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  6. I am assuming most people here read Tim Blair but his most recent post on tree hostage is hilarious. be sure to click through to the ebay page before it goes down
    link

  7. France govmit has just released UFO secret files.
    Yep Dion’s France. Nothing in the files. Nothing in Dion either.
    “..Patenet’s answer to questions about evidence of life beyond Earth was sure to inflame the suspicions of those convinced the government is holding back: “We do not have the least proof that extra-terrestrials are behind the unexplained phenomena.”
    But then he added: “Nor do we have the least proof that they aren’t.””
    //www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070322143210.oy201j5u&show_article=1
    UFO hoax exposed.
    Crop circle hoax exposed.
    Bermuda triangle hoax exposed.
    Lost city of Atlantis hoax exposed.
    And now, the Gore/Suzuki/Dion kyoto hoax is rapidly being exposed.
    All of this would have been avoided if the media was honest.

  9. From the TO Star
    A French court has found in favor of the publisher re the proceedings instituted a while ago as regards the cartoon issue.
    The small Jewish publisher in Calgary and Soharwardy/Muslim Council re the similar issue have reconciled but the issue with the Western Standard is still outstanding it seems.
    As it should be, and I hope both the Canadian/Alberta Human Rights Commissions get the message loud and clear. People are free to take whatever they want in front of the courts/tribunals but also must reconcile/live with the decisions that come out of them if they happen not to be favorable.

  10. Speaking of freedom…the Canadian Federation of Students released their “Islamophobia on Campus” task force report yesterday, and whaddya know – they want more human rights prosecutions and more sharia “accomodation” on campus. Who’s behind the report? A panel of extreme Islamists and Marxists, who have used the legitimacy of the CFS to promote their radical agendas:
    http://flaggman.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/cfs-islamophobia-report-marxist-islamist-speech-code-under-guise-of-legitimacy/

  11. Czech leader Klaus fights global warming ‘religion’
    By Jan Lopatka
    REUTERS
    5:38 a.m. March 21, 2007
    PRAGUE – Czech President Vaclav Klaus said on Wednesday that fighting global warming has turned into a ‘religion’ that replaced the ideology of communism and threatens to clip basic freedoms.
    The right-wing president, a free-market champion, wrote to the U.S. Congress that adopting tough environmental policies to fight climate change would have destructive impact on national economies.
    ‘Communism has been replaced by the threat of an ambitious environmentalism,’ Klaus wrote in response to questions from the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce.
    The U.S. House Subcommittee for Energy and Air Quality was due to hold a hearing on climate on Wednesday with former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore, who sees global warming as a key challenge, and Danish sceptic Bjorn Lomborg, who says governments should focus on fight disease and hunger instead.
    Gore, who won an Oscar for ‘best documentary’ for his ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ movie on climate change, has led a global warming awareness drive in the United States, the world’s largest source of gases believed to cause it.
    Klaus, who does not hold many executive powers but is by far the most popular politician in the ex-communist Czech Republic, has taken a decisively opposite stance on the issue.
    Klaus said poor nations would also be hurt by efforts to impose limits and standards on emissions of gases believed to cause global warming.
    ‘They will not be able to absorb new technological standards required by the anti-greenhouse religion, their products will have difficulty accessing the developed markets, and as a result the gap between them and the developed world will widen,’ he wrote.
    ‘This ideology preaches earth and nature and under the slogans of their protection – similarly to the old Marxists – wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central, now global, planning of the whole world,’ he added.
    U.S. President George W. Bush opposes mandatory caps on heat-trapping gases. He pulled the United States out in 2001 of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
    Klaus wrote that it was futile to fight against phenomena like higher solar activity or the change of ocean currents, and called for avoiding wasting taxpayers money on what he called doubtful projects.
    ‘No government action can stop the world and nature from changing. Therefore, I disagree with plans such as the Kyoto Protocol or similar initiatives, which set arbitrary targets requiring enormous costs without realistic prospects for the success of these measures,’ he said.
    Find this article at:
    http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070321-0538-czech-environment-.html

  12. The I.S.R.G. is up in arms (8) about this fishy story. Captain Ahab, being at sea, is not available for comment. …-
    Colossal squid may be headed for oven
    WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A colossal half-ton squid, believed to be the largest ever caught, may be destined for the microwave oven.
    But researchers say they don’t want to cook the massive creature — just defrost it so they can study it better….-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1805011/posts

  13. Religion of peace at work ….
    –http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21426086-38195,00.html–
    Nigerian Muslims beat and lynch a female teacher for desecration of the Kor-an….

