A few things that caught my eye, some a day or two old, but you may have missed them;
Words you probably thought you’d never hear – “Katie Couric, reporting from Fallujah.”
It’s official – Fred’s in.
The Lee family murders – a total shock to everyone but the police, the neighbors, and the judge who set him free on bail.
It’s a twofer – Hutterite cell phones on a Hutterite blog!
Add yours in the comments.
Muslim women get to vote in Canada with a veil on.
http://www.cfrb.com/node/581411
Kate ~ The latest edition of the American Scientist magazine’s cover article is Genetics and the Shape of Dogs, available here: tinyurl.com/3bxmku
Figure 4, which is based on patterns in the frequency of alleles, identifies genetically distinct subpopulations within dog breeds. It is a fascinating and beautiful work of visualization of quantitative information.
In the same issue, Brian Hayes, one of my favourite columnists, in his regular Computing Science feature looks at the mathematics and compute of genetic distance, which is similar to the problem of stacking pancakes burnt on one side into order by diameter using only a spatula: tinyurl.com/3bfwb6
a stunning revelation to CBCpravda, but an apologetic article to trudeau anyway
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/09/05/mulroney-trudeau.html
Kate
Janke exposes the Garthicle’s western tour.
http://stevejanke.com/
Worth a look.
Syncro
Blogging “Tories” openly campaigning against Tory and PC party, working to re-elect their tax-and-spend hero Dalton McGuinty and the Ontario Liberal party:
http://www.bloggingtories.ca/
Pick a blog, any blog. Save for a few exceptions that prove the rule, they all want McGuinty re-elected. See also:
http://www.bloggingtories.ca/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4292
where the Blogging “Tories” forum administrator plainly states “I hope John Tory loses”.
With “supporters” like that, the MSM’s daily hatchet job on Conservatives, Progressive or otherwise, is redundant.
Katie Couric may have started something: look who wants to go to Afghanistan:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/09/05/dion-afghanistan.html
Has the potential to be a rerun of Joe Clark’s lost luggage tour of 1978.
Luciano Pavarotti has passed away, of pacreatic cancer; he was 71. RIP.
If the plane is on the fritz, sacrifice a goat. “[Nepal’s government-run airline] sacrifices goats to appease sky god.”
Old Brian sure knows a publicity angle. According to this Globe report, posted less than five hours ago but now #3 in the most-commented stories list as of the time of this posting, Mulroney has been debunking Trudeau’s image of sainthood. The article says that Justin has declined to comment on what old Brian said about young Pierre.
I’m sorry to hear about Luciano’s passing. He was, indeed, a classic gentlemen. Here’s one of my favourites of Mr. Pavarotti performing Pourquoi Me Reveiller with Ms. Grace Jones: tinyurl.com/yudvgj
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
— Luciano Pavarotti
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
— Luciano Pavarotti
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
— Luciano Pavarotti
…CBC showed Fahrenheit 911 tonight. Wow, they must be starting a new recruiting drive or trying to shore up support for leftist airheads.
He was, indeed, a classic gentlemen.
Didn’t he leave his wife for a much younger model?
He was, indeed, a classic gentlemen.
Didn’t he leave abandon his wife for a much younger model?
Sometimes, Billy, even gentlemen get divorced.
Meanwhile, my point was to not gratutiously criticize the recently deceased, which happens to be one of Mr. Christopher Hitchens’ few bad habits, but rather to suggest that when Mr. Pavarotti performs Puccini’s Nessun Dorma – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATmgtmR5o4 – I pretty much piss my pants 😉
Sorry if that doesn’t work for you, or as we used to say back in the UseNet days, YMMV.
Att. TO Star: PM Harper’s first name is S-t-e-p-h-e-n. Correction, please.
Where is mention of Me-Me-Me G. Turner’s Magical-Trust-Me Tour?
Star flays Citoyen Dion/Liberals. Liberals are wrong. Tells Canadians that the Liberals are cynical opportunists; do not trust the Liberals; the Liberals have a secret agenda.
Tell us somethings we don’t know, please.
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Liberals wrong on income trust
In politics, garnering votes is the name of the game. That is clearly why Liberal finance critic John McCallum and House leader Ralph Goodale went to Alberta this week to meet representatives of the oil and gas sector who are angry at Prime Minister Stephan Harper’s government for taking away the tax advantages from income trusts.
