Neil Waugh, Edmonton Sun on the “offer that Ed Stelmach must refuse”;
Why secular society doesn’t get jihad
An international crime story with everything – a bank heist, an anti-war assassin and a punchline
Campaign finance rules? What campaign finance rules?
Comments are open for yours.
“I’m a Canadian,” he says, “and I was raised with a different sense of liberal leanings and moral and ethical standards.”
Ahhhh…so apparently “Canadian values” include robbing banks and terrorizing people. Who knew?
“Why a secular society doesn’t get jihad”. Debris Trail obviously missed the “Jihad” over gun control in the 1990’s in Canada. The loonie left adopted GC as a religion very quickly. Incidents I personally experienced: a manager for my company yelling at me across a crowded restaurant when he overheard me and fellow employees discussing a previous day at the rifle range over lunch; a “feminist” at my workplace screaming at me from across the cafeteria during a coffee break. This is only the tip of the iceburg in the GC craze after the Montreal incident. I also suffered threats such as: “my husbands a policeman and I’ll report you”. Report me about what?
The gospel preached was that anyone who would own a gun was deranged and threatning and would “go postal” at any moment.
The Left Libs are cranking up the same recipe yet again. Why not: it worked last time. The Vancouver Province ran a full week of editorials called: “Under the Gun”. Of course they never mentioned that all the gang gun play began after Bill C-68 came fully into effect. Of course there couldn’t be a causal effect, could there?
I have just learned (couldn’t watch paint dry) that a resolution was passed in the Librano convention that will ban all the bad guns. Now we can go back to sleep; we’re safe.
Did Debris Trail ever try to persuade a LL that it wasn’t all about Bush and oil? (Now that’s religion) The’re right of course; just ask them, so why should they think someone would blow themselves up unless the bad Americans were at fault.
Bye bye Alberta boom if we don’t brighten up…
…the latest manifestation of the Alberta Tories’ goofy oilsands strategy, which sees thousands of high-paying jobs shipped down the pipeline to Illinois and Texas where upgrading will be done.
The controversial plan by EnCana and ConocoPhillips to move 400,000 barrels a day of raw bitumen down the Keystone Pipeline to American upgraders and refineries is probably the worst deal so far for Albertans – who, in exchange, get a penny-on-the-dollar royalty until the huge capital costs are recovered.
All this while oilsands operators inflict massive and irreparable environmental damage on the province’s northeastern boreal forest.
On Marturia.net
On global warming… again…
This column is behind the SP’s subscription wall, so I’ve put the text after the jump, but basically it argues from this scientist’s paper that we are arrogant to assume that humans had much to do with changing the earth’s climate.
Choice quote: Parties to [Kyoto] have so far spent about $50 billion to achieve a global temperature reduction of less than one thousandth of a degree.
Ouch!
http://www.marturia.net/blog/saved/002868.html
global warming? what global warming?
london jolly old england:
hottest specific day of the year (ie only that day of all years recorded) recently.
437 years. or was that 347 years.
on the other hand, here in the *other* london we gots 3 feet of snow in 1 day and its still comin down.
at least it has insulation properties …
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Hill scribes taking gubmint lolly on the side
Ouch. The Harper government continues to break new ground in its dealings with the media, this time by outing longtime Parliament Hill columnists Jeffrey Simpson, Lawrence Martin and Hugh Winsor as having given paid speeches to federal government staffers.
Update: I have been alerted to this story in today’s Ottawa Citizen – in which Liberal MP and former Financial Post editor John Godfrey describes the assembling of the list as a witch hunt – and to this item at CBC Watch….
http://joantintor.blogspot.com/2006/12/hill-scribes-taking-gubmint-lolly-on.html
Dion Would Sacrifice French Citizenship To Become Prime Minister of Canada….
English: If….If….If…
French: S’il y a lieu….s’il y a lieu….s’il y a lieu….
Choose your country, Dion:
France or Canada.
…- …-
Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion said he would renounce his French citizenship, albeit reluctantly,
if
it becomes an impediment in his quest to become prime minister.
“If
it’s a problem for a significant number of Canadians and
if
it’s a liability that may keep Mr. Harper in power and prevent us … [from bringing] together more than any other country in the world: economic prosperity, social justice, environmental sustainability, then I will do this sad thing then, to renounce my French citizenship that I received from my mother,” Dion told CBC’s Peter Mansbridge.