  14. thunder bay-superior north MP joe comuzzi was expelled from the liberal caucas wedn.
    he had made it known he would support the cons.
    budget…he denied that he is a closet cons. but
    admitted some of the tories are his buddies…
    i predict……….

  16. If a taxpaying family decides not to watch CBC does that mean they can get their $30/person back? I am still amazed at how CBC can eat up $1 billion of taxpayers money and still have as many commercials as the private enterprises. If you want a national broadcaster then have pledge week. It works for PBS, I gladly give them a buck or two to see This Old House or Dr Who. And I don’t have to sit through all those d*mn commercials either.

  19. Report from Zimbabwe: A Socialist Hell-On-Earth.
    The Gaiaists are silent. …-
    Zimbabwe bishop says ready to face bullets
    HARARE, March 22 (Reuters) – A top Zimbabwean Roman Catholic cleric said on Thursday he was ready to face bullets in anti-government street protests to help restore the rule of law in President Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.
    Pius Ncube, archbishop of the southern Bulawayo diocese, told a news conference Zimbabweans must take to the streets over rights abuses by Mugabe’s government, facing international criticism over a crackdown on the opposition.
    “The biggest problem with Zimbabweans is they are cowards, myself included, but as for me I am ready to stand in front, even of blazing guns,” he said.
    “If only Zimbabweans are prepared to stand, so am I prepared to stand … we are not going to be bullied,” Ncube said. …-
    http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L22485304.htm

  20. Sask gets preferred treatment; wait ’til Cuebec hears about this. Cellulosic ethanol; perfect market for those shrubs (?) with the 100′ roots. …-
    FEDERAL BUDGET 2007: ENERGY
    Iogen in talks to build ethanol plant in Canada
    Seen more likely after budget measures
    OTTAWA — After threatening to build outside the country, Ottawa-based Iogen Corp. is now negotiating with the federal government to locate its long-promised cellulosic ethanol plant in Saskatchewan, a prospect made more likely after Monday’s budget allocated $500-million to help underwrite such renewable fuel facilities.
    In his budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced $2-billion in support for renewable fuel production, including $500-million to Sustainable Development Technology Canada to underwrite the commercialization of “next generation” ethanol made from wheat straw, corn stover, wood residue and switchgrass. …-
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070321.RCELLULOSE21/TPStory/Business

  21. Whoa!
    Check out ‘The Canadian’-Canada’s new socially progressive and cross-cultural national newspaper.
    Theere is lots of extraterrestrial news mixed in with conspiracy theories. WTH?
    3w.agoracosmopolitan.com/headline_news.html

  24. This explains a lot (re Liberals and communists):
    http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/duncan/17564/
    Monday, March 19, 2007
    Seeing Red Messes with IQ
    Avoid the color red when you want to be the best you can be.
    By David Ewing Duncan
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    Want to do your best? Then avoid the color red when taking exams, such as the IQ test. Psychologists at the University of Rochester studied the impact of showing subjects a brief “perception” of the color red before they took a test. The appearance of this color–associated with danger, blood, stop signs, and error marks on school papers–apparently causes faster heartbeat and breathing, and causes performance to plummet.
    “The findings suggest that care must be taken in how red is used in achievement contexts and illustrate how color can act as a subtle environmental cue that has important influences on behavior,” reports the study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
    This is, of course, shocking news: a study that tells us something that we could probably surmise on our own. The same goes for the fact that the antidote to red–the color green–soothes us and makes us calm and want to “go.”
    Next thing you know, a study will tell us that blue makes us feel serene, and black signals mystery and the unknown.
    Study: Elliot, A.J.; Maier, M.A.; Moller, A.C.; Friedman, R. & Meinhardt, J. (2007) The Effect of Red on Performance Attainment. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol 136(1): 154-168.

