I liked this story at Steve Janke's--

NDP candidate Helen Kormendy says the difference between her and Chuck Strahl is that she's educated.

ooh-hoo, educated.

Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit makes a great comment on the current financial crisis.

"Consensus. What Lehman Bros., Enron and Bre-X have in Common with Global Warming."

http://www.moneytalks.net/daily_updates.php?aid=1117435218.57

RCGZ -- a very, very timely article !!

Seems that the media can be as wrong about companies as global warming.

[2007 - Lehman Brothers ranks #1 "Most Admired Securities Firm" by Fortune.]

This is the Jimmie Rogers to which Van Morrison referred in the song "Cleaning Windows." In the song, he went home and listened to Jimmie Rogers in his lunch break.

Wow a double header, first an O’Reilly slam, then Greta van Sustern calls Mallick a PIG.

OMG that's some of the worst "music" I've ever heard in my life. Not that I'm looking to start a contest or anything.
I wanted to poke my ears out.

yes I listened to the entire thing... right out of "The Gong Show".
uff. the only redeeming quality seems to be that he at some point buys a long pistol... to go shooting of course.

and thanks V, for making everything else seem good by comparision.

;)

That was recorded in 1927, Marc, as the entry clearly states, and is generally consider to be (if you would bother to read the other links in the SDA LNR shows) a seminal work in the history of country music. If you have no interest in historic music recorded in situ then there's no need to listen to it, but the study of such music is part of our mandate here at SDA LNR, so there's no use complaining about it either. I'm sure you can find lots of "pop music" at YouTube or on MTV without our help ;-)

oh I understand it's an important piece of music, a half a million copies sold is an enormous statement as to what else the world was listening to then...
I'm not such a fan of "pop" music... nor do I need to search for it, (it's everywhere!) I listen to "most" of your contributions as I find them an eye (ear?) opening experience for me. I enjoy some (like the recent Nat King Cole selection) and dislike some, but as stated by me earlier, I listened to its entirety. Quite often, it is what pushes me to follow the YouTube linkage to something else, some other hidden gem, or the personal history of why Mr. Cole smoked so much (for example) that I wouldn't normally pay any heed to.

still, it sounds like he was trying to make fun of country music, not be a net contributer.

I wouldn't subject anyone to listen to only my lengthy list of favorite compositions... "I don't know" what makes for "good music", and I thank you for your many contributions to this most excellent blog of Kate's.

I knew that I had seen a cartoon somewhere that had cold cuts and the conservative brand somewhere. After a bit of brainstorming I remembered where.It is here,http://www.garth.ca/weblog/page/9/,along with a comment (at 1:15a.m.) about people 70+ eating the cold cuts. Of course,IMHO, posting something like this on a blog where the whole world can see it is not as tasteless as saying a comment on a confidential conference call,but I still think it should be mentioned.

Douglas at 11:42 -

I think most likely the Jimmy Rogers mentioned in Van Morrison's song "Cleaning Windows" was the Chicago blues singer (1924-1997).

Van was heavily immersed in Chicago blues in his early days.

Ah, fair enough Marc, perhaps I over-read your position, sorry. Personally, I'm not such a big fan of country and western music myself (though there are certain works I do particularly like), rather it is that I am a bit of an amateur student of music, and I do think that SDA LNR publishes to an audience worth serving, and I do think that eclectic breadth is one of the most important ways to serve such a varied audience, so I really do think that tonight's show was representative (and after all, Thursday night is the weekly wild-card show ;-)

Now here's some really bad music: The 2008-04-29 SDA LNR Show!

Anyway, tomorrow night is another show, eh what?

Thanks for listening, Marc, and I do mean that sincerely.

Here's some breasking news...

The Harper Conservatives are being considered for a new category in the Guiness World Record Book for the most public apologies made over an entire election campaign. They've already won for the most in 1 day.

An interesting thought experiment; try it out on your drive to work tomorrow morning:

Would you rather pay your share of the Liberal election platform so far ($2,385.33), or buy a 52" HDTV? (Or 1,955 cups of coffee, for that matter)

http://spendingclock.blogspot.com/2008/09/day-ten-70-billion-sept-18-2008.html

From http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=27/

(Steve McIntyre on the Bre-X Scam and "consensus"from 2005)

I'm pretty sure that Michael de Guzman received an award as well. Both were at the convention to receive their awards. They walked around as though they were kings of the world, inflated by the admiring recognition of their peers. Given that de Guzman had organized and directed the biggest salting operation in the history of mining, you would think that he would have been a little embarrassed by the public honors, but quite the opposite. Human nature is a funny thing.

Perhaps de Guzman felt "entitled" to the adulation and genuinely thought that scamming and dishonesty was the way all successful people succeed.

I wonder where he is now.

Jason Cherniak gets burned trying to smear the NDP. very funny.

Yodelling - it's an acquired taste.

I love Jimmie Rogers' music. In that video his voice doesn't really come across well, what with cinema-stage miking, but on his records he had a really soothing, reassuring voice and an ability to communicate tenderness and empathy like no one else. An entirely friendly, amiable voice with no trace of snark.

In "Hobo Bill's Last Ride" it's hard not to empathize with the dying feller in the song; through the little details and Rogers' voice you feel like you're in the boxcar with him. A lot of other artists have covered that song, but without the same effect.

I've always loved the happy, nostalgic "My Little Old Home Down in New Orleans." I was surprised when I learned that he knew he was hours from death by tuberculosis when he recorded it. Such a happy song -- so friendly-sounding, no bitterness.

There was a period in the early half of the last century when country and western music encompassed yodeling. All of the cowboy movie stars who could sing, used it: Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter, etc.. This one is Hank Snow in a rather obscure song I don't remember making it big.
When a youngster I remember my folks making fun of the Country/Western singers; said they sang with their noses pinched, but it seemed every darned radio station played the same thing. For some reason I enjoy it today.

Vitruvius,
can we give this a fair hearing? Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash - Blue Yodel No. 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqc209-rwNI

they're grinning and joking like old fools, obviously enjoying every second of that night and a standing O to boot! you just can't find this on any old "pop music" street corner..

I've seen it previous to tonight, after one of your previous SDA LNR posts...? and yes I like this one.

