I was poisoned and Russia’s political enemies were surely behind it
The Financial Times ^ | December 6 2006 | Yegor Gaidar
On November 24, I found myself involved in a succession of events that resembled a political thriller. A lot has been written about what happened. International television provided detailed coverage of these events. I had not thought that global fame would find me in such an unusual way. I deliberately refused to give interviews. Nevertheless, I am compelled to tell what happened.
Public opinion reserves a degree of humour for those who have survived attempted murder. The nature of this phenomenon is not clear to me. Having been in this situation myself, I found nothing funny about it. But the logic of public consciousness is a fact of life. One has to reckon with it. I will try to keep my sense of humour while telling what happened. …- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750859/posts
Liberal-left Toronto Star gives Dion the fatal alternative:
Choose France or Canada.
Star says Dion must choose Canada.
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Dion’s Citizenship
Excerpt:
“On both practical and symbolic grounds, anyone who leads Canada should have both feet planted squarely in this country.”
…
Even the appearance that Canada’s policies could be influenced by a leader’s ties to another country could undermine his efforts here and damage our reputation abroad.
Also, it is important symbolically that our prime minister hold only Canadian citizenship and only one allegiance — to Canada. …-
star.com
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
December 8, 2006
Ottawa, Ontario
Excerpt:
It’s a great pleasure to join with you today on Parliament Hill as we flip the switch on Christmas lights across Canada.
However you celebrate Christmas – going to parties, exchanging gifts with family and friends, worshipping in church or helping out less fortunate neighbours – Laureen and our family wish you and your loved ones a very merry Christmas and a happy, prosperous 2007.
Thank you.
And God bless Canada.
From the Prime Minister’s Web Site 3w.pm.gc.ca
Will still be plenty of fish in sea, despite gloomy study …
CBC – Newfoundland & Labrador – 16 hours ago
A well-publicized story that forecast the collapse
of most of the world’s fish stocks is flawed
and full of errors, an American fisheries scientist says. (google news)
Further to maz2’s posting about PMSH’s Christmas greeting, I would encourage PMSH to deliver a similar greeting to other cultures/religions as their respective “seasons” commence. This would be inclusive and respectful, and would not violate the secularity of the government by highlighting but one religion.
Hanukah, Ramadan, etc. should be similarly treated. Its the right thing to do and will blunt any criticism that could be flung by the MSM monkeys.
Eeyore said:
“Hanukah, Ramadan, etc. should be similarly treated. Its the right thing to do and will blunt any criticism that could be flung by the MSM monkeys.” [Gotta be sarcasme? Not nice to use irony at Xmas time; moi’s offended.]
Speaking of ramadan… LGF has:
Mysterious Man Arrested for Ideological Motivations
An indeterminate man of unknown origin with possible “ideological motivations” has been arrested for plotting a terror attack in Illinois. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
[More: MSM reluctantly discloses ramadan’s name is
Shareef.]
“A few minutes after SHAREEF and the CS discussed shaving their body hair and meditating, SHAREEF stated: “I’m ready man,
these Kafirs [a term translated as ‘infidel’] don’t give a damn about us,
niggers don’t care what happens to the Umma
[an Arabic word meaning community or nation that is commonly used to mean the collective nation of Islamic states],
about sisters getting raped,
about brothers losing their (UI*). They don’t care, man. All they care about is (UI)…
I probably would have eventually ended up just
stabbing the shit outta some Jews or something.
Just stabbing them niggers with a steak knife.
Dude, I ain’t gonna lie.
Because during that war with Hezbollah, man,
I had already started to look at synagogues out here
and in the DeKalb area and everything. I was looking at synagogues, I was doing MapQuest….
One of them was down the block from the masjid [mosque], I knew that they do their thing on Saturdays, right. I was like, I’m gonna lay low out here, I’m gonna camp out overnight, be out there on Friday night after Jumma [Friday prayer] or Saturday morning about 12:00 or 1:00 o’clock. I be there. And as soon as I see them fools going in the building, I had planned on trying to grab one, depending on how it was, niggers trying to run in the building all at once and open up shop,
I was just going to go over there and shank one or two of them.”
A few minutes later, SHAREEF stated:
“They definitely gonna know that this shit ain’t over, and they not as safe as they thought.”
*UI= Unintelligible.
Imprimis
December 2006
“Saddam’s Iraq and Islamic Terrorism: What We Now Know”
Stephen F. Hayes
Conclusion:
I’d like to finish with another paragraph from the “Iraqi Perspectives Project,” this one also based on a captured Iraqi document. I hope you’ll bear with me as I quote verbatim.
As I read, I’d like you to think about the
conventional wisdom, as articulated by
Representative John Murtha and others,
that until the U.S. invasion,
Iraq had nothing to do with terrorism.
The Saddam Fedayeen also took part in the regime’s domestic terrorism operations and planned for attacks throughout Europe and the Middle East.
In a document dated May 1999,
Saddam’s older son, Uday, ordered preparations
for “special operations, assassinations, and bombings, for the centers and traitor symbols in London, Iran and the self-ruled areas [Kurdistan].”
Preparations for “Blessed July,”
a regime-directed wave of “martyrdom” operations against targets in the West,
were well under way
at the time of the coalition invasion. …-
3w.hillsdale.edu/imprimis
Oh, oh… there’s trouble in the Amen Corner.
The socialists are preying on the Saskites, again.
The Rev is fuming with faux/phony rage.
Prey, Rev, prey on your voters. Like the Librano$ do, Rev. Prey.
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Globe | Calvert fuming as equalization goes on backburner
OTTAWA — The 12 Conservative MPs in Saskatchewan could find themselves in an awkward position come budget time, as Prime Minister Stephen Harper appears to be backing away from an equalization pledge to the province.
Winnipeg reels after police shot
JOE FRIESEN
With reports from Canadian Press and CTV News
Have Canadians been on an RCMP Musical ride for the past six years with Zaccardelli at the helm?
Who polices a politicized force?
Will Harper and Day clean the Augean stable?
Will an outsider be chosen to head up the RCMP?
Too bad Canada can’t get Rudy Giuliani to front the RCMP for a five year stint.
Or is there even a Giuliani type available in Canada to do the job?
Time will tell.
Astonishing…
“UN is rotten to the core”
3w.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Mansur_Salim/2006/12/09/2703253.html
…not the contents, but that such an obvious truth gets published in the MSM!
Check out this blog… http://samsonblinded.org/blog/
…then hit the main page.
Lucid. I am all for censorship…by public condemnation and disapproval, in the full light of day, not by fiat and misuse of power, in the shadows.
Little Green Footballs has a story on an Al Jazeera editor claiming that Israel is the cause of all problems in the Middle East. Typical, but here’s a new theme – they keep losing battles to Israel and it ruins their self-confidence and their societies. Who the hell else would be this pathetic?
How did the big protests by the waa group go yesterday. Today is supposed to be bigger. All I heard or saw was about 10sec on the noon cbc news, saying dozens turned out blah blah. Some redheaded woman was screaming into a megaphone. Didn’t look like dozens to me. That took place in the maritimes. They still are not answering the phone, just voice mail. Campaign must have failed big time.
anybody else wondering when CBC house”comic” Rick Mercer is going to kickoff his campaign to get Lib leader Dion to change his name to Celine?
Haha Nick, that’s funny. I’d like to see that too.
On a more serious note; Big Trouble in Mother Russia. http://tinyurl.com/ylygqn
Looks like Eurabia isn’t the only country with a demographic problem. I mean opportunity.
