WASHINGTON – The FBI is gathering and sorting information about Americans to help search for potential terrorists, insurance cheats and crooked pharmacists, according to a government report obtained Tuesday.
Records about identity thefts, real estate transactions, motor vehicle accidents and complaints about Internet drug companies are being searched for common threads to aid law enforcement officials, the Justice Department said in a report to Congress on the agency’s data-mining practices. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070711/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fbi_data_mining;_ylt=A0WTUf21fZRGQUwADRms0NUE
State schools are dying. The number of pupils in those schools will fall to 50 percent by 2012, and every third pupil will be in an ultra-Orthodox school, according to a projection for elementary schools published in Haaretz this week. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/880989.html
A 37-year-old Pakistani immigrant has been jailed for one year after twice inappropriately touching sleeping women in a backpackers’ hostel.
…
On May 29, Khan was sentenced to 180 hours of community work after being convicted of offensive behaviour for touching a sleeping woman’s hip at a Nelson backpacker hostel.
On May 31 he checked into the same hostel under a false name, because he knew he wasn’t welcome back, and was assigned a bed in a mixed-sex dormitory.
He was moved to another room after a 26-year-old Dutch backpacker complained that she felt uneasy about him staring at her.
About 4am the woman was woken by Khan, who had his hands between her thighs but outside her pants. She yelled out and Khan ran back to his dormitory, packed his bags and left the hostel. http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4125615a12855.html
Latest media fetish, including The Weather Network.
‘iPod Listeners More Likely To Be Nailed By Lightening.’
mmm. I wonder if the so-called jurnos considered that lightening originates many miles overhead, travels at a horrendous speed, packs enough volts to overcome the best insulator and strikes whatever is in it’s way.
Ah, like a tiny copper wire on someones head is able to divert the bolt from it’s head long rush ??
Or could it be that the ‘deaf to their surroundings’ types did not hear the thunder ??
Naw. Too simple for the media. Need a better story than that to sell dead trees.
The best stories are the controversal ones that are hard to (at least initially) disprove. Lightening targets, Man caused GW, crop circles, …….
10th McGuinty MPP bails from caucus in the run up to the October Ontario election. Judy Marsales, Hamilton West, announced her intention not to seek the seat. It comes hot on the heels of another resignation yesterday of a Toronto Liberal MPP.
“take dat izzy money from western piples an slow dem down before day try to get more piples and more votes an more seats , we need dat grin ‘ouse gas tax and kill dat wessern indus tree.” borat dion.
ron, anybody using an electronic device outdoors during a thunderstorm is asking for it…
The only comprehensible fact below is: Liberals are being targeted. Is that a threat? What are the weapons of choice? Look at the field army Sid has: 250,000 warriors; 500,000 votes, minimum. Where’s Buzz? and Jack, the Taliban?
But, didn’t labour give Boob Rae pains when Boob was Premier of Ontario? History repeats: socialists eat their own; cannibals is socialists.
…-
CUPE targets Ontario Liberals
TORONTO — The Canadian Union of Public Employees is vowing to use its 250,000 members to target Liberals in the fall election.
Although the union’s head Sid Ryan says he is running as a New Democrat in the October election, he says the campaign is not self-serving.
He says the union is targeting Liberals because they have presided over hundreds of cuts to school support workers. …-
(via jack’s newswatch)
A carbon tax to slow down the western Canadian economy is preferable to higher interest rates for all of Canada, says the G&M.
Of course its better to destroy the economy of Alberta than to cause any discomfort in the centre of the universe. A carbon tax on Alberta will effectively move money from the west to the east, what’s not to love. Just another national energy program dressed up like a cheap tart. If Harper falls for that one, he will be hard pressed to get the west to support him next time around, even if there is nothing to vote for on the other side.
London calling: This is a publuck ‘nouncement. It’s from the Minister of State for Police, Crime, Security and Counter-Terrorism.
…-
UK: “Smile, you’re on camera”: Police to get head cams
Police officers in the UK are to be given head-mouted [sic] video cameras to film incidents and arrests, the footage of which can then be used in evidence. …- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864872/posts
No MSG!
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2007/07/12/4333739-ap.html Cardboard main ingredient in Beijing street food
BEIJING (AP) – Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial chemical and made tasty with pork flavouring, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in one Beijing neighbourhood, state television said.
