Can't help but post this one!!!!

Al Gore has canceled his lecture in Hopenchangin!!!

That dog don't hunt no more!!!

I am absolutely laughing and high-5-ing with my wife. This is going to be a great Christmas!

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091203/D9CC3J7G1.html

I wonder were this:

uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_I

all fits in that 'breeding' thing.

p.s. I got the Cate Blanchette flic and the poster.

http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hm_live.php

slicing a brain into 2600 slices, live!

Apparently Bob Rae and our national media are big fans of China. No surprise there. It's sad that they have to live out their lives in the hell-hole of the free world, when they could easily sign on for lucrative work in China. I hear that there is a big demand for organ harvesters.

On tonight's news we heard of a male suicide bomber dressed as a woman killing and maiming many in Somalia. In the National Review this week we hear of of an ex-prisoner of Guantanamo who was killed by Saudi police trying to cross the border from Yemen, dressed as a woman. A search of his car found automatic weapons, grenades, explosives etc..
The U.N. Human Rights Council wants to " ensure that counter terrorism measures do not interfere with the full self realization of anyone's socially constructed sexual identity". It goes on to say sarcastically that ".. this misunderstanding could so easily have been avoided - if only the Saudis had understood that terrorists sometimes just like to feel pretty."

This didn't seem to work posting in The Bottle Genie thread but hopefully it will here:

I think you'll all love this Carbon Credit joke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC5uV4wbcTQ

Heard on Dennis Miller's show earlier today.

This was buried in the bottom of the pile in the last post and deserves resurrection. Sarah Palin has stepped up to the plate on her facebook page...

http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin

"The president’s decision to attend the international climate conference in Copenhagen needs to be reconsidered in light of the unfolding Climategate scandal. The leaked e-mails involved in Climategate expose the unscientific behavior of leading climate scientists who deliberately destroyed records to block information requests, manipulated data to “hide the decline” in global temperatures, and conspired to silence the critics of man-made global warming. I support Senator James Inhofe’s call for a full investigation into this scandal. Because it involves many of the same personalities and entities behind the Copenhagen conference, Climategate calls into question many of the proposals being pushed there, including anything that would lead to a cap and tax plan" ...

By doing so, she has now established herself as the person to beat for 2012.

Rev. Stephen Boisson announced on Free Dominion that he won his appeal of the Alberta "Human Rights" Commission's idiotic decision against him.

Court decision here.

Those awful apartheid checkpoints: Youtube video of hijabed Palestinian woman (sign of modesty, dontcha know)pulling a knife and stabbing an Israeli security guard.

(via The Vicious Babushka)

And, from the minaret files: Jordanians Enraged Over Israel Renovations on Jerusalem Church

PMSH is rebuked for not visiting China sooner. The money quote though comes from Ignatieff:

“This is the most important relationship for the economic future of the country, the most important,..."

Iggy, apparently, is unaware that trade with the U.S. is ten times that with China, and the U.S. is moving strongly towards more protectionist measures.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/12/03/12029326-sun.html

Rex rocked tonight!!

Thanks for posting that, cinyc. Great news!!
Hate to think what it's cost Rev. Boisson, though.

Who was that Rex? Surely not an employee of the CBC.
He summed up the situation quite nicely. Must have been reading SDA for the past couple weeks to get all his talking points right.

RE: http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/012796.html#c448421

[Post by Ted Davison textually "diagramming" the CRU procedure]

Has someone attempted to graphically represent this with a program such as, say, graphviz?

I'd try it myself, but I think someone here is a bit of a master with this software.

Dennis Miller last night on The O'Reilly Factor:

"Nancy Pelosi looks like a woman who would lose Tic Tac Toe to a grub worm, yet we're giving her a billion dollars to play with!"

Rex really nailed it this evening re climategate, he pulled no punches really & was accurate re all the key points & implications.

