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“Today, I’ve received information from the east coast that some journalists have been sniffing around the shipyards on what is either a similar project or an extension of this one. Which means that information on this project is going to be out there in a couple of days. And I’d bet good money that the way that information is presented is going to be wrong.”
Well, now we know what that “L” on his forehead stands for!
“Deborah Gyapong reported in Canadian Catholic News that Stein proposed traditional religious groups essentially must either abandon any religious beliefs that conflict with the ideologies of the state, notably that of radical feminism, or cease to make any claims to special financial considerations for their charitable, non-profit works for the community.”
Where’s my .22?
Use this thread for your own.

56 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Kate thanks for moving the Mark Holland story to the top I think this story is something that need to get out. There is nothing in any of the newspapers that I could find not even the Edmonton or Calgary Sun, I think we need a letter to the editor writing blitz to the papers and to all the MPs asking about this to make it news.
    I would like to provide some links but I have to go to work, but later today I will be sending some letters to these papers and to Bob Mills MP.
    Take care and keep up the great work you do.

  3. tric @9:28am is on the money.
    MSM does not consider this worthy of mention apparently.
    Adler may have done his part but then Adler does not necessarily get that much coverage.
    Mark Holland the Liberal motormouth’s ‘take’ on the oilsands regulation in store from a Dion government should be “torqued” this time by the blogosphere!

  5. The cover that the media is providing Dion is getting rediculous.
    Whenever I watch Dion’s live performance, whether at a press conference or during question period, and then read the account in the press, it’s almost as if their describing a different preson.
    The coverage is the “cleaned up” message – invariably portraying a sharp attack on Harper, rather than the bumbling stumbling, rediculous assertions he and his people let fly repeatedly.

  7. After Holland’s remarks about the lab Rats plan for
    Alberta, will the good people of Alberta be electing democrats or republicans to Congress?

  8. Holland’s verbal abuse of Alberta is part of the Liberal agenda, in my view. The Liberals know that they have no votes in Alberta and they aren’t interested in Alberta anyway. They are interested in the votes of Quebec and Ontario. That was also an aspect of Dion’s tirade against the ‘easy money’ of the Albertan worker.
    Do get Quebec votes, they must show that they, the Liberals, will Get Alberta’s Money. Quebec, after all, considers that this money is – well, it’s Quebec’s. Just because you should ‘share your wealth’. And since Quebec’s socialist lifestyle is far, far in excess of its own fiscal ability, and it refuses to align its lifestyle with the lesser lifestyles of the ROC – Quebec considers that Alberta should pay for that lifestyle.
    The Liberal agenda is to show that they are Tough On Alberta.
    The other agenda is to be Tough on the Environment. At least in words. That’s for the sophist left in Ontario and Quebec.
    It’s all political strategy. For votes. Remember, Dion and the Liberals have only one agenda. Winning. But not for the good of Canada. For their own power.
    By the way – as an aside, before the comments were cut off, one thread was talking about the release on bail of the Iranian girl sentenced to death for killing a rapist. The bail was set at about 43,000USD – and some comments implied that Belinda Stronach paid this amount! No, that was the full bail. Who knows how much of her father’s money Belinda paid – but, there are LOTS of online sites for donations and therefore, it was hardly Stronach’s deal. But that amount should have been raised in a blink by the feminists – who are quite silent as usual on issues like this.

  10. “In the first 75 years of the 20th century, Phil cast no shadow only four times. But in just the last 25 years of the century, Phil cast no shadow fully eight times, alerting us that winter was coming to an early end, a six fold increase!”
    A hundred year old groundhog? Wow! No wonder he’s famous!

  13. The moonbats are swarming. Where’s a stick?
    After the release of the UN global warming report, I watched a news item on CBC about carbon footprint mania in Britain. More and more people are hiring carbon footprint investigators at $400 a visit to come into their home and investigate the amount of greenhouse gas they’re responsible for emitting. This particular investigator was a black clad, feminist dominatrix (perfect for enviroporn), scolding the homeowners. She sold them some sort of LED device that they have to continually punch numbers into to let them know their carbon footprint.
    What next? Airline travel rations. Government permission to buy certain vehicles (SUVs), Lights out curfew.
    I’m with Dennis Leary. It’s time to thin out the herd.

