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  1. So, Partick Moore was right all along and Suzuki was wrong.
    Will the CBC have a three part series ?? Will the United Nations drag the ‘silent springers’ and the eco-fanatics infront of a tribunal for causing the death of millions ??
    [Health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, says cooperation between South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique has led to a 90% reduction in new malaria infections in the three countries.
    Tshabala-Msimang says this has been achieved through the use of Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), an agent that kills the malaria-carrying mosquitoes. She was speaking at one of the commissions of the People’s Assembly in Bizana, which was discussing the health situation in the country.
    She says the reduction was achieved because of the countries’ refusal to listen to those who preached against the use of DDT.]
    http://www.sabcnews.com/africa/southern_africa/0,2172,156014,00.html

  3. You mean we have seen this movie before !!??
    [But in retrospect, the evidence shows ozone depletion was an exaggerated threat in the first place. As the treaty parties return to Montreal for their 20th anniversary meeting it should be cause for reflection, not celebration, especially for those who hope to repeat this “success story” in the context of global warming.”] (Ben Lieberman, Washington Times)

  6. Re: the ethanol / food discussion- China has put a freeze on the construction of ethanol plants. I guess food is more important than driving to the 7-11
    http://languageinstinct.blogspot.com/2007/09/ethanol-collision-between-food-and.html
    And if I may be allowed another:
    Tell Toronto city council that taxes are good, and the more of them the better. Because, after all, isn’t it taxes that make a city great?
    http://fairtaxes.ca/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=85

  7. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/us/21refugees.html
    “WINDSOR, Ontario, Sept. 20 — Fleeing stepped-up sweeps by the American authorities, illegal immigrants to the United States, mostly Mexican, are arriving in growing numbers at the foot of the bridge in this Canadian border town seeking refugee status.
    Still more immigrants, mostly Mexicans living illegally in Florida, have begun trying to make their way past America’s northern border at other locations, the majority of them flying into the airport in Toronto, Canadian officials said Thursday…”

  8. Associated Press headlines the one French soldier killed. Bias? Of, course.
    The real headline:
    NATO forces kill 75 Muslim Islamist murderers
    Final score: NATO 75; Taliban Jack Layton-NDP/Citoyen Dion 01.
    …-
    Kabul attack kills French soldier
    KABUL, Afghanistan – Heavy battles punctuated by a barrage of airstrikes killed 75 suspected Taliban and at least six civilians in southern Afghanistan, while a suicide car bomb in the capital killed two people, including a French soldier. (canoe news)

  9. Zap! You’re frozen, (who said that?) feministas. Gigi’s arts is frozen-dead, too.
    Good news travels fast.
    Find the little words, “ever again”. More, please.
    …-
    Harper zaps feminists
    Yesterday, the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) became the latest victim — on the heels of the Law Reform Commission, the Court Challenges program and other advocacy groups for minorities — of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s ideologically-driven funding cuts. …-
    Governor General’s arts awards won’t be handed out this year
    There will be no Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards presented this year and don’t count on seeing the usual televised version of the awards gala on CBC or Radio-Canada next year, or ever again. …-
    (national newswatch)

  10. I tried to post under the Ontario election thread but ran into an error.
    A thought to ponder for the Ontario-based SDA-ers:
    Borealis Capital is intimately involved with the Liberal Party of Ontario, with a Vice-President of Borealis being a past head of the Provincial Liberal Party.
    Borealis owns a majority of a large engineering firm in Ontario and, as we go to the election, the Ministry of Transportation is changing their rules for consultant acquisition for two or three relatively big engineering projects to “streamline” the process…downplaying the established qualifications process and cost and playing up the “technical” proposal (which really won’t be technical, but will permit subjective scoring).
    Anyone else smell an election funding scam? I guess we’ll see soon enough if the Borealis firm wins any of these projects…proof of the pudding is in the eating, right?

