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  2. after the wall came down and tourism opened up into the former USSR the number one rule for visitors to follow was to never ever ever EVER fly on a russian airline.

  3. It’s funny that the pro-multicultural voices are nowhere to be heard when it comes to the physics of flying a plane.
    (Shouldn’t the Congolese have the right to fly planes according to their views of the laws of physics?)
    Now apply this principle to economies, governments, etc.

  4. African Airlines: Family members have personal experience 1980’s: aside from goats, chickens, and “other wildlife” dubious load procedures, and passengers lighting fires to keep warm (You think I’m kidding?) How about local africans refusing to get on a plane piloted by other (black) Africans and basically striking until a still obviously drunk Russian pilot was rousted out of bed and made to fly the plane….on an airport where the end of the runway literally had a dozen plane carcasses of previous flights that had either failed to stop at landing, or failed to complete, takeoff.
    And no, these weren’t “backwoods” fields either.

  8. Regarding the Brits who are leaving, the ones I’ve met here in Manitoba are all soft socialists. Their opinion seems to be that British policies were not wrong, but not implemented properly.

  9. This might be old news but I noticed in yesterday’s TO Sun:
    The story of Kim Robinson , the trapper/hunter/woodsman that found the father of the 3 murdered kids in Merritt, BC has been ‘politically corrected’ in the print version. He is no longer a trapper…he is now a ‘tracker’.Those sensitive Toronto minds that experience so many assaults and murders couldn’t handle the thought of a man ‘trapping and hunting’ I guess.
    Calgary Sun still calls him a hunter(on line)

  10. The “Humane Society of the US with 113 million USD in assets: How misleading! HSUS raises enough money to finance animal shelters in every single state, with money to spare, yet it doesn’t’t operate a single one anywhere.
    Instead, HSUS spends millions on programs that seek to economically cripple meat and dairy producers; eliminate the use of animals in biomedical research labs; phase out pet breeding, zoos, and circus animal acts; and demonize hunters as crazed lunatics. HSUS spends $2 million each year on travel expenses alone, just keeping its multi-national agenda going.

  12. PM Harper: Stand firm. Do not appoint the socialist Marchi. Appoint your own ambassador.
    …-
    Marchi job bid meets Ottawa chill
    Six former PMs endorse one-time WTO ambassador for migration post: Harper doesn’t
    http://tinyurl.com/59p898 (g-m)

  14. Yesterday, the new commander of the Dutch military was sworn in. Today, he lost his son in action. This is the sort of high-profile kill the Taliban hope for, and I discuss the potential repercussions at The Torch.

  15. Wanna go to a PUBLIC pool in England? Make sure it isn’t Muslim-only time. Good thing those brits pay taxes or Muslims wouldn’t have a place to discriminate against the people footing the bill.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=560231&in_page_id=1770
    Refused entry: David Toube and his 10-year-old son were turned away from a ‘Muslim-only’ swimming session
    A father and his five-year-old son were turned away from their local swimming pool because they were the wrong religion.
    David Toube, 39, and his son Harry were told that the Sunday morning session was reserved for Muslim men only.

  16. Kenneth P. Green, The New Dissidents
    But there’s one hot-button issue on which virtually no dissent is allowed: climate change. In a style reminiscent of the old Soviet Union, people disagreeing with any element of the agenda pursued by Al Gore and his climate catastrophists have been derided as “deniers,” a term clearly intended to equate dissent with mental illness, if not post hoc complicity in atrocities (as in “Holocaust denier”). “Fifteen per cent of the people believe the moon landing was staged on some movie lot and a somewhat smaller number still believe the Earth is flat,” Gore says. “They all get together on a Saturday night and party with the global-warming deniers.”…
    Fortunately, not all journalists have bowed to the politically correct climate crusade. Lawrence Solomon, a columnist for Canada’s National Post—and the victim of an earlier smear campaign—decided to ask who these “deniers” really are and what they really believe… In other words, Solomon found that the “deniers” are, in fact, not in denial at all. They are merely dissidents from the political orthodoxy of climate catastrophism.

  18. 5.4 earthquake 230 miles south of Chicago, Illinois this AM.
    But north of New Madrid.
    Some minor damage since it was only 3 mi deep.
    No injuries.
    Surely a sign from Dog that he is not happy with the US response to AGW.
    Or else the Pope plays at much more than his weight.

