Wow, Vitruvius, you're good, darn good for digging up Jack Webb. Thank you. When I was a kid we never missed an episode of Dragnet on tv.

Years ago I found an old time radio download site which was a hoot. You've made me want to go looking for it again.

Thanks for bringing this back.

I'm surprised there are no comments on the Tataquason HRC hurt feelings hearing.

www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2008/07/18/rights-complaint.html

Let's see... He sat in the restaurant his wife was working at for an hour, after buying a single cup of coffee, threatened to call "his chief" when asked to leave, and then suffered so much emotional harm that he couldn't focus on his "tasks" and had trouble sleeping.

Culture of victimhood, anyone?

I hope John Portes, the restaurant owner, has the wherewithal to take it from the kangaroos to a real court.

Do we need to start another defence fund?

Fire. Them. All.

A man was charged with sexual offences against childen in Calgary yesterday. He was running an unlicenced child-care facility,basically looking after neighbour's children in his home.This is immoral and he should be punished severely.Child-care advocates are using this to push the gov't to provide more money for licensed child-care spaces. Children are abused by family members,family friends,licensed care-givers,strangers,etc. These 'child-care' advocates are exploiting a terrible situation to further their own agenda. That is shameless. They should be removed from their positions.

OK Vitruvius; how about something on the lighter side? Jack Benny meets Mary Livingston

On a lighter note. On the same broadcast,the talking head just said that the cheapest place to buy gas in Calgary was at the station on the T'suutena (sp) reserve just outside the city limits. They did not mention that you have to be a native to get that price though.

I decided to find the Tataquason story, and it's just as ridiculous as the Steyn and Levant witch hunts:

"Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission staff solicitor Janice Gingell is asking tribunal chair Donald Worme to award $7,000 to Leslie Tataquason for the "injury to dignity" he allegedly suffered at the restaurant on June 8, 2006. The maximum allowable sanction for this category of injury is $10,000."

"Tataquason, of Saskatoon, was forced to leave the restaurant of the Howard Johnson Inn "at least in part" because of his race, Gingell said in her closing statement."

"Restaurant owner John Pontes asked Tataquason to leave in a way that one could "infer" was stereotypical, Gingell said. She said Pontes did not make any overtly racist remarks, but it was Pontes' responsibility to clarify that he wasn't being discriminatory."

"She said the alleged stereotyping caused Tataquason to relive his negative ordeals in foster care and residential school. Pontes is responsible for the resulting trauma it inflicted on Tataquason, she said."

It sounds like the man's wife worked at the restaurant and he was getting in the way of her work. So now, when a business owner throws someone out, they have to specifically tell the tossee the action has nothing to do with discrimination? The whole case of course is 100% crapola, but it's what we're seeing more and more often.

I do not know how old is Vitruvius I can guess may be 70 years above old or above...

you choose every thing old in this blogs and out of style
only may old woman or men say hurru ... and clap for you who live in small subrub country side
I am sorry if may little bit hurt you

you do not understand music and artist well or what poem are good

ask Methew Good he will say what I say to you

smart
You need to select a new random 5-letter group for your screen name.

Cheers

And now the Euroweenies go under the bus!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2307785/No-free-ride-for-Europe%2C-says-top-Barack-Obama-aide.html

Is there nothing he cannot do?

J.M. Heinrichs

Given that most of that ilk are striving to move us all to Oceania and make 'nineteen-eighty-four'
a reality, maybe the handle is apropos.

While they certainly don't want to learn from history, Orwell's neat little work of fiction seems particularly attractive. The thought police are coming for you!

Vitruvius, this format for Reader Tips has become a 'must see' for me. Thank you!

T. Boone Pickens, age 80, doesn't just buy into AGW hysteria retail, he takes the extra step and endorses Al Gore as next energy czar in an Obama administration. And why not? He's made his money:

************

Q: Well, if Senator Obama wins, should it be Al Gore?

Pickens: He should what?

Q: If Obama wins the election, should Al Gore go in and be the energy czar?

Pickens: Well, you know, you asked me a question, I don't know. I would certainly not... In that case, I think I would be for Al Gore for energy czar.

www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/no_20080718_4628.php

The Religion of Unilateral Communiques...

http://www.nysun.com/foreign/saudi-kings-religion-conference-ends-on-sour-note/82200

They just can't help themselves, I guess.

