Leaked! Sneak preview of campaign advertising for the 2008 US presidential campaign.
An LA Times columnist busted on the blogosphere…. UPDATE – Notice from Editors.
Norman Geras and Nick Cohen;
The supporters of the Euston Manifesto took different views on the war in Iraq, both for and against. We recognise that it was possible reasonably to disagree about the justifications for the war and the manner in which it was carried through. We are, however, united in our judgement of the reactionary, murderous character of the Ba’athist regime in Iraq, and we recognise its overthrow as a liberation of the Iraqi people. We are also united in the view that, from the day this occurred, the proper concern of the liberal left should have been the battle to put in place in Iraq a democratic political order and to create, after decades of brutal oppression, a life for Iraqis which those living in democratic countries take for granted – rather than endlessly rehearsing the arguments over intervention.
A good post by Richard Bledsoe.
The Harper government, guilty of “discrimination against couples of perennial diversity”?
Add your own to the comments.
Partnership for Evolving Diversity Organization!
Would it be slightly more honest to call the gentleman involved a “pedophile”?
O.T. But I thought this would warm the cockles of your heart, Kate.
http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/2006/04/20/1542431-cp.html
CBC faces lay-offs
From the Prime Minister’s Web Site (http://www.pm.gc.ca/
Prime Minister to attend Board of Trade luncheon
April 20, 2006
Montr�al, Qu�bec
Prime Minister Stephen Harper will address the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montr�al
(Media availability to follow luncheon: Room A&B) +
Will the “Media” raise this topic? The rip-off happened under the guidance of the ship-of-state by the Librano$, aka AdScam Chretien/Martin…
Go A-G, aka Auditor-General Sheila Fraser.
Faster,deeper: dig out the Librano$ $jkt from the stables in Ottawa.
Headline by cnews: +
A-G targets the taxman
Canada’s tax collection agency has allowed a staggering $18 billion in taxes to accrue from deadbeat businesses and individual Canadians and has written off nearly $5 billion as “uncollectible.”
A Film by Governer General’s husband has some nasty words for Bush
In the film, the assassin rails at length about America as a murderous regime, calls U.S. President George W. Bush a terrorist, accuses the United States government of killing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. +
nealenews
Out with these Aunty-Americans; out of Rideau Hall.
Down with the left liberals. Out with Jean & her “husband”. +
Audio: The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen, Rick Hillier, pays a surprise visit to CFRA, Ottawa, and gives Lowell a CDS Coin to honour his fifty years in broadcasting.
http://www.cfra.com/chum_audio/Hillier_Lowell.mp3
Mark
Ottawa
“the proper concern of the liberal left should have been the battle to put in place in Iraq a democratic political order and to create, after decades of brutal oppression”
Norm and Nick seem to have forgotten a few salient facts. The liberal left gave G.W. carte blanche to do whatever he so desires with regards to fighting terrorism. All three levels of government are controlled by the Right and have been for the entire time. So if there is any problem(and there just may be)it is on the Republicans entirely. All power and money that the administration wanted was given.
The idea that the liberal left had any real say in what has gone on since Bush was elected is laughable.
“perennial diversity”, isn’t that where you mix the plants in your flowerbed?
That 14 year old spokeschild is as in love with going to the mall as she is with that old pervert. Please give back her ipod, bubble gum, teddy bear and let her enjoy what is left of her childhood.
As an aside, her mother (loose term here) should be shot! With a registerd firearm of course.
steve d. said: “All power and money that the administration wanted was given.”
The left liberals dream of a Marxist utopia melted at Chernobyl.
The left liberals have been frozen since the fall of communism in the dead Soviet empire; all they have left is Aunty-American. +
Chernobyl 2006: The communism triumph (Photos)
multiple
Posted on 04/20/2006 9:37:49 AM PDT by b2stealth
Chernobyl 2006
Directly in front of the gate the radiation levels are 350-3000 microroengen … + more
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1618337/posts
maz2
The left dreams of a democratic socialist capitalism.
oh yes i do remember three mile island.
