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July 7, 2008

Reader Tips

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here are the Danube Symphony Orchestra performing Johannes Brahms's Academic Festival Overture, Héja Domonkos conducting (10:41).

(By the way, since I posted last night's Here Comes the Rain Again show, it has been raining here ~ good thing too, the crops need it ~ ah, serendipity is wonderful.)

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Posted by Vitruvius at July 7, 2008 12:01 AM
Comments

"Racist Toddlers:" Agency on a mission to "root them out" in the UK.

Posted by: Drained Brain at July 6, 2008 11:43 PM

Did any of you watch CBC Sunday this AM?? An interview with anchorman Dan rather that's been aired at least four times! Is that where our 1.5 billion dollars is going? Later in the Day, I watched Mansbridge One on One. An interview with a Muslim leader that originally aired in Oct. 2006 is hardly "news." Disgusting!!

Posted by: Lone Ranger at July 6, 2008 11:50 PM

What follows may not be classed as a "Reader Tip" but rather a 'Heads-up' or 'FYI'. Its an example of how Mr. WK manages his "Comments" section.

This is what he posted recently:

"MR. HELMS

Saturday, July 5, 2008, 09:39 PM
Good riddance. I know that isn't particularly Christian of me, and whatnot, but tant pis. He won't be missed."

(http://warrenkinsella.com/comments.php?y=08&m=07&entry=entry080705-213944)

I posted the following within minutes of it first appearing:

"from the article you linked to:

"The singer Bono "told me personally that Helms helped save hundreds of thousands of lives in Africa because of his change in position," (senator) Dodd said."

He also wanted the UN held to account, to get rid of the murderering Castro, and reform the State dept and social services.

HE was a man of principles - many of which you don't agree with, but to say good riddance to someone on the opposite side of the argument(s)' passing is very, very small of you."


WK never put my post up. He did however put the following posts up:

Never heard of the guy till now. But my sympathies go out to his wife and three children, whom I'm sure are feeling a loss.
All of us have or will at one time lose our father.
Dennis | 07.05.08 - 10:24 pm | #

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"I do it on principle"...the words of a true patriot, Jesse Helms!!!We need more people like Jesse Helms in power in this day and age! Thanks Jesse, I hope my great country of Canada will see the likes of a man of your stature.
Ken | 07.05.08 - 11:49 pm | #

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We've ALL sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
David Gladdying | 07.06.08 - 1:36 am | #

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Boy, there really are some kooks out there - the new "conservatives". Jesse Helms was instrumental in the neo-conservative, right-wing movement - was a total jerk and a true bigot.

How anyone could respect a guy like him escapes me.

A bigot, a bigot, a bigot.

His maker will decide his fate and I bet it won't be pretty.
Sandi | 07.06.08 - 11:43 am | #

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"...his closest known foreign associate was Roberto d'Aubuisson, the leader of the El Salvadorean Right and the man identified by the State Department as responsible for the assassination of archbishop Oscar Romero while he was saying Mass.

Helms had also supported Pinochet in Chile and had been the only senator to back the Argentinean junta against Britain during the Falklands war. He once advocated the invasion of Cuba and was one of the few American conservatives to back the white apartheid regimes in Southern Africa."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/...l? service=print
Cool Cat | 07.06.08 - 5:22 pm | #

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Yes, but he also hated homosexuals and abortion, and to many conservatives (and Conservatives) that redeems all possible sins.
RealityBites | 07.06.08 - 9:34 pm | #

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And this is not the first time Mr. WK has done this to postings I have submitted.

And yes, Mr. WK can do what he likes with posts - it's his site.

Other sites will not publish posts from people for various reasons but it is usually good etiquette to note on one's site that the post was recieved and not posted.

I suspect that Mr. WK does not engage in such practice so as to give the appearance of allowing all opinion onto the site while actually managing the spin of the opinion - he allows some disagreement but not all of it (much as many left-wing sites seem to control the results of online polls they put up).

Thank you for your time.

Posted by: Gord Tulk at July 7, 2008 12:21 AM

I think they call it "Summer Sunday " or something like that. Other than the daily events, all of the programming, interviews, etc. is repeated stuff. They've been doing that at CBC for at least a couple of years now.
Pat

Posted by: Pat at July 7, 2008 1:05 AM

Alarm clock. It's Ezra, on the front flank:

http://ezralevant.com/2008/07/more-thoughts-on-politicallysa.html

"More thoughts on politically-sanctioned kidnapping."

