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1. Stellar day on the blog, girl. Go take care of yourself, you would be missed greatly…

2. STeve Janke is SO out to lunch on the Kenney deal. So this is what Kenney says happened. He is just innocently walking along and a group with middle eastern flags stops him, invites him to address them.
   Kenney climbs the podium, says a few words, gives greetings from the PM but HE DOESN’T KNOW WHO THEY ARE! Where I come from, we have a word for that, ‘horsepuckey’. Not only is he a hypocrite, he lies.
   If there were a shred of evidence in his ‘I’m innocent’ story, then why does the Prime Minister of Canada have such an utter and complete incompetent as his Parliamentary Secretary.
   You guys are stinking the joint out.
   Honesty, Jason, is ALWAYS the best policy.

3. I remember some conversations with Bob Stanfield from my days on the Hill when I was a young Liberal political staffer. He was a very decent man with a great sense of humour.
   But Preston Manning is the man who had a real impact on our nation and changed the political landscape. I have to go with Preston.

4. Loved the dust art. I think I’ll start a blog about my desk “art”.

5. leftdog. Could you provide evidence for your claims? Thanks.

6. From TCS Daily, from a poster called Jonathan Swift, about the state of Lebanon and the UN “solution”:
   European
   United
   Nations
   Under
   Control of
   Hezbollah
   Soldiers
   EUNUCHS!
   That just about sums up the whole, sorry mess.

7. Dust art? Neat!

8. Re dust art, I’ve got almost enough on the top of my computer to create some kind of masterpiece.
   I hope it doesn’t rain a lot in San Marcos, Texas; ‘a shame to see those dust paintings dripping down the back fender.
   And, Scott Wade, whatever you do, “DON’T TAKE THAT VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!”

9. She’s (Anousheh Ansari) hot.

10. Letter in today’s National Post:
    In defence of Pluto …
    National Post
    Published: Saturday, August 26, 2006
    Re: The Celestial Runt That Reached Too High, Aug. 25.
    I was shocked to read that Pluto has been stripped of its planetary status. It particularly shocked me that such a thing was tolerated here in Canada. Our solar system is a multicultural collection of ringed, non-ringed and various-coloured asteroids and the like, which had lived peacefully and inclusively. Yet, in one fell swoop, Pluto has been denied any rights or representation and has been dumped from the neighbourhood. Where is Clayton Ruby or Dudley Laws? Who speaks for the planet? Pluto probably has been denied its planetary charter of rights and freedoms. So where’s Jack Layton or a spokesperson from the Ontario Coalition Against Planetary Derision? Why isn’t there a sit-in or rally somewhere? Where’s Stephen Harper? What terrible behaviour for a prime minister not to be present and accounted for while a planet has its rights and freedoms unceremoniously stripped by a bunch of yellow-card-holding astronomer types. Where’s the parliamentary inquiry? Can we get Justice Gomery to help?
    I, for one, am on the side of Pluto. I mean, somebody has to stand up for its rights. Maybe I’ll make a Supreme Court challenge. Come on, Canada, let’s side with Pluto. Maybe we could mount a 1.27 x 1022 kilogram challenge, and enlist Rick Mercer. But alas, it’s probably all for naught, and in the end we’ll just blame George Bush.
    Mark Erwin, Toronto.

11. 80 mpg stopped by EPA
    A hydraulic system, using pistons to capture the wasted energy by compressing nitrogen gas stored in a tank, can capture as much as 75% of the wasted energy. When the nitrogen is allowed to expand, it pushes hydraulic fluid that helps the engine turn the rear wheels.
    The EPA was close to developing an 80 mpg hydraulic hybrid car, but the Bush Administration killed the program in 2001. Thanks W!
    http://blog.wired.com/cars/#1545312
    In 2004, the EPA was working on a hybrid SUV with Ford, which quit to license Toyota’s technology. However, the WSJ forgot to mention that a hybrid car developed in the 1970s was killed by the EPA.
    So hydraulic hybrid technology may give electric hybrids competition, at least for larger vehicles.
    It is interesting that we have the DOE funding hybrid development for energy reasons, and the EPA developing its own technology out of concerns for reducing emissions. We really need to streamline resources and have a single program.
    From Wired*s Autopia. . . Scroll down 10.
    http://blog.wired.com/cars/#1545312
    No wonder GM and Ford are *followers* after Toyota and Honda. = TG

12. Hey, love the Iranian astronaut. I hope she gets lots of exposure in Iran.
    As for Pluto, it’s sad but necessary – it isn’t one of the stellar planets – it’s orbit is highly eccentric and out of the plane of the ecliptic, while the regular planets are roughly circular in orbit and roughly in the plane of the ecliptic.
    I am amazed how many other Plutons are out there.
    TOO THE OORT CLOUD AND BEYOND!!!
    ..hey, who needs science-fiction.