Uh, guys…convert-man’s doing a Kipling with the PEDO story.
I agree with Steve. We must never forget the carnage and horror of Three Mile Island. I vividly remember watching the television coverage of the lines of ambulances waiting for the bodies of all those poor victims, some so contaminated by the horrendous radiation dose they had suffered that they had to be cremated and have their ashes sealed in lead containers. Also, I can never forget the massive casualties that were attributed to the disaster’s after effects.
Thankfully, there have been no new nuclear plants built since that terrible event.
Thank you, Steve. I hope we never have to go through such a terrible ordeal again. How fortunate we are that we have clear thinkers such as Steve to guide us as we stumble blindly into an uncertain future.
RWS… I sympathize, but shit happens, so start the Nuclear fiesta, or kiss your airconditioners goodbye Toronto.
It’s going to get to costly otherwise.
‘Canadians only’ policy for Mississauga
Mississauga has rejected an appeal by a landed immigrant to allow residents without Canadian citizenship to serve on municipal committees and boards.
The request to general committee yesterday by Rudy Czekalla, who has been in Canada since 1978 but has not obtained citizenship, sparked a patriotic outburst from Mayor Hazel McCallion and several councillors, including three former landed immigrants…
…Immigrants are welcomed to Canada and encouraged to become citizens, McCallion said. “That piece of paper (citizenship document) is the most valuable piece of paper in the world.”
McCallion asked Czekalla why he hasn’t become a Canadian. He replied that his former country (Germany), doesn’t allow dual citizenship, unlike many other countries….
“The citizenship of your (former) country is more precious to you than the one you’re living in. That really bothers me,” McCallion said…
http://tinyurl.com/zaoom
There was a reason why McCallion was voted runner up to World Mayor in 2005.
This c/p dedicated to steve d. & and its wet dream(s):
“The left dreams of a democratic socialist capitalism.”
Translation: Fascism, bastard clone/cousin of socialism/communism/nazism/islamism, & all the other isms.
Error: as the Soviet communists said at Chernobyl:
Oopski, da. +
Error strikes ‘BBC climate model’
BBC News on line ^ | April 19, 2006 | Unsigned
Posted on 04/20/2006 11:03:34 AM PDT by aculeus
A “major error” has been discovered in the world’s biggest online climate prediction project, backed by the BBC.
The fault in a Climateprediction.net model launched in February causes temperatures in past climates to rise quicker than seen in real observations.
The program, which runs on users’ computers when they are idle, aims to generate forecasts of climate change.
The project scientists have now fixed the fault and say the data collected so far is still useful.
“At some point in the future, we may have done an experiment like this anyway,” Myles Allen, principal investigator of the project told the BBC News website. “People have not been wasting their time.”
Global dimming
Climateprediction.net was established more than two years ago, but a new computer model was launched in February this year in collaboration with BBC Four TV.
The simulation is more sophisticated than previous versions and provides the scientists, they say, with a more accurate representation of the real world, including an ocean that interacts with the atmosphere. +
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1618404/posts
May I? Just one more c/p? For steve d. and its dem/soc/crap? Show me the way to go… for a $90,000 pizza… shades of joe volpe, judy stripper sgro, & the L…..o$ +
‘We didn’t see that many,’ says volunteer in Toronto’s $90,000 search for the homeless
It was a night for street people to score $5 coupons for Tim Hortons, Pizza Pizza or other eateries in exchange for participating in last night’s city-sanctioned count and survey of the homeless. +
via nealenews.com
maz2
This is dedicated to Maz2isms
Sorry to hear about your globe dimming.
We’ve had sun all week where I am. Did you pay your electric bill?
Flash : Ex-PM Paul Who? has a tight inner circle… cropcircle? Ya, but it’s debilitating.
