I spent 12 of the past 24 hours on the highway, and since arriving home have been catching up on yardwork and gardening. I’m bushed, so some quick reader tips and a semi-open thread for your entertainment purposes (by semi-open, I mean try to stick to the topics provided, and keep idle chatter down). Though, as it’s a long weekend, it’s probably better if you just turn off the computer and get outside. I am!
Another tidbit pointing up the chain of command out of the Guite trial.
“”Yesterday, Mr. Guité produced a statement that Mr. Parent had given to Quebec provincial police officers investigating the sponsorship scandal.
The officers had asked Mr. Parent who had authorized sponsorships. He replied by mentioning the Prime Minister’s Office and the Public Works minister at the time, Alfonso Gagliano.
“In the time of sponsorships, it was Mr. Guité and the political machine,” Mr. Parent said in his statement to police.”
Via Newsbeat1 – a very good site to bookmark to keep track of testimony.
Mob rule continues at Caledonia, with the helpful assistance of the provincial government.
Credit where it is due: Scott Brison distances himself from his unprincipled cohorts in the Liberal party,,,, and where it isn’t – most of them seem to be absent from parliament these days.
DNC Chairman Howard Dean – “I feel your Jesus!”.
Add your own in the comments.
Don’t know if you might be interested in commenting, Kate:
http://www.kabc.com/mcintyre/listingsEntry.asp?ID=432586&PT=McIntyre+in+the+Morning
Imagine Howard Dean having to assure people that the Dems have values.
Wouldn’t it be sad if Cretien ends up in Jail? I mean after spending 40 years in public office to end up like this is rather sad. But, if he’s done the crime, he should do the time.
Of course, it’s the Conservatives fault. If they hadn’t been wandering in the wilderness for a dozen years they might have been able to muster a serious opposition and stop the corruption in its infancy!! I hope Conservatives have learned from this. 12 year vacations are just too long. You know, absolute power corrupting absolutely…well, that’s what your absence fostered. ; )
Well,absence may make the heart grow fonder,but I doubt if i will miss ‘da boss if he is sent up to the big house for a while.He can learn a few new sexual positions(hay Jean..i like to call dis ‘un le grande canoe, eh?)
ahh…but one can only dream sometimes…
Ok, off topic. I doing up about 10 sockeyes this weekend. I have tried to find a recipe for for Indian Candy … like they do in Lillooet (they do air dried chum) … blend of salt/sugar.
I haven’t been able to find a recipe (google) the looks close to what I think it should be.
I’ll smoke up 6 of these in my “kill for” style. I really hate to jerky the other 4.
One thing i fail to see mentioned in the Lib leadership “race”…The issue of wether mainstream Canada is ready for an openly gay leader of a nations opposition party,to say nothing of being the PM.It might play well to the urban masses that are the so called progressives of the party(and to be honest,their base of power..)
Do you think that Brison loses his appeal to lead the party when the leadership finds their is no real grassroots support for this man in mainstram Canada?
As well,has there been no thought to the trouble potential of being an openly gay man in a position where he probably has many closeted friends? Many with reasons to stay that way? Could that not lead to blackmail and scandal?
Lots of negatives i’m afraid in this mans bid for leadership….
I can’t help you with an Indian Candy recipe but I know some Russians who soak sliced raw salmon in extremely salty water for hours then rinse it off and eat it with bread and butter, maybe this’ll lead you in the right direction – soak your smoked salmon in salty water, rinse it off, then come up with a sweet coating somehow?
Kursk
Have you ever wondered how many of our Prime Ministers were secretly gay?
MacKenzie King had the job longer than any other man, er guy, er person and he was a bachelor. So mebbe Brison would have longevity?
Some have evidence that Joe Clark is. He is very very close to the gay community. They got himelected the first time in Alberta Yellowhead; again it was the gay community that rallied for him in Calgary centre and Scott Brison stepped aside for him in Kings Hants.
No biggy though. Who cares.
Ural, try brushing on some maple syrup about 1/2 hour before your done smoking the fish.
Diana: Didn’t Joe Clark:Who? also march in the Gay Pride Parade in Calgary a few years back?
Maybe that explains Maureen McTeer’s glassy-eyed look.
