I’lll be knee deep in racecar repaint today, so it’s a reader tips morning.
Real Clear Politics on the Canadian threat to US border security. We can stick our heads in the “but what about the tourism!” sand all we wish, but this issue is not going to go away without a lot of work on the part of our governments.
The courts give winking approval to polygamy.
While the former Liberal government maintained that polygamy is criminal in Canada, documents released to Sun Media through access to information show that polygamous marriages have been recognized “for limited purposes” to enforce financial obligations of husbands with multiple wives.
Papa Joe Volpe, Internet Enforcer. Let this be a lesson to you all – don’t register your domain with Canadian Domain Name Services.
Truth or Politics? – Larry Spencer has his say.
Head Explosion Alert! Genetically modified environmentally friendly fuel.
“The New Iowa”. The Chronicle Review examines the future role of blogs in American politics.
Add yours in the comments.
An article by Flemming Rose, cultural editor at Jyllands-Posten (published the Mohammed cartoons) points out the flaws of multiculturalism and societal guilt as the bases of policy towards immigrant (esp. Muslim) minorities. Sound familiar?
http://www.signandsight.com/features/782.html
Mark
Ottawa
Anybody take any screen shots of the Volpe spoof site before it was shut down?
Beware: This “deal” could be the end of Charest’s government, if the thing is seriously applied/enforced. Quebec is a socialist/unionized state within the boundary of Canada; protectionism of the homeland is supreme. The end result: Bye/Bonjour, Jean Charest?
Ontario-Quebec Hammer Out Construction Deal
Josh Pringle
Friday, June 2, 2006
Ontario and Quebec will announce an agreement today to let Ontario construction workers hop the border and work in Quebec.
Premier Dalton McGuinty and Quebec’s Jean Charest will announce the deal today in Ottawa.
The construction worker dispute has been a major irritant in relations for years.
Quebec’s labour laws specify that all construction workers in the province must be a member of a Quebec union.
cfra.com
So let me get this straight. If I don’t like a particular Canadian website I can get CDNS to shut it down? Or do I have to get my Uncle Linguini to make the request? Liberals, the caraganas of the political world.
BTW: Just what is up with the justice system lately? A judge orders police to take down an illegal barracade and everyone has to think about how it impacts the issue rather than obey the law. And then a sicko pedophile in quebec rapes his own child repeatedly over years and he gets his sentence reduced because it isn’t as bad a crime as it could have been? WTF!!! Maybe he was also too short to serve time like an American example of a judicial travesty.
Craig,
I forget which site had it, but last night, someone posted the whole hilarious thing as a PDF file. I saved a copy of it (it’s .5 Mb). How to get it to you?
Definitely a keeper. Especially since Volpe had it whacked. Which was illogical, given that he contends that it was 100% legal and that he is personally responsible for raising the bar on ethics in terms of leadership race funding.
Think of the possibilities. Does Apotex do embryonic research? Imagine if every stem cell in every ice cube on the property coughed up $5400….
“Frankly and clearly” (my two favourite Librano doublespeak terms), I think the guy deserves to win based on the fact that he can claim the higher ground and keep a straight face at the same time. That’s worth something.
There’s a poll over on Bourque – not exactly an Liberal-unfriendly site – that has 88% of respondents saying that Volpe should quit the race.
What Harper has to put up with
David Jones, Citizen Special
Published: Friday, June 02, 2006
It is hard for an observer of the Canadian scene not to smile while watching the media mud-wrestling with a man that most reporters clearly dislike either personally or politically but are forced to endure because he is prime minister.
To be sure, there is no society with a free press in which its politicians do not believe that they are creatively (maliciously) misunderstood by elements of that press — even when they are understood all too accurately. But for the media to retort disingenuously that they are axiomatically “fair and balanced” produces its own eyeball rolls.
To the immense irritation of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has refused to play by their game rules. Having examined the “game” during the period when he was in opposition and during election campaigns, he apparently concluded that it was stacked against him. And that he would be a fool to play by its rules.
