I just arrived home from Dallas an hour or so ago. My day began at 2:30 am yesterday, and while I was back in Minot well before noon – a dog that was supposed to meet me there didn’t arrive for another 7 hours. I’ve only had about 6 hours sleep in the past 48.
At any rate, you’ll have to entertain yourselves with this thread for a while. I have a lot to get caught up on around here – after a nap.
Hey, Derangement Syndrome Dave, yes it’s the evil Rumsfeld casuing all the death of innocents; he and Bush and Haliburton.
Now back to work!
Robert: “A (Q)uebec “peace” group has written a letter to the VanDoos asking them to surrender in advance of their deployment to Afghanistan. The letter says Your deployment in Afghanistan means complicity with the civilian deaths and other activities… that are tantamount to war crimes.”
I think the words above reveal another dirty little secret of the left, that they think soldiers are baby-killing war criminals. Using their logic, then I guess withdrawing would also be a war crime, as Taliban reasserts itself and begins anew the slaughter of the Afghan people.
Talked to young lady, an Afghan expatriate. I wish Layton and others could hear what she says, how the Taliban took over Afghan with foreign fighters, particular Pakistani, and heaped immediate misery upon the people. She told me how two of her six sisters were professionals, I think doctors, highly educated. Their careers ended the day Taliban took over. Thankfully, they are all now in Canada. The suicide bomber was their bane even before invasion.
Maybe if Layton actually went to Afghanistan and talked to Canadian soldiers and Afghans, he might understand what she meant. I doubt it, though,
Texas Canuck: This is a very biased and pharaceuticalshort sighted statement you are making. The [pharaceutical] companies are evil, because they created a system of pushing their products to the general population thru a nexus of government agencies (ministry of health), professional associations (doctors colleges) and doctors.
Don’t twist things – PETA never ever spoke up against human testing. [Piss poor] quality of such testing has been brought up before. The issue has nothing to do with capitalism versus socialism. Every capitalist, pharmaceutical included, is looking to increase their client base and to cut costs. These folks found a way to guarantee their client base to be almost 100% of the population by lobbying the government and making inoculation almost mandatory. This is only possible under socialism, where healthcare is “free”, because the government, providing “free” healthcare requires your arm and a leg instead – they require that we submit to whatever shit they want to pump in our veins and see how we are doing. Your beloved pharmaceutical companies get to monitor the results of this pan-american test for FREE. Get real!
Dissent in the ranks of the Conservative party:
3w.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070610/ns_accord_070611/20070611?hub=TopStories
Aaron, you’re talking to the wrong crowd here. Some of people here do drug research, others use them on patients. Myself, I’m an educated bystander regarding drugs, but I’ve done efficacy/safety studies of my own from time to time.
The research quality of the papers linking autism to vaccinations is about the same as that linking guns to crime. Crap, in other words.
As a ferinstance, you ever hear of a drug called Viox? Biiiig drug company, major profit. Really good drug too, one of the best NSAID type pain killers. Great stuff, took it myself a couple times for back pain.
So after its out on the market for a while, a couple of small studies show up where patients showed an increase in heart/stroke problems while on Viox. Small samples, maybe ten people actually had problems. Very questionable science.
ShBOOM, Viox gets yanked off the market. Big lawsuits follow, millions of bucks flow to lawyers, big mess.
Autism link to vaccine doesn’t even have that much. Total vapor wafting forth from guys looking for the next big score.
And that Aaron is why this autism thing is going to court in the first place. Lawyers smelling money. Science isn’t even an issue.
Myself, I kind of like science. Which is why I’m telling you off.
How many autist children you met in your life?
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Calling Jack Layton — negotiate this you turncoat…
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Been doing a bit of digging on the subject of guns today. The most recent precedent that I can find, on the duty of police to protect citizens:
Mooney case, 2001
Quote:
“…it can reasonably be suggested that the police are guardians, not guarantors, of public wellbeing.”
So what it looks like to me, is a reason that people need handguns. The police cannot guarantee your safety, nor are they legally obliged to do so.
How many autist children have I met in my life?
Non, but I, my children, my nieces and nephews and cousins have all been vaccinated.
I was on “UN standby” in the army and spent three weeks getting vaccinations so I could travel to any s@#$hole country in the world on a moments notice. I felt like death warmed over the entire time, but I got over it.
