Two things VIT ...

First -Bella Fleck is a post modern genius. Possibly the most stimulating musician that I've heard in the last 15 years. Good pick.

Second - Apparently Obama is Spamming now...

I'll try the rather long url for Information Week :
The President E-mailed Me !

Thank you Vit.
I'd never heard of these people before.. it's a pleasure to listen to people that so obviously enjoy making music. That give and take, throughout, it really makes it easy to listen to. Not so often that I add to my ever expanding youtube favorites after only 1 listen.. I'll be returning to this.

a note on "give and take".. I give my gold standard to Steve Winwood y Eric Clapton, "Can't Find My Way Home" performed at The Crossroads Guitar Festival. 2007 but still, it doesn't last for nearly long enough here...

Lest we forget the competition:

"Democratic fundraiser [for Hillary Clinton] convicted of corruption"

Once again I was quite put off by Power Play. I only saw a small bit, but discussion at the end was around the Conservative attack ads -- and, of course, a skeptical media about whether these ads are effective. What killed me was one of the commentators (intelligently) mentioned that the issue is how they will play in places like Moose Jaw (and I don't remember where else, but similar -- small city/town. Tom Clarke's response was to say "So those of you from Moose Jaw and ? don't write letters of complaint to me for that. I know that some of the most intelligent and sophisticated people come from Moose Jaw. Well, it never occurred to me that the comment was dissing on folks from Moose Jaw -- suggesting that they were somehow less intelligent or sophisticated. I just thought he meant that people from Moose Jaw were ordinary Canadians who might have different view than the media.

Clearly Tom Clark (and I would guess many others in the media) do see themselves as an "elite" group. Someone should disabuse them of the notion that they are somehow more intelligent and sophisticated than the rest of us.

I wouldn't call Béla "post modern" OMMAG, to me he's quite modern indeed. I can find you post modern music if you want. You don't want. Moreover, I'm glad y'all like that tune by the Flecktones. Interestingly, perhaps, I too had never heard of them, Marc, before about a week ago when I was working on last Sunday's classical music show, and I stumbled upon Béla's classical stuff. Here's a generic starting point for some of his videos:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Béla+Fleck

Good News from the Golden State!

As goes California, so goes America. This evening we're hearing very good news from California. ALL of the propositions are falling against the insane Leftist mentality of higher taxes and uncontrolled spending. You can read more here.

A rather damning article about National Geographic. I had not realized how biased they have become, though I do remember being a bit surprised by the big "oil sands" feature. Here is the latest: http://tinyurl.com/qhgegf This is an article about a serious bit of distortion by NG relating to Arab Christians.

Comments are good too.

Lawrence Solomon's new book: The Deniers

This looks like a very interesting book. If any SDA regulars do read it, please share with all of us your thoughts. Thanks!

Is this spooky or what? Obama youth video: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/026858.html

Unfortunately, while the Flecktones are a seriously talented crew, I can't get worked up over their treatment of that particular tune. I've got a CD full of great movie themes, that will actually trim the time it takes to drive across Montana by several hours. The theme from Big Country is one of them. The big screen version is, well, "big."

Meanwhile, in India, the markets are soaring !

[The near collapse of India's once powerful communist parties — which lost more than half their parliamentary seats — paves the way for long-awaited economic reforms, many of which the Left had blocked over the last five years.] AP

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hUOcAbzKDi0gmhZNTw8wIiABUzpQD988LH0G0

Sorry to interrupt the proceedings, ladies and gentlemen,
but we've just received a telegram. It reads as follows:

I can't begin to tell you, Priscilla, how glad I was to hear that once again you were quite put off by something or other that you quite fortunately only saw quite a small bit of. Also, I was so delighted to hear, Reginald, that you've found a lovely new book that may indeed be very interesting and which should any of us bother to take the time to read you would certainly jolly well appreciate us telling you what it says, thus saving you the trouble of telling us, eh what? And lastly, I can never begin to thank you, Harold, for informing us about your inability to get worked up over tonight's band's treatment of that particular tune; I don't know what we would have done had we not known, or had an alternative been suggested.