Here in Ontario, I believe the Liberal government has recently banned smoking fish.
Are the trolls here with red Liberal herrings? Beware! The Librano$ are not yet dead. Their apologists/confreres are here with the old/bait/switch/hijack the topic games ….
Here for the Librano$….
The PLAYERS
“You see the very companies that got the money are close buddies with people in the cabinet – they stay with each other, they hob knob together, they’re good friends, they form relationships and they give political donations. I mean, it doesn’t take any rocket scientist to sort out the relationship…”(Jack Layton, commenting on Opposition Members’ interim report).
Bureaucrats … more…
http://www.anticorruption.ca/players.html
Re: Harper and his trap(?)
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Why can’t the media and the Liberals understand that Harper may just be honest and forthright rather than dirty and underhanded. They must be spending too much time looking in the mirror.
From the Hamilton Spectator:
“A Canadian resident serving time in a U.S. penitentiary for trafficking guns was one of the main suppliers of firepower to the Jamestown Crew, the west-end street gang whose members and associates were rounded up during the largest anti-gang sweep in the city’s history.
Police sources say gang members were driving to the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford and buying guns from Earle Cooke, now serving time in an Oklahoma prison.”
More in the full article at:
hamiltonspectator.com/breaking%20news/breaking%20news_6701080.html
Just to highlight the important fact I did not
have in the quote above: “Other than Cooke, no other Six Nations residents have been implicated in the illegal operation”.
I see Sctty Brisonm is sqwaking about Rona Ambrose and crew in Bonn are out to undermine the Koyoto Accord. He says Canada may loose its reputation in the UN. WE should be so lucky ,maybe they will kick us out. Just wishful thinking on my part I guess.
Scooter Brison.
to him global warming is having warmed buns.
nudge nudge wink wink.
when is “hot cross hedy” going to announce there are burning bridges in Caledonia . right here in Canada, Im not making this up.
steve d,don’t think I’ve ever noticed your tongue wedged in your cheek like that before!
To continue your theme,if the Liberals did a better job as the opposition,that tyrant Mulroney might not have gotten so out of control.Then there wouldn’t have been a revolt against the party,setting the stage for the Liberal entitlement dynasty and the conservatives 10 yr time out.
On a serious note,not sure if I have EVER agreed with you before,maybe we can agree here.
It does not seem to matter the party,you put ANY group in power long enough,they will become fat,lazy,self-absorbed and probably corrupt.History has already shown us that.
BTW,thanks for the link on other thread,it indeed expresses my views quite accurately.
Scotty would be better off not mentioning Kyoto.
I can’t wait for the Auditor General to look into that lieberal boondoggle money-pit.
Why praytell is Mr. Brison not in handcuffs or at least under some serious investigation for his incriminating emails to his banking freind? A decided lack of curiosity here by our national media.
PM’s a genius
Harper plays opposition foibles with finesse of a chessmaster
By LINK BYFIELD
I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to enjoy the aggressive stick-handling style of our new Calgary prime minister.
Though short-handed in Parliament, Team Harper is scoring so many goals, you’d almost think they came from Edmonton.
On Tuesday, for example, they won the Gwyn Morgan play. A truly awesome goal.
The Conservatives had promised to install a new commission to ensure the people who get those six-figure patronage jobs we read so much about — of which there are many hundreds — actually know how to do them.
You might recall how many Liberal ex-ministers and PMO smoothies were paid off with cushy crown sinecures by Chretien and Martin.
It stank, and Harper promised to end it.
His new Crown appointments commission would consist of four accomplished Canadians working for free.
That’s right, for the good of the country.
It would include the Iranian-born land developer from Vancouver who founded Future Shops, a former Liberal cabinet minister from Toronto, a Montreal businesswoman and tennis star, and Calgarian Gwyn Morgan as chairman.
Morgan, 60, is the one-time Alberta farm kid who, in building the biggest independent oil company in Canada, also built a platinum reputation for honesty and fair play.
Not that Ottawa always wants honesty.
In a December speech to the Fraser Institute, Morgan noted Canada’s multicultural and immigration policies are importing and perpetuating a serious criminal gang problem, and solutions must be found.
He mentioned specifically Jamaicans, Asians and “other ethnic groups.”
