Your Tuesday reader tips thread.
Keith Ellison liberal, democrat, muslim congressman is begged by Iraqis to help fight al-Qaeda.
They needed to make room for the Watersports programming;
Concerns about the “sinister uses” of guns in society have prompted
University of Toronto officials to rid the campus of its 88-year-old sport shooting range, despite its continued popularity and spotless safety record.
The only thing missing from this story is a crop sprayer.
Time to pull out of Toronto. (scroll down)
In a socialist paradise, imagine the showpiece that the premier’s own riding must be.
Add yours in the comments.
See, here’s why I call Canadian Press the worst news organization in Canada:
OTTAWA (CP) – After 18 months of tightly scripted, top-down communication, the federal Conservative caucus meets this week in Charlottetown to discuss the government’s future and give seldom-heard MPs a voice.
How’s that for an opening sentence? Not as bad as the closer; remember, this is ostensibly objective reporting, not an editorial:
Apparently, someone has since realized that holding a national governing party strategy session under a lead blanket of secrecy might be a bit discordant with the Harper government’s mantra of transparency and accountability.
Two officially sanctioned events where news media and MPs can rub elbows have now tentatively been scheduled over the three days of meetings.
The rest of this supposedly objective article is filled with similar barely concealed hostilities and the usual props such as the Stunt Liberal Professor and Fake Data.
http://www.recorder.ca/cp/National/070730/n073068A.html
In light of all of the anti-american sentiments expressed on earlier threads I thought this quotation from “The Names”, a novel by Don Delillo, might be interesting. (If you enjoyed “The Magos” by John Fowles, you might get a kick out of it. )
From the novel:
“America is the world’s living myth. There’s no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody re-occurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves, and so on. We’re here to accomodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing. People expect us to absorb the impact of their grievances. Interestingly, when I talk to a mid-Eastern businessman who expresses affection and respect for the US, I automatically assume he’s either a fool or a liar. The sense of grievance affects all of us, one way or another.”
“What percentage of these percentages is justified?”
I pretend to calculate.
“Of course we’re a military presence in some of these places,” I said, “another reason to be targeted.”
“You’re present almost everywhere. You have influence everywhere. But you’re only being shot at in selected locales.”
“I think I hear a wistful note. Canada. Is that what you mean, where we operate with impunity?”
“Certainly you’re there,” she said.
“Two-thirds of the largest corporations.”
“They’re a developed country. They have no moral edge. The people who have technology and bring technology are the death dealers. Everyone else is innocent. These Mideast societies are at particular pitch. There’s no doubt or ambiguity. They burn with a clear vision. There must be times when a society feels the purest virtue lies in killing.”
Talking with my wife on a starry night in the Greek archipelago. “Canadians are stricken by inevitablity”, she said. “Not that I defend the capitulation. That’s what it is. Pathetic surrender.”
“We do the wrong kind of killing in America. It’s a form of consumerism. It’s the logical extension of consumer fantasy. People shooting from overpasses, barricaded houses. Pure image.”
“Now you’re the one that sounds wistful.”
“No connection to the earth.”
“Some truth in that, I guess. A little.”
“I like a little truth. A little truth is all I ever hope for. You know what I mean, Owen?”
The point seems to have been missed as far as Riversdale is concerned. Look at the number of full time jobs that have been created in the caring industry. Caring for socialist and union interests that is.
“Concerns about the “sinister uses” of guns in society have prompted
University of Toronto officials to rid the campus of its 88-year-old sport shooting range, despite its continued popularity and spotless safety record.”
This is why the dogmatic left are ineffective governors….they deal in a realm outside objective realities…they live in utopian constructs and deal in “symbolism”…makes no matter to them that target sports and target shooters have nothing to do with crime or violence, they are attacked because of their “sybolism”….in the dyslexic world of the left they feel like they have “done something…yet they lack the moral courage to attack real criminals.
Re; the “pork emissions” link; does this mean we can institute a system of “pork credits” international trading now too?
The Barbarians are at the Gate!!!
