Time Magazine's Joel Klein: Those who oppose Obama's plans will soon join WE, the public, who adore HIM. So say I:

" We are at the point of the legislative process where all seems hopeless, but Obama should be heartened by the fact that most of his Republican adversaries oppose the bill for crass political rather than ideological reasons. They assume that if it passes, his investment of political capital will result in higher poll numbers — which means they assume the public will like the changes he is proposing.

"And, I fearlessly predict, the public will."

Sketch 5 is the keeper.

Vellcome to Germany gentlemen.

...

Thats against the Geneva convention n shit. You can be taken to court.

You have no rights in zis room!

This clip should be sent to Iggy on his ruminations on torture.

Ausgezeichnet EBD.

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht-Commander in Chief
Army Group "True North"
1st St. Nicolaas Army

Ex-president Jimmy Carter comes out saying the criticism of Obama"s policies are race based. Pundits on CNN are tripping over each other's tongues trying to support this man, the worst president in memory.
This same president while in power is remembered (well, by me) as saying that "..Americans have an inordinate fear of communism..". This, at a time that when Pol Pot was killing tens of thousands of his own citizens.
Some time later tonight, CNN is promising a story on the ACORN hidden tapes. Still waiting.

Larry, the "racism" meme is way past ridiculous at this point. After Joe Wilson shouted "You lie!" during Obama's speech to Congress - a rude and stupid thing to do, to be sure - Maureen Dowd of the New York Times wrote "what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy."

So...questioning the veracity of a particular black man is the same as calling him "boy."

There's no reason to it, no justice, and no shame. What people like Jimmy Carter and Dowd are doing is the equivalent of a summary execution without a trial.

I guess CNN won't mention that Jimmah's two books are favourites over at "Sheikh Usama's Waziristan Book Club".

(Charles Krauthammer and Sean Hannity told me that bin Laden's latest tape recommends that 'kafir' read Jimmah's foreign policy tomes.)

The 9/12 protesters would love-love-love Obama if only they were better informed. The Chicago Tribune's Clarence Page can only pity them:

"I bet a poll would show half of (the 9/12 protesters) didn't know what socialism was, but they know it’s not good and they’re afraid of it, and this is a way to come together with like-minded people. I — I actually feel sorry for them that they aren’t a little better informed."

http://newsrealblog.com/2009/09/15/leftists-arent-elitists-theyre-just-better-than-you/

Bwaa-haa! So funny those vids! And, that just perfectly summarizes 70-ish years of western societal trajectory

Cjunk has a 9/12 counter protest. The beauty is the oounts. 25,000, no 30,000 no 60,000. Looks like a 3 province Liberal rally to me 1,000 tops.

http://cjunk.blogspot.com/

"The Impact of The Stimulus Package Was Subtle At First."

Jaffer, former MP, charged with possession of cocaine.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090916/jaffer_charged_090916/20090916?hub=TopStories

Very dissappointing news.

ah jeez bluetech ya scooped me by 3 minutes.

vote conservative !!! party of the hypocrites where PMSH calls an election in 2008 (thus breaking his OWN law) thinking it spells majority and then whines when the opposition makes with election talk in 2009 !!!

hypocrites all of them.

Fifth Acorn video: this time in San Diego:

http://www.breitbart.tv/breaking-fifth-undercover-acorn-video-shows-official-plotting-to-help-smuggle-sex-slaves/

Did anyone else receive a "personalized" email from the CPC and Mike Duffy?

It was very well done, and he appears to be on his way to becoming one of the main spokespersons for the party.(what Hugh Segal has in substance, the Duff has in style...I can say this with some authority as I have met both men on more than one occasion).

There is also a section for comments, and it will be interesting to see if the CPC is paying attention to it's membership and the grassroots.

Yes, Kingstonlad, I received a Duffygram as well. Cool!

Re ex-Conservative MP. getting charged re driving and drinking, also worse. I heard the news on CBC. Peter Mansbridge and the usual female newscaster.
Early thrills for the usual suspects. They will not lay a glove on Stephen Harper though.

Jimmy the nut.. may have issued a warning to those Democrats in Congress who are backing away from Pelosi & Obama....Jimmy was the BAG man who collected kickbacks & decided who got support Money. He is a nasty shit who played a President.

Just a thought,

In our continuing series on bias in the Quebec media (French and English) against the Conservatives we had RDI's Anne-Marie Dussault's interview of Lawrence Cannon in Washington.

