SWTE: Lessons From Europe

17 Replies to “SWTE: Lessons From Europe”

1. It’s second down and long. Do you think any party leader will pick up this political football and run with it? I’d hate to admit it but Canadians will never buy the truth, even if it bit them on the arse.
   Remember Joe Who? Told the taxpayers he needed to raise fuel tax by $0.16 (I think). Got booted out only to see PET bring in even a higher tax. The Canadian Ostrich Effect.

2. Oh, almost forgot. Brilliant piece of writing as usual.

3. Aznar was too wise a leader for Spain. Europe deserves snivelling, conspiracy believing Moonbats for leaders.
   Little Paulie Martin is more likely to quote Hugo Chavez than Aznar: “The US is going to asassinate me!”

4. Great post again Kate!
   I picture CBC Liberals charging about trying to stuff remnant exploded heads into subterrainian safety.

5. Long view…
   People have been on the move for 6 million years.
   When we have entered new territory, we brought our best qualities and worst problems with us and we have effected the lives of the people already there.
   There isn’t enough habitable space left here on earth without special technology. But people continue to emmigrate and in response, as in all history, they are met with immigration policies and/or resistance.
   We are here, in this place and time, because we came here and others will follow. The big sea change now, in this era, seems to be the large numbers of people of good and bad Muslim faith who are moving/intruding about the earth now. Will they replace us? What will Canada look like in 100, 1000 years?

6. Great post as usual Kate.
   Liberal government foreign policy consists of sending ex CBC cronies like Pamella Wallen off to party with locals in NY and playing footsie with the Chinese Communist Party for Liberal insider profit.
   It seems troops in Afghanistan are all but forgoten until a soldier gets killed or Liberals want to boast about how great a job we are doing fighting terrorism.
   Alex
   Winnipeg

7. Sort of OT – are you the only one other than Liam that bothers to research very much? You’d think, if you were writing in a national forum like this & critiquing policies, you’d actually read the friggin’ policy before commenting on it (I’m a bit ticked after reading Alan’s latest missive on the first part of a 2-part CPC childcare program).

8. CBC did a piece last night on “Indo Canadian gangs” in Vancouver. They had no trouble connecting that ethnic community to the large number of murders that occured there. One wonders why they don’t make the same connection in T.O. and name the Jamaican gangs.

9. Debunking Conventional Wisdom

   Kate at Small Dead Animals is writing on a panel at the CBC, which throws me into a pleasant sense of disequilibrium. Her latest post Unconventional Wisdom highlights Spain’s former prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, and sheds a little light

10. Well said.

11. Oh, sorry, I thought it was the “right wing” that was so pessimistic and angry. That’s what Paul Martin said yesterday. I am always amazed at the binders around Liberals’ thought process. Just take Paul Martin’s tirade against the pessimistic, complaining Conservatives. Just insert “Liberal Party” wherever he says “Canada.” Mr Martin truly thinks only his party represents “Canadian values.” Get it straight Martin, we are complaining about the Liberal party, not Canadians’ accomplishments, made in spite of over-taxation, distortion of economic output, failure to plan for the future, and outright criminal activity, corruption and cronyism. In other words, Liberals “are entitled to their entitlements” of ever-increasingly-running Canadians lives. If we re-elect this bunch, thus giving them further access to tax dollars, don’t be surprised to see us in deficit financing within 5 years. That’s right, more debt on top of the yet-unpaid Trudeau era borrowing. We can’t afford this kind of governance.

12. If we don’t vote Liebrano, we’ll have to fend for ourselves. Conversely, vote Liebrano and you won’t. Free ride. Easy sailing. Life’s a breeze.
    Liebrano snake oil.

13. Let’s not forget one important thing about the former Spanish government. It immediately, without evidence, blamed ETA for the Madrid bombing, even going so far as to get the UN to condemn ETA for carrying it out. It had all the stink of a government lying about who was responsible for the attack for its own political purposes.
    Whether they deliberately lied, or badly bungled the immediate investigation and PR, I’d say they fully deserved to be thrown out.

14. Watch the Streets of Iran
    There�s a bit of hopeful news from Iran; as madman Ahmadinejad tries to move the country into a nuclear-armed stone age, a backlash is brewing: Iran�s future? Watch the streets.
    For months Iranian activists and even moderate clerics have been concerned about the radical tendencies of Iran�s new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In the past few weeks – after he said that the Holocaust was a myth, called for Israel to be wiped off the map and banned Western music from state-run radio and television, the concern spread around the world.
    But there is another development in Iran – this one positive and with great potential – that the world should not miss: civic defiance against Ahmadinejad�s authoritarianism is increasing.
    From the outset of his term, the new president�s policies exhibited a volatile mixture of nationalism and radical Islamic social engineering. While touting Iran�s nuclear program, he has promised to redistribute wealth to the poor and curb capitalists (without yet delivering on either promise). >>>
    http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/04/opinion/edacker.php
    via LGF

15. Ian, show me the money.
    Didn’t think so.
    Reality is what’s in the Left’s mind.

16. “One of the most sobering pieces of information to come out of the investigation of the March 11th bombings is that the planning for the attacks may have begun nearly a year before 9/11.”
    I find this quote out of the New Yorker a real eye opener, and contrary to the spin that our media gave the news on the Madrid Train Bombings.
    Well done Kate

17. A trip to Wikipedia’s in order for you, Doug. UN Security Council Resolution 1530, passed unanimously:
    “The Security Council,
    Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and its relevant resolutions, in particular its resolution 1373 (2001) of 28 September 2001,
    Reaffirming the need to combat by all means, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts,
    1. Condemns in the strongest terms the bomb attacks in Madrid, Spain, perpetrated by the terrorist group ETA on 11 March 2004, in which many lives were claimed and people injured, and regards such act, like any act of terrorism, as a threat to peace and security;”
    Snip the rest.