Be sure also to check out Drained Brain's 11:43 link just above. Eerie. Another reminder that unchecked socialism will always go all corporeal-like on its political opponents -- all in the name of a better world. Yikes.

Posted by: EBD at July 7, 2008 1:48 AM

Falling under Kate's "Tony Blair's Britian" catagory is a link to a story I noticed on the National Newswatch: bomb sniffing dogs in Britian are now required to wear Muslim bootees when doing their job searching Muslim homes.

3w.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4276489.ece

Maybe dirty infidel coppers are next on the banned list. Ally ackbar, eh.

Posted by: Texas Canuck at July 7, 2008 5:47 AM

Lorne Gunther nails it in the National Post Editorials today with the headline, "The Obnoxious Garth Turner".

Posted by: Liz J at July 7, 2008 6:55 AM

Lorne Gunther nails it in the National Post Editorials today with the headline, "The Obnoxious Garth Turner".

Posted by: Liz J at July 7, 2008 7:02 AM

"Warren Kinsella threatens me with a lawsuit; implies Mohamed Elmasry not anti-Semitic"

"Between the human rights complaints against me, and the filed or threatened defamation suits, I'm up to four or five lawsuits now."

"It will be fascinating to see how a court assesses the value of Kinsella’s reputation given that, just to pick one example out of a hat, he was cited more than a dozen times in a judicial inquiry into government corruption for his “highly inappropriate” conduct."
http://ezralevant.com/2008/07/warren-kinsella-threatens-me-w.html

Posted by: maz2 at July 7, 2008 7:42 AM

I believe Ezra represents one of our last chances to retain some semblance of Free Speech and fight the fascists. Kinsilly .to sue.

Here is a chance to speak back to all those who represent what is wrong with this great country.

I would wish that Ezra gets enough money to fight these fookers on our behalf forever.

Posted by: buddy at July 7, 2008 7:55 AM

Free poll. "free public transit". "no more fares".
Vote for "free public transit". Free voting here.
Taxes are an investment.
This fraud is a clone of Citoyen Dion's Green Shaft, aka the Socialist Swindle.
Conclusion: The State is our Enemy.
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"Hamilton City Council is looking at free public transit - no more fares. A study shows ridership would increase 50% - reducing overall traffic congestion. The cost would average $161 in taxes per household. (Please vote first. To comment, email mornings@cfra.com)

1. Worth studying in Ottawa. Road savings & environment benefits may justify investment
2. Not for Ottawa. Our taxes are already too high
3. Other"
http://www.cfra.com/

Posted by: maz2 at July 7, 2008 8:09 AM

One of the closing shows of the Montreal Jazz Festival was a battle between two big bands: The Glen Miller Orchestra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. The Jazz Festival features all sorts of music these days, besides jazz.

Anyway it was a great night, though I had to give the nod to the Tommy Dorsey older players. The quality of the sound was phenomenal. I especially enjoyed the clarinetist whose name I didn't catch.

If you can see either group on tour or if they are ever reunited for a battle, don't miss them. The two female vocalists were outstanding as well.

Posted by: Nicola Timmerman at July 7, 2008 8:36 AM

Two polls that need to go horribly right.
On CTV's website:
Which issue requires more attention from G8 leaders?
Robert Mugabe
Climate change

Over at the Globe and Mail's site
Should the G8 at this week's summit commit to hard targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions?
Yes
No

Posted by: Largs at July 7, 2008 8:40 AM

Some on line polls from this morning. i like the second one.

[Star Poll]
Should Canada increase aid to Africa?
Yes 127 29%
No 272 64%
Don't know 25 5%

CNews
Do you trust the Tories
Yes 54%
No 40%
Unsure 6%

Globe & Mail
Should the G8 at this week's summit commit to hard targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions?
Yes 54% 973 votes
No 46% 840 votes

Posted by: spike at July 7, 2008 8:41 AM

Lone Ranger/Pat: It's like summer break for school kids yet 4-6 weeks longer. The elite at the CBC have been getting 8-12 weeks off every summer for years. Sometimes they present their programs from their cottages/summer homes/camps, but most often they are on holiday for the entire summer or a significant portion of it.