  14. Jim Travesty of the Crvena Zvezda blew it. Big time:
    http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/177773
    “…After previously deciding wisely on equipment that would be useful in fighting wars among the people and foolishly on big-ticket items of dubious value, the defence minister is now potentially in the market for everything from tanks to fighter aircraft and Arctic icebreakers.”
    Now, from “Conservatives change strategy to boost defence of Arctic” in the Ottawa Citizen:
    http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=9f754787-c560-4f3f-8a7b-bf0e9461ed4d&k=95220
    “…the Harper government appears to be backing off election promises to build a deep water port in the Arctic and launch a fleet of armed icebreakers.
    Instead, according to the government’s Canada First Defence Strategy paper, it will construct a forward operating refuelling and berthing site for navy ships and build six Arctic patrol vessels.”
    Mr Travesty refers to our “potentially” buying new fighters. Maybe around 2017, that is. He really should do some research.
    http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2006/12/canada-signs-f35-production-phase-mou/index.php
    Not buying Navy icebreakers is the right decision.
    http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2006/08/arctic-give-canadian-coast-guard.html
    Mark
    Ottawa

  15. CBC | Murder charge filed against Canadian in Guantanamo
    The U.S. military filed a murder charge Friday against Omar Khadr, who is the only Canadian imprisoned in the Guantanamo Bay prison and has been there for more than four years. …-

  16. Poll today in the g&m, several possible answers to
    the question re global warming.
    My vote went to I don’t believe in global warming.
    1000 voted they would do something Only if govts etc did also.
    Lets watch it go terribly wrong.

  18. Nice red sweater vest Mr. Cherniak. Grow a beard, pack on a few pounds and you can play Santa Claus for the 2012 Liberal Convention.

  19. The socialist propaganda campaign is worldwide/pervasive/unrelenting. The indoctrination of the youth continues; the next generation of believers in the religion of socialism. …-
    CBC
    The British government will send a copy of Al Gore’s film about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, to every secondary school in the country, the U.K. environment minister announced Friday….-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778202/posts

  22. Well at least algore is making megatons of money from his movie. Does any one really believe, that if the libs win the next election, dion will be leader in anything but name only.
    Will all businesses have to turn off all their signs, lights, when they are not open. It will be interesting for someone to keep an eye on dions home, once he moves, to see if lights are on in all the rooms, or will it be blacked out.
    Ask Hollands neighbors if his lights are on, if he idles his car. Drive-thrus are the next target. Too much gas wasted in lineups. But, where would all those cars park if everyone went in to get their coffee. We have to catch all these kyototology believers in examples of
    Do as I say, not as I do.
    And, as a report on the bbc asked, how do you tell 20 million people they can’t have a/c or heat or lights in their homes.
    Lots of talk about switching to fluresent lights. How many of you know that prolonged exposure to these can cause an epiletic to have a seizure. Same with many of the games out there.

  23. Hamas, Fatah ignore ceasefire agreement
    CBC.ca – 27 minutes ago
    Fighters loyal to Hamas and Fatah ignored a newly declared ceasefire and continued fighting on Saturday at Palestinian universities, security buildings and government offices.
    ROUNDUP: Hamas Official: “Immediate Ceasefire Agreed For Gaza” Playfuls.com
    Gaza universities in flames Toronto Star …-
    Muslims killing Muslims… What’s new?

  25. Janice Stein, in her article, “Living Better Multiculturally: Whose values should prevail?” suggests shutting down religious groups’ charitable status for tax purposes because they don’t conform to Canadian Charter Values.
    Swell.
    If she did her homework she’d know that it’s NOT those who adhere to and promote “Charter Values” who provide 65% of charitable donations in Canada, both money and time, to their fellow human beings but, rather, it’s the very groups she’d like to penalize who give so generously.
    Charter values folks–especially feminists: NAC/SOW–pretty much rely on government grants to do any charitable work. If money is required from their own pockets and if their time isn’t handsomely remunerated by a government handout, then count them out.
    I think Janice Stein would be mighty surprised to have to live in the dystopia Canada would become if “traditional religious groups” are asked to abandon religious beliefs that are in conflict with Charter values. She is especially exercised by religions that don’t go along with radical feminist ideologies.
    She claims that religious orthodoxy (Christianity, Islam and Judaism)is threatening peaceful multicultural coexistencein Canada’s cities and “is sharpening lines of division between ‘them’ and ‘us’.”
    I guess Ms. Stein has blinkers on if she can’t recognize that it’s actually the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (sic) and Human Rights Commissions, which she lauds, that have resulted in hyphenated Canadians and tensions between ethnic/cultural groups.
    There’s no one as blind–or doctrinaire–as a myopic, but committed, ideological feminist.
    Get some new glasses, Janice Stein, and a life.

