How Obama lost the election

"You must ask yourself: in my life, have I been an honest human?"

Damn right I have, and I have the scars to prove it, physical and otherwise. I wouldn't recommend it for you mortals, though. Very, very tough gig.

It is not the relatively and thankfully small number of outright evil bastards in the country that grosses me out, but rather the tens of millions of silent conspirators who enable them. The evil bastards are at least pursuing their own self interest, which is somewhat logical. Silently acquiescing to the rapid decline of western civilization, however, is not in most Canadians' self interest. It has been said (Solzhenitsyn?) that man is never more gleeful in wrongdoing as when it is against his own self interest.

Speaking of honesty, the Canadian Press takes advantage of the complete lack of consequences for fibbin' in Canada in the year 2008, take a look at this gem:

"When asked overall, whether they would say the mission in Afghanistan has been a success, a failure or that it is too soon to tell, a majority of respondents, roughly 48 per cent, took the wait-and-see answer."

canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jNhOrJWoOaUOR61vK5BuGhMEJpZA

That's one innovative interpretation of the word majority.

Ezra is shutting down his blog, he claims until mid-October.

I smell a run for Parliament...

You don't have to prove it to me, Mr. Moralist, for I am neither St. Peter or equivalent, nor you, your family, friends, or colleagues. Scars don't enter into it. Yet Mr. Solzhenitsyn did say: "If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from mistaken conviction".

Such an angry, hostile response, Vitruvius, just dripping with hatred. I'm flattered. You know the deal: nobody hates you for being wrong, they hate you for being right.

You asked a question and invited commentary and I responded. You proceeded to turn a blind eye to the more important parts of my post, such as a brand new definition of majority being propagated by the media, in lieu of getting your angry on.

Now, reread your post, in particular the part about looking the other way. I think you just set some sort of record for contradicting yourself in the shortest time possible.

Such an angry, angry response.

*
Anony-mouse knows why the Conservatives are polling so high...

"In Ontario at least, all the Liberal supporters were up at the
cottage for the last long weekend of the summer!"

And no... he's not kidding.

*

I see no anger here. It must be my phrasing, again. Sorry about that.

"It must be my phrasing, again"

I'm guessing it was the whiskey. It's telling that you would attack me - a conservative, commenting at a near-conservative blog - so forcefully when there are so many others so much more worthy of your venom. I'm not your problem and I'm not Western Civilization's problem; others are. Go get 'em, tiger.

It was not my intent to attack you, sir. Once again,
my apologies for having not expressed myself better.
There is no anger, there is no try, there is do, or do not.

I'm fascinated. Despite earnest attempts at re-casting, misinterpreting and twisting, I can't read anger into/get anger out of Vitruvius' comment at all - nor, indeed, does he sound whiskey-sodden, as Legacy Moralist implied.

LM - I sense that you *want* someone to be angry with you, and therefore, in terms of the "deal" you propose (and what a delightful, selfless, life-affirming world-view it offers, to be sure) are desperate to be flattered.

I'd oblige if I could, but, sadly, in this instance, I can't hate you for being either right or wrong. Best I can scare up is mild bemusement at your sophomoric "Stop looking at my girlfriend/I wasn't looking at your girlfriend/Are you calling my girlfriend a liar" approach to trying to pick a fight, even though there seem to be no takers.

Did I miss another announcement? Is it random non-sequitur pissy-mood day?

Hmm, Exetaz, how 'bout non-random sequitur pissy-mood day?

Perhaps, SDA LNR listeners, you will allow me the following attempt to better express myself. At 11:12 above Mr. Moralist, in response to my comment "You must ask yourself: in my life, have I been an honest human?", said, "Damn right I have [...] I wouldn't recommend it for you mortals, though". (Emphasis mine.)

That was an egregious affront to all SDA LNR listeners, still, trivial I thought, go along to get along, apologize, be nice. Time has passed, and I've thought about it, and that point, that point I mentioned first above, has arrived, and a man must be honest and stand his ground; no more going along just to get along.

Mr. Moralist: you, sir, appear to be in a pissy mood ;-)

john g- Do ya think? He'd win the election, but would he get past the nomination process? If he steps into Monte's riding, I'll make it a point to vote this time.

