Early morning, La Crosse Wisconsin – I’m here giving a seminar, and so I’ve got a long three days ahead of me as we tend to go late into the evening. Little time available to even check email and as soon as I’m finished up Sunday,we’ll hit the road for home, so blogging activity will remain slow here until Tuesday. You may use this thread for readers tips and whatnot. Hopefully, the weather where you are is better than it is here!
(Sorry some of your comments were held up for so long – I’ll try to get in at least once a day to release those caught in the filter. To prevent it happening, scroll down – there are a few posts below with advice on that score.)
Saturday pm; People will think I woke up drunk… I think I broke a record for typos with that one. Most are corrected now – I hope.
It must really bug you, William, that Hanoi Jane was successful in her mission. Perhaps Cindy will be in hers as well.
maz2:
“The bulk of the evidence used by Falcone to indict the Cuntrera-Caruana clan in 1989 was gathered by one single policeman from Montreal…”
Marc was a good and dedicated investigator but that news report was not correct. I was in charge of the program, and there were quite a number of people putting the pieces together with respect to the drug aspect. Marc did a good job on the financial aspect…not enough gathered to meet Canadian evidentiary requirements, but a lot of it was admissible under Italian laws, which are significantly less onerous than here.
But that was a long time time ago, and everything that Marc developed against the Caruana-Cuntrera clan was put out there. No motive for them to take any action, it was over.
The Caruana’s subsequently got busted in the Toronto area and were sentenced to big time for new drug trafficking charges, sentences ranged from12 to 22 years. Unfortunately, since being a member of the most powerful Mafia family in the world is not considered to be a “violent crime” in Canada, most of those sentenced received parole after serving one-sixth of their sentences.
Ask me why I left the RCMP; no don’t bother, you can probably guess…
ET’s comments about the media’s tactics, and their chipping away at the soft edges of Conservative support are way more salient than most people realize, unfortunately. There are different approaches, as she mentioned: name-calling, innuendo, comparisons to Bush, calling him “evangelical” when he in fact was raised in the largest Protestant sect in the country, and on and on. During lulls, or when there is nothing specific to criticize, the MSM simply reposits, in a sideways manner, Liberal positions as being a default setting, thus leaving ambiguous subtle doubts about whether Liberal Values — read “Canadian” — will be maintained.
Immigration, for example, is historically one of the pillars of Liberal electoral success, especially in the coveted urban areas. Well, last night on The National, the lead news story was that an immigrant from the Phillipines on a work visa had tragically fallen ill before her two-year working requirement could be met.
It goes without saying that the illness which befell her is not her fault, and that she should not be sent home. But there was no indication that this wasthree stories were all about immigration. (The last two were Harper-neutral, not really negative, more of a “we’ll see”). In one of them some GTA think-tanker pointed out — it seemed to me like a thinly veiled threat/reminder, or a calling in of debt — that for a hundred years, immigrants have been able to count on the Liberal party of Canada.
Gosh, you’d almost think that the LPC is losing some of its immigrant base, and that the CBC is…
Ow. Cut myself. Here’s the missing piece…
It goes without saying that the illness which befell her is not her fault, and that she should not be sent home. But there was no indication that this was imminent anyway; the real question is this: are this woman’s circumstances, and such details about her hard-luck story as reporter (Ken Chang) caught wind of really the number one news story in Canada?
You’d think not…
anon,
“It must really bug you, William, that Hanoi Jane was successful in her mission. Perhaps Cindy will be in hers as well.”
Cindy is successful already. She has disrespected not only her own son, but also all the other brave soles who gave their lives in service (read soldiers, police, fireman, etc) and their families (and her own family).
A really big accomplishment.
ET
So some people are coming to good conclusions based on data and facts of what Harper has done. But these data and facts are obscured by misleading observations,data and facts,right? Apparently not.
Now you are saying that the MSM is obscuring the facts only some of the time. So yes I would say some of the MSM obscures the facts some of the time. So what else is new?
Softwood had been going on for years but was about to be settled but Martin didn’t want it brought up. You even used Martins negotiator Emerson to seal the deal. These deals cannot be done from scratch in a few weeks it had to have been in the works.
It is somewhat controversial. Some say this is a managed trade addendum to the free trade deal. As long as softwood is needed in large quantities there is no tariff as soon as the market dips the tariff wall comes back up. A nice deal for somebody.
The Afganistan deal was done on the QT. I don’t think many Canadians knew about it until Harper went for his political photo op. So who was using it for political purposes again? Don’t give me that stuff about cheering the troops or supporting the troops that is just BS. It was a pure politically induced photo op. Not that it is a bad thing it is not. If I were Prime Minister I would have done the same thing. I think it was smart politically. But please, if anyone used the Afganistan deployment politically it was Harper.
Harper was labelled a control freak because he acted in a controlling way. Isolated his ministers from the media by moving the press away from his ministers. Then clamming the ministers up. Giving finely edited press releases instead of having members talk.
