I love his first finger vibrato - a thought in every note! : )

An Islamic group plans to blitz 1,000 subway cars with advertisements this September....

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07212008/news/regionalnews/train_ing_day_for_jihadists_120839.htm

A CBC reporter tries in vain to alert local authorities and citizens to an impending climate-related holocaust:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pK6vhjr3h4&feature=related

(NSFW, I suppose -- fairly trivial language alert.)

john Moore tries to take a flamethrower to alberta's oil sector and the NEP in this column entitled "Big Oil Owes Alberta" here:

3W nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=668503

and "Big Oil Owns Alberta" here:

3Wnetwork.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/07/21/john-moore-big-oil-owns-alberta.aspx

A couple of choice sentences to whet your appetite and fire your ire:

"Albertans on the other hand have based their “don’t tread on me” ethos on a grandly exaggerated history of the National Energy Program (NEP) such that a National Post letter-writer last week listed six years of newspaper headlines as a kind of Stations of the Cross of Alberta’s crucifixion at the hands of Ottawa."

"Albertans (and Saskatchewanians) enjoy the bounty resulting from the good fortune of their borders encircling rich oil deposits while all Canadians shoulder the burden of an inflated dollar and the tar sands’ emissions."

"It’s a clever accounting trick to suggest that the Green Shift will tax Alberta’s citizens as some have argued in recent weeks. In fact, it will largely tax foreign companies for the collateral damage left behind when they ship their oil out of the country."

Full disclosure:

I have a comment posted at the second page site that runs to more words than Mr. Moore's column.

Very good rant Gord.

Obama just said if he had a chance to do it over again knowing the success of the surge, would he still oppose it,

and he said YES!

As Powerline notes, he'd rather lose a war than his election:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/07/021056.php

merci beaucoup, glenn

The Order of Canada has become the ordurous Order of Canada.
How did this come about?
The Order of Canada is now a national disgrace.
Who would want to receive any award from this Order?
The Order is now an albatross 'round the neck of the Governor-General.
The Governor-General must resign her office.
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"IN BRIEF
Humanitarian's family returns Order of Canada

Kelowna -- The B.C. family of an Order of Canada recipient is sending the Order back to protest against the awarding of the honour to abortion crusader Dr. Henry Morgentaler.
Alphonse Gerwing - who died last year - received an Order of Canada in 1989 for his humanitarian work.
His sister, Rosemary Lalonde of Kelowna, said giving the Order to Dr. Morgentaler tarnishes the one given her brother.
She said the Order of Canada stands for making the world a better place and she doesn't think Dr. Morgentaler has done that."
(g-m)

"Consumers come out on top as wireless auction ends"

"Industry Minister Jim Prentice, who laid the groundwork for the auction in November by setting aside about 40% of the spectrum for new entrants, lauded the final auction results as a win for consumers and businesses."
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=670277

The Odour of Canada. More appropriately.

Cnews poll not going right...
Do you think Stephen Harper is indifferent to the plight of Omar Khadr?
Yes. 35%
No. 58%
Unsure. 7%
Total Votes for this Question: 1795

Bret Stephens, Al Gore's Doomsday Clock

Al Gore gave a speech last week "challenging" America to run "on 100% zero-carbon electricity in 10 years" -- though that's just the first step on his road to "ending our reliance on carbon-based fuels." Serious people understand this is absurd. Maybe other people will start drawing the same conclusion about the man proposing it...

Ann Marlowe, Afghanistan Doesn't Need a 'Surge'

Afghanistan needs many things, but two more brigades of U.S. troops are not among them...

Afghanistan's problems are not the same as Iraq's. Its people aren't recovering from a brutal, all-controlling tyranny, but from decades of chaos and centuries of bad government. Afghanistan, unlike Iraq, is largely illiterate and has a relatively undeveloped civil society. Afghan society still centers around the family and, for men, the mosque. Its society and traditions are still largely intact, in contrast to Iraq's fractured, urbanized and half-modernized population...

Anne Applebaum, The Saudi Guide to Piety

...Here, for example, is a multiple-choice question from a recent edition of a Saudi fourth-grade textbook, "Monotheism and Jurisprudence," in a section that attempts to teach children to distinguish between "true" and "false" belief in God:

Q. "Is belief true in the following instances:

(a) A man prays but hates those who are virtuous.

