“Could it be that the Klan is just getting soft?”
“Maybe he could look into safe-injection sites while he’s at it.”
“How is it that LGen Marc Dumais, Commander of Canada Command, recently signed a Civil Assistance Plan with Gen. Gene Renuart, Commander of NORAD and USNORTHCOM, and I have to learn about it at a pop-culture blog?”
“Now listen, you queer”…
Yours welcome in the comments.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/albertavotes2008/story/2008/02/28/doctors-elexn.html
they are probably tops on the reserves and in the welfare cases too.
CBCpravda , All Liberal, All the Time
High court won’t hear appeal over disputed Tory nomination process in Calgary
OTTAWA – Disgruntled Tories who challenged the acclamation of MP Rob Anders as a candidate in the riding of Calgary West ran out of legal options Thursday at the Supreme Court of Canada.
The high court refused to hear their appeal in the case. http://tinyurl.com/2hbz4j (canpress)
a very large pot calling the kettle black.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeBvrkbZTss&feature=related
an aside- Rob Anders is my MP, he is very much the empty shirt of the CPC.
“…I think it will also dissolve – because the socioeconomic and political structure will no longer be tenable.”
It will dissolve, ET, but because Mohammed was not a prophet, in either the Christian or Jewish sense (which are not identical). It will dissolve as the failure of Mohammedanism to achieve world domination becomes ever more clear. Criminality is simply the Mohammedan version of the collection plate in a Christian church — emulation of Mohammed al Rasool is defined as the highest good.
okay , CBCpravda back to normal.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/02/28/szabo-cadman.html
CBCpravda All Liberal All the Time.
the RCMP has lots to do, charge some Libs for Adscam still and there is a certain responible person at the Big Quill Reserve that should be sober by now.
ET,
I respect your opinion where you say dispatching the Taliban or Osmamic kingpins will make no difference in the scheme of reducing terrorism.
I also respect the opposite views from the Rand corporation.
Somehow it seems logical that well organized minds who have major sway over so many followers do make a real difference when they go missing. = TG
Paul Martin, aka Liberal ex-PM Ad$cam Paul Martin, Jr., wrote the foreword for this gossip column.
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Paul Martin received early copy of Cadman manuscript, author says
“METRO VANCOUVER – The author of a controversial yet-to-be published book chronicling the life of the late Surrey MP Chuck Cadman confirmed Thursday that Paul Martin was among those who were sent an early copy of the manuscript.”
“But Zytaruk said he couldn’t say whether Martin was the source of a leaked excerpt”.
http://tinyurl.com/2t437q (vansun)
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“”There’s one fact in this case that matters, that matters more than anything else and that is the word of Chuck Cadman who on national television, on the night of this vote, on May 19, 2005, Chuck Cadman himself said ‘there were no offers.’ I hope the Liberals can accept Chuck Cadman’s word because we do,” Mr. Moore said.”
Harper denies Tories tried to bribe Cadman
http://tinyurl.com/32m4mz (NP)
A tool some people might find useful for deep blog searching:
blogscope.db.toronto.edu
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Let’s see – Mrs Cadman was not in alleged meeting. Chuck Cadman later said there were no financial incentives offered. There is no way anyone with terminal illness gets life insurance. Tories who supposedly made offer of life insurance policy not named. No documentation is available.
Contrast that with Ujjal Dosanjh offer which was documented (taped), later shown to be as presented, despite MSM and Grits burying story as “cut and paste” with no denials, retractions or clarifications once it became clear tape was authentic and accurately portrayed conversation.
Gee, is there a double standard here? I guess we will see. BTW, Thibault was criticizing Mulroney for refusing to back to the Grit dog and pony show, oh sorry, “Ethics” Committee. Thibault, of course, isn’t at all uncomfortable with his ex parte meetings with KHS prior to his get out of jail free “testimony.”
When will Grits investigate themselves?
ET: Ottawa has a population of some 800,000 with some 17,000 city government employees. That’s 21 to 1. No wonder we’re in huge trouble.
Mark
Ottawa
Larry Norman died n Sunday. A sad time indeed.
“Ottawa has a population of some 800,000 with some 17,000 city government employees”
Yeah, and not long ago those city employees marched on Parliament Hill to protest the federal government’s 1% GST cut, notwithstanding the fact that municipal affairs are a wholly provincial jurisdiction as per sections 91 and 92 of the Constitution Act.
I’m not sure if it was public money or unionized money that was behind it, all I know is that public service unions are militantly protesting against a tax cuts entirely outside their jurisdiction – to the exclusion of all other issues – and the media, pundits, blogosphere, and the public seem to be OK with that.