  20. Ken – my knowledge of HSUS activities doesn’t come from activist cash.
    This animal rights organization is well known in the pet and farm industry, due to their ongoing sponsorship and lobbying for anti-breeding legislation, etc. They have appropriated the “Humane Society” name to sow confusion, and it’s worked.
    They are not the SPCA or the Humane Society proper, but an activist group pure and simple.

  21. I came across a website a few days ago for a Humane Society: all about anti-sealing. Anyone have a line on a sealskin pelt for me?

  22. Mao Stlong’s nephew, Boob Rae, defends Mao Stlong. MSM aids and abets the Big Lie.
    The deaths compared:
    Socialism-communism by Mao = China: 65 million deaths.
    National Socialism, nazis = 21 million deaths.
    …-
    “Rae said re National Socialism: “Such a comparison trivializes one of the most horrific regimes mankind has known.”
    “Grits: Tory MP should be reined in over Olympic comments
    By THE CANADIAN PRESS
    OTTAWA – The Tories have blundered on the international stage once again with a Calgary MP’s comments comparing the Beijing Olympics to the infamous Nazi Games of 1936, Liberal Bob Rae said Friday.”
    …-
    Boob, Here are the deaths by your ideology, socialism-communism:
    “U.S.S.R.: 20 million deaths China: 65 million deaths
    Vietnam: million deaths North Korea: 2 million deaths Cambodia: 2 million
    deaths Eastern Europe: 1 million deaths Latin America: 150,000
    deaths Africa: 1.7 million deaths Afghanistan: 1.5 million deaths
    The international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power: about 10,000 deaths
    The total approaches 100 million people killed.”
    http://tinyurl.com/6zayr2 (blackbookcommunism)
    Boob, here are the deaths by National Socialism:
    NAZI GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER
    In total, they likely annihilated 20946000 human beings. Annually, as shown in table 1.2, the Nazis killed six to seven people out of every hundred in …
    http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NAZIS.CHAP1.HTM

  24. bryanr,thank you for the post re AdScam.
    Will the names of the “nine Liberal party workers” be released? Canadians have the right to know.
    “The Mounties, in a news conference Friday morning, announced charges against Benoit Corbeil, who ran the Liberal party’s Quebec wing from 1999 to 2001.”
    “In 2005, Corbeil named nine Liberal party workers as having been paid from a $50,000 cash donation by Brault.”
    http://tinyurl.com/5kqshx (ctv)

  26. Caroline Glick, Column One: Revealed truths vs. revealed lies
    To maintain their belief in Peace through Israeli capitulation as a panacea for all the Middle East’s deformities, Peace adherents have been forced to replace their natural skepticism with artificial credulity. For in contrast to the Children of Israel in Pharaoh’s Egypt, not only have they received no evidence that their faith in Peace is reasonable, they have seen in the terrorist murder of more than 1,500 Israelis since 1993 and in the daily incitement for Israel’s destruction and massing of Palestinian terror armies of jihad overwhelming proof that their faith is unfounded…

  27. An excellent, fairly lengthy appraisal of the Afghan situation:
    James Phillips and Lisa Curtis, The War in Afghanistan: More Help Needed
    [National caveats have] put more of a burden on U.S., Australian, British, Canadian, and Dutch forces, which have undertaken most of the combat operations in southern Afghanistan. Danish, Estonian, Polish, and Romanian forces have been actively engaged in the fighting in other areas. The de facto segregation of coalition forces into frontline and “stand aside” units has undermined NATO’s effectiveness, flexi­bility, and unity of purpose. This is no way to fight or win a war.
    Canada, which has admirably taken the lead and made a vital contribution to bolstering the security of southern Afghanistan, has become increasingly frustrated with the lack of support from other NATO allies. The Canadian government has threat­ened to pull out its 2,500 troops when their parliamentary mandate expires in 2009 unless it receives reinforcements from other allies.
    The French pledge to send an additional 800 troops to eastern Afghanistan will free some U.S. forces to move south to help the Canadians in Kan­dahar province. However, other NATO nations still need to fulfill their commitments and provide addi­tional military forces and economic development funds to wage a more effective counterinsurgency campaign in the Taliban’s heartland…

  28. Kate:
    Check out the CBC and Red Star coverage of charges laid against former Liberal staffer Benoit Corbeil—will they mention it at all??

