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  4. News Flash: A verdict in the Conrad Black trial – evidently a full one – is due to be announced at 11:15 AM ET. It’s being shown on BNN and CTV NewsNet.

  6. All defendants have been found guilty of some charges. Conrad – 4 counts; Jack Boultbee – 3 counts; Peter Atkinson – 3 counts; Mark Kipnis – 3 counts. All defendants are guilty on counts 1, 6 and 7, all mail and wire fraud charges, and Conrad was found guilty of obstruction of justice also.

  7. “The global warming coordinator will help prevent climate change …”
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    CA: Santa Cruz will pay city global warming czar $80,000 a year
    There’s a job opening in Santa Cruz for the newly created position of global warming czar.
    The pay: $80,000 a year.
    The global warming coordinator will help prevent climate change, guide the city in transportation and land-use decisions and get the community involved in the effort.
    “We think this position will help address possible sea level rise, whether that’s at our bluffs, at our beaches or maybe even in our downtown,” city planning director Greg Larson said.
    The City Council approved the Planning Department position for one year.
    “The preponderance of scientific evidence globally and locally shows that global warming is a real threat to not only this community but the nation as well. It’s prudent to start early to address this instead of waiting until it’s too late,” Larson said.
    The global warming czar will work with other city departments that are already taking measures to reduce waste and water use, oversee solar panel installations and encourage green businesses to move to the area. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865495/posts

  10. Moore was on CNN, of all places, ranting how the media distotes his work — ?
    He said everything in his Fahrenheit 911 was true.
    Not being a movie-go myself — how does Moore ‘stack-up’ ??

  11. “Supporters of the Red Mosque militants held at least three protests against the army’s attack.”
    “This is a conspiracy by Jews and Christians against Islam,” cleric Mohammed Sadiq told 6,000 people gathered in Bajur tribal region for the funerals of three religion students killed in the Islamabad fighting. – Toronto Star
    These people are too stupid to survive.

  12. Billions of $$$$$$$$ have been thrown at cancer for decades. Where is the cancer cure?
    Ban the Canadian Cancer Society.
    …-
    Cancer society wants feds to ban asbestos
    CTV.ca – 11 Jul 2007
    MONTREAL — The lingering dangers caused by exposure to asbestos has prompted the Canadian Cancer Society to join a growing call for the federal government to ban the use and exportation of the fire-retarding mineral, The Canadian Press has learned. (canoe news)

  13. YOUR GOVERNMENT LOVES YOU
    A one act play
    LIB
    Global warming is the biggest crisis facing our civilization! Elect us and we’ll save you from it! But it’s going to cost a lot of your money and we will have to take away a lot of the rights and freedoms you have enjoyed until now.
    CON
    Global jihad is the biggest crisis facing our civilization! Elect us and we’ll save you from it! But it’s going to cost a lot of your money and we will have to take away a lot of the rights and freedoms you have enjoyed until now.
    LIB
    Ignore the right-wing troll, the science is in! Stand aside and let us deal with this crisis in a manner to be decided by our experts.
    CON
    Shut up, leftard! Haven’t you read the Quran? Time for you smelly hippies to cut your hair, join the army, and start saving some Judeo-Christian values.
    LIB
    Global warming!
    CON
    Global jihad!
    LIB
    Global warming!
    CON
    Global ji- hey … we’re not really getting anywhere are we? I’ve got a great idea. We’ll both keep up the rhetoric, but if you get elected, YOU send the Canadian army to a godforsaken middle eastern hellhole to kill sandmonkies and build up a dusty version of the Trudeaupian state. Then when we get elected we’ll pretend that we’re reacting to global warming pragmatically and WE’LL pass a bunch of enviro-looney legislation. Whaddya say?
    LIB
    Hmm, it has a certain deviousness that I must admit is very appealing to me. Do you promise that you’ll give our boys some of the new government jobs and contracts when you’re in charge?
    CON
    No problem-o. By the time we finish tag-teaming the taxpayer there’s gonna be so much pork, all of your friends can get in on the action. And whenever the government switches between our parties, make a couple of cosmetic changes, but then just ratchet up the spending and regulation higher and higher.
    LIB
    It’s a deal. But if anyone asks, I’m still gonna say that I hate you and your policies suck, okay?
    CON
    Just make sure you keep the pork rolling along and I don’t care what you call us.
    LIB
    Ha ha, imagine if the rubes figured out this scam – would they be pissed!
    CON
    Fuggim if they can’t take a joke!
    LIB
    BAW HAW HAW HAW HAW! See you at Nate’s on Tuesday?
    CON
    Okay, but it’s your turn to expense it.
    THE END

  14. Prime Minister Harper says: No.
    Canada has a Prime Minister with gumption, guts, and goodness. Bravo, Prime Minister Harper.
    …-
    Harper says Canada not ready to restore funds to PA
    Canada has no immediate plans to restore aid funding to the Palestinian Authority, Prime Minister Stephen Harper indicated Friday.(national newswatch)

  15. Well, Ugh (or is it Justzum…. ?) setting aside the death toll from global jihad vs the lack thereof from global warming, that was actually pretty funny.

