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  6. Great article by Conrade Black. I hope he is granted an appeal, wins that appeal and then tars and feathers his accusers (esp the Puffins in this country who hated him ).

  7. Re the Fr De Souza article, which is critical of the crime bill, there’e a rebuttal in today’s Post by someone called Jerry Amernic.

  8. CNN is still covering Canada and the nafta leak. Today they mentioned it come from the Clinton camp, but she said NO. Also someone stopped at the border recently appears to be connected with the bombing in Times Square yesterday.
    Iggy is also getting time on cnn. Clip of question period had him ranting. Layton on Lou Dobbs, terrorists coming from Canada, can an invasion be far behind.
    Still no answer why ctv changed Clinton to Obama from what they heard during lockup.
    Are the ctv investiging this. Was Krista involved.

  9. Protests in UK over referendum to enter EU treaty
    http://tinyurl.com/2ygcx8
    ” Brown’s Britain where foxes frolic unmolested, the nanny state packs your lunch….and people do incredible things to attempt to restore some due democratic process”

  10. Louise Arbour is stepping down from her UN post, for the usual “personal reasons”, not from any pressure to do so. It’s not that she wasn’t a good fit with the UN as it has evolved! Now, on to the Order of Canada etc………

  11. What is with these jerkoffs and their attempts to control what information I hear/see/download?
    Levant is right on the money when he compares this to the actions of the tinpots in commie China.
    Please do not worry about me, oh great censors/controllers of thought. I shall manage to surf the net and not allow the bogeymen to corrupt me.
    Geeeeeeeeeeez!

  13. March 6 – Kudos to the Brampton judge for ruling against the Sikh who thinks he should be able to ride his motorcycle with no helmet.
    If there is an appeal, let’s see if the superior court(s)agree.

  15. Taliban Jack’s head exploded; now, NDP-Mulcair’s head has exploded.
    NDP-Mulcair: “I talked to them about Canadian values.”
    “The fracas is not visible in the House of Commons video recording, but an audio recording includes a full minute of inarticulate yelling after Mr. Mulcair lost his temper.”
    …-
    [Socialist-NDP] MP erupts in fury over heckling by Keddy
    “Liberal MP Scott Simms was watching from the opposite side of the House.
    “He walked out from the front benches toward the Conservatives,” he said. “Just yelling at him, and just yelling and yelling. And then he pointed to others and yelled and yelled and yelled some more.””
    http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1042299.html

  16. Just heard on ctv,that there is rumour that Arbour may be ‘coming home to run for Fed.Libs in Que’

  17. The natural end result of socialism: Taliban Jack Layton-NDP, Citoyen Dion, & Hugo the Idiot.
    “the poor are hurting most of all.”
    …-
    “A close look at the evidence reveals just how much Chávez’s “revolution” has hurt Venezuela’s economy — and that the poor are hurting most of all.”
    An Empty Revolution
    The Unfulfilled Promises of Hugo Chávez
    http://tinyurl.com/25xs5v (foreign affairs)

  19. Notorious Russian arms dealer, “Merchant of Death” is arrested. I would love to ask him, which internationl/national gun control laws caused you the most grief and actually hampered your operation?

  21. “To their everlasting credit, the CRTC threw out the application, for several of the very reasons I’ve outlined above….”
    Re: Warman and the CRTC ….
    This was not exactly buried in the regular news! Or in blogs for that matter…
    Maybe shoved down the memory hole prematurely as the media flourished their political agenda and the Kyoto Kultists kept their scam rolling!

  22. On this whole Naftagate affair,I have been wondering,what,if any,responsibility the media has to take in this?If,this was such a serious matter,and if the conv.was assumed to be confidential,why would media put it out there?as well,could there have been some ‘sabotage’ of some kind by some opposition party members? This has been worrying me,and I wonder if that is why PMSH is going after this so aggressively.
    Debate on Layton’s climate change motion going on right now…Libs are going to be no-show again.

  23. (Via Melanie Phillips) Christopher Booker, Beware the politician posing as a scientist
    One of the fond delusions of our age is that scientists are a breed apart from ordinary mortals, white-coated custodians of a mystery with authority to pronounce on any scientific issue, however remote it may be from their own field of expertise. A shining example was the status given to Sir David King, who has just retired after seven years as the government Chief Scientist. In 2001, when he was appointed by Tony Blair at the height of the foot-and-mouth crisis, Professor King’s speciality was ‘surface chemistry’. Yet immediately top of his agenda was the need to fight an animal disease…
    The next big issue to put King in the headlines was global warming, which in 2004 he described as ‘a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism’. At a press conference with Blair, he claimed that global temperatures were higher than they had been for 60 million years, predicting that by the end of the 21st century Antarctica would be the only habitable continent left on earth.

  24. (Via CSP) Ralph Peters, Lessons from the General
    What did Iraq teach Odierno as a soldier? What professional tenets were reinforced by his multiple combat tours?
    “First, you have to empower your subordinates. That means you have to underwrite the risks involved,” to take the heat when they make mistakes. The general sees this as crucial to our 21st-century Army.
    “Second, as a senior leader, you have to trust your instincts . . . you never stop learning and you have to adapt to the changing situation . . . but trust your instincts.”
    “Third, you have to get out and touch it, feel it, see it.” You can’t manage a war or a counterinsurgency effort from an office. Nothing substitutes for the sense of reality you get from walking the streets with soldiers and Marines.