“As everyone, I love my mother, I love everything she gave to me, including that. It’s part of me.
I don’t see why it’s a problem.” …-
cbc
Ottawa Sun; Mike Harris…..
another “if”……
“Dion doesn’t need two citizenships
and he doesn’t need to give people a reason not to vote for him.
If
he wants to be prime minister, he will have to symbolically reassure the country in an unambiguous way that his loyalties are undivided — just as our governor general wisely did.
Otherwise, after a few sips of the mead, this honeymoon will be over long before the hoped-for consummation.”
From the Iran study group:
“The United States cannot achieve its goals in the Middle East unless it deals directly with
the Arab-Israeli conflict and regional instability. There must be a renewed and sustained
commitment by the United States to a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace on all fronts: Lebanon,
Syria, and President Bush’s June 2002 commitment to a two-state solution for Israel and
Palestine. This commitment must include direct talks with, by, and between Israel, Lebanon,
Palestinians (those who accept Israel’s right to exist), and Syria.
…
The situation in Iraq is linked with events in the region. U.S. efforts in Afghanistan have
been complicated by the overriding focus of U.S. attention and resources on Iraq. Several Iraqi,
U.S., and international officials commented to us that Iraqi opposition to the United States—
and support for Sadr—spiked in the aftermath of Israel’s bombing campaign in Lebanon. The
actions of Syria and Iran in Iraq are often tied to their broader concerns with the United States.
…
The United States does its ally Israel no favors in avoiding direct involvement to solve the
Arab-Israeli conflict. For several reasons, we should act boldly:
• There is no military solution to this conflict.
• The vast majority of the Israeli body politic is tired of being a nation perpetually at war.
• No American administration—Democratic or Republican—will ever abandon Israel.
• Political engagement and dialogue are essential in the Arab-Israeli dispute because it is an
axiom that when the political process breaks down there will be violence on the ground.
• The only basis on which peace can be achieved is that set forth in UN Security Council
Resolutions 242 and 338 and in the principle of “land for peace.”
• The only lasting and secure peace will be a negotiated peace such as Israel has achieved with
Egypt and Jordan.
This effort would strongly support moderate Arab governments in the region, especially
the democratically elected government of Lebanon, and the Palestinian Authority under
President Mahmoud Abbas
http://www.usip.org/isg/iraq_study_group_report/report/1206/iraq_study_group_report.pdf
Malaria is spread by mosquitoes.
The most effective method of killing mosquitoes
is by the judicious use of DDT, mostly inside the home, hut, shack.
The left-socialists, the Greens, the enviro-wackos, were successful in their campaign to totally ban the use of DDT.
DDT use was banned.
Now, the reaping of the whirlwind of death has come about.
Socialism: the end result is always, and ever, death.
Remember: Stephane Dion is a socialist. Dion’s own words tell one that. His vocabulary, spoken and written; his actions show that he is a socialist.
Dion’s words include; social justice, social equality, etc.
These are code words for socialism: the end result is always, and ever, death.
…- …-
Malaria ‘speeds spread of Aids’
There may be a link between malaria and the spread of the Aids virus across Africa, research by scientists working in Kenya suggests.
The study, published in the journal Science, says the way the two diseases interact can help them spread faster.
When people with Aids contract malaria, it causes a surge of HIV virus in their blood, making them more likely to infect a partner, the research says.
Meanwhile people weakened by HIV are more likely to catch malaria.
The diseases are two of the biggest killers in Africa.
Viral surge
Scientists studying the rapid spread of HIV-Aids in the city of Kisumu in Kenya found the spread of HIV was happening more quickly than they would expect just through risky sexual behaviour.
They investigated a link with malaria, which is prevalent in the area.
They believe that since malaria can multiply by 10 times the “viral-load” of HIV – the amount of HIV virus in an HIV-infected person’s blood – the virus can be transmitted to a sexual partner more easily. …-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6220072.stm
Chatty Kathy’s are racking up the telephone bill.
Are you as a Canadian taxpayer paying the bill for SOW?
SOW’s “equality hotline”…. socialism.
Ernestine* calls:
* One ringy dingy… two ringy dingy.
* Have I reached the party to whom I am speaking?
[Yes, Ernestine… this is the socialist/Liberal Party of Canada.]
