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  2. The energy superpower club
    Paul Wells | November 29, 2007 | 04:18:07 | Permalink
    paul.wells@macleans.rogers.com
    Ah. Here’s why Stephen Harper hasn’t said boo about pre-election thuggery in Vlad Putin’s Russia. A morality-based foreign policy can kick in tomorrow, after the customer leaves Ottawa. This helps us to understand why the government was so eager to condemn the bogus 2006 election in Belarus: not because bogus elections are a problem but because Belarus couldn’t pay up.
    The prime minister’s silences have been fascinating this week. On Antonio Lamer’s merits, if any, and two contrasting elections — the fiasco in Russia and the unimpeachably democratic election in Australia — Harper has been more eloquent than if he had spoken.
    Link: forums.macleans.ca/advansis/?mod=for&act=pos&eid=43
    ——————
    He forgot to add Harper’s eloquent silence about the anniversary of Pearson’s Nobel Peace Prize: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071127/pearson_anniversary_071127/20071127?hub=Canada

  3. I much prefer this PM’s silences than the constant multi-decibel screaming in our faces of the juvenile Liberals.
    Re Pearson’s Nobel prize: my mom always said, “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything.” Maybe the PM’s just being polite.

  4. Forgot to add the embedded links:
    The energy superpower club
    Paul Wells | November 29, 2007 | 04:18:07 | Permalink
    paul.wells@macleans.rogers.com
    Ah. Here’s why {http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071129.RRUSSIA29/TPStory/Business} Stephen Harper hasn’t said boo about pre-election thuggery {afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iMu5KySCUj61ooGPYRvFw-WJgpTQ}in Vlad Putin’s Russia. A morality-based foreign policy can kick in tomorrow, after the customer leaves Ottawa. This helps us to understand why the government was so eager to condemn {http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=1064}the bogus 2006 election in Belarus: not because bogus elections are a problem but because Belarus couldn’t pay up.
    The prime minister’s silences have been fascinating this week. On Antonio Lamer’s merits, if any, and two contrasting elections — the fiasco in Russia and the unimpeachably democratic election in Australia — Harper has been more eloquent than if he had spoken.
    Link: forums.macleans.ca/advansis/?mod=for&act=pos&eid=43
    ——————
    He forgot to add Harper’s eloquent silence about the anniversary of Pearson’s Nobel Peace Prize: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071127/pearson_anniversary_071127/20071127?hub=Canada

  5. Liberal Lester Pearson was mute/silent about the rape of Hungary by the Soviet Red Army.
    Pearson’s motto: Better Red than dead.
    Buried in PET’s cemetery, Pearson is a footnote to history.
    …-
    Report from Soviet Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Perevertkin
    October 24 1956 – Report from Soviet Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Perevertkin on the movement of Soviet troops into Hungary …-
    http://tinyurl.com/278dlz

  6. MUSLIM ATTACK GROUP GO AFTER U.S. TALK RADIO
    CAIR ATTEMPTS TO SILENCE M. SAVAGE
    http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58915
    http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/796
    “MEDIA MATTERS
    Islamic attacks on Savage target advertisers
    Talk show trend-setter continues highlighting Muslim agenda
    Nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Michael Savage, whose program originates in San Francisco even though the city’s board of supervisors condemned his opinions, apparently is remaining largely unaffected by a campaign to put pressure on his advertisers.
    And Savage, author of “The Savage Nation” and several other books, now is getting some support in his face-off with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
    As WND reported, the founder of CAIR, the leading Islamic lobby group, reportedly told a group of Muslims in California they are in America not to assimilate but to help assert Islam’s rule over the country. CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper also has said, in a newspaper interview, he hopes to see an Islamic government over the U.S. some day, brought about not by violence but through “education.” “”

  7. Hey Ted: He also forgot to mention Harper telling Putin that contiued Ruski activity ir claims in the Canadian artic will be considered an act of aggressive belligerance and dealt with accordingly…such as the 2 CAF bases we will now be building in the high artic to exert sovereignty against Ruski aggression…forgot that conveniently.
    BTW Canada’s main export to Russia now is oil field engineers who can’t find work in the domestic patch due to environmental caps on exploration and development.
    Russia’s net value to our GDP is less than 1%
    So they are NOT “customers”…get clue lil’ lib.