Is rex on Youtube or the internets somewhere.. for some reason my remote won't let me access CBC :)

gellen-

I've quickly skimmed the decision. Boisson wasn't awarded costs (at least for those incurred during the AHRC process), so he's still out-of-pocket. I can't say I fully understand how Alberta's cost awarding process works, but Alberta Court of Queens Bench Justice E.C. Wilson seems to have said he's willing to consider whether to award costs for the appeal.

Justice Wilson didn't strike down the Alberta equivalent of Section 13(1) on constitutional grounds, but generally ruled that based on the facts presented, Rev. Boisson's letter didn't violate the relevant Alberta Human Rights law. The Justice felt himself too constrained by the SCC's Taylor decision to find the statute unconstitutional. He didn't have many nice things to say about the logic of the AHRC "Panel's" decision, though.

"Greenhouse Effect"

Why is it that the above term is often used as "evidence" of global warming ^W^W climate change when "demonstrating" the effects of CO2 to children/the easily impressed?

The experiment is always performed in a controlled indoor earth environment devoid of massive oceans, unpredictable cloud cover, an uncontrollable mass of burning hydrogen and oxygen and a noticeable lack of AGW skeptics saying, "yes, but hold on a minute..."

Mr. Murphy's commentary will apparently be available in the morning:

http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/TV_Shows/The_National/ID=1349496056

Oops, sorry. Hydrogen and helium. I must have been thinking about breathing. Breathing in probably won't be taxed/traded as a commodity.

Mr. Murphy's commentary will apparently be available in the morning:

Posted by: Vitruvius at December 3, 2009 10:30 PM

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I'll see if I can snag it and Youtube it tonight.

Cool. Thanks, Matt.

Must be the full moon. I see there is a climategate piece on the ctv news as well.

Sorry for the multiple posts tonight, I've been away.

The concept of Devil's Advocate is a worthy one, but might it be possible that some who have played the role for too long have actually gone to the other side?

I write this as an agnostic.

News item:
ATLANTA, Dec. 3, 2009 -- Days before the United Nations summit on climate change begins in Copenhagen, The Coca-Cola Company and its bottling partners today announced that 100 percent of their new vending machines and coolers will be hydrofluorocarbon-free (HFC-free) by 2015.

“Climate change is real and the time to act on solutions is now,” said Muhtar Kent, Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company. “Greenpeace has played a critical role in raising our awareness about the need for natural refrigeration. Our announcement today demonstrates a commitment to use our influence in the marketplace to drive innovation and help shape a low-carbon future.”

Now that's really wierd, a company that sells a product full of CO2 (labelled by many as a pollutant, and major contributor to AGW)is worried about refrigeration and carbon.

I'm wondering if Coke plans to start producing its product with a different gas, say methane, so you'll fart instead of burp?

Will their new slogan be "Warming goes better with Coke?"

Have all those polar bears used in Coke ads fallen from the sky?

Now everbody sing "I'd like to buy the world a Coke.. and keep it carbon free..."

this just in . suzuki to replace Gore

says he will adjust the data to "make it right"

Uploading to Youtube right now.

Rex was indeed great..he almost had that smirk wiped off Petey's face.

Look forward to seeing .. well, hearing Rex Murphy; I presume it will be here tomorrow morning?

Topper -

Had this happened later this month, we could have said "once in a blue moon, the MSM reports on Climategate" - which sounds accurate about how often the MSM has reported on Climategate thus far.

Are we talking about senator Rex Murphy?

A dinosaur gets eaten by a more advanced species:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/comcast-buys-nbc-stake-for-1375-billion/article1386530/

I heard on a radio talk show that the budget cuts in the news Depts will be severe - no private masseuses being flown to the olympics in Vancouver for example.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/dutch-gore-wrong-on-snows-of-kilimanjaro/

You'll love this one Kate:

Dutch: Gore Wrong on Snows of Kilimanjaro

The Netherlands is afire today over a Dutch study concluding Mount Kilimanjaro's snow melt — used as a symbol of AGW by Al Gore — is entirely natural.