One of my uncles got polio as a child, but managed to recover. Lots of people used to die or be permanently crippled by diseases that we don’t even remember being as issue. Some of them are coming back, because fewer people are getting vaccinated. Would you travel to SE Asia without getting a yellow fever vaccine?
I have heard of this link between autism and vaccines and spoke with our children’s doctor about it before they were vaccinated. He says that any link between the two is a lot of crap. He has no reason to lie to me.
this story placed as far back in the CBCpravda headlines as possible. doesnt fit there duffism agenda.
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/06/12/budget-vote.html
It’s becoming worse than a freak show the way the media are desperately trying to create a crisis over the Liberal’s Atlantic Accord, let’s make that the Atlantic discord as played out by Bellicose Williams of Newfie with Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan Premiers getting in on the ACT.
The greedy bastards want MORE, MORE. They don’t want to play the equalization game when they’re on the SHARING side.
They’ve gotten so used to the old Librano game where some are more equal than others, they don’t want get off the teet even when they have enough.
No sympathy here.
** THE MEDIA IS AN ASS **
Where/when did that line come from ??
Librano$ Chretien, he of AdScam infamy, appointed Thibault to her sinecure.
Is there no end to the criminality of the Liberal Party? The harm/damage done to Canada/Canadians by the Liberal thugocracy/kleptocracy is endless. It is a sad, sorry spectacle of a country debauched/raped/ravished by the criminals of the Liberal Party.
The fish does rot from the head down.
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John Turley-Ewart: Lise Thibault gives parliamentary government another black eye
While anti-monarchist types have been tut-tutting Prince Harry for allegedly behaving badly with a bodacious bar belle in Calgary, another Royal mess that reflects poorly on parliamentary government in Canada has surfaced that is of much greater concern.
In a report recently completed by Canada’s Auditor General, Sheila Fraser, Quebec’s former lieutenant-governor, Lise Thibault, is accused of misspending in excess of $700,000 during here 10 year tenure which ended on June 7th this year.
But this is not the only shocking outcome of the AG’s report. It’s that the federal Liberal Party of Canada could have checked the former lieutenant-governor’s spendthrift ways by implementing standard accounting measures, but chose not to do so.
Here is what the AG writes about the whole affair:
What we found
* A total of more than $1.7 million was paid to the former Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec between 1 April 1997 and the end of March 2007. Of this amount, approximately $1 million was spent on official duties. We were unable to determine whether the remainder, some $700,000, was spent on official duties. One part of the remainder included expenses for accommodation and meals that were already covered by a grant from the Government of Quebec. A second part was used for personal expenses, but we have not been able to establish with certainty how much, because it was insufficiently documented. A further amount was considered by the former Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec to be supplementary remuneration, when it was in fact intended to cover expenses related to official activities in the provincial capital.
* The former Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec did not implement the financial and management controls required for the sound administration of public funds and did not account for these expenses in public reports.
* Canadian Heritage did not develop or provide clear guidelines for differentiating between a lieutenant-governor’s personal and official expenses. Between 1 April 1997 and 31 March 2004, the Department authorized the reimbursement of questionable or inadequately supported expenditures on the part of the former Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec. In so doing, it implicitly approved these spending practices.
If anyone had doubts after Adscam of the Liberal party’s disregard for taxpayers’ money, they can have no doubts left.
The AG has suggested that Quebec and the federal government seek repayment from Ms. Thibault. And if she can’t come up with the funds the Liberal Party of Canada should. It shares culpability….-
http://communities.canada.com/nationalpost/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2007/06/12/john-turley-ewart-another-royal-mess-in-canada.aspx
[ Budget bill passes, Atlantic Tory MPs vote to support it. ]CBC, CTV
So what happened to the so-called CPC “revolt” over the Atlantic Accord ?? A media fabrication ??
How any more times before the media is taken to task ??
** THE MEDIA IS AN ASS **
Where/when did that line come from ??
Email the Taliban, via My pet Jawa by way of Shire network news:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/188250.php
The Budget, 158 voted for – 103 against, who were the missing MP’s that didn’t bother to show up and vote?
They should be fired.
Muslim Islamist murderers, such as the taliban, understand one thing; force, overwhelming force.
More, and, faster.
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More Than 24 Enemy Fighters Killed in Afghanistan
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 12, 2007 – An eight-hour battle in Afghanistan yesterday led to the deaths of some two dozen enemy fighters. Afghan and coalition forces patrolling near the village of Khenjakak received rocket-propelled-grenade and machine-gun fire in the Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar province. The combined Afghan and coalition forces repelled the attack.