One can only imagine how much blood was shed at the keyboard when typing the headline and contents for this story (reminds one of the barber scene from Monty Python - "cut, cut, murder, spatter, blood")

"Canadians set to vote Conservative: poll" was the headline. 'Ah,' the old hack offered hopefully, 'cheer up, young lad, it gets better when you factor in those undecided voters'. 'Er, sorry, sir,' cuz "Even when undecided voters were asked to reveal whom they were inclined to vote for, the Conservatives still kept the lead: Conservatives (33 per cent), Liberals (24), NDP (16), Bloc (7), Green (6).

...

This latest poll shows that support for the Conservatives has grown since the beginning of the summer." Mind you, the Green Party's 7% results were before Ms May declined to sign one the papers of one high profile hopeful ...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/09/04/poll-results.html

In other heartening news, seems Sarah Palin is winning converts everywhere:

"Before her speech, her family had been mocked on national TV by chatshow host David Letterman, who characterised the Palins as the kind of dysfunctional Americans who end up 'in a chair-throwing brawl on the Jerry Springer show'.

But by the time she'd finished speaking, those who had laughed at this cruel jibe were left stunned.

The story now isn't about Sarah Palin's suitability as vice president.

It's the near certainty that, if McCain, 72, wins, he'll serve only one term.

And his party will be grooming her as America's first woman President."

catch the full story at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1052602/PETER-McKAY-Republican-party-loses-heart-lipstick-pitbull.html

Gotta love her delivery on that "difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull" - "lipstick".

Re Sarah Palin - it just gets better:

"At the very least, McCain has got a wonderful sense of mischief - a quality sadly lacking in most politicians.

The way the Left, both here and in America, are contorting themselves is a joy to behold. Sarah Palin is every Guardianista's worst nightmare."

How could any woman expect to run a country and raise a family? What does she know about foreign affairs?

Of course, they weren't saying that a woman couldn't be Prime Minister, you understand. Just not this woman."

"It's been hilarious watching the sisterhood tie themselves in knots over Sarah Palin."

"Sarah Palin is every red-blooded redneck's fantasy figure, every randy schoolboy's Mrs Robinson. She could have stepped straight out of one of long-lost cousin Michael's Ripping Yarns.

Cheerleader, beauty queen, dominatrix of the Harper Valley PTA, mother of five, mayor, governor and now a heartbeat away from the Vice-Presidency.

You couldn't make her up. Law And Order's Fred Thompson, once a presidential candidate himself, hit the baby seal on the head when he said the Left were in a blind panic over what to do about Palin."

All said in the quintessentially British way - eloquently. Ya gotta read the whole thing (but swallow yer coffee first) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1052592/LITTLEJOHN-A-pistol-packin-Looby-Loo-Lefts-worst-nightmare.html

Ezra taking a few weeks off from blogging? but why?

Ezra Levant lives in Calgary S.W., I think he's lived here all his life, except when he went to university "up north".
I'd like to see him run (if he does...) in Calgary West where Rob Anders is the current candidate, although it seems Mr. Anders is acclaimed there.
But Art Hanger is not going to run again, and that would be in Calgary N.E. where Mr Levant's "many" local detractors reside.
The irony would be delicious... in fact I can imagine him grinning like a cat right now.

Myron Thompson is the other local MP that is retiring from active service as MP from the mostly rural Wild Rose constituency. I always thought the best of him, and I hope for him a healthy retirement.

Mr. Vitruvius, an interesting analogy concerning Mr. Smith goes to Washington.
I'm still a little bit "high" regarding this start to the american campaign, and with 2 campaigns running, will I have time to work this autumn?

Fecund in command

By Mark Steyn

As National Review's in-house demography bore, I've been struck this last week by the left's fierce hostility to Sarah Palin's fecundity. One gentleman - well, okay, maybe not a "gentleman" but certainly an impeccably sensitive progressive new male - wrote to me from Shelton, Washington:

This abortion prohibitionist hag won’t cut it among women with brains.And BTW she is a good example of reproduction run amok. 5 kids; 1 retard. I wonder if the bitch ever heard of getting spayed.

Each to her own, Mister Sensitive. You can be a 44-year old mother of five expecting her first grandchild and serving as Governor of Alaska.

