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  3. *
    Funding for anything other than the public school system and, oh yeah,
    the Catholic system, is “divisive and separates people”, Fiberals say.
    Then why do Liberal Finance Minister Greg Sorbara’s kids go to
    the exclusive Toronto Waldorf school?
    *

  6. How about the supposedly clever Professor Ignatieff suggesting the Puffin bird be adopted as the Liberal mascot or whatever. This is the bird that hides it’s poop, how appropriate is that?
    Wait for the s**t to fly on that one, cartoonists will have a field day.

  7. PM Harper just announced the long overdue Commission on Mental Health in Canada.
    He appointed Liberal Senator Michael Kirby to chair this, All appointed have had experience in the health field or related issues.

  9. LIBERTARIAN AND A STATIST COLLECTIVIST DICUSS PROERTY AND JUSTIFIED COERCION IN A FREE SOCIETY:
    “S: You think government is bad because it’s coercive. It’s not. It only shifts ownership around. The coercion – the lack of freedom – is already there.
    L: Since when is ownership arbitrary? Since when? You’re just calling ownership “coercion…”
    S: No, I’m not.
    L: …that doesn’t make it coercion.
    S: I’m not free to live in your house if you live there.
    L: Right, you’re not free to live in my house, because that’s not part of what freedom is. You can’t live in my house because it’s mine. You’re not free to force your way into my house anymore than you’re free to steal my wallet.
    S: What’s to stop me?
    L: I and my shotgun. Or the police.
    S: That’s coercion right there. Property is coercion.
    L: Yes, it takes coercion to defend property, but it takes work to get that property in the first place. My house doesn’t impinge on your freedom, because what’s mine is mine.?
    S: What’s so civilized about your using a shotgun to keep me out of your house?
    L: One thing you say is correct, it’s my house. You admit it’s my house. The shotgun isn’t what makes it my house; it’s what keeps it my house and away from thieves like you.””
    The rest at Lew Rockwell:
    http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff167.html

  11. Oh my God, Iberia, quelle scandale; recall Gagliano! Iberia is a good example of the desperation of the Liberal party (oh yeah, Iberia hates Liberals). This is their idea of a scandal, and of course, the court case with Elections Canada where Tories used, gasp, party money.
    You Liberals out there might of noticed we’re not scared of you guys. You want to force an election, go for it. You leader is a joke – his latest stupidity is forcing a vote on Afghanistan. Dion doesn’t seem to realize that his vote will pass, and thus remove Afghanistan as election issue. Now there’s smart politicking.
    We are also looking forward to the Liberals announcing their Kyoto implementation policy (can you say 50 cents a litre?), with the agreement of their fellow moonbats in the NDP, Bloc and Green party. Yeah, Dion turn the next elecion into a referendum between the excellent Tory record of 18 months, contrasted with eco-marxism and a Liberal party that is just as corrupt and incompetent (maybe worse) as its predecessor.
    Like I said, we can’t wait to take you on in parliament, the hustings, and door to door.
    I know comments like above enrages Libs, who are accustomed to making inane comments (I put pepper on my steak) and having their press buddies let them get away with it. No more, Tories in driver’s seat, in power, with way more money, way more ideas, no legacy of corruption and incompetence, going against moribund opposition, with Dion switching positions daily. BTW, you press buddies will turn on you as soon as the writ is dropped, just like last time, as soon as they smell blood.
    I’m lovin’ it. We’re going to enjoy kicking your a**s; and, in case you weren’t sure, we’re not bluffing, we really, really, mean it.

  12. Enough politics!!! Now we speak geek for a second.
    //www.calvin.edu/~adams/research/microwulf/
    26.25 gigaflops, for ~$2,500. Desk-side supercomputer cluster. Make your own!
    I love the internet!

  13. Shamrock I think your wrong. Harper has focoused so much on gains in Quebec that he has lost tripple that in the west, and yes me for one. Now I cannot vote because it would give $1.75 or something like that and there is no politician worth it.

  14. Explosive devices currently being disposed of by Toronto Police
    toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20070831/letter_bombs_070831/20070831?hub=TorontoHome
    I’m just watching this on TV. Police last night arrested the guy or guys who they think were mailing those letter bombs.
    Today they found a car at a gas station around the DVP and Don Mills with explosive devices in it.
    They are currently gathering the explosive devices with a robot and are going to transport them to the Leslie St spit and blow them up there.
    The police say the perps weren’t motivated by political ideology.

