From the comments – “David Suzuki is doing a series of interviews on The Weather Network. The big news here is, Chris Sinclair invites our feed-back. “ E-mail: (the boss at TWN)”
The Party of Nothing – for the troop increase before they were against it.
I do believe Stephen Harper’s communications team includes a Director of Helping Jack Layton Say Really Stupid Things Before The TV Cameras. (Note that you must read to the bottom of Rosemary “if you can’t report – speculate!” Thompson’s item to discover the words “trade mission”.)
An uncanny resemblance.
Add yours in the comments.
I don’t think Jack Layton needs any help in saying stupid things, stupid people do those things.
And the republicans and instapundit were against troop increases before they were for it.
Too little too late.
Actually to those of us who do not have 6 figure incomes and live in subsidized housing, driving a hydrogen-powered 8000 lb monster is the epitomy of ‘being satisfied with half-measures’.
Does anyone know where I can get a thermometer that measures in 1/100s of a degree? I want to get a handle on this global warming thing.
Hmmm…I thought I saw the phrase of the year here earlier this week when I saw “Y2Kyoto”, now it looks like “if you can’t report – speculate!” might be the winner.
Here is a poll that needs a few more votes methinks,
lets all hop on board and help out…..
http://rm.angusreidforum.com/?cid=178&rs=GgEnGW
“* Schwarzenegger wants an 80 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2050
* Harper promises a 65 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 2003 levels by 2050”
If you vote for me, I promise: a free national daycare program by 2035, no more gun crimes in Toronto by 2043, free fishing licences by 2048, and I’ll reduce all emissions from 2003 levels by 110% by 2049!
I will create a perfect world, on someone else’s dime, long after I’m dead. Sigh.
The Dion’s World poster is brilliant!
Has anyone else noticed that Suzuki’s title changes with whatever cause he’s trying to advocate (or rally against)?
When they want a leader, he’s the “head/founder/chair/supporter of the [whatever – but usually Suzuki] foundation.” When they want a compassionate person trying to make a difference, he’s an “activist.” When they want celebrity, he is a ‘long running CBC personality’. When they want him to generally appear as a smart guy (the old appeal to authority trick), he’s a scientist. When the issue is foreign, he’s a Japanese-Canadian leader / activist / chair / founder / TV personality / scientist. And if you dare doubt his purity, don’t worry, the internment camp thing will be brought up again before too long.
And when he is used as a reference in a controversial issue, adjectives like “respected” and “visionary” are added.
For the record, he’s a geneticist. I’m not aware of any other distinction he has (even in his own field) except that he was one of the earlier of the CBC’s visible-minority personalities and he has just gone too far in believing the hype about himself.
As sent to “the boss of TWN”
——————————–
Suzuki is a ACTIVIST. PERIOD.
The only way to be fair and balanced about his appearance on your channel is to provide time for a ACTIVIST from the non eco-socialist camp to rebut.
Failing to do so will result in yours truly passing on my objections to your sponsors….vote with my keyboard, as it were.
Enviromentalism used to be about good stewardship, but now seems to be one of the anti-capitalist Religions.
Please try to retain a little credibility here.
Sincerly,
Darren xxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx AB
Fruit fly expert David Suzuki can tell us exactly what the weather will be 100 years from now, those silly meteorologists can’t tell us what it will be like next week – and they actually study that stuff for years!
All hail our new Environmentalist Overlords!
You’ll laugh, You’ll cry
You’ll STILL vote Harper
Bring it on!
dmorris:
Your points are nothing new. For a long time, in order to get or stay elected, political leaders have been coming up with policies and ideas that sound good but mean nothing in the here and now.
You don’t have to look far to find examples of policies or “plans” that either…
a) Are designed so that their success or failure cannot be measured (and therefore the “rightness” or “wrongness” of the policy assessed) until long after the politician making the promise is out of office
OR
b) Will cause terrible economic pain and suffering on the population – but that’s OK because it won’t be realized in the lifetime (or at least the political lifetime) of the leader him/herself.