  25. Very glad to hear that PMSH has ordered the Red Ensign to fly over the Vimy Memorial this year, to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Canadian victory at Vimy Ridge. This decision by Stephen Harper shows a very real respect to the Canadian veterans of WWI, WWII, and Korea. I would personally like to thank the Prime Minister for making this happen, as several of my great uncles, and many of their friends & colleagues served in that hellish morass. For another great uncle, who lies in an unknown grave in the fields of Flanders, I am very humbled that he is remembered in such a meaningful way all these years later. Rest in peace Alec. Thank you PMSH.

  26. “Liberals call for RCMP probe into Stockwell Day election controversy”
    This is great. After all the mud that was thrown at the Liberals, it’s about time the Cons learned how to duck. What did they think would happen, cons by their very nature are as corrupt as any party, if not more?
    http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/day_accusation

  27. w3.onecentnow.ca/
    Our City. Our Money. Our Vote.
    Yes kids, visit onecentnow.ca and commiserate with the downtown Toronto metrosexuals who believe they are entitled to “one cent of the GST.”
    Feel their pain, then sign the petition and get yerself a button or bumpersticker.

  28. “This is great. After all the mud that was thrown at the Liberals”
    Mud? Mud thrown at them like adscam, gun registry, no GST, Billion dollar boondoggle, etc, etc?
    Facts and mud seem to have you confused.

  29. More from the inane, pseudo-science of sociology.
    BTW, Suzuki has a new paper out: “Moth Balls; a Gravity Solution to Dermatitis; How Many?”. An abstract is online at lib.ca. …-
    “Sandie Taylor, the psychologist who conducted the study, said: “We set out to consider the influence of physical attractiveness and ethnicity of a defendant depicted in a photograph on mock jurors’ decisions of verdict, extent of guilt and sentencing.” Uh-uhhh…
    Researchers Conclude When It Comes to Looks, Justice Isn’t Blind
    Fox News ^ | Researchers Conclude When It Comes to Looks, Justice Isn’t Blind
    When it comes to crime, it pays to be good looking. Researchers at Bath Spa University in England came to that conclusion after conducting a courtroom experiment that asked jurors to pass judgment on a fake mugging case. Half of the 96 participants were given a picture of an attractive suspect, the others received one of a supposedly ugly defendant. The case report was the same in either case. The volunteer “jurors” then were asked to decide whether the suspect was innocent or guilty. In the latter case they also had to decide on a sentence. Analysis of the results…-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1805078/posts

  30. multirec, you seem to be confused. The gun registry was money well spent.
    The GST was originally a con idea, but you wanted the Liberals to fix. Why aren’t you blaming the cons for introducing it in the first place or now looking to Harper to completely get rid of it?
    What exactly is this billion-dollar boondoggle you’re talking about?
    Did you forget about Derek Zeisman?
    What about the con mishandling of softwood, A.K.A. “the Great Canadian Cave In?”
    What about the cons and the imaginary Income trust Scandal. Speaking of Income Trust, how much did Canadians lose over Flaherty’s mishandling of that?
    What about the con mishandling of the environment? They’ve had to look and see what the Liberals did for the environment when they were in office in order to get an idea of what to do about it. You know that stuff that any con will tell you that the Liberals didn’t do, yet the cons still cancelled the first chance they had?
    What about O’Connor stepping down as Defence Minister. It seems through his incompetence he’s given Canadians our own version of Abu Ghraib.

  31. Yes, albatross, Liberal corruption never happened. They never mismanaged a penny, never stole a dollar, and certainly never paid anything back! Hope you’re not hanging the equivalence label based on the Stockwell Day “controversy,” (def’n-finding a fax in a wastebasket). Good luck with that. BTW, when are the Liberals going to pay back that stolen money? The Gun Registry, IMHO, was not money well spent, but well spent money.
    Sorry, being in denial about Liberal incompetence, corruption and failure to remiburse Canadian’s stolen money doesn’t cut. I guess you’re stuck with the “if you think Harper’s got a hidden agenda now, just wait until he gets a majority.” Good luck with that one too.

  32. “multirec, you seem to be confused. The gun registry was money well spent.”
    No need to read your tripe after this comment. Back to your dorm room kid.

