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  2. *
    File this one under, “Dammit… he’s on to us.”
    “You’re saying Blogging Tories moderator Stephen Taylor has dispatched some sort of
    “neo-con Mossad-style hit-squad”… that’s what… out to get you?”
    “And he did this because you’re, I dunno… some beacon of brilliant geo-political light
    that must be extinguished… before the coming Harperite coup can take place?”
    *

  3. http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2008/06/04/news/top/4e608d46402d5adb8625745e00110beb.txt
    ELK POINT, S.D. – Union county approves building of new refinery.
    Here’s what’s interesting:
    Hyperion touted the so-called “green” technology in its proposed energy center, which it claims would be the world’s cleanest. The refinery would process 400,000 barrels of tar sands crude from Alberta into low-sulfur gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
    Wonder what Stelmach thinks of that.

  4. Asleep at the Wheel
    SMOKE! SMOKE! SMOKE! (THAT CIGARETTE)
    Graphic images of people smoking cigarettes;
    As Joel at PTBC says, Liberals are against that!

  6. Allan,
    thanks for the link. Ya, why aren’t we trying to get more refineries built in AB? Good on the people in SD I say.

  7. [In praise of CO2
    With less heat and less carbon dioxide, the planet could become less hospitable and less green
    Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post
    Published: Saturday, June 07, 2008]
    So why are we supposed to fight CO2 ?
    [GPP is Gross Primary Production, a measure of the daily output of the global biosphere –the amount of new plant matter on land. NPP is Net Primary Production, an annual tally of the globe’s production. Biomass is booming. The planet is the greenest it’s been in decades, perhaps in centuries.]
    Suzuki wants to make it LESS green ??
    [Why the increase? Their 2004 study, and other more recent ones, point to the warming of the planet and the presence of CO2, a gas indispensable to plant life. CO2 is nature’s fertilizer, bathing the biota with its life-giving nutrients. Plants take the carbon from CO2 to bulk themselves up — carbon is the building block of life — and release the oxygen, which along with the plants, then sustain animal life. As summarized in a report last month, released along with a petition signed by 32,000 U. S. scientists who vouched for the benefits of CO2: “Higher CO2 enables plants to grow faster and larger and to live in drier climates. Plants provide food for animals, which are thereby also enhanced. The extent and diversity of plant and animal life have both increased substantially during the past half-century.”]
    But Gore says CO2 bad.
    [Lush as the planet may now be, it is as nothing compared to earlier times, when levels of CO2 and Earth temperatures were far higher. In the age of the dinosaur, for example, CO2 levels may have been five to 10 times higher than today, spurring a luxuriantly fertile planet whose plant life sated the immense animals of that era.]
    Carbon Dioxide, nature’s natural fertilizer. More is better.
    http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=569586

  8. How many other MS XP3 computer users lost their computer use tonight. Only temporarily for me, but left many others gasping I*m sure.
    First and suddenly any menu clicked on would click off again before you could select.
    Thus your ability to do anything is lost, so you must switch it off and re-start.
    For the first time ever, this Compaq Presario comes back on and stops at the BIOS screen with a choice of . ..
    [1] Reg XP MS OS
    [2] recovery mode
    I choose [1] and find that after loading, a 3/4 pop-upscreen notice from Intel*s Flash Player tells me they have an up-date.
    Damn, I hate it when the big guys like Intel Flash Player and Adobe invade and mess up when I have never been asked or given them permission.
    Anyone else? Was it just my *03 OS burping on newer Intel code? = TG

  9. Y*know,
    I always try to lend a hand to the underdog. Even the Liberal Party, because they are sooo down and out. So this is the free advice offerd to them at CalgaryGrit.blogspot.com.
    Here*s good advice for Dion and Federal Liberals. [ They*ll never take it of course.]
    How to softly lay a carbon tax on folks without them feeling it much by;
    The conservative Gordon Campbell government of BC.
    Campbell = Scotch, get it? And you thought they were Liberals?
    First you get a lovely and sexy finance minister, then she assures us her carbon tax will be painless and everyone gets $100 this June.
    Now you must admit that is smoooth.
    I found a blurb on the Govt of BC website about the carbonTax $100, but there is no info on how to collect it or how it will be paid.
    I told you *Gordie* was conservative. eh? = TG

