Hugh Hewitt interviewed Victor Davis Hanson on the current state of European opinion over recent rioting; “absolute bafflement”.
And via Kathy Shaidle this treat: Donald Rumsfeld in the German magazine Spiegel;
SPIEGEL: How concerned are you about Iran?
Rumsfeld: All of us have to be concerned when a country that important, large and wealthy is disconnected from the normal interactions with the rest of the world. They obviously have certain ambitions, powers and military capabilities …
SPIEGEL: …and nuclear ambitions…
Rumsfeld: That’s apparently what France, Germany, the UK and the International Atomic Energy Agency have concluded. Everyone wants to have the Iranians as part of the world community, but they aren’t yet. Therefore there’s less predictability and more danger.
SPIEGEL: The US is trying to make the case in the United Nations Security Council.
Rumsfeld: I would not say that. I thought France, Germany and the UK were working on that problem.
SPIEGEL: What kind of sanctions are we talking about?
Rumsfeld: I’m not talking about sanctions. I thought you, and the U.K. and France were.
SPIEGEL: You aren’t?
Hill Times notes that the Conservatives continue to bury the Liberals and NDP when it comes to party fundraising, though Paul Martin seems to have a pocket of well-heeled support in Edmonton!
…the Liberals received $307,367.67 from 5,888 people for $200 or less and 28 people gave $5,000. Twenty-two of the 28 people who gave the maximum come from Edmonton, Alta.
The SDA children’s book recommendation for November: “Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!”
It’s a reader tips post. You know the drill.
22 of 28 from Edmonton??!! I call bull$hit
they just charged one of the Khadars – Pravda reports it as “Canadian Charged” – I s’pose we will be supplying lawyers by the bushel for this unfortunate victim of freedom. or murderer whatever way you want to look at it.
A personal message I sent Monday night to Her Highness, Katherine The Great…just a poor dumb peon needing to vent….
Hi Kate,
Longtime lurker (and sometime commenter) and first time e-mailer.
I work in radio…which is a federally regulated business. Today our corporate HR Department came to town extolling the virtues of pay equity. To be honest, this stuff puts me to sleep but one talking point stuck in my craw.
As an attempt to ingratiate herself with us dumb peons she related the hard-luck story of her brothers who were denied raises while working in the federal bureaucracy. This was due to the “policies of Mulroney”.
Yuks aplenty. Until I piped up, “Sounds like your brothers didn’t get in on the Sponsorship Program…”
My boss who was in attendance, turned to me and sighed, “Ohhhh, don’t get him started.” I replied that it wasn’t me that started it, I was just responding to a challenge.
Okay, to the point. I can take a joke like anyone else, but when someone who is invited to explain company policy makes cracks about politics, even at the expense of the “Most Hated Man in Canada”, really has no place in the workplace. I took a stand. Just imagine if the offending statement had been about Jews denying raises to her brothers. Retribution would’ve been swift, and mightily so. Funny thing was is that the Vice President of Human Resources was in attendance. Slagging a political figure, as long as he’s a conservative, seems to be correct in my corporation. I have yet to ask my boss whether or not I crossed the line in standing up for someone I voted for, twice.
Good thing I really didn’t express my true feelings about a pair of federal bureaucrats not getting a whacking great Christmas bonus because of that evil Mulroney…boo-freaking-hoo. Don’t your relatives get enough from the public tit?
Texan’s could say in a slow drawl sumth’n ’bout gitt’n ’nuff rope to hang ‘erself with.
When the bomb goes off halfway up the Eiffel tower killing thousands, the french will scream “Merde!”, the Germans will tap their forehead and say “Dummkopf” and the English with a sorrowful sip of tea will say “pity”.
I suspect the Americans won’t say much afterwards but will be the first to give a helping hand with Tehran style payback.
It took less than a week, but the Liberals have already rebounded from the popularity hit they took when the Gomery report was released on Nov. 1.
In a Nov. 4 poll, the governing party’s support was estimated at 28 per cent — a 10-point plunge from one released Oct. 19.
However, in a new poll conducted over the weekend by The Strategic Counsel for CTV and The Globe and Mail, the Liberals are back up to 35 per cent support.
