A Calgary CTV poll that NEEDS to go horribly wrong:

"Do you think the Olympic logo on athlete apparel looks too much like the Conservative party logo?"

http://calgary.ctv.ca

How can we find out which 9 Liberals missed today's Ignatieff non confidence vote?

Coderre is one. Who are the other 8?

The CTV poll doesn't seem to have a Crazy Talk option ;-)

Dennis Miller had an insane interview with a wannabe socialist. It's a true classic!

Posted from my iPhone

Actually...I do agree that the Olympic Canadian logo resembles the CPC logo.

However, it's silly to blame PM Harper and the CPC. There aren't too many artsy ways to present the C for Canada with the Maple leaf.
Perhaps the could have borrowed from the TO Maple Leafs (Blake just scored 3-2 for TO over Montreal)

Oh - I guess only 3 Liberals were missing - Coderre, LeBlanc and Joyce Murray. The speaker does not vote. So there were 73 Liberal Nays.

Must have been a few BLOC not showing up.
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HouseChamberBusiness/ChamberVoteDetail.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=2&FltrParl=40&FltrSes=2&Vote=110
H/T Bruce at Angry's

H/T James Halifax over at Steve Janke's blog.

Q: Why is Michael Ignatieff still in Canada?

A: Ruby Dhalla won't give him back his Passport.

Thanks Vitruvius, brings back many fond memories, at the Cultus Lake pavilion, where in 1969 almost every weekend we were privileged see "The Collectors" now known as Chilliwack for $2 a head.

Not to worry, jwkozak91, At 2042, votes where 19% YES, 81% NO.
See? Even in the heart of conservativism land,the leftie MSM still think they have a say.Twits.

"There aren't too many artsy ways to present the C for Canada with the Maple leaf."

So true! When I first heard the complaint, I thought they were joking -- then was quite astonished to gradually realize the complaint was serious. 99 out of 100 would have designed something very similar given the parameters. And what about those Liberal colours on the Canadian flag -- we should complain about that too.

No LindaL, we should complain it looks like a beer can label. :)

Saw Lord Monkton's presentation at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce today -- an excellent speaker, lots of hard facts and figures. I'll be interested to see how (if) the media covers him. I wouldn't expect too much of the CBC.

Global Calgary had a story about Lord Monckton (with sound bites from His Lordship) on their 6 o'clock program - which included an Ipsos poll result on global warming skepticism broken down tree ways: nationally, Calgary only and Montreal only. It will probably be on the 11 o'clock program as well.

There is a post up at 5 feet about Michael Palin. I think he is going into politics. A Palin in the White House, and a Palin on Downing street...

What goes around comes around.....deservidly so in this case.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/david-letterman-admits-sexual-affairs-staffers-details-extortion/story?id=8728424

Both the Olympic logo and the Conservative party logo owe a lot to the old RCAF logo. See examples below.
A classic design which was scrapped by the Liberals back in the mid-60's during unification.
I think Hedy Fry and Charlie Angus have too much time on their hands. The Bay's designer couldn't believe their allegations.

http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22RCAF%22%20logo&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Thanks for sharing that about Letterman, Chris. I think it goes a LONG WAY to explain his utter disdain for Sarah Palin. She was living up to some pretty high standards, he was not, so he felt compelled to tear her down to his level.

What goes around comes around.....deservidly so in this case.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/david-letterman-admits-sexual-affairs-staffers-details-extortion/story?id=8728424
Posted by: chris at October 2, 2009 12:22 AM "

in a somewhat similar but more serious vein:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/News/1145407.html

ask me why I terminated my 3rd chuch membership about 3 yrs ago and vowed to never join another one.

Why is no one talking about the perverted Bishop Lahey who was caught with child porn at Ottawa International Airport? Not a pretty scene!!

It brings a somewhat strange comfort, that we live in a country, that the biggest news stories are a kook party fails at a non-confidence vote and a couple of Überkooks see "demons" in the Canadian 2010 Winter Olympics Logo.

Letterman fails to give names!..~ 1987 one name may have been "Pam Harris" Unit Manager...

Coyne is having a fit. CBC and National Post are 'in bed together'

http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/10/02/apocalypse-now/

Goreacle Report: Fear and The Fearmongers.
...-

"Hand-washing recommended against flu despite 'no evidence' it works"*
urlm.in/dcvv
...-

"Southeast Drought Study Ties Water Shortage to Population, Not Global Warming

The drought that gripped the Southeast from 2005 to 2007 was not unprecedented and resulted from random weather events, not global warming, Columbia University researchers have concluded. They say its severe water shortages resulted from population growth more than rainfall patterns."

