Inspired by “Captain Me”, The Toronto Sun is crossing the editorial floor.
Speaking of Garth Turner, inflated egos, blogs and other such stuff – when is media going to begin verifying traffic claims before putting them to print or air? Traffic inflation is a phenomenon almost completely confined to politicians, journos and purple-dinosaur-waving talking heads – because real bloggers know tools exist to “fact check your ass”.
From a reader in South Carolina – “Our worst fears”.
Frank J;
“Were one to use Democratic Underground’s forum as an example, you’d think liberals are incapably of understanding simple nouns unless they are bookended with swear words. It’s almost like a typing form of Tourette’s syndrome.
Add yours in the comments.
The Global Warming Gestapo are now cracking down on the dissidents.
I put in a 16 hour day yesterday, (in addition to blogging), and a lot of deadline work on my plate this week. Blogging will be a bit slow until I’m caught up a little.
Hey Kate. Angus Reid is running a “Do you want a spring election” internet poll.
http://rm.angusreidforum.com/?cid=180&rs=GgEnSE
Currently running at 2 to 1 against a spring election. About the same as when the liberals were in power and the MSM was touting basically the same poll results every other day.
” House of Commons lawyers advised MPs against perjury prosecutions, calling it a “tricky” and “tortuous path” that would be unrealistic to pursue. If MPs pursued that option, they would have to turn the case over to Ontario’s attorney-general, which would be a first in Canada’s history.”
Adscam lieberals lieing and perjuring themselves, it’s all good, say the lawyers.
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=46318f6d-70ea-44b8-b88b-d01a49c98538
*Yes, soon the jihad will start. I will fight against the Taliban and the infidels, the foreigners. If your stomach is empty, of course you will do something and what we will do is fight,* said Yahya, a local labourer.
*I will kill [foreign] civilians and not soldiers. There won’t be any soldiers on the ground; they will all have disappeared and you will just see them in the sky in their planes. But I will kill civilians because they have stolen all our money. All the money that’s been given to Afghanistan goes in their pockets.*
*Of course I will kill you if you come back to see me when the jihad starts. That happens when there is fighting. I have seen men kill their own brothers.*
Strip away all the NATO talk of winning hearts and minds and it becomes clear the nation is approaching meltdown.
As the insurgency grows stronger, so does the fear and anger among the Shiite Hazara community. Following a civil war in the early to mid 1990s, they faced a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing under the Sunni-extremist Taliban regime. They are not about to let that happen again.
Qurban Hussain told The Dominion that the arrival of international troops had helped save his people from further bloodshed. But he also claimed a new wave of internecine violence lies just around the corner.
*At first, the four per cent of Hazaras who are rich will leave the country. But the others will stay here and the Taliban will start killing and arresting them. Those people who have got small houses will then have to sell them to get their relatives released,* he said.
The 32-year-old was speaking in what was once a notorious jail run by Shiites. Men from Afghanistan’s two largest ethnic groups, the Pashtuns and the Tajiks, were frequently imprisoned, tortured and murdered between these walls.
*The next civil war will be twice as bad,* said Hussain.
Dominionpaper.ca/articles/preparing_for_war
Not bad for a small Nova Scotia Epaper. = TG
Nuclear plans in chaos as Iran leader flounders
[ I would like to believe this, but considering Iran*s massive wealth, it seems they could easily buy the experts to get Nukes done properly. Just how reliable is the Observer / Guardian UK? And Foreign affairs editor, Peter Beaumont? Does this mean Iran is doing the North Korean , *rattle the saber in an empty scabbard thing?* = TG]
[ Iran ]
Boasts of a nuclear programme are just propaganda, say insiders, but the PR could be enough to provoke Israel into war
Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor
Sunday January 28, 2007
observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2000303,00.html
Iran’s efforts to produce highly enriched uranium, the material used to make nuclear bombs, are in chaos and the country is still years from mastering the required technology.
Iran’s uranium enrichment programme has been plagued by constant technical problems, lack of access to outside technology and knowhow, and a failure to master the complex production-engineering processes involved. The country denies developing weapons, saying its pursuit of uranium enrichment is for energy purposes. More detail at the . . .
Observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2000303,00.html
Like a nasty *little brother*, Ahmadinejad can afford to be a bully when Big brothers China , [needs oil] and Russia , [needs weapons sales] are near by . = TG
‘Doomsday vault’ to resist global warming effects
Construction on the seed bank, also dubbed the “Noah’s Ark of food”, will begin in March.
The vault is situated about 130 meters (426 feet) above current sea level. It would not flood if Greenland’s ice sheet melts, which some estimate would increase sea levels by seven meters (23 feet).
It is also expected to be safe if the ices of Antarctica completely melt, which experts say could increase sea levels by 61 meters (200 feet).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1781667/posts
Mao Stlong say: I don’t cale if it lains, or fleezes; I am safe in the allms of Gaiasus. …-
Chinese Regime Classifies Meteorological Information as State Secrets
By Ren Zihui
The Epoch Times Feb 06, 2007
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced the official implementation of the “Regulation to Manage Meteorological Survey Data,” which subjects weather information to tight controls.
In January, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced the official implementation of the “Regulation to Manage Meteorological Survey Data,” which subjects weather information to tight controls.
The new regulation stipulates that foreign individuals and organizations are prohibited from carrying out meteorological observations and establishing observatories in mainland China without permission. This regulation also applies to CCP state agency personnel. Those who violate the regulation will be charged with spying and leaking national secrets. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1781698/posts
LIBERALS TO BAR MEN IN SOME RIDINGS TO BOOST FEMALE CANDIDATES
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion is prepared to take “extraordinary measures” to boost the ranks of women candidates in the next election, including barring men from seeking nominations in some ridings.
(national newswatch)
Kyoto howls with glee; says she agrees: oww-woooo…
Karla Homolka a mom, ready to wed (cnews)
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“The good will be good and the bad bad.”
Modern Predestination – The dangerous notion that misconduct is genetic
How do bad ideas spread and enter the general stock of received wisdom?
One culprit is sloppy or uncritical newspaper reporting. For example, a recent small item on the front page of the Sunday Times, the largest-selling serious Sunday newspaper in Britain, insinuated something both false and dangerous to believe.
The headline ran: WANT A FIGHT? SCIENTISTS SAY IT’S ALL IN YOUR GENES. The story begins: “Scientists have discovered an answer to one of the most intractable squabbles in family life—argumentative children are born and not made.”
According to the article, new research has found antisocial traits to be inherited rather than acquired (actually such research has been going on for a long time, and the ideas behind it are nothing new). The implication of this research, the newspaper says, is that a bad child would be bad however he or she was brought up.
What a relief to parents, then! It no longer matters how they raise their children: whether they coddle them, abuse them, neglect them, discipline them, or let them run wild, it’s all the same. There is no such thing as parental responsibility, except perhaps in material provision. The good will be good and the bad bad….-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1781629/posts
“but we are starting to see a pattern where people who are utterly ignorant about science are empowered by a political climate ”
Starting? Less than half the population of the United States believes in evolution. Canada isn’t much better. The anti-AGW cause rests primarily on the shoulders of this little island of reason.
The subordination of reason for dogma isn’t a recent arrival it’s always been here.
Kyoto would kill economy, critics say
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=66513525-9052-40cc-9d39-cc91920a7cd0
Kyoto is a bammed dog? Her vet fees are not covered by Kyoto Dion’s plan? Kyoto’s tail is down, ears down… wa-waa…
Ask a climatologist, “what causes ice ages”?
They don’t know.
How can the science on global warming be settled when we don’t even understand the natural phenomena that have driven the earth’s climate for billions of years?
Still lots in the media about what a control freak Harper is. Has anyone seen or heard of any of dions dream team, have they been on Newman, Giggles or One on One with peter. Have they asked any questions in the HofC. All we see and hear is dion, iggy and until last week Holland. His time out should soon be over. What policy is turner advocating when he orders the PM to call by-elections when there are no vacancies except LaPierres in Que. Will Turner run there. Is firing MPs another one of the liberal hidden agenda items. Haven’t heard of any women libs running in Alberta yet. Maybe they will find one to run in annies riding. This week should be interesting, watching the moves re Wednesdays vote. If that bill passes and the senate gives it quick approval, Harper will have more ammunition to have the senate elected. How long did they have the accountability act held up. Passing a liberal bill quickly will show cdns how biased they are, and work for themselves and not Canada.