I saw Passchendaele,

lets say like the moon , the film had magnificant desolation. spectacular scenery mixed with horror. some artsy moments but not out of place even in the terror and the context. the beaches at normandy look like a beach party compared to the conditions a Ypres.

my grandfather was a runner(message carrier) in that battle. lost the backside of his right arm for his troubles. he was 19 at the time and was in his third year of service. they didnt mind you lying about your age even in the early years.

Hits from countries logging on to "Jihad's YouTube"
Canada is seventh. Germany is _Third_??!

http://forecasthighs.com/2008/10/16/jihads-youtube-aqsatube-taken-offline/

With friends like this...

(Via SWJ) Jerome Starkey, They came, they saw, then left the Afghan war without a single mission

GERMANY has admitted its Special Forces have spent three years in Afghanistan without doing a single mission, and are now going to be withdrawn.

More than 100 soldiers from the elite Kommando Spezialkrafte regiment, or KSK, are set to leave the war-torn country after their foreign minister revealed they had never left their bases on an operation...

quick everyone over to CTV (tass) and vote for Justin Trudeau for the future lieberal leader.

his mothers brains and his fathers looks. a sure winner. like Obama 25 dollar words for 25 cent ideas.

Cal 2

In the words of Frodo Cherniak...I voted early and often on that one.

Syncro

p.s. No Chinese were disparaged in the making of this post.

I heard something very interesting this evening. Apparently the next Liberal convention is slated to be out in Vancouver next May. But the Liberal party is broke, to the tune of $6 Million. And with most of their support in Toronto, it makes absolutely no financial sense to fly everyone out to the Left Coast and stay in those expensive Vancouver hotel rooms. So stay tuned for a switch of venues to be announced not too far into the new year ... likely on a Friday afternoon just before a Monday holiday! How times have changed, eh?

Dion-Kim Watch continues.
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"Stéphane Dion departs with grace and dignity

Gazette: Stéphane Dion deserved better than this. Announcing his resignation yesterday, the Liberal leader acquitted himself with his usual dignity. And he promised to go down fighting - not for his leadership."
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"Is Kim Jong Il ill or dead?
Worthington: Why did the U.S. remove North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terror? Technically it was because North Korea agreed to all the Bush administration's nuclear inspection demands.." (nnw)

"The goal of the sponsorship program was to promote national unity by putting flags and banners at cultural and sporting events in Quebec, but the program was marred by mismanagement and fraud."

Q: Who was the "national unity" minister at the time?

A: Ad$Cam Citoyen Dion, aka interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
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"Sponsorship firm moves to settle with Ottawa"
http://tinyurl.com/55q9go (g-m)

"The dawn of a Green Age is delayed
European financial markets' mess muddies goal of becoming climate change leader for the world"
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/520226
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"Climate revolt
In the wake of the financial crisis, some EU member states are reassesing the union's CO2 reduction goals"
http://tinyurl.com/687blx (FinPost)

Looks like a lot of us have been to CTV to seriously vote on that seriously important all Lib all the time fan club poll. Guess that's CTV's way of making sure their pipple stay in the limelight.
I vote for Elizabeth May...seriously; Joe Clark wasn't on the list.

Robert W, Giggles and Owl were talking about this on Sunday. Like maybe Ottawa, then the CTV(tass) staff don't have to leave the comforts of home to cover the Liberal convention.

Like there is NOTHING else to talk about when the CPC is in government.

US intelligence: Iran will be able to build first nuclear bomb by February

US intelligence’s amended estimate, that Iran will be ready to build its first bomb just one month after the next US president is sworn in, is disclosed by DEBKAfile’s Washington sources as having been relayed as a guideline to the Middle East teams of both presidential candidates, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama.

The information prompted the assertion by Democratic vice presidential nominee Joseph Biden in Seattle Sunday, Oct. 19: “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.”...

Maybe.

(Via Israpundit) Hijacked Iranian Ship Was A Dirty Bomb Meant For Israel On Yom Kippur

Within a period of three days, those pirates who had boarded the ship and opened the cargo container with its gritty sand-like contents, all developed strange health complications, to include serious skin burns and loss of hair. And within two weeks, sixteen of the pirates subsequently died, either on the ship or on shore...