Posted by: Jim O'Brien at July 7, 2008 8:45 AM

Spengler, America's special grace

To much of the world, America is the source of the plague of globalization, the bane of the environment and the perpetrator of imperial adventures. To hundreds of millions of others it is an object of special grace - as in the grace by which God redeems, sanctifies and glorifies his people. Whether one subscribes to the concept or not, America is one of world's great dividing lines, perhaps its most important.

Posted by: Charles MacDonald at July 7, 2008 9:23 AM

Here's a reader's tip for you that you might well want to sink your teeth into.

I made the mistake of listening to CBC Radio Ottawa this morning (when will I ever learn?!).

I almost caused a car accident. "The Current" or whatever it calls itself, was talking to Hector Goudreau, an Alberta MLA who is also provincial minister for immigration. He's in London (UK) trying to drum up interest among skilled workers to immigrate to Alberta.

OK so far.

But then they spoke to the odious Heather Mallick who was asked to write a riposte to Mr Goudreau by the UK newspaper, The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/02/canada.immigration?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews

He is a sampling of her snide comments about Alberta and Canada:

"Pissed-off workers of Britain, Alberta wants YOU."

"I beg your pardon? Alberta. It's a western province of Canada. The Rockies? Edmonton? Calgary, had the Olympics in 1988? A variety of scenic spots named after various homely minor Royals of the Victorian era?"

"The Alberta boom means huge prices for crap housing (so no change there, Londoners) and you'll have an intense earning experience accompanied by the Canadian winter, loneliness without your family, a taste of alcoholism, and a flight back home when the tar runs out."

"I'm not sure if Britons are interested in Canadian motives, but our country is going through weird changes. The pro-immigrant federal Liberal party was voted out in favour of the profoundly anti-immigrant Conservatives. They and the provincial Alberta government compete to see who can be more rightwing. So I have doubts about the fast-track skilled immigrants program, which is intrinsically whim-based and a good way to conceal racist immigration rules."

"[Hector Goudreau] was deputy mayor of Falher, population 1,109, the 'honey capital of Canada'. It has a giant bee on a stick. I suspect this was his first international trip, beyond that trip to Montana to buy seeds. A John Prescott without the sophistication and success with the ladies, he's in Britain because he thinks it's packed with white cockneys longing to clean Calgary's chimneys, guv."

Then I thought, here's a question for Heather: were you paid by the Guardian for this column?

So you're a Canadian paid by a foreign country to deride Canada and poke fun at an Alberta immigration initiative? Charming.

Posted by: JJM at July 7, 2008 9:55 AM

Stand with David Warren.

"... I will go to jail rather than acknowledge the legitimacy of any “human rights” commission."
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"We must stand"

[...]

"Moreover, I write with the sincerity of a man who has already tasted the New Canadian tyranny, and the threat of imprisonment without due process, under the feminist rewrite of Ontario family law.

I was born a free citizen of the Old Canada, and before her God I declare, that I will go to jail rather than acknowledge the legitimacy of any “human rights” commission. I invite other journalists and indeed, every other Canadian, to declare likewise."
David Warren.
http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/index.php?id=888

Posted by: maz2 at July 7, 2008 9:56 AM

Sandy: Green Shift Inc.donations [...]

Well, it has happened and I am glad. Some supporters of Green Shift Inc. have put up a very professional looking website to help Green Shift in a number of ways. First and foremost they need to raise money to sue the Liberal Party of Canada. As they say on this new site, they are a private company and don’t have access to taxpayers money.

[...]

Make sure to click on all three boxes and follow their links. The site is very thorough and very well done. Bloggers and surfers can even join a Facebook group.

Now, remember what most Liberals said about registering a URL that was almost like a private company’s — with the only difference being the word “the.” They said, in essence “don’t worry, be happy.” And, in response to Green Shift owner Jennifer Wright’s concerns, all Stephane Dion and other Liberals would say was that she and her company should be glad of all the extra traffic it would receive.

Well, Green Shift Inc’s owner was not glad and those who have developed this fundraising and information site, have now turned the tables on the LPC. Take a close look at the Green Shift Inc’s “thevictory fund” URL and compare it to the LPC’s main fundraising page which is simply http://www.victoryfund.ca

I laughed out loud when I read it."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6br886

Posted by: maz2 at July 7, 2008 10:04 AM

A WSJ piece today on the corruption and collaboration with terrorists of NGO's as related to the Colombian rescue:

As we learn more about the Colombian military's daring hostage rescue last week, one detail stands out: In tricking FARC rebels into putting the hostages aboard a helicopter, undercover special forces simply told the comandantes that the aircraft was being loaned to them by a fictitious nongovernmental organization sympathetic to their cause called the International Humanitarian Mission.