CPAC repeats today, and Sunday, Ethics Committee (cough-cough) with Elections Canada:

The July 15th Session of the HOC Ethics Committee will be rebroadcast on Saturday July 19th from 12:00 PM to 4:40 PM Eastern time.

The July 16th Session will be rebroadcast on Sunday July 20th from 12:30
PM to 5:15 PM Eastern time.

Looks like new has a new name, but smart? Come on, that he ain't.

Yo, smart, you dipstick. Drop your age related bigotry, and get lost.

MG is a has been, a wannabe, and an addled commie.

I would rather listen to two cats fight then listen to his garbage.

And, at the end of the day, who died and appointed you as the authority on what is good or bad music.

Get lost you retard!

smart's sounding too much like those other morons res, haye, and whoever the others are...I just don't read them. I skip over them, disregard them, give them no quarter.

If we all just did as Kate asked, "Don't feed the trolls," they'd soon leave. They're grandstanders and narcissists, who have nothing of value to say. They want only to ruffle feathers. If we don't let them ruffle our feathers, they'll slink away...

Today's Globe and Mail poll question is "Can the NDP remake itself and socialism into an attractive political option for Canadians?" Let them know what you think.

GDW, your NDP/Socialism post made me think about a recent message a friend in the UK sent me yesterday. My friend C**** and I have been debating for years, me on the right, him on the left. A little background, C**** lives in the UK, is married with adult kids, used to be a coal miner, now is a teacher, owns his own house and car, used to believe the banning of guns in the UK was a really good idea, etc. Typical left wing socialist.

Imagine my surprise when he said:

"Putting all other issues aside for the moment, I am having great difficulty coming to terms with my sudden shift towards the right wing of the political spectrum.

I have always considered myself to be an ethical, pragmatic socialist. I have never had any problem with a person becoming wealthy by their own efforts as long as no-one was exploited in the process. And "by their own efforts" means "by using whatever talent they may have, be it physical, intelectual, sporting, musical, business, whatever...."

Most people who claim to be socialists are really just capitalists who's only capital is a large bunch of sour grapes ie, "I can't get rich because I don't have either the talent or the work ethic, so why should YOU be allowed to get rich". Not my way of thinking at all. I have never believed in the socialist ideal of "redistributing wealth" as, in my opinion, all that would achieve is for everyone to be poor.

All I have ever asked of society is that it be prepared to care for those who cannot care for themselves and that no-one's weakness be exploited by another's strength. That no-one should suffer ill health because of their inability to pay for health care and that there be a safety net system of state help for anyone who, through no fault of their own, finds themselves without work. I have also always had an instinctive abhorence of violence and a belief that war is only justified when our homeland is directly threatened and that that meant we should NEVER get involved in "foriegn conflicts". I have always believed that those standards placed me just to the left of centre within the British polital spectrum.

My knowledge of world history should have prepared me for for where socialism would lead as there has never been a socialist goverment that did not eventually become a dictatorship. It may start out as ethical socialism, but state control of the economy leads to state control of everything and Britain is inexorably moving in that direction.

I've already had a long moan about the UK, but try getting your head round these facts.

1) On average, every British citizen is caught on CCTV at least 300 times per day.
2) The goverment has proposed a database of ALL telephone calls and ALL emails originating anywhere within the UK. They say it is an anti-terrorism measure but you can bet your life it won't stay that way.
3) Anyone who has ever read Orwell's 1984 would immediately recognise that all UK goverment spokesmen are talking in "newspeak"
4) The goverment is forcing through measures to compel all Uk residents to carry "biometric" ID cards which will carry our DNA coding, banking details, personal identification, iris scan, and so on ad infinitum.
5) Laws are being passed in secret and without consultation, just today it was announced that the Lisbon treaty has been signed despite the overwhelming majority of UK residents being opposed to it.
6) The right of free speach no longer exists. If I were to publically announce my disquiet at current policy on immigration, I would be arrested for inciting racial hatred and would almost ceretainly lose my job. It has happened. A TV station was raided just two months ago because they aired a documentary doing just that. Just last week two children were suspended from school and investigated for racist tendancies because, as christians, they refused to bow to Allah during a religeous education lesson.
7) Being openly Christian is no longer allowed. Children cannot wear crucifixes is school lest it offend ethnic minorities and less than a month ago two evangelical Christians were arrested for distributing leaflets in a muslim area they were charged with "inciting racial hatred".
8) The goverment is testing the viability of fitting all cars with satelite tracking chips. They say it is to make toll-roads viable and is intended to reduce traffic congestion.......of COUrSE it is NOT

Again, I could go on all night. Add all that to what I already wrote about and then add in the fact that there are now more people living on state handouts that there are working and that the government will not do anything about it because they know that these people have a vested interest in voting this government back in.

