As I sit here reeking of gasoline (collateral damage from winterizing my bike), there is primer drying on several pieces of signboard in the garage, a goalie mask awaiting sanding and refinishing, a figurine of an Irish Terrier packed and ready to ship, and a pile of work orders an inch thick on my desk. I also manged to drag both my new and old air compressors down to Jim’s Sport Shop to get fittings transferred, purge the blog of the latest Tamiflu spam, do a bit of garden work and freeze a few veggies. Oh, and a friend stopped in to help with the “alterations” on my 5 day old puppies.
So, blogging has been light, and it’s likely to stay that way for a few days until I can get my head above water. Thanks to those of you who have sent tips and links to your own stuff – I do appreciate it, I just haven’t the time to do it justice!
Facing extinction in Health Committee in Ottawa today Private members Bill C-420 survived a Liberal motion to quash by Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health Robert Thibault.
[…]
“This will really keep both Health Canada’s and the Liberal minority
government’s feet to fire on the long promised removal of Schedule A and
Sections 3.1 and 3.2 of the Food and Drug Act,” a Health Committee
source said in a telephone interview shortly after the historic vote.
A press release on bill C-420. (Word .doc)
Stephen Taylor takes a look at the questions from the latest Strategic Council poll. (Speaking of which, the left seems to have forgotten that polls taken before Mulroney’s utter decimation of the Liberal Party in 1984 had the Conservatives behind by 8 points…)
Lorne Gunter has Jim Travers by the neck and he shakes him good.
Those crazy Muslims…. Lost Budgie is on the “Free Piglet!” bandwagon.
Angry has been hot on the trail of another Liberal scandal in the making – Just go to his main page and keep scrolling.
So you want to talk about being tortured by the Liberal government’s newest, bestest friends? Fine. But be sure to stash your mother is in a safe place. (MSM ALERT This is a story that should be picked up by some enterprising journalist. It’s long overdue that Paul Martin & Co. be forced to address the abuses of the Chinese government they are so eager to do business with.)
Use the comments for your own.
It is a good grip — good thumb pressure — and a great column by Gunter, because it’s an most important subject. It sure does look like the Liberal Party’s PR is worked out in camera between certain MSMers and the PMO. There is certainly very little separation between Liberal interests and those of the Ontario centered media.
Yesterday’s CBC coverage of Dingwall’s, er, heroic stand yesterday, for example, was Liberal Party propaganda all the way. Listening to Boags was jaw-dropping at times. It’s strangely compelling viewing, in a way — you keep thinking that they’ll stop it…but they don’t.
As for Travers oddly bold assertion of knowledge in the Star, I agree with Gunter’s second possible explanation: that the PMO knows what they got away with, vis a vis the enquiry; they know who testified, who will speak up later and who won’t, so if the contents are “pre-known”, ahem, and widely advertised, as it were, then the final report won’t be so anticipated or important.
Apparently, based on poll numbers in Ontario, they needn’t have worried about it in the first place.
I understand, Kate. I, too, have plenty to do- demand for the product of my own labors has shot up and I’m looking at longer hours to fill the demand. Sometimes I wish I could just blog full-time and make a killing on ad revenue, selling “moonbats suck” books, etc… one can dream, eh?
Speaking of stashing your mother in a safe place….
Grannies arrested in US peace protest
Eighteen US anti-war grandmothers were arrested and face disorderly conduct charges after they showed up at a military recruiting centre in New York’s Times Square and said they wanted to enlist…(see the pic)
http://tinyurl.com/9g3ar
Getting them into that paddy wagon must have taken all day.
Polls, polls, polls & more polls. Take them with a shaker of salt. >>>>> Poll results are used to manipulate public opinion. The trend, over time, is a much better indicator of voter intentions. As “they” say on the casinos, er, stock markets, past results are no indication of future performance. >>>>>
By ALEXANDER PANETTA
Thursday, October 20, 2005 Posted at 6:24 PM EDT
Canadian Press
Ottawa � The federal Liberals’ lead over the Conservatives has shrunk to five percentage points, a new Decima survey suggests.
The Liberals held 34 per cent support and the Conservatives had 29 per cent, says the survey provided to The Canadian Press.
Decima found a 13-percentage-point lead for the Liberals in a survey at the start of the summer, but said subsequent polls have indicated a declining trend.
