Apology
I’m from Mars.
I don’t have rights to Earth.
I came here as 3rd nation.
I want to be no 1
And I want to tell the people I pay for ….the bread I’m paying for, will be the last one!
God bless you!

"What a wonderful world" was my parents favorite.

gets me all weepy,

There's a link to Satchmo's What a Wonderful World
at the SDA Late Nite Radio Classics, Dinosaur.

Interesting front page story in our local - Gen Rick Hillier defends the right of the family of deceased soldier to call the war in Afghanistan "stupid".

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jy0VulqpxKiX1E8Au_jVdC80ICWw

I totally agree. Allowing true freedom means allowing dissent and opinion that differs from your own and may even OFFEND you. ARE YOU LISTENING Human Rights Commissions!??

"How thoughtful of them"(SDA TM)part 2....

"The Paris-based OECD, which represents 30 of the world's richest countries, yesterday urged Ottawa and Alberta to create asset funds with stringent rules to direct energy wealth into foreign investment."

http://tinyurl.com/4jwx8l

Here is another example of the state abusing its power. Police in Ontario have laid over 5,000 charges for street racing. The new legislation allows police to seize the person's car on the spot, have it towed away and impounded for one week (with the owner being charged for both). All of this happens of course without any trial.

1,080 of the above cases have gone through the courts - only 325 of those charged have been convicted of street racing, the other 70% have either had charges reduced to speeding or have had charges withdrawn or stayed. Notwithstanding this, the drivers are still out of pocket a thousand or more dollars for towing and impounding fees. Kind of like having the execution before the trial.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/06/09/street-racing.html
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/06/10/street-racing.html

Ottawa to unveil controversial copyright bill

http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080611.wcopyright0611/BNStory/Business/home

Isn't this a really bad idea? Why is the CPC picking this battle to fight, rather than all the far more important battles that we have to deal with.

It's a huge vote loser, and permanently tars the CPC as being the "anti-open internet" party. Right or wrong I don't know, but I know that for every Canadian who knows or cares about Ezra Levant, there will be 100 who will be mighty POed with any legislation that interferes with their free use of the Internet.

Stupid!

Vitruvius did I miss a post at SDA, why do I feel like I didn't prey to Toronto 5 times today?

Tnx for the link I've notched it up 3 times so far.

I'm glad we both like it, Dinosaur.

From your Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper:

"The government now recognizes that the consequences of the Indian residential schools policy were profoundly negative and that this policy has had a lasting and damaging impact on aboriginal culture, heritage and language.

"While some former students have spoken positively about their experiences at residential schools, these stories are far overshadowed by tragic accounts of the emotional, physical and sexual abuse and neglect of helpless children, and their separation from powerless families and communities.

"The legacy of Indian residential schools has contributed to social problems that continue to exist in many communities today.

[...]

"Therefore, on behalf of the government of Canada and all Canadians, I stand before you, in this chamber so central to our life as a country, to apologize to aboriginal peoples for Canada's role in the Indian residential schools system.

"To the approximately 80,000 living former students, and all family members and communities, the government of Canada now recognizes that it was wrong to forcibly remove children from their homes and we apologize for having done this.

"We now recognize that it was wrong to separate children from rich and vibrant cultures and traditions, that it created a void in many lives and communities, and we apologize for having done this.

"We now recognize that, in separating children from their families, we undermined the ability of many to adequately parent their own children and sowed the seeds for generations to follow, and we apologize for having done this.

"We now recognize that, far too often, these institutions gave rise to abuse or neglect and were inadequately controlled, and we apologize for failing to protect you.

[...]

"The burden is properly ours as a government, and as a country.

"There is no place in Canada for the attitudes that inspired the Indian residential schools system to ever again prevail.

"You have been working on recovering from this experience for a long time and in a very real sense, we are now joining you on this journey.

"The government of Canada sincerely apologizes and asks the forgiveness of the aboriginal peoples of this country for failing them so profoundly."

Thanks Vitruvius. It's been raining since it last snowed here in Calgary and I'm feeling blue. Dixie Music Man fixed me up!

The thing is, QE, politics is not about logic,
it is about out-politicing your opponents. It's
not for me to say, yet I think that Mr. Harper
may be playing a deeper game than some think.

Whether or not it will work is another question.

Vitruvius... the Mercury recordings of Sachmo are just the best. The one he did with Ella is like sitting in the same room with them. It's mono, but, it's just the best.

So much music, so little time... (sigh)

Perhaps you're right to be cynical Vitruvius but I prefer to think PM Harper was speaking from his heart. With respect to our native friends out there I found this gem you and others might enjoy.

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

Don't send your kids to school brandishing Swastikas
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/440948

Now I don't think she should have done this but the government taking her kids away!!

We have Islamofacists calling for the deaths of Jews and they want to take away this womans kids. PC Government hypocrites - if your listening your social engineering is not working.

I'm glad to hear that about Dixie Music Man, Boots. By the way, in case you missed last night's SDA LNR, and because it's directly relevant to your recent blues as you reported, don't forget to check out Mr. Gene Kelly's Singing in the Rain. Also, a quick point, I was not, or at least I was not trying to be cynical about politics, it is what it is. And on that note, good night everyone, best wishes, and as always, thanks to our lovely hostess Miss Kate.

