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  2. NYSlimes’ “nuance”.
    The Times says Iraqis have taken their country back from George the Invader. Now, if only George would “invade” Afghanistan, the Afghans could take their country back from George.
    NYT uses “freedom”, as in Long live Freedom and Democracy. (See SDA archives.)
    Sample of NYT’s nuance: “Iraqis are clearly surprised”.
    …-
    Baghdad Starts to Exhale as Security Improves (people moving with freedom, commerce returning…)
    NY Times ^ | Nov. 20, 2007 | By DAMIEN CAVE and ALISSA J. RUBIN
    BAGHDAD, Nov. 19 — Five months ago, Suhaila al-Aasan lived in an oxygen tank factory with her husband and two sons, convinced that they would never go back to their apartment in Dora, a middle-class neighborhood in southern Baghdad.
    Today she is home again, cooking by a sunlit window, sleeping beneath her favorite wedding picture.
    The security improvements in most neighborhoods are real. Days now pass without a car bomb, after a high of 44 in the city in February. The number of bodies appearing on Baghdad’s streets has plummeted to about 5 a day, from as many as 35 eight months ago, and suicide bombings across Iraq fell to 16 in October, half the number of last summer and down sharply from a recent peak of 59 in March, the American military says.
    As a result, for the first time in nearly two years, people are moving with freedom around much of this city. In more than 50 interviews across Baghdad, it became clear that while there were still no-go zones, more Iraqis now drive between Sunni and Shiite areas for work, shopping or school, a few even after dark. In the most stable neighborhoods of Baghdad, some secular women are also dressing as they wish. Wedding bands are playing in public again, and at a handful of once shuttered liquor stores customers now line up outside in a collective rebuke to religious vigilantes from the Shiite Mahdi Army.
    Iraqis are clearly surprised and relieved to see commerce and movement finally increase, five months after an extra 30,000 American troops arrived in the country. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928186/posts

  4. Canada failing its obligations to children: UNICEF
    Last Updated: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 | 4:37 AM ET
    CBC News
    …Canada has one of the highest rates of children in state care and in youth detention centres compared with other industrialized nations….
    cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/11/20/unicef-children.html

  5. Japan has started to fingerprint and photograph all foreigners when they arrive in the country.
    It is only the second country after the United States to check foreigners in this way.
    But unlike the US, which only checks foreign visitors, Japan will require foreigners living in Japan to be checked each time they enter.
    The Japanese government says it is an anti-terrorism measure but others say it is discrimination………
    news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7102962.stm

  7. NYT put the “Too Good” news on the front page?
    It’s motto is now: “All the News That’s Fit to Print, Broadcast, and Post Online”.
    Newsbusters knows nuance: “But how long will it be till we hear Hillary reminding people that, after all, she did vote to authorize the war?”
    Ekzakary.
    …-
    Iraq News Too Good for Even NYT To Ignore
    The President’s escalation strategy has failed. We need to stop refereeing this civil war, and start getting out now. — Hillary Clinton, statement of August 23, 2007
    As many had foreseen, the escalation has failed to produce the intended results. — letter to Pres. Bush from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, June 12, 2007
    That’s not a cement mixer you hear. It’s the collective Dem gnashing of teeth. Things have gotten so bad — meaning good — in Iraq that now even the New York Times is reporting it. Have a look at Willie Geist — sitting in for Joe Scarborough — opening today’s “Morning Joe” by holding up the paper’s front page to display its headline: “Baghdad Starts to Exhale as Security Improves.” …-
    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2007/11/20/iraq-news-too-good-even-nyt-ignore

  8. “Wow! A global warming extreme climate change and evil Zionist cluster bomb two-fer!” (Commenter)
    Reuters/MSM neatly covered up the BIG story of the climate change: walnuts as big as hailstones.
    …-
    Hailstorm causes cluster bomb blasts in S. Lebanon
    Reuters AlertNet ^ | Nov. 20, 2007
    BEIRUT, Nov 20 (Reuters) – A hailstorm has caused hundreds of cluster bombs to explode in south Lebanon, the National News Agency said on Tuesday.
    The cluster bombs were dropped by Israel during its war with Hezbollah guerrillas last year. The hailstones, as big as walnuts, fell in a number of valleys in south Lebanon, the agency said. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928310/posts