…- …-
Ottawa Citizen | Women set up ‘hotline’ to PMO over Status of Women
They’ve been told to pick up the phone and call the Harper government if they have a complaint about women’s issues, so a group of Ottawa women have set up an “equality hotline” to do just that.
*Lily Tomlin
Crime Watch.
Three officers shot
Calgary Sun – 4 hours ago
By JOYANNE PURSAGA AND TAMARA KING, STAFF REPORTERS. Three city cops were believed to have been shot while in the line of duty in a south Winnipeg neighbourhood late last night. (google news)
…-
Bikers arrive to honour slain comrade
Hells Angels from across the country [Canada] are riding into town [Toronto] to pay their last respects to a fellow biker gunned down as he celebrated his birthday in a club managed by a rival gang member.
…
At the Fratelli Vescio funeral home in Woodbridge yesterday, Hells [sic] members from Alberta and Saskatchewan along with a contingent of Bacchus members from New Brunswick…-
(cnews)
very intruiging thought about the mosquitos maz.
we’re lucky hiv isnt spread like a host of other infections via insects. but this malaria angle is certainly an alarming one and could be the thing that explains the very high hiv infection levels in african populations where malaria is ever present.
I posed a question to the local lieberal mp regarding auditing and follow up on the billions spent on aid to africa, things like disease abatement programs which would include combating malaria.
after a year and a half I still didnt have an answer to it or a dozen other questions.
lieberalism is canada’s malaria.
hubba hubba. end times here we come !!!
Rae target of anti-Semitism in leadership contest
Updated Thu. Dec. 7 2006 10:29 PM ET
Canadian Press
Bob Rae was the target of anti-Semitic attacks during the Liberal leadership contest, motivated at least in part by the fact that his wife is Jewish.
Sources close to Rae say that his wife, Arlene Perly Rae, was approached during last weekend’s convention by a delegate who didn’t realize she was the candidate’s wife. The delegate told her not to vote for Rae “because his wife is Jewish.”
Perly Rae stonily informed the delegate that she was the wife in question. The delegate beat a hasty retreat.
The incident might have been shrugged off if it had been an isolated event. But Rae team insiders contend it was part of a larger pattern of anti-Semitic smears on Rae, who finished third.
A flyer was circulated electronically among convention delegates denouncing Rae for having once delivered a speech to the Jewish National Fund, a group the flyer said was complicit in “war crimes and ethnic cleansing.”
“Rae’s wife is a vice-president of the CJC (Canadian Jewish Congress), a lobby group which supports Israeli apartheid,” said the flyer in bold letters superimposed over a close-up of Rae’s face.
“Bob Rae supports Israeli apartheid. Don’t elect a leader who supports apartheid.”
The Canadian Jewish Congress has condemned the flyer and blamed Khaled Mouammar, president of the Canadian Arab Federation for circulating it. The federation has, in turn, accused the CJC of making “a pitiful attempt to discredit” it and has denied producing or distributing the flyer.
Nevertheless, in a release Thursday, the federation supported the content of the flyer.
“CAF believes that Canadians have the right to know the factual information provided” in the flyer, the federation said.
It went on to say that the Jewish National Fund manages all state lands in Israel and allows only Jews to live on such land, a “practice that amounts to ethnic cleansing,” and added that “Canadians have the right to know who supports the JNF in Canada.”
The flyer was produced and e-mailed to all MPs by Ron Saba, editor of an obscure magazine called Montreal Planet. But The Canadian Press has obtained an e-mail from Mouammar, in which he forwarded the flyer to others. Several days before Saturday’s leadership vote, it wound up being posted on a website operated by an immigrant advocacy group.
Mouammar wrote on that website that the flyer had “nothing to do with Bob Rae’s and his wife’s religion and ethnicity but has a lot to do with their political views.”
“It is well-known that Bob Rae himself is hostile to Palestinians and Arabs,” Mouammar wrote.
He added that “his wife’s leadership position in the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) should be a matter of concern to everyone” and went on to condemn the CJC as “an ardent supporter of Israel, lam basts (sic) anyone who dares to criticize Israel and resorts to undermining human rights and civil liberties to protect Israel’s war crimes.”
Ed Morgan, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, called on the Liberal party Thursday to denounce the flyer.
While it’s legitimate to criticize a candidate’s position on the Middle East, Morgan said there can be only one purpose in raising the fact that Rae’s wife is a member of the Congress’s board: “It’s strictly to say that his wife is a Jew.”
