Liberal affirmative action Candidate Rebecca Finch came to my blog to say she's reasonable after writing extremist comments.

I disagree with her assessment of herself. I think she made her self look worse by pointing out the entire quote.

My highlight of the 2008 campaign, make fun of Rebecca Finch, she points out why she's worse than I first imagined.

:)

Besides who likes sock puppets anyway.

Reader Jamie at Pajamas Media;

I like that the headlines are calling today’s crash the “worst ever.”

In terms of absolute points, sure. In terms of percentages in a single day of trading, 1987’s stock market crash was far worse, and the NASDAQ slide of 2000-2002 was massively worse.

I think news media just can’t resist panic mongering. I imagine them all in the washroom of their office when the soap pump runs out of soap and they all stand around for 10 minutes going, “DOOOOOOOOOM! DOOOOOOOOOOOM!!” until the janitor shows up and puts in more soap.

they wouldn't dare think of themselves as being "unclean".

but I get the gist. and they don't.

Liberal Citoyen Dion's champion organizer, Herb Metcalfe, quits/bails out of Team Dion.
(To be confirmed).
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"But, what about Herb ?"

""What do you mean Metcalfe has left the building ?"

"He's no longer working the campaign", Matt whispered. "It's all hush-hush, but he's fed up and he's quit the campaign."

Pat looked over towards Newman to see if he had heard anything.

"At least that's what I'm being told by someone who knows someone who should know", shrugged Matt.

"Jeeziz H ...", hissed Pat, "he was an absolutely key component of Team Dion, where does that leave us now ?"

"Knee deep in homemade pickle brine, I'm afraid"."
http://www.bourque.org/heard.html

After a long puff piece a while back about Justin Trudeau and his jogging, now the Globe and Mail has a long slobbering piece about his wife Sophie Gregoire. I have seldom read such a glowing account by a journalist (I do remember some similar sugary stories about Belinda Stronach).

Interesting subtext that the two Trudeau boys seem to be competitive. Anyway Mme Gregoire looks like a real ambitious lady. Latest polls seem to say Trudeau may get in, so stay tuned for the rest of the story...

Trudeau may get in but he wants to be known as Justin. Like he's not riding on the capital of his last name? Gimme a break.

""It's too late this time," said one who appreciates the full extent of the Liberals' woes. "We've moved to the left of the NDP. This party is broken.""
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Ex-Liberal Ad$Cam MartinJr surfaces to remind everyone that Ad$Cam Citoyen Dion was a key member of Jean Chretien's Librano$.
By appearing together, Martin-Ignatieff have bammed Citoyen Dion.
Dion is roadkill.
In effect, Martin has endorsed Ignatieff as the next Liberal leader.
Say goodnight, Citoyen.
Bon soir Citoyen.
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"Martin, Ignatieff pitch from 'centre'
Former PM works to steer party to right"
http://tinyurl.com/4ddba6 (NP)

Ad$SCam Martin here:
http://tinyurl.com/5xr5qq

Iggy is showing more than a bit of hypocrisy, he says Dion can do the job while cavorting with the likes of Paul Martin who couldn't do the job either. Martin made himself a true Liberal liar when he stumped in the dying days of his last hurrah telling lies about Harper.
If they had any decency or pride they'd stop the denial and admit their sad state, the smart ones already have, they're nowhere to be seen.

THAT Nat! He's so cute and so GOOD. Thanks, Vitruvius.

Did I hear him sing, "Get your kicks on Route SEX-ty Six"?

Liz, Iggy's just a stuffed shirt. The look on his face always says, "What the He** am I doing here? Whose idea WAS this?"

He parachuted in from the Hallowed Halls of Hah-vahd and has never settled. He's totally out of his ivy league element. He'd be a disaster as leader of the Librano$--in fact, I can't think of any one of the bunch who'd make a good leader.

The whole Librano Kit-and-Kaboodle needs a time-out to regroup, rethink, and REPENT.

Trudeau may get in but he wants to be known as Justin.

"Justin , think of h'others like that-- Madonna, Bono,Sting, Prince---- wowieweewee" -Borat Dion

http://media.metronews.ca/images/b6/35/79b2b92448b6bff83f7cb3bff393.jpeg

"Dion’s chance to alter image"

"The agony of Stéphane Dion
Andrew Cohen, Citizen Special

"When Mr. Dion leaves, there will be more debts than tears -- and surely no thanks. Remember, politics is a blood sport. But there will be more walks in the park, and happier birthdays."
http://tinyurl.com/3te2tc
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""I come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses; And the voice I hear"*:
STOPIGGY.