  9. LOU DOBBS CONSIDERS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY
    http://tinyurl.com/2jbjd5
    “”Lou Dobbs for President? Don’t laugh.
    (…)
    Friends of Mr. Dobbs say he is seriously contemplating a race for the first time, although it’s still unlikely. They spin a scenario under which the acerbic commentator would parachute into the race if Michael Bloomberg, the New York billionaire and favorite of East Coast elites, enters the field as an independent. With Hillary Clinton continuing to score badly in polls in the categories of honesty and integrity, and with the public’s many doubts about Rudy Giuliani and other GOP contenders, Mr. Bloomberg may well see an opportunity to roil the political waters by entering the race late. If so, Mr. Dobbs then sees a niche for a “fourth-party” candidate who could paint the three other contenders as completely out of touch.””

  10. An ass-kicking of Dionysion proportions.
    Hon. Stéphane Dion (Leader of the Opposition, Lib.):
    Mr. Speaker, the deception must stop: cover-up on torture and cover-up on Mulroney. Will the Prime Minister stop the cover-ups? Will he agree to testify under oath at the Mulroney inquiry?
    Right Hon. Stephen Harper (Prime Minister, CPC):
    Mr. Speaker, the terms of the inquiry, as the government already has said, will be set independently by Professor Johnston. I do not know whether he will accept the position of the current leader of the Liberal Party that there be an unlimited inquiry, or of the past leader of the Liberal Party that there be no public inquiry, or of the future leader of the Liberal Party, who says there should be a limited public inquiry. I am sure one of these Liberal positions will be adopted.
    What I can say is that when the Leader of the Opposition alleges vast conspiracies and then votes by abstaining to keep the government in office, nobody takes his allegations seriously.

  11. What, UN scientists exaggerating danger in order to get more funding – lets ask Al Gore…
    JOHANNESBURG, Nov. 19 — The United Nations’ top AIDS scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they have long overestimated both the size and the course of the epidemic, which they now believe has been slowing for nearly a decade, according to U.N. documents prepared for the announcement.
    Having millions fewer people with a lethal contagious disease is good news. Some researchers, however, contend that persistent overestimates in the widely quoted U.N. reports have long skewed funding decisions and obscured potential lessons about how to slow the spread of HIV. Critics have also said that U.N. officials overstated the extent of the epidemic to help gather political and financial support for combating AIDS.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/19/AR2007111900978_pf.html

  12. Tropical tyranny
    National Post
    Published: Tuesday, November 20, 2007
    Canada is Cuba’s biggest source of tourists. Nearly 600,000 of us fly there every year. Since tourism helped save the Cuban economy after the fall of the Soviet Union — which had supplied annual aid grants of nearly $8-billion –it’s fair to say Canadian tourists played a large part in keeping the Cuban government afloat…..
    http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=2afc30b0-db3d-47f3-a2a4-99478f6a5423

  13. He used to brag that he couldn’t talk out both sides
    Paul Wells | November 20, 2007 | 03:27:08 | Permalink
    paul.wells@macleans.rogers.com
    Sorry, Jean Chrétien. You don’t get to claim that the only reason Canadians are stuck in “killing fields” is because Paul Martin couldn’t make a decision, and look down on other NATO countries for refusing the hard jobs. If your criticism of Martin has any meaning, the implication is that you’d have been as wily as any German Bundesweenie at skipping out of the hard jobs.
    In fact, the comments in the La Presse article are profoundly distasteful at best. “When you go to war, some people die. Canada is ready but other (countries) aren’t. But it’s a collective responsibility.”
    But. If Chrétien were still in power in 2005, “I’d have stood up to NATO and to General Hillier and I would have told them we were staying in Kabul, or that we were going to the north of the country.”
    So if he’d stayed in power, collective responsibility would have been somebody else’s problem. Nice.
    —————–
    Link: forums.macleans.ca/advansis/?mod=for&act=dip&pid=89063&tid=89063&eid=43&so=1&ps=0&sb=1

  14. Thanks for that quote gored. You didn’t link but I’ll assume it was from Hansard.
    We were all well informed about that from MSM….
    oh, wait…oops…guess they were too busy quoting Schreiber.