Here are the new numbers, with the percentage-point change from the Nov. 4 poll in brackets:
Liberals: 35 per cent (+7)
Conservatives: 28 per cent (-3)
NDP: 16 per cent (-4)
Bloc Quebecois 13 per cent (no change)
Green Party: 8 per cent (+1)
The sudden possibility Harper’s Conservatives might finally be mustering enough support to form government “gave a significant number of voters — especially in Ontario — pause, and an occasion to reassess their support.”
I know this is off topic, but this Europe thing was predictable. We were all waiting for that tinder box to blow. Now that the cherry is popped … it’s going to be like a nightly sit-com from now on .. Soooo .. let’s just watch the show and wait for our turn. We have a large unassimulated poplulation as well. We can provide jobs courtesay of the USA, but that will change eventually.
Soooooooo… here’s a another thought.
Here is a list of people in power (or nearly) from the present and recent past.
– Paul Martin
– Joe Clark
– Kim Campbell
– Pierre Trudeau
– John Turner
– Jean Cretien
– Jack Layton
– Gille Duceppe
– Stephen Harper
– Louis St. Laurent
– John Diefenbaker
– Frank McKenna
– Stephen Harper
– Brian Mulrony
– Gordon Campbell
– Ralph Kline
– Dalton McGuinty
– Mike Harris
– Bob Rae
– Don Getty
– Jean Charest
– Bill Clinton
– George W. Bush
– John Kennedy
– Gerald Ford
– Jimmy Carter
– George Bush Sr.
– Peter Mansbridge and many others at CBC
– Bill O’Reilly and many others at fox and so on.
Don’t get me started on Hollywood.
What do they all have in common?
They all have blue eyes.
Why do you think this is?
I happen to find this interesting and perplexing. From now on … check eye color on anyone who is up high or is trying to be in the public eye. See what the eye color is. I tell you it’s weird!
Re new numbers … remember those are Eastern polsters … CTV …. however .. may be exagerated a bit, but I don’t doubt that trend.
I never thought for a moment that Canada would dump the Liberals. Harper, sadly, is unelectable. The PC party is too Western for the cosmopolitan idiots in the East.
Again, the only answer is the separate. Assimulate all immugrants and Indians, renew our friendship with our best friend and main customer .. only then will we have a chance at a real country for ourselves. You know .. the kind with a common culture and values. …Like when countries were first formed.
That’s why there were countries in the first place. to keep out those who didn’t share the common values and culture. When you don’t have a commmon language … humor become a casualty. You need to know the language, it’s slang and nuances as well as it’s culture to enjoy the humor that can only happen when eveyone knows the same shit.
But then we are being governmed by the most humorless bastards I have ever seen or heard.
I’m so giddy at the prospect of a Conservative government I got up at 4AM today. Usually, when I am too stoked to sleep, I drive down to Stornoway and sing, in soothing tones and North Korean style, “Please Great Leader\Don’t work so hard…”, but it’s getting a little chilly for that. Headlines:
This Toronto Star Editorial is gross:
“Whatever the latest opinion poll may show, it’s a safe bet Prime Minister Paul Martin would rather lead his Liberals into an election today, having been exonerated of personal wrongdoing in the sponsorship scandal, than at any time in recent months.”
Yeah, and now that OJ has been “exonerated” maybe he can get his film career going again.
“The president and a senior member of the East Vancouver Hells Angels chapter have been sentenced to four years in prison.”
Don’t be faked out by the headline and temporary conviction, these guys always appeal and win, but it gets buried on page E18. We have a fake “justice” system.
“A man whose dropped cigarette started a devastating fire that destroyed dozens of homes in 2003 was found guilty Monday.”
Jerk.
“Ontario’s attorney general says he plans to spend this week’s meetings with his provincial and federal counterparts pressing Ottawa to adopt a “zero tolerance” approach to guns and to impose mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes”
And the ironic thing is that I just applauded the McGuinty government for announcing that they are ditching the Harris-era anti-male anti-immigrant “Safe Schools Act”.
St. Francis Xavier University has topped a list of university rankings for the fourth year in a row…. Four other universities in Nova Scotia made the Top 20 in this category.
If Nova Scotia has 4 of the top 20 universities in Canada then why do they need to mooch so much bloody cash from Ontario, which ranks tenth of ten in per capita education spending? And where the %%@#*@% is the spinoff economy that a critical mass of good universities generates in every other part of the world but Nova Scotia?