That's the end of the telegram, folks, so it's back to the floor show...

Thanks ron. Have to watch and see if Global acknowledges this on the nightly news. Spells great opportunities for Canada.
The Watchdog is predicting Iggy will try for a Fall election if he can get the support of the Block and NDP. He would be wise to do so or the economic resurgence will topple his chances.
Meanwhile the CPC is scrambling to put forward Legislation to end the Long Gun Registry (Portage-Lisgar M.P. Candice Hoeppner’s Private Members Bill C-391) The Liberal and NDP MP's who said they would support C-301 welshed out and passed a BLOC Motion to support the registry and end the amnisty. May be difficult to explain to their constituents.
I hear that the attack ads are to the point and should be effective. Hope to watch a little TV and see one.

From today's National Post, regarding the apparently deceased Velupillai Prabhakaran, p.13:

Ideology: "Revolutionary socialism is my political philosophy".

Idols: Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh, Subash Chandra Bose (Indian freedom fighter who sided with Nazis in the Second World War).

And from the Globe and Mail, second part of the story header inside, p.13: Tamil leader resembled Pol Pot more than Nelson Mandela

So this is the gangster that many Tamils have been supporting all this time? The one that "is the only person fighting for our cause" because he had all the moderates killed?

Had he been successful in implementing a state of Tamil Eelam, one can bet there would have been a bloodbath (not that there wasn't already). Fortunately he has now met the fate that all "revolutionary socialists" deserve. One has to conclude that the surviving Tamils dodged a bullet.

And if the war was lost subsequent to Stephen Harper's proper designation of the LTTE as a terrorist group, which dried up funding in Canada, then it's very possible that the PM saved the Tamils from a terrible fate. Time to put up his monument in Jaffna!

Having said that, the story is not over, because the Sri Lankan government is still brutal. There is some irony that a Tamil Eelam is a much more viable proposition now that the thug Prabhakaran has been removed.

Under the "Is there anything he can't do" file we should add stimulating the dead.

http://www.wbaltv.com/money/19435100/detail.html

LindaL...your NG linkie no workie!

I see the Canadian Tamils are now asking for a massive influx of refugees to Canada from their community. Sorry, but now that know their are already 200,000 to 300,000 Tamils in Canada (who knows the real figure - ridiculous that we don't have the basic numbers), enough already. They really burned their bridges by pissing off Canadians with their occupation of Ottawa and the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto.

Here in Quebec of course their demonstrations go unchallenged and are sympathetically covered (they were out there again yesterday near the U.S. embassy, screaming 'Genocide' and drumming away to the chagrin of hotel guests and office workers nearby), so maybe we will take some refugees.

Sorry, cats woke me up at 5 o'clock. That should read 'Now that we know that there are"

“Michael Ignatieff is just visiting.*”

Iggy is just visiting Canada.

Iggy’s Canada is a Hotel Canada.

Iggy, Go Home.

Conservative Truth Ads have stung the leftists in the eyes and ears.

The bees have hit home.
The Ads have offended. More please.

As Mohammed Ali once described his boxing style, “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”.

*” Ads as insulting as they are stupid
Posted By BILL GLISKY
Posted -56 sec ago

When the federal Conservative Party released the latest attack ads against Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, the brain trust at the Intell had a brief conversation about whether this was a subject upon which we should editorialize.

The consensus at that point was no; such ads had become old hat and us ranting about how insulting, offensive and un-Canadian they were would hardly make a lick of difference.

The unspoken part of the conversation was that no matter what we said, the ads would likely work, since Canadians seem to enjoy railing against such ads out loud, only to reward the purveyors of it at the ballot box.

Over the long weekend, however, I spent an inordinate amount of time watching television and saw this version of Conservative philosophy at work - ad nauseam, I might add.