(b) A man professes that there is no deity other than God but loves the unbelievers.

(c) A man worships God alone, loves the believers, and hates the unbelievers."

The correct answer, of course, is (c): According to the Wahhabi imams who wrote this textbook, it isn't enough to simply worship God or just to love other believers; it is important to hate unbelievers, too. By the same token, (b) is wrong as well: Even a man who worships God cannot be said to have "true belief" if he also loves unbelievers.

"Unbelievers," in this context, are Christians and Jews...

Michael Novak, Reconciling Evil with Faith

The New Yorker (of all magazines) gave a good number of pages early last month to a quite brilliant book reviewer, James Wood, for a long essay on why he could no longer be a Christian. Stories like his are widespread. They usually cite the natural evils that too often crash upon humans--in China a stupefying earthquake, in Burma a cyclone, elsewhere tsunami, or tornado, disease, flood, or cruel slow-working famine. They then add the evils that humans inflict upon other humans...

This is very interesting for all to read and comment on - the future of the internet!

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9627

“So many people are going to the Olympics and are going to get electronically undressed.”

Is that a Blaberry in your pants, or are you just glad to see me?

"The incident occurred in Shanghai on the second day of the tour. That evening, about a dozen members of the Downing Street staff went to a hotel disco where a lively party with several hundred young people was in full swing...."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4364353.ece

Psychopath Toronto Liberal blogger explicitly threatens to "rape" Air Canada president:

"Oh and believe me Montie you will be hearing from me and my wife in very short order. You see Montie, I feel the need to put you over a barrel and f*** you up the a** just like you f***ed me up the a**. You will not enjoy this Montie, it will not be fun... So get ready to actually earn that Fat Cat salary of yours, because until my wife and I are satisfied , we will be your new living nightmare from hell. "

Wow. Maybe it's the same Toronto guy who threatened to kill Ezra.

thewingnuterer.blogspot.com/2008/07/hello-montie-brewer-air-canada.html

Milton looks like such a dork, I can't think anyone would realy want to do him...

The welfare keeps on coming in to the connected bums and panhandlers in Montreal. Put on a suit, get your hat in hand, and watch the $dough$ fall from the taxpayer's sky...

English is such a wonderfully flexible language, isn't it? In confirming it would be lending $350 million to Bombardier to help research and develop its new C-series passenger jet, the federal government said the money would be in the form of "repayable loans."

If I went to my bank and asked for a "repayable loan," I expect the loan officer would say, "We don't actually do 'repayable' loans. We do loans. We give you some money then you pay us back. In full, with interest, on a schedule we agree to in advance. Repayable" means "capable of being re-paid."

Liberal, Tory, same old story...

link...

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=70e6dff5-1937-4d08-9632-f3808a2882c1

Curious how taking $4.2 billion as an entry fee to the business will actually improve rates? Don't those businesses have to recoup the $4 billion they spent to get into the market? that $4.2 billion represents more than $220 per each and every cell phone user - in the country.

Still, the threat of new players has not dissuaded Rob Bruce, president of Rogers Wireless, which, with about 7.4 million subscribers, is the country's largest cellphone company. "I just don't see that there's very much new [competition] coming, to be honest with you. We already have three discount brands in the market already ... with some of the lower-entry prices that we see in the U.S."

You are all bought and already paid for. And as Canadians, you get to arbitrarily pays "the second-highest cellphone monthly bill in the industrialized world..."

Well, at least Prentice the Lightheaded is on top of the deal, ensuring Canadians aren't gouged through anti-competitive practices, collusion, and reducing excessive costs as a barrier to entry.

Let's go see what our erstwhile Minister of Industry has to say...

"I hope the industry keeps this competitive spirit alive as it enhances and expands its services with improved access to the spectrum," Mr. Prentice said.

Wow. That industry sure got a good toungue lashing there, huh? A dash of hope, a sprinkle of dreams, and a hug of opportunity. All so's the oligopolies won't continue to screw the captive market. Please. Okay? C'mon guys. Just for a little while?

How about this Prentice of Lighthead....How about ensuring broad based competition that does not tithe entrants for $200 per potential customer, and then replicate existing infrastructure, as opposed to economic rents?

Prentice is probably too busy giving out taxpayer money to connected industries and lawyers. Since he is pissing away $20+ billion per year in corporate welfare through the Ministry of Industry (get the joke?), I guess it's a good thing that the telco's aren't asking for it as well. Yet.