  26. The only reason Dion was Environment Minister was because Martin hated him and wanted him “out of the way” in a portfolio Martin was not serious about anyways. All this Liberal revisionism is ridiculous. Just like Irwin Cotle’s faux outrage over the Arar affair.
    And by the way, where is the former Environment Minister Anderson in all of this? Why isn’t he centre stage? After all, he was Environment Minister through most of the Chretien years. You’d think Dion would want him to come out and endorse him or have him more visible.

  27. RE: Religion MUST conform to the ideals of the state…..”comrade.”
    If Mark Steyn is correct then all we (conservatives/Christians/etc) have to do is reproduce above the sustainable population rate of 2.2 kids per woman and raise our kids well to love, respect, honour and understand conservative values. Within a couple of generations it’ll be just Christians/Conservatives left with a smattering of liberals (who seem intent on breeding themselves and their ideology out of existence) Then we can bring the world back into line with reality.
    een

  28. Hmmm. My previous post came out incorrectly.
    We don’t love, respect, honour conservative values.
    We love, respect, honour each other and understand AND implement conservative values.
    Yeah. That’s better. Although I’ll probably wind up coming back to edit again. *sigh*
    een

  29. Don’t drink the taqiyya:
    “When we are weak,
    We appeal to you for ‘Liberty’ and for ‘Freedom,’
    Because these are your principles.”
    “When we are strong,
    We shall deny you these,
    Because they are not our principles.”

  30. A writer you could never trust revealed as a plagiarist:
    http://www.rbcinvest.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/LAC/20070203/ROBERTS03/national/national/national/somnia/
    “Shipments of bestseller halted
    space
    Passages in book about Iraq invasion were not attributed, author admits
    The Canadian publisher of an acclaimed bestseller on the U.S. invasion of Iraq has halted shipments of the book after an Atlanta newspaper said its text contains numerous passages that should have been attributed to one of its writers.
    Toronto author and Harper’s magazine contributor Paul William Roberts has admitted that his 2004 book, “A War Against Truth: An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq”,
    http://www.amazon.ca/War-Against-Truth-Intimate-Invasion/dp/1551928191/sr=1-1/qid=1170529763/ref=sr_1_1/702-0235386-6438412?ie=UTF8&s=books
    contains “elements [that] . . . closely resemble or are indistinguishable from passages” in an article in the Sept. 29, 2002, Atlanta Journal-Constitution by deputy editorial-page editor Jay Bookman…”
    More from Mr Roberts’ own site:
    http://www.paulwmroberts.com/bwarticles.htm
    Mark
    Ottawa

  31. Re: Wiarton Willie and his ilk,
    Naturally, any delta in the frequency or duration of groundhog shadows is immediately taken by the global warming ecomaniacs as irrefutable evidence of climate change. Don’t you get it? When it comes to climate change, EVERYTHING’s proof.
    Man, it was cold today! Yeah, well, that’s global warming for you. Some rainstorm, eh? Whew, yeah, that global warming’s something else. Hey, all I can see are a bunch of aerials sticking out of the snow…must be global warming. Thinner sea ice? Global warming. Thicker antarctic ice? Global warming. Fewer trees? More trees? Extra-furry rabbits? No rabbits? Big, green, fanged rabbits?
    Global warming!
    What I want to know is, if global warming is an observable, measurable, predictable phenomenon, then why isn’t Prudential selling global warming insurance? After all, if we’re going to spend 535 trillion dollars implementing the Kyoto Accord over the next century, surely we must have some fair degree of confidence in the predictive accuracy of the models? I know the last time I signed a cheque for 535 trillion, I at least asked to see a driver’s license…
    Also, if we’re so sure about the evils of carbon, can I sue producers of excessive carbon (e.g., sugar shacks, joggers and Alberta) the next time my basement floods?
    When predictions do not match observations – and where the climate change models are concerned, they most emphatically do not – then either your observational methodology is flawed or your hypothesis is invalid. Put another way, “X+Y=everything” is not a meaningful equation.
    If either Willie or Phil had predicted a late instead of an early spring, David Suzuki and Jack Layton would be all over the CBC, calling more winter “further proof of anthropogenic climate change.” When anything and everything may be taken as iron-clad proof of the validity of your theory, then there’s something wrong with your theory. That, or you’re unclear on what the word “hypothesis” means.
    This is, of course, assuming that Layton and Suzuki didn’t immediately denounce North America’s favourite four-legged weatherpersons as “unabashed rodent stooges of Big Oil”.
    D.A. Neill