With all of that, I have been forced to re-evaluate my political stance. I find myself in such a dilema, because my original views remain unchanged I still want all those things I wrote about I just have to admit that we have taken things far too far.

I have been a member of the Labour Party all my adult life. I was once proud to say that. Now I am ashamed. I shall not vote Labour at the next election and I cannot see myself voting for them ever again. I now want to see tight control on immigration. I want to see real punishments for criminals, I want to see the police back out on the street instead of in the office filling in forms, I want to see people being forced to come off state benefits and made to find work (with the sole restriction being that those who physically cannot work for genuine health reasons should still be protected).

In short I have become that thing I have most hated for years. I have become a damn Tory. "

Vit...I heard Guess Who's original "Shaking All Over" last night(I'll fess up...it was on CBC radio on my way home from work...there are some redeeming features)
If you can link to that it would be great.Might be a vid somewhere.

smart's too young to appreciate it.
We are proof again that the internet is not owned by the young.

It may start out as ethical socialism, but state control of the economy leads to state control of everything.

Exactly; and it's one of the most basic mistakes the socialists made, I think. Market economies at least open up the possibility of dispersing power a bit and give people an incentive for creating a set of agreed upon rules in which power stays dispersed and people outside the state apparatus have a say in how things are done. Socialism was just the tyranny of the party instead of the tyranny of the king.

Carbon Controls Manual. Frreee!
Free from EPA via Hussein and his Democ-rats. Free taxes. Free Controls.
Issued on unrecycled paper Made In China.
Mao Stlong say, hully, hully.
...-

"The Lawnmower Men"

" ... if you want to know what he [Goreacle] and his acolytes think this means in practice, the Environmental Protection Agency has just published the instruction manual."

"In a huge document released last Friday, the EPA lays out the thousands of carbon controls with which they'd like to shackle the whole economy. Central planning is too artful a term for the EPA's nanomanagement. Thankfully none of it has the force of law -- yet."
http://tinyurl.com/6ksauk (wsj)

"Can the NDP remake itself and socialism into an attractive political option for Canadians?"

Zimbabwe, Burma, North Korea, here we come! Socialism in action ...

The one thing government can do that the rest of us cannot is use force. Its purpose is to use force in a retaliatory manner when individuals initiate it. When government force gets out of hand -- which it inevitably does, without firm principles of the rule of law -- societies have big problems, as we see all around us, at home and abroad. The production of wealth that gives us our standard of living does not arise from force, it arises from individuals making decisions about their own lives: what to produce and what to consume. Socialism has never been and never will be an "attractive political option" except to the parasites among us (and I am optimistic enough about human nature to think that even most of them can change their ways). Socialism is based on fantasy rather than reality; it merely replaces faith in God with faith in society (which means, faith in a ruling elite). The sooner the last nails are put in socialism's coffin, the better of this planet will be.

And don't forget: most of what is wrong with Canada today (and over the past few decades) has resulted from NDP policy being put into place by Liberal or Conservative governments.

"the better OFF this planet will be" ...

Here is the moral perversion of socialism.

The "Labour" force of the TORedStar to produce this sfgt = 4 hacks, to wit,
"Sandro Contenta,
Jim Rankin, Betsy Powell and Patty Winsa
Staff Reporters"
...-

"Getting tough on crime is toughest on the taxpayer"
(TORedStar)

TORedStar's "Laboul" folce puts out this in suppolt of/in plaise of sociarism's Led China Orympics.
Mao Stlong say, bad leputation bettel than no leputation.
...-

"Keeping blinders on the media in China
Reporters feel the pain as Chinese officials obsess about protests disrupting the Games

BEIJING–The scene stunned Germany at its breakfast table.

