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justice has, surprisingly, been served in the b.c. taser case.

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Could we possibly, vitruvius, use those ten words to the esteemed Mr. Ignatieff with regard to his 'necessary if necessary but not necessarily' coalition?

some conservative blogger has to start the process of diggin up the dirt on iggy. he has written 16 books. he must have said some pretty offensive things. Katie, Canada is counting on you and your readers. Harper has seven days to be nice, then when iggy refuses to commit not to take down the government, we will be in full attack mode. Bloggers need to start digging up dirt now, independant of the party. THEY NEED OUR HELP NOW. Every blog post for the next 7 days needs to be user tips on iggy dirt. post the best quotes from his books and his bbc past, and any other sources at the end of the seven days. we need to define this guy while Canadians know little about him. the game starts now and it is a fight for Canada.

some conservative blogger has to start the process of diggin up the dirt on iggy. he has written 16 books. he must have said some pretty offensive things. Katie, Canada is counting on you and your readers. Harper has seven days to be nice, then when iggy refuses to commit not to take down the government, we will be in full attack mode. Bloggers need to start digging up dirt now, independant of the party. THEY NEED OUR HELP NOW. Every blog post for the next 7 days needs to be user tips on iggy dirt. post the best quotes from his books and his bbc past, and any other sources at the end of the seven days. we need to define this guy while Canadians know little about him. the game starts now and it is a fight for Canada.

Looks like the Auto Bailout bill is going to die in the Senate. Check out Cnn.com...

opps sorry for double post. but please read and start the digging. lets define this guy

Neo, sorry but I don't agree with you. I carefully watched that videotape. Sorry, but those RCMP officers were negligent in his death.

I have always been a huge supporter of the police and detest the Pivot Legal Society but in every profession people make mistakes from time to time. A big one was made there.

Here's where people can start finding quotes from Iggy: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=ignatieff&x=0&y=0

Actually, ET, sometimes I feel like I could use Mr. Newhart's two (or ten) words to respond to seven eighths of what I read pursuant to blog topics, their often absurd discussion comments, the bloviating commentariat, the ponzi-scheme aparatchiki, life in general, and French philosophers in particular (with the exception of Cartesius, of course) yet that seems to me to be, at best, just petulant, so I don't bother.

Hey, you can buy Iggy books for as little as $1.62!

That is, if you are into that kind of reading.

Does anyone have a definitive link regarding the $90K required by the party to run as a Liberal?

Fortescue: Here's one I found for you:

From Page 30 of The Needs of Strangers:

"Kings in the fullness of their power do not have to speak the language of need. Theirs can be the pure and unjustified language of desire: 'Do it, for it is my wish.' Kings do not have to justify their desires. The most inconsequential of their whims has the force of a command."

MOST Interesting, no, in light of recent events in the Liberal Party of Canada?!?

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"robert w says... sorry but I don't
agree with you."

or the b.c. integrated homicide
investigation team either, huh?

well robert, it's a free country.

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LOL, Vit.

Here's something similar re: professional therapy; want an argument?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teMlv3ripSM

"some conservative blogger has to start the process of diggin up the dirt on iggy. he has written 16 books. he must have said some pretty offensive things."

If your intention is to help out the Conservative Party, I'd look for something more productive to do. I guarantee they're already well advanced with this research. Iggy has left an immense paper trail, and I can assure you that the Conservative researchers will be striking a mother lode. We've already seen one or two of the gems on this site. "Iggy on torture," "Iggy on assassination" and "Iggy on the Iraq War" are among his greatest hits.

"We Americans" ... should be enough to sink The Torture Master's Liberal barge ... {{{{SCARY}}}}

Count Dracula ... Lord of the Nesfaratu ... I VANT YORE BLUUUD ... ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

[ The list of big-name economists, commentators and forecasters who hung their hats — and their investment plans — on variations of peak oil theory is too big for this page, but some day somebody should post it prominently for all to see.] Terrence Corcoran

Apparently some eviro inclined funds took a huge bath.

[ Back in June, 2006, Prof. Smil wrote a commentary for FP Comment dismissing the peak oil crowd as a “new catastrophist cult.” In 2000, he warned in a science journal that the experience of long-range forecasting, especially in energy, had been dismal. He predicted more. “There will be no end to naive, and ... incredibly short-sighted or outright ­ridiculous, predictions.”] TC

aka people have short memories. Is the reason for the Cult A Decade Syndrome.

