Another busy day. Things should be back up to speed by tomorrow.
Belinda – “Canada’s top political dog”. Who knew?
Another poll goes horribly wrong.
In the worldwide war on Islamist terrorism, who would have guessed one of our strongest allies would be Ethiopia?
Speaking of Somalia – I have a proposal. The next columnist who refers to the United States of America as “the ultimate rogue state” should be required to spend an unescorted year in Somalia (or the Sudan, or Nigeria or North Korea) before ever being allowed to write again.
Brussels Journal;
Régnier applied for and received the status of an invalid from Wallonia’s generous welfare authorities. He consequently receives a welfare check of over €1,000 a month. His three wives are all unemployed. Hence, they each get €800 in unemployment benefits. On top of this the family receives €4,000 in child allowances. This makes a grand total of more than €7,400 a month ($9,700 or £4,960) – all of it provided by Belgium’s taxpayers. All the money matters in the household are taken care of by Serge. His wives are only interested in children. They have told the press that they each hope to have another baby in 2007.
Merry al-Christmas!
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How many countries belong to the UN. Why isn’t the cost split equally among all of them. Why should the US pay 25%, provide the land and the bldg, just to be vilified by all those dictator countries. Abolish the UN, wasn’t that Pearsons idea in the first place. Typical liberal crap.
“Lefty is as lefty does.”
That’s not even coherant. It certainly does not address my point.
MaryT: “My question to all of them, how many of you that are against the death penalty for saddam or others, are in favor of killing innocent unborn babies via abortion. And I bet they see no hyprocricy in their views. ”
You know what they say: life is sacred from conception to birth.
How many of you who favour making abortion illegal are pacifists? “And I bet they see no hyprocricy in their views.”
Should of said, “Stupid is as stupid does”. Get the point? Didn’t think so.
Is Lavrenti Beria’s list (above) that of Noam Chomsky? Could be. Is Beria really Noam Chomsky, an aged leftist-communist troll? Chomsky had a longer/better list, though:
“Chomsky has found no fewer than fifty [50]reasons to consider the United States a totalitarian society and his abundant political writings make clear his unshakable conviction that the United States is
the most odious entity that ever existed.”
Which god has failed
by Paul Hollander
http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/20/feb02/holland.htm
Beria:
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250pxacberia. Lavrenty Beria, The Patron Saint of Unbillable Hours … Beria.. the creepy pervert of all creepy perverts in history. …-
unbillablehours.com
The “atrocities of the U.S.” cause “massive human suffering, and of impoverishing the lives of billions”!!!! We’ve got some insane trolls here today! Still pissed about the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the global communist dream, I’d say.
“Throughout history, that’s what all empires considered themselves.”
And throughout history, they’ve mostly been right. While no empire has ever been perfect, the majority have been preferable to the tyrants and savages who operated outside of those empires. And the existence of some of those empires is what gave us todays liberal society. If it wasn’t for the Brits and the Yanks, you’d be living in a much more primitive and violent world.
“Besides, the subject today wasn’t ‘bad’ or ‘good’, it was ‘rogue'”
Fine, the US is rouge, and in their case, rogue is good. I’d rather take an unpredictable ally who tries to do the right thing as much as possible, than a predictable one who always takes the path of least resistance.
Throughout history, that’s what all empires considered themselves.
* I * am the one making that statement, not echoing something the U.S. may have said about itself. Because it’s true – it is the pre-eminent force for good in the world.
If opposing the gangster states that largely compose the U.N. makes the U.S. a “rogue” state in the eyes of moral equivalists who flippantly take the name of a mass murderer, I think the U.S. can wear that as a badge of honour.
I just want to take a moment to mention to the anti-American crowd that in the end, America and Canada are just a bunch of friends and extended relatives.
On some issues I no longer even distinguish between the 2 countries when I think about it. Down the page in a post about gun ownership and women, I simply no longer differentiate between Americans and Canadians who are unarmed victims of violent crime.
I would go to a Canadian woman’s aid as quickly as an American’s and never give the matter a second thought.