One recent morning, with 240,000 households tuned in to the ZDF television news program Morgen Magazin, viewers watched in disbelief as a live interview from the Great Wall of China near Beijing was broken up by Chinese police.

Correspondent Johannes Hano had just begun the interview when a pair of waving hands suddenly appeared, a surge of police stepped in – there were more than 30 in all – and finally a big hand came down on the camera's lens and it was all over.

It happened live, on air, as hundreds of thousands of Germans looked on – a public relations disaster for China of the first order."
http://olympics.thestar.com/2008/article/463474
(caltoon here)
http://tinyurl.com/5cswne

Jeffrey Simpson is a hateful biased person. Why ? Just because he is a biased, hateful Jounalists. They can do that - just because.

In one short article, The Simpson refers to the Government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper as Harperites. Not once, but 9 times. As if to instill.

Part of a media push on labling in a negative light ? To sway voters perception ? Harperite - a term in the Reuters, AP, Thompson power play book ?

The Canadian Human Rights Commission and it's Saskatchewan counterpart have offered their services to the USA as "Monkeys" named "Richard" /"Lucy" are about to become an endangered species.

From FOX NEWS.
"Debby Rose claims Wal-Mart, local health officials and Cox Health Systems discriminated against her and her monkey named Richard.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A southwest Missouri woman sued Wal-Mart, local health officials and Cox Health Systems, claiming they discriminated against her and her monkey named Richard.

Debby Rose of Springfield said in the lawsuit that the 10-year-old bonnet macaque helps curb a social anxiety disorder that can cause her to have panic attacks in public.

The suit contends the Springfield-Greene County Health Department lacked the authority to decide that Richard is not a service animal under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Health officials in 2006 sent letters to restaurants and grocery stores, advising them not to let Rose in with the monkey.

Rose also alleges she was denied access to Cox Health Systems facilities.

The three entities declined to comment on the lawsuit.

There is a frequently cited joke that a conservative is a liberal who's just been mugged.

Increasingly, it would seem, we are seeing new Conservatives, once Liberals, who just realized they've been mugged, intellectually.

On another front Anthony Watts has a DEW line worker who is reporting that they regularly fudged weather reports ...http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/fabricating-temperatures-on-the-dew-line/

Green Lift?

Building a "green/climate change" house using three people to hoist a bucket of dirt.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28721798@N05/2682447945/

This photo from the print edition was omitted from the web page of the Cowichan Citizen. Please see separate link in subsequent post to view full story.

Eco building article:

http://www.canada.com/cowichanvalleycitizen/news/story.html?id=153b44da-cd0c-40ec-8231-e9b0f5015285

Att Citoyen Dion: Ex-judge Gomery exonerated Ad$Scam Martin, Jr.
Go, and do, likewise.
Clod Hopper agrees (see below).
...-

"B.C. MP wants back into Liberal Party

B.C. MP Blair Wilson says he wants the Liberal Party to reinstate his membership following what he describes as his exoneration by Elections Canada into whether he violated federal election rules on campaign spending."

"Clod Hopper from Canada writes: Oh, Liberals, please take this guy back, oh please, please, please, he is truly representative of all you are.........."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5r88w2
...-

In other news:
"Taliban kill two [Taliban] commanders in public"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048152/posts

Has anyone been here yet?

http://www.politicalcompass.org/index

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 3.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.87

i'm not troll.
i kind of agree with smart.
good observation.
it's 2008 isn't it?

This is interesting:

Of Flatulent Cows and Liberal Madness
May 18, 2007 — budsimmons
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Of Flatulent Cows and Liberal Madness
By Vasko Kohlmayer

The other day we were once again warned about that dire danger to our existence - cow flatulence. It just so turns out that the gaseous emissions of the bovine digestive tract account for more greenhouse gasses than all the SUVs, airplanes, trucks and cars combined. In other words, as far as global warming is concerned cows pose a greater threat to our survival than transport. And this according to the UN no less.
All those worried about the future of our planet should be asked whether they really believe that cow flatulence can lead to an atmospheric meltdown.

http://globalwarminghoax.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/of-flatulent-cows-and-liberal-madness/

wallyj -- I agree with you. Thanks for bringing this item to our attention.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/index

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 3.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.87

Posted by: Glenn at July 19, 2008 7:21 PM

Hey Glenn heres my results:

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.31