  15. From the Star:
    “Adel Arnaout, 37, faces three counts of attempted murder. Arnaout, a landed immigrant, was known to police but they would not say whether if he has any previous record. He is also facing a number of explosives-related charges, and is set to appear in a Scarborough court later today.”

  18. PM Harper just announced the long overdue Commission on Mental Health in Canada.
    He appointed Liberal Senator Michael Kirby to chair this, All appointed have had experience in the health field or related issues.
    Posted by: bryanr at August 31, 2007 10:59 AM
    I dunno, bryanr, perhaps he should have appointed David Orchard. He is definitely qualified on the Mental aspect.

  19. mississauga matt – heh – and the police claim that ‘bomber’ has no political agenda? Is he thanking Canada for spending millions to take Lebanon citizens from the war in Lebanon – these individuals hold Canadians passports as well but don’t live or pay taxes in Canada. They just use it for ’emergencies’.
    By the way, liz – I note that the only comment today on Ignatieff’s puffery – is in the National Post. The G&M and Toronto Star are strangely, interestingly, utterly silent. Have they been told by their Masters to say nothing?
    lberia – your inane comments are irrelevant. You need to focus on issues of substance rather than trivia.

  20. Hey, jeff, when someone is from Lebanon, unlike Samoa, there is the chance he has Hezbollah, AQ, Iranian or Syrian terrorist ties. Lebanon is awash with that element at the moment. Country of origin would weigh heavily in investigating a terrorist incident.
    If the suspect was Samoan those terrorist suspicions would be greatly diminished. Are you following so far?
    It’s simple linear deductive reasoning. Useful in investigations. That answer your question?

  21. Yes, Tony W, some westerners are unhappy with Harper. But ask yourself, does that mean they will for vote for Dion or Layton? Good government doesn’t mean pleasing everybody, it means setting priorities. Dion is already on record that he doesn’t know how to do that.
    I’m not thrilled with everything about Harper either. He has been a bit too accomodating to the centre in my opinion; but he has managed to govern and his government has survived much longer than many expected. He has managed to pass legislation, in spite of a hostile opposition and PPM. I’m not complaining about that, it is what it is.
    Maybe you are referring to the income trust decision. OK, you have a point there, sometimes governments have to change their mind, and they have to be prepared to take the heat.
    When they do they have an obligation to clearly explain why that action was necessary. Harper needs better communicators, and has taken measures in that regard. In any event, an election campaign is a good time to explain fully their rationale.
    I do wonder if Dion/LPC serious about forcing election. Given Tories ready, have money, have policies, are incumbents, are now the experienced campaigners, I do wonder if Libs really mean it.
    I wouldn’t be surprised if Dion never fights an election. He will come down with some mysterious illness, or withdraw for personal reasons. They know it’s quite unlikely Harper will call election unilateraly, give Oct 09 legislation.
    Best Libs can do at this point is, if they truly want election, they will have to force it and try to blame it on Harper. I think they’re bluffing.

  22. Hey Jeffy, what I mean by that is that he’s from Lebanon. What are you, a moron?

  24. ET writes:
    “lberia -your inane comments are irrelevant. You need to focus on issues of substance rather than trivia.”
    Perhaps irrelevant to Harper sycophants like you and Shamrock, but not to people who appreciate democracy. You can now go back to your discussions about puffin droppings.

  25. Speaking of Puffins and puffery, French Poodle Fifi Dion is pissing himself into a corner he may regret if he tries forcing an election over Afghanistan.
    If “Monsieur’Arper” gets the lead out and does regular addresses to the Nation on the progress and good things happening for the people in that country, there will be a change of attitude.
    Afghanistan was a hotbed of Al Quaeda terrorist training as well under the late(?) Osama Bin Laden.
    If the NATO forces pull out all the deaths and work accomplished will be for naught, that’s not the Canadian way. It may be the Liberal/Dipper/Bloc way and the way of the terrorists and their sympathizers living here.
    Maybe if France decided to pull her weight, Fifi Dion, a dual of that cowardly country, would have a change of mind.
    Let the Puffin Party force an election, they’ll have plenty of time to hide their excrement after its over.

  26. Is that the best you can do Iberia? Pretty sad. Don’t care about puffin droppings, Ignatieff was one who brought that up, not me.

  27. Hey
    “Lebanese”,”Explosives packed cars” and “NOT idealistically motivated” in the same sentence.
    Oh well, must be nothin.
    The airshow and the closing ceremonies of the Canadian National Exibition are this weekend.
    Come on down!