Does anyone know if Maher Avar denounced his Syrian citizenship?
So when next time in US they will not ship him there!
Do I have to pay for him like I did for Lebanese Canadians?
I like to keep my money – spend on beer and popcorn.
Warning to Taliban Jack Layton-NDP/Stephane Dion-Socialist Liberal:
The Muslim Taliban are women haters,murderers and paedophiles.
“Rule 19 says that mujahedeen may not take young boys without facial hair onto the battlefield — or into their private quarters, an attempt to stamp out the sexual abuse of young boys, a problem that is widely known in southern Afghanistan but seldom discussed.
“The rule regarding behavior toward young boys shows this has been a problem,” Knittig said.”
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New Taliban rules target Afghan teachers (20 teachers killed this year)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – The Taliban gunmen who murdered two teachers in eastern Afghanistan early Saturday were only following their rules: Teachers receive a warning, then a beating, and if they continue to teach must be killed.
The new list of 30 rules, decided on during a high Taliban meeting in September or October and since circulated over the Internet, span from the organizational — no jihad equipment may be used for personal means — to the health conscious — militants are not supposed to smoke.
They also contain a grave warning for aid workers and educators.
Rule No. 24 forbids anyone to work as a teacher “under the current puppet regime, because this strengthens the system of the infidels.” One rule later, No. 25, says teachers who ignore Taliban warnings will be killed.
Taliban militants early Saturday broke into a house in the eastern province of Kunar, killing a family of five, including two sisters who were teachers. …- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751009/posts
Tenebris 9:45am, as rotten as Annan is, he is just a small bit, recent player in the UN. As good, and as “about time”-ly the Sun article is, it failed to bring to light(for the journalists) just who the real, behind the scenes wakos are. The blogsphere has known the reason for the problems with the UN for years now. The Media is reluctant to report it. Why ??
Take that, Canadians.
Mangez le gateau/Eat cake.
Moi, Stephane Dion, am confident in my French identity. Vive La France. Vive Moi.
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‘I WILL DO THE SACRAFICE’ FOR THE PARTY
Stephane Dion, the new Liberal leader, left the door
open to renouncing his French citizenship
if
it becomes an issue in the next election
but
said pressure to do so would suggest Canadians
have a lack of confidence in their national
identity.
(national newswatch)
More Palestinians flee homelands
2006/12
By SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press Writer
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A technician armed with $7,000 in savings and a tourist visa plans to seek political asylum in Europe.
Travel agents report a brisk demand for visas to
Cuba, one of the few places that welcomes
Palestinians. ..- http://www.newsone.ca/hinesbergjournal/ViewArticle.aspx?id=33412&source=2
From the “You Gotta Love It”Dept:
“Tony Blair formally declared Britain’s multicultural experiment over yesterday as he told immigrants they had ”a duty” to integrate with the mainstream of society.”
News item in the Telegraph.co.uk. I guess after he announced his retirement in the near future PM Blair saw that he didn’t have to kiss any more butt from the multi-cultural/politically correct crowd. Only question is if this trend of common sense will catch on and spread through Eurarabia.
Global Warming-Warning For Club Med.
What a Cat…Clysmic, even. The UN did nothing… Martin, Jr., did nothing. Shouldn’t Club Med tsunami?
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GEOPHYSICS: Ancient Cataclysm Marred the Med
Science Magazine ^ | 2006-12-08 | Jacopo Pasotti
It’s a terrifying vision: A violent eruption of Italy’s Mount Etna triggers a massive collapse of one flank of the volcano, sending 35 cubic kilometers of debris–the equivalent of 10,000 Cheops pyramids–hurtling at 400 kilometers an hour into the Ionian Sea. The Big Splash unleashes a 50-meter-tall wall of water that, within a few hours, wipes out coastal settlements across the Mediterranean. This catastrophe happened 8000 years ago–and a Mediterranean monster of similar magnitude could happen again. That’s the scenario invoked in an analysis in last week’s Geophysical Research Letters. “It was an extraordinary event, probably the largest tsunami unleashed… http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751074/posts
Hang in there, Sheikh.
Jimmah Carter is praying for Issy to recant. Kofi sends regrets, too. Louise Arbour is on a fast with Oprah. All’s well.
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Saudi king: Spark could ignite region
AP
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia’s king warned Saturday that all of the Middle East is threatened by escalating conflicts around the region, from spiraling sectarian violence in Iraq to rising tensions in Lebanon to fighting among Palestinians.
“Our Arab region is surrounded by dangers,” King Abdullah said at the opening of a summit for leaders of the oil-rich Arab nations around the Persian Gulf. “It is like a keg of gunpowder waiting for a spark to explode.”
Palestinian factions are fighting each other, and Iraq is slipping into “the darkness of strife and mad struggle,” a danger that also looms over Lebanon’s diverse communities, he said in a speech before the leaders began a closed session. …-
free republic
Dion: The Ad$cam Brown Bagger from the Librano$$$
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Comment:
And is Dion joined at the hip with Chirac of France?
Did he pay for his education in France?
If he paid the tuition of a French citizen, then France does not recognize his Canadian citizenship
– he ‘owes’ the mother country (France) his FIRST allegiance by virtue of his getting reduced tuition at a French University.
In the event of war in France he owes the mother country his service in war.
Can he fullfill his duty as a French citizen if he were to ever be elected PM of Canada?
Can he afford to repay his mother country for his education should he wish to renounce his French citizenship?
This guy is a loose cannon in so many ways
– he is way more trouble than he is worth.
He should just go ‘home’ – where ever that is in his own mind –
and leave the governing of this country to people who do not have so many conflicts of intrest.
The former goalie [Dryden] would have probably been the best Canadian for the Liberano$ to have chosen as leader of their corrupt party.
Dion has too much baggage for most Canadians to tolerate.
We cannot be expected to trust a guy who was right up there at the table when the brown bag$ [of AdScam]were being handed around.
Comment by Jema | December 9, 2006 …-
(jack’s newswatch)
I just was on the wwf site http://www.wwf.ca/ and could not believe the blatant lies they tell. Their donation ad says that plants store co2, but neglect to state that the same plants give off the co2 during the day. I learned this in grade 8 science, do they think we are a bunch of morons or are they the morons?
Associated Press Cheat Sheet
Somehow, Doug Ross got his hands on the Associated Press cheat sheet, created to provide their professional on-the-spot journalists with guidance on how to describe problematic people and situations—the AP way. …-
link via LGF
Abu hated Allah but not Moh? Abu hated George less than Moh? Moh, or less.
*Mistah Abu – he dead.
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Zarqawi Would Rile the Shi’a, Who’d Get Rid of the Americans, then …
An interview with al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, shortly before he was killed by a US bomb, shows he hated Iraqi Shi’ites more than Americans. Hated them so much he was willing to start a war with the Shi’ites in the hope that the resulting conflagration would burn the Americans out. “The 33-page interview, carried out some time before a U.S. fighter bomber killed al-Zarqawi in a strike on his meeting place in June 7, could not be authenticated but it was posted Friday on a Web site known to be a clearing-house for al-Qaida material,” according to the AP. Zaraqwi turned his hatred of the Shia into bloody attacks but there were unintended, though wholly foreseeable consequences. …-
more at Belmont Club
*H/T Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness.