Although American intelligence and government sources are maintaining a strictly observed silence, the same does not apply to the Russians and so it is that we learn the real story of the MV Iran Deyanat. She was an enormous floating dirty bomb, intended to detonate after exiting the Suez Canal at the eastern end of the Mediterranean and in proximity to the coastal cities of Israel. The entire cargo of radioactive sand, obtained by Iran from China (the latter buys desperately needed oil from the former) and sealed in containers which, when the charges on the ship are set off after the crew took to the boats, will be blasted high into the air where prevailing winds will push the highly dangerous and radioactive cloud ashore...

more newfs take up Dannys Song. Red Red Whine

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2008/10/21/city-lobby.html

push your nose on the glass Danny, how is it to be on the outside looking in.

maybe they can appoint Rob Anders fishery minister. CBCpravda can have a field day with someone who calls a spade a spade and turbotlover a turd.

The Conservatives are in power and running the country. That's why the media is soooo interested in the Liberals and their mess. It's how are we going to help our Liberals back to power, it's all about Liberals all the time.
If any of them had a clue they'd STFU, quit speculating and ignore them while they get their act together. Together they ain't, splintered off in the various "camps", a more divided bunch we haven't seen in a long time, if ever.

They even had divisions as to who should be interim leader until Dion decided to appoint himself. Dion can squeal on about the Conservative attack ads taking him down but he might want to look in the mirror and into his own caucus.
Attack ads are OK as long as the Liberals use them as they did with Preston Manning and Stockwell Day to character assassinate, they were beyond decency.

Michael J. Totten, So Much for Azerbaijani Democracy

Last week Azerbaijan conducted another rigged election just a few short months after several government officials said to my face that this time things would be different...

When they said they sincerely wanted to reform the system, I wanted to believe them. Azerbaijan has enormous potential and seems more than ready enough for democracy. It is not Iraq, and it is not Syria. It has a booming economy, a vibrant and tolerant culture, a well-educated population, and a thoroughly modern outlook.

Azeris are pro-Western and would like to join NATO. They sent troops to Iraq and Afghanistan. They help the United States, and they could use help from us. They’re bordered to the north by Russia and to the south by Iran. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline that begins in Azerbaijan and cuts across the South Caucasus to the Mediterranean is the only route from the resource-rich Caspian Sea to Europe that bypasses Russia. Azeris are feeling more pressure than ever now that Russian troops have dug into carved-up Georgia next door. I wish the country well, and I think you should, too...

"Our No. 1 trading partner, Canada, isn't stupid."

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=309394436809825

(Via SWJ) Sudarsan Raghavan, A New Breed Grabs Reins in Anbar

"Sheik Jassim," as his tribesmen call Sweidawi, is among a new generation of tribal leaders asserting influence across Sunni areas. They have won their respect by fighting Sunni insurgents of the al-Qaeda in Iraq group. With American money and support, they have brought a fragile order to Anbar province, once Iraq's most violent theater, accomplishing in months what the U.S. military could not do in years.

But the rise of these sheiks, collectively called the Awakening, is already touching off new conflicts that could deepen without U.S. military backing for the movement. They have stripped traditional tribal leaders of influence. They have carved up Sunni areas into fiefdoms, imposing their views on law and society and weakening the authority of the Shiite-led central government. Divisions are emerging among the new breed of tribal leaders, even as they are challenging established Sunni religious parties for political dominance...

Extreme paranoia, or orders from the Hidden Imam?

Iran arrests pigeons 'spying' on nuclear site

Iranian security forces have arrested two suspected 'spy pigeons' near the Natanz nuclear facility.

One of the pigeons was caught near a rose water production plant in the city of Kashan in Isfahan province, the Etemad Melli newspaper reported. It said that some metal rings and "invisible" strings were attached to the bird, suggesting that it might have been somehow communicating what it had seen with the equipment it was carrying...

UK socialist government em-barr-assed.
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"Blow to image of ‘green’ reusable nappy"

A government report that found old-fashioned reusable nappies damage the environment more than disposables has been hushed up because ministers are embarrassed by its findings."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4969413.ece

Sell AECL in its entirety.
Sell CBC, including Radio-Canada, in its entirety.
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"Feds eye partnership deal for AECL: source

OTTAWA — The Conservative government is considering selling a stake in Canada's federally owned nuclear vendor, industry sources say.

Industry executives involved in talks with Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn say Ottawa is mulling a public-private partnership for Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.