An example of yodeling today: Leanne Rimes and Cowboy's Sweetheart

True enough, Exetaz, though unlike the other four yodelling shows we've done here at SDA LNR, I think the yodelling was incidental to tonight's show. What really sealed the value of Jimmy's T is for Texas, for me, was its bridging relationship between earlier railroad blues music and what was to become country music.

Aha! Always re-preview before posting ;-) Thanks for those links EBD, great stuff. (And the Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash Blue Yodel No. 9 SDA LNR show you are referring to, Marc, is available via the above link in this comment.)

It was with the previous four SDA LNR yodelling shows in mind that I was moved to note that it's an acquired taste. The clip of the Bavarian champion still haunts my dreams ;).

I think you mean Franzl Lang's Einen Jodler hör i gern Exteaz,
absolutely a classic, and great to whistle to too. Indeed, it is one
of our SDA LNR Top Dozen Songs.

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Avian_Flu_and_the_World_Health_Organisation%E2%80%99s_Protection_Racket

do an edit seek on 'rumsfeld'.

"In 1997, Donald Rumsfeld was appointed Chairman of the Board of Gilead Sciences, a company which a year earlier had developed ‘Tamiflu’, originally a drug for AIDS and later marketed as a vaccine for H5N1 avian flu. Upon becoming US Defence Secretary in 2001, he ordered $1 billion worth of Tamiflu to be bought and injected into US soldiers as a ‘precaution’. At the time, Rumsfeld was the principal stockholder of Gilead Sciences. Worse still, it later emerged that Tamiflu was not even effective as a H5N1 vaccine."

now connect the dots:

donny rummy as sec of defense ordered a billion bucks worth of INEFFECTIVE vaccine to be purchased from a company in which he was the major stockholder.

Do keep in mind, Ouch, that WikiLeaks is in no sense adjudicated, thus if you wish to build an argument for a conjecture, you'll need more than a single reference from there. Yea though only a small relative portion of our species are professional fraud artists, it's still a large number absolutely. I think it risks an own goal to assume that, in this case, the fraud artist is Mr. Rumsfield, and not your source. Of course, significant evidence may convince me otherwise, should it be forthcomming.

I've always found freestyle rap battles, in which arguing rappers take turns bragging about themselves while dissing their opponent, to be baffling, because I just can't make out the words, and even when I can, so much of it is street slang that I'm unfamiliar with.

Fortunately, a social anthropologist has accurately translated one such battle into clear and proper English.

Much safer than it otherwise would be, of course, but still Not necessarily SFW.

(Note: the screen goes dark momentarily about two minutes in; let it play.)

Thanks, EBD, that's abolutely brilliant. However, the link you provided didn't work on my terminal, because of my browser, so here in case it's helpful for others is a direct YouTube link.

This Obama guy from what I read, is starting to scare the heck out of me. What an messianic ego maniac, with an Al Capone approach. If he becomes Presidency I don't think there will be a Republic left. Really!

Joe Welch Moment
Thuggery on the road to the White House.

By Hadley Arkes

‘Our friends in the McCain campaign have shown real wit and moxie in the ads they’ve run — they’ve been quick to spring into action, and deft in their angles of attack. I’d hesitate to tell them what to do, but they’ve been so imaginative and so jolting in the jabs they’ve made that they simply inspire the kibitzers among their friends to point out other possible targets and zingers.

In that vein, I’d put out a ringing plea: Don’t pass up on the recent report that John Fund offered in the Wall Street Journal, about the army of lawyers that the Obama campaign landed in Alaska. They parachuted in with the mission of finding dirt or anything they can portray as dirt about Sarah Palin. We can ram this one right through them — it has all of the makings of our Joseph Welch moment from the McCarthy hearings: “At long last, sir, have you no decency?”

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NWE4MjVlMGMxNWQ3NDg4ZjQ1ZmNlYmY0ZmJhYTVhMWU=

Thanks for that link, Revnant Dream, it reflects the position I've come to take on the matter of Mr. Obama. It's one thing to say A and do A, or to say B and do B, as Mr. McCain seems to have a history of doing, but to say A and do B, as Mr. Obama seems to prefer, seems to me to be the mark of the charlatan.

Meet the Whiner, aka Citoyen Dion.

Warning! This is not satire; not parody.
This is a caricature of a failure.
It's not his fault, though; it's not fair.

"“I'd give my life for this country, Canada, and I want Canada to succeed in the 21st century,” he said."

Would Citoyen Dion give his "life" for France, his other country?

Who is to blame for Dion's failure? Himself.
...-

"Tories to blame for the confusion over Green Shift: Dion"

"In an interview with CBC radio, he said Tory ads filled the airwaves with misinformation, so many people think it only involves a carbon tax, and aren't aware of the sizable income-tax cuts and corporate-tax cuts he proposes.

“It's clear that the Conservatives came with propaganda. They spent millions of dollars to destroy this very important policy for Canadians, with propaganda that was not the truth,” he said."
http://tinyurl.com/4u4roo

Comments here:
http://tinyurl.com/3kq8ae

Ad$Cam Jeancula and the Librano$ resurrected.
*Da Proofer returns from the PET Cemetery dragging his Chretienisms behind him.

"Although he said he's trying to stay out of the election debate, Chrétien left no doubt about his personal preference in the Oct. 14 vote."
...-

"Chrétien enters election fray over deficit debate"
http://tinyurl.com/4gdz8m (cbc)

*""Now, some think the good old days might disappear — but don't blame me, I'm not there anymore.""

*"We were doing very well when we were the government and [now] there's all sorts of problems that did not exist when we were the government.""

Wiki scholars (aka The Incredibly Lazy) are something I have not missed around here as compared to other web forums I tend to haunt.

Like Vit said ouch, come up with a real source and then maybe I will have a look.

The pomposity of that common braggart Chretien to imply things are not as good as when he was in government. Not so good for who? For him and all his cronies interests? No more brown bag brigades being enabled?
With all the scandals and boondoggles that went down under his watch he'd be smart to fade away, continue to vote Liberal and STFU.

Barf Alert: It's socialist Rae Days speaking with forked tongue.
Brutus Rae comes to bury the Sunshine Boy, aka Citoyen Dionky.

Mao Stlong's nephew, Boob Lae, extols, praises Citoyen Dionky. But, Dionky is an honourable man.
Boob says Dionky was an actor, too: "who acted in politics". Note Boob's use of the past tense, "who acted".
...-

"Despite recent intra-party sniping that Mr. Dion's campaign has not gained traction and that the leader ignores critical advice, Mr. Rae said that Mr. Dion is a rigorous person who does not take the path of least resistance.