[ .. ]

[ What the 2008 price trend suggests is not the peak of oil but the ravages of an inflationary bubble. Oil at $147 a barrel was a monetary and financial phenomenon, not a manifestation of fundamental changes in the supply of oil. If the chart above is any guide to the future (Prof. Smil would never let anyone get away with this), the long-term trend for the price of oil, excluding geo-political conflict and other drivers of bad government policy, is toward the $20 to $30 range, with upward adjustments to accommodate the cost of new technologies] TC

$20 or $30 bucks !!

Now lets see. Canadians use about 40 billion liters of gasoline a year. From a peak of about $1.40 down to maybe $0.50

40 billion X (1.40 - 0.50) = $36 Billion (in consumers pockets (*) )

One he** of a stimulation (**) package !!

(*) Some of that $36 Billion was recycled back in our RRSPs, pension funds. So not a total loss to consumers during the spike)

(**) Perhaps the spike in oil prices is what clobbered the world's economy in 2008 ? Has happened before.
This century, virtually ever recession was preceded by an oil price spike.
The spikes were often caused by goings on in the Middle East.
We are too damn dependent on ME oil.

Could the greens be responsible for slow fossil fuel development in First World countries ? Absolutely.
Drill !

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/12/10/terence-corcoran-the-price-of-oil-returns-to-normal.aspx

Iggy is meeting with other big brains financial advisors to help him put together the Liberal/coalition budget.

If anyone ever ever ever wondered about media talking head pundit darling Don Drummond from TD Banks' political leanings wonder no more.

Not only do the Liberals always quote Drummond whose utterings they use as front page fodder to beat up conservatives with now Iggy has retained him as advisor.

All of you Conservative TD Bank shareholders - how does that make you feel?

Oh, his other advisors? McCullum, Scott Brison and the ONTARIO Finance Minister.

No Western perspective needed in a Liberal budget I guess.

More on Iggy drafting a Liberal budget with his little crew of raging partisans:

Question: How many people does it take to put together a comprehensive realistic and doable Federal budget?

Answer: More than 800 finance department officials and advisors consulting with all provincial finance departments, ministries and Premiers; consulting with hundreds of stakeholder groups over months; in consultation with G8 and G20 nations, the World Bank, major think tanks from around the world in months and months of analysis and forecasting and a review of all existing federal budgets and programs and projections.

Question: What is the earliest a Federal budget has ever been presented?

Answer: It is usually presented near the end of March with the new fiscal year beginning on April 1st.

PM Harper will be presenting a Federal budget on January 27 which is the earliest ever in the history of the country.

So, Iggy is going to make PM Harper "walk down the hill because he is not the man for the hour" when this budget is presented is he? Because he and Don Drummond and Scotty Brison know better than all of the experts put together and will "deem" the budget "bad" for Canada???

Anybody see how desperately shallow this whole thing is?

I received a card from the Chief Justice of Canada today. I think it's a Christmas card but I can't really tell.

No trees, snow, wreaths, peace, joy,etc.. no...nothing wintery at all in fact. Instead, the card is a picture of:

FOUR WHITE MEN IN BLACK SUITS in front of a marble staircase ALL LOOKING AT THEIR BLACKBERRIES. (none are actual Supremes). Inside it says Compliments of the Season but in French it says Joyeuses Fetes et Meilleurs Voeux.

I am appalled.

A little Christmas story Please. Noght before Christmas .

'Neo, sorry but I don't agree with you. I carefully watched that videotape. Sorry, but those RCMP officers were negligent in his death.'

Robert, the reason that I think that those officers were not in the wrong is that I do not believe that they knew that they were dealing with a very stressed out chain smoker who had quit the DAY he traveled to Canada! I am a smoker so I know that stress makes me crave tobacco - I am not a chain smoker but I know that if I arrived in a foreign airport expecting my Mom to meet me and she was not there and no one spoke to me to inform me why she was not there, if I were 'trapped' in a tank where no one spoke my language (Polish/Russian are too foreign to peace together sentences in English or French), if I had lived my entire life in a Communist foreign military occupied state where set ups were common and thousands of people just 'disappeared, if I was chewing multiple nicorettes to try and calm my fears for the fate of my mom and myself; if, if, if....I do not think the police would have tasered that man if they had been informed that he was a chain smoker suffering from a nicotine deprivation fit or an overdose of nicotine via nicotine drugs. The latter puts major stress on the heart and nerves. The police would have known that a jolt from a taser would be fatal. I do not believe that they considered any of the above because I think that they were probably not informed when they were called to restrain this man.

I could be wrong but I don't think I am. You maybe did not know about the chain smoking thing Robert. The msm has done their best to bury it. I was in Communist Poland in 1983 - everyone smoked - I had an idea that this could have been the reason for the death - I found a Polish magazine article that mentioned that Mr. D. had been a chain smoker and he quit the same day that he died.

