Vitruvius, have you ever tried riopelle? I'd suggest it's a cheese well worth trying.

Riopelle de l'Isle sounds interesting, KVB. Do you find
the mushroom to be more on the nose, or on the tongue?

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the poster girl for totally f@cked liberal party
rescue missions... her first anniversary.

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Today I learned that in my kids' grade school, the word "bullet" is banned. They are supposed to be called "nuggets".

No kidding. Nuggets. The mind boggles.

It does not seem that this is an official Toronto District School Board policy as far as I can tell, but I could be wrong.

Sounds like you should put a nugget through that new idea.

Father Raymond J. De Souza: Alberta increases support for human rights abuses
Posted: May 07, 2009, 9:00 AM by NP Editor
Father Raymond J. De Souza, Full Comment

I grew up in Calgary and I’m proud of my Alberta roots. So the other day when Mark Steyn noted that, in regard to the Danish cartoon controversy, Alberta was the only jurisdiction in the world which prosecuted anyone (Ezra Levant) over it, I felt a pang of embarrassment. It’s going to get a lot more embarrassing.

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/05/07/father-raymond-j-de-souza-alberta-increases-support-for-human-rights-abuses.aspx

Suzuki could travel the country in this in his next "green" campaign. He can afford the Carbon credits.

I have been trying to decide whether to vote next week for or against the STV electrical system here in BC. There are a lot of unanswered questions about it. One thing is fringe party's could get seats. Today I heard David Suzuki is for STV, guess he thinks this will get the green party seats. If he is for it I am against.

Gotta get me one of these.

Seriously.

Would make those photo excursions to Joshua Tree National Forest much more comfortable.

Garth

Excellent looking bit of kit.
When I win the lottery it's mine.
But I'll also tow one of these to go to the grocery store.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uynmApjhWI&feature=related

So, Vitruvius, is the super-duper-dune buggy the plaything of some filthy-rich sheik, or has Aramco started accommodating its employees in obscene luxury? Any idea what the wagon is worth?
Details, please.

So, Vitruvius, is the super-duper-dune buggy the plaything of some filthy-rich sheik, or has Aramco started accommodating its employees in obscene luxury? Any idea what the wagon is worth?
Details, please.

Vit,

Where do you store the wiener sticks and guns? I know for guys the shower works ... but, I mean, when your not with the guys.

I just got back from an all candidates meeting here in Vancouver. Didn't learn a thing as it was all talking points but it was still interesting to see.

What was a little shocking to see in person though were the strident views of the Green Party candidates. The NDP is certainly left of centre (or as Kate said on Adler today, ALL Canadian political parties are left of centre) but my oh my, those Greens are so far to the Left that there's no room remaining on the teeter-totter.

I'm more convinced than ever that if the Greens ever gain a foothold of power or even the balance of power then we're doomed. That's the primary reason I'm voting 'No' for STV.

Has anyone in BC noticed that some of the most important issues are being hidden in this election campaign?
1. The BC HRC. McLean's and Mark Steyn were tried here to our disgrace. Not a snicker about it.
2. Native Land Claims and something called the recognition and reconciliation legislation which stands to ruin us in the resource sector. (a previous post of mine). A big one page BC Conservative Party add in the Province today; otherwise, nada.
3. How much is fighting GW going to cost our economy and to what end?

tut, tut....
I noticed the tires were way underinflated. That is going to ineffiecent and wreak havoc on the gas mileage.

rue Britannia , Britannia rue the faves. what blood y next?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5276310/Oompa-Loompa-Spiderman-and-the-Teletubby-Tinky-Winky-held-after-brawl.html

A response to old lori at 09:25: This is a Eurika article on your subject. It exposes the GC Advocates and who they are by classification into 7 different groups.
To my shock one of the groups described is the Security Industry (Security Monopolists) which, if you think about it would include the Association of Police Chiefs and others in the justice industry. The article is American but opened my eyes.
Know Thine Enemy Enjoy!

Gunney, I've long been disappointed with the lack of quality debate in election campaigns but ours here in B.C. certainly takes the cake. It's all fluff, no substance whatsoever.

Chicken McBullets?

This is interesting. I just received Ezra Levant's "Shakedown" from amazon.ca. Today I got one of their promotional emails, which I am always happy to look at. They are offering me Iggy's book at half price.

First of all, I doubt many people ordering "Shakedown" also order Iggy's book.

Second, how often do you get to buy a new hardcover at 50% off? Woohoo!

Here is the email:

Dear Amazon.ca Customer,

We've noticed that customers who have purchased or rated Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights by Ezra Levant have also purchased True Patriot Love by Michael Ignatieff. For this reason, you might like to know that True Patriot Love is now available. You can order yours at a savings of 50% by following the link below.