Mr. Rae also predicted his leader will shine in the upcoming October debates against Mr. Harper.

"He is a very substantive person. I have never met anybody who had a greater command of public policy in this country who acted in politics and who was interested in really getting into the details.""
...-

"Spending will hinge on audit: Rae
Costly Promises; Consistent with government forecasts: MP"
http://tinyurl.com/3g275g (NP)

Someone commented that the Toronto Star is giving away free issues just as the election campaign started. Montreal's La Presse which has had such huge objective headlines as the recent "Who Will Stop Harper?" is also giving away free papers.

This is a great way to help the Liberals without increasing their expenses under campaign rules. Anybody else wonder about this timing?

As for Chretien I will never forgive him for the François Beaudoin affair, where the president of the Business Development Bank of Canada was wrongfully dismissed from his job during the Shawingate controversy. Je me souviens in Quebec!

Van Morrison had a song called "Cleaning Windows"?
Wonder if he got the idea from George Formby's "Ive Been Cleaning Windows". Anyone ever heard of that one? Think he played the banjo as his accompaniment.

I totally "wonder" about the timing of freebies for the Librano$ by their cheerleaders and allies in the MSM, Nicola.

'Anybody else disgusted by the pile-on of the MSM--CBC, CTV, most of the print dailies--of the CPC?

I watched in almost disbelief last night as CTV NewsNet played, with a screen shot, the Ritz "Gaffe" and the Cannon assistant "Gaffe" over and over again, about once every 20 minutes. I'm not kidding. And this went on all night.

Craig Oliver had the audacity to say that "the public" would keep these things going for a few more days. Sure. Uh-huh. Isn't it the salivating-for-victory-for-the-Librano$ that keep these gaffes going by repeating them ad nauseum?

I'm reminded why I don't watch television very much anymore.

Listen to what Lannigan, Lawrence Cannon's assistant said to a group of unruly Natives who tried to disrupt Cannon's public appearance:

"If you behave and you're sober and there's no problems and if you don't do a sit-down...One of them showed up the other day and was drinking."

When she was asked by a Native man if she was calling him an alcoholic, she replied, "I'm not calling you an alcoholic, no." It was just to say that you're in a federal office. If you're coming in to negotiate, I expect, there's decorum that has to be respected."

What's wrong with THAT? In another, more serious, more sane time, most people would see nothing wrong with her asking for decorum from a group wanting to meet with a Minister of the Crown.

But in these "whatever," it's-everyone's-fault-but-mine times, the whole Native band, according to one of their spokespeople, was "offended" and "insulted."

In the case of Ritz, he was not speaking in public when he made the black-humour jokes. This "gaffe" only has legs because Ritz's words were leaked to the press (where did the leak come from? Which civil servant should be disciplined? Which member of the press took it and ran with it?) and the MSM is flogging it for all their worth.

I'm hoping this despicable and unprofessional pile-on by the MSM has exactly the opposite effect on the public. It's unconscionable that the Canadian press is propagandizing for one of our political parties.

'Not something that's supposed to happen in a democracy.

Speaking of "ORGANIZED CRIME" & "thuggish Montreal ways":
Has Alfonso Gagliano of the Chretien-Martin-Citoyen Dion Ad$Cam Librano$' mob appeared as a "character witness" for the defence?
...-

"ORGANIZED CRIME: POLICE WIRETAP EVIDENCE

Guilty pleas reveal mob's thuggish Montreal ways

MONTREAL -- Martin Carrier was a Quebec City tiler who learned one winter night in 2004 that he had crossed a dangerous line.

His phone rang and the caller asked whether Mr. Carrier had recently done a job in Montreal. Yes, Mr. Carrier replied.

"We'd like you to stop coming here for work," the man said. "Because next time, you won't leave from here, okay? You've been warned.""
http://tinyurl.com/4c5m8u
(g-m)

CTV.ca poll today @ 0800
Should Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz resign?
Yes, his jokes were tasteless 6693 votes (47 %)
No, he's already apologized 7672 votes (53 %)
Total Votes: 14365

I am shocked and offended by these comments that were not said to me or intended for my hearing. Frikkin' people now a days have such a thin skin it is almost too much to take anyone seriously. Clearly, some people have to get a life and the apologists have to quit apologizing for farts in the wind.

On a different note, it seems that the resident troll has changed his handle once again. Mos, hal, new, food now seems to be going by the name of ouch. Still a waste of bandwidth if you ask me but then again that is my opinion.

Yeah, Liz J., Van Morrison's "Cleaning Windows," a very upbeat little number, is on his "Beautiful Vision" CD. It came out in the '80s--1988 to be precise.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/v/van+morrison/cleaning+windows_20142974.html

Van Morrison would definitely be aware of George Formby's "When I'm Cleaning Windows":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfmAeijj5cM

Formby accompanies himself on the ukelele. He was EXTREMELY popular (he still has a fan club!), and Morrison couldn't have grown up in Great Britain without knowing Formby's stuff.

Morrison's "Cleaning Windows" starts off "Oh the smell of the bakery from across the street got in my nose as we carried our ladders down the street with the wrought iron rows. I went home and listened to jimmy rodgers in my lunch break, bought five woodbines at the shop on the corner and went..."

ENJOY!!

spike: CTV.ca poll today @ 0800
Should Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz resign?

Link please?

I don't see this question being asked on their site? Did I miss something or have they taken it down?

Leftists are "outraged" by Conservative Minister Ritz's black humour re listerium bacterium.

Where is the left's outrage re c.difficile bacterium and the "460 deaths at 22 hospitals in two years." in Ontario hospitals.?

There is no outrage. Why not?

Ontario's government is a Liberal government headed by Dalton McGuinty.
Even the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party (led by Red Tory Tory) is keeping a low profile. Why?
...-

"EDITORIAL: Ontario's C. diff response is inadequate

Province must do more to stop C. difficile deaths

The Dalton McGuinty government has failed in the fight against a virulent new form of superbug C. difficile.