He can change his image any time he wishes. He can start giving the media lots of access to him and his ministers. It can be turned around in a matter of a few months. Is he interested? We’ll see. The Prime Minister has tremendous access to media, more than any other person. He can present himself any way he wants. It is all on him one way or the other.
The Liberal misuse of money is a legal issue I think. If public money is missing or misspent then Harper should sue for it. That would bring it back as an issue. Maybe thats his plan…just before the next election!
steve d,
Your an interesting blend of lucid and stupid.
You’ll have to check the facts yourself – but I recall the NDP (Glen Clark, I believe) raising the stumpage fee … and the forestry industry crying bloody murder … first term I think.
Larg’s comment (7:48 p.m., May 13): “I think Cindy Sheehan’s grieving mother act is wearing a little thin.”
Typical of the MSM to champion the cause of a crusading mom, crusading on the anti-Bush side. ‘Never mind the huge disconnect between her words of compassion and care for her son and the scattered life she actually lives: divorced for the second or third time, gallavanting around the country enjoying the celebrity that has come her way only because he son died in the Iraqi war and she CHOSE to make it an issue with which to embarrass George W. Bush, dishonouring her son’s choice to serve and die in the U.S. Army to try to secure a better life for the Iraqi people and some stability for the world, thereby dishonouring his memory.
Sadly, journalists seem only to lionize “progressive” women who, in their vernacular, are the ones who support the left-leaning ideologies of the day. In many cases, they are divorced (well, hey, if you spend all your time with your husband and family you’d never be able to successfully force your agenda on others) and their kids become emotional orphans. That’s the kind of motherhood preferred by journalists. Forget it if you’re a woman who actually takes the responsibilities of motherhood seriously, which usually means establishing a safe and secure domestic situation for your family by spending significant chunks of time every day with your husband and child(ren). And God help you if you’re a mom who stays home with your child(ren) rather than put them into state-run, universal daycare. In the journalistic vernacular, these stay-at-home moms are the scary ones, not the negligent, scatterbrained moms like Cindy Sheehan.
What’s wrong with this picture?
Cindy Sheehan’s stance is monumentally hypocritical: Loving mother grieves her son’s death. How about unhinged harridan dishonours her son’s memory and the sacrifices of all of the men and women in uniform who are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. Cindy Sheehan seems to have forgotten, which is another quality of these “motherly” menaces, that the U.S. did not go looking for this war. The Islamist fanatics foisted it upon the U.S., with their attack on September 11, 2001.
I’m not making these comments about Cindy Sheehan because I think she hasn’t a right to speak out. I’m making them because she’s making an absolute fool of herself and it disgusts me that the MSM is complicit in continuing the ugly charade that she’s a caring and compassionate mother.
Can we please call Cindy Sheehan “Insurgent Cindy” or something of the sort. I find “Iraqi Cindy” to be a huge insult to the millions of Iraqis working and volunteering to build a free country.
re: Western guilt and the road to hell that the resulting good intentions can build. Tom Flanagan’s book First Nations? Second Thoughts has some well-researched insights into the waves of immigration (and intertribal warfare) that occurred in North America before Europeans got here, as well as detailed analysis of our “Nation to Nation” contact since.
Some links:
Most university professors and leftists think he is the intellectual giant of our times. He also just told Hezbollah (!) that Bush is a terrorist:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20532_Chomsky_Supports_Hizballah&only
An intellectual giant who could reveal Chomsky’s pea-brain status in a 30 second debate and rarely gets respect from the MSM, lefties or university profs:
http://hotair.com/archives/the-blog/2006/05/10/audio-ayaan-hirsi-ali-at-harvard/
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20487_Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali_to_AJC-_I_Used_to_Hate_You&only
And is now at risk in her adopted country:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20541_Netherlands_Looking_Into_Hirsi_Alis_Past&only
I’d welcome her to Canada!
steve d.
I’m not easily coerced or threatened.
So, I WILL give you ‘the stuff’ that Harper’s visit to the troops was to support the military. It was not a photo-op. That’s a Liberal tactic. If it had been a photo op, it would have been publicized. Get it? Photo ops have to be publicized.
Do you remember what Chretien did to deal with SARS in Toronto? At taxpayer expense, he had his cabinet flown to Toronto, to have a cabinet meeting there. Well publicized. Period.
What did he do about Mad Cow Disease? He had a photo of himself taken eating beef.
No, don’t try the reductionist tactic of trivializing a qualifying term to irrelevance. No, the MSM isn’t showing bias only on a few incidents. You see, first, you have to differentiate between Universal and Some. You, originally, hadn’t done that.
Now, using ‘some’, you have to introduce a level of ‘some’. And it isn’t a little bias, as you are now trying to imply. The MSM is not only not providing facts a LOT of the time, it is in addition, providing a LOT of hostile and biased commentary.
Wow- that’s quite the explanation. ‘Softwood was going on for years’. So? Why should it have been allowed to go on for years. It was ‘about to be settled’ (Proof?). And ‘Martin didn’t want it brought up’. Hmmm. Why not? Was anti-Americanism more suitable as a tactic?