For point “a”, the Americans even have a term for it…they call it “promising results for the out years.” That is, the years after the Governor or President is out of office by law.
Trudeau is a good example of point “b”. His supporters marvel at how smart he was. But, you don’t need to be an economist or expert on anything having to do with the economy to know that, when you deficit spend (to buy votes) to the tune of billions of dollars each and every year for 16 years, the next generation is going to suffer under the tremendous debt you have created. Only not giving a sh** about the population you leave behind when you leave office (with your gubmint pension) could lead to this way of thinking.
Schwing!!
“Oil extracted from the Alberta tar sands might not pass California’s new clean-fuel standards.”
There goes the Alberta economy… no one will buy our oil once this gets out… what shall we ever do… woe is me….
Ever notice that some members of an ethnic group have taken their revenge on Canada for past treatment of their group-Suzuki-internment camps-Morgenthaler-holocaust. And then we have the native blockades. Wonder how different Canada and the liberal party would be if King had allowed that boat to disembark many years ago. Why anyone of jewish heritage votes liberal, or the japanese, or the chinese is beyond me. Maybe they don’t know the history of how liberals used and abused them.
Yeah, Trudeau was a free spender… of taxpayer money. Too bad Mulroney thought it was a contest….
Can the Weather Channel Tell me why they are allowing an ex entomoligist who counts fruit flys pontificats like a climate change expert???
As for Suzuki….a confirmed professional alarmist…stick a fork in ’em Jack this weenie’s credibility is baked!
These so-called “experts”,are more media hounds than anything.I find the biggest offenders are,Layton,Stephen Lewis,Suzuki and Mark Holland.If I had to look at Lewis one more time whining during the big Aids-fest in TO,I was really going to hurl.Layton would do or say anything for a 2 min.sound bite,and you just get sick of hearing him and his”wrong-headed” remarks.I truly think PMSH has this media thing down pat…he always leaves you wanting more,cuz he just makes sense,whereas,all the others become a joke!
Forgot to say…”PARTY ON GARTH!!”…”Party on Stephanie”
My husband calls Suzuki Sukookie.
He’s got a point.
Citizen Dion, aka The Milker, and Trust Me Goodale.
Did the Rev. L. Calvert snub a photo-op with Abbe Dion, the Priest of Kyoto?
Commissar Goodale issues a diktat, Librano$ style, to Canadians; Shut Your Mouths. …-
Dion says he will name his shadow cabinet within days.
While Dion would not confirm that Goodale has a spot in the shadow cabinet, he did tell reporters that he is a “Ralph Goodale fan.”
Goodale supported Bob Rae in the recent Liberal leadership race and there has been speculation that Goodale may not be named a critic.
Goodale says anyone who believes he might be dropped should “hold their fire.” cnews
Sammy, you are so right on.
Stephen Lewis has about dried up any credibility he may have had in spite of HIS TEARS ON TAP ROUTINE.
In spite of all the money spent on AIDS, there is little to show for it.
Harper has the media by the short hairs and they are slowly becoming aware of it.
It’s hard to imagine what Goodale’s fate will be, his nose is still brown from his stint with Martin.
There is no bigger brown-noser than Ralphy. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE ONE OF THOSE!
Dion will need someone on the wheat file, he’s not exactly into the farming business so maybe Ralphy can bring in the sheaves for him.
A plaque
in recognition of the work done by the late …
to acquire provincial funds
for a First Link pilot program
to be operated by the Alzheimer Society of … was presented …-
(Copied from a small-town newspaper.)
Cause and effect? Effect and cause?
Canadians do this stuff? Political fantasy land, indeed.
Hello to sda. A letter I wrote to The Weather Network regarding the Suzuki interviews.
Deanna M Langton
The Weather Network
Suzuki “interviews”
(an opened letter)
January 13, 2007
I am a retired farmer from Manitoba. The weather has always been important to me. TWN was part of my routine then and now. NO MORE !!!