I must agree with Ron on the i-pod story. It is not the device(they generate micro-volts of potential)it is the idiot out in the storm wearing it. It would be like saying the train in responsible for the death of the moron walking down the tracks with his i-pod cranked. Morons!
Chrysler confirms 2-tier strategy for Chery vehicles
CHELSEA, Mich. — Nissan’s Carlos Ghosn talks about a $3,000 car. http://tinyurl.com/22nnrd
But the best Chrysler can hope for from China’s Chery Automobile Co. is a car that might sell for around twice that price.
Three thousand *is pretty low,* said Frank Klegon, Chrysler’s executive vice president of product development. *I don’t know if I can get a $3,000 or $4,000 car out of China. Maybe, $5,000 or $6,000.*
During an interview at a press event here last month, Klegon acknowledged what sources outside the company had been saying for months – that Chrysler is developing a two-tier vehicle strategy with its Chinese partner:
1. Low-tech, low-cost vehicles for such regions as Central and South America.
2. More premium vehicles for the United States, Canada and western Europe.
=========================== autoweek.com/
Tata motors India producing vehicles for 3K and 4K that run on [your choice], battery pack or compressed air.
It*s enough to tempt a Scot to move to India. . . ** Look Ma, no gas or diesel!**
or, ** Opec, up yours!** = TG
* “This is not meddling, this is much greater freedom
– but with certain clear things prescribed.”
Because, unlike the middle-east and pretty much all
of Africa and well… a big chunk of Asia and, uh…
South America and the former Soviet Union… Britain has made such a hellish hash of things. And we can’t have that.
*
Found this by accident:
….. U of Regina Social(ist) Policy Research Unit!
Keep indoctrinating the young
“Interestingly, starting about two decades ago (1988), the total increase of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere has abruptly stopped, in spite of increased burning of fossil fuels.
The forcing agent for these many previous warming periods over millions of years could not have been of human origin, and the measured volumes of carbon dioxide and methane which were coincident with each warming period, were vastly greater than those currently being produced by humans.”
read the rest here. http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/07/global_warming_and_solar_radia_1.html
From Uncle Joe to the boy George
Damian Thompson reviews Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray
The human project to create a perfect society – which grew out of Christian fantasies of the Millennium and produced the deadly fruit of Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot – has died in the sands of Iraq. The attempt to export democracy to the Gulf was so crazy that its failure has killed off not just neoconservative ideology but also utopia itself.
That is the central thesis of John Gray’s new book, and it really is a load of bollocks.
advertisement
Gray, a professor at the LSE who is described on the front cover as “the most important living philosopher”, has had a fit of Bush-hatred spectacular even by the standards of important living philosophers. But, rather than getting it out of his system over a macrobiotic soufflé in Hampstead, the silly man has gone and built an entire theory of history around it.
This means that – quite apart from the fatuity of its arguments – Black Mass will have a very short shelf-life. In a few years’ time, it will read a bit like a study of political philosophy in which America’s involvement in Vietnam is the culminating act of folly in Western history. Judging by the tone of his writing, Gray is well insulated by self-esteem, but I’d like to think that, one day, even he will pick up this book and wince like a drunkard remembering what he said the previous night.
Here’s the argument. Jesus and his early followers believed that a perfect world would come to pass after an earth-shattering confrontation with Satan. This apocalyptic belief was given a makeover by the Enlightenment, whose concept of “progress” was also teleological. The Greek world telos means “end”; the end in this case was a world governed by reason – a politically engineered utopia. Twentieth-century totalitarianism tried to bring about a progressive utopia by acting out medieval apocalyptic fantasies of the mass extinction of the enemy.
So far, so good. …- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/07/05/bogra130.xml
Courtroom Explodes in Laughter After ABC’s Sawyer Touts Fairness of Journalists
Thursday’s edition of “Good Morning America” featured a Diane Sawyer anecdote that unintentionally revealed the low opinion Americans have of journalists. After wrapping up a July 12 segment on a Massachusetts man who is in trouble for attempting to avoid jury duty, the ABC co-host recounted the “hurtful” experience she had in a courtroom:
[Wrap up of segment on getting out of jury duty.]
Diane Sawyer: “You know, I wanted to sit on a jury once and I was taken off the jury. And the judge said to me, ‘Can, you know, can you tell the truth and be fair?’ And I said, ‘That’s what journalists do.’ And everybody in the courtroom laughed. It was the most hurtful moment I think I’ve ever had.” …- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864936/posts
Lies? Truth? Propaganda? ????