The Georgia Guidestones from Wik. were erected in 1979. Obviously SDA and the Western Standard find them offensive but not the Canada Free Press in 2005. Why has no one removed these stones if they are offensive? Who owns the land they are on? Will someone come forward to claim ownership if they are taken down?

Then there was the trumpet player who was up on stage with his fly undone. A little old lady got up from the audience and walked up to the edge of the stage and said: "Sir, do you know your fly is undone." "No" he says. "But if you can whistle it, I can try and play it !!"

Time for a little Canadiana. Bet most of you don't recognize many of the terms mentioned in this song.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oim3F3OfwRM

thank you Vit for the link to that beautiful song. What a wonderful world...if only I could share his optimism. *sigh*

The Senate's national security and defence committee...said in a report that Ottawa should "allow Canadian forces soldiers and Canadian government officials operating in Kandahar to talk with members of the Taliban movement if communication encourages disarmament and/or ensures the security of development projects within the province."

(From the Calgary Herald)

See...more people are coming to realize that this is only way to resolve the problem in Afghanistan. Ha. And you guys mockingly called me "Taliban Jack". Just shows how dumb you are!

arent these the same textbooks used in the Trona schools?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,365700,00.html

I want my baby back baby black ribs.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/06/11/fox_obama/index.html

from over at Tims site.

http://bp2.blogger.com/_TgUbjXf2QDc/R2IKm7dzFqI/AAAAAAAAATk/VTi2ywOw8Go/s1600-h/CBC_Liberal_logo.jpg

Barbara Kay, Re-Virgining: Should the state pay for modern Muslim women to deceive traditional
National Post

Muslim grooms?
Posted: June 11, 2008, 9:05 PM by Jonathan Kay

Now we pay for Muslim Women to become virgins again. More Jizra from the kaffirs.

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/06/11/barbara-kay-re-virgining-should-the-state-pay-for-modern-muslim-women-to-deceive-traditional-muslim-grooms.aspx

Continuing on the religious theme at the post this article was enlightening.

When did the Bible become 'hate speech'?
Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post
Published: Thursday, June 12, 2008

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=ceebc006-06cc-4aa8-ad1a-5e3f7f5c8229

Lib McGuinty's words are typical bhjjkfpt from socialists.
McGuinty and his ilk would shut down freedom of speech. McGuinty and his ilk cannot face the fact that Indians are wards/dependents of the State.
Repeal/abolish the Indian Act.
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"Liberal MP David McGuinty said he was "shocked" to hear Poilievre would make such comments.

"He seems to imply aboriginals don't have work ethic and don't have independence," McGuinty said. "These were judgmental and stereotypical remarks about aboriginal Canadians and these are the exact kinds of stereotypes today was about expunging.""
(ottawasun)

Vitruvius: "...yet I think that Mr. Harper may be playing a deeper game than some think."

Agreed. I think any time a politician does anything, at least some sliver of their brain is actively computing the ramifications of said act on their popular support. Call me cynical.

That said, what bothers me is that when the Liberals pander to a 'special interest group,' it's 'creating dependent ethnic voting blocs,' but when the Conservatives do it, then it's either out of genuine compassion or mere 'politicking.' That seems a pretty clear double standard to me.

Enter stage left:
Dalton McGuinty, a brother of David McGuinty.

Liberal Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty pushes child pornography into your face.
McGuinty pushes child porn and you pay the State to subsidize his porn.
Dalton McGuinty: pornmonger.
The highest official in Ontario pushes pornography.
McGuinty should be investigated.
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"Premier defends funding for film on sex lives of 'Young People. . . '
The Canadian Press - 4 hours ago
TORONTO - Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is defending the use of tax credits to help fund a controversial new movie about the sex lives of young Canadians."

The natural end result of socialism: Zimbabwe.
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"Robert Mugabe Militia Hacks, Burns Alive Opposition Leader's Wife
June 12, 2008
Jan Raath in Mhondoro"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029968/posts

"When I was a young lefty I went on marches in London for a free Rhodesia. Guess who was the hero of the hour? We clapped him, and shouted for him to take Rhodesia and be it’s saviour - MUGAARBEEE!!!

How wrong we were."

This comment from the article on the opposition leader's wife's murder is so typical of young leftists. Most never change their views even when faced with the results of their stupidity unlike this person. Witness Hollywood still trying to make a hero out of that butcher Che Guevara. Phone call for Jimmah Caartehhh...

Police need Judge to pack their lunch:

GM of Canada Ltd. reveals in court documents that the company asked Durham regional police repeatedly (Warning: TOR Star link)during the last week for assistance so staff could go to work at headquarters where union members have a set up the blockade in protest of next year's closing of a nearby truck plant.

But police chief Mike Ewles told GM in a letter that the force didn't want to trigger a confrontation through intervention and advised the auto maker to seek a court injunction, which the company is pursuing today.

Today is Carbon Belch Day. Your day to show your respect for environmentalists by producing as much carbon as is humanly possible. Burn some garbage, have a candelight barbecue, or just do donuts in your hummer. Every little bit helps.

More instructions from our superiors:

"Malaysian president Abdullah Badawi calls for British Muslims to live under sharia law"

(telegraph.co.uk)

Muslim extremism in Britain will grow unless the Government and society learn to understand Islam, Malaysia's prime minister has warned.

