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  1. sorry kate OT:
    But i just had to give my opinion on this, The TO Star is reporting a poll by Leger
    Tories 38% Liberals 31% Ndp 14%.
    Now the interesting thing is that this poll was done after the release of the Dion Ads.
    Also the play on words
    The Tories have a “SLIGHT LEAD” that’s a 7point difference, I don’t know about you but a slight lead Would be 31-30, 38-37, Should it not have said Tories Widened the Gap.
    Only the Star would consider a 7point difference a “Slight Lead”
    Just my view, Now back to shoveling more snow 107cm since Sunday & more coming, thats Climate Change for you.

  2. Yeah, I laughed at the “slight lead” spin as well. Had it been the reverse, there would have been “unnamed Conservatives ponder Harper’s future as leader”….

  3. 2 anti-whaling protestors lost in Antarctic
    Toronto Star – 9 hours ago
    AP. WELLINGTON, NZ – The international anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd said Friday its ships confronted the Japanese whaling fleet off the Antarctic, causing them to abandon the chase for a pod of whales. …-
    Lost and Found:
    Whalers rescue environmentalists in Antarctic drama Times Online …-
    Flashback:
    Greenpeace | Rainbow Warrior | 2004 Pacific Islands Fisheries Tour
    July 10 1985 French secret service agents bomb and sink the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland’s harbour, drowning photographer Fernando Pereira. …

  4. Dion may bar male candidates in some ridings to increase female participation in the Liberals. Very rich!
    3w dot thestar.com/News/article/179948

  5. Forgot to add…Dion has yet to decide if his riding will be a “Female Only” riding or not.

  8. What makes people think that the earth can continue to support more people, it reached the sustainable level a long time ago.
    I don’t buy into the Al Gore hysteria, but I do believe we need to decrease the world’s population – more people – more strain on the world’s resources.

  9. From cbc.ca
    A fire at the CBC building in Fredericton on Thursday shut down the facility for the second time in a week and caused substantial damage.
    Shortly after 1 p.m. AT, smoke began billowing out of the building on the corner of Regent and Prospect streets.
    The blaze forced an evacuation and a halt to broadcasting, but there were no injuries, said Bob Martin, assistant deputy chief and head of operations for Fredericton Fire Department.
    Fire crews first used water, but switched to carbon dioxide to put out the blaze because of electrical concerns, he said.
    Hmmm The CBC is promoting the value of GREENHOUSE GASES

  10. What makes people think that the earth can continue to support more people, it reached the sustainable level a long time ago.
    I don’t buy into the Al Gore hysteria, but I do believe we need to decrease the world’s population – more people – more strain on the world’s resources.

  11. Borat Dion:
    All de womens position in Halberta will be fulfill by candidate who are the liberals. dat whey when dey loose we blame the Halberata rouge neck pipples.

  12. Re: Tor Star Poll and “slight lead” comment.
    Remember these are the same Liberal fan boys that sat on a poll during the election campaign because it had a pro-Conservative result. The Star said later they wanted to double-check their poll results.
    How many pro-Liberal poll results do they double-check? I’m betting ZERO

  13. “I do believe we need to decrease the world’s population – more people – more strain on the world’s resources.”
    Well then Cythia, you had better start campaigning against the Islamic Ummah.
    Their plan to colonize the world, as Mark Steyn has clearly shown, is not just through acts of terrorism, but more importanly, immigration followed by outbreeding the infidels in their own land. If you look at the statistics, on average, Muslims are having 3 to 5x more children than the rest of civilization.

  14. Aargh! Nooo!!
    From the Max Planck link:
    “Even if land use practices have altered plant methane emissions, which we did not demonstrate, this would also count as an anthropogenic source, and the plants themselves cannot be deemed responsible.”
    Categorically ascribing moral sense to a plant. Vegetarians are in for a shock.
    It’s so nice to know that reputable scientists say precisely what they mean.