Newspapers and news sites in the Netherlands today extensively broke the news of the findings of a research team led by Professor Jaap Sinninghe Damste — a leading molecular paleontologist at Utrecht University and winner of the prestigious Spinoza Prize — about the melting icecap of the Kilimanjaro, the African mountain that became a symbol of anthropogenic global warming.

Professor Sinninghe Damste’s research, as discussed on the site of the Dutch Organization of Scientific Research (DOSR) — a governmental body — shows that the icecap of Kilimanjaro was not the result of cold air but of large amounts of precipitation which fell at the beginning of the Holocene period, about 11,000 years ago.

The melting and freezing of moisture on top of Kilimanjaro appears to be part of “a natural process of dry and wet periods.” The present melting is not the result of “environmental damage caused by man.”

Professor Damste studied organic biomarker molecules in the sediment record of Lake Challa, near Mount Kilimanjaro, and reconstructed the changes and intensity of precipitation in this part of Africa over the last 25,000 years. They observed an 11,500 year cycle of intense monsoon precipitation.

In the dry period between 12,800 and 11,500 years ago, Kilimanjaro was ice-free.

At the end of this period, a dramatic climate change from very dry to very wet took place — driven by changes in solar radiation — resulting in the creation of an icecap. At the moment, this part of Africa seems to be at the end of a similar dry period, resulting in the disappearance of the famous icecap.

DOSR calls Al Gore’s iconic use of the melting cap of Kilimanjaro “unfortunate” — since it now seems to be mainly the result of “natural climate variations.”

The journal Nature published the highly technical article by Professor Sinninghe Damste’s team.

The website of Elsevier magazine — the Netherlands’ most circulated political weekly — broke the news as follows: “Dutchman discredits Al Gore’s climate evidence.”

http://www.elsevier.nl/web/Nieuws/Wetenschap/252385/Nederlander-ontkracht-klimaatbewijs-van-Al-Gore.htm

ederlander ontkracht 'klimaatbewijs' van Al Gore

donderdag 3 december 2009 12:41

De nagenoeg sneeuwloze Afrikaanse berg Kilimanjaro is ten onrechte het symbool van de 'door de mens veroorzaakte' klimaatverandering. Niet de mens, maar de natuur is verantwoordelijk voor de smeltende sneeuw, zo blijkt uit Nederlands onderzoek. Daar gaat een paradepaard van klimaatgoeroe Al Gore.

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North"

Gord - tee-hee!

Maybe CBC President Rex Murphy?

cinyc and gellen - excellent. I took a quick look at the ruling as well, It repeatedly referred to the 'errors of law' of the HRC opinion, and added that ALL, I repeat, ALL the 'remedies' imposed by that HRC on Rev. Boissoin were 'all without legal foundation and beyond the authority of the Act (HR Act). That is, the ridiculous order to 'never say such things again'..and ..publicly apologize'..are 'without legal foundation'.

I don't think this judge could suggest, in this judgment, to get rid of Section 13; that wasn't his mandate, but I thought it was a well-argued and correct decision. And he discusses problems with the HR Commission..and mentions an article by Mark Steyn! p.33..and he also states the Chief Commissioner was openly biased.

Costs still have to be determined. p. 38.

A very good decision.

welcome Rex Murphy to SDA.

glad to have you aboard.

ps Rex. Peter Pansbridge was noted to have been boinking Wendy Mesley in the past so watch your a$$

Maybe Prentice should talk to the Dutch and have a coffee with Rex. Danke Hans!

Remind me not to buy any coke for Christmas.

"DOSR calls Al Gore’s iconic use of the melting cap of Kilimanjaro “unfortunate”

Is that a polite way of saying, "fuck off, now go away and let the adults do research"?