Abdullah Badawi claimed that the legacy of Britain's imperial past has hampered its ability to appreciate its Islamic population.

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, the prime minister urged Gordon Brown to allow the country's Muslims to live under sharia law, but also said that they must prove their worth to society.

His comments are set to fuel the debate over the role of Islam in Britain following the Church of England's attack on the Government for already giving more attention to Muslims than Christians.

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See? If sovereign western countries just did what Muslim countries demanded, everybody would get along just fine.

What's the fuss? They're just teaching straight from the holy Islamic trilogy.

McLEAN, Va. (AP) — Textbooks at a private Islamic school in northern Virginia teach students that it is permissible for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam, according to a federal investigation released Wednesday.

Other passages in the school's textbooks state that "the Jews conspired against Islam and its people" and that Muslims are permitted to take the lives and property of those deemed "polytheists."

From the religion blogs of The Times:

Ruth Gledhill, Seven in ten marriages 'forced'

More than seven in ten marriages involving an English citizen and a spouse born in Asia could have an element of 'force or coercion' about them, according to document published today that contains some of the strongest language used by community leaders to date. The Muslim Arbitration Tribunal claims that forced marriages reflect a 'crisis that has loomed within the Muslim community without being noticed or dealt with for the past two decades.' The tribunal, founded last year and based in Nuneaton near Coventry, says the official figures of 300 forced marriages a year represent the tip of the iceberg...

Libby Purves, Alberta pastor banned from speaking on homosexuality

Laura Vanderkam, Choosing Wisely: Can “libertarian paternalism” make the world a better place?

In classical economics, human beings are rational actors. We make choices that maximize our utility—that is, that make us happier, wealthier, or whatever we desire most. Averaged over all of society, the invisible hand of these rational choices should make everyone better off.

It’s a good theory. Unfortunately, as University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler and others have demonstrated in the relatively new field of behavioral economics, most human beings bear little resemblance to these rational actors... So they advocate a different approach, which they call “libertarian paternalism.” It’s a clunker of a name, but a fascinating concept: in general, people should be free to do what they like and to opt out of arrangements that they don’t like. However, because many situations require us to choose, it’s legitimate for “choice architects” (those who set the ground rules for a situation) to make it easier for people to make choices that will leave them better off—“as judged by themselves”...

Mehdi Khalaji, Ahmadinezhad Deflects Critcism with Attacks on Clerics

In late May, an official close to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad publicly accused more than forty high-ranking government officials -- including some of the country's most powerful clerics -- of economic corruption. These unprecedented revelations may signal the start of a significant power struggle inside the Iranian government, one likely to intensify between now and the May 2009 presidential election...

Ahmadinezhad has outraged Iran's clerics more directly by claiming that the Hidden Imam (the Shiite messiah) guides him in running the country. Such a suggestion undermines the cleric's fatwas and their role in government. In addition, if one believes that this messiah is behind all government actions, then Ahmadinezhad does not have to take responsibility for the regime's failures and faults...

critics say. CBCpravda denounces ownership of intellectual property.

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/11/tech-copyright.html

of course no one bothers to copy old "road to avonlea" or rufus wainwright sings

An interesting story about hacking....phones!

Less than two months after celebrating his 18th birthday, a blind, East Boston-based phone hacker has been arrested for paying a Sunday afternoon visit to the Verizon security officer who'd been chasing him.

While the circumstances are bizarre, Weigman's arrest comes as little surprise. As we reported last February, the FBI has been investigating the hacker since he was 15-years-old, at times courting him as an informant.

Weigman is widely considered one of the best active phone hackers alive

http://tinyurl.com/6avw32

NYT commenters of liberal and conservative persuasion react to the recent "The U.S. is out of step on free speech with other countries" article with virtually unanimous support for the First Amendment. Warning: do not read these comments if your initials are W.K. and you are a member of the Canadian liberal intelligentsia who believes you can draw the line between your own hateful speech and that of the great unwashed.

Posted by: cal2 at June 12, 2008 11:22 AM

If you are curious - or at the least interested - the impending changes will impact your life daily. From recording (tivo) time-shifted television, to transferring music/shows onto your iPod, or even converting old VHS tapes to DVD - this legislation has been drafted without any significant input from outside of Hollywood and silicon valley.

Spend some time on Geist's site - he is non-partisan, but critical of the legislation for good - and clearly explained reasons.

www.michaelgeist.ca

Then send a note to Prentice to stop crawling around in your wallet.

From the Financial Post....

Prentice's DMCA......."would require Internet service providers to police the content that travels over their network....ISPs could be required to filter pirated digital files and reveal the identities of customers suspected of infringing on copyrighted material."

That sound of silence is big brother legally obligated to do deep packet inspection of everything you send.

How nice of the Conservatives to save the Liberals/NDP the time and effort of having to draft laws that remove freedom, encourage spying on Canadians, and toss harsh and dis-proportionate (and unbounded) penalties on those who DARE to contravene them.

Please inform yourself.

More from the socialist hole of Zimbabwe.
Socialists in Zimbabwe morph into Stalinist/Maoist despots.
The natural end result of socialism: kangaroo courts.

"Mugabe critic on treason charge
BBC News - 1 hour ago
The secretary general of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change, Tendai Biti, will be charged with treason, police say."

