Hitting the road later this morning, so it’s a reader tips day. Posting will be slow here until Tuesday, and my time online will be limited, so be careful with your comments. A reminder – he use of an ‘a href’ tag will almost certainly toss your comment into the filter, as will using symbols like &, multiple dashes, multiple url’s, etc.
If in doubt, look over your comment before you post, and ask yourself if it reminds you of spam! Keep it simple and short, and it will probably get through.
A few tips before I head out –
Yes, Virginia – there is Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. I read it in Hansard!
The Brookings Institute reports improvement continues in Iraq on a number of fronts. Read it, because you sure as hell won’t see information like this pass Peter Mansbridge’s lips.
Amir Taheri in the WSJ.
Something interesting is happening with regard to the crisis over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Slowly the blame is shifting from the mullahs to the Bush administration as the debate is redirected to tackle the hypothetical question of U.S. military action rather than the Islamic Republic’s real misdeeds. “No War on Iran” placards are already appearing where “No Nukes for Iran” would make more sense.
Because Bush derangement syndrome knows no bounds.
Charles Krauthammer;
Last week, Bernard Lewis, America’s dean of Islamic studies who just turned 90 and remembers the 20th century well, confessed that for the first time he feels it is 1938 again.
See you later, and behave!
…If we’re going to undermine the War on Terror, here’s our chance, Jack told his troops. Who’s against sending peacekeepers to Sudan?
“…I think that Canadians would want us to be in Darfur. That sentiment is found right across the country.” he told the pliant press. None of whom asked: sez who?
Because The Black Rod can’t find a single opinion poll that’s asked: Overall, would you support or oppose a decision to send Canadian troops to Sudan? Not one. No poll that says Canadians would prefer Canadian soldiers to be killed in Sudan rather than Afghanistan. Maybe they are internal NDP polls. Or maybe, like Supreme Court judges, Layton is channelling the “ethos” of Canadian voters.
Certainly, the press has certainly been sugarcoating the story. No reporter has linked Layton’s call “On to Darfur” with what happened this week. In fact, there’s hardly been any reporting anywhere of what happened in Darfur this week. We mean, specifically, that incident on Monday where refugees drove out a UN representative, tried to kill his translator, attacked a peacekeepers compound, killed a translator there, and looted communications equipment.
Their complaint? The 7000 African Union peacekeeprs aren’t doing enough to protect them from the Arab militias.
In other words, they want peacemakers. Not peacekeepers. That’s something General Jack Layton would like kept hush hush.
http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2006/05/general-jack-layton-leads-march-to.html
Dear Prime Minister,
Since you are going to be looking into the defence budget for a black helicopter to fly the honorable member from Ajax-Pickering about, do you think that it could be a really BIG black helicopter with room for a couple dozen of his friends. If it is not too much trouble, could you instruct the pilot to fly the lot of them far, far away to some distant land full of exotic wonders and adventure, like Afghanastan!
Thank-you Mr. Prime Minister
Daniel
If we had recognized and removed the rot infesting the UN.
If we had applied the honesty and principle of nipping genocide in the bud. The principle that ensures freedom and democracy.
Then world problems would be fewer at a time when we must concentrate on a wealthy and fully equipped power-crazed opponent.
Iran vows to blow away Israel and almost certainly has the weaponry to do that.
History shows that Chamberlain*s delay in hitting Hitler cost thousands of additional losses.
Precision bombing of Mullah controlled nuke plant is logical for two basic reasons.
[1] Lessons of History dictate the need.
[2] Dealing with Jihadist terrorists results in loss. 32 years of loss to Arafat and Hamas is proof of that.
Brookings
Sorry, but the truth is sometimes stark and bitter. If there is a flaw to this logic, then my mind is open and accepting of your stronger reason. TG
So, Black Rod, your deliberate misrepresentations continue here as on your on website, eh?
Wonderful.
Your feeble attempt to justify Vellacott’s hallucinations was sad enough, but now you’re claiming there was hardly any reporting anywhere about the incident in the refugee camp?
What’s the matter, won’t the nurses let you operate a television, a radio, a computer or a newspaper? All of these outlets, for your information, have kept Canadians (and others) well informed about the events you describe.