  16. I am installing an “INFIDEL” bumper sticker on my car this weekend. I am going to keep track of all incidents caused by this, including fingers, waved fists, insults and vandalism(going on a 2000 taurus with 300,000km, so who cares what they do). I will provide weekly updates(a sort of log). Time to see how “tolerant” these leftards and religion of peace types are.

  17. Ugh hit the nail right on the head, except he should have said mulroney conservative(and we still have quite a few of them hanging in there)as there really was not much difference between the two gangs(except maz and wilson, of course)

  20. Fear of a global ‘coldening’ [Coldest June in half a century in Aus.]
    LAST month Australians endured our coldest June since 1950. Imagine that; all those trillions of tonnes of evil carbon we’ve horked up into the atmosphere over six decades of rampant industrialisation, and we’re still getting the same icy weather we got during the Cold War.
    Not that June should be presented as evidence that global warming isn’t happening, or that we’re causing it. Relying on such a tiny sample would be unscientific and wrong, even if it involves an entire freakin’ continent’s weather patterns throughout the course of a whole month, for Christ’s sake.
    No such foolishness will be indulged in here.
    Sadly, those who believe in global warming – and who would compel us also to believe – aren’t similarly constrained. A few hot days are all they ever need to get the global warming bandwagon rolling; evidently it’s solar powered. Here, for example, is an Australian Associated Press report on May’s weather, which in places was a little warmer than usual:
    “Climate change gave much of Australia’s drought-stricken east coast its warmest May on record, weather experts say.
    “Global warming and an absence of significant cold changes had driven temperatures well above the monthly average, said meteorologist Matt Pearce.
    According to Mr Pearce, May’s temperatures were “yet another sign of the widespread climate change that we are seeing unfold across the globe.”
    If that’s the case, shouldn’t June’s cold weather – coldest since 1950, remember – be a sign that widespread climate change isn’t unfolding across the globe? We’re using the same data here; one month’s weather. And, in fact, the June sample is Australia-wide while May only highlights the east coast. Fear the dawn of a great “coldening”!…-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865663/posts

  21. It’s Sphincter Boy: Iva Elwis.
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    Video: Cartoonishly anti-American Canadian interviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Not quite parody but dangerously close. How can she be so disgustingly pro-American, he wonders, and yet so stridently anti-Islamic? Doesn’t she see that Islamists and “Christianists” are two sides of the same coin? Things pick up towards the end but she never retreats. Just one of the many reasons she has my vote for the vice presidency next year. Click the image to watch….-
    (Link to hotair)
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865661/posts

  22. As I sit here in my hoody and track pants, I can certainly say that this is eastern Ontario’s coldest summer in at least 30 years. So it is happening elsewhere, eh? Explain that light bulb boy!(dr fruit fly)

  23. Find the reference to: “”vociferous red-neck people”. Left-socialist judges are afeared of you; give ’em ‘ell, Rednecks.
    …-
    Nation’s activist judiciary revealed (Australia)
    The Australian
    A SIGNIFICANT number of the nation’s top judges believe they are entitled to step in and make new laws when parliament fails to deal with difficult issues.
    …judges have revealed their support for judicial activism in a series of more than 80 confidential interviews with a visiting American academic.
    Those interviews, which promised anonymity and were never expected to be published in Australia, show some judges are committed activists who believe those who criticise their approach are “vociferous red-neck people”.
    “Perhaps it’s illegitimate to pull the rabbit out of the hat, but it’s nice to see it emerging,” said one High Court judge.
    …interviews carried out by American political scientist Jason L.Pierce between 1997 and 2000…
    …interviewed include High Court Chief Justice Murray Gleeson, nine current and retired High Court judges, 24 Federal Court judges, five chief justices from the states and territories and some of the most senior state judges…
    Pierce, an assistant professor at the University of Dayton in Ohio, gained unprecedented access to Australia’s judges with the assistance of leading Australian academics…
    …some judges see judicial activism as their duty, others are still seething over what they see as the High Court’s illegitimate law-making under former chief justice Anthony Mason.
    “Madness let loose,” one judge described the Mason court. The Mason court, which recognised Aboriginal native title and implied constitutional rights, was also denounced for cooking up “some pretty funny menus”.
    Its decisions on implied rights were “silly”, “sneaky” and “the worst single feature of Australian constitutional law in the last 20 years”, the judge said.
    The court’s Mabo decision on native title received particular criticism. Another judge said the Mason court’s development of implied constitutional rights had created a “looseleaf constitution”. “We’ve said bugger the constitution. We’ll tell you what should be there. It’s very distressing,”…-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865727/posts