US economy swoons "at twice the rate economists forecast." It's a twofer. It's him's* fault.
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"June 12 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks climbed as banks rebounded from a five-year low and consumer shares rallied on retail sales that rose at twice the rate economists forecast."
(*Him's = UKnowWho)

Irwin Daisy at June 12, 2008 10:43 AM . . .
Promts this response, . .

A criminal would conceal his auto license plate and hide his identity, [face], with a balaklava.

Britain, an open and free society, has everything to lose if they listen to Malaysia's prime minister Abdullah Badawi.

HE urged Gordon Brown to allow the country's Muslims to live under sharia law, but also said that they must prove their worth to society.

No! Ban Sharia law in the UK. Freedom lives under ONE law and equality for all.

Ban the Buhrka. Security lives under an open faced society where business and banking rely upon clear identity to function with minimum deception and fraud.

Prime minister Abdullah Badawi has a 400 million Muslim voter bloc to keep happy if ever wants to be reelected.

His advice is bound to have a certain *slant*. = TG

Malaysian pm Abdullah Badawi; [ Quote ],

** Muslim extremism in Britain will grow unless the Government and society learn to understand Islam, Malaysia's prime minister has warned.

Abdullah Badawi claimed that the legacy of Britain's imperial past has hampered its ability to appreciate its Islamic population. **

A salute to Ezra Levant:
"*the heart and soul of the unending human adventure: freedom of enquiry, freedom of controversy, freedom of criticism, and the vote."
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"I feel like a dashing rogue
By Ezra Levant on June 12, 2008 9:31 AM | Permalink | Comment (1) | Trackback

Well, it's been about an hour since I committed the hate crime of republishing Rev. Stephen Boissoin's illegal letter to the Red Deer Advocate.

So far nothing has happened to me. Ed Stelmach's local Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice obviously hasn't noticed yet. I haven't seen any stern-looking Young Pioneers patrolling my streets wearing "hate crime" whistles around their necks. (I should call over to my parents' place to make sure Giacomo Vigna hasn't sent his hired goons over again.)

The 15-man team prosecuting me for publishing the Danish cartoons hasn't noticed, either. Then again, a year into their investigation, they still hadn't actually read the offending article.

But I have noticed a bit of a change. I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror -- I think I've lost ten pounds! There's less grey in my hair -- well, not really, but it looks sexier.

I feel like a dashing rogue, like the Scarlet Pimpernel. Now I know why men ride motorcycles; now I know how it must feel to sport a moustache, to wear a tattoo (and not just the Chinese pictograph for ginger beef, but a tough one, a home-made one, that says "mom").

There's something ineffable about being a free man, about saying what you want, about not being afraid of what someone else thinks.

It feels pretty good."
http://ezralevant.com/
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A salute to Ezra Levant:

"Communism is a degraded version of the Western message. It retains its ambition to conquer nature, to improve the lot of the humble, but it sacrifices what was and must remain the heart and soul of the unending human adventure: freedom of enquiry, freedom of controversy, freedom of criticism, and the vote."
Raymond Aron
http://tinyurl.com/5ec64b

Ooops,

That should read;

**Ban the Buhrka. Security lives under an open faced society where business , banking and the voter*s booth rely upon clear identity to function with minimum deception and fraud. **

Remember - The voter*s Booth. [ especially in Surrey BC ]= TG

The Islamic plot defined in one sentence:

Quran 33:27, “And He made you heirs of their lands, their houses, and their goods, and of a land which ye had not frequented (Before). And Allah has power over all things.”

ki$$ our collective a$$e$ Buzz Hargroves

http://info.detnews.com/video/index.cfm?id=1189

and then ki$$ yours goodbye.

Posted by: maz2 at June 12, 2008 12:22 PM
Yes and they pulled the listing from the Georgia Guidestones. Talk talk talk while they are safely tucked in their gopher holes.

I keel you, I keel you all.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5igZiBbZdKa9Gvx8uwXlsIOxoBQ5wD91859CG0

I especially like the bon mot from Ambrose Bierce: "War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography."

Martin Kramer, The Myth of Linkage

By any objective reading, the reality should have been clear: the Middle East is not analogous to Europe, it has multiple sources of conflict, and even as one conflict moves to resolution, another may be inflamed. This is because the Middle East is not a single system of interlocking parts. It is made up of smaller systems and distinct pieces, that function independently of one another.

The myth of “linkage” persists, then, because many observers cannot shed the analogy of the Middle East with Europe...

I disagree in almost all aspects, with Martin Kramer's 'Myth of Linkage'.

I completely agree with his rejection that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict LINKS to all other problems in the ME. As I've said frequently, most of the ME states don't give, and never did give, a damn about Palestinians. Currently, Islamic fascism is using this conflict as a front for their own agenda. So, in my view, solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (and this task is primarily up to Israel)..won't deal with the deeper problems in the ME.

Kramer doesn't 'get it'. He considers that the problems with the other states in the ME, both Arab and Persian, are due to old STATE rivalries, and above all...here it comes..to the US need for hegemonic oil domination. Ahh, so that's the problem.

What's missing? The real reason. Kramer never once mentions the term 'tribalism'. I'd bet he doesn't even know what it means. He probably thinks it means something like a group at a Canadian multicultural festival. It doesn't.