No, you cannot use a fallacious assumption that:
‘These deals cannot be done quickly, therefore, it was all done before (by the Liberals?). That’s a fallacious analysis (circular argument and begging the question).
No, softwood has zilch to do with supply and demand; it has to do with low stumpage fees.
No- yet again – another fallacious form of argumentation. You cannot assert that Harper was labelled a control freak because he acted in a controlling way. Sheesh – yet another circular argument.
No, Harper doesn’t give ‘finely edited press reviews’. There isn’t any editing whatsoever; it’s live interviews. And we have far more information, via live interviews, weekly, daily, from the gov’t – than at any time during the Liberal rule.
Remember how Liberals answered questions in the House? They didn’t; they spouted nonsense rhetoric. Remember how they kept us informed about the realities of …anything? They didn’t.
We now have the opposite. Daily, weekly interviews, live interviews – with FACTS. Not rhetoric.
Removing his ministers from trivia questions was a wise move. The Press had shown they weren’t interested in substance but only in emotive gossip. That’s not providing any information to the public. Actually, the public is now getting far more information, and specific information, about gov’t affairs than at any time in the past decade.
Good god – you are trivializing the Liberal theft of the taxpayers’ money. They STOLE that money! OK? They laundered it to pay for election work in Quebec. Now, you are saying that Harper’s suing for its return can be viewed as an election strategy. Should he never sue for its return because, to you, it’s ‘just politics’ and not justice?
This will probably get filtered too:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s political opponents threatening to deport her:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20546_Netherlands_Elites_Calling_for_Hirsi_Ali_to_Be_Deported&only
The anti-cindy sheehan:
http://www.iwf.org/articles/article_detail.asp?ArticleID=879
ET
Harper’s visit to Afganistan was all over the media. So was his brief sojourn into Mexico. Photo ops all.
Harper is a politician don’t forget that. Everything they do has a political impact positive or negative. They are acutely aware of this. All politicians, even Harper.
Of course,Martin’s tactic was some what anti-American. It was one way to separate him from Harper. They were trying to portray him as Bush lite. So you can’t be seen to be cosying up to the Americans yourself. That is why most of us didn’t know we had sent over a relatively large contingent to Afganistan. The Liberals knew it was not going to be strongly supported.
The control issue is still debatable. Time will tell on that one.
Let’s not be naive, Harper is well aware that he will be in the middle of another election in 18 months. Everything he does has to be viewed through that prism. He railed on the corrupt Liberal incessantly during the last election and it worked somewhat. So if he can use the issue again just before the next election who could blame him? This is about power, getting it and holding it. If he can get a majority next time then he can govern without shackles. What we are seeing now by necessity is Harper lite. He is walking on egg shells any leader would rather have a majority. So he has to govern with that in mind. Its not evil, its called politics. Its a chess game. Charge the Liberals now and its old news in 18 months. Charge them a year from now and everyone is reminded how corrupt they were. That way you get justice and power. What is wrong with that?
steve d.
Because the leader of the country is photographed with the troops does not mean that he went to the troops with a political agenda. Because the leader of a country is photographed at a summit meeting with the other two leaders does not mean that he went there only to get his picture taken for political purposes.Because he is a politician does not mean that his actions of governance have a political rather than governance agenda.
With this type of illogical ‘musings’ that you fall into, you end up asserting that all and every action of a politician is only for political power and has nothing whatsoever to do with the governance of the country. Wrong.
No, you are again, trying to trivialize Martin’s tactics. They were not ‘of course’ anti-American, for anti-Americanism is not a ‘natural’ tactic. They were anti-American and it isn’t natural or right for Canadians to be that way. Nor were they ‘somewhat’ anti-American. They were anti-American. Period.
And anti-Americanism is not a tactic used simply to separate oneself from Harper; it’s a basic strategy of the Liberal Party. Surely, if you want to describe yourself as ‘not-Harper’ you do that by your policies: e.g., Kyoto, daycare, justice system, taxation, provincial relations, military, etc, etc.
You don’t need to, and, ethically, shouldn’t, move into setting up the leader of another country as EVIL, and then, trying to assert that the Opposition Leader (Harper) is ‘like that Evil Man’. That’s ad hominem – and unethical.
The way to differentiate yourself is by articulating, clearly, your differences in POLICY. Martin didn’t do that; that’s because he and the Liberals don’t have any policies. They try to govern by propaganda, by emotion, by manipulation. Not by presenting their policies to the public, and allowing the public to decide.
No, the Liberals did not know that sending a contingent to Afghanistan would not be strongly supported. It is supported now – so- what’s different? What is different is how it is presented to the public, as a task worthy of Canada, as a task helping Afghanistan, as a duty of NATO.
Are you saying that we Canadians should have elected the Liberals, again, despite their blatant and enormous corruption and their theft of taxpayer money, which they used to fund the election campaign in Quebec?
