Cox And Forkum on Canadian health care.
On the current topic of the ties of organized crime to the Canadian government, this collection of articles on the topic. Be sure to read the Sidewinder information.
Beth thinks blogging pretty much sucks.
The Conservative Party of Canada submission to the Gomery Commission.
That should keep you busy for a while. I have stuff to do – post your own links in the comments.
The acronym “SSM” is now inoperative. Henceforth “CML” is operative.
June 16, 2005, 7:38 a.m.
Bolton�s Bravery
The president�s choice is exactly what the U.N. needs.
By Ion Mihai Pacepa
I know the United Nations like the back of my hand. And I have good reasons to believe we badly need a tough guy like John Bolton to handle the rudderless bureaucracy that has turned against the very country that wrote the logo of its Charter: �We the People of the United Nations.
nationalreview.com
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I spent two decades of my other life as a Communist spy chief, struggling to transform the U.N. into a kind of international socialist republic. The Communist bloc threw millions of dollars and thousands of people into that gigantic project. According to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, all employees from Eastern Bloc nations were involved in espionage. The task of this espionage army was not to steal secrets but to use the U.N. to convert the historical Arab and Islamic hatred of the Jews into a new hatred for Israel�s main supporter, the United States. The U.N. became our petri dish, in which we nurtured a virulent strain of hatred for America, grown from the bacteria of Communism, anti-Semitism, nationalism, jingoism, and victimology.
During the years I was Nicolae Ceausescu�s national-security adviser I learned that petty tyrants cannot be handled with kid gloves. You need an iron fist.
nationalreview.com
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“You need an iron fist.”
John Bolton has the iron fist; no velvet glove needed.
Go John Bolton.
What goes around comes around?
Check out the Liberal’s new campaign slogan-
Now more than ever. Where have we heard THAT one before?
http://toryblue.blogspot.com/
links to this:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-3/978321/mclellan.JPG
In the spirit of the new librano logo “Now more than ever”, let’s all put our minds together to come up with some logical trailers to this line. For example, trailers like :
NOW MORE THAN EVER…
..and even deeper than ever
or
NOW MORE THAN EVER
..is the time for decent Canadians to upchuck
or…well, you get the idea.
Meanwhile,
Tory MPs are starting to notice the report from Hao Fengjun, an ex-Communist cadre who defected to Australia with evidence of massive Communist espionage operations in Australia – and in Canada.
“Hao says Canada has more spies operating in it than any other country.”
It’s the top story on my blog:
China e-Lobby
Nealenews:
Morgentaler: “Aborting unwanted kids reduces crime rate”
Dr. Death earns a diploma.
On Wednesday, the senate honorary degrees committee released a letter explaining why they made the decision to grant an award to Dr. Morgentaler.
They had previously refused to get into the reasons for their decision.
In a letter released on Western’s website Wednesday, the committee members said he was “elected for an honorary degree by a process that was fair, open and reflected normal practice.”
The debate over whether to include Dr. Morgentaler as one of the 10 recipients this year was “open and full,” they said.
They said the senate body wanted to be open about the way the group reached the decision after the university’s board of governor’s chair, Don McDougall, expressed disappointment about the decision and called the process “corrupted.”
“These allegation concerning impropriety are false and damage not only the president but the committee, the senate and the university itself.”
The decision was reached by a majority consent, and through a fair and open discussion, the senate committee said.
All members of the committee signed the letter, dated June 13th.
G&M
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UWO: Majority rules: “Normal practice”.
NOW MORE THAN EVER…
…it’s even deeper than ever
I watched a few minutes of Morgentalers speach, and I was struck by his discussion of evil as it relates to Nazis. He found a society which interns and murders it’s unwanted members abhorrent (as I do) and yet brags about doing the same thing only in a prenatal fashion. The statement that people who fail to learn from history being bound to repeat it was never more true.
New York Times Lowers Ad Revenue Outlook
Posted by SmithL
On 06/16/2005 2:20:02 PM PDT � 14 replies � 190+ views
AP ^ | 6/16/5
New York — The New York Times Co. lowered its outlook for second-quarter advertising revenue on Thursday and predicted that earnings would come in below its year-ago results. The newspaper publisher, which also owns The Boston Globe and the International Herald Tribune, said advertising has improved over a year ago but continues to be “uneven” across categories. As a result, the company predicted that ad sales will grow by low to mid-single digits, instead of the mid-single digit growth previously forecast. “While advertising revenues in the second quarter have exhibited modest year-over-year improvement, the ad market remains uneven across categories..
freerepublic.com
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The old gray lady is bleeding. Why?