The airport should have a smoking area for people who smoke tobacco - it is legal in this country. I blame the anti smoking people for this man's death.

"Question: How many people does it take to put together a comprehensive realistic and doable Federal budget?"

Answer: Just STFU and DO IT NOW! RIGHT AWAY! BEFORE ANYONE SENSIBLE HAS A CHANCE TO THINK OR CAREFULLY CONSIDER!

We'll make up the details/explanations/excuses later. Sort of like Kyoto, but faster.

With the idea of digging up stuff and posting it on a blog, I'm not sure that it's a good thing.

I read a thing the other day where the CBC was asking for suggestions of what needed fixing and where the problems were with the coalition. Seems to me they were asking me to do their research for them.

In my opinion, it takes zero people to put together a comprehensive and realistic and doable Federal budget, because in practice, that is to say, in polis, there is no generically axiologically valid such Federal budget that is all of comprehensive and realistic and doable. While it no doubt remains possible to achieve an indeterminable number of subsets of such a grandiose abstraction, the utopian concept is, in and of itself, nonsense.

Jema et al, please know that I was just expressing my opinion. I never said or thought that yours was "wrong". But I watched the video over & over and absolutely believe that the 4 officers badly mishandled the situation. I think to date that this is the only time I can remember being non-supportive of a specific police action but I stand firm in my beliefs.

On a lighter note, scroll down 4 paragraphs here and you'll see Olivia Chow's ideal poll: http://pelalusa.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-radical-left-conducts-polling.html

OK, apropos of nothing except I am sick of seeing these ads on TV:

Has anyone else seen (and been nauseated by) the ads for the Canadian Museum on Human Rights? Could someone, PLEASE, explain to me what f***ing difference this white elephant is going to make? Do they think Taliban thugs in Afghanistan are going to stop throwing acid at little girls going to school, or that Somali girls are going to have their clitori spared mutilation, because we've built a god-forsaken museum in Ottawa?!

I mean, I know I'm an uneducated, neanderthal, right-wing, knuckle-dragging, drooling Conservative for God's sake, but it seems to me that this "museum" is just another boondoggle designed to use taxpayer money to provide jobs for 100 or so Librano friends in perpetuity while doing sweet f-all about the actual problem. Would someone please explain why I'm wrong?

I'm with you, Kevin! But if Harper et al were to try to pull the funding now, the MSM would kill him with negative PR for weeks. You can see it now, "Proof Positive that Stephen Harper doesn't care about Human Rights" + "Further Evidence of his Secret Agenda". And on & on it would go.

Robert, "everyone" already knows that Harper is a meanyhead.

Not sure if I should have put 'everyone', 'knows' or 'Harper' inside the scare quotes. 'Tis language, y'see, and subtle nuances are used all the time to tilt interpretation and influence the subconscious.

Actually, I'm quietly influencing people reading this right now, they just don't know it. There is a secret message below, but you'll only see it if you've been influenced.

Isn't the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg?

Even now, hundreds of charter buses descend upon the place, disgorging droves of Leica-toting tourists.

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"Could the greens be responsible for slow fossil fuel development in First World countries ? Absolutely.
Drill ! " (Tks rik)

I was talking to friends tonight along the same line,but I don't think it is greenies per se. NIMBY legislation is more their style. I want to dump this on Marice Strong et al but I can't connect the dots.

Its almost mid Dec, the entire northern hemisphere is freezing up and oil prices haven't rebounded. Stunning. Remember the gas price hike every Oct. when gas priced upwards due to refineries switching to heating oil? Not this year.
The big "O" healed the oil factor before taking office?

The "Museum of Human Rights" I suspect could more accurately be called the "Museum of White Liberal Guilt" Without having seen the place I would bet it will be all about how evil whitey is and what a horribly backwards country we were before Trudeau and multiculturalism.

Re Christmas cards: I have a beautiful one from Senator Anne Cools—one very cool lady (despite what Lucy thinks).

There is a beautiful, black and white wintery scene, with fir trees, from Major’s Hill Park, in Ottawa, showing the east wing of the Centre Block of Parliament, which houses the Senate. (The Parliament Buildings look like a castle in Narnia!)

Inside, it says, “a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours”. And, also included, is a passage from Ephesians 3: 16-19. Anne Cools is a strong, independent minded, highly intelligent, God fearing/loving, out-of-the-closet Christian woman. At last, she’ll have some worthy company in the Senate, where she’s been surrounded by Liberal jackals for decades. (When she saw the error of her left-leaning ways and reclaimed her conservative—and classical liberal—roots, like many others, she certainly found out that the feminist agenda has absolutely nothing to do with equality or fairness: it’s all about power and one-upman—whoops!-ship.)

