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  3. Margaret Trudeau:
    “I shouldn’t have got off. I was over the limit… I honestly did not know that I had had too much to drink,” Trudeau told an audience of occupational therapists at the University of Toronto. “It was a very humiliating, horrible, awful, expensive life lesson.”
    http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/449347
    Riddle me this: Margaret Trudeau now admits that she was over the limit and that she did, indeed, drive drunk. Why, oh why, did she fight her DUI charges in court?? Why did she waste the court’s time and resources to weasel out and get off on a technicality instead of standing up, taking RESPONSIBILITY for her actions and plead guilty??
    If she had admitted she was at fault, been willing to be held accountable for her actions and taken the sentence the court meted out, we could have all looked to her as a fine example of a mature person taking personal responsibility for their mistakes – an example we are sorely lacking these days.
    Instead we are left with a whiny, privileged, aging, baby boomer playing the perpetual victim and dodging the consequences of their breaking of the law.
    Margaret Trudeau and her supreme inability to take responsibility is an example our young people, our nation, heck our world, needs a lot less.
    She has one more lesson to learn in life: Take responsibility for your actions!

  5. Thanks for this Drained. In Canada She would be charged with murder, her gun would have been seized, the friend who lent it to her would be charged, or it’s possible the 9/11 operator would have talked to the intruder and determined nothing was wrong due to the 6 previous complaints as happened in Abbotsford. Perhaps I’m being a little harsh with our justice system in Canada, but then…

  7. I saw a couple of interesting items while riding through S. Saskatchewan yesterday. We were on our way from Swift Current to Weyburn. A Dept. of Highways crew was patching #43 west of Gravelbourg. Terrible HWY. Beautiful sunny day, not a breath of wind, 28 deg. C. At precisely 4:00 PM, everything stopped, the crew headed home. This is after sitting around the shop all winter, as there was virtually no snow in S. Sask in 2007-08.
    Then we stopped in Gravelbourg for coffee, and to visit friends. Beautiful town!! Parked in front of the PFRA office- a Government of Canada car–2007 Subaru. Talk about supporting your own country!! We forgave them, they were feds from head office (PFRA) Regina. (Get it?–gov–cult-Regina!!) We’re heading for Weyburn in the morning.

  10. Yellow journalism. Yellow science?
    Journalistic malpractice? Scientific malpractice?
    …-
    “If yellow science overcomes real science it will not only be on account of the greed, ambition, and cowardice of our scientists but also the sloth and cowardice of a public that is unwilling to stand up and demand professionalism.”
    “This is why, as the editors of the New York Press said in 1897, I “called them yellow because they are yellow.””
    “Yellow Science
    By JAMES KERIAN
    June 25, 2008
    In the late 19th century, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer developed what would come to be known as yellow journalism. By disregarding what had been standard journalistic methods, particularly in regards to the verifying of sources, these two publishers were able both to push their country toward war with Spain and dramatically increase the circulation of their respective newspapers.”
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121433436381900681.html
    The writer is an engineer. The group most feared by Exterminator socialist-communist Joe Stalin was not the intelligentsia; Stalin feared engineers the most. Why? What are the traits of an engineer which caused Stalin to fear engineers? Solzhenitsyn was an engineer.

  11. Angry is an engineer. Libsocialist Citoyen Dion is a “professional” sociologist, a product of the pseudo-false-phony “science’ of sociology.
    Follow the yellow science of Dion, aka the shining path of socialism? Follow the science of the engineers?
    The public must choose. Journalism has chosen yellow journalism; science must choose now.
    To the engineers: The public is confused. Help.
    …-
    “Skipping the problem of replacing the fuel source
    I swing between amusement and frustration when I read comments from well-meaning environmentalist types who think that if all bought electric cars, we wouldn’t need oil.
    It belies a fundamental ignorance of how the world works, and makes me nervous about these people ever being in charge.
    In particular, I’m looking at a comment on the Liberal Party discussion board, in which the person posting says the world will be so different in 10 years when we stop using petroleum to power transportation having switched to electricity.
    I shake my head. What did they teach these people in science class in high school?
    Here is the quote in question from the Liberal Party forum on Social Development, as written by Margaret81:
    Detroit’s big automakers are slashing jobs, closing factories and undertaking costly revamps of their product strategies to cope with $4 a gallon gas.
    “For once we actually have viable alternatives and exciting technology that are really game changers” in the effort to wean transportation from petroleum, says Mike Jackson, chairman and chief executive officer of Auto Nation Inc.
    It’s entirely possible that a decade from now, we’ll realize that this was a pivotal moment in the auto industry’s history. This could be the moment when a century of relying almost exclusively on petroleum to power personal mobility gives way to a new model, in which electricity powers our transportation.
    God save us from well-meaning but scientifically ignorant people. Their hearts are in the right place.
    Unfortunately, they speak in gibberish.
    Petroleum is a fuel source. Electricity is not a fuel source.
    I should be able to stop this entry right here and now, but I have a feeling people still won’t get it.”
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/267404.php