(*H/T C. Austin Miles)

Velly intelesting:

Two drunk drivers in Toronto, who caused accidents sending people to hospital, don't seem to be the boys next door.

"Thuy Van Hoang was charged with impaired driving and dangerous driving causing bodily harm.

"Police yesterday also said they have charged a 57-year-old man with impaired driving in relation to another head-on collision that happened last week.

"Sae-Ghe Min has been charged."

from today's National Post

Latest on the Somali pirate hijacking of the Ukranian ship (via Bloomberg):

“Misunderstanding between moderate and radical pirates on board increased last night until they opened fire between them, leaving three of them dead,” Andrew Mwangura, head of the Nairobi-based Seafarers Assistance Program, said by telephone.

Moderate and radical pirates?

I think the only "misunderstanders" here are the pc indoctrinated idiots.

that be Cap'n Jack Sparrow versus Davey Jones

Fastest growing religion, uh huh:

"Out of hiding, Kosovars embrace Christianity"

By Fatos Bytyci

KLINA, Kosovo (Reuters) - Hundreds of Kosovar Albanians gather on Sundays to attend religious services in a still unfinished red-brick church in the Kosovo town of Klina.

Turning away from the majority Muslim faith imposed by the Ottoman Turks centuries ago, these worshippers are part of a revival of Catholicism in the newly independent Balkan state.

"We have been living a dual life. In our homes we were Catholics but in public we were good Muslims," said Ismet Sopi. "We don't call this converting. It is the continuity of the family's belief."

Sopi has commuted 40 km (25 miles) every Sunday from central Kosovo to Klina to attend a morning mass since he formally became a Roman Catholic five months ago. This September was the first holy month of Ramadan during which no one in his 32-member family fasted.

The majority of ethnic Albanians were forcibly converted to Islam, mostly through the imposition of high taxes on Catholics, when the Ottoman Empire ruled the Balkans.

For centuries, many remembered their Christian roots and lived as what they call "Catholics in hiding". Some, nearly a century after the Ottomans left the Balkans, now see the chance to reveal their true beliefs.

The Liberal Party of Canada and Canada's Media deserve each other.

I can't think of two other such entities that are so dishonest, incompetent, and arrogant.

Their cynical view of the Canadian electorate is instructive. And abhorrent. And I hope terribly wrong.

Their self-centered agenda trumps all. No blow is too low.

The next two weeks should be a hoot. The Liberal colossus, wallowing about in inanities, incompetence and untruths; accompanied by our untrustworthy media, will stop at nothing.

The so-called 'holy' month of Ramadan and the creation of Pakistan:

It was in Ramadan that the Muslims of the subcontinent inaugurated the violent Jihadi quest for dividing India to create Pakistan. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the leader of the Muslim League Party, washing his hands off any negotiation for keeping India united, reached a resolution in the Muslim League meeting in Bombay on 29 July 1946 that,

"It has become abundantly clear that the Muslims of India would not rest with anything less than the immediate establishment of an independent and full sovereign State of Pakistan… the Council of the All-India Muslim League is convinced that now the time has come for Muslim nation to resort to Direct Action to achieve Pakistan and get rid of the present slavery under the British and contemplated future caste Hindu domination." [Khosla, Stern Reckoning, p38]

Calcutta, where Muslims constituted one-third of the population (similar proportion at Badr), was chosen as the venue for unleashing the Direct Action. The date chosen was the 18th day of Ramadan (16 August 1946), coinciding with the day of Badr. Secret pamphlets, circulated amongst Muslims by the Muslim League (also read out in mosque sermons), read:

"Muslims must remember that it was in Ramzam that the Quran was revealed. It was in Ramzan that the permission for Jehad was granted. It was in Ramzam that the battle of Badr, the first open conflict between Islam and Heathenism [i.e., idolatry, which equates Hinduism] was fought and won by 313 Muslims; and again it was in Ramzan that 10,000 under the Holy Prophet conquered Mecca and established the kingdom of Heaven and the commonwealth of Islam in Arabia. Muslim League is fortunate that it is starting its action in this holy month.