Anne Cools has truly been a voice of “sober second thought”, often crying in the wilderness of a Senate drowning in Liberal political correctness and skulduggery. Bless her. Although she now sits as an Independent, after a disagreement with Mr. Harper, I hope and pray that he will have the wisdom to appoint more Anne Cools to the Senate—people of INTEGRITY.

On that note, I’m delighted PMSH is making the appointments: just seeing the usual suspects go ballistic over this is worth it!!

I think PM Harper should rethink appointing Senators at this time. If I were Ignatieff I would bring down the government on this because people absolutely hate the Senate and he can say the Conservatives were completely partisan in appointing only or mostly Conservatives.

In tough times no one wants to hear that someone else is getting these plum jobs. This is cut the subsidy, part II.

Also better for the Liberals to go to the people before they find out what a pr**k Ignatieff is.

I think PM Harper is playing with fire again. People aren't going to go for the nuances that it is out turn to appoint Senators, he had tried to reform the Senate but was blocked, blah, blah, blah....

I couldn't disagree with you more, Nicola. PMSH's appointments are needed to just BEGIN to bring some balance to the Senate.

He's also going to require each appointee to sign a pledge to step aside in the event that true reform occurs--his wish, stymied at every turn by the Liberals--if senators are to be elected.

Going too far? That's what the lefties have done over and over--the cliff! Mixing my metaphors, it doesn't matter what PMSH does: he's viciously savaged by the lefties. So, re his agenda, I say damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!! The sooner, the better, too!

fortescue,

Can we dig up the 'clean' on Iggy as well? Or are you just interested in painting a lop sided picture?

You have to realize that your request is why conservatism is in the toilet floating around with all that other stuff one sees in the bowl after wiping.

Nicola Timmerman It sounds like you would rather have the lieberals NDP and seperatists appoint the senators. If you don't think they would be all over this you havn't been paying attention to these clowns for the last 30 years.

Nicole if the liberals & co. defeated the govt in january what do you think the first order of business would be?
You could count on it the backroom boys would pressure to do the senate appt's.

But what Really gets me is how the MSM uses the term STACK the SENATE! to stack the senate would be to hold a majority,eg: Stack the Deck. These appt's will still not bring it to a even par, So yes the PM is doing the right thing. Ya ya ya we all know what the PM said about electing, Well the opposition also said during an election they would not form a coalition.

"Rare snow covers south Louisiana, Mississippi [Al Gore: Call your office.]"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2147493/posts
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20081211/NEWS/812110281/0/news07

The PM should have filled the Senate seats long ago. Sure he wants to have them elected by the provinces then appoint them but that process will take decades to put in place. All provinces may not be on board either. It would take Constitutional change to do anything else.

This is the system we have, he has to work within that system. All Senate appointments are considered patronage by those not making them.
It's certainly not a healthy balance for this democracy to have the Chamber stacked with one Party appointments, which happens to be Liberals now.

Let them scream and shout, the Dippers want to abolish it so there's no chance of one of them taking a Senate seat. The Liberals own it as it stands now. Time to work on balance in that place and fill every vacancy with a Conservative for the foreseeable future.

"Secularism Will Triumph in the Arab World;

Terrorism's Crimes 'The Death Struggle of Fundamentalism'

Al-Nabulsi: Secularism Will Triumph in the Arab World; Terrorism's Crimes Are 'The Death Struggle of Fundamentalism'

On May 15, 2008, the liberal Arab website Aafaq.org published an interview with prominent Jordanian-American liberal author Dr. Shaker Al-Nabulsi. In the interview, Al-Nabulsi discussed the meaning of secularism and its importance to the future of the Arab world.

The following are excerpts from the interview: [1]

"'Secularism'... [Is] In the Interest of Religion - To Keep the Sacred (Religion) Apart from the Profane (Politics)"

Interviewer: "What is your concept of secularism?"

Nabulsi: "'Secularism' means the separation of religion from the state, excluding the clergy from politics, and not permitting religious political parties. These measures are all in the interest of religion, to keep the sacred - religion - apart from the profane - politics."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2147477/posts

Kneehillgord:

You may well be right that the CHRM is in Winnipeg; the ads never say where it is, so I just assumed it would be in Ottawa. (And you must get awfully well-heeled tourists if they're hauling Leica's around; in Toronto, it's mostly cheap Canons and Kodaks!)