Before they got into P.M. Harper's visit to Washington, she asked about the apparent propping up of the government "by the socialists and the separatists" and how did the Conservatives like that. When Cannon tried to politely answer her loaded question, she then came back again with the same loaded phrase about socialists and separatists.

RDI is the Radio Canada version of Newsworld - this hatchet job appeared at around 19:15 on the programme "24h en 60 minutes".

Gosh, I thought I was the only one on a first-name basis with Mike.

How ironic it will be that on the heels of the Ted Kennedy love-in -- a man who actually killed someone as a result of impaired driving -- Jaffer will be pounded relentlessly by MSM with assertions that he could have.

does this:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090916/world/international_us_afghanistan_election

mean that 15 years from now karzai will be throwing thousands of Afghan dissidents into jail on trumped up charges? with Canadian military still on the ground taking the flak? literally and figuratively?

echoes of a war in SE Asia . . . .

Jimmy Carter is well known as the worst President in US history. He has one thing to look forward to regarding Obama's presidency: soon Carter will be known as the seond-worst President in US history.

Warning, Bugs Bunny reference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vCp_seMEfA

Plan b healthcare option was introduced in the senate today.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/16/AR2009091601151.html?hpid=topnews

As was expected there is no explicit government option but instead a backdoor way of getting it - insuance coops and mandatory enrolment for everyone but illegals (they presumably will still have access to Medicare and medicaid). The unions are pissed because it proposes a tax on high end health plans which many of their members have and it looks like lawyers may not like the tiny attempt at torte reform.

This bill has the beginnings of having a chance. With some changes some soft GOP sens could go for it - particularly the two red Tory types in Maine. I wonder if Obama will throw the unions and lawyers under the bus - probably not.

Now is when the teaparty groups will really have to prove their mettle and stick to the fight of this a bill that looks far less offensive on the surface but is just as bad as the crap
that pelosi and co. produced in the house.

Over at CTV:
"Chiefs furious after body bags sent to reserves"

Many of the commenters are discussing how insensitive, racist, troglodytic, etc. etc. the government is for sending body bags (during a PANDEMIC, GOSH, I know!) to aboriginal communities in Manitoba.

Some sanctimonious individuals (such as commenter 'Outraged') decry the 'racist' nature of government bureaucratic policy:

"...Not sending them hand sanitizer because they might drink it smacks of racism.... it's still business as usual with 'manifest destiny'."

To which "MikeINBC" promptly and tersely replies:

What I can't figure out is when I need some hand sanitizer I have to go out and buy it....

Looks like the pc crowd in Ottawa wants to rewrite history so that it won’t be “giving offence to communists”
http://unclemeat.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/remember-the-100-million-3/

Conservative MP Helena Guergis: "I take this very seriously. I love my husband. I will wait for further information before I make any comment."

Somewhere, there's a Temperance Wagon without a tambourine player...

Re. Jaffer, the Red Star's first, brief account of it mentions Jaffer's (and his wife's) party affiliation about a dozen times.

Funny, Michael Bryant killed a cyclist and stories about him usually just reported him once as a "former cabinet minister" and sometimes with a one-time reference to "in McGuinty's government" but left his party affiliation unstated.

So, name that party!

"The Impact of The Stimulus Package Was Subtle At First."

The Olympic village site in Vancouver.

Re: Rahim Jaffer's DUI arrest: the CBC neglects to mention that this happened last week. Why did they sit on the story until today? Was somebody hoping an election would be called, and they could kick things off with this story painting the Conservatives in a poor light?

Just a wild, paranoid theory.

I laughed out loud when I read the Title to this BBC NEWS story:

"GUNS CAMPAIGNER STABBED TO DEATH

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_yorkshire/7430668.stm

Good point, Turtle. Or saving it for the PM's trip to Washington.

Turtle, you're on exactly the right track, only, based on tonight's National, the CBC clearly waited a week not because they thought there'd be an election, but rather they waited until the PM was on an official visit with President Obama.

Immediately after the segment about ex-MP Jaffer, they segued into the - apparently less important - story about the PM's visit with Obama - which was disrespectfully titled "Mr. Harper Goes to Washington" - with these words:

"The Prime Minister was probably happy not to be in Ottawa for THAT news..."

Yes, that was actually the introduction to the story of the PM's meeting with Obama. They're nothing but Liberal shills, flat-out. Jaffer is a *former* Conservative MP, and furthermore he wasn't even nominated as the Conservative candidate last time out, having been elbowed out, more or less, but the CBC introduces it's coverage of the official visit by a Canadian PM with the words "the Prime Minister was probably happy not to be in Ottawa for that news..."

