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Another dog show weekend, so things will slow down here for the remainder of the weekend. Drop your own tips in the comments, and surf the blogroll, if you’re bored … or snowbound….

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  1. Women Now Allowed To Lie, Uunder Oath, In Court, Legally, Baby Boomers Pretend Not To Notice, Still Cling To Decreasingly Credible Myth Of Equality Between Sexes:
    “Licence to lie for Italian women
    Italy’s highest appeal court has ruled that married Italian women who commit adultery are entitled to lie about it to protect their honour.
    The court gave its landmark ruling after hearing the case of a 48-year-old woman, convicted of giving false testimony to police by denying she had lent her mobile phone to her lover.
    The appeal court did not agree that she had broken the law.
    It said bending the truth was justified to conceal extra-marital relationships.
    …
    The woman who brought the appeal was from Porto Ercole on the Tuscany coast, and named only as Carla.
    She had lent her telephone to her secret lover, Giovanni, who then used it to call Carla’s estranged husband, Vincenzo, and insult him.
    Giovanni, the lover, was convicted of abusive behaviour in a local court, and Carla convicted as an accessory.
    Controversial judgements
    But the Court of Cassation found that having a lover was a circumstance that damaged the honour of the person among family and friends.
    Lying about it, therefore, was permitted, even in a judicial investigation.”
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7284134.stm

  3. Has anyone noticed the trailers for Globals documentary on the Afgan “war”. Scott Reid, Paul Martin and Jean Cretien all speaking sadly and looking pained and Stephen Harper in fatigues!
    And the title – How a conflict turned ito a war (I am paraphrasing).
    All just in time for the by-elections! Maybe they thought we would be in an election when they scheduled it in.
    I will NOT be watching this biased piece.

  4. What was Liberal Citoyen Dion’s election strategy yesterday?
    Citoyen says: “You will see. But it will not be at this time where we have a snowstorm in Ontario and just before Easter.”
    Today? Fallout? Fallin? Falldown? ????????
    …-
    Show Some Backbone, Dion Told
    “Mr. Dion refused to say when the Liberals will pull the plug on their minority.”
    “It’s a bad government and we’ll choose a time to defeat this bad government,” he told reporters. “You will see. But it will not be at this time where we have a snowstorm in Ontario and just before Easter. I don’t think Canadians want that.”
    http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=361309
    Friday, March 7, 2008
    Liberal Faithful Losing Faith In Dion, The Fallout Begins
    “It just seems like a matter of time before the tenure of Liberal leader Stephane Dion is up. He has proven to shake the confidence he has from progressive voters. He has embarrassed Liberal bloggers from continued vote abstentions and empty rhetoric. The grumblings from some of the more respected bloggers have reached a melting point, and Darren McEwen from Apply Liberally has unreservedly withdrawn his support for the party under Mr.Dion’s current direction:
    The icing on the cake came today when I was reading a note written by a Liberal MP lambasting the Conservatives over scandal and corruption allegations inside the current government. The tone was that the Conservatives have broken the trust of Canadians. There was a laundry list of examples. There wasn’t, however, any solutions. There has been no attempt to toss this government out. At least when Stephen Harper was in opposition and the Liberals were accused of corruption he made a few attempts to walk the walk. The Conservatives even brought down a Liberal government and risked not winning — and they did lose. …-
    http://jacksnewswatch.com/2008/03/08/daily-blogger-saturday-march-8th-2008/

  5. I went to a bar & grill in Halifax last night. It was a national chain and the beer was cold and food tasty enough. The thing that surprised this recent repat was the bill: Right under the subtotal was a charge, and I kid you not, Harper’s Tax!
    So PM Harper and the CPC forms the federal government, makes goos on a promise to reduce the GST and a national restaurant chain blames PM Harper for charging the (harmonized)tax?
    I’m finding that coming back to Canada AND the Maritimes to be a real eye opener. I’ve even had a realtor tell me that the last rise in gas prices was due to the feds putting on a carbon tax.