  32. I hear there hasn’t been a single report of looting in Florida after the tornado, even though people’s stuff has been laying out on their lawns for two days, and many of the victims are poor people who live in trailer parks.
    Funny that…

  33. Lack of coverage of Holland’s remarks to Adler is worrisome. I should have thought that his comments were newsworthy, since they are indeed controversial, with some (TDH Strategies) actually defending his comments. Maybe not all papers feel the need to cover this . . . maybe some might just give it minor attention, but NO coverage is totally weird. The fact that there is absolutely no coverage seems like a deliberate attempt to bury the comments. Why would that be?

  34. Makes ya wonder, doesn’t it Kathy. Well, I might as well start the crap rolling. Notice though they are poor trailor trash, no blacks to be seen?? Guess they are all in house arrest with the 4 blacks found guilty of hate crimes.

  35. The Ottawa Citizen has gone totally off the deep end with its coverage of IPCC and global warming. Pages and pages of coverage. I wonder if anyone has looked in to the degree to which printing newspapers contributes to global warming since it clearly reduces the number of trees. Since we now all have to do our part, I suggest that the Citizen set an example . . . no more glossy flyers, no more gigantic ads, forget pics (we can view relevant pics on the Internet) — and space devoted to any given issue should be rationed.

  36. Bourque: Citoyen Dion Has a Conflict of Interest. Will Dion vote in the French election? It is his duty to vote in the French election.
    Has Citoyen Dion registered as a French voter?
    [French]”Citizens living abroad may register at the consulate responsible for the region in which they live.” (Wiki) …-
    Bourque:
    WHAT DO THESE THREE HAVE IN COMMON ?
    Sarkozy, Dion, Royal. Three politicians, three aspirants to high political office, three headed to imminent elections, three Citizens of France, three members of the European Union. Remarkably, one of them can vote for one of the others, though the others cannot vote for that one. While one has said he would renounce his French citizenship, he has yet to do so, and insiders suggest he will likely refuse to do so, underlying a primary conflict of interest, this despite every evidence that Canadians are in no rush to have a Citizen of France as their next Prime Minister. It remains unclear who Dion favours in the French Presidential elections, or whether he will refuse to cast his vote at the French Embassy, conveniently located next door to 24 Sussex Drive, a duty of every French citizen and a right he continues to enjoy,…”

  37. “Forces to get rid of navy’s supply ships”
    http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=e5853e1e-84d4-40da-91a9-223ccb399ef6&k=45646
    What happened to all those promises of rebuilding the armed forces? First the Navy can’t go on exercises because of budget cuts and now this. So now it looks like that for at least two years the navy will be unable to manage self-contained task group operations; it will be unable to manage medium to heavy lift of supplies and it will be unable to support ground operations from any coast. I guess that means we’ll have to “hitch a ride”. Isn’t that one of the things that the Conservatives complained about?
    And what’s going to happen to all the trained crews? Two years without a ship…?! Factoring in sea trails, work ups and retraining it will be at least two years on top of that before we have navy that has the same capability as it does now.
    Even though the Liberals are guilty of consistently starving the military, it appears that the Conservatives are no better. They like to make lofty promises which they later break. The “New” government…same as the old government.

  38. Kate :
    And I’d bet good money that the way that information is presented is going to be wrong.”
    That is a sure fired winning bet if I ever seen one. No contest on this one considering how they have buried the LPC oil statagy or should I say thieft?

  39. So the Penn state dirt pig has drunk the Kyoto koolaid?…now I’m motivated….six more weeks til varmint season will give me time to load up a batch of wicked varmint ammo. If these burrowing rodents are so disturbed about climate armageddon it’s my humane duty to dispatch as many as I can to save them the soul-sucking angst of climate change awareness. 😉
    Kate? Up for a gopher/ground hog safari?

