Just saw a 'Vote for Stephen Harper' ad on TV...

Are we ready for this?

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it ain't just steffi.

mayor of walkerton, ontario... apparently
suffering from early-onset alzheimers.

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Iowahawk has the up-to-date version of Homer's tale (The Idiossey)featuring Obamacles at: http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/. I especially liked the part where Obamacles vanquished Hildusa, the mightiest of the gorgons. But I've always had a soft spot for the classics.

"The Palins chose life* for Trig."
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"The youngest, Trig, was born this past April. He has Down syndrome. Like most cases now, he was diagnosed in utero. Unlike most such babies, he is still alive. Pre-natal diagnosis of Down syndrome is normally a death sentence. Abortion usually follows within days. The Palins chose life for Trig."

"The culture wars continue
Father Raymond J. De Souza, National Post"
http://tinyurl.com/6joh93

"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life*, and that they might have it more abundantly."
John 10:10 KJV

A couple of interesting polls this morning

Todays CTV poll
Is Stephen Harper doing the right thing by calling a fall election?
Yes 2196 votes (51 %)
No 2102 votes (49 %)
Total Votes: 4298

G & M morning poll
Some constitutional experts say the Governor General should never -- despite her constitutional powers -- deny any request a Prime Minister makes to call a federal election. Do you agree?

Yes, she should call the election if Harper requests it
51% 1477 votes
1477 votes

No, she should refuse it
6% 170 votes
170 votes

No, she should tell Harper to face Parliament again first
43% 1222 votes
1222 votes

Curiously, not one swivel head in the Canadian MSM has picked up on the most obvious point of the Conservatives going to the polls: Ed Stelmach

That the Alberta electorate, and indeed government, have been influencing the tenor of the federal government for the past 10 years is straight forward. That the fiscal success of Alberta has financed much of the federal surplus, and that tales told by those who come to work here - and the cash sent back home - is not that of the evil empire strangling Gaia, but of economic reward for hard effort. A dream for those seeking to better themselves from the victim inspiring welfare trap of much of Atlantic Canada and Quebec (if in doubt check http://www.fraserinstitute.org/Commerce.web/newsrelease.aspx?nid=6155)

So, why call an election that many see as not needed, that some will contest as another broken promise, and that a few will simply view as a ploy to crush the Libranos?

Stelmach faced much the same in a disengaged electorate, with a government nobody was particularly thrilled about. But moreso, the voter faced the obvious alternative: Vote Librano!!!

What happened? The lowest voter turnout in decades (if ever), which simply brought out the partisans of the party best placed. And brought a Progressive Conservative landslide to the province. The Libranos retained half of their seats going in, and are now contemplating a name change to reposition the brand.

Simply put, this parliament needs a courtesy flush in the worst way, but why would a government stagnant in the polls, chased by a twerp leading a corrupt party, followed by Taliban Jack and Nutball May-Day, consider this the most opportune time to hit the bricks?

Now you know.

Look for historically low turnouts, and a seat reduction of 10 for the Libranos. Majority for the Cons is close, but unattainable.

"Quebec: The new Tory stronghold
L. Ian Macdonald, National Post

MONTREAL -Assuming Stephen Harper has Quebec voting intention numbers in his pocket similar to those from this week's CROP poll, we now know why he is rushing to an election: He thinks he would win it.

At 31% in Quebec in Wednesday's CROP poll in La Presse, Harper's Conservatives are in a statistical deadlock with the Bloc Quebecois at 30%, with the Liberals trailing at 20% and the NDP holding steady at 14%.

When these numbers are translated to seat projections, the Conservatives would be looking at 30 seats in Quebec, a gain of nearly 20 from the 11 ridings they hold now. Most, if not all, of these projected Conservative gains would occur off the island of Montreal, at the expense of the Bloc.

It's the regional and demographic breakouts, along with the large sample of 1,000 respondents, that make CROP such an authoritative polling source in Quebec. And a look inside these numbers tells the whole story.