Troy Marquis is looking for work as a provider of “high quality English text.” Troy wrote a snotty letter to Mark Steyn last week and included his website to solicit work. It read in part:
“I am sorry though, that your writing is amateurish and lacks any basis in scholarship. In fact, your title has nothing to do with your article and your article reads more like Simulacra and Simulations by Jean Baudrillard (if you do not know who he is you can go on wikipedia). (…)
……
Also, your name implies that you are Jewish. Whether or not you are is irrelevant, but that because your names sounds Jewish, you have no credibility when you speak about Christianity or the Christian world, which, in case you did not get my point, robs you of credibility.
Troy Marquis
troymarquis.com”
He has cleared his page but not here: http://www.troymarquis.com/pageholder.pdf troy@troymarquis.com
Dear Mister Troy
I need some good writings. No make I good writing, make good pizza
I make new pizza shop in Toronto and need make customers to eat my pizza shop new in Toronto. ?You eat pizza in Bueno aires? !Bueno aires is more good from NY citie pizza!
?You eat banana on pizza? Bueno aires eat banana on pizza.
I need letter tell pizza eater for eat banana pizza. I need sign for pizza window glass. 1 meter e, 2 meter.
My shop is school by me. Children school cerca me my shop they ask ? you put your banana on my pizza? ?I say, 10 inches? Children laugh up my face. I say 12 inches, children laugh up my face mas. 14 inches? Children laugh up my face, Children laugh up my face, Children laugh up my face. ! Se van!
?Mister Troy, you make wirttings for pizza eating shop?
Yours dearly to you,
Rudolf Caruso
Read the entire article; is there any reference, hint, allusion that this is Muslim rape, murder, and genocide?
Muslims raping and murdering other Muslims in Darfur.
Muslim genocide
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Women to stage protests worldwide against rape in Darfur
The News ^ | 12/9/06
LONDON: Protests are planned around the world today (Sunday) against the mass rape of women and girls allegedly by Sudanese government soldiers and allied militiamen in Sudan’s western Darfur region.
“A terrible crime against humanity is taking place in Darfur and it is worsening by the week,” said Amir Osman, representing the Globe for Darfur, a coalition of activist groups, including London-based Amnesty International.
Coming on Human Rights Day, the appeal is part of a campaign by former and current world leaders, human rights activists and others to stop massacres and human rights abuses in Darfur that some say already amount to genocide.
…
The Darfur conflict, which has been raging for more than three years, has claimed between 200,000 and 300,000 lives and displaced more than 2.4 million people. …- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751101/posts
Troops Haven’t Lost Faith in Rumsfeld
DoD ^ | 12/9/06
Troops Haven’t Lost Faith in RumsfeldBy Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service BALAD, Iraq, Dec. 9, 2006
– As he prepares to enter his final week in office, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was greeted warmly here by the men and women in uniform he has led for the past six years. Rumsfeld paid a surprise visit to servicemembers based in Iraq to thank them for their service. He met with troops on Al Asad Air Base in Anbar province and then with troops here. In both places, the troops treated him like a rock star. The 74-year-old secretary flew…- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751163/posts
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I just read on ctv website that Western farmers were split on the Conservative Wheat Board plan. The story implies a split in opinions about the plan, but then implies that Alberta farmers are for freedom of choice, but Sask and Man are unsure. The only quotes contained in the story are negative against the Tory plan. As an Easterner from NS (and damn proud to be a Conservative)I can only assume that this is yet another attempt by the media to sway the public opinion towards the the medias point of view.
Different subject, but just as obvious to the media bias, I coundn’t help but notice that CBC never did mention the NAZI reference (in Hansard) by Bill Graham in any stories on its web site, unlike the undocumented (no record in Hansard) comment supposedly said by Peter Mackey about HER WHO Shall not be named. Hypocrits, thank god for HNIC, without it the CBC would have nothing.
“Hanukah, Ramadan, etc. should be similarly treated. Its the right thing to do and will blunt any criticism that could be flung by the MSM monkeys.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 9, 2006 07:43 AM ”
well mr eyesore, when muslim nations start recognizing CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH religious holidays maybe you can make the suggestion again.
UN human rights council (as if changing a single word in the moniker will change everything else)gets failing grade after only one year. google it.
…and now for something completely different..the televangelist and his snake oil salesman schtick is real..the rest is well..you get the “drift”…i guarantee you will howl watching this..i did!
Farting preacher… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc1F_UE5gU
To: troy@troymarquis.com
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 6:34 PM
Subject: I HAVE NEW BUSINESS CALGARY.
Want good words for open barber shot. I cut the hares and also the beers of mens. whant have good the words for make mens cum in shop.
what they say cum in.
I say cum in shop and they make laffs at me so much times.
I say cum in hear and they make more laffs at me so meyney times too.
fiks my words so i get men.
Ali.
15% of my towns population is Moslem. Lots are in interracial marriages, the UNARRANGED KIND. There is no sign of an insurgency here, just to let you know.
There are however plenty of guns in closets, all over the palce, just in case any hothead gets any (stupid ) ideas. And that is probably only due to a sentiment that goes sort of like ” to spite the (lie-beral)gun registry. ..”yeah a countryboy can survive”..well a sober one anyway.
Carefull all you insurgent wannabees….we’re watching you…so there.
Canada’s tallest Christmas tree lit up for troops
CTV.ca News Staff
Prime Minister Stephen Harper joined a ceremony that lit up Canada’s largest Christmas tree in Cobden, Ont. and dedicated it to Canadian troops and their families.
The ceremony was broadcast live to troops at Canadian Forces Base Kandahar in Afghanistan.
“This tree signifies more than Christmas to us, it stands as a symbol of support that this community continues to show our brave men and women who put themselves at risk helping people all over the world,” Col. Dennis Thompson of CFB Petawawa told the crowd before the tree was lit on Saturday.
“It is a reminder to our soldiers overseas that you truly are behind them and that their work is appreciated by all of you,” he said, who also thanked the children who helped decorate the tree.
“As the member of Parliament for Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke, I see first-hand the dedication of our troops stationed here at CFB Petawawa and I want to take this moment to thank them for all the hard work they do in honour of our country,” said Conservative MP Cheryl Gallant prior to introducing Harper. …- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751179/posts
You’ve heard about this right? http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=99130818-bcae-4995-8226-883693331f43&k=98092.
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.”
When I heard this story I thought I’d heard it before. However this is a tactic used before. http://www.lfpress.com/cgi-bin/publish.cgi?p=163524&x=articles&s=elections
Police to probe anti-Jew election flyer ruse
November 29, 2006
Jennifer O’Brien
The London Free Press
At the request of London’s Muslim and Jewish communities, police are probing a fake flyer left at doors of several Jewish homes days before the federal London North Centre byelection, Chief Murray Faulkner said Nov. 28.
Disguised as a political endorsement of Liberal candidate Glen Pearson by the Canadian Islamic Congress, the back of the flyer had three cartoons reflecting a close link between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Israel.
The CIC has denied involvement with the flyer, which seems to suggest Muslims should support Pearson because the Harper government is pro-Israel.
“It was inferring negative things about why the CIC endorsed Glen Pearson instead of Dianne Haskett,” said Faisal Joseph, leader of the Association of London Muslims.
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The front of the flyer contained statements pulled off the official CIC website, where candidates were given grades — including an A for Pearson and an F for Conservative Dianne Haskett. However, the website carried no cartoons.
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In an e-mail sent Saturday to Glen Pearson’s Liberal headquarters and to B’nai B’rith, the president of the CIC denounced the flyers.