  11. Flaman’s campaign song: Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie beside Tommy Dooglas; bury me beside Jimmy Gahdiner.
    …-
    Wheat Board director [Flaman] joins Liberal team
    Saying he is frustrated by the Conservative government “attack” on the Canadian Wheat Board, a board director plans to represent the Liberals in the next federal election. […]
    Flaman was himself once a vocal opponent of the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly on wheat and barley exports. …-
    http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=8b928f5f-9e33-450a-837b-bb47eb58c7ac

  12. Hezbollah Coderre # deux/2 for Citoyen Dion; IGGYPOOP is hidden/gagged.
    Makeover tips for Citoyen: rouge red mascara, puffin-egg shell powder, pompadour rouge. Et, Voila. It’s Hezbollah Modeste-but-Ambitious Coderre. Free advice to Citoyen: Coderre, a closet separatist, a Librano$, has a fat and hungry look. Beware.
    …-
    Dion admits image needs makeover
    “Dion is candidly admitting that his own image needs polishing and, as well, it’s believed he’s getting ready to name a new Quebec lieutenant, possibly MP Denis Coderre, a former immigration minister.
    Coderre, who says he’s just happy to be a loyal soldier and is not looking for a promotion, was a strong supporter and Quebec organizer for Michael Ignatieff, the runner-up to Dion in last year’s leadership contest.
    By putting Coderre in the job to replace the current Quebec lieutenant, MP Marcel Proulx, Dion would be sending a significant message to Liberal troops to shut down any talk of tensions with Ignatieff’s old supporters.” …-
    (Delacourt @ TO Red Star)

  13. …Muslim inmate has won $2,000 and a partial human rights victory over a Correctional Service of Canada policy not to replace bacon with a halal diet for Islam-worshipping cons…
    ..A Federal Court of Canada hearing was told the breakfast included three pieces of bacon, two eggs, three slices of toast, jam, ketchup, milk, coffee, juice and cereal…
    http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2007/09/21/pf-4514133.html
    It’s not like they’re starving.

  14. Can’t post on Dalton
    All Dalton did last night was play the Blame game right down to Rae Days, Tory has a great line ” next your going to Bring Sir john a macdonald into it”
    Of course we all know what was coming, “I had no choice i was facing a 6 Billion deficit”.
    So you tax Health Care to pay for a deficit? I thought the Health Tax was for Health Not get an overall Budget surplus.
    BTW: did you notice the liberal scare tactic, Tory Scary.
    And In the Scrum Howard said to the reporter ” now lets just put stop that nonsense right now, tory is a nice guy not scary”

  15. Can’t post on McGuinty. Agree – all that he did was the blame game.
    He’s ignoring that a major reason for the deficit in Ontario was not, as he claimed, the PC govt of Mike Harris, but the federal Liberals of Chretien and Martin who achieved their ‘no deficit’ only by offloading costs to provinces and municipalities. While refusing to offload to them, any increased ability to tax. Neat tactic. Dalton didn’t mention this.
    Ontario might wake up from its generation long slumber of assuming it is the Centre of Canada, and centralist big govt Liberalism is the ‘natural governing party’ – and that it is the only means of preventing Quebec separation. That’s over.
    Quebec has already woken from its slumber of perpectual victimhood and dependency (ADQ) and is moving on to self-organization and non-dependency. Hopefully, Ontario will realize these old mantras are no longer viable, and it has to get its own system in order.
    Tory, by the way, isn’t funding FBS as a means of promoting their religions. He’s funding them as a tactic of INCLUSION. To include those children within a common, shared curriculum – the Ontario curriculum. Rather than excluding them to the ‘otherness’ of their private curriculum. I think that’s an important tactic of dealing with the isolationism of multiculturalism. To INCLUDE children within a common curriculum will enable them to feel a shared identity with all peoples in the province.

  16. CHINA has banned television talent shows from screening in prime time slots in the latest media clean-up ahead of a major Communist Party meeting next month.
    Contestants and anchors on shows such as Super Girl, Chinese station Hunan TV’s take-off of American Idol, were also told to behave themselves.
    The move was part of a plan to further “resist vulgarity” on television, said media watchdog the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television on its website.
    “Currently, some television talent shows have vulgar problems concerning the design, judges, performance of the contestants, which have damaged the media image and caused strong reactions from viewers,” it said.
    “The performing style, language, hair and clothing of the contestants must be in line with the taste of the masses.”
    http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,22460163-5005940,00.html

  18. …Muslim inmate has won $2,000 and a partial human rights victory over a Correctional Service of Canada policy not to replace bacon with a halal diet for Islam-worshipping cons…
    Okay, let’s substitute everyone’s bacon with tofu on Wednesday and let all those fine dezeins of our penal system that Muhammad is to thank for their change in diet.