The Liberals evidently believe they can make headway in the staunchly Conservative province, along with some investors elsewhere, if they open the door yet again to tax breaks for income trusts. […]
The Liberals apparently see a chance to make political gains in reversing Flaherty’s decision. But such cynical moves can backfire, especially when they favour certain groups at the expense of others. […]
If the Liberals hope to defeat the Tories in the next election, they must devise public policy that is fair and benefits all Canadians, instead of the cynical policy they are suggesting on income trusts….-
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/253578
Chinee Cabbage Justice: Mao Strong/Stlong wans chopchop suey too/two heads mistless; who’s Hsu? Where’s Hsu?
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The Clintons’ Chop Suey Connection
WASHINGTON — I hope you followed the news with the utmost care last week. A stupendous story peeked into the media, grew to adulthood in no time and vanished.[…]
Chinese Leader Who Blew Up Young Mistress Executed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1891883/posts
Related link with great chart.
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/09/04/tracking-the-friends-of-norman-hsu/
Tracking the friends of Norman Hsu Update Taking on Asian-American race-card players
Not only has this story dropped off the national radar, but the other NYS-related aspects (Spitzer, Cuomo) have dropped off the state and local media radar as well.
Go figure.
” I pretty much piss my pants ;-)”
Vitruvius 7:20 am
I’m sorry to hear about your incontinence. Although the U-Tube vid was stirring, I think Pavaratti will be remembered for bringing opera to the masses. Also, I can never fault anyone who can stop everything to enjoy eating.
ALL MUST SUBMIT DNA SAMPLE SAYS BRIT JUDGE
From the mount bug brother file in the UK:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6979138.stm
“”The whole population and every UK visitor should be added to the national DNA database, a senior judge has said.
(…)
Lord Justice Sedley said this was indefensible and biased against ethnic minorities, and it would be fairer to include everyone, guilty or innocent.””
Machiavelli meets Orwell in 21st century UK.
Does anyone know if the lawyer defending, and the judge who granted bail, for a man who went home to kill his family, feel any remorse or guilt. We should know their names.
Wonder what would happen if there was a law that said, any lawyer or judge, who fights and receives bail for a client, and that client goes out to commit more crimes before his trial, the judge and the lawyer could be held and charged as co-conspirators. Judges granting bail must be named, and take some responsibility for their flagrant abuse of the law.
maz2: Interesting the media picked up on the Klinton-China funding connection when they mistakenly stumpled across it investigating the source of Hillary’s donation anomalies….and as you say, it was dropped like a stone when it lead to a previous Klinton-chinese-funding scandal in Bubba’s administration and even turned up the same patronage broker: Norm Hsu
Hsu was deep in with Bubba and Bubba greased the Chi-com wheels of commerce for his trouble. Hsu was also a front man for Hutchison Wampoa a Chinese government fronted corporation who Bubba gave contacts to.
http://tinyurl.com/3autv7
The Klintons are knee deep in Chi-com cash and will sell the nation out to pay off their campaign benefactors in Beijing.
Luciano Pavarotti, King of the High Cs, is dead at the age of 71… NYT … Phil Inq … Time … Chic Trib … London Times … IHT … BBC … AP … Telegraph … WP … Boston Globe … LATimes … SF Chron …-
Then there is Adolf’s mentor/fave: Vagner (Yuck). Bellini and Mozart are #1. IMO. and Joe Green, aka Giuseppe Verdi.
“Wagner sums up modernity. There is no way out: you become a Wagnerian first.” Thomas Mann knew what Nietzsche meant… more»
Richard Wagner was larger than life in his own time, and is no smaller today. Millions love him, others loathe him – with intense passion… more»
http://www.aldaily.com/
But because the Lee murders WEREN’T carried out using a firearm, it will not stay long in the attention of the MSM. There will be no vigils against knife violence, no calls to ban all knives, no T-shirts saying No Knives No Funerals. Violence just isn’t really violence it seems to some unless there is a gun involved.
I guess this shatters the myth of Gitmo as a squalid torture camp, from the European press no less…..