  30. Liberals have been priming the media & public for the past few weeks with Conservative Scandals, So is the build-up to go for it?
    With todays charge’s being laid(Adscam)are they going to be as willing?

  31. MJH: Read the news release again which states “Ex-Liberal charged …..Sponsorship”. Can’t you read the code? Clearly the LPC is clean because this guy is an EX-Liberal. Obviously, the party has purged the unclean.
    The guy is no longer a Liberal? I guess he must be a Conservative.

  32. brynar:
    It’s all starting to make sense now, isn’t it?
    When in s**t, throw s**t.
    That’s been the Libs tactic in the House with their tempest in a teapot series of ‘scandals.’
    The real meat of the Adscam will start coming out now and the Libs need some moral equivalence (see, they’ve done more bad things than we have) to deflect from their own theft of taxpayers money.
    Libs need to get back into power so they can grease their coffers with our money. Conservatives are being singled out by Elections Canada for spending freely-donated money from their supporters.
    Loved the way Merlene Jennings’ question was shoved right back down her throat in Question Period yesterday.
    Parliament is breaking for 10 days now, so the only scandal the MSM will be able to follow is Adscam. Be not surprised, though, about the moral equivalence game.

  33. According to the Gomery Report, 12 PQ Liberal ridings received Adscam money. Why were they never named? Why did the MSM not investigate this? Why did Elections Canada ignore this?
    As Dion would say “Canadians want to know”!!

  34. Daniel Leblanc “broke”/spilled the beans in the Globe-Mail on the corruption/crimes of the Chretien-Martin-Dion Liberals/Librano$. The word “AdScam” came to the fore later.
    G-M has not opened this report to Comments. Very revealing, eh wot?
    “This is most interesting/revealing: “RCMP spokesman Corporal Luc Bessette said at a news conference that the probe into the sponsorship scandal is “ongoing.”
    “It’s highly likely that there will be other charges,” he said.”
    More, and, faster.
    …-
    “Former Liberal official charged in sponsorship scandal
    DANIEL LEBLANC
    Globe and Mail Update”
    http://tinyurl.com/5jnmah

  35. Yohoo !! Worn !!??
    [Former Liberal leader Jean Chrétien, who was prime minister at the time of the sponsorship scandal, has long argued that the people charged in relation to the program came from other political formations.
    “The four who were found guilty (former bureaucrat Chuck Guité, and admen Jean Lafleur, Jean Brault and Paul Coffin), they weren’t my friends, I didn’t know any of them,” Mr. Chrétien said last year. “Not one of them was a Liberal,” he added.
    However, Mr. Corbeil was a power-broker in Quebec for the Liberals, and was seen to be a member of the Chrétien wing of the party.] G&M

  36. I was just wondering if anyone else had a similar experience. I went to my son’s high school ‘end of year’ talent show and was unable to stay through the whole show because of the inability of the audience to stop talking throughout the show.
    I am not speaking of comments from time to time or enthusiastic shouts, but conversations shouted across aisles, running commentaries about the show and general inability to sit in a seat and watch the show.
    The students had worked hard to come up with sketches, introductions by the M.C.’s and recitals of brief poems. There were of course songs and dances as well.
    Despite my complaints to those around me and my request at intermission that a general announcement be made to respect the performers by someone in authority, nothing was done.
    I have to say some of this can be blamed on the modern tendency to have people in the audience join in on certain songs and of course the rock concert habit of waving arms back and forth during songs. There is a blurring of lines that does not encourage people to listen during other parts of the show.
    Nevertheless I felt I was trapped in a zoo. Some of the audience were community thugs who came to see members of their family or community and didn’t respect anyone else. I had to wonder if they had ever been to a real show in their lives.
    I asked my son if this is how things are in his classroom and he said no, but I am seriously wondering about this school, despite the hard work and talent of those on stage.