  15. That’s good news bryanr
    I am smiling today. 38% borders on majority… a couple pennies either way 🙂
    Let’s go to election and watch the Dion interviews drive himself into the ground 🙂

  16. plant ghg emissions natural not not really ghg gases per say?!?!?!?
    Why then are cattle emissions bad. Were not cattle around in large numbers? Millions upon millions of bison?
    I guess it is easier to pick on a small group of cattle producers than the much larger group on people who garden and have front lawns…

  17. Red-Green Dion says keep yer hice on yer stick. …-
    Public events for Prime Minister Stephen Harper for Saturday, February 10th are:
    Plaster Rock, New Brunswick
    10:45 a.m. – Prime Minister Stephen Harper will attend the World Pond Hockey Championships. …-
    http://www.pm.gc.ca

  18. Irwin – there was a study done some time ago, looking at birth rates and literacy in countries deemed to be Muslim. There was a nice inverse correlation.
    Demographic analysis gives then about a generation or so before their overall trend line crosses that of the USA. Tentative conclusion: they have a limited window of opportunity to establish themselves as the dominant culture in the West.

  19. “”Anti-population zealotry goes back a century, but Ehrlich is the one who succeeded in convincing Western left-elites (all of Europe and half of America) to stop having children.””
    Add David Suzuki to the list of zealots!
    He must surely be an acolyte of Ehrlich.

  20. Lots of supposedly smart people now blame new born babies for contributing to the planet becoming “unsustainable”.
    Even if it were true, which it is NOT, what does that say about the value system.
    Our precious dirt and water and wood is worth more than your baby.
    And American and Western babies are most often singled out and cited as being especially guilty of sucking Mother Earths precious and unsustainable resources.
    I think it is bull.
    Hitler was not the worst thing to ever come out of Germany. Marx was. By far.

  21. Al Gore is defending China’s right not to do anything about GHG emissions until developing countries do their part first.
    Can’t put my finger on it but I smell a rat! I’m sure he smells money. Can anybody not see Kyoto as a money sucking scheme to help China become the new economic superpower? Once on top they wouldn’t have to listen to anybody about their emissions.
    Way go Al…..asshat!

  22. Cynthia: Canada and the USA have been reducing their population at an alarming rate for 30 years. It is called abortion. The unindended consequence of that is the fact we can’t meet our labor needs without immigrations, which again is leading to unintended consequences-islamofacists trying to take over our country. Now, adding all the innocents killed by suicide bombers, ieds, to the abortion total, that is quite a reduction.
    There is now a bill before congress by some idiot that wants to annul all marriages of couples with no children after 3 yrs. Something to do with the ssm issue, and people against it cause they don’t reproduce.

  23. ‘Only the Star would consider a 7point difference a “Slight Lead”‘
    I see TorStar “reasoning,” which is 2.6% margin of error, if fully utilized favouring Libs:
    Tories: 38% minus 2.6% equals 35.4%
    Liberals: 31% plus 2.6% equals 33.6%
    Voila, a “slight lead.” Of course, what if margin of error fully the either way:
    Tories – 40.6% vrs Libs 28.4% (Tory majority)
    What seems to be happening is Liberals have no traction on right and are taking a bit of support from NDP. Layton can’t be expected to keep quiet for long, so expect erosion on Lib left too, especially if Green party runs credible campaign.
    Cracks in Dion’s MSM fortress showing. Torstar now aiming at NDP:
    http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/179801
    If this poll holds, the Libs are screwed and will have to support budget if other parties refuse.
    If Dion continues his no policy, stupid idea approach, the erosion will continue; and this is before Tories have really gone after him.

  24. H double t p:
    //climatesci.colorado.edu/2007/02/07/political-correctness-for-state-climatologists-in-order-to-force-these-positions-to-embrace-global-warming-as-summarized-by-the-ipcc-%e2%80%93-a-chilling-development/
    Kill the heretics …. burn the witches!

  27. I copied this from a comment at Maggies Farm. I do not know who wrote it.
    A Conservationist’s Lament
    The world is finite, resources are scarce,
    Things are bad and will be worse,
    Coal is burned and gas exploded,
    Forests cut and soils eroded.
    Wells are dry and air’s polluted,
    Dust is blowing, trees uprooted.
    Oil is going, ores depleted,
    Drains receive what is excreted.
    Land is sinking, seas are rising,
    Man is far too enterprising.
    Fire will rage with Man to fan it,
    Soon we’ll have a plundered planet.
    People breed like fertile rabbits,
    People have disgusting habits.
    Moral:
    The evolutionary plan
    Went astray by involving man.
    The Technologist’s Reply
    Man’s potential is quite terrific,
    You can’t go back to the Neolithic,
    The cream is there for us to skim it,
    Knowledge is power, and the sky’s the limit.
    Every mouth has hands to feed it,
    Food is found when people need it.
    All we need is found in granite,
    Once we have the men to plan it.
    Yeast and algae give us meat,
    Soil is almost obsolete.
    Men can grow to pastures greener,
    Till all the earth is Pasadena.
    Moral:
    Man’s a nuisance, Man’s a crackpot,
    But only man can hit the jackpot.