[Invasion plans to be leaked by the NYT.]
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200707310911DOWJONESDJONLINE000399_FORTUNE5.htm
UPDATE: Marathon Oil To Buy Western Oil Sands
July 31, 2007: 09:11 AM EST
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
“Marathon Oil Corp. (MRO) said it agreed to acquire Canada’s Western Oil Sands Inc. (WTO.T) for $5.56 billion plus assumed debt of $650 million, gaining access to Western’s 20% stake in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project, one of the world’s largest crude oil reservoirs.”
“Upon completion of the transaction, oil producer and refiner Marathon will gain access to more than 300,000 gross acres of oil sands, of which more than 200,000 acres are expected to be developed by mining.”
right – Toronto has the same number of homicide deaths, in one year, as the Canadian military has suffered, in total over the years in Afghanistan. This doesn’t include the street racing deaths, the knifings, the robberies, the home invasions and other crimes against civilians. And Jack Layton, who lives in Toronto, hasn’t said a word. And still lives in Toronto.
You think your boss is a jerk…
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291489,00.html
VIDEO: Pierre Trudeau interviews himself. Since he’s in the news…
Sometimes the Royal Canadian Air Farce can be funny.
Good find Suzanne….this spoof covers his megalomania, narcissismm and insulated elitism…but fails to address his Anglophobic bigotry.
Next time I’m near the grave I’ll have to take a wiz in it.
But Jack Honig (and ET), if we withdraw from Toronto, then the Jamaican gangbangers will have won.
why the canadian stock exchange will always smell of scamcouver
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070731/Bre_X_070731/20070731?hub=TopStories
Apparently, G&M and scriber Giggles need to create more news:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070731.wHillier31/BNStory/Afghanistan/home
G&M, CBC and others made up this “rift” by adding things that were not said by either Hillier or O’Connor, such as a firm time Cdn troops go into reserve for new Afghan army.
Taber and other MSM are trying to create myth of dissension in CPC ranks, that they are down in the polls, and are afraid of an election (apparently on the way out).
The evidence is unsupported. Sorry Giggles, just because you want something to be true, you don’t have the right to manufacture the news.
Sorry Taber, Dion and his “backpack full of ideas” will never resonate with the voters. He is a what he is, a coddled socialist, self-appointed elitist, who has moved the LPC so far left as to be indistinguishable from even the Trudeau era. Taber is so terrified Afghan will not be election issue, she is hysterically moving the goalposts around in a vain attempt to make her boy Dionsky look good.
Muslims killing Muslims. Stand back.
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Silence on Nahr al-Bared
For the past three months, a Palestinian refugee camp in the Middle East has been under attack, resulting in the death of hundreds of people and the displacement of nearly half of the camp’s 40,000 residents. Yet the United Nations Security Council has not held an emergency session to condemn the attack. Nor have the governments of France and Britain issued statements condemning the “atrocities” against the Palestinian refugees in the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon. For those who may wonder why there is no public outcry, the answer is simple. The army that is attacking the camp with heavy artillery and helicopter warships is not the IDF. It’s an Arab army—the Lebanese Army. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874246/posts
Look at what the little communist activists are up to now:
Fox News critics put pressure on advertisers (Marketing Magazine)
Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network.
MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America’s Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the network. Once a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling campaign will begin, said Jim Gilliam, vice-president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos.
The groups have successfully pressured Democratic presidential candidates not to appear at any debate sponsored by Fox, and are also trying to get Home Depot Inc. to stop advertising there.
At least 5,000 people nationwide have signed up to compile logs on who is running commercials on Fox, Gilliam said. The groups want to first concentrate on businesses running local ads, as opposed to national commercials.
“It’s a lot more effective for Sam’s Diner to get calls from 10 people in his town than going to the consumer complaint department of some pharmaceutical company,” Gilliam said.
Some of videos produced by Gilliam’s company compile statements made by Fox anchors and guests that the activists consider misleading, such as those that question global warming.
Representatives for Fox News Channel, which is owned by News Corp., did not immediately return calls for comment.