Pollster Bruce Anderson said increased scrutiny on the Liberal government is the reason behind the narrowing lead. >>>>>
G&M
Betty? Betty Friedan? Libby & Maude? Don’t forgit Svend, too. Where is youse? This wman (?) needs your lecturing/hectoring/nagging? She told youse: Men are superior!!! Islamist terrorists say so! Get those burkas on, dummies.>>>
Egyptian Misogyny
Muslim Brotherhood candidate for Egyptian parliament Makarem al-Deiri knows her place�in the Dark Ages: Woman candidate for Egypt parliament holds men superior. (Hat tip: monica.)
CAIRO (AFP) – Makarem al-Deiri is standing for election to the Egyptian parliament next month after a long academic career but she makes no bones about her view that a woman�s place is in the home.
The only woman candidate backed by Egypt�s influential Muslim Brotherhood, the 55-year-old mother of seven insists there is no point arguing for sexual equality as such a demand �goes against nature.�
�Women are men�s partners at all levels but their main role is to be good mothers who look after their children,� Deiri told AFP in Nasr City, the middle-class constituency in northeastern Cairo where she is standing for election.
�Would women be happy if men were to stay home to look after the children while they worked outside?� she asks rhetorically.
�We believe that domestic chores are not less (than other types of work) and we oppose battling against men�s superiority to women.�
Widow of the late Muslim Brotherhood leader Ibrahim Sharaf, who was jailed from 1965 to 1974, Deiri is standing against a male candidate from the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) � Mustafa al-Sallab, a millionaire businessman in the ceramic industry. >>> via LGF
Stop the Press, er MSM. The following is a paid political announcement: paid for by you, suckers!
Big White Chief, Big Black Mother not invited, to snuggle with ABO’s & more, in Smoke Lodge: a healing circle-jerk; a wampum exchange for the ABO’s votes. Bring your sweet grass, pipes, war bonnets, shakers/rattles/drums & best manners as NFB/CBC will film the powwow for posterity. Wow, not a mosque within 500 miles. >>>> PP will go to Commonwealth Meeting>>> take that, you Anglo-Saxons. Will Bruno tag along for “security” blanket? >>>>>>>
Prime Minister invites Premiers, Territorial Leaders, and Leaders of National Aboriginal Organizations to a First Ministers’ meeting
October 21, 2005
Ottawa, Ontario
Prime Minister Paul Martin today announced a First Ministers’ Meeting in Kelowna, British Columbia, on November 24-25, 2005.
The Prime Minister has invited Premiers, Territorial Leaders and Leaders of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), the M�tis National Council (MNC), the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) and the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) to participate in the meeting, which will be held at the Grand Okanagan Hotel.
“This meeting will be an important opportunity to further the work that has been done, over the past year and a half, to bridge the gap in the quality of life for Aboriginal people,” said the Prime Minister. “I look forward to discussions with First Ministers and National Aboriginal Leaders during the upcoming meeting.”
The meeting builds on the strengthened relationship emerging from the September 13, 2004 Special Meeting between First Ministers and Aboriginal Leaders and is an opportunity for the federal, provincial and territorial governments to discuss how to improve the lives of Aboriginal Peoples.
A detailed agenda will be made available at a later date.
As a result, the Prime Minister will not attend the meeting of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta on November 25-27, 2005. Canada will be represented by Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew.>>>>
http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news.asp?id=609
IRAN: BLOGGER CONDEMNED TO 30 LASHES
adnki ^ | October 21 | rah/aki
Posted on 10/21/2005 12:51:29 PM PDT by RDTF
Tehran, 21 Oct. (AKI) – A young Iranian blogger, Ahmad Seyyed Saraj, who has been imprisoned since 29 June in a jail in Tabriz, the capital of Iranian Azerbaijan, has received 30 lashes of the whip as part of his sentence. Seyyed Saraj has been charged with offending the authorities and revived a sentence of 30 lashes, while for the accusation of attacking the security of the state, he is still awaiting judgement.
Ahmad Seyyed Saraj is a journalist who has been running a blog after the newspaper where he was working closed down. Before him, another four Tehran bloggers were punished with whipping, for the contents of their sites.
After the closure of most of the independent newspapers and magazines in Iran, blogs have been the only possibility for many unemployed journalists to continue to express their opinions and truthfully report what cannot be found in the official media.
Persian is the third largest language used by bloggers, due to the more than 75,000 blogs generated in Iran. >>>> more
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1506817/posts
the “stash your mother” link doesn’t work.