Five hours later, more than 30 enemy attackers ambushed the same patrol with RPG and machine-gun fire near the village. During the eight-hour battle, more than two dozen enemy fighters were killed. One Afghan officer was wounded during the battle. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849204/posts
Chretien the Fish rotted from the head down.
Here is more rotting fish from the head down.
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Architect of Denver’s Global Warming Plan Seeks to Benefit Financially
Denver’s new global warming “Climate Action Plan,” is compromised from the top. The co-chairman of the task force, Benita Duran, is also an executive with the global firm CH2M HILL.
Headquartered in Denver, CH2M HILL’s businesses include carbon offset consulting, renewable energy services, and supply- and demand-side energy management. The firm had over $4.5 billion in revenues last year. CH2M HILL is also a “major donor” to Mayor John Hicklenlooper’s political campaign giving $1,500 on April 30, 2007.
Mayor John Hickenlooper is making the “Climate Action Plan” a city priority.
FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe commented, “Clearly, allowing executives from a multi-billion company to design new government rules that will increase business for their firm directly is very problematic. Especially when the same firm happens to be a ‘major donor’ to Mayor Hicklenlooper’s re-election campaign.” …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849166/posts
Albania, a former socialistic/communistic country that went through hell the last few decades, gave President Bush a hero’s welcome.
The citizens of Tirana(not Tarana, ONT.) were happy to shake his hands, pat him on the back, ect. During the celebration, thanking the US for help in bringing Albania a democracy, the President apparently lost his wrist watch.
So what was the Globe & Mails headline ??
‘Glad-Handing Untimely For Bush’
The Canadian media is sick.
Suzuki is now seling light bulbs on The Weather Network. Good work if ya can get it 🙂
The weather loops have gone loopy.
Kevin, thank you very much for the link! I was looking for this case for a long time!
And I met three autist children since coming to Canada 8 years ago. None before. Of course it’s just a coincidence (considering that population of just my home town was 1/4 of Canadian population)
Video: Wife of a British Jihadi
From LGF operative Kasper, here’s a video clip of an interview with the former wife of a British Muslim extremist. She explains in detail how her husband instructed her in the proper use of an explosive belt, as he tried to persuade her to carry out a suicide attack in Britain. …-
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
Out of the blue:
What are the chances of a missle, any missle, landing on top of an Iranian nuclear facility?
Say within six months. Maybe by December 1 (not a day of any significance, that I’m aware).
Someday we may want a degree warmer world to off-set this 8 degree drop !!
[ The last super eruption happened in 1815, when a tropical volcano named Tambora exploded for two days, leaving behind a giant caldera and pumping so much ash and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere that 100,000 people died the year after the eruption. ]
[ The ash and gases didn’t kill them, but the volcano’s affect on the atmosphere did. In many areas of Europe, crops failed to grow that year in the low light conditions. ]
[ Temperatures in London were 5 to 8 degrees Celsius cooler in 1816, Self said. “It was the ‘Year Without a Summer’ in the northeastern U.S., a year that inspired people to move West.” ] Anchorage Daily News.
http://www.adn.com/life/story/8965573p-8881281c.html
Tony Blair knows what is wrong with this world. And what the cause is. The Media !!
[ British newspapers will and should be subject to some form of new external regulation, the outgoing prime minister, Tony Blair, said yesterday in a broadside that attacked the media for behaving like feral beasts and eschewing balance or proportion.
In a sweeping critique of the industry, Mr Blair claimed newspapers, locked into an increasingly bitter sales war in a 24-hour news environment, indulged in “impact journalism” in which truth and balance had become secondary to the desire for stories to boost sales and be taken up by other media outlets. ]
[ He added that distinctions between comment and news had become so blurred that it was rare to find newspapers reporting precisely what a politician was saying. It was incredibly frustrating, he said, adding that politicians had to act immediately to rebut false charges before they became fact.] The Guardian.
Throw in a little spin, bias, intentional omission, agenda and we have a recipe for democracy subversion. Has happened before.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/media/story/0,,2101652,00.html
In this day and age, Canada doesn’t have ‘Newspapers’.
It only has ‘Viewspapers’.
Their views.
“How many autist children you met in your life?”
Hell of a lot more than three, Aaron.