“The two men were held at the military camp in Cuba for five years, without being charged with any crimes, and Lagha was never represented by a lawyer during that time. Rather than facing freedom when they finally got home, the two men were taken directly into custody and say they were threatened, abused and put in solitary confinement. They now claim things are so bad that they would rather be back in Guantanamo — despite Tunisia’s pledge to the US that they would be treated humanely.”
And if that isn’t rich in irony:
“Human Rights Watch has urged the US government to give detainees advance notice of their transfer and allow them the opportunity to contest it in a federal court if they fear torture or abuse upon their return.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,504237,00.html
Fred Thompson made a serious tactical error by annoucing his presidential run on Jay Leno.
He should have made it on SDA, and then it would have been a really big deal.
6 million and counting, bloody amazing.
Good work Kate.
Has anyone noticed the difference in the way the German police are handling the arrest of 3 Islamists in connection with possion of bomb-making material, compared to the Canadian way last week? (in Toronto)
Germans: “These guys have definite links to terrorist plots.”
Canadians: “No political motivation.”
I’m not convinced.
Why are the Canadian officials trying to tickle our ears?
grok – that’s because the issue of guns isn’t about the violence, but a means of yet more anti-Americanism.
You see, ‘bearing arms’ is in the US Constitution – and Canada’s leftists, with their only means of defining Canada as Not-USA, has to set up the concept of ‘bearing arms’ as ‘American’ – and that’s why Canada’s left is against arms.
They can then claim that ‘violence’ in Canada is directly – yes directly – due to the Evil USA. Who smuggle guns to Canada – ignoring that it’s Canadians who smuggle and purchase AND USE those guns. Completely ignoring this.
They are completely and totally indifferent to violence carried out by other means -knives, beatings, drugs etc – .
In the four years since we began our NATO committment in Afghanistan – Canada has had over 3,000 homicides – and lost 60 military. Yet the screams of the left to ‘bring the military back’ are deafening. But – they say and do NOTHING about the 3,000 homicides in Canada.
Canada had over 600 homicides in 2004 and 2005 – and the majority are not gun related. In 2004, shooting was 173; stabbing was 205, beating was 136. In 2005, shooting was 222, stabbing 198, beating 145. Statistically, guns and stabbing are equal. [statistics canada]
BUT – we have charged the taxpayers a two billion ‘gun registry’ – which does nothing, other than provide work for maritime Liberal bureaucrats (its basic purpose) – because homicides are going up. By gun and by stabbing.
And, our Liberal appointed judges release those accused of violence back on to the streets – and then, are shocked, shocked, when they kill whole families, kill strangers, kill rivals…
Synchro,
This Garth Turner speaking tour fiasco that Janke has been working on is a real disgrace.
Sixteen Liberals MPs using their “franked” envelopes to mail anti-conservative propaganda all over the West. As Janke correctly points out, this is the most expensive form of mailing from an MPs office and the taxpayer foots the bill. But then again, Liberals are entitled to their entitlements right?
Now this story is nowhere in the MSM. But consider this; what would have been the MSM response if sixteen Conservative MPs had sent anti-Liberal propaganda into Quebec? CBC, CTV and the Mop and Pail would perpetuate the story for days and days.
Norman Hsu disappears again.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20620113/
Another developer ‘entrapped’ in native ‘land claim’ in Brantford.
Interview audio at Caledonia Wakeup Call.
Why don’t we just establish volunteer militia to remove the purps from the construction sites as police does nothing? Not enough guts? I’d volunteered my time and equipment to keep protesters at bay and finally give them an idea, that businessman should have been warned about problems BEFORE HE INVESTED MONEY, i.e. 6 month ago.
If we don’t stand up and shut the terrorists down, they will roam free and take what they want (as it was their ideal lifestyle for millenia).
Ok Ok Im in the car the other day and listening to the radio. Now midmorning CBC gotta be pretty benign
right. WRONG. Some commentator is doing a program on the worst weeds. Attempting to compile a top 10 List with the final show having the ultimate worst weed. Now i couldnt stomach waiting to next week to see what the #1 worst weed was but in the 10 list the host of the CBC show was vigorously lobbying for wait for it Kentucky Blue Grass.
Lefties will react with their usual, predictable socialist dogma.