  25. It’s Show and Tell Time: The Charlie and Arnie Show.
    “as the cameras rolled”
    “It is the right thing to do.”
    …-
    Crist signs orders for greener Florida (Florida Gov Barf Alert)
    Cheered on by fellow Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gov. Charlie Crist signed tough — if general — orders to combat global warming. The silver-haired governor of Florida stood arm-in-arm Friday with the silver-screen governor of California, joked about being recast in Twins, and then — as the cameras rolled — signed a groundbreaking set of environmental protection orders. Gov. Charlie Crist described the mandates as a framework for a new, more future-friendly way of living and conducting business in Florida. ”State government is leading by example,” he said. “It is the right thing to do.” It also is a popular thing…-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865851/posts

  27. Polls
    In today’s Toronto Sun, columnist Christina Blizzard says, “Ottawa is fast becoming a cesspool – a national capital that is a blight on the country.. Canada’s capital city is a national disgrace.. infested with crack addicts”. Do you agree our downtown is as bad as she says?
    Yes
    79.5%
    No
    20.0%
    Please vote first, then comment by email at mornings@cfra.com
    0.43%
    Total Votes: 1838 …-
    cfra.com

  28. “I think they’re fake deaths. They’re not real deaths.”
    …-
    Does Toronto have a filtered view on air
    pollution?
    The truth about the amount of deaths caused by air pollution may be a bit, well, foggy. When politicians from the federal, Ontario and Toronto governments gathered this week to trumpet a new tool to measure air quality — a project expected to cost Ottawa $30-million over four years — the city’s medical officer of health praised the plan with a statistic that has become a popular chestnut around City Hall.
    “Air pollution is responsible for 1,700 premature deaths and 6,000 hospital admissions in Toronto each year,” Dr. David McKeown said in a news release handed out to the horde of reporters at the launch of the air quality health index.
    Cited by Toronto Public Health (TPH) in its smog literature, raised frequently by some Toronto councillors, and repeated ad nauseam by the media, the figure of 1,700 smog deaths annually has taken on an aura of infallibility.
    But the truth is much more ambiguous, critics say.
    The Post’s Kelly Patrick reports:
    If the figure were accurate, it would equate to nearly five smog deaths a day; if spread out over just the three hottest months of the year, when pollution levels are at their highest, the smog death toll would be closer to 18 per day. If Toronto’s pollution kills 1,700 people a year, dirty air would account for roughly a third of all heart- and lung-related deaths or nearly 10% of the 18,636 deaths recorded in all of Toronto in 1999, the year upon which the 1,700 figure is based. There is a reason the numbers seem puzzlingly high, say critics of TPH’s conclusions.
    “The numbers aren’t real people, in the sense that you could never get a list of names,” said Dr. Ross McKitrick, an associate professor of environmental economics at the University of Guelph. “It’s the kind of model that is susceptible to cherry-picking for finding results that suit a polemical purpose.”
    Joel Schwartz, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute who examined the TPH figures for a 2004 article, went further: “I think it’s more than uncertainty. I think they’re fake deaths. They’re not real deaths.”
    For more on the supposed “filtered” view of Toronto’s health stats, be sure to check out Kelly Patrick’s full feature in Saturday’s National Post.
    Photo of Toronto’s hazy skyline by J.P. Moczulski for Reuters …-
    http://communities.canada.com/nationalpost/blogs/toronto/archive/2007/07/13/does-toronto-have-a-filtered-view-on-air-pollution.aspx

  29. AP, Associated Press, slimes Australia/the US in this sports story. Not satisfied with a straight sports story, AP/MSM politicize it; they crap on the West; by doing so, they show their contempt for Iraqis.
    …-
    Iraqis celebrate soccer victory
    BAGHDAD (AP) – Thousands of Iraqis poured into the street, dancing, chanting and firing shots into the air in celebration after their national soccer team defeated Australia, a country many here see as an occupation force. (canoe news)

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