13. “Or how I learned to stop worrying about the bomb…”
    Hey, did I give you permission to use that? 🙂

14. hybrid power is being set up for failure in order to discredit it.
    the ‘power’s (pun intended) that be are doing a good job of it.
    more later. much more.
    pluto is/was a planet since 1930. it is part of human history. then a bunch of know-it-alls cant allow themselves to grandfather the designation.
    I wish ‘scientists’ could make up their mind on these things.
    also:
    still no response here from the evolutionists as to the the REAL origin of oil and gas reserves on earth: supposedly dinosaurs were around long enough to die off and decompose in numbers necessary to leave the hydrocarbons behind. also no word on how these deposits became concentrated and 1000s of feet underground….
    and no word on howcum neptune’s atmosphere contains methane. maybe thats where the dinosaurs went 65,000,000 years ago, ya, neptune. they built spaceships and went there. no, it was aliens, ya aliens rounded them up and took them there. just ask tom cruise.

15. leftdog, you’re a troll and a liar, you should be ignored by all…
    leftdog posts:
    “So this is what Kenney says happened. He is just innocently walking along and a group with middle eastern flags stops him, invites him to address them. Kenney climbs the podium, says a few words, gives greetings from the PM but HE DOESN’T KNOW WHO THEY ARE!”
    Janke posted:
    “Kenney said he is well aware that the PMOI is also known as the MEK and is listed as a terrorist group. He then specifically recalled questioning the man who invited him — whose name he said he could not recall — at a meeting in Kenney’s office after the parliamentary committee meeting. He asked if the man had any ties to “those radicals in the People’s Mojahedin. And he laughed or denied it or something.”
    “I wanted to be sure there wasn’t a connection,” said Kenney. “I came away with the impression that there was no connection whatsoever.”
    He asked another staffer to double check, and the staffer said everything was fine.”
    What’s the opinion of a lying lowlife like leftdog worth?

16. anon- leftdog is not interested in the truth. I asked him to provide evidence for his assertions and so far, he has not replied.
    His assertions reject the facts – that Kenney was approached by someone within a human rights group; this person was asked if he was associated with the particular terrorist group, and denied it. A staffer of Kenney also reported that the group was not affiliated.
    This means that there was no action on Kenney’s part to knowingly associate himself with a terrorist group. Therefore, to conclude that Kenney ‘associated’ with a terrorist group is false. The difference rests with the action of ‘accidental’ versus ‘intentional’. Kenney’s interaction was accidental. Therefore to accuse him of intentional association is a smear, an ad hominem tactic that openly ignores the truth.
    On the other hand, both Wrzesnewskyj and Nash intentionally and knowingly associated themselves with a defined terrorist group. Their association wasn’t accidental. They openly supported Hezbollah.
    It’s like accusing an alcoholic of ‘breaking your vow’ not to drink by serving him a cup of coffee with cognac, but directly telling him that it’s ‘just artificial cognac for the taste, it’s not real and there’s no alcohol in it’. Would you then, ethically, have the right to accuse the alcoholic of intentionally drinking alcohol?

17. Totally off topic, Kate, and get well soon, but did you catch your hero, Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom’s video on Hot Air yesterday?

18. WC: “As for Pluto, it’s sad but necessary – it isn’t one of the stellar planets – it’s orbit is highly eccentric and out of the plane of the ecliptic, while the regular planets are roughly circular in orbit and roughly in the plane of the ecliptic.”
    Yeah, so? 🙂 This will all be fine until we encounter a stellar system in which none of the [insert nom de jour here] “planets” have circular, planar orbits, (and we will). The term “planet” really only is a popularism from old science for ordinary folk. Physicists have never/will never, accede to a unified definition of planet in any case. This decision is less of a correction and more of a smug slap at popular science than anything really meaningful. Better to have simply grouped them as spheroid and non-spheroid reflective objects [“planets”, perhaps…] and left it at that.
    This isn’t over. The “Take Back the Night” million mom march for Pluto and other victims of one world governance will be held on Sept 21 in The Hague, Belgium. Details to be posted on BeatifyPluto.blogspot.com soon…