Tribalism is the basic operating infrastructure of the ME; it is a structure not an idea; it functions as a 'map' of correct and lawful interactions that you, the individual, must live your life within. You have no choice. It's inflexible.

This map determines the economic, political, legal, familial interactions of your life. And the map is hereditary; the interactions are based on blood, on kinship relations. It provides stability. It cannot provide any tactics of adaptation or functioning within the modern industrial world.

This is the opposite of a civic model of a society, where interactions are open, flexible, and up to the individual.

Tribalism is the real problem in the ME. Tribalism only functions within a medium size popuolation. It's dysfunctional in a large population because it sets up the majority as without power in their own society. A modern industrial society requires a population that is intellectually flexible, spatially flexible, collaborative, interaction with others. All of this is heretical in a tribal structure.

Kramer, with his simplistic idea of the 'nation-state' (which came after tribalism) and his simplistic America-bashing - doesn't get it.

http://tinyurl.com/4myhjl

Maybe now all the hippies will finally get off this Global Warming bullcaca.

First they came for big oil, and I was quiet
Than they came for the redneck's pickup trucks and I said nothing
Than they came for the cannabis, OK now you've gone too far!

Foreigners seem to be all over the 'Roos this week:

Graeme Wood, The Muftis of Cascadia

After a complaint by the Canadian Islamic Congress, Maclean's magazine and columnist Mark Steyn appeared before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal to defend the legality of their articles about Islam...

What gives me hope for Canada is that the Canadian Islamic Congress appears to be aggrieved only in the most boring and uninspiring way. These people show no brilliance, nor even anti-brilliance. If they made a movie, it would probably resemble a cross between an after-school special and a particularly soporific hour of C-SPAN. In Pakistan, Rushdie's supposed heresies aroused howling fury, and a mature, purposeful, and formidable challenge to Western ideals of free expression. By contrast, one of the complainants in Steyn's case, Mohamed Elmasry, was apparently so unthrilled by his indignation that he did not bother to show up for the trial. The other, Naiyer Habib, was reduced to arguing that Steyn's articles had, in essence, hurt his feelings by expressing contemptuous and hateful sentiments toward the Muslims of British Columbia. That's it.

Thanks, ET, I didn't think you'd agree with Kramer. Don't be surprised if Philip Carl Salzman offers a critique of The Myth of Linkage based on tribalism.

No, I wouldn't be surprised about Salzman and hope he does write a strong critique.

Kramer's thesis is invalid because it uses outmoded axioms and because it's ignorant. It relies on a perspective that societies operate as nation-states and that the US has only one focus, oil.

The nation-state is a post-tribal economic and political structure. Kramer obviously has no knowledge of pre-nation/state structures, such as the tribal. He doesn't realize that setting up a population within a nation-state authority but having the political and economic powers run within tribal connections, sets up a society that is essentially imploding from within. The two modes don't and can't function together.

The rise of Islamic fascism in the ME is the result of this conflict between an external structure of a nation-state and an internal structure of tribalism.

Then, Kramer's simplistic anti-Americanist claim that the US is 'greedy for oil' ignores that the ME states are 'greedy to sell oil'. It further ignores that oil is, dangerously, their only economy and that they didn't and can't develop it because their Islamic ideology prevents the development of science and engineering. It ignores that all industrial states require oil.

And, Kramer utterly ignores that this reliance on one economy, oil, developed without the participation of the citizen population, and with this oil controlled by tribal rather than by civic power ..sets up a population without any future in the political, economic and social nature of their country. Hence - Islamic fascism, which is an attempt to gain control.

It's a pathological attempt because fascism, which is a return to a past purity, won't solve the problem. The only way to deal with the requirements of a large urban multimillion population in a modern global world, operating by industrialism - is a civic mode. Not tribal. You have to free the people from obligatory hereditary connections and enable flexible and collaborative interactions regardless of kinship.

That's what Bush's policy of democratization is about. And he's right in my view.

And, you have to move out of an economy operating within only one product. Oil. You have to diversify. The UAE understands this. SA doesn't.

THE LIBERAL INSPIRED CBC were in dire straits (Noon Report-CBC-12:00 PM CST) to find fault in the PM's apology to the Native population (Re":Residential Schools.) One of the comments I heard from CBC is that "he didn't sound sincere." If he's have wept openly, the CBC would have said that he's a wimp. Be reminded that Stephen Harper was born in 1959. Bt the time he was 19 years of age, 99% of the residential school system had been eliminated. In any event, he did what Liberals could never accomplish. He brought it to an end!! (Hopefully.)

Today is Referendum Day in Ireland .... the subject is ratification of the "Treaty" of Lisbon.
The outcome decides whether or not Ireland will subject itself to rule of European bureaucrats as well as about 500million people in other parts of Europe where their governments refused to allow free votes on the matter.

Irish the last chance for free men in Europe!
Link Here!

