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1. Found this great video via a LGF poster; threew- blackfive.net/main/2006/10/beccy_cole_post.html
   “Seawitch sends this awesome video of Aussie lass Beccy Cole who is singing “Poster Girl” in response to some of her fans who disagree with her supporting the Diggers, the Australian soldiers fighting in The Long War.”
   JM; thanks for lottery link. Interesting. A lesson for seniors esp. Ask to see slips printed with each ticket, I believe you are allowed to keep them if they’re not winners. The other lesson would be to check your own tix, I see from art. that some prov. are working on self checking terminals.

2. Hans Blix is the failure IMHO. We have a 6.7Billion surplus to date, and all the libs at the g&m are crying, saying cut my taxes. FYI, income taxes are not the only revenue going into ottawas coffers. What about the taxes on smokes, gas, lottery tickets, gst, excise, imports and exports, and so many others. They are still flogging the supposed tax cut dithers put in during the election, forgetting the reduced amount allowed for NRTCs. Surprising how surpluses increase when all the money is going where it is supposed to go, and not into liberal brown bags. This surplus occurred after the gst cut, which was supposed to cripple us. There are so many taxes that could be cut, but poor Que might not get so much of our money. I see the Bloc is threatening to bring down the govt if they don’t get their money. Isn’t that blackmail. Harper should call his bluff, and tell him fine, go ahead, but if we get our majority, or another minority, Que will get nothing. I really can’t see Ont voting liberal with the knowledge that if they win, they will be taxed to death to pay Que.
   and fill brown paper bags. Harper called the bluff of the PPG and see where that got them.

3. Treason of/by Intellectuals …-
   From LGF:
   Georgetown University has taken blood money from
   Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal to promote Islam and
   shun Christianity—and to spread Islamic hatred of
   Israel: Georgetown gets $20 million from prince
   promoting Islam. …-
   The question is:
   Socrates or Muhammad?
   Joseph Ratzinger on the destiny of reason.
   by Lee Harris
   More:
   3w.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/736fyrpi.asp

4. A Sucker Is Born Every Minute.
   Environment Canada taken by automobile “fuel-saving” device. Costs taxpayers $thousands$.
   Environment Canada taken by Kyoto Hoax. Costs taxpayers $BILLIONS$$$.

5. Was this a Muslim “honour killing”? Had the Muslim Afghan lady converted to Christianity?
   A “27-year-old Fremont man” is a suspect. What is the suspect’s name? …-
   Church to hold service for slain Muslim woman
   Mercury News ^ | 10/25/06 | Lisa Fernandez
   NO ARREST IN SHOOTING OF AFGHAN MOTHER
   A Fremont church will host a memorial service Saturday for Alia Ansari, 38, the Afghan woman who was shot in the head as she picked up three of her six children from Glenmoor Elementary School.
   Ansari was killed Thursday at the corner of Glenmoor Drive and Central Avenue. A “person of interest” has been questioned and is in custody on a separate parole violation. But no one has been arrested in connection with her death.
   Tuesday, Fremont police said there was no change in the status of the 27-year-old Fremont man; he was at Santa Rita Jail on a parole hold.
   Pastor Bruce Green, who is a facilitator between Christians and Muslims, visited the Ansari family Monday evening and asked Ansari’s husband, Ahmad, if he would like to use the Centerville Presbyterian Church’s gymnasium to host a community gathering honoring his wife.
   According to Green, Ahmad Ansari said yes. Ahmad Ansari has declined to speak to the media about his wife’s death. Green reached out to the family on Eid al-Fitr, a Muslim celebration after the monthlong fast of Ramadan. Despite the family’s grief, Green said he was treated as an honored guest. …-
   More:
   w.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1725641/posts

6. For once Sheila (Copps) has it right. All of it: ‘The veil is a barrier to the world.’ today -Sun Media.
   I was wondering, after reading on the wknd that Dalton McSquinty is in favour of the rights of Muslim women to wear veils, if perhaps, younger gen. muslims would actually appreciate politicians who would pave the way to a relaxation of these customs imposed by the older gen?

