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.
“The big boss was the PMO.”
The big boss was Jean Chretien, then Prime Minister; Martin was Min. of Finance and vice-chairman of the Treasury Board.
Justice Minister Toews: Are you reading this?
Where are you?
Why is there not an investigation started into the AdScam Chretien/Martin massive fraud?
Canadians are watching and waiting for you and your department to act. ….
“The appointees were removed from the system when the Liberals took over in 1993 but the reality of political direction remained. Guite, former public works minister Alfonso Gagliano and the Prime Minister’s Office ran everything, according to Parent.
“The boss was known as Gagliano,” Parent said. “The big boss was the PMO. I don’t know if Mr. Guite saw Chretien, but he (Guite) had many meetings with Gagliano.”
Guite is on trial for five counts of fraud worth about $1.5 million.”
MarcInCalgary, Well thanks, yes I will take a look. Moving away from Windows, one sure needs input. Can*t imagine why some interpreneur has not offered a *suite* for those who wish to stray from M$. TG
No sooner had I posted a little Iran context post at http://BendGovt.blog.ca
when Canadian Ati-terrorists pick up on it and commented favorably .
They also posted to the top of their website. I was flattered, and then I thought , why not .
We have complimentary views. This is a new way to increase blogsite popularity and something I will remember to do when I have the time to start daily blogging.
Not a bad idea. I hope you can use it to bring other collaborating views to your website too. It is certainly different than just providing a link. TG
It appears the six nations have won over the developers.What a shame.This will most likely result in more bogus claims and blockades. Watch for the next one along the MacKenzie Valley pipeline.If anyone has a few extra minutes look up the treaties and read them,it is really quite amazing how they have been interpretted today.
Great… Now we know what we can do to all the miscreants from Adscom, and the Gun Registry.
We’ll ensare them, they’ll never know what hit them
A few posts before leaving the scene, which was done with such a lack of civility, I say good riddance, Duke wrote:
“Anyone notice the glaring spelling mistake in the POST’S online headline? ‘Harper may have used Afghan vote to ensare Ignatieff (sic)’
I think they meant ensnare … but since few Candians (sic) can spell anymore, the media no longer has to worry about that petty stuff.
If you didn’t notice this spelling mistake my (sic) a major Canadian newspaper …
THANK A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TEACHER!”
Well, Duke, I’m a Canadian school teacher (thanks for the tip of the hat) and I think you need to proofread and edit a whole lot more carefully. (However, as you won’t be back here, we won’t have to worry about “that petty stuff”, will we?)
It seems you’ve had a very bad day. I hope things work out better for you somewhere else. But I’m sorry that you chose to take out your frustrations the way you did. ‘Very disrespectful of our fine host and your fellow travellers at sda.
Blockade set up by residents ….
Plans to remove Caledonia blockade put on hold
CBC News – 24 minutes ago
Plans to remove an aboriginal blockade of a road near Caledonia, Ont., have been delayed because area residents have set up a blockade of their own. Janie Jamieson, a spokeswoman for the Six Nations, said … via google news
Bob, do you ever wonder where all of the Christians, Jews, Zoastrians, Buddhists, aethiests, pagans, etc. went that USED to populate all the currently considered and ever expanding “Muslim homelands”? How do these “Muslim homelands” continue to expand? They were violently eliminated or subjugated. Much worse than walking through some brambles, don’t you think? Are you proud of that? Do you hate those that don’t accept your religious view?
Many people have been displaced throughout world history. The Palestinians are the only population wallowing so deeply in their victimhood they must still hold their hand out for food to their “enemy” as their “displaced” population continues to explode. Their “political” leadership starves their own people while naming streets after mass-murderers and sopping up international aid like a liscense to kill. It is SICK. Quit sticking your hand out while your backside is in the air.
What’s that Tom Penn? You need more education on the Palestine situation? OK, here’s the latest; you probably won’t read about this sort of thing in your National Post, so your ignorance can be forgiven:
“There is no justice. It’s a jungle law here. Settlers can kill, shoot, attack, do anything,” complains Palestinian coffeeshop owner Hani Abu Haikal to a group of visiting Israelis in war-torn Hebron.