By the way, how do you know about these events, anyway, if there’s been (to quote you) ‘hardly any reporting anywhere’ of them? You’re not possessed of some kind of mystical, divine power, are you? One that lets you know what the news is, even when news outlets aren’t reporting it?
As for opinion polls, it may be true that Layton didn’t cite one when he made his claim about peacekeeping, but then, I doubt Harper or McKay or O’Connor would be able to point to a poll favouring an indefinite commitment to an ill-defined counterinsurgency effort to back up the collective lies those three have been telling the Canadian people.
Shouldn’t our high priestess in the SCC be ‘interpreting’ Jacko’s bias here? It sounds to me like Jacko does not like Arabs – he likes the people of the Darfur region better. And the Bloc prefers Palestinians to Afghan people . Where is our own ‘oracle of ottawafi’ when mortals have questions? Back in her cave looking for shadows maybe? And the final answer to the question is Plato never really believed that the Oracle at Delphi was infallible or even credible. Ah the mystery of it all.
So adding a clickable link will kick in the spam filter?
While I understand the need to stop malicious coding, my experience is few cut and paste an addy to see what is there.
I agree, backhoe. I wonder if TypePad has a plug-in that provides the same functionality as AndrewCoyne.com used – basically, the first comment by a given person is held until the person answers the automatic email sent to them to verify that it’s a real person.
Then, they can comment forever unimpeded using that email address unless the site owner blocks them. This should prevent bots.
I don’t know if this is possible using a TypePad plug-in.
It’s worth the effort to cut and paste it!
* Movable Type plug-in, I meant.
Canadian voters are pussies. We can barely get a heterosexual able-bodied male elected anymore unless he’s wearing a dozen wristbands, ribons, and other miscellaneous victim paraphrenalia and pledged to wear a thong to the Gay Pride parade. The leaders of the NDP and Liberal party tell us that we need more women in parliament because men aren’t as civilized as women.
And then there is Mexico:
“MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Among the crowing, slurs and insults being flung around in Mexico’s election race, campaign ads in this country are even competing over which candidate has the greatest manhood.
From television spots to interviews with presidential hopefuls, you could be forgiven for wondering if the only thing that counts in this election race is size.
“We know why we are with Roberto. It’s because he has big ones,” says a farmer in a TV spot to promote Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, candidate Roberto Madrazo, running in third place in opinion polls.
A radio ad for ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon, ranked second in polls, says the conservative is the one who could spur job creation because “he’s got balls.”
…
The taunt chimes with criticism among many Mexicans of the way First Lady Marta Sahagun appears to dominate gentle-natured President
Vicente Fox, whose term ends in December.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060425/od_nm/election_manhood_dc;_ylt=A86.I1OsqlRE60cBNiUSH9EA;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA–
What a joke, the NDP asking for us to go into Dafur! I can’t believe they don’t see the similarities of Dafur to Iraq – i.e. a bunch of government sanctioned (Arab) muslims going around killing and raping other innocent (African)muslims in an oil-rich country. We send troops over there and we will be in exactly the same situation as Iraq, fighting an insurgency propped up by Al-Queda, Iran, Syria etc!! Osama Bin Laden has already called for his followers to “help” in Dafur! The only country that can truly help Dafur is the U.S. and with the continuing Bush-bashing and anti Iraq war rhetoric, I don’t think he will be rushing to do so any time soon!! Hundreds of thousands of people have died and will continue to die horribly in Dafur, at least many, many in Iraq have been saved!
In other news, Lou Dobbs is still on the warpath.
I think the guy is a bit of a demagogue, but he has a legitimate point – the two American political parties have no interest in ending illegal immigration because they don’t want to shut down the businesses that hire this cheap labour. And any debate about the issue is just window-dressing. This is the one issue that regular citizens all across the spectrum think is a problem, but politicians all across the spectrum will do nothing about. It has nothing to do with compassion or Hispanic votes – it’s about the corporations, where the real political money comes from.