Mansbridge is a complete fraud - you can see it when he introduces the stories, and when he essentially *grills* non-Conservative-unfriendly reporters like the new woman (her name escapes me at the moment) who was introduced this week.

The CBC producers should be sued by Conservative taxpayers.

I don't know how the Ceeb can get away with their blatant, over-the-top bias when the taxpayers are propping them up to the tune of a cool billion a year.

They know *exactly* what they're doing, too.

"Unprofessional" or "biased" doesn't even cover it at this point.

There's clearly no licensing standard whatsoever for journalists. It shows.

Just despicable. What a bunch of frauds.

The money quote:
"We invited Greenpeace to discuss their climate and energy views with us directly but they chose not to do so, which is disappointing."

Greenpeace hippies chain themselves to a dumptruck in Fort McMurray:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2009/09/16/edmonton-greenpeace-oilsands-protest-ends.html?ref=rss

Of course, when it's -50 windchill, they're snug at home with the central heating cranked, instead of protesting.

With regards to Jaffer,who is no longer a MP,why would this make the national news? You will notice that the MSM is very mum about a sitting Liberal Senator that is being investigated in BC for a multi million dollar fraud! Now that is news!!

It's a good thing that Stephen Harper's Law and Order Party is pushing for longer criminal sentences. Otherwise Jaffer would have an excellent chance at becoming the next Premier of BC.

Better yet, if he was American he could go from being a drunken coke head to President of the USA, just like good ol' W did.

For all those following the demise of Little Green Footballs, this will make you laugh:

http://dennisthepeasant.typepad.com/dennis_the_peasant/2009/09/evidently-the-man-has-made-some-enemies.html

Once again, a leftoid troll yaps off without making any sense.

It is not the sentence that affects the convict's ability to find work, it is the CONVICTION.

Longer sentences protect the public, and help give the victim a sense that justice has been served.

And, yes, IF he is guilty, throw him into prison, irregardless of his political persuasions.

Cuz, unlike thieving librano scum, us cons like to apply the law equally to all.

BTW ulianov, when you see dr fruitfly at the next moonbatsrus convention, tell the lying piece of sh1t that I want a refund for the lack of global warming we are seeing lately....I would like to put it against my heating bill this winter....

I'm now listening to Freddie from Queen. His vocals are amazing, and the band is also worth paying money for.

Why are "gay" groups associating themselves with political groups that don't appreciate them?

Queen is fascinating, amazing music.

c-george...lame comment as usual.
Jaffer lost the last election possibly because the voters were disappointed with his performance as an MP. Other incumbents were re-elected.
Jaffer does not exemplify CPC just as Bryant does not exemplify Liberals.
Again the bigger story here is the MSM.Blatant difference in reporting.Conspicuous in its absence was the link to the Liberal Party for almost over 24 hours of Bryant and his fatal accident.
Not so with Jaffer.Guess uli and george missed the obvious story here.
Good point turtle...it's manipulation to wait.

"The Lynch Mob

Today’s Lynch List

Alright, here we go.

First off, why don’t you listen to Marc Lemire’s appearance on the Roadkill Radio program. Definitely worth a listen. You can listen to it here.

Second, more coverage of Mark Steyn’s article smacking down Richard Warman in Macleans from Kenneth Hynek and Post-Darwinist.

Third, Denyse O’Leary’s article for Mercator, Shooting the Messenger, is also noted and at least partially republished by Anglican Mainstream, and has also been picked up by Spero News.

Fourth, the blowback from Rob Anders’ pamphlets recieves more coverage, from Centurean2’s Weblog, and even from CTV.

Fifth, Ezra Levant’s upcoming appearance in Toronto gets coverage from The Woodstock Ontario Independent News, and you can read a little bit about the Pro-Life Conference that he’s also going to be attending later this year at UofT Students For Life.

Sixth, Brian Lilley writes, for Canada Politics Examiner: When the state attacks the church:

Anyone who says that religion and politics don’t mix is a person I don’t want to have dinner with; really, these are the topics that animate life, at least life outside our own homes. Yet there are places where religion and politics should not mix and that is in one side telling the other what to do. What we have in two cases being deal with at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario is a case of the state trying to tell a church and a religious organization what to do and that is scary. One case involves the rights tribunal examining whether a Roman Catholic bishop should be forced to reinstate a gay man as an altar server, the other a non-Catholic trying to get tribunal to rule that a Catholic school cannot favour Catholic teachers in its hiring. Both should be thrown out, neither should have even been looked at.