  33. Matt: I’m sick of these city mayors (Bronco Billy here in Calgary) begging for more money from the fed instead of sucking it up and raising the taxes on their own while they spend recklessly. Talk about chicken sh$ts. Instead of facing the electorate with their own largesse they pawn off the responsibility on every other level of government.
    And I like how this campaign talks about it only being 1 cent. As if it’s 1% of the GST revenue. However, they want 1 cent out of every 6 cents, or a full 16.7% of the total GST revenue. Not to mention the inefficiency of the feds having to collect it, administer it, and pass it on to the cities instead of them collecting it directly themselves.
    I’d love to see these mayors go into an election after a 16.7% tax increase.

  34. Albatros39a,
    An appropriate handle, I can see John Cleese running around the Hollywod Bowl trying to sell albatross, the smae manner in which you are trying to sell us on your tripe.
    I can’t speak for all conservatives in saying, I have no problem with above board GST as opposed the hidden manufacturers tax it replaced. It was NOT the cons who campaigned on eliminating it, it was your beloved Libs and their Red Book of 1993(see NAFTA, GST et al).
    As for the $1Billion dollar boondoggle, so many items, so little time, for one see HRDC and Jane Stewart.
    As for softwood deal, being only a mere accountant, I thought that 80% of $5Billion was still better than 0% of anything, but then agian I could be mistaken.
    Please allow me to tie your Income trust scandal and O’Connor together. Despite being under 50, I am old school and expect ministerial responsibility to be the order of the day, so yes O’Connor should have resigned on principle as the person in charge. By the smae reasoning Brison & Goodale should have taken responsibility for the leak (regardless) of who it came from in the matter of some Bay St. brokers having advance knowledge of the imminent announcement.
    As is par for the course of the leftist Hypocrites, it is never do as I do but do as I say.
    Ken

  35. Attention/Attention: Citoyen Dion, STOPIGGY, Denis-Hezbollah Coderre! Help/Aidez-nous. It’s the Joos. …-
    “The escape proposal that was reportedly accepted would have the Europeans make a dash for the security fence that separates Gaza from southern Israel, where the much-maligned IDF would then rescue them from the oncoming hordes of peace-loving Palestinians.”
    Europeans seek escape route from Gaza
    The European Union monitors who so enthusiastically took up positions on the Gaza-Egypt border in 2005 to help make sure Israel could not close it for security reasons no longer want to be there….-
    http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Security/10981.htm

  36. Kate, sda is on it’s way to adding another million visits before this year is even a quarter done !!
    List of most frequent readers ??

  37. You really should read that Red Book. In it they never promised to get rid of the GST, they promised to replace it. Some provinces decided to play along and their GST was replaced, as promised by the Liberals. Some provinces chose not to play along and decided to stick with the GST that you pay. You can blame your own provincial government if you are paying the GST.
    Of course and 80% settlement is a good deal with cons after the Americans blatantly thumbed their noses at NAFTA because it’s Little Stevie Tubby Guts who told you it was a good deal. Besides, to a con anything that hurts Canada and favours Americans is fine with them, because as anyone can tell, cons are far better Americans than they are Canadians. If the Liberals had caved in “to get the job done” the way the cons were, one can only imagine the noise from across the out of the loudmouth cons in the house.
    Oh, that “Billion dollar boondoggle”? That’s con accounting again isn’t it? After the books were examined, only $85,000 were unaccounted for due to poor book keeping practices, a far cry from one billion, but you failed to mention that. I’m looking forward to when the con books are examined. I’m quite sure there is going to be money unaccounted for.
    The RCMP have cleared Brison & Goodale of any wrong doing.

  38. Attention/Attention: Citoyen Dion, STOPIGGY, Denis-Hezbollah Coderre! Help/Aidez-nous. It’s the Joos. …-
    Great post there fella!