My conclusion - these ads are truly and deeply offensive.

Not the attacks themselves; they are just stupid. What makes them offensive is how little thought, intelligence or, apparently, effort went into making them.”
http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1574248

Justhinkin: Link works for me:
http://tinyurl.com/qhgegf

Try again. If it does not come up, it is a Pajamas Media link to an article headed "The Blood Libels at National Geographic."

From the Dead Christian Science Monitor (online).
...-

"What are journalists worth?

"Economic outcomes have traditionally held low priority for journalists. That's got to change."

"Even Karl Marx argued that "The first freedom of the press consists in it not being a trade."

"Adapt or die"

"Why journalists deserve low pay
The demise of the news business can be halted, but only if journalists commit to creating real value for consumers and become more involved in setting the course of their companies."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0519/p09s02-coop.html
...-

"The Christian Science Monitor to Become a Weekly - BusinessWeek
28 Oct 2008 ... The Christian Science Monitor , which turns 100 years old this year, is announcing on Tuesday, Oct. 28, that it will cease daily publication ...
www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/oct2008/db20081028

"The virtues of the multicultural era were elite virtues. The British sociologist Geoff Dench suspected, with good reason, that favouring elites was a large part of the point of multiculturalism."
...-

"Fear masquerading as tolerance

Postwar Europe was built on an intolerance of intolerance and a downplaying of national tradition—a mindset praised as anti-racism and ridiculed as political correctness. It has often made integrating newcomers hard
Christopher Caldwell"

Excerpt:

"In 1990, France’s National Assembly crossed a new frontier. In the interest of repressing ‘‘all racist, antisemitic or xenophobic acts,’’ it passed a law, sponsored by the communist deputy Jean-Claude Gayssot, that rolled back certain historic guarantees of freedom of the press. The Gayssot law criminalised not just an act but a belief, specifically the denial of (or minimising the seriousness of) the Nazi Holocaust.

Several countries soon followed suit. Once the Gayssot law passed, it became hard to make a strong case against an endless criminalisation of opinion. The episodes upon which grievance groups sought to impose an official truth—the Armenian massacres, colonialism, the slave trade—were, after all, every bit as real as the Holocaust.

The Gayssot law was set up to defeat a straw man. It addressed the populism and fascism of the 1930s that were long discredited and confined to a few cranks. The problems of the 21st century (immigration, Islamism, bankruptcy of welfare states, financial panic, and the every-man-for-himself feeling that people got living in a consumer society) were different.

There was a new cast of extremists and many were adept at gaming a legal system focused on the ills of 75 years ago. Each new officialisation of remembrance summoned into being more ‘‘moral lobbies,’’ as they are known in France, which pressed their claims with ever more insistence, in ever more central areas of political life. Serious threats could arise while Europe was keeping under surveillance a collection of ageing ‘‘fascist’’ buffoons. Arise they did."
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10749

Chris Matthews at it again, this time gets a fight but still asks about the the Scientific Method when he himself does not even understand it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JREbT6FCCFA

Moran starts with a claim that land that was underwater now has a golf course, then claims sea level rise threatens us.

MAtthews Calls Rohrabacher a luddite.
Moran insults Rohrabcher, as does Matthews.

Moran claims the IPCC states it is unequivical, a lie, plain and simple.

Matthews then again throws in the evolution and religion versus science.

Nicola - I suspect that the 'game plan' of the Tamil is to continue their rebellion and fight for a separate nation, in Canada and elsewhere but particularly in Canada.

So, they'll want any international relief money sent only to some agency in Sri Lanka that is open to corruption so that the money can be shifted to re-arm the Tamil.

Here in Canada, they'll want more refugee style immigration, i.e., the unvetted type, to build up the community even more here, and use it as a funnel for re-arming the Tamil in Sri-Lanka.

They'll use Canada as a major channel for rebuilding the Tamil Tiger rebellion.