“I have seen the flyer and the CIC has NOTHING to do with the flyer or the cartoons in the flyer,” wrote Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
Canada, amazing how business companies still set up operations here, like RIM, Mitel.
Sunday’s Calgary Sun, Licia Corebella, Calgary Sun http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Corbella_Licia/2006/12/09/2719407.html
Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former Canadian Security Intelligence Service agent and now CEO of the Northgate Group, an Ottawa-based security consulting firm, says that kind of “ignorance” from the general public and “wilful blindness” from Canadian officials and businesses is costing this country billions of dollars annually in stolen intellectual property.
Canada, says Juneau-Katsuya, is becoming an increasingly popular destination for corporate and economic spies because of our lax laws and knowledge-based economy.
Someone please tell me Mr. Harper et al isn’t “same ol’ same ol'”
Greg Weston Agent Orange Vets dieing due to studies dragging on. http://www.ottawasun.com/News/Columnists/Weston_Greg/2006/12/09/2719433.html
One of the more vocal skeptics in the room was Conservative MP Greg Thompson from New Brunswick, now the minister of veterans affairs responsible for the Agent Orange file.
“I am absolutely convinced (the study) is nothing more than a public relations exercise for the Government of Canada,” he said last year while still in his opposition days. “There will never be compensation.”
Two months after that, in the midst of the last federal election, Stephen Harper promised to do better, vowing his Conservative government would “stand up for full compensation for persons exposed to defoliant spraying from 1956 to 1984.”
But first there would be more studies.
Indeed, it has now been almost a year since Harper made his promise, and nothing much has changed but the party in power, and the death toll of Gagetown grads.
Of Mailer and Murder
by Theodore Dalrymple
Excerpt:
While I was in New Zealand, I learned of two cases that seemed emblematic of the Mailerian developments in the new Zealand criminal justice system. The first concerned a man with 102 convictions, many for violence including rape. (I should point out that 102 convictions means many more offences, since the conviction rate is never 100 per cent of the offending rate, and is sometimes only 5 or 10 per cent of it.)
This man nevertheless became eligible for parole. As conditions of parole, the board told him he must not drink, smoke cannabis or frequent certain places. The man told the board that he would abide by none of these conditions, but he was released on parole anyway. Within a short time, he had killed three people and so maimed a fourth that she will never recover.
The second case was of a man with many previous convictions, some for violence, who abducted and murdered a young woman aged 24. He was imprisoned and applied for bail. Three times he was turned down, but a fourth judge granted him bail. He was sent to live at a certain address, where he befriended his neighbours, who did not know that he was accused of murder. Eight months later, while babysitting their children, he killed one of them.
Perhaps the most extraordinary twist of this terrible tale is that the parents of the murdered child then had another baby, which the social services then removed from them on the grounds that they had previously entrusted a child to the care of a murderer and were therefore irresponsible parents. The state blames its citizens for the mistakes – if that is what they are – that it makes.
What lies behind this terrible, wilful incompetence? I suppose some people might say that anecdotes mean nothing; that it is statistics we have to look at, and the majority of people sent out on parole, or on bail for murder, do not kill again. The questions we should be asking are what proportion of people who say in advance that they have no intention of abiding by parole conditions go on to commit serious crimes if granted parole anyway, and what proportion of accused murderers granted bail kill again while on bail. In the light of these questions, the decisions taken in the two cases I have cited might appear slightly less absurd.
This is dust in our eyes, however. The presumption must be against someone who has been convicted of 102 previous offences, many of them violent, or someone who has been convicted of many previous offences and is suspected on the strongest possible grounds of having killed. It is morally frivolous to suggest otherwise. …-
3w.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?frm=4438&sec_id=4438
“This cult of the euphemism is like a disease.
It sickens our understanding,
it weakens our defences,
it upsets our sense of truth.
And if anyone thinks words don’t really matter
they’re not only foolish
but clearly wouldn’t object to having their
mother called a filthy name.”
‘Tis The Time To Judge
Toronto Sun ^ | 12-9-06 | Micheal Coren
As Christmas approaches people like me are expected to write columns about the horrors of saying “Happy Holidays,” about the attack upon the traditional Christmas and about how dreadful it is that Nativity scenes are banned from certain shopping malls.
All of that may be true. But as much as we should be less materialistic and more faithful and religious, I’d like to make another plea as we enter the Christmas season. Be more judgmental.
In the name of all that is good and holy and right and precious, be more judgmental.
Now let’s sort out our definitions here. Don’t preach one thing and do another because that would be dishonest. Don’t condemn that of which we are also guilty because it would be hypocritical. Don’t look to judge when we can do otherwise.
But call a sin a sin and a crime a crime and never confuse morality with manners and compassion with sentimentality*. …- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751259/posts
* sentimentality
noun
1. falsely emotional in a maudlin way [syn: mawkishness]
2. extravagant or affected feeling or emotion
dictionary.com
Cold, eh?
So cold that this “leading…blah, blah, blah” “asked not to be named”.
Why not? It’s too “sensitivity”. He really means it’s too hot; too uncomfortable, too damning for the warmites.
The Kyotoists, including French socialist Kyoto Dion, Maurice Strong, are hucksters, frauds, fear-mongers. The driver behind the fraud is the Green-Greed ethos: $$$$$$$$$$.
Hypocrites unparallelled; Greens are the “Greed R’Us Inc.”
Cold cash, eh?
Quote:
“One leading UK climate scientist, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity surrounding the report before it is published, said:”
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UN downgrades man’s impact on the climate
Richard Gray, Science Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 1:32am GMT 10/12/2006
Mankind has had less effect on global warming than previously supposed, a United Nations report on climate change will claim next year.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there can be little doubt that humans are responsible for warming the planet, but the organisation has reduced its overall estimate of this effect by 25 per cent.
In a final draft of its fourth assessment report, to be published in February, the panel reports that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has accelerated in the past five years. It also predicts that temperatures will rise by up to 4.5 C during the next 100 years, bringing more frequent heat waves and storms.
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The panel, however, has lowered predictions of how much sea levels will rise in comparison with its last report in 2001.
Climate change sceptics are expected to seize on the revised figures as evidence that action to combat global warming is less urgent.
Scientists insist that the lower estimates for sea levels and the human impact on global warming are simply a refinement due to better data on how climate works rather than a reduction in the risk posed by global warming.
One leading UK climate scientist, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity surrounding the report before it is published, said: “The bottom line is that the climate is still warming while our greenhouse gas emissions have accelerated, so
3w.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/10/nclimate10.xml
Does anyone remember all the hype and ridicule about those cults of the past-there was that comet thing, all those dead in Montreal, the kool-aid fiasco, and many I can’t remember. Many asked, how could someone be so stupid to believe this that or the other thing leading to the end of the world, and kill themselves over it. Well, I put all those that believe in global warming in the same category. So far there have been no mass suicides over it, just mass thefts of our money to meet unattainable targets. I really put global warming on the same scale as the Nigerian scams.
Save us , the gubmint has to save us!!!!
more experts chime in on the debate.(sarc off)
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061208/skiing_globalwarming_061208/20061208?hub=TopStories
I was poisoned and Russia’s political enemies were surely behind it
The Financial Times ^ | December 6 2006 | Yegor Gaidar
On November 24, I found myself involved in a succession of events that resembled a political thriller. A lot has been written about what happened. International television provided detailed coverage of these events. I had not thought that global fame would find me in such an unusual way. I deliberately refused to give interviews. Nevertheless, I am compelled to tell what happened.