He tells them he was arrested last year after hardline Jewish settlers, who live in the occupied
West Bank city, attacked and broke the windows of his hilltop villa while he was entertaining Christian and Israeli friends.
And when his elderly father collapsed in shock, it took three days to negotiate an ambulance to take him to hospital. When he died, settlers danced around the ambulance going to the cemetery, handed out sweets and called death to Arabs.
…
The once bustling Palestinian market, now occupied by Jewish squatters, is a deserted mesh of barbed wire, camouflage netting, a rooftop Israeli sniper and walls defaced by Hebrew graffiti proclaiming “Death to the Arabs”.
The group watches a Palestinian father slither on the sand under waist-high barbed wire in a dank, smelly alley as a short cut from his isolated home to the Palestinian-controlled sector. Pregnant, his wife cannot get through.
Nearby Jewish children set fire to abandoned Palestinian debris, the tassels of their prayer shawls dangling under their shirts. Settlers routinely attack Palestinian children, prompting international peace observers such as 78-year-old John Lynes from Britain, to walk them to school each day.
“Chiefly it’s stone throwing, but they are also deliberately trying to terrify them. Quite often young kids and sometimes grown-ups,” says Lynes. Born Jewish and now a quaker, cries of “Nazi” from the settlers fall on deaf ears.
Three years after a crazed Jewish settler assassinated 29 Palestinian worshippers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in 1994, Hebron was split in two.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060521/wl_mideast_afp/mideasthebronsettlers_060521063749
Dishonest media reporting: “PM’s Iran remark angers Muslims (Ottawa Sun, May 22).
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2006/05/22/1591650-sun.html
The story says “Harper seized on a story published in the National Post on Friday that claimed the Iranian government was planning to force Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians to wear ID badges.”
That is simply false. PM Harper did not/not “seize” on the story; he did not himself raise the issue. Rather he made his remarks in response/response to a question by Robert Fife of CTV at the joint press conference with Australian PM Howard (I was watching). Fife specifically mentioned the Post story and asked for the PMs’ reaction. Both were careful in answering to say “if the story is true”.
Terrible, slanted journalism aimed at making the PM look bad.
Mark
Ottawa
Steward says the “rot had reached the top”, i.e, reached Chretien/Martin.
Au contraire, Hartley: The rot started at the top with Chretien/Martin and spread down thoughout the entire Liberal Party.
The adage is that the fish rots from the head down.
The legacy/epitaph for Chretien/Martin era is: The Fish Rots From The Head Down.
“…we see now the disease went so much deeper and the rot had reached the top.”
Time To Clean Up Hypogrits
By HARTLEY STEWARD
Excerpt:
If we once thought the Liberal party had merely fallen into the hands of a few unscrupulous scoundrels, we see now the disease went so much deeper and the rot had reached the top.
This was a political party capable of rationalizing any sort of behaviour, simply to remain in office.
If it thought of us at all, it was precious little. It has been a sorry chapter in our nation’s history, for sure.
Fraser points out in her report that the Liberal government — at senior levels — cooked the books, deceiving Parliament and, of course us, as to the real cost of the gun registry. In 2004, civil servants spent millions more than had been approved by Parliament. With the aid of accountants and lawyers, a plan was devised whereby the costs could be accounted for in the following year. The excesses would be hidden from Parliament and the public, at least until after the impending election.
Liberal cabinet ministers were briefed. Even so, Fraser points out the procedure broke all the rules.
Small wonder, then, that no former cabinet members of real stature have entered the Liberal leadership race. They were there when their party hit bottom. They were part of it all. They can’t distance themselves fast enough.
Fraser’s discovery that senior levels of the previous Liberal government helped to deceive Parliament and the public puts a new light on the sponsorship scandal and Human Resources debacle as well as the gun registry mess.