“A mother’s descent into alcoholism drove her two teenage daughters to drown her in a bathtub, court heard Monday as the eldest girl recounted her crimes in dramatic videotaped evidence presented during the first day of their trial…
“Only four minutes . . .that’s how long I held her head under water for. After that she just kept convulsing and twitching,” the girl says on the tape.
“It was a solution to the worst situation . . .beside me slitting my veins. It was a way to heal her and end everything.”
The sisters, now 18 and 19, are free on bail and living under house arrest.”
Wanna bet these two walk? And what are they doing out on bail when the crown has a taped confession? They’ll talk some smack about being abused, the Liberal judge will either let them walk or give them probation. For drowning their mother.
Charlottetown — Governor-General Micha�lle Jean will make her second official regional visit — and her first to the Maritimes — with a stop in Prince Edward Island next week…Ms. Jean says she understands the challenges and hardships of island life, since she was born and raised on the island of Haiti.”
“Ze hidea of being on han island appeals to me; land, under foot. Surrounded by water.”
“After years of growing provincial autonomy in immigration matters, federal and provincial immigration ministers have agreed on a common national vision is needed to improve the immigration system.
Joe Volpe, the federal minister, released a three-page strategic plan Friday after a day-long meeting with his provincial and territorial counterparts.
…
But no timetables, no dollar figures and no specific programs are included in the document. “
Lame. Meaningless. Here’s another perspective from the PLA house organ Epoch Times:
Canada Opens Borders to Immigrants
“This week Canada has announced its plans to market itself as the �land of opportunity� for skilled migrants. Canadian Immigration Minister Joe Volpe has unveiled an immigration programme that will see Canada take in up to 300,000 new immigrants annually for the next five years.”
To all of you capital punishment smacktards:
” Convicted killer Kyle Unger says he’s preparing himself for a bit of a shock when he gets out of prison this week. Unger has served 13� years of a life sentence for the 1990 sexual assault and murder of 16-year-old Brigitte Grenier at an outdoor rock concert in Roseisle.
Last Friday, a Winnipeg judge ordered his release on bail, saying there are “very serious concerns” Unger may have been wrongfully convicted.”
Finally, congratulations to The Pas for banning assault puppies:
“The town of The Pas has passed a bylaw banning pit bull dogs, but not everyone agrees with the tough new measure. Councillors in the northern community voted four to three in favour of passing the bylaw, which bans pit bull terriers, Staffordshire bull terriers, American Staffordshire terriers and American pit bull terriers � and dogs similar to them, as determined by a licensed veterinarian.”
Whose the dumy? ++++++++ Dvid & Aubl are no dumyies,eh? >>>> They has good jeans,.????
Good genes beat good homes as guide to pupils� school success
David Smith and Abul Taher
Previous studies have suggested that the home environment, and in particular the level of family income, is the most important determinant of educational attainment.
But the new study, to be published in the Royal Economic Society�s Economic Journal, will argue that while income and home environment account for about 25% of educational attainment, inherited intelligence is responsible for the rest. >>
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1859545,00.html
Canadian journalism at its best:
“This country is turning into half a dozen cities and a whole lot of bush in between.”
A direct quote from the inimitable John Ibbitson of the Globe in an interview May 7 on CFRA, Ottawa.
The Ibbitson quote as audio is available at the end of this clip:
“Monday, November 07, 2005: The Polite Revolution – Part 2
http://www.cfra.com/interviews/index.asp
Must still be a few good people out there grubbing about in the bush. Urban, post-national, diverse, multicultural Ibbitson at his arrogant apex.
One wonders what they would think of his view in Gravenhurst, Ontario, where he was born.
And this from Jim Travers, “A depressing case of d�j� vu: Time hasn’t eased dilemmas for voters”, Toronto Star, Nov. 8:
“So the ballot question in those pivotal southern Ontario ridings again becomes: How scary is Harper? Is he too angry, doctrinaire and cold even to be trusted with a minority government controlled by parties to the Conservative left?”
Mark
Ottawa
Women’s brains ‘make them safer drivers
Men, on the other hand, pride themselves at being better at parking and reading maps.
A new study by researchers at the University of Bradford found that women are significantly better than men at shifting concentration. Amarylis Fox, who helped to conduct the study, said: “Women seem to realise that they are being asked to do something new much more quickly than men.
“Men tend to blindly carry on with the original task.