  19. In a study examining why women are outnumbering men on campus, the federal agency suggests the academic stage is set years earlier, with 15-year-old boys trailing girls in marks, standardized test scores and homework habits.
    …
    John Martin, who teaches criminology at the University College of the Fraser Valley, in Abbotsford, B.C., said “post-secondary education is definitely where the boys aren’t.” He said that in his first-year classes this year, less than a quarter of his students are male. In his fourth-year classes, girls outnumber boys 10 to one.
    Martin blames the trend on the public schools, which he said switched gears in the 1970s to appeal to the learning style of girls because they were trailing boys.
    “Boys are getting shafted,” said Martin, starting in the early elementary school grades where there is “zero tolerance on horsing around” and boys are put on medication if they misbehave.
    http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=61cff9df-4fc1-4c2a-a2db-df56609740ea

  20. THE INDIAN “PLAN” FOR ONTARIO: DECOLONIZATION OF THE WHITE VANDALS
    http://tinyurl.com/2qvbea
    Here’s a read for everyone who has had any formal psychology training…plenty of paranoid delusion and repressed hostility here spinning denial mythologies for schizophrenics to rationalize their delusion.
    Others may find some stark parallels between this fanatic Mohawk revisionist dogma and Marxist revolutionary dogmatics…..at any rate it does indicate that anyone holding such bigotry will never be personally or civilly responsible.

  21. andrew – girls might outnumber boys in the ‘soft’ university disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. Criminology is just a buzz word for social services – and it’s all about postmodern revisionism where the victim is really the agent of their own misfortune to be robbed, beaten, murdered etc, while the criminal (sorry – alleged criminal) is just a mechanical reproduction of his past abuse.
    But in the hard studies of mathematics, physics, engineering etc – it’s the boys who outnumber the girls.
    As for more women than men on campus – the humanities and social sciences are a lot easier to get into and get through than the other disciplines – and one can more into a gov’t service job quite readily afterwards.

  22. ET your kneejerk defence of your gender would appear more grounded in reality if you were to cite a source document, for once. I recommend Stats Canada and the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Give it a try, you might like it. Reality, I mean.

  24. andrew – what is ‘kneejerk defense of my gender’ when I say that girls primarily move into the soft and easy humanities and social sciences? Such data can be found in any statistical site on universities. It’s hardly hidden – and I remain puzzled by why you consider that I’m defending the female gender by that statement.
    Wikipedia is not a site to be taken without a generous ‘grain of salt’. It’s OK for a lot of the basics but anything that requires interpretation – well, it gets a lot of interpretation. I recommend, andrew, that you use critical thinking when you read that site.
    I also recommend that you use critical thinking when reading my above post.

  25. This is an opinion (so no flaming and calling names if you don’t agree)
    Schools these days cater to girls. I know this because I have one boy in school and another on his way next year. Boys don’t like to read because of the tripe that they try to get them to read when they are at school.
    When boys act like boys do at school they get put on drugs until they become compliant. This is why young boys need to be taught by men.
    Most university education is a complete waste of time. I know because I’ve done it.
    In 2001 after several years of unemployment and under employment, at 37 years of age, I bit the bullet and became an electrician apprentice for 9 dollars an hour. Last year I made 100,000 and this year I will make 110,000. I could kick myself for all those years I spent pursuing higher education, doing crappy jobs and struggling to pay off student loans. It was a total waste of time.

  26. …Last year I made 100,000 and this year I will make 110,000…
    I genuinely hope that you will get to keep most of that. In Canada it’s not how much you make, but how much you keep that matters. Power to you!

  27. …another airhead almost met her maker.
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297593,00.html
    BOSTON — An MIT student with a fake bomb strapped to her chest was arrested at gunpoint Friday at Logan International Airport and later claimed it was artwork, officials said.
    Star Simpson, 19, had a computer circuit board and wiring in plain view over a black hooded sweat shirt she was wearing, said State Police Maj. Scott Pare, the commanding officer at the airport.
    “She said that it was a piece of art and she wanted to stand out on career day,” Pare said at a news conference. “She claims that it was just art, and that she was proud of the art and she wanted to display it.”

  28. Neil McDonald has got to be the worst of the worst at the CBC.
    Like, just what is that burr, Neil ?? The War of 1812 ??

  30. Amazing how the cuddly Polar Bear with the Coke in his hand became the poster child for the Gore Suzuki fanatics,…. but, but
    Nunavut biologist Mitch Taylor squashes USGS Polar Bear report
    – According to the USGS, Davis Strait ought to be
    among the first places where polar bears will
    starve due to shrinking seasonal sea ice, which
    scientists say will deprive the bears of a vital
    platform to hunt seals. … Yet “Davis Strait is
    crawling with polar bears,” Taylor said. “It’s
    not safe to camp there. They’re fat. The mothers
    have cubs. The cubs are in good shape.”
    – Yet anecdotes abound of skinny polar bears
    wandering from their traditional hunting grounds
    in search of food – such as an email circulated
    recently with a photo of a gaunt bear with skin
    hanging off its bones, spotted 160 kilometres
    inland from Ungava Bay. … Taylor bristles at
    that photo’s mention. He says the bear is clearly
    an elderly male in its late 20s, rather than a
    young female, as it has been otherwise
    identified. “It probably wandered out there to
    end its life in peace,” he said. “That’s nature. It’s not climate change.”