That your organization would stoop so low as to welcome this so-called scientist, activist, on your program is disgusting. And to think that I was a 20 year faithful fan of The Nature of Things.
His fear mongering over global warming has long been discredited. Wake up. Even Kyoto’s creator, the UN IPCC, has lately admitted that they over estimated man’s role.
I expect equal air time from others such as;
Dr Patrick Moore, a Canadian co-founder of Greenpeace . and now has his own org, greenspirit.com
Dr. Tim Ball, life time Climatologist. Has researched the hundreds of years of weather and climate data the Hudson Bay Co collected. He has probably forgot more about the Earth’s climate than Suzuki will ever learn.
and others such as;
Peter Foster, Financial Post
Terence Corcoran, National Post
Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun
I cannot convey how irritated I am with TWN. As of now I and my family are boycotting all your sponsors’ products. My weather information will come from the Internet from now on.
It seems that orgs like TWN, Suzuki Foundation, LPC, Sierra, ect are so far out in left field, and know it, that they have pulled out all the stops in an effort to save their scam called Kyoto. Propoganda is their only hope. It will not work. Not in this day and age of the Internet and Blogs.
This is the first time in my life I have ever boycotted anything. Not even so much as written a protest letter before today. And as a Grain Farmer I KNOW that the climate is always changing. Throughout the years, the decades, the millennium. How and the h*** do think most Canada ended up covered by a kilometer of ice during the last ice age, only 10000 years ago ?? And was then melted ?? And is still melting.
The Weather Network stooped to a propogandist, one that is completely without credibility on the science of the Earth’s climate. Only the CBC’s Billions made him what he is. IMO.
Did TWN also believe in Y2K ?? And the tragedy called the DDT Ban ??
TWN is toast in my books unless it gives equal airtime to others.
Ronald Franzmann
Kelowna
cc to others
That poster is great – I KNEW the little guy reminded me of someone, just couldn’t put my finger on it.
Breaking: Winter Storm Warning for Midwest/Ice Storm Warning
(weather.gov)
News for all from the gov. …-
I detest Stephen Lewis. He’s a bitter old maid. But I love that ‘tears on tap’ remark by Liz. It’s perfect.
You know, when I read that pointless column by Rosemary IYCR-S, it occurred to me that:
1. It’s not news
2. Das Terminator is offering nothing measurable
3. Harper has a plan, first PM in decades to address air quality
4. JackL gets more feeble-minded with each passing day
5. Elizabeth May is getting too much press time
6. It’s not news
Just a couple of points – Micheal? Mulroney’s program spending stayed around the level of the tax revenue he was receiving – he got kicked out of office for (among other things) introducing a tax to take care of the interest on Trudeau’s debt.
I read an article the other day which pointed out that Malaria has killed more people than AIDS in the last 30-40 years. Something to think about.
How’s this for irony – a French magistrate has accused Canada of not taking the threat of terrorism seriously.
thestar dot com/News/article/170751
“No army in Africa was capable of doing this on its own, and it was unlikely that these Al-Qaeda bad guys
were just going to go away, so the United States decided to do something about it.“
Hey Ron Franzmann, thanks for posting that comment, I looked into greenspirit a little and found a great little quote I was able to blog about on my “Being Right is Not Wrong” blog.
Hey kids,if any of you are interested,the GREAT Stephen Lewis is coming to Wpg.Jan.17th!His big “Look at me i’m important palooza” tour will grace UofM..topic to cover”The Silent Struggle/Gender&Race Beyond The Canadian Border.Nice he will be gracing the stage at the U of M..consistently rated as one of the worst in Canada!
Git yer tickets now..goin fast!
from Wpg.Free Press Jan 12 Suzuki likens Global warming to challenges of WW2:
Federal politicians should stop waffling and start respecting international laws,that require immediate action on climate change,Schizuki,urged Thurs.