I realize that it is hard to live next door to the elephant, but the common denominator of being North Americans, largely of European heritage, enormous trading partners, tremendous allies, who work in one another’s movies, who are interchangeable in some industries back and forth across the border, who intermarry constantly, really makes a lot of the cross-border animosity pretty dismissable in my view.
Happy New Year everybody!
Speaking of Somalia – I have a proposal. The next columnist who refers to the United States of America as “the ultimate rogue state” should be required to spend an unescorted year in Somalia (or the Sudan, or Nigeria or North Korea) before ever being allowed to write again.
Nicely done indeed.
Check this out…
http://no-libs.com/?p=1344
good spot canforce 101!!
explains the leftleaning trollness of it all.
lberia is …..
Lavrentiy Beria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria
Having lived in Calgary for many years, I have learned to ignore the lefty rants of Kaufmann. The best thing I can say about him is that he isn’t bashing the US all the time and he might even be less left leaning than Eric Margolis although that is a toss up.
I guess from the babbling of the resident moonbats here is that by not bowing to the UN’s every wish makes you a rogue state. Seems to me that all of the big five have used their veto power at one time or other but only America gets the bad rap. Anyone who still thinks the UN has any credibility also believe that Libya was the right choice for chairing the Human Rights committee or General Delaire was over reacting to the situation in Rawanda.
Bruce: “Should of said, “Stupid is as stupid does”. Get the point? Didn’t think so.”
So your response to my point about political theory is to say, “you’re stupid!” Get the irony? Didn’t think so.
I think only one of the “resident moonbats” has referred to the U.N. I certainly haven’t and I believe I have a good claim to the title of “resident moonbat” 🙂 In fact, I don’t have a lot of respect for the U.N., though it is possible that it could be turned into something good.
DOB DATE OF BIRTH here, not date of conception on ANY calendar. there is NOT a fixed rigid number of days after conception, just a typical statistical mean. or is that the one youre going to use ??? just an ‘avergare’ length of gestation???
It’s been proven, with scripture, that the conception of Yahshua was Dec. 24/25. That’s when He began to dwell in the flesh.
Try to avoid the typical leftist, kneejerk attitude.
since the biblical referance is to the Roman calendar in terms of the year, the month would have been as well, and the day or the week. The weeks were not 7 days as ours our but 9 , there were 10 to 11 months and 12 at the time of the Julian calendar but corrections were constantly being made by adding days in at the end of years or even in the middle of months. I cant see how anyone could definitively state a date.
Bat Leham was a series of caves about 5km from Jerusalem , the occupants , sheep herders. not likely the most mathematically inclined but likely literate to a point as they were Jewish.The Gospels were written down about 100 years later and were not first hand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar
since the biblical referance is to the Roman calendar in terms of the year…
Each priestly course was one week. Served twice a year. This was set in 1 Chronicles 24, long before there was a Roman calendar.
richard 2 “to just accept something as valid because someone states it does not make it so” I agree, and a good example is Mahr Arar’s (innocence). Did the RCMP or CISIS pull his name out of a hat and say “Lets jerk this clown around just for fun” What don’t we know about this situation?? Sleeper comes to mind.
Gerald Ford, a past president in the US has passed away.
Oh yeah, if anyone missed it, James Brown passed away on Christmas day.
Rob do you seriously think that if they had extracted any good evidence on Arar he would be walking around a free man? He was picked up because the U.S. said he was a “threat”. There is a lot of paranoia right now, and mistakes have been made in arresting people….I have no doubt more of these cases will surface.
I understand now richard. It was US authorities that picked his name out of a hat.
“The socialist/liberal/democrat/communist types do provide for good a laugh…”
To which Exile replied, “huh? You are lumping together two (possibly 3, depending on how you understand “socialist”) very different political philosophies here!”