"Instead, they wrote, any variation in rainfall in the Southeast commonly “arises from internal atmospheric processes and is essentially unpredictable.”"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/science/earth/02drought.html?_r=2

Liberal Ignatieff and “his rogue lieutenant,”.

Who/whom? > Hezbollah Coderre.

PET Cemetery says, “Tout le monde en parle”.

Everyone is talking about I-t, including Hebert at the TORedStar.

I-ffy you are going to procrastinate, do I-t today.
…-

“Liberals might be granted their death wish”

“… Michael Ignatieff has just led his party on a parliamentary suicide mission.”

“The assumptions that turned Thursday’s Liberal kamikaze act into a mere dry run have been overtaken by events.”

“To get a handle on the Liberal pulse, Quebecers will mostly be watching Denis Coderre’s appearance on Radio-Canada’s Tout le monde en parle that night. To turn the tables on his critics, Ignatieff, and not his rogue lieutenant, would have had to be on Quebec’s most-watched talk show this weekend.”

http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/704253

"Ignatieff has been bloodied in this melee. But chatter about his imminent demise, his tragic failure as leader, is nonsense.

He hasn't been tested in a campaign. He will be. That will tell the tale."

Den Tandt* throws Iggy-Iffy a "lifeline"; but, Iggy knows:

"Green acres is the place to be. Farm living is the life for me. Land spreading out, so far and wide. Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside. New York ..."*

Go home*, Iggy.
...-

"Quebec melee makes Iggy look iffy"
urlm.in/dcwe

*Green Acres is the Place to Be (Your Guide to Purchasing a Green-Built Home)
ezinearticles.com/?Green-Acres-is-the-Place-to-Be...Green

And Blazing Cat Fur makes it into the NP today with his classic post about his mother's treatment within our wonderous health care system.

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2057040

Citizen Joe @1:54 Well joe, there's the small matter of him not having been found guilty, but if they do you can be sure that I will say "make him do his time" and he will not get the kid's glove treatment that most of the elite and the media are giving Roman Polanski. Oh, and it will be Catholics that will be calling for justice. Oh, and curious_george, who sounds to me like a disappointed Baptist.

Mummified Lenin

(via David Thompson)

Do we have a Canadian equivalent to Whoopi who will come to Lahey's defence and say 'well it's not really porn porn'?
Not a chance...he's Catholic.
BTW...if he is guilty I'm not defending him, just pointing out the moral relativism of the entertainment church and their high priests.

the reverse of michael moore- in girth as well.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/02/gandhi-sale-montblanc-pens-india

Posted by: bluetech at October 2, 2009 8:12 AM

I forget what blog I saw it on, but someone made a great point that if it was Father Roman Polanski, Hollywierd would be lining up to send him to prison.

comet close by , but not close enough to scare the MSM into trying to frighten the hoipoloi

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?orb=1;sstr=217P

lorraine: i believe the speaker does vote, But only in the event of a Tie.

cbc last nite political round table was not favorable to Ignattieff

political talk is gearing towards Coderre being booted, If this happens Will Coderre Cross the Floor & maybe take someone with him? And would he be even welcome in another party?

Jinsella is Poster Boy...

http://www.stephentaylor.ca/

a few more hits for the record.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/sports/othersports/2009/10/02/11251531.html

Via Gates of Vienna

"Berkeley agrees to U.N. rights treaties"

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/30/MN6H19UT2J.DTL

"After a brief but spirited debate, the City Council voted unanimously to allow unpaid interns to report to the United Nations on how, or whether, Berkeley complies with treaties on civil liberties, racial discrimination and torture."

No mention as to whether the interns are obliged to intervene in local Tutsi massacres.

Historian Michael Bliss on point:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/has-harper-found-his-tipping-point/article1308821/

Has Harper found his tipping point?
Prime Minister Stephen Harper stands to vote against the Liberal no-confidence motion in the House of Commons on Oct. 1, 2009.

In a historic shift, the Tories have seized the centre and are set to become the natural governing party

In this autumn of our usual discontent with politics and politicians, we do not seem to be noticing that the balance between Canada's major parties is at or very near a historic tipping point. Stephen Harper's Conservatives have seized the central ground of the political spectrum and are poised to become the country's natural governing party. The Liberal Party is floundering in uncertainty and disunity, unsure of what it stands for and badly led. We appear to be on the verge of the great historic shift in party fortunes that Conservatives have hoped for, but have regularly failed to achieve, for more than a century.