Of course those who made up the rules (the Parliamentary Press Gallery) think them fair and even-handed.
Mr. Harper has adopted the Boston politics ethos: “Don’t get mad; get even.” And now, from a position in which he can play the game in a manner more to his preference, he is changing the rules. Surprise! The matador, having tired of being gored, is demonstrating his mastery of riposte. …
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13301.5
It’s the thought that counts, right?
Years ago, when I was going through a time of discouragement, a “friend” said to me in total I feel your pain seriousness, “I know you’re feeling down and I was thinking about you yesterday. I was going to send you flowers.” In my “friend’s” earnestness, she was convinced that the thought of sending me flowers was just as good as following through on the good intention. ‘Definitely someone on the chain gang making improvements on the road to Hell.
“I was going to send you flowers” is now a family joke when a good intention has somehow gone awry.
Now we’ve got ex-PMPM earnestly intoning that “we all BELIEVED we had an accord around the table” at Kelowna. In fact, as the world turns, there is no Kelowna Accord: just a press release and a one-piece document with no signatures from the provinces. And ex PMPM’s good intentions.
“But,” says ex-PMPM, “I was going to get an accord together, honest.” In his slippery, Librano, not attached to the real world mind, just the intention of a Kelowna Accord makes it a reality.
So now we have PMSH and the CPC, Jim Prentice in particular, getting it in the jugular from the LPC, the Native Chiefs, and all the leftie bleeding-heart libs and Dippers because they’ve gutted a non-existent Accord.
‘Doesn’t get much more Kafka-esque than this, does it?
“The courts give winking approval to polygamy”
Kate, gwarsh, umm, gee, ah…well…ah, ummm…you know, ummm, aaahhh…ummm…
Um, let me check with my wife first…
😉
hehehe
craig – the Volpe spoof, which is brilliant, is saved at:
http://policycanada.blogspot.com
It’s saved in pdf and is too good a parody for any Liberal to have the right to shut down.
There is such a thing as freedom of speech, something else that Volpe seems to have forgotten. Are we moving into the Muslim cartoons mode of mind, where we will censor any speech that criticizes us, whether by analysis or comic tactics?
It’s a perfect spoof and Volpe deserves the criticism.
That Joe Volpe was able to have the spoof site taken down simply by telling the domain name registry to do it speaks volumes about the state of this country. There is no freedom of the Press, no right to comment, no escape from the establishment—which is Liberal to the core, and is only temporarily and barely tolerating our duly elected Prime Minister.
Where is the Blogger outrage about what Volpe was allowed to do? Where is the protest? Why are not bloggers re-posting the spoof site? If I had a blog that had any visibility, that’s what I’d do, and to hell with the failed criminal gang called the LPC!
new kid – many thanks for the comments on the Kelowna. And, the ‘Liberal Style’. Perfect description of their style.
ummm…she said “NO!!!”
*sigh*
We agreed I’d make the important decisions in our marrige and she’d make the small ones.
So after 8 years she’s told me there hasn’t been anything really important to decide on…
As well any purchases I make over $100 we have both agree on…so I got the local computer store to make out two invoices out for $99 on a DVD Player I wanted for my computer, but when the Visa bill came in today…
Erg…
Sleeping in the car isn’t fun anymore…
Thanks ET for the www address for Volpe for Youth. I nearly wet my pants!! The endorphins are overflowing!!!
Patrick B. Exactly. As many bloggers as possible ought to be posting and posting that site.
One individual, and a Liberal, has the power to shut down freedom of speech?
This is a ‘Muslim Cartoon Tactic’ fighting freedom of speech. Asserting that ‘if I feel insulted by your criticism of me, then, I will silence you’.
Bloggers – get busy! Post the spoof on your website. Daily. Again and again. Freedom of speech is a Charter Right. Silencing this freedom is not Volpe’s right.
Again, the site is:
http://policycanada.blogspot.com
My suggestion – copy it to as many sites as possible. It’s not about Volpe at the moment. It’s about a Charter Right and Volpe’s attack on that right.