Sub-head: Socialist Power Corp. Liberal Party of Toronto is born: breech. +
Top Martin strategist joins Rae’s team
By JOAN BRYDEN
Officials: Veteran members will decide Grits race
OTTAWA (CP) – In the clearest signal yet that Liberals are finally putting the debilitating Chretien-Martin civil war behind them, one of Paul Martin’s closest advisers is backing Bob Rae’s bid to lead the once-mighty party.
John Webster, a member of Martin’s tight inner circle, … +
cnews
More dimmisms; dimming of the Liberal dummies. Down to 6V emergency back-ups. Dhimmitude of the Liberals�.
Goodale says “Income Trust Me”. +
Liberal critics want ceasefire in ‘phony war’ over child care
Harper had warned of election showdown
GLORIA GALLOWAY and RH�AL S�GUIN
WINNIPEG, QUEBEC CITY — The opposition Liberals say Prime Minister Stephen Harper is engaged in a “phony war” designed to promote conflict over proposals to help parents care for their children.
Ralph Goodale, the Liberal House Leader, said yesterday, … +
http://www.voy.com/178771/811.html
April 20, 2006
Jean-Daniel Lafond: Rideau Hall radical
A new film by the GG’s husband features some whopping conspiracy theories, and some nasty words for George W. Bush
When former prime minister Paul Martin appointed broadcaster Micha�lle Jean Governor General last summer, she had to fight accusations that her filmmaker husband, Jean-Daniel Lafond, was sympathetic to the cause of Quebec separatism and friendly with FLQ terrorists. The controversy stemmed mainly from Lafond’s 1991 documentary, La Mani�re N�gre, in which he and his wife are shown raising toasts with Quebec separatists, and a book about the film in which he wrote “So, a sovereign Quebec? An independent Quebec. Yes, I applaud with both hands.”
His latest documentary could invite even more controversy. Later this month, Lafond plans to premiere American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan, an empathetic portrayal of an Islamic assassin living in exile in Iran, still wanted for the 1980 murder of a former Iranian diplomat in Washington…
…However, he doubts that the film will affect Canada-U.S. relations “because very few people in the U.S. have heard of the Governor General.”
Lafond says he is not worried about how the White House will react. “If there are reactions, quel bonheur.”….
http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/canada/article.jsp?content=20060424_125623_125623
Produced by
InformAction
with the participation of
Canadian Television Fund
created by the Government of Canada
and the Canadian Cable Industry
CTF : Licence Fee Program
Telefilm Canada : Equity Investment Program
Government of Qu�bec
Film and Television Tax Credit – Gestion SODEC
SODEC
Soci�t� de d�veloppement des entreprises culturelles – Qu�bec
Government of Canada
The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit
with the collaboration of
T�l�-Qu�bec
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Radio-Canada
Worldwide distribution
http://www.informactionfilms.com/en/productions/hassan/credits.html
Naturellement.
‘Confused’ government thieves pretend $800 allowance belongs to them:
$800 bilingualism bonus confusion
OTTAWA (CP) – The federal government has been spending $275,000 a year to pay 344 Foreign Affairs bureaucrats annual bilingualism bonuses even though they aren’t eligible, says an internal Foreign Affairs Department audit…
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/04/19/1541211-cp.html
This just in: The CBC Ombudsman’s response/explanation to my complaint about the “Heil Harper” graphic adjacent to a photo of Stephen Harper on The National just a few days before the election:
Three-page letter, but this is the gist of the ombudsman’s conclusion:
“…the facts seem clear: the graphic might not have been well constructed, but it was what it was: a �freeze� of three letters [hei] followed by a cursor [that resembled the letter “l”] twice the size of the letters preceding it. I can find no evidence of a plot by the technicians or producers to create a subliminal message through the graphic.”
I never used the word “plot” in my complaint.