Not at all. It’s apparent you don’t really understand the nature of the beast. They are all simply part of the same continuum. Merely a matter of degree. You can argue until the cows come home that they are separate and distinct political philosophies, but in the end the result is always the same. A misunderstanding of human nature, followed by repression when those human beings refuse to behave in the ways deemed progressive rather in the ways with which Mother Nature has endowed us.
No country like the US or Iran nor persons like you and me are without flaws.
Life is a journey towards making things better.
One has to wonder where the motivation comes from for ranting against the USA.
Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Qatar, and various countries are feeding, training and exporting terrorists to free and democratic countries to carry out public utilities bombings.
Is it not logical to critisize these *rogue* countries and get this terrorist production of head choppers and suicide bombers slowed first?
By back-stabbing the USA, are you saying these other criminal states are not really doing very much evil?
By dumping on the USA are you suggesting that Saddam, who used poison gas on Kurd villages and pillaged Kuwait and exterminated hundreds of Shiia should not face any penalty?
Sometimes one wonders if Muslim terrorist supporters and Liberal$ are the same people. = TG
Here is my reply to the Columnist at the Calgary Sun (Herr “Wilhelm” Kaufmann’s reply is below)
Herr Kaufmann,
I always love to read opinions such as yours. It
re-invigorates the soul. You see I am an active duty U.S. Army officer and you have no idea what you are talking about! You spout platitudes and statistics like they mean something. What
you need to do is stop sitting on your brain and actually do something that makes a difference instead of sitting in your lily white ivory tower. It would do you some good. No wonder
my ancestors left Europe in the 1660s, they were as sick of preachy Germans as I am of preachy German-Canadians. One last thing, I was born in Alberta so spare me the anti-American rant….
Yeah, get off my ass and invade a country that was no threat to anyone else, while empowering the Iranians in that country. Now that’s action and a great use of $400 billion – so far!! It’s working great, too and you don’t need to be in an ivory tower to see that. Funny, the numbers I quoted on Guantanamo are Pentagon figures and US intelligence/security experts have long said most of those held in Guantanamo should never have been there. It’s a fact. But I see some active duty US Army officers don’t let those facts get in the way. They’d rather be doing something – anything – even if it’s state terrorism, counterproductive and makes the rest of the world detest them. BTW, enjoy your great victory in Iraq. Looks like there’ll soon be even more U.S. troops there to bleed for their great leader’s sins and incompetence. Now back to my ivory tower…
“”The socialist/liberal/democrat/communist types do provide for good a laugh…”
To which Exile replied, “huh? You are lumping together two (possibly 3, depending on how you understand “socialist”) very different political philosophies here!”
Not at all. It’s apparent you don’t really understand the nature of the beast.”
(sorry for the long quote)
You’d be hard pressed to name a single country on this planet without some level of social programs including the one you are currently living in. Does that mean the entire planet is in the grip of communism? Give your head a shake.
A lot earlier Iberia says about the U.S.’s less than perfect record (is there any perfect country, Iberia?): “…and when it does things with disregard , for what others in the international community think that make[s] it a “rogue”.”
Well, duh. Are you concerned at all about that other countries–let’s take China, Iran, the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Pakistan as examples–do “things with disregard for what others in the international community think”?
Do any of those countries give anything approaching the interntaionational aid, year after year, that the U.S. does?
Check your factometre, Iberia. Your lefty biases, based on nothing but shere malicious, we-love-to-hate-the-U.S. wishful thinking, are trailing well below the hem of your skirt.
Your arguments are not well-turned out, sorry to say.
RE: IMHO, Kaufmans’ reply to S. Baker proves (once again) that he is a disgusting p.o.s.
To contend that Iraq was -a country that was no threat to anyone else- and to gloat about dead and injured U.S. soldiers -BTW, enjoy your great victory in Iraq. Looks like there’ll soon be even more U.S. troops there to bleed for their great leader’s sins and incompetence- is beyond ignorant.
I sure would like to see him eat those words.
SBaker, I wrote Kaufman at the Sun also:
“Hey Bill, did ya pay GST on that stuff you are smoking?”