Regardless, I somehow suspect that the 100 brave men and women who have fallen in Afghanistan have done more to promote human rights than any museum anywhere will do.

On the lighter side, a well respected Wall St. fund manager is charged with a nearly $50 billion fraud - now repeat the following three times:

"Bernie Madoff, with my money."

"Bernie Madoff with my money?"

"Bernie Madoff with my money?!"

As Boris Badonov would say "Hoo boy!"

The conservative senators can sign pledges, but all the public will see is that 18 Conservatives are getting plum jobs in tough times.

For sure I don't want the Liberals or Dips to get these positions, but Harper should believe in present polls and wait until after his government is reconfirmed before appointing Senators.

I have to agree with Robert W re the Dziekanski case.
Those cops didn't even TRY to diffuse the situation. There was no escalation of force, just an immediate jump to a measure that's one level below jerking their guns and blowing him away. It almost looked as though with one mind they were thinking "airport duty is so boring...finally some action!". They're not fit to wear the uniform. I hope they're all transferred FAR AWAY from the Lower Mainland.

The other problem too is the RCMP brass essentially LIED about the events that took place. One has to wonder how many other cases like that there are that don't have the benefit of video replay.

BTW normally I too am more inclined to side with the police. For example, that cop in Maple Ridge who hit that fleeing nut with his car, the nut who was threatening to blow up bridges, did the right thing.

I think Harper should very publicly auction off all 18 senate seats to the highest bidder. Then he should very publicly take the money and put it into the fund that pays BQ, Libs and NDP their $1.75 per vote. In this way he can ridicule both the senate and the welfare bum parties.

If the Senate is needed to pass legislation then not making appointments is similar to not calling bi-elections in the House of Commons. Distasteful as it is it is required until another method is determined. In a minority situation changing the method requires the support of the opposition of which there is none.

jihadhaha

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/dec/24/advertising?gusrc=rss&feed=media

Harper has become famous internationally and now has a law written after him.

Harper's Law - Never get between a politician and his source of funding

http://www.di2.nu/200812/02c.htm

Whats her name monk ndp strategist was on Duffy last nite complainging as the the Cost per Year (In tough times) for the appt's,
But not one word of what the cost to the Taxpayers in Tough Times of their Political Welfare Cheque.

There is an article in today's Toronto Sun decrying the fact that there is only 6 toys for over a 1,000 kids at the St. James Town complex annual toy drive. While this is truly sad it is just the culmination of years of anti-Christmas attacks by all the usual suspects, primarily teachers and their boards.

I have hardly heard any Christmas carols this year on the radio and even shopping. Yesterday I scanned the entire radio dial in my car and could not get one carol being played and this is the big week supposedly for shopping for Christmas, not one.

The economic downturn is being used as a trigger for many companies and individuals to cut out Christmas parties and celebrations and once they are gone they wont come back. Christmas has just become a commercial selling tool and the spirit has been lost to sales numbers. The lefties are winning and will kill this celebration of this joyous time of the year and an ancient and wonderful tradition.

My wife's company, a large accounting firm, had their annual party this year with over 3,800 guests in Toronto. There was not one reference to Christmas, no tree, decoration or anything to what used to be a spectacle at the Royal York that I looked forward to as a warm and super festival of Christmas cheer. She even wished one of the partners "Merry Christmas" and he said that is not politically correct so she said "Well, don't have a Merry Christmas then!"

I know we bemoan this every year but this tradition is disappearing at an accelerated rate, how sad.

"You may well be right that the CHRM is in Winnipeg; the ads never say where it is, so I just assumed it would be in Ottawa. (And you must get awfully well-heeled tourists if they're hauling Leica's around; in Toronto, it's mostly cheap Canons and Kodaks!)"

Yes, it's here in Wpg. It's the brainchild of Izzy Asper, and now his children. It doesn't reflect the priorities of the govt. or the electorate, but it's receiving an operating budget (read: an annual grant) from Ottawa. It's already pretty well established from surveys that have been carried out that it will be tough to attract anyone not in Wpg. to visit the place. People from the East especially have scoffed at the idea of visiting Wpg. in order to visit the new museum.

I know what a museum of modern art is and what a museum of antiquities is -- buildings where modern art and antiquities are housed. And there's no real debate what qualifies to be in them (questions of legality aside). Measured by those parallels, a museum of human rights seems absolutely loopy to me -- and a sign of political correctness gone mad.

My position: if the Aspers want to honour their father's memory with this museum, they should pay for it themselves.