  15. Caroline Glick, Our World: From AMIA to Armageddon
    THE SYRIAN and Iraqi cases also show that political courage and intellectual honesty are the keys to intelligence collection and analysis regarding weapons of mass destruction programs. When leaders and intelligence officials are uninterested in finding information about these programs, they are guaranteed to discover nothing. And when they wish to do nothing about information that they have, they can easily argue that their information was inconclusive. In contrast, if they decide to act on intelligence information that challenges preconceived notions and entrenched political interests, they are guaranteed to suffer the condemnations of those who have an interest in continuing to downplay or deny the dangers those programs manifest.
    Against the backdrop of the international and American inability and unwillingness to handle the Iraqi and Syrian nuclear programs, the reports coming out from Iran regarding the mullocracy’s nuclear program and the American and Israeli responses to it are nothing less than terrifying.
    Israeli encryption guru warns computer networks are vulnerable
    …The increasing complexity of modern microprocessor chips – the latest Intel processor contains upwards of 30 million transistors, for example – has made the existence of small, undetected errors almost a certainty, he pointed out. A single mathematical oversight in the design of a chip, he warns, could make it possible for a hacker to breach the virtual barrier created by encryption algorithms and wreak havoc on a global scale.
    Coming from [Prof. Adi] Shamir, the warning is not to be taken lightly. In 2003, he was awarded the prestigious A.M. Turing Award – computer science’s answer to the Nobel Prize – for his groundbreaking work in the field of public key encryption….

  16. Has anyone here heard of the Hamilton Declaration? In an open letter to Mahmoud Abbas:
    We the Palestinian Canadian community assembly at the Palestinian National Voice Preparatory Conference in Hamilton, Canada…
    …We stress that the central issue in the Palestinian conflict with Israel has always been the dispossession of the Palestinian people from their land and property caused by the Zionist ethnic cleansing of 1948 and the Israeli denial to Palestinians of the basic human right to return and to live in peace and security as equal citizens on their land.
    We further specifically caution you against any recognition of Israel as a “Jewish” state. Such a recognition would give Israel the façade of moral and legal legitimacy while critically compromising the full implementation of the inalienable Palestinian right of return….

  17. One person injured after shooting spree in Islamic centre
    Lausanne, Switzerland – One person was seriously injured after a man opened fire in an Islamic centre at Crissier in the Swiss canton of Vaud, reports said Tuesday. The 23-year-old Muslim was finally overwhelmed by police after firing a dozen shots in the incident Monday evening, according to the Swiss wire agency ATS.
    The police had been called after the man was spotted in the street carrying a weapon.
    The man had used his military service gun and ammunition, the report said. …-
    http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/141064.html

  18. Canada condemns Saudi rape victim’s sentence
    Woman jailed, to get 200 lashes
    OTTAWA — The federal government says it will complain to Saudi authorities about a court sentence of six months in jail and 200 lashes for a woman who was gang raped.
    Josee Verner, [Conservative] minister responsible for the status of women, called the ruling “barbaric” and said it would only further violate the 19-year-old victim.
    http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/986100.html
    [US]State Dept won’t condemn Saudi 200 lashes verdict against rape VICTIM
    CNN ^ | November 19, 2007
    COSTELLO: To most Americans it’s an outrage — a rape victim violated by seven men — not only blamed for her own attack, but sentenced to prison and 200 lashes. The 19-year-old victim, interviewed by the Human Rights Watch organization, said: “Everyone looks at me as if I was wrong. I wanted to die.”
    In Saudi Arabia, woman cannot travel without permission from a male relative. And that night, the Saudi victim — without permission — met a male friend to retrieve some photographs. Both were abducted and raped. She says: “The first man with the knife raped me. I was destroyed. The fifth and sixth ones were the most abusive. After the seventh one, I couldn’t feel my body anymore.” The woman’s original trial took place last year. Her attackers got sentences ranging from 10 months to five years in jail, and the Saudi judge determined the victim was also to blame — for illegally mingling.
    COSTELLO: The woman’s attorney, Abdul Rahman al-Lahem, did appeal. And for his trouble, he’s been stripped of his law license. And the judge ruled because his client spoke to the media, her sentence would double — from 90 lashes to six months in prison. Plus, those 200 lashes with a bamboo reed. And if you’re wondering what that looks like…
    WILCKE: They use about a one, one-and-a-half yard long thin stick — thin bamboo stick, usually, which you’re supposed to whip the person with on the back, either publicly or non-publicly…in the marketplace, in front of the supermarket…
    COSTELLO: Over here, the U.S. State Department would only say the situation was “astonishing.”
    QUESTION: Just to be clear, you’re in no way condemning the sentence at all?
    SEAN MCCORMACK, STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN: I’ve said what I’m going to say about it. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928356/posts