Public opinion reserves a degree of humour for those who have survived attempted murder. The nature of this phenomenon is not clear to me. Having been in this situation myself, I found nothing funny about it. But the logic of public consciousness is a fact of life. One has to reckon with it. I will try to keep my sense of humour while telling what happened. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750859/posts
Liberal-left Toronto Star gives Dion the fatal alternative:
Choose France or Canada.
Star says Dion must choose Canada.
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Dion’s Citizenship
Excerpt:
“On both practical and symbolic grounds, anyone who leads Canada should have both feet planted squarely in this country.”
…
Even the appearance that Canada’s policies could be influenced by a leader’s ties to another country could undermine his efforts here and damage our reputation abroad.
Also, it is important symbolically that our prime minister hold only Canadian citizenship and only one allegiance — to Canada. …-
star.com
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
December 8, 2006
Ottawa, Ontario
Excerpt:
It’s a great pleasure to join with you today on Parliament Hill as we flip the switch on Christmas lights across Canada.
However you celebrate Christmas – going to parties, exchanging gifts with family and friends, worshipping in church or helping out less fortunate neighbours – Laureen and our family wish you and your loved ones a very merry Christmas and a happy, prosperous 2007.
Thank you.
And God bless Canada.
From the Prime Minister’s Web Site 3w.pm.gc.ca
Will still be plenty of fish in sea, despite gloomy study …
CBC – Newfoundland & Labrador – 16 hours ago
A well-publicized story that forecast the collapse
of most of the world’s fish stocks is flawed
and full of errors, an American fisheries scientist says. (google news)
Further to maz2’s posting about PMSH’s Christmas greeting, I would encourage PMSH to deliver a similar greeting to other cultures/religions as their respective “seasons” commence. This would be inclusive and respectful, and would not violate the secularity of the government by highlighting but one religion.
Hanukah, Ramadan, etc. should be similarly treated. Its the right thing to do and will blunt any criticism that could be flung by the MSM monkeys.
Eeyore said:
“Hanukah, Ramadan, etc. should be similarly treated. Its the right thing to do and will blunt any criticism that could be flung by the MSM monkeys.” [Gotta be sarcasme? Not nice to use irony at Xmas time; moi’s offended.]
Speaking of ramadan… LGF has:
Mysterious Man Arrested for Ideological Motivations
An indeterminate man of unknown origin with possible “ideological motivations” has been arrested for plotting a terror attack in Illinois. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
[More: MSM reluctantly discloses ramadan’s name is
Shareef.]
“A few minutes after SHAREEF and the CS discussed shaving their body hair and meditating, SHAREEF stated: “I’m ready man,
these Kafirs [a term translated as ‘infidel’] don’t give a damn about us,
niggers don’t care what happens to the Umma
[an Arabic word meaning community or nation that is commonly used to mean the collective nation of Islamic states],
about sisters getting raped,
about brothers losing their (UI*). They don’t care, man. All they care about is (UI)…
I probably would have eventually ended up just
stabbing the shit outta some Jews or something.
Just stabbing them niggers with a steak knife.
Dude, I ain’t gonna lie.
Because during that war with Hezbollah, man,
I had already started to look at synagogues out here
and in the DeKalb area and everything. I was looking at synagogues, I was doing MapQuest….
One of them was down the block from the masjid [mosque], I knew that they do their thing on Saturdays, right. I was like, I’m gonna lay low out here, I’m gonna camp out overnight, be out there on Friday night after Jumma [Friday prayer] or Saturday morning about 12:00 or 1:00 o’clock. I be there. And as soon as I see them fools going in the building, I had planned on trying to grab one, depending on how it was, niggers trying to run in the building all at once and open up shop,
I was just going to go over there and shank one or two of them.”
A few minutes later, SHAREEF stated:
“They definitely gonna know that this shit ain’t over, and they not as safe as they thought.”
*UI= Unintelligible.
Imprimis
December 2006
“Saddam’s Iraq and Islamic Terrorism: What We Now Know”
Stephen F. Hayes
Conclusion:
I’d like to finish with another paragraph from the “Iraqi Perspectives Project,” this one also based on a captured Iraqi document. I hope you’ll bear with me as I quote verbatim.
As I read, I’d like you to think about the
conventional wisdom, as articulated by
Representative John Murtha and others,
that until the U.S. invasion,
Iraq had nothing to do with terrorism.
The Saddam Fedayeen also took part in the regime’s domestic terrorism operations and planned for attacks throughout Europe and the Middle East.
In a document dated May 1999,
Saddam’s older son, Uday, ordered preparations
for “special operations, assassinations, and bombings, for the centers and traitor symbols in London, Iran and the self-ruled areas [Kurdistan].”
Preparations for “Blessed July,”
a regime-directed wave of “martyrdom” operations against targets in the West,
were well under way
at the time of the coalition invasion. …-
3w.hillsdale.edu/imprimis
Oh, oh… there’s trouble in the Amen Corner.
The socialists are preying on the Saskites, again.
The Rev is fuming with faux/phony rage.
Prey, Rev, prey on your voters. Like the Librano$ do, Rev. Prey.
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Globe | Calvert fuming as equalization goes on backburner
OTTAWA — The 12 Conservative MPs in Saskatchewan could find themselves in an awkward position come budget time, as Prime Minister Stephen Harper appears to be backing away from an equalization pledge to the province.
Winnipeg reels after police shot
JOE FRIESEN
With reports from Canadian Press and CTV News
Dennis Miller gets it right.
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?120806/120806_hc_miller&Hannity_Colmes&Miller%20Time&acc&Foxlife&-1&News&153&&&new
Have Canadians been on an RCMP Musical ride for the past six years with Zaccardelli at the helm?
Who polices a politicized force?
Will Harper and Day clean the Augean stable?
Will an outsider be chosen to head up the RCMP?
Too bad Canada can’t get Rudy Giuliani to front the RCMP for a five year stint.
Or is there even a Giuliani type available in Canada to do the job?
Time will tell.
more often quoted MSM expertise.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/12/08/arar-rcmp.html
maybe he should ask for uberhomo Bill Graham to step down , it was his shift.
Astonishing…
“UN is rotten to the core”
3w.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Mansur_Salim/2006/12/09/2703253.html
…not the contents, but that such an obvious truth gets published in the MSM!
Check out this blog…
http://samsonblinded.org/blog/
…then hit the main page.
Lucid. I am all for censorship…by public condemnation and disapproval, in the full light of day, not by fiat and misuse of power, in the shadows.
This is not good news… the headline reads “Blow for Britain as Helmand’s ‘cleanest’ governor is sacked”.
Little Green Footballs has a story on an Al Jazeera editor claiming that Israel is the cause of all problems in the Middle East. Typical, but here’s a new theme – they keep losing battles to Israel and it ruins their self-confidence and their societies. Who the hell else would be this pathetic?
How did the big protests by the waa group go yesterday. Today is supposed to be bigger. All I heard or saw was about 10sec on the noon cbc news, saying dozens turned out blah blah. Some redheaded woman was screaming into a megaphone. Didn’t look like dozens to me. That took place in the maritimes. They still are not answering the phone, just voice mail. Campaign must have failed big time.
anybody else wondering when CBC house”comic” Rick Mercer is going to kickoff his campaign to get Lib leader Dion to change his name to Celine?