  9. “An examination of Elections Canada records over the past 24 years for contributions made by Mr. Schreiber and four of his companies shows $10,000 donated to the Liberals, compared to $6,100 in contributions to the Tories.” source:National Post

  12. Get this unbelievable statement from Dr. Feasby, Dean of Medicine at the University of Calgary. “It would be wrong to triple our class size just to take more applicants. We’d flood the country with too many physicians.”
    This attitude of controlling the supply to keep “business” up is devastating to the level of service in the health care system.

  13. Mike: You want to provide a link for us? Seems to me, if he means they aren’t going to let unqualified students into med school just to rush through and meet government set targets, I certainly don’t have a problem with that. Without a link we can’t judge his comments for ourselves.

  15. Ted, there are more than enough qualified applicants to triple the size of every medical school in Canada. Any physician shortages in this country are due to central planning, not a lack of people smart enough to the the friggin’ job. Same for nursing, same for physical therapy, squared.
    You want to see a renaissance in the medical biz in this country, kill the central planning in education. Allow private medical schools, uncap class sizes in the public universities.
    Just another example of why central planned socialism is crap.

  16. Rewrite Ass. Press headline:
    34 Muslim Taliban killers killed.
    Socialists Taliban Jack-NDP/LiberalCitoyen Dion weep.
    …-
    34 suspected Taliban killed in Afghanistan
    By Noor Khan, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

  17. And speaking of crap, here’s a -fascinating- bit of news about the Indian land claims issue.
    http://www.caledoniawakeupcall.com/updates/071127cbc3.html
    In Weinerpeg the local tribes scored some 30 acres of land in suburbia by the simple expedient of blocking a few rail lines last year. In sympathy with Caledonia, y’know. Gotta speak Native truth to White Man’s power.
    Ok, so this year we have a $1.5 million dollar gas bar and smoke shop up on that land already, and the boys are planning to build not housing for the poor, not a treatment facility for drug and alcohol abuse, not a women’s shelter, indeed not anything for the tribe at all.
    They are going to build… a private medical clinic. With MRI, CT, PET, and all that other kewl medical stuff you’ve got to wait forever for in lovely Manitoba.
    “Nelson said the clinic would be operated for profit and by the reserve, not by a regional health authority.”
    “It’s on reserve land. It will be owned by the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation, and it’s going to be operated under the authority of the First Nation,” he said.
    Nelson envisions the clinic serving two types of customers: First Nations patients who would already be coming to Winnipeg for health services, and non-aboriginal patients willing to pay for speedier medical service.”
    No word on the casino yet.
    Ted.

  18. Cal2, the list of cleanest cities surprised me too. Although I don’t disagree with Calgary being #1, I am surprised that Sydney and Brisbane in Australia didn’t rank. I’ve been to both and would classify them cleaner than Boston and a few others.

  19. Re: Cleanest cities — Calgary
    I see their population figures are a couple of years out of date. Presumably so is the area of 5,107 sq. km., which the leftards will seize upon as proof of Calgary’s incredible urban sprawl.
    Maybe next time Forbes will visit here in late winter when Calgary is at its drabbest, with a temperature inversion trapping a thick blanket of polluted air over downtown and vast amounts of litter plastered onto the schoolyard fences. Add in the commuter chaos caused by a minor accident on the C-Train line or even one collision on Deerfoot. How would we rate then?

  20. Ted, there are more than enough qualified applicants to triple the size of every medical school in Canada. Any physician shortages in this country are due to central planning, not a lack of people smart enough to the the friggin’ job. Same for nursing, same for physical therapy, squared.
    You want to see a renaissance in the medical biz in this country, kill the central planning in education. Allow private medical schools, uncap class sizes in the public universities.
    Just another example of why central planned socialism is crap.
    Posted by: The Phantom at November 29, 2007 11:13 AM
    ——————
    Whoah! Whoah! Whoah!
    Mike H just gave us a single quotation. I just asked for a link and context. If you believe central planning has created the problem, then why do you think central planning’s solution – i.e. increase enrolment NOW by XXX students – is automatically going to work. That’s why some context is relevant.