19. “The EPA was close to developing an 80 mpg hydraulic hybrid car, but the Bush Administration killed the program in 2001.”
    That evil genius is at it again. He races around the Middle East raising havoc and on his days off he busies himself ruining the local environment.
    I wish I had half the energy of that demon!
    As it is I have to content myself by selling odometers (imported from North Korea) to the neighbours, that read double. They are pleased that there gas mileage has increased by a 100% and never notice that the run to Hemp Warehouse now reads twice as far.
    The lesson here is that you should never mess in an area of someone else’s expertise. I passed out reefers at the block party and they noticed right off that they were really filled with Arbutus bark.

20. Those of use whose beliefs fall between the center and the right are coming to grips with the realization that we in the West are in a fight against our own, the so-called progressives, for the survival of our own civilization.
    Well, Andrew Coyne’s gloves are on, the mouthpiece is in, and he’s come out of his corner with an absolutely superb and muscular and unequivocal column in today’s National Post. Everyone should read it.
    For those who can’t get their hands on a National Post, damienpenny.com has posted excerpts.

21. BATB, San Marcos and indeed most of the hill country around there (by San Antonio) has been in a drought for a while however that can always change with a hurricane coming ashore. By then it will only be a tropical depression or wave by then but those puppies still carry a lot of water. And Bush did not cause thre draught either.

22. Perhaps the NDP will be downgraded to “dwarf party status” after the next election.
    Watch out Jack,Stephen has stolen the space modulator…..NDP….New Dwarf Party….kinda catchy!

23. Students told `Yale Shmale’
    Consider it a weapon of mass attraction.
    Lakehead University is poking fun at U.S. President George W. Bush and his Ivy League alma mater in an edgy new guerrilla marketing campaign intended to lure students to its Thunder Bay campus.
    Dubbed “Yale Shmale,” the $100,000 promotion features an image of Bush — Yale University, Class of 1968 — on posters that will be plastered on construction sites and other outdoor locations across the Greater Toronto Area.
    “Graduating from an Ivy League university doesn’t necessarily mean you’re smart,” reads the second of two posters set for release, “Choosing Lakehead does.”
    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/004510.html#comments

24. Tarek Fatah’s successor writes to the Toronto Star:
    As the new president of the Muslim Canadian Congress, I wish to address the concerns of the newly formed Canadian Muslim Union as well as those of the larger Muslim community. I truly hope that my explanations will be received in a spirit of tolerance, good faith and sincerity.
    The Muslim Canadian Congress is a progressive Muslim group committed to fighting extremism, gender apartheid and violations of the human rights of marginalized communities. The organization has nothing but the interest of the diverse Muslim communities living in Canada at heart, though we acknowledge that at times the MCC has taken positions that run counter to the aspirations of Muslims who identify themselves as conservative or traditional.
    Suffice it to say that a principled stand demands speaking out against one’s own near and dear, but in so doing, we believe we are upholding the spirit of the Qur’an as it exhorts Muslims to speak out for justice even if it goes against their interests. We nonetheless remain open to dialogue, as the sentiment here is to engage rather than antagonize our co-religionists.
    As for the charge that the MCC has somehow deviated from Islamic principles, I wish to first remind Muslims that our prophet encouraged dissent as a “blessing” in his community. Second, progressive Islam is rooted in the Qur’an and traditions as well, and enjoys the support of several contemporary scholars of Islam.
    I also wish to remind readers that members of the MCC see themselves as Canadians first and will defend this country’s security and honour with force and integrity. In this regard, our mark of distinction is our clarity in denouncing terror as murder in the name of religion.
    As for those who have parted ways with us, we wish them luck in their new endeavours as we are all working toward the same goals. They continue to remain our friends, but we realize that friends must sometimes go their separate ways.
    As a goodwill gesture and true to the spirit of Islam, I wish to take the lead in putting a halt to the blame game as I find it counterproductive to our interests both as individuals and members of organizations.
    Farzana Hassan-Shahid,
    President, Muslim Canadian Congress, Mississauga