Your problem centers on the fact that you assume most people in the medical business are evil and would willingly hurt kids to make a buck. I’d suggest you examine that assumption, see if it even passes the giggle test.
Compare Merk for example, to some of the recently featured Chicom drug makers who sell “antibiotics” that not only don’t work, they are made of poisonous materials to save money. I submit there’s a difference.
News Alert:
MSM discovers “Civil War” in Gaza.
But, in the article, MSM waters down with: ” The violence in Gaza has rapidly spiraled toward all-out civil war,”
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Hamas Seizes Control of Main Gaza Road as Civil War Breaks Out
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Fierce battles over key security positions spread to central Gaza early Wednesday, with Hamas fighters wresting control of the coastal strip’s main north-south road — and putting themselves in position to cut off reinforcements to beleaguered Fatah forces.
In the southern town of Khan Younis, a one-ton bomb planted in an underground tunnel tore through the headquarters of a security force loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, said Ali Qaisi, a presidential guard spokesman. At least one person was killed and eight others were injured, medics said.
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The violence in Gaza has rapidly spiraled toward all-out civil war, with more than 50 reported killed since Monday. Hamas has systematically taken control of security positions in the north and south, apparently leaving the main battle for the strip’s security and political nerve center in Gaza City for last….-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849530/posts
TO Red Star has written this? Please confirm.
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Toronto Star | Editorial: New Atlantic deal is more than fair
To understand the war of words now raging between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the premiers of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, it is necessary to go back two years to the time that former prime minister Paul Martin caved in totally to demands from the two Atlantic provinces to have their cake and eat it, too.
At that time, the premiers insisted their provinces not only keep all the money they were collecting from the offshore oil and natural gas fields, but that Ottawa also pay them the full equalization payments they would have received had they not had oil and gas.
In the end, Martin acquiesced after Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams removed the Canadian flag from all provincial buildings. …-
From comments:
#1.
Harper has to be in the right if the Toronto Star is supporting him.
It looks like the ROC is finally getting annoyed with the Maritimes. This will definitely make things interesting.
Comment by Dan | June 13, 2007
#2.
Frame it. It may be a long time before you see another like it.
Comment by Jack | June 13, 2007 …-
http://jacksnewswatch.com/2007/06/13/daily-column-190/#comments
Duh? Doh? Dee? Vitamin D prevents illiteracy?
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Literacy wizard picks D
By IAN GILLESPIE — Sun Media
Select the sentence that is most correct:
a) Most high school students are dim-wits.
b) Most city columnists are dim-wits.
c) Any dim-wit could pass the province’s Grade 10 literacy test.
d) Grade 10 isn’t as easy as you think.
The correct answer is “d.” (If you chose “b,” your mother and I are very disappointed in you. Go to your room.) …-
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Features/2007/06/13/4257475-sun.html
UNRWA to scale back Gaza mission
The United Nations decided Wednesday to immediately scale back its operations in the Gaza Strip after two Palestinians who worked for a UN agency were killed in the rampant fighting there, a UN spokesman said.
“In view of the increased threats to our staff, UNRWA has no choice but to scale back its operations in Gaza with immediate effect,” UN spokesman Christopher Gunness said, referring to the UN agency that deals with Palestinian refugees.
The agency said it would continue to provide essential medical services and emergency food distributions, he said.
An UNRWA garbage collector was killed Wednesday afternoon in crossfire from a battle and another worker was shot in northern Gaza on Tuesday and died later in the hospital, Gunness said. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849499/posts
[UNRWA:] The Refugee Curse – article by Daniel Pipes
“The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), an organization set up uniquely for Palestinian refugees in 1949, defines Palestinian refugees differently from …”
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1206
“Spending” and “Appropriate”? Nice, genteel, mewly-mouthed words.
Is she to be charged with malfeasance; theft of taxpayers’ money; breach of trust?
Will ex-Liberal PM AdScam Chretien, who appointed Thibault, be subpoenaed to testify if Thibault is brought to trial?
Note the “public relations”; meaning, spin.
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Quebec asks provincial police to investigate Thibault allegations
QUEBEC – Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Benoit Pelletier said Wednesday he has asked the Quebec provincial police to look into whether spending by former lieutenant-governor Lise Thibault was appropriate.
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Pelletier also said that the government will not pay the public relations and legal expenses of the lieutenant governor incurred since her departure from her vice-regal position on June 8….-
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=c875131a-663d-4a49-8a2c-70f4547859c8&k=64099