  28. CP – Constant Propaganda wire service at it again:
    “Five industrialized countries including Canada came under fire on Friday for blocking a draft agreement to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and counter the most catastrophic effects of global warming.”
    Nice hyperbole there with the “catastrophic” reference. How come it’s not “so-called catastrophic “? You know like the “so-called war on terror” the MSM loves to mention?
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070831/canada_climate_070831/20070831?hub=TopStories

  31. lberia – with your stated esteem for democracy, I wonder if that esteem includes an equivalent support for one of the basic requirements of democracy – honesty, veracity, a respect for facts.
    You state that Harper is a ‘control freak’ – that is a subjective perspective and, even so, it requires substantiation. Prove it.
    Then, you refer to a situation that was set up by a chair of a local riding in BC – that has zilch to do with Harper or with any federal action.
    Kindly, within your self-definition of respect for democracy – kindly respect one of the basic requirements of democracy. Truth.

  32. Maddas had no WMD’s; lberia was not a pervert.
    Headlines from Pravda.
    …-
    Inspectors Find Decade-Old Iraqi Chemical Gas in UN Office
    Washington Post – 16 hours ago
    By Colum Lynch UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 30 — UN weapons inspectors stumbled upon evidence of Saddam Hussein’s elusive weapons of mass destruction: a vial of potentially lethal chemical gas that was stored in a UN shipping crate in Midtown Manhattan more …- (google news)

  33. Nice try ET. Harper has strict rules in place on when and how his MPs can interact with the media. Harris would not be appointing unelected representatives unless he had approval from the PMO, nor would he be issuing press releases announcing such a thing. Unless he wanted to join Garth Turner, that is.

  34. After the media airbrushed these two, ready for this?
    TAMPA – Two Egyptian students at the University of South Florida were indicted Friday on charges of carrying explosive materials across states lines and one was accused of teaching the other how to use them for violent reasons.
    Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, 24, an engineering graduate student and teaching assistant at the Tampa-based university, faces terrorism-related charges for teaching and demonstrating how to use the explosives.
    Here’s the punchline:
    Gullette said Al-Arian’s prosecution and the arrests of the students are isolated incidents that cast USF in an unfairly negative light.
    Al-Arian was a USF faculty member. Why would this stupid college still be taking in Arab students? No looking very good for the Dept. of Homeland Security either. Idiots.
    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-831usfexplosives,0,6059737.story

  35. Here is the work of lberia and comrades.
    …-
    Inside the nuclear underworld: Deformity and fear
    SEMEY, Kazakhstan (CNN) — Kazakhstan’s nuclear orphans are a distressing sight.
    The first child I met in the local orphanage was lying limply in his crib. His giant, pale head was perched on his tiny shoulders, covered in bed sores, like a grotesquely painted paper-mâché mask. Peering out, a pair of tiny black eyes darted around.
    It took me a few seconds to understand what I was seeing. The doctor told me he was 4 years old.
    Through the bars in the next crib, I saw another child, twisted with deformities. His fragile legs and arms turned in impossible contortions.
    These are the children of Kazakhstan’s terrifying nuclear past.
    Decades of Soviet nuclear testing unleashed a plague of birth defects. When the Soviet Union tested its nuclear devices, it chose eastern Kazakhstan, one of its remotest, most desolate areas. But no one bothered to evacuate the people living there. Watch the effects of nuclear bombs on villagers »
    The testing began in 1949 at a site known as Polygon and continued until 1989. According to the Nuclear Threat Initiative, there were 456 tests, including 116 nuclear bombs tested above ground. The Polygon site officially closed on August 29, 1991 — 16 years ago this week. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889529/posts

  36. Really -lberia – and are you privy to these rules? Please tell us exactly – specifically- what these rules are. And how you know about them.
    That includes ‘when’ and ‘how’ – interesting variables, by the way. Does the ‘how’ mean ‘only on TV? only when wearing formal clothes?..or? What about ‘when’?
    Harris did not ‘appoint’ anyone. He suggested something – and that was indeed an invalid suggestion. But because he made that suggestion is no proof whatsoever that it came from the PMO.
    That’s the fallacy of ‘affirming the consequent’. Let me explain – since you frequently commit this fallacy.
    “IF the PMO approves X, THEN X will happen.”
    Notice the linearity?
    But – you cannot say:
    If X happened, then that means that the PMO approved it.
    That’s a fallacy.
    There is no way, lberia, that you can prove that Harris’ statement – erroneous and ‘over the top’ was approved by the PMO.
    Try to stick to the facts – and logical relations, lberia – rather than selective posts to support your biases.