It's a truism that Prime Minister Harper has abandoned his Reform Party dogmatism and is trying to govern Canada from the centre. In one area after another – stimulus spending, foreign policy, support for the arts, economic development, co-operative federalism, as well as naked pork-barrelling and shameless self-promotion, the Conservatives are implementing policies that might have been drawn from the Jean Chrétien-Paul Martin songbook. Particularly on economic policy and their response to the recession, the Conservatives hold the political centre so thoroughly that Liberals have no idea whether to attack the government from the right (for spending too much) or from the left (for spending too little). The government's policies are broadly acceptable to Canadians, it continues to inch upward in the polls, and it would very likely eke out a majority in a general election today.

The Official Opposition seems to have lost its way. No one has the foggiest idea of what Canada's Liberals stand for, save for a return to Pearsonian diplomacy and Team Canada missions. Having so badly bungled such policy issues as the carbon tax in last year's election, the party is literally afraid to advocate new initiatives. Having committed an act of transcendent political lunacy in agreeing last winter to a coalition with the NDP, with separatist support, the Liberals have left themselves far more vulnerable to the “hidden agenda” card than Mr. Harper's Conservatives have ever been.

....

Prosit, Oktoberfest geht noch, nun hebe hoch!

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

Chicago eliminated from the Olympics selection. Drudge has a classic line regarding Obama: The Ego Has Landed

Roman Polanski is told, in no uncertain terms, what kind of scum he is.

CNN comedy gold !! Anchor chokes on Obama rejection.

Re Polanski: I heard a local radio announcer's line:
The new tourism minister for Taiwan, Roman Polanski, sorry it's sick, but it made me laugh.....

Mary M:

You need to get away from those corrupting influences.

Might I suggest beer-proof dirndls and lederhosen?

At least they have the relative advantage of keeping you spiffy when you spray beer all over yourselves and guests listening to the ridiculous justifications for drugging and raping little girls from the likes of Hollywierdo Polanski.

Prosit, Oktoberfest geht noch, nun hebe hoch!

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

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,649490,00.html

Long-Awaited Invention
Finally, Beer-Proof Lederhosen on Sale at Oktoberfest

By David Crossland

Newly invented lederhosen-style swimming shorts are going on sale at this year's Munich Oktoberfest as a beer-proof alternative to the traditional leather breeches. Folk costume aficionados may frown -- but the Austrian designer behind them says he's rejuvenating Alpine culture, and introducing it to a global audience.

It may just be the perfect garment for a beer-soaked visit to the Munich Oktoberfest starting this Saturday -- lederhosen-style swimming shorts. The invention by Austrian restaurant owner Peter Kolb has taken Austria by storm in recent months and will be going on sale in two of the 14 giant beer tents.

Kolb, 41, says they're a cheaper and more user-friendly alternative to the traditional leather breeches that will be worn by many of the 6 million visitors to the world's biggest beer festival which will open its gates on Sept. 19 for two weeks to the sound of Bavarian Oompah bands and yodelling folk dancers.

Hans: You are correct! I do not agreed at all with how Hollyweird has stepped up to defend this creep. The problem with people when they get "power or fame" is they think they are above the law. "Woopise" is the biggest offender of all. That is the woman that is in desperate need of help.
Will take your advice and stay away from all of the
corrupting influences.

Enjoyed the Chilliwack clip very much.

The USA is probably only starting to be aware of how quickly it is losing stature and importance in the world. By the recent financial debacle and the completely inept manner in which they are "debting" their way out of debt (does that make any sense?) they are squandering the remaining slender vestiges of respect on the world stage. It will take a while and it will be tragic but I fear the fall of the mighty USA. I'm reminded of the poem Ozymandias.

I think Chicago losing out on the first round is an indication of how the USA has lost respect.

I cant believe that NNW points this one out, And Not hard to believe coming from the Toronto Star.

NNW-- Latest Angus/Reid Poll Buried?

click the link & its the Toronto Star article on

Ignatieff attacks Harpers policies,style
oct.02/2009
Very last line of article is the Angus poll that shows
conservatives 37%
liberals 27%
ndp 17%

click the angus link via NNW & the poll total results with provincial breakdown this poll was done on Sept 29 & 30
So full ramnification of The Coderre Fiascal would most likely not reflect the Quebec results where it shows the Liberals with fairly good numbers.