7. Did you hear the one ’bout the 3-legged dog who(which?)hobbled into a bar, and…? …-
   “Jon said…
   Cerberus, you’re a dog…
   Garth got tossed because he was posting information on his blog that he was told he could not.
   As you are probably aware, he was kicked out of caucus, not the party, and further it was the Ontario Conservative Caucus. I don’t really see how McVety or PMSH could have been involved.
   Sometimes I feel that Libs will only be happy once PMSH is banished to the land of wind and ghosts.”
   (Lib blog)

8. Assisted suicide by the voters? That’s a new one. It’s the Red-Green shoo… heeeere’s Betsy. …-
   “If voters do this for me, I’ll kill myself working for London-North-Centre,” she [E. May] said”. cnews

9. = + = Lottery Freaud = Tonight = W5 =+=
   Ok its on Crumbeling B*cast Corpse, but this can of worms has been invisable too long.
   I thinks its on tonight Oct 25th
   When you get your winning ticket checked, be sure to see the screen readout.
   There has been a trillion to one miracle where kiosk operators have **won** an amazing number of times. = TG

10. Today’s Big Story
    Quebec’s Ambiguous Nation
    Ignatieff supporters waffle on constitutional change.
    By Richard Warnica
    Published: October 25, 2006
    …
    3w.thetyee.ca/Bigstory/2006/10/25/Ignatieff/
    “commentor: G West
    Interesting that this piece of cut and paste ‘journalism’ makes no mention of Chantal Hebert’s many columns on the Ignatieff/ Liberal Leadership issue…
    Why not?
    Guess the brains trust at Tyee prefers the Edmonton Sun for news and the National Post and Ken Whyte’s Macleans for opinion pieces.
    I’m surprised you didn’t quote Mark Steyn.
    White seems to be trying to collect all his old Nat’l Post cronies in one place again.
    Nice of the Tyee to give all of them – each one saying pretty much the same thing – another spot on the media dial.
    I’m also surprised Warnica didn’t quote the Western Standard: Ezra Levant must have an opinion about this.
    Hebert’s columns have been discussed in comments here at Tyee for weeks. And she actually has a ‘Quebec’ perspective.
    Some “big story”!” …-
    (BTW, G. West: c/p is hard work. Apologize.)

11. This just in via The Agenda on TVO: Those of us who blog have been likened to a “digital lynch mob.”
    I see desperation in the faces of the authors and the MacLeans guy.
    Welcome to the new revolution!

12. Belmont Club: MSM in Iraq. …-
    Being there
    Michael Fumento has a long piece on the way the war in Iraq has been covered by the media.
    He begins by matter-of-factly recapping his experiences as an embed, then examining articles in national magazines and shows that, despite their hair-raising prose they are actually prosaic accounts of arrivals at the airport, the armored bus trip to the hotel and paranoia at the downstairs bar. Nothing actually happens, but the shadows lengthen everywhere. Fumento however, doesn’t turn it into a diatribe on the subject of manliness versus caution. He freely admits there are MSM journalists in dangerous locations, the problem being that they are comparatively few in number. The real issue he raises is the question of whether information gathered from the Green Zone is a reliable way to build up a picture of events. …-
    Michael Fumento is a veteran of the 27th Engineer Brigade (Combat) (Airborne) and has been embedded three times in the western Iraqi region of Al Anbar. Read Michael Fumento’s additional writing on the military, on Iraq, and on the media, and view his Spring 2006 Iraq photos from both the Fallujah area and Ramadi. View his 2005 Iraq photos.
    3w.fumento.com/military/brigade.html
    Includes:
    The most iconic image of World War II, by “crotch-sniffer” Joe Rosenthal.

13. Re the lottery scam. These winners were all from ONT weren’t they. Why should we be surprised with all the support the corrupt liberals get from there. They must have considered it their entitlements. Wonder if they bought gum. Why not make all those selling lotto tickets inelligible to buy, like Readers Digest contest, Publishers contests and so many others. Simple thing is to sign your ticket, in ink.