Which might be OK to say in Cowtown, but it’s way too insensitive for the Opposition majority on the Commons government operations committee.
In the ugliest confrontation Parliament has witnessed since the sponsorship committee hearings two years ago, Morgan was asked, more or less, if he thought a racist like himself was “suited” to decide federal patronage appointments.
His mild reassurances were not accepted, and his nomination was rejected six votes to five.
And this is where Harper’s tactical brilliance shines.
Instead of sucking up and proposing instead some forgotten chairman of the CBC or the like, as the Opposition expected, Harper’s candidates promptly withdrew their offer of free service, enabling Harper to say, fine, we’ll do business by the old rules until Canadians give us the majority we need to do what must be done.
In other words, the Opposition scored, but against itself.
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists
Judge the Liberals by their actions.
Exhibit:
“…and some Liberal staffers scrambled to occupy empty seats in the House of Commons.”
Not one, two, three, but dozens of Liberals skipped the speech.
Cowardly Liberal MPs send their staff to fill their seats in Parliament while the Prime Minister of Australia speaks.
Ex-PM Martin, Jr., exits by the backdoor before the vote re mission to Afghanistan.
The once mighty Liberal party is a coven of cowards; a pack of duplicitous thieves.
Words fail to express the contempt they have shown to all Canadians…
As for money, they are paid in excess of $150,000/year minimum.
The great party of Laurier, King, Pearson, is dead.
A requiem for a great party.
Liberal Party of Canada is dead. …
Grits accused of snubbing Howard
By KATHLEEN HARRIS, OTTAWA BUREAU, SUN MEDIA
Opposition Liberals are being accused of “snubbing” Australian Prime Minister John Howard after a poor turnout for the world leader’s speech in Parliament.
Dozens of Grit MPs skipped Thursday’s historic address — the first time an Australian PM has spoke to Canada’s Parliament since 1944 — and some Liberal staffers scrambled to occupy empty seats in the House of Commons.
cnews
“Palestinian schoolchildren from the West Bank village of Umm Tubba were assaulted Sunday morning by settlers who approached them from a community called Ma’on ranch, Palestinians said.
The children who were making their way to school were escorted by Israel Defense Forces soldiers, but the escort did not prevent the assault.
The children said a woman pushed two of them unto thorn bushes at the side of the road.
The IDF has been escorting the Palestinian children to school daily due to the intensified assaults by settlers.
On Sunday three soldiers and an army jeep escorted the children, but the Palestinians say that the soldiers did nothing to stop the settlers from assaulting the children.”
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/718186.html
Caledonia: Only in Canada does the rule of law and the land only apply to honest taxpayers. If you are from Six Nations it seems like the laws are made up as you go along.
This just goes to show you that any reserve/nation can decide that a piece of land use to belong to some dead relative and CLAIM IT! How safe is your land????
Only in Canada, and I’m not making this up!
I wonder if Jack Layton and many Liberals know this: the French are doing pointy-end things as part of US Operation Enduring Freedom.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060503/afghanistan_fighting_060520/20060520?hub=World
‘Two French special forces troops were killed Saturday while fighting the Taliban in Kandahar province, the French Defence Ministry said. No other details were immediately available.
France has had 200 special forces officers in southeast Afghanistan since 2003 as part of the U.S.-led coalition.’
Mark
Ottawa
Bob, can you do better than that? Two Palestinean kids scratched up by thorn bushes by an angry Israeli!! That’s it?? Hey, idiot, they aren’t in body bags. Want to share with us the number of Israeli kids blown to bits by Hamas gutblowers over the last few years? Got a body count on that, Bob? Or the number of Palestinean kids manipulated into strapping on suicide belts to blow up Jewish kids?
Bob, or whatever incarnation of another troll to this board that you are(and I suspect you are one), cherry-picking these lame anti-Israel and anti-American news items aren’t advancing your pro-terrorist cause or appreciation for your raw intelligence. So far, buddy, you’ve batted zero for zero at home plate.
Basically, Bob(and all of your other troll personas posting here), you are a moron.
Good post Maz. Byfield hit the nail on the head. The intellectual heavyweight Peggy Nash slags Gwynn Morgan for pointing out the obvious and undeniable. Unfortunately facts and reason have no place in a prog world where emotion trumps all and ugly partisanship is the order of the day.