  12. And fresh from the CNews website, very possibly the single most moronic poll question ever asked :
    Does the Tories’ new ad campaign change your view on Stephane Dion and the Liberals?
    Yes
    No
    Not Sure
    Might I suggest their next poll question?
    Should the Sun Newspaper group invest in a logic course for their poll writers?
    Yes
    No
    What is this logic you speak of

  13. Oh, boy. Here we go down hurtling down the slippery slope of the abuse of Native children at the residential schools AGAIN.
    ‘Two weeks coming up on the CBC about “the Stolen Children.” EXCUSE ME?
    When it was suggested in the sixties that the residential schools be shut down a full 80% of Native Chiefs ASKED THAT THEY NOT BE SHUT DOWN.
    I wonder why this was? I suspect it’s because they knew they didn’t have the resources to give their children the education they needed to survive, let alone compete, in the larger North American society and recognized–like any thinking person would–that their children couldn’t/shouldn’t be restricted to life on the reservation/trapline.
    Now we’ve got the federal government apologizing today for the “scandal” of the residential schools and the CBC using the Church as a whipping boy, yet again. I’m beginning to wonder who’s abusing who here. The CBC seems to like the sadism thing, as they never stop scourging the Christian Churches for the abuse at residential schools.
    First, anyone who genuinely abused a Native child–and where there is proof beyond a doubt–should have the book thrown at them.
    Second, most of the teachers at the residential schools were good and decent people, working under very difficult conditions for a pittance to try to help Native children learn to talk, read, and write in English–the language of the majority, after all, in North America, like it or not. For any Native child to have “equal opportunity” with other North American children (isn’t that what bleeding-heart liberals say they want?) they would need to speak, read, and write English. One will notice that it wasn’t corporate Canada that offered to furnish teachers to the residential schools, nor did government departments pony up THEIR employees to live in the North, for very little financial recompense. No, it was the Christian Churches the government asked to take on this very difficult task.
    And who’s getting it in the jugular now? Why, yes, the Christian Churches–while the lawyers rake in the BIG BUCKS. No good deed goes unpunished.
    Third, why don’t we look at Native abuse of Natives? Why don’t we hear the stories of the many Native children who said they BENEFITED from the residential schools because they were being beaten up at home and not fed or taken care of properly? Where are these stories? I heard a few years ago, when the lets’s-blame-the-Churches propaganda began in the media, the CBC being the worst, and most gleeful, perpetrator of anti-Christian crapola, but in the past few years, total silence on that front.
    Why are we continuing with the charade of “the Noble Savage”? The Natives are lily-white in all of this and it’s the Churches that are totally and utterly to blame?
    ‘Just more let’s-make-it-up-as-we-go-along by the lawyers and the lib-left hordes. They feel good about their scapegoat, the Church, and in perpetrating the false myth that it’s the Church alone that is to blame for abuse at residential schools, they do not only the Church and society a great disservice they make a mockery of the real abuse taking place–either at the schools or at home, at the rez.
    Down Alice’s Rabbit Hole, for sure.