By the grace of God, we are ten cores [100 millions] in India but through our bad luck we have become slaves of the Hindus and the British. We are starting a Jehad in Your Name in this very month of Ramzan. Pray make us strong in body and mind—give Your helping hand in all out actions—make us victorious over the Kafers [enemy of Allah aka Hindus]—enable us to establish the Kingdom of Islam in India and make proper sacrifices for this Jehad—by the grace of God may we build up in India the greatest Islamic kingdom in the world." [Khosla, p51-52; Khan, The Great Partition, p63-64]

In the Direct Action Jihad at Calcutta, Muslim unleashed—with the connivance of the police under the direction of the Muslim League government in power—brutal massacre, pillage, plunder, rape and arson of the Hindus and Sikhs. After suffering one-and-a-half days of brutal savagery, the Hindus and Sikhs recovered from the shock and plucking courage, hit back, outnumbering the Muslims and paying back in like manners. Five days of continued violence racked up some 5,000 dead-bodies with 43% Muslim casualties. The whole outcome of this Jihad for creating Pakistan, inaugurated in the holy month of Ramadan, was up to two million deaths (roughly equal on both sides), a few million Hindus and Sikhs converted to Islam at the pain of death, and tens of thousand of predominantly Hindu and Sikh women were raped or abducted and married off to Muslims. Some twenty million people were to cross borders leaving every thing behind.

Creation of Pakistan, a pure land for the Muslims, was probably the greatest 20th-century achievement for the Muslim ummah. Jihad did not go in vein.

http://www.islam-watch.org/MA_Khan/Ramadan-Jihad-and-Scholars-Ignorance.htm

The 'culture' frauds are planning a concert. And Conservatives aren't invited:

From the in box of the Flea:

Hi Folks. Rebecca Campbell here. I'm producing this mammoth show to help bring out the positive vote and to celebrate the power of Ordinary Working People and the Great Canadian music that they make and/or love. Please mark you calendars: OCTOBER 9th!! and we'll be announcing musicians and speakers in the next couple of days... The Department of Culture presents

THIS IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE PARTY!
ROCKING THE VOTE RIGHT ACROSS CANADA

(Concert details, a lot of block caps and an optimistic $20- ticket price omitted. - Ed.)

PEOPLE TAKE THE POWER NOW VOTE FOR A NEW CANADA ON OCTOBER 14
BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE

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So I visited departmentofculture.ca, and dropped this comment:

If you require government misdirection of taxpayer money in order to make a living off of your ‘art’, then you are nothing more than a hack.

Making a living off art first of all requires talent and second, people who actually want to pay for it. It’s called market demand, not wealth redistribution.

Try it sometime. Or get used to driving a taxi.

Desperation speech of the Day, is brought to you today by. The man that knows how to destroy a province Bob Rae.

"Liberals accuse Harper of "Lifting" Iraq war speech"
ctv.ca

NewsFlash!!

Tories opened patronage doors before election: OTTAWA — The Harper government approved 148 appointments to federal boards and agencies, long used as rewards for supporters of the party in power, as the election neared, The Canadian Press has learned..... Mr. Harper, who railed against Liberal patronage in the 2006 election, later failed to deliver on a campaign pledge to put an independent commission in charge of vetting cabinet appointments.

Well, guess you can't fault a guy for paying back the faithful for all that ass-licking and donations. Hipocrisy among the Cons appears to be like mob on a Liberal.

At least the mindless partisans in here will be able to contort and rationalize pure political patronage. Fear of congnitive dissonance is greater than dislike of theft by politicians.

"As long as it's not THEIR people dearie...."

http://tinyurl.com/3vgqmn

More desperation at the all Liberal news network - CTV

"Harper sees daughter off with pats on the shoulder"

This is an actual story over there. Check out the comments section (now closed of course) slamming CTV for running such a stupid article.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080929/election2008_harper_080930/20080930?s_name=election2008&no_ads=

"Sask. premier reaches out with 10,000 job offers

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is in Toronto this week urging Canadians to look to the prairie province for a promising job opportunity.

He told CTV's Canada AM Tuesday morning that Saskatchewan has become a province of opportunity thanks to a rich resource centre and a boom in skill-related jobs.

There are currently about 10,000 jobs listed on the government's job website, www.saskjobs.ca

Wall, along with Saskatchewan's Advanced Education Minister Rob Norris, will be at the National Job Fair and Training expo at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Tuesday and Wednesday to speak with Ontarians about giving the west a chance.

One third of the fair will feature jobs in Saskatchewan.

"We used to be a great province to be from. Now, we're a great place to be," Wall said."
http://tinyurl.com/3ghnm8 (ctv)
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"Economy records largest advance since 2004 in July"
http://tinyurl.com/4gl2fv (ctv)
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"But westward, look, the land is bright.” Arthur Hugh Clough"

Unelected Quebec bagman Fortier shows indescribable mental prowess by referring to money spent on politicians as 'wasted'. While being factually correct, this bright bulb was not in the Yacht Club bar when he said it.