Vitruvius:

Thanks for that wonderful piece of music. It's one of my favorite guitar pieces and Williams is fantastic (those tremelos and harmonics...wow).

I love the setting too....just a long hallway and the guitar. Is that the Alhambra BTW?

Jed @ 10:30pm: "Rex really nailed it this evening re climategate, he pulled no punches really & was accurate re all the key points & implications."

That said, still no context provided, either by Rex or last night with Adrian Arse... what's her name? The second night this was reported with no examples of the emails read by either. From Rex, it was to tell viewers to "go check them out for yourselves". Most certainly, had the shoe been on the other foot, had it been those doubting the man-made global warming theory having had their e-mails hacked, plenty of examples would have been read; the CBC's way of saying, see, don't believe us, here's the proof of their evil-denying words and ways.

Just CBC's way of now trying to be able to say that they've done stuff on it. No where was it mentioned in the main news cast. Just like with Lawand's smear of Harper during Hezboolah's war against Israel... provide the smear at the beginning of the news cast when you know most viewers are watching; give the retraction/apology at the end of the next night's broadcast when you know most are not.

Rex on Youtube will be another hour. The first upload crapped out (grrrr).

Does this all mean Al Gore has to give back his academy award?

I'll wait, Matt, the main post is ready for your URL.

I entered 'climate' into slashdot and found this comment. By no means is it representative of most of the community, but it shows that either 1) more AGW skeptics are posting, or 2) the moderation community is slowly coming out of their Mom's basement.

Quoted comments below this line, not mine:
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Maybe they will get more funding to carry out more science, but you do know that they don't get to have any of that money, right?

Sir, you are a moron. Just where do you think the salaries of the professors and graduate students and research assistants doing research into global warming comes from? Grants.

It is extremely tightly regulated and controlled by the grant providers.

Unless a grant has money included to buy lots of equipment or rent ship time, the vast majority of the money in a grant is salary. This "tightly controlled" money destined for salary GOES to salary. A certain percentage of the grant goes to "overhead" -- money skimmed right off the top, taken by the University to fund management and physical plant, etc. And to fund professors in stuff like English and History.

After you reach 100% grant funding for the principal investigator salary, new grants go to fund more students and more research assistants and post-docs. The more students and post-docs a PI has, the more prestige and the bigger his realm. The more overhead he provides to the Uni the more respect and more prestige he's given by the Uni. The more he can demand in offices and lab space.

Disclaimer: I am a researcher in a university lab.

So am I, in a college deeply invested in climate research, and 100% of my salary comes from grant money. If we don't get grants to pay me, I don't get paid. If my PI doesn't get grants to pay him, he doesn't get paid. If my PI told the funding agencies "We have solved the question we were looking at" he doesn't get any more grants to study that question. If we were doing AGW research and said "humans aren't the cause", we wouldn't get any of the grants going to find "the solution". We'd be cutting our own throats. We'd be sitting on the unemployment line reading about all the grants going to the researchers like CRU who fudge the numbers so they look like AGW is real.

About fudging numbers. I've seen what today's grad students are being taught about data processing. If their dataset is supposed to look like a smooth line they will make it look linear, even if that means they throw 90% of it away as "outliers". There is no consideration given to why those points exist, if they don't fit the assumption about what valid data should look like, out they go. There are tools to take a plot that looks ugly and simply point at the data you want to go away, and it does. Magically, their dataset matches the prediction.

I remember very well one of the emails coming from NCAR a few years ago, trumpeting the fact that they'd made a small change to the hockeystick model and the upswing in predicted temperatures got much larger. There was no physical reality to the parameter they changed. It didn't make the hindcast fit better. It just made the scare factor bigger, so the result was BETTER!

Being right has nothing to do with success, being able to create a desire for your particular kind of research does. "We're all going to die unless..." works better at the latter than "we understand the issue and it isn't serious".