  16. “The truth is that the biggest enemy of Islam is the Muslims themselves, because they have relinquished all decency in dealing with others, as well as the courage to oppose oppression…””
    “Arab Columnists: Islam Has Been Harmed More By Muslims than By the West
    The recent re-publication of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad by the Danish press and release of Dutch MP Geert Wilders’ film “Fitna” have precipitated a wave of Muslim protest, some of it violent, throughout the world. Following these developments, several Arab columnists wrote to condemn the violent reactions, arguing that the Muslims themselves had committed iniquity against both their coreligionists and everyone else, thereby harming the name of Islam.
    The following are excerpts from some of the articles:
    Islam’s Biggest Enemy is the Muslims Themselves
    In an article in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa, titled “Muslims Against Islam,” Kuwaiti liberal Dr. Ahmad Al-Baghdadi wrote: “In most countries around the world, Muslims broke into Danish Embassies, setting fire to them, and called for a ban on Danish imports… They have also launched a satellite TV channel and organized various committees and institutions, with the sole purpose of defending the Prophet [Muhammad] and the Islamic religion… Have the Muslims ever taken account of the tremendous iniquities they themselves have committed and are still committing against Islam [within and outside] the Islamic countries?
    “Let us examine the following problems, which I will briefly outline below:
    “How many prisoners are locked up in Muslim prisons for their opinions, ideas, and cultural identity? Is it in the spirit of Islam that Muslims are fleeing their homeland for ‘heretical’ countries in order to attain security and live in dignity?… Is it in the spirit of Islam to be silent in the face of the tyranny of rulers? Is it in the spirit of Islam that one family should rule over an entire people? Is it in the spirit of Islam that some Muslim countries abound in magnificent palaces while 60% of their population is illiterate? Is it in the spirit of Islam to turn a blind eye to a billionaire’s several profligate satellite channels, whose programs make a mockery of religion and morality, only because [this billionaire] has [also] launched a religious channel?… The truth is that the biggest enemy of Islam is the Muslims themselves, because they have relinquished all decency in dealing with others, as well as the courage to oppose oppression…””
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028232/posts

  17. TG
    I thought you were going to buy a new computer last year?
    Having read through the previous post regarding the “line drawing” I read that the Gov’t of BC was going to impose a cartoon tax of $100. ah the things we read half awake…
    and on a related censorship note:
    http://aussie_news_views.typepad.com has been instructed by typepad to delete files and postings over the past few days… a little bit too politically incorrect? he wasn’t toeing their line?
    I haven’t been able to access the link that even lead me there, it seems to me last night it was from http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com
    and this morning I can’t reach atlasshrugs either?
    hmmmm…
    *ominous thoughts*

  18. “The environmental implications of his analysis, based on more than 30 years inside the industry, will alarm environmentalists who have exploited the concept of peak oil to press the urgency of the need to find greener alternatives.”
    “Oil shortage a myth, says industry insider”
    http://tinyurl.com/5p6xez (independent)

  19. RAND Counterinsurgency Study, vol. 4:
    Seth G. Jones, Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
    This study explores the nature of the insurgency in Afghanistan, the key challenges and successes of the U.S.-led counterinsurgency campaign, and the capabilities necessary to wage effective counterinsurgency operations. By examining the key lessons from all insurgencies since World War II, it finds that most policymakers repeatedly underestimate the importance of indigenous actors to counterinsurgency efforts. The U.S. should focus its resources on helping improve the capacity of the indigenous government and indigenous security forces to wage counterinsurgency. It has not always done this well. The U.S. military-along with U.S. civilian agencies and other coalition partners-is more likely to be successful in counterinsurgency warfare the more capable and legitimate the indigenous security forces (especially the police), the better the governance capacity of the local state, and the less external support that insurgents receive.
    [Summary and full document available in PDF only.]

  20. Spengler, The day the slacker died
    Americans have to work harder, save more, and defer gratification. Instead of spending four years in a non-stop party at a taxpayer-subsidized state university, the middling American student will work during the day, go to night school, and save for a dozen years to buy his or her first house (at a much lower price than the present owner paid for it). They will stop complaining about boring jobs and oppressive bosses, and feel grateful to have the work. Their parents won’t bail them out; in fact, their parents will postpone retirement and work an additional 10 or 15 years.
    It’s not going to be fun, but there’s no helping it. The sooner Americans reconcile themselves to a tighter belt and a longer day, the better.