In an interview,Schizo said he has yet to meet a politician who understands urgency of GW,which he compares to WW2.
When Japan attacked Pearl Harbour,no American politician said “oh shit(his words),we can’t afford to do anytthing about this.They’ve destroyed the Pacific fleet.We’ll have to give Japan the Orient.We have to commit EVERYTHING WE CAN to win this,and we’ve got the equivalent of 100 ecological Pearl Har.going off at once,and I don’t see any sense(from politicians)of how serious and urgent this is.It’s all political posturing”…and I’m a pompous ass.(I said that)
Bunch more blah blah..thenre:World Bank’s Stern:What Stern has said,”Look,if you don’t do anything,the cost is going to be catastrophic”
Schizuki responds with:”Now if that doesn’t get their attention,and get them off this bullshit that we can’t afford to do anything,then I don’t know what will get them off it>It certainly won’t be environmentalists like me,but Stern is an eminent economist and they damn well ought to be paying attention to him”
Bit of a potty mouth there,but that’s what he said!
And while were on this “breaking international laws”business..I guess that’s a no-no for the Cons,but breaking laws within our country is o.k,if you are Lib…someone should inform PMSH of these rules I guess.
global warming, er climate change, er left wing bullshit has become our new god, yes if you don’t believe you will soon be beheaded, that is what the lefties will start to resort to next. The ice age retreated, why, cavemen in their f…ing suvs, idling all over the place with their spotting scopes looking for mastadons, oh if the left would only evolve and stop hating themselves more than they hate the rest of us they would see the folly of their new god and their pathetic little lives.
McClaelland now warning NDP’s to send along their ideas,before the Cons.start filling up their blog tipline with “gibberish”Head on over kids..look at the great job we did for Cherniak!Probably the most interest he ever had,and by the looks of My Blech..he needs a little help too!
Terence Corcoran, editor of The National Post, has called the UN/Mann ‘hockey stick graph’ a “Big Lie”.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=68ec347c-6959-40cf-aac7-795b1a9291e8
Terence is absolutely correct. And the world knows it.
Kyoto was based on the ‘stick’. One would think/know that Kyoto is therefore a Big Lie also.
Dion is pushing Kyoto. What does that make him ??
What does that make other Media orgs that intentionaly choose to not report on the Big Lie ?? Liable ??
And The Weather Network had Suzuki on today. In a series of interviews promoting the Big Lie.
What’s most hilarious about all this NDP-tipline sillyness is that the most restrictions on comments are at the King Rube website (myblahg).
Ex-Tory candidate wins lawsuit:
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/170781
“Accountability” only when the courts twist your arm.
Regarding Terence Corocan’s column in the National Post, he is wrong about when he states : “Outside of the National Post, which first carried the McIntyre/McKitrick critique of the Hockey Stick, the story has been largely ignored by Canadian media. The Globe and Mail has yet to carry one story on the subject.”
Margaret Wente had an article in the March 15th. 2005 Globe and Mail,highly critical of the Hockey Stick and specifically referencing McIntyre/McKitrick. I can’t find the article but here is a link concerning it.
http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=137
Down with Multiculturalism.
Racism, as used today, is a hoax. The modern use/meaning is a pejorative, an epithet, thrown at anyone who does not conform to the transnational elite’s drive to enforce socialism’s “justice and equality” dogma.
The levellers of socialism would dissolve all races into One entity: Slaves. That is racism; the superiority of socialism.
…-
UNDER OUR SKIN
Almost half of Canadians polled admit to at least being slightly racist
The questions eschew political correctness and ask Canadians to do the same. The answers reveal some unpleasant truths about ourselves and question our bragging rights as a bastion of multiculturalism.
national newswatch
The moral turpitude, squalor of the Liberal icon: Mike Pearson.