Are you saying that we Canadians should not expect the Liberal Party to return our money? They stole it. They used it for illegal purposes. Are you seriously saying that we should not demand it back? That Harper, as the Prime Minister, and therefore OBLIGATED by law to protect our needs, should ignore this theft and not demand it back ..and that if he does demand it back..then, it’s ‘just for his own political agenda’.?????
Canadians have been brainwashed for a generation within the Liberal ideology of centralism, top down bureaucrat-stuffed governance – and Harper is trying to change that, to reduce the size of the gov’t, return power to the provinces and the people (away from the bureaucrats). He has to tread slowly because Canadians are brainwashed into this socialism..and because the Liberals and NDP have absolutely no ethics, no principles.
Department of National Defence and Canadian Forces Website.
Budget 2006 and the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces
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http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/home_e.asp
ET- True, back in the 70’s communism was a real threat. But the Vietnam war wasn’t a war, was never declared, sorta like Iraq, just assumed.
I’ll grant you the point about hindsight from my part calling it a farce, but at the same time, history is a true judge, which comes from hindsight.
If you don’t learn from past mistakes, you’re bound to repeat them…like re-elect the Liberals.
Oh darn, we did that already.
All I’m saying from talking with friends who were tunnel rats that the ‘limited’ engagement they were under tied their hands and therefore couldn’t win the war no matter what.
The point being the US war industry drove that engagement, not freedom of the people.
Looking to Iraq, I know Saddam was doing wrong, and short of being unpatriotic; one has to wonder about they dynamics – oil. Sudan is in worse state, some mid-African nations are going through genocide, China, well we all know about human right abuses and human body part trafficking going on over that from political and religious prisoners deemed ‘expendable’.
But all in the name of cheap gas and Walmart happy face prices…
Economics 101 – this runs the world, not the military. Ironically we are paying for the Chinese to be the next superpower. Look to Canada to become a province of China called ZingXang.
Is the sun going down on Western Culture and society…
One word.
Yup.
Quebec arrogance towards tourists? Unilingual? How come?
===== Canada Free Press =====
My recent visit surprised me in that all highway signage was posted solely in French and as a unilingual Canadian I had to pay close attention to the signs in order to reach my destination. This was in sharp contrast with highway signage on provincial highways in the rest of Canada, which advises motorists in both official languages.
Things weren’t much different at commercial concerns where most of the visible signage was in French and only the most mainstream multinational corporations’ products were labeled in both languages. I thought it was particularly odd for this to be the case in places like Mt. Tremblant, where the majority of visitors and chalet owners were Anglophones either from Ontario or from the U.S.
===== http://tinyurl.com/lryub =====
The pendulum has swung too far towards a language extreme in Quebec. When tourists visit, I want them to feel welcome in my home province.
It is a dangerous distraction when those from all countries who holiday in Quebec can find no clear roadway signage in English.
Visitors from other parts of Canada also complain that there seems to be no English direction at dangerously intense highway intersections where quick decisions are called for.
France has gained well known notoriety for attitudes of contempt for visitors. Canada is my country and I protest that Quebec *chieftains* should be allowed to break our bi-lingual language rules and our Canadian spirit of all-inclusive fairness to everyone. TG
Thanks for your comments, ET. Right on: I like the pun!
As you said, PMSH has to move very cautiously. I’m sorry to say that, in general, Canadians are political babies who need to be weaned: Moving on to solid food from curdled government breast milk and lumpy, cold media pablum needs to be done gradually.
That said, go, Harper, go!! And yeah, CPC Team yeah!
MSM headline: “GG is welcomed by riots in Haiti’s main prison.” Not.
National Post: “Governor-General Michaelle Jean arrived in the land of her birth yesterday, bearing a message of hope”… blah, blah, blah, …
Bush to visit Haiti?
Try again: “Bush is welcomed by riots in Haiti’s main prison.” Yup, gotcha. …
Associated Press
Published: Sunday, May 14, 2006
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Prisoners rioted Sunday at Haiti’s main prison, with gunfire heard within its walls and scores of inmates massing on the roof and holding what appeared to be two dead bodies.
Haitian police and UN peacekeeping troops surrounded the prison, which is located about a 800 metres from the parliament building, the site of the inauguration of President-elect Rene Preval later Sunday.
There was no official word on causalities in the riot.
According to reporters from AP Television News, about 100 prisoners were on the roof of the prison, holding what appeared to be two dead inmates. …. national post
Is Harper doing the right thing? Read, ex-RCMP Bruce, at 10:11pm above.
Did you see this yet?
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Israel to bomb Iran?
Posted by Picasa Israel will hit Iran in the next few months: Israeli official
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in the next “month or two or three,” an Israeli official has been quoted here as saying.
http://TonyGuitar.blogspot.com
In this case, *Daily Times* is *A new voice for a new Pakistan*. Grain of salt? Not sure. TG
I’m sure that Kate had a post somewhere about rabble.ca coming up with a nickname for PMSH: for example Bush-Lite, Shrub, etc. For what they’re worth, my thoughts on this nonsense:
“Rosie Smith,” let’s say, agrees with a tactic I am using to deal with a dispute I’m having with a neighbour. I, likewise, am in agreement with her handling of a conflict she’s having with her neighbour.
