No chromatic slider to get the sharps and flats: Sugar Blue.

This proves our brains are shrinking or perhaps wehere de-volving. Good for a laugh.

Alta. man robs bank after taking vehicle, salesman for test drive

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

EDMONTON - An Edmonton auto salesman may have been a little suspicious when a man test driving a truck said he had to stop at a local bank for a minute.

Police say the man told the salesman he had to get the money to buy the truck he was test driving. The man indeed got cash to pay for the vehicle - by passing the teller a note demanding money.

The salesman eventually grew suspicious when the suspect told him he wanted his friend to check out the vehicle before he bought it.

He grabbed the keys and called 911 while the suspect was stopped at a gas station.

Police say the suspect fled on foot and is still at large.

Now Revnant, stop posting storys like that! I am going to have to find something slimier than a car salesman to compare Jack Layton to now...........

Well, here's another example of stupid decisions made by tribunals:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1027029/Hairdresser-ordered-pay-4-000-Muslim-woman-refusing-job-wears-headscarf.html

Summary:
In their judgment, the panel stated: "We were satisfied by the respondent's evidence that the claimant was not treated less favourably than the respondent would have treated a woman who, whether Muslim or not, for a reason other than religious belief wears a hair covering at all times when at work."

But they also concluded: "There was no specific evidence before us as to what would (for sure) have been the actual impact of the claimant working in her salon with her head covered at all times.

"We concluded that, on a critical and balanced assessment, the degree of risk, while real, should not be assumed to be as great at the respondent believed."

So, there was no discrimination, they are not sure there would have been discrimination, and the risk of damage was lower than stated.

But, what the heck, let's give this woman some cash just for trying anyways.....

Gotta love lefty logic!!

Well, here's another example of stupid decisions made by tribunals:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1027029/Hairdresser-ordered-pay-4-000-Muslim-woman-refusing-job-wears-headscarf.html

Summary:
In their judgment, the panel stated: "We were satisfied by the respondent's evidence that the claimant was not treated less favourably than the respondent would have treated a woman who, whether Muslim or not, for a reason other than religious belief wears a hair covering at all times when at work."

But they also concluded: "There was no specific evidence before us as to what would (for sure) have been the actual impact of the claimant working in her salon with her head covered at all times.

"We concluded that, on a critical and balanced assessment, the degree of risk, while real, should not be assumed to be as great at the respondent believed."

So, there was no discrimination, they are not sure there would have been discrimination, and the risk of damage was lower than stated.

But, what the heck, let's give this woman some cash just for trying anyways.....

Gotta love lefty logic!!

I give up, I only hit the button once, yet sometimes get two posts.

Why can't it work like this at the cash machine??

'Speaking of cash machines, Frenchie77, beware the cash machines (wom)manned by twentysomethings:

THREE TIMES in the past week, I've been charged more for items I'm buying than their worth: in a Supermarket, $2.00 over; at Indigo/Chapters, $5.00 over; at the Post Office, $6.00--and these kids were using cash registers!

Problem (from a teacher's perspective): These young people have no idea how to round off or estimate: Look, when you're selling someone 18 stamps, and 10 stamps cost $5.20, there's NO WAY the total cost is going to come to $15.20, right? The rough cost is going to be just over $10.00.

Each time, I've caught the error, not the in-a-rush-not-paying-attention sales clerks who, except for one, were unapologetic.

So, just a caution: Hone your own rounding off and estimating skills, and check the sales clerk's calculations. I'm wondering how much over the cash count is at night--and who's benefitting? Studies are showing that an alarming percentage of young people have no problems with cheating as long as they're not caught.

BUYER BEWARE.

Another poll goes terribly wrong? Heck this has got to be a record.

Do you like Stephane Dion's carbon tax plan?

http://www.ctv.ca/canadaam

There is hope after 8 years of political sickness in the usa.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama is leading Sen. John McCain in the crucial swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, according to a new survey.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/18/swing.state.poll/index.html

Ezra's last sentence is: "I'm so glad that she [Lynch] did.".

"The Conservative government's reaction to Jennifer Lynch's stunt"
http://tinyurl.com/67me8j

Socialism is the ideology of Taliban Jack Layton-NDP, Citoyen Dion, et al.
Here is the natural end result of socialism in Zimbabwe.
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"Four MDC youth activists found dead near Harare"

"The MDC said that the latest killings brought to about 70 the number of its activists, their spouses and children who have been murdered by Zimbabwean security forces and government supporters"
http://tinyurl.com/3jgwkz (times)

Hamilton, Ontario has banned the military from being in the gay parade. Though they have participated for years a "new" Canadian complained that he feared the military because of previous persecution by Canadian soldiers in his home country. These PERCEIVED violations occured in Afghanistan or Haiti.