Why are people so ready to claim "follow the money" when the money comes from oil companies, and then claim that money has nothing to do with it when it appears in the pockets of the people doing the research?

CTV introduced their news story tonight by comparing denialists to moon landing doubters, 9/11 conspiracy buffs and Kennedy assassination theorists. They ended the story with some young college prof saying if he could prove 'climate change doesn't exist' he'd be the most famous scientist in the world. Not AGW, not co2 induced, just plain 'climate change'. My local TV station's news anchor blinked her pretty little eyes and said Copenhagen is about 'a sustainable future'.

No, I do not plan to contact the CRTC and express my support for cable companies sharing their revenue with the local stations. The bankruptcy of any TV station can only be a good thing for our country.

Vit, many thanks. That's one of my favourite pieces.

Just curious, who do you think has produced the best performance of that piece over the years?

Cruising arouns the internets earlier tonight and I came across this:

Study finds ozone hole repair contributes global warming sea-level rise

Maybe we should have just left the hole where it was.

On Coren's show tonight, one of the guests (he was the youngish atheist guy) said that he didn't have a good knowledge of WW2.

How can Coren have the representative of an organization that claims to represent "reason" and his followers to be "critical thinkers" if the representative doesn't even know basic WW2 history?

I was flummoxed and a bit angry that this guy was so ignorant.

This guy apparently doesn't even know about the original non-aggression pact between Stalin and Hitler, nor the psychotic games Hitler played to justify his interloping across Europe.

Apparently some only know dates when things happened, and that's what "history" is for them.

Finally.

Youtube of Rex Murphy is here.

Quality at the moment is poor, but Youtube will make a 1080p version shortly.

There truly are some advantages to living on the Left Coast. We get to be up late when some of kookiest comments get added to SDA.

Case in point is this one by a fellow named Tim.

I'm not even going to tell you here what he wrote because it'll spoil the hilarity of the responses to Good 'Ol Tim by yours truly, Abe Froman, and others. Please add your own. Oh please, DO!!!

Thanks, Matt, your video is now available
here on the Small Dead Animals main page.

Wait a second. Let it be perfectly clear, the culprit is "tim" not Tim! The impostor is corrupting my good name....

Thanks Matt for the video of Rex.

Sorry Tim. It was indeed 'tim'!!!

Have any of you heard of this writer: http://www.alternet.org/rss/the_wire_provided_by_huffington_post/99281/frances_beinecke:_help_turn_copenhagen_into_hopenhagen

I heard her interviewed by John Batchelor as if ClimateGate mattered not a whit.

on a clear night , you can see forever. tonights star gaze. a double cluster in cassiopeia , can be seen with good binoculars.

http://10minuteastronomy.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/mission-11-cassiopeia-and-the-double-cluster/

the silent majority stands by and waits on the noisy minority running the asylum.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/12/01/patrick-dorinson-afghanistan-vietnam-obama-silent-majority/?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r1:c0.180771:b29150254:z10

On Coren's show tonight, one of the guests (he was the youngish atheist guy) said that he didn't have a good knowledge of WW2.

How can Coren have the representative of an organization that claims to represent "reason" and his followers to be "critical thinkers" if the representative doesn't even know basic WW2 history?

I was flummoxed and a bit angry that this guy was so ignorant.

This guy apparently doesn't even know about the original non-aggression pact between Stalin and Hitler, nor the psychotic games Hitler played to justify his interloping across Europe.

Apparently some only know dates when things happened, and that's what "history" is for them.

I remember last year we had a good series of comments about people's favourite Christmas song. I will once again nominate the Canadian the Huron Carol:

The Huron Carol ('Twas In The Moon of Winter Time)
'Twas in the moon of wintertime when all the birds had fled
That mighty Gitchi Manitou sent angel choirs instead;
Before their light the stars grew dim and wondering hunters heard the hymn,
Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, in excelsis gloria.