  19. Sodomy Arabia.
    Where they abolished slavery in 1960, yet still winkingly carry it on. Where thousands of kidnapped young white children have ended up as slaves. Where women are worth half of a muslim man and the Kafir are worth one tenth. Where no non-Muslims are allowed to enter Mecca. Where they have highways for Muslims and separate highways for non-Muslims. From where they export and finance Wahabiism in schools and universities throughout North America. Where the majority of terrorists are born.
    Where Mohammad and his fictious god and war manual come from.

  21. Have you noticed that the Liberals even when not in power can’t seem to shake their habit of unethically using political interference with the RCMP and any other judicial or other investigative bodies.
    Just this week Dion writes a letter making DEMANDS to influence the professor on the Schreiber/Mulroney probe.
    They make DEMANDS and use the media and the soapbox of the House of Commons to try to force the Justice Minister to politically influence Schreiber’s deportation.
    They are now DEMANDING that the RCMP investigate John Baird as to his friendship with the Ottawa Mayor.
    Based on innuendo and theories and plain old Liberal spite they have instigated ethics investigations against the Conservatives, launched offical complaints against them with Elections Canada, and on and on and on.
    Then they use the media to get headlines that the Conservatives are “under investigation”.
    Does anybody else find this all a truly sickening spectacle of blatant political interference in our systems.

  22. Does anybody else find this all a truly sickening spectacle of blatant political interference in our systems.
    So, Lorraine, Harper and the Conservatives while in opposition have never DEMANDED that the RCMP investigate Shawinigate, Sponsorship, Earnscliffe, income trust leaks, etc. Are you as upset about those “truly sickening spectacles of blatant political interference in our systems”?
    It’s classic opposition party showboat-ism. Harper learned to play the game very well and, as a result of his “truly sickening spectacles of blatant political interference in our systems”, he is now the government. Mulroney played the game as well when Trudeau/Turner were in power, Chretien was master of that faux outraged acting gambit when he was Opposition Leader. Manning and Day failed in part because they weren’t so good at it and Harper was perfect at raising demands for police investigations and claims of the Liberals working with the mob.
    BTW, I thought Harper was the one “who could take a punch”? Why all this whining over Dion’s whining? Worried?

  24. It was the NDP who wanted Ralph Goodale investigated by the RCMP for leaking the Income Trust announcement.
    And, BTW Ted what should worry Canadians is that the Liberals at the moment collect a paycheque to represent US in Ottawa and spend their entire time and waste the time in the House of Commons with self serving muck raking like pigs searching for truffles trying to find something , qanything on the Conservatives while saying “we want to make this parliament work”.
    The Liberals have paralyzed our federal government and turned it into a daily inquest instead.
    The issues raised about the Liberals in the past where Liberals were ripping off Canadians was representing us. I note – we still have not found or gotten returned the literally BILLIONS in Liberal graft. That includes $9 BILLION in secret trust funds that Chretien stowed around the world.
    Talk about wanting to change the channel. I do think it is time for Canadians to start demanding true non politically motivated investigations into Liberal theft.
    Let the Liberals scream about a $300,000 business deal that had nothing to do with our money. You just look stupid.