Such an arrangement could bring capital - and stability - to the heavily subsidized Crown corporation.

AECL's future has been uncertain since the federal government hired National Bank Financial earlier this year to review the ownership of the company.

The official line out of Ottawa is that the Harper government will consider the bank's findings before making a decision on AECL.

But a nuclear industry executive says Lunn narrowed it down to two options months ago.

"His view at the beginning of the year was . . . really, status quo is not viable. It can't work. AECL is just too small," the executive said.

"He tended to say, in private, that the first alternative - maintaining the status quo - was really ruled out and it would either be an outright sale or trying to look for private partners to work with AECL.""
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jCGyfSiolN0dmCcAUC4BB8yqalSA

NY Slimes defeated by George Bush.
George Bush wins.
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"With Success of Surge, NY Times’ Iraq War Coverage Drops to All-Time Low

As the U.S. troop surge in Iraq has succeeded, leading to a dramatic decline in the number of U.S. casualties in that country, The New York Times’s coverage of the Iraq war also has declined, falling to an all-time low in the last two months, according to a CNSNews.com analysis of stories retrieved on the Nexis database."
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=37861

Hollywood Republicans feel bullied, scared. I'm not exactly shocked.

ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081021/entertainment/entertainment_us_republicans

Dan Rather "If Sarah Palin had said this".

A prominent media type(Rather) being interviewed on MSNBC claiming there is blatant media bias for Obama.

Dan Rather; (paraphrasing) "If Sarah had said the US will be attacked within six months of McCain being elected President, the media would have had the story above 'the fold'. But, anyways, it is all over the Internet. And what is happening in the Internet is just as important, if not more important, than what is happening in the media."

* More important than what is happening in the media *

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MNmswO7AFs

[OTTAWA — Non-profit environmental crusaders Friends of the Earth have lost a court bid to force the federal government to comply with the Kyoto Protocol.] CP

Hey ! What a minute !. Didn't Suzuki say "It is International law. Kyoto compliance is International law, damn it ! And Canadians(U Students) should throw offending politicians in jail.

A few years back, David Suzuki ranted;
Brackets(rik)
[Last week the Conservative government launched the ethanol fuel aspect of its 'Made In Canada' plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions, an alternative to the Kyoto Protocol. Mr. Suzuki doesn't hold back his disappointment. "I don't think there is a plan," he says grimly. "To me the big question is: Does this current government really believe climate change is happening and how serious do they think it is? (No it doesn't and no it isn't) The leading scientists have said climate change is happening and it is very serious (Not any more); we've got to do something. (No we don't) Does the current government not believe the scientists? There are a few scientists that are paid for by the fossil fuel industry (Wrong) who are saying 'no, no, no.' But those are like the scientists for the tobacco industry (The analogy is criminal)). Surely you don't listen to them?! (Canadian voters just did) I don't get it," says Mr. Suzuki, shaking his head.

He bristles at Australian Prime Minister John Howard's recent invitation to Canada to join the Kyoto alternative group known as AP6: "Canada signed on to the framework on Climate Change in 1992 at the Earth Summit. What that said is 'we will stabilize 1990 levels by the year 2000'. We didn't do that. We (Stephane Dion) signed on, but we didn't do it," says Mr. Suzuki, passionately. "The Kyoto Protocol is international law. (See above) What the United States and Australia (And now, Canadian voters also)are saying is 'up yours' to international law," he says, thumbing his nose for added effect. "We're not going to do it. So for me, they are international bandits. They're renegades. Is this what Canada wants to do, to say 'no, we don't believe in international law.(Yup) We're going to turn against it'? It seems to me that's what [the Conservatives] are saying. I don't think that's what Canadians want (The recent election proved it to be so). I think Canadians better realise that what this alternative group, this American-organized group, what they are trying to do is to derail the Kyoto process." (You got it Davy Boy) ]The Chronicle Herald

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/1085960.html

Liberals 'need to get on with' leadership race, Rae says Last Updated: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 | 7:26 AM ET The contest to decide who will replace Stéphane Dion as Liberal leader should happen "sooner rather than later" to allow the party to rebuild from its loss in the latest federal election, Liberal MP and potential candidate Bob Rae said Tuesday.

Looks like Booby is pretty hot to trot. Same socialists, same results. Keep them coming....

Excellent!