It may have taken years for army intelligence to infiltrate the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, and it may have been tough to convincingly impersonate rebels. But what seems to have been a walk in the park was getting the FARC to believe that an NGO was providing resources to help it in the dirty work of ferrying captives to a new location.

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Left-wing NGOs have made undermining the Colombian government's credibility a priority for many years. A 2003 internal report from the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá titled "A Closer Look at Human Rights Statistics" confirmed as much. It found that NGO analyses – for example by the Jesuit-founded Center for Popular Research and Education known as Cinep – of the human-rights environment contained a heavy bias against the government while granting a wide berth to guerrillas.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121538827377131117.html?mod=todays_columnists

Posted by: penny at July 7, 2008 10:48 AM

Jane Macartney, Tibetan monasteries empty as China jails monks to silence Olympic protests

Chinese authorities tightened security around Tibet's main monasteries and banned visits to a sacred site on the edge of the capital, Lhasa, for fear of a fresh outburst of unrest on the Dalai Lama's birthday.

Few monks remain, however, in the province's three most important monasteries. Many have disappeared, their whereabouts a mystery. Chinese officials have deployed troops and paramilitary police around the ancient religious institutions, suspecting these sprawling hillside communities are at the heart of the unrest that has swept the region since early March...

Posted by: Charles MacDonald at July 7, 2008 10:59 AM

(Via CSP) Andres Oppenheimer, Chávez a big loser in hostage liberation

The biggest loser of last week's Hollywood-styled Colombian army rescue of 15 hostages in the hands of the FARC guerrillas, in addition to the rebels themselves, was Venezuela's narcissist-Leninist President Hugo Chávez.

Judging from Chávez's own public statements and the contents of thousands of e-mails found in FARC laptop computers seized March 1 when Colombia's military raided a guerrilla camp inside Ecuador, Chávez was hoping to use the hostage crisis to become the ultimate power broker in the Colombian armed conflict and become South America's most powerful political leader...

Posted by: Charles MacDonald at July 7, 2008 11:01 AM

LMAO at 'thevictoryfund'.
I followed the link to look at the Liberal website and was struck by an idea.
They have a box to allow other amounts. I wonder if you can donate $0.00 or %0.01 to the Libs and gum up their site.
Maybe I can give them my 10 cents worth by making 10 penny donations to their victory.

Posted by: molarmauler at July 7, 2008 11:02 AM

molarmauler,

Who wants liberal spam? Besides, would you trust a liberal with your credit card number?

Posted by: ural at July 7, 2008 11:16 AM

Guess Central Planning can't quite make the atmosphere do what it wants, when it wants - despite what the propaganda says...:

Chinese officials admit they can no longer guarantee that the air quality will match international standards as pollution tests by The Sunday Times revealed the full extent of the challenge facing British athletes.

With just five weeks to go before the start of the Beijing Games, tests conducted outside the national stadium — known as the Bird’s Nest — and at Tiananmen Square, the starting point of the marathon, showed the air is thick with particulate pollution.

http://tinyurl.com/5kct7p

Posted by: hardboiled at July 7, 2008 11:33 AM

The Lone Ranger asks if we noticed the old re-runs on CBC.

GG NO MAN!! That would require watching the CBC. I have long since locked out the CBC channels on my PVR with random access codes I paid no attention to while inputting.

Posted by: AtlanticJim at July 7, 2008 11:45 AM

A lucid commentary on the failed drug war. Makes one wonder why Clement the Dullard is fighting so hard not to make a health issue, a health issue. The So-Cons finally got point on a file. Sad yo hear you lost on gay marriage...But no problem Stock - you can have everything else...

"The United States has been spending $69 billion a year worldwide for the last 40 years, for a total of $2.5 trillion, on drug prohibition -- with little to show for it. Is anyone actually benefiting from this war? Six groups come to mind. The first group are the drug lords in nations such as Colombia, Afghanistan and Mexico, as well as those in the United States. They are making billions of dollars every year -- tax free. The second group are the street gangs that infest many of our cities and neighborhoods, whose main source of income is the sale of illegal drugs. Third are those people in government who are paid well to fight the first two groups. Their powers and bureaucratic fiefdoms grow larger with each tax dollar spent to fund this massive program that has been proved not to work....."