Does that make me “Rosie-Lite”?
The reasoning behind the thinking that George W. Bush believes in something, and so does Stephen Harper, therefore Stephen Harper is a Bush clone: mini-Bush, Shrub, Bonsai, is total garbage.
I might well believe in the same things that Rosie Smith believes in because, in our experience, THEY WORK. Our agreement on certain issues does not mean, at all, that I’m in Rosie’s pocket, that she has undue influence over me, or that I can be bought by her.
So, moonbats, who at every turn accuse PMSH of being Bush-Lite, give me a break.
Stephen Harper is a grown up, who has experienced life and politics in a certain way, and has come to conclusions commensurate with these experiences and the values he feels are important. In his mind, these experiences and values are tried and true, which is why he makes decisions in reference to them. If George W. Bush happens to believe in similar values, because of his experience of life and politics, it would be foolish to jump to the conclusion that he has predetermined PMSH’s policies.
But that’s the level of infantile left-lib moonbat thinking: Because two people agree, it means that one of them, necessarily, has to be a toady while the other one calls all the shots.
Moonbats of Canada, you need to go back to school and re-take philosophy 101. Your reasoning is faulty, which makes your politics extremely suspect.
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tomax- sorry, but I don’t get your points.
1) Vietnam wasn’t a war? Oh? What makes a war a war?
2) US war industry was the driving force of Vietnam? Bull. That’s a typical fall-back assumption that is without validity. After all, you can say that an economic agenda is behind every war. For example, you could say that the lumber and linen industry were behind the Napoleonic Wars, because, you needed lumber for the ships and linen for the sails…
Sorry- but such a linear connection isn’t valid.
3)No, Iraq is not about oil. Iraq has only one commodity; it has to sell it – and the US economy is not dependent on Iraqi oil.
4) China is not the only country with human rights abuses; no, they don’t kill prisoners for body parts.
Canada a province of China? Hey- neat! Chinese was my first university degree!
But, alak and alas, it won’t happen.
5)Cheap gas and WalMart? What’s your point?
Sun going down???? No, it isn’t.
tony Guitar – right, exactly right. Quebec is indifferent to, and even hostile to, anglophones. You cross the Ontario border, or you cross the USA border and suddenly, all signs are in French. That includes warning signs, detour signs,information about police, medical etc. No information is available to the visitor. Helpful.
And dangerous. Exactly as you say – you have to make split second decisions at 100 km an hour, and the road signs don’t permit that.
Not only are they only in French, but, Quebec has a unique tactic of putting up road signs that are irrelevant as signs. By this I mean, that Quebec views its valid population (note the word ‘valid’) as ONLY the resident francophones. Others are simply ignored. So, the road signs are there, by law – but- they are in the wrong language for a visitor. AND, they are placed incorrectly.
For example, a sign indicating an intersection of a highway is placed so close to that intersection, that the visitor zips past it before he realizes he should have gotten into the right lane and gotten off. The local residents of course, already know the route and don’t require the signs.
Signs for intersections and curves are almost uniformly wrong. I’ve seen so many signs that simply show an intersection and a straight road ahead – when the reality is: an intersection and a sharply curved road. I’ve nearly gone off the road in fog, in blowing snow – because of those signs. The local resident, of course, knows that the road ahead is curved – even though the sign shows straight.
Quebec has the same attitude as France. There are no other peoples worth dealing with – except francophones. Go to Charles de Gaulle airport, an international airport. The bookstore is almost entirely French. Go to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, another international airport – and the bookstore is in English and Dutch; signs are in English. It’s ‘travel friendly’. Not in France, not in Quebec.
ET: That’s ok, you’re allowed to disagree.
1. If you go by the letter, WAR – A contention by force; or the art of paralysing the forces of an enemy, ok then you can call Vietnam “a war”.
But one would hope we, the Western civilization follows the “rules of engagement” (Geneva). We are suppose to declare war upon another nation via correspondance and diplomatic channels…like WW2. Maybe nothing to you but that is what separates us from a primitive tribal mentality.
2. Military Industry profit from Vietnam and other places was healthy. I guess it was conspiracy that Johnson was cozy to boards of many military industrialists.
http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/vietnam/epis2.html
3. Iraq wasn’t about oil? Hoookieee.
4. China doesn’t kill prisioners for body parts? Hoookiee
5. Cheap gas as in Economics 101. For America to survive, she needs a steady supply of relatively cheap oil. Samolia, Sudan, other despot African nations had more genocide than Saddam, but no oil, hence no reason to go there to “liberate” them.
Walmart buys oh I’d say 80% of their goods from China, as in Communist China, as in put more American workers out of a job to get cheaper goods, what was that reason again…oh yeah, Economics 101.