  28. Concrete, isn’t their another type of chemical sequestration, using calcium to get Calcium Carbonate
    We need a bridge to our new nuclear plants, 10 years from now. I wouldn’t be buying coal company stock right now.
    Is chemical sequestration (that also captures carbon monoxide?) a viable technology now, combined with emissions control of sulphur, lead, radon et al.

  30. Let me get this straight. University students, who have presumaly passed kindergarten, have spent 12 yrs or more in school, where they were supposed to learn some basic facts, have achieved entrance marks to get into university, have absolutely no knowledge of the difference between federal or provincial powers. So can we assume that this ignorance extends to all their protests, especially against allowing speakers. To me is shows a complete waste of time and money for their educations.
    I don’t think a majority of cdns realize that there was an election a year ago, as they blame Harper for things that happened 10 years ago. And these people are supposed to be our future leaders.

  31. Canadian Press, aka CP, drops its collective jaws: “of all people”, it says. Where do these jerks live? CP and its writers are bereft of any imaginative capacity, or empathy; dullards, wimps; eaten by wormwood and gall.
    Dion’s Kyoto whimpers, mewls; turns tail; retreats. …-
    Rock mural built to honour Cdn troops
    MA’SUM GHAR, Afghanistan (CP) – Taking and holding the area around Ma’sum Ghar last fall cost Canadians the lives of five soldiers and that sacrifice is now etched into this dusty, ragged hillside by – of all people – American and South African dog handlers. …
    The memorial honours Pte. Mark Anthony Graham, who died only a few hundred metres from the slope when an American A-10 attack mistakenly strafed the area.
    It also recognizes the combat deaths of Sgt. Shane Stachnik, Pte. William Cushley, Warrant Officer Richard Nolan, and Warrant Officer Frank Mellish.
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/02/09/3569177-cp.html

  33. Report opens with “in a bizarre attack”. Bizarre words from the MSM to describe anti-semitism. …-
    Author [Elie Wiesel] attacked in S.F. hotel
    SAN FRANCISCO – In a bizarre attack, a well-known author and Holocaust scholar was dragged out of a San Francisco hotel elevator by an apparent Holocaust denier who reportedly had been trailing him for weeks. Police escorted Elie Wiesel to San Francisco International Airport on Feb. 1 after a man accosted Wiesel in the elevator at the Argent Hotel, at 50 Third St., after Wiesel participated in a panel discussion at a peace conference and before Wiesel was scheduled to catch a flight back to New York. Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author of more than 40…
    In a posting Tuesday on the anti-Zionist Web site ZioPedia, a writer using the name Eric Hunt takes credit for the attack: “After ensuring no women would be traumatized by what I had to do (I had been trailing Wiesel for weeks), I stopped the elevator at the sixth floor. I pulled Wiesel out of the elevator. I said I wanted to interview him.” …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse

  35. Newman panel today says that the conservatives have been boxed in on Kyoto due to the private members bill that will pass, forcing the govt to meet kyoto targets. MP says senate will pass it and it forces the govt to come up with a plan in 60 days to implement it. Some say Harper might make it a confidence vote and engineer his own defeat, after the budget. Some on the panel don’t think the environment will be the ballot question. We need to demand the liberals to tell us what they will do to meet the goals. Libs are sinking in all areas except que, but the re-runs have not been shown there yet in french. Then there is the que election. What will Harper do, I am sure he has a plan. dion is saying no jobs will be lost. Newman did ask Jack how greener cars can be built if companies can move those jobs off shore. I think the opposition parties might be in the box. Are they really ready for an election, Harper is. Baird is telling the truth, meeting targets on time will cripple the economy. Old Mo must be pulling some short strings. Didn’t the libs lose the by-election in Ont yesterday also. 4 losses in one day is not a good sign.
    89,000 jobs created last month. How many job losses in Ont announced for the near future.
    If TO wants to be more than 2 paychecks from poverty (laytons stmt) they better give Harper a huge majority.