The province has failed to get to the root of the problem, which has been linked to at least 460 deaths at 22 hospitals in two years. How many deaths at the rest of Ontario's 157 hospitals may be related to C. diff?"
http://www.thespec.com/article/371828

I'm right with you, batb. The behaviour of CBC, this week in particular has been appalling, and as you said, unconscionable.

Too many Conservatives say "who cares about the CBC anyway, nobody watches", but it's exactly that attitude that allows the CBC-Liberal network to can get away with it.

On Wednesday the National's employees undertook a dramatic, shaky-camera chasedown of Ritz in an airport, like he was some international criminal being finally caught on camera by the Fifth Estate, and the extent of coverage has just been ridiculous -- transparent.

Like you said, it's a case of embedded bureaucrats working in tandem with the Liberals and the media to vilify the Conservatives; Dion is dead in the water, so they go to these strategic "scandals."

This is a taxpayer-funded public broadcaster we're talking about, yet it's nothing more and nothing less than a public-relations arm of the Liberal party. Just appalling.

If Conservative voters -- and NDP voters, if they could wake up and stop pretending that the CBC is on their side -- would break their CBC fast just from now until the election, there'd be a lot of jaws dropping, and a lot of shock and anger, and the CBC wouldn't be getting away with it.

Here is the MSM pommofg on Citoyen Dion's, that cunning French-tongued linguist, who was schooled in Gay Pareee. Isn't it awful?
More, svp. Mordecai Richler! Come back.
BTW, Mao Stlong say, "Cheena" and "Veegra".
...-

"Was Dion saying 'Niagara' or 'Viagra'?

"Andrew Dreschel
The Hamilton Spectator
(Sep 19, 2008)

Liberal Leader Stephane Dion's whirlwind foray into Hamilton offered something of value to both partisan supporters and neutral observers.

The campaign rally at the Carpenter's Union Hall gave party faithful a chance to see their leader in the flesh, cheer their local candidates and whip themselves up into an energetic frenzy with inflatable noise sticks.

For the more detached onlookers, however, it was a chance to see whether Dion is as bad a performer as eyewitnesses say he is.

Trust me, he is.

Within a few moments of taking the stage the other night, Dion was mangling and mutilating English with all the abandon of a kitchen garburator.

At his first stab, the word "China" came out sounding like "Cheena."

And his rendering of "Niagara" sounded like a cross between "Nicaragua" and "Viagra.""
http://www.thespec.com/Opinions/article/437766

Payback is a b*tch. The Conservatives will win a majority. The CBC will be dealt with. Is there any Conservative in the country who will NOT demand it?

Batb: the poll was running yesterday & this morning they(ctv)have changed the poll now, You can see the results by clicking previous polls, questions.

*funny though in all their(ctv)reports not one stated their poll results on the ritz issue.

Canada's national, official state broadcaster, paid for by Canadians, trashes Republican V-P candidate Palin during the American election.
Heads must roll at the CBC, including Mallick's.
...-
Fox has this:

"Columnist’s Labeling Palin Backers ‘White Trash’ Spurs Review at Canadian TV

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is reviewing complaints from both Americans and Canadians about a Web site columnist who recently described Sarah Palin’s supporters as “white trash,” compared the vice presidential candidate to a “porn actress” and called her daughter’s boyfriend a “redneck” and “ratboy.”

The incendiary column by Toronto-based writer Heather Mallick appeared on the CBC News site on Sept. 5, after the close of the Republican National Convention. On the same day, Britain’s Guardian newspaper published another column by Mallick in which she trashed Palin’s home state of Alaska as a “frontier state full of drunks and crazy people.”"
http://tinyurl.com/476v7q (Fox)

(Includes full, head only, frontal pic of a smiling, tight-lipped Mallice. Be sure to check out the neck piece. The wide eyes full of malice?)
http://elections.foxnews.com/files/2008/09/mallick.jpg

EBD: "If Conservative voters -- and NDP voters, if they could wake up and stop pretending that the CBC is on their side -- would break their CBC fast just from now until the election, there'd be a lot of jaws dropping, and a lot of shock and anger, and the CBC wouldn't be getting away with it."

Unfortunately, EBD, despite shock and anger--which are totally the most appropriate responses to the MSM interference in this election--the CBC would still get away with what they're doing.

They've got it down to a fine art and the wimpishness of the brainwashed Canadian public and the inability--or the lack of will--on the part of our politicians to rein in this l/Liberal propaganda machine supported by taxpayers' dollars ensures that the CBC has carte blanche and unlimited funds to prop up the Librano$ while piling on the CPC and PMSH. The CBC, and other Canadian media such as CTV, are fanning the flames of these CPC "gaffes," while they almost virtually ignore all of the LPC, NDP, and GP gaffes, of which there have been many (see maz2's post @ 8:49 a.m.).

There should be a law about news networks shilling for political parties during an election campaign--or at any time. The CBC is no better than Tass or Pravda ("The Truth") and yet, Canada is supposed to be a democracy not a totalitarian state.

Yeah, right.

batb - the poll asking about Ritz WAS on the CTV site. I saw it yesterday.

By the way, with reference to Dion's current statements that he's drastically cutting corporate taxes. No, his plan isn't doing that. Harper has already done that. Harper's 2007 budget reduced the corporate tax rate from 22 to 15% by 2012. Dion's Green Shaft simply reduced that 15 to 14.

Got that? It ISN'T DION who has reduced the corporate tax rate. The reduction is by Harper in the 2007 budget. Dion just added on another 1%..to reduce it from 15 to 14. Harper reduced it from 22 to 15.

Harper also reduced the small business tax from 12% to 11 in 2008. And in addition, increased the lieftime capital gains exemption from 500,000 to 750,000...the first increase in nearly 20 years.

So, Dion is lying.

Then, Dion boasts that he's reducing personal income taxes by 10%. No he isn't. You determine your taxes out of '100 percent'. The current lowest rate is 15% (of 100 percent of your income). Dion is suggesting reducing that to 13.5%. He calls that a 10% reduction! (sure, if you are figuring it out of 15). But the average man would think..hey..that means my taxes go from 15 to 5%! Dion is misleading people. Deliberately.

His Green Shaft lowers middle class rates from 22% to 21. He doesn't call that a 1% cut. Nope. Not Dion. He tell us that's a 5% cut. He lowers the 26% rate to 25..and tells us that's not a 1% cut. It's a 4% cut. He's deliberately misleading us.