  37. Has anyone been over to Steve Jankes and seen the latest effort by the NL Young Liberals.
    PMSH is being bbqd on a spit, turned by dion, and basted by a pig. This image was on an apron sold at the recent liberal caucus in NFLD, for 20.00.
    I thought the liberals were against torture, or is it only terrorists being tortured they are against.
    Some lib bloggers and commentaters are saying dion did not produce this, but I thought any use of his image had to be approved by him.
    Regardless, it is a sick, sick attempt to be smart.

  38. Wanted: Tougher Crime Laws
    hfxnews.ca rick howe
    just read this article by rick howe on national newswatch, howe is quick to ask is it going to take someone to die before the PM & the government to act on the Youth Crime laws.
    He talks about Halifax’s youth offences out of hand.
    I guess mr howe has not following national news, this is not allienated to just halifax every village, town, city in canada is experiencing this problem from vandals to stabbings, beatings to murder. The government is trying to introduce new laws for crimes & i could be wrong but the youth offender act was also to be reviewed, however the stall tactics(Liberal dominated Senate) & watering down(by the opposition, that pretends it is tough on crime) of these changes have stalled the crime bills.
    So maybe Howe should be asking the Haliax MP the same question.

  39. I was caught up the traffic resulting from the movement of the small pipe bombs down the Don Valley parkway and was amazed that the police would close the only artery in the middle of Toronto to do this. The Overlea area has all sorts of fields including the Don Valley itself and Hydro fields within minutes of the vehicle containing the bombs yet the police closed off not just the Parkway but the Gardiner Expressway affecting thousands of people for hours to move the bombs. What would have been the result if the bombs had exploded while on the Parkway damaging a bridge or the roadbed, total chaos. I hope the police had overwhelming reason for this as on the surface it looks like pure stupidity.

  40. Here’s an interesting story related to me by a friend.
    his wife had a passport picture taken & sent in the application. It was returned stating the picture showed her smiling teeth showing this is a no, no. So she gets a second picture taken sends it in, it is returned this time she has earings on this is a no, no. Agitated by this she drives 2hrs to the nearest office, when she arrives what is in front of her only a women in a Ghurka(i believe that is what is called), Only her eyes showing, Hers was Approved. She confronts the man at the counter explains she was born in canada her parents were born in canada her Grandparents came from the british isles So what is wrong with this picture.
    She got her passport eventually approved, I do not know the final outcome of the picture.
    As i said a related story.

  41. David Hand:
    You don’t think “better safe than sorry” was the way to go?
    Have you seen the video footage of one of the bombs being detonated? If you look at the 2 tire ruts in the video it will give you an idea of scale of the explosion relative to the width of a car. Just imagine the outcry had the police not taken these precautions and something had gone wrong and an innocent bystander was injured or worse. But hey, as long as you’re not inconvenienced.
    http://video.canada.com/Global_VideoContentHTML.aspx

  44. From the Mises Institute blog: Stephan Kinsella (no relation to Warren, I assure you) points to an academic paper saying that the grants on monopolies patent weren’t that bad after all. As you may have guessed, the author of that paper is Keynes-compatible.
    http://blog.mises.org/archives/007058.asp
    Coming next from “Prof. Botten-Paidfer:”
    – Why the Hun Imperialis wasn’t so bad after all. (Social Security.)
    – New Facets Of France’s Ancient Regime: Why The Bourbons Meant Well. (Colbert’s industrial policy.)
    – “Oriental Despotism:” Racism? (Manadarins got in through competitive exams.)
    – “The Passion Of The Benedict Arnold” (fun at the Religious Right’s expense.)
    And for the PC/speech code wing: “Why The Term ‘Bought and Paid For’ Is Abusive And Anti-Intellectual”

  45. Reid, that was my point, why risk moving these explosives down the major artery and having it explode on route. The Leslie street spit has to be over 5 kms from the Overlea area whereas there are huge empty fields just yards away from Overlea as I am very familiar with the area.
    We see this constantly on the Toronto area highways where they are shut down for hours for traffic accidents or police investigations even the government ministers complain about the abnormal delays in reopening the few highways we have.
    By the way I am retired so the delay didn’t inconvience me, just delayed my lunch engagement.

  46. speaking of hypocricy:
    google ‘Binns’ the new dude headed off the the emerald isle thanx to harper-the-squeaky-clean.
    takes one to know one …..

  47. Still don’t agree with you David Hand.
    The bombs were found at a gas station in North York. So they should have disposed of them in the middle of the suburbs rather than move them to an isolated location?
    I’m sure a risk assessment was done. And in my mind’s risk assessment, the risk of damage to a virtually deserted highway is more acceptable to the risks of detonating these bombs in the suburbs.