The separation of church and state goes back long before Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to Danbury Baptists or to U.S. Supreme Court decisions banning school prayer in the United States. It goes back long before Canadians decided to large numbers to stop filling the pews of the local church and began viewing religion as something purely private matter. The truth of the matter is it was developed over centuries going back to medieval princes trying to secure control of local churches in Europe, hoping to make the seat of the bishop something they controlled along with the riches of the church.

These cases are attempting to make a mockery of the freedom of religion deemed a fundamental freedom and guaranteed in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms."
http://missnixon.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/todays-lynch-list-47/

Ontario Premier McGunity hopes patients won't have to cross to U.S. after Fort Erie ER closes

McGuinty was asked if people in the Fort Erie area could find themselves being forced to take an ambulance into Buffalo, N.Y., in a crisis situation after their local emergency department closes.

"I should certainly hope not," he said.

Ontario Premier McGunity hopes patients won't have to cross to U.S. after Fort Erie ER closes

McGuinty was asked if people in the Fort Erie area could find themselves being forced to take an ambulance into Buffalo, N.Y., in a crisis situation after their local emergency department closes.

"I should certainly hope not," he said.

Here's a link to the Star's story on Rahim Jaffer's arrest - party affiliation in the headline
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/696986

I remember having to read to the bottom of the article to discover Michael Bryant's party affiliation. Unfortunately the Star's search function doesn't go back far enough.

"Better yet, if he was American he could go from being a drunken coke head to President of the USA, just like good ol' W did."

read Barry's books. Make that two ex-coke heads to make it to POTUS.

Barry . . . a good ol coke head

John Stossel describes why he is leaving ABC: New Fox Show to Focus on Liberty, Limited Government (Asteroid series material??)

Years ago, ABC hired me to do consumer reporting. When I wised up, deciding consumer "advocates" usually did more harm than good, that horrified some of my colleagues.

When I did my first TV special, I pointed out that regulation itself, by stifling innovation, can make life less safe. Two producers angrily objected, saying, "No respectable journalist would say that." The senior producer on the program smugly told me, "You just can't say that on network TV."

...

It's interesting to explore the premises here. I have been one of the few reporters on mainstream network TV who did not hide his political beliefs. Viewers know I am for individual liberty and the free market, and against government coercion. I thought that this candor might earn me some credit from those who disagree with me. After all, by putting my views out there, everyone can judge my reports accordingly.

But — surprise! — it did not win me much credit with those who disagreed. Instead, many act as if I am the only reporter who has an ideology.

Of course, that's absurd. Every reporter has political beliefs. The difference is that I am upfront about mine.

Al W,

You don't mean that "other" Jaffer do you?...must run in the family!

(Asteroid series material??) John Stossel describes why he is leaving ABC

New Fox Show to Focus on Liberty, Limited Government
http://www.newsmax.com/stossel/fox_abc_stossel/2009/09/16/260954.html

Years ago, ABC hired me to do consumer reporting. When I wised up, deciding consumer "advocates" usually did more harm than good, that horrified some of my colleagues.

When I did my first TV special, I pointed out that regulation itself, by stifling innovation, can make life less safe. Two producers angrily objected, saying, "No respectable journalist would say that." The senior producer on the program smugly told me, "You just can't say that on network TV."

...

It's interesting to explore the premises here. I have been one of the few reporters on mainstream network TV who did not hide his political beliefs. Viewers know I am for individual liberty and the free market, and against government coercion. I thought that this candor might earn me some credit from those who disagree with me. After all, by putting my views out there, everyone can judge my reports accordingly.

But — surprise! — it did not win me much credit with those who disagreed. Instead, many act as if I am the only reporter who has an ideology.

Of course, that's absurd. Every reporter has political beliefs. The difference is that I am upfront about mine.

Another Poll does not fair well for Ignatieff's Liberals, And this one for the CBC.

Conservatives Lead widens in Poll
cbc.ca/Ekos sept.17/09

Conservative 35.1%
liberal 29.9%
ndp 16.5%
bq 09.6%
grn 09.%

Meanwhile back in Liberal La La Land, Ignatieff say's PM's Washington meeting with President Obama "Amateur Hour".
*Note ctv's Bob Fife report calling the meeting productive & a growing friendship in another report indicating normaly their is only 5min Scrum, PM's over 20min.
So how? was this meeting "Amateur Hour".
No Canada's got Talent & our PM is displaying it.