If you don’t get it, that’s fine. Evening dusk light (twilight zone) sometimes can be confused with a early morning sunrise.
what was the name of the board the vice president of the united states sits/runs on?
Hallibsomething.
Nawww…no connection with Iraq.
Coincidence, like a past Prime Minister and some countrynamed Steamship Lines…just a minor detail, no conflict of interest here either.
tomax – thank you for allowing me to disagree; how gracious of you. I didn’t know I had to seek your permission.
1) Actually, tomax, ‘primitive tribes’ DO declare war. Always. Their wars were often ritualistic shows of force rather than with casualties (they really couldn’t afford the loss of life). Therefore, they did declare the war, chanted, painted themselves, danced, displayed and that- was that. You only got our type of war when the population was large enough to absorb loss of life…and that type of society was not a ‘primitive tribe’. OK?
2)The distinct and separate nation-state is a 19th century relic, as out of date as the UN. In the era of global economic, social and communicative networking – its functionally is no longer viable.
3) I’m glad you are pleased to know that Iraq wasn’t about oil. It’s about fascism – yet another dangerous mode of violent collectivism (as in communism), with an expansive agenda of social and political control and imperialism. Introducing democracy into the ME, which is made up of societies trapped within a feudal tribalism and that are moving into fascism because of population pressures (exploding populations) and lack of economic and political rights – is the correct tactic of dealing with Islamofascism.
4)Glad you are pleased about China too.
5)Africa is not involved in attacks against the USA and Europe and Africa. So, it doesn’t make sense to go in there. Islamofascism is involved, violently, in attacks against the US, Europe and Africa. Get the difference?
6)So what if WalMart buys from China? And you don’t know much about China if you don’t understand that the communist party is dissolving from the inside. China is capitalist, eagerly capitalist.
Oh – blegh – putting Americans out of work. Nonsense. If the cost of goods is too high for people to purchase because of American unions, then, why should we be forced to purchase those goods????
Do you know, for instance, what is putting the big car manufacturers in the US out of work? China? No – it’s the UNIONS – those socialist empires, that are parasitic on the backs of the workers, and are destroying their jobs by focusing only on wages, benefits, and benefits and wages …until the companies go broke..and people purchase from China.
remember, unions require workers, their salaries are paid by union dues. Unions are parasites on the workers.
Cheers, and sunrise and sunset are physical realities and don’t depend on perception for that reality. I’m not a postmodernist and work with reality.
Hoookieee…I’ll let you get the last word.
At least his last word isnt coming from an IDIOT!
I agree with ET that unions have harmed the North American auto industry.
However, the traditional Big Three could learn a lot from the “foreign” firms who build vehicles in the US and are winning away market share on the basis of the vehicles themselves. Surely the foreign automakers’ US plants are unionized as well? If they’re doing something right, the traditional Big Three must figure out what it is and adapt to remain competitive. Right?
Perhaps the failing of the Big Three has been to obsess over bean-counting rather than on getting the product right in terms of satisfying demand and in terms of quality and reliability. The Japanese and South Koreans can teach the Big Three quite a bit, I believe.
idiot…ewwwwwww….
Canadian Sentinel…
…not to mention the import plants aren’t overburdened with retirement fund payouts.
Interesting next couple of years with a lot of union folk retiring…hope there aren’t more BreX’s, Enron’s and other retirement fund zappers running around.
Well, Tomax, we’ll see what happens.
Nevertheless, the Big 3 do have a few good products which I like. At the lower end is the Chevy Cobalt. Seems to be surprisingly refined, if not entirely as advanced as the Japanese. In fact, I have my eye on the Cobalt for my next set of wheels to replace my ’92 Shadow, whose engine continues to perform flawlessly even now.
Then there’s 300C and derivatives of DaimlerChrysler. And the new full-size GM SUVs. Perhaps it’s not too late for a turnaround, though I don’t see current management of GM and Ford as being particularly impressive.
Hyundai/Kia is another company to watch. Very impressive progress in product offering and sales growth.
Moonbats are choking on global “warning”(sic).
It’s “West’s” fault and failure, Thornton says.
Who is West? This will be called the “Black Death”? … Utter moonbattery; complete lies. Scare-mongering from the moonbats.
…
West’s failure over climate change ‘will kill 182m Africans’
Independent – 1 hour ago
By Philip Thornton, Economics Correspondent. The poorest people in the world will be the chief victims of the West’s failure to tackle global warning, with millions of Africans forecast to die by the end of … googlenews
Skimmimg the thread. I do it too. Kinda hidden: Israel will strike Iran Nuke facility.
Will there be any who can put the boots to this??
See about 12 back…2:09 pm TG
Or, check via this ..