Darfur: excerpts from a brilliant column by Margaret Wente in the Globe today (full text not online):
‘…
…Jack Layton wants to help Darfur, especially if it means we get to pull our troops out of Afghanistan to do it. “Let there be no doubt,” he said in an emotional speech this week. “What we are seeing in Darfur is genocide in slow motion.”
Mr. Layton wants to bring back the glory days of peacekeeping under the umbrella of the United Nations. The blue helmets will protect the innocent (if there are any left alive by then) from being raped and slaughtered, just the way they protected those 800,000 people in Rwanda. Even Roméo Dallaire now says the UN is the answer…
If sentiment were deeds and talk were action, Canada would be a hero…
Let no one say Canada hasn’t seized the moral high ground on Darfur. Even if we don’t have any troops to send, we can help in other ways. We can get Mr. Rock to talk sternly to Russia and China, who are stubbornly refusing to come around. And after the militias peacefully lay down their arms, we can send our experts to help write a constitution.
Unfortunately, I doubt Sudan’s Omar Hassan Bashir is too worried yet. He knows his pals will stick up for him. China gets 7 per cent of its oil from Sudan, and in turn sells it weapons to arm its militias…
The Arab nations have been curiously mum about the Muslims dying in Darfur. Is it because they’re the wrong kind of Muslims? Or is it because they’re being slaughtered by other Muslims, instead of by Americans and Jews? The African Union isn’t enthusiastic about Western meddling either. They’re insulted that people think their own 7,000-man security force can’t do the job — even though it has been totally ineffectual. The Europeans, meantime, have mostly got out of the peacekeeping business. They’d rather stand back and denounce American imperialism…’
Meanwhile, a piece by Jim Travers in the Toronto Star in which he claims that former PM Martin got a promise in March 2005 from Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Hillier that there would be troops for both Afstan and Darfur. The title says it all: Peacekeeping pledge broken. The media’s agenda marches on.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1147297813034&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home
Mark
Ottawa
Conservatives wait for big guns
By GREG WESTON – Ottawa Sun – May 11, 2006
Next week, Stephen Harper’s government will finally take aim at the one federal agency Conservatives most love to hate — the national long gun registry.
Many diehard party faithful had expected that this giant of Liberal waste and mismanagement would have taken a bullet by sundown the day after the ballots were counted.
Instead, Harper and his strategists sized up the opposition to killing the gun registry — the NDP, the Bloc, most Liberals, and a majority of Quebec voters, to name a few — and wisely decided to leave the shootout to that most feared and revered of all parliamentary gunslingers, Auditor General Sheila Fraser.
At 2 p.m. next Tuesday, Fraser is scheduled to release her latest report to Parliament, another guaranteed compendium of squander and stupidity in high places, including the federal firearms program.
While the AG does not have the authority to send the agency to its grave, her revelations will likely provide ample ammunition for the Conservatives to put the registry on life support.
If a recent press teaser from Fraser’s shop is any indication, her report will not be flattering.
http://www.voy.com/178771/10595.html
Muslim girls allowed private swim test
MONTREAL—The decision to close a high school pool to give three Muslim girls a private swimming class is stoking debate over the place of faith in Quebec’s public institutions…
…The board argues it is simply respecting provisions of a recent Supreme Court judgment on wearing Sikh kirpans (ceremonial daggers) in classrooms that set limits on restricting religious rights…
…Several Toronto public school pools offer weekly all-girl swim periods for Muslim girls whose religion prohibits them from wearing bathing suits in front of boys…
http://tinyurl.com/o7fpj
Charley, there’s no problem in Darfur, it’s been taken to the UN!
That wonderful, august, all-wise, multilateral global body no doubt has pulled out all the stops to end the genocide, call to account the Sudanese government criminals responsible and to assist the survivors in rebuilding their lives, with effecive help and protection from the UN.
Weren’t we all deeply moved by all those stirring speeches in the General Assembly and Security Council?
Those impassioned, eloquent Muslim and Arab Ambassadors, called Sudan to account, saying that Islam is humiliated, not by the US and Britain, but by Islamofascist criminals claiming to be Islamic defenders but in reality criminals against humanity.