Harper refuses to play into this hysterically emotional approach, essentially withdrawing from the field.
Ms. Nash then does an about face and vows along with two other NDP MPs (Patric Martin and Paul Dewar) to “…revive the public appointments commision and build multi support for a new template.”
So if I understand her correctly, having just perpetrated one of the ugliest partisan smear jobs in recent memory the honorable Peggy Nash is proposing non-partisan co-operation.
Are these mean spirited pinheads so intellectually bankrupt that they can’t see the utter hypocracy of such a statement??
Sickening!!!
Syncro
penny – I am not a troll. And, my opinion is that the Israeli-Palestinian situation is not a simple one of Good versus Evil as you seem to imply, but is more complex, with both sides involved in both values.
There are lots of innocent Palestinian women and children killed by Israeli Defence forces, so, your ‘body bag’ valuation isn’t valid.
The provocation by settlers, both with their expanding illegal settlements, and their open attacks against Palestinians – children, farmers (destroying their olive groves in the night, shooting at them as they try to harvest, etc) makes the situation not as simplistically Good versus Bad as you write it up.
The fallacious assumption that ‘there’s no history of a nation called Palestine’ (ex-liberal) is empty, because it is justifying current existence ONLY on an historical ‘Origin’. But, apart from the fact that the concept of the nation emerged only in the 12th c era, one can assert that at one time, there was no ‘nation of Canada’. Does not mean that Canada, now, should not exist? At one time there was no ‘nation’ of the USA. No South Africa, no Brazil, no etc and etc and etc.
Again, the situation is far more complex than your simplistic Good versus Evil, and those evaluations belong, pretty equally, on both sides.
Reporters Can be Prosecuted: US Attorney-General
The nation’s top law enforcer also said the government will not hesitate to track telephone calls made by reporters as part of a criminal leak investigation …
Elton John says photographers “should all be shot”
British pop star Elton John launched an expletive-laden tirade against the press in Cannes late on Saturday while presenting an award to a young actor during the annual film festival. …
nealenews
Poster: “Anonymeme”
Interviewing Minister Rona Ambrose, Taber came up with every Liberal-NDP lie about Canada and Kyoto …. and Rona effectively knocked down everything Taber spouted in her usual shrill self … unfortunately Taber wasn’t listening to what Rona was saying and even pleaded ignorance as she persisted in mouthing the NDP-Liberal line.
Taber tried to trip up Ambrose but failed miserably because Taber was mimicking the CTV/G&M/BCE/Liberal trash talking lines.
To meet Kyoto targets now would mean that Canada must reduce emisions by 190 megatonnes which is equivalent to all our annual transportation …. and that is the mess the Liberals left Canada in … a virtually unattainable Kyoto target. No wonder the Liberals were desperately trying to convince Canadians to Save a Tonne with Mercer’s stupid TV commercial … they were getting desperate. Now the Liberal mess is out in the open and the Liberals and NDP are trying to trash the Conservatives for their disaster.
Now Layton is spewing about big oil and gas industry trying to sabotage Kyoto and talking as if Canada’s commitment will solve the supposed problem. He wants Canada to save the planet on our own with his ad hominem socialistshit. …
http://www.voy.com/178771/14080.html
I have some questions. 1.Is there a list of the lib mps who boycotted PM Howard. What do their constituents think. 2. What is causing several 12 yr olds to be charged with murder, in AB. 3. What is the real reason 2 Saudis boarded a high school bus in Tampa Florida, one wearing shorts and a black trench coat, both speaking Arabic on the bus and laughing. Arrested when getting off,and now in jail. Bail of 250.00 revoked. Was this a dry run for a US Beslan. 4. How many gay mps are in the HofC. 5. Who will be the first lib candidate to drop out, and who will be at the bottom of the first ballot. 6. Will the split vote re Afganistan finally provoke the contenders to attack each other.
“Bob, can you do better than that?”
How can I refuse? Looks like the Israelis are land-grabbin’ again:
“Defense Minister Amir Peretz has approved expansion of four West Bank settlements, the first such approvals under his tenure.
The expansion orders enlarged the settlements’ “jurisdictional area,” a designation which in many cases serves as a prelude to construction of new settlement neighborhoods.
