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  2. IOC president Rogge in ‘silent diplomacy’ with China (ass press)
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    Beijing’s Demonstration Sports
    Olympics preview.
    By John Derbyshire
    “The president may not be aware that under Olympic procedures, the host nation may stage as “demonstration sports” some events not usually represented in the Games. These items are typically sports characteristic of the host country’s folkways and culture.
    Tibetan Snow Shooting. In their bid for a future Winter Olympics, the Communists will demonstrate their skills at picking off Tibetan refugees attempting to cross snow-covered Himalayan passes into Nepal. (This event may be scrapped because of a dispute with the Olympic authorities over the use of telescopic sights and snow goggles.)
    Synchronized Slimming. Competitors here have to devise an agricultural policy so irrational that 30 million peasants starve to death simultaneously. Traditionally the winning contestant has his portrait hung in a prominent position overlooking Tiananmen Square, but for Olympic purposes a medal award will be substituted.
    Organ Extraction. A test of speed and skill in wielding surgical instruments. A succession of convicted criminals, or members of obstreperous religious sects, are strapped to operating tables and their organs are removed without anesthetic, to be sold to intermediaries for transplant into wealthy foreigners. Points are awarded based on the total market value of the removed organs.”
    More: Buddha Tossing. Student Crushing. Toy Painting. 400-Fetus Relay.
    http://tinyurl.com/338bsq (nro)

  3. Found at a blog, ‘Christian Conservative”
    At Mon Mar 24, 11:09:00 AM EDT, Anonymous said…
    Well, doesn’t it just figure that “Alberta Girl” chimes in to defend the indefensible.
    You are correct, CC, that fringe radical haters such as John West, Alberta Girl, WL Mackenzie, Maz2, OMMAG and their leader, Kate MacMillan, do damage to the Conservative brand and conservative commentary.
    It is, frankly, the ravings of these sorts of Conservative supporters, and the extent to which the gov’t occasionally plays to them, that has affixed a permanent glass ceiling on their public support. This ceiling will continue to lower the more these fringe dwellers are perceived to be representative of their party.
    ———————
    The topic at the blog is something John West apparently said about Kinsella. This was relayed to Kinsella by Christian Conservative (who BTW, is against free speech). The same bigot Kinsella who continually insults Christians, including Stockwell Day. Kinsella links to the post, stating something to the effect that they are friends. The whole think is bizarre to say the least.
    I thought those being written about and attacked should know.

  4. A trip back in history:
    http://www.newsweek.com/id/106554/page/1
    HYPE ALERT: WHY CYBERSPACE ISN’T, AND WILL NEVER BE, NIRVANA
    The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

  6. Irwin daisy:
    What John West said was a scummy insult re: Kinsella’s dad. It was not relevant.It was on another blog, not relayed to CC.
    Christian Conservative has high standards,and freely commented on the insult.
    The comment re: posters here was not by CC but by an ‘anonymous’ poster.

  8. Fat BBC caught by blogger erasing/deleting its own lies.
    BBC = leftist scumbags.
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    “BBC erases all traces of Bush speech lies; so what have we learned?
    Exhibiting a thoroughness worthy of Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, the BBC has been busy erasing all traces of the corporation’s blatantly dishonest reporting of President Bush’s speech on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion.
    I’ll provide a quick recap for anyone who’s new to the story (you might also want to read, in the following order, my previous three posts) before bringing things up to date.”
    […]
    “It’s inconceivable that the headline and sentence which created such a misleading impression of Bush’s speech were simply ‘editing errors’. I used to work as a sub-editor on a daily newspaper in the UK, and a story as important as this would one have been seen by perhaps six different journalists before the paper went to press.
    I’ve no doubt that at least as many BBC journalists would have been involved in putting together the Bush story, and senior ones too. The BBC is fat with British taxpayers’ money, and its news-gathering operation is probably the best-resourced and most over-manned in the world; they wouldn’t have farmed this job out to the intern.
    The journalists who edited the report knew exactly what they were doing. They had access to the full transcript of the speech, and the video. They cut-and-pasted, or typed out, Bush’s ‘incriminating’ words. It’s clear that the decision to manipulate his words, and to headline the story with a lie, was approved at a high level.
    Even for a news organisation with an undisguised political bias, the manipulation of a key speech by such an important figure would be despicable behaviour. The BBC’s actions are made worse by the fact that it maintains the pretence of impartiality, although anyone familiar with its reporting on issues from Israel-Palestine (see also this story) to global warming knows this isn’t the case.
    As I wrote in my second post, the BBC is trusted by, and influences the opinions of, millions of people around the world, and such influence demands a similar degree of responsibility. It’s one thing to ‘bash Bush’, but the BBC’s selective and biased reporting on the war on terror can only embolden the jihadists and their state sponsors (anyone who seriously doubts there’s a link should read this), while simultaneously undermining the political and public support that US, British and allied troops so desperately need.
    I’ve been calling the BBC for its biased reporting since I started blogging last year, but my beef with the corporation has now become personal – my brother is due to deploy to Afghanistan with the British Army in September. The situation there is dangerous enough without the BBC stirring the pot – I would hate to think of he, or any coalition soldier, being targeted by some previously friendly Afghan who’s been enraged by the latest exaggerated, context-free BBC report about coalition forces causing civilian casualties.”
    http://monkeytenniscentre.blogspot.com/2008/03/bbc-erases-all-traces-of-bush-speech.html

  9. Re: David Akin – now that we know CTV is going to reassign Akin for his nefarious role in fabricasting the NAFTA/Obama story one still wonders what CBC is going to do with Susan Bonner – also a NAFTA news fabrication cohort with Akin as her “source”.
    I think the results of the PM’s criminal investigation on this non sotry story is going to heap a whole lot of hurting on some of our dear esteemed media outlets.

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