Israel will hit Iran in the next few months: Israeli official
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in the next “month or two or three,” an Israeli official has been quoted here as saying.
http://TonyGuitar.blogspot.com
Shortlist of Iran related tensions
[distilled mostly from the May 6th/06 Economist]
[1] Shia vs. Suni vs. Kurd [May 14, 2006]
[2] Israel vs. Hizbullah and Hamas
[3] Iran, Syria support Hizbullah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad
[4] Qatar and Saudi Arabia fund Hamas
[5] Iran, Syria and Turkey fear Kurd nationalism.
[6] Turkey profits from Iranian trade
[7] 74% of Turks polled say USA main peace threat.
[8] Nuke Power, Pakistan depending upon Iranian Nat gas
pipeline to perk up Pakistan*s dragging economy.
[9] UAE squabbles with Iran over three Gulf islands.
[10] Iran is a big investor in Dubai*s booming market.
[11] Many Gulf nations quietly support squeeze of Iran
[12] Saudi officials have grave doubts about Iran
[13] Iran stirring up troubles in Kuwait and Bahrain where
suni are in the minority.
[14] Iran active in Iraq and Lebanon.
[15] Senior military source: Iran to act against Arab
countries who side with the West.
[16] With Wahhabist Suni vs. Shia, Saudia Arabia has ties
& cover under Pakistan.
[17] Egypt*s Mubarak angered Arab Shia, implying, *They
are more loyal to Iran than to their own countries.*
[18] Egypt and Iran have had rocky relations since 1979.
[19] More tensions arise from Iran causing disruption,
annoying Gulf nations who seek stability and peace
[20] The Iran supporting Muslim Brotherhood is the main opposition in ME countries. Much resented by Governments.
[21] Jordan*s King Abdullah: *A US strike to Iran would
cause the whole region to explode. Debate and
diplomacy are the only solution* == TG
The cure? Why it*s elementary Dr. Watson.
Mentions our reconnisance flights over Iran
border and a US buildup there. [FreeRepublic.com]
Drones operated by Hizbullah are searching out targets over Israel from Lebanon*s S. border. Hizbullah is Iran*s front line, so to speak.
http://www.MichaelTotten.com
2nd post, if I recall correctly. TG
Facts? Who cares about facts?
Black is white. MSM checks facts? Hey, taxi….
The BBC’s Latest Star – A Baffled Cabbie
Posted by steve-b
On 05/15/2006 7:22:15 AM PDT · 5 replies · 183+ views
The Daily Mail ^ | 5/13/06
A computer expert has described his astonishment at seeing the BBC’s 24-hour news channel interview a taxi driver – in the mistaken belief it was him. Guy Kewney – a white, bearded technology expert – was astonished to see himself appear on screen as a black man with an apparent French accent. He was even more shocked to see himself unable to answer basic questions about the legal battle between the Beatles’ Apple Corps and Apple Computer over the use of an apple symbol…. The man, who had been waiting for his fare in the reception of Television Centre, found…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1632436/posts
Jack Layton complains: “Buzz/Martin is stalking me.
My head is exploding. Gimme a helmet.”
Buzz/Martin’s crow chorus of one crow:
CAW…CAW…CAW…
Man: “I’m being stalked by a crow”
For over a week now he has been suffering repeated attacks by a crow that lives near his house and is forced to leave his home wearing a helmet.
via nealenews
Head over to http://www.molarmauler.blogspot.com for a quick read on a bit of MSM public manipulation over the gun registry courtesy of the NP.
Chuck Guite draws link to Jean Chretien’s office in fraud trial
MONTREAL (CP) – Chuck Guite is raising the spectre of political influence from the office of former prime minister Jean Chretien
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Old crow Liberal party of AdScam/Chretien/Martin dead …
L. Gagnon: Excerpt.
Instinctively, Quebeckers should feel closer to Bob Rae, a professional politician who knows the issues well and has taken stands popular in Quebec. He was a staunch supporter of the Meech Lake accord, for instance, and he agrees Quebec should have its own seat within the Canadian delegation at UNESCO. Thanks to his political experience, he can easily debate the subtleties of the Canadian federation and balance the needs of the provinces with maintaining a strong central government — a topic Mr. Ignatieff is still uncomfortable with.
But Mr. Rae’s poor record as Ontario premier is a terrible handicap. His name is synonymous with deficits, labour unrest and managerial incompetence. Also, Mr. Rae shares a few things with Jean Chrétien — his main advisers include the former prime minister’s alter ego, Eddie Goldenberg, and his own brother John, who led all of Mr. Chrétien’s campaigns. Such close links to the former regime are not assets after 12 years of war between the Chrétien and Martin clans, not to mention the sponsorship scandal that literally killed the Liberal Party in Quebec. …
http://www.voy.com/178771/11963.html
“Duke University lacrosse team captain Dave Evans said he is “absolutely innocent” after he became the third white player to be indicted on charges stemming from a black woman’s allegations she was raped and beaten at an off-campus party earlier this year.”