…
The Peace Now organization Sunday condemned Peretz’ approval of the orders, calling it the first such expansion of settlements in years.
“In back rooms and far from the public eye, the government of Israel has chosen to expand the settlements,” Peace Now Secretary-General Yariv Oppenheimer told Israel Radio Sunday.
“It turns out that ‘settlement blocs’ are also flexible and changeable concepts.”
According to Oppenheimer, “Peretz must rescind this move and call General Naveh to account.”
Oppenheimer called the expansions “an attempt to steal more Palestinian land” as part of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s plan to set Israel’s borders.”
A tip for the brainwashed BushBots: I think we’ve established that we can’t trust the National Post for news coming out of the mideast these days, so I go straight to the Israeli papers and suggest others do too.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/718145.html
ET you are logical to a fine point, and yet for some reason when it comes to the relationship between the Jews and their neighbours you consistently ignore the essentiel salient point: that Jews are facing every day of every year an ongoing, identifiable cultural pathology of hatred.
Everyone knows, or should know, that there is serious misbehaviour by Palestinians and Israelis, and indeed your descriptions of provocations by settlers could be multiplied by ten thousand and applied liberally to either side; the extent of the feud and its perpetual cruelties are well-known.
But in your analysis of the situation, both here and at the Shotgun, you steadfastly refuse, for reasons I won’t speculate on, to incoprorate the reality of the sheer implacable hatred of Jews on the part of Arabs. Such insistences as yours that this reality must be subsumed by well-formulated turns of logic historically foreshadows dark turns into cruelty.
Every Jew knows and understands that the Middle East is populated with Arabs and that it will remain so, but Arabs believe — and state emphatically, and at length — that Jews are a blight who must be collectively destroyed. Now, if that attitude were being expressed and acted upon by white southerners towards blacks, I doubt that any analysis on your part would neglect to include that detail, yet in the case of the Jews you deem that such insane murderous hatred is irrelevent.
I don’t understand that, and I don’t want to, but frankly, ET, it’s a bit too much to think that others, too, should neglect to acknowledge the centrality of Islamic Arabs’ hatred of Jews to the continuation of the conflict.
Anyone notice the glaring spelling mistake in the POST’S online headline?
“Harper may have used Afghan vote to ensare Ignatieff”
I think they meant ensnare … but since few Candians can spell anymore, the media no longer has to worry about that petty stuff.
If you didn’t notice this spelling mistake my a major Canadian newspaper …
THANK A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TEACHER!
“There are lots of innocent Palestinian women and children killed by Israeli Defence forces”
Well, for starters, bystanders do get killed in a war zone. There is absolutely no factual evidence that the IDF doesn’t conduct itself in a professional manner that tries
to minimize innocent deaths. They do not target innocent civilians as a policy.
Got a link to that “lots” as a comparative measure? I certainly feel that needs both qualified and quantified by circumstances. If you are seeking symmetry in numbers and motives, then you are a fool.
“the situation is far more complex than your simplistic Good versus Evil, and those evaluations belong, pretty equally, on both sides.”
I think not. Of course the situation is complex. That doesn’t render Palestinian’s terrorist tactics, which have always been state sanctioned and directed at civilians, as anything less than evil just because the conflict is “complex”. Maybe in your universe complexity equals suspension of moral judgements, that’s not how it works in mine, and, thank God, most of the world of decent reasoned people.
Sorry, EBD – but I disagree. The hatred is not psychological, i.e., innate, but political, i.e., learned. You cannot walk into a populated area, declare that it is ‘yours’ and then, occupy that same territory for a generation, and not expect hatred.
Penny, the Israeli Information Centre, B’Tselem, will provide you with all comparable data.
http://www.btselem.org/english/About_BTselem/Index.asp
I am glad you consider yourself a ‘decent reasoned’ and ‘moral’ person. I consider myself to be exactly the same.
Didn’t Israelis use terrorism against the British to gain independence?