Emily Groom, the co-chairman believes the parade has the right not to be involved with institutions that perhaps may raise human rights concerns.

My bet it is a muslim.

And people here don't think our institutions don't jump through the muslim "always outraged" hoops.

25 Rejected Tips on a Greener Living

17 Buy only organic food produced by fair trade, unionized labourers. (Not those fascist farmers. They all vote Conservative, you know)

Received in the mail yesterday from my freedom loving "Conservative" MP.

Advice and instructions on how to defend myself if I am faced with a search demand concerning firearms!!!

They have no intentions on taking this thing down!

Received in the mail yesterday from my freedom loving "Conservative" MP.

Advice and instructions on how to defend myself if I am faced with a search demand concerning firearms!!!

They have no intentions on taking this thing down!

This just gleened from a Mop & Pail story:
"Mandatory sentences blamed for boom in cost of prisons"

Any bets on who appointed this progressive judge?

"Imposing mandatory minimum prison terms on criminal offenders is adding approximately $80-million per year to the price of justice, says an Ontario judge privy to correctional statistics and projections."

I don't know about the rest of you but if Bubba is behind bars serving a manditory sentence instead of manditory parole, he is very less likely to be robbing, raping or murdering me or my family.

Frankly I don't see why just the preferred customers and friends of RBS should get a headsup on the world economic condidtions and not the little people, so here is one to read.

www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main

Headline says it all

'RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) issues global stock and credit crash alert'

The good news is that any talk of carbon taxes and AGW will quickly become irrelevant and redundent.

Anyone know if/when the coverage of the 'manuvdapipple' Green Shaft announcement will be on TV today?
Hoping for live coverage here.

Islam growing rapidly in Saskatoon; Which angry minority will outbreed the current cultural majority first? The existing contender still has a strong lead.

http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/local/story.html?id=9b1b4078-582f-4a00-afdf-37a7e24fa806

http://www.cbc.ca/news/
Dion reveals details on carbon tax, income tax cuts

MAJOR "WTF?" ALERT FOR THE DAY.

Western civilization swirls around the rim ready to plunge down the toilet of history, AND CANADA LEADS THE WAY! Yeeha!

Ottawa court sides with 12-year-old girl against grounding by her father.

afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h9kqGvkVPSvo-KNWFDWAg-mVfleg

Annual inflation rate leaps 30% from April to May; one month increase is 30%.
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"Gasoline fuels inflation again: annual rate jumps half-point to 2.2 per cent
OTTAWA - Canada's inflation rate accelerated past the two per cent level for the first time in four months in May, as rising gasoline prices boosted the annual rate to 2.2 per cent, from 1.7 per cent the previous month" (canpress)

Here's an interesting little tidbit (to me, at least): Studies find the brains of gay men are similar to those of straight women and vice versa.

tinyurl.com/6fkmdw

"* UN body says only religious scholars should be allowed to discuss
matters of faith "

Daily Times Report on the UN Human Rights Council which has been hijacked by Islamist states and socialist fools.

Why are we sending $Millions to this corrupt and worthless organization?

Surprise, surprise, the Quebec daycare system heavily subsidized by the ROC is not achieving its goals. The major user of the system is those that formerly used private sources and have just switched to the $7 a day public one. Most people still prefer to have one parent stay home with their children or use family resources. Many complaints of sickness from those using the government daycare.

Once again the socialists are dismayed by the failure of another glorious program.

Heads up-

cfra.com

Stephen Taylor will guest on the Michael Harris Show, program on the radio now, on the subject of the Globe and Mail and the CPC. Must wade through interviews with Lizzie May and Jack Layton on Dion's Shift.

....Studies find the brains of gay men are similar to those of straight women and vice versa....

Fashion. Shopping. Talking about men. Gossiping. They have many of the same interests. That's why so many gay men loooove hanging out with straight women.

Islam, Shariah banned from being criticised for human rights abuses at UN:

GENEVA (AP): Muslim countries have won a battle to prevent Islam from being criticised during debates by the UN Human Rights Council. Religions deserve special protection because any debate about faith is bound to be “very complex, very sensitive and very intense”, council President Doru-Romulus Costea said Wednesday.
Scholars: Only religious scholars should be allowed to discuss matters of faith, he told journalists in Geneva.