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Analysis: Iraq to privatize electricity
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 6 (UPI) — Two of Iraq’s many needs right now are more electricity and more investment. A law being drafted could satisfy both, paving the way for foreign and domestic private companies to build power plants, a step toward fully privatizing the electricity sector.
“It should be short coming,” a senior U.S. official working in Baghdad on Iraq’s electricity sector told United Press International on condition of anonymity on the sidelines of an Iraq energy conference.
A top legal adviser is working on it with the Electricity Ministry, the source said, adding it “could be” before Parliament before the year’s end.
Others UPI spoke to refused to go on the record but confirmed the law was being worked on in a parliamentary committee as well, with the help of another U.S. official in Baghdad.
“Yes, we have plans for privatization,” Iraq Electricity Minister Karim Waheed Hasan told UPI. “We have two projects which should be under execution very soon. We are planning to announce many stations, many power plants.”
Earlier this year Iraq’s Parliament approved an oil refinery investment law that gave special terms to the private sector to build refineries. Iraqis suffer from a fuel crisis largely associated with a lack of refining capacity.
The oil refinery law is the first step in a long walk toward fully privatizing the downstream oil sector, Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani told UPI after the law was passed. Many in Iraq’s government, to some extent, are keen on splitting open the long-nationalized upstream sector as well.
The electricity law hasn’t been made public, and details are unclear. Hasan said he hopes two power plants will be completed by next year and “in the future, yes,” the entire sector will be privatized. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1892023/posts
Kentucky Blue grass!!!! I knew those dirty yanks were up to something.
Islamic indoctrination database:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1188392544885&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Full burka’s OK with photo ID for Quebec election
“An Elections Canada spokesman says the women won’t have to show their faces to vote. Spokesman John Enright said Thursday women wearing niqabs or burkas can bring a piece of identification with a photo or another document proving their identity when they vote.”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/05/23/4202224-cp.html
Remember that case in Florida where a woman wanted her driver’s license ID photo taken with a full face burka? That’s next…
Next election I’m going to the polling station with a bandanna around my face. Think they’ll let me vote? Yeah, me neither.
Ontario Socialist McGuinty, et al, has outdone the Rev. Lorne. McGuinty leads the Way to the Promised Land , the Shining Path, to socialism’s Heaven on Earth. Correction: Socialism’s Hell on Earth.
But, look! John Tory is along for the ride, according to the TO Red Star. Beware the IggyPoopaganda from the Red Star.
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Liberals make 71 promises
Premier Dalton McGuinty is making 71 new promises in his bid for re-election, including a ban on trans fats in school cafeterias and free PSA tests for prostate cancer.
Liberals put the price tag for their platform at $14.7 billion over four years — about the same spending increase Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory calculates for his program that includes extending public funding to religious schools teaching the Ontario curriculum.
The 43-page Liberal platform book has a heavy emphasis on education and health, such as more homework help and autism treatment for kids, a doubling of the grace period for repaying student loans, creating 100 more medical school spaces to train doctors, and a provincial sales tax break on bikes and helmets to encourage people to exercise.
[…]
* Update: Dalton’s Broken Promises (Accuracy of the list has not been verified)
* Update: Dalton’s Broken Record
* Update: Tory blasts McGuinty’s handling of Caledonia
* Update: GM to slash 1,100 jobs at Oshawa pickup plant
* Update: Phasing Out Coal Fired Power Plants
* Note: There’s lots more but I don’t want to give Warren a heart attack. …-
http://jacksnewswatch.com/2007/09/06/liberals-make-71-promises/
Apropos of nothing, did you boys and girls know that a little less than 8 feet of 4 inch mild steel pipe costs $62.00? Neither did I. Just about had a hernia!
The idiot Tory should have never said the words ‘faith based school funding’ or at least should have distanced himself from that policy change.
The smart liberals immediately saw heresy for true conservatives in his words and are using and abusing them in the media, knowing full well that by mentioning the issue over and over they are turning away Tory’s supporters.
Interesting world we live in!
Facebook profiles headed for Google Search Results.
Is it just me, or does anyone else find this slightly unnerving?