Now, Dion is making more and more and wilder promises. Paul Martin did the same. But these politicos are all the same... and notice How Dion is covering himself. He says IF he gets into office, he'll do an 'external audit'..which will find a 'deficit' so that he'll be unable to fulfil all his current Liberal promises...and blame it on the Conservatives.

Ramadan in Brussels

Tramp Beaten Up For Drinking Beer During Ramadan

A forty-year old homeless man almost died when he was beaten up in Brussels by a man and his father, both Muslims, because he was drinking beer during the Ramadan. Rachid, the 19-year old culprit, beat his victim Serge with an iron bar with nails.

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3535

The poll has been replaced. The results are still there at CTV under the news tab.

Yes, his jokes were tasteless 6893 votes (47 %)

No, he's already apologized 7868 votes (53 %)

Another online poll gone horribly wrong.

Batb, I share your cynicism to a certain degree, but I'm still convinced that it would be really helpful, in terms of finally dealing with the CBC, if more non-Lib/left Canadians who otherwise don't watch would endeavor to keep an eye on The National *for the duration of the election.* Just as you would keep an eye on a guy skulking around your yard at night instead of saying "I don't want to look at him because I don't like him."

Maybe you're right that the wimpiness and the lack of will of Canadians to do anything about it, and politicians' lack of will, have something to do with it, but don't underestimate *ignorance* about the CBC's coverage. A lot of people don't witness what the CBC's been getting away with, so how could they pressure politicians about it?

Giora Eiland, Rethinking the Two-State Solution

Maj. Gen. Giora Eiland, former head of the Israeli National Security Council, illustrates how the conventional two-state approach is doomed to fall apart under the cumulative weight of the compromises that it would require from both sides. Even apart from the difficulty of resolving the core issues, new problems such as Hamas's ascendancy have rendered the old model moot. Rather than maintaining a destructive status quo that hurts the Palestinians more than anyone, General Eiland offers two new proposals -- a "Jordanian option" and a "regional solution" -- that could help bypass the growing political and security obstacles that have impeded peacemaking for so many years.

[Report in PDF only].

(Via SWJ) Jeffrey Fleishman, Facebook reflects struggle over Islam's role

His fingers tapping like a tiny army over laptop keys, Waleed Korayem, a university student who quotes Einstein and Voltaire, skims the Internet in a noisy cafe and opens his Facebook group, the one that drives Islamists into fits of rage: Yeah, We Are Seculars and We Are Proud.

It's hot and he is sweating, clicking through cyberspace venom and passionate screeds of Muslims debating Islam and democracy in the Middle East. Some of it is playful, some of it mean, but beyond the aliases and funny log-on names, this electronic parallel world has given young Muslims a voice beyond their mosques and repressive governments...

EBD - that's an interesting research task for those of us who can actually bear to watch the CBC. [I can't; can't watch Newman or Duffy either; or Global or...].

But, to keep tabs on bias...The thing is, these stations are almost 80% and more biased in favour of the Liberals. They are all staffed by people paid by govt funding; they are all members of the 'Intellectual Sophist Class'. So, their agenda is the Liberal agenda..even if they don't give it that name.

Again, as I repeat my rant: The Liberal perspective is a two class society, with an 'intellectual sophist class' as the de factor rulers. This group is made up of govt funded professionals - health care, media, teachers, civil service, journalism, lawyers etc.

Their agenda is to keep themselves secure from the rabble, who consist of anyone not part of this professional group: the workers, self-employed, small business, independent entrepreneurs, immigrants

...This lower class must be kept 'in line' - by means of the HRCs, a rejection of freedom of speech..and money to pay off the lowest incomes of these groups...to bribe new immigrants to stay isolated...

Just listen to the ideology of the Liberals and you'll see that it sets up a two-class system, and the upper class is quite willing to be taxed to keep the peasants quiet and settled..and far away.

Since most people in our large cities (Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal) are members of this Intellectual Sophist class - they actually agree with the CBC, CTV, Toronto Star.

It is very hard for the Conservative ideology to move into these big cities, since the Conservative ideology is based around the individual, the independent thinker, the innovator, and small and medium business. It's not found within the group who are embedded within the secure havens of the civil service, academic, etc..all govt funded. These latter people aren't independent; they are dependent..and that is the Liberal Way.

(PDF warning) Martin J. Hart, Al Qaeda: Refining a Failing Strategy

Al Qaeda’s inability to translate its post-9/11 approval in the Muslim world into a mass movement jihad against the West is prompting a search for new ways to regenerate lost momentum, but the group’s inherent weaknesses are likely to prevent progress and gradually discredit its vision for the future of Islam. Al Qaeda’s long-term plan—according to the writings of its core leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri—is to move from a small vanguard movement to the leadership, at least at a nominal level, of a global Islamic insurgency in order to destroy Western influence in the Muslim world and reestablish the historic caliphate...

EBD: I hear you. I don't think that I'm being cynical, simply being observant. I've been monitoring the CBC for over 30 years, and I'm convinced that if not for the government curtailing the budget of the CBC or getting rid of it altogether (FIRE. THEM. ALL. Yes!), a lot of shock and anger is going to have little effect on the way the MotherCorp[se] does business--as usual.

There have been a number of issues which have elicited a lot of shock and anger on the part of the Canadian public, it's been expressed to the CBC, and nothing much has changed in the time I've been keeping an eye on the CBC and regularly expressing my outrage at their partisan biases.

Just look at how the CBC ombudsman--a former EMPLOYEE of the CBC and a journalist who taught at Ryerson for a number of years: I'm sure he's going to be objective and non-partisan... ;-(--answers outraged Canadians: the CBC holds to high journalistic standards of excellence and integrity--in the face of the CBC's having done exactly the opposite, even when you provide proof from the article or newscast in question that, in fact, "high journalistic standards" have been severely breeched.

If more Canadians would watch the CBC to see what's going on, it couldn't hurt, and perhaps it could help. But, I'm not holding my breath!

ET's analysis adds other cogent reasons why, IMO, shock and anger will not be enough to turn this ocean liner around.

ET: "Their [the Librano$ and their cheerleaders] agenda is to keep themselves secure from the rabble, who consist of anyone not part of this professional group: the workers, self-employed, small business, independent entrepreneurs, immigrants"

I'll add one more category to your list: stay-at-home moms in one-income, intact mom/dad homes.