Unfortunately, The only way to begin reforming the senate is to appoint senators. If the coalition does manage to gain power, the first thing they will do is appoint senators to continue their upper chamber dominance. Since those unelected senators sit until 75, that means they could be there for 30 years or more. Another generation of waste, unfair representation and political interference.
I would prefer to see the senate abolished and the powers transferred to provincial bodies but, in the meantime, CPC appointments are the least offensive option.

What's ironic is they will probably showcase the victimization of the Palestinians and how their human rights were violated, all the while detailing how those mean Israelies trampled on them. Good legacy for Israel Asper - NOT. I for one will never set foot in the place, and since my kids are homeschooled I know that the obligatory field trip there will also be nixed. Now the Nonsuch at the Museum of Man and Nature is very cool.

Robert - I agree with you and don't agree with neo; the Vancouver police should not have been let off re their tasering of this young Polish man - and his death, can hardly be attributed to stress caused by his not smoking (blame the victim?).

Our police have become too 'trigger happy' with these tasers, under the mistaken fiction that they are harmless; too many deaths have resulted.

Nicola Timmerman - the perception that Harper's appointment of Senators is nothing but 'plum jobs' begs the question. Why, then, is the press and the Liberals/NDP against reform of the Senate? And as Joe points out, since the Senate IS and continues to be, an actual component of our governing system, in that all House Motions must be approved by them, then, Harper can't allow a Senate to exist which is filled with Liberals..and...if his government were to fall, would be stacked, and I mean that word, with more Liberals. He has no choice.

fortescue - I don't think that searching through Ignatieff's writings, which are not all that bad, by the way, is the 'way to go'. I think we should focus on his current actions, which are that of a Sovereign rather than someone elected by the people.

His written support for that Coalition, which is probably the most vicious attack on our democracy in our history, shows that his mode of governance is indeed that of a Sovereign who Rules by Divine Right, rather than a political leader who leads by the agreement of the people.

He'll make more of these assertions; these are the ones to cut and paste.

Anyone Harper names to the senate will likely hold the view that the senate should be abolished or elected. Then when such legislation comes forth, there will be at least 20 senators very willing to give up their seats or face the electorate. They'll be a challenge to Liberal senators and set up an embarrassing scene for those who will want to stay at the trough until age 75.

Listen to Rev. Wright's diatribe: how WRONG he gets it, and how the media helpfully CORRECTS it and carefully INTERPRETS it for him.

http://www.brutallyhonest.org/brutally_honest/2008/12/wright-screws-up-pearl-harbor-reference-media-covers-it-up.html

Here's an online Tribune-affiliated article http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/12/reverend-jeremiah-wright-trinity-united-baptist-church-chicago-obama.html, which actually does go so far as to point out (in brackets), that "Actually, Dec. 7 marks the day when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor."

Look at this: "The resulting media onslaught fueled tension around an already sensitive transition and prompted Moss, Wright's hand-picked successor, to implement strict guidelines for the media, banning cameras and recording devices and instructing members not to grant interviews.

On Sunday, church officials turned reporters away from the worship service. But services were streamed live on the Internet, and audio and video recordings were sold in the church bookstore."

And after that there is the audacity to report that "Wright said no amount of media coverage could dampen Trinity spirit."

That's all okay, though, according to the one who posted this comment:
"Long live Reverend Wright. He is an annointed man of God, and should be celebrated for his pophetic messages. He is a very educated and insightful preacher, and in should in no way be villified, but he should be glorified for what he has done for his community and for the United States at large. It broke my heart to see him leave Trinity, and it was a true pleasure to see him in the pulpit once again. He is what America needs because he tells the truth. The truth hurts, but Rev. keep on doing what you do. You know that there are more people for you than there are against you. May God continue to bless Reverend Wright and his family."

Not

Honestly,

well robert, it's a free country. Posted by: neo at December 12, 2008 12:02 AM

Not until one runs into four poorly trained jackboots who treat people like trash.

The RCMP is a deeply corrupted and politicized militia.

Only in this statist gulag could one watch the video of Robert Dziekanski's death, and rationalize the behavior of 'authorities'.

Stay on your knees Neo. That's a good boy.

"If anyone ever ever ever wondered about media talking head pundit darling Don Drummond from TD Banks' political leanings wonder no more." Marie

Well, Marie, it could be because he's been part of the Liberal machine before:

"Drummond was once a senior economic adviser to former Liberal prime minister Paul Martin and is someone the current Liberal leader, Stéphane Dion, likes to cite in his speeches."

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/realitycheck/sheppard/20070419.html

"The most sinister side of Iggy is in recession.".