This is how CTV news reports the story on their web site. What does the colour of the assailants/victims matter? If race was reversed in this case, do you think the story would be reported the same way? Take a guess…
*MadMud Almonjeans* has adjusted his first impulsive rants about blowing away Israel to a moderate, **We only require nuclear for generating electricity.**
Let us be generous, Iran burns off enough waste gas to generate power for all the Gulf states.
A huge natural gas pipeline is being completed to Pakistan and that is expected to perk up a laging economy.
While the natural gas supply may not be infinate, most conservative estimates suggest at least a 200 year supply.
Nukes for power, yeah sure, muscle power, not electric power. TG
molar mauler – many thanks for catching that. What’s up with the NP?
A survey is useless for providing valid information unless and until, you know the questions that were asked.
Was one of the questions asked – Do you want guns banned?…The respondent would readily assume these referred to handguns.
Most people in Canada don’t know anything about the handgun or longgun registry. They don’t know that handgun registration has been required for a generation and that the problem with guns in our cities is illegal handguns which of course are not, and are not going to be, registered.
Longguns are hardly a problem, but the 2 billion registration has now provided a means of employment for many Maritimers who are involved in this MakeWork project of the Liberals. Registration of these guns has nothing to do with public safety, and everything to do with public service jobs. (The gov’t gets votes and the public service union gets money and votes).
There’s also a disgraceful statistical myth being touted by the pro-gun registration (aka unionized public service). They inform us how useful the registration is; how it gets ‘5,000 requests a day’. Bull. Utter nonsense.
There aren’t 5,000 gun-related crimes a day in Canada. And not 35,000 gun-related crimes a week in Canada. Nor, almost two million gun-related crimes a year in Canada. Those stats, repeated again and again, by the pro-gun lobby people – are nonsense.
It’s been pointed out, on this blog, by others, that the computer system is set up so that an information request about anything, even if it’s not from the police, will be compiled by the computer software, as a ‘gun-request’. It could be a request about the fee for registration. It could be a request about an address. Anything. Nothing to do with crime. But, they’ve set up their software so that it can be used to justify the existence of the gun registry.
My point is, that we breathlessly listen to these people tell us that there are 5,000 requests a day ..and never, ever, ask them if there are really, 35,000 gun-related crimes a week in Canada?
BBC apologizes for interview gaffe; mixup had cabbie on live TV as computer expert
By DANICA KIRKA
LONDON (AP) – The BBC has admitted it was taken for a ride by a cabbie. …
Story does not give URL for “expert”. …
Read blooger here: It’s priceless….
http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/2697
Aristides said…
Again, let me say this clearly. Ahmadinejad’s letter fashioned after Mohammed’s 7th century missive.
Ahmadinejad copied this format for a reason: it is the Islamic precedent for the proper declaration of war.
Every other comment about the letter is beside and under the point.
The import of the letter is clear: Iran has now formally threatened America with war. Any further diplomacy must take this into account, or we are setting ourselves up for one hell of a classification error.
http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12136206&postID=114769562880526355
ET
There was another extremely complimentary piece in the Toronto Star today regarding how well Harper is doing. That makes it 2 pro-Harper articles in three days! This is a liberal newspaper too! I can only imagine what the conservative papers are writing. It can’t be more positive than these two articles.
extemely complimentary, steve d? The summary:
” As a result, some of the trouble spots that may be lurking around the corner of his first year in office can already be spotted on the fronts of the environment, social policy, aboriginal rights, his relationship with Ontario and, potentially, te Afghan mission.
One hundred days into his first mandate, Harper has convinced the sceptics that he has what it takes to be Prime Minister.
But to secure a majority, he still has to convince many of them that his policies are right for Canada.”
So they basically write an entire article saying “ok, we were wrong about him making a good Prime Minister, it turns out he has what it takes. But his policies are wrong for Canada. Look at his stance on the environment, social policy, aboriginal rights, Ontario, and maybe Afghanistan.”
An article which grudgingly admits Harper is doing a good job so far as PM, but in reality is designed in a very subtle manner to sow the seeds of doubt about giving Harper a majority.
By the way, the article is immediately followed by this headline: “Harper’s plan does not add up”
and goes on to suggest that Harper is going to copy the US plan for greenhouse gas reduction. Some choice quotes:
“In other words, the new emissions plan is not really being made in Canada. Even the title is an uncreative copy of the ‘Made in America’ label used by President George Bush”
This quote was preceded in the article by this:
“The new ‘Made in Canada’ plan is expected to be based upon the current U.S. government policy”
Yes, that’s right, the journalist doesn’t even know what the ‘Made in Canada’ plan is, just what is expected, but he’s able to do an analysis and critique of it based upon “expectations”.
AG Fraser is a cool lady. When is the audit to be released?
Auditor General
May 2006 Report
(To be released on 16 May 2006)
http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/domino/oag-bvg.nsf/html/menue.html
No need to call cops over leaked gun registry report, says auditor general
OTTAWA (CP) – Auditor General Sheila Fraser isn’t happy some of her findings about the federal gun registry were leaked to the media, but she and her officials see no need to call in the police.
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