14. From: Western Standard Blog ….
    The Column the London Free Press Would Not Print
    My friend, Rory Leishman, is a social conservative. Given my libertarian tendencies, it isn’t surprising we clash on many topics having to do with censorship. My own view is basically that consenting adults should be free to do what they want. His is…. considerably different, and yet we remain friends.
    Rory writes a column that is published bi-weekly in the London Free Press and many other papers in Canada. They declined to publish his latest, however. Here is a message he sent to his friends, along with the column itself. I don’t think I will want to see the show he mentions, but I am happy to have the Grand Theatre try whatever it wants, so long as paying customers have some idea of what they are in for and so long as they don’t try to get me to pay for it through my taxes (hah!). Rory disagrees.
    Dear All:
    The London Free Press has decided not to run the following column that was slated for publication on Tuesday, October 24. I have received the following explanation from an acting editorial-page editor at the paper:
    “In consultation with (Free Press Editor in Chief) Paul Berton, we’ve held your column for Tuesday. It would appear from your brief description that you hadn’t gone to the play, and must have been relying on the reports, reviews etc that Sonja Smits was “naked” on stage – which she was. However, having talked to people who did go and weren’t scandalized, comparing that to the goings on in a strip club is simply over the top.”
    It’s true that I did not attend the play. Indeed, I have no wish to do so, but I disagree with the editor’s judgment in refusing to run the column. Let me know what you think.
    Cheers, Rory
    Here is the censored column: …-
    3w.voy.com/178771/39929.html

15. Islam: a religion of misogyny [mi-soj-uh-nee].
    Islam: a religion of hatred of women. …-
    “Australian Muslim Leader: Women Are Satan’s Weapons
    Medieval misogyny from the highest Islamic authority in Australia: Muslim leader blames women for sex attacks. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
    THE nation’s most senior Muslim cleric has blamed immodestly dressed women who don’t wear Islamic headdress for being preyed on by men and likened them to abandoned “meat” that attracts voracious animals.
    In a Ramadan sermon that has outraged Muslim women leaders, Sydney-based Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali also alluded to the infamous Sydney gang rapes, suggesting the attackers were not entirely to blame.
    While not specifically referring to the rapes, brutal attacks on four women for which a group of young Lebanese men received long jail sentences, Sheik Hilali said there were women who “sway suggestively” and wore make-up and immodest dress … “and then you get a judge without mercy (rahma) and gives you 65 years”.
    “But the problem, but the problem all began with who?” he asked.
    The leader of the 2000 rapes in Sydney’s southwest, Bilal Skaf, a Muslim, was initially sentenced to 55 years’ jail, but later had the sentence reduced on appeal.
    In the religious address on adultery to about 500 worshippers in Sydney last month, Sheik Hilali said: “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it … whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat?”
    “The uncovered meat is the problem.”
    The sheik then said: “If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred.”
    He said women were “weapons” used by “Satan” to control men.” …-
    LGF

16. KENNEDY, DION WARY OF QUEBEC QUESTION
    Stephane Dion [ who has dual citizenship: France and Canada ]
    and Gerard Kennedy [ progressive; read red socialist ]
    are urging Liberals not to let a leadership squabble over Quebec’s identity turn into a full-blown unity crisis that could hurt the country and ruin the party’s electoral prospects in the province. …-
    national newswatch

17. CBCpravda headline
    Tax credit of up to $500 urged for kids’ sports
    and in the story that follows , not a single expect or “critics say” or liberal complaint.
    Im amazed , but credit where credit is due. go pravda go.

18. better get my glasses changed I missed it.
    further into the story , its says it will cost the federal government,where it should say it will save taxpayers off their taxes. back to CBCpravda patronage type state knows best crap.
    my apologies to SDA readers for the oversight and the show of unwarranted praise.