But the flyer wasn’t the only example of anti-Semitic attacks on Rae.
On another website, operated by a Montreal-based pro-Palestinian group, Liberals were urged about a week before the leadership vote: “Do not vote for Bob Rae, we’re not looking or another Zionist PM.”
The group recommended that delegates vote for Gerard Kennedy, the fourth-place contender whose dramatic decision to throw his support to Stephane Dion after the second ballot clinched the victory for Dion. It said that “voting for Bob Rae is a vote for the daily massacre in Palestine (and) . . . for a new Zionist PM in Canada.”
Rae could not be reached for comment Thursday but insiders say he was aghast and hurt by the attacks.
The smears have raised broader questions about the role that blocs of ethnic delegates played at the convention in securing a stunning, come-from-behind victory for Dion.
On the opening day of the leadership convention, the Muslim Canadian Congress blasted “self-styled leaders from the Muslim community” for suggesting they could direct Muslim delegates to vote en masse for the candidate of their choice.
“Muslim delegates at the convention are not a herd of cattle for sale to the highest bidder,” Muslim Canadian Congress vice-president Salma Siddiqui said in a release.
Siddiqui, a supporter of frontrunner Michael Ignatieff, accused Mohamed Elmasry, head of the Canadian Islamic Congress, of trying to bargain with leadership candidates on behalf of some 200 to 300 Muslim delegates.
Heading into the convention, the CIC had interviewed the top contenders and ranked Dion and Kennedy as the “most desirable potential winners,” based on their track records and stands on “vital national and international issues.” Rae was next while Ignatieff ranked as the least desirable of the top four.
Elmasry said Thursday that Siddiqui’s charges were “nonsense” and “an insult” to Muslim delegates, implying that they had “no brain of their own.”
He said the CIC held a breakfast meeting with the top four candidates last Saturday morning, just before voting on the second ballot began, to give them all an equal chance to impress Muslim delegates. He said the council was trying to engage and educate Muslim delegates, not herd them.
Elmasry added that he assured Rae that his wife’s religion “is not an issue for us.”
But Tarek Fatah, a Rae supporter and member of the Muslim Canadian Congress, said appeals to “tribalism” went well beyond the Muslim delegates. He said Kennedy, despite his claim to represent party renewal, was the candidate who benefited most from the support of Muslim, Sikh, Ukrainian and Tamil blocs, who moved en masse to Dion after the second ballot.
“This is a step back,” Fatah said in an interview, adding that Kennedy has “taken us back to the ’30s and ’40s” when Catholics and Protestants voted in blocs.
“It’s tainting the political system where policies aren’t being discussed but race, ethnicity and religion (are pivotal).”
Toronto MP Navdeep Bains, who is credited with moving 237 Sikh delegates from Kennedy to Dion, said Fatah’s complaints are simply “sour grapes.”
“Like anyone else, as a member of Parliament and as a member of the community, you try to exert as much influence as you possibly can,” he said in an interview.
“That’s what it really boils down to, the ability to exert influence and try to convince people about the right decision. But ultimately, the delegates made up their own minds.”
Bains said the group of delegates he influenced were not only Sikhs but from a variety of ethnic backgrounds.
Kennedy could not be reached for comment.
Odd that they know so much about this yet not a mention of it during the 72 hour love fest not a few days ago.
It also came to light on the same Day Graham compared Conservative MP’s to Nazis.
Found in the comments at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061207.wambrose1207/BNStory/National/home
#90 Ed Scissorhands from Vancouver, Canada writes:
“The way the Conservative Government has acted in this matter is despicable. They don’t really care about the welfare of Canadians, nor the welfare of the entire world. All they care about is money, power, and influence. At least the Liberals care about Good Governance, as has been their history for over 100 years. ”
ROTFLMAO!
Kurdish Leader Rejects Iraq Report
AP ^ | 12/08/2006 | Hamza Hendawi
Kurdish Leader Rejects Iraq Report
Published: 12/8/06, 7:25 AM EDT HAMZA HENDAWI
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, a longtime Washington ally, has angrily rejected the Iraq Study Group’s recommendations, warning that any delay in deciding the fate of an oil-rich region claimed by the Kurds would have “grave consequences.”