25. Here’s a copy of the letter of complaint I wrote to Lakehead University
    Dear Sirs/Mesdames:
    I am deeply disturbed by your advertisement attempting to entice students to attend Lakehead University by openly denigrating the academic and moral qualifications of Mr. Bush, the President of the USA and denigrating the academic integrity of Yale, one of the major universities in the world.. This is unethical, it is not only beneath the dignity, but it actually denies the intellectual nature of the academic world with its mission of a respect for truth, veracity and integrity. Your campaign rejects all three qualities of a university by its logical fallacies and invalid data.
    First, it is a basic empirical and logical fallacy to conclude that Mr. Bush is a ‘bad or undesirable person’ in view of being ‘not smart’. You do not have the right to make this judgment because both your data base and your premises are incomplete and selective, i.e., biased. This is methodologically scientifically unacceptable. How can a university engage in such unscientific tactics?
    There are, after all, many who support Mr. Bush’s policies and for you, a university, to ignore their data base and their conclusions and openly support only those who disagree with Mr. Bush, is unethical and antithetical to the scientific and truth-seeking role of a university.
    Second, it is yet another basic empirical and logical fallacy to set up a correlation between Yale and ‘being an undesirable person’ or a ‘not smart person’. Surely you must know that this is a fallacious correlation. It is a propositional fallacy to claim that IF you go to Yale, THEN you might become a ‘bad person’, as imagized by Mr. Bush, who is defined as ‘not smart’. Your attempt to make this correlation is logically invalid, because there are no provable connections between the two statements (If and Then).
    Equally, you cannot assert that IF you go to Lakehead, THEN, you will become a ‘good or ‘smart’ person’. The same logical fallacy applies in your trying to make this connection.
    For you, Dr. Gilbert, to claim that this campaign is not disparaging both Mr. Bush and Yale Univresity, is unacceptable and a denial of the truth. Your campaign is openly disparaging both Bush and Yale.
    Your data base can’t be denied. Your data base shows that you are verbally attacking Yale with the verbiage of ‘YaleShmale’ which is a recognized form of disparagement. You then make the link that going to Yale does not necessarily mean ‘smart’ – and your example is Mr. Bush. This is not merely ad hominem – which is unacceptable, but also empirically and scientifically invalid. After all, you ought to know that one example proves nothing and as I noted above, not all people agree with your conclusion against Mr. Bush. Yet – your advertisement ignores both this basic rule of statistics, with its requirement for a strong sample base, and ignores the fact that your data base is unreliable because it is selective.
    Then, by extension, you are linking that disparagement of Yale, with Mr. Bush by linking ‘Yaleshmale’ with Bush. That’s ad hominem and irrelevant to the academic standing of both Yale and Lakehead.
    Nor is it ‘fun’ to use logical fallacies and ad hominem. That is the mark of an uneducated and ignorant individual. For an institution of knowledge to blatantly make use of logical fallacies and invalid data – is outrageous. After all, what is education but an attempt to give students the power to reject arguments based on unsound data, invalid logic and unscientific correlations? Yet, your advertisement uses all three!!
    You then make use of a third logical fallacy, which is to insert a ‘red herring’ of diversion, and claim that ‘it’s all in fun’. No, it isn’t. Disparaging a major university, disparaging a major world leader, ignoring facticity and logic, using logical fallacies in your argument – none of this is ‘fun’ when done by an academic institution.
    Your advertising campaign is a disgrace to the world of academics.

26. More stupid anti-Americanism and Libranonomics, from Sun sports columnist Al Strachan in today’s sports section, emphasis mine:
    
    “Dump that money-losing aggregation known as the Toronto Raptors.
    
    For starters, the Leafs could lower their ticket prices by about 10% because they would no longer have to cover the Raptors’ annual losses.
    
    Furthermore, the United States is full of self-centred idiots with money. It is a virtual certainty that someone with deep pockets and a lust for media attention would buy the team and move it to his home town.”
    slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Columnists/Strachan/2006/08/25/1775590-sun.html
    I think it is inappropriate for Sun Media to publish that kind of talk. Do Sun Media’s American advertisers (such as Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY)) know how much Sun Media appears to hate America? Oh, and someone tell Strachan that the market sets ticket prices, not the cost of production. Ticket prices equal whatever the market will bear, regardless of MLSE’s losses in basketball. Sheesh, ya can’t even read a hockey column in this country without capital-L Liberal style anti-Americanism and Libranonomics permeating every facet of the matter.