By the way, I had a cat that woke me every day at 4:30 am; he wanted to go out hunting. Needless to say, I did as I was told. Cats are Masters.

do Tamils like fish? maybe change out the indigenous population of Nfld for Tamils in Toronto and an additional top up from Sri Lanka. Its just one lieberal voting base for another.and a rebel leader replacement with Danny Whiner Williams.

ET,
I concur with your assessment re the Tigers in exile. Look for Tamil Relief funds popping up all over with the humanitarian Canadian government approval.

BTW, I hope you live in rural Canada otherwise tie up your cat so it doesn't cr*p in my garden, mark it's territory on my stairs or end up as morning road kill.

Now that Sri Lanka has settled the TT's hash, would it be possible to get the "on hold" gangster members of their GTA fan club and assorted phony failed refugee claimants sent home?

Liberals would oppose such an action?

Really?

What possible reason...............?

Oh..............

After reading several articles and countless comments about the conservative "attack" ads I have decided that few people really understand the purpose of these ads, or why they will be effective ...

With the current state of the world, most of the typical attack routes the Liberals will be able to use against the Conservatives in the election will not work. After all the poor state of the world economy will prevent too great of a focus on environmentalism, the (generally) good health of the Canadian economy and banking system limits the attacks that they can use against Harper's handling on the economy, the years the Conservatives have been in office already limits the effectiveness of claiming the Conservatives have a "Secret Agenda", and Barack Obama as president of the United States limits how effective calling Harper "Bush Jr." or claiming that he is too American will be.

About the only (typical) attack the Liberals had left was to claim that the Conservative party was "Un-Canadian". When the Liberals typically take this approach they tend not to identify what about the Conservatives is "Un-Canadian" or to define what is so "Canadian" about the Liberal party. If the ads are effective enough at getting people to associate Iggy with being a "Tourist" he will fist have to define what it means to be a "Canadian" and then describe why the Conservatives are "Un-Canadian" before he can use this strategy.

Ultimately, why Harper has been as successful as he has been is that he has effectively defined previous leaders of the Liberal party before they had an opportunity to define themself; and he has limited their ability to use their standard attacks against him. At each step the pundits were outraged by his attacks, and yet they were all very successful.

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OTTAWA–Canada's auditor general wants to lift the lid on expense claims and other spending by MPs and senators.

Sheila Fraser began talks with the Commons and Senate earlier this year, well before the expense-claim scandal erupted in Britain.

Fraser's office said yesterday she wants to conduct a "performance audit" to ensure taxpayers are receiving value for their money.

If the talks give Fraser full access to expense claims and other data, it will be the first foray by the auditor general into Parliament's books since 1991, when only a sample of expenditures was audited.

MPs and senators have long resisted incursions by the auditor general. The Commons uses the private accounting firm KPMG to do annual audits of its statements.

Two people have been arrested in our city of Woodstock, Ontario and charged with the abduction and murder of eight year old Victoria Stafford.

At this time news media are saying a search for her body is now underway.

Evil has descended in our city.

That is what I understood about the CPC ads on tv and what was went to me in an email 'NoOne'.

'hardboiled' I hope this happens. It is needed.

http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1574248
Posted by: maz2 at May 20, 2009 7:28 AM

Thanks for the link.

LindaL: "Clearly Tom Clark (and I would guess many others in the media) do see themselves as an "elite" group ..."

Tom Clark grew up in tony Rosedale in Toronto and went to Upper Canada College. His siblings also went to private schools. 'Nothing wrong with that. Some people have to be rich and it's not a crime.
However, when it's largely these privileged types who get the plummy jobs in the media and then pontificate to the rest of us from their lofty heights, it gets annoying.

It's particularly irritating when they take on the lib-left, let's hug a thug and give away everyone else's money to "help" all the "poor" folks who've made bad choices in their lives and need housing, food, psychologists, sociologists, and special education plans for their badly behaved kids.