  12. Flag flap over flag not flapping
    Bracebridge defies protocol by securing Maple Leaf in rigid aluminum frames
    …”My personal feeling is that they are not being denigrated the way they are being flown, although they don’t meet protocol,” said Coates….
    http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/449533

  14. “No compromise from Mohawks
    First Nations people should not have to purchase land that is rightfully theirs, a spokesman for the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte said Tuesday.”
    http://tinyurl.com/5ngu7b (jacks)
    …-
    Mohawks = Iroquois.
    “and then perhaps some people conquering our world would boast, like the Iroquois, of having devoured seventy nations.”
    “The Motives That Ought to Encourage Us to the Sciences”
    http://tinyurl.com/6djcnj (newatlantis)

  15. the mohawks were just a normal example of when a stone age culture meets a modern age culture. there was a technological gap of nearly 4000 years, other than the mesoamericas , the natives hadnt even got to the bronze age. the mexico tribes worked with metal but only for decoration , meeting Spanish flint and steel with flint tipped wood.

  16. What was socialist Citoyen Dion & Coy’s strategy yesterday? Coy.
    What is his strategy today?
    More Coy?
    C’est possible, Coy says, to vote for the bully Harper.
    …-
    “a coy Dion said his MPs could also continue to abstain on key votes to keep the Harper government alive, as they did through the winter. “It’s possible,””
    [Quack quack quack; the CoyDuck quacks:]
    ““I don’t think that is an optimal way to have an election that I’m convinced will not decide only the next four years, but the next 40 years, the direction it will give to this country,” he said. “I would like to have an election where people are in an optimal situation to focus on the importance of this election for themselves, their children and their grandchildren the first day of the election, not only the last week.””
    http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2008/06/26/5988426-sun.html

  18. cal2, have you read the essay by Montesquieu?
    “The Motives That Ought to Encourage Us to the Sciences”
    http://tinyurl.com/6djcnj (newatlantis)
    “It wasn’t courage the Americans [Aztecs, Incas] lacked, but only the hope of success. Thus, a bad principle of philosophy – the ignorance of a physical cause – paralyzed in a moment all the forces of two great empires”
    The Spaniard Pizarro expected to be killed. Pizarro did burn his boats behind him.
    As Montesquieu says, it was the “power invisible” to them which destroyed the Aztecs/Incas.

  21. Dr. Andrew Bostom, “The Tax Paid In Lieu of Being Slain”—And The Murder of Iraqi Archbishop Rahho
    The New York Times (June 26, 2008) has published a somber account of the recent murder of Iraqi Archbishop Rahho, and how the Iraqi Christian population has been subjected to the full recrudescence of dhimmitude, punctuated by the re-application of the jizya—the Koranic (Koran 9:29) poll tax on non-Muslims, whose etymology, as per the seminal Arabic lexicographer, E.W. Lane, belies its origins: “the tax paid in lieu of being slain.”
    Here is a classical formulation of the jizya—the cornerstone of the repressive system of jihad-imposed dhimmitude…

  22. Robert Spencer, George Orwell meets the OIC
    “We sent a clear message to the West regarding the red lines that should not be crossed.”
    That sounds like the statement of a victor in a war, dictating terms to the vanquished. And it may well be: free speech is under attack in Canada — the prosecution of Macleans Magazine and author Mark Steyn — and in the United States as well by Islamic governments and groups whose goal is to end free speech when it is aimed at exposing the truth about Islamic terrorism and its roots…

  23. Liberal Ad$Cam Citoyen Dion’s “bo$$” Not Guilty; exonerated by Judge Max Teitelbaum.
    Ad$Cam “bo$$” Jeancula Chretien exonerated.
    Ad$Cam Martin, Jr., was exonerated by then-Judge Gomery.
    The Liberal brown envelope theory has been disproven.
    The word Ad$Cam is to be banned, forever. Say goodnight, Ad$Cam. Goodnight Ad$Cam.
    All the rest is silence.
    …-
    “Chretien wins Federal Court battle to set aside Gomery findings
    June 26, 2008
    OTTAWA – The Federal Court has struck down Justice John Gomery’s 2005 finding that former prime minister Jean Chretien bore some responsibility for the federal sponsorship scandal that rocked the Liberal government.
    Judge Max Teitelbaum ruled today”
    http://www.660news.com/news/national/article.jsp?content=n062625A

  24. Following the big ‘pardon’ of the cretin,the old coffin-dodger Craig Oliver on ctv was peeing in his pants with excitement.It was the most animated I’ve seen the Lib-toad for a long time!Interesting how everything Lib is good..everthing Cons deserves derision and scepticism.