27. Excellant letter ET, please keep us updated. It appears that the people who run this higher education facility must have skipped numerous classes whilst attaining their own education. Regards Jake

28. Pluto is a non- conformist.
    It was inevitable that he would be ostracized!
    I will not forget my upright friend….perpendicular.

29. I originally put this on the wrong thread, sorry.
    This is not reassuring.
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-08-26-iran_x.htm?csp=34
    “Iran’s hard-line president on Saturday inaugurated a heavy-water production plant, a facility the West fears will be used to develop a nuclear bomb, as Tehran remained defiant ahead of a U.N. deadline that could lead to sanctions.
    The U.N. has called on Tehran to stop the separate process of uranium enrichment — which also can be used to create nuclear weapons — by Thursday or face economic and political sanctions…
    Though the West’s main worry has been enrichment of uranium that could be used in a bomb, it also has called on Iran to stop the construction of a heavy-water reactor near the production plant that Ahmadinejad inaugurated…
    The spent fuel from a heavy-water reactor can be reprocessed to extract plutonium for use in a bomb…”
    And three years ago Iran was talking about a CANDU connection.
    http://www.wisconsinproject.org/countries/iran/nuke2003.htm
    “In a letter dated May 5 [2003], Mr. Aghazadeh informed the IAEA of Iran’s intention to build a heavy water power reactor using Canadian CANDU reactor technology. The announcement complemented Iran’s numerous statements of its intention to build additional reactors in order to generate about 6,000 megawatts of electricity. Immediately following this announcement, Canadian officials vigorously denied any intention of selling CANDU technology to Iran.”
    More here.
    http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2003_06/iran_june03.asp
    One wonders how many Iranian-origin scientists have been working at AECL or Ontario Power Generation.’
    A further point: many say the Iranians should be believed when they say the programme is peaceful; should we then believe their 2003 statements about a CANDU link?
    Mark
    Ottawa

30. More stupid anti-Americanism and Libranonomics, from Sun sports columnist Al Strachan in today’s sports section
    Relax, Bob. While I don’t necessarily agree with Strachan’s assessment of those people as “idiots”, there are dozens of examples of people who are successful in any other field of business but are miserable failures at running a professional sports franchise. (Can you say Charles Wang? And didn’t Geroge W. Bush approve the trade of Sammy Sosa? Wait a minute…he wasn’t successful in business.) I don’t think this was meant as a political statement. Besides, wouldn’t you concur with the statement “self-centered idiots with money” if it referred to Geroge Soros or Sean Penn? I thought so.
    ET: Would you write the same letter to Lakehead if it directed its “humour” at the alam mater of Bill Clinton or Paul Martin? I see nothing wrong with “Yale Schmale”. To me it’s like the radio ad campaigns we’ve had here telling you why business should set up in Vaughn, with some funny jabs taken at Toronto. It’s all about marketing and name recognition. Nobody will choose to go to Lakehead just because they put down Bush or Yale, but they might go because the campaign got them to realize that Lakehead exists.
    People, there is plenty in the world to be outraged at. Some of it you even get right on this site. But don’t waste time on this trivial nonsense.

31. Mark Collins:
    This would be a case of Iranity!! given Dr. Ahmadinejad’s previous ‘wipe Israel off the map’ presciptions for a peaceful planet.
    Iranians in Space!! Hey that reminds me of Mel Brook’s film satire “History of the World” with the “Jews in Space” skit.
    I think that would enrage him more.
    Isn’t life grand? Shake hands with the devil, he can go back to his ‘dwelling place’ at trial.
    Hey Romeo Dallaire said its the CANADIAN WAY!!

32. Hardline Anti-American jaymeister says: “Besides, wouldn’t you concur with the statement “self-centered idiots with money” if it referred to Geroge Soros or Sean Penn? ”
    I estimate George Soros’ IQ at 180+. The man personally brought down the British pound and other currencies. He may be the most feared capitalist of all time. His charity work appears unparallelled even by Bill “Pour Gas On The Fire” Gates. Not too shabby for a holocaust survivor.
    Sean Penn is a knob, so is Charles Wang, so is George Bush. ‘Roid Boy Sosa may be a bigger knob than even Bush, if Sports Illustrated’s reports of his clubhouse behaviour are correct.
    Back on point, I found Strachan’s language to be childish, gratuitously hateful, and inappropriate in general. You think it’s appropriate. I think you protest too much.