In Europe, automakers are propping up the markets, as a falling euro makes exports more attractive to the American market. via advisor.ca >>>>>>>
Meanwhile, peek at the Car-B-Q table (cannot copy) at Belmont Club:
Trends
The Times of London has a handy table of the numbers of cars burned during each day of the French riots. Tim Blair and Mark Steyn have called this metric the Car-B-Q. A graph showing the numbers of cars Car-B-Qed against day is shown below. >>>
http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/
Do you believe NDP leader Jack Layton when he says he will vote to bring down the government?
Yes, he has lost confidence in the Liberals
10.1%
No, he’s just posturing and will strike a deal with the Liberals like he did in the spring
89.8%
Total Votes: 1042
cfra.com
It is difficult to get “Help Mom! There are Liberals under my Bed!” in Canada.
I tried ordering through Amazon.ca but it was taking along time. So I ordered it through Amazon.com and it got to me while my order on Amazon.ca languished. The local canadian bookstores could not even order it through their usual channels.
The book is great. Our kids love it.
“The president and a senior member of the East Vancouver Hells Angels chapter have been sentenced to four years in prison.”
Don’t be faked out by the headline and temporary conviction, these guys always appeal and win, but it gets buried on page E18. We have a fake “justice” system.
Agreed . . these guys pled guilty and are being sent to a low security jail that provides golf & horsebcak riding classes, one of our fine CLUB FEDS
Its a joke . . .
Regarding the new poll. This is the second poll in less than a week that CTV/G&M paid the Strategic Counsel to do. The first one said Con 31 Lib 28. The second, only a few days later, said Lib 35 Con 28.
I smell a rat. How can the same polling company generate such different results over such a short period of time unless it’s rigged?
Hey, as much as I love the Americans and their political system, they really do have a problem with Porkbarrelling down there:
http://tinyurl.com/ca6zr
Money Quote: I love goat-racing as much as anybody else, but come on!”
Also features lawnmower racing paid for by the taxpayers!
The Riots of Ramadan
Guest Commentary
November 2005
by: John von Heyking
Alexis de Tocqueville had the French state in mind when he worried about the paternal power of the democratic state. He considered civil associations as the salve that could heal the pathologies of the democratic soul, including its individualism and its tendency to seek salvation in world-transforming ideologies. Tocqueville�s teaching helps us to understand the impact of the riots in France, both for their impact on France�s domestic politics but also for international politics. Domestically, the riots underline the difficulty the French state has in integrating up to three generations of Algerian Muslims, who remember the brutality of their struggle for independence. French statism, seen as the guardian of le nation, in fact undermines the art of civil association that makes integration so necessary. The French response to the riots will have implications for the war on terrorism. For instance, Ahmed Ressam, the so-called Millennium bomber who had planned to blow up LAX but was stopped at a border crossing at Washington state, belonged to an Algerian terrorist cell in Montreal. Just last week the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) broke up an Algerian terrorist cell in Toronto. Finally, the Center for Strategic and International Studies reported recently that Algerians make up the largest contingent of foreign insurgents in Iraq. France�s Algerian and Islamist powder keg has exploded and the situation and the regime�s response illuminate some of the deepest fault lines of the modern age. >>> more
http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/guest/05/vonheyking/ramadan.html
Regarding the new poll. This is the second poll in less than a week that CTV/G&M paid the Strategic Counsel to do. The first one said Con 31 Lib 28. The second, only a few days later, said Lib 35 Con 28.
I smell a rat. How can the same polling company generate such different results over such a short period of time unless it’s rigged?.
push polling . you get the answer you want by rigging the questions. G&M = Pro Liberal, Ontario centric newspaper with a centralist Cdn agenda that is anti CPC.
Slam dunk.
Know 2 things about polls:
1. They are done by phone. Everybody has call display and most of those that don’t refuse to continue. When’s the last time you picked up for Unknown Name/Number? The people that answer are the bored. People with small businesses, busy jobs, families with young kids, etc don’t answer the phone. People likely to vote Conservative.
2. It’s likely voters that matter. These polls don’t ask that question. In this next election, some parties will have motivated voters and others won’t. Take a look at those thousands of small donations to the Conservatives. Why are the Cons confident? I think their internal polling is looking at this factor.
Peter Jay, Excellent! Polls as they are currently done in Canada are pure garbage.