Haha Nick, that’s funny. I’d like to see that too.
On a more serious note; Big Trouble in Mother Russia. http://tinyurl.com/ylygqn
Looks like Eurabia isn’t the only country with a demographic problem. I mean opportunity.
Does anyone know if Maher Avar denounced his Syrian citizenship?
So when next time in US they will not ship him there!
Do I have to pay for him like I did for Lebanese Canadians?
I like to keep my money – spend on beer and popcorn.
Warning to Taliban Jack Layton-NDP/Stephane Dion-Socialist Liberal:
The Muslim Taliban are women haters,murderers and paedophiles.
“Rule 19 says that mujahedeen may not take young boys without facial hair onto the battlefield — or into their private quarters, an attempt to stamp out the sexual abuse of young boys, a problem that is widely known in southern Afghanistan but seldom discussed.
“The rule regarding behavior toward young boys shows this has been a problem,” Knittig said.”
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New Taliban rules target Afghan teachers (20 teachers killed this year)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – The Taliban gunmen who murdered two teachers in eastern Afghanistan early Saturday were only following their rules: Teachers receive a warning, then a beating, and if they continue to teach must be killed.
The new list of 30 rules, decided on during a high Taliban meeting in September or October and since circulated over the Internet, span from the organizational — no jihad equipment may be used for personal means — to the health conscious — militants are not supposed to smoke.
They also contain a grave warning for aid workers and educators.
Rule No. 24 forbids anyone to work as a teacher “under the current puppet regime, because this strengthens the system of the infidels.” One rule later, No. 25, says teachers who ignore Taliban warnings will be killed.
Taliban militants early Saturday broke into a house in the eastern province of Kunar, killing a family of five, including two sisters who were teachers. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751009/posts
Tenebris 9:45am, as rotten as Annan is, he is just a small bit, recent player in the UN. As good, and as “about time”-ly the Sun article is, it failed to bring to light(for the journalists) just who the real, behind the scenes wakos are. The blogsphere has known the reason for the problems with the UN for years now. The Media is reluctant to report it. Why ??
Take that, Canadians.
Mangez le gateau/Eat cake.
Moi, Stephane Dion, am confident in my French identity. Vive La France. Vive Moi.
…- …-
‘I WILL DO THE SACRAFICE’ FOR THE PARTY
Stephane Dion, the new Liberal leader, left the door
open to renouncing his French citizenship
if
it becomes an issue in the next election
but
said pressure to do so would suggest Canadians
have a lack of confidence in their national
identity.
(national newswatch)
More Palestinians flee homelands
2006/12
By SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press Writer
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A technician armed with $7,000 in savings and a tourist visa plans to seek political asylum in Europe.
Travel agents report a brisk demand for visas to
Cuba, one of the few places that welcomes
Palestinians. ..-
http://www.newsone.ca/hinesbergjournal/ViewArticle.aspx?id=33412&source=2
From the “You Gotta Love It”Dept:
“Tony Blair formally declared Britain’s multicultural experiment over yesterday as he told immigrants they had ”a duty” to integrate with the mainstream of society.”
News item in the Telegraph.co.uk. I guess after he announced his retirement in the near future PM Blair saw that he didn’t have to kiss any more butt from the multi-cultural/politically correct crowd. Only question is if this trend of common sense will catch on and spread through Eurarabia.
Global Warming-Warning For Club Med.
What a Cat…Clysmic, even. The UN did nothing… Martin, Jr., did nothing. Shouldn’t Club Med tsunami?
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GEOPHYSICS: Ancient Cataclysm Marred the Med
Science Magazine ^ | 2006-12-08 | Jacopo Pasotti
It’s a terrifying vision: A violent eruption of Italy’s Mount Etna triggers a massive collapse of one flank of the volcano, sending 35 cubic kilometers of debris–the equivalent of 10,000 Cheops pyramids–hurtling at 400 kilometers an hour into the Ionian Sea. The Big Splash unleashes a 50-meter-tall wall of water that, within a few hours, wipes out coastal settlements across the Mediterranean. This catastrophe happened 8000 years ago–and a Mediterranean monster of similar magnitude could happen again. That’s the scenario invoked in an analysis in last week’s Geophysical Research Letters. “It was an extraordinary event, probably the largest tsunami unleashed…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751074/posts
Hang in there, Sheikh.
Jimmah Carter is praying for Issy to recant. Kofi sends regrets, too. Louise Arbour is on a fast with Oprah. All’s well.
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Saudi king: Spark could ignite region
AP
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia’s king warned Saturday that all of the Middle East is threatened by escalating conflicts around the region, from spiraling sectarian violence in Iraq to rising tensions in Lebanon to fighting among Palestinians.
“Our Arab region is surrounded by dangers,” King Abdullah said at the opening of a summit for leaders of the oil-rich Arab nations around the Persian Gulf. “It is like a keg of gunpowder waiting for a spark to explode.”
Palestinian factions are fighting each other, and Iraq is slipping into “the darkness of strife and mad struggle,” a danger that also looms over Lebanon’s diverse communities, he said in a speech before the leaders began a closed session. …-
free republic
Dion: The Ad$cam Brown Bagger from the Librano$$$
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Comment:
And is Dion joined at the hip with Chirac of France?
Did he pay for his education in France?
If he paid the tuition of a French citizen, then France does not recognize his Canadian citizenship
– he ‘owes’ the mother country (France) his FIRST allegiance by virtue of his getting reduced tuition at a French University.
In the event of war in France he owes the mother country his service in war.
Can he fullfill his duty as a French citizen if he were to ever be elected PM of Canada?
Can he afford to repay his mother country for his education should he wish to renounce his French citizenship?
This guy is a loose cannon in so many ways
– he is way more trouble than he is worth.
He should just go ‘home’ – where ever that is in his own mind –
and leave the governing of this country to people who do not have so many conflicts of intrest.
The former goalie [Dryden] would have probably been the best Canadian for the Liberano$ to have chosen as leader of their corrupt party.
Dion has too much baggage for most Canadians to tolerate.
We cannot be expected to trust a guy who was right up there at the table when the brown bag$ [of AdScam]were being handed around.
Comment by Jema | December 9, 2006 …-
(jack’s newswatch)
I just was on the wwf site http://www.wwf.ca/ and could not believe the blatant lies they tell. Their donation ad says that plants store co2, but neglect to state that the same plants give off the co2 during the day. I learned this in grade 8 science, do they think we are a bunch of morons or are they the morons?
Associated Press Cheat Sheet
Somehow, Doug Ross got his hands on the Associated Press cheat sheet, created to provide their professional on-the-spot journalists with guidance on how to describe problematic people and situations—the AP way. …-
link via LGF
Abu hated Allah but not Moh? Abu hated George less than Moh? Moh, or less.
*Mistah Abu – he dead.
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Zarqawi Would Rile the Shi’a, Who’d Get Rid of the Americans, then …
An interview with al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, shortly before he was killed by a US bomb, shows he hated Iraqi Shi’ites more than Americans. Hated them so much he was willing to start a war with the Shi’ites in the hope that the resulting conflagration would burn the Americans out. “The 33-page interview, carried out some time before a U.S. fighter bomber killed al-Zarqawi in a strike on his meeting place in June 7, could not be authenticated but it was posted Friday on a Web site known to be a clearing-house for al-Qaida material,” according to the AP. Zaraqwi turned his hatred of the Shia into bloody attacks but there were unintended, though wholly foreseeable consequences. …-
more at Belmont Club
*H/T Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness.
