everyone else and their mom also sat on the story until Harper's trip so as to embarass him on the world stage?

Riiight, that makes perfect sense, especially when others here are positing that it's going to boost support for Harper from Quebec...

Did you notice Keith Boag*s animated glee when Mansbridge introduced him with * more on the Bernier story?

Boag was very animated relating the security angle while doing maximaum damage to the Conservatives, in his mind, at least.

You could almost see the adrenalin pumping in his neck.

Seldom have I seen our political news delivered with so much venomous delight.

What a pathetic amateur. = TG

Well, just in time for Gopher Miller's attack on hand guns, a Toronto School is now in lock down because there's been a drive by shooting.

"Tanzania: Minister - Ice Won't Vanish On Kili" [Mt Kilimanjaro]
http://allafrica.com/stories/200805260817.html

Is this report spoofable?
Firstly this:
"The minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ms Shamsa Mwangunga, says contrary to reports that the ice caps were decreasing owing to effects of global warming, indications were that the snow cover on Africa's highest mountain were now increasing."

Read down to this:
"Ms Mwangunga explained that initiatives have been taken to minimise the effects of global warming and preserve the mountain's environment among other natural tourism attraction features.

"If we believe that the situation is caused by global warming, then it is time for the international community to implement effectively the Kyoto Protocol by reducing greenhouse gas emissions," she argued."

Comments here re bed bugs, and more tipillating comments. Sad that Our Lady of the Cliches, aka Tequila Sheila Copps, is no longer writing her colyum; Sheila would get to the bottom of this (cliche).
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"Somebody's playing this up.
What an absolute load of nonsense:

“…In an interview with Quebec’s TVA network broadcast on Monday, Couillard said experts had checked her home and told her that listening devices had been installed and removed.”

That’s certainly a new one. How, exactly, can you tell if listening devices USED to be in a spot? Sorry, but that’s a bit of a stretch."
[...]

"# Reid CANADA Says:
May 28th, 2008 at 12:21 am

The National on the CBC even had an expert debunk her claim of being bugged. He said no pro would put a bug in a box spring. Too much material and padding that would muffle any voices."

"# wilson CANADA Says:
May 28th, 2008 at 3:35 am

If Our Monica wants to make some money off of her this, she should sue the Liberals. In her interview with TVA , when asked who ruined her reputation, she said the Opposition and media. Funny that isn’t being reported."
http://returnofthetory.btblogs.ca/2008/05/27/somebodys-playing-this-up/

Re: Jim Travers gloating that Bernier leaving confidential documents in an unsecure place is the most devastating action by any Foreign Minister in more than 40 years!!! Wow!

Where has Jim Travers been? Or, is it just that the media have blown this up so gleefully and with such malice that it "appears" really really awful.

Imagine, if you would, if the media had so joyously and ruthfully pursued past Liberal Foreign Minister and then acting Liberal Leader and married Bill Graham's little "friendship" with a very very young Mexican boy. What, you say, why no headlines on this?

Why the secrecy and discreet non mention by the Liberal media about one of their own? Especially about an "affair" that could have opened up Bill Graham to extortion and probably discredited him and our country on the world stage.

Why indeed. You see, Jim Travers, there HAVE been pretty decadent scandals by Liberal Foreign Ministers - you just ignored them or swept them under the rug.

Re: Jim Travers gloating that Bernier leaving confidential documents in an unsecure place is the most devastating action by any Foreign Minister in more than 40 years!!! Wow!

Where has Jim Travers been? Or, is it just that the media have blown this up so gleefully and with such malice that it "appears" really really awful.

Imagine, if you would, if the media had so joyously and ruthfully pursued past Liberal Foreign Minister and then acting Liberal Leader and married Bill Graham's little "friendship" with a very very young Mexican boy. What, you say, why no headlines on this?

Why the secrecy and discreet non mention by the Liberal media about one of their own? Especially about an "affair" that could have opened up Bill Graham to extortion and probably discredited him and our country on the world stage.

Why indeed. You see, Jim Travers, there HAVE been pretty decadent scandals by Liberal Foreign Ministers - you just ignored them or swept them under the rug.