  25. Caroline Glick, 8 murdered in massacre at Mercaz Harav yeshiva
    The police claim that they had received no intelligence information warning of an impending attack in the capital. But there were several indications that one was about to occur. On Saturday night I was walking in a park above the Old City at dusk. Suddenly a crowd of Arab teenagers appeared and started yelling Allah Akhbar. My big, barking dog scared them away. They were not serious but they were the harbinger of what came next…

  27. Here we go with the hidden, sorry, “radical” agenda of Stephen Harper:
    “The facts are not yet all in, but the (Conservative government) record to date is increasingly suggestive of an agenda more radical and a level of integrity far lower than seemed probable in the feared “secret agendas” of the past. Increasingly, those sound like the good old days.”
    http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/columnists/top3/story/4138776p-4730079c.html
    “Suggestive” of radical agenda (even worse than we feared). Why – well the “possible” criminal actions in Cadman “affair” (that is “possibly, to the point of illegality”) and, yike, the mother of all radical agendas – Senate and electoral reform.
    Oh yes, peace, order AND good government – yes that is radical – compared with Chretien and Martin, that is. What a pathetic display of editorial “journalism.”

  28. I direct Mr. Warman’s attention to Cuba, as an illustration of the complete and utter futility of his efforts.
    phantomsoapbox.blogspot.com/2008/03/amazing-what-will-fit-on-ram-stick.html

  29. Taliban Jack Layton, the new champion for the United States of America. What a bloody phony.

  31. Arab-American Psychiatrist Wafa Sultan Clashes with Egyptian Islamist Tal’at Rmeih, Program Host on Al-Jazeera TV
    On an Al-Jazeera TV program on March 4, 2008, Arab-American psychiatrist Wafa Sultan debated Egyptian Islamist Tal’at Rmeih on Western-Islamic relations, the Danish cartoons, Islamic teachings, the situation in Gaza, freedom of expression in the West, and the Holocaust.
    Video (12:59): http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1704.htm
    Transcript (excerpts) here.

  32. Terrorists beat the Shin Bet defense system in Jerusalem for the first time since 2006
    Under the guidance of Iran, Syria and Hizballah, terror planners have learned how to bypass the universally-acclaimed Shin Bet counter-terror system by dispensing with large operational teams which include accomplices who drive the suicide killer to target. The Israeli security service found this set-up highly susceptible to penetration for advance tip-offs of attacks in store.
    Thursday’s attack was carried out single-handed by a lone gunman, a local man and Israeli citizen who could move around Jerusalem unnoticed. As a delivery-man, he could conduct his own surveillance and choose his method of attack and its timing. The Kalashnikov assault rifle he used is available for cash in most Israeli towns.

  33. Akey Breaky NAFTA-Gate?
    Eyes and ears on the Hill today are squarely focused and tuned into any developments surrounding a senior journalist’s future over a NAFTA-Gate leak.
    Yesterday, Kady O’Malley asked in her blog if anyone else heard a wild rumour about a CTV reporter being fired for allegedly confirming that it was Ian Brodie behind the original NAFTA leak. She later updated her blog with “DEBUNKED.” HERE….
    But that hasn’t quelled the rumours that a head may roll.
    Sources say a CTV reporter confirmed to the CBC’s Susan Boner that Brodie was the source of the leak. Boner later went to air with confirmation from CTV reporter, without naming him.
    Developing…
    http://tinyurl.com/2l6g9y (NNW)
    Well, clearly, there’s no story here.
    […]
    Update: DEBUNKED. Officially. No CTV reporter was injured in the writing of the now infamous Canadian Press story.
    Has anyone else heard a wild rumour that a CTV reporter was fired for allegedly confirming that it was Ian Brodie behind the original NAFTA leak? I’m sceptical. I mean, what kind of network would allow one of its own reporters to be made the scapegoat for what would be an appalling lack of judgment by a senior government official? I look forward to debunking this ridiculous claim just as soon as I can confirm that it’s no more than a very unfunny joke. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2rrm54

  34. Liberal Citoyen Dion says crack “is something in which we believe.”
    …-
    Dion indicates Vancouver safe injection site is OK
    “Without being asked about it, he told the crowd of about 150 students that Canada’s only safe injection site — known as Insite and situated in the Downtown Eastside — “is something in which we believe.
    “I think the current government has an ideological approach about that,” Dion told the gathering that was co-ordinated by the Young Liberals of UBC.
    “If the science is telling you that an initiative like that is saving lives, we need to continue it.”
    http://tinyurl.com/3cgalp (ctv)
    …-
    UN rebukes Canada over drug programs
    Injection sites and ‘crack kits’ defy treaty
    The United Nations drug control board has slammed three Canadian programs that provide safe crack pipes and injection sites to drug addicts.
    The government-funded programs in Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto are in contravention of a worldwide anti-drug convention that Canada signed in 1988, the International Narcotics Control Board said in its annual report, released Wednesday.
    http://tinyurl.com/2sbwsz (G-M)

  42. The Hollinger earth is scorched, the shareholders wiped out, many of the employees laid off, but the factional war continues to the Circuit Court of Appeal in Chicago.