AP trots out Obama as victim article:
-passing mention of Rev. Wright at middle of article
-no mention of Rev Pfleger
-no mention of Tony Reszko
-no mention of Jim Johnson resignation in VP search committee

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The [website] is a response to the realities of a brave new world, where information travels 24 hours a day on blogs and voters are increasingly turning to the Internet for information. It's a particular problem for Obama, a relative newcomer to national politics who is still unknown to many voters and has been the target of persistent misinformation campaigns online.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/06/12/5855611-ap.html

Left-wing Letterman on Bush and Cheney.
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My feeling about Cheney, and also Bush, but especially Cheney is that he just couldn't care less about Americans. And the same is true of George Bush. And all they really want to do is somehow kiss up to the oil people so they can get some great annuity when they're out of office. [audience applause] “There you go Dick [hand motion of distributing cash], nice job. There's a couple of billion for your troubles.” I mean, he pretty much put Halliburton in business and the outsourcing of the military resources to private mercenary groups and so forth. Is there any humanity in either of these guys?

http://tinyurl.com/3keqmv

"Make Kelowna principles part of residential school healing: Martin" (cbc)
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Ex-PM Liberal P. Martin, Jr's call goes out.

Here is a call to the Parliament of Canada from Canadians.

The Parliament of Canada is requested to arrange/convene an Ad$Cam Truth and Reconciliation Commission with the Liberal Party of Canada as the defendant.
The Liberal Party through its current leader, Citoyen Dion, and its ex-leaders, J. Chretien and P. Martin, Jr., to issue an apology to Canadians for the theft by the Liberal Party of untold millions of Canadian taxpayers' monies/taxes.
The Liberal Party to repay forthwith to the public treasury the millions of dollars stolen from it.

Someone please explain this one to me:

http://www.newstalk650.com/story/20080612/895

Exactly what will/CAN the United Nations do regarding the labour legislation the provincial government put forward that the provincial and federal court systems can't do?

An apology for the theft of the Adscam Millions is the BIG ONE we're all waiting on. It would be unwise to hold our breath. Liberals will never admit wrongdoing in this scam of scams,or anything else for that matter, they're never wrong. The enabler, Jean Chretien, has already implied it was money well spent by saying "what's a few million"?
P. Diddly Poo Martin was asked by Harper to show up for this apology, damned decent of Harper,but, martin has been out of sight for many moons.

Sick of the lot of the Liberals.Watching them scrambling and rummaging around to create scandals to tarnish the Conservatives is about all they have left.

Stephen Harper showed the lot of them up with his delivery of the Apology to the Natives. It was simply a CLASS ACT BY A VERY FIRST RATE PRIME MINISTER.

From Michael Geist's blog concerning the DMCA introduced by Prentice today. Wonder what immigrants will think as their Region 2-4 DVDs are yanked out of the local rental shops...: "I'll have more to say soon, but the takeaway is that the DMCA provisions are worse than the U.S. and the consumer exceptions riddled with limitations as the government promotes a strategy of locking down content and launching lawsuits against Internet users."

http://tinyurl.com/6q84ua

Worse - educational exemptions are two-faced, and librarians are now an enforcement mechanism

http://tinyurl.com/5994l4

Pro-consumer? Balanced? Read the fine print. Think for yourself.

I bet you didn't know "Alberta won" a "turf war" with Ottawa over the NEP?

It's true! Read all about it here:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1808610,00.html

If it's in Time Magazine, it must be true!

they did win the turf war, as soon as oil got to 10$ a bbl ottawa didnt want it . as so many houses had gone into foreclosure , the province and the municipalities got plenty of "turf" back.

"it hisnt hezzy beaning green" Borat Dion.

[quote]Left-wing Letterman on Bush and Cheney.[/quote]

OttRob,
I sure the hell am not a Left-Wing wing nut... but these Statements by The Saudi Arabian Oil Minister has serious implictions.

National Post; June 10th, FP-18, Energy

"The Increase in prices isn't justified in terms of market fundementals."

Saudi Arabia, the worlds biggest oil exporter, said it increased output this month and has told
all the oil companies it deals with that it's ready to provide them with additional supplies if needed.

Say What! OPEC & Big Oil have secret agreements RE: Supply. A clear Violation of US law: Sherman Anti-Trust.. "Bag the Big Oil Bastards"

The Corrupt Republicans on one side and Corrupt Democrats on the other. The green Commies sucking from both sides

Oil Price = Fruad

Global Warming = Fraud

George W. Bush IS.. what he IS.. History may not be Kind.

McCain better dig deep.. incoming..

This is from TORedStar: Notice how TO says "Canada may profit".
...-

"Canada may profit from food price surge"

"Canadian farmers and food processors stand to profit from the current surge in global food prices."

"says the study called "Food Prices: A boon for producers, a buffer for consumers.""
http://tinyurl.com/5uy3qj
...-

More from TORedStar: Now TO says "Ontario".

"Japanese automakers thriving in Ontario"

Expert perfesser say, ""They're non-unionized, they've got a younger workforce and they pay less,""

Meanwhile at CAW's unionized sweatshops: GM pays more.

"Unionized workers staged angry protests after GM announced last week it planned to stop production at a truck plant in Oshawa, that employs 2,600 people because, the company said, people just weren't buying the pick-up trucks produced there."
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/442401
(cawcawcawbuzzzzz)

Vitruvius: "I think that Mr. Harper
may be playing a deeper game than some think."

I agree, Vitruvius. If not, I'll be a very disillusioned supporter of the CPC and PMSH.

'LOVE Louis Armstrong, who lived in a very modest house in Brooklyn--I think it was?--all his adult life, with his one wife, Lucille. He could have afforded a mansion anywhere. He knew all of his neighbours. What a guy!