Saskatchewan income tax reduced

Family can now earn up to $41,300 before paying any provincial income tax

http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/story.html?id=663c0b01-5ded-448b-bd9a-2e69da554459

"Such an eventuality, say climate change experts, would be a disaster."

Here is the AGW bjhhdgmt line:
>>>>> "Almost lost in the entire debate, of course, is the fact that climate change itself continues to advance."
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"EU Climate Stalemate Could Threaten Global Deal

Time is running out. If the European Union is unable to resolve internal differences over its ambitious emissions reduction plan, then global climate talks could suffer, say experts. The world needs European leadership."
http://tinyurl.com/6jd9bj (spiegel)

Gerry Nicols National Post article today talks to the apologists and bureaurats in the Conservative party - and has some good advice....

"...Flanagan and his incremantalist followers argue, the only way to introduce conservatism in Canada is for the government to feed it to the public in tiny little itsy-bitsy bites --bites so tiny you would need a microscope to see them. This is what I call a good news, bad news theory. The good news about this "go slow" incremental approach is it would indeed succeed in creating a conservative Canada; the bad news is it would take about 5,000 years. And as already noted the government has considerably less than 5,000 years to implement an agenda. In other words, there is not enough time for conservative incrementalism. If the government truly wants to bring about conservative policies it must act quickly...."

The Cons have killed three years of the 6 required to vest full pensions for their MPs. And they've had plenty of time to appoint hangers on and related creatures to the bureacracies and spider holes in government.

The professional apologists have nowhere to hide, except a patronage appointment. The senate play is a good one for them. Wait for it...

Ronald Bailey, Heat on PBS Tonight

The new Frontline documentary, Heat, aims to investigate what big business is doing to address the climate change problem. "As I've traveled through America's energy landscape this past year, it's become increasingly clear that the big energy corporations are not about to tackle climate change on their own. It's going to take a big push from government," concludes Frontline correspondent Martin Smith. But in Heat, Smith details, without apparent irony, the failure of many past government "pushes,".... In fact, Heat ends up showing viewers that the energy policies of our two major party presidential candidates are in thrall to parochial interests, opinion polls, and the price of gasoline...

Heat airs this evening (Tuesday, October 21) at 9 p.m. on most PBS stations. Check your local listings.

"dead person voted, Liberal candidate Milligan Alleges"
cbc.ca

What ya pissed because the deceased still didn't vote Liberal?
Reminds of when Martin's Gov't sent rebate cheques to the Dead a few years back.

Roger Kimball, Forget About the "Bradley Effect." It's the Berkeley Effect that Matters

In short, you can forget about the Bradley Effect. What you should keep your eye on, however, is the Berkeley Effect, a hitherto insufficiently acknowledged psephological phenomenon I name after George, Bishop Berkeley, the 18th-century theologian... Berkeley... believed that the physical world existed only in the perception of God. “To be,” he said, “is to be perceived.” You might think that the computer screen upon which you are reading this exists “out there” as an independent reality; really, though, it exists as an idea in the infinite mind of God. Our “perception” of the computer screen depends from moment to moment on God’s gracious intervention.

In essence, as the philosopher David Stove put it, Berkeley’s philosophy promulgates the doctrine of “universal hallucination.” Silly stuff, but it’s kept many philosophers in business for two and a half centuries now.

I bring it to your attention because there are, I believe, marked similarities between the media perception of Barack Obama and Bishop Berkeley’s idealism...

The AGW hysteria has pretty much passed. There may be one more big desperate push but in the end it will not result in the world changing dream of its creators.

Not to fear though, I see that the UN and Canada's own Maude Barlow have started the ball rolling on a new crisis:

Maude Barlow named 1st UN water adviser

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/10/21/barlow-appt.html

"Canadian activist Maude Barlow has been appointed as the United Nation's first senior adviser on water issues, a role she hopes to use to establish water as a human right and to convince Canada to "change its shameful position" on the issue....
...Barlow said there's "growing momentum" in the international community for water justice but will focus some of her attention on her home country.
"I also plan to take this opportunity to get the Canadian government to change its shameful position, and to finally join the international community in recognizing water as a human right," said Barlow."

Didn't Kate have a poll earlier in the year about what atom would replace carbon in the next UN created crisis. I believe that hydrogen in the form of H20 is the winner. Grant seeking scientist-start your engines.