Troy Marquis is looking for work as a provider of “high quality English text.” Troy wrote a snotty letter to Mark Steyn last week and included his website to solicit work. It read in part:
“I am sorry though, that your writing is amateurish and lacks any basis in scholarship. In fact, your title has nothing to do with your article and your article reads more like Simulacra and Simulations by Jean Baudrillard (if you do not know who he is you can go on wikipedia). (…)
……
Also, your name implies that you are Jewish. Whether or not you are is irrelevant, but that because your names sounds Jewish, you have no credibility when you speak about Christianity or the Christian world, which, in case you did not get my point, robs you of credibility.
Troy Marquis
troymarquis.com”
He has cleared his page but not here:
http://www.troymarquis.com/pageholder.pdf
troy@troymarquis.com
Dear Mister Troy
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I make new pizza shop in Toronto and need make customers to eat my pizza shop new in Toronto. ?You eat pizza in Bueno aires? !Bueno aires is more good from NY citie pizza!
?You eat banana on pizza? Bueno aires eat banana on pizza.
I need letter tell pizza eater for eat banana pizza. I need sign for pizza window glass. 1 meter e, 2 meter.
My shop is school by me. Children school cerca me my shop they ask ? you put your banana on my pizza? ?I say, 10 inches? Children laugh up my face. I say 12 inches, children laugh up my face mas. 14 inches? Children laugh up my face, Children laugh up my face, Children laugh up my face. ! Se van!
?Mister Troy, you make wirttings for pizza eating shop?
Yours dearly to you,
Rudolf Caruso
This is an interesting site if one is interested in the how & why. The liberal mind has become debased into a null entity of refried slogans.
This Dr. posts expain the stressses that cause the mental imbalence. Quite a good site really.
http://www.libertymind.com/
I found his article : The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness
By Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr, MD at Town hall. Well worth reading
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LyleHRossiterJrMD/2006/12/04/the_liberal_mind_the_psychological_causes_of_political_madness
Read the entire article; is there any reference, hint, allusion that this is Muslim rape, murder, and genocide?
Muslims raping and murdering other Muslims in Darfur.
Muslim genocide
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Women to stage protests worldwide against rape in Darfur
The News ^ | 12/9/06
LONDON: Protests are planned around the world today (Sunday) against the mass rape of women and girls allegedly by Sudanese government soldiers and allied militiamen in Sudan’s western Darfur region.
“A terrible crime against humanity is taking place in Darfur and it is worsening by the week,” said Amir Osman, representing the Globe for Darfur, a coalition of activist groups, including London-based Amnesty International.
Coming on Human Rights Day, the appeal is part of a campaign by former and current world leaders, human rights activists and others to stop massacres and human rights abuses in Darfur that some say already amount to genocide.
…
The Darfur conflict, which has been raging for more than three years, has claimed between 200,000 and 300,000 lives and displaced more than 2.4 million people. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751101/posts
Troops Haven’t Lost Faith in Rumsfeld
DoD ^ | 12/9/06
Troops Haven’t Lost Faith in RumsfeldBy Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service BALAD, Iraq, Dec. 9, 2006
– As he prepares to enter his final week in office, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was greeted warmly here by the men and women in uniform he has led for the past six years. Rumsfeld paid a surprise visit to servicemembers based in Iraq to thank them for their service. He met with troops on Al Asad Air Base in Anbar province and then with troops here. In both places, the troops treated him like a rock star. The 74-year-old secretary flew…-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751163/posts
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I just read on ctv website that Western farmers were split on the Conservative Wheat Board plan. The story implies a split in opinions about the plan, but then implies that Alberta farmers are for freedom of choice, but Sask and Man are unsure. The only quotes contained in the story are negative against the Tory plan. As an Easterner from NS (and damn proud to be a Conservative)I can only assume that this is yet another attempt by the media to sway the public opinion towards the the medias point of view.
Different subject, but just as obvious to the media bias, I coundn’t help but notice that CBC never did mention the NAZI reference (in Hansard) by Bill Graham in any stories on its web site, unlike the undocumented (no record in Hansard) comment supposedly said by Peter Mackey about HER WHO Shall not be named. Hypocrits, thank god for HNIC, without it the CBC would have nothing.
“Hanukah, Ramadan, etc. should be similarly treated. Its the right thing to do and will blunt any criticism that could be flung by the MSM monkeys.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 9, 2006 07:43 AM ”
well mr eyesore, when muslim nations start recognizing CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH religious holidays maybe you can make the suggestion again.
UN human rights council (as if changing a single word in the moniker will change everything else)gets failing grade after only one year. google it.
…and now for something completely different..the televangelist and his snake oil salesman schtick is real..the rest is well..you get the “drift”…i guarantee you will howl watching this..i did!
Farting preacher…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc1F_UE5gU
To: troy@troymarquis.com
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 6:34 PM
Subject: I HAVE NEW BUSINESS CALGARY.
Want good words for open barber shot. I cut the hares and also the beers of mens. whant have good the words for make mens cum in shop.
what they say cum in.
I say cum in shop and they make laffs at me so much times.
I say cum in hear and they make more laffs at me so meyney times too.
fiks my words so i get men.
Ali.
15% of my towns population is Moslem. Lots are in interracial marriages, the UNARRANGED KIND. There is no sign of an insurgency here, just to let you know.
There are however plenty of guns in closets, all over the palce, just in case any hothead gets any (stupid ) ideas. And that is probably only due to a sentiment that goes sort of like ” to spite the (lie-beral)gun registry. ..”yeah a countryboy can survive”..well a sober one anyway.
Carefull all you insurgent wannabees….we’re watching you…so there.
Canada’s tallest Christmas tree lit up for troops
CTV.ca News Staff
Prime Minister Stephen Harper joined a ceremony that lit up Canada’s largest Christmas tree in Cobden, Ont. and dedicated it to Canadian troops and their families.
The ceremony was broadcast live to troops at Canadian Forces Base Kandahar in Afghanistan.
“This tree signifies more than Christmas to us, it stands as a symbol of support that this community continues to show our brave men and women who put themselves at risk helping people all over the world,” Col. Dennis Thompson of CFB Petawawa told the crowd before the tree was lit on Saturday.
“It is a reminder to our soldiers overseas that you truly are behind them and that their work is appreciated by all of you,” he said, who also thanked the children who helped decorate the tree.
“As the member of Parliament for Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke, I see first-hand the dedication of our troops stationed here at CFB Petawawa and I want to take this moment to thank them for all the hard work they do in honour of our country,” said Conservative MP Cheryl Gallant prior to introducing Harper. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751179/posts
You’ve heard about this right?
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=99130818-bcae-4995-8226-883693331f43&k=98092.
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.”
When I heard this story I thought I’d heard it before. However this is a tactic used before.
http://www.lfpress.com/cgi-bin/publish.cgi?p=163524&x=articles&s=elections
Police to probe anti-Jew election flyer ruse
November 29, 2006
Jennifer O’Brien
The London Free Press
At the request of London’s Muslim and Jewish communities, police are probing a fake flyer left at doors of several Jewish homes days before the federal London North Centre byelection, Chief Murray Faulkner said Nov. 28.
Disguised as a political endorsement of Liberal candidate Glen Pearson by the Canadian Islamic Congress, the back of the flyer had three cartoons reflecting a close link between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Israel.