I was part of that demographic for almost 20 years and, I can tell you, the Librano$ DID NOT LIKE us. They taxed us to the max and basically disenfranchised us from having any say in things.

One-income, intact mom/dad homes--at least those at the middle- to low-end of the income spectrum, which was where my family was--are independent thinkers who have made huge financial sacrifices to care for their own kids and to keep an eye on what they're actually learning at school.

We tend to speak out against the socialist agenda, 1) because it sure doesn't benefit us and 2) we don't like seeing our hard-earned tax dollars being squandered on both agendas and lifestyles with which we vehemently disagree.

The Librano$ are interested only in those who are willing to join the herd--and they play the Sugar Daddy, dispensing goodies to their favoured groups to ensure that they join the herd and stay with the herd. And, of course, vote with the herd.

Well, not me!!

How do we get the truth out when all the media are bent on electing the Liberals. The Print media is a disgrace, they print one side of the story, the one tha looks the worst for the Conservative.

This Cannon apology was absolutely not needed,nothing was said that wouldn't be said to anyone with the history of that group. Furthermore, the problems the Indians are trying to heft onto the government have nothing to do with it, it's a problem that belongs with their band council.

We are lucky to have a level head leading the Conservatives and the Country with all the crap going on in the media to tear him down.
All of the journalistas certainly learned from the Pravda playbook well.
Note also how stinky Jean Chretien is being quoted regularly by his adoring media.
S'cuse me while I barf.

On the lighter side:

The Fox and Rice Experience, Barackalypto (Audio)

Hamutal Bar-Yosef, A Culture of Endless Mourning
Israel's preoccupation with grief is in stark contrast to Jewish tradition.

Bereavement and mourning play a powerful role in Israeli culture. We belong, after all, to a people with a long history of collective grief, one that casts its shadow over our lives even today. We know, as our memorial days remind us time and again, that it is our eternal duty to remember our dead and honor their memory. We must not forget what has happened to our people and what it has suffered. We have come to see this duty as a given, as an almost sacred responsibility whose purpose is self-explanatory. And for those who have lost loved ones in the Holocaust, in Israel’s wars, or in terrorist attacks, the duty to remember—and to mourn—seems even more obvious and unquestionable...

Great article from City Journal on Panhandling, the harrassment and the fixes.

http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_3_panhandling.html

David Miller should take a good look and notes. Toronto's Finest, too...

September 19th is International "Talk Like a Pirate Day"

Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day - the day is the only holiday to come into being as a result of a sports injury. He has stated that during a racquetball game between Summers and Baur, one of them reacted to the pain with an outburst of "Aaarrr!", and the idea was born. That game took place on June 6, 1995, but out of respect for the observance of D-Day, they chose Summers' ex-wife's birthday, as it would be easy for him to remember"

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-pirate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day

"There! That's what I think of ye. Before an hour's out, I'll stove in your old block house like a rum puncheon. Laugh, by thunder, laugh! Before an hour's out, ye'll laugh upon the other side. Them that die'll be the lucky ones."

September 19th is International "Talk Like a Pirate Day"

Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day - the day is the only holiday to come into being as a result of a sports injury. He has stated that during a racquetball game between Summers and Baur, one of them reacted to the pain with an outburst of "Aaarrr!", and the idea was born. That game took place on June 6, 1995, but out of respect for the observance of D-Day, they chose Summers' ex-wife's birthday, as it would be easy for him to remember"

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-pirate

http://tinyurl.com/d7hvz

"There! That's what I think of ye. Before an hour's out, I'll stove in your old block house like a rum puncheon. Laugh, by thunder, laugh! Before an hour's out, ye'll laugh upon the other side. Them that die'll be the lucky ones."

Dion has thrown Green Shift under the bus.

On the front page of the Toronto Star, no less...

Goodbye professor...

Cold cuts are grrreattt.
More, please.
...-

"Funding cuts highlighted as campaigns ramp up
Standard Freeholder - 6 hours ago
With three children making a living in the arts world, Doug Hill is nowhere near ready to forgive the federal Conservatives. "It's about as philistine an action as you can take," he says, dismissing the approximately $45 million in arts funding cuts ..."

"CFRA Polls
Lawrence Cannon apologized after an aide told aboriginal protesters requesting a meeting: "If you behave & you're sober & there's no problems & if you don't do a sit down .. I don't care ... One of them showed up the other day & was drinking ... It was just to say you're in a federal office .. there's (decorum) that has to be respected".
The Minister should not have apologized 72.8%
The apology was needed 25.0%
Other 2.07%
Total Votes: 1110"

With Dion saying that the Green Shift is no longer a major plank in the platform, voters should punish the libs as being unfit to lead.
Watch Ontario though....the dodos will flock back.

Today I received an e-mail invitation to visit the all new CBC.ca "Member Centre". Here's what I wrote them back:

I just received an invitation to visit your new online member centre.

Before I do so, could you please update me on the status of Heather Mallick's employment at your organization. A few weeks ago she published a hate filled diatribe on your website that not only embarrassed the CBC, but also embarrassed all Canadians.

I know for a fact that many people have launched complaints with the CBC Ombudsman. What has happened with these?

Can it get any Better then this

"Green shift Not major Platform Plank,Dion Says"
Toronto Star

Now the ammo is in the chamber the conservatives should be making New Ads, Over $80Billion in promises( and we still have 27days to go)
And Now Dions abandoning his Green Shift!! Oh ya his running mate Liz still has her Green Shift so let her promote it instead.
I can hardly wait for the Debates, And the Emmy for best Comedy Performance Goes Too.....

EBD (now corrected): Me too, big time. In my Bluegrass period triggered by Oh Brother Where Art Thou a few years back, I bought the Jimmie Rodgers boxed set: 5 CDs, 1927-1933. (JSP Records, JSP7704, "carefully re-mastered").
I'm sure that Leonard Cohen would assign him a high floor in the Tower of Song. Thanks Vitruvius for the reminder. It's on my desk as we type.

EBD/ET/batb: EBD makes a good point but like you, ET, I just can't watch CBC. This is a job for professionals, not unlike (if you'll pardon the Vitruvian construction) being a government pornography censor. Not something to be attempted at home by amateurs.