True bliss, for me at least, is Louis AND Ella; 'have two of their collaberations, which always lifts my spirits if they're drooping. You can't get much better than the two of them, alone, let alone TOGETHER.

Do not download Mo & Al. It's verboten by "Hector".
...-

Mohammed, PBUH, TM
By Ezra Levant on June 12, 2008 1:23 PM |

I think another lawsuit is coming my way.

Today, my lawyer received this letter from a radical Muslim activist in Toronto. It's a Certificate of Registration of Copyright. He claims to have copyrighted the image of Mohammed, PBUH. In other words, it's now Mohammed, PBUH, TM.

I checked it out on Industry Canada's copyright database and, sure enough, there it is: two weeks ago, Akhtar "Hector" Agha has indeed registered a "Restriction on Depiction of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)". It's right there on the government website.

I'm not sure, but I think "Hector" might be looking for a royalties payment for whenever I do something like post this picture."
http://ezralevant.com/

Yeah, Harper is playing a game alright. DrDawg said it best in his blog:

A very well-scripted apology it was, delivered by the fellow whose government...

*tore up the Kelowna Accord, ignored Parliament's vote to reinstate it, and offered aboriginal people a fraction of what the deal called for;

*refused fast-track payments to the very people to whom he has now apologized;

*continues the Liberal malign neglect of the Lubicon Cree;

*keeps Maurice Vellacott in his caucus--the Conservative MP who defended the Saskatoon cops that took Darrell Night out for a "starlight tour," like the one that killed Neil Stonechild;

*to our international shame, voted against the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and indeed made every effort to scuttle it.

But how timely this apology is! Why, one of these days there might actually be an election: Operation Outreach continues. And in this glaringly obvious context, what a disgraceful example of form without substance that apology was. What empty words. What hollow rhetoric.

Yeah, rove, and the Librano$ honoured their written-on-a-napkin "Kelowna Accord (sic)"?

They had time to.

They couldv'e.

They didn't.

But rove, you haven't outlined why those items that you support, SHOULD be supported.

The Lubicon is a mess, with several tribes involved, including some who don't even live in the land base. It's isn't as black and white as poptart articles imply. Oh, and by the way, this has been an issue for ALL the years of the Liberal regime. Well?

Fast-tracking payments? First, the infrastructure of the band has to be dealt with, so that the few leaders don't take it all. Changing the band infrastructure from a commonality to individualism isn't easy but the way it is now, permits enormous corruption.

Why should we sign anything from that most corrupt institution on earth, the UN?

What's so great about the Kelowna Accord? Did you know that Paul Martin never had it signed? Did you know that it referred to money, which Martin promised, but which he did NOT budget for? Got that? Did you know that it was pure empty rhetoric, nothing but money promises, with no infrastructural outline? What's needed is a complete restructuring of the reserve and band system - and that's not about to happen with Kelowna which just retains it.

The error that people, such as WK, Dawg, BCL and other leftists, who promote Section 13 of the HRC, are making is in the definition of ' hated speech'.

We already have, in Canada, Sections 318 and 319 of the criminal code, that deal with hate speech. Section 318 refers to 'advocating genocide', which is, in a public space, 'supporting or arguing for the killing of members of an identifiable group'.

Now wait a minute. Isn't that exactly what Elmasry, who brought the case against Steyn and Macleans..isn't that exactly what he advocated when he publicly preached that all Israelis over the age of 18 were legitimate targets to be killed? And our legal system did nothing?

Then, there's Section 319, which refers to, in a public space, inciting hatred against an identifiable group in such a way that there will likely be a breach of peace.' Like marching along screaming 'death to infidels'.

Now, our totalitarian rule, Section 13 of the HRAct, defines hate speech as anything 'likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt because they are identified'..as a member of a particular group'.

Notice the difference. The criminal code requires actuality. That is, it requires that the individual actually advocate killing (318) or, incites killing (319).

But section 13 doesn't refer to any action, to any acts of violence whatsoever. It refers only to FEELINGS. And feelings are totally subjective and personal. And, furthermore, Section 13 doesn't require any such feelings to have been felt. Got that? NOBODY need feel 'hated' or 'viewed with contempt' for a violation to occur.

Indeed, in the most recent travesty, the Boissoin case, no-one felt hated or viewed with contempt. Instead, an activist filed the complaint. He wasn't even a member of the specific 'group'.

And, another point, this emotion that we are dealing with, not only need not happen, but, the decision-making takes place without any actual requirement for it to happen. The wording is 'likely to result in'. Not DID actually result in. But'likely'. Who decides whether the future will happen? Even Tarot cards, tea leaves and spinning the dice don't have such abilities.

But, our esteemed HR commissioners claim that they do. And so do the leftists, such as WK, dawg, bcl. They all claim that there must be 'limits on free speech'.

But, who defines the limits? How? What they want is a top-down system, where govt decides the limits. That's our current kangaroo courts, where a bunch of ignorant appointees make these decisions. We see the results. Disastrous.

That's not how ideas ought to be dealt with - by a top down governance that sets rules about what you may think and talk about. That's totalitarianism. That's Plato's philosopher kings who rule over us - because we are told that we don't have the capacity of reason.

What WK, dawg, bcl are doing, is denying that each and everyone of us has the capacity and right to think. We'll decide, ourselves, who's the fool and who's the sage. Not you self-styled philosopher-kings. Not the govt. We will. How?