  23. Here is the “money” quote from the “Britain’s climate target ‘impossible'” :
    The report says dangerous temperature rises could be avoided by a ‘step change’ in emissions reductions. To do this, the thinktank advocates a global cap on production of fossil fuels which would be auctioned to energy generators to raise money to compensate producers and pay developing nations to help adapt. ‘Wealth transfer isn’t an addendum, it’s the most important part of carbon policy, because without it the developing world won’t introduce emissions reductions and without emissions reductions we won’t have lower temperatures,’ Domjan added.
    There is the plan – global governance, cap,compensate,wealth transfer. Everyone but the taxpayer gets richer.

  24. The Brits are paying about $9 per gallon for gas now.
    Talk of adding more tax to that horrendous price would be out of the question if a party ever expected to be re-elected, right?
    Wrong! Amazingly. . .
    ** Last year, Mr Cameron welcomed a Tory policy review that called for VED on the most polluting cars to be up to £500 more than for the greenest vehicles and a showroom tax of up to 10 per cent on * gas guzzlers *.
    Allies say he now believes it is not the right time to ** clobber the motorist ** further at a time of rising petrol prices and when families are feeling the pinch as the economy slows. Last night the Tories denied the party was abandoning the *green agenda* which became a symbol of Mr Cameron’s modernising drive.
    ** We will increase the proportion of taxation raised through green taxes by rebalancing taxation away from taxing * good * things, like jobs and investment, towards taxing * bad * things, like pollution and carbon emissions,** said a party source.
    http://tinyurl.com/6rx2hx
    =========== Independant.co.UK
    Dion and the LPC would lead us into this quicksand. Tax tax tax to nirvannah. = TG

  25. Charitable giving: Left VS Right.
    Right: we give money to charity.
    Left: we’re compassionate (unlike those evil, heartless conservatives) because we steal conservative’s money and donate it to charity.
    http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13329
    Best comparason:
    “Senator John Kerry likewise has a poor record. In 1995 he gave zero to charity, but did spend $500,000 to buy a half stake in a seventeenth century painting. In 1993, he gave $175 to the needy.”
    “In 2005, Vice President Dick Cheney gave away 77 percent of his income to charity. He was actually criticized by some liberal bloggers for this, who claimed he was getting too much of a tax deduction.”
    Read it all.

  26. Your U.N. at Work:
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121279497528053595.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
    The General Assembly of the United Nations voted this week to elect Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann as its new president. Readers with a long memory will recall Father D’Escoto (he’s a Catholic priest) as Nicaragua’s foreign minister during the Sandinista regime of the 1980s. He’s also the winner of the 1985 Lenin Prize. Only at the U.N. does that count as a recommendation.
    The U.N. also voted to name the government of Burma – which otherwise has been busy preventing humanitarian assistance from reaching hundreds of thousands of its own needy victims of last month’s devastating cyclone – as one of the Assembly’s vice presidents. Only at the U.N. is this not considered an embarrassment.

  27. GLBT (Pride) parade in Calgary last Sat – see Calgary Herald (Monday).
    “several hundreds parading” – “several thousands looking on/cheering”. Parade Marshal was a proud Darren Lund, the recent winner in the AB HRC lottery conducted by the ‘roos. Have to wonder if Lori A. was also celebrating.
    I could care less about the parade – a pity that some can/do so easily look to the AB Court of ‘Roos so the likes of Andreachuck have the opportunity to make ludicrous awards such as she made last week in an attempt to further enforce political correctness and shut up the majority.