Polls could be useful if:-
A bureau of professional review could certify polling firms and standards.
The question was direct yes or no, and the exact question is listed right there where you can see and understand it.
The preamble to the question was also made clear. The preamble can swing the response.
My standard answer to a pollster on the telephone is, *Great! do you do the electronic transfer of $20 or $50?
Oh, you don’t pay? Time to get with it then… eh? G’bye. TG
Father of slain Mountie to review parole system
…The father of one of the four Mounties murdered in Mayerthorpe last spring has been asked to take part in a federal review of the parole system scheduled to begin in the new year…
So why exactly are we paying for civil servants?
It doesn’t seem that too many folks are aware of certain connections involving Judge Gomery, PM Martin, CSL and others as reported on Canada Free Press. So I decided to do a post, entitled “Judge Gomery & PM Martin: The CSL Connection”, of my own based on the CFP article:
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2005/11/judge-gomery-pm-martin-csl-connection.html
Fascinating facts on interrelationships between so many big names and what happened that raise many questions in one’s mind.
Who knows… one day the plot could thicken…
Afro-Moslems? A Moslem with an Afro? Zounds. >>
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Les �meutiers prennent � une �glise
posted by Joe N. @ 3:16 PM
An eyewitness report which appears to be corroborated by commenters from the same town:
Afro-Moslems rioters attack a Protestant church.
�Tonight the Protestant church in Meulan was attacked. The roof is completely destroyed. I do not yet know if the interior is completely destroyed or not. You can�t smoke in a mosque, but trashing a church is less serious.�
http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/
Duke. “I never thought for a moment that Canada would dump the Liberals. Harper, sadly, is unelectable. The PC party is too Western for the cosmopolitan idiots in the East.” We’ll see. I wouldn’t give up yet. Don’t believe these polls. They are as fixed as CBC and CTV commentators are.
Layton has just announced that he will support a no confidence vote to turf the Liberals. The problem I have is the fact that in a poll conducted a few days ago the NDP made serious gains in BC. There are too many immigrants and wussie people in BC who are on the take for sure. Just take a walk downtown sometime.
If the Liberals form even another minority then I think Alberta and many Western Canadians will lose faith in the political process in Ottawa. The only option then is Alberta separation.
this didnt copy well. go to pravda- cbc and follow the links. but I think literacy proficency follows the EI rates. when they are collected EI, they arent reading books. theyre staring at the TV.
Average proficiency score and percent of population at each proficiency level, Canada, provinces and territories, population aged 16 and over, 2003
Average proficiency score Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4/5
%
Prose literacy
Newfoundland and Labrador 263 24.0 30.8 32.8 12.4
Prince Edward Island 272 19.9 29.6 34.0 16.6
Nova Scotia 276 17.3 27.5 38.4 16.8
New Brunswick 264 22.7 33.3 31.6 12.4
Quebec 266 22.3 32.3 32.8 12.6
Ontario 270 21.3 26.7 35.0 17.0
Manitoba 274 18.2 28.1 37.2 16.5
Saskatchewan 283 13.5 26.6 38.9 21.0
Alberta 283 13.6 25.9 39.6 21.0
British Columbia 281 17.3 22.7 37.2 22.9
Yukon 292 10.5 22.9 39.3 27.3
Northwest Territories 275 19.3 25.8 35.1 19.8
Nunavut 230 47.2 25.8 19.5 7.5
Canada 272 19.9 27.8 35.4 17.0
Numeracy
Newfoundland and Labrador 251 32.0 32.8 25.9 9.2
Prince Edward Island 260 25.7 33.9 28.1 12.3
Nova Scotia 262 26.0 30.5 30.8 12.8
New Brunswick 252 30.0 35.2 25.8 8.9
Quebec 259 27.6 31.3 28.6 12.5
Ontario 261 27.0 28.8 29.3 14.8
Manitoba 262 24.6 31.7 31.3 12.4
Saskatchewan 272 19.7 29.2 34.2 16.9
Alberta 274 19.7 29.0 32.7 18.6
British Columbia 272 21.4 27.3 33.4 17.8
Yukon 280 15.7 27.5 37.7 19.1
Northwest Territories 265 25.0 28.0 31.7 15.3
Nunavut 219 55.7 22.4 15.4 6.5
Canada 263 25.5 29.6 30.1 14.7
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