“The British government placed limitations on Jewish immigration to Palestine. These quotas were controversial, particularly in the latter years of British rule, and both Arabs and Jews disliked the policy, each side for its own reasons. In response to numerous Arab attacks on Jewish communities, the Haganah, a Jewish paramilitary organization, was formed on June 15, 1920. Tensions led to widespread violent disturbances on several occasions, notably in 1921, 1929 (primarily violent attacks by Arabs on Jews — see Hebron) and 1936-1939. Beginning in 1936, several Jewish groups such as Etzel (Irgun) and Lehi (Stern Gang) conducted their own campaigns of violence against British and Arab targets. This prompted the British government to label them both as terrorist organizations.
…
The Holocaust had a major effect on the situation in Palestine. During the war, the British forbade entry into Palestine of European Jews escaping Nazi persecution, placing them in detention camps or deporting them to places such as Mauritius. Avraham Stern, the leader of the Jewish Lehi terrorist gang, whose will to fight the British was so strong he offered to fight on the Nazi side, and other Zionists, tried to convince the Nazis to continue seeing emigration from Europe as the “solution” for their “Jewish problem”, but the Nazis gradually abandoned this idea in favor of containment and physical extermination.
Starting in 1939, the Zionists organized an illegal immigration effort, known as Aliya Beth, conducted by “Hamossad Le’aliyah Bet”, that rescued tens of thousands of European Jews from the Nazis by shipping them to Palestine in rickety boats. Many of these boats were intercepted. The last immigrant boat to try to enter Palestine during the war was the Struma, torpedoed in the Black Sea by a Soviet submarine in February 1942. The boat sank with the loss of nearly 800 lives. Illegal immigration resumed after WW II.
Eliyahu Hakim and Eliyahu Bet Zuri, members of the Jewish Lehi underground, assassinated Lord Moyne in Cairo on 6 November 1944. Moyne was the British Minister of State for the Middle East. The assassination is said to have turned British Prime Minister Winston Churchill against the Zionist cause. Fighting Jewish terrorists on one hand and the Germans in North Africa on the other did not endear the British to the Jews in Palestine at this critical stage of the war.
…
despite the pressure of world opinion, in particular the repeated requests of US President Harry S. Truman and the recommendations of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, the British refused to lift the ban on immigration and admit 100,000 displaced persons to Palestine. The Jewish underground forces then united and carried out several attacks against the British. In 1946, the Irgun blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the headquarters of the British administration, killing 92 people.
Seeing that the situation was quickly spiraling out of hand, the British announced their desire to terminate their mandate and to withdraw by May 1948.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Palestine
Yitzhak Shamir:
“Shamir joined the Irgun Zvai Leumi, one of the underground Jewish organizations directed against the British control of Mandate Palestine. When the Irgun split in 1940, Shamir sided with the most militant faction, headed by Avraham Stern. The group offered to open up a military front against the British in the Middle East in return for the expulsion of the Jewish population of Europe to Palestine (see Lehi, Revisionist Zionism; Heller, 1995, pp. 85-86).
In 1941 Shamir was imprisoned by British authorities. After Stern was killed by the British in 1942, Shamir escaped from the detention camp and became one of the three leaders of the group in 1943, reforming it as “Lehi”. During his tenure, the Lehi was responsible for the 1944 assassination of Britain’s minister of state for the Middle East, Lord Moyne; an assassination attempt against Harold MacMichael, the High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine in the same year (Kushner, 2002, p. 348), and in 1948 the assassination of the United Nations representative in the Middle East, Count Folke Bernadotte who, although he had secured the release of 21,000 prisoners from German camps during World War II, was seen by Shamir and his collaborators as an anti-Zionist and “an obvious agent of the British enemy” (Gazi, 2002, p. 32).”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Shamir
Yes, ET, the hatred is learned, and due to the scale of it its ramifications can aptly be described as “political”.
But politics can reveal the psychology of individuals within a group. If a pathology exists widely in a large group — whether due to their own cultural imperatives or caused by some outside cruelties — its presense in any given individual within the group can only be described as “psychological”, whether that pattern of thinking is learned or innate. “Psychological” is not synonymous with “innate”.
Suggesting that the pathological nature of the hatred in this particular case has its roots in the occupation flies in the face of history, BTW. The hatred in all its intensity long predates the occupation, and is not particular to that region; it also doesn’t require the presense of, nor having any personal acquaintance whatsoever with Jews, no?