The CIC has denied involvement with the flyer, which seems to suggest Muslims should support Pearson because the Harper government is pro-Israel.
“It was inferring negative things about why the CIC endorsed Glen Pearson instead of Dianne Haskett,” said Faisal Joseph, leader of the Association of London Muslims.
…….
The front of the flyer contained statements pulled off the official CIC website, where candidates were given grades — including an A for Pearson and an F for Conservative Dianne Haskett. However, the website carried no cartoons.
……..
In an e-mail sent Saturday to Glen Pearson’s Liberal headquarters and to B’nai B’rith, the president of the CIC denounced the flyers.
“I have seen the flyer and the CIC has NOTHING to do with the flyer or the cartoons in the flyer,” wrote Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
Canada, amazing how business companies still set up operations here, like RIM, Mitel.
Sunday’s Calgary Sun, Licia Corebella, Calgary Sun
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Corbella_Licia/2006/12/09/2719407.html
Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former Canadian Security Intelligence Service agent and now CEO of the Northgate Group, an Ottawa-based security consulting firm, says that kind of “ignorance” from the general public and “wilful blindness” from Canadian officials and businesses is costing this country billions of dollars annually in stolen intellectual property.
Canada, says Juneau-Katsuya, is becoming an increasingly popular destination for corporate and economic spies because of our lax laws and knowledge-based economy.
Someone please tell me Mr. Harper et al isn’t “same ol’ same ol'”
Greg Weston Agent Orange Vets dieing due to studies dragging on.
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/Columnists/Weston_Greg/2006/12/09/2719433.html
One of the more vocal skeptics in the room was Conservative MP Greg Thompson from New Brunswick, now the minister of veterans affairs responsible for the Agent Orange file.
“I am absolutely convinced (the study) is nothing more than a public relations exercise for the Government of Canada,” he said last year while still in his opposition days. “There will never be compensation.”
Two months after that, in the midst of the last federal election, Stephen Harper promised to do better, vowing his Conservative government would “stand up for full compensation for persons exposed to defoliant spraying from 1956 to 1984.”
But first there would be more studies.
Indeed, it has now been almost a year since Harper made his promise, and nothing much has changed but the party in power, and the death toll of Gagetown grads.
Of Mailer and Murder
by Theodore Dalrymple
Excerpt:
While I was in New Zealand, I learned of two cases that seemed emblematic of the Mailerian developments in the new Zealand criminal justice system. The first concerned a man with 102 convictions, many for violence including rape. (I should point out that 102 convictions means many more offences, since the conviction rate is never 100 per cent of the offending rate, and is sometimes only 5 or 10 per cent of it.)
This man nevertheless became eligible for parole. As conditions of parole, the board told him he must not drink, smoke cannabis or frequent certain places. The man told the board that he would abide by none of these conditions, but he was released on parole anyway. Within a short time, he had killed three people and so maimed a fourth that she will never recover.
The second case was of a man with many previous convictions, some for violence, who abducted and murdered a young woman aged 24. He was imprisoned and applied for bail. Three times he was turned down, but a fourth judge granted him bail. He was sent to live at a certain address, where he befriended his neighbours, who did not know that he was accused of murder. Eight months later, while babysitting their children, he killed one of them.
Perhaps the most extraordinary twist of this terrible tale is that the parents of the murdered child then had another baby, which the social services then removed from them on the grounds that they had previously entrusted a child to the care of a murderer and were therefore irresponsible parents. The state blames its citizens for the mistakes – if that is what they are – that it makes.
What lies behind this terrible, wilful incompetence? I suppose some people might say that anecdotes mean nothing; that it is statistics we have to look at, and the majority of people sent out on parole, or on bail for murder, do not kill again. The questions we should be asking are what proportion of people who say in advance that they have no intention of abiding by parole conditions go on to commit serious crimes if granted parole anyway, and what proportion of accused murderers granted bail kill again while on bail. In the light of these questions, the decisions taken in the two cases I have cited might appear slightly less absurd.
This is dust in our eyes, however. The presumption must be against someone who has been convicted of 102 previous offences, many of them violent, or someone who has been convicted of many previous offences and is suspected on the strongest possible grounds of having killed. It is morally frivolous to suggest otherwise. …-
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“This cult of the euphemism is like a disease.
It sickens our understanding,
it weakens our defences,
it upsets our sense of truth.
And if anyone thinks words don’t really matter
they’re not only foolish
but clearly wouldn’t object to having their
mother called a filthy name.”
‘Tis The Time To Judge
Toronto Sun ^ | 12-9-06 | Micheal Coren
As Christmas approaches people like me are expected to write columns about the horrors of saying “Happy Holidays,” about the attack upon the traditional Christmas and about how dreadful it is that Nativity scenes are banned from certain shopping malls.
All of that may be true. But as much as we should be less materialistic and more faithful and religious, I’d like to make another plea as we enter the Christmas season. Be more judgmental.
In the name of all that is good and holy and right and precious, be more judgmental.
Now let’s sort out our definitions here. Don’t preach one thing and do another because that would be dishonest. Don’t condemn that of which we are also guilty because it would be hypocritical. Don’t look to judge when we can do otherwise.
But call a sin a sin and a crime a crime and never confuse morality with manners and compassion with sentimentality*. …-
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* sentimentality
noun
1. falsely emotional in a maudlin way [syn: mawkishness]
2. extravagant or affected feeling or emotion
dictionary.com
Cold, eh?
So cold that this “leading…blah, blah, blah” “asked not to be named”.
Why not? It’s too “sensitivity”. He really means it’s too hot; too uncomfortable, too damning for the warmites.
The Kyotoists, including French socialist Kyoto Dion, Maurice Strong, are hucksters, frauds, fear-mongers. The driver behind the fraud is the Green-Greed ethos: $$$$$$$$$$.
Hypocrites unparallelled; Greens are the “Greed R’Us Inc.”
Cold cash, eh?
Quote:
“One leading UK climate scientist, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity surrounding the report before it is published, said:”
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UN downgrades man’s impact on the climate
Richard Gray, Science Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 1:32am GMT 10/12/2006
Mankind has had less effect on global warming than previously supposed, a United Nations report on climate change will claim next year.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there can be little doubt that humans are responsible for warming the planet, but the organisation has reduced its overall estimate of this effect by 25 per cent.
In a final draft of its fourth assessment report, to be published in February, the panel reports that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has accelerated in the past five years. It also predicts that temperatures will rise by up to 4.5 C during the next 100 years, bringing more frequent heat waves and storms.
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The panel, however, has lowered predictions of how much sea levels will rise in comparison with its last report in 2001.
Climate change sceptics are expected to seize on the revised figures as evidence that action to combat global warming is less urgent.
Scientists insist that the lower estimates for sea levels and the human impact on global warming are simply a refinement due to better data on how climate works rather than a reduction in the risk posed by global warming.
One leading UK climate scientist, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity surrounding the report before it is published, said: “The bottom line is that the climate is still warming while our greenhouse gas emissions have accelerated, so
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Does anyone remember all the hype and ridicule about those cults of the past-there was that comet thing, all those dead in Montreal, the kool-aid fiasco, and many I can’t remember. Many asked, how could someone be so stupid to believe this that or the other thing leading to the end of the world, and kill themselves over it. Well, I put all those that believe in global warming in the same category. So far there have been no mass suicides over it, just mass thefts of our money to meet unattainable targets. I really put global warming on the same scale as the Nigerian scams.