Since PMSH is doing so well perhaps it is a good time for him to get going on this issue.

Steyn says Section 13 is dead.

http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/

What took Obama so long?

http://tinyurl.com/n6c77o

He's got better plans for tax payers money. I'm sure it's the first of many cuts.

Bluetech: "Since PMSH is doing so well perhaps it is a good time for him to get going on this issue.

Steyn says Section 13 is dead."

That's a good and very encouraging article. I mean, Steyn is often pessimistic about developments in our society, so the fact that he sees the end of sec. 13 as already here means something.

It will, however, require a majority Conservative government to nudge sec. 13 over the cliff. The Conservatives simply don't have the confidence that they can sell this in a minority parliament, or that they can counter the awful spin that it will get from the opposition and in the media -- who of course have the most to lose from the continued existence of sec. 13 ... but never mind.

His bus is trampling whole countries now !!

[ Poland and the Czech Republic had based much of their future security policy on getting the missile defenses from the United States. The countries share deep concerns of a future military threat from the east -- namely, Russia -- and may now look for other defense assurances from their NATO allies.} CNN

It was so predictable.

Garry:

You are correct it is the "other" Jaffer and her son that are being investigated. You don`t hear much about this on CBC or CTV do you?

The lefties do the laugh track and sock puppet thing very well - they're experts. If the reality doesn't fit the narrative, there's always the soft social "adjustment" available to nudge the perceived status quo towards that which is desired.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LaughTrack

In the early days of television, comedies were "traditionally" performed essentially as short plays in front of a live Studio Audience, broadcast live or with minimal editing (see Three Cameras). However, as television production grew more sophisticated in the late 1940s and early 1950s, there was at least a partial shift from live performances to productions that were filmed movie-style in a closed sound stage. The latter gave the director more freedom in selecting shots and angles, as well as the luxury of multiple takes. However, there was no longer an audience to provide instant feedback on the humor.

The general opinion of the audience held by television executives then (and now!) was appallingly low. There was serious concern that without a Studio Audience to "prompt" the home viewer's responses, a comedy would fall flat. The solution was the creation of the Laugh Track — an artificial audience that did nothing but react uproariously to anything and everything.

Naturally, within a few years of its introduction, it was abused and overused. Every punchline, no matter how lame or subtle, would receive the same tsunami of belly laughs from the virtual audience. By the 1970s it had become an annoying intrusion, hated but (in the minds of most producers) mandatory. It wasn't until M*A*S*H boldly dispensed with its laugh track several seasons into its run did it begin to lose its hold on television comedies. It's still around, but it's not nearly as prominent or overused as it used to be.

Although it may not seem so, laugh tracks were surprisingly sophisticated systems at the height of their use. Rather than being just simple recordings of a laughing audience, they were actually carefully generated and mixed, with such discrete components as "the guy who gets the joke early" and "housewife giggles" and "the one who didn't get the joke but is laughing anyway" all precisely blended and reblended to create the illusion of a real audience responding to the show.

The easily-led lefties think Laugh Tracks reflect reality. "Critical thinkers" that presuppose well-meaning naivete and "do goodness" from the lefties are falling into the trap.

There's a reason why there are efforts to champion the notion of lowering the voting age.

One problem with increased communication within the "proletariat" is that "professional communicators" tend to define and obfuscate arguments to further their goals. One example might be straw man attacks.

The sooner the "average Joe" understands debating tactics and the use of rhetoric, the better off we will all be.

CBC's Susan Ormiston in her interview with Canada's first ever Ambassador to Afghanistan, Chris Alexander refers to the small view Canadians have on Afghanistan. I wish I could think as large as her.

Breaking: Who flew over the Puffins’ nests?

Goofy Liberal Ignatieff: apologize Liberal Ignatieff; apologize to the Indians and Canadians.
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“Pandemic swine flu detected on Vancouver Island

The first pandemic outbreak in Canada’s fall flu season of the H1NI swine flu involves a group of remote aboriginal communities near Tofino on the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Canadian Medical Association Journal is reporting” (NNW)
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“Ignatieff demands apology over body bag shipments
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is calling for an apology from the health minister after some aboriginal reserves received dozens of body bags from Health Canada” (NNW)

Memes have to be carefully evaluated in this Twitter age. Apparently George Bush is a complete idiot if I believe T-shirts and casual comments.