  40. Gaza Strip im- and ex-ploding
    IMRA.org.il ^ | Feb. 2, 2007
    Universities and public buildings in Gaza set ablaze by masked gunmen Date: 03 / 02 / 2007 Time: 21:21
    Gaza – Ma’an – The Palestinian citizens of the Gaza Strip were shocked by masked gunmen targeting the universities, public institutions and ministries. Many public properties were set ablaze. The people of Gaza watched in horror, from their besieged houses, the images of burning buildings and laboratories that belong to the Al-Quds and Islamic universities of Gaza. There were also assaults on the government ministries in Gaza City. Ordinary people were powerless to prevent the chaos on the streets of Gaza.
    Thousands of university students were meant to return to study on Saturday at the Islamic University of Gaza after the mid-semester vacation. At the Al-Quds University in Gaza, final exams were to continue. But the students of both institutions were instead faced with scenes of the destruction on both campuses committed by the rival parties.
    The losses at the Islamic university were estimated to mount to several millions of US dollars after the campus was attacked and subjected to explosions in different buildings. According to the director of public relations, Baha Al-Hallaq, fires were still blazing on Saturday because the emergency services were unable to reach the universities due to the heavy cross-fires nearby. He said that most of the buildings were damaged, especially the administration building where all levels were affected by the fire. The public relation offices were completely incinerated. Computers, videos and digital cameras were also stolen from the administration offices.
    At Al-Quds University, the three campuses in the Gaza Strip were set ablaze, those in Gaza City, northern Gaza and Rafah. Laboratories, workshops, and internet labs were set on fire. The study halls and the conference hall were completely destroyed according to the director of public relations, Dr Ziad Jirjawi, who estimated the losses to mount to one-and-a-half million US dollars …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778733/posts

  41. To get a glimpse of Saskatchewan’s recovery this is a good article. This will die an aborted death (how appropriate from lefties) if the Nationalizer’s out East get their hands on our resources in the name of Quebec Canadian unity.
    Henceforth French Citizen Dion from the Palace of socialism. Will decree absolute control over any economies, or provincial resources, unless Ontario or Quebec’s.
    No emotion standards for the Hydro or car industries. Besides why should a French Citizen care about Ontario’s car industries. Is it not part of their platform to eradicate individual transportation in favor of public?
    In the end it only means one thing to this group. The reverse of the Plains Of Abraham as Cretien often mused aloud abroad.
    I might as well include Ted Byfields as well on why Westerners should not stop warring . Pretty apropos considering what was said by a spokesmen from the LPC.
    I honestly think Dion no matter how stupid or foolish will be elected in the EAST. I see no change or even shame over the last criminals they put in power to everyone’s determent including there own. Political clones or clowns have taken over their. They have been uncalculated by misinformation for so long, they cant sort the falsehoods from veracity.
    On the border of the new west
    Upbeat at birth, but having suffered six slow decades of socialism, Saskatchewan could have a dynamic future
    Ric Dolphin – January 29, 2007
    For several lifetimes, Saskatchewan had been the slightly retarded cousin that Alberta and B.C. regarded with affectionate pity. More even than gimpy sister Manitoba, Saskatchewan was plagued by socialist governments, worshipping at the altar of St. Tommy of Douglas and believing in the sanctity of collective disability. Its wheat and potash supported the plethora of cradle-to-grave services that a developmentally challenged province required. Saskatchewan was the place CBC types most liked to be from: the folk-roots nirvana that invented Medicare and where–pace Corner Gas–every man was a simpleton, every woman strong, and all the Mounties native, female or gay.
    We Alumbians could never totally dis the place, for so many of us are Saskabush escapees.
    The rest is here :
    http://www.westernstandard.ca/website/index.cfm?page=article&article_id=2251
    Fool You Twice?
    Albertans think they no longer need to fear Ottawa. Think again
    Ted Byfield – January 29, 2007
    I took part last month in a panel discussion on television’s I-Channel on the future of Alberta. The panel was fairly balanced between left and right views. Yet there emerged within it a kind of consensus, which I believe is widely held, and which is very dangerous.
    It seemed to be generally agreed that Alberta need no longer worry about raids on its resource revenues from Ottawa. This was dismissed as “yesterday’s thinking,” still harbored only among people haunted by the ghost of the old energy wars between the Trudeau and Lougheed governments in the 1970s and 1980s. Alberta was viewed as beyond all that now. We lead the country economically; we’re unassailable. Ottawa wouldn’t dare touch us. Apart from my own feeble grumbling, the assumption seemed to go unchallenged.
    Rest is here:
    http://www.westernstandard.ca/website/index.cfm?page=article&article_id=2252