You know what I find remarkable. During the whole liberals dominance of the HOC for over a decade by the Cretan & Pauli. None of their Cabinet ministers resigned. How many documents of national security where found in the garbage or transit system. Scandals galore yet not any resignations. Frankly they have some nerve when in there haughtiness, they scoffed at Canadians, while the Ministers who ran amok or did illegal things where lauded by these same outraged frauds. Their posturing disgusts me. This man resigned with punctuality & real repentance if only for himself . Why continue the charade they care about this when they have a Rhinoceros on there own backs?
By the way I think it only right he quite.Shows bad judgement on his part.

TO ALL THE LIBERALS WHO REVEL AT MAXIME BERNIER'S resignation, and his "questionable" former associate. Has anyone checked out the friends and associates of Pierre Trudeau?? How about the Govornor General's Liberal appointed husband, Monsieur Jean-Daniel Lafond. Anyone care to comment?? Touche!

lmf - why not write and ask Travers this very same important question?
jtravers@thestar.ca
These are opinion-writers who are hardcore Liberals, party of the old cronyism.

What did Chretien do with Gagliano's mafia connections and other misdeeds? Made him ambassador to Denmark.

What did Chretien do about Radzwanski's problem with Canada Revenue - and his declaration of bankruptcy (yet still living in a Toronto mansion)...he made him a top highly paid civil servant in Ottawa where he proceeded to milk the taxpayer dry for expensive dinners and trips.

And why doesn't the press ask Ms Couillard, who is busily trying to make a living out of newpaper and tv interviews (she seems to have no employment)...why she waited a month before returning the papers? Is she a citizen? Doesn't she have a duty to return the papers immediately? To his office? Why wait a month - and why call her lawyer asking what to do with them?

Oh - and her mattress 'bugged'? Sure. When was the last time she changed the sheets and would have found those 'staples'?

Write Travers and see what he says.

I glad it's not just me! The picture that CTV has been showing of Maxime and so called girl friend, hand in hand; he looks like a man struck by the love bug. I think his was a very easy mark. Harper's plan to get tough on crime probably has quite a few in the Angels and the Liberals pissed off. This woman is a pro at manipulating men. I so hope that there is a complete investigation into this woman, it just stinks.

Doesa anybody know how we can compile a list of how many times Liberal cabinet ministers were caught leaving sensitive documents in public places. I seem to recall Joe Volpe leaving some in either a taxi or restaurant? Also, should we not ask because "Canadians want to know" (gag) all about whether or not background checks were made on the spouses, children, friends and relatives who may havew dropped by a Liberal cabinet minister's home when there were senstive documents in their homes.

So, if this is REALLY about national security then the media canot be selective now can they?

LOL Lone Ranger.

They won't listen, here in QC la la land, they are ponding on how to enact a law that forces any one in the entertainment business that releases or sells here to provide translated movies at the same time. After all can't have Quebec children behind the entertainment 'curve' ... must admit they know their target market well.

Meanwhile back in jolly ole England, where criminals have no guns, heh, no prob:
http://jacksnewswatch.com/2008/05/26/phillips-the-dangerously-deluded-childrens-tsar/

Catching Torontonians wild pigs:

http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/catching_wild_p.html

(I hope the strikethrough on Torontonians works! It does not work in the preview...)

Damn. The strikethrough tag doesn't work!

Grr.

Revnant Dream: "None of their Cabinet ministers resigned."

Mr. Ed said:

"My favourite is Art Eggleton having to resign over putting his girlfriend on the payroll, and then Martin appointing him to the Senate."
http://tinyurl.com/43s5xg
Broadbent, Ed (Interview)

Owly cowly. The thot plickens; the moll was in the thickens; amnesia* reigns.
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"Quebec gave security contract to Couillard's boyfriend
By THE CANADIAN PRESS

QUEBEC - The Parti Quebecois says the Quebec government granted a prisoner-escort contract to a security company run by a man with a criminal record who was once the boyfriend of Julie Couillard.

Sylvain Simard, a Parti Quebecois member of the legislature, says the $166,000 contract was granted last year to the firm D.R.P. Investigation and Security Agency.

The company was owned by Couillard's ex-boyfriend, Robert Pepin, who once pleaded guilty to trafficking stolen goods and reportedly owed money to a Hells Angels loanshark when he committed suicide last year.

Newspaper reports have said Couillard played an active role in Pepin's company during other attempts to obtain airport security contracts.