By the way – another comment, on the ‘no passports because there’ll be no tourists’.
I think it’s an emotional diversion, painting Canadians, yet again, as hapless victims of American whatever.
Why should Americans come to Canada, a land where they are defined essentially, as ‘evil imperialist dogs’? If we want tourists to come, do we define them in such a hostile manner?
The US requirement for Americans to have passports is, I feel, their business. The US requirement for all visitors to their country also having a passport is, again, their business.
What is the problem with getting a Canadian passport? Is it the cost? Then, if the government is worried, lower the cost.
We are not a European Union, where a passport lets you into one and therefore all countries in that union. Until the US feels that our security standards are high enough to enable THEM to feel that someone coming into Canada and then, going on to the US, is already a reasonably secure individual – they have every right to insist on passports.
Kate:
I’m a racing car person. Have been for more than 50 years. What kind of racing car are you painting?
Photos?
Mike in White Rock
By the way, save that pdf file to your own Adobe files. I’m sure Volpe will try to get the policycanada website shut down.
http://policycanada.blogspot.com
The Volpe file is there, in pdf. Simply open it and then save it to your own computer in pdf.
Freedom of speech, whether expressed in academic analysis, or comical spoofs, or cartoons, is a basic right of democoracy. Volpe has no right to shut down that right.
Mike in White Rock:
I’m another one. I miss going to your Indy. Will try to make it to the CASCAR race at Sun Valley in July, though. Where do you race?
I’m heading to Kawartha Speedway tonight for the start of the OSCAAR Super Late Model season in Ontario.
June 1, 2006
Protesters chase immigration minister from church
…About a dozen protesters began shouting as Solberg took the podium during the annual meeting of Citizens for Public Justice, a group that lobbies on behalf of refugees…
…A Citizens for Public Justice executive member said he was disappointed by the demonstrators’ decision to pre-empt Solberg’s speech….
….Jaggi Singh, a well-known local activist who participated in the protest, dismissed Solberg’s unheard speech as a “false dialogue” and defended the move to prevent him from delivering it….
…Citizens for Public Justice had planned to present Solberg with a petition calling for stronger protections for refugees….
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/06/01/solberg-protest.html
Citizens for Public Justice:
What’s the threat?
Last year, when the Summit of the Americas was held in Quebec City and Canadians of all stripes travelled to join protests, many were shocked to learn that activist Jaggi Singh, of APEC pepper-spray fame, was pulled out of the crowds and held as a security threat for days. Singh is a Canadian citizen with the right to peaceful protest, and he was held beyond reason, with many viewing the action as a vendetta for the trouble he caused security forces since APEC….
http://cpj.ca/otherwork/Peace_and_Security/index.html?ap=1&x=78734
PROFILE OF JAGGI SINGH
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/featurestories/protest/jaghi.html
Thanks for the link, ET!
Not being too computer savvy, can someone get the video clip of CBS newsworld, with Suhanna, at about 9.00 a.m. Alberta time. Some blond reporterette was reporting on the speech to the mayors, by the PM, and referred to Prime Minister Steven Martin. The PM is taking questions.
maryT, Almost as bad as what I saw on Channel 7 (global) in Calgary last night regarding a rapist in NE Calgary.
The well endowned blonde bimbo news reporter was wearing a tight, low cut T-shirt and tight pants doing the “on the spot” reporting.
At least she put on a light jacket in one shot when talking to the camera, but come on, have a bit of modesty, especially in light of what just happened to the poor ladies.
Perhaps everybody should contact CIRA at http://www.cira.ca/en/contactus-1.html and ask if this is their standard operating policy.
The sound of “shoot the media” is heard in the land.
Joe Volpe has said: FFFF free speech, charterrights, websites, and more. Volpe is the Librano$ Lord High Executioner:
Behold the Lord High Executioner A personage of noble rank and title — … Defer, defer, To the noble Lord, to the noble Lord, To the Lord High Executioner! … (H/T The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan).