In related news, Reader’s Digest conducted a Canada wide experiment on politeness and found Ottawa to be the rudest city in Canada, no mean feat in a country featuring Toronto.
I suspect the root cause of this incivility is employment equity and related political correctness, which makes a large percentage of the Ottawa population literally unaccountable for their actions.
Islamic fascism has been pushed back by the US into the ME, which is where it ought to be.
ET: This is a recurring claim of yours which utterly mystifies me. The biggest threat to the West is the Muslim Brotherhood variety of slow, stage by stage, inflitration of the schools, hospitals, universities, government, FBI, CIA and other government agencies. We are being eaten alive from within by Islamofascism. We haven’t driven it away at all. In fact, our meddling with the ME has probably enhanced it on our shores.
Book suggestion (just finished): Caroline Fourest’s Brother Tariq: The Double-Speak of Tariq Ramadan. Shudder.
Tariq Ramadan is the grandson of Hassan al Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.
And, er, evidently the US and other Western nations are “outreaching” to the “moderate” Muslim Brotherhood, who apparently are coming around to “democracy”. Shudder.
Perhaps I’m misreading you but this claim strikes me as a personal invention of yours which has zero correspondence with reality.
me no dhimmi – I think we’ve been through all this before.
1)Islamic fascism, which is a result of dysfunctional tribalism, ie, of a political system that has not switched to a civic mode, has been pushed back into the middle east. People in the ME must move from tribalism to the civic mode.
2)However, multiculturalism in the West has set up what I define as ‘isolate blocs’ where immigrant communities from the ME are not encouraged to assimilate and integrate with the new surroundings (existent population, existent beliefs and behaviour) but are instead isolated and encouraged to MAINTAIN their ‘old ways’. This isn’t fascism.
This sets up a Purist Ideology, totally divorced from reality. inaccessible to the friction and changes caused by daily context, by interactions with other people and other ways. This is very dangerous and the West must reject such isolation of belief systems. That is – free speech and actually, ‘discrimination’ or rejection of beliefs/behaviour MUST be allowed.
Will the scenario you speak of develop, where the West is ‘overcome’ by these purist ideologies? No. There is a ‘threshold level of acceptance’ beyond which the larger population base cannot be changed. The West is already starting to react against this Purist Authoritarianism. Printing the cartoons, insisting on free speech, and so on.
So, I’m not as worried as you are.
this one is for ET who says: “I’ve never heard of ‘god-fearers’ and I don’t accept that people thought that a monotheistic way of life was better.”
http://www.pohick.org/sts/god-fearer.html
or just google “God fearers”
‘Heard a CBC reporter this morning talking about the “alleged” life insurance policy the CPC “allegedly” offered Chuck Cadman. It was the lead story on the 8:00 a.m. “news.”
If I hadn’t been in my car, I would have thrown a shoe at the radio.
This is no news story.
It’s a fabrication by some two-bit author (whom I saw on TV tonight looking like a dishevelled used car salesman: author, my foot) and the blasted MSM, who are getting really desperate to overturn the CPC government, so they can install their thugs of choice: the Librano$.
This MSM/Librano alliance which is trying to discredit the CPC is getting out of hand; maybe someone could sic the “Ethics Committee” (sic) onto the Cretin and HIS government and the $40,000,000 that are missing from the public purse under his watch, instead of harrassing Brian Mulroney over $300,000. (I’m not saying that $300,000 is peanuts, but it wasn’t stolen from Canadian taxpayers.)
I think a little perspective is in order: Ya listening Newman, Duffy, and co.?
ET: I too am encouraged by the encouraging early signs of push back, but I think Europe is lost!
Came across this the other day. Conclusion of a Fjordman essay: The Truth About Islam in Europe.
I’ve recently been re-reading some of the books of American evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond, including Guns, Germs, and Steel. What strikes me is how Diamond, with his emphasis on historical materialism, fails to explain the rise of the West and especially why English, not Arabic, Chinese, Sanskrit or Mayan, became the global lingua franca. His most important flaw is his complete failure to explain how the Greater Middle East went from being a center of civilization to being a center of anti-civilization. This was not caused by smallpox or because zebras are more difficult to domesticate than water buffaloes. It was caused by Islam. Yet is striking to notice how Diamond totally ignores the influence of Islam. This demonstrates clearly that any historical explanation that places too much emphasis on material issues and too little on the impact of human ideas is bound to end up with false or misleading conclusions
Isn’t “historical materialism” (it’s the economy, stupid) basically part of Marxism?
The fundamental proposition of historical materialism can be summed up in a sentence: “it is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence that determines their consciousness.” (Marx, in the Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.)