"...Two weeks ago, Harper was cruising to a major breakthrough in Quebec on the two-track message that he was delivering the goods for the province, while the Bloc had outlived its usefulness. But then the Conservative war room overplayed their hand by rolling out a mobile billboard in front of Bloc headquarters in Duceppe's own riding, asserting that Quebecers had wasted hundreds of millions of dollars in electing MPs since 1993. The messenger for this missive in democracy was the unelected Michael Fortier from the Senate.

But much more to the point, the Bloc has successfully linked cultural funding cuts and a juvenile crime crackdown, which play well in the rest of Canada, under a powerful theme that the right-wing Conservatives don't share Quebec values. Harper didn't help his own cause when he blew off the arts crowd as people attending "rich galas." This has jump-started a Bloc campaign that had been floundering, enhancing its residual strength as a defender of Quebec interests, and even more powerfully, of Quebec values. Instead of it being about them, they've made it about Harper..."

http://tinyurl.com/4q9nwr

Aside from the money spent on this unelected bagman - appointed to cabinet for no reason other for than the influence he can peddle - this idiot obviously has little knowledge about representational democracy, among others....

"Rae accuses Harper of plagiarizing speech on Iraq" (nnw)
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Green May says Boob Rae's Liberal Party stole the Green Shift from her Green Party.

Is that plagiarism intellectual theft?
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"May cited the Liberal party's Green Shift as the foremost example of another party "stealing" a Green party idea and making it their own.

The Liberal party's Green Shift and the Green party's Green tax shift are similar -- both are carbon taxes accompanied by income tax rebates and other financial incentives their parties say will make their plans revenue neutral and offset the cost of higher energy prices."
http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/366246

The Rev. Lorne Calvert is up a stump; knocked up there by Newfy Danny ABC Williams.

Danny says he has to go blather to the Arabs.
Off the record, anonymous sources tell SDA that the real reason is that the Rev. has holytosis real bad.
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"N.L. premier can't stump for NDP in Sask., his office says
St. John's Telegram

""The NDP did approach the premier to attend an event . . . in Saskatchewan," Elizabeth Matthews, communications director for Williams, said Monday."
http://tinyurl.com/4rmjtk (canadacom)

Social engineers are bad bankers

IN 1772, the collapse of the Ayr Bank led to the Edinburgh banking crisis of that year. Only three of Edinburgh's 30 private banks survived. Adam Smith commented that "the operations of this bank seem to have produced effects quite opposite from what was intended". The Ayr Bank had been established in 1770 to provide long-term loans and provide credit to people who otherwise found it difficult to borrow, financing a speculative boom in housing, turnpikes and canals, the transport infrastructure of the time.

It borrowed from other banks in London and Edinburgh and, as borrowers began to default, it had to pay off its debts by securing greater loans. Smith's final verdict on its collapse was that it only enabled borrowers "to get much deeper into debt, so that when ruin came, it fell so much the heavier". The British economy struggled to recover until the 1780s.

The collapse of the Ayr Bank tells us much about the present crisis.

In 1999, then president Bill Clinton instructed the Fannie Mae Corporation to ease credit requirements on loans to ethnic minorities and low-income earners. In this nationwide scheme, the pilot program alone involved 24 banks. This was to include what became known as the sub-prime sector. Fannie Mae's chairman and chief executive in 1999 said that in addition to "reducing down payment requirements" the corporation would underwrite loans in the sub-prime market. Fannie Mae's board is largely made up of prominent Democrats.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24427661-7583,00.html

Having nothing else to worry themselves about, it seems our fellow Canucks are very upset they cannot get on the "do not call" list absolutely immediately.

150 or so comments on the story so far at CBC, including mine,

"The reactions here are so typically Canadian, they are almost scary.

Of course the government should have spent hundreds of thousands more dollars on an expanded web service so that you whining morons would not have to hit the refresh button on your web browser so that you can recieve a free service that only halts an annoyance in our lives.

You idiots do realize that you are talking about wasting YOUR tax dollars so you don't have to spend a couple minutes more to get something? Don't you?

Grow up and worry about something useful, like your obvious lack of intelligence."

"Mother Nature, apparently, had other plans."
He means Gaia "had other plans".

Also, for the kiddies aboard: The Polar Bears' Picnic on mp3.