  6. Muslim Blogger Disgusted by Palestinian Celebrations
    A reader emailed this link today, and although I’m very sure I would have serious disagreements with this Muslim blogger on many issues, I have to give a big LGF thumbs-up to the obviously sincere disgust he shows toward the Palestinians’ barbaric celebrations of the mass murder in Jerusalem—and toward the radical front groups CAIR and MAS: RETURN TO SENDER!
    STAMP THIS specious variety of “Islam” which celebrates the slaughter of children Return to Sender. We have no need for it here in the United States and they can stop trying to feed it to us.
    What do CAIR and MAS have to say about this butchery? Are they going to offer their usual convoluted justification for this depravity?
    I can not understand how this can happen, and they try to say that THIS IS ISLAM?? They say that this filth our religion???
    We need more of this. A lot more.
    And please notice that he says “they’re trying to feed it to us.” There is a deadly serious struggle going on beneath the surface in this country.
    http://tinyurl.com/2z762k (LGF)

  8. Good weather news for all you poor frostbitten Canadians East of Hope British Columbia.
    When the night sky is full of stars here and it*s crispy cold, I notice you all get severe weather.
    Last night the sky was clear and starry. . . BUT with a difference.
    It was quite mild with a heavy dew.
    This is the first *Mild* clear night this spring. So, if my theory is correct, your weather will mellow into spring conditions over this coming week.
    You heard it here first. = TG

  9. Lorne Gunter of the National Post has a nice column on Global Cooling. He reports:
    “In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.
    And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its “lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.
    The ice is back.”
    “According to Robert Toggweiler of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University and Joellen Russell, assistant professor of biogeochemical dynamics at the University of Arizona — two prominent climate modellers — the computer models that show polar ice-melt cooling the oceans, stopping the circulation of warm equatorial water to northern latitudes and triggering another Ice Age (a la the movie The Day After Tomorrow) are all wrong.
    Last month, Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, shrugged off manmade climate change as “a drop in the bucket.” Showing that solar activity has entered an inactive phase, Prof. Sorokhtin advised people to “stock up on fur coats.”
    He is not alone. Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon.”
    Now, maybe the UN, in its effort to get the West to pay for the industrialization of China and India, will start to claim that the West is causing ‘global cooling’..and must pay for its new Evil Nature.

  10. Hey Texas Canuck,
    Try not to get all hot and bothered by that. I have seen variations on it in every province naming the premier by the first name, and the prime minister. I saw Jean’s tax many many times.
    Grow a thicker skin. Harper’s tax is 2% less than Jean’s. Think of it as advertising another campaign promise delivered. And compare that with Jean’s promise to abolish the tax!

  11. Coming home to Canader part 2:
    Reading my health care pamphlet I noticed on page 1, ” The Nova Scotia Government does not guarantee the provision of the insured health services but guarantees the payment for them.”
    WTF? They will pay for something they cannot necessarily provide. And I can’t legally buy insurance to get the stuff they can’t provide.
    Only in Canada you say? Pity.

  12. *
    kate says… if you’re bored… or snowbound…”
    oh, you evil woman… cracking wise while
    the polar bears drown    .
    thank gawd for 4wd.
    *

  13. ET, it doesn’t matter – according to the Goreacle crowd, even cooling is evidence of global warming, er, climate change.
    When hysteria is used, anything can be evidence to support AGW – anything.

  14. One day of Islamic attrocities:
    3/6/2008 (Baghdad, Iraq) – Sixty-eight Iraqis at a crowded marketplace are murdered in a twin-suicide bombing attack by al-Qaeda. Over a hundred more are injured.
    3/6/2008 (Jerusalem, Israel) – Eight defenseless students are brutally gunned down at a Jewish seminary by a Muslim gunman. Seven of the victims are between the age of 15 and 19.
    3/6/2008 (Reasi, India) – Two girls, ages 9 and 13, are murdered along with their grandfather when Islamists toss a hand grenade into their home.
    3/6/2008 (Gobale, Somalia) – Four civilians are killed when Islamic insurgents ambush a group of Ethiopians in a commercial area.
    3/6/2008 (Iskandariya, Iraq) – Jihadis kill two women with a roadside bomb.
    3/6/2008 (Mosul, Iraq) – Four civilians are gunned down by Sunni extremists.
    thereligionofpeace.com

  15. Well this news just ruined my wk-end..from G&M’s John Doyle..CBC axes Hockey Wives &jPod.
    Two of cbc tv’s recently launched and heavily promoted new series have been cancelled.
    ** Ten episodes of MVP were made-it cost about 1.5 million an episode to produce-and the show employed 175 people.Costs for each episode were slightly less for jPod,and 150 cast and crew members are out of a job.
    Intelligence has also been cancelled.
    Some good comments re this article over there..I especially liked comment about Little Mosque having 2 viewers,but if they did french version,they could get 2 more viewers!
    Another waste of YOUR money,for more loser shows..oh yeah,it’s PMSH’s fault likely!