Within a lodge of broken bark the tender babe was found;
A ragged robe of rabbit skin enwrapped his beauty round
But as the hunter braves drew nigh the angel song rang loud and high
Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, in excelsis gloria.

The earliest moon of wintertime is not so round and fair
As was the ring of glory on the helpless infant there.
The chiefs from far before him knelt with gifts of fox and beaver pelt.
Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, in excelsis gloria.

O children of the forest free, O seed of Manitou
The holy Child of earth and heaven is born today for you.
Come kneel before the radiant boy who brings you beauty peace and joy.
Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, in excelsis gloria.

Written in 1643 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary (later martyred!) at Sainte-Marie of the Hurons in Ontario. Called Jesous Ahatonhia in the original Huron lyrics. In the song the Algonguin word for God is used (Gitchi Manitou).

Set to a traditional French music.

Iffy Liberal$: What money? Ad$Cam money?

Iffy Liberal$: We didn’t got no Ad$Cam money.

Here is the best part:

“Corbeil’s lawyer argued he shouldn’t have to serve any jail time because the money went to the party and not into his own pocket.

The party says it never saw Corbeil’s kickback money, and Crown prosecutors also reject his explanation.”
…-

“Ex-Liberal organizer to be sentenced on fraud, influence-peddling charges”

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hbBj6fCmdeFHde_sycpcBK

I don't know if this link has been put up yet,apologies if it has; ---http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091203/climate_gate_091203/20091203?hub=SciTech , The good people here and elsewhere who have left the blinders off are now climate 'saboteurs'. I like that much better than 'deniers'. It kind of has a dashing,daring,romantic ring to it.

Islam is a cannibal.

Surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, >>>

"an overwhelming majority of al-Qaida victims are, in fact, co-religionists."

Translation: Muslims kill Muslims.
...-

"Pakistan Rawalpindi mosque attack kills many
BBC News - ‎47 minutes ago‎
At least 32 people have been killed and dozens injured in a coordinated attack at a mosque in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, military officials say."
...-

"Surprising Study On Terrorism

Al-Qaida Kills Eight Times More Muslims Than Non-Muslims

By Yassin Musharbash

Few would deny that Muslims too are victims of Islamist terror. But a new study by the Combating Terrorism Center in the US has shown that an overwhelming majority of al-Qaida victims are, in fact, co-religionists.

In the battle against unbelievers, can one also kill Muslims? Even the terror network al-Qaida is troubled by this question."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,660619,00.html

Saw it on Drudge.
I was hoping someone would start calling for the return of Al's Oscar or Nobel Prize.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/12/al-gore-oscar-global-warming.html

I knew europe wasnt always dark and daft

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01arch.html?_r=1

what kind of folks would let this happen in North America 10000 years ago?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091127140706.htm

Indiana: the government needed to protect people from unqualified hypnotists . You can not make up these things even in your wildest imagination.

By the way, if you live in Alberta, you undoubtedly know by now: stay indoors. A whole bunch of global warming is going to fall. With winds going crazy from Calgary southward, too, a blizzard is possible.
http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/warnings/ab_e.html

Prostitutes offer free climate summit sex.
Wouldn't the extra heavy breathing contribute to global warming?
There have to be some jokes here....
you know you've reached the summit when....

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,665182,00.html

Well, we're not going to panic. What we are going to do is issue hard caps on CO2 production, limiting economic growth and distributing investment where we want to buy votes, and we are going to put in a Carbon Tax - and laugh while pulling in billions.

Screw you Canada. We've won.

Canada won't be swayed by Copenhagen 'hype': Prentice

Mike De Souza, Canwest News Service Published: Friday, December 04, 2009

"There's always a lot of hype and drama that gets built into this sort of international event, much of it intended to force the hand of participants," Mr. Prentice said in the prepared speech. "We aren't going to buy into that. We are not going to panic. We are confident about the actions we are taking on the domestic and the continental fronts."