In the key francophone demographic-- 85% of all voters in Quebec -- the Bloc leads the Conservatives 35% to 31%, with the Liberals at 16%.

This means that in the crucial battleground of 50 ridings outside Montreal, the Conservatives are the competitive federalist alternative to the Bloc, with the Liberals completely out of the race.

In Quebec City, CROP points to a Conservative sweep at 46%, with the Bloc at 25% and the Liberals at 14% in the city where Stephane Dion was born, raised and attended university. Elsewhere in Quebec, the Conservatives lead the Bloc 35% to 33%, with the Liberals at 17%.

Even in the greater Montreal region, including the bedroom communities on the North and South Shore of the city, the Conservatives are tied with the Liberals at 24%, trailing the Bloc at 27%. Only on the island of Montreal itself, a historic Liberal fortress, are the Liberals ahead of the Conservatives.

More good news for Harper: The satisfaction rate with his government

is up by six points over last month to 52%, while on the provincial side, satisfaction with the Liberal Charest government has reached a historic high of 61%. There is no mood, at either level, for a change of government.

Best prime minister? Harper is at 35%, Jack Layton, who has no chance of becoming prime minister sits at 24% and Dion, the unfavourite son who could become prime minister, is at 15%."
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=755962

"Fears we're on brink of a recession are overblown
JAY BRYAN, The Gazette
Published: 6 hours ago

There's likely to be some hyperventilating about new economic data that, by one tortured definition, showed Canada's economy on the brink of recession in the first half of this year.

The best reaction to this analysis is to relax and take it with several grains of salt.

When you look behind the lousy new numbers on gross domestic product, things aren't too bad." "Considering soaring personal incomes and profits, the first half of the year was miles from recession," notes economist Avery Shenfeld of CIBC World Markets."
"He runs through the recent data: Canadian employment was down in July, he acknowledges, but you'd need many months of decline to signal a recession. Yet so far this year, employment is up by 71,700. Retail sales? Still growing. Consumer incomes? Still growing. Industrial production? It's "sagging a little," which reflects the genuine distress in sectors like automaking."
http://tinyurl.com/5cu6fq

It is fascinating to read the MSM political pundits, who are almost all Liberals, screaming hysterically against Harper's calling an election now.

They've done nothing else over the past two years, but ask, repeatedly, 'When's the Election'? Daily, weekly - they've been asking that question. Newman, Duffy - have talked of nothing else. Simpson, Travers, Galloway, Tabers, Oliver. The whole cabal of them. They want their pork-barrel Liberals back in power. For the pork.

Now, that Harper is actually saying: OK - let's have an election - they are all - still screaming - but against an election! Now they are saying 'it's illegal. We can only have one every four years'.
But they've never said a word about that 'rule' for the past two years. Instead, daily, weekly, it was a 'call for an election'.

And something else. We've set up in Canada, an impossible electoral system that effectively prevents a national party from gaining a majority. We've done this. How?

By giving one province, Quebec, an exclusive party. Confined to that province. And since, we've also given Quebec a set number of Commons seats, 75, this means that this province, with its own political party, has 25% of the seats in the House. These go primarily to the Quebec default party, the Bloc. It's extremely difficult to move in, as an Outsider From the Roc, and unseat a Home Party. We've done this. We've effectively taken away 25% of the seats from any national party. Just with one slice. 25% of the seats are lost to them.

That leaves 75% of the seats to be divided up into three other parties: the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP. Now - how are you going to get a majority in parliament, when 25% of the seats are already taken from you?

How can we have a national parliament with a party that takes 25% of the seats - and is confined to voters in only one province, with 22% of the population?

Just speaking statistically, how do you get a majority parliament when you've already given 25% of the seats to a party which the majority of Canadians cannot vote for?

...who are the marketing clowns at the Conservative website and ad campaign?

http://www.conservative.ca/

First thing I notice is the gwady assortment of colours and that 3/4 of the website is devoted to Liberal leader Dion.