True Patriot Love
Michael Ignatieff

List Price:

CDN$ 30.00

Price:

CDN$ 15.00

You Save:

CDN$ 15.00 (50%)

RE: Lingenfelter and the membership sales!

MORE LEFTIST HYPOCRISY

The story ran in the Regina Leader post today. Normally, when such an important story appears on the "online" edition of the Leader Post, it would have a comments section at the bottom of the page. I could write something like, "Oh my God, what a loser."

No siree! The LP are protecting this socialist hotshot! No comments for "Liggy." Explain.

The fellow in this video, Wayne Besen, deeply offends me.

Do you notice more than a few similarities with the folks who have tried to shut up Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant?

Vit, my version of that truck would have a CWIS on top. You know, just in case.

Some other things they are hiding in the media "coverage" of the election:

** there is a Conservative Party running candidates in about half the ridings.

** global warming is about as big a fraud as there has ever been, especially here (it is frigging cold here and has been for about six months)

** not a peep about the ongoing campaign by the very vocal and powerful gay lobby in BC to control provincial education to their advantage through their fellow travllers in the BCTF.

** this province is basically a voluntary communist society with a huge disaffected silent majority without representation or a free press.

Detained By Police As 'Extremist' For "Don't Tread On Me" Bumper Sticker

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2009/05/detained-as-extremist-for-bumper.html

Now everybody will be detained for looking patriotic in Obamerica.

*”Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff did not speak to reporters again Thursday and has not taken questions since the accusations surfaced.”

Is the MSM camped out at the gates of Stornoway?

From Iggy’s bio at Liberal.caca we read that Iggy is:

“A thoughtful and engaging communicator”
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Headline:
*”Nannies alleging mistreatment by MP’s family called to testify

Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla, who has stayed away from the nation’s capital since the allegations were first reported earlier this week, will also be called to testify, in front of a parliamentary committee next week.”
urlm.in/cjnk
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Iggy’s Song

*Nanny
My little nanny,
My heartstrings are tangled around Alabananyy.
I’m comin’,
Sorry that I made you wait.
I’m comin’,
Hope and trust that I’m not late, oh oh oh
Nanny,
My little Nanny,
I’d walk a million miles
For one of your smiles,
My Nanny! Oh oh oh…”
(Apology to Al Jolson)

OK, I've decided. I want to marry Condoleezza Rice (after watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijEED_iviTA )

Man, what an amazing woman she is!

Where does the line form?

The socialism of Liberal/socialists Ignatieff/Dhalla/McGuinty: The Cannibal Nanny State.

Read this piece*.

The socialist pyramid scheme is outlined.

But, don't talk about it.
Nah, Iggy/McGuinty's Nanny State is not important.

Is this what Canada now is? A failed Nanny State?

Iggy/Dhalla, et al, gorge at the top of the Heap with their slavish nannies at the bottom being abused.
What an ugly, degrading situation.
Meanwhile, all of this abuse/human degradation is paid for by the Canadian taxpayers, that is you and me.

The socialist Cannibal Nanny State has been exposed for the fraud/scam/Evil it is.
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*"Thinking big, acting small
By Susan Riley, The Ottawa Citizen"
urlm.in/cjnp

Riley wants you to focus on the Big Picture, as she sees it.

Riley says: "Politics as it is devotes more attention to a backbench MP's nanny troubles -- hello, Ruby Dhalla! -- than it does to gaps in science funding, say, or nuclear safety, or seismic changes in the economy."

Posted by: PiperPaul at May 8, 2009 2:26 AM

Make sure ya get a block one bravo with the manual tracking and targeting.

The Red-Green Pyramid Scheme of Mao Stlong/Hansen/Goreacle/Dionky/Suzuki, et al: Cannibals, all of them.
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"KYOTO VS. KIDS
HOW GREENS HURT THE PLANET
By BJORN LOMBORG(sic)

IN the heart of a financial crisis, most of us carefully consider every last purchase. It is important that politicians do the same when making vital policy decisions.

Instead of focusing on initiatives with the greatest benefits, they tend to be swayed by those with the most vocal advocates. Take the Kyoto Protocol. Its $180 billion annual global cost would perhaps be worth the investment if it made any substantial difference to global warming. But even if Kyoto were implemented for the rest of this century, it would cut temperatures by just 0.3 degrees Fahrenheit.

This doesn't pass a basic cost-benefit test. The investment would cause more immediate financial hardship than eventual good. There are many better uses for the money.