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/09/facebook-profil.html
Remember that case in Florida where a woman wanted her driver’s license ID photo taken with a full face burka? That’s next…
Next election I’m going to the polling station with a bandanna around my face. Think they’ll let me vote? Yeah, me neither.
Posted by: Rob at September 6, 2007 3:18 PM
Well considering that here in Alberta the Hutterites don’t even need to have their picture on their driver’s license I’d say you’re right on the money.
Remember the Mojave Cross?
The 9th Circus Court
has come down for the ACLU in it’s war on Christian Symbols Anywhere !
Political correctness is dangerous for children. What is it with British social workers?
A homosexual foster couple were left free to sexually abuse vulnerable boys in their care because social workers feared being accused of discrimination if they investigated complaints, an inquiry concluded yesterday.
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“The fear of being discriminatory led them to fail to discriminate between the appropriate and the abusive.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=480151&in_page_id=1766&in_page_id=1766&expand=true#StartComments
Citoyen is confused, disoriented, and daffy.
Even IggyPoop knows that Stephen Harper is the Prime Minister of Canada. Merde, Citoyen! Wakey, wakey.
Who is this Trudeau* chump anywho?
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Dion blasts Mulroney’s comments about Pierre Trudeau
Federal Liberal Leader Stephane Dion says Brian Mulroney said something right when Pierre Trudeau passed away, but said something wrong Wednesday. …-
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iA2NeBoAs3lBoCyZ4Zbdnimvyu2A
*Trudeau voted worst-ever Canadian.
United Press International
Pavarotti was many things, but no gentleman. He stiffed the citizens of Hamilton, not once but twice – even the make-up concert he was to make for stiffing them as a no show the first time. Apparently, it was all about the gate.
The big problem the Liberals have is everything Mulroney said about Trudeau is true. It’s an obvious case of “the truth hurts” and they’re crying like Banshees.
More pukeables from our eminent G-G:
“Freedom is washing over Latin America.” (Guess she didn’t hear about Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador etc. etc.)
“I belong to all of the Americas. The history of these lands courses through my veins. It has been etched in my memory; it has left its mark on my body; it has shaped my vision of the world.”
If you’re up to it, check out the rest at:
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=05af70ee-f14d-4182-b048-897f91dd86ad
Pavarotti – RIP
“Apparently, it was all about the gate”.
Are you sure about that, Skip? If it’s the same tour I’m thinking about I seem to remember something about a sore throat. We saw and heard him in the GM Garage in Vancouver. An evening I’ll never forget. Absolutely thrilling and I’m not a hot opera fan.
a black market for human organ donation only in china you say?
think again !!!
http://www.the-tidings.com/2007/081707/organs.htm
this is one reason I ran my organ donor card thru a paper shredder early this year. remove the motivation to pump the morphine.
‘I belong to all of the Americas.’- GG du Canada.
Also known as a ‘citizen of convenience’ when you have multiple citizenships.
And talking about convenient citizenship, how many people realize that Lebanon is only 10400 sq km or 4000 sq miles?
Ie, it is only about 30 mi wide and 140 mi long.
Hell, Edmonton and Calgary are 25 or 30 mi across nowadays for Pete’s sake.
And we spent $85 million plus evacuating ‘citizens of convenience’ from a country where a brisk walk would take you from one side to another country?
What rubbish!
//www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=a9bf86b3-590b-4c57-93c8-83d4f163549f&k=49840&p=1
Finally, somebody sues the government over waiting times. ‘Nuff said.
MeMeMe Turner + CAITI + Librano$ = Crime/Corruption.
Clangmann nails it down.
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How Government Gets Corrupted
However lets look deeper into what is going on. Garth is a member of the Canadian Parliament and within the Liberal Party of Canada’s caucus. Garth is going on a trans-Canada tour who’s theme is how the Conservatives ripped off the poor senior citizens and that we should instead vote Liberal so they can fix this tragety. The sponsor of Garth’s little anti-government tour is an organization called CAITI which is in fact made up on a number of organizations that sell income trusts. Basically what we have here is the direct efforts of a series of corporations to have a government elected that will give them a market advantage simply by setting up legislation. Your vote cast for the Liberals because you feel bad for the poor ripped off seniors is how they get you to vote for their personal advantage.
That is, folks, how corruption happens. …-
http://www.clangmann.net/