Look, the Tom Clarks of the media live in beautiful houses on lovely tree-lined streets, away from the madding crowd and take off for their ski cabins and summer cottages on weekends. They don't have to deal with the daily squalor on the streets that the rest of us do. They're definitely elites and there's no oblesse oblige that I can see. They really do think they know better than the rest of us -- and seem to have a particular contempt for rural, religious, and c/Conservative folks. They seem to think that the Lib/Dipper way of throwing money at social problems -- OUR hard-earned tax dollars -- is the way to go. They've got big salaries, full bank accounts, and tax shelters and loop holes galore, so what do they care?

Re Tori Stafford: Rest eternal grant unto her, O Lord, and may light perpetual shine upon her. May she rest in peace.

My mother's heart goes out to her parents. This unfolding scenario is a parent's worst nightmare.

You don't have to be a Liberal to know that attacks are plain childish. They may worked in the early '90 when the population had little exposure to the Internet. Today, they look more annoying then spam.
I guess CPC hired ad creators who are 13 year old : pooping birds, new guy in the class routine; what's next? bathroom wall?
The Conservative Party lost its classiness and the ads are sad reflection on little to offer the party has.

Warren Kinsella was for attack ads before he was against them.

Iggy is oozing with material - the reason for the change of heart ?

Inspector General , Danny Kaye looks like a genious compared to this one!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXlxBeAvsB8&eurl=http%3A%2F%25

This** was written before the American election.

How to judge?

Judge by the results*; judge not by good intentions.
…-

**”Barack Obama - Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?
Sam Vaknin Ph.D.
August 11, 2008
Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist. Scroll down for a detailed treatment.”
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/71124

*Here is the ObamaNarcissist: “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “I”, “my”, “my”, “I”, “I’, “me”, “we”, “we”, “our”, “we”, “we”, “we”, “we”, >>> etc.

““After I read the doctor’s letter, I wrote back to him and I thanked him. And I didn’t change my underlying position, but I did tell my staff to change the words on my website,” said Obama. “And I said a prayer that night that I might extend the same presumption of good faith to others that the doctor had extended to me. Because when we do that–when we open up our hearts and our minds to those who may not think precisely like we do or believe precisely what we believe–that’s when we discover at least the possibility of common ground.

“That’s when we begin to say, ‘Maybe we won’t agree on abortion, but we can still agree that this heart-wrenching decision for any woman is not made casually, it has both moral and spiritual dimensions.””

*”Crying Baby Interrupted Obama as He Justified His Abortion Position at Notre Dame”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254036/posts

Liberal Iggy's News Service, aka MSM, writes/runs/disseminates attack ads 24/7 on behalf of the IggyLiberals.

IggyLiberals are not invoiced for these attack ads. They are Free propaganda from the MSM.

So, what's the quid pro quo? A Senate seat? A stealth presence at the Cabinet table? Grant monies? It's a circular scam.

An old German aphorism translates to: Who pays is boss, and who takes money must also give something.

An example of a free/no charge, to the LiberalIggys, attack ad from Iggy's News Service here:

"Attack ads dumb down politics"
http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/483678

Example of an Iggy's News Service attack ad.

A freebie attack ad from the MSM/aka Iggy's News Service for/on behalf of the IggyLiberals.

The target/audience is the Canadian voter, aka you.

This costs the IggyLiberals squat/zero/nada/nothing/zilch.

What is MacDonald's reward? A cash payment from the MSM, of course.

What is the payment/reward for the MSM from the IggyLiberals? That is the Great Unseen.
But, there is a quid pro quo.
TBA.
...-

"Harper has the reputation of 'Mr. Mean' in Quebec
L. IAN MacDONALD"

Conservation message lost in packaging

Toronto agency promotes energy-saving initiatives in its many-layered release
May 20, 2009 04:30 AM
CITY HALL BUREAU

How much packaging does it take to promote energy conservation?

Lots, evidently, if you're Toronto's Better Buildings Partnership.