People tend to default to what they perceive to be widely-held popular opinions because they desire a non-confrontational experience with others, facts be damned.

Right you are PiperPaul !!

Would you agree the latest version of laugh track control of audiences is our TV Pundits telling the audience what the PM said ? When to agree, disagree sorta thing.

The Pundits laugh track is made more effective with the better sound and picture quality. They usually talk very well (except Oliver) and are good lookers(Oliver again).

If the producer desires, the real person(PM, ect) can be degraded with poorer sound and picture quality and distracting backgrounds (Heil), while the pundits have striking backgrounds (huge 30 story windows overlooking city lights).

In the past, I often found myself half heartily listening to the one giving the interview while waiting for the pundits "clear", "all knowing", spoon fed lecture. Very, very effective.

Again, a good comment PiperPaul. (A Super Cub? J3?)

Michelle Malkin is really hitting stride - a very, very smart person, IMO.

Thomas Sowell's Fables for Adults

"BELTWAY SNIPERS EXPOSED AS MUSLIM TERRORISTS(sic)

A Virginia judge has set November 10 as the execution date for John Allen Mohammed, the Beltway sniper who masterminded terror attacks in the Washington, D.C. area that left 10 dead in the fall of October 2002.

The time-table of the Beltway killings indicates Muhammad’s ties to ul-Fuqra and other Islamic terrorist groups. He acquired the 1990 Chevy Caprice that he would modify into his killing platform on the first anniversary of 9/11, and killed his first victim - - James Martin, 55 - - on October 2, the anniversary of the conviction of World Trade Center bombing ringleader Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman. Martin, a systems analyst for the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, was shot in the back and killed in the parking lot of a supermarket in Glenmont, Maryland.[1]

The attacks came to an end on October 24, when Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, his teenage jihadi associate, were found sleeping in their blue 1990 Chevy Caprice, at a rest-stop near Myersville, Maryland. In the backseat was a Bushmaster XM-15 semiautomatic with a red-dot sight that had been adjusted for ranges between 50 to 100 yards.

During the days and weeks that followed, the national media made no mention of “Islam,” “Muslim,” or “terrorism.” They rather presented the Muhammad as “an ex-soldier,” and “a Gulf War veteran"."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342094/posts

MORE CBC HYPOCRISY!!

I was upset at the number of people who sent in derogatory comments over the recent arrest of former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer.

My intended comment on CBC.Ca was: "In the light of former Ontario Liberal appointed Attorney General Michael Bryant who recently killed bicycle courier Darcy allen Sheppard on a Toronto street, I wouldn"d judge Rahim Jaffer too hashly."

Needless to mention, my "anti-Liberal comment never got published at CBC.Ca.

Keep in mind that there were no injuries in the Jaffer incident.

Liberal Ignatieff is Dionky.

Ig-Goofy has cut’n'run, surrendered.

Here they are again: sisters Hope and Fear: “hoping”.

Liberal caucus has appealed for bodybags.

Donate here: I-IGGY-CAVED.
Ext. DIONKY.
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“Liberals offer to speed EI bill

By Joan Bryden (CP) – 6 minutes ago

OTTAWA — The Liberals have offered to speed passage of Tory EI legislation, hoping to rob the NDP of its rationale for propping up the Harper government.”

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jBR3zhEHnnVsCMmsltrdvQgN1mpA

I remember the media's reaction well. No connections here, move on - just some American with a hunting gun.

Was a very scary situation - how and hell does one protect themselves from a non conspicuous vehicle, tail light opening, crazed sniper in the trunk with high tech rifle, roaming at will, blowing the brains out of the innocent while they are standing beside loved ones.

That picture of John Mohammed reminds me of someone - can't think of who.

Watch Democracy Watch squirm and wriggle.
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"Court challenge of 2008 election dismissed

A Federal Court judge has dismissed a case challenging the legality of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's snap election call last fall.

In his decision, Judge Michel M.J. Shore said the applicants who launched the suit "do not demonstrate a proper understanding of the separation of powers."

"This court disposes of this matter to ensure that political issues (in time and context) are not made to be legal ones. The remedy for the applicant's contention is not for the Federal Court to decide, but rather one of the count of the ballot box."

Shore also agreed with the federal government's lawyers that the law does not legally bind dates for elections because, in part, the government could fall at any time on a no-confidence vote.

Shore noted that no-confidence votes do not have a firm definition and often require the judgment of the prime minister.

"It is the court's conclusion that votes of [no confidence] are political in nature and lack legal aspects," he wrote.