…-
PFLP Leader: ‘Arafat Died of AIDS’
Here’s Ahmad Jibril, Secretary-General of the PFLP General Command, on Hizballah’s Al-Manar TV, publicly admitting the truth about Yasser Arafat’s death for the first time. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.)
[…]
{Jack’s Newswatch says:] o Note: I’m leery of this report simply because of where it originates (a Palestinian with an axe to grind).
o Update: Arafat died of AIDS, confirms Palestinian leader …- http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=13412
(via jack’s newswatch)
sub-urban-
Marsales is my MPP. Shortly after she was elected I sent her an email complining about the Liberals policies regarding health care,in particular. She actually invited me to meet with her!I took her up on her offer and had a quite a nice chat. When addressing health care she stated ” Don’t you know by 2008 a full 50% of your taxes will be going to pay for health care?. I responded ” Yes, and that is why I have a problem with the Liberal Party’s dogmatic approach to the issue”.
She then asked me what “dogmatic” meant. I then left and went back to work.
She is nothing more than a useful idiot. Glad to see her go.
Islam’s SS:
“a new breed of Islamic hardliners – women clad from head to toe in black Islamic veils, and wielding batons and assault rifles.”
…-
Inside the Red Mosque
The bullet-riddled walls and roofs of the Red Mosque’s interior tell the story of a fierce battle. The mosque, located in a central district of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, was stormed by troops two days ago to clear out Islamic militants holed up inside. The government says 10 soldiers, one policeman and 75 militants were killed in the fighting and the week-long standoff that preceded the final assault. For six months, the halls and rooms of Jamia Hafsa, a women’s seminary inside the mosque, were home to a new breed of Islamic hardliners – women clad from head to toe in black Islamic veils, and wielding batons and assault rifles. …- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864985/posts
Tonto, look at all the truthers from the MSM.
Ughly.
…-
Dion says he respects Sask. MP’s decision to quit, but move could hurt Liberals
By HANNAH ZITNER (canoe news)
Native leader miffed by Prentice’s ‘snub’
Canadian Press (canoe news)
Chief: Kelowna Accord not a ‘press release’
HALIFAX (CP)
Thanks maz2 for the info re Arafat. This is interesting. Does anyone recall how Stockwell Day was pilloried by the media for mentioning the rumor that Arafat died of Aids. I believe that even the Hill Times was scoffing. It does not seem to matter much the truth or potential truth of some of these things. If they don’t fit the politically correct version of reality, those who speak the truth will be denigrated for their views.
Excellent commentary found only on the Internet.
…-
Seven Futures
Austin Bay describes seven possible scenarios following a US withdrawal from Iraq to try and create a framework to imagine what might happen. “Here are seven ‘scenarios’ sketching ‘potential outcomes’ of a quick withdrawal from Iraq. They are not mutually exclusive. They could well ‘blend.’ In fact, an amalgam of the first six could occur. … These are speculative dramas. The US and the Iraqi governments have their own scenarios. I am certain that Iran, Al Qaeda, Syria and Turkey have also analyzed potential outcomes and made plans accordingly.” Quickly, the scenarios are:
1. Three New Countries
2. Regional Shia-Sunni War
3. Turkey Expands
4. Shia Dictatorship
5. Chaos
6. “Gang Up”
7. Surprise—The Iraqi Center Holds
Readers interested in the details should go to Austin Bay’s site. But he concludes: “Out of seven possible “rapid withdrawal” scenarios only one –number seven– clearly benefits the majority of Iraqis. And the US. And the civilized world.” …- http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/07/seven-futures.html
Wretchard adds this:
” Austin is dead on when he says “Iran, Al Qaeda, Syria and Turkey have also analyzed potential outcomes and made plans accordingly”. They are not going to roll the dice, they are going to load the dice to increase the odds their favored outcome results. Any reasonable analyst, I think, will concede that.”
Citoyen Dion gives a monologue at the Indian powwow in Halifax.
The text is posted on the Lib website.
Citoyen Dion crowns himself: Le Roi, The Sun King; l’etat, c’est Moi.
Sun King Dion uses “I”, the first person singular pronoun, a stupendous total of 46 times. Is Dion a narcissist, an egotist; or, is he showing signs of megalomania?