The partnership, which provides incentives for energy conservation in new and existing large buildings, issued a one-page press release yesterday. But it wasn't the release that was eye-catching.

It arrived in a large brown paper envelope, padded with plastic bubble wrap.

Inside the envelope was a cardboard box.

Inside the box, stuffed with tissue paper, was a green Lego toy, representing a building, with the Better Buildings Partnership logo on it.

Also in the box was a colour picture of the Lego toy; a piece of paper with the Better Buildings Partnership logo; and a one-page release about the Better Buildings Partnership.

Angela Gurley of Ketchum Public Relations, which handled the release, said the release was made as eco-friendly as possible.

Conservation message lost in packaging

Toronto agency promotes energy-saving initiatives in its many-layered release
May 20, 2009 04:30 AM
CITY HALL BUREAU

How much packaging does it take to promote energy conservation? Lots, evidently, if you're Toronto's Better Buildings Partnership.

The partnership, which provides incentives for energy conservation in new and existing large buildings, issued a one-page press release yesterday. But it wasn't the release that was eye-catching.

It arrived in a large brown paper envelope, padded with plastic bubble wrap.

Inside the envelope was a cardboard box.

Inside the box, stuffed with tissue paper, was a green Lego toy, representing a building, with the Better Buildings Partnership logo on it.

Also in the box was a colour picture of the Lego toy; a piece of paper with the Better Buildings Partnership logo; and a one-page release about the Better Buildings Partnership.

Angela Gurley of Ketchum Public Relations, which handled the release, said the release was made as eco-friendly as possible.

The obesity epidemic in the US is due solely to increased food intake
May 14, 2009 | Fran Lowry

Melbourne, Australia - The amount of food Americans eat has been increasing since the 1970s, and that alone is the cause of the obesity epidemic in the US today [1]. Physical activity—or the lack thereof—has played virtually no role in the rising number of expanding American waistlines, according to research presented at the 2009 European Congress on Obesity in Amsterdam last week.

The finding is contrary to the widely held assumption that decreased physical activity is an equally important driver of overweight and obesity in the US, said lead author Dr Boyd Swinburn (Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia)...."

Thank heaven for science.

Joe Molnar:
I regret this happening anywhere but as Woodstock is the city of my birth and home to several relatives, I share your feelings in a personal way.
It is indeed evil incarnate. If those arrested are indeed involved, I would like to see them hung from the old glass encased room that adorns the top of the old city jail. I have been told that that is where they executed persons in the past.

The apparatchiks at the CBC have as their mandate the Heavenly Message: Debauch PM Harper; debauch the Canadian people.

The CBC's mandate is shown to be naught but Iggy's News Service.

Sample the Message here:

"Your Comments: Do political attack ads work?"
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourbeststuff/2009/05/your_comments_do_political_att.html

It's now ok to be a dissenter. It's now official.
Global warming causes global cooling.

But, does global cooling cause global warming?
That's a better question.

Thus, we have a pairaducks*.
...-

"Global Warming May Result In Some Periods Of Cooling In Southeastern United States

Global warming may include some periods of local cooling, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. Results from satellite and ground-based sensor data show that sweltering summers can, *paradoxically, lead to the temporary formation of a cooling haze in the southeastern United States.

The study, to be published the week of May 18 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that when manmade pollutants mix with the natural compounds emitted from forests and vegetation during the hot summer months, they form secondary aerosols that reflect light from the sun. Such aerosols may also contribute to the formation of clouds, which also reflect sunlight."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254823/posts

Xiat: "You don't have to be a Liberal to know that attacks are plain childish" -- I totally disagree. The ads focus on an important question. The effectiveness of the ads will be determined by whether or not ordinary people respond by asking "Yeah, why is Iggy running for P.M.?" It's an important question and an obvious weakness in the Iggy camp. I found the ads to be attention getting and memorable. Doesn't mean you have to like the ads -- graphically, or otherwise. The point is whether or not the message (in this case question for voters) hits home.