Barzani, president of the 15-year-old autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, also faulted the U.S. bipartisan commission for not visiting his region, saying that was a “major shortcoming that adversely influenced the credibility of the assessment.”
“We are in no way abiding by this report,” Barzani said in an e-mailed statement.
He charged that the report released Wednesday, which was prepared by a commission led by former Republican secretary of state, James A. Baker III, and former Democratic congressman, Lee Hamilton, sought to give too much authority to the central government and Iraq’s neighbors by giving them a say in the country’s affairs.
Barzani also criticized the report’s calls for a far-reaching amnesty to opposition groups and the reinstatement of Saddam Hussein loyalists in their old government jobs as part of national reconciliation efforts. Such calls, he said, rewarded “those who are against the political process and have conducted acts of violence.”
Iraq’s Kurds and Shiites combine for about 80 percent of Iraq’s 26 million population. They suffered the most under Saddam’s ousted Sunni-led regime. The Kurds and Shiites are Iraq’s strongest proponents of federalism, enshrined in a new constitution adopted last year. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750397/posts
It’s a power Power power couple… Marrisen, of course, is Martin’s gift to the Librano$. Search also, for “Spiderman” Bornman:
Erik Bornman’s nickname is Spiderman but the former top Paul Martin aide is now … Spiderman after he entered a locked federal Liberal Party office – which …-
…- …-
B.C. power couple invaluable in shaping successful Dion team
Hugh Winsor
Special to the Globe and Mail
MONTREAL — A political power couple from Vancouver, a former House of Commons busboy who became a cabinet minister, and one of the deans of the Ottawa lobbyist/government-relations corps led the team that catapulted Stéphane Dion from wonkish academic-turned-cabinet-minister into leader of the Liberal Party and, possibly, the next prime minister.
Vancouver government-relations consultant Mark Marissen, who used to be part of Paul Martin’s inner circle of advisers, is credited with providing much of the organizational clout behind Mr. Dion’s surprising victory.
Mr. Marissen’s involvement began when he and his wife, Christie Clark, a former B.C. education minister and deputy premier, threw a reception for Mr. Dion in their home during his first trip west in the leadership campaign.
The consultant liked what he saw and volunteered to help. A few days later, Mr. Dion asked him to run the national campaign. The key campaign strategy was networking. One of Ms. Clark’s close friends is Joyce Murray, former B.C. environment minister, who had met Mr. Dion when he was the federal environment minister. Thus the network grew. …-
(Bourque)
More on Marissen here, from a Liberal:
“I read the news last week that Mark Marrisen has signed-on as Stephane Dion’s potential national campaign manager (if he runs, of course) while I was away and I didn’t want to let it go without comment.
…
First, I guess this ends any possibility of a Christy Clark campaign (Clark being Mark’s significant other). Howabout you, Carole Taylor?
But anyway, I’m of mixed feelings about the news.
On the one hand, this signals Dion is a fairly serious contender, and will at least have some West coast support.
Mark ran Paul Martin’s BC operation
with a gloved fist of iron,
and say what you will about his tactics (I and many have) but one thing he does know how to do is win delegate selection meetings (and create paper campus clubs, but that’s another story).
So the fact Marrisen is onboard lends some weight to Dion’s potential campaign, although I wouldn’t put Mark in the same category as some of the people lining up behind Michael Ignatieff, Bob Rae and some of the others. Can Mark win on a level and unrigged playing field though? Should be interesting.
On the downside,
Marrisen represents a lot of what is wrong with
the Liberal Party,
fairly or unfairly. As Martin’s BC Leiutenant and two-time provincial campaign co-chair, that’s just the way it is.
Young Liberal campus club shenanigans have been in the news of late, that all happened under Mark’s watch (and likely direction) during the last leadership campaign.
The with us or against us mentality he brought, typified by former Chretien Minister Herb Daliwhal’s ouster from his own riding association,
has made him a lot of enemies in the province.
In short, like much of the Martin team his style proved very effective for winning delegate selection meetings
but was radioactive for party unity.
Electoral success in B.C., while impressive,
has also been confined to urban areas,
and came at a price.”
(bcer in Toronto)
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=95a1eb31-4694-43fc-aef9-a6176fa6d0ec&k=6512
WINNIPEG (CP) – Grim, determined Winnipeg police officers spent early Friday trying to figure out what went wrong when three of their colleagues were shot while executing a drug warrant.