What the ombudsman failed to answer in his explanation was my concern that in all my years of watching political commentary I have never seen a mistake such as this, in Canada, the U.S. or Britain. I suggested to him that it seemed more than just coincidental that these particular letters “hei” should appear in front of a misplaced cursor; indeed, having never seen a misplaced cursor in any political commentary I have ever watched, and I’ve been watching news programs for a very long time, the issue for me was not that mistakes can’t be made, but that this particular mistake was made at the particular time at which it appeared (a few days before a national election), near a graphic of a particular politician who, it is well-known, has never been a favourite of CBC commentators.
And notwithstanding his explanation, it seems clear to me that the chances of all of these factors coming into play at the same time, if not intentional, would be many millions to one.
The ombudsman obviously didn’t agree with me.
One gem, among a few, was this sentence:
“You were very…patient to speak with me directly [he had aksed if we could talk on the phone about this issue and I said yes]. I was trying to find out why otherwise reasonable people would see the explanation from Tony Burman as further proof of bias by the CBC.”
Has anyone ever got a letter of explanation from Tony Burman? Details, within details, within details. If you don’t hold your original complaint/concern by the tail, it can be wrested right out of your hands, never to appear again. He piles on so many details that the original concern never gets answered, yet you’re supposed to feel gratified that he’s taken all this time to explain the issue to you IN SO MUCH DETAIL. A favourite tactic of those who wish to obfuscate the real issue at hand. I guess I should feel grateful that, except for my conviction that the CBC is biased towards the left/lib spectrum of political commentary, I’m “otherwise reasonable.”!!!!
Compare/contrast. +
PM to address fiscal imbalance
MONTREAL (CP) – Constitutional questions kept in deep storage since the early 1990s are about to get a fresh airing, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday.
Mulroney wins environmental accolades
OTTAWA (CP) – There’s a federal Conservative government in office. A former Tory prime minister is winning environmental accolades. Brian Mulroney is giving a speech in the national capital to a warm, receptive audience. +
cnews
PEDA is made up. f@#$%’s sakes people, read the fine print b4 you start frothing at the mouths about the bastard liberals and their sexual perversions.
The taxman under the Libranos was a stailess steel bully.
During the eighties I ran a driveways business and submitted marterials and supplies receipts for the costs of doing business exemption.
The tax branch will not discuss the matter except to insist on the $1200 in taxes wrongly asessed as must be paid!
I refused to pay the damn tax until it can be ironed out. They don’t negotiate but they do collect the GST rebate to pay it down.
Guess they only write off taxes of Libranos buddies? All I want is a fair adjustment.TG
Jack Layton to Olivia Chow on first date:
I have a lot of communist friends
We got in the car. His first words to me was (sic), ‘some of my best friends are communists.’
As reported by “was” Hanoi Jane:
http://newsbusters.org/node/5003
via nealenews
(amended)
PEW… yawn… +
The Internet�s Growing Role in Life�s Major Moments
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/181/report_display.asp#
via newsbeat1.com
Davidson,
Who’s frothing? 2 people responded.
Interesting how you associated liberals and sexual perversions. No one else did. Something we should know about?
enough
Ahh Hazel McCallion. Old as dirt, and still manages to get re-elected with ease. Why? Because she runs a tight ship and won’t tolerate failure or bad government. They are going to bury her someday, probably still sitting in the mayors chair.
What Ivan really saw on the eastern front
Australian Financial Review ^ | Apr 21, 2006 | Anne Applebaum
Posted on 04/20/2006 3:12:59 PM PDT by lizol
What Ivan really saw on the eastern front
Apr 21
Anne Applebaum | The New York Review of Books +
Intro:
Once, during the 1980s, I visited the fortress of the city of Brest. Brest is now in Belarus, just east of the Polish border, but at that time Brest was a Soviet city, and its fortress was the city’s most important shrine to Soviet power. The entrance led through a vast slab of stone, into which had been cut an enormous Soviet star. Inside, the visitor’s eye was immediately directed to a vast, sorrowful human head, carved straight into an outcropping of rock. Ubiquitous loudspeakers piped funereal music throughout the fortress museum, which contained displays commemorating the Soviet heroes of the Nazi siege of Brest, as well as the subsequent Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War. In front of an outdoor eternal flame, newlyweds held hands and solemnly laid wreaths, as was then the custom.