Weren’t we also moved by the Russian and Chinese Ambassadors, apologizing to the world for their putting oil and trade interests at the top of their agenda, along with US-bashing opportunities? And their setting up a fund with billions of dollars for the survivors and their solemn vows to now work to protect and help the survivor victims of Sudanese genocide?
And weren’t we moved by the standing ovation that US Ambassador John Bolton received on entering the Security Council chamber, with chants of “Bolton was right! Bush was right!”
Who says the UN doesn’t change the world, protect the weak and defenseless and effect great good for all humanity?
/sarcasm
Arranged marriages becoming more common, officials say
…”We are trying very hard to clamp down on fraudulent marriages,” she said, noting that officials review marriage documents, photographs, e-mails, love letters and may even make house visits. Warning signs include a history of marriages….
..”Unlike in the U.S., in Canada there is no requirement to live together for a minimum period of two or three years until permanent residency is granted. In Canada, the spouse gets landed status right away,” noted Sergio Karas, an immigration lawyer…
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060511.wxmarry10/BNStory/National/home
The CBC….AKA the central broadcasting committee has a piece about the Harper government suing the Liberals for money received from the sponsorship program. ( available on their website ) I sent them this E mail in response but expect little from them.
I would like to point out two errors in your piece.
The first is that the sponsorship program was really about maintaining the Liberals in power not increasing their exposure in Quebec.( It was only made to look to the easily conned that this was the purpose)… The second error is your constantly stated perception that little work was done…….Little government work was done but that does not mean that the advertizing agencies were not working hard for the Liberal party of Canada. Guite asked the question…. “Who do you think runs election campaigns?” His answer was advertizing agencies.
It is very obvious that they were paid to work for the Liberal election campaigns but were paid by the taxpayer.
If you compare the level of quality of the Liberal’s election campaigns with the quality of all the other’s campaigns it become very obvious that the Liberals had a much more eaxpensive one. A fact that barely showes up in the Elections Canada expense forms. This was very suspicious until we found out about the sponsorship program which like a lightning flash exposed and explained how the Liberals had gotted so much bang for their bucks…. Which of course should have brought up the question of election fraud with the media but miraculously it did not. Given the billions of dollars the media had received from the governing Liberals this is really no surprise is it?
Further to that article, truthsayer, did you notice this statement: “In addition to recovering funds, the move could have political benefits for the minority Conservatives, keeping the sponsorship scandal in the minds of voters until the next federal election.”
Yup, the move is purely politically-driven by those darn Conservatives (sarcasm). The media has been getting particularly nauseating lately.
Bombard Chief Justice McGoddess re MP Vellacott’s freedom of speech.
Free Vellacott’s Free Speech.
CJ McGoddess: Stay in your chambers: stay tfout of politics. ….
Internet warfare
Free Alaa! is a website dedicated to obtaining justice for Egyptian blogger Alaa, who as Tigerhawk says, was “apparently arrested … in connection with the ongoing struggle in that country over the independence of the judiciary.” Sandmonkey describes the events surrounding his arrest.
As you may have heard by now, Egyptian Blogger Alaa Abdel Fatah has been arrested alongside 10 others while demonstrating in support of the independence of the Judiciary in Egypt and the release of previous demonstrators who were detained 2 weeks earlier. The Police entrapped them, cordoning off their peaceful protest and then proceeded to handpick the demonstrators that they wanted to detain, beat them, and then arrested them. … This is by no means a co-incidence. Government agents handpicked people to arrest from amongst the protesters. They have been wanting to get Alaa for a long time now, precisely because he is high profile, and because he helps organizes the protests and spread the information through the blog aggregator he runs (www.manalaa.net).
own personal entry in Wikipedia, a guy from Florida started one up: Alaa Abd El-Fatah
The Google Bomb weapon requires a little explanation. It’s basically a way of creating links which tricks the Google search engine into giving a certain phrase inordinate importance. Here’s how it’s done.
A google bomb could be achieved easily, this is a possible scenario :
1. The initiator chooses a word to be searched : “liars”
2. The initiator chooses the target website : “http://example.com/”
3. The initiator creates a link like this : liars
4. The initiator places this code in his website, as his signature in forum, in his blogs etc.
5. The initiator talks to other people about the bomb and tells other people to use the code in their own writings.
6. GoogleBot indexes and ranks, resulting in http://google.com/search?q=liars having the political party’s webpage as a first result
Free Alaa! has proposed this Google bombing scheme.