  25. Ted, explain to me what Mulroney/Schreiber has to do with the current government in Ottawa. Harper and Mulroney do not belong to the same party and what Mulroney did almost 15 years ago should be between him and the courts as a private citizen. Cretin has his shot against him and nothing was found to be wrong and it cost us 2.1 million for his personal vendetta.
    The only, only reason this is arising now is because of the ineptness of Dion who is doing anything to deflect the attention on him.
    All the investigations you mentioned were with a sitting government and were potential criminal acts as Adscam proved to be.

  26. The victims of Islamophobia:
    Robert Spencer (jihadwatch.org) links to an FBI report on US “hate-motivated crimes” during 2006, showing the truth behind the constant claims of victimhood from Islamic advocacy groups: FBI hate crimes report for 2006: Jews suffer over 5 times more attacks than Muslims.
    Anti-Black 3,136
    Anti-Jewish 1,027
    Anti-White 1,008
    Anti-Male Homosexual 881
    Anti-Hispanic 770
    Anti-Female Homosexual 192
    Anti-Islamic 191
    The victims of Kafirophobia:
    The establishment media is seemingly obsessed with “grim milestones” in the War on Terror, as the Associated Press reminds us this past weekend. But in the next week those same establishment media outlets will probably stand mute when yet another “grim milestone” is reached – the10,000th attack by Islamic terrorists and militants since 9/11, which is responsible for approximately 60,000 dead and 90,000 injured.
    Not including Sudan.
    (thereligionofpeace.com)

  27. ‘Nother load of left liberal BS/crap/lies from the criminal-corrupt UN.
    …-
    Canada failing to protect its children, UN report says
    Canada.com – 2 hours ago
    Canada is failing to protect the rights of its children in several key areas, according to a new report that marks the 18th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. …-
    (google news)

  29. Illegal immigrant demands to be flown home because Britons are ‘rude and unfriendly’
    From the Daily Mail:
    An illegal immigrant has demanded to be flown home after saying he was fed up with British people – because they are “rude and unfriendly”.
    Speaking today, Mokhtar Tabet, 30 – who has been given a home, food and free travel around London – claims his local council has breached his human rights by moving him to a place he does not like.
    He was refused asylum in 2004 and is set to be deported.
    He said: “The council evicted me from my home in September and moved me to Streatham, which I don’t like.
    “The new place is small, and the kitchen closes at 9pm, so I can’t have anything to eat late at night. They have taken away my human rights.”
    Croydon Council says it has bent over backwards to help Tabet, who fled Algeria in 2002.
    A spokesman said: “Mr Tabet was accommodated in Norbury Crescent, with Croydon Council paying his rent, council tax and utility bills.
    “In July, his landlord gave him two months’ notice to quit the premises, and the council offered him a flat in Anerley Road, which he refused citing its poor state of repair.
    “The necessary repairs were carried out and he again refused it.
    “He was told that refusal would amount to him making himself intentionally homeless and he would be placed in hostel-style accommodation. He agreed to this.”
    Mr Tabet is entitled to return to Algeria at his own expense and admits that he “does not like it here”.
    But he refuses to do so and says Britain will have to pay for his travel if it wants him to leave.
    He moaned: “I miss Algeria. The English people are not helpful, they are so unfriendly and rude.
    “I thought I had made friends in Croydon, but when I ask them for money they don’t give me it, so I know they can’t be my friends.”
    Unsatisfied at this, he griped: “Croydon Council only gives me food vouchers, they won’t give me cash. I want the money.
    “I have nothing to buy new clothes with, I have to go to a refugee centre. But if there’s not anything nice there, you leave with nothing.
    “I want the council to give me a bigger flat and money instead of vouchers.”
    It’s called dhimmitude.

  30. Best drawing of a human ever: tinyurl.com/3yvzpb
    Vitruvius @ 1:23 AM
    Very modest, Vitruvius, but I’m partial to Vitruvian Man. I wish I still had the old Scientific American article on Vitruvius’ odometer and Leonardo’s unsuccessful attempts to make it work.