  36. Mao Al-Stlong say: Wad’s a cubble da millions, er Muslims? One Muslim, two Muslim.
    More Maoisms: Chinee, as Muslim do, speak takkiya-oto, too. …-
    Muslim executed for trying to “split” China
    Reuters ^ | Fri 9 Feb 2007 | Benjamin Kang Lim
    BEIJING, Feb 9 (Reuters) – China has executed a Uighur activist in a far-northwestern city for attempting to “split the motherland” and possessing explosives, drawing condemnation from a human rights group which said the evidence was insufficient. Ismail Semed, who was deported to China from Pakistan in 2003, had told the court a confession had been coerced, but he was executed nevertheless on Thursday in Urumqi, capital of the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang, Radio Free Asia on Friday quoted his widow, Buhejer, as saying. “When the body was transferred to us at the cemetery I saw only one bullet…
    In a reference to another case currently in court in Urumqi, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Thursday Canadian diplomats had no right to be present at the hearing of Hussayin Celil, a Uighur accused by China of terrorism who was awarded Canadian citizenship two years ago.
    Celil, also known as Yu Shanjiang, fled China in the 1990s and travelled last year to Uzbekistan, where he was detained and then extradited to China on terrorism charges.
    He was cited in court documents related to Semed as a co-conspirator, Bequelin told Reuters. China has not recognised Celil’s Canadian citizenship, obtained in 2005. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1782270/posts

  38. “Aux armes citoyens
    It would seem natural that small groups and individuals — connected by a network — would play a significant role in fighting the networked insurgency. Here’s one example. The Opinion Journal describes how Maj Owen West, Spirit of America and Bill Roggio established a fingerprinting system in Habbaniyah with only one thing in common. They were all Americans. Otherwise it was entirely private effort by individuals connected by a private network of familiarity, nationality and shared belief. Here’s Bill Roggio’s own account of its effect.
    I would like to add that not only will this device have a real impact on data gathering and storage, and creating a networked picture of the insurgency, there is also a real psychological effect of this tool on the populace. Several of the young men who were stopped and had their data gathered were clearly nervous about the device. They knew their fingerprint and picture were being taken and stored. Despite Anbar being the backwaters of Iraq, the people still understand technology and modern policing (I’ve seen CSI on TVs in homes during raids, for instance.). Major West informed me that immediately after the night patrol, “there was a buzz throughout the town” about the device. The Snake Eater may very well serve to deter those less committed to the jihad cause; the part time rent-an-insurgent might view the risk too great.
    Commentary
    By slow degrees the poisonous idea that government should be left to do things for the public has taken unconscious hold even of minds that would be consciously opposed to the notion. To be sure, government has a unique role to play in setting foreign policy, in exercising police powers and in national defense. But in the War on Terror where the boundaries between private and organizational movements; politics and religion and even between state frontiers is blurred, the idea of leaving everything to the government is probably a prescription for defeat. It is often forgotten that one of of government’s legitimate roles is to mobilize the public. To channel private effort. To recall that the nation consists, not of the “masses” but of individuals yearning to breathe free — and help.
    There is great scope for private initiative in the War on Terror in areas which are both legal and appropriate. Individuals can monitor foreign language broadcasts. Volunteer their language skills. And — as in this case — offer their technical expertise in areas where the government is either too slow or ill-equipped to respond. There’s a fingerprinting system in Habbaniyah tonight. America put it there. Not the government. But America.”
    Read more! posted by wretchard …-
    http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/

  39. Qana Media Swarm Revealed
    Here’s a photograph taken during the ghoulish dead baby display after Israel’s bombing of the town of Qana, at the height of the Hizballah media blitz, but from a different angle than the dozens and dozens of similar photos that were splashed all over the front pages of the newspapers of the world.
    This angle’s a revealing one, an angle that for some reason, we haven’t seen before: the view from behind the “paramedics” who paraded with bodies for hours, staging and arranging them for an obviously very eager world media. (Hat tip: Viggo.)
    UPDATE at 2/9/07 5:03:06 pm:
    Why was this picture left in the editor’s kill file until now?
    Because it really wrecks the suspension of disbelief that actors need to convince the audience.
    It’s like seeing the scaffolds and lights and fake landscapes behind the scenes at a theater, in the middle of a performance. …-
    http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