More here.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTdlM2NiOWFkZTRhNDVjZTg5MTE3OWUwY2FhNGI1YTc=

Alas, Marc, to work we must return, for if not we who add value to our society from our efforts, for if not we who earn the exchange to pay our taxes (yes though three times higher than they should be); for if not we: who? Who will fund our society, our civilization? The left? The champagne socialists, the limousine liberals, the mastercard marxists, the welfare wankers? Let's not be silly. And so we find that, in practice, if we spend all our time here, debating abstract philosophy, to the detriment of our work, well then, what shall become of our GDP? What shall become of our future?

Thus, ladies and gentlemen, no longer can I go on, as tomorrow is another working day for me; ergo I now must cash in my chips for another night. I bid y'all best wishes; as always thanks to our gracious hostess Kate, and please don't forget to tip your waitress and the doorman as you depart for another night from le Club chez SDA Late Nite Radio.

Most polls conducted by or for the lib/left are conducted on workdays.
That way they get a higher percentage of the lib/left layabout ner-do-well voter. The Conservatives are at work, supporting the Canadian economy.

And the recession watch continues apace. Errrr.....

http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080905.wjobs0905/CommentStory/Business/home

Rosie writes good copy. Examples: O is a "sissy".

O's policy as a "community organizer": Build more basketball courts.

"The Dalai Lama has come up with better put-downs."

Rosie gets it: "such brass"! "such balls"!
"Republicans observe nobody's rules but their own, tactically outwitting the opposition and fearless in playing hardball. One can only marvel at such brass, such balls, how bang-on the offence works, even when it offends."
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"Yet, yesterday, the Democratic candidate [O] could muster only a sissy retort: "I've been called worse on the basketball court. It's not that big a deal."

Except this isn't a basketball court and it is a big deal.

"What did you expect?" Obama continued, soft-shoe-shuffling to reporters in Ohio. "This is what they do. They don't have an agenda to run on.

"They've spent the entire two nights attacking me or extolling John McCain's biography, which is fine. They can use their convention time any way they want, but you can't expect that I'd be surprised by attacks from Republicans."

The Dalai Lama has come up with better put-downs."
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"Obama better toughen up or risk being written off"
http://www.thestar.com/News/USElection/article/491113

"Who will fund our society, our civilization? The left? The champagne socialists, the limousine liberals, the mastercard marxists, the welfare wankers?"

and

"lib/left layabout ner-do-well voter"

I don't think you gentlemen understand Canadian politics. Here comes the data: take a look at the 23 most affluent federal ridings in Canada as measured by home value, for example. Not one of them is a Conservative riding, a few of them are actually NDP and the rest were elected as Liberals. Didn't know that, did you? Now you do, thanks to me.

What compels the most affluent members of our society to raise their own taxes and restrict their own speech, I ask rhetorically? Probably the same thing that compels ostensibly right wing blog hosts to attack, heh, "fellow" right wingers: outright brainwashing. Decades of watching the teevee and reading corporate media...you've got no chance at being a conservative after that, none. Canada in 2008 is also somewhat unique in that age is *negatively* correlated with propensity to vote Liberal. It's true, check the data. In Canada it is the old, failed generation - our spectacularly reactionary friend Vitruvius' generation - that generally supports the Liberals, while young people (i.e. me, relatively) tend to vote Conservative. Highly anomalous.

You may now return to watching CSI and Grey's Anatomy.

Vit...I don't sense any anger in your response to the super sensitive LM...who seems angry.

What we already know - media poll results are just pulled out of thin air;

Don't trust the polls: The Liberals are down in Quebec
L. Ian Macdonald, National Post

[The polite answer is that the poll's margin of error on its Quebec sample -- 6.3% -- essentially renders the numbers meaningless. The less polite answer is that no one in the Quebec political class believes it.]

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=770589

"Strip Clubs Lash Out Against Tories"
canoe.ca

They have called on their members,employees & club goers to vote against the Conservatives.
Foreign Stripper Admission to Canada has fallen since Diane Finley took over only allowing 17 since 2006, Under the Liberals 430 in 2004.

*Now there's a boost for the Liberals!