  31. Jim Travers in the Star today (accidentally?) makes a good point that the only way to fix these monopoly procurement situations like Air Canada is to privatize them .
    “Politicians have convinced themselves that their monopoly makes them collectively immune to market forces. They are wrong. Irrelevance inevitably follows indifference and not much is more certain to turn away voters than the perception that parties are more interested in accusing each other of ethical failures than helping the country bring head-hurting problems to heel.”
    Inquires and new laws will not fix the conflict of interest problems of our political leaders. They will only get worse as the 42% of the GDP that the governments oversee continue to grow and create more chance for conflict.
    The 42% of GDP of government in a $1.5 trillion economy is fraught with conflict and opportunity for influence peddling. It will get worse with growth. The only solution to reduce the scandals is to reduce the opportunity. No Board of Directors would allow its CEO and executives (ie PM and MPs and MPPs etc) to try and oversee an entiy like this massive complex of government we have today. They would focus the company on essentials. But the Liberals want to make government even bigger with more programs like Day Care.
    Canadians might now understand the need to get govenment out of commercial enterprise with the clear example of Air Canada and Airbus procurement that has wasted our time for 20 years.
    Shrinking government by outsourcing should be the lesson learned here

  32. David: First of all, Harper is part of the same party. It was a merger, they retained the ownership of the old PC logos and trade-marks, he calls himself a Tory. He tries hard to present himself as a carry-on of the old Tory party to gain votes, so it’s a little disingenuous to now claim to be a separate party, although I can see why he would want to make that claim.
    But more to the point, I’m actually not making any assertion of connection between Harper and Schreiber. In fact, I’ve said here before that there is probably none, even though it does not look good that he called for an investigation last year and then quietly shut the investigation down (lucky for him the Conservative-pliant media has a short memory). That’s just optics though.
    My only comment was directed at Lorraine who thinks that one opposition party calling for the RCMP to investigate something it is a “truly sickening spectacles of blatant political interference in our systems”, but it was proper and reasonable when the Conservatives did it with Shawinigate, Sponsorship, income trust leaks, etc., it was A-OK.
    I’ve personally lamented the Liberals preferrence for pot shots over policy. For one, it reduces them to the level of Harper-like mud-slinging and political optics over policy. With such a weak government that can’t raise itself in the polls or maintain any advance, you would think that the Liberals would see a great opportunity to try to convince Canadians they are a government in waiting with policy instead of Conservative-style showboating.
    Instead we have a situation where Dion is the best thing going for Harper, and Harper is the only thing going for Dion.

  34. Ted writes,
    Dion is the best thing going for Harper, and Harper is the only thing going for Dion
    Feeling whistful for the good/bad old Chretien days?

  35. “Harper is part of the same party.”
    “lucky for him the Conservative-pliant media has a short memory”
    “For one, it reduces them to the level of Harper-like mud-slinging”
    Ted, you have no intellectual, or debating credibility with statements like these.

  37. Ted, your losing, you have not a leg to stand on with your retorts.
    This Conservative government is entirely clean and clear of any connection to anything that happened in the Mulroney years.
    It seems fitting to quote the man who is prolific with the blarney, “go f**k yourself” was his advice to Peter C Newman, and there are plenty who need that same advice. Mulroney has a bead on more than a few and this time he appears determined to go get ’em.

  38. Liz:
    You are obviously not reading well today so I’ll repeat: I do not think Harper is connected to the Mulroney scandal.