While Costea’s ban applies to all religions, it was prompted by Muslim countries complaining about references to Islam....
On Monday Egypt, Pakistan and Iran angrily protested attempts by a humanist group to link Islam to human rights abuses such as female genital mutilation and so-called honour killing of women. The interventions sparked a heated debate which threatened to sour the mood of the meeting. The council’s resolutions carry no legal weight but are intended to throw a spotlight on governments that abuse their citizens.

“This council is not prepared to discuss religious matters in depth, consequently we should not do it,” Costea ruled after an emergency break to calm the situation.

Quebec Parental Insurance Plan has entered the terrible twos.

...Quebec Employment Minister Sam Hamad announced that QPIP premiums paid by workers and employers alike will rise 7.5 per cent next Jan. 1 for the second consecutive year....

....The premium increase won't be enough to keep the program solvent. At an annual cost of $1.45-billion and rising, an actuarial report produced last year estimated that without a 28-per-cent rise in premiums, the program was headed toward an accumulated deficit of $936-million by 2012....

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080618.wyakabuski0619/BNStory/robColumnsBlogs/

Registered Sex Offender Wins $57 Million Lottery Jackpot

citynews.ca/news/news_23973.aspx

This can't be so; the leftists told us that the oil was stolen by George/Dick.
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"Deals with Iraq are set to bring oil giants back

BAGHDAD: Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.

Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP — the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company — along with Chevron and a number of smaller oil companies, are in talks with Iraq’s Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service Iraq’s largest fields, according to ministry officials, oil company officials and an American diplomat."
(via jacks)

"Afghan and NATO forces rout Taliban (but the MSM already declared the Taliban unbeatable)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan and NATO-led forces killed or wounded hundreds of Taliban on Thursday in an offensive to clear the militants from the outskirts of Kandahar city, the provincial governor said.

NATO confirmed in a statement issued in Kabul that Taliban fighters, including many believed to have escaped during a mass jail break last week, had been routed from positions among the orchards and farms of Arghandab district, northwest of Kandahar."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033450/posts

Calling Barbara Hall

Police hate us: cabbies
Report claims some cops racist

....In the "first systemic attempt" to study the industry in 10 years, the three authors seek to reverse attitudes that almost 10,000 cabbies are unqualified, poor and non-English-speakers with dirty cabs.

Of several cabbies quoted anonymously, one told the surveyors that city police "don't like us for no reason. They hate us, maybe because of our race or colour."....

torontosun.com/News/TorontoAndGTA/2008/06/19/pf-5920141.html

Why are we sending $Millions to this corrupt and worthless organization? Posted by: OMMAG at June 19, 2008 12:35 PM

Because we have 270,000 civil servants working for the federal government right now. It's alot of people, agendas, and mortgages to pay. Hey - the crats need something to do. It's best to do it on the taxpayer's dime.

A smaller Canadian government, less taxation, inspiring and giving freedom to its' citizens would help alot.

Although structurally, so many lawyers, bureaucrats, and patronage exists in our system that it is not going away. Unless a government chooses to do it.

Mao Stlong say, Led-Gleen Shift goody fol plice inclease and plice contlors.
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"China Lifts Energy Prices For Domestic Consumers

With its controlled energy-pricing system under the strain of oil at $130-plus a barrel, China's government said it will increase retail prices for gasoline, diesel and electricity.

The moves will pass on some of the gains in global energy prices to Chinese consumers, as many international industry and government officials had urged China to do, at a time when inflation is a rising concern. Those higher rates will in turn push up costs for businesses, potentially pushing up prices for the goods China supplies to the world. But the changes fall short of the wholesale revamping of price controls that some had called for."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033554/posts

A clear, evident success for PM Harper's Conservative government. MSM evades.

Here is the bias from the scumbag socialist MSM/CanPress:
"stingy government policies".

Notice CanPress editors inserted "(government)"; however, CanPress/MSM could not/would not insert Conservative before "(government)". CanPress, your bias is showing.

Here are the results from ""stingy government policies":
"Something else is at work, said Ross Finnie," "the obvious candidates have to be the (government) policy changes instituted," including cuts in benefit levels, changes that made it more difficult to qualify for welfare, and other rule changes to make it easier for recipients to seek work, retrain and improve their educational status."