"Speaking of which, economic issues are now centre stage. He's never claimed expertise there, as he did on foreign policy or human rights,".
...-

"Batman and Robin, Iggy and Bob"

"Prince Iggy had an oddly unconfident way of trying to look confident Wednesday at his first press conference as Liberal Leader. ("Prince" refers to his family background as Russian nobility.) He glanced anxiously sidewards at advisers and pushed overly jovially for questions in French. But I've often found this about him. He has the look and sound of a guy trying to figure out how he'd look and sound if he was the guy he's trying to be.

The role has varied over the decades."
Rick Salutin
http://tinyurl.com/6m7sjt (G-M)

Dinosaur meets axe: chop, chop.
...-

"Time up for 'Time' magazine in Canada

The Canadian version of Time magazine is being axed, a spokesperson for the company that publishes it confirmed Wednesday.

"Due to the challenging economic climate and recent Time Inc. restructuring, Time is eliminating its Canadian advertiser edition immediately after publication of the 12/29 issue. Moving forward, readers and advertisers in Canada will be served by TIME's U.S. Edition," said Ali Zelenko in an emailed statement."
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1058671

DANIEL LEBLANC
From Friday's Globe and Mail
December 12, 2008 at 4:20 AM EST

OTTAWA — A former top adviser to the Prime Minister is joining one of Canada's biggest lobbying firms, raising opposition hackles over the Conservative government's failure to sever all its ties with the world of "government relations."

Ian Brodie, who was Stephen Harper's chief of staff between January of 2006 and July of this year, will be joining the offices of Hill & Knowlton in Ottawa next month as a senior counsel.

His new job comes three years after the Tories vowed to stop the revolving door between the federal government and the lobbying industry.

The 2006 Accountability Act will prevent Mr. Brodie from directly lobbying government officials, but he will be working with clients on "government relations" at the provincial, federal and international levels, according to Hill & Knowlton...."

Librano or Tory, same old story. Greasy sleaze...

Captain Ice Storm from New England reporting for duty, Sir.
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"Kerry says EU climate pact "very exciting""*

"Ice storm cuts off power in New England"**

*http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2147619/posts
**http://tinyurl.com/5k6fan (asspress)

Comparing Libs and cons is like apples and oranges.If the libs were in we'd have 7% GST,green shaft,daycare and all the bureaucracy that would go along with it.You wouldn't have to worry about the vacant senate seat as they would have already been filled.I could go on and on but I doubt it would appease some posters,if Harper doesn't bow to their every desire then he's as bad as the libs.

On the lighter side, a well respected Wall St. fund manager is charged with a nearly $50 billion fraud - now repeat the following three times:

"Bernie Madoff with my money?!"

As Boris Badonov would say "Hoo boy!"
Posted by: KevinB at December 12, 2008 9:00 AM

Very interesting KevinB. Could you please supply link. Thanks.

Posted by: h.ryan at December 12, 2008 12:23 PM

Patronage is patronage, no matter the colour of stripe on their lapel.

Mindless partisanship is mindless. Think for yourself.

Taleban tax: allied supply convoys pay their enemies for safe passage
Tom Coghlan

The West is indirectly funding the insurgency in Afghanistan thanks to a system of payoffs to Taleban commanders who charge protection money to allow convoys of military supplies to reach Nato bases in the south of the country.

Contracts to supply British bases and those of other Western forces with fuel, supplies and equipment are held by multinational companies.

However, the business of moving supplies from the Pakistani port of Karachi to British, US and other military contingents in the country is largely subcontracted to local trucking companies. These must run the gauntlet of the increasingly dangerous roads south of Kabul in convoys protected by hired gunmen from Afghan security companies.

The Times has learnt that it is in the outsourcing of convoys that payoffs amounting to millions of pounds, including money from British taxpayers, are given to the Taleban.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5327683.ece

KevinB @9:00 A.M.:

"Regardless, I somehow suspect that the 100 brave men and women who have fallen in Afghanistan have done more to promote human rights than any museum anywhere will do."

Amen to that!

As to the Leica crack, I was just mocking the notion that such a palace of political correctness would be a tourist attraction of any kind.

Soon, my nick can be banned in Saudi Arabia.

Vitruvius: THANK YOU for that absolutely hilarious Newhart sketch, which I had not seen. Hilarious but alson containing much wisdom for our overly therapeutic age!

BTW, are you familiar with a sketch involving a interview with a TV journalist in which the interviewer does all the talking and the interviewee just gives one word answers. I believe it was Ernie Kovacs (sp)?.

maz2...thanks for that!
"He [Iggy] has the look and sound of a guy trying to figure out how he'd look and sound if he was the guy he's trying to be"

Salutin nails it: Prince Phoney Baloney

Hard Boiled...I wish Harper would abolish the senate,period.Having said that I don't think believing in the Prime Minister is mindless partisanship,you may be hardboiled,but your conclusions are a little scrambled.