  16. From the front page of Ottawa Citizen today:”No communion for pro-choice politicians, archbishop says”.
    Will we be hearing screams about the religious right yadda, yadda?

  17. PM Harper’s message was not just for Ontario. His message was for all Canadians.
    Economists/experts are stunned with “A whopping 43,000 new jobs were created in February, “.
    PM Harper: getting the job done.
    …-
    PM’s message for Ontario: Cut corporate taxes, expect no bailouts
    TORONTO — Prime Minister Stephen Harper went to the centre of Ontario’s financial district yesterday to deliver a stern message to the province: Cut corporate taxes to spur growth because there will be no further economic bailouts from Ottawa.
    Some politicians “suggest that every problem demands an immediate response, an immediate short-term, high-cost intervention of subsidization,” Mr. Harper said in a speech designed to stick Ontario with the responsibility for its own economic woes.
    “We didn’t do that in the budget and we are not about to do that going forward into the next year.” (G-M)
    …-
    Canadian job gains defy forecasts
    OTTAWA – A whopping 43,000 new jobs were created in February, stunning economists and creating a widening jobs gap with the United States that suggests Canada may be able to ride out a mild U.S. recession.
    Statistics Canada said Friday the country’s unemployment rate remained unchanged, at a 33-year low of 5.8 per cent, shrugging off the storm clouds that have swirled for months, including a shrinking trade surplus and gross domestic product, (canpress)

  18. “OTTAWA – A whopping 43,000 new jobs were created in February, stunning economists and creating a widening jobs gap with the United States that suggests Canada may be able to ride out a mild U.S. recession.”
    2 points:
    -Many if not most of those jobs are fake jobs, which is to say public sector jobs paid for by taxpayers which actually harm the economy in the long run. Hiring 43,000 bureaucrats isn’t a good thing, folks, read the fine print:
    “Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said in London, Ont., that he was particularly pleased with the jobs growth in Ontario. Its battered manufacturing sector lost 20,000 more jobs but the province still added 46,000 jobs, mostly in construction and public service.”
    -A country that leads the world in immigration needs to also lead the world in job growth, just to remain at par. Canada is growing by population faster than any G8 country, therefore it is logical, and par for the course, that we lead in job creation, just to keep up with the Joneses. If we didn’t create many fake jobs to keep up with the influx of immigrants our numbers wouldn’t look so good.

  19. Lots of press over the poll that says 4 out of 10 canadians think PMSH is lying re Cadman. Don Martin had big smiles when he reported this on Newman.
    That means that 6 out of 10 canadians do not thing PMSH is lying. Why isn’t that being reported.
    Remember when the media gushed over the fact that Joe Clark had a 30% disapproval rating. Wouldn’t that mean that 70% approved of him.
    The media is still stuck on stupid by thinking we don’t pay any attention to the way they distort news or polls. They still think they can lie and air false stories and they wont be found out.
    Thanks to the blogs, they are fast learning the game of over for them to get away with it.

  20. Aren’t the Liberals fortunate to have such an expert Economist like John McCallum? Ya, right!
    It’s so telling how the Libranos get all fired up when their main lifeline, Ontario, gets told off by the Conservative government. If it were anywhere else in the Dominion, nary a word would be said and there’d be no media interest.

  21. Texas Canuck: Conservatives are not among friends in the Maritimes. Something to do with Conservative policy. Conservatives like to see people work in full time jobs instead of part time and dole.
    I’ve long ago said to hell with them.