You use the word googlebombingforalaa and link it to this:
http://technorati.com/tag/googlebombingforalaa
so you get this: googlebombingforalaa
Commentary
I think the effectiveness of the Internet campaign would be greatly enhanced if these Internet weapons were targeted by operational intelligence. A perfect example was cited by The Big Pharaoh. Because emails were directed at a particular target — the Egyptian embassy — they have had a perceptible impact. If it were scattered the effect would be less. Institutions with which the Egyptian government has dealings can be targeted in the same way — and Egypt has dealings with companies, governments and cultural establishments — and the outriders of Mubarak’s public diplomacy will start taking palpable hits. Attacks like Google Bombs and Wikis are of a more general nature. They can set a tone, but they ineffective in themselves. So the next thing the Free Alaa! site should create is a targeting cell which can determine against which institutions email campaigns, petitions and the like can be directed.
It would also help if the campaign were pitched in politically neutral terms. Glenn Reynolds is the conservative Godfather of the Free Alaa campaign. If a leftist Godfather could be found then the campaign could be conducted in stereophonic. One last item: the demands to free Alaa should be designed with goal of leaving the Egyptian government an “out”: a way in which they can accede to the demands without losing face or suffering undue public humiliation. It’s not my idea. It Sun Tzu’s.
http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/
US Army Troop Build up on Iraq-Iran Borders
Posted by jmc1969
On 05/11/2006 8:13:08 AM PDT · 30 replies · 762+ views
Zaman ^ | March 11 2006
After the Tehran administration conducted operations against the terror network Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) by crossing the Iraqi border, the US Army in Iraq is claimed to have increased the military build up of US troops on the Iranian border. Tehran local radio announced the US stationed army units on the Iraqi border, increased reconnaissance flights in the region, and trained anti-Iran militias in Iraq. Iranian Interior Ministry confirmed the information. Activity on the 450 kilometer long border is gradually increasing. Tehran radio also recorded that the US aircrafts reconnaissance flights could also be seen from villages along the border.
freerepublic.com
Calm down everyone,I’m sure it’s all a mistake.Jack Layton would NEVER condone sending troops to fight in another country where innocent people are being murdered.(Just peek at his record)I am confident it was only a slip of the tongue,he actually wants to send PROTESTERS to save these people.Honestly,what other expertise could the NDP offer?
Coronation Today!
All Hail!…Jack Layton,King of the Hyocrites!
Backhoe:
“few cut and paste an addy to see what is there”
If you use Firefox, there are solutions. First you can double click the link to highlight it, then drag and drop it to the tab bar to open a new tab with the link. Pretty simple.
Or if you have Grease Monkey installed, there is a script called Linkify that automatically converts web addresses it finds on a page to clickable links.
leave it to CBCpravda to think that the liberals stealing 40 million dollars is just a political spin for the Tories.
The billion it costs to fund CBCpravda will be spun out ad naseum as killing Canadian culture when its time to pull the plug on this old record player.
Stephen -please kill the CBC , or sell it to the liberal/ndp party for a dollar , they can continue to spin the same story and drain the coffers of two monetarily and morally bankrupt parties.
or keep the CBC, just fire all the marxist leninist NDP socialist wannbe fart-for-brains that work there now, de-certify teh unions and and just hire Don Cherry as the new president.
And Kate gets the gig to replace girly-Mansbridge.
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
Hm — did I just agree with something Warren Kinsella said? He made a pretty damn good point about Nazi comparisons in today’s Post.
From canada.com/ottawacitizen/news.
“Canada, U.S. in talks to let teen terror suspect serve time here”
Looks like Khadr may be coming home.
It always tears me up that this American soldier was a young medic, killed in Afghanistan with a grenade thrown by a Canadian who was taught to hate and kill Americans.