**Breaking - Heads are Exploding at the CBC

"Canadians set to vote Conservative: poll"
cbc.ca
Canadians are more likley to vote conservative...
according to a poll conducted for the CBC
Conservative 38%
liberals 28%
ndp 19%

SOW is silent; silence means consent; approval.
The pimp calls the prostitutes: "girls".

Where are the feminazis?
These prostitutes are forced out front by their pimps/madams/organized crime.
MSM dubs these scumbags as "exotic dancers".
All of them: prostitutes, exploited by their male pimps, their female madams.

The MSM is a pimp/madam.
The MSM fronts for organized crime.

""There has been a 30% reduction in revenue in the industry since Finley took over," Lambrinos said yesterday at Treasures Nightclub, on Atlantic Dr., in Mississauga. "There is only a trickle of girls being allowed in now.""

The prostitutes lament:
"We are just trying to live and take care of our families," said one dancer, who refused to give her name. "We have our bills to pay like everybody else."
The woman said she was working as a stripper to raise her children and send them to school.
"We buy things in the community just like everything else," another dancer said. "Most of us want to improve our lives and that of our families."
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"Strip clubs lash out against Tories
Toronto-area exotic dancers came out swinging against Ottawa yesterday for clamping down on the visas that foreign strippers need to bump and grind in Canada."
http://tinyurl.com/66dpcw (TOSun)

"But westward, look, the land is bright.*"

The Times (England) picks up on the meme.
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"Sarah Palin: it's go west, towards the future of conservatism

Her thrilling convention speech showed that the Governor of Alaska is a force to reckoned with. But she might be more than that"
http://tinyurl.com/5rb3vh

*Arthur Hugh Clough
(1819-1861)
*Say not the struggle naught availeth,"
http://tinyurl.com/6nabdv

The anal-ysts say, the experts say, the MSM says blah blah blah, Mao Stlong say, blahblahblah ...
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"Economy's slide called key to vote
Issue will drown out all others as single most important in upcoming election, analysts say..."
(nnw)
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"Canada adds 15,000 jobs in August"
(nnw)

O sends out the "girls",
aka the "female surrogates", to the front line to the "battleground".
Slimes says O will "lean on" 'rats women.

The "battle" is afoot: Clinton, the "community organizer" vs Palin, the "ball-breaker".
Put your money down here.
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"Obama Camp Turns to Clinton to Counter Palin

ST. PAUL — Senator Barack Obama will increasingly lean on prominent Democratic women to undercut Gov. Sarah Palin and Senator John McCain, dispatching Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to Florida on Monday and bolstering his plan to deploy female surrogates to battleground states, Obama advisers said Thursday."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075252/posts

ABC Touts Anti-Palin "Independents" Who Are Actually Anti-war Activists

On Thursday, ABC's Jake Tapper reported: "The Detroit Free Press invited a panel of Michigan voters to weigh-in on Gov. Sarah Palin's speech last night. Their reactions run the gamut, but the independents didn't seem to care for her very much."

The blog Riehl World View pointed out that two of the "independents" who gave negative reviews of Palin are actually members of the radical antiwar group Code Pink...

More 7 year Recession Watch.

Dow plunges 344 pts on rumours of possible 'financial tsunami' heading down the tunnel. More over at 'timesonline' or Drudge.

As I have mentioned before, the Dow is a better indicator of economic trends than the BS US federal fiat money govt numbers being supplied.
(Notwithstanding the fact that the Dow uses the same BS fiat currency as its measuring stick!)

There are 99 things that can happen to the US and world economies right now.

And 101 of them are not good.

Get yer 'paper here! Read all about "it"!

MSM/newspapers in recession; no, make that depression.
"Houston Chronicle to cut staff (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)"
(via free republic)
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"Memo to Houston Chronicle staffers

Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:01 AM
Subject: Message from Jack Sweeney

Dear Chronicle Colleague:

It has been a difficult year for our industry and the Houston Chronicle. Revenues are down, considerably, with major expense items like newsprint showing unprecedented increases over the past twelve months.

Unfortunately, as we complete our 2009 Budget Plan, prospects for a turnaround in these critical areas are not evident. Consequently, we will be initiating a job reduction program over the next three weeks, September 8 through September 30. It will consist of two phases:
[...]
Overall, the above plan will result in a 5 to 6% reduction of full time positions as we finalize our 2009 Budget Plan. As we move forward over the coming weeks, I ask for your patience and understanding in these difficult economic times.