Support for the UN on this thread’s a no-brainer. These treaties are ill conceived–the agendas are regularly highjacked by leftist special interest NGOs–and are regularly used by true rogue states to rap the knuckles of the world’s democracies.
For example, the UN Treaty on the Rights of the Child has all kinds of problems, e.g., seriously eroding parental authority regarding such things as freedom of association–“Forget it, Mom, I get to hang out with my drug dealing buddies. The UN says so! Church? Forgeddaboutit.”
This treaty and the other “world government, UN as nanny” conventions (significantly engineered by Liberal funded feminist NGOs sent by Canada) have allowed the UN to wag its fingers at such countries as Canada and the US for such trivialities as, let’s say, allowing spanking, while the finger waggers actually enslave children–or worse–in their own countries. The sheer effrontery of such gross hypocricy boggles the mind.
BTW, the Liberal government has used these treaties to enact unpopular policies–“The UN [pressured by us in the first place] made us do it!” How convenient. How cynical. How utterly typical of the Liberals. (Interesting, though, that they didn’t use the UN definition of marriage: one man, one woman. But, hey, consistency isn’t one of the Liberals’ virtues. Do they have any?)
Two thumbs up to the US for giving the thoroughly discredited UN a wide berth. (IMO, no thumbs for the US continuing to provide ANY funds to this ungrateful, rogue body.) That Canada and Canadians–lied to by the MSM about this despicable institution–continue to respect the UN is a black mark against us. What dupes!
Speaking of military over at CJUNK:
While all Eyes are on Afghanistan
Here’s a gut wrenching piece that just surfaced. For those of us who support the troops, it’s sometimes important to be reminded that the Canadian Forces are not just in Afghanistan, and that while all eyes are focuses on the Afghan mission, the CF is still the CF elsewhere; which means bureaucrats and petty wieners behind desks at times treating our soldiers like shit …
What? …. you thought that just because there was a change in government all the attitudes would just disappear:
“This month, someone in Ottawa has decided that our mission should have the Risk Level down graded from Level 2 to Level 1 and have our danger pay reduced. In addition, with Risk level reduced, the tax exemption was gone. This is retroactive to June 2006. Well, the pay system took all the taxes owed in one shot and for my Dec pay, I owed the Feds $11000.00.”
http://cjunk.blogspot.com/
And all along I thought Iberia was short for Rogue Bull Dyke.
Funny how the Islamofascists in Somalia are positioning their thumping and cowardly retreat as a great victory for Allah! Funny, though typical. Only Muslims can hold and promote two antithetical opinions at the same time, For example, most claim that Muslims had nothing to do with 911, it was the Zionists afterall. However, 911 was a great victory for Allah.
Perhaps that kind of illogical thinking is what Islam and the left hold in common.
Please forward to Warren “Barney” Kinsella; cc to Citoyen Kyoto Dion.
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Scientific debate heats up over fate of Australia’s dinosaurs (aborigines killed them)
MonstersandCritics.com ^ | 12/27/06
Palaeontology’s angriest argument was given another nudge Tuesday with the release of research that claims Australia’s giant prehistoric animals were killed off by Aborigines rather than climate change. Flinders University’s Gavin Prideaux said the fossil record showed that the megafauna – giant marsupials the size of small trucks – were able to survive floods and droughts. They perished within 20,000 years of sharing the continent with humans, suggesting it was spears that did them in, rather than habitat changes. The giant kangaroos, 2.5-ton diprotodons vanished around 50,000 years ago. ‘Climate change was certainly not the main culprit in the extinctions,’…-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1759018/posts
Jeff, Jose and exile, cheese eating surrender monkeys all.
Exile said:
“The problem is that you have heard exaggerated stories about the atrocities of all these countries and virtually nothing about the atrocities of the U.S. And there are other ways of causing massive human suffering, and of impoverishing the lives of billions, apart from what is generally considered to fall under the heading of ‘atrocity’. But you have been very thorougly indoctrinated. The chances of getting through to you in this kind of forum are virtually nill.”