Headline:
"Jobs, government cutbacks cut Canadian welfare rolls in half: report"
http://tinyurl.com/3l4lfc

Is this why there hasn't been anything in the MSM lately about/from Liberal MP Hezbollah Coderre. Is Coderre asleep?
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"U.S. report claims Hezbollah agents in Canada

A report by ABC News claims that Hezbollah sleeper cells may be active in Canada with the intent of targeting Jewish institutions, but CSIS has yet to comment on the report." (NNW)

can't find this story in MSM. to busy green shifting. kind of disturbing.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/994529.html

maz2
you beat me to it.

Jack's Newswatch has this up:

"Jack: “Judge sued?” *
Little noticed by people today was a link I created in my ”Canada” news entry early this morning (it’s at the bottom) to what appears at first glance to be “mickey mouse” harrassment – but is it? I truly don’t know but I’m willing to bet that every judge in the nation is going to sit up and pay close attention in the days ahead because this story is a real dandy."
http://jacksnewswatch.com/2008/06/19/jack-judge-sued/

Link goes here:
"Businessman sues judge for $10M
Ex-fitness studio boss alleges errors made at trial
By SUN MEDIA
The Edmonton Sun"
http://tinyurl.com/59l36w

"Prince of Thieves

The Guardian featured an atmospheric piece on how the Prince of Marbella, Monzer al-Kassar, a man on the "Most Wanted" list of Iraq, lived. You could do worse.

The Observer tracked him down to his lavish, 15-suite residence, designed like a Renaissance palazzo overlooking Puerto Banus. Guards swing the gates open to allow guests into the estate, where there is a swimming pool built like a four-leaf clover. Three Spanish mastiffs prowl during the night to deter uninvited guests.

Inside the palace, a grand piano is showcased at the bottom of a marble staircase under a domed skylight. In the grand salon, silk flowers are arranged in a giant Chinese vase in front of a marble fireplace. Statues of servants holding lamps stand before the massive drapes, and on the wall are murals of African servants in turbans, carrying platters of fruit.

Not bad for a man associated with the Achille Laura shipjacking, whose walls are adorned with photographs of him shaking hands with Uday Hussein, members of the Somali Aideed clan, Abu Abbas, up on hashish smuggling charges in the UK, mentioned in connection with Iran-Contra, said to have sold anti-ship missiles to Teheran, and with supposed side businesses supplying terror groups in Latin America and Iran-backed militias. While some might to object to his choice of friends, Monzer al-Kassar is cheerfully broadminded.

Kassar admits that a lifetime in the arms business has led to a variety of acquaintances: 'I met interesting people: good people, bad people. How do I know who's good and who's bad? This is a matter of opinion ... The bad people for you may be the good people for me.'

Who's good and who's bad? If you weren't good to Monzer it was definitely bad for you. The PBS blog tells this droll story of what happened when mere policemen tried to put the collar on the Prince of Marbella."
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2008/06/prince-of-thieves.html

More from Belmont:

Muslims as slaveowners of black slaves? Whoda thunk it?
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"Wretchard said...

One of the things the otherwise astute Observer correspondent failed to remark upon was the "murals of African servants in turbans". It occured to me that Monzer's painting might actually depict black slaves. The idea is not as far fetched as it seems and came to mind from a recently sent a link to a discussion of the French book Le Génocide Voilé ("Veiled Genocide") on the Arab slave trade. Here's an excerpt:

Because the misery, the poverty, the long demographic stagnation and the current developmental delays of the black continent, are not merely the consequences of the transatlantic slave trade, as many imagine. The transatlantic drain is well known and has been debated for decades. Studies and syntheses on this slave trade are legion. And yet, even though one cannot speak of degrees of horror or a monopoly on cruelty, it is possible to declare that the Negro slave trade and the wars provoked by the Arab-Muslims were, for black Africa through the centuries, much more devastating than the transatlantic trade. Likewise the Islamization of many Negro-African peoples and all that it engendered, such as jihad, were no less the source of innumerable implosions. But to this day, only the genocide of black peoples by the Arab-Muslim nations has not been clearly acknowledged by those who research the responsible parties. Even though this crime is historically, juridically and morally forbidden.

Paintings depicting slaves? It's the kind of thing a man like Monzer might find amusing. It's interesting to realize that even a well-read newspaper correspondent might just be ignorant of the fact that not every historical in the world was an invention of Europe. I was almost unaware of the other slave trade until recently. But in a world where people in alcoholic comas can get up, poise on the windowsill and try to fly like Superman from a 5th story balacony, things don't have to make sense."