Jack Sweeney"
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=13578

Crude but effective. A couple of political cartoons -- "copying and circulation is encouraged." Click on them for larger images.

(Via Contentions) Thomas C. Reed, The Chinese Nuclear Tests, 1964-1996

Thus began a most remarkable unveiling of the Chinese nuclear weapons program, a deliberate disclosure of its nuclear crown jewels to a central player in the American nuclear intelligence community. Chinese officials knew exactly who Stillman was. It is clear they chose to show him, firsthand, the achievements of their nuclear world. They wanted Stillman to take the information home, to tell the American government, the scientific community, and the citizenry at large all about China's technical capabilities. Why would the Chinese government do that? Nuclear weapons design information is supposed to be a deep, dark secret...

"...a conservative, commenting at a near-conservative blog.."

Is it just me, or is Legacy Moralist simply a stalking horse for more of hardboiled's tedious, "I'm the only real conservative" whining?

Did Dion really say Harper is farther Right than McCain and that's scary?
How would Professor Dion have picked that up? Has he been doing a quick study of McCain?

First, there is no way that any reasonable reader of Vitruvius's reaction to Legacy Moralist could conclude that it was an 'angry, hostile response..dripping with venom..and even, based in 'whisky'.

It was a critical response, with 'critical' meaning 'analytical dissent'. Vitruvius merely cautioned Legacy Moralist that claiming self-perfection really ought to be tempered with humility, following the words of the same author quoted by Legacy (Solzhenitsyn). I'd suggest that Legacy is the one with the anger.

Oh, and the main gist of Legacy's comment was not about misread statistical averages as he claimed, but about his own high morality.

Now, with regard to Legacy's attempt to insert causality to correlation..heh.

The most affluent areas may indeed vote Liberal. But has it ever occurred to you, Legacy Moralist, that these high priced homes, which are obviously in the large cities, are owned by those on the government payroll? Teachers, civil service etc. They want BIG government, because they want BIG wages and pensions and benefits.

Liberalism is a class-based ideology. There are two classes; the elite sanctimonious professionals...and the peasants. The elite consider that it's OK to raise taxes (their wages just go up anyway) - because they consider that it's the duty of govt to deal with the peasants and keep them 'silent and controlled'.

Restrict their own speech? No, the elite don't restrict their own speech; they restrict the speech of those who complain.

Meanwhile, your blatant insult to Vitruvius with your calling him part of the 'old failed generation'..that 'supports these Liberals' simply show up your own inadequacies. A genuinely moral person, as you have self-described yourself, wouldn't do such a thing.

Equally, your contemptuous sneer at we readers, telling us that, after reading your wise words, we can now return to our normal somnabulant state of TV watching..that too says something about your morality. Have fun with it.

Russian units raid Georgian airfields for use in Israeli strike against Iran – report

The Russian raids of two Georgian airfields, which Tbilisi had allowed Israel to use for a potential strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, followed the Georgian offensive against South Ossetia on Aug. 7.

Under the secret agreement with Georgia, the airfields had been earmarked for use by Israeli fighter-bombers taking off to strike Iran in return for training and arms supplies...

Russian Special Forces also raided other Israeli facilities in southern Georgia and captured Israeli spy drones, says the report...

Caroline Glick, John McCain -- Master Strategist

Both the challenges of war and the challenges of politics are challenges of leadership. And both military strategists and political strategists agree that the most basic leadership challenge in both arenas is to know and understand yourself - your strengths and your weaknesses - and to know your opponents and their strengths and weaknesses. While this may seem like basic common sense, it is quite amazing to see how often it is ignored.

The rarity of this sort of strategic wisdom in the public sphere was brought to the fore this week in the political uproar generated by US Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. McCain's selection of Palin was remarkable because in choosing her from the list of possible candidates, he made a decision that embraced rather than ignored this most basic challenge of leadership...