Home Depot has not had an unusual number of calls, said spokesman Jerry Shields, and the home improvement chain will not change its advertising strategy.
“We’re not in the business of censoring media,” Shields said. “We need to reach our customer base through all mediums available.”
Groups like the Sierra Club have targeted Home Depot because they believe it’s inconsistent for the company to promote environmentally friendly products while advertising on a network that has questioned global warming.
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Warning: Don’t question global warming, or, or…
I reckon threats like these accomplish the opposite of their intentions. Masking the lies with threats actually makes more and more people aware that agw isn’t proven – that in reality it’s leftist political ideology – and the more they threaten and go into hysterics, the more people will question it.
But then, leftoid minds are devoid of reason.
I’m sure if they could make it law, disbelief in agw would be punishable by death.
Yoop. I don’t see a problem with a U.S. company investing in the oil sands. Beter by far than the companies that are owned and controled by the Chinese Government.
Conservative government pours Canadian tax dollars down the UN/African sewer.
Did you vote for this?
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Canada pledges $125 million in food relief for Africa
OTTAWA (CP) – The Conservative government is pledging $125 million towards a United Nations school meals program for African countries….-
canoe news
Abandon Toronto?
I thought Jack Layton was negotiating with the Jamaican Posse’s!!!
How can we give up until the negotiations are complete??
Not that I’m a fan of Tom Green, but I was watching a webcast of his show from a couple of days ago. Kat Von D was on and the sole reason I was watching it. But Tom has named his parrot “Rex Murphy.” That made me laugh. Perhaps the only time Tom has made me laugh.
Some things never change:
3w.youtube.com/watch?v=gFGit_tZDqs
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Charges stayed against Two Toronto Terror suspects
“Although the charges will not proceed further, Crown
attorneys have the option of re-activating the charges
within the next year. After one year, the charges will
be dropped.”
Kid will be kids, huh?
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Bourques headline today re: Shell oilsands purchase. The WINTER photo used, seem to show a lot of emissions. Can’t be steam?
Has any one told the U of T officials that teaching sheep to be better sheep won’t make the wolves any less hungry?
Next: The Love Crimes Centre.
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Police struggle with hate crimes caseload
Police at Stockholm’s new hate crimes centre are struggling to cope with the number of cases reported since it opened its phone lines in June. The five police officers tasked with running the centre – fewer during the summer holiday season – have so far been swamped with over 80 cases.[…]
When registering a crime report, Stockholm [sic] have been obliged since February to answer the question: “Could this crime be anti-religious, xenophobic or homophobic?”…-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874387/posts
How come Felderhof got off?
Conrad Black didn’t but this guy did?
What gives?
ET, re your comment, “And Jack Layton, who lives in Toronto, hasn’t said a word. And still lives in Toronto.”
I think this means that Talitubby Jack is…je ne sais quoi…at a loss for words…speechless…dumb…stupid?
And that’s being kind.
Librano$ Judge: The Honourable Dolores Hansen
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Feds lose battle over Canadian Wheat Board
OTTAWA (CP) – A judge has struck down the federal government ‘s move to strip the Canadian Wheat Board of its monopoly on western barley sales….-
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/07/31/4383830-cp.html
OTTAWA, December 9, 1999 — The Honourable Anne McLellan, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointments: […]
The Honourable Dolores Hansen
(Federal Court)
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Comment found on the Ellison post:
“The Democrats are simply sick, cynical, and can not be trusted at a human level. They might support a notion today but turn their back on it tomorrow if it is politically expedient to do so (witness war support before the invasion and immediately after when as soon as troops were committed, they criticism started).”
Sound like anyone we know back here in Cannuckistan?
To answer my own question: “How come Felderhof (Bre-X scam) got off?”
Diane Francis (National Post today via National Newswatch) asks the same question and then explains:
“So why did banks and brokers and their analysts get off scot-free in Canada? Because the burden of proof involving market participation differs between the two countries’ [U.S. and Canadian] court systems.”
One more reason for Canadians to be proud of our judicial (sic) system…