  22. Headline in the Toronto Star . . .
    “The Last Great winter”
    So who’s a Denialist now ??

  24. 1) At the recommendation of SDA commenters—many thanks!—I bought Mark Helprin’s Winter Tale, which I have yet to read.
    Today, for $7.99, I bought a very well preserved, second hand first edition hard cover of The Veil of Snows, illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg (one of my favourite illustrators). I think I’ve done very well. Any feedback?
    Considering that I’m in a part of the country, at present, under mounds of snow—reminding me of my long ago childhood (HOW did we survive without all the mod cons?)—Mark Helprin’s symbolism seem most apt!
    2) Re the Italian case, where a woman—in legal extension, ALL Italian women—has been let off the hook re being responsible and accountable, Canadians should check out Lavallee, the 1990 Supreme Court of Canada Battered Women’s Defence case. The SCC granted Canadian women an exemption re murdering a male partner in cold blood, if there was a reason to believe the woman was being abused. (I’m VERY sympathetic to abuse cases, but this judgment went, IMO, too far.)

  27. fsafaf:
    Here’s something that’s guaranteed to make your head explode:
    Lots of those fake jobs went to WOMEN and BROWN PEOPLE!
    Cue the misogyny and racism. I like you better when you were banned.

  29. “Lots of those fake jobs went to WOMEN ”
    61%, to be precise, at least in the federal core public service, at a time when women make up less than 50% of the workforce. And are less productive than men.
    Forcing private and public sector companies to hire women against their will is already backfiring. Nortel can’t compete, Cognos got bought out, they’ll all get bought out eventually. Why? Because a high tech company with an employment equity program simply cannot compete with India, China, South Korea, and other efficient economies.
    As for brown people, we white guys would absolutely clobber them in an open and fair competition for jobs. White men are deemed so powerful, so dominant, that the state enacts legislation similar to that of Adolph Hitler’s laws against the Jews.
    White Anglo Saxon men are the New Jews.
    The world pretends we white guys are part of a conspiracy, and that this conspiracy is the only reason for our success, when everybody knows it is because we are smart, work hard, and show up for work on time.
    Women and minorities are the New Nazis.

  30. The estimable Carolyn Glick offers this cogent analysis of what happened to Condoleeza Rice when she became Secretary of State and helped destroy the Bush presidency.
    Condi’s Echo Chamber
    SOME ISRAELIS and supporters of Israel attribute Rice’s irrational championing of Palestinian statehood to anti-Israeli bigotry. These voices cite Rice’s penchant for drawing parallels between white supremacists in the pre-Civil Rights movement era American South and Israeli soldiers carrying out counterterror operations in Judea and Samaria. By repeatedly invoking this morally and factually perverted comparison, they claim that Rice exposes a deep-seated animus towards the Jewish state and its citizens.
    But there is another possible – in fact more likely – explanation for Rice’s behavior. It is quite possible that Rice has simply isolated herself from all information and all persons bearing information that might force her to change her policy course.
    Also covered: some key info about her disinterest in Iraq, her total shock at the election of Hamas despite ample warnings from outside and inside the administration, and also how she helped torpedo UN ambassador John Bolton’s Senate confirmation hearings. Other dissenters met similar fates.

  31. Oh, NO !!
    GAZ GUZZLERS WILL RULE AGAIN
    [ .. although the final details aren’t in yet, there are some indications that the major outfits responsible for tracking global temperature — Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH and RSS — will be reporting a recent decline in the Earth’s average temperature.]
    [..]
    [If tailpipe carbon dioxide is the switch that warms the world, we need to first decide the world’s ideal temperature, then work hard to keep it that way, no matter which way the climate swings.] Peter Kenter, Canwest News Service
    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=357733

  32. Almost a third of Canadians think Harper is lying over Cadman affair: poll
    Wow!
    That’s what the Liberals have been polling consistently for the past two years.
    Enough to make them the Official Opposition.

  33. http://veiledstatues.blog.de/
    Real women’s rights activitists (not the phonies we get here in Canada).
    Every statue has been fitted with a signboard comparing an Article from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 1948, and on the other hand quotation from Quran regarding its treatment towards women.

  34. when will Brad Wall make an announcement that he will be drastically cutting the EDUCATION taxes on Property here in Saskatchewan THE HIGHEST TAXES IN CANADA

  35. A few comments:
    1. Last I heard, Nortel hires whomever they please.
    2. Chimpy Mcliar has been spending like a kid in a candy store, trying to keep Ontario out of recession….it is not working.
    3. I am buying a 2 stroke, 200 hp motor for my boat and a new gas lawnmower. Fruit fly, and his merry band of enviromorons can kiss my redneck a$$.