  28. The Ontario Court of Appeal recently upheld an award of nearly $2.1 million to a former employee of Brewers Retail Inc., who was falsely accused of stealing $160 from the cash drawer.
    tinyurl.com/57c9jw

  29. Down Alice’s Rabbit Hole, for sure.
    Posted by: batb at June 9, 2008 7:35 AM
    Here is what has not been in the MSM.
    Blackwater v. Plint, [2005] 3 S.C.R. 3, 2005 SCC 58
    “Held: B’s appeal is dismissed. Canada’s appeal is allowed in part.”
    “First, the language of the provisions uses the permissive term “may”, as opposed to the directive term “shall”, limiting the possibility of finding an obligation as strong as a duty.”
    “Second, the power of the government to enter into agreements with religious organizations for the care and education of Indian children suggests that the duty is eminently delegable and was contracted out of by the government.”
    “First, in the absence of evidence that B’s family difficulties prior to coming to the school had exacerbated the damage B suffered from the sexual assaults he sustained at the school, the trial judge had no choice but to attempt to isolate those traumas and to confine damages to only those arising from the actionable torts, the sexual assaults.”
    “Second, to permit damages to be awarded for wrongful acts that are subject to limitation periods that have expired would subvert the legislation and compensate for torts that have been alleged but not proven. It would be to override legislative intent, and fix liability in the absence of legal proof.”
    How can you certify as a class action statute barred (invalid or out of time) claims (attendance only)? The mysteries of the courts. Why are lawyers paid millions for filing statute barred claims? Those sneaky liberals.
    I hope the abusive teachers are on hand to explain their abuse of the native children and also the white children that attended church run schools.

  30. Down Alice’s Rabbit Hole, for sure.
    Posted by: batb at June 9, 2008 7:35 AM
    Here is more lawyer payolla.
    Government of Canada Contracts
    Contract- 5N001-070001/001/ZG-000
    Sep 18, 2007- 1 @ $2,505,944
    Nov 05, 2007- 43 @ $1,580,776
    Trade Agreement- WTO-AGP/NAFTA/AIT
    Commodity- Legal Services or Adjudication Services
    Client Department Office- Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada
    Total of Contracts $70,479,312

  31. Uh oh. Our very own Alberta raised bureaucrat and lightweight – Jim Prentice – is about to release the single biggest retro-tax on consumer entertainment you can get:
    “And this broad approach could brand as lawbreakers consumers who use circumvention devices to copy legally purchased material, including music and movies, for personal use.”
    “Instead, the law could end up making it illegal for anyone to bypass security on material they already own — either to transfer music from a copy-protected CD to a computer or music player, crack a region-coded DVD or video game from Europe or Asia to play on their Canadian DVD player or console, or to copy portions of electronic books.”
    Ready to have to re-purchase those VHS tapes, and re-buy all of your DVD’s in BluRay in 5 years?
    There’s more….
    “While the new bill will likely be updated to make expressly legal the “time shifting” of television programs through widely used personal video recorders, there will be a catch. The bill’s anti-circumvention provisions could also mean that if broadcasters block the ability to digitally record certain shows through digital flags, consumers would not be able to get around that lock legally.”
    Looks like the broadcasters are finally able to turn their enterprises into honest to goodness public utilities. Selectively branding and pricing their product, not as a matter of what television signals you have already purchased through the cable company, they’ll be able to limit and restrict your convienience too. All it’ll take to fix is you having to pay…
    How’s them Cons working out for your interests, lovers of freedom and liberty? Maybe they look at you like a farmer looks at a cow on their feed lot.
    Your freedoms are to be harvested by a lightweight Red Tory cabinet minister owned and paid for.
    “….if Canada signs on to the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), to be tabled next month at the G8 summit in Japan…Details of the international deal, recently leaked on the Internet, could require ISPs to filter out pirated material, hand over the identities of customers accused of copyright infringement, and restrict the use of online privacy tools.”
    http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=15613203-dff7-440b-baf4-507fd01637da

  32. An interesting letter to the Citizen from a woman who taught at a residential school. I have actually met this woman — she is 90 now and has written a book about her experiences in the North. As she indicates, it is important to look at all sides of this issue:
    http://tinyurl.com/629d4z

  34. Well CNews is two fer two today. The next moronic poll?
    Should fuel prices dictate what missions Canada’s armed forces should carry out?
    And the 80 people who have voted yes? There is hope with the 400 who voted no.