33. Rocci has a history. …-
    Boy made to wear sign in public as punishment
    Family and Children’s Services staff were called in after a 12-year-old boy was made to stand on a Brockville sidewalk with a sign around his neck calling him a liar, city police said Friday.
    Police responded at 10:31 a.m. Friday after witnesses saw the boy at the corner of Perth and Delhi Streets, across from the Via Rail station, Inspector Adrian Geraghty said.
    The boy was wearing a placard that indicated he was a liar, said Geraghty.
    The officer at the scene spoke to the boy’s mother and father about this apparent act of punishment, he said.
    “We facilitated a meeting with the (Family and Children’s Services),” added Geraghty. “It’s in their hands.”
    The officer left the scene with the situation under control and the boy and mother on their way to the agency’s office, he said.
    No charges have been laid in the incident, said the inspector.
    Rocci Pagnello, director of services at Family and Children’s Services, said Friday he can’t comment on individual cases.
    Pagnello would not confirm or deny that this incident was being investigated by the agency, but he did say its mandate does include responding to calls about children in need of help. …-
    http://newsfeed.recorder.ca/cgi-bin/LiveIQue.acgi$rec=19170

34. Boomergeddon.
    “If you want the God’s honest truth, baby boomers are the most obnoxious people in the history of the human race”… more»
    http://www.artsandlettersdaily.com/

35. President G. W. Bush is far from stupid. Anyone who thinks otherwise is being silly. After he lost his first election contest, post hoc focus groups said he came across as too intelligent. Remember, he was of New England / Ivy League influence, which as I understand it doesn’t play so well in Texas (so intelligent may have been meant sarcastically 😉
    Anyway, Mr. Bush is very good doing what he does, namely: politian, president, commander in chief, et cetera. How history will judge his overall effort is premature to say, but keep in mind the words of Morrie Brickman, who said “I don’t know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing or imbeciles who mean it.”
    And, just in case you’re tempted to think you know the difference, remember the words of Bertrand Russell, who said “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”

36. ET – since you are absolutely convinced that Jason Kenney did not knowingly talk and communicate with a group that is on the CSIS and US Dept. of State list of known Terrorist organizations, then the man is so TOTALLY incompetent how does your Prime Minister continue to retain him as his Parliamentary Secretary?
    Unfortunately for you, your case for Mr. Kenney’s defence does not make your Prime Minster look very good. Kenney should resign. He employed a double standard. He is either a hypcrite or he is incompetent. Which one is it? Harper should not be very happy with his Parliamentary Secretary.

37. I can’t help it. Sask 20, Ham 1, Qtr2. And the Little General doesn’t look too happy.

38. Actually an Iranian and a Jew on the same flight IN SPACE would be the most enraging for Dr. Ahmadinejad and company.

39. So…. Chretien supports Dion; Dion does not support Hezbots;JC was PM;the Liberal Party is dead; Cherniak is the voice of the LPC, aka Librano$$$$$$$$$
    3) Following up on some comments on this blog, I have asked for clarification. I am informed that Stephane Dion does consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization. He was on the committee that made that decision when Jean Chretien was Prime Minister. Consider that matter dead. cherniak

40. The people at ‘Progressive Bloggers’ want to take on those who dare to challenge the concept of the status of women- in a poll.
    Too bad they didn’t make everyone aware of it, but now that we know, we can zip on over, add our voice, and vote:
    3w progressivebloggers.ca/

41. I disagree with your conjectures, LeftDog, and I would comment further, but since it’s all been clearly explained above, particularly by ET, and since you’ve reduced yourself to simply repeating your claims expecting a different result (and you know what that means), I won’t. Thanks, Kate, for the bandwidth letting me delineate my position on this matter.

42. jaymeister. Yes, I would write the same letter if Lakehead referred to Clinton or Martin using the same fallacious tactics. You see, a university’s mandate is the promotion of the skills to achieve knowledge. Using unsound data, logical fallacies and unscientific correlations is the antithesis of their mandate.
    It’s not the same as some batty and ignorant news reporter making these stupid remarks. A university has a duty to knowledge, a duty against bias, a duty of scientific examination, and providng the public with conclusions that are based on invalid data and correlations – is a serious error.
    There are several issues. One is the duty of a university to the legitimate exploration of knowledge. Their advertising campaign rejected this duty.
    Other issues are the validity of the conclusions about Yale and Mr. Bush.
    I reject Lakehead’s conclusion about Yale. Their conclusion that it leads/does not lead to stupidity is fallacious. They cannot make this correlation. But if Lakehead insists on its students using the same tactics as they used in their ad – then, a degree from Lakehead would lead to stupidity.
    I reject their conclusion about Bush – and Vitruvius has outlined it far better than I could.
    I consider their ad offensive and not a trivial issue.