The officers were being treated for gunshot wounds at the Health Sciences Centre hospital, police said.
The suspect in the shootings was also injured and taken to hospital.
More than two dozen police cars were scattered throughout a cordoned-off neighbourhood on the city’s south side as officers scoured the area and interviewed witnesses in the aftermath of the shootings late Thursday.
Emotions ran high at a series of brief news conferences held in a couple of nearby parking lots.
I would like to contact the Dominion Institute to commence another online petition for a state funeral. In this case, the recipient of said entitlement will be the last remaining Toronto Maple Leaf Fan still alive since they last won the Stanley cup.
A little drag between the electric Wright X1 vs. Porsh and Ferrari costing 4X$ more.
Not advisable viewing for owners of expensive speed demons mentioned due to possible mood swing towards a suicidal funk.
Be patient. Its a big video file, but well worth the wait.
www[.]grumpy-c-bear.org/Car/20051108_Energy_Next/Wrightspeed.wmv
tinyurl.com/yaxkvq
www[.]answers.com/topic/wrightspeed-x1
= TG
Re Malaria and mosquitos-GREENS LIED, MILLIONS
DIED.
If that works for the bush haters, why not for the GREENS. What else have they lied about.
Took over 20 years for this lie to be proved wrong. So what other major health risks of 20-30 years ago will be proven wrong. Second hand smoke comes to mind. Ever notice the increase in various virus infections in offices etc since that awful s/hand smoke was banned. Did that smoke kill those viruses, just wondering, if it is so bad it must have. How about the facts coming out re abortion and breast cancer. This was talked about years ago but blasted by groups like sows. But, notice the increase in breast cancer in women in their 30-40s. They grew up in the abortion is great era. Then there was the Y2K scare, global cooling, (hey I bought longjohns just in case) The more the kook scientists and envirowackos publish the more they are eventually proved wrong.
Elect, abolish, or keep the same?
Register your vote with the CTF…
http://taxpayersfederation.blogspot.com/2006/12/senate-question-100-per-cent.html
I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!
Big Oil, [ Chevron] and Big Auto not eager about Electric Cars
During the development of the EV1, General Motors made a controlling investment in Ovonics’s battery development and manufacturing, with particular interest in the patents and trade secrets controlling the manufacturing of large nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries.
This interest was subsequently sold to the oil company Texaco,[5] which was acquired in its entirety by another oil company, Chevron. The * large format * NiMH batteries are no longer available to U.S. electric vehicle converters or BEV manufactures. The manufacturing unit, “COBASYS”, is currently declining to manufacture and market these batteries for battery electric automotive use in the US and has shut down (through patent control) Panasonic’s large format battery importation to the US.
The COBASYS web page concerning transportation applications addresses only large multi-passenger hybrid vehicles, vehicles not comprising a substantial threat to the largest market of the oil industry. In order to use NiMH batteries without violating Chevron’s patents, hybrid automobile manufacturers are required to design vehicles which are at least 50% powered by gasoline; otherwise, they are limited to the use of “D” cell-sized NiMH (“small format”) batteries.[citation needed]
www[.]answers.com/topic/battery-electric-vehicle
Remove the [] in the link.
========== Answers.com === TG
Actually, TG if you must know Chevron is just a front for SPECTRE. Bwaaaaa
In Switzerland, battery-electric vehicles are popular with private users. There is a national network of publicly accessible charging points, called Park & Charge, which also covers part of Germany and Austria.
The Swiss will be free of the need to suck up to Islamofascists before us.= TG
This story could be out of Mark Steyns book -America Alone.
I saw it on syracuse.com, in an article called The Green Gate Reopens. It is about a French/American couple that has just bought the historic Green Gate Inn in Camillus, NY.
-They lived in France for seven years, but the atmosphere became uncomfortable in the heavily Muslim-populated area after 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.-
Uncomfortable? hmmmmmm. Well at least, thanks to the hard work of Liberals like Stephane Dion, they did not have to leave France because of -climate injustice-.
Mr. Waugh is, in my opinion, incorrect on the matter of the keeping all labour-intensive oil patch work in Alberta. Firstly, we have no further available labour: unemployment is zilch and every shop in town has help wanted signs out. Secondly, we have no housing available for an additional influx of workers, vacancy rates are zilch. Thirdly, our ability to provide services to Albertans is already maxed out, there’s no room there for more workers either.