Bureaucrats building budgets building feifdoms. Keep those cheques a'coming!

Posted by: hardboiled at July 7, 2008 11:55 AM

with link...http://tinyurl.com/5ngbbw

Posted by: hardboiled at July 7, 2008 11:57 AM

http://www.winnipegsun.com/News/Canada/2008/07/07/6088501.html

Winnipeg Sun poll--are you concerned about climate change

Posted by: George at July 7, 2008 12:06 PM

Damian Penny: State was right to seize child of white nationalist parent.

www.damianpenny.com/archived/011507.html

How this guy fools people into believing he is anything but an outright Marxist (with a war fetish) is beyond me. He also has a man crush on Obama - watch for it.

Posted by: Watching at July 7, 2008 12:16 PM

Mao Stlong say, Boob Lae, readel of Canada Ribelar Palty, is Mao's nephew. Herp, Boob!! Send Kyoto in Amelican$. Herp!
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"Oil price shock means China is at risk of blowing up

The great oil shock of 2008 is bad enough for us. It poses a mortal threat to the whole economic strategy of emerging Asia.

The manufacturing revolution of China and her satellites has been built on cheap transport over the past decade. At a stroke, the trade model looks obsolete."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6hyprm

Posted by: maz2 at July 7, 2008 12:38 PM

Re: "racist" toddlers.

"It said such incidents could include children using words like 'blackie', 'Pakis', 'those people' or 'they smell'."

"... or saying "yuk" to unfamiliar food."

There's nothing wrong with telling a child not to use the first two terms (if and when he actually does). But "they smell" is an observation that a toddler might come up with if he noticed something, and truth is a defence; and he might refer to "those people" in a certain context in an innocent way. And disliking "unfamiliar food" is racist? Preposterous.

Some of the current economic problems in the western world are caused by the surfeit of "government-funded advisory groups" like this one who are mostly unproductive parasites.

And note this: "anyone who disagrees is racist". This of course is the usual extreme-left way of fending off honest and thoughtful criticism. Compare the document at the OHRC web site that talks about "systemic racism", and says: "The denial of racism used by so many whites in positions of authority ranging from the supervisor in a work place to the chief of Police and ministers of government must be understood for what it is: an example of White hegemonic power over those considered ‘other’."

Posted by: nv53 at July 7, 2008 1:15 PM

Socialism is worried 'bout your orts, your air.
Message to State socialism: Back off socialist government! Get out of our faces.
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"As supermarket prices spiral Brown tells families: 'Stop wasting food' (UK Nanny State)

Gordon Brown called for prudence in the kitchen last night, telling us not to throw away so much food.
With prices soaring, he suggested we could save up to £8 a week by making our shopping go further.
Waste could be reduced by simple steps such as storing fruit and vegetables in the fridge to make them last longer." (dailymail)
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"Massive swath of Ontario under smog advisory
CTV.ca, Canada - 3 hours ago
The Ministry of the Environment has placed a massive swath of the province -- including all of Toronto -- under a smog advisory."
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Posted by: maz2 at July 7, 2008 2:00 PM

Barf Alert: MeMeMe's malicious/malevolent Liberal Party; da Canadian values.
"Within minutes, the existing greenshift.ca site was located, and a strategy discussed for dealing with the commercial company operating it."
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"Jennifer Wright to sue Liberals despite veiled threat from Garth Turner

Stephane Dion and the Liberals ignored a cease-and-desist letter from Jennifer Wright of Green Shift Inc., over the use of the name "Green Shift" to describe the Liberal carbon tax.

As a result, the Liberals are about to get sued. We don't know by how much, but it'll be over $2 million.

And this despite Garth Turner's veiled threat to dig around her private life if she goes ahead with the lawsuit."

Liberals have always felt a sense of entitlement. Apparently that includes the appropriation of commercial names in use by other people that the Liberals wish they had thought of themselves.

As a result, the Liberals named Stephane Dion's carbon tax plan the Green Shift. Jennifer Wright's company Green Shift was already using the name.

Too bad, as Garth Turner, Liberal MP and alleged communications guru, explained in a post entitled "The site that barked" (a not-so-subtle suggestion that Jennifer Wright is being bitchy about his):"
http://stevejanke.com/archives/268030.php

Posted by: maz2 at July 7, 2008 2:14 PM

Oh yes, the drive by smear. Favorite tactic of the leftard/moonbat crowd. If you cannot brow beat them into submission, dig into their closets and see what skeletons you can find.