Volpe is The Law; Volpe has said… FFFF the Rule of Law.
Down with Volpe and his Tribe.
Down with the Librano$. …
Native protest imperils ‘rule of law’
hearing: Lawyer calls for use of force in Ontario land dispute
Adrian Humphreys
National Post
Friday, June 02, 2006
CAYUGA, Ont. – A judge, fearing that native blockades were destroying the “rule of law” in his community, forced nearly a dozen lawyers into his rural Ontario courthouse yesterday for a highly unusual court hearing.
As more than a dozen Ontario Provincial Police officers ringed the historic courthouse in Cayuga, about an hour’s drive southwest of Hamilton, almost as many lawyers gathered inside before Justice T. David Marshall, the senior Ontario Superior Court judge for the area, to answer pointed questions on why native protests and blockades remained despite court orders and injunctions.
Highlighting the deep divide on the issue, amid the pleas of patience and peace, Judge Marshall heard: that negotiating with natives was like trying to appease Adolf Hitler prior to the Second World War; a suggestion that the protesters were dangerously close to being terrorists; and a call to “shoot the media.” …
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13301.6
Eye witness account with photo of Monte Solberg being hounded out of meeting by pro immigration activists:
http://relapsedcatholic.blogspot.com/2006/06/eye-witness-account-solberg-threatened.html
I feel much safer now knowing this:
10 injured fleeing smoke in subway
…”It was a real panic situation for us as police officers … we didn’t know what we had at first,” said Sergeant Jeff Zammit, with 14 Division….
http://tinyurl.com/mo8f9
Speaking as an American, a conservative and (mostly but by no means entirely) a Bush supporter:
I see no point in asking Canada and Canadians to jump through all sorts of hoops in the name of securing America’s northern border when Bush, the Republicans AND the Democrats all refuse to secure the REALLY dangerous border threatening our national security, our southern one.
It pains me to say this. I see this refusal, this pandering to Hispanic illegal aliens is done at the behest of powerful business interests and in the context of both parties manouevering to capture the bulk of the American Hispanic vote.
Mike in White Rock:
I’m another one. I miss going to your Indy. Will try to make it to the CASCAR race at Sun Valley in July, though. Where do you race?
I’m heading to Kawartha Speedway tonight for the start of the OSCAAR Super Late Model season in Ontario.
Posted by: gwgm at June 2, 2006 10:55 AM
I’m into Vintage and Club road racing. Our track is at Mission Raceway Park and Pacific Raceway in Kent, WA.
I’m a scrutineer/tech inspector as well as a “as-helpful-as-I-can-be 68-year-old” crew guy on my friends Vintage Loti, Sadler, and his wife FV.
Contact me at michael_currie@telus.net
“a suggestion that the protesters were dangerously close to being terrorists”
Suggestion??? Since when does calling a spade a spade become a suggestion?
Oh right, in the New Canada.
thanks Mike F. I just wrote CIRA, asking why they removed the site. It was a comic critique of Volpe’s fund-raising activities. Freedom of speech is a charter right – and could they explain how Volpe gets to unilaterally censor that right?
I consider it a serious act. First, Volpe has willingly taken funds from minors, knowing full well that the action was to get around Chretien’s ban on corporate donations (and don’t think that Chretien didn’t know exactly what he was setting up).
The fact that it was ‘legal’ is a corrupt excuse; it is unethical, and that in itself makes it illegal. If Volpe can’t understand that an unethical act becomes an illegal act, even if it’s not ‘on the books’ – well, he’s a Liberal.
And now, we see that he rejects criticism of himself by censoring freedom of speech. Yet another Liberal strategy.
Again, I hope people are saving that pdf file and posting it on as many blogs as possible.
Protesters chase immigration minister from church
http://tinyurl.com/jtwr3
Jaggi Singh
http://tinyurl.com/zjmzy
Citizens for Public Justice
What’s the threat?