Fourthly, the Alberta oil patch already provides products and services to projects all over the world, and we use products and services from other companies all over the world. That’s how the business works; neither Mr. Waugh nor anybody else can change it.
Premier Stelmach is on the correct track. In his first post-election news conference, he said that his government will not “touch the brake” on development, he said that the market will take care of it. And, indeed, more projects are on hold in the patch, due to lack of human resources, than there are projects proceeding. The market is already curtailing development far more effectively than the state can ever accomplish.
The most important thing the government of Alberta can do is raise the prices for the principal resource we do have, namely the commodity raw material. That will have the effect of decreasing demand, thus lightening the load on production. Here again, Premier Stelmach is on the correct track, as he has said that he is planning to revisit the royalty rates we charge for our resources. Those need to go up substantially.
The most important thing the government of Canada can do for the patch is to limit investment by unfriendly foreign operations, such as those in China, and Prime Minister Harper has started the wheels rolling on that matter. It’s one thing to build some parts in Korea, it’s something else entirely to have Chinese Communist Party investment in the patch itself.
The most important thing Albertans can do right now is to pay little heed to those politicians who are pandering to uninformed voters, to those members of the media who don’t know how the oil patch works, and to various and sundry bloviating air heads (such as Mr. Plawiuk); instead, this is the time to work as hard as possible, live frugally, and invest your surplus income for your children and for your old age.
And, for the record, Mr. Stelmach was not my first choice for premier, so please don’t accuse of shilling for him.
China loves to partner with your business. You make sales in China until knock-off copies of your product flood the market.
They get your production ideas and secrets for nothing and you eventually get escorted to the door.
Partnering. . . have fun. = TG
Drudge is reporting on the arrest of a young lovable muslim terrorist who planned to set off 4 hand grenades in a large Chicago Mall. If he had succeeded, and survived, I am sure some ACLU lawyer would argue he was the product of bad parents, was not really bad, was bullied in school because of his name, and asked for the charges to be dropped. At least that is what would happen if the offense had happened in Toronto. The muslims have taken over the liberal party of canada without a shot being fired. With the 24/7 coverage why did not one reporter mention the muslim/terrorist delegates. RCMP just announced the majority of prostitues arrested in BC are Asian. Guess Judy let more in than we knew about. What is Arar after, the complete abolishment of the RCMP. That would be a terrorist wish list. The more he talks the more I am convinced cdns have been scammed by this confessed terrorist. Maybe Syria will let the truth out, as will the USA.
The socialist Rev is foiled,again. Back to your congregation, Rev, empty-handed. Yuk, yuk, yuk,…
Calvert: PM reneging on equalization
SASKATOON (CP) – The federal Conservatives have been “captured” by Central Canada and are reneging on promised changes to equalization, Saskatchewan’s premier charged Friday after a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. (cnews)
Dion attended the finest school of socialism in France, his maternal country. Dion would impose socialism upon Canada.
Socialism is the home of Mugabe, also.
Diamonds? Rings a bell… Ringo Svend Robinson, late of the NDP was a thief, too.
Socialism: the home of thieves, robbers, Mugabe, Robinson, Dion.
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“We Lied”
Robert Mugabe is moving to seize a British diamond field, the first to invest in bankrupt Zimbabwe since the political crisis began. It was was ordered off its valuable claim yesterday, after diamonds were found in the area of course. …-
belmont club
Resusitated Muslim Complains of ‘Mouth-to-Mouth’ by Infidels
News24.com (SA) ^ | 07/12/2006 | (SA)
‘Mouth-to-mouth from strangers’ 07/12/2006 20:05 – (SA)
Cape Town – A man accused of trafficking in the drug, tik*, wept in court as he told how he was given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation by strangers.
Ismail Daniels, 52, appeared in Wynberg regional court, Cape Town, on Thursday for a bail application.
Daniels burst into tears as he told how those in his cell had become fond of him, but it was nevertheless a matter of life and death for him to be released into the care of his wife and family.
Scorpions prosecutor Greg Wolmarans asked him: “What caused you to weep?”
Daniels replied: “I can’t take Pollsmoor any more.
“There, strangers have to look after you, and there is no privacy – I’m given mouth-to-mouth by people I don’t even know.”
Three charges of tik-dealing
He complained about his failing health during his application and told the court that he had shortness of breath and had to be given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation by friends sharing his cell at Pollsmoor Prison.