The case, brought forward by Democracy Watch, a citizens group that monitors ethics in government, claimed Harper broke his own fixed-election-date law by calling last fall's election."
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/09/17/democracy-watch-case.html

ron in kelowna wrote: Again, a good comment PiperPaul. (A Super Cub? J3?)

I am a piping designer, I leave the flying stuff to people that excel at that.

Good to know that you might be one of them. I like to fly near the tail end of the plane so I can more easily chat up stewardesses and get free booze.

Them bitches just don't listen:

"After a summer of healthcare battles and sliding approval ratings for President Obama, the White House is facing a troubling new trend: The voters losing faith in the president are the ones he had worked hardest to attract.

"New surveys show steep declines in Obama's approval ratings among whites -- including Democrats and independents -- who were crucial elements of the diverse coalition that helped elect the country's first black president."

[...]

"'While Obama has a lock on African Americans, his support among white voters seems to be almost in a free fall,' said veteran Republican pollster Neil Newhouse."

[...]

"(The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press) first identified a slippage in white support immediately after a news conference in July, when Obama surprised many by saying that a white police officer had acted 'stupidly' in arresting a black Harvard professor."

Nicola Timmerman, it is in the best interests of (threatening) Quebec politicians to keep the "flock" isolated. They are much more easily controlled in this way via the facade of uniqueness and the charade of unilingual french-speakers feeling that that they are now "maitres chez nous".

The internet is changing this, thankfully.

http://m1.2mdn.net/886468/EN_RBC_Synovate_160x600.jpg

The word 'modesty' is fading from modern lexicon.

O'mugger mugs East Europe.
O prefers KGBPutin.
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"East Europe grumbles about downgrade in US ties

Scuttling a missile defense shield in the Czech Republic and Poland helps smooth relations between the U.S. and Russia. But at what price?

Some of America's staunchest allies are the East Europeans — and on Thursday, they expressed dismay at what many see as a slight after decades of their support for the U.S.

Among them were some famous names, including Lech Walesa, the former Solidarity leader and Polish ex-president. "I can see what kind of policy the Obama administration is pursuing toward this part of Europe," he said ruefully, adding: "The way we are being approached needs to change."

For most of the past decade, cozy relations with Washington were practically a given across the "new Europe." George W. Bush famously courted the region after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and leaned on it for troops to fight alongside U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Barack Obama took office undecided about Bush's plan to base 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and sophisticated radar in the Czech Republic — a system designed to shoot down long-range missiles that might be fired from Iran or elsewhere in the Middle East. Building had not started in either country.

The Czech installation was planned for the Brdy military installation 55 miles (90 kilometers) southwest of Prague. The Polish site was slated for a former military air base near the town of Redzikowo, about 115 miles from Russia's westernmost edge.

Obama has been reaching out to Russia, which had expressed outrage at the notion of missiles being pointed in its direction from a region that was firmly in the Soviet orbit just 20 years ago."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342220/posts

Goreacle Report.

The AGW Moonbat Artiste Gallery is now open for your viewing.
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http://wattsupwiththat.com/

maz2 1:51pm...brilliant post!

Donate here: I-IGGY-CAVED. Love it!!

Harper will have fun with this flip-flop...just watch! More confirmation that Ignatieff is just as empty suit and is in over his head!

Refugee status: Since 2004 end of 2009

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

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Jeremy Hinzman at a 2008 speaking engagement.Jeremy Dean Hinzman (born in 1979 in Rapid City, South Dakota) is the first American Iraq war resister/deserter to seek refugee status in Canada.[1]

He enlisted in the U.S. army as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division and deserted in 2004 to avoid participating in the Iraq War. "He fled to Canada with his wife and preschool-age son. Now living in Toronto and working as a bike courier, Hinzman faces a court martial and a possible five-year prison sentence if he returns to the U.S.....Hinzman said he sought refugee status because he opposed the war in Iraq on moral grounds and thought the U.S. invasion violated international human rights standards."[

The case for allowing Hinzman to stay in Canada on Humanitarian and Compassionate Grounds
On February 10, 2009, Federal Court Justice James Russell [36] heard the appeal of the decision in the Hinzman family's "Humanitarian and Compassionate Grounds" application, (not an appeal of their refugee claim). [37][38] This is an application to allow the Hinzman family to stay in Canada on "Humanitarian and Compassionate Grounds." On April 24, 2009, the judge upheld the negative decision in the Hinzmans' Humanitarian & Compassionate application, thus removing that particular option for the Hinzman family. [39]

YouTube - War Resisters Supporter Catches Up With freedom of speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0xMVenqScg

Political Aftermath in 2009
On Feb 12, 2009, the The Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration again passed a non-binding motion reaffirming Parliament's June 2008 vote which recommended that the government let Iraq War resisters stay in Canada.[40] (Because a new session of Parliament began, the whole process had to begin again.) A month and a half later, on March 30, 2009, the House of Commons again voted in a non-binding motion 129 to 125 in favour of the committee's recommendation.