  37. The excellent Charles MacDonald has already tipped sda on this piece. Having read it, I thought it was remarkable enough to justify re-tipping. A good brief history and a most incisive account of the diasatrous, destructive psychology of the “nakba”. From a LIBERAL ARAB playwright/novelist. I’ve sent it off to a couple liberal acquaitances but am not holding my breath!
    Iraqi Author ‘Aref ‘Alwan: The Jews Have an Historic Right to Palestine
    Some of the excerpt headings:
    – The Nakba: A Great Lie
    – The Nakba Boomerang
    – The Nakba is Rooted in a Culture that Does Not — Recognize the Right of the Other
    – Refusing to Accept the Other: The Kurds in Iraq; the Christians in Egypt and Lebanon
    – The Kurds
    – The Christians in Egypt and Lebanon
    – Jews Have a Rich and Ancient History in Palestine
    – Jewish and Christian Ritual Sites in Jerusalem -Predate Muslim Sites
    – Arabs Must Recognize the Jews’ Right to Palestine

  39. “In Israeli port, Canadian frigate plays a diplomatic role
    HMCS Charlottetown entertains locals in Haifa”
    “The crew will meet Israeli officials, hold a shipboard reception and take on Israeli sailors at soccer, Armstrong reports.
    “The Canadians wanted to play hockey, but the Israelis ruled that out,” he says.”
    http://tinyurl.com/5pye5e (cbc)
    Stand with PM Harper.
    Stand with Israel.

  40. Peter VanLoan made a point of mentioning The (Ex) Liberal being charged today in the Adscam Affair. He said this in the HOC today in a rebuttle to liberal question about the search warrant, I dont know if anyone else seen this but it should be in the running for Smackdown of the Week.
    i have to preview more often as i see i even spelt my own name wrong in prior posts.

  41. Mohammedan blogger “Godblogger” mentions a “Christian” version of Fitna produced by a Saudi filmmaker, juxtaposing scenes of alleged Christian atrocities with Biblical verses. She declined to publish a link because the content is “offensive.” My reaction was simply, “If that’s the best you can offer against Christianity…”. Oh, and also to agree with the filmmaker’s own assessment of his work: “It’s cr*p.” For anyone who wishes to view it:
    Schism
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=dGw6rsQ8xHk

  42. In a statement released friday, The liberal party of Canada said: “People suspected of wrongdoing should be investigated, and their case dealt with in a court of law. With the sponsorship program, people did break the rules and misappropriated funds. They were discovered, and thanks to the actions taken by the liberal government of the day, they were punished”.
    Ok someone Please help me refresh my memory of the Punishments that were handed out?
    Banned from the liberal party,
    a Slap on the wrist in prison time,
    Or the biggest punishment, Only To The Taxpayers How not To Pay Back the Millions.

  44. Re Adscam and ‘Elections Liberal Canada’.
    I asked them in an email why they had not banned the Liberals from running in the identified ridings in Quebec in the next election.
    Elections Liberal Canada answered me by saying that the Adscam charges were only ‘allegations’.
    This was well AFTER the Liberal Party pleaded guilty and agreed to pay over $1 million back.
    Those ‘Liberal Elections Canada’ punks need their a$$es fired out the door, and replaced with intelligent, fair-minded, democratically literate Canadians.
    The Crooked Liberal Party du Quebec is rotten to the core.
    They really do need their own country.
    Then they could screw each other to their hearts content.

  45. Daniel Pipes, Is Allah God?
    Apr. 18, 2008 update: Mark Durie, an Anglican pastor in Melbourne, Australia, published Revelation? Guide for the Perplexed in 2006. It takes up in depth the question whether Christians worship the same God as Muslims. They do not, he finds…
    [Wonderful summary table]
    Revelation? carries endorsements from Bat Ye’or, Andrew Bostom, Peter Riddell, and Robert Spencer.

  46. Rocky the problem is there have been Too many years of Liberal Dominance which allowed the liberals to Stack the Playing Feild in every dept going( Remember,The arrogance of they are Entitled to their Entitlements). Only way to change it is for a complete overhaul & the only way to acheive that is for this country to Wake Up to that fact of a Liberal Dominance (Even if they don’t hold the keys to the Gov’t) & Elect a Conservative Majority Over & Over.
    Good example is your Liberal Dominated House of Sober Second thought.