  31. Ah, yes. That place of “higher learning” in Canada.
    Agronomy(plants, soil, microbes, ionic exchange, nutrients, the essence of life) can be a very involved field(no pun).
    In Canadian Universities we go to “school” for 4 years to obtain a BSc. Classes start in early Sept, may actually get going by the middle of Sept. Slack off early Dec and sorta resume by 2nd week of Jan. Week long spring break. Classes slack off again by late March. Place is closed down before the end of April.
    For some, when classes are “in”, each day may not start till mid morning(especially monday morners) and is out by mid afternoon. (Got to get to the UMSU bar, ya see)
    Contrast that with University in Guatemala and Mexico.
    He came to Canada from Guatemala. He described himself as an ordinary Guatemalian. Oscar Perez.
    When it came to knowledge on Agronomy, he was a walking source of information and very adept at applying it. Worth his weight in Gold.
    And that is what Cargil Canada thought also. His career there went straight to the top. He was light years ahead of his Canadian “grown” counterparts.
    I asked him why the big difference. He said it was the Canadian system that was “different”.
    By memory, his academic training consisted of much more than 4 years. A “year” was longer than 7 months. Vitually year-round. At times it was a 6 day week. A day was a day. 8 to 6. Very few holidays and no ski trips.
    Net result, he was light years ahead of us. I am not saying we all have to hold to the grind stone like that — just that I wonder which is the Third World Country here ??

  32. Need any further proof that Western academia is full of socialist-Islamic apologists?
    NEW YORK — Columbia University said it does not plan to call off a speech by Iran’s president despite pressure from critics including the City Council speaker, who said the Ivy League school was providing a forum for “hate-mongering vitriol.”
    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is traveling to New York to address the United Nations’ General Assembly. He was scheduled to appear Monday at a question-and-answer session with Columbia faculty and students as part of the school’s World Leaders Forum.
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070921/iran_president_070921/20070921?hub=World&s_name=

  37. Tomax:
    For News did their standard job of mis-reporting. Star Simpson was not wearing “a fake bomb”; she was wearing a small printed circuit board with some LED’s flashing on it. It was a project for university, and she goes to MIT – not many airheads get in there (as opposed to, say, airport security).
    Some stupid ticket counter person thought that it was “suspicious”, and police surrounded her at gunpoint.
    She was charged with wearing a “hoax device” – how do they define that? She was jailed, even after police determined that it was not an explosive device. The loss of liberty we’re facing when travelling is out of control.
    Here’s the real story: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/09/mit_student_arr.html

  38. KevinB – it was most certainly NOT a project for University. MIT did not request the class to devise a project that one would wear, that looked like a suicide bomb vest, carrying what looked like semtex etc.
    It was a project devised only by this young woman, for her own reasons – which are not outlined in the article.
    Logan Airport is not the campus of MIT. If she wanted to use her body as a poster for what she calls ‘art’ (and the definition of a suicide vest bomb as ‘art’ requires some discussion) – then, she could have put this device on, in her classroom at MIT.
    She chose to go to Logan Airport; she chose to clothe herself in a device that had all the visual markings of a suicide vest; she chose to carry something that looked like plastic Semtex. The security personnel were absolutely right to stop and confront her.
    So- KevinB, try for some realism. Calling something ‘art’ doesn’t make it art, doesn’t validate its use – and dressing oneself up as a suicide bomber was not a project of her university.

