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  3. ADOLPH HITLER WAS A VEGETARIAN and so is CHARLES MANSON and as for that bull kaka about becoming vagans to stop this GLOBAL WARMING poppycock i say GET REAL and GET A LIFE

  4. Karen Selick: Don’t extradict Marc Emery to the U.S.
    An open letter to Rob Nicholson, Canada’s Minister of Justice
    …From 1999 until he was arrested in 2005, Marc declared on his income tax return that his occupation was “marijuana seed vendor.” He paid $578,000 in income taxes into federal and B.C. government coffers. He gave Canada Revenue Agency access to his bank statements and explained all his cash flows to them. The CRA graciously accepted his money without ever taking any action to put a stop to all this criminal activity.
    If you believe that all Canadians benefit from taxes being collected and governments spending that tax money (I don’t, but most Canadians do), then logically you will have to concede that Marc has been a huge benefactor to the Canadian people.
    As for the money laundering charge, maybe all Canadians should face U.S. indictments for having conspired with Marc to transform Americans’ outlays on recreational drugs into Canadian outlays on health care, roads, schools, etc….
    network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2007/12/31/karen-selick-an-open-letter-to-rob-nicholson-canada-s-minister-of-justice.aspx

  5. Since I don’t need daycare, I’ll take the GST cut thank you. BTW, cutting out the US price on goods does stink.
    batb: “Think I’ll jump into my bikini and tan for a few hours on my deck…”
    Please post a picture of you tanning. I have never seen an icy blue tan before 😉
    Had a weather warning out last night and again tonight here in Houston. Seems that the temperature will hit freezing. Brrrr…

  6. Scottish town feels pull of centuries-old blood sport
    …Half of the men in Kirkwall, called Doonies, try to push a small ball into the sea using any means necessary. The other half, called Uppies, work to push the ball to a wall one mile across town. The ba’, which refers to both the game and the ball with which it is played, can last anywhere from four minutes to nine hours in freezing temperatures and hurricane-force winds.
    The ba’ is played nowhere else. It has persisted in Kirkwall because its basic tenets are congruent with life on these Orkney Islands in northern Scotland. If you’re tough enough to survive in this old Viking territory, in a frostbitten town of around 6,000 bordered by white-capped seas, then you don’t worry about relaxing on Christmas and New Year’s Day. You put on steel-toe boots and a rugby shirt and walk downtown to the almost 900-year-old St. Magnus Cathedral, ready for hell….
    h/t CFRB
    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004103345_ba02.html

  7. “And not that I want to pour cold water on its bright future, but as I leave for home I consider the natural as well as the economic uncertainties ahead.
    For if sea levels rise too much, or the permafrost softens underneath the railroad, or Hudson Bay clogs up with ice floes from a disintegrating ice cap, or the Gulf Stream shifts direction, then Churchill’s big chance could melt away.” …-
    Canada’s climate change boomtown
    By Adam Fowler
    BBC Radio 4
    “The next economic boom is going to happen in northern Canada and Churchill’s going to be a part of that.”
    So says Mike Spence, a part Cree Indian and part Orcadian Scot who is mayor of the tiny Canadian settlement of Churchill on Hudson Bay.
    When I first arrived in the sub-Arctic town in early October, I found his claim hard to believe. …-
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7155494.stm