  26. (Via Israpundit) Bruce Bawer, The Times, It Ain’t a-Changin’
    Just imagine the world picture of somebody whose primary — or even (God forbid!) sole — source of news is the New York Times.
    In particular, imagine that person’s image of Islam — and of the problems and issues surrounding the growing presence of Islam in the West today…

  27. Colin Hansen (newly minted Minister of Finance) has a handy tip regarding the tax to stop global warming. Don’t run your air conditioner in your car when it’s 12 degrees outside – just open the window … you’ll save more than the tax takes!!!
    It’s June 26, it is 12 outside.

  29. Canadian Human Rights Tribunals and Canadian Human Rights Commissions are now supreme in Canada.
    The HRCs/Tribunals are the de facto/de jure rulers of Canada.
    Canada is now a totalitarian state.
    The HRCS/Tribunals are the official Censors in Canada.
    Freedom of Speech in Canada is dead/abolished/kaput.
    …-
    “Top court spurns former MP’s appeal
    OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal from a former MP who wants to quash a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal investigation of a 2003 mail-out he sent to constituents.
    Jim Pankiw, who served two terms as a Reform and Canadian Alliance MP for the Saskatchewan riding of Saskatoon-Humboldt, has contended that the tribunal has no jurisdiction over what an MP says in his householder pamphlets.”
    http://tinyurl.com/67on8o (g-m)

  30. steve janke at Angry in the Great White North has done some interesting calculations on Dion’s Tax Shaft.
    He says that, with regard to ‘carbon emission redutions” and Dion’s claim made during
    “a 75-minute session with Sun Media’s editorial board in Toronto, Dion predicted his proposed carbon tax will trigger large reductions by 2012, building momentum that he hopes will reach a 20% drop by 2020. But he can’t forecast how fast emissions will decrease in the short term.
    “I’m confident we will have significant reductions. I’m not telling you specific numbers because you would not trust me,” he said.”
    Steve Janke then writes:
    “Large reductions by 2012? But my own calculations as well as calculations from other sources support the same conclusion. The revenue figures stated by the Liberals for Year 4 of their plan (which would be 2013 assuming the Liberals started the tax in 2009) show emissions at essentially the same level. Strictly speaking, the Liberal carbon tax plan seems to predict higher emissions, but I’ll pass on that point since we’re talking about numbers that are rounded this way and that.
    But I’m certainly not seeing “large reductions” in emissions in 2012. Not even a hint of reductions. I see a carbon tax plan that assumes that emissions will remain steady, guaranteeing $15 billion in new revenue to support Liberal Party spending, and doing not one bit of good for the environment.”
    GOT THAT? There won’t and can’t be ANY CARBON EMISSION reductions in Dion’s plan. Indeed, Dion’s money-transfers, where he hands out cash to voters, requires that the carbon emissions remain the same, or higher. Otherwise he won’t get the money for his vote-buying.
    But, Dion won’t explain his assertion that there will be ‘large reductions’. He won’t give any year by year details. No final result. He won’t provide any details of his strategy for reducing emissions.
    Remember, in his Green Shaft plan, none of the money goes to develop new technology for clean plants. None goes to low interest loans to enable factories to install new technology. It all goes in vote-buying.
    And Dion shifts the blame for his lack of details, on to you, the voter. He says you ‘won’t trust’ him. Heh. How true.

  31. The Micmac, aka Mi’kmaq, participated in the extermination of the Beothuk Indians* of Newfoundland.
    …-
    “Aboriginals: Apology without action will fade away like fireworks
    By Bob Weber, THE CANADIAN PRESS”
    “”Call me up in a year’s time,” said Mi’kmaq Grand Chief Ben Sylliboy of Cape Breton, N.S., who was forced into a residential school at age 6 with his two sisters.
    “They make it sound good, but they don’t follow up on what they’re saying.””
    …-
    History records this:
    *”The unfortunate Beothuk was thus crushed out of existence by the white man and the invading Micmac.”
    http://www.canadiangenealogy.net/micmac-indians.htm