Pepin was the third man with a shady past linked to Couillard."
http://tinyurl.com/6xjtcm
*"Quebec Public Security Minister Jacques Dupuis seemed to be unaware of the contract when it was brought up in the legislature today."

Joe:

Canada's media has been embarrassing Canadians with their toady Lib/left ways for many,many years:

"Mulroney’s cordial relationship with Reagan did not always go down well among Canada’s left-leaning elites, known for pathological levels of anti-Americanism. After a dinner at a summit in the mid-80s, Reagan and Mulroney, both descendants of Irish immigrants went on stage to sing “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” , from page 369:

Canadians in general loved the Irish duet, but the CBC replayed the clip constantly with commentary that it was symbolic of a humiliating “toadyism” and a sub-ordination of Canada’s interests. “I must say, these people really have a serious inferiority complex”, said Margaret Thatcher after she saw a replay of such commentary during a visit to Toronto. “I certainly hope they don’t go off their medication.”

Medication. I knew something explained Liberals.

To ET: When was the last time she [Couillard] changed the sheets.... With her looks and her lifestyle, I'd imagine she'd have to change the sheets quite often.....Her mattress may have been "bugged" alright, with live little critters....

SewerGate: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Reported on CFRA, Ottawa this day, by an e-mailer, that the City of Ottawa's Medical Officer of Health reported an upsurge of infections from Mupirocin-Resistant, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CMRSA),in Ottawa and area during the time shown below. The information is on the MOH's website.
There were two deaths reported during the time period.
No report was made available to the public at that time.
This has to be confirmed.

The Chief Medical Officer of Health in Ontario is appointed by the Ontario government. The Premier of Ontario at that time was the current Premier, Liberal D. McGuinty. The Minister of Health was/is George Smitherman.
McGuinty hails from Ottawa; his brother is Liberal Environment critic for Citoyen Dion.
Have either of the McGuintys spoken out about SewerGate?
MSM Pundits/the public are openly calling this scandal SewerGate. The word coverup is also being talked about.
Does "Walkerton" ring a bell? Is this McGuinty's Walkerton?
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"City Employee Fired Over Sewage Leak Communications Foul-Up

A supervisor in Ottawa's waste water department has been fired.

We first learned Tuesday the supervisor had been suspended without pay, after it was revealed he did not contact the provincial environment ministry following a sewage spill into the Ottawa River in August, 2006 - even though he said he had told them.

The actions of the employee in question have now left the city open to charges that could be laid by the province's Environment Ministry."
http://www.cfra.com/?cat=1&nid=57168

Security Experts dubious of Couillard's Bed "Bug" Story --- cp
I think it's somebody's 15min of fame- Reid Morden former director CSIS
This whole thing "Stinks"-Chris Mathers ex-mountie
May 28/2008

No Clapping. By Order.

When comments on (some) blogs have someone pointing out/saying Canadians are sheeple, do you cringe? Could Canadians really be a nation of sheeple?
The Canadian sheeple were defined from the beginning with:
""Peace, order and good government" is the introductory phrase of section 91 of the CONSTITUTION ACT, 1867 ,".
This holds today: shhh, shush, don't speak up, listen; you gotta go along to get along; vote for PET; be passive until you pass on to the PET Cemetery. PET's waiting for you. Baaaaaa ...
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"Lacrosse fans ordered to stay silent during games
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
"The Port Coquitlam Minor Lacrosse Association has declared "silent stands" during four games, meaning fans can't yell, cheer or even clap."
http://tinyurl.com/5neaaq

3 adults and 2 children found dead in Calgary, 1 toddler unharmed. Police are not looking for suspects. via CHQR77 Calgary. It's probably another one of them white Christian middle class knuckle draggin gun totin bible thumpin rednecks just defendin his families honour.

I wrote nitwit, Toronto Mayor, David Miller, about his looney-tune plans to ban all hand guns in Toronto. His name should be Dick--as in dick head. What a moron.

Here's the response I received:

Thank you for your e-mail. It has been received in the Office of Mayor Miller.