Optically a bad move.

Then I notice an ad on CTV website, "Strong Leadership. On your side." with PMSH looking like a smiling loonie and sitting down.

WTHey?

My prediction is if these bags of bozo's are going to do the ad campaign again for the Conservatives, we will loose the election to the Liberals or at best another minority government.

tomax....hear you.....when I am looking at conservative.ca I am starting to think like an old man: kids don't get the Net anymore.

Breaking
"Greens Unveil Former Liberal as First MP"
ctv.ca
Blair Wilson BC Mp who was booted from the Liberals has Joined Dizzy Lizzie

ET
RE the MSM
one word
"Hypocrite's"

Calgary Highland Games today, with Canmore to follow. From 2006:

700 Pipers and Drummers in Calgary

On the lighter side:

Stop Outsourcing Roles in Pro-Obama Videos!

From Creative Artists for Barack and American Jobs, the ultimate statement on shipping jobs overseas.

The Resurrection of A Mafia Mademan*: Alfonso Gagliano, oenophile, aka grappa swigger.
Your tax dollars at work.
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"Vineyard Gagliano"

Mr. Gagliano and his family plan to make the harvest in the next few weeks and market their new wines under the name "Vineyard Gagliano" as soon as next spring.

Lachat des installations de Dunham a été inscrit au registre foncier vendredi dernier, pour la somme de 733 687$. Lachat facilities Dunham was included in the land register last Friday for the sum of $ 733 687. Le prêt de Financement agricole Canada, une société de la Couronne, s'élève à 550 000$. The loan from Farm Credit Canada, a Crown corporation, amounting to $ 550 000.

""I took possession. Je suis le propriétaire des Blancs Coteaux depuis la semaine passée Un nouvel homme!» at-il lancé lorsque La Presse l'a joint plus tôt cette semaine. I am the owner of whites Coteaux since last week a new man! "He said when La Presse has joined earlier this week. «Oubliez le politicien. "Forget the politician. Il n'existe plus.» It no longer exists."
http://tinyurl.com/635lrw (translation)
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Librano$$$$$ vintage Gagliano.

*"In New York he held a different kind of title, according to secret FBI documents obtained by the Daily News: "made" member of the Bonanno crime family.
Gagliano was identified as a long-time soldier in the Bonanno crime family by Frank Lino, a former Mafia capo-turned-informer."
http://www.bcrevolution.ca/liberal_crime_syndicate.htm

(Via SWJ) Jill Drew, China Unlikely to Loosen Its Grip in West

Violent outbursts are continuing in the Xinjiang region of western China, with the latest resulting in the deaths of two policemen who were attacked Wednesday while searching a cornfield for a woman they believe is involved in a separatist cell...

In both Xinjiang and the nearby Tibetan regions, China has deployed thousands of security personnel in recent months to keep the peace and root out troublemakers. Now the government might consider keeping those forces in the regions indefinitely, experts said, because tensions remain high. Required affirmations of political loyalty and surveillance of telephone calls, Internet use and physical movement are also expected to continue...

(Via SWJ) Andrew Jacobs, No Voice Is Too Small for a China Still Nervous About Dissent

Guarded by three policemen, Mr. Gao, a 45-year-old farmer detained after he sought to demonstrate in one of the official Olympic protest zones, is serving an open-ended sentence for “suspected extortion,” according to the Harbin public security bureau, whose officers seized him two weeks ago in the Beijing bathhouse where he was sleeping...

In a country where petitioners and protesters are regularly jailed, the detention of Mr. Gao is not especially notable. At least 220,000 people are serving “re-education through labor” sentences — one- to three-year terms that are meted out by the police without trial — and scores of other dissidents live under house arrest or with the unceasing surveillance of the Public Security Bureau.

Blair Wilson joining the greens is going to be a problem for the conservatives. Now,Lizzie has another coin in her pocket that she can use to get a place in the televised debate.This will cut into PMSH's airtime and steffi's also to the conservative's detriment.She will use that to articulate her love for the planet and how PMSH if given a majority will roast kittens over a pile of burning tires.