…-
“Speech to the Assembly of First Nations”
Thank you. Meegwitch. O’ we la’ li och.
Kwe. …-
lib.caca.
CTV blables on about record heat in BC —- failed to mention this is the first heat of the year, summer half over, people had been complaining of the cold season.
Daily we get reminders of the reason for the saying; “the media is an ass”.
Mao Stlong sends poison pen message/letter from China to Plime Ministel Halpel: Hugo my fliend; you buggel off. Sclew Albelta.
Letter appeared in the TO Globe-Mail, Mandarin edition.
…-
China National Petroleum abandons Canadian energy strategy
Canada.com – 3 hours ago
CALGARY — China has abandoned its Canadian energy strategy out of frustration with federal policy and with the country’s oilsands producers, turning its attention instead to “friendly Venezuela” as a way to feed new Chinese refineries. …-
(national newswatch)
Free ride for First Nations lingers as pernicious myth
…I have lived on a reserve most of my life. I admit my parents paid a mere $150 for their house in 1972. It is hardly free housing; it was originally built through Department of Indian Affairs money, which is largely our own money…
…I think in this day and age, if we were all given such equal opportunity for positions, despite our aboriginality, most of us would have taxable incomes….
thestar.com/comment/article/235556
UN HQ renovations at least US$148 million over budget and work hasn’t started
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2007/07/12/pf-4335363.html
July 2, 2005
…Trump said he could run herd on contractors seeking to inflate prices. “Every one of them, I guarantee you, will find their way to the United Nations,” he said…
newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/7/22/105222.shtml
Sorry I missed that G&M “Mandarin Edition” letter to the “Plime Ministel”, maz2. LOL!
Mo Strong, China’s best friend, wonder if he’s been chowing down some of the fine tainted foodstuffs they ship offshore or brushing his teeth with antifreeze laced toothpaste?
WASHINGTON – The FBI is gathering and sorting information about Americans to help search for potential terrorists, insurance cheats and crooked pharmacists, according to a government report obtained Tuesday.
Records about identity thefts, real estate transactions, motor vehicle accidents and complaints about Internet drug companies are being searched for common threads to aid law enforcement officials, the Justice Department said in a report to Congress on the agency’s data-mining practices.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070711/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fbi_data_mining;_ylt=A0WTUf21fZRGQUwADRms0NUE
State schools are dying. The number of pupils in those schools will fall to 50 percent by 2012, and every third pupil will be in an ultra-Orthodox school, according to a projection for elementary schools published in Haaretz this week.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/880989.html
A 37-year-old Pakistani immigrant has been jailed for one year after twice inappropriately touching sleeping women in a backpackers’ hostel.
…
On May 29, Khan was sentenced to 180 hours of community work after being convicted of offensive behaviour for touching a sleeping woman’s hip at a Nelson backpacker hostel.
On May 31 he checked into the same hostel under a false name, because he knew he wasn’t welcome back, and was assigned a bed in a mixed-sex dormitory.
He was moved to another room after a 26-year-old Dutch backpacker complained that she felt uneasy about him staring at her.
About 4am the woman was woken by Khan, who had his hands between her thighs but outside her pants. She yelled out and Khan ran back to his dormitory, packed his bags and left the hostel.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4125615a12855.html
HollyWood world view! You think this is reality?
A carbon tax to slow down the western Canadian economy is preferable to higher interest rates for all of Canada, says the G&M.
A lively discussion follows.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070711.wcomment0712/BNStory/Front/home
Police mistake pastor for crook – http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2007/07/12/4333134-sun.html
I guess that warrants an ‘oops’.
Latest media fetish, including The Weather Network.
‘iPod Listeners More Likely To Be Nailed By Lightening.’
mmm. I wonder if the so-called jurnos considered that lightening originates many miles overhead, travels at a horrendous speed, packs enough volts to overcome the best insulator and strikes whatever is in it’s way.
Ah, like a tiny copper wire on someones head is able to divert the bolt from it’s head long rush ??
Or could it be that the ‘deaf to their surroundings’ types did not hear the thunder ??
Naw. Too simple for the media. Need a better story than that to sell dead trees.
The best stories are the controversal ones that are hard to (at least initially) disprove. Lightening targets, Man caused GW, crop circles, …….