  8. David Warren on the Bhutto Legacy
    COMMENTARY
    January 2, 2008
    Bhutto legacy
    The queen is dead, long live the king. This is the message from Pakistan’s “People’s Party,” founded forty years ago by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as the machine to advance his own political career. At his death by judicial murder, the machine was inherited by his daughter — with competition from his sons until both had died mysteriously. And at Benazir Bhutto’s death, it is now inherited by her 19-year-old son, Bilawal, under the guardianship of his corrupt father. The many prize idiots in the Western media who presented Ms Bhutto as a beacon of democracy are now perhaps beginning to grasp what path she was lighting.
    The creed of the PPP — “Islam is our faith, democracy is our politics, socialism is our economy, all power to the people” — consists of three calculated lies followed by a howler. A more honest creed might be, “Government of the Bhutto, by the Bhutto, and for the Bhutto.”
    By the accident of holiday schedules, I was relieved of the burden of writing about the assassination next day. Happily (a relative term), because, as we say in Latin, “De mortuis, nihil nisi bonum.” Of the dead, speak nothing but good. But now, a few days have passed.
    Those who thought Ms Bhutto the agent of democracy and progress, because she was young and a woman and told them in fluent English exactly what they wanted to hear, should know that she, like every other woman who has risen to power in the region, including a prime minister of India, two in Bangladesh, and now two in Sri Lanka — inherited dynasties founded by powerful men. The (murderous) “Good Queen Bess” did not rise to the throne in 1558 on a wave of democracy and feminism in late mediaeval England. She rose as the daughter of the (murderous) Henry VIII. It is the failure to grasp such simple facts that makes so much Western journalism ridiculous.
    I have been reading much rubbish in celebration of Ms Bhutto’s life. A number of my fellow pundits have further provided personal memoirs: it seems dozens of them were her next door neighbour when she was studying at Harvard or Oxford or both.
    She was my exact contemporary, and I met her as a child in Pakistan, so let me jump on this bandwagon. I remember her at age eight, arriving in a Mercedes-Benz with daddy’s driver, and whisking me off for a ride in the private aeroplane of then-President Ayub Khan (Bhutto père was the rising star in his cabinet). This girl was the most spoiled brat I ever met.
    I met her again in London, when she was studying at Oxford. She was the same, only now the 22-year-old version, and too gorgeous for anybody’s good. One of my memories is a glimpse inside a two-door fridge: one door entirely filled with packages of chocolate rum balls from Harrod’s. Benazir was crashing, in West Kensington, with another girl I knew in passing — the daughter of a former prime minister of Iraq. They were having a party. It would be hard to imagine two girls, of any cultural background, so glibly hedonistic.
    After her father’s “martyrdom” Bhutto became, from all reports, much more serious. But I think, also, twisted — and easily twisted, as the spoiled too easily become when they are confronted with tragedy. She became pure politician. Think of it: she, a libertine in previous life, submitted to an arranged marriage, because she needed a husband to campaign for office. Stood by him in power only because there was no other political option when he proved even greedier than she was.
    Twisted, in a nearly schizoid way. For she was entirely Westernized, but also Pakistani. She thought in English, her Urdu was awkward, her “native” Sindhi inadequate even for giving directions to servants. Part of her political trick, in Pakistan itself, was that she sounded uneducated in Urdu. This is as close as she got to being “a woman of the people.”
    Brave, unquestionably brave. Which I would qualify by adding it was one facet of a wilfulness not otherwise attractive. She was irresponsible to make her assassin’s job so easy, by campaigning in plein-air after what had happened in Karachi; wrong to lure so many to their own deaths around her.
    Faced with the actual problems of Pakistan, she twice made a disastrous prime minister. Her death obviates a third term. But the legacy creates as large a mess. She tutored her supporters to blame President Musharraf for any harm that might come to her, so that when Al Qaeda pulled off the murder, they scored twice. In addition to killing a hated symbol of Westernization, they set the mobs not against themselves, but against Musharraf. As I have argued before in these columns, for all his visible faults, Musharraf has been dealing to the limit of his abilities and opportunities with the actual problems of Pakistan.
    David Warren
    © Ottawa Citizen

  10. Texas Canuck: “Please post a picture of you tanning. I have never seen an icy blue tan before ;-)”
    I wouldn’t want to scare SDA readers, TC!! 😉
    It’s COLD, windy, and white in Toronto tonight. ‘Think I’ll change into my long underwear now…

  11. “It said those who look for the future of Iraq using a national perspective have found the strategic relationship with the United States is the only way to save and build Iraq.”
    Iraq Press Roundup
    Published: 2, 2008 at 10:32 AM
    By HIBA DAWOOD
    UPI Correspondent
    The independent Kitabat newspaper said in an editorial Wednesday that the “liberation” of Iraq uncovered the reality of Shiite and Sunni Islamic parties and revealed the true nature of religious figures.
    The editorial, titled “U.S. success in saving Iraq from the evil of Islamic parties,” said that for the first time in the history of Iraq, religious figures and political Islam had been discarded.
    “Today, the average Iraqi considers Islamic activists and religious figures as thugs and hijackers,” the paper said. It said the transformation of public opinion in Iraq was a “clever” move by the United States.
    “The U.S. plan relied on the concept of letting Islamic parties and religious men to rule, thereby revealing to the public” their motives, the paper said.
    It said the immense social and political transformations that have taken place in Iraqi society, along with the banishment of the power of Islamic and religious powers, have become popular among Iraqis.
    “As a result, a secular government has become a reality, a nature that dominated the political history of Iraq,” it said.
    Kitabat said the “sons of Iraq” recorded the greatest and brightest secular revolution when they fought al-Qaida.
    “Fighting the Islamic powers is the first of its kind battle in Iraq’s modern history,” the paper said.
    It said Shiite areas have come to a “general critical moment” that crystallized “national awareness for the simple Iraqis who were used by … Shiite parties to achieve sectarian goals.”
    “Shiite population criticizing their Shiites parties … is considered a civic miracle; a huge, qualitative transformation in a society that the Iranian lobby tended to use to achieve their sectarian interests,” the paper said.
    It said those who look for the future of Iraq using a national perspective have found the strategic relationship with the United States is the only way to save and build Iraq. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/359plu (upi)

  12. good stuff et. canadians seem not to realize that if the individual is not free then the collective is also not free.