RIP SFC Christopher Speer.
http://www.groups.sfahq.com/3rd/speer_kia.htm
Darfur update: PM Harper talks some sense–unlike the Liberals and NDP in the House who seem to think that Canada is absolutely central to how the world deals with Darfur, and that Canada has the international clout to “do something”.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060511.wdarfurs0511/BNStory/National/home
Mark
Otawa
Darfur update: PM Harper talks some sense–unlike the Liberals and NDP in the House who seem to think that Canada is absolutely central to how the world deals with Darfur, and that Canada has the international clout to “do something”.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060511.wdarfurs0511/BNStory/National/home
Mark
Otawa
Darfur: excerpts from a brilliant column by Margaret Wente in the Globe today (full text not online):
‘…
…Jack Layton wants to help Darfur, especially if it means we get to pull our troops out of Afghanistan to do it. “Let there be no doubt,” he said in an emotional speech this week. “What we are seeing in Darfur is genocide in slow motion.”
Mr. Layton wants to bring back the glory days of peacekeeping under the umbrella of the United Nations. The blue helmets will protect the innocent (if there are any left alive by then) from being raped and slaughtered, just the way they protected those 800,000 people in Rwanda. Even Roméo Dallaire now says the UN is the answer…
If sentiment were deeds and talk were action, Canada would be a hero…
Let no one say Canada hasn’t seized the moral high ground on Darfur. Even if we don’t have any troops to send, we can help in other ways. We can get Mr. Rock to talk sternly to Russia and China, who are stubbornly refusing to come around. And after the militias peacefully lay down their arms, we can send our experts to help write a constitution.
Unfortunately, I doubt Sudan’s Omar Hassan Bashir is too worried yet. He knows his pals will stick up for him. China gets 7 per cent of its oil from Sudan, and in turn sells it weapons to arm its militias…
The Arab nations have been curiously mum about the Muslims dying in Darfur. Is it because they’re the wrong kind of Muslims? Or is it because they’re being slaughtered by other Muslims, instead of by Americans and Jews? The African Union isn’t enthusiastic about Western meddling either. They’re insulted that people think their own 7,000-man security force can’t do the job — even though it has been totally ineffectual. The Europeans, meantime, have mostly got out of the peacekeeping business. They’d rather stand back and denounce American imperialism…’
Meanwhile, a piece by Jim Travers in the Toronto Star in which he claims that former PM Martin got a promise in March 2005 from Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Hillier that there would be troops for both Afstan and Darfur. The title says it all: Peacekeeping pledge broken. The media’s agenda marches on.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1147297813034&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home
Mark
Ottawa
Bob Rae said he quit the NDP because they were not sympathetic enough to Israel and Jewish causes.
Of course now he professes the leader of the freeworld is the new Hitler, not, “one bomb country” Ahmadinnerjacket!
I think he swallowed way too much Hallal meat at Oxford.
This is big. Central-government fans worry that the fiscal imbalance argument is about Ottawa surrendering power to the provinces. This is more of a trade: we’ll get out of your hair if you act like you deserve it. And all that nice language about the Liberal record? It’s not cute, it’s crucial. Harper is opening up big new areas of Canadian consensus. Here are the things we won’t argue about anymore, he’s saying, so we can set the table for the new debates about tomorrow.
paulwells macleans …
“Restoring Fiscal Balance in Canada – Focusing on Priorities”
http://www.fin.gc.ca/budget06/pdf/fp2006e.pdf
sarge here. funny sarges old mom said it seemed like 1936 a couple years ago, just before the boys went into iraq. the part that is funny is, sarge’s old mom was in germany in 1936.
This comment:
“It’s interesting to me that very often Conservative governments seem to be more morally responsible than one might imagine.”,
by Egoyan, is revealing of the moral stance of Stephen Harper: a conservative.
Actions speak louder than words; judge by what a person does; not by what is said.
Kudos to Egoyan for speaking publicly.
Praise to Prime Minister Harper.
Egoyan praises Harper’s stance on genocide
May 10, 2006. 05:50 PM
CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — Celebrated filmmaker Atom Egoyan, perhaps the most famous Canadian of Armenian decent, praised Prime Minister Stephen Harper for his controversial recognition of the Armenian genocide.