Barbara Amiel, What Mrs. Palin Could Learn From Mrs. T

Watching the frenzied reaction was déjà vu from my years as a political columnist in Margaret Thatcher's Britain. Modern history's titan of female political life suffered a similar hatred, fuelled to a large extent by her gender. Mrs. Thatcher overcame it magnificently, but in the end, the fact was that she was female and not one of "them"—a member of the old boys' club of the Tory establishment—played a significant role in bringing her down...

(Via Comment Central) Matt Walker, Did the Romans destroy Europe's HIV resistance?

THE hand of history has a very long reach. It appears that the Roman Empire left a legacy that may still affect modern Europe - those living within its conquered lands are more susceptible to HIV. It could explain why a gene that confers resistance to HIV varies in frequency across the continent...

http://tinyurl.com/5fgyqv

The fisherman and the Dictator

Premier Danny Williams is dismissing comments by outgoing federal cabinet Minister Loyola Hearn, who said Thursday that the province is a dictatorship and described Williams’s cabinet as “having the guts of a caplin.”

Hearn made the comments to radio station VOCM.
Williams responded Friday, saying he was “disappointed” by Hearn’s remarks, and said the real dictator is Hearn’s boss.
“It’s unfortunate that a man who has dedicated his life to public life decides to take the low road on the way out, but I can’t speak for Loyola on that,” Williams said.

“To say that my cabinet has the guts of a caplin, nothing is further from the truth. The one thing that my cabinet ministers have done throughout is stood up for their constituents, for the electorate and the people that they were elected to represent. They’ve done that. It’s unfortunate in the last few years that Loyola hasn’t done the same thing. As well, if anybody would recognize a dictator, he’s certainly worked for one. He’d know a dictator, I guarantee you.”

Hearn’s boss is Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Liberal MP Hezbollah Coderre's invitation to Hezbollah has now become reality.
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"T.O. open to attack: Report

Hezbollah has moved in, former CSIS expert says, amid Israeli reports they are tracking El Al Airlines staff"
"We have got even bigger problems than we'd imagined," Harris said from Ottawa yesterday."
"TOLD TO BLEND IN"
http://tinyurl.com/5853er

Here are two (2) reports from the MSM re Ad$Cam Gagliano; one from the Globe-Mail; the other from Canwest.

Which report has been spun/twisted? Yes, it's the scumbag Globe-Mail report.

Notice Canwest says Gagliano "misspent millions".
Translate to: Ad$Scam Gagliano, Chretien, MartinJr, and current Liberal leader, Ad$cam Citoyen Dion, stole millions of $$$$$$$$$ from Canadians.

Arrest all of them. Put them into criminal court for fraud and breach of the public trust, malfeasance, and theft.
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"Gagliano loses bid to overturn Gomery findings
Janice Tibbetts , Canwest News Service
Published: Friday, September 05, 2008

OTTAWA - Former public works minister Alfonso Gagliano lost a court battle Friday to strike down parts of the inquiry into the federal sponsorship scandal on grounds that Justice John Gomery had no evidence to support his findings of responsibility.

"The evidence supporting the findings made with respect to the applicant (Gagliano) is abundant," wrote Federal Court Justice Max Teitelbaum. "I am of the opinion that the commissioner (Gomery) did not commit any error in assigning responsibility to the applicant in connection with the sponsorship program."

Gagliano, a close friend of former prime minister Jean Chretien, was public works minister during the federal sponsorship scandal, when his department misspent millions earmarked to raise the federal profile on post-referendum Quebec."
http://tinyurl.com/5cq8qh (canwest)
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"Gagliano loses bid over sponsorship inquiry findings"

Here is the spin/twist by Globe-Mail:

>>>>> "Justice Max Teitelbaum ruled that there is insufficient evidence to support commissioner John Gomery's findings that Mr. Gagliano was partly to blame for the federal sponsorship scandal."
http://tinyurl.com/6gybbh (g-m)

Michael Reagan, Welcome Back, Dad

I’ve been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we’d never see his like again because he was one of a kind.

I was wrong!

Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she...

When will the "cure" be found? Billions of dollars have been sunk into a "cure".
Where is the "cure"?
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"Run for a cure

In 1981, the ‘Terry Fox Foundation’ was founded and began its annual run inviting more than 300,000 runners and raising over $3.5 million. Today, over 2.5 million people participate in this run world-wide."
http://www.kiplingcitizen.com/home/2008/09/05/run-for-a-cure/

"Arctic Sees Massive Gain in Ice Coverage

Increase twice the size of Germany: "colder weather" to blame.