  40. China’s Stubborn Anti-Democracy
    By Ying Ma
    Hoping for change isn’t enough.
    For more than a decade, successive U.S. presidents have declared that political liberalization leading ultimately to democratization in China would be desirable and decidedly in America’s — and the world’s — interests. The Clinton administration, after some initial tortuous twists and turns, fashioned a policy of “constructive engagement” with the Chinese government that called for close bilateral economic and political cooperation along with U.S. advocacy for democracy, open markets and human rights in China. The George W. Bush administration, though openly suspicious of China’s opaque military buildup and strategic intentions, has exhorted China to become a “responsible stakeholder” of the international community while urging it to embrace democracy. To Washington, a China that is headed down a democratic path — even as it amasses military, political, and economic might — would offer the best assurance for peace, prosperity and cooperation with the United States and the world.
    China, however, appears immune to and unmoved by U.S. wishes. American democracy promotion — ranging from economic engagement to democracy programs to lofty rhetoric — has not halted the speed at which the Chinese authoritarian behemoth presses on with grave human rights abuses.
    …
    We should continue to criticize the Chinese regime’s crackdowns on political dissidents, activists and nongovernmental groups. …-
    http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/5513661.html

  41. After 4 defeats in by-elections yesterday, (I know they were Prov) does Garth still want one. Still can’t figure why no one has picked up on his ordering the PM to call 4 Federal by-elections when there are no vacancies to fill. Is he really serious in ordering the PM to fire MPs. And I also wonder how many sitting mps in the lib or ndp camp are worried about their chances of re-election.

  43. Yeah and GREENPEACE was finned for damaging a coral reef off the PHILLAPEANS and then one of their ship was sighted a few years back for leaking deasle fuel into a ALASKA river and then during a protest in LONDON a few years back some GREENPEACE wackos got the heck beat out of them and in fact where ever these GREENPEACE wacks go they are unwelcome and get the butts kicked out

  44. Kyoto is economic suicide as is
    Liberal adherence makes no sense unless all countries are signed on
    Diane Francis
    Financial Post
    Saturday, February 10, 2007
    The Liberals’ commitment to Kyoto is economic suicide, and I believe that the whole exercise was cynical and a favour to Liberal insider Maurice Strong.
    Now the Liberals are leading a charge to force the Tories to live up to commitments that the Liberals never did in four years. That’s because they realized the commitments were not realistic.
    But Kyoto wasn’t renegotiated because Mr. Strong is a buddy of former Prime Ministers Jean Chretien and Paul Martin. When he was involved in United Nations operations, he organized the UN’s Earth Summit to deal with pollution. He asked for, and got, Canada’s unconditional support for Kyoto.
    But Canada agreed to commitments of dramatically reducing emissions that no one else did. In fact, the Australians agreed to sign Kyoto after they were given permission by other signators to increase, not reduce, their emissions. This was appropriate given the resource-based nature of Australia’s economy, its large land mass and other unique features.
    Resources require huge inputs of energy, as does manufacturing, so they negotiated a smart deal.
    Even then, the Aussies eventually refused to sign when they realized that the Americans balked on the basis that the world’s emerging economies did not have any requirement to curb emissions or clean up their acts. They were exempted….-
    http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=e0165f7b-2326-4bd1-a770-4ed635ad5d6c

  48. Mo is finally, after all these years, starting to get outed. Didn’t he GIVE Paul Martin the CSL, for next to nothing. What was the payback for that from the liberals. And, how did the little guy from somewhere in Que get to be a millionaire if he spent his entire life in politics. Dion must be in panic mode.

  49. What’s this? Go here: Storm. (Not GW)
    http://jacksnewswatch.com/2007/02/10/hey-man-how-cool-is-this/#comments
    That’s a really good point that you make Rob. It’s designed to shoot a bullet and I imagine that it would be a neat little piece for grouse and rabbits.
    It has all the things necessary to make it “bannable”. A name that scares people, a hangy down thing you hold onto (pistol grip), it’s black (or at least part black), it’s semi-AUTO!!, and last but not least it was used by a nutcase to kill a beautiful and completely innocent young woman.
    Reminds me of the Ecole Polytechnique murders. Guns were demonized and never was it characterized as the terrorist killings that they were. Gamill Gharbi was Marc Lepine’s name before it was changed, the son of an Algerian Fundamentalist Muslim who hated the role that women play in this society.
    For collectors, Grandfathering in a piece is the only way they can be bought or kept once they are banned and every shout of “ban it”, brings out the folks that want one, just is case they are banned.
    Great forum Jack. You are directly responsible for me spending way, way too much time in front of my ‘pooter. lol
    Regards,
    Pat

  50. Torstar poll today
    Do you agree with the Liberal strategy of selecting only female candidates in some ridings?
    Yes 18%
    No 82%
    It ain’t easy being Stephanie these days!

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