Canadians getting boned for the benefit of no-one but connected bum boys to the Minister.

Bend over all, and pay superior returns to your betters, for nothing. You can rationalize it somehow. C'mon. you can do it...

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=670277

"Kelowna Accord" is proven to be a non-existent figment of Martin Jr's mind.

Ad$Cam Martin Jr.'s fictitious, non-existent "Kelowna Accord" is da proof of Schrodinger's Cat*; it's a good proof; but, just when you think you have da good proof; da cat goes pooffff; back to Junior's mind it jumps. The cat dithers only when you are looking at it.
There are no signatures, no Gov't of Canada Seal; nuttink but Hamlet's words, words, words. The "Kelowna Accord" is a chimera, a will'o'the-wisp; a figment of Ad$Cam Martin Jr's fractured imagination.

*"a cat placed in a closed box might only exist when you look in the box, and disappears to another place when you are not looking),*".

The box is a virtual reality .pdf; its location as cited by the Gazette.
When you close the .pdf, the "Kelowna Accord" cat jumps back to Junior's mind. Try it.
http://www.scics.gc.ca/cinfo05/800044004_e.pdf
...-

"Tories are right to ignore the Kelowna Accord"
http://tinyurl.com/5us7co

(*edmundssamanblog)

So much for all those Katrina repeats which GW was supposed to deliver to the Goracle's propaganda file...

You notice that every storm season the "scientists" call for the worst season in a million years and it never pans out? You notice this doesn't stop them from repeating the same chicken-little "the sky is falling" mass hysteria? For that matter, it also doesn't stop the teleprompter readers with good hair from reporting the doom-and-gloom mongers' panicky sermons?

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080722/oil_prices_080722/20080722?hub=TopStories

Oil prices tumbled Tuesday, falling about US$4 a barrel as concerns eased about possible supply disruptions from Tropical Storm Dolly.

Saliba Sarsar and David B. Strohmetz, The Economics of Democracy in Muslim Countries

Whether religion impedes democracy in majority Muslim countries remains the subject of academic and policy debate. Yet such discussion seldom recognizes the influence that factors external to Islam, such as demography, economics, and militarization, have on the fragile existence of democracy in Muslim countries (where it exists at all). Understanding the role of such variables can help policymakers better promote democracy in such societies...

Matthew J. Milliner, Those Whitewashed Walls

...After the requisite church and museum visits, I walked under some flying buttresses and entered another sprawling Gothic church that now serves as a mosque. It is a sight to ponder: the architectural glory of western Christendom, whitewashed within, capped by confident minarets without. An Algerian youth on the lookout for tourists approached me to practice his English. He enthusiastically told me of the exploits of Hannibal and how Cyprus was one of the first, and therefore aboriginally privileged, Islamic lands. I listened while looking up at the tell-tale groin vaults. I asked him about the history of the building. His immediate reply: “Always a mosque.” One did not need a Ph.D. in medieval architecture to question his answer...

Robert J. Lieber, Falling Upwards: Declinism, The Box Set

Is America finished? Respected public intellectuals, think tank theorists, and members of the media elite seem to think so...

Theories of America’s obsolescence aspire to the status of science. But cycles of declinism tend to have a political subtext and, however impeccable the historical methodology that generates them seems to be, they often function as ideology by other means. During the 1980s, for instance, these critiques mostly emanated from the left and focused on Reaganomics and the defense buildup. By contrast, in the Clinton era, right-of-center and realist warnings were directed against the notion of America as an “indispensable nation” whose writ required it to nation-build and spread human rights. Likewise, much of today’s resurgent declinism is propelled not only by arguments over real-world events, but also by a fierce reaction against the Bush presidency—a reaction tainted by partisanship, hyperbole, ahistoricism, and a misunderstanding of the fundamentals that underpin the robustness and staying power of the United States...

The flypaper works: Al-Misery's buddies go down dead.
...-

"Senior Taliban leader killed in Afghanistan"

KABUL (Reuters) - A senior Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan surrendered to Pakistani authorities and British forces killed another leader, dealing a "shattering blow" to the militant group's leadership, the British army said on Tuesday.

Mullah Rahim, the top commander for southern Helmand province, gave himself up after British forces had killed two other Taliban leaders in little over three weeks.