  42. While I applaud what the Conservative government is doing, they still are forcing the military to plan some silly things in fulfillment of campaign promises:
    “Conservative campaign promises: other shoes drop/CF strength increases”
    http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2007/02/conservative-campaign-promises-other.html
    “Campaign promises and JTF 2”
    http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2007/01/campaign-promises-and-jtf-2.html
    “Stupid Conservative defence promises”
    http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2006/08/stupid-conservative-defence-promises.html
    At least they appear to have dropped the pledge to equip the Navy with new icebreakers:
    http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=9f754787-c560-4f3f-8a7b-bf0e9461ed4d&k=95220
    More:
    “Arctic: Give the Canadian Coast Guard the icebreakers”
    http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2006/08/arctic-give-canadian-coast-guard.html
    Sadly, in Canada military policy still is terribly political, but the Conservatives are far better than anyone else.
    Also, the recent stories in CanWest papers by David Pugliese, based on a leaked draft of the “Canada First Defence Strategy”, are not definitive:
    “It Pays Not To Speculate on Defence” (CANFORGEN means Canadian Forces general message)
    http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2007/02/it-pays-not-to-speculate-on-defence.html
    Mark
    Ottawa

  43. Extract:
    Misleading statements
    “It reports that 48 Nobel Prize-winning scientists accused Bush of distorting science, without mentioning that the scientists acted as members of a 527 political group set up to promote the Kerry for President Campaign.” …-
    A Skeptic’s Guide to An Inconvenient Truth (Scientific Rebuttal to Gore’s Fantasy Film)
    Competitive Enterprise Institute
    Executive Summary
    An Inconvenient Truth ( AIT ), Vice President Al Gore’s book on “The planetary emergency of global warming and what can be done about it,” purports to be a non-partisan, non-ideological exposition of climate science and moral common-sense. In reality, AIT is a colorfully illustrated lawyer’s brief for global warming alarmism and energy rationing. It is a J’Accuse hurled at fossil-energy-based civilization, especially the USA, and above all the Bush Administration and its allies in the U.S. oil and auto industries.
    We do not expect lawyers to argue both for and against their clients, nor do we expect balance from party men. However, although Gore reminds us (in the film version of AIT ) that he “used to be the next President of the United States,” and concludes the book and movie with a call for “political action,” he presents AIT as the work of a long-time student of climate science, a product of meditation on “what matters.” He thus asks us to expect more from him than the mere cleverness that can sway juries or win elections.
    This reasonable expectation is unmet. In AIT , the only facts and studies considered are those convenient to Gore’s scare-them-green agenda. And in many instances, Gore distorts the evidence he cites.
    The present paper, a running commentary on AIT , finds that nearly every significant statement Gore makes regarding climate science and climate policy is either one sided, misleading, exaggerated, speculative, or wrong. An extensive summary of AIT’s distortions is provided in Appendix A. Below is a list of 25 of egregious examples….-
    (via free republic)
    http://www.cei.org/pages/ait_response-book.cfm

  45. Health Minister Tony Clement receives Courage in Public Policy Award
    TORONTO, Feb. 3 /CNW Telbec/ – The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of
    Health, today was presented with the inaugural Courage in Public Policy Award
    from the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) and the National Cancer Institute of
    Canada (NCIC), to recognize his leadership in supporting the Canadian
    Partnership Against Cancer Corporation (CPACC).
    “It is an honour to receive an award in recognition of a public policy
    initiative that Canada’s New Government did to make a difference in fighting
    cancer and help those living with it,” said Minister Clement. “I am also
    accepting this award on behalf of everyone who worked on this very important
    initiative. It was truly a team effort. All parties involved showed great
    dedication, and lives will be saved as a result of their work.”
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced CPACC in November 2006 to oversee
    the implementation of the Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control (CSCC). The
    CSCC has three goals: to reduce the number of new cases, enhance the quality
    of life of those living with cancer, and lessen the likelihood of Canadians
    dying from cancer. …-
    http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2007/03/c4510.html