“I think the Harper government has taken a courageous stand in its early days, on several issues that could have faded into history but bear scrutiny,” Egoyan said in an interview Wednesday.
“It’s interesting to me that very often Conservative governments seem to be more morally responsible than one might imagine.” … more
http://www.voy.com/178771/10661.html
Hey Kate: you know how you loathe the CBC and the mainstream media? Well, there’s good news. “TV” and “broadcast networks” as we know them are about to become obsolete. Neither McLuhan nor Warhol would’ve predicted this but not only can people produce their own TV shows; they can create their own freaking broadcast networks! Consider the possibilities of the following:
“DAVE.TV(TM), a global IPTV digital entertainment network, today announced its new Social Broadcast Network(TM) (SBN) featuring user programmed broadcast channels as well as a comprehensive user-generated video content system on its IPTV network, http://www.dave.tv. Building upon the growing YouTube user-generated content phenomenon and social networking sites such as MySpace, the DAVE.TV SBN, for the first time, will allow consumers to not only publish and broadcast their own user-generated videos but also have program broadcast content from other DAVE.TV members and hundreds of channels of ad-supported content from DAVE.TV’s network of content partners. In effect this allows consumers to create their own channels, or MyChannels(TM), where they are now the “Broadcaster” and can create and share playlists.
Pretty cool, eh?
Not to mention hotair.com
This from CTVtass and Dalton himself
“I will ask that the Harper government and the central bank keep in mind, as they drive up interest rates to cool down an overheated Alberta economy, it is not in the interests of the Ontario economy,” McGuinty told reporters Tuesday in response to the loonie topping 90 cents US for the first time in nearly 30 years.
they didnt mind the made in ontario policy when the interest rates were stifling the west.
vive l’alberta libre. saw us off from the mcgimpy leg.
An Islamic Declaration of War
Only a few blogs (and almost no mainstream media) have realized the truth about Iranian madman Ahmadinejad’s letter to President Bush. It was not an offer to negotiate, and it was not simply a lunatic’s rant. It was a calculated invitation to convert to Islam, a da’wa—an Islamic requirement (commanded by Mohammed) before waging war against unbelievers.
Speaking in Jakarta, Indonesia, Ahmadinejad himself confirmed this reading today, as reported by the Islamic Republic News Agency:
LGF
Darfurgetaboutit
sarge, how about translating your comment for the rest of us.
Maybe it’s me, but I’m totally not understanding it.
Darfurgetaboutit
http://tinyurl.com/agfqx
Canadian troops capture Taliban suspects
Last Updated Thu, 11 May 2006 19:25:44 EDT
CBC News
Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan have captured 10 suspected Taliban fighters. (cbc) via nealenews
CBC Breaking News: Gen. Jack Layton, CMO, HBO, Croix de Tims,and Ass. Willy Grahamm are reportedly on their way, via Omaha, to Afghan, purportedly by Sea Queen helos. Their united front is carrying a petition from GG to lower the flags on PHill in sympathy with the Islamist terrorists. More on the 11 news with Shelagh & Peter. Here is the national time signal… at the starto the long dash, it w.. b…
CP, aka CanPravda, spins it as follows: via cnews…
Update on Gen Jack and Ass. Grahamm: suppression has been added to the petition as directed by GG and Lafond, the spirit-maker of the bloqseparatistes. Sea Queens are bumpy, giggles Ass. Willy…. (CBC not).
Canadian troops capture Taliban suspects
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) – Military officials have advised a photographer to suppress his pictures of the largest group of suspected Taliban prisoners yet captured by Canadian soldiers
Upper date: Reports say Gen. Jack and his asst. are now on a secret mission to Indo, with Dosanjh and MP Algebra as rear gunners. Those NDPs are up to no good. Imajihad is exuberant/jubilating at the audacity of the Can’s….. via SDA
Ahmadinejad is Big in Indonesia
With his talk of genocide and destroying Israel, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has captivated the hearts of students in the “moderate” Islamic state of Indonesia, at two of the country’s most prestigious universities: Iran’s leader a new hero among Indonesians. (Hat tip: Allahpundit.)