Mayor Miller believes the staff report released earlier this week is the logical next step in making Toronto an even safer city. Handguns are unlike anything else as they are designed and intended for one purpose: to kill people. As you may be aware, the Mayor has already publicly called for a ban on the private ownership of handguns across Canada. That call has received the support of Mayors from all over the country as well as Premier Dalton McGuinty. The Atlantic Mayors' Congress and Montreal Mayor Gerald Tremblay are among the most recent to add their support.

With that already underway, it is incumbent on the city to take whatever steps and measures are within its power to show that we are serious about attacking gun violence on all fronts. That means that gun clubs will have to vacate city property and gun manufacturers and distributors will no longer be able to establish themselves in Toronto. We cannot talk about a national handgun ban or approach our neighbours in the United States and ask them to help eliminate gun violence without showing we are willing to take whatever actions we can locally.

The City of Toronto has the right to regulate the property and civil rights aspects of firearms as they relate to the health, safety and well being of its residents. Handguns pose an increasing threat in our community that we must not ignore. The Mayor wants to ensure that the City is taking all available actions to address gun violence.

Specific areas of recommended action to be considered next week by the Executive Committee include:
* Land use restrictions affecting manufacture, assembly, warehousing, distribution and discharge of guns.
* Eliminating recreational use of firearms on City property, specifically, shooting ranges at the Don Montgomery Community Recreation Centre (former Mid-Scarborough Community Centre) and Union Station.
* Comprehensive monitoring of incidents and impacts of firearm violence and injury in Toronto. Providing social supports to break the cycle of violence.
* Intergovernmental advocacy.

The report is posted on the City's website at: http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2008/ex/agendas/2008-06-03-ex21-ar.pdf

With respect to the ban, that would be up to the Federal Government to act but Mayor Miller believes the urgency of a handgun ban and the impact it could have in Toronto are simple. We know that about a third of the guns used to commit crimes in this city were at one point legally registered. Recently, a legally registered handgun was used to murder someone on a Toronto street. But this is not just a Toronto issue. Canadian police services reported 8,105 victims of violent gun crime, ranging from assault to robbery and homicide in 2006 - a rate of almost 1 person per hour victimized by violent gun crime.

While there are no simple answers to the scourge of gun violence in all Canadian cities, the banning of private ownership of handguns would cut off supply of at least some of the weapons that are used for criminal purposes.

The handgun ban is part of the Mayor's strategy to make our safe city safer. Among the other parts of the strategy:
* There are 450 more police officers on our streets and in our neighbourhoods.
* We are addressing the root causes of violence through our Community Safety Plan.

The strategy is working. Young people in priority communities are benefitting from the creation of thousands of jobs, training and recreational opportunities. For more information on our plan for Making Our Safe City Safer Community Safer, please visit our website: www.toronto.ca/community_safety .

In Toronto, crime is down in every major category, except gun murders. For this reason, the Mayor's gun violence strategy includes:
* A handgun ban
* Tougher crime legislation for illegal gun use
* Increased anti-gun smuggling security at the Canada-U.S. border
* Stronger U.S. gun controls
* Continuation of community based prevention and youth opportunity development
* Continuation of the Toronto Anti violence Interventions Strategy (TAVIS) initiative of the Toronto Police Service

It's true that the majority of handguns used are illegally imported into the country and the Mayor has called on the Federal government to increase efforts to stem the flow at the border. The Mayor is also working with Mayors across the United States to have the federal government in that country take action on the easy availability of handguns.

I think you will agree that you cannot put a price on human life. If a handgun ban and the other measures we are taking save even one life, it will be more than worth it.

Karen Duffy
Office of Mayor Miller
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No, you nitwits, it won't be worth it.

I am waiting for the comments from Bush's press boy Scott.

Anyone...anyone...

Top news story of the day and nothing. I enjoy coming to this site but sometimes I have to question its lack of coverage.

Teenager fined 50 pounds for littering -ie letting go his balloon - Good grief

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1021811/Teenager-16-fined-littering---letting-balloon-charity-event.html

Right of centre,

Try rabble.ca ... it might be more to your liking.

^^^^no thanks

I really like talkng about the Canadian Conservatives, but the favourtism towards the Republicans is to too far to the right for me.

I like the Canadians conservative and the US democrats. Kinda hard to find a web page with those parameters.

Seen this yet?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7422595.stm
Trying to solve the John Robin Sharp problem.
Wish them luck.