And the irony here is that the "greenshift" people are supposedly of the same ilk as the glorious libranos.

From the people who secured the convict vote and preach that all criminals can be rehab'ed comes the ultimate hypocrisy when they go looking for minor convictions from one's mis-spent youth.

DAMN LIBERAL HYPOCRITES !
VOTE REFORM !
GO ARMY !

Posted by: kingstonlad at July 7, 2008 3:14 PM

BTW...having lived a "mis-spent" youth, I have always found "conservative" types to be much more forgiving and open-minded about such matters.

Posted by: kingstonlad at July 7, 2008 3:25 PM

(PDF warning) Lt. Col. James W. Hammond, Canadian Forces, Legitimacy and Military Operations

Among the significant changes to U.S. doctrine has been the increased attention paid to “legitimacy,” particularly during COIN operations. Legitimacy has become a defining principle for most COIN theorists, and the conflict itself, in Galula’s words, a “battle for the population,” where “the exercise of political power depends on the tacit or explicit agreement of the population.” U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine now states clearly, “Victory is achieved when the populace consents to the government’s legitimacy and stops actively and passively supporting the insurgency.” In fact, the term “legitimacy” is so pervasive that it appears 131 times in the new COIN field manual, FM 3-24. Even more significantly, the keystone operations doctrine of the U.S. services, Joint Publication 3-0, Joint Operations, has been rewritten to include legitimacy (and the concepts of restraint and perseverance) as “Other Principles” to join the nine traditional “Principles of War” in a new list of 12 “Principles of Joint Operations."

Posted by: Charles MacDonald at July 7, 2008 3:27 PM

Garth should be careful...very careful.
If the libs start to go the character assassination route with one citizen , there is enough ammo in the lib closet to provide for a monster witch hunt in return.

Posted by: Rich at July 7, 2008 3:47 PM

PM Harper is a world leader. World leadership rests with Canada.
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"Of all the leaders, only Stephen Harper - the talented but curiously neglected Canadian prime minister - is able to point to a popular and successful record in office.

Some will regard it as alarming that, in current times, world leadership should rest with Canada. But the Canadian Tories are a model of how to behave during a downturn.

They have kept spending in check and reduced taxes. They are playing their full role in world affairs, notably in Afghanistan.

Rather than canting about saving the world (Mr Harper, in his quiet and courteous way, is a Kyoto-sceptic) they have addressed themselves to curing remediable ills and, above all, to putting their own affairs in order.

If the rest of the world had comported itself with similar modesty and prudence, we might not be in this mess."
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" The world needs leaders at the G8 summit

The Japanese, hosts of the G8 summit, are using the occasion to showcase various gadgets and robots. And why not?
These summits have become largely decorative affairs, opportunities for world leaders to cant about poverty or Aids while elf-locked anti-globalisation protesters burn them in effigy outside.
The robots are an apt, gnomic symbol of the G8's irrelevance. This is a pity, for the rest of the world needs leadership."
http://tinyurl.com/5hnbzo (telegraphUK)

Ecclesiasticus: "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us."

Posted by: maz2 at July 7, 2008 4:38 PM

Update:

Globe & Mail
Should the G8 at this week's summit commit to hard targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions?
Yes 50% 4449 votes
No 50% 4410 votes

Almost there!

Posted by: KS at July 7, 2008 4:40 PM

Anyone wanting to write to the Governor General and PM Stephen Harper to register their strong objection to the awarding of the Order of Canada to Henry Morgentaler can write to them at these e-mail addresses:

Governor General:

info@gg.ca
(with a cc to smcook@gg.ca)

PM:

pm@pm.gc.ca

You can point out that there is a growing groundswell of repugnance at Morgentaler's being awarded the OC, even amongst people who support a woman's right to abortion and that it was a politically motivated award. The decision by the nine-member committee was not unanimous; the two government members VOTED NO to this award, something the public needs to understand, lest PMSH and the CPC be tarred and feathered because of this decision.

You can also point out the irony of awarding Henry Morgentaler the highest citizen's award, given that, since 1969, the over 2,000,000 aborted children in Canada will never have the opportunity to either win ANY prize or enjoy the rights and freedoms of being a Canadian citizen.