  42. “What this offensive did is it essentially cut the head off the snake,” Scales said. …-
    Zarqawi Map Aided Successes Against Iraqi Insurgency
    WASHINGTON — A key turning point in the U.S.-led war against the Iraqi insurgency came even before last winter’s troop surge, FOX News has learned.
    A map drawn by Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — who was killed last year by U.S. forces — turned up last December in an Al Qaeda safe house and essentially gave U.S. war planners insight into the terrorist group’s methods for moving explosives, fighters and money into Baghdad.
    Click here to see the map, which was obtained by FOX News (.pdf).
    “The map essentially laid out how Al Qaeda controlled Baghdad. And they did it through four belts that surrounded the city, and these belts controlled access to the city for reinforcements and weapons and money,” said Maj. Gen. Bob Scales, a FOX News contributor who recently visited Iraq.
    “And [U.S.-led forces] simply made the decision to reduce these belts one at a time, and essentially what that did was it choked off Al Qaeda’s access to the city. And once that was done, Al Qaeda had no alternative but to leave the city, to leave the belts and to retreat into the city of Baquba,” Scales said. …-
    For map and link to Fox from here:
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928505/posts
    The explanation for the turning point came as new reports of a more peaceful Baghdad surfaced.
    The New York Times reported Tuesday that Iraqi civilians were returning to more normal rhythms of life, which had been disrupted first by Hussein’s oppressive rule and then by fighting that ensued after the 2003 U.S. invasion.
    Click here to read the full report in The New York Times.
    P.S. Meanwhile, the ‘rats, aka cousins of Taliban Jack-NDP and Liberal Citoyen Dion:
    2 Key House Democrats Threaten Future War Funds, Call on President to Accept Withdrawal Deadline (Fox)

  43. just a question,
    do they call the liberals grits because thats what you do with your teeth everytime one of them speaks?
    actually the MSM never uses the nickname of the libs.

  44. Rewrite CBC headline:
    NDP-Liberal MPs’ tempers flare!
    In-fighting surfaces between Taliban Jack Layton-NDP’s socialists and the socialists of the Citoyen Dion Liberals.
    Fratricide of the left.
    Stand back and enjoy. PM Harper enjoys the bloodletting.
    …-
    MPs’ tempers flare at House ethics committee meeting
    Chaotic session ends without discussion of key Mulroney-Schreiber item …-
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/11/20/committee-mulroney.html

  45. Via JM @ 7:15 a.m., pparently, according to UNICEF, “. . . Canada has one of the highest rates of children in state care and in youth detention centres compared with other industrialized nations. . . ”
    One reason is that the Charter entitlement—“whether I deserve it or not”—mindset has totally undermined the authority of parents. Canadian parents (and the public educational establishment) are terrified to discipline their children sternly, especially those who are real problems: out of control kids end up in custodial care because their own families don’t (often ARE NOT ALLOWED TO) properly discipline them OR kids end up in custodial care because they tell on their parents and are removed from their homes.
    In that regard, the well adjusted children in strict religious (Christian only) communities, who have been forcefully removed from their families, would also count in the UNICEF statistics.
    A friend of mine was supply teaching in a Behaviour Class recently: three adults for three very ill adjusted 10 year old kids. The adults were almost begging them to be good. Rewards for minimal compliance were regularly handed out. On-going, severe rudeness was underplayed or ignored. There were no effective consequences for egregious behaviour: in fact, the worse the behaviour, the more the kids were pandered to. The kids ran the show. (And they’ll probably have a few kids of their own in the next decade, who will be even worse.)
    “Equality”—thanks to the Charter again—means no one must question the lifestyle of anyone else, no matter how demonstrably dysfunctional and unpleasant, to highly dangerous, their behaviour is to themselves and others.
    UNICEF may be right, but it’s for all the wrong reasons. (What reasonable person would be surprised by that?)

  46. More on the Lib-NDP fratricide;
    Pat NDP to Paul Liberal: You’re an sob.
    …-
    “The gambit ended with New Democrat MP Pat Martin calling Liberal chairman Paul Szabo a son of a female dog,…” …-
    CanPress headline:
    “Curses and chaos as MPs wrangle over Mulroney-Schreiber affair”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/11/20/4671439-cp.html
    Rewrite headline:
    Taliban Jack-NDP’s Pat to Liberal Citoyen Dion’s Paul:
    You’re an sob.
    Sic ’em, Pat.

  48. Ted @ 12:03 is leaving out the fact that the MSM shills for the Liberals: the media sure didn’t/don’t for the Conservatives.
    In fact, as we all know, the MSM has a vendetta against the Conservatives. Ted knows this but pretends there’s an equivalency here. There isn’t.

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