  13. A Canadian woman rots in California waiting for a hospital bed to open up back home.
    NDP Health Critic Adrian Dix says the issue is one that’s continued to plague the Lower Mainland and he’s blaming Liberal government cuts to acute care beds. “The number of acute care beds in British Columbia was reduced by 1,300 in the first mandate of the government, and some of the new facilities being opened won’t be adding to that number.”
    …..via this link posted on Drudge.

  15. “A Canadian woman rots in California waiting for a hospital bed to open up back home.”
    Gee, penny, is the American healthcare system so atrocious that a stay in a California hospital is “rotting”?
    BTW, in Canada the political parties of the right come under many names and guises. They just happen to call themselves Liberal in BC.

  17. Say – asking any SDA readers if they can turn me on to finding political donations to parties in Canada.
    I’ve looked around the web abit, but it seems harder to find than I’d thought.
    And who else to ask but the best read readership?

  20. The gerbil warmites/changers are backing up, backing, backing …
    Now the Party line is: “Oceanographer James Overland, who reviewed Graversen’s study for Nature, said the research dovetails with an upcoming article of his which concludes that the Arctic thawing is a combination of the two.”
    … splash; cold water.
    …-
    Natural causes as well as global warming may be causing Arctic thaw: study
    By Seth Borenstein, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    http://tinyurl.com/2y8acs

  21. @the bear:
    You may have noticed that the term ‘prostitot’ has been used as a re-tooled paraphrase of the old standard, ‘jailbait.’ Look like another old standard has been retooled: instead of ‘stage mom’ or ‘stage dad’, we now have ‘helicopter parent’.
    How Soon We Forget…
    or: We Still Forget When We’re Told To…

  22. Only in Canada:
    911 caller startled killers blame her for man’s death
    http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/local/story/4099683p-4697904c.html
    A Good Samaritan who called 911 to report a vicious beating of an innocent man is stunned two convicted killers are trying to blame her for their victim’s death.The 24-year-old woman—who asked the Free Press not to publish her name—spoke out for the first time Friday.
    “I’m trying not to let it bother me but it’s hard,” she said. “It’s definitely not a very nice thing for them to say.”
    The two killers—Dallas Pruden-Wilson and Terrence Sinclair—brought their sentencing hearing to an abrupt halt last week by claiming they’d been wrongfully convicted of manslaughter.
    They have filed a motion saying Queen’s Bench Justice Karen Simonsen didn’t properly consider the actions—or inaction—of the woman who drove by the scene and called for help during the March 2005 incident.
    Adam Lecours, 34, was seriously beaten and robbed by Pruden-Wilson and Sinclair and then left lying unconscious on a darkened street in The Maples, only to be run over moments later by an unsuspecting motorist.
    The Good Samaritan testified during their trial last January that she saw the attack but was too scared to get out of her car and help Lecours after the culprits fled.
    She called on her cellphone for help, but Lecours was struck and killed before police or paramedics arrived.
    Defence lawyers Randy Minuk and Roberta Campbell argued last week their clients should not have been convicted of Lecours’ death when the woman had the opportunity to rescue him and “control the scene.”
    The Crown is opposed to the motion, calling it “devoid of merit.”
    The judge is now considering the issue and will return to court Jan. 16.

  24. Christmas is obviously a Christian holiday. But what percentage of Americans today identify with a Christian religion?
    About 82% of Americans in 2007 told Gallup interviewers that they identified with a Christian religion. That includes 51% who said they were Protestant, 5% who were “other Christian,” 23% Roman Catholic, and 3% who named another Christian faith, including 2% Mormon.
    Because 11% said they had no religious identity at all, and another 2% didn’t answer, these results suggest that well more than 9 out of 10 Americans who identify with a religion are Christian in one way or the other.
    http://www.gallup.com/poll/103459/Questions-Answers-About-Americans-Religion.aspx