  35. Hmm. I had always thought Christians to be of the tolerant, accepting sorts. Guess this Bishop hasn’t gotten the memo.
    “An Italian bishop has reportedly told a young paraplegic he cannot have a church wedding because he is impotent, despite his fiancee being aware of the problem.
    Salvatore de Ciuco, spokesman for Bishop Lorenzo Chiarinelli of Viterbo in central Italy, told SkyTG24 television: “No bishop, no priest can celebrate a wedding when he knows of admitted impotence as it is a motive for annulment” of the marriage.
    The 26-year-old groom, who took part in a civil marriage ceremony on Saturday in Viterbo, has been paraplegic since he was involved in a car accident. The curate of the parish who was banned from marrying the couple was present at the ceremony.”
    http://www.smh.com.au

  36. CTV’s disingenuous/misleading headline.
    Rewrite headline:
    “Hate crime” less than one percent (>1%) of all crimes in Canada.
    …-
    CTV headline:
    “Usual targets of Canadian hate crime: race, ethnicity”
    “”Hate crime in Canada,” published Monday by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, states that hate crimes made up only a small proportion of total offences in 2006, accounting for less than 1 per cent of all criminal incidents reported by police.”
    http://tinyurl.com/6zkkkx
    (Notice the tinyurl!)

  37. Jeanie is out of the bottle.
    …-
    “Supremacist group praises Liberal MP’s proposal
    The Canadian Press
    OTTAWA — A Liberal MP is being hailed as a poster boy for free speech on a white supremacist website.
    Victoria MP Keith Martin was praised Friday”
    “Liberal Leader Stephane Dion’s office disavowed the motion and suggested Martin will be asked to withdraw it.
    “This is not the position of the Liberal Party of Canada or the Liberal caucus or Mr. Dion,” said spokeswoman Leslie Swartman.
    “We support the Canadian Human Rights Act and will not entertain changes to it such as this.”
    But Martin said he won’t back down, arguing that it’s his right and duty as a parliamentarian to introduce private member’s bills that address issues of importance to his constituents.”
    http://tinyurl.com/6xqhw3 (ctv)
    …-
    Meanwhile from lib.caca, Citoyen’s latest media release:
    “Conservatives Should Stand Up for Hockey Night in Canada Theme”

  38. OK, first off, someone actually has a website set up for “illegal signs”. Secondly, they’re actually taking the Conservatives to task for possibly broadcasting their ads on ALL the screens at a service station at the same time, thereby contravening a Toronto bylaw that prohibits any ad larger than 0.2meters……Dalton would be proud.
    http://spacing.ca/wire/2008/06/09/conservatives-flout-sign-laws/

  39. (Via SWJ) Azadeh Moaveni, Sympathy for the Great Satan
    On a recent afternoon, while riding a rickety bus down Vali Asr Avenue, Tehran’s main thoroughfare, I overheard two women discussing the grim state of Iranian politics. One of them had reached a rather desperate conclusion. “Let the Americans come,” she said loudly. “Let them sort things out for us once and for all.” Everyone in the women’s section of the bus absorbed this casually, and her friend nodded in assent.
    Although their leaders still call America the “Great Satan,” ordinary Iranians’ affection for the United States seems to be thriving these days, at least in the bustling capital…

  42. What is socialist Citoyen Dion’s immigration policy today?
    Cut’n’run; abstain; hide behind the curtains; no show; send in a few clowns; help Taliban Jack-Duceppe kneecap the government forcing a summer election?
    Stay tuned.
    …-
    “Parliament to vote on Tory immigration changes
    Liberals debate defeating government on confidence matter”
    “Reluctant to face an election with opinion polls showing a lack of enthusiasm for his leadership, Dion and his party have been abstaining or not showing up for key parliamentary votes for months now.”
    (cbc)

  43. “CTV/TSN have aquired the rights to the Hockey Song”
    Thats the best news i have read today & the best laugh i have had, Looks good on the CBC.