  21. FREE ONLINE EDITION OF JT GOTT’S OPUS ON PUBLIC SYSTEM DE-EDUCATING:
    http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm
    A insightful and profound read on the systemic (and planned) dumbing down of the North American population by errant pedagogy from exclusive “educator” societies.
    “The shocking possibility that dumb people don’t exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn’t real.”

  22. Toronto is on the list of cleanest cities? They cannot possibly be talking about the one in Ontario then. And that cannot be the Montreal in Quebec.
    Neither of them could hold a candle to Chicago. Both would have disgusted any self respecting litterbug the last time I was there. Chicago, on the other hand, was almost pristine it was so clean. It took me about a hour of walking the downtown core in Chicago to notice that I had not moticed ANY garbage and traffic that was so light I wondered if they had shut the city down for our visit.

  23. Reservation Health Care For Indians and Profit . I can see how this will probably turn out.
    The natives (those not associated with any chief) will be put in a lower priority tier in lieu for the cash paying customers. I can predict long waiting times for the local non paying customer.

  26. Jim – the cleanliness of Toronto is a MYTH that persists for unknowable reasons.
    If any one doubts that this myth is BS … just try walking to work in the downtown on a monday or tuesday morning…. I did it for 2 years from Dundas and University to offices at Metro Center …. sidewalks completely covered with garbage and once you got onto the main thoroughfares bums in sleeping bags.

  27. “The prime minister’s silences have been fascinating this week.”
    Ted, what is it that you don’t get about this blog? Don’t you think you’d have a better audience if you took your straw dogs over to rabble and let ’em loose?
    Moonbat.

  29. I am watching the clown act with Schreiber It looks like a clown act and a farce are one in the same. Deport this a-hole and send Mulroney with him.

  30. Ted, sorry if I fired too many in that broadside there. ~:D
    The central planning solution proposed in the link -won’t- work. It can’t, because the whole point is these things cannot be planned. Central planning is a fallacy, an idiot idea which fails each and every time its tried in the public AND private sector. You can’t plan the future, you can only react to what happened in the past.
    Too many doctors is not a PUBLIC problem. It is a -private- problem, for the supernumerary doctors and nobody else, pretty much. Unless you have a single payer system. Then too many doctors seeing too many patients is a problem -for the payer- not for the patients or the doctors.
    Jettison the single payer system and all these problems go away, as if by magic. And since even the Indian gambling and smuggling set has seen the money to be made circumventing the single payer system with its artificial scarcity, I’d say she’s going down pretty soon.
    Thank yew Tommy Douglas and Pierre Trudeau. I propose we plant oak trees on their graves, in the hope that several tons of live timber will keep their vampiric corpses below ground.

  32. “Did You Miss This Story?”
    From the Telegraph:
    “Slovakian Police believe they may have thwarted a radioactive terror attack after seizing uranium of a high enough quality to build a ‘dirty bomb’. … Initial analysis of the radioactive material, discovered near the border with Hungary, indicated that it was composed of 98.6 percent uranium-235. Uranium is considered weapons-grade if it contains at least 85 percent uranium-235. The material appears to have originated in one of the former Soviet Republics, according to the Slovak police?”
    You missed that story? The MSM didn’t inform you? Nothing to worry about, just go back to sleep! There now, close you eyes like the rest of our establishment. It never happened. Just keep saying “it never happened.”
    ibloga.blogspot.com

  33. calgary is a salt and slush pit with a inversion that could only be compared with trona on a similar salt and slush day with an inversion.vancouver on permanent rinse cycle.
    however, compared to rome, cairo, rio , mexico ,london, paris (dog$hit), these places are pristine.

  34. I’m a member of the Federal Conservative Party, and but for one reason. To win the next federal election with a majority.
    If we want to do this, then perhaps we need to change our image. I get tired of reading comments that portray us as rednecks who like to see someone hang from a rope becuse they’ve shoplifted a Lufkin measuring tape.
    The voters of this countrey are in Ontario and Quebec. They’re not in Texas or Wyoming.
    I don’t know Kate personally, however I don’t beleive her intentions are to expose some of the ranting that we see, and that is costing us (Conservatives) a lot of popularity. Maybe it’s best to think think think for a moment before you (I) tap on the keys!!