I dunno but I feel that the CBC will be the CBC no matter the intensity of the monitoring and the tiny volume of complaints from wacko conservatives. They may adjust toward a more subtle approach, may move from lies of commission to ommission, etc., but that's about it.

In this hyper-politicized world this may not be possible but I'd like to see the CBC taken out of the news and political programming fields.

City of Brass blog once proposed converting the Astrodome into a megamosque. I wonder how Houston would react...

(Via Spengler's Forum) Confrontation over German mosque

Stone-throwing protesters have disrupted the opening of a right-wing conference against the building of a giant mosque in Cologne, Germany.

The demonstrators blocked two leaders of the Pro-Cologne movement from entering the conference venue, pursuing them as they sought refuge on a boat.

The "anti-Islamification" event has drawn speakers from across Europe. Its main event is a march on Saturday.

But opponents are predicting a massive counter-demonstration...

The Toronto Star has an article on Dion abandoning the green shift and saying it that it was never a major part of the liberal platform. He says the media said that ,not him. Sure. Anyways the comments are running about 20 to 1 against Steffi,and this is the Toronto Star. There is only one fellow ,Jason Cherniak,who is defending him.Priceless. http://www.thestar.com/FederalElection/article/502283

The SHAFT has SHIFTED!

Dion is now saying that his 'Green Shift' ..er..sorry, THE Green Shift is most definitely not the major policy plank/plonk/plink of the Liberal Party. No way...

In typical Liberal fashion, he's blaming us, the people. And the media. We are the ones, according to Dion, who said it was the major Liberal policy in his plank/plonk. Not him. He didn't say it.

Wait a minute. If his is true, then why didn't he stop the media, and us, from talking about it as the major Liberal policy..way back in June when he accounced it?? And announced it to great fanfare and funfare...geez..you don't do that for a minor policy in your plonk/plink.

Why didn't he stop us from talking about it as The Major Liberal Policy..in June? In July? In August? Hmmmm? Why now? Is it because..er..it's not working? And too many people are saying that it's got nothing to do with The Greening of Canada but more to do with the Greening of the Liberal MoneyPockets? Hmmm?

So, since it's now no longer the Major Policy in the Liberal Plank/Plink...what is? At the moment, Dion is Doing a Martin. He's travelling around, flinging promises of millions and billions of our money to each and everyone. Of course, he has no money to make good on these promises, but heck..it sounds great. But there aren't any policies. Just flinging...flings.

And IF he got into office, he'd instantly find that there was a 'deficit'..and he'd have to cancel all his promises. Aw shucks. There isn't any deficit. Not under Harper. But Dion would find one.

So, I'd bet that we can find in the archives, some record of Dion or the official Liberal party boasting about The Green Shift as the major Liberal policy.

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Depending on the licensing fees the Libranos have to pay to Green Shift, financial concerns may also have been a factor.

That is, aside from the hopeless complexity of the Green Shaft, the non-summing totals, and lack of reducing emissions.

O.K., I didn't see this personally, but someone has reported that when asked on CPAC how he would pay for his billion $$'s in promises, Dion said that it will be disclosed later on -- but that he would not raise taxes nor cut existing programs. This is nuts. Was the Greenshift not the way he was going to pay for his programs? Why would he not explain that? Did anyone see this on CPAC?

over at the good ole G&M in the comments section under the article May/Duceppe win debates draw someone refered to May as "Aunt Bea" & the comments are slowly turning on Dions Flipper(green shaft not major platform)or as i called him Barney Fife.
Also the National Post is now reporting that Dion's Promise's are Over $$$80BILLION & like i said before this is Only the 13th day with 27 to Go My Gawd what is Barney Smoking Where(if elected)does he think that money is going to come from.

Dion just had a John Tory moment. His comment that Green Shift being major item in his platform was invention of press will mean his party has no election "buzzterm" while the NDP and Tories do.

Note Nanos polling shows Tories slowly inching toward majority territory (39% now, Nanos says 43% required). Dion has pulled the boneheaded move of the campaign, and has now changed the channel from Ritz "affair" (Torstar accuses Tories of this, quite the stupid comment), to confirmation that Grits will say and do anything to get votes.

He should have stuck with the Green Shaft, because it solidified his eastern big city vote. Now what will happen?

He will get pilloried during debate by all other parties, including Green I suspect. His incomprehensible english will be put to the test explaining himself on this matter.

Dion is making John Turner look like a genius; we are seeing the worst campaign, by any party, in a very long time. Considering John Tory's disaster and Paul Martin's desperate and pathetic campaigning, that is quite an "accomplishment."

We should have a post on SDA, a 'Watch Dion Spend' thread. He's already promised over 80 billion in 'goodies for the citizens' but hasn't told us where all this money will come from. Apart from us, the taxpayer.

But, he's said he won't raise taxes. He'll cut them. That's in his now sidelined Green Shaft. He specifically says he's cutting income taxes by at least 1%, and Corporate Taxes by 1%. And he's made 15 billion worth of promises in that Green Shaft...the money for that, he says, will come from taxing Carbon Emissions. Of course, all our costs of everything will go up..but..

But, where will he get the money for this 80 billion new spending? Since he won't raise taxes...will he cut services?

Oh, and he's now saying that the farmers will decide the Canadian Wheat Board's composition and decisions. Didn't the Liberals reject that in the last parliament?

The most disgusting partisan media in the world is right here in Canada. Every politics program on TV and the print media in the country is pushing to get the Liberals elected, it palpable, it's shameful and a black mark on democracy. It's something we see in banana republics, where the media is an arm of one political movement. In Canada it's all Liberal all the time and what their strategy will be to fool the people. Sickening.

Dionky Death Watch.
Kyoto is dead; GS is dead; Citoyen ?
Watch Dionky walk Rae/STOPIGGY's plank.
Sauve qui peut is a time-honoured cliche from Citoyen's other homeland, France. It was directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Blood and gore(sic) in the water.
It means: the rats are jumping overboard.
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"Stephane Dion dumps the Green Shift: Not central, not major, not much of anything

Frankly, I can hardly believe it. The Liberals are chucking the Green Shift? I suppose Stephane Dion can't be too far behind."
[...]

"I guess the Canadian Press got it wrong then:

Dion has said The Green Shift will be the centrepiece of the Liberals' platform for the next election campaign. But the poll results suggest he may be in danger of being seen as a one-trick pony.