  44. “the bison herds were in terminal decline even before the arrival of white hunters.”
    The Comanches should apologise.
    …-
    “Frank McLynn
    SPARTANS OF THE PLAINS
    The Comanche Empire
    “As everyone except a handful of Native American fundamentalists now accepts, the bison herds were in terminal decline even before the arrival of white hunters. There had originally been seven million ‘buffalo’ on the southern plains but by the 1860s, before the frenzy of the white bison hunters, half of these had already been killed by the Indians. Put simply, by the end of the 1840s there were too many Comanches raising too many horses and hunting too many bison on too small a land base.”
    http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/mclynn_06_08.html
    …-
    “Apology will ring false for those denied compensation: spokesman
    OTTAWA – As the prime minister gets set to apologize Wednesday for decades of abuse in native residential schools, thousands of former students say they’re still owed compensation.”
    (canpress)

  45. Got any old VHS tapes you want to convert to DVD?Lose a CD – want to get it off of your iPod? Record a TV show for viewing at a more convienient time? better get your wallet out.
    Our very own bureaucrat and intellectual lightweight Jim Prentice will ensure you float his lobbyist’s boats.
    “But observers say absence of a U.S.-style “notice and takedown” system under Canadian copyright law could be meaningless if Canada signs on to the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), to be tabled next month at the G8 summit in Japan. Details of the international deal, recently leaked on the Internet, could require ISPs to filter out pirated material, hand over the identities of customers accused of copyright infringement, and restrict the use of online privacy tools.”
    Uh Oh. Looks like your wallet has been pried open, and awaiting inspection. At least politicians are consistent…
    http://tinyurl.com/45z65e

  47. Socialist Citoyen Dion’s Carbon Tax Everything Tax floats like a lead balloon.
    It’s another albatross ’round Citoyen’s neck.
    …-
    “CFRA Polls
    The Conservatives have unveiled election-style attack ads entitled “The Dion Tax Trick”. The
    spots state Stephane Dion would introduce a carbon tax that would increase the price of gas and just about everything else.
    This will backfire on the Conservatives; the spots
    are annoying and misleading. 23.8%
    This is a good tactic for the Conservatives, the Liberal’s “Green Tax” is a terrible policy that should be exploited. 76.1%
    Total Votes: 1193″
    http://www.cfra.com/polls/default.asp

  48. Studying can be tough, especially when 40% of you who flunk are ‘destined’ to poverty….
    “But with only six million university places, many risk disappointment. In today’s increasingly market-oriented China, where high school and university are now the norm for urban populations, the results posted online at the end of the month will decide not only who will go on to further education but can also determine the future of the students and their families.
    ‘The gaokao now sets up your future life and your future social status,’ said Professor Lao Kaisheng, a top education specialist. ‘If you are poor, it can make you rich. If you are rich, it can make you poor. The exams are one of the very few ways to change your life in modern China. They are critical to social mobility.’
    http://tinyurl.com/5xyyhs
    Ever get the notion that Western society might have a more difficult time competing into the future?

  49. In related news….
    The latest statistics showed how students’ eyesight markedly degenerates as they forge their way through China’s hyper-competitive education system, squinting at Chinese characters and scientific formulas in often dimly lit libraries.
    Just 31.7 percent of primary school students suffered from impaired vision but 82.7 percent of university students were so afflicted, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
    http://tinyurl.com/3rg2x4

  50. A young Native has just blamed the residential schools for the fact that “my grandpa beat up my grandma.”
    Yup. Blame the schools. Blame the Churches. Blame the government–that would be all Canadians. But never demand any personal responsibility.
    As I commented at another blog:
    …our Native populations are still in crisis, over 40 years after residential schools were shut down. So, who’s to blame now? Who’s to blame after [the government’s] bogus apology?

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