Muslim Taliban murderers asking for peace.
The Taliban are reeling, demoralized, bloodied.
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"Saudis confirm push for Afghan-Taliban peace talks
Agence-France Presse"

>>>> Here is the Muslim Taliban takkiya: "The previous day, former Taliban leaders said they shared a meal with the president's brother and other Afghan government officials but stressed the meeting did not amount to peace talks."
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=896964
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"Canada backs Afghans talks with Taliban: [Canadian] ambassador"

"Lower-level opposition fighters -- fatigued after years of a war that has taken a disproportionate toll on their side -- seem particularly "ripe" for reconciliation efforts, said Ron Hoffman."
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/afghanistan/story.html?id=894718
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Splatto re socialist TO Mayor Miller.

"I have registered an official complaint with the Commissioner’s Office at Elections Canada regarding what appears to be a tremendous breach by David Miller of the Canada Elections Act."

"Did Mayor David Miller Break the Canada Elections Act?"

http://splatto.net/blog/?p=942

MDL was very entertaining last night when Ray Heard of the Liberals called Dion the biggest whiner ever in his blame someone else speech.

Heard also said that Dion was showing the party contempt by not allowing an interim leader to step in.

The soap opera will continue with the knives unsheathed and definitely ready for action.

Also, it looks like Count Floyd and craggy Craig have made a pact with each other to quit dying their hair red.

They look a lot older now but not quite as ridiculous. Bob Fife must not have got the memo though.

Who the hell is Maude Barlow??

Down Under "and west of Katoomba" > Brrrrrrrrrecord cold!
"and abnormally cold conditions to most of NSW."
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"Record cold temperatures bring snowfall

Record cold temperatures have brought snow to the Blue Mountains and southern tablelands in NSW and wet and windy weather to the state's coast.

Temperatures dipped to three degrees celsius near Blackheath, west of Sydney, early on Wednesday morning but wind gusts brought the mercury down further to minus two degrees and pockets of snow fell in Leura and west of Katoomba at Oberon.

The Bureau of Metrology (BoM) said snow was also reported in the southern tablelands at Cooma and in Bombala, near the Victorian border.

An unseasonal cold front from the southeast extends to just beyond the ranges and is moving north.

Thunderstorms and wind gusts of up to 70km/h have brought rain to the eastern part of the state and abnormally cold conditions to most of NSW.

BoM forecaster Jane Golding said average temperatures in the Blue Mountains for October ranged from seven to 18 degrees.

In Sydney on Wednesday, the temperature is forecast to be 15 degrees, an October temperature which has only been seen twice in the past 14 years, Ms Golding told AAP.

Average maximum temperatures for Sydney in October are around 22 degrees."
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5094929/record-cold-temperatures-bring-snowfall/

Obama not fit to be President;

http://obamacrimes.com/

Cold snap brings snow to New South Wales and unusual cold temperatures to Sydney.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24534577-29277,00.html?from=public_rss

Whats interesting here is the comments to this piece of propaganda. This is how low the Dems go.Not in my wildist thoughts have I ever equated Socialism for a code word for black. Nut land thinking.
JMO

Shame on McCain and Palin for using an old code word for black

By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist

The "socialist" label that Sen. John McCain and his GOP presidential running mate Sarah Palin are trying to attach to Sen. Barack Obama actually has long and very ugly historical roots.

J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, used the term liberally to describe African Americans who spent their lives fighting for equality.

Those freedom fighters included the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who led the Civil Rights Movement; W.E.B. Du Bois, who in 1909 helped found the NAACP which is still the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization; Paul Robeson, a famous singer, actor and political activist who in the 1930s became involved in national and international movements for better labor relations, peace and racial justice; and A. Philip Randolph, who founded and was the longtime head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and a leading advocate for civil rights for African Americans.

McCain and Palin have simply reached back in history to use an old code word for black. It set whites apart from those deemed unAmerican and those who could not be trusted during the communism scare.

Shame on McCain and Palin.

Comments at:

http://voices.kansascity.com/node/2493

Heat airs this evening (Tuesday, October 21) at 9 p.m. on most PBS stations. Check your local listings.

I pretty much know what to expect from this (it starts in about 10 minutes) and the content will determine whether I renew financial support for KSPS.

Kate, I may have another cheque for you right about next PBS pledge drive time!