  33. Pssst! Be careful! The Brown Shirts are in the audience. “We geht’s?”*
    …-
    “Did you hear the one about the Joke Police?
    Guy Earle, a Toronto comedian, must now stand trial before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal on the charge of telling unfunny jokes.
    That sounds like a joke itself, but it’s not.
    In May, 2007, Earle was hosting a comedy night at Zesty’s restaurant in Vancouver. He says a couple of lesbians came in, got drunk and starting making out right in front of the stage. He said they also heckled him and other comedians.
    In other words, like anyone else — gay, straight or otherwise — they set themselves up for some wise-cracks. And crack wise Earle did.
    But didn’t he know he was in the People’s Republic of British Columbia?”
    http://ezralevant.com/
    …-
    *Cabaret.
    “Emcee:
    “Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!
    Fremde, etranger, stranger.
    Gluklich zu sehen, je suis enchante,
    Happy to see you, bleibe, reste, stay.
    Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome
    Im Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret
    [Spoken]
    Meine Damen und Herren, Mesdames et Messieurs,
    Ladies and Gentlemen! Guden Abend, bon soir,
    We geht’s? Comment ca va? Do you feel good?
    I bet you do!
    Ich bin euer Confrecier; je suis votre compere…
    I am you host!”

  34. …and other events not effecting sea ice.
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/sciencegeologyoceansvolcano
    Recent massive volcanoes have risen from the ocean floor deep under the Arctic ice cap, spewing plumes of fragmented magma into the sea, scientists who filmed the aftermath reported Wednesday.
    The eruptions — as big as the one that buried Pompei — took place in 1999 along the Gakkel Ridge, an underwater mountain chain snaking 1,800 kilometres (1,100 miles) from the northern tip of Greenland to Siberia.
    Scientists suspected even at the time that a simultaneous series of earthquakes were linked to these volcanic spasms.
    But when a team led of scientists led by Robert Sohn of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts finally got a first-ever glimpse of the ocean floor 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) beneath the Arctic pack ice, they were astonished.
    What they saw was unmistakable evidence of explosive eruptions rather than the gradual secretion of lava bubbling up from Earth’s mantle onto the ocean floor.
    Previous research had concluded that this kind of so-called pyroclastic eruption could not happen at such depths due to the crushing pressure of the water.
    ————————–
    The above in no way detracts from Kaptain Kyoto’s warning that all is lost.

  35. Obama’s plan to fund the world’s poor with US tax dollars (845 billion of them) is up for a vote.
    Hopefully, it will be swiftly veto’d by Bush and the American taxpayer.
    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/06/obamas_global_tax_bill_coming.html
    The Global Poverty Act of 2007 (S.2433) is coming up for a Senate vote sometime after the July 4 recess, according the office of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Once Harry Reid and the Democrat leadership put it on the calendar, we could have as little as a week to prepare for the vote.
    The bill is sponsored in the Senate by Barack Obama.
    If passed, it will cost taxpayers $845,000,000,000 over the next 13 years, in addition to our current foreign aid expenditures.
    And the best part is that it will be administered in conjunction with…brace yourselves…the United Nations. The same one of “Food-for-Oil” fame.
    It passed (H.R. 1302) earlier by a unanimous voice vote in the House.
    It’s about global income redistribution. Their distribution – our income.
    Heard much debate about it? Ah, it’s only 8.5 tenths of a trillion.

  36. What is Libsocialist Citoyen Dion’s most recent policy/confession?
    *Read his lips: I am a liar; je suis un menteur.
    …-
    “I’m not telling you specific numbers because you
    would not trust me,” he said.”
    “Dion gets his shift together
    Maintains stance that green plan’s tax scheme will be revenue neutral and appealing to Canadians”
    http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2008/06/26/5988856-sun.html
    (*Video also)

  37. WHY ARE WE NOT talking about Jean Chretien?? We need to send him a strong message from the west. Doesn’t he realize that a good captain always goes down with his ship!! Enough “sidetalk,” Get lost Chretien! We don’t believe you! And by the way, please spit that golf ball out–It belongs to the feds!

  38. Re: The two Lesbians. Maybe they’d had too much “crack.” You have to be careful nowadays. One slip of the tongue and you could be in shit!