  36. So the auto parts manufacturers, [ Stronach family], want a tax dollar donation of 450 Thousand$ eh?
    What a waste of our cash if they get it.
    The recent approval of Electric Vehicles by the D.O.T. has raised a wave of fear.
    The transition is so slow that no subsidy is warranted at all.
    Corporate Welfare Bums.. = TG

  37. Surprise, surprise. 40 lashes are not enough:
    “Islamic fanatics demand death for ‘Teddy Bear’ teacher.
    By ANI, Yahoo News India
    London, Nov.29 (ANI): Islamic anger is at a high in the East African country of Sudan over a British teacher who let her pupils call a teddy bear Mohammad.
    So high are the tempers that some Sudanese are demanding the death penalty for Gillian Gibbons.
    Gibbons is currently facing the prospect of being lashed 40 times and a year in jail after being charged with insulting Islam.
    A powerful Sudanese newspaper urged authorities to call a hard line Islamist leader linked to Osama bin Laden to give evidence at her trial, to stress how offensive the case was to Muslims.
    Extreme Islamic groups said Mrs Gibbons “must die” and urged Muslims to hold street protests after prayers tomorrow, reports the Daily Mail.”
    ——————–
    Can somebody please tell me how it is we justify allowing Muslims to immigrate to Canada, and then expect them, miraculously, to change immediately into sentient, rational human beings, who believe in Universal Human Rights and the rule of our law?
    I’d really like to know.

  39. Study: Canadian Beer Drinkers Threaten Planet
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313844,00.html
    Another piece of ground-breaking, taxpayer funded research done by idiot academics. I think a government program is in order to save the planet by giving subsidies to people to replace their old beer fridges with energy efficient beer fridges (hopefully with TVs in the doors so we don’t miss any action while getting more beer). Clearly government action is required here.

  40. I’m surprised that no blog has yet photoshopped a teddy bear with a turban and the name Mohammad stitched to it’s front.

  43. Everything seems to anger muslim.
    They are very hard to please, aren’t they?
    By my standards, if naming a teddy bear warrants 40 lashes, we should carpet bomb entire muslim world.
    Rant on: someone punched my kid. Instead of following the process and running to whine to the teacher, my kid threw 3 or 4 punches in various areas of the bully, who is peaceful and quiet ever since and does not bother anyone. Rant off.
    What was that famous phrase about awarding behaviours and how it affects future behaviours?

  44. Court enforced appeasement, galloping sharia, the current state of Islamization in Europe.
    Warning: Extremely depressing article:
    gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/11/cool-war-warm-war-hot-war-part-2.html#readfurther
    “Cool War — Warm War — Hot War: Part 2”
    by Baron Bodissey

  45. “Total U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were 7,075.6 million metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2e) in 2006, a decrease of 1.5 percent from the 2005 level according to ‘Emissions of Greenhouse
    Gases in the United States 2006’, a report released today by the Energy
    Information Administration (EIA).”
    “U.S. GHG emissions per unit of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), or
    ‘U.S. GHG-intensity,’ fell from 653 metric tons per million 2000
    constant dollars of GDP (MTCO2e/$Million GDP) in 2005 to
    625 MTCO2e/$Million GDP in 2006, a decline of 4.2 percent. Since
    1990, the annual average decline in GHG-intensity has been 2.0 percent.”
    http://web.mac.com/sinfonia1/iWeb/Global%20Warming%20Politics/A%20Hot%20Topic%20Blog/86D24789-0A73-4322-B09B-6EB703FC867F.html

  47. Rewrite cbc headline:
    AdScam Liberal ex-PM Paul Martin, Jr., illegally cuts trees; fined. Two separate occasions.
    …-
    Tree-cutting on Paul Martin’s private golf course nets fines
    A contractor hired to build a private golf course for ex-prime minister Paul Martin has been slapped with fines for illegally cutting trees.[…]
    http://tinyurl.com/2dblk2 (cbc)

  50. RCMP looks for a way to the blame victim:
    3w.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071128/airport_death_071128/20071128?hub=CTVNewsAt11

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