That point was underscored by Copenhagen Consensus 2008, a project I designed to champion the use of economic tools in international aid and development policy.

For two years before Copenhagen Consensus 2008, teams of experts wrote papers identifying the best ways to solve the world's biggest problems: air pollution, conflict, disease, inadequate education, global warming, malnutrition and hunger, sanitation and water challenges, subsidies and trade barriers, terrorism and gender-disparity issues. They identified the investments that would best tackle each challenge and outlined the costs and benefits of each.

A group of prestigious economists -- including five Nobel laureates -- gathered and examined this research. They took the long menu of investments and turned it into a prioritized list of opportunities. At the bottom -- the least cost-effective investment the world could make to respond to any of these problems -- was dealing with climate change through immediate CO2 cuts, as the Kyoto Protocol attempts."
urlm.in/cjnq

That truck looks like Al Gores idea of the ideal SUV.

Just the thing to run down to the corner store for a sixpack...then take the kids to their ballet lessons.

Sadly, the MAN trucks aren't street legal in Canada due to protectionism. You can have them make them with International Truck chassis but not they'll only go up to 6x6's. Also keep in mind these are the militarized MAN trucks (thicker steel, heaver axles, etc.)

Mercedes has also pulled the Unimog from North America. They're much smaller trucks but they're better 4x4's with higher ground clearance. You can buy refurbished chassis from a couple of years ago though.

The other specialist who makes these (also in Germany) is Action Mobil but they don't have any North American facilities so you can't buy one. http://www.actionmobil.com/

Tell the CRTC that you want way more Al Jazeera in Canada, or not.
June 8 deadline.
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2009/2009-254.htm

China ups it's reserves of gold. Don't think it is all for dental grill work.
http://www.qando.net/?p=2435

Wonder where the money is going? Recovery.org is doing what recovery.gov is supposed to do in a year or so. You can check your State or County.
http://recovery.org/

Posted by: PiperPaul at May 8, 2009 7:53 AM

Thanks for the link.

CBC is "revising" their "journalistic code" and taking comments.

"Revising our journalistic code"

"CBC has a little blue book, which you may know as our Journalistic Standards and Practices.

You know it, because many of you refer to it when you want to make sure we are living up to the standards we have publicly set for ourselves."

"But it is starting to feel dated so we have just launched a thorough, detailed review of the entire document."

"As you think about what you read, hear and see, what aspects of our journalism do you think need consideration?"

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/06/f-vp-enkin.html

Is this reality? Is it satire?
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Top teacher told rights fracas much ado about nothing. Then why do it?
By RICK BELL
The Calgary Sun
Kids forgotten in rights push

The guy goes into a meeting and, on a scale of 1 to 10, hopes for 10 and figures he gets maybe a 2.

Yes, teacher prez Frank Bruseker heads behind closed doors yesterday for a gabfest with Lindsay Blackett, the province's human rights head honcho and Dave Hancock, the supremo of schools.

Frank wants the Tories to back down and not bring down some cloud cuckooland law where parents can take their kids out of classes they believe are against their religious beliefs and haul teachers or school boards before the Human Rights Commission if they feel they haven't exercised the full extent of their newly-minted rights.

He wants them to put the lid back on the can of worms.

The two Tory bigwigs don't disagree.

At least if they disagreed, there would be a debate.

Instead, they insist what they have been insisting from their first syllable.

Nothing is happening. Don't worry, be happy.

Enshrining the rights of parents in Alberta's human-rights law and allowing kids to score a Get Out Of Class Free card when matters "deal explicitly with religion" really changes squat.

Huh? It sounds more than a little odd.

Are governments in the habit of changing laws to do nothing? Why is this bonkers brainwave going ahead if going ahead actually means standing still?

Why go through the grief, all the opposition and all the aggravation, including Blackett and Bruseker squaring off on national TV this morning, if it is near meaningless?"
urlm.in/cjod

Best headline writer: Daniel Proussalidis.

Best quote today:
"That bucks the gloomy predictions of most economists."

Daniel knows this: The State, Our Enemy.
Thank you, Daniel.
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"Jobless Canadians Hire Selves

Daniel Proussalidis
Friday, May 8, 2009

With almost 36-thousand new jobs in April, Canada's unemployment rate remains at 8-percent.

That bucks the gloomy predictions of most economists."
cfra.com

Maz2; urlm.in/cjod? Please decode for the computer illiterate.

More pavilions at folkfest file...
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A 23-year-old Afghan-Canadian shot his younger sister and her fiance to death in a so-called honour killing rooted in anger over their engagement, a jury heard during the first day of Hasibullah Sadiqi's murder trial.