The scene was impressive, as it was meant to be. Yet there was something not quite right about it either. +
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1618559/posts
Two-for-One by Wretchard:
A Stalemate in Baghdad: waiting for a political solution.
BTW re Patterico-Hiltzik feud. Who won? How? +
Commentary
If you read the account carefully, Baghdad is like a specimen preserved in a bottle of formalin, waiting for the last trumpet to sound. That trumpet would be a political settlement which would allow the government to move decisively against one side or the other. Any American overt actions against one side or the other will be perceived, in this state of suspended animosity, as partisan. Act against the Sunnis — you are favoring the Shi’ites. Act against the Shi’ites and — you are taking sides again, not just vis a vis the Sunnis, but vis a vis Sistani and Sadr, for example. And for residents of Adhamiya at least, the proxy war with Iran has already begun. Interestingly enough, all the scenarios which envision toppling the Teheran involve a proxy war. Iraq has always been compared by liberals to Vietnam. But it’s fair to ask: whose Vietnam?
BTW and off-topic, but for all you media watchers Patterico just won his long-running feud with commentator Michael Hiltzik at the Los Angeles Times by proving that Hiltzik has been sending himself supportive emails under pseudonyms. Patterico did this by establishing that Mikekoshi, Nofanofcablecos and Hiltzik’s emails all originated from the same IP address. Mikekoshi and Nofanofcablecos were great defenders of Hiltzik, of course. Imagine that. Not that I care, except that for years I’ve relied on the newspapers to tell me the truth and to set out the facts. But it just goes to show that caveat emptor is not just another phrase for ‘the caviar can is empty’.
Update: Hiltzik has confessed, but defends his actions as being part of the great literary tradition of commenting under other names. Yep. Imagine that. +
http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/
Harper greeted with new respect in Quebec
‘Open federalism’ well received
The Montreal Board of Trade sold 1,900 tickets to Stephen Harper’s address yesterday
Graeme Hamilton, National Post
Published: Friday, April 21, 2006
Excerpt:
Getting elected prime minister tends to increase public interest in one’s pronouncements, but yesterday’s speech before the Montreal Board of Trade drew far more than the curious. A Board of Trade official said the 1,900 tickets sold were the most for a Board event since Pierre Trudeau visited in 1980.
The size of the crowd and the ovation they gave him suggests Mr. Harper is onto something when he says Quebecers thirst for a new age in politics. “They want to turn the page and leave the era of political polarization,” he said. + more
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13259.6
“….A-G targets the taxman….”
TaxBreaks, April 2006
Deloitte & Touche
Did you know that…
Hiring a contractor: reduce your risks. The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has also published an alert to taxpayers that they can minimize their risks of lawsuits or financial losses by refusing to hire contractors who don�t issue receipts or provide written contracts. The CRA takes this problem seriously, and has over 1,200 employees involved in identification, audit and enforcement initiatives aimed at addressing the underground economy….
http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/section_home/0,1041,sid%253D28246,00.html
What about addressing the problems with the ‘beauracratic’ economy first?
Liberal leadership campaign team enlists…sleazebags
Volpe dots his ‘i’s before entering race
But those who think that leadership campaigns are fought in the realm of ideas should go back and read Lawrence Martin’s Iron Man, about the scrap between the Chretien and Martin camps in 1990.
…The author recounts how Mr. Chretien picked Scarborough MP and Greek immigrant, Jimmy Karygiannis, to sign up ethnic members. He enlisted 9,500…
“We were getting Greeked,” complained one Martin campaigner. “And if we weren’t getting Greeked, we were getting Sikhed.”