  48. “Harris did not ‘appoint’ anyone.”
    Read his news release:
    3w.terracedaily.ca/cgi-bin/show_sitemap_article.cgi?ID=954
    “Dick Harris MP for Cariboo-Prince George has named Houston Mayor and Conservative candidate Sharon Smith as the person that residents of Skeena-Bulkley Valley can contact when they have concerns or issues with the federal government.”
    As for PMO policy, I’m not in the Conservative caucus so I don’t have access to it. It’s a well known fact that Harper controls the message, so if you are stating that such a policy does not exist, you are either naive or stupid.
    Why don’t you prove that Harris’ appointment of Smith wasn’t approved by Harper? Oh…you can’t, can you? You lose, ET.

  49. Of course Uncle Sam’s testing was always above board, right maz.
    One of the most tragic examples of the dangers from nuclear testing is the legacy from the “Bravo” Test on Bikini atoll in 1954. The US military failed to warn and evacuate people on nearby Pacific islands who were directly downwind of the radioactive fallout. Children played in the ‘atomic snow’ from the radioactive cloud which passed above them, completely unaware of the dangers. Since then the islanders have been relocated a number of times because their homes are still contaminated. They cannot eat local produce. People are still suffering from cancers and ill health from the radiation. There have been high rates of stillbirths, and what the islanders call ‘jellyfish babies’ which die soon after birth because of the dreadful deformities resulting from exposure to radiation….etc.

  50. The delayed—lots more $$ for each day longer—Falconer Inquiry about the shooting murder inside C.W. Jefferys high school in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has just released its interim report. Unfortunately, my prediction that it would be a useless piece of propaganda has been fully justified. (Too bad.)
    In the National Post article, Sheila Ward, the out of the closet lesbian “Chairwoman” of the Board, couldn’t have expressed this utter travesty better, when she said: “These are very complex issues. You [sic] don’t come up with facile [!!!] ideas and suggestions at the drop of a hat.” (Well, no, Sheila. The TDSB takes an inordinate amount of both time and $$$, to its favoured lackeys, to make facile, as in, asinine comments. Then this disgrace of a board sets politically correct, bone-headed, policies and window dressing procedures, which its administrators routinely ignore anyway. What bloody hypocrites!)
    Some of the “facile ideas” of these idiots:
    1) Being disingenuous, to say the least, Julian Falconer, the human rights lawyer with impeccable, left-wing credentials, who’s heading up the inquiry, said, “ [the school] is not some Jane-Finch war zone,” Duh: so anything less than a “war zone” is OK? But then he admitted: “Crime and victimization are serious problems for students at C.W. Jefferys . . . [and] at many other schools in the Toronto region”. So, Mr. Falconer, which is it?
    2) He also opined that, “There are no villains in this piece. It’s about working together.”
    BLOODY HELL! And we wonder why it’s so hard to teach our children to be accountable and accept responsibility. Virtually every school in the country has Behaviour Codes and anti-bullying initiatives up the ying yang . . . to what purpose and effect when no one’s ever to be blamed—except teachers, who, BTW, seem to have been largely left out here. (See below.)
    3) Then, Gerry Connelly, the Director of Education for the board—this lady makes very big bucks, six figures—weighed in: “This is a good [sic] school with caring and committed staff and great students”. Well I’m sure there are some of both, Ms Connelly, but “good school”? Give me a break.
    4) The new principal? “It’s [the report] the beginning of a journey, and it’s the first few paving stones to help us chart a course.” Utterly vacuous twaddle! Doesn’t he inspire confidence?
    The National Post reported that, “The centrepiece of the report is a comprehensive survey of 423 Jefferys STUDENTS [emphasis mine] that provides their perspectives on the school”.
    I want to know what input the RESPONSIBLE ADULT TEACHERS had into the situation. Very little, I suspect. The remarks of the few who did speak up earlier were scathing in their condemnation of a school and board culture which denies problems and punishes whistleblowers. My contempt for the TDSB’s political grandstanding and cover-ups, which put students and staff at serious risk, is huge.
    The four interim recommendations?
    1) completion of a safety audit;
    2) a request for more “human resources”, [who will be hog tied by politically correct restrictions on either honestly naming the real problems or being able to effectively deal with them];
    3) a mediation between two warring administrators; and, wait for it . . .
    4) an extension of the panel’s mandate—more BIG BIG $$$S—until November 15.
    If this kind of idiocy keeps up in Canada, we’re doomed.
    Good Lord, have mercy on and deliver us!

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