ET was very offended by me once when I called her position Marxist, almost as offended as when I suggested that her saying “Israel should not be in the West Bank. Period.” meant that Jews should not be allowed to live in the West Bank (isn’t that one of their criteria for statehood – removal of all Jewish settlements?)
me no dhimmi – I’m not sure why you are attempting to bring up this debate again!
There is no validity to any claim that Diamond ‘failed’ to explain the rise of the West. Who said he had to? It’s HIS book; his agenda was obviously focused on the different biomic zones and what type of plants/animals could be domesticated. It wasn’t to write a history of social and political systems based on that food production. That would have taken at least another three books – and would have had to include not only food production but also societal organization. I find it odd that you and irwin daisy are criticizing him for what wasn’t his agenda in that book.
Nor was it his agenda to discuss linguistic diffusion. That would take yet another book. Why on earth should Mayan or Sanskrit or Chinese or Arabic be the modern ‘lingua franca’? The first two were isolated; the third and fourth confined to the pre-industrial trade era; the first and third written versions are not phonetic.
And finally, the diffusion of English was achieved via the technological breakthroughs of England – in shipbuilding, navigation, colonization. Why should Diamond’s book have to include all this?
The West rose to technological and industrial dominance because its biome is the richest on earth, which led to overpopulation, which led to strategies for sustaining larger populations..which led to the middle class and individualism…ie, innovation, exploration and etc.
The ME wasn’t a centre of civilization; it was a centre for lucrative trade, for contacts with China and the West; it didn’t, however, overpopulate and therefore it never had to change its ideology.
It didn’t overpopulate because the ME biome is poor and not conducive to multiple seasons of agricultural production (eg the West had three seasons of produce from its fields).
It remained tribal – and tribalism is the reason it didn’t move into an industrial mode.
Industrialism rests on individualism, on innovation, dissent, exploration. Industrialism rests on the notion of ‘progress’ and growth. Tribalism rejects individualism, innovation, dissent, exploration and progress because they focus on stability rather than change. Tribal societies are ‘no-growth’ societies. And THAT’s the reason the ME froze while the West exploded in innovative inventions. Nothing to do with Islam, except that Islam is an expression of tribalism. But tribalism is grounded in the material reality of that area. You can’t deep plough an oasis.
ET: I’m not gonna pass, am I? đŸ™‚
I haven’t read Diamond and am not criticizing him or YOU. I only posted the “noted essayist” Fjordman’s passage here because he referenced a book you recommended a while back and seems to be expressing thoughts similar to some of the regular posters here vis a vis your downplaying of Islam.
But again, there’s probably just a different perspective at play here. You’re a scholar interested in the origin of things and from a anthropological POV.
I think I’m slowly getting it though. That’s a very good and clear post for the “general reader”.
BTW, with great trepidation, I just started Ibn Warraq’s Defending the West. It’s a corker! Said was a disaster!
no, ex-liberal, my position isn’t marxist.
Marxism is based on the economic way in which the production of material goods is carried out; that is, the authority focused around the production of goods. His focus was on this production of goods- who owned the raw material, who owned the technology, who owned the equipment and factories, who owned the work, who owned the resultant products; who owned the surplus value?
A peasant economy might have all these acts within the control of one person or family or clan; but the industrial method splits these actions up, and they move into different sets or classes of people. Marx considered this exploitative and saw it as a ‘class war’.
This has NOTHING to do with my focus on the ecology of the environment. Marx was profoundly indifferent to and ignorant of the effect of the ecological reality on societal form.
You have, quite unethically, changed the meaning of my opinion that Israel should not settle the West Bank- to a racist suggestion that anyone-who-is-a-Jew has no right to live in the West Bank. I didn’t say that; I’m talking politics. The land was set aside for a Palestinian state, not for Israeli settlements (which settlements are now confined to Israeli citizens). I’m sure that Israel doesn’t want all the Palestinians in the occupied zones to live in Israel because, politically, they want a Jewish majority population. Are you going to say that no Muslim has a ‘right’ to settle in Israel?
me no dhimmi – how’s the Popper reading going? I do suggest that you read Diamond’s book. For people who don’t realize how important the environment is, and how man has developed the capacity to increase production of various plants/animals – it’s a good book.
http://canadianbluelemons.blogspot.com/2008/02/reid-dishon-shawn-murphy-lib-mp.html
“You can see the video here. Go to 4:12:15 for the start. Here are some gems from the (dis)Hon. Member from Charlottetown:
“Bring forth Brian Mulroney.
Bring him to court, hang him high.
Hang Mulroney.
Hang Mulroney, that’s what we want to do.
Let’s get this Mulroney before the courts as soon as possible and hang him high.
Put a noose on his head.”
A point of order has been raised with The Speaker by Ed Fast CPC MP.