I did not believe in Muldoon, Cretin, or Martin. And to me, Harper is turning suspect.

Because of the massive increase in the size of government, the inaction on the gun registry, Sec 13 applied within the HRC's, et al.

Politicians and political parties are the bane of any nation ==> they are and exist as a power seeking entity that act in their own interests first and foremost.

But look at the argument in the raw: 'unless we stack the senate, the other guys will do it, with their people.'

Think about that.

That and the party toads and bagmen that will win the lottery with your money....

Mission Accomplished.

God Bless America.
God Bless George Bush, POTUS.
...-

"Ukrainians Complete Mission in Iraq
Multi-National Force - Iraq ^ | Sgt. Rodney Foliente, USA"*
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"Japan Marks End Mission in Iraq
Multi-National Force - Iraq"**

*http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2147155/posts
**http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2146500/posts

Merle:

Check out "dealbreaker.com", which has at least (at last count) eight separate entries on this story, with more to come. "cnbc.com" and "wsj.com" also have (less humourous) takes on the story.

"Weather: Coldest start to winter since 1976

Britain has endured its coldest start to winter in more than 30 years."

"Arctic and continental winds have dominated the weather since mid November, bringing colder conditions than normal."
http://tinyurl.com/693g94 (telegraphuk)
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In Forlicania:

"CA: Rain, wind, snow to pummel the region (Wet Week Ahead Alert!)

The county's weather is about to go from mild to wild.

A late-fall blast of air from northern Canada should bring an abrupt halt to nearly 2½ months of unseasonably warm, calm weather in this region.

Over the next week, temperatures should plummet to well below normal, a series of storm fronts could bring heavy rain at the coast and inland valleys, and howling winds and snow could create blizzard conditions in the mountains.

“This is the kind of classic winter storm that we haven't seen too much of in recent years,” said Ed Clark, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2147821/posts

MSM/CanPress says, "Ottawa's treasury".
Bee-ess to you MSM/CanPress.
That is not Ottawa's money; Ottawa has no money.

That money is tax money extorted from Canadians.

Our Enemy, the State.
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"Flaherty dampens expectations as demands for Ottawa's money mount
The Canadian Press - 56 minutes ago
OTTAWA - With demands on Ottawa's treasury mounting,"

Ottawa to deliver $3.5B auto aid package: CTV

Updated Fri. Dec. 12 2008 5:14 PM ET
The Canadian government will provide a $3.5 billion lifeline for the Canadian auto sector, a move which aims to soften the blow of the economic downturn and preempts an American bailout plan, CTV News has learned.

The announcement follows a meeting Friday between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty in Ottawa where the two leaders hashed out a plan...."

Uh oh. CAW's got their hands on your wallet. Who is next????

Ottawa to deliver $3.5B auto aid package: CTV

Updated Fri. Dec. 12 2008 5:14 PM ET
The Canadian government will provide a $3.5 billion lifeline for the Canadian auto sector, a move which aims to soften the blow of the economic downturn and preempts an American bailout plan, CTV News has learned.

The announcement follows a meeting Friday between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty in Ottawa where the two leaders hashed out a plan...."

Uh oh. CAW's got their hands on your wallet. Who is next????

Patronage is not required: Cool.

Iggy won't get his sticky paws on yer tax money. Cool.

>>>> "Results of the poll were released just hours after Harper and Ignatieff spoke face-to-face for the first time since the Toronto MP took over the Liberal leadership."

"The poll also said the Conservative party would garner 45 per cent of the vote and score a majority victory if an election were held today."
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"Canadians prefer compromise to coalition: Poll"
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1069355

"However the Tearfund was so disappointed the charity said the £23 million spent organising the conference could have been better spent going directly to poorer nations."
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"Al Gore: World cares more about Paris Hilton than saving the planet

Al Gore has accused the world of having more interest in Paris Hilton, OJ Simpson and Anna Nicole Smith than saving the planet."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2147914/posts
(PH is shown surfacing like a skank)

I loved the Newhart skit (thanks, Vitruvius) and altogether identified with it.

"Stop it!" is what I used quite regularly--and quite successfully--with my more intransigent students. Most had never heard of or contemplated such a concept in their whole lives. (The first time, their eyes popped wide open, while their mouths shut: sweet!)

Unfortunately, these days, with the way appeasing parents and public education systems are going, the kids are likely to remain altogether underexposed to such common sense.

Stupid us. Poor us.