10th McGuinty MPP bails from caucus in the run up to the October Ontario election. Judy Marsales, Hamilton West, announced her intention not to seek the seat. It comes hot on the heels of another resignation yesterday of a Toronto Liberal MPP.
“take dat izzy money from western piples an slow dem down before day try to get more piples and more votes an more seats , we need dat grin ‘ouse gas tax and kill dat wessern indus tree.” borat dion.
ron, anybody using an electronic device outdoors during a thunderstorm is asking for it…
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/07/11/4331636-sun.html
Apparently, there are knife wielding maniacs randomly stabbing people in Calgary.
The only comprehensible fact below is: Liberals are being targeted. Is that a threat? What are the weapons of choice? Look at the field army Sid has: 250,000 warriors; 500,000 votes, minimum. Where’s Buzz? and Jack, the Taliban?
But, didn’t labour give Boob Rae pains when Boob was Premier of Ontario? History repeats: socialists eat their own; cannibals is socialists.
…-
CUPE targets Ontario Liberals
TORONTO — The Canadian Union of Public Employees is vowing to use its 250,000 members to target Liberals in the fall election.
Although the union’s head Sid Ryan says he is running as a New Democrat in the October election, he says the campaign is not self-serving.
He says the union is targeting Liberals because they have presided over hundreds of cuts to school support workers. …-
(via jack’s newswatch)
A carbon tax to slow down the western Canadian economy is preferable to higher interest rates for all of Canada, says the G&M.
Of course its better to destroy the economy of Alberta than to cause any discomfort in the centre of the universe. A carbon tax on Alberta will effectively move money from the west to the east, what’s not to love. Just another national energy program dressed up like a cheap tart. If Harper falls for that one, he will be hard pressed to get the west to support him next time around, even if there is nothing to vote for on the other side.
London calling: This is a publuck ‘nouncement. It’s from the Minister of State for Police, Crime, Security and Counter-Terrorism.
…-
UK: “Smile, you’re on camera”: Police to get head cams
Police officers in the UK are to be given head-mouted [sic] video cameras to film incidents and arrests, the footage of which can then be used in evidence. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864872/posts
No MSG!
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2007/07/12/4333739-ap.html
Cardboard main ingredient in Beijing street food
BEIJING (AP) – Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial chemical and made tasty with pork flavouring, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in one Beijing neighbourhood, state television said.
I must agree with Ron on the i-pod story. It is not the device(they generate micro-volts of potential)it is the idiot out in the storm wearing it. It would be like saying the train in responsible for the death of the moron walking down the tracks with his i-pod cranked. Morons!
Chrysler confirms 2-tier strategy for Chery vehicles
CHELSEA, Mich. — Nissan’s Carlos Ghosn talks about a $3,000 car.
http://tinyurl.com/22nnrd
But the best Chrysler can hope for from China’s Chery Automobile Co. is a car that might sell for around twice that price.
Three thousand *is pretty low,* said Frank Klegon, Chrysler’s executive vice president of product development. *I don’t know if I can get a $3,000 or $4,000 car out of China. Maybe, $5,000 or $6,000.*
During an interview at a press event here last month, Klegon acknowledged what sources outside the company had been saying for months – that Chrysler is developing a two-tier vehicle strategy with its Chinese partner:
1. Low-tech, low-cost vehicles for such regions as Central and South America.
2. More premium vehicles for the United States, Canada and western Europe.
=========================== autoweek.com/
Tata motors India producing vehicles for 3K and 4K that run on [your choice], battery pack or compressed air.
It*s enough to tempt a Scot to move to India. . . ** Look Ma, no gas or diesel!**
or, ** Opec, up yours!** = TG
*
“This is not meddling, this is much greater freedom
– but with certain clear things prescribed.”
Because, unlike the middle-east and pretty much all
of Africa and well… a big chunk of Asia and, uh…
South America and the former Soviet Union…
Britain has made such a hellish hash of things.
And we can’t have that.
*
Found this by accident:
…..
U of Regina Social(ist) Policy Research Unit!
Keep indoctrinating the young
“Interestingly, starting about two decades ago (1988), the total increase of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere has abruptly stopped, in spite of increased burning of fossil fuels.
The forcing agent for these many previous warming periods over millions of years could not have been of human origin, and the measured volumes of carbon dioxide and methane which were coincident with each warming period, were vastly greater than those currently being produced by humans.”
read the rest here.