Exile encapsulates why the Chomskyites have no credibility. To him, inner city violence is the same as Pol Pot offing 3 million of his own people. (Sorry, did I exagerrate, was it only 1 million?) If someone buys a can of Coke in Yemen, then that is the problem in the world, not totalitarians (by the true definition, not the relativist Chomsky crap), such as Islamofascists.
There is plenty to criticize the US for (invading someone every five years for example); where credibility is lost is when the argument is: 1) the US does no good when, in spite of their superpower behaviour, they have actually done some good, and 2) when Chomskyites are so obsessed with criticizing the US, they become unbalanced and don’t seem to have time to look at the atrocities taking place all over the world.
No, I don’t like the idea of USA as world policeman, but can we expect the UN to deal with true rogue states? It is the UN that needs to be reformed far more than the US.
Saddam’s last message: ‘Do not hate'[the US]
Globe and Mail – 20 minutes ago
AP. BAGHDAD, Iraq – Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis not to hate the US-led forces that invaded Iraq in 2003 in a farewell letter posted on a Web site Wednesday, a day after an appeals court upheld the former dictator’s death sentence and ordered him to …- google news
“Your lefty biases, based on nothing but shere malicious, we-love-to-hate-the-U.S. wishful thinking…”
batb
For the record, I don’t hate Americans, nor do I hate the US. I simply gave examples of why the US can be considered a “rogue” state. Criticism is not the same as hatred, nor does it make me left wing, communist, or an Islamofascist supporter. And yes, there are countries with worse human rights records, etc., but I wasn’t making comparisons.
Right wingers are so thin skinned.
A testimonial from Citoyen Dion: Buy polyester.
Always buy the cheapest. The suit Moi has is good French polyester. Moi bought it in Paris in 1981. C’est vrai. Don’t buy nothing made in the USA; remember what Carolyn and l beria and Noam said:
Moi hates those American bndhymxs. …-
Canada missed chance for cheaper aircraft upgrade
David Pugliese, Canwest News Service
Canada was offered a chance to acquire aircraft specially designed for an Afghanistan-type war for less than half of the price of the new fleet of C-130J Super Hercules the government plans to purchase.
Government officials, however, decided against the proposal by a U.S. company, Snow Aviation International,…-
I would MUCH rather the US be the world police than anything the commies have to offer. and the next scum that cries obsenities about my big brother should have the balls to say it to either his or my face.
liberano = lying thieving coward.
the most twisted list Ive seen in a long time
http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_mallick/20061225.html
More on the Duke University “rape” case:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110009444
cal2 that was by far the most discusting thing i have seen in years.
Exile: Yes, all life is sacred, from conception on. We were given free will, and this means we can choose how we live or die. However, aborted babies do not have this choice. You live a reasonable good life, you can live and die with dignity. However, if you choose to be a very evil person, you have chosen to die a very horrible death. Saddam chose to be very evil, as did his sons. Gerald Ford chose to be good, and died peacefully. Of course sometimes fate intervenes, but there is still a reason for it. You, exile must be a very unhappy person, with no life at all.
irwin daisy: “And all along I thought Iberia was short for Rogue Bull Dyke.”
uh…. am I the only one who has a problem with this?
FREE: “and the next scum that cries obsenities about my big brother should have the balls to say it to either his or my face.”
Is that a threat?
“Jeff, Jose and exile, cheese eating surrender monkeys all.”
Well, that’s a compelling argument but I remain unconvinced.
Rogue Bull Dyke?!! Well, insults from a flower don’t bother me. And I really don’t have any problem being a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.
Saskatchewan RCMP call for reinforcements because of public sector strike
REGINA (CP) – RCMP in Saskatchewan are calling for 250 reinforcements to help deal with an ongoing strike by unionized public sector workers. …-
For those of you who would apply to Canada
Elections for Returning Officer position.
Part – time and two months full – time employment.
Applications deadline is January 5th/2007.
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Hope this is just readyness and not an expensive exercise too soon. = TG
That is:
ElectionsCanada.ca
= TG