  25. This boy has been at it a long time !
    Same plot different story.
    Same sh** different pile.
    [Vice President Al Gore has accused the Republican Congress of waging “jihad” — a holy war — against the environment and of employing “Stalinist” tactics to silence “real science.” At the center of the controversy is federal policy on chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), man-made chemicals used in refrigerators and air conditioners, whose production must stop by the end of this year.
    Why does Al Gore resort to such intemperate language to describe critics of regulatory excess? Perhaps because he has staked out such an extreme position on environment in the past and his position is now at risk of being exposed as fraud. As a U.S. Senator, for instance, Gore pushed for the ratification of the 1987 Montreal Protocol, the international treaty to ban substances like CFCs. He did so despite the fact that there was no solid evidence that CFCs had any impact on stratospheric ozone levels. There was only an incomplete theory suggesting that CFCs might cause such depletion.
    It is well to remember that the 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to three professors who pioneered the study of man-made effects ozone layer. The prize was not given to Al Gore and the hypesters who inflated that research into a doomsday scenario, thereby rationalizing government intervention. The reality is that the ozone-CFC relationship is a chemistry problem with over 150 variables, and nobody has the definitive answer. Methane, ice crystals, sulfate aerosols, and other chemicals all contribute to the complexity of the problem. The Nobelists would be the first to agree that the question is by no means settled.] Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen, October 1996
    http://www.nationalcenter.org/npa152.htm
    Fast forward to 2006
    Even NASA is puzzled with Ozone hole healing;
    “Earth’s ozone layer appears to be on the road to recovery.” NASA
    “The question is why? Is the Montreal Protocol responsible? Or is some other process at work?” NASA
    “It’s a complicated question. CFCs are not the only things that can influence the ozone layer; sunspots, volcanoes and weather also play a role.” NASA
    Tim Ball has been saying that for a decade or more.
    http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/26may_ozone.htm
    YouTube Video; this ordinary citizen has Al Gore peged perfectly.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRSOkHU2ZcQ

  26. Me: “Canadian prices are based on the economic realities of the Canadian market.”
    WL Mackenzie Redux: “[W]hat we really have is a consumer price which hides a plethora of non value added taxes,institutional costs,marketing board costs, and guilt/sin taxes… [w]e do not pay the true cost of our retail goods in Canada.”
    Aaron: “Canadian prices… are based on the cost of bringing small lots of goods across the border. The border is the largest factor in pricing goods in Canada.”
    Me: “Quod erat demonstrandum. Thank you both for validating my original premise.”

  27. B-I-N-G-O:
    Is the CBC seeing the writing on the Kyoto wall, as Peter Mansbridge uttered these words tonight:
    “New study blames natural causes, global warming for Arctic melt”
    “There’s a natural cause that may account for much of the Arctic warming, which has melted sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature. New research points a finger at a natural and cyclical increase in the amount of energy in the atmosphere that moves from south to north around the Arctic Circle.
    But that energy transfer, which comes with storms that head north because of ocean currents, is not acting alone either, scientists say. Another upcoming study concludes that the combination of both that natural energy transfer increase and man-made global warming serve as a one-two punch that is pushing the Arctic over the edge.”
    http://www.examiner.com/a-1134730~New_study_blames_natural_causes__global_warming_for_Arctic_melt.html

  28. The media will alter their fraudulent ways, when and only when, their lawyers come into the boardroom meetings and, as Don Cherry would say, cause the paint on the walls to peel.

  29. Regarding the new article in Nature referenced above at 12:24am, there is an odd paragraph in the middle:
    “Another upcoming study concludes that the combination of both that natural energy transfer increase and man-made global warming serve as a one-two punch that is pushing the Arctic over the edge.”
    How can an “upcoming” study (presumably, one that hasn’t been finished yet) already come to a conclusion? And shouldn’t they postulate, rather than conclude?

  30. The Weather Channel up for sale: report
    […] the sale was part of a break-up of the Weather Channel’s parent, Landmark Communications, a privately held company based in Norfolk, Virginia, that owns community newspapers and other media assets. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2x9ygy (reuters)

  31. The unspeakable practice of female circumcision that’s destroying young women’s lives in Britain
    ….By conservative estimates, 66,000 women and girls living in Britain have been mutilated. This figure, accepted by the Metropolitan Police, came in a report by a volunteer organisation funded by the Department of Health and carried out with academics from the London School of Tropical Hygiene and the City University….
    ….Perhaps we should take a lead from France, whose methods of prevention have been strengthened following a landmark case in 1999, when a woman of West African origins was jailed for eight years for cutting 48 young children.
    Now all French children of African background are closely scrutinised by social workers and doctors during infancy, and any abnormal behaviour or prolonged absence from school is immediately investigated….
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=505796&in_page_id=1879

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