HE’S tiny, wears a perfectly groomed beard and waves to his supporters with both hands clasped high in the air, prize-fighter-style – and now Jakarta’s university students have declared Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “the world’s most charismatic leader” via LGF
Maz2, Is it only LGF and I who see *MadMuds* manifesto to Bush as a * Declaration of war*?
Who is LGF, I often fail to recognize the short form. A commenter or a group?
I admit the liberal practice of viewing reality as a pink tinted fiction has it*s attractions, but this is a time when seeing things as they actually are, though unpleasant, is absolutly required. TG
Letter from the front (Afghanistan)
Posted on 05/02/2006 7:06:19 AM PDT by Sutrut
This is a email from my bro who is stationed at an undisclosed location near Kandahar.
“Greetings all.
Just a quick update from Afghanistan as it begins to warm up. Weather so far has been great, but it has taken a turn for the warmer in the past 3 days, so it won’t be long before it gets really hot. We have a new contractor bringing in food, so the quality has improved from “excremental” to “occasionally edible.” Ah, the small improvements in life.
We had another ramp ceremony tonight. For those of you who don’t know, a ramp ceremony takes place when a coalition soldier is killed. As his casket is carried onto the plane for his final voyage home, all the military personnel here line the way on the ramp where the aircraft is parked, and render final honors. Let me talk about this in a bit more detail, since its not anything that ever gets reported on. …
I can’t tell you how many troops are in these formations, but it is a good number. Anyone familiar with a military formation that is “at ease” recalls that talking, laughing, and joking are commonplace. That is what makes the silence of these formations so jarring. Other than a few embarrassed and suppressed coughs, no one speaks. For in this place with so many soldiers, it is lonely as we all prepare to say good bye to a comrade most of us never met.
Each nation does things a little different. The US takes their fallen on the plane with the pall bearers at a slow half step, with the unit commander and first sergeant following. The Canadians have a brief eulogy, then their padre leads the procession while the regimental piper pipes “amazing grace” (Since the Canadians have been here, they have graciously lent their piper to the US for the same purpose) and then they dip the national and regimental colors to the ground. The French have the unit commander eulogize the dead more fully, and he does so alternating in French and English so all can understand.
As the procession goes down between the formations, everyone salutes until they are loaded on the airplane for their final trip home. It is a long salute, but there are no complaints. It is the last honor to a fallen comrade.
Another thing to remember is that everyone here, from all the coalition forces, is a volunteer. …
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1625244/posts
Maz2, Is it only LGF and I who see *MadMuds* manifesto to Bush as a * Declaration of war*?
Who is LGF, I often fail to recognize the short form. A commenter or a group?
I admit the liberal practice of viewing reality as a pink tinted fiction has it*s attractions, but this is a time when seeing things as they actually are, though unpleasant, is absolutly required. TG
Damian Penny of “Daimnation!”
http://www.damianpenny.com/
on Rob Breakenridge’s World Tonight show, CHQR Calgary, at 1005 Eastern Time.
http://www.qr77.com/station/blog_the_world_tonight.cfm
Mark
Ottawa
Maz2, Is it only LGF and I who see *MadMuds* manifesto to Bush as a * Declaration of war*?
Who is LGF, I often fail to recognize the short form. A commenter or a group?
I admit the liberal practice of viewing reality as a pink tinted fiction has it*s attractions, but this is a time when seeing things as they actually are, though unpleasant, is absolutly required. TG
TG, here is the URL for LGF: It is the creation of Charles Johnston. It’s one of the “big” blogs; hated by the moonbats and jihadists.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
Chomsky is a reincarnation of Ezra Pound (search). Chomsky is a traitor; a perfect model of the “Treason of the Intellectuals”..
http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/11/dec92/treason.htm –
Noam Chomsky Supports Hizballah, Iran
In a lifetime filled with despicable statements and support for history’s worst regimes, MIT professor Noam Chomsky has finally hit absolute bottom as he visits the leader of the Hizballah terror gang, calls the United States a “leading terrorist state,” and supports Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons—to deter “Israeli aggression.” From Drudge Report. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
Something was *stuck*.. sorry about the stuttering. Maybe a combination of Shaw and the latest *Opera* browser.TG