The right to life is a precursor to all other rights and freedoms--all of which every aborted child has been denied.

Posted by: forlife at July 7, 2008 4:56 PM

Globe Poll: Yes is now 49%. No, 51%.

Posted by: lookout at July 7, 2008 5:21 PM

Google is taking a run at Bell, in the absence of leadership from the bureaucrats and political detritus....

"Bell claims its throttling of peer-to-peer applications is a reasonable form of network management. Google respectfully disagrees. Network management does not include Canadian carriers’ blocking or degrading lawful applications that consumers wish to use,"

"From consumer, competition and innovation perspectives, throttling applications that consumers choose is inconsistent with a content and application-neutral internet, and a violation of Canadian telecommunications law, which forbids unfair discrimination and undue or unreasonable preferences and requires that regulation be technologically and competitively neutral."

http://tinyurl.com/6oqysd

Good thing the marketplace will sort this out, as opposed to the multitude of mouth-breathing clock-punchers wiling away the years until retirement....

Posted by: hardboiled at July 7, 2008 5:24 PM

Jerome Tuccille: Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, and the LP's Big Moment

The always outspoken and controversial Tuccille recently sat down with reason.tv to discuss the influence and reach of Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, and Milton Friedman. And to talk about how libertarian ideas—and the Libertarian Party—may have a major impact on the 2008 presidential race.

Posted by: Charles MacDonald at July 7, 2008 5:34 PM

I read the "racist toddler " story and...

And what about Muslims?
They say yuk to our dogs,
they say yuk to the way our women dress,
they say yuk to our drinking alcohol,
and they say yuk to ham and bacon,
they say yuk to piggie banks,
They say yuk to piglet in Winnie the pooh,
and they say yuk to Mohamed cartoons,
and they say yuk to Christian symbols...

will those Muslims be be watched?
will they be reported?
will they be re-educated?

Of course NOT!

because it is not actually racism that those crazy people are after, they hate western civilization, they are full of self loathing.
They go out of their way bending over backward to protect every other race and every other culture, and every other religion but their own!

The western white catholic culture? They spit on it trhough all those measures they take to make it seem as if every other culture is better than our own!

Makes me want to puke.

Posted by: Friend of USA at July 7, 2008 6:49 PM

UK Spectator gives Harper a rave review in "The World Needs Leaders":

"Of all the (G8) leaders, only Stephen Harper - the talented but curiously neglected Canadian prime minister - is able to point to a popular and successful record in office.

Some will regard it as alarming that, in current times, world leadership should rest with Canada. But the Canadian Tories are a model of how to behave during a downturn.

They have kept spending in check and reduced taxes. They are playing their full role in world affairs, notably in Afghanistan.

Rather than canting about saving the world (Mr Harper, in his quiet and courteous way, is a Kyoto-sceptic) they have addressed themselves to curing remediable ills and, above all, to putting their own affairs in order.

If the rest of the world had comported itself with similar modesty and prudence, we might not be in this mess."


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/07/dl0701.xml

Posted by: Earl the Pearl at July 7, 2008 10:14 PM

I cannot add any words as comentary. This is so insidious, it speaks for itself. Is this our future as well? We can think of at leat one Toronto Lawyer who would gladly embrace this as truth.

Claim: Kids who say 'yuck' may be racist

Jul 7 12:42 PM US/Eastern
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LONDON, July 7 (UPI) -- Toddlers who say "yuck" when given flavorful foreign food may be exhibiting racist behavior, a British government-sponsored organization says.

The London-based National Children's Bureau released a 366-page guide counseling adults on recognizing racist behavior in young children, The Telegraph reported Monday.

The guide, titled Young Children and Racial Justice, warns adults that babies must also be included in the effort to eliminate racism because they have the ability to "recognize different people in their lives."

The bureau says to be aware of children who "react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying 'yuck'."

"Racist incidents among children in early years settings tend to be around name-calling, casual thoughtless comments and peer group relationships," the guide says.

Staff members are advised not to ignore racist actions and to condemn them when they occur.


Copyright 2008 by United Press International

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=upiUPI-20080707-122008-1071&show_article=1

Posted by: Revnant dream at July 7, 2008 10:29 PM

I awarded Morgentaler the Joseph Mengele award two years in a row. (crimes against humanity) Mugabe is looking good for a multiple winner too.

Posted by: truthsayer at July 7, 2008 11:13 PM
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