We'll debate your talk; we'll question you; we'll reject you; we'll laugh at you; we'll sneer at you; and we'll accept you. We'll do it, because enough of us peasants can think and reason - and no govt needs to step in and stop us from doing so. It's this basic human capacity to think and reason that is so rejected by these totalitarian kings, such as wk, dawg and others.

OK, they got the apology, and deserved one. What went on in those schools was despicable. The winners of the Residential School Lottery will get their pound of flesh. BUT..Where's the corresponding THANK-YOU for, Electricity, agriculture, roads, telephones, guns for shooting fishermen, mining, forestry, houses to destroy, welfare cheques, free education, doctors, dentists, cars, central heat, natural gas, running water, television..........none of which they would have had without the europeans. Never a Thank-you, just a hand out for MORE.

That UN resolution that was not signed by the conservatives was also rejected by the precious gov't,remember them ,the party whose name cannot be spelled without the letters L I E . They also recognized that the resolution would give the natives claim to the entire country. This apology by Harper may help some people close an ugly chapter in their lives,I hope so.Unfortunately there are some that will see it as a green light to extort more from the taxpayers to reinforce their victim status. ET,I wish you were my neighbour.

ET and babt:

Isn't it time to find a better comeback than "but, but, the Liberals"?

rove, we aren't setting up a 'but, but the Liberals'. We are asking that you justify your criticism by explaining why what you support, OUGHT to be supported.

So far, you haven't done this; you've just tried to deflect your lack of explanation by diverting to a counter claim that we are anti-Liberal Party.

So, tell us what's so great about those items that you support and why we should support them.

Mosque in Hiding
John C. "Chuck" Chalberg on Making Room for Prayer Rugs on a Secular Campus

http://touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=21-05-012-v

Mr Dithers , former PMPM , Paul Martin shows up again, he hasnt sat in the commons for 6 months. and hasnt legitamately collected a MP cheque for a year and the MSM calls him newsworthy.

CBCpravda and the lot are having trouble finding a hole in PMSHs apology, next it will be his eyes were too Aryan to properly project a French attitude to residential schools, when everyone knows they , the Quebequois , started the whole thing.

re: PM S. Harper's deeper game

i was surprised by comments posted the other day referring to a conservative government statement as treacherous - the statement about being at arm's length from the operation of the hrc. i'm sure the comments were a misunderstanding of the pace that parliament moves at - never mind a parliament run by a minority government. the official pace is listed as "slower than molasses going uphill in january."

no need for disappointment - this issue is probably one in a thousand currently facing the government (though for the life of me i cannot think of anything more important). nowhere in that statement did i see an endorsement of the human rights act section 13(1) - instead what i saw was a typical bland assertion that the government knows exactly what the status quo is and for the time being nobody is going to get fired. for the time being. the conservatives will fix this problem when they get their hands on the big stick - ie a majority government - and that is coming as sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

i am passionately opposed to the bad law but not
impatient - my wasting emotional energy because i witness all the injustice will get this issue nowhere for anyone. instead i bend every person's ear i get the chance to. and write.

write to the mp's in ottawa that have taken action - you can find their e-mail addresses over at ezra's:
http://ezralevant.com/2008/05/government-to-launch-inquiry-i.html

send a thank you and word of encouragement. Ottawa's free speech hero - Dr. Keith Martin MP (juan de fuca - esquimalt) might not be on that page but a link to all MP's e-mail can be found there.

remember what Canada's current Prime Minister said back in 1999 (B.C. Report Newsmagazine):
"Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack o­n our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society…It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff."

don'tcha just love free speech? and for kate thankyou too! - you can expect some notes with pictures of former prime ministers on them.

Lone Ranger: "One of the comments I heard from CBC is that "he didn't sound sincere." -- Oh my gosh. Who said that? That's outrageous!

Maz2, your Post at 4:25 PM,

Was curiously interesting.

** Here is a call to the Parliament of Canada from Canadians.

The Parliament of Canada is requested to arrange/convene an Ad$Cam Truth and Reconciliation Commission with the Liberal Party of Canada as the defendant.**

Almost sounds like April 1st.

Is this humour, or was it (CBC) radio? TV?

I*ve often said clever PR moves along reconciliation lines could give die-hard Liberals the thread they need to get behind the party again.

Not Dion thinking certainly.

If it was CBC Radio, I know there may be no link till the following day.

Looking to learn more about this. = TG

Woah! Found it on Google.

Those crafty Liberals. I had no idea they would actually make the move towards redemtion as outlined a month ago on CalgaryGrit.

First issue a carefully worded general apology for sloppy appropriation of funds and then outline several ethics moves to ensure strict tax dollar accountability with audits for all government departments, not just general audit as at present.

Canadian voters could never fall for it or would they? = TG

rove, give it up.

If anyone is but, but...it's you:

"But, but, the CPC government and PMSH [whiney voice intact] didn't honour the Kelowna Accord (sic) or sign the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, what empty words, what hollow rhetoric...yada, yada, yada."

Like ET says, support your reasons for suggesting that the CPC should have done anything about a completely phoney, photo-op, signature-less "Accord," or why Canada is in any way obligated to sign a document put forward by the totally discredited and corrupt UN.

The ball's in your court, rove.