"Make no mistake," Mr. Prentice said. "We absolutely understand the urgency around environmental issues - and I make a practice of meeting regularly with Canadian companies, associations and ENGOs [environmental groups] who share that desire to move forward boldly."

Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2304034#ixzz0YkZyygRh

Jim Prentice: The science is clear that human activity is causing climate change

OTTAWA - E-mail controversy doesn’t change climate science: Prentice

Mike De Souza, Canwest News Service Published: Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Environment Minister Jim Prentice said it was unfortunate that a prominent scientist was forced to resign because of revelations in the e-mails, but the government still believes the science is clear that human activity is causing climate change.

Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2295516#ixzz0YkbwNSU1

Prentice worked summers, in a coal mine, to pay his way through university. It left him a bitter, vindictive man.

and it was the last time he got a paycheque from the private sector. He went into the Indian Industry, and never looked back.

Just down.

meanwhile, a Librano get an amazingly short time in jail for fraud, influence peddling, and more fraud. The irony? He has to pay the Libranos back.

About that $43 million that went to other riding associations? The taxpayer is still waiting.

And Cretin the Thug enjoys his kung-pow chicken with communists and dictators. Political parties are a cancer of democratic society......

Ex-Liberal official gets stiff sentence
Benoit Corbeil, former director-general of the Liberal Party's office in Montreal, leaves court on Friday, April 18, 2008.

Bênoit Corbeil, a key player in the sponsorship scandal, faces 15 months behind bars, a $20,000 fine and must reimburse $117,000 to party for unrelated fraud

Mr. Corbeil testified at his sentencing hearing that the money derived from the $50,000 kickback was redistributed to then-Liberal bagman Joe Morselli, as well as two Liberal riding associations outside of Montreal, prior to the 1997 general election.

He added that the money from the six fake invoices was largely used by Mr. Morselli to organize two Liberal events in 1999 and 2000. The goal was to pack halls with supporters of then-prime minister Jean Chrétien, whose loyalists were involved in internal fights with the supporters of then-finance minister Paul Martin.

Mr. Corbeil said the Liberal Party's Quebec wing was always short of money, and he said the fake invoices were used to obtain cash to pay for Liberal “volunteers” at party events and to organize matters like transportation.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ex-liberal-official-gets-15-months-behind-bars/article1389263/

Wrapping GO Train in Stimulus Propaganda Cost Double What John Baird Said It Did

By the gargoyle Fri, Dec 4 2009 COMMENTS(1) Gargoyle: the Blog

Filed under: stimulus spending, baird, propaganda

Faced with howls of outrage this fall over the decision to wrap two GO Transit commuter trains with decals promoting the Economic Action Plan – that is, the federal budget – Transport and Infrastructure Minister John Baird’s office claimed the ads were "good value" for taxpayers.

"As part of our advertising campaign to inform Canadians about the Economic Action Plan, we paid $44,000 net (before taxes) to fully cover both sides of two cars on the Lakeshore," Baird’s spokesman, Chris Day, told the Toronto Star.

Now, however, some new figures on the train wrappers. In response to a question tabled in the House of Commons by Toronto-area Liberal Dan McTeague, the government on Thursday produced some additional information. Yes, it cost $44,000 for the space on the trains, but it seems that didn’t include the creative design costs of $1,320 and another $39,650 to produce the decals.

Actual total cost: $84,970.

Winston's* $ewer $ucking $ervice presents:

The Liberal Party China Connection,

star-ring: Mao Stlong Strong, Mao's nephew Boob Rae, Jeancula Chretien, CSL Cap'n Paul MartinJr, Citoyen Dionky, Hezbollah Coderre, et al,.

>>> "He said the only cash he ever received from Mr. Morselli was $5,000 to pay for the cost of adopting a girl in China in 2000."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ex-liberal-official-gets-stiff-sentence/article1389263/

(*H/T Red Green Show)