Last year, when the Summit of the Americas was held in Quebec City and Canadians of all stripes travelled to join protests, many were shocked to learn that activist Jaggi Singh, of APEC pepper-spray fame, was pulled out of the crowds and held as a security threat for days. Singh is a Canadian citizen with the right to peaceful protest, and he was held beyond reason, with many viewing the action as a vendetta for the trouble he caused security forces since APEC….
http://tinyurl.com/zvhnl
I’ve got the Volpe pdf up here as well:
http://www.youthforvolpe.no-libs.com/youth.pdf
We’ll see if we can’t do an end-run on the CDNS as well by recreating the site on US accounts… Uncle Joe needs to learn that the Libranos aren’t in charge anymore!
Regarding Kate’s head explosion alert, one must wonder how the Socialist left will reconcile their complete rejection of GM crops, but genetically modified BACTERIA is all cool? Uhhhhhh…
Volpe…what is sad is this is the just the one’s we heard/know of.
Wonder how many more “back door” palm greasing goes on with the Liberals.
Brown bag spaghetti politics, welcome to New Canada eh.
volpe site removed: So that would make every political spoof ilegal in canada. goodbye Sat.nite live,royal canadian airfarce, this hour has 22min., mad magazine, any comedian, cartoonist, writer…… etc….
My god what have we become, 1939???
We Stand On Guard For Thee
Apparently this has all been cleared up now as Volpe has explained that the 11 year olds were moved by his speech at their school to donate the $5,700 to his leadership bid. Having kids myself I can easily see how they would wish to donate $5,700 to a leadership hopeful rather than wasting their money on bikes and other frivilous things. Despite this, Joe has still decided to return the money. He is a credit to the Liberal party and clearly exhibits all of the qualities that this proud and moral party stands for. Go Joe Go!
bryanr – that’s right; that’s exactly my point. How come Royal Canadian Air Farce, 22 minutes etc, can do spoofs and not be censored? Is only the Official Voice allowed to criticize?
What about MSM newspaper political cartoons? Are they allowed because they are ‘official media’?
But an individual citizen is now allowed? And a more powerful individual citizen can silence the voice of another citizen? Is that what Canadian democracy is about? Or is it ‘Liberal democracy’?
So, write to cira. Mike F at 11:30 provides their link and question why they removed the website of a comic critique of Volpe. How do they correlate their action with our charter rights of freedom of speech?
And, save the pdf and send the links to as many web sites as possible.
LIbrano$,the egg-sucking dogs/weasels, are trapped
in the “Fall of The House Of Volpe”*; co-authors include:
Ad$cam Chretien/Martin/Gagliano/Guite/Morselli, et al. All the “Liberal leadership hopefuls” are looking into their mirrors*. What do they see?
“New Democrat MP Pat Martin, who has asked Canada’s elections commissioner to investigate Volpe’s donations, compared the Liberal party to “an egg-sucking dog.”
Volpe returns donations as corruption dogs party
Joe Volpe
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA (Jun 2, 2006)
Excerpt:
None of the other 10 contenders for the Liberal leadership directly criticized Volpe. But several distanced themselves from the controversy, calling for an age limit on donors or vowing to never personally accept money from minors.
Privately, some rival camps were seething over the setback the controversy has dealt the party.
“I think Joe Volpe should get out of the race and do the Liberal party an enormous favour,” said a top campaign strategist for one rival camp.
“This reflects on us all.”
A spoof “Youth for Joe Volpe” website also popped up Wednesday. It includes testimonials from toddlers and a mock contribution form, which asks donors to indicate whether they’re using “mommy’s or daddy’s credit card.”
Volpe continued to maintain he did nothing illegal, that all his donations complied with the letter of the law, which does not impose an age limit on donors.
Nevertheless, he told CBC Newsworld he decided to reimburse five donors, all of them under the age of 18, because he wanted to demonstrate his campaign will also abide by “the spirit” of the law. Each of the youngsters had donated $5,400, the legal maximum.
However, Volpe does not intend to return another $81,000 in donations from 15 current and former executives at pharmaceutical giant Apotex Inc., their spouses and adult children. …
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13301.7
*”The Fall of the House of Usher”, Edgar Allan Poe.