  36. One other thing. Because of the onset of global cooling, I have retired my shovel, and contracted the job to a guy with a big block V8 truck and plow. There is just too much snow and it is too cold to do it myself.

  37. Lori…we do NOT have women rights activists in Canada. We have a bunch of trough feeding,teat sucking femnazis who are concerned about two things only. Their next paycheck from the taxpayer,and demonizing white males.
    Bravo on the few European real women taking a stand.

  38. “1. Last I heard, Nortel hires whomever they please.”
    You heard wrong. Hell, Nortel – formerly Bell Northern Research – practically invented employment equity, they were one of the first private sector companies to do so. I know dumber-than-dirt women who worked at Nortel in the 80s.
    Microsoft does not do business with suppliers that do not have an employment equity program. They actually cancel contracts with companies that have too many white males. This has been widely reported in the MSM and right here at SDA.
    Same with Cognos; they deliberately and openly discriminated against Canadian born workers and white males, at least until they got bought out.
    The federal governments of Canada and the USA force the companies they award contracts to to enforce employment equity. The feds have lots of $ and companies like Nortel are only too happy to play ball.

  39. From the previous *TIPS*
    John Murney at March 7, 2008 5:02 PM
    theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080307.woilprices0307/BNStory/energy/home
    ** In its latest inventory report, the Energy Department said overall demand for oil dropped 3.4 per cent over the last four weeks compared to the same period last year. **
    ====================================== G&M
    I knew it! I was guessing earlier, but with new efficient TDI diesel, FI-gas, hybrid and electric bikes, demand is in fact down.
    So while you stand there in snow and rain pumping gas into your car for ExxonMobile/ Chevron/ Shell and Petro-Can, ask yourself why you should pay extra to cover capital costs for big oil.
    All those new computerized pumps across the country are about to lose their golden goose luster.
    ExxonMobile got their Valdez penalty reduced by half and now they are under a new appeal to reduce it to nothing. Gall? = TG

  40. fsafaf at March 8, 2008 2:00 PM
    I can not bring myself to put in quotes what you said about women.
    Some things are just too brutal to put into words.
    Before you make sweeping pronouncements, it may be wise to consider what benefit could come of it.
    Anything said here on the net can be searched later. Heaven help you if your new flame knows how to use search well.
    Women at great at that sort of thing y*know. = TG

  41. fsafaf is just trolling I presume. Perhaps Kinsella and his ilk sent him here on this snowy day in Toronto, because they had nothing better to do.

  42. I don’t understand TG’s comment at 4.19 pm.
    If gas consumption is down in the US by 3.4%, then that is the size of the economic contraction from last year, which is huge.

  45. I’d like it warmer just as much as the next guy. But, if it is actually cooling, does any rational person think that we can influence the climate by producing more CO2?

  46. And yet another typically ill informed comment from lizj.
    You might try spending a second or two east of Quebec before spouting off with your moronic sterotypes.

  47. http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=f2150200-36b8-4e30-babf-417d5efcaa9c&k=32889
    How does a group which has specific requirements for full ‘membership’ or ‘communion’, violate separation of church and state by advising ‘members’ what those requirements are? The Archbishop is telling all Catholics the truth. If you what to be ‘in communion’, this is how it is.
    ‘Catholics for Choice’ is a dissident group. They are anti-Catholic. That must be why the media seeks them out for an opinion on everything Catholic…
    McGuinty is right that Canadian Catholic politicians have been given a pass previously. He is also right to compare himself to Chretien , Martin and numerous other Canadians who call themselves faithful Catholics while by their own lips proving the opposite. It is impossible to be a faithful Catholic and disavow the church’s teachings. Only a LIAR or a very stupid person could fail to see the total contradiction. McGuinty may qualify as both.

  50. Cal2,
    Right you are. First time I have seen that. Looks like lots of potential there.
    Refinement of compressed air systems could lead to clean flight. Air, the light as air fuel.
    Saw a turbine design once. Looks like the Wankle engine. No pistons reversing direction, so very efficient. = TG

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