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/07/global_warming_and_solar_radia_1.html
From Uncle Joe to the boy George
Damian Thompson reviews Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray
The human project to create a perfect society – which grew out of Christian fantasies of the Millennium and produced the deadly fruit of Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot – has died in the sands of Iraq. The attempt to export democracy to the Gulf was so crazy that its failure has killed off not just neoconservative ideology but also utopia itself.
That is the central thesis of John Gray’s new book, and it really is a load of bollocks.
advertisement
Gray, a professor at the LSE who is described on the front cover as “the most important living philosopher”, has had a fit of Bush-hatred spectacular even by the standards of important living philosophers. But, rather than getting it out of his system over a macrobiotic soufflé in Hampstead, the silly man has gone and built an entire theory of history around it.
This means that – quite apart from the fatuity of its arguments – Black Mass will have a very short shelf-life. In a few years’ time, it will read a bit like a study of political philosophy in which America’s involvement in Vietnam is the culminating act of folly in Western history. Judging by the tone of his writing, Gray is well insulated by self-esteem, but I’d like to think that, one day, even he will pick up this book and wince like a drunkard remembering what he said the previous night.
Here’s the argument. Jesus and his early followers believed that a perfect world would come to pass after an earth-shattering confrontation with Satan. This apocalyptic belief was given a makeover by the Enlightenment, whose concept of “progress” was also teleological. The Greek world telos means “end”; the end in this case was a world governed by reason – a politically engineered utopia. Twentieth-century totalitarianism tried to bring about a progressive utopia by acting out medieval apocalyptic fantasies of the mass extinction of the enemy.
So far, so good. …-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/07/05/bogra130.xml
Courtroom Explodes in Laughter After ABC’s Sawyer Touts Fairness of Journalists
Thursday’s edition of “Good Morning America” featured a Diane Sawyer anecdote that unintentionally revealed the low opinion Americans have of journalists. After wrapping up a July 12 segment on a Massachusetts man who is in trouble for attempting to avoid jury duty, the ABC co-host recounted the “hurtful” experience she had in a courtroom:
[Wrap up of segment on getting out of jury duty.]
Diane Sawyer: “You know, I wanted to sit on a jury once and I was taken off the jury. And the judge said to me, ‘Can, you know, can you tell the truth and be fair?’ And I said, ‘That’s what journalists do.’ And everybody in the courtroom laughed. It was the most hurtful moment I think I’ve ever had.” …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864936/posts
Lies? Truth? Propaganda? ????
…-
PFLP Leader: ‘Arafat Died of AIDS’
Here’s Ahmad Jibril, Secretary-General of the PFLP General Command, on Hizballah’s Al-Manar TV, publicly admitting the truth about Yasser Arafat’s death for the first time. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.)
[…]
{Jack’s Newswatch says:] o Note: I’m leery of this report simply because of where it originates (a Palestinian with an axe to grind).
o Update: Arafat died of AIDS, confirms Palestinian leader …-
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=13412
(via jack’s newswatch)
sub-urban-
Marsales is my MPP. Shortly after she was elected I sent her an email complining about the Liberals policies regarding health care,in particular. She actually invited me to meet with her!I took her up on her offer and had a quite a nice chat. When addressing health care she stated ” Don’t you know by 2008 a full 50% of your taxes will be going to pay for health care?. I responded ” Yes, and that is why I have a problem with the Liberal Party’s dogmatic approach to the issue”.
She then asked me what “dogmatic” meant. I then left and went back to work.
She is nothing more than a useful idiot. Glad to see her go.
Islam’s SS:
“a new breed of Islamic hardliners – women clad from head to toe in black Islamic veils, and wielding batons and assault rifles.”
…-
Inside the Red Mosque
The bullet-riddled walls and roofs of the Red Mosque’s interior tell the story of a fierce battle. The mosque, located in a central district of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, was stormed by troops two days ago to clear out Islamic militants holed up inside. The government says 10 soldiers, one policeman and 75 militants were killed in the fighting and the week-long standoff that preceded the final assault. For six months, the halls and rooms of Jamia Hafsa, a women’s seminary inside the mosque, were home to a new breed of Islamic hardliners – women clad from head to toe in black Islamic veils, and wielding batons and assault rifles. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864985/posts
Tonto, look at all the truthers from the MSM.
Ughly.