Thursday, June 16, 2005
No Way Out 2
One sure way to put out a fire at sea is to sink the ship. The Philippine public’s reluctance to take to the streets to oust President Gloria Arroyo, internationally famous for paying ransom to Iraqi terrorists, and domestically notorious for having conspired to electorally defraud her rival, Fernando Poe Jr., has been been based on the desire to preserve what remains of the constitutional process. Having discovered that none of the current crop of leaders can uphold the substantive aims of democracy, the weary Filipinos have decided to preserve its mere form. That was the fire on board. Gloria Arroyo’s magnificent solution was to file charges against the National Bureau of Investigation (the equivalent of the FBI) agent who recorded her in the act of plotting with electoral officials to steal the elections. The charge? Sedition. The Philippine newspaper ABS-CBN reports:
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Wednesday filed inciting to sedition charges against Samuel Ong at the Department of Justice (DOJ). The case against the former NBI deputy director stemmed from his call for the overthrow of the Arroyo administration after he claimed last Friday to have the master copy of wiretapped conversations between the President and an election officer. State Prosecutor Emmanuel Velasco said the NBI submitted news clippings that contained Ong’s seditious remarks as evidence. … Earlier NBI Director Reynaldo Wycoco said the agency had information on Ong’s whereabouts, but would not pursue him until an arrest warrant is issued.
Ong is actually in the keeping of the Catholic Church hierarchy, surrounded by crowds of reporters and camera men. But in the Alice-in-Wonderland world of the Pearl of the Orient seas, officials pretend to a secret knowledge of his location, seeking to demonstrate their competence in their customary and farcical way: “the agency had information on Ong’s whereabouts”; their motto, ‘always outwitted, but never fooled’.
The cycle is complete. Because Philippine institutions cannot remove venal officials, people take to the streets to oust them directly thereby weakening the institutions still further. And because every replacement is just as corrupt and incompetent as the last, the weakened institutions are even less able to oust their successors and in response to institutional failure another round of street unrest follows. Before jet fighters acquired engines with a thrust greater than their weight, air combat was characterized by a steady loss of energy as dogfighters turned in circles at ever lower altitudes. The same is now true of the Philippines. The dogfighting circles of corrupt presidents alternating with “People’s Power” movements that kick them out has taken its institutional energy right down to the deck. But if anyone thinks there’s no more room to drop he would be mistaken. By prosecuting the man who blew the whistle on her theft of the Presidency and charging him with sedition, Arroyo is demonstrating the falsity of what she would be advised to affirm: that her retention somehow preserves the institutions which she is even now destroying. Shipboard fire? Sink the ship.
fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com
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I’ve been running a little experiment over at HotOrNot.com to prove what we all know: Stevie Harper Is All About The Pimp. I was going to let this run a few more days, but since FatGate seems to be the latest soap opera I thought I should act quickly:
Stevie Harper Is All About The Pimp!
I invite you to drop by my blog to see the results of my hotness survey (voting is still open).
http://anonalogue.blogspot.com/2005/06/stevie-harper-all-about-pimp.html
The opposition to Macapagal has been kept back — so far — by fear of what might follow another extraconstitutional eviction of a President. But at some point they will realize that Arroyo is manufacturing chaos just efficiently as any mob; and then they will troop, with heavy heart, back into the streets to effect a change that isn’t; to promise a hope that no one believes in; to invoke a future that doesn’t exist; in the name of a country that has long ago been forgotten.
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Canada has skipped the whole process; the streets are quiet; deserted; dead.
All ” in the name of a country that has long ago been forgotten.”
fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com
Update
Presidents can usually survive being hated. It’s being laughed at that’s fatal. One of the aftermarket cellphone ringtones now being sold in Manila is a reproduction of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s edifying conversation with election officials, as she prepared to rig the elections.
“Hello! Hello! Hello! Garci (the name of the election official)
So, will I still lead by more than one million?”
The response to this tide of ridicule has been the typical official bluster admixed with a confession of helplessness. Here’s the Philippine equivalent of the attorney general trying his hand at standup comedy without being quite aware of it.
“They are liable under the law,” Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said of mobile phone users keeping or spreading the ring tone. Gonzalez earlier warned people that the possession and dissemination of CDs showing that Ms Arroyo had pressed for the rigging of the presidential election violated the Anti-Wire Tapping Act of 1965. …I told you already that nobody can control somebody from doing something that he wants to do whether it is against the law or not,” Gonzalez said when asked repeatedly whether the DoJ (Department of Justice) was going after those spreading the ring tone.
“One school of thought, and I think many of you will agree with that, is that the more you entertain these things, the more it would whet the appetite,” he said. On the other hand, if you do not enforce the law, you are also accused of being inutile, that the government is weak. We have to balance this. We are studying the balance,” he added. Gonzalez said the DoJ would not go after mobile phone firms for the spread of the ring tone.
Asked whether he believed it was Ms Arroyo who was speaking on the tape, Gonzalez said: “I am not a voice expert. Yes. Yes. To some extent. But I will never admit that that is the President (speaking).”
These are the very same Filipino officials who can be relied on to unswervingly fight the Abu Sayyaf “to some extent” after “studying the balance”. The staunch allies in the War on Terror. God help us all.
fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com
Librano$$$$$$$$$$$$ in the Phillipines.
“It’s being laughed at that’s fatal.”
The tape… the tape… get the taper…get the tapeees… Payola Duct Tape AdScam Martin.
The Conservatives must hire Steve Smith, aka Red Green Show, to tape some tapes of Martin on tape taping Harper/Layton/Duceppe; a conference call, perhaps, on tape. Cue the tape.
Ridicule works. Laugh the Librano$ out of their orifices.