TESTING
sOMETIMES THIS THING WORKS AND SOMETIMES IT DOESN’T
IS IT JUST ME BEING SCREENED? OR ???
I COMMENT AND IT DOESN’T SHOW UP
WHAT’S THE DEAL? IS THIS A CENSORSHIP SITE NOW?
“Harper may have used Afghan vote to ensare Ignatieff”
The above is the headline from the Canada Post online piece referred to in Kate’s list above.
If you were unable to notice the spelling mistake, thank a government school teacher.
How the bar has been lowered.
I believe the word was supposed to be ‘ensnared’
“Harper may have used Afghan vote to ensare Ignatieff”
The above is the headline from the Canada Post online piece referred to in Kate’s list above.
If you were unable to notice the spelling mistake, thank a government school teacher.
How the bar has been lowered.
I believe the word was supposed to be ‘ensnared’
The delayed comment feature has chased me away.
I don’t know about you, but trying to participate in a dialog requires a tad quicker response otherwise one loses interest and moves on.
What is really the piss off is that occasionally the comment goes up right away, but mostly it goes to limbo for scrutiny.
Fuck that.
I have moved on. Bummer, I used to love this blog.
“Didn’t Israelis use terrorism against the British to gain independence?”
They did. So did the Americans, the Irish, and scores more. Are their sovereignty as countries are any less valid now?
Keep on trying, Bob.
You and ET seem so interchangable. Do you two work in tandem or what?
penny – using your conclusion, that sovereignty does not preclude the use of terrorism, with your examples of ‘the Americans, the Irish and scores more’, then, the same principle would mean that the Palestinians also have a right to a sovereign nation.
If that conclusion had been accepted by Israel right from the beginning rather than insisting that they be ‘absorbed’ by other nations or even, that they didn’t exist, I wonder if a great deal of grief on both sides could have been avoided.
Sorry to disappoint you, but I don’t know Bob and he doesn’t know me. My analysis and conclusions are my own.
Duke: Keeping the comments up on this blog so that you and others can enjoy the function necessitates a lot of extra effort on my part. If you don’t like it, take it up with the spammers.
Now, that said, I am appreciative of your decision to leave, as you are one of very few I must monitor for language and race baiting. I’ve warned you both privately and publicly.
So, in other words, don’t come back.
Keeping to Reader Tips….
First person who offers a basic bundle of browser, Email client, word processor and data base that is malware resistant for $49.95 is going to make LOTS of money.
Call me spoiled, but twice daily headlines like this are getting tiresome.
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Critical Word Vulnerability Uncovered
By Nate Mook, BetaNews
May 19, 2006, 5:47 PM
Security researchers have discovered a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word, which is already being actively exploited by hackers in China and Taiwan. Microsoft’s Security Response Center says it is working with antivirus vendors to prevent attacks and plans to release a security patch on June 13.
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Windows has certainly become THE target.
Mozilla is part way there.
They just need to add a W.P. and database that are bulletproof.
What is your idea of a RELIABLE alternate suite to Windows?
Billy Gates is doing his best to be nice to me, [the little guy], but he is too successful and thus a main target.
Need a low profile alternate so as not to waste so much time on cleaning malware.
I see a mess of unfinished possible alternates out there, Redhat, Ubuntu, Mac, Mozzilla, what would you choose?
I mostly do writing, Surfing, blogs, lite graphics and photo.
TG
Trial balloon for whose riding?
Emerson’s seat, Vancouver-Kingsway.
Kennedy is a “progressive”. What does the code word, “progressive”, mean?
Politically correct/socialism. …
Kennedy may seek western seat
OTTAWA (CP) – Gerard Kennedy, one of eight Toronto-based candidates for the Liberal leadership, says he’s willing to consider seeking a federal seat in western Canada
via cnews
Tony Guitar,
I’m saving pennies for a new Mac.
even more so now that in a pinch, we can use windows on them. (if we must..)
my old mac, has been ultra reliable.
in fact… 0 problems.
The compatability problem, is now addressed with the new Intel inside…
As for photos, I wouldn’t buy “Apple Aperture” just yet, it’s almost pro… and not with photoshop elements doing most of the things I need anyway.
Check out Apple’s “Garage Band” too, if the “guitar” in your name is for real, you’ve gotta try it. it’s cool.