“I signed up anything that moved back then,” Jimmy K, as he is widely known, told the author. He travelled to Peterborough at one in the morning and signed up a family of 15 Sikhs living in a shack. At a delegate selection meeting in Kitchener, he ran around sticking bubble gum in pay phone slots so that the Martin organizers couldn’t call in last-minute recruits….
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=ca811fc8-0179-44f2-9c72-ced1e3c181a8
Indian Insurrection in Ontario, Canada.
Flag of insurrection raised by Mohawks: Six Nations Confederacy.
See flag here: http://www.nealenews.com/
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Protests Get Ugly: Natives, townspeople in a faceoff
Hundreds of Caledonia residents and masked natives stared each other down last night, separated only by about 50 metres of Argyle Street.
Natives, townspeople in a faceoff after police arrests spark fires, anger
By Deirdre Healey and Daniel Nolan
The Hamilton Spectator
CALEDONIA (Apr 21, 2006)
Hundreds of Caledonia residents and masked natives stared each other down last night, separated only by about 50 metres of Argyle Street.
About 300 white residents taunted nearly as many natives, mocking them for wearing masks and telling them to go home. The occupiers, many wielding pieces of wood, shovels and bats, mostly watched, speaking up to order the Caledonians back if they ventured too near. + more
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13259.7
nealenews.com
Soozy says: Prime Minister Harper is contemptible.
Soozy is a (s)trumpet for the Socialist Power Corp. “Liberal” Party of Toronto. +
PM shows defiant streak
Apr. 21, 2006. 06:32 AM
SUSAN DELACOURT
OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF
OTTAWA�It could be called the “bring-it-on” tour.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been out all week, aggressively flying in the face of all those who would dare to challenge him, and “Liberal” Toronto is the final stop on that tour.
Today, at a noontime speech at the Royal York Hotel, Harper is expected to hammer away at the formula he believes is working for him: move full-speed ahead with his own agenda, taunt an impressively long list of enemies and rally conservative sentiment to the cause.
The formula has its careful code words and props: Harper pointedly describes himself as head of “the new government” while surrounding himself with the symbols of office, from the big podium to the tiny Canadian flag affixed to his lapel.
Harper is intent on reasserting more traditional symbols of family, the military and the Arctic instead of symbols like multiculturalism and the Charter of Rights, which came to be associated with the Liberals.
As PMO communications director Sandra Buckler explained a while back to the parliamentary press gallery executive: “We’re a different kind of government and we place a heavy value on communications and we like the visuals.”
Yet Toronto is a symbol and a visual of another kind for Harper. The GTA is still largely Liberal � very few Conservative seats are here and a full eight of the contenders for the Liberal leadership hail from the area.
While Harper accommodated Montreal and Vancouver in his cabinet � with an unelected senator and a Liberal defector � there were no such extraordinary measures for Toronto.
Toronto is home to Queen’s Park, too, where Premier Dalton McGuinty has felt the new Conservative chill from Ottawa.
So it is fitting Harper has chosen to land last here in a tour that seemed deliberately designed to show his defiant � some would say contemptuous � streak. +
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13259.9
Angry is getting lotsa hits/visits on this moonbat stuff:
Of Orcs and obsessions
Steve Janke at 10:09 PM
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I’ve been taken to task over Cindy Sheehan. Now there’s a blast from the past.
It’s been ages since I spent any serious time on Cindy Sheehan, but it’s nice to know that some people have not forgotten. Take, for instance, Samuel Bostaph, a professor of economics at the University of Dallas.
I rank an entire section (see point 4) in his essay praising Cindy Sheehan.
Now that’s recognition.
Janke has made a cottage industry of scurrilous attacks on Cindy Sheehan�s mental health, veracity, marital situation, personal finances, political views and true regard for her dead son.
I’ve been dilligent, but Cindy Sheehan provided all the information. +
http://www.stevejanke.com/archives/172956.php#more