During his opening statements, assistant Crown attorney Mark Moors told the court Mr. Sadiqi shot his 20-year-old sister, Khatera, and her fiance, Feroz Mangal, with a .44 Magnum revolver while they sat in a parked car at an Ottawa shopping plaza just before 1 a. m. on Sept. 19, 2006

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1575673

Jack Frosst:

Re: NDP Hypocrisy!

I went on the Leader Post site myself at 10:30 AM--I couldn't get throught to leave a comment. Coincidence? I hardly think so!

We don't see any where near enough of these storys, so here is my little contribution.

"Navy diver awarded Star of Courage"

http://tridentnews.ca/Portals/0/pdfarchives/2009/apr6_2009.pdf

Page three.

Side note here. I did my Junior Leadership course with Jim back in '97 (was that really 12 years ago???). As anyone who has taken any course in the military will tell you, one or two guys stand out. Jim was one of those.

Fellow MP says Dhalla 'devastated'

OTTAWA–Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla is "devastated" at the potential loss of her political career, says her close friend Judy Sgro, a fellow MP and former immigration minister.

One has to wonder what it feels like to be a Filipino nanny, paid far below the minimum wage, and trapped in a situation somewhat akin to an indentured servant. One has to wonder if Ruby Dhalla has ever had empathy for someone in that situation.

Judy Sgro commenting on Ruby Dhalla?

Is this a case of the pot calling the kettle shiny?

glasnost:

Is it the pot calling the kettle shiny? I thought it was the pot calling the kettle black? Now come on glasnost! You know that Judy and Ruby would never take advantage of those poor immigrants? And the slaves were getting free room and board? How considerate.

tut, tut....
I noticed the tires were way underinflated. That is going to ineffiecent and wreak havoc on the gas mileage.

The vehicle has a traction system that inflates and deflates the tires based on traction, this is required in the sand.

I do not think that this vehicle is the pinnacle of green engineering what with 1150 litres of fuel capacity and fuelling support for support vehicles.

(PDF warning) Ali A. Jalali, Winning in Afghanistan

Seven years into the US-led effort to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan, the mission is on the verge of failing. This unsettling new reality is the result of key international and Afghan actors having for years pursued a narrow strategy focused almost exclusively on short-term goals at the expense of a broader and more cohesive strategy. Afghanistan, consequently, is now plagued by a threat environment shaped and sustained by an expanding insurgency, widespread criminality, ineffective governance, and the absence of a coordinated response to continuing challenges. Violence inside the country has risen steadily since 2006, and in 2008 levels of violence in Afghanistan exceeded levels of violence in Iraq...

Correct on the tire pressure, Illiquid Assets, undecidable on the fuel capacity (without further data). The engineering efficiency of the vehicle is principally related to its rate of consumption, not its capacity. Otherwise we couldn't have efficient tankers, yet we do.

Cbc politics has their darling Mr. Schrieber on the show today. So far KHS has been given the first half-hour. He has accused Harper of being involved in a massive cover-up. I wonder if cbc will show this unfounded allegation the same consideration that they gave Ruby's accusers,or will it be splashed all over their news immediately...

Not as funny as the carbon free greenies rescued by an OIL tanker ( I'm still laughing every time I think about it! ) but in the same categories,

1 - Irony

2 - greenies needing big mean capitalists to survive...

taken from cfcf-12 Montreal,

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Recyclables pile up at environmental complex

Updated: Thu May. 07 2009 5:02:17 PM

ctvmontreal.ca

As it turns out, recycling is not recession-proof.

At the St. Michel Environmental complex, tones of recycling material from Montreal's green bins are piling up.

A private company, Groupe Tiru, sorts and sells the paper, glass and metals on the international market. In the past year those materials have decreased in value, making them difficult to sell.

The paper, glass and steel that once fetched a handsome price is now parked, with the city's OK to stock what it cannot sell...

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Iggy’s morally contemptible words

His version of what happened to ‘the sick little girls’ amounts to tasteless opportunism
Tags: Kenneth Whyte, macleans, Mark Steyn, Michael Ignatieff, True Patriot Love

As to the idea that it’s “a story about us,” no, it’s a story about him: the vandalism he does to the memory of Kaydance and Santana Pauchay, the tasteless opportunism of cashing in on their fate by conscripting a grimly particular episode to the cheap generalities of societal guilt, the horrible glimpse inside the husk of a man once genuinely engaged by Iraq and Bosnia and reduced by ambition to peddling what he knows to be bilge.
Much more at:

http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/05/07/iggy’s-morally-contemptible-words/2/