“It is not good for my health, as a Muslim man, to be given mouth-to-mouth by non-Muslim people who eat different food,” he told magistrate Jackie Redelinghuys. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750653/posts
(*crystal meth)
Dion received the Fossil Award, and… a seabird prize from May Green Party….
The booby* prize?
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Stephane Dion: Because I have been a very successful minister of environment. Madam Elizabeth May give me a prize or recognition for what I have done. The —
Jane: She is, of course, the leader of the green party now.
Stephane Dion: yes and also what I have done for
nature to protect the — our seabirds.
I received a prize for.[sic] …-
http://www.stephentaylor.ca/
*Birds – Blue Footed Booby
Welcome to World Kids Network Critters area. Come on in and learn all about the Blue Footed Booby. The Blue Footed Booby is a tropical seabird that can live …
Activist Founds Sudanese-Israeli Friendship Association
Powerful words from
Sudanese-Canadian
human rights activist Taraji Mustafa, courtesy of MEMRI TV. …-
http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1331
Link to play at LGF.
The Treason of the Intellectuals; Deja vu, again.
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Seeds of Intellectual Destruction (The Left)
American Thinker ^ | December 08, 2006 | J.R. Dunn
It’s always amazed me how quickly the American left managed to twist the 9/11 attacks into a club with which to beat their own country. I recall watching the smoke from the towers late in the day, exhausted from stress and emotions I could scarcely identify, and thinking, “They’ll never be able to defile this.” It was the end of the postwar flirtation with apostasy, I thought, the end of political frivolity, the birth of a new kind of patriotism, one annealed by fire, one that would become part of framework of the country, one that would last.
Well – they proved me wrong. True, for a few days they kept quiet, scattering like roaches when caught in the public spotlight mouthing the old slogans. Michael Moore was forced to back up quickly after his first remarks, and there was that aide to Willie Brown (“What did you do, America?”) never heard of before or since, and of course, Noam Chomsky, pleading that we “enter the minds” of Mohammed Atta and company, but apart from that, most of them kept their counsel. For a while, it really seemed that things had changed.
But after what in retrospect appears to be a pitifully short period, they were back, and in force, and they have never retreated since. Contrary to consensus belief, it didn’t begin with Iraq. It began with Afghanistan, starting only a month after the attacks, and built up from there. Moore, the Dixie Chicks, Cindy Sheehan, Cynthia McKinney, Durbin, Murtha… The list could go on for page after page, all of them speaking in identical terms, all repeating the same code words – Halliburton, blood for oil, Abu Ghraib – all tearing into their country in a fashion unseen even in the Vietnam era.
And where the trendsetters have led, the public has followed. If the polls can be trusted (a bit of a leap, it’s true) something like over half the American people believe that the War on Terror, far from being a response to an unprovoked and atrocious attack, is a war of aggression fought on behalf on industrial capitalism in the form of George W’s oil buddies.
This is not a natural response. Countries fighting legitimate defensive wars don’t suffer this kind of erosion of public support in the midst of hostilities. Particularly as involves a war that began with an atrocity committed against fellow countrymen, an atrocity that could be (and eventually will be) repeated at any time. Such a reaction should not have occurred.
The reason it happened this time was the result of fifty years of conditioning that any and all American activities overseas, whether diplomatic, commercial, or military, are fundamentally illegitimate. American wars, no matter what their cause or nature, are viewed through the same prism, one created on the left for the purpose of undermining the country’s commitment to the Cold War, but useful in any context. Call it the “Imperial” or “Hegemonist” doctrine. Simply put, it holds that no American war (and little in the way of any interaction on the international level) is ever justified. All such ventures are wars of imperialist aggression, commonly carried out against helpless innocents in defiance of the wishes of the American people (at least the true American people – that is, left-wing Democrats), on behalf of secretive, sinister interest groups.
Unlike most left-wing doctrines, this one is not a European import but fully home-grown. It was incubated in the universities, developing over several decades in response to U.S. efforts against the Soviet Union. Like any such doctrine it was the product of many hands over a considerable period. But for our purposes, two of the major figures, C. Wright Mills and William Appleman Williams, will serve as examples. ..-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750753/posts
Vit…
Good points. That’s what I like about this place, can get opposing views.
Did you write to the Edmonton Sun Letter to the editor on what you said?
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