43. Hans on the other hand, ‘an Iranian and a Jew on the same flight IN SPACE would be the most enraging for George Bush and company’

44. Sask 34, Ham 3 at the half (2 of 3 Hamilton points from Sask punter giving a safety).
    Like watching a train wreck…. yeah.

45. By the way, I see that the Conservative Party of Canada has hired that discredited freelance photographer from Reuters. Seems the Conservative Party website is using him to falsify photos in an attempt to discredit a liberal candidate.
    http://thedanreport.blogspot.com/2006/08/strange-conservative-party-website_26.html
    Looks like another case of accusing others of doing what you, yourself, are doing. Shame on the Conservative Party of Canada

46. Remember when everyone on this site went MENTAL over the Reuters photo???? How do you people manage to sleep at night?

47. Who can you trust?
    In the last few days I completely missed this classic photographic analysis of a news story by Zombietime. It describes possible fraud in depicting an ambulance allegedly struck during the Israeli-Lebanon conflict. Michelle Malkin is on target when she says, “If there were Pulitzers for Internet posts, this one would win hands down.” (Hat tip: Tim Blair)
    “The Israeli missiles had pierced the very centre of the red cross painted on the roof of each vehicle. Did the pious use the cross as their aiming point?” — Robert Fisk
    One poster at Samizdata had some thoughts on the ambulance picture which bear thinking about.
    (1) There is no air-to-ground missile small enough that it could strike an unarmored vehicle and not destroy it through shear mass alone. If the missile detonated it would have destroyed the vehicle utterly. If it did not, remains of the missile should be easily visible inside the vehicle. Heat from the missile’s rocket should have set the vehicle ablaze. An actual missile did not strike this vehicle.
    (2) The supposed entry hole for the missile is normal i.e. at a 90% angle to the roof. The missile would have had to strike straight down. Only armor piercing anti-rockets fly such trajectories. We know that can’t be the type of missile used because (a) they’re to big and (b) they do not carry a fragmentation warhead.
    (3) The large hole in the roof has an obvious flange around it. It is clearly a manufactured hole and not the result of a missile strike. Only the smaller rusted holes could have come from a fragmentation warhead.
    (4) The windshield glass bends inward indicating that any blast occurred outside the vehicle. However, the front of the vehicle shows no holes or scratches. Likewise, if a fragmentation warhead detonated within the vehicle we should see a spherical hole pattern with exit holes in the sides and bottom of the vehicle. There should be visible scorching everywhere inside.
    (5) The only possible scenario is that a fragmentation round detonated directly above the vehicle and at some height. In that case, there should large numbers of through-and-through holes traveling from the roof, through the seats and out through the bottom. The tires should be flat. The side door should be intact etc. The witness testimony directly contradicts this scenario.
    I think someone ripped off the ventilation unit or siren from the top of the ambulance. Then stood on the roof and shot holes in it. Then they went inside and pulled down the other materials.
    Read more! posted by wretchard …-
    The Red Cross Ambulance Incident
    How the Media Legitimized an Anti-Israel Hoax and Changed the Course of a War
    + Introduction
    + What Supposedly Happened: The Media Accuses Israel of War Crimes
    + The Ambulance With a Hole in Its Roof: Dismantling the Evidence
    + Possible Rebuttals and Explanations of the Apparent Fraud
    + Conclusion: How a Hoax Became News
    http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance/

48. Is this big blast of crap supposed to distract people from the photo fabrication going on at the Conservative Party Website?
    Did you just dent Kate’s bandwidth with ALL of those words merely to divert people from the fact that the conservatives are doing the exact same kind of crap that you are blathering about with their own photoshop fabrications????

49. I think I’ll send the Conservative Party photo fabricaion evidence to the folks at Zombietime.

50. leftcur, went to the site you listed, checked out all the telltale links but couldn’t see any smoking gun(so to speak). Are you on drugs or just paranoid?