* “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, Oscar Wilde.
As much as I enjoyed the site, it was most likely suspended due to the fact the registration information was fictitious. That’s a big no-no according to CIRA.
If old Mike Hunt had just put his real name, or a less juvenile alias, it may have stayed up a little longer. Needless to say, that’s the fastest “suspension” I’ve ever seen of a .ca domain.
ET — I just got new passports for myself and my family. No problem except the cost (for a family of 4). I have written my MP and asked if the passport office could do some sort of stream lining for people whose passports have expired, at a lower cost. Perhaps charge more initially for your first passport, and investigate the heck out of the person requesting it, but afterwards it should cost a heck of a lot less to get a new one. You should be on file. A cursory investigation, and boom, you have a new passport. Perhaps they could even find some of those thousands of people that have been ordered deported, that seem to have disappeared.
By the way, “genetically modified, environmentally friendly” sounds like an oxymoron to me.
Mary T: So I wasn’t hearing things this morning, I thought I heard the bimbo say the same thing. PM Steven Martin, what a joke! Was this a ” slip of the tongue????
Can anyone help with the protest of Monte Solbergs speech?
I have some questions:
Where was Mr. Solberg’s protection? Arent Ministers of the crown accompanied by police protection?
Who were these protesters?
Am I correct that a minister of the crown, elected by the citizens of this country, was prevented from speaking by people who are in our country illegally?
I’m thinking this is a big deal.
Memo To: C$L SSMartin:
Harper: Free vote on same-sex unions this fall
MONTREAL (CP) – Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday a free vote on same-sex marriage will be held in the Commons this fall. cnews
Just listening on the Rutherford show, speaking to Bernard Turquotte, the president of CIRA. The registration info was, in fact, bogus and so the sight was suspended. The mailing address was for the Belleville town hall and the phone was a cell #. All other info was ficticious. It’s to bad, it was the funniest spoof I’ve seen in a while. Whoever set up the site must have been afraid of a visit from a Librano hit man.
Oops, that should be “the SITE was suspended.
Incidently, Bernard says that no one with the Volpe campaign contacted them and the site was not shut down on that basis.
Re: Comrade Volpe
I bought http://www.youthforvolpe.com so if anyone wants to reconstruct the site (it is hosted in US) please drop me a line. I don’t want any money, am happy to say to Mr. Volpe “Here we go again, Comrade Joe”
Andy
It’s posted up here as well:
http://www.youthforvolpe.no-libs.com/youth.pdf
Too funny. And registered to “Mike Hunt”….the
icing on the cake…..
Michael Coren write a column about Israel and CUPE that’ll make the Bob 9000 robot implode.
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Coren_Michael/2006/06/02/1610864.html
morison – I think your idea of intensive investigation for first passport, and ‘reasonable’ for renewal of passports. And, lower the fees. I know that our taxes and fees are supporting a huge CUPE favoured realm of employees, but, we ought to receive more for our money that the knowledge that we are supporting others in a far better lifestyle than our own.
Don’t know who the ‘genetically modifed’ phrase refers to.
As far as CIRA, I don’t believe them. One article I read yesterday was a comment from the Volpe people that the site would be gone by 6 pm yesterday. Now, how did they know that if they didn’t have a role in getting rid of it? Another was a comment piece today by Jane Taber about the site- and this has been removed from the web. It was up this morning and I can’t find it.
And, if the only problem was a link, then, why isn’t a site with the correct link up now?
Sorry, it’s my paranoia or my experience of Libranos. I suggest that we plaster the pdf site everywhere and see what happens.
Librano Hitman or Lawyer?? (same thing I guess)
Want justice?? Call Judge Judy!!
on a lighter side Joe has sure been making the rounds “iknew nothing about it & they will get their hard earned savings back”
I wish he had advised that to his former boss for all the LEACHING the BLOODSUCKERS did to joe taxpayer over the past 13yrs., the plug.