It means that we can, and should, look on the last decade of Liberal governments, both of Jean Chretien and Paul Martin, with a jaded and suspicious eye.
We have every right to feel we were being governed by a party in it for itself, unconcerned with our well being.
If we come to believe the entire Liberal party took part in stealing our money and lying to us about it, who can blame us? …
toronto sun via cnews …
Where is the criminal investigation of the rotted fishes: Chretien/Martin?
maz2: I there were one it would be done by police and go nowhere.
See: “RCMP still not getting their (white collar) person”
http://www.damianpenny.com/archived/006549.html
Mark
Ottawa
More dishonest media reporting:
This is what CP reported on Friday, May 19, “Harper says Iran ‘capable’ of introducing Nazi-like clothing labels”:
‘OTTAWA (CP) – Prime Minister Stephen Harper was quick to condemn Iran on Friday for an anti-Semitic law that appears not to exist.
Harper seized on a newspaper report that said Iran’s hardline government would require Jews and Christians to wear coloured labels in public…’
This is only mentioned far into the story:
‘He made the remarks during a news conference in Gatineau, Que., with the visiting Australian Prime Minister John Howard…’
That he was responding to a direct question from a reporter is not mentioned. Slimy journalism, to be polite.
Meanwhile in Question Period the Liberals really were “seizing” the Iran subject; the media has not bothered to report that.
1) “Hon. Karen Redman (Kitchener Centre, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, Canadians are shocked and appalled to hear reports today that indicate Iran is about to pass a law requiring non-Muslims to wear coloured badges identifying their religious beliefs. Jews would have to sew yellow strips of cloth on the front of their clothes, while Christians would wear red badges. This kind of state-run bigotry is both disgusting and frightening to Canadians and all citizens of the world who believe in tolerance and religious freedom.
What steps is the government taking to protest the actions of this rogue state?”
2) “Hon. Keith Martin (Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the comments from the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, but he must also recognize that this is Hitler’s shadow stalking the earth, that this is the same regime in Iran that has denied the Holocaust and has state sponsored persecution of members of the Baha’i faith. Quite frankly, words are not enough.
I ask the Minister of Foreign Affairs if, at the very least, he has called in the Iranian ambassador to Canada to express Canada’s disgust over these actions in Iran.”
Mark
Ottawa
Peterson and MSM fail to “reference” Ipperwash. …
“…ugly didn’t develop out of this, like an Oka or a Wounded Knee,[or Ipperwash]” Peterson said, referencing previous aboriginal standoffs that ended in violence.”
David Peterson,is the failed ex-Liberal premier of Ontario, buddy/ally of Bob Rae who is a wanna-be Liberal Prime Minister of Canada and failed ex-NDP premier of Ontario:
Peterson failed to mention “Ipperwash” where Dudley George died. The Liberals of Ontario under their Liberal Premier, Dalton McGuinty, are in a catatonic state over the Caledonia Indian insurrection; they are praying to the “Great Spirit” that no Indian, or other, death(s) result from the insurrection. The Liberals are paralyzed.
Peterson the negotiator, negotiated the “floor-crossing” of BS Stronach to the waiting arms of AdScam Martin. …
Excerpt:
Early Monday afternoon, the protesters did in fact restore the barricade, and dozens of provincial police officers stepped in to separate the two sides.
Former [Liberal/NDP coalition] Ontario premier and provincial negotiator David Peterson said he’s hopeful the whole dispute will soon be resolved peacefully, despite ongoing tensions between the aboriginals and local residents.
He said a huge step forward has been made in negotiations and fighting between both sides at the former blockade site shouldn’t be the focus.
“All of us were praying and working hard to try to make sure something ugly didn’t develop out of this, like an Oka or a Wounded Knee,” Peterson said, referencing previous aboriginal standoffs that ended in violence.
“Hopefully we can get through this in a peaceful way and start a peaceful, meaningful engagement in some of these issues. That is the only solution to this problem.”
via cnews
Mark said: “maz2: I there were one it would be done by police and go nowhere.”
Not so.