Pearson was a base liar; a Red apologist. …-
Excerpts:
Pearson categorically denied Norman had ever flirted with communism — which a huge number of Pearson’s and Norman’s colleagues knew was false. At Cambridge, Norman associated with the likes of Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Kim Philby, who became Soviet spies. …
QUESTIONS REMAIN
But this was never publicly acknowledged by Pearson — hence lasting questions about both men.
Today, 50 years after Norman’s suicide and some 30 years after recriminations, innuendo and suspicions about the Norman/Pearson relationship have eased, it’s become even clearer that Herb Norman was a good man, with a guilty conscience who dreaded the truth about his past would damage his friend Mike Pearson, whose moral cowardice persuaded him to deny the truth that was undeniable.
Norman chose death rather than to risk admitting that Pearson lied on his behalf. Bowen chooses to blame the Americans for the Arar and Norman tragedies, but in both cases, the main perpetrators are Canadian — the former for transmitting false information, the latter for withholding truth. …-
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Worthington_Peter/2007/01/14/3362254-sun.html
When I was in high school in the 70’s there was an ice age coming,when they can tell me what’s going to happen this afternoon and be right I’ll worry about 100 years from now.Suzuki and his LEFTY’S tried to change the world with the color red that failed now they are using the color green.Lane
Mass collaboration: Harnessing the power of global ideas
Wikinomics: Bestseller touts the benefits of widespread collaboration over the Net
Excerpts:
Mass collaboration, a large number of people and companies coming together on the Web to innovate and create value, is evidenced in the operating system Linux, the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, and the virtual communities of YouTube and MySpace.
Rob McEwen, former chief executive of Vancouver’s Goldcorp Inc., decided to test the benefits of mass collaboration and launched the Goldcorp Challenge in 2000.
He took all of the company’s geological information about a property in Red Lake, Ont., that dated back to 1948 and offered $575,000 in prize money for those who produced the best estimates of where the gold was buried.
The contest yielded 110 targets to mine for gold, half of which the company hadn’t identified. More than 80 per cent of their targets yielded a substantial quantity of gold.
Tapscott and Williams used these keystones while creating Wikinomics.
Tapscott in Toronto and Williams in England used Skype, the voice-over-Internet service, to collaborate and write the book.
The subtitle came from an online discussion held during one week last summer.
And the 11th chapter of Wikinomics, the Wikinomics Playbook, at 15 words, scarcely makes a dent in the otherwise dense 324-page book.
That’s because the final version won’t be available until Feb. 5.
It’s waiting for you to make your online contribution at wikinomics.com/wiki.
http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/170729
Looks like another beheading by the Religion of Peach in Thailand.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/14/D8MKRNJO0.html
Arnold should accept PM Harper’s invitation to come to Canada to talk about so-called man-made global warming.
The Governator could kill four(4) birds with one stone.
#1) Escape the freezing California climate
http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?
storyid=23341
#2) Learn about Canada
#3) Realize that Al Gore pulled the wool over the Terminator’s eyes.
#4) and he could have a good time, eh !!
Re: Jack Layton, I thought that he was going to pee his pants with excitement when he was talking about Arnold coming to Canada. The only thing that could be better is if Arnold does come to visit and Jack is denied a meeting. That would make my day!
B. Hoax-Until Arnolds broken let is healed, he wont be able to ski here in Alberta.
Seems that Don Butler, CanWest News Service, would rather planes be blown up by terrorits. More bodies, more coffins, more newspapers and more dead trees.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=86ca6f29-7486-4463-a878-e083bd54c40e&k=88089
No where in his article do you see the security issues of flying today. Oh, no. Just how someone, someday, maybe, could be pulled aside at the check-in counter.
The media is out of control and is a clear and present danger to our well being.
Should be leg, not let. This new keyboard is very sensitive, and doesn’t spell too well. Fact is my old one needed the keys to be really pressed all the way down. This one you barely touch the keys and a letter appears. I was going to enroll this keyboard in an ESL course, but it is filled up with liberals trying to understand dion.