Hours after his surrender, another senior Taliban commander, Abdul Rasaq, also known as "Mullah Sheikh", was killed in a British missile strike 15 km (9 miles) north of the town of Musa Qala in Helmand on Monday morning, the British army said in a statement. Three other insurgents also died.

Rasaq headed Taliban actions around Musa Qala and was active in the insurgency for a number of years, it said.

"The Taliban's senior leadership structure has suffered a shattering blow," British army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Robin Matthews said in the statement."
http://tinyurl.com/6mm4g4 (reuters)

"The Big Freeze". Check.

"Carbon footprint". Check.

""population footprint"" Check.

"Looming". Check.
...-

"Population bomb 'ticks louder than climate'"

Global population growth is looming as a bigger threat to the world's food production and water supplies than climate change, a leading scientist says."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5zg9dd

More lies from G-M. Says "the Ontario government will pick up the tab".

It's a Big Socialist Lie. Governments have no money.
The money used is levied by taxation from the public.
The State is Our Enemy.
...-

"Ontario launches $741-million diabetes strategy
Globe and Mail - 2 hours ago
The Ontario government will pick up the tab on insulin pumps for adults living with type 1 diabetes beginning in September as part of a new four-year, $741-million strategy to deal with diabetes announced Tuesday."

The Not-Mysterious Case of the No-Carbon "footprint".
Remember, carbon is a pollutant killer; worser than the Plague.
...-

"One side was treated with carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous. The other was treated with just carbon and nitrogen.

The side receiving phosphorous rapidly developed a huge bloom of blue-green algae. The side not receiving phosphorous remained in near-pristine condition."
...-

"Scientists solve riddle of toxic algae blooms"
http://tinyurl.com/5nnepg (victoriatimes)

If they win, the taxpayer loses. If the other side wins, the taxpayer loses. Not only do political parties have their lips wrapped around the nations treasury (courtesy Bill-C61), they also have complete reimbursement for legal costs with no corresponding responsibility to pay. What a great thing - no financial sanction, no matter what. Hey, it's always on someone else's dime....

Elections Canada has run up a bill of more than $517,000 in its dispute with the Conservative party over advertising expenses for the 2006 election campaign.

By the end of April, the agency had paid $100,880 in legal fees to defend the Federal Court action launched by the Tories to challenge chief electoral officer Marc Mayrand's rejection of advertising costs claimed by 67 of their candidates. At the same time, an investigation of the "in-and-out transactions," conducted by Commissioner of Elections William Corbett, has cost Elections Canada another $416,528."

Whether Elections Canada is biased (or not), the taxpayer loses when these losers have free and unfettered access to the legal system, and thus buy the best lawyers.

Hey, at least someone is making out ok here...

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=2e5ed325-ca37-44d8-ab15-e23b289f16da

"Gore getting desperate proof public cooling on GW hoax

Written by Dr. Tim Ball, Canada Free Press
Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Comments and reports about global warming are getting silly and even ridiculous. Al Gore says we have ten years left. We’re told cooling is due to warming. More rain and flooding and less rain and drought are both due to warming. More hurricanes are predicted while fewer occur. Global temperatures declined as much in the first few months of 2008 as they increased in the previous 100 plus years due to warming. Recently we were told global warming is causing an increase in kidney stones in a travesty of geographic correlation assuming cause and effect. One blogger who began recording, with tongue in cheek, all the events attributed to global warming was John Brignell.

Actually, ridiculous statements and definitive claims of doom are a good sign."
http://www.climatechangefraud.com/content/view/1728/225/

Tim ball said above:
"Actually, ridiculous statements and definitive claims of doom are a good sign."

Here is a good sign:

"Australian politician calls for 'meaningless' carbon trading

SYDNEY (AFP) - A top Australian politician said on Tuesday the country should introduce "meaningless" carbon trading if big polluters in the developing world do not agree to reduce emissions.

""And obviously what you would do, if for example we haven't got the big emitters on board, what you do is the price of carbon is set so low and the (emissions) trajectory is so low as to be near meaningless.""
http://tinyurl.com/67g9kg (via yahoo)

Great article on the pros and cons of energy alternatives entitled "Blowing Hot Air Up Our Shots" by Paul Driessen can be found at

http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/PaulDriessen/2008/07/22/blowing_hot_air_up_our_shorts