"I believe that is a definite risk for Dion right now," said a Harris-Decima senior vice-president, Jeff Walker."

"Like Wile E Coyote finding himself tied to the boulder he has tossed over the cliff, Stephane Dion will find he is unable to untie himself from the Green Shift in time."
http://stevejanke.com/archives/273838.php

LizJ...have you watched CNN lately,I too thought Canada's MSM had a monopoly on partisan politics.But watching CNN's entertainment edition the other night I couldn't believe my ears when the host went on about how Mrs Mcain is out of touch with the average American.They were discussing the View,as if these people hosting the View live in the real world.

Flaherty's mother passes.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080919.wflaherty0919/CommentStory/National/home

It's quite something to watch the bribes. The National Post reports:

"the Liberals' campaign pledges [are now]past the $80 billion mark -- $80.183 billion to be precise, according to calculations by Canwest News Service. The Conservatives, cheapskates that they are, have pledged less than $2 billion, while the NDP is at $16.5 billion."

Don't be surprised if the cbc decides that Dion abandoning the greenshift is not news and gets very little coverage.The new cbc line will be that the liberals can give us everything and also save the planet,at no cost.Meanwhile those Harperite bullies are trying to kill you so they can give your money to the big corporations.

"The sun today, still featureless"

"NEWS: NASA to hold press conference on the state of the sun

This is unusual. A live media teleconference on the sun. Even more unusual is this statement:

The sun’s current state could result in changing conditions in the solar system."

"NASA To Discuss Conditions On And Surrounding The Sun

WASHINGTON — NASA will hold a media teleconference Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 12:30 p.m. EDT, to discuss data from the joint NASA and European Space Agency Ulysses mission that reveals the sun’s solar wind is at a 50-year low. The sun’s current state could result in changing conditions in the solar system."
http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/

George Tenet, proof of the Peter Principle:

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/usa/george-tenet/

wallyj: "Don't be surprised if the cbc decides that Dion abandoning the greenshift is not news and gets very little coverage."

BINGO.

Get this from "bob" over at Stephen Taylor's blog: bob: "Dion bails and the [CBC] pundits are all Ritz all the time?"

My response:

Groan. Gee I'm glad I was out having a beer with my daughter and her boyfriend and not watching Newman's BRAWWWWDCAST. I'd probably have thrown something at the TV.

From now on, I will never again consider this panel as "pundits." They're partisan sell-outs, out to cover and save their own butts. Actually, this panel has always been weak; I can't think of one who isn't left-of-centre. Calling them "pundits" is a conceit which stretches credulity. For crying out loud, Susan Delacourt's brother was the Director of Communication for Liberal big-wig Joe Volpe, so I'm sure she's objective...right?

Both Andrew Coyne and Chantal Hebert on the National last night said that what Agriculture Minister Ritz said IN A CONFERENCE CALL (which was leaked--by whom?), NOT A PUBLIC MEETING was not a firing offence, an assessment with which I totally agree. He has apologized and that should be that.

The fact that the majority of our MSM has become a vociferous attack dog on behalf of one political party--the Liberals--is an appalling state of affairs. They are acting as the media behave in totalitarian regimes. Isn't Canada a democracy? Or, more to the point, how do these partisan attacks on the CPC BY THE MEDIA encourage or advance Canadas' democracy?

There need to be laws to limit the interference of media outlets in the democratic process during an election campaign, because what is happening in this election is a media CPC pile-on which is despicable and unconscionable. It's not as though the other parties don't have a whole lot of gaffes going on--case in point, Dion throwing the Green Shift under the bus. But the Canadian media isn't reporting them or is mentioning them only once and then moving on.

Agriculture Minister Ritz's (leaked) comments for which he has sincerely apologized are not in the same league as Dion's dump of his party's Green Shift. For three days, the MSM has highlighted the Ritz "scandal."

When is the MSM going to analyse and minutely dissect Dion's flip-flop?

batb - you know that the MSM won't examine Dion. As we all point out, 90% of our MSM are leftists; they are primarily Liberals.

Again, that's because the Liberal mindset operates within that'intellectual sophist' class, a class that is embedded within government funding, isolated from practical issues, protected and cocooned within the big cities.

Our 'cultural' groupies - the people in films, art, music, literature - in Canada are almost entirely funded by the taxpayer. It would never occur to these people to seek private funding, and 'sell' their work; that is - to see if the PUBLIC actually wants their art products.

That's because to them, the hoi polloi, the peasant taxpayers, are too 'beer and popcorn' to appreciate Art and Culture. Their books, films, art, would never sell on the market to these people. But, we are expected to fund this same Art and Culture with our taxes.

The MSM, the journalists, are part of Canada's Art and Cultural Set - a nest of entwined people..some in the CBC, some in films, some in books. And all, expecting to be funded by the govt. As noted, it never occurs to these people to try for private funding. No way.

The Liberal mindset is unique; it is isolated from practicalities (Dion's Green Shaft is a perfect example of an unrealistic narrative). It operates within fictional premises (the earth is warming, the sky is falling)and an arrogant belief in human social engineering (we can fix everything).

It is openly class-based, sneering at the 'lower class' who refuse to acknowledge the Liberal 'progressive' superiority (the slurs against the West is an example).

And, since it rests within a fictional ideology rather than taking a pragmatic approach, it cannot do anything to assist a society..other than raise taxes and fling money at the problem. And blame others. Usually the other political party or the Americans.

I suspect we'll see Kinsilly on the CBC a couple of days before the election.

A full hour, cold cuts and some Cabbage Patch kids.

ET, your posts are always great.

Paul

"Britain’s Guardian newspaper published another column by Mallick in which she trashed Palin’s home state of Alaska as a “frontier state full of drunks and crazy people.”"

Good thing she didn't accuse, say, aboriginal Canadians of being drunks. She'd be up in front of a "human rights" commission in no time!

ET: "As we all point out, 90% of our MSM are leftists; they are primarily Liberals."

That's a given, I know. Silly me. I expect some professionalism in this group, that they should be capable of setting their prejudices and biases aside in order to offer the Canadian public pertinent information ON ALL POLITICAL PARTIES in a professional manner.

It's a vain hope. That the members of the MSM are so transparent in being partisan hacks and could care less that we all know it reveals just how far into the swamp Canada has descended.

I can't think of a better time for all of us to learn how to pray. It never hurts!