  40. Ontario Landowner Action – Carden Plain, 11:00 a.m., 25th September 2007
    Landowners from across the province will start clear-cutting the Carden Plain in response to McGuinty’s Endangered Species Act. This law allows the government to prohibit a private landowner from making a living on their own property if an endangered bird is seen on their property. The Government will not compensate the Landowner.
    The Carden Plain feature is frequented by several species of birds that are on the “Endangered” or “Threatened” lists. The local Landowners have no choice. They must alter the habitat so that it is unsuitable for these birds…or face the loss of land use.
    Join the OLA on Tuesday the 25th and send a clear message to our politicians about the importance of fundamental property rights.
    Directions to Carden Plain
    Go north on Highway 12 to Highway 48 – make a left onto 48 to the Village of Kirkfield. In the village, turn left onto Kirkfield Road and continue north on Kirkfield and make a right onto McNamee Road. There will be arrows directing you to Wylie Road. …-
    http://www.ruralrevolution.com/website/

  41. Tomax:
    Did you actually look at the “device”? It was a small printed circuit board with some LED’s and a 9V battery. Anyone with any knowledge of electronics would never confuse that with a bomb; only an idiot would. The article even says that the police quickly identified the device was harmless.
    Never mind that it was on her chest; all terrorists openly display their bombs. She wasn’t flying; she was there to pick up her boyfriend, so she never passed through airport security, whose questions I’m sure she would have answered. But when a ticket agent – a glorified typist – asks me questions, I don’t feel obligated to answer them if I’m not flying.
    That said, I think the police did the right thing by questioning her at gunpoint – they can’t afford to take any chances. But to charge her with “carrying a hoax device” and cart her off to jail? That’s a wee bit of an over-reaction from an absurdly paranoid Boston police. If you recall, a few months ago a company making the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie placed some blinking sign boards in Boston to do some “viral” marketing. The Boston police went nuts, and started dismantling them thinking they were bombs. Other cities where ATFH used the same tactic didn’t even notice them.
    Maybe it’s something in their water. Or watching the Red Sox collapse.

  42. kevinb – maybe it’s because two of the 9/11 flights took off from Boston’s Logan Airport. Do you think that might have had something to do with the airport police reaction?
    Maybe the fact that this ‘device’ that the young woman claims is ‘art’ – and again, that term requires definition – was presented in the image of a suicide bomb – and her images of bombs included the semtex plasticine in her hands.
    You say that only an idiot would confuse a real bomb with her image of one? Really? But to differentiate a ‘real’ from an ‘image’ requires close-up observation – and that required that the police arrest her so they could actually make such an observation. Including her fake semtex.
    Ah – so it’s OK to wear a suicide bomb in an airport as long as you aren’t flying; you can blow the airport up and that’s doesn’t matter. Is that your point about your excusing her because ‘she wasn’t flying’?
    Your sneer of contempt for the ticket agent – a ‘glorified typist’ in your words, tells us quite a bit about your value system. The ticket agent has every right to ask anyone questions in the airport – and particularly, if you are dressed in a manner that raises security questions.
    Oh – and remember, your first point, that it was a ‘project for university’. Again, it wasn’t; it was her choice and you don’t wear a device that is intended, deliberately, to be an image of a suicide bomb, and carry an image of semtex – into an airport.
    Perhaps she thinks that suicide bombs are amusing. Those people killed by them, and their families – have a different opinion.

  47. Just saw a clip on ctv of this weeks cover of Macleans. A spokesperson said they had not had any complaints from any of their 8,000 subscribers in the US. That is probably because it hasn’t been received yet.
    After all the bad press re the Moveon.org ad, Macleans puts this out. It is sure to encourage americans to travel here.
    It is a very unflattering pic of Pres Bush in a Castro like uniform, with a mustache.
    I hope PMSH and all conservatives complain and denounce this magazine.
    Let them know they have gone over the line with this.
    I am sure that certain lib blogs will praise this as free speech etc.

  48. Discreet signs of a mutiny*
    Dion stumbles as his Liberal rivals tiptoe into position
    Michael Ignatieff, right, who finished second to Stephane Dion in the December Liberal leadership vote, is seen as the most likely usurper.
    Photograph by : Chris Wattie, Reuters
    http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/storyimage.html?id=1d6cea03-674f-463b-a674-3c8afce3c4fc&img=61cf91b6-1e29-4dc6-bac7-e7e09486ffdb&path=%2fnationalpost%2fnews%2f
    Citoyen Dion as Captain Queeg: Citoyen has lost his bearings, (did he ever have any?); and his bkhhs (did he ever have any?).
    Dion: a hollow man of straw; a man without a chest.
    …-
    The Caine Mutiny (1954)
    The Caine Mutiny (1954) is the story of shipboard conflict and a mutiny aboard a …. habits – rolling a pair of steel ball-bearings in one shaking hand. …
    http://www.filmsite.org/cain.html
    The Survivor – TIME
    He brings the hollow, driven, tyrannical character of Captain Queeg to full … the two steel ball bearings which he habitually fumbles in times of stress, …-

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