If you go up to the Arctic today, "You're sure of a big surprise. ... You'd better go in disguise. For every (polar) bear that ever there was ..."
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"NBC film crew stranded in Arctic on icebreaker 3 weeks

It never ceases to amaze me how people think when it comes to the Arctic. Somehow there is this pervasive belief that “if we just go there and document it, we’ll be able to demonstrate how climate change is affecting the arctic”. This is the second team with such dubious aspirations this year, the first being failed kayaker Lewis Gordon Pugh who spun his dismal and embarrassing failure into an “accomplishment”, and then would not even take valid questions about his false claim of being the person who “kayaked furthest north”.

I have no sympathy for these people. Nature is teaching them hard lessons, let us hope they retain the material. - Anthony"
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/09/30/msnbc-film-crew-stranded-in-arctic-on-icebreaker-3-weeks/
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"Hearing tests for polar bears"

Scientists in California are testing the hearing of polar bears to try to find out whether the noises associated with melting Arctic ice could affect their ability to survive.

In the wild, polar bears live in one of the quietest places on Earth. For much of the time, the Arctic is a bitterly cold, silent world.

But global warming is changing that. Ice, which is crucial to the bears' survival, is disappearing and people are moving in."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7638172.stm

"Dion turns to Paul Martin team for debate help
By Joan Bryden, THE CANADIAN PRESS"
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/CanadaVotes/News/2008/09/30/6934776-cp.html
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The Paul Martin, Jr. Team + Jean Chretien + Citoyen Dion = Ad$Cam:

"Gomery Commission of Inquiry & Sponsorship Scandal
Feature by Jay Makarenko |

* Judicial System & Legal Issues

| Jan 1, 2006

In February 2006, the Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities (better known as the Gomery Commission) released the second of two reports. This final report provided recommendations for reform to ensure that incidents such as the Sponsorship Scandal do not happen again. The first report, released in November 2005, detailed the Commission’s key findings concerning the actual events pertaining to the scandal. This article provides an introduction to the Sponsorship Program and the scandal that developed around it, as well as an overview of the nature and findings of the Gomery Commission of Inquiry.
What was the Sponsorship Program?
National unity and government advertising
Origins of the Sponsorship Scandal
From allegations of conflict of interest to the creation of the Gomery Commission
Background on the Gomery Commission
Commission goals, personnel, and proceedings
Key Commission Witnesses & Testimony
Who said what at the Gomery Commission?
Commission’s First Report: Assigning Responsibility
The Commission’s findings on what happened and who was responsible
Commission’s Second Report: Restoring Accountability
Commission’s recommendations for governmental reform
Links to Further Information
Find out more about the Gomery Commission and the Sponsorship Scandal"
http://www.mapleleafweb.com/features/gomery-commission-inquiry-sponsorship-scandal

I like Andrew Coyne, as any naturally conservatively inclined person would, and he cuts through the bull so well....

"...Here’s Stephen Harper, campaigning in Ajax, Ontario yesterday:

Friends, the GTA doesn’t need higher taxes. The GTA doesn’t need a carbon tax. And the GTA doesn’t want this country to go back to deficits. Instead, it needs the kind of prudent investments our government is making to help the economy grow. Investments like the bridge on Sandy Beach Road south of Parkham Crescent in Pickering. Investments like a new passport office here in Ajax. Investments like the federal Gas Tax Fund, that by 2010 will have invested over 800 million dollars in the GTA...."

And then, in case anyone didn’t get the hint,

Friends, our government is delivering for the GTA. But there’s more to be done. And we need a strong team of Conservative MPs from the GTA in Ottawa to make it happen."

You need Conservative MPs to make what happen? To ensure that “more” is done in the way of “delivering” for the GTA. Want more passport offices and bridges? Vote Conservative.
This is the Prime Minister of Canada talking, you understand. The candidates for President of the United States debate the shape of the financial system and whether it is strategically wiser to focus on Iraq or Afghanistan. The Prime Minister of Canada — a Conservative Prime Minister — devotes himself to delivering passport offices to Ajax.

This is what is left of conservatism in Canada. This is what our politics have become, or reverted to — trawling for votes with hooks baited with other people’s money, like any 1940s ward-heeler. It’s the same old game, telling voters in every riding that they can make off at the expense of all the others, that the LIberals played for years. Only I remember a time when there was a party, and a leader, that said they’d put a stop to it."

Sigh. Once upon a time, there was a person who said they were conservative. Then they started doling out patronage gigs, appointed bagmen to cabinet, and ramped up spending faster than any government in history in their first 2 years.

Then they became what they said they hated.

The End.

http://tinyurl.com/4a5jw3