It would go straight to the top; the PMO of Chretien/Martin; repeat: the fish rots from the head down.
The still, small, voice says:
Veritas odit moras. (H/T Seneca)
Truth hates delay.
Update:
Peterson has mentioned Ipperwash.
The fear of an Ipperwash replay is biting Liberals McGuinty/Peterson because:
CTV.ca | Timeline: Highlights of testimony from the Ipperwash Inquiry
…[Liberal] Premier Dalton McGuinty fulfills a campaign promise and calls an inquiry into …[former Conservative Premier] Mike Harris to testify at Ipperwash Inquiry
More: Notice Jane Stewart of HRDC/Chretien/Librano$ fraud notoriety is Ontario’s rep….
Extract
“What you fear is something like the permanent stain of an Oka. You think of Ipperwash and you think of a certain set of facts.”
Peterson was referring to the shooting death of Dudley George, a native protestor at Ipperwash, and the violent confrontation at Oka, Quebec in 1990.
“Something went wrong,” Peterson said after barricades were put back up and road reopenings scuttled.
“The native community offered a gesture, taking it (barricade) down,” Peterson said. “Somehow or other, this gesture was not accepted as what it is,” he said, referring to the local reaction.
“The native community doesn’t bear the Caledonia community any malice. In a sense, they (Caledonia residents) were collateral damage.”
Haldimand County Mayor Marie Trainer said she didn’t know what to think when the situaion deteriorated.
“It was going to be good for business that Argyle Street was open, and safer.”
She said she didn’t know exacty what happened, and was disappointed.
The situation on the ground topday was “making things very hot,” Trainer said. “But I understand the frustration.”
Peterson began today planning to hand the situation over to the official land negotiation team for the federal and provincial goverments — headed by former federal Tory minister Barbara McDougall for Ottawa and former Liberal cabinet minister Jane Stewart, appointed by Ontario. He believed his job of “cooling things out” so formal negotiations could begin was over.
hamilton spectator
Calgarian said: “I can’t help you with an Indian Candy recipe…”
Meanwhile: Tonto? Ugh, kemo sabay. ….
F’N Indians took out our power , I’m sitting on freezers full of stock. Freezers are new and we haven’t had time to have a new generator wired in. Now, it’s personal and all sympathy and patience I had is long gone! 🙁
L
BTW…I’ve got one hour left on this lap top battery. …
Subject: Natives take out power!
Author:
Leasa
http://www.voy.com/178771/14383.html
Bob, 6:48pm…
You speak very much as a Lebanon or Palatinian person would speak. Are you a Pelastinian?
You mention the act of a **crazed Israeli**
but you do not say much about what may have made him crazed.
You talk about other Israeli actions but you fail to mention what Hamas or Helbullah
atrocities may have led to the retaliation.
With nothing to go on, I wonder why I respond to your claims. TG
Shoosh… a popup popped up at these words:
“…the utilitarian can excuse every crime. Lenin and Hitler were pious utilitarians, as were Stalin and Mao, as are most members of the Mafia.”
The popup flashed the word: Librano$. …
Thoroughly Modern Mill
A utilitarian who became a liberal–but never understood the limits of reason.
BY ROGER SCRUTON
Mill’s rebellion against utilitarianism did not prevent him from writing a qualified defense of it, and his “Utilitarianism” is acknowledged today as one of the few readable accounts of a moral disorder that would have died out two centuries ago, had people not discovered that the utilitarian can excuse every crime. Lenin and Hitler were pious utilitarians, as were Stalin and Mao, as are most members of the Mafia. …
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008396
Frights Tri(three)bunal on the knife edge of change………. Madness abounding. … ah, this story has possibilities. Did ya hear the one about the pre-operative trans….?
TORONTO (CP) – The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has ruled that transsexuals who are strip-searched by police have the right to choose between male or female officers or both to perform the act.
The ruling stems from a complaint by a pre-operative transsexual woman who was strip-searched by male Peel Region police officers on several occasions. vivaviavia cnews