Data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has indicated a dramatic increase in sea ice extent in the Arctic regions. The growth over the past year covers an area of 700,000 square kilometers: an amount twice the size the nation of Germany.

With the Arctic melting season over for 2008, ice cover will continue to increase until melting begins anew next spring.

The data is for August 2008 and indicates a total sea ice area of six million square kilometers. Ice extent for the same month in 2007 covered 5.3 million square kilometers, a historic low. Earlier this year, media accounts were rife with predictions that this year would again see a new record. Instead, the Arctic has seen a gain of about thirteen percent.

William Chapman, a researcher with the Arctic Climate Research Center at the University of Illinois, tells DailyTech that this year the Arctic was "definitely colder" than 2007. Chapman also says part of the reason for the large ice loss in 2007 was strong winds from Siberia, which affect both ice formation and drift, forcing ice into warmer waters where it melts.

Earlier predictions were also wrong because researchers thought thinner ice would melt faster in subsequent years. Instead, according to the NSIDC, the new ice had less snow coverage to insulate it from the bitterly cold air, resulting in a faster rate of ice growth.

Most concern has focused on the Arctic regions, rather than Antarctica. Recent research has indicated Antarctica is on a long-term cooling trend, for reasons which remain unclear.

Earlier this year, concerns over global warming led the US to officially list the polar bear a threatened species, over objections from experts who claimed the animal's numbers were increasing."
http://www.dailytech.com/Arctic+Sees+Massive+Gain+in+Ice+Coverage/article12851.htm
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"CLIMATE CHANGE: Arctic Meltdown Signals Long-Term Trend
Inter Press Service - 3 hours ago
By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada , Sep 5 (IPS) - Soaring temperatures have led to the collapse of several huge ice shelves in the Canadian Arctic over the past few weeks."
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H/T Wilf Carter
"There's a husky, dusky maiden in the Arctic
And she waits for me but it is not in vain,
For some day I'll put my mukluks on and ask her
If she'll wed me when the ice worms nest again.

cho: In the land of the pale blue snow,
Where it's ninety-nine below,
And the polar bears are roaming o'er the plain,
In the shadow of the Pole
I will clasp her to my soul,
We'll be happy when the ice worms nest again."

what happened to that old joke about Calgary and yogurt?

http://www.macleans.ca/canada/national/article.jsp?content=20080828_165514_33852

ET, just to support your view on government "workers" supporting the Liberals. Went for my usual walk around the neighbourhood and met a lady coming out with her dog from a house that I had put a sign for Conservative John Carmichael's by-election. After thanking her for her support we got to talking and she mentioned she had lived in her house for 42 years and knew everybody around her. I asked about several Liberal signs and who lived there. She said everyone of them were working for the government as teachers, CBC, social workers etc. and they always voted Liberal no matter how she tried to persuade them that the Liberals have done nothing for Toronto and make the same promises each election..their reaction, arms cross, mind closes, nobody home.

Though you were a professor and I bet a great one I can't get my head around elementary teachers being paid over $90k with their next contract. Oh yeah, its all about the kids.

finally,

its been on the blogs over 8 hours.the MSM does get electronics.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/09/05/nielsen-obit.html

Left And Right And Wrong

http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/

People who haven’t known me long are surprised that my politics were pretty far left when I was a young man working on a radical newspaper called “The Communicator” in Lowell, Massachusetts with some “Red Diaper Babies.” The term refers to children raised by parents who were members of CPUSA (Communist Party - United States of America). The ones I worked with were Jewish and devout followers of Saul Alinsky - hero to the two top Democrat candidates for president in 2008

"From the Prime Minister's Web Site (http://www.pm.gc.ca/)

Public events for September 7, 2008

September 5, 2008
Ottawa, Ontario

Public event for Prime Minister Stephen Harper for Sunday, September 7th is:

Ottawa

8:05 a.m. – Prime Minister Stephen Harper will leave 24 Sussex en route to Rideau Hall to meet with Governor General Michaëlle Jean to ask her to dissolve the 39th Parliament for an election call October 14th, 2008.