"If those arrested are indeed involved, I would like to see them hung from the old glass encased room that adorns the top of the old city jail. I have been told that that is where they executed persons in the past.

Posted by: Atric at May 20, 2009 1:44 PM

For now, those two arrested have the presumption of innocence ........... however, if they are indeed guilty, then my hope is they never see the outside of a prison wall.

FYI Atric. . . .

You are correct in regards to our Old Woodstock Gaol here is a true account from the past.

Oxford County Jail (Woodstock, ON)
Thomas Cook was hanged in 1860 for the murder of his wife. A mask of his face adorns the archway around the front door of this jail in Woodstock, it is the only Ontario jail adorned in such a way.
Thomas Cook Death Mask
Convicted of murdering his wife, as equally combative and alcoholic as he, he was as notorious in death as in life, for, at Tom's appointment with eternity in 1862, the hangman miscalculated and, with the drop, removed his head, which rolled toward the crowd, much to its gothic horror, and secret satisfaction.
Location: Set in the stonework beside the 410 Buller St. door to the old Oxford County Gaol (Woodstock)

Canada’s Prentice Says Carmakers Should Achieve New Standards
By Alexandre Deslongchamps

May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice said carmakers should be able to achieve new North American emission standards, even as some struggle to reorganize their operations.

U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday announced the first national standard for greenhouse-gas emissions from automobiles and tougher fuel-mileage standards. Canada will match new U.S. emission standards for cars, Prentice said, because a single set of rules is better for consumers and manufacturers.

“Obviously, for the model years 2012 and thereafter, it will require some technological developments,” Prentice said in an interview today. “The sense I have in talking with industry is that they’ll be working toward those standards. It will have some implications in terms of the choices available to consumers and the kinds of vehicles they’ll be producing.”

Dictating what to build, along with his brand new carbon tax, Prentice the Red is moving faster than Dion ever could have.

And he isn't labeled as a 'Liberal'.

Look out for more Liberals wanting to be ministers in the Conservative Party soon...

I just heard a guy on the radio say that all conservative political parties are doomed because "smarter, more well educated people" only vote for left-of-center parties.

Really? This might be the nightly wet dream of Leftists the world over but I don't think it holds even a tiny degree of truth!

I wonder how this fellow would explain the massive landslide against his favoured Leftist thinking yesterday in California?!? Oh wait, facts don't actually matter for people like him!

"Can the attack ads StarPhoenix"

Liberal Iggy replies: The Emperor Strikes Back at StarPhoenix.

Iggy goes on the attack, attacking attack ads with an attack ad. Tacky, no?

This MSM attack ad has not cost IggyLiberals a dime. Nice work, MSM.

Iggy's reply comes courtesy Iggy's NewsService, TORedStar/MSM.

"Ignatieff strikes back at attack ads
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has taken to YouTube -- to blast the Conservatives for their latest wave of attack ads." (TORedStar)

RobertW Re: "I just heard a guy on the radio say that all conservative political parties are doomed because "smarter, more well educated people" only vote for left-of-center parties." Well, I don't agree with this point, but even if it were true, the commenter seems to have missed that people are really getting dumber. I believe this has been verified.

Generally speaking, people have been getting smarter for some time now, at least by some measures, although there are some indications this phenomenon may be starting to peter out in some cases. For more information see:

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

The Tamil Tigers may have been defeated in their home country,but the job is not completely over. Hopefully, after a few weeks of well-deserved rest, a couple of hundred of the Sri Lankan army will come to Canada and take care of the rest of the TT's and their supporters.

Here is an Attack Ad from Iggy’s MSM Newsservice/Server, sub branch Canwest, with a headline that is misleading, fatuous, and dissembling.

The report following the headline is a dog’s breakfast of deviousness which only a left spinmeister could muster.