  47. I rarely include a whole article in a post. This one is small & I believe a real look into the thought process of the moderate Muslim community & there unawareness of Canadian law or legalities.
    The fact they think a judgment was given when the OHRC sent out their political suicide note, condemning MacLean’s is a good indicator of how ignorant these folks are in the security of a society that has closed it self off from the main meta- culture, to keep themselves pure of Kaffir attitudes or knowledge.
    Human rights ruling was appropriate
    April 18, 2008
    Muneeza Sheikh, Naseem Mithoowani and Khurrum Awan
    RE:Right to Free Speech — April 14
    A recent Record editorial criticized the Ontario Human Rights Commission for exercising its mandate to advance human rights in Ontario by expressing “serious concerns about the content of a number of articles concerning Muslims that have been published by Maclean’s magazine and other media outlets.”
    Your dismissal of the commission’s concerns ignores the scurrilous content of these articles — particularly that of Mark Steyn’s The Future Belongs to Islam, which alleges that “enough” Muslims share the goals of terrorists and that Muslims wish to impose Islamic law on entire Western societies through a “bloody” takeover.
    The commission properly recognized that these articles, and others like them, raise “important human rights issues for the affected communities and those concerned with an appropriate balance of freedom of expression and equality.”
    In this context, the commission ruled that: “Freedom of expression should be exercised through responsible reporting and not be used as a guise to target vulnerable groups and to further increase their marginalization or stigmatization in society.”
    The commission’s statement is appropriate in light of the lack of avenues available to redress racism in media. In our case, a short letter to the editor could not address the content of the 4,800-word Maclean’s essay. Therefore, we proposed a mutually acceptable response of adequate length — an offer rebuffed by Maclean’s senior editors.
    While Canada has criminal hate speech laws, when the source of hate speech is our own mass media, they provide little protection to vulnerable minorities. All hate speech prosecutions require the attorney general’s consent — an unlikely event if the potential defendant is a large media organization. Although provincial press councils provide an avenue for reader complaints, membership is voluntary and many media organizations like Maclean’s do not subscribe.
    By taking a brave stance against the systemic Islamophobia of Maclean’s, the commission has provided hope to minorities who are on the receiving end of the media stick, far too often.
    Muneeza Sheikh, Naseem Mithoowani and Khurrum Awan
    Osgoode Hall Law School, Class of 2007
    http://news.therecord.com/Opinions/article/338520

  48. Librano$: Liberal leader Citoyen Dion knows nuttink.
    …-
    “‘$5,000 for one person, $6,000 for another’
    DANIEL LEBLANC
    Globe and Mail Update”
    ““Anyone who says they weren’t aware of it … either they’ve lost their memory or they aren’t telling the truth. Can I be any clearer?” he told then-judge John Gomery.”
    http://tinyurl.com/5tlyzm
    No comments allowed.

  49. From Steve Janke’s archives, from the days of the Gomery Inquiry, to refresh memories about Benoit Corbeil’s role, freshly arrested and charged, in The Liberal Party:
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/081598.php
    “From back on April 29, a detail that I don’t think was reported in the English language press. With regards to the appointment of lawyers to the bench in Quebec, Benoit Corbeil had alleged in a press interview that such appointments were made as a reward to Liberal party workers. From the Globe and Mail:
    Mr. Corbeil said the people who received the cash payments were part of a larger group of party supporters who worked at the Liberal Party’s headquarters in Montreal during the election campaign. He said most of that larger group were lawyers, engineers or accountants from major firms, which he said hoped to reap federal contracts after the election.
    “They don’t want to get paid right away, they want to get paid later,” he said, noting that many of the lawyers have since been named to the bench.
    But what wasn’t reported was the process by which these lawyers were selected, and the role Corbeil played in it:
    Benoit Corbeil, former general manager of the Liberal Party of Canada in Quebec, affirms that a member of the selection committee of the judges telephoned to him with some questions to know if a lawyer had militated well for the party.
    “He asked to me whether such or such lawyer had devoted much time to the party,” Mr. Corbeil during a discussion with la Presse indicated, this week. “When it was the case, I answered by the affirmative. A few weeks later, I noted that the lawyer in question had been appointed judge.”
    Mr. Corbeil must testify the next week at the Gomery commission.
    This is an automated translation of the French article with some corrections by me. I know Justice Gomery is focusing on a narrow interpretation of his mandate, but if Corbeil has names, including of one or more people on the selection committee, he needs to be interviewed under oath in a public venue.”

  50. Socialism’s “Manhattan Project” in Zimbabwe: Death.
    …-
    “Robert Mugabe ‘mobilising command centres for national terror campaign’
    Hundreds of “command centres” led by war veterans in police uniforms are being established across Zimbabwe to wage a national terror campaign, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.”
    http://tinyurl.com/5ul64u (telegraph)

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