    No doubt Conrad is accused of taking a 1% sales commission and gets 6 years, The government have destroyed 90% of the value of hollinger surely a larger crime.
    90% x 6yrs = 450 yrs
    Or do they not get jail time because big government can do no wrong?

  43. Unveiled: The new supergun weapon against the Taliban can kill from over a mile away
    It is the latest weapon on the front line against the Taliban – the British Army’s most powerful-ever sniper rifle, capable of killing with pinpoint accuracy from more than a mile away.
    Yesterday the Army showed off its new Long Range Rifle, which has just entered service with combat units in Afghanistan to replace smaller and less powerful weapons.
    The £11million upgrade programme is part of a “renaissance” of the sniper tradition – which during the Cold War was largely relegated to the sidelines – as modern commanders rediscover the huge value of pinpoint fire from sharpshooters.
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982011/posts
    Scroll down for more.
    Chart with sniper.

  44. “Arbour may be ‘coming home to run for Fed.Libs in Que” — if she does, I consider it a clear indication that our justice system is a travesty. A judge (even a former judge) should never forge such a close affiliation with any political party (regardless of where the appointment comes from). This would have Arbour revealing her hand as a partisan and I think it makes a mockery of her whole career. But given the knee-jerk hypocracy of the Liberals they would would probably see nothing problematical about this.

  45. No doubt Conrad is accused of taking a 1% sales commission and gets 6 years, The government have destroyed 90% of the value of hollinger surely a larger crime.
    Posted by: dinosaur at March 7, 2008 2:02 PM
    Could not agree more. Even the big investment firm Tweedie Brown (name?) went public with their regret at launching the suit.
    I agree with Black that this was really a factional dispute at a public company and that incarceration is unjust.
    And here’s where I might sound like a liberal: regardless of your feelings about Black, putting him in jail seems cruel and unusual punishment and unnecessary. Maybe a payback order to the company and “community service”, e.g. tutoring young people on business formation, jouranlism?
    Black is a Greek Tragedy Hero, in jail for hubris. Period. Gulliver?
    The thing big government does best and consistently is: DESTROY.

  46. Socialism > communism > fascism > nazism > islamism: same root > same results : tyranny and Death.
    …-
    “To decentralize power is to reduce the absolute amount of power, and the competitive system is the only system designed to minimize the power exercised by man over man.”
    THE ROAD TO SERFDOM
    FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK
    “Few recognize that the rise of fascism and Marxism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.
    Yet it is significant that many of the leaders of these movements, from Mussolini down (and including Laval and Quisling) began as socialists and ended as fascists or Nazis. In the democracies at present, many who sincerely hate all of Nazism ‘s manifestations are working for ideals whose realization would lead straight to the abhorred tyranny.
    Most of the people whose views influence developments are in some measure socialists. They believe that our economic life should be ‘consciously directed ‘ that we should substitute ‘economic planning ‘ for the competitive system. Yet is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for? Planning and power. In order to achieve their ends the planners must create power power over men wielded by other men – of a magnitude never be-fore known. Their success will depend on the extent to which they achieve such power.
    Democracy is an obstacle to this suppression of freedom which the centralized direction of economic activity requires.
    Hence arises the clash between planning and democracy. Many socialists have the tragic illusion that by depriving private individuals of the power they possess in an individualist system, and transferring this power to society, they thereby extinguish power. What they overlook is that by concentrating power so that it can be used in the service of a single plan, it is not merely transformed, but infinitely heightened. By uniting in the hands of some single body power formerly exercised independently by many, an amount of power is created infinitely greater than any that existed before, so much more far-reaching as almost to be different in kind. It is entirely fallacious to argue that the great power exercised by a central planning board would be ‘no greater than the power collectively exercised by private boards of directors’.
    There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would posses. To decentralize power is to reduce the absolute amount of power, and the competitive system is the only system designed to minimize the power exercised by man over man. …-
    http://www.btinternet.com/~jhpart/hayek45.htm

  49. “Obama’s criticism of the trade deal reflects either a willful disregard of the facts or a poor command of economics.”
    (Via AEI) Philip I. Levy, Doing a Job on NAFTA
    …Here’s one popular trick: see how many people work in export-related industries; use that number to say that every $1 billion of exports is associated with a certain number of jobs; then say that a trade surplus equates with jobs gained and a deficit with jobs lost.
    This is, in fact, the basis for the largest estimates of NAFTA-related job losses. The U.S. trade deficit ballooned after NAFTA. That change occurred broadly, not just with NAFTA countries, and it was accompanied by a drop in the unemployment rate and significant job creation. But if one ignores these broader lessons, ignores the pre-existing free trade agreement with Canada, and ignores everything else that happened, one can come up with the number of 1 million jobs lost. And apparently this number strikes some people as plausible (or at least useful).

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