  39. Is there a psychiatric maxim that a disturbed person will inevitably turn to anti-Semitism as his mental pathologies worsen? Maybe there should be.
    Travis Pantin, Hugo Chávez’s Jewish Problem
    …there is something else, aside from simple anti-Americanism, at work in Chávez’s foreign policy. He and his supporters are in the grip of another age-old obsession, albeit one with a few indigenous twists: an obsession, that is, with the supposedly excessive power of world Jewry, and in particular of Venezuela’s few, prosperous, and increasingly imperiled Jews…
    Since Chávez took the oath of office at the beginning of 1999, there has been an unprecedented surge in anti-Semitism throughout Venezuela. Government-owned media outlets have published anti-Semitic tracts with increasing frequency. Pro-Chávez groups have publicly disseminated copies of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the early-20th-century czarist forgery outlining an alleged worldwide Jewish conspiracy to seize control of the world. Prominent Jewish figures have been publicly denounced for supposed disloyalty to the “Bolívarian” cause, and “Semitic banks” have been accused of plotting against the regime. Citing suspicions of such plots, Chávez’s government has gone so far as to stage raids on Jewish elementary schools and other places of meeting. The anti-Zionism expressed by the government is steadily spilling over into street-level anti-Semitism, in which synagogues are vandalized with a frequency and viciousness never before seen in the country.

  40. It augmented cynicism about public life in general. It hurt the cause, fortunately just temporarily, of Canadian unity in Quebec and I’m not being partisan, but it damaged very greatly and very much unfairly, a very great national political party — the Liberal Party of Canada,” said Goldenberg. “And in any democracy you need strong political parties in government and in opposition.”
    Note nothing about stealing millions from the Canadian taxpayers. We are the natural governing party and can do no wrong, even the courts say so. Was Gomery wrong in what he said, no but the truth is not a defence. I despise that little creep, Crouton.

  41. G-reen
    S-hift
    T-ax
    Whoever came up with
    G
    S
    T
    is one clever decoder.
    Angry agrees.
    …-
    “This is a new GST, designed to slip in quietly, and so that we don’t notice until we’re all paying those billions back.
    We used to be able to pay that extra $12 billion before. No reason we won’t be able to again, just as long as we don’t notice it.
    It really is a tax trick.”
    “Is Stephane Dion boiling the frog to create a new GST?
    One thing that has been puzzling more and more is the way Stephane Dion speaks of his carbon tax changing people’s behavior with regards to using energy, while his actual plan seems to be predicated on no change in behavior at all.
    Then, after chatting with a newspaper columnist acquaintance of mine, it hit me. Stephane Dion is boiling the frog.
    Why didn’t I see it before?”
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/267472.php
    …-
    Boiling the Frog:
    “There is a story that if you drop a frog into hot water, it will jump out. But if you slowly warm up the water, then the frog will stay there until it boils to death.
    People notice change largely through contrast. The larger the perceived contrast, the larger the change is assumed to be. So if you change in a number small moves, you may well be able to slip the whole thing under the wire without being noticed.
    There are no guarantees with this method. Vigilant resistors may spot what is happening and mobilize a counter-response. If this happens, you may have to give up the frog method and be more open about the change.”
    http://changingminds.org/disciplines/change_management/creating_change/boiling_frog.htm

  42. CTV Poll up now
    “Should stand-up comedians have the freedom to say whatever they want?”
    “Yes” is in the lead. 58% to 42%

  43. “Mock travel website slams Alberta”
    “Greenpeace activists are taking aim at the province’s oil industry with some savvy web work and sarcasm.
    […]
    “The group has started a mock travel web site, http://www.travellingalberta.com, that pokes fun at the [‘]tar sands[‘](sic).
    “Black sand beaches, tailing ponds and clear cut forests are all billed as attractions for potential visitors.
    “Greenpeace [‘]tar sands[‘](sic) campaigner Mike Hudema says the province should be SPENDING TAXPAYERS MONEY[emphasis added – ed.] on cleaning up the [‘]tar sands[‘](sic) rather then re-branding its image.
    “It’s in response to the government spending 25 million dollars to go around the world to promote the [‘]tar sands[‘](sic) as a sustainable industry. It’s really designed to counter that, bringing up the facts and figures or how destructive the tar sands are and what we’re going to lose if the development continues.” ”
    http://tinyurl.com/63en3b
    [I’m embarrased that Hudema was born in Medicine Hat, where I hang my hat now.]
    —————————
    A CTV Calgary poll that needs to go horribly wrong:
    “What do you think about the [‘]Travelling Alberta[‘] website?
    “a) It’s an unfair portrayal of Alberta
    “b) The truth hurts
    “c) Harmless ”
    http://calgary.ctv.ca

  44. Charlie Angus of the NDP …. wasting no time in trying to score political points over the misfortunes of his betters….
    Black should lose Order of Canada
    Just a reminder to the class envy pimps in the NDP … The O of C is going to be taken back no matter what you pipsqueaks say or do because it’s in the rules of the Order.
    Not because it will satisfy your schadenfreude!

  46. Sorry maz2 – frogs are smarter than humans … no frog, given the opportunity to escape, was boiled alive.

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