“Roadside bomb kills Canadian soldier near Kandahar”
urlm.in/davi

RIP, Pte. Jonatha Couturier, a member of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment – the Vandoos”.

Lest We Forget.
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Liberal Ignatieff, a wannabe Prime Minister of Canada said in a speech to the Canadian Club of Ottawa: “Canada is becoming a country that dares not speak its name,”.

Live in infamy, Liberal Ignatieff.

“Ignatieff vows to restore Canada on world stage | 610 CKTB
14 Sep 2009 … “Under this government, Canada is becoming a country that dares not speak its name,” Ignatieff said Monday in a speech to the Canadian Club”
http://www.610cktb.com/news/14/992228

Cbc newsworld is covering PMSH's speech live ,NOW. Tune in because unless he makes a gaffe,chances are it will not be played again anywhere on CBC.

Here is another moral equivalency story that never made much noise in the media,http://www.thestar.com/article/486113---. I wonder why? Could it because the man charged in this horrific crime was employed as the top aide to a Liberal senator,or that he was once an aide to a prominent liberal leadership candidate. Nah,couldn't be.

CBC ran the whole speech,but cut short the questions afterwards.I am impressed with the half=hour that he did get,after all it's not like he is the leader of the opposition or some important Canadian like that. Harper was good,not great,and did a fine job of articulating our superior recovery as compared to the other recession struck nations. He, as always,spoke much better than former PM Martin,but I do miss the confused looks on the audience's faces that Mr. Chretien produced.

Now we know why / the white liberals demand that we swallow the fly...

Steven F. Hayward in the Weekly Standard:

"I first started hearing about (Van Jones) a few years ago from far-left environmentalists--typically Greenpeacers--on college campuses. From their effusiveness I thought Jones must be something new and different. But minimal research revealed Jones to be merely a flamboyant purveyor of the usual green clichés, such as how we can produce 'green jobs' in the ghetto if only we massively subsidize uncompetitive technologies. The only thing new and different about him was his skin color, which is precisely what made him so attractive to the overwhelmingly upper-middle class white environmental movement. Jones found it easy to graft civil rights grievances to environmental paranoia in a seamless way that would do Jesse Jackson proud. For this he quickly became, as the Washington Post described him, 'a towering figure in the environmental movement.'

"In charging that 'white polluters and white environmentalists' were 'steering poison into the people-of-color communities' because they lacked a 'racial justice frame,' Jones was hitting environmentalism at its weakest spot. Environmentalism has always suffered from the stigma of being predominantly a wealthy, elitist movement. The average dues-paying member of an environmental organization, surveys have found, enjoys a household income more than twice the national median, and the membership of most organizations is overwhelmingly white."

"Our guess is that (Van Jones) landed in the White House precisely because his job didn't require Senate confirmation, which would have subjected him to more scrutiny. This is also no doubt a reason that Mr. Obama has consolidated so much of his Administration's governing authority inside the White House under various 'czars.' Mr. Jones was poised to play a prominent role in disbursing tens of billions of dollars of stimulus money. It was the ideal perch from which he could keep funding the left-wing networks from which he sprang, this time with taxpayer money.

"This helps explain why the political left is so upset about Mr. Jones's resignation."

Or maybe they're saying that Rube Goldberg was a racist...

[quote]The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press [/quote]

You have to be careful with PEW... in the 90's the descendants of Pew (Hard Core Socialists) sued the board of trustees. The PA Black Robes demanded and got several changes to the terms of the Estate. They are not the same, as in the past, independent research center

"Lindy to perform "Shakedown" live in Toronto on Sept. 26!

I have just learned that, at my speaking event in Toronto on the evening of Sept. 26, Lindy will be there, and he'll be playing an "unplugged" version of his song, Shakedown! I can hardly wait to hear it live!

You can get your tickets here.

Here's Lindy rocking it out at Peter Jaworski's Liberty Summer Seminar:" (YouTube)

http://ezralevant.com/