…-
Dion says he respects Sask. MP’s decision to quit, but move could hurt Liberals
By HANNAH ZITNER (canoe news)
Native leader miffed by Prentice’s ‘snub’
Canadian Press (canoe news)
Chief: Kelowna Accord not a ‘press release’
HALIFAX (CP)
Thanks maz2 for the info re Arafat. This is interesting. Does anyone recall how Stockwell Day was pilloried by the media for mentioning the rumor that Arafat died of Aids. I believe that even the Hill Times was scoffing. It does not seem to matter much the truth or potential truth of some of these things. If they don’t fit the politically correct version of reality, those who speak the truth will be denigrated for their views.
Victor Davis Hanson at City Journal, slamming calls for a hasty withdrawal from Iraq:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=26231_VDH-_The_New_York_Times_Surrenders&only
Excellent commentary found only on the Internet.
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Seven Futures
Austin Bay describes seven possible scenarios following a US withdrawal from Iraq to try and create a framework to imagine what might happen. “Here are seven ‘scenarios’ sketching ‘potential outcomes’ of a quick withdrawal from Iraq. They are not mutually exclusive. They could well ‘blend.’ In fact, an amalgam of the first six could occur. … These are speculative dramas. The US and the Iraqi governments have their own scenarios. I am certain that Iran, Al Qaeda, Syria and Turkey have also analyzed potential outcomes and made plans accordingly.” Quickly, the scenarios are:
1. Three New Countries
2. Regional Shia-Sunni War
3. Turkey Expands
4. Shia Dictatorship
5. Chaos
6. “Gang Up”
7. Surprise—The Iraqi Center Holds
Readers interested in the details should go to Austin Bay’s site. But he concludes: “Out of seven possible “rapid withdrawal” scenarios only one –number seven– clearly benefits the majority of Iraqis. And the US. And the civilized world.” …-
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/07/seven-futures.html
Wretchard adds this:
” Austin is dead on when he says “Iran, Al Qaeda, Syria and Turkey have also analyzed potential outcomes and made plans accordingly”. They are not going to roll the dice, they are going to load the dice to increase the odds their favored outcome results. Any reasonable analyst, I think, will concede that.”
Citoyen Dion gives a monologue at the Indian powwow in Halifax.
The text is posted on the Lib website.
Citoyen Dion crowns himself: Le Roi, The Sun King; l’etat, c’est Moi.
Sun King Dion uses “I”, the first person singular pronoun, a stupendous total of 46 times. Is Dion a narcissist, an egotist; or, is he showing signs of megalomania?
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“Speech to the Assembly of First Nations”
Thank you. Meegwitch. O’ we la’ li och.
Kwe. …-
lib.caca.
CTV blables on about record heat in BC —- failed to mention this is the first heat of the year, summer half over, people had been complaining of the cold season.
Daily we get reminders of the reason for the saying; “the media is an ass”.
Mao Stlong sends poison pen message/letter from China to Plime Ministel Halpel: Hugo my fliend; you buggel off. Sclew Albelta.
Letter appeared in the TO Globe-Mail, Mandarin edition.
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China National Petroleum abandons Canadian energy strategy
Canada.com – 3 hours ago
CALGARY — China has abandoned its Canadian energy strategy out of frustration with federal policy and with the country’s oilsands producers, turning its attention instead to “friendly Venezuela” as a way to feed new Chinese refineries. …-
(national newswatch)
Free ride for First Nations lingers as pernicious myth
…I have lived on a reserve most of my life. I admit my parents paid a mere $150 for their house in 1972. It is hardly free housing; it was originally built through Department of Indian Affairs money, which is largely our own money…
…I think in this day and age, if we were all given such equal opportunity for positions, despite our aboriginality, most of us would have taxable incomes….
thestar.com/comment/article/235556
UN HQ renovations at least US$148 million over budget and work hasn’t started
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2007/07/12/pf-4335363.html
July 2, 2005
…Trump said he could run herd on contractors seeking to inflate prices. “Every one of them, I guarantee you, will find their way to the United Nations,” he said…
newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/7/22/105222.shtml
Sorry I missed that G&M “Mandarin Edition” letter to the “Plime Ministel”, maz2. LOL!
Mo Strong, China’s best friend, wonder if he’s been chowing down some of the fine tainted foodstuffs they ship offshore or brushing his teeth with antifreeze laced toothpaste?