24 Sussex
Ottawa, Ontario"

National Newswatch has this headline/link up; however, the MSMLib Machine report in which it appeared has disappeared.

"Harper appoints top court judge
...breaking his own promise to allow a parliamentary committee to arrive at a shortlist of three candidates"

The MSMLib Machine has changed the story to this*.

*"N.S. judge named to Supreme Court
Janice Tibbetts , Canwest News Service
Published: Friday, September 05, 2008

OTTAWA - On the eve of an election call, the Harper government nominated a Nova Scotia judge Friday to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court of Canada, cutting off the work of an advisory panel that had been vetting a list of contenders."
http://tinyurl.com/5ox6de
...-

Here is PM Harper:

"Today’s announcement suspends the work of the Supreme Court Selection Panel, which to date has failed to arrive at a short list of recommended candidates. Earlier this week, two scheduled days of consultations by the Supreme Court Selection Panel had to be cancelled because all three Opposition MPs failed to participate. Last month, the first meeting of the Selection Panel considered no substantive business because of Opposition objection to the panel’s composition."

"PRIME MINISTER HARPER ANNOUNCES NOMINEE FOR SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT

September 5, 2008
Ottawa, Ontario

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Justice Minister Rob Nicholson today announced the Honourable Justice Thomas A. Cromwell as the Government’s nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court of Canada left by the resignation of the Honourable Mr. Justice Michel Bastarache. Mr. Justice Cromwell currently sits on the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal."
The Prime Minister’s Office - Communications

Dave - yes, the Liberal perspective is elitist; they see themselves as a superior class, who instruct, assist, guide, motivate blah blah, the ignorant peasants....[who also live elsewhere and not in the Leaside/Mt. Pleasant costly homes].

The arrogance of this class is quite astonishing. The weird thing is, they don't see that they are actually operating in an 18th c system, of an elite upper class (educated) and ignorant lower class - whom they are supposed to guide and look after with their wisdom and through taxes..
They are all employed by the various govts - municipal, provincial, federal...and make a LOT of money.

As an elite class, they reject 'informing the voter'; that is, they reject providing the voter with factual data about, eg, the Harper govt's accomplishments. They expect the voter to vote..as he is told. And they feel that the voter is swayed by slick images, by financial bribes, by promises (shades of Obama?).

I disagree. I think that the voter is equal, is someone able to think rationally (not just beer and popcorn). I think that the voter ought to be provided with facts, to enable him to make up his own mind.

So, I hope you are handing out lots of those Information Flyers (there one on the envt, on taxation, on the economy etc..). They've been muted down from their original more colourful styles, but it's important to treat the voter as intelligent and capable of thinking.

People get 'set' in their ways; it's very hard to change; it takes effort and energy. And people who work in the safe haven of a govt job are cocooned from reality. Those jobs are a safe haven - for you can't be fired no matter how incompetent, your benefits and pensions are enormous, and your isolation from the peasantry is assured...

Good luck.

Vit -

Thanks for that link. By co-incidence, TCM played "Mr. Deeds Comes To Town" the other day. I have always enjoyed Capra's deep and abiding faith in the American people. Even in the darkest moments of "It's a Wonderful Life", Capra still affirmed life.

No wonder the modern nihilists who see babies as "punishment" think Capra's corny and out of date.

From the article titled "NDP to take aim at PM, shrug off Dion", at http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/491152

It appears that the master dipper strategy is to imagine that the libs don't exist and to attack Mr. Harper thus cementing their place as THE opposition thus undercutting the libs.
Seems more than a bit optimistic and circuitous as the logical place to pick up votes is from the libs; why not go after them rather than trying to construct this chimera?
But I do encourage them to try.

I am intrigued by the Dipper strategy of ignoring Liberals and going after Harper -- I think it just might work (Well, hopefully not sufficiently to unseat Harper, but enough to replace Liberals as the official opposition.) If they can look strong, they will attract votes. A single good election for them and people begin to think of them as being the alternative to the Conservatives. I much prefer their brand of leftism to that of the Liberals (who will stand for anything that they think will garner votes.) NDP are at least clear about what they stand for, and they are a good counter to the Conservatives if you happen to be on the left. Go Jack Layton!