  46. Where’s Belinda?
    Jan 20, 2007
    The Era-Banner
    My kids always loved to play Where’s Waldo?
    For the kid in us all, in Newmarket we can play Where’s Belinda?
    A group of my women friends and I have been trying for months to get an appointment with Ms Stronach and I want to let you in on a secret, she does not have time to meet with her constituents.
    She does not even have the time to let you know she has received your request for a meeting.
    I want an MP who is in touch with the grassroots.
    I find it hard to believe my MP helped produce the Liberal Party’s Pink Book but she has no time to meet with the women she represents.
    I had an easier time in 2002 getting an audience with the Pope.
    Where’s Belinda? Is it possible to meet with her? Does she really care?
    DIANNE WOOD
    NEWMARKET
    yorkregion.com/yr/yr4/YR_News/Letters_To_Editor/story/3850740p-4454969c.html

  47. Everybody should photograph this persons whole comment on this thread::
    “Don’t you get it? When it comes to climate change, EVERYTHING’s proof.”
    Posted by: D.A. Neill at February 3, 2007 2:31 PM

  48. Groundhogs and UN sponsored committees seem to have brought the same degree of intellect to bear on this problem.
    I’ve always been extremely skeptical of science by consensus especially when so-called environmentalists are being used as usefull idiots by individuals attempting to push a statist agenda on the world. The earths climate has been cycling since life existed on the world and we are currently in a global cooling trend. If Ruddiman is correct, then human civilization has prevented another ice age. Only 30 years ago, the predominant environmental concern was that of another ice age being caused by human pollution. The Club of Rome study had acopalyptic predictions about the end of civilization that occurred some 17 years ago. Everyone must vividly remember the food riots, industries grinding to a halt because of a lack of raw materials and the death of billions from starvation. I’m sure in 20 years we’ll be joking about the ignorance of the doomsayers of 2000.
    The magnitude of anthropogenic global warming is something which cannot be computed at this time. If one reads the summary of the report, one finds that temperature increases by 2100 are given as 1.1 to 6.4 degrees C. The media has focused on the high end of the range. Seal level rise is given as 18-59 cm. Again, much hysteria with the media focussing on sea level rises far in excess of the upper limit. What scares me about the report is that precipitation in the northern latitudes is forecast to increase by 20% or more. If this falls as snow, this sets the stage for a new ice age.
    The best way of dealing with this potential problem is to maximize the industrial potential of the earth so that it can deal with a variety of climate change scenarios. This means fast-tracking nuclear power and trying to get practical fusion reactors in the next decade. Once an adequate source of energy is available we will be able to deal with potential changes in earths climate easily. I, for one, am far more concerned about the climactic effects of a comet-sized asteroid hitting the earth; an event which we are not presently capable of dealing with. If the UN’s totalitarian climate change plan is ever adopted, humanity is in for another dark age.

  50. Palestinians: “We Don’t Deserve a State”
    Apparently, Palestinians are worried that the civil war between Hamas and Fatah is going to damage their image with the international community: Palestinian W. Bank residents: ‘We don’t deserve a state’. (Hat tip: WriterMom.)
    There are no words for dark irony this profound.
    …
    “Everyone here is disgusted by what’s happening in the Gaza Strip,” said Shireen Atiyeh, a 30-year-old mother of three working in one of the Palestinian Authority ministries. “We are telling the world that we don’t deserve a state because we are murdering each other and destroying our universities, colleges, mosques and hospitals. Today I’m ashamed to say that I’m a Palestinian.”
    “The situation is very dangerous and many people are afraid to leave their homes,” he said. “I’m very worried about the safety of my children. There are many armed gangs and everyone is afraid. If the situation does not improve, I will take my family and go to Jordan. This is not the Palestine we want to live in.” …
    Hafez Barghouti, editor of the PA-funded daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, said he was concerned that the fighting would tarnish the image of the Palestinians. “Tens of millions of people now look at us as worthless gangsters with no values,” he complained….-
    [LGF Comments]
    Only now look at you as worthless gangsters? I guess we were supposed to think you were noble freedom fighters while you were only murdering Jewish women and children, or when you danced for joy on 9/11.
    What’s happening now is showing the true nature of the death cult society the Palestinians have built for decades, indoctrinating their children to a life of murder, destruction, and genocide. With the security barrier, and determined action against the terror gangs, Israel has made it too difficult for them to murder helpless people in restaurants, buses, and markets. So they’re turning on each other like cornered rats.
    The sympathy meter is reading exactly zero, now that the bill is coming due for their deal with the devil. …-
    http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

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