Watched by our ever-vigilant HRC, the Rev. Stephen Boissoin is forbidden for ever saying or writing, even in private, 'disparaging' comments about homosexuality - despite such comments being in the bible.

Watched by our ever-vigilant HRC, Canadians are regularly brought to 'justice' for commenting on Forbidden Topics. These Forbidden Topics primarily include the Islamic religion and gays and lesbians. Denigrating the Christian religion is permitted.

Trials of these citizens are one-sided. The complainant, who is often a member of the HRC, has all costs paid by the govt. The defendant must pay their own costs. Furthermore, in a number of cases, the defendant is not allowed to meet his accuser and cross-examine him; transcripts of interviews are not supplied or are 'inaccurate' with key facts left out. Indeed, there is no need for an accuser or even, for anyone to feel 'offended'. The HRC commissioners can decide to prosecure all on their own.

This is happening here. In Canada. Check out ezralevant.com

HRC's have to go and go NOW. If Harper were to deal with this outrageous body of Zealots immediately he'd win a majority.
As long as these kangaroo courts exist we are not a free and democratic country.

It's outrageous to rule that a man of the cloth cannot preach Christian values. This is a serious issue and requires political intervention urgently.

Speculation on Joe Biden's drinking problem.

How long before Biden beer hits the shelves?

"new" has some nerve lecturing us about the use of alcohol when he/she is writing with the clarity of someone either blotto or stoned. Now being a Muslim of purity in all things, he/she wouldn't know the meaning of "blotto or stoned.

"new" for God's sake, get a job, we're tired of supporting your ilk.

Wow, the Greens have picked up former Liberal MP Blair Wilson. If he's not up to standards of the Liberals he's got to be at rock bottom. Lizzy May sure is desperate.

Putin and the ghosts of Stalin and lberia and their murderous crimes.
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"Anti-Kremlin website founder dies in police custody: report

A vocal critic of the Kremlin's policies in the Caucasus died Sunday from a bullet wound to the head while in police custody, Interfax reported, quoting prosecutors.

Magomed Yevloyev founded and ran the website ingushetiya.ru, a major source of information in the region, and was a prominent opponent of the pro-Kremlin president of Ingushetia, Murat Zyazikov.

Prosecutors have opened a preliminary manslaughter investigation after Yevloyev was shot in a police car in Narzan, the capital of volatile Ingushetia, a mostly Muslim region that borders Chechnya, Russian media reported.

A spokesman for the prosecutor's office, Vladimir Markin, said "an incident" took place after Yevloyev was taken into a police car "resulting in a shooting injury to the head and he later died in hospital," Interfax reported.

The website meanwhile reported that Yevloyev was killed after police arrested him in Narzan.

"Magomed Yevloyev was arrested today in Ingushetia and was killed", said a report posted on www.ingushetiya.ru.

The website is among the most visited for news on Ingushetia and had openly criticised the Ingush president who had often threatened to shut it down.

Ekho Moskvy radio separately quoted local Ingush opposition activist Magomad Khazbiyev as saying that the website founder was arrested at gunpoint after his arrival in Narzan.

Yevloyev arrived on a flight that was also carrying the Ingush president."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072010/posts

Islam Alert. Islam Alert. Islam Alert ...
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"Pakistani lawmaker defends honor killings

Tribesmen bury five women alive for wanting to choose their own husbands

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A Pakistani lawmaker defended a decision by southwestern tribesmen to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose their own husbands, telling stunned members of Parliament this week to spare him their outrage.

"These are centuries-old traditions and I will continue to defend them," Israr Ullah Zehri, who represents Baluchistan province, said Saturday. "Only those who indulge in immoral acts should be afraid."

The women, three of whom were teenagers, were first shot and then thrown into a ditch.
Story continues below ↓"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26469519/