It’s an IggyBarf Alert. It’s one POS.
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“Canada criticized for posting Economist’s seal article on website
Peter O’Neil, Europe Correspondent, Canwest News Service”

[The MSM report concludes with this animal rights propaganda:]

“There are dozens of organizations across Europe working and campaigning to stop bull-fighting and foie gras force-feeding and we are certain that, in time, they will succeed in ending these practices, but it takes a long time,” Mr. Hiel said.

“No one in Europe thinks that the EU is a perfect set of institutions . . . but the overall trend is one towards a better world for animals and people.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1613557

Golly Joe, you can say it much better than me.
My aunt ( who is still alive, although beset by Alzheimers) worked all her life with the Crown Attorney there. The stories she could tell are legend.
Next time I'm in Woodstock, I'll look for the death mask. By the way, have you identified the seven monkeys engraved into the facade of the courthouse?

Vitruvius re this from Wikipedia: "estimates that if American children of 1932 could take an IQ test normed in 1997 their average IQ would have been only about 80." -- I don't believe this for a minute -- at least not with respect to verbal ability and language skills. I have read that in the 30's/40's the average vocabulary was something like 3 times what it is today. I will try to dig out the source of this. I have already read somewhere that increasingly there are fewer people at the top of the scale and more towards the lower end.

Hey Atric, the next time you are in Woodstock, let me know and I will share a "cold one" with you.

Geez , to be truthful, I can't help out regarding the monkeys on the courthouse, I know they exist but have forgotten their background.

However, I suspect they may get some play once a trial takes place for the two charged today in the murder of Victoria Stafford.

And I Googled and cut and pasted the Thomas Cook piece

No Red Tory … No Red Tory … No Red Tory …

Go Randy Hillier.
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“Tory leadership race heats up over human rights commissions

TORONTO – The race to lead Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party heated up Wednesday, as Christine Elliott, the centrist wife of federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, trashed her rivals’ plan to scrap the province’s human rights tribunal.

Speaking to a luncheon crowd in downtown Toronto, Elliott called the plan – introduced by Randy Hillier and quickly adopted by Tim Hudak – a short term political ploy that could end up leading the party to defeat in the next provincial election.

“It would be a gift to the Liberals, one they would exploit as ruthlessly as they did with faith-based funding,” she said, referring to former leader John Tory’s disastrous 2007 election plan to fund religious schools.

“Just like faith-based funding, this is a policy that was made with the short term goal of winning a leadership campaign,” said Elliott. “Why on earth would we want to expose ourselves by plunging recklessly into such a controversial issue?”

“If we’re going to beat the Liberals, we have to show better judgment than that.”

Elliot’s attacks were aimed mainly at Hudak, the one-time Tory cabinet minister endorsed as leader by former premier Mike Harris, who is perceived to be her chief rival in the contest. Hillier, a rookie MPP who gained enormous traction in rural Ontario as head of a libertarian landowners group, was only mentioned in passing.”

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Long after the day's rush of activity ....

Vitruvius .... Post Modern is what Bella is ... the modern age of music ... by my reckoning ... began around the begining of the 20th century and peaked in the 1950s .... Bella IMO takes off from those heady days and wings into the future ... hence Post Modern.

Oh yeah .... Go Randy...

He adopted Britain as his home.

He has called America his country...

sounds like the facts to me.

That's negative????????

Oh look, we're debating health care at the CBC!
Oh, wait, no we're not, we're bashing the US again.

Too bad we can't have a rational discussion about the various health care systems around the world instead of the one dimensional BS we hear about the US vs our system.
It's also too bad that the political agenda of the so called CBC takes precedence over the welfare of the actual patients.
I wonder just how much blood is on their hands as a result of sidetracking every debate into a anti-American hatefest?

/www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/05/15/f-rfa-macdonald.html#socialcomments

"He brags he's horribly arrogant and that he's cosmopolitan...."

a new tory "attack ad"

These are words right out of the iggymeister's mouth.

If you don't like what people say about you, then you should be careful about what you say.