  39. Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior
    Some animals are surprisingly sensitive to the plight of others. Chimpanzees, who cannot swim, have drowned in zoo moats trying to save others. Given the chance to get food by pulling a chain that would also deliver an electric shock to a companion, rhesus monkeys will starve themselves for several days.
    Biologists argue that these and other social behaviors are the precursors of human morality. They further believe that if morality grew out of behavioral rules shaped by evolution, it is for biologists, not philosophers or theologians, to say what these rules are.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/science/20moral.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=84f902cc81da9173&ex=1332043200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

  40. Crop circle hoax exposed.”
    mr beware: did you see the video “crop circles quest for truth”
    there was one art work up on top of a hill consisting of 409 individual circles.
    four HUNDRED and nine of them, spaced correctly, with no crop plants knocked down that werent supposed to be, aaaaaand then theres that thing about microscopic iron particles crammed down deep between the stem and leaves of the wheat stalks.
    you think this is a hoax?
    how do they ‘weave’ the clusters of stalks so intricately and so quickly to get the thing done in a 4 hour window?
    what force of nature is causing the sudden extreme heat that either bends the node of the grass or blows it open depending on the age and moisture content?
    circles ‘cropping’ (pun intended) in north america, australia, europe and mostly england for decades, getting more and more complex (some are 2 dimensional representations of 3D objects)
    etc etc
    where’s the hoax?
    a couple jokesters traipsing around wit’ miner’s caps on and a couple fence boards? those are the hoax, but what about the massive and intricate patterns showing up by the thousands? who is ‘doing’ the ‘hoax’?
    like Polly the farmer said, no incomplete ones, no practice ones, no mistakes, for decades. what kind of obsession is that?
    some ‘hoax’ sir.
    deny deny deny. right wing to the core.

  41. any righties out there gonna answer these legitimate questions like fer instance the GSY being brain child of brian mulruin’s finance minister, or are you just going to dig deeper for brand new personal insults?
    tell us about the i/c trust cockup please we want to hear. you have the floor o rightie, tell us aaaaaall about income trusts….
    and the 50 year time line on air quality. keeeeripes.
    multirec, you seem to be confused. The gun registry was money well spent.
    The GST was originally a con idea, but you wanted the Liberals to fix. Why aren’t you blaming the cons for introducing it in the first place or now looking to Harper to completely get rid of it?
    What exactly is this billion-dollar boondoggle you’re talking about?
    Did you forget about Derek Zeisman?
    What about the con mishandling of softwood, A.K.A. “the Great Canadian Cave In?”
    What about the cons and the imaginary Income trust Scandal. Speaking of Income Trust, how much did Canadians lose over Flaherty’s mishandling of that?
    What about the con mishandling of the environment? They’ve had to look and see what the Liberals did for the environment when they were in office in order to get an idea of what to do about it. You know that stuff that any con will tell you that the Liberals didn’t do, yet the cons still cancelled the first chance they had?
    What about O’Connor stepping down as Defence Minister. It seems through his incompetence he’s given Canadians our own version of Abu Ghraib.

  42. “Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior”
    Interesting story indeed; altruistic primates. What this proves is, cons have yet to elvolve to the level of a rhesus monkey.

  45. Listening to AM 640 on the way home, they had a piece about Ontario Hydro raising rates because … everyone did their bit and conserved.
    They even had a spokedude on who said somebody has to pay for conservation(!)

  46. Liberals are losing mps by kicking them out of caucus, resignations, and floor crossings. To make up for this loss they are trying to get even by demanding resignations of cabinet ministers.
    When will the PM ask the liberals to apologize for adscam, theft, and return of money. When will someone ask for the 12 quebec liberals who received bags full of cash to be named and demand resignations if still elected mps. Mark Holland is on the attack again. This will also come back to bite him.

  47. Don’t need to read the Red Book, for fiction I will stick with Ian Rankin and his Rebus series.
    As for Brison & Goodale,read my post again, it has nothing to do with CRIMINAL wrongdoing but Ministerial responsibility. I don’t give a rat’s you know what whether they were found guilty or innocent by the RCMP, I am just holding them to the same level of accounatbility you are trying to hold(as am I) O’Connor to. You can’t have it both ways.
    I’ll make you another deal, when debating conservatives, try and make it through one argument or point of view without making reference to Americans or GWB or neo-cons. Once you can establish your position without referencing the aforementioned categories I/we might actually give you some credibility.

  49. “any righties out there gonna answer these legitimate questions like fer instance the GSY being brain child of brian mulruin’s finance minister, or are you just going to dig deeper for brand new personal insults?”
    Peronal insults? Do you mean like the pea brain who calls the cops to rejoice in their loss if one gets killed in the line of duty. You barely tread the sanity line.

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